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dozens of people most of them a students from the university. the explosion happened just a few steps away from where i was and it knocked me to the ground with this force i have never seen such an explosion in my entire life his heart which also now following this one from nairobi in neighboring kenya any updates so far. well officials are saying that because the explosion was so huge they expect the death toll could rise and many more people could be injured once they are accounted for we know that some of the people who've been killed include somali police officers and civilians what happened was basically this happened near a security checkpoint it's a checkpoint a lot of people used to come into mogadishu and then the explosion happened so many people at that time of the day in the morning were on their way to work so i mean the 1st students are on their way to campus and officials are saying

a lot of those who've been killed are university students the priority for government officials now in health is is to try and just as many injured people as possible the last deadly attack in mogadishu wasn't 2017 when hundreds of people were killed well and responsibility harder i think we generally look straight at al-shabaab and these sorts of situations if they said anything. no they haven't haven't taken responsibility a tuesday when these attacks happen people blame al shabaab sometimes they claim responsibility sometimes they don't. was literally pushed out of mogadishu a few years ago but now and again they managed to to come in and attack hotels and security checkpoints the question now but asking is what security measures on the ground this checkpoint that was attacked had police officers manning it it had a building next to it that had some government troops but despite all that security

this attack still happened you also have the african union troops there in somalia and side of they've also been ambushed and killed when certain groups attacked them so right now no no one has claimed responsibility for a lot of people tend to blame al shabaab because in the postie be known for a lot of these attacks thank you for allow those updates. in nairobi there just to expand on what it was talking about the claim of responsibility the lack of this attack these are often claimed by the group and it raises concerns about the readiness of somali troops to take over from that african union force in the coming months somalis been rocked by conflict going back to 991 when clan warlords overthrew the former lead at sea. and then turned on each other the armed group was formed around a decade ago trying to topple the government it wants to create a state under its own version of strict islamic law it also does control we should say parts of somalia's southern and central regions it was pushed out of mogadishu

several years ago is how they say it but continues to target high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels just point it was blamed for a double truck bombing in mogadishu in october 27th team which killed more than $500.00 people but didn't claim responsibility and has been blamed for at least $200.00 deaths this year alone including the death of this man the mayor of. men in this. with us now a researcher at the heritage institute for policy studies on skype from mogadishu it's good to talk to you again. is there any reason to think this is any group other than. not that i can think of any group oxley that is much. much more brutal that. though they have not yet claimed all socially but i think we understand that this is an act of terrorism also epic proportions. how how

do they keep doing this i think about the fact that this happened at a checkpoint which you would imagine to be a strong area a fortified area and yet an attack like this on as hard as it it seems mostly university students it still happens what i think we need to understand that initial happen has been one of the most successful terror organization in the wall and that they have been able to actually exploit the security we can assist in the country and they have been actually. waging a symmetric and sort of sedatives war especially in an urban area and there are 80 is actually to inflict as many casualties was also so that they can manipulate the psychology of the people so that they can't really see all of the people so i think you need to understand what was deep in the society. to what i'm interested to know about and i think of us would as well given what we've described of life in

mogadishu with checkpoints and with attacks like this how does everyday life go on in mogadishu how do you get around are you under almost constant watch and thinking about what could happen given that these attacks do happen with some regularity. well i think it is a kind of support over all it has been. over the last. sex a large elite government to try to reorganize this if you want to architect but that has not been our policy to really be. out of there. we also need to know that cyber has been affective for me the guy on the structure of the government. looks like we lost our skype link thing with i came on to that you had in the giving us an idea of what life is like under the sort of threats in mogadishu. we'll move on the united nations is

warning of devastating consequences for the only remaining rebel controlled province in syria after years of attacks and now 8 months of syrian and russian air strikes a major ground offensive intensified 2 weeks ago troops of seize towns and villages they forced nearly a quarter of a 1000000 mostly women and children to seek safety anywhere they can think of the gauge as our report. tents go up in the syrian town of town are now a temporary harm for families with nowhere else to go 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 that. since the start of december nearly 250000 people have been displaced from 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 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 his vow 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 'd in this and putting pressure both on the syrian regime and russia and turkey for a resolution that doesn't cause massive human loss of life or a humanitarian catastrophe because i love working with him. a lot but. the violence goes against an august ceasefire deal and international calls for a deescalation that the syrian government says recapturing the province is just a matter of time because the gauge al jazeera let's talk tomorrow in kabul and the researcher at the arab center for research and policy studies i'm still really trying to get my head around this we've been talking about so many hundreds of thousands millions of people displaced for so many years and now a further quarter of a 1000000 in just a few days or few weeks i should say where can they go if they if the turkey option

