yes military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise one on one east investigates the threat this followed posers on al-jazeera. lol. and. al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news promises of change from sudan's president but protests against him show no sign of ending civil society groups tried to march to the presidential palace demanding nothing less than omar al bashir his resignation but were blocked by riot police with tear gas our reporter is in khartoum also on the grid to wrench the rain slow the search for indonesia tsunami survivors and to the misery of those who've lost

everything more than four hundred people are known to have died but that number is still climbing all the time our correspondent will report on how this has come at the end of a disastrous year for indonesians and from the holy lands of the middle east and right around the world they are christmas prayers and wishes for a more peaceful twenty nineteen we'll look at how iraqi christians are quietly celebrating more than a year after the victory over eisel and we're also in the u.s. where a mother is spending christmas in a church to avoid deportation and i'm sort of hired looking at why for all this time the paris climate record is being sued for failing to do enough about global warming a slick online campaign is more than a million people on board and more are signing up. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and that's al-jazeera dot com thank you very much for joining us we begin in sudan

where riot police have used five live ammunition to disperse government protests in the capital khartoum. crowds wanted to march towards the presidential palace demanding an end to the twenty nine year rule of bashir they unimpressed by the president's promise to step up reforms that he says will make people's lives better the government says twelve people have died since the unrest began over rising food and fuel prices but imus international believes the number of deaths could be as high as thirty seven now just there is a bit morgan ventured into the thick of the protests on tuesday here's what she saw . apologies for that we seem to have no sound on that report by him morgan but we're

not going to speak to him morgan who joins us live from khartoum hipness or you were at the protest earlier today in khartoum another rally called by civil society groups in khartoum tell us about what happened. well fully this is the seventh day of process it started last week on wednesday in thirty of our tara when the state basically said that they had not a single sack of wheat to be able to produce bread that made people angry they came out in the streets they said that they wanted bread and the fact that it was one loaf of bread was equal to one to do these pound was worth wanted respond that frustrated them then the government proposed that they want to hike the prices obviously that made them more frustrated so they came out in the streets demanding better economic situation demanding bread be available in the city and demanding lower prices basically that quickly escalated now we have people protesting against the government today's protest which i was and was quite significant you've seen we've seen hundreds of people coming out not just those from civil societies but it seemed like people on the streets who met the protesters just simply joined them

and they were able to absorb the protesters were able to observe people from the streets to make and make them join them into the march police had to use tear gas they had to use live ammunition as well the reports of at least four people who have been injured one of them is currently in the i.c.u. tour in critical conditions asia is reporter also was beaten up by this group by the security forces while we were there so it was it's very it's seems like the protests is still haven't stopped president bashir earlier spoke to the nation from the from the state of jazeera right and he said that he is going to try to promise reforms and he is going to try to make the economy better but people are saying that he really didn't want to be here and yet let me just jump in front if i can let me jump in because there's a lot we need to unpack here from what you seem to say there is still momentum with the protests seven day of protests and as you said all maga share has given his first speech since the crisis began promising real reforms you know when you're out there today in the streets of khartoum what do people think of these promises that the president is making will this be satisfactory for them.

well for the people there it's like we've been there before we've seen that we've heard that we have already done that we don't want to hear any more promises they said that they've been hearing about that for the past twenty nine years in the past five years alone this is the third protest the most significant has been this is the third protest there was a protest though there were protests in september twenty thirty where people have been killed as well also over the economy and earlier this year the syrian january sudan basically started the new year with protests and it seems like it's also wrapping up the year with protests over the economy that has quickly escalated to people saying that they don't want any promises they don't want any reforms what they want to see is a new government would they want to see the new regime any other thing is an accept any other thing promised by the government or any other side is unacceptable to them that's the only thing that seems to be able to appease them ok thank you for that he morgan reporting live from sudan's capital khartoum meanwhile the british embassy. in khartoum has tweeted out a statement putting more international pressure on sudan's government it speaks on

behalf of what he called a tour of countries made up of the u.s. norway and u.k. and from canada as well it says they're concerned about the violence that occurred during recent protests including credible reports of the use of live ammunition by sudan's government and multiple deaths during several protests well as i speak to her. who's a professor of political science at the university of khartoum has on the line from gotcha thank you so much for speaking to us these demonstrations that way of seeing showing that the country so don is heading to a crucial moment it seems omar bashir is promising change real reforms do you think there's a possibility for compromise. i think. there is because now the pressure is mounting on the government and also the government is trying also to mobilize. on big is.

