but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's lead. on. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam you say this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the government protests in sudan as demonstrators demand the resignation of the president. a road map. south of planned for the u.s. withdrawal of kurdish forces in the syrian town. will rain

hampers the search for survivors in indonesia number dead from saturday's tsunami climbs to four hundred twenty nine. sports as india during search of a first ever cricket test series win in australia it's one one going into the boxing day match in melbourne. let's start in sudan where in the last hour riot police have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti government rally. the protesters were marching towards the presidential palace to demand on one of the shia steps down president vowed to implement what he calls real reforms to improve living standards at least twelve people have died since the unrest began triggered by the rising cost of bread and fuel in the state international says the number of deaths could be as high as thirty seven.

protests broke out in the city of ottawa a nearly a week ago over the rising price of food and fuel from there they quickly spread across the country and grew into what now appears to be a nationwide anti government movement had huge kooker is an award winning director of beats of the antonov and member of good if not a nonviolent resistance movement taking part in the protests in sudan he joins us now from a good deal in morocco good to have you with us first of all it seems like the protests demands are escalating and getting higher is that what you're taking away from the situation hello it's good to be here exactly i mean the protests started as an economic condition but then it went escalated to now the only demand is for this government to leave and to have a transitional government and this is a build up of things that have been happening in sudan for

a long time they really do have an military slavek dictatorship that in power for thirty years they did. all this so people are angry and what happened was now we have a reason where people just lost their fear and now in this but this is definitely a commission and right now the protest is about the government leaving and that's our only demand right now are these still largely spontaneous protests or are we seeing some kind of structure emerging to lead and direct the protests and coordinate them. so today's protest on the twenty fifth has been called for so these are protests that are being called for by professionals doctors engineers different unions so this has definitely been left especially today today's a turning point up to today it has been people trying to find a way to break and protest but so the one that happen odds are a week ago that ended up with burning off

a national congress party building it was very symbolic and it actually broke the fear we have and that was wasn't that organized and up to this week there were been like small protests that going on in different areas and there have been not only that but today's one is definitely organized that will be called for and is definitely being led by civil society people on the ground not political parties but civil society let's talk a little bit about the allegations that are already being levelled against security forces for in discriminant an unnecessary use of lethal force what sort of history have you documented of indiscriminate use of force while i mean you're talking about sudan you're talking about i'm going to be here who's wanted for crimes against humanity there's been genocide has there been a war and death for there's been the war there going on in nuba mountains and blue nile and the national security forces have been with the security of the. dollar

for a little bit different from what we're seeing now is protests in the capital right . i mean is the same people so in two thousand and thirteen there's been protests that happened in september and two hundred people were killed and that's how those partisans and it and now it's the same people they're used to using force against civilians so they're out in the street and already thirty seven people have been reported dead by most international there's been hundreds of people arrest that people have been stopped in the airport trying to get in as like why even getting in so they're sudanese so definitely this is a national security adviser lease force that is used to using force against its own people and this is not changing and i think what is happening in darfur between now and we're not is the same people so they're use the civil new the army and national security guard are new fears of course against us so that's what they're doing or

it thanks so much for your analysis of the situation that we're going to continue talking about the situation in sudan then let's cross over to him a morgan she's in the capital hard to first of all let's start with the president understand he's been speak he wants his message. well sami what he's been saying is that these protesters are not really protesting the economic situation he says that they're not protesting his regime their protests and he says that they're trying to basically destabilize the country call them. lies is that the family for lack of better words he basically said that they were trying to destabilize the situation and that everything is going fine here to be in some kind of denial of the fact that these protesters have been saying that they're fed up of the economic situation and that they want his regime to go now we've just been in a protest about twenty minutes ago and seen people chanting slogans like down with the government that they want the government gone that they're going to try to make them of the presidential palace to say that they want the president to step down but obviously the president is not there isn't one of the to their fate where he's

