this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam he say this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes protesting against sudan's president omar bashir accuses demonstrates of being traitors more protests a planned. flashpoint close to damascus syrian defense systems shoot at so-called enemy targets by israeli warplanes. picking

up the pieces in indonesia after the tsunami. threatens to cut off the main supply route for recovery operations plus would you have a track in your wrist the people choosing to have a microchip implant. i'm joined again with the sports crush the worry is but their star player le bron james limps out i'll have that and the rest of the sports in the next hour. sudan's president says protesters demanding his resignation are traitors and they successive day of demonstrations are expected against president bashir riot police find bullets and tear gas and march is heading to the presidential palace in khartoum on tuesday protests against food and fuel price rises grow. oh into

demands for the sheer twenty nine year rule has reacted to rebellion by promising to implement new reforms to improve living standards the government says twelve people have been killed since the on the us began a week ago amnesty international says the total could be at least thirty seven more this let's cross over now live to hear morgan she joins us from khartoum let's start first of all with this is day eight how are process shaping up. well sami as we've seen yesterday thousands of people took to the streets with one single demand they were saying that we want to topple the government we want a new regime now today people are saying that they are going to go on strike doctors have announced that they will go on a general strike in all government hospitals and they will not work except if it's a critical emergency case this is going to be very hard for the government to deal with basically because people not force these people to go to work they cannot make them do something they don't want to do in this case protestors they can deal with

there in the street and as we've seen they would fire live emissions in tear gas to try to stop the protesters from continuing their march and fortunately for police but then stopped them yesterday so the people continue protesting yesterday and today people are saying that they will go on a general strike specifically the doctor said they will go on a general strike and they made a call to other people of other professions should that they should join them in the strike against the government how is the president's comments about people being traces going down with the protesters. well of the listen to the president at all it's obviously fallen on deaf ears they they say that they don't care about what he says they haven't listened to his positive messages to begin with sammy when he said that he was going to promise the comic reforms and he said that he was going to make frank's change for the better for these people didn't listen to that so obviously if he called them traitors or when he called them traitors that didn't care matter to them at all they were saying that they will continue with their protests they are going to go into the streets they will continue making the demand known that they want to topple the government so

obviously whatever he says whether it's positive or negative at this point doesn't make a difference to the protesters what they want to hear is basically him think that he is done with the government he's done with his twenty nine year rule and he's ready to hand over the rule to a new government and new cabinet here morgan there updating us on the situation live from hard to capital we can continue this though with dejan there are the chief legal advisor at the mena rights groups an organization defending victims of human rights abuses in the middle east and north africa she joins us now from geneva good to have you with us let's start of all first of all with what you have documented so far about the protests. hi thank you for having me and for action like of the issue. well what we do as lawyers working in call in close cooperation with the united nations here in geneva is that we we first document the general situation with looking into where where that may put

this story taking place is one of the evolutions you use the word security forces were responsible for the killing of protesters and looking also into something that has been less documented indymedia which the mass arrests are been going on particularly of. individuals using social media so so far we have about names of the actions of things in protests and we are documenting this in order to submit this to the united nations. our made a is to have an urgent action by the united nations independent experts regionally about who would not only call for an authority as to stop to stop the violence and the different violations committed but also for any quire read and right now it is important is an independent inquiry. and if i can jump in here to these are before

we get into what happens with this information too much to describe to us a little bit of the picture of the human rights picture that's emerging how weiss how widespread is the indiscriminate use of lethal force from what you have seen or documented so far. right now given the information we have by the hour i can i can not depict like a large picture or given the information we have since we work particularly on individual cases however we have already seen in the past and this is a pattern that is not only specific to sit on the lot of countries in the region but the pattern of the use of indiscriminate violence and of the use of lethal weapons against peaceful protesters so the next days are going to be crucial for us the next days and the next weeks because the more families we get in touch with us

the more reliable it yelling from nation and have the more we'll be able to show how magic at least systematic the use of lethal indiscriminate force to his first peaceful protest or it's easily influenced a lot of untrue can spread the protests and this is extremely important for accountability. what is happening to people who get arrested are they getting due process. this is also another issue because the people who are arrested right now are arrested mainly for war by either the and i assessed the national intelligence services or the army and they are of course not informed of the reasons of their arrest there of course not charge they are kept in secret detention and we had we had read the comments in cases of very severe beatings of individuals of common citizens were just arrested

