this is al jazeera. live from doha everyone i'm come all sons of maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera 12 people killed dozens injured after a passenger plane crashes just after takeoff in kazakhstan. also in the news iraq is expected back on the streets after the president pledged to resign over a candidate for prime minister. there's a heavy police presence in india as anger acim is over its controversial citizenship. and pulling together why communities in lebanon say they rely on each other not the government to survive. and i'm we're hard in with the sports news and it's high noon and the n.b.a.

with a texas showdown between the dallas mavericks and the san antonio spurs as sharpshooter look at don church comes back with a bit. so an airliner has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 12 people the back jet came down near the airport smashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 98 people aboard we'll start with this report from alexia brown. emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airline a torn in half the main body of the back a jet barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from the airport bound for the capital no so tom survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted a full smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house race queue. as worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of

injured including 8 children president kasim caiaphas formed a government commission and says anyone responsible for the crash will be in his words severely punished he's also declared a day of national mourning on saturday because the plane itself is so rugged and well built that they are in very high demand and it's very difficult to get a good for 100 today. and their life seems to go on because they're if they're well mine timed they've got a very long structural lot the government's ordered the airline to ground its fleet of dutch built jets which are more than 20 years old only back air flights have been suspended until crash investigators can work out how this happened alexia brian al jazeera. more now with alex on forgot for laurent joining us from moscow so we know what happened i guess the questions now is is there anything about why

it happened that the timing to take off the weather conditions. well the also to that crucial question at this point we still don't have what we have are versions these versions are voiced by the vice prime minister of kazakhstan he's a member of the government commission formed to investigate this case what he says his name is onslaught he says that there is still basic regimes one is a mistake made about by a pilot while staking off the other speaks of technical problems of the display in they did recover a black boxes that they will be the best to get in the following the base to come hoping that they will reveal more about why this this accident happened what we do know he said is that there is traces on the runway that the plane twice with its tail hits the wrong waves whilst trying to takeoff so what he sees basically saying that there were problems during the very moment plane started taking off any

words on some of the survivors and what they saw i mean in itself it's unusual sometimes to have survivors from a large plane crash what are they saying. well i was not really paying attention to what's there i mean there of course they were in the you know huge distressed a lot of them were 60 people have been brought to the hospitals hospital skep 50 of them because they are severely injured mostly it is broken broken bones are of them like a dozen is in critical condition so people are by now lining up that we could see on social networks of kazakhstan lining up to donate blood for all of them this must have been horrifying experience if specially with take into account that if the plane indeed hits twice there on way whilst it was taking off so from the very moment to this unfortunate flight started it was

a pretty scary experience i believe yes very much ok alex ana thank you for all of that information and now with us on skype from salzburg is code hoffman who's an aviation journalist of air transport world magazine thanks for your time. i would say the aviation industry in kazakhstan is one that we don't know a huge amount about what can you tell us about i guess levels of safety competitiveness all these sorts of things well because its tone changed a lot in terms of aviation it's not a straight $5.00 to $6.00 alliance which dominating the market especially in the domestic market you see a lot of price war a lot of competitive low cost carriers like you have to be getting like aristotle not really looking like. the alliance doesn't care to look very competitive environment for all these elements and some of them fight for financial strains the currency is weak their economy is not that strong at the

moment but there's a big amount of travelling inside because it starts a huge country so quite a competitive market for the island just. the plane itself kurt it was a focal 100 now those planes gosh i remember those from my childhood that's going back a bit now i didn't know they were still flying is that it is it considered still to be a safe airplane well i think of us built in 1906 and received many aircrafts with the station around the world flying especially in australia you see a lot of fog up 70 spoke of 100 flying bits to a very good job it's a very common it's a handy aircraft to pilots like operating this aircraft and there is every all the air out of course maintenance is always the issue to keep on in your life it works you for a long time certainly if they maintenance is good so also for 100 we'll still flying the next 10 to 15 years for sure especially in australia ok one other thing

i wanted to ask you about is just and this is a involving a little bit of speculation but based on what you've heard the reports you've seen so far about about this crash a is there anything popping up in your mind as to why this could have happened any red flags what i guess was in the morning and went down east the icing necessary for the aircraft and we had same we have seen some scenario issue some thought or 'd issue 9 aircrafts where on the wing are on the on the lower center of the body when did the icing is maybe not very well mate and some ice breaks during the takeoff coming into an engine this can cause great problems for the takeoff from but of course we can just speculate also if there is be a bird strike work take bigger issues something like that so it is very important for the investigation i'm gonna believe that bank you know bill can survive this financially in the long term when i'm older also think around the now so it's not

