abducted are found two of them wounded but alive gunmen attacked a bridge project in a remote part of papua province on sunday all the construction work there's been stopped in the region for now an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian government rule for nearly fifty years let's go live now to step vasoline who has been following this story for us from jakarta so step what more are we hearing. yes we're talking about a very remote part here of indonesian especially a very remote part of where this incident has happened it's the high lands there's no road access there's no phone signal there and a group of soldiers and police have now climbed up the mountains have reached the first army post here which was actually also attacked late last night by this armed gunmen who are apparently according to police and military part of an independent group called themselves the free popcorn movement there they found four people wounded but alive they had shot wounds two of them were construction workers on the road this transpired highway that's currently being built by the government to b

construction work has been halted in the region until it's deemed safe to restart an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years let's go live now to jakarta al jazeera step boston is this step a very remote area are we clear yes as to what exactly has happened. yes indeed adrian it is a very remote area where this incident has happened it happened in the east very far east of the country in papar but also in a very remote part of it we're talking about the high lands there's no road access there's no phone access there and as we speak a soldier's are walking for another four hours to actually reach the location where this alleged killings have taken place the government is basically building this transpire road because it's of most poor region of the country and they want to bring some economy there but locally specially by these independent groups it's been accused as a project to get more control over the power plant and as you said there has been an uprising against indonesia for many years more than fifty six years actually and this weekend the past

disappearance of thirty one construction workers officers say gunmen attacked a bridge project in papua province in the east of the country on sunday they're looking at whether the workers have been killed or construction work has been halted in the region until it's safe an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years a surreal lanka's supremes cortez begun hearing a case and it reversing the president's decision to dissolve parliament and course the appalachians by the policy to c.n.n. has been barred from being appointed prime minister and till the matter is resolved it is the latest development in a political crisis that has gripped the country since late october and now fernando fernandez has more from outside sri lanka supremum court in colombo. a seven judge bench of the supreme court headed by the chief justice is sitting in the supreme court of the building you see behind me looking into a series of fundamental rights petitions now those petitions are challenging president by three policy forty two to dissolve parliament the decision he took to

gunmen two of the workers have been found alive but attacked a bridge project in a remote part of papua province on sunday they've been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years. the israeli army has begun destroying tunnels on the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to stop cross border attacks by hizbollah faces into northern israel israel's been boosting defenses along at eleven kilometers a stretch of the border for the past three years. this is a rare operations since hezbollah had the war with israel in two thousand and six we simply haven't seen this kind of operation in the north there's been what i would call a tense day tallents between israel and hezbollah of course are used to seeing israel demolish tunnels in the gaza strip and engage with hamas but not with hezbollah so this is sort of viewed as a kind of rare announcement and it's worth noting that before this operation began last night prime minister benjamin netanyahu flew to brussels to speak and alert the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o that this was taking place the united nations is ap

when you look at the meeting that happened in papua new guinea a couple of weeks ago, no agreement froms seem that china has backed down on some of its policies. oil prices down. the dollar down. the only thing up interestingly in the story is gold, always a safe haven in these times. one of the comments that struck me about the outlook is that struck me about the outlook is that last year and indeed in 2008 so many of the asset classes were considered safe havens, this year they are all down. next year or even this christmas, jose mourinho will perhaps be enjoying himself, all the papers are talking about the fact that he got a £15 million payoff, despite the fact that he gets the boot, as the daily express says. out of time in the independent. every paper has the money page. hands up, iam nota paper has the money page. hands up, i am not a football fern. this is an interesting story. i travel around the world to all parts of the world, what do people want to talk about, ceos, german, the premier league. —— fan. jose mourinho is a midi who i have heard about. he was known as the specia

negotiating strategy the souring relationship loomed large at a recent gathering of asia pacific leaders in papua new guinea and in a tough lee worded speech a few weeks earlier the u.s. vice president mike pence portrayed china as the new enemy there are so many points of friction between china and the united states that it's hard to keep count trade taiwan the south china sea dispute north korea and of course human rights and for that reason say some analysts it's possible that any deal done this weekend will be limited and short lived. china's leader has several things in his favor the trump doesn't she doesn't have to worry about elections in less than two years or a free press to hold him to account the state media can pronounce it any way they want but trump needs to have something that he can show his base and say look we won this first trade war with china that means china has a lot of leeway because they don't really need to worry about what looks good what the optics are like but the trade war is undoubtedly affecting china the shanghai stock market is among the worst performing indexes

