the truth is that i would not support this job. nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people flee syria's the province in just 2 weeks with intensifying bombardments by the government and russia. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up libyans protested. after his forces launch strikes of targets to the tunisian border. a plane crashes off to take off in kazakhstan killing 12 people but many on board walk away without serious injury. also the extreme weather the brutal year of $1000000000.00 disasters.

the united nations is again warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syria's last rebel held province in you 250000 people have fled the area in the past 2 weeks. have been under diet the aerial bombardment by russian backed syrian government forces fuel shortages of stopping some people from getting away and freezing winter conditions are also putting lives in danger. many syrians are on the move north towards the turkish border but the turkish president has warned his country cope with another influx of refugees from italy a province russian backed syrian government forces are now focusing on capturing the rebel held city of hama it sits on an important boat away which links damascus to aleppo once syria's largest city al-jazeera again i would use of has more from near barat on about the standard of how to get and you can see civilians fleeing

displacement from arthur no man continues same with socket city but are now empty of presidents and all the surrounding villages what's noteworthy is that the airstrikes have stopped in the last 2 days because of the bad weather there may have been some civilians drones flying over the area but there hasn't been any shelling still the civilians are fleeing in mosques because of the fear of defensive there are no civilians not even hurt so david swanson is the united nations regional spokesman for the syrian crisis he says the numbers of people fleeing it leaves a rapidly increasing. turkey has in the past and continues to be an incredibly generous host to the syrian refugees after almost 9 years of conflict hosting more than 3000000 people and do we continue to hope that the situation will improve at the moment right now the vast majority of the people being displaced in the area

are moving northward are in northern it live and to urban areas. close to the turkish border in the figures have actually been increasing as we speak right now the figure that we now have is more than 200 or 243000 people women children and men have been displaced between the 1st of december and the 25th of december ok up words of 80 percent of this population who are women and children now this comes on top of the displaced in figures that we had from the end of april to the end of august where more than 400000 people have been displaced so what we have is a displacement crisis on top of another displacement crisis this area is home to skirt the 4000000 people there 4000000 people in this area and more than half of them are i.d.p.'s themselves. sources have told al-jazeera that libyan will or to

leave the house does forces have carried out and is strike at an oil refinery compound in zawiya the chinese you border it's the 4th strike in the area in the past 24 hours libya's national oil company says no one was killed the be unselfish christe anger over the latest is drugs by huffed us forces with some protests in the streets in zawiya on friday other rallies are expected in the capital tripoli. on 1st turkish president richard pryor heard one explained how his country would send troops to tripoli after the internationally recognized government a formal request for military help but the administration in the libyan capital says it will only need this help if the conflict escalates our correspondent right up there why who is in tripoli he says the airstrikes may be in response to are the ones announcement this collation of the airstrikes by have to the fighter jets

recently has been targeting civilian areas residential areas killing and wandering innocent civilians including women and children this could be read in terms of the actions of have to cam anger. action to the news about the turkish government planning to send troops to live to libya upon official request from the government of national called which is direct ignited by the united nations recently have to his forces have targeted by air strikes. an area near the oil refinery of zawiya city stan about 40 kilometers to the west from tripoli is until you have to and it has in its custody the pilot that was detained or was captured by the pro-government forces 3 months ago while he was targeting their locations in. so after those forces

are accused of committing war crimes by the government ministry of defense which is that said that have to. strike started civilian areas could mount to world crimes. star has temporarily grounded all back in there and for 100 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead the jet time down near al body airport shortly after takeoff smashing through a wall before hitting a house the cause of the crash is still unclear alexi are broadcast. emergency crews calm the wreckage of the airliner torn in half the main body of the becket barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from airport bound for the capital now soltani survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted before smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into

a 2 story house raisky has worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children see what you know we found 2 sets of skid marks from the back of the plane on the runway maining it touched it twice and mostly those passengers at the front of the aircraft were the ones who died fought recorders have been found and have been brought in for inspection nobody will be left without state support we will provide the needed help to the families of the victims and the injured 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 to die. and there are a lot of seems to go on because if they will mine time and they've got

