on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. amman is a prominent this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes indian police are accused of using excessive force as the death toll rises from protests against a new citizenship nor. a turkish ship the seized off northern libya by the war only for half the hours after turkey agrees to help protect tripoli. a glimmer of hope in a strange quarter weather conditions aid in the fight against deadly bushfires and . a cheer for the champions of extra time when

airports liverpool on top of the world. anger at a new indian citizenship your is turning into the biggest domestic challenge for prime minister that he of them already since he came to power opponents say it's an attack on the secular constitution and discriminates against muslims while letting minorities from 3 neighboring countries become citizens at least 23 people have been killed and more than 1500 arrested and more than a week of protests and police are being accused of using disproportionate force now some of the most violent scenes of it in the northern state of aceh for their ish when 8020 percent of the population is muslim and the northeastern states especially in as sam or people dare fear an influx of hindu bengalis they say that could threaten their language and culture protests have been largely peaceful in

opposition control west bengal the ruling b j p. being accused of seeking electoral gains by opening the door to more in the refugees and migrants and there's also been rest in southern cities like chennai where police watched as people chanted against the law and in new delhi thousands of protesters defied police bands to converge on the has stark jumma must mosque so been a stressed of reports now from the indian capital. police in the northern state of the but they are not taking chances. did vans while firing tear gas at protesters who are defying a government ban to congregate in large crowds. every tactic is being used to quash nationwide protests against a new citizenship law the police are being accused of using excessive force. was what started as a student demonstration has grown into

a larger movement to denounce what governments often and say is divisive and discriminatory legislation. the law excludes muslims from neighboring countries from receiving indian citizenship which goes against india's secular constitution the unrest in india has been discussed at a conference of muslim leaders in malaysia prime minister mahathir mohamad said the indian law is unfair to its group claims from becoming citizen even by due process i think is unfair saw we have ways. disagreement with this kind of treatment india rejected his comments saying the law doesn't impact the status of any indian citizen or deprive any indian of any faith of her or his citizenship the malaysian prime minister's remark is factually inaccurate we call upon malaysia to refrain from commenting on internal development

. in india without the right and the standing of facts. on saturday protesters packed the streets of new delhi despite the government's ban on large crowds. the. lawyers from india's supreme court and high courts joined the outcry we're running . in the discriminate among the 6 jenny jones and muslims if. everyone. now. still getting me joined by people. it's one of the. art students depicted the constitution and the government's attitude to it by painting this street it's amazing the united nation in that sense

but. it's also just the idea behind it which is so vicious the idea behind the act it's so vicious that everything human being everyone in this country will be affected and they're standing up indians here are vowing to continue their defiance revolt against the law and say they won't allow the government to destroy the very fabric on which their nation is built on. to al-jazeera new delhi india well let's take a closer look at the citizenship amendment act and why it's prompted opposition across india it creates a pathway to citizenship for minorities who face religious persecution in pakistan and afghanistan but it excludes muslims opposition parties and protesters say it violates and the a secular constitution but that is not the only dynamic the ruling b j p has promised to implement a national register for citizens where everyone across the country will need to

prove their citizenship and if they. can't they could be put in detention centers some community communities could still be given citizenship through the citizenship amendment act but it's feared that millions of muslims are unable to provide proof would be rendered stateless even if their families have lived in india for generations now don't cause them is professor of law and legal theory of the university of oxford and general editor of indian law review and earlier he told my colleague diana gaita why the laws provoked so much anger that this government has been chipping away at india's constitutional fundamentals for the last 6 years but this act does it so blatantly and so. expressly that there's no plausible deniability in any solutions a constitutional solution so fail to stop the government from doing what it has done to the constitution and ultimately it seems that the people have decided that it's upon them to save india's pluralistic secular democratic constitution and why

is the citizenship law that's caused all these processed seen by many people as a threat to indian democracy as a whole so the been a lot of threats to in a democracy of late but this is the most blatant because for the 1st time in india as a democratic independent history we are going to write religion as a qualification into our citizenship laws the law in giving fastrack citizenship to basically non muslims but also some other very subdued atheists muslims some of these communities are not covered but in the seats and you are covered that is. that is just so blatantly against the very core of the indian constitution identity which is to seek to to build a mission that is not based on religious identity that is secular that is pluralistic that it's diverse and it's celebrated that day diversity for the last 70 or 80 years so that it's it's the explicitness you know

