Elections. Plus. Im andy gallagher, in haiti, 200,000 children in slavery, well be covering a Radio Program that aims to tackle the issue headon. I will fight for me and for fifa. Those are the defiant words of sepp blatter the president of footballs governing body after he and fellow high ranking official Michel Platini were banned for having anything to do with the organization for eight years. 2 million payment made to uefa boss platini eight years ago. Sepp blatter once again the center of attention. The 79yearold swiss fighting to get into a press conference as he fights for his very future in football. On monday the suspended fifa president and the uefa chief Michel Platini were given eight year bans over a 2 million payment made by blatter to platini in 2011. The swiss isnt going quietly. I will fight for me and i will fight for fifa. Suspended eight years for what . Reporter for years the two big figures at fifa had a plan. Long serving blatter would pass the job to his friend uefa president Michel Platini. Now a gentlemans agreement from the past has returned to haunt them. Platini supposedly carried out work for blatter with no contract and in 2011, the Ethics Committee set up by blatter delivered the ban. The Adjudicatory Committee last can banned mr. Sepp blatter for eight years and Michel Platini, Vice President of fifa and president of uefa from all football activities. Be blatter refused to even attend the hearing, the committee already decided he was guilty and seeking a long ban. He clung on despite half of his executive committee being exposed as corrupt. After may investigation he finally resigned. He wanted his own allies decided oarotherwise. He needs oclear his name before the deadline on january the 26th. Now that will involve going through both the Fifa Appeals Committee and the court of arbitration for export before he can begin that process he needs a full written statement of the decision from the Ethics Committee, a process that in itself could take weeks. One is a footballing legend. The other fifas great political survivor, both brought down by a scandal. En. Rockets were brought down in afghanistans capital kabul. Three more soldiers were injured in the attack near bagram air base. Thats the largest u. S. Military facility in afghanistan. Afghan Officials Say a suicide bomber on a motor bike targeted a joint u. S. Afghan foot parole outside the base. Well the taliban has been staging an offensive that has seen it take control of a district in afghanistans southern helmand province. That came a day after a senior local official was on the brink of falling. In the recent months, the taliban has gained territory in the north, west and south. Al jazeeras imoku molu reports. Fixed target when its the taliban Afghan Soldiers and police are outgunned. We are fighting to remove the taliban from this area. Therefore, we need support from our own army to help us. Right now area is controlled by taliban. This is helmand province, once controlled by the taliban. Its also the place where most of the worlds opium is produced. On sunday the provinces deputy mayor used facebook to plead with the afghan president. Posting your excellency, helmand is standing on the brink and there is a serious need for you to come. Since last night, sangen district sensor is almost completely under taliban control. Hundreds of billions was used to develop an army and that was misused and you see taliban taking advantage of that. Would months ago its fighters took kunduz in the north for two weeks crippling the city. But now theyve moved south, to sangen in hell mandate province. The Deputy Governor says the whole province will fall into their hands unless help arrives soon. Imoku molu, al jazeera. Spains Prime Minister says he will try to form a new government, following elections that close no clear winner. He will have to put together a coalition, or try anyway. Barnaby phillips reports from madrid. Reporter here is the man of the moment, pablo iglesias, head of podemos. He says hes ready to talk to anyone but the old parties must recognize the changes that have taken place in spain. So today is an historical day for spain. We are very happy for the fact that in spain, the turn, the two party system has ended and we are happy because we are starting a new political era in our country. But awkwardly for those who want change it is the incumbent Peoples Party that came first. And Mariano Rajoy wants to remain Prime Minister. The Popular Party consider they have responsibility and the mandate in order to explore the possibility to give the necessary certainty both in and outside spain. Parliament will sit on january the 13th. Thats when the king felipe rm 6 should announce the new Prime Minister. If the decision cant be by the middle of february then spain should hold new elections. Barnaby phillips, al jazeera, madrid. At least 85 people are still missing beneath a giant flow of mud and construction waste which buried 33 buildings in southern china. It happened in the port city of shenzhen which is home to a building and construction boom that has developed in the past years. China correspondent adrian brown reports. Reporter at times like this, manpower is not a problem in china. 