A third night of demonstrations which the government says are being whipped up by outsiders well explore how tech savvy iranians are getting around online blackouts also on the grid the playing call made by a video gamer that us police say led to a man being shot dead investigators are treating it as a case of swatting which is when someone tricks heavily armed officers into responding to a fake emergency like a murder a bomb threat or hostage situation well find out why its a growing problem in the gaming world and for those a few in new zealand and most of australia and right now south korea happy new year these are live pictures from seoul which is the latest major city to welcome twenty eight thousand with fireworks and plenty of celebration were keeping an eye on festivities as the claw gradually strikes midnight around the world and as we ring in the new year ill be looking at the top trends an Online Campaign that twenty seven. And came to hear your thoughts on the year that was connect throughout the day with the hash tag a. J. News great. Thanks for joining us here with the news grid were live on or were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and aljazeera dot com well iran is warning protesters theyll pay the price after a third night of unrest that saw two People Killed and dozens of arrests videos posted on social media so thousand. Marching in cities across the country where the demonstrations which began over a sudden price rises seem to have tapped into wider discontents amongst some about irans leaders peter sharp reports. You know what im going to find as antigovernment protests escalated on saturday night the first fatalities attributed to the unrest were reported two people were killed in the city of daraa rude the provincial government denied Security Forces were involved. In the clash that took two lives no bullets were shot from police and Security Forces the people gathering was meant to end peacefully but the presence of the agitators unfortunately this happened and resulted in the deaths of two protesters. The protests in various cities began on thursday thousands demonstrating against rising food prices and benefit cuts but their anger soon turned political. They chanted not gaza not lebanon my life or iran dont be afraid were staying strong together an expression of anger about claims the government is focusing more on regional issues that economic problems at home on sunday the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps warned of what was described as an online fist if demonstrations continue the revolutionary guards commander said the protests have degenerated into people chanting political slogans and burning public property iranian t. V. Showed a display of strength by crowds of progovernment supporters in cities nationwide tens of thousands of people on the streets chanting death to america down with israel in support of irans Supreme Leader ali khamenei. But people have protested against inflation other problems but that does not show that our people have turned on each other or are against the ruling system and their leadership. Saturdays progovernment rallies were preplanned to mark the anniversary of the end of the unrest in two thousand and nine. These were huge displays of support for the iranian leadership but government leaders will be concerned just how quickly an antigovernment protest about food prices quickly became political pizza shop aljazeera. Well our social media producer said of her as has your three look at the Online Platform the role that Online Platforms are playing sarah despite restrictions its right to rain well facebook and twitter already blocked in iran and have been since two thousand and process but now instagram and the hugely popular messaging app telegram have been added to that list temporarily now telegram has been integra the last three days of protests people have been using it to get people to home street and to ship process videos and pictures with the outside world and the iranian government dislikes the telegram goes back it brought charges back in september against the platform see oprah felt the role of an official say the app is facilitating the spread of terrorism cannot graffiti and other illegal materials now uses different channels to disseminate information to millions of subscribers not long ago the telegram boss tweeted saying the app is being blocked this time because of its refusal to shut down channels being used to organize peaceful protests including one called says i dont now the world is referring to is actually a new channel created in the last twenty four hours to replace a popular channel called bad news now telegram blocked a mad news in response to this tweet by mohamad to her ohmy hes irans communication minister and he posts in the wrote that there of saying a telegram channel is encouraging hateful conduct use of mullets of cocktails armed uprising and social unrest now is the time to stop such encouragement via telegram throve then went on to reply saying by suspending him he replied by suspending the account and warns of lines not being crossed now telegram see i went on to post this here on twits attending as follows that telegram encourages freedom of speech and doesnt yield to pressure from. Officials but in this instance he says a mad news broke telegrams rules against inciting violence and this is reportedly the response from the press and who actually manages news take a listen to some sound. We have to inform that unfortunately im odd news that access the voice of people has now started to work with the same logo of a modern news server and will continue to work as before god willing with your trust this channel will have millions of members as well now the incident highlights the fine line telegram has had to walk something whistleblower Edward Snowden has highlighted in a series of tweets he joins in the conversation see saying this is the only this is only the beginning as you can keep an independent despite blazing service from being blocked in all for its