so the. process of mobilizing said uncountable but i dissent from from both sides. that is the only way one way out of this is to have a compromise a political compromise to save the country from. what is a million yes hard drive to what would be a good political compromise as far as the protesters are concerned because it seems that they want nothing less than omaha bashir resignation is that likely to happen . i don't think that would have been but. maybe the possible compromise would be sending the coming twenty twenty elections. we're going to have a credible elections in twenty twenty or not this will be the crucial.

one. concrete steps taken to develop the. process so this is a crucial issue now for me the protests as we see have spread and have widened to include various sectors of society is that a structure built to this movement and you know what role has the opposition played at the national party's leader with freddie comedy return to khartoum on wednesday do you think the opposition can capitalize on the discontent and strengthen their position perhaps. as we know the all these the restrictions. is specially those ocurred outside the courtroom. is one thing any of the without any. political castration from one of the parties or political organization but there was there isn't today in one room is. political parties so they

would have wanted to catch up with the dissidents and with the woman the ordinary people. and the same time as they listen because it was in themselves even in another city in a good day also he would look to what i some. see be the ruling party in the knee so he's trying to call me to demobilize this and what i'm doing from the deal is this and also right to free wi-fi is also part of the bush you know he's defiant and we've heard the government accused infiltrators what it calls infiltrators for this unrest thirty seven people killed so far according drama c. international what do you expect to happen next you know where the government toughened its response or are they likely to take a step back because of the international focus that is on sudan right now. i think

it could also there isn't previous incidents like this. i don't expect the government to bulk up from about that one from. the process. but michael isn't the be able to this is my continuing hop to it because in other cities now i'm going to the out of the building that was an odd but. it is a booklet that will go though what i expect that really by piece are going to. do what it does to if not the only one that i use maybe to morrow and this will get the court order becoming be i think ok thank you so much for speaking to us and telling us about the situation there in sudan haasan ali is a professor of political science at the university of katu now we've talked about what's happening inside saddam but

a social media producer is here to tell us more about what people are saying outside of saddam yes a few days ago we spoke about this on news great about how the internet has been blocked by the sudanese government which means a lot of people are using other ways to get online such as v.p.n. is but the online conversation has meant that it's been dominated in fact by sudanese nationals living abroad you have twits a facebook instagram what's up all of these have been blogs then now there are about two million sudanese people who are living actually outside of sudan us according to research by the pew research center and many of them have been keen to use their accounts and spreading news of what's actually going on back home in sudan. now those videos that they are sharing like this one hand the solidarity process this one's been happening in washington d.c. in the u.s. the members of the city's community chanted actually in front of the embassy that there were also protests happening in the u.s. state of arizona. with some of the people life streaming there who says well.

we have to say something very important to the sudanese people living abroad call them to support the revolution it's people and injured. we've been ruled by bashir for more than thirty years and we have suffered a lot he was able to re-enforce his roof through political oppression but now it's time for the people who will suffer a great burden trying to get rid of the regime. who are the most the youth have been the energy and drive behind this revolution and we are behind them until the end but this doesn't mean that the older generation won't be of help with our knowledge and experience to regain our system of moral values. and speaking if you fail you can see some of the children sit down there from hospital facing in their own type of pride says which is chants sing rather and chanting against the bashir government. now aside from those protests on the

