parts of the country the electoral commission says the vote will be held in march instead in beni tembo and you may be that months after the final results are scheduled to be announced on january the fifteenth some doctors go on strike in sudan as anti-government protests enter the eighth day of jews day riot police opened fire to disperse a mass demonstration and come to president says the protesters are traitors. russia is accusing israel of gross violation of sovereignty osco says it put two civilian planes in danger while launching missiles into syria air defenses near damascus opened fire on what syrian state media is calling any new targets overnight a quote a military sources saying several missiles with down before they hit their targets . the u.n. official charged with monitoring the cease fire in the city of a day that has met representatives from both sides for the first time retired dutch general patrick come out arrives in one day there on monday houthi rebels and yemeni government forces agreed to the ceasefire during talks in sweden earlier this month the huth the rebels

sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote is delayed and then he and with tembo which are dealing with an outbreak and human body where more than one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week. two dons president has accused protesters are being traitors after more than a week of rallies calling for him to resign demonstrators have vowed to fight on saying they won't stop until around bashir is gone it comes as doctors have also staged and to government protests because of more to follow russia has accused israeli jets seven dangerous civilian flights while launching what it called a provocative raid near syria's capital russia's defense ministry says six israeli f. sixteen jet started strikes as two planes were preparing to land in damascus and beirut . u.s. customs and border protection says it will carry out medical checks on every child in its custody after a second guatemalan child died in its care eight year old for you become as a long died on christmas day after being hospitalized for a second time within twenty four hours there's the top sto

should go ahead on december thirtieth with the results expected in january people living in beni would tembo any you'll be will vote in march which means their ballots won't be counted let's hear from the opposition now is rudi mundy oh who believes electoral commission is working to protect the regime . we can remember. we have election on the twenty third which was december sorry it was the last sunday and ask for another week you know because it was no way you mean. a lot of stick side i was and what went on prior and then it today we wake up in the morning saying again that we went up. yes cousin election or postpone the election in the areas which means the temple and you'll be so as we know that we hope we have in that area in congo have that area of the eastern of the city we have almost one point we notice that there be a screening for movies and then we know that it's ok according to this scene just saying does it take me to the shoes about also there's a border issues of about five or are you saying yes this is a group issues but we went to do campaign that we campaign for peaceful

sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote has been delayed in beni and we tembo in the east which have been dealing with an ebola outbreak since august and you may be in the west when will the one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week but actual commission says that the vote will be held in those areas in march instead affecting more than one million people have been several delays in the last two years provoking demonstrations across the country the latest was earlier this month after more than eight thousand voting machines were destroyed in a fire in the capital kinshasa the opposition says it won't accept any further postponements. we keep saying we could election but we want a good conviction election is not a gift from the electoral commission to the people of congo it's a rights deceiving rights it's under our constitution people need to elect their leaders this is what we are doing this what we want is what we want especially despair with elections because i think this is the people that need change in this country most because they have

country sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote is delayed in beni and we tembo which are dealing with an ebola outbreak and you may be where more than one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week the opposition says it won't accept any further perspire moments sudan's president has accused protesters of being traitors after more than a week of rallies calling for him to resign demonstrators who vowed to fight on saying they won't stop until omar bashir is gone and comes as doctors also staged and to government protests with promises of more to follow after there is hippa morgan is in khartoum and has the latest for them is that the standstill are between the protesters on one side saying that they want the government to go away and that they want to see a new government new faces new cabinets new reforms a new policies and president bush you saying he's not going to back down he is going to try to put together to provide new economic reforms and new policies but then people have bad we've been there before we've heard that before we don't want tha

several opposition areas were excluded from sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas in beni tembo and goma earlier the electoral commission suspended the vote in eastern areas until march and said it was concerned about violence and the ebola outbreak sunday's election is already two years overdue our correspondent catherine sawyer joins us on the line and now from kinshasa so catherine what more do we know we know a number of areas will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections how is this going going down with the opposition who are not exactly united. well martin freewheeling correlation that is blocking mark and mark including housing was one of the main opposition tiny dates and these areas are with talking about where the next and born safe areas are stroll marking the so they held a press conference and called for a general strike called call of these people starting friday do not come to walk in the shops at home he said the coalition said that this decision by the electoral commission is unfair that their voters are being disenfranchised and we're talking about one po

