Rebel held suburb of ghouta as fighters announced that forming a new united front. Im happy new year fiftys across the world go fireworks crazy as they ring in twenty eighteen. Month on how most with all the sports news including Manchester Citys record winning streak in the English Premier League finally ends after eighteen games. Were getting reports that protesters on the back on the streets of iran for a fourth day the Reuters News Agency says police have fired Water Cannons on demonstrators gathering in central tehran protests have also been reported in two cities in the countrys west. Irans government has one protest as a crackdown if they continued but the first Public Comments from president has on rouhani appear to be conciliatory he says protesting is the right of the people but it should not only to violent speech a shop reports. This video of protest posted on social media has been blocked by the rain and government the ban follows a nationwide demonstration since thursday government ministers said the video encourage more people to join the rallies college in result we all saw how they misuse cyberspace and promoted violence trained systematic riots toward weapons and explosives crafting simulated protesters to fight the police and encourage the burning of houses and stores these people are surely not part of our people irans state television has reported that some social media sites and messaging apps have been blocked to maintain what it termed peace and from the government warnings that irans revolutionary guards corps was prepared to deploy what was described as an iron fist if the demonstrations continued their commander said the protests have degenerated into people chanting political slogans and burning public property the u. S. President has been following events in iran closely another tweet on sunday big protests in iran he said the people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism looks like they will not take it any longer the usa is watching very closely for human rights violations. And those that are more to the extent of protest on sunday is unclear but video posted from the city of durham on saturday night showed demonstrators dragging away one of those injured state television in tehran said two people were shot dead but denied that police or the army were involved. In the clash that took two lives no bullets were shot from police and Security Forces the people gathering was meant to n. P. C. Really but the presence of the agitators unfortunately this happened and resulted in the deaths of two protesters. The protests will have rattled the government they werent just limited to tehran but took place across the country the only question now is whether they can gather momentum and how long the government is prepared to put up with this challenge to its authority peter sharp al jazeera were joined now via skype from just outside london by mafia bihari who is an iranian journalist and filmmaker thanks very much for coming on aljazeera you were in the thick of the protests back in two thousand and nine but these fail very different whats your sense of why now. Well the main difference between the protests that we see now and two thousand and nine is that in two thousand and nine the process is started that with a clear objective people voted for Mir Hossein Mousavi who was appropriate form candidate a government and that worked a pro reform candidate and then the government the Supreme Leader and the revolutionary guards rigged their elections and man would damage out was elected so people came to the streets in two thousand and nine and asked quarter recount of their bows clear message in two thousand i was where is my books this this set of protests which is started on there is they started with. Economic demand people were objecting to the governments economic policies but then spread out it is it is maybe smaller it is protest might be smaller than the ones in cuba the night while there are more widespread and the other thing is that there is no clear objective that what people want but we know what people do not want people do not want this Government People do not want the Islamic Republic in two thousand that i and we never heard the slogan death to the dictator meaning all of the economy to soup we need a robot these days we see that the protesters bring down his posters the rape part that is his for his posters and they chant death to how many and dead in the theater i must say out of course you ended up being locked up and we just tearing at that these two hundred people and catherine on saturday nights have been locked up and you know we also we dont know you went about it i said there has been there was some demonstrations are happening demonstrations in the shot i mean how much coverage of these people taking to go out on the streets when theyre facing what could be quite a brutal crackdown. It is very courageous act to go out and protest in iran but people are desperate and desperate times require Desperate Measures people are using any vailable space to protest and the government cannot block Available Space is all Available Spaces so they try to intimidate people in different cities in major cities in tehran is font average but then we see that people they come out and protests in smaller cities were never heard of protests even during the nine hundred seventy nine revolution we never had protests like this. Before the nine thousand nine hundred seventy nine revolution and the iranian president president rouhani is expected to speak in about twenty five minutes time and in a pre we courted message to the nation what could he