we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current of bands that matter to al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. you're watching the news our live from headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes yemen's hoofy rebels pulled back from the data port under united nations supervision the latest step towards peace. russia and turkey promised

more coordination in syria reflecting shifting alliances with the planned pullout of u.s. forces. calls for peace on the eve of the democratic republic of congo's controversial and long delayed election. also ahead positive signals from both the u.s. and chinese leaders about their differences including their trade war. with the rebels in yemen have handed over control of the vital lifeline port of who data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer of the ports along with two others is part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month aimed at ending almost four years of war which is costly humanitarian disaster and saudi backed forces have also agreed to open up aid corridors here's paul to georgia through. this

moment is what. tens of thousands of yemenis have been wanting for years a respite and a chance for permanent peace and then to the street to street fighting aerial bombardments diseases lack of clean water and food insecurity. enough that we're delighted today because of the thing and we want these kind of thing to fish and i don't think it would like a decision came late but god willing a cease fire will hold in the situation with him allies god willing the ceasefire and he died it continues people need security and safety in this country. who the rebels boarded their trucks to move out of the port standing by naval and coast guard officers from the saudi immorality backed government the internationally recognized government forces had been in charge of protecting ports before the war they were also blamed during the conflict for blocking humanitarian supplies that are desperately needed throughout the country the handover was part of a u.n. sponsored peace agreement signed in sweden earlier this month. i think

overseeing the handover the head of un's advance team charged with monitoring the cease fire retired general patrick come airt if you read the agreement the timelines are very tight that means dead this cease fire started on the eighteenth of december at midnight alleges a certain extremely important if both sides. are holding that. what comes next is pro-government forces pulling back from parts of what data city they we captured in an offensive launched in june datas who think governor muhammad naeem says his forces taking control of the city in exchange for handing over the port is part of the u.n. agreement that has the fighters who used to protect the port will be redeployed to protect the city according to the sweden agreement. the un also announced the warring sides will begin to. open critically needed to mandatory in corridors

within the areas they controlled this we did agreement mandates the warring sides allow relief supplies to reach those in need. for those who have lost loved ones been traumatized by three years of brutal violence this handover is a sign they may soon have what all humans need food shelter and safety paltrow dirge on al-jazeera. the york times newspaper is reporting that the saudi and iraqi coalition is using child soldiers from sudan against the fighters in yemen the children the survivors of the conflict in darfur they were reportedly recruited by saudi offices promising high wages and experienced john jaweed militiamen from darfur also said to be facing in yemen as mercenaries catherine dam is a research show with the base center for strategic studies she says she hopes this report will lead to more action to stop the use of child soldiers. or as though the

issue of. islam saying this is not the first time that this idea have you know have to as they decide how to geishas they have use has told us not just in yemen but across the world you know three to five they will basically and no one is her whole has that actually challenge them whenever we have tried an expert have raised the street was always kind of set down you know by the saudi don't be so i think it is it is a good way i think it's a good progress today in a sense that this is coming out of the new york times and they should be talked about because this would you have committed a great many will crime not just in yemen but i think in several other country including sudan of course and it's time you know for us to talk about it and actually talent the saudi government and hold them accountable for the crime that they have. ok let's stay with the events in the date of the port city there in yemen joining us here on the news some of them danny as yemen analyst and a visiting fellow at georgetown university some are done it do we need some clarity

of firstly on the who's the rebels how many of them have left where are they going and what are the chances that they won't come back so and terms of numbers there are many conflicting reports that are going to take a while for it's the find out how many of these actually last we talked about who these leaving were only talking about the work of those they're not going to leave the city of the data so that's really important to kind of clarify right off the bat with happening now the hand over of the part of the that and what's happening is that there are conflicting reports from the government side from the hill beside but we're going to have to sit tight and kind of wait for the general that that's general that was mentioned before accurate camera who's going to come out and kind of an ounce how this process is this is happening now what's really important is the handover is supervised by the u.n. and and the people that are being the hand that the port the people that are going

to control the part right now the government needs to kind of search their influence over them to who is are going to try to do the same and so it's not we are just as of yet how the u.n. wants the making of the neutrality of that. and crucially as well i guess what does this mean for the the humanitarian corridors because it's talking about a country which already has what twenty million people plus who live off humanitarian aid. absolutely so what it means is that once this process begins they've said that the deadline for themselves which is twenty one days so from the center eighteen you have twenty one days to kind of finish this court handover and within two weeks of the sort of the point being operable you're going to add humanitarian aid coming in to c.n.n. and then going to parts of the country that were pretty much been seized and those are the parts that the hope you have control over where the people the population under them and is suffering at the hands of just being under the hoop the

