Hello im adrian forgetting this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes at the vatican on Christmas Day a warning about the wins of war a call for a new commitment to the pole. A bleak christmas in parts of the philippines as the country struggles with the aftermath of two Tropical Storms in quick succession. In peru a president ial pardon sparks charges of a corrupt political deal. As 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. That of the Roman Catholic church has used his Christmas Day message to highlight the plight of refugees and of children caught up in war pope francis said that their suffering is reflected in their faces talking about winds of war he mentioned conflicts in the middle east africa and tension on the Korean Peninsula to highlight dangers facing the world. So. Today as the winds of war blowing in our world and an outdated model of Development Continues to produce human societal and environmental decline christmas invites us to focus on the sign of the child and to recognize him in the face of little children especially those from whom like jesus there is no place in the inn we see jesus and the children of the middle east who continue to suffer because of growing tensions between israelis and palestinians on this festive day let us ask the lord for peace for jerusalem and for all the holy land five that isnt Peters Square in rome our correspondent peter shop is that peter what do we make of what the pope had to say. Well there was a brief mention of jerusalem by name but i think he speaks for a huge constituency in the world one point three billion Roman Catholics and among them i feel and here too there are others who are perhaps hoping that he could have been a little more specific on the issue that now dominates the vatican at the moment which is the the trumps decision to invite israel to take over the capital of jerusalem he stayed away from that. And and moved on really to in very moving terms using the expression in the faces of the the children of iraq you see the conflict there in jesus in the faces of the children from yemen it was it was it was moving and he also focused on an issue that staminate to the last last two or three years which is which is refugees and and migration and brought that home in terms of in terms of the children it was the children that made up the whole of this message and yet peter the pope has been very active in his opposition to president trumps decision to move the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem has. He certainly has and i think maybe thats why expectations were high that he would brought it into this this christmas message i mean the vatican is the smallest city state in the world but it is no its got this huge audience of one point three billion billion catholics and he he was very quick to condemn what had happened and he worked tirelessly over the last twelve days to make sure that this issue was brought up at the u. N. He was brought up in his meeting with the king of jordan and it was brought up in a in a stability and peace conference here in rome. He kept it very much on the agenda but for reasons did not push that particular part of the the whats happened in the christmas message all right peter many thanks indeed for the shop there live from some Peters Square in rome. The Un Refugee Agency says the world is now with the sing 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 are 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 that twenty people are forcibly displaced every minute as a result of conflict or persecution libya has been a major transit point for refugees trying to get to europe hundreds of died trying to cross the mediterranean aljazeera as mahmoud ottawa had reports from 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 civil migrants die. At the hands of of the people of smugglers now they try to reach the libyan cost of to york to europe now libyas coast guard says that they have to arrest these migrants as long as they try to sail of libyan coast and as long as the are in libyan water its now libyas cause bring 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 refugees and they say on the contrary they try to provide them food and health care was twenty seventeen draws to a close were looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year through the eyes of five families this hour well focus on a family from syria just like millions of other syrians theyve been internally displaced by the war theyre also among four hundred thousand people who live in the government besieged rebel on clay of eastern ghouta. Zone a hoarder has their story. But mohamed makes a living selling but ever he can find he was once a farmer and owned his own land and. Now hes among the millions of syrians this place by the war and theyre able to survive without assistance. Im not ashamed to say this there are days when im able to provide food for my family and there are other days when im not able to do that the other day i had to take two of my children to the hospital because they didnt have enough food to. Run our. Lives and. An opposition controlled area that has been besieged by Government Forces for years the siege has been tightened even more recently Food Supplies are scarce and shortages have sent prices soaring at least four hundred thousand people live in east on the outskirts of the capital the United Nations has been demanding unhindered access and warns that many of syrians there face severe problems in getting enough to eat. The aid that reaches us is not enough is specially for someone like me i have to take care of seven children and my wife. Under siege it remains a war zone even though a russian guarantee deescalation deal was supposed to silence the guns and allow aid in. The building. And then we. Are there fears for her children she is also afraid that her family could face further displacement the government has been using what is known as the surrender or starve strategy and it is applying it. And. If given the choice to leave or stay and live under the regimes rule i will choose to leave i dont trust them they will eventually kill the oppressed us they starved us they killed our children. Rebels are refused to surrender but government pressure is growing already hundreds of thousands of syrians have been bussed out of their towns and villages and taken to the rebel controlled province of in the north the Syrian Government calls them reconciliation agreements for the opposition those deals are forced settlements and. I dont think those who are poised to go will ever return to their homes this is sports displacement who knows who they will