1500 rescue workers are now searching for signs of life. Hoping survivors may have found an air pocket. If people are alive theyre in damaged buildings, trapped under mounds of mud. It is hazardous work. The ground is wet with hours of rain. 24 hours after the landslide there was though still hope. Translator since 2 00 a. M. On monday we have regulation cued search trapped people and relocateover 900 residents. At 3 00 a. M. The field command decided to reenforce the rescue work with machinery. Damaged, compacted, testament to poor materials used in their construction. The mud spill is covering a vast area. Equal in size to 14 football fields. An area of around 380,000 square meters has been covered by the mudslide disaster. The thickness of the mud and debris ranges from between a few meters and tens of meters. Reporter and many people here know where that mud came from. A vast tip in a local quarry. Waste from construction sites had been dumped here for years. According to Chinese Media reports it was at least 100 meters high and apparently legal illegal. This was chinas latest man made disaster. Its only four months since a huge explosion at a storage area for dangerous chemicals in the northeast city of tiengen. They were kept in a warehouse just a few hundred meters from a residential area. Now investigators must find if any laws were broken here as well. Adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. Russia says its unable to retrieve enough information from the black box of the military jet shut down by turkey last no. It will now turn to specialized scientific experts to try and salvage information. Nearly 36 Million People around the world are thought to be trapped in modern day slavery including one in 10 children in haiti. As the caribbean country looks for solutions, one radio show has taken a novel approach to educating its listeners. Andy gallagher reports now from poarpts. Portauprince. In a quiet neighborhood of portauprince, actors are going through their lines. This team of writers, actors and directors produced more than a dozen radio shows every month that mean to entertain and generate their listeners. Recording scenes both powerful and disturbing. I had goose bumps listening to that, that is horrible but thats why we are here. To realize how hard it is. In haiti, radio is a dominant yeem anmedium. The show reaches many thousand visitors. It is working. Aactress martine fidel. In a country where childhood slavery is a huge problem, that may just save lives. It is estimated there are almost a quarter ever a million child slaves in haiti, many of whom were sold by their own families. Thankfully there are places of refuge for people to be safe. For those who do manage to break the bonds of slavery there is an obvious sense of relief. But the lives theyve left behind is constant reminder of a shameless problem. Child slavery is very hard, you have to do all of the domestic work, cooking, cleaning, everything else. They treat you badly. If one day you speak out you get cursed out. This kind of serial drama has never been broadcast in haiti before. It is hard to quantify the success of a show thats only been on for a couple of years, but producers now say they have a loyal audience in the fight against childhood slavery. Antigallagher, portauprince, haiti. Much more to come. We look at a mother in aleppo struggling to put food on the table to feed her family. And the oil boom in the United States. When youre on hold, your business is on hold. Thats why comcast business doesnt leave you there. When you call, a Small Business expert will answer you in about 30 seconds. No annoying hold music. Just a real person, real fast. Whenever you need them. So your business can get back to business. Sounds like my rides ready. Dont get stuck on hold. Reach an expert fast. Comcast business. Built for business. To discover the best shows friends together and movies with xfinitys winter watchlist. Later on, well conspire as we dream by the fire a beautiful sight, were happy tonight watching in a winter watchlist land, watching in a winter watchlist land xfinitys winter watchlist. Watch now with xfinity on demand your home for the best entertainment this holiday season. Platt. Now a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. Fifas Ethics Committee found sepp blatter and fellow official Michel Platini guilty of crimes against fifa. Six u. S. Soldiers have been killed in a taliban suicide bombing in bagram air base. Spains Prime MinisterMariano Rajoy says he will try to develop a government. As many as 12 Million People need immediate help in syria. Paul tradergian introduces us to a victim. Her name is um ahmed. She looks for things to burn when there are no jets dropping bombs. She gathers tuition twigs, leav. And even garbage, anything to burn so i can make a fire to heat water to clean my children. Even wood we cant find, heating oil is too expensive everything is to expensive. Ums husband abandoned her and her kids. Every day she worries about how to put food on the table. These are desperate times for millions of syrians like um ahmed. In another neighborhood devastated by bombs dropped by Government Forces another bonfire. This one keeps these neighborhood kids warm. We were at home but it was freezing there. We came up to warm up with the fire behind us. On the way we found nylon bags, paper, just to keep the fire burning. At home we have no blankets or anything to warm us up so we come here until the fire goes out. Aleppo is one of the longest continuously inhabited cities in the world. This fire hasnt gone out for 5,000 years. The fiveyearold civil war has turned brother against brother. It has permanently changed many lives like this mans life. An air strike has just steroid the home he lived in for the last 40 years. I came back home four days ago, and found it destroyed by strikes. I picked myself up and im just roaming. More than 2 million lived in aleppo, many homeless, loss. Its the regular people who are helping me to survive. Every once that while i get some aid and scream, realizing my situation is so dire. Drones flying over what was once a famous Tourist Destination shows the destruction. Cultural and Financial Capital of syria threatens its future and its past. Those who have been able to leave, have left. Those