nearly thirty nine into a lot of people we didn't vote for and he trying to unify the country you've reached out to people like martin why you say our willing to work with you let's work together let's move this country forward of course he was so it'll be the way to be whether you want to get to olive branch of the cumin can work together side by side ok many thanks for bringing us up to date with events there in kinshasa now venezuela's president is vowing during his second term to correct what he calls deep mistakes because maduro has been sworn in for another six years thirteen american countries are refusing to recognize his presidency which many condemn as a dictatorship that dirk uses the u.s. of waging war against venezuelans as suffering hyperinflation and food shortages and many have slowed causing latin america's biggest ever migration crisis. germans officially registered as jews catholics and protestants have for decades been required to pay what's called

a church or worship tax the money is then given to the relevant faiths now one leading question democrat politicians as muslims should be brought into this arrangement to free them from the influence of foreign states dominic casey explains. there. this is the rush to go to a mosque in berlin one of the newest and considered by some to be one of the most liberal in germany from the outset the emphasis here has been on inclusion driven by its founder syrian artist her decision to allow men and women to worship here together polarizes opinion now she says she wants the muslim community to help itself by agreeing to pay to finance itself. the time for a kind of mosque tax is long overdue the most communities in germany and in europe must become independent from the so called countries of origin and thinking about it gave me the idea of saying communities should finance themselves and that can be

done through a kind of mosque attacks and in this way it makes me think of one of the five pillars of islam zach at. but that view is not universally shared among muslims here many believe the suggestion is counterproductive but in dutch and finance and in germany the mosques already finance themselves there are a few that used foreign money to build and finance the purchase but that's a handful ninety nine percent are funded by membership fees and donations so if you bring the model of the mosque tax then you once again take the tax from muslims themselves. the idea of taxing religious worship is not new in germany for many years the jewish catholic and protestant faiths have accepted some form of levy or tax the person a dental fires as a christian and once their income tax bill has been worked out a further proportion is deducted and given to their chosen faith to disperse as it sees fit in the political sphere the idea of a mosque tax appeals to many christian democrats for two reasons sealant in talk or

didn't just in court on the one hand it's so the growing muslim community in germany gets a stronger domestic connection aligns itself with german society a makes a contribution to integration and on the other hand it so the influence of foreign donors can be resisted lies mosques funded by foreign states or individuals have been growing in number in recent years many conservative politicians here have raised concerns over the role of the turkish government and of some of the gulf states the idea of a mosque tax has been raised here in germany the four but nothing substantial has really come of it the question now is how much the port amongst muslims there would be for such a plan and what would a wider society make of it dominick cain al-jazeera it would rush to get a mosque in berlin. on. stranglehold on old glory.

ok all this for now and his pizza all right thank you very much andy murray says the australian open could be he's lost professional tennis tournament a three time major champion and former world number one was emotional while announcing his retirement in melbourne joanna guys are off school reports. from the moment andy murray walked in to face the price in melbourne his distress was clear his spirit broken because of his injured hip which hasn't healed well and fed up of

this of a pain he just can't take anymore murray admitted next week's australian open could be his last professional tournament i can't keep doing this and. the i needed to have like an end point. because. i was sort of just just playing with no idea where this or that the pain was going to penn was going to start. and i felt like. making that decision you know it sets might seem like i think i can tend to get through this and i will and so wimbledon that is where the light. that that's where i would like to stop stop playing. but i'm also not certain i'm able to do that.

