well outside of the border hungry families were anxiously waiting for news of the shipments. and even here in colombia venezuelans who fled their home country are hoping to receive some help not the i don't know not be said they get here we were told we could receive some food and help here but no they're saying it needs to go into venezuela amadou will not let us in let's hope he will put a hand on his heart and yield something that at least for now seems out of the question alison that i'm just you know. a weather update next year i was here at them. one of the reopening of a religious school could help end a bitter dispute between greece and turkey plus. scientists raise the alarm about climate change after one of the all best years of record.

hello there the weather is quite some today with the southeastern parts of asia at the moment there's plenty of sunshine around and just a handful of showers most of those over the southern parts of borneo through java and into somalia and i think that's the way things are going to stay as we head through the next couple of days are generally fine settled weather in the northern parts where i'm up and for the south that's where the wetter whether it's safe for some of us in borneo through into parts of java and the southern parts of somalia we'll still see some showers but in between even here they should be some good spells of sunshine now for australia here we've had some very active weather recently this is what happened in victoria you can see this huge wall of dust here that dust storm dust all right this is called a haboob and within that the visibility is quite poor the temperatures really drop and the winds are usually incredibly strong as well now they still came from this area of cloud here as it worked its way across that it also brought a cool a change for many of us as well so melbourne's maximum temp. friday will only be

around twenty three degrees of course in the northeast imposible strata we've had about terrible flooding and we've still got that area of low pressure with us but it is now beginning to move away east with that is definitely good news and by the time we get to saturday most of us here will have some dry weather so townsville should have a following day with a temperature of thirty. killed ten for many members and. the war. some. people in power i mean it's the women heading in eighteen minutes. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand. and eyes. in iraq on al-jazeera.

again this is al-jazeera a reminder of the made news this hour the u.s. president is predicting victory of i saw this early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territory previously held by the group in syria and iraq. democrats in the u.s. are planning to bring forward new legislation designed to impose stronger action against saudi arabia over the killing of the journalist tomorrow. he was murdered in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul four months ago. and the u.n. is warning against using humanitarian aid as a political tool in venezuela the u.s. says the trucks carrying supplies have arrived in neighboring colombia they were

sent there to request by them as well as self declared interim president. rescue teams in turkey have pulled thirteen survivors from the rubble of a building that collapsed in istanbul the apartment block came down on wednesday evening at least three people confirmed dead it's believed that others are still trapped in the rubble a body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which was carrying cardiff city football a million osama the plane crashed into the english channel the body has been sent to award in the u.k. for identification the plane was flying from france to cardiff. the palestinian authority has stopped paying salaries to thousands of employees in the gaza strip it affects employees loyal to hamas islamic jihad of those close to the ousted fatah leader mohammad dahlan the decision also impacts families of prisoners and wounded palestinians wages have become a symbol of a bit a power struggle between hamas with its power base and gaza and the west bank

palestinian authority led by the fatah group of ramallah. to pay wages in the was refused by the us. benjamin netanyahu could become israel's longest sitting prime minister if he wins the upcoming parliamentary election but he's facing increasing challenges from within his own party and legal troubles that include three corruption cases against him. forces reports now from west jerusalem there's also a new political contender to look out for google to do. the real benjamin netanyahu told the media magnate i just want real coverage of the israeli prime minister's public battle with the media he says of peddling fake news and cheerleading a witch hunt has led here to the launch of likud t.v. a campaign tool of his political party dressed up as a news channel nine yos relationship with the media is at the heart of two of the three corruption cases dogging his election campaign allegations he traded illicit favors for better coverage to third surrounds expensive gifts from wealthy friends

he denies the charges but an indictment decision is expected this month we're going to blockbuster decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and you hope that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including intelligence public security and culture ministers signed onto a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene could voters benjamin netanyahu legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity there is

