against the odds. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter wu watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a bomb attack on a tourist coach in egypt kills four people close to the world famous giza pyramids on the outskirts of cairo. syria's military says it's entered the city of man

beach after being invited in by kurdish fighters to protect them against turkish forces but the u.s. military disputes that claim. two people die in ongoing protests ahead of sunday's elections in the democratic republic of congo with voting suspended in three opposition strongholds also ahead israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu visits brazil deepening times with incoming right-wing president. a roadside bomb targeting tourists has killed at least four people near the giza pyramids in egypt at least ten others were injured when a tour bus was hit south of the capital cairo his fulcher judge an. egyptian security services quickly cordoned off the area where the roadside bomb exploded the improvised homemade bomb was placed near a wall on mar u.t.s.

street in a district near the giza pyramids the dead were part of a group of fourteen vietnamese on a tour bus being driven around historic sites things in the community that not the most important think is to provide medical care to all those who were injured we give our deepest condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident whether egyptian or the tourist who died. egyptians and tourists have been targeted in recent years as egypt tries to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula. the conflict has occasionally spilled over to cairo and resort towns by the. sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe. in november gunmen opened fire on two buses up the nile river from cairo the ambush in the minya province in central egypt took the lives of at least seven people who were

returning from a baptism eighteen others including children were wounded eisel claimed responsibility for the attack. in march in chips interior ministries top security official survived an assassination attempt in alexandria which took the lives of two policeman and injured five others major general mustafa was targeted by a roadside explosion which struck his convoy near his headquarters there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which came two days before egyptians began voting in a presidential election. a bomb attack three years ago killed egypt's state prosecutor he bought a cot as his convoy was driving through a busy up market eastern suburb of heliopolis. in may of two thousand and seventeen gunmen attacked a bus and cars traveling through southern egypt twenty six people were killed and twenty five others injured according to the health ministry witnesses said mouse man opened fire after stopping the bus and cars there were no immediate claims of

responsibility for this attack which came on the eve of the holy month of ramadan the talk was followed by a series of church bombings claimed by eisel in two thousand and seventeen two german tourists were killed and four others injured during an attack in the red sea resort town of rafah security services said a suspected eisel member swam from a public beach onto a private resort and began stabbing tourists tourism has been an important factor for the egyptian economy prior to the arab spring up. rising against the former president hosni mubarak in two thousand and eleven some fifty million tourists would vacation there that number dropped significantly since then down to about five million annually due to concerns over the security situation as attacks against tourists have made headlines around the world armed groups have killed hundreds of egyptian soldiers and police since the army toppled the first democratically elected president of egypt mohamed morsi in two thousand and

thirteen paul chowder john al jazeera let's talk to danny a foamy she is associate professor of political science at long island university and a member of the egyptian rule of law association welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera in your opinion why is it that the egyptian authorities can't get a handle on the groups or the p. pulled up perpetrate this kind of attack. so we've seen a very troubling escalation the past year historically and so grateful marked as before they joined i saw in two thousand and thirteen did was attack either israel or security apparatus in sinai but they've then escalate and they've now moved outside of the sinai and so i wish they would believe belongs to them and are targeting towards in the heart of egypt right by the pyramids and so what they're doing is signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians

about thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism and so what they're doing is signaling that not only are they not in control as a president continues to say rather they're actually escalating now terrorism functions in an interesting way terrorist groups traditionally target security apparatus a cool peace and the military which was what and so right from the stick but one joint eiseley start targeting any symbols of the state the third stage that terrorist groups usually do or enter into when they start attacking civilians and in this case tourists and this is what they have been doing for the past year we saw it begin last winter right at this time when they attacked to say. to shrines and since then it's been attacks on tourists and mosques and churches is what we're seeing right now. is that an escalation. absolutely they've moved out of their safe territory for them which was in sinai and now

