This is the news. Coming up in the next sixty minutes a choice to define the future of liberians votes in a president ial runoff. For the unrest in peru police fired tear gas and fights with protesters angry at a decision to pardon the former president. Barred from running against a Prominent RussianOpposition Leader is told hes not eligible to run in next years president ial election. Including defending champions. In Cleveland Cavaliers. So polls are open in liberias president ial runoff thats expected to lead to the first democratic transition of power in seventy years the former wild footballer of the year george weah is taking on the current Vice President joseph block i in an election thats focused on creating jobs and fighting corruption. Reports now from the capital monrovia. In the contest for the liberian presidency this month former International Footballer do it well and start saying he received thirty eight percent of the votes cast in the foster round held in october hes opponent in the round of current liberian Vice President just a walk i got twenty eight percent of the vote its here in the car. That where grew up has been hyping his humble upbringing and style himself as the pro of pork and to date a man who knows exactly what liberians want from the government tension of politics we have a traditional voting along ethnic religious and regional lines where you were born and grew up is important there is a hope here thats when he becomes president he will help his community where dropped out of school at an early age to concentrate on playing football he applied his trade in liberia until he got a break to play for the french club a is more like oh and from there on to some of the worlds most glamorous clubs in two thousand and three where now is his intention to run for the presidency after taking on the incumbent president Ellen Johnson sirleaf to a second round vote in two thousand and five the footballer was bitten this is known as walk in the park this could be we as the he led in the first one in two thousand and five and phil to win in the second round this is wide open it could be president we have a president was. A former head of liberias Petroleum Refinery company and agriculture minister seventy two year old joseph. Has served as liberias Vice President since two thousand and six his tenure as Vice President will be remembered as a period of an interrupted peace no small feat in a country torn apart by years of civil. Considered a safe by many given his long experience of the highest echelons of power in liberia ambassador walker strongest point his credentials in Public Policy and the broad perception of him. On the. True this line around he has an honesty capital. In liberia where theres been so much reports of corruption hes managed to keep on touched he will have to persuade many liberians still that he can do it differently than he has done for more than a decade many hell hold the government responsible for failing to improve their lot and i have a joins us now live from monrovia. The hood up people voting today whats the turnout like. While everyone was. Long hauling stations is about two hours since the voting. Is expected to be. The foster round where there was seventy five. Because of course this is. Just two candidates they want. To bring. All these. Greaves shes the chair paul some of the mush most Civil Society consul thank you very much for joining us and do you expect to see. In this i mean today. I was a yes and nor will anyone know why. In october when we had a elections we had twenty candidates and each of those candidates had to follow and today you have to. So you expect all the followers of the candidate to come out but you also a half. Paul representative as well himself had to follow us. Now were standing in i expected ten hours because for me as all this entire election is not about it when a candidate but this is in a leg shuns in october or rather is about a decision as to well i want to go so based on that fact it turned out a mill one know why you dont have a lot skew as there was in the ten is because you only have two president s today and the process is not as tedious as it was in in october you had two sets of ballot you had a balance of twenty candidates for president that you had to check and then you had also had a ballot of representative some of the district had twenty eight president contesting some of them had five some other had started so the number of prices that were contesting the ballots of very long it was a different poll says. Most of the people weve been talking to tell us what they want is a continued wish of the whole year. To piece the. Hard since one thousand and nine. President. And leave how much of a challenge would be would it be for whoever takes over from home pressed up off a correction pieces fifteen years. In two thousand and three we had the signing of the comprehensive peace accord in our crowd so in fifteen years three years of interim government twelve years of madames the least we have been at peace with ourselves now moving far one was liberians want to ensure that at the end of the day they can continue to go to sleep and be. Of running to and he was to all the fourteen years of this. You have two contestants who are looking to. Ensure that it. Was standing one will want to add these two candidates what do they. Know i can say that their Vice President. Immediate step to the president he almost anyone has a reason all the Different Things we know that. He was a part of. Ambassador also some. Peace ambassador. How to manage the peace yes. But i mean. Im not. So much from his group so he will talk about this later on thank you very much at all right now but he thinks they will have a lot of their reporting live from monrovia russian Opposition Leader alexina valley has been barred from running in next years president ial election hes been told that hes ineligible because of a criminal conviction from best moment a charge that he says was politically motivated