double exile on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm maryam namazie a very well welcome to the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes thousands continue to flee aerial bombardment in syria's rebel held province that turkey warns about another refugee crisis as its border with syria remains closed. as the conflict in libya deepens the turkish president makes a surprise visit to the tunisian capital. dominated as the next prime minister of iraq but will protest as except assad l.a. donny is their next leader and we speak with a high flying syrian refugee who is dreaming of making aviation history.

and harmless little of the sporting kidding the boston celtics be the toronto raptors a spoiling the reigning n.b.a. champ his 1st christmas day game at home. techies president says that his country cannot handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria or egypt says $80000.00 syrians are heading towards the turkish border to escape it live syria's last rebel held province is on the daily attack by russian backed syrian government forces the m 5 highway runs through the area and is the main road out of the town of march i'll know a month and escape politics at a standstill as tens of thousands fled north the market town now a ghost is now ghost town as government forces close in on the wants a sling rebel held region now

a crumbling shell streets are empty and houses destroyed mohammed does an taqiyya on turkey's border with syria. there's no letup in the miles. serious loss to the rebel held strong. tens of thousands of rushing to it's the turkish border scrambling to escape the aerial onslaught from russian and city and forces on. the asterix shelling and but obama talks on it lip appears designed to do just thought push people out there now quote it with nowhere else to go. you know all of salt. my god take revenge on all those who caused this what have we done to deserve this what have we done i plead to god for mercy be god to punish them for displacing us because in all of those humiliating us for god's sake we had being burned alive. long queues of cars on trucks loaded with people's belongings i

had the most of the techies border crossing of bubble how with off a shell comes for the displaced off food forcing the new displaced to set up camp in the open here they bomb shops and tweaks to stay warm in the biting winter weather techies aid workers say they're doing all they come to help attempt but you could even by the charity i object it's tough walk around the clock to bake bread for the ever increasing number of displaced citizens to share some of the winter conditions our diet we have provided them down with top meals bread accommodation and heating materials but the families have so many means. syrian government forces advancing towards the strategic city of my godson and as they push deeper into the north west and the problems but out to no man is on the m 5 highway assad's forces at the time and took up hate you know about 3 open that route linking the couplet of damascus with the city of aleppo syria's largest just

like that arrest of it live probably is not out to none none have been out of food for city of families who fled other areas damascus out of the captured during that 8 and a half year. civil war it's now almost deserted and the general saying we have come in i fled from a sorry 2 years ago after the destruction of our homes since then i have been forced to flee with my family 3 more stories and here we are again the new fighting comes despite an agreement in august by the leaders of turkey russia and iran to recommit to this collision efforts in the area the turkish president of egypt tabor do and has repeatedly said on korea come out hundreds of new refugio flow on its own a spokesman for the turkish president now says there was russia for a cease fire to avoid the must suck of civilians in towns and villages with 2nd by syrian government forces but russia's deploy involved in the operation in libya

keen to help its recover the last bit of territory under the control of rebels it's not clear if the turkish plea will be heard mohammad on the wall just kentucky out to his present regime type iran has made an unannounced trip to tunisia as the conflict in libya continues to deepen this after ankara offered military support to the internationally recognized government which is based in the libyan capital tripoli mahmud up to wide explains. turkey's president's version of dylan landed in tunis to discuss trouble is brewing in next door in libya and encourage it to nea's his new president to help secure a cease fire. and says the internationally recognized a government in tripoli has yet to request that turkish troops intervene in the conflict because he. 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 present in 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 have tar is not a legitimate representative of the libyan people forces loyal to the world khalifa 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 backing from france paralyze the e.u. the u.a.e.

