as well as security problems. but part of this here with that they say they must exercise their rights with the rest of the country so some burned sections of an ebola transit center where those suspected of having the disease are held. on a bendy demba we are tired of voters and brainy and what tempo gave this government the last election they've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything until now we can't keep quiet any will. most of us assume that the but i was the government not concerned about the situation in beni we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the crazy benny and with the hammer in the east in the western town of you may be a stronghold of one of the country's main presidential candidates. and have about one point two million voters he's quite sad in

a country where the winner takes it all on the fast round every vote counts and is calling for a nationwide general strike. friday. and . the same. three hours to go before and then on sunday. the nation. everywhere. we have seen. the. culture and as i said please please we all believe. as all this was happening the government gave the european union's ambassador to the forty eight hours to leave the country mainly because of sanctions the e.u. recently renewed on fourteen individuals including a man of the ruling party's presidential candidate and president joseph kabila choice for the top job of the interior minister between december twenty sixth in

march twenty seventh and scores of people mostly by security forces during street protests since. conceivably are these sanctions violate international law undermine the fundamental rights of those concerned and have been condemned by regional authorities for the sake of our historical partnership i've pleaded with the e.u. to lift the sanctions at the very least suspend them until after the general election some say the electoral commission and the government are working together to reach the election in favor. they say they will not accept an outcome where he's declared winner it's hard to tell if this calls for a general strike will bring any change the country's main opposition leaders seem divided with some saying they will go to the election regardless of the announcement by the electoral commission what is clear is that many people we've talked to believe that this election is already tainted catherine soy al jazeera.

correspondent malcolm webb joins us now live from kinshasa so michael what's the response been to that call for a general strike. in the eastern city of beni one started as a shutdown of peaceful shutdown and in the process rules processed in the. as we saw in the story that police are trying to break these up with a live gun fire but the reason that people are protesting here is because they're angry with the electoral commission for excluding those areas opposition stronghold the places where people support your position candidate marketing ploy usually so they think this is a deliberate tactic by the electoral commission they don't believe that it's because of it and conflict the electoral commission says so very many people especially opposition supporters have a majority of congolese according to the opinion polls don't trust the electoral

commission we interviewed president joseph kabila and one of the things that i asked him about was the widespread mistrust of the electoral commission let's hear what he had to say. the issue or issues about the electoral commission the biased. to me is just nonsense the most important thing we should all understand and retain is that it is an independent electoral commission that more than two years ago the international community offered financial support to the democratic republic of congo to conduct this election but that support was rejected and then later all of these problems and challenges were cited we've always tried to elections in this country an issue of servant the sovereign nation of the congress plans for going to elections and i've always stated that the congo and the congolese state we are not the biggest we decided to

organize our own election like any other nation in the world and i don't see why anybody should take issue with that but you talked about sovereignty i think that's a sovereignty that many congolese people feel they don't have in particular the thousands of people who've taken to the streets and the dozens who were killed in the hundreds who were detained in the process of these protests calling for elections i think they would dispute that they have sovereignty and they say sovereignty that they've been demanding. and the electoral process is always a sensitive issue and i was just stating that even if football game between two so you have pensions that tries so during an electoral process you would 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 so if this election takes place as planned if you step aside as you say you will what's next or what are you why why why are you so pessimistic you think about if. it's no longer about it it's been repeatedly postponed already waiting to see if it really will or will it really happened not been repeatedly postponed the problem is that these are congolese elections these are congolese elections and that's what everybody has to understand. and the . issues that have risen while in the well and we've been able to do them as a nation we don't want anybody to judge us and that apart from

the congress people. so the recent announcement by the electoral commission just a few hours ago that around twenty percent of the polling stations here in the capital kinshasa won't be open those voters will be redirected to other polling stations is going further cause and the mung opposition supporters the capital is opposition dominated area we'd expect to see long queues here apollo on polling station anyways densely populated a significant proportion of the electorate is here by reducing the polling station by twenty percent we're going to see even longer queues lot of opposition supporters saying this is yet another attempt to frustrate their their chances. so this is damaging the credibility of the election just a couple of days before it's going to have a have a long the last opposition this bill saying they should proceed and go ahead with it even though its credibility is already massively in question mark of that so

