ment who the rebels backed by iran and yemen's government supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates also agreed to uphold a cease fire in the city that. aid workers had hoped humanitarian corridors could soon be opened and much needed aid might be delivered a scenario whose success relies on mutual trust and one whose achievement seems more difficult with each new accusation mohammed and his ear. bangladesh's prime minister shaikh hasina has dismissed calls for a new vote after being declared the winner in sunday's election the opposition has rejected the results accusing the government of vote rigging police say at least one thousand people have been killed in election related violence charles traffic reports from the capital dhaka. bangladeshis ruling party planning is still hanging by the thousands in this dark and 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 but wasn't part of the regular it's normal someone when someone loses i'm a poor man what can i do. of the 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 has 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 is demanding that another one be held says that the election commission has been corrupted by the ruling party and there is mounting. it's

a vote of fools. mohamad arsenal 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 after he tried to film them attacking a man outside a polling station he can not verify whether his attackers were pro-government or opposition supporters. wanted this attack has scared me but i have to work it in talk of what these desks i depend on journalism for my family prime minister has seen says 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 chance not that al-jazeera the. police in japan's capital tokyo have launched a terrorism investigation after a car was driven into a crowd celebrating the new year at least eight people were injured in the incident which police say was deliberate it happened on one of the city's most famous streets in the fashion district of her just after midnight a man believed to be the driver of the vehicle has been arrested. plenty more ahead on the news hour including outrage from rights groups after bahrain upholds and activists five year jail term for tweets plus thousands of asylum seekers on mexico's border with the u.s. face a new year full of uncertainty. and in sport floyd mayweather ends twenty eighteen

in style piece it will be here with that story in sports. u.s. democratic senator elizabeth warren has taken an important step towards entering the twenty twenty presidential race she's forming an exploratory committee to raise money before formally launching a presidential bid war and has been one of president donald trump's fiercest critics she's released a video promising to protect the middle class against the excesses of wall street a theme that's likely to feature prominently in her campaign america's middle class is under attack how do we get here billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of them and they listed politicians to fathom swines the crippled union so no one could stop with the way to turn the. 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 middle class to wall street rashed our economy in two thousand and eight i left the classroom to go to washington and come from the broken system head on. caster has more from washington d.c. . some analysts put elizabeth warren just to the left of hillary clinton on the political spectrum now warren has been in congress for just six years and in that relatively short period of time she has made a national reputation for herself as an ardent critics and reformer of wall street that is a position very popular with the left liberal base and in her announcement video you saw that highlighted as well as other other issues important to liberals including minority rights and gay marriage now the fact that warren was the first

major democrat to announce that she's taking this preliminary step to running may be a political calculation many others will follow in the spring and this is a suspected to be a wide field of candidates as many as thirty potential democrats who would like to take this on they include a wave of fresh new faces that were ushered into prominence by the midterm elections as well as more veterans politically including former vice president joe biden as well as senator bernie sanders both of whom have the added experience of having run for president in the past so warren would need to convince democrats that she deserves to be the new face of this currently leaderless party as well as sell the all important message of being able to defeat donald trump in the general election on that front she has already shown some weakness trump has often called her using the slur pocahontas to deride her claims of having native american

ancestry and warren's critics and supporters alike have panned warren's decision to take a d.n.a. test and release those results to the public saying she was simply taking trump's bait so in order to overcome that many are saying she would need to be more politically deft going forward. well peter matthews is a professor of political science at cypress college he says elizabeth warren is well known for her political thoughts her political stance among the other potential democratic candidates but she does have a base because she's been well known to be a champion of people against big banks and she ran on those all those issues in massachusetts and since then she's been speaking clearly about that being on the senate banking committee so she does have some visibility is probably the third most a visible person after sanders and biden other than that there's a whole field of people behind her a bit o'rorke there is camilla harris there are so many people behind with only five percent of the supporter or being not known not well by people but are going

to be getting to be known and we'll have to see what those counties with small amount of support in do to chip away because it'll be a crowded field and the counties for the single largest number of votes in most primaries will win either the proportional delegates in most states and some states will take it all as well so it just takes a lot of organization she does have some name recognition but not as well as strong in the organizational part across the country will have to wait and see how that works out to be very exciting actually for democrats in the democratic republic of congo several candidates are claiming they're in the lead in sunday's presidential election counting continues off to the ballots which was hampered by delays complaints of vote rigging and violence the internet's also been cut in an apparent effort to stop speculation about the results twenty one candidates are vying for the top office intruding the opposition's martin failure to. alert remark because. as i speak to you more than a third of the ballots have been counted nationally and the trends are

