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 lifesaving treatments one of the many consequences of the ongoing war like a national leader. we would like to tell the world that they are those who are besieging us and saunas in the rest of the provinces that they are those who are vent ours 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 as at least sixteen people were injured by who they are tillery 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 so i was there this is a was in the port city of the 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 yemenis on the brink of famine. after yemen griffith's plans to visit. saudi arabia to meet with xcel 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 katia llopis will yun al-jazeera still ahead here on al-jazeera unexpected backing for brics it will tell you i want to london's most multicultural neighborhoods wants to leave the european union. and they were once used as bomb shelters during world war two show you what they become today. from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze.

that has been a huge amount of snow over central europe over this weekend i'm talking meters not centimeters here at the northerly wind is still blowing is not as much cloud and you know it's still as cold as more snow to come i think for some injuries in germany so bavaria and across the tirol is well into austria now it's not just these two places but that's where the avalanche risk is also at its highest and you can see of the next well over towards really there's more snow to come here little elsewhere but the cold is maintained turkey though and ukraine would also get a huge jump a stone out further west it's just as cold there's not much going on in the sky it's about where it should be for winter so the activity then is over land largely but the cold air does spread down of the central med generates big showers thunderstorms quite massive ones i wouldn't be told surprised to see in greece and cyprus for example there's more rain for the coast of turkey there's more rain hitting north africa at libya and probably egypt as well look at the ten. sure

regime we're talking about middle teens is below where it should be it's a cold wind benghazi won't be very nice place to be weather wise and then there's a huge gap of course i wouldn't pick up much in the way of shasta the whole of tropical africa as you can see want to maybe as far west as goneril beyond otherwise enjoy the sunshine. the weather sponsored by cateye race. president discusses his hopes for the country and the region and challenges including poverty migration corruption and the case of julian assange. lenin merino talks to al jazeera.

welcome back here with out to zero live from doha my name's peter dhabi your headlines results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed by one week an announcement was expected on sunday but fewer than half the votes being counted so far. no breakthrough in the partial u.s. government shutdown after talks between sunni democrats and administration officials president trump on twitter saying there was no headway being made but his vice president mike pence says the meeting was quote productive as he is and will continue on sunday. the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths is back in yemen trying to convince both sides in the war to fully comply with the cease fire agreement they're accusing each other of violating the for us. an egyptian police officers being kid killed while trying

to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo two other officers and a civilian nearby were injured when the device exploded it comes days before egypt's christian minority celebrate the coptic christmas egyptian christians have been targeted in a number of attacks in recent years that if army is a source. a professor of political science at long island university she says there have been more time to enjoy the holiday season. unfortunately seen a pattern of targeting trichet is 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 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 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

and surveyed them 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 were wild state they then escalated that are now attacking civilian and one terrorist groups begin to 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 the 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 but i just chill society but attacked. a bomb blast has injured at least three policemen in the

afghan capital kabul they've been taken to a hospital that no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. brazil's new government has deployed troops to the northern city of fortaleza to count a spike in violent crime nearly eighty incidents were reported this week across the state of sierra including robberies gun attacks and buildings being set on fire reports suggest that drugs gangs were responding to tough new measures inside the prisons president has promised to have a crackdown on crime. the new leader of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly is promising to challenge president nicolas maduro when he's sworn in for a second next week sean. says my daughter is an illegitimate leader because opposition candidates were barred from contesting the elections last may on saturday twelve latin american countries and canada. but they won't recognize this new government. britain's prime minister series amaze critics are putting democracy

at risk if they can't unite behind a deal m.p.'s as you say vote on her agreement to levy you next week but while westminster remains divided there is an unexpected surge of support from one of london's multicultural neighborhoods or insley explains. this part of south london is home to people from all over the world afghans sell fruits and vegetables to eastern europeans and africans who rub along perfectly happily with british people who have lived here for generations you might assume this multicultural pockets of the capital is entirely against a brick say it's often portrayed as a defense of whites britain but not so for this nigerian restaurant there is a quiet satisfaction at the prospect of the u.k. cutting its ties with europe and starting to pay more attention to its historical friends in the commonwealth this they struggle for the right to stay in the u.k. while e.u. citizens don't and they think it isn't fair so most of them voted leave before

because we see bridges in this in your rights to leave iraq in after we go and swear allegiance to the queen chainman naturalized in mad nationality to the community which is a lot of money well when people come from europe to come to the country today is that this is them they don't need to go to india national now and then because their countries part of europe the after that everything and we as a whole in pensacola i feel cheated i feel jealous about average africa like. africa i'm british gladney word for breakfast because i know not because i've anything against the rupee and why it would give us this leverage in terms of treatment opportunity are walking. governments has already tried to indicate its support for the commonwealth the prime minister visited by. kenya and nigeria last may in london the africa next patch it looked all of this

