all political policy inspiring the u.n. to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brittany's happiness is what we insure it if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter double you're watching the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes yemen's who's the rebels pulled back from port under united nations supervision the latest step towards peace. russia and turkey pledge to coordinate in syria reflecting shifting alliances with the planned

pullout of u.s. forces. a call for calm by the catholic church before sunday's elections in the democratic republic of congo after a violent run up to a long delayed vote. also ahead positive signals from both the u.s. and chinese leadership after two leaders speak by telephone about their differences including their trade war. our top story the rebels have handed over control of the vital lifeline port of data to government forces the transfer as part of a peace deal reached in sweden earlier this month aimed at ending almost four years of war which has caused a humanitarian disaster and saudi backed forces have also agreed to open up aid corridors here's paul to judge. this moment is what tens of

thousands of yemenis have been wanting for years a chance to end the street to street fighting aerial bombardments diseases like of clean water and food insecurity rebels turning over control of the port of what data to the government and upset with delight to today because of the theism and we want these kind of thing to fish and i don't think it was like a decision came late but god willing the ceasefire will hold and the situation with david lies with 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 a morality 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 we cannot solve your problem and honestly the end of the mission you have to do that yourselves and that means that we will say we will discuss and we will take heed of the gold but we have to move for. 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 un agreement rather than in chad as 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 war. sides will begin to open

critically needed to monetary and corridors within the areas they control the sweet 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. danny is a yemen analyst and a visiting fellow at georgetown university she says it'll take time to evaluate if the handover has been successful. in terms of numbers there are many conflicting reports that are going to take a while for us to find out how many of these actually left we talk about who these leaving were only talking about the work of they that they're not going to leave the city of who they them so that's really important to kind of clarify right off

the bat what's happening now the hand over of the part that they that what's happening is that there are conflicting reports from the government side from the who of the site but we're going to have to sit tight and kind of wait for the general that that's general that was mentioned before patrick cameron 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 the people that are being hand that the port the people that are going to take control of the park right now the government needs to kind of strip their influence over them to who is are going to try to do the same and so it's not clear just as of yet how the u.n. wants to make the neutrality of that court what it means as that once this process begins they said that line for themselves which is twenty one days so for the summer eighteenth you have twenty one days to kind of finish this court handover and within two weeks at the foot of the port be operable you're going to have

humanitarian aid coming in to c.n.n. and then going to parts of the country that were pretty much busy jd and those are the parts that i hope you have control over where the people the population under them and is suffering at the hands of just being under the who the population. new york times is reporting the saudi erotic coalition is using child soldiers from sudan against crusie fighters in yemen the children are survivors of the conflict in darfur and were reportedly recruited by saudi officers promising high wages experienced john jaweed militiamen from darfur are also said to be fighting in yemen as mercenaries. it's in his prime minister says he wants to stop arms sales to saudi arabia giuseppe conti says he intends to make an official stance against selling weapons to be used in the conflict in yemen denmark finland germany and norway have all decided to stop selling weapons to riyadh it follows international outrage over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal. the balance of power in

northern syria appears to be shifting after the u.s. decision to withdraw its troops russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other after they had talks in moscow it comes as fifty turkish tanks have been sent to the syrian border in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces from gas and tap close to the turkey syria border here's mohammed. columns of turkey stunts roll into syria. and iran has been all through 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 backed by tuckey are 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 beach their deployment creates a government buffer achi a call small from syria which fully separates the tukey and its proxies from the kurds but 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 and of the sixty to one hundred day timetable for the withdrawal of u.s. troops with the remaining fighting forces in syria has come to replace them in moscow on high level toughest immigration led by foreign minister lute children

children's health talks with russian foreign and defense ministers they discuss the situation in syria as u.s. forces flip it to withdrawal. of the students and 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 in 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 in respect serious to the total integrity something diplomats say might spell of the goal for government forces in cutlash held areas of the north east. with the syrian opposition groups which can be on the un back political process in topples bashar

al assad is now trying to shape is what i asked the un is already looking for funds to rebuild the country the us troops pull out how about threatens to open up any for other regional opt outs like iran and tukey something assad's opponents came to counter mohamed at all just the into gaza. in egypt security forces say they've killed forty people during raids just a day after a bomb attack on tourists the government says it killed terrorists preparing attacks on state buildings tourist places and church shoes three foreigners and their gyptian guide were killed when the bus they were on board was hit by a blast near the pyramids in giza rob matheson has more say. 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 would tolerate. fourteen

