because i happen to live in greece somehow imus and i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. has i'm sick of this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes planning for life after the u.s. troops leave syria turkey and russia plot a new course in the region egypt returns fire security forces kill what they say were forty terrorists in a crackdown after friday's attack on

a tourist bus. the u.k. on alert after a jump in the number of migrants crossing the english channel from france plus in for christiane or an elder ensure. their unbeaten record in the area schools twice for the league leaders in a suit one win over some. other balance of power in northern syria appears to be shifting after the move to withdraw u.s. forces russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other there the deal was struck at a meeting in moscow between the foreign and defense ministers from each side the turkish tents have now crossed into syria fifty were sent to the southern border in the last twenty four hours they're getting ready to launch a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces. a kurdish forces though invited the syrian army on friday to enter man

bridge and protect the city from a turkish attack although there is no evidence that's happened and that of course follows the decision by u.s. president donald trump to withdraw all two thousand american soldiers from northern syria more now from hamad out o. in gaziantep on the turkey syria border. of turkey stunts roll into syria. and korea has been bolstering its military positions along with south of border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the kurdish held city of mumbai is syria syria global's backed by turkey are also on the move both inside areas of syria and the techies sway and along the eight hundred twenty two kilometer border between the two countries kurdish forces are miles from friday that they have been forced to cut a deal with president bashar assad after they were abundant by donald trump or nonstop the complete withdrawal of u.s.

troops from syria a little over a week ago. here syrian troops deployed in support of kut his forces seen on the edge of mom beach their deployment creates a government buffer a cool small phone city which fully separates the tukey and its proxies from the kurds but they are yet to enter the city of money bitch as they claimed on friday. we haven't seen any movement of the syrian army in my beach all we see are the military council of money huge numbers the conflicting reports from them but perhaps sure the cales thoughts likely to ensue of that and of the sixty to one hundred day timetable for the withdrawal of u.s. troops with the remaining fighting forces in syria has come to replace them in moscow on high level toughest immigration led by foreign minister lute children children's health talks with russian foreign and defense ministers they discuss the

situation in syria as u.s. forces flip it to withdrawal from the turkish foreign minister had this to say. listen super nine understanding was reached on 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 since syria. we discussed the latest developments in syria with regards to the u.s. decision to withdraw from the country we exchange views on how we can coordinate our efforts from now on we stressed our resolve to fight against terrorist organizations we have a common will to clear all terror organizations from syrian lands. to also result in respect serious to the total integrity something diplomats say might spell a bigger role for government forces in the tissue held areas of the north east. with the syrian opposition groups which can be on the un back political process in topples bashar al assad is now trying to shape is what i asked the un is already

looking for funds to rebuild the country the us troops pull out how about threatens to open up any for other regional opt outs like iran and tukey something assad's opponents can't counter mohamed at all just the into gaza. i spoke to joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says man because it's part of a much bigger power play between all the countries involved in the war in syria the u.s. hasn't decided yet whether it's going to pull out in a month as frump of great ridgeley 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 league. 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 support for puppet 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 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 d g the kurdish militia to have lots of guns and to have independence on its border this is very good obviously for the charlotte side of the syrian government that has a good negotiating position now where the y 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 in 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 of 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 those kurdish language which they could not do before . nehru's their their new year's parades in other cultural elements in your schools but not an independent military aside this 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. our security forces in egypt say they have killed forty people they're calling terrorists during a gun battle that follows friday's attack on a tourist bus three vietnamese tourists and their egyptian the egyptian guy died in