say to calm things down and will he try and calm things down people definitely try to calm things down a little try to be considered very as were just possible but people who know what people say people know that he will say that if you understand people there cannot be problems what people have to be patient people have to work with the government and he will condemn the violence and he will call the people who have resorted to violence seditious and terrorists and foreign agents and foreign and agents of zionism etc many thanks for joining us. They have bihari speaking to us from just outside of london of course well be bringing you that prerecorded speech from the president just as soon as it happens. Rebel factions in syria have announced theyre forming a united front to stop the Assad Government savants opposition fighters are fast losing ground in syria and the government bombardment of their strongholds is relentless at least nineteen people six of them children are reported to have been killed in the latest strikes on rebel held parts of damascus assam a binge of eight reports. After almost seven years of war in syria routine sound in a civil damascus. City for what is strikes have continued in the rebel controlled suburb of ghouta close to four hundred thousand besieged syrians here have been bombed for years. As a dash to search for survivors debris scarcely removed before movement is fluttered under the rubble but they are. Really hungry and disoriented and scared children stumbled through the mangled metal and wreckage and kids make up the highest number of the dead and injured in syria. Besides shelling in the air strikes have also continued in the countryside of western syria. These families have been forced to leave their homes because of the ongoing push by Syrian Government forces to regain control of more areas bordering hama and it promises. By god look at the kids when the planes hit near the children my god how they scream the biggest push for us was our kids they dont know anything but the sound of airplanes and shelling a life of exhaustion and terror. Rebels are trying to stop the steadily advancing syrian army and theyre forming a united front called the National Army its made up of thirty seven factions from aleppo there are homs hooter and hama but its not the first time that a Similar Group has been announced and questions remain about how scattered militias will be brought under a united chain of command and how will they be funded. The government and the National Army put servants and guards for the country and our families on all syrian land we call on you to be united and to agree on the National Project to support your sense here who have announced an open war on all the enemies calendars show a new year but the change of dates doesnt mean much for syrians whove lived through almost seven years of suffering some of a job others are. Now pfizer to the opposition like syria an interim government which announced a new alliance he says a united front could bring stability in their wage and soon. Do i think good for. First there would be professional army National Army. Officers are trained and i think the other side i think that will help achieve more be some more durable beast because so far the russians are working on one side not take into consideration the revolution side and this is one way to prove that we are with they have to also hear our demand to have better syria pratik syria no dictatorship in syria. Until now the government and government have no income but lately we had took control of the crossing to syria which is one. That allowed us to have income and rekha so bought the sodomy so game real idea is going to hold up and build a really good because we start to have some income. Theres much more to come on the aljazeera news hour. At least four soldiers are killed as gunmen stormed my Training Camp in indian administered kashmir you go behind the scenes in new york to see the complex security set up ahead of the new new years eve celebrations. On a sport its a Second Coming for diego costa as the start footballer returns to madrid. At least four people are reported to have been killed by Security Forces out protests in the democratic republic of the congo. Oh please saying three people died in the capital kinshasa and Rights Groups say another was killed in the city of and then go demonstrators have been demanding that president Joseph Kabila step down there and great his refusal to leave when hes term ended a year ago he then promised elections by the end of this year theyve now been delayed until next december. Always sort you shall be dismissed coming in shooting when you get one if you just simply before we are coming we have come here in order. To pray for all we mission we have three basic im going to play for. You status is for us starting. First Germany First two thousand pretty unexpected new York Democratic primaries as president of the us it will be difficult for the jurors are telling everybody what everybody will suffer for yesterday but there are a great candidate this very honest looking to the. Starboard side of the. Seventeen people have been killed in an attack at a funeral in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad it happened gathered for the funeral of a former district governor no group has said it was responsible for the attack earlier this week eisel said it was behind the killing of at least forty one people at a shia Cultural Center in kabul gunmen have stormed and army Training Camp in indian administered kashmir killing at least four soldiers a match a Spokesman Says the armed men threw grenades