succeeded throwers on al-jazeera. and more anti-government rallies in sudan as riot police used live fire against unarmed protesters. for the back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead a roadmap on mamby cherokee chunks out a plan for the withdrawal of u.s. backed kurdish forces from the syrian town. torrential rain hampers the search for survivors in indonesia the number of dead from saturday's tsunami crimes to four

hundred twenty nine plus. i just showed you where the girl who is going to be a. us president donald trump says the government shutdown will last until there's an agreement on the border war. riot police in sudan have used live ammunition and tear gas to break up an anti-government rally. the protesters were marching towards the presidential palace to demand omar al bashir step down the president has vowed to implement what he calls the real reforms three improve living standards al-jazeera is here to morgan ventured into the thick of the protests here's what she saw in car too. people instead of having to seek first few days now if you see behind me you can see soon to mount a huge number of people protesting this saying that if the people force as they want the government to do the thing chanting things like down with the government

this is the seventh day of protest against the government people in the kerry campaign a different is going to and obviously there's a lot of confusion among three the concerned police have been firing tear gas while watching this they've also fired a lot of the fire a lot of poor guys they've been firing they've been threatening process of having some of them to leave but they are still there this will put something out of turning out to be a huge crowd maybe probably much larger than the crowd was expecting it's not clear if this government is actually going to bow down to their demands and go away and by step like they wanted it's been a very very shaky i think people have been protesting nobody knows where it's going to end already i spoke to haasan hosh on the a professor of political times at the university of khartoum and i started by asking him if commitments made by omar al bashir could provide some room for compromise i think. that is because now the pressure is mounting on the government and also the government is

trying also to mobilize its on beer is. so key a process of mobilizing certain colors that are mobile i dissent from from both sides. so that is the only way one way out of this is to have a compromise a political compromise to save the country for the bloodshed i think it can in the course of this and previous incidents like this. i don't expect the government to buck up from the bog down from this process. but mike's with this and the. damage to this is my continued and hop to it because the other. it is now going to the out of the building. was it in our but. i do it is a booklet that will go though what i expect that we will be by piece got to.

do what it does not tell me about that i it may be to morrow and this we need to go on for the coming day i think. you know the world news u.s. president donald trump is warning the government shutdown will continue unless congress agrees to his demands he spoke to reporters after the christmas video conference with troops abroad and insisted that congress fund his plan for a war on america's southern border a budget standoff force the government to kills last week i can't tell you where the government's going to be open i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall a fence whatever they like to call it i'll call it whatever they want. but it's all the same thing it's a barrier from people pouring into our company into our country that speaks to she have a tons in washington d.c. for as she have it's been four days now in the president's digging in. right but as the so often the case with these all for cuff comments from donald trump there are

several ways to interpret what he said and none of these interpretations necessarily have any certainty of having any bearing on future policies that we should put at the beginning of any discussion of these comments but on the one hand yes he's digging in he's saying that we're not going to reopen the government until i get the wall but then as you heard him say he then said so we have a wall a fence whatever they'd like to call it i mean that could be interpreted as a bit of a softening he's no longer pushing for that concrete wall which is the one thing the democrats say is completely unacceptable the democrats have in the past spent billions of dollars and appropriated billions of dollars for fencing of any sort donald trump himself and that just in the last few weeks has been talking more about autistic steel slap some things like so he softening that it's no longer about a concrete wall perhaps there's some wiggle room for debate but he also talked about how long he wanted the wall to be he said five to five hundred fifty miles he wanted it to be done by the next election i mean usually when i mean again this is

a softening of his position on the war and initially we were supposed to like three thousand miles across the entire border then it became clear that he didn't necessarily want to cross the rio grande and now it's five hundred fifty miles and it still slaps in its artistic so i mean we don't really know what he what he's talking about that whether there's any room for maneuver we do know that the last all for that the white house gave to democrats was something less than five billion dollars and wasn't necessarily a concrete barrier so maybe there is some room there but again who knows and what he had to say she have about the market turmoil. again i mean he seemed to be much more conciliatory that you might have than he has been in the past first of all he said he had complete confidence in steve newton as treasury secretary who is now widely being blamed for the sell off we saw on monday at least in part because of his his calls to central bankers and to the c.e.o.'s of the six biggest banks in the u.s. and other regulators. trump affirming his confidence in steve newton but then

saying when all stood about the federal reserve he said yes look he does think that they're raising interest rates too quickly which is known with his complaint that's what he blames for the stock market selloff but he says he thinks they'll get it he thinks they'll understand that actually they're doing so again so it's too conciliatory they're certainly not suggesting that he wants to fire anyone so that may well have an effect when the markets reopened after the christmas holiday thank you for that she have returned to live for us in washington d.c. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to take back weapons given to kurdish rebels in northern syria take ition u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in the area around the city of miami beach it was all part of an agreement known as a man beach road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish white rebel group who helped the fight against i so cynical see who has more from the sample. 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. what the role is kind of will kind of isolate the y.p. it wipe e.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 trick you 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 white b.g. including some. how weapons as well so now it is a matter of interest that who will collect those weapons from from the y. p.g. 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 one car and the turkish capital they really have that it's about. in indonesia terentia will reign is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number of people killed in western java has risen to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four missing experts fear more tsunamis if the qatar volcano erupts again andrew thomas reports from panda ground. the scenes in product line all the indonesians have seen lots of bass this year the drudgery of a cleanup following disaster this is what remains of the hotel look who is 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 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 it's just an vulcanologists 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 survive as a decisive december and beyond our planning yeah so that's a we have read. about some of it is in to assist us and they also collect money over and under national to fight this and they're not in the north hundred land 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 has been a constant since the tsunami hit even mocking people up on the ground i 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 hunt. thousands of asylum seekers living in tents on one of the greece is a jay and islands are enjoying another winter without heat or running water that's because there's no space at the official canvas supposed to house them and as john seraphina's reports from some also continue waiting in the cold until the government builds somewhere for them to live. when abdullah poda and his family from afghanistan arrived on site most a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space in the government run camp together with

