quite a historic. human oath in yes lives have been enough in particular that so this has actually were taken to you by good ticket as a psyche that is a fact because a large section of the human who. was supposed to you know would expect it to you know support this particular wording of the supreme court upholding. gender justice in fact many of them have. actively opposed this in the name of you know faith and in the name oath and mentions the name of traditions except at the same time there's also another major. movement of women reach was that display has to be in the newmans won't who have actually come in support of the just the tradition of logic and also have been monder that right and this particular temple and we thought it needed

a section or without any bob almost on the same footing as that main the pots so this this particular would eat as divine in the society but it doesn't meet that one particular section it's more on one side or the less on the other. days of intense fighting between two armed groups and northern syria have left at least a twenty thirty one people dead al-qaeda linked fighters and turkey back to rebel forces blaming each other for starting the violence the worst and an ed lab and three months a fall as u.s. president donald trump's announcement of american troops leaving. the home of the door has more from gazi on tap on the turkey syria border. city on rule one it does describe the latest spate of fighting the last in mosul syria in the past three months fighters and loyal to the al qaeda affiliated heya to friedel shum are said

cut it out an offensive against talk peace block syrian rebels with a view of dividing destroying the free and the loss on the other side of the aleppo countryside said to have taken control of the threat to dick town of business and villages around it and now the turkish syrian rebels are calling. for students to try and repulse the offensive against them by the affiliates all this comes a little over a week since the first until the united states donald trump announced the withdrawal of about two thousand u.s. troops were stationed in syria there's been a scramble to fill the vacuum with a vent truly been left by the with the broom of the u.s. forces with turkey and iran leading the way to talk your force has promised the united states a full mother took a life it will deal with not only remnants of i said but also the al-qaeda

affiliates and could be the main reason why the higher to to have a shot has now cut it out on offensive that appears in syria of course talking also wants to. talk on the ton of men be drugs has been controlled by. syrian kurds . when the going to happen with turkey has been. it's. the. rule. there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including searching for survivors in the philippines after flash floods and landslides killed at least eighty five people. and national rights groups raise concerns over the detention of saudi women's rights activists and demand a visit and liverpool and manchester city major the top of the table battle of the english premier league will hear from both camps and clear.

israel's public security minister has valid to make conditions worse for palestinian prisoners. jails but soon begin rationing water and reducing autonomy given to prisoners representatives of some israeli security agencies have previously raised objections to such proposals a group representing palestinian prisoners says some of the policies are already being put in place where more than five thousand palestinians are being held in israeli jails as political prisoners many say they've been subject to torture and violence while in custody more than two hundred children are among those being held rights groups say more than eight hundred over need of medical care with around seven hundred suffering from serious or chronic conditions palestinian prisoners frequently protest against poor conditions they have been several hunger strikes in

recent years let's get more on this now we're joined by most of about a group the in he is the secretary general of the palestinian national in the midst of it always good to have you with us on al-jazeera as we've been detailing conditions for palestinian prisoners are already well documented for not just being terrible but often also how and why does the israeli government want to make them worse. well this is yet another religion of human rights committee. and probably israel is now the. biggest. human rights world wide. but the fact in trancing now with these punitive acts against palestinian prisoners is very clearly related to the fact that there is a nearly ministers are using suppression and operation of palestinians as an instrument in their competition in their upcoming elections some ministers are

influencing settlement activities others are torturing people through imprisoning them especially children. now wanting to make conditions much worse for palestinian persons and others are creating their policy of violence against palestinian people so in my opinion this is one other way of risk ellett in their human rights violations and let me say here that we are talking not only about five thousand prisoners actually the real number on average is around seven thousand five hundred and during two thousand and eighteen five thousand five hundred people at risk which means that many palestinians go to prison or get out while many of those them in prison let me also say that we have some prisoners who have been jailed for thirty nine years and that is the largest ever time for anybody in the world

as you say yourself and many rights groups say the have the jailing as often nor for what can be done about this are they going to face any kind of pushback either from palestinians themselves from the palestinian authority or internationally. let's start with the professional what can be done i think is there will markets stop these issues of human rights rights unless they are. honest the only way to stop brazil and force an ops team from these this. is to impose sanctions on as this has never happened is there is behaving as if it is above the national unity of the national mall and this must change so the only way is to enforce unity of acts or there's a government to make it stop these actions on the palestinian side i think that israeli government feels has

