then bill so actually what you term violence is filled with flashing their needs here it's the the regional disability in the sense way less stable. in the news hour including a plea for help make their case to the u.n. special envoy about the devastating impact of the war the dependable donkey under threat and nigeria will tell you what's being done to stop them from dying out. and manchester united's new manager continues his perfect start to the chops on the abaddon sport. gyptian police officer has died all trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo officers were called to the eastern suburb of nasr city when the suspicious package was found on a rooftop to other police and an onlooker were injured in that blast it comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas

egyptian christians have been targeted and a string of attacks in recent years more on this now i'm joined by associate professor of political science at long island university she joins us now from new jersey so why why do these attacks can continue to happen in new delhi at this time of year. so unfortunately we've seen a pattern of targeted in churches before christmas just as happened last year with the last a terror attack being the killing during each child's baptism back in november. we don't know who's taking claim for this and we also know that there was an attack on a tourist bus just last week exactly a week ago from tonight and so returning see an uptick in targeting of civilians when we look at the pattern of terrorist behavior they start with attacking the state or symbols of the state the security apparatus of the police and in egypt that's what inside beat them up just a terrorist organization that folded into ice all started doing back in two

thousand and thirteen they then asked to attacking those seeming to be in cahoots or sympathetic to the state and that's when we saw the attack on the sushi shrines last just around this time last year because those were supposedly families that were to the state they've then escalated that to now attacking civilians and when terrorist groups speak into attack civilians and mass what it's meant to do is to actually tool society so that they act for political change now we don't know if be too much despair eisler has done this because no one has claimed credit but we do know is that during the holiday since and during the peak time of egypt's tourist time period we're seeing an uptick in terrorist attacks and that is no way to but i'm just chilled society but to attack the state so the president. he said he was forming a committee to a group to sort of address this or something about it what does that mean what what

they actually do. so president sisi has been saying this since actually the two thousand and thirteen coup that removed egyptian president morsi and since then we have access to rise in terrorist attacks and we've seen an uptick under siege so there hasn't been the securing of the state that he's been promising even with all of these different changes now we know that tomorrow night here state c.b.s. news is going to air an interview about security in egypt in the future and military cooperation that is not going to present him in the best light we also know that american secretary of state will be visiting egypt sued and so sisi needs to be put on seeming on the offensive and saying we're actually attacking this but five years into his rule it seems that terrorism is on the rise unfortunately specifically the coptic christians you know there are a minority they say that they are discriminated against and not

a is is being done to help them are they right they are absolutely are right coptic churches are not given the security that they deserve they are not usually have this kind period you would expect the security apparatus to be really around the coptic community and it's usually absent that time and it's the question of why the egyptian government knowing that the coptic community or minority groups are targeted during their holidays but is not providing security to a very vulnerable minority group fahmy thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it thanks for having. voters in the democratic republic of congo will have to wait another week to find out the preliminary results of last month's presidential election the results were expected on sunday but the head of the election commission says only forty seven percent of vote tally sheets have been received the poll was pope. postponing three opposition strongholds which led to protests and violence to opposition candidates martin phyla and felix educating say

they have one ruling party candidate manual should arias also claiming victory to me now is jacques behati policy analyst for a civil society group called the africa faith and justice network we appreciate your time so this delay and the results what do you make of that then you poor me on your show are worth a vote the significance of this election. has been a vote called out. without international help so that process there are the things that you can be a little creepy long but also the state he is in each plane is already so this post is new for so long and. the amount of land that. meant and there are lots to. shut you up

are quite explain. so you're saying that you think that this delay actually adds adds credibility to the result once they come in. yes you want peace you have to be intentional in they are trying to build peace those who want trouble are. making it you can't even the knowledge is but i would like to encourage everyone to. process the time to do choirs and then wait and see so in the us as we have ever poured it is sending troops to the area just in case anything happens do you think that anything welled or do you think that that's an overreaction. any ask if girlish in work is happening it's possible but again the congolese people have to be conditional in what you think what you want peace they can believe if they want

