new yorkers are very receptive towns because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the opposite news our lawyer from coming up in the next 60 minutes india's government approves a $500000000.00 budget for a controversial population survey but critics say discriminates against muslims. at least kill the syrian government jet strike a school sheltering displaced people turkey is now pressing russia to mediate

a truce. in libya turkey considers providing military help for the u.n. but government in tripoli plus. i was on a big job in kazakhstan and i'll tell you how the country is trying to move away from its hydrocarbon based economy and finding investment in renewable sources. india's cabinet has announced new guidelines and approved funds for an updated national population register that critics fear could be used to further discriminate against muslims the survey was introduced in 2010 but for the 1st time people will be asked to share information about the date and place of birth of their parents they'll also be asked to give details about density documents like voter cards driving licenses and passports the government has approved more than 500 $1000000.00 in funding for the excise meanwhile the protests continue. cross

the country against a new citizenship law that's widely seen as on to muslim since it was passed 2 weeks ago at least 25 people have been killed in the violence elizabeth has more on the latest on wrist. marching to the beat of their own drum thousands of people that defied a bat on public gatherings in the indian capital. they oppose a recently passed the law that grant citizenship to religious minorities from ghana's fon pakistan and bangladesh but excludes muslims i think this lawyer exists threat to the idea of a secular india as it is defined in the constitution it all took on the back of the many other groups you know things that causes all resentment against the government it's not one thing it's an accumulated resentment against his government a government could fix a is using ideological issues like religion to distract people from the problems facing the country their real issue is that economies on the slowdown that

unemployment it is regarded neven in the last 40 years that. distress and in order to divert attention from those issues. brought in the people here said they won't let the government do that. here chanting slogans against the government and the police would told earlier to detain demonstrations they just watching from the sidelines. they were even bigger protests elsewhere from asked some of the northeast to sound him in the south but the governing be j.p. insists these are small sporadic protests being prompted by political parties look at the protests today it is the protest you just you just you just came from a gentleman. you know in a city of people if you have 200 people 30100 people and you say that is for this do you think that's relevant please. give me

a break by the government has launched a campaign on social media to calm the anger in the muslim community really want to assure them that there is really no real grounds for wanting what is a cone this act does not discriminate against them. india supreme court is expected to hear the case next month. for the government of the day into the movie. since protests pose the biggest challenge since he came to power 5 years ago elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi let's talk about gopalaswami he's a senior fellow at the observer research foundation he joins us via skype from new brunswick new jersey brad what do you make of the timing of this announcement then by the indian government about updating the national population register i mean why now and what's the thinking behind it i think it's just poor timing and i don't know what the thinking behind it person but it also sense breaks taken or not and the prime ministers. in

a way launched its election campaign new delhi is going into a state lakshman he launched a campaign. a couple of days ago and the ex-president he was about he raised in a way he was trying to reassure but then this announcement comes at the heels of this whole citizenship amendment so you know it's at one level you're trying to reassure the public that it's not discriminate careered the other level you're trying to put your foot on the gas and saying we're going to. embark on such a diverse. so it is in its work i mean poorly judged and. at many levels it also but i don't know that so confuse government or not know in which direction that they want to have a bit but be very clear about one thing it's very clear that they're not going to back off from the citizenship amendment bill despite the protests yet given given given all the anger given all the anger and deadly violence over the citizenship law is this then how is this likely to be seen as yet another tool that will discriminate against muslims. well i mean let's you know let's rewind it to the

summer right restarted with fish in the air that may have a problem but issue with the supreme court was the judgment of building a temple on the disputed land and then when you come up with this the national register of citizen just in the northeast then you come on but the citizenship bill then you know allocate funding for the national population register so it's not one data point now you know my critics might argue that that speculator these are 5 different issues in 5 different directions but there is a common element that there is a common undertone about the discrimination of muslims that's why you see a need today anger that people coming onto the streets and protesting like the gentleman on your show said where are their protests but you know that's not the point the protests are there are protests and there is an international media and there is an outcry about this right so when you couple oldest things when you look or look at all these things in its entirety there is a trajectory there is a curve that you can plot and that curb sometimes it's not in

