this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the i was there a news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. thousands of indians say it discriminates but the promise of their informality is defending a new citizenship law that excludes muslims. another wave of mass displacement in northwest syria as the front line between government forces and rebels moves deep into it. all towns of burnt off the map australia battles catastrophic bushfires that even gulf schools of. and how donald trump's border with mexico could be

putting centuries old native american sites at risk. daggers growing against india's controversial new citizenship law but prime minister narendra modi is showing no signs of backing down he's blaming the opposition for inciting protests against his government well huge rallies were held again in the capital new delhi and several other states on sunday the demonstrations are now into their 2nd week and more likely in the coming days rights groups are accusing police of using disproportionate force against the for testers of sabina's trust it was at a rally in the capital. it greatest challenge india's prime minister narendra modi has faced since he came to power 5 years ago dozens of people have been killed during protest against a citizenship law which many think discriminates. against muslims addressing

thousands of his supporters at an election rally in new delhi modi blamed the opposition for stoking the protests began by our. brothers since this law has been passed some political parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public they are inciting the public. i want to ask those who are pelting stones and sticks getting people to enjoy police trying to do the us what are you hoping to achieve the police is no one's enemy. the citizenship amendment act makes it easier for migrants from afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan who aren't muslim to become indian citizens critics say the law could lead to many muslims losing their citizenship. borders but i'm not a hog. staging protests is all right they should not be violent so i oppose that whatever the police are doing i request them not to do it they should also listen

also indians like you we are also humans i. as protests continued on sunday in the capital and other parts of the country the government insisted that law will not be repealed i protest has been ongoing since parliament passed the law earlier in december i was but a student protests and. university in the capital a week ago turned into a movement of hundreds of thousands of students and anti-government protesters nationwide people were angered after government forces fought with students and stormed the campus tear gas into the library and classrooms. the worst violence has been the british where more than 5000 people have been detained at least 1500 have been arrested in other parts of india.

some muslims can get so than ship under the citizenship amendment act but it is feared millions who are unable to provide proof could be rendered stateless even if their families have lived in india but generations. of the new delhi well solomon duma is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute and has written extensively on modi's government and its policies he explains why indians of all faiths have been angered by the new north. i would argue that this is the single most divisive thing there in ramadi has done since he 1st came to power in 2014 it has polarized 'd the country not merely in terms of hindus and most and so that's of course 'd as the of course is part of it but i think more importantly between those indians are all thieves including many hindus who see this as a challenge to india's secular foundations and b.g.p.

supporters and see this as a great humanitarian gesture to all religious minorities in those 3 countries pakistan afghanistan and bangladesh the un has spoken out the 'd members of the house of representatives in the u.s. have spoken up there has been extensive international media coverage i wrote a column in the wall street journal several others have written about this so i think the international community is certainly concerned it's true that government reactions have been muted but that's not the same as saying that the international community in general has given india a free bus on the contrary i think this has been the worst 2 weeks for them or the government in terms of international media coverage since they took office. pakistan says mortars fired by indian troops have killed at least 3 people in pakistani administered kashmir india's military has blamed islamabad for provoking the attack the border fighting happened as thousands of supporters of pakistan's conservative jamaat islami party rallied in is not

a bad they criticize the international community for not taking action against new delhi for alleged human rights violations in indian administered kashmir it was at that rally where protesters pencil identity with kashmiris. drawn sure of the border by the right wing. border. and out i gave here try to give being meted out by the indian figurative. and hear their verdict or to read. for the purpose of the rally is to highlight the atrocities being committed by india against the kashmiris and to draw the world's attention to their plight and that is why not only are young if modi is not stopped it will become a problem for the minorities in india and will also have dangerous consequences for the world. they were good never come from all across the country. making. women and. they did it.

