A bleak christmas in parts of the philippines as the country struggles with the aftermath of two Tropical Storms in quick succession. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up pope francis is the faithful to turn the power of fear into the power of charity as he draws attention to the plight of refugees. In peru a president ial pardon sparks charges of a corrupt political deal. And is part of our special day of coverage of the holy land we look at jerusalem and why the city lies at the heart of three faiths. After leaving a trail of devastation across the southern philippines Tropical Storm tembin is heading towards vietnam thousands of flood low lying areas where the capital city has closed schools. Made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash flooding and landslides and it killed more than two hundred people in reports. This 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 i think the poorest pharmacist and i are going to say you know. How. You know i did so and it wasnt. You know but i was at. The moment and i showed 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 coastal regions and move away from riverbanks among the areas battered by the storm was met our week at Lakeside City that was provided months earlier this year under siege by groups sympathetic to i sold more than a thousand people died and around three hundred thousand were displaced. The philippines is still recovering from typhoon haiyan that killed nearly eight thousand people and left two hundred thousand families homeless and central philippines in two thousand and thirteen Tropical Storm tembin is now making its way across the South China Sea towards vietnam thousands have fled southern areas and schools have been closed in the capital city all part of efforts to prevent the sort of devastation tempted caused to the philippines india style ill just zero. Correspondent bright is in a gun city he joins us live now rob how bad is it where you are. Well we are peter in the city of el again as you said alongside one of the rivers that burst its banks here where im standing a couple of days ago this was simply a torrent of water the river burst its banks it brought down the sides of the banks here and simply washed away the shelters the homes of people whove been living alongside here here as elsewhere people were ordered to evacuate they did evacuate from here we know from that report that there is some contention about people refusing to leave the city citing to stay and possibly because of the Holiday Season that was upcoming and its making a very serious the area by doing so but people it did leave here its now a very forlorn sight as people return to see whats left of their homes here alongside river banks and also elsewhere in these parts of mindanao alongside some of the hillsides with a growing population you are finding People Living in more vulnerable places and though it is those are the people who have suffered the most who have the least to lose if you like a now returning to their homes picking up what they can find to restart to start all over as we know from their report there also Evacuation Centers set out the people will be looking to return and the some of the priorities now are in the more ammo to areas where in one of the more important cities in mindanao there are more remote areas that still need to be reached by heavy equipment to continue in what should still be the search efforts for any survivors it has to be said that as time goes on they are probably now looking for more for bodies as the death toll continues to rise from this and the problem is trying to reach some of those more remote communities are the bridges as roads have been simply washed away peter is anyone there saying as to how long it might be until those people have been evacuated will go back to those areas i mean how long until those areas are livable again rob. This is an area part of the world of the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world you get Something Like twenty major storms every every year people are actually used to being evacuated to returning to see what damage has been done and to starting over and there is a kind of an acceptance of that and you are seeing that on the faces of the people here this is one more storm admittedly one of the worst storms that people in this part of mindanao ive had for a number of years a lot of people suspect here that it is changing climate that these kind of storms you dont we see further north in the philippines but at the particular problem that people here around killing and have is that it is this area of conflict more are we where this ongoing fighting has been continuing is very close to here in fact a number of the people whove been displaced by that fighting are in temporary accommodation here and illegal and those people a day are told they cant return home to their areas because thats a conflict affected area its not safe to return and now they dont know even if they have any homes there to return to peter rob thank you. Ok lets take you live now to the vatican where the Pope Pope Francis the head of the Roman Catholic church is delivering the annual christmas message is known as the viet albie which translates to the city of rome and to the whole world hes expected to call on the world to help ease the suffering of people stuck in conflicts. On Christmas Eve pope francis spoke about the plight