groups is the name on the ridge a record a. record music is really kind of trip for a very young age it may come from what i feel that. it talks about just it's the books of. music i think. that's deeply relevant. especially for this kind of all right wing assault on our freedom to oss questions and freedom of expression and people you know are being students teachers activists filmmakers rights it's nice all of that but it's limited to the number of people on the streets and protest has reached our doorstep in which. attempts to contradict some of its.

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 clark 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 which was the code name given to the sites we actually lost until the twenty seventh of december nine hundred forty one so we always like to joke and say little hong kong outlaws the big hong kong by two days it's a network of underground bunkers but i mean asian has been replaced by crates of

some of the world's best wines with the cool dark bunkers offering perfect conditions for storage we have about two thousand of the biggest collectors in asia that use us we have around about one and a half million bottles with us and we have a total in catastrophic insurance cover of just under four billion dollars so you can imagine the per bottle value is is very high the bunkers was so sensitively restored they want to unesco heritage award they were unknown and inaccessible to many in hong kong for years now everyone is welcome i think the whole idea is a win win for the community absolutely because the way they've done it the way they've built up the activities and preserve the building and also i have to say very you've got a very good sense of the historical importance there once twenty four bunkers here at this site there are now i left each one holds up to twenty five thousand bottles

of wine including one of the most expensive ever sold at auction at two hundred thirty five thousand dollars for that reason god monitor the site closely one thousand and twenty four hours of violence the auction is subbies regards hong kong as the wine capital of asia it's been some of the strongest market this year with hong kong accounting for more than. half of the company's one hundred million dollar global wine sales some would argue is actually the one capital the world at the moment over the last ten fifteen years without doubt it's probably been the biggest congregation of point collectors and buyers by hong kong the name sort of great to china back in the bunker is it's not just about the value of vintage wines the relics of war have turned it into a working memorial to hong kong's past sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong it's hard to sport now less than a. thank you very much joe legal in a soldier has made it five wins out of five as manchester united manager in night

his latest victory saw them progress into grant full of the english f.a. cup soldier has the job on a caretaker basis after replacing shows a marine your one matter open the scoring from the penalty spot against the second tier team. just was back in the starting line up and he set up a million the cuckoo for united second finished two nil to united. cup holders chelsea were taking on not forrest says fabregas missed the chance to mark his final appearance for the club with a go to spanish woke up when a is on his way to a french club monaco but to second half goes from alvar marotta gave chelsea it to know when and a place in round four. or thirteen time winners arsenal were easy winners against blackpool teenagers joe woke up scored twice in the first half and just before full time alex wrapped up

a three nil when. there's been more controversy at the asian cup which has just started in the united arab emirates qatar has accused the host nation's security services of denying accredited journalists from qatar and three into the country all tournaments organizers say they did offer the return of the group to the u.a.e. but that proposal was declined this week cutter's a.f.c. vice presidents hannity had his arrival into the emirates delayed by twenty four hours cut a still under blockade imposed by of u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt. the event itself has now kicked off and i would be the host that played bahrain in the opening game behind to the lead through mohamed me the. rather a late equaliser after a controversial penalty aboard the referee deciding that mohammad omar horne had

handled the ball. and stepped up to score the spot kick as the game finished one of . the pending champions australia take on dalton and their opening game on sunday both teams are favored to progress from this group which also includes syria and pulse time but earlier we spoke to asian football writer martin lo about which teams are likely to talent for the trophy. it's certainly going to be one of the big four it expects the teams that usually gets the woke up so you go kind of iran and south korea japan australia the last four years iran it's been very dominant and the very last ones competitively and ups to spain at the world cup so you can see what kind of pedigree they bring to that storm and the question mark is surrounded in the style of play they're very much play on the docks and how to counter teams rather than dictating play which that the talent for and not regarded

to say that south korea go into this tournament is edging it with iran and they're in talk or i have got this player in asia at the moment and son home and he's doing pretty for tone hotspur the moment and also got a new manager who seems to fit the style of play and i think they look stronger to contest later on the other two that we usually consider japan and australia a bit in transition at the moment they've got new coaches and they've left outs a couple of players and also faces quite a few injuries so they expect maybe iran south korea its kind of big test in final . well for the first. place wisconsin then said to south america the race is to be held in just one country government has invested millions of dollars in the event is now hoping to witness a financial as while us or thing payback lana sanchez reports from lima. furrowing

mountains riding along beaches or through the moving dunes of the decker launches a new addition in just this latin american nation challenging competition in one of the world's roughest to rains that dakar officials say will bring great benefits to the country a place been if it has been the media impact of the great one thousand two hundred hours of international media promotion and one hundred ninety countries and over seventy t.v. channels it's huge it gives a lot of opportunity to promote tourism in the country between vested nearly six million dollars to hold the competition here but the government says the images of the two seen around the world is equivalent to nearly two hundred million dollars in advertising. on one hand is the economic impact generated by the event itself the rally's development leaves us sixty million dollars in consumption of goods and services and there's a lot of spending from people along the road nearly five hundred drivers and