population and so they're going to have aid come in which is going to be really important but more importantly than that is that even if you have this aid and even if you have food around a lot of families and a lot of yemenis cannot afford to get these things right so if there is any charge on to goods anywhere because there are goods in yemen just people can't afford them because salaries have been withheld and so one of the very first that that we assume are going to happen right after this war is handed over is that salaries are going to be given back to employees especially at the port city of beta that was my next point i mean some of this is baby steps some of it is symbolism but the way that they've decided to stop paying those civil servants that work around the port of data that in itself is pretty big and the symbolism is huge as well surely. yes and i expect a lot of pressure and polling here and then we have to remember that the young parties that came into this don't necessarily feel like they're ready for peace so

the reason it happening is because the u.n. has kind of put its foot down there's a lot of international attention on yemen right now at tension that yemen has not witnessed since the start of the war and mostly because of the attention it's receiving in the united states here around based in washington d.c. and because of that you see a lot of pressure to kind of wars this peace process through and so we expect that within the next few days both sides are going to the degree about which side had the what and whether they're abiding by this treaty but it's now in the hands of the u.n. to make sure that this peace process that these the light of day should be more talks at the end of next month the end of january twenty ninth seen to the optics of this process so you look very very positive. i think that it is very positive but i also think that it's going to be a lot slower than we think so the port city of today that is just one of two other

ports that they were supposed to hand over the other two ports are asleep and were a staff and so the process looks like it's moving very slowly so the peace talks are really important to make sure that the that opposing sides are meeting with each other and continuing to talk and of course we have to remind our audiences here that if this regional war is the escalated and if the government and that would be see eye to eye it doesn't mean that the local conflicts are going to be diffused because the people participating in these conflicts don't necessarily plenty allegiance to a specific site or the other and so it's going to be a really long process i expect that it's going to take more than a year but that minutely the united nations and the efforts of the u.n. and what martin brought this are noticeable here and we see a development that we haven't seen in the past four years so it is really significant in that regard some of them dani there in the states thanks very much. thank you. italy's prime minister says he wants to stop arms sales to saudi arabia

because every county says he intends to take an official stance against selling weapons to be used in the war in yemen denmark finland germany and norway have all decided to stop selling weapons to riyadh it follows international outrage over the murder of a saudi journalist jamal. 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 when it is now a matter of translating this desire into an official stance then evaluate the outcomes and then respond on their faces the balance of power in northern syria appears to be shifting after the us decision to withdraw its troops russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other after talks in moscow turkey's foreign minister says they have a common goal of cleaning syria of what he calls terror organizations now that comes as fifty turkish tanks have been sent to the border with syria in preparation

for a possible attack on kurdish y p g forces from gaza into near the syrian border here's mohammed atta columns of turkey stunts roll into syria. and iran has been bolstering its military positions along its southam border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the kurdish held city of mumbai is city a. city on doubles back by tuckey also on the move inside areas of syria under techies sway and along the eight hundred twenty two kilometer border between the two countries kurdish forces a miles from friday that they had 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 cottage forces seen 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 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 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. of us incentives an 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 us 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 diplomat say might spell of the goal for government forces in the tissue held areas of the north east. with the syrian opposition groups quick and 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 us. original up just like it on tuckey something assaults opponents came

to counter mohamed atta was dizzy. joshua landis is director of the sense of filmmaking studies at the university of oklahoma he says the syrian area man beach has now become the center of a regional power struggle the u.s. hasn't decided yet whether it's going to pull out in a month as trump of great ridgeley wanted or maybe perhaps take several months as many of the military types want. so we've got an intense talks we've seen the arab . different arab countries like the united arab emirates bahrain iraq weighing in by visiting bush are outside in damascus many of the arab countries are interested in syria re reestablishing itself they do not want turkey pushing further into the middle east saudi arabia is very anxious about turkey's support for a 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 meant is 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 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 erda one and the turks turkish government who do not want the wipe e.g. the kurdish militia to have lots of guns and to have independence on a suborder this is very good obviously for bush are us side in the syrian government that has a negotiating position now where the white b.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. in egypt the security forces say they've killed forty people during raids just a day after obama's contour of the government says it killed quote terrorists preparing attacks on state buildings tourist spots and churches three foreigners and the egyptian guide were killed when the bus they were on board was hit by a blast in the pyramids of giza matheson as more. a burned out shell all the trimmings of a tour bus hit by a roadside bomb near cairo you know what we saw people carry the dead bodies some people brought the wounded inside an ambulance to take them to hospital and residents of the area helped carry the injured all of them were told us. fourteen vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in new york about very sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and there

