And im jane this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes christian leaders in the holy land come out strongly against the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. Oh. My god. The seventy thousand people homeless in the philippines and at least two hundred dead in the wake of Tropical Storm ten but. North korea calls the latest round of u. N. Sanctions aimed at its Nuclear Program an act of war. And well have more on one of the most amazing sports stories of the year as new n. H. L. Team the biggest Golden Knights beat the Washington Capitals to win their teeth home game at the city. Ellison in christian leaders have rejected the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital calling it dangerous and an insult it follows weeks of demonstrations across the occupied palestinian territories since that decision was made at least fifteen protesters have now been killed Donald Trumps move was also made with outrage across 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 on thursday the Un General Assembly voted overwhelmingly for a nonbinding resolution declaring trumps decision no and void but trump isnt 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. Oh dell hamid is live for us in bethlehem talk us through what has been happening today part of. The brain. Injury and the time now of. The. Ground. With. The industry. But never around a bit. Of the nothing. Come up and down the back seat but then you could end up being here and to square that to maintain cherish now joining me here and then youre going to want to have Council Member here a black man thank you very much for joining me and Merry Christmas or just now i see the celebrations are going on as scheduled but it is somehow different this year isnt it yes definitely here we are used to be a Christmas Celebration always there is something going on in the area since i was born and you know you know from my to the forty seven until today every year we have something going on but that despite of the fact were always celebrating christmas im trying to send a message is a peace loving understanding and our president. President say arafat son of a muslim but we want peace with our neighbors and were always sending a message of hope and love to the other side as well to keep the terror here and they some of these bands carrying fake banners saying. Will it happen enough for the palestinians and so on no no that the banners around this man i think wants to make sure that message its quite clear oh definitely you know we believe that jerusalem is the capital of the world and that palestine is part of the world we need. Through to sundown convey the message to go world. Jerusalem has a piece of us and we have a piece of jerusalem and at the same time we need to be able to share jerusalem and to have easy access to jerusalem spell acim is done all over the world people come jerusalem and bethlehem cannot disconnect jerusalem from the time of the same time we say that jerusalem must be the capital of the whole world and actually both cities downloading and both of them are closely intertwined in centuries out of five president mike pence who was supposed to come here and that the whole shape has been canceled until mid january maybe back but lamb made it very clear that he wouldnt be one of them yeah he had he actually made his visit and thats still the case what was the message you know the message that time the mayor and the governor but. You know after whats the statement on the statement of the President Trump they had to to also do a statement tell them about the plan is a palace in the city we have jerusalem these drucilla as the capital of palestine in order to make the two state solution go through which is good for both sides. Allison isnt this really you know the i think the Palestinian People have a great heart. Are always welcoming people who want to intervene and do the job. To make this this. This occupation this war. Lord. Knows who want to Say Something good. To me directly just quickly because. This is. One of those. And he gave me the faith. Because everything. That makes him the right. Q. To. Cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut a cut all the time for the bulk of the people who were. Killed during the surge looked at the cold war the cut the budget the role of her the told her youre celebrating the over such areas for such looks the utter security the to lower the liquor oh shut up rachel a live look at the birthplace of the such celebrating the fall from the tree cut for the told live cut if you cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut how to build homemade thank you that 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 planned reports. This is all of reza sayah has extended family this week galavis christmas. A son went to the occupied west bank three years ago and never came back he took his two sons worried for their future hearing gaza. 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 a christian families tend to have more means to get out there since family. Usually has. Are you. Look lovely. And i think the more the human being has options and the more has money and you look to the to the to the life and good life and this is good life is not available in gaza even you are 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 opposition 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 web al jazeera in gaza. We are doing a special program on the tension of the status of jerusalem this Christmas Eve watch the holy land at twenty one thirty g. M. T. On sunday here on aljazeera. Twenty five people being killed by a strikes in yemen cording to local officials sunday Led Coalition reportedly targeted a protest rally in the district of north of the capital sanaa its thought some of the dead were pro who tribal leaders who had organized the demonstrations. Were then turning people are dead and dozens are missing off to Tropical Storm devastated the southern philippines unleashing flash floods and landslides thousands have been forced from their homes and the state of emergency has been declared in several areas reports. Digging through the devastation caused by Tropical Storm tendon these rescue workers use whatever they can to find survivors but hope quickly turns to anguish as one of the youngest casualties is pulled from the mud. Hours after unleashing flooding and landslides that has left dozens dead on the Southern Island of mindanao tendon slammed into another set of Philippine Islands late on saturday Officials SayPeople Living in the area ignored warnings to leave and were swept away. By the flood was already close and the people were not able to get out of their homes the flood was so strong that it swept away houses. Emergency responders say rocks and boulders some as biggest cars were washed down from the mountains and buried scores of homes in the town of p. R. More than seventy thousand people have been displaced in a region already ravaged by the governments fight against groups aid organizations have criticized the governments response and this is something that is not shouldnt be a surprise to the Philippine Government and the philippines so it is also very questionable when a government is not prepared to give relief and