writers will meet every five thousand kilometer mainly on the father's death or region of the country but one of the challenges to preserve. sites. civilizations thousands of years old lived and disappeared there many critics say the competition could endangered priceless heritage the government says it's mapped out forty four archaeological sites and eco systems to protect our park rangers an archaeologist will guard these areas. even though you try to keep far away from evidently cultural areas you called know what might be under the ground and unexpectedly find traces of ruins. that's a risk but the real impact on the route of the people who don't respect impose limits and thousands of peruvians are expected to follow the drivers along the way the experts say the spectators could become the main threat to the ancient sites during a much loved and much criticised competition with unison just one just. defending

australia open champion roger federer is looking good ahead of the defense of his title thirty seven year old is past one of his main rivals. in perth on them before alexander's there says he hopes to win his first grand slam this year federer be the twenty one year old german in straight sets. and day after knocking out world number one know about joke of it seven see that roberto. has won the qatar open spaniard beat thomas critic in the final. us open champion was knocked out in the semifinals at the brisbane international. last in straight sets to crane's yeah it was a wrinkle and after the matt decided to pull out of next week's sydney international. i feel like i didn't really know how to cope with

not playing well so. i don't know like i was. soaking aloof and like there are moments that i try not to do but then the ball winning go in and then i would go back to being like childish and also support from we'll have more later on. and days gone by the holiday season in hong kong won't be a good excuse for a game of watch all but fall apartments and mobile phones are changing that is typical palm reports. cashier charge was once a familiar sound in almost every hong kong neighborhood mahjong was so widely played it became synonymous with the city's culture but over the years as gambling laws tightened and the younger generation lost interest the march on tables that are once seen everywhere started to disappear and so did the intricate handmade tiles that define the game. is one of the last three marginal artisans in hong kong and the only woman left chiseling away at the blocks it's

a yellow line working on this is like a walk down memory lane it is like a cassette player which allow me to replay my favorite songs again and again. she grew up in this tiny shop under this tears of a dilapidated building and has been working here since the age of thirteen she inherited the business from her father in the nineteen seventies when business was booming now the handmade tiles compete with cheaper factory made ones and electronic versions. we gave them our drawing to be part of every day life with the center of social gatherings almost every home had effect but now it's become more for novelty even a collector's item and a reminder of hong kong and one of hong kong's oldest neighborhoods a youth hostel is dedicated to keeping the city's marjon culture alive because living area in hong kong is frozen so not many family they can afford to put

a mahjong table in the living room that's why they have less chance to play macho of course now many young people they prefer to focus on the mobile phone more games with friends and family. mahjong is played by four people around the table they line up the hundred fourteen pieces do suites and sequences by choosing and discarding tiles first to complete a full sets in a particular order when. the hong kong government listed mahjong tile carving as part of what it called the city's intangible cultural heritage because that's hasn't stopped the decline in reacting what was no matter how much i want to hang on to this art i know the end we've come she says no younger craftsmen or women are joining the trade it is a fading heritage and she wants to keep going as long as she can if you go palin al-jazeera hong kong. our website is al jazeera dot com you can check in there

out today for news from around the world our lead story there is the fifteen day shutdown of the u.s. government we will keep you posted as they try to get that resolved and much more to come on the other side of the break with my colleague carson's corner. we are everywhere all together right now it's all relative going places together bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's

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and inspiration. snow stories of three young women challenging the world around them. al-jazeera selects. no breakthrough in the latest round of talks to end the partial u.s. government shutdown. i'll have to see to this is live from doha also coming up a plea from the minority in syria who fear for their safety u.s.

troops leave. ukraine's newly formed also docks churches granted independence in a split from the russian church provoking anger in moscow. delays fears of violence and u.s. troops on standby the disputed presidential election democratic republic of congo suffers another setback. the united states government shutdown is dragging on for its fifteenth day with another round of talks failing to break the deadlock white house officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government vice president mike pence says the meeting was productive and the two sides will meet again on sunday president donald trump is refusing to sign a bill to fund the government until he gets more than five billion dollars to build his mexico border war diane estabrook has the latest from washington. vice

president mike pence jared cushion or the president's son in law and close advisor and curious to nielsen who is the secretary of homeland security met for about two hours on saturday afternoon with congressional aides talking about this government shutdown the vice president said that these talks on saturday were productive however president trump tweeted that the two sides really didn't make much headway now the vice president is going to be continuing these talks tomorrow while president trump is going to be meeting with some of his senior aides at camp david presidential retreat meanwhile this afternoon house speaker nancy pelosi announced that house democrats are going to be meeting next week to pass individual appropriations bills that would reopen some agencies including the department of treasury and the i.r.s. so the government could begin processing income tax returns and get income tax

