s have summoned president mohammed of bihari to parliament to answer questions about last week's mass killings in borno state at least 67 people were killed by boko haram fighters on saturday senators have criticised biharis government for failing to stop the attacks they want security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman calls to anger after blaming farmers for putting themselves in danger the prime minister of the need formerly known as swaziland has been transferred to hospital after testing positive for cope with 19 weeks ago the government statement released on social media says ambrose meany will be taken to a medical facility in neighboring south africa it says he is responding well to treatment. the mother of a 9 year old girl from south london who died after a severe asthma attack is trying to make legal history she is fighting for air pollution to be recorded as the cause of death something that's never happened before and has no name barbara for its strong evidence to support her. deborah was a key swimmer dancer and cyclist by the age of 9 she had the reading age

state at least 67 people were killed by boko haram fighters on saturday senators have criticized biharis government for failing to stop the attacks they want security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman caused anger after blaming the farmers are putting themselves in danger. the united nations says that it signed a deal with ethiopia's governments to get unrestricted humanitarian access to the to gray region the agreement will allow aid workers to federally controlled areas more than a 1000000 people of thoughts have been displaced by fighting which began almost a month ago. tens of thousands of those displaced of left the country fleeing across the border to sudan al jazeera has spoken to one university student you have no option but to leave. my full name is the cost in q do our guy. 25 cities or world i came from to grab a 1000 or more a. i was happy when i was there with my family and i was helping my family i was playing with my friends i was playing with my brother even my mother you know when you are far away from your family you know. you maybe even come and happy it be

is the home state of nigerian president mohammad yukari he has condemned the attack in a statement bihari said the military had located the kidnappers and exchanged fire backed up by air support it's the latest in a series of attacks by gunmen on nigerian schools one of the most serious occurred in 2014 when members of jihad his group boko haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls the families affected by this latest incident still waiting to find out who took their children. to sport now and in the bundesliga leon baby here scored twice by leverkusen bait hoffenheim for one to go top of the table the jamaican winger is enjoying a brilliant run of form at the moment and one of his trucks on sunday which you're about to see well almost certainly be a contender for goal of the season. leon bailey's performances this season have again attracted the interest of several big english clubs there's club scouts didn't have to wait long for another glimpse of bally magic. i assure corner routine with not the merry and then the strike a contender for goal of the season 4 minutes gone which if this go w

bihari and egypt imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar back in 27 saying iran's parliamentary speaker has ordered the implementation of a law that could stop surprise u.n. inspections of its nuclear sites unless sanctions are lifted in the next 2 months the law is opposed by president hassan rouhani and the talent city of venice has been flooded after heavy rain and strong winds toppled by surprise tuesday's downpours arrived before officials could activate the huge flood barry is which were only introduced 2 months ago. or tonight with the headlines on al-jazeera next blood and tears the special on french decolonization. her the world the a man to. france once had an empire covering enormous areas of the world and millions of people. but after the 2nd world war the countries that had colonized began to demand a french withdrawal and south for. france did not want to let go and was drawn into terrible wars in indochina madagascar and algeria. syria and levanon would granted independence and trouble scimitar in sub-saharan africa and the caribbean. however france could simply n

and authorities that there is that frustration and worsening anxiety and anger towards president biharinaged to do that. yes, definitely. it has been a worsening situation. by it has been a worsening situation. by and large in the northern regions. the northeast has been grappling with the jihadist and vocal hurrah. the biggest group in the area. no issues with the cross borders. —— boko haram. at the some time, there have been multiple security operations in the north, or banditry has been on the increase in kidnapping. there are ground and air operations led by the military which hasn't yielded much results. last month, doesn't of police officers we re month, doesn't of police officers were abducted by suspected bandits in the regions which shows they have not stop these criminal groups from attacking security forces in they are becoming increasingly emboldened. briefly, clearly a huge story in nigeria, i would if your singlet being covered more broadly in africa? not so much. rather interesting. this was response of this attack, we compared the similar incident in 2014 when the girls

opening to rave reviews in uk seminaries in september of this quietly political charmer features bihariwants her headstrong daughter to win the titular pageant celebrating the belated freeing of slaves in texas onjune 19, celebrating the belated freeing of slaves in texas onjune19, 1865. two and half years after the emancipation proclamation. what's her problem? i beat her. 20/20 also saw the release of two netflix it back to films featuring chadwick bozeman who we sadly lost in august. you can currently see him in his final screen roll a barnstorming performance as an upcoming trumpet player in mart rainey‘s black bottom. adapted from the play by august wilson. is it fair as some of the white americans here are? nothing is more confused. early in the air bozeman costarred in spike lee's the five bloods which followed a group of vietnam vets returning to the country in which they fought the american war. they come to recover the remains of a fallen comrade lost in battle but they're also on the trail of gold. a stash in which they buried all those years ago and now hope to retrieve. i s

