right. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the. al-jazeera facing realities your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. here the story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time.

our assessment right now as it is in prices affiliated group the u.s. says isomers responsible for the deaths of four american servicemen and. well on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never leave the battle will go on the u.s. vows to stay the course against the taliban in afghanistan. john as congress votes to add president name and thoughts to the nation's constitution the first time that's happened in almost two decades plus. on wednesday in bangkok where thais are preparing to say a final farewell to the late king and we find out why an increasing number of people are being locked up during this sensitive time.

the u.s. is top general says he believes a group linked to isolate by. in the ambush that killed four soldiers and four others in the jail he warned that i still was trying to establish a physical presence there as it loses ground in iraq and syria meanwhile the widow of one of the dead soldiers has made a television appearance where she accused president trump of being insensitive in a condolence call gabriel is on the reports. the united states' top military officer said the families of soldiers killed in the share deserve answers for american and for nigerian soldiers were killed during a brazen ambush on what was supposed to be a routine reconnaissance patrol few details are known but dunford said all signs are pointing to one group and it is an isis affiliated group and i think what you bring up is what we're dealing with in many places is isis and al qaida isis in this case they try to leverage local insurgencies. and connect those local

insurgencies globally this is the challenge that we're dealing with and so our initial assessment is these are local tribal fighters that are associated with isis the incident took place in a remote area of new shares border with mali the region that also includes neighboring countries of chad mauritania and burkina faso is facing an ongoing challenge against armed groups to help with the fight the u.s. says around a thousand troops in the up from one hundred in two thousand and thirteen they share intelligence and help train local forces the incident in egypt has caused political ramifications as well the widow of sergeant led david johnson said president donald trump was insensitive when he called to offer condolences to president. gore but it hurts anyway.

and now is what made me cry because i was very angry at the tone of his voice and how he thought hold. my hands when they something the president disputes i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant like david johnson and spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation trump tweeted the pentagon has also come under increased criticism from prominent lawmakers so. death to the u.s. soldiers and overall transparency u.s. operations in africa this is an endless war without band boundaries no limitation on time of geography you got to tell us more the u.s. has about six thousand soldiers stationed across africa the killing of the troops. has prompted the pentagon to begin a review of how it conducts its missions across the entire continent. just new york well the pentagon has not been specific about the group that led the ambush on

u.s. troops in the number of armed groups are known to operate in the sahara will in northern africa al qaeda in the islamic maghreb wasn't fighting the algerian government since two thousand and seven the group and it's been two organizations of the top foreigners elsewhere in the region and one of those breakaway groups is isis in the greater so harra pledge allegiance to ice all and its leader baghdadi in twenty fifteen and carried out small scale attacks despite retreats in iraq and syria are still has not recognized the news. but if the pentagon confirms it carried out the attack it will be the group's most significant strike today well read movies a consultant on security and political issues in the side he says the us needs better links with local communities to help protect themselves. that's why it's very important to go in forward if the u.s. are going to engage further in the area they have to be really careful on how the

the they work with not only local forces but also with local communities to gain their support because we have seen these groups while they are very good at building strong ties with local communities but they are also not afraid to carry exact associations against local individuals and also armed groups who are supporting local and regional and foreign forces in the area and we have seen this many times especially in mali where u.s. and french forces are present but chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the constitution details of things thoughts of yet to be revealed but he follows in the footsteps of former leaders mao tse dung and deng xiaoping the chinese communist party has just ended its weeklong congress she's expected to be confirmed as leader for another five years let's get more now from andrew thomas who joins us live from chatham and square in beijing so andrew president she's name