giving him the weapons you are giving him not just he believes that the world 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 that this war with this battle which is already taking 8 months is becoming protracted and now tekkie sending troops and now there's all this hoss in a military and it may well be that the international media comes in and says look after you had 8 months to really trouble say look i turned a blind eye to it i called you an ally in terrorism you couldn't take tripoli we're very sorry. about this not it's not time not to go to mediation it's about how long the d.n.a. cast beyond turkey and russia the conflict has a groom a number of international backers playing a rule both in fighting and efforts towards the mediation his recent military cooperation with libya view and that the government has been criticized by some regional and international powers but president of the turkey deals with libya's

legitimate government while the other countries backing her are dealing with illegitimate institutions would have. to police now between a faster has declared 2 days of national mourning after an attack that killed at least $35.00 people that it was launched on an army base and i've been there in sindh province and also a nearby town on tuesday just a warning that some viewers may find the following images in ahmed interest says reports a stabbing. officials in brooklyn a fossil say these are the bodies of some of the men who were attacked positions and civilians in the north the military says it killed at least 80 of the attackers . it's one of the worst attacks by armed groups since 2014. this attack on a restaurant and walk a degree 2007 team killed dozens of people. the government of booking a fossil has declared 2 days of national mourning for victims of tuesday's attack

will see some of the. 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 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. although there are thousands of international forces in west africa sail region the violence has increased in the past form and there are fears of more attacks the same guy can't lead a major role in the glow of terror he clearly in military bases joint bases. for example i've course is not going to be hosting an act of terror training camp so the. new global war on terror out and as a result i will see even the backlash. contribution in november the army launched

a new offensive against local and foreign armed groups operating in the country many believe the recent attack in more than a fossil was a response to this new offensive burkina faso has seen many attacks in the past 5 years they've killed more than 700 people with half a 1000000 forced from their homes the crisis in northern mali has worsened security problems with quietus of kenya did with al qaida and i sell regularly across the border to launch attacks. fossil is due to hold its presidential elections in 20 committee and president ones to restore peace before the vote but his don't clear if his army is up to the task of public increase. well for more we can speak now to david autor he's a counterterrorism expert at bible rescue international and joins us now from belfort and from whence we just tearing in addresses report there about the the cycle of violence in the region. do you see the situation getting

worse are we likely to see more instability in the region in 2021 fortunately yes we're more likely to see a lot of instability not just in brooklyn across all but in the entire takuma region which encompasses mali a new jet but also i think we would also have this same kind of trimmed in dilute charge region where you have the book islamic state of west african provence faction so i think you know the collapse of the physical islamic state you know has led to a mussy flow through a porous borders over experience jihad based who have now you know were found a safe haven and a much more fit a ground for them to recruit and roll on what they call a sort to islamic state within the region and their particular advantage you know

us you know where we've seen the reports city of the borders i don't think is and this is the problem isn't it because when we speak about the g 5 style states we're talking about begin a fast chad mali mauritania. and when you have these porous borders these armed groups i suppose able to take advantage of of a vacuum in the area and they able to get around any kind of military response but it seems as though it's mali and bikini faster that will really feel the effects from this. of course you know the booking of fire so you remember in 2012 the french launched operation back in which was you know to actually drive the hour so what you had these from from above michael but that has trickled down to booking a fast so we also has a governance issue and one poor city you know within the region so i think this is a great concern especially with the fact that you don't just have the g. 5 so you also have the a more to national joint task force you know within. and chad are members of that

force of including nigeria and beneath him and then you have the fringe you know coming up with this or vision which is going to be rolled by the european union in 2020 this is going to be a disaster for the region the problems apart from the porous borders how do you explain the the pro in confidence and capabilities of these of these groups i think one of the growing confidence and capabilities is the fact that most of the african states in the sahara region for example had a lot of foreign fighters who traveled to iraq and syria the states within that region did not pick a lot of all these foreign fighters now they've come back through libya and they are exploiting the poor fighting within the region you know they're taking advantage of the lack of coordination between countries you know irrespective of the fact that they have the g. 5 so i think you know that's one of the issues there and the local population is not buying into the government's idea of its count up to now it's so that it's also

a fix in right now we have of this new intensifying cycle of violence you have people obviously civilians and not happy about this force about cracks in in the ranks of the military. of course you know tactically what the jihad these groups have been doing is to is to make sure that they keep the military on the offensive most of the attacks have been against hard military targets you know the french lost about 14 of the different service men in mali just recently so i think the crux within the military is significant factor but mind you you can't win the war just by using the military tactics alone within the region indeed thank you very much david after appreciate your thoughts on the story. you with the news hour live from london much more to tell you about one of india's best known writers explains why national protest against a controversial law fills i would hope celebrating a movement that brought down