hereon regimes now others have also been expressing their thoughts on this in fact reza honduras pointed to snowdens tweet saying same telegram has chosen a reasonable balance between being secure and giving control to the government others have actually has a different opinion stefan he says unbelievable and disgusting is not exactly why telegram is used in undemocratic countries and now telegram supposed to rain an oppressive regime has tagged blame telegram lets his thoughts but do you think the iranian government is right when it says its blocking telegram and instagram for maintaining peace and made a time of crisis whats what they say they want to hear your thoughts im once its a you can get in touch with me the hash psych a j newsgroups well for more on whats for iran check out aljazeera dot call our show inside story thats where the show has but guests debate this very issue on that latest episode of inside stories and you can access it on aljazeera dull column on the shows tab then just click on inside story there it is what triggered irans protests. At least twelve people have been killed by the latest air strikes on the rebel held district of thats near the syrian capital damascus theres also been more fighting in western parts of the country elsewhere rebel factions have announced a united front to try and stop the assad governments advents a summer binge of aid reports. After almost seven years of war in syria a routine sound in a civil damascus. City for what is strikes have continued in the rebel controlled suburb of ghouta close to four hundred thousand deceit syrians here have been bombed for years. As a dash to search for survivors debris scarcely removed before movement is flooded under the rubble but you know. How do you react disoriented and scared children stumble through the mangled metal and wreckage and kids make up the highest number of the dead and injured in syria anybody under. Besides the shelling in the air strikes have also continued in the countryside of western syria these families have been forced to leave their homes because of the ongoing push by Syrian Government forces to regain control of more areas bordering hama and it promises. By god look at the kids when the planes hit near the children my god how they scream the biggest push for us was our kids they dont know anything but the sound of airplanes and shelling a life of exhaustion and terror. Rebels trying to stop the steadily advancing syrian army and theyre forming a united front called the National Army its made up of thirty seven factions from aleppo had their own homes and hama but its not the first time that a Similar Group has been announced and questions remain about how scattered militias will be brought under united chain of command and how will they be funded of the. The government of the National Army put servants and guards for the country and our families on all syrian lands we call on you to be united and to agree on the National Project to support your sense here who have announced an open war on all the enemies calendars show a new year but the change of dates doesnt mean much for syrians whove lived through almost seven years of suffering some of it jovi the others there. Weve compiled a list for a must see documentaries of twenty seventeen covering some of the serious major news events and included in that list is this one the boy who started the syrian war say yes there was just fourteen when he sprayed antigovernment slogans on his school wall in that that was february twenty seventh and he could have never imagined that such a minor act would spark a full blown war so you can watch this one and other Award Winning documentary is on al jazeera dot com. You can also get in touch with us here at the news grid we do want to hear from you on these stories you can send your comments to any one of our Online Platforms or on twitter at a. J. English or on facebook at facebook dot com slash a. J. News grid you can also send us a whatsapp at plus sized seven four five zero triple one one four nine just a reminder as always use the hash tag a. J. News grid now israels governing party is set to convene in the next few hours for a vote on a draft resolution urging the partys leaders to establish israeli sovereignty and formally annex the west parts of the west bank any such vote would not be binding on cabinet ministers but it does care. The Political Force inside the party whose right wing has been emboldened by the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as israels capital june joining us from west jerusalem talk us through this draft resolution how matt thats going to happen over the next few hours ends and the likelihood that it actually ends up in the knesset. Well there in as with most things political in israel is very complicated now first of all were not even sure if this meeting has started yet there was a lot of talk today that it would start at six pm thats this hour we dont yet know if thats happened we dont yet know if Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is going to be attending it was the hope of the Likud Central Committee that he would attend to give this vote more legitimacy as they see it but unclear if he will we have heard that he will be issuing a statement after the vote happens at some point later this evening but we dont yet know how that statement will be issued or how it might be transmitted now the voted self also a lot of questions a lot more questions than answers because as of now the language thats been used in talking about this has been somewhat vague its unclear if this would annex the entirety of the west bank if it would be just particular just perhaps area c. Of the west bank it would be the settlements of the west bank so there is a lot of stuff that still needs to be answered by this Likud Central Committee also is this a binding resolution many of those inside this Committee Say that this is binding that if this passes this would compel the Prime Minister and the rest of the likud party to take it to the knesset to try to