witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. a man consumed by hate and a twisted ideology u.s. officials say the man believed to be behind tuesday's attack in new york had links to eisele. so we want to immediately work with congress on the diversity

lottery program or terminating it u.s. president a crackdown on immigration after the asylum seekers charged over the worst attack in new york since nine eleven. hello i'm down this is you from doha also coming up. mr trump do your job. lives are at stake tough words and sound ones man six weeks after hurricane maria slammed into puerto rico. and a warm welcome canada boosts immigration a million over the next three years. the man accused of tuesday's truck attack in new york city has appeared in court in a wheelchair immigrant safe side of his face in terror charges which could bring

the death penalty police say he killed eight people when he steered a pickup truck into a lane filled with cyclists and pedestrians he was shot by police at the scene kristen sweeney has more from new york. the complaint filed in federal court in manhattan list two charges against twenty nine year olds. they include providing material support to a terrorist organization and using a vehicle to cause the death of pedestrians we know now from the court documents and from the prosecutor that. waived his right to self a criminal. and agreeing to talk with investigators from his hospital bed where he is recovering from surgery and gunshot wounds to his abdomen he told investigators that he did in fact the. an inspiration for my soul and they found thousands of eisel videos on his cell phone he also said that he chose hollowing to conduct this attack because he knew that there would be more people out on the streets right

behind me here that's where that attack took place and it's still closed down in part for investigation now acting attorney acting u.s. attorney june kim says that he had been planning this attack for months so a pov allegedly admitted that he was inspired to commit the attack by the isis videos he watched and had been planning this attack for two months he also admitted that he had rented a truck on october twenty second in practice to practice the turns he would make. on his halloween halloween day attack now authorities have also located a second man who they are describing as a person of interest his name is mohamed here. he is also an uzbek national he was taken into custody shortly after authorities announced that they were looking for him they have him in their custody but they say that they are

interested in learning more from the public if the public has any information about either of these two men or any information about what happened on that day they're asked to come forward and share it in all three days of mourning have been declared in result here that's the argentinian city which is home to five of the victims the reason i went to a company vigil for the men who were here this is about three hundred meters away from one of societies and we're of the school the argentinean victims of the new york city attended to this is the place where they became friends for life five argentinean tourists were killed in tuesday's attack in new york city one of them remains in the hospital they travel to new york to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their graduation and something that a pang they had planned for a very long time that they dreamt of also they used to get together to remember old times they want to help one another in order to travel to new york city to carry

out a celebration that ended up in tragedy at this point the argentinean government is trying to assist the victims but also help the relatives who are still trying to travel to new york studio and try to make it fair and also sort out the details to repatriate the bodies right here so we're not. condemned to be attacked and you also say that these are times that one cannot be gray the best times the governments around the world need to unite to fight against terrorism donald trump's reaction to the attack was to call for an end to the visa program that let the suspect into the u.s. the president describes. as an animal and says it's time to get less politically correct to the health report. what we have right now is a joke. it's a laughing stock for donald trump the new york attack is justification enough to

launch a radical overhaul of america's immigration system you have to get much less politically correct we have to get tough we have to get smart we have to do what's right to protect our citizens on twitter we u.s. president said liberal immigration policies supported by one of his political foes a top democratic senator set in motion the attack the terrorist came into our country through what is called the diversity visa lottery program a chuck schumer beauty i want merit based. the twenty nine year old whose back national allegedly behind tuesday's attack came to the united states legally in twenty ten after the program designed to expand entry from countries with low rates of immigration to the united states that send him to get no i would certainly consider that yes. he's back to stand is a u.s. ally and it's immigrants are considered low risk by the u.s. state department did she were was

a democratic member of congress who helped initiate the program in the one nine hundred ninety s. but it was signed into law by our republican president george h.w. bush the president ordered to stop tweeting and start leading the american people long for leadership not divisiveness not finger pointing not name calling and activists say ending the lottery program proves the trumpet ministration is once again portraying immigrants as a national security risk president trump is trying to further their own agenda that has been anti immigrant and anti refugee and anti muslim from the very beginning of his campaign did campaign days and so when he threw this opportunity to promote this agenda he's going to take it still the white house maintains there is a correlation between immigration and what happened in new york and the way to stop it is through stepped up extreme vetting it's the lowest level of criteria that any part of our immigration system has is through the lottery system and so to try to