a free hand to press for this the only way they want sometimes they don't want to go sometimes they shoot people in the west bank. but in general they are doing that because. of the weak but mr better i think we should do who's going to. actually go into employment or you know try and implement any kind of punitive measures against israel given that say the u.n. security council never can because of israel's ally america's visual and that powerful council. yeah i respond to that but let me finish my first my last sentence i think palestinians can do a lot of themselves and change the unspoiled by the turn of the vision and getting going to fight and having the unified leadership this is a must on the international side i think course the united nations will not take any actual acts as long as it's. and this will not change as long as

it's i think but many other countries like you. can take much of our. sanctions against and i think there are examples of. senate for instance which passed a law to sanction israel and months and then vanish their parliament has decided who is the it also supplements the money cooperation with such measures mc is there pay a price gonna mcbride's moral rights are these things going to be repeated in so many other countries but countries have to stop alarmed. about who they thank you as always for your time that is most of about whom they live in ramallah thank you but . chinese president xi jinping isn't ruling out using military force against supporters of independence and taiwan has first made a space interesting the itself over the island she said taiwan's very unification

with china is inevitable taiwan's leader has rejected that and said beijing must face reality and schapelle has the story. 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 the top one is part of china and both sides of the strike belong to china thank president she has increased pressure on taiwan since the election of psyching 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. democratic values and ideals and way of life cherished by taiwan's people we call on china to bravely step out onto the path to 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 the legitimacy of the ruling government today in china in just on several things as a whole economic governance of people which they have done but secondly she being national. to have to deal with the chinese identity is all she can bring and bang

on about the need for you to take action the credibility of the party here just on their ability to deliver on that goal while in recent years china has become more assertive over its claims over taiwan and 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. to the philippines now a rescue workers a struggling to. by floods and landslides that have killed at least eighty five people because it was the hottest for more than sixty killed there still most man made landfall just days after christmas forcing about twenty five thousand people from their homes. meanwhile in indonesia rescue is a searching for people buried beneath landslides that killed fifteen people in west java at least twenty a missing. the wall of mud and debris came without warning

just before some seat on new year's eve. about one hundred people live in the village of soon it slammed into their homes burying at least thirty buildings up to the of roofs. around to the back of my house and saw the barn turn upside down and then be carried away by source so much soil coming my way very very fast at least thirty five people are thought to have been swallowed up by the landslide survivors and rescue workers for the most part using basic tools they head and to clear the thick mud to find survivors and the deeds but this is dangerous work ongoing heavy rain poor stable soil has triggered at least four more landslides hampering the refits soon it is me village is on the hill one of more than thirty

areas within the sukhumi district that disaster relief officials head assist to be at medium to high risk if you. decree our policy to make sure. the way we leave invest is really wise and. but that's little comfort for those whose family and friends did well still missing . that day my brother was visiting me down at the beach in the afternoon he said he wanted to return to his house i asked him to stay overnight but he said no i'm afraid of the tsunami and then i heard what happened there i came straight away to look for him. indonesia was hit by more than two and a half thousand disasters in two. thousand and nineteen including earthquakes bill chemical eruptions tsunamis and landslides. this disaster on the last day of the year took the death toll for two thousand and eighteen

across indonesia three thousand the highest number and more than a decade median hond are. still ahead on the news hour while millions of people in africa's most populous nation staring banks. was a challenge to back corner from what can be best protest of habit and act on the european parliamentary elections in brussels and find out how to plan to secure their first ever test series quite a strain would be here with that story and sport. hello again we're here across laval we are watching several storm systems and that is going to cause some problems across much of the area so look at the clouds right