is being taken out of the equation what can they do they can because they can do the can do much actually but as you said this is the strategy has been used from the very beginning actually by the syrian regime and its backers in order to put fresh are using the civilians a weapon of war in order to put pressure on the armed factions the opposition factions to either side under or with it all and it has proved to be very effective strategy in fact of what the boss many years because i mean this is like just like a british and of what we have seen last year in eastern with our the year before in aleppo and in many other places around the country the civilians are. paying impact the heaviest price of this conflict and you are going to see perhaps more of this in the coming weeks and months we don't think that russians and the syrian regime will you stop before actually taking control or beginning actually most of that is

the syrian regime has lost the opposition over the last few years and so then i wonder if you heard mark kimmitt in that report just now when he said it's neither the russians or the turks that a key to the solution actually it's up to everyone else do you agree with that absolutely and i think what the russians and everybody else seems to be willing to fight with until the last drop of syrian blood to me i mean they are just bargaining over the over over the civilians how to gain more actually by using this this conflict and nobody actually as i said before is being to price but the syrian the sea and civilians some of the pictures we've seen and maybe we might be able to run some of them as well of the absolute devastation that's been seen all throughout syria i mean it makes you actually question almost what they're fighting for now so much of the country has actually been. it's just been destroyed hasn't it obliterated absolutely it's becoming for for some time now it's it's meaningless war to be to be precise because we don't know actually what the syrian

regime or the opposition are fighting for as we said before i mean the whole country has been destroyed most of the most of syrians actually most of half of the of the certain syrian society has been displaced either internally or have been driven actually to to leave the contrary entirely and the economy is in in tatters it's almost collapsing so i don't read in or what drives this conflict so far within this whole picture that i have already described. let's just look at the short story briefly and that is if labor itself we've been saying for so long the last rebel held province how do you see that. well ending i guess the conflict there and do you think it will be coming anytime soon well from the very beginning . almost everybody that i shall is that americans though. have been seeing that there is no military solution to this crisis yet there is no other solution i see

to this crisis because there is no real political solution constitutional committee which had been actually assembled by the turks and the russians with the backing of almost everybody else has so far failed to achieve anything so we don't see any political solution in the horizon and all i see actually is the continuation of this conflict and tell as i said before the last drop of syrian blood and there is no other no other way that i can see or describe extraordinary we're still talking about at the end of 2019 as in a moment problem thank you thank you. more than a 1000 people have been arrested across india over the last 24 hours in protests over the new citizenship law but that hasn't deterred demonstrators from staging more rounds and citizens across the country have now been 15 days of protests over the controversial law which is been criticized as anti muslim opposition leader raul gandhi visited us some on saturday with the protest movement 1st began. in new

delhi where hundreds of protesters are also staging a sit in on the phone right now since people were detained it was a time where there's a strange you know the idea is to be a 5 minute believe in the national capital daily and yet that's not gathered across several certainly not protesting against god all the gods who are still serious you know this is you know well we don't have to guess that we are as we go to the epicenter of these protests going on these will be really be coming out for over a lot of night now they're not just against some of the what they describe as a discriminatory law we are they saying they don't want us to know the don't want to know it will make a real and we will keep on the testing we'll continue the protests the minute. government does not give me a member now most of these protests that i would have seen a women add to the realism they would not have got with their intention to become outdated argos they are braving the cold because they see them down with police atrocities against everybody is you know this we dumplings are going on this

university and that was it is not the remotest people who live there not to save in their own neighborhood so that today we also minister fell down to the leading role not from an opposition party the congress party to congress and our sab which is where the protests began several other political leaders have phoned us all want to be out on different stages to brutus against the normally do is grow up just as don i would lead a city under these things they're not testing to have a man leadership would like this government and make their employees use them and they're not happy with this and. i don't have a look at what's coming up for you on this news hour plane crash survivors in kazakhstan describe exactly what happened just before impact also a challenging year ahead for the german chancellor can she secure party support even though she is bowing out of politics and the 11 year old skateboarder is trying to make it to. has that story

