we leave the discount so that we can. look out of place on which are able to give us a good election that's why i can't go into a transition. government without. we ever do a good election. protests in the last couple of years have been met by violence from the place with light will. now that this coming presidential election is running into serious problems do you think we'll see protests on the streets once again. i think that we are not for the violence but i think we have. in our. give. power we can contest. against the depression.

the development the development of a discounter as alicia. de marco developed this country because we are the congolese are people which everybody know huge intelligence should divide the good election and development in our country thank you very much that was fred human rights activist saying things that can't be any kind of credible election as long as presidential as it could be an electoral commission remain in control of his release of a transitional government before any kind of serious election can take place back here in doha thank you very much for that markham way of reporting live from contrasts and president kabila isn't running in the election the ruling party candidate emmanuel. seen as its chosen successor well. dot com read about joseph legacy after eighteen years and power. now while americans remain divided over immigration in the u.s.

government partially shut down over border funding another guatemalan child has died while in u.s. custody eight year old philippe alonzo gomez lost his life on tuesday despite receiving medical treatment in a us hospital origin say the child showed signs of sickness and the cause of death is being investigated the day before that the body of another child was returned home to her native guatemala relatives and neighbors of seventy year old jacqueline cotton laid her to rest on tuesday. 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 on the road as if they were nothing is going to end it is that they should try to respect our rights because we travel or our comrades have travelled because there is no money here in

our region well after jacqueline come died the secretary of homeland security was brought before congress and asked how such things could possibly happen under her department's care one moment from that hearing was widely shared on social media take a look as you sit here today you do not know how many human beings have died while in the custody of the department that you lead and you in preparation for days hearing you didn't ascertain that number but you don't know it today i don't have an exact figure for you you have a rough idea sir and i can tell you we talk about people who have died in your custody you don't have the number i will get back to you with the number three while on christmas day the congressman from rhode island tweeted secretary nelson a second kid in d.h.h.s. custody died today on christmas did you figure out how many people have died on your watch yet it's. it would appear he hasn't received an answer to that but we

know two immigrant children philippe and jacqueline both died in u.s. custody this month customs and border protection says it's ordered medical checks on every child in its care but that brings up another question of numbers around fifteen thousand migrant children including teenagers who cross the border alone and young kids separated from their parents are being held in u.s. custody in more than one hundred shelters across seventeen states from new york to california the department of health and human services says the shelter has a ninety two percent fall joining us now is. he's a professor of law and director of the center on security of race and civil rights at rutgers university thank you so much for being with us on the news great so the u.s. government now says it's going to do a medical check on all children how many children do they have in their custody and surely they would and should have been doing this already know. well they don't know how many children they have and that's part of the problem as we saw from the

newsreel you showed the estimate is that at least ninety three thousand people have come in two thousand eight hundred as of september thirtieth that was reported by the government that have come seeking asylum from central america and the primary reason is the rampant gang violence and the lack of control by the government the government is unable to protect its citizens from the gang violence and the gang violence is actually a result of the one nine hundred ninety six law that the united states passed where it took thousands of gang members in the united states and deported them back to honduras el salvador guatemala where they created two major gangs the m s thirteen and the eighteenth street gang and these gangs have essentially destroyed those nations and resulted in this mass exodus of refugees do we know so we don't know the exact numbers but do we know about the conditions in

which these children are being held do the facilities that are they being held and do they have the ability to take care of that. well it depends on the fate of the child so that originally when they arrive they usually are put in these temporary detention centers and they're notorious for they call them the ice boxes where they're very very cold there's not enough blankets and many of these children get sick they get a cold they get the flu and as we saw tragically with the two recent deaths it leads to death so the conditions particularly these temporary detention centers are inhumane for adults much less for children and then some children are then moved at some point in time it's supposed to be less than seventy two hours by law and now there is pressure on the government to make it less than twenty four hours they're moved to the family residential centers which can be government controlled by isis or they could be state controlled or they could be nonprofit rattled and so it

really depends on the circumstances of those detention centers and you know what a lot of people are wondering today not just in the united states but all over the world is why these migrant parents make their children go through such atrocious journey put them in such great danger why do they do it. well the news reports make it very clear that what usually happens is the games will come and extort the family and if the family does not pay then they will kill their children that's one scenario the other scenario is they will forcibly recruit their children either as gang members or as sex slaves for the female children and again if they don't comply they will kill them and so like any human being any parent across the world that is an unlivable and on acceptable circumstance so fleeing and taking these extraordinary risks of going twenty five hundred miles if not more to the border of the united states to claim asylum is less dangerous than these gang members threats

