al-jazeera selects. every. riot police the spurs thousands of angry protesters in sudan as president omar al bashir dismissing dismisses them as traitors. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up turkey says the united states has agreed to this armed kurdish fighters in northern

syria u.s. president donald trump warns the government shutdown will last until he gets funding for his controversial border war with mexico and the search goes on rescuers think for survivors in indonesia following saturday's deadly tsunami. we start the program in sudan where riot police have the sparse thousands of protesters trying to march on the presidential palace in khartoum the demonstrators are angry at rising food and fuel prices and blame president omar bashir is government for economic mismanagement but despite promising reforms earlier this week the longtime ruler has now the smiths the protesters as traitors and foreign agents our correspondent hiper morgan has more now from hard to. this started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seven days on the

demand has come. they changed they're now demanding the government and it's twenty nine your rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded to using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protesters of being influenced by external a challenge. but as a businessman well thank you for hosting me thank you for your support a new clues years ago which is a response to every foreign trade to outlaw and destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the traces in foreign agents i support you and with your support i will be back here next year and. thousands came out to protest in the capital anyway some opposition groups have voiced support to the protesters they see the people

have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government but the as we cannot at this moment lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge if you will and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing it the masses of realize that there is a strong relationship between the economy and politics the regime has promised several times to forward to direct its part in the crisis it's the nature of the regime which spends a lot of money on protecting itself and on buying loyalty and support. president bashir has faced protests before but throughout his reign he's never had to face protests this big protests that those participating in seem determined to keep going till their demands are met peter morgan is there a part of. the american journalist. was based. here is he says the lack of a strong opposition party has worked in president favor for

a long time this. and he's up as you know has been divided there are various. political parties rebel groups used groups so for a long time i think the government has been able to make use of that very fact that the opposition has been quite divided but i think with what we're seeing now is that different opposition groups are. calling on the political base to take to the streets to join these protests. how that translates into actual. political gain. remains to be seen but yes there is a history of the. division within the political parties amongst the political opposition all. regardless. of in opposition politics or not really have felt. the burden of the economic woes that have taken

place this year. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces in northern syria for weeks turkey has been threatening to launch your fence of against the kurdish fighters who partnered with the u.s. in the battle against isis but that operation was delayed after president donald trump announced that he was pulling u.s. troops from syria turkey and the u.s. have no agreed to cooperate to ensure that there isn't a power vacuum following the u.s. withdrawal and began joint withdrawals around the city of the beach last month. so part of the monday's agreement reached between the u.s. and turkey in june as part of that deal the us guaranteed the kurdish fighters would withdraw from to east of the euphrates by the end of two thousand and eighteen

a new city council would also be established by local arabs from the region who have been displaced by the war the roadmap was put in place in order to avoid a confrontation between the u.s. and turkey washington has been training in the arming kurdish y p g fighters since two thousand and fourteen but turkey considers the group a terrorist organization seen emco say glue has more now from istanbul. turkish officials how welcomed the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria they also welcomed a commitment to with take weapons provided to y p g fighters in order to fight against myself in syria where when you speak to the military experts and security experts they have doubts about the way how these weapons are going to be collected because they say there is a huge amount of weapons provided to the white p.g. and no one can assure that these weapons have been haven't been taken out of syria to iraq or other places or no one can guarantee that these weapons can be delivered by the white p.g. to russian military forces over there or the syrian regime army forces inside syria

of course it is a question mark also for tricky whether united states is totally going to isolate the y. ph in syria in that case a scenario comes up for the turkish officials still consider whether the white preacher is going to ally with the syrian regime or a rush hour we know that two kurdish delegations from the syrian democracy a council which is the political wing of the s.d.f. have been to moscow and they have been discussed they discussed about the future of that is the euphrates where turkey and threatens to hold the military operation in order to clean the region from the white p.g. and to moscow has been the second capital after paris which hosts and meetings for the s.d.f. main the a y p g and turkey says that this is the says hosting of p.k. k. in their own capitals now talking to the source as an anchor they are very uncomfortable about these latest dialogue between moscow and the s.d.f.