a substantial anti netanyahu constituency among jewish israelis and fears they've been. for a viable alternative. hopes. and israel's former army chief benny gantz looking to occupy the role of centrist he's talked of strengthening settlements but also says lessons should be learned from the way israel removed settlers from gaza in the face of being called a weak leftist he's also released a campaign video claiming credit for the killing of one thousand three hundred sixty four palestinians calling them terrorists in the twenty fourteen gaza war in order for him to get really the votes you know to really challenge it and you know he's got to get some of those votes from the right so he comes as a leftist dressed in rightists clothing ok a liberal israeli dressed as a conservative hard core pro settlement israeli is pulling just behind you know who is preferred prime minister but his path to victory is narrow given the numerical

advantage of netanyahu existing coalition of right wing parties netanyahu continues to fight on multiple fronts knowing that even if he wins power once more in this election he'll have to battle on in the media and potentially in the courts to hold on to it carry forsett out west jerusalem the border hindu temple that supported a centuries old ban on women's entry has reversed its stance it says that women of childbearing age are welcome inside the. temple in the southern state of kerala the board has to abide by a supreme court order in september ruling that the ban be lifted following the ruling thousands of devotees attempts by women to visit the site. greece's prime minister has backed a long running campaigns reopen a christian theological school in mainly turkey. seventy three and istanbul was the main school of theology for the eastern orthodox church in the country until the turkish government shut it down in one nine hundred seventy one seven costello

reports from the start. is an orthodox community it celebrates the peace day of stand for the patent saint of the seminary. founded in one thousand nine hundred four on her belly of the island it served as the main school of theology of the eastern orthodox church ecumenical patriarch eight until one thousand nine hundred seventy one the seminary was closed when the turkish parliament enough to know banning primates higher education patrick bartha limo is the spiritual leader for the estimated three hundred million also talks church worshippers worldwide. when the school reopens it will be a big and happy day not only for the patriarch it's all the orthodox christian world but also for the civilisation culture and our country. alexis she presses the first greek prime minister to formally visit the school since nine hundred thirty three it's seen to be

a potential step to persuading to rethink on its closure he hopes his next visit will be with turkey's president if you believe in the film and the message we want to show today here from this historic place is that the reopening of the how to school will not constitute an object of discord or division but a message of friendship understanding and brotherhood between our peoples. a possible solution is the turkish suggestion to link the school with one of the national universities that would every day amending the constitution but the church doesn't agree. since hawkie orthodox christian theological school was shut down by the turkish government forty eight years ago there has been an international campaign to reopen it during his visit to turkey in two thousand nine hundred former us president barack obama made a call for the school to reopen to ensure religious freedom to sleepers including president says john were positive then but the school for mains closed. some tricks

a turkey's leaders should allow more religious pretty dim it is late and i come here often with my kid we live in a secular country i believe it would be right to have such a seminary in a country where religion is free but that's opposed by turkish nationalists who have leverage on the ruling government they are against the idea of reopening whether degree can turkish leadership can find common ground remains open to question c n n q so although al-jazeera paid bailout island istanbul brazil's former president luis ignacio lula da silva has been the convicted in a second corruption case he's been given another thirteen years jail time for a case involving a farmhouse and so our state court found him guilty of allowing construction firms to renovate the property in exchange for contracts with state or company progress who is already serving a twelve year prison sentence for another corruption conviction brazil's incumbent president is recovering in hospital after undergoing abdominal surgery in sao paolo

jaya boston are used social media to update followers about his condition saying that he was getting better every day that he was walking and doing breathing exercises the sixty three year old had surgery last week following an life attack on the campaign trail last year. scientists are warning of rising sea levels more droughts and more destructive hurricane to research is from two u.s. government agencies for the twenty eighteen was the fourth warmest year on record by joe castro reports. twenty eighteen was marked by natural disasters that ravaged the u.s. from coast to coast in california the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history killed more than eighty people in the carolinas hurricane florence shattered rainfall and flood records and now scientists point to hard evidence that how the disaster is intensified the earth's surface more md the average global

