offended foreign country rights groups say the timing of the verdict is important. and. very i mean the reason why they chose to have it during the holy days in the west where they are expecting the minimal in the midst of a tension over. the peace advocate state that he won he wants to remain silent. decided to bomb the children in yemen he stated war will only bring misery i would never bring solutions for those that we have be it is settling the five years of prison amnesty international calls the verdict shameful one that exposes behind's justice system as a complete farce it along with a coalition of human rights groups had also campaigned for the u.a.e. to release the activist ahmed monsoor but an appeals court in abu dhabi upheld a ten year jail sentence on monday months were two had spent time in prison in

twenty eleven and accused of insulting the rulers by calling for democratic elections in the united arab emirates this time he was charged with publishing what the government considers false information on social media as well as calling for another activist to be released these latest rulings highlight the dangers and difficulties activists space in the gulf region and are schapelle al-jazeera separately and women's rights activist in egypt has had her presence sentence upheld on some of the challenges and all fathi was sentenced to two years behind bars for posting a video on facebook criticizing egyptian authorities for failing to tackle sexual harassment fasting was challenged by spreading false news one demanding national security and publishing an indecent video stay had campaigned for her release as well and has called sunday's ruling and it rained just in just a sec. still to come on al-jazeera under the shoes prime minister shake

a cena celebrates winning a fourth term and promises to investigate allegations of vote rigging. and we meet the russian rappers who are defying president putin schools for tighter controls. hello there in northern australia are bracing for yet more flooding so thanks to this system here this is developing feature and it's going to run its way towards the east and as it does say it's giving us heavy rain across many parts of queensland because it's so waterlogged here at the moment that is likely to cause a problem with flooding so plenty of what weather here the further south well we've still got a problem with the heat is still very very hot for many of us forty two in alice springs and as you head further south fours in adelaide will be all the way up the

thirty four as we head through wednesday meanwhile towards the east it generally looking a bit quieter fourth in new zealand there's a bit of cloud just tracking its way across us at the i mentioned a few outbreaks of rain but nothing particularly heavy and like all claim will have a pleasant day temperatures up to around twenty three or twenty four degrees as we head through the next couple of days as we head further north of course we head into winter and here it is brutally cold for many of us we've also got quite a bit of snow still falling across the northwestern parts of japan and so it looks like that's going to stick around as we head through the day on wednesday so plenty more wintery weather to be seen here it's warmer for us in tokyo will make it to double figures just about ten degrees but further west it certainly cooled beijing hovering around freezing. minus eighty. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with

a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline we felt this was the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has cooled base our legal protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. and lots of different reasons what's different types of books join the global conversation on al-jazeera. welcome back we're going to the top stories here on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has agreed to establish a commission of inquiry into the antigovernment protests

a fact finding mission will be led by the minister of justice and look into what caused the unrest as well as the police response people in the yemeni port city of the data have told us there were but shelling is still going on despite a u.n. botched truce and courts in bahrain and the u.a.e. have upheld the prison sentences handed down to activists in the bill read job and act like one saw both men who were appealing that jail terms were imprisoned for being critical of the government's. now to mexico where some two thousand the central american asylum seekers are still waiting in tijuana in the hopes of making it across the border to the united states from forced family separations to a partial government shutdown the immigration debate has deep defined president donald trump's agenda in twenty eighteen but despite his zero tolerance approach on tough language many are still persisting where. american dream. has more from.

this is an average day and it better that one of the one is busiest migrant shelters there's a clothing drive a medical tent and free haircuts for anyone and i was. in we have a population of one thousand four hundred people although that census changes every day as many people are leaving some of normalize their immigration status in mexico or have found jobs and have moved to other mexican citizens others continue to look towards finding alternative ways of crossing the border there are also some who have requested assistance in returning to their home countries voluntarily. most of the people here are from onto the us and and are seeking asylum in the united states many of been assigned a number and are waiting for their turn to speak with authorities at the border. i mean. it's good to stay calm and wait and think about our options. and he llopis and his family have been in t one for more than

