and so is life behind the badge. you're watching the news hour live from the headquarters in doha i'm coming up in the next sixty minutes. live fire to try to break up a seventh day of anti-government protests in sudan. a flashpoint close to damascus missiles that serious as were fired by israel are shot

down. just a day after a little girl's borough another a guatemalan child dies in u.s. border custody and adding to the misery the hard slog of recovery from a tsunami while it with rain. hello police in sudan have used lie fire to disperse thousands of protesters on a seventh day of an anti-government uprising presidents all modern bashir recalled the demonstrators traitors as they try to march on the presidential palace in the capital khartoum they're demanding he step down after twenty nine years in power. morgan is there. they started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seventy zone the demand has completely changed they're now demanding the government and its twenty nine year. and step down the government which is led

by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protesters of being influenced by external agency. we should clear that as a. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is a response to every foreign agent traitor lauren destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the churches in foreign agents i support you and with your support i would 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 say the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government but the being as we cannot at this moment

lower our demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge fuel 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 correct its part of 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 facebook just as before but throughout his reign he's never had to face protests this big protests that those participating in seem to tame him to keep going till they demands are met he morgan is there a sort of. well a soaring prices a. government protest a week ago but the anger has been simmering for a long time or oil has been sudan's main source of income for decades but it lost most of its or oil fields and three quarters of its output. when. dependent seven

years ago the u.s. lifted trade sanctions on sudan in october last year which had been in place for twenty years but it struggled to attract the foreign investment needed to revive the economy. has been devalued three times this year and inflation has soared to nearly seventy percent. american journalist who is based in hearts for eight years he says the lack of a strong opposition party has worked in president's favor. for a long time the city's opposition has been divided there are various. political parties rebel groups groups so a long time i think the government has been able to make use of that very fact that the opposition has. quite divided but i think with what we're seeing now is that different opposition groups are. calling on their 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 division within the political parties amongst the political opposition you know all comes all. regardless of the active in opposition politics or not really have felt the burden of of the economic will that have taken place this year syrian air defenses have opened fire on what state media are calling enemy targets near damascus blaming israel for the missile raid they quote a military source adding most of the missiles were downed before they reached their targets and arms depo was hit three soldiers injured in the attack meanwhile the israeli military says its air defense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria in the past israel has launched air strikes into syria against what it says are iranian or hezbollah targets. turkey's foreign minister

says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supply to turkey to kurdish led forces this follows president donald trump's sudden decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria they've been supporting kurdish forces in the fight against isis since twenty fourteen the kurdish led syrian democratic forces control about a third of syrian territory including the city of men well the city was at the center of an agreement reached between the u.s. and turkey in june under that deal the u.s. guaranteed that kurt. fighters would withdraw from the east of the euphrates by the end of this year a new city council would also be established by arabs from the region who have been displaced in the fighting the road map was put in place to avoid a confrontation between the u.s. and turkey washington has been training and arming kurdish fighters since twenty fourteen but turkey considers the group a terrorist organization sin and has more from. 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. to fighters in order to fight against in syria how and 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 turkey and whether united states is totally going to isolate the y. ph in syria in that case the scenario comes up for the turkish officials still consider whether the white preacher is going to align with the syrian regime or 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 a military operation in order to clean the region from the y. p.g. and to moscow has been the second capital after paris which hosts. meetings for the s.d.f. main the a y p g and turkey says that this is the hosting of p.k. k. in their own capitals now talking to these sources in ankara they are very uncomfortable about these latest dialogue between moscow and the s.d.f. so talking about a cause is the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute he says kurdish fighters in syria are being deserted by the u.s. . they relied 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. and my personal view is that they don't think there's anything strategic about about this decision it seems that it was a term decision that has already cost him his defense secretary and where 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 white beach 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 they were kind of allied with the government so they are they've never really severed their relationship with the state so maybe the best option would be to go back to to to us and establish some kind of relationship they would probably require the russians 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 they probably have to draw their forces back to where the kurdish territories originally are because the 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 this is all part of turkish expanded influence in the region following the hardships of the affair and it clearly or divan has reached a deal with the trauma within the white house 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. tarantula rain and false alarms about more huge waves have been bringing further anxieties of victims of the indonesian tsunami at least four hundred twenty nine people were