pass it into law but thats coming at a time when there is already so much International Condemnation of israel and when so many people are saying that the last thing israel needs right now is another International Fight countries that would see this action is going against International Law now a lot of the analysts that weve been speaking with today have said that really theres something simply behind this that really this is a cynical political ploy for the likud party to try to muster more support to really rally their faithful i spoke earlier with israeli pollster michel barack heres more of what he had to tell me about this issue. I think if the Likud Central Committee passes vote i think the biggest thing that will happen is will take up a lot of newspaper space will be a lot of printing done of this because it really is not binding its not even relevant its just you know the Prime Ministers right of center party just trying to make a statement a policy statement which really is meaningless and even if you read the statement its doesnt even go into depth its just kind of getting ready the drumbeat of election is happening in israel we dont know when its kind of you know this government is not the most stable and people are wondering how long is it that you know that to be around given all thats going on with the investigations so theyre just trying to shore up their their popularity on the right so theyre even if this does pass tonight in the liquid Central Committee theres still a long way to go before we find out if this gets indorsed by the Prime Minister if indeed then the rest of the party and the Prime Minister feel that it is binding if they feel they have to take it to the knesset and then what would happen after that and most of the conventional wisdom here on the ground is that there is no way at this moment in time that a bill that could really inflame things so much more could pass in its current form even if it passes this Likud Central Committee meeting this evening but theres no way that that could get to the knesset now and pass into law the way things are at this particular time ok mohamed jump june keeping an eye out for us from west jerusalem thank you well our program the listening post has taken a look back at the past few weeks Media Coverage of the us president decision to declare jerusalem as israels capital so that seem examines all the tropes omissions and narrative flaws you can hear the discussing watch the show on aljazeera. Over to suits or in london with more of the international news. Thank you daryn gunmen have stormed an Army Training camp in indian administered kashmir killing five soldiers at least two attackers are also reported to have been killed a military Spokesman Says the armed men threw grenades and five automatic rifles at the camp in a district india accuses pakistan of sending fighters into the disputed region to carry out attacks allegations pakistan denies seventeen people have been killed in a Suicide Attack at a funeral in eastern afghanistan the attacker blew himself up in jalalabad as people gathered for the funeral of a former district governor has been no claim of responsibility only this week i source said it was behind the killing of at least forty one people at a shia Cultural Center in kabul Human Rights Watch says Security Forces have shot dead at least two people at protests in the democratic republic of congo demonstrators in the capital kinshasa have been demanding that president Joseph Kabila step down and hold new elections after his mandate expired a year ago he promised to hold elections by the end of this year but they have now been delayed until next december the government shut down the internet and s. M. S. Services to try to stop the protests going ahead back in july french president emanuel macro said he didnt want any more refugees sleeping rough by the end of the year that hasnt happened in the capital alone theres estimated to be thirty thousand Homeless People both refugees and locals and according to charities the problems getting worse nadine barber reports. Hes been homeless for five years and hes still only twenty three tony doesnt want to show his face but hes happy to explain why despite the dangers he generally spends his days begging and his nights sleeping on the streets and not in a state funded emergency shelter. Recently someone stole my tent then when i was sleeping on a mattress someone kicked me in the head so they could grab the bag my head was resting on so life on the street is very hard but in those emergency shelters you also get attacked you get lots of drunkards there and evan if you dont look for trouble you find it its not safe there. To debate about how to deal with one hundred forty thousand people officially homeless in france was reopened this summer when the newly elected president made a surprise announcement. To delusion to the first battle is to have everyone in a dignified manner. By the end of the year i want no more women and men in the street in the woods last only one. Michael suggested he could achieve this by providing more emergency shelters and better follow up by social services but groups who work with Homeless People say theyve not seen evidence of either they say there are now more rough sleepers than ever partly due to an increase in the number of refugees camped out in places like the can are some of the town things like this every place across the french capital and there are less than one hundred thousand people sleeping rough in the city and its surroundings and although its hard to believe Homeless Charities say things are actually getting worse critics argue that the government could create thousands of extra beds for Homeless People right away using existing facilities here. Where theres a door back is the reader its possible to a hospital wings that are currently empty theyve got heating and sanitation they can be converted quite easily theyre also not hard to Army Barracks that you could use then theres a question of finance the organizations that look after