victims of helicopter attacks on pro-inindependence activists in the ceceral highlalands of westt papua. the crackdown came on december 1 after r west papuans raised ther flag to mark the anniversary of indonesia's 1961 invasion. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i am one gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. for the second time this month, a guatemalan child has died in the custody of u.s. customs and border protection. eight-year-old felixix gomez alonzo died in new mexico on christmas eve after being detained since december 18. earlier in the day, he had been diagnosed with a common cold, given ibuprofen and antibiotics, and released. but the boy continued to become more ill throughout the day, becoming nauseous and vomiting. he was sent back to the same hospital, but fell unconscious along the way. he was pronounced dead just before midnight chchristmas morning. this follows the death of a seven-year-old indigenous guatemalan

twenty nine construction workers and missing and feared dead in a remote region of indonesia's papua after a suspected separatist violence it's believed separatist fighters attacked workers at a bridge project on sunday indonesian security forces and found two of the workers injured but alive construction on the transport bridge has been halted until the region is deemed safe of who has seen separatist violence since it was incorporated into indonesia in one nine hundred sixty nine steps and has more from jakarta. the incident took place in one of the most remote parts of indonesia in the highlands of pop why there is no road access and no phone signal in that area a group of soldiers and police have been hiking for hours and they have yet to reach a location where the suspected killings have taken place they have now reached an army base where they found four wounded people with gunshot wounds two of them were workers from the construction company they have been working on this transplant one highway which is a project by the current government of president joe credo don't want to b

at least 2a construction workers have been killed by separatists in its eastern province of papua, accordingilding a bridge, were shot. it's thought the murders happened after some of the workers took photographs of papuans marking what they consider to be their independence day, on december the first. britain's most prestigious contemporary art award, the turner prize, has been won by charlotte prodger, a sculpture and video artist. the jury praised her for the way she dealt with identity politics. this year's shortist was dominated by artists tackling political and social issues; all four entries on the shortlist were films or videos. scientists say some of the world's most unusual sharks and sting rays are on the brink of extinction because of threats like commercial fishing. 50 species are on the list, including the biggest fish in the sea, the whale shark. experts say losing even one of them would wipe out millions of years of evolutionary history. a new report has found a dramatic globalfall in terrorism in the past year. according to the global terrorism index, the number of people wh

negotiating strategy the souring relationship loomed large at a recent gathering of asia pacific leaders in papua new guinea and in a tough lee worded speech a few weeks earlier the u.s. vice president mike pence portrayed china as the new enemy there are so many points of friction between china and the you know.

construction work in the region has been halted until it's deemed safe enough to restart an armed group in papuahas been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years and the israeli army is starting to destroy tunnels on the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to prevent cross border attacks by hizbollah fighters into northern israel kemal has that for you in a little over twenty five minutes on as they were after today's edition of the stream. a recent un report is given with. the fight against climate change and there was threats like sea level rise of this year's climate talks in poland and the international community seized the opportunity to take concerted action starting with al jazeera the latest from the front lines of the climate crisis from the conference itself. hi emily could be today it's teresa mayes breck's a deal breaking apart an upcoming vote will decide the future of the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. tweet us your thoughts or leave them in our live you tube chat and you too could be in the stream. but it's prime minister theresa may has just days to whip

nine construction workers are missing and feared dead in a remote region of indonesia's papua after suspected separatist violence it's believed separatist fighters attacked workers at a bridge project on sunday indonesian security forces have found two of the workers injured but alive construction on a transport here bridge project has been halted until region is deemed safe. since it was incorporated into indonesia in one hundred sixty nine steps and has more from jakarta. the incident took place in one of the most remote parts of indonesia in the highlands of pop why there is no road access and no phone signal in that area a group of soldiers and police have been hiking for hours and they have yet to reach a location where the suspected killings have taken place they have now reached an army base where they found four wounded people with gunshot wounds two of them were workers from the construction company they have been working on this transfer of one highway which is a project by the current government of president joker who wants to bring some welfare to one of the poorest regions of ind

