on reservations that shouldn't be the end of the discussion. there should be then ok let's see well i'm wrong and this is why the is no evidence or why the evidence isn't but now and make sure that that's not happening again. syrian troops targeted live provinces the fight for the last rebel held area intensifies so big thousands fleeing for their lives. this is al jazeera live from also coming up we're getting word that libya's u.n. recognized government has asked turkey to deploy troops to fight against warlord khalifa haftar. thousands of christians descend on bethlehem the place they believe jesus was born but not

everyone will be let in. and we're in zimbabwe where patients are paying the price for what critics call a broken health system. we begin in syria where the battle for the last rebel stronghold has killed more civilians at least people the day after a syrian government airstrike targeted a school in the province displaced syrians had been sheltering in the school but it was his tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes government forces and their russian allies are pushing deeper into weirdly the un has called for an immediate end to the violence. there it i want to kill people before the escape here while we're packing the jet came and targeted us and killed a large number and others and a whole family is missing. baba doris' on the turkey syria border he says refugees

are being left in a precarious position. well the humanitarian crisis is huge and it's keeping on growing because more and more people are being uprooted from their homes. started with the city of martin man which was the target all for the initial strikes bottle bombs underground shelling but now we're seeing other places also reporting people for leaving from them after being targeted by syrian forces sworn a mission to take every last bit of territory that is in the homs all through our position we are right now one of the hobs for the turkish charity i too which is helping the refugees on the other side of the border and speaking to a senior all fishel who told us that they have been trying us much as possible to help the people who fleeing 125000 was the count of this

deadly of rising and he says there must be up to 150000 of the moment and he says they cannot provide each family with its own individual talent they've been forced to build this must have tents on high heel that to avoid flooding off course and they are commentating up 200 people in every tent have separate the men and their women but he says there is a lot of suspicion between the people because it has been home to people who. fled places like aleppo and other places that the regime had targeted before and he says there are so many other people who have set up tents on the sides of the road i'm going not want to mingle with the rest of the refugees that he fears for their health because they don't have sanitation they don't have clean water and they do not have food as well another moment they say is that if you just cannot cook for

themselves he says they are forced to to to to provide them with warm mails. and syrian customs officials have seize the assets of the country's wealthiest businessman it's the 1st time a new order has been issued for rami backlift who is the cousin of president assad he's been accused of importing products including oil and gas without paying charges and phase the e.u. and u.s. have already imposed sanctions on back live report of the control 60 percent of syria's economy chris durrell is a middle east analyst and director of the council for arab british understanding he explains just have been targeted. the matter who family right in the sense at the core of this regime remember the heart as the last sentence the father of bashar last night was not marriage to a niece of matthew which is. now a week land as well as the assets and in fact in many ways of her greater social standing and who is the father rami was very much the regime's banco he is

extremely rich so to see the regime taking action like this against somebody so senior and indeed. there were parts of this new crony capitalism that underpin the regime gemma demonstrates that all is not well in need and in a echelons of power now there's a number of scenarios one can consider here there is an extent the regime is trying to shore up its legitimacy at a time of real declining revenues when so many syrians are destitute are below the poverty line. and are resentful of those who have millions who actually show off their wealth in a way and we've seen this or so with the man who found it they have been prepared to that there's been all sorts of stories on social media and pictures of some of their family with fast cars and the like so this is resent it could also be that

given the regime has so little financial results at the moment that they are trying to basically corral in as many billions and billions as they can. 4 people have been killed in libya in the latest airstrikes by the warlord to leave after us forces it happened in the town of to jura east of tripoli several more people were injured last week after announced what he called the final offensive to take the capital tripoli where libya's internationally recognized government has reportedly asked turkey to send ground troops the countryside to military cooperation deal last month tripoli has already requested warplanes and naval vessels for the past few years libya has been divided between 2 rival governments the un recognized administration there by prime minister fires are surat is based in tripoli it's supported by turkey and most western nations including italy which is worried the fighting near the capital will force more people to cross the mediterranean in the