temperature last year was fourteen point six nine degrees celsius that's point seven one degrees above the average for the twentieth century since the eighteen eighties the global temperature has increased by one degree celsius with scientists blaming increased emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity it is alarming it's not surprising because we've been predicting this for thirty years and finally it's actually happening but it is alarming because the things that are driving this the increases in greenhouse gases we're still increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere year on year a un climate change panel has warned the world has only twelve years to rein in global warming before hundreds of millions of people across the planet will suffer from extreme heat and poverty you're seeing very direct impacts in waves more intense rainfall events coastal flooding because of increased sea level rise we're

seeing melting ice in the arctic in greenland and in antarctica melting glaciers all around the world and that's having effects on our water resources we're seeing increased drying in the summers that's impacting droughts it's impacting forest fires. it's impacting ecosystems the most ambitious goal of the paris climate accord limits global warming to one point five degree celsius by the centuries and but even then more than a third of himalayan glaciers will have melted scientists say still much more should be done to move away from fossil fuels and minimize humans carbon footprint . castro al-jazeera. of course. six weeks ago still poses an imminent threat that's the warning from scientists more than four hundred people died in the disaster on the island of java. in west java. this is what's left of the. after part of it collapsed on this

amber twenty two causing the waves to crash into the islands of java and sumatra now it's less than one third of its original size but scientists say it's still as dangerous. just weeks after the disaster. caught on camera and try most i have regularly recorded despite that order to stay more than five hundred meters away from this sea of now been lifted that if we can't work here how do i get a new car my children need to go to school and they need to eat i just hope it won't happen again that tsunami hit the tourist heart of west java badly and visitors have yet to return the rubble of a pop up though up until. last month. we build their life despite warnings of more eruptions and possible more tsunamis people are now allowed to stay on the beach again but they're also warned the state. scientists say it's hard to predict

the behavior of the so-called child of the notorious cock up. that erupted so violently in eight hundred eighty three that it's ashes course extraordinary sunsets worldwide inspiring. at the moment to paint his famous work to screen. book for another option like the one in eight hundred eighty three to happen again at the volcano needs a much larger volume but there is a high probability that an eruption and tsunami like on december twenty second will happen again harvey says the government should have been more alert after scientists had predicted it tsunami a few months earlier research dating back to two thousand and twelve the big thing to collapse of the volcano flanks was also ignored so vive us are planning to sue the government for negligence something. that happened in this industry could have been predicted because of the earthquake dangers in the area and there are options of and. so the government should have taken preventative measures to there wouldn't

be so many victims by now while the case will be taken to court in the next few weeks and is rapidly recovering only a few weeks after its collapse the volcano emerged above sea level again making it clear that time is running out for the government to repair install warning systems and take protective measures to prevent another disaster from happening again steps last an al-jazeera i knew less jotham. with us for the good here of doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president is predicting victory of chrysler so early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territory previously held by the group in syria and iraq he made the comments at a meeting of the global coalition to defeat isolate washington the united states

military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate democrats in the u.s. are planning to bring forward new legislation designed to impose stronger action against saudi arabia over the killing of journalist. he was murdered in saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul four months ago the u.n. is warning against using humanitarian aid as a political tool in venezuela the u.s. says the trucks carrying supplies of arrived in neighboring colombia they were sent there after a request by venezuela's self declared interim president but the opposition says the military has blocked a bridge along the border where the aid is meant to pass the rescue teams in turkey have pulled thirteen survivors from the rubble of a building that collapsed in istanbul the apartment came down the pub

a block came down on wednesday evening at least three people confirmed dead but it's believed that others could still be trapped beneath the rubble a body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which was carrying cardiff city football a million sallah the plane crashed into the english channel two weeks ago the body has been sent to a morgue in the u.k. for identification the plane was flying from france to cardiff the board of a hymn built hindu temple that supported a centuries old ban on women's entry has reversed its stance and says that women of childbearing.