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a de nuclear ization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world. wide ranging national security plan including dealing with the nuclear threat from north korea. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. what we witnessed here today in the security council isn't an insult it won't be forgotten washington's ambassador vetoes the u.n. resolution on lashes out at her colleagues. a tropical storm in the philippines kills at least thirty one people and dozens more are missing plus probably not because they think the african nation now. but that announcement so begins a new era and south african politics. china

has criticized the u.s. president for calling it a strategic rival when he outlined his new national security strategy on monday beijing is calling on donald trump to except it's growing and fluence our white house correspondent kimberly hocket reports from washington populism has been a hallmark of his presidency and donald trump again struck that note as he announced his strategy for u.s. national security is an approach he says began when voters rejected the security policies of his predecessors on january twentieth two thousand and seventeen i stood on the steps of the capitol to herald the day the people became the rulers of their nation again in a rambling and often disjointed address trump skimmed through the substance of his

plan including highlighting a desire to pursue an almost cold war like mindset identifying china and russia as key u.s. adversaries despite working with russia recently to avert an attack in st petersburg area sieved a call from president putin of russia thanking our country for the intel it. that r.c.a. was able to provide them there was no specific mention of the kremlin's meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election just allusions to china and russia as use of technology just shape a world counter to u.s. values. and only a vague mention of how trump intends to combat the ongoing nuclear threat to the united states by north korea america and its allies will take all necessary steps to achieve a denuclearization and ensure that this regime cannot threaten the world overall

trumps message was thin on details he's laying out this case of you know the world is really bad it was really bad before i got here and now i'm going to fix it so it's not really about the strategy itself so much as you know the person president from determined to fix these problems. and there was only one reference to the middle east in his remarks although his strategy specifically calls on countries to combat extremist groups like eisel locally it was a speech further highlighting one of the biggest challenges for the trumpet ministrations since taking office cohesion and foreign policy success it is a challenge that appears likely to continue given the divergent positions of trumps national security plan kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington foreign china's reaction from adrian brown who joins us live now from beijing so adrian china has some pretty strong words and pretty strong language in their reaction to this what are they saying there. well you know chinese

mandarins of been poring over this sixty eight page report and the softer new we got our first sort of formal response from china's government that came from the foreign ministry spokeswoman hard thing and she basically said that the united states needed to end its fabrications and distortions she said it was time to end the sort of zero sum game policy and in this sort of cold war ideology it was strong language much stronger language actually than donald trump used in his address let's hear more about what you have to say for any country it is futile for them to distort the facts or to smear china we urge you to your scientists dog distorting china strategic attention and abandon the zero sum game thinking in the cold cold war mindset this will only bring home to everyone

that you said pushing back against this zero sum game basically they're saying we can be rivals that doesn't mean it has we have to be enemies or it's an either or type thing. that's right they're saying we can agree to disagree you know there are many areas where we have mutual cooperation where we can help each other particularly you know like trade at the moment to a trade between the united states and china stood at fifty five billion dollars off last year some two point six million u.s. jobs are indirectly dependent on those on that trade and china saying let's not threaten all of that what china i think wants and the message is coming through loud and clear and it was certainly there when president xi jinping met president donald trump in beijing last month is this china wants parity to be recognized that it is now almost on the same level as the united states it's the world's second largest economy and it wants greater recognition from the united states you know

these economies are interwoven intertwined and along the way there is going to be friction they'll be friction next year and the year after but china is saying we don't have to be enemies ok brown live from beijing adrian thank you. palestinian leaders have condemned the u.s. veto of a united nations draft resolution on jerusalem status and would require president donald trump to withdraw his recognition of terrorism is israel's capital all of the other fourteen security council members voted in favor of the resolution i can i reports from united nations those against. the u.s. exercises its veto when the resolution fails and then at some bastard a sharpie attacks the fourteen other members of your security council that voted in favor what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult it won't be forgotten it's one more example of the united nations doing more harm than good in

