i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from toe coming up in the next sixty minutes middle east trifecta enjoins turkey's president to condemn the u.s. troops. russian forces to leave syria and pays a visit to egypt. thousands of hezbollah fighters rally in lebanon against the u.s. recognition of truth as israel's capital. i was forcibly kissed by mr trump during our first introduction banding together several women who have accused the u.s. president of sexual misconduct speak out and call for a congressional investigation. and another record high for a bit corny after making its trading debut on the futures market but how bright is the future of the cryptocurrency. from the crisis to the war in syria russia's president vladimir putin has been staking his claim in the middle east on a worldwide tour of the region the first stop was a surprise visit to us achieve airbase in serious latakia province that's where putin ordered a partial withdrawal of his troops from syria then he flew to cairo for plan talks with egyptian president abdel fatah. doubling back and then headed north to ankara for a meeting with turkey's president. hominids oh reports. a warm welcome for russian president vladimir putin in the tuchis capital ankara it is final destination in his whistle stop to he has been to syria and egypt to all in one day the kremlin says the trip is meant to strengthen russian ties with these nations in uncorrupt president putin an ado on what you've got to showcase improving relations between their countries they both criticized president all trumps decision on which it is still in such a world media sure you. should both russia and turkey think that the decision of the us to recognize theresa limits the capital of israel is not helping to solve the situation in the middle east it is destabilizing it and it can wipe out the prospect of peace america this utilitarian to tune in could. the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel has caused outrage in the whole world it has caused disappointment and it is an irresponsible step to take it as a result the heightened tensions are obvious putting an ad on also discussed bilateral issues including trade to resume and joint energy projects relations between iran will score have come a long way since november two thousand and fifteen when turkey doand a russian fighter jet the two didn't see eye to eye on most issues regarding syria but still have differences on the future role of president bashar al assad and the issue of syrian kurdish fighters the wife e.g. put in began his wall when chip in syria the fust time the russian president was that the country since the start of the war the early seventy years ago he was greeted by senior officers and warmly embraced by president. put his forces up in helping his troops is two thousand and fifteen when the syrian government was on the brink of collapse in a speech put in declared victory over what he described as terrorists amounts to a partial pullout of his soldiers from city. to the general command give this order russia's military presence in syria has come to an end the motherland awaits you friends safe journey i thank you for your service put in also pledged to continue to support syria militarily by keeping some of these forces on the ground here then departed for the capital there he met president of the fatah. the leaders have been strengthening ties in recent years put in an sisi also signed a deal on nuclear power the growing ties between russia and the second largest recipient of u.s. military aid after israel egypt could potentially strained relations between cairo and washington. yet another sign of put in attempts to expand russia's influence across the middle east mohamed atta well just. so let's take a closer look at putin's decision to order some russian forces out of syria is still keeping a force as a teaching air base and latakia area is an government stronghold that served as the main foot hole for moscow's military campaign in syria and recent days russian jets have helped the syrian army and iran backed militia attack rebel fighters in hama province this effectively pushes rebels into nearby live which is being controlled by turkey as part of an agreement with russia and iran prints a citizen decision that is comes as serious opposition and government delegations meet for an eighth round of u.n. sponsored talks in geneva the opposition delegation said that any step that would contribute to peace is welcome. so ana sky is a fellow at the washington institute she focuses on russia's policy towards the middle east and she joins me now from washington d.c. and we appreciate it so much so if you go back two years ago when russia and putin first kind of inserted themselves into syria to now what would you say he has accomplished or has the accomplish what he said helped to accomplish what thanks very much for having me certainly he's accomplished much of what he wanted and that is inserting officially putting russia back in the middle east map keep in mind that he protected assad in multiple ways from the very beginning when protests broke out against assad in march two thousand and eleven so this didn't just you know sort of happen out of the blue in september two thousand and fifteen but certainly the intervention was a game changer and two years now he's he's firmly entrenched russia in the region he has his aim was to expose the west as weak into sort of to present himself as someone who succeeds where the west had failed. and. to reduce western influence in the region juice u.s. led influence in the region ok so to that point what would be the ramifications of that if in fact that's how some people see it that he has lessened somehow the presence of the west what might the that mean going forward. well going forward first of all what we see is assad is firmly in power he's in the best negotiating position that he's been perhaps since protests broke out against him and that's you know frankly it's another major accomplishment and what that means is as everyone else in the region is looking at the u.s. they're there now thinking that they have to deal with russia whether they like it or not for example we saw the saudi king's visit to moscow fairly recently and that's one example of how a