the police around the world. are. this is al jazeera. in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes one of somalia's worst attacks almost 800 people killed as a bomb filled vehicle explodes at a busy checkpoint in the capital. and barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe including. striking workers in france say that they're ready to stand by and tend to the new year as they're joined by protesters rallying

. anger too in hong kong protesters storm a shopping center near the border with. plus extortion kidnapping and violence the criminal gangs hijacking mexico's big. business. and with all the support of the miami heat rediscover their championship form of old but can they keep the fire burning in the 2nd half of the season. somalis have become tragically used to attacks in the capital but the sky all of this latest one which is still unfolding is huge at least 79 people who did and 149 wounded after a vehicle packed with explosives blew up on a busy mogadishu street al-shabaab is being blamed but so far the group is silent

or metacity reports from nairobi in neighboring kenya. jaring morning rush as many people going to work and university students heading to campus the bombs exploded at a security checkpoint by many coming into mogadishu. a truck loaded with explosives was detonated at a busy checkpoint the explosion led to many deaths and injuries most of those died here students who were going to the schools and universities official say many of those killed by the truck bomb were university students. the explosion was very large it was close to where the 2017 bomb happened many people died here especially students i saw many dead bodies lying on the ground in my eyes some of the dead were police officers but also students were killed. officials believe the target was a building next to the checkpoint being used by government troops the group was pushed

out of mogadishu several years ago but is still targets high profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels. also carried out attacks in neighboring kenya and uganda. it's trying to stop attacks like this from happening for those caught up in the blast and those who lost family members and loved ones that's a little comfort now. well this is become mogadishu's 3rd deadliest attack in recent times in 2011100 were killed when al shabaab sent a suicide bomber in a truck which blew up outside the government's been a stereo complex the worst was 2 years ago when almost 600 died in a double truck bombing that was blamed on al shabaab but it sometimes doesn't claim responsibility for attacks the provoke a big public backlash that bryden is a strategic advisor it's a han which is a political think tank specializing in the horn of africa and he joins us now from

nairobi it's nice to have you with us let's assume that we are indeed talking about al-shabaab here given that this has been a particularly violent year what does it tell us about the group that it can still carry out this type of attack inside mogadishu. i think it tells us that the capacity of al shabaab. on the battlefield but also in terms of its terrorist capability relays largely undiminished despite claims by somali government ellard foreigners to the contrary very little has changed on the ground either able to show or in the rest of the country in terms of the battlefield so al shabaab. retains the initiative it has the space the ability to plan and prepare and carry out these kinds of attacks and unfortunately this last atrocity most recent atrocities probably not the last i did it's a sign of things to come and met is that because of the adaptability and the

strength of al shabaab or is that because of weakness in the government. it's a combination al-shabaab has shown over the past decade and more of its resilience its ability to adapt even when for example its leadership being devastated by american drone strikes and commando raids together with somali forces but i think the real problem here is that. we have a somali federal government that is weak and unpopular it's heading into a presidential and parliamentary election this year which is stirring up politics and it always implies a degree of instability and a failure to build a security sector an army a police force intelligence service capable of dealing with the threat the

then the challenges are that somalia is still essentially run by a transitional government the constitution is not complete it says that some on is a federal republic with a federal government and a member state but the federal government in the member states are generally not cooperating the federal government is trying to impose itself on a member state both with financial inducements and by force and so its attention is not fully focused on this fight it's focused on fighting administrations that should be its partners which it perceives as its rivals for power in somalia and it raises questions doesn't it about its capacity to deal with the al-shabaab threat given the pull back of the african union troops and you mentioned that the american drone strikes they've increased their bombing this year and still we're seeing what we've seen played out today. well absolutely i think the most important

support given to the somali security forces at the moment comes from the government of turkey and is financed at least in large part by the state of qatar with western governments also contributing to various parts of the security sector the main problem with this support is that it's being monopolise in mogadishu by the somali federal government under the constitution and various agreements on the security sector support should be going to the federal member states or the provinces of somalia where the fight against al shabaab is is largely unfolding and where somali forces approving generally more effective in combating out but these provinces are being starved of resources because the federal government wants to impose control and then build the government out from the addition and it's that

