our documentary starts january thirteenth on w. . this is day to every news live from the a fragile truce in yemen hangs in the balance the u.n. special envoy is a urging rebel leaders to respect a same spot war and famine have left millions facing starvation one of the world's poorest countries also coming up. no easing of tensions in hungary is thousands take to the streets to protest the country so-called slave lol union leaders

a calling for a national strike stepping up the pressure on hardline prime minister viktor all about and. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program the un's special envoy to yemen has arrived in the country to try to shore up a cease fire a grade last month since then they have been reports of repeated violations of the truce which applies to the port city of her data a crucial entry point for age shipments yemen's civil war began and twenty four tane in a saudi led coalition intervened in the conflict. it's led to a devastating humanitarian crisis with millions on the brink of famine. she hopes to save what is a fragile cease fire un special envoy martin griffiths knows that the longer they can keep the guns silent the more precious aid can be delivered to the destitute

country. yet both sides of the conflict report that the other has already violated the treaty with gunshots a daily disturbance in a round hole data. and a dispute over the wording of a ceasefire could be its downfall the deal says the port should be turned over to local authorities the yemeni government interprets that to mean their own authorities the rebels however say it means the officials currently running her data support their allies. at stake are the lives of millions of yemenis who depend on aid to survive like the young patients at this clinic in her job in the northwest abraham is struggling to survive. my flesh and i am none of the aid gets to us none of the organizations aid or food supplies reach us. i love them even when they stop at the registration we didn't get anything. the war in yemen has resulted in the world's worst humanitarian crisis

a short term ceasefire say aid groups is only the first fragile step in pulling the country back from the brink. since two thousand and fifteen the huth the rebels with backing from iran have been fighting against the yemeni government which received support from saudi arabia. the u.n. hopes the kings can be ironed out of the current ceasefire in the next few days but what small progress has been made since december is threatened by the constant sound of gunfire. well for more on this let's bring in his i see he's a political analyst on yemen currently in cairo thanks for joining me as we just heard the u.n. special envoy martin griffith is in yemen he wants to implement that pay still retracing and sweden one of the hopes. there's a lot of international pressure underfoot is out of the saudis as well to basically maintain the truce that are actually struck on today that unfortunately have been

multiple violations by all factions and for data desperate of stock comp is being strained currently with those violations u.n. employees are now off patrick american who is the head of the u.n. observation team in the data to observe the truce is also inside to salvage a deal. is there's a lot of hope with the international community putting the pressure on the factions but the thing is that now with the violations with the actions putting new demands on table it's a very very shit key truce well if they do indeed succeed with this peace deal is it likely to end the conflict unfortunately know there's a there's a bit of a misunderstanding people think that this is a the list is not a peace deal this is just one step towards i don't define a peace map so we're very far from a peace and we're very far from ending the conflict it's likely to take

a few years and there's only a first step. or i had data that came pause port city is crucial for aid shipments how drastic is the humanitarian situation in yemen. well according to the u.n. it is currently the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world you're talking about eighty percent of the population acquiring aid you're talking about fourteen million people that's almost more than half the population or our food in stick your and with pretty the online that is the lifeline for human seventy percent of it comes through pretty eminent imports all with ninety percent food and medicine which goes again through the data which is why the u.n. and international committee prioritized the first step with just securing a truce and today that but again even in her day we're talking about the current truce it is not the whole of her day that it is only a dream ports so when we say this is not a peace deal we're actually saying we still need to replicate this deal and twenty

one other governorates across yemen which is going to take awhile hisham melhem a scene cairo thanks for that analysis thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world at least thirty people have been killed in an incident at a gold mine in afghanistan reports suggest there was either a flash flood or a tunnel collapse at the facility in northern badakhshan province police say several others were injured. authorities in brazil have sent hundreds of military police to end a wave of gang violence in the northern city of forty lets up there have been dozens of attacks on banks shops and vehicles security chiefs say organized crime groups are trying to block government plans for a crackdown in prisons. an egyptian police officer has been killed trying to defuse a bomb near a coptic christian church in cairo several other people were injured when the

device exploded the incident comes just two days before the orthodox coptic christmas no group has claimed responsibility. ukraine's new orthodox church has formally received a decree of independence ending more than three centuries of russian control the decree was handed over at a ceremony in istanbul ukraine's president petro poroshenko has campaigned for the split which has provoked anger in moscow. and union leaders in hungary are calling for a national strike later this month stepping up the pressure on hardline prime minister viktor orban opponents have again taken to the streets to protest at a so-called slave law the measures would allow employers to demand hundreds of hours of overtime from workers. braving icy conditions thousands returned to the streets of budapest with a message for hungry president stop over they want his right wing government's new overtime law to be repealed it allows