the former world number one had surgery on his right hip a year ago but only managed to play in six tournament last season he's a shadow of the player who won two wimbledon titles the u.s. open and lympics singles gold in rio just three years ago fellow professionals have sympathy for him if he is unable to retire on his own terms and is force retired i think that that's something that no athlete wants to wants to be put through so i think everyone has a lot of compassion lot of yeah a lot of other sadness for the thirty one year old scott is considering more surgery which he says might trade him for the pain the reason for so having an operation like that is not to return to professional sport. you know it's just for for

a better quality of life while his painful hip might get better the mental scars will take longer to heal joining al-jazeera us police are vastly telling authorities for a d.n.a. sample from portuguese football star cristiana ronaldo the thirty three year old the noise assaulting catherine at a las vegas hotel in two thousand and nine dollars lawyer says the d.n.a. request is standard for the place for your interest in the italian league which is resuming after a mid-season break. your. article is yahoo's case is a private matter i only talk about football so i only reply to how i see ronaldo christiane who is very calm he trained very well and returned rested as did all the others who needed a break after four intense and tense months now we need to get ready for the most important part of the season with the defending champions australia are back on

target to make the knockout stages and football's asian cup they've eclipse to palestine three nil for their first win of the tournaments croupy leaders jordan have already qualified for the last sixteen the first of two groups the matches kicked off about twenty minutes ago it's no no between the philippines and china later kyrgyzstan confronts south korea the president of japan's a limpy committee is being investigated for corruption linked to next year's games in tokyo france's financial crimes office is looking into two next who is an i.o.c. member as well prosecutors are investigating sports corruption including the bidding contest for the twenty twenty alum picks to cater has previously denied any wrongdoing. cutter's to time that corelli champion is still on top in this year's race after winning the fourth stage took the overall lead on the previous day in the peruvian desert and by winning thursday's fourth stage strengthen these place

at the top of the standings leads another former dacor champion francis stephan pets a handful who also happened to finish second in the stage. pakistan are fighting back on day one of the third and final cricket test against other african johannesburg opener aiden markram hit a quick ninety up front but the tourists have taken a few quick wickets to keep themselves in the game of south africans are two hundred forty four five and they lead the series to nil. and new zealand defeated sri lanka by thirty five runs in their only national good lower order batting help the black caps post one hundred seventy nine for seven before the sri lankans were dismissed for one hundred m. forty four a team out of africa aiming to challenge european dominance in handball france abutting for a hat trick of titles at the world championships in germany and denmark no country outside europe have ever won gold but i'm going to want to loosen that grip reports from copenhagen. the balance of power in handball has been set in stone for

decades. but chipping away at it is a new force in african sport. angola competing at their fourth world championships since a very sudden arrival on the international stage. qualified for their first world championships in two thousand and five just three years after the end of decades long civil war fourteen years later that the only sub-saharan stick breaking the stranglehold egypt algeria and tunisia in african qualifying. what. it's through the civil war affected sports a lot in and because there was no comfort to do sports so as peace settled we got to take a step forward going outside taking part in african tour limits and qualifying to world wide tournament. first held in one nine hundred thirty eight the world

championships have been dominated by europe with just an occasional challenge from north africa defending champions france hold the record with six titles while cats are the only non europeans ever to win a medal albeit with a team of international all-stars. i'm golas emergence is home grown they're all angolan a nearly all play the young goalie. well it's important to have athletes who are one hundred percent and goal and we are not apologists we have never sought players in other nations the angolan people are hardworking and fierce we are few but we try to work with the few we have to make them strong and get results. world championship glory is unlikely to come and go as way just yet they're still catching up with tunisia and egypt both of whom have finished fourth in past tournament's. a repeat of votes would be

a big task for any of the africans in a sport that is only slowly getting a grip outside europe. pull race al-jazeera copenhagen. ok most forward with. during news we had in the fifteen hundred g.m.t. on but that's all i have to say for now ok we'll be back after that they went back . and you can find much more on our website they address al-jazeera dot com that's it for the news and i will be back and just a moment another full of these for you. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word algebra we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent falls to the speed of sound they gave us the final building block

find they discovered it many people taunt is a story science from a golden age with. al-jazeera al-jazeera as their what a story breaks but also to see what happens next iteration on the wired budget where mobile. barricaded all seven streets that lead to here the middle east now is what about change people have gone hostile here the area the mission of the national army is to search the entire complex and i'll just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. russian filmmaker. travels across his homeland to discover what life is like on two putin the russian economy is in crisis tank unstable oil prices a fluctuation cards off of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge now economists calculate everything we don't want to think

what will happen when the bank takes away our flags. in search of putin's russia. and london put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. after weeks of the u.s. military says it has begun pulling out his forces from syria.

