A bleak christmas in parts of the philippines as the country struggles with the aftermath of two Tropical Storms in quick succession. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up pope francis is the faithful to turn the power of fear into the power of charity as he draws attention to the plight of refugees. In peru a president ial pardon sparks charges of a corrupt political deal. And is part of our special day of coverage of the holy land we look at jerusalem and why the city lies at the heart of three faiths. After leaving a trail of devastation across the southern philippines Tropical Storm tembin is heading towards vietnam thousands of flood low lying areas where the capital city has closed schools. Made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash flooding and landslides and it killed more than two hundred people in reports. This scale of the destruction caused by Tropical Storm tembin is becoming clear as rescue workers reach remote communities heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred forty five kilometers an hour triggered landslides and flash flooding devastating to higher towns and villages on the island of mindanao the countrys second largest tens of thousands of people have been displaced and are spending christmas in emergency shelters i think the poorest pharmacist and i are going to say you know. How. You know i did so and it wasnt. You know but i was at. The moment and i showed that basically. The philippines is battered by around twenty major storms a year and tendin is one of the worst of two thousand and seventeen disaster Officials Say people ignored warnings to get out of coastal regions and move away from riverbanks among the areas battered by the storm was met our week at Lakeside City that was provided months earlier this year under siege by groups sympathetic to i sold more than a thousand people died and around three hundred thousand were displaced. The philippines is still recovering from typhoon haiyan that killed nearly eight thousand people and left two hundred thousand families homeless and central philippines in two thousand and thirteen Tropical Storm tembin is now making its way across the South China Sea towards vietnam thousands have fled southern areas and schools have been closed in the capital city all part of efforts to prevent the sort of devastation tempted caused to the philippines india style ill just zero. Correspondent bright is in a gun city he joins us live now rob how bad is it where you are. Well we are peter in the city of el again as you said alongside one of the rivers that burst its banks here where im standing a couple of days ago this was simply a torrent of water the river burst its banks it brought down the sides of the banks here and simply washed away the shelters the homes of people whove been living alongside here here as elsewhere people were ordered to evacuate they did evacuate from here we know from that report that there is some contention about people refusing to leave the city citing to stay and possibly because of the Holiday Season that was upcoming and its making a very serious the area by doing so but people it did leave here its now a very forlorn sight as people return to see whats left of their homes here alongside river banks and also elsewhere in these parts of mindanao alongside some of the hillsides with a growing population you are finding People Living in more vulnerable places and though it is those are the people who have suffered the most who have the least to lose if you like a now returning to their homes picking up what they can find to restart to start all over as we know from their report there also Evacuation Centers set out the people will be looking to return and the some of the priorities now are in the more ammo to areas where in one of the more important cities in mindanao there are more remote areas that still need to be reached by heavy equipment to continue in what should still be the search efforts for any survivors it has to be said that as time goes on they are probably now looking for more for bodies as the death toll continues to rise from this and the problem is trying to reach some of those more remote communities are the bridges as roads have been simply washed away peter is anyone there saying as to how long it might be until those people have been evacuated will go back to those areas i mean how long until those areas are livable again rob. This is an area part of the world of the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world you get Something Like twenty major storms every every year people are actually used to being evacuated to returning to see what damage has been done and to starting over and there is a kind of an acceptance of that and you are seeing that on the faces of the people here this is one more storm admittedly one of the worst storms that people in this part of mindanao ive had for a number of years a lot of people suspect here that it is changing climate that these kind of storms you dont we see further north in the philippines but at the particular problem that people here around killing and have is that it is this area of conflict more are we where this ongoing fighting has been continuing is very close to here in fact a number of the people whove been displaced by that fighting are in temporary accommodation here and illegal and those people a day are told they cant return home to their areas because