and thoughts are to be inscribed in the chinese constitution forever i mean he's clearly consolidating his grip on power is. he really is i mean is congress has just wrapped up in the last hour all the delegates been pouring out of the great hall of the people behind me and where not to the party to spread the message right across china and that message will primary is that right. control as you say in a vote tuesday of the party members here the working papers part and that means the thought as it's called will be all in shrine in the constitution as you say only chairman mao has ever had his thoughts on in the constitution before even deng xiaoping only have a theory which is seen as a letter to the communist party but you play very. very significant that not only within his own lifetime but within his own presidency just five years into it president xi jinping has his lot in the constitution exactly what i thought he is well that's

a little bit more opaque he talks about socialism with chinese parts or sticks for a new era the crucial part there is for a new era he says that everything in the past was the old era the new era begins now and in his closing speech about an hour ago president xi said that the two long china had been bullied and that was going to end in the new era that potentially significant and that the chinese people he said are more confident and proud when they have ever been before and he said we are to great time in our country but we also place a lot of challenges now will get more flesh on the bones of a say in coming days weeks and perhaps even years this full really about. all right apologies for that we've lost andrew thomas there in beijing but let's move on shall we because u.s. secretary state rex tillerson has been holding high level talks across the middle east he was in iraq on monday and met the prime minister hide out a body it follows tensions between the two countries of iranian backed militias in

iraq to listen once the popping up mobilization forces to be sent home but out of body defended their role to listen also made a brief stop in afghanistan to discuss the fight against the taliban we have to continue the fight against the taliban and against others in order for them to understand they will never win a military victory and there are we believe moderate voices among the taleban voices that they don't want to continue to fight forever they don't want their children to fight so we are looking to engage with those voices and have them engage in a reconciliation process leading to peace process and therefore involvement in participation in the government what tennyson's next stop is pakistan where the taliban's expected to dominate talks with the prime minister that al-jazeera natasha going to name has more on the complicated relationship between the two allies. pakistan has been basking in rare international praise after it rescued

a canadian american family earlier this month this is proof enough to me that. the. pakistanis are doing everything their utmost in prison or. the family spent five years as hostages of the taliban linked network the united states gave pakistan and ultimatum if they didn't act on urgent intelligence it would send in their own troops to bring the hostages home the pakistani government's cooperation is a sign that it is america's wish that they do more to provide. security in the region. the u.s. and pakistan are longtime allies but their relationship has been strained the u.s. says pakistan is creating safe havens for the taliban which is in the midst of a renewed campaign in afghanistan and pakistan denies that and says when the u.s.

has provided intelligence it's acted u.s. and. they have agreed to have made engage in the future as well for the corporation and the understanding of each of this concerns. us secretary of state rex tillerson is on his first official visit to south asia he'll have talks with pakistani prime minister shahid khan abbassi who was elected in august then on to india where he'll meet with prime minister narendra modi. the troubled ministration hopes to expand its ties with india seeing it as a stabilizing force in a volatile region president trump and prime minister modi are committed more than any other leaders before them to building an ambitious partnership benefits not only our two great democracies but other sovereign nations working toward greater

peace and stability a deepening of american and indian ties is a sensitive topic for pakistan india and pakistan are locked in a decades long stalemate over the disputed region of kashmir the u.s. is stressing both countries are crucial partners but u.s. president donald trump is seizing the momentum of recent cooperation by urging pakistan to help release other hostages and join in future counterterrorism operations natasha going to name al-jazeera. the u.s. is considering sanctions against me and maher for its treatment of range of muslims the state department says washington may use a human rights law to target leaders or groups involved in the violence in northern rakhine state more than six hundred thousand re-injure have fled to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown when mars army denies accusations of ethnic cleansing to a woman accused of killing the half brother north korea's leader kim jong un have been brought back to the scene of his death kim jong nam was killed at columbine

airport in february when he was exposed to a nerve agent the suspects were brought back to reenact the attack the women say they were tricked into taking part and they could face the death penalty details are emerging of what's being called a massacre in the syrian town of catty attain witnesses say eisel fighters carried out a revenge campaign killing more than one hundred people before the town was seized by government forces the syrian observatory for human rights as the killings happened during a three week period i still accuse the civilians of collaborating with syrian government forces. you know they attacked us like animals they came to kill us they killed children and women broke the arms of the women and burned them before killing them they killed more than one hundred innocent people from the families of both civilians and militants also to come here not just here including we look at how refugees and migrants are taking advantage of libya's instability to tempt her in the sea journeys to europe or the states.

