Strengthened. Welcome to the program nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people have fled their homes in syrias last rebel stronghold in the past 2 weeks escaping a relentless berridge of balls and ass trikes Syrian Government forces in that russian allies have sworn to retake adlib and the United Nations is warning of devastating humanitarian consequences parts of the province of been under a daily aerial bombardment of thousands of families are reportedly too frightened to move. Meanwhile. Authorities in taki have closed the border to syria and see off flame the violence 100000 attack. And says many refugees on now heavily dependent on charities. Most of those people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids burn the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them im from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting most of the hogs the area around. And the strategic city that sits on the m 5 which assads forces are really keen to take from the rebels they have most of them come to the Turkish Border and the photos are motor allowing any of the Syrian Refugees to holes all over the comps are also fool so they are mostly in the open setting up makeshift calms you know depending on charities giving them warm food but they do not have proper sanitation or water or any other amenities wherever they have set up but come child is a spokesperson for save the children and change planes how the situation is impacting young syrians. I mean the house of the population of it is made up of children so this is a big chunk of the population when they have to flee and the current circumstances when so its on its very cold its been eating for days on end they are at the days of diseases of you know crossed by not to mention obviously as guides and being wounded or killed according to the you and 65. 00 children have been killed so far in december and this is a high number compared also to the rest of the year so children are older is the 1st victim of the some slip and you know on a daily basis we use the use of children being displaced and telling us how its difficult to be probably from home from bias against those schools or in the worst Case Scenario so that sometimes members of the same time of the being cases very dire situation and what we hear from civilians as it is that they see completely abandoned and now coming to you know its the end of the year people have these as flag. On what is a 0 on eve and to put it as if you know abandoned by the international community. A passenger plane has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 12 people the back at jet came down there a lottery at port slashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers worked in forcing conditions to reach the 98 people on board and pulled out dozens of survivors alexy obrien has more. Emergency crews calmed the wreckage of the airliner torn in half the main body of the becket barely recognizable its ria resting in a field the flight had just taken off from the airport bound for the capital no soul tom survivors say passengers screamed as the plane started shaking then tilted before smashing into a concrete faints and slamming into a 2 story house raisky has worked in subzero temperatures to save dozens of injured including 8 children. Are crying because im shaking severely it was a nightmare inside i put my phone in my pocket and taught in my safety belt the plane leaned forward it was clear that we would crash into the ground to see what you know we found 2 sets of skid marks from the back of the plane on the runway meaning it touched it twice and mostly those passengers at the front of the craft with the ones who died flight recorders have been found and have been brought in for inspection nobody will be left without state support we will provide the needed help to the families of the victims and the injured president kasem to caiaphas formed a Government Commission and says anyone responsible for the crash will be in his words severely punished hes also declared a day of National Mourning on saturday because the plane itself is so rugged and well built that they are in very high demand and its very difficult to get a good for 100 to die. Their life seems to go on because if their well mine turned very long structural laws the government ordered the airline to ground its fleet of dutch built jets which are more than 20 years old all back air flights have been suspended until crash investigators can work out how this happened brian aljazeera. On our local officials have told aljazeera that libyan wall of Khalifa Haftar has carried out an asse strike on an oil refinery near the border with tunisia strike took place in the city of zawiya and is the 4th on the compound in 24 hours it comes after libyas internationally recognized government requested military support from taki its battle against have to us forces meanwhile protesters have gathered on the streets of that we are the 2 people died in an ass strike in the city on thursday have to fight has struck a busy Shopping Center in the cheering rush hour injuring 20 people warplanes then hit a pharmacy and residential and market areas as well a funeral for one of those killed has also taken place all than 140000 libyans have fled their homes since have to launched his campaign to capture tripoli in april which is where the internationally recognized government is based. Is in tripoli and explains why the astronauts might be huffed as a response to turkeys plans to deploy troops to libya. This collation of the airstrikes by half that of the fighter jets recently has been targeting get civilian areas residential areas killing innocent civilians including women and children this could be read in terms of the actions of have to discount anger. Action through