and landslides. this disaster on the last day of the year took the death toll for two thousand and eighteen across indonesia to more than three thousand the highest number and more than a decade and. six people are being killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark it is the country's worst rail accident. bridge where it happened connects denmark's two main islands reports. images from inside the danish passenger train show the extent of the damage. one hundred thirty four people on board when police say it was hit by an unknown object during high winds six passengers were killed several others were injured it's believed that deborah from a passing freight train possibly a tarpaulin may have come loose and hit the train prompting the driver to break suddenly the train was traveling from the city of odin to the danish capital

copenhagen. the great bridge links denmark's to main islands and consists of a road suspension bridge and a railway it seized by tens of thousands of vehicles every day the bridge had been closed to cars overnight because of the stormy weather but trains were still allowed to use it police are now trying to piece together exactly what happened here leave barca al-jazeera. all right still ahead on the program china introduces a new call most slow to clean up the country's reputation as the world's biggest producer of faint goods. and cloned polo ponies are scientists riding roughshod over ethical considerations.

hello again it's good to have you back we are watching some very heavy rain that we've seen here across parts of vietnam continuing along the coastal areas over the next few days so we could be seeing some mostly cloudy to cloudy conditions affecting most of that central region but for her noise it is going to be mostly cloudy the rain to the south of you with the tempter there eighteen degrees along parts of china we're also going to see some rain as well that's going to be on the increase as we go towards friday for joe we'll see some rain shanghai you could also be seeing some rain in taipei you may be getting out of the rain we do expect to see a temperature there of about twenty six degrees while looking quite nice across much of india we're talking maybe some clouds to the north but down towards the south where we had been seeing some rain as we ended the year looking much better cross much of the area we may see some clouds passing through sri lanka but we don't expect to see too much in terms of rain there attempt a few over to what twenty five degrees in new delhi clouds coming into your

forecast maybe about twenty degrees there and then here across the gulf we are going to see a change in temperature here for much of cuts over the next day winter kind of come out of the south here on thursday but by the time we get towards friday we do expect those winds to shift out of the north temperatures dropping to about twenty three degrees there in abu dhabi it is going to be partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of twenty six. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's world. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.

welcome back our minds at the top stories on al-jazeera to hindu women defied a ban on entering a religious shrine in india the pair walks into the shop ramallah temple prompting outrage and protests from hindu conservatives. u.s. president donald trump is invited democratic and republican leaders to the white house seeking an agreement to end the partial government shutdown. and rain has hampered efforts to rescue people stranded by floods and landslides in the philippines at least eighty five people have been killed since storm wreaked havoc in the center of the country. chinese president xi jinping says he won't rule out

using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan in his first major speech addressing the self she said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable taiwan's leader has rejected she statement and said beijing must face reality under schapelle as the latest. a new year's speech with a familiar message. chinese president xi jinping has urged the people of taiwan to accept that it must and will be reunited with china in a speech on the fortieth anniversary of a key policy statement he reiterated beijing's call for peaceful unification. well . we are firmly against any plots to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in the fight against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact tabone is part of

china and both sides of the straight along to china thank. president xi has increased pressure on taiwan since the election of citing when as president in twenty sixteen she leads the pro independence democratic progressive party and on tuesday insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain self rule made without the. democratic values and ideals and way of life cherished by taiwan's people we call on china to bravely step out onto the path of democracy only then can they truly understand the persistence and ideals of the taiwanese people. while taiwan is self-governed it has never formally declared independence from the mainland however it has acted as an independent nation since one nine hundred fifty when china's nationalist government leaders fled to the island after being defeated by communists forces legitimacy of the ruling government today in china in just on several things possible economic governance and people which have

done but secondly cheating national. have to do with the chinese identity is also a good thing and bang on about the need for you to take action the credibility of the party hinges on the ability to deliver on that goal while in recent years china has become more assertive over its claims over taiwan it has also managed to convince more of taipei's view international allies to cut diplomatic ties with the island. for now neither side appears to be willing to back down in this longstanding dispute enter chapelle al jazeera. israel's public security minister has vowed to make conditions worse the policy. simeon prisoners of executed minister get out and says jails will move cooking rights begin rationing and reduce the autonomy the prisoners are given and so rude lose the right to be house with members of their factions group representing palestinian prisoners says some of the

