on counting the cost of the economic factors to watch 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 the storms could be brewing. counting the cost on the. egypt says eight security forces have killed forty people they are calling terrorists following the attack on a terrorist. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you with al-jazeera also coming up this hour turkey moved fifty tanks to the syrian border as its defense and foreign minister fly to

russia to discuss the u.s. troop pullout. yemen's who's the rebels and control of the vital ports of her day to the navy and coast guard on the u.n. supervision. and to please the peace on the eve of the democratic republic of congo's controversial and long delayed election. welcome to the program we do begin with a breaking news story this hour has been another attack in egypt's north sinai region five members of the egyptian security forces this includes an officer of been killed in an explosion targeting the car that they were traveling in now they say happened in the city of which is the capital of north sinai so those are the details we have at the moment five members of the security forces have been killed

and of course we'll bring you more details as they come into wass but of course this comes off to egyptian security forces announced that they had killed forty people jaring grades in the sinai peninsula and great a coyote area egypt's government says the dead were terrorists who were preparing attacks on government and tourism facilities as well as christian churches a statement came hours after a bomb targeted a tourist bus in cairo killing three foreigners gyptian talk i'd well matheson has mall. all the trimmings of a tool box hit by a roadside bomb near khan yunis. resort. 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 pyramids here in new york but. 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 sometimes been targeted as the government has tried to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy where you're doing secretly egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians about thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. 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 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 egypt's heavily secured capital rob matheson al jazeera. well our other top story this hour turkey has sent dozens more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces he calls terrorists meanwhile russia and turkey have a great to coordinate with each other in northern syria after the withdrawal of u.s. forces a deal was struck at a meeting in moscow between the foreign ministers from each side from near the techie syria border mohamed atta brings us this report columns of took his tongue

scrolling to syria. and korea has been bolstering its military positions along with south the border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the kurdish held city of mumbai is syria syrian rebels blocked by tuckey also on the move inside areas of syria under attack you 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 the original president bashar al assad after they were abundant by donald trump or monster the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria a little over a week ago. here syrian troops deployed in support of cottage forces seen on the edge of mom bitch their deployment creates a government buffer achi a coastal 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 miami 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 are high level toughest immigration led by foreign minister the job of children's health talks with russian foreign and defense ministers they discuss the situation in syria as u.s. forces flip it to withdrawal few of us in the super nine understanding was reached on how military representatives of russia and turkey will continue to coordinate the states 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 exchanged 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 to respect serious to the total integrity something diplomats say might spell a bigger role for government forces in cut is held areas of the north east. with the syrian opposition groups with 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 u.s. troops pull out how about threatens pull up and on up any for other regional us. feels like it i'm tuckey something assault opponents came to come to the have it all just the.

security officials in yemen say who's the rebels of handed over control of a vital port of her data to the government's navy and coast guard transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations it's part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month who season saudi backed forces of also agreed to open up humanitarian aid corridor or starting with the road from a data to the capital. and who see forces have started redeploying from the force of a dangerous part of that un agreement both sides are also expected to pull their forces out of the city and surrounding province in the coming days. from. should only be army transferred to control of the ports to the interior ministry's coast guards they will not protect the port the forces will be given a redeployment according to sweden's peace agreement peak remember the redeployment needs to take place to protect the city. well in the city of ties people are

calling on the local government that to improve security off to a rise in gang violence hundreds gathered in the city center to protest against a number of killings they want local authorities to crack down on criminal groups operating in the area well this is the saudi led coalition is using child soldiers from sudan against to see fighters in yemen according to the new york times are among tens of thousands of survivors of the conflict in darfur portably recruited by saudi officers with the promise of good salaries the report also says more experience john jaweed fighters from darfur working that as mercenaries katherine shut down as a researcher for al by on center for strategic studies she spoke about the need for accountability in the war in yemen. far as though the issue of child soldiers is going to say this is not the first time that this idea have you know have to answer to such allegations they have used. not just in yemen but across the world you know three to five they will 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 no sounds that this is coming out of the new york times and the issue would be talked about because this would you have commits a great many will crime not just in yemen by thinking several other country including sudan of course and it's time you know for us to talk about it and actually challenge the saudi government and hold them accountable for the crime that they have committed. or now a two year old boy whose yemeni mother sued the u.s. government to let into the country to see him has died his son died in a california hospital of a brain disorder it is money spent months trying to get a waiver to visit his son citizens from yemen are prevented from entering the u.s. under donald trump's travel ban after filing a lawsuit the boy's mother was granted a waiver earlier this month. and have been pleas for peace on the eve of the controversial election in the democratic republic of congo martin for use

