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Warm welcome to the program 50 student groups in new delhi are marching against a controversial citizenship law theyre also calling for a National Protesting across india and say the new law discriminates against muslims and violates the secular constitution 25. 00 people have been killed during protests since the legislation was passed nearly 2 weeks ago elizabeth per annum is in new delhi and says the protests look like they will continue we saw protests not just here but also continuing in the western city of calcutta the capital of west bengal state where the chief minister has held large rallies every day for the last 8 or 9 days people keep showing up and also another large protest in the Southern City of chennai so people very much continuing to send the message to the government 2 weeks i think almost after the bill goes pos that theyre not ok with it the bill was passed by both houses of parliament and where as in the last few days it did look like the government might backtrack not on the citizenship Amendment Act but something called the National Register of citizens and the thousands of people whove been out on the streets for the last few weeks they have actually been protesting about both things both the citizenship law and the National Register of citizens which is an exercise that was carried out in the Northeastern State of which required everyone to prove their citizenship of the government has wanted to carry out around the country 1300000000 people needing to prove their citizenship now in the law. Days we did hear the Prime Minister seemed to backtrack on that but in the last hours the government has cost funding for a type of census which is seen as a precursor for this National Register of citizens so since that is something thats happened really expecting these protests to just continue. They say people have been killed after Syrian Government air strikes targeted a school and it was a province tens of thousands of civilians have been freeing towards the Turkish Border to escape the escalation in violence their Government Forces and their russian allies are pushing deeper into the last rebel stronghold in it live u. N. Secretary general has called for an immediate end to the violence in northern syria. To be at the marriott i want to kill people before they escape here while were packing the jeep came in targeted us and killed a large number and injured others and a whole family is missing. The home of the dough is on the turkey syria border he says refugees are being left in a precarious situation we are right on the border of turkey and syria and behind rates of youth hazy but you can make out the ultimate refugee camp its one of the biggest of the columns line up the turkey syria border. Is unfolding on the other side of the border 125000 people who fled their homes because of the current by Syrian Forces who are supported by russia some of them all to their homes and many of them living in the open the columns of food so they can be accommodated some of them have set up next shift shelters to ward off the cold because it is right in the middle of winter which is very hard for the grain size expected to come in the next 48 hours or so. But its not going to allow one. To call the border so those people are in limbo they are out in the cold on of the muscle that amends. China japan and south korea have agreed to Work Together to promote dialogue between the United States and north korea the countrys 3 leaders made the page at a summit in Southern China leaders also discuss trade and agreed to closer cooperation despite tensions between them some dating back more than a century katrina you has this report now from beijing 5 ya go. Overlooking old wounds by reinforcing ancient ties china japan and south korea presented a united front during the trilateral summit in chinas Southern City of chengdu right over there i want to build a new era of 3 kingdoms in which we cooperate and develop together with the international community. 2 setting aside deep grievances dating back to world war 2 the leaders of asias largest economies pledged to work closely together on trade they want to agree on a 16 nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or. By the end of next year and continue negotiations on a 3 nation Free Trade Agreement trade between south korea japan and china exceeded 720000000000. 20. Dollars for her we need to protect the free trade in order to help Business Activities and continue to Grow Together north korea carrying out a missile test over the Christmas Period overshadowed some of the pageantry chinese Prime Minister lee could chunk south korean president and japanese Prime Minister shinzo agreed to continue supporting negotiations between washington and pyongyang a demand for the u. S. To lift economic sanctions has led to a halt in the Nuclear Talks and an end of a deadline to progress the negotiations is fast approaching. China is north koreas more support an ally who sees itself as playing a simple what works and force through privation on the Korean Peninsula has its thing why did nations to lift sanctions on pill one to help break the deadlock but its unclear whether so or tokyo worth u. S. Allies would support. On monday when jay and she met separately with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. China the summit is an opportunity to expand its regional influence but the 3 countries have currently embroiled in territorial disputes miss south