This is al jazeera. Hello again im peter w. Watching the news live from sixty minutes of news and comment today. Saudi arabia says it shot down a Ballistic Missile over its capital riyadh fired from yemen by who see rebels. Iran stands accused of supplying that who sees with weapons and tuesdays launch came only hours before the u. N. Security council met to discuss Irans Nuclear program. They signed a private table. In the u. S. House republicans celebrate a sweeping tax reform bill and barely an hour later the senate tells them try again. Also this violent protest failed to prevent the passing of a controversial pension law in argentina. Lets begin in saudi arabia where the Authorities Say theyve intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting the capital riyadh its the such attack since november yemens whos the fighters have claimed responsibility saying they were targeting the royal palace which is the official residence of king solomon they say the attack was launched a mark of thousand
In effort prior to half time proved enough against west ham. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger made 11 changes from the weekend win over newcastle. Napoli are through to the quarter finals of the coppa italia following a 1 0 win against fellow serie a side udinese. Italian international midfielder Lorenzo Insigne with the winner 18 minutes from the end. In the german cup mainz saw off fellow bundesliga side stuttgart to progress to the last eight, as did schalke, in another all top flight affair, where they were too good for cologne, while paderborn and wolfsburg also progress, the lattter after two goals in extra time over nuremberg. The world 100 metre champion Justin Gatlin says hes shocked and surprised at doping allegations made against his coach and an athletics agent. Anti doping officials are investigating after british newspaper the Daily Telegraph said the agent Robert Wagner offered to supply performance enhancing drugs to undercover reporters. All three men deny the allegations
Watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says it shot down a Ballistic Missile over its capital that fired from yemen by the rebels. Iran stands accused of supplying the who sees with weapons and tuesdays launch came only hours before the u. N. Security council met to discuss Irans Nuclear program. They signed up on a table. In the u. S. House republicans celebrate a sweeping tax reform bill and barely an hour later the senate tells them try again. And we mark a year in captivity for our colleague al jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein. The saudi Authorities Say theyve intercepted a Ballistic Missile targeting the capital riyadh its the third such attack since november who see fighters in yemen say they launched the missile targeting the royal palace King Solomons official residence they say the attack was to mark one thousand days since the start of the war in yemen it follows another launch on november the fourth w
Hello im Maryam Namazie in london has a round up of the top stories on Aljazeera Palestinian christian leaders have rejected the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital calling it dangerous and an insult to christians and muslims alike the declaration follows weeks of protests across the occupied territories since president trumps announcement at least fifteen Palestinian Protesters have been killed on the abdulhamid has more now from bethlehem. The festive mood has been somehow dampened ever since the jerusalem declaration by chubb some three weeks ago now no archbishop yet but the step is the highest Roman Catholic authority not only in the holy land but also in the middle east has said that after the declaration that has been many cancellation food groups that were supposed to come and spend Christmas Eve at the church of their divinity well have decided to stay away this year business down but almost fifty percent in this city now r. J. Bishop beats up by the homes
Heading towards vietnam thousands of flood low lying areas in the capital hoshi min schools have been closed tembin made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash floods and landslides and killing more than two hundred people and test reports. The scale of the destruction caused by Tropical Storm tembin is becoming clear as rescue workers reach remote communities heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred forty five kilometers an hour triggered landslides and flash flooding devastating to higher towns and villages on the island of mindanao the countrys second largest tens of thousands of people have been displaced and are spending christmas in emergency shelters. Are are you going to say you know. How. We have hundreds of thousands. With no hope at the moment and im sure that basically. The philippines is battered by around twenty major storms a year and tendin is one of the worst of two thousand and seventeen disaster Officials Say people ignored warnings to get out of coast