tension i think that creates a space gap that i'll share that is clearly exploiting and as we head into elections later this year al-shabaab is going to find even more opportunities to exploit because you've identified something that's absolutely critical here and that is the geographical niger of the struggle as well that al shabaab pushed out of mogadishu to some extent it has really been able to d.d.e. in in those more rural areas where it has a strong all. absolutely most of south central somalia is what i would characterize as governance back to you and neither the federal government nor the federal member states really exert much control over the rural areas al-shabaab is very careful not to present a target by administering these areas and opening up offices and government institutions it operates as

a shadow government collecting taxes administering justice at least as effectively more effectively than the government or if it were the state governments in somalia but it doesn't present an easy target nevertheless in the absence of real governance. becomes the defacto already that most ordinary somalis have to deal with that broad and it's a pleasure to have you on the program thank you again thank you. well riot police have moved in on hundreds of people who stormed a hong kong shopping mall near the border with my inland china the area is popular with try to do as you cross over to buy goods to sell back home demonstrators blame them for overcrowding in pushing up prices purchase a destructive home calling for more than 6 months but in the against china's increasing influence in the territory florence new year's in hong kong tells us more about what was behind saturday's events. this protest here is hardly an offshoot of the main protest movement that's gone on for 6 months in hong kong but

it's also partly to contest against the practice of our now trading compound all trading is a practice where 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 destroy the social and economic life it's course shortage of goods it's driven the prices of goods and hong kong people on 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 protest is moving it's really not had her tested the peace that main one tiny town in these protests that have gone on for the last 6 months the anger against the hong kong and chinese government and now is still down into anger at chinese as well and we've also seen riot police move into the shopping mall and arrest shoppers down 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 as mainly beneficial to mainland chinese and not people are caught. more than a 1000 people have been arrested in india's per day since protests began every new citizenship law that have. ditto demonstrators and staging more rallies and sit ins they've now been 15 days of protests over the legislation which is being criticized as being anti muslim opposition leader raul gandhi visited the northeast instead of a sob on saturday where the protest movement began and was at one of the sitting sites in new delhi. 100000 people were detained or they just seem to know that maybe i am going to be hit by 100 would be a girl in the national capital delhi and yet just are gathered across several

states in a number of testing against. this university don't let me guess that we are as we go to the epicenter of these protests and these will be really be coming out for over a mo night now there are no tests against some of the what they describe as a discone tree no no they see they don't understand or. they will keep passing will continue their protests until the government does not give him or her the most of these protests as you have seen a women and children. with their husbands to the $100.00 a braving the cold because i'm placing them down with police atrocities against a group of these students you notice we dump woodson on the scene of us city and that is it is not the remotest people that they are not safe in their own neighborhoods that today the old something is now down to the leader on the field position party the congress party fundraiser sandwiches where the protests began several other political leaders have phoned me out on different stages to do just

against me on the newsgroup distance don't even need a city under these things were there not to stick to how the man leadership would i do this stuff and i think the employers then are happy with this. the u.n. general assembly has condemned human rights abuses against rohingya muslims and other minorities in may in the 134 member states voted for the resolution calling on. government to combat hatred and violence against minorities be in mars also facing a charge of genocide at the international court of justice thousands of rohingya were killed in a government crackdown in return staging 2017 you can be a 1000000 fled to bangladesh for months now protesters in turkey have been calling for the return of their children and relatives from the kurdistan workers party or p k k a climb the group is being forcibly recruiting them to fight mohamed odeh reports

from. security is tight outside the pro kurdish people still cutting capacity or hitch the peace headquarters in southern turkey these policemen are getting a peaceful protest by men and women demanding that tarnal 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 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 is september by 1 mother but now others and metal family members of those they say are now in that arms of the k.k.k. have joined in a common claim among the protesters is that their children one last seen me here at the offices of the heads of the people. and they say that's why they've continued the sit in outside the party 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 recent 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 that live to xbox live on or just and 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 on the protests in media reports on in don't kill the enemy that life is difficult you will constantly fighting and have

little time to miss home or family life finally thorough you get disgusted by all the death and destruction and you start missing your loved one isn't that be 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 insurgencies south 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 18000000 people of the decade to marginalise isham by the turkish state have been demanding greater rights and more autonomy but for many here the hedge d.p. and p k k have drugs that are litigious into fighting that's more to do with the group's interests that it is with the plight of the kurdish. mohamed atta the advocate of southern turkey. among the stories coming up.