that malcolm webb in kinshasa all right taking a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world saudi arabia's new foreign minister has said the government is not going through a crisis over the murder of journalist a mauser shakti on thursday sandman demoted his foreign minister japan as part of a major government reshuffle he will now serve as a minister of state the killing of fresh obvious brought a diplomatic backlash against the kingdom and the relationship between my country and the vast majority of the countries of the world is and that's excellent. so. of course i will i will work hard to continue the air force that have been built over many years and by the way very proud to be following this to observe king face and preserve the face of this is

important to mission a police boats have begun patrolling the seas of indonesia's cracka tower island to inforce of volcano exclusion zone authorities widened the zone on thursday and raised the eruption alert level for the and cracker tower volcano is threatening another major loss which rescue workers fear could cause a second tsunami a five metre highway flooded coastal communities on saturday killing at least four hundred thirty people rob mcbride reports from some bolo village in indonesia's upon big lang district. with this heightened alert being now in force aircraft are being told to steer around the volcano but as yet there's been no word of any flight disruptions meanwhile there's been a renewed warning for people to stay away from the shoreline by at least five hundred meters it has to be said that people with homes maybe two three hundred meters away for a large part they are staying ported the houses are intact but here on the

shoreline itself many people have lost their houses in any case they will be down here sorting through possessions but then come night time will be kept going back to stay with friends staying in resettlement centers or in most the vulcanologist meanwhile been using this bright break in the weather and the fact that we now have about an hour arisan that they can observe to actually see what the volcano is doing they are reporting continuing plumes of gasland ash flying up into the air some two hundred to six hundred meters with the wind conditions some of that ash is landing on this coastline of java not much but certainly people here are starting to wear masks as a precaution what concerns the scientists more of the flows of lover and rocks down the side of the volcano that they've been observing the concern is of course that a further shift in the outside structure of the volcano might lead to

a further massive little rock down into the sea that might cause another wave or once again donald trump is talking tough on immigration the u.s. president saying he'll cut funding to honduras guatemala and el salvador he's also threatening to close the border with mexico the government had been under pressure this week after two migrant children died in the custody of border agents homeland security chief is expected in texas on friday to get a firsthand look as a real get is and has more now from el paso. but it will cost and yet it came to the u.s. from guatemala like so many others seeking a better life for his son philippe there now just trying to get warm at a shelter after a couple rough nights at a border patrol detention center with him at the end of the only. one that they put is in a cell it was very cold like an ice box it made his cough we went to another cell

it was the same while we were there they didn't give us much food there wasn't much attention and they said it was our fault we brought kids with us but it was out of necessity to find a better life in the united states. when finally released it got worse earlier this week immigration and customs enforcement officials unexpectedly released hundreds of migrants from detention facilities but instead of taking them to shelters they were dropped off in downtown el paso without any notice and nowhere for them to go most like and well were from central american countries they were families young and old who would cross the border at bennett detention cells for anywhere from three to eight days it was left to volunteers from local nonprofits to rush to the scene to try to help the desperate migrants and asylum seekers many of them were hungry they were thirsty some of them were sick they were sick children were

dropped off and they were confused and so what they did it was done on purpose it was done willfully advocates worry that immigration and custom officials are dumping migrants and asylum seekers out on the streets in order 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 border patrol custody veronica escobar recently elected to the u.s. house of representatives says it's a crisis started by what she calls a cruel immigration policy by president donald trump one she hopes to change to children that we know of have died in american custody that should never happen again we need to know why it happened how it happened we need to know the conditions that other individuals are having to live through we need to know the foundation of this policy who called for it and we need to change it back at the

community center where mad well is at falling tears are trying their best to help knowing more migrants will need it hoping no boar are left on the streets to fend for themselves give rosendo al-jazeera el paso texas. or a reminder once again you can get in touch with us we want to hear from you on these stories send us your comments to any of our online platforms were on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english and on facebook facebook dot com slash zero or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram a plus nine seven five zero one triple one four nine there's a number top your screen. now for our viewers on facebook lives more about a device for women in india that's making a visit to public toilets more hygienic and time is running out for rescuers try to say fifteen indian miners trapped underground look at why prime minister narendra

modi is under fire. scientists and dry weather coming in across northern parts of the middle east in a fair bit of cloud here just around the caucasus pushing out of the black sea heading towards the caspian sea brought some rather wet and at times wintry weather that sway little further eastward stewarts spec a stop to it is in task into the red eleven degrees celsius a similar temperature two for couple that brought to skies coming back into iraq and around that eastern side of the med generally set fair as we go on through saturday still cold enough having said that into turkey ankara struggling to get above freezing over the next couple of days so the chance of want to see wintry flows into the fosse out of the country pushing into syria as we go on into sunday notice some showers there for cyprus elsewhere across regions generally looking dry