a little later. well police violently cleared hundreds of protesters who stormed a hong kong shopping mall near the border with mainland china areas pompey of the traders who cross over to buy goods to then sell back home demonstrators blame them for overcrowding and pushing up prices and protests have disrupted hong kong for more than 6 months now mainly against china's increasing influence over the territory florence really out amongst the protesters in hong kong and says this demonstration is a little different to others seen in the past 6 months. this protest here is hardly an offshoot of the. same protest movement that's gone on for 6 months in hong kong but it's also partly to protest against the practice of our loud trading pownall trading is a practice where shoppers traders come and buy goods in hong kong in bali and then

resell them for profit in mainland china a majority of these traders are mainland chinese it's a practice that locals if you disrupt the social and economic life its course shortage of goods and striven the prices of goods and hong kong people i'm happy about this practice so this is what this protest is about now we've seen the shutters in this shopping malls shut as soon as protesters moving its line and has protesters home as that main line tiny's now in these protests that have gone on for the past 6 months the anger against the hong kong and chinese government and now i know you don't have time to anger at trying these people as well and we've also seen riot police move into the shopping mall and to a rest stop and now the whole idea of this protest is to cause economic disruption in a bid to force the government to take notice of this protest movement and to meet the protesters demands now it's also aimed at causing disruption to an economic

activity that protests to see lane be beneficial to mainland chinese and not people of hong kong. there are fears an attack on a military base could lead to more violence in iraq which is ready in golf and that's what's political crisis in decades a u.s. contractor was killed and rockets were fired into the base near cocoa come friday it houses both iraqi and u.s. troops several americans and iraqis were also injured when a full team with more now from baghdad on that attack. 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 pale 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. rodger shanahan not long ago he's a research fellow at the lowly institute for international policy in sydney and

says iraq needs a political solution to reduce these kinds of attacks. well as you point out you know a well functioning government for control over. security within the country would make these kind of attacks if not impossible then very difficult. to take we say in a ratcheting up in the number of. attacks directed against u.s. targets or to kill or. iranian backed militia groups in iraq. until we get some kind of. solution to iraq's political problems that he's said goal to population in general till we get a reduction in that growth crushing 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 hussein today the u.n. general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against muslims and other minorities in me and mom 124 member states voted for the resolution calling on me and government to combat the hatred and violence against minorities mean morals or remember facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice thousands of rango were killed in a government crackdown in rakhine state and 2017 and nearly a 1000000 more fled to bangladesh but meanwhile as ambassador to the united nations told the general assembly the resolution would only worsen a complex situation the drop feel to recognize the real situation on the ground and refused to appreciate the efforts of the government and the people of myanmar in such of a comprehensive and loves to solution to the multiple challenges inherited from previous abuse since independence the drawbar illusion as it stands.

trust and will create a father buller a vision of different communities in the region. it would only be due to mental to the process of liberal tradition as well as the original peace and harmony in rakhine a letter from benjamin to walk in our southeast asia and list it says actually this un resolution is too late and lacks the legal weight to trigger any 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 ridges who remain in myanmar and remain at risk of further genocidal attacks the sad part about it is that the un

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 if 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 it's. a fascinating story criminal gangs in mexico

the ones notorious for cocaine trafficking and now switching their attention to something with a much healthier reputation avocado fun and say that $1000000000.00 business is being wrecked by kidnapping and extortion the gangs profits are only growing along with u.s. consumers appetite for mexican avocados the story now with john homan. 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 80 minutes can have a car those on toast or in your pocket it's possible not over the profits or heading to the right hands. michu a can make the 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 a political role 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 off the more than 40 years of growing avocadoes now everything has changed real roots through a whole world 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 blinds local businesses and new truck comes pacifically is a mutation of what was once trucks trafficking i'm deaf mutated into a model where the control territory within the territory you get to. he's out any type of commodity that's locally available so it 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 the many times the criminals are in accord with the state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current boob. job home and how does it a bit scarcity. we're going to head a little further north now look at the weather in the united states with kevin fog

