ah ah ah oh. c hundreds of thousands of protest as much to saddam's presidential palace demanding the military stay out of their country's path to democracy. ah, hello i mario minimize in london, you're watching algae 0 also coming off on the program. and this will be the biggest man with crisis which is unfolding front of us. but his

sounds prime minister appeals to world leaders help afghanistan now or face humanitarian catastrophe. jolaine select a new president, choosing between 2 polar opposites who presents starkly different visions for the future. in the netherlands begins a snap karone of ours locked down, but across the border and belgium, thousands of people protest against you restrictions. ah, welcome to the program, we begin this hour in sudan where hundreds of thousands of protest as of march to the presidential palace and the capital hard tomb. they are demanding the military stay out of their country's transition towards democracy so that they can eventually hold free and fair elections. security forces fired tear gas at them after attempting to block bridges demonstrate as a mocking 3 years is the start of that revolution. that ended the former president

amorro a. she is 30 year rule. sudan has been gripped by protests in recent weeks following the military's paragraph in october, which was then followed by a controversial agreement that reinstated prime minister abdulla hum, dock al jazeera hippa. morgan is following the story from hart tim where on the road that leads to the presidential palace where thousands of protesters have gathered for hours to come on the right, the 3rd anniversary of to dance revolution, which led to the overthrow of long time president. omar bashir, but protesters are out for another reason as well. today they want to show the military that they are against the takeover, which took place in late october, leading to the arrest of senior government officials. and the dissolution of the transitional government that was in power for just over 2 years, protested on sunday were able to reach the southern gate of the presidential palace

. something that has never happened before and pro democracy movement. they say that that for them is an achievement. they have been demanding that the military be removed from sedans, politics and the anger over the takeover only increased on november 21st. when prime minister. hm. duke who was under house arrest following the military takeover, signed an agreement with the military prime minister, ham dachelle has been reinstated, has described the current situation as a backslider regression to the transition and to sedan transition to democracy. but there is a possibility for the country to come out of the current crisis through dialect. i'm content says, but many protest as he has said that they want to see the military be removed from powers and from politics. and the said that is the only way forward to remove saddam out of it's girl christ, as they say, they will be organizing more protests in the coming days despite the amount of deer that has been fired on sunday. and in previous protests, despite the fact that more than 45 protests have been killed and over 200 have been

injured. people here in the streets that they will continue to protest, they will continue to voice their demand for our democracy and for civilian rule demands that they thought it through years ago. and they say they will not stop demanding for until they see it achieved. ah, i was lim, countries of pledge to set up a humanitarian trust fund for afghan as dawn, as millions of people that face hunger during a harsh winter buck. as dawn has been hosting an emergency meeting of the organisation of islamic corporation, declaring that if it doesn't, how the wall don't help afghans now, the country is heading for chaos. u. n. world food program one this week that 98 percent of afghans 98 percent, are not eating enough with 7 in 10 families, resorting to borrowing food which is pushing them further into poverty. un official say 23000000 people on the edge of starvation with 9000000 already facing famine

conditions. some $9000000000.00 in central bank reserves remain locked outside. the country cuts off by sanctions imposed by the u. s. and other western countries following the tunnel bands takeover and i've gotten his hands off, it is severe drought as well with at least 840 percent drop in wheat yields. the prices for food fuel and other basic staples of rapidly been rising. and that means it's out of reach for many people. arrival of winter means many families will be forced to choose between food and heating, pockets down prime minister iran. calm says disaster can still be averted. the point is that if the world does not act, this will be the biggest manmade crisis which is unfolding in front of us. we the, oh i see it's a big responsibility on us. because not only is it the

situated situation, and one is thought as it unfolds, but it's a religious duty to help them. international travel and afghanistan was suspended after the taliban to power in august. many people are still desperate to leave the country. hundreds of people have been killing in freezing temperatures in kabul after the taliban announced on saturday that that it would resume issuing passports . many people camp there overnight. the passport office was opened in october, but a flood of applications caused the facial recognition equipment. they've got to break down or slam a gin r b is with unicef in afghanistan. he joins me by skype. now you are there in kabul. so you're well aware of the situation in the humanitarian crisis, and now fears of famine and starvation as the world turned its back on afghanistan