i know god why did maybe they did. the rally after florida. care about. living on the other side of the line of no why. sudan has opened an investigation into crimes committed in the darfur region by a former government members who served on the ousted president omar al bashir the conflict between pro-government forces and ethnic minority rebels began back in 2003 the u.n. says at least 300000 people were killed by the fighting as well as famine and disease bashir is already wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity and genocide. well some of them bound it was a policy adviser on sudan for the enough project that's a genocide prevention organization he says this is just one of many investigations by sudan's transitional government. it's very significant this in they at any

level it's a movement that has the tradition of sudan and this is speaks to the agenda that i look at in the country since last september we now have an independent investigative arm which shoes that are not part of the if you look at it. you now have a government that is committed to love law and justice for the games of machinery games crimes in darfur and crimes against the entire population throughout the country using this we look at the mood of one of the ship so this is very significant and the scene of such an internationally that i'm ultimately mr gibson's and only it is one that has just started its investigations on the assault the 7 of you who went to 19 of these peaceful protest of in khartoum the problem assad of the mind by multiple forces there is

a strong presumptions of the more so and behind. him it to the commander of the office of forces where in command to sponsor going to the other member of the then to the military council of these forces it was a lot of operation involving 3rd of them of sort of yours flowing in from what is of the armed forces security and that up a support forces so we were meant to see the results of the kind of investigation of the just the spark of the. mandible 3 months. when there are muslim anyone involved in darfur also in 20032005 i would relate tension it to this detriment of the people security in the realm of the international criminal court and for the security guards alas create an issue seem to still acknowledge that there have been generally changes to than that of the prosecutor office of the i.c.c. link to get sudan sometime but he was. very carefully when house with. the.

crimes against humanity what crimes and genocide thought was i.c.c. has done this year in full if she is wanted by the i.c.c. i believe that the least seeing if this persecution that's just i'm answering that would be as serious an indicative of an independent investigation to harm a shit i'm goes of the officials of his are you responsible for the human psyche that. votes are being counted in pakistan's parliamentary election but observers say there were no genuine opposition choices all 5 parties running are seen as loyal to the president. or. for. it was the 1st parliamentary election since president. took power in 2061 that is supposed to mark the beginning of the end of tarrying rule

imposed by his predecessor for almost 3 decades and it's in that spirit that many headed to the polls among them. my candidate seemed confident he appeared like someone who will hold his promises he promised to help ordinary people. said the stream of people kept on casting their ballots by mid-afternoon turnout was a 50 percent. hasn't missed an election since the age of 18 but this time she had to adapt to new rooms now we each have to vote before we didn't even come one person would fill in the ballots for all of us. who was next in line agreed he said the vote was more transparent the government is betting on these elections to showcase that it's serious about letting the old habits to bring the country forward this is the 1st time does

a digitised database of illegible voters and then unprecedented number of international observers were granted access nationwide. this remains an election that doesn't pose any threat to the rule of the president or 5 parties are seen as pro-government. parliament is quite likely because. the people running today are. so. expectations. are high. if you remain of course symbolically in terms of political substance because of the absence of any party that considers itself in opposition to vote is taking place in an environment where freedom of speech has blossomed in ways that were unthinkable just 3 years ago if it's not.

you couldn't see me here. is a blogger who's often critical of the government she chose not to vote this is unconstitutional it's my ruth right i can what or i don't if i don't want i cannot 1st of all 2nd 2nd before i didn't see. the quote. candidate final results are still not known but no one expects them to take the country on a different course if anything they could give president. illegitimate mandate to press ahead with reforms without the. strain as prime minister has rejected calls for more action on climate change as firefighters battle catastrophic blazes across the east and south of the country it's facing one of its worst ever bushfire season as well most 200 homes damaged in the past few

days alone in new south wales and south australia scott morrison says he wouldn't engage in a reckless job cuts to the country's coal industry low rainfall record high temperatures and high winds have all contributed to the crisis but the town of balmoral south of sydney has all but been destroyed by the bush fires just to washington is there and joins us live now jessica balmoral was one of the hardest hit towns what's the situation like there now. daryn this is a small community of just 400 people so you can imagine that every local here has been affected by this crisis in some way if you take a look just here this house has been completely destroyed by the fire and the family that lives here they actually stayed when the fire hit this area and they tried to defend their property this family has lived in this house for 20 years but they'll be spending christmas living in hotels outside of this accommodation because of course as you can see it's completely destroyed the insides ripped apart

by this intense blaze not just the bushfire itself but there was such intense heat and such a huge size of the bushfire that hit this area over the weekend that it actually generated its own weather system that's called a fire storm and you can see the devastation that a powerful system like that can cause in terms of the bigger picture jessica what are conditions like generally this week will down we know that conditions today on today are favorable and will be for the rest of the week but authorities are warning that this is a very short window that they have to get the situation under control later in the wake on friday here in a strangely they are expecting those heat wave conditions to return in a number of communities could be in danger as a result so authorities here are really making the most of a short window of time of time to attempt to get some of these bush fires under

