every two years to divest a profit of one dollar. to the last drop. the rebels say they've handed over control of a major port under un supervision but the government is denying that they've gone. oh i maryam namazie in london with al jazeera also coming up on the program egypt says its security forces have killed forty people they are calling terrorists following the attack on a tourist visa. bangladeshis are preparing to head to the polls in

a vote mob by fear and intimidation. and pleas for peace on the eve of the democratic republic of congo's controversial and long delayed election. welcome to the program our top story security officials in yemen is saying hoofy rebels have handed over control of the vital port of a data to the government's navy and coast guard a ceremony was held to mark the transfer which is being carried out under the supervision of the united nations it's part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month the saudi backed forces also agreed to open up humanitarian aid corridor all starting with the road from the data to the capital sana. forces also say they've started redeploying from her data as part of the un brokered peace agreement both sides analogy to pull their forces out of the city. on the surrounding province in the coming days. from the city

manager of a different today the army transferred the control of the port to the interior ministry's coast guards they will now protect the port the forces will begin a redeployment according to three tints peace agreement the agreement that the redeployment needs to take place to protect the city. but yemen's government is now denying that he fees have left the port an official told the pro-government subban news agency that it's all a ploy to maintain control of the strategic facility the data is important because it's the country's main port on the red sea it handles about seventy percent of yemen's imports of commercial goods and eight that means it's a vital lifeline for the fifteen point nine million yemenis it was suffering severe hunger in the impoverished nation of thirty million. well they are supposed to use to help him in the middle east and north africa program director at the international crisis group and brussels he says there are concerns that those who

have taken over the port might still have allegiances to haiti's two he forces have withdrawn from the borders first we understand and handed over power to know who she forces meaning civilian forces those of the government of yemen. there are of course concerns that some of the people taking over are themselves in civilian clothes but i think if to the extent that this is true this is almost inevitable because there are many people in the ports who are working there in various capacities part of the public sector whose loyalties may be with either one group but who are simply trying to do their work and i think. under u.n. supervision these people should be able in and out to to carry out a job. well in all the developments of two year old boy whose yemeni mother sued the u.s. government to let her into the country to see him has died his son died in

a california hospital of a brain disorder is mother spent months trying to get a waiver to visit her son citizens from yemen a 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 well now to our other top story this hour turkey has sent at least fifty tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces who ankara calls terrorists meanwhile russia and turkey have agree to coordinate with each other in northern syria after president trumps decision to withdraw u.s. forces from near the turkey syria boredom hum an adult brings us this report columns of tookie stunts roll into syria. has been bolstering its military positions along with south of 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 turkey's 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 al assad after they were abundant by donald trump or the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria a little over a week ago. here syrian troops deployed in support of cottage forces on the edge of mom bitch their deployment creates a government buffer achi a call small from syria 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 each members of 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 scum to replace them in more squash 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 few of us in the superman 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 and syria. we discussed the latest developments in syria with regards to 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 to promote say might spell

a bigger role for government forces in cutlash 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 us troops pull out how about threatens to open up any four other regional up just like iran and tukey something assad's opponents are keen to counter behind it all just the into gaza. egyptian security forces say they've killed forty people joining raids in the sinai peninsula and great to cairo area egypt's government is saying the dead were terrorists who were preparing attacks on government and terrorism facilities as well as christian churches a statement came hours after a bomb targeted a tourist bus in cairo killing three foreign has and the egyptian to guide matheson has mall. a burned out shell all that remains of a tour bus hit by

a roadside bomb near kabul you know what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside a number lengths 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 ok 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 the signal into the future 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 would be asking how is it that within hours of this attack this large number of suspects was not only identified. side but in gazed and 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. now people in bangladesh gearing up for sunday's parliamentary elections

but there are fears that violence and intimidation could keep voters away from the polls to opposition candidates and already accuse the police of barricading them inside their homes but others are praising shaikh as he in his ruling party for improving bangladesh's economy and lifting millions out of poverty child stratford reports now from dhaka. has been the manager of this restaurant upon the day she capital dhaka for three years but still she brick first a rickshaw drivers and process boy put over two weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday the harbor bridge is a devoted to that to see. what might happen that whatever violence will affect my life we may be. prime minister sheikh hasina league which is seeking a third consecutive five year term in power has denied accusations of intimidating

