those are now traversing space and will begin arriving in the next few days everything that we're going to learn about ultimate from its composition to its geology to how it was originally a symbol whether has satellites and atmosphere of those kinds of things are going to teach us about the original formation conditions of objects in the solar system tuesday morning brought a promising sign we have how the spacecraft. we just copters the most distant fly by a phone home message from the new horizon to tell scientists to successfully survive the fly by. the revelation. to help peace in the wait here's the mission's own theme music written by astrophysicist and new horizons team member brian may also the lead guitarist of the band queen. is ultimately one long rock or two that are touching does it have ice or craters the answers will be clues to understanding the origins of our solar system. castro

al-jazeera washington i. still to come on the news hour rising rents force the closure of one of new york's most famous bars and after an eighteen month doping brand a friend's son is back in the english premier league pizza has his reaction coming up. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as vapor i enjoy the taste of it and not the harmful effects of what's called it does between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen alone we start tripling in use among us high school students and head to head comparison easter eggs versus conventional cigarette which one do you think has helped my opinion i think they're both interest takes no on al-jazeera. when the news breaks

on the story. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told. with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning docu. trees. and light nice on air and online. now a forty one year old new york city institution is about to close its doors for good

the cornelia street cafe is the latest in a fast rising rents in greenwich village an area that ironically the business itself how to make fashionable just as silly as the story. this night out at the legendary cornelia street cafe is bittersweet for patrons and performers alike of course it's sad but at the. start. to moving forward the artists haunt voted one of the ten best places to hear jazz in the world is closing its doors after forty one years eliminating a venue that has fostered countless poets and performers as well as musicians. who will be. irreplaceable. both for the people who have performed here of this they have been given to and for the community it's it's a catastrophe on

a robin hirsch says even with an award winning restaurant and multiple nightly performances he can no longer afford the rent three of us who were all artists opened a little one room cafe. because we were artists all kinds of other artists . just sort of a crude. but the cap is greenwich village neighborhood has changed a lot since then. but the cornelia street cafe opened in one nine hundred seventy seven the ranch was four hundred fifty dollars a month now it is a staggering thirty three thousand dollars in the village is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the country thanks in part to the very artists who helped make it trendy and are now being pushed out these days it's primarily high end boutiques and chain stores that can afford to be here i like to call it the

mall ing of manhattan because every store that was in suburbia that i ran away from when i moved here four years ago now they followed me here or on my block hirsch blame societal changes as well the contemporary relationship is not amongst people and some with you and your screen and if you go to starbucks that's what you see and so it's the final curtain for cornelia street and the end of an era for the village art scene kristen salumi al jazeera new york. now for a latest it's a piece an end. to thank you so much russia has missed its deadline to hand over important related data so the wolf anti doping agency the deadline was december thirty first what of inspection team have been denied food access to samples at the moscow treat russia now runs the risk of another banned from international events the country was previously sanctioned after a state sponsored doping scandal was exposed in twenty fifteen they were unable to

use their name and flag during the pyong chang winter olympics in twenty eighteen. why the president craig reedie said i am bitterly disappointed that data extraction from the former moscow laboratory has not been completed by the date agreed by water in september twenty eighth seen since then water has been working diligently with the russian authorities to meet the deadline which was clearly in the best interest of clean sport. syria williams and roger federer make for tense allies in tennis but what about when you put two of the game's biggest names against each other or that's just what happened at the hopman cup team tournament in the australian city of perth here's kevin kilbane with the battle of the thirty seven year old it's for players on court but this was all about each partnerships other on the suppose side roger federer winner of twenty grand slam tournament titles he'd with belinda been church for team usa let's single out twenty three time major

winner serena williams alongside francis tearful i there was already on the night familiarity between all four feeder warming up by comfortably outclassing tier both and straight seats and this singles match and while the famously camfield express had a cooling down period williams week to bit harder for who wins who pretty mixed doubles match against been church stretching to three six i saw it when all all sit up for the decider. and then hopman cup style that's like fast dating first of four instead of six the swiss master am most winning for two for three to tie count the group time but at the end of the night this was all about a one off courtship between phaedra and williams for me it was super call like are