and i know that there's rain on its way towards the middle east so much as just yet at the moment on the charts we're just seeing a little bit of cloud drifting around the northern parts of om up but now we're seeing a little bit more just work its way into the northwest and that's what's going to give us some pretty heavy rain over the next few days on cheese day that rain will already be over the western parts of turkey strong winds associated with that as well and that gradually is edging its way eastwards as we head through wednesday where we see some very heavy downpours some blustery weather as well but ahead of it drawing for now beirut there twenty six degrees and force in teheran will be at around twenty five now here in doha the temperature is on now easing so thirty five degrees will be our maximum on choose day and then if we head through into wednesday it'll be around thirty three or thirty four degrees at night we're

dropping down to around twenty five but the south othella thirty nine degrees will be our maximum but here there will be more crowded around and there's a chance of seeing the thunderstorm as well particularly late tone during the day down to was a some in parts of africa the weather is quite quiet for many of us at the moment but they're all want to show is around particularly around parts of tons a day around the coast some of the showers here allow you to be rather heavy that's also want to showers around and go as well there's a drifting a little bit further towards the south and we could see one or two downpours infantile. she was a society hostess in beirut in one thousand nine hundred forty she was in touch with a lot of people from the lebanese the request to make this work. was the power and she spied for mossad in lebanon. what she was doing it was something brave.

algis you know wow douses story of. the baby. at this time. welcome back recap the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. military believes and i select group was behind the ambush that killed four american soldiers in the us much earlier the widow of one of the sergeants who died criticized president from being insensitive join a condolence fund called. the political philosophy of china's president will be written into the constitution the additional is approved in the final day of the communist party's congress in beijing she's expected to be confirmed as leader for

another five years. the u.s. secretary of state has made an unannounced visit to iraq after a quick stop in afghanistan rex tillerson met iraq's prime minister and the president has provoked a rift after calling for iranian backed militias in iraq to end their operations. now refugees and migrants are taking advantage of instability in libya to attempt dangerous sea journeys to europe hundreds recently arrived in italy where the organization for security and cooperation in europe will discuss ways to curb the flow. head as more from the libyan capital tripoli. than. twenty year old testimony is waiting for a voluntary departure taishan to head home come to the major. she's among three hundred and eleven youngun a judean women in this detention center in tripoli. they were arrested after a dangerous journey in the desert when the ended up in the coastal city of. the

paid people smugglers to reach italy but failed and many people died. because the laws want to do with the nose. in. like. there's no work. for me i stare at you like it's one. around one hundred migrants from african and arab countries were recently risk by security forces and brought here they say people smugglers abused them and extorted money. eighty six have been detained here for more than a month they're on hunger strike demanding the broken government issues travel documents so they can return home. they put us into birds in the ocean we sell for around two hours we were humiliated and the birds were so bad the water leaked inside we tried to get the water out so that it wouldn't capsize had

it not been for god's mercy we would have died the international organization for migration takes care of migrants deportation with their consent but it takes a long time in many cases. we have african nationals from cote d'ivoire in sierra leone who have no embassies here in tripoli that's why their nationals have to stay here for a long period before they're voluntarily deported back to their home countries with the italian navy patrolling libyan territorial waters the number of migrants in the mediterranean decreased dramatically during the last few months but with the defeat of groups illegal migration in the western coastal city of so brought up the number of illegal migrants has recently increased again the telly and government agreed to a request from the head of libya's you and backed government of national accord to train and equip libya's coast guard. but with libya divided and in case it is

expected to remain the most popular transit truth for migrants to reach europe from north africa. and jazeera tripoli. kenyans go to the polls on thursday for a second time this year after the supreme court and now the oldest election victory of president to her kenyatta but there are fears of a floor vote on the consequences that could have on the country catherine sawyer reports. kenya is on sale or at least on a stage at a theater in the capital nairobi this is a rehearsal of a satirical play showcasing the country's political uncertainty for the repeat presidential election and what's at stake. this year. the most sought after values peace democracy are respected regional economy things the director says are being put at risk in a double down to. the lessons. the plea comes out of him.