a good direction yeah and in a in a recent speech at a rally in new delhi the prime minister narendra modi trying to calm fears saying look muslims about nothing to worry about but the n.p.r. would do well will no doubt inflame tensions as you say and it does send mixed signals doesn't it. yeah i mean you know like the prime minister. the prime minister's words are not essentially followed by action right i mean within 2 days you have an n.p.r. coming out so i mean it's it's just too it's not comfortable it's if i were sitting on the other side and if you have you know the. i think that has plans of the b.g.p. ruling party reaching out to a majority of people to reassure them and articulating their views now wouldn't that be logical 1st step then allocating funding for this and making a big announcement for this so i i worry that such steps might be too little too late and that the government wants to dowse tensions up that that's where they should have proceeded yeah and just a final point here bottom of how much longer this undermine the campaign go over

the ideology of the b j p because then seem to be addressing issues like the economy as you say jobs and the crisis in the farming community right there is a gentleman who said you know those are real issues why are you know ok if i were like if if the legislation were passed along side of those issues where you know there was an onion crisis people are not talking about the onion crisis that there's a jobs crisis people are not talking about the jobs crisis anymore and the i.m.f. just released its report on the you know the dangers of canadian slowdown so those are fundamental real issues and those are going to affect the people and not a not a divisive agenda like that's but the police on me thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera pleasure. now at least 35 civilians mostly women have been killed in an attack in northern bettina fast fighters launched similar tenuous raids on an army base and civilians near the town of our 7 members of the local security forces were also killed aquino fastow's

president says the attack was eventually repelled and 80 rebel fighters were killed . we have to think about solidarity and national cohesion people women for the most part were getting water and got murdered in cold blood by the terrorists while they were retreating that we must show compassion with the populations that is why all flags will fly at half mast for 2 days and all christmas celebrations are cancelled well became a fast that was once a pockets of relative calm in the sahara region but security has worsened over the past 5 years the ousting of longtime president blaise campo reign october 24th seen created a security vacuum which has been exploited by several armed groups as well as homegrown fighters groups from mali affiliated with al qaeda and i still across the border and added to the unrest since 2015 more than 700 people have been killed by the violence and almost half a 1000000 have been displaced in attacks of sword since january let's bring in william laurance a professor of international affairs at the george washington university where part

of his teachings focus on backing a fast so joins us live from washington d.c. william the numbers being reported dead a quite staggering 35 civilians 80 jihadist fighters killed how frequent are these sorts of attacks near the mali border and who is behind them. where there's been hundreds of attacks this year one group said it was a 7000 percent increase in the year before but they usually have very lowly fallacy if you look at the list of attacks it's one or 2 victims this is the worst attack ever as far as i know in brooklyn of which had its 1st terrorism attacks only in 2015 and both the frequency and lethality of attacks have increasing but this is much much worse and we know that islamic militants in mali who are under pressure from french forces that do spillover into bikini fast but what's their intention with this violence some said the militants are looking to provoke some kind of

intercommunal strife well that's all true but that's not the main thing going on here this is a a group led by someone from. recruiting fighters from kenya faso even though they launch attacks from mali and while they are trying to sow chaos and they are under pressure from the french their main goal is to liberate this area and establish an islamic state not unlike what we saw in the north of mali in in 2012 and so they're going to keep going you know whatever the french are doing and whatever. the other secure the security forces in the region are doing they're going to keep attacking and continue to recruit people because the security forces in burkean have themselves been committing some atrocities as have defense forces and so populations are kind of on the run now and they don't know who to trust and this situation is getting so bad that my former organization crisis group's latest

