Pyongyangs Nuclear Weapons program. My names peter w. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the wrath of Tropical Storm tembin more than seventy thousand people in the homeless in the philippines at least two hundred people are dead. More housecleaning from the turkish president time per one the fires another twenty seven hundred people for alleged links to terrorism plus. Meet the Cuban Dance Company refusing to let us travel bans prevent the spread of its rich caribbean style music. North korea has called the latest round of u. N. Sanctions an act of war north koreas state News Agency Says the strengthening of its nuclear to terence program is the only way to frustrates the u. S. It also said other countries which supported the sanctions would pay a quote heavy price the un imposed extra measures on pyongyang on friday following its recent Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test the latest sanctions ban ninety percent of the countrys fuel imports Florence Louis joins us live from the south korean capital seoul florence whats your reading of the statement from the north. Well really this language in the statement thats come out from north Koreas Foreign Ministry is something that policy watches and north korea have come to expect the language is extremely angry it called the latest round of sanctions an act of war called it an infringement of sovereignty that is not unexpected. Its also directing its anger at the u. S. And again this is not unexpected because the u. S. Is the work of the one that has the lead drafted and negotiate at this latest round of sanctions and they are considered the north korea considers the u. S. Its mortal enemy and really is portraying its Nuclear Development program as a deterrent against a u. S. Led invasion but whats interesting about the statement thats come out from north korea today is there seems to be an acknowledgement that these are the toughest ever sanctions to hit north korea now in the statement it called it some call it said it was tantamount to a complete economic blockade and as you mentioned the sanctions put a significant cap on petrol supplies but they also call for the repatriation of north korean laborers within the next twenty four months and these Foreign Workers are very important source of income for the isolated country theres also a ban on north korean exports of machinery as well as labor again hitting north koreas income source however there doesnt seem to be anything in the statement that could indicate a change in behavior in fact the tone is one of defiance and it is something weve come to expect from north koreas reaction to these sanctions to these rounds of un led Security Council sanctions now many analysts have also come to believe that the world is fast running out of sanctions options when it comes to dealing with north korea that have been more than a decade of sank economic sanctions on north korea since it carried out its First Nuclear test in two thousand and six but these have not been able to limit north koreas military and Nuclear Ambitions and the idea however though is that these tougher sanctions will have the will make it more difficult for north korea to carry out further tests. Given the slightly bellicose approach particularly on the part of the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations you know nikki haley saying look you know a Bigger Picture were taking names but she also talked about north korea given the bellicose approach coming out of pyongyang is there a sense there on the peninsula that an Armed Conflict is getting more likely while there is a sense that tensions are i mean theres a believe that tensions are indeed much higher than theyve been at any point in time relations between the two koreas are than the west in decades and the country south korea and its neighbors in the region are very keen to ensure that there that this doesnt turn into military conflict now north korea despite its provocations however its provocations in terms of carrying out Nuclear Tests for the rocket and missile tests now north korea however doesnt seem to want a war in this in its country or on its soil what it wants to do however is to develop its nuclear and Missile Technology to the point that it is recognized as a Nuclear State and now and north korea in this statement and kim jong il in the past have come have come out to say that this is what we are going to achieve and in fact we have achieved this florence thanks very much. Well in two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their post as part of the countrys latest emergency rule decree soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were sacked over alleged links to what is being called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in july of last year thats over alleged ties to the movement of the us based cleric for turkey accused him of organizing the attempted coup. Is the director of policy analysis at the Doha Institute keeping us company here in the studio. I mean theres nobody left to run the country anymore because hes either got rid of them all locked them up i think at the very beginning has the action was fully understood because that was an attempt on the life of the president and an attempt actually to overthrow a democratically democratically elected government but i think after that he went too far by using that as a pretext actually in order to belch not only the military in which he actually used that in fact he seized on that opportunity for him in order to bring the army and that hes going toward because for the past fifteen years of. Actually the military has