vietnamese tourists were on board when the bomb exploded in a district close to the giza pyramids here in new york about that sometimes attacks such as this one can of course it may even happen again in the future and it isn't a country in the world where we can say is one hundred percent safe tourists in egypt have sometimes been targeted as the government has tried to suppress armed groups in the sinai peninsula tourism is key to egypt's struggling economy were you doing signaling to the egyptian regime that they're moving out of their own territory and now attacking the very primary source of income for many egyptians that thirty percent of the economy goes to tourism. within hours of the bombing the egyptian government published photographs it said showed some of what it called thirty suspected militants killed by security forces in raids in cairo's giza district egypt's government says the men had been planning attacks on tourists and

state institutions a further ten armed fighters are reported to have been killed in the north of the sinai peninsula i think a lot of people 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 for the. 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 to be bombed egypt's heavily secured capital rob matheson al-jazeera . ok let's talk. she's a professor of law law school and director of the center on security race and writes these welcome to the news here on al-jazeera more than twenty four hours on why we still not a claim of responsibility here yet in this regard it is

unusual particularly if the responsible perpetrators are from one side betamax this which is a designated terrorist group based in sinai that has pledged allegiance to isis normally when they conduct these types of terrorist attacks such as the one where they bombed the russian airline they killed over two hundred people they will claim responsibility as a means of recruitment and propaganda but that doesn't necessarily mean that they weren't responsible sometimes they will wait because if they claim responsibility the state cracks down even harder but the other potential culprit could be radical defectors from the muslim brotherhood who saw their president who was democratically elected be forcibly removed by the military and decided that they no longer want to support the muslim brotherhood's nonviolent political agenda and have defected ng gone underground and created some quote form of violent group so

it's still unclear who was behind the attack on the tourists forty people dead by way of retaliation reportedly will that be enough to keep a lid on whoever was behind this attack. i think it's unclear whether the people who were killed were actually responsible the speed at which it happened creates many questions the first is that if in fact they were guilty or suspects of this crime then the government should have prevented it before the tourist bus was attacked so there's clearly a failure of intelligence and the second reason is that if they were in fact the suspects there should have been some kind of due process they could have arrested them prosecuted them and added them frankly to the thousands of people who are being prosecuted in egypt many of whom are in fact in a sense because the government does not does not have any qualms about prosecuting anyone who they think is committing terrorism or any type of even human rights

activism at this point so the fact that this all happened so quickly and that you have forty people dead thirty in and ten in sinai makes it look more like see it theatrically by the government to show that its response to any attack is swift and lethal generally how would you categorize for us mr el-sisi is reaction to this and how he's running the country and what was the direction of travel here for him . well the c.d.c. is facing a lot of challenges i think the one the egyptians care the most about right now seven years after the failed revolution is the economy and although his regime has been relatively successful in major infrastructure projects like roads and bridges they have failed utterly in growing the economy in a way that's sustainable that's one reason why they need to or isn't because it's a form of of rent from people abroad but instead what's happening is that the

military's influence in the economy has grown significantly such that it is squeezing out the private sector particularly small medium sized firms at the same time they're firing millions of public employees who otherwise would be middle class egypt sions so egypt sions particular youth and those who have graduated from college are finding themselves unemployed and the rate among young graduates is estimated to be as high as thirty percent so in that regard i think c.c. has a serious problem and clearly these attacks do not help the economy and presumably those who perpetrated it did so by design that's exactly what they wanted to do was to hurt the economy and we saw these same types of attacks by dissident groups in radical groups in the ninety's so it's not a new strategy so thanks very much. lots more still to come for you here on the news hour including this young boy died in the custody of u.s.

