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 it isn't great international to be responsible for the management and conservation of. leaving 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 fair 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 dorset al-jazeera the husband of a british woman jailed in iran says she's being denied medical treatment despite the discovery of lumps in her breasts. cliff was detained by iranian police in

twenty sixteen she was sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the government her family says she's innocent and was only running a journalism course a bosnian serb man demanding the truth about his son's death has been released without charge after being detained on tuesday the dragons of its alleges his twenty one year old son david was tortured and murdered in march drygoods averts led a demonstration in the main bosnian serb city hours after being released by police he was arrested over allegations he threatened the country's interior minister. once regarded as pure science fiction human microchip implants are slowly but steadily becoming part of the modern workplace several businesses in the united kingdom are now actively looking to provide them to willing employees but as the barker 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 will access cause difficult to steal and copy but the technology require as 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. 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 it's easy to lose your keys your wallet 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 not come as wary of inherent risks and dangers overdressed

inventors a shouldn't just be ignored by an employer i would need to of into consideration and their definition be pressuring any workers into every market biotech company 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. all the 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 from technology leave barca al-jazeera london. and sport australian cricket star catherine bancroft breaks the silence on a ball tampering stand all. morning and most ten's initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for

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hello again time for the sports is it peter. thank you very much liverpool have moved six points clear at the top of the english premier league after a four no win of a new car so the finding champions manchester city will beaten two one at leicester and slip down to third in the table goals by day and lovren mohamed salah kerry and fabien you mean little paul will start the new year in first place as they enter in a three decade wait for a league title winning at the halfway point in the season the team still have an unbeaten league record little history though nice to have. conceded seven goals to all really really good numbers good situation that's all clear but

one thousand games to go replay city replay are some replay talk and i replay all of them again and again and this in and maybe in different competitions so that's all it's very difficult a long way to go we all know that talking a move to second in the league after a five no winner bournemouth fourth straight victory two goals from adam has helped chelsea to a two one win over water and they are fourth city's reverse of leicester if their third defeats in their last four league games we make an incredible amount of points so in number situation we are fighting to be champion you've made the same point in the second leg of the season we are fighting two two in the premier league but there are two teams that reality that for example last season there were many chin they didn't well but they were fantastic so the reality then two or three teams better than us. and new manchester united manager early going to solve one his first home game since replacing joe as a marine knew the norwegian made more than two hundred appearances for the club as

a player you know i had beat her to school three one thanks to a go from the man a matter which in to me from god but it's two wins in two games now with united six in the table. is special walking out there here in the crowd again seeing him singing my song it just normally they started after i scored a goal or something but now they start to win the game a game began or as i walked out it's home bling really makes you really proud hopefully my family was proud and probably the ones my family back home in norway as well sitting watching on telly. events are still unbeaten in city are but they survived quite the scale on wednesday the italian league is playing matches over the festive period for the second year running of the league leaders were feeling to jolly about matters after fifty six minutes they found themselves two one down and turned mansour they paid more than one hundred million dollars for cristiana rinaldo before the season started and he was the men who scored twelve minutes to

go to ensure a draw. i had trick from scots and clear helped celtic stay top in the scottish premiership the glasgow team beat aberdeen four with three celtic are aiming for one eighth straight league title three points clear of city rivals rangers who drew one one with hibernian. dale steyn has become south africa's highest wicket taker in test match cricket on the first day of the first test against pakistan on wednesday steyn dismissed a facade of the man for he's a four hundred twenty second career wicket to overtake the record he held jointly with shaun pollock but it was one of the team's new abode is due on the fia who stood out the six wickets help bowl pakistan after just one hundred eighty one it was a real bonus day it's injury and as the host struggled to one hundred twenty seven for five by the close of play 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 as the lakers star man le bron james picked up a green injury and the richardson reports the l.a. lakers shirt has been a good fit for le bron james so far this season the team hasn't reached the players for five years since the promise switch from cleveland for the lakers have looked on course to break the run by the way i. look promise played in every game this season looks set for an unforced break and innocuous looking slick resulted in a growing injury in the third quarter and the thirty three year old who was forced to leave the action. you 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 what it did and so more than anything being. now been available to month to month say mates being available to michael just. some that's a more. personal than anything so. you know hopefully you hope it's not it's not

a long thing about on the force and sometimes. he's absent seats on defending champions golden state briefly flickered in some life recall to. carry made consecutive three pointers to get the warriors within a point of the like his that was the key for rajon rondo to emerge from the bench and school fifteen points and ten assists was shown to run the run to get it finished with one twenty seven to one i want is the lakers and an eleven game losing run in the warriors hunt cool. 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 at 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 plan that is below twenty three and my kids now face

a nervous white as the extensiveness wrongs injury is assessed on the richardson al-jazeera first and that's all the support we have if the now stay tuned for more later. peter thank you and thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment with much more of the day's news all the day's top stories coming our way just a moment right here on al-jazeera see you in a minute. cut