they're going right by the pyramids they're signaling to things to the state that they are in the heart of egypt and to egyptian society but they have something to fear terrorism is about instilling fear in the hearts of people so that they start to change their behavior will not come and secondly egyptians will start to ask for things of their country of their government that exactly what the terrorist group wants why has there not been a claim of responsibility as yet. so they have not no one has claimed responsibility anderson there's two reasons either it is not isolated this and this is a new group or this they're still trying to hedge their bets and see what the fallout will be and will this be perceived as a when one terrorist act they usually do it for political objectives it's not clear here but the political ask it is it might become clear in the next couple of days but as in the pattern that has been established in the past sixteen months some

acts have not been claimed while others that have been seen as actually terrorizing a swath of the population have been claimed by us all are you still clearly not completely defeated despite what the u.s. president says in syria not completely defeated in iraq either but is what we're seeing in egypt a reaction to being a little bit on the run in places like in countries like syria like iraq. it could i did before seemed as i saw on the run or as i still ticking sort hold in cleese's that are seen as having defeated terrorism in countries like egypt if you remember signs of the past eight years of the revolution terrorism was defeated in egypt in the one nine hundred ninety s. we haven't seen terrorist acts maybe some sparse ones but for eisel to respond to both the international community primarily donald trump and president sisi who has said i saw this or i saw in. this are on the retreat is

a signal that unfortunately they are here to stay if they are indeed behind us is that representing a particular problem for people like mr el-sisi then i mean he's used to fighting all the people he's used to taking on political opponents now has maybe the the shop nurse golf his weaponry if you will and the presidency can no longer claim or on terror narrative and attack his own civilian population we're seeing a stark increase it was just two years ago that we saw the downing of a russian plane that was carrying towards we're seeing again another pattern targeting this time period of holidays of people coming from latin america and russia and the caucuses which is primarily rather tourists come from at this time period and for there to be again instilling a fear canceling we will probably see canceling of meijer tourist groups is

signaling to c.c. that you have a bigger problem and you should probably what most terrorists experts have been saying is to start stop clamping down on your own people and maybe start really fighting terror where it is because now it's moved into cairo proper ok thank you so much for your time here on al-jazeera adelia family joining us live there from new jersey in the states. the syrian army says it's entered the northern city of man beach invited in by the syrian kurds fearing an attack by turkey however the u.s. military says it's seen no evidence to back that claim the syrian kurdish alliance marks a major shift just a week since president trump announced he wants u.s. troops out of syria when beach is one of the last remaining flashpoints of the war in a strategic location thirty kilometers south of the turkish border now in early twenty fourteen eisel defeated local rebel forces and took control of the city in june twenty sixth seen an offensive by u.s.

backed coalition with the main arms syrian kurdish group the y. p.g. read talk man beach and the surrounding region coalition forces including u.s. and french troops remain on the outskirts of man beach but with a pullout of u.s. military from syria why p.g. fears turkey will invade and seek to drive them out ankara considers the wipe e.g. a terror organization or the doe has that story from gaza a ship on the turkey syria border. syrian kurds say they have been forced to cut a deal with a rigged game of president bashar al assad after they were abundant by donald trump for now as the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria few days ago. the kurds appealed to the syrian government for protection following threats of a military officer by turkish president to attack the city of mumbai where many kurds leave. kurdish leaders say they would rather try their luck in the rescissions with the syrian bridgette. all out military offensive from neighboring

turkey. the syrian government quickly responded 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 arab army to each and raising the flag of the syrian arab republic they armed forces guarantee the full security of all syrians and others who are present in the real. army commanders say troops arrived in mumbai john friday morning to fly the syrian flag over government buildings for the first time in six years without claims being disputed by people living in the united states military and the tech is competent it say's assad's forces remain confined to the countryside surrounding money shouldn't we know that syria is making psychological effects a psychological eg demand we know there is a situation where they are in flag has been hoisted but there is nothing confirmed