a bomb blast just south side cairo near the pyramids of giza rob matheson reports. a burned out shell all the trimmings of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near kabul and that's just 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 would told us. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in new york ok but 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 tourists in egypt have sometimes been targeted as the government has tried 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 would be asking how is it that within hours of this attack this large number of suspects was not only identified but in gauged in successfully killed if the intelligence within egypt is that good why were there 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 in egypt's heavily secured capital rob matheson al-jazeera. now the united nations says hooty rebels in yemen have handed over responsibility for the fourth of a day death to un coordinators it is part of a ceasefire deal between the who tease and the government all parties have agreed to open transport routes to allow aid through starting with the holiday to santa rosa the u.n. special envoy for yemen has welcomed president months ahead these decision to pay salaries for civil servants in a day this month but in the southern city of tire is hundreds of people have joined a rally demanding better security from the government protesters are angry over a number of recent killings they want local security forces to clamp down on criminal groups allegedly responsible for the attack saudi u.a.e. forces fighting in yemen are using child soldiers that's according to interviews in the new york times thousands of young men from sudan have reportedly been recruited

to fight with the promise of a ten thousand dollars salary report says more experienced fighters from the tribal militia in darfur once known as the jan jaweed are also fighting there witnesses say sudanese soldiers are often ordered to the front lines are saudi and amorality forces remain in safer areas nasir army is a journalist based in sana'a he says all yemenis know the fighting is being done by mercenaries. it is not to my surprise it is not to surprise of anyone in yemen because we know from the first day from day one that saudi arabia has been using miss interest from sudan and from everywhere so i don't i am wondering what what if there is any be able a whole god surprise why they are surprised i mean it's very natural saudi

arabia saudi arabia and immigrates are fighting and it was missing their east war. and yes in sudan and recent sudan's maybe very cheap and they are and they get killed almost every day. but i think this is a as thing of this race on sudan is a prison. we know that sudan is the people refused this completely and even the balance the sudanese balance refused this many times. but it is not to our surprise at all because we know that. saudi arabia is your using the most interest from everywhere not only from so dud. it's a nice prime minister says he wants to stop all arms sales to saudi arabia giuseppe conti says he intends to take an official stand against selling weapons to be used

in the war in yemen denmark finland germany and norway have all decided to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia follows international outrage in the murder of journalist america shall be. 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 where it is now a matter of translating this desire into an official stance then evaluate the outcomes and then respond on their faces. are plenty more ahead on this news hour we look back on a violent election campaign in bangladesh where people will vote on sunday. head to head in the democratic republic of congo report on the man hoping to win big in sunday's vote there. and later we'll hear from boxing legend floyd mayweather who claims he could sleepwalk its way through his latest fights.

are millions of voters in the democratic republic of congo go to the polls on sunday to choose a new president and elect a new parliament the vote was promised two years ago and has been long awaited in many opposition areas catherine soy reports now from kinshasa on the man expected to lead the race. posters of politicians line almost every street in kinshasa the twenty one presidential candidate on the ballot paper how to respond out. is a ruling party candidate and outgoing president could be less a passable choice his critics say he's not suitable because he's and the european union functions and is not popular but he supporters aggy he's best placed for the post. is different positions. the

congolese reality he put first of all the interest of the country interest of the people and. later his own interests. this is. has been described as the accidental candidate who is little known outside and is nominated back. to prominent and popular politicians. and. who are excluded from the election are backing him i want to give. and i have to have. we have to leave because. every year. at least five million. is the leader of the largest opposition party. he's. inexperienced and only

riding on the popularity of his late father the founder of the party. i have more political experience than some of my opponents i joined politics twenty five years ago and i started from the bottom i was chosen to lead the party grassroots and succeeded to where i am i am my father's son but also my own. condo. much the same deal. and corruption provide the basics jobs education health care but an economic strategy to talk to some of those pledges are not realistic and maybe hard to implement we need to plan ahead this country we need to. at least we know that. we don't need to flush out the results we don't need. we need to transform the country the election process has been counted and many people are not confident the

poor will be credible but those we talked to say they will vote anyway if in waiting for two years for the opportunity. joins me live now from kinshasa so mark on what's been happening there are we heard from martin for you know in catherine's report there and we understand you've been talking to him as well what did he have to say. southern african development community center delegation to try and broker an agreement between the presidential candidates and get them to sign an agreement committing to a peaceful election this is signed by the ruling party and that it. was. said that he would only sign the agreement also clauses obliging the electoral commission to fulfill its obligations and he said the electoral commission should.

