an era to use of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. thousands continue to flee aerial bombardment in syria's rebel held province while turkey warns about an influx of refugees as the border remains closed. no i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program turkey's president has his tunisian counterpart to help secure a cease fire in neighboring libya. nominated as the next prime minister of iraq but will protest his except assad l.a.

donny is the next leader. and tiny americans will tell you about the mexican tradition where paintings are offered as thanks for prayers oncet. welcome to the program our top story techies president says his country cannot handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria or egypt to one is saying $80000.00 syrians are heading towards the turkish border to escape province syria's last rebel held province is on the daily attack by russian backed syrian government forces the m 5 highway runs through the province and is the main road out of the town of marjah an escape offutt at a standstill as tens of thousands fled north the market town now a ghost town as government forces close in the once bustling rebel held region is a crumbling shell streets are empty and houses of been destroyed algiers there is

mohammed of dough is following the story for us from antakya this is a border with syria and he explains some of the risks and challenges people are facing. wall there facing all kinds of dangers from the blitz kind of doll by russian and city and force. and coughs of bombarding villages on tom's blitz tools same talk been intended to send these people out of jail form so that the syrian government forces can have a free han dealing with the rebels who are in control of large parts off we've seen long queues of vehicles. coming to it's a bubble however entry point to turkey they're not being allowed to cross of course and they are setting up comms along the road of us have had to go into some big tents that have been put up by turkish chided living together in these. places

because the winter is getting worse and it's getting colder and what is happening right now is the turkish chided ts are telling us that they are working around the clock to ensure that these people have halted mills and also have what they need but then they'll valse who are stuck for the off field along the road and they're fearing for their health because they don't have proper sanitation or access to food. well in other developments turkey's president. has made an unannounced trip to tunisia to discuss ways of bringing stability to libya anker has offered military support to the internationally recognized government which is based in tripoli one with up to why it has more on this now. turkey's president's version of tell you how to do the learned in 2 news to discuss trouble is brewing in next door in libya and encourage it to niece's new president to help secure

a ceasefire. the internationally recognized a government in tripoli has yet to request that turkish troops intervene in the conflict. because. we are not guests without an invitation and if it comes we shall look into it we are in constant communication with them however we should raise an issue the forces president libya more than $5000.00 troops from sudan what are they doing there we should ask why are these forces present in libya a request was made to turkey and that's why turkey answered the call based on the agreement related to our economic zone we have signed agreements to rely on and our moves are based on legality and lawful forms however the other foreign troops have no legality to be present on libyan soil in addition huffed are is not a legitimate representative of the libyan people forces loyal to the world lordly for hefted are bringing the fighting closer to the capital if turkey sends its a troops and with russia backing to have to his forces the next few weeks could

prove crucial for libya they are now the 2 key dynamics that will determine whether a mediation takes place because have to believe that international apathy towards what is doing in libya becky from france paralyze the e.u. the u.a.e. giving him the weapons giving him not just he believes that the want is telling him we're willing to accept a military victory provided you can clean up tripoli quickly and this is why how it is attacking tripoli but if you find this war with this battle which is not. 8 months is becoming protracted and now turkey sending troops and now there's all this cost in the military and it may well be the internationally comes in and says look after you had 8 months to really couples say look i turned a blind eye to it i called you an ally in terrorism you couldn't picture really we're very sorry about this but it's not time now to go to mediation it's about how long the d.n.a. can ask beyond turkey and russia the conflict has a growing number of international backers playing a rule both in fighting and if it's towards mediation turkey's recent military

cooperation with libya if you and that the government has been criticized by some read you know any of the national polls but president of the turkey deals with libya's legitimate government while the other countries backing her 3rd of dealing with illegitimate institutions would have. to put him. back in a fast so is declared 2 days of national mourning after an attack that killed at least $35.00 people in just a warning that some of the images might be disturbing to some viewers here the attack was launched on an army base in our bender and a nearby town on tuesday the government says 80 of the attackers were killed as the army repelled the attack the violence has increased after the military began an