there and they wanted to take pictures and i am i was too excited but it was it was really fun while i was nervous returning because i because this is don't know about people talk about or serve so much and i see why it is such a wonderful service because you just can't read it you don't see until the very you are seeing there i was given what al-jazeera. elsewhere three time major winner and the mary got his new year off to a winning start playing at the brisbane international after a terrible twenty eighteen in which he played in six tournaments because of injury he was up against james duckworth at one point in this match duck with appeared to have some trouble with the cough but did not ask for treatment murray going on to win this first round match in straight sets. it's not easy to sort of sum up. you know one sentence on one answer it's been it's been really hard eighteen months

a lot of a lot of ups and downs it was you know tricky just kind of get back on the court competing again so i'm happy i'm back here again i want to try enjoy as much they can and. yeah just try try and enjoy playing tennis as long as i can i don't know how much longer it's going to last but. i taught them hotspur are celebrating new year's day by taking second place in the english premier league eight of matches the city might only be temporary a city play their game in hand on thursday against liverpool spurs thrashed cardiff three no on tuesday harry kane christian eriksen and son young men netted for tottenham sun is actually going to be lost to the club for the next few weeks since he will be joining up with the south korean team mates ahead of the upcoming asian cup we are going to start a no go but these are these difficulties going to be important too and then we are going to play the same if we zoom in front of going to him in front of in jersey i think he's put on the start of the new year with the big three away from home you

know very difficult place early arsenal turned on the style to hammer for them for one granted shocker alexander luck has it aaron ramsey and peer america bamma young at the back of the net for the gunners who are still first for them or second from bottom and we need that owing to their. emotional we're probably for. this in rome delays one day. we can. mean consistently here with with out of the side would count today. we three points and into their early kick off lay survey came everton away from home jamie body with the only goal of the game. manchester united will play on wednesday new manager got a soldier who's on a three match winning streak take the team to newcastle and there's no bigger name

at manchester united than alex ferguson now he's mentoring caretaker manager one of those in the crowd when a new standards unveiled in ferguson is on in twenty twelve. one three from three since taking charge after the second of jos a merino and that's obviously boosting the spirits of seventy seven year old ferguson he's been at united's training ground for the first time since a brain hemorrhage eight months ago. and had him for fifteen years so obviously he's influenced me more in the fifteen years before than these don't last week obviously i do keep him informed and. he did pay a visit yesterday and i think he enjoyed his time at the training ground and we had a nice future stuff and encourages he says he knows that we are you know the stuff this is an united through and through and he knows that we we're going to do whatever we can to get to the last second that we're we're going to do

everything we can for us and man united do his best return free of the english premier league in form stars have been shortlisted for the calf african player of the year award liverpool super striker mohamed salah has a name that many would have expected to see on the list sellers and field teammate saudia manny is also on the shortlist the pair helped liverpool take top spot in the premier league table arsenal's america obama young completes the list obama young has been in red hot goal scoring form for his club the season the winner will be announced on the eighth of january. where the player place to set the n.f.l. has had its annual clear out of coaches it's become known as black monday the jets broncos buccaneers dolphins and cardinals all cut their head coaches loose but the biggest surprise was the firing of cincinnati bengals a modern lewis who'd been with them for sixteen years he was the second longest serving head coach in the league behind bill belichick of the new england patriots but with the third straight losing season and attendance down it was time for the