but all the is now calling for a boy cause of the march vote polls show president Vladimir Putin is on course to be reelected comfortably which would keep him in the kremlin until twenty twenty four hours a serious worry chalons reports from moscow. This was no surprise at all really how i mean i have been talking with colleagues yesterday and weve been speculating that there was maybe a small chance that the tightly controlled russian president ial system the electoral system here would be given a bit of a shake up and maybe there would be some fresh life breathed into it most people are assuming that person is going to march towards a fourth term in office when the elections are held in march next year but no that was not to be the thirteen member panel of the Central Election Committee decided twelve votes with one abstention that they were going to bar the valley from running against putin now the the argument they use is that he has this prior conviction and therefore is ineligible no valley has always said that although that may be the election rules actually the constitution which should have primacy says that any one of sound mind who is not in jail can run in the elections so hes going to take this to the Constitutional Courts to watch them to make a decision this was a Heated Exchange at times he was saying that the panel should do the right thing for once in their lives that nobody is holding a gun to their heads and that they should stop messing around with the election the panel fired back saying that he was brainwashing kids that he was disrespecting the Election Commission and that they hinted he was politically irrelevant anyway now what is now and we do next will of course are said hes going to take this to the Constitutional Courts but he is also saying that his supporters should boycott the election and he is saying that yes there will be street process he hasnt set a date for these yet but hes saying that when the protests hits they will be nationwide lets talk to get markoff who is the director of the institute for Political Studies in moscow former kremlin adviser good to have you with us as you heard there in the valley says the constitution doesnt bar him from running and that the constitution outweighs the constitution electoral law. How do you think the Constitutional Court will will view that little except that argument. Not. Enough money. And. Lets see if there are a lot. Cheaper to. Buy court for. The. Lawyers theyre. Criminals so why does president putin view election of as such a threat. Our public nearly got in a lot. Of red in the running but what will there be a lot was in the army you can stop the war but i mean every joining gratia and you know what im going on about are you going to send mark dont you weve got. A big problem with that but if youre not one it doesnt weve been every order a medic and that isnt generally want to undermine to get him or rush on. Election and who want to appear russian. But i think all these guys. Who are finally army. Dream im not told but well be going in there and so well and you know weve been there all really well and so our political or our using we got a. Role in this but the budget was inaudible and it wont be what do you and we are outside why are wanton rushing going to get many thanks to the amount of staff live from moscow many approaches but the quality of the the sound on that now nigerias military says that it stops an attack by suspected boko haram fighters on the outskirts of the northeastern city of my degree heavy gunfire was reported in the one lie area as the army forced off the attackers swell the number of casualties remains unknown its thought that many women and children have been injured more now from al jazeera as an address in a butcher. According to security sources weve talked weve spoken to a short while ago but i was repelled by the military but it lasted a long time i was in this is a corking about cyclists arriving instead of the pickup trucks and thence talking to a test fire firing their guns and going to exculpate in the mall area apparently they started with a military or security checkpoint there now the sources weve spoken to said hes too early to say how many people died because of late getting attacked and that area has been cordoned off and he is being secured by the Nigerian Army there and that but that source also confirmed to me that most of the people affected well indeed women and children he particularly transported three people from that area to the hospital inside made a good move that by the way is just a few kilometers from known eastern idlers biggest city make a quick my degree has always been in the process of that crisis that city but the military stopped them from taking the city they have occupied lots of territory which by the way assad now they have lost to the military and of course the Regional Forces to fight out of motives to magadan parts of the moon chad and measure the public for the time being the situation in my degree and on the outskirts of my to go at the outskirts of my degrees come. In peru thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest against the popping of president former president albert of forty mori he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders and disappearances that were committed during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. Ballasts reports. Of. Chaos in lima these peruvians are furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president pedro public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political career diesel Oil Companies im afraid of seeing all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. Fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squads during his time in office he lived from one thousand nine hundred ninety until two thousand critics say his was the most corrupt government in peruvian history. Proteus started on sunday the families of his victims lead the charge. To try to fit if any im angry because i think its a violation