a president. demonstrators gather in sudan's capital but say the fight isn't over. and then in sport the financial threat and you know the english teams in part 2 of our feature that of a football club. now india's government has announced new guidelines and approved funds for an updated national population righteous' to 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 that also be arsed to give details of identity documents like voter cards driving licenses and passports government has approved more than $500000000.00 in funding for this exercise meanwhile several artists including the acclaimed writer are inductee roy join the protests in new delhi against the law

legislation grant citizenship to religious minorities but the measure excludes muslims since it was passed at least $25.00 people have been killed in protests with opponents saying it's a violation of india's secular constitution elizabeth around them was at that demonstration in new delhi and she says that primes for the national population register have inspired protests as to continue that fight. already rally in the capital in new delhi where people are using to protest the protests have been hit on by the government approving funding for this national population register the government says that is just part of the fed critics say the national population may just over form the basis of the national register of. even crossing the country i mean protesting against the constitution would that the leadership amendment act now some of india's most prominent intellectuals and nationally and here at this

rally. now that there are protests against the citizenship act and the national register of citizens the government is using a back door in the form of the national population re just we know the economy is ravaged by destroyed the economy with the monetise action a hiding the urgency of it and a lying about it to the people. but that he made. no protest at all over the country are asking why the government is spending $500000000.00 on a population register when the economy is adding to the worst state in 60 years to this day have already coursework on the register in 10 states have said they want implemented citizenship carry out the national register office for the government is getting some pushback from around the country and. grievance the protests now

disapprove funding for the national water station register the protests the city continued until the supreme court hears petitions against the citizenship for next month. now to iraq where protesters have rejected the nomination of assad dunny is the country's next prime minister. has been the governor of iraq's richest province of basra for the past 2 years but despite its oil wealth basra has poor infrastructure and identity has been accused of not doing enough to improve the situation for people that and there are fears his nomination was influenced by iran because his name was put forward by one of the biggest iran backed groups in iraq in politics well the nomination follows 3 months of violent nationwide protests that eventually saw the resignation of the former prime minister idol abdul mattie in late november so not a fault in baghdad explains why it's taken so long to nominate a candidate. well i thought of it donny 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 has 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. well tomorrow the teen is the founding president of the middle east research institute he joins us now from what fit in hartford so clearly there are objections to assad. has been nominated as iraq's new prime minister is he likely to survive in the post. i think if you'd asked me this question week ago i would've said no. looking at the criteria of protesters that the souther of not everyone who oppose the current government or current power would have rejected him out of hand but after such a turmoil such a difficult time that the previous candidate saw and there's so much debates and negotiations behind the scene it's now looking increasingly likely that he done he will be nominated by the president sometime tomorrow this may have been

inconceivable a few days ago but it looks like everybody's exhausted from this and importantly mocked other southern may have actually finally come to a conclusion that maybe enough is enough he settles on a candidate that remains controversial not acceptable by most of the protesters he still part of the establishment that he calls corrupt and pro iranian and so on but at the end a downy a 3rd candidate of the may and being nominated by the president tomorrow i mean we seen this government in iran being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny by the protesters who are really demanding an end to the sort of traditional patronage patronage networks and militias in sort of division of of the country's wealth and state resources one of the immediate challenges that in front of the saddle a dunny. immediate challenge would be to form a government within 30 days this is actually not easy or easier said than done he

may find there will be enough support and there will be a mechanism or for forming a government which may be even expedited somehow so that is number one challenge and this is where the opposition may try to make sure that he fails to do that and then we will go back to the square one but if he forms a government the 1st thing is to regain functionality to the governing system to honor the promises that have been made for some of the changes providing services and putting the government back on track now the most important thing to remember is that their mother has made sure that whoever is going to be the prime minister needs to call for an early election and he would find himself down he will find himself governing for a very short period of time the other side of it can i ask you about that because

of course there is this new and there is this new election law and the idea is to make the system in iraq more equitable to empower the parliament and the people but there are concerns about how this can actually be implemented will there not be technical obstacles to to there being an early election. that will be and everyone knows that from translating the current legislation that was passed through a couple of days ago into mechanisms and details it's actually a tough one there are too many loopholes too many weaknesses too many problems with it because it was rushed but it will be a substantial transformative change from the norm this is a change in the way that the entire system is working the mentality the way that parties were campaigning so essentially there are a lot of issues to be sorted now if you ask the united nations and those experience