be giving everyone opportunity to vote tallying the votes in a transparent way that those calls it weren't so. polls give a substantially clear lead the other candidate. would be even. when he came out of that meeting but to the press right critical of the electoral commission let's hear what he had. said that about five million people. one point two million people in beni attend three. electoral commission said participate. more as poll. also said that because of lack of preparedness shortage of materials

in other parts of the country there are three million more people who want to go to the polls in this very skeptical of the electoral commission's most. people will be heading to the polls in just about twelve hours from now and here in the capital kinshasa where we're expecting to see long lines of people trying to those lines ok . even longer because about a fifth of the polling stations planned to go. in so places will be redirected the other polling stations people are expecting problems. with waiting to see how this has been controversial election history. marcum back so that malcolm webb in kinshasa. and i gerry and head to the polls in twenty nineteen to elect a president and new parliament more than one thousand political parties have registered for the february vote in africa's largest democracy but the race for the presidency

is expected to be between two dominant parties. looks at preparations for the. for the fourth year nigeria's former ruling party the people's democratic party p.d.p. is adjusting to the unaccustomed role of being in a position the party dominated the country's political landscape for sixteen years with landslide victories in elections but all that changed in twenty fifteen when for the first time a sitting president of the ruling party lost power since then its been reinventing itself trying to shape of an image suggesting impunity and corruption. the ruling all progressives congress on the other hand is in power for the first time since nigeria's return to democracy in one thousand nine hundred eight road to victory following widespread discontent with the p.d.p. but critics say the party has lost some of that goodwill. and there's disappointment as specially from civil society organizations about the complaints

the different parties are running their sin t.v.'s and level of desperation from both sides especially from the william party and image of opposition political parties the way and manner in which the full extent from both parties can pay any not encouraging activists say there is a real risk of voter apathy the two leading contenders for the presidency are seasoned campaigners. who's been vice president for eight years is promising to fix the economy and create jobs while president obama who heidi would run three times prior to his win in two thousand and fifteen says he'll fight corruption create jobs and end threat posed by the book quite an armed group in the north of the country both men are in their seventy's jerry has an unwritten tradition of rejecting the presidency between the north and south of the country which should mean it's the north so given the soudan is how that almost or nearly fourteen out

of the last twenty years but critics argue this arrangement limits the choice for more than eighteen million voters. it may look like a two way race but other candidates are challenging the status quo saying there is little difference to choose between the two leading parties. who are the providers of their old nigeria and nigeria us last night and this is the best. if you give them another fifty years you're not going to deter it and interpreted for them. the presidential or national parliamentary elections shuttle for the sixteenth of every two weeks later voters will go to the polls again to choose governors and representatives for state parliament but it's not clear at this stage if the voter enthusiasm witnessed in print or fifty will be repeated. al-jazeera lagos nigeria. security forces in

bangladesh are on high alert on the eve of the general election where the campaign ended with more arrests and violence with the main opposition party saying thousands of its activists have been detained since november charles strafford reports. muhammad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the pan with this she capital for three years it sells cheap breakfast to rickshaw drivers and passers by but after weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday mohamed is afraid. of what might happen that violence will affect my life. prime minister sheikh hasina awami league which is seeking a third consecutive five year term in power has denied accusations of intimidating opposition candidates and journalists. the leader of the main opposition bangladesh

nationalist party leaders zia is serving a ten year jail term for two separate corruption cases it's estimated around six hundred thousand members of various security forces including the military police have been deployed for sunday's election opposition party say at least ten thousand six hundred of their supporters have been detained in the run up to these elections and at least seventeen of the candidates now the organization human rights watch says that the atmosphere of fear and repression is not consistent with holding credible elections and some opposition candidates say that members of the security forces and supporters of the ruling party have surrounded their homes stop them from leaving and prevented them from campaigning in their local areas. at least ten people have been killed during election campaigning from both sides this video shows what the opposition says was an attack by ruling party supporters on