thats a conflict affected area its not safe to return and now they dont know even if they have any homes there to return to peter rob thank you. Ok lets take you live now to the vatican where the Pope Pope Francis the head of the Roman Catholic church is delivering the annual christmas message is known as the viet albie which translates to the city of rome and to the whole world hes expected to call on the world to help ease the suffering of people stuck in conflicts. On Christmas Eve pope francis spoke about the plight of refugees and migrants around the world he compared refugees to mary and joseph recounting the biblical story of how they had to travel from nazareth to bethlehem but found no place to stay the pope stress that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere. And use a paid media. Phone so many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of joseph and mary we see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day we see the tracks of millions of people who did not choose to go away but driven from their land and leaving behind their dear ones who must see. The same fate impels us to make space for a new social imagination and not to be afraid of experiencing new forms of relationship in which none have to feel that there is no room for them on this earth christmas is a time for turning the power of fear into the power of charity at. The Un Refugee Agency says the world is now witnessing the highest level of displacement of people ever recorded more than sixty five Million People have been forced to leave their homes almost a third of them refugees there are also ten million stateless people whove been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as Education Health care employment and freedom of movement the u. N. H. C. R. Estimates twenty people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution. Now libya has been a major transit point for refugees trying to get into europe hundreds of died trying to cross the mediterranean. As in tripoli libya as the biggest road for migrants and refugees has been recently receiving huge traffic of migrants crossing the libyan southern borders coming from african countries now during that tough journey their migrants take through in the Libyan Desert they face a lot of violations a lot of violence at the hands of people smugglers we hear stories about extortion about violence some planes in some cases rape many or several migrants die. At the hands of of the people or smugglers now they try to reach the libyan coast to see of to york to europe now libyas coast guard says that they have to arrest these migrants as long as they try to save of libyan coast and as long as the are in libyan territory of what us now libyas coast guard bring is those usually brings those migrants to Detention Centers and in detention in the Detention Centers the supervisors there say they deny committing any violations against migrants or a few g. s and they say on the contrary they try to provide them food and health care the u. N. General assembly is urging me and mark to end its crackdown on the Muslim Minority has passed a resolution calling for the appointment of a u. N. Special envoy full Citizenship Rights and access for aid workers the document was approved despite opposition from china and russia more than six hundred forty thousand. In march were kind states since august the u. N. Says they need to return home. Perus former president. Has been pardoned because his health is failing his supporters celebrated the news outside the clinic where hes been since saturday for a severe drop in his Blood Pressure which mori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights crimes committed during his ten year presidency. Has marianna sanchez. He spent years in prison campaigning for his release. He never acknowledged most of the crimes for which he was sentenced to twenty five years. The former president always claimed his innocence for the murders and disappearances by a government sanctioned death squad critics say the government was the most corrupt in peruvian history. His supporters created the seventy nine year old former leader with the defeat of shining path rebels in the one nine hundred ninety s. Rians where at the cusp of the conflict that killed thousands of people supporters also safe he helped save the economy from collapse for years his children campaigned for his release name he was ill and frail but he didnt have a terminal illness a condition for a humanitarian pardon. Denied him the freedom he craved. My greatest pain is to acknowledge that for part of the population for him or he was able to victimize himself looking for a depressing image as a hostage of the judiciary. An opinion poll in may said fifty nine percent approval and favored living go supporters say its time for him to have a quiet life. To stay at home live serenely enjoys granddaughters enjoy the people who love him and be free to decide to do whatever he wants. Many peruvians who for years opposed the president ial pardon were opened a book in what is when. If he asked for forgiveness for the crimes he committed but for the families of the victims gesture was never enough. Families of the victims say they feel betrayed preceded by the. Promised he wouldnt pardon for he wanted to win votes. To win justice for more than two decades. But. They dont care about our stuff about our desolation and the pain we still endure and