floors bihari has repeatedly claimed as being technically defeated what does this kidnapping. tell us about their presence and those strengths in nigeria. well 1st of all let's point out that the government has repeatedly refuted pains that this talk was carried out by before iraq however if you even look at it even if it wasn't carried out by book iraq the fact that it happened in the 1st place tells us that there are many more threats to u.s. security than just spoke of iraq it's very clear and he tells us that the security conditions. is the iraq people need to terrorists and the president claims that even if what's being put in place and he's asking nigeria asked for more patience. you know we still and it improves the security country shows in nigeria but if these attacks tells us anything it tells us that the security sequin to shine in nigeria is getting equal local network. correspondent. mark from like us thanks so much. ok let's take a look at some more stories making news this hour a heavy snowstorm in japan has left thousands of vehicles stranded on a major highway

and flourish bihari has repeatedly claimed as pain technically defeated what does this kidnap. tell us about their presence and the strength in nigeria. but 1st of all that let's point out that the government has repeatedly refused to instead just talk was not carried out by boko haram however if you even look at it even if it wasn't carried out by boko haram the fact that it happened in the 1st place tells us that there are many more threats to make you ask security than just because it's very clear tells us that the security conditions in nigeria is rock people need to terrorists and the president claims that even in flights it's being put in place and he's asking nigeria ask for more patience. you know to restore it improve the security conditions in nigeria but if this attack tells us anything it tells us that the security question to shine in a year is getting people hope for their words. corresponding florists law from like us thanks so much. sport and by minute he has won the feat for men's player of the year award after scoring 55 competition goals for the big previous

ratified the african free trade zone to be launched next month analysts say that deadline forced biharis heth's. south africa is trying to become a little more global by changing its unique electrical plug and socket from a thick 3 pin triangle to a sleek x. agonal affair that accommodates european style soup in blocks it's only taken over a decade and could actually take even longer with this unusual sockets to be a thing of the past too many clouds too we need things happening in this kitchen i'd love to maybe start maybe by installing this card in the kitchen 1st. south africa's quirky standard triangular 3 pin plug is slowly being phased out by authorities. to learn from africa we don't need country to use these plugs oh if only glass is an important thing to come with these plugs would need. the flow this is a very typical for african work and more recently. drawn from. all new construction sites are now required to install the new plugs and sockets featuring a sleeker 3 pin design. my house is really old and comes with all of these old and sockets and i'd like to comply with the le

down in sri lanka but new delhi gives the hint it is some frayed typically for the fog away from bihari right up to the northwest but you might get that brief interruption with a thunderstorm on saturday. an invitation to bear witness to all that life office. the highways the learners the trials and tribulations the unseen movements and everyday miracles the injustices the defiance the tests of character and the person they trace the witness documentaries with a delicate touch on al-jazeera. book about your watching al-jazeera of me as a whole rather a reminder of our top stories you can health minister mark hancock has an owl's that more regions will move into tears for restrictions on boxing day he also said they have detected 2 cases of another variant in the u.k. which may have come from south africa. british and european union negotiators are reportedly close to finalizing a brics a trade deal with just over a week left to the deadline key issues they're trying to resolving through do you fish the rights of british waters and k. is due to leave the single market for the end of its

parents of missing students staged protests demanding the return of her children president mohamed bihari has been criticized for not visiting the school even though he's currently visiting his home state of katsina. lebanon's caretaker prime minister has refused to cooperate with the investigation into the bay report explosion which happened in august ascend the up and 3 former cabinet ministers strace charges of carelessness and neglect victims' families are welcome the charges but say many more people need to be held to account so to reports now from. the rule of law is what these people are demanding they came to the palace of justice to show support for a judge who is facing a political backlash for charging the caretaker prime minister has stand and former ministers with negligence over the baby port explosion fadi so when it was supposed to question them this week but the defendants accuse him of violating the constitution by overstepping his powers and are refusing to comply it says me either he takes a decision that shows that he is truly working for justice in lebanon or he don'

before being reading united with loved ones the children met the country's president mohammed who bihari described their release as a big relief to their families the entire country and the international community the jihadist group boko haram said kidnapping children but the government has cast doubt on those claims. so it will. flourish. and legace welcome flourish the condition of the boys. the boys. have to say to the. time if he beats the president to. take it. i guess he meant. confusion about who. to secure their release. comes from. just yesterday he. must. be eaten up. by. now he that we. will have. on. the security seats we should. not see who has not been contrary to the. needs of the kids. today. now this is the 3rd time this is. just. to flush. that. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news now more than a dozen children have been killed in a bombing in eastern afghanistan no one has claimed responsibility for this attack on a religious gathering in gaffney province which is controlled by the taliban the u.s. financial markets have opened with uncertain