border officials will tell you trump's been blaming for his death. the desperate search to find a group of miners in india missing for more than two weeks. and in the. support for the player who was racially abused during his last italian league. there is a massive security clampdown in bangladesh as voting gets underway in parliamentary elections the campaign saw a wave of violence with opposition supporters being arrested and some government supporters reportedly becoming the victims of targeted killings as charles stratford reports from dhaka the unrest is playing on voters' minds. muhammad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the bangladeshi capital dhaka for three years which sells cheap breakfast to rickshaw drivers and passers by. but

after weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday mohammed is afraid. of everything and yes i'm scared of what might happen that the violence will affect my livelihood we may be forced to close a 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 leaders zia is serving a ten year jail term for two separate corruption cases it's estimated around six hundred thousand members of various security forces including the military and police have been deployed for sunday's election opposition party say at least ten thousand six hundred of their supporters have been detained in the run up to these elections and at least seventeen of the candidates now the organization human rights watch says that the atmosphere of fear and repression is not consistent with

holding credible elections and some opposition candidates say that members of the security forces and supporters of the ruling party have surrounded their homes stop them from leaving and prevented them from campaigning in their local areas. at least ten people have been killed during election campaigning from both sides this video shows what the opposition says was an attack by ruling party supporters on a group of opposition politicians including the man leading the b.n.p. alliance while the party's leader. is in prison cya double barcus of the was among those at times they were arrested every day on an average of twenty people till yesterday that he's twenty eight december in eighteen days two hundred plus people those are carrying my election materials either leaflet or pamphlet or stickers

saying louder in j 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 in the world more than seven hundred thousand ready just fled a violent crackdown in myanmar into bangladesh in two thousand and seventeen the world bank has also praised bangladesh fruits strong economic growth of over six percent in recent years. most of these campaign banners a for the ruling party an indication of media control very few opposition posters a scene on the streets. that 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 hum

it says he will vote for an opposition candidate in the election whatever the outcome it is violence jewellery and after the vote that many people like him fear the most and she joins us live here on the news out of dhaka charles the polls have just opened what's the mood of the people there do we think. that's right yeah the polls have just opened here contesting the three hundred since one hundred four million voters to cast their ballots as we heard in that report the. atmosphere here has been very tense in the build up to these elections it was only last night that one of the main opposition bloc the national unity front that contains or includes the main opposition party that boycotted the last elections the bangladesh nationalist party said that over its three hundred also candidates

that is putting forward more than a home had suffered some food or some form of violence by the ruling party or ruling supplant party supporters they said that at least seventeen of their candidates sat had their candidacy canceled in the call so we have seen what is being described as you by the opposition here is unprecedented levels of intimidation and violence in the run up to these polls of course the ruling party the awami league is denying these allegations saying that these figures are exaggerated very kings a point now that so it says at least six of its supporters have been killed by opposition supporters in the build up to these elections and saying that they are very much the only party that can see this country into the future with respect to what's been described as an economic success story certainly by the world bank there are questions with respect to certainly the awami league record in terms of

it including what we describe as islamist parties there are questions being asked of what kind of effect this could have on the secular nature of the constitution the secular nature of this country's political future they're also going questions asked about the election commission itself very election commission. and last night being described by the opposition as having been completely corrupted and compromised politicized by the ruling party and certainly the people we've spoken to on the streets it seems as if they are very keen it's a cast their ballots but there is this sense of fear there is this sense that you know livelihood could be threatened by any serious security concerns the business is being closed down of course after the two thousand and fourteen election which the main opposition party boycotted we saw the riots we sure serious political unrest and many people killed in those in those riots so there is

a great sense of fear a great sense of trepidation the main point being made by the opposition though is that despite this appearance imitation they say they are going to participate in this election they are determined to go forward but there are concerns that because of this tense atmosphere they're concerned that this may indeed stay away from the polls it's also important to note that in the last few hours we've already heard reports certainly from some of our sources on the ground to various places across the country alleging that voting boxes have been stuffed and there have already been polling stations or security which they say has been compromised one report of c.c.t.v. cameras apparently being switched off at one of these polling stations very important that we cannot in any way independently verify the gay people. an indication of just how tense how tense the atmosphere is here ok charles thanks very much let's

get more on the michael kuhlmann is deputy director of the asia program at the wilson center in washington he joins us on skype from annapolis maryland michael. say this is a pivotal moment for bangladesh. oh absolutely this is a pivotal election since the one party there is it's a war in which i imagine and well. it would be a one party state in mind what they were going why do we party over the last few years now and against the opposition. and it doesn't win the election i think that signifying that you know that he has to be at the party and other opposition parties to the. sideline to form of the difficult and cover their sinn fein become so absolutely there's a tremendous amount at stake this election if the ruling party wins how will it have won when we come to analyze the back story of this. well you know