in texas kevin that's right this is over the beginning of a big storm system that's making its way towards the east coast it's going to get very messy but the flood situation that you mention get was extremely messy for parts of texas we're talking lubbock in this area right here where you see all of these clouds take a look at the video that has come in here of course the fog was really hampering traffic this truck lost control it then cause a major traffic jam pile up on the highway luckily only 2 people were injured nobody was killed in this particular incident we're going to be seeing about 20000000 people right now are under some sort of winter watch advisory or warning extended here from texas all the way up towards great lakes and the reason being is the extent of the snow that is coming is going to be very widespread we're talking anywhere between 20 or skewed $40.60 centimeters of snow could be falling with the next 3 days across much of this area that's the northern part the southern part we're talking about severe weather all the way down towards the gulf coast of

course we are getting towards the end of the year a lot of celebrations are going to be happening one of those big ones is going to be in new york of course on monday evening and times square unfortunate the forecast does not look so good for new york we are looking at some rain in the forecast with the temperature there at the ball drop at about 4 and lana looks quite nice but over 2. chicago it is going to be a combination of rain snow and also when spectacle thank you kevin miller still ahead for you on al-jazeera odd. more protests across france as the labor unions try to keep up the pressure on president across its pension reforms and in sports sailing is the start as the 75th sydney to hobart race comes to an end better than the rest of the sport that. a university degree to be a doctor or

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on the news hour here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories the huge bomb blast that's now killed $76.00 people in somalia one of the worst attacks here's the explosion happened near a security checkpoint in mogadishu and more than 70 others have been injured. in a 1000 people been arrested across india over the last 24 hours in protests over the controversial citizenship law but it hasn't deterred demonstrators from surging more rallies and sit ins across the country. and police are violently clear hundreds of protesters who stormed the hong kong shopping mall they were chanting against traders from mainland china accusing them of overcrowding and pushing up

prices. still with protests now the labor unions have called for marches and protests across france to keep up the pressure on president emanuel macron protesters joined railway workers on strike against the pension reforms this is a station strikes and demonstrations now into their 24th day the unions oppose a pension system over here that will push the edge of the time and up to 64 bernard smith in paris with the latest on this one bernard that is real momentum here 24 days and counting. yeah these protests have been popping up over paris throughout and arrest of france during the holiday period there is still fairly widespread public support for the protests and their aims which is to get the government to overturn. to to change plans to overturn plans to reform the french pension system which is very complex under some

businesses some employees more generous than it is to others it particularly the railway workers who benefit from early retirement it is then that has been leading a lot of these strikes and although there has been a decrease in the number of people coming out to strike there is still considerable disruption on the rail network so there are more trains running now the high speed trains on the intercity trains on the read on trains there are more of them available in fact the the national railway is saying there are lots of empty seats on trains as people don't realize they're running at the moment but although they are they are less people coming out to strike they are still supporting bernard for this protest movement to well die down completely i guess for there to be an end in sight what would need to happen would they need to be a major climb down from the government again. yet the unions are telling the government they will not countenance the sort of drum

significant reforms to the pension system that the government is proposing the government to try this back in 1995 and then after 3 weeks the government caved in and shelved reform plans and this time these reform plans were in the manifesto or money or macro money ran for president the government says these reforms must go through to reduce to sort of cut the public deficit in france and the unions are still resisting that and there are calls for more nationwide demonstrations for all major demonstrations on the 9th of january then we will see the turnout for that to see how much momentum these strikes still have come out thank you bernard smith in paris russia says it has deployed a new hypersonic weapon which some defense analysts say is maybe the latest sign of a new arms race it reportedly finds it $27.00 times the speed of sound and can

carry a nuclear warhead as well the russians say the god weapon can make evasive turns after it's fired into orbit which would make many defense systems useless because it would be impossible to intercept them as they hurtle back down to earth russia says the secures its position as a world leader in these hypersonic weapons u.s. and china do say they are developing a similar system spoke to defense analysts pavel felgenhauer earlier he says russia is pushing this announcement for political reasons. the turn no a message just going very strong all the russian t.v. and other propaganda outwards 'd that this is russia's number one in the world that we have and no one else has which to some extent is true and that this sounds good for the russian people. but also.

