it's the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut.he group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. the events draw up to 200 people. many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. eddy: this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. we see that people are more and more concerned with all the problems facing the environment in lebanon. and we are very happy to see that all the people, young people, families, youth, are all coming all together in order to remove all the trash. reporter: much of the rubbish that the group picks up was not dropped on the beach, but washed up by the sea. that's because beirut's two largest garbage dumps are located right next to the water. the team spirit is clearly evident as young people from beirut's muslim and christian communities come together in a rare joint project. >>>> there is a lot of pollutin in lebanon. so we could do anything, just so we can help. >> the localal authorities are absent w

live love beirut are joining in on the action for the fourth time. young people in particular are no longer willing to accept the lack of action from local politicians when it comes to the environment. this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago we see that people are more and more concerned with all the problems facing the environment in lebanon and we are very happy to see that all the people young people thought that he is you are all coming all together in order to remove all the trust and to be as part of any kind of solution this commitment to cleaning up has united the young people of beirut both christians and muslims sectarian divisions in the country i mean it seems like this have not been the norm . there is a lot of. lebanon so we could do anything just so we can. help the local authorities are absent when it comes to waste management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach the coast we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction. we asked him to come

and it's the nightlife that's really putting beirut back on the map.l is one of the capital's most famous venues, hosting a cabaret packed with an eclectic mix of musicalforms. i said i'm going to create a place where you have extremes, it can be classical music and then something that is totally punk or very kitsch. i try to work on cultural entertainment. usually those two words do not meet because entertainment is nightlife and alcohol, and culture is museums and theatres. with its bill celebrating both the city's prewar golden age and contemporary music trends, the music hall offers a vision of beirut comfortable with its past and living in the moment. this beautiful, grand and iconic building is city hall and it's from that balcony that mandela gave his first speech after being released from prison. back then, this entire area was completely jam—packed with people, eager to catch a glimpse of him and hear what he had to say. but almost a quarter of a century after the end of apartheid “119911, i wanted to see how far these hopes for the rainbow na

live love beirut are joining in on the action for the fourth time. young people in particular are no longer willing to accept the lack of action from local politicians when it comes to the environment. this is part of the outcome of the crisis that few years ago we see that people are more and more concerned with all the problems facing the environment in lebanon and we are very happy to see that all the people young people thought that he is you are all coming all together in order to remove all the trust and to be part of any kind of solution this commitment to cleaning up has united the young people of beirut both christians and muslims sectarian divisions in the country i mean it seems like this have not been the norm. and there's a lot of. lebanon so we could do anything just so we can. help the local authorities are when it comes to waste management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach the coast we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and need

and in 1987 marie and a photographer, tom -- they were in beirut. it was called -- a militia was defeating the palestinian refugee camp. and marie and tom bribed a militia commander to cease for one minute. in that one minute, they would run across the no man's land to the camp. i mean think about it. there are snipers everywhere and you are not completely sure he's told every sniper not to shoot. any appointment to get across this rough ground. but they did it. and landed in the camp. it was very pleasant but there was a british surgeon. in a scottish nurse. her the only source of information for the outside world. had a radio it was like sending sos messages every day. i remember how we were all glued to what was happening to the dr. and susie. and there was a path, which the women would go up to get food to bring back to the camp. and a woman went out and was coming back in and she was shot. anne-marie what the story about -- a young woman her early 20s. and there was another just very short, marie's description of this woman who was dying on the

is being interpreted here as a message a message to lebanon on this arab diplomatic snub of this beirut meeting they do see lebanon as part of what they call the iran axis because the iranian backed hezbollah group and its allies hold power in lebanon and they support the syrian government and this alliance in lebanon was pushing for this meeting to be used as an opportunity to reinstate syria's membership into the regional body syria as we know its membership was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of the violent crackdown the government's violent crackdown against protesters so this alliance was trying to use this summit as this meeting many are seeing this arab diplomatic snopt really as a message to lebanon putting more pressure on lebanon telling them that you will be isolated from the arab world if you continue to stay in this axis and many believe that this was a result of pressure by the u.s. administration which does that which is strategy really in the arab world is to contain iran and so many call them is in the arab world are struggling so how come the summit h