report is about containing the jihadist explosion in burkina from infecting the 4 countries to the south not even about solving the problem within burkina faso yeah and that's an important point to make because i'm going to ask you how is the violence affecting ordinary people in this part of the fast so we know that thousands of people have been displaced by the violence. over a half 1000000 displaced this year some humanitarian missions search saying over a 1000000 we have 20 percent of the population for kenya that's food in secure some facing starvation 90 percent of those fleeing the violence are just going to other parts of bikini looking for food looking to stay with relatives or or other friendly people and burkina of course is one of the poorest countries in the world and simply doesn't have the resources a lot of international humanitarian of aid aid is available but it's not getting to these regions because of the insecurity so it's another one of these situations like yemen like many other places where even when there is goodwill from the

international community the aid doesn't get to the populations it needs to get to william lawrence thank you for talking to us. lots more still to come on the news hour including what's pushing china japan and south korea to bury decades old differences and put up a show of unity. on anti-government protesters in iraq a project of the main political parties we look at the one movement that still influential. and support one of european football's most feared strikers stuns fans by making a shocking new details later in the sport. now at least 8 people including 5 children have been killed by a syrian government asked targeting a school it happened in the town of joe bass that's in italy province the last rebel held on clay that hundreds of the space syrians had been sheltering inside the school when it was hit by syrian government forces but by their russian allies

have made steady gains since launching an offensive to retake last week more than 40 villages are now under their control well the surge in fighting prompted a turkish delegation to travel to moscow to push for a cease fire that's as a wave of syrian refugees fleeing the fighting living towards the turkish border and the u.n. says $80000.00 people have been displaced since the offensive intensified earlier this month when mamma though is on the turkey syria border he says refugees are now under even more pressure. 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 for 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 convoy 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 and 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. well as a former advisor to the state department on syrian issues he says without outside help it will fall to government forces the latest escalations around moderates now what no man is really just 15 to 20 miles south of it live city and this campaign which began in april and which has displaced about half a 1000000 people already is well on its way to probably capturing the rest of the

province a foreign intervention by an outside power anyone who is worried in 2016 when i looked it was falling and was aghast at the images of people seeking refuge in europe and drowning in the mediterranean should be extremely worried because you have 3000000 people civilians there are now at risk and will do whatever they can to escape certain death and which mean pushing toward turkey pushing toward europe pushing toward lebanon pushing toward anywhere else but. the hell that the russians have created for them this is the same scenario that has been playing out in syria since 2011 homes rustan's. aleppo now it's at lip we know how this is going to go and really the world has only watched it. syrian customs officials have seen the assets of the country's wealthiest businessmen as the 1st time an order has been issued for rami

microphones the cousin of the president bashar al assad has been accused of importing products including oil and gas without paying charges and fees in un the u.s. have already imposed sanctions on little who reportedly control 60 percent of syria's economy well chris doyle is a middle east analyst who explains why makeover may 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 sent was not marriage to a nice matter which is a much looser. and now we clan and 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 you get somebody so senior and indeed others who were part of this new crony capitalism that underpin the regime jemma demonstrates that all is not well in near

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 or 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 a man who found it they're happy that they're be 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 it could also be that given the regime has so little financial resources at the moment that they are trying to basically corral in as many billions and billions they can. at least 4 people have been killed in libya in the latest s trikes by forces loyal to the warlord only for have to several others were

injured when a vegetable market was struck in the town of the jura east of tripoli last week have to announce what he called a final offensive to take the capital where libya's internationally recognized government is believed to have asked turkey to send ground troops and ankara is reportedly preparing to respond to that request the past few years libya has been divided between 2 rival governments the u.n. recognize of ministration and by prime minister fires else iraq is based in tripoli it's supported by turkey and most western nations including italy which is worried the fighting will force more people to cross the mediterranean in the east there's the to base government the center of power for the warlord and even have to he's backed by egypt saudi arabia russia and the united arab emirates france is also accused of providing military support for its forces out of the war has more from tripoli on the government's request for turkish military help. government sources say that the type of turkish military. individuals requested