supposed to be open the project which is what happened but he's there to look into them he did address the nation from the theater here and he said the people who are protesting they are trying to destabilize the country as it is today's protests have a work hold for give us an idea of the turnout and whether it looks like protests are a building up to gaining momentum. well yes and it definitely seems to be getting momentum the the political parties came out and supported this that today's quarter but last minute just earlier today there are more parts one of the main opposition parties pulled out of pulled out of support comes from the group of protesters but what we have seen is a significant number and to be that unlike the previous point where when the police fired tear gas and fired live ammunition people used to back arc but the son didn't want to be the case it would be very determined to be going on with their protests and we've heard people saying that they are going to go regardless it will be using the cover their faces and saying that they will continue to been talking to the

police and what are we trying to talk to the police say that we are in the same situation you are cannot be paid into you are being paid you cannot afford with the daily rise of our commodities of basic commodities there's something more trying to gauge the police to try to bring them over to their side and to make sure that the police are not hired here guys but yes it was a significant number of police used teargas and like the militias to try to disperse the crowd but they go on and it is go on going. thanks so much to morgan. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to take bank weapons given to kurdish rebels in northern syria turkish and u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in the area around the city of language that was part of an agreement known as the man bijan road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish wife e.g. rebel groups which help the us to find eiffel. the u.s. guaranteed in the bilateral agreement signed in june that kurdish rebels would withdraw from man bij to the east of the euphrates by the end of the year the

rebels are known as the people's protection units or y.p. g. man bridge is a syrian city in a district near the border with turkey it was also agreed that arabs displaced by the war would form a new city council for man bitch the road map is aimed at avoiding a confrontation between turkish and u.s. forces the pentagon has sent weapons and trained kurdish fighters to rid northern syria of isaw pfizer's turkish government labels the y p g a terrorist group because of their links to kurdish groups seeking autonomy inside turkey. and cinnamon cross all who joins us now live from istanbul also is there an understanding that a lot like there's understand between the turks and washington to fill the vacuums that might be left by u.s. withdrawal. well yes me it seems turkey and the united states have an intention of making up the things making up the relation back again

and inviolate will turns bottle saw in regional corporation as well and the us decision to withdraw from syria is also perceived and welcomed by turks in that way have ever there are some critical points for instance over men bitch turkish army and the us army have had to deal and they had a road map ok everything seems to be on track but with long terms of delays this is how turkish officials have been stating since since the deal over men bitch was initiated it was initiated and we can feel the first came over men bitch because a couple of minutes ago a line dropped on some state turkish media and our local sources also confirmed that bush or assad forces made a deal with the white p.g. and they entered the remark area of men bitch pocket and according to this agreement what our local sources say is that why p.g.

is going to give this part of men bitch to bashar assad control also we have been we have been reporting and we have been saying since to known time that f.s.a. calm was were entering were going to moving towards men which as well especially harms our brigade which we know they have support from the united states as well so we can feel the first of acumen after the u.s. the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria turkey and united states seem to be on the very same page but of course that the how why p.g. i mean why p.g. which has taken full support from the united states until until now how they will react and how will they sign themselves this is a very important question especially for the turks sami especially thing in turks are very concerned about the weapons provided by the you know. status of the y. p.g. in the fight against i so turkey is afraid that these guns can be can be held

towards turkey and turkish army since what about the russians we understand the foreign minister was heading to moscow are they finding common ground there. well actually if turkey's foreign minister was in north africa and he came back yesterday and immediately asked to lend it an anchor our we know that he met with turkish president don and the first thing they discussed was that yes we have to discuss the withdrawal situation of withdrawal process with with moscow as well that's why the foreign minister present are gone are planning to pay a visit to moscow it is within days actually we don't know we don't know because the time is not scheduled yet but it's going to happen within a couple of days of course turkey and unite turkey and russia have been on our stand a piece for us as they have been partners in our stand a peace process including iran in order to provide security and stability in some

in some parts of syria including lip and it has been actually a hot potato for all sides because russians have been accusing have been saying that it is full with radical groups it must be cleaned as well but also on the other hand turkey was trying to trying to trying to persuade fracture to other things as well this this meeting in russia is independent from the meeting that is going to take place in the first week of january in washington but we know that turkey is also trying to watch the deal with the united states because for instance united states agreed that the weapons given to given to y.p.u. will be collected back but the turkish army and the turkish officials have very very very much questions how these weapons are going to be collected and turkey does a one y.p. to be sided with russia as well so we will see. from so much.