offensive against armed groups in november it's been no claim of responsibility so far i'm going to address is an abuse of force and he says that armed groups have taken advantage of the instability in the region. over the past years we've seen the fallout and the importation of a movement of fighters as well as arms and munitions from the conflict in libya into the sahara into parts of west africa and how these have helped armed groups in this region to execute their activities or other to push their agenda in this region so in addition also governments in the region have not addressed the key issues that give rights to these local groups in the possibilities for example the issue of poverty the issue of education employment and of course government presences so many communities so these fighters would be come into these areas they explode the situation alive with them with local communities sometimes they even

render humanitarian services to those communities and also that is the threat of fear being used to give the civilian population if they spy on them or have the government forces. will protest as in iraq of rejected the nomination of assad donny as the country's next prime minister he's been the governor of iraq's richest province busser for the past 2 years but despite its oil wealth buster has poor infrastructure danny has been accused of not doing enough to improve the situation that arafat is his nomination was influenced by iran because his name was before by one of the biggest iranian backed groups in iraq a politics and the nomination follows 3 months of violent nationwide protests in the country that eventually saw the resignation of the former prime minister idle up till matty in late november so manifold one is in baghdad and explains why it's taken so long to nominate a candidate. well i thought i was done he has now officially been nominated by the

iranian backed coalition which was declared the largest bloc in parliament we've seen many names floated throughout the past weeks but this was the 1st time that representatives of the pienaar coalition actually met with president by ham salad to officially hand over the nomination now much of the delay that we've seen throughout the past weeks has been because it was not exactly clear who is the largest bloc in parliament president barham salih had sent requests for clarification to the iraqi speaker of parliament who don't confirm that it is indeed been done now in terms of the options going forward for the president he cannot challenge the speaker of the parliament on which dr is supposed to be nominating but what he can do is actually reject the candidate that be not has put forward on the grounds that this may not be a can but this that is acceptable to the street and this may not be acceptable to the other political parties because let's remember that the prime minister has to be a consensus candidate that is accepted by all of the parties and as of now we're still

waiting to hear their reaction especially from side on which is the bloc that is led by shia cleric looked at us either. india's government 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 of identity documents like vosa cards driving licenses and pos boards the government has approved more than $500000000.00 in funding for this exercise. meanwhile several artists including acclaimed writer out inducted roy have joined protests in new delhi against the controversial citizenship legislation grants citizenship to religious minorities but muslims are excluded from the measure since it was passed at least 25 people have been killed in protests with opponents saying

it's a violation of india's secular constitution. elizabeth purana spoke to roy at that demonstration and asked why she's hopeful about the protest movement. this movement intellectually understands and emotionally and passionately understands the horror of this hindu to a program that the more the b.g.p. r.s.s. has been selling for the last so many years and of course in power since 2014 so they only have this as the one answer to every problem economic social education whatever it is the idea is to write their ideas to ratchet up the hatred you know and suddenly young people are just saying sorry but we're not buying this you know and that's why i'm hopeful and do you think that the protests that we're seeing by young people by many many people across the country will make a difference because even as those protests happened the government passed funding

for this national population register which many people see as a precursor to the national register of citizens know it's it is a precursor it's the database you know so. they are going to go through with whatever they can go through with you know they're going to go through with every bit of their agenda so just a few years ago they were in power in so many states separate states you know in india now they just hold power and i think 3 or 4 and 10 chief ministers have already said that they will not allow the national register citizenship they have not said that they will not allow the n.p.r. which is the softer entry to the us i think people still have to understand that that's a very dangerous thing but i do think that there's a chance if there was a chance here is the chance to stop them. you have al jazeera live from london and much more still ahead we'll tell you about a deadly typhoon but just forced