unquestionable they put a coalition candidate martin for you to mcgeady far in the lead well al jazeera is malcolm webb is following events in the capital kinshasa and has the latest. opposition candidate martin lewis said he's confident of victory he said the information that his teams gathered since polling suggests that he's in pretty clear when opinion polls held before the election gave him a substantial lead over all of the other candidates and he said that if a ruling party victory is announced he won't accept it meanwhile a spokesman for the ruling party's candidate mahmassani shuddery said that his kind that had won most of the provinces outside of the council that odds with what the opinion polls showed and also all this with what was expected following the very large crowds that opposition rallies did draw in some of the provinces during the campaigns majority of congolese an opinion poll say they don't trust the electoral commission and they don't trust the courts to resolve the dispute internet services

throughout the country have been turned off of course one of the key pieces of information that people want to be exchanging right now particularly those in opposition of results from polling stations that they're trying to gather the counting process also has some lack of clarity and controversy around that it's not entirely clear if the paper ballots printed by the voting machines one for each voter will be used as the main source of data collection or if an electronic signal transferred directly from those machines to the electoral commission will be used instead of paper counts as of course much more transparent and easier for observers and opposition party representatives to monitor the electronic system opposition say it's a paper vulnerable to manipulation. opinion poll say that about half of respondents wouldn't accept the ruling even if we announced that about half of respondents would take to the streets if that's the case. the european union has called for the

release of a prominent rights activist his prison sentence for speaking out against saudi arabia has been upheld by bahrain's top court and on the same day a court in the united arab emirates uphill the sentence against an activist and reports ahmed month sewer in the united arab emirates and to be a raja in bahrain will now be spending years in prison for criticizing their government's policies on social media was a prominent opposition figure during behind's protest movement during the arab spring he's been in and out of prison for this activism and his tweets on monday the supreme court upheld a five year jail term for a tweet deemed offensive to the state wars bring hatred destruction and horrors he tweeted as the saudi led coalition began bombing yemen in twenty fifteen the bahraini court agreed he disseminated what he calls false news in a time of war and defended the foreign country rights groups say the timing of the

verdict is important. then. i mean the reason why they chose to have it during the holidays and that was where they are expecting the minimal finished attention or the bit. as a piece advocate state that he won he wants to remain silent. decided to bomb the children in yemen he stated that war will only bring misery i would never bring solutions for those that we have beat it. by the prison amnesty international calls the verdict shameful one that exposes behinds 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 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 face in the gulf region and are schapelle al-jazeera separately a women's rights activist in egypt has had her prison sentence upheld on similar charges amount he was sentenced to two years in jail for posting a video on facebook criticizing egyptian authorities for failing to tackle sexual harassment fathi was charged with spreading false news undermining national security and publishing an indecent video and a stay international has campaigned for her release and has called sunday's ruling an outrageous injustice. still ahead on al-jazeera. the

world to the crisis of the european dream is real the french president calls for unity after a year of political crises. the both n.r.o. effect how brazil's new far right president could have an impact on the global stage. plus we'll be in senegal where the women's basketball team has become an inspiration to teenage girls that's coming up in four pieces. from a clear blue sky you don't home. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of los. and i know that the weather is all quite quiet for many of us across the southeastern parts of china at the moment most of us a seeing some fine settled weather the wetter weather is here ever parts of taiwan and stretching down through parts of the philippines but it is moving northward so by the time we get to wednesday there more of us will be sings and think of cloud

and a few outbreaks of rain and it does look like that will include us in hong kong of a further towards the south we've seen very active weather here look at the satellite picture we can see a lot of cloud that's making its way towards the west and that's really intensifying so for some of us in the southern parts of vietnam through cambodia doesn't particularly wet there as we head through the day and choose day and then the system tracks its way towards the west and still giving us some heavy falls as it does say further south there is a better chance of a joy day for some of us here but for us across parts of borneo and down into java it's still looking rather soggy towards india though it's looking fine and settled for many of us here it's across parts of sri lanka that we're also enjoying some sunshine and that's the way things will stay as we head through the next couple of days and generally settle to the north that could be a little bit of snow just making its way through parts of afghanistan and into the northern parts of india there as we head through wednesday new delhi should avoid it although our temperatures will make it to around twenty to. the weather

