on a. and live from studio fourteen here at the headquarters in doha. the news. dozens of tanks to a southern border with syria top diplomats head to moscow we look at the battle for control of the syrian city of beach it's still a murky picture. also on the great security raids in egypt police there say they've killed what they call terror suspects just hours after friday's bus attack the pyramids. security remains tight at the height of the tourist season. it's

the day before elections in bangladesh but the opposition and rights groups say the atmosphere around the vote is far from democratic security forces are on high alert we're live in doctor. and poll to stay home office video direct that. outrage online and. the hash tag spreads. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and dot com this still on certainty about who controls the city of man twenty four hours from a syrian the syrian government saying it is in charge with no evidence to support that claim while russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate plans for the area having. struck a deal at

a meeting in moscow between foreign and defense ministers overnight turkey sent about fifty tanks into sanur fire near its southern border that's in case of an attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces in man which a group turkey calls terrorists the kurdish forces had invited the syrian army into mandy's on friday hoping to protect it from a turkish attack but there's no evidence yet that government troops have taken up positions in the city and all this of course is followed us president donald trump's decision to pull all american forces from syria or mohammed out of joins us now from the turkish city of gaziantep near the syrian border so mohammed what more do we know about the reports of tanks amassing along the border. all the turkish military buildup continues hossam we've seen overnight

columns tunks of crossing over they are headed to the. syrian territory well turkey hold sway also on the move was about sixteen thousand or whole city and the rebels who are allied to keep them all preparing for an offensive on mum binge of course their invitation sent to the city and government forces by the y.p. to cut his fighters complicates things right now they have a buffer that transform the entire the north and south of syria dividing the kurds from the turkish forces and their proxies of course. in a more school today consultations between tuckey and russia as a lover of the. russian foreign minister meeting his turkish

counterparts and they're agreeing on a number of things including courting ating that are false militarily on the ground this is what sergei lavrov had to say. when you don't understand english great stone how military representatives of russia and turkey will continue to coordinate the steps on the ground under new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists three syrians. now the issue now which diplomats are saying cause raised eyebrows is the mention of seven guarding the ten a total integrity of the city or something the diplomas say may mean a bigger role for city and government forces in the cottage held part of serious northeast and a pot of course bashar al assad right now with the city in

a position we can and the peace process supported by the united nations in taught this is trying to shed his pile status and is already looking for funds to rebuild the country but the u.s. troop withdrawal is set to open an avenue for other regional actors like turkey and iran something assad's all points of but it came to come to mama thank you mohamed out o. in a gaziantep joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and joins us now from norman thanks so much for being with us so when you look at what is what is happening in and around man vigil way what may not be happening as the case may be as as we just alluded to there what does how does this affect the overall balance of power in syria

well it's quite clear that there are lots of negotiations taking place between as you said in your package russia and turkey but also the united states is weighing in the u.s. hasn't decided yet whether it's going to pull out in a month as trungpa great really wanted or maybe perhaps take several months as many of the military types want. so we've got intense talks we've seen the arab. different arab countries like the united arab emirates bahrain iraq weighing in by visiting which are outside in damascus many of the arab countries are interested in syria re reestablishing itself they do not want turkey pushing further into the middle east saudi arabia is very anxious about turkey's support. and so there is a big balance of power play here and of course iran there are many people in washington that do not want assad to take this back because there is a rollback iran crowd so this is you know this comes right at the cockpit of middle

east power plays and men dish is is you know this little dusty city it has become the center of this big power struggle over the balance in the middle east and when we look at what's happening there does it get us any closer to a kind of endgame in syria a war of course that is going on now for over seven years. it does get us closer the the big question now is how will the kurds what kind of deal can the kurds get from the syrian army will it will the deal satisfy everyone in the turkish turkish government who do not want the y p g the kurdish militia to have lots of guns and to have independence on the border this is very good obviously for bashar al assad and the syrian government that has