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and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. today they're not so dominant anymore. he was president praises his troops for the fight against the ice so on a surprise visit to iraq. you're

watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also heads criticize israel's military actions in syria the israelis say they have no plans to stop. face to face to former egyptian president is both ousted from power meet in the courtroom. and the graceful giants of the ocean winds to resume its commercial hunting and killing off the. helo donald trump has made an unannounced trip to iraq after facing growing criticism for not visiting american troops in combat zones they were us president and his wife melania landed at an air base west of baghdad late on wednesday where they thank the troops for their service president also defended his decision to withdraw u.s. soldiers from syria while insisting he has no similar plans to pull troops out of iraq. our presence in syria was not open ended and was never

intended to be permanent. eight years ago. we went there for three months and we never left but now we're doing it right. and we're going to finish it off one year ago i gave our generals six more months and serious ago i get it. and it turns out it was really a year and a half ago i said go get them we need six months. and they said give us another six months i said go get them. then they said go can we have one more like period of six months i said no. now. i said i gave you a lot of six months and now we're doing it a different way. has more from washington d.c. president trump received a warm welcome at the air base about one hundred sixty kilometers outside of

baghdad he spoke with the commanders there gave a speech to troops posed for selfies with some of the soldiers and other service members there and a sign some autographs including one of the famous make america great campaign caps that he autographed the president said that he was there to thank the troops for their sacrifices on behalf of the american people he also somewhat boastingly took credit for the defeat and decimation of i still in iraq on his watch he also defended the decision he made recently which could cause a great deal of criticism here in the united states and abroad that is to withdraw all u.s. forces from syria president defended that saying that this had gone on

long enough the u.s. presence there and that he believed that many people would come around to his point of view on the matter this is likely to quell some of the criticism that president trump has endured from people who said who noted that he has not visited any troops in dangerous or combat or conflict areas during his twenty three months as president in sharp contrast to his two predecessors cers presidents obama and bush trump also said that he will not consider at this time the withdrawal of the remaining u.s. forces in iraq in iraq well donald trump didn't meet anyone from the iraqi leadership and some of the opposition say the visit violated iraqi sovereignty iran khan has more from baghdad's. the iraqi prime minister and the u.s. president donald trump were supposed to meet that didn't happen the iraqis on

behalf of the iraqi prime minister of the they have said that the parameters of the meeting could not be agreed now that is going to be of concern particularly to the iraqis because they see the u.s. as an ally but they see them as an ally within the context of the whole region however the u.s. president did come to iraq did meet with the troops and asset air base in the west of baghdad we didn't meet with any official iraqi. personality or even political official now the reason for that is because they couldn't agree on the parameters what does that mean well i've been speaking to people throughout the day before the u.s. president's visit was announced and there is some confusion over what is going on with the u.s. is policy they're very concerned in iraq about syria about the two thousand troops

being pulled out of syria eisel here have been defeated have been defeated for yet by get this much more safer than it has been a very long time the iraqis very confident they can deal with eisel within their own borders will any concerns them syria and that's where they are less confident that the syrians the iranians arsons and indeed the americans can deal with the threat i saw well before trump left for iraq he spoke to a brigadier general at the u.s. airbase in qatar he asked about the state of relations between delphi and its neighbors saudi arabia and the u.a.e. what's our blockade in qatar a long way behind and egypt's. so how are they doing it cutter how are they doing getting together with saudi arabia and u.a.e. and what's what's the latest word you probably know better than anybody but maybe i should be ask you do that question how are they doing getting together you see anything any signs of hope well sir i would say that from within cutter as

a host they're fantastic they take good care of us the burden share with us they're helping us to improve our infrastructure and really make this kind of a crown jewel of a base. you know we don't track in a certainly the political followings of the saudi arabian u.a.e. with regards to carter but i will tell you they're fantastic hosts they're great to us and it's a it's a fascinating place to work in operate from well russia says airstrikes by israel in syria endanger a two passenger planes moscow says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the sixteen israeli missiles syrian state media reports several missiles were shot down near damascus before they could hit their targets and israeli security officials and from the air strikes the associated press saying they hit iranian storage on the distinct targets being used to transfer weapons to a husband. it will be hard emotionally we're not prepared to accept the iranian military entrenched but in syria which is directed against us we will act against

it vigorously and continuously including during the contrary i've said that we deterred from doing what is necessary therefore we are called upon and we act president trump decision to withdraw the american soldiers from syria would not change our policy no standing steadfast in our red violence in syria and everywhere else stephanie decker has been following developments from western. russia is 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 west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either has bala is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any sort of in hans seeing 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 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 well the u.n. says representatives of yemen's warring factions have achieved a breakthrough at a meeting in the key port city of her dado where. tar dutch general patrick cameron has been hosting talks between the saudi and iraq he backed government and with the rebels inside the city for the first time

a cease fire is in place there but the who fees are accusing coalition forces of violating the truce with ground attacks and twenty eight air strikes in the past twenty four hours coalition commanders haven't responded to those allegations the long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been postponed in three areas the electoral commission says the delays because of conflict and an ebola outbreak but it covers three known opposition strongholds and not sparked calls for anti-government protests as malcolm webb reports from kinshasa. the democratic republic of congo's election is ready yet as a video. and the electoral commission has announced the second postponement in a week in three areas. the elections the beni be initially planned for december thirtieth or no program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific calendar. the electoral commission said the three areas would have

delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can think excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a polar outbreak all three areas a key opposition strongholds. this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benny in the last four years it's not clear who is behind them the government blames a rebel group called the a.t.f. . or outbreak started in august and spread to the area around benny more than three hundred people have died. campaign rallies were allowed to take place there. and its opposition candidate martin flailing through the biggest crowds i think this is the people that need change in this country most because they. was more was

a war of choice it is a must feeling seized the kid. they are both consulate in this country there was want to chance. there are about one point two million voters in the regions that will be excluded many of them support fire leave. congress catholic church which has played a key role in campaigning for democracy also question the decision so this is the one. with think this is a dangerous decision and also we don't see a clear motivation for it why did they not decide this during the campaign when people were more exposed why only now i think there is a hidden agenda behind it. the election's been repeatedly postponed opposition they millions of followers now question its credibility to even if it happens its result may not be accepted malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa and a democrat.