wanted to wintry shallows that across the western side of the himalayas just one or two showers into southern areas of the arabian peninsula but essentially this excess fat temperatures getting up to twenty five degrees celsius or so here in cots around twenty four degrees they get thickening cloud down towards the gulf of aden then maybe into southern parts of the red sea could produce some outbreaks of rain season very heavy rain across the eastern side of south africa and looking pretty wet. they wanted forty three million homes with a weapon that was six billion pounds in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small bowl of people for really really good misfits. in essence we

in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera until now the coverage of latin america most of the world was about covering khuda todd's tragedies. and that was it but not how capable feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding it when education system that was introduced to. latin america has come to fill a void that needed to be filled. this

is the news good on a good to have you with us on this friday taking a look at the top stories trending on our web site number one syrian army could. tell you about that a. question about to what extent they have entered that town to saudi foreign minister. in a reshuffle that was a big story we told you about yesterday but obviously still getting lots of play on our web site and sudan detains nine opposition leaders ahead of a planned protest going to talk of more about sudan in just

a moment it's all there for you on our website dot com. now the united nations special rapporteur on the right to free assembly has called on sudanese security forces not to use excessive force against anti-government protesters he said the response to more than a week of demonstrations across the country has been alarming the protesters are demanding the government address corruption and growing living costs the government says nineteen people have been killed so far police have attained nine opposition leaders. an activist president obama will bashir has promised reforms and he's blaming what he calls traitors and foreign interference for the unrest haver morgan is live for us in hard to with more on this so these protests have been taking place now for more than a week how has the government been responding to them what has them as we've heard

from the u.n. they said that the government has been using excessive force of the protesters they've been passing on a message to to to mixed messages the president came out and said he's trying to introduce neat connelly's that he's going to try to fix the economy but at the same time protestors in the streets were met with live ammunition and tear gas some of them were injured and some of them were killed while the government says nineteen people were killed in the protests and this international man they said at least thirty seven were killed and that the number could be higher because activists sometimes are afraid to report and some of them have been dying in a government pensions so the government's been passing a message of of basically we're going to intervene we're going to improve situation things will be better if you're a little bit patient at the same time protesters say that they've heard that before and they've been marching on the streets and they've been met with live ammunition and tear gas and they're with the government also yesterday held a press conference and said that they want people to be a little bit tolerant with the current environment but obviously people came out to protest today in several parts of of two and other cities as well around sudan so

if they're listening to the government at all it doesn't seem like any government message is making any impact yeah i mean this this this line that from the president that this is a lot of this is foreign interference it's a familiar refrain that we've heard from a lot of leaders in this in this region but it does seem that the protests are continuing and people are clearly unhappy with the situation there what what support are they getting. what wanted start of the people basically came out from neighborhoods from various neighborhoods in various cities they basically had no backing they were they were they said that they were frustrated and it was a people sports it was a peoples with a temper as a revolution but over the past few days we've seen opposition figures lending their voices lending their support to the roots of the people protesting there they're saying that they're saying that they're saying that it's basically because they feel like the people have legitimate reasons to protest they're saying that they feel like these people have. the right to voice their concerns they've got the

right to come out to the streets and say that they're fed up with the intention on your rule of government of governance by president bashir so they've been getting some proofs of support from opposition groups over the past few days and obviously the government is not happy with that which is why as you've said earlier one opposition figures were arrested in hopes of trying to tell the protestors that they should not be listening to opposition figures here morgan thanks very much all month long strike by doctors in public hospitals in zimbabwe is showing no signs of ending their asking for better pay and conditions defying threats of dismissal patients are struggling to get life saving drugs. has more from. a violent should be released hospital disappointed and in pain the sixty seven year old has cancer and the medication she needs has run out in public hospitals and doctors are on strike she says she's been told to go to

a private clinic for tests and to buy drugs their. use when they go to buy a made it big came in they want me to pay in u.s. dollars i don't have my children can't help me because they don't enjoy life only emergency cases are being seen at this public hospital junior doctors have not reported for duty in weeks they say they want to be paid in dollars not in local bond notes which constantly they also want their working conditions improved we're looking for basics. absolute basic things to use sterile gloves sometimes even just ordinary gloves for us to be able to examine patients safely urine bags we don't want a case where patient comes in we put in a catheter if it's available and the next thing is you've got urine all over the floor it's got to attach things like plastic bags the doctors say they are struggling to survive is the second time this year doctors walked out on strike the governor swung about rationing suspensions to more than five hundred of them