of the memory of her family members its a violation of the fight for the relatives for justice and truth the reason for the protests is inside this hospital the frail seventy nine year old fujimori is suffering from low Blood Pressure and hostile arrhythmia. He recorded this message with his son came Merry Christmas he says. Critics say it was cain g. Who secured the pardon hes a congressman in the majority Popular Force posse thats led by his cystic acre and voted to save president from impeachment last week critics say it was in exchange for his fathers pardon the president has defended his decision to. Pollan fujimori those most a city then its obvious to all of us that the government he inherited at the beginning of the ninetys the country was in a chaotic and violent crisis incurred significant transgressions of the law as far as democracy and human rights are concerned but i also believe his government contributed to National Progress im convinced that those of us who believe in democracy cannot allow Alberto Fujimori to die in prison going to. The con and was bet by a silent majority a survey in may found sixty percent of peruvians wanted fujimori free supporters created him with the defeat of the shining path in saving the economy from collapse. The fujimoris critics the death squads still hold them with a hes imprisoned or not they say they will voice the calls for justice bellus al jazeera here with the news from aljazeera still to come on the Program South koreas government is reconsidering its plans for more Nuclear Power plants well tell you why and its been four months since hurricane swept through florida will visit one Farming Community that still struggling to recover and a little later in sport the fourth ashes cricket test is on the way between australia and england far will be here with all the details. A powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded typhoon tembin also defied weather forecasts and did not make landfall in vietnam is because delta where hundreds of thousands of people were told to leave homes but experts say that heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage in the region the storm killed at least two hundred people in the philippines the bride has more now from the island of mindanao in the philippines where relief and aid efforts on the way. This is the township of too bad its probably one of the worst affected areas of one of the worst affected provinces in mindanao we are down river that was the site of a surge of water that came through here if i can stand back and just give you a quick look at the kind of damage and trail of destruction that it left a torrent of water came down here leaving all of these boulders some of them the size of cars these werent here a couple of days ago taking with it this surge of water more than one hundred houses sadly twenty nine people are confirmed to have died here a number of the bodies are being kept at a makeshift mortuary just a short distance away while the search continues in this area for a further sixteen people who are missing and the search is being conducted some six kilometers downstream it gives you an idea of the strength of the power of the water that came through here all of mindanao like this area are assessing the damage from this storm and looking at ways of being more prepared the next time and the philippines as it is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world does take Disaster Preparedness very seriously and invest a lot in infrastructure also in Awareness Training to be ready for the next time but here in mindanao given the security situation it is an added complexity it makes it harder to introduce any of those plans but the philippines has to think in terms of introducing those things given what we are seeing people tell us here about stronger storms and people certainly here believe it is the evidence of Climate Change that these storms are going to be the shape of things to come to his ears to mounting an apology from the United Arab Emirates after a band to new zealand female citizens from boarding flights heading to the gulf states as soon as he and government barred Emirates Airlines flights in response says the ban was put into place by the u. A. E. Last. Countrys Intelligence Services raised security concerns regarding female two new zealand passport holders. We are not part of emirates we are suffering country and they should deal with us according to what normally happens in relations between two countries up to the continuous calls with the immoralities through our ambassador in abu dhabi it appears they have lifted the ban but they did not give us details on how the ban was lifted hospitals in gaza been forced to cancel operations after cleaners went on strike over delayed salary payments the Health Ministry says the planned surgeries cannot go ahead as operating theatres are not ready for cleaning staff are demanding overdue you pay from the ministry which is run by the National Consensus government Cleaners Union says that its workers have not received their wages for several months but Israeli Court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager a mother and cousin they were arrested a week ago after this video was posted online it shows sixteen year old one had me pushing and hitting an israeli soldier the incident reportedly happened after a relative was shot in the face by Israeli Forces and critically injured i had as appeared in several other videos challenging israeli soldiers. The u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital is being discussed around the world the city is holy for people from three faiths but at the core of the issue is an occupation that shows no sign of ending so how do you reconcile a conflict without disrupting the right to worship for all we spoke to historian widely known as the atlas of palestine. Jerusalem is palestinian longer than london is endless is muslim and christian population have been living there for thousands of years they have