to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study. one on one east investigates the pakistani company at legit links selling fake degrees to the dolls and the police around the world on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. this is the dog coming up in the next 60 minutes. syrian troops targeted the provinces for the last rebel held area intensifies sending felons fleeing for their lot. we're getting word that libya's u.n. recognized government was asked to deploy troops to fight against warlord belief or after. hello i maryam namazie and london with the top stories from europe including

as figures show how. in england we visit the center providing a lifeline for rough sleepers at christmas. let the christmas festivities begin thousands of christians descend on bethlehem the place they believe jesus was born but not everyone will be laid in. and on time the homeless now have all the sporting clearing bangladesh insist they want play their test series and next month. but are open to painting twenties and the country . we begin in syria where the battle for the last rebel stronghold has killed war civilians at least 8 people are dead after a syrian government strike targeted a school in libro 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 turkey wants moscow to create a cease fire. really bad marriage they want to kill people before they escape here while we're packing the chit came in targeted us and killed a large number and injured others and a whole family is messing with mohamad a door is 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 which was the target all from the initial strikes bottle bombs underground shelling but now we're seeing other places also reporting people fleeing 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 to 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 are fleeing 100 under 25000 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 to avoid flooding of course and they are commentating up 200 people in every tent have separate the men and the women but he says there is a lot of suspicion between the people because it has been home to people who. fled

to 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 and of the moment they say 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 is the 1st time an order has been issued for romney back luth 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 all back lou through a report of the controls 60 percent of syria's economy chris doyle is

a middle east analyst and director of the council for arab british understanding he explains why and back live by have been targeted. no matter who family right in the sense of the call of this regime remember the heart as the last sentence the father of bashar last night was not married to a nice matter which is. now weak land as well as the assets and in fact in many ways of her greater social standing and management who's the father rami was very much the regime's banco he is extremely rich so to see the regime taking action like this again somebody so senior and indeed others who were parts of this new crony capitalism that underpin the regime jemmett demonstrates that all is not well in new 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 their feet also also stories on social media and pictures of some of their family with fast cars and the like so this is resent it 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 they can. well 4 people have been killed in libya in the latest their strikes by the warlord who leave a half to us forces it happened in the town of to jura east of tripoli several more people were injured last we have to announce what he called a final offensive to take the capital tripoli libya's internationally recognized

government has reportedly asked turkey to send ground troops the 2 countries signed a 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 led by prime minister fires also raj 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 ace this is the to book based government the center of power for the warlord how they feel hafter he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support for his forces let's go live now to our mood up there why who's in tripoli and just tell us what the implications are now of turkey of libya rather asking turkey to commit ground troops. well the stern

military sources or the government of national court say that they are in need of enforcement and military support and as you know by virtue of that military and security cooperation agreement that was signed by the head of the presidency council face allies and the president of the on by virtue of that agreement d.n.a. the government of national accord can receive military military equipment from turkey but we spoke with sources at the government of national chords it they say that they are requesting. military commanders turkish military commanders to come to tripoli to run the battles on the ground why now

because as you know stand out have to his forces have been progressing recently on the ground and taken control of those threat egypt locations and southern tripoli including get military camps and the government forces say that have to us forces have been supported by russian mercenaries and by advanced weapons from russia and the united arab emirates now by virtue again by virtue of that agreement that was signed between face allies and it on. the libyan side can can receive or military equipment from turkey but regarding the military individuals from turkey to be sent to the government of national called that it requires endorsement from the parliament in turkey stan berde thank you for that we're going to discuss this further now we've got marty

you know his general director of the civic institute joins us from london on skype it's good to have you with us what impact would turkish ground forces have on this conflict. well it's certainly part of the larger international stimulation of this can be but has been going on not really serious free for months that for years now it's interesting to look at these 2 parties on the one hand the libyan national army in the east of libya and the judge in a government national court in western libya when we qualified what those 2 sides really looked like on the libyan national army is part of their side there's not really much that is libyan we think of its air force it's predominantly and almost hardly been run by external actors by the u.a.e. from that in eastern libya using chinese but you would. know that drones at the knees that libya for the last 5 years will documented in the u.n. panel of experts its ground forces have been ineffective since they launched this campaign and they before and were not able to make it possible for the reason that

