sponsored by countdown. this is al-jazeera. alarms the whole ramadan you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes iraq's president sides with protesters and says he'd rather quit and put forward a prime minister rejected by the people. also turkey's president says he'll send troops to libya requested and will present deployment legislation to parliament in january. and a 2nd attack and bakita fast just

a day after dozens of civilians were killed in the north. also hit by corruption cases and to repeat elections alias israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. and i'm we're hard in with sports it was a basketball battle in l.a. with le bron's lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this is our. welcome to the news iraq's president says that he would rather quit the name a new prime minister rejected by protesters but is refusing to designate the nominee of an iranian backed parliamentary group now there have been protests across the country for the past 3 months demonstrators have been calling for an overhaul of iraq's political system well joining me is our correspondent

dorsetshire bari from the iraqi capital also this opens a new that iraq has never really walked before potentially no prime minister and potentially no president. certainly that could be a possibility but from what we gather at this point this resignation is being seen as an attempt by the president to put pressure on other groups to try and come up with an alternative candidate from analysts that we've been speaking to the president saying that this candidate that is put forth by the largest coalition bloc in parliament or that it's been are is not acceptable to the people and therefore he will not go ahead and put him in the power position of prime minister now this resignation that he's just submitted to parliament of course has to be passed by voting in that parliament and we believe that many of the political parties in parliament they will not accept the president's resignation so we're

seeing this move as being something that the president is trying to do to prevent from this nominee that is dani the governor of from becoming iraq's next prime minister. to this particular candidate. well that's because he doesn't have a very good reputation and 1st of all his province alone is one of the most volatile provinces in the country it's because it is home to over 70 percent of iraq's oil reserves and it has some of the biggest oil fields in the country so it's a very wealthy province but this spite that the people that live there don't even have the basic necessities such as clean running water all the time and electricity in this is one of the things that has seen mass protests across the province over the past year and a half and they say the people of buster of said in the past that they are they've had enough of these politicians benefiting from the wealth that comes from their

province meanwhile the people don't see any of that money they've blamed neighboring iran for having in influence in their province and they say that they want to be able to enjoy the benefits of the wealth that comes from that area this governor has been in position for over the past 2 years and he's faced many accusations of corruption and bribery and this is the main point the coalition party that nominated him in parliament is the largest bloc but the president technically according to the constitution is the lodge to make sure that this nomination is in place but because of the reaction that we've seen over the past 24 hours he is adamant that he will not go against the people and also the clerical establishment that is the establishment that is prominent and that of grand ayatollah ali sistani will have a tremendous amount of power and influence in iraq have said that they support the people and that is what needs to be done more and that the politicians need to

listen to the demands of the iraqi people before anything else we've also heard from bloc that is the bloc coalition in parliament that belongs to the influential shia cleric other say that they will not be accepting the president's resignation in parliament. this causes a real problem for the caretaker prime minister as well who was the prime minister himself but where does this leave sort of people watching events unfold because while they say they don't want politicians who are tainted or have corruption allegations against them they look to an unknown figure in iraq e society that they think can deliver the what they are looking for but who would that individual be and where would they come from. well that is the $1000000.00 question and that is why this process has been so difficult. the prime minister.

submitted his resignation to parliament and it was accepted on december the 1st legally under the constitution the president had 15 days to come up with an alternative prime minister to create an interim government before they could hold elections but since there was this constitutional disputes about who the ruling coalition bloc was in parliament it took longer than expected and then finally the federal courts put it to the speaker of parliament to determine who the ruling party was and that's when they came back with this group that nominated danny so it's been a lot of technical issues they've had and a lot of constitutional issues legal issues that they had this is all because their constitution is relatively new it was drafted in 2005 and that's when it became law in the country but the issue is the people have said they want independent candidate and independent of the political spectrum in the country in the reality

of that is this person doesn't exist at the moment in iraq the protestors have been demanding somebody who is not part of the political establishment who doesn't have a background in politics but this person that they have in mind they don't have a candidate it's a somebody they wish for but in reality they haven't put forth any kind of names that have viable options for the ruling parties in parliament so the issue now is there is a void that there is an absence of somebody to fill that position the only reasonable . move move forward one can assume at this point is for the iraqi parliament to call for elections but that itself is also a challenge because the electoral commission in the country has said that they need anywhere between 6 months to one year before the country is ready to hold elections for logistical and security reasons so really it's at a place right. now where it's very very critical and this is all what was put on