enthusiastically britain. from nigeria especially. going to talk more than i do know they believe they're somewhere from was there in a lot of you know thing investments in nigeria and cutting their money from an idea on a daily basis so they have to return something back to us. it is perhaps an open question what some hard call backs it is make of the support for their cause from black people after all some of the people on this rally in london carried white supremacist flags and hold openly racist opinions the nigerians in london level this but they don't see board ever since the referendum nearly two and a half years ago polling organizations have tried as hard as they can to understand the voting intentions of almost every demographic but for all that the idea that people from commonwealth countries like nigeria might have voted in large numbers to leave the european union is still an almost entirely untold story and one which

may have had a bigger affects on the outcome of the referendum than has previously been understood. there are of course economic arguments that future british trading arrangements with the commonwealth wouldn't be anything like as lucrative for the u.k. as remaining in the e.u. but much of brics it is about emotion and not facts the idea of a rebooted british commonwealth has many supporters here horsley al-jazeera in south london. union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike and more protest of a controversial labor reforms last month the government introduced what's being called the slave law it increases the amount of extra hours employers can demand while delaying overtime payments. in neighboring serbia thousands of anti-government protesters rallied for a fifth week 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 unknown attackers in november. french ministers have held an

emergency meeting after the first yellow vest protests of the new year turned violent the. police fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators in central paris on saturday at least fifty thousand people rallied in cities nationwide that's well below the numbers first seen in the movement began two months ago. for the first time since the dakar rally switch continents to south america the race is to be held in just one country peru's government has invested millions of dollars in the event and is now hoping for a financial as well as a sporting payback mariana sanchez reports from lima. furrowing mountains riding along beaches or through the moving dunes of the deck a rally launches a new edition 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 and it gives us the opportunity to promote tourism in the country between face that nearly six million dollars to hold the competition here but the government says the images of 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 rallies development leaves us sixty million dollars in consumption of goods and services and there's a lot of spending from people along the rally's road merely five hundred drivers and riders will mean i. think mainly on the father 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 in danger priceless heritage the government says it's mapped out forty four archaeological sites and eco systems to protect our park rangers and archaeologists will guard these areas see an ellipsoid even though you try to keep far away from evidently cultural areas you can't 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 the imposed limits thousands of peruvians are expected to follow the drivers along the way experts say these spectators could become the main threat to the ancient sites during a much loved and much criticised competition by the n.s.a. just like to see that. thousands of families have lined the streets of madrid to catch a glimpse of the annual three kings parade floats carrying the kings that the procession through the spanish capital on saturday the celebration marks the christian festival of the performing which many spanish consider more important than christmas sweets thrown into the crowds represent gifts bought by the biblical

three wise men to choose. a former military banker in hong kong that played a crucial role in world war two has been given a new lease of life instead of bullets and bombs it's now home to some of the world's best wines so a clock explains. 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 sides we actually lost until the twenty seventh of december nine hundred forty one so we always like to joke it's a little hong kong outlaws the 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 a cool dark bunker is 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 bunker's was so sensitive lee restored they want to unesco heritage awards 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 this site possibly one thousand and twenty four hours of violence 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. half of the company's one hundred million dollar global wine sales some would argue it 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 a 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 sirrah clark al-jazeera hong kong. recapping our top story so far here on al-jazeera report results from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election have been delayed by

a week what was expected on sunday but fewer than half the votes have been counted so far the u.s. president is due to hold a meeting with senior staff at camp david on sunday as the partial government shutdown enters its sixteenth day white house officials that senior democratic congressional members on saturday but still haven't found a way to break the deadlock dynasty brooke has more now from washington. vice president mike pence jared 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 trying 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 advisers in israel on a two day visit and it is due to meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the coming hours john bolton is expected to address israeli concerns over there was for all of us troops from syria there are worries that it will allow greater iranian influence bolton will then head for ankara turkey has promised to take the lead in the fight against arsenal in syria but it reportedly wants u.s. military support to continue even after the troops pull out the un special envoy martin griffiths is back in yemen trying to convince both sides in the water fully complying with the recently agreed cease fire record they're accusing each other of violating the truce. brazil's new government has deployed troops to the northern city of four to let's take on a spike in bile and crime there nearly eighty incidents were reported this week across the states have set off union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike and more protests over controversial labor reforms last month the

government introduced what's being called the slave law it increases the amount of extra hours employers can demand while delaying overtime payments those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after talk to al-jazeera. about. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank one of one east investigates how cyber hackers infiltrated the global banking system. on al-jazeera. network. ecuador like other latin american countries faces many challenges including poverty migration and corruption ecuadorians trusted lenin merino to be the man who would meet those challenges and make their country a better place he became president in twenty seventeen after rafael correa had governed for ten years korea along with chavez in venezuela and abel morales in

bolivia was a self declared revolutionary aiming to spread a populist rhetoric in the continent and beyond but he was accused of authoritarianism media censorship and corruption and eventually ecuadorians did vote for change lenin merino promised more centrist policies giving the right hand to all honest businessman he said willing to help boost the country's economy and the left hand to the people who need better social welfare with almost a quarter of all ecuadorians classified as poor and almost one in ten living in extreme poverty on less than fifty dollars a month his merino managing to make a difference to find out more as president merino discusses his hopes for ecuador and the region will also discuss the controversial case of julian i saw nj the wiki leaks founder who spent the past five years living inside the ecuadorian embassy in london is he a criminal or a hero then in marino president of ecuador talks to al-jazeera.