locked and loaded the new weapon that russia says can go 27 times the speed of sound. and. many days that's ahead in sports with people. striking workers in france so they're actually going into the new year that comes after a day of clashes with police in the center of paris with more on that let's go to you now european use. stand thank you yes the strikers were joined by yellow vests protesters on their right regular saturday demonstrations in the center of the french capital flares were lit and they attempted to block roads with barricades leading to police to retaliate with tear gas the strikers are angry about president mcconnell's plans to reform public sector pensions their nationwide walkout is now in its 24th day train services have been crippled but the national

rail operator losing more than $400000000.00 in ticket revenue they all of us activists have protested on the streets of the french capital every weekend for more than a year now against a number of president promises one of the l a vest so most prominent members who was blinded in one eye in a demonstration earlier this year says the same i was injured by a police officer earlier. i don't know. what happened what happened windier for to stop demonstrators from moving forward forcing the police to repack which they get angry and end up beaten out of truncheons and we have the policeman who beats he's badge number with him and the commissioner has refused to give us his badge number that's the reality now i'm waiting to see who is going to rise up against human violence or in its midst is that the protests and says them straight or is aren't showing any sign of giving up. there are

a few more trains running now than the were at the start of the strike on december the 5th but still public transportation across france remains severely disrupted the strikers the protesters a maintaining that demands of the government rejects shell's plans to reform france's complex in some cases generous pension system particularly the row workers benefit from early retirement they want to keep those benefits the government says it has to reform the pensions very still public support for the protests despite the major disruption many people particular here in paris having to walk a lot further use scooters or used bikes instead of the metro public transportation there is another major protest planned for january the 9th the same time that's when the government and the unions will meet again to try and come to some sort of resolution ukraine's president says he expects

a swap prisoners with russian backed separatists in the war torn east of the country on sunday both sides agreed to the exchange earlier this month steering high profile peace talks in paris aimed at the escalating the conflict but follow the main selenski and russian president vladimir putin fail to find a solution to end the 5 year war that has so far killed more than 14000 people separatists from donetsk and lugansk are expected to swap 55 ukrainians for 87 rebels. released. politicians after they were arrested following a fight in parliament over a church property law montenegro's parliament adopted the law on friday but the opposition said it would let the government strip the serbian orthodox church of its property including many medieval monasteries and churches hundreds of supporters of the church gathered in front of the embassy in belgrade following the

vote the u.k. government has accidentally published online the addresses of more than 1000 new year recipients the list includes the singer elton john and hundreds of other high profile celebrities senior police officers and politicians the sensitive information was visible for at least an hour before it was removed the cabinet office has confirmed the addresses were imploded in error and has apologized. this part of the british on our system which recognizes the work and contributions made by recipients in a range of ways. 2020 will be a year of relative political calm for germany given the country's party's time to take stock with chancellor angela merkel bowing out of politics at the next election she needs to work out how to transfer her popularity to the next party leader of the main parties have an eye on the surges in support for the far right

and left came reports there from berlin. 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 angle americal 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. you know but there's little sign of that goodwill on the domestic front

her preferred successor and i'm glad to come because one bar 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. the know how to claw back voters who deserted them for the far right alternative for germany in recent years. one symbol taney asli steering a course which can keep them in the political center for in 2019 a green wave swept across the country propelling vast party to around 25 percent in the polls and allowing it to make life increasingly difficult for the present government their military did i cannot say but 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 anger merkel remains the unlikely glue that binds them together for now dominant came out 0 berlin. london in the next hour now the let's go back to stan in del. thank you borrow it worked on a nasa robotic rover is nearing completion ahead of its journey to mars next year to search for any evidence of life it's hoped it will also allow the groundwork to

one day send humans to the red planet to several reports. political 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. a small step in the lab or a tree before a giant launch 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 test test test test and everything we possibly can. to make sure that we've just been listening to mars. the mars 2020 rover lease 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 would be nasa's 5th soft landing of a martian rover. we're going to use a new 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. still ahead in the news. even though the president.