the president for himself i had said that he was under tremendous amount of pressure and that he didn't really want to go against the will of the people and he had threatened in the past to resign and now we've seen that he's actually gone ahead with it and submitted his resignation but we believe that it is very unlikely he will his resignation will be accepted what this is likely to do is force the various political parties in parliament to try and come together to try and find a suitable candidate but who that candidate is and could be is really a big question indeed it is and of course we'll continue to follow this story throughout the news for the moment also thank you let's move on to our other top story and that's that turkey's president says that he plans to send troops to libya with the tripoli based administration saying that it will request millis military support if the conflict escalates turkey says it wants to support libya's internationally recognized government which has been and a months long offensive by forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar present reza

tiber the one says he'll present a bill on the deployment to parliament in january from the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assistance to libya's legitimate government against the coup plotter who is receiving support from certain european states libya is a neighboring country as we share maritime border lines in the mediterranean sea once the parliament comes into session we will present the proposal for dispatching turkish troops to libya based on the security cooperation agreement once indorsed by the parliament we will be able to effectively back the legitimate government some states who support the coup general with their jet fighters tanks and militia object to this move and criticize turkey because of it. mahmood of the wire head is standing by for us in the libyan capital tripoli but 1st let's go over to mohammed atta in untucked here in turkey just talk us through the process obviously the president is very certain about a request that has been potentially made by libya now he has to persuade not only

parliament but the people of turkey that this is the right move for them. yes it is a hole and he's halfway through the process. because last week there was a vote on the 2 agreements that he had signed with the government in tripoli and they sailed through parliament with a huge hole that was the military corporation argument and then the maritime border one which is even more controversial than the military cooperation one and the ones the new year begins president cécile take a bill to parliament that is going to not only authorized the deployment of troops but also give a monday of what they can and can't do once they're deployed in libya so that is what is happening right now but again this is something that has got to regional

implications with tension already rising between turkey and greece on one side as well as cyprus because of. the energy reserves in the eastern mediterranean sea so it is going to have region or medications indeed it is and of course so we'll continue to follow that from ankara and from and tell you where you are at the moment it's cross over to mahmoud of the wire had to say in the libyan capital tripoli and also and obviously this news to a certain extent will maybe bring some relief to the government in tripoli but it's still uncertain as to whether they've actually made the request. well what we know for certain is that the government forces are requesting get. military commanders to military commanders they

they say they are in need of military commanders to run the battles on the ground especially during the past few days after half of those forces have advanced and taken control of throughout egypt locations in southern tripoli including get a military camps strategic military camps in southern tripoli helped by russian mercenaries from the wagner company now remember that in order for turkey to send troops to d.n.a. it needs a new new mandate because the agreement signed with libya last month does not entail sending troops in fact it only entails a military and security cooperation which that includes military equipment and navy vessels maybe and also logistics but it does not entail sending get troops

there is why is distressing on an official request from the d.n.a. is a must for the turkish government to send to send it to troops to fight along with the government of national accord to defend the capital tripoli against have the forces now as i'm a speaking with you. there is a huge traffic of displaced people leaving their homes in the neighborhood in southern tripoli as the fighting is coming closer to their areas have to his forces as they said have been advancing during the past few days helped by russian medicine as in this case their government forces on the ground say that they are in need of military assistance namely military commanders on the battles in southern tripoli. well of course so we'll continue to monitor

that event as well through the news. thanks for joining us from tripoli let's tell the african continent because people in the morning after 2 attacks in just 48 hours at least 12 soldiers were killed when they were ambushed on wednesday night in in some province near the border it's the same region where an army base in the nearby time were attacked on cheese day 35 civilians and 80 gunman were killed warning that some viewers may find the images and it induces report disturbing officials in brooklyn a fossil say these are the bodies of some of the men who 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 we're going to go in 2017 killed dozens of people the government of blocking a fossil has declared 2 days of national mourning for victims of tuesday's attack

well certainly. 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. all 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 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 brooklyn a fossil was a response to this new offensive bricking a fossil has seen many attacks in the past 5 years that killed more than 700 people with half a 1000000 forced from their homes the crisis in northern mali has worsened recliners security problems with practice i cleared it with al-qaeda and i still regularly

cross the border to launch attacks. brooke you know fossil is due to hold its presidential elections in 2020 and president marco bori ones to restore peace before the vote but is not clear if his army is up to the task of a decrease al jazeera approach or. well it is only the latest in a series of recent attacks on military personnel in the west africa region the share. face the most number of attacks well earlier this month 71 soldiers were killed on a military base in the jazz west and in mali at least 53 soldiers were killed on a military post in november how it happened just weeks after 2 other raids on military bases which left dozens of soldiers dead also that month at least $37.00 people were killed and begin a fast so when gunmen ambushed a military convoy transporting minors to work and interests joins us now from nigeria's capital a bit more information and details coming out now about the latest attack.