a candidate for the largest opposition coalition attended a church service in kinshasa where the local archbishop appealed for calm ahead of sunday's vote two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march two months after the new president is due to be sworn in. we must not under any circumstances allow the elections become another opportunity to destroy the democratic republic of congo at this till the blood of the congolese people which has flowed too much already for decades. or with hundreds of polling stations are unable to open in the capital because of fire destroy election materials and other areas excluded many would be concerned. the electoral commission need to tell the truth we are not people you can just stricken foo are going to be the contrast of votes and then in beni and over there they are not voting in the. same liberal member commission needs to take the time

to explain to us what happens if a large part of the population can't vote are they going to know all the election over there be country near a teacher in the months in between there is total confusion with their calendar and they can take this well beyond our hopes well the election was supposed to take place to years ago and has been long awaited in many opposition areas voters will choose national and provincial members of parliament as well as a new president catherine soy reports from concetta on the men expected to lead the race. posters of politicians line almost every street in kinshasa there are twenty one presidential candidates on the ballot paper but respond out. a man most adare is a ruling party candidate and outgoing president joseph could be less a passable choice his critics say he's not suitable because he's under european union sanctions and is not popular but he supported aggy he's best placed for the

post. is different positions. knows. the congress realized he first off the interest of the country's interest of the people and. only interests. this is. martin 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 dignity to lisa and i have to have. we have to leave because. every year we create at least five point one million jobs for.

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. the candidates are promising 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 will be accumulating we don't need to flush out the results we don't need to. give it

a color we need to transform the country the election process has been counted and many people are not confident the poll would be credible but those we talked to say they will vote anyway they've been waiting for two years for the opportunity. still ahead for you on the program is also fair a vine an intimidation ahead of sunday's election in bangladesh where the country's my bottle prices have been ordered to shut down the internet. and no more turning a blind on my natural disasters have prompted the greek counseling to start demolishing illegal hung's. however there's lots of malva now tumbling its way in c.

northwestern parts of europe can't see this area class spilling in from the atlantic stan that's why we do have such cloudy conditions but at least it's picking the temperature rob looking at highs of around eleven or twelve celsius there for london even paris seeing those temperatures not being up for a time fourteen amer in madrid it's not particularly high temperature here but that's about as warm as i can find on a child just arrived and for athens eastern side if you're very cold that moist air that mall there since that bout that comes in we're looking at a fair bit of right with a little bit of snow with the leading edge to be some snow over the high ground of the alps possibility of some avalanches across parts of scandinavia over the next couple days with these rising temperatures see how those way in the standard feeding in from a southwest direction a cool direction for london wallasey dry little bit of a mist of folk still something of an issue long as you drive to cost more in parts of africa will see a tab just getting up to around fifteen or sixteen celsius think going cloud across

central parts of the mediterranean could produce want to showers along the libyan coast for a time eventually pushing over towards egypt to karo have a top temperature of ninety. to mourn the most and the initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for a viable buckle it was the muslims no move from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective episode to revive at this time on a. welcome

back you have al jazeera live from london quick qur'an down of the top stories for you five members of the egyptian security forces including an officer have been killed in an explosion targeting their car in egypt's northern sinai region now this comes as egyptian security forces killed. right in the sinai peninsula and greater cairo. turkey has sent at least fifty more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on the kurdish y p g. russia and turkey have also agreed to keep cooperating in syria as u.s. forces prepare to withdraw. and security officials in yemen say rebels have started handing over control of the vital port of the data to the government's navy and

coast guard the transfer is being carried out under the supervision of the united nations. when all the stories we're following mobile internet services have been shut down in bangladesh as the country prepares for its election on sunday the regulator says the move is designed to prevent what it calls rumors and propaganda surrounding the vote the election campaign has been marred by violence but the ruling party says the vote will be fair charles strafford reports from dakka. muhammad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the pan with this she capital dhaka for three years it sells cheap breakfasts to rickshaw drivers and passes by but after weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday mohamed prayed. you know that i think. i'm scared of what might happen that the pilots will affect my life we may be closer to the. prime minister sheikh hasina is

a wame leak 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 on the dish nationalist party leaders is serving a ten year jail term for two separate corruption cases which is to make around six hundred thousand members of various security forces including the military and police have been deployed for sunday's election opposition parties 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 their candidates now you know when i say shit 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 campaign 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 well the party's leader. is in prison. because 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 same. two hundred plus people these are all by hardcore leaders and workers the international community has praised prime minister sina for handling of one of the largest refugee crises of the world more than seven hundred thousand ricky just

fled of violent crackdown in myanmar into bangladesh in two thousand and seventeen . the world bank has also praised by goodish fruits strong economic growth of over six percent in recent years. most of these campaign banners are for the ruling party but he did media control very few opposition posters a seen on the streets. that there are some incidents isolated incidents i have no doubt it has happened in the past if you happening now what the except it without. corroboration are very few i would suggest throughout india you murder the . bulk of the restaurant one hundred says he vote for the opposition candidate in the election. whatever the outcome it is violence jury and after the vote that many people like you feel that most of what al-jazeera daca. the us