. frankly, this is a pivotal moment for children in afghanistan. the youngest of these children are fighting for their lives, with the staggering numbers of my nurse, children, and adolescent boys and girls are really fearful of what their future will hold. and we truly hope that the world does not a good size from what is happening. i've got to stop and make sure that children, mothers, and families are able to survive this very difficult couple of months coming order your fears for the next few months. and we've seen images recently of there being snow in the capital, kabul. how bad could things get? i was in balmy on 2 weeks ago and everything was already frozen there. i've talked to mothers who are concerned about keeping the house warm or buying food

for the children. and last week in kandahar we were also out in the remote villages and you can really feel the concern, the what he patterns, how for the children. it's a very difficult time for them now with literally many of them not being able to put foot on the table. what about the delivery of basic services as everything broken down in the country, would you say from we know the financial system isn't functioning the banks and not working well, it's about health care and, and education. is this now a fail state? indeed, many of the services at the moment are not functioning. and this is something of grave concern. while unicef and other humanitarian actors are providing life saving assistance, what the world and the international community needs to figure out very soon is how

to make sure that services in afghanistan don't collapse because we truly running out of time. or do you mean we're running out of time? what is the worst case scenario with the staggering number of man, those children that are about to 1000000 children who are abs, risk of dying if they don't get the treatment. and now that we have and setting the winter season, these mel notice children are the ones who will really be fighting for their lives with a st. trucks, infections, and other diseases. so we need all the help for the children and we really need it . now. it taliban policy is might not have helped the situation, but this is a country economy that has been heavily dependent on the international community and particularly on aid that is now being penalized with these that these isolation policies and sanctions, the preventing money coming in. now i want to ask you,

even if the situation was to change, is the crisis to entrenched? so firstly, i think it's very important for the world and international community to keep children out of politics and really to protest monitor in 8. and if we manage to act quickly, if we manage to provide the treatments and health services and support to the families to help them go, this very difficult winter does coming through. i think we will be able to save many children and also to make sure that a generational council of gone children is provided with what they need and we don't lose this generation. thank you very much, said algebra johnny, a staff from unicef, and the afghan capital cobble all governments across europe are stepping out measures to control this right of the on the chron current of ours, very into head of the winter holidays. there's anger of a new rules just before christmas. protest is marched in several cities to call for

an end to cove. it passes and social restrictions netherlands is already imposed district lockdown and other countries a considering further moves as i beg, has his report. oh. 7 against mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports, thousands gathered in belgium to express their anger at restrictions. it comes as the government to shoot strong advice to get vaccinated and gave health workers 3 months to get fascinated or risk losing their jobs. britain has seen some of its highest level in new cases of the virus. rumbly football stadium was turned into a mass booster vaccination center, as the government tries to curb the outbreak. but for now, it's reluctant to impose a pre christmas lockdown is at odds with the mayor of london. if we don't bring in new restrictions sooner rather than later, you're gonna see even more positive cases and potentially public services like the editors on the verge of clubs,

if not collapse in germany has added the u. k to it's higher is countries, meaning tighter travel restrictions? france has already been travel from britain other than compelling reasons which do not include tourism and business. it comes as europe races itself for the spread of the army. kron variant and many countries are now considering the return of restrictions over the christmas period. these streets in the netherlands should have been packed with christmas shoppers. but all non essential businesses have been ordered to close after a strict lockdown was imposed. even on the northern tip of europe, finland with a christmas period brings with it tourists. does now real concern. i've never had times like this before. i can all my colleagues, they are wondering the same. ah, this is like a parcel every day is 3rd back again. and you look at the latest updates and news and you start wondering what's happening with the travelers, what's happening with their toys and workers and the companies. how do we survive