on their lives and the way in which they're being treated in their own country and the other problem is that the police is now either incapable of protecting the people or they are also corrupt and working with the gangs the un special rapporteur on human rights a high pressure on human rights for migrants has said that the united states is in violation of international law with its treatment of child migrants how can they improve things and are they willing to improve things. are they willing to at least from the trumpet ministrations rhetoric the answer is no tramp wants to put up a wall truck wants to change the law such that people coming from central america are cannot by law request a sign a trump wants to deny any refugees that don't come from european countries and he's pretty much stated that explicitly during the muslim ban controversy is that

he does not want the united states to continue on the path of becoming a minority majority country where is your people of european origin will become less than fifty percent of the population and he sees immigration law as a way to stop that trend and he's targeting the most vulnerable which are refugees and then finally he's made it very clear that he doesn't believe that these people are actually in danger notwithstanding many reports from credible human rights organisations in the us that in fact those three countries under as a sovereign want to mahler are almost failed states now what will they do what can they do they have to put in more resources so that these children a soon as they arrive to the border seeking asylum they go immediately go to a safe residential center family residential center staying with their parents and then soon thereafter be released until that there are asylum clock claim can be processed because children do not belong in detention centers period and so perhaps

it may be necessary in the very beginning for a week two weeks maximum in a safe place but after that it should be released and then there is something can be processed sahar as a thank you so much for being on the news great thank you for your insights thank you as does dozens of immigrant teens in the united states as you heard have been an awfully detained as part of the trump administration's war on gangs if you get a chance washes found by a team at fault lines they travel to non island to meet some of the hidden victims of the crackdown in many cases unaccompanied minors have been targeted and detained without sufficient evidence. to tie them to gangs and when the news grade on al-jazeera if you're watching us on facebook and i have a pass we'll tell you about the grange who tried to kill capitalism and still ahead on the grades more false alarms leave indonesia's tsunami victims too scared to return to their devastated villages to stay with us.

hello again we're here across the vod particular over here towards the west we are watching one storm system pushing across the mediterranean and you can see the clouds right there pushing up towards turkey where seen combination of snow as well as heavy rain across the region and the accumulations are going to start building particular up here towards eastern and also central parts of turkey in the higher elevations down towards the south it's going to be the rain aleppo all the getting to about nine degrees as your high so the overnight hours we're talking the low single digits there for beirut sixty degrees as we go towards thursday friday we are looking at better conditions but look at that rain making its way across parts of iraq as well as into iran tehran a rainy day and a cool day for you here on friday of ninety degrees and rain pushing into kuwait city at about twenty two degrees there well here across much of the gulf not looking too bad it is going to be the clouds maybe in saudi arabia especially the northern part we are going to see

a few showers pushing through those are the same showers that are going to be making its way across the gulf and over here towards quaint down here towards parts of abu dhabi twenty five degrees and a mostly clear day for you and then very quickly across much of south africa we are going to seeing some clouds down along the coast but rain is going to be making its way up here towards durban with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees for you there. thanks love to make amends to suffering it's because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those tax payers never go away is a new one bone every single day a nineteen it is an urgent national in the sense it's economic that it be officially requested rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i am a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. my

main every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. the arab .

headline on al-jazeera and the top trending stories on al-jazeera dot com at number one the latest disaster to hit indonesia and that tsunami on saturday in which more than four hundred people have been killed. in the nation search and rescue teams have been plucking people from remote islands as they learn more about the scale of the damage from saturday's tsunami at least four hundred thirty people are now known to have died but many more osteo missing the volcano that cause a tsunami remains active raising fears of more waves to calm al-jazeera as rob mcbride reports some some bottle village on java's west coast.