east there is the to brook based government the center of power for the warlords only for half the he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support for his forces rid of there while head is in tripoli and says the request is a sign that un backed government troops may be struggling to stop after us forces advancing. government sources say that the type of turkish military. individuals requested by their d.n.a. the government of national court is military commanders and the government officials say that the troops on the ground did the government forces are in need of military commanders to arrange this battle and to run the battle on the ground to prevent have to his forces from entering get their capital

why now the government is demanding military commanders because have to his forces have been recently advancing with the help of russian is according to the government military sources. russian mysteries are fighting for have to and have to this force have been receiving advanced weapons from the united arab emirates and also from russia now. says that in order for the government to send troops to libya it needs to submit a mandate to the turkish parliament so that it could be endorse it and then in this case it can send troops to libya 50 student groups in new delhi about you just a controversial citizenship law they're also calling for a national protest day across india opponents so if the new law discriminates against muslims and violates the secular constitution at least 25 people have been

killed during protests since the legislation was passed nearly 2 weeks ago and this book around them is in new delhi and says the protests look like they'll continue. we saw protests not just here but also continuing in the western city of. the capital of west bengal state where the chief minister has held large rallies every day for the last 8 or 9 days people keep showing up and also another a large protest in the southern city of china is the people very much continuing to send the message to the government 2 weeks i think almost off the bilbo's pos that they're not ok with it as the bill was passed by both houses of parliament and where as in the last few days it did look like the government might backtrack not on the citizenship amendment act but something called the national register of citizens and the thousands of people who've been out on the streets for the last

few weeks they have actually been protesting about both things both the citizenship law and the national register of citizens which is an exercise that was carried out in the northeastern state of which required everyone to prove this that of the ship of the government has wanted to carry out around the country 1300000000 people needing to prove their citizenship now in the last few days we did hear the prime minister seemed to backtrack on that but in the last hours the government has cost funding for a type of census which is seen as a precursor for this national register of citizens so since that is something that's happened we really expecting these protests to just continue. france is facing widespread travel disruption during the busy christmas holiday as strikes of the pension reform show no sign of easing transporter going heavily restricted with up to 80 percent of trying service is canceled but has been a smith reports from paris people appear generally sympathetic to the process. just

2 out of 5 high speed trains are running across france on christmas eve one of the busiest travel periods of the year but with a nationwide transport strike now in its 3rd week many travelers are used to the disruption seemed to a found a work around paris his garden or was busy but not chaotic and he was tired i think it's it's to be all very. i mean i'm sure the other side i can understand you know the reason for the strike and everything i've been looking for a way to get away the status of no no they still haven't been able to find. so it's like it was it was disrupted the national rail operator s.n.c.f. will only guarantee travel for those who booked tickets in advance and even they may not have a seat the s.n.c.f. says the strike is costing it $22000000.00 a day in lost revenue. in 1995 after 3 weeks of public sector strikes in the

run up to christmas the government caved in and shelved plans to reform france's pension and welfare system there's no indication so far that the government will perform a similar retreat this time. there seems to be no end in sight to the east transport strikes the government and the unions will meet again in the 2nd week of january but that's when they'll also be another round of nationwide demonstrations. i'll just era palettes. still ahead on al-jazeera. behaves. like its course television is a computer case to them revealing the hidden harmlessness of the so-called sofa surfers in the u.k. during the holiday period. after months of protests and we'll hear why quality is one of the big problems they face.