a model is head of policy analysis at the arab center for research joins us here live in the studio good to have you with us. basically is this an oversimplification of the situation it seems like there is an understanding. the withdrawal of the u.s. presence in syria leads to an increased turkish presence or the presence of those forces allied with turkey in the areas which were controlled by the kurdish forces and i think clearly the united states is changing horses right now in the war against arsenal over the past three years they haven't been heard to the turks exactly. over the past the use they were actually depending mainly on the b.g. not enough to fight isis and the why they did quite well actually in that fight right now it seems to me that the president because he wanted to bring the turks in

and he's clearly trying to abandon his old allies right now. out of the kurds feel about that very i mean we can we can feel their disappointment the. sense of betrayal. by the kurds right now towards the united states but will they go along will they go along with it though or they're trying to resist any money are into areas we really believe that most probably there are going to have new allies there are going to form a new allies new audiences with probably russia iran and the syrian regime because they wanted very much actually to prevent the turks from. entering syria or controlling the areas that the if that happens what you're talking about then is a military clash all the confrontation between the the turkish forces or their allies on one side and kurdish forces which are now aligned with the regime in the russians absolutely the possibility is very much there in my opinion i think we

might be seeing a clash between because when the americans leave we believe that there is going to be this competition between the three main actors in syria russia iran and turkey in order to control this very important area of northeast syria because as you know this is very hopes that it's just area. in terms of oil water resources dams or plans for thailand this is useful syria this is what the media calls useful see what about the opposition's interesting you didn't mention them in when you listed the top three actors there what's happened to the opposition is mainly right now is linked through to turkey the syrian opposition we're talking here of when we talk about them we talk about turkey because they are becoming but in much like a proxy for the turks in this. in this in this conflict and what i thought what i was going to see actually is we might be seeing even the end of the set than a process here that would draw of the united states from eastern syria might actually lead to the collapse of the us than

a process of the bass two years of breakdown between turkey and russia as there's very little and now it's even even the agreement on edler as cinema was actually mentioning could actually collapse also because so you could see fighting there we very much i mean that that possibility is in fact rising right now because when the americans pull out from syria i think we might be seeing the sort of conflict between all these parties because the likelihood of conflict between these parties will increase with the departure of the americans one final point what do you make of trump statements saudi arabia's going to pay to rebuild syria i don't buy that this is nonsense for me he is talking mainly to his domestic audience i don't think the saudis will be actually being for the rebuilding of syria merely because syria is lost to iran and russia and i don't see how saudi arabia is going to help the russians and the iranians of syria so that is for me is is complete nonsense my one

always good to have you in the studio thanks for coming in thank you. plenty more still ahead in the news hour including voters in the democratic republic of congo get ready for an election that's been delayed for years. cataloguing the checkered past of an entire continent how a new museum in senegal wants to right the wrongs of slavery and two of the biggest stars in basketball was set to collide on christmas day people have the details coming up in the sport. gunman in libya have attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers bloom self up in the compound moved up to the war had has more from tripoli. official sources at the ministry of foreign affairs say that two gunmen started shooting at the security forces securing the gate of the

foreign ministry one started shooting at the security forces to distract their attention and the other managed to get inside the first one who was exchanging fire with the security forces was killed and another security individual was killed two the other attacker managed to get inside the building and blew himself up which killed one employee at the foreign ministry and the fire was set in the building now security apparatus of the difference force managed to take control of the building and to evacuated the whole building also it's also securing the other governmental neighboring governmental facilities now the special deterrence force says that the at. may belong to a terrorist group because this attack is similar to two terrorist attacks that targeted government facilities in the past the national election commission

