forswear he said that the air forces capabilities actions over the year have prevented the establishment of iranian capabilities inside syria and that their job is not over so the message is this it is not new sami is that israel maintains that it will do whatever it takes inside syria to stop weapons deliveries weapons and hans capabilities of going to has been a lot so you have the the complication now of course following the incident in september which sure russian airliner shot down by syrian anti aircraft israel was accused of causing the sequence of events that led to that so this is why the situation is fragile we had a russian delegation here last week talking syria there is a de confliction line between russia and israel it doesn't sound like it was used this time of course this is speculation but it certainly seems that the russians are not happy about it at all. is there a feeling. that this is perhaps a taste of more to come as there's

a scramble to try and fill the vacuum left by and the withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria. absolutely i mean there's a lot of rumors sat me about how things are going to evolve particular when it comes to israel dealing with the iranian threat inside syria whether it has whether it's iranian militias on the ground i mean the withdrawal of the united states off the record israel will tell you that it is obviously not in its interests it's not happy about it it puts into question how much of an ally donald trump really is on the other hand israel says that it's going to continue what it's been doing throughout the course of this war and it really has been doing this is targeting weapons shipments and weapons warehouses but of course it has anything in syria it is a complicated ground where you have different actors sponsored by state so course is going to be a vacuum there is

a concern that iran will expand its presence particularly reaching the shores of lebanon which is the issue of weapons track record and shipments to have my life we're going to have to wait and see israel's been undertaking an operation against hezbollah tunnels on its northern border the prime minister is now trying to get that to be pushed back but i think yes we're going to have to wait and see if there's any official reaction to the russian accusations but it shows you how fragile syria maintains at this point in time really it's gotten less about a civil war which morphed out of that years ago but more into now a proxy war between all these foreign actors all right thanks for that stuff and. the u.n. official charged with monitoring the cease fire in the yemeni city of her day there is reported to be meeting both sides together for the first time time dutch general patrick come out of a arrived in holdout on monday who three rebels and yemeni government forces backed by the saudi moratti coalition agreed to this use fine during talks in sweden

earlier this month these are accusing coalition forces of violating the truce with both ground attacks and at least twenty eight strikes in the last twenty four hours coalition commanders have yet to respond to the allegations. two former presidents of egypt who are both deposed have appeared in the same court hosni mubarak was regarded by many as a dictator he testified in the retrial of egypt's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsi but barak refused to answer most questions about the jail break during the uprising seven years ago which ended his three decades in power morsi was sentenced to death for escaping prison along with other leaders of the muslim brotherhood but that verdict has since been revoked after mubarak testified the judge has spoken the trial until january the twenty fourth. still ahead on al-jazeera another watson modern child dies in u.s. custody as family members bid farewell to

a little girl who died earlier this month. plus japan changes course bad on commercial whaling is reversed sparking concern from conservationists. hello again it's good to have you back here across china we are going to be seeing the relatively calm conditions that we've had over the last few days start to bring in more moisture and some more snow here particularly across the central portions of china so here on thursday really not looking too bad tempers all getting into the high single digits for you but as we go towards friday well there is the rain there is the snow across much of the area down here towards the south along the coast where hong kong a little bit cooler than what we've seen the temps are there of about twenty one degrees here across india particular up here towards the north the temperatures in the overnight hours have been really dipping down we are looking at some clear

conditions there but we are looking at some freezing conditions in the overnight hours for new delhi though we are going to be seeing about ninety degrees very hazy in the mornings particular with the fog there and as we go towards friday it is only going to get up to about seventeen degrees there down towards the south colombo finally clearing out for a lot of those showers a high temperature view on friday of about twenty nine degrees and then here across the gulf war we are going to see some showers particular up here towards north notice those clouds right there on thursday those are going to start to make their way towards east coate you can be seeing some rain in the forecast clouds here in doha at twenty five in abu dhabi clouds few as well with a temperature of about twenty five degrees. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the movement that we have been waiting

for this is a dialogue the government has cool face and legal protest all struck to police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice vote lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation on how does iraq. you're watching i'll just here a time to recap the headlines now along the way to presidential elections in the democratic republic of congo been postponed in some parts of the country voting in three areas won't take place until march according to the electoral commission the opposition has said it will not accept further delays. doctors have started