killed when the wave struck at night and without warning set off by a nearby volcano that's still erupting andrew thomas reports from one of the worst hit areas. the scenes in product line all the media indonesians have seen lots of face this year the drudgery of a cleanup following disaster this is what remains of the hotel workers me at the end all day in 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 but this time when i moved i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. palu is the city on indonesia's fourth largest audience it always a 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 island of lombok a few months ago so it's just an vulcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia and twenty eight team 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 don't read. the rest of it it isn't to assist us and they also collect money over a goodness and under nothing of to fight this and no thought there not in the north hundred line is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more advanced in other parts of indonesia. it's almost as if this right. through the tsunami hits the people on the ground if they try to clear up and dry out. but it will. will improve that it will

come but right now but the merits here. it's a familiar one hundred. hundred. points more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including i can't tell you where the government's going to be open. refusing to budge donald trump says he won't end the shutdown until he gets what he wants. with the ice so mostly defeated iraq's ancient christian community celebrates christmas in the relative peace for the first time in the year and a new twist on one of basketball's biggest rivalries peter will be here with that story a little later in sport. but first a second central american child asylum seeker has died in u.s. government custody the eight year old guatemalan boy would have been held in a center similar to this one immigration officer already seen

a boat the boy showed signs of a potential illness on monday he was taken to hospital but he died several hours after being diagnosed with a cold and fever earlier this month a seven year old girl also from died after being detained by border agents brunell's covering the story joining us from washington d.c. what are u.s. authorities saying about the circumstances of this boy's death rob and are they investigating well. well yes daryn i think we should note from the outset that there's a great deal we don't know about this circumstance so we don't know the boy's name we don't know the exact cause of his death we haven't heard from any of his family members all we have is the information that we've been given by a u.s. government agency the customs and border protection service which is part of the department of homeland security that agency says that the boy and his father were apprehended as they were crossing the border into the state of new mexico on monday

the boy it was seen by one of the agents who apprehended them appeared to have signs of illness so he was taken to a hospital in alamogordo new mexico observed and the staff there concluded that he had nothing more serious than a common cold so he was given a common antibiotic called the moxa celyn and given ibuprofen for discomfort but and then was released back into the custody of the government agency the c p b but sometime later the boy nausea. and began vomiting he was taken back to the hospital and he passed away shortly after midnight on tuesday now the. customs and border protection service says that they will conduct an independent and thorough review of the circumstances the department of homeland security's inspector general's office has been notified and

the government the united states government agency has also notified the guatemalan government that's are saying rob this is the second child to die in u.s. government custody what reaction has been to this child's death. there's been a great deal of reaction on twitter for example the us democratic congress member. who represents part of the city of seattle in the state of washington wrote on her twitter account that this is a deplore this is deplorable two children have died under d h s that's department of homeland security watch this month what happened to quote one death is too many secretary kneels and that's a reference to secretary curious jeanine elson who said that one death is too many in response to the case you mention of the young girl who died in u.s.

government custody a congresswoman jiah hall is actually a member of the. the subcommittee on immigration and border security in the incoming congress she's a democrat and the democrats will be controlling the house of representatives and the. american civil liberties union which is a frequent legal opponent of the trump administration and its border policies and immigration policies also tweeted this is a horrific tragedy c.p.b. must be held accountable and stopped from jailing children the a.c.l.u. also called for a congressional investigation of the entire department of homeland security and its policies by the next congress as one of its first priorities all right ron brownstein thank you well just a few kilometers north of the white house a church is giving sanctuary to a woman facing deportation to el salvador strict government immigration policies

mena rose i would tara's lopez a spending christmas away from her family so she could remain in the country were isn't jordan house for a story. of the. growth of yet it's lopez moved to the u.s. thirteen years ago to save her life. when i came here for. door 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. a slope as 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 new 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.