construction work in the region has been halted until it's deemed safe enough to restart an armed group in papua has been battling indonesian rule for nearly fifty years and the israeli army is starting to destroy tunnels on the border with lebanon israeli commanders say the aim is to prevent cross border attacks by hizbollah fighters into northern israel come all has that for you in a little over twenty five minutes on al-jazeera after today's edition of the stream . a research un report is given with seeds of the fight against climate change over with threats like sea level rise of this year's climate talks in poland and the international community see the opportunity to take concerted action with al-jazeera the latest from the front lines of the climate crisis from the conference itself. hi emily could be today it's teresa mayes breck's a deal breaking apart an upcoming vote will decide the future of the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. tweet us your thoughts or leave them in our live you tube chat and you too could be in the street. british prime minister theresa may has just days to whip the

at least 24 construction workers have been killed by separatists in its eastern province of papua, accordingmen, who were building a bridge, were shot. it is thought the murders happened after some of the workers took photographs of papuans marking what they consider to be their independence day, on i december. italian police say they have arrested the suspected new head of the sicilian mafia, 80—year—old settimo mineo. 45 other alleged mobsters were also arrested, in a major blow to organised crime on the mediterranean island. the previous head of the sicilian mafia died in prison last year. scientists say some of the world's most unusual sharks and stingrays are on the brink of extinction because of threats like commercial fishing. 50 species are on the list, including the biggest fish in the sea, the whale shark. experts say losing even one of them would wipe out millions of years of evolutionary history. a new report has found a dramatic globalfall in terrorism in the past year. according to the global terrorism index, the number of people who have died from terrorist—related attacks fel

negotiating strategy the souring relationship loomed large at a recent gathering of asia pacific leaders in papua new guinea and in a tough lee worded speech a few weeks earlier the u.s. vice president mike pence portrayed china as the new enemy there are so many points of friction between china and the united states that it's hard to keep count trade taiwan the south china sea dispute north korea and of course human rights and for that reason say some analysts it's possible that any deal done this weekend will be limited and short lived. china's leader has several things in his favor that trump doesn't she doesn't have to worry about elections in less than two years or a free press to hold him to account state media can pronounce it any way they want but trump needs to have something that he can show his base as they look we won this first trade war with china that means china has a lot of leeway because they don't really need to worry about what looks good but the optics are like the trade war is undoubtedly affecting china the shanghai stock market is among the worst performing indexes in the

al-jazeera the hook the kurdish region of northern iraq a critically ill refugees detained by australia and papua new guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting medical treatment last week australia's parliament failed to pass legislation to fly them out of the managers are in detention center meanwhile one detainee has been nominated for a prize recognizing human rights defenders. my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on manas arlin puppy guinea when i came here i was that twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from darfur they killed many people from our tripes i came to indian easier and i thought that indonesia was a signature to a convention one nine hundred fifty one convention that they can resettle people from everywhere but i was wrong the first time when i sleep in the knees year to song of the last five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan and made it to christmas island the day when we had been removed fro

refugee detained by australia on papua new guinea's man asylum for more than five years has been nominated for a prestigious prize the martin and also award recognizes human rights defenders. left are for and sudan in two thousand and thirteen he was picked up all travelling from indonesia to australia by boat and recent months many men have started new lives in the us but advocates say a mental health crisis is now gripping those who remain there my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on models are in poverty guinea when i came here i was twenty years old and no two hundred five i'm from darfur they killed many people from all of tripes i came to in the uneasier and i thought that indonesia was a signature to a conversation one nine hundred fifty one conversation that they can resettle people from everywhere but i was wrong the first time when i flew to indonesia all bowed to song of last five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan and ma

when he plans to turn things around al-jazeera had a critically ill refugees detained by australian papua new guinea will have to wait until next year for any chance of getting treatment in australia last week and peace failed to pass legislation that would have allowed them to leave the man asylum prison camp meanwhile detainee has been nominated for a prize recognizing human rights defenders here's his story in his very own words. my name is abdul aziz i'm an advocate for refugee on models are in poverty guinea when i came here i was a twenty years old and now twenty five i'm from darfur they killed many people from our tribes i came to indian easier and i thought that indonesia was a signature to a conversation one nine hundred fifty one convention that they can resettle people from everywhere but i was wrong the first time when i fully to indonesia to song of the last five of my friends i still see their faces every day but i just trying to picture what happened to those people arrested by in the police and they were trying to deport me back to sudan and made it to christmas ali the d