trouble they can also bring trouble i would encourage the international community to be equally patient medical release people because you cannot release and actions of democracy but the court and other natural resources that are under the ground the congress or in you are on the international community who is trying to get you both of you need to be very careful because then moment in the post so analyze it so why not us and talk talk more about that again you're saying at this is about more than the election how so i used as me again can you repeat it return absolutely obsolescent that she said that this is about more than just this election how so. yes the coal has been providing the resources that were in west developed countries for a long time and when you. intervention from the west it's not just because they want. to cobalt is one of them you know

that we need to build the next generation. actually and everyone. superpowers and companies. on the congo so everything that is happening in the congo great to them so we do not know who's pulling which strings and who's not. to thank you so much for your time appreciate it. thank you. hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests as anger rises over controversial labor reform so call slave law the amount of time new players can demand while delaying salary payments have snowballed into a call for the prime minister viktor orban to step down or challenge reports. it's no secret what these hunger in protesters think of prime minister viktor orban. with christmas and the year after the way thousands of people around on the streets

again still angry at new laws passed by parliament in december. there was no coordination with the law was just pushed through in such a way that even the opposition could not have its voice heard we just saw on t.v. you know that this government with that two thirds majority can do what they want but we have to say stop now because people should not be treated like this in the working world. particularly hated is what's been called the slave labor code to two hours of overtime to the average working day increased government control of the court system is also unpopular as is state media which gives little airtime to what position parties. we disagree with almost everything that has been going on since this government goes into power and corruption to pseudo democracy and everything else mentioned at the protests the government doesn't represent the people. and everybody has to have a voice here and that's not what's happening in hungary at the moment just

a part of the population is represented. when they began in mid december government called the demonstrations the work of foreign forces on the liberal billionaire george soros. after winning a landslide election in april can say his party enjoys popular support. but these ongoing protests. suggest opposition voices are more galvanized than they have been in years not all hungry ariens like waving he's taking his country chalons al-jazeera if it is berlin bureau chief at the washington post he doesn't believe the protests are a threat to the door bonds government. well the government has a lot of tools in its arsenal and i think it's important to keep in context here the fact that this is still a government and prime minister who are very much in the driver's seat there the government had already passed a number of years ago a very restrictive strike law that makes it very difficult for the unions to carry

out what's widescale shutdowns tronics and the government also of course really has a stranglehold on the media here so in terms of what people are seeing. about these protests in terms of what hungary and outside of budapest are hearing about them a lot of people in villages small towns small cities are hearing the government's point of view and only the government's point of view and so i think that the government has a lot of tools in its arsenal be at the media be it the strike law or be it the fact that it still has this two thirds majority in the parliament which allows it to do whatever it pleases they today's protest was quite peaceful there were there was not any violence today in recent weeks there had been tear gas fired at several points when when the protesters were trying to breach the perimeter of the parliament for instance in general the government is trying to have a light touch not resort to brute force tactics when it comes to suppressing

dissent in hungary did they have other tactics other more subtle and sleeker ways of suppressing to stand but i think that that is a question going into the coming months and just you know are we headed for a clash here and is this government going to be forced to use some heavier handed tactics than the kind that it typically uses french ministers have held an emergency meeting after the first tell a vest protest said the new year turned violent place fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators in central paris and most are down since the first protest eight weeks ago demonstrations began in opposition to a rise and kill tax but are now demanding other government reforms. in serbia thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied for a fifth week there demanding media freedom and an end to attacks on journalists and opposition figures and rallies were triggered by an assault on an opposition politician by unknown assailants in november. still ahead on al-jazeera

a new chapter of christian history began with the stroke of a pen in istanbul. turkey millions of tons of plastic place ending up in our oceans why some people are not happy and in sport find out why organizers are so keen for competitors to stay on course at the sheriff's car rally. hello again this hour do want to start here in the cross united states we did see one weather system make its way off the eastern seaboard those are the clouds right there so as we start the forecast map here on sunday things are going to be looking much better anywhere from boston down to new york washington atlanta a little bit cooler but it's going to be a lot clearer across much of that area where we are watches out here towards the