. syrian state media is reporting the countries they are defenses of intercepted missiles near the capital meanwhile the israeli military says their air defense system is intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired towards israel from syria in the past israel has launched a series of air strikes into syria which they say targeted raney and hizbollah forces fighting alongside the syrian government's army. u.s. president donald trump says the partial government shutdown will continue until he gets funding to build a wall along the southern border with mexico trump also repeated his criticism of the federal reserve. they're raising interest rates to first because they think economy is so good. i think that. they will get it. 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. sense whatever they'd 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 she has more now from washington. on the face of it it was a tough restatement of donald trump's position the twenty five percent of the federal government that's currently shut down wouldn't reopen until he got the money for his wall however you could interpret his statement as suggesting some wiggle room for negotiation he didn't just call it a wall he said the federal government isn't open he said until we have a wall a fence whatever they'd like to call it perhaps he thinks there's a way forward in negotiation if he if he relents on the idea of a concrete barrier which he's already been doing in the last few weeks talking about steel slaps artistic steel slabs perhaps he thinks there's a way for the last offer we heard from the white house was over the weekend which was not for a concrete barrier which wasn't for five billion dollars so perhaps the white house

hopes there is a way forward but from what we're hearing from the democrats that are just as confused as anyone else there was this tweet from chuck schumer who said different people from the same white house are saying different things about what the president would accept or not accept to end just from a shutdown making it impossible to know where they stand at any given moment the senate does reconvene on thursday when they go to set that continue. indonesian rescuers are searching for hundreds of missing people following saturday's deadly tsunami but torrential rains are hampering their efforts that best toll in western java has now risen to four hundred twenty nine people with a further one thousand four hundred people injured and experts are warning residents to move to higher ground amid fears of more high tides and possible tsunamis and to thomas reports now from. the scenes in product line all 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 out today and all day and we're 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. alou is the city on indonesia's fourth largest island sort of 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 and volcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia and twenty eight team 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 very decisively to stamp and beyond our planning so that's why we have read. the rest of it there is into as this us and they also collect money over and and underneath some of the fight this and north on the north and north. hundred lan is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more dogs than all the polls have in the media it's almost as if this right which is three mic constant since the tsunami hit if mocking people up on the ground i think try to clear up and draw out bad lives but it will clear i'm like ok it will improve that's little comfort right now but the narrative in indonesia is a familiar one under thomas alva zero eight hundred one. the best toll from a gun and suicide attack on

a government compound in afghanistan's capital has climbed to over forty no armed group has claimed responsibility for monday's attack which is one of the deadliest assaults in kabul this year made in a hong reports. as the sun started to go down across the afghan capital kabul fires still burning and the attack on the government building was coordinated and went on for hour was a suicide bomber. explosives packed into a car before gunmen stormed the building and systematically moved through it firing an employee. it was a frightening sound from the explosion we got scared an escaped people were very upset and everyone was running away police evacuated more than three hundred fifty government workers others reported themselves in the roughest says. that many more were cool to happen an attack that reportedly went on. for eight hours since this

little girl was walking down the road and salvi concoct in the a.t.l. when suddenly there was a huge explosion it knocked me down the taliban launches regular attacks and controls nearly half of afghanistan but i still known reach me as is active to both groups have launched coordinated attacks like this one in the past this is a sensitive time in afghanistan as the attack unfolded pile. stans foreign minister was in kabul for talks with the afghan president afghanistan's peace process was on the regina. the u.s. has been pushing to revive peace talks with the taliban and just four days ago u.s. president donald trump announced plans to withdraw all seven thousand american troops half of the u.s. pulls in the country so we have had the taliban representatives speaking to the u.s. special envoy. last week and they are set to meet again

and the saudi capital riyadh next month we have. representatives from saudi arabia from markets down. attend those meetings as well. when it was over at least it's making its very monk the deed but most of the at this book people working for the government and about to hit home for the day and hunt down to zero. plenty more still to come here on al-jazeera including unrest in libya as gunmen launch a suicide bomb attack on the foreign ministry and we'll tell you why it's another winter of discontent for refugees and migrants on the greek island. to. the end.

