the country we'll assess what direction the nation could take. bangladesh elections . zero. unrest and police struggle to contain protests as the president calls the demonstrators traitors. hello and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a flashpoint close to damascus missiles that syria says were fired by israel shot down. another child dies in u.s. custody as family members bid farewell to a little girl who died earlier this month. and japan changes course about on

commercial whaling is robust sparking concern from conservationists. anti-government demonstrators are preparing for an eighth day of protests in sudan as president i'm alba she says traitor and the calls for him to resign a week of violent protests has left at least twelve people dead and more critically injured on tuesday police fired into the air as demonstrators tried to march on the presidential palace here but morgan has the latest from car too. after yesterday's protests there were reports of several people injured the police have also reportedly arrested several of the protesters now families have been reporting their family their relatives missing their brothers and sisters missing obviously the protesters were came to go on with their protests were very determined to go on with their demands as they march on their march on to the presidential palace they're saying that they will take nothing less than the president resigning from

his position of as the head of the government and there is it taking nothing they will be taking nothing less than the government being dissolved a new government being formed now obviously this was the seventh day of protests and more is expected to continue as the president continues to battle the protesters who he called traitors but obviously when the protest thought it it was not about the government or the politics. 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. president omar al bashir addressed his supporters on tuesday he accused the protesters 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 traitor or and destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the churches and 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 of what. we cannot at this moment lower demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge if you will. 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 faced protests before but throughout his reign he's never had to face protests this big protests that those participating in seem determined to keep going till their demands are met. now unless international says thirty seven people have been killed and there are concerns that more people will die from yesterday's excessive force with the police using live ammunition and tear gas the president seems very determined to go on with his with his control over saddam hussein is very determined to ignore the protesters and in fact continue to use force against them as he did despite the fact that he has pledged reforms he said that he is going to try to introduce new economy reforms new comic policies but the protesters say they don't want that they said that they've been there done that they've heard that before across the twenty nine year old of president bashir and that the only thing that they would take now is his is him stepping down obviously something he said he's not going to do so it's not clear how this would end for both the government and the protesters. syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire

on what state media is calling enemy targets they mean israel for an air raid they call it a military source as saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and it was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its defense system intercepted a missile fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on iranian targets in the south of the country staying with syria turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. is going to take back military equipment supplied to kurdish led forces this follows president donald trump's decision to withdraw all u.s. troops american soldiers have been supporting kurdish forces in the fight against eisel since twenty fourteen the kurdish led syrian democratic forces control much of northeast area including the city of men bitch sin and cos the owner who has more from istanbul. turkish officials how welcomed the u.s. decision to withdraw from syria they also welcomed

a commitment to with take weapons provided to y.p. 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 tricky whether united states is totally going to isolate the y. ph in syria in that case a scenario comes up for the turkish officials still consider whether the 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 y. p.g. and 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 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. . u.s. border protection has ordered medical checks on every child in its custody after another guatemalan child died while under its care the eight year old boy died after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in new mexico border agents say the child chained signs of sickness and the cause of death is being looked into the guatemalan foreign ministry has called for an investigation meanwhile relatives and neighbors of seven year old jacqueline

coll had been attending her funeral in guatemala on tuesday had body was repatriated from the united states she died earlier this month while also in the custody of the u.s. border patrol. she was a very emotional girl dynamic and very happy she took the decision to follow her father and she told her grandparents that she was going to send money for the family here in the community but unfortunately she died. we fortunately the death of this girl is not the only one there are many girls were dying on the road as if they were nothing. like that and it is good that we should try to respect our rights because we travel or our comrades have traveled because there is no money here you know the region he was president on all trump says parts of the government will stay shut down until he gets five billion dollars for his war on the mexican border his demand for the funding has been rejected by democratic party rivals and some members of his own republican party and retaliation trumps refusing to sign

a wider spending bill temporarily blocking funding for parts of 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. sense whatever they'd like to call it i'll call it whatever they want. but it's all the same thing it's a barrier for people pouring into our company into our country. as she had written he 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 off a concrete barrier which he's already been doing in the last few weeks talking

