of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is tied in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. a huge bomb attack rock somalia's capital mogadishu at least 76 people are killed. and you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here and also coming up the u.n. general assembly condemns atrocities against the ratings are piling more pressure on me and. on the $1000000000.00 avocado industry in mexico that gangs are battling to control plus we'll have more on the mars 2020 rover that set to pave the way for manned missions to space.

welcome to the program a huge blast has killed and injured dozens of people in somalia billons official says 76 have been killed and many more casualties are feared the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was now a security checkpoint during morning rush hour and some reports say as many as 90 may have died including turkish engineers that were working nearby tossers been following events for us from nairobi in neighboring kenya and that death toll is slowly rising and there were real fears it could be quite high. but we know that dozens of people they've been killed and dozens of people have been injured and officials are saying that that number would likely rise because with such a huge explosion we know among those killed include some somali police up. and some

civilians what happened was it happened at a security checkpoint in the early morning and people used this checkpoint to come in to mogadishu so it was very busy they were going to work we were told university students are trying to head to campus and then the explosion happened so officials are saying that that number could likely rise to their parity is trying to tend to the injured and then figure out how many people have been killed by this explosion the last deadly attack was in 2017 when hundreds of people were killed of course so everybody is maybe focusing on those that are injured trying to get into hospital the questions are being raised really about the security that particular area was it a a soft target and also security generally in the country when so many certain terror groups waiting to attack at any time. but at this particular security checkpoint you had police officers who were there

and there was a building that had some government troops so in that area there was a fair amount of security what probably happened was the one because trying to get through the checkpoint been exploded and that's what caused all this deadly carnage where people are now asking is who is responsible in the past as a group al-shabaab has been blamed for attacks in mogadishu you know as terrorists once but for this attack yet and people are wondering how are they able to do that but if a group this is for example if it is al shabaab who were pushed out of mogadishu 3 years ago what they have managed now and again to come back and attack hotels and security checkpoint to the got the government and a lot of places to try and stop these attacks from happening and people keep asking why they're able to do that also remember you have the african union troops on the ground as well but they've also sometimes been ambushed and attacked by several groups and sometimes al-shabaab has claimed respond. ability so right now

a lot of confusion on the ground in mogadishu that puts them a power to the taking to the injured and finding out who were killed but the question of security is always in the back of everyone's mind indeed is will continue to monitor events with you through the day for the moment kyra thank you let's get some more information what's going on because attacks like these are often claimed by armed groups like al shabaab and it raises concerns about the readiness of somali troops to take over from the african union forces in the coming months somalia has been wracked by conflict since 1901 when clan warlords overthrew the then leader side bari who then turned on each other the armed group al-shabaab was formed around a decade ago trying to topple the government and wants to create a state under its own version of strict islamic law while it controls parts of somalia southern and central regions was pushed out of mortgage issues several years ago but continues to target high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels as harry mentioned it was blamed for the double truck bombing in mogadishu in

october 27th in which killed more than $500.00 people it didn't claim responsibility the group has also been blamed for at least $200.00 deaths this year alone including that of the mayor of mogadishu. omar or smile on in august of the hakim and is a researcher at the heritage institute for policy studies he says this kind of attack bears the hallmarks of al shabaab. usually this kind of attack on the scale is an act of terrorism and. has not been any official thing in all the possible al-shabaab but i think it gives an iconic indication of all of us about what's going to tack over the last 8 years in somalia so it has been a quite a major. significant good day for somalia and kind of the last and it's just the best hold so so far we have not yet come pumping but i think it's really quite

a deadly day for somalia so it is it is actually a very it's the metric we want to watch that has very difficult to be one of the coming. years and also we have told sort of members that over the last 6 months i mean. the level of the pace of attacks has actually. dropped down quite dramatically they have been known for going to attack. christmas and any kind of a major effect because so this was actually was coming one way that the weight but not a discount. the united nations is warning of devastating consequences for the only remaining rebel controlled province in syria after years of attacks and 8 months of syrian and russian air strikes a major ground offensive intensified 2 weeks ago troops of scenes towns and villages forcing really a quarter of a 1000000 mostly women and children to seek safety elsewhere nicholas cage has more . tense go up in the syrian town of dunn are now