no theory that they have been there long time ago and now they are returning they have never left jerusalem and they were absolute majority of population until recently when the colonial jewish european settlement started in palestine there are no legal basis whatsoever for israel to occupy or to declare sovereignty on jerusalem there is a natural right for anybody from any faith Muslim Christian and jew to live there and worship peacefully what shipping peacefully doesnt mean that you kill people take their homes and kick them out there was no motivation by early zionists about jerusalem from a religious point of view they wanted only to expand the area applied in palestine to make israel and when that includes at least western jerusalem that will attract more jews from abroad to come to become citizens and palestine the palestinian claim is very simple they always lived in palestine they all lived in jerusalem even before it became christian and then after that it became largely muslim even before that cananites the palestinians are the natural inhabitants of police star and regardless of the religion they have adopted the time so to talk about people who were there and then came back to recover something they claim to have lost two thousand years ago is indian it disingenious is really is very strange in eight hundred seventy one the british said. Aint a mission to palestine to make a set of eight of but a stern they spent four years surveying palestine and they produced twenty six maps and ten volumes and in that they have stated that all studies have shown that the palestinians we met at the end of the last century are the same palestinians who have been living there for thousands of years so who is the foreigner a foreigner who came from the ghettos at least in europe to look at the country of palestine and to claim that the people who live there for a thousand years are not natives of the country they are who are the foreigners they are the natives and that is something not accepted by any part in the world except those who believe in racism and about a tired. Meteorologist richard and were here with a weather update for us next then we meet the family of a six month old baby who was killed during the recent election violence in kenya. Please press the automation to please the congo to meet in a series of places where the development of Driverless Cars could drive thousands white out of a job well tell you why and in sport one of the worlds most grueling your braces kicks off with a collision on the stoplight far well have that at around twenty minutes time. By the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. To the first snowfall on a winters day. Well obviously i thought wed take a look at the progress of tembin what was Tropical Storm temple and then typhoon tembin and now nothing more than a tropical depression you can see the master cloud associated with vaguely i think a lot of the significant cloud has been blown away to the north the latest sighting we have from the joint Typhoon Warning Center actually puts it in the gulf of thailand you see how the rainfall totals have decreased as its come further towards the west massive totals over the Spratly Islands just a fraction of what happened over parts of of the philippines themselves and then decreasing rapidly as it went towards vietnam so the Current Situation is that tropical depression tembin is just in the to reaches of the gulf of thailand and it will then just move across towards Southern Thailand over the next twenty four to thirty six hours the wizard particularly strong about thirty thirty five Kilometers Per Hour still some fairly big waves associated so i think its going to be rather choppy here would like to be diving or holiday making in this particular area of the next twenty four to forty hours but in terms of a major rainfall feature it doesnt look as though its going to be that much of a. Issue so that as the picture as we head through into when the state plenty of showers through the gulf of thailand meanwhile across the southern philippines is still looking fairly wet but having said that we all keep. On developments further towards the east because in the coming days we could see another significant still depression affecting the southern part of the philippines. The weather sponsored by qatar race. Begins. But it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of Saddam Hussein is. Something high they have here a significant propaganda. And guess what not one. Site was found in iraq since one thousand nine hundred ninety one iraq a deadly deception at this time on al jazeera. It sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses its like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question then sort of throw their hands up in the air and say i dont know i was just nominee director were doing an investigation into. Ukraine could you a bribes youve been corrupt been not corrupt the just the presidency aljazeera investigations the only gox coming soon. Well again its good to have you with us adrian for the good here in doha with the news out from out of here our top stories voting is underway liberias president ial runoff thats expected to produce the first democratic transition of power in seventy three years liberias two point two million eligible voters have the choice between former footballer george we have all the current Vice President joseph walker. Thousands of people have demonstrated in peru after former president s Alberto Fujimori was pardoned due to poor health he served around half of his twenty five year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption. And a powerful storm left a trail of death and destruction of the philippines has been downgraded failing to make landfall in vietnam weather experts say that heavy rain and strong winds though from Tropical Storm ten binns weather system could still cause damage in the region. People in south korea have had their say in the last public hearing before the government finalizes