argue that this is a system that thoroughly vets people it's just shows a total lack of understanding and public support does not appear to support the president in spite of the political atmosphere a majority of americans according to most polls believe that legal immigration benefits the united states can really help get al jazeera washington the u.k. defense secretary has quit amid a developing scandal of a sexual harassment at westminster michael fallon says his behavior may have fallen short of the standards expected of the u.k.'s military he's been accused of improper conduct towards a journalist fifteen years ago. in recent days allegations have been made about n.p.c. conduct including my own many of these allegations have been false but i realize that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have the honor to represent i have reflected in our my position

in government and i am therefore resigning as defense secretary another two thousand range of minority muslims have crossed into bangladesh fleeing with the un's called ethnic cleansing and me and mine are starving and exhausted they waited muddy fields on the border before the bangladesh military let them cross in the latest arrivals and a mass exodus of ranger more than six hundred thousand people have fled me in mass rakhine state since august but about ten thousand other refugees are stranded in and in no man's land between the two countries mostly has more from young gone. thousands of ranger refugees are stranded near the border with bangladesh waiting for permission from bangladeshi border guards to be allowed into the country now and this is not unusual as bangladeshi authorities have the right to vet people before they're allowed to enter the country but this serves to underscore just how difficult conditions are in northern rakhine state where thousands are still making

the journey into bangladesh many of them would have heard from friends and relatives just how difficult the journey is into take several days or even weeks this track overland and just how dire conditions are in the refugee camps in bangladesh yet they're still making the decision to leave behind their homes and property now and their reasons for leaving are several but they're sensually the same villages we've spoken to in northern rakhine state say they've heard about how neighboring villages were burned to the ground and they were afraid they would be next some said that they were unable to go to the fields and they were unable to feed themselves others said they've seen their property looted before their eyes by replying but it's mobs so these are the decisions driving this ongoing exodus at this current stage the us congress is beginning to examine the official response to hurricane maria six weeks after the storm devastated the territory of puerto rico but there are accusations that only want to hear from those who gave trump's

administration a positive review should have a chance he reports from washington d.c. . six weeks to the day after hurricane maria devastated put a rico the mayor of san juan was scheduled to be giving testimony at a congressional hearing on the u.s. government's response not holding this press conference in a corridor on capitol hill thank you very much but the hearing was scrapped by republicans once they heard that a democratic congressman had invited the outspoken man to testify why do you think the republicans canceled today's hearings. i don't know the fact is that they did not the fact is that with that they tried to silence the voice. and the voices that i represent and they did not accomplish and i think they know it's very difficult to. have a dialogue look good when actions. so they know they haven't done. gov rick how to resale received a very different reception in washington d.c.

he was invited to the white house where he thanked donald trump for his leadership the president appeared satisfied. how would you rate the way. i care was a ten however it was clear that when the president. wouldn't have agreed in her testimony to congress president trump again in a reality that is just. his own doing well i was to water with human excrement and sleeping on a cot. in san juan he was playing in mar-a lago so. from that perspective it's not that you don't get it said you don't want to get the congressman who invited mccready's is disappointed. witness could tell the story. we offer. but should we draw any conclusions from the fact that when they heard about the invitation they counsel the entire hearing. if they heard.