making in their process suburbs of tripoli is that it is no longer libyan that operation it's entirely run by the going to be the russian missiles that were well known to be operating in syria and then now operating in libya as of the last couple of months not of the days of libyan national armies the libyan recognizability in places even on social media now pictures being they're using kind of a propaganda shattering kind of war crimes for like as has been the case the last 5 years it's kind of co-incidence all we know now is that there is a russian that operation in western libya so the idea that somehow turkey has grabbed the headlines is really going to wrenching it from its context this has been an international conflict for years growing in the last few days but it's been that way for years and turkey going that could perhaps slow down and create some form of the equilibrium but the reality is that a couple of 100 most of these that are on the front lines of tripoli by not enough to send control of the capital there are not to erupt and really potentially cause a very nasty humanitarian crisis on the border or even on the shores of the

mediterranean only kilometers away from europe so it's a very nasty specter and the idea that anyone is not calling for international commission looking at what it's like he has really wants this from its context you touched on something there that i think we should explore and that is the question of the humanitarian impact people caught right in the middle of this water that your worst fiends. well the fears are early that this doesn't paint the actual numbers that already have bad this picture is there were 100000 of them displaced from after his last operation in these now because it had found shelter in tripoli and many other places that isn't a part of this new 200 the 250000 that have already been displaced just from the lightly populated areas of some tripoli now getting into that populated areas of tripoli where they are now from a certain neighborhoods moving towards an area because a lot of the in the harbor these areas have been supporting that but perhaps some of them is that the popular parts of tripoli and the idea to put in words of the

bill in images is just scary it's it's beyond words and us as if you as you've outlined this is a proxy war and it then becomes a magnet for all of the geo political competition of all the international actors and i want you to talk if you could about the influence that the competition for the rich gas reserves of the mediterranean applying here in turkey trying to already signing agreements with the g. and i in trying to take control of those rich resources at the expense of countries like greece for instance. well i think it's interesting because it it's now become a mutually dependent relationship when we look at turkish assistance the government machine it was a shopping list of drones and armored personnel carriers battery lightness that predates even the war these are agreements signed by the ministry of interior for battery of this year 2 months or was slightly now this leg of the number you really give 70 skin in the game and it means that it's not only about protecting a

a friendly government in tripoli or an alley and then in the mediterranean it's about having a government now that is tied to its economic future in turkey so in that respect it gives that depend it's now on the 2nd is that it's going in the game for the g.n.a.t. for the tripoli but ultimately the residents tripoli this is not existential and that's the reason that it's a nation where they're together and i mean no there is no story here about libya's oil reserves gets resumes it's the number one prize the highest number of guys from oil reserves in africa biggest in the world it doesn't need more oil company more gas they need someone to try to get them out of this very nervous the opposite that has been going on for more almost 300 days now. and that's our home audience would have been on the program thank you. let's put a more head on the news hour including a close call in one of the world's most fragile ecosystems that threatens the galapagos islands. in sports james harden and russell westbrook are irresistible for the rockets n.b.a. action coming up like. china japan and south korea have agreed to work together to

promote dialogue between the united states and north korea. the leaders also discuss try to integrate to close a cooperation despite tensions some dating back more than a century between e.u. has this report from beijing. overlooking old wounds by reinforcing ancient ties china japan and south korea presented a united front during the trilateral summit in china's southern city of chengdu. i want to build a new era of 3 kingdoms in which we cooperate and develop together with the international community. 2 setting aside deep grievances dating back to world war 2 the leaders of asia's largest economies pledged to work closer together on trade they want to agree on a 16 nation regional comprehensive economic partnership or. by the end of next year and continue negotiations on a 3 nation free trade agreement trade between south korea japan and china exceeded