woman is alone in the streets of beirut.he struggleds to te es to telly she's been raped. she gets a bit of sympathy and a lot of shame. no one calls the police. the woman is an actress, everyone else just ordinary citizens unaware they're being filmed. it is part of an effort by the lebanese ngo to change the views of sexual violence. >> it was a campaign that is trying to shed light on the rapists, shedding the light on the laws that needs to be reformed, and mainly to gain the public debate around the blaming and shaming of the survivors. >> reporter: the group has painted on the walls of beirut stylized depictions based upon descriptions provided by victims of actual sexual predators. this woman, who requested we not name her or show her face, recounts how she reconnected with an old boyfriend. >> one day he just asked me out, and we went to a hotel and we had this sexual relation i call love. love-making. to him it was a simple sex relation. i then figured out -- i found out that he was taping the whole thing on his cel

another explosion hit damascus apparently targeting security officials then a caller has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. two bomb attacks in the past three days the bombings in government controlled territories tuesday's that bombing in la to kill sunday's bombing in damascus south of the syrian capital that attack was believed to have been a targeted assassination a security personality it is still not clear whether or not he was injured or killed it is very hard to get information out of government controlled territories but the bombings really an indication that the situation is still not stable but the question is how is this happening after the government managed to push the opposition push eisel away from areas under their control last year they've they managed to regain a lot of territory pushing the rebels up to the north so how can the opposition operate behind rebel lines so it calls really into question the ability of the government to maintain security in sixty percent of the territories it controls but if you watch the area and state television analysts immediately p

those fears for the first time it's taking measures to safeguard the lira so a holder has more from beirut. the lebanese the euro has been pegged at one thousand five hundred to the dollar since one nine hundred ninety eight there have been concerns over the years about its value especially during times of political and economic instability which are all too common here but now some lebanese fear a currency collapse the central bank says that won't happen but is preventing exchange dealers from making statements so as not to cause panic despite the assurances people are worried and the bank of america is about them but the central bank tells us that they want devalue but the economy is bad people barely can afford to eat with us from atlanta if the economic situation continues the way it is then the lira will really be in danger we need a government to deal with the crisis lebannon has been without a government for nine months now politicians are fighting over the sectarian distribution of seats which means much needed structural reforms can't be carried out the little bit. the lure is at

you could feel it shake across beirut. it was so massive.stating. >> a truck filled with explosives was driven into a compound in the midst of a marine ba taitaliatall -- batta headquarters. >> the man went by, and i'll always remember the man was smiling. >> israel had gone into lebanon to create a buffer zone against the palestinians, the plo. >> a battalion of american marines came to oversee the withdrawal of the plo from lebanon. but it got sucked into the civil war. >> the civil war was between christians and muslims and it looked like we were supporting the christians. >> a big debate broke out should we have put our marines in that position? >> the united states in the middle east was faced with an array of small forces, little cells, underground, not knowing who they were, where they were. and even what they wanted. >> there are no words to properly express our outrage, and i think the outrage of all americans. >> do you have any idea who did it? >> are we going to take reprisal, sir? >> reagan called the killing of the marines the

further claimed that he misused company finances to fund homes that he kept in rio de janeiro and beirut here he has claimed in court that for the past two decades he has been serving the interests of nisanit company that he helped to turn around his lawyer has also been explaining to the court to her. his client should no longer serve time in detention that it's unfair but the court has also been hearing at the same time that given the fact that he has other nationalities he does represent a flight risk that they he doesn't have a close family here in japan it's also being claimed in-court that he could potentially destroy potential evidence so his detention for the moment at least elizabeth continues he is a prominent international and rob what's been the fallout from his detention both in japan but also the scenes. that's already created intense media interest and international interest in this court case the case has wound up in the past hour or so but this courthouse has been besieged by a couple of hundred journalists we've seen diplomatic cars one from lebanon one from france drop