easy for them to operate in the future there is also the fact that we've got survivors in this plane crash doesn't always happen quite often you hear about everyone on board being killed i guess their testimony could be quite important. yes and of course as you say so and here we see on a takeoff an airplane crash it's very important where you see it in the near perfect of course it's always a situation where the accident exactly happened this was very traumatic it was running into our house after it were all so let's say you want those survivors of the aircraft so you know and in general i want to say that it is simply because of a lot of your success ok kind of and thank you for your time to appreciate that all of that information pleasure let's move on to other news more antigovernment protests planned across iraq as the political crisis deepens demonstrations erupted on thursday at the president but him salah submitted his resignation to parliament

instead of naming outside. a downy as leader downing was nominated by iraq's biggest parliamentary block which is backed by iran protesters are demanding. an independent candidates let's talk to simona 14 who's in not jeff for is interested to know. grand ayatollah ali al sistani who has been let's say more vocal on political developments recently apparently deciding not to include political remarks in today's sermon friday obviously the religious day why is that . well indeed he did not deliver any remarks on the political developments through his representative during the friday sermon but there was still a hint why that might have been what he said was that when people make a decision there should be wise if they should consult other people and consider all of the consequences and of course this isn't in direct criticism of iraq's

political elites and specifically the nomination of danny as the prime minister by the iranian backed in our coalition about ali al sistani here feels is that he is not being listened to throughout the past weeks he has offered advice many times on how the government should respond to protesters demands he has asked for meaningful reforms he has asked for early elections and based on what a cleric that is very close to us is funny told me earlier today he just feels that this advice is not being followed now this is not the 1st time that his tiny has stopped giving political remarks he has done so in 2013 he has done so in 2016 the question remains how long will this silence last and what that cleric who i spoke to seemed to suggest that he will not again speak about political developments until the parliament calls early elections. move widely speaking some want to what are the implications for this whole political crisis that has been going on for

months hundreds of people have died and the political reaction seems to only actually be making things worse. yes this decision to not comment on the political developments comes at a very critical moment president barham styler yesterday took a very strong stance with the demonstrators in his letter he threatened to resign because he felt that the candidate who was put forth by the be not coalition did not represent the people's choice he rejected a southerly donnie as the nominee for the prime minister and said that if he accepted him this would risk further escalation of course what the president hopes was that this decision this very strong stance that he took would be backed today by ali al sistani and that was not the case at least in public but i was told that his decision was very much appreciated in here in not just what ali al sistani silence today means is an effort to put more pressure on the political parties to actually meet protesters demand sort of ball is now very much in the court of

parliament it remains to be seen whether day will put forth another candidate who represents the interests of the protesters and also how parliament will respond to barham solace for it to resign and how the protesters respond as well some on any thoughts on how this will be received by them. well a grand ayatollah sistani officially he carries a lot of weight many people look to him for guidance not just on religious and social matters but also on the political developments so his silence today will certainly be met with both criticism as well as support people feel like he is basically protesting the lack of responsiveness by the government on the other hand there are also protesters who feel that he should have 6 spoken out more strongly against the government he should have been more direct in his critique because many times what he says is misinterpreted by the political parties for their own gains of people feel that he has not been direct and strong enough in his criticism of

the government's response to was this protest so we have to wait and see because of course the crowds turn out in the streets a few hours after the friday sermon so we'll be monitoring the situation both here and not just as well as in baghdad to see what the response will be and we will talk to you about that again later simona 14 in not job. his what we've got coming up for you on this new mexico appeals to the u.n. court as a diplomatic crisis with bolivia intensifies we'll also look at why japan is sending warships and planes to the gulf region. and in sport argentina's favorite footballing son diego maradona gets presidential custom. they will have that and more. right now look at israel though where the leader benjamin netanyahu has thanked his the could party members and promised to lead them to an election victory after

