the human immune system like a lot of fine to side or essential oil is found in the forests my research has shown that forest find to sites reduces stress hormones says us in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe the forest instead of medicine in the most heavily country in the world if there's any country that would be experiencing p.t.s.d. it would be a nation that's been at war for four generations al-jazeera explores the reason those drones are there is to assist the innocent civilians they exist in off of even their not filing is them frightening because any moment they can bomb living the dream but this time al-jazeera.

reports from the us the white house is set to back down on its controversial refugee ban. well i'm certain this is al jazeera life from london also coming up the u.n. secretary general arrives in central african republic and made a fragile security situation and allegations of sexual violence by u.n. peacekeepers. a new era for china's political thought becomes enshrined in the constitution and a move that cements his power even further. on the virtual reality revolution that lets a surgeon operate on a patient seven thousand miles away. is being reported in the us media about the trump administration is set to partially

relax a ban on refugees and the country the president suspended all refugee and review a vetting procedure that was later revised to allow refugees with a bona fide a connection to the u.s. law correspondent gabriel elizondo is in new york for us gave house istanbul listed or not there is confusion here. yeah there is a lot of confusion the short answer to that is yes but i will say in the last two minutes we just got a new executive order from the white house we're going to be sifting through this six page document very shortly here but i can tell you the headline from that document and this new executive orders yes the term administration has ended the blanket ban on refugees coming into the united states that's one part of the story but it's a lot more complicated than that because what's also included in this executive order is the fact that refugees from eleven quote unquote high risk countries as

they're called by the administration will still potentially be allowed in but there's another ninety day review period for refugees from those countries what countries those are the administration one specifically say on the background call that we just held with the state department and the department of justice however presumably it's the same eleven. countries that have been part of other administration bans which would be countries including but not limited to syria and iraq which those countries make up the majority of refugees coming into the united states so in summary here yes the ban on refugees in the united states has been lifted by this executive order by president trump that just came out in the last two minutes or so however still refugees from at least eleven countries will have a somewhat of a waiting period or be left in limbo at least for ninety days until the administration conducts further reviews refugees from those eleven particular

countries will still be allowed into the u.s. but only on a very narrow case by case basis and gave what about those people who are currently waiting to get affects how long it takes them to be reviewed to. you know officials we spoke to one get into specifics on that but you can imagine the answer to that is yes it's not going to speed things up it's going to slow things down for sure for refugees that are desperate to leave very difficult situations and find shelter with their families i can tell you that this entire review process is led to what the administration is saying is increased vetting of refugees and what exactly all that increased vetting entails we simply don't know specifics however we were told that it includes among other things more analysis of refugee applicants social media accounts as well as data and information about not only the refugee applicant but their family members as well so

critics or or refugee rights advocates groups are pissed specifically saying that this new information coming out of the administration well it's good in some ways to health refugees it's going to particularly not help one group and that's adult males because they already go through an extensive secondary security check and as far as where we've been told that will not be changing if anything that secondary check is going under more reviews that will just slow the process down even more i will say the u.s. except about fifty five thousand refugees into the country this year trump administration has already said even before today's announcement they were going to drop that to forty five thousand the lowest number in decades and while we're talking about refugees the trip administration says to protect the u.s. homeland from from from bad people it should be noted that there is never been any

refugee that was admitted to the united states that has been associated with any acts of terrorism thank you gabriel and i thought here that with that review hot off the presses. the battle over taxes in the u.s. is also escalating a few between president donald trump and a top republican senator exploded just before a meeting to discuss tax reform the exchanges further alienate a top member of the president's own party can really help get reports from washington d.c. his promise to repeal obamacare has failed money to build a border wall with mexico remains in question so hoping for a legislative victory donald trump on tuesday went to capitol hill seeking support from fellow republicans for some of the steepest tax cuts in a generation this will be the lowest rate in more than eighty years so this was just before leaving the white house he spoke to reporters to explain how his tax