the news about to push government planning to send troops to live to libya upon official request from the government of National Call duties directed nighest by the United Nations. Recently have to his forces have targeted by air strikes. An area near the oil refinery of zawiya city stand about 40 kilometers to the west from tripoli is until you have to and it has in its cost to be the pilot that was detained or was captured by the progovernment forces 3 months ago while he was targeting their locations in. So after those forces are accused of committing war crimes by the Government Ministry of defense which is that said that have to. Strike starting civilian areas could mount to world crimes in Iraqi Military base housing American Forces has been attacked by rockets and u. S. Civilian contractor was killed in the attack ek one base size 15 kilometers northwest of the oil rich city of kirk and member of the iraqi police force was also injured along with several other u. S. Service members smyrna fault and has more from baghdad on the strategic importance of the base. Were getting reports that there were 2 casualties as part of this latest attack one of whom is a member of the iraqi police and one of whom is the u. S. Contractor in this particular base in kirkuk houses both u. S. Forces as well as iraqi forces that it is used to conduct operations in the area against this is an area that is surrounded by many mountains and it has been used by aczel to stage an insurgency so this base is particularly important for those operations and this particular attack is just one in a series of several such incidents over the past month or so in fact there have been a Statement Issued by the u. S. On the semper 7 basically listing the attacks and also unusually attribute in responsibility for some of these attacks a particular one such attack in bar took a type as ball which is an iranian backed armed group now there was another attack on december 9th on another military base near Baghdad Airport which also co houses u. S. Forces which resulted in the injuries of 6 iraqi soldiers and following that particular attack secretary of state issued a very strong statement basically warning iran to not attack u. S. Forces as well as its allies here in iraq or quote those actions would be answered with a decisive u. S. Response or not we actually have 2 casualties in another such attack it remains to be seen how the u. S. Will react meanwhile iraqs president has been blamed for causing a political standoff he refused to approve the nomination of assad as Prime Minister groups backed by iran say president barham salih is serving the interests of washington and aims to bring the country into chaos it comes as antigovernment protests as gathered in baghdad retracing demands for an independent Prime Minister more than 450. 00 people have been killed since protests 1st broke out almost 3 months ago and we want an obvious Prime Minister independent no one citizenship we want to be an iraqi official you can feel our pain you can relate to us someone who doesnt have any loyalty to others. So that. Chaos in montenegro is parliament as serbs protest a new role which could affect the Property Rights of the Orthodox Church and mourning the victims of indias protest families accuse Security Forces of shooting dead those who stood up against a law they say discriminates against muslims. How i once again weve got signs of some rain pushing into northern parts of australia not really where we need it having said that just around the top end around the Cape York Peninsula and well also see some wetter weather just pushing down towards port hedland over the next day or 2 and land is all about the heat yet again alex gets up to around 40 celsius western parts of queensland New South Wales could see similar values in the cooler north we feed on the way in with 38 there for adelaide 34 there for melbourne on saturday as we go on into sunday he just not is a little further east was almost just around the coastal fringes in melbourne at around 29. 00 degrees a similar temperature there for brisbane and also for sydney but look at that little chain of showers we have of course more than most even townsville could see a little bit of wet weather but too much weather in the forecast for new zealand over the next day or so but just cost you a little further north here we have a tropical cycle and this is cycloid a scenario thats making its way just to that western side of the fear island some very heavy rain damaging winds as well we are likely to see widespread flooding as this system just makes its way down towards southern parts of tonga meanwhile across japan its looking lossy fodder driver the next couple of days with snow clearing away. Call counter the cost 20000000000. 00 t. V. What a year its been the world struggle to put aside short trouble you can have a game to save the planet for less of a bear a good look at least people took to the street to protest you know the spread of wealth at a trade war reshapes globalization counting the cost on aljazeera. Welcome back you with aljazeera live from london a look at headlines now 250000 people have fled the syrian problems and live as bombardment from the government and Russian Forces continues in the area 12 people have been killed after a plane crash already off to takeoff in kazakhstan in the city of a lot and local officials have told aljazeera that libyan Border Police office forces carried out an ass strike on an oil refinery west of tripoli the 4th in just 24 hours. Palestinian demonstrators have gathered along the gaza border fence for the final time this year protests have wound down in recent months as egypt catherine the United Nations try to pry core ceasefire agreement between hamas and israel organizers said they dont intend