and may state oil for the national oil corporation in september voters in the democratic republic of congo head to the polls in the five next five days to choose their next leader but many are not confident the election will be free and fair after numerous delays over the past two years cross over live now to catherine soyuz in the capital kinshasa for so do people believe this time it will really happen. a lot of. a lot of rumors going around a lot of speculation about what might happen in the coming days a lot of people here in the capital that we spoke to that you talked to are afraid that the electoral commission could postpone the election again eight presidential candidates have just finished a press conference and they say that they will not accept another delay to the

election and all of this is not being made any easier by the fact that the electoral commission has not been giving regular updates about what's going on and the fact that people really do not trust that organization take a look at a story we did. electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines recalled from other regions and four million new ballot papers will work on voting day material to replace those that are seems to have been destroyed bad fire in a warehouse crippling the poly in the city and leading to a postponement of the election a lot. of four million voters here that we needed some spares ballots so we ordered for five million people we know organizing them disagree working hard to make sure they are ready for election of the. other voting with his already in regional headquarters across the country so this analyst believes getting them to polling

stations during the rainy season in a country without that infrastructure security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be. in terms of. nobody is able to give. on the. credibility of the process is very very low robot trains that are to be deployed to the province's he's already visited many parts of the country as a process to this point has been shut down. so he has been unable to publish. due to. a machine meant for those used to manipulate. the calls and uncertain times in

congo people here in the cop who told him not to trust me they say they're afraid the election could be postponed again and even if it goes ahead on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect. president kabila so we find another solution i think the electoral commission is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to reasonably credible election and with just a few days to go. and. also feel very strongly worded statement from the catholic. church is a very important and influential player in congress politics and basically he said

that. the people here in the country living in exile in their own country say that they're being held hostage he said that they are walking in but he's also his congregation told his congregation to keep the faith but a lot of people that we're talking to here i think that it's very difficult to keep the faith such as this with everything that is going really going to be interesting to see how this week is going to play out the electoral commission under pressure to make sure that they deliver a somewhat credible and smooth process. french will rain in indonesia is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number killed in western java has risen to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four still missing experts fear more tsunamis if they are not crack

a toe a volcano erupts again as andrew thomas reports now from pentagon. the scenes in product line all the media indonesians have seen lots of face this year the drudgery of a cleanup following disaster this is what remains of the hotel workers me at the end all day in the greeting guests when the tsunami hits on saturday both were swept inland by the water and were injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely unexpected. i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. carl lewis the city on indonesia's fourth largest audience struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people die like that and two major earthquakes killed more than five hundred people in the eastern oil and of lombok a few months ago so just and volcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in

indonesia in twenty eighteen hasn't been particularly unusual what is unusual is that the areas destroyed were heavily populated increasing the number of victims that's meant a very busy year for emergency services and aid organizations that helps of all ages pretty decisively december and beyond our planning yeah so that's a we have read. the rest of it is in to assist us and they also collect money over and under not enough to fight this and they're not in the north hundred line is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more advanced in other parts of indonesia it's almost as if this rain which is constant throughout the tsunami hit even mocking the people on the ground i think try to clear up and dry out their lives but it will clear and like a it will improve that little comfort right now but the narrative in indonesia is

a familiar one undertone of al-jazeera hundred one. in china at least five people were killed when a bus rammed into but there strains in the southeastern city of long yawn a bus was reportedly hijacked by a man armed with a knife was arrested at the scene and twenty people have been injured police are investigating the suspects motive. iraqi christians are celebrating christmas at the my use of church in baghdad the defeat of ice or means many of them can now safely return to their homes a morsel or many of their homes have been destroyed a christian community has dwindled in the country over those who remain the largest christmas tree ever has been erected in the city. iran can has the latest from baghdad. this is a much more hopeful christmas than iraqi christians have seen in a very long time. use of church the church here in central baghdad