about steel slaps artistic steel slabs perhaps he thinks there's a way for the last offer we heard from the white house was over the weekend which was not for a concrete barrier which wasn't for five billion dollars so perhaps the white house hopes there is a way forward but from what we're hearing from the democrats that are just as confused as anyone else there was this tweet from chuck schumer who said different people from the same white house are saying different things about what the president would accept or not accept to end just from a shutdown making it impossible to know where they stand at any given moment the senate does reconvene on thursday when they go to set that continue. torrential rain and the possibility of more big waves in indonesia bringing further anxiety to the victims of saturday's toonami thank you know. some but jaya raced to higher ground when weather began to spread that another

tsunami was coming as it was a false alarm more than four hundred people died when the wave struck at night on saturday and without warning it must set up by a nearby volcano that's still erupting from mcbride has more friends than bono village on the west coast of java. after the tsunami comes the flooding torrential rain overnight in this part of java has continued through into wednesday making the clean up on the recovery effort simply impossible especially in villages like this where many of the houses don't actually have any roofs people need to wait for a rest fight from this weather the roads at the back of this village off flooded in the big concern now is for this main road this is the road that runs all the way along this shattered piece of coastline all the recovery vehicles the rescue vehicles have to use this stretch of road it was already damaged as a result of the tsunami parts of it have been flooded and the hope is that it doesn't flood anymore meanwhile the warning of further tsunamis remains in force

and it's will remain so while we're in this heights hide period through until tomorrow thursday the concern for volcanologists is they simply don't have a good idea of what krakatau is actually up to at the moment they know it is erupting but without a visual reference either from the shoreline or from the air it's difficult to know exactly what kind of danger it poses but we know it's there we know it's erupting because between the claps of thunder you hear these sharper cracks of continued eruptions the weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera settling scores in iraq the story of violence between. try and the police officers trying to stop it. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze you're.

hello get a welcome back to international weather forecast what we do have some messy weather out here towards the eastern portions of europe lower so the clouds right there well couple areas of low pressure causing all of the problems right here one down here across parts of turkey bringing in plenty of snow across the region appear towards the north it is going to be also some cold weather few there over the next few days though for turkey we do expect the snow to continue particular here towards central and eastern portions of turkey temperatures are also falling for ankara here on wednesday we're going to give you a high temperature of about zero but as we go towards thursday that goes down to even lower conditions we look to about minus two in that area across the region up here towards kiev it's going to be mostly cloudy day for you at one degree there now here towards the west oh really not looking too bad we do have some clouds but high pressure is dominating and we are staying a little bit cooler than average here with paris seeing about six degrees zircon

a sunny day for you at five and london mostly cloud if you at eight degrees there or across the northeastern part of africa this frontal boundary that we were talking about is going to be sweeping across parts of egypt as well brings me showers anywhere from gaza over here towards alexandria and for cairo you miss your shower too as well with a temperature of twenty one degrees. the with a sponsored boycott on. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of the script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what the crews are. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free car listening post on al-jazeera. welcome

back i'm just. a reminder about top stories this hour anti-government demonstrators across three dawn are preparing for an eighth day of protests riot police opened fire to disperse a mass rally in khartoum on tuesday the president says protesters. syrian state television is reporting that government to air defenses near damascus have shot down israeli missiles the israeli military says its own ed and systems intercepted an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria. for the second time this month across a modern child has died while in u.s. custody border agents said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness the cause of his death is being investigators. japan has announced it will withdraw

from the international whaling commission and resume commercial whaling next year as a member of the i.w.c. japan hunted whales in the antarctic for what it calls scientific research the government says it will only hunt in its territorial waters and joins iceland norway greenland and the faroe islands as the only places in the wild by commercial whaling is permitted by and as a spokeswoman for humane society international she believes japan is returning to an era of pirate whaling by leaving the international whaling commission the idea but you see japan is walking away from the international body that is agreed under international law to be responsible for the management and conservation of weapons leaving that means that japan is walking away from international law rivera be concerned that they're beginning a new era of pirate whaling the un convention that the lure of the sea requires

countries to cooperate in the conservation and management of marine the sauces and the international body for that cooperation is the idea of you see so japan is turning its back on an international agreement which has agreed several decades ago now back in ninety eighty two that there should be no commercial hunting of whales on the high seas or in countries coastal waters so japan is going to be operating completely outside the bounds of international will if it continues with commercial whaling once it's f.b.i. to see. there's been more violence in china zia's capital following the funeral for a journalist who set himself on fire to protest unemployment and the ailing economy his actions mirror there is a street vendor in twenty eleven whose death sparked the arab spring mariana hunt has more. discontent has been simmering in tunisia for months.