the homeless and run the premises. Whatever the reality its clear winter brings extra hardships for rough sleepers according to one charity four hundred Homeless People have died this year alone and the average age was forty eight for alleviate who became homeless this year after a family crisis those figures come as no surprise. There are lots of people who are ill and who dont get to hospital he says either because they cant afford to or because they dont want to be treated the new year should mean a new start for tony hes been offered work fundraising for a charity and he hopes to rent a flat with a friend but its not easy. Them i have already saved up eighteen and red euros was my friend will have to pay two thousand two hundred euros so that their level of acceptance was out to guarantee without proof off income looking back the president s short term target for homeless list seemed destined to fail but campaigners hope he will invest in Long Term Solutions that can get people off the streets for good barber aljazeera paris thats it for me for now back to daryn in doha so thank you well killings are down but more journalists are in jail right now than at any other time in recent years thats according to a report from the International Federation of journalists so their report for twenty seventeen says that two hundred fifty journalists bloggers and cameramen are behind bars worldwide one hundred sixty of them are in turkish prisons fewer media workers have been killed in the field eighty one compared with ninety three the Previous Year one of the most violent places for journalists to work is mexico thats where many become victims of organized crime groups afghanistan is also high on the less the along with iraq and syria. To trauma just to so thats why but we are. Today we have morals to say to two hundred fifty journalists. To sort of this is it was destroyed at least i took it for this reason its very bottom to recall to your. To to your daughter to achieve it was mostly bottom mostly bottom president s who were fortunate east we want to do it sixteen but east into egypt well earlier we spoke to Sonoma Anderson she is the author of the hostages daughter thats a memoir the details her journalist father terry andersons abduction in lebanon. My father was the middle east bureau chief of the Associated Press in lebanon during the one nine hundred eighty s. And before he was taken hostage it was a very different time in journalism journalists were were thought of as neutral observers not to be harmed and what happened to my father kind of kicked off a new era where journalists became targets. For kidnappings you know just it became a whole different ball game and that is kind of where we are now and as we saw with the isis kidnappings and what happened to james foley and the other hostages. Things are things are different than they used to be well al jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist Mahmoud Hussain its now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt is the tension has been renewed ten times since then her saying is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and aljazeera strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail if you had to aljazeera dot com we have a dedicated page on press freedom so if you click on this link right there on the right itll take you to this page its journalism is not a crime all the news you need on journalism not being a crime youll find it there aljazeera dot com. Hoping to climb Mount Everest on their own have had their ambitions dast government leaders in nepal have banned solo attempts to try to reduce the number of deaths on the worlds highest peak meanwhile a record breaking attempt is underway on k two the worlds second highest mountain as charlotte bellus reports. A team of polands best climbers is in pakistan reached take on k two in winter its one of the last great feats a lift in mountain airing. All ive been under supervision of. A doctor so we may. Take. What we can improve k two is the second highest mountain in the wolf but it beats Mount Everest in danger and difficulty only three hundred six people have reached its peak compared to four thousand on mt everest its in and torrie a sphere hurricane strength winds its steep slopes and i see a st for every four people that summit k two one dies. The team has been preparing for two years after three months on the mountain prepping the route before making their a st they will lay out ropes and stall supplies of food and fuel then wait for a break in the with a. Very big because. We have to pray for. The lidsky was the first to climb mt everest during winter nearly forty years ago hes one of five people to have climbed all of the worlds highest paid six three teams have tried to climb k two in the winter before no one has been successful. I hope. Because. The team expects to establish a base camp an early january shallop bellus aljazeera. Well take a break but for our Facebook Live viewer is get a look at a car pool has all the moves in just a moment coming up on the news grid as the first country is welcomed twenty eighty and well look back at the top trends and Online Campaigns that have shaped the past year. And i know that were seeing plenty of rain over turkey at the moment the weather system responsible showing up very clearly on the satellite picture and this whole thing is moving its way towards the east so for many of us in lebanon them well see some wet weather during the day on monday to expect the rain to be fairly heavy at times and it will be feeling warmer told sixteen degrees will be the maximum in beirut that system then stretches further north you can see plenty more cloud and a lot of snow in that as youd expect at this time of year that in sweeps its way towards the east as we head into tuesday and around the caspian sea will see the swelling mass giving us lots of rain and a fair amount of wintry weather as well meanwhile a little bit further south and here in doha theres been a problem with fog over the last few days no real