a group of opposition politicians including the man leading the b.n.p. alliance while the party's leader. is in prison cya double barcus of the was among those at times they were arrested every day on an average of twenty people till yesterday that he's twenty eight december in eighteen days two hundred plus people those are carrying my election the trio's either leaflet or pamphlet or stickers saying louder in j two hundred plus people is that all my hard core leaders and workers. the international community has praised prime minister sina for handling of one of the largest refugee crises of the world. hold in seven hundred thousand ready just fled a violent crackdown in myanmar into bangladesh in two thousand and seventeen. the world bank has also praised bangladesh fruits strong economic growth of over six

percent in recent years. most of these campaign ban is a for the ruling party an indication of media control very few opposition posters a scene on the streets. that are dense isolated incidents i have no doubt it has happened in the past it is happening now but we accept it without. our very thinking i would think you might be. back at the restaurant one hundred says he will vote for an opposition candidate in the election whatever the outcome it is violence jewellery and after the vote that many people like you feel the most. daca. still ahead on al-jazeera what's so the agent about greece's plan to destroy thousands of illegal buildings we report from athens. and sport the former captain of england's national team is celebrating the pay when in

scotland. some wintry weather and see central parts of china a chance of a little more snow as we go on through the next cool enough down towards the southeastern corner of the main area cladistic the sea is across the philippines central parts now being affected by the trouble who depression making its way through outer bands of that storm still bringing some fairly heavy showers longer spells of rain into lose on and it's more of the same as we go on sunday on into monday we'll see the cooler the draftee weather making its way down towards the southeast of china seventeen souses there four on gold single figures further north shanghai no woman than about eight degrees celsius and crisp sunshine coming through here hazy sunshine may want across northern parts of india that's if you

dig gets any the reluctant fog still sits in place for many new delhi will see temperatures again struggling to get to around twenty degrees celsius so a little higher than the recently percent a cold at night one of two showers into southern parts of india possibility of a little but a shabby right just pushing its way towards the like i think it should stay last you try well to see the odd shadows creeping up the west and guess as we go on through the next couple of days how do you see here in a study. this weekend. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing the realities. from the very beginning of the school providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera you. use

. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very close was probably on anybody if they articulate. those people who see everything as something to invest a profit of they want. up to the last drop on al-jazeera.

but again you're watching i just did a reminder of our top stories this hour russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate their operations in more than syria after the u.s. has withdrawn all its forces from the region the deal was struck at a meeting in moscow between the foreign and defense ministers from each side. egypt's interior ministry says forty people it calls terrorists have been killed in three separate raids that's after friday's attack on a tourist bus near the pyramids outside cairo where four people were killed. the united nations says who the rebels in yemen have handed over responsible. thirty for the quarter of her data to un coordinate is part of a ceasefire deal between the who peace and the government. a potential breakthrough in the trade spat between the u.s. and china in the last hour u.s. president donald trump and china's xi jinping confirmed they've spoken over the

phone about resolving their differences let's get the latest now from. washington so she had what more do we know on this. it really does seem like there's a mutual appreciation and support society that seems to develop between donald trump and chinese state media first we had that tweet from donald trump where he said that things were going very well just had a long and very good cool with president xi of china he wrote deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subjects areas and points of dispute big progress being made exclamation about from donald trump and we had chinese state media confirming that that phone call took place of the president she had told donald trump he hoped to push forward a sign a u.s. relationship that coordinated that that is coordinated corporative and stable she had said apparently according to chinese media that the team's trade negotiations teams could meet each other hauffe way and reach agreement that is mutually beneficial as soon as possible both leaders extended the new year greetings to the

people of their respective countries we have got an announcement in recent days that a u.s. trade delegation will be going to beijing in january following what were described as intensive talks over the phone over the holiday over the holiday period and since the u.s. and china reached that at the beginning of december at the g. twenty we have seen china certainly give give a lot of ground that should have been steadily reducing tariffs on u.s. goods they published a draw floor just last week which extends intellectual property rights and protections also loosening the rules on foreign companies repatriating their money from china so definitely some a lot of movement from china as we get more and more signs of the chinese economy slowing so there is a certain amount of optimism here that some sort of there is some some movement before that cease fire ends of the white house can be contradictory sometimes it theoretically the march the u.s.