the actual military properties how much of this rush really adds the russians are at the are somewhat rationed by experts but little but would you goes down well and also of course in the united states many experts and it will be also wooing out of proportion the russian achievements because they have their own agenda you're presenting to congress and to the public that there is a russian threat the russians are and that means they should get more money from the budget catch up and a strike in libya has targeted an engineering institution a residential district of zawiya the attack on the city was ordered by warlord khalifa haftar and he's the 4th there in his many days elsewhere libya's internationally recognized government says military vehicles were destroyed as its forces repelled half his forces at the main airport in tripoli out libya correspondent is now one of the $100.00 and he has more from the capital. there is fear among residents in there especially in the neighborhood. around

them rocket launchers but have to as forces landed that last night killed one civilian and injured other 6 civilians including one child that is less than 6 years old according to medical sources in the capital tripoli as the clashes are becoming near the residential areas it is fear among civilians of potential human casualties and a huge influx of displaced people as you know that over the past few days have to as forces have been advancing taken control of. that in and around the. there. of the migration of the in southern tripoli needs a lot of dean neighborhood meanwhile the government military sources have posted

a video showing what they call a number of have to the fighters taken captives by the government forces also the government military sources say that they've managed to repel an attack by have to his forces to take control of the airport road in tripoli. flags are at half staff on the day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash the back air flight went down soon after takeoff from almaty airport 12 people killed and 54 injured some of them critically the airlines fleet of a 100 aircraft on the ground and while air accident investigators examined the wreckage going through it the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket and 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.

riot police in colombia are being accused of firing rubber bullets to deliberately blind anti-government demonstrators dozens lost their sight during national strikes earlier this month and a student protester was killed as well and reports now from. a university student dragged into an unmarked car. another protester brutally kicked in the face killed by a police project since the national strike started over a month ago colombia's riot police known as it has been under pressure for its violent response to the mostly peaceful demonstrations. martial arts trainer. marched in the 1st protest but had been playing pool for 2 hours when he was attacked by the police as he fled the bar flooded with tear gas he lost his right after being hit by a rubber bullet. they didn't care if we were confronting them or not they simply

attacked us if it wasn't me it would have been another of my friends because they shot at us directly i felt a rubber ball hitting my right eyelid i saw it on the floor when i tried to pick it up i passed. the u.n. commission for human rights in investigating cases of excessive force in arbitrary detentions of protesters and journalists during the demonstrations at least 10 people have lost and i doing protests in. you to come out of course i'm fine on the surface the last site in or left i mean better than the riot police never followed protocol that's why dylan died that's why i lost my sight and so on they always use brute force. a month after the killing of the crews hundreds of people gathered at the spot. to leave the injured there demanding the dismantling of the. human

rights organizations say that colombia's riot. it's responsible for. $34.00 people in the last 20 years even if it's supposed to be a force opposition congressman who is supporting a bill in congress to replace the force says the issue goes beyond. the problem in colombia is that during 50 years of internal conflicts the polices always supposed the existence of an internal enemy that had to be confronted with violence we're living in a historic moment of change. with the peace deal and our institutions need to understand that security forces need to change as well. that the country's riot police rarely violate protocols and actually needs to be reinforced many victims of their actions here beg to differ.

2020 is expected to be a challenging year for a giant of german and world politics angler merkel is ready to retire at the next federal election and so her party is wondering how the chancellor's popularity can be transferred to their next leader all that while support for the far right has only grown from berlin dominic. political berlin 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 but 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 i'm glad 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 in the political center for in 20. 19

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 here our military did i cannot surrender what i don't know how they 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 0 berlin. look at turkey now on for 4 months protesters there have been calling for

the return of their children and relatives from the p.k. k. the kurdistan workers party they claim the party has been forcibly recruiting their children and relatives to fight for the group mohamed atta who has the support from the other here. security is tight outside the pro cuddy's people's democratic party or which the peace headquarters indiana back in southern turkey these policemen are getting a peaceful protest by men and women demanding that it tunneled their children who they say have been kidnapped or recruited by the kurdish workers party p k k. holding the pictures of their missing children they call for their quick return because this is their lives and they took my daughter away and we haven't heard from her for the past 5 years we don't know if she is still alive this protest was taught that in september by 1 mother but now others a metal family members of those they say i'm now in that arms of the k.k.k.