hello again it's good to have you back well still very wet weather here across parts of the eastern mediterranean and that is going to continue unfortunately as we begin the week as well of course we have been talking about the flooding situation that has been going on in turkey syria as well as into lebanon and 44 beirut expect to see more rain as we go from sunday as well as into monday temperatures lingering into the mid teens there for turkey though yes snow is still going to be an issue and the rain across that southern coast is going to be a problem so for donna do expect to see some more rain possibly more flooding as we go towards monday and into tuesday well here across the gulf things looking quite nice for us here in doha attempt of 25 a little bit warmer than what we have seen over the last few days but we are watching the coast of oman we did have a tropical disturbance pushing through that is going to bring some rain in terms of they have $29.00 the rain continuing as we go towards monday as well but from a scott you're going to stay out of the rain

a nice day for you with the tempter of 24 and very heavy rain across parts of southern africa over the next few days we're talking anywhere from johannesburg all the way down here towards durban even over here towards cape town tempter though for cape town it is going to be quite warm but we do expect by the time we get towards monday a break in the rain more sun in the forecast in durban at $28.00. counting the costs 2019 what a year it's been the world struggle to put aside short term economic game to save the planet from latin america to the middle east people took to the streets protesting you know the spread of wealth at a trade war reshapes globalization counting the cost on al-jazeera. with its leaders in jail the greek community policy when eyes on the lines mothers and doses of the imprisoned leaders to represent them. the women behind the fearsome run tweener nationalist party going to do not try to when you say male not to do you

know what exactly. does that mean it means nationalist golden doing a witness documentary on al-jazeera do you support the mostest. ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. you're watching al-jazeera he's a robot about top stories this hour a bomb blast has killed at least 79 people in somalia one of the worst attacks it

is really 150 others were injured in the explosion which happened near a security checkpoint in mogadishu. more than a 1000 people were detained in order pradesh in india on friday june protests over a controversy all citizenship will those numbers have to demonstrate his frustration was rallies and cities. riot police have moved in on hundreds of protesters who stormed the hong kong shopping mall they were chatting against traders for by the china accusing them of overcrowding and pushing up prices. more on somalia now earlier we spoke to him in mogadishu he's a research at the city's heritage institute for policy studies and told us more about how alice about works and often writes. i think we need to understand that michelle happened has been one of the most successful target incision in the wall and then 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

a sedative war especially in an urban area and their aim is actually to inflict as many casualties so that they can manipulate the psychology of the people act so that they can't really. fear among the people so i think you need to understand deep in the society i think a 2nd discipline over all it has been when it if it including over the last 3 or $0.04 a large elite the government really tried to reorganize the security architecture but there hasn't been sound policy to really not corrupt out of that see we also need to know that some has been effective governing the guy on the structure of the government in somalia. algeria's president has named abdul aziz jerad as the country's new prime minister gerrard is

a former diplomat and presidential advisor who teaches political science at the university of algeria's is appointed comes a week after abdul majid to boone was to clear the winner of a controversy election that was boycotted by many out syrians on friday thousands of protesters continue calling for the overthrow of the entire political system. russia says it's deployed a new hypersonic weapon which some defense analysts see as part of a new arms race it apparently flies it 27 times the speed of sound and can carry a nuclear warhead the russians say the evan god weapon can also make evasive turns off being fired into will this like you to formidable match for many defense systems russia argues that the haven't got secure is its position as a world leader in hypersonic weapons the u.s. and china however say they're developing similar systems defense analyst pavel felgenhauer says most russians will respond well to the announcement but there are