some of them were not even participating in the protests who were detained for a few hours beaten up and then released but we also have all the people right now who are still in detention families do not have access to them they look to access their people who are here and this is also a part of that we have documented the u.n. previously with you're going to use and bloggers all of this form of detention and people are kept in this in equal what we call in could really gather which means that they cannot be get in contact with their families with their lawyers families and who are not know where they're detained why they are detained they're not allowed to see an independent judge they're not informed of the charges and then after a certain group of time they might get released but we were coming up on this case of people who are still in detention because we know that there will be no due process thank you so much for shedding light on what you've gathered about the

situation appreciate it thank you. the syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire on what state media is calling enemy targets blaming israel for an air raid a quote military sources saying several missiles were down before they hit their targets and arms depo was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its own air defense system in deceptive an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on the iranian targets in the south of the country stephanie decker has been following developments from west jerusalem. syrian state television is accusing israel of targeting an arms warehouse west of damascus at a military base saying that three syrian soldiers were injured this is in line with the syrian observatory for human rights saying the same thing there is one different reports in the american public ation newsweek where it quotes a u.s. official from the defense department quoting an israeli official saying that the

strike hit senior hezbollah leaders who had just boarded a plane and that there are injuries now if that is true and of course it is impossible to confirm these things israel never comments officially it would be an escalation because the way israel usually open operates within syria is targeting weapons shipments that it believes are headed to hezbollah or weapons warehouses that are being used for the same purposes the thing israel does confirm is that it its air defenses were activated when it intercepted syrian surface to air missiles so this is it seems to be the first major involvement of israel certainly that made it into the news since september when a russian reconnaissance plane was downed by syrian air defenses but is rose as it was accused its planes are in the sky at the time carrying out a vase of maneuvers of the syrian air defense systems that led to the downing of the plane that led to a complicated escalation to russia and israel but again russia and israel do talk

behind the scenes there is an open line of communication when it comes to the actions inside syria because russia of course really is the player that calls the shots when it comes to airspace when it's talking to damascus and also the iranians or live out moon on the wall is a retired jordanian air force general who joins us live from amman good to have you with us first of all if you could just briefly from what you were on laws the explain what exactly was hit. i think the district conducted by from the southern lebanon possibly by the side of the cruise missile sort of spike bomb with the travel like one hundred fifty kilometers or so so they did not enter these planes they did not in the sixteenth and the if they had to fire some reports say the new aircraft so

the i think it's the fourth division nearby and the with the know some word houses or mention. and with some part of the must as you report of just said there was some. some hizbullah league ation going to iran they were training a plane you know by the airport or in their part of the main targets i think and that come with the i think the decision to hit or to conduct strike the. there was some. u.s. troop withdrawal from what we're getting is that in a moment. here is only foam you know wrong this is the closest the israelis have struck to damascus so far is there a message in that in itself. well

what they're saying that we are going to continue our policy we're going to execute over a blind regarding the capacity of hezbollah or iranian. to build the bases and to increase their military capacity on that area and to increase their influence expansion of this kind of thing so the israeli come on strike i think the odds of that is a point here that. both side they don't want to escalate any more than this any miscalculation that night leads to. a wider conflict between the two and the the one problem that that will enhance also a message that we've got to. be very day events and we're going to enhance that in the future that's the main message is a quote say about well regardless of whether both sides want to escalate this or not do expect there to be more israeli strikes precisely for the reason that you

mentioned that with the u.s. withdrawal from syria perhaps israel wants to ensure that iranian and throwing in forces like hezbollah don't extend their influence in syria let's that and i think that's come with the understanding good the russian because i think the russian gave them the green light for such an attack because after the downing of the illusion aircraft. two or three months back so. i think that as you know about this strike the very business as you do well they came back and the do these such strike in the future i think this will carry on also in the future all right thanks so much going on to that. houthi rebels in yemen are accusing the saudi erotic coalition of violating the cease fire and her data is un true smallness is the jew to meet to discuss progress the spokesman says at least twenty eight as strikes have been carried out in towns on the outskirts of the city in the

