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the tax system in thirty years. for them to limits on all this is sound as they were live from london also coming up alison ensconced with israeli security forces the u.s. warns fellow u.n. members that financial aid will be caught if they vote against tom's two was simply . poland's president signed into law controversial judicial reforms despite a threat from the e.u. to suspend this country's posting like it's. angry scenes in uganda spot of and opposition members suspended as the vote goes to to scrap the presidential age limit. we begin in the united states where president almost trungpa celebrating his lead just it's a victory which will allow for the biggest overhaul of the u.s.

tax system in thirty years earlier the u.s. house of representatives gave the one point five trillion dollars tax reform bill its final approval will now pass to president to be signed into law all republicans have praised the bill which will repeal parts of obamacare but at least in polls suggested fifty five percent of americans oppose it well our white house correspondent can be a help that has more from washington d.c. . with republican lawmakers assembled by his side donald trump celebrated his first legislative victory on the lawn of the white house a victory he says because this is the biggest reform of the tax code in decades the democrats say will benefit only the wealthiest americans as well as corporations but the white house says will allow companies to return to the united states be more competitive creating jobs and allowing ordinary americans to see more of their money stay in their wallets it's been an amazing experience i have to tell you hasn't been done in thirty four years but actually really hasn't been done because

we broke every record it's the largest i always say the most massive but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country and to reform the tax code. really struck expression now majority of americans do not like this tax reform that has been passed in the congress according to most polls most americans do not believe this will have a positive impact in their lives that maybe because most americans have not read the legislation that is true of most lawmakers as it was passed quickly in both the house and the senate but when it will be signed into law by the president still unclear it was supposed to happen by the end of twenty seventeen now looking at like it will be the new year and as far as when this tax relief will be experienced by ordinary americans that could now be stretched until february. well the bill slashes the corporate tax rate from thirty five to twenty one percent as of january

the first and ends tax advantages for companies that move overseas income tax rates and inheritance tax will be reduced for most people those arning over half a million dollars a year will experience higher tax reductions but these provisions are just temporary ending in twenty twenty six the bill's expected to add one point five trillion dollars the u.s. national debt over the next decade currently stands at twenty trillion well the reforms will also hit the elderly hard with cuts to social welfare programs like medicare impacting millions and gallagher explain syphon florida. or insensitivity through the basics retirement home in miami has been housing the elderly for seventy two years many of its residents rely on social welfare programs and have for decades some like eighty seven year old janet light becca are paying close attention to what's happening in washington a form of social worker janet says welfare may be coming to an end my generation i

think we never thought of social security having in date. but i believe it will perhaps it will be two thousand and twenty five to have thirty but there will come and then but this is plenty of time for everybody to get their act together. and the need. for. it. and night team of particular concern a potential changes to medicare a federal program for over sixty five's it could face cuts of up to twenty five billion dollars when medicare and medicaid was set up in the one nine hundred sixty s. it encompassed the idea of a greater society one that took care of its poor and elderly experts say any of those programs won't necessarily mean less money for recipients but it will mean less cash for doctors hospitals and nursing facilities and advocates say that could have terrible consequences this was going to be terrible my clinic represent you

know newman says without access to affordable health care millions could suffer doctors who take care of the elderly patients will find themselves unable to accept patients they will turn people away who need the care most of all and who can't afford to pay high private market rates or premiums more than fifty million americans currently receive medicaid benefits and with a rapidly aging population it's seen by many as a vital safety net it's a curious thing ten thousand people turn sixty five every day in america and will for the next twenty years so i imagine them a majority of those people though and i imagine that when the tax cuts actually take place they'll be adversely affected and they're going to go the polls the contrary parties adopted without a judge and a motion to reconsider they say on the table the republicans tax reform bill is already in popular among many voters its hope with next year's midterm elections

approaching drastic cuts may be avoided and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. as tom has threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft to get one thousand nations resolution against his decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital one hundred ninety three member un general assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on thursday at the request of arab and muslim countries mike hanna has more not found un security council staff pose with the secretary general for an annual photograph is called then it's business as usual in the chamber like most other member states those represented here unwilling to comment publicly on the extraordinary letters sent by u.s. ambassador nikki haley ambassador did you receive the letter from nikki haley about

the. many letters and the majority view apparently summed up by one representative who was willing to comment on our position in this case has been very clear we had the opportunity to express ourselves in the security council so so that's our very strongly prince principled position so we didn't was one of the fourteen council members who voted in favor of the jerusalem resolution monday the veto by the us is accompanied by an angry statement from the ambassador what we witnessed here today in the security council is an insult it won't be forgotten what some would regard as a thirty bailed threat driven home in a letter circulated to all member states regarding the vote taking place in the general assembly thursday. as you consider your vote the ambassador writes i want you to know that the president and the u.s. take this vote personally she continues the president will be watching this vote

carefully and has requested i report back on those countries who voted against us president trump made clear what the possible consequences could be they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes let them vote against us will save a lot we don't care but privately many u.n. members are outraged at the letters bullying and threatening tone and what was to be a vote condemning attempts to unilaterally change the status of jerusalem may gain even added significance in november more than one hundred fifty nations voted in favor of the resolution declaring all israeli actions in jerusalem as null and void as it was an occupying power a similar result in the general assembly thursday would also be a sweeping international rejection of president trump and his policies mike hanna al-jazeera united nations in palestine people have been protesting against the u.s.