of refugees and migrants around the world he compared refugees to mary and joseph recounting the biblical story of how they had to travel from nazareth to bethlehem but found no place to stay the pope stress that faith demanded that foreigners be welcomed everywhere. And use a paid media. Phone so many other footsteps are hidden in the footsteps of joseph and mary we see the tracks of entire families forced to set out in our own day we see the tracks of millions of people who did not choose to go away but driven from their land and leaving behind their dear ones who must see. The same fate impels us to make space for a new social imagination and not to be afraid of experiencing new forms of relationship in which none have to feel that there is no room for them on this earth christmas is a time for turning the power of fear into the power of charity at. The Un Refugee Agency says the world is now witnessing the highest level of displacement of people ever recorded more than sixty five Million People have been forced to leave their homes almost a third of them refugees there are also ten million stateless people whove been denied a nationality and access to basic rights such as Education Health care employment and freedom of movement the u. N. H. C. R. Estimates twenty people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution. Now libya has been a major transit point for refugees trying to get into europe hundreds of died trying to cross the mediterranean. As in tripoli libya as the biggest road for migrants and refugees has been recently receiving huge traffic of migrants crossing the libyan southern borders coming from african countries now during that tough journey their migrants take through in the Libyan Desert they face a lot of violations a lot of violence at the hands of people smugglers we hear stories about extortion about violence some planes in some cases rape many or several migrants die. At the hands of of the people or smugglers now they try to reach the libyan coast to see of to york to europe now libyas coast guard says that they have to arrest these migrants as long as they try to save of libyan coast and as long as the are in libyan territory of what us now libyas coast guard bring is those usually brings those migrants to Detention Centers and in detention in the Detention Centers the supervisors there say they deny committing any violations against migrants or a few g. s and they say on the contrary they try to provide them food and health care the u. N. General assembly is urging me and mark to end its crackdown on the Muslim Minority has passed a resolution calling for the appointment of a u. N. Special envoy full Citizenship Rights and access for aid workers the document was approved despite opposition from china and russia more than six hundred forty thousand. In march were kind states since august the u. N. Says they need to return home. Perus former president. Has been pardoned because his health is failing his supporters celebrated the news outside the clinic where hes been since saturday for a severe drop in his Blood Pressure which mori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights crimes committed during his ten year presidency. Has marianna sanchez. He spent years in prison campaigning for his release. He never acknowledged most of the crimes for which he was sentenced to twenty five years. The former president always claimed his innocence for the murders and disappearances by a government sanctioned death squad critics say the government was the most corrupt in peruvian history. His supporters created the seventy nine year old former leader with the defeat of shining path rebels in the one nine hundred ninety s. Rians where at the cusp of the conflict that killed thousands of people supporters also safe he helped save the economy from collapse for years his children campaigned for his release name he was ill and frail but he didnt have a terminal illness a condition for a humanitarian pardon. Denied him the freedom he craved. My greatest pain is to acknowledge that for part of the population for him or he was able to victimize himself looking for a depressing image as a hostage of the judiciary. An opinion poll in may said fifty nine percent approval and favored living go supporters say its time for him to have a quiet life. To stay at home live serenely enjoys granddaughters enjoy the people who love him and be free to decide to do whatever he wants. Many peruvians who for years opposed the president ial pardon were opened a book in what is when. If he asked for forgiveness for the crimes he committed but for the families of the victims gesture was never enough. Families of the victims say they feel betrayed preceded by the. Promised he wouldnt pardon for he wanted to win votes. To win justice for more than two decades. But. They dont care about our stuff about our desolation and the pain we still endure and we will never find peace. Hes old well im old too and i havent found justice yet he must complete a sentence despite his release from facing another trial a case is pending for the deaths of six people if convicted for the money faces another twenty five years in prison. Families of the victims say they wont stop demanding justice and hope to see him behind bars again but. Well just a little later fujimoris daughter spoke to reporters i remember the morning we have been with my father just now hes obviously very