without pay to add to the crisis necessary are overwhelmed and can't cope with politicians have told doctors this strike is illegal and issued warnings of disciplinary hearings and potential sackings if they don't get back to work if they were for all the people ended there want to be doctors and want to care for the people. seeing that it is what they are doing was wrong. and they're also but. we we are we have taken all of that we've taken out the measures to make sure that those patrols would be administered adequately. some of those measures include a living some drugs and medical equipment but it's not enough for the whole country striking doc to seem defiant saying threats by this appears to fire them won't scare them off they insist these wards will stay empty until they get paid more how

they're having. a baby is the secretary general of zimbabwe's hospital doctors association he joins us now from from harare thanks very much for being with us so it's twenty eight days now the doctors have been on strike just tell us how how you got to this point. and what are your demands specifically. thank you very much for having us. point of correction dr ellen domingo. is indisposed at the moment is attending to another meeting right. so. the very first thing i'd like to mention is that this is the fight of our lives this is a fight for our lives and this is a fight for the lives of our patients we've decided to take this defined stand because as of october we issued a document which we call our founding affidavit

a list of demands that we gave to the government bare minimums that we would like to have in our hospitals and bare minimums for conditions of service and bare minimums for our remuneration so that we can continue offering a good service for patients there is nothing. more painful for a medical practitioner then to have a patient come to you in dire straits to have a patient come to you sick as a dog and you can do nothing but look at the because you don't even have the basic condiments to. to save their life. so this is exactly where we are and the government has not responded to any of our demands instead the only response that we have is a heavy handed response with. through the label courts they've issued very heavy handed rulings. mass. dismissal mass

dismissals have been planned and as we stand we have a great number of junior doctors who have been suspended by the government pinning disciplinary hearings in january but as as doctors like yourself continue to to to go on strike that means surely that fewer patients are getting treated how do you strike that balance between. trying trying to get to the demands that you haven't and for better pay and better conditions and so on but but not compromised the treatment of patients. so let me answer this in two parts the very first thing is as a medical practitioner we are bound by hippocratic oath the very first statement in that says we shall do no harm we will do no harm to our patients so when we take

a stand which using to take a stand because we do not even have the basics to give out basic treatment to our patients and this is happening at central hospital level the highest level of kids we are failing to access a basic anesthetic drugs we are failing to access basic resuscitation drugs we have a shortage of intravenous fluids you know a drip that you would give to a patient and this is across the board in casualty intensive care units in theaters so we will actually be doing more harm to our patients if we continue working under such conditions so we need to say. we're taking a stand especially for the poor people that cannot afford health services in the private sector patients who cannot afford to pay united states dollars for the drugs because we have a great number of pharmacies that are actually selling and dispensing drugs pig in us dollars which most people do not earn so if we do not take

a stand for for them and tell the government that will look you need to provide these basics for us to get back to work we need protective clothing for us to actually work safely we've had outbreaks of cholera we've had outbreaks of typhoid and i'm telling you it's really difficult for you to attend to a patient with cholera and you do not have gloves there's no running water hospital which is one of the major federal central hospitals i mean these are just basics we're not asking for the world we're asking for just basic for us to be able to treat patients as well as giving us a decent salary we're not asking for money to buy anything fancy we just want decency that's all we want. alan domingo good to speak with you and apologies again for the mix up with your name appreciate you coming into the last minute and stepping in force thank you. now u.s.

stock markets have opened up slightly after thursday's wildly volatile day of trading the dow jones industrial average rising more than one hundred fifty five points but the nasdaq composite also climbing half a percent investors concerned by the u.s. government shutdown and the trade war with china patricia sabga is an economics and global affairs analyst she joins us now from new york good to speak with you again which is now the last time we spoke was nearly twenty four hours ago and we were talking about a four hundred point drop on the dow and then not long after that conversation it recovered hugely and was up was up three hundred points i mean it's really anybody's guess at this point where the market's going to go isn't it exactly i mean welcomes it thanks to trying to predict where the market will go but i'm going to go back to that i know the last two weeks as you pointed out was that when you