addressing the israeli palestinian conflict the palestinian representative is adamant that the veto is a final confirmation that the u.s. cannot be regarded as an honest broker in the region. and this resolution affects the status of the united states as a peace broker and it actually stresses its bias and it undermines its role in any future peace process earlier ambassador after ambassador outlined why they would support the resolution the united kingdom will vote in favor of the egyptian text on jerusalem because it is in line with our longstanding position on jerusalem it is in line with previous security council resolutions israel the only other nation that backed the u.s. position they can vote on this issue again and again and again even a hundred more times but it will never change the fact that you lose

a limb eve has been it always will be the capital of israel but the matter is not going to end here even before the vote was taken palestinian leadership insisted that would take the matter to the u.n. general assembly where there is no veto such a resolution would be non-binding but it would highlight the massive division between the u.s. and the vast majority of other nations on the issue of jerusalem and the possibility too that the palestinians may now push for the international recognition of east jerusalem as the capital of palestine. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations margins he is the assistant minister for foreign affairs for palestine he says trump's decision will never be accepted on the international stage. the decision is null and void of the security council resolutions and the general assembly and the i.c.j.

advisable pinion and all other international instruments that has been dealing with this issue and spoke about it including the national law and the un charter which speaks about the illegal illegality of position of that italy by force or it is as it stands now is null and void the problem is that the us has as you are all in this peace process and this role the us has been given under the part of meters which are which include security council resolutions including resolution two forty two and the question here is what is the all of the us and the future role of the us in this peace process and i think it was confirmed yesterday once again by the us by stating that it doesn't want to play a role to have any future role in the peace process and it insists on abdicating its role yes vice president mike pence has postponed a trip to the middle east the white house says he needs to stay in washington for this week's vote on a major tax reform bill palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas and one of

egypt's top religious leaders have refused to meet pants following the u.s. decision on jerusalem. so lead on al-jazeera and they're spent in australia after place audio is linked on the arrest of an alleged north korean agent. plus how territorial conflict in southern mexico is forcing thousands of indigenous people to leave their homes. hello kai tak still with us got across the philippines knives over open water this in this massive circulation is not that obvious i have to say they weren't convinced they were actually lost it is in there it's heading was over water the next few days does mean some shows sunda still probably off to. so into the north

of borneo and probably on to the coast of vietnam leaving the philippines rather draw up it soon of course flooded now having taken much of the energy out of the atmosphere we know that the showers have been that big anywhere else nearby within a few hundred kilometers but they are still concentrating further science in indonesia jakarta is in line so mostly is java on body and pasta somaya where the heaviest rain is lucky to be outside the realms that circulation now says that the picture in australia is one of fluctuating temps is hugely once again that this is a cold front you recognises the familiarity of dropping ten degrees every three days of say so melbourne having hit thirty eight degrees on tuesday there floods in will be dropping about ten degrees possibly a bit more give the unit twenty three the chilled change on wednesday.

abandoned by the state social collectives are occupying space is among the people amended tend to tax working. in the first episode to take some. shows. to the. building in spain. at this time i'll just be around. here watching al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour china has criticized

the u.s. president for calling it a strategic rival as the outlined its new national security strategy on monday is calling on donald trump to accept its growing influence the palestinian leadership has condemned the u.s. veto of a united nations trafford solution on drucilla would require president all truck to withdraw his recognition of tourism as israel's capital the fourteen other security council members voted in favor of the resolution. and the philippines at least thirty one people have been killed and landslides caused by tropical storm kai tak rescuers are trying to find forty others still missing a state of emergency has been declared to me. well president will be going to there was here yesterday he brought with him members of a cabinet and he promised a point we had deliberation and aid for those who have been affected by this typo and he had a long and winding beach where he talked about how we deeply connected the part of