a temporary harm for families with nowhere else to go if they fled martel newmont in the south of italy province as syrian government forces advance many leaving most of their belongings behind. we fled from the bombardment and came here it's a small camp that doesn't really fit a lot of people and the people just keep coming the situation is not that. since the start of december nearly 250000 people have been displaced from you'd leave the last rebel held area of syria most women and children many have fled by road for others fuel shortages have stopped them from getting a why some are trying to seek shelter in turkey but they're not being allowed to cross the border and this comes on top of the displacement 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. president bashar al assad has vowed to recapture rebel held areas. shelling in airstrikes backed by russia have intensified forcing aid agencies to suspend operations in the area unless the fighting ends there are fears that the supply of humanitarian aid will stop as soon as next month. in my mind it's neither the russians nor the turks that are the key to the solution the key to the solution is the international community getting involved in this and putting pressure both on the syrian regime in russia and turkey for a resolution that doesn't cause massive human loss of life or a humanitarian catastrophe because i love working with

a lot but. the violence goes against an organist ceasefire deal and international calls for deescalation but the syrian government says recapturing the province is just a matter of time because the gauge al-jazeera the u.s. can try to has been killed in an attack on new iraqi military base several rockets were fired into the base near could cook the houses both iraqi and u.s. troops several service personnel were also injured when a fulton house backed out on those attacks. let's attack occurred last night it was several rockets that hit inside the k. one military base which houses both u.s. forces as well as iraqi forces and this base is used to launch important operations against against i saw who have staged an insurgency in the surrounding mountains now this is just the latest in a spate of similar rocket attacks but it's the 1st time that we're actually seeing u.s. casualties there has not been any responsibility attributed to this but officially

one member of the u.s. coalition told me that it bears similar whore marks to previous attacks which were attribute it to the iranian backed armed group hezbollah now secretary of state max pail said on december 13th any such attacks would be met with decisive force so it remains to be seen whether following these u.s. casualties there will actually be such a response of course this raises great concerns here in iraq because it's supposed to be the iraqi government to actually protect u.s. forces based here and the government did promise an investigation but on the part of u.s. forces they simply feel that with the increase of such attacks they may need to protect themselves and of course there is a real risk that should the u.s. respond there could be an escalation here on the ground between u.s. forces and iranian backed armed groups. as a research fellow at the lowy institute for international policy he says iraq needs

a political solution to reduce these attacks. well as you pointed out you know a a well functioning government with that for withdrawal over. security within the country would make these kind of attacks if not impossible them very difficult to undertake we say no ratcheting up in the number of. attacks directed against u.s. targets or to kill or from iranian backed militia groups in iran until we get some kind of. solution to iraq's political problem that is roll to population in general till we get a reduction in that growth crushing named iraqi politics until we get some kind of unity in the country and the reality is. you're going to have to expect more fracturing around the edges as hussein today the u.n.

general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against muslims and other minorities in meanwhile 134 member states voted for the resolution calling on mirabelle's government to combat hatred and violence against minorities is also facing a charge of genocide of the international court of justice thousands of the hingle were killed in their government crackdown in rakhine state in 2017 and nearly a 1000000 fled to neighboring bundle of their benjamin's a wacky as a south east asia the list he says this un resolution is too late lacks the legal weight to trigger international action. you haven't 9 non-binding non legally binding general assembly resolution 2 years late that simply expresses condemnation for something that's now 2 years in the past and urges the myanmar government to take actions that it has repeatedly indicated that it is unwilling to take so no it's very difficult to see how this resolution could be of any concrete benefit to