were out and go we take a look at this volatility these wild swings it really underscores the uncertainty that has played an investor that it's play play in the markets and that uncertainty really derives from three main sources right now number one of course you mentioned the u.s. china trade war the other is rising interest rates and then of course the projections of low economic growth not only in the united states but what will end. and one of course we mentioned that one of the one of the concerns on investors' minds that the government shutdown uncertainty there and they did the cause by president trump talk of wanting to fire the the fed chairman jerome powell this is the head of the u.s. central bank very important position we understand that the two of them are going to be meeting at some point to try to smooth this out perhaps. well there are reports that i'm so glad you raised the issue tenure of chairman mao all the

important things remember here at the u.s. central bank the federal reserve is not only the sewer of the u.s. economy it really is the story in many ways of the global economy because the dollar is the global reserve currency so it's really really important what happens with the direction of interest rates it has ramifications now one thing that is so essential for any central bank and for the legitimacy of any central banker is that they are seen to be independent of politics and of course trump has really broken with precedent with past precedent if you will by openly criticizing that research by openly criticizing shake out his basic range all the stock market forces are member on the perimeter and they're raising interest rates and sure enough wind went ahead and raised interest rates again december president weigh in again and whenever there is any talk of compromising the central bank independent it doesn't

matter whether it's united states or any country in the world markets don't like it because the perception is that it interferes with the central bank chast of basically trying to achieve that up to full employment and price stability and the markets are often based on kind of short termism mentality on emotion and so on and so you were talking a little bit about that but how how much of it is connected to the larger economy and if it is in any way what does it tell us about where the economy could be going in twenty nineteen. well of course the u.s. economy has been in an expansionary mode for very long time by stuart standards so a lot of market participants are taking a look at the sec will nature of any economy which is eventually what goes up must come down now the projections are for some low point economic growth next year just

that the u.s. economy will not grow as quickly a pace as you will now some economists are also predicting that the us economy could possibly enter a mild recession sometime in the and twenty nineteen or twenty twenty and of course you have to take a look at markets perception is a big part of the trading psychology but it's also important to remember it's estimated that anywhere from eighty five percent of trading volume is actually on autopilot it's algorithms it's index funds it's trading models it's the ghost in the machine so that can also really exaggerate moves to the upside or miss the downside you also have to keep in mind the time of year because when we have dinner trading volume not as many people making trades that any moves can also be exaggerated all right good to speak with you patricia sabga in new york thanks for being with us thank you. all right to a story off the grid in south africa where activists of planning to protest on the

clifton beach in cape town after a security firm is accused of excluding black people from their healer what are people saying online well has and south africans are protesting after this private company in cape town allegedly removed beachcombers from clifton beach last week the incident was described as a bid by white residents to keep this suburb exclusive the city says it's now investigating the allegations now meanwhile people are protesting online as well many are using the hash tag occupy clifton and that's going nationwide this poster is being shared as well with the caption we are calling on all self-respect and blacks to gather for protests as we reclaim our beaches from racists who think our beaches are for their sole preserve and a lot of people also sharing this specific image is a reference to south africa's colonial and also apartheid area era and the leader of the democratic alliance party tweeted that beaches in south africa are public

property access should be for all citizens and you know others also sharing selfies on the beach this one says i am already here well as always i do want to hear from you especially if you are currently in south africa and maybe potentially at those protests that us know what's happening is the hash tag aging is great things are here and now in india rescuers are working to find fifteen young miners who've been trapped underground for more than two weeks now in an illegal coal mine government leaders are being accused of failing to respond quickly enough in the northeastern state of my poor child to a general pools. these rescue workers know the chance of finding the trapped miners alive is slim but they continue their search the teenage miners went into the legal coal mine in the north east indian state of magali on december thirteenth but got trapped soon after when the mines tunnel was flooded by a nearby river they've been without food or drinking water ever since the war that

it is not going. to be to put food on their inefficient to playing football but not fast enough prime minister narendra modi's government is being criticized for not sending in the right equipment on time he was at a nearby state on christmas day and didn't mention the incident or the trapped miners divers at the scene say they aren't equipped to go down more than thirty meters and the miners are some ninety meters underground that's the bottom of their field even if you start a little bit and still we're doing all that and yet when down the fiefdom is that the water live in the fish we don't and don't. digging in abandoned mines has been banned for more than four years now but many break the law risking their lives by going down into so-called rat holes miners can earn up to twelve dollars a day which is a higher pay rate than most jobs in india a similar incident six years ago killed more than two dozen miners their bodies