have joined a common claim among the protesters is that their children one last seen me here at the offices on the heads of the people. and they say that's why they've continued the sit in outside the 2 offices but you'll visuals however deny any links to the p.k. k. and say they've also never actively recruited for the. some form of p.k. k. fighters of the time to their families since the protests began and that is giving hope to people here who sneer mickie dissent livid time from iraq where she fought under the p.k. k. she is telling custody awaiting trial for being a member of the group that's outlawed in tikki but some of us say stick god less of the shoes or leave to use buck lynn on board justin doesn't my daughter was 14 when she was kidnapped and i thank god that after 5 long years she surrendered 3 days ago i'm so happy my daughter is out of the hands of those tyrants 2 weeks ago

jaffer to jail and also to tom to his family he says it is out that the b.k. cain company's cydia up to seeing his mother the protests in media reports are not in won't kill the enemy that life is difficult you will constantly fighting and have little time to miss home or family life finally thorough and you get disgusted by all the death and destruction and you start missing your loved one isn't the p.k. k. has been designated a terrorist organization by a techie the e.u. and the united states it too long to separate it is insurgency itself is to key in 1008 to 4 says that more than 4 to 1000 people mostly kids have been killed in fighting with turkish forces cads account for roughly 20 percent of techies population of about 80000000 people of the decade so much english and by the turkish state have been demanding create a rights and more autonomy but for many here the hedge d.p.n. p k k have drugs that are litigious into fighting that's more to do with the

group's interests and it is with the flight of the kurdish. mohamed atta. southern turkey. he has got his fortune in just a moment the most decorated gymnast in history is only adding to the long list of achievements. when the news breaks if you don't win today the current government has lost the trust of the people by cannot do anything because the protesters are against it when people are to be caught by surprise working represent the love dogs for a part of the brics it's drawing from the conservatives al-jazeera has teams on the ground that now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring new moon moon documentaries and nightly news on air and online. the brazilian economy is booming

but deep divisions still exist between the haves and the have nots in a country where smartphones have become a part of everyday life technology help reached again. this series that challenges developers to design apps for a better world travels to real dish a maiden and meets the young people tasked with making a different life than. on al-jazeera. because what with les i think you come all it's are is a basketball the miami heat are having one of their finest season since their 2013 championship year and they extended the n.b.a.'s best record on home court with

a nail biting victory over the indiana pacers on friday the heat were playing catch up when kendrick non-net got dared jones jr airborne for the dunk and the. lead kept switching hands late in the 4th quarter the pacers jeremy lamb bargaining bargain rather pass none here with half a minute on the clock but with 6 seconds left corner drug dragged the heat over the line to win 113 to 112 a last attempt from the pacers fizzling out as miami improved to 141 at home. the philadelphia 76 years came back down to earth after beating the milwaukee bucks on christmas day the orlando magic handed them a close dose of reality beating them 982-899-8297 extension 2 score. a heavyweight world title rematch between us is a wilder and britain's tyson fury was finally announced on friday and is said to be

the biggest fight of 2020 the pair will meet at the m.g.m. grand in las vegas on february 22nd both are unbeaten but while their retained his title after their 1st fight ended in a draw a year ago syria won 3 world championship belts in 2015 but they gave them up as he battled mental health problems. the english premier league looks like it's liverpool's to throw away after defending champions manchester city slipped up at wolverhampton on friday they went to nil up before losing 3 to city now 14 points behind liverpool and seeming to admit that the best they can hope for is to catch 2nd place leicester with 5 months still to play to think about place them so the chance to do to record a 2nd position is to be out of the 3rd that is the point of the season for some mistakes some of the situations we are far away so now with. is you know to thinking about 2 to cut the circle one and we'll see what happened of the. well

a cyclist who made his grand tour debut at the spaniard this year had his arm broken by a park ranger nicholas me was filmed by a teammate as he was roughed up in south africa's table mountain national park near cape town on friday he was on a training run when the ranger stopped him saying he did not pay for a conservation fee the lebanese team have confirmed that his left arm was then broken the 24 year old is in line to compete for south africa at the tokyo lympics next year. to baseball now and the 1st ever korean player to start in the world series is with a new team ahead of the 2020 m.l.d. season hyun jin rule is one of south korea's biggest sports stars in a spent the past 7 years pitching for the los angeles dodgers making the all-star team last season but as of friday he is with the tron a blue jays signed a 4 year deal with the canadian team worth a cool $80000000.00 u.s.