the philippines where nick mother with originally from but we've also spoken to relatives survivors and also go looking for their loved ones will all go that particular day and what they want is more than just a promise they want action because they know that this tragedy well hold them back even more typhoon kate back swept through eastern philippines bringing more than two months worth of rain it triggered landslides that this joy druid's and bridges many communities are now cut off without electricity and running water heavy rains have submerged houses stranded passengers and closed airports and seaports all across the science region many people here have lost their homes and their livelihood. he said it is and we were not able to save anything nothing not even our close the flood car was so strong it reached up to watch us we just flowed right away several towns in the eastern part of the philippines are now under the

state of emergency what i want to know you while we look like a tornado many tornadoes do you see that area over there that used to be a rice field now it's all gone. there's spanish local officials say supplies of food and medicines are running out and for many. is a reminder of a painful past in november two thousand and thirteen typhoon haiyan swept through the entire province of late to at least a thousand people were killed and many more were either injured or missing destroyed everything in its back roads homes all wiped out in an instant that destruction has made life even more difficult for people who are already impoverished even before haiyan struck more than four years on they have barely recovered and with typhoon destruction they know that it will be a difficult few weeks ahead. and we're in the small town of about where we joined

the search rescue and the table operations with volunteers all afternoon right behind me you can see that. backhoes are still trying to help clear the roads for rescuers to be able to manually dig through the wreckage but survivors are saying here that they have already lost hope that they will still be able to find their loved ones i just want to tell you that the smell of rotting human flesh here is quite overwhelming but for those survivors looking for their loved ones they see that as a hopeful sign that for some reason their loved ones are still here and they will be able to at least give them a proper burial christmas season is the most important time for families here in the philippines and they know that this will be a very difficult one very much for it to similar to what happened to them when type one how yon's chalk on the bank were two thousand and thirteen as well that left more than eight thousand people dead in this region investigators and the usa

a train that derailed in washington state was speeding before it came off the tracks killing at least three people a data recorder recovered from the wreckage shows it was traveling one hundred thirty kilometers per hour and a fifty kilometer per hour zone sharer tons of reports. train five zero one was traveling from seattle to portland when it derailed near the town of dupont sixty four kilometers south of its origin between seven thirty and seven forty am local time seventy eight passengers and five crew members were aboard several carriages dangled from a bridge crossing interstate five with some falling on to the ground below multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks and went down onto the road the people that were in all the vehicles even though when you see the pictures it's pretty horrific at this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal the bagels are all contained to the train as far as the numbers go they're still working on that it was the in order to run for the high speed train service the national transportation safety board. is investigating in response to the

incident president trump tweeted first to make the case for his long promised infrastructure program the train accident that just occurred in dupont washington shows more than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly he said seven trillion dollars spent in the middle east while i roads bridges tunnels railways and more crumble not for long and then ten minutes later he sent his condolences to the victims of particular interest dash cam video may reveal whether there was a blockage on the line in addition investigators will examine whether the track of the misaligned whether there was any tampering with the rail line or whether the high speed technology had suffered a failure she have a tendency al-jazeera. south africa's ruling a and say party has announced its new later cyril ramaphosa who's currently the deputy president will take over from president jacob zuma he defeated sumus ex-wife in the vote at party conference tanya page reports in johannesburg. because as the new president of the

african nation now there's. several of them a poster supporters erupted into cheers as he was led to the stage they've penned the hopes of the african national congress and the country on him i'm so happy about the president because the president has been the member of the n.a.c. the debris the president has been in the business sector for a very long time. i'm sure during the close in the crisis that we have economy clearly is a country will have some improvements and i'm of course a has a hit for business and that could be what's needed to get the economy back on track so millions of unemployed south africans can have hope he helped write the constitution and helped negotiate the peaceful transition to democracy from apartheid skills he will need as the top six new a.n.c. officials on to all his allies these are the food outcomes for the organization