a very long structure a lot the government ordered the airline to ground its fleet of dutch built jets which are more than 20 years old all day care flights have been suspended until crash investigators can work out how this happened brian al jazeera. for. taking place outside the state building of water per day in new delhi over allegations of police brutality and excessive force 18 people have been killed across the protests during 2 weeks of demonstrations against a controversial new citizenship law. in this but per annum spoke to the families of some of the victims. a mother overcome with grief and her family in mourning as neighbors come to ziad hussein's home to pay their condolences. he says his 20 year old son still a man was shot dead by police following friday prayers last week. when he was

coming back from prayers the police started beating people everyone around but he couldn't because he had a high fever the police caught him and shot. his son was studying to join india's civil service. he is one of 18 indians killed in the state of altar today. in 2 weeks of protests against the new citizenship law which critics say discriminates against muslims but a police commanders and maintain officers acted in self-defense and to prevent communal violence or it can be every outing there came a point where there was fear of clashes between heroes and muslims on levy nor how we have to stop that from happening if we had not been there then things would have to do what it did. but those who are too afraid to speak out say police attacked people in their own homes. as

a result muhammad's larger than tells us police broke into the heart of his brother who's paralyzed and beat the entire family with battens. the police barged in they broke the door and dragged him out of the house they beat him up now he's detained the police have detained around 6000 people in a position connection with the citizenship protests the volley charge $1000.00 of them. the people. inside. many of those police because of police atrocities. just. sending messages of reassurance to distressed people but rights groups say they're too late. members of a fact finding team who travel to say the police are carrying out a reign of terror on muslim communities there's a lot of people staying up all night in the muslim communities in order to try and

guard the walls because they're so afraid every fight either a police raid or a communal attack that those. activists point out that while protests against the citizenship you'll have happened nationwide. protesters have been killed only in states such as. governed by giving a peace police or detaining any protestors who come to the british house here in the capital new delhi to stop people from speaking out against police action in the northern states and civil rights groups are demanding the immediate release of what they call innocent protesters arrested by police and they want supreme court judges to either see an investigation into allegations of police brutality a little bit more on an al-jazeera. protesters have gathered along the gaza israel border for the last time this year on thursday organizers said they were planning to scale back the protest until march as negotiations to root to hamas israel cease

fire continue palestinians have been holding weekly protest for the right of return for palestinian refugees since march last year. is a spokesman for the great return movement he says the protests are important to rise awareness. of the. i would have problem a lot of problem that we have all right we need to bring all the attention of the all over the world that on the scene are suffering hardships suffering been suffering leading a miserable life because of the oppression and because of that get in as well so it means that now we could say that all the factions all the palestinian groups all the civil communities all in the united together under one table and they're all agreed upon that the right of return is what a great issue and now we believe that continuing we continue with the of this peace

for. what so called peace for the 10 there with us. but you know out of the time it's going to be part of i want to continue with the un but of i want to life as well we need and we managed to grow the attention of all. muslims communities that the palestinian are still after 70 years of. pulled out the from their country of origin and country are still survive still fight are still believe that they have a right to the 10. israel's 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 hope to convince members that it was time for change but i stuck with netanyahu despite his indictment for corruption the task of denying reports from west to risk. 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 so there's no need to this is the time to unite to bring a sweeping victory to the liquid and the right to the knesset elections most of the people support the right and most of the people support me to lead a government but the final decision in the primaries the final and sweeping primaries decision was a huge expression of trust in my way and alway 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 that pics of sitting on the bench and not trying to do anything active in in the public field is wrong i prefer people who take action.

source 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 sar camp has also a. ledged election meddling and voter intimidation but there's a feeling of decay in the democracy from within the party generally in israel israel is in the midst 'd 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 elders era west jerusalem well the man who is said to run against benjamin netanyahu in the march of lection has responded to his confirmation that he gantz says netanyahu is leading the country down a path of corruption and called on israelis to choose a new course. these elections demand that we place a mirror in front of the netanyahu party and make the choice for unity dignity and internal reconciliation the state of israel must settle a new course to make that happen blue and white must achieve a decisive outcome that will extricate us from both political deadlock and a path of corruption still ahead on al-jazeera.