a lot of these government's policies have been sort of dog whistle politics of it everybody knows the gold is anti muslim but now the government felt emboldened to do not feel the need for force for the obvious as it is just it's blatant misses as was egregious. moving on to other news now the turkish ship has been seized off the coast of northern libya by forces loyal to warlord really for half that that happened just hours after turkey's parliament voted to approve a military agreement with libya's internationally recognized government a half the spokesman says their naval forces approached the boat near the city of dirda so they could search and verify its cargo its crew are now being questioned meanwhile 3 people have been killed in libya and the latest join strikes by have those forces there attacked the town of i'm from martyr in the northwest of libya the internationally recognized government as the drones are being used by the united arab emirates which supports have to without the wire have has more from

tripoli. the government forces tried to enter the hohner city about 65 kilometers to the south east from the capital tripoli to horner is the main stronghold for have to his forces and it has the central command from where from which have those generals along with the russian military experts are running their battles in southern tripoli that's according to the government of national accord so government forces tried to open new front lines near tarhouni city but they were stronger they say that they faced airstrikes by have to draw and fighter jets meanwhile a new city has witnessed clashes in its vicinity near the city of the horn the city of them silat which is about 88 kilometers to the sub southeast from the capital tripoli the city of there is among the civil cities that have recently

declared mass mobilization to prevent have to his forces from entering the capital tripoli now so that there is facing have to us forces and it's southern vicinities after the government forces withdraw from the area and local sources in there say that hundreds of civilians have left their homes because of the fighting and random rockets have been landing inside the city 3 people were killed and a dozen others were wounded according to medical sources sources in the city of. now as i mentioned earlier turkey's parliament has ratified a military deal with libya's un backed government but if mohamed adore explains from a farm ball it will be some time before i'm correct considers deploying troops. this. question is just a relative question of the agreement between libya and turkey but what's happening

it was going to happen from now on will depend on a formal request that the d.n.a. in tripoli that's the government that's recognized by the united nations. you know has to send a request to uncurse so that unless they get this quest to go back to parliament for another agreement a nod from parliament and also for the formulation of the monday to what exactly the troops will be mandated to do in libya once they get there before they can be deployed really hearing from sources that the government here is not expecting a formal request from tripoli until probably february but that could change given the. when we get general hotter is comprised now coming out against the government installations and positions. now cooler weather conditions in australia said to help firefighters contain more than 100 places across the state of new south wales

fires have been burning out of control across the state with conditions described as catastrophic the bushfires have killed 8 people and destroyed hundreds of homes and have been through an area larger than belgium the province to scott marrs it has been forced to apologize after taking a family holiday during the fires. so mawson has been criticized in the past for not connecting the bushfires to climate change but now he has conceded that there is a link there is no argument about the links between in my view in the government's view and any government in this country about the links between broader issues of global climate change and and weather events around the world but i'm sure people equally with dignity age that the direct connection to any single fire event it's not a credible suggestion to make that link. so we must take action on climate change

we are taking action on climate change jessica washington reports now from the blue mountains west of sydney. this is usually one of sydney's most popular tourist attractions the normally picturesque blue mountains bordering the outskirts of the city. much of it now decimated by bushfires but. they've been burning across large parts of australia for months now with flames as high as 70 metres high in this region alone has destroyed an area 7 times the size of singapore but this isn't just bush land it's home for thousands of australians fire crews are working tirelessly to protect residents robert beecroft is a former volunteer firefighter he's seen many bushfires in his time but this one is different for being here for 67 years i've seen a lot of for sure the mountains actually might have to rise for quite a few forms but. i haven't seen so many out of control back to the b.

crops like so many families here face a difficult choice leave everything behind or stay and potentially put themselves in danger it's a little bit stressful but you just got to remain positive us boys it's hard to think of what you want to keep and everything but just get what seems important at the time to go and i'm sure there'll be other things that you think about later but just be prepared i guess it's just bad timing obviously around the holidays but what can you do really. score it's pretty confronting. volunteers for such a strain from the shells some of these fires have been burning since july but authorities are warning that these are catastrophic conditions it's the combination of extreme hate strong winds and low humidity that makes the situation on the ground incredibly dangerous firefighters are battling the blaze on the ground and

from the air the intense heat has even generated its own thunderstorm nearly all the men and women fighting the fires are volunteers some haven't seen their families in days for locals who risk losing almost everything some are just trying to do whatever they can. hang their older get much sleep and it's. anxious cities problems as word this is just the beginning of summer and many of fearful of what lies ahead for the rest of the bushfire season jessica washington al-jazeera blackheath. repente more ahead on news hour including a university lecturer in. blasphemy after his social media. we take you to start with people heading to the polls after an election campaign. and. open the new 2020 national stadium has.