people in riding across christmas day. attend mass and there is a very hopeful atmosphere that things have changed for iraq's christians that there are much more secure than they ever happening just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one thousand and seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country and officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is there are about two hundred fifty thousand christians left they fled the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place and you only have to go to

a lot of the hotels here the public spaces and they'll be christmas trees and of the decorations like the ones you see behind me up in the hotel so there's a real sense that christians are much safer than they ever have been and the iraqi government would like them to come back to a safe and secure iraq. let's catch up with the weather and kevin says tell us what it's looking like that's where we have to winter storms talk about first what we talk about the one in europe affecting a lot of people in parts of turkey as well as greece take a little sadly we can see the clouds right there pushing across parts of greece turkey as well this storm is quite strong we're seeing a lot of problems in terms of rain winds as well as snow here across parts of turkey now as we go towards tomorrow the system continues to make its way out here towards the east rain extends down here towards parts of egypt as. well along the coastal areas with wind there but then as we go towards the next day it really begins to stall out so heavy snow is going to accumulate particularly over here

towards the eastern parts of turkey we also have a big storm that's in the making here across united states this one is coming out of the rockies now today it's not so bad in terms of whether you can see we're looking at fairly partly fairly clear to partly cloudy skies across much of the area tomorrow though this particular storm right here really begins to develop and this is the storm that is expected to bring severe weather to the south and also we are going to see snow towards the north and as we go towards the next few days this storm is only going to get stronger affecting many airports of course a lot of people are going to be traveling this week in between the two holidays but here across minneapolis snow we're looking at denver as well as into chicago as well as dallas with thunderstorms. still ahead on al-jazeera there are scaping to venezuela from burns where the search for food rather an increasing number of indigenous people still struggling to find their next meal. and the raiders

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a surprise that. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. i'll come back here watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed on a plan to disarm kurdish fights in syria and the kurdish group. to leave the city of man big for us who previously supported the kurdish white fight against. torrential rain in indonesia is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami number of killed in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine

hundred fifty four still missing experts fear more tsunamis are possible if the cricketer of volcano erupts again. riot police in sudan have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti-government rally the protesters are demanding ahmed bashir steps down earlier the president vowed to implement what he calls real reforms to improve living standards. the situation there let's cross over once again to hear morgan she's live for us now from khartoum so i understand you just came back from a protest how's it look. first of all let's say that this process has been planned for a few days now for a couple of days to be exact but people have turned up in a quite significant number they seem to agree that they were frustrated they want to see change and the police had to use tear gas and live ammunition to be able to disperse the crowd but unfortunately for the police that is the people continue to

we've heard people saying that they want the regime to go if they want to see a new regime and even with the tear gas being fired at them some people when you say headscarves but they went on to proceed against the police against the riot police with their protests and their demands that the president leave or i will leave thanks so much more when there. are new museum is opened in senegal tracing african history back millions of years the museum of black civilizations led to increase calls for the return of african artifacts held by former colonial powers. more from the. it is under this tree that the story begins three million years ago in africa with the beginning of the human species it's a tale of a journey from which most never returned part of the slave trade there were sorrow and destruction along the way but also color courage the spiritual and humor

leaving those that want to learn more in our religion it's so overwhelming i don't really understand it some of it's familiar some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the garden. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of. president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president is carrying on. keeping our culture is what saved african people from attempts made at making them soulless people without a history and if culture does link people together it also stimulates progress. work on the museum only began in two thousand and fifteen after a thirty four million dollars donation from china the exterior was inspired by the medieval city of great zimbabwe now

a world heritage site while the inside is modeled on a senegalese hut fourteen thousand square meters in size when this museum the call from african countries to get their artifacts back in no longer be ignored because this space is a celebration of bracket artistic expression and so whether storing or not much of it comes from outside the continent. the museum's director shows us the eighteenth century sward of. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum for your thoughtfulness. but the little when they stole our belongings they weren't art they were just objects of daily life but then colonizers to find these objects african art the aim of this museum is to show that african art is in fact much bigger than that our focus is not just on the past but also on the future and the voice of the diaspora. a large part of the museum is dedicated to contemporary art with many pieces from the