well basically the attack as you know happened 24 hours after the. cheese did attack that killed 35 civilians and what that shows actually is that. this new offensive by the broken of fossil military was certainly a draw response from these groups these armed groups most of the areas we're talking about not manned by security forces there are so vast so wilderness in some parts deserts and all that and the security forces not only in broken apostle but across the cell do not have the resources or enough manpower to deal with these problems not to fight us as we know have moved in because of the fighting in the middle east after they were displaced in libya we also so a lot of movement of fighters from libya

a lot of weaponry coming into west africa especially the and elected and these are people who were a group who are well trained in the guerrilla warfare tactics like we saw in the one state tag which was an ambush by the way of these 12 soldiers who were killed so there is fear in the region that things may get worse before they get better and as we see. as the fear in the region of course again is such that people think that because most of the countries in the region i'm not strategically important to the west or other members of the international community they will be left to deal with these problems on their own way and that is what has been going on for much of these years except of course for small interventions by international forces in mali and from. man by united nations troops under the new smyrna and the french forces in the sahara of course and that was more going to be about that question really about the intervention of both the u.n.

and the french forces and the investment in the area that would have allowed you might say the indigenous forces to to patrol and to protect the people that live within look where where was the breakdown in your opinion as to why these attacks continue. and why the local forces the local security forces can't seem to protect their own. well basically. these forces don't have enough resources to deal with the problem look at money for example and look at how vast that area is the north in particular much of it is desert and you have a lot of armed groups even before the arrival of a i then i still there were rebellions in the north of mali there were also issues a rebellion in this year of problems in brooklyn a fossil and many other countries in this hell and west africa so in nigeria you have boko haram that is spread not only in nigeria it is going to across the border into cameroon chad niger republic and some better spear that some of them are also

moving into booking a fossil so without enough resources to deal with these problems to tackle these train fighters from the middle east from libya north africa and the rest it will be difficult for these forces to to to to to take care of the problem and there are also fear that because of these countries many of these countries don't have any strategic value to probably some members of the influential members of the international community they may not see a response like we saw in syria in other countries international forces are involved an action has been taken so they feel that they are abundant and as we said basically much of the push ups or much of the what load is being handled by local forces and they don't have enough resources to deal with this problems when we went to mali a few just a week ago the the complain is that they are left on their own and they were say

why is the international community despite the presence of 15000 forces in the country these attacks still continue at a distance thanks for joining us from a big thing. but the middle east now and syrian activists say that the freezing temperatures are slowing the government's offensive on the last rebel held problems of it labe another fighting force 130000 civilians from their homes this month many into makeshift camps the region suffered weeks of artillery bombardment and strikes by the syrian government and its russian ally when he syrians are on the move north towards turkish border but the turkish president as warm that his country can't cope with another influx of refugees from italy province russian backed syrian government forces are now focusing on capturing the rebel held city of. the area is key for damascus as it sits on an important motorway which links the capital to aleppo what syria's largest city bad. how can they do this to

us even israel wouldn't do this this is so wrong 20 houses large and did a ground all at once how can this be possible there are no frontlines here just civilians god to punish all of them all of these muslim states even turkey turkey is supposed to be the guarantor to stop this madness but the key protecting russia iran and even assad may god there are some on. israel's that many in the young who is facing a leadership challenge from within his own look could party the former education minister gideon saar says that he'll be better placed to form a government after national elections in march that we are who is israel's longest serving leader but he's been weakened by corruption charges as well as back to back failures to form a government this year. the tops are going to report. in april there were fireworks and a jubilant crowd as prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife took the stage