happy however he will have to stay in the intensive care for a few more days and he will have to stay in the hospital until the doctors say hes fully recovered. Members of the Afghan Parliament of someone Senior Security officials after at least nine people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan Capital kabul it happened near an Intelligence Agency building in kabul shushed neighborhood. It was responsible. Has more from kabul. That track happened Early Morning rush hour when people go to their work do their jobs and the Suicide Attack happened in cheshire our area of kabul this is a diplomatic it happens to be near the u. S. Embassy need to headquarters and also the headquarters for the Afghan Intelligence now the sources telling us that a suicide bomber believed to be a teenager on foot walking to the through the Afghan Intelligence checkpoint and detonated his explosives now number of Afghan Intelligence officers were killed outside. Bystanders happen to be. Caught him by this attack and and and this attack has happened in a time when the Afghan Interior Ministry has launched a week Long Campaign of stopping illegal vehicles with tinted windows people carrying illegal and and vehicles with the with no registration there is very tight security around the city even at the checkpoints there are canine dogs searching vehicles but still these measures havent worked quite destructively going through and thats not the end of it whilst it looks like its disappearing there is going to be more coming back particularly the Northern Home sure the Higher Ground but on the lower ground in her car the temperature has dropped in value one of the reasons is that this cold air rest of the warm water of the sea of japan it tends to produce these showers which of course now are of snow were back down to zero below on the Korean Peninsula similar levels beijing is just above freezing the real cold still tucked up in mongolia but its not staying there hes trying to push theres even more of a forecast for snow rather more extensive spare even at lower levels and says come wednesday but the suns i flicked rain prince to watch you so. Stay sub zero i would go a bit more tucking in of this rather more humid and less cold and quiet here in Southern China whilst its still pretty warm thirteen in shanghai with that sort of northerly breeze the cloud becomes quite extensive in the middle of china was rain falling from hanoi science was partly influenced by tembin there are millions of what was recently a typhoon and is still fairly obviously going to worry people in vietnam and sudden thailand. To finally well ask about that but thats. What its not isnt that the set says the last. Of the world out of all of our cars and a bunch of the baton at the bottom in the First Episode of a two part series aljazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs. Sports during the endless chase at this time. Welcome back you with aljazeera a reminder of our top stories so far this hour thousands of people in the southern philippines are spending christmas in emergency shelters after Tropical Storm tembin left a trail of destruction more than two hundred people are dead after landslides and flash floods. Pope francis the head of the Roman Catholic church has delivered his annual christmas message known as the irby et orbi which translates to the city of rome and to the whole world he is expected to call on the world to help ease the suffering of people stuck in a conflict. And in peru the former president Alberto Fujimori has been pardoned on Health Grounds the seventy nine year old was taken to hospital last saturday after a severe drop in his Blood Pressure hes been serving a twenty five year jail sentence for corruption kidnapping and human rights violations. The economy and the fight against corruption will be key issues when liberians vote in a president ial election runoff on tuesday the former football star george weah is taking on the countrys Vice President joseph. The winner will replace president Ellen Johnson sirleaf is governed liberia for twelve years in the capital monrovia. The liberian elections happening in the middle of the Festive Season but is not holding back the people of liberia theres a huge momentum here for people to cast their vote these. Elections very crucial to the future of liberia it will be the fos time in more than seventy three years that there will be democratic. Of power that is if that is also hold supporters of the leading contender for the presidency george will also say that they do not want a repeat of what happened in two thousand and five when george where contested against Ellen Johnson sirleaf defeated high in the first round only to lose in the second round he warned the fossil and held in october and they say they dont want to see a repeat of that happening on tuesday supporters of the Vice President joseph who is the candidate for the Ruling Unity Party also really unhappy that Ellen Johnson sirleaf the incumbent president did not support him and instead chose to block george away and they say they will to chart a lesson at the ballot box to show that house of fort doesnt matter after a long walk i will be the next president of liberia how it is its not known who is going to win and the east is still an open race and it could go either way. The u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital is being discussed around the world to