country that has a very had a very difficult relationship with russia historically now feels that they have to deal with russia whether they like it or not so how do you see the west responding to this the u.s. and in particular lot of putin also was very vocal about the fact that he does not agree with donald trump's decision to to call jerusalem the capital of israel he's doing a lot of things that perhaps call from some or some sort of or sponsoring the west do you think that they will respond. well you know i think i think will what's interesting going forward is what's going to happen further down the road in syria and you know as far as the u.s. response there's been there's been from what i've seen at least no u.s. response to putin's visit and of course it's early. but going forward what this shows is that ousmane frankly i think is another facade in the sense that. he may be announcing this withdrawal but we don't really know. the timeline we don't really know fully who is withdrawing and russian military will stay in the region for forty nine years or so so you know this may have been a signal to the domestic audience and russia which doesn't want to see russia bogged down in another conflict in a far away distant land which they don't understand but it's also a signal to the west. you know make it trying to make the west think well perhaps the russians poles are limited they've accomplished what they wanted now they're leaving but no that's not that's not what's going to help at all russia is entrenched in the region quite firmly and as you said what russia's intervention has done in syria has is solidly is a solidified bashar al assad's position having said that going forward with these you know attempts at peace that happen from time to time in geneva does russia have a role to play in that. absolutely well russia has has a key role to play for one thing for years they've been trying to slowly undermine the geneva process for example by holding alternative peace talks in and in sochi but also if you look at who they're engaging is through the geneva process they're engaging anti they're engaging groups opposition groups that do not demand assad's departure and frankly russia itself had a role to play in the language of the two thousand and twelve geneva communique that outlines a transitional government for syria what had happened was russia purposely made the language very vague they pushed him to make language very vague in terms of who can be included in this transition government and that allowed moscow to approach those opposition members who did not demand assad's departure and frankly just i believe it was perhaps a week ago or so that we've seen several members of the syrian opposition resign and they're the ones who demanded assad's departure and that that's to your question about what what are we know what do people in the region see how do they feel about western absence and putin's growing role in the region will that's one one one tangible result all right anna bush of sky and i thank you very much. anger over the u.s. decision to recognize true islam as the capital of israel is still going strong thousands of hezbollah supporters took to the streets of lebanon chanting death to america. the group's leader accuse some arab nations of supporting the u.s. and urged all arabs to unite against america at the movie then got to do the facade that we are all in this war we have all experienced our brothers in gaza any demonstrations no matter how big or small only give more resistance or make us feel that we are not alone the american is really resolution which is supported by some arab countries the aim of it to clear the palestinian cause that's the danger that the palestinian people face we should confront the nation as a whole should confront this dangerous american project and try to impose a solution for the palestinian people so you know who has more from beirut. trust decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel in one way or the other is serving hezbollah's interests because hezbollah really has long championed the palestinian cause as its own ever since its inception three that's you three decades ago and as of late in the past few years it has come under a lot of criticism of the sauce a lot of support in the arab world and here in lebanon for militarily intervening in syria and many people no longer regarded it as a resistance movement and that it it became a sectarian militia and that it was serving iran's interests but now hezbollah saying that the fight against isis is winding down and that's the so-called resistance axis will now focus on jerusalem its main cause so in one way or another if the hezbollah is trying to regained a legitimate see in the eyes of many in the arab world in the struggle saying that you know arab states should support the palestinian intifada uprising and he said that this so-called resistance axis what they call it is resistance axis that they should come together and come up with a strategy to confront israel. but he stopped short of saying what action should be taken against israel because at the end of the day it will have a domestic backlash because it has a potent levanon and it cannot take any decision to wage war or peace on its own self very carefully worded speech by now but clearly hezbollah trying to gain in one way or the other some sort of political capital from trump's decision. meanwhile israel's prime minister has urged europe to follow washington's late and recognized as his country's capital benjamin netanyahu met foreign ministers and brussels where he faced resistance to that suggestion add pressure to restart the peace process with palestinians when it came reports. a wintry monday morning greeted benjamin netanyahu in brussels but the chill in the outside was seemingly absent inside as he met frederica. her role as e.u. foreign policy chief is to seek compromise where possible but his message regarding the status of jerusalem was an ambiguous i believe everyone though we don't have an agreement yet this is what will happen in the future i believe that all or most of the rupee in our countries will move their embassies to jerusalem correction does crucial in this israel's work up little but many e.u. leaders disagree criticizing