control but it's not just here in new south wales that is enduring this crisis there are also emergency warnings in the neighboring states of victoria and south australia as well a difficult time for us surely at this moment just. let's also to come on the news hour including as hong kong slides further into recession we meet retailers are finding new opportunities in the city's protest movement plus. and i'm nicholas hark at victoria falls by the rainbow the world's largest waterfall is in some parts a slow trickle find out next how the worst drought in a century is affecting 45000000 people across 14 nations in southern africa. suffer the heaviest league defeat in 20 years has all those details a little bit late.

now some that deadline for iraq's president to name a new interim prime minister has now passed with no announcement on who's been chosen earlier thousands of protesters blocked roads in baghdad and basra demanding the appointment of an independent prime minister they say one of the nominees is is closely linked to iran which is to say they're fed up with corruption for services and a lack of jobs hundreds have been killed since anti-government rallies began in october . we want to talk about the political regime we want to change the constitution these people have been destroying us 15 years we don't want them we want to. there been more protests in lebanon's capital beirut but the numbers are smaller than previous weeks it's a sign many seem prepared to give the new prime minister designate a chance to form a government from beirut is tony about a 3rd. of the 67th day lebanese gathered in beirut smarter square to make a stand against the economic and political crisis that on sunday was more like

a carnival than a protest. the lebanese capital have witnessed some of the worst violence seen for years as security forces clash with supporters on either side of the political divide numbers will go down and in marked contrast the anger and violence of previous gatherings is perhaps an indication that some at least are prepared to give the designated prime minister. a chance. if they know it's going to be a big problem and. it's going to make them fail in this. for the sharon might be. why are we being pessimistic we should be optimistic the new prime minister is decent in is not corrupted he seems to be the man for the job and if it doesn't work we'll find another solution. was nominated by a week majority parliament comprising of iran backed hezbollah and its allies the shia amal movement and president michel aoun is christian free movement has

promised to appoint a new government filled with technocrats and experts within 6 weeks the tension may have reduced but for some within the sunni community there is still anger that their leader saad hariri has not been chosen as prime minister and there are fears that some are seeking to cause a rift between the sunni and shia communities. as they feel. it seems like some are seek really trying to incite secretary in strength and in reality we are far away from that we took to the streets because of the economy and not religion. that is a priority. the need for a government to solve the economic crisis lebanon is running out of short term choices the country has one of the world's biggest debt burdens and in march is due to repay a one and a half $1000000000.00 euro bonds loan which is likely to default and that can only worsen the guy economic situation here. david hale the u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs is in beirut meeting with various

political leaders he is key to delivering $11000000000.00 in international aid which is being locked until economic and political reforms are implemented. isn't it in deep trouble financially i think at a certain stage within the next week or so there will be even more. constraints on the banking sector. people will take to the streets. some are still singing about revolution but many are praying for a solution for now the people of lebanon can only wait and hope. tony girty al jazeera beirut. syrian state media is reporting that government forces have intercepted missiles from israel it says 4 cruise missiles were launched towards targets in and around damascus israel has not commented on the reports from syrian or russian air strikes have killed at least 17 people in labor problems government

forces are advancing on the last rebel held areas they say they've captured more than 20 villages in recent weeks and in the past 48 hours at least 25000 civilians have been displaced because of the government's air campaign the u.n. has called for an immediate halt in the fighting and warned of the mass displacement of the violence continues hundreds of families are making their way to the turkish border. we were here selling and buying and then we got hit by missiles we have nothing to do with this we are all civilians my son was wounded and so were some of my workers one had his leg broken under the rubble some property was damaged we call upon god again and god willing the syrian government will not be victorious but president raja type erdogan has warned that turkey cannot cope with a new wave of refugees on its own bomba the man dr jan 6th i'm going to do down 80 founded know about probably some running from the bombs they have started migrating to which are if the violence towards the people of italy does not stop this number

will increase even many more in that case turkey will not carry such a market burden on its own to pressure. we will be subjected to be something all european nations especially greece will also feel. the 3 month wait for the result of afghanistan's presidential election has ended with a provisional win for the president ashraf ghani electoral commission says he secured a slim majority of just over 50 percent but supporters of his main rival have rejected the result and are calling for an investigation more blood money reports. afghanistan's independent election commission announced the result which potentially puts president ashraf ghani on course for a 2nd 5 year term mohamed ashraf ghani the 4 it's for mohammed ashraf ghani and 923868 and the votes for abdullah abdullah 872-0900 90. although the results of the