its plans for the countrys Energy Supply the president wants to phase out reliance on coal and Nuclear Power to expand the use of Renewable Energy kathy novak reports now from. This is south koreas scenic southeastern region a popular Tourist Destination home to stretches of coastline and eighteen uclear reactors so when a magnitude five point four earthquake forced more than a thousand people to evacuate their homes in november some wondered if those Nuclear Reactors are safe she is so worried shes been protesting in the streets. That its almost impossible but. I was so scared when the earthquake happened here i had evacuated from my building but when the tremors continued the thought of the Nuclear Power plants exploding hard to me. More reactors are on the way during the Election Campaign president monday and promised to halt their construction but he reversed that position after public consultations found the majority of people wanted the existing projects completed the Environmental Organization greenpeace want safety reexamined we saw the. Significant increase of the people who are concerned about the safety of Nuclear Reactors to tourists. The twenty eleven fukushima disaster in japan happened just across the sea its not hard for South Koreans to imagine the worst Case Scenario but a tsunami triggered by a magnitude nine earthquake caused by that catastrophe and experts say that sort of event would be extremely unlikely here in a statement korea hydro a Nuclear Power the company that runs this plant says the newest reactors being built here are designed to withstand earthquakes sixty three times more powerful than the five point eight magnitude quake that hit the nearby city of film due in twenty sixteen that was south korea strongest earthquake since records began in one nine hundred seventy eight. Locals are still rebuilding many replacing traditional ceramic roof tiles with more affordable and sturdy metal sheets even if you church quakes damaged homes again uclear power advocates say the plants are designed to contain any radiation leaks that define a physical barrier the caption containment is Strong Enough to withstand any kind of the significant creek joe myung moon says Nuclear Power must be part of south koreas Energy Supply the government still wants to phase it out over time. In the meantime the Energy Ministry has told South Koreans that close inspection of power plants revealed no damage from the latest earthquake Kathy Novak Al jazeera also in south korea. Twenty seventeen draws to a close were looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year through the eyes of five families around the world today were hearing from a kenyan family who lost a six month old daughter during the recent Political Violence reports from. Joseph and his wife linda are still trying to come to terms of the killing of the six month old samantha pendle. They say she died from a severe head injury when police raided their home in the town of. This was in august just after the fast president ial election and president was declared the winner. Supporters of Opposition Leader the took to the streets in protest. Police responding with tear gas batons and live ammunition joseph and learned so however to say they were attacked in their home at night. Its been an unpredictable and volatile Election Year in kenya the Supreme Court of a time to the oldest pol fighting irregularities of fast in africa. Then withdrew from the repeat election saying the Commission First needed reforms. Rerun went ahead anyway in october. One thousand eight percent of the vote sad of the one thousand million registered voters cast their ballots. All the while political brinkmanship deeply divided the country along partisan lines continue street confrontations between police and protesters only making things worse more than thirty people including. Baby panda have died in the violence since august and i used to play here and on that night in august her family and neighbors say police came banging on doors they used tear gas to force people out of their houses pendle was in her mothers arms when they were being beaten she did not stand a chance does mother doubt she will ever vote again and that they should pay and i wanted i came back. I didnt know that that. Vote was an informative one. Time whenever theyd be election at all as i remember that. During election time. She also says they will continue to seek justice for their daughter catherine. West in kenya. The day on wednesday on aljazeera you can see the fifth and final report in our series one year five families to more officers on the crisis on the Korean Peninsula how its put up families will tell you about a father and son who havent seen each other for more than forty eight years al jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist mark potter same its been more than a year now since he was arrested and jailed in egypt the same sick used of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which both he and aljazeera strongly deny hes repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. Canada is to expel a venezuelan diplomat two days after caracas threw out the canadian ambassador for criticizing its human rights record that as well as a best of the whod already been withdrawn from canada has been barred from returning there the government has also expelled a brazilian envoy who had accused of interfering in domestic affairs. One of the child stars from the classic film the sound of music has died. At the menzies bill rick played lisa the second eldest von trapps sister in the one thousand nine hundred sixty five musical she went on to have a fairly successful career as a Television Actress in the u. S. During the one nine hundred seventy s. And eightys she died in canada with brain cancer at the age of sixty eight when hurrican slammed into the u. S. State of florida in september the resulting damage was extensive since then much of the state has recovered but in one small Farming Community the daily