and fired automatic rifles at the campaign pull vomit district victoria gates and the reports. A wreath laying ceremony the soldiers killed during a rebel siege is an army Training Camp in indian administered kashmir the attack took place and leave it all full alert and it was because of our alert this that you were able to find him to a particular building the operation started and the declaration was done and you have all of the killed to this. Earlier on sunday soldiers try to flush out the rebels extra police were sent to seal off the camp while the siege on folded. Hands and the sound of grenades and automatic gunfire an indication that the rebels had no intention of surrendering rebel stormed the camp on saturday night the local police chief says he was already aware an attack was imminent. We were driving probably. Very. Dark. These villagers who live near the camp shout prorebel slogans. For decades indian administered kashmir has been at the center of a muslim separatist movement against hindu dominated indian rule separatist groups are fighting for the indian administered portion of kashmir to either become independent all merge with pakistan. The killing of a prominent rebel commander last year provoked widespread protests and theres no sign the latest siege will do anything to ease the tension big tory gave him be al jazeera israels governing liquid party is preparing to vote on a job after resolution urging the partys leaders to establish israeli sovereignty and formally an expanse of the occupied west bank the vote would not be binding but kerrys Political Force inside the party. Joins us now on this from west jerusalem so we spoke about a year ago mohammed you said that started the meeting but are there any close to voting on it. Well super what weve heard just in the past few minutes about five speakers have spoken so far and were told that there is at least eight or nine more making opening remarks before this voting can commence so it could be a very long night at this meeting this much anticipated and controversial meeting look what we know so far is that the Likud Central Committee is trying to essentially force Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and the rest of the likud party by holding this vote to try to compel them to bring this resolution which would an x. Either most or all of the west bank depending on which member of the knesset you speak with. A law to the knesset for them to vote on but this is very controversial for several reasons obviously right now israel is much condemned by the International Community especially in light of president Donald Trumps decision to name drew slim as the capital of israel a fact of the matter is a lot of the analysts that were speaking with believe that this is essentially political theater this is a way for the Likud Central Committee to play to their base to try to really rally the faithful at a time where there have been a lot of questions about the Prime Minister about where the party is headed at such a crucial time here in israel some people saying this is simply just cynical political calculus now one israeli pollster mitchell barracora spoke with earlier in the day told me his thoughts about most of this heres more of what he had to say. I think if the Likud Central Committee passes vote i think the biggest thing that will happen it will take a lot of newspaper space will be a lot of printing done of this because it really is not binding its not even relevant its just you know the Prime Ministers right of center party just trying to make a statement a policy statement which really is meaningless even if you read the statement its theirs they will go into depth and its just kind of getting ready the drumbeat of election is happening in israel we dont know when its kind of you know this government is not the most stable and people are wondering how long is it that you know that to be around given all thats going on with the investigations so theyre just trying to shore up their their popularity on the right arab members of the knesset of the parliament here have started reacting to this meeting some of them saying that if this resolution is passed if the Prime Minister then decides to try to take it to pass it is a law in the knesset that that would really signal into trying to find a two state solution to the to the crisis here that it would really be the end of the Peace Process as we know it really whats key right now is what will be when netanyahu do if this as expected does go ahead and pass is this going to be a binding resolution many here say that it is or is it not a binding resolution as weve heard from many analysts today and what will happen next thank you very much momentum during that bringing us the latest on that resolution that Customs Officials in south korea have seen stay panama flying vessel suspected of transferring oil to north korea its a second ship pal for allegedly violating International Sanctions on friday south korea says it had impounded a Hong Kong Flagged vessel in november at the u. N. Security council impose new sanctions last month on pyongyang limiting its access to Petroleum Products was in response to north Koreas Nuclear tests. A trailer has welcomed the new year with a spectacular fireworks display on sydney harbor about one point six Million People crowded around the harbor to watch eight tons of fireworks produce about one hundred thousand individual kyra technique affects an estimated one billion people watched around the world a rainbow waterfall off the harbor bridge symbolize the legalizing of same sex marriage in australia member. Two hours earlie