russian security forces. crimea russia's secret on al-jazeera. i think. more anti-government rallies in the sudan as riot police use live fire against protesters. i'm sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a road map on man bage turkey talks out a plan for the withdrawal of u.s. backed kurdish forces from the syrian town to rancho rain hampers the search for survivors in indonesia number of dead from saturday's tsunami climbs to four

hundred twenty nine. and escaping venezuela the search for food in colombia increasing number of the digits people are struggling to find the next meal. riot police in sudan have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti-government rally i think. the protesters were marching towards the presidential palace to demand on one of the shia steps down president president my what he calls real reforms to improve living standards. from all this let's cross over now to have a mortgage is live for us in the hall to say you've been out in the demonstrations how are they shaping up.

i would seem to have some problems there connecting with him of how this will come back to a little later well he is an award winning director and member of nonviolent resistance movement taking part in sudan's protest he says it's common for riot police in sudan to use lethal force against unarmed protesters the protest 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 sudan for a long time i mean we do have and military is limited edition they've been in power for thirty years they committed genocide as they create all this so people are angry and what happened was now we have a reason where people just lost their fear and are in the streets 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 parts and 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 amnesty international there's been hundreds of people arrested people who are being stopped in the airport trying to get in asked like why are you even getting in there sudanese so definitely this is a national security add police force that is used to using force against its own people and i think we can now connect with him or morgan our correspondent she's live for us in the hard to do so hipaa i understand you've been out with the protests tell us how they were shaping up. well so i mean the number of protesters under streets was quite significant and it's safe to say that president bashir is facing this for the first time during his twenty one year rule he has faced protesters before in the past and in fact the latest before this round was in january early this year when people were protesting also for the high prices because of high prices of bread and fuel now this time around the process started last week and went on on wednesday but it quickly escalated from protests about the

economy to protesters demanding that the president leave and have a new government formed up this is what we've heard earlier out on the streets and we've heard protesters saying things like down with the government who want a new regime and because they were accusing the government of being robbers basically but president bashir seems to be an denial about what these protesters wanted he he basically identifies them or he classifies them as as vandalizes for lack of better words he's saying that they've been mobilized by external forces by external agents including israel and he came out today and spoke and he said that he's not going to bow down to their demands he will try to introduce reforms he is going to try to shape up the economy is going to try to make it better for the people but this is something the people said that they've heard over and over again over the past twenty nine years and they said that they want something new so they came out in the streets again today for the seventh day and again the police had to use tear gas and live ammunition to stop the protesters from progressing to the

presidential palace over does it look like these protests are picking up momentum and becoming more coordinated. well it seems like it's very sporadic it seems it's more the people behind those protests as opposed to opposition parties and political groups when these protests were plans today sports specifically sample it is some opposition groups gave their backing and support to these and to the protests today but today one of the main opposition parties to the party came out and said that they don't support this protest they are going to try to negotiate with the government to find ways out of this crisis now the people have already given up on political parties they've said that they don't want any political party backing them what they want they want to world to see that this is their own initiative that they are fed up with this government and it's nothing political behind it says that they want this government to go as i said earlier the police had to use tear gas and live ammunition to disperse them and basically people are quite concerned that the death toll which amethyst is stands at thirty seven right now is likely to rock like rise if the police continue using live ammunition tear gas or so much morgan. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s.

is agreed to take back weapons give it to kurdish rebels in northern syria turkish and u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in the area around the city of mon bridge it's all part of an agreement known as the man big road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish wife e.g. rebel groups who helped the us fight i saw. while the syrian government forces of ridged to deal with the wife b.j. in the event of the village of on the outskirts of man bitch casal who joins us live from istanbul so sue them seems like quite a scramble going on for the question of who fills the vacuum once the u.s. withdraws. yes exactly. right now still the u.s. army members are still there they are actually gradually withdrawing from the region however it is perceived as if they are totally gone of course what's going

to happen next this is this is the most important question especially for the turkish side who has been complaining about the u.s. financial and military support to the wife e g s t f o because turkey has claimed that has been claiming that the united states provided twenty two two thousand to twenty two thousand vehicles long wiccans full of what pens and the necessary meant and of course there are some heavy armor that are provided to the y.p. g s t f actually which means also the why fiji has all those ruffins of course right now can the united states seem to be on the same page especially regarding the eastern side of the euphrates river and turkey has been saying that they are going to conduct a military operation over there now the question comes up sammy because united

states has been the protector of the y.p. g. in the region saying that they are very good fighters against the eisel in the region. and turkey now wonders who is going to be protecting the wife or will the united states really give up on the wife e.g. now it is a question and we are seeing that there are some movements around which is on which turkey and united states have an agreement as you have said you know we have been hearing the turkish than the state media reporting that bashar assad forces. members but our friends in the region have been talking to the activists and local sources in the field the activists claim that the. assad army members have already been there since two thousand and seventeen when why b.g. was actually. having having some troubles when turkey has threatened to attack the

