it's. protesting against sudan's president doctors join the unrest as a mile but she accuses the demonstrations of being traitors. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. flashpoints close to damascus syrian missile defense systems that so-called enemy targets fired by israeli warplanes. picking up the pieces in indonesia after the

tsunami torrential rain threatens to cut off the main supply route for recovery operations plus would you have a truck in your wrist how many of choosing to have microchip implants. doctors have joined the anti-government demonstrators as thousands prepare for an eighth day of protests president imo al bashir has said straight is a behind the calls for him to resign a week of violent protests has left several people dead on tuesday police fired into the air as demonstrators tried to march on the presidential palace hit 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 keen 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 is that 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 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 your response to every foreign agent traitor lauren destructive person you are the ones responding to them right now from here you are responding to all the churches 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 that 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 fuel and financial instability however they are now demanding the toppling of the regime and changing it to the masses of realize that there is a strong relationship between the economy and politics. the regime has promised several times to forward to 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 protesters before but throughout his dream he's never had to face protests this big protests that those participating in seem determined to keep going till their demands are met and. now amnesty 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 did 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 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 the state media is calling enemy targets they mean israel for an air raid they call it a military sources saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and on the stepper was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its own air defense system intercepted an end the aircraft missile fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on a rainy and 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 publication 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 is wrong 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 were 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 it 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 . the head of the u.n. monitoring team in the yemeni port of her data as reported to be meeting both sides for the first time such a commercial already met truthy representatives in the besieged port on monday both who thiis and yemeni government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition agreed to the cease fire during talks in sweden earlier this month the who these are accusing coalition forces of violating that cease fire with both ground attacks and at least twenty eight airstrikes in towns near her data in the last twenty four hours coalition commanders have yet to respond to the allegations u.s. border protection has ordered a medical checks on every child in its 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 agent said the child showed signs of sickness and the cause of his death is being investigated the guatemalan foreign ministry is also calling for an investigation let's get the latest from she has returned see who's in washington for us she had what do we know about the civil boy and the state he was in when he was taken into custody. we've now got accounts from both guatemala u.s. authorities about what exactly happened so i've been trying to piece together a timeline the boy was named felipe. he was from mental a village four hundred fifty kilometers north west of guatemala city he was heading with his father we understand the tennessee it crossed the border well they both crossed the border. in texas on december the eighteenth they were then taken to a facility in new mexico by customs and border protection that's about one hundred forty four kilometers away and. on monday morning the boy showed started to display symptoms he had a cough and he had what were described as quite glossy eyes he was taken to

hospital with his father but he was diagnosed with a cold even though he did have a fever of about one hundred three degrees fahrenheit thirty nine point four degrees centigrade but he was released from hospital after about an hour and a half with antibiotics and ibuprofen. he was and taken to a holding facility on a highway and then a few hours later around seven pm in the evening he started vomiting around ten pm he was seen to be lethargic and noisiest he was taken back to hospital and then he died around midnight his father remains in custody those are the bad bones of the information that we have now from guatemala and u.s. authorities she have well now the u.s. government says it's going to be a medical check ups on all children how many are we talking and surely that would have been happening regardless when they were taken into custody. well it's interesting actually the question was asked of customs and border protection so how many children do you currently have in custody they didn't have an answer and that

has been one of the main concerns is we're not entirely sure how great the recordkeeping is and whether they actually have a handle on all the all the families and children that are now in their custody we do know around twenty five thousand quote family units were apprehended in november but they are all being held in facilities that were built for adults decades ago reported to be very cold and not really have the have the ability to take care of people who have probably been on the knowledge of his journey across so many hundreds and thousands of miles from from the south and the children particularly vulnerable so that there are all these questions there are other questions in this case too why would why were they held so long usually a child and an adult to traveling together should be released within seventy two hours why were these why was this particular family held for so long that's just one of the many questions we had no comment from the white house congress is calling for an investigation of this customs and border protection say they will be investigating as you mentioned they are now saying that they're going to start

testing children for they will give health checks to children but with a particular focus only on the thames but this does cover the moment when the un special rapporteur on human rights for migrants just a couple of days ago i think said that the u.s. is in violation of international law with its treatment of child migrants she have attendees speaking to us that from washington thanks she have at least four hundred fifty people are dead and one hundred fifty nine still missing as to rental rain continues to hit indonesia's coast after saturday's tsunami rescue teams say they are having difficulty reaching the hardest hit areas due to fall in trees and destroyed homes and as the bride reports from some lot of village the i could tell a volcano that caused the tsunami remains active. after being inundated from the sea now flooded from above along much of the coastline devastated by saturday's synonymy torrential rain poured more misery on already awful conditions.