but i will always think them because they gave me a very warm welcome and they've embraced me as a member of their family and they've promised to protect me all of them all of them all of us. the best possible gift at this christmas time rosalyn jordan al-jazeera bethesda maryland. the u.s. president donald trump says parts of the governments will state shut down until he gets five billion dollars for his wall on the mexico border trumps demand has been rejected by democratic party rivals and some members of his own republican party in retaliation trumps refusing to sign a wider spending bill temporarily stripping funding from swaths of the government. i can't tell you where the government is going to be open i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall 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 shihab rattansi has more 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 is going to open he said until we have a wall a fence whatever they'd like to call it perhaps he thinks there's a way for the negotiation if he if he relents on the idea off a concrete barrier which he's already been doing in the last few weeks talking about steel slabs 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 they're 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 and some of those reconvene on thursday when the nation is that the continue let's bring in now it's about mid june he's the founder and president of party politics us thanks very much for speaking to us on this christmas day from washington d.c. read between the lines for us do any afoot trump's comments suggest to you at all that any progress has been made in ending the standoff with the democrats when trump says this i can't tell you when the government is going to reopen and that the partial government shutdown won't end until we have a wall a fence whatever they like to call it well you know i think a part of the question is does the president want to actually address security or does he want to address. fulfilling

a campaign promise so we none of us knows we were sitting here and it's not just republicans and democrats no one knows exactly what the president wants as you all stated just before so anything he said at all signals any flexibility on what would satisfy his promises on the border wall yeah i think a lot of times we're looking at a lot of these different issues we always try to figure out where which angle where is the president coming from in particular this issue this is a campaign promise i mean just a couple of days before it seemed like the president was going to relent on the spending bill that was going to sign it and then it seems that some of his aides are here and say well listen mr president you can't do this this is a campaign promise it was listening to pundits who are out there who are talking so we don't know where he's getting his information from what we do know is that he is standing firm that he wants to have this wall and he's and so we we have to believe that he's not going to sign anything but in terms of where the negotiation goes

from there i think a lot of us are waiting patiently maybe m. patiently if you're a government worker who's not getting paid one of the a hundred thousand of what is going to happen on thursday when the senate and the congress reconvenes yeah i mean speaker nancy pelosi said that she expects the chamber will pass legislation to reopen federal agencies quickly on january the third but do you think that would include any additional money for the border. i'd like to think not i think the democrats also see this potentially as. a way to tell the president with that this is not just about those this wall that it's really about what is creating has created a lot of havoc is create a lot of division within the country itself the democrats i think were able to win this election based off of saying that they were going to resist a lot of the things that the president has proposed and one of those things is that wall so they wear em past politically whether or not the democrats are going to

relent they did relent earlier this year and put some money toward funding parts of this wall but now the president is saying that he's asking for an additional five billion dollars in a democrat's asking you know for what and where you know we've talked about different designs but the president is basically stay and firm that he was going to stick stay firm to this five billion dollars that he wants for the for the wall are you surprised that the president is staying firm though and really digging his heels in his heels in because like you said this was a campaign promise and if anything we've learned that trump does like to deliver on his campaign promises and particularly to his base no i'm not surprised at all and actually it's going to be answer us in analyst is just continue to watch and see how this plays out because as you said in january there the democrats are going to come in control as less than a week about a week away and the president continues to say that he's not going to back down and if he does back down then it's going to make him look weak among his base and so you know the democrats are going to have to figure out where they're going to get

the votes that will be able to keep to be able to override a veto from the president because the president right now actually because he's a president he sits and he sits in a good position in terms of this negotiation standpoint we don't know what's going to happen on thursday if they're going to figure out a way to go forward all right. thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. it's behind an attack on a market in northern iraq which killed two people eleven others were injured when a car bomb exploded in. it's the first blast since iraqi forces captured the city from the us last year the city fell under eisel control in twenty four. meanwhile iraqi christians have celebrated christmas the day christians believe jesus was born at the church in baghdad's city has 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. iraq's cabinet has just approved

a law to mark christmas day as an official national holiday. has more from baghdad's. 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'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 and officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is there are about two hundred fifty thousand christians left they fled the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and

thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place 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 well the pope has used his annual christmas message to urge people to see differences as a source of richness instead of danger the pope prayed that the spirit of the season might enable israelis and palestinians to find a way towards peace and for a political solution to end the wars in syria and yemen. you nice to know me this christmas help us to rediscover the bonds of fraternity made it enable palestinians

and israelis to resume dialogue and undertake a journey of peace that can put an end to conflict that has for over seventy years wrecked the land chosen by the lord to show his face of love with the child jesus allow the beloved and the beleaguered country of syria once again to find for eternity after these long years of war that still has some al jazeera news our indigenous venezuelans fleeing the economic and political collapse at home saying they are going hungry in colombia cataloguing the checkered past the fun and high our continent how a new museum in senegal wants to right the wrongs of slavery and sports a man in charge of the english premier league tastes set or is insists the title race is still wide open.

