is al-jazeera. watching the news from our headquarters here in sixty minutes of news and comment today. a critical meeting gets underway in south africa as the african national congress prepares to choose a new leader. protesters in israel tomorrow and the prime minister's resignation. a china south korea summit comes to an end but it isn't exactly smiles all round. also this hour we'll tell you why the trumpet ministration has ordered scientists to stop talking about science. let's get going we stop. in south africa where president jacob zuma has made an urgent plea for the governing party to unite as members gather to select a new leader mr zuma who's facing a raft of corruption allegations is stepping down as head of the african national congress the vote to replace symbol take place on sunday but in the build up to that the party has been riven by deep factional battles tanya page now from johannesburg. the conference started with two warnings don't to saying divisive songs and to keep the chairs on the ground everybody at speeds that will be flying around this conference or we can say that you will not hear pain in this conference. a.n.c. members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the country's courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. being sorted your. we can begin to believe that the courts. to. some believe he has eroded the a.n.c. is all for it. under president zuma the party has lost considerable support he's no stranger to legal action himself he's fighting an ongoing battle to keep hundreds of corruption charges at bay this race is as much about the old lead as it is about the new if the president's preferred candidate is selected she may be able to protect him from legal action and his post-presidential years but if i wyvil is selected i may be less inclined to help so there is a lot at stake for jacob zuma one commentator said president zuma is legacy is a damaged a.n.c. possibly he might be the worst president ever had. the alliance is almost nonexistent the a.n.c. has lost fifteen percent office and. so is the average there in say the day ended with the nominations in a race that some predict could be close between current deputy president ceramic pulsar and in courses on it i mean is zuma the president supposed favorite whoever wins has an enormous challenge to unite the a.n.c. at a time when it's divisions have been laid to peer tanya page al-jazeera johanna's. now there were protests in tel aviv for a third weekend in a row people are demanding the resignation of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he's being investigated over alleged corruption which he denies he has hairy forsett. these protests have been going for a year now against the corruption allegations leveled at the israeli prime minister but it's really this month that they have intensified as people have been especially angered by a war that politicians are trying to put through the israeli parliament the knesset which many felt was trying to shield israeli prime minister from the allegations against him so they've been here on the streets of tel aviv again shouting shame shouting b.v. his nickname go to jail and also shouting for the corrupters to go home this is the third weekend the december patella be perceived scenes like this. throughout december this is what saturday night in downtown tel aviv has looked like while international attention has been on the latest crisis in the peace process with the palestinians and these protesters the focus is on domestic politics and the corruption allegations against prime minister benjamin netanyahu we don't want the perhaps the government if they don't be swell the heart of corrupt peoples go home bibi must leave. on friday police arrived in netanya his residence to question him for a seventh time one case concerned allegations he tried to manipulate media coverage in his favor and other centers on expensive gifts received from wealthy foreign business executives in the pictures by. the prime minister denies one leak from the investigation suggesting he and his wife requested expensive cigars and champagne when stocks were running low from hollywood producer on the strain billionaire james packer and others welcome to a palace reminiscent of the story his lawyer has admitted what he calls netanyahu as weakness for wealthy people his wife sarah is awaiting indictment on a separate case involving alleged misuse of public funds. that public orders reverend wright to show there's increased scrutiny to regarding another case involving alleged corruption when german submarines were bought for the israeli navy netanyahu is not a suspect and he hasn't been questioned but two of his closest and most senior associates have been detained benjamin netanyahu is insisting that when these investigations have run their course he will be proven innocent again on friday on to this latest round of questioning his spokesman quoting him said that he was more certain than ever that it would be proven that there is no there there however the close of these investigations get to their final conclusions the more the political pressure is mounting on the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu. and they are being processed around the world against the u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel demonstrators marched in washington and in major cities in europe and in the middle east as well trump's decision has been widely condemned because east jerusalem is palestinian territory under the equal occupation by israel. in the palestinian territories funerals were held for four people killed by israeli forces during protests over trump's decision on jerusalem one of those killed was an activist who lost both his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight alan fischer was at the funeral in gaza. we came in the thousands to see good bye to a man and what he represented. three a lost both his legs in an airstrike during the two thousand in the gaza war became an unlikely symbol of palestinian defiance and resistance. the twenty nine year old often went in his wheelchair to fly his flag at demonstrations and protests all over again as