we will never find peace. Hes old well im old too and i havent found justice yet he must complete a sentence despite his release from facing another trial a case is pending for the deaths of six people if convicted for the money faces another twenty five years in prison. Families of the victims say they wont stop demanding justice and hope to see him behind bars again but. Well just a little later fujimoris daughter spoke to reporters i remember the morning we have been with my father just now hes obviously very happy however he will have to stay in the intensive care for a few more days and he will have to stay in the hospital until the doctors say hes fully recovered. Members of the Afghan Parliament of someone Senior Security officials after at least nine people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan Capital kabul it happened near an Intelligence Agency building in kabul shushed neighborhood. It was responsible. Has more from kabul. That track happened Early Morning rush hour when people go to their work do their jobs and the Suicide Attack happened in cheshire our area of kabul this is a diplomatic it happens to be near the u. S. Embassy need to headquarters and also the headquarters for the Afghan Intelligence now the sources telling us that a suicide bomber believed to be a teenager on foot walking to the through the Afghan Intelligence checkpoint and detonated his explosives now number of Afghan Intelligence officers were killed outside. Bystanders happen to be. Caught him by this attack and and and this attack has happened in a time when the Afghan Interior Ministry has launched a week Long Campaign of stopping illegal vehicles with tinted windows people carrying illegal and and vehicles with the with no registration there is very tight security around the city even at the checkpoints there are canine dogs searching vehicles but still these measures havent worked quite destructively going through and thats not the end of it whilst it looks like its disappearing there is going to be more coming back particularly the Northern Home sure the Higher Ground but on the lower ground in her car the temperature has dropped in value one of the reasons is that this cold air rest of the warm water of the sea of japan it tends to produce these showers which of course now are of snow were back down to zero below on the Korean Peninsula similar levels beijing is just above freezing the real cold still tucked up in mongolia but its not staying there hes trying to push theres even more of a forecast for snow rather more extensive spare even at lower levels and says come wednesday but the suns i flicked rain prince to watch you so. Stay sub zero i would go a bit more tucking in of this rather more humid and less cold and quiet here in Southern China whilst its still pretty warm thirteen in shanghai with that sort of northerly breeze the cloud becomes quite extensive in the middle of china was rain falling from hanoi science was partly influenced by tembin there are millions of what was recently a typhoon and is still fairly obviously going to worry people in vietnam and sudden thailand. To finally well ask about that but thats. What its not isnt that the set says the last. Of the world out of all of our cars and a bunch of the baton at the bottom in the First Episode of a two part series aljazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs. Sports during the endless chase at this time. Welcome back you with aljazeera a reminder of our top stories so far this hour thousands of people in the southern philippines are spending christmas in emergency shelters after Tropical Storm tembin left a trail of destruction more than two hundred people are dead after landslides and flash floods. Pope francis the head of the Roman Catholic church has delivered his annual christmas message known as the irby et orbi which translates to the city of rome and to the whole world he is expected to call on the world to help ease the suffering of people stuck in a conflict. And in peru the former president Alberto Fujimori has been pardoned on Health Grounds the seventy nine year old was taken to hospital last saturday after a severe drop in his Blood Pressure hes been serving a twenty five year jail sentence for corruption kidnapping and human rights violations. The economy and the fight against corruption will be key issues when liberians vote in a president ial election runoff on tuesday the former football star george weah is taking on the countrys Vice President joseph. The winner will replace president Ellen Johnson sirleaf is governed liberia for twelve years in the capital monrovia. The liberian elections happening in the middle of the Festive Season but is not holding back the people of liberia theres a huge momentum here for people to cast their vote these. Elections very crucial to the future of liberia it will be the fos time in more than seventy three years that there will be democratic. Of power that is if that is also hold supporters of the leading contender for the presidency george will also say that they do not want a repeat of what happened in two thousand and five when george where contested against Ellen Johnson sirleaf defeated high in the first round only to lose in the second round he warned the fossil and held in october and they say they dont want to see a repeat of that happening on tuesday supporters of the Vice President joseph who is the candidate for the