in overseeing elections they will tell you iraq will need a minimum of 6 maybe 9 months before the election can be held that is over and above the usual allocation of budgets and training people so centrally we are in a very difficult period of a few months of. finding clarity into what this legislation means once a big issue that the constitution for example states that there should be a quarter of the members should be women and in this new system they are actually they don't know how to embed or this quota into the and importantly there will be issues of population demarcation of this mix of district divisions to make sure that the constituencies are clearly marked out this is a big challenge no one has ever say it's around it's not certain if there's a legal actions can be held we do appreciate your analysis delilah a lot of teens thank you thank you. now to developments in sudan demonstrations

there are marking a year since the start of a protest movement which brought down the former president tomorrow to share it with morgan is it hard to forswear protest to say their revolution is far from over . but once again we see thousands of to denise taking to the streets this time to commemorate the 1st anniversary of the calls by the sudanese professionals as their station a coalition of sudanese professionals to go to the presidential palace and demand then president all met and bashir stepped down along with his entire cabinet now the calls for those protests came just a few days after demonstrations the erupted in the northeastern city a lot but all over the rising costs of health bread and basically wanted to use but since then the people up to them have taken to the streets by the hundreds of thousands despite the crackdown by security forces people have placed lavin munition tear gas and mass arrests to deploy their demands for change. the military deposed the former president almost machinery and it all just

a new transitional government was sworn in but despite all of that and despite the fact that over the past few months there has been significant changes in that country people here are saying that is not enough they're saying that the fact that the former regime party has been dismantled and it's hard to still be seized that is not enough they're saying that just this unaccountably is yet to be delivered and they say that that has been one of the key demand of their protests and until just this is delivered has questioning for a june 3rd attack on opposing the president in front of the army headquarters where at least $100.00 people have been killed and then there are volution is far from home and scenes like this would be to regular and will become the norm for most lead for you on the program a deadly typhoon forces filipino families to spend christmas waiting to get home. tiny america will tell you about mexican tradition where paintings all but as find the prez oncet. and in sport as a close shave. at the skiing lockup santa has to teach house at night.

hello again to welcome back to your international weather forecasts we're still dealing with some widespread flooding here across parts of turkey now moving into syria as well you can see the storm system on our satellite and this is the forecast map on thursday not a lot of changes in the amount of rain we're going to be soon 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 temperatures 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 still 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. legally prescribe for the pain relief of the sick but taken in life threatening doses by millions in search of a fix. huge illegal shipments of the opioid tramadol are flooding west africa. people an hour goes to nigeria to investigate the. devastating the diction epidemic

that is even fueling the boko haram insurgency. west africa's opioid crisis on. they wanted for 23000000000 pounds worth of weapons that was 6000000000 in commission. there is no hope of any more because there's always a small kabul's to call for really really good ministers. in essence we united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera.

welcome back here at the news hour life from london a look at the headlines turkey's president says his country cannot handle another flood of refugees from the war in syria. want to say $80000.00 syrians are heading towards the turkish border to escape the province which is on the attack. targets president time has made an unannounced trip to tunisia as the conflict in libya continues to deepen and carouse previously offered military support to the internationally recognized government based in tripoli. and several well known indian figures including author arundhati roy have joined protests in new delhi against the controversial citizenship goal government has now announced new guidelines for the updated national population register which critics say could also discriminate against muslims and al-jazeera as elizabeth purana spoke to our industrial demonstration and asked the author why she is optimistic 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 this soft entry to this 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. people in south lebanon fear another war between israel and hezbollah could happen in the last conflict in 2006 more than a 1000 lebanese civilians died and as tony but in our reports the discovery of oil and gas reserves in waters disputed by lebanon and israel has raised the stakes.