policies are already being put in place. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under pressure to expire and illegal settlements as he relaunches assess he launches his reelection campaign also week israel announced it will extend an existing settlement south of bethlehem out of their second decade spoke to residents there and sent this report. we are deep in the occupied west bank just south of bethlehem we're trying to find the location israel has earmarked for the latest announcement of its illegal settlement expansion an area rights groups are calling to it's striking how many settlements are already cut across this land land that is meant to be part of a future palestinian state. resident need for wagner helps us find the hills a small group of settlers are already here. for example take bethlehem there you have settlement block it from the north and road sixty from the west and the

settlement of efrat from the south and to koa is there behind us what's going to happen to us what's left where should we palestinians bre when you're looking for west bank today it's not listing and continuities you're going to continue to between the villages and cities all e these abuses zero. to five g. is an expert in the geography of the land where the settlements are and what their presence means zero zero zero and so we have a big live view of settlement this is the more than any bloke i'm going to give i was able broken ma'ale adumim look it's been the big kind of go to. the jordan valley but it's more dangerous than this one it's really that all the biggest dream city in north of this to go should you want will be divided for two pieces one of them is surrounded with in the north and second settlement and so there is no go for the city one word the rights group peace now is fighting this latest expansion

in the courts arguing this land. should be allocated for palestinians not to build more illegal settlements i'm afraid that the coming months before elections will be used by the settlers to set facts on the ground that the government will not want to fight against and the government will issue new plans a new fact because they feel that it's a window of opportunities not knowing what will be after the elections and with the trumpet ministration in their back they can do whatever they want back in the west bank on a road that skims a small palestinian village we come across to israeli settlers. we ask them where the new allocated area is formed and they say it's in the settlement of it from what they believe that this is their land given to them by god unless there is significant pressure on israel by the united states and the international community to reverse this decision peace now tells us that it's only a matter of

a couple of years until we'll see bulldozers arrive here and start building thousands more illegal settlement homes stephanie decker al-jazeera south of battle hymn in the occupied west bank british politicians and international lawyers at a modern access to female activists detained in saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied legal representation victoria case be reports. these are some of the saudi activists that british politicians and international lawyers are demanding access to they want to investigate allegations that the women who campaigned for the right to drive have been illegally detained. the group also says they've been given electric shocks beaten and threatened with rape adar bam prison in. their quest to visit the women comes as the saudi government continues to struggle with the international fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi the journalist was killed by

a saudi hit team in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul in october the. tragedy it was obviously a total and utter disaster for saudi arabia and it would seem that the responsible people who are responsible for the operation were also responsible for the detention of these men women's rights activists. britain is saudi second most important partner for arms sales and security but the murder so she has put a spotlight on human rights in the kingdom at least ten women are in prison for demanding more rights seven men who will say being detained for supporting them there are credible allegations that these people have been have been tortured the people as crispin blunt said the indicate the evidence suggests that people involved in the murder of tomorrow or involved in the in the torture and ill treatment of the of the women in men's men men as well in the in the in in their situation. saudi arabia denies allegations that the detained women are being

mistreated the m.p.'s and lawyers have asked for a response by next wednesday to their request to visit the women in jail picture a gate and be i'll just there. china is set to introduce a new law to regulate its vast e-commerce industry the legislation aims to protect online consumers and intellectual property and clean up the country's reputation as a major source of fake goods to pick apart a report from hong kong as part of all series looking at new laws for twenty nine thousand. this hong kong jewelry brands expansion into mainland china was a tough lesson for its founder and designer her short foray into that market ended when one of her signature pieces was copied and sold under different brands she has since expanded her collection half the sales are online but you won't find her jewelry on any of china's main internet retail sites in the uk all were high cost

is risky i don't sell any products on online shopping pass forms in china because it feels like i'm just giving away my designs and not getting anything back and this is the problem those behind china's new e-commerce law are hoping to tackle the legislation is looking to close some of the loopholes in the world's largest retail market which is worth more than one trillion dollars in twenty seven t. the individual platform will be liable as well as the past and selling a goods so a shift the onus is suddenly the platform has to be responsible for making sure that it polices itself it doesn't allow for the countess to be sold according to the organization for economic cooperation and development china is the world's largest manufacturer of counterfeit goods and many of the knockoffs ends up on the streets as well as in cyberspace the new legislation applies to operators of online shopping platforms the company selling products and services on them and independent merchants with their own websites all of whom must register with the