sentenced a university lecturer to death for blasphemy jeanette have fees was arrested and 2030 accused of insulting islam prophet muhammad on facebook he spent nearly 6 years in solitary confinement waiting for his trouble with pakistan's controversial blasphemy law carries an automatic death penalty it's yet to actually carry out a death sentence for the charge but the law has drawn one straight condemnation from rights groups as explained. fees came to pakistan from the us and was hired as an english literature professor. however.

busy. to 95. because. now about 40 people convicted of blasphemy on death row in pakistan the a baby a christian woman spent more than 80 years on death row before her conviction was

overturned a year ago and she said she found them in canada a case attracted to global attention and led to the killing of punjab government proceed he was shot dead by one of his bodyguards and 2011 to see to oppose the blasphemy laws and had called for the baby to be pardoned and 3 months later pakistan's minorities minister was killed by gunmen in islamabad shahbaz bhatti a christian had received death threats to suggesting blasphemy laws be reformed with his wife chancellor at national university and he says the blasphemy law in pakistan is supported by the established legal process. i believe. the freedom of expression is one of the basic principles of islam but that does not mean use of language for any abuse or any poisonous statements and they're surviving i think this law was enacted under british

later on it was revised unembarrassed by $930.00 and later on a pakistan parliament and senate jointly approved the law becomes an act and under the act. a person who is accused has full liberty here and plead his case till today i believe it has not been a single execution as such but there have been accusations and judgments have been passed but not just minutes have been carried out till today. means if it provides for all possible venues for the accused to come forward and defend and even now there is a chance for appeal for the person i think the law as such is a. law of land and if proper which had been followed then that

judgment should not be condemned. was back astonished holder at 1st parliamentary elections and since a new president came to power in 2016 the central asian country has seen key human rights developments since then that includes people with criminal convictions being allowed to vote and a minimum number of female candidates but despite those moves well the 5 registered party still have to operate within the political confines defined by the government without the reports from the capital touched can't. it's a show that at 1st done and then galvanized the country allows political debate unscripted edited a 1st news because. there have been 29 others over the past 3 months where a wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted it was big politicians lacked courage.

not that we didn't anticipate this level of success it was difficult at 1st because politicians went ready for this but then they prepared and were able to answer questions they didn't expect. people have become more interested in the parties and their programs. then he'll come back off is a proud cook of the national dish cloth and despite steering hundreds of kilos of rice a day he followed the debates. there was a lot of truth and real issues with these debates we cannot understand what needs to be done in the correct way and what is wrong there is a lot of change and these elections are very different from previous ones who specs will have to choose between 5 parties ranging from left to right on the political spectrum but all government funded with similar platforms. there are no opposition or independent candidates running in this election. and is only 28 years old it was

formed after the fall of the soviet union and $99.00 to $1.00 so regardless of this tour cummings people are excited to go to the ballot boxes. still for the 1st time the parties are somehow competing against each other to win over voters since president shaft at me to say your you have took power in 2016 he is gradually taking the country out of isolation reforms. in almost all spheres of life social life political life a canonical. in some spheres we see great success in some spheres we see some controversial changes and psalms fears we see the real problems of reforming he has permitted greater freedom of expression which allows come only dean he said cool of to speak to us without fear of repercussion at 31 he's a 1st time voter he supports the liberal democratic party because it promised to

back small businesses like his on the. us military is elections were just nominal now we say freely what we think before we are scared we can see the reality even if it's still not completely transparent i hope this will continue and it will become more liberal. president museo you have promised that parliament will become a true school of democracy really is a hope that day comes sooner rather than later but at the. news because that. at least 18 people have been killed in a prison riot and on douras 16 more were injured in the fighting in the coastal town of taylor police are yet to say what caused it although local media reporting a clash between rival gangs. now a chilean police officer has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm after allegedly running into