election in september is preliminary and may change in the final count ronnie says he's won with 51 percent of the vote and. he can gradually the whole afghan nation from the bottom of my heart on the announcement we're going towards a national trust from division towards a national unity. however voter turnout was $1900000.00 ballots were counted for $9000000.00 registered voters in the $35000000.00 population than his nearest rival chief executive a dollar dollar came in 2nd he rejected the result of living by the complaint commission about 300000 disputed votes to federal votes need to be separated from the final vote count. fraud allegations were also made in the last

presidential election 5 years ago. ronnie and abdullah were locked in an election stalemate with each accusing the other of fraud that led to the u.s. intervening to negotiate a power sharing agreement. to help stamp out election fraud the government brought in machines to collect voters biometric data but many argue people whose biometric data wasn't recorded won't have their votes counted there could very well be strong backlash among activists supporters many of whom house from holding power. and if we look at the past couple of months the last a card that has been used as very much featured works like frocks radzivill and it's been a very aggressive discourse the taliban increase attacks during the election campaign taliban leaders said the election was illegitimate and urged a boycott there were doubts about the election. that was also all that i

think the commission tickets time to make sure that the concerns are equally birth from all parties the afghan government just sidelined in the year long negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban aimed at ending the 18 year war with the taliban rejects the government as a puppet for the americans. while ashraf ghani kyles victory the election commission hasn't announced a date for the final result nor about him and the al-jazeera. there's been more violent scenes in hong kong as police used tear gas to disperse crowds at a rally in support of china's we've got minority while there are a 1000 people gathered for the demonstration police arrested 2 protesters were attempting to burn a chinese flag one of us a drug gun as protesters threw bottles and rocks rights groups say at least a 1000000 we goes are members of other largely muslim minority groups have been detained in chinese camps. hong kong's government has announced $500000000.00 worth

of measures to try to save its economy sliding further into recession 6 months of pro-democracy protests have been blamed for low tourist numbers and a drop in high street sales online though it's a different story with retailers capitalizing on global support for the movement so a club reports from hong kong. streets once teeming with shoppers are deserted restaurants have closed tourist numbers have hard after 6 months of anti-government demonstrations some luxury brands have reported a 45 percent drop in recent sales but not everyone is struggling this store is expanding its stock in miniature figurines it introduced a new line of protest related toys complete with gas masks and helmets don't you wonder since this protest movement began to be has been increasingly more interested in the action figure how people love to assemble the toys but they also buy them to remember the difficulties and struggles in this movement was. the

protests have attracted local and global support sparking interest in a new retail sector protective gear like masks and hard hats are in high demand after 99 china locked all silos to hong kong this store also stocks clothing slogans like stand with hong kong but there's no shop front all merchandise is sold online since the launch in july it's been getting more and more popular for example on one day we can have 102300 orders printing what's happening on the streets on the market for protest related merchandise is predominately online the retailers we've spoken to say it's still boyd being targeted by those opposed to the pro-democracy movement some of those are chosen to hide their identities after being threatened it's an indication of how fragile the political situation is in home the artists are also painting a picture of protests using asked to mortal eyes the summer of unrest and spread the word to an international market. this exhibition showcases some of the key

messages of the protesters who fear about what's happening in hong kong and also worry about the city's future everyone where everyone is worried about it because we love this place we love our homeland and we won't give it up we won't give up our 5 demands cartoon characters like pepe the frog have been embraced in the demonstrations once representative of the symbol of hate in the united states has become the protest mascot and sold widely across hong kong. the big retailers may be struggling but with antigovernment protests expected to continue in 2020 the stores hope to capitalize growing global support for a movement sara cox al-jazeera hong kong. time for short break here now to 0 when we come back how guns smuggled from america mexico's drug cartels al jazeera investigates the flow of weapons leading to a record murder rate and fear of storms disrupt much of western europe ahead of the