will raise the percentage of tariffs on chinese goods from ten percent to twenty five percent on the goods that they've selected so we do have that deadline coming up mileage but certainly all the indications are the things are moving ahead. all right she had thank you see have a tendency in washington and president trump is threatening to close the border with mexico if he doesn't get funding for his proposed war it's a raising of the stakes by trump in a standoff with democrats which has led to a partial government shutdown gabriel is on the reports from the city of el paso in texas 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 of volunteers like at the rockhouse cafe and 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. you know just fed people nor first outside and now that it's getting colder now inside with migrant detention centers and shelters full and no paso immigration officials have not ruled out continuing to dump migrant families on the streets to free up detention space the border is increasingly becoming politicized here in el paso far away from the whole sort 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 president donald trump threatened 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 case is creating to feed to his base and to to to build this ridiculous war which is not going to help in anything but at this same time he's promoting the criminalization of immigrants incarceration of children and the mistreatment of for 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 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 a britain's home secretary is treating

a rise in attempts by migrants to cross the english channel from france as a major incident nearly seventy people were stopped in small boats in recent days trying to get to the u.k. by crossing one of the world's busiest shipping lanes sajid javid wants to call in the royal navy and is urging the french government to do more than. a sunny day go has moved from dover. the numbers are relatively small still the rate at which it has been going up has been quite alarming for the authorities here in just the three days gone by sixty six people have been stopped trying to reach the u.k. the british coast here on these inflatable dinghies very unsuitable vessels with which to navigate through these extremely busy shipping lanes here and so with that the concern is according to the home secretary is that they want to monitor

the situation in case of loss of life that would happen one of these cases but also of course that race. for the tone of that is because they do they do not want to see any more accidents happening across the channel as well of course there are fears that this is happening because of the oncoming breck's it issue of course and the fear is also that the smuggling groups on the other side of the channel on the french side have formed and have managed to convince people that perhaps this is their only opportunity in which they're able to make a crossing to the u.k. if that is where they want to wind up it's three years since more than one million refugees and migrants enter germany most fled the war in syria at the time the government said they could successfully be integrated into german society but despite strong opposition from conservatives and far right groups from berlin

dominic cain looks at how successful some of those efforts have been it's a busy morning for him he's a software developer at the cloak and steel workshop and. he's an important part of an international team to see him at work you'd never think three years ago he was a refugee one whose progress chancellor angela merkel has seen for herself. his is a success story but he says because he used his own initiative there is a lot here and if i waited to get the german class i would be doing nothing i would be waiting because i first lived with three hundred people the first six months and . and if i waited. or something i think people should not things in their own hands but what of the many others who were drawn by the open borders and merkel's determined humanitarianism the vast majority of those who came in twenty

fifteen received refugee status and with it housing welfare and help to learn german but many who arrived since have not been so fortunate and has struggled to get more than temporary jobs people like who know about him who status remains unresolved a few months ago he told me of his experience since twenty fifteen is when. i get the political situation in iraq was not safe for me i wanted to be able to lead a normal life and freedom but so far here i haven't found the government agency that regulates this entire sector is this one the federal employment ministry and it says that in october eighteen thousand asylum applications were processed all of which around two out of five cases saw a positive outcome last month one hundred seventy seven thousand refugees were registered as an employed a slight increase on the same time period from last year all together three hundred seventy three thousand refugees are classified as being underemployed. so why

has germany struggled to integrate so many people in the refugee population that arrives in germany many don't have that vocational training because it's quite a young population so there is a massive challenge just to training people on the job and then there is an issue of legal certainty that i'm going to america who once said integrating so many people would be one of the biggest challenges modern germany has ever faced but i mean really how he is one of many who have prospered but there are many more who have not done it came out zero berlin just for we go to break i want to show you the latest tweet from donald trump but this is the story we're told were covering earlier about the ongoing shutdown over the his border wall has just tweeted this right now any deaths of children or others at the border

are strictly the fault of the democrats and their affected immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally they can't if we had a war they wouldn't even try the two. chip the two children in question were very sick before they were given over to border patrol the father of the young girl said it was not their fault he hadn't given her water in days border patrol needs the war and it will and they are working so hard and getting so little credit so president trump upping the ante there in the war of words between himself and democrats doubtless there will be plenty more reaction to those latest tweets from the u.s. president so time for a quick break now when we come back in sports a record breaking moment for this skier and he will be here with that story short.

