public security in rio de janeiro's new an extraordinary measure took ten months of work and the reached all its objectives by reducing the crime rate. the palestinian authority has suspended all fruit and vegetable imports from israel in response to an israeli ban on similar imports from the occupied west bank the move comes to spite israeli warnings the palestinian economy won't be able to withstand the measure and stuff about the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative under former palestinian information minister he says the decision is too little too late. to you just soon as we can the former president of madagascar andrea raja lina is back in the top job after winning the presidential election with more than fifty five percent of the boat owner was up against another former president marc ravalomanana who's already denounce what he called massive fraud he wants an investigation into the vote on december the nineteenth the constitutional court has nine days to declare

a final result. the first direct flight from syria's capital to tunis here in eighty years has landed in the country's northern coast the flight from damascus was carrying about one hundred fifty syrian tourists greeted by china's ians waving syrian flags at the airport the former president marzouki cut diplomatic relations with the syrian government following the outbreak of the civil war during protests in taiwan demanding tax reforms. demonstrators rallied outside the ministry of finance calling for lower tax and fair handling of disputes many say they've received tax bill sent in error or demands for too much money activists say tax collectors often hunt people for payments even after they've lost in court. a bomb explosion in the greek capital has injured two people including a police officer the blast occurred outside of church in athens just before morning

service a caretaker was also hurt so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. doctors in greece have issued a dire warning about the chaos in some public hospitals they say surgical supplies are running out and operations are being disposed and the health system is also dealing with serious staff shortages john psaropoulos reports now from patra. it takes several pieces of equipment to install an intravenous line in a patient needles taps catheters and rubber gloves must be sterile and discarded after use these are the cheapest of materials for one of the simplest of procedures there are no apparent shortages here at the outpatient clinics of st and brass hospital in particular but staff say appearances are misleading i mean. we had a budget of sixty to sixty five million euro for the crisis today out what it is fifteen to eighteen million this creates enormous problems. the hospital is also

short staffed this doctor says there are just two nurses for the outpatient clinics serving the city of two hundred thousand. and most days this room is full of stretchers with a queue of more outside shouting and pushing to get in and they come from towns all over the region it can be a stick we can barely walk in here shortages have shut down clinics in smaller regional hospitals so the same town that is also takes in patients from the broader region of more than a million people. of twelve hundred before the crisis of two thousand and eight it is now down to thirteen hundred and fifty and at least fifty doctors are urgently needed these trends and personnel and materials reflect the broader cuts in government health and just the past three years it has fallen from seven billion dollars to four point two billion that means greece is spending less than ten percent of its budget on health care the european union averages over fifteen

percent it's driven many who can afford it into private health care. where only here for financial reasons. of course national health doctors are more experienced than private sector doctors but in the moment you arrive here you're tied up for hours patients get wary there are lots of people in line here the dedication of the doctors and nurses who remain in the public sector has been rewarded with a forty percent pay cuts during the crisis and no government has tightened health spending more than that controlled by the city's a party which has made a point of producing even higher surpluses than creditors demand with which to repay the country's debt next year's budget contains a further reduction in salaries for hospital staff a move which will anger many jobs are open loss al-jazeera. an american insurance athlete has become the first person to traverse antarctica alone braving raging winds polar temperatures and heavy snow for cullen a brady made a final thirty two hour push covering one hundred twenty nine kilometers to

complete the track the thirty three year old from portland in the us hold one hundred seventy kilograms of a distance of fifteen hundred kilometers for nearly two months achieving a feat previously deemed impossible. he had.