here on the satellite here on thursday we're going to be seeing a storm system parachute passing from iraq over towards iran we're going to see a mix of rain and snow as well tehran we're going to be seeing a mix for you as well where the terms are there only getting to nine degrees but as we go towards friday that storm system makes its wake fairly quickly over here towards the east pushing to ak in a stand with mostly snowy conditions in your forecast over here towards the west though another storm system coming out of the mediterranean you can see up here towards turkey a rain is going to be the problem but in the higher elevations it will be the snow also some rain down here towards parts of syria as well as down here towards parts of beirut as well well as a break away down here towards the gulf we're going to see some clouds across the northern part of the gulf that is a frontal system not a lot of rain in that but mostly clouds and what that means is. once a pushes through the winds coming out of the south are going to be changing to winds out of the north or the northwest and that means here in doha we're going to sing our terms is coming down also to about twenty three degrees over towards riyadh we're going to be seeing about twenty one in your forecast and also we are

going to see some clouds and rain across much of durban with temperatures into the low twenty's for most locations. weather 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 this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has cool face and a legal protest and instructed police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice. reasons what's the difference. join the global conversation on al-jazeera in a four part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view a somebody with a difficult job rather than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and

many critics of equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum andrei next discovers a complex. country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia jazeera. that have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories in less than two hours leaders from both sides political divide will be at the white house for talks with donald trump says he's ready to negotiate an end to the partial government shutdown which is now and its twelfth day. indian women have defied

a ban on entering one of the country's holiest temples they were backed by a supreme court for a cause for gender equality are facing a backlash from conservatives who say hindu values are under attack and as well as public security minister has vowed to make conditions worse for palestinian. prisoners advance a jail to begin rationing water and reduce autonomy given to inmates a group representing palestinian president says some of the policies are already being put in place. now there is a growing pressure on israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu to expand illegal settlements as he launches his reelection bid last week israel announced plans to extend an existing settlement south of bethlehem from there stephanie decker reports. 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 bethlehem he could make resident money for are going to helps us find the hills a small group of settlers are already here. for example take bethlehem their settlement block in from the north and road sixty from the west and the settlement of efrat from the south and tacoma is there behind us what's going to happen to us what's left where should we palestinians breathe when you're looking for worst month to day it's not. continuities you're going to continue to between the villages and cities all e. zero. to five g. is an expert in the geography of the land where the settlements are and what their presence means here's your ozil and so we have a big live view of settlement this is the more than any bloke and we were given i was able broken my earlier that we look at me in the big kind of go to. the jordan

valley but it's more dangerous than this one it's me in that all the biggest city in north of this garage it's your own will be divided for two pieces one of them is surrounded with in the north and second settlement and so there is no good at all 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 for. act 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 and we ask them

where the new allocated area is going and they say it's in the settlement of a 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 see bulldozers arrive here and start building thousands more illegal settlement homes stephanie decker al-jazeera south of butler him in the occupied west bank. british politicians and international lawyers have asked to visit detained activists in saudi arabia and investigate allegations that they're being tortured rights groups say those in custody include at least ten women some of whom campaigned for the right to drive a tory gate and the 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 a dub and prison a judge 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 in britain is saudi second most important partner for arms sales and security but the murder shows he 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 a soldier 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. gate and be i'll just there. now saudi arabia has calls controversy in the entertainment world after ordering netflix to remove an episode of a comedy show critical of the kingdom's ruler. has more on this with the online reaction the online film provided netflix has removed an episode of the show patriot act with the hot sun minutes from its site in saudi arabia and hit why do

you know what his nickname is. which means father of the bullet we own ten percent of which makes complete sense saudi arabia are both places women drivers don't feel safe. they have nine hundred thirty million dollars that's a lot of money you know what's free though not bombing them. there are people in saudi arabia fighting for true reform but m.v.s. is not one of them and to those who continue to work with him just know that with every deal you close you were simply hoping entrenched and absolute monarch under the guise of progress because ultimately m.p.'s is not modernizing saudi arabia the only thing is modernizing saudi dictatorship well the audience may have found it funny but the saudi government certainly wasn't laughing because netflix received a complaint alleging the episode violated the kingdom cyber crime law now and the

episode has one man has criticized his crown prince muhammad bin solomon over the killing of journalists in the saudi consulate that was back in october in istanbul and the kingdom's cozy relationship with the us was also criticized as well as the imprisonment of political activists including female drivers and saudis involvement in the war in yemen now the streaming service defended its decision saying we strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only remove this episode in saudi arabia after we received a valid legal request and to comply with local law but using the artistic freedom card didn't go down too well with human rights watch in fact it's middle east and africa executive director that sarah leah whitson she tweeted that netflix claim to support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of the government officials who believe in freedom for their citizens not artistic not political and she adds not comedic but jamal khashoggi editor at the washington