bengals to make the cut and then deliver what the number one goal is nasty world champions and we did not get a. lot of ben lot of positives but that's the one goal was a coach to to look forward to doing real you kobayashi became the first japanese man in twenty one years to win the two opening legs of the if i s world cup for hill ski jumping competition kobayashi beat out german favorite after flying one hundred thirty three meters to secure the win twenty three year old official to become the first japanese four hills overall champion since the your seafood narky in one thousand nine hundred eight. the playoffs are still a few months away in the n.b.a. but they use the rockets doing their best to make sure they are contenders have now won ten of eleven games and james harden was once again the standout he got a triple double with forty three points ten rebounds and thirteen assists in a one hundred thirteen one hundred one win over the grizzly's that also marks for

his fourth straight forty plus point game for fourth in the western conference the indiana pacers also pulled of a fifth straight when they beat the atlanta hawks one hundred sixteen one hundred nights. and that's all the sport back to syria landed. thank you pay's said that is it from may suit and the news hour tain but don't go away i will be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news seems to. have

a good look at the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives such infrasound cheree to people in power on al-jazeera. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't

enough housing stock available. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management. back into public which is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very true which probably. anybody silicate. people who see everything as something to invest a profit of one dollar. to the last drop on al-jazeera. brazil's new far right president is sworn in promising to combat crime and corruption in latin america's largest nation.

hello again i'm sue tatts and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up president donald trump agrees to delay the withdrawal of u.s. troops in syria. aid agencies in yemen accuse both the saudi led coalition and who's the rebels of stealing food and supplies and a new past in the new year north korean leader kim jong un warns of an alternative plan on denuclearization. we begin in brazil where president. has been sworn in a ceremony in the capital brasilia the sixty three year old former army captain represents a major shifts to the wrong it's also in our avowed to respect democracy and carry out difficult economic reforms needed to get latin america's biggest economy back on track he also wants to loosen up this country's environmental protection laws

potentially allowing the the cultural sector to exploit more of the amazon rain forest he was propelled to victory on his campaign promises to curb corruption and combat crime. corruption. advantages have to end political favors forced trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforth has an undeniable purpose to put first and foremost the interest of brazilians. john heilemann has been following events and brasilia. he said that he wanted to make brazil a place in which there wasn't division in which there wasn't discrimination he said that he was going to clamp down on corruption remember that brazil had a huge scandal the biggest corruption scandal in latin america a most of the the political class here were really embroiled in ingolf in that

scandal he says he's going to clamp down hard on that and also on crime this is a country in which in two thousand and seventeen alone more than sixty thousand people were killed but the way that he's going to go about doing that in particular has caused many people more alarm he says it is that he's going to make it easier for people to get access to firearms and he's going to give more license to the police to to shoot to kill he's also promised to reactivate the economy he said that he's in favor of a free market that he needs to increase competition within the country and that he needs to use that to lou investors into brazil again on this front this is a man who's admitted that he doesn't know much about the economy so he's going to have to delegate a lot and rely on other people in his government and it's a government with a few centers of power there's the powerful evangelical congresspeople who are behind him who are going to be pushing with their agenda these people from the

financial sector and bankers groups are going to be pushing for their own agenda and there is the powerful aggros business suits of low b. or group who are going to have an eye on the amazon rain forest and brazil's not true resources environmentalist want to see those protected and president bush so not ok mountain said that he was going to try and balance the two as a speech try to answer some of the criticisms of him but also lay out his own agenda he now has four years as the country's president to try and govern as best he can. u.s. president donald trump says he won't rush to pull troops out of syria after coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures in his republican party last month trump abruptly announce that all two thousand american troops would be

brought home immediately following what he described as their victory over iso backtracking on plans for an immediate pullout from tweeted that his drive to end u.s. involvement in was still made him in his words a hero if anybody opposed to donald but donald trump did what i did in syria which was an isis loaded mess when i became president i will be a national hero i says is mostly gone where slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families while at the same time fighting isis remnants of the pullout comes as the war between syrian president bashar al assad's government and rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase it lib province is the last remaining opposition enclave and residents are bracing themselves for a final government offensive mohammed are reports of gaziantep near the turkish syrian border. this is are you how tommy mosul seriously the province it lip is