questions about whether the weapon is all that it's described the turn no a master just going very very strong all the russian t.v. and other propaganda out that this is russia's number one in the 'd world that we have weapons no one else has which to some extent that is true and that this sounds good for the russian people. but also if. the actual merits sri properties how much of this rest really adds the russians here is the i somewhat rationed by experts but little but what you're goes down well and also of course in the united states many experts and i think it will be also blowing out of proportion the russian achievements because they have their own agenda to present 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 to catch up. flags are at half staff in kazakhstan on a day of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash the break if flight went down soon after takeoff from airport 12 people were killed and 54 injured some critically the airline's fleet of farkle 100 a craft are grounded while air accident investigators examined the wreckage. of the plane began shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in the pocket and tightened up the safety belt tightly and the plane leaned forward it was clear they would crash into the ground the bang was strong and the lights went off some were alive some were not. and their strike in libya has targeted an engineering institution in the residential district of zawiya the attack on the city ordered by warlord to leave after is the 4th there in his many dies elsewhere libya's internationally recognized government says military vehicles were destroyed as its forces repelled have to us forces at

the main airport in tripoli libya correspondent mark moved up there while head as more from the capital. there is fear among residents especially in neighborhood. were the random 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 the locations in and

around the. their headquarters of the migration of 30 in southern tripoli needs aladdin 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 southern tripoli hundreds of turks syrians have protested outside russia's called she will. go to balance russia's intensified bombing campaign in syria's rebel held it would province similar demonstrations took place in london and paris russia is supporting the syrian government's efforts to recapture the last opposition stronghold troops of seized towns and villages forcing nearly a quarter of a 1000000 mostly women and children to flee if you were going to pull.

tents go up in the syrian town of dunn 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 and. 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. bad 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 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. a lot more. of 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 so than strands a single government has unveiled its 1st budget to revive the country's economy after months of political turmoil it includes plans to gradually remove fuel subsidies by next year salaries of employees working in state owned companies will be doubled to keep pace with rising inflation which has reached 58 percent the transitional government is implementing a series of reforms after former president bashir was ousted in i probably forgotten him a borgen explains why some of these decisions could prove controversy. recently appointed council of ministers revealed the new government's 1st budget and that is for the year 2020 which had passed late on friday now according to the government

there will be free education in public schools as well as free health care and public hospitals and there will be an increase in the pace of civil workers as well as cash transfers to those of low income but where the main focus of the government's budget for the year 2020 comes is on the fuel subsidies the government says that there will be gradual lifting of fuel subsidies according to the former government which was deposed in april following an uprising that was triggered by the economy last december the government pays up to 90 percent of the fuel costs which cost that the government more than $50000000.00 per week and the minister of finance in a press statement where he revealed some details of the 2020 budget said the change will be gradual so that people on the streets get used to it. but the moment. we have put down this budget with a response programme looks into subsidies that allows us to make achievements

without letting those achievements go in vain through inflation we recognise the importance of having the fuel subsidies lifted gradually and not immediately now despite attempts by this government to assure the public there are concerns that the lifting of fuel subsidies will not go down well previous attempts by the previous government in 201-220-1320 extension 16 all led to anti-government protests and the 1st rejection to this budget came from the forces of freedom and change coalition that is the coalition that has been leading active government protests since december last year which led to the ousting of former president ahmed bashir and his government in april the coalition says that the budget doesn't look into the suffering of the sudanese people which led them to take to the streets demanding a better life to begin with the country's already facing an inflation of more than 60 percent and more than half of the country's 41000000 population live below the poverty line. so there are concerns that the lifting of field subsidies will raise prices of commodities in the market despite an increase in the pace of civil

workers and increased as well as an increase in the minimum wages but the government says that it needs to make those are short term reforms to try to improve the economy in the long run relations between china and taiwan have deteriorated this year but worst may be yet to tell me 2020 the result of taiwan's presidential election in january could determine whether it continues to resist pressure from china to unify or slowly given to train a year as this report from beijing. taiwan born carefully picks his battles ph d. student by day martial arts instructor by night the 36 year old cherishes taiwan's democracy but. in mainland china where he's lived for 4 years. economically and in all other ways i think the mainland and taiwan we only become closer the question is form. that question will be answered when