last twenty four hours ground attacks are also reported saudi moratti coalition is yet to respond the head of the monitoring team patrick kemah is in her day there after both sides agreed on the ceasefire earlier this month in sweden plenty more still ahead on the news hour including japan changes course a barrel commercial whaling is reversed sparking concern from conservationists. tunisia and rested journalists funeral turns into mass protests over the failing economy. and the spall the man in charge of the english premier league pay sacked as liverpool insists the title race is still wide open it's coming up with joe. trench will reign in the possibility of more big waves in indonesia bringing

further anxiety to the victims of saturday's tsunami villages in somebody's job a race to higher ground when word began to spread that another tsunami was coming but it was a false alarm at least four hundred thirty died when the wave struck at night on saturday with out warning for the and a crack at our volcano is situated between the islands of java and sumatra they're both situated within this on the straight one bride has seen the devastation firsthand joins us now from and your district that's on the west coast of java so rob how are recovery efforts going at this point. they are sounding as you mentioned they're being hampered by the weather but the recovery efforts have been continuing throughout today wednesday teams working all along this stretch of coastline some of the more remote villages and communities that they haven't been able to reach until now it's also been announced today that

the closest inhabited place to crack a town this is a tiny island of about two thousand inhabitants this is going to be evacuated as a precaution it's also being confirmed it seems that satellite imagery now establishes that it was indeed under sea land shift that caused this an army wave and there are concerns just about what the rains that are and impacting this part of indonesia could do to the structure of the volcano itself whether a massive amounts of rain could cause further instability in the sides of the volcano which could lead to a bigger collapse and in turn lead to a bigger tsunami. after being inundated from the sea now flooded from above along much of the coastline devastated by saturday's synonymy to wrench will rain poured more misery on already awful conditions. like their neighbors

hitting activities family sort through the possessions from their flooded home he knows they won't likely dry out until the other side of the rainy season which is weeks away. everything's where it's all broken there's nothing left. he has no choice but to move back into his house on this exposed coast. this is my home i have no other pleas to go but if i had money i would buy a sandwich see if it will have. the rain is also threatening to cut off the main coastal road upon which the recovery operation depends hearts of this road were damaged by the tsunami. the rain has flooded other parts of asia it's still possible but there's a big effort on now to make sure it stays that way. the route is also increasingly important for the tons of aid that is arriving poor visibility makes it difficult for experts to predict what the crocodile volcano will do next. further

eruptions could cause another wave a tsunami warning remains in force and false alarms quickly spread on social media have caused panic and people to seek safety on higher ground proof of the fear that the volcano still rumbling in the murk beyond the horizon is able to evoke. this an army has provoked a fierce debate here in indonesia about just how well the precautions are in place to give early warnings about tsunamis given the fact that they are so prevalent there are various devices such as floating boys out at sea that detect sudden shifts in the sea level and so on but there's a lot of controversy here about whether there is enough of this equipment whether the equipment is in place is being maintained well enough or indeed whether in fact it's being vandalized with some agencies such as the disaster mitigation agency

saying it doesn't have enough resources and its budget is being cut regardless of the debate about the kinds of equipment that indonesia should be having i think there is also being established especially in light of the extreme weather over the past few days of the extreme environment in which this stuff has to operate and given the fact that it is becoming more sophisticated how much of a challenge that will be for indonesia to deal with to have a fully functioning oily warning system given the prevalence it seems of more extreme weather sammy thanks so much rob mcbride there. now two activists have been arrested in northern china while protesting outside the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer wang was detained in two thousand and sixteen he was known for taking on cases involving accusations of police torture the forty two year old is one of more than two hundred people swept up in a government crackdown targeting people working in the legal system has been high

security around the courthouse and the trial has been closed to the public. 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. and hunted whales in the end for what it called scientific research government says it will only hunt in its territorial waters it joins iceland norway and the faroe islands as the only places in the world where commercial whaling is limited because of the ban on 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 that you see japan is walking away from the international body that isn't greed under international law or to be responsible for the management and conservation of where the world's leaving that body means that japan is walking away from