hello again we're here cross united states we are looking at more air traffic now that the holiday is over before new year's begins a lot of people going to be on the roads and well as in the skies we do have one weather system that's going to be a big player here and that's the one coming out of the rockies it's really going to begin to develop and notice the snow all the way across the northern plains rain down here towards the south that is going to be making its way towards the east as we go from wednesday to thursday here's your forecast map there that's where the big problem is going to be and we could be seeing some severe thunderstorms along this line as well chicago snow minneapolis know all the way up here towards winnipeg we could be seeing snow as well out here towards the east out looking too bad on thursday but by the time we get to friday a lot of that weather will start to make its way over across much of central america really not looking too bad we do have some showers here across the yucatan over the next few days that is going to continue in our forecast map. the rain across much of that area down here towards panama city we are looking at about

thirty two degrees maybe staying about the same as we go towards thursday and some rain up towards kingston jamaica as well and then as a bigger way down here toward south america still rain across parts of rio de janeiro where the temperature there of about twenty six but temperatures are going up for association with attempt a few about thirty five degrees there. architecture . as this year read sygate station comes to an end. we examine what the

top stories might be a judge agreed very early in the results. in the new here. joining us. as we take a look ahead to twenty nine seen on al-jazeera. well again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour police and. fire to disperse antigovernment protesters in the capital hard to it's the seventh day of the cost

of food and fuel president bashir has dismissed the protesters as traitors. syrian state television is reporting that government air defenses have intercepted an is really missile. it says an arms that was hit and three soldiers injured in the attack. on the second guatemalan child seeking asylum in the u.s. has died in government custody u.s. authorities say the eight year old showed signs of a potential illness on monday earlier this month a seven year old girl died after being detained by border agents. at least six people including three suicide bombers have been killed in an attack on libya's foreign ministry in the 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. more from tripoli. the interior minister calls it a tourist 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 the interior minister admits that there is chaos in the security system look a little we have been consumed by our own internal fighting and rivalry so 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 to lead the research. 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 combine. the two 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 at least twenty seven people have died in a collision between a bus and a truck in the democratic republic of congo the accident happened in a town near the capital kinshasa seventeen people were injured and police say excessive speed was to blame. with less than five days to go before the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo there is

confusion and anger over the credibility of the votes the opposition fears the election could easily be rigged because many of the new polling machines are untested catherine so reports from the capital kinshasa. there's a lot of uncertainty here many rumors flying around speculation about what might happen in the coming days many people we've spoken to telling us that they're afraid that the electoral commission could postpone the election again some eight presidential candidates held a press conference and say they will not accept another delay and all this is being made even more difficult by the fact that the electoral commission is not giving regular updates on what exactly is going on in the fact that people here really don't trust that organization at all. 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 four million voters here that we needed some spares ballots so we ordered for five million people we know organizing them disobey dissolute and working hard to make sure before the election of the year i. said you fishel say out of will two materials already in regional headquarters across the country so this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be. in terms of just ticks nobody is able to give. on the. credibility of the process is very very low robot. that are to be deployed to the province's he's

already visited many parts of the country as is the electoral process to this point has been a sham don't. it is the. same he has been unable to publish the war the dishes. to do so he might. just a machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times in. people here who told him not to trust. they say they're afraid the election could be again and even if it goes ahead on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect.