streets have also been acts of political resistance online like this cartoon here this one is by a prominent prominence as the knees are to school by our regime made it in twenty eleven but has actually reprice today since saying we all want to just hug saddam right nine you can see that's the person they're hugging saddam but there have been other cartoons also as well like this one to show you all we don't have it there. has been other cultures that people have been sharing a present or more of a share hiding behind his army and this twitter user has said that the explosion of the art scene and creativity that you're seeing is an early sign of an ongoing uprising this is a new generation with new ideas and conceptions of sudan's identity has been brewing for a while what we have to struggle to find is a conversation of those supporting the president bashir even after he promised to address protesters complains now he's expected to speak. again today but as all

reports have been welcomed points of only reform the protesters want to see is a new regime off to thirty years of n c p rule and how long can they go on and if you want to follow all the updates happening in sudan then the person to do is have an organ our reports are she's on twitter underscore morgan is a handle and people are sharing their thoughts on the situation in sudan with a comment here from thomas on facebook who says a message to the security forces put down your arms security forces your hurting your fellow sudanese another comment from brad also on facebook who says it's time for all share to go africa needs honest leaders and to say goodbye to the era of the dictator thank you very much for your comments you can send more of your comments and your question so any of our online platforms all the different ways to get in touch with us on his screen right now don't forget his hash tag a news great and very good background explainer on al-jazeera dot com about the situation in sudan the protests as we've heard started over the rising cost of

bread and fuel but have now widened with cause for the overthrow of a good insight into the crisis and what could happen next at al-jazeera dot com in other world news to wrench all rain and false alarms about more massive waves have been rippling around areas of indonesia devastated by saturday's tsunami at least four hundred twenty nine people are now known to have died after the disaster struck at night and without warning set off by a nearby volcano that still erupting al-jazeera as andrew thomas reports from putting one of the worst hits places. the scenes in product line on the media indonesians have seen lots of face this year the drudgery of a cleanup following a 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 boat was swept inland by the water and were injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely

unexpected i see someone 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 in a way z. struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people don't like that and two major earthquakes killed more than five hundred people in the eastern oil and of lombok a few months ago so small it justs and volcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia in twenty eighteen hasn't been particularly unusual what is on usual 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 pretty decisively to stamp and beyond our planning yeah so that say we as the red

cross are getting the rest of it is in to assist us and they also collect money over and under not enough to fight this and not thaw and they're not in the north. hundred land is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is moored vaughn's to all the poles of internees you it's almost as if this rain which is three make constant throughout the tsunami hit if mocking the people up on the ground as they try to clear up and draw out their lives but it will clear unlike here it will improve little comfort right now with america here in indonesia it's a familiar one hundred thomas alva zero eight hundred. and as andrew said there twenty eighteen has been a rough year for indonesia the tsunami that hit on saturday is just the latest in a string of natural disasters in recent years at al jazeera dot com a timeline of the other major disasters that affected the country in the last ten to fifteen years the most memorable and most devastating of course the two thousand and four tsunami which killed one hundred twenty thousand people in

a change turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish that forces in northern syria the u.s. has been supporting kurdish fighters in the area since twenty fourteen as part of the fight against size so u.s. backed kurdish led forces currently control the area of syria in yellow which you can see there but in recent days donald trump has said he is pulling all u.s. troops from syria turkey categorizes the kurdish fighters as terrorists and has been threatening an offensive against kurdish held territory near the city of mumbai for weeks as week to sin and kosovo in istanbul for his sin and the u.s. army of the y p g has been a source of tension of contention between the u.s. and turkey how is this all going to play out now with the u.s. pulling its troops out. well follow that the first say that the u.s. withdrawal decision has been a welcome by the turkish officials because for the first time for the last couple