i do think we have to fear that this election will not be particularly silly or fair i think. the only farmland is not. necessarily got the most votes in a free and fair way that said i think it is important i like that even though critics like myself will talk about how he was in the. position where you need a plan you know that's not what wall this is the party that does retain popular support and that's you and your order mentioned earlier this government is seen as having presided with tremendous economic growth even over the last year and beyond that by explaining violence and. economic growth continue that base and this government also been seen as a force that that was able to crackdown against the extremists and state that's over the last few years so the ruling party does have supporters people will vote

for the party but that said given what we've seen and given indications and fear and i fear this election will be marred by fraud it will mark you in there and in a sense a lot in the party that doesn't win and seeing if they didn't get your clearly the country before this election was very much of a moderate democracy if what you are saying does come to pass what will bangladesh be shifting towards becoming in the future. well you know you know people that's that for that one here that by going to become a one party state in that you need to mark which he won't name and it would say that extension would be something closely approximate and authoritarian state even if that. democratic process the action so that's why you know this is a very very little election year though the trend lines for this election are not

really that good at all michael thank you very much. and here. still to come here on al-jazeera the u.k. government saw for a jump in the number of migrants crossing the sea from france to report from both sides of the english channel and. people should not wait take things into their own hands we look at how some refugees who went to germany recently are flourishing in their adopted homeland. and in the sports news we'll hear from boxing legend floyd mayweather the claims he could sleep pork his way through his latest fight. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze the. follow the weather slushy dry across southeastern parts of china we've had some rather would see whether their way into the central areas they can clap. for

a time temperatures struggling to get anywhere near freezing actually to celsius therefore we can touch woman that is shanghai at around five celsius being a c. there we go with their various lower la jarius no i will make his way a little further south with teddy the thinned out as we go on into monday little bit of cloud a little bit of rain still in place in the northern parts of vietnam the wettest weather the liveliest weather will remain around the philippines where of course we do have a tropical system moving through so we have same flooding here some parts saying in excess of six hundred millimeters of rain well so clouston in place here see the process of pulling away from the western side of the philippines for sunday we go on into monday you can see the circulation just developing between borneo and vietnam further heavy downpours coming through here the system could actually become rather more organized as we make a way to the early part of next week that legacy of showers will continue to bring rain into those flood affected pass all of the philippines not just problems across

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a good news story al-jazeera is award winning programs take you on a journey around the globe because we see. only on al-jazeera. ok welcome back you're watching al-jazeera news hour my name's peter dhabi here in doha this hour let's recap your top stories with the rebels in yemen have handed over control of the key port of who data to the government the transfer was carried out under u.n. supervision it is part of a peace deal which in sweden earlier this month. he have agreed to coordinate on the ground in syria following talks in moscow just days after the u.s.

announced a pullout of his forces meanwhile turkish tanks of headed to the border for a possible confrontation with kurdish fighters in the syrian city of man b h. and millions of voters in bangladesh head to the polls shortly in an election expect to see the prime minister return for a fourth term security is tight across the muslim majority country after weeks of violence and arrests of opposition supporters jurong the campaign. another election polling day today in the democratic republic of congo for a long delayed presidential election there the country's top archbishop has called for a peaceful vote after weeks of political unrest the leading opposition candidate martin for you know was among those who heard the plea at a mass in the capital kinshasa 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 jew 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 to still the blood of the congolese people which has flowed too much already for decades. all this election was due to have taken place two years ago as well as a new president voters will also choose national and provincial members of parliament catherine sawyer reports from kinshasa on the main candidates. posters of politicians line almost every street in kinshasa there are twenty one presidential candidates on the ballot but it really found out. a man most adare is a ruling party candidate and outgoing president patton all choice his critics say he's not suitable because he and the european union functions and is not popular but he supported ag he placed for the post by different positions.

you know who's. the congress. the interest of the country interest of the people and. only 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 dignity. and they have to have. they have to vote to me because i want. people every year. at least five point one million jobs for people of color. 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 candidates are promising much the same deal. makes the economy 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 may be hard to implement we need to plan ahead this country we need to plan for. at least we know that we'll 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 they've been waiting for two years for the opportunity. two year old yemeni boy whose mother fought for a visa to visit him on his deathbed in the united states has passed away a 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 several mostly muslim countries she was eventually granted permission to enter the country just days before her son's death. the u.s. president has blamed the democratic party for the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody this month eight year old from the pretty girl ms alonzo and seven year old to clean coal macon both died after being detained by the border or thorough tus donald trump criticized what he labeled the quotes pathetic immigration policies of the democrats saying the flow of asylum seekers north from central america would