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 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 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 and that krakatau 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. december twenty sixth marks fourteen years since the devastating two thousand and four tsunami that hit fourteen countries killing two hundred twenty six thousand people along the indian ocean coastlines indonesia was the hardest hit with more than one hundred twenty

thousand people killed in where entire communities were wiped out at al-jazeera dot com a timeline of the other major disasters that have affected the country in recent. activists and anti whaling countries including australia condemning japan's decision to resume commercial hunts next year the japanese government says it's pulling out of the international whaling commission which it says is dominated by conservationists but as dosage of reports japan will also end controversial whaling expeditions near antarctica. 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 law to be responsible for the management and conservation of. leaving that means that japan is walking away from international 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 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 probe 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 well it's no surprise that the hashtag whaling is being used by those against it in different parts of the world and australia as we know is a big international voice of this in fact as foreign minister puts out this statement saying that it's extremely disappointed with japan's decision now the japanese branch of greenpeace another brit critic also questions the timing of the announcement and it says it's clear that the government is trying to sneak in this announcement at the end of year away from the spotlight of international media but

the world sees this for what it is a new zealand's foreign minister winston peters there along that he was at least got to hear that japan will end whaling in the southern ocean is performed those hunts for what it describes as scientific research now a cartoon why did they shed online news is the japanese flights argue that the reasons for those hunts have always been for commercial reasons not science and this one is taken from an episode of the simpsons in which one of the less than admirable characters said you're going to need something another uses a japanese five appearing to japan not to talk it we're in life is to stop the killing so as always we want to hear from near let us know what you think on congressional waiting as well get in touch with us. in a very good documentary at. japan's controversial whaling program as a nation to continue the hunt tyson is conscious and international criticism have put japan's hunts under the spotlight in recent years this film looks at the controversy in depth. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour

and two ousted former egyptian president have appeared in the same courtroom with hosni mubarak called to testify in a retrial of mohammed morsi barack refused to answer most questions concerning a jailbreak that took place during the twenty seven uprising proceedings have not been adjourned until january twenty fourth warsi and other leaders of the muslim brotherhood were initially sentenced to death for escaping prison but that ruling was later overturned syrian air defenses near damascus have opened fire on what state media is calling enemy targets blaming israel for an air raid they told a military sources saying several missiles were downed before they hit their targets and arms depot was damaged and three soldiers injured russia condemned the strike saying it directly threatened to see the neck craft meanwhile the israeli military says its own air defense system intercepted and anti-aircraft missiles fired from syria in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to

intensify attacks on the radio talk it's in the south of the country seventy deca has been following developments from westerville slim. russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse western of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either has is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any sort of an hans sing weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand

of course that the there's a complexity between the two actors russia and israel following the downing of a russian reconnaissance aircraft in september by syrian anti-aircraft missiles that israel was accused of causing there is a de confliction line in place between israel and russia when it comes to syria it is not clear whether that was used but certainly it is clear that russia very unhappy about the latest airstrikes stephanie ticker in jerusalem there the presidential election due in afghanistan april is being postponed for three months the election commission is blaming the delay on technical problems with a biometric identification system for voters the bottom entry election in october was mobbed by killings delays and accusations of vote tampering. now to a music shutdown in uganda the singer turned politician bobby why is again being prevented from holding a concert sour as though he's actually one of on more popular stories that we've

been covering in the story goes that but we want has been prevented from holding the day off to christmas on a beach in uganda now police say he failed to meet certain requirements have a just days earlier ugandans parliament have decried the all bans on his events actually called unconstitutional. probably one apart from being an artist he became a member of parliament in twenty seven c. and he's known for his politically charged songs corning for change in a country where you are emissivity has been president for more than three decades and according to the singer the concert venue has been cordoned off and now he says looks like a war zone that's what he tweeted and in a facebook post he writes the situation is tense because they says they block the roads leading to the beach and announce that our show is off our fans had started gathering have been dispersed now with tick gas and water cannons our first stage

that we've been saying like this has been shared online and it shows how police have fired take asked and even sprayed a pink water which apparently sings of funds who'd come to the location where wine was meant to perform so meanwhile a video has also been circulating of insulin inducing a concert by another artist named big cool who occasion criticizes both the one and is also a vocal supporter of the ruling party in the germs of any brown and because rather to perform music that advances development of africa and wishes concert goes a good time. now ugandans online have reacted with dismay and finds one person says it's the government's giving bobby one a lot of attention imagine they ignored him and he held his concerts do you think he will overthrow the government and the president also tweeted a picture of the one standing in front of two police trucks as well and people saying that he's quite defined so as want to hear from you especially on this story

what are your thoughts i guess in such i'm sure it's a hash tag is aging news good sara thank you very much and we talked to bobby one just a few months ago here on al-jazeera he told us about his detention and alleged torture by ugandan security forces and what he hopes next for uganda you can watch his interview on talk to at dot com now the united nations is expecting at least another two million venezuelans to flee their country in the coming years neighboring produces two thousand people across the border every day that makes them the second biggest hole so venezuelan refugees after columbia but as mariana sanchez reports officials they're enforcing tougher measures for the new arrivals. when i buy nothing i mean it's going to buy you has been selling coffee on the streets of lima since she arrived from venice willing november the thirty two year old is qualified in food quality control but she's afraid she'll get in trouble for trying to work in an