to celebrate winning the largest number of seats in the israeli election. tonight is a night of an immense victory 5 months later in front of a sparse crowd a somber netanyahu addressed supporters once again after winning the most seats but failing for a 2nd time to form a government. there can't be and won't be a government that leans on the arab parties since then netanyahu has become the 1st sitting prime minister to be indicted for bribery fraud and popular breach of trust charges he says are politically motivated now he's fighting to retain control of his likud party. on thursday more than 100000 likud party members will decide if they'll put their support behind the man who's become the longest serving prime minister in israeli history. or if it's

time for new leadership former interior and education minister gideon sar is vying to replace him i think that it's a very good thing that. he could have had the primaries i think that. had to call ridge to confront. and i think it's a good indicator that the days are. his last days in power but netanyahu is popularity has remained consistent among his base the economy has been good and the security situation is stable during netanyahu is more than 13 years in power he's transformed israeli politics and shifted the country to the right some say he's divided the population. and it is a battle against corruption charges he's attempted to deal with genom eyes law enforcement the judiciary and the media at work all over the world this populism.

using. claiming that the courts and the media and other elites are after me and i'm a present of of the people and also you have to remember that at least from the point of view of the right wing and the time you know i was very successful by day's end is really so find out if he can pull off another victory even if he does he faces another challenge on tuesday the supreme court will rule on whether an indicted prime minister is even allowed to form a government natasha going to name al-jazeera west jerusalem. look about top story the potential resignation of the iraqi president. joining me now as well would kabul and he's head of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies and he joins me here in doha good to have you back on the program we spoke just a few hours ago on the previous news hour talking about the situation unfolding in

terms of the threat by the president to resign and how much of a grave development is this in terms of iraqi politics well it's simple what and and what i'm sol actually has been playing for the bost few weeks in fact since the very beginning of this crisis to take the sides of the protesters he indeed contributed to that and as ignition of the prime minister he tried actually to convince the prime minister to resign and actually meeting morse and bottom demand behalves of the of the protesters and right now in fact he's trying to this is the push out of that is being put on him by iran backed factions who are actually seem to be keen on nominating one of the of the old guards who are actually representing the interests of the president right now is trying to get in the heat back on these political factions and hence he is that a thing actually to resign he in fact i mean he did actually submitted his

resignation today to the parliament so i'm not really surprised by this by this more but. in terms of the next move i mean if you have a president that doesn't want to be in position because of the potential for a candidate that is deemed to be inappropriate or corrupt and you have a caretaker prime minister who nobody really wants there anyway in terms of prime minister former prime minister i mean where do you go who takes charge of the process and try to sell the next candidate whoever that may be to the public just just from that point of view will talk about the candidates in a moment and absolutely right i mean surfing's arg. and more complicated and fact but i think the president actually is trying to contribute to solving the crisis by asking the political parties the political factions to put forward somebody who would be accepted by the by the protesters why it's it's being so difficult for the for these parties for these political forces to put somebody who's really

acceptable to the protesters so i think he or he is trying in fact to say look i'm not willing to go along with you by actually nominated somebody and try to who is always more or less the same as the as the the outgoing prime minister we need somebody fresh we need somebody who actually arab resent. those acceptable to the to the to the street who would've resent different. political forces which is in fact this time the people who are protesting against the government so i think he's he's quite right actually to try to put the pressure back on those factions who are trying actually to blackmail him in fact because don't forget that they're threatened and they're fierce bless to force him to resign bet written to force the president to resign if he does not go along with that candidate is that they are putting forward for the by ministry so he's actually he's just turning the heat back on them ok well if he is trying to turn

the screw on them you have a scenario here where any politician at national or local level is unacceptable to the man on the street at the moment in iraq as we see it from outside the borders of the country then you have the public who say that we don't want anybody in position that is influenced by outside forces whether it be a regional neighbor or an international partner that only really leaves you with a member of the public or a technocrat even speaking to dorsetshire bari our correspondent in iraq a short time ago she said there's been a massive intellectual brain drain from iraq over the last sort of 15. 20 years and that's put pressure on trying to find you might say a technocrat the could be acceptable to the public at large. i mean we have 55000000 people in iraq i mean nobody can be by the argument that you can't find somebody who is acceptable to the protesters or the protests are calling for look i