president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital as fanning the flames of protest for her part more get any research the e.u.'s official position we believe. that the only realistic solution to the conflicts between israel and palestine is based on two states which are as the copy of both the state of the sort of the state of palestine along the sixty seven line. another element of netanyahu is visit was meeting the e.u.'s many foreign ministers around the table with him where the representatives of at least two governments have said they will recognize jerusalem as israel's capital which means although the e.u. tries to speak with one voice on this issue there are some dissent and raising the question of how successful europe can be as an intermediary in the middle east the e.u. is not a victim of its own lack of involvement the involvement is still there it was never front line and what one but was that it is a victim of the one sided position of president trump despite all the speed that we're hearing but for the moment at least many here believe president actions have put the prospect of progress in the middle east in the deep freeze don't it came out zerah brussels plenty more head in the news hour including what now for venezuela's opposition after nicolas maduro bans them from running in next year's presidential election. one hundred years old and facing persecution a mediocre hendra refugee he doesn't believe he will ever return to me and mark and . grandmother. blockbuster battle of the match unveiled in the last sixteen of football's most lucrative lucrative competition details and sports. opposition politician. has been released from detention and ukraine the former georgian president was arrested on friday accused of conspiring to topple ukraine's leader petro poroshenko allegations he denies china hall has more. following large demonstrations on sunday supporters of opposition figure in ukraine mikhail saakashvili confronted police outside a courthouse in the capital kiev inside of a plastic defendant's box the former president of georgia saakashvili responded to allegations that he conspired to topple ukraine's president the chocolate billionaire petro poroshenko there are three or four very simple. there. we really own words for us. are fed up with our event are you ready once an ally of saakashvili accuses him of failing to fulfill the anticorruption promise that was central to mass street protests in two thousand and fourteen against the then russian backed government a prominent backer of the street uprising saakashvili had been rewarded with ukrainian citizenship and the governorship of the western odessa region now he and his supporters many of them soldiers return from the front lines in the country's east are demanding preachment when you get your way like i think we have forty enough we don't want any more wars or bloodshed but if it does not do what he is obliged to do and uses force against us then we will respond adequately for the men who led former soviet georges rose revolution who then georgia's leader fought an ill fated war with russia denies plotting with russian businessmen to overthrow poroshenko. the latest dramatic chapter in saakashvili is career saw him arrested on a kia rooftop last week before being free by supporters from a police van and then rearrested i now released pending trial she places a possible five years in jail. venezuela's main opposition parties are deciding what to do after president arroyo said they should be banned from running any future elections this fall when a simple elections which the opposition largely boycotted ruling socialist party says it won at least ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five mayorships that were up for grabs. in the capital caracas. the president nicolas maduro is saying that candidates that support his government have won in more than three hundred of the three hundred and thirty five districts being contested in municipal elections he's also said that those opposition candidates boycotted the vote on the long part of the political landscape which implies that they will not be able to stand in presidential elections scheduled for next october many here are asking how is it now after eighteen years of to these small first of all this and for the last four years nicolas more google with the economy in a perilous state inflation rampant food and medicine scarce the governing party candidates can win the so convincingly across the country one of the reasons being that the opposition is fragmented the country is polarized many tens of thousands of venezuelans predominantly those who oppose president nicolas maduro have left the country to escape this economic its economic difficulties the opposition now trying to work out how to respond to this what appears to be a convincing victory in this of elections for the government and the apparent by all of its candidates on the political map so venezuela. is now looking as though. nicholas magruder. as consolidating his hold on the power with many asking just how has he done now the united nations says north korea's human rights violations are on the rise while the country focuses on its nuclear and missile tests the security council discussed reports that about thirteen million people have been hit by severe food shortages other concerns are present torture and controls over freedom of movement i canna has more this was the fourth annual discussion of human rights abuses in north korea and on previous occasions china attempted to move the talks behind closed doors arguing that public discussion could undermined any attempts to renew dialogue but it failed to get the nine votes necessary and the talks went ahead in public among those who addressed the council was the un's political chief who warned often under reported looming humanitarian disaster the d.p. r. k. is a forgotten crises on the global humanitarian agenda an estimated eighteen million people that is seventy percent of the population are suffering from food insecurity. and then and a half million people representing forty one percent of the population are on there noticed a number of victims of human rights also addressed the council as did the high commissioner for human rights who spoke of a prison system that could