a good negotiating position now where the why p.g. and can perhaps force them to give up a lot of their autonomy the united states is debating whether the kurds will be able to keep their weaponry heavy weaponry just light arms all of this is at play right now and being negotiated and when u.s. u.s. pulls its troops out of syria does it leave them with a kind of less bargaining power in all of this absolutely look the kurds were hoping that the u.s. would stay for the long haul as it was promised by many upper level upper level state department officials and cia officials now with president trump getting involved is seeing that he didn't want to war with turkey as turkey escalated this rather it's been pulled out today the kurds are going to have to look at the outside government and figure out whether they can get. what sort of independence

they can get i think the syrian government is willing to offer them cultural autonomy in other words using the kurdish language which they could not do before nehru's their new year's parades and other cultural elements in your schools but not an independent military side does not want to become like iraq where in in all for all intents and purposes northern iraq the kurdish part of iraq is an independent power. i've got a question here. joshua from one of our facebook viewers who is asking is syria going to get funds from saudi arabia for rebuilding and just to give a little bit of background on this. did the united arab emirates. reopen their embassy in damascus just a couple of days ago and we understand saudi arabia is planning to do the same thing this is all kind of trend of of syria syria coming back into the our fold so

to speak so is there is there a chance of that will happen you know it could happen there scuttlebutt in damascus is that saudi arabia the united arab emirates others in the gulf are talking with a side about a coalition an anti muslim brother coalition now what that means as well is an anti turkey coalition and and damascus would be eager to join such a coalition even though it's you know iran might be upset but iran understands that syria is in a different neighborhood it's in an arab neighborhood it needs saudi arabia and if there's one thing that has undermined assad's rule over the last few decades it's his enmity with saudi arabia and after two thousand and six fight between israel and hezbollah aside call the saudi. monarchs and other officials have met and this set the relationship you know spiraling downward course today of our

side wants to establish is position in the middle east and to get money to rebuild stabilize syria he's going to have to suck up some of that pride and he's going to make up with the goal leaders who also have an interest in doing instability in the middle east as always good to speak with you just show landis in norman oklahoma letter now i want you to get in touch with us we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one trip or one four nine now security forces in need to say they have killed forty people that they are calling terrorists it follows friday's attack on a tourist bus outside cairo three foreigners and their egyptian guy died in the

bomb blast near the ancient pyramids at giza rob mattson as the latest. a burned out shell all the trimmings of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near khan yunis what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them were told us fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza parents here in the ng about pedophilia sometimes attacks such as this one can occur 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. tourists in egypt have been increasingly targeted as the government tries to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you

doing 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 that thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected militants killed by security forces in raids in cairo's giza district egypt's government says the men had been planning attacks on tourists and state institutions a further ten armed fighters are reported to have been killed in the north of the sinai peninsula i think a lot of people will be asking how is it that within hours of this attack this large number of suspects was not only identified but in gauged and successfully killed if the intelligence within egypt is that good why were they not able to detect and disrupt this attack the remaining victims of the blast are being treated

in hospital meanwhile investigators are trying to work out how a tourist bus could be bombed egypt's heavily secured capital rob matheson al-jazeera. a commie relies heavily on tourism it is worth billions of dollars a year but the number of tourists has fallen from almost fifteen million in two thousand and ten to fewer than five and a half million in two thousand and sixteen the twenty eleven are prizing led to political uncertainty which kept many visitors away and the stabbing of two german women in two thousand and seventeen also had an effect on tourist numbers. a timothy cow deaths is a non resident fellow at the to haiti and institute for middle east policy joins us via skype now from boston good to speak with you again timothy i want to ask you first of all what it what is the impact of an attack like this going to be on the tourism sector in egypt to take a this time a year or you know i think. any high profile attack.