a filipino families to spend christmas and white to get home and we speak with one high flying syrian right he changed his is dreaming of making a haitian history. hello again to welcome back to your international weather forecasts we are still dealing with some widespread flooding here across parts of turkey now moving into syria as well you can see the storm system are settling in this is the forecast map on thursday not a lot of changes in the amount of rain we're going to suit receiving across much of that area in turkey on that southern coast we saw well over 190 minutes of rain just in a 24 hour period that is going to continue as we go from thursday as well as into friday snow in the higher elevations could be quite significant as well so we watching that and the winds will be decreasing but still very significant down

across much of africa and we're talking about egypt as well over the last few days the winds have been very very strong across the area anywhere from parts of libya all the way over here towards the coastal areas of egypt from thursday to friday those those winds will start to ease just a bit but as you can see across the middle east we're still dealing with rain we're still dealing with the winds temporize for cairo your term jews will be coming down we're looking at about $1000.00 degrees here on saturday morning to expect those low temperatures to be down into the single digits out here towards the west though rivette we are looking at 19 degrees with some clouds in the forecast algiers a little bit cooler at 16 but tripoli we are looking at a nice day few with a temperature of 17 degrees. when is the last time you out on the streets protesting whether online you feel the weight. of the system going to walk through each and every local lawyer further and further into the jail or if you join us on saying retention has to start from day

one whether again you're into tension or you're on course we know this is a dialogue everyone has a voice but for the northeast those that support the last call right will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation on how does iraq. welcome back you with al-jazeera live from london a look at the headlines now turkey's president says his country can't handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria. says $80000.00 syrians are heading towards the turkish border to escape italy province which is on the day he attack.

the governor of basra in iraq assad has been nominated as the country's next prime minister but protest as have rejected this nomination because of his ties to iran i laid down his name was put forward by one of the largest iranian backed blocs in iraq in politics and several well known indian figures including all 1000 dutch you roy have joined protests in new delhi against a controversial citizenship poll the government has now announced new guidelines for an updated national population register which critics say could also be used to discriminate against muslims. or bring you some of the stories now in a state funerals been held for algerian military chiefs who played a key role in the ousting of president abdelaziz bouteflika of tenet general ahmed of 8 sala died on monday off to suffering a heart attack or a but a nanny takes a look back at his life. for years he was the chief of staff of the algerian national army but i heard good solid will mostly be remembered for

being behind the resignation of president put a flicker after 2 decades in office. on march 26th the cea not long after hundreds of thousands of algerians march in the streets demanding the president's debt down it was get sallust speech urging but if we could to quit that made that a reality the army backed the arrests of many of beautifully his allies a month later seles supported the newly appointed interim leader. i would. i would like to confirm in truth of the transitional period to prepare for the presidential elections take place with the oversight of the national people's army which will keep watch over the course of this transition in lot of the mutual trust between the people and their army. just last week gets attended the inauguration

of the new president of the measure. but many protests is a boycotted the election that brought him to power saying there is little choice of candidates beyond the established elite get sas spend his entire adult life in the armed forces. a former officer in the national abberation army he spent years working his way to the top of the army. he forged not jerry's war of independence against the french and was considered a hero in this country. as a close ally to them president beautifully in 2004 he became chief of staff of the army and 2013 vice minister of defense. in february this year and the sudden wave of protests algerians demanded the entire government step down. his loyalty to boot flicka had come to an end and he joined

the calls from protests as for the president to resign but many algerians turned their anger on tickets. obviously it is part of the establishment because of different positions in the military it's only recently that some of the protesters well calling for him to go because as far as they were concerned he didn't all they. did not live up to expectations they expected all they wanted a more open democratic. some protesters are rejecting a 3 day mourning and a calling for real democracy and an end to the military state. now millions of people around the world are of course celebrating christmas in hong kong the festive period has been marked by yet more violence between anti-government protesters and the police demonstrators occupied