we look at the human cost of the nearly 5 year war in yemen. and the passing of a deal on religious rights causes a chaotic scene in the fall of the devoted a road. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where we have been bringing you the latest here across the eastern part of the med all dealing with this area of low pressure that has really been a very slow moving system for the last couple of days it is still causing some problems here from turkey down towards parts of syria lebanon as well as down towards egypt as well now the winds with the storm has come down and the amount of rain is less but we're still dealing with flooding here particular over across parts of syria and into lebanon as well for the next couple of days though into turkey is going to be some more snow across much of the area as you can see we're

really not getting rid of that rain so we are watching this very carefully cyprus are also being affected by this rain temps wise we're into the mid teens across much of the area we don't expect to see much of a change there for beirut expect to see the rain all the way through the weekend and into monday with the temps are there of about 19 and some windy conditions possibly for you here across the gulf not looking too bad where we're going to be seeing some problems is down across the coast of oman now over the next few days we did have a little disturbance here pushing in that's going to bring some rain as well as some clouds expect to see attempt to stay into the high twenty's we do expect to see probably the rain ending by the time we get towards sunday night up to it's misc out though it is going to be a beautiful and a sunny day with a temperature of $24.00.

right. you're watching al-jazeera his reminder of our top stories this hour the a quarter of a 1000000 people who fled violence in northwest syria in the past 2 weeks that's according to the u.n. they've been weeks about to read bombardment of the airstrikes on the last rebel

held province of. libyans who are protested in anger over the latest a strike by warlords only for half his forces sources have told al jazeera and oil refinery me that you lose your border we see it on friday it's the 4th strike and so we are in the past 24 hours kazakhstan is temporarily grounded all baked air and focal 100 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead 98 passengers and crew on board the cause of the crash is still unknown. or rather why ship in turkey temporarily closed one of the world's busiest waterways. nervous motorists watched as the fraser ran aground in istanbul mechanical failure is being blamed for the mishap in the bosphorus the famous narrow strait reopened after the ship was towed for repair. iraq is in the middle of a political standoff after president saleh refused to approve the nomination of

assad dannie as prime minister the nomination which was put forward by the largest parliamentary block has further fueled anti-government protests 8 dozens were out in tahrir square on friday vandalizing posters of a danny they praised president salih for saying he'd rather resign than back the nomination demonstrations a demanding an independent candidate and we want to honest prime minister and depend now i would do all citizenship we want to generate iraqi official who can feel our pain who can relate to us someone who doesn't have any loyalty to others well lebanon has been without a government for 2 months political deadlock is not rare but it comes at a critical time the economy is near collapse and the lebanese are relying on themselves to survive the crisis which is being described as the worst in decades so in a horror as this report from by richard. at least 7 people a day are depending on the generosity of one woman to eat it to the 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 the 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 lebannon 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 states economic crisis isn't it spain building up there are no more cases of lebanese becoming homeless because like. 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 nations polity. 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. firefighters in australia are trying to limit the spread of wildfires before an expected heat wave this weekend nearly 1300 fire crews in the state of new south wales are doing critical containment work including controlled burns 75 of burning across the state with about a half still out of control months of fires of killed 9 people and destroyed at least a 1000 properties extreme weather hitting every populated continent this year bringing death displacement an enormous financial cost the british charity christian i looked at $15.00 disasters that each caused damage with at least a $1000000000.00 the disaster with the highest death toll was in india with flooding between june and october killed 1000 $900.00 people cyclonic die which

