returning to our web special the refugee journeys life in germany and the prospects for those returning. to join the discussion on t.w. dot com and on facebook. prospects for return issues t.w. made for minds. nailing. this is the news live from berlin russia's opposition leader calls on voters to boycott next year's presidential poll and south of the country's election commission about alexei now fallen a from running against president putin an

outspoken critic of the kremlin not only has vowed to appeal the decision. also on the program comes home from the outside world in austria a massive rockslide has blocked access to over one hundred people in a remote valley. and fresh clashes break out in peru over the pardon granted to formulate a full team already protesters accusing current president andrew public could shinseki if issuing the pardon to save his career. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring eight good to have you with us russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been barred from running in next year's presidential race the country's election commission has ruled him ineligible to take you to a suspended prison sentence that nirvana he says was trumped up the opposition

leader believes the move to stop him running is aimed at stifling any possible challenge to further term in office for president vladimir putin. the election commission's vote was a setback for no vaal me twelve of the thirteen members supported the motion to bar him from running in next year's election with one member abstaining earlier the commission argued the opposition leader was in eligible due to a past conviction for embezzlement. the crime which alexy until you gave each was charged with is a serious one which deprives a person who committed that crime of the right to run for the post of russian federation president. or the. valving consents the charge was trumped up to thwart his political ambitions speaking before the vote the kremlin critic said a candidate was needed to confront the country's problems. it's not about an

avanti but a candidate is needed who will finally speak openly about everything taking place in our country now one who will describe our reality honestly the lack of any future prospects and the poverty i did that and that's why you want to allow me to take part in the election. that me and i will but it just moments after the commission's decision to reject his bid in a volunteer released a prerecorded message calling on supporters to boycott next year's vote when we announce a boycott of the election and. the way they want to carry out the vote is not a real election it will feature only putin and the candidates he has personally selected the ones who don't pose any threat to him if they haven't campaigned and they will not campaign is better to look up on your. president vladimir putin is campaigning as an independent polls show him on course to win

a fourth term. allowing him to stay in office another six years. ok time now for some of the other stories making the news around the world the british defense ministry says one of its frigates a schoolteacher a russian warship through the north sea on christmas day. is one of several russian vessels tracked in recent days the royal navy says there's been an upsurge russian warships passing through british water is. liberians are voting today in a runoff poll to choose a new president for international football but george waya faces vice president. with analysts expecting a tight outcome the winner will succeed president ellen johnson sirleaf who's stepping down after twelve years as africa's first elected female leader. in yemen the saudi backed strikes on the outskirts of the capital and fresh fighting elsewhere have left over one hundred people dead over the past three days

pro-government forces are pushing forward in an offensive against two thieves rebels in a bid to breach the country's second largest port. authorities in vietnam have evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from low lying land on the mekong delta this is tropical storm tembin moves across the country's southern tip the storm of the last the philippines where it left two hundred thirty people dead and made serious floods and landslides. to peru weather's been a second day of unrest as protesters again clashed with police over the controversial release from jail of ex leader. for he modi the former president who's now in hospital was granted a pardon off the list inhofe of a twenty five year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption. protesters and police clashed on the streets of lima the anger over x.

laid out better too for he maurice pardon isn't going away some demonstrators carry photos of victims slaying during fouhy morays decade in power. there is current president public appeal to the people calling the pardon the most difficult decision of his life. i am convinced that those of us who consider ourselves democrats cannot allow alberto fujimori to die in prison justice is not vengeance. that families of four he mores victims see no reason to release him to him or in has served twelve years out of a twenty five year jail sentence for graft and human rights abuses. that he has families the rights to justice that we have are being trampled we are here reacting with a rejection of that pradhan and demanding that all the processes be made more transparent in the manner that must be followed and according to the new rooms a peruvian law is dictate what some people believe the circumstances surrounding

the pardon are part of a political quid pro quo to keep the current president in power for that part though he maurice children are delighted by this turn of events. with just with my father his four children. and i can tell you that for him despite being in intensive care i feel he has been the happiest christmas of the past twelve years and you know. why i left you peruvians do support the move thousands more are in the streets now demanding the current president's resignation. authorities in western austria are watching the mountains above the floods after a massive landslide and the access road they were and some of the slopes are so unstable that more rocks could still come crashing down the landslide came on