he went on friday to the border with thousands of others to protest donald trump's decision to declare jerusalem as israel's capital. donald trump must reverse his decision jerusalem as the capital of palestine i call on all arabs to support the palestinians and if they don't we palestinians will do it ourselves beba him three it was flying his flag on friday when he was short and killed by the israelis going to market us during the very moment we helped them are to abraham in the wheelchair tear gas was fired at us and abraham was hit in the head he fell to the ground and was killed instantly by a single bullet to the head. at his funeral in gaza city hamas leader ismail haniyeh said the protesters death was not in vain you were shocked to know that i say here you are he tried to protest despite his condition became famous all over the world and he is shaping the consciousness of the world two people were killed in clashes in gaza on friday for several hours and in seven places along the border palestinians protested. and rocks at israeli positions usually fired bullets and tear gas trying to force the thousands back from the border line hundreds were taken to hospital many suffering from the effects of gas and with other groups and factions here and guys are calling for more protests the people here. briefing them south for more funerals in the pyrenees and weeks to come. to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of people from iraq's years e.-d. minority have been found near the northwestern town of sin jaw ninety bodies have reportedly been discovered including those of women and children eisel took over in twenty fourteen killing and enslaving thousands of members of the religious minority singe it was retaken a year later by a u.s. backed kurdish faces the un has declared the massacre of the z t s as genocide. south korea's president has wound up on official four day visit to china aimed at repairing frayed relations but mungy and hasn't been given the warm welcome many south koreans were expecting beijing correspondent. president mungy in visit was intended to improve relations with china and while expectations had not been high both sides are indicating a willingness to reset their relationship that may not be easy though in his discussions china's premier league chunk used a weather metaphor to sum up the state of ties saying both china and south korea and now looking forward to the warmth of spring time but many south koreans see nothing warm about the treatment afforded their president. or journalist traveling with him the beating of a photographer by chinese security guards is being investigated but one popular chinese newspaper says there should be no apology analysts say the incident is feeding into south korean nationalist sentiment the optics of something like that is playing into the kind of anti chinese. feelings within south korea so they're starting to serie action to there is also some feeling that he. did not receive the proper of greeting or the meetings and his highest profile meeting was actually canceled that was supposed to be lunch with china's premier chinese media coverage of president moon's visit has been very low key unlike south korea's which has reported the president had his first three meals in china without any chinese officials on hand and then after he arrived he was greeted by a low ranking foreign ministry official relations became strained after south korea deployed a u.s. anti missile system earlier this year to defend against possible attack from north korea that infuriated chinese leaders and a targeted trade boycott followed south korea's leader though does appear to have given some ground reassuring his hosts the system is only targeted at incoming north korean missiles and while. china's leaders remain vehemently opposed to it they also need a friendlier south korea but friendly is not the way many south koreans view their president's reception here a reminder that the alliance confronting north korea is fragile and sometimes fractured adrian brown al jazeera beijing. political instability inter go is high on the agenda as a meeting of west african leaders in nigeria conflicts in guinea bissau and nigeria are also being discussed by members of eco was this the economic community of west african states where the address is at that conversation in a. the leaders discuss economy and politics and of course africa's regional west africa's regional. trouble spots guinea bissau was reviewed to look at the progress made politically and economically there to resolve the political impasse there trouble was mention and in two sentences in his opening remarks at the horse president. called on both sides to resolve this issue i mean could be through dialogue now as the leaders meet in this court hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across toward demanding an end to fifty year dinners to rule of the end of my family and urging political reforms but what remains to be seen is whether the member nations will force the hands of the or one of their on an interview to see to the demands of the protesters a moral cause was deferred until two thousand and eighteen when the nations of the west africa economic bloc will consider whether or not to admit the country into the fifteen member nation bloc and tunisia is also aiming to be an observer status just as mauritania which pulled itself out of the regional bloc in two thousand in their two thousand is attending this summit or attended the summit as an observer nation those were news and sports still to come for you here on the news hour including these stories with key regional elections just days away his supporters of cattle and independents once again take to the streets. and a billionaire palestinian businessman is arrested in. his anti corruption drive appears to. plus the european and south american football champions meet in the fifo club world cup final summer is here with that in the sports news in about thirty. the trumpet ministration has told officials at the top u.s. public health agency not to use certain words in documents relating to their budget stuff at the centers for disease control have been