give our country to its been almost eighty years since Government Forces began to crush popular dissent from a position of strength the us said leadership is imposing its own peace but it is a peace that is unacceptable to many syrians who now fear not having a place in their own country. Beirut. The u. N. General assembly is urging me and ma to end its crackdown on the hinge a Muslim Minority thats passed a resolution calling for the appointment of a u. N. Special envoy for full Citizenship Rights and access for aid workers the document was approved despite opposition from china and russia more than six hundred forty thousand were injured fled me and most Rakhine State since august the un says they need to return. At least four people have been killed after a bus plowed into a pedestrian underpass in russias capital moscow the bus crashed in the stairs that lead down to a metro station investigators say the bus driver either lost control after being cut off by a car driver or the vehicle suffered mechanical failure in the philippines more than thirty bodies have been found after a fire at a Shopping Mall in our firefighters battled for hours today to extinguish the blaze that began on saturday at least thirty eight people remain unaccounted for because of the fire is being investigated. Staying in Southeast AsiaTropical Storm tembin is heading now towards vietnam thousands of fled low lying areas swell the capital city closed schools early attend and made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash floods and landslides and killing more than two hundred people in ts tayyab 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. And are are you going to say you know. Now. We have hundreds of thousands. Yeah but i was at. Home 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 coastal regions and move away from riverbanks among the areas battered by the storm was met at Lakeside City that was provided months earlier this year under siege by groups sympathetic to i sold more than one 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 in 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 tembin caused to the philippines india style ill just say are. Thousands of people in the southern philippines spending christmas in emergency shelters as aljazeera macbride reports from iligan city. Here in the city of hillah again as darkness falls people here as elsewhere in parts of mindanao are assessing the damage from the storm that passed from the landslides that happened from the torrents of muddy water that overflowed the banks of rivers the river here in l. A. Gand it overflowed its banks people have been told to evacuate and it washed away their homes they were living alongside a river that six years ago had a similar flood that washed away this bridge still people return to live here the fact is that with a growing population in mindanao people do tend to occupy vulnerable places river banks hillsides and so on the problem now for rescuers in mindanao is trying to reach more isolated communities especially with the destruction of infrastructure washing away of bridges roads that are closed or simply have been washed away the problem is trying to reach more remote communities with heavy equipment to continue the search for survivors and sadly as time continues it is now less a search for people alive it is more a search for bodies as the death toll and mounts here in this part of mindanao there is also the added problem of the conflict that has been happening just a short distance from here in morocco this is a fight between Government Forces and groups linked with i so its not known just what impact this storm will have on the security situation or on the search for a lasting peace but certainly for people whove been displaced from the area of the fighting and have been in temporary accommodation here in the early going it certainly adds misery upon misery not only can they not return to the area of conflict that theyve been evacuated from theyd simply dont know if they have any homes to go back to. There are the news out from aljazeera still to come on the program will take a look at the effect that automation and Artificial Intelligence might have on developing economies. Our special coverage of the holy land continues well introduce you to the muslim families who god sacred christian spaces. And in sport the second round of matches in the gulf are about to get underway with the hosts already in a spot of bother far away here with the details a little later in the program. Peruse former president Alberto Fujimori has been pardoned because his health is failing his supporters celebrated the news outside the clinic where hes been treated since saturday after a severe drop in his Blood Pressure for your body was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights crimes committed during his ten year presidency from labor but alex sanchez reports. Hes been years in prison campaigning for his release and 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 that government was the most corrupt improve in history. His supporters created the seventy nine year old former leader with the defeat of shining path rebels in many nine hundred ninety s. Rians where at the cusp of unarmed conflict that killed thousands of people supporters also say for him money 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 but. My greatest pain is to acknowledge. 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 of proving once 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 open. If he asked for forgiveness for the crimes he committed but for the families of the victims just there 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 he just. Spoke to journalists a month. 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 Afghanistans Parliament has summoned Senior Security officials. For at least nine people were killed in a suicide bombing in the capital kabul the attack happened near an Intelligence Agency building in kabuls shack neighborhood i source says that it was responsible. For whod reports from kabul that tack 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 area 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 of 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 arms and vehicles with with no registration there is very tight security around the city even at checkpoints there are canine dogs searching vehicles but still these measures havent worked in terms of stopping by our suicide bomber on foot we who reached least close to that Afghan Intelligence headquarters russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is calling on the u. S. And north korea to