to give help to the people then this things happen because they should be right. Tropical storm tendon is the latest to hit the philippines which is battered by around twenty major storms each year they can get one of the worlds most disaster prone countries and while the storm is now heading out over the South China Sea towards vietnam the devastation its caused will continue to cause misery in aljazeera north korea has called the latest round of u. N. Sanctions and act of war its state News Agency Says a Strong NuclearDeterrence Program is the only way to frustrate the u. S. The u. N. Imposed extra measures on pyongyang on friday following its recent Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test. From seoul. North korea called the latest round of Un Security Council sanctions imposed on it as a threat as a violation of its sovereignty as well as an act that would violate peace and stability in the region it also seemed to direct much of its anger at the u. S. Who led drafted and negotiated this latest round of sanctions now one interesting thing however is north korea seems to acknowledge that these latest sanctions are the toughest ever that its facing it called it tantamount to a complete economic blockade as not only a significant cap on petrol supplies the sanctions also call for the repatriation of north Korean Foreign labor as within the next twenty four months hitting an important income source for the isolated country it also calls for an ban on north korean exports including machinery and lumber again hitting north koreas income source there isnt however any indication in the statement that north korea will change its behavior in fact the tone is one of defiance but this is very much in line with previous statements in reaction to past sanctions many analysts have come to believe that the world is running out of sanctions options when it comes to dealing with north korea now the hope however is that these sanctions will have the effect of making it more difficult for north korea to carry out further tests. Go ahead on the news on including we report from venezuela in the second part of our special series where Community Activists are working together to provide what the government cannot. And i. Thank you yes with the latest series on Artificial Intelligence in the years to come will this be doing your job. And sport cattle make a successful start to their title defense at the gulf cup final be here with the details. Then as well as take the First Step Towards expelling top diplomats from brazil and canada accusing them of meddling in domestic politics the head of the pro Government Constituent Assembly has declared them cerner nongrata not wanted or not welcome in the country the diplomats say Nicolas Maduro his government is consolidating power by isolating the opposition ahead of next years president ial vote the assembly has effectively barred three opposition parties from running in the election and we are reporting from venezuela in the second part of our one year five families series inflation is rampant food and medicine are scarce prison it is murderous government has been accused of human rights abuses it remains defiant dentals from reports from caracas. The pitot a neighborhood on the outskirts of caracas doesnt have rubbish collection or Running Water one of the more. We havent had any water for three years we park our car here and fuel these containers more or less every day and a half. Cathy is a Community Worker here suffering the same shortages everyone else but not prepared to just accept me to. Look i turn it on but the water comes out so we have to shower with cups. She could jolles shames and encourages her neighbors to respond if the municipality wont collect the rubbish then they will. The government does not give resources to the local authorities so they do not pay the companies that do the work because they dont have the budget so everyone three but that is who is affected. Katty like many venezuelans has put her dreams on hold in her case to bake cakes with inflation through the roof withdraw cash food and medicine scarce many venezuelans have lost faith in their politicians and theyre increasingly looking inwards organizing themselves in the hope of a better future. Theyre all victims are rampant inflation food medicine shortages and rising crime its important to Work Together weve forgotten that were all brothers and sisters from the same land a land called been a swell and were trying to take the reins of this country were not politicians we dont work for any Government Agency we want to show that the citizens still have power. Tens of thousands of venezuelans have left the country got his daughter hannah says hes hoping to join an uncle in costa rica. And the wages are not enough not even for their share or even to get through them and id like to live alone but you have to share. President ial elections scheduled for next october president Nicolas Maduro will stand again hoping to extend the brand of socialism introduced in one thousand nine hundred nine by his predecessor charice the opposition is divided and some are being prohibited from standing. Yet but im not at all its illogical the one person will solve all of them as well as problems every one of us is obliged to play their part in improving the country. Then this way there is in crisis like kathy many like say where their politicians a failed they are going to do something about it they lack torah but it isnt and theyre out to see it or caracas 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 an alleged links to what been called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in july last year that service suspected ties to the movement of u. S. Based cleric for toulon girl in turkey accused him of organizing the failed coup by one couple on as the director of policy analysis at the Doha Institute he says the latest dismissal show president has gone too far. Well i think at the very beginning his 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 using that as a pretext actually in order to belch not only the military in which he actually used. In fact he seized on that called an 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 the bastion of secularism in turkey and it was very much the party which has resisted 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 controversy but as i said he went too far when he actually also the state bureaucracy he fired out hundreds of University Professors i know for sure 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 posing him without actually they had links to the movement. Or or not. I just want to show you some pictures that have just come in to us these are not live but just came just a couple minutes ago they are of the latin patriarch of jerusalem and hes been crossing through the israeli checkpoint into bethlehem and thats amidst the celebrations that have been going on all day as i correspond was telling us and finding out for us a little bit more subdued this year after Donald Trumps comments about turning jerusalem into israels capital certainly knowledge in it as israels capital so those pictures there will bring you more as and when the events of the day on. A cease fire by south sudans warring sides c