Pyongyangs Nuclear Weapons program. Here in doha with your top stories this hour from al jazeera also coming up more House Cleaning from the turkish president. Hes fired another twenty seven hundred people for alleged links to terrorism plus. The wrath of Tropical Storm more than seventy thousand people are now homeless in the philippines at least two hundred people are dead. Nearly thank you yes with the latest series on Artificial Intelligence in the years to come will this be doing your job or module. North korea has called the latest round of u. N. Sanctions an act of war north koreas state News Agency Says the strengthening of its Nuclear Deterrent program is the only way to for straights the u. S. The u. N. Impose extra measures on pyongyang on friday following its recent Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test Florence Louis has more now from seoul. North korea called the latest round of Un Security Council sanctions imposed on it as a threat as a violation of its sovereignty as well as an act that would violate peace and stability in the region it also seemed to direct much of its anger at the u. S. Who led drafted and negotiated this latest round of sanctions now one interesting thing however is north korea seems to acknowledge that these latest sanctions are the toughest ever that its faithing it called it tantamount to a complete economic blockade as not only a significant cap on petrol supplies the sanctions also call for the repatriation of north Korean Foreign labor as within the next twenty four months hitting an important income source for the isolated country it also calls for an ban on north korean exports including machinery and lumber again hitting north koreas income source there isnt however any indication in the statement that north korea will change its behavior in fact the tone is one of defiance but this is very much in line with previous statements in reaction to past sanctions many analysts have come to believe that the world is running out of sanctions options when it comes to dealing with north korea now the hope however is that these sanctions will have the effect of making it more difficult for north korea to carry out further tests ok lets get some more on this for you joining us live now is young shit bomb hes a Research Fellow at the institute for most korean studies at your msawae university he joins us from seoul young is this just more talk from north korea. I do believe so because a war does not happen unless the first bomb will be a drop either by the United States or north korea or the Korean Peninsula and north koreas person of Nuclear Weapons. Is to serve only one goal which is survival of the regime if north korea starts a war that would be and of the regime and the regime does not want their result ok youre talking with some pretty scary language theyre talking about who will drop the first bomb who do you think might make the first move here north korea will engage in kind of peace Office Starting a new year two thousand and eighteen because of its a very important time for engaging in a different strategy is specially in the aftermath of thought graham governments proposal of the postponing possible postponing of the joint military exercises between u. S. Military and south korea and the Korean Military during the winter Olympic Games i guess the north korea is going to take advantage of the proposal and try to test the water before engaging another provocation what indicators have there been however in the past say two years that north korea is prepared to go with this different strategy that you talk about i mean arguably one could say theres been nothing in pyongyangs behavior to say that we are prepared to deescalate this highly negative relationship particularly with the United States and with the United States viewed through the prism of the united nations. Well north korea is a very flexible in terms of taking advantage of all of whatever conditions are given to a country because the goal is of unitary which is to complete here military nuclear and the entire continent Mr Technology including the re entry in our technology to be able to fire a missile to anywhere in the world including the main continent of the United States so north korea needs to are in some time to gather its a breath and focus on correcting some our technological problems to move ahead toward the goal so in that regard its a strategic call has not been changed but it the regime might feel some reason to change is the call approaches that a given situation ok we must leave the young shebang thank you very much. More than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their jobs as part of the countrys least emergency rule decree soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were sacked over alleged links to what is being called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand people have been dismissed or suspended from the job since the failed coup in july of last year thats over alleged ties to the movement of the us based cleric for to the glenn turkey accused him of organizing the attempted coup letting go is a security analyst and a former Turkish Military officer hes also a columnist for the el mullets news website he joins us now from istanbul what is mr one trying to achieve with this. First i have to start with is there are two emergency rule in decrease issue today morning first one is the one that you are mentioning. Two thousand seven hundred Government Employees and ammo perched we have around six hundred fifty military personnel from the Army Air Force and they were and around three hundred fifty. Personnel from gender maria command and in this. Degree say is that the projects are still going on and despite the fact that it has been almost eighteen months after the july fifteenth military our pricing the government is still inclined to prioritize diggler newfie cation of course critical cut dress down the operational effectiveness of the military so this is the first and the second one is. Designing and restructuring the state used to do shows particularly in this Second Degree if there is an important point we said theyre handing all were off to the military defense procurement system from the Prime Minister to the office of presidency saw in this Second Degree the president is going to be the last of tory to decide in the military and defense pretty clear a month you know and contracts into ok so in this decrease we see overlapping corridor merging of these three important process is first one is the bigger than if occasion of the brokerage here and the second process is the. Second message just to go back to my original point what is he trying to achieve here because some of the analysts that aljazeera is talking to are saying look hes not even reacting to intelligence or information gathering that has been passed on to him and hes just reacting to a list of names up and across the country and also theyre all. These unconfirmed reports that hes putting people whove been thrown out of their jobs they have to wear special uniforms i mean that speaks to an agenda of stripey pajamas that speaks to the Second World War that speaks to constantly singling out and identifying people that only he perceives as a threat nobody else within the turkish government perhaps perceives them as a threat and maybe their crime is primarily that they havent gone far enough in praising mr won and everything he stands for. Yes i think the issue of to decrease first one to one per you know two thousand seven hundred personnel and the second one trying to restructure the state used to to sion at the same time called this to decrease at the same time i think is the issue that we should criticize maybe because as i said before right now in this decrease on the one hand you are trying to do you know government personnel for to do. The good and if occasion efforts on those on the other hand you are trying to ask for executive power from the Prime Minister to the office of presidency i think this process is as i said before the leg little while there do. Little vacation after and their technical Capacity Building within the state institution