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 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 success. the 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. plenty more still to come here on the news are including there are fears of violence and intimidation ahead of sunday's election in bangladesh. pushing to make sure her brother didn't die in vain voters using sunday's election in the democratic republic of congo are going to fight for change they say and the sports news now put on a show of support for the player who was racially abused during his last italian league game.

a two year old yemeni boy whose mother fought for a visa to visit him on his deathbed in the united states has passed away our son was suffering from a brain disorder he died at a hospital in california his mother took legal action after being denied entry under the trumpet ministrations travel ban on people from mainly muslim countries she was eventually granted permission to enter the u.s. just days before her son's death. the us president has blamed the democratic party for the death of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody this month eight year old philippe gomez along so and seven year old jake think all make and both died after being detained by the border or thorough g.'s donald trump criticized what he labeled the pathetic immigration policies of the democrats saying the flow of asylum seekers north from central america would stop if his proposed border wall was to be approved mike hanna following the story from washington so mike must not putting his punches on this one. no indeed but it has

caused a degree of outrage the president using the death of two children to push a political point to point that he has been pushing now for the eight days that the shutdown has been in effect within the united states some eight hundred thousand federal workers affected three hundred fifty fifty thousand of those have been sent home without pay others are working without any paychecks coming in but president trump who's in the white house by himself who canceled a planned sixteen day holiday in florida has been tweeting repeatedly these tweets kucing the democrats of being responsible for the children's death just one off a large number of tweets that have been coming out of the white house concerning the closure all of them blaming the democrats as president trumpets that for this ongoing partial closure of government peter other sending out mixed messages here might notice that his homeland security chief is in the border area saying look the

system is overwhelmed so dot dot dot maybe that's why these two children lost their lives. well that is a possibility obviously there are investigations into the death of both those children and said entally with the death of the second child congress was informed within twenty four hours which did not happen in the case of the first death earlier in the month but as you say the homeland secretary is in the region she's looking at the situation there clearly saying that the there's an overwhelming difficulty for those patrolling that border but there again the shutdown is having its impact too in the past eight days large amounts of those federal workers on the border the customs and border protection officers for example have been affected by the shutdown some have been sent home so where there has already been overwhelming conditions for those policing that border that has got even worse with

a large number of federal workers being sent home and a large number also carrying on to work in these conditions without pay so the argument and the debate is going to continue one must remember and put in the note that the democrats have been offering alternatives they have suggested that one point six billion dollars be put towards the border security not specifying a wall however these are issues that president trump just refuses to engage with so the shutdown continues and so do do what are described as appalling conditions along the u.s. mexican border mike thank you very much it's in a few hours verses in the democratic republic of congo will go to the polls for the long delayed presidential election that the country's top archbishop has called for a peaceful vote after weeks of political unrest leading opposition candidate martin for you look was among those who heard the plea at a mass in the capital city can shas or 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 june to be sworn in. we must not under any circumstances allow the elections to become another opportunity to destroy the democratic republic of congo and distill the blood of the congolese people which has flowed too much already for decades while hundreds of polling stations will remain closed in the capital electoral blaming the closure on a fire earlier this month that destroyed voting machines and ballot boxes and with other areas excluded many people are worried about the vote. in the electoral commission need to tell the truth that we are not people you can just trick and foo are going to be the can chasseur votes and then in beni and over there they are not voting. mission is 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 the election over

there be continuity in the months in between there is total confusion with their calendar and they can take this well beyond. well the election was supposed to have taken place two years ago has been awaited in many opposition areas voters will choose national and provincial members of parliament as well as the new president catherine sawyer reports now from kinshasa on the different candidates vying for victory. posters of politicians line to every street in kinshasa there are twenty one presidential candidates on the ballot to respond out. there is a ruling party candidate and outgoing president could be less a pattern of choice his critics say he's not suitable because he and the european union functions and is not popular but he supported better placed for the post by east different positions. the congress.