reform plan will ensure he's keeping a campaign promise to get americans back to work or plant can be summarized in three simple words jobs jobs jobs but what was supposed to be a serious day of policy discussion quickly devolved into a bitter fight with the governing republican party itself very hard for months trumps been alienating some of the most senior members of his own party on tuesday it got even more personal for two centers. senator bob corker who will leave the senate next year went on a blistering attack against trump before the president arrived on capitol hill i was one of those that hope that you know he would rise to the occasion as president and aspire to to lead our nation instead of dividing it the worst of it is going to be just the cold the facing if you will of our nation trump reacted almost immediately tweeting multiple times lashing out at corker as

a senator that couldn't get reelected not even for the position of dog catcher but it didn't end there late tuesday republican senator jeff flake announced he wouldn't run again in twenty eighteen for delivering a second attack against romney on the senate floor we were not made great as a country by indulging in or even exulting our worst impulses turning against ourselves glorifying in the things that divide us and calling fake things true and true things fake the white house denied the in-fighting is a distraction from the president's agenda the president he's a fighter we've said it many times before the people of this country didn't elect somebody to be weak they elected somebody to be strong and when he gets hit he's going to hit back in fact that's exactly what the president promised on the campaign trail to rid washington establishment politicians he believes do not deliver for america's middle class can really help get al-jazeera washington.

u.n. chief antonio tyrus is visiting central african republic in a bid to draw attention to the french our security situation thousands of people have lost their lives and off a million have been displaced in violence between muslim and christian groups which the u.n. says could descend into genocide tyrus is also expected to meet victims of sexual abuse to address down watching allegations against un peacekeepers nicholas haq has more from the capital bangui. his arrival here in central african republic is not only to show to people here that the international community cares about this country but also alerts the international community notably donors who are cutting funding in peacekeeping operation in the united states. to show donors that there's

a real risk of a genocide happening in this country like the un a chief has mentioned last week on twenty terrorist talked about what he believes as the start of and that cleansing so there are parts of this country the size of austria there are held by rebel militia groups the only people here who could do something about it is the united nations peacekeeping force twelve thousand men and the terrorists want nine hundred extra men that want to ensure the stability of the country just yet but it would allow the peacekeeper to react quickly in order to protect civilians that are being attacked now human rights organizations accused of these peacekeeping forces operating here. violating their mandate to protect people and abusing sexually young girls and young boys they're also accusing the

french troops that were here from two thousand and thirteen two thousand and sixteen doing much the same. some of the victims of this abuse take a look at this report. that. the desert was thirteen years old when her family took refuge by french military camp to escape the violence in her neighborhood. one of the soldiers to ask her to fetch some water inside the tent thinking she was safe she did as he asked to find soldiers grabbed me they forced themselves inside of me i screamed they strangled me and covered my mouth when they would die and they let me go. human rights organizations believe several children both boys and girls were raped by french soldiers who were there to protect them some were forced to have sex with dogs and even took pictures of the act friends opened an investigation but prosecutors dropped the cases saying there was not enough evidence to charge the soldiers involved the french troops left in late two thousand and sixty since the

violence and the displacement of people has intensified it's left to nation peacekeepers alone to bring back stability to this country with one mandate protecting the civilian population. but a un investigation revealed that some peacekeepers in central african republic are violating their mandate and sexually abusing girls. not her real name says she was gang raped by three congolese peacekeepers in june. i don't feel good i feel guilty i'm scared to talk about it i don't trust them anymore. human rights groups fear there are many cases of sexual abuse by soldiers that go unreported the new secretary general says he has zero tolerance for abuse the un is investigating cases and putting measures in place to prevent this from happening again but so far no one has been arrested or charged. if countries all organizations that claim to defend human rights and rights of women on able to bring justice the miss will

bring irreversible damage and may break the trust people have in these organizations there's some comfort from today from her father it's not your fault you're not to blame he says we love you some day we will get justice nicholas hawke . is the fourth of un peacekeepers. he has welcomed the un secretary general. peacekeepers to be deployed to the region . secretary general has you know blood for increase of our strength so because we're having a situation here that is a little bit alarming in the part of central african republic so particularly in the south east were you know killings are taking place so we cannot just