in some parts of the country the electoral commission says the vote will be held in march in beni tembo and you'll be that's months after the final results are scheduled to be announce and afghanistan's election commission says presidential elections scheduled for april we perspire own for several months it says there are still technical glitches surrounding a biometric identification system those are your headlines the news continues after the crusades. in the history of conflicts between east and west something. the mightiest battle between cristiana this land. a holy war in the name of religion. for the first time. the story of the crusades. from an arab perspective. love. love. love. by the early twelfth century. european crusades had successfully captured not only the holy city of jerusalem. but huge swathes of the most of. the ancient one loves that. the second most any one in the ten you're going to talk to some of. the muslim world a mighty power for the last four centuries was shocked by the christian annexation of large parts of their empire. and lay him by the home until the

voting isn't taking place in every part of the country as he said three key opposition stronghold benny tembo and you may be been excluded from this vote the electoral commission said that's because i'm in a bowler outbreak and because of conflict opposition supporters and leaders are skeptical about those reasons these strongholds of areas where people support the opposition candidate martin for you and after he placed his vote just a short while ago he spoke about the electoral commission let's hear what he had to say. good to us to. do also have a look to encourage them to vote and to single pulling stations has to happen and people are saying that we are monitoring it and they are having problems. everything is going peacefully. you know beneath the people's. because all of the. justices. meanwhile in some other parts of the city in an area called limit the there have been problems people have been able to vote there because voting machines haven't worked also because the lack of a printout of the electoral register for those polling stations now those areas where very many people support

to not talk and also not benny who gamble retired voters and cranium but tembo gave this government the last election they've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will how. most of us assume that the but i was the government not concerned about the situation in beni we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing a few friends said that there was no more ball in the region but why stop us from voting. benny and with him when the east and the west in town or you know a strongholds of one of the country's main presidential candidates. and have about one point two million voters he's quite a listen in the markets and in a country where the winner takes it all on the fast round every vote counts and is calling for a nationwide general strike. we have to. all be called to go. still. friday. and do the same. every three hours to go before and. we've seen how. the nation. everywhere. we have seen. i

because on the one hand the electoral commission takes out one point two million voters in beni and tembo and you'll be right there and this in franchising them on the other hand in the voters' roll they have some six million voters that they cannot verify sixteen point six percent of the registered voters not able to be to be authenticated by a by the senate but yet they leave them in so every step along the way we've seen the electoral commission what we call a semi put obstacles in front of the congolese people in general and in front of the opposition and particularly to prevent them from fully. fully realizing the franchise ok very very briefly when the dust settles for you and for the voters in your home country will the anger that lead to the violence have been diffused enough so that everyone can accept the result and move forward all the people are not going to accept the result for continuity and mayor emanuel remote as an issue barry represents continuity so if the electoral commission announces a diary as the winner it will be unacceptable to the congolese people we will see t

some parts of the country the electoral commission says the vote will be held in march in ben abell tembo and you may be that's months after the final results are scheduled to be announced on january the fifteenth. thanks. in indonesia to ensure rain and the possibility of more big waves are bringing further anxiety to victims of saturday's tsunami villages in some but jaya sort of higher ground on tuesday at least four hundred thirty people were killed when the waves struck the coastline it's back to the crusades an arab perspective now. i've had this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of time the ability and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest seditions author missed and packed for that it has not been proven yet they say. the main things that sets out zero apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people but about ideas or politicians and what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok it's ok to. leave the mark complicated don't put it of

out of several opposition areas were excluded from sunday's presidential election to gas and many tembo in goma earlier the electoral commission suspended the vote in eastern areas until march said it was uncertain about violence. on this election is already. in our correspondent catherine sawyer she joins us on the line from kinshasa catherine a number of arizona not be able to vote in the upcoming elections how is this going down with the opposition who are not exactly united on it. you know they are not we have had reports that at least one. position presidential candidate has said he's going to withdraw from the election we haven't verified that forces by he is not very well known when we talk about the rest of the candidates martin for using for example he is. the coalition be hiding and they held a press conference. remember for you lose these three areas these three features you're talking about these. are huge stronghold and we're talking about one point two million voters so he's correlation spokesperson had a press conference and called a general strike on friday told people h