i think we have good widespread it is sad to create a unique to the a.n.c. . but i'm opposed to it here it's a deeply divided and see one split between the politics of petron age of president zuma who said passively as the results were announced and those who feel the a.n.c. has lost its way prison soon this tenure has been tarnished by controversy it was the rape charge he was acquitted of and hundreds of corruption charges related to a multi-million dollar deal it will take a lot to undo the damage to the party of nelson mandela so ramaphosa campaigned on an empty corruption message policy. a fresh start and a clean up more transparent style of governance and face to all his business and truman to build a stronger economy to create millions of desperately needed jobs perhaps adama poses flyable and zuma the current president ex-wife was too tainted by association

with zuma even her track record as a strong politician in her own right with a passion to promote the needs of the country's poor wasn't enough but saddam opposes tosk is enormous unite a divided a.n.c. and prevent its slide in support from the coming terminal ahead of the two thousand and nineteen general election tanya page. a british man has been arrested after driving through a military checkpoint at a bases by the u.s. air force he got close to an aircraft at royal air force base in suffolk american service members fired shots in the base was temporarily put on lockdown police are treating the instant as trespass dozens of journalists have been killed the share hundreds more thrown in prison the latest annual report from reporters without borders explores their experiences especially in war zones syria and mexico are among the most dangerous places for journalists to work in a park or reports from london the annual round up by reporters without borders

paints a bleak picture of media safety and freedom around the world sixty five journalists have been killed this year most while working in their own countries three hundred twenty six of being detained fifty four being held hostage and to a missing. syria remains the world's deadliest country for journalists twelve have been killed this year reporting on the conflict but close behind is mexico with eleven killed. many journalists such as having a valdez cut down on us were murdered for their coverage of the drugs trade and organized crime most of these murders remain unpunished of the fifty four journalists being held hostage many are being held by armed groups such as i saw in the middle east. ten women journalists were among those killed this year compared to five last year. was murdered by

a car bomb in malta despite receiving threats she continued to denounced alleged government corruption so if we look at bigger pictures of all journalists killed this year sixty percent deliberately targeted because of that was less the other forty percent were killed while in the field sort of doing their jobs but when we look at the female journalists that were targeted nearly all of them were specifically into liberally targeted of the three hundred twenty six to ten journalists more than half are being held in only five countries vietnam iran syria turkey and top of the list china many without any solid charge this is the case for al-jazeera as mahmoud a sane arrested in egypt a year ago while on holiday the detention was one of a string of arrest by the egyptian authorities targeting al jazeera staff in the country reporters without borders findings are alarming but remarkably the number of journalists killed this year is at its lowest in fourteen years better safety

training and intensive lobbying by campaign group so helped but in many cases the downward trend is a result of journalists simply leaving the world's most dangerous places and in the absence of journalists vital voices remain silent leave barca al-jazeera london. a turkish court has ordered the release of a german journalist who's accused of publishing anti-government propaganda. was arrested in april while working for a turkish news agency she and five others have been released on bail pending the outcome of their trial. thousands of indigenous people in southern mexico have been displaced because of a territorial conflict at least eleven people have died of cold and hunger and our apollo reports on the state of chap us. these are the prayers of desperation by so people who have been internally displaced they are the victims of a decades long dispute over land boundaries between the neighboring municipalities

of chinelo until she was done father marcello a member of a nearby parish says that in recent months hundreds of families and we've done have been driven from their homes by armed groups a dozen houses have been burned and others sprayed by gunfire and they know. they block the road. for the armed groups hide and then they shoot hearing gunshots at night is a form of psychological control people. a child has died a two year old who fell sick from exposure their grieving parents say they have nowhere left to go. my daughter became sick when we ran through the woods and i fell down i felt helpless my daughter died i feel the pain in my soul. many of the people living outdoors have coughs and colds and although chelsea has done was already one of the poorest places in mexico living under these conditions for almost two months has pushed indigenous communities to the point of exhaustion