$720000000000.00 in 20. 4 we need to protect the free tried in order to help business activities and continue to grow together north korea carrying out a missile test over the christmas period overshadowed some of the pageantry. chinese prime minister lee could chan south korean president and japanese prime minister shinzo agreed to continue supporting negotiations between washington and pyongyang demand for the u.s. to lift economic sanctions has led to a halt in the nuclear talks and an end to a deadline to progress the negotiations is fast approaching. china is north korea's most important ally and sees itself as playing a simple what works and force through privation on the korean peninsula has its thing why did nations to lift sanctions on pill won't help break the deadlock but it's unclear whether seoul or tokyo worth u.s. allies would support the rights. on monday when j.

and she met separately the chinese president xi jinping and james for china the summit is an opportunity to expand its regional influence but the 3 countries have currently embroiled in territorial disputes in the south china sea. south korea and japan are allies with the u.s. so if china can develop and improve the relations with these 2 countries crees u.s. influence in this region and the weakened china's pressure from the u.s. the leaders have signed a 10 year corporation plan which includes tackling shared challenges such as climate change and aging populations but the biggest challenge perhaps is whether they can view each other with trust rather than just directs a chinese al-jazeera beijing welcome cook is a senior fellow at the. institute in singapore he says china u.s. tensions a fueling beijing's push to improve relations with other countries. there's 2

reasons one china wants to show itself as the leading country in east asia the leading power and 2nd that china u.s. relations at the moment are in a very bad position so china wants to improve relations with other major powers particularly japan where it's had a history of rocky relations so donald trump is helping north east asian diplomacy i think there is more incentive but not enough to make a significant difference china japan and south korea been talking about a free trade agreement a trilateral one for almost 20 years with very little progress the as he and lead are separate agreement that has all 3 and used to have india may be an intermediary step but japan is uncertain about its support for our set without india as we have in that intermediate step is looking a little bit unsure at the moment so i think a trilateral between china japan and south korea is a future aspiration rather than

a current possibility the 3 economies in many ways are quite complimentary and very large and have been largely held back not by economic issues but geo political issues so in the future if they could get over their mission trusts and geopolitical issues and have a free trade agreement it would be one of the biggest and most important in the world. police in hong kong who fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters i. uniformed and plain clothes officers charged groups of protesters inside the hub of super bowl the demonstrators were mocking christmassy with flash mob rallies protesting home call and now in the civil month. india has beefed up its security and suspended mobile internet services to tackle protests as a controversy all citizenship law 50 student groups in new delhi have been marching the groups are calling for a national protest die across india opponents say 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 but is lisbeth purana busy 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 a state where the chief minister has held. every day for the last 8 or 9 days people keep showing up and also another a large protest in the southern city of chennai so people are very much continuing to send the message to the government 2 weeks i think almost to the bilbo's pos that they're not ok with it 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 the quad 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 top of said this which is seen as a precursor for this national register of citizens so since that since that's happened we really expecting these protests to just continue. thousands of pilgrims are celebrating christmas in bethlehem in the occupied west bank the archbishop open 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 great wall of the docs church in gaza and the 193 out of the 950 applications were approved let's go live to new abraham now who's in bethlehem and how people celebrating there. so palestinians here in bethlehem are celebrating christmas eve which is basically the occasion when all eyes turn to bethlehem which is basically the birthplace of jesus over 2000 years ago as for the christian belief and we've been seeing festivities unfold throughout the day since the archbishop has added them to the church they will culminate today tonight in the midnight mass and joining me here today to talk more about that is mr is always will be he's the director of we conflict transformation center and he's an activist you live in bethlehem what does

christmas mean to the people in between a christmas mean it's a lot for us it's a celebration from all kinds of oppression tovan as well as emancipation for a new world where the baby jesus christ as liberated us because he was born in the same condition as any palestinian is all known going to a cure patient he took refuge in egypt palestinians to clear future in all the arab world and then here return to nazareth the exercise the right of return of palestinians this is a christmas means unity diversity and unity and we see that our people despite of all. all oppression denial of internally denial of the freedom of religion freedom of movement we see our people from gaza from the galilee from jerusalem from