hello again and welcome back to international weather forecast well this hour i do want to start here in tehran not a lot of activity on our satellite that's not really the problem in terms of whether it's actually the very bad air quality that they have been dealing with over the last week and a half and as you can see really bringing that visibility down schools have been closed since last week when they're going to be closed this week as well and unfortunately we're not going to be seeing much of a break until the system out here towards the west starts to move in and that system is going to cause a lot of problems in terms of flooding anywhere from turkey syria down towards parts of lebanon as well as into israel even towards egypt you could be seeing some very heavy rain over the next few days wednesday the rain and the winds will be the big problem and then we're going to be seeing the snow start to accumulate in those higher elevations as well you can see over here towards tehran we do expect to see

some rain coming in in terms of how much rain well it is going to be centered mostly up here cross parts of turkey where we could be see well over $225.00 millimeters of rain just in the next 3 days well across the gulf things are looking quite nice here in doha we're going to sing tempers of about 22 degrees over towards of a dobie on wednesday at 24 but by the time we do get towards wednesday and thursday things warm up to about 20 for. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains because only project does 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. you're watching al-jazeera he's a top stories. the syrian government is strike targeting a school with provinces killed at least 8 people government forces the russian allies are pushing deeper into the last rebel stronghold. for people who'd been killed in libya in the latest strikes by police forces it happened in the town of jura east of tripoli libya recognize government has reportedly asked turkey to send troops. france is facing widespread travel disruption during the busy christmas

holiday strikes of a pension reform showing no signs of easing up to 80 percent of trying service is a cancer. a new electoral law has been approved by the iraqi parliament which was a key to bow out of protest government demonstrations are calling for the removal of the entire political class and an independent minister dorsetshire bari is in baghdad and she explains what the changes will mean for. there being called a very significant change to the country's electoral system this article was passed just a short time ago in parliament it includes 50 divisions within it which states that the country's electoral system will not be changed it will be one that it will be based on direct voting rather than parties having electoral lists of candidates that they selected this is something that was very important to the demonstrators and it took weeks of political wrangling to make it happen in parliament a number of sessions were held without any of these laws being passed but finally

on tuesday the country's parliament managed to get it through and it's being seen as a very significant development and something that would not have happened with. out the protests taking place in this country which began in october it's being seen as a major step towards what the demonstrators and the people of iraq wanted and that is a system which they have some say in how they elect their members of parliament and now this is being seen as something that has been granted to them and it will be very very interesting to see how the demonstrators react to this in the coming days but we're still also waiting for a nominee candidate for the position of prime minister that is something that is being very much the bated now between the various parties in parliament and they hope to have inappropriate candidates in the coming days with the demonstrators have said that despite all their political wrangling they want to be able to elect their own prime minister we'll have to wait and see how that pans out thousands of pilgrims are celebrating christmas in bethlehem in the occupied west bank the

archbishop opened the festivities during the traditional procession in the streets of the old city but many christian palestinians in gaza cannot attend because israel has not given them permits according to the greek orthodox church in gaza only 193 out of the 950 applications have been approved. bethlehem and she says israel's restrictions are being filled by the community. comically and financially the city has always depended on people coming from abroad in the place where christians believe is actually the cradle of christianity the star of bethlehem is something that everybody knows and people have been pilgrims have been coming to this city over the years however living under israeli occupation has definitely had its toll on the businesses on people working here especially as the city relies mainly on that on tourism and joins me now

a 70 year shop owner mr met and i wanted to tell us more about the challenges of a new year shops and other small businesses face here in palestine yes basically the obstacle that we've been trying to deal with lately is the outage of power and water in the city and with the high volume of tourists in our hotels with over then 50 hotels in bethlehem filled up with tourists you know need electricity and they need water along with other stuff so power has been a big big thing going on for the past 2 weeks the israeli company of atrocity is cutting the power at least 2 to 3 hours in the city of bethlehem and the surrounding areas and if we talk about challenges we will also want to talk about hope is there anything that keeps you more hopeful that things are changing oh definitely that's what's keeping me here in this country in palestine in my city

