and in asia was hit by more than two and a half thousand netra disasters in two thousand and nineteen including earthquakes bill chemical reactions 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 hond. still to come on the program a day after his inauguration brazil's new president gets straight to work with an insect a hoarder likely to win the rage environmentalist's and the u.k. government faces criticism for charging women that they rescued from forced marriages abroad for their flights home.

penny still circulating just off shore neither for nor in queens and and possibly regenerate and come back in again will watch the daytime shows are showing up is quite significant but discrete is the heat is still the principal thing the good part of inland australia or even sydney rich twenty eight same is true in melbourne a pretty hot thirty six so as he builds by day you tend to get evening showers and there often is hail new south wales right up through northern territory as well alice springs a forty four is halt twenty i think we can do better than that but it is on the cold side of average to be honest considering we're in summer there's a circulations forecast for friday winds in the last hour it's probably as a mark come back towards the coast keep an eye on that for you. in new zealand the streaming cloud bass quite obviously coming in from the west not from australia it's oh so there's cars a little bit of potential range what we just i think for the sutton tip of south island otherwise if you want to enjoy a bit of summer twenty three degrees in the sunshine you can do so virtually

wherever you are in new zealand similarly it's a quiet spell of weather in japan at the moment as a long shore breeze so if you're in the west of honshu it's cloudy weather wise it's looking fine. but. the arrival of refugees is debated and european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives such info sanctuary to people in power on al-jazeera.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. democratic congressional leaders of called on president trump to end the partial shutdown that's frozen funding for eight government departments trump is the man did the democrats agree to more than five billion dollars in funding for his border war with mexico to handle women have defied a ban on entering a religious shrine in india the pair walked into this temple prompting outrage and protests from hindu conservatives. and rain is hampering efforts to rescue people stranded by floods and landslides in the philippines at least eighty five people have been killed since wreaked havoc in the center of the country.

israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is and the pressure to expand the legal settlements as he launches his reelection campaign last week israel announced it will extend their existing settlements south of bethlehem stephanie decker spoke to residents there and sent us 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 we need for our going to help 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 bre when you're looking for whist man today it's not listing and 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 resilience so we have a big lie and zero settlement this is the more than any bloke and you have to give 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 dream city in north of this garage it's your 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 fitness to search 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 election 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 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 butler him in the occupied west bank. israel's public security minister meanwhile has vowed to make conditions worse for palestinian prisoners gilad air dunn says jails will remove cooking rights begin rationing water and reduce the autonomy that prisoners are given the loss to lose the right to be housed with members of their own factions be it hamas or fatah more than five thousand palestinians are being held in israeli jails as political prisoners israeli human rights lawyer lay out several says the policy is politically motivated oppressing the palestinians brings a lot of support to the right wing. and this is one of the ways to oppress the palestinians more and the satisfy the. right wing winds in the israeli society so they come and say this prison is

not only does not recognize that political prisoners all know they are considered worse than criminals they have less rights than criminals have in israeli prisons they have no special status as they should have the in this sense there is an evil who lives and is not being followed at all. chinese president xi jinping says he will not rule out a using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan inus first major speech addressing the cell for the island she said taiwan's reunification with china is inevitable taiwan's leader has rejected statement and said beijing must face reality and richard pal has 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 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 into a doubtful. 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 the 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 as banging 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 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. brazil's new far right government has got straight to war can now see a move that's. specter to open up the amazon rain forest to increased commercial activity president jade both so not all issued an executive order giving the agriculture ministry responsibility for demarcating indigenous lands the decrease strips the indigenous affairs agency of power angering native rights the government has also promised to introduce an anti crime bill next month and john homan has more now from the capital brasilia president but also not overt only just been sworn in really when he started to try and take action and come good on his campaign promises one of them was not one centimeter more of land for indigenous reserves and he signed an executive order that all intents and purposes made that happen there was obviously outcry from indigenous leaders who would see this is