christmas eve with people in a nearby village lucky to escape it. rocks keep falling adding to the tens of thousands of tons of rubble in the valley the mayor of vols says the precipice above the village still poses a risk that if the danger is far from over after the first helicopter flight today we thought we could clear most of the roadblock but during the day than it turned out there is still a risk of rocks coming down to play out in light of the ongoing danger all evacuations from the valley have been suspended leaving around one hundred thirty people cut off from the outside world the rockslide just missed a group of children on their way back from a christmas service locals say it's a miracle no one was injured. you know it's ok who called me and it sounded like an earthquake the entire house was shaking we ran out onto the balcony where

everything was dark there was a huge dust avalanche blowing down it was so dark and scary it was unbelievable everyone here in the valley just says it was unbelievable. for. the sole access road to the village now lies buried under fifty meters of rubble and might not be cleared until the middle of the week for those who are trapped there's one crumb of comfort because of the christmas holiday everyone was well stocked up on food. now in the last couple of years hundreds of thousands of refugees from syria have used the so-called balkan bit to reach germany but many of them had to leave loved ones behind and with the balkan route now closed they remain separated from their families reuniting with family members is a complicated process and even when the german authorities approved family reunifications bureaucracy in greece for instance can prolong the wait. moore

yod and his younger brother abdul rahman like living in cologne their new home but they say they can only be truly content when the rest of their family joins them the two brothers traveled along the balkan route from syria and arrived in germany two summers ago they've been waiting for their parents to join them legally ever since. people here told us it would only take about a month or two. but two years of gone by in the meantime has been raising his little brother on his own he speaks with his parents every day on skype he says his mother has the same question each time. it looks like what did you do in school today. the rest of the alissa family is stuck in the northern greek city of thessaloniki despite permission from german authorities they haven't been able to travel to cologne their case seems to be stalled in greek bureaucracy.

it's so hard you very best so far away i wish i could give them a hug. for the family going back to syria is unthinkable even once the war ends one of five sons was shot dead in aleppo he was twenty two years old. so we're going to look up and i still dream about him all the time. in the last one he laid his head on my lap and i stroked his beard i told the military man that i missed him. the other children try to keep their parents' spirits up eighteen year old amar goes to school in thessaloniki but she's taught herself to speak german in hopes of joining her brothers in cologne and studying further she's tired of living in limbo but i know what it is in and. it's been two years since i've seen my brothers and all of

us my siblings it's such a long time but i do miss is this so. in cologne the two brothers have to be patient along with their parents some forty five hundred other refugees are waiting to join their families in germany. for refugee grayson while the family reunification seem to be taking one of the arguments that everything needs to be. with the greek authorities and that. has this message for his parents until he sees them again. i miss you. and i'm waiting for you. he adds that he's ready to wait as long as he has to until his whole family can be together in germany. russia's deputy prime minister vitali moot court has temporarily stepped down as

head of the country's football federation and is considering quitting as head of the world cup committee russia of course holding the next world cup in the summer of twenty eighteen now resignation comes three weeks after the international olympic committee handed him a lifelong ban over his alleged involvement in the state sponsored doping of russian athletes. stepping aside in order to appeal the ban at the court of arbitration for sport. at the beginning of december the i.o.c. is executive board representative with reports containing evidence of systematic. soaping in russia and they came to the following conclusion the russian olympic committee is suspended with immediate effect. russian athletes and the olympic committee were the only ones to be banned. no official of the russian ministry of sport will be accredited for the olympic winter games young child two thousand and

eighteen. the then minister of sport restudy tiley would go. then deputy minister yuri not go nick will be excluded from any parties from any participation in all future olympic games since this decision was made on december fifth battalion macos position as the head of russia's football union has been under scrutiny and he has faced calls to resign on monday he ceded to the pressure at least for the time being. i addressed the russian football union's executive board regarding the temporary impossibility to perform my duties during the period of my cool proceedings in order to let the union work normally i have asked to be relieved of my duties for up to six months if i can return earlier than i will do so i have not resigned i have a mandate until twenty twenty so we must go is still the chief of russia's well a couple guys in committee but he has not ruled out vacating the post by president

vladimir putin monday's interim as ignatius cost a dark cloud of uncertainty over the world cup in russia with just under six months left until the tournament kicks off in moscow on june fourteenth. a quick reminder fear of all top story at the moment russian opposition leader alexei not only has been barred from running in next year's presidential race russia's election commission saying he's ineligible to run against president vladimir putin due to a past criminal conviction. and that is your world news update as ever at the top of the hour up next here a documentary on scientific efforts to measure emotion to stay with us for the. information they provide.