hello again and welcome back we're here cross australia particular over here toward sydney we are looking at a bad air quality day here on wednesday and the reason being is we have an area of high pressure and what that does is it keeps a cap on the atmosphere not allowing much in terms of circulation so unfortunate here best three problems are going to be an issue here on wednesday with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees down towards the south well we are looking at melbourne temperatures not too bad here and once a twenty six degrees but by the time we get to thursday those temperatures really begin to come up thirty six is expected high winds coming out of the north over here towards alice springs though a much warmer day for you at forty two degrees there well across the north and south island of new zealand we are looking at one where the system slowly moving off the north island a few clouds are going to linger here on wednesday but things are really going to be improving over the next few days of auckland winds coming out of the south at twenty to twenty two degrees right there christchurch at about sixteen and then as we go towards thursday a little bit better down here towards christchurch with

a temp few about eighteen degrees and then very quickly appear towards north asia while the temperatures are very low here across all of the tar we are looking at clear skies but temperatures throughout minus twenty seven degrees here on wednesday and about minus twenty four degrees by thursday afternoon. in the first episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islam a period in the field of. professor jim. brings the brilliance of a pos to light. last point credible almost doesn't look real all we've done is block out the mud from the room and then allow it to come through the small old server one of science cannot go into marriage on al-jazeera.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has the smith's protesters rallying against him in the capital as traitors and foreign agents earlier police fired tear gas and live ammunition on the the government that was fraser's who were angry over the rising cost of living turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish forces in northern syria it's part of a plan for the city of should read between and current washington which will eventually see the complete withdrawal of kurdish fighters from the area. and the us president has warned the partial government shutdown will continue until he secure as funding for his border war with mexico. five point seven billion dollars

added to the budget and he says he will not sign off on any spending legislation without it. at least six people including three suicide bombers have been killed in an attack on the foreign ministry in the libyan capital tripoli they detonated a car bomb before opening fire on the ministry two of the attackers managed to get into the building twenty one people have been injured before that then well he has more now from tripoli. the interior minister calls it a terrorist attack he also stated that the criminal investigation department is currently conducting forensic and d.n.a. analysis to recognize the identity of the attackers and the motives behind the attack this is the third time state institutions get under attack in this year but yet interior minister admits that there is chaos in the

security system look at libya we have been consumed by our own internal fighting and rivalries that's why we couldn't have official security forces that are well equipped and trained to prevent such attacks we have many challenges but we will never give up and the same context the foreign minister says that the ministers his headquarter has been damaged by the attack and the employee is well starved over work in another facility he also appears for the international community for help and how the. the only this is a message to the international community we have demanded that the arms embargo on libya be lifted security cannot be maintained in libya unless your security council gives an exception by party lifting the arms embargo and certain qualities of weapons so we can combat terrorism to similar attacks targeted estate institutions in the capital tripoli this year the high national election commission's

headquarters in may and the state oil firm national oil corporations headquarter in september but yet their security apparatus does not seem to have been improved to prevent such attacks. this thing in libya dozens of bodies have been found in a mass grave libyan authorities say was discovered near the coastal town of see it on sunday the grave contains the bodies of thirty four ethiopian christians who were killed by eisel in two thousand and fifteen and the bodies will be repatriated to ethiopia hundreds of thousands of people have migrated from sub-saharan africa to libya in recent years many hoping to eventually reach europe. thousands of asylum seekers living in tents on one of greece's aegean islands are enduring another winter without proper shelter heating or running water there is no space at the official camp which is supposed to house them and as john psaropoulos reports from some most they'll continue waiting in the cold until the government

builds somewhere for them to live. when abdullah poda and his family from afghanistan arrived on some us a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space and the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and turn children but there isn't enough room for the mall called make an embittered i sleep outside the tent only my children and my wife have the tent one night i sleep on the ground one night on a chair one night i asked my friends if i may sleep with them one night i sleep outside the camp a town one night i sleep in a mosque. the former interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan says all the children are sick this blue tarp all in isn't waterproof so on days like this the rain drops through in a high wind many tents are pulled apart and heavy rains can cause them to slide off their base of wooden pallets into the mud almost three thousand asylum seekers live

in similar conditions in an olive grove beside the camp those who have the money by tents to put under the tarp all in the lucky ones have camping stove but an open flame is a fire hazard some light wood fires and burned plastic food containers and egyptian asylum seeker trying to stay warm died of carbon monoxide poisoning last year unless of course 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. 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 queue for lunch i wait there for three hours and then i wait another four or five hours for dinner starting at four o'clock i spend all my day in the queue for food for my wife and children. this company was built for six hundred fifty and already houses twice that many a few new arrivals still build their own accommodation on vacant spots inside the