either the. refugees who fled into bangladesh or for the some 400000 or so estimated ranges who remain in myanmar and remain at risk of further genocidal attacks the sad part about him is that the u.n. general assembly the same body that issued the resolution recently passed the responsibility to protect unanimously in 2005 which makes abundantly clear that when a country is either unable or unwilling to protect its people from genocide crimes against humanity and other great international crimes that it is the collective responsibility of the international community of member states to take appropriate action to ensure that these crimes are not committed again and yet issuing a resolution 2 years after the fact does not constitute the kind of action that the general assembly should be taking the resolution should be stating that you know genocidal attacks continue that you know national community is prepared to take military forceful military action to stop and punish the genocide in the end but

unfortunately the the resolution didn't say that and sadly few member states of the u.n. are willing to take that action. i will still have him on al-jazeera plane crash survivors in kazakhstan describe what happened just before the impact on the challenging year ahead for the german chancellor can she secure party support despite bowing out of politics so stories after the break. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well it's extremely cold here across parts of mongolia into northeastern china and also eastern russia we're talking about temperatures in mongolia only reaching to about a high of minus 25 degrees overnight lows well expect to see about minus 35 to minus 38 the good news is if there's any good news there's no wind chill so there's

no wind the temperature is the temperature across much of that area over towards lot of awestruck it is going to be a chilly day at about one degree but do expect to see more rain coming into play for southern parts of japan over the next few days for tokyo it's going to be a gloomy day at about 11 degrees osaka it is going to be a wet day with about the same temperature there well we do expect to see more rain in the forecast here across the southern part of china over the next few days that's going to bring the temperatures down as well for hong kong expect the rain to stay from sunday as well as into monday and also here towards taiwan we do expect to see some more rain in your forecast as well attempts are there of $23.00 up toward shanghai it is going to be clouds in your forecast we do expect to see attempts there of about 11 and then for the philippines better weather of course after the typhoon has moved through and that is going to continue over the next few days they need that dry weather up towards middle it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of 32 degrees. she

chips strong man is ruling with an eye and faced and the silence from his allies is deafening the us was perfectly happy to trade off the march for sea for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression executions torture or censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london or man in cairo on al-jazeera. talk about the watching of a 0 with me said whoa robin a reminder of all top stories

a huge truck bomb in somalia's capital has killed at least 76 people according to hospital sources the explosion happened near a security checkpoint in mogadishu bald and 70 others injured. a u.s. contractor has been killed in the time called an arche military base several rockets were fired into the base to care cook the house both iraqi and u.s. troops. also the u.n. general assembly has approved a resolution condemning human rights abuses against writing to muslims and other minorities near the abbas also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice. protesters are turning out across several indian states today against a controversial citizenship law and 15 days after the rallies 1st broke out opposition leader raul gandhi has visited some where it all began let's cross over to unfold bora who's following events for us outside the john mayer university in new delhi and what's the thinking among protesters there because the actual

protests themselves nationwide don't really have a central leadership do they. were going to really have a central leadership from the politicians are to dramatically marquees power have set up in fact right now the politicians. here are. speaking outside germany as not be university in new delhi just look at the epicenter of this protest against citizenship not only write the letters to us don't our latest e-mail this is a day that's a good thing and that is this trade off because they don't disagree fight you. might take. the 2nd at least in. ringback my distant city to find me you see you know some women come with their children children are holding the cards sitting next. to light a country on the basis of religion. you know one of the night that these were just

hard to get and india has marched across the as among the protesters several tests across the country even though it's somebody. a little bit more just a little indeterminate they will keep showing up on the streets to protest against this law and this could cause we've seen a huge demographic of people come out onto the streets across india these past few weeks and women have been at the forefront. that is going back to be this is the fact one of the customs and be seen the muslim women's business. living on the frontline more than many of these protests are many of them today and they see. against the law but especially with the families with the incident that took place here had just never getting the shooting of the leos all the visuals. as the reason for the beating i was happily some to and that's what they say how