only be described as horrific torture is widespread in detention centers overseen by the ministry of state security and the ministry of people security detainees who work in mines or infrastructure projects in conditions of severe deprivation people held in these camps have told minustah for being beaten by prison guards or other inmates and being fed soon little they barely survive and there will be a ministerial level discussion in the security council on the issue of north korean disarmament on friday and the u.n. envoy who's recently visited north korea will also be briefing the security council in the days ahead. a large fire and the u.s. state of california continues to threaten coastal towns as it burns into its second week with no signs of slowing down the so-called thomas fire northwest of los angeles has already torched nearly a thousand buildings and charred an area larger than new york city at least one person has died robert also is in santa barbara one of the worst hit areas. and out of control wildfire continue to scorched thousands of hector's along california's central coast the so-called thomas fire now one week old has forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and burned hundreds of buildings invent shura and santa barbara county as the rough terrain high winds and extremely low humidity are hampering firefighters battling the blaze here at this staging ground in a field in santa barbara county these firefighters are getting ready to head out. to the next hot spot more than six thousand firefighters from california and adjoining states have been deployed here and they're working under extremely hazardous and extremely difficult conditions among the hazards a dense blanket of smoke mixed with ashes it obscures the peaks and valleys and irritates throats and lungs in downtown santa barbara the sidewalks are nearly deserted and most people who venture out do so wearing masks at this community clinic for low income residents children the elderly and people with lung disease or assman are seeking help we see in a sharp increase in patients with a respiratory problems particularly as maddox both adults and children had chronic smokers and people that have c o p for people that have. respiratory illness or their immune a suppressed it could be very dangerous clinic patient blanca benedict has been coughing and wheezing since the smoke rolled in it's something beyond your control and this is a very very tough i think to experience most of the thousands of people who've been evacuated are staying with friends or family or in hotels but those with no place to go come here a red cross shelter set up in a gymnasium at the university of california santa barbara ers a five year plans. can tell i have. a ten day. richard taylor fled with his family in the middle of the night do you know what has happened to your home no we have no idea. we have no idea whatsoever waiting and hoping for the best as the fires rage on rob reynolds al-jazeera santa barbara had the state are meeting in paris at a special climate summit convened by the french president and. it's hoped the gathering will spark badly needed funding to accelerate efforts to combat global warming a clock reports. it is two years to the day that nearly two hundred nations signed the paris agreement in a bid to limit global warming to below two degrees celsius now at the one planet summit in paris the french president of manuel macro the world bank chief jim yong kim and the u.n. secretary general antonio tears want to mobilize the foreigners to make it happen this in defiance of president donald trump's promise to pull out of the accord macro believes that europe can lead the way indeed the french president took a dig at trump by telling him to make up planet great again well at the moment developed nations are not on track to pay a promised one hundred billion dollars a year by twenty twenty to help developing countries among other things switch from fossil fuels to green energy and because of the u.s. put out there's now a two billion dollars hole in the green climate fund which also helps developing nations deal with climate change and in the year of wildfires in extreme storms one planet summit want to try and balance those books and so instill commitment and trust in the parents agreement from all the nations of the world except the united states necessity is the mother of invention they say and during greece's deep and lasting recession the country with abundant sunshine turned to new cheaper sources of power a massive increase in solar energy use means the country will now meet its emissions targets under the paris climate change a court. has more from signing off for ya. greece's solar revolution came from the countryside forty two thousand homes like this one turned their power bills into checks from the power company by selling electricity back to the grid to pension of. an extra nine thousand dollars a year have made a difference they don't it's my pension all over again without it we'd be pinching our pennies in this economy it means i can help my children my daughters in school my son is unemployed my wife doesn't have a pension over five years household installed three hundred and seventy five megawatts of generating capacity equivalent to a mid-sized power station and that's not counting farmers who turned over their land to larger scale production or industrial installations in solar and wind power both of which greece has in abundance but the government quashed this revolution in twenty fourteen strapped for cash it cuts the rate at which the grid bought power from homes from fifty five cents per kilowatt hour to under twelve cents but twenty fourteen law effectively removed households from the renewable energy market until then more than four thousand homes would install solar panels on their rooftops each year but in that here the number fell to just sixty three and it has never recovered a new bill now aims to bring the solar revolution to the cities where more than half the population lives by encouraging groups of five or more homeowners to install solar panels but the twenty fourteen rate cut still haunts people like. whose proceeds fell by half. things that i'm not sure whether the broken promises of the past make it possible for