of years it seems turkey and united states are on the same page and turkey is happy that the u.s. with the role is kind of will kind of isolate the wife p.g. which turkey believes that it's a part of an illegal terrorist organization. so turkey is very happy about that but turkey has been criticizing united states for the last two years for providing arms and weapons to to s.d. event turkey believe that why p.j. actually captured all those weapons and according to the turkish operational united states provided twenty two thousand long vehicles full of weapons and armory and equipment to the wipe e.g. including some heavy howie weapons as well so now it is a matter of interest that who will collect those weapons from from the y.p. jihad the u.s. side says that they will be they will be taking those back but when you speak to

the military experts and some other political political experts in ankara and the turkish capital they really have the outs about that because the united states have been the shield for the y.p. g. for a while and those weapons have not been registered despite for now despite that for now the both turkey and you know it's a states are on the same page will the united states really give up on the y p g which is a really big national security threat for turkey these questions still need to be answered falling out a lot of questions that need to be answered indeed thank you very much for that sin and go see it will live for us in istanbul now worth reminding you of who the kurds are in the middle east an estimated twenty five to thirty million of them live mostly in turkey iraq syria and iran they're mostly sunni muslims do not have an official homeland and continue to seek political rights recognition. or independents. and if you scroll down you have the most influential kurdish groups in the middle east we have been talking about some of them here on al-jazeera you

have the kurdistan democratic party the patriotic union of kurdistan and the kurdistan workers' party the p k k which is at war with the turkish government which should take its government considers a terrorist organization while with us now here in studio fourteen assault on barack cattles director at the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute for graduate study thank you so much for being with us here today as we've heard there are a lot of questions surrounding the fate of the kurds how vulnerable are they will they be when the u.s. troops fall out of syria i think they are of the relight quite a lot on the united states as much as the united states relied on them to undertake much of the work on the ground and they have by doing so alienated a number of neighbors and other potential allies and i think they must feel very disappointed. in my personal view is that they don't think there's anything strategic about about this decision it's you that it was a term decision that has already cost him his defense secretary and the story

is still unfolding so maybe the united states will revisit some parts of this decision and maybe fine tune it a little bit so that there is no total desertion of the what if not the united states who could the kurds turn to now we've heard reports of a delegation of the s.d.f. and you know the democratic forces which have been led by the kurdish white b.g. heading to moscow possibly looking for support from russia will they get it and what would that mean what impact would that have on the ground or the only option facing them today is really to go back to the government of syria and you have to remember that at the beginning of the war there were kind of allied with the government so the they've never really sever the relationship with the state so maybe the best option would be to go back to to to us and. and establish some kind of relationship they would probably require the russians to to mediate

a little bit but to. continue with their aspiration of total control of the areas particularly north of syria bordering turkey is very unrealistic i think they need also to revisit their own ambitions the probably have to adore their forces back to where the kurdish territories originally are because country like turkey takes against them the fact that they have more or less ethnically cleansed many arab settlements in the north and i think that gives them a degree of legitimacy for for their intervention even they were to get help from the asaad regime some sort of how that would put turkey and syria in the syrian government at loggerheads wouldn't it not what would be the risk of tension confrontation between turkey and syria i don't think there would be that a convert to confrontation but i think this is all part of turkish expanded influence in the region following the affair right and clearly or divan has reached a deal with the tram within the white house and it involves saudi arabia the

announcement of withdrawing financial support from the cia and what do you make of saudi arabia statements that in fact that story of a trump statement that saudi arabia is going to put money into syria into rebuilding syria and i don't know it could be just the result of a phone call with someone in saudi arabia but it flies in the face of all the accumulated wisdom from a similar engagement in afghanistan and iraq the original purpose of this force was stabilization it wasn't just to get to defeat isis it was meant to hold the ground hold territories help people return provide for some reconstruction and ensure that communities never ever accommodate isis amongst them now doing by withdrawing the finance and first withdrawing the forces is really dismantling the whole the whole plan so it's no longer a stabilization force it's no longer a stabilization engagement in the north and northeast of the country probably more uncertain times ahead for this and it's an unfortunate make you very much for time