serious yet. peeled by city and cuts for help from the said regina is being seen as their first medical suchan since seizing control of lot and he has often wolfen and is considered and creating them any elf sell through when the tech is military and a life city and rebel fighters launched a ground offensive to take up to the majority cottage region of a free in almost a year ago the kaddish y p d militia fulfilled two months before heading to withdrawal to the safety of areas where u.s. troops are based these time the city and kurds have nowhere else to go. major elephant and their own today is how wrong. will it take advantage of such always that all will or will be at their death for a man city and democratic forces control thought to plus sense of city on how all those six the thousand flights and dates combined the cuts appeal for help from assad's forces is seen as another boost for his dissident at least

a ship as the a.t.l. will wind down out of leaders have also in recent days to can step through rehabilitation the brutal assad regime in both the u.a.e. and bihari an army opening embassies in the mosque has shot since the beginning of the civil war and city into a disability welcomed in tunisia direct flights from tunis the most because to see him for the first time in seven days. a talking. just not a foregone conclusion yet it's russia strongest ally that holds the key to what happens from here on in also today a high level delegation from turkey will travel to moscow for talks with the russian officials on the way forward mohamed atta will just sit on. the u.s. republican senator marco rubio says he wants a gradual rather than a sudden withdrawal of u.s. troops rubio who sits on the senate's foreign relations and intelligence committee

says it's important to protect u.s. israeli and kurdish interests in the region also in jordan from washington the u.s. republican senator marco rubio says that there's a slight change of plans when it comes to the us his decision to withdraw its two thousand troops from syria here's the senator speaking in florida on friday we have been able to sort of get the pace of the tree or withdraw slowed which is important i think a persepolis withdrawal would have been catastrophic. for various reasons we can outline the moment. the a lot of attention has been paid to northeast syria and our presence alongside the turks aside the kurds are probably the us but we also have a presence in southern syria which is largely an anti hezbollah presence the fact that marco rubio and others u.s. republicans are not indorsing donald trump's decision to pull all two thousand u.s. troops out of syria indicates that he is about to run into more pressure and more

pushback from the u.s. congress in the coming year after years of giving the president the outsized decision to manage u.s. foreign policy there is a growing sense in the u.s. congress both among republicans and democrats that congregational leaders need to be engaged as well and how the u.s. deals with other countries engages in other crises and spends foreign policy money this is a sense of wreaths doring a balance between the two branches of government they have not been seen perhaps since the late one nine hundred eighty s. saudi arabia has sought to play down its government reshuffle saying it was expected this week at the end of the camp in its four year term taking salmond demoted his foreign minister. as a minister of state that follows a diplomatic backlash against the kingdom following the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in october however the new saudi foreign minister insists the government is not in crisis the relationship between my country

and the vast majority of the countries of the world is an excellent change so. of course i would. continue the efforts that had been built over many years and by the way very proud to be following this face and preserve the face of this important mission. plenty most ill to come here in the news including the new russian bilberry of the strong to a chorus of condemnation in europe. turning scraps into hockey meals how a peruvian chef is helping the pool beat malnutrition. and in sports news after a lengthy injury layoff it's a losing return to action the world number two in tennis.

the u.s. president donald trump threatened to close the border with mexico if he doesn't get funding for his proposed border wall it's a raising of the stakes by trump in a standoff with democrats that's led to the partial government shutdown there gabriel elizondo reports now from the city of el paso in texas where hundreds of people seeking asylum were forced to spend christmas in a call. asylum seekers released from immigration detention centers in america only to be left on the streets to fend for themselves in the city of el paso texas where this is happening shelters for migrants are at capacity and it's left to volunteers like at the rockhouse cafe aid community center to try to provide the basics i felt that they need or we felt that they needed a hot meal so the community responded and we set up tables at the rock and you know just fed people know first outside and now that it's getting colder now