the interest of the country interests of the people and. 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 we create at least five point one billion. is the leader of the largest opposition party. he's opponent 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 man. the kind of thing much the same deal. makes the economy and corrupt 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 paul will be credible but those we talked to say

they will vote anyway if in waiting for two years for the opportunity. well as catherine was mentioning there the congolese government has been accused of human rights abuses malcolm webb has more. of. told us how her brother rossi was killed. it was earlier this year he was at a protest calling for the already read you elections 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. 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 is it clean most people up for it is a similar story throughout most of hungary meanwhile it's already home full of people make billions of dollars every year from the country's vast mineral wealth but as people say they want change the rights groups say people are really free to demand it. from a cop 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 please pranking up a rally of opposition candidate martin for you live activists eight hundred people were killed the ruling coalitions presidential candidate amazon is shattering the

only european union sanctions list following filing crackdowns on protest the government denies orchestrating rights abuses and they suspended the use ambassador in response 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. there's a massive security clampdown in bangladesh just hours before

a general election campaign which officially ended on friday saw a wave of violence with opposition supporters being arrested and some government supporters reportedly becoming the victims of targeted killings of charles stratford reports now from dhaka the unrest is playing on voters' minds. mohamad. 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 passers by but after weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday mohamed is afraid. of everything and yes i am scared of what might happen that violence will affect my livelihood we may be forced to close out business. prime minister sheikh hasina 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 leader is serving a ten year jail term for two separate corruption cases which is to make it 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 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 imprisoned saya double baucus of the was among those at a time 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 louder in j two hundred plus people these are all by hardcore leaders and workers the international community has praised prime minister has seen a for handling of one of the largest refugee crises in 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 it

strong economic growth of over six percent in recent years. most of these campaign banners a for the ruling party an indication of media control very few opposition posters a scene on the streets. that there are. isolated incidents i have no doubt it has happened in the past it is happening now but we accept it without. our very i would think you might. think of the restaurant one hundred says he vote for an opposition candidate in the elections whatever the outcome it is violence jury and after the vote that many people like you fear the most. dark and. the police in peru have demolished a mostly i'm holding the remains of leftwing rebels the eight fights as belonging to the shining path group were killed in prison riots more than three decades ago

conservative parties in peru and the military have often called the muslim apology for terrorism. lots more still to come for you here on the news hour including the u.k. government on alert offer a jump in the number of migrants crossing the sea from france we report from both sides of the english channel plus. people should not wait to take things in their own hands we look at how some refugees who came to germany recently are flourishing in their adopted homeland. and in sport we'll hear from the boxing legend floyd mayweather who claims he could see for his way through his latest fights. hollywood had a lot of severe weather across the u.s. race and lay some snow showers across the southwest some very heavy you're right

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in moscow just days after the u.s. announced a pullout of its troops meanwhile turkish tanks have headed to the border for a possible confrontation with kurdish fighters in the syrian city of man the beach . donald trump is blaming the opposition democrats and states for the death of two guatemalan children in the. u.s. custody this month he criticized what he called the pathetic immigration policies of the democrats in the flow of asylum seekers would stop if his proposed border wall were to be approved. the u.s. president says major progress has been made towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump and china's xi jinping confirmed they have spoken on the telephone but resulting that difference is washington and beijing began imposing a series of tit for tat tariffs earlier this year after mr trump complained china failed to address the trade imbalance between the two countries she had heard from washington very optimistic and positive indications from both donald trump and chinese media first that was donald trump's tweet which said just had

a long and very good call with president xi of china a deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subject areas and points of dispute big progress being made exclamation mark and chinese media confirming about phone call took place chinese media said president xi said he hopes to push forward a sign a u.s. relationship that is coordinated cooperative and stable and he said that he hoped that the teams presumably the trade negotiating teams could meet each meet each other halfway and reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial as soon as possible and we have had indications in the last few days that a u.s. trade delegation will be traveling to beijing in january after what were described as intensive discussions over the phone over the christmas period and trying to has been relenting somewhat since the truce was declared between china and the u.s. over trade talks at the beginning of december lowering tabs publishing draft laws