barack out for being with us here on the news going through a time. news non-business news asian stock markets are down significantly following the worst week on wall street since the global financial crisis of two thousand and eight japan's nikkei slid by five percent while thailand and taiwan were also down markets in america europe hong kong australia and south korea a close for christmas in the united states shareholders have been spooked by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve not to mention a government shutdown by the president isn't taking any of the blame game it is on to has our report from the. the closing bell couldn't ring fast enough on monday market selloff continued with the dow losing more than six hundred points and nearly three percent the worst christmas eve drop ever by four it continues to decline that's been going on for more than a month. until monday the worst drop on the day before christmas was one thousand

nine hundred eighty five when it dropped half a percentage point markets hate uncertainty but now when wall street looks to washington they're getting that plus unpredictability here is what has the markets worried a partial government shutdown that some are predicting could last into two thousand one thousand frets of increased terrorist back and forth between china and the u.s. trump has been looking to put the blame on the falling markets on the federal reserve and its chairman jerome powell who trump has threatened to replace even though he himself up pointed him and doesn't have the authority to fire him to unilaterally look at threats leaving wall street on edge i'm a little worried quite honestly i am behind a year because of the valuation i think we're getting pretty t.v. although i feel no bottom in the market and i do think that the fed is made them contends this and serious. blunder. and i feel like mr powell is going to

get fired amidst the downturn monday trump showed no signs of backing down tweeting in part the only problem our economy has is the fed they don't have a feel for the market they don't understand unnecessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders just recently powell tried to put a good face on the market volatility this is the best year since the financial crisis you have growth well above trend monday's sell off was also a fallout from treasury secretary steve minutia phone calls over the weekend to executives of america's top banks which was meant to assure them that the federal government was on solid footing but the unusual call only spooked the markets even more leaving many to wonder if there was something fundamentally wrong with the economy they weren't sharing the only good news on wall street for her. is that the market slide will stop at least on tuesday because that's when the stock exchange

is closed for the christmas holiday but when it reopens again on wednesday all bets are off likely more worries of what's to come next gabriels andro. new york and from trade disputes to u.s. sanctions on iran and breaks it our business program counting the cost aches a look at the year's biggest economic stories the year in review the good the bad and the ugly of twenty eighteen is on al-jazeera dot com if you're watching us on facebook live coming up a social team has a story of a musician in south africa and his guitar during a brain say tree and still ahead on the grades we'll look at how iraq's windowing christian population is celebrating christmas as they pick up the pieces in towns where i saw once terrorized. the at. the in the the in. hello you know welcome back to

international weather forecasts we're here across the west and we are watching one particular storm system make its way across turkey and with this storm we do expect to see some snow in the higher elevations as well as some very heavy rain and showers down here towards the south this is where that cold front is laying out it's going to extend all the way down to the north eastern part of africa so over the next few days things are going to be quite messy from wednesday as well as a thursday in temperatures are expected to fall as we go towards the end of the week so aleppo it's going to be a rainy day if you attend degrees over here towards beirut at sixteen and even towards jerusalem only nine degrees is going to be a high temperature well here across the arabian peninsula watching some clouds in those clouds going to be making their way down here towards the south there's that line of clouds right there across the northern part of saudi arabia and as we go from wednesday to thursday we actually see that cloud area actually expand don't expect to see too much in terms of rain in that area maybe a drizzle or two but nothing in terms of flooding for doha the clouds going to be

on the increase from thursday to friday as well attempt a few of about twenty three degrees and then very quickly as we go down towards the southern part of africa we are seeing some showers down here across the coast and for cape town is going to be a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty two degrees in your forecast. generation after generation men work under the merciless sun a northeastern state. in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the people here in a loud voice live in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars of course if i'm a politician and i give culture and education to the people i'm impairing them and

if i'm impairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and governmental sturdy that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even if the next government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit.