like their neighbors hitting act and his 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 wet it's all broken there's nothing left. he has no choice but to move back into his house on this exposed coast but this is my home i have no other place to go but if i had money i would buy somewhere safer to live off. the rain is also threatening to cut off the main coastal road upon which the recovery operation depends parts of this road were damaged by the tsunami and the rain has flooded other parts of it 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 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 robert pride al-jazeera north west java indonesia. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera we'll explain why the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been delayed again and in some parts of the country. and japan changes course a ban on commercial whaling everywhere that buckingham fountain from conservationists.

hello again and welcome back we're here across another part of asia i do want to take you up here towards mongolia where temperatures are getting better over the next few days on wednesday minus twenty seven was the high temperature on thursday a little bit better than that at minus twenty four plenty of sunshine though we are going to be seeing that get even better as we go towards friday at about bias nineteen degrees there well over here towards japan was seen plenty of snow by the time we get to friday we're talking about see effect snow all that cold air coming across that warmer water and then by the time it gets here towards the west coast of japan it drops all that snow expression the higher elevations so for tokyo it is going to be eight degrees few sendai and about one in sapporo is going to be seeing about minus four degrees there will cross much of china not looking too bad right now but we are going to be seeing a little bit more rain and also snow here across the central regions of the country and as we go towards friday there it is right there you can see the snow and the

rain up towards shanghai it's going to be a little bit cooler a few of the temperatures have been dropping off day by day and it's going to stay dry though partly cloudy conditions few there over here towards hong kong we do expect to see about twenty one degrees in your forecast and then here across the philippines it is going to be more rain in the forecast as a tropical storm makes its way towards the area. you warn the most initial response had been inadequate but now we're it was time for. muslims no move from reacting to action putting the western crusaders on the defensive. this is seen as a breakthrough revalue for loads of jihad in the east the crusades and respect. to. this time.

welcome back and a reminder about top stories this hour doctors have started a strike in sudan and others to join them and protest against the president omar al bashir says protesters who are demanding his resignation are treated as riot police opened fire as marches headed to the presidential palace in khartoum on choose day . syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire on what state media is calling enemy targets and 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 course a modern child has died while in u.s. custody order agent said the eight year old boy showed signs of sickness because 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 that the vote will be held in march instead in beni and that's months off to the final results to be announced on january fifteenth malcolm webb joins me now live from kinshasa welcome after all the obstacles we've seen what's causing this latest today. what the electoral commission says that is causing the delay is in those areas and conflicts in the east of the country around the towns of any of the temblor there's been a boiler outbreak since august sutton's of died there are hundreds of cases and there's also been a series of massacres of civilians going on there now for about three years. the government tends to blame the rebel grest rebel group called the a.d.f.

but it's not clear who's actually behind them the about the outbreaks been known about since august the massacres the attacks on civilians have been known about for years ever since they've been going on so people are already asking since these things weren't on about why is it only now that the electoral commission is announcing that it can't hold an election in those places this election was already two years too late it was meant to take place in twenty sixteen then it was meant to take place last sunday it's been delayed another week and now it's finding out that they want to delay it even further in those three areas all of them strongholds of one of the opposition candidates martin fueler who's seen by the ruling party is the main threat today or interest since these these places wouldn't actually take place in the presidential election if it goes ahead according to studies plan they don't need to have parliamentary and provincial elections long after the presidential result has been announced so it would exclude those three opposition strongholds and for reasons that have been known about since long before

today and knowing what kind of reaction have you been seeing to this announcement like i can't imagine the opposition has already said they want to accept more delays and particularly impressed we expecting more protests. last of the last eleven the opposition activists the catholic church which is a key player in in campaigning for these elections there was a brokering an agreement on the which they were due to take place they all said after the last that i wouldn't accept any more delays and right now leaders of the catholic and protestant churches the speaking here at the catholic churches administrative headquarters and they've said that they don't agree with this further delay and they doubting the electoral commission in syria no intentional determination to hold any election at all and they said that is very serious and very dangerous for the country and of course they mean the possibility of protests and violence but as long as the opposition have the carrot of an election being

dangled in front of them it's very difficult for them to call their supporters to the streets and they risk being accused of turning elect telling the election violence possible disqualification so as long as there's a possibility of an election that you know that might take place on their hands to some extent of ties to the postponements going on at some point we can expect that they will lose face that there's no intention for this election to happen until that moment we might see the protesters even if those process pressured the government earlier this year to agree to holding this election in the first place out of there is now some word speaking to us from kinshasa thanks malcolm boko haram fighters have killed fourteen soldiers and police officers in nigeria the security forces were ambushed just outside of don the triggering town in the northern your base state nigeria's military say efforts to eradicate the armed groups in the area are ongoing they've been fighting boko haram nearly a decade. riot police and have fired tear gas at demonstrators following the

funeral of a journalist. set himself on fire in protest at high unemployment and the failing economy he posted an online video complaining the promises of the arab spring uprising seven years ago remain unfulfilled and the ana haunt 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 and customer 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 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 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 two nescience who day say it was struggling to survive. a sentiment echoed in