the company is making a $200 push for south america and mozambique and papua new guinea.ft says interest in rate hikes have affected global prices. he says under conservative scenarios, he sees oil prices remaining relatively close to where they are now at $53 a barrel. that is your bloomberg business flash. alix: joining us now on oil prices, tina davis. gershon distenfeld is still with us. we had a gain of over 1% for brent. mr. novak saying we could always have a meeting if we need to, stability will come into the oil price. it seems like this session has wiped out that gain. tina: london is close for boxing day holiday, it has been fairly illiquid in the oil market so far today. we did see brent drop below 50, which is a nice round number. doesn't mean anything from a technical standpoint but it's worth noting. we saw a lot of noise from the russians yesterday. alexander novak, the russian quoted inister on tv, this paper, we also heard from a kremlin spokesperson to talk about oil prices. what they are saying repeatedly is relax, cuts are coming, this will be sorted

at aipac, vice president pence aveiled a new plan to develop $1.7 billion electricity grid in papua new guinea. this involved japan, australia, new zealand. whereare concrete areas the united states is cooperating with its partners to advance alternatives. a key part of the administration efforts topproach is constrain chinese opportunities to invest in country. the u.s. to summarize unveiled a new transaction advisory fund. it would help countries evaluate potential chinese deal and not be taking advantage of in the way that happened in sri lanka. at aipac, vice president pence unveiled a transparency initiative. unclearils are fairly at this point p or from what i can discern, the u.s. was for investigative journalism entries where china is investing in the country making it harder for the deals of chinaom with long-term leverage. there is also some significant initiatives. new smart cities partnership. a lot of activity on the u.s. side. i would argue, it is more coherent and comprehensive than what we have seen in the past. trending in a positive direction. all that being said, head

president pence aneiled a plan to build electricity grid in papua, new guinea.here are areas where the united states is cooperating to offerners alternatives to chinese backed investment. a key part of the approach is to constrain chinese opportunities to invest in countries. for example, the u.s., this unveiled a new transaction advisory fund, essentially to help countries evaluate potential chinese deals and not be taken advantage of in the way that happened in sri lanka. and then at apec, vice president indopacificed a new transparency initiative. the details are unclear at this but from what i can discern, looks like the u.s. will support investigative in country where is china is investing, making it cut theor beijing to .ype of backroom deals specific initiatives. there's a lot of activity on the argue it'snd i would more coherent and comprehensive than what we've seen in the past trending in a positive direction. that being the u.s.'s response remains a work in progress. the administration deserves credit, as do both political parties in congress, but the

still ahead for you in this news hour the indonesian province of west papua is hit by an earthquake aweek after a tsunami killed more than four hundred people putting a stop to diesel vehicles in germany why the government is under real pressure to clean up its act. and spoil the men's world cup downhill event in a timmy's overshadowed by a big crash from this competitor stay with us. how i would got some knowledge about the pushing into northwestern parts of europe being in a fair bit of cloud having said that because it's coming in from the atlantic we will see those temperatures nudging up quite nicely over the next couple of days further east while it's there but it's fairly cold and i will that around minus seven celsius fall moscow subzero stockholm as well cloud and rain that will make its way into norway into sweden to look at london twelve degrees celsius here with that mild tucking in is it bumps into the colder air we are going to see some bits and pieces of snow into that western side of russia some rain there pushing down into a potent snow once again over the alps for th

i had for you in this news hour the indonesian province of west papua is hit by an earthquake a weekafter a tsunami killed more than four hundred people putting a stop to diesel vehicles in germany why the government is under real pressure to clean up its act. and spoil the men's world cup downhill event in a timmy's overshadowed by a big crash from this competitor stay with us. how i would got some knowledge about the pushing into northwestern parts of here being in a fair bit of cloud having said that because it's coming in from the atlantic we will see those temperatures not quite nicely over the next couple of days further east while it's there but it's cold and i will that around minus seven celsius fall moscow subzero stockholm as well cloud and rain that will make its way into norway into sweden to look at london twelve degrees celsius here with that mild tucking in is it bumps into the colder air we are going to see some bits and pieces of snow into that western side of russia some rain there pushing down into a potent snow once again over the alps for the south we're looking