now and has to be affected by. out in the real world many people are equally concerned about what's going to happen after the election most kenyans even those in the rural areas are very much aware and engaged in the politics of the day many say they've lost confidence in the ability of the electoral commission today live off free and fair election but when you ask people whether or not they are going to vote the opinion is largely divided along partisan lines in kisumu in the west of the country almost everyone is fiercely loyal to opposition leader raul odinga they say they will not vote the other governor visits the family of a seventeen year old boy sage who have been shot by police he says he'll pass a million sure no election happens in his region when you have a government. which is important it's really on the people with all the people

and monday. the people have a right to rebel. who are kenyatta supporters are keen to vote for this can sign up. commission itself the commissioner has resigned the c.e.o. has taken a leave of absence and the chairman says the commission is under siege from outside influences and he cannot guarantee a credible election in the current colorized environment fortunately what we have now is essentially the death sides are talking at each other rather than with each other the most ideal situation would be for a party especially the electoral commission to go back to the supreme court and see a binding authority advisory many people including the just groups civil society politicians and even the electoral commission have asked for dialogue between president to king arthur and dr dean but the election last be postponed and reforms

carried out kenya time sists it must go one. zero nairobi. now the sentencing of two white farmers in south africa who forced a black man into a coffin has been delayed until friday the suspects threatened to burn victims alive if they were found guilty of attempted murder in august all of a tosser reports now from the town of middleburg where the case is being heard. the young man who was shot last year by. the planning for friday when the judge made to hand the sentencing his mother broke down in court. in what. must not be less than.

the sum of. its much more. crime. or farm workers where the family and the farm money which is in. the middle of the seventeenth century the follows them also. has a wife on the. far right politicians will take their seats in germany's parliament for the first time later on tuesday as the first session since september's election relate to

chancellor angela merkel still has to form a governing coalition dominic cain has more from belin. as germany's newly elected members of parliament gather here in berlin to take their seats in parliament they do so at a particularly nebulous time in german politics because for the first time in many many years openly far right politicians have won seats in parliament from the party called the alternative for germany or a f d more than ninety of them with seats in parliament the issue for the f.t. will be can they be a coherent cohesive united force in parliament already one of the f.t.'s former leaders has said she will not take her seat alongside her colleagues we should say her former colleagues the f.t. is in opposition because nobody else will work with it also an opposition on the social democrats with one hundred fifty more than one hundred fifty seats and the left party of former communists mostly well they have sixty nine seats they're in

opposition to form a government you have to have three hundred fifty five seats in parliament and the only option of coalition analysts say might work is one which involves angela merkel's christian democrats with more than two hundred forty seats still the largest party in parliament even though they lost many seats at the election while also there would be the free democrats or liberals with eighty seats and the green party with sixty seven seats but can those three parties thrash out their differences and find an agreement they're trying to do that the talks they're holding right now in this building just across the street from parliament they're trying to talk through these issues right now the question will be how do they bridge the gaps between them they were opposition candidates against each other in september and now they're trying to form a coalition in october. australia's immigration department says more than six hundred asylum seekers and refugees are refusing to leave them an asylum prison in