devastated zimbabwe mozambique and malawi in march killed $1300.00 the biggest damage bill was $25000000000.00 for wildfires that ravaged the u.s. state of california throughout october and november while typhoons facts and arguments cost japan at least $20000000000.00 well catherine the the christian aid report she says under developed countries will bear the biggest human cost of climate change. certainly there is a real need in 2020 for all countries to come forward with enhanced impression this report showing that the impacts of climate change that we're seeing with just one degree of warming but the top the places the people of that the country support for with so far under the paris agreement amount to 3 degrees of warming and the kinds of impacts that we would see it that would just be just beyond human imagination but beyond human experience i think one of the things that this report shows very clearly is that the cost the economic costs that you talked about in your

introduction the economic costs in countries there have been short insurance against these losses and as you rightly pointed out the real human costs are in the countries that are very that are a fellow up to level that don't have the resilience within their countries that don't have the resources to help people build their resilience to to these climate impacts as they increase a new law on church property rights in modern a grow has provoked a fight in parliament. politicians tried very m.p.'s from voting offices were gassed massed to time 22 people but most were relieved when things calm down the eventual past the government denies it will strip the serbian orthodox church which property including medieval monasteries huth is in yemen so they fired a ballistic missile at saudi arabia killing and injuring saudi border guards a military camp was the reported target new the city of knowledge iran if confirmed

it would be the 1st missile attack in 3 months who thinks crime responsibility for september's drone strikes which damaged the world's largest oil processing plant in eastern saudi arabia and nearly 5 years of war in yemen has created what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis victoria diaby has more. in march 2015 saudi arabia and 9 other countries launched a military campaign in yemen in support of the internationally recognized president have it ready 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 your crisis is worsening and not of syrians need millions of heavy price. going. since the conflict began analysts estimate more than 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 all sides know the power of each other or side 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 separately to see that has for reasons i guess work up 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. a former rebel leader and presidential candidate could face life in prison after being accused of planning a crew. abandon the planned trip was issued for his arrest on monday the public prosecutor says they captured or discussing the plot they also allege he was gathering weapons but his lawyer says the recording is old and incomplete archaeologist in mexico have discovered a large palace likely used by mayans more than

a 1000 years ago the remains of the building were found in the modern day tourist board of cancun now the mexico's national institute of anthropology and history suggests the palace was inhabited between $61050.00 a day the mine civilization ruled a large stretches of what is now southern mexico guatemala billie's at honduras. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories the united nations is a game warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syria's lost rebel whole province nearly 250000 people have fled the area in the past 2 weeks. have been on the daily aerial bombardment by russian backed syrian government forces fuel shortages to stop in some people from getting away and freezing winter conditions are also putting lives in danger. as more from the.

that's the minute how to get to know you can see civilians fleeing displacement from arthur no man continues same with socket city but are now m.t.f. residents in all the surrounding villages what's noteworthy is that the airstrikes have stopped in the last 2 days because of the bad weather there may have been some civilians drones flying over the area but there hasn't been any shelling still this of illions are fleeing in mosques because of the fear of defensive there are no civilians not even birds sources have told al-jazeera that libyan warlord who leave half his forces have carried out an air strike at an oil refinery compound in zawiya in the tunisian border it's the 4th strike in the area in the past 24 hours kazakhstan has temporarily grounded. air and for 100 flights after a crash on friday left at least 12 people dead 98 passengers and crew were on board

there have been more protests in the indian capital new delhi of record traversal citizenship law which critics say is anti muslim demonstrators more symbolic handcuffs and chanting slogans calling prime minister narendra modi's government a dictatorship protesters have gathered along the gaza israel border for the last time this year on thursday organizers said they were planning to scale back the protest until mud's as negotiations towards a hamas israel ceasefire continue well those are the headlines the news continues here on our jazeera inside story.

iraq's president has rejected the nominee for prime minister he says his brother's quit someone rejected by testers were demanding an independent candidate so what's the way forward for iraq this is inside story. thanks. alex. hello and welcome to the program i'm dating you know for months now iraqis have been voicing their anger and demanding a change in their political leadership they say they are fed up with corruption unemployment and a lack of basic services hundreds of people have been killed the prime minister resigned in november and now many are rejecting the nominee to replace him they say

. only help him.