a protester with an armored vehicle the police man has been released on bail but there are calls for him and his superiors to be fired the 20 year old man that was struck by the vehicle remains in hospital with a suspected fractured pelvis police were trying to disperse crowds have been protesting against chinese pension systems for the past 2 months. now china's congress has passed a bill to increase pension subsidies for the poor by as much as 50 percent but people still aren't happy they're calling for a complete overhaul of one of the world's most controversial private pension systems a latin america editor lucien newman has this report from santiago. it's the holiday season and better to see nurses making a christmas cake but not for her family selling these cakes is just one of the many ways the 62 year old pensioner tries to make ends meet. she also fixes clothes like other pensioners for her low income neighborhood but if the has to

keep working because after 35 years of factory work her monthly retirement check is $133.00 well below chile's poverty line of us talking about him on the same street there are 4 grandparents in their eighty's and 3 still work the other is too ill and she lay retirement's nothing to look forward to. who lives in an upper middle class area agrees she retired at the beginning of last year after working 37 years 1st as a nurse and then as a university professor with a master's degree she used to make nearly $2000.00 a month. with a look at them but when i went to do my retirement papers i discovered that i had a poppers pension i said is this a joke and i was told no madam it's like this for everyone the $300.00 i am getting isn't even enough to pay for my health insurance. nothing infuriates chileans of

all walks of life more than their compulsory private retirement system or a.f.p. it was created under chile's military dictatorship and was supposed to guarantee pensions equivalent to 70 percent of one's last paycheck. instead of 10 to 20 percent is the average with good reason the a.f.p.'s are the number one target of millions of protesters from. chilis pension funds make massive profits which are not redistributed to the contributors even as pensions drop work at them or to one of the 4 years and you know this model was designed with the objective to transfer the workers savings to capital markets like banks the big retailers etc that's hope create large economic groups that have concentrated wealth in a few hands as never before and worst of all it's forced millions of chileans to live in misery. so in chile the suicide rate for elderly people has

soared and one of the prime reasons is because they no longer have enough money with which to survive amid all the protests the government has actually raised the state pension subsidy but even after doubling that subsidy for people over the age of 80 it is still nowhere near a minimum wage at a time in life when people have greater expenses for medicine and for doctors. the government's offer to partially compensate for the a.f.p.'s shortcomings with tax payers money has only added more fuel to the fire and it's unlikely to be put out without a major overhaul of the pension system that only seems to be benefiting those who don't pay for it to see a newman out just something i will. still ahead on the news our parliament approves an economic emergency package that raises taxes and expand social programs. the god of bethlehem the mysterious stranger banksy on val's

a document of that he stayed in the occupied west bank and installed house and to milan 5 day way back to the top and as for me. the action. hello again welcome back we're here across parts of china things are looking too bad down towards the south but we are watching one weather system starting to make its way off the coast but for shanghai that still means some rain in the forecast here on sunday with the temps are a few of about 12 degrees a better day on monday you can be clearing out plenty of sun in the forecast maybe coming up to about 13 degrees there and hong kong where your temperatures are coming down to about $22.00 and more clouds in the forecast well for the philippines we are going to be seeing the rain across much of the south starting to

increase with a system that is pushing through to the north though things are looking quite nice for manila partly cloudy conditions there with a temperature of 31 and jakarta over the next few days it is going to be raining your forecast may be getting quite heavy by the time we get towards monday and a temperature of 31 degrees and sri lanka well you can be seen some better conditions across the western part of the island but down here towards the southeast the rain will continue colombo though you're going to be in and out of the rain not as heavy as what we have seen over the last few days $29.00 is expected high there but we are going to be seeing a better day towards the north kokoda partly cloudy conditions at $25.00 degrees few but up towards new delhi it is going to be a little chilly clouds will be rolling in by the time we get towards monday evening we do expect to see attempted there of 1000 degrees. the weather sponsored by cats already has. a football tournament like no other early in the at the beginning we used to play football in the street using a soft al-jazeera world meets a group of sudanese boids determined to win against