home to three million people who since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively troubled it is serious last remaining opposition enclave controlled by a kill to assad but the rebels. syrian president bashar the loss of strength and in recent months by support from powerful allies on the reopening of the embassies in damascus by some arab countries is vowing to launch an invasion. it live with its cinder block thompson villages could soon be subject to rockets bottle bombs and even class the pumps. the rebels are putting more debris face while. today we are all gathered here and ready to fight until the last drop of our blood we are the songs of this territory and we know it very well and so do the people displaced from all over syria are now living in this small geographic area which is just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on what

general. in the middle of it lives of rolling olive groves the displaced live in some of the most desperate conditions possible with no proper housing there are the must see of the elements. we lack everything there is no food no money we have nothing that winter and floods are making life even more difficult when it gets a little windy our tents just fly away. humanitarian workers want a full assault on it live could spark a refugee crisis of historic proportions driving millions of people into turkey and europe yet this theater of war is never locking in action in another corner of north and syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march. they're headed for the kurdish held city of members in support of the planned offensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops

at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territories syria that he told sway over turkey considers the kurdish y.p. give fighters who control members terrorists. turkey's main problems with groups he considers terrorists finding a foothold in territory to administer inside syria i'm talking of the so-called terror corridor the p y g m p y d kurdish organizations but there is also the issue of syrian refugees turkey believes there is a great need to end the conflict in syria so the refugees can return the moment of a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria has opened the gates kumble by regional powers such as turkey and iran to aggressively pursue their interests in the city feeling abandoned by the united states congress why premier fighters of cotton deal with the city and with uninvited forces to protect them against the planned talk it's often without football now when countries held territory in north from syria admit remains the

missing plank in assad's plan to reclaim the whole of syria is just a matter of time say diplomats before him tonsils uptimes from the mohamed i know well does it or does he. united nations is accusing both sides in the war in yemen of stealing and selling food aid when for millions of starving people the un food agency is threatening to suspend aid shipments unless the theft stops the world food program says about two thirds of relief supplies delivered to areas controlled by the huge who's the rebels is being taken associated press also so documents suggesting that aid is also being stolen by armed units working with the saudi and erotic coalition. and the fate of the yemeni port city of data is at the center of a united nations backed cease fire agreement between the two things and pro-government forces the un has accused both sides of failing to honor the terms of the deal which calls for all sides to withdraw matheson takes

a look at the front troops. rare smiles in the yemeni port city of hadera on the streets cautious optimism about the un brokered cease fire which appeared to be holding in the closing days of december. during the almost four year conflict in yemen data on the people who live here have been bombed and shot out. as opposing sides of the battle to control the city the port of her data is yemen's lifeline where most food imports equipment or medical supplies arrive desperately needed by hospitals like this one in the city of toys in western yemen which patients including fired mohamed rely on to survive. i'm from a marker and there's no renal dialysis the most important thing is my treatment without it or die. much of tell us has been destroyed as have many other parts of

yemen at least sixty thousand yemenis are reported killed in fighting nationwide between warring factions including hooty rebels and pro-government forces backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab and its. aid agencies say millions are close to starvation it's estimated eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition some hope the worst is over. god willing we will see a better future the end of the crisis and peace in the region in particular intelligence i don't. expect that in twenty nineteen for yemen the war will stop and peace or political reconciliation read. in sana'a to the north or to ease more devastation but here too among the destroyed buildings some optimism. and we hope the aggression will stop and the economy and life will improve we are

so tied. back in who data not everyone is convinced the ceasefire will hold. decision is just income paper we haven't seen any results yet reality in his data is contrary to what we expected. at the dawn of a new year there are glimmers of hope for the people of yemen but no one can be sure how long that hope might last rob patterson odyssey. new book. planning behind the matter. and flying by the most distant world ever explore the nasa spacecraft on a mission billions of kilometers from.