investors to go forward today we're talking about an investment of about seventy thousand dollars the bill quotes a guarantee purchase price but there's also a clause allowing the environment minister to change that price can someone trust that after an entire solar economy collapsed because of a law greece still depends on fossil fuels for two thirds of its electricity that's because its power stations been imported oil and lignite coal it's only abundant to fuel but lignite use has hugged in the past ten years while renewables have doubled to thirty percent of the electricity supply if policy is consistent greeks have shown they will reach for the sun jump zero plus al-jazeera love you so head on al-jazeera. want to find another out of choice is what is just turning anger into action we look at the challenge for palestinians as they respond to the u.s.'s decision under islam. but this is bore down two of them are you going to vote for most part of all where you go to vote for a democrat. a highly charged senate election campaign in the us state of alabama could end up in a photo finish and then sports will hear from the players a set to earn three hundred million dollars in the next decade and the new york yankees. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello there we're seeing some very cool weather across many parts of china at the moment and that cooler weather is also extending a bit further south towards us here in shanghai so our temperature here is expected to hold her at around ten degrees as we head through the next couple of days for many of us though along the eastern coast it should stay dry you can see the clouds gathering though out towards the west and here for the sichuan province we're likely to see a few outbreaks of right and that will gradually be sweeping its way eastwards over the next day i'll say i mean for the towards the south and we've got the usual rash of showers here for most of us but those showers just to the north of java are looking rather lively and i think this is a region we'll have to watch over the next few days because it does look like the showers here are going to be particularly heavy and at times that we banding together to give some more prolonged outbreaks of rain towards the west is generally looking a little bit dry and now for us across the southern parts of thailand try a spell extends a bit further south as well across some montra now as we head across towards india you can see this very distinctive area of town in the northern parts of india that's been giving some of us a lot of heavy snow and that snowfall is likely to continue as we had three shoes day of course right at the lower levels and then gradually it begins to ease off as we head into wednesday for the south a largely fine and dry just a handful of showers across parts of chirac. there with sponsored by qatar and greece. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. the world's largest humanitarian crisis will you score top in civil war all jersey world examines the roots of the conflict. i'm the complex has to be the drew a country into perpetual turmoil. for the unique year old separation mode the north and the so these dualisms are all part of history. yemen the north songs divide this time. let's recap the top stories right now on al-jazeera precious precious the president vladimir putin has ordered the withdrawal of some troops from syria after two years of fighting he made the announcement during a surprise visit to a syrian air base who also visited egypt and turkey where he joined president tyburn watton condemning the u.s. for its truce on tech liberation thousands of protesters have rallied in lebanon against that u.s. decision on jerusalem basta ministrations were called for by hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah craney an opposition politician the cal shock us feel he has been released from jail after a judge rejected prosecutors request to put him under house arrest a former georgian president was arrested on friday accusing of conspiring to topple ukraine's later petro poroshenko he denies those allegations. the palestinian president and his egyptian counterpart have agreed to continue consultations in coordination and the wake of the u.s. president's announcement on jerusalem the meeting in cairo between mahmoud abbas and abdel fatah he has been described as supportive of the palestinian position now separately palestinian leaders are facing growing criticism from their own people frustrated after living under israeli occupation for decades hoda abdel-hamid reports occupied west bank he has witnessed every clash for the past three years as so many have erupted new to patrol station where he works he doesn't join him but understands the motivation especially after tribes declaration over jerusalem. it was a real bad feeling for everyone it's like an insult but i want to be able to do anything at all as it has only been to drusilla twice that's how often israel has granted him permission still like every palestinian he considers it the only capital for a future palestinian state this is the closest point to jerusalem many palestinians can reach even though the city is less than a half hour's drive from this checkpoint but to go through it they need special permission from the israelis and that's very difficult to come by. well cohen is from jerusalem he lived abroad for several years but decided to return home so his wife and children could get their residency twenty years later his daughter who is still waiting for hers. i don't have an id i don't have any proof that i'm a living human being i might not get my papers but i'm holding on to my rights best can't refute trump's decision he want to meet the american vice president but what else can he do the palestinian authority has come under criticism for being too lenient it was established after the oslo accords and many say it should be dissolved since they agree mint has gone nowhere it's easy to say throw it away it's not something that you threw away this is an achievement the issue is you have to capitalize on it their issue is that you should not accept what is. this or sort of you to be when i say a service provider i don't want this or corrupted to be a service provider only for the people that believe they