papua new guinea access to drinking water food medicines and electricity will be cut when the camp closes next tuesday refugees will be forced to move to accommodation centers near the main city of lying down last year according the pup a new guinea ruled that holding people in the camp was unconstitutional australian policy is to not settle any refugee who tries to arrive by boat. the king of thailand will be cremated on thursday a year after the eighty eight year old died millions of people are mourning the revered monarch who ruled for seventy years but others who broke in a four hundred year old law criticizing the royal family languish in prison al-jazeera is when he reports in the thai capital bangkok. king not a so one the great is one of thailand's most revered monarchs like many great movies have been made about him this one is in six parts the climax is his victory on elephant back over an invading bernese prince even though it happened more than

four hundred years ago so one is a key actor in a modern day criminal case. for daring to question the historical events a well known government critic and historian is charged with insulting them on a key or less majesté and faces a fifteen year prison sentence if convicted. so only. cargo. he was shot by there is a kind of. the. element combat nationalism and realism have increased since a military coup in two thousand and fourteen that many believe was staged to ensure a smooth rule transition from father to son. during this sensitive time there's been a sharp increase in the number of majesté cases and the circumstances have become more extreme. the less may just a law is supposedly designed to protect the royal family from criticism or

definition but it's clearly being used by those in power for other purposes like stifling dissent and the law is supposed to only cover royals alive not those who died centuries ago or even a year ago since april pro which makes a weekly trip to prison to visit his brother who's a human rights lawyer he's been charged with ten counts of insulting the monarchy for comments he made online he could be sentenced to one hundred fifty years in jail why did he feel so strongly about human rights he represented people who were taken advantage of for free most of his clients are poor he didn't much for his career at all. increasing numbers of opposition leaders and critics have no choice but to stay overseas academic pay when panhead is thai passport revoked for refusing a summons from the military would never become democratic country would depress and

in other words. even want to move ahead to become a normal democratic society the law has to have to be abolished. this is a period of profound change for thailand as it prepares for the funeral of the king who reigned for seventy years the military leadership say some sort of democracy will return next year but there's no indication that will mean freedom of speech when it comes to the monarchy wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. now for a high stakes world record attempt in brazil two hundred forty five bungee jump and that from a bridge together in the city of hotel and. they kept the start secret until the last minute so city workers couldn't stop it. it is well recalled still means to confirm though that this attempt breaks the previous record of one hundred forty nine jokes.

a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. military believes in ice a linked group was behind the ambush that killed four american soldiers in israel this monday have been earlier the widow of one of the sergeants who died criticize president trump for being insensitive during a condolence phone call. the u.s. after states made an unannounced visit to iraq after a quick stop in afghanistan rex tillerson met iraq's prime minister and president responds a rift after calling for iranian backed militias in iraq to end their operations in afghanistan to listen to reaffirm u.s. commitment to defeating the taliban the political philosophy of china's president xi jinping will be written into the constitution the addition was approved on the final day of the communist party's congress and beijing she's expected to be confirmed as leader for another five years under thomas has more from beijing.

chairman mao had his court named in the constitution at the moment. and other presidents who have been named in the constitution they've only had theories mentioned thought is seen as a much higher. much higher level to have achieved. while president and while alive is totally unprecedented the u.s. is considering sanctions against me in march for its treatment of range of muslims the state department says washington may use a human rights lot target leaders or groups involved in the violence in northern rakhine state more than six hundred thousand are injured have fled to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown myanmar's army denies accusations of ethnic cleansing. the suspects in the killing of the north korean leader's half brother had been brought back to the scene of his death for a reenactment two women are accused of smearing a nerve agent on came junk them at kuala lumpur airport in february they say they were tricked into taking part and the pair could face the death penalty. and i

suppose being accused of a revenge attack in a syrian town witnesses say fighters killed more than a hundred people before government troops took over. on saturday isolate use the civilians of collaborating with syrian forces soon observatory for human rights says the killings took place over a three week period but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost that's watching. but the message is simplistic and misinformation is rife listening provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. hello on has i'm sick of this is counting the cost on your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week china two point zero why president xi jinping

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