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 so was. the 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 they accuse the saudi led coalition of carrying out well 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 gemini's 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 might pump alle 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. al-jazeera. and more ahead in the news hour including a new chapter of christian history began what the stroke of a pen and istanbul. and manchester united manager continues as perfect start to the jobs on will have that inspired. an egyptian police officer has died while trying to diffuse a bomb near

a church in cairo place were called to the eastern suburb of nasr city when the suspicious package was found on a rooftop to other police in an all monk or were injured in the blast and comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas egyptian christians have been targeted in a string of attacks and recent years. professor of political science at long island university says there's often more attacks in egypt around the holiday season unfortunately we've seen a pattern of targeting churches for christmas just as happened last year with last a terror attack being the killing during a child's baptism back in november. we don't know who is 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 you look at the pattern of terrorist behavior they start with attacking the state or symbols of the state security apparatus for the police and in egypt that's

what inspired beat them up this is 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 susi shrines last just around this time last year because those were supposedly families that were wild state they then escalated that to now attacking civilian and one terrorist group speak into attack civilians and mass what it's meant to do is to actually chill society so that they act for political change now we don't know if i'm sorry too much has done this because no one has been credit but we do know is that during the how the suits 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 win i'm just chill society but to attack the state. voters in the democratic republic of congo will

have to wait another week to find out the pulmonary results of last month's presidential election the outcome is expected to be announced on sunday but the head of the election commission says it's only counted less than half of the votes are in memory has more it's been delay after delay and patience is wearing thin people in the democratic republic of congo were first promised election results on sunday now some time next week. joseph kabila has clung on to his presidency since his term ended two years ago despite that he says he will step down after seventeen years in power he hopes emmanuel rahman son is shaddai would take his place a man who played a role in the violent suppression of opposition protest in two thousand and seventeen shot hari is up against two main opposition front bonus for more oil executive martin face and the son of the late opposition leader felix just. to

the united nations security council held a closed door meeting with representatives calling for transparency in the election results we call on all actors for call and restraint. the olding of these consultations underlines the will of the security council to maintain a very attentive monitoring of the electoral process but opposition members are suspicious of delays due to possible results tampering. the coalition. against any attempt to change the results posted in front of the polling stations and hold it responsible consequences. it's been the election fraught with issues there's been violence on the streets out of vote he was caught up in three opposition strongholds benny but tembo and he'll be in government officials say it was due to security concerns and in the polling

outbreak that many saw that as an excuse to disrupt elections and just days before the election a blaze broke out in a warehouse in the capital kinshasa disjoint thousands of voting machines. the u.s. is now gearing up for possible widespread arrests and position military personnel in a. white house says its imposition to support the security of united states citizens personnel and diplomatic facilities in. delays in elections have in the past led to on the streets but international pressure is building with the african union and the u.s. now calling on the government to ensure a peaceful democratic transition. standby in case of election related violence a policy analyst for civil society africa and justice network. people do not want

foreign intervention and their election. any after it's collision in what is happening possible but again the congolese people have to be vision or what they want if they want this they can build it if they want trouble taken out of the trouble i would encourage the international community to be equally patient with the congolese people because at stake not to call it the election of democracy but the cobalt and other natural resources that are underneath the ground the congress or any one up on the international community who is trying to get in but need to be very careful because then but within the also i like the congo has been providing the resources to the worst west developed countries for a long time and when you. interventions from the west it's not just because they

want to be developed they're they're also put that they're on today cobalt is one of the minerals that we need to build the next generation of electric actually and everyone. superpowers and companies have eyes 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. hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests. over controversial labor reform the so-called boost the amount of overtime employers can demand while the lang salary payments are allies have snowballed into a call for 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 and the labor code could add two hours of overtime to the average working day increase government control of the court system is also unpopular as is state media which gives little airtime to what position parties. it's in the senate and 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 whole people. 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 victor obama's government called the demonstrations the work of foreign forces and 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. galvanised than they have been in years not all hunger ariens like waving to all time is taking his country. down to zero. the foot's has parlin arrow chief at the washington post he doesn't play the protests are a threat to the top ons 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 their government already passed a number of years ago a very restrictive strike law that makes it very difficult for the unions to carry

out winds wide scale 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 although there was not any violence today in recent weeks there had been tear gas fired at several points when up 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 dissent but i think that that is a question going into the coming months and is 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 yellow verse protest of the new year turned violent the. police fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators in central paris numbers are down since the first protest eight weeks ago the demonstrations began an opposition to a rise in fuel tax but are now demanding other government reforms and serbia thousands of anti-government protesters have rallied for a fifth week demanding media freedom and an end to attacks on journalists and opposition figures rallies were triggered by an assault on an opposition politician by an unknown assailants in november very services have resumed in airports