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stand up for human rights. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour north korean leader kim jong un has rung in the new year with an offer of more talks with u.s. president donald trump botts he warns that may seek a new policy on denuclearization if washington pursues action against north korea. both sides in yemen's war are being accused of siphoning food aid the un's food agency threatened to suspend shipments. rein in corruption and the associated press or documents suggesting rations and ties have been seized by armed units working

with saudi u.a.e. coalition forces. sudan's president omar al bashir has ordered an investigation into anti-government protests that began nearly two weeks ago it comes as security forces again used tear gas and life fire to disperse crowds in the capital dozens of protesters were arrested. at least a four people have been killed in a gas explosion in russia as many as forty others a feared trapped under the rubble of the apartment building that partially collapsed following the blast president vladimir putin traveled to the central city of magnitogorsk to visit the injured catherine stansell has more the blast occurred in an apartment block in the early hours of the morning when most people were still asleep. it tore a hole through a large swathes of the nine story apartment building in a city and russia's ural mountains spoke those loose we were all asleep then i woke up with the feeling that i was falling down i thought i was dreaming then i

realized i was outside the wall was gone my mother and my son will by screaming. many who survived were trapped in their homes and hutch be rescued those in nearby sections of the building were also evacuated due to the severe structural damage dozens of people are still unaccounted for and with temperatures hovering around minus twenty degrees celsius rescuers are racing to find anyone who might still be alive russian president vladimir putin arrived within hours of the collapse he met with local authorities at the accident site and then visited the hospital where the injured were taken but it's good to go because it is the eve of the new year unfortunately a tragedy has taken place i would like to express my condolences to the families of the victims and to assure those affected that we will do everything to help and support them in a temporary shelter has been such open a school for those forced from their homes incidents like this are not uncommon in

russia due to aging infrastructure and poor gas safety measures emergencies ministry says they are investigating this incident catherine stansell al jazeera. now hopes are fading for fifteen teenagers trapped for almost three weeks in an illegal coal mine in northeastern india their families are holding vigil as the rescue operation continues in the state of megalia the miners became trapped by floodwater on december thirteenth thousands of workers including children have been killed in some of the mines across the state. u.s. president donald trump is under growing pressure to slow down the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria since he announced a pullout on twitter and december military leaders allies and the u.s. congress was surprised by the decision which prompted the resignation of defense secretary jim mattis now there are signs the president may be listening she has returned the reports. donald trump's tweet announcing his intention to withdraw the

u.s. is two thousand or so troops from northeastern syria appeared to be an explicit rejection of the policy advocated by establishment washington both democrat and republican mission creep to use syria to project regional influence against iran and russia the defeat of isis was the only reason the u.s. was deployed in syria he said at the time but even if the intention was clear the order was a break one present from sad me and gave the time that sounded very quickly but there's always a question about you know they want to leave think that a wider question of how day withdraw what they do with the weapons. how they can and you know not leave a security vacuum we don't quite know the time to have all the order has been given but this may take a few weeks or a few months execute. and there was a suspicion even them that as has been the case in the past when presidents attempt to curtail the u.s.

is was abroad but not vague timeline would give washington's hawks the opportunity to fort trump's stated goal on sunday u.s. some to lindsey graham announced his intention to convince the u.s. president over a white house lunch to at least slow the withdrawal and after the meeting he said he'd succeeded the goal has always been the same. syria make sure isis never comes back our partners are taken care of in iraq and i think that's possible it's going to take a lot longer than everybody thought but hopefully we'll get there. monday tweets do not mention iran continuing to emphasize that u.s. troops are in syria to combat the islamic states if anybody but donald trump did what i did and syria which was an isis load of mess when i became president he said they would be a national hero isis is mostly gone with slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families while at the same time fighting isis remnants so this is the key question what. is the goal of the u.s.

presence in syria because clearly if it is to remain a key strategic player in the immediate region the syrian occupation could be indefinite despite the latest reports of a four month timeline hence the older zero washington. there have been rare signs of cooperation between libya's rival governments after years of conflict and division and follow several international attempts to bring peace as luck would otherwise he reports from tripoli police officers from libya's two rival governments met for the first time in the eastern city of bani. after four years of political impasse officers working under the and back to tripoli government sat with others affiliated with the tobruk based parliament the interior ministry in the capital tripoli says the move is to unify security measures and maintain in all libyan territory the officers discussed ways to link their security databases and

coordinate international comprehensive investigative system. the meeting comes after the recent spate of attacks that targeted state facilities in tripoli the high national election commission in may the national oil corporation in september and the foreign ministry in december. civil people were killed and others wandered the three buildings were severely damaged. analysts believe the meeting game is their right to stir up to bring the two sides together. that this decision was made after pressure from the international community on the local stakeholders of the libyan crisis the pressure from the un security council to unify libya's institutions was also sustained by the paris and palermo beatings that many people are hopeful the officers meeting could bring change since their rivals met face to face inside libya with no mediators however observers say it