Ruling Unity Party also really unhappy that Ellen Johnson sirleaf the incumbent president did not support him and instead chose to block george away and they say they will to chart a lesson at the ballot box to show that house of fort doesnt matter after a long walk i will be the next president of liberia how it is its not known who is going to win and the east is still an open race and it could go either way. The u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital is being discussed around the world today were exploring the holy land and how this religious place has become increasingly politicized kerry forces from occupied East Jerusalem. Its within the city limits but out on its own. Refugee camp is cut off from the rest of jerusalem by the israeli separation barrier the Israeli Government provides few services here the Palestinian Authority isnt committed to provide any local activist. Says many of his neighbors do it least have one thing official status as residents of occupied East Jerusalem. This Identity Card means a lot for us the right of return our existence in jerusalem our daily connection our children and our workers our businesses and our mosques and churches and now israels Jerusalem Affairs minister is proposing to redefine the camp and other palestinian neighborhoods outside the wall is no longer part of the city to be governed instead under a new regional municipality. Betty hirshman from jerusalem Campaign Group here i mean this is the objective is clear it would allow israel to shift one hundred twenty thousand palestinians who are roughly one third of the entire palestinian population. Thats one half of the equation the other is to increase jerusalems Jewish Population by counting in some one hundred forty thousand Israeli Settlers in the occupied west bank its all part of a two pronged strategy to change the demographics of jerusalem not just read designating tens of thousands of palestinians as outside the citys boundaries but also integrating illegal settlements here in the west bank into the jerusalem municipality in october the israeli Prime Minister was in one of those settlements promoting the plan known as the greater jerusalem. This place would be a part of the state of israel i support the greater drucilla bill which would enable jerusalem and its surroundings to develop in very many aspects. But plans to put it to a cabinet vote recently which show netanyahu citing pressure from the u. S. Administration as it formulates its peace plan. She has mapped jerusalem shifting lines for more than thirty years he sees a long term israeli plan coming to fruition its mean that we have. In this area one percent bonus demian. Percent jewish so if we speak about. The. Inside is about and thats why this plan carries such high stakes the policy north already which claims East Jerusalem as the capital of a future palestinian state as it would destroy any prospect of a two state solution kerry force it out is zero occupied East Jerusalem. Jordan stake in jerusalem has a long and a checkered history and has a big palestinian population and the king is the custodian of the al aqsa mosque compound King Abdullah is a close ally of america but he is against Donald Trumps decision on jerusalem alan fischer looks into the deep connections of the Jordanian Royal family with jerusalem. It stands as a broken monument to times past and big ideas nothing more than a shell this was to be a palace a statement by jordans late king hussein of his sovereignty over East Jerusalem. Of protection it was land here absorbed as the state of israel was born in one nine hundred forty eight and declared west jerusalem its capital the views are spectacular even on a cold winter day in one thousand nine hundred sixty five the king decided here this would be the site for his summer palace. There is a tour guide who tells visitors the history of the site he considered that but he studied and. Is one of his of his. Responsibility because of that he want to be near the top capitals the First Capital and the second going to be there for it. Maybe once where the plan was that this policy would be wonderful im a curious case it would have to team World Leaders and families think trees building what was slow i mean what human one nine hundred sixty seven its talk completely and forever. Jordan and the other countries lost the war the hill and Palestinian Leader who is here fell under israeli control apart from the graffiti the palace remains untouched to this day and i saw on by the jordanian family its been discussed this place could become a school or a hospital or some site for an International Group but one expert says that wont happen i dont know what. Theyre going to have they say is in the next the future for the area but. With it we are seeing the dont live there people of jordan the king of jordan the center of the king and ill call off to to do anything and to move it anything in the area. And so high on a hill in occupied East Jerusalem theres a stark reminder of rows and battles and wars over jerusalem a place where plans were made and the time stands still alan fischer aljazeera in occupied East Jerusalem. Now the world bank is warning today that the economies of the developing countries could collapse because of the rise of automation and. Its fear that robots making clothes and footwear will undercut the cost of human workers in factories in countries like bangladesh and vietnam