different parts of the west bank today celebrated the birth of lord jesus christ and speaking of unity in the freedom of movement you yourself have a story with christmas in the past few years can you tell us a little bit more on your family's experience with chris he lived the separation from my wife as a result of this israeli oppression were they denied to have a visa in the last few months she's a foreigner she is american even after what mr trump give jerusalem and the golan heights there's really denied my wife to live with me and the family and to celebrate the christmas and this is really it's not healthy at all this because christmas is the unity of the family the family of the duck we are in the steps of this holy family so this is really and this is not only that we just mean there are 30000 palestinians living in this separation with their spouses because

their spouses either palestinians who are from outside from the us were all or foreign. since and so this is really something that is painful that something is really not healthy and it is against the human rights thank you so much and as we heard many families say that they live difficult conditions however they look at this season as an opportunity to find a whole to celebrate an occasion celebrate happily in an otherwise very difficult political situation and abraham lives in bethlehem. still ahead on the al-jazeera after months of protests we'll hear what many say is one of the big problems they face. people were interested and they cared and they said no we're not going to let you spend money to tear it down. was described as a historic 'd ruin the new york is getting an expensive. trimming of

a fight christmas the gloves are off of the united the festive spirit. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecasts 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 in 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 dhabi on wednesday at 24 but by the time we do get towards wednesday and thursday things warm up to about 24. in africa's technological at the center not fluent in group of a team to live side by side. in its last episode life ops challenges kenyan up

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you're watching al-jazeera he's a top stories a syrian government is strike targeting a school in the provinces killed at least 8 people government forces and their russian allies are pushing deeper into the last rebel stronghold. libya's internationally recognized government has reportedly asked turkey to send ground troops its forces of battling fighters loyal to board only for half the full control of the capital tripoli. thousands of pilgrims are celebrating christmas in bethlehem in the occupied west bank but many christian palestinians in gaza cannot attend because israel has not given them permits. a new electoral law has been approved by the iraqi parliament which was a key demand of protesters but anti-government demonstrators are calling for the

removal of the entire political class and an independent prime minister who was in baghdad and she explains what the changes will mean for. there are 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's 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 of a 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 without 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 had wanted and

that is a system which they have some say the 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 was still also waiting for a nominee candidate for the position of prime minister that is something that is being very much debated 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 will have to wait and see how that pans out. the defining feature of iraq's months long anti-government demonstrations has been the complete rejection of all political parties but one movement has managed to side the satirists led by shia cleric. simona 14 reports from baghdad. every afternoon half an hour and his friends load his pickup truck full of supplies for

demonstrators in baghdad square hassen is from such a city the stronghold of influential shiite cleric mark that assad that this is the capital's most populated and marginalized neighborhood it is also a lifeline for the protest. so says he can be considered a large storage of humans the majority of the protesters are from starter city and in addition most of the supplies are from sort of city. the sudras dominant role in the protest is controversial protestors have rejected the entire political establishment which technically includes own party if you dare to speak out against the cleric in public sutter also appears wary of a backlash and has ordered his followers not to openly discuss their allegiance sutter himself has retreated to iran for religious studies and we were intent to the process as iraqi people. if the leader came out with us he would be exposed to danger shia cleric commander of insurgencies populist leader of iraq street protest

look that a starter has taken many roles over the years and he has become the kingmaker in iraqi politics now he faces a particularly delicate balancing act his followers form the backbone of protest against the government that he helped form and a parliament in which his party holds the biggest share of seats sutter's party saw it all in 154 of iraq's 329 parliamentary seats in the 2800 but following prime minister out of his resignation the party announced it would nominate a replacement former m.p. he was part of sutter styron alliance but resigned when protests began there is a feeling among. what whoever who by the. on the because of the presence of. a merger or it is reported by a group may go and the person will be more formal where

