he's been put in charge of this position he's probably going to be using along with the president trumps of ministration that someone who president sees is a kindred spirit really wants to establish woman relationships with john home in there with the latest from brasilia john think you that death toll from a building collapse in russia has risen to twenty seven fourteen others are still missing after a blast on monday damaged forty eight apartments in a ten story building in the city of london and koskie east of moscow a baby boy was found alive in the rubble on tuesday after spending thirty five hours in freezing temperatures a gas leak is believed to have caused the explosion. six people have been killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark it's the country's worst rail accident in more than thirty years the bridge where it happened connects ten marks to main island's one hundred thirty one passengers were on board a train that was heading towards the capital copenhagen when it hit the train or

french president emanuel mccrone faced the serious challenges in two thousand and eighteen many saw as a government as out of touch enjoying the ongoing yellow vest protests two years after mccrone him self shook up french politics this year's european parliament elections could see new political forces emerging as part of our series looking ahead to two thousand and nineteen burnet smith reports from paris. 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. there's no political party that can decide on the out of the people we had a french people that fought for the land and we continue the struggle no political

party is above the french people should. not honestly i'm not going to fight because i don't want to fight with people who look down on us who talk to us disrespectfully who despise anthony leave us alone anonymously one of the protesters 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 stuff for presentation and europe is part 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 it's putting some on 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 a day to day basis only one opinion poll has tested how yellow vest candidates might fare in new york election and it suggested they'd win twelve percent of the vote and almost all last would be at the expense of the far left and far right the same polls that like. the public on the. twenty one percent of the vote whatever. the biggest problem might be the yellow. which is so far resisted attempts to create a leadership but it's about al-jazeera powers. a nasa spacecraft the set back its first close up picture of ultima to lay the most this than celestial object ever explored a new high resolution images shows it's shaped like

a snowman consisting of two fused together spheres that says new horizon spacecraft swept past the small icy object on new year's day around four billion miles from earth. now still ahead in this news hour argentina's cloned polo ponies are scientists are riding roughshod over ethical considerations and it was a tight race to the finish of the cross-country ski world cup event in germany the effect sport will be here with that and more. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh a central bank one used investigates how cyber hackers employed trade of the global banking system and on al-jazeera.

argentina 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 history is a bore reports it's created a heated discussion about the ethics of such practices. 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 when a site is catamaran 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 in america. this fall as you can see here is a clone 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 id and mortal has been leading the cloning process in argentina he says that cloning has helped them accelerate the record auction process of what is considered an exceptional horse. but he said 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 research if 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. perience then in the original animal. considered argentina's best polo player has cloned his mare quite a bit more than a dozen times the mayor and her tillmans are the stars of every tournament in the country. the discussion over the ethics of horse cloning has forced the polo association to regulate what can be allowed in the industry. 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 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 ok now here's leo with all the support. thank you barbara tennis world number one novak djokovic has advanced to the qatar open quarterfinals but the two time champion in doha didn't get there without some slip ups the survey's hungary's martin savage of the world number thirty six stunned his more lustrous opponent by taking the first set six four but joke of it was able to fight his way back in after taking the second set six fourth he wrapped up the third in comfortable fashion six one if you will play georges nicholas sheley in the quarter finals. and he will play georges nicklaus at best to be in the corner finals the numb world at number twenty one seeded fifth for this tournament

overcame last year's runner up audrey in the second round bust last she really winning this match six three six four days. seventeen time grand slam winner rafael nadal pulled out of the brisbane international on the advice of his medical team meanwhile defending champion nick kyrgios almost missed out on the event himself after being bitten by a spider last week it was not an ideal lead up but the australian still competed against unseeded jeremy charedi for a place in the quarter finals it seemed to be going well for curios who challenge the serve in typical fashion. and it was proved right but after taking the open set seven six he was bundled out fairly quickly in the next two sets charlie goes through to the quarter finals while that last drops out of the top fifty in the world and means home miss out on the seeding at the australian open in melbourne. another home favorite john millman broken grigor dimitrov twice in the

second set but ultimately it was the ball garion who triumphed to reach the quarter finals it's good progress for dimitroff who had it for twenty teams. and it looks like manchester united's hot streak under new manager ole gunnar sol shire is set to continue. and marcus rushford scored to hand them a two nil lead at the newcastle in the english premier league this world extend so showers winning streak to foreigner rose since taking over from sacked jos a motive. and chelsea have missed the chance to close the gap on the third place manchester city the blues were held to a goal list draw by southampton at their home ground stamford bridge fans at bournemouth match against watford were treated to a thrilling three three draw burnley and crystal palace were also able to win their game away from home and meanwhile liverpool will be in action and a high profile top of the table clash with manchester city on thursday you're going