camp these men say they found the timber in town because. 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 artillery range it was hastily chosen and built in twenty sixteen to honor the e.u. turkey agreement the army was the only institution that could get the job done in short order until now has fiercely resisted the official camp's expansion the government now seems to have overcome that obstacle and plans a new camp next year that will be twice as large as this these asylum seekers have a whole winter to survive first jump start on. most meanwhile a second central american child asylum seeker has died in u.s. government custody u.s. immigration authorities say an eight year old boy from guatemala showed signs of

potential illness on monday he was taken to hospital and died several hours after being diagnosed with a cold and earlier this month a seven year old girl also. died after being detained by border agents at least twenty seven people have died in a bus crash in the democratic republic of congo the vehicle collided with a truck in key sent to walk around two hundred kilometers southwest of the capital kinshasa the health ministry says excessive speed was to blame for the accident several people were taken to hospital suffering serious injuries. well voters in the democratic republic of congo will head to the polls this sunday but many remain concerned the election will be compromised it's already being the first by a week because of technical and logistical problems now electoral commission workers are racing to finish preparations for the historic vote of reports now 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 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 that 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. of the. same you official say out of loyalty 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. in terms of just six nobody is able to

give. on the. credibility of the process is very very low robot trains that are to be deployed to the province's he's already visited many parts of the country as it electoral process to this point has been a sham. been unable to publish their. stations. and their machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times in. people here in the capital. they say they're afraid of the election could be. confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have

a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect. president kabila so we find another solution 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 reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go. iraqi christians are celebrating christmas at the mar use of church in baghdad the city is one of the oldest christian communities in the world but their numbers have dropped significantly since the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion and that of course the rise of but it's not all bad news for the community iraq's cabinet has just approved to mark christmas day as an official national holiday imran khan has the latest now from baghdad. 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 at was say that things have changed for iraq christians that there are much more secure than they ever have been know 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 here and there 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 much more on that and everything else we've been covering on our web site al jazeera dot com. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has dismissed protesters rallying against him in the capital khartoum as traitors and foreign agents earlier riot police tried to disperse the crowds of thousands were marching towards the presidential palace the demonstrators one talbot's here to

step down and blame his government for economic mismanagement and rising food prices he brought morgan has more from two people have been injured in today's protest while we were there we've heard sounds of live ammunition is being fired we've seen tear gas being fired at the protesters so he's got two ways to go with this he could continue responding we using brutal force to get the protesters to back off but that has not worked today from what we have seen the more the pro the put the police used tear gas and live in missions the more the protesters seem to go on with their protests and of the deliver the message that they want the government gone the other thing he could do is bowing to their demands and say yes i am going to step down and you can try to elect a new government that is something he said he's not willing to do so at this point are dancing to be at a crossroad. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces in northern syria as part of a road map for the city of mine be agreed by anchor and washington which guarantees kurdish fighters will eventually withdraw from the area turkey has been threatening

a new offensive against the kurdish fighters which it considers a terrorist. trump has warned the u.s. government shutdown will last until the securest funding for his border war with mexico from points five point seven billion dollars added to the budget for the war and says he will not sign off on any spending legislation. search and rescue teams in indonesia are looking for hundreds of missing people following saturday's deadly tsunami a tarantula rains are hampering their efforts the death toll has now risen to four hundred twenty nine with a further one thousand four hundred people injured. and at least six people including three suicide bombers have been killed in an attack on the foreign on the foreign ministry in the libyan capital tripoli they detonated a car bomb before opening fire on the ministry itself two of the attackers managed to get into the building it's not yet clear who was behind the attack those are the top stories stay with us science in

a golden age is coming up next by. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise investigates the threats. on al-jazeera. the nature of light has intrigued scientists throughout the ages today it's used in all sorts of applications from lasers and communication to particle accelerators we're living in a science and technology boom period but the roots of our understanding of optics and light can be traced back to a period between the ninth and fourteenth centuries that's when a revolution in science took place in the islamic world a golden age of science i'm a british professor of theoretical physics but born in baghdad i'll be looking at the states of the off topic asians of optics and tracing back their roots to those

pioneers in the islamic world who revolutionized the new understanding of light during the golden age.