told to avoid. crazies like evidence based and science based also on this banned list vulnerable entitlement and diversity a word criticized by some from supporters as reflecting a liberal bias also not to be used fetus transgender echoing previous steps taken by the administration in pursuit of its own social agenda earlier this year the department of health and human services which oversees the c.d.c. removed information relating to sexuality and gender issues from its online website that show castro joins us live now from washington heidi what kind of impact will this have on what the c.d.c. does day to day. hey peter so the twelve thousand some employees of the c.d.c. are finding themselves frankly in a tough spot because of this list for example how do they continue research on those eco virus without using the banned word fetus in describing the birth defects of the virus can cause or on that hand how can they continue their outreach toward the transgender community in an age of the prevention program aimed at that community without using that banned word transgendered and how do these scientists and doctors on a day to day basis continue their work without using science based or evidence based also words on that band a list critics are calling this move by the trouble ministration potentially dangerous an attack and a further attack on the scientific community peter not the first time government science agencies have come into the crosshairs for this trumpet ministration what's happened in the past. that's right if you look into the case of the disappearing government web pages you'll see that web pages that were dedicated to helping the l.g.b. tea community with child adoptions as well as helping the l.g.b. teeth victims of sex trafficking they have vanished from federal service also the department of health and human services has dropped questions relating to gender identity and sexual orientation in a few surveys and if you look at the wider picture it's not just public health it's also quiet change with scientists from the environmental protection agency saying they have been censored in the past from talking about climate change at conventions the greater scientific community is saying that this is a injection of partisan politics into science and they say that this could have potentially dangerous consequences peter heidi thanks very much well let's discuss those potential dangerous consequences now with harold pollack our old is a professor at the school of social service of ministration the university of chicago he joins us on skype how republic how can scientists at the top of their game work in a world of science and research when they can use the word science. well fortunately scientists have had practice with this because this current thing is really a replay of some of the issues that came up in the one nine hundred eighty s. and one thousand ninety's during the hiv epidemic where we in the public health community were told not to use words like harm reduction or homosexuality and discussing each id so this is not so much donald trump as it is a constituency of social conservatives who are offended by the behavior and existence of some sexual minorities and of course also the abortion issue i suspect that the scientific community will find ways to work around this because it is one hundred percent considered to be ridiculous by almost everybody in public health to get messages like this but it does further the rift between the trumpet ministration and the public health and medical and scientific communities ok just to be clear that i think you're referencing the reagan administration because ronald reagan famously did not talk about hiv aids until he was in office as president for several years because his white house was deep in denial when it came to that major major health issue bought sciences so they're going to get round it by doing something like instead of using the word transgender they'll have to come up with a phrase of seven or eight other would saying somebody who started life as a man who is now a woman all they will do vice of us are on that one. yeah they'll have to come up with well cute shoes like that and i think in our scientific research that will be fine i think the challenge will be when we're trying to talk to young people in those in a plane way about what are the risks of a child be what are the circumstances of their lives and trying to talk to transgender particularly young people in a way that does not demean them so that they can be healthy you know and grow up to be you know productive that excepted citizens this is a slap in the face to them if we can't use the words to describe them that they want us to use you know that they use to describe themselves so if it furthers the stigma in a way that is harmful more than it will actually harm i think genuine scientific efforts because we just have many more ways that we can work around things like this is it also not wishing to put words into a mouth is it also slightly. kind of self-indulgent almost it's a bit all well ian it's a bit thought police you know you take the words out the dictionary therefore you can't express the thought but the reality is you can't kill a thought. oh absolutely and you know this is twenty seventeen i think almost all americans under the age of forty when they hear about this work think wow this is just really comically ridiculous and you know these are battles that really for most americans were flawed you know and and you know ended a long time ago you know george w. bush for example that not you know push me to x. like this late in his that ministration there were some people in the in the george w. bush administration that tried to push this early on but now these culture war issues of the country has kind of moved on and this is really a throwback to that and so it's what it is orwellian and you know i just think that the public response will be extremely negative and i expect that they'll be some effort to walk this back once once public ridicule starts to descend i mean twenty four hours ago we have missed the trumpet playing to his base saying very positive things about the police