international law and rivera consent that they're beginning and you era of pirate whaling the un convention to the lure of the sea requires countries to cooperate in the conservation and management of marine resources and the international body for that cooperation is the idea of the sea so japan is turning its back on an international agreements which has agreed and several decades ago now back in one thousand nine hundred 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 law if it continues with commercial whaling once it's left the id of the e.c. since the i do b.c. agreed that all commercial whaling has been exploiting a loophole of the idea of e.c. which allows for scientific research everybody knew that there was nothing

scientific about what japan was doing but it was that loophole that allowed them to get away with continues commercial hunting so at least with this decision we will have no more pretext about scientific research and japan has said that it will cease waiting in the southern ocean the southern ocean is an international century for wales so we are pleased that they will finally comply with that century and the wells that will be left in place we're very concerned about what that decision means for the northern hemisphere where they have said that they will continue to measure the hansie wells in that coastal waters and we call on them not to do. at if they leave the i.w.c. and they stop for commercial hunting or else there's no part of them and so we would say that i'm staying out of the scene start friends emails or leave and start closing where i was basically and let it continue hanson was outside at night e.c.

is very serious and very worried about the creases and for out there an international agreements to conserve the marine model s. and fisheries and so on now u.s. border protection has ordered medical checks on every child in his custody after another guatemalan child died while under its care the eight year old boy lost his life after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in new mexico border agents said the child showed signs of sickness and the cause of death is being investigated the guatemalan foreign ministry is calling for an investigation rob reynolds has more 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 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 two 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. meanwhile relatives and neighbors of seven year old jacqueline coll have been attending her funeral in guatemala on tuesday her body was repatriated from the united states she died earlier this month one 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. unfortunately the death of this girl is not the only one there are many girls who are dying under all of those they were nothing. less than that is it that they should try to respect our rights because we travel or our comrades have traveled because there is no money here in the region. donald trump says parts of the u.s.

government will remain shut down until congressional leaders agreed to fund these five billion dollar plan to build a wall along the border with mexico the u.s. president's pledge to build the wall is 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 parts of the government i can't tell you where the government is going to be up and i can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a. chance 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. oh in a few moments we'll have all the weather with kevin but still ahead here on al-jazeera settling scores in iraq the story of violence between tribes and police officers trying to stop a. lack of christmas cheer from many in zimbabwe to find out why.

and former stray unkrich is the camera bancroft breaks his silence on the ball tampering scandal tell you who's pointed the finger at. from the clear blue sky of the doha moony. to the french autumn breeze in the city of love. we want to update you on what is happening here across parts of the philippines we do have a tropicals depression right now that is going to be forming and tor tropical storm very soon now this is not going to bring a lot of wind damage but we do think over the next few days the amount of rain coming out of the storm starting tomorrow is going to be quite impressive and that means we're going to see a lot of flooding across much of the area now once the storm passes across the central philippines it is going to weaken but it's still going to produce quite a bit of rain across much of the areas we're talking about a seventy two hour period we're going to be seeing a lot of that rain so in terms of how much rain we're going to be seeing most of

the heavy rain is going to be across the central part of the philippines but we can't rule out what's going to happen appear towards parts of luzon as well up to about four hundred millimeters of rain could be seen in this area over the next seventy two hours so we keep you posted as it progresses i do want to take you over here towards india where they have been having a big problem particular pier towards the north in that the capital city of new delhi take a look at the video that has come out across this area as they are dealing with pollution the highest pollution levels they have seen all year now it is winter they have a lot of problems in terms of all machinery and cars but this is been dropping visibility across much of the area and it's expected to continue for several more days. the weather sponsored by cat time and the race. they wanted forty three million pounds with the weaponry that one of these six billion in. there is no and the more because there's always

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and watching on syria time to recap our headlines sudan's doctors are on strike and are calling for more professionals to join them the president has called protesters demanding his resignation traitors successive day of demonstrations are expected against president obama to the sheer riot police fired marchers heading to the presidential palace khartoum choose the. syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire on what state media is calling enemy targets blames israel for an air raid the israeli military says it intercepted an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria. for the second time this month of what a mile and a child has died in u.s. custody border agents said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness cause of