a thin end of the wage at the moment it doesn't affect established indigenous reserves in the country but they fear that a president who's made no secret really of his plans and decide to develop brazil's natural resources would then move on to that next the agricultural minister the new agricultural minister also came out and said that brazil had too many environmental laws the agriculture ministry at the moment is really in the hands of the agri business lobby who would also like to develop and stop farming on the brazilian countryside remember that more than half of this country is made up of the amazon rain forest also the new security the new justice minister came out and said that the president but charged him above all other things to try and deal with impunity this is a country that's coming off the back of the biggest corruption scandal in latin

america in the new president bill sonando has made it really a priority and a campaign promise to get to grips with that and to be down corruption in the country. british politicians and international lawyers are demanding access to female activists that in saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations that they're being tortured and denied legal representation victoria gate envy has more . 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 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 side raman 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 the people involved in the murder of jamal her shoulder 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 victoria gate and be i'll just there. m.p.'s have been demanding answers after it emerged that the british government charged the women forced into marriage is a broad for their own rescue the times newspaper says the foreign office told the women that they'd have to pay for their flight home as well as food and shelter those unable to pay were made to sign loan agreements with penalties for late repayment well the newspaper cited the case of four women each charged almost a thousand dollars to be flown back from somalia where they'd been detained at a religious correctional school and subjected to brutal treatment for those who chose to borrow the money a ten percent surcharge was added if it wasn't repaid in six months a spokesman for the foreign office said the money provided was an emergency loan

adding as they are from public funds we have an obligation to recover the money in due course well in two thousand and seventeen the u.k. government waived fees for sixteen to seventeen year olds despite that concession chase that go here executive director of the muslim women's network says young girls have still been forced to pay a seventeen year old was made to sign a loan agreement as she was rescued from pakistan when she got to the other end her passport was called first confiscated she started to get letters demanding payment she contacted our muslim women's network helpline we then contacted the government and we said this is not on unfortunately even though they did change the policy for sixteen seventeen year olds our client will still will still made to pay more than eight hundred pounds which she didn't have so we managed to fundraise and you know where that money came from from the public the public were outraged when it was highlighted two years ago and that she sent sent to send donations and we paid off the loan or they paid off the loan so if the government is saying that the public

would be outraged they wouldn't be outraged they're outraged at the government actually. six people have been killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark the country's worst stray laxity in more than thirty years the bridge where it happened connects then marks to maine. has more. images from inside the danish passenger train showed the extent of the damage. one hundred thirty four people were 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 the debris from this passing freight train may have hit the passenger service prompting the driver to brake suddenly a 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 and 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 leave barca al-jazeera and nasa spacecraft sent back its first close up picture of all too much too late the most distant celestial object ever explored a new high resolution images shows it's shaped like a snowman consisting of two fused together spheres the new horizon spacecraft swept past. years they are six point five billion kilometers for.

barbara starr in london these are the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. democratic congressional leaders have called on president trump to end the partial shutdown that's frozen funding for eight government departments met with leaders from both parties to try to break the impasse he says he wants to avert a further shutdown but is the man then five billion dollars in funding for his border with mexico democrats accuse them of holding the country hostage i said mr president give me one good reason why you should continue your shutdown of the 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 argument against is wrong. in india to women have defied a ban on and turn your religious shrine the pair walked into the sub temple prompting outrage and protest from hindu conservatives 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 was man wreaked havoc in the center of the country six people have been killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark the gray belt bridge connects then marks two main islands it's the country's worst rail accident in more than thirty years. fighting has intensified between different rebel groups in northern syria leaving at least thirty one people dead it's centered in the west of aleppo province where territory controlled by turkish backed fighters meets the area under the control of al qaeda linked. or h.t.s. several people have been killed in the town of that at that is

a analysts say that h.t.s. is pushing back against oh gosh control of the region well those are your headlines do stay with us it's people in power next they'll be more headlines at half an hour from doha a see you tomorrow why it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh a central bank one of one east investigates how cyber hackers infiltrated the global banking system. and how does it. it's become one of the defining themes of all times a tidal wave of humanity in search centuries from repression poverty in recent years millions have taken to the road to the hope that safety and a better life while sway some manage it some don't but almost every journey is