were never recovered and it is fear dissimilar fate awaits those trapped inside the skull the area paul should urge on al-jazeera a boy in bolivia who was born without his left hand is transforming the lives of others like him what some might see as a disability became a challenge for a sixteen year old in leonardo a correspondent daniel shrine has been to meet him in santa cruz and witness his remarkable use of three d. printed by own ix. leonardo is something of a hero in these parts not quite spider-man but he's helping youngsters with similar problems to his own to feel closer to their super heroes. like him the seven year old girl was born missing a hand. it was all he wanted to christmas his parents through leonardo found him one but not just any hand he gets a spider-man prosthetic. no longer

a mistake is now the envy of his friends. you know there was a victim of amniotic band syndrome which affects babies still in the womb and supportive parents he's tried to never see it as a disability but as one of gambling of a man people who have lost a hand often hard to cover it up they don't want to show it what i do is take off the prosthetic and say look i'm not ashamed i'm proud of who i am it's sad not to have a hand but it's sad and not too excited you must accept her. he developed an interest in robotics at a young age two years ago aged just fourteen he made his own replacement hand using a three d. printer. he's since made more than sixty fingers hands and arms charging less than one hundred dollars to cover materials such as this biodegradable plastic artificial limbs in bolivia one of the poorest countries in the region can cost between two to three thousand dollars a year thing but anyway what i always say is what the three d.

printer takes twenty four hours to finish can change the life of a person forever. still only sixteen his reputation growing in bolivia and beyond don't plans to study biomedicine to one day use by all nix to control his left hand directly from his brain. while tiago says he's going to use his new hand to play games he couldn't play before. that no one else will have one of these he'll be able to do so many things with it i'm extremely grateful to many across bolivia beneficiaries of leonardo's dream he simply wanted the hand so he made one disease initiative what was available. when they're all dizzy it or santa cruz believe. or it's going to look at what people are talking about in sport today as far as and thank you so much well we want to update you want to story we told you about last week it's about former bahrain international footballer and now

australian refugee hockey. he's been detained in thailand for over a month now and is facing extradition to bahrain where our r.v. says he will be tortured if sent back the campaign hashtag save hakim has been gaining traction and while it started by australia its community of which hakim is part of it's now grown into a worldwide call for justice a footballer fled to australia in two thousand and fourteen where he was given political asylum last year he now plays for melbourne football club pascoe a veil in absentia b. was sentenced in bahrain to ten years in prison for vandalizing a police station he denies all allegations he was on a holiday in thailand with his wife at the end of november when authorities detained him at a bangkok airports and one of the people spearheading the campaign hashtag save him is former socceroos captain craig foster he believes asian football confederation

isn't doing enough to help. and we feel really deeply concerned that the i.f.c. at present. appears not to be advocating strongly enough on hockey games behalf and of course the i.o.c. president shakes. himself and in fact only a couple of years ago who came was very critical of what he alleges was shake solomon's role in the crack down of a range of athletes including footballers so we need to say great advocacy by publicly and privately from the i.o.c. from what is our regional confederation right now we're very concerned that the i.o.c. president's a personal involvement in the matter is potentially prejudicial the amount of advocacy that the asian football confederation i giving to our came the hash tag

save hockey game has. had a wonderful response in australia and globally particularly the australian football community. feels very strongly and have responded to the cole to support our came very widely doesn't matter which country you're from previously it doesn't matter the religion that you believe in all that matter is is that q. . and a spot of the australian community that you are a human being with rights that need to be uphill and so that to that because you are one of our fellow players the the playing community in australia and abroad feel really strongly that we need to say what's up you know the entire football community globally is going to need the i.o.c. one football governance here in australia and they fight to account for every action that they pull throughout this process the poor kid has been in detention

for over a month now so the question we're asking is is football working hard enough to uphold hockey games human rights asian football confederation just told al jazeera a few minutes ago we are working with fee for and the football association of thailand on this issue earlier this month fee for issue this and it seems as says it supports the calls for the authorities to allow mr rb to return to australia where he currently enjoys refugee status at the earliest possible moment the l.a. lakers were without le bron james for the first time this season and his absence was felt with james we're covering from a groin injury the lakers loss to the sacramento kings is are looking good for the visiting lakers for the first three and a half quarters how could this man had thirty four points while bonds a ball added twenty more. of the kings rallied from fifteen points down.

well danovitch is beating shots just wait for it gave the canes the one point when one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and sixty. so close with le bron sitting out it gave a chance for the younger lakers to shine and they did hash tag long's i was trending on twitter today here's what some n.b.a. fans had to say branded tweeted lakers played well in the bronx absence may be a blessing in disguise because it gives the lakers a chance to showcase their young talent wade agrees posting this the lakers new big three tonight long so cruz my an engram all with huge numbers in the game no le bron he says no problem this philadelphia philadelphia fan tweeted makes me happy the sixers didn't sign the braun who would have entirely stunted the young corps grow with all let me know what you think of the lakers without le bron you can tweet me directly at f. underscore is small we'll be back with more of eight hundred g.m.t.

