but you boy did it to keep. people believe it's. all just. across the. unrest in the. struggle to contain protests as the president calls the demonstrators traitors. hello i'm the star 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 guatemalan child dies in u.s. custody as family members bid farewell to

a little guy 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 has president omar al bashir says traitors are behind 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 al jazeera to 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 onto the presidential palace there 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 party 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 one 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 in 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 agent traitor floor 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 see the people have legitimate reasons for turning an economic crisis into a political crisis for the government of what the. we cannot at this moment lower demands to economic ones only the protesters started demonstrating at the bridge a few. financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing the masses of realize that there is a strong relationship between the economy and politics the regime has promised several times to pull to its part of the crisis it's the nature of the regime which

spends a lot of money on protecting itself and on point loyalty and support president bashir has faced protesters 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 frontier guys the president seems very determined to go on with his control over saddam hussein is very determined to ignore the protesters and in fact continue to use force against them as he despite the fact that he has pledged reforms he said that he is going to try to introduce new economy reforms new economic 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 one 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 question military sources saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and on a step it was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its own air defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on iranian targets in southern syria stephanie decker joins us now with more from west steph what do we know about these missiles being fired into and out of syria. well the main event happened around eleven o'clock local time in the evening syrian state television accusing israeli warplanes of firing at a military base west of damascus this is a military base that we believe israel has targeted before and saying that it hit

weapons warehouses now this is in line also with the syrian observatory for human rights saying the same thing also saying that three syrian soldiers were injured and there's one interesting report in the american public ation newsweek quoting american defense officials quoting senior israeli officials saying that the strikes targeted senior hezbollah leaders shortly after they boarded a plane now of course israel never comments on these reports i think the usual way israel operates inside syria and has done for years is it targets weapons shipments that it believes are heading to hezbollah it targets weapons warehouses if it is now targeted senior hezbollah officials on a plate that would be an escalation but again these things are very difficult to confirm what we do know what the army has confirmed the israeli army is that it intercepted syrian surface to air missiles which were fired along the border but this does seem to be the first major event since september september the

seventeenth when of course we had the incident with the russian plane was downed by syrian air defense missiles but after what russia and syria blamed israel about maneuvering those systems so it's been very tense but also shows you just how complicated syria is how many different players how many different foreign actors are involved in that conflict and steph what kind of impact has president trumps decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria had on the region in terms of share politics is israel feeling emboldened. well president from pulling out of syria it's all about a balance of power right in this country you've got the americans you've got the russians you've got the iranians you have turkish backed forces you have the kurds i think most importantly america's pullout will affect the kurds initially because turkey is looking at an offensive put that aside when you're talking about israel israel's concerns in syria are one and one only and that is has weapons shipments to as well as the presence of iran so what people here are saying officials will

tell you is that israel will continue operating as it is we heard from the israeli prime minister saying that if needed israel will escalate but again remember it really is russia that calls the shots in syria at the moment it controls airspace it really has control either you know talking to the iranians talking to damascus israel talks to russia there are all these kinds of negotiations going on behind the scenes i think at the moment the russians know that israel's main concern is to keep the run away from its borders and that israel will act if any of these events happen when have to wait and see how things unfold are always very difficult to predict but israel will tell you that if its national interests are threatened from any threat coming from inside syria it will act out of there as steph deca speaking to us there from west jerusalem thanks stephanie who here rebels are accusing the saudi emirate coalition of violating a cease fire and the yemeni port city of her data a spokesman said ground forces attacked the areas away from the site of u.n. monitors as saudi emraan to jets carried out air strikes in towns on the outskirts

of the city 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 said the child showed signs of sickness because of his death is being looked into the guatemalan foreign ministry has called for an investigation rob reynolds has more from washington d.c. . the information that we are getting comes from a us 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 s is that's department of homeland security watch this month what happened to one death too many secretary nielson that's a reference to d.h. as 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 u.s. president on all trump says parts of the government will stay

a shut down until he gets five billion dollars for his war on the mexico border his demand for the funding has been rejected by democratic party rivals and some members of his own republican party in retaliation trumps refusing to sign a widest spending bill temporarily bilking funding for parts of government. i can't tell you where the government's got to be up and 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 she had been tense he has more from washington on the face of it it was a tough restatement of donald trump's position b. 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 slats 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 and some of those reconvene on thursday when they go to said that continue. torrential rain and the possibility of more big waves in indonesia bringing further anxiety to

the victims of saturday's tsunami. villages in suva jaya raced to higher ground when word began to spread that another tsunami was coming but it was a false alarm at least four hundred thirty people died when the wave struck at night on saturday and without warning it was set off by a nearby volcano that's still erupting robin wright has more from sunbow 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 their wednesday making the cleanup 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 are 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 high tide 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 or 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 whether it's next but still ahead on al-jazeera really explain why there hasn't been much to celebrate in zimbabwe this festive period. and settling scores

in iraq the story of violence between tribes and the police officers trying to stop it. hello again to welcome back well we're watching a storm developing right here in the western part of the pacific not the clouds right there just to the east of the philippines right now we're talk. about a tropical depression that's going to continue tomorrow but by the time we get towards friday that storm will probably become a tropical storm and named as well making its way towards the west now we don't expect it to get too intense as a storm but we do expect to see quite a bit of rain coming out of the system as it makes its way across the philippines so anywhere over three hundred millimeters by saturday morning could be seen which means some localized flooding could be a problem across the region well here across australia particularly in sydney we're still dealing with bad air quality and the here on wednesday and also going into

