you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us on inside. of it in the morning and says i want to cover the world and this is a dialogue that could be worth leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the conversation at this time on al-jazeera. the tax cuts jobs passed. the u.s.

congress passes the most sweeping tax overhaul bill in more than three decades allowing donald trump to tout his first victory. i know there are more kyle this is al jazeera live from toe also coming up we will market share you're absolutely we're going to the nuclear weapons the issue. fourteen countries to meet in canada next month to discuss the north korean nuclear crisis. tropical storm kai tak heads for vietnam after leaving at least forty three people dead in the philippines. and we mark a year in captivity for our colleague who say. the u.s. senate has passed a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill. the tax cut and

jobs act is passed. this brings present donald trump one step closer to his but significant left the victory the bill is the first major rewrite of the tax code in milton thirty his it will now be sent back to the house of representatives for a final vote later on when i say after eight straight years of slow growth and under performance america is ready to take on a coupled with a regulatory reforms that have already been implemented by the administration we now a comprehensive tax reform major middle class tax relief and making our businesses both large and small more competitive around the world well donald trump has tweeted about the bill saying the united states senate just passed the biggest in history tax cut and reform bill terrible individual mandates back obamacare repealed goes to the house tomorrow morning for the final vote as a proof there will be a news conference at the white house at approximately one pm that's eighteen g.m.t.

give us on that has more for us from new york. this tax overhaul bill was extremely contentious and you could see that when the senate was finally voting just a little bit before one am there were protests that broke out in the senate gallery protesters saying kill the bill kill the bill in fact vice president mike pence who is presiding over the session had to call a call the gallery into order several times to have the protesters removed but nevertheless the bill will move forward it did pass by fifty one to forty eight a long strong partisan lines and this is a huge victory for president donald trump and also for the republicans it's the first legislative victory from donald trump since becoming president and also for the republicans they say that this will spurn economic growth in the u.s. for years to come however there were protesters and there are

a lot of people in the country that are very much against this bill in fact the latest polls show that fifty five percent of americans were against it primarily because they say it is going to mostly cut taxes on corporate america and benefit the top one percent of earners in america at the expense of the middle class and the working poor because the tax cuts for the middle class and working poor are just temporary and they're eventually going to go away that's not the case for the corporate tax cuts also this bill will add more than one point four trillion dollars to the national debt what's next on wednesday the house of representatives will do one final vote on this bill they actually voted on it tuesday night however because of a provisional mistake they have to reboot on wednesday but it's expected that once again the house of representatives will also approve this at which point it will then go to donald trump and he will then sign it. u.s.

is again suggesting iran is supplying weapons to yemen's hoofy rebels after a ballistic missile was intercepted in saudi arabia over the capital riyadh iran denies the allegations as the third attack since november so the fighters fired the rockets saying they were targeting a meeting of saudi leaders as your momma royal palace marks one thousand days since the beginning of the war in yemen and it follows an earlier attack on november fourth when a missile was launched from yemen towards riyadh king holiday international airport and another missile told to the city of hama will shape before it was intercepted on december the first and to monitor and report. this is the moment hooty fired blistered missile was apparently shot down by saudi forces though the yemen based toothy say they were targeting the al your mama royal palace which is west of the capital riyadh has a large group of saudi leaders were meeting there at the time including king solomon and crown prince mohammed bin salman and i think they were these wanted to

make a statement that they're still up and running and that they're still fighting despite the fact that you know in recent days and weeks there's been allegations that there were these are weakened by the split with ali abdullah saleh. that they possibly not would not be able to shoot missiles further into south territory but they proved otherwise the missile attack happened just hours before saudi arabia was due to announce its annual budget as well as members of the royal family senior ministers were also expected to attend a social media post from a government agency confirmed a missile had been intercepted but that no casualties were reported in. the saudi the coalition which has been conducting air strikes against the fighters in yemen for nearly three years for tell you that with more strikes in the southern part of the capital sanaa speaking on the group's t.v. channel who's the leader abdul malik of hooty said the missile attack marks one thousand days since the war in yemen started openly go see today about again two