international poverty line many are surviving on less than two dollars a day santa has more from beirut. the low level of representation is being described as unprecedented in arab league gatherings even though this this is an economic summit that has a lower profile than the annual arab league summit previous economic summits attracted numerous heads of state. number of heads of state made last minute cancellation saying that they will stay away from this meeting and it was interpreted here in lebanon as an arab diplomatic snob as a message to lebanon because they consider lebanon to be part of the so-called iran axis the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies they hold power in lebanon they're allied with the syrian government and they wanted to use this summit as an opportunity to reinstate syria's membership in the arab league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two hea

and divisions over the war in syria over the shout of a major economic summit in lebanon's capital beirut the mayor of qatar shakes me been ahmed out sami on the mauritanian president of the only heads of state expected to attend the emir of kuwait on the egyptian and palestinian presidents opened out at the last minute so you know what is in beirut following events. the low level of representation is being described as unprecedented in arab league gatherings even though this this is an economic summit that has a lower profile than the annual arab league summit previous economic summits attracted numerous heads of state a number of heads of state made last minute cancellation saying that they will stay away from this meeting and it was interpreted here in lebanon as an arab diplomatic snob as a message to lebanon because they consider lebanon to be part of the so-called iran axis the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies they hold power in lebanon they're allied with the syrian government and they wanted to use this summit as an opportunity to reinstate syria's membership in the arab le

at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard university and from cornwall in the u.k. on skype david haye human rights lawyer and co-founder of the legal consultancy sterling hay and detained international welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story ronnie corey. was your friend has anything positive come about in the last one hundred days that make you hopeful that justice will be set for tomorrow i would say yes there are some hopeful signs as well as some negative ones the most interesting i think and significant thing is the incredible bred depths and continuity of serious international concern about what happened to her about the behavior of the so the government the apparent connections with the crown prince his office clearly him possibly and the lying that the saudis did for a month or two about this the cover up of these things have generated tremendous pushback internationally in the media and civil society some businesses and government actions in some cases postponing weapons deals and things like that so the intrusion into the govern

beirut or serbs of protested against their president for six successive saturday president alexandreis accused of stifling media freedoms and attacking journalists and opposition leaders thirty opposition parties and organizations took part in a rally in the capital. the greek defense minister has quit ahead of a deal to end a long dispute with macedonia over its name on friday macedonia's parliament approved an agreement to change it to the republic of north macedonia but it still needs backing from the greek parliament greece's opposed macedonia's entry into nato and the e.u. has promised to lift a veto if macedonia changed its name greece has a province called macedonia and wants to protect greek culture of being homeless in hungary has become a criminal offense now police are rounding up and fining people living on the streets others have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the harsh winter weather john are reports from the capital. the sleek clean boulevards of budapest this is how increasingly all solitary and government wants them to look no refugees or illega

thank you thank you thank you lynn lynn malouf of amnesty international joining us there from beirut thank you for your time. the weather is next on al-jazeera and still ahead bills piling up for u.s. government workers going without pay because of the shutdown we meet one woman who cannot afford to heat her house and that large social issues being pushed aside in britain while the state is consumed by bricks that. expected the biggest showers recently probably the next two days are going to be over in daisy this is clearly white streaky crowd and that's affected job a sudden borneo sudden sumatra the scenes of fairly big shows two three days ago in the philippines this massacre that is heading south through borneo don't think it'll come to much to be iraq should be focusing further south maybe singapore but more especially down in jakarta otherwise showers are pretty well scattered the weather is changing you know australia the extreme heat in adelaide in melbourne has just about been pushed out of the way it's still there in camera still there inland in new south wales this is the

beirut. south africa's ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may addressing a rally in durban possibly to several rival posts a promise to create more jobs and tackle racial inequality a vote is being seen as a test of whether on the post has managed to reverse a decline in the andes popularity since taking over from jacob zuma last year for me to many reports from durban the south africa's president and leaders of the african national congress aim to shore up support. at the climax of a week of unofficial election campaigning. at the launch of the party's manifesto cyril ramaphosa continued to play out the idea of a new dawn for south africa. as the african national congress we launched our twenty nine. election manifesto. we do so at a crucial moment in the history of our nation. after a period of our general certainty we have i added a moment of oath and the promise of a new beginning for a party modest not only by corruption scandals but infighting b