president has blamed the democratic party for the death of to guatemala and children in u.s. custody this month eight year old philippe gomez along his own seven year old jacqueline calm back in both died after being detained by border authorities donald trump criticize what he called the pathetic immigration policies of the democrats saying the flow of asylum seekers north from central america would stop if his proposed border wall gets the green light well now britain's immigration minister has defended the government's handling of the rise in migrants and refugees crossing the english channel boats carrying twelve men from syria and iran were intercepted off the coast of dover on friday morning will than two hundred twenty people have attempted the crossing since november well take a look at the view from the british side of the channel at the port of dover but first here's our correspondent bernard smith in cali who begins our port. from college the messages being sent to families in africa the middle east iran and

afghanistan will be about failed attempts to make it to an. electricity comes for just a couple of hours a day from generators provided by local charities. this camp has nothing but the around six hundred migrants stuck here on a freezing windy december day it's a hopeless place living conditions you are just making people every very desperate and the rebels who did way over. to escape here some migrants are now prepared to pay smugglers to cross the channel in rubber boats for others the risk is too great and if you tried taking a boat. then you know i want to save my lives. and give myself for the good this is important my leg. then you lose the good this is this is going to have the main the french and british governments have spent millions of dollars for to find a port against people trying to stow away on lorries it's one theory why more

people are turning to boats the migrants that lost themselves into the channel in rubber dinghies from here risk high seas strong currents freezing water and they risk collision and one of the world's busiest shipping lanes my colleague sonia guy i go picks up a story and go. exhausted and freezing these people made a hazardous journey on the flimsiest of vessels rubber dinghies this latest sudden surge in numbers of those arriving like this has alerted british authorities to the dangers of a possible catastrophic accident in this stretch of water off the southern coast so much so that the british home secretary is now treating this as a major incident on saturday the immigration minister went to the town of dover to meet border offices they say it has been difficult to keep up with the numbers of people who have arrived in these circumstances and what they need is help to

effectively patrol the area and closer working relations with officials across the channel in france what we're doing is constantly reviewing the resources that we need continuing the really important. the french and it's absolutely critical that we share information at the highest on the most effective level because of course what we want to do is to make sure that people don't set sail across the channel making really perilous journeys at a treacherous time of the year it may only be a fifty kilometer journey between kalai and dover but the english channel is also one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and while some politicians hid in britain have called for more patrols the concern is is that this will merely encourage others to come and make that dangerous journey the latest route shows how despite the dangers many are desperate enough to risk everything to make it here and to escape the difficult conditions in makeshift camps in france but even if they make

it here there is no guarantee that they can stay here sonny diagonal al-jazeera. well they've been violent protests in the city of non tis as so-called yellow vest demonstrations continued for a sixth week hundreds of protesters marched through the city riot police used tear gas to disperse some of them as the march turned violent a hundred people also took part in protests in the capital paris thousands of buildings have been demolished in greece in an effort to bring the rule of law to the construction industry previous administrations have tended to avoid the issue but the so it's a government says it's determined to take action after floods and wildfires this year killed dozens of people many living in illegally built homes johnson reports. the bonuses have lived on this spot for almost thirty years and that's how long it took to fix them for trespassing on public land that mobile home has been condemned

and so has the chicken coop but on demolition the 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 if it weren't demolished when they were built after all these years it might be the right thing to do but people spent their lives there they sunk money into their homes and no one told them they couldn't connect water and power because they were legal they always connected the utilities before elections to natural disasters because 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 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 to 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 more be 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 lot. she is flooding because it is also putting the building publishing process 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 jump. since. just a quick look at the top stories before we leave you there has been an attack on security forces in egypt's north sinai region five of them including an officer were killed in an explosion targeting the car that they were traveling in this happened in irish which is the capital of the north sinai region and it comes after egyptian

security forces said they killed forty people they call suspected terrorists cheering raids in the sinai peninsula and cairo it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and egyptian guide security officials in yemen say hoofy rebels have handed over control of the vital port of data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations as part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month who fees in saudi backed forces have also agreed to open up humanitarian aid corridos starting with the road from her data to the capital sana in our other top stories turkey has sent dozens more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y p g forces who calls terrorists at least fifty tanks arrived at a command post in sunday or for province in turkey it comes a day off to kurdish forces oss the syrian army to enter a man beach to protect the city from a turkish attack a syrian army says it did so on friday but both the united states and turkey is

saying there's no evidence to support this claim. meanwhile russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other in northern syria after the withdrawal of u.s. forces who are going to be superhuman understanding was reached on how military representatives of russia and turkey will continue to coordinate the states on the ground under the new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists threats in syria and all the headlines there have been pleas for peace on the eve of the controversial election in the democratic republic of congo. the candidate for the largest opposition coalition attended a church service in concerta by the local archbishop appealed for calm ahead of sunday's vote two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march two months off to the new president is due to be sworn in as the top stories coming up next it's the listening post.

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