mean this political class is so caught up it is so affiliated with external powers we want somebody who would resent our interest the interest of the iraqis we don't want anybody that could present the interests of iran or the united stairs or anybody else yeah we need somebody who was an iraqi who was an iraqi national leader and i don't really think that iraq doesn't have that money the problem is with these political parties that they are so keen on actually putting in charge somebody who represent their interests they have so much visited interests and the position of the prime minister to the extent that there are not willing actually to give it up and i allow in the protesters to invoice the prime minister that they want to represent their interests well we shall see what happens in the next hour or so we'll continue to focus on the subject well and carl always good to speak to you thank you know internet and phone lines are going down in parts of the philippines damaged by typhoon of fun phone at least 16 people were killed as roofs

were ripped off and trees toppled in some our province travel plans of or have been disrupted in flights and ferry services stopped the storm has now moved away into the south china sea. for more on the situation the philippines has overturned with a weather forecast i've been well so we're looking at the storm now starting to weaken i think will be another 15 hours or so before it does get downgraded to a tropical storm it is still well organized still a powerful enough typhoon you can see the position the storm still has an eye on it it is still well organized and holding up right good these feeder bands just extending just a little to the north and the east and that's hoping to keep its shape and maintain its intensity we've got the system making its way towards central parts of vietnam as we go on through the next couple of days sustained will this wind still around 245 kilometers per hour gusting to around 180 kilometers process damaging winds still a possibility in the region and you can see how the winds still be coming in on the

more the east the monsoon joining up with our storm which is circulating away as we go on through friday into saturday we'll continue to drift towards vietnam started to see those showers just stayed off a little bit we are still looking at around 202300 millimeters of rain in parts across northern parts of the philippines in particular so flooding certainly likely we'll see similar amounts of rainfall heading towards fiji over the next couple of days actually you can see this clutch of storms here that's another tropical side close maybe to the west of the islands but we are looking at widespread flooding and wind damage over the coming days. still ahead here on al-jazeera is news or as if it were yesterday the pain still felt by survivors 15 years after a devastating tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people across asia. also one of the world's toughest yacht race is up the way a skipper's make their way from sydney to hobart we'll have that story to do stay

with us here on the al-jazeera news hour. on this the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every love with one layer for the further into the jail or if you join us on set the entry has to start from day one whether again you and attention or your carswell this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for by the artist those that support russia's call right will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason why join the global conversation on how does iraq. in 2008 al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities 'd. we return to see how

the students and the scheme of helping change the face of india. super 30 announces iraq. with me still robin you watching the al-jazeera news are a reminder of our top stories iraq's president says he'd rather resign to name a prime minister who's rejected by protesters behind his refusing to support the nominee put forward by the largest parliamentary bloc which is backed by iran. also turkey's president says he plans to send troops to libya with the tripoli based administration saying it will request military support if the conflict escalates

administration has been under a months long offensive by forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar. and at least 10 soldiers are being killed in a 2nd deadly attack in kenya fast as probably it came just a day after dozens of civilians were killed in a coordinated attack there by 2 days of mourning have been declared. more than are our top story of the political crisis unfolding in iraq political analyst ever the rushdie joins me now from baghdad would you have expected the president to resign in this way and does it really put pressure on parliamentarians to try and find a suitable candidate. well 1st of all it's clear on something very important is that it looks like the political blocks inside the parliament does not known actually and between brackets does not known it's changed now it's not it will not go back before the 1st of october so everything the political environment all the

political environment have been changed and so that's why they always put someone or they always make a nomination for someone who was inside the political process who already known to be corrupted and it's already known he has been locked out of the one of the blocks and it's supposed to be that he will be entered and turned independent and also known as professional one so so that's why i don't think the political process understanding what's happening now except the president the president knows very well how much it's different the situation is different he's now he knows very well that the demonstrators are real demonstrators there already that they're already about 25000 casualties until now so you can imagine blood and wondered man and you know casualties we dose orphans and so on so all those issues made so many pressure on the on the shoulders of the president so he knows very well how much important to stand to be the last man to stand for the people ok so what needs to

move now then for that change in you might say the political landscape to evolve and for the public to be pleased if that's the right word to use. for a candidate to come forward where will they be looking for a candidate if they are looking for a candidate at all. well i think the president himself now knows very well that he is inside the crisis and in front of him is there all the political blogs so either he will dissolve the parliament all he should resign one of those one of these 2 things so and he made it on the message he said i'm ready to resign if you want me to resign so it's now in the hands of the parliament and i don't i don't i don't think he will eventually resign i think there will be some sort of early election asking for elections especially that we are we're already have the electoral law have been voted we have the electoral committee already submitted so