club side leave the standings currently and could go ten points clear of city if they can win. it's that of january so really it's on it's a very very very important game for both teams obviously and i would use it as motivation for the other team if you are that these are these kind of six point games it's like it is to play against each other you can go it pretty much in all directions that's how it is and it's a motivation for them one hundred percent so they will be ready and we have to make sure that we already that's all i can figure out to imagine so what happened in the pies is going to happen in the future so let me tell him when we won a lot of games and the end of the means that it's going to happen in the future to have the feeling that everybody can beat us but also have the feeling of we can beat everybody the leaders of sixteen national anti-doping agencies have called on

russia to be suspended immediately from international competition russia missed a december thirty first deadline to allow the world anti-doping agency full access to their moscow laboratory what is compliance review committee meets on january fourteenth about this but in the opinion of the sixty national agencies including the u.s. no further discussion is needed in twenty fifteen a wide scale state sponsored doping program in russia was exposed that countries athletes have missed important international events or been forced to compete under a neutral flag and team name ever since. gripping even more australian attention right now is a potentially history making cricket test in sydney redoubt kohli is hoping to lead his indian team to their first series win in australia there are two one up going into thursday's fourth and final test in the skipper says they'll be battling more than just the home side's eleven led by wicket keeper temp aine. reason the why we want to win this this does because we understand as cricketers how difficult

it is to come here and. and as i said hi d.s. today it's not only the team you're playing against it's the whole nation you know because they get behind the team so well. and you when you walk into that you feel like the forty thousand people who are going to be good not just the eleven guys on the field to n.b.a. nowhere quire leonard had a career high forty five points as he led the trauma raptors to a one twenty two one sixteen went over the utah jazz on tuesday the portland trail blazers rallied for nine points down with three minutes left of the fourth quarter to pull off an overtime win over the sacramento kings damian lillard made twenty five point six rebounds and had six assists. and joel embiid was back with the seventy six ers after covering from a sword still he scored twenty points in one thousand rebounds to lift philadelphia to a one thousand one thirteen victory over the los angeles clippers. and is white out conditions for the mass start cross-country world cup in germany and it really was

a mass start as you can see there but emil ever set up norway was able to make his way through the fifteen kilometer track and he came out on top but only by a hair second place went to russia who was only twenty nine seconds behind. it's a close call that's all your support for now we'll have more later back to you barbara in london thank you very much for that and that is it for this news hour do stay with us still going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news watch. in the next episode of science in

a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of astronomy. copernicus is this day to these medieval astronomers from the golden age. that streams in many ways with the computers of the day you can use it to find the time you could navigate science in a golden age with german. resort is one of nigeria's top tourist destinations but in the shadow of the mountain some nigerians continue an ancient tradition with child protection workers say condemns young girls to a life of slavery and sexual exploitation five year old miracle was buried for money just a few weeks ago joan lives with some missionaries who says she is pulled by the marriages have a quantum richard as a missionary or rescues goals the man goes door by again outrightly a local county one big truck to gail before she is born there what if it takes

forty years you get mondays the brothers can still go to get their money wife in a four part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view question a somebody with a difficult job to brother than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and many critics of putting equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum under a neck wrestling discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of pigeons russia are now jazeera. democrats call on u.s. president trump to end the government shutdown but he continues to demand funding for his border war with mexico.

hello i'm barbara starr you're watching out jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. protests in india after two women defy sentry's old baron and enter a hindu temple the number killed by storms in the philippines rises to eighty five as rescuers reach cost of communities and israel's public security minister vows to make conditions worse for palestinian prisoners. us them a classic leaders have called on president trying to end the partial shutdown that's frozen funding for eight government departments for twelve try met with leaders from both parties earlier to try to break the impasse and has asked them to return for more talks on friday he says he wants to avert

a further shutdown but it's still demanding more than five billion dollars in funding for his border war with mexico then across accuse them of holding the country hostage. i said mr president give me one good reason why you should continue your shutdown. of the eight cabinet departments. while we are debating our differences on homeland security he could not give a good answer so we would hope that they would reconsider. and would support the very bills that passed the senate but to use the shutdown as hostage. which they had no or you meant against is wrong well. he has been following all of the recent developments to get a sense of the democrats and ratcheting up the pressure on trump and his party over this partial shutdown. well i mean that's their intention the when he

becomes house speaker. they that they will then have much more leverage in these discussions and the democrats have made it very clear what they intend to do they will just lation in the house on thursday to reopen the government but then it's up to the senate to have a vote to have a vote and then send it to the president's desk the silence which is still controlled by the republicans the senate majority leader that has long said that he's not going to even to have a vote on whatever passes in the house unless he's convinced the president will sign it into law if it passes in the senate and what we did see today all the camera was president trump's negotiating position which was a hardening of his position he said nothing less than five point six billion dollars will do for a war and that came as a surprise to a lot of people because we knew that the vice president mike pence had been saying to the room to the democrats over the last week or so we'll get it if you get to