post she called the decision quite out rageous now some people have been sharing the link to it's on you tube which by the way can be watched from saudi arabia will it be so now with people pointing out that if anything saudi arabia is move has given the show more publicity and ironically it has the most viewed patriot act episode on you tube with more than one million views. japan's emperor akihito has given his final speech ahead of his application in april tens of thousands of people fill the core charge all the royal residence and tokyo the eighty five year old will be the first monarch and two hundred years to step down from the throne six people have been killed in a train crash on a bridge and denmark it is the country's worst rail accident and more than thirty years the bridge connects denmark's to main island barkha has more.

images from inside the danish passenger train show the extent of the damage. one hundred thirty four people were on board when police say was hit by an unknown object during high winds six passengers were killed several others were injured it's believed the debris from this passing freight train may have hit the passenger service prompting the driver to brake suddenly the preliminary investigation found that a trailer had blown off a freight wagon onto the oncoming tracks the train was traveling from the city of odin to the danish capital copenhagen. the great bridge links denmark's two main islands it consists of a road suspension bridge and the 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 i believe. now economists are warning that bad debt and low savings are threatening the survival of many banks and nigeria or many nigerians refuse to put their money and banks think they can't be trusted and reports now. they yearn to give them bungle farms and souls to some nigerians neighbors at the peak of the season he makes about thirty thousand dollars a week despite this income he stopped taking his money to the bank at a bank he although i'm not satisfied with the services i receive a used to have an account that i was disappointed several times so i put my earnings back into the business and invest in real estate. and millions of other nigerians either not putting their money into savings account or have never even set foot in a bank. economist blame a number of factors including law income and poverty but even some of the reach i'm

looking elsewhere to take their money if you look at the investment of fortune it is that i will often especially i'll save nigeria and the relatively high associated with this to me and such ventures it. less is until for them. in the country that are led to this i'll say it but importantly. the sabin's culture must be institutionalized by the government itself with many banks going out of business during the last decade economy see better supervision and enforcement is needed to attract the savings and investment the banking system. or any pay mentioned is to push us to war in to destress of the high proportion of obvious total at least are said been taken we have been combative in long it indicates that the surveillance system provided by some tangata nigella and i just

end up with the insurance corp is adequate or low or that it whatever and i was on the part of that of a greater authority banks are becoming lino or fewer branches and staff and i was asians and mergers are also becoming the norm. a bank used to be here someone else is renting the building now. after decades of doing business the bank shut down because it didn't have enough customers many people don't have enough. there's a distrust of the banking system. small businessmen like they want more from the banks access not only to loans but better returns on their savings too if that's not provided the banks may find the number of customers contributing to savings accounts goodling father. reese al-jazeera. nigeria. to france now and president had no shortage of challenges last year and go with the government came to head with often violent protests and as ben smith reports from

paris back home as political rivals are trying to capitalize on the anti-government sentiment ahead of the european parliament elections in may. they have no leader no manifesto no political party and no candidate yet five months before election day for the european parliament france's main political parties a nervous about what they call the yellow vest effect was the key to your budget but there's no political party that can decide on the out of the people we other french people that fought for the land and we continue the struggle no political party is above the french people. honestly i'm not going to fail because i don't want to face the people who look down on us who talk to us disrespectfully who despise anthony leave us alone anonymous you aisy one of the protestors strongest demands after tax relief is for direct democracy referendums rather than more elected representatives that worries e.u.

leaders just forty percent of french people voted in the last european elections there is a real crisis suffer presentation and europe is fucked of it in particular as the european parliament is not so well known by most people it's important to. show much better what true up is doing for people for all people from a high of three hundred thousand protesters nationwide in november to thirty thousand by the end of the year there may be far fewer yellow vests willing to take to the streets every week but polls consistently show support for more than seventy percent of french people support the political parties are trying to harness actually saying you know this one thing i think is putting some or there are topics on the table meaning what actually is in europe it is in your opening and that's for them on the euro on the day.