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 paratus. the orthodox church in ukraine has officially split from its leadership in russia the ecumenical patriarch instead of all the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence robin mattson reports. with a simple sweep of the pan ukraine's orthodox churches 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 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 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 and 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 of beat 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 train. the author talks christmas scene a celebration is to be held in kiev the following day a celebration the church as leaders in russia may not share but matheson are dizzy . all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back as techie moves to stop millions of tonnes of plastic waste ending up in our oceans find out why some people are not happy. and from bombs to bottles the former hong kong military bunker now storing some of the world's finest wines. hello again and welcome back well we are watching

a storm system here across the levant over the next few days is going to cause a few problems notice the clouds are here coming across parts of central iraq here's your forecast map on sunday you can see where those showers and snow areas are right there where baghdad's going to be seeing a mostly cloudy day in one thousand degrees but as we go towards monday that system makes its way down here towards the southeast and it will be passing quite close to parts of kuwait city where we are expecting to see seem rain up here towards iran though it could be snow in the higher elevations and we're also watching what is happening out here towards the west very heavy rain continues for syria parts of lebanon as well as into jordan over the next few days well for the gulf not looking too bad for most areas actually temperatures are going to be on the rise here in doha twenty four degrees is our expected high as we end the day here on sunday but by the time we go towards monday it is going to go up to about twenty six over towards twenty seven and not looking too bad for down here to a slow with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly we are looking at

some very heavy rain across parts of madagascar over the next few days the forecast map all along the east coast is green showing very heavy rain there and as we go towards monday the increase and flooding risk continues for them. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water is a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. wrong on anybody as the only fields. people who see every two years something to the best of profit of the one dollar. to the last drop on al-jazeera.

and again you're watching ideas in a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. government shutdown is dragging into its fifteenth day with another round of talks failing to break the deadlock president donald trump tweeted there wasn't no headway made for vice president mike pence says the meeting with democrat members was productive. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned the syrian government the withdrawal of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons preparing to meet israeli and turkish leaders about trump's decision to pull out roughly two thousand u.s. soldiers from syria. early results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed a week announcement was expected on sunday but fewer than half the votes have been counted. the u.n.

special envoy is back in yemen to try to convince both sides in the war to fully comply with a cease fire agreement that is hoped the warring sides will agree to meet later this month possibly in kuwait qatar lopez hold 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 agreed 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 life saving treatments one of the many consequences of the ongoing war. we would like to tell the world that they are those who are besieging us in saunas and in the rest of the provinces 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 leaves 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 of far cry from the expectations of a cease fire agreement signed in sweden on december eighteenth so. this is a low 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 the 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 and reports despite

a. yes 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 xcel yemeni president abdullah rubble months to hadi the u.s. secretary of state might pump ale a 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 oh another attempt to enforce and ultimately save a fragile cease fire with lingering optimism that both sides will comply. al-jazeera. the union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests as anger rises over labor reforms a new law will boost the amount of time employers can demand payment or

a challenge or force. 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 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 got into power and corruption to pseudo democracy and everything else mentioned at the protests the government doesn't represent the 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 big 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 are more galvanized than they have been in years not all hungry ariens like were picked or is taking his country . al-jazeera. bureau chief at the washington post says he doesn't believe the protests are a threat to victor or bans 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 restricted strike law that makes it very difficult for being in to carry out wide 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 the government has a lot of tools in its arsenal be it 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 the president was quite peaceful there was not any violence

today and in recent weeks there has 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 dormant government has tried to have a light touch not resort to brute force tactics when it comes to suppressing dissent in hungary they have other tactics they're more subtle in sleeker ways of suppressing dissent but i think that is a question going into the coming months and. you know are we headed for a clash here and if this government going to be forced to use some heavier handed tactics than the kind that it typically uses. a french ministers have held an emergency meeting after the first yellow vests protests of the new year turned violent but. police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in central paris the protests began in opposition to a rise in fuel tax but are now calling for other reforms in serbia thousands of

protesters have rallied for a fifth week there demanding media freedom and an end to attacks on journalists and opposition figures the rallies were triggered by an assault on an opposition politician by our known attackers in november. a turkey has introduced a charge on single use plastic bags in an attempt to clean up the mediterranean sea its waters are polluted with thousands of tonnes of plastic every year the manufacturers say the tens of thousands of jobs are now at risk so now because salu has more from istanbul. like many countries 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 it refired fish has my for 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 plastic facts are the first target. from now on shoppers will have to buy plastic bags shops called given the way face a fine farmer's market traders around sure have the new law will work it would cost too much for a customer how would we charge them everybody now 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 my mental state. 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. turkey current the recycles thirty percent of its plastic waste within the next twelve years the government says it is aiming for one hundred percent c namco solo al-jazeera a stumble of foreign military bunker in hong kong played

a crucial role in world war two has been given a new purpose instead of bullets and bombs it is now home to some of the world's finest wines sarah clarke went 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 outlasted big hong kong by two days it's a network of underground bunkers it's but i mean ition 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 they'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 time

twenty four hour surveillance the auction is subbies regards hong kong as the wine capital of asia it's been southern the strongest market this year with hong kong accounting for more than. huff of the company's one hundred million dollar global wine. some would argue that it's actually the one top of the world at the moment over the last ten fifteen years without doubt it's probably been the biggest congregation of point one collectors and boy is by hong kong a name sort of great to china back in the bunker it's not just about the value of vintage wines the release of war have turned it into a working memorial to hong kong's past syria clock al-jazeera hong kong. this is al-jazeera it's going to round up of the top stories the u.s. government shutdown is dragging into its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock white house officials met with

congressional democrats but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government diane estabrook has more from washington vice president mike pence jarrett questionnaire of the president's son in law and close advisor and kiersten 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 treat. u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned the asset government the withdrawal of american troops from syria is not a green light to use chemical weapons bolton is preparing to meet israeli and

turkish leaders about trump's decision to pull out roughly two thousand u.s. soldiers. early results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed a week an announcement was expected on sunday but fewer than half the votes have been counted and egyptian policeman has dire while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo it was found on a rooftop in the eastern suburb of nasr city two other officers and an onlooker were injured when the device went off comes less than two days before egypt's christian community celebrates the coptic christmas union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests over a new labor law last month the government introduced what's being called the slave law increases the number of extra hours employers can demand while delaying overtime payments french ministers have held an emergency meeting after the first yellow vests protests of the new year turned violent police fired tear gas to

disperse demonstrators in central paris protests began eight weeks ago in opposition to a rise in fuel tax but now include wider demands for government reforms those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's people in power. 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 france at a profit warning from apple. counting the cost on al-jazeera. it's become one of the defining themes of all times a tidal wave of humanity in search of sanctuary from repression poverty in recent years millions have taken to the road in 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 in power a special report where telling one such story to syrian refugees trying against all the olds 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 trail finding a smuggler to take them back into the e.u. . and. then there's 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. every . year. and have to. go. in and see him. in the interim. obviously dart seen here with the red hat is this smuggler. sat back. and. internet. n.

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make their own way past the guards and then pick them up on the other side. forty minutes later and on foot again they make a dash across the border to the clearing where they've been told to wait and i've been in a 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.

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