the country hasn't had a working government for eight months now to zeros in a honda reports from beirut. all marsh baro is struggling to pay the bills for his mother's cancer treatment the twenty seven year old is not receiving help from the state that is why he joined this protest against the caretaker government which is not making important decisions access to free and proper health care is just one of the many problems lebanese face. and i cannot afford to hospitalized my mother every month they didn't admit her in the hospital also she needs four different medicines and the ministry offered only provides three i have to choose whether to eat or pay for her treatment but protesters have rallied outside government ministries demanding what they call their basic rights because. nobody cares about it and. then we'll move it to the ministry of truth. because. the fault of hospitals it is hard to attract crowds in a country controlled by sectarian political parties many lebanese rely on them for jobs and financial support and it seems intimidation tactics are being used to keep people si

and divisions over the war in syria overshadowed a major economic summit in the lebanese capital beirut the emir of qatar shift to me but now my doubts any on the mauritanian president are the only heads of state expected to attend the emir of kuwait on the egyptian and palestinian presidents all pulled out at the last minute the saudi coalition has launched a series of air strikes and yemen's capital sana'a who's the military base and drone facility were targeted the first time the coalition has carried out air strikes in the capital since yemen's warring sides met for un back talks in sweden last month. the u.s. military says i strike in somalia has killed fifty two fighters just hours after somali army base was attacked gunmen rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the base in jubilant six somali soldiers were killed in saturday's bomb attack and a gun battle which lasted several hours about attacks are continuing despite losing control of most cities towns the u.s. presidents offered a concession to break the deadlock over the partial government shutdown donald trump is offeri

beirut these twenty eight people have been killed when two boats capsized off djibouti the boats are carrying at least one hundred thirty migrants and refugees when they tipped over shortly after passing many of the migrants still missing thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea to find work in gulf countries the vice president of sudan's main opposition party has been arrested and released it happened hours after the intelligence chief ordered the release of protesters who'd been detained those freed before the order came though say they were physically abused by security forces morgan more from cotton in the safety of her home which is not her real name recounts the details of what happened to her nearly two weeks ago she says she was taking part in anti-government protests in the tombs eastern district of battery when security forces started firing tear gas and live ammunition which forced her and more than twenty others to seek shelter in a home. armed men broke the door and stormed into the house they treated us like war criminals not like unarmed protesters

the far western coast so elsewhere it should be fine and dry the temperatures aren't too bad either beirut getting up to around eighteen degrees and forcing baghdad which should also be eighty which is above the average for this time of year and those temperatures will rise further as we head into thursday this time up to twenty one here in doha our temperatures are also rising just a little bit so i think on wednesday we'll get to twenty three but by thursday will be up at twenty four and those temperatures at night time will also be rising as well so you will notice that it won't get quite as cold over the next few nights them towards the southern parts of africa and we've just watched all storm desmond disintegrate that's been giving us some very heavy rain a lot of flooding as well over parts of mozambique and now that once disintegrated another one appears to be for me here it is gradually tracking its way southwards and as we head through wednesday and into thursday it will be drifting its way southwards as it does so it's going to drag plenty of cloud and rain behind it so i foresee

the arab economic summit is already being seen as a failure before it's even begun on friday in beirut several heads of states have pulled out of qatar and the king of bahrain the countries involved have huge disagreements over regional issues such as syria's future and efforts to contain iran. colombia's president has declared three days of national mourning after at least twenty one people were killed in a bomb attack on a police academy in bogota even duke a says those responsible for what he called a terrorist attack will not go on tarnished and scientists from universities around the world are warning we all need to dramatically change our diets by twenty fifty the good of ourselves and the planet reports as you must have our meat and sugar consumption and double our intake of nuts whole grains fruit and vegetables a diet of just seven grams of red meat today and five hundred grams of fruits and vegetables as recommended as i had lines of back with more news after the stream. i mean every week the news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joining them listening post as we tur