when he was at the f.b.i. and it was like thirty six hours ago day time yesterday your time where you are i mean who is he trying to appeal to he is clearly not the scientific community it is not those minorities who get mentioned by the c.d.c. in relation to a health issue plus or minus so who is he trying to play to he who is he talking to . well he has one real component left in his base right which are very conservative evangelical christians and it's somewhat ironic because he ran in a way that was quite different and he spoke in a very inclusive way about the r g p t community during the twenty sixteen election but he's now in a position where that is you know we're very social conservative people who value highly lection of conservative judges and who have very different views on homosexuality and abortion than he does you know they are his core supporters and given his unpopularity you know he has a big reason to really embrace those people in his own vice president vice president parents is certainly one of those people harold greats told shoot thanks very much for time thank you so much sir. there's been a torch lit march in the run up to elections in the spanish region of catalonia protest as emboss aluna called for the release of politicians and activists jailed by the central government in madrid for going to sing in a session referendum in october and the central spanish government imposed direct rule in catalonia after regional leaders declared independence his call panel. the march that we're seeing now is a fairly small torchlight mogs by probably independence activists task force this is part of the wider campaign for the parliamentary elections on this coming thursday but this group in particular are calling for the release of what they called the political prisoners there referring to a group of catalan pro independence politicians who were imprisoned by the spanish central government. a little bit and the scene it looking right now down the iconic last round was who of on the most touristic areas of the loadout. when they lit. for the rallies how little you know prisoners and that really goes to do something. else coming elections are they on the you know. the off togo. referendum the spanish government the central government step in the old the capital and all of the declared. groups from madrid and then set about imprisoning some of the leading politicians road crew for independence for the cash a lot of your region and so now as they go towards the parliamentary elections on the twenty first of december you have these four politicians still in prison who are also candidates you have all the politicians out on bail who are facing a thirty year jail sentence on charges of bread badly and you also have other leading politicians in self exile in brussels. well gandhi has taken over from his mother sagna as president of india's main opposition congress party gandhi is the sixth member of his family to head one of asia's oldest political groups but he does have an uphill job the congress had its worst ever showing in parliamentary elections in twenty fourteen and has lost crucial state elections since then down to used his acceptance speech to launch an attack on the prime minister narendra modi as part of the b.g.p. which he accused of taking india back to the dark ages doors in power in india today are shaped by the very structures that keep india. the congress took india into the twenty first century while the prime minister is taking us back to a medieval past where people are hurt because of who they are. for what they believe and kill for to eat. still to cover for you here on the news a river too far the deadly route tens of thousands of refugees are taking to getting to europe from turkey and. how many gallacher in the u.s. state of georgia where rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate we'll tell you what the effect is on the local communities and why it could be the difference between life and death. and that the sports news will have the details as lindsey vonn another world cup title. hello there is a pool of really cold air sitting just about here so mostly ontario and around the outer age you can generate snow and that has happened as more lake effect snow to come for the north east of the u.s. but not a lot it's just the cold you'll notice and it's really the other side of the border manas four in toronto plus three in new york you can see the variation for the sas it's warming up again if anything the cladistic and bring a bit of rain through texas and going out to the appalachian chain even southern illinois it is rain it's not snow snow has been trying to get into well in the northwest corner to be honest and it will make some progress for the cascades in northern rockies i suspect during monday seattle stays at eight coast by which time the rains become a bit more obvious from texas we're going on the coast to georgia and toronto's come just above freezing the cold has been pushed a little bit further northeast now given what's happening along the gulf coast should expect to be a tail end charlie if it rain in mexico there is fairly obvious on the satellite pictures not moving anywhere so in the forecast there is still a little bit of rain in not massive cloud but beyond that look fairly dry picture just a few showers making the coast of costa rica. besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by ariss and integration now are now out to syria traces the history of fast generation lebanese australians exploring the conflicts. and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al jazeera and. al jazeera. every year. welcome back you're with the al-jazeera news hour live from doha my name's peter dhabi your headlines south africa's president jacob zuma has called on the governing a.n.c. party to unite as members gather to choose a new leader and the african national congress is deeply divided over who should replace suma stepping down from the role. protestors in tel aviv are once again calling for the resignation of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under investigation over allegations of corruption he's accused of accepting gifts