opposition candidates 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 zia herself has been prime minister twice has been bitter rivalry between the two often called matriarchs of bangladesh politics but decades. were just a made around six hundred thousand members of various security forces the military police to be deployed for sunday's elections 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 shin 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 stopped them from leaving and prevented them from campaigning in their local areas. at least ten people have been killed during election campaign and 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 oil 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 is that 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 bangladesh for its 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 seen on the streets journalists say the recent strengthening of defamation laws has spread fear among media workers. the ruling party says the accusations are false that there are some incidents isolated incidents i have no doubt it has happened in the past it is happening now but we except it with our pull out. are very thick and i would suggest. you might to the. back of the restaurant

ahmed says he vote for an opposition candidate in the elections whatever the outcome it is violence jury and after the vote. but many people like you feel that most chance not that al-jazeera daca. still had for you on the program. no more turning a blind eye my natural disasters have prompted the greek government to start demolishing illegal homes and new satellite images show the indonesian volcano which triggered a tsunami has lost three quarters of its mass. the weather man is pretty hostile cross much of australia big china of cloud the tools of far north of the country just filtering inhalable

a line of storms are rolling first anyone to keep an eye on as we go on through the next couple of days around the cake opening flare on the top and already start see some rather lively downpours plenty of heat into the interior forty three celsius there for alice springs twenty five for adelaide twenty two for melon a little bit of cloud still in place here warm and sunny and quiet for brisbane and also for sydney over the next couple of days getting up around that thirty degree mark hold more still some place and places a clout there into victoria southern areas of new south wales could see some wet weather it comes out first circulation just around the cape york news and northern queensland the on watch for some very heavy rain as we go on through the coming days basin pieces of rain to pushing into new zealand but not really fair to say badly as we go on through the next day or so i will see temperatures at twenty eight cells just for christchurch that rain just knocking it across south on and further north all clinches de la dry twenty three celsius the high here as we go on

through the next a day or so i'm a while we got some more snow it's calm for japan but gradually tearing. for afghans with ties to international organizations. this rate has never been greater. left exposed by the withdrawal of foreign troops. exile may be the only path to safety. but alienation makes home feel ever farther away. bill part of the viewfinder is. on al-jazeera. the arab.

welcome back just a quick recap of the top stories this hour yemen's hoofy rebels are saying they've handed control of the strategic city of data to the navy and coast guard but the government is denying this claim they're saying that it's all part of a plot to keep control of the major port city turkey has sent at least fifty more tanks to itself and border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on the kurdish why peachey this is russia are in turkey to keep cooperating in syria as u.s. forces prepare to withdraw and egyptian security forces have killed forty people they call suspected terrorists during raids in the sinai peninsula and cairo. it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and. moving to other stories we're following this hour in the democratic republic of congo presidential

candidates have refused to sign a code of conduct pact with the election commission unless proposed changes are made ahead of sunday's vote ruling party candidate emanuel should resign the document which i am sick guaranteed peace during and after the election earlier on saturday the leading opposition candidate marching for you attended a church service where the local archbishop appealed for calm ahead of sunday's. 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. two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march this is two months after the new president is jews to be sworn in and with hundreds of polling stations on able to open in the capital because a fire destroyed election materials many are worried about the vote.

the electoral commission need to tell the truth we are not people you can just stricken foo how can it be the contrast of votes and then in burnie and over there they are not voting in. the 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 novi election over there be continuity each year 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 a long awaited in particular in opposition areas voters will choose national and provincial members of parliament as well as a new president catherine sawyer reports now from can chaucer on the mend leading the race. posters of politicians line almost every street in kinshasa the twenty one presidential candidate on the ballot paper but respond out. of my most adare is a ruling party of candidate and outgoing president joseph kabila as passable choice

his critics say he's not suitable because he's under european union functions and is not popular but he supported aggie he's best placed for the post. is different positions. knows. the congolese reality he put first of all the interest of the country the interest of the people and. all interests. this is. for you lou 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 we create at least five point one million jobs for people of color. 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. the candidates are promising much the same deal. and corruption provide the basics jobs education health care but an economic strategy as we talked to say 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 poor will be credible but those we talked to say they will vote anyway i've been waiting for two years for the opportunity. well since taking office in two thousand and one joseph kabila as a long spell in office has been sharply criticized by rights and anti corruption watchdogs this is because of his government's crackdown on opposition protests which have been largely quelled leading to accusations of grave human rights abuses reports from can just for former member told us how her brother rossi was killed. it was earlier this year he was at a protest calling for the already overdue you relax and please stop the march

that's normal here on the streets of kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo and rossi was shot he died in hospital the let us call that you talk about. but marie says his ideas live on. we will not shut up because it's our country they have guns and they can kill but drusie said they can kill all eighty million of us they can even kill me but can they kill all congolese. reraise neighborhood clean most people up for and it's a similar story throughout most of hungary meanwhile my new house full of people make millions of dollars every year from the country's vast mineral wealth but as people say they want change rights groups say people are really free to demand it and the bar. cap jamba spent nearly forty years trying to challenge that