me at. thank you very much will and some are on will plight soon league games behind

closed doors as a punishment for some of their fans racially abusing a rival player now please cholodenko bali was targeted by him to supporters during wednesday sorry a match. for not fully manager call on show off he says he made three appeals for the game it in says san siro stadiums and starts but a referee ignored his requests in french when several defender was eventually sent so from the game that napoli lost the mayor of milan giuseppe salah has apologised to kowtow bali calling the abuse a shameful act against their respective athletes stand out a lot of it are good informants i went to the referee to ask for a move from asian about what happened and i think that the collaborator red card was due to a very particular state of mind he was in he had been insulted during the whole match we asked the federation to do something about it but they just made some announcements and the match was not suspended like we had the man did i think it would have been the right thing to do. number five those kind of chance should not

be done you have sixty five thousand people at this date at christmas this is what people like fans all over the world like this is entertainment it is a show and it should be a beautiful experience for everybody who comes here. well a town in football has struggled to combat racism last year got named player slim and sorry was sent south after confronting fans who abused him german game for scar he was booked for dissent after asking the referee to stop the syria match against calorie and was red carded when he protested against the decision its high and strike at mary about sally has been a repeated saga earlier this year fans of the national scene unfurled a banner saying my captain has its howling in blood when it was suggested ballots helli may be given the chance to camps in italy and sing years ago he was also abused by a lot c.-o. fans not place supporters show their solidarity with killer bali than by wearing masks the pits in that offend at his next home game well earlier we spoke to

provoke a manco of the antidiscrimination body football against racism in europe he says this latest incident is a big test for those in charge of the italian game they have to get back from their holidays were really are and day the issue seriously we have seen clearly do coulibaly been racially abused at least three times in the past year only this month in december. the whole not bullied team head of cleaner in december eighth raises the abuse continues as it has been taking place in previous games against at the world they will walk off the beach and work really didn't happen in the game is there but the next game we see is seen it happens again so there has to be clear understanding these issues have to be taken seriously legally have been abused this year where you voted. earlier by law to work the phones in january this year this is happening to coulibaly. many times

this year and this has to be taken seriously this is a test for italian iffy for the new leadership of the tell in a free they have to get this right when we look at the politics in a doing it right now this scaremongering of refugees and migrants when we look at the rise of the far right parties in italy and across europe when you look at the interior minister salvini introducing regulations against migrants and the growth is in the country this has an impact also on the stadiums so i think we will see with the start of political back row we will see more of these incidents and in the next in the coming year are some manage in i am or he says english premier league leaders liverpool are in their best form of the season there are four moved six points clear at the top of the table with a foreigner when i have a new castle on wednesday they are the only unbeaten same left in the league they play arsenal at anfield on saturday i look in then these protests

the last year and they are maybe in the best moment now but for ashes also will be a big challenge and i am not sure good test two more hole we are. well this is how the supper table looks at the hot white point in the season defending champions manchester city are in third place now after losing three of their last for only games city next take on southampton sutton though well they're up into second after five consecutive league wins we are there because we have the belief because we are working so hard and of course because the quality if you know this if you go into the position that we have today but. we are with your mark. we see we are going to be able. to be consistent in difficult for this season and then. we can do that. we can for those who think it's

the end of season break is over for the world's best tennis players as they build up to the first grand slam of twenty nine scene at the australian open starts on january the fourteenth defending men's champion roger federer leisurely landed in australia and is on the promotional trail ahead of the hopman cup same events federer aiming for a third straight title in melbourne and while the more of a joke which weighs in action in abu dhabi he returns to the top of the rankings with title wins at wimbledon and the u.s. open i'm hoping i can. transfer the success that i've had in the last six months of the thousand agencies and into the beginning of two thousand and nineteen season obviously. i've had. a lot of success in the world tennis championships before in my career i've played here several times and it's a great way to jump jump start the season. and serena williams made

a losing return so action in her first competitive match instead of feets in september's u.s. open final against a soccer. she was beaten in three sets by her sister venus in abu dabi. serena has the chance to equal multiple stoics twenty four grand slam singles titles at next month's australian i'm. ok but as always sport for now more later. that's it for this news hour i'm back on the other side of the break with more of the day's top stories hopefully see you then about.

january on out is there. 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 brasilia an award winning series showcasing hard hitting stories from the world's most populous regions. 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 tram's constantly changing the listening post continues to analyze how the news is covered. january on al-jazeera. after joining the greenpeace dean campaign to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome with the first generation to realize the

gravity of this crisis but we may be the last to be able to do something about it in another thread special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has succeeded thrice on al-jazeera. because we're not. sure. rights being violated. and food stripped away. in the sand here anniversary of. the whites that stand out. for human rights. so the arabia's foreign minister is demoted as the kingdom grapples with the international fallout of the murder of jamal.

hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up iraqi politicians denounced the u.s. president's unannounced visit calling it a violation of national sovereignty. more violence in the democratic republic of congo with just days to go for the much delayed election plus. hundreds of asylum seekers are dumped on christmas day in a parking lot in texas not knowing what's in store for them next. saudi arabia has a new foreign minister with the former diplomat adel gibby a stripped of his post in a major cabinet reshuffle ordered by king saul man the shake up comes as the

international backlash continues over the murder of the saudi journalist by agents of the kingdom is charlotte palace. a delonte beer a former advisor to the late king abdullah a former ambassador to the united states and now former foreign minister he was only the second savi to be appointed foreign minister outside the royal family. has been demoted to. mr of state for foreign affairs it comes after nearly three months of questions and denials about the killing of journalist. in the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia has faced international backlash including from the u.s. congress who said crown prince mohammed bin son man was responsible for murder during a regional summit earlier this month g b a denied the crown prince's involvement and see this with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish

citizens to be a was appointed foreign minister by king solomon and twenty fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen if strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling hooty fighters backed by iran and stage the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis he's also overseen turmoil within the g.c.c. including a saudi lead in land and sea blockade of customer for the past eighteen months or moves that have stalled controversy around the kingdom something his successor last if no one here it's by having brought him last of who was an old to school he's a veteran he served as a minister of finance for twenty years from one nine hundred ninety six and two thousand and sixteen so now he's having come as a foreign minister in order to give that the message that now we are back to the farm policy alas cerf is the former finance minister he was one of many wealthy and

powerful saudis arrested and imprisoned and riyadh to ritz carlton hotel last year the crown prince championed to the arrests as a necessary crackdown on corruption. the yemen war and the g.c.c. blockades three of the main ongoing diplomatic crises facing the kingdom and its new foreign minister ibrahim al asiri chalo fellas al-jazeera. well rami korea's journalism professor at the american university of beirut and a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school the reshuffle is merely an image make over. it's really hard to tell right now like so many things in the decisionmaking or so the radius like the soviet union in the one nine hundred sixty s. you really don't know what's going on until a few weeks or months down the road when a decision is made the saudis themselves various saudis close to the fourth family are saying that this is not really a demotion but to fire him would have been

a real demotion but this is a sharing of responsibility they needed a more experienced fellow at the top brought in a very myself who was served for decades well in saudi arabia it atmosphere didn't do very well in talking about the sugar murder but nobody in saudi arabia did very well they were all saying things that turned out to be not true so it's not as if i despair carried the load he didn't he was just a loyal servant as he has been for the last thirty years or so and i think this is more a process of the changes being made to show the world that changes are being made probably without any real change in policy but we'll have to wait and see. politicians in iraq are demanding that u.s. forces leave the country following president donald trump's unannounced trip accusing him of violating iraqi sovereignty mr trump didn't meet any of the country's leadership on his three hour trip but he did telephone the prime minister

abdul mahdi and invited him to the white house imran khan has more now from baghdad . the u.s. president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit lost in just three hours on wednesday night to al asad airbase one hundred thirty kilometers west of baghdad provoked a strong reaction from some iraqi politicians and how did it. i think it is shameful for the iraqi prime minister to accept the u.s. president's invitation to go to the u.s. after his mockery of iraqi politicians and the iraqi government he entered iraq surreptitiously without any coordination and no respect for iraq's sovereignty i spent three hours celebration with soldiers as if you to achieve the great victory in fact this visit is considered to feel rather than a victory. there are five thousand two hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq a lot less than the invasion sent to remove saddam hussein in two thousand and three more recently reinforcements were sent to help iraqi government forces defeat

eisel fighters who seized large areas of territory iraqi commanders declared a victory over a year ago but pockets of fight still remain despite his long flight from washington trump didn't meet iraq's prime minister their schedule talks are canceled because of disagreements about the agenda by announcing u.s. troops will remain trump has gone against the iraqi constitution which requires parliamentary approval for foreign military bases some analysts say trump has weakened support here for the u.s. presence in iraq putting the prime minister in a tough position. so this visit gave great confidence to the political parties armed factions and all those who resist the u.s. presence in iraq to ask the parliament to. with the decision demanding the withdrawal of u.s. troops from the country visit weaken the political parties that support the u.s. presence in iraq. there's also confusion about what the u.s. policy in the region is often trump ordered the withdrawal of u.s.