from wealthy businessman he denies any wrongdoing. donald trump has ordered stuff of the top public health agency in the states not to use words and phrases like evidence based vulnerable and fetus in their budget tree reports the directive follows previous steps taken by the administration in pursuit of its conservative social agenda. from the sea to the land literally refugees are more and more trying an old landru to into europe with deadly consequences fewer of them are now crossing the aegean to the greek islands of less false and cheops once on the islands many of them have to enjoy a dire conditions now thousands are heading north to cross the land border from turkey into the northeast of greece and that means crossing the ever also river which has been fatal for hundreds of refugees lawrence lee has this report now from alexander a warning you may find some of the images distressing. if you want to see how dangerous it is to be a refugee this hospital morgue is a good starting point is boredom with. the. pub loss is parts hospital doctor parts detective the bodies are usually discovered half naked they've been in the water for weeks and the river or the fish take their clothes sometimes they're a possible effects a clue to someone's mind says this syrian woman drowned along with her son she was identified by another son already in europe but usually they remain unidentified silent witnesses to the horror of the refugees journey is a very little goes with that is it because we're here that woman will have a little boy gales we haven't seen them we have all harmony. world. they come here. and there was poor farm the sea and the yes it's very difficult. sometimes the bodies are found by police on patrol. sometimes they discovered by fisherman in the shallows more died hypothermia frozen from leaking boats discovered in outbuildings half eaten by wild dogs others still killed by trains sleeping on the railway is afghan says he crossed the river six times before dodging the police by that time he left behind three of his friends dead on the border. you know they were three of my best friends we were out in the open it was so dangerous so cold we didn't have any food or clothes. where the river winds into turkey a fence becomes the border paid for by the european union to keep the refugees out either side the turkish and greek troops refugees have been blown up by land mines here in the united nations says this year twenty thousand have been stopped on the turkish side it's becoming a favored route for refugees to avoid the greek islands while this fence does is to force the refugees into the river either in the hands of illegal smuggling gangs or by themselves it's really dangerous are the way and yet again exposes the lack of safe routes at the edges of the european union for refugees well away from the fence and the watching troops the motorway is used by the smugglers they camp out here after crossing the river into greece the greek government says a thousand people a month are being caught it is unclear how many get through but they have nothing. which is a this is a medical no from a charity it's from december last year he says could this person please be referred to a psychiatrist. the spittal doctors believe the river contains many more bodies it will soon give up and at their impoverished hospital they should is the new addition from the red cross a huge fridge they've run out of room for the bodies lawrence lee al jazeera on the greece turkey border. the police in saudi arabia have arrested a palestinian billionaire who's the head of one of the biggest banks in the middle east masseria is chairman of the arab bank which is the largest lender in jordan he is a saudi passport holder is the latest move in an anti corruption drive ordered by the crown prince mohammed bin selma is empty as time. he's one of jordan's most prominent businessmen and among the wealthiest but since wednesday musri has been detained in saudi arabia for having what's been described as information relating to corruption the eighty year old palestinian who has a saudi passport is the founder of a major investment group and the chairman of arab bank one of the middle east largest and most influential lenders his detention has shocked family and friends in jordan where his multi-billion dollar portfolio is an important part of the economy that employs thousands of musri as you know he's like michael bloomberg for the economy of new yorkers he is just a massive figure in jordan and palestine and he is the chairman of the arab bank they are a bank is the bank that the jordanian government turns to it's a commercial bank and the jordanian government what it needs money in terms of their bank to get some advances. these detention follows a major anti corruption crackdown in saudi arabia which began last month around two hundred members of the royal family and businessmen have been implicated among those detained or eleven princes for government ministers and several former ministers it's thought many of them are being held at a luxury hotel in the capital riyadh several had their bank accounts frozen and were put on a no fly list they are the latest in a series of measures ordered by crown prince mohammed bin some months the thirty one year old heir to the throne is being seen as trying to assert his power shortly after the first arrests were made king someone been abilities all some announced that his son known as n.b.'s would oversee a newly formed anti corruption commission and it would purge the country of what the king described as widespread corruption it looks like this is following the attempt and cut out of the attempt in lebanon to put stress on these smaller countries to have them fall in line but the likelihood is that it won't succeed because the jordanians have been through this before many times. they've been under great pressure and they've always found a way to get out of a mystery comes from a prominent palestinian business family from nablus in the israeli occupied west bank with majority holdings in real estate hotels and telecoms he initially made his fortune from partnering with influential saudis in a major catering business