fed by al-jazeera and the stories trending on al-jazeera dot com at number one in the attic heavens. basi charged with indecent assault after which he released a rather bizarre video on you tube titled. let me be frank in which he basically adopted the persona of his counter frank underwood in the popular netflix series house of cards also trending how britain stole forty five trillion dollars from india and if you click on that story how britain stole forty five trillion dollars from india click on it and you will read about. the of read about new. new research published by renowned indian economists.

which is changing the way some people look at how colonial britain profited during a simple. but me a crunch the numbers from nearly two centuries of data on tax and trade calculating that britain drained a total of nearly forty five trillion dollars from india between seven hundred sixty five to nine hundred thirty three and here's how it worked the east india company began collecting taxes and then use that same tax money to pay indian workers their wages vendors to other companies or countries who came to buy goods from india paid them money directly to the british government meaning it stayed with their coffers some of the goods were consumed in britain and the rest were really exported to other countries for much more than they bought them for in the first place while the findings challenge the company's whole story that the colonisation of india was of little benefit to britain in fact she says britain scammed india out of

a very large fortune jason hakan is an academic at the university of london and a fellow of the royal society of arts week sprains why this research is so important. as an academic i've always been really troubled by the fact that popular western narratives about britain's industrial rise bear virtually no resemblance to the actual historical reality so people tend to believe that the industrial revolution happened in britain purely because of clever inventions like the steam engine or because of strong domestic institutions it's just not that simple this narrative completely raises the real violence that was at stake in reality britain's rise depended on cotton and sugar produced by enslaved africans on land stolen from indigenous americans and depended on colonies that were forcibly d.n. duster lies and made the captive markets for british goods and it depended above all on two hundred years of systematic plunder from india and this is where the work of professor it's authentic becomes so important she's done a meticulous research of calculating just how much britain drained from india

during the colonial period and the results are truly staggering and amounts to the equivalent of about forty five trillion u.s. dollars that's more than seventeen times the size of britain's annual g.d.p. today this research completely appends the conventional narrative some people believe that britain helped develop india during the colonial period you know that's not true it was in fact a zero increase in india's real per capita income during the entire period of british rule britain didn't develop india on the contrary as pet next work makes clear india developed britain. now an online petition is heating up supporting legal action against the french government for what activists say is its inaction over climate change sorry interesting that this is happening at the home of the paris climate accord absolutely and i tell you the figure of signatures that been calculated have been gathered rather it's one point six million signatures incredibly one million of those was in just less than forty eight hours and they're

looking they're well on track to reach their target of two me if i was more than the yellow vest moonbase been helped along by a slick video featuring french film stars. and juliette binoche and the petition was launched by four environmental groups including greenpeace and exxon and they're accusing the french government of violating its only to limit global warming. the french state made some commitments but hasn't fulfilled them by the way climate change is a reality we're seeing the consequences we have people testifying to it french people are saying it's affecting their work and daily life so we want to act now we are bringing forward this to be justice can compel the french state to take action now the video campaign has helped get more people involved on social media in sharing the petition and also the hashtags and one of those is the feld a c act and that means trial of the century and the other one is meaning it means

we are ready and greenpeace tweeted it hopes that the french justice system will force france to lower its carbon emissions in fact in this tweet it says that france's global emission was actually going up and it has continued to do so since twenty sixteen it also says it chose to go down the legal route despite it taking years because of the success of a very similar case that happened in the netherlands now as a landmark victory accords in the hague back in october ruled that the dutch government had to speed up its carbon emission cuts at least twenty five percent by twenty eight twenty in the order came the day after scientists warned us that time is running out to avoid dangerous global warming and there's been other things that are being shared one of those is this picture which actually makes fun of the french president in calling him in action man instead of the action figure from the sixty's known as action man and was forced to do a u. turn on raising fuel taxes to wean france of fossil fuels often nationwide protests