they've been messed demonstrations even a nationwide strike to be interesting meant of the soaring living costs and unemployment but it's the death of a journalist on monday that could ignite the anger protestors have been clashing with police for a second day responding to abdirizak silkies online post calling for a revote. this is a call to the unemployed in customer ina let us start a revolution i will demonstrate on my own and i will set myself on fire for eight years i've been trying to find work year after year nothing happens everything is lies. zoellick is funeral drew huge crowds and turned into demonstrations so he says himself on fire in protest just like a street vendor in two thousand and eleven whose death gave birth to the arab spring and brought the twenty three year rule of president zine el abidine ben ali

to an end to as he enjoyed a relatively smooth transition to democracy but has failed to fire economically. and now feeling the pinch unemployment is at fifteen percent inflation is a record high and a two point eight billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. two years ago came on the condition of economic reform i just last month around two thirds of a million public sector workers stopped work to demand better wages and to much for two nescience who they said was struggling to survive a sentiment echoed in sort of his post in. they don't have anything to eat to fill their stomachs people protest but the authorities call us terrorists they just tell us to shut up. dorothy said the promises of the arab spring remain unfulfilled the response to his death could force the government to confront how to deliver for

its people while satisfying those it owes money miriam honed his ear eisel says it was behind choose days car bomb attack on a market in northern iraq the explosion in tal afar killed two people and injured eleven others it's the first attack since iraqi forces recapture the city from myself in august last year well in northern iraq settling a feud often means shots are fired with deadly consequences now police are pressuring tribal leaders to change their traditional way of dealing with disputes iran can reports from baghdad. in iraq some feuds acetyl like this this video taken two weeks ago shows one tribe attacking the house of another on the outskirts of baghdad these feuds are becoming a growing problem for iraqi authorities who say the tribes operate outside of the law tribal tradition in iraq goes back centuries and was a way of organizing society. in major urban areas like baghdad they have limited

influence but in rural areas tribal leaders can enjoy almost unchecked power. power that comes from the barrel of a gun. as long as they're not easy to access weapons in the hands of people and tribes then there is no security and tribal feuds continue to take place if there is any dispute between two tribes then the use of force with heavy weapons and armored cars will inflate the tribal feuds. but it's not as easy as simply taking weapons away iraq's tribes have always been useful to iraq's leaders the british use them to quell the rebellion saddam hussein used them in the one nine hundred eighty s. in his war against the americans use them to defeat al qaida during the u.s. led occupation and more recently the of all for it is. to help defeat them for that reason they've been given special treatment while the. police force is trying to

educate tribal leaders into using a different approach to settle disputes and the newly passed law prohibits using to settle feuds. with the law must be imposed by the government and to be considered their red line never to be crossed security forces and many iraqis on the streets have risen up to counter such actions known as tribal feuds and vengeance the issue has excessive rated lately and got out of hand. the tribe seems to be listening for the longstanding hostilities don't just disappear overnight and many tribal leaders will be reluctant to give up their weapons simply because they fear the other tribes will not leaving iraqi authorities with a long way to go before they can be confident the tribes operating within the law and. back. two activists have been arrested in northern china while protesting outside the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer. was detained and twenty fifteen he was known for

taking on cases involving accusations of police torture the forty two year old was one of more than two hundred people swept up in a government crackdown targeting people working in the legal system there's been high security around the courthouse and the trial has been closed to the public. police in the serb run part of bosnia have arrested several opposition leaders after detaining a man seeking answers about his son's death scuffles broke out between protesters and officers who tried to disperse a vigil for twenty one year old david good. his body was found in a creek in march it was deemed a suicide but his father says he was murdered the case has sparked months of anti-government rallies in bosnia people are angry over government corruption and the struggling economy. nigeria's government says at least fourteen military and police officers have been killed in an ambush by boko haram fighters security forces were attacked just outside dummer two town in the in the northern yobo