and last year politics will want to ask for of executive power from Prime Minister to the office of presidency. I mean in. All were lapping of these three processes from then and now there i think this is not. This is not good and at the end of today all those efforts will be is there. Thank you very much. Israel has closed the northern entrance to ramallah and all better in the occupied west bank thats the main point used by palestinians crossing into israel if all those weeks of palestinian demonstrations over the us decision to recognize to receive them as the israeli capital at least fourteen protesters have been killed in the palestinian territories since that decision was made there was also outrage around the world in the days following that announcement from the trumpet ministration hundreds of thousands of people rallied in countries across the middle east as well as muslim majority nations in indonesia malaysia and pakistan to name but three now on thursday the Un General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a nonbinding resolution declaring trumps decision quote null and void but trump is not backing down he insists the u. S. Embassy in israel will be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem breaking with fifty years of Diplomatic Convention lets get the latest now live from bethlehem and our correspondent Hoda Abdelhamid whats the atmosphere like there today this Christmas Eve. Well certainly theres an atmosphere of the fines that was earlier speaking to the mayor of bethlehem and he said were going to go ahead with celebrations despite the fact theres been many tourists cancellations and this is really the peak season for this city said well were going to go ahead with our celebrations were going to show and he said specifically mr trump that we are able to continue our allies that. Are palestinian cities i wish to be intimidated by whatever is coming our way now or aimed if you turn out theres been the festive mood really since earlier this morning we had to have parade of boys and girls twenty one in total coming from bethlehem but also from ramallah from nazareth from occupied East Jerusalem the one band could it make. Here is the one coming from i didnt get permission by the israelis to cross into this part of the country the reaction today from palestinian leaders because theyve had several weeks to jest this Trump Initiative and even today and yesterday the Trump White House seems quite happy to continue. The embassy will be moved even though we know that mr trump will have to sign off on the keeping it in tel aviv for at least a six six more signing. Well certainly the. Idea that. This embassy will move at some point it will take a few years for it to be built and everything to be done do the palestinians believe that in the middle there will be some miracle that will stop. But ministration going ahead with that move at this point no but theyre certainly going ahead with their own plans which is try to get as much International Backing as possible are strong of that as you said earlier nonbinding nevertheless resolution and they are now also quite strong about the fact that they can at least even though they publicly say that the u. S. Has no more role in the Peace Process israel will not accept that but at least they will try to couldnt tame that role of the u. S. And bring other players other mediators in that but ask anyone here and they will tell you. Some point to restart oh well its not going to be any time soon no one actually even believes that it could happen in two thousand despite the promises of President Trump that he will come out with the ultimate plan well mahmoud the best answer to that was that he came up with the ultimate slap so far every speech among the palestinian. So far we hear about promises about the possibility of a peace plan that is we had together a couple together in washington but they havent heard anything about it they would not ask their opinion and they have no idea whatsoever what that could could. Do keep us posted in the meantime thanks very much and well have a special program for you a little later today on aljazeera on the continuing tensions over the status of jerusalem this Christmas Eve watch the holy land twenty one thirty g. M. T. Here on aljazeera. Still to come here on this channel for you. 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Hello there weve got more unsettled weather thats toppling its way into parts of europe at the moment on the satellite picture you can see the cloud to just working its way down into the eastern parts of europe giving a fair amount of rain but its not feeling too cool for many of us but when theyre under the cloud nine degrees much in the temperatures were expecting in warsaw towards the northeast they where were seeing that area of rain working its way across the cold air of course here its turning to snow so were seeing a fair amount of wintry weather that tearing away from during the day to also southern parts of europe theyre quite different here hey weve got an area of High Pressure in charge so things are looking falling and settled even as we head into Christmas Day were looking at nine degrees there in madrid and around six in zurich for the other side of the mediterranean we do have a fair amount of cloud here is where you can see this area just working its way steadily towards the east it should have cleared away really by monday and behind it it should be an awful lot clearer just a few residual showers perhaps around the coast but for the northern parts of africa falling and dry were looking at a top temperature of around eighteen but for the central belt of africa just in the southern parts weve got the showers in the three d. How things are going to stay over the next few days some of the showers could be rather lively as they gradually what their way towards leap of. The weather sponsored by cats are at ways. Were living through a technological revolution but all the machines taking over if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear Oxford University as professor of Machine LearningSteven Roberts talks to all jersey at this time. That. He. Played. Like crap. Hello again you with aljazeera life from your headlines north korea has called the latest round of u. N. Sanctions an act of war pyongyang state News Agency Says the strengthening of its Nuclear Deterrent program is the only way to frustrate the u. S. Some one thousand percent of the countrys fuel imports. More than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their posts past the countrys latest emergency rule to create soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were all sacked over alleged links to what are being called terror organizations following last years failed coup. And christmas preparations are going ahead in bethlehem despite anger over the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital israel has closed the northern entrance to ramallah better in the occupied west bank its the main point used by palestinians crossing into israel. Now at least two hundred people were killed in the southern philippines after Tropical Storm tembin cause landslides and flooding Officials Say many villagers ignored warnings to leave coastal areas and were swept away at least seventy thousand people are now homeless body see as the story. More death and destruction as Emergency Responders continue to pull bodies from the devastation of Tropical Storm time and that hit the philippines second largest city mindanao flash floods and landslides washed away homes turning streets into rivers. Dozens are still missing and rescue workers fear the number of casualties will rise as forecasters predict more heavy rains to bring even more floods and landslides. Families and neighbors stand heartbroken as more bodies are recovered. The flood was already close and the people were not able to get out of their homes the flood was so strong that it swept away houses Emergency Responders say rocks and boulders some as biggest cars were washed down the mountain and bird scores of homes in the town of. More than twenty thousand people have been displaced in a region already