fending off a leadership challenge rival gideon saw hopes to convince members that it was time to change but they stuck with netanyahu despite his indictment for corruption but i am reports now from western who saw them. for the 1st time in 5 years likud members had the chance to elect someone other than benjamin netanyahu as their leader on thursday they chose him again solidifying his nickname as the magician because of his ability to pull off victory after victory netanyahu campaigned heavily to beat his challenger former interior and education minister gideon sar i know who can be going to be brought about great things to the country and in order for us to continue bringing about great things to the country we need to go vote for me for you why. even though netanyahu is the 1st sitting prime minister to be indicted on corruption charges his popularity has remained steady among his right wing base

a feeling. sars pics of sitting on the bench and not trying to do anything active in in the public fields is wrong i prefer people who take action. sourced pitch to voters is that netanyahu failed to form a government twice why would he be able to reach a different outcome a 3rd time he warned maintaining the status quo could mean likud loses power in national elections in march. sars supporters cited concerns over the corruption charges trailing netanyahu charges he calls a politically motivated witchhunt the saar camp has also alleged election meddling and voter intimidation there's a bit involved decay in the democracy from within the party and generally in israel israel is in the midst of an unprecedented political crisis netanyahu has

until january 1st to ask the knesset to grant him immunity he'll need a 61 majority vote he was unable to get that same number of seats to form a government in the last 2 elections and on tuesday the supreme court is expected to rule if an indicted sitting prime minister is allowed to form a government natasha going to al-jazeera west jerusalem golf is with us now chief political correspondent for the jerusalem post with us on skype from west jerusalem jill does this result for mr netanyahu say more about his popularity or is it given sod's lack of popularity because really for a prime minister to not be able to form a government twice and still get reelected by his party he's doing something right . well he definitely understands his constituents and what they want he has spent the last 2 weeks campaigning vigorously for

a 70 year old man he had 34 campaign rallies every single night in different communities around the country he all together came into contact with 10000 people in 2 weeks and made sure that they would bring out the vote and this is the same strategy that he's going to be using ahead of the march 2nd election against benny gantz and his competition he's going to be there in the field trying to win over voters and that proved successful in this campaign but is there anything to suggest a different result in this next election 2 already that with so close same would likely happen again would it not what is einstein's the mission of insanity to do something over and over and over again and expecting different results exactly. this is different in one way there are plenty of missing now supporters would agree with his policies and even agree with him when he calls the charges against him a witch hunt who won't end up voting 'd for him for one simple reason these

indictments could force him to step down at one time or another and people are sick and tired of having elections after elections after elections so if they're concerned that netanyahu would be brought down by the end of his or decided a certain point he has to focus on his trial and not about running the country they might decide to vote for someone else just because they're putting stability 1st so actually more could be in the hands of the supreme court than anyone else because that that's the ruling we really have to look for them finding out where the. sitting and indicted sitting prime minister can be allowed to carry on. and that's absolutely right the laws in israel are not only unclear they haven't really been made yet there has been a verdict that a knesset member or a cabinet minister cannot sit after an indictment there is no such ruling about a prime minister's we've never had a prime minister indicted on office before and so that's going to be up to the supreme court to decide and they could make such

a decision and then it's now is to get the support of 61 knesset members and then we'll have what would be called a constitutional crisis in a country with no constitution funny what are your feelings about the electorate itself the israeli people who must be i would think sick of elections by now i'm wondering why they cannot get a functioning government i think the political correspondents are who are sick in the public about that we've been working very hard for more than a year now kemal the people did not protest enough and they should have gone out on the streets demanding that there not be a 3rd election demanding that our politicians compromise and reach some kind of agreement and the people i guess didn't get their message through enough to the politicians and now we're all stuck together in doing this all over again and you never tell in his body politics is that gil huffman from the jerusalem post thank you for joining us but you. there is

a heavy police presence in india's capital new delhi as more people protest against a controversial citizenship law there mr it is a gathering outside the state building of a pradesh calling on police to stop using excessive force in this book purana now in new delhi tell us more what you're expecting today this. could all demonstrations are trying to gather here outside of the british house they are absolutely not being allowed to anyone who arrives here is being detained carried away by police immediately because police on to allow in this protest people want to speak out against the police response to protest against citizenship law and the state of water for the largest number of deaths around the country 18 of the 25 people dead have been in aceh for days we're also expecting protests to take place in places like these may last. and elsewhere in the country to call big cities like mumbai lock now which is the capital of what over there and kolkata to 2 weeks