the country sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote is delayed in beni and tembo which are dealing with an ebola outbreak and when will the one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week welcome webb is in the capital kinshasa with this report. the democratic republic of congo has the election is already here is a video and the electoral commission is announced the second postponement in a week in three areas liz ellipsoid directs the director of the danny pearl jam initially planned for december thirtieth on our program from march twenty ninth and will be subject to a specific kind of drawl. the electoral commission said the three areas would have delayed parliamentary polls and provincial elections in march that means that we can see excluded from the presidential poll that's meant to happen on sunday the electoral commission said the reason was conflicts and then a polar outbreak almost three areas a key opposition strongholds. and this is one of the reasons why hundreds of civilians have been killed in a series of massacres around the town of benn

another three months the electoral commission says the votes will be held in march instead in beni tembo and you may be well most recent previous delay caused in part by a fire destroying voting machines two weeks ago resulted in demonstrations in several parts of the country the opposition has said it was except for the delays to the election. joins us now live from. now can first of all what is the opposition saying about this announcement over the. place. we just spoken to senior adviser of the opposition presidential candidate martin for you a short while ago completely rejected it the motives of the electoral commission for doing it but he still said out there now they won't boycott the election and the attention the intention of the electoral commission and the ruling party try and push them into a corner that forced a boycott but he said as of now they still won't but all of the opposition candidates and the civil society groups in the catholic church after the last postponement which is announced last week they wouldn't tolerate any postponement it was protests here in congress c

of the country sparking concern about upsurge in opposition protests the vote delayed in beni and tembo in the east which have been dealing with an ebola outbreak since august and you may be in the west where would one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week the electoral commission says that the vote will be held in those areas in march instead affecting more than a million people have been several delays in the last two years provoking demonstrations across the country and i just was earlier this month after more than eight thousand voting machines were destroyed in a fire in the capital kinshasa the opposition says it won't accept any further postponements own desires malcolm webb is in contrast with this report. the democratic republic of congo's the election is already here as a video. and the electoral commission has announced the second postponement in a week in three areas let's elect strong direct elections than any protests and you may initially plan for december thirtieth on our program from march twenty ninth it will be subject to a specific calendar all. the

me demba we're tired of voters and brainy and but tembo gave this government the last election they've been killed by rebels and kept quiet they brought us a bowler and we did not say anything now we can't keep quiet any will. most of us assume that the but why is the government not concerned about the situation in beni we were told to go is here we accepted this but today they told us we could not vote because of ebola even though they themselves said the sickness was the creasing a few friends said that there was no more ball in the region but why stop us from voting. benny and with the family in the east in the western town of you a stronghold of one of the country's main presidential candidates. and have about one point two million voters he's quite concerned in a country where the winner takes it all on the fast round every vote counts and he's calling for a nationwide general strike. we have. all come to. friday. and into the. three hours to go before. the nation. everywhere and. we have seen. the. country and i say please please we are in the dark as all this was happening the g

viewers know since twenty sixteen and the two locations in the east of the country bear me a brew tembo the authorities say have because of ebola and then be in the west because of violence but the problem is going to be that these are now perspired to march their opposition strongholds and we don't know how they're going to tally these votes with the final result especially since at the moment the plan is to announce a president a new president in the democratic republic of congo on the eighteenth of january two thousand and ninety one of the opposition leaders is saying he'll probably still go ahead and contest the elections several of us are saying that they're thinking about what to do and a number of others are saying that they'll pull out i mean there are twenty one candidates for the presidency in the democratic republic of congo so getting a unified platform is going to be pretty difficult if the couple of favorite favorite candidates so many out of the twenty one have no chance at all. not support think that the former interior minister mr dari who is the mr can be so the incum

protesters angry yet more delays to the presidential election that disperse crowds in beni and but tembo to opposition strongholds there are demonstrations in goma. donald trump has defended his decision to withdraw all forces from syria during his surprise visit to iraq the u.s. president and first lady melania trump met with troops at base that's just west of baghdad the trip follows criticism of the trumps failure to visit troops in overseas combat zones. all right let's get more now on our breaking news story the saudi cabinet reshuffle the replaced saudi foreign minister odd allowed to bear was facing growing pressure over germany she's murda in the saudi embassy in istanbul some concept joins us live now from there so how is the news of the job is demotion lot to democracy there in just remind our viewers that that the saudi journalism was murdered by the saudi hit squad at the saudi embassy in istanbul. well until now there is no official statement by any of the turkish officials but according to my contacts to my sources in onkar ankara has welcomed this new cabinet reshuffle esp