reopened in thailand after the first tropical storm in thirty years moved ashore and left one person dead and another missing but didn't cause the major damage that had been feared wind reports so close to me in southern thailand. less than twenty four made landfall public has been downgraded to a tropical depression the province of not 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. there is wind and rain we have children in our family so we the head of all 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 further 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 service is 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 weekend as it made its way across southern thailand and by saturday morning it had moved into the ondemand sea florence li al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera the defendable ducking under threat and nigeria will tell you what's being done to stop them dying out and turkey missed to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste ending up in our oceans why some people are not happy and in sports why organizers are so keen for

competitors to stay on course at the sheriff's dakar rally. through a tranquil arabian can you. do not. use it in the show going to. get a welcome back to your national weather forecast well here across china we're going to be seeing increasing clouds and rain from our tropical storm that's here in the bed been gone now that storm is going to be pushing all that rain and moisture up here towards the northeast over the next couple days not looking too bad here on sunday you can see the clouds extending appeared towards central china down here we're going to be seeing rain across parts of vietnam but as we go towards monday it's going to be on the increase we're going to see more heavy rain up towards the north and out here towards east for joe a rainy day for you at seventy shanghai may see the rain later in the day with the terms of their of the. nine degrees there but over here towards hong kong it's

going to be mostly cloudy with a temperature of twenty two well public is making its way towards the west as i mentioned and we're still going to seeing some residual moisture in thailand myanmar but it's going to be the nicobar in amman islands that we are going to be watching in terms of flooding next where we can be seen as a very heavy rain across much of that area down here towards the south we'll call him poor is looking quite nice at thirty four degrees and staying at thirty four but we do expect that the moisture is going to be on the increase as we go towards monday and here across parts of india we are looking at a few clouds appear towards the north but for new delhi we're going to be seeing a temperature a few of nineteen degrees down towards the south it is going to be about thirty degrees in colombo and tonight probably cloudy at twenty eight degrees. the weather sponsored by cats on race. it could be the biggest lie in history. as powerful nations lake grain for territories under the ocean was twenty one geologists are secret could block the borders.

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out surveillance take a look at the top stories the us government shutdown is tracking on into its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock. there was no headway made but president mike pence says the meeting the democratic members was productive and ships in place officer has died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo and found out a rooftop in the eastern suburb of nasr city comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christians. earlier. term democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed by a week the outcome is expected on sunday but the torah commission says it's counted less than half of the votes. iran is fishing for peace in afghanistan while the u.s. considers withdrawing its troops from the conflict iranian deputy foreign minister

met a president in kabul. for the president about recent talks with taliban representatives in tehran the taliban are believed to control nearly half the country and have been behind many attacks targeting government forces in sarkar dame is a lecturer at mary university he says the afghan iranian government seem 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 done 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 iran the taliban leadership shanghainese just what they did in afghanistan and just with the national security adviser afghans on here sure can go in that we would like to can wean a meeting between dov can go 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 can go meant that taliban and the afghan government would be sitting to each other in iranian part of that and i think we have to forget about the past because iranian has been blamed by a lot of money which is incident in afghanistan but we have to forget the boston in just move forward with up optimistic hope both can go in in the daniel goleman are just living in the middle of hope and fear they don in government is trying to juggle a political dollars 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 dare 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 brazil's new government has to play troops to the

northern city afford to zella to counter a spike in violent crime early eighty incidents are reported this week across the state of iraq including robberies done attacks and building set on fire reports suggest the drug gangs are responding to tough new measures in prison president has promised to have a crackdown on crime. the new leader of the missiles opposition control national assembly as balance of by president nicholas. doro when he sworn in for a second term next week. says doro is an illegitimate leader because opposition candidates were barred from contesting last may's election on saturday twelve latin american countries and canada warm a door that they will not recognize is new government. one of the first muslim female members of the u.s. congress is facing criticism for using profanity and calling for the impeachment of president trump democratic congresswoman rashid italy made the comment just hours after being sworn in the president himself as she is profanity in public on multiple occasions has called her language disgraceful but standing by her remarks

and the caliber reports. newly sworn in but already courting controversy detroit congresswoman rashida to lead concluded to celebrate free speech on thursday with a comment that's attracted widespread attention fully don't wait and maybe it's not because we're going to go in there really some other. i believe is part of a new generation of democratic lawmakers many of them women coming to power for the first time most are seen as progressive and keen to hold president trump to account i don't like their language we use our language i don't and again the stablish and the language standards for my colleagues. i don't think it's anything worse than the president when the president said some in the democratic party is said to be angry to leave comments fearful that it could be seen as playing politics rather than pursuing oversight we had a very very productive meeting his part the president claims impeachment is not on