forces from syria some fear the pentagon may well build up forces in iraq as a contingency for any future action in syria or a potential war with iran iraqi politicians from all sides are now calling for a vote that ends the u.s. presence in iraq the largest block on the souther is now the nationalists the us president donald trump's visit to iraq may well have given them enough i mean nation to be able to win a vote that ends all u.s. involvement in the country al-jazeera baghdad police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas on opposition protesters just days before presidential and parliamentary elections there's anger after voting in some pro opposition areas was perspire and country goes to the polls on sunday the main opposition candidate has appealed for calm. we have. come to. france. and.

we should have. patience. and. we have this. country. as i said please please we know. well the outgoing president of the d r c has rejected opposition claims that the electoral vote against favoring the ruling party al-jazeera is malcolm webb spoke to joseph kabila ahead of sunday's election . talking of protests and the like i don't want to go into what happened. in the past and the electoral process is always a sensitive issue and i was just stating that even if it will game between two

you have tensions that arise so during an electoral process you have tensions the most important thing is to have the necessary police force that's where equipped in order to give that a try and given point in time we did not have that capacity but we've been building that capacity and they led to. the campaign itself took place with minor incidents i could have wanted to have taken place without any incidents but this is politics. now and two hundred people seeking asylum in the u.s. when some of christmas in a car park a parking lot in texas after being sent by immigration and customs enforcement officials in el paso city the group including women and children with hundreds about those sent to different locations including bus shelters april and is on there has more now from el paso texas. the city of el paso has more than six

hundred fifty thousand people it's the biggest city in the u.s. that's along the border with mexico they're used to seeing migrants come in flow through this city over the years but what we saw in the last couple days was unprecedented families children told parents mothers fathers they were got to the city and then were in custody by customs immigration officials but they just left out on the streets to fend for themselves after they were released from detention in the middle of the night this is really unheard of something we haven't seen here before and it was left to the volunteers and immigration rights activists to come to try to support them as best as they could now why were they left out on the streets like this and nobody really knows but advocates fear that federal immigration and customs officials are increasingly dumping migrants and

asylum seekers out on the streets to relieve overcrowding in detention facilities particularly after two guatemalan children eight year old boy and a seven year old girl died this month while in custody of the border patrol. still to come here on al-jazeera a desperate search for miners trapped for almost two weeks in the multistate india plus. italian football authorities crack down on racism. through a tranquil a rave you can you. find in a can three movies and if any should go into the. hello again welcome back to your national weather forecast well we are seeing some showers over here are down towards the south and also into the. here probably across parts of vietnam over the

next few days it's going to be mostly coastal showers for you there you hanoi is going to be seeing some showers as well up towards the north though it is going to be some snow in some higher elevations over the next few days and the rain in particular here towards the west is going to be on the increase for hong kong though it is going to be a cooler day for you than what we've seen over the last couple days with attempted there of about sixteen degrees well for the philippines we are watching the troubles system make way across parts of the philippines over the next few days now it is going to increase in intensity slowly not become very powerful but we do expect to see some very heavy rain come out of the storm and because of that we could be looking at some localized flooding from friday as well as into saturday as it makes its way into the south china sea so we'll be watching that very carefully down here towards the south we are looking at some more showers across parts of indonesia which is going to impact the recovery in the relief efforts across an area well for india not looking too bad not even any rain across the forecast map

over the next few days dry up here towards the north in delhi we do expect to see attempt a few of eighteen degrees the pollution has been a problem there but down here towards tonight a temperature of twenty nine.