this should be productive farming learn but south lebanon has been a war zone for 40 years and areas lie idle for the last 20 years it's been a battleground between israel and hezbollah are enemies separated only by a thin blue line of un peacekeepers. the armed group has amassed a huge stockpile of rockets and missiles that can reach as far as tel aviv but as well as its military capability israel is concerned about has was growing power in the current lebanese political crisis. i don't think has the financial. tranter of conflict with the israelis so i think they're not really in a position to enter a conflict at this stage but on the israeli side maybe israel will see an opportunity and launching a war at this moment that's a constant fear in september there were heavy artillery and rocket exchanges

between the 2 sides after an israeli drone attack it lasted only a day but underlined how fragile the peace is along the so-called blue line. the blue line stretches 120 kilometers about 20 kilometers of it is a concrete wall but most of it is open and easily cross a ball now in 2006 this was a battleground in the war between hezbollah and israel but the u.n. then was powerless to stop it since then israel and lebanon have disagreed exactly where the land and maritime border runs in some stretches this includes the zone called block 9 in a color rich oil and gas reserves have been discovered which are worth tens of millions of dollars and desperately important to lebanon's depleted economy on israel. claimed that it has some part of it and we claim that it is fall under the authority of the of lebanon according to the law of these is a part of the economy so in this case if israel objected

and me and acted an operation and military operation against. the. the companies which are bringing. in this block i think that there will be a war. whatever the reason for a war the outcome is the same for the people of south lebanon they pay the human price the village of kfar killer is right on the blueline it is under hezbollah control and has suffered many civilian casualties in the exchanges with israel especially in the last war 30. years ago. akhmed faqih is 84 years old and he remembers even as a boy hiding in olive groves to avoid israeli shells the prospect of war is a fact of life he says not out of your corner either you live with the situation or you will leave because some people are scared but the fears are not only from this border it's a general loree when you see the world on fire around you like syria and iraq the

conventional wisdom suggests that the won't be an immediate war but wisdom is something that has been in short supply in this volatile and unpredictable region for now most can only watch wait and hope tony berkeley al-jazeera nakoula southern lebanon. algeria has held a state funeral for army chief tenet general amir gates despite protesters defying calls for 3 days of mourning salah suffered a heart attack on monday he was regarded as the most powerful man in the country after long time president i'm jealous he's bitter frica resigned in april or a bird in mali 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 to mostly be remembered for being behind the resignation of president after lizzie's put a flicker after 2 decades in office.

on march 26th this year not long after hundreds of thousands of algerians march in streets demanding the president's depth down it was get sellers speech urging beautifully good to quit that made that a reality. the army backed the arrests of many of beautifully allies a month later 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 watch of the mutual trust between the people and their army. just last week gets attended the inauguration of the new president. but many protests is a boycotted the election that brought him to power saying there was 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 in. the 4th year is war of independence against the french and was considered a hero in his 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 his sudden wave of protests algerians demanded the entire government step down his loyalty to boot had come to an end and he joined the calls from protests as for the president to resign. but many are there on tickets. obviously it is part of the old dude establishment because of different

positions in the jewelry military it's only recently that some of the protesters will calling for him to go because they were concerned he did them all the. luck did not live up to expectations they expected all they want to a more open democratic. some protesters the rejecting a 3 day mourning and a cooling real democracy and an end to the military state. that we've been reporting on developing some bikini a fast this evening and that has actually been a 2nd attack in the west african country in as many days these reports coming to us from a.f.p. news agency which has spoken about a dozen soldiers having been killed in an attack which took place in the country's north it's believed to be

a military patrol which was ambushed in the volatile sume province but you know fastow has already declared 2 days of national mourning for that attack on choose day in which 35 people were killed. now millions of people around the world are of course out of pricing christmas but in hong kong the festive period has been marked by more violence between anti-government protesters and the police demonstrators occupied a shopping mall and rallied in the streets around a busy shopping district and cow loon it's the most serious on rest that eritrea seen in weeks. meanwhile gaza's christian community have held a mass in gaza city to mark christmas day very few applications to visit holy cities such as bethlehem in jerusalem on christmas were granted to people from gaza israel said on sunday it would admit christians from the gaza strip reversing a december 12th announcement barring the month security grounds last year israel granted permits for close to $700.00 gazan christians to make the christmas pilgrimage. meanwhile the roman catholic pope has defended migrants and called for