president kabila so we find another solution 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 a reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go. and not so sure. we've also seen a very strongly worded christmas message from the catholic bishop in kinshasa the catholic church is an important and influential player in. politics and he's basically said that people here are living in exile in their own country he said that they're being held hostage they are walking in darkness but he's also told his congregation to keep the faith now a lot of people we've been talking to us saying it's very difficult to keep the faith and of this a constance's with everything that is going on. under immense pressure to make sure that they deliver an election that is. smooth

a fairly credible so it's really going to be very interesting to see how things play play out in the coming days nigeria's government fourteen military and police officers. and killed in. fighters security forces were attacked just outside of town in the northern states. army says efforts to eradicate from the area are ongoing the military has been fighting the group for a decades one of iran's top clerics has died at the age of seventy. deputy head of the government that chooses a successor it's the supreme leader ayatollah. he had a. crackdown on dissidents journalists and activists in the late one thousand early two thousand. a hijacked bus has crashed into pedestrians in china killing at least five people video showed the attacker being wrestled to the ground and

arrested in the eastern city of. police say he took control of the bus armed with a knife more than twenty people were injured. there have been demonstrations in this capital following the funeral of a journalist who set himself on fire to protest economic problems police fired tear gas to break up the crowds. we had posted a video online before his death saying the promises of the twenty eleven arab spring remain unfulfilled. sparked by a street vendor who set himself on fire over unemployment and repression it forced president at the time to resign and his twenty three year rule. said. to me to me this someone rise is the status of genocide to. be committed suicide mainly because of the high living costs here i'm in touch with and i knew the live . tracks and plus saturdays that.

police have arrested several opposition leaders and clash with protesters in the northwestern serbian city after the detention of a man seeking an investigation into his son's death when the scuffled with demonstrators as they tried to break up a vigil in the central square for twenty one year old david drudge of a choose a body was found in a creek in march police said it was a suicide but his father maintains there was foul play the demonstrations over months have drawn thousands of people and expanded into protests over official corruption as well as the ailing economy. a german n.g.o.s says it's still looking for a port of call after rescuing thirty three migrants in the mediterranean sea the crew of sea watch three says it hopes germany will act humanely. and allow it to dock after being ignored by italy spain and the netherlands c. watch says most of the migrants on board are from nigeria libya and the ivory coast

. and staying in the mediterranean a spanish a group says it's rescued more than three hundred migrants from three boats on friday open arms said two of the boats were in danger of sinking the group said it does not yet know where the migrants will be allowed to disembark italy. port has reopened after an ash cloud from mount etna is latest eruption forced to shut down more than one hundred tremors have been felt from the volcano in sicily this week the observatory monitoring says a new fists or has opened near its southeast crater at which is one of the three active volcanoes in italy has been particularly active since july a lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands to flee to neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people but the tried complain of the less than warm welcome on the center and patsy reports from the border city of kuta. standard

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 venice well in search of food they now call home a makeshift camp just over the border in colombia. there was a huge crisis in venezuela no medicine no food for our children we had no options but to leave. chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe must face the rest mountain discrimination. in recent months some of the you have clashed with police attempting to block their entry was. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lanes of the u.k. are divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized

traditionally dave been free to move across at will but that's more difficult now back in two thousand and nine. court ordered states to protect then threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have a 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. there is live on the streets of the border city of begging or braving baskets and paths. of the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the indigenous people who are worst off it doesn't just cost them one another we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids died from malnutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be

recognized to provide protection whether they are colombians or not. on the outskirts of members of another tribe or working to extend their shack twenty one new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. 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 while colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight has so far been neglected . a new museum has opened in senegal tracing millions of here is of african history it's also provoking calls for the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders. car. 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's some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the garden. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or senegalese first president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president microcell 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 can no longer be ignored because this space is a celebration of black artistic expression and so whether storyline or not much of it comes from outside the continent. and 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 if not for the for the 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 much more than a museum it's a mirror to see themselves in a new light big liz hawk al-jazeera decor still ahead on the u.s. may just have hosted its last n.f.l. game peter will have that story in just a moment. the

book the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives such infrasound cheree part one people in power on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working proud is here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be pushes you know it's very challenging but in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues. we do people believe to tell the real story so i'll just mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls off the road to

yet the lady who will be announced the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the aussies election on al-jazeera. hallowing on time for the sports news with peter thank you very much liverpool manager you're going to top believes four or five teams all still in the race to win the english premier league title the reds are looking to end a three decade wait to become english champions and all four points ahead of second placed manchester city they take on newcastle at home on wednesday their manager since the squad does have the mental strength to continue with a title push there are always it's always very important but this was.