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time allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is that journalistic integrity and then say in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. it's the fust day of school in bob an elementary school in mosul. is this school is a military base firing rocket propelled grenades on multiples of nearby and out that falsus. most hopeful than what it is like to be in school up to three years old war. six year old but as husband survived them as like his home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in the popular destroyed house with his father and grandfather. solace for the professor's son for the first day in school

is hopeful new friends would hope is that a company. i am a fish every week news cycle going to see the simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the outstanding east that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the an aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all they're listening post as we turn the cameras on the media i'm focused on how they recruit on the stories that matter the monster in bad news a free palestine a listening post on mt is near zero. syria's military says it's entered the city of man kurdish forces are asked for protection u.s. forces are disputing the claim. that

outline for the city bar and this is so al-jazeera live from london also coming up . in the. thousands keep up the cool pool sudan's president to step down on the tenth day of i'm t. got protests. a new poll gives d.l.c. opposition candidate most and a clear leader in sunday's election i made a decision to cancel voting in three cities. and the bolivian teenager born without a hand he's transformed his own life and is now offering a helping hand to others. follow the syrian army says it has entered the northern city of. a request from syrian kurds for protection but u.s. forces on the ground say they have seen no indication that claim is true the

kurdish armed group the y p g says it feared an attack from turkey following the u.s. decision to withdraw all its troops russia has welcomed the move but syrian opposition force sources have also told al-jazeera there's no sign of government forces in the city. well the city of mumbai is one of the last remaining flashpoints of the war it is strategically located just thirty kilometers south of the turkish border you know only twenty four seen eisel defeated local rebel forces and took control of the city then in june twenty sixth seen a u.s. backed coalition with the main arm syrian kurdish group the y.p. g at its forefront launched an offensive to capture the city and seize control two months later coalition forces including u.s. and french troops remain stationed on the outskirts of man beach but with president trouble about to withdraw all u.s. troops from syria the y p g fears turkey which it considers to be

a terrorist group will invade the city to drive it out with syrian army made an announcement on state television about entering man page but it hasn't broken any images of its forces that are. based on the full commitment of the army and the armed forces to assume national responsibility for the imposition of the state sovereignty over every inch of the territories of the syrian arab republic and in response to the appeal of the people in. the general command of the army and the armed forces announces the entry of units of the syrian army to be and raising the flag of the syrian arab republic the armed forces guarantee the full security of all syrians and others who are present in the region well turkey's president says the situation in bahrain is still not clear. we know that syria is making psychological effects

a psychological ect in may we know there is a situation where they are in flag has been hoisted but there is nothing confirmed serious yet i spoke with my friends with intelligence sitra about an hour ago and there is nothing certain and the spy meant. well the situation in syria has changed dramatically in just the last two weeks on december the nineteenth u.s. president donald trump made the surprise announcement that he's withdrawing all u.s. forces from the country president obama's pledge that turkey will finish off the fight against eisel wiping out what is left of the group in syria but he's also threatened an invasion to ask kurdish fighters that russia is now positioning itself as the most powerful force in the region or monday in moscow it hosted a delegation of the syrian democratic forces the group that helped the u.s. in the fight against eisel and some arab nations are normalizing relations with syria on thursday the u.a.e.

and opened their embassies in damascus earlier this month sudan's president became the first arab leader to visit since the war began back in twenty eleven and tunisia has now resumed direct flights to syria well non-serious mohamed atta you can join us now from gaziantep in turkey that's on the border with syria and no it's still not clear yet is whether or not syrian forces have actually entered. not clear all told felicity residents of the city have been disputing these from the moment the city and claimed they untied the city inform the national flood of calls the turkish government also disputing the health people in the city including cutting out joint operations with u.s. troops there who have also said that they absolutely no indication whether the.