inside with migrant detention centers and shelters full in el paso immigration officials have not ruled out continuing to dump families on the streets to free up detention space the border is increasingly becoming politicized here in el paso far away from the halls of power of washington d.c. it's migrants and asylum seekers that are becoming pawns in a political game. in a series of tweets on friday. donald trump threaten to close the entire border with mexico if congress doesn't give him the five billion dollars he wants to build a border wall trump has framed the immigration debate in america as a crisis being caused by too many migrants from central america trying to come to the u.s. something local activists in el paso reject a crisis that the press in this is creating to feed the. to do to build this

ridiculous war which is not going to help in anything but at this same time he's promoting the criminalization of incarceration of children in mistreatment of like the ones that we're seeing being released in downtown. there are also signs of more detentions this giant tent city detention center about an hour outside of el paso was built over the summer to house migrant teenage children it was supposed to close on the last day of the year but officials announced this week it will remain open it houses two thousand three hundred migrant teenagers. for those just arriving and hoping for a better life but finding their welcome to america not what they expected gave rosendo. el paso texas. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu who's in brazil and has promised stronger bilateral ties he's been using the far right president elect joy in rio de janeiro in the first visit by an israeli premier to

the country there was no mention of brazil's and disappear to move of its embassy in israel to jerusalem john holmes has more now from sao paulo. incoming brazilian president to you bill so not a has been looking to strengthen ties with israel for some time and the visit on thursday by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in some ways to culmination of now this is not a smooth deal for israel the support of brazil remember that this is the biggest economy in south america the incoming brazilian president himself why has he done this it's certainly a break with previous administrations in the last few years in brazil now perhaps among the chief reasons is that of president trump and his administration in the united states table so not only has one seen him as a sort of kindred spirit that both right wing populists they both like to use

social media rather than the press to get their message out and they both to cry what they would probably see as political correctness now obviously the united states has moved their embassy to jerusalem but something that in the past incoming president will soon out of his own so plates to do and that sort of support will be very welcome to the israeli prime minister as you hear now. it's the first visit by an israeli prime minister was there ever here. and it's hard to believe that the first context for. you because. the brother. you mention is really. competitive great question is what is the problem with. raising the problem this is a bit of a change to brazil the leftist of ministrations that have governed it for most of the twenty first century so far favored the two state solution and showed some

support for palestine the country was formally recognized as a sovereign state in brazil in two thousand and ten and in many ways this is something that you also know as well would like to break with that past he'd like to leave his own legacy and support for israel is part of that how is it going to affect him and certainly not all positively in the arab nations this isn't going to be a message it's going to be very well well current and brazil actually sells a lot of allow me and also chicken through many of those countries so this is going to be something that's not going to be positive for brazil we have to see how it plays out and how once he's president of the country that's going to happen on the first of january. or not oh looks to handle that relationship with israel and also with palestine. well returned is really rights and peace activists in all sauces

died of cancer at the age of seventy nine he was one of the earliest scripts ix of israel's occupation of palestine in recent years all spoke out against the policies of benjamin netanyahu describing them as growing extremism he's known perhaps for his best selling memoir a tale of love and darkness. protests over the exclusion of three areas from sunday's election and continued for a second day in eastern parts of the democratic republic of congo two people have died in the violence a presidential candidate has taken legal action to stop the electoral commission from delaying some voting until next year catherine sawyer now reports from kinshasa. demonstrators in beni eastern d.-r. congo are not letting up rallying for the second successive day protesting against a three month postponement of voting in beni temple and all of them opposition strongholds police and soldiers fired tear gas and bullets to disperse them. the electoral commission says one and

a quarter million voters from those areas will be voting on sunday because of the a ball outbreak and security problems and the electoral process is or is a sensitive issue in an interview with al-jazeera outgoing president joseph kabila says the election process is going on there under the circumstances this is politics such incidents and this is a country with eighty million inhabitants with six hundred political parties with a million views that crash and you're bound to have differently here and the number of issues the electoral commission has also closed one thousand six hundred voting stations in the capital kinshasa is an opposition stronghold with over four million voters and nearly a thousand polling stations most of the city's electronic voting machines were recently destroyed in a warehouse fire phillips you see katie one of the main presidential candidates