a strike in sudan i'll call this to join them in protests against the president a matter of bashir of says protesters were demanding his resignation traitors police who thought i was headed to the presidential palace in khartoum on truth like. rusher is accusing israel of gross violation of sovereignty last post says it put two civilian planes in danger while attacking positions in syria defenses near damascus opened fire on what syrian state media is calling enemy targets overnight the israeli military says it intercepted an anti aircraft missile coming from syria . at least four hundred thirty people are dead and one hundred fifty nine are still missing as torrential rain continues to head in the uneasy as coast after saturday's tsunami rescue teams say they're having difficulty reaching the hardest hit areas due to fall and trees and destroyed homes and as rob mcbride reports from

someone a village and that crocodile 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 an army 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 wet it's all broken there's nothing left. he has no choice but to move back into his house on this exposed coast not be able to head up this is my home i have no other pleas 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 and that 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 robert pride al-jazeera north west java indonesia. u.s. border protection has ordered medical checks on every child in its custody after another guatemalan child died 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 death is being investigated the guatemalan foreign ministry is calling for an investigation he's the second migrant child to die in their care and least weeks she habitat sees in washington d.c. following the story from what we can piece together from both u.s. and guatemalan authorities this boy crossed into the u.s. with his father on tuesday of last week he was taken into custody his symptoms were noticed on monday of this week he was taken to hospital and yet discharged even though he had a very high temperature one hundred three degrees fahrenheit thirty nine point four degrees centigrade nonetheless he was discharged with ibuprofen and antibiotics taken to a holding cell where his condition worsened he was then returned to hospital where he died

a few hours later so many questions are raised by this latest child death in c.b.p. custody why it was a child released into a holding facility these are notorious for being cold for not having the facilities to handle adults let alone sick children also why was the child and his father in custody for so long they should have been only in custody for about seventy two hours according to guidelines we now have the assurance from the c.b.p. that children will be tested for any medical problems when they when they are admitted up to this point they don't get mandatory testing although that's still to be seen whether they will have the facilities to do that congress has asked for a view the white house well one spokesperson who is rich simply said it was all quote very sad. now fourteen members of nigeria's security forces have been killed in an ambush by boko haram fighters they were attacked just outside of them or to town in 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 for nearly a decade i source says it was behind tuesday's car bomb attack on a market in northern iraq the explosion in to laugh and killed two people injured eleven others it's the first attack since iraqi forces recaptured the city from ice or in august last year the husband of a british woman jailed in iran says she's being denied medical treatment despite having discovered lumps in her breast as a means of ari radcliffe was detained by iranian police in two thousand and sixteen she was sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the government the family says she's innocent she was running a journalism course in the country the british foreign ministry has been calling for her release and as a means husband says the british government is pushing for the release despite many setbacks. that name probably about two weeks ago now found against lumps in the breast and she had some lumps in her breasts about

a year ago i was taken out for treatment a year back this time she went down to prison dr he said yes you need an urgent referral and then she's not been able to have it so we've been battling with your brain of the heart is flat to happen i know she was pushing again this week that as far as i know she's still stuck in prison are able to get out seventeen's today is her birthday her fortieth birthday that's been looming as a landmark for a very long time in that you know this is someone that in three years in prison and she's innocent on day one she said innocent and they know the hundred ninety eight which is what today is so she's been very low a number of times only when she was out for three days that was was lovely early in the summer and then was dragged back in and collapsed with terrible. and she is now yes she's today's it isn't her fault spoke to yesterday christmas and yet the fact that she was stuck in prison and we were who various nice to speak to happen. we have these are these are this is a tough tough week this week the british government has stepped up more and more

they can do she's still in prison still on fire and one of the jobs that i need to do is to push the government to make good on the threats and procedures regular listeners she's not released by christmas there will be consequences for iran. save the while conservationists are condemning japan's decision to allow commercial whaling to restart next year the japanese government is pulling out of the international whaling commission which banned commercial hunting for thirty two years also 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. shepherd 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 green international to be responsible for the management and conservation of. lead paint that means that japan is walking away from its national no rivera concerned that they're beginning and you 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 expected 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 dorsetshire pari al-jazeera to our diverse have been arrested in northern china while protesting outside the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer one trans i 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 high security around the courthouse and the trial is being closed to the public. place in the serb brand of bosnian serb part of bosnia have arrested several opposition leaders after detaining a father seeking answers about his son's death scuffle started in by new luka as

police dispersed a vigil for david very good chere which his father says he was murdered the mysterious death of a twenty one year old's months of anti-government rallies complaining about corruption in the diary column e on three guard it is pure science fiction human microchip implants are making a slow but steady arrival in the modern workplace while some volunteers have already been fitted with the technology several businesses in the u.k. are now actively looking to provide them to willing employees but as they walk or 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 though 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 so far as part of a seizure is why when acetic the points of interest you and their. families are. just to make a small incision just now and then finally arrive a large need to add hater 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 implant.