to supply troops during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one since then his income has grown dramatically through regional investment and as boss of arab bank for the past five years although there's no saudi comment on our must raise detention it's a sign that the kingdom's anti corruption crackdown is widening india's hype al-jazeera and saudi current crown prince mohammed bin selman has been revealed as the mystery buyer of a french stately home thought to be the most expensive house in the world the chateau louis the fourteenth was sold for just over three hundred million dollars two years ago the heir to the saudi throne is also purchased a yacht and a division she painting recently in selma and is the driving force behind the arrest of several saudi billionaires as part of the ongoing anti corruption crackdown. egypt has ordered the al jazeera journalist saying to remain in prison for another forty five days he was arrested in egypt almost a year ago while visiting family this is the tenth time his detention has been renewed al jazeera continues to demand his release he's accused of broadcasting full scenes to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny it has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. chileans head to the polls on sunday in what's expected to be the most fiercely fought presidential election in decades a growing number of people want faster social and economic reforms a surge from voters known as the dissatisfied left could put a conservative coalition back in power for the first time in almost thirty years here's a lesson america at a certain see in human. is a community leader in this community of fifty families living in an informal camp they love what their homes made out of anything they can find like amalia almost all of them work. a lot of people don't have money to pay for rent it's too expensive on a minimum wage and if you have to pay for education food and medicine you are forced to resort to this. when seventy six year old. daughter became a widow she could no longer pay for rent on her meager pension now her main priority is her health. mary i haven't been able to see a doctor for a year even though i have chronic illnesses every month i ask for an appointment and when i go it's been changed or there's no doc. chillies so-called free market economic miracle isn't working for too many people in the last four years the number of families living in informal settlements and houses like this one has jumped from twenty seven thousand to forty one thousand chiles two presidential candidates say that they have the solution but the methods that they propose are very different to the former conservative president. a successful billionaire says he knows how to spur sluggish economic growth and that this time around he will ensure better basic services but he believes the market rather than the government should regulate. central leftist alley handor good promises. accelerate to social reforms started by the current government a former journalist has little experience and isn't part of the political establishment he barely made it to the runoff but is now technically tied with pineda backed by a new wave of progressive chileans who are tired of politics as usual some people say hey. maybe there's a part of the society. be being pension fund pensions be health or be an indication that you know maybe we don't want the market to rule everything. chile is indeed at a crossroads and will have to choose between two very different models to try to really make latin america's most stable economy work for everybody to see in human and just see death sentence. the bolivian president evo morales shrugged off claims he's a dictator after being named the official candidate by the governing party to controversially run for a fourth term tens of thousands of his supporters turned in the city of cochabamba to back his twenty nineteen bid bolivia's constitutional court eliminated term limits for presidents last month clearing the way for mr mandela's to run but it's triggered violent protests in several cities across the country. that argentina's navy has been fired over the loss of a submarine and its crew in the southern atlantic contact with the. on which had forty four people on board was lost last month after it reported an electrical problem off the coast of patagonia an international search operation has failed to locate the submarine relatives of the crew are demanding the search continue until it is found. austria's president says his country won't lurched to the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right freedom party thirty one year old sebastian kurtz leads the more moderate people's party he'll be the new chancellor however the freedom party will control several of the most important ministries here's paul brennan he's been nicknamed c. or wizkid now he'll be known as chancellor sebastian kurtz led the overpay people's party to a thirty two percent winning share of the votes in the general election two months ago but to govern he needed a coalition and the far right f.p.o. is his chosen partner it is good this. we have a good strong team concerning my party the people's party that will be women and two thirds of our team are experts who will bring a lot of knowledge to the political leadership regarding the freedom party and mr starr has a team but he's also put forward his suggestions so that the kids are going to follow this is about responsibility for our wonderful republic of australia and it is about ensuring good cooperation for the future too it can be difficult to tell them apart kurtz and his conservative people's party bills itself a center right but its policies borrow freely from far right ideas in january curt's demanded a ban on public sector workers wearing headscarves he was instrumental in having full face veils banned in austria too and his anti migrant policies slammed the door on syrian refugees trying to reach europe via the so-called balkan route it's not the first time far right politicians have been government ministers in austria it happened seventeen years ago e.u. states reacted then by downgrading bilateral