change for us as we head into monday so still the risk of seeing some focusing in the morning or last thing at night they dont choose day gradually the winds will be picking up so that should be the end of the folks because the winds will just lift that folk into low cloud instead elsewhere well salada will be twenty six degrees all fine if we had down to was the southern parts of africa weve got this rather intense blob of clouds showing up on our satellite picture but it is moving away so things that drawing up just a few residual showers left for us on monday elsewhere where the wetter weather is still in the northern parts of our. On counting the cost of flying taxis megadeals then banishment shakeups a look at the flight plan for global aviation in two thousand and eighteen also robert toby didnt here in the middle east plus what all the sales go telling us about space in the worlds economy and counting the cost at this time on the aljazeera. When diplomacy fields and fear sweet finn our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists weve proven that barriers are built to impose division and its not to take two instead of being an ox to could to tell wastes into became another almost a quarter to peace in a four part series aljazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on aljazeera. The lines on aljazeera. Trending right now on our website so the most articles. Surprised. You know about the protests in iran you can head to aljazeera dot com to find out more about what is going on. Now one man has been arrested after what police say was a phone prank that resulted in someone being shot dead in the u. S. The suspect made a false call to police alleging there was a hostage situation underway how to hawkster explains. This was where a practical joke proved deadly and this is the suspect tyler barris police in kansas responding to a call one month flame and he had killed his father and was holding the rest his family hostage she said my no one was going on we were arguing and i shot him in the head and hes not breathing anymore ok do you have any weapons on you. Do you what kind of weapons or do you have a. Handgun im just pointing the gun at them making sure they stay in the trunk my mom and my little brother are you guys sending someone over here because im guessing i can but either way. Im thinking about because i already poured gasoline all over the house i might just fire ok well we dont need to do that ok police sent a special weapons and tactics all swat team to the house where the kula said he lived but the man who answered the door was twenty eight year old andrew finch a father of two police unaware that it being a prank calls were taking no chances they confronted mr fitch before shooting him you hear the officer primarily that has the actual body camera but you have officers from the other side also giving commands and they were all consistent about put your hands up walk towards us. But he continued to drop down by his waistband which is a concern thats where people typically would put a handgun or some type of weapon andrew finches mother says her son was not. Just go around shooting people without any consequences family was very important to him hes got two kids that survive him and. Theyre missing out on a wonderful man. Its been suggested the suspect in the victim had a dispute during an Online Computer game i did this week the World Health Organization branded video game addiction and Mental Health disorder police are treating this as a case of swatting where instigators call nine one one from a position close to where their intended victim is located. Zero ok lets expand on this a little bit because as we heard in that report the World Health Organization wants to make video game addiction a recognized Mental Health disorder in twenty eighteen so called gaming disorder is a hmong in a draft of its upcoming guide on the classification of diseases why well because it believes that video games for some people can take over other life interests and daily activities the draft entries suggests these symptoms need to be present for twelve months to warrant a diagnosis will speak to Christopher Ferguson whos a professor of psychology who researches video games as well as society joining us now from orlando thats in the u. S. State of florida thanks for joining us and happy new year first of all Christopher Ferguson lets lets begin with the World Health Organization once a classify gaming disorder as a Mental Health condition does it have a point is it correct to do so. You know thats a great question so the whole concept of gaming disorder or video gave addiction remains a very controversial one among scholars in the field so there are some scholars a believe the World Health Organization is on the right track and there are some scholars that believe that the World Health Organization is probably not on the right track with this and a lot of the concern is that you know people certainly do overdo a wide range of behaviors of some people overdo shopping some people overdue food some people overdo sex some people overdo work and we dont have a diagnoses for most of these categories so the question becomes why video games some people probably do over do video games but there doesnt seem to be any evidence that video games are any different from these other activities like exercise work food or sex so a not really in excess of playing a video games does not have any impact on ones Mental Health as the World Health Organization seems to suggest what the research basically suggests at this point is that typically when people over do an activity late gaming or any other behavior it typically is the result of an underlying Mental Health problem not the cause of the cerro as they usually Something Like depression or anxiety comes first and then sometimes people overdo things like video games and and the concern there is that a liebling be a game addiction a diagnosis people may or clinicians may miss the underlying sort of real Mental Health concerns us leading to the