west now look at all these clouds coming in off the rockies by the time we go from sunday to monday that system really organizes here across the central part of united states we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain anywhere from chicago all the way down here towards dallas but to the north into canada it is going to be heavy snow so we'll be watching that and that system is going to cause a major airport delays at the beginning of the week we're also watching some very heavy rain passing through parts of cuba over the next few days here's that frontal boundary the rain showers could be heavy we're not just talking about cuba it could be the cayman islands as well over here towards parts of jamaica as well as into the bahamas so we're going to be seeing those very heavy showers continuing have in a while sunday twenty four degrees and raining a forecast but by the time we get towards monday things start to improve their a little further to the south jamaica it's going to be a warm day if you partly cloudy conditions at thirty and center domingo a clear day for you with a temperature of about thirty degrees there. and

monday put it on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed. five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. on counting the cost it was the worst performing stock market of twenty eighteen find out where china is headed in twenty nineteen brazil's new president has an economic challenge plus taxing times for technology giants and from a profit warning from apple. counting the cost on al-jazeera. watching

al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you the u.s. government shutdown is dragging into its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock president on a trump tweeted there was no headway made but vice president mike pence says the meeting with democratic members as productive. police officer has died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo place for call to the eastern suburb of dosser's city when the suspicious package was found on a rooftop two other police and an onlooker were injured and the blast and early results from democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed

a week the outcome is expected on sunday but the electoral commission says it has counted less than half of the votes. special envoy to yemen is back in the country to convince both sides in the civil war to fully comply with the ceasefire agreement and accuse each other of violating the truce now there is hope the warring sides will agree to meet later on this month possibly in kuwait a tale of a saudi on reports. an attempt at piecing together a broken ceasefire the u.s. envoy martin griffiths is back in yemen calling on warring sides to follow the truce they agree to months of negotiations cracked within weeks he was met by cancer patients who demand the sunnah airport be reopened they are among the thousands of patients who cannot travel out of yemen for lifesaving treatments one of the many consequences of the ongoing war. we would like to tell the world that

they all those who want to see tonight in saunas and in the rest of the provinces know that there are those who prevent us from water and medicine equipment facilities and medical devices every day we have six thousand passengers who cannot leave this airport. there have been reports of attacks and repeated violations a mother and her child were killed in the residential area of time at least sixteen people were injured by who three artillery shelling. on friday at least fifteen people were killed in clashes between yemen's u.a.e. backed forces and locals in the southern province of sabah a far cry from the expectations of a cease fire agreement signed in sweden on december eighteenth. was. it a was. in the port city of her data the lifeline to deliver aid to the rest of the country protesters are calling on the un to enforce a full ceasefire and for yemen's government to follow it the accuse the saudi led

coalition of carrying out low altitude flights over the city but the blame goes both ways the coalition accuses who the fighters of remaining in three ports despite a previous agreement to leave. amid negotiations and unstable agreements the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history continues with more than fourteen million yemenis on the brink of famine. after yemen griffith's plans to visit saudi arabia to meet with exile yemeni president abdul rob a month to hadi the u.s. secretary of state my pump the schedule to stop in riyadh and the u.a.e. next week the war in yemen will likely be at the top of the agenda was another attempt to enforce and ultimately save a fragile cease fire with lingering optimism that both sides will comply. with a yawn al-jazeera iran is fishing for peace in afghanistan while the u.s.