doctors international headlines it's a concern with respect to. what. might happen to egypt as want to correct a couple of things that were said in the initial report tourism does not happen when you're forty percent egyptian economy and there hasn't been an uptick in attacks on force in egypt actually it's it's gone down and there is a very unfortunate incident on a set of standards but compared to a measure again attack and things like that we haven't seen anything we haven't seen actually a very high level of that and while tourism was down very low around two thousand and sixteen is directly said it's actually been moving up quite a bit last couple of years so there's just a couple of things that need to be down updated. appreciate that. i want to ask you as well what's your assessment of how the government has handled this attack and the whole security situation in egypt. i mean i think it's a little it's a little early to tell what kind of response will come together. and how

investigators will see. i think that it's unfortunate government chose to engage in something that has a habit of doing it just sounded like lame from the outset by saying that the bus took the route rather than the one that was agreed upon and secured. fact matter it's. a bus of tourists or a bunch of anyone was attacked. and the fact that this happened in the capitol is all the more troubling. the focus of beautiful stories right now to be assisting the victims and trying to get to the bottom of this rather than focusing on whether or not they made a mistake clearly there was a failure if any where this could happen in cairo and. get to speak with you timothy coude joining us there in boston thank you graham now the united nations says rebels in yemen have begun handing over responsibility

for the port city of data to u.n. coordinators it is part of a cease fire deal with between the hoodies and the government all parties have agreed to open transport routes to allow aid through starting with the how to santa road the u.n. special envoy for yemen as welcome the president had his decision to pay salaries for all civil servants in hard data this month but in the southern city of tire as hundreds of people have joined a rally demanding better security from the government the protesters are angry over a number of recent assassinations they want local security forces to clamp down on a criminal groups allegedly responsible for the attacks. saudi u.a.e. forces are using child soldiers to fight the war in yemen that's according to interviews by the new york times thousands of young men from sudan have reportedly been recruited to fight on the promise of

a ten thousand dollars salary the report says other fighters come from the tribal armed group from darfur once known as the jan jaweed and are leading deployments in yemen witnesses say sudanese so soldiers are often ordered to the front lines were saudi and iraqi forces remain in safer areas catherine scheck dam is a researcher for the center for strategic studies she says saudi arabia must answer the allegations that uses child soldiers not just in yemen but in other parts of the world i don't think you know i think the issue of child soldiers is concerned this is not the first time that this idea have you know have to answer to such allegations they have used householders not just in yemen but across the world you know to to fight their war basically and no i'm still whole has that actually challenge them whenever we have tried an expert have raised the issue it was always kind of shut down you know by the saudi lobby so i think that it is it is a good way i think it's a good progress today in

a sense that this is coming out of the new york times and they should be talked about because this saudi have commits a great many wall crimes not just in yemen but i think in several other country including sudan of course and it's time you know for us to talk about it and actually talent the saudi government and hold them accountable for the crime that they have committed and i'm afraid that so far it hasn't been done so i think that you know this these peace agreements in yemen and this development for the united nations is a really good step forward in trying to i think to add that longer enforce riyad you know to to face up to the crime that he has waited and continue to commit by the way. it's early as prime minister says he wants to stop arms sales to saudi arabia giuseppe conti says he intends to take an official stand against selling weapons used for the war in yemen the government announced last october it was considering the move after the murder of journalists. the truth of the murder must be established at any cost this comes in line with the

general idea of stopping arms sales to saudi we will monitor the kingdom's behavior over the coming weeks after that a decision will be made we do not prefer to sell arms to saudi arabia and it is now a matter of translating this desire into an official stance then evaluate the outcomes and then respond on the basis of sudan security forces have arrested another senior opposition leader as anti-government protests there continue police using tear gas on protesters in the capital hard to him and other cities on friday forces also raided the homes of students they suspect of planning sabotage people are angry over rising prices and the government's running of the country they want president ahmed but she had to step down after twenty nine years in office several prominent opposition figures have also been detained over the last week has been morgan has this update from khartoum. anti-government protests have been