obsessive behavior when you look at this issue a swatting we were playing a report earlier on im not sure if youre heard about what happened in the u. S. Where one man was shot dead a prank that one fatally wrong in fact because of swatting how big is this issue of off swatting in your opinion. Oh in the United States the f. B. I. Estimates there are some around four hundred incidents of swotting in the United States and of course this is usually done at some kind of or around but the concern as with this particular situation is that it can go very wrong it can become deadly because you have police that are entering a situation that they believe is a crisis situation and theyre going to be primed for someone who may be armed in their beliefs so theres a link here between games and swatting is that the games that encourage swotting or is it Something Else no most most of these systems do not involve games. They usually are young males that are doing it but typically the gaming link is not there for most these situations theres no Research Evidence to suggest that video games whether theyre violent or nonviolent lead people to become more aggressive in the real world so this just happens to be a spurious. Link in this situation between call of duty and the swabians ok Christopher Ferguson we thank you for speaking to us from florida thank you thank you for having me on today pleasure over to london now with suits here and more of the news from there high so high an effect i think people have been killed and eleven injured in a bus crash in Central Kenya the bus hit a truck near the town of naku about hundred fifty kilometers north of nairobi local Officials Say the bus brakes may have failed the kenyan government plans to renovate the road early next year to make it safe as more than one hundred people have died on the same stretch in recent weeks. They said australia have recovered the bodies of six people from the wreckage of a sink plane that crashed into a bay north of sydney the plane was returning to sydney from a restaurant twenty minutes away the bodies of the pilots and five passengers were found among the submerged wreckage and investigation has been launched into the cause of the Crash Customs officials in south korea have seized a panama flank vessel suspected of transferring oil to north korea the ship was seized up young tech dangling ports just days after authorities announced the impounding of a Hong Kong Flagged vessel in november the Un Security Council impose new sanctions on north korea last month that aim to limit its access to Petroleum Products to hunger us now and what biologists are calling out eco science is a tide of trash which is floating along the coast from neighboring guatemala biologists say the level of contamination is unprecedented are on the sanchez reports. A sea of rubbish as far as the eye can see its a wall seven metres deep and several kilometers long when slowly along the caribbean coast of undo this video posted in the internet by a photographer raised the alarm. Marine biologist who spoke of it as is the tide of trash is killing nearly everything in its path if. This is an eco side caused by garbage carried by the methodical river in guatemala. That there may or there are ninety six municipalities especially thirteen dont have trashed arms and a tributary river from the capital contributes to all this garbage colony this is the rubbish mountain is blocking some light from the sea and affecting fishing grounds coral reefs and mangroves. Much of the cocoa beach ends up here on a more beach hospital in Agro Industrial residues are putting the lives of funded and cindy injure government leaders who will do this blame neighboring what they mela for the disaster. What the government says both countries share the responsibility for cleaning up the mess but the man has promised to send the army to clean up the mess but the rubbish highly on the beaches is already having an impact on communities along the shore. Madelyne believe it us is fishermen like him are unable to catch clean healthy fish. Look at my little boat i cant go far in the sea to fish the trash is too close. For your son does says the Restaurant Hotel he manages has fewer and fewer guests because of the filth. Bust and we have less and less gas because people want to see clean beaches and we are losing money also because were spending a lot to clean up every day. All of the hotel ball says the shore is a magnet for the trash marine biologist say much of it is plastic which can take more than two hundred years to disintegrate and much of it is liquid and invisible with experts unable to say how much damage is being done. The innocent just to see the more yes. So from a back to daryn and. Thank you for that look at the fireworks are lighting up the sky in pyongyang thats in north korea so as the clock now is possible tonight in north korea these are the fireworks and the festivities of the celebrations going on in the city there earlier what we saw is new zealand was one of the first countries to enter twenty eight thousand thats after some more and a handful of other Pacific Island nations that sit next to the International Dateline so this is how it looks in all clue and thats where fireworks shot out of the sky tower the citys tallest structure certainly afterwards it was australias turn starting with the east coast where sydney puts on one of the worlds most spectacular display is more than one and a half Million People packed vantage points around the harbor to take in the show over there and there were similar scenes in south korea fireworks seen here in the capital so the new year was welcomed in. Well as the rest of the world prepares to welcome the new year the un secretary general antonio terrace has listed some resolutions for our leaders Listen National easements and on the rise and as we begin to talk of the call for unity i throughly believe we can make all rules more safe and secure we can settle conflicts overcome etudes and defensive values but we can only do that together i agree