after the citizenship the opposition to it is still very big. we also expect in kampala the building b j p to hold a rally. and protest is this important will come out they have been some of these rallies but really they're nowhere near as big as the protests that we've seen against the citizenship nor. sort of precautions being taken to they are those with given these protests have been deadly in the past number of people were killed last friday we've lost the link with elizabeth you might have heard there the sound just starting to break up a little bit before unfortunate lost the link with her but we're getting reports now relation in the days we said protests which were deadly last friday and expecting more unrest today across india. lebanon now which has been without

a government for 2 months political deadlock there is not rare but it comes at a critical time the economy is close to collapse and the lebanese people are relying on themselves to survive the crisis which is being described as the worst in decades and they know that with this report from beirut. at least 7 people a day are depending on the generosity of one woman to eat it to their little bottle expects that number to rise as lebanon's economy continues to collapse her bakery is offering free bread to the poor don't leave your family hungry is what this sign reads this is one of many initiatives by lebanese who are trying to help each other as a young girl asked me if she could buy half a sandwich for the 500 lebanese pounds she had that struck me i realized how people are desperate and hungry my daughters told me why don't you help people and that is what i'm doing now poverty is on the rise and so is unemployment lebanon has been without a government for weeks politicians are bargaining over power instead of implementing much needed reforms to unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid. the dire economic

situation is the result of bad economic policies of previous governments their policies failed there's been a lot of corruption in the stolen money from the state economic crisis isn't it spain building up there are no more cases of lebanese becoming homeless because. they no longer can afford rent she brought her family to this square in central beirut where opponents of the political class have been converging for more than 2 months and their attempt to get rid of the political elite. i used to have a house but now my whole family 8 girls and 4 boys including my son in law live here but regardless of this bad situation i feel good because of the care and love i got from people before the uprising i never had this much supports this spontaneous and leaderless protest movement was triggered by government attempts to impose more taxes they now call it

a revolution lebanese from across the sectarian divide came together to call for change but this newfound unity is not complete these concrete slabs are a symbol of the deep divide not just among the nation's polity. but society as well security forces set up these barricades after supporters of the mainly sectarian parties attacked the anti-establishment protesters the barriers make it harder to access the square but they do little to bridge differences indications are this is only the start of what is likely to be a prolonged crisis. beirut. police in hong kong say they've arrested more than 330 protestors over the christmas holiday demonstrators targeted busy shopping malls over 3 consecutive days so trying to keep pressure on the government of the calls for political change police say rioters through the city into a state of quote black tara. hong kong people in a merry christmas as chaos the mob is. returning to the city they

stormed the shopping center to find the last stop restaurant into what was going to say shoppers young and old different from the city interesting people from terror the whole society is teetering constant fear that everyone can be that little bit of peace electrolyte. the death toll from a typhoon that battered the philippines on wednesday has now risen to $28.00 with at least a dozen more missing typhoon fun for and left a trail of destruction internet and phone service is still down in some parts of the country planes and ferry services have been suspended the way the system is now moved into the south china sea firefighters in australia are trying to limit the spread of bushfires before an expected heat wave this weekend only 1300 crew in new south wales are doing critical containment work including controlled burns 70 fires

are burning across the state with about one half still out of control months of fires have killed 9 people and destroyed at least a 1000 properties. we are seeing the temperatures starting to rise over the coming days we're seeing this heat wave starting to move across new south wales again that's going to bring not just the heat have of the center of a strong we're going to see the temperatures up into the louder mid forty's across a lot of areas but it's going to bring a very dry air as well so that's going to elevate far dangers and we know the winds are going to start turning around to the west in the northwest which is warsaw much work has been going on over this last week while conditions are more mild there's extraordinary work going on with with hand to long construction far break up upgrades they're locking in control laws with back burning men and women on the ground doing really difficult work in pretty rugged country but also being supported by aircraft in the air in a moment in update on the web with kevin corriveau there is and then also ahead

germany's social democrats attempting to revive their popular support is. also looking at the human cost of 5 years of war in yemen. and has more on the country the dominating the sport of. cross that in the recent support of the late. we are continue to watch an ongoing story here across parts of the eastern mediterranean we have been talking about the storm system for days now across this area you can see the clouds we have seen plenty of rain plenty of winds just a few days ago we were showing you video of a donna with the widespread flooding today it's actually out here across parts of