imitation and. all money. leads me to believe they didn't want to hear. but both the congressman and the mare are adamant that this is not over hence the older zero washington time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back the liver disease often seen in impoverished countries is hitting california's homeless community plus. palestinians parade an effigy of alva balfour as protests mark the run up to the centenary of his historic declaration more in that state. now got really cold and snowy any about twenty four maybe forty eight hours ago the

snow center where the storms are disappearing into the northeast corner of the store massive cloud wall of the place pictures out of michigan wisconsin new york state all show the first proper significant fall as you can see this last bit is near buffalo now it stopped snowing after the most part temperatures are slowly rising and you can see that chicago is a tad interoffice at thirteen but the blue shade is there to dakotas back towards montana and i think they'll stay that way for the next day or so it's really cold in calgary down to minus ten minus two in winnipeg and then the contrast to say the double figures the other way round two it took positives thirteen to fifteen chicago to draw on to ask for the weather well. cloud maybe snowcat on the canadian side of the border still a lot of store in b.c. british columbia on notice it just comes over the border here otherwise it's quiet looking weather and it's gone remarkably warm again twenty nine in dallas not the eastern side of the u.s. twenty one small twenty four in washington twenty one in new york and given the

time of year thirteen in toronto eleven in ottawa with the rain it will be a little bit unusual but that's how we see it the next day or so. in colombia transforming urban waste into building long years for same for the west blasting the war we can finish. in just ten years and in singapore you go farms and living building anything you do on land on the ground it doesn't make sense to do that on a building you know can we make of not just decorative that can we make it biologically productive earthrise discovers cutting edge solutions for sustainable city at this time.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the man accused of tuesday's truck attack in new york city has appeared in court in a wheelchair was back immigrants. is facing terror related charges police say he killed eight people when he steered a pickup truck into a lane filled with cyclists and pedestrians. the u.k. defense secretary has quit following a growing scandal of a sexual harassment at westminster like a fallen says his behavior may have fallen short of the standards expected of the u.k. military. another two thousand range of minority muslims have crossed into bangladesh fleeing what the u.n. has called ethnic cleansing in the end but up to ten thousand more are stuck close to the border an additional guard say they want to that them before they're allowed to enter. now there's been a shooting at a heightened market in the u.s.

state of colorado police say two men were killed in a woman injured after shots were fired at a wal-mart store happen in the city of thornton that's just northeast of denver police say there's no active shooter. now in the u.s. some cities in california are struggling to respond to an outbreak of hepatitis a twenty people have died in the outbreaks the west of its kind in the u.s. in twenty years homeless people are mung those west affected and as jacob reports from san diego it may be a side effect of rising house prices. might who asked that we not show his face says he blames only him self for being homeless i knew intellectually in the back of my mind this money was going to run out but he blames homelessness for giving him hepatitis a my had a happy day you know and i didn't pick that up and you know it's transferred through legal material. san diego is best known for its beaches and big money but with average rent at an all time high of almost two thousand dollars

a month between five thousand and seven thousand people are homeless here and now more than nineteen have died from the liver disease most often seen in impoverished rural communities we think that environmental sanitation is really the key factor that's causing this outbreak so for homeless individuals who are living in encampments and don't have access to hand washing or toilet facilities if they're infected with the virus and don't have a place where they can safely go to the bathroom or wash their hands after using the bathroom then when they come back to that camp then they can easily in fact. it's not clear how anyone can stay clean enough to avoid infection. this is the baseball stadium here in san diego and until recently it was the one place that the homeless population had to use a public restroom but that restroom is now closed and people who run shelters here have told us that when they've tried to set up temporary facilities on their

grounds even on church grounds the city comes and pulls them out from being in adequately sanitary and on top of violence and danger and all of the fear of being homeless just taking care of basic. needs is almost impossible in a city. with the sound of high rise construction all around us mike says life is only getting harder it's tough enough out here if you're twenty eight and i'm fifty eight san diego officials say they're spraying bleach and offering vaccines but even a short walk around the city reveals that its most desperate will need more than that jake aboard al-jazeera. thousands of people have gathered in argentina demanding answers over the death of activist santiago maldonado he went missing in august in a confrontation between police and indigenous rights and his body was found in a river two months later the disappearance led to widespread protest his brother sergio blames the government and has criticized president. for the handling of the