can do that mahomet's abound there has traveled far and wide but never set foot in the holy city despite repeatedly applying for a permit he thinks that palestinians now need new blood and then you vision we have resistance movement in gaza the did nothing we have who believe in peace and they. did nothing for us that's mean we want to find a number of choices what is the tone and who's claim that he is leader for palestinians should find this choices perhaps for hammond's latest cartoons expressed better than words how palestinians feel these days the peace process was a radius shipwreck trump killed it with the help of arab leaders who are a dimmer see of the united states and jerusalem was ultimate christmas present what up that have made al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. britain's defense minister says he is hoping for a swift end to the political crisis in the gulf gavin williamson discussed the gulf to speak with al-jazeera senior correspondent mohammed vall here in toha he also talked about bilateral relations between the nations his comments come a day after qatar and britain signed a six point seven billion dollar military deal brisson plays an important role in terms of talking with policies and encouraging a dialogue and encouraging all countries to come together i think we very much welcome what kuwait dayton hosting the g.c.c. and we would like to see move moves going forward to build on that cooperation make sure that the gulf states start working together again ensuring peace and prosperity running to course for the. president donald trump has reiterated his call for urgent immigration reform after an attack on one of new york's busiest commuter hubs misfired a man was arrested with a pipe bomb strapped to him which went off in the subway near times square the bangladeshi national has been identified as twenty seven. was injured in that blast that happened at the height of morning rush hour three other people suffered minor injuries let's be clear as new yorkers our lives revolve around the subways when we hear of an attack on the subway is incredibly unsettling. and let's be also clear this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve is ultimate goals. thank god our first responders were there so quickly to address the situation to make sure people were safe. three women accusing donald trump of sexual misconduct are calling for a congressional investigation into his behavior they say given widespread investigations into the actions of other politicians it's only right that the u.s. president be investigated as well a white house correspondent kimberly hawk reports. it's not the first time americans are hearing from jessica leaves samantha holby and rachel cooks and their allegations against donald trump of sexual misconduct are new but they say each of their interactions with trump was violating and similar i was forcibly kissed by mr trump during our first introduction as he walked around looking at us like we were his property he jumped all over me the women first publicized their claims of trump sexual aggression during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election campaign and were dismissed by trump as false even after the two thousand and five video emerged of him publicly bragging about groping women grandmothers but much has changed since trump selection victory triggered by the resignation of hollywood mogul harvey weinstein a series of celebrities businessmen and politicians have been forced to step down facing similar allegations the white house has once again responded calling the claims against the president politically motivated disputed by eyewitness accounts and even false the people of this country i did decisive election supported president and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process but on sunday another member of the trump administration said trump's accusers deserve a platform i think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way they have every right to speak up river horn my wife must know the women are speaking up in advance of a critical senate vote on tuesday trump is. campaigning for republican roy moore who's been accused of similar conduct it's yet another reason three congressional democrats are calling for the president to step down and trump's accusers are calling for an investigation but this analyst says that's unlikely given the current political climate trump has a base he has a constituency it's about a third of americans who have deep faith in him who see them who see him as representing their views of defiance of the political establishment and they're going to stand by him no matter what that's why these women and others say they'll continue to speak out until they say trump is investigated and they hope forced to resign kimberly helped get al jazeera washington and accusations of sexual abuse have dogged the campaign on the republican candidate in tuesday's special senate election in the u.s. state of alabama or president barack obama is trying to counter trump's endorsement of republican war and more efface his allegations of sexual assault and child molestation charges hansei reports. opinion polling is notoriously inaccurate but the day before alabama's special senate election one poll commanded attention on the less. republican has been ahead but among the final polls one commissioned by fox news no less there was hope for a democrat. he was ahead by ten points but eight percent of respondents were undecided and then there was the guilt factor those who claim to be undecided and probably why more supporters who don't want to admit it. that shame as a result of multiple sex you'll misconduct allegations against the former judge he denies all of them his supporters say nothing's been proven but they've helped make the senate race very close in a state where the republican party has for decades been seen as the. alabamian attitudes to race and gender rights the democratic challenger all depend on turn out a heavy turnout from the black community and from suburban women if he can get that he's got a chance to win anecdotally jones has reason to be hopeful here in the affluent birmingham suburbs cari powell has long been a democrat but she says more and more of her republican neighbors are telling