struggle continues as Andy Gallagher reports. During the storm our house. Had several leaks the roof was not Strong Enough to sustain that when when hurricane hit this poor Farming Community on the edge of the everglades it took maria has his roof since then things have become worse repairs have yet to be made government help has been slow and the hakas family home is full of mold like many here the family couldnt afford insurance its hard even they even though they give you extra food stamps or whatever to the migrants or whatever it is its still hard baghdad i said theres twelve of us here and you know we have to split our food are you know you know we know where our portions residents are almost entirely dependent on agricultural jobs but the storm took close to the loss of income and damage to homes is being felt across the community democrates Community School built for migrants teachers so even the children are being affected. By not having jobs them having money for them thats a lot of stress going to have to borrow money to buy the food so theres a lot of stress for the childrens too if theyre not eating well they have a hard time coming to school and in a city where more than half the population of thirty five thousand lives below the poverty line they used to fending for themselves. In the weeks following the storm teams of volunteers have handed out food and supplies and demand hasnt slowed we make phone calls as soon as we get product in and different churches and different organizations show up and everything that comes in here its not a warehouse its a Distribution Center so as soon as it comes in it moves out a markedly was a poor Farming Community before hurricane hit and once its immediate needs of being met thats not going to change there was some government help there but what weve seen overwhelmingly is a community through its churches. And members of Society Coming together to get this place back on its feet i mean gallacher aljazeera. Florida. This year saw the emergence of Driverless Cars and trucks being tested on roads in the u. S. And the u. K. Developer say that more than a million lives a year could be saved if humans were not behind the wheel but that could also mean the loss of millions of jobs lawrence lane has the third part in our series on Artificial Intelligence. In this brave new world of Artificial Intelligence the first direct effect on all our lives will be in transport its already begun and it will change humanity in many ways its well enough known by now that Driverless Cars and lorries are being trials the future were told may involve our children not having to learn how to drive these plants the automation badminton plays the car to go to meetings in a scenario where this one even sitting in a simulator you feel a lack of control if you dont grip the wheel or press the brakes driving on for real involves a leap of faith. That is true and anything to the Steering Wheel you are now free to engage in other times the engineers here assure the technology is good enough for driverless travel on motorways if not in congested cities because theres too much going on. You know this is extremely busy and complex environment with lots of potential destructors people running across roads. So i think thats probably too complex weve certainly tried contemporary vehicle to make sure both on the motorway and in urban environments. They dont work at all in urban environments and even on motorways they require regular interventions by human drive less. The future it seems may be a combination of systems moving us from port to driverless port modern rail systems near airports are driverless and people use those quite happily the paths of the cars through space would be similar to if there were you know some physical guide to them so i think in some cases so long as the as the speeds are fairly low its probably a safe proposition true believers in driverless transport say we will be able to sleep or work in our vehicle but if that sounds good it will also mean the loss of millions of jobs and i wonder trades unions want to know how those jobs will be replaced were looking to see massive massive investment in electric vehicles driverless vehicles future mobility we need a great leap forward its easy to understand this concern in the u. K. There was a massive shock when car factories which had traditionally employed thousands of people all shut because of foreign competition this used to be the jackie were factory in the West Midlands now its going to be a warehouse the advent of Driverless Cars and wide automation could be a far greater shock still the British Government reckons that Driverless Cars could create up to thirty thousand jobs in the u. K. Which sounds ok until you hear evidence that says that in this part of england alone automation could cost three hundred thousand jobs it becomes pretty clear that governments like the one in britain in the job strategy for automation and quickly were asked to consider a world in which no humans at the wheel of a vehicle means accidents will not happen more than a million lives will be saved every year driverless vehicles will be on the roads and soon but will human souse jobs rely on transport except them and can we learn to trust the machines to safeguard the lives of those we love lawrence lee al jazeera london. Throughout the day on wednesday well have the fourth part in lawrence a series of Artificial Intelligence looking at how robots upbringing changes to health care. Scientists are finding vast amounts of Plastic Waste in the worlds oceans and one major u. S. City people have found a unique way to encourage recycling and to avoid single use plastic straw reports from. The streets around seattles famous Pike Place Market are full of cafes and restaurants the coffee is delicious but single use cups utensils and straws generate q. J. Amounts of paper and Plastic Waste in this environmentally conscious city an activist group called lonely whale is urging people to think twice about