says what's happening is a deliberate attempt by the electoral commission to wreck the election it's a war beneath them what's happening binion provocation they want us to have a zone for protests with possible violence middle. oh we'll be happy about that because the cost of szell allows him to stay on until there is a new president's you won't give him that satisfaction up with the lead up to sunday's poll has been cast take it was supposed to happen two years ago but was postponed because of a lack of money and every benyon in the center of the country critics accused president kabila off deliberately delaying the election to cling on to power and security forces work used of killing thousands doing months of protests which are continuing right up to the eve of the election. when opposition candidate has called for a general strike in the copy told many people are poor and using a day's pay could be no food for their families most people here are told that they

can't afford that they have and they also say that higher than just want to go to the ball but they also want the credit and they're left and to get on with their life in kinshasa many doubt whether their next one will be either free or fair or they just want to get on with it and protestants in the east of the country complaining of the exclusion from sunday's election they remain in the streets until their voice is hide kathy soliah al-jazeera kinshasa. security forces in sudan have fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse antigovernment protesters thousands rallied in the capital khartoum and other cities for tens day is anger over rising prices some protesters are now calling for an end to president obama has twenty nine years will have a morgan is in khartoum. it's another day of anti-government protests and that indicates that people are not willing to listen to the government which is the

government have been saying that they're going to try to interview an economic 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 of 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 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 in that area who announced that they're going to go on strike until the government step 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 to national strike against the government until the governments have found so this is becoming more and more of

a national movement now when the protest started it was more of a people 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 and to 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 protest as 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 will put their lives at risk. still to come here on the news we'll tell you why doctors in

zimbabwe are still on strike. putting a stop to diesel vehicles in germany where the government is under real pressure to clean up its act. and sports redemption for this crew of one of sailings toughest races and he has that plus all the other top international sports news when we come back. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello the weather slushy funded track of southern parts of china different story into central as well we have got some right we've also got some snow thickening cloud rolling in here then there's that snow over towards chengdu that will slide a little further east which as we go on into sunday vietnam was phenomenal see some wet weather really wet weather the inlet is is in and around the philippines where

we have actual system making its way through that's in the process of punching across central areas of the philippines of the bible huge massive clout in not too concerned about the winds on this storm but lots of rainfall some parts could see maybe one hundred fifty millimeters of rain widely expected into those central areas one of two spots maybe seeing as much as three hundred millimeters of rain before it makes its way out into the south china sea somewhere between vietnam and borneo really heavy rain coming in here over the next few days a chance of one of two showers towards indonesia but i think largely try into java not to try to across the good parts of india and also into sri lanka is set there we have got the possibility of want to see showers just around carol about it will be few and far between further north temperatures for covering a touch for new delhi with a top temperature of twenty. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

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top stories for you this hour here on. a road side bomb targeting tourists has killed at least four people near the giza pyramids in egypt. and an egyptian tour guide has been no claim of responsibility yet. in the u.s. republican senator marco rubio says he wants a gradual rather than a sudden withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria earlier the syrian army said it's entered the northern city of. syrian kurds are full of an attack by turkey but the u.s.

military disputes that claim. u.s. president to close the border with mexico if he doesn't get funding from congress for his proposed border wall it's a raising of the stakes by the u.s. president in the standoff with democrats this led to the partial u.s. government shutdown. a new cease fire in eastern ukraine between russian backed separatists and government forces you to begin on saturday it follows the construction of a border fence built by russia sealing off crimea several european leaders are condemning the barrier and calling for a definitive end to the conflict is catching on. this border fence is meant to divide more than land the barrier built by russia separates and exclaimed mia from ukraine barbed wire and hundreds of sensors are now part of heightened security in the shadows of an ongoing conflict done as you can see on the conference this alarm system is a very reliable technical tool it's going to fix to really detect and stop attempts