a shopping center and rally in the streets around a busy retail district in callan this is the most on rest the territory has seen in recent weeks. several people are feared dead or missing after a typhoon tore through the central philippines destroying about 100 homes and cutting power typhoon on phone made landfall in the eastern province of somalia and cheese day with gusts of up to 150 kilometers per hour over $4000.00 people evacuated thousands remain stranded after flights were grounded and ferry service is halted on a below is in manila and says that travelers are likely to remain stranded now for several days. we're outside the main port the off manila where traditionally over the holiday season thousands of passengers wait to board their respective passenger ferries going back to their provinces in different islands in the philippines now christmas is a very important occasion for this predominantly catholic country and as you can

see families are waiting here they've got their baggage is here but they've had to spend their christmas eve here because this is here this type of phone or locally no one else ursula made landfall in the central region of the philippines on christmas eve and that has grounded all types of travel in the country and so here they are this is where they spent their christmas eve they've only had food that's been given to them by the philippine coast guard and you have children here who have basically nowhere to sleep and they have nowhere to bathe and they're saying this is has been a very difficult christmas for them i don't look at me at night i'm very sad and i've been crying for days i told my child that i can't do anything they did not let

us board the ferry because there's a typhoon and we understand that. my wife wants us to be together but to be here and there's nothing that we can do now the situation here isn't unique across the country in different ports thousands more are stranded and it is likely that they will remain stranded until the typhoon leaves the philippines the passengers here tell us that they have not been assured that they can leave immediately assoon as the typhoon leaves the philippines they've also been told that it is likely that it will be one more week before they can actually get on their fareast go back to their provinces so it is likely that they. we will be spending new year's here as well. a group of peace activists has been abducted in western afghanistan local officials say the 27 activists were traveling from herat too far on tuesday when their convoy was stopped by members of the taliban on a main highway a member of the group known as the people's peace movement says they were on

a protest march calling for a ceasefire between warring parties in afghanistan. is a spokesman for the peace movement afghanistan and says that some of his colleagues have been captured by the taliban before. this is not 1st time that to be faced with such incidents and this is for time the taliban their culture our members and they're asking certain questions that. who are you and how you started them this is this gathering i just move into but the main issue is that this moment is. started by local people and this is our effectiveness and the princes in the districts and among the people on the communities is very efficient under people like us because they want peace and they want to make a good life for themselves and it's. a good life for every afghan and if. his style of are going to mean to interfere but you want to make good life for them

only incident that to this simply happened. distract actually we had planned to conduct a gathering and march and. and but this is a coincidence but when our people do a common. they wanted to conduct the covering a much in purpose this incident happened we hope and i reassure the taliban that i will do it safely and they will be there to get no harm from the from the taliban and the i did you to provide. proof and evidence that i look at the moment and it's not a letter to anybody and we want just a good life and everyone. now gaza's christian community of held a mass in gaza city to mark christmas day very few applications to visit holy cities such as bethlehem and jerusalem on christmas for granted to people from gaza

israel said on sunday would admit christians from the gaza strip reversing a december 12th announcement barring them on security grounds israel granted it's for close to $700.00 gazan christians to make the christmas pilgrimage well the roman catholic pope has defended migrants and called for peace in his annual christmas message addressing the crowds gathering insipidus square pope francis called for peace in the land syria lebanon yemen iraq venezuela ukraine african nations he singled out persecution of christians by armed groups and bikini jet in nigeria specially given cheese days attack on an army base in northern kenya. it's a mexican tradition painting the story of what someone believes was a divine intervention for hundreds of years artists have captured the moment they felt their prez were on set today the sometimes surreal works are popular as pieces

of art from mexico city out as there is an official reports. there from the devote the pious and the grateful a thank you mark in recovery good fortune or success in mexico they are called exotic paintings delivered to the church a devotion or gift after prayers were answered. those who wanted their story to be known ordered these little paintings they were made by artists that worked near the churches people told them their story and they would interpret it and wrote a few lines about it at the bottom of the painting the idea of giving gifts and things has been around for thousands of years and even as the surveys see the mexico is becoming less religious there are still those commissioning paintings to mark what they see as divine intervention. one of the artists most in demand is alfredo view from a small studio in a working class area in the west of mexico city he's been painting for more than 30