the syrian government forces have entered the city so is. it can looks like just a claim by the syrian government but of course the invitation itself by the city and cuts to the government in the must because to come on protect them is a huge boost for bashar al assad given the life flows that have been thrown in the past few weeks with the opening of the embassies of out of state the first visit of one of the head of state and now direct flights. the kurdish leaders are saying that they felt that it was easier to negotiate with the government of the shuttle us had done brisk an all out assault by the turkish forces on monday age yeah i mean some people might say it was a tactical move by the by p.g. some might say it was a move of desperation just how great has been the threat of a turkish offensive into monday. well the

turkish offensive quite probably will only depends on consultations a sunni a delegation from turkey is expected to hold in more score on saturday with russian officials on the way forward russia since i've been on board until now what happened today with the kurds inviting the city and government forces might be a game changer because some. already indicating that they might not be motivated enough to carry out on offensive on a member if the wife we did have left because the original reason why they wanted to go in because they can see that the group to be televised but again it's still up in the air and already we're seeing movement of troops on the ground turkish forces crossing the border to the town of jitter proves and of and beyond. the free

syrian army rebels who are allied to them pushing forward from their fault lines near mumbling saying they're waiting for an offensive to begin but again everything will depend on those talks between turkey and russia how did i get the latest. with syria thank you. well anti-government demonstrations ensued olive aspiring living costs and corruption are intensifying protesters gathered in the capital khartoum as well as a bar in the north of what danny in the south to be so used tear gas to disperse the crowds including worshipers chanting as they left the mosque the government says nineteen people have been killed during protests over the last week opposition leaders and activists have been detained but president omar al bashir remains defiant. promising reforms he's blamed what he calls traitors and foreign

interference that the end rest him a morgan has the latest from cotty. it's another day of anti-government protests and that indicates that people are not willing to listen to the government that is the government has been saying that they're going to try to interviews new comic reforms and they're going to try to improve the situation and they said that they want people to be a little bit more tolerant a little bit more patient but today's protests in several cities in khartoum and several other parts of the country is showing that people don't want to listen to the government and the people are keen to continue to protest and demand the president step down after twenty nine years of rule now the government have also been accused of using brutal force by the u.n. and other foreign governments they've been responding with live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protesters who've been marching every single day for the past nine days and it's and it's only protesting that people have been. carrying out to try to voice their demands of the president step down some of them have also been on strike they've been doctors and guitarist who announced that they're going to go on

strike until the government stepped down and we've also seen some journalists as well and solidarity of journalists who were harassed and arrested during while covering the protests they said that they're also going to go on a national strike against the government until the government steps and so this is becoming more and more of a national movement now when the protest started it was more of a people sports and the people who are protesting described it as a revolution but over the past few days we've seen opposition figures voicing their support and lending their support to the movements of protests around the country they're saying that the people who are protesting have legitimate reasons to protest they have legitimate reasons to voice their concerns and demand that the government leave and try to bring in a new interim government to power until elections are held but then the government has been responding by basically arresting of opposition figures nine opposition figures were arrested last night to basically scare of protesters after they've they've demanded their support to protesters for today's protests so the government has arrested several opposite opposition figures but that has not stopped people from protesting today and there are concerns that these protests will continue and

that the police and and the military who have been deployed around the country will also use live ammunition to try to disperse the protesters and that would put their lives at risk. in the democratic republic of congo a general strike is being held in opposition areas which had been excluded from sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas on protests in guyana and workers walks off the job further north of the city of the ne those is a been a protest vote and you will not be able to cast their ballots until march to the news that is of course after the president has been sworn in observers are also warning that polling stations are ill prepared for sunday's vote let's go to the capital speaks al jazeera as malcolm web so malcolm bring us up to date with the latest on the strike and the violence that's being saying. what it is a peaceful shut down in the city of beni turned into street protests that were several

hours ago and police tried to break them up live gun firing tear gas at what they've been struggling to contain and we've just heard a short while ago that protesters there. the private houses the police commando in in that fifteen have surrounded and trying to burn the residence of the mayor and in just about one hundred kilometers from there on uganda's border in the town of spin the protesters try the office of the ruling party it sounds like police not having an easy time they're trying to keep her in these protests have also been protests in the city of goma goma is not excluded from voting in the presidential poll on sunday but the opposition candidate martin file is very popular there as well as in the family and then he would have been excluded people they're angry at what they see as a hack on their chosen candidate and him by the electoral commission to try and

block out significant number of his supporters.