let's get more now on the latest violence in syria then a holder is live for us from neighboring beirut so. we've had this situation now escalating israeli strikes on syria as well as all the other developments in the civil war going on there is this being interpreted as a major shift in the nature of the conflict. well yes there were and are really many wars in serious war israel's war against iran is just one of those wars and israel has been targeting iranian targets in syria for years now it rarely admits doing so but as of late we are seeing a shift in policy the israeli military not only confirming the strikes but providing information on what is being hit as they are being hit so this is a more vocal israel this is the israel which is trying to tell the world that this these airstrikes this campaign is going to continue until we make sure that iran leave syria this is what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu repeatedly says iran needs to leave and iran remains just as defiance threatening retaliation it hasn't really carried out anything major but it is issuing threats in i

michel aoun has been speaking at the arab economic summit in the lebanese capital beirut for some it's been overshadowed by a rift in the with the syria should be reinstated into the arab league and poor attendance so no one has more from beirut the low level of representation is being described as unprecedented in arab gatherings even though this is an economic summit that has a lower profile than the and while arab league summit previous economic summits at track the numerous heads of state and number of heads of state made last minute cancellation saying that they will stay away from this meeting and it was interpreted here in lebanon as an arab diplomat. first remember explosion at an army checkpoint in syria's capital damascus the casualties in the car bomb blast the syrian army controls all areas around the capital which has been touched by the elsewhere protesters in the greek capital are rallying against the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia macedonia wants to change its name to the republic of massive north macedonia but many greeks ob

leaders to make all efforts for syrian refugees to return home spoke at the arab economic summit in beirut he said lebanon is overwhelmed by syrian and palestinian refugees. tamim bin hamad old timey and mauritania's president mohammed these were the only heads of state to attend the meeting so no one has more now from beirut. the low level of representation is being described as unprecedented in arab league gatherings even though this this is an economic summit that has a lower profile than the annual arab league summit previous economic summits attracted numerous heads of state. number of heads of state made last minute cancellation saying that they will stay away from this meeting and it was interpreted here in lebanon as an arab diplomatic snob as a message to lebanon because they consider lebanon to be part of the so-called iran axis the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies they hold power in lebanon they are allied with the syrian government and they wanted to use this summit as an opportunity to reinstate syria's membership in the arab league they were pushing for this and there

we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera from beirut. thank you for the news hour still ahead. the former chairman of nisson makes his first court appearance since his arrest for financial misconduct. hello there we've still got some wet and windy weather across parts of the middle east at the moment we've got the latest system making its way across turkey then stretching down through syria and then that will activate this system to the south so we're going to see some heavy rain across this region and a fair amount of snow as we head through wednesday that will then work its way eastwards and behind it we'll see another weather system begin to knock on the door of turkey as we head through thursday so generally speaking for many of us really quite unsettled at the moment with a good deal of cloud of rain and snow pushing through here in doha though the winds are feeding up from the south on wednesday and that does mean they could be a little bit of mr fog first thing but when that clears it's going to be quite a warm day i'll talk tempe

beirut in yemen an artillery bombardment by hope the rebels has killed eight people from the same family or women and children the attack was on the government held village of shalala close to the border with saudi arabia the saudi u.a.e. led coalition says it destroyed a drone control center used in thursday's attack on a military parade. all opponents of venezuela's president a challenge in his right to a second term and countries throughout the americas are refusing to recognize is that just a mistake to govern they say his socialist policies of rexx the oil rich economy and perfect latin america's largest ever migration crisis to raise a better ports from caracas thank god it's been a day since the one the mother wouldn't was sworn in for his second term in office and already members of the opposition controlled national assembly took to the streets to denounce him as a super of the executive office of the scene and that his daughter is one of the millions that have left been swimming in the past year she says families shouldn't be forced to leave apartheid as soon we don't have our

at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard university and from cornwall in the u.k. on skype david haye human rights lawyer and co-founder of the legal consultancy sterling hay and detained international welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story ronnie corey. was your friend has anything positive come about in the last one hundred days that make you hopeful that justice will be set for tomorrow i would say yes there are some hopeful signs as well as some negative ones the most interesting i think and significant thing is the incredible bred depths and continuity of serious international concern about what happened to her about the behavior of the so the government the apparent connections with the crown prince his office clearly him possibly and the lying that the saudis did for a month or two about this the cover up of these things have generated tremendous pushback internationally in the media and civil society some businesses and government actions in some cases postponing weapons deals and things like that so the intrusion into the govern