lebanon i want to show you the newest video coming in across the area you can see how these war waves have really been pounding the coastlines because of the very gusty winds here as well as because of the very heavy rain across much of the area we have seen flooding we have seen mudslides and landslides as well local people are being told to actually don't park their cars in their part trees billboards or actually near limb poles because the potential of them falling over unfortunate today we're going to be seeing some more rain across much of the area they don't need any more rain we've seen totals well over $50.00 to $70.00 millimeters per day falling across this area tomorrow much of the same by the time we get towards monday and into ski sunday and into monday we're going to be seeing the rain starting to edge of away but as you can see across much of the eastern med we're still dealing with some very heavy rain across much of the area in terms of cheap locations here in beirut we do expect to see probably another 100 millimeters of rain in the next 3 days. the winds are sponsored by catalonia.

a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains because on a project that's what we diffuse it was one of the sounders self a 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. al-jazeera . where every.

this is the news and these are our top stories at least 12 people killed after an airliner crashed shortly after takeoff back jet smashed through a wall before hitting a house. $98.00 passengers and crew in total. more anti-government protests planned in iraq after president. to resign over. the prime minister. nominated by iraq's biggest parliament which is backed by iran. and israel's leader

benjamin netanyahu is the could party members and promise to lead them to election victory after fending off a leadership challenge rival. hopes to convince members it was time to change. now japan is sending a warship and reconnaissance aircraft to the gulf to protect its oil imports that deployment follows last week's visit to tokyo by iran's president 90 percent of japan's crude oil imports are from gulf countries iran denies links to several recent attacks on oil tankers one of them which was operated by a japanese company the more china russia and iran have begun 4 days of joint naval exercises in the gulf of oman the iranians are looking to increase their military cooperation following increased tension with the united states and its allies and we've got graham on the web with us now a research fellow at the u.s. roger roger altman school of international studies with us on skype from singapore

graeme what is china trying to get out of this explain to me the logic i guess and they're traveling to the gulf of oman. well the chinese are highly blessed that in the middle east as you know china it tends heavily on our constant also players coming out of iran. to power up the chinese economy and so on what we're seeing you know is are you know a game of deterrence that is going on where in this case russia are chyron iran lined with each other against each other ministrations posturing in the region to get into mine that just in. september is time every station knows that he would increase its military presence and summary of you know and also missile defenses in light of the attacks that you just described against saudi arabian or facilities

and sort of the iranians are responding it's not in trying to stave off us for chips right so that you think these 3 countries are happy to put aside some of their difference over the differences over other things like syria for example and be united against the united states definitely i mean you know if you know there aren't any profit political relationships in his work and only iran does have some concerns russia are the most of the russians are working in your intervention in syria. but nevertheless they're putting those differences aside because they are our highest except you when it comes to the high dependency on oil supplies coming out of egypt is more of a technical question which maybe you can answer about the different capabilities of the 3 forces i'm guessing there are going to be different systems different

technicalities involved can they all sort of work together how does that work together. well in this case i think we shouldn't set our expectations too high or this is really more a case of window dressing where 3 needs are coming together to put an issue or for 40. mind you are in the previous iteration of how disk size or support they are all source for spare attendees beginning on it's only 4 days of on tuesday and so it will get down to 40 clearly into operability issues between different military systems the iranians are buying more chinese and russian that's holmes but in our sources will tell you that there are inherent limitations of integrating right now is just an earpiece no exercise for for occasional military signalling to from an institution nothing more but i think we should see what's going to happen in 2020

whether there are more exercises and more integration and what we should be do you think there's enough here happening now at the end of 2019 to worry the united states. i don't see it so i think this exercise. tells us that our other developments are to be afloat for g. 20 i mean the timings are consolidating. their various relationships in the region there's a lack of our school security guards or. paramount of our concern are how the region is one to be stabilized one for graham on the web always a pleasure talking to you thank you. libya's internationally recognized government has made a formal request for turkish military support because president earlier said he's willing to send soldiers to tripoli politicians in ankara could vote on whether to

approve that deployment in the coming weeks but this report now from tripoli. this is southern outskirts of the libyan capital tripoli where there's been heavy fighting for the past 8 months. forces loyal to warlord liefer hefted are now using artillery fire to advance with the help of russians who are reportedly leading have to us forces as they take control of civil important locations including military camps near the salon the neighborhood. turkey says it's a planning to send troops to help you and your kidneys the government it wants to prevent have to those forces from seizing the libyan capital turkish president trichet tayyip erdogan says parliament will voting january on a mandate to send troops to libya in charlotte. god willing on the 8th or the 9th of january we will pass this in our parliament we will be responding to the