peace in his christmas message addressing the count crowds gathering instant peter's square pope francis called for peace in the holy land syria lebanon yemen iraq venezuela ukraine and several african nations he singled out persecution of christians by on groups particularly in backing a fast and nigeria he still. may christ bring his lights to the many children suffering from war and conflicts in the middle east and in various countries of the world may bring comfort to the beloved syrian people who still see no end to the hostilities that have lacerated their country over the last decade. the consciences of men and women of good will may he inspired governments and the international community to find solutions to guarantee the security and the coexistence of the people in the region. to the unspeakable suffering. several people are feared dead and missing after

a typhoon tore through the central philippines destroying about 100 homes and cutting power typhoon pun foreign made made landfall in the eastern province of some are on cheese day with gusts of up to 150 kilometers per hour more than $4000.00 people were evacuated thousands remain stranded after flights were grounded and ferry service has halted on a below is in manila and says that travelers are likely to remain stranded for several days we are outside the main port them of 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 a 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 here this type of phone or local you know enough of personal or maybe a landfall in the central region of the philippines christmas eve one and that has grounded all pipes 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 know me at midnight 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 was the last i will my you wife wants us to be too good 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 ferry school back to their provinces so it is likely that they will be spending new year's here as well. and he's from chile where 120 homes have been destroyed by far is fine as far as he's believe the fires were deliberately lit in hell surrounding the port city have so many residents were forced to flee but some remained to defend their properties no reports of any casualties strong winds and high temperatures have been hindering the efforts by firefighting teams that. it's a mexican tradition painting the story of what someone believes was

a divine intervention hundreds of years artists have captured the moment they felt their prez on said today the sometimes surreal whacks are popular as pieces of us from mexico city out as there is an official reports through. the air from the devote the pious and the grateful a thank you mark in recovery good fortune or success in mexico they are called exile to paintings delivered to the church a devotion or gift after prayers were answered in this good here is the story of put up with those who wanted their story to be known ordered these little paintings they were made by artists that works near the churches people told them their story and they would interpret it painted 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 makes who 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

afraid of wheelchairs 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. looking girl i started doing what i thought i could do drawing in small pieces of paper cardboard in solet 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 for many things recovery from illness a man being released from prison after a cow 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 who wanted. to the full as an ex voto painter i hear many stories my favorites are love stories giving 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 being

a lot of federer's work is always in demand he said exhibitions in canada germany and even at the world famous lived in paris. but his greatest joy preaching for those who live nearby for those who want a permanent reminder of the day when the prayers were answered alan fischer al-jazeera mexico city. coming up after the break we're going to hear from the liverpool camp as they refocus on their premier league title challenge after the world conquering exits.

until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was a cover included todd's tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway if i would have the months of demanding a good education system that was a debilitating. in latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be stilled. a

woman who fled the war in syria and is now living anything in person says she wants to be the 1st female syrian refugee pilot 20 year old maya left damascus 4 years ago and says she wants to turn her life around and change the perceptions surrounding refugees here is a story. my with my gazelle 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 parla i was 11 when the war started and it just moved closer and closer until it happened the mosques were old prepared that we're going to do something at some point because that's what war does that's what everyone's face from experience during the war is losing something whether like a relative a loved one their house their businesses and different stuff so it was all the

stuff when i were like like my parents would leave the house they would they would say good bye as if we might never see them again so we're alive but we were not living. my mom my 2 younger brothers and i got from damascus to live on on taxes therefore on the from the airport we went to turkey and then from turkey to bermuda i always. believed that if you cation is what's going to define my future and education is how i can represent myself my country my family where i'm from i knew the kind of stereotypes that people have about refugees of being honest hated unskilled i just feel like some people look at me i don't want them to define me with these kind of stereotypes and labels you should not expect that those persons on if you keep it on school just because they came from a refugee background you don't expect them to be broken and soured and like you

know the past like they can be you offer your best support and like try to be the kindest you can but also expect that you're treating just a normal human beings with normal additions and hopes and dreams for her son and are now with the spot. thank you very much mary i'm all reigning n.b.a. champions the toronto raptors came up a short as they staged the 1st ever christmas day game in franchise history the league usually saves a must see encounters for the 25th of december and this year it was no different playing host to the east 2nd place team at the boston celtics janan brown was the standout performance he scored 30 points as the celtics took the game 118202. liverpool returned to english premier league duty on thursday after coming back from qatar as club world cup champions manager yogen club but takes his team to 2nd