the democrats' agenda so i think it's very hard to impeach him but he has done a great job that's number one and. and we've been talked about that today i said why don't you use this for impeachment and then she said we're not looking to impeach you i said that's good that's good to leave comments so widely seen as premature but the new generation of lawmakers in the house may present the party's leadership with challenges huge number of new members who are quite bold if you will. have their own mark and may say we don't care what he says we got the vote we're not going along with what she says impeachment is a risky move for the democratic party and many are telling new members to be more cautious special counsel robert muller's probe is still on the way and senior democrats are said to be more focused on the twenty twenty election either way most agree the language used by the congresswoman was not helpful to gallacher al-jazeera washington. starship a crane has officially split from its religious leadership and russia ecumenical

patriarch in istanbul who is the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence the russian church is said to have broken all links with its ukrainian parishes matheson reports. for the simple sweep of a plan ukraine's orthodox church has gained their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate two russian religious leaders and deepening of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the orthodox church worldwide denied he'd been given broads to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an

agreement made a centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia. but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to several times since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen when large parts of eastern ukraine were taken over by russian backed forces and for fighting continues. crean's leadership headed by president petro poroshenko who's been attending saturday's ceremony accuses the russian controlled side of the church of spreading pro moscow propaganda a charge russia denies if you can see. the you dear ukrainians this is a stark a feat this is a great day i'm sure that it will go down in history for river. the document authorizing this operation. known as the thomas will be taken back to crane on

sunday the orthodox christmas scene a celebration is to be held in kiev the following day a celebration the church as leaders in russia may not share what matters are just. thousands of families have lined the streets of the spanish capital madrid to catch a glimpse of the annual three kings parade that's carrying the kings by the procession which marks the christian festival of a penny so it's returning to the crowns to represent the gaps prop by the biblical three wise men to jesus and the spanish consider that celebration more important than christmas. turkey has introduced a charge on single use plastic bags in an attempt to clean out the mediterranean sea its waters are polluted with thousands of tons of plastic every year the manufacturers say that tens of thousands of jobs are now at risk because hell has more from istanbul. like many come trees worldwide turkey has a major problem with plastic waste turkey is your second largest plastics producer

and six in the world. millions of tons are thrown away every year. often ending up in the mediterranean sea and littering turkey's coastline it is estimated one hundred forty four tons of plastics from turkey alone and up in the sea every day one are of every five fish has my full plastic in its digestive system and one million. birds are suffocating in plastic bags every year. the turkish government is implementing what is called a zero waste policy turkish m.p.'s passed a law aimed at cutting the cost stemming from pollution in the long run single use facet facts are the first target. from now on shoppers will have to buy plastic bags shops called given the way face a fine for. market traders around sure have the new law will work it would cost too

much for a customer how would we charge them if they'd be foul keep the bags and use them again the turkish government estimates every turk uses four hundred forty plastic bags every year with the new plastic bag tax that total is expected to fall to forty a year by two thousand and twenty five many people here are hopeful the new government's measures to reduce plastic consumption will be just as successful as the ban on smoking in public places a decade ago and more mentalist say the success of the new regulations depends on troops being responsible citizens they need to be encouraged to avoid single use plastic packing and to help save the world from the dangers of pollution. plastic bag makers say the law could make tens of thousands of factory workers redundant god bags can be recycled for maximum of three times the main problem is a lack of awareness and decomposing. turkic current the recycles thirty percent of

its plastic waste within the next twelve years the government says it is aiming for one hundred percent so now because solo al-jazeera a stumble the donkey could soon become an endangered species in northern nigeria hundreds are sold to roll markets every week with the growing demand for their meat and hide but it's like when interest reports there is now 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. a sluggish or leg to 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 long commute is not the many but the highs are valuable to traders who come here to buy 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. old 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 stock. their fate may lie in the hands of small time breeders such as muhammad 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. i bet you grease. that nigeria. head of the program asia's biggest international football tournament gets underway in the united arab emirates on a lot bought and sports. six

. may be sold this summer rule. this thing is a promise. to. transform the shrewdest is the name under which i recorded a record as a record music is really going to trip my love for a very young age it may come from jamaica but i feel that. it talks about just the quality talks a walk along when there's a break in music has a message that's deeply relevant to this drug especially for the i think this is kind of all in all the right wing assault on our freedom to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being taught it's like students teachers activists in their class writes it's nice all of them been intimidated the phone number of people on the streets and protest has reached our doorstep solved in whichever way i'd like some attempts to contradict something and it's.

former military bunker and hong kong that played a crucial role in world war two has been given a new purpose a set of bullets and bombs that's now home to some of the world's best why sarah clarke want to take a look it's tucked away in one of the most expensive residential areas in hong kong carved into the side of the mountain it was once the main ammunition depôt for british forces in the colony during world war two built in preparation for a japanese attack in world war two it was the very last place to surrender to the japanese so hong kong surrendered on christmas day nine hundred forty one and little hong kong were.