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now again on one of the problem and die hard day's other top stories this hour at least 23 people have been killed and more than 1500 arrested across india in violent protests against a new citizenship law the rest is becoming prominence to but in the biggest domestic challenge since coming to power 5 years ago. drone attacks by forces loyal to libyan warlord have killed at least 3 people the strikes occurred a week off the half the announced a final offensive to take the capital tripoli his forces also seized a turkish ship off the coast of burnout and colder weather conditions in a straight set to help firefighters contain more than 100 blazes burning across the state of new south wales the fires have killed 8 people and destroyed hundreds of

homes across the state. now border security remains a big concern for west african leaders a summit has ended in nigeria's capital where they discussed fund raising to support the fight against increased attacks in the sahara region now the vast and remote area of the southern so hard desert spans many border. is an enclosed area dominated by groups affiliated to isolate and al qaeda what interest reports from abroad. the $56.00 ordinary summit of course was anything but ordinary these are particularly difficult times for the region as attacks by armed groups of escalated in recent months. the rising violence in the hell in other parts of west africa dominated the speeches. nigeria's president whose country has had to deal with the threat from boko haram for the past 10 years he says closer cooperation is needed along with more international support terrorism remains the major threat to

the peace and progress of egypt regarding attacks by terrorists groups remind us of that i just see to lead in and do it in security partnership to come grown to include sheikh the evil of gross border terrorism. echo as chairman and the just president was country recently lost 71 soldiers in an attack by an isolated group is in no doubt about the effects of the violence on member nations. not usually do very well is affected autistic and sometimes our region has been hit hard by terrorist attacks which have intensified with every passing day threatening the many national and regional achievements we have made the terrorist attacks continually test our resolve to fighting this scourge the leaders in the last meeting in september agreed to set up a $1000000000.00 fund to pay for armies to fight the armed groups $100000000.00 of

that is distributed but with many countries in the region having to fight their individual buggers alone it is here that more than a $1000000000.00 will be needed to achieve peace. is a night ignatius special representative in west africa there's no question that the more riposte response is required because what we are seeing is that the terrorist groups are still a lot of resistance and where is the resilience and capacities which we have and there is to make this decision there has to be a response to address the root causes of violent extremism the meeting also reviewed guinea-bissau us presidential elections and importantly the plan for single currency next year ek or says 7 countries now meet the criteria for a single currency but it's not clear if french speaking countries using the west african financial community front the c.f.a.

well ditch it and when they like nigeria and ghana would want to adopt the planned common currency the echo which is chattel to roll out in 2020 greece. that is an awakening as an associate professor at haverford college and the author of constructing democracy in africa and she says that more needs to be done to address the underlying issues that lou to violence. there needs to be economic growth and and political capacity to to address tensions within populations in these countries another word cities groups that are acting are able to recruit locally and that variability to prove right has to do with local discontent we had from the u.n. special representative and this is what he talked about he said that more needs to be done to address the root cause and off extremism what are those questions in this region and how can they be addressed well things like widespread poverty

infrastructure that's built in cities but doesn't connect villages that are deep in rural areas people are feeling very disconnected from the political situation in the capital cities and that leads to resentment so. you know it's a question of economic growth addressing poverty having people who live far away from capital cities feeling as though the state cares about them and is interested in promoting development across many of these countries and so far we haven't seen enough about that and that's part of the problem and i suppose that things like that take longer than pledging a 1000000000 dollars and military support was there anything to address did you see or hear of anything to address the those root causes either at the summit or what was called the extraordinary summit that was held in september. now you know there has not been and frankly and not of

a push towards those political and economic issues and we all recognize there is an absolute security threat and that means military responses are important but it's not the whole story and i'm not convinced there's a not of a commitment from the leadership in many of these countries to address those issues . meanwhile french forces have killed $33.00 fighters in the mopti region of mali president of iran in that car made the announcement in a speech in the ivory coast the french army command confirmed the death toll in the operation which it said took place overnight near the monetary and mauritanian border. now 2 days of talks aimed at resolving disputes over the largest hydroelectric dam in africa taking place in saddam's capital the war the $4000000000.00 grandy p.o.p. and renaissance dam on the river nile is now nearing completion the ethiopians say it will provide power to $70000000.00 people and revitalize the economy but