essential to promote to not jump the gun on the street and we were also met several women activists. who we think pressure of them to not come to those protests. was sort of a division i don't test as 'd that is that i don't know the other hand we've been talking to this morning i do believe the administration and the police local police departments as well as local politicians are asking them not to go to these protests now that many of them still drawing must areas like this one protest meetings like they are where we are at the moment combat are saying that they will continue to assert their rights and that they want this bill to really track they don't want this bill to be implemented or she'll continue to monitor events from new delhi look across the country in the days ahead for the moment on trial thank you. plane crash survivors in kazakhstan have described how

the jet shook uncontrollably and suddenly lost altitude just after takeoff the back air flight crashed through a concrete wall and demolished a house near almaty airport friday's crash killed 12 on board and injured 54 some of them critically there was no fire which added to the chances of survival and the airlines fleet has therefore as has been grounded while air accident investigators examined the wreckage. the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket in tightened up the safety belt tightly in the plane leaned forward it was clear that we would crash into the ground the bang was strong and the lights went off some were alive some were not. cruel goings in mexico notorious for cocaine trafficking or switching their attention to something with a much healthier reputation of a cardo farmers say their $1000000000.00 business is being wrecked by kidnapping and extortion the gangs profits are growing along with u.s.

consumers appetite for mexican avocados john holmes has been. the western world and in particular the united states is go mad for avocados within the last 20 years the average consumption there has more than tripled but if you are an american 18 minutes can have a car those on toast or in your guacamole dip it's possible not over the profits are heading to the right hands. michu a can make avocado heartland gangs a hijacking the industry extorting and kidnapping produces stealing trucks with their crop. it's widespread in lucrative there's a reason they call this green gold. but most grows it too scared to speak out it took weeks for us to persuade this man before they started by asking me for more money perfect hair they came to the farm and said who's the boss we want you to contribute that was 8 months ago he stories coleman eventually different groups were all asking him for protection money and paying them couldn't keep him safe

with normal rules some guys grabbed me and kidnapped me in their truck they beat me and broke my head open i told them to stop hitting me that i would get more money together the state anti kidnapping unit rescued him but after more than 40 years of growing avocadoes now everything has changed real roots through a lot of. my workers my children my family we don't have any protection now i can't go to the orchard because there are many more people that beat me. to a kind has increasingly become the battleground of a collection of criminal groups. as in other parts of the country they branched out from complicated transnational drug trafficking to something is simply preying on the local economy. it's affected mining lines local businesses i mean talk comes pacifically is a mutation of what was once trucks trafficking i'm def mutated into

a model where the control territory within the territory you get to school. he's out any type of commodity that's locally available so and still includes drugs but it's also about extortion kidnapping it's useless it seems for the victims to turn to authorities you cannot be sure if you talk to mexican functionaries if you talk to the mexican state that you doing so will not be leaked to the criminal forces because in many times the criminals are in court with. the state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current boot. john homa now does it or mexico city. customs agents in your ago i have seized a $1000000000.00 worth of cocaine that record holder stand in saudi flour containers at the port of lot of a day or the 4 and a half tons was destined for togo in west africa the navy in you're a guy is describing the seizure as we quote

a greatest blow to drug trafficking in the history of our country. well 2020 will bring a year of relative political call to germany with only one state set to hold elections and that gives the country's main parties time to take stock after a surge in support for the far right with chancellor angela merkel bowing out of politics at the next federal election jolie to figure out how to transfer her popularity to the next party leader cain has more from berlin. political berland at the turn of the year is a ponderous place the present parliamentary term is more than half way through the current coalition of christian and social democrats continues but it's clear this is a loveless marriage unloved by the voters angela merkel is still chancellor more than a year since stepping down from leading her party she remains by far the most popular politician in germany far more popular with the electorate than her party and as the end of her mandate approaches increasingly she's concentrated on foreign

policy goals such as they were the conflict in ukraine is that guns often does and because they have a lot of work to do that my feeling is there is goodwill to resolve difficult questions and this goodwill is always needed if you want to solve political problems. but there's little sign of that goodwill on the domestic front her preferred successor and a great company has struggled in the spotlight recently calling on colleagues to back her or sack her as party leader in the end she got the endorsement she wanted but faced renewed questions over where she stands politically it was a compromise not entirely clear where she wants to steer the party but it's clear that many have question marks where she has what it takes to be chancellor. the christian democrats fear a twin challenge from right and left. how to claw back voters who deserted them for the far right alternative for germany in recent years one simple taney asli