taiwanese voters go to the polls on general the 11th independence when is running for reelection and expected to win another term for the democratic progressive party or d.p.p. one main competition beijing friendly kuomintang candidate. who was leading opinion polls until protests in hong kong reignited fears over mainland influence and the one country 2 systems policy taiwan was always the big prize and it was look how are we going to deal with. a new your going to want to come back to the fold i think about pieces the communist party says reunification is inevitable achieved peacefully or otherwise. we do not propose to renounce the use of force reserve to use all necessary measures. president xi jinping recently unveiled one of those measures china's 1st locally built aircraft carrier the 2nd in its fleet

beijing has continued to ramp up its military presence in the south china sea and is closing in on taipei's dwindling diplomatic allies she didn't ping has fashioned himself as a great leader of china and how such is determined to leave behind a great legacy analysts say securing china's role as a leader in the asia pacific and bringing taiwan firmly back under control essential to that legacy and a disastrous outcome according to the united states washington has agreed to see. taiwan fighter jets tanks and weapons infuriating the communist party but china is not taking any action just now do you want to provoke the us to get involved such else you want to take why not wait why don't wait a few years. when you're military is going to be stronger the us which is likely to be weaker too will be watching taiwan's election from beijing waiting to see whether the island moves closer to the mainland all further away. beijing.

president has signed a decree to hold a referendum on a new constitution in april it's one of the by demands of protesters who have been out on the streets for months now but people were out again on friday in santiago police tried to break up crowds with tear gas and water cannon the constitution dates back to 1980 and the dictatorship of general pinochet. an outbreak of chicken pox in mexico is the latest setback for hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the united states the disease has forced the closure of a migrant shelter in ciudad juarez the mexican city city close to the u.s. border more than 70 margarets most of them children are sick the show to house is near the 800 people the white in court dates for their asylum applications in the united states has been. back in the order we have suspended the entry of new migrants who are returned by the united states due to the chicken pox outbreak we

have or the shelter once controlled more will be able to enter right now we are being helped by religious organizations and others to see those being sent back. customs agents in europe have seized a $1000000000.00 worth of cocaine they record of war was found in saudi flour containers at the port of modified the for the half tons was destined for togo in west africa the navy in europe was describing the seizure as the greatest blow to drug trafficking in the history of our country. criminal gangs in mexico dettori as for cocaine trafficking and all switching their attention to something with a much healthier reputation avatar a father's side of the $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 heilemann has more for. 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 eating mix can have a cut those on toast or in your guacamole dip it's possible not over the profits are heading to the right hands. michu it can make the heartland gangs a hijacking the industry extorting and kidnapping produces stealing trucks with their crops. 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 to whom 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 asking him for protection money i'm paying them couldn't keep him safe with the 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 after more than 40 years of growing avocadoes now everything has changed over routes through. 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. because the 2 account has increasingly become the battleground of a collection of criminal groups. as in other parts of the country they branched out from complicated trends not. tional drug trafficking is something. simply preying on the local economy. it's affected mining lines local businesses and the truck comes pacifically is a mutation of what was once trucks trafficking and therefore you tape it into a model where the control territory within the territory you get to sort of squeeze 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 court with. the state forces. it's a bleak outlook for an avocado industry that should be enjoying the current boot. don't homan how does it a screw city. and extremely rare visit a literally from out of this war has been getting close to us combat bars off is due to fly by earth at a distance of 290000000 kilometers not myself alone why but in space terms it's skimming past borisov is only the 2nd object from another sol assistant to be saying in this one a us t.v. news crew has captured the month a truck crashed into an early

a pile up on the side of a highway. it happened in heavy fog in the state of texas a police officer and a person in the truck was injured both being treated in hospital. well coming up next in sports from football star to hollywood star cristiano ronaldo looks to the future. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains because on a project that's what we diffuse it was one of the sound of us all for settlement we put this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st