growing with demonstrators demand that president i'm going to bashir and his twenty nine year rule and step down now the protests started last week in the city of god better when there was no bread in the city which made people marshalls in the streets but that quickly escalated to around the country with people demanding that president obama was here step down now the government has been responding with what the u.n. and other foreign governments have described as excessive brutal force the government has been using tear gas and live ammunition to try to disperse protesters and prevent them from gathering in large numbers that hasn't stopped in the past three days on thursday specifically the government arrested my opposition figures on friday the government also arrested the head of the sudanese congress party one of the opposition parties in the country it also announced that it has arrested several students which it said was responsible for killing several courses as well as trying to plot terror attacks around the country they said that the students were working with the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid law and that it was trying to destabilize the country and i would stop here wonderful and several protests have

been called for in the thirty first of december protesters say that they will continue to demand president omar bashir step down an m s international says thirty seven people have been killed in protests as of monday the government is saying that only nineteen people have been killed and over four hundred have been injured but there are concerns that as protesters say they will continue to protest against the government as the government continues to use live ammunition and tear gas to disperse them there will be more lives lost and more people will be injured. has been more unrest in the eastern democratic republic of congo over the exclusion of three areas from sunday's election two people were killed at a workers' strike in the city of beni on friday and police fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters in goma one presidential candidate has filed a case of the supreme court trying to reverse the election commission's decision to delay voting until march in those areas our correspondent catherine soy joins us now from kinshasa so katherine how how ready is the electoral commission to

hold this election on sunday. well the electoral commission has a week at. war less likely sixty percent maybe people do not trust the process people do not trust their left commission we have seen today somebody materials we wanted to polling stations in areas where the security problems in some areas in the east this material being hit by the military and the police and the president all the electoral commission then. the jhana live. and he said that he is confident that he will leave a good election. to see. its.

members. starts to sign that's just zionist discussions towards good discussions going on. discussing. at that meeting he was talking about how then is between the thought an african regional bloc that a presidential candidate and saying that the electoral commission and basically they were signing a code of conduct declare ration to keep the peace during this process we've been told that the electrical mission has signed that document. ruling coalition candidate dari has also signed that document but two other main presidential candidates. have refused to sign that declaration saying that they need to

negotiate more than all. back to fight with what's in this thing that's things that needs to be done before they sign that document so negotiations are still going on but people are very concerned a lot of people have talked to i saying that if the election is disputed then potentially there could be violence and this is a big concern. all right catherine sawyer live for us there in the democratic republic of congo can chuff. security forces in bangladesh are on high alert the day before the general election campaign ended with more arrests and violence the main opposition the bangladesh nationalist party saying thousands of its activists have been detained since november prime minister as you know who is running is running for a third term in office. is live for us now from the capital dhaka such as how

are they preparing for this. well certainly according to the government. security forces from various different branches of the military the intelligence the police service have been deployed in preparation for this election and meanwhile these very serious allegations continue from the opposition here the opposition saying that at least ten thousand six hundred supporters and members of various different parties and groups have been detained in recent weeks we spoke to one opposition member today a candidate taking part in this election he said that in the last two weeks at least two hundred supporters of his had been arrested by the police by security services as they left his home carrying what he described as election papers and stickers in support of him. human rights watch international the rights

organization says that the atmosphere here in bangladesh at the moment one of fear and repression is not conducive with holding credible elections at this moment there's also been allegations made to the government that there's been a serious crackdown on media coverage journalists complaining of creasing the harsh defamation law. journalists are very afraid seemingly of of traveling to certain air. areas of this country to try and cover these elections and then of course today earlier today we saw what had been announced earlier by the government but this this reduction in the speed of the inside of the internet here going from four g. in some places down to two g. the government say this is necessary to stop what it describes as the spreading of false news so if you speak to people on the streets as we have been today as well