contacts the prospects in this coalition of the far right in charge of austria's foreign interior and defense ministries is likely to create concern in other european capitals. yes center for them party will out the lot of berry or. i have to add to the three things that they're specially was respected in foreign ministry it woman who is that knows him in the ministry is not a party member. and what is more in court in the european perspective all the european policy agendas will transfer from the foreign ministry huge chancellorship other kurts nor straka have detailed the new government's approach to european policy kurtz says he is pro european but the far right has traditionally euro skeptic don't forget austria will hold the e.u. rotating presidency in the second half of next year old brennan al-jazeera. at least three people have been killed in flooding as tropical storm kai tak lashes the philippines contact made landfall on saturday barreling through the eastern region of beside us with winds of eighty kilometers an hour eleven thousand people are stranded at various ports while thousands of others have fled to evacuation centers power is being cut across the region. thousands of additional residents in southern california are being forced to leave their homes a strong wind gusts fuel what is now the third biggest wildfire in the history of the state hundreds of homes have been destroyed or more than a thousand square kilometers burned since a series of fires began on december the fourth the latest blaze is centered about one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of los angeles the authorities say eighteen thousand properties are still under threat. canadian police are investigating the death of one of the country's richest men billionaire barry sherman and his wife were found dead in their home in toronto the police say the circumstances are suspicious but the deaths are not being treated as homicide sherman founded a protext that's one of the world's largest generic drugs makers the couple were known for their philanthropy donating tens of millions of dollars to hospitals and charities. many hospitals in rural areas of the us a struggling to operate experts say so-called medical deserts are becoming common across the country since twenty ten more than eighty rural hospitals have closed and hundreds more are at risk of shutting their doors al-jazeera is and agalloch are reports from one such area around mehta in georgia. glenwood really is a blink and you'll miss it kind of rural city only a few hundred people live here even on busy days it's sleepy but at one time it was home to the only hospital in the county an area of almost eight hundred square kilometers that was our kind of our block or better in terms claimed a fine with the hospital with then three years ago the facility closed its doors and with that the city lost its biggest employer it devastated economically i mean just took away our lack blood our you know just the beginning of a domino effect you know small towns you know in a larger town if you lose one hundred twenty jobs you know you could probably overcome it but here it's just hard to do that i have to run. but for the residents many who are elderly and poor it's the loss of health care that hit the hardest with folks on you know have been here for there is. it would be great if we would have found in about an hour's drive away is met or there the county hospital is still open but state officials say it's financially stressed like hundreds of other rural hospitals across the u.s. it's facing serious challenges in the state of georgia there are around two hospital beds for every thousand people but in rural communities it's a very different picture hospitals have a hard time attracting doctors many of the patients don't have insurance and simply can't pay their bills and medicaid a social welfare program designed to help the poor hasn't been expanded here or that means that hospitals that are still open a struggling to get by and we have a lot of folks that come in for heart attacks or strokes hospital c.e.o. david flanders is working hard to turn things around and says serving the community is about more than health care in a great hospital to be able to prosper as a community and that's kind of our mission and everybody that works here wants to take care of patients they want to see this hospital survive and they don't do it for monetary reasons for sure they do it because they're genuinely concerned about the patients and the people in this community according to the national rural health association a third of the u.s. is rural hospitals are in danger of closing for good leaving the u.s. is most vulnerable without timely access to health care for many the situation is the difference between life and death at a gala crowd zira matter georget. still ahead here on the news our old sports news find out how costly this sarah was at the freestyle world cup aerials of expensive proved to be for the reigning champion. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by reese's and integration now are out just zero traces the history of first generation lebanese australians. exploring the conflicts. and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera do is get the whole story the background the history and how issues in other parts of the world are connected to have to pay off their own family loosely by themselves on the back of these trucks we understand all the important issues and all vital local knowledge gets us and sized into what's around the corner is still the citizen that mine owners and more about profits than they do their work is safety so when the story develops al-jazeera is already there on the ground talking with the people. the u.s. military has acknowledged. the existence of a secret program charged with investigating u.f.o. zip collected audioboo and videotapes including those images of a navy jets encounter with an unknown object the twenty two million dollars project started in two thousand and seven it ran until twenty twelve when the defense department stopped the funding plan for sports news. thank you very much for being crowned the european champions