thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. still ahead on al-jazeera i'm rob reynolds on the us mexico border where president trump's border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in north america. how i once again welcome to the look at the international focus when it doesn't see bad across japan at the moment we have seen some clouds and rain pushing in that cross southern and central parts of the country this weather system not too far away just flicking up some tampa whether they'd see that a side of honshu was a go one and see monday 10 celsius in the cloud and dry and therefore. as we go on that broaden up a little bit but just notice it will tend a little more wintry picking up we're been mortally feed on the weather across to those northern areas of conscious little bit of cloud there still in place and see where q she. crossed the korean peninsula but quick to catch one of 2 wintry flowers as we go through the next dial so little bit of cloud same into central parts of china still a

thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. still ahead on our air and under fire strain is prime minister returns home from vacation to control the state as the country enjoys unprecedented bus fives. and despite the rain by a parts of the wilds around just water for help accounting trick out a report from zimbabwe on the browser affecting millions in southern africa. the weather's fine and dry across much of the middle east and pieces of cloud and rain rolling out of the black sea the caspian sea pushing further east with as we go on through the next couple of days things are going to change is not seep out as we go on through monday largely fought in 5 sets a round to 21 cells but you can see the next area of disturbed weather that wet weather moving across to the snow over the high ground havey rain there in society for us and the levant 20 celsius in beirut as the cloud starts to thicken we are looking at some really wet weather so you go on through this week by the time we come to christmas leaving base them a rain pushi

tuuli mccully from scotiabank.nce its monetary policy —— the european central bank is set to announce its monetary policy decision today. christine lagarde is one of a small but growing number of women at the top of business, and this year, the number of female chief executives at fortune 500 companies jumped to its chief executives at fortune 500 companiesjumped to its highest level ever. that is 33. but still just represents a paltry 6%. when it comes to boards, women make up roughly 20% globally, about double the level a decade ago, with high representation in countries which have quotas and targets. well, there is, of course, growing evidence that greater diversity in the boardroom can boost profitability and share prices, with research by credit suisse saying a strong correlation does exist. speaking of powerful women, credit —— greta thunberg became the youngest woman ever to become time magazine‘s person of the year. she says global warming seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to

the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part to tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccullywell let's dig into this a little with mike the hill here is the former chief of international operations at the u.s. drug enforcement administration he's also written several books on the drug trade and cartels and he joins us now on skype from albuquerque new mexico so mike we were just hearing 70 percent of guns being used in mexico come from the u.s. that's a huge number what's the u.s. doing to try to stop the flow. well the united states needs to do a lot more than what it's doing right now to stop the movement of military grade weapons going into mexico number one the inc gun shows me to do background checks on the purchasers of these weapons secondly sellers of these weapons have got to reach or multiple purchases of these weapons to law enforcement to be able to take action against the aesop buyers of weapons as you mention we estimate that there is 253000. weapons that go into mexico every year and most of those weapons are going into organized crime groups such as the mexica

for further analysis we bring in author and russia analyst martin mccully the german foreign ministry has called the reciprocal expulsions groundless what do you make of that well from the diplomatic point of view if you expelled 2 russian diplomats from berlin balloon realized straight away that 2 german diplomats would be expelled from moscow and declared persona non grata that standard diplomatic procedure so therefore the the russian the german foreign ministry is in fact making a statement which everyone knows is not in fact exact where you say as you say this is the standard practice has also said that moscow is sending the wrong signals how is that possible then and what signals were they meant to send. well berlin i suspect knew that once it declared 2 russian diplomats persona non grata then the same would happen in in moscow and. chancellor merkel and the german government would have considered very carefully what would actually be the consequences with this in fact home relations with russia doing that are normally a process was going to take place very very soon it's now p

kept in the loop of this attack right here in the heart of moscow we spoke to russia analysts what mccully and security expert trial shoebridge for their thoughts on the attack. nobody in his right mind would take an a k $47.00. 10 to get into the bianca and start firing at the guards he's bound to be killed he knew that he could run into any restaurant and floated as many people as you like but that was not his objective he just wanted to kill those associated with the secret service is now the f.s.b. and if you killed one he would then say they have achieved my objective because i would be killed as well given that the target appears to have been dispiriting obviously so publicly linked with the security services in the state and given the timing on the almost at the anniversary of. the security forces day. be quite strong indications as to the motivation assuming that the government is a rational actor had this attack i think taken place against a more soft target which is usually the case with more explicit or overt terrorist acts then you would have expected i think far more casualtie

the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part to tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully a roman catholic religious order in mexico has now admitted that it's found a sexually abused dozens of boys including some that he fathered secretly while living a double life father. denied he was a pedophile until his death 11 years ago the nation as of christ says other priests also abused 175 mexican boys for decades and it's now attempting to confront its past pipe john paul dismissed the accusations but his successor pope benedict ordered muscle to retire to a life of prayer and penitence. homestead ahead on al-jazeera getting a taste for greater democracy polls have now closed and is back to stand fast parliamentary elections on the end nearly to promising reform. i'm rob reynolds on the us mexico border where president trumps border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in north america. how the weather's lousy dry across much of china although we have got some bits and pieces of right jen we just to the south of shanghai that will be the ca

thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 we'll tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. now a 6 year old english girl found a plea for help supposedly from foreign prisoners inside china in a charity christmas cards the u.k.'s biggest supermarket chain tesco suspended production of the qods a factory in shanghai the message said it was written by people who are being forced to work against their will it said please help us and also whoever found it to contact peta humphrey a british journalist who was imprisoned in the same jail 4 years ago tesco says it would never allow prison labor in the country supply chain or i spoke to peta humphrey he says that companies can oversee every single link in their production chains. 1st of all i i wouldn't blame tesco in a certain sense you know i spent 15 years as a due diligence investigator china before my arrest and i'm actually familiar with these challenges and the kind of work that these to be done it is not possible for a company like tesco to drill down to the bottom of the supply chain to see if something in their order is

thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. recapping our top stories for you this half hour here on al-jazeera tens of thousands of people across india have once again defied a government ban to protest against a citizenship law which they say discriminates against muslims the prime minister narendra modi has blamed the opposition for feeling on the rest of my brothers since this law has been passed some political parties have been spreading rumors these people are misleading the public they are inciting the public. syrian and russian a strikes have killed at least 17 people in italy government forces are advancing across the last rebel held province the offensive has displaced at least 25000 civilians in the last 2 days many heading towards the turkish border. but none of them on luggage and 6 i'm going to do down $80000.00 about probably from running from the bombs there have started migrating to which is if the violence towards the people of italy does not stop this number will increase even more in now case turkey will no

the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part to tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully 2 bombings in the southern philippines have killed more than a dozen people one bomb exploded in cults a bottle city killing at least 8 souls us and 4 civilians about same time 5 people died when another bomb exploded just north in the bunker and the philippines on forces says the bangsamoro islamic freedom fighters group could be behind those attacks. north korea says leader kim jong un has held a meeting of the ruling party about strengthening the military state news has released these images though it's unclear when or where the new team took place north korea is threatening to take new measures if the u.s. doesn't submit a proposal on denuclearization by the end of the year cuba has appointed a prime minister for the 1st time in more than 40 years long serving tourism minister a man will moderate all took office on saturday the position of prime minister was last held by fidel castro in 1976 and reinstated under cuba's new constitution. still ahead here on out. i'm rob reynolds on

hurt by that glass bottle after being attacked by hampton we are mccully told that that ficer is to expected to be okay. reporting insan francisco christina tetreault kron 4 news. >>all rightthank you christina, 9 4 and for your health this morning 2 people have recently died from the u here in the bay area it's a story we've been following in for sarah stinson has been upat the public heah department county following the latest. sarah. >>well i just spoke with the doctor here at the marine county public health department and they tell me that both people who died the flu. they were elderly and it's unclear both them were unccinated but at leas one of them were unvaccinated they're trying to confirm the second one at the hospital right now. but they're saying that's why there's this is an importnt reminder to those from these health officials to get vaccinated it's never o late. actually eing a rise in flu deaths because the seasonis still early and they haven't seen it likthis before but take a look at these numbers we have the national numbers om the cdc about how many people are dying so

the scene, which is about ten seconds long, occurs when mccully cull kin enters a hotel and encounters donald trump in there on his way from doing god knows what. that scene was cut, the canadian broadcasting corporation says, for time and it was cut back in 2014 before trump became president. they did it to fit commercials in. i think every person is familiar with the concept. it happens with pretty much every movie when it goes to broadcast tv. trump himself apparently tweeted about it, taking it in stride. on trump tv it was the most outrageous thing since the war on christmas. >> how much is trump derangement syndrome for you to cut that out of a happy movie. >> i think they're terrified that people will remember that before he was the new hitler he was actually a beloved mainstream, and i think they're terrified of these little things that will remind people of just his deranged -- >> it's also censorship. >> donald trump wasn't necessarily in "home alone 2" because he was a beloved mainstream figure. it was more like that was the way you had to pay off donald trump if you wanted

the thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part to tell their stories john homan al-jazeera mccullysaddam has opened an investigation into crimes committed in darfur by members of the regime of ousted president tomorrow a share the u.n. says at least 300000 people were killed in the conflict between pro-government forces and rebels which started in 200328 half 1000000 people the displaced a share who was ousted from power earlier this year is wanted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity and genocide which he denies sudan's new transitional government has vowed to establish peace and conflict hit regions. well now the 3 month wait for the results of the presidential election in afghanistan is finally ended with what appears to be a narrow victory for president ashraf ghani the electoral commission says he secured a slim majority of just over 50 percent but supporters of his main rival dollar say they don't accept the result and they're calling for an investigation or a burden manoli as more. afghanistan's independent election commission announced the result

thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with evidence and still ahead here on al-jazeera how west african the dishpans of fight the cross border attacks plaguing their countries i'm rob reynolds on the us mexico border where president trump's border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in north america. and in sport its only hope this week the boys at the winter sports world cup final will have a little let's. say we have a developing a thai food making its way towards the philippines you can see that a large massive cloud and it is getting larger is pushing towards central parts of the philippines by the time we come to christmas eve going on into christmas day it will become a typhoon by that stage punches way 3 and out into the open waters of the south china sea sustained winds at the moment of around 80 kilometers per hour but it will strengthen as we go on through the next 24 to 36 hours already starting to see some showers pushing in for

thousands of victims of mexico's shootings in part 2 will tell their stories john homan al jazeera mccully. voting is underway in a spec to stan's parliamentary elections where there have been major human rights reform since the last elections back in 2016 they include people with criminal convictions being allowed to vote and a minimum minimum number of c. male candidates but the 5 registered parties still have to operate within strict rules laid out by the government hoda abdel-hamid before snap from the capital tashkent. it's a show that at 1st done and then galvanized the country allows political debate unscripted edited a 1st news because. there have been 29 others over the past 3 months where a wide range of topics were discussed often putting the candidates on the spot to the point that this party leader admitted it was big politicians lack the courage to watch them and some not that we didn't anticipate this level of success it was difficult at 1st because politicians went ready for this but then they prepared and were able to answer questions they didn't expect. people have become