been in the past. In turkey and it was very much the party which has existed so many reforms that the president has suggested in order to bring the whole state. Apparatus and that his so i took that opportunity actually to bring the army and the consul but but as i said he went too far when he actually theres also the state bureaucracy he fire out hundreds of University Professors i know that some colleges in Turkish University dont have teachers actually to teach the courses he also the judiciary so he went after almost all those he was suspecting of opposing him without actually they had links to the movement. Or or not so he was somehow. Which kind of just interrupt for a second which kind of takes us to the key point here is he reacting every six or eight weeks to accurate believable intelligence intelligence gathering and information or is it somebody within his structure just giving him a list of names of people and the logic is youre a bureaucrat therefore youve got to be got rid of youre a teacher therefore in the regions therefore youve got to be moved sideways which is it got to be one of the other i think its the second option might be in this and it means that somebody will actually are playing to point at the people who are believed to be loyal to the president or lawyers to be actually having them piled from their positions that is what i believe is in order to bears the whole state but across the whole state about this from all those actually who are having doubts about their loyalty to the president or. More when we must leave it there are many thanks. At least two hundred people have been killed in the southern philippines after Tropical Storm tembin caused landslides and flooding official see many villages ignored warnings to leave coastal areas and were swept away at least seventy thousand people are now homeless mohammed has the story. More death and destruction as Emergency Responders continue to pull bodies from the devastation of Tropical Storm time and that hit the philippines second largest city mindanao flash floods and landslides washed away homes turning streets into rivers. Dozens are still missing and rescue workers fear the number of casualties will rise as forecasters predict more heavy rains to bring even more floods and landslides. Families and neighbors stand heartbroken as more bodies are recovered. The flood was already close and the people were not able to get out of their homes a ford was so strong that it swept away houses Emergency Responder say rocks and boulders some as biggest cars were washed down the mountain and bird scores of homes in the town of. More than twenty thousand people have been displaced in a region already ravaged by the governments fight against ice a link groups aid organizations have criticised the governments response to something that is not shouldnt be a surprise to the Philippine Government and. So it is also very questionable when the government is not prepared to give relief and to give help to the people then this things happened because they should be ready the philippines is hit with over two dozen Tropical Storms every year. But the island of mindanao is rarely affected him been struck on friday with winds over eighty Kilometers Per Hour hurling mud and rocks from a nearby mountain Tropical Storm tembin is now heading over the South China Sea and forecasters warn it may vietnam by monday. Now israel has closed the northern entrance to ramallah and better in the occupied west bank thats the main point used by palestinians crossing into israel it follows weeks of palestinian demonstrations over the u. S. Decision to recognize to roussillon the israeli capital at least fourteen protesters have been killed in the palestinian territories since that decision was made Donald Trumps move was also met with outrage around the world hundreds of thousands of people rallied in countries throughout the middle east as well as muslim majority nations like indonesia malaysia and pakistan now on thursday the Un General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a nonbinding resolution declaring trumps decision null and void but mr trump is not backing down he insists the u. S. Embassy in israel will be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem breaking with fifty years of diplomatic convention. Palestinian christian religious leaders have condemned trumps decision as an insult to christians and muslims there are about half a million Palestinian Christians but many of them live in other parts of the world just over a thousand christians remain in the gaza strip where small christmas celebrations are being planned welcome webb sent this report. This is all of residents high as extended family and through galleries christmas. And sun went to the occupied west bank three years ago and never came back he took his two sons were worried for their future hearing. One of her daughters moved to canada six years ago a family that bad other life is very difficult in gaza we live under siege and we cannot move anywhere gaza has become a big prison weve witnessed many was during the bombing we had to sleep in the church for safety the the story of rosettes family is typical among as a Small Community of christians because theyre in just three churches congregations are shrinking. Their populations just over a thousand it was more than double that ten years ago when the blockade by israel in egypt began they suffer the same daily struggles as the muslim majority sociologists say christine families tend to have more means to get out there said family. Usually has. Hardly. And i think the more the human being has options