a month now after traveling across quite a mile and mexico with thousands of other central american migrants he says of the u.s. won't let him in he plans to stay in mexico see your the theory that i know if there's an opportunity to enter the united states i will enter and i will look for work because the truth is my family needs the money to make a better life for ourselves we really are we need but if we can attend to that it's ok to i want to honor is an excellent place to live. two thousand and eighteen has come to an end and many people here say they weren't expecting to be waiting this long at the border they want to is hosting somewhere around five thousand central american migrants that began arriving in november the mexican government along with u.n. agencies and local donors have set up tent communities all around the city but many people here tell us they're tired of waiting and have chosen to cross over to the united states illegally. also from hundreds sell cigarettes at the shelter he says

he plans to join dozens of others in the coming days and jump the border fence. on the pill i don't have a number i didn't ask for one i'm waiting i've been waiting a long time what i want is to cross let it be god's will my dream is to find work and provide for my family. crossing into the u.s. illegally carries its own risks a few days ago when migrant drowned trying to swim around the border wall his body was found the next day by authorities in california for those who choose to stay in the new year only promises more uncertainties and no guarantees that their long wait will end in the united states. do you want to. amend their prime minister shake a cena has rejected calls for a new vote after being declared a landslide when a in sunday's election play say at least seventeen people have been killed including seven from the ruling party and five from the opposition alliance they opposition has rejected the results accusing the government of vote rigging shall stratfor the polls from the capital dhaka. bangladeshis ruling party

banning is still hanging by the thousands in this darkened neighborhood. opposition candidates and their supporters tell us when they try to hang their banners many were threatened beaten by pro-government supporters and often detained by the police. people are nervous to comment about the election all those we spoke to in public at least said they accepted the result was not right it's normal someone when someone loses i'm a poor man what can i do. after prime minister sheikh hasina is a wame leake party won more than ninety percent of the contested two hundred ninety eight seats there is anger and fear among the opposition and its supporters that has seen him who was already served three terms says the vote was free and fair. the election commission says that it will investigate allegations of voter fraud

but the main opposition alliance that has rejected this election and he's demanding that another one be held says that the election commission has been corrupted by the ruling party and there is mounting evidence of voter full. mohamad. is a member of the bangladesh nationalist party he says his party polling station observers were arrested or prevented from entering by ruling party supporters. we have lost all faith in the election commission we don't believe they will stick to their words. this photograph shows one of three c.c.t.v. cameras that we found taped over at a polling station in dhaka coffee come on as a journalist he says he was attacked by a group of men the trying to film them attacking a man outside a polling station he can not verify whether his attackers were pro-government opposition supporters. mamma she wanted this attack has scared me but i have to

work it in talk of what these discs i depend on journalism for my family prime minister has seen since she has faith in the election commission. the election commission has every right to investigate if they feel they need to yes they can do it they've done in the past two. election commission says it will investigate allegations of voter fraud but has announced already that it believes the election was free and fair. but i'll just dump the. us democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken a may just step towards joining the twenty twenty presidential race warren tells supporters and she's forming a explorer trick committee that allows her to raise money and find the necessary stuff before full well in the watching her presidential bid she's also released a video promising to protect the middle class against the excesses of rule street

a famous likely to feature prominently in her campaign has been america's middle class is under attack how do we get here billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie and they enlisted politicians to cut a much fatter swines the crippled union so no one could stop we're going to turn the troops dismantle the financial rules meant to keep us safe after the great depression and cut their own taxes so they paid less than their secretaries and janitors it's time to write the rules for the no why after wall street crash our economy in two thousand and eight hour left the classroom to go to washington and come from the broken system head on. the opposition in the democratic republic of congo's says they will not accept the results of sunday's elections if the ruling party wins vote counting is well underway but it could be several days before early results are announced the opposition says there are irregularities in both the

presidential and parliamentary elections president joseph kabila is stepping down after seventeen years hasn't been a peaceful transition of power in the country since independence nine hundred sixty . almost one hundred fifty thousand security officers have been deployed across france and the new year celebrations of anti-government protests are expected on the shoals elisei it comes as president macro issued a message of unity in his television address. the world the crisis of the european dream is real but it doesn't mean we should disappear on this it's a huge challenge we must face and all of this is connected with the malays we feel in our country but we have a role to play and a vision to propose that is the direction i have been trying to move the country in since the first day i took office and which i intend to continue to pursue putting people first this needs determination and consistent because of the russian rock