down in sri lanka but new delhi gives the hint it is some frayed typically for the fog away from bihari right up to the northwest but you might get that brief interruption with a thunderstorm on saturday. but the. american people have finally folk in america as i split when america is off balance or to become more dangerous the world is looking at us live next year of sadness and. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck the fuel weekly take on us politics and society that's the bottom line. be the hero the world needs right. washington. tell us again the top stories on 000 u.s. president donald trump suggesting he will not sign a massive coronavirus relief bill unless it's amended by congress he says he wants congress to raise stimulus payments to individual americans from $600.00 to $2000.00 and trump has announced presidential pardons for 15 people they include 4 military contractors convicted of shooting dead 14 civilians in iraq in 20072 men tied to russian meddling in the 2016 presidential elections were also part. several truck drivers stuck near the engli

firstly going back to the point about a book or her flexing its muscles in the president's home state bihari made a centerpiece of his past election campaign and for a long time afterwards people accused him of playing the blame game in terms of blaming. jonathan regime and for not being able to tackle the. issue i think there and number of things at play is so fast. as the previous speaker sat the symmetric warfare said imagine segment taken for example where in the northern region and number of states. communications were cut off in order to attempt to intercept or prevent iran from being able to communicate but that poses the government in a double bind in terms of also losing support of the local populations where they're affected by measures like that there is a little support for some of the imaginary measures that the government have put in place i think the other side to the story as well and this is come up in recent months in terms of other protest movements within the country around the end sasnett you know what we've seen is that the issue of corruption which is endemic to securi

is the home state of nigerian president mohamed do bihari he has condemned the attack in a statement to hari said the military had located the kidnappers and exchanged fire backed up by air support it's the latest in a series of attacks by gunman on the idea in schools. one of the most serious occurred in 2014 when members of jihad this group boko haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls the families affected by this latest incident are still waiting to find out who took the children. german going to sleep club dog one have sacked coach loose in far less than 24 hours after their $51.00 defeat to start got 5 or whose contract was due to expire at the end of the season labelled the result a disaster it was dark once 4th defeat of the season and it left them 6 points behind the top of the league assistant coach even tears it will take over on a temporary basis until the end of the season. and byron munich were held to a one all draw you in berlin on your own got off to the perfect start to after just 6 minute grisha preamble glanced in a header from a corner but biron came back in the 2n

say this is the president and i think a tricky position going forward going into the last election bihari categorically stated that he would refuse to negotiate with iran on the basis of them being an organization who don't want peace at the moment the key organization who have claimed this abduction of work or her arm there is still a degree of confusion as to who is responsible or very shortly after the abduction the governor of the state in the said that he had entered into negotiations of the state had entered into negotiations with the abductors and so the question remains at this point has the government's position shifted on the question of negotiation or is there some degree of division in the government about whether or not to approach the o'shea chansons instances like this or more queer the fact that this mass abduction happened in the more west as opposed to the northeast of the country. but the significance of the northeast of the country is that has where. operations have been typically limited to so what we're seeing here if that is the case that they are responsible for th

immediate future in the u.s. 1st of all the story was going off the east coast that's a cold tukey in bihari and there is some stirring encounter but the quiet weather still give you fog in the northwest and some parts of the upper midwest and the red flag warnings have been with the dry weather throughout much of california increase me going back down to southern california once more in our quick look at that for you spot if you didn't but the temperature in denver's 18 degrees that seems to warm for december so it is the average is 6 denver's 18 the more in 16 kansas city 80 much of the playing in the moment to the plain states far more this should be it won't last we'll change we're down to 6 degrees or 9 ish on thursday as that next tranche of cooler weather comes down. now the original cold front we've just seen cause in a story weather of the east coast is this one here as the tail end goes through jamaica haiti and dance or costa rica and panama will spawn some pretty big showers and it will funnel the potential for a really big shouting at palomar costa rica leaving behind rather coo

nigerian president bihari has come under enormous pressure. they say they freed all the 344 boys.ce with you all as god has saved us from this calamity. the abduction has gripped nigerian already angered by widespread insecurity. president buhari has repeatedly said that boko haram was defeated but the attack was reminiscent of boko haram's 214 attack was reminiscent of boko haram's 2i4 mapping of 270 schoolgirls in the north—eastern town of chibok. many of them are still missing. there is relief for the boys and their families but details still remain unclear including who was responsible, why they kidnapped the boys and whether a ransom was paid. aruna iyengar, bbc news. like so many regions of the world, central america has been hit hard by the pandemic. and the damage by hurricanes in november has left many there homeless. these hardships have helped fuel the mass departures of migrants from honduras in recent days, as people hope to get to the united states. our central america correspondent will grant reports. it is an all—too—familiar site. a few hundred impoverished centra