industry she knows well she missed the october deadline to apply for a work permit by just a few weeks i'm afraid we came here to work legally and to be in the country legally i don't want to do anything against the law to do so so-called foreign police along with immigration officials are conducting inspections across the capital to ensure venus williams half the required permits to work out of the muzzle by the immigration chief. said the briefly detained some than a swell and for security reasons. getting in that list sadly some people have committed crimes and that makes us sad because it affects the way peruvians see them and it also makes peruvians afraid. of the immigration office and many are rushing to apply for work permits before yet another deadline december thirty first two says it won't issue any more after that there were drugs i haven't waited for

the last minute but it's been very difficult because i still don't have a certificate from interpol immigration authorities say they've increased the number of personnel and office hours to help these venezuelans get their paperwork done fast but they also say eighty five thousand business will have missed their appointments and twenty thousand have not picked up their approved permits. six hundred thirty five thousand in a swim and snow living according to official estimates. says she feels lucky that she crossed the border in time to work legally and. i pride in august they gave me to a point where you just know i don't know what will happen to those who get here after the situation in venezuela is a tragedy and officials say those who entered after. tobar can only apply for asylum now but i mean this kind of i assess this doesn't guarantee a job you could have i mean that it but that meant i applied for asylum they gave me a paper that allows me to work but no innes accepting it as valid. on average two thousand

in a swim into bed every day but again officials say they will not issue work permits after december but for now they will keep the border open to those fleeing the deepening economic and political crisis back home but in a sign just just begun. our joe's here shortly to talk about what's trending in sports looking at how the top league in italian football is breaking tradition over the festive period and how it's going down with the fan sites after a look at the world of.

january on. an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth. as brazil gets ready to swear in its controversial president we'll have live coverage from brazilian an award winning series showcasing hard hitting stories from the world's most populous region. as the united states prepares for a new congress we'll examine what this will mean for the country and the world. with maybe a trend is constantly changing the listening post continues to analyze how the news is covered. january on al-jazeera. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other nights the story providing

a glimpse into someone else's wild. on al-jazeera. plan. it's going to st joe's yeah and in england football fans are in for a festive treat and italian fans are catching on to yet they owe for the first time in italian league history football fans will be heading to say ends up and down the country for a full schedule of matches the day after christmas the pick of the games on wednesday sees third place into milan hosting second place napoli in the late game the move by setting could be seen as emulating the english premier league which takes advantage of people who are off work during the holiday period or lack seeing

with their families around the t.v. at home it's telling clubs will still get a winter break but it will be in january well joining us now is us based football writer and roma fan wayne gerard now wayne this is a new thing for italian football how much was this a commercial decision. hey guys thanks so much for having me it's entirely commercial decision this is an entertainment industry and that's completely displayed here throughout this the christmas holiday break so the north american market is obviously one that the european leagues are trying to corner compared to the premier league in the league what sort of impact is setting i have in the united states. definitely i think it's growing and where you see it most prevalent is with talian on claims which says you know areas where italian immigrants have moved since the jasper from you know one nine hundred twenty s. up until modern day areas like toronto new jersey new york out in california

sometimes in the midwest and chicago you'll see it as well so in those areas it's been growing especially with with with with no kids who have italian blood people who are getting into the casual fans who are starting to get into couch otani football. but for the average consumer the casual fan it also has been growing and i think that's the market they're really trying to hit and you see that definitely growing i mean teacher in a college professor and my students always ask you know business owners you see you know they usually pronounce the names or all of the teams went through as you seem to be when i say yeah i saw them as i live out there and all those there you know so the international exposure and particularly in north america i've seen it rise over the last decade or so so how does the league i said to add make itself more desirable to those outside of the outside of italy and outside the italian diaspora it's got to be all about the big names and how it looks on the screen because the closest that most fans north america will come to seeing at

a game in italy is on t.v. and if we have those running tracks removed if we have full stadiums that's that's such a great look for us having the quality in h.d. t.v. on the phone or on the computer but also one of those big names and winning internationally in the champions league and europa league there is going to be the main facets for how this league will grow how do you fans feel about watching football between.