throw away items leaders called the campaign stronger since yeah so we really wanted to start with something simple that every single one of us every single day and that i had to stop the other great thing about there is an alternative dont you worldwide people use one billion Plastic Straws a day in the United States were five hundred million single use Plastic Straws every day there are. Those that find their way into the breakdown into micro. And when a marine animal in fact they have a fifty percent mortality rate so its a significant issue can we assume those cars are part of their unfortunately the strongest in Seattle Campaign began in september twenty seventh teen and resulted in two point three million straws being permanently removed in that month alone lonely whale has launched what it calls a global viral media challenge called stop sucking and it plans to take the strongest campaign to twenty cities worldwide in twenty eighteen the campaign is not only meant to reduce plastics in the environment it also aims to get people thinking about our throwaway culture every time we talk about. Everybodys mind that. Goes taylor what about that rather than out of plastic over there and are we talking to her about that item as well seattle began restricting Plastic Waste a decade ago starting with a ban on styrofoam takeaway food containers and disposable plastic bags officials want to help mold a major shift in Public Attitudes really the bigger thing is getting people to stop and to think do i really need this i have this single use thing is this something that i really need to use right now im going to use it for five to ten minutes and then im going to throw it away and its going to go to a landfill so thats really the bigger issue is having people kind of raise and in their consciousness a pushback against the culture of easy come easy go disposables that offers hope for the health of our planets oceans and the creatures who live in them rob reynolds aljazeera seattle just ahead on news i will tell you centuries old way of handcrafting naives and im on that provides a symbol of National Identity that at its core Christmas Day comeback was stuffed it says here for this n. B. A. Superstar the details with just a few minutes. And she managed to. Borkum in. You know bonded young retired bosnian army general who defended city against attack by certain forces. Just to cover the story of tough choices and determined. This time on aljazeera. Documenting street violence in john this. Summer was inspired to transform perceptions that we had to listen to. South africa and capture the fiber and see of the emerging black Youth Culture now is one of the people that as you said i will not be giving a speech to all of us this way to live the new african photography not so much at this time on aljazeera. I get for centuries handcrafted knives have been a status symbol in parts of the middle east still carried by men during important ceremonies and family occasions and the traditional dhaka known as the is a source of National Pride as charles struck for the. Omanis often say the closure is a symbol of the National Identity. Similar knives are made in neighboring yemen and southern saudi arabia but the craftsmanship here in oman has been for centuries considered the finest in the region. Silversmiths at this workshop in the historical town of from india. People theyve been taught the arts of using traditional omani designs to make a dagger which can take months to croft my grandfather me this is the best things you can do with all of the life because this is the love of all my bebo everything and so thats a fairly youre taking this walk back up for you and then the. Government recently set regulations on how the omani should be made in order to preserve its specific characteristics the traditional say decongest favored by the royal family for example must have four or seven rings depending on the status of the wearer handles that used to be made from black rhino horns are now called from buffalo horn or would be some of the oldest hunters in this shot but one of the holding here is a sighting one just its at least one hundred years old the cut off the sheet is made out of snakeskin the handle is made out of black rhino horn were told that its worth no less than around Twelve Thousand dollars and tradition dictates that if i remove the blade from the sheath then i have to use it to guide muhammad el cough shows us how the conjurer is worn by helping his son dress as he would for weddings and special occasions with on jerrys either worn on a specially crafted belt or tucked behind a waistband. A wooden floor but i feel proud to be wearing my arab omani clothes my patriotism runs in my blood and he had been with the country represents the amount of personality and all pride in our nation it also exults the sultan the country an hour and sisters. What was once used as a weapon now crafted as a work on the. Whole stuff at aljazeera news were all right time now for sports his foreign ager in thank you so much we start with action from the n. B. A. Were a Christmas Day showdown between last seasons champions the Golden State Warriors and runners up the Cleveland Cavaliers at the same outcome even without star player staff curry the warriors prevailed ninety nine to ninety two over the cavs alan grayson reports for the club it was supposed to be Le Bron James as knights and it started off that way the week of the body but in the absence of the injured steph curry golden states the wanted to make it a christmas to remember thanks it was a back and forth affair for much of the game with each side trading the lead kevin durant looked like the dominant force he was six months ago when he helped the arias win the n. B. A. Finals thank you. For the brown did what he could tying the game at ninety two but playtime thing came through with his four three pointer of the game but in golden state the head for good thanks in the dying seconds of the match le bron drove to the basket but