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and again the news ceasefire between russian backed separatists and government forces in eastern ukraine is due to begin on saturday that's after the construction of a border fence by russia sealing off crimea several european leaders have condemned the barrier and are calling for a definitive end to the conflict katia low points hold diane reports. this border fence is meant to divide more than land the barrier built by russia separates an excuse me a from ukraine barbed wire and hundreds of sensors are now part of heightened security in the shadows of an ongoing conflict he done as you can see on the computer 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 since 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 that's consequences for far too long with the fence now complete many wonder if it will also be a barrier in ending russia's conflict with ukraine katia locus of the yuan al-jazeera a greece's demolishing fountains of illegal buildings in an effort to bring proper regulation to the cost of history johnson reports. the bonuses have lived on this spot for almost thirty years that's how long it took over thirty years to fix them for trespassing on public land that mobile home has been condemned and so has that chicken coop but on demolition they thirty's allow them to move their home to legally rented land instead of destroying it. on the other side of athens another is less fortunate this holiday home is being torn down

because it is on designated forest land the forest burned down thirty three years ago and while governments failed to replant a number of homes sprang up now the government is carrying out demolitions that have traditionally been put off. there are legal buildings everywhere the mistake is that they weren't demolished when they were built after all these years it might be the right thing to do but people spend their lives there they sunk money into their homes and no one told them they couldn't connect water and power because they were illegal they always cut the utilities before elections to natural disasters cause this policy change floods caused by heavy rainfall last year drowned at least two dozen people west of athens in addition to trespassing the blueness is positioned their home in the wrong place at the confluence of two river beds where the flooding began and last summer a wildfire fanned by strong winds killed one hundred people on the east side of the city in a community made entirely of the legal homes on wooded land this house is one of

thirty two hundred illegal structures being felt across the great athens area many of these demolition orders have been pending for decades but the government says it will now execute them and many thousands more nationwide the question is whether this sudden outbreak of lawfulness will send the message home and prevent future illegal construction some people believe these demolitions are just a continuation of greece's permissive legal culture in which people have paid to legalize homes retroactively this dawned on me moby the new construction code does not legalize the most serious offenders it allows them to pay a fine and hold on to their legal property for another thirty years they are effectively paying a long term lease to keep the state off their back after that they don't know what will happen that the system is completely fluid the government is now deepening the dry riverbed. where last year's flooding occurred it is also putting the building permit in process on line in an effort to curb corruption but in

a country where many structures were built without due process both of these measures may not amount to much jumps at opel us al-jazeera athens. girls warner has entered a thanks so much has christiane arnold i was given says his stall man as they continued their unbeaten run and it's a nice area the league leaders beating some doria say one but it was a win that came with its fair share of controversy as lee harding ripples. eventis were taking on sampdoria in their final game before syria's mid-season break the league leaders were aiming to maintain their unbeaten league record and cristiana rinaldo gave them the perfect start moving ahead after just two minutes. the same jory are targeting champions league qualification and late in the first half the video assistant referee intervened on their behalf handball decision went in their favor and fabio stepped up to score the equaliser i

know rinaldo almost put his team back in front or early in the second half his and you base second goal did eventually arrive in controversial circumstances again v.a.r. was involved in this time it was sampdoria feeling hard done by the referee decided this handball had been deliberate and that gave rinaldo the chance to score as you say pass one hundred goals for the year. simp doria thought they'd grab a last minute equaliser but v.a.r. would ruled this effort out for offside and knew they could celebrate a two one win al-jazeera. the school the only goal of the game in some alarms went against and. in that's how evil and will for the next two hundred matches behind closed door bouts of punishments for some of the fans racially abusing not place quality to the poly and that they must wednesday. right now english premier league leaders liverpool are taking on arsenal liverpool beginning the game six