is the bonded by the same group. critics say saw it on some refusal to nominate a new prime minister is a populist move and an effort to ensure political survival supporters like her son call it a genuine step towards meeting protesters demands and although sudras party won't officially name a candidate that doesn't mean the sudras haven't made a choice a list of candidates considered acceptable isp into towns across the area including hasan. some say. those 5 candidates based on the consensus of the people in the square use their old independent and they don't belong to any side or particular party we select a v.m. for a transitional period until there are early elections in 6 to 12 months rival iranian backed parties have put forward their own candidates whether or not the sudras will get their way will be a test of sudras political influence but no matter who gets their man at the helm of government satirise command over iraq streets appears uncontested simona fault

al-jazeera part of that abbas has plunged off a road into a river in indonesia killing at least 25 people it happened in a remote part of southern at least 50 passengers might have been on the bus rescue teams are searching for survivors. the ecuadorian coast guard says an oil spill in the galapagos national park has been contained an emergency cleanup operation began on sunday on the island of san cristobal a 1000 kilometers off the my lai. these are the dramatic moments when a crane collapsed while loading a generator onto a ship the crew diving into the water as it begins to founder. after taking quick action to save themselves work began to save the delicate marine life around them. i mean this is approximately 2000 liters of diesel was in the oil it's being

handled in a way to prevent a significant environmental impact ecuador's government declared an emergency after the incident on sunday and by monday it said it was under control we shouldn't be relaxed about this it's not a minor issue if we hadn't reacted as we did it could have been a lot more serious. the galapagos islands are home to dozens of vulnerable species found nowhere else in the world the region's diversity helps inspire charles darwin's theory of evolution after a visit to the islands more than 200 years ago half of the reptile species here are threatened or endangered marina guana species were decimated during a 2001 oil spill that dumped hundreds of thousands of liters of fuel into the ocean scientists later discovered it killed 60 percent of marina guam as a nearby santa fe island. early tests on animals nearby showed no visible signs of damage from sunday's spill but the government says it's too early to see the impact on the ecosystem. this is one of the world's most fragile ecosystems with threats

like climate change already an issue more will have to be done to prevent spills like this after schapelle al-jazeera. freds is facing widespread travel disruptions during the busy christmas period as strikes of the pension reform so no saw of easing we're going out of the european. that's right stand transport is having restricted for the holidays with up to 80 percent of train service is cancelled a french rail appraiser sound c.f.s. lost more than $420000000.00 because of this so far but to as bennett smith now reports to us from the capital paris people are generally sympathetic to the protesters. 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 good to be ready for it to be over but again it's i mean i'm sure the other side we're going to understand you know the reason that it's taken everything that we've been looking for a way to get to where the city of chicago is now or those that haven't been able to find a look at it so it's like my journey this was disrupting the national rail operator s.n.c.f. will only guarantee travel for those who vote 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 these 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 burnitz many are just era pounds. the russian president vladimir putin says russia will continue strengthening its nuclear forces and developing the site missiles until new arms control agreements are reached at an annual meeting of russia's ministry of defense positions at 82 percent of the country's nuclear arsenal has been modernized it also said russia is the only country in the world to have hypersonic myself going into service which try 10 times faster than the speed of sound and can carry a nuclear or conventional warhead. bigger. we are ready to work on new arms control agreements but until this process is launched we will strengthen our own nuclear forces i mean equipping ourselves who strategic hypersonic missile forces with modern complexes and strategic missiles as well as u.k.'s submarines are our

navy and we will continue to work on the creation of other missile systems capable of defending russia and its allies. now a british homelessness charity has opened its annual christmas centers to give people a place to stay over the festive period last year the centers gave more than 4 and a half 1000 people shelter across britain and this year the charity crisis is highlighting the hidden homelessness of so called sofa surfing for brennan explains . i've been in a lot of our stalls and bed and breakfast or the ring and for the last 1020 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 build there and really is dangerous you know the old. the old. school billet of troops ready it gets a bit. it's with the state and. for him this christmas center alleviates the