bethlehem the hope is the magic word for everyone and we're hoping for a better future for palestine an independent palestine and within a with our neighbors and also to make palestine a safe place for all people who want to visit palestine and the holy places in our country thank you so much an of course the ministry of tourism has said that around 3 and a half 1000000 visitors have came to palestine during the year in 2019 and of course they're hoping that this season would bring them even more tourism and help bring more businesses to the city. well there's no end inside to a medical staff strike in zimbabwe many doctors are working because they're fighting for better pay and improvement of the health care system and it was hard reports from below while. banda has lost the ability to speak since

a stroke in september disoriented she no longer leaves the confines of her room frequent power cuts means she's for the most part in the dark with her daughter as the tempest so. i asked her do you remember this man pointing at 10 the killers husband and this lady pointing at an old picture of 10 day killing before a stroke 10 they kill a took a nursing aide course thinking she could help sick patients now she's the one who needs help doctors across the we have been on strike since september so the only care she can get is from her daughter sometimes she gets frustrated. we get frustrated. because the times when. we might be looking for something.

and they can hear and understand our conversation when she collapsed during her stroke her family rushed her to one of the few functioning hospitals in the country . most medical staff were on strike and it took 3 days before a doctor could see her condition worsened because of insufficient care her right arm paralyzed the doctors union say the medical system is to blame things like gloves i should say things lake city and needles canyon does i.v. fluids the most basic things that are supposed to find in the last few things they're not to the. hospital director gave al-jazeera rare access to one of them by always public hospital in willow way 0 in the wards he chose to show us there was no shortage of equipment but few medical supplies right now the government is making these major major problem is this the sanctions in there not be lead to good foreign carriers to import trucks so that's beyond my control by in weight i have

to wake and use what devices which is available to save lives most doctors on the wards refuse to talk to us or be filmed a curtain of shame shrouds conditions inside hospitals with doctors paid less than $70.00 a month not only are they protesting over pay and working conditions they say the government is failing to protect the sick but when they took to the streets last september they were met by riot police the government's response was to fire about 400 doctors in a country that's already short of medical staff and while some have returned to work it's the patients and those that are sick and are paying for this crisis private care is an affordable to most zimbabwe carers is an online citizens movement that raises funds to help those desperately in need of treatment but it can only do so much abandoned by a broken health system many people in zimbabwe are left to cope however they can.

or left to suffer alone. nicholas hawk al-jazeera bulawayo zimbabwe. from ecuador to the final months of 2019 sordo the street protests across latin america for many people who are fighting for their own cause there was one issue most had in common inequality a latin america editor lucy newman has this report from santiago. 78 year old widow. is the matriarch of her large family she lives in a low income santiago neighborhood with her daughter and her 2 grandchildren she had little formal education and worked hard all her life 1st in the fields and then as a maid to help the family get ahead. i worked in homes where people with money to love the staff used the same cutlery as the masters they did not eat the same food or use the same crockery either. over t. her 48 year old daughter solange concedes that their economic situation has

improved but not chile's acute class divisions the 23 year old son stephen studied law the 1st in the family to graduate from university but there's still an invisible barrier percentage point in miami and. the students from the upper class have countless advantages from not having to study and work at the same time to access to internal ships and jobs their parents belong to the class with clout and they're not discriminated against because of where they come from. although chile does have the highest per capita income in latin america it also has the highest inequality index the biggest gap between rich and poor in tina for example if you're in the bottom of income you know we'll need up to 6 generations to get to it and to the mean income that's not all a recent study revealed an astonishing statistic women living in the wealthiest

suburbs of santiago have a life expectancy 18 years longer than their counterparts in the poorest municipalities in men the difference is 9 years says dr alexander v this would explain the fact that there is an equalities within the city has to do with the segregation social canonic segregation across the city. this persistent class divide helps explain the recent social outbursts in chile i. wore the 2 months of on going protests that have brought hundreds of thousands on to the streets demanding structural reforms to level the playing field. for more last year gone we were born with different aspirations than our parents and we feel the segregation in the upper class areas when our parents go to work but are treated like inferiors in our neighborhoods that aren't any parks any restaurants cinemas or hospitals. we have to leave our communities to access