neighboring sudan and egypt fear the project will reduce supplies of water for drinking irrigation and other meetings planned next month in washington to try and finalize an agreement whether the president of the world association of sustainable development and he told my colleague mary i'm nancy that there are several key issues still to be resolved. so broadly we're fundamentally we're talking about would be one lives and i think if we don't get this a book of that if it is i think there's 2 issues you have to be solved their dispute over is allowed it has to be resolved number one of course is about people living and is going to go and so on and secondly we need to get as a book on if this project is typically sound and on this but particular itemizing we need to listen to explore how long is this going to take i mean is this the current for and ago. i think it's probably this is it just too much of a challenge is this too much of a challenge because we're talking about a broader corridor you have with all the completion and we're going to great to have exactly and i as broad. a lot of money and already late so you may you know

talking about something already on the ground you might like you this is where the dispute getting very very nasty if in the next few how nasty could this get because ethiopia and egypt are 2 of the region's most populous and most powerful countries how much of a threat could all this be to regional stability i think to be honest it could be because there's a more in sudan rather than being its role as bart of this whole negotiation is more of a mediator between b. and that's true and b. that is and the problem is here we're talking about a bruges act which is lacking some kind of transparency although we have been even in the u.s. you know a lot of you steve your loss i think almost like we're discovering this guy the arguments going out from people who are topics spirit in her own legal issues so the dispute. do you see this just carrying on 3 years and how is it now

there's going to be talks in washington so how can how can the international community help to bring about a fair and equitable settlement or is there a risk that say washington involvement could make things worse. for i think that's a good question of in the fitting international community can do is to engage in a very transparent be been an assistant of the visibility of the broader concern. and secondly possibly also that the national committee could engage in international mediation to find out exactly it is this view of only the land is correct or not a number see where we have to go to go back to the national experience what can we do if we have it with this to be this broader is being built without sound engineering environmental assessment and technical assistant if we were if for example we follow that we need also to go back to the experience the tiller scored to solve this. at least 11 people have been killed in airstrikes by syrian government forces and their russian allies and the latest attack on a province

a busy market was struck in the town of sirte arcam and then the main volatile people were fleeing the attack syrian troops are advancing on the country's last rebel held areas capturing term over ledges on the southern edge of adlib u.s. secretary of state my palm paris says russia and china have blood on their hands after they retold a un resolution to our cross border aid into syria on friday i'm allowed the father is in south africa when he says tens of thousands of people a fleeing the bombardment. that's a little. russian and syrian government military jets continue to target many towns and villages in lives countryside. here in the town of sara keep a popular market and residential homes were hit many civilians were either killed or injured by the strikes. at the same time other towns and it lives eastern and western countryside were targeted. is on the highway connecting aleppo and damascus

tens of thousands fleeing areas under attack such as marital newman use this road the targeting of the main towns and highways used by the residents now worsen as the humanitarian situation. more than 50000 gallons have been handed over in new zealand since a ban was imposed on assault weapons the government started buying back the weapons 6 months ago as part of reforms implemented since a mash unit to mosques in march when 51 people were killed. owners were also given the option of modifying their firearms to make them compliant with tougher laws. now a new piece by the mysterious strange artist banksy has been on veiled in bethlehem in the occupied west bank debut in just a few days before christmas the work highlights palestinians lives under occupation now the abraham reports from bethlehem the scar of bethlehem a play on words on the star of bethlehem the star that is believed to have led to

jesus grow to over 2000 years ago banksy says it's a modified take on the traditional nativity set and it's been unveiled here today in what is known here as the largest collection of banks's work in the world banks is trying to be a voice for those who cannot speak simply like this and he's trying to hold. situation to or to make probably seen and voice reach a word through or where few days away from christmas here in bethlehem which is the traditional location many tourists come to to celebrate the occasion this hotel has been here since 2017 and it seems to bring more tourists here and to show them the life of palestinians specifically near the separation wall it's called the walled off hotel and definitely more work by banksy is the hope here by palestinians that it can drive more tourists to come to palestine. now france's ongoing national

transport strike has meant a long delays for travelers trying to get home for the holidays half of all the long distance trains have been cancelled the strike over president pension reform plan is now in its 3rd week and transport around paris hasn't been easy either hof the city's metro lines aren't running and that made cycling even more popular as the reports. weaving through traffic in paris on a bike can be daunting at the best of times for more than 2 weeks of public transport strikes against the government's planned pension reforms has made cycling around the city particularly challenging with most metro train and bus services cut many people opting to cycle vinyl tied to old runs a shop in the city center that sells and repairs recycled bikes he says his staff is inundated with work we've seen far more people coming in lots who want an old