and the more has money and he look to the to the to the life and good life and this is good life is not available in gaza even though our money in gaza but you can have your life. Adding to the strife is the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. Here in this Community Center christians are holding a vigil in solidarity for jerusalem as palestines capital the feeling among Christian Communities very much the same as it is among the muslim majority everyone weve spoken to see here is it off position to the u. S. Move and they say it only adds to the frustrations of life here. There are many muslims here too the communities carry exist. Its a somber runs the center he says they do everything they can to try and provide support for young people. To do what they need to do what they must do in their lives as young do you do what you can see a lot of them want to leave and i know that you believe this is more secure more comfortable for them to come for sure many young people here say they like gaza just that on the seat there are no opportunities here almost anyone who can leave and so this Small Christian Community is getting smaller. Malcolm webb aljazeera in gaza. And were doing a special program on the tensions over the status of jerusalem this Christmas Eve watch the holy land at twenty one thirty hours g. M. T. Sunday here on aljazeera. Plus more still to come for you here on this challenge living among them bob weve got the new president we speak to people about their hopes and fears for the future. Hello and welcome back across more northern parts of europe were seeing a return to milder weather conditions temperatures double figures are getting close to as far as the might some temperatures are concerned but still some snow across more eastern areas now much of central and Southern Europe is sitting under a big area of High Pressure so weather conditions are likely to remain quite fine for the most part and a lot of relatively mild weather continues in a snow as well across more eastern areas during the course of monday as we come south as well looking fine across italy down into greece with highs of fifteen expected in athens on the other side of the mediterranean weve got the winds coming in from the north so temperatures nothing special really for tripoli through towards cairo just nineteen degrees expected here and then heading on into monday again chance i want to showers along the coast here and temperatures in the low side and then as we head into central parts of africa weve got a few showers for the bone and for parts of congo otherwise its looking fine across much of west africa in Lagos Nigeria sunshine same for in ghana mommy thirty two and sunny across more southern areas some heavy rain affecting parts feingold i threw some beer and into zimbabwe a wet one in rory further south it should be fine in capetown high sierra of twenty. Again youre with aljazeera live from doha your headlines north korea has called the latest round of u. N. Sanctions an act of war pyongyang state News Agency Says the strengthening of its Nuclear Deterrent program is the only way to frustrates the u. S. The u. N. Imposed a ninety percent ban on the countrys fuel imports. More than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been dismissed from their posts as part of the countrys latest emergency rule decree soldiers teachers and bureaucrats were sacked over alleged links to what are being called terror organizations following last years failed coup. And at least two hundred people have been killed in the southern philippines after Tropical Storm tembin course landslides and flooding official seen many villages ignored warnings to the coastal areas and were swept away the storm system is now moving towards vietnam. To europe now where catalonia is deposed president has called on the Spanish Government to allow him to return home from selfimposed exile in brussels colace puja months faces arrest if he does return to spain for his role in catalonia his declaration of independence following the referendum in october putin wants says hes open to talks with the Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy to resolve the standoff woodleys pushed us. Up with a scheme that we are willing to listen to every proposal we receive you know there are models in europe that work the swiss model works very well even belgium as model works very well as does the german model but all those models have something in spanish more lax and that is recognition without recognition it is not possible to establish an efficient relationship of trust. Twenty five people have been killed by air strikes in yemen according to local officials a Saudi Led Coalition reportedly targeted a protest rally in the district of north of the capital sanaa its thought some of the dead were proved to see tribal leaders who organized the demonstration. Thousands of people have taken part in a vigil in the lebanese capital beirut honoring several women murdered in the past week the deaths of three arab women as well as British Embassy workers rebecca dyke sparked outrage activists are raising awareness of widespread violence against women in lebanon on the demanding better protection. The mirror is in ghana today where he set to meet president. Earlier shake to mean been hammered all fanny was greeted at the airports by gone the in officials in me is looking to expand Economic Opportunities in west africa with cas are currently blockaded by four arab nations saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha almost seven months ago a ceasefire by south sudans warring parties has come into effect to allo