as christmas, fast approaches, the shadow cast by the covert virus seems to be getting ever longer. i said big al jazeera, so that for you on the program, a desperate situation. siri, gal, filipino city, reels off to super typhoon right with thousands of soldiers now joining the rescue efforts. and santa kicks off the festive season, visiting far flung regions of the amazon. ah hello there. well, it's a mixed bag weatherwise across europe in the days to come. we've got gray, gloomy conditions persisting in the north. we're gonna see temperature come down rather dramatically in that northeast corner. but further south it is warmer, but it's going to get wetter. in particular, for the iberian peninsula,

we've got rounds of rain rolling in from the west into portugal. we got heavy downpours expected in lisbon on monday. but that weather is expected to last. the week is going to roll across into western parts of spain as well down in the south . it is a warm, a picture within the temperature in civil fit in the mid twenties, with sunshine coming through and it's more settled as me head further east. it dries up nicely across greece, but for 5 years we still got that heavy rain warning, and we are seeing rounds of rain roll across turkey. we could see some flooding here. plenty of snow expected in the north, and that is going to bring things. the temperature down is going to get a lot cooler. now. it's gonna get cooler as well for the northwest. we've had some fog warnings out for britain and island. it remains rather murky. we're going to see the temperature come down in places like london and paris, but not as dramatically as western areas of russia. if we look at the temperature in moscow, we're going to have a drop to minus $22.00. by the time we get to wednesday, that should weather ah,

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welcome back. a look at the main stories now. sudanese protest is have been marching on the presidential palace and heart to calling for an end to military involvement in the government. demonstrate as are mocking 3 years at the start of the revolution, it ended the for president, a moral, but she is a 2 year old muslim countries of pledge to step off of humanitarian trust fund for afghanistan as millions of people face hunger during a harsh winter pakistan has been hosting an emergency meeting of the organization of islamic corporation. now, we also have been following political developments in chile, the final round of the presidential election is taking place. the 2 candidates on neck and neck in the polls. they're also polar opposites and offer starkly different views of how to govern the country. on the left, at former student protests lead a gabrielle barge promises to overhaul an economic model that he says is created, shop divides between the rich and the pool. in latin america's advanced economy,

he has pledged to make the changes to lanes demanded in the mass anti government protests of 2019. his opponent is the ultra conservative jose antonio cast a lawyer who won support for his hotline views on lauren order. he's also defended the foreman military dictator augusta pinochle and criticized forage for his alliance with the communist party. well, our latin america is l u. c. n. human joins us now from santiago, a stock choice that fits you lanes. one candidate, a young leftist who's promising to bring the change every one was calling for, but the other and ultra conservative is being compared to donald trump. yes, it has, although they are not exactly alike, but they do have some things in common for sure. including was on your past slogan that he will quote, make truly great again, i guess that sounds familiar. but really, i think what's at stake here is

a model that julie has had a free market and extreme free market model fashioned after the chicago boys, the chicago school of economics at the university of chicago more than 40 years ago. and that is now being challenged for the 1st time, very, very seriously. that model has allowed the country's economy to grow. but as you mentioned, it has contributed to, to an economic divide to concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands. so that i think is one of the main things also what is a very, very young man. in fact, he just barely managed to make it registered for the presidential candidacy in february because that's when he was 35 years old. so if he's elected, he will be the youngest president, this country has ever had. both though have moved more and more to the center in this run off so that they can attract candidates who did not vote for either one of