why we are not going to the elections which can be held in about 2 months so i think the pressure will be very harsh on on on the political blows to go forward either to dissolve the parliament and go for the early elections or to stand against the demonstrators which is i don't think it will be for benefits for the political close anymore if an election is called as you're suggesting let's just talk about the various alternatives that could happen if it is that election is called would the demonstration stop or would people then go to the ballot box or would people then try and bring their road you might say civil society leaders or technocrats forward to vie for those seats locations where they believe there is a corrupt politician. well definitely the people is looking i think that they are looking for elections and definitely they will participate there will be a huge participation in the next elections and that's what the major debate and i

think it is the major demand for the demonstrators as that ok we don't need you anymore we need another faces to see in the political process yes we are accepting this political process but without your faces we need a new face is that the only way that it can be happen is by early elections this is 1st and secondly i don't think that the most traitors will go home now i think they will they way they will wait until the the date of the elections and from that date maybe there will be some sort of her calmness and the in the political process to see what is going to happen after the elections after the new parliament and maybe nomination of the new prime minister a new government and so on and there she thanks very much for your insight thanks for joining us from baghdad better to south asia now or where police in india are being accused of using authorized and excessive force against protesters that new delhi is jummy a university around 2 weeks ago an independent investigation by civil rights groups

found that officers indiscriminately beat demonstrators destroyed public property and arrested people and more fully please also accused of intimidating and firing on protesters in the northern state of water pradesh where 18 people were killed the demonstrations are against a new citizenship law that's been labeled as an t. muslim and thousands of protesters in various cities of join the latest protests against the law dozens of recipe made after protesters chanted slogans against the prime minister the render modi elizabeth proud of is in new delhi. it took place soon also the citizenship. test breaking. down the country against the city. to the police to the protest the fact finding team that looks at the. police entered campuses. they brought

c.c.t.v. . security. detained many people destroyed property. and they used excessive force to. protest to stop a rally from. the fact finding team has said similar tactics were used in the stage of. 18 people killed last week. 6 only condemned what he said. on the tester's he said that students have an obligation to keep university safe and. say. very much defiant in the face of criticism. of.

the contents 50 people were killed. accused of not doing enough to help survivors. it was here in the albanian village of my mother the earthquake was felt the strongest zella says he had little time to do anything but run. i just grabbed my children everything collapsed within seconds i read out screaming earthquake earthquake. 34 kilometers away in the city of duty as the force of the earthquake damaged the walls of this high rise building jamming the door and trapping people inside. that the girl was under a chair but the quake was so strong that it should both her and the chair one break fell off the wall and almost hit. there's little left of many of today's is hotels a huge setback for businesses and

a city that relies heavily on tourism hundreds of houses to a now just rubble many have nowhere to live root is trying to help them through this sap we can see here that i have said that even if the building has been totally destroyed or can be repaired and then we can see when the farm where the family so i say here that even leaving at the end there getting there is a lot of these or even they do leave it in their building again but the community has come together providing food and clothes to those in need the day we're going to have beans and rice. and it will be we will make at least. it's a 25300 bushels and it's happening with a little help from the albanian government so volunteers have stepped in. we are alone in this business there is an administrative office but it's been closed for more than 10 days people come here to talk to us about their problems and daily

challenges after the earthquake there's no one else to help them. back in marjah mother this makeshift shelter is where the seller and his family are now living they'll spend a cold winter here waiting for help they fear may not come laura frick berg al-jazeera. competing forces of brazil want to explore the amazon rain forest president has already unlocked more land for farming and development and the digitas groups want to slice of the lucrative angry business to lucy and newman reports from across all. of. mato grosso which means thick forest is a state in central brazil twice the size of california and better known today for its endless fields of crops and cows. but there's still a lot of tropical forests left including incompetent norval depressives the 15000 square kilometers indigenous reserve says of the it's here that we meet

a. leader of the national indigenous farmers association and like most tribes the predecease used to live from subsistence farming but now they're growing and selling soya and other grains for export as well that is just the last of them are pregnant women were losing their babies from lack of food children were malnourished but after 15 years of producing greens our lives have changed now we have lots of food we have 40 university graduates in law medicine agronomy teachers all working inside our community the project is giving us the stain ability. ronaldo and his tribe earlier this year received a visit from the agriculture and environmental ministers of the role model for president jade his vision for integrating brazil's indigenous communities into mainstream society the project has been vilified by other indigenous groups and