hello again i'm sure this is. also coming up the runoff. election says he will mount a court challenge. gas to disperse protesters as thousands take to the streets of president ever al bashir to step down. a man miles high court rejects an appeal by two voices journalist jailed for breaking the official secrets act. the u.s. military says it has begun pulling out its troops from syria coalition's bytes from the refuse to unveil any further details such as the location and a timeline for the two thousand soldiers withdrawal. is in the region to reassure allies following donald trump surprise announcement will three weeks ago he says

the pullout what intended the ongoing fight against. of war that's cause lived and she's in washington d.c. for us and rose has been a lot of unclear messages on this withdrawal now it seems to be happening but it's still shrouded in secrecy. well or the sensibly that would be because the u.s. military wants to protect its some two thousand troops who have been in the country working out of seven forward operating bases for the better part of the last three and a half years most of the military operations have been in the form of airstrikes but there have been some u.s. forces and these are the two thousand people we're talking about who have been on the ground providing training and intelligence support to local syrian and kurdish fighters who have really been the ones to go after eisel partisans in the northern and eastern parts of the country in a bid to establish a caliphate now the u.s.

military presence was never sanctioned by the central government in damascus which of course has been embroiled in a civil war and but there really wasn't much if anything that president bashar al assad could do about it again because his forces were very much embroiled in the civil war against those who wanted to depose him so they don't want to put these u.s. troops in any particular danger and that may be why we're not getting any more information about what this pullout from syria actually looks like now it is important to note that as you said the secretary of state my qualm peo is in the region he gave a speech in cairo on thursday and he did say that even though the president wants u.s. forces out of syria that does not mean that the war against eisel is over in fact mr pompei you made a point of stressing that the combined task force that's going to be in charge of

the global coalition against eisel will continue to carry out air strikes inside syria inside iraq and anywhere else for that matter if they believe that they have credible information that partisans are trying to reestablish what they call their caliphate ok. and washington thanks very much. is live. in northern syria and the u.s. might be withdrawing its troops but the turks are preparing for a new offensive in northern syria what's the latest on that front. well laura turkey is simply is almost has almost completed more than seventy percent of the necessary perforations for the lands military offensive it's a member who is soon side of the euphrates river but of course the spike the military is ready and is actually waiting for

a political call to begin this operation there are challenges on the ground because turkey also needs a purse weight the kurds in inside syria that's why ankara has been holding talks with syria with the kurdish and tribal leaders and opinion leaders of course another challenge is the threat from the few i decided that because they have been saying that if turkey attacks they will be releasing that they will be releasing one thousand one hundred are still prisoners that they have. as a as a hostage and this is actually not welcomed by turkey turkey believes that the united states should be dealing with this should be dealing with the why fiji and this horse should gather how life used to be and how hard life is you know once arsenal to the whole city of bob. the voices of innocent. children playing amidst the complex.

these innocent lives are given a chance at life in a one size all controlled city well bob that was them rated by the turkish backed free syrian army after say two years ago. kennedy said today they would have done before their dream was to carry guns like fighters because they were afraid now they want to become a teacher an engineer like regular children or a police officer to protect their country. located thirty kilometers south of his supporters turkey regards el bob as a gate to its security after i saw was pushed out the turkish military now protects the local population. with the city becoming a sanctuary for internally displaced its population has increased to iran three hundred thousand people the local council begin distributing id cards in july at least sixty thousand residents have received them over crowding makes it more difficult to establish control and keep records local officials say there is in