the squad because the. chiefs in the last over at the big things. finals good positions in the league. all to do that all together and so so far beyond the will to do steps together that's what we have to do. when thirty or away at leicester city have lost two of the last three he gains as many as they lost in their previous sixty one premier league matches top of mind third place six points behind liverpool spurs beat everton six two last time out i still believe that liverpool and manchester city are real contenders for the forward it to win the premier league and then. we have their chances are synonymous tonight is still a long way i think is still a long way to say we are a real contender annoyed in history so early. there's

a new twist on one of basketball's biggest rivalries bron james is taking on steph curry in the golden state warriors for the first time with the l.a. lakers the braun is more used to taking on golden state as a cleveland cavaliers player teams have made twenty two times in the n.b.a. finals over the last few seasons the wrong move to the lakers or any of those who charged with reviving a team that hasn't won the championship since two thousand and ten wells a good n.b.a. it's a for the sports news of a school says basketball fans should be enjoying these great players while they can . 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 thirty four and we.

it's hard to ever question that he's not the best all around player in the n.b.a. or of all time even anytime le bron's on the floor it's a threat. laws of balls been playing pretty well defensively colleague who is was stepping up but the end of the day they just don't have the firepower to beat a team 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 in 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 so to help him 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 the n.f.l. team the raiders are leaving their longtime home in oakland california the city's fans all despondent on the city's leaders are angry as rob reynolds reports oakland isn't taking the raiders to poach or lying down. the oakland raiders have played

their last game in this fabled coliseum home to many a sweet victory and bitter defeat there's a lot of memories in this building there been a lot of great players a lot of great cultures and a lot of a really memorable football games played in this building the raiders are much like their hometown gritty aggressive frequently the underdog oakland the less glamorous less wealthy and less gentrified city across the bay from san francisco loved its raiders with the passion the most frenzy denizens of raiders nation reveled in roared in a stadium section nicknamed the black hole of the raider. i love them. they represent us and we represent them and. they had eleven came and we don't stand behind them one hundred percent now the team's owner mark davis is ripping oakland's love and loyalty by abandoning it the raiders are moving to

the ritzier environs of las vegas sin city agreed to pay seven hundred fifty million dollars in taxpayer money to build a new stadium for the team raiders fans say that's unsportsmanlike conduct they need to stay and would have been an end in town you know they've been here on these he is a law you want to move outraged the city's leaders are suing so this is an antitrust lawsuit and a breach of contracts it and we are seeking the maximum amount of damages that we will be able to prove and we believe they're substantial oakland says the league acts as an illegal cartel that fixes prices and routinely blackmail cities with threats to relocate its teams unless they help pay for bigger fancier stadiums and other improvements i am proud that we stood up against the same down from the n.f.l. it has got to stop. the idea that the n.f.l.

can exploited the emotions of their fans to extort money from taxpayers who have such greater needs the n.f.l. and davis didn't respond to requests for comment davis reportedly called the lawsuit malicious the raiders coach got nostalgic before the final game after a lot of wins over the years you know seeing a lot of the old highlights of the great raider teams. i get excited i get emotional about it but emotions and loyalty are cheap and in professional sports the real name of the game is money rob reynolds al-jazeera and that's all the food we have coming up again later. peter thank you and thanks for watching the news on al-jazeera we'll take a short break but we'll be back with much more off the day's news in

a couple of minutes time see you then about. to join in the green peace team campaigning to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome with the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about it enough special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has succeeded thrice on al-jazeera. january

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shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. police use live fire to try to break up a seventh day of antigovernment protests and soared on. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also ahead. a flashpoints close to damascus missiles that serious as were fired by israel are shot down adding to the misery of a hard slaughter for covering from any zest tsunami while it bores with rain just

a day after in little girl's burrow another child dies in u.s. border custody. hello police in sudan have responded with live fire on a seventh day of anti-government demonstrations president obama called the protesters traitors as they tried to march on the presidential palace in the capital hearts whom they are demanding his step down after twenty nine years in power. but morgan is there. they started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seven days on the demand has completely changed they're now demanding the government and its twenty nine year rule and step down the government which is led by president omar al bashir has responded using tear gas and live ammunition.