to hold another protest until march since the last year protests have been gathering at the border every friday to longing the right to return to the ancestors times essential to a spokesman for the quite march over Time Movement he says the protests are important for raising awareness now we are looking at it without admitting you know is going to still going to be. Out of the political scene its not i would have problem of the problem that we have all right we need to bring all the attention of the all over the world the palestinian are suffering hardships suffering been suffering leading a miserable life because of the oppression and because of that i get in as well so that means that no we could say that all the factions all the palestinian groups all the civil communities all united together under one table. All agree that the right to return is what a great issue and no we believe that continue we continue with the of this peaceful. What socalled peace would have been there with. A lot of time is going to be part of our continue with the un both of our life as well we need to manage to grow the attention of all. Muslims communities that ability in and out of school after 70 years of. Build out of from their country origin and country are still sort of still fight are still believe that they have a right to the. Well now to lebanon the countrys been without a government for 2 months and a school day deadlock in the countrys not rabbit does come at a critical time now with the economy in collapse and the lebanese having to rely on themselves to survive the west crisis in decades so in a holder has this report now from beirut. At least 7 people a day are depending on the generosity of one woman to eat it to the bottle expects that number to rise as lebanons economy continues to collapse her bakery is offering free bread to the poor dont leave your family hungry is what this sign reads this is one of many initiatives by lebanese who are trying to help each other as a young girl asked me if she could buy half a sandwich for the 500 lebanese pounds she had that struck me i realized how people are desperate and hungry my daughters told me why dont you help people and that is what im doing now poverty is on the rise and so is unemployment lebannon has been without a government for weeks politicians are bargaining over power instead of implementing much needed reforms to unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid. The dire Economic Situation is the result of bad economic policies of previous governments their policies failed theres been a lot of corruption in the stolen money from the States Economic crisis isnt it spain building up there are no more cases of lebanese becoming homeless because like. They no longer can afford rent she brought her family to this square in central beirut where opponents of the Political Class have been converging for more than 2 months and their attempt to get rid of the political elite. I used to have a house but now my whole family 8 girls and 4 boys including my son in law live here but regardless of this bad situation i feel good because of the care and love i got from people before the uprising i never had this much supports this spontaneous and leaderless protest movement was triggered by government attempts to impose more taxes they now call it a revolution lebanese from across the sectarian divide came together to call for change but this newfound unity is not complete these concrete slabs are a symbol of the deep divide not just among the nations polity. Society as well as Security Forces set up these barricades after supporters of the mainly sectarian parties attacked the antiestablishment protesters the barriers make it harder to access the square but they do little to bridge differences indications are this is only the start of what is likely to be a prolonged Crisis Center for the beirut. More than a dozen m. P. s have been arrested in montenegro after they violently protested a law on religious freedom the controversial legislation went through in the early hours of friday morning and it requires religious institutions to prove that they hold the rights to their property before 918 but opponents say it will unfairly target the serbian Orthodox Church and explain. Opposition members being carried out of politics in montenegro deputies from a pro serb party came to blows with their rivals just before a lot of religious communities was passed to make his 3 what appeared to be a tear gas canister or a firecracker Plainclothes Police wearing gas masks intervened detaining 17 politicians from the Democratic Front to come out on us. We expect that our colleagues will soon be released from custody we will also have a consultation about what to do next how to articulate this at the section with what theyve seen in the Parliament Last night. That dissatisfaction has prompted protests by priests from the serbian Orthodox Church the big church in montenegro and ordinary citizens there worried the state could confiscate Church Assets under the new law religious communities need to prove Property Ownership from before 1918 when montenegro joined the precursor of the now defunct yugoslavia opponents say the law is aimed at pro circuit institutions montenegro only separated from serbia in 2006. 2 you know they. Are going to step in church and serbian people we stepped in and come to montenegro weve been here long ago and were here to stay. Were now asking the government to postpone some parts of this law which absolutely do not bring peace in montenegro but unhappiness among people until after christmas the Ruling Democratic Party of socialists denies any plans to seize churches like this one already of the dozens of serbian orthodox monasteries and other properties in the country. Given guarantees and as