theres everywhere to make these new years resolution never again bridge the divides rebuild trust by bringing people together around. Unity is the best. So is twenty seventeen comes to a close what have been the biggest trends online sarah well its been the year for social media with it making wealth headlines regularly but as the u. S. Presence tweets have been driving much of the online traffic both globally and liking the kokanee now him all love him donald trump features in americas top twenty seventeen hashtags those being resist my goal make America Great again and impeach trump now despite the lows spreading fake news and heartbreaking images of videos from war torn countries the highest have been that seated social campaigns mobilizing people to take action for equality and the greater good like this campaign called the love me which incredibly to raise over two Million Dollars in just one month but lets take a closer look at house when c. Seventeen was a year of empowering women and that was through the hash cycle of the campaign me too and that prompted millions of females to reveal that personal stories of Sexual Harassment and assault lifting the lid on a rampant very silent problem now another indicator of whats driven social media is what the likes of you and me have been searching for online now google says the top trending topics for october is las vegas you think muskogee quake in september and harken in late august but it does also has like these google says has many of us on the skiing how we can help. Now on instagram the most popular posts with good news as well we have to be on safe pregnancy in football or christiane right now those newborns as for swift some well for me as president barack obama so the trophy for the most light sweet with an end daring message of love. He quoted signals and he said no one is born one thing another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion and he price at that picture of him theyre looking at three different children of all different ethnicities and for his success they dont know trump well we can guess which one title he won in the outfit so that is the most tweeted about weld the i know what youre also wondering whats the most viewed viewed you tube video. Clip from the mock thing at my music show where Famous Artists compete while holding their identities with very elaborate and question portions now that featured has been bought more than two hundred million times. Now if youre looking back on your year already thinking about the next one we want to hear your thoughts perhaps you have a local story you think we should cover a hashtag you reckon will make it big in twenty eighteen gets in touch with me all the rest of our team on twitter and facebook and the hashtag that we always use is a. J. New scripts well one person who is certainly looking ahead sarah is Barnaby Phillips shes our correspondents a so he has ten predictions for twenty eight you can check them out on al jazeera. He looks. Looks at trump and he looks at the Russia World Cup and all of the issues in advance likely to shape the coming year so you can check them out on al jazeera dot com. After recent attacks new york is ratcheting up security measures around times square for its annual new years eve celebrations two Million People are expected in around times square and aljazeera got a behind the scenes look at what police are doing to keep people safe alexy obrien reports. Its called the crossroads of the world attracting visitors from near and far to ring in the new year but this year more than ever times square is in the crosshairs. The new York Police Department has seen an increase in iceland speired attacks three in the past sixteen months killing eight people most of them tourists i demand i hate was petrified about me coming to times square on new years day because of all the risk you know i see all of the policemen around and cameras missing like they keep for to say but id rather not be around i think were ready john miller the departments Deputy Commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism says eisel is more focused on attacks in the west as it loses ground in places like iraq and syria the shift has been towards marketing the propaganda to the masses on the idea that some tiny tiny infant asimo percentage of them may act so may go out to millions or hundreds of thousands of people but a five of them do something if three of them succeed or one of them its a great impact what the terrorist groups are focused on is low tech low cost but high impact. N. Y. P. D. Patrol offices and special ops teams are the first line of defense this year more will be stationed on roofs and and towels and nearby parking carriages will be closed police will also be using more dogs trained to sniff out someone carrying explosives in the crowd this is actually where the ball is going to drop behind the scenes at the n. Y. P. D. Joint Operations Center will also be watching the crowds for suspicious behavior not just in times square but all around the city and offices have new guidelines on how to handle a would be suicide bomber its a moment of great pride for new york city city officials insist time square will be safe terrorists regard new york as the exact. Kind of place they want to disrupt and new yorkers respond consistently with strength and resilience and plenty of tourists are willing to take the risk and i feel like theyre doing everything that they can so i feel like we should have nothing to worry about and i think about a last resort with so much security cold weather making more people away from this holiday tradition than fia. Aljazeera well joe is here in just a moment with a look back at twenty seven thousand in sports including. You know. How social media has provided some of the most entertaining sporting stories over the last twelve months. When we managed the Financial System between one nine hundred forty five and one nine hundred seventy one there was not a single financial crisis anyway in the world and then in one thousand