music is becoming increasingly popular and increasingly controversial after a string of arrests and concert cancellations president vladimir putin recently called for tighter control of rap music or a challenge reports from moscow on the pressures some russian rappers are facing. husky here's one of russia's most popular homegrown rappers his lyrics cover drugs violence and social dysfunction and recently he's been in trouble after all storage fees in a string of cities canceled his concerts passkey responded with a car top performance outside a venue in krasnodar police dragged him away. and there are others in. the band i speak a more overtly political than hosty they've had shows canceled with the authorities citing alleged suicidal themes and they were detained recently too from their

russian tour i speak told us the pressure is misguided morally and so the more people listen to music the more people find out in bunkers lation and become angry and go around so it's untrue into two now is just me as well let's just make us believe that we're not alone evander ohman known as the rapper face can see why some are comparing what's going on to the soviet repression of rock music in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . the situations are similar the past situation the current want to both terrifying it says that we are still a third world country without freedom of speech what's unclear at the moment is whether this is a centralized crackdown the federal security service here operating some sort of blacklist or whether it's more like local officials being a bit overzealous either way in excess of twenty five concepts are being canceled

this year affecting more than ten different artists but this story has twists suggesting that in russia things are often more complicated than they seem just four days into his twelve day sentence for minor hooliganism huskey was unexpected a released. margarita simonyan chief editor of state funded broadcaster r.t. tweeted he must have supporters in the presidential administration and on state t.v. the man under western sanctions is the kremlin's chief propagandist jumps to the defense of russian rap dimitri off said they're the children not only of black american hip hop culture but also of the early soviet poets bloody may makowski then taking many of us by surprise he started rapping mayakovsky verse and id on the audience for us throughout our stay in saudi and that is so serious that some artists at least appear to have friends in high places rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. now many parts of the world it's already twenty nineteen

a spectacular fireworks displays in major cities saying in the new year nineteen barbara has been watching the pyrotechnics. party in the indian capital new delhi as midnight arrived in twenty eight turned into twenty ninety i was the celebrations really started thousands of kilometers away in oakland harbor in new zealand thousands of people watched brightly colored fireworks shooting into the night sky. city with or to say the show is a story tower standing three hundred twenty eight meters tall is the highest fireworks display in the southern hemisphere. a couple of hours later it was the turn of australia's largest city sydney i i. disappoint from the storms on one day both of the billion people were at the waterfront watching aged a half tons of fireworks go off the biggest display the city's ever seen i. said behold the bridge was the focal point for

a show including a tribute to soul singer rita frankly if you die did august and the celebration of australia's aboriginal heritage project together they should fold to the bridges. this was the seat in central peel young the north korean capital where the crowds got not just fireworks but an adult show. i. believe. a cold cold fix it up with local and western abilities accompanying the big bang's . al-jazeera. network of your mind of the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al

bashir has agreed to establish a commission of inquiry into anti-government protests which are now lost in thirteen days it will look into the causes of the unrest as well as the places response officers have five tear gas and demonstrates us to try and disperse crowds in the capital counting on the eighth of independence day protests over rising food and fuel prices as well as calls for bashir to stand down a threatening to undermine celebrations affair is blaming saddam's economic problems on years of international sanctions most of which have ended. but how to think that we shall enter into a new era where unity is reinforced and harmony is maintained in the whole country all with the aim to face the challenges and threats hovering above our head and here i renew the call to be honorable sudanese people in and outside of sudan to come together and stand united to parade on the good and not the evil we will join hands to denounce violence steer away from wars to engage in dialogue is the only

means to resolve differences people in the yemeni port city of her data say shelling is still going on despite a un backed truce who the family says agreed to hand over control of the data to a local coast guard to be overseen by the un as part of a leason deal but the government backed by a saudi amorality coalition says hasn't happened. has obtained a video showing saudi agents taking what suspected to be the remains of jamal khashoggi to the house of the saudi consul general in istanbul the washington post columnist was killed soon after entering the saudi consulate in the city on october the second his remains have never been found. bahrain's top court has rejected a final appeal by prominent activist newbill rich up who was jailed for five years in february he was sentenced for criticizing saudi arabia's strikes in yemen and

accusing bahrain's prison authorities of torture meanwhile a court in the u.a.e. has also upheld a sentence against activists after a man saw her being critical of the government there. those are the top stories stay with us next up this a.j. selects happy new year everybody. a controversial politician elected to the highest office in latin america's biggest country. brazil is about to inaugurate its new president. joins us live from the capital brasilia on inauguration day.

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