any chance of a christmas a comeback was blocked by a drunk drowned finished with twenty five point seven rebounds and five blocked shots golden state closing out the rematch in one thousand nine hundred ninety two. Small for supposed to go a small force. So if you know anybody else regarding the me weve been put pat all over just a little too small. Does a star so i guess i was the last guy to just. But i just like our my position oh its good both things that are for gay men you know i had a lot of transition point to kick your butt in transition and i was the. Game for us in the last. Le bron the cavs will have the chance for a bench next month in the side space each other again in cleveland telling gleason aljazeera. There were five games on Christmas Day with both conference leaders in action the side with the best record in the east the Boston Celtics lost a hundred and eleven to one hundred three to the Washington Wizards and the western conference is number one side the Houston Rockets were also defeated by the Oklahoma City thunder. Computer i love i like i said giving credit him a shot especially towards the down in the stretch. You know better than arguing in front of the. Liverpool manager youre going coopt says his side are targeting a second place finish in the English Premier League at the Halfway Point in the season their fourth in the table twenty points behind runaway leaders man city they play bottom of the table swansea later. This year i dont think. Itll be too much of. We have to qualify for the germans. As hard as possible. We could be two three four this year. There are seven other premier league games taking place on choose days second place Manchester United would but to try and close the gap a little on leaders city when they faith face seventh place burnley third place chelsea host brighton and tottenham take it with southampton reseal party chinos side are fifth in the table just one point behind liverpool. Of course we think in. A. Club. You say to keep the momentum going to try to win again to to be consistent if you want to fight and then for big things is. To be consistent meanwhile Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says his side mustnt do well on their busy fixture schedule over the Christmas Period the premier League Leaders face newcastle on wednesday an iran that sees some place three games in nine days. What we have done and that is what has to do i want to tell them what newcastle is to do. Was come was in the moment the result. For. Newcastle to is the so for would have to do beach defense. To be focused on would you have to do forget about. The schedule d. Will. You just do. The gold cup football tournaments continues in quade on choose day with group b. In action barring face yemen and defending champions cap tara take on iraq cats are on top of group b. After beating yemen for a nail in their opening match while there is still everything to play for after iraq and bahrain drew wine and wine meanwhile on monday in group a top of the table saudi arabia in the United Arab Emirates played out a one one draw host kuwait suffered a second Straight Defeat losing one nil to oman leaving them bottom of the table while the head of russias Football Union is stepping down from his post for six months fights an olympic ban for state sponsored doping but cole was sports minister at the time of the sochi games during with russia was found to have run a widespread doping program it was handed a lifetime ban by the International OlympicCommittee Earlier this month but is appealing this through the court of arbitration for sports much co will still remain in charge of organizing the twenty eighteen world cup which russia is hosting in june and july next year a fourth ashes cricket test between australia and england is underway australia already retained the coveted ashes urn with three no lead and the best five match series and they continue to dominate play on day one at the Melbourne Cricket Ground after winning the toss and electing to bat david warner was in fine form as he struck a century captain steve smith added an unbeaten sixty five to guard australia to two hundred forty four runs for the loss of just three batsmen heading into day too. Meanwhile australias coach daringly man has announced hell be leaving his role after the next ashes tour lehman whos been at the helm since two thousand and thirteen said too much travelling was the reason behind his decision. Finally one of the worlds most grueling yacht race started in australia on choose day and there was a surprise early leader at the start of the annual sydney to hobart competition australian boat black jack was first out of sydney harbor after two of the favorites el devi and wild oats eleven almost collided at the start this is the seventy third edition of the race which covers approximately six hundred and thirty nautical miles across the tasman sea. And thats all your sport for now its back to you thanks for the little bit expensive prying thats just what its the do so they fixed it to the washing put it over here to update you on the days top stories in just a few moments ill see you again thats for sure to set but. George bush. One of the really special things about working for aljazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for it is you know its very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are with the people who believe that tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver indepth journalism we dont feel inferior to the audience across the globe. My name is only some people say that my feelings are any program that theyre not real but if i think theyre real then they are real dont you think south america was designed to be the worlds most advanced autonomous android which is one of the more advanced robots in the world can around but feel thats a philosophical question its not a lot of what you do socially connect on a subconscious level we are creating this new kind of entity. This toy or knowledge is earring