his death is being investigated. the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo this weekend has been delayed again in some parts of the country the electoral commission says the votes will be held in march instead in beni with tembo and you'll be that's months after the final results are scheduled to be announced on january fifteenth well after two years of delays congo's opposition has said it won't accept further delays to the election. where joins us now live from contrasts or so why are the elections being delayed first of all in some of these towns and cities for the reasons that the electoral commission have given our conflicts and imposed around break and into those cities in the east of the country any. there's been a voter outbreak or wisconsin hemorrhagic fever that was first found in congo nine hundred seventy s. and the outbreak that's happening there now is already killed dozens of people in

the hundreds of cases and we've been struggling to contain contain it and also been a series of massacres in around the town of benny over the last few years the government blames a rebel group called the a.v.'s though it's not clear exactly who's behind that. groups are attacking villages fairly regularly massacring civilians in the night that these things have been known about the case of a bowler since august in the case of the conflict for years so a lot of people are going to be asking why is this postponement happening now these three areas that also has a lot of support for the one of the opposition leaders marching for you so there's going to be skepticism at least from his supporters about why three places where he has a lot of support and now being excluded from the election we're waiting to see if him and his supporters and if the other opposition candidates and if the catholic church is administrative headquarters we're waiting out now are going to accept

this further postponement in the areas. how is the opposition reacting to this announcement we know before they said that they're not going to deal with any more delays now the governor said ok these three towns or cities where it's going to be delayed what are the opposition saying about that. we haven't heard from him just yet it was a very short while ago that the electoral commission made this announcement but last week when the electoral commission announced a further week postponement this poll that's already two years too late all the opposition camps civil society groups the catholic church which is played a key role in campaigning for this election takes place all said if it's just one week let's stay calm let's not let's not turn the country as they put it. now that there are more delays maybe they'll change their position but certainly to the opposition parties so they're faced with

a problem here in the long and carrots of an election being dangled before them they will be reluctant to call that people to the street protests the pressure of the government then surely call this election in the process in the in the first place that supporters are called to the streets now they risk being accused of turning the election violent maybe being disqualified for as long as there's a possibility of an election that's going to take place there on likely to call for those protests to resume so that takes the pressure off the government meanwhile they'll still be hanging on to find out whether or not this election really is actually going to take place until all right now from where ben thanks so much. riot police in tunisia have five to gas the demonstrators following the funeral of a journalist. who is set himself on fire in protest of high unemployment and the failing economy it's posted on online video complaining the promises of the arab spring uprising seven years ago remain unfulfilled marianna honda 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 revolt. this is a call to the unemployed in kasserine 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. zurich is funeral drew huge crowds and turned into demonstrations soldiers 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 son ben ali to

a named june 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 match for two nescience who they say it was struggling. to survive a sentiment echoed in so dicky's post don't you agree 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. shorty said the promises of the arab spring remain unfulfilled and the response to his death could force the government to confront

how to deliver for its people while satisfying those it owes money medium the hand out to syria. i saw says it was behind tuesday's car bomb attack on a market in northern iraq the explosion and tell our father killed two people and injured eleven others is the first attack since iraqi forces recaptured the scene from arsenal in august last year. staying in northern iraq settling a feud often means shots fired with deadly consequences now police are pressuring tribal leaders to change their traditional way of dealing with disputes in one hand reports in baghdad. in iraq some feuds a subtle like this this video taken two weeks ago shows one tribe attacking the house of another on the outskirts of baghdad these future 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. and 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 used 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 involved 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 the newly passed law prohibits using to settle feuds. with the law must be imposed by the government and to be considered the 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 seem 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. police in the server run part of bosnia have arrested several opposition leaders after detaining

a father seeking answers about his son's death scuffles started in bang as police dispersed a vigil for david that every chair of its father says he was murdered the mysterious death of a twenty one year old months of anti-government rallies complaining about corruption and the diary khana me. flights have resumed at a main airport in sicily after the latest eruption of europe's most active volcano the airport was forced to close by a giant ash cloud from mount etna more than one hundred tremors have been felt experts say new fisheries opened hikers were advised to stop climbing for their own safety once regarded as pure science fiction human microchip implants are making a slow but steady arrival in the modern workplace some volunteers have already been fitted with the technology several businesses in the united kingdom are now actively looking to provide them to willing employees barco reports there are