to make matters worse the main access roads to and from chad to be done were cut off and although passage has been restored human rights observers from the government say the situation still demands urgent action in the losing that we are calling for humanitarian assistance to guarantee food and to lessen the risk to people's integrity and lives. a federal court recently issued a ruling aimed at settling the dispute so its people however see the decision hasn't lessened tensions there are over five thousand people displaced across the mountains of tennessee we've done the men women and children who are staying at this camp are only facing hunger and illness they say they live in a state of terror too afraid to return to their homes international organizations like unicef have called it unacceptable for children to continue living under such precarious conditions and while the government of chiapas says that aid and security is being provided many here worry the humanitarian crisis will drag on my

nerves up a little. to be done mexico qatar has celebrated its national day with a large freight of the country's armed forces icons as a six month long political crisis in the gulf shows no sign of ending. parts from doha. jubilant crowds filled the bill howard to front among the last couple of celebrated its national day. as an event was marked by a display of military might both in the air and on the ground a country house commemorated december eighteenth since its independence in one nine hundred seventy one but never with such magnitude. these are extraordinary times. three of qatar gulf neighbors saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind along with egypt severed their diplomatic ties with it and imposed an air land and sea blockade they accused qatar of being too close to iran and of sponsoring

terrorism. has vehemently denied those accusations but instead of head to qatar many believe some good house come from the ongoing diplomatic crisis and some say on all since the fifth of june a national unity has increased since their every day is a national day. and lines are open from everywhere in the world instead of getting our needs from saudi in dubai things have changed the whole world is directly open to get it so they can get them and we wish the blockade took place a long time ago new business opportunities new events new projects started which i witnessed myself after all something good has come out of this bad situation we need the country to depend on itself more than before. and the logic spotted communities have taken part in unprecedented numbers they've organized sports uncomfortable events to market asian for qatar to lead this it's yet another sign of a healthy society that's capable of winning not just the support of its own citizens

but also the hearts and minds of its foreign guests. the blockade has pushed qatar to invest in local production and create a new economy and military partnerships monday's celebrations were meant to send a powerful message to the blockading come. because. they were head to alphabet set to be digitized allowing it to be used in text messages and emails and experts say it's a welcome move for me and persecuted minority which had no written script until the bank hundred eighty s. so it's being added to the unicode standard system computing industry standard for digital text researchers hope that change will help preserve an important symbol of friendship culture and identity.

take a look at the headlines on al-jazeera china has criticized the u.s. president for calling it a strategic rival as he outlined his new national security strategy on monday beijing is calling on donald trump to accept its growing influence. for any country it is futile for them to distort the facts or to smear china. distorting china's strategic attention and abandon the zero sum game thinking in the cold cold war mind sax this will only bring home to everyone palestinian leadership has the u.s. veto of a united nations trough resolution. but of require president onil trump to withdraw his recognition of tourism as israel's capital the fourteen other security council members voted in favor of the resolution describing the vote as an insult and an embarrassment to the u.n. u.s.

ambassador nikki haley said america would be told by anyone where to put its embassy. and the philippines at least thirty one people have been killed in landslides caused by tropical storm kai tak rescuers are trying to find forty others who are missing a state of emergency has been declared. that's a gator in the usa a train that derailed in washington state was speeding before it came off the tracks killing at least three people and injuring dozens more a data recorder has been recovered from the wreckage and it shows the train was traveling one hundred thirty kilometers per hour at a fifty kilometer per hour zone the amtrak train was making its inaugural journey when it too railed and fell onto a busy interstate below place in australia have accidentally lifestream details about plans for the arrest of an alleged north korean agent days before he was apprehended australian resident chandan choice was arrested in sydney on saturday after allegedly trying to sell missile components and coal on behalf of pyongyang

on the black market. south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has announced its new leader cyril ramaphosa is currently at the deputy president and will take over from president jacob zuma defeated seumas ex-wife and a vote at the party conference. those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after architecture keep it or. from toxic milk to meet food standards continue to rock china as the world turns to it for its foods one when he goes undercover to expose behaving in a system geared for profit when used at this time i know the zero. architect has own ways to find the human. from the simplest struck to the greatest monument. rebellion is on the way. led by a new breed of hockey tank that puts people on the floor i don't.