christmas holidays. and support pakistan close in on an historic test victory someone has those details on the break more of that status. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across china the clouds are pushing off the sea eastern seaboard and things are going to be looking better for shanghai for one day at least we're going to be seeing some better skies for you with a temper there of about 13 degrees unfortunately the time we do get towards tuesday do expect to see some rain starting to pop up as well as more clouds but down towards the south hong kong not a bad day for you with partly cloudy conditions a temperature of 23 degrees now we are watching tropical storm fan farm it is a new storm here in the pacific you can see the clouds right there this storm as

a tropical storm making its way towards the philippines by the time we get towards monday increasing intensity by the time we do get to tuesday though the system is going to be bring some very heavy rain across the eastern and central portions of the philippines localized flooding on wednesday could be a big potential there hope you meant city though a nice and sunny day for you with a temperature of $32.00 degrees and then here across india we're finally going to be seeing a change of weather pattern that means by the time we get towards mid week we are going to be seeing more in terms of clouds and rain pushing. towards the north that is going to help with the air quality particular pier towards new delhi but until then it is going to be a small he day few with attempted there of 18 and over towards kolkata some sudden you forecast a 25. the weather sponsored by catherine is. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains

because only a project that's what we defuse it was one of the founders of the settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera teach it strongman is ruling with an iron fist and the silence from his allies is deafening the u.s. was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on the news thousands of indians of once again defied a government ban to protest against a controversial citizenship law which they say discriminates against muslims prime minister narendra modi has blamed the opposition for fueling breast. surgery and russian air strikes have killed at least 17 people in it but at least 20. 5000 civilians have fled in the last 2 days and australia's prime minister has rejected calls for more action on climate change as far as battled catastrophic bushfires scott morrison says he wouldn't engage in reckless and job destroying cuts to the coal industry. has presidential elections headed for a runoff as the country that there is to get its 1st turn at leading the european union for my left wing prime minister's all run that malema bitch got just under 30

percent of sunday's vote out of the current president column that. has been in the job many 5 years the 2nd round to be held in 2 weeks time the results were close at nationals focusing only 2 points behind from zagreb are do want to premier explains no bitch is likely to struggle against a united right wing vote in the runoff. so i don't realize. is a frontrunner only in this for and so on me lot of which is not only former left leaning prime minister he's also former president of the main opposition party in these countries social democratic party he's open and some would say he is also former leftist a former hole because he flirted with nationalism trying to appeal to ride with voters and losing the more realistic one on the left he was prime minister from 2000 the 11 to 2015 he realize heavily on his rhetorical

skills and yes this today's vote was he is a chance for a great comeback after he made a few years pause in his political career but the difference between him and incumbent. keitaro which is very slim less than 3 percent that's me is that he's chances in a presidential runoff are also very slim simply because he cannot count of 0 on arriving waters and here we have. a sitting to day on the church plays with 24 percent of the votes he is a right wing populist and sort of milan of which cannot come out on these roads in a presidential runoff. at least 9 people have been killed in spain and portugal about the 2 storm struck in quick succession arriving just days apart storms elson

fabian a flooded rivers disrupt their travel and left more than 100000 households without power is really a challenge. to rescue the crew the helicopter had to come down low so low it was being sprayed by huge waves crashing on the vessel but italian coast guards managed to lift 12 people to safety after their cargo ship was blown on to saddam years rocky coastline. across spain portugal and france more than 118000 households are without electricity in portugal storm surge flooding has forced the evacuation of 250 people many houses have been left underwater here except for those homes build hire up. islanders on corsica are being warned to stay away from the seaside. as far as rainfall is concerned we are seeing the end of the crisis with regards to the wind we are still in a crisis that could last

a dozen or so hours 15 or so more in kosik and it is very important to advise the population not to go to the beaches in the coastline because it can be potentially dangerous. on western spain's atlantic tip is no stranger to storms but sites like this the still remarkable the coastal promise i washed with sea foam whipped up by the pounding of countless waves and blown ashore by storm fabian's full force . and nature's power always fascinates people and some get as close as they do. it's unpredictable and is dangerous but it's impressively beautiful to worry chalons al-jazeera a former military chief in egypt are intended to run against the president abdel fattah el-sisi has been released from detention some again and was jailed after announcing his candidacy 2 years ago the military said he didn't have permission to run and breach military law is unknown why he was released for. 2 bombings in the