refunds back in the hands of americans now this shutdown is going into its fifteenth day if it goes another week that would be three weeks and it would make it the longest shutdown in u.s. history a political analyst eric hamm says the partial shutdown is going to have a devastating effect on workers and their communities. if this shutdown goes another week this will be the first time within the shutdown that federal workers are not receiving paychecks and so think about that you have now that the holidays are over college students are going back to school and you have parents who are not working and so the question becomes do they pay mortgages or do they pay college tuition do they pay for groceries or do they pay utilities and so these are some of the bread and butter issues that people are faced with now as this shutdown continues to lome and they hear the president say that this shutdown he could take

the shutdown for a year or four years that i'm sure has many workers hitting the panic button on how they were actually survive going forward because when you look at those eight hundred thousand employees many of those eight hundred thousand employees are not within washington d.c. they're scattered throughout the country and so think about small businesses think about food trucks that may set up around government offices or building and though those are small businesses and now that those workers aren't coming into the office that's putting a crimp on small businesses opportunities to earn as well so we're not just talking about a hundred thousand employees going without paychecks we're talking about the residual small businesses and other entities that will not be getting paid as a result of these federal workers not working and so i mean it's a ripple effect and i just don't think either the president or even congress really

understands what's at stake and i think we're going to really see the pressure ramp up next week when we see government workers start losing paychecks. the u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned syria's government the withdrawal of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons is arrived in israel and will meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday before travelling to ankara turkey has promised to take the lead in the fight against isaw in syria but reportedly wants american military support to continue even after the u.s. pullout muhammad i know has more from gaziantep on the turkey syria border. top on turkey's priority list is that is our moment of kurdish y.p. the fighters who have fought alongside u.s. troops in the fight against your solutions have told them many times before the most effective force against arsenal but to talk to them nothing more than

a terrorist organization an extension of the kurdish workers bertie p.k. k. and want them this amount only this and were taken out of territory and they were near turkey's border with syria actually turkey doesn't want to hear y.p. deep controlling and they're part of syria and has been on a war footing in recent weeks saying they will carry out an attack on the tom the city of members with a view of removing the white beauty from their turkey awful want just to call on else support from the united states wants u.s. troop withdrawal process is complete but u.s. officials of tend to form on a clear timetable several times turkish officials would now expect don't bolt on when he visits uncle on tuesday to come up with a clear timetable for troop withdrawal. of the year's e.-d. community has also called on the us not to withdraw troops from syria the free is

foundation has warned him if american forces leave before isolates defeated the armed group will make it come back around three thousand you see these were killed when i saw fighters swept up. cross northern iraq and syria in twenty four. israeli government officials have expressed alarm that the pullout of u.s. troops will embolden iran to expand its influence in syria you're see mechelle bag is a professor in international relations at regent university in london he says u.s. strategy in the middle east is confused the message use is completely incoherent on the one hand the united states and top and ministration talk about more pressure on iran visa v the nuclear issue while the main concern for weezer the real concern is and is actually having iran too close to the ball there whether in syria or poxy by the bala and even directs now will supply off weapon in ammunition on the huge

scale to the burner so what is the message more pressure on iran less pressure when are is around is a major threat to stability in the milk and interests of the region or we owe it is not and this what if if there is waiting in these other allies in the region to a coherent message just started to form from washington on the day they don't find it and we've the expectations that iran actually when president tom say it doesn't mind if iran will do whatever it wants in syria that's obviously the kind of message that these are the government is afraid of. then comes the contradictory message that came also tells you that washington wouldn't mind if israel would operate but freely in syria but then it will lead for clash with russia that's unhappy about it especially since the downing of the planes in september so actually what it in violence is further clashing in its creates the the regional disability in this sense way less stable. an egyptian police officer has died what

died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo police were called to the eastern suburb of nasr city when a suspicious package was found on a rooftop to other officers and an onlooker were injured in the blast it comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas gyptian christians have been targeted in a string of attacks in recent years adelia family is associate professor of political science at long island university she says there are often more attacks in egypt around the holiday season. unfortunately seen a pattern of targeting 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 claims 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 is turning see an uptick and targeting of civilians

we look at the pattern of terrorist behavior they start with attacking the state or symbols of the state security apparatus with the police and in egypt that's what inspired it and not just a terrorist organization that folded into ice all started doing back in two thousand and thirteen they then ask 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 we whiled state they've then escalated that to now attacking civilian and one terrorist here 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 claimed credit but we do know is that during the how the series 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 just chill society but attack to stay on. the orthodox church of ukraine has officially split from its religious leadership in russia the ecumenical patriarch in istanbul the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence the break marks a deepening religious divide that comes from political hostilities between russia and ukraine rob math and reports. for the simple sweep of a pen ukraine's orthodox churches gain their independence or. to suffer that a move likely to infuriate two russian religious leaders and deepening feeds of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author talks church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes 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 to centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia branch but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to sever ties since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea and twenty fourteen when large parts of eastern ukraine were taken over by russian backed forces and for fighting continues. cranes.