missile was launched dr. palace in the heart of city of saudi arabia this is our answer to them and the whole world the more crimes you perpetrated the more tyrannical you are you will meet nothing but more missiles. this isn't the first missile attack on saudi arabia in november the international airport in riyadh was narrowly missed in the strike the saudi government has accused regional rival iran of smuggling missile technology and allegation to run the knife. the war in yemen has created what the u.n. describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis since the start of the conflict at least ten thousand civilians have been killed and millions are on the brink of famine and as the fighting continues many fear the situation on the ground could get worse. then military coalition of coalition fighting in yemen is being accused of killing at least one hundred and thirty six civilians and

noncombatants in just ten days u.n. says they were killed by saudi ass strikes between the sixth and sixteenth of december the only in only the incidents that he was able to verify the number of civilians killed could be higher one attack involved seven astronauts are present last week where forty five detainees were killed and the u.n. has once again warned that yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis and is calling for the saudi led blockade to be completely lifted yemen is the largest food insecurity crisis in the world's recent humanitarian needs overview identified almost eighteen million people who are in need of support food wise the prognosis is not good. the blockade does not fully completely lift the interference. reduced or taken away then the results and. pushing back on famine over the last six months from the last. united nations

security council has been discussing whether iran is complying with the two thousand and fifteen nuclear agreement the missile launch from yemen featured in the debate as well mike hanna has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. the secretary general affirmed that iran was in full compliance with its commitment to non-nuclear proliferation under the joint a comprehensive plan of action indorsed by resolution twenty two thirty one but he raised questions about the possibility that iran was moving conventional weapons across his border and concerns expressed by some of the security council members were told to mr and by bronco looking at your gauge it would like to express its particular concern over the information and evidence connected with iran supply of weapons and missiles to militias with the encouraging them to use those weapons to target neighboring countries the us ambassador was adamant that the missiles

recently fired at saudi targets were of it raining in our region including the most recent well we don't yet have sufficient and site into this particular attack it bears all the hallmarks of previous attacks using a rainy and provided weapons it is only a matter of time before one of these missiles hits the target the secretary general said that the origin of the missiles is under investigation and the security council will be briefed at what he called the appropriate time but the russian ambassador was adamant that the un is not empowered to monitor iran's development or deployment of conventional non-nuclear weapons moving was deliberately to pneumonia we once again need to draw your attention to the practice of the secretariat conducting investigations investigations for which the secretary has neither the authority nor the expertise such actions are carried out without the

prior consent of the security council and not legitimate and the information obtained in the course of such actions cannot be considered accurate and cannot be part of the report the russian ambassador rejected the u.s. suggestion that the joint comprehensive plan. action be renegotiated to include conventional weapons something that iran continues to insist it will not do. it for vigorous debate among security council members in the days ahead well as you mentioned as one thousand days since the saudi led coalition began its military campaign against the who thiis in march two thousand and fifteen and we'll explore the political and humanitarian impact of the intervention on yemen in-depth discussion on the inside story of how. at seventeen thirty g.m.t. . the u.s. and canada will co-host a summit attended by four foreign ministers from fourteen countries in january to seek progress on the north korean nuclear issue announcement was made after u.s.

state rex tillerson met canadian foreign minister chrystia freeland the meeting will be held in the city of vancouver last month north korea tested its most powerful ballistic missile yet when it says it is capable of reaching the entire u.s. mainland we believe that a diplomatic solution to the crisis is essential and possible we will use this gathering it's not pretty to advance our work on diplomatic efforts towards a more peaceful prosperous and nuclear free future on the north korean peninsula and to demonstrate international solidarity in our condemnation of korea's actions we will not accept you as a regular nation a nuclear weapons nation and that all of the share one hour show you one of the full complete verifiable denuclearization of the korean pollutes was. said i have had on al-jazeera and early present release by the man at the center of one of latin america's biggest corruption scandals. and the desperate search in the philippines by relatives of the missing after