this month and also other people from around the world have been congratulating this french protests in the campaign as for their success in receiving so many signatures in such a short period of time there's a few more hundred signatures to go but we will keep across that and any updates in the coming days as well sara thank you very much for that and of all the latest news related to our warming planet go to air dot com you'll find the latest news of course in death reports and and an assist on global warming it's at al-jazeera dot com. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour a gunman and a suicide bomber in libya have attacked the foreign ministry building in tripoli at least two people have been killed initial reports say one of the attackers blew himself up in the compound. has more from tipperary. 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 the foreign ministry and the fire was set in the building now security apparatus of the did as force manage it to take control of the building and to evacuated the whole building also it's also securing the other governmental or 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 in may and the state oil firm the national oil corporation in september. in tripoli there two people have been killed after an attack in the northern iraqi city of of tal afar a suicide car bomber targeted a market in the city eleven others were injured in the attack eisel has claimed responsibility the head of the united nations team sent to yemen to monitor a cease fire has visited the port city of data patric ahmed called on the saudi backed government forces and hooty rebels to respect the peace which began last you say has been sporadic fighting in the area in recent days with both sides blaming the other for violating the cease fire the u.n. hopes more aid will be able to pass through data support to help the desperate humanitarian situation. one of iran's top clerics mahmoud has. died at the

age of seventy he was the deputy head of the government body responsible for choosing the supreme leader shah rudie headed iran sudeshna in the late ninety's and early two thousand during his time in charge there was a crackdown on dissidents journalists and activists the end of his tenure coincided with mass protests over the alleged rigging of the two thousand and nine presidential election now in venezuela the lack of food and other basic services has forced hundreds of thousands to look for their next meal in neighboring colombia more and more indigenous people are among them and they're getting a less than warm welcome as well as on the ramp reports now from the colombian border city of kolkata where many venezuelans cross. tended bellies in this in the gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous yuko tribe who left minnesota and 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 must face the rest mountain discrimination. in recent months some of the you have clashed with police attempting to block their entry. we 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. court ordered states to protect then threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have the rived 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 doesn't is because someone accuses we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids died from only tradition 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 expand their shack twenty one new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. and 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 man housing health services the crisis in minutes well as many layers and well colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace wellens the indigenous communities feel their plight as so far been neglected and i saw. her. celebrations praying is wishes for a more peaceful year than the one we've just had it's christmas day christians believe jesus was born in the vatican pope francis greeted thousands of roman catholic worshippers and called on people to embrace their differences as a source of richness rather than fear and in the afghan capital kabul u.s. and nato troops mocks their seventeenth christmas with pray is and song meanwhile in iraq christian celebrated at the mar yousif church in baghdad the defeat of vice all means many of them can now save

a return to their homes in mosul and surrounding areas but many places a still in ruins iraq's christian community has dwindled but for those who we may they're keen to mock their important day with a huge christmas tree imran khan is in baghdad with more. this is a much more hopeful christmas than iraqi christians have seen in a very long time. use of church the st joseph's church 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 have been just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one nine hundred eighty seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country on officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is 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 not 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 in the united states a mother is spending christmas inside a church near washington to avoid being deported rossing jordan has his story.

rosa gutierrez lopez moved to the u.s. thirteen years ago to save her life. and i came here from a 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 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 lopez 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 in 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 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 her 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. until you get out. 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. put all of them the best possible gift at this christmas time rosalynn jordan al-jazeera bethesda maryland after this last christmas story i need to give a small parents a warning if your kids are listening may become of a u.s. president donald trump and his wife melania spent some of their christmas eve talking about santa cross they took calls from children anxious about getting they get but almost to the magic of christmas for one seven year olds ivan is absolutely convinced. it's going to get. used to you so. do you still believe in santa claus plenty of reaction to this online this week caught our eye trump is more real with a seven year old about sontag than he is with his supporters about the wall are

coming up shortly on the news great santa is here to tell us what's trending in sport basketball takes center stage on christmas day with the n.b.a.'s two biggest are set to collide a softer snapshot of the world right. to mourn the most town's initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for the bible talk a little so that muslims now moved from reacting to taking action putting the