what you know when i still controlled here it first target to toe spittles schools i should leave in your civilians as a human shield during the liberation operations people lived in fear until they saw that they had an alternative us think god they revived and we saw the smile on our people's faces. doctors here say local people trying to beat the also by having more children at this thirty babies are born every day. however life still holds many challenges for them people here and so i live as normal lives as possible but life has become more expensive here it's time to work it's nearly loses value i guess u.s. dollars the local businessman raise their prices and this makes it much harder for people especially those living in refugee camps and so the problem here is everyone got used to consuming you can the public service workers i hope people soon begin

to produce them looking for their own interests or waiting for aid boxes. some say nothing much has changed for them after i still left. well yes i still work a lot even sometimes until one am to earn my living and surviving not enough but i can't beg for money i have children to feel despite the services provided and a relatively secure environment and such unity continues to move many of them wish to go back to their homes and are hoping an expected turkish led military offensive in the free cheese river may make that dream become a reality seen on al-jazeera northern syria. state my parents been holding talks in bahrain on the latest stop of his aids day middle east tour here at the king and foreign minister in the capsule men are also in the gulf pompei will be promoting a plan for a new military alliance against iran there in cairo the top u.s. diplomat allies to contain the han's influence in the region. the runner up in the

democratic republic of congo's presidential election says he's going to appeal the results. and says he won more than sixty percent of the votes in the last months hole his rival took eighteen percent citing figures from catholic church observers who challenged the provisional outcome which put. in the leads. to whom he joins us from. do we know what is going to do now. while he mightn't begins from his own tele and from the tele from the catholic church what he's going to do is he's going to go to court by the morning saturday morning sorry getting in just that he's going to have to rethink the evidence and try to explain how he got these numbers to have anything to my decide whether his case of marital not to say that he has no marriage he has no case they were in officially declared the cavy at the president and he will be sworn in on january

eighteenth how independence all the courts in the democratic republic of congo. will opposition leaders generally don't really have much say in the courts if they if the process they have to follow and they do have to follow the constitution if anyone is unhappy with the victims up it must take them out of court but that might be a that some of the judges may be aligned to the ruling party. officials as well within the government and with the structures. some of them but nevertheless under extreme amount of pressure to prove they are independent so i think white is going to try his luck at the court and he could work if it doesn't then we'll hear from him what his next back will be what he would do in terms of trying to overturn this election result that time is running up because. it will take place on january eighth rise in the meantime what's the mood there on the streets of we've seen many protests in

the wake of this result. there were some protests today in some parts of the country but kinshasa has been generally quiet is the day people have gotten back to work it is the usual people of course worried about what the next few days are going to look like for example op people going to come on the street and if the court throws. out we're hearing from western countries some of them who aren't happy with or without the feel that. we're not hearing that much from african countries in fact most of them i think that if by uli is not happy with the result you must go to court which you know you will do on saturday when the question is how will the judges decide what will be in the favor of all the through the case out of any one to watch very closely thanks very much for the update. now sudanese security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protests is now the latest in weeks of demonstrations calling for president omar al bashir to resign but morgan has the latest from khartoum once

again i've seen people come out after friday prayers today to protest against president obama in the shoes twenty nine year old now they've been chanting slogans like downfall of the regime and they've been calling for change and this has been happening for three weeks now now the government has been condemned for using what has been termed as brutal excessive force on wednesday when people came out to protest the police responded using tear gas and live ammunition three people were killed in the process and today once again the police used tear gas to try to disperse the crowd but the protesters have been very defiant they say that they will not stop doing street on the streets and tell president obama to bashir steps down now the rights groups have come out and said at least forty people have been killed since of course as began on december nineteenth the government is disputing that figure and they're saying that twenty two people have been killed while over one hundred eight hundred have been arrested a lot of people have also been missing since the protests began and there are concerns about their safety and well being from relatives and from rights groups they're saying that there are concerns that the government would use torture to try to get these people.