caribbean the diversity of the collection that's been assembled so far is unique for many africans who come to visit it is a much more than a museum it's a mirror to see themselves in a new light ikhlas hawk al-jazeera the car. thousands of asylum seekers living in tents in one of greece's a-g. and islands are enduring another winter without he told running water that's because there's no space in the official camp supposed to house them and as john psaropoulos reports from sam they'll continue waiting in the cold to the government build somewhere for them to live. when abdullah part and his family from afghanistan arrived on some us a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space and the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and ten children but there isn't enough room for them all laconic an invader i sleep outside the tent only my

children and my wife have the tent one night i sleep on the ground one night on a chair one night i asked my friends if i may sleep with them one night i sleep outside the camp a town on one night i sleep in a mosque the former interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan says all the children are sick this blue tarp all in isn't waterproof so on days like this the rain drops through in a high wind many tents are pulled apart and heavy rains can cause them to slide off their base of wooden pallets into the mud almost three thousand asylum seekers live in similar conditions in an olive grove beside the camp those who have the money by turns to put under the tarp all in the lucky ones have camping stove but an open flame is a fire hazard some light wood fires and burned plastic food containers and egyptian asylum seeker trying to stay warm died of carbon monoxide poisoning last year on lesbos his family is suing the greek government for failing to provide housing

government handouts can be difficult to get many spend hours queuing for food. i usually go early in the morning to wait for breakfast food service begins at eight and i can get food at nine i give the food to my family and then rejoin the queue for lunch i wait there for three hours. and then i wait another four or five hours for dinner starting at four o'clock i spend all my day in the queue for food for my wife and eight children this company was built for six hundred fifty and already houses twice that many a few new arrivals still build their own accommodation on vacant spots inside the camp these men say they found the timber in town. here in the movie the truth is the situation is not the best given that asylum procedures take this long the good news is that the government is looking for a new space where we hope conditions will be better this camp used to be an army artillery range it was hastily chosen and built in twenty sixteen to honor the e.u.

turkey agreement the army was the only institution that could get the job done in short order until now has fiercely resisted the official camp's expansion the government now seems to have overcome that obstacle and plans a new camp next year that will be twice as large as this these asylum seekers have a whole winter to survive first jumps at all plus al-jazeera some most also had an al-jazeera find out why germans are bristling at efforts to make fake see healthier . than sport the man in charge of the english premier league pay settlers sists title race is still wide open. banks love to make loans to sufferings because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day and ninety it is an emerging national necessity to

be officially requested. of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. as this year trying to wreck city gates nation comes to an end. we examine what the top stories might be to judge a very good result. in the new year. joining us. as we take a look ahead to twenty nine seen on al-jazeera. and . the new book the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's.

but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary part one people in power on al-jazeera. or come back the lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands to vote for their next meal in neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people of the tribe complain of the less than warm welcome alexandra m.p.'s are ports from the border city of kuta. standard

bellies in the gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous yuko tribe left in search of food they now call home a makeshift camp just over the border in colombia. there was a huge crisis in venezuela no medicine no food for our children we had no options but to leave the chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe faced arrest menton discrimination but. in recent months some of the you have clashed with colombian police attempting to block their entry was. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lens of the u.k. divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized

traditionally they've been free to move across at will but that's more difficult now back in two thousand. court ordered states to protect then threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have the right here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their ethnic identity. some of those who have made it across the recycling cans to help feed their families others live on the streets of the border city of begging or braving baskets in hats. they don't have the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the indigenous people who are worst off it isn't just someone and we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids died from malnutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be

recognized to provide protection whether they are colombians or not. on the outskirts of members of another tribe or working to extend their shack twenty one new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. you know i want to stay here i don't want to go back to venezuela and the same is true for my children and the rest of the tribe but we can all live here we need land housing health services the crisis in venezuela as many layers and while colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight has so far been neglected . just a few kilometers north of the white house a church is giving sanctuary to a woman facing deportation from the u.s. to her native el salvador president jordan has more on why the church is stepping in to help. both a good lopez move to the u.s.