people in the eastern cities of benny into tembo demonstrated last week when the electoral commission said they could vote. i when it came to voting activists made their own polling materials and opened their own polling stations him protest . thousands came opinion polls indicate the most congolese don't trust the electoral commission. when its president came to check on a polling station in kinshasa was greeted with chants calling him a big liar and saying that she had to recant where. millions of voters across the country counted will be contentious many congolese say they wanted to accept the result they don't believe. web al-jazeera kinshasa or a democratic republic of congo. settles parliament has pursed its twenty nineteen physical budget it comes as protests spurred by a lack of economic opportunity continue across the country politicians say the new budget will reduce inflation but many remain skeptical the government will be able to deliver on the promise of a more good reports of a call to. after days of demonstration over the poor state of the economy which have morphed in

told they won't be taking part in sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas and benny wood tembo and all three opposition strongholds of voting in beni but temple and human these postponed for three months the electoral commission is blaming rebel attacks and the latest outbreak of the boehner virus sunday's election is two years overdue critics say repeated delays are a ploy by president joseph kabila to extend his eighteen years in power for the delays were caused by a warehouse fire which destroyed new electronic voting machines two weeks ago but across from the katherine sawyer joins us via skype from kinshasa katherine so what more can you tell us about these reports we're hearing that soldiers were firing over the heads of anti-government protesters earlier on. but things are very very tense daryn in the area. and let's start with campbell hayes the deployment of the police who firing tear gas to discuss protesters and as you mentioned there were also a firing in there and live bullets to the spot both of those but what we've been hearing also in the last hour or so is some

the country sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote is delayed in many and tembo which are dealing with an imposed outbreak and you may be where more than one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week the opposition says it won't accept any further perspire moments. she turns president has accused protesters of being traitors after more than a week of rallies calling for him to resign demonstrate his are valid to fight on saying they won't stop until omar bashir is gone it comes as doctors have also staged and to government protests with promises of more to follow after there is help him organise in khartoum with the latest of them is that a standstill are between the protesters on one side saying that they want the government to go away and that they want to see a new government new faces new cabinet new reforms a new policies and president bush you saying he's not going to back down he is going to try to put together to provide new economic reforms and new policies but then people said that we've been there before we've heard that before we don't w

opposition areas where excluded from sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas in beni but tembo and goma earlier the electoral commission suspended the vote in eastern areas and to launch it said it was concerned about violence and ebola sunday's election is already two years of age you iraqi m.p.'s have condemned president chomps unannounced trip to their country he even said they allowed that air base on wednesday defending his recent decision again to withdraw u.s. forces from syria while he also emphasized there were no plans to pull out of iraq . one year ago i gave our generals six more months in syria a cigar i gather. and it turns out it was really a year and a half ago i said go get em we need six months go get it and they said give us another six months i said go get them. then they said go can we have one more like period of six months as of now. now. i said i gave you a lot of six months and now we're doing it a different way. it's been another roller coaster day for some for u.s. markets with stocks falling sharply on thursday the dow jones dropped more than four hu

of the country the electoral commission says the votes will be held in march instead in beni with tembo and you'll be that's months after the final results are scheduled to be announced on january fifteenth well after two years of delays congo's opposition has said it won't accept further delays to the election. where joins us now live from contrasts or so why are the elections being delayed first of all in some of these towns and cities for the reasons that the electoral commission have given our conflicts and imposed around break and into those cities in the east of the country any. there's been a voter outbreak or wisconsin hemorrhagic fever that was first found in congo nine hundred seventy s. and the outbreak that's happening there now is already killed dozens of people in the hundreds of cases and we've been struggling to contain contain it and also been a series of massacres in around the town of benny over the last few years the government blames a rebel group called the a.v.'s though it's not clear exactly who's behind that. groups are attacking villages fairly regularly massac

three opposition strongholds until march the election commission says a delay the vote in benny booth tembo and you may be over fears of violence and ebola the u.n. says representatives of yemen's warring factions have achieved a breakthrough at a meeting in the key port city of her data retired general patrick cameron has hosted the first talks in the city between the soviet emirates he backed government and the rebels one of saddam's ruling parties is calling for an investigation into the killing of protesters during a week of anti-government demonstrations members of the popular congress party say seventeen people were killed after security forces used live ammunition at the protests but rights group amnesty international says at least thirty seven protesters have died u.s. markets are still volatile after a major run of losses in the weeks before christmas on wednesday the dow jones posted its biggest single day gain raising eleven hundred points that's almost five percent the partial rebound followed a pretty christmas losing streak fueled by slower global growth and political uncertai