to violate the borders of the state. the sixty kilometer fence is built to deter would russia describes as sabotage groups along with illegal trafficking of weapons and drugs but critics say its main objective is not security it's more likely a propaganda move by russia to demonstrate strengthening security separating from ukraine and to make sure that as they say infiltrated groups won't be able to cross the border in future i underline once again it's mere propaganda. a cease fire between russian backed separatist forces and ukraine a set to begin on saturday it's one of several cease fire says russia annexed crimea from ukraine in two thousand and fourteen against international law the un estimates more than ten thousand people have been killed in the conflict. french president a mineral mccrone and german chancellor angela merkel have welcomed the ceasefire they pledged to keep up pressure for the implementation of a two thousand and fifteen peace deal in eastern ukraine the french and german

leaders also want russia to allow free passage of ships following recent tensions and both are calling for the release of ukrainian sailors hill for over a month after unable clashes with the russian coast guard vessel de before the upcoming holidays around new year and the orthodox christmas should be an occasion for the parties to concentrate on the needs of the civilian population they have been suffering from the conflict and its consequences for far too long with the fence now complete many wonder if it will also be a barrier and ending russia's conflict with ukraine. see a little bit of a on al-jazeera. police birds are enforcing a volcano exclusion zone in indonesia there are fears that the krakatoa volcano might erupt once again possibly triggering another tsunami at least four hundred twenty six people died last saturday when a five metre high wave flooded areas near the sunda straight on weapons to the

exclusion zone was widened and the alert revel was level was raised bright reports now from public land in an easy as band ten province. with the increase in the alert level a ministerial visit to the tsunami affected area coming to one of the observation post set up to see exactly what cracker towel is up to some fifty kilometers off shore they have been talking to geologists and volcanologists here who have used an opportunity a break in the weather early friday to get a visual fix on a crack at how what they have been seeing is a shift of further rock and lava down the sides of the volcano disappearing into the sea and clouds of steam this is a concern because of course it was a shift of the side of the volcano that caused the tsunami last saturday the vulcanologist have also been reporting plumes of gas and two hundred to six hundred

meters in the air but there have been even bigger plumes in the previous few days. and that was. before depicted india was only around the world killing or but since yesterday ash has been falling on the land with good options up to twenty five hundred meters high. when the tsunami happened many people simply sought refuge in their local mosque especially those that are uphill and away from the coast and the number are still providing a shelter this friday nearly a week on from the tsunami all of the mosques along this part of the coastline of java are busier than usual and i want to pray for the people who passed away and for those still living i want to pray for everyone at this and i'm glad i'm praying we don't have another tsunami so everyone can go back to making a living because we all make a living from the coastal area most people here believe in the science and heed the warnings of the experts but when it comes to the possibility of

a future more devastating tsunami people of faith will also believe that their destiny lies in the hands of a greater entity. there's still no end in sight to a month long strike by doctors in zimbabwe's public hospitals now they're defying threats of dismissal over their campaign for higher pay and better working conditions and patients are struggling to get life saving drugs. now reports from harare. violets 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 aren't 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 big chemist they want me to pay in u.s. dollars i don't have my children can't help me because they don't. 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 devalued 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 issuing 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 they issued warnings of disappearing hearings and potential sackings if they don't get back to work if they were for the

people ended they want to be doctors and want to care for the people they're seeing that it is what they are doing was wrong they are there also but. we. we are we have taken all of that we've taken out the measures to make sure that those patrols will 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 doctors 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 to matteis al-jazeera. alan domingo is a spokesman for zimbabwe's hospital doctors association he says doctors are only calling for basic necessities to be able to treat their patients. 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 and 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 where. through the labor court 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 pending disciplinary hearings in january. to bangladesh where the general election campaign has ended with more violence and arrests the opposition bangladesh nationalist party says nineteen activists been arrested ahead of the vote on sunday police a supporter of the governing awami league was killed the government's accused of arresting more than eight thousand opposition members since november. britain's home secretary says recent attempts by migrants to cross the english channel from france represent a major incident sajid javid remarks come as nearly seventy people were stopped in