depicted as being a genocide is just that is our army and that we need to put in order to do an end and i think the increase of copper ability that we're going to be having we help person is popular the city and protector better but the population living in the area. the u.s. says it's considering sanctions against me i'm asked top military officials over a crackdown against range of muslims washington also says it is withdrawing military aid from army units and officers involved in the violence and it won't allow senior security officials to attend u.s. concert events the u.n. has accused me of ethnic cleansing the military denies the claims well ma'am the desh have agreed to work together to repatriate hundreds of thousands of

or him who fled violence in the northern rock kind states more than six hundred thousand ranger have crossed into bangladesh in the last two months alone but this florence living reports from young gone there's very little detail about how the repatch relations will take place. the end of one journey but the start of another struggle hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees have been making their way to bangladesh since the myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown in august the rohingya say they had no choice but to leave. we left our homeland because the people in rakhine were killing us they shot at us they took out hatchell and burnt our houses so we have come here they're safe here but life in bangladesh is difficult the camps are overflowing people here are entirely dependent on eight the country and humanitarian agencies are feeling the strain bangladesh and myanmar have now taken the first step towards repatterning

recent arrivals they've signed a memorandum of understanding but there's very little detail about how the process of returning rohingya to me and ma will take place myanmar leader aung san suu kyi in an address to the nation last month said myanmar was ready to start a very for cation process following the same principles as a nine hundred ninety three agreement with bangladesh under that deal right in your could return if they could prove their residency and had national identity cards or other relevant documents issued by the authorities but the myanmar military still a very powerful institution here said in a statement that the verification process would also have to be in accordance with the nineteen eighties citizenship law a law that's been used to deny citizenship to the radia. but after what they've lived through and many refugees have been given consistent accounts of murder and rape at the hands of myanmar military and buddhist mobs many were would choose not

to return to a country that seems intent on keeping them out florence. yangon. so to come here on al-jazeera strike. the french president egypt's leader abdel fattah el-sisi in paris human rights groups aren't impressed. and this is silly and beaches that once a paradise but are now reminders of the perils migrant face in the mediterranean. welcome back we'll start in a straight here where during the course of wednesday we're like to see most areas drive out of playa perhaps in southeastern areas but sydney's looking quite well now twenty eight degrees fine in townsville some of the temperatures right across western australia is also looking dry and fine heading into thursday not

a great deal of change are expected in sydney still in the upper twenty's far as temperatures are concerned so let's head across into news event and here we're looking at showers so if it's in the western side of both islands i think during the course of wednesday through thursday still some fairly strong winds about states coming in from the west or north west so western facing coast like to see the bulk of the share at seventy but some sunshine in oakland and highs of eighteen degrees now as we head up into northeastern parts of asia we've lost the remnants of typhoon louts way way way out in the north pacific but we have got a frontal system which is bringing some rain across southeastern parts of honshu in particular tokie tokie you might see some outbreaks of rain falling across the card a nice day in sapporo fine across the korean peninsula heading into thursday brighter conditions returning for tokyo so pleasant sunshine highs of nineteen and it should be a dry day in beijing with high sierra of eighteen. across

the globe breathtaking efforts to clean up the planet saturn are on the way in milan companies are turning to a radical solution a biodynamic cement that eats toxic pollution so this really is a living building that's constantly interacting with its environment earthrise trees it's the from two years of the battle for the environment trying to. pioneering a new technique to reduce emissions earthrise looks at new ways of preventing air pollution at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera and executive order by donald

trump says his administration is lifting a ban on refugees entering america but the u.s. president has ordered a ninety day review for refugees from eleven countries to allow for stricter vetting procedure for. the united nations secretary general antonio tyra's has arrived in central african republic for a four day visit the supervising efforts to keep the peace between rival factions roughly split between the christian and muslim populations. the u.s. says it's considering sanctions against top military officials over that targeting a range of muslims as well as withdrawing military aid the un has accused grandma's army of ethnic cleansing the military denies the claim. the chinese president's name and ideology have been outed to the constitution cementing xi jinping status as one of the most powerful leaders in decades the announcement was