won't be effective alist some armed groups are contained and their arms confiscated but this move is similar to efforts by egyptian army generals to unite reva libyan military institutions for the last two years cairo has hosted meetings between military officers from the tripoli government and those who support the war lord khalifa haftar but libya's armed forces are still divided have those forces control the east of libya and baghdad government controls the west but would have to this recent deployment of fighters to take control of certain areas in the south and central regions many down with the warring sides will find peace. tripoli brisson is stepping up its patrols of the english channel amid a recent surge in the number of migrants making the crossing for france twelve people including a child where the latest arrivals they were detained on

a beach in kent on the english coast. and now to mexico where some two thousand central american asylum seekers are still waiting until one or in the hope of making it across the border to the united states from forced family separations to a possible government shutdown the immigration debate has defined president donald trump's agenda and twenty eighteen al-jazeera has more from tijuana. this is an average day in. one of the one its busiest migrant shelters there's a clothing drive a medical tent and free haircuts for anyone you know what. we have a population of one thousand four hundred people so this is 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 works consistence others continue to look towards finding the target of 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 have 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 white. terms. and he llopis and his family have been in tijuana for more than a month now after traveling across mexico with thousands of other central american migrants he says the u.s. won't let him in he plans to stay in mexico. if there is 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 cannot turn to that's ok too 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. the nia 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 of the moment on the bill i don't have a number didn't ask for 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 monopoly disease do you want to. brazil's new

far right president will be sworn in on tuesday they also know as a divisive figure she has praised the country's past military dictatorship john holliman looks at what his presidency could mean for the rest of the wild. this covers more than half of brazil the amazon rain forest it's known as the lungs storing billions of tons of the planet's carbon dioxide. it was already being cut back but now brazil's incoming president wants to see it opened up to the business . people that leave it with. if we need to we're going to propose democratically to congress change the laws of the environmental policies don't disrupt brazil's development. it's not just the environment john abell sinatra's election is part of a new global wave of populist conservative leaders levitated they would assume that the victory of balsa narrow as

a victory for the ultra right which is beginning to be a real force in the world brazil is very strategic one of the most important countries in latin america it has this relationship now with the u.s. and other countries like austria turkey and the philippines zero zero zero but the relationship will scenarios most interested in is with this money they share a love of social media and the distrust of the press sinatra's even been nicknamed the trump of the tropics between them they now rule over the two largest economies in the americas it's an abrupt about face from the left this governments of brazil's recent past history polystyrene you. looks pretty quiet now but it felt some of the biggest tremors of change hundreds of thousands of people marched against a corruption scandal during brazil's political class that together with problems with the economy and specially crime many people are ready to take a chance on an absolute outlier. analysts say this danger he could eventually have

to another global trend strongmen undermining democracy as he has a form this for brazil's authoritarian past. i'm in favor of torture and the people are in favor of that too. that doesn't lose him points for many here who see it is just plain speaking they'll judge him instead on how he acts to tackle brazil's many problems john home and. so paolo well the french president has set out his vision of a twenty nineteen and says he'll press ahead with his controversial economic reforms and i know mark on acknowledge the tension the policies that caused the cold for patients and unity not just the malays in our world in the crisis of the european dream is real but it doesn't mean we should despair 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've been trying to move our country in since the first day i took office and which i intend to continue to pursue putting people first this needs determination and consistency bennett smith is in paris with more on what president mccall had to say. clearly what he's had to say has been affected by the yellow bus protests in the last couple of months that started in november and clearly in a lot of what he was saying was addressing those concerns and he said that he wants twenty nineteen he said to be. more decisive here when france will move forward he said in many of the things that they promised to do in terms of improving education improving health and he talked about wanting to address the issue of long term unemployed and try and help people who are without jobs but he also listed a series of wishes that he had for france next year an interest in his first one was a wish for truth particular point he was making about the prevalence of fake news

and he was saying that you know we have to pay taxes for the things that we want in this country we cannot live we can't have all the things we want if we don't pay for them we have to we have to be realistic and we have to address those issues he said and he said day also how to wish for dignity and he spoke particularly this again was i think an address to the people who the yellow best of protesters they are the majority of whom are people who having difficulty making ends meet the working classes the lower middle classes who just can't make ends meet every month with the small paychecks they have and he recognized that he said i want more dignity for those mothers looking after their children to the farmers who are working the lines so an appeal really i reel direct appeal i think to those people who've been protesting on the streets already earlier this year offered various concessions to them a couple of weeks ago tax cuts and improvements in the increase in the minimum wage but this was another reaching out of those people i think now says is around here at the.