the past three days trying to reach the u.k. by crossing what is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in dinghies job it is seeking an urgent call with his french counterpart over the weekend and a rescue boat carrying more than three hundred migrants has docked in spain after being refused entry by several other european countries who were picked up off the libyan coast a week ago it's the first time since august that spain has allowed a rescue ship to dock diesel powered vehicles could soon be banned in some of germany's biggest cities the e.u. is threatening to find the german government for breaching air pollution levels and clean air is also being demanded by environmental campaigners barber now from berlin mika of blue marco runs a small plumbing company of a limb that relies on quick deliveries to customers his employees use small diesel vans to get around he says he'd like to use green of vehicles but right now that's

not feasible. it is all and. for a small firm like ours we can't afford to keep replacing our vehicles we bought our fleet of six vans years ago trusting in diesel and we're stuck with them. this street in central berlin is one of the city's busiest and not surprisingly emissions levels around here are above the legal limits now they've already brought in a thirty kilometer on our street limit to try to do something about the problem but still very soon diesel vehicles. sariel. the so-called diesel gate scandal focused attention on just how polluting diesel vehicles can be after german manufacturers including folds fagen and dime are admitted cheating emissions tests the government's promise to make the automakers pay for retrofitting in other words installing hardware to reduce emissions since february german cities have also had the right to hold a diesel vehicles to reduce air pollution should bring in a total funding january and at least fifteen heavily polluted cities across germany

could soon have similar restrictions but the german government says in other places it needn't come to that the european union's accepted limits of nitrogen dioxide or n o two emissions is forty micrograms per cubic meter but under the proposed changes places where the level exceeds the output doesn't go above fifty micrograms would be exempt from diesel bans what also cities do is they modernize the buses and transport system at the moment quite intensively you can improve but going by bike you can also say we have an area in our town where we will no have very little have no traffic at all that's not nearly enough for campaigners who are currently suing dozens of municipalities over their failure to act they say the government's plan based on localised exemptions will leave drivers confused and do nothing to improve air quality we have now more than thirty thousand premature deaths in germany alone and alone due to the high and that's nice. we have several

hundred new cases i ask my diseases and other diseases each year so it's high time . for small businesses like mikhail's there might be exemptions on what type of vehicles are banned. but whether changing the law will do anything to make city centers healthier is far from clear. al-jazeera. vegetable skins are often thrown away but in peru where millions suffer from malnutrition they're being turned into tasty and nutritious meals marion sanchez went to meet the chef who's helping to change the menu for people in need. there's. a master class from one of produce top chefs. who has cooked for some of the world's top restaurants but now he's on a mission to teach cooks from some of us poverty stricken slums to make cheaper and healthier dishes. these women are the most important cooks in the country they feed

thousands of people so we wanted to teach them how to make more nutritious dishes using every part of the products. in this class they learned to add fiber from the salads and use that to build skins to make a new machine broth the idea is that everything is useable fifty year old government to be she cooks in a different way and it's paying off. we don't throw anything away or use playground hansen's look i'm going to make chips with these potato skins people tell us the really loud pop food and more people are coming to each year on average fifty people eat here every day it's interesting to see the size of the crash and the small plastic bag full of plastic because the waste is huge for cooking. and food waste says the chef has the most nutrients but as doctors in nutritionists have evaluated the result of a change in the diet hearing lutie in on the outskirts of lima more than one

hundred thirty cooks are already trained at the leanne has six children and she says they don't get sick as much as they used to as many children suffer from chronic malnutrition but one year ago the nutritionist recommended they eat a toddler kitchens and now the hemoglobin in the children has improved for more than fourteen thousand poor peruvians eat in popular kitchens every day around the country and miller says the use of tons of food waste will not only make people healthier but it's one solution to tackle climate change. we should stop generating weisberg. food waste is the second largest source of contamination on the planet it contributes to climate change and global warming. it's a sustainable astronomy project that's slowly changing the way people here eat in a country where half the population of thirty two million suffer from malnutrition these cooks say spearheading the project makes them feel secure and proud i guess i

just i just see the looting. coming up in the sports news the men's world cup downhill event it's only overshadowed by a big crash for this competitor. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide is the easiest way to solve this to 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 a journalistic integrity and then in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera fresh perspectives new possibilities.