area so only other hand the. activists in the region in syria they claim that the syrian army is trying to actually make a showing off trying to show that they are doing they are having good progress and they are making some what the white e.g. but we know that the y b j already has been meeting with. the government and they are off and we know that russia is not so much of it is not against the i.p.g. and for for turkey actually the for the most important question is now the united states is going to collect all those weapons that have been delivered to s t f and also why p.g. and turkey is afraid that those guns can be towards turkish soldiers all right. thanks so much gunman and a suicide bomber in libya have a type of foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers blew himself up in the compound the attackers killed at least two people

. 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 the 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 the foreign ministry and the fire was set in the 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 attackers 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. in china these five people were killed when a bus rammed into pedestrians in the southeastern city of long yan the bus was reportedly hijacked by a man armed with a knife and was arrested at the scene where twenty people have been injured police are investigating the suspects motives. trench will reign in indonesia as hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number killed in west java has risen to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four still missing experts fear more tsunamis if the are not crack at the volcano erupts again as andrew

thomas reports from panda gliding through. the scenes in product line are familiar 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 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. palu is the city on indonesia's fourth largest island sort of struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people died 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 amount 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 help survivors. beyond our planning yet so that's why we. we didn't read. the rest of it is in to assist us and they also collect money over and under now some of these are nice in the north hundred land is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is moored bones to other parts of in the media it's almost as if this rain which has been a constant since the tsunami hit is mocking the people upon the ground i think trying to clear up and dry out their lives but it will clear and like a it will improve that's little comfort right now but the narrative in indonesia is

a familiar one under thomas al jazeera tanika. so ahead on al jazeera voters in the democratic republic of congo get ready for an election that's been delayed for years. cataloguing the check it cost of an entire continent how a new museum in senegal wants to right the wrongs of slavery. hello again it's good to have you back where across china we are looking at relatively quiet conditions for much of the area we are seeing some showers appear towards the north for shanghai those showers will stay in your forecast on wednesday twelve degrees there but as we go towards thursday the temperatures are going to come down to about seven so getting cooler but the rain is going to be

ending for you there down here toward the south for hong kong relatively nice conditions for you partly cloudy and twenty three degrees over here towards taipei though it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty well for india down here towards the south as well sri lanka we're going to be seeing some rain in your forecast across much of that area notice the clouds across the bed beguile over across india over towards the arabian sea as well these clouds will continue with the rain as well colombo the rain for you is going to continue we do expect to see attempts there of about thirty up towards the north down to delhi a little bit cooler we have had some problems with fog as well as some stagnant air across much of that area lowering the visibility so there has been a problem there over here towards cabin do on thursday attempt a few of fifteen degrees and then very quickly here in doha well we are going to see temperatures relatively normal for this time of year watch those clouds can be into play from wednesday to thursday we do expect to see a mostly cloudy day by the time we get to friday.

the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of scene change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. come back you're watching out zero time to recap our headlines bride police in

sudan have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti-government bradley the protesters are demanding on one of bashir steps down earlier the president vowed to implement all the calls real reforms to improve living standards torrential rain in indonesia is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami number of dead in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine hundred and fifty four people are still missing experts fear more tsunamis are possible if the and. drops again. turkey's foreign minister says the us has agreed on a plan to disarm kurdish fighters in syria for kurdish groups to leave the city of london which the us had previously supported the kurdish y p g and that fighting against eyesore. after announcing the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria don't trump says saudi arabia will help restore cities destroyed by years of war the us president tweeted saudi arabia has now agreed to spend the

necessary money needed to help rebuild syria instead of the united states see isn't that nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors rather than a great country the u.s. that is five thousand miles away thanks to saudi a problems has more. president trumps tweet prompted more questions than answers he didn't specify how much money saudi arabia would offer to rebuild syria when it would be given how it would be spent or most importantly who would receive the money well that's the big question is where exactly will this money go and i think that that obviously depends a lot on where saudi arabia wants it to go we can probably assume it's not going to go to the russians it's not going to go to the turks for where they're spending a lot on humanitarian aid for refugees it's going to go somewhere else and it may

not go to the assad regime either and in october the saudi government delivered one hundred million dollars to the u.s. for syrian reconstruction but troops tweet seemed to imply more money would now be forthcoming trump has frequently complained about u.s. expenditures abroad and berated allies like the nato countries in south korea for not spending enough on defense alternately he boasts about striking deals to save the u.s. money five hundred thirty three million dollars monday's friendly tweet thanking the saudis is symptomatic of trump's enthusiastic attitude toward the kingdom he shrugged off the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies that saudi crown prince mohammed bin soman most likely ordered the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. trump said saudi arms purchases and its strategic partnership with the us outweighed international condemnation of the killing and they see saudi arabia