a massive increase in how many extra hours employees can ask the staff to work from two hundred fifty to four hundred hours it also lets employees take up to three years to pay the overtime labor union say that slavery. we hunger in is work too much already we just can't bear it anymore wall ok the problem is if the company goes under or if you quits then you lose all your overtime pay. hungary's overtime laws been hugely controversial ever since it was proposed when it came to a vote in parliament the opposition blew whistles and made noise to try to stop it from passing without success. since then thousands of gone out regularly to protest accompanied by an overwhelming police presence. in one protest opposition politicians were thrown out of the state television station. people gathered outside for hours calling for free speech and freedom of the press

the opposition of joined labor unions in calling for a year of resistance and hungry they hope to increase the pressure on the rightwing government until something changes. well some football news now and the asia cup is on the way this is tournament has plenty of political side stories one of them is a serious game against palestine which kicks off today with the turmoil in the palestinian territories and continuing conflict in syria players from both sides will be forgiven for struggling to focus on football but instead they using those issues as motivation. sometimes football and politics simply cannot be separated the asian cup match between palestine and syria sees two of the most troubled and controversial teams at the tournament faceoff several of the palestinian players were born outside of the territories they see the asian cup as a chance to show solidarity with people in their ancestors homeland and a recent time we. get something very nice to defend the people. to represent

these people that are in a constant battle out on the pitch i think it's good that we'll be out there to defend them. likewise the syrian players are focused on bringing a small sense of relief to people in a country ravaged by civil war. we have to keep going with sports in order to put smiles on the faces of the syrians whether in football or any other game sports bring syrians together in spite of their suffering during the crisis. syria's german coach ban she is avoiding talk of politics he wants aside to concentrate entirely on the sporting task at hand it's a great challenge for all assume football player from for our friends for syrians to play the greatest asian cup ever was twenty four teams and for at least two of those squads they know how much more of these matches mean to the people watching

back home. and germany's bundesliga may be on its mid-season break but that doesn't mean the teams can put up their faith relax most have already. they went to training camps with title contenders dortmund and by munich in warmer temperatures as they prepare for the second half of the season. in spain sunny southern coast is a great escape from the dreary dortmund winter though the newly arrived two league leaders will likely be pleased with the weather they're not in spain just to catch some rays and sign autographs head coach lucien fov the and his squad have their work cut out if they want to stay on top of the table they're just six points ahead of a chasing buyer in munich a serious injury to stalwart dortmund defender manuel the conjuring may mean the team will already have to dip into the sixty four million euros they received purcel in christian pulis sick to chelsea to the six heads to london at the end of the season which could prove

a distraction as i hope you know people understand and you know my decision and i also hope that you know they understand that i'm here one hundred percent and i'm very focused to you know finish out the season with dortmund really excited by a munich are calling qatar home for the mid-season break it's been an up and down start to the campaign for the defending champions it was only a few weeks ago that coach nico was under fire for his team struggles but an up tick in form to end twenty eight team has by are now in second place and coach back in the good graces of the club and its fans. the camp is also an opportunity for eighteen year old canadian wizkid alfonso davies to show his stuff after arriving in munich he's aiming to break into the first team but if byan keeps up the momentum it won't be easy for him. as the new year gets underway we've been taking a look back at some of the reports from twenty eighteen that resonated most with

you our viewers in this story from the dutch capital amsterdam we hear about a bold new plan to tackle an urban menace the blight cities around the world. blowing bubbles with bubble gum it's a lot of fun and delicious to. think about when the fun's over. in the netherlands about one and a half tons of chewed up chewing gum gets tossed on the street and that causes more trouble than most people think. the problem with chewing gum is not just that it sticks to your clothes or that it's a pain when it gets stuck to your shoes the real problem is that it sticks around a long time it takes twenty to twenty five years to break down. that's why the city of amsterdam has brought out the big guns against old gum the idea was to work together with a few designers to produce a shoe with soles made of up to thirty percent called chewing gum chewing gum in the soul instead of on the soul. in the future we're going to hang these balls in

schools and train stations i think they even look like a gumball when you can just toss the old gum straight in then the entire ball and the gum inside it can be recycled in one hit. the soles for the gum she within made out of this chewing gum and so that nobody forgets where the shoes came from the designer sort of cleverly incorporated a map of amsterdam into the mold for the soul the shoes are sold in shocking pink or plain black for the princely sum of two hundred euros. at first i thought i have to have a pair but then i saw the price and thought no way that can't be for real fears or goods to me more kind of. i'm not ready to pass and for that even if i think it's a good idea. to never go wash use out of chewing gum does that mean the whole city will come to a standstill because everyone in amsterdam will be stuck. well not everyone stuck

on the idea of chewing gum shoes but the gum sure guys won't let that burst their bubble. you know watching date on the news from the same as i was going to will be with you at the top of the next hour and don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website as do you have any dot com on her back or it says thanks for joining me. every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word emerged from the. coaches in germany to learn german one on one with him simple online on your mobile and free shots d w z e learning course nikos fake german meeting the scene.