century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera information indicates that you have or associated to regaled is that a least a part of it has the potential to be biased in a number of different ways there are too many are for jury for the computer to get are all who's just in those offices who commit those they to entrance is wrong to be saying that your son the true night is wrong to smile and say you kill becoming a suspect before the actual crime and in-depth examination into preventative policing pre-crime on al-jazeera. anastacia sport now is peter 10 thank you so much the miami heat are having one of

their finest seasons since a 2013 championship year and they extend 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 nunn got terry jones jr able for the dunk and lead kept switching hands late in the 4th paces jeremy lamb barging past none here with half a minute on the clock but with 6 seconds left corner and drag drag the lines with 131128 last attempt from the pacers fizzling out as miami improved to 14 and one of home they off food in the east. the philadelphia 76 came back down to earth after beating the moki backs on christmas day magic handed them a dose of reality beating 9897. the packed festive fixture list continues in the english premier league with 7 games on saturday 2 goals from dominic calvert lewan

made it 2 wins out of 3 for the new edits and manager carlo and joe r.t. they were $21.00 winners at newcastle but i'm sure he still sees plenty of room for improvement the spirit of the team is really good they work well the they fight each other then and then they enjoy the work out of. and so i think that this is the key of this 2 week torrie now all we have to our question we are going to have time to try to play a better football. south africa's cricketers have set england saw good of 376 to win the 1st a state's insurance ross in front of their son with a half century in the home side 2nd innings of 272 rory burns has a $54.00 in them they are $121.00 for one needing a further $255.00 runs to pull off what would be a spectacular victory. over in melbourne australia are closing in on a series against new zealand the aussies are

a mess of 456 runs ahead of the day 3 italian skier dominic paris made it to world cup titles in as many days with another downhill victory on saturday on the full length still the course in bormio paris proved too good for the field and with it went top of the standings for the 1st time in his career overtaking switzerland beaufoy said it was 18th who've covered victory overall for paris and one of skiing star names have her 1st world cup title of the season in her 1st race of the season and then pick champion mikhail shipman winning the giant slalom evelyn's in austria on saturday it's the americans 63rd world cup victory to baseball now in the 1st ever korean player to start in the world series is with a new team ahead of the 2020 m. l.b. season you know june the rue is one of south korea's biggest sports stars and spent

the past 7 years pitching for the los angeles dodgers making the all star team last season but as of friday he's with the toronto blue jays signing a 4 year deal with the canadian team with a cool $80000000.00 u.s. dollars. a cyclist who made his grand to a debut at the world a spaniard this year and he's broken by a park ranger nicholas meany and was filmed by a teammate he was roughed up in south africa's table mountain national park in capetown on friday he was on a training run when the rangers stopped him saying he had not paid a conservation fee meanies team of confirm that his left arm was broken the 24 year old is in line to compete for south africa at the tokyo lympics next year. it's 3 wins in 5 years for the comanche team in one of the world's toughest sea races the french super max a yacht took the sydney to hobart race crossing the finish line in the early hours of saturday the truth had to contend with smoke from nearby bushfires while

navigating the australian coast commanche set the record for the race in 2017 but this time around they were 9 hours off that pace. christiane or no there is far from retirement age in its football career but he's already looking to the future at an international sports conference in dubai on saturday when elder indicated that acting in hollywood would interest him once he finally hangs up his boots it will be a mushroom when venge shredded by i want to prepare to face the obstacles of a new life to do things i don't know how to do for example to participate in a movie in hollywood but you need to have a good preparation and not be nervous it's hard for me to be nervous in football because that's what i've prepared for my whole life. i wonder if we could get him to play the role of messi in a movie. yard rivalry. and that's it for this news hour barbara serve the table

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earring. a truck bomb explodes during rush hour in the somali capital killing $79.00 people including many students. hello i'm barbara sara you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. police used pepper spray on protesters who stormed a shopping mall near mainland china mothers in turkey call for the return of their children who they say were forcibly recruited to fight for.