in his second report on Artificial Intelligence our correspondent lawrence lee now considers what the impact of automation might be on the worlds working poor. A all over the western world goods are delivered to hungry consumers most of them manufactured half a world away over the seas by people who often earn virtually nothing and while the Fourth Industrial Revolution the age of robotics and automation promise is radically to alter the lives of people in the rich world it is by no means clear whether any of the benefits will be passed on to the walls working people some Global Brands are discussing whether to raise shore manufacturing from asian sweat shops to europe where three d. Princes might make clothes or shoes the world bank has projected that in some african or Asian Countries up to eighty percent of people might lose their jobs. If its true that many workers and many of them young women particular textile and Software Industries opportunity going to be out of a job or. Potentially radically reduced then to what extent will this lead to social unrest to social destitution and essentially a fundamental crisis at the heart that society others ask why someone who owns a factory in the far east would bother investing in expensive Robotic Technology but its far cheaper to keep paying workers a dollar a day the machine like that at the moment will be well beyond the reach of a factory owner in bangladesh or in china or vietnam for that matter. Secondly a machine like that is likely to break down fairly often because its its a very fine piece of equipment if it breaks down the whole factory and then many in a factory the entire factory comes to a standstill social unrest is already a fact of life it could get far worse so to the continued and probably growing movements of people except the west they may want to move to might be suffering job losses itself as automation takes over. If the future of the developing world is to be decided in places right there then frankly it looks pretty bleak either it seems robotics will increasingly be used to take jobs away from no traditionally associated with places like asia or those same workers will continue to exist on the same person for the ever and for years about the worst thing of all is that nobody seems to be talking about it there is however a growing understanding of how automation can help in emergencies here at Southampton University in southern england drones are being tested to fly medicines or food into dangerous or difficult places its simpler and potentially more effective than throwing bags out of planes you can send lots of little bits of aid to lots of little areas and its trivial and straightforward. Pinpoint areas in other words take the aid to where its needed and dropping it centrally in the rich World Robotics could take away many current jobs but it could also create new ones which havent even been trumped up yet but for those in the workshops of the world it could be disastrous and its coming only aljazeera london. And on tuesday as part of that series well let go of the wheel and the brakes as we drive into the age of fully wait for it fully automated cars. Ok updating all your top stories for you so far today thousands of people in the southern philippines are spending christmas in emergency shelters after Tropical Storm tembin left a trail of destruction more than two hundred people are dead after landslides and flash floods a state of emergency has been declared in several areas as the rescue efforts continue rob mcbride is in in again city one of those areas west affect it. Here where im standing a couple of days ago this was simply a torrent of water the river both its banks that brought down the side of the banks here and simply washed away the shelters the homes of people whove been living along right here here and now where people were ordered to evacuate they did evacuate from here we know from that report that there is some contention about people refusing to leave. Possibly because theyre the Holiday Season that was not coming. Lets just take you live to vatican city for the next thirty seconds or so the head of the Roman Catholic church using his Christmas Day address to call for a two state solution to resolve the standoff between israel and the palestinians earlier in his Christmas Eve message pope francis highlight the plight of refugees and migrants around the world speaking injuring Midnight Mass but francis stressed that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere. Perus former president Alberto Fujimori has been pardoned because his health is failing his supporters celebrates the news outside the clinic where hes been since saturday offered a severe drop in his Blood Pressure which he mori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses committed during his ten years of a presidency. M. P. s in afghanistan have summoned Senior Security officials after at least nine people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in kabul the attack happened near an intelligence building in the shushed iraq neighborhood eisel claimed responsibility the un is urging myanmar to end its crackdown on the minority gets passed a resolution calling for an appointment of a Un Special Envoy full Citizenship Rights and access for aid workers those are your headlines if you celebrate christmas have a great time up next inside story. 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