loneliness and boredom of being homeless it means i will be able to slinks a means of the award it means and i'd be able to watch television use a computer to work. we'll have a load of arts and crafts activities in for the 7 days that these centers are open they can be a lifeline 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 operate leave you know looking much better haven't showered haven't had haircuts have their feet looked at they they just leave can transform and 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 whom i don't even have access to washing facilities to read people who might have to go out during the day when the ice this is there so very very unstable situation back at the north london christmas sent to the board games had begun the escapism in company of the centers are only a temporary rest part latest figures show the numbers rough sleeping in england had increased 15 percent on the previous year when this center shuts next week many of the homeless guests here will be back outside again paul brennan on his iraq north london. more from london for you a bit later in the well actually in about 20 minutes now back to stan into the well

from ecuador to the follow months of 2019 saw daily street protests across latin america while many people are fighting for their own cause there was one issue most had in common inequality a latin america editor lucien newman has this report from santiago. 78 year old widow royal 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 didn't let the staff use the same cutlery as the masters they did not let us 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 there in miami and back you will know 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 your will need up to 6 generations to get to 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 ivey this would explain the fact that there is an equality is within the city has to do with the segregation social phenomena segregation across the city. this persistent class divide helps explain the recent social outbursts in chile i. wore the 2 months of ongoing protests that have brought hundreds of thousands on to the streets demanding structural reforms to level the playing field. the more that's your gone we were born with different aspirations than our parents and we feel the segregation in the upper class areas where 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. to

inequalities and class in this highly stratified society had been passed on from generation to generation putting an end to that system as with millions of. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. in the northwest of england probably the most the walled. longish. bar in the boyhood.

one of the most prominent relics from new york's not in 64 world's fair is getting a facelift the new york stock to video observation towers were meant to be temporary but ended up being too expensive to christensen live shows us around. they were the centerpiece of the 1964 world's fair exhibition in new york the observation towers once a bold vision of hope in the future now after decades of neglect a crumbling relic of the past but a new plan aims to update the towers for the 21st century i am excited by this i'm excited the excitement was catching and that other people felt it too and understood the historic kirsten storable concept of making sure that this new york city building was saved that it become a tourist attraction for people from all across the world the renovation in

flushing meadows queens is projected to cost $24000000.00 and is expected to be complete in the spring of 2021 the work will include water proofing the bases of the towers stair replacements electrical upgrades and conservation work it never would have happened without conservationists who campaigned tirelessly for the overhaul and in recent years did their part to help even chipping in to repaint the former new york state pavilion next to the towers see history come back to life and see the park sort of you know regain a great icon and a great asset we couldn't be happier we could be more excited for ourselves personally but for everybody it was going to stand to benefit this for generations to come. the groundbreaking ceremony was attended by politicians and by people who took part in the 1964 world's fair a long time waiting you know it's going to be in stages and i hope to be around long enough to see it all done but the so much potential here there really is.

people cared people were interested and they cared and they said no we're not going to let you spend money to tear it down we'd rather spend money to fix it and preserve it and project it and bring it back to life even once the renovation is complete the observation tower will remain off limits to visitors at least for now the hope is it will be a beacon drawing people to this far corner of the city for a glimpse of its forgotten glory. to being a new generation a chance to create their own memories of the towers christian salumi al-jazeera new york and us talk this board know his son thank you very much a stanwell bangladesh cricket board insists that its national team won't play a test series and pakistan despite a successful visit by sri lanka has ended in karachi this week to say they will only play a short t 20 series to allow them to safety conditions countries have avoided the test

matches in pakistan since the 2009 attack on the sri lanka team bus and the whole bangladesh has a drawn widespread criticism from pakistan cricket officials. the russian olympic committee say it will join with the country's anti doping agency to peel it's banned from major sporting events the ban means a russian athletes will only be able to compete at next year's summer games in tokyo on the day lympics lag the wall the anti doping agency was are handed russia a 4 year ban for doping irregularities they ruled earlier this month that russia had manipulated the doping in the board's data to cover up pasta fences. the russian anti-doping agency does not agree with the want a sanctions the russian olympic committee will participate in the appeal process as the 3rd party because of the olympic charter violations we have selected lawyers