them. in the 1st round, we're seeing also because it's such a hardly for addiction. we're seeing a lot of injection monitors here representing each of the candidates that will be watching with hawk eyes as each and every ballot is counted and read out loud. to make sure that there's so we say no hanky panky. now that doesn't normally happen here in chile, but as again there is a lot at stake here. so nobody is taking any chances. so no hanky panky, hopefully and what is an unprecedented election? lucy, what do we expect to happen? right off the winners announced well, what that's it really depends very much on who the winner is. if gabriel bridge wins, we will see tens of thousands of people probably gathering in italy plaza, which has been renamed dignity plaza by opponents, by the people that have been protesting over the last 2 years to celebrate. but if he loses, we may also see

a very large number of people out there. the protests will also have to see whether either one of the candidates is going to challenge the results, which is not something that has ever happened here before. but if, depending on how close they are, it could happen. it's not inconceivable. thank you very much. and have you seen human reporting to us from santiago? thank you. to see police in the philippines say at least 169 people are confirmed to have died in the aftermath of super typhoon ry. thousands of soldiers have joined rescue workers to search for survivors in remote areas, as others try to bring in food and water. jamila island ogen has moved from surrogate city in. the philippines. people here are desperate to talk to us. they are from dodge our community. fisher folks who have lost their homes over a 100 houses on killed, destroyed. that's about the $168.00 families, then 5 point to ry truck. so he goes to the here in the southern philippines. they

now live by this road side. they say they have spent all the money they had in this difficult make shelter. an average of 2 to 3 families actually have to fit in here . they have no drinking water. no, right, no food, no electricity. and they're really say they're quite desperate. i've even spoken to one mother who says her children have not eaten since the day before. and behind me, this has become a familiar scene across that he goes. city. people are desperate for drinking water lining up for hours just to be able to buy drinking water that is now causing more than doubled than what it used to be. just like the price of rice and you will and it's quite clear that the situation here is desperate. meanwhile, torrential rain and flash roads in malaysia forced 21000 people from their homes. merchants, your work has been rescuing the strand to tape to shelters, floods a common in malaysia during the annual monsoon season,

between the months of october and march. but prime minister ismael sub reaku says a months worth of rain has now fallen over the past 24 hours. only put on more than that, but after that it was the 1st time i've ever experienced floods. this bad usually is just small slots, but this time is the worst with causing flood water. i mean, if the water doesn't recede, we might end up staying another night here because the cars ahead is still stock while behind us it is flooded. so we don't know what to do, i don't dare drive through the water again. a woman has died and 2 others are injured after what residents are calling a freak storm at the australian city of sydney. it's video shows a metal sheet blown by strong winds. narrowly missing a car in the cities, more than beaches, a witness as the weather was sunny only a few minutes earlier down power lines of offered up more than $20000.00 homes without electricity. now thailand has an hundreds of refugees back across the

border to me and mar, around 2 and a half 1000 people across from east and me in mind thailand. in the past week, after flare up and fighting between me and mas army and rebels from the qur'an ethnic minority rights groups are saying, the military is deliberately targeting civilians. and they are urging the thai government not to turn any one else away. hong kong, as held its 1st elections in china of old laws to ensure any those loyal to beijing are allowed to run. but with much of the democratic opposition in jail or exile, it's not clear how many vote is actually turned up. brit climate reports now from hong kong giant billboards all over hong kong, urging residents to vote in an election design strictly for chinese patriots. security was tied to hong kong held its 1st pole since china's leaders in beijing. over whole the electoral system. those changes they said were to ensure only those

who love china run hong kong. the new rules drastically limit the number of directly elected seats in hong kong, parliament 4 and a half 1000000 hong kong residents are eligible to vote for members of the legislative council. but their ballots will only decide 20 seats out of 19. the rest will be hand picked by prob, aging committees. the leadership in beijing says the new rules will clean up what it calls any anti china elements and bring com to the once lively legislature in the formats for his colony that was in regulation. that way, if you set it that way, you'll have to pay the law office of basic thing if you don't want, then don't play the game with my pro democracy figures out as of right. the probate politicians are working ahead without an effective opposition. the question is, how many vote is a turned off by the lack of choice? this 20 year old student who asked al jazeera to conceal her identity, said the lack of representation meant she won't be voting. the golf and election,