they seem very determined to come out and cast their ballots in this election tomorrow but they are very concerned about the violence the violence that they've seen reported in some of the newspapers here and they're concerned about their livelihoods and the effect that it could have on their business people going to the polls tomorrow in an atmosphere certainly according to the opposition and some of the people that we've spoken to an atmosphere of great fear and trepidation. char slicer charles strafford life for steri and. now bangladesh has put in internet restrictions ahead of the parliamentary elections in a bid to fight what it calls propaganda or he has been looking into this as or has him as a child already mentioned authorities in bangladesh have restricted instead access by suspending and slowing down three g. and also four g. seven says for several hours the full sunday's general elections

a spokesman for the telecommunication regulator commission says the decision was taken to prevent rumors and propaganda surrounding the votes always spoke to people in the capital this is what one that concerns us had to say. currently there is no free geography here prior to election most of the citizens living in town were originally to. be traveling outside to their home districts and when traveling by the time is very crucial to words is a barrier to a communication that we are not going to have our three g. during this period and people are frustrated because the government promised that our countries cannot improve digital but then we are really being held behind by this all right scripts have also raising concerns over what they are calling voter suppression human rights watch published a report this week saying that the authorities have to use a number of laws to restrict free speech and also talk at government opponents and

also critics the government has ordered several units to censor the internet and also detain uses accuse of spreading rumors or anti states activity bangladesh has more than ninety two million uses online and the government has blocked social media including things like facebook and egypt in the past as a professor in the us she explains why people are more cautious about expressing their opinions internet services in been with before the election is. very inconvenient because it's the opposition can't upload videos and information to their supporters people cannot record or take photographs of voting eerie regularities which are expected and there have already been some reports of opposition arrests even this morning and you know people are not being able to capture this on video or on photographs which makes them even more suspicious about

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this is why you should take a look at the top stories trending on our web site i just did a dot com there you see the events in and around the. the city of man bids are of great interest to two of us their number one story u.s. commanders propose kurdish fighters in syria keep weapons and saudi arabia recruit stuff for children for yemen war a story we told you about earlier it's all there for you al-jazeera dot com. now britain's second. treating

a rise in attempts by migrants to cross the english channel from france as a major incident sajid javid remarks come as nearly seventy people were stopped in recent days trying to get to the u.k. by crossing one of the world's busiest shipping lanes in small boats jet it is seeking an urgent call with french leaders over the weekend with two correspondents covering this story for us sonia gago is in dover the home of the main port linking the u.k. to the european mainland across the english channel is bernard smith in cali france let's go to sonya first so sonia it certainly seems that this is a big worry in the u.k. that this could get bigger. oh that's right and it's not just about the numbers which are relatively small compared to some of the numbers that we've seen in the mediterranean but it's really exactly how it's

happened recently this surge when you compare it to last year it really has gone up quite exponentially here and this is what the border force a are concerned about it's what the politicians are concerned about and also exactly how to tackle this as well while this has been declared a major incident by the home secretary. really how to go about it there are two different camps really you have one camp that believes that perhaps the navy needs to be brought on with this while the other a company politicians say that it is really what they do a terrific job in other areas this is not really their remit they've got other things to do and if this is really the job of the border force patrols now you have some of those deployed in the mediterranean what they say needs to happen is that they need to be brought back so they can actually deal with this situation how but most importantly as well what needs to happen is that there needs to be a consistent working with the french authorities on this that is what they say is

really going to help the situation as for now that both sides have been through quite tentative about exactly how much they're helping each other on this issue as well but also the border force patrol have been saying that they've been talking about how much help they've been needed for this how much support they're needing because they could see this coming and they need to have more support as well as more vessels currently they have about five vessels but only one is operational they say frankly that's not going to do the job and that they need the home secretary to be able to be able to deliver on that support if they're going to be able to do their job properly so in your thank you let's go to burn a smith in cali so bernard what sort of conditions are the migrants leaving there that would compel them to make such a perilous journey. other in desperate conditions here housing we were one of the small camps not far from where i am now earlier