a state nigeria's army says efforts to eradicate boko haram from the area are ongoing the military has been fighting the armed group in nearly a decade the crew of a german ship says they're still looking for a port of call after rescuing thirty three migrants in the mediterranean sea three days ago the ship's crew has asked several countries to allow the sea watch three to dock after being ignored by italy malta spain and the netherlands most of the migrants on board are from nigeria libya and the ivory coast. italy's catania airport has reopened after an ash cloud from mt technics latest eruption forced it to shut down more than one hundred tremors have been felt from the volcano in sicily this week the observatory monitoring mt etna says a new fissure has opened near its southeast crater at now which is one of 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 tribes are complaining about the less than warm welcome alessandra rap yes he reports from the border city of could critter. tended bellies in this gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous euclid tribe who left minnesota 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 faced the rest menton discrimination but. in recent months some of the you have clashed with colombian

police attempting to block their entry. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lens of the u.k. divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized traditionally they've been free to move across at will but that's more difficult to go back in two thousand. court ordered states to protect. internal conflict but the ones who have the rived here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their ethnic identity. some of those who have made it across the recycling cans to help feed their families others live on the streets of the border city of begging or braving baskets in hats. of the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the

indigenous people who are worst off it isn't just someone and 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. you know 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 as worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight as so far been neglected.

it's a bleak festive season for many zimbabweans as they struggle with food and fuel shortages even in the toughest times sales soared in the days before christmas but this year shops haven't seen the usual rush it's a far cry from the revived economy president emerson and god were promised when he took over from robert mugabe last year al jazeera has more from harare. 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 u.s. 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. for the board with bob it is going to be. it was enjoyed to but what would not be would not with. 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 two. point of explosion. we have been happening for the last ten years. we importing more than a day exporting into data we have accumulated. fifty 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. to demonstrate the bodies of their own just before long. gone 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. and these are the top stories antigovernment demonstrators across three are preparing for an eighth day of protests riot police opened fire to disperse a mass rally in khartoum on choose day the president says the protesters are traitors to the movement has the latest from cutting the supporters to seem very determined to go on with their protests they seem to vary the thing to be very keen on their demand didn't seem to be backing off yesterday or the protests we've seen that when police were firing tear gas and live in the missions in the air and in fact some people some people got injured because of the live ammunition that didn't

stop the move seen people continuing to march on continued to put as they were determined to make it to the presidential palace but we've had to fire so rounds over live in munitions and tear gas before they were able to disperse the crowd and it was not just in the organized square that they had initially planned for there were several other parts of course that also witnessed protesters coming out. syrian state television is reporting that government edge of fences near damascus have shot down israeli missiles the israeli military says its own ad offense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria. u.s. border protection has ordered medical checks on every child and its custody after a second guatemalan child died while in its care border agents said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness the cause of his death is being investigated in guatemala the funeral of seven year old jacqueline coll has been held she died earlier this month while also in the custody of the u.s. border patrol japan has announced it will withdraw from the international whaling

commission and resume commercial whaling next year as a member of the i.w.c. japan hunted whales in the antarctic for what it calls scientific research the government says it will only hunt in its territorial waters. in indonesia torrential rain and the possibility of more big waves bringing further anxiety to the victims of saturday's tsunami villages and so on but jaya sought higher ground on tuesday at least four hundred twenty nine people were killed when the wave struck the coastline on saturday without warning demonstrations in tunis capital have continued for a second day following the funeral of a journalist who set himself on fire to protest economic problems police used tear gas to break up the crowds those are the headlines join me here for more news after the stream. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing reality. from the very

beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and hear their story talk to. me ok in your industry today what consent trees of indigenous knowledge teach us about the lot. in the final show of our indigenous views series consider how indigenous communities have advanced science often to the benefit of all to mr collins me a twitter an. order. and the indigenous comics on you are a mystery. to most of us the words science comes up images of the boy trees experiments and textbooks but indeed.