considers withdrawing its troops from the conflict iranian deputy foreign minister met with president kabul iraq briefed the president about recent talks with taliban representatives and iran the taliban are believed to control near. half the country and have been behind many attacks targeting government forces into us our can deem is a lecturer at moria university he says the afghan and iranian government's need to forget their troubled past and move forward to ensure a lasting peace. after the conference in afghanistan you see a lot of conducive political environment in the the current iranian delegation was going on this part of the logic process you've been on the stain that the iranian government in basad in afghanistan but it does say that they have influence over the heat on the taliban leadership sean harney just what they did in afghanistan and just with the national security adviser afghans on here sure that afghan

government that would like to come in we know a meeting between the have been going in the taliban leadership and they will not act like saudi arabia so as long as we see the change in the american in washington unions that rhetoric toward afghanistan as long as we see here the shift of the afghan government that taliban and the afghan government will be sitting to each other in iranian and part of that you know i think we have to forget about the past because iran has been blamed by a lot of money wishes and the didn't in afghanistan but we have to forget the boston in just move forward with up optimistic hope both half can go in daniel goleman are just living in the middle of hope and fear they don in government is trying to juggle a political balls and they would like to sure that if taliban leadership is part of the future afghan government they should be having very badly by the relation with the taliban leadership and then the same time they say that if you are not damn not part of the political settlement between the taliban and the afghan government i

think they will have a very bleak and very dark future very services have resumed in airports reopened in thailand after the first tropical storm in thirty years moved to shore and left one person dead and another missing that didn't cause the major damage that had been feared barnsley reports from. southern thailand. less than twenty four hours after it made landfall public has been downgraded to a tropical depression the province of no concept appears to have been hit hardest by the storm. but. only five or six minutes after the storm hit the roof was blown away. dozens of buildings have been damaged power supplies disrupted and streets flooded thousands of people were evacuated ahead of its arrival. fall there is wind and rain we have children in our family so we hurry to hear the head of our village urged us to leave as well the tourist

destination of coast and other islands nearby suffered no severe damage as the eye of the storm passed farther south than initially forecast. public it's unlikely to have a long term effect on tourism or economic growth in the southern provinces financial losses will stem mainly from the fact that businesses have got to shut for a couple of days already boat ferry and flight services that was suspended on friday have resumed there were fears public could be the worst tropical storm to hit thailand in thirty years that fear hasn't been borne out weakened as it made its way across southern thailand and by saturday morning it had moved into the andaman sea florence li al-jazeera. police have made several arrests in the australian city of melbourne during a far right rally or protesting against a youth crime problem lay blame on people of african descent hundreds of police patrol the streets keeping those protesters away from anti-racism demonstrators at

the back reports wasn't killed in melbourne is usually a place to relax at the beach not today instead a scene of far right nationalists facing off against the left wing groups hurling insults across the police line with a very different use of the kind of a stray leah in which they wish to live and immigration nationalists say they came out to protest against crime on the beaches which they blame on a stray leons of african descent ok doing the wrong thing and the stealing of forever hurt me all over we want to apologise but we want to draw back we want the law but the sudanese australians in particular have been under scrutiny recently with local media airing reports referring to african gang violence but those who rallied in support of multiculturalism in australia say the minority group has been made a scapegoat for bigger issues i've lived in melbourne my whole life now there isn't

a problem with african crime we have issues with us not having enough and guys meant things today about the fact there's the fact that they tried to scapegoat it on africanus ryans is really disappointing only had prior notice that far right groups would be rallying at the beach and that counter protest would be staged in response to doing all they can to keep the two groups apart to prevent any escalation of physical violence the opposing sides moved from the beach front into the streets of st kilda shutting down roads as police maintained their lines using pepper spray at times to break ups couples extraordinary scenes outside the iconic luna park where children come to ride the roller coasters likely to be much more frightened by the anger on display. outside of the fun part kathy novak al jazeera noting. the no later than as little as opposition control national assembly is bound to fight president nicolas maduro in a sworn in for a second term next week on gatto says going to war as an illegitimate later because