today about six hundred migrants there from africa from afghanistan a lot from iran in really pathetic conditions just tents and no facilities there no electricity no sanitation no food apart from something the ngos might bring along charities might bring along and then i frequently these camps moved along by the police so you can understand why people might take these desperate measures to try and cross from cali to dover what they're struggling to answer here they are for it is why suddenly people are going by boat one theory is that of course tens of millions of dollars has been spent on strengthening kalai ports the fencing around it the c.c.t.v. that patrols send in that port to try and stop people jumping onto lorries stowing away on lorries trying to jump on trains that sort of thing that was a common way of crossing so because that has become so much difficult there is a suggestion that people are now so desperate that the trying to go by sea because

you're seeing behind me it's a cold windy day here the channel is rough there's a strong currents there's a strong breeze it's freezing water enormous risks that people are clearly put prepared to take to make it to the other side of the channel awesome bernard smith and so on you guy you go reporting to for us there on both sides of the english channel thank you all really joins us now with. with the braggs a controversy that's quite a lot of outrage online that's right has and the u.k. home office has person this video on there is a telling your nationals that they need to apply if they want to stay in the u.k. after december twenty twenty this is post brags that some of that.

well u.k. prime minister tourism a has said that all three million citizens currently living legally in the u.k. stay in the country often for exams but they have to apply well the application will be up and running by the end of march next year but it will be coming at a cost eighty two dollars for adults and hoff of that amount for younger children those are those that are under the age of sixteen then they'll be no charges for those who have indefinite leave to stay in the u.k. or permanent residence and e.u. nationals will be grouped into settled or pre settle status depending on how long they've lived in the u.k. all this is all sparked outrage online concerns of immigration is one of the main drivers behind the braves a vote and many you citizens have deep roots in britain thousands have responded to

the home office video on twitter saying that it's bad timing residents like laura here she's calling this sickening saying it makes her feel unwelcome off to twenty years of living in the u.k. the mayor of london has also tweeted saying you should not have to pay to stay and or does the government to scrap what he calls an unfair fee so creasy from the opposition labor party agrees she calls on the u.k. to do better than this and the conservative m.p. chris phillips og use many you countries already do the same thing referring to it's only as an example. well just as a side note many online also notice that the pictures used in this campaign video actually stock photos as you can see here previously years for adverts in australia the us and also canada some according this insensitive authority how the home office presents them as happy new millennial. what do you think of the scheme let

us know is the hash tag his good as a thanks very much for here now taking a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a two year old boy who is being treated in the u.s. hospital has just died just days after his yemeni mother reached him to say her final goodbye council on american islamic relations sued the trumpet ministration to allow the mother of the last am to enter the u.s. after she was refused under the president's travel ban the boy and his father are u.s. citizens but his mother is not the law died of a genetic brain condition israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in brazil where he's promising to develop a stronger ties with israel he's been meeting the president elect. in rio de janiero it is the first visit by an israeli leader to the country no mention though of both scenarios proposal to move the brazilian embassy in israel from tel aviv to

jerusalem john homan has more on this now from south paolo. incoming brazilian president try able sonando 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 is he done this is 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 of his own seeing 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 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 also not of his own so pledged 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 who was ever here. and it's hard to believe that the context for. you because. the brother. you mention is really. competitive great question is what is the problem with. 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 i. we're also not always well would like to break with the party 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 welcomed 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 all positive for brazil we have to see how it plays out and how want to be president of the country that's going to happen on the first of january joey abell so not all looks to handle that relationship with israel and also with palestine of france and germany are demanding russia release ukrainian sailors and their ships captured in the as of scene last month russian

forces detained twenty four sailors saying their vessels crossed into russian territorial waters ukraine says they're being treated as prison of of war which means they want to have a chance to stand trial russia says they will be tried on board of violation offenses extreme weather has hit the northern united states forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and contributing to the deaths of at least three people temperatures plummeted in the states of minnesota and nebraska with snow up to thirty centimeters deep and in southern states including alabama heavy rains have caused homes and businesses to be flooded. oh you want to remind you you can get in touch with us anytime we want to hear from you on the story send us your comments to our online platforms twitter use the hashtag a.j. news great our handle is a.j. english on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at nine seven four five zero one trip or one