as a strategic partner in the region and trumpet certainly gone out maybe kind of on the fence to defend that strategic partners their ship and now he's saying look we are still committed to you now you've got to step up and do what needs to be done one thing is certain after seven years of a devastating civil war that is still under way an estimated half a million people killed and about five million syrians forced to flee their country syrians badly need vast amounts of aid whether they will get it and from whom remain unanswered questions robert oulds al jazeera washington iraqi christians a celebrating christmas of the modern use of church in baghdad the defeat device and means many of them can now safely return to their homes and more soul many of their homes have been destroyed the christian community has dwindled in the for those who remains the largest christmas tree ever has been erected in the city.

voters in the democratic republic of congo head to the polls in the five days to choose their next leader but many are not confident the election will be free or fair after numerous delays over the past two years catherine sawyer reports from can show. electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines are called from other regions and four million new ballot papers will walk on fourteen day material to replace those that are seems to have been destroyed bad fire in a warehouse crippling dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election a lot. of you have four million voters here but we also needed some spares ballots so we ordered for five million people as we know organizing them disobey district into working hard to make sure they are ready for a little of the. semi official say out of routine materials already in regional

headquarters across the country so this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be easy. in terms of just x. nobody is able to give. on the temple so credibility of the process is very very low robert come back hella trains local observers that are to be deployed to the province his he's already visited many parts of the country as it electoral process to this point has been a sham i don't. the machine. has been unable to publish them up a war the polling stations in the absence of detail so you might have station that don't exist and the machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these

are difficult and uncertain times in. people here in the cop who told you not to trust the commission they say they're afraid the election could be postponed again and even if it goes 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 to receive president kabila so we find another solution and i think the electoral commission is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to deliver reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go. and not. a new museum is opened in senegal tracing millions of years of african history it's also provoking calls for the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders.

has more from the capital dhaka. 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 long 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 some milieu some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the guard. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or senegalese first president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president mikey cell is carrying on.

keeping our culture is what saved african people from attempts made up 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 century swore develop. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum. but 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 hawk al-jazeera car five people have died in a helicopter crash in mexico. state governor was one of the victims she became the first female governor of the central states of following elections earlier this

month it's not clear what caused the crash shortly after takeoff fireworks have been blamed for setting fire to homes in mexico the blaze destroyed around one hundred houses people in the coastal resort scrambled to save their belongings before the fire took hold everyone made it out alive. the lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands to look for their next meal in neighboring colombia thank loued a growing number of indigenous people of the tribe complain of the less than warm welcome. to reports from the border city of kuta. standard belize in this in the gaze of the children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous yuko tribe who left minnesota 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. chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe faced the rest mountain discrimination. in recent months some of the you have clashed with colombian police attempting to block their entry that. he now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lens of the u.k. are 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 and nine. court ordered states to protect. threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have a rival here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their

ethnic identity. some of those you do 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 half. they don't have the 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 mt nutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be recognised 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 well colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight has so far been neglected . and let's take you through some of the headlines we're following here on al-jazeera now riot police in sudan have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti-government rally the protesters are demanding step down earlier the president . calls we all reforms to improve living standards torrential rain in indonesia is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number of dead in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine hundred fifty four

people are still missing experts fear more tsunamis are possible and. erupts again. so foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed on a plan to dis armed kurdish fighters in syria and for kurdish groups to leave the city of man bitch the u.s. had previously supported the kurdish y p g in their fight against eisel turkey has labeled the y p g a terrorist organization saying an extension of an outlawed group fighting for autonomy in turkey gunman that the suicide bomber in libya attacked the foreign ministry have quarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers blew himself up in the compound the attackers killed at least two people in china at least five people were killed when a bass rammed into pedestrians in the southeastern city of longer than the bus was reportedly hijacked by a man armed with a knife he was arrested at the scene when twenty people have been injured police

are investigating the suspects motive. five people have died in a helicopter crash in mexico martha erica alonso a state governor was one of the victims she became the first female governor of the central state of puebla following elections earlier this month her husband the two pilots and an assistant also lost their lives it's not clear what caused the crash shortly after takeoff japan's main stock market the nikkei is fallen five percent japanese investors reacted to wall street closing on christmas eve at a record low shareholders are worried by a dog trumps criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown trade tensions with china it's the stream next stay with us. in the darkest of times brave men and women stood up. when oppressed they

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