china sea. South korea and japan are allies with the u. S. So if china can develop i mean. Proof the relations with these 2 countries it will decrease u. S. Influence in this region and the weakened chinas pressure from the us the leaders have signed a 10 year corp plan which includes tackling shared challenges such as Climate Change and aging populations but the biggest challenge perhaps is valid they can view which others would trust rather better spirits achieve aljazeera beijing. Police in hong kong or fired tear gas to disperse and to give them a protest as on Christmas Eve was. Uniformed something called officers charged to groups of protesters inside the harbor city mall in that same show area some people were hit with batons and others to take protests in hong kong are now in their 7th month. Here Palestinian Christians from the gaza strip will be able to travel to bethlehem to mark christmas. Celebrations are already underway but the greek forces ochs churched in gaza says only 193. 00 i was in the 950. 00 applications have been refused approved israel tightly restriction is meant to the gaza strip will need it for him is in bethlehem which is in the occupied west bank where the celebrations are taking place we are expecting that some of them might come it eventually because there was a decision to reverse the previous ban on many of them to travel and bus that is of course believe this is one of the measures the israelis take to bring a wedge between palestinians to make them more fragmented between the west bank the gaza strip and as well as in East Jerusalem of course this is one of many concerns by those damiens have to do with under occupation and they hope and on the occasion of christmas weve just seen the archbishop yet but this time its about to enter the Nativity Church we hope they hold that as an occasion like that they would help shed some light on bethlehem or the life of palestinians here and joining me now is one of the people who are trying to do that george hes director of the graham. Its a tourism based Community Based original tourism project that aims to bring more tourists to palestine and to see the lives of palestinians give you give us a little bit more information about your project bring your merry Christmas Everybody here most notably im afraid is a Long Distance hiking through the reinterviews there is a brilliant park doctors directly link to the post your community through their employer was bar good in jerusalem it turns out what suburb to suburb homestays palestinians. The whole story is that their homes this is what we train to do that we are people that love life trying to force people to story and share our culture. And life with people coming from all over the world through different types of tourism which is a new kind of tourism that only probably did 2000 years ago by walking from nazareth. Long distance hiking trails where people can walk retracing the steps of all of the people where they can enjoy the palestinian village or more everything 77 homes days across the country of course celebrations continue here in bethlehem they will peak at Midnight Mass here tonight which we will carry for you live during the next hour. And it forward to seeing that later france is facing white spread travel disruptions during the Christmas Holiday because of strikes over Pension Reforms of 80 percent of Train Services are canceled on monday demonstrators confronted police at one of paris his main railway stations far work some flares were set off inside the 2 week long nationwide walkout has restricted Railway Services and forced schools to close the case Homelessness Charity crisis has again opened its christmas sent us last year more than 4 and a half 1000 homeless guests were given shelter across britain paul brennan explained. Stools a bed and breakfast all over england for the past 20 years russell was one of the 1st arrivals when the doors opened at this center the street is no place to be at christmas or any other time to killed. And raised ages old. Here old. Drugs bloody it gets a bit. For him this Christmas Center alleviates the loneliness and boredom of being homeless it means i will be able to spokes which means i will be a lot warmer it means. Be able to watch television use a computer case i will have a load of arts and crafts activities in the 7 days that these centers are open they can be a lifeline for homeless guests can get medical checkups advice and counseling is one of the chance to wash and get a haircut and importantly to relax what you see on the last day is a group of transformed people leaving those that come in very suspicious of people from Mainstream Society and suspicious of the world in which they operate leave you know looking much better havent showered havent had haircuts have their feet looked at they they just leave kind of transformed the most visible form of homelessness is of course rough sleeping in doorways for example but new research from crisis this christmas shows that nearly 6 times as many people are caught in a precarious existence no less so for surfing. Crisis found 39 percent of sofa surface it stayed at 5 or more different places in the past year including friends and relatives 28 percent had not had a stable home for 4 years or more and 77 percent said their physical health had suffered as a result we talking about people with whom i dont even have access to washing facilities to read people who might have to go out during the day when that icet. Its there so very