points clear of their nearest rivals tottenham they're into the second half and failed the latest scores for once a liverpool earlier a setback that sought them in their title push was coming from a goal down so when three want wembley. it's not enough to play the sixty seventy minute you need to blame one thief a minute in your base late today with little world focus and the rest really means we concede to us defending champions manchester city are third in the table after two straight defeats city play southampton on sunday manager pep guardiola admitting he and his team facing a test of character now those are a big challenge for me to show myself good or not so oil when say i like to leave the situation but they know it's gone in full bull in all your career in there like to handle it we'll see prove myself good to. to help them to help each other to see if we can buy who we are glasgow rangers have moved level

with city rival celtic at the top of the scottish premiership rangers now managed by former liverpool england caps and steven gerrard beating defending champion celtic one nil in the old firm darby thanks to that goal from ryan jack ranges aim for a first british title win since twentieth. now india's cricketers are in sight of it see one series lead against australia then it just seemed more work is to wrap up victory in melbourne australia two fifty eight at the close of day four chasing a pretty unlikely victory target of three hundred and ninety nine it's one one in that four test series. first rounds it comes down to pretty much any test match you have apply if you can get thirsty runs in your base if we had the guy fortune we certainly know a back up against one patent on josh going to come out tomorrow and we were going to fall out we're going to show a lot of prod and go out there and fought our backsides often and share much of

mays with a. poem so often george become more definitive that. shrank as cricketers are on the brink of defeats in the second test against new zealand in christchurch three wickets in sri lanka slipped to see one hundred thirty one to six they still require more than four hundred runs chase an unlucky victory target that now the latest somewhat bizarre chapter in boxer floyd mayweather career will take place on monday the unbeaten fights are taking on a kickboxer in japan now my weather hasn't fought since e economy gregor more than a year ago for his fiftieth straight pro win is now taking on a kickboxing world champion to cohen despite nasri car was background no kicking will actually be allowed in this three round concept but i'm pretty sure he's taking the fight extremely serious and though i know he's probably work in our new gym there's not a day i don't i don't have to work hard in the gym for three rounds i can basically

do three rows or more sleep so i don't worry about the and us olympian mccalla shifrin has ended twenty eighteen is the most successful female slalom skier in world cup history and the last race of the american i did her thirty six victory by winning on saturday shift and also became the first ski a male female to win fifteen world cup races in a single calendar year schifrin still only twenty three years. ok there is high schools looking for now great stuff thanks and now vegetable skins are often thrown away but in peru where millions of mao nourished they're being turned into tasty and nutritious meals is merely an essential. there's. a master class from one of produce top chefs. 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 one of 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 government to be she cooks in a different way and it's paying off for us here i'm afraid 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 waste is huge for cooking. and food waste says the chef has the most nutrients but mido 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 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 meter says the use of tons of food waste will not only make people healthier but it's one solution to tackle climate change and. we should stop generating weiss because for. 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'm just i just looting. that's it for this news hour more news in two minutes what our colleagues in the. more with more diversity the new look of the u.s. congress what it needs for the first time on january third we'll ask what it means for the democrats and for president joining us for coverage of this historic step in american politics the news it was called on all to zero by maine's edition every

week a new cycle going to see any simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the outstanding ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the and aisle asian of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were caught on the story that matter the most in bad news a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. and london fourteen twelve on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed tonight face one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. on counting the cost the

economic factors to watch this be ringing in the new year why economists are predicting a rocky ride for the global economy and from china to the middle east find out why and where on mental storms could be pros. counting the cost on the. egypt says eight security forces have killed forty people they are calling terrorists following the attack on a terrorist boss. hello i'm in london you with al jazeera also coming up this hour turkey moves fifty tanks to the syrian border as its defense and farm.