thursday as well and the reason being is this high pressure that's dominating it's really staying there and when you get a high pressure that stays there for a long period of time it tends to cap that pollution and make things worse day by day you may see a lot of sun but you'll also see an increase of ozone across much of that area down here towards melbourne the temperatures coming up for you at thirty six degrees over here towards adelaide it is going to be forty one degrees as we end the day here on thursday and by the time we get to friday those temperatures are coming down a little bit about thirty eight and melbourne at thirty three degrees for you. in the first episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made more scholars during the medieval dysnomia period in the. professional german . brings the. point critical was don't

eat we've done. a month from now and then allow it to come through this old. welcome back i'm a star and 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 the mass rally in khartoum want to choose day the president says the protesters are trying to. syrian state television is reporting that government to air defenses near damascus have shot down israeli missiles the israeli military

says it's the air defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria. for the second time this month i got 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 investigated. 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 it joins iceland norway greenland and the faroe islands as the only place. in the wild by commercial whaling is permitted nicholas bannan is 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 where it's leaving that means that japan is walking away from international law rivera concerns that they're beginning and you era of pirate whaling. un conventions that the lure of the sea requires countries to cooperate in the conservation and management of marine the source's and the international body for that cooperation is the idea of the sea so japan is turning its back on an international agreement which has agreed several decades ago now back in ninety two that there should be no hunting 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.

riot police in china as they have fired tear gas at demonstrators following the funeral of a journalist. set himself on fire in protest against high unemployment and the failing economy he posted a video online complaining the promises of the arab spring uprising seven years ago remain unfulfilled maybe on a honda has more. discontent has been simmering into his ear 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 younger protesters have been clashing with police for seeking down. a responding to abdirizak silkies online post calling for a revote. this is a call to the unemployed and cusser enough 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 to the twenty three year rule of president son ben ali two unnamed genesee enjoyed a relatively smooth transition to democracy but has failed to fire economically to a 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 tunis ians who they said was struggling to survive

a sentiment echoed in sort of post. they don't have anything to eat to fill their stomachs people protest but the authorities call us terrorists they just tossed 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 medium hond al jazeera. 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 the three attackers the assault began when a car. before to suicide bombers managed to get inside the building and blow themselves up twenty one people were injured. also says it was behind cheers days car bomb attack on a market in northern iraq the explosion in tal afar killed two people and injured

in levon 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 imran khan 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 iraq you'll thor says you 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 there are 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 here 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 a 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. iran called observer. to activists have been arrested in northern china while protesting outside the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer john was detained in 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 a high security around the courthouse the trial has been closed to the public.

police in the 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 the twenty one year old man his body was found in a creek in march it was deemed a suicide to put his father says he was murdered the case has sparked months of anti-government rallies in bosnia with people 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 town in the northern europe 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 this 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 kid ten year airport has reopened after an ash cloud from mount etna is 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 mount etna says a new fissure has opened near southeast crater at now which is one of the three active volcanoes in italy has been particularly active since july. it's a bleak festive season for many isn't barbarians as they struggle with food and fuel shortages even in the toughest times sales sawed in the days before christmas but this year shops haven't seen the usual rush it's a far cry from the revived economy a present president and the same man and god were promised when he took over from

robert mugabe last year has more from harare. these teachers say they don't want to be paid in local pond not zimbabwe's 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 won't pay salaries in dollars so they can at least afford the basics this ne this isn't a good moment for the board with the lessons of bob it is going to be. the ruling elite was enjoying it too 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 alleged to decent public funds it seems the situation is getting even worse the economy is just. a point of explosion. we have been happening for the last ten years. we importing more than all the exporting and to date we have accumulated to diffuse to 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 going to treat you know. the bodies of their own just before on the day you die so you're looking. to go on from gaza 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. 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 in yemen. understudied handover hall and these are the top stories antigovernment demonstrators across the dawn 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 morgan has the latest from the capital khartoum the support of the 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 at 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 continue to put as they were determined to make it to the presidential palace but we've had to fire so rounds over live ammunition then 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 ed offenses near damascus have shot down israeli missiles the israeli military says it's own a defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria the electoral commission in the democratic republic of congo has postponed elections in two cities and a town until march twenty ninth teen the vote will go ahead elsewhere on sunday the national vote had already been delayed by a week a decision that sparked protests in some areas of the country opposition parties have warned of larger demonstrations if the vote was delayed further u.s.

border protection has ordered a medical checks on every child in its custody after a second child died while in its care border agents said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness because of his death is being investigated in guatemala the funeral of seven year old jacqueline has been held she died earlier this month while in the custody of 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 those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera to science in a golden age to stay with us. with a big breaking news story it can be chaotic frantic behind the scenes. people

shouting instructions and in your trying to provide the best most accurate up to date information as quickly as you can. it's when you come off air and being seen pinned to realize you witnessed history in the making. in. the nature of life it has intrigued scientists throughout the ages today it's used in all sorts of applications from lasers and communication to particle accelerators we're living in a science and technology boom period but the roots of our understanding of optics and lloyd's can be traced back to a period between the ninth and fourteenth centuries that's when a revolution in science took place in the islamic world a golden age of science i'm joe palca a british professor of theoretical physics.