very unstable situation back at the north london christmas sent to the board games have begun the escapism in company of the centers are only a temporary respite latest figures show the numbers rough sleeping in england had increased 15 percent on the Previous Year and when this sent to shots next week many of the homeless guests here will be back outside again paul brennan on his iraq north london. Still ahead here on aljazeera malaysian researches go against the grain in their search for Sustainable Food production. People were interested and they cared and they said now were not going to let you spend money to tear it down once described as a historic when the new york pavilion is getting an expensive make over all that more when we come back. Hello again its good to have you back well not looking too bad here across parts of china particular down towards the south we are seeing some clouds we are seeing some rain towards the central into the Northern Areas and here on wednesday that means for shanghai as well as will harm you can be seeing some chilly rain into the forecast on thursday that rain starts to make its way a little bit more towards the south and to the west so for greenland youre going to be seeing all the High Temperature there of about 7 but for hong kong here on thursday things are looking quite nice with a temperature of 25 and we are going to see a lot of heavy rain across parts of the film. Penes because our typhoon that is moving through the area across india still the air quality is fairly hazardous across some areas very unhealthy to the north as well down towards the south though we are going to see some rain from sri lanka across parts of Southern India up towards central india its going to be cloudy that could change to rain by the time we get towards thursday particular up here towards kolkata with a temperature of 22 degrees and then very quickly across the gulf it is going to look quite nice over the next few days average for this time of year about 22. 00 degrees here in doha over towards abu dhabi a little bit warmer at 24. 00 and then as we go towards thursday well riyadh your temperatures are coming up to 23. 00 misguide plenty of sun in the forecast at 24. 00 and down to its low some clouds for you a 27. 27 mine people have been kill. Me in the United States have privatized the old public. Suzi deal with saudi arabia and with the different the saudis the. British pm to help to pass bombs diesel fuel from still this meeting sometimes isnt that interesting there are a shadow on aljazeera. Theyre watching out as a reminder of our top stories this hour 50 shouldnt get so marching in indias capital against a controversial new citizenship dolphins criticized as being at team is them protests are also taking place in tamil scenting and in kolkata. In syria tens of thousands of civilians have been freeing towards the Turkish Border to escape the escalation in violence and if the province the state people were killed after Syrian Government air strikes targeted a school the red cross is calling the situation quote extremely worrying. Chinas Prime Minister says japan and south korea have agreed to cooperate on north korea their leaders met at a summit in the chinese city of chengdu and also working towards a 3 nation Free Trade Agreement. Peace in ivory coast of issued an arrest warrant for president ial candidate Gillum Sorrell the former Prime Minister is accused of misusing public funds and trying to destabilize the country so it was due to return home to start his campaign but his flight was diverted to ghana police fired tear gas and supporters who gathered to greet him infomercials you do a judicial investigation has been immediately opened against mr sorell q before your for serious suspicion over the tip to take the stakes with forest and the integrity of the national to retreat concealment of public funds and money laundering. The 7 soldiers have been killed in afghanistan during an attack on a military base in the Northern Province of balck the taliban has claimed responsibility for the raid in the district of dull lot but now it says this fight has ceased weapons ammunitions and captured 4 Afghan Soldiers 6 were also injured theres no end in sight to a medical staff strike in zimbabwe many doctors arent working because theyre fighting for bits of pay and improvement of the Health Care System means many people needing medical care have few options some say the strike has made their conditions even worse because heart reports now from a whale. Has lost the ability to speak since the stroke in september disoriented she no longer leaves the confines of her room frequent power cuts means shes for the most part in the dark with her daughters it dumbass so. So i asked her do you remember this man pointing at 10 the killers husband and this lady pointing at an old picture of 10 day healing before a stroke and they kill a took a nursing aide course thinking she could help sick patients now shes the one who needs help doctors across them but we have been on strike since september so the only care she can get is from her daughter sometimes she gets frustrated. We get frustrated. Because the time. We might be looking for. A can hear and understand our conversation when she collapsed during her stroke her family rushed her to one of the few functioning hospitals in the country. Most medical staff were on strike and it took 3 days before a doctor could see her condition worsened because of insufficient care her right arm paralyzed the