thirteen years ago to save her life. i came here from el salvador because the country was growing so violent and there were people threatening me especially one person who had threatened me several times. but because good lopez missed an early hearing in immigration court the u.s. government said she must return to el salvador her flight was meant to be on december tenth but has hired a lawyer and someone suggested she seek refuge at a church. as it happens the members of cedar lane unitarian universalist church near washington d.c. had decided in may two thousand and seventeen that they would provide refuge to immigrants a need they knew u.s. immigration officials normally avoid entering houses of worship to detain people facing deportation orders while some say the sanctuary movement violates u.s. immigration law the senior minister says cedar lane is both following the law and

living its values our act of fate. is to be in solidarity with rosa. that is our primary focus and goal and and supporting her and giving her the space and the time that she needs in order for hard to receive due process in the trump era religious activists in the u.s. have stepped up efforts to protect asylum seekers and lopez has been willing to publicize her case but she really wants to be back home in virginia with her three children in the meantime home is with the congregants of cedar lane. but i will always think them because they gave me a very warm welcome and they've embraced me as a member of their family and they've promised to protect me all of them all of them

will all of us put. the best possible gift at this christmas time rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the festa maryland. all right sports fans pay his head take us through all the news sammy thank you very much n.b.a. fans are set for a real gift on christmas day two of the game's biggest stars the bron james and steph curry face to face as the l.a. lakers take on the champions golden state the n.b.a. usually saves a marquee match for christmas day and this will be the first competitive game between the sides since the brawn moved to l.a. it's the latest chapter of the bronx struggle against calgary and golden state while playing for the cleveland cavaliers le bron came up short against them in three of the last four n.b.a. championship finals and he still trails kerry this season the worry is all second in the west two places above the lake is. there a team. trying to figure out what. they're going to.

go but we have to read. between the you know to get no point. discussing china should we want to have captured happens. now this is special special days chris. get to play the game about as well christmas. my thirteenth. house i will be home. grandiose. school. some reason i was the difference is. probably. national organizers what they're trying to do you know we see a lot of the last four years. before the atmosphere i don't have and his team on christmas unless we were. four years goodness yours are. going to have this year fun game five games in total in the n.b.a. on tuesday the milwaukee bucks of playing in their first christmas game since one

nine hundred seventy seven they will be at the new york knicks then in a rematch of christmas twenty seventeen the used and rockets face the oklahoma city thunder for the delphia meet historic rivals boston portland and utah round up the christmas day action. the n.f.l. team the raiders are leaving their long time home in oakland california the city's fans were despondent in the city's leaders are angry rob reynolds reports oakland isn't taking the raiders departure lying down. the oakland raiders have played their last game in this fabled coliseum home to many a sweet victory and bitter defeat there's a lot of memories in this building there been a lot of great players a lot of great cultures and a lot of a really memorable football games played in this building. the raiders are much like their hometown gritty aggressive frequently the underdog oakland the less glamorous less wealthy and less gentrified city across the bay from san francisco

loved its raiders with the passion the most frenzy denizens of raiders nation reveled in roared in a stadium section nicknamed the black hole and a raider. i love them. they represent us and we represent them and. their love and came and we don't stand behind them one hundred percent now the team's owner mark davis is ripping oakland's love and loyalty by abandoning it the raiders are moving to the ritzier environs of las vegas sin city agreed to pay seven hundred fifty million dollars in taxpayer money to build a new stadium for the team raiders fans say that's unsportsmanlike conduct anita's day and would be blown in the town you know they've been here on the hands of why you want to move outraged the city's leaders are suing so this is an antitrust lawsuit and