place left the city liverpool go into the game at temple into clear of leicester but they have experience of losing leeds before as they bid for 1st league title since 1990. we are not in the situation where we are in because we will be told things all before they are over we are not in the sense that there is rain because we didn't take each game we played so far 100 percent serious were always when i was in focus and that's what we will be. the premier league is now a world away for a club that twice won the f.a. cup and were the pride of the town near manchester area f.c. a were kicked out of the english league this season their tail a warning for other teams that could pay the price of financial mismanagement all just as lee wellings reports in part 2 of death of a football club. this should have

a much diane berry the pictures be maintained in hope but there will be no match. after 134 years of existence beriah say it's close to death. big clubs including manchester united feared giggling and the white shirts of barry at the turn of the 20th century the team won the famous f.a. cup twice while the big clubs got bigger very couldn't keep up. was chairman tried but i was stretched themselves a familiar tale in modern football the controversial joining the liquidation process steve dial has stayed away from the town the people of barry are angry with him and at the english football league for expelling them but mainly they are heartbroken or almost grieving. and going through something to remember and all the

good times and look and upset. and so that's something i like about barry and especially. we're not going to when i've really zoe hitchens staged an exhibition of barry memorabilia every manchester i knew that there is no shortage of precious memories in the town bizarrely to collect. the given 40 years of support. for his look at race. back in february of 0. well there is very big strong community. so everything's a mess in there one lock in the old football. last really without wall were as big as man city monday night in the. been a big club. too much money now in the snow sports anymore is just

a business in the. area one of many english clubs who've had severe financial problems 10 kilometers away much. wonders. survivals one of english football's glorious old clubs i nearly went out of business just a few months a guard where we were kicked out of the football league and were punished with points deducted but they were rescued when a buyer intervened just in time there's just something about. the sights the smells. as being part of life. it's something hard just be taken away from people. and burying crisis in the 1st chairman. decisions left him with a lot of debt 2nd chairman steve dale i don't think he's sol was invested in the place and i don't think he was there for the right reasons is meant to have control

over both of those people being able to run a football club for me they lost control of the both of those men footballers got to be protected and clubs like barry have got to be protected in the future because once they got in they gone. peterborough were meant to be barry's opposition in league one on this particular saturday nothing special but it would have meant something. joy a halt in capsule 8 sperry football clunky so much for coming. was a player here and physio and manager she had raised awareness of their plight by handcuffing ourselves to the club it means everything is seeing great a football community we're all. with our morning i have a town. definitely it's a day. and generations it will affect. you have to be a football for the floor to really to understand that if they're thinking about is

they know the death that we feel over in bolton by school light so when there. was you know if you're at the yard where everyone was. always up. and i read out yet what just what we need is a large array things oh i start yet i seem eventually they have to get that. barry fans just want them matched back. al-jazeera in the town of barry. now quick lesson in how not to be hit by a scare traveling at high speed caray says it's a bitch it was hurtling towards the finish line at the giants lot of it and it's a day this week landing counted an official casually strolling across the pools luckily there was no calista for me mary and that about wraps up the news i will see you very shortly.

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move the u.k. proceed with the transition in the coming months january on al-jazeera. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or rigs and one i want to investigate the pakistani company at legibly selling by degrees to the dolls of the plague around the world on al-jazeera makes stories generate fountains of headlines these protests are saying down with the system down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just be. as we came to prison there's a me right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the fact you 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 ground with the listening post on al-jazeera.

thousands continue to flee aerial bombardment in syria's rebel held province but turkey warns about another refugee crisis as its border with syria remains closed. below a very welcome to the program i'm maryanne demasi and under new watching as era also coming up as the conflict in libya deepens the turkish president makes a surprise visit to the tunisian capital nominated as the next prime minister of iraq but will protest is except assad our late danny is the next leader. and tiny miracles the mexican tradition of x. photo where paintings are offered as thanks for prayers arts.