made on the final day of the communist party conference a vote to stop ashis thoughts on socialism as one of the country's guiding principles means that any move to challenge him when that was seen as a threat to communist party rule. from. the chinese people in the chinese nation embrace brilliant prospects and a bright future living in such a great era we are all the more confident and proud and also feel the heavy weight of responsibility upon us so we must have the courage and resolve to build on the historic achievement made by the chinese people under the leadership of the chinese communists generation after generation and create new accomplishments befitting of this great stride forward to an ever promising future. the hong kong democracy activists joshua walling has vowed to continue his struggle against what he's calling or oratory and rules from china wang and his fellow campaigner nathan all

have been granted bail after they appealed against their sentence for illicitly illegal assembly in twenty fourteen they took part in a demonstration which helped spark hong kong's pro-democracy umbrella and. egypt's president has met his french counterpart in paris where the two pledged to strengthen economic and military ties emanuel has faced calls from rights groups to raise allegations of torture and political repression in egypt but matt hall insisted it is his place to lecture another leader david chaytor reports from paris . the egyptian and french president spent two hours talking over lunch at the lease a palace but lessons on human rights were not on the menu the fight against terrorism was the main course aides did say though individual cases of imprisoned activists were raised during the course of a private discussion between the two leaders but both men were challenged on human rights in egypt when it came to the press conference and that's when i believe in

the sovereignty of states and so in the same way that i want to accept lessons from any other leader on the heart to govern my country i do not give lessons to others . but must lead them digits some people refuse all violent practices dictatorship and disrespect for human rights but i'm responsible for a hundred million egyptian citizens in this unstable context which i'm talking about extremist ideology won't accept living with others in peace but it is very important to know that we do not make use of torture practices. why the. liberation of paris they are creating. they from. egypt is the biggest market in the middle east for france's weapons industry but some analysts believe it's the wrong approach to bring back stability to the region. if we can fear that in the short

term we will fight against terrorism but in a second phase there is a risk for destabilizing egypt people will naturally ask for more democracy. the human rights group reporters without borders staged a demonstration outside the hotel where dejection president is staying in the french capital they're used to him of wanting to mummify journalists to gag them and blindfold the head of the group said it was impossible today to be an independent and free journalist in egypt david chaytor al-jazeera pounds. and under there is demanding the release of its journalists who are here saying he's now been imprisoned in egypt for more than three hundred days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which al-jazeera strongly denies backward has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. and today

a conference is underway in sicily focusing on what's been described as the world's deadliest migrant crossing the organization for security and cooperation in europe says despite the risks people are still making the dangerous journey across the mediterranean to get to europe more than one hundred forty seven thousand people off thought to have crossed the mediterranean so far this year some areas and sicily are now a reminder of the risks people face trying to reach europe as hard reports. landscape of some of sicily's most secluded beaches is changing since the middle of the summer there are more and more abandoned boats coming from across the mediterranean. is an environmentalist who now spends his time documenting the arrivals of these migrant builds. change ninety nine percent of the boats arrive continues here those on board are mainly north africans so they are economic migrants who have no chance of getting residency that's why they

arrive in this way that it want to be recognized we know little about them and they have total freedom here. eighty boats are now stranded here including this one that could have never made it across the sea alone authorities suspect a larger mothership somewhere at sea this patching migrants in smaller numbers of people here call these then goes both it takes twenty four hours from the minute they leave tunisia to when they're arriving here in sicily and during that time these boats go completely undetected the minute they're arriving on shore the people on board this person as quickly as possible and nobody knows how many they are who they are where they come from or where they're going to. this is the usual pattern running along the beach towards the hills and from there onward to the mainland all this trying to evade security forces but with little or no control