at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard university and from cornwall in the u.k. on skype david haye human rights lawyer and co-founder of the legal consultancy sterling hay and detained international welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story ronnie corey. was your friend has anything positive come about in the last one hundred days that make you whole for all that justice will be served for tomorrow i would say yes there are some hopeful signs as well as some negative ones the most interesting i think and significant thing is the incredible brit called. annuity of serious international concern about what happened to her about the behavior of the so the government the apparent connections with the crown prince his office clearly him possibly and the lying that the saudis did for a month or two about this the cover up these things have generated tremendous pushback internationally in the media and civil society some businesses and government actions in some cases postponing weapons deals and things like that so the intrusion into the govern

and on to the lebanese capital beirut.one of the largest new year's eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the brandenburg gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show and. it was a similar scene in the city of lights paris. then across the atlantic to cut back up on a beach in rio de janeiro. in new york crowds gathered on times square for an annual ritual the dropping of a crystal ball at midnight not even heavy rain could dampen the enthusiasm this year's event had a serious note celebrating generalism and press freedom. i. i i. i. you're watching the news from berlin on how the now free do you remember the latest news is always available on our website at www dot com and of course from. all of us here happy new. blood. full of energy. play. europe's best rock and pop musicians in captivating performances. during the concert on the g.w. play.

and on to the lebanese capital beirut. one of the largest new year's eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the brandenburg gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show. but. it was a similar scene in the city of lights paris. then across the atlantic to cut back up on a beach in rio de janeiro. in new york crowds gathered on times square for an annual ritual the dropping of a crystal ball at midnight not even heavy rain could dampen the enthusiasm this year's event had a serious night celebrating generalism and press freedom. i. north korea's leader has used his annual new year's address to warn that his country may change direction on its promise of denuclearize the nation if the u.s. continues its sanctions and his televised speech kim jones said he remains committed to working towards a lasting peace on the korean peninsula stronger cooperation between north and south and cold on the south the whole to its joint military exercises with the united states chairman kim also warned the u.s. not to test

the far west coast so elsewhere it should be fine and dry the temperatures aren't too bad either beirut is getting up to around eighteen degrees and force in baghdad which should also be eighty which is above the average for this time of year and those temperatures will rise further as we head into thursday this time up to twenty one here in doha temperatures there will say rising just a little bit so i think on wednesday will get to twenty three but by says they will be up at twenty four and those temperatures at night time will also be rising as well so you will notice that it won't get quite as cold over the next few nights them towards the southern parts of africa and we've just watched else desmond disintegrate that's been giving us some very heavy rain a lot of flooding as well over parts of mozambique and now that once disintegrated another one appears to be for me here it is gradually tracking its way southwards and as we head through wednesday and into thursday it will be drifting its way southwards as it does so it's going to drag plenty of clattering behind it so i foresee ma

dollars also alleged to have misused company funds to fund houses in rio de janeiro and also beirut so serious allegations against him were also likely to hear from his lawyer who is called this hearing asking why he's being detained there is speculation that bail will be applied for but he is thought to be a flight risk so we don't know whether his detention will continue but certainly a lot of interest in this court case has been generated a couple of hundred media here have staked out areas exits at this court building we've also seen a lot of coming and goings of international diplomatic vehicles one bearing the lebanese flag another bearing the french flag it gives you i think richelle. sense of the international nature of this case and also the international stature of going himself so how is this playing out in japan i mean you've just given us a flavor about how many people are there perhaps on his behalf what are the bigger amplifications of this. i mean you have to remember the character we're dealing with here the stature of the man this was the man who turned around the for

time we get to sunday we are looking at some very heavy rain across much of that area down towards beirut it's going to be a rainy day for you as well attempts are there of about fourteen degrees as a major way down here towards arabian peninsula and also the. gulf well we do have some clouds that are pushing through we do expect to see maybe a little bit of rain coming out of these clouds as we go through the rest of the weekend more clouds for riyadh where the terms are there are about twenty seven degrees doha winds are coming out of the south we do expect to see about twenty four in your forecast in abu dhabi twenty five is going to be your high and then across the southern parts of africa we are looking at some rain coming up towards durban temptress have come down for you there but down here towards cape town it is going to continue to be a nice day a twenty two degrees here on saturday and twenty three on sunday. in the next episode of science in the golden age abi exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of astronomy. copernicus