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find out what people are talking about it was his son thank you very much for the well n.b.a. fans are set for a real crack of the game on christmas day two of the game's biggest stars le bron james and steph curry face off later as the at a lakers they take on the champions golden state n.b.a. usually saves a lot for december twenty fifth and this will be the first competitive game between the sizes of the brawl moved to l.a. it's the latest chapter of a bronze a struggle against curry and golden state while playing for the cleveland cavaliers the bronx came up short against them in three of the last four n.b.a. championship finals and he still trails kerry this season he will is second in the west two places above the lakers. they're a team that's. trying to figure out what. that's their goal or not that's all

it's my goal but we have to be. between taking the right to get to know when we. discuss in china should we want to have tension that it's. a specific question on special days chris. at the podium about. our christmas. my thirteenth. house that will be how am. i to do anything else but. school. was so preseason i was the difference in. probably the. next four guys in terms of what they're trying to do you know we see a lot of the last four years. the fun atmosphere played a hand and his team on christmas a less well. as four years good has years. of the fun atmosphere fun game. tying this and now it's less again from toronto as the n.b.a.

added to all of the sports news service at the school while thank you very much for talking to us well during christmas day first of all how would you describe. how would you describe the rivalry between bron james assef. right now one sided i think is probably the way to go with steph winning like you said three of the last four five holes bit of an unfair advantage with steph having kevin rudd on his team no clay thompson dream on green you know one of the best teams in the n.b.a. of course but as of now i will say that the rivalries onesided well how how serious of a threat are the brawling and the lakers to golden state's n.b.a. title. anytime le bron's on the floor it's a threat. laws of balls been playing pretty well defensively called who's was stepping up but the end of the day they just don't have the firepower to beat it

seem like golden state who has five all stars five superstars on the roster and we haven't even seen one of them play yet this season so when you have one superstar on your roster and today's n.b.a. it's kind of hard to become a threat so until le bron james gets that anthony davis or gets somebody something to help them out next season maybe even at the trade deadline i can't see him being much of a threat when it comes to the playoffs well of course both sides have three n.b.a. championships but who's the better all round that play do you think the probably the best all around player of all time is the bron james steph curry special and he does a lot of special things he's changed the way the n.b.a. is you today in the way that teams are playing today him shooting threes from thirty five feet and you know the pace of the n.b.a. is a lot faster because of a guy like steph when it comes to all around play le bron james one of the best passers in the n.b.a. one of the best rebounders in the n.b.a.

and he could still score at will even though he's thirty three eastern thirty four and weak. it's hard to ever question that he's not the best all around player in the n.b.a. or of all type even going back to the golden state's now they've got eight wins and their last ten outings do you think they're back to their best. they're getting there they're getting they're inching closer one of their issues is death i've been speaking about this for a while it's they just don't have the proper depth to really be where they usually are but once they get to marcus cousins back it'll help this is the quickest they've lost eleven games since i believe twenty fourteen. last season they lost eleven games late january and that was their worst season in the past like four years so i don't know i don't know if that's one of their back yet they're still dealing with championship the t.d. it gets exhausting being for being in four straight finals gets exhausting being in the same locker room with the same teammates over and over you saw that with miami

heat with the le bron james led miami heat seems they just got drained by the end of the fourth championship year when they reached the finals loss of the spurs. i don't know if they're back yet but you could see that there are definitely getting there with their with their top three players catching fire now with steph katie and clay dobson well let's quickly get you prediction for do you think is going to win tonight i'll go with you know what i'll go with the lakers tonight i'll go with the upset ok let's not and let's hope so les again i live from time to thank you very much for that not be to will be back with more eighteen in g.m.t. base you have any stories to share with me you can tweet me diet kid asuna eight on the school sports center he'll be back with more for now and you back to fill in the santa thank you very much onil so go with the lake is that's it for today's news great remember to keep in touch with us on social media at all times as ever a t.v. is great for me for you back to one home team thank you for watching we'll see you

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