opposition candidates were barred from contesting last may's election on saturday twelve latin american countries and canada warning to war that they will not recognize his new government their attempt to quit and make way for a new election speculation is mounting about a historic visit to south korea by north korea's kim jong il approving relations are having a market impact on the heavily fortified border that separates moore and south of correspondent robin wright travel to thailand a short distance from the north korean mainland from its observation points you can clearly make out the coastline of north korea just twelve kilometers away and at times of extreme tension young people on the island has found itself in the sights of north korea's guns eight years ago it was the scene of an artillery jewel that killed four people and wounded nineteen others the most serious clash since the

korean war. today the same waterfront is it peace following a year of diplomatic engagements between the leaders of north and south korea. for many of the two thousand people who live and work here things have never looked so good. things should improve for better kim jong un wants to sort of. given that must feel free conciliation things will improve but the fractious history of into korean relations makes others more cautious talking. with their turk record and it's possible that they might change in a predictable way so i don't have complete trust. today the only sound of gunfire comes from the firing ranges of the marines who are based here the shelters that people are taught to run to when the event of an attack or change in locked. one of the houses destroyed in the attack has been

preserved as a memorial the disputed maritime border has long been a flashpoint between north and south korea in addition to the shelling of twenty ten there have been deadly clashes between naval vessels near here but the remarkable improvement in into korean relations in the past year is having a remarkable impact on the heavily fortified border separating the north and the south. guard posts along the demilitarized zone have been dismantled and the numbers of weapons facing off against each other reduced. assuming the process continues the fortifications of young piano england could eventually become part of a bygone era rob mcbride al-jazeera young people island south korea. the dockett sam become an endangered species in northern nigeria hundreds are sold

in rural markets every week with a growing demand for their meat and high interest reports there is now a push for a new law to protect the remaining stock. these animals are heading to the market it's such in that most of them will end up on someone's dinner table and their heights processed for export locals say the rush for the beast is driving the numbers down. but all the dealers are bothered about is price drop. the fall maybe because of lack of money but the fact is you don't see. what the park is doing when he is not in principle at all. he says there are thousands in the wild where he gets some of his stock. forty don't use are sold of every week in this rural market on average what prices ranging from fifty to one hundred fifty dollars per head. in northern nigeria

a long commute is not the many but the highs that valuable to traders who come here to buy the new and with more and more donkeys being killed there but it's having been done by the elderly because younger people have moved to cities to find work. former owners such as muhammad more to regret they sold their animals. the life is tough without it don't you get used to the help you get from. people like me are used to living with them that's our source of transportation. a member of parliament who says the animals may soon join the growing list of critically endangered species is pushing for a law to save the remaining struck. their fate may lie in the hands of small time breeders such as a couple. breeding a donkey is tough and easy at the same time the pregnancy is long nearly a year feeding it is hard work and. it probably will take more than people like him

to save the animals neighbors such as needs you have already stopped exports of life donkeys it's questionable whether that and other measures will be enough to save the dependable dog yet. but he agrees. that the money nigeria. how much food to pay to satisfy a sushi craving about three point one million dollars that's what a giant bluefin tuna has sold for it tokyo's new year auction sushi producers and wholesalers have been known to pay of money for the biggest and best fish but that that's the highest price on record two hundred seventy eight kilo fish was bought of the record price by a japanese sushi boss who calls himself the tuna cane the bluefin tuna prize for its use and sushi but is also on the world wildlife endangered species list ok is fish market reopened in a new location in time for their annual sales

a popular stop on japan's tourist trail. coming up in sport. international football tournament gets underway in the united arab emirates sana has keeping. six. thing. is the name on the. regular music it's really kind of trip for a very young age. but i feel that. this. is a guy. that's deep. throat especially for. all the right. questions and freedom of expression and people you know all

being students teachers activists filmmakers writes it's amazing that it's going to do this. and people on the street see the protest has reached our doorstep. attempts through. its. crane as officially split from its religious leadership and russia ecumenical patriarch who is the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence russian church is said to have broken all links with the ukrainian parishes matheson reports. with

a simple sweep of the pan ukraine's orthodox churches gained their independence or . a move likely to infuriate russian by.