her this time it's different it's just a really hard. for the progressive republican. and a lot of them have. doug jones has ninety percent of the african-american vote behind him according to the polls the next senator of the state of alabama judge roy moore in addition democrats hope that. over racism extolling the u.s. under slavery all regretting giving black people the vote will catalyze normally lackluster black turnout. however it will be difficult to overcome a skepticism about voting but one of decades of election time appeals from local and national democratic politicians that amount to nothing after the polls they only really come on. sport. angle dashing man mara working on a plan to send hundreds of thousands of our hens or refugees back to me and mark the u.n. and rights groups say the plan is flawed because it doesn't guarantee their protection when they return al-jazeera charles strafford met one refugee who has fled violence in myanmar four times over the last seven decades he says this time he will not return. up to salaam says he is over one hundred years old his wife mustafa begum guides him to the shelter in the cool to par long refugee camp he says the first time he fled violence in what was then burma was when the british were fighting the japanese during world war two but he has fled military crackdowns on the region just three times since then in one nine hundred seventy eight one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two and a half months ago and this time he says he won't go back we are going around i do what it i feel bad for my home but i'm afraid to go back because they could you know like you says there's no point in sending us back to myanmar because there is no security force the rights groups say the rangers have suffered systematic atrocities by the myanmar army in recent months hundreds of range of villages have been destroyed and burned to the ground the un says women have been gang raped by myanmar soldiers it's estimated that hundreds of ranger men women and children have been killed. but the bangladeshi a myanmar government so already working on a plan to send bank hundreds of thousands of refugees to myanmar. they say will be voluntary and is a end to start in two months so what would the range of refugees go back to inside me and the myanmar government doesn't recognise them as an ethnic group if we do their citizenship in one thousand nine hundred eighty two giving them limited access to education and health care and making them vulnerable to arbitrary arrest now the un says how can a people go back to a country in which they are still vulnerable to the kind of violence and persecution from which they fled. the un says the root causes of persecution such as lack of citizenship must be addressed first. may suffer more violence one of the things we need to really underscores we shouldn't rush into this condition for return need to be addressed and we're clear conditions today in myanmar are not right for refugees to go home at the salaam says his village like many others was burned down by the myanmar military he has no way to go back to what they will not allow a single ranger to live there he says they will slip through school please don't send this bank as bait for the monster the fear of a man who has fled for his life time and time again chance traffic could you prolong refugee camp bangladesh. time for sport now with andy thank you very much well it's the most watched and most lucrative competition in club football and one game in the last sixteen of the european champions league has underlined its blockbuster a pail another hit. by the sound of my surprise he says your math is right the match will christiane on all those reality i mean for the first european cup trouble since bond meaning did it fourteen years ago l'oreal have won the title twelve times past you have invested heavily in new players to try and win this trophy for a first time. well we played to two years ago to distance and go against them since then they strengthen their in every summer and a very very good player. so i think they're really very strong in every burman field. i think they have many many many qualities they have a lot of strength in quality players they have also we know that when they play a home they have a lot of offensive power but we have our will qualities we have our. vision to continue in this competition so we we're going to do everything we have is stuff that knows them very well from spain so we have all the qualities also to go through to the next round. after a five year gap basilan will take on english champions chelsea again it seems have been involved in a series of controversial games in two thousand and nine but also edged chelsea in the samis for the outcome was reversed in twenty twelve with chelsea going on said lift the trophy. is that draw in full with the games kicking off in the second week of february shakhtar donetsk will take on roma and it's by munich versus bush that series champions went undefeated on their way to winning their qualifying group a record five english teams progressed from the group stage this season tottenham will face italian champions you ventus premier league leaders man city play switzerland f.c. bars on liverpool take on portugal's f.c. porto and man united they face legal side severe sports correspondent lee wellings looks at what the draw could mean for spain's biggest two clubs. were madrid versus person and absolutely fascinates me is this the time finally for the spanish giants ramadan barcelona not. they have dominated european football but of course the two clubs with the money in europe or paris and the city manchester city have had a rather attractive looking draw against basel switched in the would expect to beat them but come p.s.g. duty which which they failed to do a couple of years ago can you now dive remember of course rome which are to go in for free champions league in a row that hasn't been done for forty years so what a huge march this is piers g.'s forming the group suggest that this is their time can i see it through can i get the job done that we playing at home second because they won their group i'm brown which we didn't chelsea barcelona now has a great history doesn't it twenty twelve chose he managed to get