something that i've stopped at like i said since the seventeen thousand january when people went out in beirut to protest and now we're magically of gas and eleven munitions people have been protesting almost every single day since then and it's a first for me who's been covering sudan i think seventeenth of january when people protested in will react and were met with live ammunition interior guess yes that's been happening in the past the seventeenth of january sort of a turning point for civil it came close to a month old marking the protest when it started but people seem to have gained more determination to make sure that they will not stop protesting especially those losing their children especially if they're losing their brothers and sisters their neighbors they say they are going to continue to process and till bashir steps down ever what you make is the official sake of the number of people killed being twenty . that's well the government twenty six a government is saying they're saying is yes the government is saying it's twenty six hour but activists have been recording the number

time we get to sunday we are looking at some very heavy rain across much of that area down towards beirut it's going to be a rainy day for you as well attempts are there of about fourteen degrees as make her way down here towards the arabian peninsula and also the gulf well we do have some clouds that are pushing through we do expect to see maybe a little bit of rain coming out of these clouds as we go through the rest of the weekend more clouds for riyadh where the terms are there of about twenty seven degrees doha winds are coming out of the south we do expect to see about twenty four in your forecast and abu dhabi about twenty five is going to be your high and then across the southern parts of africa we are looking at some rain coming up towards durban temptress have come down few there but down here towards cape town it is going to continue to be a nice day a twenty two degrees here on saturday and twenty three on sunday. sponsored by these. top stories now. more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a war along the border with mexico he's threatening to use emergency powers to bu

rain in the pictures out here in turkey where the higher elevations will be seeing some snow there beirut seventy degrees as you fight friday hi there as you make a way over here towards the gulf things are looking quite nice we could be seeing a twenty five degrees maybe even getting to about twenty six degrees by the time we get to friday not looking too bad over here too it's a little bit cooler in salon.

allegations further claimed that he misused company finances to finance homes in rio de janeiro and beirut he has been a hearing in this quarter his lawyer has been arguing for his bail he has been and continuous detention for a couple of months it is claimed by the executive that he has dedicated the past two decades of his life to turning around the fortunes of this and that he does not deserve to be in detention but the court elizabeth has also been hearing that given his the international nature of this case and the international nature of aggression in itself he has nationalities in other countries he is a flight risk and also potentially could destroy potential evidence if he is released so we are still waiting to see the outcome of that if his detention will continue or whether he gets bail weekend a lot of other people rob because there's huge interest in this case guy was a prominent businessman of course not just and japan but as you mentioned internationally as they've been any fallout from his detention in japan or of athene. there are all sorts of implications from this and al

which has existed for a century is not a coincidence those thrive all across the middle east from beirut as symbols of goodness for the hopes and the better future for all nations of the middle east. thank you for being here today. bless each and every one of you. thank you. [applause] on the calendar. mr. mcconnell: so, madam president, all week i've been president, all week i've been . >> madam president i have been called that the humanitarian security crisis of the nation's southern border i have discussed the threats from criminal aliens and the inflow of drugs and border security expert strong support for physical barriers and i have cited the empirical data that backs it up but on day 20 of the government shutdown prolonged by my democratic colleagues refusal to even come to the table

and on to the lebanese capital beirut. one of the largest new year's eve celebrations in europe is in berlin at the brandenburg gate hundreds of thousands of revelers gathered for the show. but. it was a similar scene in the city of lights paris my hat. then across the atlantic to copacabana beach in rio de janeiro. in new york crowds gathered on times square for an annual ritual the dropping of a crystal ball at midnight not even heavy rain could dampen the enthusiasm of this year's event had a serious note celebrating generalism and press freedom i . now to some of the other stories making news around the world in a new year's address north korean leader kim jong un has said he wants to stand denuclearization talks with the u.s. but he warned he could change course if washington maintains its sanctions against the country little progress has been made since a historic meeting with president or trump in june one. british counter terrorism police are investigating stabbings that have three people seriously injured on new y