zero. zero. you're watching the news hour life from a headquarters in doha. coming up in the next sixty minutes. fire to try to break up a. government. a flashpoint close to damascus missiles that serious as were fired by israel are shot down. a panic attack false alarms add to the

anxiety for people recovering from indonesia. and just a day after a little girl's burrow another guatemalan child dies in u.s. border custody. hello sudan's president has called anti-government protesters traitors the seventh day of rallies took a dangerous turn police fired into the air when demonstrators tried to march on the presidential palace in the capital hard to him there demanding president obama steps down after twenty nine years in power. morgan is there. they started by protesting against shortage of credit and rising inflation but seven the demand has completely changed they're now demanding the government and its twenty nine year rule and step down the government. is led by president omar al

bashir has responded to using tear gas and live ammunition was. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters in tuesday hickeys the protest says of being influenced by external agents. thank you for hosting me thank you for your support and enthusiasm which is a response to every foreign agent trying to outlaw and 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 will be back here next year. 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 out amounts 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 pull 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 the ends of a 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 to demands are met morgan zero. will the soaring prices of bread and fuel triggered the anti-government protests that we can go but the anger has been simmering for a long time or oil has been sudan's main source of income for decades but at last month's most of its oil fields and three quarters if its output went south sudan gained independence seven years ago but 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 its economy the sudanese pound has been devalued three times this year and inflation has soared to nearly seventy percent. pushes a sudanese american journalist who is based in hard to for eight years he says the lack of a strong opposition party has worked and bashir is favor. for a long time the city's opposition 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 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 times all sudanese regardless of the active in opposition politics or not really have felt the burden of the economic woes 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 raids they quote a military source adding most of the missiles were down before they reached their targets and arms depo was three soldiers injured in the it time 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 supplied to current us led forces this follows

president donald trump's sudden decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria they have been supporting kurdish forces in the fight against isis and twenty four the kurdish led syrian democratic forces control about a third of syrian territory including the city of. and the city was at the center of an agreement reached between the u.s. and turkey in june under the deal the us guaranteed that kurdish fighters would withdraw from 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 roadmap was put in place to avoid a confrontation between the u.s. and turkey washington has been training and arming kurdish fighters but turkey considers the group a terrorist organization said it 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 eisel in syria and we 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.p. g. and syria in that case the scenario comes up for the turkish officials still consider whether the y p g is going to align 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. so tomba cause is the director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute he says kurdish fighters in syria are being just certain 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 elina to the number of neighbors and other potential allies and i think they must feel today 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 trump 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 b.g. 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 the to asset 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 withdraw 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 hodge of the affair and it clearly or divan has reached a deal with the tram 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 the possibility of more huge waves are making indonesia's tsunami victims even more anxious was right. on tuesday villagers in summer jaya raced for higher ground when word spread another tsunami was coming but it was a false alarm at least four hundred twenty nine people were killed when the tsunami

struck on saturday without warning it was set off by a nearby volcano that's still erupting one of the worst hit areas this pond from there andrew thomas reports. the scenes in product line all the india indonesians have seen lots of face 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 and will greeting guests when the tsunami hits on saturday boat was swept inland by the water and were injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely unexpected. i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. a lou is 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 amount 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 helps of only has three decides that it's temp and beyond our planning yeah so that's a we have read. the rest 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 is we need constant think the tsunami hit if mocking people up on the ground i think 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 hundred one. let's get an update from robin bride who's joining us from san bola village dots on the western coast of java and we saw rain overnight robinson army affected areas what's going on now. that's right theory that the tsunami the floods as you mentioned that we have had to run so rain coming in from the sea overnight that rain is continuing it makes conditions all along this shattered parts of the coastline extremely difficult we're in a village where people are returning to their homes some of them for the first time to see what's left of their homes to try to get get them back up and running again and especially in houses like the one we're standing and it's just impossible that parts of the roof caved in and we've watched householders sorting through piles of wet stuff and all they can do is sift into other piles of wet stuff until this

weather breaks and there's very little they can do we're told that at the back of this village the water is above the level we're going to check that out soon the main concern at the moment but everybody along this part of the coastline is this road right behind us this is the main coast road it runs all the way along this the coast that was affected by the tsunami everything has to run along here recovery vehicles emergency vehicles it's vital that this road stays open now parts of it would damaged by the initial tsunami all of this rain has meant that parts of it are slightly awash with water slightly flooded vehicles are still getting through but carefully and the hope is that it doesn't flood anymore meanwhile there is still a warning in force of more tsunamis possibly from the sea that just over last shoulders . will remain in force while there we are in this high tide period the high tide means obviously the water level is already high exacerbating the effects of any