a devastating tropical storm. and it was about the third day now of really cold weather in romania when winter has swept through eastern europe before but this is a real good talking with snow for you many places. for ukraine steen cold and serving not around if you can imagine is going to be in the halls and everything to the west single cigarette maximus are barred to best is to vienna minus two in warsaw it's a bit warmer in london and paris but it's all relative to be honest and that is where we are talking a bit more. pushes in jury. wednesday so you've got ten degrees in london and snow forming in central france more likely a significant forming in the alps and swiss arps and lower ground even back into

germany but mostly it's not snow mostly it's just cold weather you've got the circulation revit most answered part in here as well and probably slovakia that line very obvious and behind it return to double figures this of course is thursday and it doesn't affect most if you're just the north and it's been going in and out of mild weather and wet weather in car with anyway that given you introduce cold air over warm water was get clouds form it's exactly what's happening here the colors come down through the central med there's a good two days of significant right now i think for libya and something to his ear .

victory the bill will be sent back to the house of representatives for a final vote.

over the. iran denies the allegations. are expected to attend. a new round of talks aimed at ending the syrian civil war began. wednesday but today meeting will focus on implementing a cease fire deal brokered by russia turkey and iran the foreign ministry says the talks will also address issues including the clearing up. of hostages in syria. people displaced from. so they're being pressured into returning to their destroyed homes parents worried about their young children unexploded bombs. reports.

with the. choice. it home and rocco was hit by a near strike as i still was driven out they've been living in displacement camps but life was so tough there they have to move back home with some fear the children could step on a mine on an unexploded munition. chasms i'm from the el mission that neighborhood i'm constantly worried about the young children it's difficult to live here there's nothing we have no house to live outside now after the fall of isis the fact the capital the people of rocco complain no one is helping them i was amr has thirty children and he says the camp management to die nice told him to go home we're going to look at this the house is gone there's nothing left nothing to eat or drink we need something to survive was once home to more than a quarter of a million people after nearly five months of fighting eighty percent of the city's destroyed. doctors without borders says during the battle nobody cared about the

civilians and the coalition inflicted a deluge your fire on the city reconstruction is estimated to cost billions of dollars but since i suppose defeat in october if you have announced a villain this to foot the bill or even provide basic infrastructure health care and education the ancient city was a crown jewel of empires dating back more than two thousand years it's never been leveled like this before beyond the liberal euphrates was isis capital iraq which was under their control since two thousand and fourteen now the city has been taken over by kurdish led forces but it remains in ruins and i said elements are still being cleared. by just continue to discover weapons dumps. i said to leave guns and ammunition from the syrian army that's generally the area is safe but there are some i still wear gloves left to protect the people we are doing mining of the city we are here to protect civilians. the displaced arab population finds he's being hard to believe people wouldn't comment on camera but many say they're

under and that occupying force goatish y p g five is in a accusations that defends arabs from their towns and villages. but unless there's a serious push to rebuild and rehabilitate raptors gaping wounds bear the risk of fostering some of the groups like isis some of injury down to zero on the western bank of the euphrates river. it's now one year since al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was detained and imprisoned in egypt he was arrested while spitting family security services say he is under investigation but has not been but have not referred him to court in his tire broke ports. for three hundred sixty five days mahmoud hussein has been held in an egyptian prison the crimes he stands accused of range from incitement to broadcasting fake news with the aim of spreading chaos al-jazeera strongly denies all allegations against his saying and demands his immediate and unconditional release i think we have to continue our efforts in

order to keep the egyptians under the provision totally is our colleague which percent before working at the network's headquarters in the qatari capital doha the same was based on al-jazeera is now closed bureau in cairo his family says his physical and mental health have deteriorated considerably over the past year and that he's being denied adequate medical attention for a broken arm my father is emotionally and mentally distressed because he feels that he is there and the dog sitting behind the bars without committing any crime. and he's away from his children his family father his mother and he can't do anything the coverage of hussein's case by egyptian media has also had a major impact on his family shortly after being arrested he was paraded on national television which branded him a terrorist my sisters and ground their face social stigma everything in their schools everyone calls things that they are sons and daughters of protest and they