southern philippines of kill more than a dozen people one exploded in qatar barto city killing at least 8 soldiers and 4 civilians at around the same time another bomb exploded just north of gun killing 5 the philippines armed forces says the bangsamoro islamic freedom fighters group could be behind the attacks. at least 6 people have been killed and 5 others kidnapped by fighters aligned with ai so in northeast nigeria they seize control of a highway near casada village about 100 kilometers north of my dewberry the capital of borno state 3 felony herdsman among the dead now it's not just australia suffering from a lack of rain southern africa is going through its worst drought in decades with 45000000 people affected across 14 countries it's also taking a toll on precious wildlife nicholas hogg has a story from zimbabwe one of the worst affected countries. deep in zimbabwe as much a 1000000000 and people are dying of hunger margaret began then her 5 grandchildren

are picking what will be their 1st and last meal of the day boiled a particular leaves weakened by months of this diet but then they worries the worst is yet to come. see. they smell food in the end we asked saw. the strength to go on sometimes they cloned and then it could open up into all. the united nations says southern africa is experiencing the worst drought in a century 45000000 people across 14 countries are in need of urgent assistance while food distribution is taking place in some areas my gunday has not received any help a 3 hour drive away there is food at the market but at a price again day and most cannot afford the $10.00 a kilo from 8 or the $5.00 pack of rice cashing in from the desperation are traders looking to make a profit this is true. pres going up for influence and one can get the

best but i was possible we are all suffering here we're all trying to make ends meet. zimbabwe needs more rainfall for food to grow in november traditional healers invoked the spirits of the mighty is an easy river to release the rains but they have yet to come and so the world's largest waterfall that separates zimbabwe from zambia doesn't quite look the same with tourists asking where has the water gone this isn't just a tourist attraction it's a lifeline for millions of people beyond zimbabwe's border because the water is used both for food and power but look at it now. gone is the thunderous sound of falling water left below are hungry animals dying of thirst after travelling for hundreds of kilometers in search of water a hippopotamus experiences the slow painful death from hunger $200.00 elephants

have died since the summer there could be more with endangered species especially vulnerable to those alive both animals and humans are left to graze on whatever they can and so dulled by hunger margaret and a 10 day in her grandchildren share their meal today treat a portion of maize tomorrow though is uncertain nicholas hawk al-jazeera land zimbabwe. now mexico is dealing with its highest murder rate on record with a majority of firearms involve being smuggled in from the us violence across the border has come under increasing scrutiny after a number of american citizens were murdered last month in the 1st of a 2 part investigation into arms trafficking between the u.s. and mexico gentleman talks to those smuggling guns across the border and the hit men that ended up using them. it shocked to mexico the 17th of october 2019 the day this in a low a cartel turned out like an army with a devastating grade of firepower they subjugated the miss camilla treat self and

took over the streets of coolie account that he would be good this man says he was there fighting with the cartel we're talking about their weapons we're most of the people they're in on the side of the car with american guns the yes of course because all of the arms that we use here are from the other side of the border. what they got to go he's a hit man a soldier for organized crime one of the many across mexico responsible for record murder rate how difficult would it be to do your job. if there wasn't this free flow coming from the united states. it would be hard because the u.s. is the chief supplier that's where we get the new explosive guns we need good. people of the guns that have been seized in mexico and traced 70 percent come from the united states there's a reason it's hard to get a gun legally in mexico what the regulations are extremely strict not so in the

u.s. and cartels you straw buyers and gun shop scene shows to get glocks a k 47 off if things and even machine guns it's this man's job to smuggle them across the border with. the truth is that it's very easy to get them across we do hide them in the upholstery or where we can but the customs agents here don't really focus on that and searching it they never searched the car. we saw that for us selves when we made the journey from the u.s. into mexico on a busy thursday night there were no possible controls we saw no border offices and just to customs officials check to see of cars that were already free were into mexico. a lack of vigilance which is hard to reconcile with mexico's concerns to let myself up over the last year the most worrying issue in mexico are the guns the guns that we saw on coulier khan were impressive i want to propose again but using the latest technology from both countries we can stop the arms trafficking at the

border. we asked for an interview with mexico's foreign ministry in its customs agency to discuss those border security plans we didn't hear back. meanwhile quantities of weapons continue to be brought across this stashed in a multitude of safe houses on arrival the gun run is in charge of this one in a suburb of the border town. when you move on when we come back with guns they can stay here a day or 2 and then our people come to get them when everything is ready take them away they distributed throughout the country being caught with one should mean jail time but if the government is get stopped by local police there's a simple solution. as they say here with money the drug dances sort it all out with cash and we each coraline way but i don't know you and you don't know me with the guns make their way to the cartel soldiers the same ones that battle to beat mitts can authorities on the 17th of october this confrontation between the cartel and