tsunamis as we heard in the your report earlier what doesn't help the situation is not only warnings of proper warnings of tsunamis but false warnings there has been a couple of false alarms so far nick. think gives you a sense of how jittery people are especially with access to social media that they'll hear something is happening they go and get in touch with somebody else and some suddenly there's panic along a number of different communities so it doesn't help the situation but you will find that is the case while we're in this period of uncertainty with this brooding monster of a volcano out there in the mist somewhere that people can hear occasionally allow the cracks of rumbling between the thunder over that we're having overhead so what more do we know about the volcanoes activity at the room and. it has been active we know several months and vulcanologist seismologist very concerned about just what it is going to do next the problem is while we're in do

this very appalling weather just trying to get a visual reference either from the shoreline or from. the head now part of the problem with this volcano is this shift of landslides under the sea it's very difficult to detect that with the kind of equipment that they have here you really need to get a visual reference and it's very difficult to do that at the moment out of the problem all along this coastline is the kind of detection equipment that is in operation you'll remain member of course that after the big tsunami of two thousand and four indonesia invested heavily in all sorts of detection and by devices part of the problem the government accept says is keeping that to service these keeping it up to date is making sure that it doesn't become dysfunctional but when you say look at weather conditions like this severe weather conditions it's easy to understand how simply difficult that is to keep bullies and monitors and sophisticated sensors working when you're fighting the elements like this and

arguably with global warming it ain't going to get any easier all right rob thank you. 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. so marion will tell you why there hasn't been much to celebrate and zimbabwe this. rivalry. story and sport. but first the second guatemalan child seeking a new life in the u.s. has died in government custody u.s. customs and border protection say the eight year old boy died at this new mexico hospital after showing signs of potential illness on monday he was initially

diagnosed with a cold and fever earlier this month a seven year old girl died after being detained by border agents. from washington d.c. . there's still a great deal we do not know about this case we don't know the boy's name and we don't know exactly why he died what the cause of his death was the information that we are getting comes from a u.s. government agency the customs and border protection service which is part of the department of homeland security it said that it is notified the inspector general for the department of homeland security and also notified the government of guatemala but the reaction has been coming in for example a democratic member of congress. paul who represents a district in the u.s. state of washington wrote on twitter this is deplorable to children have died under d.h. ss that's department of homeland security watch this month what happened to one death

too many secretary nielson that's a reference to. secretary cures genea listens comment following the death of a young guatemalan girl earlier in december saying one death is too many and the american civil liberties union which is a frequent legal flow of the trumpet ministrations border policies and immigration procedures 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 upon the incoming democratic controlled house of representatives to launch an investigation of the department of homeland security as one of its first priorities 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 mean rosa had with terrorist lopez a spending christmas away from her family so she can remain in the country roslyn

jordan has her story. of the. growth of yet it's lopez moved to the u.s. thirteen years ago to save her life. i came here from a salvador because the country was growing so violent and there were people threatening me especially one person who had threatened me several times. but because lopez missed an early hearing in immigration court the us government said she must return to el salvador her flight was meant to be on december tenth but lopez hired a lawyer and someone suggested she seek refuge at a church as it happens the members of cedar lane unitarian universalist church near washington d.c. had decided in may two thousand and seventeen that they would provide refuge to immigrants a neat they knew u.s. immigration officials normally avoid entering houses of worship to detain people facing deportation orders while some say the sanctuary movement violates u.s.

immigration law the senior minister says cedar lane is both following the law and living its values our act of fate. is to be in solidarity with. that and 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. yes 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 will go the house with the little the best possible gift at this christmas time rosalynn jordan al-jazeera the festa maryland. well the u.s. president says parts of the government will stay shut down until he gets five million dollars for his wall on the mexico border trump's demand for the wall 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. 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 she had her town

say 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 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 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 the senate does reconvene on thursday when they go to set to continue that's about mid june is founder and president of party politics us he says it's difficult to say how long this government shutdown will drag on. what we do know is that he is standing firm that he wants to have this wall and he's in 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 impatiently if you are a government worker who is not getting paid one of the eight hundred thousand of what is going to happen on thursday when the senate and the congress reconvenes 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

it's created a lot of havoc is create a lot of division within the country so 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 were at impasse 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 basically stay in firm that he was going to stay stay firm to this five billion dollars that he wants for the for the wall january there the democrats are going to come in control as less than a week about a week away and the president if he 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 the president he sits and he sits in a good position and turns it from 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 for demonstrations in tennessee as capital have continued for a second day following the funeral of a journalist who set himself on fire to protest against economic problems. to break up the. video online before his death saying the promises of the twenty seven arab spring remain unfulfilled that uprising was sparked by a street vendor who set himself on fire over unemployment the pression president. was forced to resign at the time ending his twenty three year rule. pitiful as a close my comment on this summarizes the status of journalists in tunisia he apparently committed suicide mainly because of the high living costs here i'm in