a breach of contract is it and we are seeking the maximum amount of damages that we will be able to prove and we believe there are substantial oakland says the league acts as an illegal cartel that fixes prices and routinely blackmail cities with threats to relocate its teams unless they help pay for bigger fancier stadiums and other improvements i am proud that we stood up against the state down from the n.f.l. it has got to stop. the idea that the n.f.l. can exploit the emotions of their fans to extort money from taxpayers who have such greater needs the n.f.l. and davis didn't respond to requests for comment davis reportedly called the lawsuit malicious the raiders coach got nostalgic before the final game after a lot of wins over the years you know seeing a lot of the old highlights of the great raider teams. i get excited i get

emotional about it but emotions and loyalty are cheap and in professional sports the real name of the game is money rob reynolds al-jazeera liverpool manager you're going to club believes four or five teams are still in the race to win the english premier league title the reds are looking to end a three decade way to be english champions and a currently four points ahead of second place manchester city unbeaten in the league this season and face newcastle on wednesday looking to continue what's been an historic run the forty eight points in eighteen games is the highest ever total at this stage of the season. it was really impressive how. good so that same going to have. to do to chelsea to offload all that stuff there's no no no decision is this it's made that's how it is why should it be that nobody can feel safe nobody should feel out of the race whatever that it's just not.

it's not the kind to think about it actually. there were a number of india's cricket caps and very bad kohli has been doing his best to play that he said rivalry with these australian counterpart some pain the pain had a number of less than friendly verbal exchanges during the second test of the series at one point the umpire had to intervene when the two clashed while payne was batting the series it's level at one one ahead of wednesday's third test in melbourne india have never won a test series in australia board games are you know bashing you don't desperate to win obviously those things happen on the field as i said as long as the line is not crossed. you have no issues and i said that before the last just as well. i'm sure him and myself both understand what happened and we definitely don't want to do something unnecessary. when you get a big name what we did in perth against the number one team in the world. you know

draws are going to grab the conference a little bit and come to melbourne feeling a bit better than we did when we went to perth. but yeah that said we feel we're improving every game. but we know we need to keep stacking up good days and i think without a test cricket if we can do that for another four or five days come by far we think we'll be right in the thick of it again. thank you that's all the sport for now we'll have another update later on thanks so much peter now evarts to make german food more healthy are receiving a mixed response. recommending drastic cuts in sugar salt and fat not everyone is happy then when it came reports from berlin. christmas in germany means markets with mulled wine and many different things to eat is a good. thing perhaps a part forced is the order of the day or maybe something sweeter in any event for these people the emphasis is on enjoying the rich flavor of german food. for you

german food is great you can't eat it every day but it's christmas so why not just as somebody say officially i mean there's a lot of variety in german cuisine you can eat healthily or unhealthily but you have a lot to choose from the you have a much more standards for your food than then we do in america so i'd say in your more focus on healthy healthier things out there and yet clearly the government is worried about what people are eating the agriculture minister so much so she wants radical cuts in what's on offer the government plan is to have the food industry lead the way ministers want companies to introduce twenty percent reductions in fact usage in foods a similar reduction must be brought in for salt content likewise for sugar which many people blame for rising levels of obesity all of these changes must be implemented no later than twenty twenty five the government says it has the backing of many large firms in the german food industry to cut salt sugar and fat content

but what about the small of us like those at this christmas market. at this butcher store a wide variety of sausages and other meats from all over germany and the beyond is on offer made with the same recipes for generations it's not in the valley or through receptive yards it's good because our ingredients are really specific and there are. if you ways we can really change them obviously our methods have evolved over hundreds of years and clearly we adapt with advances in new technology but there's only but so many ways you can make a salami for example there isn't really much wriggle room when you're looking at how we make our products clearly seasonal markets like these are not where most people buy their food the major supermarket chains will be at the forefront of the changes but with a deadline far into the next decade the flavor of german food isn't going to change anytime soon dominic cain al-jazeera berlin. that's it for me

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