by the g.n.a.t. the government of national chord 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 range 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 medicine and is according to the government military source of. russian mysteries are fighting for how 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 endorsing it and then in this case it can send troops to libya u.s. president donald trump has joked about north korea's warning of a christmas surprise if washington does not make concessions and nuclear talks earlier this month pyongyang gave the u.s. until the end of the year to come up with a new proposal. maybe it's a very rosy no real surprise and we're certainly beautiful bars. and we're going to bars you can begin to emerge president you don't like you never are. russia's president says his country will continue strengthening its nuclear forces and developing hypersonic missiles until a new arms control deals are reached at an annual meeting of russia's defense ministry vladimir putin said washington's withdrawal from a cold war era nuclear treaty and the expansion of nato were key concerns for

moscow he says 82 percent of the country's nuclear arsenal has been modernized. to go 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 through t.g. card with sonic missile forces with modern complexes and strategic missiles as well as you can use submarines who are our navy and we will continue to work on the creation of other missile systems capable of defending russia and its allies china japan and south korea have agreed to work together to promote dialogue between the united states and north korea the country's 3 leaders made the pledge at a summit in southern china that leaders also discuss trade and agreed to closer cooperation despite tensions dating back more than a century katrina you reports now from beijing. overlooking old wounds by reinforcing ancient times china japan and south korea presented

a united front during the trilateral summit in china's sudden city of trying to do whatever they i want to build a new era of 3 kingdoms in which we cooperate and develop together with the international community. 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 chant south korean president one day in 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 for 3 preservation on the korean peninsula has its thing why did nations to lift sanctions on plan want to help break the deadlock but it's unclear whether so or tokyo worth u.s. allies would support the troops. on monday and wednesday and she met separately the chinese president xi jinping in beijing 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 it will decrease 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 chain al-jazeera beijing. violent protests a broken out at a number of shopping malls in hong kong during a busy christmas scene with riot police firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators just as brothers and other objects of the police and charge at them with battens families have been gathering in a busy tourist district to view the christmas lights the protests are now in their 7th month and demonstrators say they want to stage another march on new year's day . time for a short break here on jazeera when they come back after months of protests in chile we'll hear what many say is one of the biggest problems they face. will be in bethlehem as thousands of christian pilgrims from around the world

gather to celebrate christmas. and in support of bangladesh reject a tour of attention from one of their asian cricketing rivals sun i will explain in the sport more in that stay with us. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across china things are looking too bad but we do expect to see over the next few days more rain and more clouds developing particular across the central areas so here on wednesday shanghai you can be on the edge of that rain but watch as we go from wednesday to thursday we're going to see more rain pushing down here towards the south we listen temptress dropping significantly down from 17 to about 7 degrees by the time we do get towards thursday but a very nice day in hong kong with the temperature there of 26 degrees well for the philippines we did see landfall of our typhoon that is fan phone that is making its

way towards the west bring some very heavy flooding rain across much of central philippines mudslides landslides and flooding will continue over the next 24 to 48 hours as we go from wednesday as well as into thursday the system will enter into the south china sea it will start to strengthen again and we're going to be watching this very carefully because by the time we get towards the end of the week that system will be traveling more towards the west and it could be vietnam by the weekend that could be impacted by the storm well here across india we are going to see an increase of moisture as well over the next few days more clouds developing across much of the central regions that could bring some rain as well over the next few days and for kolkata do expect to see a temperature of 25 degrees. whether sponsored by i can't tolerate this. this is a boon for blind people right now in technology there is so much going to help people it's phenomenal thanks for calling i read this is there and what are you looking for today we get to assist the client with their day to day tasks and give