touch with journalists and i know they live under fragile circumstances working without contracts and possibilities that can meet their needs. it's been a bleak festive season for. struggling with food and fuel shortages even in the toughest times sales rocketed in the days before christmas but this year there hasn't been the usual seasonal surge it's a far cry from the revive the economy president promised when he took over from robert mugabe are with us or reports from harare. that. these teachers say they don't want to be paid in local zimbabwe side of the currency the government insists the notes are equivalent to the us dollar. but on the black market they are constantly losing value that's why workers want the salaries in dollars so they can at least afford the basics there's ne this isn't

a good moment for the board with the lessons of bob it is going to be business isn't for the. ruling elite was enjoying to but what would not be would not with the. prices a basic goods have more than tripled in just a few weeks some people say they are barely able to buy the essentials never mind the luxuries the mood is very different this time last year robert mugabe was forced to resign as president by the army many people really hoped his departure would in a new and more prosperous era fuel cash and medicines are in short supply after decades of government mismanagement and public funds it seems the situation is getting even worse the economy is just. point of explosion. we're very issues which have been happening. for the last ten years. trade deficits are importing more than all the exporting and to date we have a cumulative effect of thirty billion dollars others say there is really nothing

they can do about the current situation challenging the government is sometimes not an option it can be too risky it can demonstrate you know the general yellow to demonstrate the follies of their own just before on the day you die so yes look the only answer for you and from the us as anger and frustration grows over the economy the general sentiment here is that it's not complements but complications of the season in zimbabwe. al-jazeera. still ahead on the news hour with ice a lovely defeated iraq's ancient christian community celebrates christmas in relative peace for the first time in years it's cataloguing the checkered past of an entire continent how a new museum in senegal wants to right the wrongs of slavery in sports a man in charge of english primarily pace sat satirists and says the title race and still wide open.

through tranquil arabian can you. can feel him to use and it's in the show going to. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecast well not looking too bad across much of china over the next few days there is going to be some patchy rain across some of those areas but as you can see down here towards the south hong kong no clouds really in your forecast and that is going to stay that way as we go towards wednesday up toward shanghai though it is going to be rain in your forecast on wednesday the rain's going to end on thursday but we are going to be seeing some cooler temperatures few with only reaching to about eight degrees there over towards taipei it is going to be about twenty but it's going to be mostly cloudy day in your forecast speaking of rain the rain is on the increase for parts of the philippines we do have a tropical system out here in the pacific that is making its way towards the west and it is starting out to be a trouble depression here on wednesday but by the time we get to thursday that

storm system is expected to be a tropical storm and we do expect to see more rain across the region by the time we get to friday those rain totals could exceed well over three hundred millimeters so flash flooding could be a problem there down toward the southern part of india as well as sri lanka over the next few days rain is going to continue so we'll be watching that up here towards the north though it's going to be a little chilly for parts of new delhi expect a big fog problem across the area new delhi at about ninety degrees there over here towards kolkata a better day for you with a temperature there of about twenty three. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. on line i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you joined us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has coalface i legal protest i'll start to police students force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice for votes and lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks

join the global conversation on al-jazeera. as this year trying to threats in negotiations comes to an end. we examine what the top stories might be the judge agreed with the result. in the new year. joining us. as we take a look ahead to twenty nine seen. on al-jazeera. hello

again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour police and. fire to disperse anti-government protesters in the capital our. president has dismissed the protesters as. syrian state television is reporting that government air defenses have a is really. it's has an army and three soldiers. from the u.s. has died in government custody. old boy died in hospital after showing signs of potential illness. eisel has claimed responsibility for an attack on libya's foreign ministry in the capital tripoli at least three people were killed as well as three to three attackers the assault began when a car exploded before through suicide bombers managed to get inside the building and blow themselves up twenty one people were injured but without the raw head has

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 interior minister admits that there is chaos in the security system. 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 appeals for the international community for help and. 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 at least twenty seven people have died in a collision between a bystander 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 i mean democratic republic of congo there's confusion and anger over the credibility of the votes they opposition fears the election. because many of the new polling machines are. reports from kinshasa. there's a lot of uncertainty here. flying around speculation about what might happen in the coming days many people we've spoken to telling us that they're afraid that they. 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. the material to replace those that are seems to have been destroyed bath fire in a warehouse keeping dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election. voters here that we needed some space so we ordered for five people we know organizing them disagree decided. to make sure. the here often. 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. nobody is able to give. on the. credibility of the process is very

very low. that are to be deployed to the provinces he's already visited many parts of the country as a process to this point has been a sham. been unable to publish them up a war the polling stations in. detail so you might have. missed a machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times indeed people here in the car who told me not to trust the commission they say they're afraid the election could be postponed again and even if it goes on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take

responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect. 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. 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. he said that people here. told his congregation to keep the faith. to keep the faith and. everything. to.