twelve times and now they have three clubs a wall a cup titles as well they on the defeated one there in saturday's final abu dhabi as peter stamets reports. real madrid were looking for food feat for club world cup title in four years gremio of brazil were hoping to become the first stop american team to win this competition since two thousand and twelve the first half was a close affair all the railhead more than sixty percent of the position they could not converted into golds as the south american champions how berowne the brazilians felt they should have had a penalty when ramiro went down in the box from a suit to ram aust challenge. but the referee felt differently much to be anger and as has happened so many times in the past a near miss said one in can result in a goal at the other two minutes later cristiana rinaldo stepped up to the plate for the spanish club ronaldo as fifty third minute goal handing the nadine's advancement in the i and it could have been more ronaldo put the ball in the back of the maid again three minutes later only for to be rude offside i checked midfielder luca moderates hit the post as real continue to frustrate the cup in the better doris' windows i. and gareth bale also came close but to no avail i it didn't matter in the end though a third free for club world cup title for real madrid in four seasons they are level on that score with fierce rivals barcelona and it caps a trophy laden calendar year for real madrid words are not going to affect your career was going on it was a trophy that we wanted to win we know we played against a good team real madrid has never won five trophies in a year and saddam did that for us so i think it was a good game and we deserved to win. the dance team have won the spanish league title spanish super cup european champions league european super cup another club world cup in twenty seventeen peter stammered al-jazeera. to secure a third place in the world cup by hammering the home side al jazeera it's a good till the hour mark for frank storper took his lead it was a one one until then the but then the floodgates opened and they were told to win four one. just as it is historical magic in the english premier league continued on saturday zero with their sixteenth consecutive league victory. were the latest victims in city. men hammering spurs for what by him sterling scored twice as cordiality moves fourteen points clear at the top of the standings people have to look at how good we are ok with the ball because the club provide me like a manager and i'm sending players but we've got the ball does energy in the last minute it doesn't. the player who is close is one for doable and we took the ball and tried to play so that is five points in. keeping the distance with old openings in the earlier kickoff so there was a close the fourth one nil went for chelsea over south marcus alone scoring the goal for the currently champions at stamford bridge. in the last thing we were in the eight gauge. do all you want a game against unit police and lucia one game against the west and if someone asked me in the field the next day in big games are you ready to sign your business writer review one other matches there are good three nil away wins for crystal palace and west ham both those clubs are now out of the relegation zone castle are in the bottom three after losing at arsenal hundreds field hammered for it away from home for tom world cup but when a lindsey vonn a has won the women's a world cup super g. race in france it was the thirty three year old seventy eight a world cup race when the americans started the race in sixth place but made towards the end she clocked a time of one minute and four point eight six seconds with italian sophia garcia finishing in second place. x.l. learned spend a lot of norway's stormed to another downhill win on saturday he won the men's world cup race in vienna and italy despite stars in the race in thirteenth place spend the course in one minute fifty seven seconds to win by no point five nine seconds in total it was he's thirty fourth wall cup race with and in the process he has moved to the top of the ultra world cup downhill rankings. skiers are also preparing for the winter games in time at the freestyle world cup aerials event in the women's competition no reigning world cup champion and olympic silver medalist at the two men got out was a mistake cost her dearly hannah a school that would profit from that era and go on to take the victory i actually felt well out of the united states took place. on the men's side home a hero song jungle would emerge victorious in the sochi twenty fourteen bronze medalist nailed a back full double full fall to claim the tenth world cup circuit when of his korea second place went to maximum stick of belarus while louis r ving of canada completed the podium. and over in italy those victory for sweden solid color and the women's ten kilometer three technique cross-country event on saturday won the ten kilometer cross-country freestyle gold medal in vancouver in two thousand and ten and she'll be hoping to emulate that. to take in silver in the sochi games. and on the men's side it was also scandinavian the trials to end the fifteen kilometer cross-country event norway's symon. kruger would win his first individual world cup victory and like so many others this is sure to boost his confidence ahead of those winter olympics in february. over and end germany japan's women's team have won the ski jumping team event at the world cup the japanese women were ultimately too good for russia who would finish in second place says pace went to france to host nation in this instance finished for the dozen as well four we'll have more later on thirty minutes of al-jazeera well usually when we come back in a couple of minutes i'll see that. our war on terror begins right now but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein and this is a regime that has something to hide they have prepared a significant propaganda machine and guess what not one w m d's site was found in iraq since one thousand nine hundred ninety one iraq a deadly deception at this time on al-jazeera. with. a crucial meeting.