concerns the risks may outweigh the benefits. the future is a wave of a hand away in case you missed it here it is again. this is a whole new level of security no keys or access cards difficult to steal and copy but the technology requires a certain level of commitment that is not for the faint hearted so this is where the micro chip implant story begins for those who want them at least a clinical setting a sterile environment with some rather daunting bits of medical kit so talk us through what happens next the first part of phaedrus where while setting the point of interest and. and we. just make a small incision. and then finally rob

a large need to out and that we first just i'll stop you there for me in my case at least i think i've already was no is because it really had completely pain free the u.k. firm biotech office implants to businesses and individuals is fitted one hundred fifty implants in the u.k. so far and the numbers rising assistive technology from stable people implant. banking security general use of contact as payments passport to be stored on these microchips and embedded in your hand comes down to convenience i suppose for people it's very hard to lose your hand evolution. a lot of sound demographics what not convenient this is one of several implant firms reportedly in discussions with british financial and legal companies the names of the companies are being closely guarded this isn't new technology microchips have been implanted in tents for many years but the prospect of implanting them in employees to spark concerns from trade

unions. gives even more control and power to be employer and not come as wary of inherent risks and dangers overdressed inventors shouldn't just be ignored by an employer everything into consideration and their definition be pressuring any workers into every market biotech companies say the technology should be voluntary and that people must have a right to privacy but with one swedish bio hacks claiming to have already implanted four thousand people their worries micro chipping could eventually become the new normal society's embrace the mobile phone making is easy to track on a daily basis but by implanting microchips there may be few places left to truly escape technology leave. london. later on mars is a tech journalist and futurist he joins us on skype from london good to have you

with us so how widespread it is if we can call it chipping people becoming if one company alone says it's done four thousand implants. yeah that's what i are hacks in sweden. we haven't really heard any claims above that not surprising people aren't insanely cain there was a couple of nightclubs a while back who were recruiting people i suspect they say it's mainly individuals and i suspect it's mainly that sort of v.o.i.p. membership and the night club gets lots of publicists and people get into knocked up a little bit quicker but you know this is there are a lot of downsides to this from a security point of view it's not that great if an identity card which many of which your contact lists just like leaves chips getting to people's hands if the security of those is sort of compromise on his then you can just withdraw the cards issue new cards and on you go if you're talking about something inside somebody's

it's much harder to do that. and of course as you report mentioned you can track people. that maybe just people inside a company which is creepy enough and people do do that with things like image recognition and cameras and mobile phone tracking but it makes it easier to track people outside it's great for mike x. i have a cat flap for example that only allows my cats into my house and doesn't let the neighboring cats come in using their microchips and steal my food because it recognizes their microchips but for people less of a great idea i think and of course if you are recruiting people it's not the most attractive. thing to have on a company's c.v. i think it's more like to put your feet just off or. who is being other than of course your cat and some frequenters of nightclubs who's being getting chipped so far is there like a patent what sort of people have been going for why. it's been the old company

here and there mostly sort of small to medium sized ones most large companies i think of shied away from it there isn't really any particular patent to the industries that have taken it up. it is a great idea to have an extra form of identity that's a physical thing other than a password passwords a dreadful but there's no reason that called the an id card or other similar physical object we've seen chips embedded in ring and other bits of jewelry which works much much better. i don't think this will become widespread least in most places unless there was some sort of mandate by rather authoritarian government should happen to government employees and i haven't seen any roll out in any by any government as of yet let's hope it stays that way thanks so much for coming on. 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 this year shops haven't seen the usual rush it's a far cry from the revive the economy president. promised when he took over from robert mugabe last year. as more from harare was. what these teachers say they don't want to be paid in local zimbabwe serger 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 won't pay salaries in dollars so they can at least afford the basics there's ne this isn't a good moment for the poor the working classes and bob it is going to be business isn't for the rich the op that was what last in the ruling elite was enjoying it about what not busy and what not with there's nothing for the. price is

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 moon 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 ask 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. a point of explosion. we have been happening for the last ten years. trade deficits that we're importing more than a day exporting into data we have accumulated to diffuse to fifty billion dollars others say this is really nothing they can do about the current situation challenging the government is sometimes not an option it can be too risky it's

going to demonstrate you know yes. 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. all still to come on al-jazeera. under way at the sydney to hobart yacht race joe will be here with news of the early leaders coming up next. i've really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i was that's what his job to. step into the unknown with central america's first ever theatrical production by actors with down syndrome.