invitation. we have given i will give all forms of support to the tripoli government which is fighting against just general backed by arab countries and european. during a news conference in tunis libya's interior minister won't need that libya's neighboring countries will be affected if true police falls he says have to risk being backed by civil regional countries the talisay than the one. we know very well there are a mirage he forces an airbase in the east of the country there are also forces from sudan and chad they have all been brought by have tar has given them bases and airports in libya without any agreements well we hope that this situation is worsening as have to as warplanes target civilian locations in and around tripoli. who has voiced concerns over a possible turkish military deployment to libya while president of the un said last

week turkey will not stay silent over what he called russian backed mercenaries supporting have to have to his forces are supported by advance and weapons and from several countries including russia france the united arab emirates and egypt turkey appears to be one of very few friends of the tripoli based government who are prepared to offer more than mere words to support it. would have to go ahead and did here. william lawrence is a professor at georgetown you know george washington university's elliott school of international earlier he told you in mcdonald that turkey is also working towards a diplomatic solution for libya. i don't think anyone really wants to send in troops and he's been signaling in various ways including to the tunisians that there's a ceasefire coming that he'd prefer not to bring in troops and on the other hand if he does send in troops though those can be used for the defense of tripoli from the

3000 sudanese mercenaries and 1000 russian mercenaries and and other increasing troop levels it also sends a psychological message both militarily and also regarding the internal an extra lion says in libya regarding the libyan conflict and it also helps get us to the berlin peace conference in january because if tripoli falls that completely changes the tenor of that discussion then if tripoli is holding up and there is an actual ceasefire and peace deal that can be negotiated and william other likely to be behind the scenes conversations here between russia and turkey is there an element of brinkmanship in what we're seeing here or what we think we might be seeing year no question and i've seen 10 different versions among the analysts of the deal that could be in the making what's being discussed the turkish form is hers mr was just in moscow having discussions there was a talk of an igloo for trippy

a tripoli deal where the russians would be given more of a way forward in italy in exchange for stepping back in tripoli and increasingly the syrian and and libyan theatres are overlapping in the turkish russia negotiation and putin's also been very astute here because with an increased turkish presence that also is part of his desire to decrease nato influence in libya so it's turks instead of nato and then he's got that other arms deal with turkey which he's trying to cut in and nato has influence and be his relationship with turkey as well so all of those issues are interconnected now william what's your view on the the u.s. position or lack of a clear position. well it's true that trump has been all over the place and every time he calls in he seems to shade toward taft our but after the phone call on april 4th the white house and the state department immediately walked it back every

time trump makes one of these phone calls or tweets that the larger u.s. government will walk it back because it's really not in the u.s. interest just change sides and support have to are when have to himself is committing most of the war crimes is having the greater destabilizing effect in libya and is generally not been much of an ally in fighting terrorism in fact it was mostly the western government that got isis out of the coastal and city areas in in libya and have to have barely lifted a finger and so there's a lot of skepticism might have to are across the u.s. government even if somehow some time sisi can can convince trump to to do some messaging on behalf of her far more than 235000 people who fled violence in northwest syria this month according to the united nations the been weeks of artillery bombardment and strikes on the last rebel held province of idlib president on trumpets also the syrian government and its russian and iranian allies

to stop the bloodshed or from hama don't know he's in and tukey on the turkey syria border explaining the refugee crisis on the border which may worsen if the fighting escalates. there was a pause in the strikes bottle bombs and shelling the city and before says have been cutting out in a new province something save talk been caused by the weather but also give a good opportunity to some of the thousands who've been displaced from their homes to go back and get much needed supplies on house hold items syrian government forces have been pushing depart into it in the past few days with their sights on the city of misrata newmont it is a strategic city that sits on the m 5 highway that links the must cause the cup at all to aleppo syria's largest city and they're very keen to get control of it to assure that the road is the be all penned and trade and transport between aleppo