two and a half million dollars and no concrete will we can maybe come to some maybe come some or a range what about a double trouble even heard of that he looked quite surprised when it when the possibility even came up when the press also about that so whether it's a negotiating tactic a lot we don't know but don't trumpet hardness position the five point six billion dollars is all he's going to except for war the democrats have long said they're not going to give any money for a concrete wall or any kind of any vision that trump has for will so yeah i mean that the democrats thinking is now that we have the house from the day we have we have more we have more leverage so a confrontation with the democrats which is obviously quite predictable but trungpa is also been receiving criticism from other quarters closer quarters today as well what was that. but i think you are whether the mitt romney editorial mitt romney was for presidential candidate he's been very critical about the trump in the past we wrote a scathing scathing editorial in the washington post where he said. trump's conduct over the past two years particularly as actions this month it is evidence of the

president has not risen to the mantle of the office of president to demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity and elevate the national discourse with comedy and mutual respect and and so on and so on dollar trump tweeted pretty quickly here we go with mitt romney but so far as question will be is he is a flake that's a that's a delusion to another republican senator who is often often very critical about trump but when it push came to shove would generally support from and to be honest this editorial has been greeted with a certain amount of skepticism mitt romney has shown he's a huge flip flop when it comes to trump he's insulting about him one day when he thought he would could be trump secretary of the state he came running to suck up to donald trump so it's not clear whether mitt romney will be any different will just be another republican who says things every now and then which are critical of trouble when it really counts when the votes count in congress he'll just he'll just he'll just back trump up all the way shepparton see with the latest from washington thank you.

two women in india have defied religious hardliners and entered one of the world's largest hindu pilgrimage sites the sub temple doesn't allow women of menstruating agency the shrine the spied a ruling by india's supreme court lifting the ban the move by the two women has led to protests and a backlash from conservative hindu groups or such a party has the latest. the under the cover of darkness and escorted by police these two women defied religious hardliners by entering one of hindu isms holiest shrines the shop to remodel a temple in the southern state of carola which attracts millions of worshippers ear their historic move is backed by india's supreme court which in september ordered the authorities to lift the ban on women or girls between the ages of ten and fifty from entering the temple. but the temples authorities refused to abide by the

court's ruling and subsequent attempts by women to visit have been blocked by thousands of the booties supporting the bam conservative hindu group say they believe women of menstruating age would defile the temples in a shrine local media is reporting the chief priest briefly shot the temple for purification rituals. it is a clearly any issue of politics and electoral politics by am saying days after these two women ended up being shy and dead in a year but dad the baby of the atmosphere in that replay my piece for. there had been these three men very endearing babbitt not object there did not paris is there very very peacefully silently allowing the men to go and watch it before that board. the care of a state president of the hindu nationalist party claims that these events are

politically motivated the b. to be the big thing local government plan what happened there declared a message to start. to achieve the community any devious means advantage to be did this. on tuesday millions of women from across the state formed a six hundred twenty kilometer human chain and called it the women's wall it's an issue that's become increasingly contentious in the run up to india's general election schedule for me on the door such a party al jazeera. a few workers in the philippines are struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides which have now killed at least eighty five people storm was one hit shortly after christmas devastating central provinces the victims including children were mostly killed when the homes collapsed a state of calamity has been declared in three provinces to give them access to emergency funds. and has more now from manila on the rescue operations. the main

focus remains to be rescue and retrieval operations but local government officials also see the critical part here is infrastructure that is because roads and bridges leading to several areas in the beagle region have been destroyed these are critical because much needed aid needs to be brought as you know beagle province this might be always at the forefront of natural disasters here is seem to be the best when it comes to emergency response in the past it has always achieved its zero casualty goal but not this time there was not even a declared typhoon but due to incessant and heavy rains several areas suffered landslide there have been triggered by flooding this is something that surprises local government officials here they had protectively evacuated more than twenty thousand people in preparation for this heavy rains but that did not stop this disaster at least fifteen people have died in indonesia meanwhile after

a series of landslides in west java province hit twenty people are still missing but as mary and a hundred ports the rescue effort is being hampered by ongoing heavy rain and the surete of yet more landslides. the wall of mud and debris came without warning just before some see it on new year's eve. it was about one hundred people live in the village of tsunamis me it slammed into the higher burying at least thirty buildings many up to their bruce. i'm going to have to run to the back of my house and saw the bomb turned upside down and then be carried away our source soil 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 to hand and to clear the thick mud to find

survivors and the deeds but this is dangerous work ongoing heavy rainfall on the unstable soil has triggered at least bullmore landslides hampering the refits soon it ismy 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 because you could be a degree or policy to make sure. you use their way of relief invest is really weiss 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. tsunamis 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 in more than a decade made in holland. still to come on the program a day after his inauguration brazil's new president gets to work with an executive order likely to be raging environmentalist's and the u.k. government faces criticism for charging women that they rescued from forced marriages abroad for their flights home.