steering a course which can keep them. the political center for in 2019 a green wave swept across the country propelling that party to around 25 percent in the polls and allowing it to make life increasingly difficult for the present government there are 2 did i cannot say what i don't know you didn't the medical area is clearly coming to an end and a new era begins and the question is who is setting the course for this new era we want to help set the course we are campaigning to be the ones to shape the new era and so germany finds itself in a peculiar position right now 2020 is a year in which the politicians can draw breath far enough away from the general election for the main parties to prefer to stay in government but close enough for them both to worry about who will lead them into that election and anglo-american remains the unlikely glue that binds them together for now dominant came out

berlin. work on a nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of its journey to mars next year to search for any evidence of life now it's hoped the mission could also lay the groundwork for one day to send humans to the red planet jalen a silver has. a small step in the lab or a tree before a giant launched into space if all goes to plan this rover will touch down on the red planet in february 2021 its mission to collect samples from mars and try to find if there are any traces of microbial life back billions of years from here on out it's it's a test test test test of everything we possibly care and shaking out the bugs to make sure that we've got reliable systems on the mars. the mars 2020 rover lease currently in 3 sections and being constructed in this sterile environment outside of los angeles it will be sent to the jazz a crater which scientists believe was once the bed of

a lake and could hold martian fossils if they exist what we do in this room is we make sure we have a strict clean room protocol so that we are not sending not contaminating our vehicle so that we can preserve the science that we are interested in learning about as well as searching for life it will also prepare for possible human exploration if successful it will be not his 5th soft landing of a martian rover when we landed as a rule we're going to use a new landing capability that gives us a hazard avoidance. function that allows us to land safely which future missions. can also take advantage of. china also has its eyes set on space it has successfully launched one of the world's most powerful rockets saying it's a big step in its ambitions for the moon and mars its ambition is to have accrued space station by 20221 of the things that people really learn from the apollo era

and the space race in the 1000. sixty's is that if you try and compete directly both sides lose out so it's all about working together or at the very least doing collaborative complementary missions working together or alone for the space race is about to reach new frontiers join the silver our dizzy or. your child is there with me the whole rub the reminder of our top news stories a huge truck bomb in somalia's capital has killed at least 76 people according to hospital sources the explosion happened near a security checkpoint in mogadishu more than 70 others were injured the u.n. is warning of devastating consequences for civilians in syria's it led province russian and syrian government forces have intensified their air and ground offensive causing nearly 250000 people to flee the area a u.s.

contractor has been killed in an attack on an iraqi military base several rockets were fired into the base near kirkuk that houses both iraqi and u.s. troops the u.n. general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against rincon muslims and other minorities in me along the 134 member states voted for the resolution calling on me and miles government to combat hatred and violence against minorities nehemiah is also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice. plane crash survivors in kazakhstan have described how the jet shook uncontrollably and suddenly lost altitude just after takeoff the bacca flight crashed through a concrete wall and demolished a house near almaty airport fighters crash killed 12 on board and injured 54 some critically there was no fire which added to the chances of survival the fleets of 100 aircraft have not been grounded while an accident investigators examine the

wreckage. actually when the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket in tightened up the safety belt tightly and the plane lead forward it was clear that we would crash into the ground the bang was strong and the lights went off some were alive some were not. the u.n. special envoy to yemen is making his 2nd visit in 10 days to the capital sanaa the rival of martin grove his current signs of more fighting near the port of her data the main entry point for much needed aid for millions of yemenis threatened with famine the un's pressing who the leaders to reach a talks aimed at ending always 5 years of war and of course you can follow all of those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com kemal will be here with more news in half an hour next it's inside story with dream to stay with us.

iraq's president has rejected the nominee for prime minister he says his brother's quit someone with just a bike tester is more 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 dead 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 in.