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are right sports fans it's time to catch up i think on the basketball news right joe that's right so i mean yes the los angeles lakers have beaten two time defending champions the golden state warriors in the n.b.a. but the wind came at a price of bron james made seventeen points thirteen rebounds and five assists but slipped in the third quarter and strained his groin. the four time m.v.p. tried to stretch it out but ended up leaving for the locker room and will have a scan on wednesday warriors steph curry made consecutive three days off to james' exit to bring him to within two points of the night his. running diary came off the bench to lead the lake has the rest of the way with fifteen points and ten assists the lakers winning one hundred seventeen to one hundred one as i snapped an eleven game a new zing streak on the warriors' hopeful. know when we were injuries i'm never too concerned about him you know i was able to walk off him all power. and.

see if i could stretch it a few times and see if it really but it didn't so it's going to take a lot of pride in it so that's why pissed me off not to be able to go back into the game this morning any day being. not being available to my to my teammates being available to michael just have. a some that's a more. personal than anything so. you know hopefully you hope it's not a it's not a long thing about on the fourth and sometimes. i like where we are but this loss obviously is a smack in the face and we've got to respond to it and that's that's kind of the name of the game in this league we need to come in tomorrow watch the tape gets more doesn't get back out it and you know the best teams don't. total let a game like this get them down the come right back and get after it again and that's the that's the plan. these are rockets mediocre home city thunder one hundred thirteen two hundred nine hundred eight point lead didn't last long as james harden mounted an impressive comeback in the second half hardman tallied his

seven thirty point streak in a right it's just the second player to do so in rockets history rockets going into seventh in the west while the oklahoma city thunder remain good in the conference. liveable managing says he believes four or five teams are still in the race to win the english premier league title of a poem looking to end a three decade white to become english champions and a four points ahead of second placed manchester city they take on newcastle at home on wednesday the manager says his squad does have the mental strength to continue with their title push. always is always very bored but this voice. this was because he. believed in the past already big things. vinyls good positions in the league. office that we did that all together and so so far beyond that we only did steps together and that's what we have to do. is sit

here away at leicester city have lost two of their last three league games as many as they lost in their previous sixty one premier league matches tottenham are in third place six points behind liverpool s'posed beat evidence six two last time out they still believe that leadership will magically see the real contenders for the forward to win the premier league and then. we have their jency up soon and much of tonight is still a long way i think is still a long way to say if we have a real contender annoyed when the system is overly. for a second straight year teams in the top flight of italian football will be in action over the festive period the pick of the games on wednesday sees third place into milan hosting second place napoli the move emulating the english premier league which takes advantage of potentially high viewership during the holiday period italian hubs will still get a winter break only will be in january the top of the table event is there

a way to atalanta eight points clear of napoli going into this round of matches that see a confirm up their fourth place with a win over struggling bania or king still looking for their first win of the season as they head to some doria. former australian cricketer cameron bancroft has broken his silence over the ball tampering scandal was the opening batsman during the series in south africa when he was caught on camera using a piece of sandpaper so on to the surface of the ball speaking in an interview on australian television bancroft says teammate david warner was the instigator and he was just an impressionable rookie wanting to fit in with the team bancroft span ends on december the twenty ninth while those of warner and former captain steve smith will be lifted at the end of march meanwhile bancroft former teammates have struggled against india on day one of the third test in melbourne india won the toss and chose to bat cummins was the only one who managed to break through to

india's line up but the vistas reach two hundred fifteen for two at the close with joris still going strong having made a half century. there on the way at the sydney to hobart yacht race australian super maxi black jack was first around sydney heads as the team took an early lead ahead of nine time line on his way to wild oats eleven there's a good forecast for this year's race which will welcome the welcome news as it marks twenty years since a sudden storm sank five boats and killed six sailors the two thousand and eighteen edition also features its first all professional female crew on wall decks ten australia's former foreign minister julie bishop was on board as a team member but decided not to complete the whole race jumping off as she passed on di be. very brave for it that is all yours for for now more later thanks so much joe that's it for this news back with another full show of nastasia so stay with us here on out to zero.

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