which suggest greater intellectual property property rights and protection for foreign companies so perhaps there is movement underway. gordon chang is a us foreign policy analyst and the author all the coming collapse of china he joins us from new jersey gordon chang welcome back to the news and good to have you with us as usual there is clearly optimism on the part of donald trump is that mirrored in beijing do we think probably there is because china really needs a trade deal with the united states its economy is slumping it big professor recently created a sensation by saying that the chinese economy was growing not at the six point five percent but it one point six seven percent it wasn't contracting so clearly they do need to see an end to what people call the trade war and so yeah but there's also signs of distress and stop at the top of the communist party and we don't know exactly what that means but it probably means that there's a lot of discord right now among senior leaders if they are close to agreeing

a deal what might the nature of the deal be. well probably both sides would reduce cherubs the chinese would promise not to steal u.s. intellectual property they would probably change their laws to prohibit force taking of us. you know all sorts of things now i don't think a deal if it's put together and it probably there will be a deal will last very long because we've seen the chinese violate every trade deal that they've ever signed so i'm not optimistic even if there is some sort of pact that larkin in beijing are able to work out does this though sort of linger on beyond being a manufactured crisis i mean can double trump if there is a deal can mr trump then say look i got twelve tight sets to get and the chinese are happy as well. well the president united states can say whatever he wants but the reality is that china's been stealing hundreds of billions of dollars that u.s.

intellectual property every year that's what those sections three zero one tariffs are meant to be a remedy for so you know if the chinese don't stop stealing u.s. ip you know the president's words are going to be used follow and how does that play back in china domestically as far as president she's concerned well that's really going to depend a lot about the state of the chinese economy because if there is a pick up then obviously the president is going to get the credit for it as they say he's the chairman of everything so that means that he gets the credit for everything you also gets the blame for everything which is really his problem right now you know the trade friction does affect the chinese economy but they have bigger effects and that is just is slowing on its own and largely because of bad policies over the last decade so you know i sort of think that we're going to see problems in china regardless of what happens with president trump and the so-called treaty more gordon chang there in new jersey thank you very much. thank you peter

to europe because the italian parliament has approved the government's budget ahead of a year end deadline that would have resulted in he fines for excessive debt in revised budget cuts the country's deficit next year to about two percent of g.d.p. to brussels rejected the government's original target the opposition protested against the bill outside the parliament the new measures include a basic income for job seekers and high a tax on the banks britain's immigration minister has defended the government's handling of the rise in migrants and refugees crossing the english channel more than two hundred twenty people have attempted the crossing since november look at the new from the british side of the channel in a moment but first bernard smith begins coverage from cali. 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 when you're also into a labor. 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 that we tried taking a boat. then i want to save my lives. and give myself for the good this is important my life. this is then you lose the good this is this is going to have the money 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 launched themselves into the channel in rubber dinghies from here risk high seas strong currents freezing water and they

risk collision in 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 sunny diagonal al-jazeera. it is three years since more than one million refugees and migrants and to germany

most fled the war in syria at the time the government said they could be successfully integrated into german society despite strong opposition from conservatives and far right groups on berlin dominic cain looks at how successful some of those efforts a big it's a busy morning for rummy rehiring he's a software developer at the clerk in a steel workshop and as such 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 bureaucracy here and if i waited to get a german class i would be doing nothing i would be waiting because the first three hundred people the first six months and. and if i waited. for 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 helped to learn german but many who arrived since have not been so fortunate and has struggled to get more than temporary jobs people like. him who status remains unresolved a few months ago he told me of his experience since twenty fifteen. 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 as to training people on the job and then there is an issue of legal certainty. i'm going to america who once said integrating so many people would be one of the biggest challenges modern germany has ever faced around me really how he is one of many who have prospered but there are many more who have not dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. they've been violent protests in the french city of known so-called yellow vers demonstrations continued for seven's weekend riot police used tear gas to disperse some of the hundreds who marched as the

protests turned violent around eight hundred people also demonstrated in paris turner's decline since the start of the protests which have been driven by anger over the rising cost of living tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are rallied in serbia is the latest in a series of demonstrations in belgrade after an opposition politician was beaten last month critics accuse the populous president alexander who search of curtailing democratic freedoms and cracking down on opponents richard a former extreme nationalist who says he will lead into the european union has denied those allegations the russian president vladimir putin has undertaken his latest action man stunned playing ice hockey in freezing temperatures in moscow the game was staged a serene calm red square just outside the kremlin walls mr putin traditionally plays at least one ice hockey match every year fine for sports news isn't it. thank you very much chris john arnold i was events assist stallman as they continue