case. saudi arabia says it's investigating an air strike in yemen is no than saddam province which killed at least twenty six people coalition planes are reported to have struck a hotel in a market in the so hard district near the saudi border it's a stronghold for who the rebels the saudi led military alliance launched an air campaign against the who these twenty fifteen is supporting yemen's government and . the u.s. has agreed to a deal worth more than a billion dollars to service qatar's f. fifteen fighter jets it includes a new maintenance and training center with improved cyber security qatar's home to the largest u.s. military base in the middle east. explosion that a thermal power plant in northern india has killed at least sixteen people police say a pipe exploded at the plant in spewing hot ash all of the workers at least eight people have been killed in a bomb blast in afghanistan their bus caught fire when a fuel tanker exploded in northern part of one province twenty seven people were

injured in the provincial capital. canada's government says it will welcome nearly a million immigrants seven the next three years that's a boost of more than ten percent on current figures the plan was announced by immigration minister ahmed hussein who was born in somalia dialect has more from toronto already more welcoming of immigrants than many other countries canada is opening its doors even wider plans to admit more than three hundred forty thousand people a year up from roughly three hundred thousand now were announced in parliament by immigration minister ahmed hussein who came to canada from somalia in one thousand nine hundred three once this was a former british colony home mostly to people of european origin today especially in cities it's one of the most diverse places in the world recently released census figures say more than a fifth of canadians were born outside the country most of come under a merit based system that rates education and job skills highly once accepted

they're allowed to bring close family here in the shopping malls and neighborhoods around canada's largest city is where the transformative effect of immigration can be seen most vividly and with the government's plans to bring in even more people from around the world over the next three years and beyond those changes will be set to continue economists and policymakers have long argued that even more immigration is crucial for canada's economy as it settled population ages and has fewer children the federal government is taking steps towards recognising that daniel lak al-jazeera toronto one of catalonia sacked ministers is that a hostile reception from pro union supporters in spain's capital amman about effect is one of fourteen members of the dissolved government has been summoned to face possible rebellion charges by a court in madrid and we have to form a catalan president who didn't want says he's in brussels and isn't expected to

return. britain and israel will be celebrating the centenary of the balfour declaration in the coming hours it marks the day foreign secretary lord balfour pledged to help establish a jewish homeland in palestine israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to the u.k. to meet prime minister to resign may we will have attended a dinner to mark the anniversary in his speech may is expected to call a peace deal based on a two state solution between israel and palestine. the balfour declaration is a significant event in the history of zionism and will mark this at an important event thursday in london in addition to marking this is storable event i will have important diplomatic and economic meetings i will meet with u.k. prime minister to reason may and foreign secretary boris johnson in the meeting with reason may i intend to raise concrete proposals on how to deal with the failures of a nuclear agreement with iran well thousands of palestinians were forced to flee

their homes as a result of the balfour declaration smith met one man in gaza who remembers the final years of the british mandate of palestine at the age of ninety four mohammed al behave is almost as old as the british commonwealth cemetery in gaza it's the final resting place for thousands of soldiers killed as they fought for empire in one nine hundred seventeen and then in the second world war a permanent reminder of britain's pivotal role in shaping the destiny of today's palestinians. from the beginning the british mandate it was jews they supplied him with everything including weapons tanks food everything they put pressure on us the law was that if a single bullet was found in the hands of a palestinian he would be hanged immediately. mohammed fought with other palestinians against the zionist groups that attacked the villages before the creation of israel. we didn't really know what balfour meant only later did

we realized he'd been given a national home to the jews at the time we were not really able to win the war and with the jewish groups simply britain fait with the jews and gave them our lands to establish their own state and we had no other choice but to flee and leave our lands mohammed would be among the seven hundred thousand palestinians who fled walked in one thousand nine hundred forty eight had just become israel. one hundred years after the promises made by the wall for the military being behind our land our homes our farms we were refugees depending on food no electricity no water under siege. as mohammad think they'll ever be peace here they killed us left us hungry. refugee how can there be peace he asks. but it's made al-jazeera gaza well normal finkelstein is a political analyst specializing in the israel palestine conflict he says it's

highly unlikely that britain will ever apologize for the balfour declaration. or two. about. what practical effect would that have. zero israel. or for that matter. it's not going to happen. the fact of the matter is the past year. twenty seventeen was also the fiftieth anniversary of israel's occupation of the west bank east jerusalem and gaza that's a lawyer who took issue israel it's a done deal but the occupation as a life political issue whether the palestinian authority due in june this past year come mark the occupation it exactly nothing or any demonstrations there were