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welcome back i'm out of our top stories here on al-jazeera india has announced new guidelines and funding for an updated population register which critics fear could be used to further discriminate against muslims as protests against new citizenship read the legislation also seen as down to most been been going on for 2 weeks. at least 35 civilians mostly women have been killed in an attack by armed fighters near i've been to ignore them but. the country's president says the raid was eventually repelled the 80 rebel fighters were killed. and i think 8 people have been killed in the last track in syria as government forces continue their push to retake the rebel held in the province hundreds of space syrians were sheltering in a school in the town of job us when it was hit. in iraq's parliament has approved a new electoral law when a bid to make elections fair up and granting one of the demands of anti-government

protesters well the new law gives independent politicians a better shot of winning seats in parliament al jazeera has done such a bari is in baghdad and she explains well the changes will mean for voters. they're 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 shoes they 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 sage 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. well a defining feature of iraq's months long government demonstrations has been the complete rejection of all political parties but one movement has managed to stay on side the sudras led by the shia. so manifold and reports now from baghdad.

every afternoon half an hour and his friends load his pickup truck full of supplies for demonstrators in baghdad square is from sutter 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 who says he can be considered a large storage of humans the majority of the protesters are from sort of 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 and tired 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 internet 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 helped form and the parliament in which his party the biggest share of seats ceterus party saw it all in won 54 of iraq's 329 parliamentary seats in the 2800 but following prime minister his resignation the party announced it would nominate a replacement former m.p. he was part of your. an alliance but resigned when protests began there is a feeling among the. what whoever is chosen by the. not on the because of the president because it's a merger or it is proposed by

a group made your point the group and they think this person will be more honest for what is the bonded by the. critics a side on this 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 really elections and 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 on contested simona faulting al jazeera but about protesters in algeria defying calls for a day of mourning for the late military chief of staff they say was part of the corrupt ruling elite. died on monday in hospital after suffering a heart attack was regarded as the most powerful man in the country following the resignation of longtime president but i think and i feel the new president. announced a 3 day period of mourning. as well and president nicolas maduro is urging brazil and peru to arrest and deport those involved in an attack on a remote military outpost in the south of the country but were appealed the brazilian president jalal tomorrow to saying the suspects are in brazil with stolen rifles and grenade launchers local media reports 12 men took part in the raid in the state of bolivar brazil colombia peru and the venezuelan opposition leader one

guide or have been accused of assisting the attackers and brazil's president general tomorrow has been released from the hospital after receiving treatment for a fall his office said he slipped and hit his head in the bathroom of his official residence on monday a c.t. scan didn't detect any damage but he was kept in hospital overnight as a precaution both in our us had several surgeries this year after he was stabbed during the 2018 election campaign now from ecuador to chile the final months of $29.00 teens or various latin american countries and govt in daily street protests and while many of them were fighting for their own causes there was one issue most of them had in common inequality a latin america editor in asean even reports now from the chilean capital santiago . 78 year old widow. is the mitri arc of her large family she lives in a low incomes 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 stuff use 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 my 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 you are well made 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 v this would explain the fact that there is an equality 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. or than 2 months of ongoing 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 where our parents go to work but are treated like inferiors in our neighborhoods there 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 i 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 would millions of chileans are now fighting for. to see in human al-jazeera santiago. now many commuters in france about to change their christmas plans a strike so the pension reforms continue to cause widespread travel disruptions transport remains have been restricted for the holidays with up to 80 percent of

train service has canceled the country's national rail operators says it's already lost more than $420000000.00 but has been a smith reports in paris as why there is widespread sympathy for for 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 is guarded nor was busy but not chaotic and people are tired i think it's to be ready for it to be over but again it's i mean i'm sure the other side are going to understand you know the reason for the strike and everything you know looking for a way to get away the situation for no no they still haven't been able to find it so it's like my journey was was disrupted the national rail operator s.n.c.f. will only guarantee travel for those who took tickets in advance and even they may