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all right it's going to look at what people talk about in sports today as far as and thank you so much a hot topic on social media that's been trending a dramatic football match in italy chris john and all the break another record becoming the highest scoring portuguese player in syria history or know the score two goals to give the side eventis a two one win over sampdoria he has fourteen goals in the italian league a league he has just joined this season he finishes twenty eighteen with forty nine goals. now you would have seen washington state in iowa state trending on saturday that's because the two teams were playing in this year's alamo bowl just one of the many bowl games played and college football the washington state cougars beat the iowa state cyclons twenty eight to twenty six for their eleventh win this season sixty thousand fans watched this in the stadium in san antonio and many more of you were following it on social media for various reasons for one take a look at the cougars quarterback gardner minshew who was named m.v.p.

nicknamed the mississippi mustache he turned up in san antonio earlier this week looks like something from a nineteen in the seventy's disco he ran in a touchdown and threw for two more and has become something of a local celebrity many people sharing this photo saying garden men shoe is not the hero we deserve but the hero we need as his success grew so does influence on fans thousands of quarters have been wearing replicas stick on mustaches to home games this season and as this is a senior year he'll go into the draft in twenty one thousand were many more fans could one day name their children after him as well as inspiring the team to success in the seven months he's been with the cougars character came at a time when the team needed him the most as they recovered from tragedy in january the man who should have been their starting corner quarterback tyler hill in ski committed suicide an autopsy on his brain showed that twenty one year old had

c.t.e. as a condition caused by traumatic brain injury which has been found in hundreds of former football players but none as young as he was symptoms include depression memory loss and mood swings his parents and set up a foundation to promote mental health awareness among students athletes or earlier we spoke to n.f.l. writer carbon zion about the pressure young players can be under at the top level. it was really cool comeback story not only were they a very difficult team this year but you know they lost their back a quarterback last year tyler who in ski back in january twenty eighth seemed to suicide after he had a really big game couple games last year he committed suicide after the season which is obviously very difficult for him his community and his teammates and it's just one of those things where college athletes get through

a lot with school and in football practice and they have incredibly high expectations and. you know to be a starting quarterback at a big ten school so a lot of pressure i think resources school a school are very different some schools have a tremendous amount of resources absolutely other schools probably not so much so schools that have the resources and. the technology to understand what is happening with people's brains but also then to provide and research to resources to make sure that you are in term b. and i think are very invested in and probably all of those resources are not available to everybody at all levels so let us know what you think you can tweet me directly at f. and to score a smile we'll be back with more in one thousand nine hundred g.m.t. professional hand you back to have them thanks for now a top chef in peru is using food waste to transform the diet of poor communities in

a country where sixty million people suffer from malnutrition money on ascension is met with those who are learning how to turn vegetable skins into delicious meals for those in need. there's. a master class from one of b. to stop 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 the must 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 want 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 coming to be does this she know 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 they really like up 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 ways if you are coping. and food waste says the chef has the most nutrients but says doctors and nutritionists have evaluated the result of a change in the diet hearing lutie in on the outskirts of lima and more than one hundred thirty cooks are already trained and the leon 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 at our 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 meter says the use of tons of food waste will not only make people healthier but it's one solution to tackle climate change. their one is we should stop generating why speaker. 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 of the innocent just i just see the looting. all right that'll do it for the news good remember to keep in touch with us on social media the hash tag as ever is a.j. news get all the other ways to connect to right there we'll see you back here syria fourteen fifteen hundred g.m.t. on sunday.

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moves fifty tanks to the syrian border as its defense and foreign minister flights of russia to discuss the u.s. troop pullout. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program yemen's who seemed rebel start handing control of a vital part of the data to the navy and coast guard under.