there is concern that i still could be using this route to infiltrate europe i think it's. quite possible that these fighters will go somewhere. either go home or they will go elsewhere i think you better be attentive law enforcement agents will have to cope with this specific challenge and that's a huge challenge. security is also a concern for people like capello who lives near to beach and often sees groups of migrant walk by her own and most of it it's very worrying there are more and more people should be doing background checks to identify them the revival of the route came after italy and libya reach an agreement to stem departures from the libyan coast underlying the challenge for europe to face smugglers who continuously adapt to new realities on the ground but of the sicily. a team at

a london hospital has created medical history thanks to virtual reality technology it means colleagues on of the continents could take part in complex surgery and as a d.m. barber reports this could soon become a practice. i have now fled to the virtual space with my colleagues from around the world to discuss the case which is going on behind me in theaters some real time advice about the case preparing keyhole surgery on a patient at a london hospital and four surgeons are sharing their expertise but only one of them is actually here the others represented by blue avatars a colleagues in india in the us and us another london hospital they're all using the same type of virtual reality headset as the man leading the operation shafi ahmed place joining for everybody i'm going to go to the patient records i'm going to just open up the file it's what's called mental reality we can see things in that space so for example we can see the patients x. ray the phaeton scans the. filings from endoscopy for example of that this is spend

it in a bit of the yeah in front of you can actually pick them up and turn them around actually walk or they round things objects which actually kill your patient finding really adding to the interaction amongst those group individuals across the globe after the virtual consultation professor homage team successfully remove a tumor from the patient an elderly woman and. this lady needs a scope it worked in a collective me where the technology is clearly impressive and has major implications for the way surgery is carried out but this headset isn't cheap it costs around three thousand dollars the hope is that eventually it will be affordable around the world but it's going to come down to become cheaper and cheaper and accessible to everyone around the globe and that's the hope that we will have to make sure that we can share these technologies to make one a better place this head mounted next reality meeting as the new prince here

computing that over the next five or ten years is going to transform the world quite frankly in ways that the smartphone could never touch professor ahmed also hopes that this kind of technology will allow students in other countries to access first class training by a smartphone or computer this is a right call and. al-jazeera london. now a note on how to live a happy life penned by albert einstein has finished one point three million dollars at auction in jerusalem the nobel prize winning scientists was on a lecture tour in japan ninety five years ago when he wrote down his new things he gave it to a career in lieu of a tip he said vyse a calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness my son is more famous for his theory of relativity now it's a popular way for one british adventurer tom morgan has flown twenty five kilometers across south africa strapped to a camping chair and suspended from one hundred million balloons it reached heights

of more than two thousand meters in scenes from innocent of the smash pixar movie. mind of our top stories on al-jazeera and executive order by donald trump says his administration is lifting a ban on refugees entering america for the u.s. president has ordered a ninety day review for refugees from eleven countries to allow for stricter vetting procedures trump has also come from under attack from two senators from his own party bob corker of tennessee they will trump a bully who is utterly untruthful is a damaging rao as the president tries to coordinate republicans in congress to pass tax reforms meanwhile resign as senator jeff flake says he won't be standing for reelection and that he refuses to be complicit in trump's presidency. wrecked was

outrageous and on dignified behavior has become excused in countenance as telling it like appears when it is actually just reckless outrageous and dignified and dignified. and when such behavior emanates from the top of our government it is something else it is dangerous to a democracy the united nations secretary general antonio tara says in central african republic for a four day visit he supervising efforts to keep the peace between rival factions roughly split between the christian and muslim populations the un chief is also expected to meet victims of sexual abuse by un peacekeepers the us says it's considering sanctions against top military officials over there targeting a range of muslims washington also says it is withdrawing minute she ate from army units and offices involved in the violence and won't allow senior security

officials to attend u.s. sponsored ever the un has accused me of ethnic cleansing the minute she denies the claims. in china pings name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades announcement was made on final day of the party conference those are the top stories stay with us earthrise is next. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time zero.