the government. that wouldn't have happened if the sin of hadn't have this easy access to weapons. through a process so yes it would have happened but obviously as you say it would have been hard for us without that number of weapons i mean we probably wouldn't have beaten them if it wasn't so easy to get hold of the guns. the mexican forces humiliation then and in direct consequence of leaving us gun regulations and this country's insufficient border security but there were other consequences to more intimate ones for the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera make ali. but mikey hill is a former chief of international operations at the u.s. drug enforcement administration he says the u.s. has made no attempt to control the sale of got. 70 percent of the weapons that go

into mexico come from the united states mexico has stripped us gun laws in the world they only have one gun store in that is on the outskirts of mexico city and it's run by the mexican army they only sell 38 weapons a day in mexico they conduct the background checks that go on for months in the gun that purchasing laws here in the united states are very lax and people can come in in they can buy these weapons from gun shows from private sellers in other different venues so it's very easy to purchase weapons in the united states the crime administration under donald trump you know has not made any effort to control these weapons mexico has got to address the

issues of corruption in truly is a bi national type of effort it's got involved both the united states in mexico to address this issue of a wall that trump proposes is not going to stop the movement of drugs into the united states in it certainly not going to stop the weapons going south were into the hands of the court house in mexico. an internal report by the roman catholic church says $175.00 miners were sexually abused in mexico by a group of priests run like a cult the legionnaires was founded by a father. he supported have abused at least 60 boys themselves some as young as 12 died in 20082 years after the vatican acknowledged the allegations against him after dismissing them for decades libya's government has announced its entering the lead in a group that's the regional bloc seeking a resolution to the crisis in venezuela the group of 12 countries has supported

opposition leader one guy bill bolivia's entries a policy change in the time of the former president ever morale is around has resigned in the i mean protests and pressure from the military. construction is moving ahead for the u.s. president's border war with mexico in arizona parts of the barrier will cut through sites considered sacred to some native american tribes but as rob reynolds reports on the us mexico border tribal elders say they won't give up without a fight. walking on holy ground a group of young native american activists visit quito springs in a way says in the vast desert of the organ pipe cactus national monument it's a place where according to archaeologists people have gathered for more than 16000 years they came from this land we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the spring giving us life the organ pipe cactus national monument spans 1340 square kilometers

of pristine desert beamed for a species of desert plants that grow here and no place else on earth it's the traditional territory of the odom and to hold the autumn sacred for the people that lived here in the pheromone with that we conducted here ancestors did and pretty much all of our cultural practices. but just 50 kilometers away president donald trump's massive border wall he's going up. to 9 meter tall metal structure will cut through traditional rain. and will require new roads bulldozed through the monument and the adjacent to hold autumn reservation native americans say the wall will damage ceremonial sites pilgrimage routes and ancient graveyards here in the organ pipe cactus national monument a government survey has identified at least $22.00 significant archaeological sites

that would be partially or completely destroyed by border wall construction. tribal elder ofili a reverse is organizing a grassroots effort to direct public attention to what she says is an act of cultural desecration when the borders to go up this metal borders are this fence this go up very very destructive to our spiritual being and our way of life and any part of it that is destroyed it is taking us apart. piece by piece activists say they will do everything in their power to stop the wall i think there's many of us that are willing and ready to put our bodies on the line despite the vast resources of the federal government marshal behind trump signature political project the native people here say they will not give up we've been fisted here since the beginning of time and there will continue to to exist even after this wall is build

a place of natural beauty ecological diversity and cultural significance that may soon be changed forever robert oulds al-jazeera quito but quito springs arizona now a new unmanned space taxi has returned to earth off it failed to reach the international space station but wing style on a space crop was forced to land the new mexico a few days earlier than planned the company says there was a software problem with the vessels internal clock means it didn't reach the goal which required to dock. i want to come back and i will the sports liverpool arrive home with the club world cup. a little bit later in the program or not stay with us .