not have a seat the s.n.c.f. says the strike is costing it 22 $1000000.00 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 beast 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. how does era parents christian pilgrims and tourists around the world are marking the holiday of christmas in the city of bethlehem where many believe jesus christ was born. $29.00 teams been one of the holiest cities busiest with an estimated $1900000.00 tourists making the trip reports. music and prayer joy and reflection from the church of the nativities built over the grotto

were christians believe jesus christ was born this was the last midnight mass of the decade. on this day 6 months of planning brought the ospina family from columbia to manger square in bethlehem. provocations a special hour to me in the place where we believe jesus was a boy and odd that i don't know how to bring to sound so i didn't hide any make a phone they can not tell the real christmas. these tourists join a declining population of christians in the holy land experts say in the last century the christian population has decreased more than 15 percent with 1900000 visitors bethlehem is having its best year in 2 decades according to the ministry of tourism and antiquities that may be in part due to the

relative calm in the area yet small business owners such as newbuild jackman say this is not a merry money making christmas i spent a whole week to correcting preparing for this day and lou i really i'm a little bit says after spending all of this money like this for the $1000.00 for a great day and i do still i didn't cover pocket the biggest attraction seemed to be the 16 meter christmas tree with hand carved nativities tailor made for the selfie age many of those posing for photos were muslim it's a very magical whereas especially with all the different religions coming together here i really really love it really gives me a wrong feeling inside this kind of a message for the world like we are here. like you stand to each other like me that we have no conflict with each other the christmas of the 21st century has evolved into something no one could envision centuries ago but christian leaders hope the

holy days spirit of good will and peace will always prevail. bethlehem ecuador says it's contained in the oil spill in the galapagos islands the navy was called in for a ship carrying 600 gallons of fuel oil sank on sunday the galapagos islands on the unesco world heritage list and a home to dozens of vulnerable species found nowhere else in the world now faced with rising pollution levels and falling oil prices cousin stan is looking to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels it wants to shift towards green energy alternatives with the help of foreign investment it's already built one of the largest solar power plants in central asia a solid binge of aid has more from cash in southeastern kazakhstan. in this where the heating is needed to survive in causing to stand largest city smoke can be seen billowing from chimneys all around the much needed heating plants are also major contributors to air pollution because exxon has one of the highest rates of lung

disease in the region according to the world health organization that in this cause is 13 percent of all the deaths here and it's one of the reasons why kazakhstan's authorities are looking for healthier alternatives. like this it's one of the largest solar power plants in central asia and is expected to reduce carbon emissions by a $150000.00 tons a year in the early hours solar panel a covered by snow this engineer has worked in conventional power plants for years and says this is the future. of barrel which there are no rotating elements here all panels are static they do not require constant attention we generate electricity with the sun even without the sun we produce but not as good in comparison with traditional energy the costs of creating green energy are great for now but technology is developing and the efficiency of solar panels is growing the plan became operational a few weeks ago. as the day progresses the sun melts the blanket of snow on the

panels within hours electricity production jumps. even in the extreme conditions the blanketed and nor the new will sources of energy sure that they can be relied upon but economies which are dependent on fossil fuels find it cheaper and more convenient to continue to rely on hydrocarbon oil and hydrocarbon exports make up nearly 3 quarters of this country's income and with powerful oil reliant neighbors such as russia and china trying to change that has political implications as well. so the government has set up a department to attract foreign investors we had 75. projects which were already implemented by senior uble interest sources 1st of all at talking about solar power plant when paul planned hydro power plant and bio gas as alliance which has 92000000000 of investments in kazakstan

and then we have u.s. which has iran 50000000000 of investment and afterwards we have u.k. and we also have russia and we have. series a learnt which is in the top of investors here in kazakstan for this vast central asian state with a small population renewable energy is seen as the future the challenge is finding the fastest way to free itself from a centuries old reliance on call an oil some of injury down to 0. time another short break here not just here out when we come back i'm a wilding's in the northwest of england probably the most bartold ground in the walled of football clubs but all the big things like manchester united manchester city and liverpool blower ish and small clubs like gary the point being that the football club on al-jazeera.