nine hundred one the bank has lobbied and they said no no no we dont need controls you know the market will discipline us banks love to make loans to sufferance why because behind the song for millions of taxpayers we can see reaction to the liberalization fight just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. And its going to be an opportunity to already is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government went look after my interest then i would look for a strong future fascist i dont care if you promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i will fight for him i think thats where were heading and i dont think our leaders have the vision to understand thats the threat that we face. So were coming to the end of twenty seventeen and joe is here to tell us how the last twelve months have been in the world of sport joe thats right during the been a vintage year exactly no lympics or football world cup but sports has still been a much talked about subject now these are the top sporting hashtags on twitter over the last twelve months many of them a football related realm a trip to the table without a madrid that softer they won the club league and the way for the Champions League this year Manchester United and of course the Champions League also very popular but so is Major League Baseball and wrestling which should tell you the biggest sports franchise franchises. In the United States and space one of the most watched sporting Events Worldwide well it also just about makes the top ten now social media has been a great source of material for us too like the time donald trump waded into the debate over n. F. L. Players needling during the National Anthem to protest Police Brutality the president accuse them of disrespecting the country and says just is that they should be fired it escalated with n. B. A. Champion steph curry refusing to go to the white house the president then said hed rescinded the invitation anyway to which another basketball great Le Bron James tweeted trump with this huge bomb steffen curry already said he aint going so therefore aint no invite going to the white house was a great honor until you showed up its been linked liked one and a half million times that tweet that trump usually blocks what he calls hate is forming one champion Lewis Hamilton has dealt with criticism another way despite having more than five million followers hes now what the contents of his Instagram Account and deleted tweets back to june all of this after a backlash for posting a video ridiculing his three year old nephew for wearing a dress well while hamilton will start two thousand and eighteen with a clean social media slate Serena Williams who has ten million followers is only back on the court but also top of her snapchat came shes the part from a lot like this time the that she accidentally revealed her pregnancy before deleting this picture now shes given us Something Else to smile about again with this just a couple of hours ago. Ice skating. Thank. You alexis tara wall. Thank you. Well you can tweet me any time i promise i blog here im joe gosh roscoe you can hash tag us hey with a. J. News great joints on a formal sport at eight hundred g. M. T. Ill see you a little bit but during the years in jail thank you very much for that well thatll do it for this newsgroup well leave you with al jazeera as look back at twenty seven thousand the tragedies the triumphs everything in between well see you back here in the new year. More than six hundred thousand people have crossed into bangladesh its august and the exodus hasnt stopped. You when it has all the actions of myanmars military a textbook example of ethnic cleansing in the middle of my baby was thrown into the fire and then they raped me. And it was like i feel like im burning on the inside. After more than two and a half years of fighting yemen saudi arabias coalition on the iranian block to find just a at a stalemate while the country is on the verge of famine and cholera spreading. Struggling for breath like to come like. This theres. The assad regime and the use of chemical weapons isnt going to just. Donald trump to do solemnly swear. The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union feel it in the. Summer. But after my little plane flew in to claim that its the cia and the u. S. Government that you find more than one hundred days of protests in this country. We have another section i would steer right. Front of the ox the compound suns your way vs the United Arab Emirates and and egypt cut diplomatic ties with qatar it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of Israel General sympathy would be the capital of palestine it really is quite frightening for the people who are standing here watching these horses racing towards. Catalonia if you think that historic rift with spain Spanish National police in riot gear battered their way to the Voting Center after another. I have never voted to do. That people really want to see quick was still the show lives i. Pushed forward around six kilometers during the battle to retake mostly. We are here we are strong we are brave and we will see. My. Friends. Im sick of this fucking stuff going on but its fun. And. Very straight before the state. Printing super bowl is a special achievement for american focus and thats ames on her final sorry for support of the lovely on point thanks to both fun just on credit. Cards fashion. The nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand and fifteen years on it hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage hard to imagine that only seven years ago people were living right here. Now defeat has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to caracas a missed opportunity abroad. Witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera. A wrong blocks the messaging app a telegram saying its to maintain pace after three days of protests. Hello im so tired so this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a grim and to the year in syria ass strikes continue in the rebel