sudeikis post. they don't have anything to eat to fill their stomachs people protest but the authorities call as terrorists they just tossed a shot up. the promise is that 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. now to syria to activists have been arrested in northern china while protesting outside the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer one trend china was detained in twenty fifteen he was known for taking one 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. save the whale conservationists are condemning japan's decision to resume commercial whaling next year the japanese government's pulling out of the international whaling commission

which banned commercial whaling thirty two years ago or so jabari reports. this is what japan says it will restart next july the commercial hunting and killing of whales in japanese territorial waters the chief cabinet secretary explained why. japan's basic policy of promoting sustainable use of aquatic living resources based on scientific evidence has not changed and under that policy we have decided to resume commercial whaling the government says the hunters will end their controversial annual expeditions to the southern ocean and antarctica provoking confrontation such as these with conservation groups greenpeace quickly reacted by urging the japanese government to reconsider its ban reversal. and the marine conservation group c. shepard which has fought many battles with japanese hunting fleets says japan's decision to abandon whaling around antarctica is

a victory though their campaign will continue elsewhere. among other reactions the australian government says it is extremely disappointed and they are not alone are leaving the international whaling commission the i.w.c. japan is walking away from the international body that isn't great international to be responsible for the management and conservation of. leaving that means that japan is walking away from international or rivera concerned that they're beginning a new era of pirate whaling commercial whaling was banned by the international whaling commission in one nine hundred eighty six because of the hunting of some species on the verge of extinction pro whaling nations expect that the ban to be temporary until an agreement could be reached on sustainable catch quotas instead it became a generally accepted permanent ban for the past thirty two years many japanese

argue that eating whale meat is part of their culture while two hundred thousand tonnes of whale meat a year was consumed in the one nine hundred sixty s. that dropped to about five thousand tonnes in recent years. japan is the leader of the pro whaling countries which include norway iceland greenland and the faroe islands. japan is leaving the eighty nine member international whaling commission but will continue to be bound by certain international laws the united nations convention on the law of the sea binds countries to cooperate on whale conservation . now with leaving the i.w.c. japan will continue to do what it's done for the past thirty years hunts for what it calls scientific research purposes and in seven months time resumed the commercial killing of whales to door search of al-jazeera. the crew of the german ship says they're still looking for a port after rescuing thirty three migrants in the mediterranean sea three days ago

they hope germany will act mainly and assist the crew which has been refused permission to dhaka by italy malta spain and the netherlands most of the migrants on board are from nigeria libya and the ivory coast. once regarded as pure science fiction human microchip implants are making a slow but steady arrival in the modern workplace and while some volunteers have already been fitted with the technology several businesses in the united kingdom and now looking at tivoli to provide them to willing employees but as an aid barker reports there are concerns the risks may outweigh the benefits the future is a wave of the way in case you missed it here it is again. this is a whole new level of security the keys will 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 so far as part of cedars why why acetic the points interest you and. emily. 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 number is rising assistive technology from sable people implant. banking security general use of contact as payments passport date will 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 so a lot of sun demographics will not convenience 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 that comes with inherent risks and dangers overdressed inventors a shouldn't just be ignored by an employer everyone needs to of 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 there. eventually become the new global society's embrace the mobile food they can use easy to track a daily basis by implementing microchips that may be few places left to truly escape technology leave barca loaded. i'm the star doha and these are the top stories doctors have started to strike in sudan and urging others to join them in protests against the president omar al bashir says protesters who are demanding his resignation are traitors riot police opened fire as march is headed to the presidential palace in khartoum on choose day 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 sources saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and on the stepper was damaged and three soldiers injured meanwhile the israeli military says its own ed defense systems intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria the head of the u.n. monitoring team in the yemeni port of her data as reported to be meeting both sides for the first time patrick come out already met through the representatives in the besieged port on monday both the group these and yemeni government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition agreed to diffuse five during talks in sweden earlier this month the who these are accusing coalition forces of violating that cease fire with both ground attacks and at least twenty eight airstrikes in towns near data in the last twenty four hours 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 lost his life after receiving medical treatment at a hospital in new mexico the guatemalan foreign ministry is calling for an

investigation. the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo this weekend has been delayed again in parts of the country the electoral commission says that the vote will be held in march and benny and that's moments after the final results will to be announced on january fifteenth and afghanistan's election commission says presidential elections scheduled there for april will be postponed for several months it says there are still technical glitches surrounding a biometric identification system the commission also warns that more stuff are needed to be trained to help verify voting nest's afghanistan held parliamentary elections in october with delays violence and accusations of voter to tampering those are the headlines they'll be more news here on out as they are on the inside story.

rebuilding syria seventy years of war has devastated much of the country donald trump says saudi arabia is ready to pay for reconstruction but who will get the money and how will it be spent this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm i'm with your broom serious seven year war has transformed ancient cities into ghost towns entire neighborhoods wiped from the map schools and hospitals reduced to rubble.