a better life that generates resentment and discontent. the inequalities and class privileges in this highly stratified society have been passed on from generation to generation putting an end to that system as with millions of chileans and now fighting for. the sea in human al-jazeera santiago. emergency workers in ecuador say in oil spill from a ship in the galapagos islands has been contained these pictures so the moment a crane collapses was loading a generator onto the vessel the gardens are unesco world heritage site and home to some of the bugs unique ecosystems on earth by famously helped inspire charles darwin's theory of evolution during his visit in 1835 the u.k. homelessness charity crisis has again opened its christmas centers last year more than forward a half 1000 homeless guests were given shelter across britain paul brennan reports

have been a civil stools a bed and breakfast. and for the last 20 years russell was one of the 1st arrivals when the doors opened at this center the street is no place to be at christmas or any other time to killed. and dangerous. drugs. it is a bit. for him this christmas center alleviates the loneliness and boredom of being homeless it means i will be able to spokes which means i'll be alone 'd it means i might be able to use a computer occasionally. we'll have a lot of arts and crafts activities in here for the 7 days that the centers are open they can be a lifeline for homeless guests can get medical checkups advice and counseling as one of the chance to wash and get a haircut and importantly to relax what you see on the last day is

a group of transformed people leaving those that come in very suspicious of people from mainstream society and suspicious of the world in which they are upright leave you know looking much better having showered having had haircuts had their feet looked at they they'd just leave kind of transformed the most visible form of homelessness is of course rough sleeping in doorways for example but new research from crisis this christmas shows that nearly 6 times as many people are caught in a precarious existence no less so for surfing. crisis found 39 percent of sofa surface it stayed at 5 or more different places in the past year including friends and relatives 28 percent had not had a stable home for 4 years or more and 77 percent said their physical health had suffered as a result we're talking about people with my don't even have access washing facilities to let people who might have to go out during the day when they're. so very very unstable situation back at the north london christmas center the

boardgames had begun the escapism in company of the centers are only a temporary respite latest figures show the numbers rough sleeping in england had increased 15 percent on the previous year and when this center shuts next week many of the homeless guests here will be back outside again paul brennan on his iraq north london. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. at least 8 people have been killed after a syrian government is strike targeted a school in the province tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes government forces and their russian allies are pushing deeper into the last rebel stronghold. i want to kill people before they escape here while we're packing the jet came and targeted us and killed a large number and others and

a whole family is missing and syrian customs officials have seize the assets of the country's wealthiest businessman it's the 1st time an order has been issued for running back who is the cousin of president bashar al assad he's been accused of importing products including oil and gas without paying charges and fees the e.u. and u.s. have already imposed sanctions on back live who reportedly control 60 percent of syria's economy 4 people have been killed in libya in the latest airstrikes by the warlord who leave after his forces it happened in the town of to jura east of tripoli last week after announced what he called a final offensive to take the capital tripoli 50 student groups in new delhi marched against a controversial citizenship law opponents say it discriminates against muslims and violates the secular constitution at least 25 people have been killed during protests since the legislation was passed nearly 2 weeks ago. france is facing widespread travel disruption during the christmas holiday because of strikes of

a pension reform up to 80 percent of try and services are cancelled on monday demonstrators confronted police of one of paris's mind roadway stations fireworks and flares were set off inside the 2 week long nationwide walkout has restricted roadway services and forced schools to close. thousands of pilgrims are celebrating christmas in bethlehem in the occupied west bank the archbishop opened the festivities during the traditional procession in the streets of the old city but many christians palestinians in gaza cannot attend because israel has not given them permits according to the greek orthodox church in gaza the 193 out of the 950 applications have been approved those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story.

turkish involvement in libya deepens as ankara moves to support the internationally recognized government militarily will that intensify the conflict he says it's and this is inside story. hello welcome to the show i'm sam he's a that turkey is considering all kinds of military backing for libya that includes ground in the arena and support if necessary president. also said he's ready.