government. there are still many questions over how the law will be implemented and their concern to give the government yet another form of control over the internet where it could wane an activity that was once outside its influence my view is still if a business is legitimate and they're not infringing counterfeit they will be ok but we don't know how it's going to be policed we don't know how it would be enforced it may be that if complaints aren't responded to quickly enough where a business has been improperly accused of an ip violation maybe they face sanctions many jones says the law is good news for designers and small business owners like her she plans to relaunch your brand and some of china's top online shopping platforms and expects to have a profitable twenty nineteen if you go there a phone call. alton tina is a world leader in the sport of polo and one of the reasons is the quality of its horses but it's not all down to good breeding and training animal cloning has

become common practice and is to raise a bow reports it's created a hasty discussion about the ethics of such practices. full of horses at the most important tournaments in the world they may all look the same except that a few of these horses are clones. they were created here at this center fifty kilometers outside one of scientists had a man keiser explains that to clone a horse they take tissue from the neck of the animal they want to copy then what's generated out of that tissue is inserted into an empty cell no you. don't there's no sperm here it's considered a sexual reproduction even though the initial cell we want to clone had a mother and a father. then they wait for a few days to see if the procedure is successful so they can later implant the embryo. this fall as you can see here is

a clone of of course said if playing argentina with polio championship it was created in a laboratory and implanted in this manner it is expected to be as good as the original version of the idea and mortal has been leading the cloning process in argentina he says that kilwinning has helped them accelerate the record auction process of what is considered an exceptional horse well we're going to call this but he said oh are we cannot clone experiences what nature does we copy it in a lab and it has inefficiencies it's always an imitation of nature and even though we reset to you just start from the beginning we cannot delete the genetic marks in the d.n.a. so it's not crazy to think that the clones are born with more experience than in the original animal. that are. considered argentina's best polo player. has known his mayor quite a bit more than a dozen times the mayor and her tillmans are the stars of every tournament in the country. that only part of the discussion over the ethics of horse cloning has

forced the polo association to regulate what can be allowed in the industry if they can remember there is a big debate eight hundred twenty five laboratories want to mutate change and adapt and that's why our association with the government decided that cloning is one thing and manipulating genetically is something else. the demand for horses is what has made this industry warm and even though ethical questions about animal cloning remain it has allowed some of argentina's best horses to transcend in time . when a site is. undermined at the top stories on al-jazeera in india to hindu women have defied a ban on entering a religious shrine the path i walked into the shopping mall

a temple. ruling out told the restriction but it's prompted outrage and protests from hindu conservatives critics of the renderer modi's b j p all saying the process of being stirred up for political reasons after these two women ended being as shy and dead in a year but then began the a.b.a. the atmosphere in that replay mice is so peaceful that it would be too bad there had been these three men dead and getting there did not object there did not paris is. u.s. president donald trump has invited democratic and republican leaders to the white house to try to reach an agreement that will avert a full government shutdown trump is refusing to sign off form any government spending unless it includes funding for a border wall with mexico a twelve day partial shutdown already affecting thousands of public employees continuing rain has hampered efforts to rescue people stranded by floods and

landslides in the philippines at least eighty five people have been killed since storm has been wreaked havoc in the center of the country a state of calamity has been declared in three provinces to give them access to emergency funds rescue is in indonesia facing similar problems after landslides in the province of west java fifteen people were killed there and twenty a still missing after a village was swarms with mud six people being killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark the great belt bridge connects denmark's two main islands the train was hit by an unknown objects as it was travelling with one hundred thirty four people on board it is the country's worst rail accident in more than thirty years. and chinese president xi jinping says he won't rule out using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan in his first major speech addressing

the south island she said taiwan's week unification with china is quote inevitable taiwan's leader has rejected she statements and says beijing must face reality and those latest headlines here on al-jazeera more in twenty five minutes witness is next up i. oh god. why don't. i.

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