many environmentalists who argue that they will lose their culture and further destroy the amazon canal disagrees that you're lost on the 2nd route you know we're in the 21st century the colonial period is over all societies transform and developed and we indigenous peoples are also transforming ourselves of course our culture traditions and identity are important but we can't remain frozen in time indeed these days this traditional palm leaf house is used mostly for meetings guests and religious ceremonies. mother still leaves ceremonial clothes but now the silk in my family lives in a hamlet of modern houses and outside of the reserve the president is also giving the green light to expand brazil's agricultural from tear this road sample is cotton in fact almost everything that's profitable grows here brazil is already the

world leader in soya and sugar cane in beef and among the top 3 corn producers but in order for the abbey business to continue to expand it needs more and more land which explains why the brazilian amazon is so coveted. results largest oil producer. is nevertheless concerned nicknamed the king of soil he was given the golden chainsaw award a few years ago by environmentalists but today he says unlimited deforestation of the amazon is unacceptable especially since it's unleashed a global backlash so demand to. keep it. the president has taken a mistaken approach but i think our mistakes in the agribusiness sectors concerns of a possible boycott against our products may make them realize while the amazon is sovereign brazilian territory it's also needed by the entire world. as of the 5 of the fact

that the reserve chooses many foreign governments of expecting indigenous tribes to remain naked eating ants in the forest who explains they using only 1.7 percent of their territory to grow soya another grains for export he insists they don't need more at least for now. you see in human al-jazeera cumple know that better cease brazil. moral services are being held across asia to walk the 15th anniversary of the devastating indian ocean tsunami 230000 people were killed last of wave swept into 12 countries so hot it has more than its business is usual for these fishermen in the thai province of punk but on this day 15 years ago a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9 point one earthquake devastated the coastline here. waves as high as 17 and a half meters came crashing in from the ocean killing nearly 5000 people in this

village alone. with half the population wiped out nearly everyone who has lost a relative or even a friend. near one chance or a long knows too well that no matter how many years have passed the pain of losing your children never goes away committed you know when i don't think they died on the day the tsunami hit we couldn't find them until the 28th and their bodies hadn't decomposed at all i often imagine how much they would have thought about me before they took their last breaths but we couldn't find them we couldn't help them this is stuck with me and every time i think about it it hurts my these images shocked the world the day after christmas shortly before 8 am in 2004 the earthquake struck under the sea in northern india. it rippled across the indian ocean triggering a tsunami that hit dozens of countries in asia and along africa's east coast getting close to $230000.00 people and it happened during peak to reseize and the

majority of those who died were in indonesia entire villages were flattened. and the carnage of that day is still fresh on the minds of those living in abject province the worst hit area where 170000 ppi. who were killed tell. me i'm on behalf of the government and people of that say today we formally want to thank more than 150 countries that have been involved in helping rehabilitation and reconstruction. rubble because no one knew the tsunami was coming on that day there was no early warning systems in place but it was a global lesson learned. since then more than $400000000.00 has been spent across $28.00 countries on detectors. survivors say the technology is not enough though and that public awareness and education are necessary to save

people's lives so i hired al-jazeera. still ahead in sports a 4 year old record comes to an end for the reigning n.b.a. champions league will have that story straight after the break seka way. what kind of care does that provide and is anyone willing to pick up the cost we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in so is it possible for trying to actually which are right here on counting the cost on al-jazeera. john you're right on down to see the. president donald trump is that the president in history to be impeached what does this mean for the future i think you will see down on the brink of an election before much chili and presidential candidate explodes the defeat to be left when the political parties across latin america and look at how this year while the

economic forum to focus on ways to tackle the impact of climate change the next probation of family links to the city's regime examines if it's too late may now be embracing freshest ideologies most believe gone forever with the general election out of the way breaks it is now simply how you would think you could proceed with the transition in. january on al-jazeera. talk about his type of support of israel think so well it was a busy christmas that's for sure on the court in the n.b.a. the 2 l.a. teams battling it out with le bron james pushing for the 1st lakers title in 10 years but the arrival of a reigning champion at the clippers is giving the brawn a problem right on his doorstep reports. with co i landed in the tell you it's been