he's a human rights lawyer. i assure you it can not be a free election because the regime is already used to courts to block some of its opponents and the electoral commission is clearly trying to give advantage to the ruling party. has been violent on the campaign trail. this camera phone video shows police pricking up a rally of opposition candidate martin for you live activists eight hundred people were killed the ruling coalitions presidential candidate amazon a shadowy is on a european union sanctions list following filing crackdowns on protests the government denies orchestrating rights abuses and they suspended the use ambassador in respond if president joseph kabila told us the electoral process is sensitive so during an electoral process you have tensions the most important thing is to have

the necessary police force that's well equipped in order to give that a given point in time we did not have that capacity but we've been building that capacity and there are a hopes the election will change not just the leader but the whole system that's for her brother rossi for for but even if change comes he'll never see it. malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo. the u.s. president has blamed the democratic party for the death of to quote a modern children in u.s. custody this month eight year old philippe gomez along is own seven year old jacqueline col mckeon 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 of his proposed border wall gets the green light russia has rejected calls by the leaders

of france and germany to release ukrainian sailors captured near crimea last month twenty four members of the crimean navy were detained after russian forces opened fire on them in the coach strait which links the black sea with the eyes of sea ukraine insist the sailors must be treated as prisoners of war meaning they won't stand trial but the kremlin says they'll be tried for border violation offenses well they've been violent protests in the french city of no one says 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 eight hundred people also protested in paris where they gathered outside media organizations to condemn what they've called disinflation coverage all the other vest movement. now thousands of buildings have been demolished increase in an effort to bring the rule of law to the construction industry previous administrations have tended to avoid the issue but the syrian government says it's determined to take action after floods and

wildfires this year killed dozens of people many of them living in illegally built homes. reports. the bonuses have lived on this spot for almost thirty years and that's how long it took over thirty years to evict 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 after that. there are legal buildings everywhere the mistake is that they were demolished when they were built after all these years it might be the right thing to do but people spend their lives there they suck

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 caused this policy change floods caused by heavy rainfall last year drowned at least two dozen people west of athens in addition to trespassing the bonuses position 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 illegal homes on wooded land this house is one of thirty two hundred illegal structures being felt across the greater 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 there's still no 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 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 and 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 jump zero plus al-jazeera athens new satellite images show how much the volcano in indonesia which caused a deadly tsunami a week ago has shrunk i'm not crack a towel regionally stupid move three hundred meters high but after the recent

eruptions of ok no is now about a third of our height and it's lost three quarters of its a volume off just spewing rock an ash into the air and in asia's disaster agency is examining the possibility of missing mass slid into the sea generating the deadly five metre high waves on december the twenty second or more on everything we're covering right here the address is dot com. just a quick rundown of the top stories now security officials in yemen is saying whose the rebels of handed over control of the vital port of a data to the navy and coast guard the transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations it's part of a peace deal with in sweden earlier this month but the pro yemeni government news agency is denying that the movies assertion saying that it's all a ploy for them to ultimately maintain control of the strategic city turkey

has sent dozens more tanks to its southern border with syria in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish white b.g. forces who ankara calls terrorists at least fifty tanks arrived at a command post in sunday or for a province in turkey it comes a day off to cut its forces off the syrian army to enter man beach to protect the city from a turkish attack the syrian army says it did so on friday but both the u.s. and turkey say there's no evidence to support this claim meanwhile russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other in northern syria after president trumps decision to withdraw u.s. forces. google the students who were not the standing was reached on how military representatives of russia and we'll continue to coordinate these steps on the ground on the new conditions with a view of finally rooting out terrorists for it's in syria. or other headlines egyptian security forces said they killed forty people they suspected that they

called suspected terrorist cheering raids in the sinai peninsula and great to cairo it follows a bomb attack on a tourist bus in cairo that killed three foreigners and egyptian turkey right. the u.s. president has blame the democratic party for the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody this month eight year old philippe gomez along zoë and seven year old jacqueline col mckeon both died after being detained by order authorities on all fronts at the flow of asylum seekers north from central america would stop if his proposed border wall gets the green light and they've been pleased the peace on the eve of the controversial election in the democratic republic of congo two people were killed during protests on friday after the electoral commission delayed voting in three opposition strongholds until march that's two months after the new president is due to be sworn in that's it for myself and the team here in london viewfinder asia starts now. capturing

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