a tale of hardship insurance and great risk in this to call people a special report where telling one such story to syrian refugees trying against all the odds to make it to germany. after weeks of exhausting nonstop travelling by sea and land. and georgia's have covered over a thousand kilometers since climbing aboard a people traffickers boat in taki. on the road through the balkans and southern

europe hungry footsore without official papers and running out of funds they've been forced to sleep in the open to evade police and border patrols. but now they've made it to a hostile and supportive northern sabia the next step on the refugee trial finding a smuggler to take them back into the e.u. . then there's the one year. or that your boss. or some of the other. did out of was studying economics and aleppo university when the syrian uprising began arrested and detained by the assad regime he was forced to flee the country he met another syrian student in turkey and they've been watching out for each other ever since then also been filming veges. after two days in the hostel

a smuggler sends a car to take them to a safe house. the federal government. and you have to. go. in and see him. in the interim. obviously dart seen here with the red hat is this smuggler. sat back to look good. and. evil. internet. and. along.

oh i never. saw having way to the kind i mean he's still in the above it would often i'll be able to learn. and. the way i would know he had a out of in the way of those higher oil that was eating their sorry for this is still a technicality. finally it's time to leave the deal is that the smuggler will drive them to a discreet spot in the holocaust forest where he's hungry. he'll leave them to make their own way past the guards and then pick them up on the other side. forty

minutes later and on fits again they make a dash across the border to the clearing where they've been told to wait in the lobby in the mob out of arrest me been in those day. the thought. and. the have them it'll. be able to go. but is the hours passed with still no word from the smuggler it looks like they're going nowhere and with guards everywhere they have to keep deathly quiet. thanks.

i don't then out of the blue a local television crew shows. you to take on the bit of you are still going to. be here in the area did you sleep your. why did you leave your. people you. used. a because nobody. i know me. and i should have been good but then. any. how are her. having abandoned most of the kids as they run. eventually reunited supported back on the subway and side of the border

a bar trump it helps raise morale but what they really need is a refund. thank you moment i mean anyone at the most saudi. government never going to shoot i don't really know my feet because it could be argued that if you know it's been the most time money for the muslim was going to come the number for the money. jack is very. much the number was. i'm sure twenty one and. they might cause a lot of. the bugs are the same at the water. or the gauger is a good standard for. night falls and supported

so hungry and now penny less ended are still desperately trying to reach the smuggler so you can see that. some of my eyes see the morning in a mall or not i think it's all. of them like ondoy. i was the. shift the was. final. but though back in funds they still face their old problem without documents they can't get a place to stay so they try the local church.

after another cold night on the streets ended on contraflow to hang around for another smuggler. to having back towards the hunger and a little place called can. syria and syria. first stop a bar in town recommended by other syrians. it was everybody's witnessing this you want to thank you thank you thank. you. i'm sure. that's not what you wish. to. only morning. ended hours group set out on foot towards the buddha.

would be making it up. and i want to. write. my. nation already. on the belonging. on monday. i'm going to school. they move on but then out of the dog. a serbian police patrol. a foreigner. on. a yacht danny that another and then have this man meet

a guy who want to have dismissed him. for granted he won't. know the one hundred in the middle and two people want to know and think because a few money so far. but they can't talk their way out of it and the police take them to a police station near the border with. that to be one. of the master plan of going on. a rough week does. something got along by it but all over they then up to now known . smith europe one o'clock. this cease. fire.

fire fire. can get it's going to be become ugly hifi and a lot of the. rush when. i would often come you know. you can jolly well me and if you know what i thought was a. plan. i want to watch several g.b.'s many then oh i'm not a fan and i was a plane a dish only to do with one leg bone up on one. of salon's in the other. and the one has a mother who was dialing months and. was a lesbian put on a normal as a man but did you have know this child and leave him with a whole lot of peony. for them but then that you have none of this not having the family meta. with not playing well.