generally smooth sailing for the l.a. clippers clippers but it was point guard patrick beverley who would end up having the headline moment in this game this defensive rebound on 100 baskets in the 2nd just a taste of what was to come from him. le bron james has led the lakers to the top of the standings in the west james after the 3 time champion helped build up an almost commanding lead in the 4th quarter. but the clippers to big summer signings swung the pendulum back 1st paul george a 6 time and all star now helping the clippers step. from the lakers shadow you know i would say i'm done leonard and be a champion on finals m.v.p. with the raptors last year and wrapping the lakers defense with $35.00 points on christmas day john lennon the lakers were 3 points behind with 6 seconds to play when the brom shape to tie it. but beverly showed it tended in the crowd not in the

basket clippers when 11121062 go 3rd in the west down a market in this growing rivalry the whole race. will quite leonards former team the toronto raptors have gone a $34.00 record games without losing to division foes on home court and looked like continuing that against the celtics on christmas day putting them 10 ahead of boston pin them back to kemba walker unselfishly setting up in jail and brown here brown was the star for boston has 30 points underlining why the celtics are 2nd in the us they win 118-2102 raptors lose at home to an atlanta team for the 1st time in 4 years. while the rest of europe puts its feet up over the holidays the english premier league's festive fixture list swings into action on boxing day josie merinos tottenham were drawing with brighton a short time ago that's one of 9 matches on thursday in clean leaders liverpool against 2nd place leicester another 10 games at the weekend means that managers are

less than happy about the physical strain on their players not all of us managers has a problem with boxing or whatever. but playing to $26.00 or $28.00 is a crime it's up to you not ok and we still have it but there's no reason for giving teams less of them 48 hours to play another premier league game the body needs a specific amount of time to go again if you that that's how it is depends so long you have to do something it but it's easy to science so but the ignore that completely. there were more races and students on the last match day in the premier league race this chance led to the game actually be a delay between tottenham and chelsea chelsea's german defender antonio red digger said he was targeted by the crowd but tweeted afterwards at the problem of racism would soon be forgotten again by the authorities he has told his manager that he

will not hide from the abuse and is set to play again southampton teammate tammy abraham was also abused online after a game in august a sold chinese social media post the well it was from the hall and the summit was he feels very strongly about we had a similar situation the timing think it was pretty savvy about that i would like to think the plan is not on with them on anything like this 2 major cricket tests got underway this thursday england took a wicket with the 1st ball of the series for the 1st time since 2007 but south africa's quinten dick cock has been staging a one man recovery and australia are on top after day one of the boxing day test at melbourne 2 $57.00 for 4 wickets down against new zealand the iconic sydney to hobart yacht race has started down under on boxing day the french design super maxi . made up for a tardy start by taking an early lead through sydney heads organizers have banned

satellite phones for race checkpoints amid concerns that smoke from nearby fires could actually affect marine radio signals the race is more than a 1000 kilometers long takes more than a day to finish and is considered one of the most difficult yacht races in the world. and finally many politicians find themselves on thin ice throughout the year but that was not the case for this up and coming hockey star you would know it but number 11 right there is russian president vladimir putin he was playing alongside his defense minister among others playing in red square in moscow has turned into a bit of a presidential new year tradition last year putin managed to score 5 goals to lead his team 14 to 10. all right that's it for me back to you so thanks very much and of course our top story is that resignation of the iraqi president and the implications of it not just for parliament but also for the public who've been demonstrating for weeks against the parliament and various nominations including danny who the president refuses to nominate as the prime minister more on that

after the break. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but has the power structure that maintains the can only project that's what we refuse it was one of the sound there are still for settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. they wanted 43000000 pounds worth of weaponry that was 6000000000 pounds intermission. there's not any more because there's always a small people for. really good ministers. in essence we

in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. day one of a new era in television news we badly need at this moment leadership and value this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist 3 weeks ago now there's at least 20100 refugees who live here on al-jazeera i got to commend you all more i'm hearing is good journalism turns to the public has resigned after all the lies the attempts of coverups jamal khashoggi his loved ones wants. in form of closure people are suffering. entire systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction we saw the syrian army like voice that in the city just gave. to miss song on. the front line what. happened.

with. iraq's president sides with protesters says he'd rather quit the put forward a prime minister rejected by the people. you're watching after their life headquarters here and also coming up turkey's president says troops to libya requested i will present deployment legislation to parliament in january. also an independent report accuses police in india of using all the wires and excessive force against opponents of the new citizenship more

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