a friend they made this tent for their wives and children but there isn't enough room for them all but hard make an embittered by 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 in a town one night i sleep in a mask. 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 tents to put under the top 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. or to 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 key 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 keys for food for my wife and children this camp 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 they had. been living 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 all of 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 camps 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 jump several close alger's there are some us still ahead on al-jazeera voters in the democratic republic of congo get ready for an election that's been delayed for yes last says kate being venezuelan at essential food in colombia the increasing number of indigenous people struggling to find their next.

hello are going to welcome back to the national weather forecasts we're here across the west and we are watching one particular storm system make its way across turkey and with the 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 and temperatures are expected to fall as we go towards the end of the week so aleppo it's going to be a rainy day for you attend agrees 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 there are 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. they wanted forty screen billion pounds with a weapon that was six billion pounds in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cobbles people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera this hour riot police in sudan have fired bullets in tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of the president omar al bashir was been in power for twenty nine years has promised to improve living standards following a week of protests against food and fuel price rice in indonesia tarantula rain is hampering the search for survivors of tsunamis of the since saturday tsunami the number of dead in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine experts fear more tsunamis are possible if the cocteau of ok no erupts again. and turkey's foreign minister says the us has agreed on

a plan to disarm kurdish fighters in syria and for kurdish groups to leave the city of the us had previously supported the kurdish wife e.g. in their fight against donald trump decided to withdraw u.s. troops from syria a few days ago. five people have died after gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers blew himself up in the compound at least eighteen other people have been wounded. 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 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 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 for the national oil corporation in september iraqi christians have been celebrating christmas at the mar yousif church in baghdad the defeat of ice or means many of them can now safely return to their

homes in mosul although many of their homes have been destroyed al-jazeera is iran can report back that. 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 to attend mass and there is a very hopeful and was say 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 thousand and 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 the big 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 voters in the democratic republic of congo head to the polls in five days to choose and next leader but many are not confident the election will be free and fair after numerous delays over the past two years catherine so i reports from the capital kinshasa. 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 voting day and materials replace those that are saved 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 we know organizing them disobey district and working hard to make sure they are ready for little of the year and send you official say out of will to materials already in regional headquarters across the country 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 ticks nobody is able to give. on the temple so credibility of the process is very

very low robot come back hella 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 a sham i don't. the machine. has been unable to publish them up a war the polling stations in the absence of the detail so you might have station that don't exist and the machine meant for those bureaus used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times indeed people here in the comp who told you not to trust the commission 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 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 with the commission is under pressure to be reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go many congolese not so sure catherine song al-jazeera kinshasa to senegal now where a new museum has opened tracing millions of years of african history it's also provoking calls for the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders. a story 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 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 gut. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or senegal's 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 to no longer be ignored because this space is a celebration of bracket artistic expression and so whether stalling 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. but people 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 because hawk al-jazeera the car five people have died in a helicopter crash in mexico mafia erica a state governor was one of the victims she became the first female governor of the central state of falling elections earlier this month it's not clear what caused the crash shortly after takeoff. and the lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands to look for their next meal in neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people but the child complain of the less than warm welcome they received. reports from the border town of cookout. tended bellies in this gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all

members of the indigenous yuko tribe who 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 the restaurant and discrimination but. 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. 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 to go 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 half. they don't have the just read to refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the indigenous people who are worst off it isn't just on one occasion we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids died from mount attrition 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 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 land housing health services the crisis in venezuela 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 i saw the beauty i'll just you know. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed on a plan to disarm kurdish fighters in syria and for kurdish groups and leave the city of man the u.s. had previously supported the kurdish y p g in their fight against i saw president of the united states donald trump decided to withdraw u.s.

troops from syria a few days ago in sudan riot police have fired bullets same tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of the president. who has been in power for twenty nine years has promised to improve the living standards of people after week of protests against food and fuel prices. he morgan has an a just some cotton. people seem to be mobilizing but others locals mobilizing specifically the police we've been out in the streets about fifteen minutes ago and everywhere you go around khartoum you would find a group of policemen carrying their batons ready for the protesters in case they come out of the streets as they have promised carrying their memos demanding the president to resign now let's remember they are going to march from a certain square not far from the presidential palace and then they would head on to the presidential palace to deliver a memo demanding president omar al bashir to resign u.s. president donald trump is warning the government shutdown will continue until congress agrees to his demands he spoke to reporters after

a christmas video conference with troops abroad and insisted that congress fund his plan for a wall on america's southern border the budget standoff forced the government to close last week and has hinted that it may stay closed for a while in indonesia to wrenshaw rain is hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number of dead in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four people missing experts fear more tsunamis are possible if the and a cockatoo of ok now erupts again. and in libya five people have died after gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports say one of the attackers million in the compound at least eighteen people have been wounded. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next yes inside story.

rebuilding syria seven years of war has devastated much of the country donald trump says saudi arabia is ready to pay for reconstruction but who will get the money and how will it be spent this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. syria seven year war has transformed ancient cities into ghost towns entire neighborhoods wiped from the map schools and hospitals reduced to rubble.