bike fixed some who want to buy a cheap secondhand bike because the only plan to cycle temporarily lots of people bring in dusty bags that have been in their center which proves they don't normally cycle power says city council says the number of cyclists on the road has doubled since the strike began the mayor has long been encouraging people to bike rather than drive to help fight air pollution there's a vast network of cycle lanes and a widely used bike share scheme i would say yes i'm right regularly that would strike them but they're often because there's not really enough there if there's enough to stop it was i'd say drivers are definitely more stressed and because i have to cycle further on busy road it's not easy there are lots of benefits to cycling it's often much faster on salty journeys it's more environmentally friendly than driving and also it's good exercise for since the beginning of the strides the roads have been so busy the city officials say that the number of accidents

involving cyclists. has surged emergency workers say the number of accidents involving bikes has increased by 40 percent this expert says that inexperienced riders are often ill prepared or poorly equipped. to bike you need a basic level of fitness if people are fit they may not have a balance of they can fall down and risk fractures to the head shoulders and body also too much biking if you're not fit can cause a multitude of health problems and pain in the knees head and back it's clear that many people will be relieved when the city's transport services return to normal but with trade unions threatening to continue their industrial action throughout the holiday season that's unlikely to happen any time soon until then and despite the risks cycling remains one of the best ways to get around the tasha butler al-jazeera paris. argentina's parliament has voted to declare an economic emergency and read rising inflation and poverty levels the new measures will main higher

taxes for tourism and exports but a penny a split on whether or help. has more. a sweeping new economic law has been approved by argentina's congress it's essential in europe officials declared a public emergency to prioritise the worsening debt crisis gripping the nation's economy. it does necessary to solve the debt problem in order to bear you need the ability to pay and in order to be able to bear the economy has to cover. argentina's debt crisis has put the government on high alert the new economic measures seek to combat worsening poverty and to curb back inflation estimated to reach as high as 55 percent by the end of 2019. the plan will also implement higher taxes related to farm products tourism and exports. on wednesday thousands protested outside argentina's congress calling for a rejection of the economic plan to go if you're going to. because you know the

president of the nation said last week that if we don't like something about him we can go out in the street well here we are mr president we're asking to seriousness . for those in favor of the law the measures are a crucial step toward restoring economic stability in our country was left of concrete steps are not taken to curb hunger and poverty things will only get worse . the government says 70 percent of revenues recovered from the new taxes will be directed toward housing infrastructure and social projects but some analysts believe the measures go too far it's more of an imposition than consensus building strategy so you know for the for the government it's really important to show that it has all the tools to negotiate with the i.m.f. to bring in more funds through taxation the challenge is that the powers are so broad that it effectively rigged. the quality and effectiveness of democracy and

for any investor looking at the country from outside the be wondering how long will this last for when they'd only be in 2020 or will this administration seek to extend such powers beyond that day. the public debate over argentina's economic policies takes place is the nation's central bank is engaged in talks with private creditors and the international monetary fund over the nation's debt estimated at $50000000000.00. madrid up below. where the sports sat next to on the news our page has all of the action as liverpool celebrate their 1st the club world cup title. to say mine people have been here to beat. the united states have privatized the old public. schools. do you would sell the arabia would do for the

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it is time to support his peter. thank you very much liverpool are celebrating after winning the fee for club world cup for the 1st time the european champions beat flamingo abruzzo in saturday's final in doha the game or circled in extra time with liverpool's brazilian striker roberta for me no school we got in the 16 times this truman has been staged the trophy has gone to the european sides on 12 occasions with south american teams winning the other 4 qatar will host the tournament again next year as part of the country's preparations for the world cup in 2022. correspondent andy richardson was watching at berkeley for international stadium while liverpool manager you're going to club said it would be like the club

taking a lunar leap forward if they could win this title and they have indeed taken that giant step and won the club world cup for the 1st time albeit in a very tight final against flamengo of brazil so what ironically decided by winner by a brazilian striker playing for liverpool rebirths i feel mean i'm scoring the winner just as he did in the semifinal against monsour a little poll now straight back into premier league action as they tend to win that title for the 1st time in 3 decades huge disappointment for flamingo and the fountains of fans in might the long trip from brazil a title that means so much to the consonants and that country they couldn't quite repeat their heroics of $981.00 when they beat liverpool in the intercontinental cup final that was the forerunner of the club world cup as for this tournament well it returns in this format to qatar next year as the country continues to build up to the main world cup in 2022 after advance fee for president john in france ino intends to expand it to a $24.00 team tournament hosted by china in 2021 he's talked about his desire to