dollars. while most 11 year olds are focused on being a kid sky brown is doing just the opposite trying to make it to the olympics she's a skateboarder with dozens of title titles to her name already if she makes it to the olympics in tokyo she will be a great britain's youngest olympic athlete despite her age sky is one of the best female skateboarders in the world even the boys can't land. there and if they seem like this will go this maybe. there's a way not to risk a running just get out there have been brave and get a bit. simone byelaws has been named the 2019 associated press female athlete of the year she's now the 1st gymnast to wind 28 twice she won 5 gold medals at the world championships for gymnastics into her collection with a total of $25.00 world medals will likely be competing in her 2nd lympics next year in tokyo. well looking back on 21000 bottles was not the only gymnast to make

headlines you may remember college gymnastics champion caitlin ohashi for the perfect 10 routine that she nailed as a student athlete her performance had more than $77000000.00 views online she's also one of only 2 gymnast who have ever beaten simone biles as a senior even still ohashi says she was bullied online after that viral video and now speaks out against body shaming this i want to use my platform and a voice that i do have and i want to make people feel like they're not alone when they're going through we are struggles and health issues and things like that because i've been there and i felt super alone and i feel like social media is a thing that will only one side and one image of ourselves one that we don't mind showing the world and i'd like to show my false self. well one of the world's toughest sea races is come to an end in tasmania the sydney to hobart yacht race

had to contend with smoke from nearby bushfires after leaving the australian coast on thursday more than a 1000 kilometers later it was the french super max that triumphed. and favorite sport back over to you lovely thank you for that couple of space stories for you now work on a nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of its journey to mars next year to search for any evidence of life the mission could also lay the groundwork to one day send humans to the red planet a silver a. small step in the lab or a trip 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 it's a test test test test of everything we possibly can shake you know to make sure that we've got a reliable system to send to mars. to mars 2020 rosalie's currently in 3 sections

and being constructed in this terra vironment 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 the martian rover he landed has ruled 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 it's a mission is to have a crew space station by 20221 of the things that people really learn from the apollo era and the space race in the 1960 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 the space race is about to reach new frontiers join the silver al-jazeera finally an extremely rare visitor literally from out of this world is about to get as close as it gets to ours comet borisov is due to be around all 290000000 kilometers from earth any time now it is only the 2nd object from another solar system ever seen here it's one and a half kilometers long its tail is 106000 story.

ok we're back with more news in just a couple of minutes see them. the un published the most comprehensive study of life on. they found 1000000 species face extinction that's more than 12 percent of known life on. one truck to destroy the much oil infrastructure of which all well depend the report identifies the 5 main drivers of this big logical crisis the way we use and to use all products resources 75 percent of the land and 2 thirds of the marine environment have been severely altered by human activity exploitation of species through over fishing and hunting climate change caused by a greenhouse gas emissions pollution and finally the how to create tama local ecosystems by invasive species. who are supposed to say the decline can be slowed

even stopped in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with. that was the last thing the president said to you about impeachment when you last spoke to him for. society it's not about. if you don't really get it should double the work 8 years ago how worried are you that the conditions are still wide for another i think they are right join me man of the house from as i put it up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on. counting the cost 2019 what a year it's been a world struggle to put aside short term economic game to save the planet for class of america the middle east people took to the street to protest on equal spread of wealth at a trade war reshapes globalization counting the cost on al-jazeera. devastation

in somalia's capital a truck bomb blast kills at least 78 people many of them university students. hello again i'm kamal sons of maria with the world news from al jazeera anger and defiance in hong kong as protesters storm a shopping mall near the border with china. also we will meet the parents demanding the return of their children who they say were kidnapped by kurdish fighters in turkey.