security and particularly in that region we know that the president when he came to what power president bihari he pledged that he would be restoring security. yes if we look good then i mean since you came to. me every doctor in. terms of bombings and i talk it's still ongoing just about 9 days ago there was even an attack in mumbai by a local government in. you know from us a kid in a model who was somewhere around. for the 3445 so these are us to go in and liberalized to government has made efforts are not in of our you can't is the discontent in the voice of the people when the governor of course not it went to discworld yesterday fall into the attack on concord in concord a local government the parents actually booed him so that doesn't tell you the deep rooted. approval people feel they are not represented by his government that their interest on their lives on the property is not is not for the government because these are class keep people happening and we always get reactionary responses on the president who just see he's condemning the attack but it doesn't stop the attack from happen

borno state the 67 people were killed by boko haram fighters on saturday senators have criticised biharis government for failing to stop the attacks they want security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman calls to anger the blaming the farmers for putting themselves in danger. conservationists who advise the un a blaming climate change for the critical condition of australia's great barrier reef the corals are said to be in decline due to ocean warming and that's impacting marine species the reef is a un listed natural world heritage site. former french president very. a king architect of european integration has died in western france after contracting covered 19 it was 94 years old at the back of his life. this would prove the most fiercely fought presidential election in french history the young finance minister valerie she's scheduled to star facing socialist leader fos one meter when the votes were counted she scott had pulled off a remarkable thick tree beating me to hole by a slender margin. of course the margin could have been bigger but in a presidential election what ma

the floors bihari has repeatedly claimed has been technically defeated what does this kidnapping tell us about their presence and the strength in nigeria. well 1st of all that led to point out that the government has. p.p.t. refused to. talk was carried out bible however if even the cuts even if it wasn't carried out by the fact that it happened in the 1st please tells us that there are many more threats to the nature u.s. security than just to iraq it's very clear tells us that the security conditions. is rocky to terry i'm the president claims that it locked up and what's being put in place and he's asking danger as. you know we still i'm improve the security quite shows. but if this attack tells us anything it tells us that the security quick to shine in a 15 people will never. corresponded florist. thanks so much. ok let's take a look at some stories making news bitcoin has risen to another record high topping $23000.00 u.s. dollars value of the virtual currency has rocketed this year this could be a boon for platforms like coin base which on thursday to go public it would be the

is the home state of nigerian president mohamed do bihari he has condemned the attack in a statement to hari said the military had located the kidnappers and exchanged fire backed up by air support it's the latest in a series of attacks by gunman on the idea in schools one of the most serious occurred in 2014 when members of the hardest group boko haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls the families affected by this latest incident are still waiting to find out who took their children. in the bundesliga leon bailey scored a twice as buyer leverkusen a beaut hoffenheim for wanting to go to the top of the table the jamaican winger is enjoying a good run of form at the moment and one of his strikes today will certainly be a contender for goal of the season. leon bailey's performances this season have again attracted the interest of several big english clubs there's club scouts didn't have to wait long for another glimpse of bally magic i assure corner routine with not the merry and then the strike a contender for goal of the season 4 minutes gone which if this go with the sublime things

borno state at least 67 people were killed by boko haram fighters on saturday senators criticized biharisgovernment for failing to stop the attacks they want security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman calls the anger after blaming farmers putting themselves in danger israel's ultimate prime minister benny gantz says his party will back an opposition bill in favor of dissolve parliament the preliminary vote on the issue is just passed 61 to 54 can says he's lost patients with benyamin netanyahu and is ready to break their alliance with a long overdue budget isn't passed immediately the move could force israel's 4th election less than 2 years lawyerly assure you that because surely i had no illusions in regard to netanyahu i knew his record as a serial promise violator but i thought that the citizens of israel are more important than any leader and that netanyahu will rise to the occasion it didn't happen netanyahu promised unity he promised netanyahu said there will be no tricks he promised responsible management of the corona crisis and the public is paying the price he didn't

state at least 67 people were beheaded by boko haram fighters on saturday senators have criticised biharis government for failing to stop the armed groups attacks in the north they also want security chiefs to be sacked the president's spokesman caused anger after blaming the farmers for the attacks nearly 4 months after the beirut port blast him vesta gazes of almost completed their task. but the families of victims survivors and human rights groups fair high ranking officials will escape blame the reports were on the frontline of the explosion and from 4 months ago nobody helped us on august for a powerful explosion believed to be caused by ammonium nitrate that caught fire ripped through port. its impact was felt kilometers away 200 people were killed thousands were wounded and tens of thousands made homeless peers emails extended family used to live in this 8 story building who are still displaced how can we come back in the states i didn't believe thousands of lebanese have been struggling to rebuild their homes the cash strapped government has largely been absent and geos can only do