for his summer. thank you very much mr with english premier league were frank lampard got the better of his old manager. but chelsea's to an l. when not talking them on sunday was marred by allegations of crowd racism 1st half goals from win a one a penalty put chelsea in control of the match it got worse for spurs when song was given a red card off of for kicking out. ridiculous after the incident stadium announcements were made a warning about the racist behavior oh now is the time you were going to. ration rice is chanting comment of course no support timely. as we support any

of our prize fights any opposition plies wherever it is happens where i was trying to americans out there is to be dealt with i hate racism in society i hate recently in football i'm disappointed that it seems like like that too can happen but the referee stopped the game he spoke to the players spoke to the captain spoke to the coaches. i was losing i didn't win the game to be stopped but immediately when i knew the reason why the game was stopped obviously and the students accept it it's a bad day too for maureen you form a club man to see united beat into a nail by a bottom of the table what foot 7 half goals from a smile and a troy any penalty sold them a win for only the 2nd time this season but today on this moment i'm very disappointed because we have to come to these stadiums and. get more points against teams like today i'm sure they were low 'd in confidence because they must be

looked at when you put them on the table we were confident because we've done well lately but it just wasn't there was no intent to really see. when again liverpool return to the premier league duties still with a 10 point lead in the title race and the team have arrived back from their successful trip to doha where they won the fee for club world cup european club's side beat flamengo one nail in the final to take the trophy for the 1st time in their history ac milan are going into the winter break in italy off the back of their heavy is the feat in syria for over 20 years their home to 5 nailed by atalanta on sunday at a 100 governments with a stunning individual goal and 2 from you see for the home side in and find themselves in the table 21 points behind the leaders to climb to 5th place as you

beat eventis 31 to win the italian super cup in saudi arabia you they also finished with 10 men. took the trophy for the 5th time german champions by a munich have awarded interior coach. after staging a coverage from their difficult start to the season he's been put in charge of for the rest of the campaign buy and go into the winter break in the league are 4 points behind leaders in this place. champions i.x. head into the winter break in the dutch league in confident mood they were 610 winners over struggling then on sunday i can see with the pick of the goals. by the suns cricket is need just 3 more wickets on the final day against sri lanka in karate 2 in their 1st test series on home soil for a decade. both made centuries on day 4 as pakistan declared their

2nd innings on 555 for 3 that set the tourists an unlikely target to 476 a sri lanka juice to 212 for 7 at the close with this taken 3 wickets. australian golfer adam scott the has ended his full year wait for a title the former masters champion that won the australian p.g.a. championship side throw clients on the gold coast that by 2 shots on sunday scott winning this title for the 2nd time and claiming the 30th victory of his career there was opportunities for everyone who wanted to come to him and started this is a long time coming but i'm really having to go in and out of p.g.a. here with the cancellation of may just being events in europe are due to excess snow the sport of snowboard cross the has been stepping into the spotlight this has been in the olympic sport and since 2006 and its world cup season is well on the

way it was a photo finish here at the men's find on its ear and it was the home opener in the so madiba who wanted to head over another italian not too tense in the end. the women's cross country world cup in slovenia went ahead despite the heavy snow as proved too much for other events sweden's 2nd pairing thrived in the conditions winning this one the head of none other than sweden's 1st pairing great day for sweden. and also. well for me we'll have more later on son i thank you now one of ecuador's most active volcanoes as a ruptured in the remote amazon region lighting up the night sky rivendell will cain is last major eruption was in 2002. so that's it for me down in jordan for this news hour my colleague peter dhabi is up next with much more of the day's news station thanks for watching by for that.

in 2008 al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some have in the years poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super 30 announces iraq. singapore is renowned for creating some of the world's. one a when i used goes back to school to find out the sacred to this. one how does the . driven by outrage and spanning generations the real hinge of demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was

palpable if you don't like we're so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow they'll send back 2030 or if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world al jazeera was there when i was doing great sports calls today to see what happens next. on the wired by the barrier square model barricaded all 7th street that leads to here the middle east now is what about change people have gone to clear the area the mission of the national army is to 6 to tie up the oil company and i'll just do a stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their country.

tens of thousands of indians see it discriminates but the prime minister noda and removed to use defending a new citizenship law that excludes muslim. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up russia back syrian forces push deeper into. a mass exodus. 10 years after international calls for a genocide trial sudan's new government says it will investigate what happened. also ahead how donald trump's border war with mexico could be put.