are not worth flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is not safe. human rights groups and press freedom groups have condemned hussein's detention is the latest in a string of arrests by gyptian authorities targeting al jazeera staff in the country a year and a half ago ibrahim hello the former editor in chief of al-jazeera arabic was sentenced to death in absentia for endangering national security accusations he denies egypt also in prison al jazeera has bought her mohammed mohammed and peter greste on charges of spreading fall. news in a case that was widely condemned by international media outlets and politicians alike they were freed after being held in prison for over a year it's unclear when or if not moot hussein will be released but the message to his egyptian jailers is the same from him his family and his employer.

mood because journalism is not a crime in the. headquarters in doha after causing flooding and mudslides across the philippines tropical storm kai tak is headed to vietnam and the malay potential of this week and he's forty three people have been killed in the philippines rescuers are recovering more bodies in some areas but hope is of hope is fading a finding any more survivors the storm hit on saturday forcing eighty eight thousand people to leave their homes. and has more from bill around island. according to rescuers there are at least five bodies trapped in the rubble it's going to be difficult especially over the last few days when the incessant rains have hampered operations now president rudy gotos are due was on the ground a few days ago and promised to provide immediate assistance to the families he's seventy is from this area he is from this region and he feels very much connected to the people of samarra and related but there are questions as to not just the

emergency response but the preparation for disasters like this one as you know eastern beside this region has always been bogged down by natural disasters one of the most powerful and devastating typhoon ever hit the country happened right here typhoon haiyan swept the eastern to sayas more than four years ago and left more than eight thousand people dead and since then during the time of former president benigno aquino and now under the time of president bush there there have been a lot of discussions that effort when it comes to dealing with we have elicitation but more importantly experts would like to see how the government is doing when it comes to making communities far more resilient that these should not be much more reactive but much more proactive when it comes to preparing for disasters like this one. crash investigators in the u.s. examining the wreckage of a derail trains and they recover the data recorder from the main engine at least three people were killed in the incident in washington state on monday and times

reporter traveling at three times the speed limit is back from the national transportation safety board are expected to remain at the scene for at least seven days. we have confidence that we will get to the bottom of what caused this horrific tragedy i've talked to n.t.s.b. they have significant tools they are well on their way to gather the evidence they indicated to me that they were pleased that the scene was intact so that the evidence will remain undisturbed for their evaluation we should have confidence that we will find out what happened in this arifin event and we will fix anything that went wrong to make sure that in the future real safety is assured for everyone . cardinal bernard law the former catholic archbishop of boston who had to resign in disgrace for covering up sex abuse by clergy has died at the age of eighty six

nor left his post in two thousand and two after church documents revealed have been shielding and moving priests accused of sexually abusing children baskin officials later points ten to one and made to pacifica and rome and leave condemned by critics the boston globe's investigation into the scandal was the basis for the academy award winning film spotlight. the former chief executive of the latin american construction giant at the center of one of the world's biggest corruption scandals has been freed early from prison. the former head of a brick has spent only two and a half years in jail five his initial nineteen year sentence and scandal has hit top politicians across the region including cruise president john holdren has more from sao paulo. up to two and a half years in prison the man who was in charge of this company behind the biggest corruption scandal in recent history has been allowed to exchange jail for house arrest here in sao paolo on the marcellus all the brush leadership his family's

already powerful construction company became synonymous with brazil's roys later immersion is that it was playing politicians across latin america the lucrative government contracts for roads bridges and even world cup football stadiums the graft was on such an industrial scale that it even had a bribes department even as marcello the brush leaves prison the ripples may by his heels continuing to spread the president of peru is on the verge of being ousted after his company took over to brush money while he was the economic minister. vice president is facing six years in jail after taking millions in kickbacks all the rest officials have also said venezuelan president nicolas maduro accepted campaign contributions in return for contracts all of this. came to light in part because most of all the brushed under those agreed to name names in exchange for more lenient sentences now who spend the first ten years sentence at home with the man