years he started after losing his job as a builder the. look legal i started doing what i thought i could do drawing them in small pieces of paper cardboard in soulless in sardine cans anywhere and at some point i want to sell them on the street and that was it it's difficult to start as an artist. people give thanks to many things recovery from illness a man being released from prison after he was accused of stealing turned up a prostitute who wanted more customers praying for someone's return after the 911 attacks in new york. to the pole as an ex voto painter i hear many stories my favorites are love stories given thanks for having found the love of their life because his partner came back when she thought it was over those are nice. because the feelings are nice there are always 2nd chances or might be reluctant preferred his work is always in demand he said exhibitions in canada germany and even at the world famous lived in paris. but his greatest joy creating for those who live

nearby for those who want a permanent reminder of the day when their prayers were answered alan fischer al jazeera mexico city a woman who fled the war in syria and is now living in person says she wants to be the 1st female syrian refugee pilot 20 year old maya has left a mask is 4 years ago and says she wants to turn her life around and change the perceptions surrounding refugees here is her story my with my example i'm 20 years old and i'm from damascus syria i'm really hoping to become a commercial pilot one day and you know perhaps be the 1st ever female syrian refugee problem i was 11 when the war thought that. it just moved closer and closer until it happened the mosques were always prepared that we're going to do something at some point because that's what war those that's what everyone's face them

experience during the war is losing something whether like a relative a loved one their house their businesses and different stuff so it was always thought when i were like my my parents would leave the house they would say good bye as if we might never see them again so we were alive but we were not living. my mum my 2 younger brothers and i got from damascus to lebanon on parts of the airport on the from the airport we went to turkey and then from turkey to progress . i've always. believed that if you cation as we're going to find my future and education is how i can reprieve myself my country my family where i'm from. i knew the kind of stereotypes that people have about refugees of being on the unskilled i just feel like when people look at me i don't want them to define me would be fairer to have the labels you should not expect but both persons on the

u.k. to just because they came from a refugee background you don't expect them to be broken in south than like you know the past like they can be do you offer your best support like try to be a kind of stick around but also expect that you're treating just a normal human being with normal impressions and hopes and dreams. oh i just quickly update you on the top stories now turkey's president says his country can't handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria or egypt want to saying that 80000 syrians are now heading towards the turkish border to escape the province series last rebel held province is under daily attack in a russian backed in by russian backed and syrian government forces. the governor of basra assad done is been nominated as iraq's next prime minister but protesters

have rejected the nomination because of his ties to iran don his name was put forward by ben are one of the largest iranian backed blocs in iraq e politics several well known indian figures including off arundhati roy of joint protests in new delhi against the controversial citizenship rules government has now announced new guidelines for an updated national population register which critics say could also discriminate against muslims. we have this as the one answer to every problem economic social education whatever it is the idea is to drag their ideas to ratchet up the he treated you know and suddenly young people who are just seeing this already but we're not buying this you know and that's why. so far and dusty roy's speaking to us there about those protests in india in our other headlines algeria has held a state funeral for army chief left and it general despite protests as defying

calls for 3 days of mourning suffered a heart attack on monday it was regarded as one of the most powerful men in the country off the long time prize and i believe these beautiful eco resigned in april several people off dead or missing after a typhoon toole through the central philippines destroying about 100 homes cutting power typhoon pun fun made landfall in the eastern province of somalia on tuesday all than 4000 people were evacuated and there's been more violence between anti-government protesters and police in hong kong demonstrators occupied a shopping center and rallied in the streets around a busy retail district encounter they say is the most on rest the territory has seen in recent weeks. stay with us for the stream which is coming up next how will the missing children help change the conversation on climate change.

welcome to the stream which you decide not to have children to save the planet that is the tough choice many people are considering as the global climate worst since a family ok how are your family planning decisions influenced by the impact of climate change are they tell us through twitter and you tube. financial health and religious considerations often light the hearts of one's decision on raising a family but amid increasing severe weather events many people are deciding not to have children.