which represent our interests. the northwest of england is a hotbed of world football that includes liverpool manchester city and united a few kilometers away a club that was once a mighty has a fall and. were expelled from the english football league fans are holding on to hope that it can be there's a direct hit. right now it's the football it was like having a massive family all we want is just a quote to support the new the debt that we feel what is a football club who is it fall in the shadow of the famous manchester clubs in the north west of england barry for 134 years very football club was that the people of the town they were feared by their vibrant and drooping crowds very again as i think you know twice by one the famous by cop. they gave lang

ground is now deserted the club close to mismanagement from their own is largely to blame that the business football has become the no force the ring is one of the most important areas of world football some of the big premier league clubs liverpool bunch of the 30 minute just united all from this area if i taught my kids 20 football a crop of about a 5th of the football league come from the north west of england courses 19 would have demise of barry i think football is just it's a working class for us and it always has been it was formed in the mills if you couldn't afford to go to the games as a lot of people couldn't it didn't matter because you could still chance he may on the corner of the street gary hey did you see what happened did you read in the paper you know i don't think people understand much or football fun what is life to

then leave and you. know you had gosh i'm playing fields i rise early and still dream of a goal of winning maybe a career in football barry under seventeen's applying little borah. volunteers still providing time and support for young players working with barry's community trust this was the idea that if you bring him through the ranks. be taken away from them which is a shame. on the other side of town for a different age group in football the community work of barely see continually keep matter is one of the people keeping it alive for now. it just doesn't it isn't the job. is absolutely vital there's a lady. and her parents went to a thing called sports in memories which are for peace which is something we do with

people with dementia alzheimer's etc just over there by the social corps and she said in a moment of alive the year fell on the premier league game was given as a formed in and so the summer. going to continue beyond. james bentley watched his 1st barry game aged 7 with his father 23 was he's lucky guy. who were able to take the field a good line i missed this place with everything in my brain at the moment. i know i don't look forward to the weekend i do a 5 day work in weight monday to friday 9 to 5 in an office and previously you'd be sitting either thinking with about football to go through this week i'm out of any good way to going to go through now what i'm after. fans still come together could bury rise again a phoenix club somewhere down the leagues but alive and we don't want to be in a situation again never a line of individuals who are probably actually delivering. his own come i don't

think yes you have hope in the. going this is one of these fans me weekends this is the phoenix we got to keep our minds to keep even though. we will be very very. very controversial joining the process the dial has stayed away from the town and would not respond to all questions the english football league or expelled the club says it will review its procedures but told u.k. government inquiry responsibility lies with the owners of barry. bonds for many cobs have left skalds a messages of support for former england manager bobby robson once said what is a football club not the buildings or directors or people who represent it it's the noise the passion the feeling of belonging the pride in your town who i

enjoy. and what i intend to do with it which club which town is next to suffer the why barry has. al-jazeera in the town of bury. the. big match ups on christmas day he said the pad for their game at golden state with. $62.00 points rockets winning hung a $104.00. in the n.h.l. boston finally broken on the wanted streak the bruins hadn't beaten the washington capitals in boston in 5 years before the caps showed up on monday but they had banished at that record with a 73 when. that's it for me will have more later on but for now it's back to stan of the thank you for that and that's it for this news about calling the most you can see all of the.

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ruling with an eye and faced 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 the 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 in cairo on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the row 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 minority youth in the world. displaced by fighting then targeted by government jets at least 8 people are killed in an as strike on a school in syria's edler province. i know i'm maryam namazie and on and you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program reports that libya's internationally recognized government has asked for the support of turkish ground troops as the battle for the capital intensifies to find protesters keep up the pressure on india's government as anger over.