mr president welcome to talk to al-jazeera are you taking your country from the left politically to the right the seven your p.o.v. the. history or morsi. the even the sushi. bookie if you live here. will give us the money to. egypt to meet people from the rich or beautiful people or the skewed because we will hillary will she must be queen. of the people. by the sea those of us will be others of this place shaping ideology is all well and good but that sounds like a very long term prospect the reality is just according to the word but world bank

twenty five percent of ecuadorians are classified as being poor ten percent of your countrymen according to the united nations live off forty seven dollars a month that's a staggering figure. why is your trickle down the consequences of what you're trying to do not being felt yet. if you believe. the illiterate but the with blue shield deep blue sea and will be until is because he. was a little percent. organic. he's really good only for the police. because when the. when the police beat or. he. beers.

in the key. lay there in the a case of physical discipline the killers in police think it was the response if you haven't been pursued with. it was over it was purchased from them the one the discipline the people who see in the lobby who are. the little bitty t.v.'s builds what does employment responsibility really mean for the people that voted you into office you've got a six billion dollars deficit your four billion dollars in debt your country is to pocket the chuen of ten billion dollars it's got a history of claims of corruption how do you turn that broad concept into real jobs for real people. it will.

supposedly look at the other party's use of if you. get in with. if you don't believe in the pocketbook. the. only for a minute. with the appeals. to your predecessor wanted to fast track development he borrowed billions and billions of dollars from the chinese those debts are coming gee you overdraft at the big bank is going to get worse you haven't got the money coming in to service your debts how do you get out of that debt trap. people. look at people. with. a. with the. give.

to their. he leaves. he will see in the existence of one can't have a conversation with yourself. you sit down permanently you're in a wheelchair does that has it colored who you are as a politician you've been nominated for a nobel prize you've got four hundred thousand people registered as being less well able or disabled in your country has that changed you as a politician has it made you a better politician. he. didn't think when he. gave he. needed them a little. bit of those principles if you. will

for the fitting to sit up us to let the. evil spaces prevail if he even. reaches us a little to reach a little space with us. if you look at the bigger picture. this is he goes. to be. in that is. if it's believed to closely it'll be david peace because beneath us of the book that he was going to beat the breach of that has really worked it was that means let's move on to another area for which a country is known if anyone says the name ecuador through a european lens through an american lens a north american lens an australasian lens they probably come up with another name julian a song he's been in your embassy for almost six years now do you want him gone

most useful do. to reach those who say you have a sense. he lives in sort of the most bitter ritual you see of us as for the victim when the. leader is. the. absolutely. he is a euro cents for the illegal stuff he. only got in this area in opposition of either illegally telling. it with us because the tissue is no political persona. the leader. he must. have seen it already present the. leaders of the us want to see us as a civil proceeding is police work a move to see when to a. particular conceiving. of but obviously.

it will correspond the committee looking into the me personally thirty serial must completely bottles. having said you've received assurances from somebody in the british government could you share with me who that might be when the heli settles the most. because people tend to caylee killed. it's the. it was not as. if the little it'll be little. silver beach movie and we've assumed because. that is the usual sense in your mind what is it about julian a song because his supporters in london when one talks to them as i don't often they pitch him as if he's being held against his will he's never been held against his will he's always been free to walk out of the building whenever he felt like it

in the past six years so for you what is it about him that keeps him in your embassy with the equal of the c.e.o. we've got it up with us you use the tools available to speak with you here she is with us a little personally and sort of it was a brutal but. it will. see it will be with people who will is from the police your listeners could be going to be. it will be. sally is police who couldn't little to remove the percent. of. people. would you be prepared or would you have been prepared to do some sort of deal with poll man a fort. he is as we know who he is was very very close to donald trump and that there's no question of donald trump having been in the loop on this you're smiling so you know where i'm going with this question you had two meetings with

poor man a fort and apparently poor man a fourth said to you he could facilitate a situation where julia song leaves the embassy in london it's a soft landing in the united states and you were reportedly allegedly heading towards some sort of situation to do with debt relief. the key to the nicky movie or book for the live loses in less is that believe this is it to see it on the availability of this. persona he said. sylvie office is a little crazy pursuing this purpose of political history to use your mother for food though this was. the. least that she was supposed to mean. it completely relieved. you.

because with little to shoot with the un in the us. to speak of is to receive a lesser euro it would have been nice if the viewer is the whether he is perceived as a mere irrelevance who is with us here. to the theme of the pursuit i must say to put the most us that moment did. you see of an a for. who's with us us. people of music and because you political is a legal contract to italy you being there are you prepared to force him out. he raised his kids the usual sense in. the seat of a candle you know so you have to come to the political the place is the seeds and. he will keep well clear of it he.