stop if his proposed border wall was approved mike hanna has more now from washington. president trump's tweets blaming the democrats for the death of the two young children has created outrage his critics pointing out that no evidence of any kind is being provided by the president also pointing out that it's his policies that are partially or wholly to blame for the situation at the border that continues to deteriorate the day shutdown of government the partial shutdown also is having an impact on events at that border a large number of customs and border protection officers for example are federal employees they are either working without pay or have been sent home without a homeland secretary touring that area says conditions are overwhelming saying that there needs to be massive improvements in the way that border is secured but store

president trump continues to insist that he will accept no less than that six billion dollars he is demanding for the wall he is refusing to forge any kind of compromise with the democrats who have already offered a deal which involves some one point six billion dollars for border security so the shutdown now in its eighth day continues president trump alone in the white house continues to tweet his family have returned to their holiday home in florida a trip that president trump canceled after the shutdown began. rescue efforts have been stepped up in india to find fifteen miners trapped for more than two weeks maybe divers have joined the search but hopes are fading for the teenage workers in the flooded coal mine in the northeastern states of making. as more. a leap of faith underground rescue crews are on a race against time hoping for

a miracle. fifteen miners have been trapped inside an illegal coal mine since december thirteenth a few helmets have been recovered but so far no signs of life. until we have checked every corner would not assured that the trapped miners had died nearly one fourth of the ninety meter deep mine in the east hills got filled with water when flash was from a nearby river rushed through a lack of proper draining tools delayed earlier rescue plans leading to heavy criticism against the government specialized indian navy divers have since been called in and more equipment is now available police a fire anybody does the services the rescuers of odisha fire emergency services have brought ten high pressure pumps we've already started the instalment process because. environmental concerns let's well mining ban in two thousand and fourteen in the state of meghalaya. it's illegal but still common known as rat holes illegal

coal mines operate under dangerous conditions with no emergency plans the workers are often children and teenagers accidents are frequent with little or no losses in food or water for the miners chances of survival are slim the indian navy divers personally inspected the area with my divers they assess the situation from the water surface level and i think they will be able to map out a good plan they are staying positive and so are we. a challenging rescue mission with time and aunts against it but families and rescue teams are clinging on to hope katia llopis of the young al-jazeera the u.s. president says major progress has been made towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump and china xi jinping spoke by telephone about result in their differences washington in beijing began imposing to it for tat tariffs earlier this year she had britons he has more now 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 hopes that the teams presumably the trade negotiating teams could meet each beat 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 tatter of publishing draft

laws which suggest greater intellectual property property rights and protection for foreign companies so perhaps there is movement under way the italian parliament has approved the government's budget meeting a year and deadline that otherwise could have brought a huge fines for excessive debt the budget cuts the country's deficit next year to about two percent of g.d.p. after brussels rejected the government's original target the opposition protested against the bill the parliament the new measures include a basic income for job seekers and higher tax on the banks. tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied in serbia this is the latest in a series of demonstrations in belgrade after an opposition politician was beaten last month critics accuse the populous president. of curtailing democratic freedoms and cracking down on opponents. or been violent protests in the french city of known as so-called yellow vests demonstrations continued for a seventh weekend right police used tear gas to disperse protesters around eight

hundred people also demonstrated in paris a lower turnout than before numbers fall and since the start of the protests against president macro's policies and the rising cost of living the u.k.'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 well look at the view from the british side of the channel in just a moment a first bernard smith in the northwest of france begins our coverage from cali the messages being sent to families in africa the middle east iran and afghanistan will be about failed attempts to make it to wing 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 all the living conditions here are just making people every very

desperate and once you have also it 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 if you tried taking a boat. then you know i want to save my lives. and give myself well because this is important my life. then you lose the good this is going to have the money the french and british governments have spent millions of dollars fortifying 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 journey is 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 a million refugees and migrants and to germany many fleeing the war in syria at the time the government said they could successfully integrate into german society despite opposition from conservatives and far right groups from berlin dominic cain

looks at how successful some of those efforts of big it's a busy morning for romney 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 here and if i waited to get a german class i would be doing nothing i would be waiting because first i lived with 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 two thousand and fifteen received refugee status and

with it housing welfare and help to.