through despite all the pressure put on them they won the trophy that year but there have been controversial matches between those teams like two thousand and nine those two don't like each other that's for sure. well fans have been making a fuss of football's new m.l.s. champions in surround so they've turned out for a street parade to celebrate canada's first ever champions in the league's history . beating seattle soon know in the final they also want to support a shield for the regular season scoring sixty nine points a record for the m.l.s. . the new yankees are officially taken ownership of their three hundred million dollar man the national league's most valuable player college stance and has arrived at the yankees as part of a trade with the miami marlins the twenty eight year old led baseball in home runs and all the ice in twenty seven saying the yankees are set to face down to the two hundred and ninety five million dollars over the next decade. just want to go in for more for. their young dynamic group the way they flow together on the field. never give up never quit but if you're the story for us i mean there's not. much you can say of why you wouldn't want to be there. and. where i want to be what has been a breakthrough when faith young indian goal for sure bankers sharma the twenty one year old winning the johannesburg open by three strokes has after bad weather so the title being decided on monday it's sharma's first venture on the european so i'm guarantees my price and next year is going to championship. lindsey vonn preparations for the upcoming winter olympics in south korea all is going well with just a couple of months to go and games the twenty ten downhill champion is again struggling with injury the thirty three year old says she's doing all she can to be ready for could be her last olympics. everything that i've done has been in preparation for these one picks so right now i'm trying to stay healthy. going in so far it's not going very well but. you know i feel like i'm saving all of my luck for february and hopefully everything will work out the way it's supposed to all south korean organizers are doing all the counts of ticket sales they're a robot relay with the olympic torch is the latest innovation so for six hundred thousand sick it's how it's been sold but that is barely half of the total number. and joining a proud list of footballers to have start shoes that only bear a passing resemblance to their actual features is diego maradona the argentinian legend is visiting india at the moment and that is the statue that will soon become a permanent fixture in kolkata the statue apparently captures the moments he and his team won the one thousand nine hundred six world cup ok but it's always sport for now more later. that coin has hit another record on its first day of trading on the futures market interest was so high that the board's web site crashed because of heavy traffic wall street journal says but quite as market capitalization is around two hundred seventy eight billion dollars had a hang up or so washington d.c. . we all know money we can see it touch it if you wanted to even smell it. and we know roughly its value the buying power of the dollar for example doesn't change all that much it's backed by the u.s. government big point is the exact opposite it doesn't physically exist but lives virtually on a secretive computer system but now bit cloying can also be compared to corn even pigs. because it has been traded in the chicago board of exchange meaning just like the price of food traders can now legally place bets on whether the price will go up or down in the future for the most part the value of bitcoin is only going up and up and up again. what is big coing when bitcoin first unveiled in two thousand and nine it was worth less than a penny for a few years one bitcoin could buy you a cup of coffee but since two thousand and sixteen a huge spike would it debuted on the exchange its value was listed at more than fifteen thousand dollars for one bitcoin meaning if you add up all the big callings out there it would be worth more than the economy of new zealand something the head banker there said in a local interview won't last long that looks remarkably like a bubble forming to my. way of saying them in the. in the centuries of saying bubbles in the supposed to be a bit of a classic case right now big current owners are limited in where they can use them there are some restaurants and online stores that will take them and there are few places to turn them into cash but those are few and far between and there is another risk besides the volatility even if you. right we were still seen a number of large cap seventy million dollars was stolen from a big point my school last week and so security is still a concern volatilities concern and generally i would still advise people if you are going to bast only put into this what you are willing to lose meaning your money can be stolen and there's no one to complain to and there are also concerns about the amount of energy the computers that run the bitcoin system use one report says it's as much as the entire country of denmark but even with that it's clear especially today the price of bitcoin will go way up and way down but it's not going away political pain al-jazeera washington that is off from a rush i'll carry this hour on al-jazeera keep it here though there is much more to come on the other side of the break but my colleague here howie thanks for your time. part. the nature of news as it breaks the last time senegal qualified for the world cup was in two thousand to fifteen years on it hope to do even better in russia next year with detailed coverage hard to imagine of the only seven years ago people were living right here. now defeat has taken over their land from around the world donald trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to khorat a missed opportunity abroad. besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by ariss and integration now r r r r r r out jazeera traces the history of fast generation lebanese australians exploring the conflicts. and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al jazeera and. al jazeera. every year. let me putin and i'm see is a partial pullout of troops from syria during a well.