an election that is. credible so it's going to be very interesting to see how things play out in the coming days nigeria's government. fourteen military and police officers have been killed in an ambush by fighters security forces were attacked just outside of town in the northern states nigeria's army says efforts to eradicate. going the military has been fighting the group for nearly eight decades eisel says it's behind. which killed two people eleven others were injured when a car bomb exploded. it's the first blast since iraqi forces captured the city from the armed group in august last year the city fell under eisel control and twenty four. well christians in iraq have celebrated christmas the day christians believe

jesus was born at the mar use of church in baghdad the 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 and the rise of i saw iraq's cabinet has just approved a law to mark christmas day as an official national holiday imraan khan has more from baghdad 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. attending mass and there is a very hopeful at was say that things have changed christians that there are much more secure than they ever have me just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one nine hundred eighty seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country on officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is about two hundred fifty

thousand christians left they fled the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place not only have to go to a lot of the hotels here the public spaces and the b. 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 a like a food and other essentials in venezuela has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people of the tribe complains of

a less than warm well tom. petty reports in the border city of. standard bellies in this in the gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous euclid 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 the chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous. area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe faced the rest menton discrimination but. in recent months some of the you have clashed with colombian police attempting to block their entry was. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lens of the u.k.

are divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized traditionally they've been free to move across at will but that's more difficult to go back in two thousand. court ordered states to protect then threatened by internal conflict but the ones who have the rived here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their ethnic identity. some of those you do 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 braiding baskets and hats. they don't have the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left the business where it's the indigenous people who are worst off it doesn't just cause someone and we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids

died from mt nutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be recognised to provide protection whether they are colombians or not. on the outskirts of members of another tribe or working to extend their shack twenty one new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. 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's worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight as so far been neglected. croon a german ship say they're still looking for a port of call after rescuing thirty three migrants in the mediterranean sea they hope germany will. watch three into dock after being ignored by spain another

lens most of the migrants on board are from nigeria libya and the ivory coast staying in the mediterranean a spanish group says it's rescued more than three hundred migrants from three boats on friday are active open arms says two of the boats were in danger of sinking the group says it does not yet know where the migrants will be allowed to disembark. police in the serb part of bosnia have a rest and several opposition leaders protesters after the detention of a man seeking answers about his son's death the police were trying to break up a vigil for a twenty one year old david. body was found in a creek in march it was initially ruled a suicide but his father maintains there was foul play. over the death of expanded to include the struggling economy and new museum has opened in senegal tracing millions of african history it's also provoking calls for

the return of african artifacts stolen by slave traders. more from the capitals of 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 was 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 familiar 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 president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's

a legacy president 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 face is a celebration of bracket artistic expression and so whether storing or not much of it comes from outside the continent. the museum's director shows us

the eighteenth century sward of. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum for your thoughtfulness. but the little 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 the glitz hawk al-jazeera the car. still ahead on the news hour the u.s. city that may just have hosted its last n.f.l. game peter we'll have that story in just

a moment. they wanted forty three billion pounds worth of weaponry that was six billion pounds in commission. but there's no hope of any more because there's always a small kabul's people for a really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the old public function more shadow on al-jazeera we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations be part of their growing anti-riot the old. guard challenging the

voices were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going. top of the sports news with peter. thank you very much liverpool manager you're going to top believes four or five teams are 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 off four points ahead of second placed manchester city they take on newcastle at home on wednesday their manager says he squad does have the mental strength to continue with a title push. always is always very important but this voice as with

all of. this was because the. chiefs in the past already have big things. vinyls good positions in that league. on that we did that all together and so so far we only really did steps together and that's what we have to do. when thirty or away at leicester city have lost two of the last three games as many as they lost in their previous sixty one premier league matches for them on 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 to win the premier league and then. we have their chances arsenal manchester united are still a long way i finished 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 le bron 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 four seasons the wrong move to be lakers earlier this year charged with reviving a team that hasn't won the championship since two thousand and ten wells again n.b.a. editor for the sports news service score 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 three 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. lorenzo ball's 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 it seem like golden state who has five all stars five superstars on the roster and we haven't even seen one of them play yet this season so when you have one superstar on your roster 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 saw me 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 a line 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 and everyday. i love them. they represent us and we represent them you know that 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 anita's day and would be blown in the town you know they've been here on the here is why 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 there are 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 safe down from the n.f.l. it has got to stop the idea that the n.f.l.

can exploit 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 seen 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 sport we have more coming up again later in the meantime you can keep up to date with all the sports stories and all the day's top stories on our website al-jazeera dot com thanks for watching the news hour. dennis will be with you in just

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