to and base and run and it's lease area the league leaders meeting some doria say won't but it was a when they came with its fair share of controversy they were holding ripples i 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 i . 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've a 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. santorum thought they'd grab a last minute equaliser but v.a.r. would rule this effort out for offside and you could celebrate a two one win we a hearty al-jazeera. that's about all the school the only goal of the game in some ons went against them pulling into off in that cyber title and so will play the next two hundred matches behind closed doors a punishment for some of the fans racially abusing the place khalidi khuda volley in that game last wednesday. and napoli fans showed their support the color barrier head of their home game against a long year the senegalese defender has been a repeated saga for a piece in italy treasonous and scored a late win of the napoli in this three two victory their second in the league nine points behind events as liverpool have moved nine points clear at the top of the

english premier league i reports a familiar hat trick percent a five one win over austin at anfield sunday oh man i and mohamed salah score liverpool's other goals in a game where asked actually took the lead twenty games into the season liverpool still have an unbeaten record i'm not the smartest person in the world but i'm really not an idiot not always at least so that's really nothing is absolutely not important how much points you are had in december even it's enters end of december so would you all create in a good bed you all how can you not be positive about us but your love for us all of you all for us if we if we drop three points are you almost you the next headline is are they nervous no well six games in all on saturday a big setback to tottenham in their title push spurs circulate at wembley if your hurricane but was hit back so when three one. is not enough to play the sixty seventy minutes you need to blame a thief

a minute in your base late today with little real 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 liverpool on january the third before that seen by southampton on sunday those are a big challenge for me to show myself to a nerd. so oil would not say i'd like to leave the situation but they know what's going on in football you know you korean they like to handle it i will see i prove myself good to. to help them to help each other to see who can by who we are glasgow ranges of move level with city rival celtic at the top of the scottish premiership ranges now managed by former liverpool england captain steven gerard the defending league champions one nail in the old firm derby thanks to that goal from ryan jack rangers aim for

a first scottish title win since twenty eleven. and it was quite sick all the decider the edinburgh dobby all of a league with the strength they gave hearts the one zero win over him. and world number one of a joke of it already has his hands on a trophy at the start of the new tennis season he came from a set down to beat south africa's kevin anderson in the world tennis championship not be happy most players building up to the first grand slam of twenty nine seemed australian open which starts in melbourne next month it's always a great match against kevin who is playing really some great tennis in last fifteen months. but you know i think well it was we didn't expect really to go on two and a half hours is that when you're out just before the season starts. it is an amazing way to kind of sort of tickle the two thousand one hundred. the latest somewhat bizarre chapter in boxer floyd mayweather square will take place on monday and fighter is taking on

a kick boxer in japan mayweather hasn't forces economy greg and more than a year ago for his fiftieth straight pro win is now taking on kickboxing world champion tension as you call work despite mexico's background no kicking will be allowed in this three round contest 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 rounds of muscle eat so i don't worry about the. u.s. olympic champion mccalla shifrin has ended twenty eight seeing is the most successful female slalom scare in world cup history in the last race of the year the american added her thirty six victory by winning on saturday schifrin also became the first male all female so when fifteen world cup races in a single calendar year schifrin still only twenty three years old ok that is high sport is looking for not more lights. and that's it for me peace it will be for

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resort is one of nigeria's top tourist destinations but in the shadow of the mountain some nigerians continue an ancient tradition with child protection workers say condemns young girls to a life of slavery and sexual exploitation five year old miracle was buried for money just a few weeks ago joan leaves with some missionaries who says she's proved when the marriages happen i couldn't reach it is a missionary or rescues goals the money goes to buy outrightly an oak or maybe one big truck to gail before she's born there what if it takes fourteen years to monday's the brothers can still go to get their money away. and. the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the

route that has claimed so many lives such infrasound cheree part one people in power on al-jazeera. i'm. pulling out to give peace a chance yemen's hoofy rebels hand over control of the vital port of who data. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live for my headquarters here and also coming up russia and turkey agreed to step up cooperation in syria as u.s. forces.