i'm kemal santa maria these are your headlines on al-jazeera the united states has designated the political leader of hamas ismail haniya a global terrorist and impose.

and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm kemal santa maria welcome to news in syria's eastern good a second attempt at a.

this is al-jazeera and live from studio four train here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the newsgroup the fighting supposed to have stopped at least temporarily in eastern good time but the simple fact is it hasn't about the syrian government and the opposition are accuse.

i'm kemal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera there is a reprieve for thousands of syrians sheltering in the united states as the trumpet ministration says they can stay but your rivals. donald trump signs in order to keep the current town of a prison camp open and possibly to send i still find his there and kenya's government shuts down three t.v. stations just hours after their broadcast ran a road to mock swearing in as president. so in the palestinian territories in the past twenty four hours we've had a series of developments offering hope to the long besieged people of gaza but also challenging the palestinians political leadership u.s. president donald trump first of all used his state of the union address to reiterate america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital but then the state department listed the political leader of hamas mohammed. there as a global terrorist imposing sanctions against him meanwhile israel unveiled a billion dollar plan to help ease gaza's humanitarian crisis but it wants the international community to pay for it and the e

hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm kemal santa maria. zuber english back in two thousand and six and in the more than a decade since then we've built up a library of award winning documentaries here on rewind where revisiting some of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on. today the threat of nuclear war is once more on the table with north korea carrying out a series of missile launches in recent months and back in september news emerged of an underground nuclear test in north korea which registered the equivalent of a six point three magnitude earthquake kim jong un's north korea is the only country to have carried out nuclear tests this century after the u.n. passed a resolution banning testing back in one thousand nine hundred six but the terrible legacy of testing is still being felt more than five thousand kilometers away beyond mongolia and northern china over a forty year period we're talking nine hundred forty nine thousand nine hundred eighty nine soviet union exploded four hundred sixty nuclear bombs in eas

i'm kemal santa maria with another check of the headlines on al-jazeera the united states has designated the political leader of hamas as mohammed year a global terrorist and imposed sanctions against him the state department accuses him of being involved in attacks against israeli citizens has branded the u.s. decision a violation of international law that is really is not. just for. now religion it's for this reason we are considering this is the for dish statement committed by people who know nothing about freedom for the european union says it has pledged an extra fifty three million dollars in aid for palestinians following the u.s. decision to withhold funding use foreign policy chief federica mongery made that announcement at a donors meeting in brussels coinciding with a u.n. warning that gaza's economy is on the verge of collapse. in other news the yemeni government and the session us have swapped prison is this is in the southern port city of aden government headquarters were taken over during three days of fighting in the city and more than twenty people have been killed in th

this is al jazeera and live from studio four train here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm kemal santa maria welcome to the newsgroup the fighting supposed to have stopped at least temporarily in east and good but the simple fact is it hasn't but the syrian government and the opposition are accusing each other violating the five outpolls ordered by russia such a cease fire that pause what next for port coming up. british shakeup in saudi arabia yes we have become used to change the crown prince mohammed bin salman disappointed but why has his father the king suddenly dismissed the kingdom's top military commanders is it to do with the ongoing war in ghana in its third year. and don't mention the president just china raises the prospect of unlimited presidential terms there are suddenly a few more words and phrases you can search for online or at least. will be explaining to us the complexities of working and reporting in the people's republic . and millennialist could be the most overweight generation in history that's according to a new force and we've been talking to people about why that