the not trustworthy to me now because they can qualify whoever they will dislike and root. can we change every 2nd side off a month to what they're sorry for. so actually this is quite huge. there's an meaning all $153.00 candidates in the selection were selected. priority is they had the concept of patriotism and love for hong kong. what they want is hong kong to be good. early polling data suggested a lower turn out than previous years. but while casting her balance hong kong leda, kerry lam reiterated that the turn out is not her focus. the government not set any target for a vote. i turned all right. not for this election, not for previous elections. because there is a combination of factors that will affect the voter turnout rate in any election, but it does appear to be

a delicate topic. the hong kong government threatened the wall street journal over one of the newspapers critical editorials in the lead up to the election. and at least 10 people were arrested for inciting others to cast a blank ballot. exiled leaders of the democracy movement called for everyone to boycott sundays election. police responded by issuing warrants for their arrest. brit clinic out, 0 hong kong and estimated 4000 tons of food a thrown away every day in malaysia nats. but charity work is into action. and diluting food that still safe to eat away from rubbish dumps and giving it to the hungry instead. or in st. louis reports on this now from corner lumper. this wholesale market in quantum pool is where any one who wants to buy fresh produce in bulk comes to shop. and it's also where surplus food is picked up by charities like this. the last food project. why with good food. so if we were

delighted, rescued up would, why we're going to do it. right. so the best thing is that the people who are in will miss it north. the organization's motto is feed the hungry, not the landfill. and it's made agreements with wholesalers to donate food. they cannot sell oh, up on it makes me feel good. whatever we can't use anymore isn't going to waste. it's great. we can give it away to be enjoyed by others. this is where for it deemed unfit for sale is thrown out and it's not just rough and prod, use of stuff that is about to go bad. sometimes misshapen vegetables are also discarded. every day malaysians throw away an estimated 4000 tons of food. that's considered edible, that's enough to feed $3000000.00 people, 3 meals each and waste food that's left to rot, produces methane, a gas more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide. among those receiving surplus, food, or low income families,

often ages and soup kitchens. but where you got a better, but it's great rather than the food being thrown away, it's at least put the good use because the stuff we get is still edible. we're all happy about this song. but environmentalists say more needs to be done. the amount of good ways with all inclusive, basically make up about 50 percent of the total composition. so there's still a lot of room for improvement. i think for one we need to start exploring our ways, ah, in which we can actually cut down on our desperate ways. and a lot of this has got to do with cultural my such ships. campaign is say, if people buy only what they need and don't order more than they can eat, that will help reduce food waste and help the environment. florence louis al jazeera, chronological l's. if pope francis wasn't busy enough at this time of year, it's also when he celebrates his birthday. ah,

the head of the roman catholic church turned 85 years old on friday. he's now been presented with a special cake by children at his party in an invalid can city pipe. francis is now the oldest pope in more than a century. but he is showing no signs of slowing down the plans for an official visit to east timor early next year. and christmas has come early to one of the world's remotest regions. volunteers from the friends of santa claus. charity have been going down the amazon river into the jungles of brazil during the week before christmas since 1998 they visited more than 500 remote communities, bringing festive cheer and presence. to over a 150000 children. still want to fish. i'm so happy to bring some happiness to these children. this region missions or maybe had never seen santa claus round here

had never received a tall. you know, i can only front these problem. tears that left her homes for jobs gives them happiness to these children. many times i don't even have something to eat, let alone be able to buy a torn if there's a fuzzy image. i the latest on all our stories right here al jazeera dot com ah. the main stories for you now under dhs, of thousands of protest as of march, the presidential palace in the sudanese capital har tomb. a demanding military stay out the country's transition towards democracy so they can eventually hold free and fair elections. security forces fight tear gas at them off for attempting to block bridges. demonstrates is a ma.