makes stories generate thousands of headlights these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison doesn't mean right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the facts the western media jumps on stories without taking down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the front with the listening post on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. every you're. welcome back time for support some is here. thank you very much to one of europe's most feared forwards or has stunned fans by securing a move to cutter's top division. has a joint on a free transfer from eventis the coalition had been strongly linked with the move to manchester united now 33 has played for some of europe's biggest clubs including by munich an athletic oh my god it now the northwest of england is

a hotbed of world football that includes liverpool manchester city united a few kilometers away a club that was once a mighty has fallen this year very f.c. or expelled from the english football league fans are holding on to hope that it can be resurrected the wailings reports. 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 day that we feel what is a football club who is it all in the shadow of the famous manchester clubs in the north west of england barry for 134 years barry football club was there for the people of the town they were feared by their vibrant and droopy crowds very again as i think it's one or twice by one the famous by cop.

they gave lang ground is now deserted the club close to the mismanagement from their own is largely to blame. 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 live a poll bunch of the 30 minute just united over from this area if i tell my kids 20 football a crop of about a 5th of the football league come from the north west of england is 19 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 least 30. playing fields i rise early and still

dream of a goal of winning maybe a career in football buried under seventeen's applying little borah back in iraq. volunteers still providing time and support for young players working with barry's community trust us with the idea that we could bring them through the ranks. being 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 continuing keep the matter is one of the people keeping it alive and now. it just doesn't seem right it isn't the job. is absolutely vital there's a lady who. treated me and her parents went through 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 gave was given as a formed in until the summer they're going to continue beyond. james bentley watched his 1st barry game aged 7 with his father 23 was he's a lucky guy. 'd who were able to take the field a good line i missed the 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. thinking about football to go through this week i'm out of having a good weight we've got a game to go through now i don't have the. fans still come together could barry 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 promising yet the notch they deliver in. it's own

come with an identity and yes you have to hope in some way that we have a keyboard but got to keep going this is why we do these fans me weekends this is where we start the phoenix full with got to keep our minds to keep even. as a. child. we will be very very close fans are bearing the controversial joining the liquidation 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 fans for many cops have left skalds a messages of support. former england manager bobby robson once said what is a football club not the buildings or directors or people who represented it's the noise the passion the feeling of belonging the pride in your town who will

enjoy. what i intend to do with it which club which town is next to suffer the white house rewordings al-jazeera in the town of bury. and you can see part 2 a special report death of a football club or wednesday here on all just. bangladesh's cricket board insists that its national team won't play test series in pakistan despite the successful visit by sri lanka that ended in karachi this week. say they will only play a short t 20 series allow them to assess safety conditions countries that have avoided test matches in pakistan since the 2009 attack on the sri lankan team bus in lahore bangladesh has drawn as widespread criticism of from pakistan's cricket officials and players. the russian olympic committee says it will join with the country's

anti-doping agency so it's banned from major sporting events the ban means the russian athletes will only be able to compete at next year's summer games in tokyo on that they lympics that the world anti-doping agency wada handed russia a 4 year ban for doping irregularities they ruled earlier this month that russia had manipulated doping data to cover up pasta fences he would use only. the russian anti-doping agency does not agree with the wada sanctions the russian olympic committee will participate in the appeal process as the 3rd party because of the olympic charter violation we have selected lawyers which represent our interests and that's why it's false and we'll have more later on summer thank you very much indeed for that well that's it for me down jordan for this news hour done to weigh that because my colleague it will be is up next with much more of the

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india's government approves a $500000000.00 budget for a controversial population survey the critics say discriminates against muslims. watching al-jazeera lifeline headquarters here and also coming up. at least 8 people are killed a syrian government jet strike a school sheltering displaced people turkey is not pressing russia to mediate to troops.