who have had to stay behind dont know how they will survive. Paul tradergian, al jazeera. The United NationsSecurity Council has received a broafg og on the humanitarian situation in syria. Over the past month violence does continue to escalate and intensify across syria. Indiscriminate attacks by all peashth to the conflict resulted in loss of life, destruction of infrastructure and the denial of access to basic services for thousands of people. For more on this lets speak to al jazeeras kristin saloomey. What else was in this briefing . Reporter the u. N. Is very concerned about the contents of this report. In addition to the Syrian Air Force you have russians, United States, nato and allies dropping bombs. The u. N. Secretary of Foreign Affairs mentioned an attack on idlib on sunday where 43 civilians were killed. Now, the United Nations doesnt name which country are responsible for a specific attack. They are not in position to confirm who would be responsible. This this case it has been widely reported that russia was behind the bombings but all sides in the conflict have been accused of hitting civilians in their air strikes. And the u. N. Very, very concerned about the air strikes. Among the 43 civilians that were killed were five aid workers and one ngo shut down, since the beginning of the month five ngos have shut down have stopped delivering aid to people there. So the situation just gets more and more desperate. More violence, ngos shutting down. Its no surprise that people continue to leave syria. So whats the u. N. Or whats been said there about the orn going refusintheongoing refugee . People displaced within syria in the last month, 121,000 more displaced. Some of them, second and third time they were displaced as a result of fighting. Were also learning that as a result of the 1 million refugees to reach europes shore in the last year half of them are syrians. So the United Nations again making a plea for more governments to accept refugees and settle them. Antonio gutierrez is the high commissioner for refugees, used the appearance as an opportunity to plead for more aid to refugees. They are not perpetrators of terror that obviously seems to be response to some of the rhetoric out of the United States and European Countries where theres talk about banning syrians and banning muslims from coming to the country. He said that yes, terrorists could try to infiltrate refugees but thats a very small likelihood and that you need the refugees to be on your side and to help in the fight against terrorism in the end. Kristin saloomey, thank you. India has upheld the release of the youngest convict, serving the maximum sentence of three years for a juvenile. After widespread proaftd protese bill is expected to clear the upper part of parliament. Arrest wart for blaise compaore. Fled to neighboring iveary coast after being forced from power in bufs i burkina faso. Sankaras death certificate lists Natural Causes but several bullets have been found in his body. Their dream is to reach the United States but for nearly 5,000 ceu5,000 cubans, their drs come to a stop in guatemala. Alessandro san pieti has the story. Another makeshift home after the wind pulled down their previous one. We have been here a month and a few days. More than 30 days. They are part of roughly 5,000 cubans who have made it to nicaragua from e ec ecuador. We are running out of money and have to be creative to survive. While a few still hold out at the border, most migrants have been put up at schools churches and Community Centers in nearby town. Costa rica has been helping them with food and clothes but cant serve as help for long. Our sets of have been strengthsenned to capacity. Cold war era law, known as the cuban adjustment law allowed cubans to reach the u. S. , many have been tempted to trying to dangerous journey over land and there is another reason. More than 30,000 cubans have made the trip in 2015 alone. Thats more than double the previous year. They say with improvement to americancuban relations, america may put an end to its open door policies. This is one of them. She left hoping to reach the u. S. While the policy is still in place to help her parents back home. Translator the message i have to those who are doing this to the people of nicaragua of guatemala, please help us solve this problem. We dont want to hurt anybody. All were looking for is to be healthy and have a better future. Reporter for now that solution is far away, fob now flouncing it will require visas, for cubans, promise new restrictions the future of those already here in the meantime remains in limbo. Allesandro san pieti, al jazeera. Americans are enjoying the cheapest petrol in more than six years but the drop in revenue has drastically slowed down oil drilling. Tom ackerman has more. Reporter less than two years ago, the oiled oil fields ever south dakota were problem offing to bproblemprovingto be. After this time next month no more construction. The number of active drill rigs in north america has declined. Oil glut has taken a toll on those that werent able to cover their capital costs. Dozens have filed for bankruptcy protection and in 2016 the cant count could outnumber the drillers who fell. The average production this year will still be above 9 Million Barrels per day. So the dropoff is not viewed as precipitous. Presumably the expectations are that over time we will probably see slows reversal of that dropoff. For more than 30 years the u. S. Has banned all crude oil exports often the grounds of national security. But president obama signed legislation that would allow u. S. Crude to be sold on international markets. Not only giving u. S. Producers a new outlet, by lifting the ban the u. S. Can help offer our friends a chance to diversify their