no the instructions whenever it comes to practical political work which can actually have an effect on real life suffering the palestinian authority does nothing but the simple reason that it's paid for by the united states and israel these are collaborators karrar and that collaborators and so they wait for these symbolic meaningless moments to show their or our commitment to the coolers and in bethlehem the british artist banksy has not the anniversary in his own unique way as there was time for set records. in the occupied west bank a twisted version of a british street party to mark the hundred year legacy of the balfour declaration it's the work of street artist banksy outside his bethlehem the guests of honor

palestinian children from nearby refugee camps and her majesty queen elizabeth the second sort of. sort of saying sorry. that has supported the national aspirations of a people who'd suffered discrimination and violence for hundreds of years the wording of the declaration contained a disparity that's borne bitter fruit in the hundred years since promising a national home for the then and future jewish immigrants while only safeguarding or committing to the civil and religious rights of the non jews who lived in palestine of the time ninety percent of the population. on the other side of the separation barrier students and academics at hebrew university debate its consequences it was one in mongar many and indeed a very important thing for the corporation but nevertheless what happened on the garland was even more important what happened on the ground happened under the all

forty of the british mandate which began a year after the declaration in centers like jaffa palestinian economic and cultural life emerging from autumn and rule was beginning to flourish at the same time jewish immigration accelerated the zionist project already underway now have the support of a major nation to do i think you this is the beginning of israel and also the beginning of the recognition of israel by the world wide net of the balfour declaration deprive many of their property and i'm one of them i mean refugee i live in she fled refugee camp i can't go back to my original village. by the one nine hundred forty s. britain worried about a forcible creation of a jewish state was attempting to hold back jewish immigration now the zionists targeted the british ninety one people were killed in the bombing of mandate headquarters at jerusalem's king david hotel. post-holocaust glowed in sympathy for the jewish cause surged in one hundred forty eight when the british withdrew the state of israel was declared. the palestinians that moment is remembered as the

nakba. when hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes and land students at those eight university in the occupied west bank say it all began with balfour. we won't settle for an apology for ten what you made us lose then we'll accept the apology. and in bethlehem palestinian protesters weren't settling for british commemoration no matter how satirical for them the centuries since the balfour declaration has been one of displacement disposition and occupation force it better have in the occupied west bank. own is of course on our website there were days on his screen the address. recount of the top stories here on al-jazeera the man accused of tuesday's truck

attack in new york city has appeared in court in a wheelchair was back immigrant syphon a side pot is facing terror late in charges police say he killed eight people in a pickup truck into the lane filled with cyclists and pedestrians prosecutors say confessed to being inspired by i still. say parv allegedly admitted that he was inspired to commit the attack by the isis video as he watched and had been planning this attack for two months he also admitted that he had rented a truck on october twenty second in practice to practice the turns he would make. on his halloween day attack well as a result of the attack u.s. president donald trump says he plans to end the diversity visa lottery the suspect and use the program to illegally enter the u.s. in twenty ten meanwhile a vigils been held in the argentinian city of result for the victims of tuesday's attack five argentinians were among those killed they travelled to new york to

celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of this school graduation they're all from result of the city's declared three days of mourning. the u.k. defense secretary has quit following a growing scandal over sexual harassment at westminster michael fallon says his behavior may have fallen short of the standards expected of the u.k.'s military he's been accused of improper conduct towards a journalist fifteen years ago. another two thousand range of muslims have crossed into bangladesh fleeing what the un has called ethnic cleansing in myanmar but up to ten thousand more are stuck close to the border bangladeshi guard say they want to vet them before they were allowed to enter. britain and israel will be celebrating the centenary of the balfour declaration in the coming hours that's when the foreign set free lord of the balfour pledge to help establish a jewish homeland in palestine israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to the u.k. to meet prime minister to resign made to mark the anniversary in her speech may is

expected to call for a peace deal between israel and palestine based on a two state solution. but those are the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera after earth right station thanks for watching by phone off. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter. is iraq.