they call the prince time as one of latin america's most powerful figures is over for now. the opposition hundred will formally challenge the results of the recent presidential election incumbent president. has declared himself reelected that's despite calls by the organization of american states for a new vote after allegations of fraud police fired tear gas as more protests protesters took to the streets of the capital opposition can. also demanding a new vote to be monitored by international observers. the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. party is calling for unity after a better set leader's better leadership election so a person who is currently the deputy president will take over from president jacob zuma. exwife in the leadership vote on monday kind of page has been getting reaction from opposers hometowns the latter. is from soweto

most people here are pleased he's the new president of the governing african national congress oh i'm so happy i'm so happy it's a good thing really it is that we were we're you know we waited out meaning we're just around each but now i am happy he may have lived it's noisy busy streets behind to become one of south africa's richest men but some thought he'd never get his humble roots i think it's a country trip it's a real news business big grown i don't think it's that and he's been to school you know in his youth group he was born and grew up in soviet so you know these are the people and there are many problems increasing numbers of south africans no longer vote for the a.n.c. which they feel has failed to deliver on its promise of a better life for all. over there is a pink. you know just leave thing together now. if

he could. of been one of the board but. to many people want a favorite of nelson mandela symbolizes the kind of leader they need after a decade of president jacob zuma scandals they think his business acumen will lead to a stronger economy millions on south africans live below the poverty line many of them and in shacks like they and because economic growth is sluggish they simply aren't enough decent jobs so people can work their way up so generation after generation let's try. this and a seemingly endless cycle cyril bongani makes a living guiding tourists through so we're so he thinks his namesake should do something about undocumented immigrants who were willing to work for less money in poor conditions in some south africans but he's a bit unsure about. if you know if. there

was. a bar team. and you know all that kind of feeling that kind of vibe. everyone was excited you know but. at the end people in which. the a.n.c. voted for change and the expectations are high so i'm a poster has a lot to prove tanya page al-jazeera which south africa our fans of korean pop music ok pop are mourning the sudden their superstar kim jong un he's the lead singer of one of south korea's biggest pop group shiny twenty seven year old's body was found in a hotel room in seoul on monday police say committed suicide one of ken's close friends post on social media that he left a note revealing his struggle with depression and fame.

as i was there these are our top stories the u.s. senate has passed a contentious one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill. the tax cuts and jobs act is passed this brings the president donald trump one step closer to his first significant victory the bill is the first major rewrite of the tax code in more than thirty years it will now be sent back to the house of representatives for a final vote later on wednesday. after eight straight years of slow growth in order before major america is ready to take off. coupled with the regulatory reforms that have already been implemented by the administration we now a comprehensive tax reform major middle class tax relief and making our businesses both large and small more competitive around the world the white house is again suggesting avan is supplying weapons to yemen as who rebels after a ballistic missile was inception in saudi arabia over the capsule riyadh iran

denies the allegations the third attack since november wednesday marks one thousand days in society that coalition launched his military campaign against the. u.s. and. attended by foreign ministers from fourteen countries in january to seek progress on the north korean nuclear crisis it was made off to us actually a state rex tillerson met canadian foreign minister chrystia freeland the meeting will be held in the city of vancouver both quick test is most powerful political yet one it says is capable of reaching us. we will not accept you as a regular nation nuclear weapons nation and all of the sheer power show you want to . play. the neighbors asian or the korean. the former catholic archbishop of boston who had to resign in disgrace for covering up. has died at age eighty six. and two thousand and two after church documents

revealed a moving priests accused children. and wrote him a move that was widely. investigation into the basis for the academy award winning film spotlights. the inside story with. a very important source of information for many people around the world. i'm still here. before. america. and america is going to win. in a major.