and damascus unhindered how more than 100 unflooded 1000 people have fled their homes in the past few days according to the united nations most of them are headed to the syrian takesh border actually most of them to the border crossing of bubble however the turkish government is not allowing any of the displays to cross over into turkish territory and that is now feeling fear is that a humanitarian crisis might unfold on the turkish syrian border and from the war in syria to the one in yemen almost 5 years now war in yemen which has created what the united nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis victoria geishas being looks about. in march 2015 saudi arabia and 9 other countries launched

a military campaign in yemen in support of the internationally recognized president abbot rebbie mansell heidi and against iranian backed the rebels he 6 months earlier had taken control of the capital sana'a. after nearly 5 years of war the saudi u.a.e. coalition has not defeated the heat these and aid agencies say the human cost of the fighting has been enormous across all of the human tragedy and situation is only getting worse even the violence is decreasing but you know it's not even crisis is worsening and not of syrian need millions of heavy price. going. since the conflict began analysts estimate moving 91000 yemenis have been killed another 3000000 displaced by the fighting and the country is on the brink of famine with 24000000 people dependent on international food aid only half of

yemen's health care facilities are functioning and it's struggling with the worst cholera outbreak in modern history a un brokered cease fire agreed to last december was never fully implemented in the port of her data so what are the chances of peace next year for sites know the power of each other or site don't want to be harmed by the other and both sides believe that it's but they're both interest and so. if no international pressure on both sides they place this walker and in a few weeks but as long as there are a lot of pressure aguero does that especially as our objectives the guy has for reasons now just worked out a lot more than we expected the plan is to get the 2 warring sides together for a new talks in the hope 2020 will be the year they finally accept what the u.n. has been saying for years that there is no military solution to the conflict in yemen. victoria gate and by al jazeera. south korea's constitutional

court has dismissed a case seeking to repeal a deal with japan which compensated korean women and slaved for sex during world war 22015 the 2 countries struck a deal to apologize and to provide financial compensation to the so-called comfort women but a group of women and their families took the case to the court saying the deal was made without their consent and actually undermined their right to seek further reparations from japan the route has sparked wider protests in south korea more than a dozen montenegrin opposition m.p.'s have been detained by police after they violently protested the law on religious freedom. was they were chaotic scenes as the protests serb moment has tried to prevent the boat police intervened and detained 24 people remaining in peace those successfully passed the law it requires religious communities to prove ownership of its properties critics accuse the government of trying to take the positions of the church. elections of come and

gone across the european union in 2019 but for germany 20 twentieth's it to be the political parties regroup and look ahead to the election for chancellor in 2021 of those democrats that means figuring out how they can regain the relevance they once commanded them in a time as this report. there was a time when the social democrats dominated german politics those days are long gone now they are just junior partners in governments dominated by the christian democrats and fewer than one in 6 germans votes for this people's party which is why they espied a recently elected new leaders driven by a more left wing a view of politics and a deep dislike of the coalition with anglo american the smart one to spin skeptics as it's what i was and i am skeptical about the future of this grand coalition i haven't changed my mind about that but with this resolution we give the coalition

a realistic chance of continuing not more not less. in 2019 the party lost votes in every election it contested and fell behind both the greens and the far right alternative for germany in the polls which explains why many at the grassroots are in despair they've got targets political operative emotions alas we need to continue to develop a vision because ours is the only party that works through visions and emotions how much smith said that those who have visions should go to the doctor and i would say don't contradict how much mitch go to the doctor and convince the doctor the nurses and everyone sitting in the waiting room so this party shines as it deserves to carrying the future in its heart. some say this is not just a german phenomenon but across europe social democracy is in retreat and that's why there is this kind of feeling in germany that a lot of things are changing around but people don't see the kind of stewardship the kind of political leadership the big year or you know take take the bull by.

the horns and got into the right direction so i think what he is believing in the next year and a half is to come up with the idea where germany will be in 10 or 15 years' time but it's now almost 15 years since an escapade a leader was in charge of government here and with the polls suggesting the party is struggling to reach just 15 percent it seems that few voters want to give the social democrats the keys to this building any time soon dominant cain al-jazeera at the german chancellor. bolivia's foreign minister says mexico is making a mistake by taking its espionage complaint to the international court of justice but libya denies spying on the mexican embassy in the pads and to dating diplomats following up follows mexico giving asylum to the former president even what on a softer he resigned in november during weeks of protests at his reelection. john that received thought today and i believe that makes you can government would risk

