long a soviet and says it's working with police and community groups to counter those threats heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington, the let's take a look at some of the days of the news. the venezuelan president has proposed a bill to declare the space and region of s a keybo, a province. nicholas missouri says this will enable oil exploration around the s a . keep a river in a region administered by diana, which is in venezuela back the creation of a new space in a referendum on sunday despite the international court of justice and far in venezuela from taking any such action. diana has administer the space of regions over a century. i suppose is of careers for my president of bass or for jury. i've been celebrating a court really ordering his release from prison because you maury has been subbing a 25 year sentence that corruption on human rights foundations. it's a 5 year old mister president from 1990 to 2000. he was convicted of ordering the masika of 2925 people in the early ninety's won. his government was fighting and left when february. okay, let's get some sports headlines. he is

long a sylvia and says it's working with police and community groups to counter those threats heidi jo, castro al jazeera washington, still head on al jazeera. but this is what the christmas looks like in palestine. this is what the christmas looks like. and bethlehem church in bethlehem says they will be no christmas celebrations, as long as, as well as on 5 minutes accounts and continues the or hello. thank you for joining in. here's your weather report for the middle east and africa. and right off the bat, you see this rain moving across the fence pushing into the dock. sometimes it drops down to the gulf states, but that's not gonna happen this time around. sure. a bit more cloud cover in doha, on wednesday. but the system, i think it could produce a few showers for western saudi arabia including neck up providence. so around jet, for example, on wednesday. central is at wow, temperatures are above average for this time of the year from took minutes stand to did. you can stand was biggest on and kroger's done so dish kicks enjoy. well, you can will squeeze at one more warm day. the 4th, th

lama sylvia and says, it's working with police and community groups to counter those threats. heidi jo, castro alger 0 washington traditional festivities during the christmas season, having cooled off in bethlehem. this is, you know, occupied westbank usually attracts the thousands of followers of the christian faith over that period because of its religious significance. but this is a residence in bethlehem a morning, the canning and displacement of palestinians in gauze. and if it must a baby jesus amongst the rubble. it was to the traditional it to be seen to reflect the image is coming out of gone. so thousands of palestinians are fear to be buried under the winds of what was once their homes at the image is here. all the my guys and the shepherds looking for, for jesus, we get the lights on. as if to say that is a small price of hope in the midst of this destruction. during the christmas season, eyes turn to bethlehem, the birthplace of christianity palestinian. see they cannot turn a blind eye to the left. this is really bombardment of garza, if jesus is to be born again, this time this

carried out a military operation with a number of germans against military targets and allowed heidi jo castro is in washington dc with the latest lines coming out of the us. and this is more information to flush out the scope of this attack from who sees base in yemen. according to the us pentagon, this was a 10 hour long, the raj of a fire power aimed at toward the southern red sea destination target is unconfirmed . but we know that the us responded with the eisenhower carrier strike group that was in the vicinity as well as the us as lagoon destroyer taking down $121.00 way at half drones. they said in 3 and 2 ship ballistic missiles as well as to land attack cruise missiles. now there was a container vehicle, a container ship rather in the vicinity that, that reported taking that reported that it was under attack around that time there was no damage that was reported nor any injuries. and that it created maneuvering techniques. and then it was also asking for help, conceivably, from this us military presence. and of course, this is all just about a week after the us announced the coalitio

from all of this we can go over now to heidi jo. castro joins us now live from washington dc. so hybrid, we know what the us officials want in terms of the commitments from israel on this issue to yeah, sammy, what the us ministration says is that once more assurances from these really government that these military style rifles will not ultimately end up in the hands of extremes is rarely settlers to be used in the occupied west bank. now the history of this shipment is that initially it was requested by there's really no police in the 1st days of this war and it was agreed to by the job i didn't administration is that these 27000 rifles had already cleared the 1st hurdle of preliminary approval from the committees in congress, but suddenly then the bottom ministration said, let's hold off because of this concern as the violence against palestinians and they occupy westbank has increasingly escalated. and this of course follows on the heels of the us administration's decision to issue visa restrictions against a saw, a few dozen people who are associated with his settler viol

let's get more and will this with a how to jo, castro, in washington dc. heidi even in the lights, the off the mouth of the that announcement from lude austin, more attacks taking place in the red sea. so that's why harry and it's adding more urgency to those announcements of the formation of this maritime coalition. but the us central command announcing that now the 2 latest attacks from who's the rebels occurred on monday and they seem to be coordinated in time one attacking an oil tanker that was struck either by a drone or by a ballistic missile us central command. so both were fired toward this vessel, and that it asked for help, and that the us as carnie, which was in the region when and assess the damage, there were no injuries reported there. and then that the 2nd attack happened at the same time directed toward a cargo ship that reported a explosion in the water and its vicinity also no injuries there, nor any damage. in that case, all of that, just coming on the heels of lloyd austin's announcement of this maritime coalition, and we're learning a little more details. i believ

is jo castro, who joins us live now from uh, washington. uh so heidi uh tell us more about the debriefings that have been coming out. so the us that's right. has them we've heard from the state department as well as from the white house, from the national security advisor, and from both friends. we're hearing that the us says it's too early to pass judgment on whether the is really military is doing is doing more to save civilians in southern gaza than it did in the north. but what we're hearing is that the us officials are saying to many palestinians were killed in northern gaza in the earlier parts of this war. and more from matthew miller, the states department spokesperson saying that the us believes eric, israel's plan for the current offensive in the south was a quote, improvement over what occurred in the north, in particular, miller saying that israel has designated u. n. d, u and run d conflictions zones, referring to facilities with you and support where he says causing civilians can go to be out of harm's way. now this is what israel has app