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our a b. is facing extradition from thailand despite holding refugee status in australia the twenty five year old was arrested in bangkok last month on in supposed warrants put out by bahrain foster is now leading a campaign for al-arabiya to be returned to australia already kind of so be tortured if you sent back to bahrain or the footballer fled to australia in twenty fourteen where he was given political asylum he now plays for melbourne football club pascoe vale an obscenity or al-arabiya was sentenced in bahrain to ten years in prison for vandalizing a police station he denies all allegations he was on holiday in thailand at the end of november when all thorough sees detained him at a bangkok airport foster says it's time for asian football bosses to make themselves heard 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 bahraini him so and in fact only a couple of years ago came was very critical of what he alleges was shaikh salmond's role in the crackdown of a range of athletes including footballers so we need just a greater advocacy but publicly and privately from the i.o.c. from what is our regional confederation right now and we're very concerned that the i.o.c. president's a personal involvement in the matter is potentially great you do see in the amount of advocacy that the asian confederation giving to walk again we're all praying and hoping that her game ultimately is released and whatever happens. the entire football community globally is going to need the i c l on football.

governance here in australia and to account for every action that they took 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 up hold. human rights or the asian football confederation has now told al-jazeera it's working with the games world governing body faith and the football association of thailand on the issue has also issued a response supports the calls for the thai authorities to allow mr al-arabiya to return to australia where he currently enjoys refugee status at the earliest possible moment it's liverpool manager juergen klopp says the pressure and expectation around football is even more intense in england than in his native germany the former pressure dortmund coach has guided liverpool to the top of the premier league at the hall's white point in the season the club haven't won the title since one thousand nine hundred ninety. it's more than one two and it's more

important for the people who was winning or not. i think people bet much more to. lose was a lot of people already said it kind of religion that probably true they were directly in that in that area it's really it's really massive but then you come to liverpool and it's next level let's have a look at the top of the table is looking liverpool have a six point lead in the title race heading into saturday's home game against arsenal second place tottenham there at home to walls with defending champions manchester city down in third place for twice chelsea by crystal palace on sunday where chelsea managed of course by form and nothing past merits or sorry he says it's time for its howling authorities to take action against racism on wednesday napoli defender. was targeted with abuse by in samoa and fans inset will now have to buy their next two home games behind closed doors with no supporters as

a punishment. when i was there. to make sure this while it is lots of room for one it gives the some go there in general a real ability to do because he is. really really really sorry for him but i think that in italy we can do something more for this problem in cricket south africa have beats in pakistan in the first test of their series half centuries from dean elgar and hashim amla help the same to a six train century and unbeaten sixty three was his first fifty in eleven innings is south africa closed out the match inside three days. rafael nadal made a losing return so action after a three month injury layoff dollars on the comeback trail after ankle surgery he was beaten here in three sets by south africa's kevin anderson at the world tennis championship that's taking place in abu dabi. world number one never djokovic she's

looking good ahead of next month's australian open he rushes karen catchin off at the same events will now play anderson in sunday's final. italy's dominant paris won the men's world cup downhill for the second year running on home snow before that sort of the winning moments in all me are slovenia's clement cause he was airlifted to hospital after that crash race organizers said it suffered a suspected facial trauma and a broken nose but hadn't lost consciousness. one of the closest ever finishes to the sydney hobart yacht race is seen wild oats eleven take victory the lead change multiple times in the final hours of this series a race with four boats in the mix for the lead as they approached australia's southern tip last year while those still haven't crossed the finish line first only to get hit with a time penalty and miss out on the. ok that it's a sports looking for now more later. you can always get more news and sport on our

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