bringing a lawsuit before the international court for something i don't believe even happened it would be rejected immediately i think i'll retract the decision because noise police hills has entered any diplomatic premises or violated the vienna convention on diplomatic relations he. is in mexico city with more on the diplomatic spat between the countries there's been a friction between bolivia and mexico for about a month now since the start of bolivia's interim government and of course it was mexico that was the 1st country to offer political asylum to former bolivian leader ever more dallies what's going on now is a sort of war of words that's building up tensions that are building up between diplomats between authorities in both nations on one end you have the libyan officials saying that mexico is harboring criminals is harboring terrorists at mexico's embassy in the bolivian capital mexico saying that what they're doing is pull providing political asylum to 9 individuals 2 of which are former ministers

that serve under the leadership of president ebel mortalities and the latest that we've heard on thursday is mexico appealing to the international court of justice the i.c.j. and the united nations to help mediate this ongoing dispute the last that we heard from mexican president and they just want to look at what order is for cooler heads to prevail saying that he hopes that common sense will prevail as the student dispute drags on diplomatic ties between the 2 countries. still still exist we don't know if that's going to continue to be the case as i mention this war of words that's. escalating the last that we heard from bolivian officials today was from former president hadi who weighed in he's been recently appointed as a special delegate to represent bolivia to the international community he called the mexican president a quote coward a bully and a shameless apologist for drug traffickers these are very strong words strong allegations from both sides from both bolivia and and from mexican officials as we

said was named a special delegate before the international community we still don't know of a date set by the international court of justice but in the meantime the sort of tension between the 2 nations continues to grow and the allegations from the mexican side is that there is harassment that there is an increased police presence we can even confirm that on thursday there were at least 50 police units and 10 vehicles parked outside of mexico's embassy. coming up next is there any hope for the in the english maybe. he has.

exactly you've got a good sport yes start with some basketball with the n.b.a. where look at stole the show for the dallas mavericks and a texas showdown returned to the lineup after missing 4 games because of an ankle injury and he did it in style scoring $24.00 points for the mavs he finished with 10 rebounds an eva sis and verily missed adding to his total of 8 triple doubles the san antonio spurs rallied to score 13 points but it was not enough dallas took this 110-2298. and for the utah jazz donovan mitchell scored 35 points and joe ingles the real star in 26 in their game against the portland trailblazers damian lillard scored a team high 34 points but fell short all together the jazz winning this one at home 121-0115. the former sweden and manchester united striker zlatan abraham of it is

in talks to return to another of his former clubs ac milan the one time giants of european football are hoping the 38 year old can rescue them from a miserably miserable few seasons they're currently 11th in the italian syria and haven't won a trophy since 2011 ibraheem of it left l.a. galaxy last month. liverpool look unstoppable in the english premier league after thursday's matches they've opened up a 13 point lead after beating leicester forde nil manager you're going klopp says the gap at the top isn't on their mind as they go for a 1st title in 30 years. it was 101113 we actually don't feed it we don't think about it not at all but didn't mention it once before the game. because it's just not interesting though we all know that we can make i can again write a story about myself sort of defer stories never before in the history of football . british football team had

a big lead and lost the lead so that sounds in my ear negative so why should we think about something like that. manchester city will try to reduce the gap to 11 points when they travel to wolves their title defense has been dented by the month long absence of sergio a growth but the argentinian is set to return for friday's which associating with sporting stars can make very easy political capital for a country's leader and in argentina there is no one more popular with the masses than diego maradona the 1986 world cup winner strolled into the custody in buenos aires on thursday to meet argentina's new president a lot of that for now and as handily for them as is a fan of argentina as a junior the club member donna began his career he took time to sign the shirt and salute the crowds before heading off to resume coaching duties at his latest seem to be a scream up who are 17th in the argentina super league and just

a spot of cricket for you now there's not great news for come all steam sorry call australia reaching 467 on day 2 against new zealand and taking 2 quick kiwi wickets before the close and same in the southern hemisphere south africa were all out for $280.00 for england on 60 for 2 in reply at lunch. and in cyclocross netherlands dominated in the women and men's elite races at the world cup in belgium if you're wondering what cyclocross is it's a mix between mountain biking and running up stairs with a bike path you vanderpoel in the men's competition and then send a brand in the women's carry dutch hopes on their shoulders to win gold. all right back to you come all the way thank you leo that's it for the new cells the whole roman with you in just a couple minutes time with the latest news on al jazeera. and

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