have more powerful clubs aims around the world sort of a global super league perhaps in the future as well what you can see on the horizon for an organization like fee for who have traditionally been involved in organizing international teams. so immense is a bit of a power struggle as they attempt to get more influence over and money out of the club gang. montevideo on the 3rd place play off against all halo the sorry side going in front of the mexican champions then struck twice before an equaliser sent the game to penalty on 3 goalkeeper luis kind of their mass was the hero saving 2 spot kicks and scoring that the size of one himself to give the start of it. 2 new english premier league managers watched from the stands as everton arsenal played out a goal or straw at goodison park on saturday everton announce the appointment of color mencia lotty before kick off arsenal's new head coach mikel arteta was also in an

observer's role for this match and he has signed a 4 and a half year deal at everton manchester city are just a point behind 2nd place leicester after coming from behind to beat them $31.00 goals from riyadh maher is going to go on and gabriel jesu's for city at the end he had stadium less than our 10 points behind the ball and have played a game or barcelona are looking good to secure a top spot in spain's lower league over the christmas period the champions beat 41 at the no camp on saturday and from griezmann messi and luis suarez all scoring faster or 3 points clear of real madrid who play athletic bilbao on sunday into milan have gone top above eventers in italy said they are on goal difference romelu lukaku scored twice in a 4 no win agenda and in the german bonus league or by munich needed late goals from teenager joshua 0 c.

and serge gnabry to get past wolfsburg to no leipzig the top of the table team heading into the winter break off to beating out 31. pakistan's cricketers have given themselves a great chance of winning their 1st test series on home soil for a decade they lead sri lanka by 315 runs after the food day's play in karachi. with 174 and sean massoud so 135 have put them in control pakistan reaching 395 for 2 at the close in the deciding match of this. world number one rafa nadal has ended 2019 in fine style by taking the trophy at the world tennis championship in abu dhabi for the 4th time on saturday he was up against greece's stephanus city past the greek world number 6 had eliminated 16 time grand slam champion of a joke which in the semifinals of the hell these moving passed the test 677-5762

the spain. 50 means a lot to me so happy to. finish the 2010 season. have been i think a great match yesterday great might today especially for 3 hours 12 i don't know if i was ready for it but it happened playing against efren as always it. is a big challenge. and he has a lot of energy players so yeah all the very best to turn around for the 2010 this is a. the store man of the last 3 alum pick games you say in bolton japan's rugby world cup team have helped officially open the new national stadium for tokyo 2020 both took part in a ceremonial relay race on the new track yesterday's career with 8 olympic gold medals and confirmed afterwards he definitely will not be making any shot comebacks in japan next year and is actually looking forward to enjoying the games as a fan. if i'm coming back to running no i won't be competing

actually in pain right now from the little run i just did i will be watching and supported and cheering them on because it made my 1st of them picks just to watch so i'm going to really try to see everything and just try to enjoy my 60000 people were in attendance for the occasion which included a traditional japanese much sooty festival with don't sing and chanting around the track the stadium cost $1.00 of $1000000000.00 to build and will host its 1st proper sporting event the emperor's cup football final on new year's day we'll leave it there for now we'll see you again later for most falls news. thank you very much peter and that does it for me it is a problem for the news hour but do stay with us daryn obligated as hit and just a couple of minutes with another full news bulletin thank you very much for watching.

across the united states indigenous families are searching for their loved ones for relatives of people who go missing finding closure is often impossible people are meeting here to raise money for the search efforts of the young woman advocates and family members have started to raise awareness about the high rates of violence that disproportionately impact indigenous communities tribal police departments are understaffed and under resourced another factor is that tribes don't have jurisdiction over non native americans for all crimes there but a lot of concerns that the federal agencies don't respond that they don't take these crimes seriously a lack of evidence is the main reason federal officials are declining to prosecute crimes on reservations that shouldn't be the end of the discussion. there should be then a ok let's see we're wrong in this case why the is no evidence or why the evidence isn't good enough and make sure that doesn't happen again on the culture the

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