moves by calling for another day of rage in the occupied west bank between demonstrators and israeli security forces lost in bethlehem protesters marched in defiance of the u.s. decision for us poland's president says he signed into law two new bills increasing the government's powers over the courts and that is that it was in direct defiance of the e.u. and a student pushed ahead with the controversial force despite the triggering its article seven procedure which could see paul and stripped of its voting rights natasha butler has more. it was a message of defiance from warsaw to the european union poland's president signing into law two bills reforming the judiciary something the e.u. had warned against saying the changes threatened holden's democracy was arms of provides ahmet i think when introducing very good solutions in poland i believe we're introducing solutions that will improve the justice system that will make people finally regained faith in justice regain faith in polish course now and

regain faith in the justices to be on a full scale so on the of this kind of view out of the mess probably just hours earlier the e.u. had taken an unprecedented step to try and stop poland forging ahead with the controversial reforms it launched article seven of the lisbon treaty a process that could lead to poland losing its e.u. voting rights sadly concerns of deep within a period of two years a significant numbers of laws have been adopted thirteen in total which put at serious risk the independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers in poland. since coming to power in twenty fifteen poland's right wing law and justice party has been at loggerheads with the e.u. and for its drive to tighten immigration and media laws analysts say the e's latest move is unlikely to put government i don't know where it all. lauren just if the governing party in poland is riding high in the opinion polls i think that they are

very adept at turning the battle good brussels to their own advantage they can say you just an unelected bureaucrats are trying to undermine our national sovereignty so they they will be perfectly content to think this one reckless way through over the past months polish opposition protesters have voiced their anger at a government they say is increasingly authoritarian. the e.u. has given poland three months to address its concerns it may then consider. ending warsaw's voting rights but for that to happen all member states would have to agree and the problem for the e.u. is that hungary has already made it clear that it would veto such a move. al jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera zimbabwe's new president makes fixing the economy his number one priority in his state of the nation speech and a game changer for him but the european court ruling that opened the right hand up

to stricter regulation. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the strait is looking pretty warm in many areas at the moment some showers in the tropical north darwin their looks or could be quite wet at times in the threat of the old shower for sydney to me one across western australia is looking like a warm day in perth highs of twenty nine smooth the forecast on twenty four hours still pretty decent temperatures for perth to woman alice springs and then temperatures around twenty five for sydney both adelaide impressment should enjoy some pretty pleasant conditions there were temperatures in the high twenty's across into do you see them through for a lot of cloud the threat of showers across the south island the north island here in the king quite good quite warm there in oakland heading through towards friday we should lose that frontal system so for both islands he should be largely dry and

find highs of nineteen degrees in christchurch up into northeastern parts of asia now and here we've got frontal systems out in the pacific so moving away so weather conditions generally fine across much of japan and in the course of thursday sapporo quite cool highs of just one degree not too bad in beijing either makes one of six degrees and then as we head on through into friday still a few showers across more northern parts of japan southern areas trying find hard to tell in tokyo and should be largely fine across the korean peninsula. under certain real scored. a bunker shot or monument towards destructor polish. there's amid the ruins the defiance to resist. or survive. to bloom poem verse to your child

a suburb of damascus refuse to crumble under the mind of our so it's only. part two of this time. coming to match our top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is celebrating his first major legislative victory for all of the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system there it's with us palestinians of again cost with israeli security forces over the u.s. decision to recognize to slump as israel's capital. that's its president is threatening to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft u.n. resolution criticizing the. poland's president has signed two new laws increasing

the government's powers over the courts in defiance of the do or p. new. parliament has voted to amend the constitution in a controversial move which would allow president yoweri museveni to stand for election again the bill removes the age gap of seventy five years on the president allowing a seventy three year old the seventy two further extend his three decades in charge earlier to opposition politicians were detained as they tried to enter parliament for the second day of debate the issue. well the political situation in uganda has been compared to that of symbolic point where robert mugabe clung to power for thirty seven years earlier i asked ugandan journalist jackie kennedy said whether the comparison was fair i think that it was something that was expected and i think that many ugandans are worried about uganda moving to whereas in bob. and maybe that's where we're going to go i do not know but. in terms of the reaction to

being moved i don't think that you're going to and politics is that much you are but also because one thing for us is that politics is the main source of employment and it's not a sop it's rather a source of employment so and also the one times national politics makes italy to be unpredictable because then it's subjects who has the law money so i think that i wouldn't rush to compare the two some place neither and less and many guy says this country's open to foreign investment now after years of isolation give us our state of the nation address on wednesday where he promised to improve the economy and create jobs has more now from harare zimbabwe is new leader says it's no longer business as usual his government is going to introduce pro-business policies to attract investment and revive the ailing economy government was really ever

a bust in grange print and a reengagement program with international community you know will continue to be to rejoin the community of nations. my government is committed to what presumably. this meant by building a free and transparent economy which of brits zimbabweans is well coming out so there's. im assuming that god told zimbabweans he's going to improve the rule of law and democracy as well as tackle corruption he came to power last month after the military intervened and roberts mugabe resigned mini's about ways including the opposition are watching president and i was very closely to see if he delivers the main thing people want jobs and the economy to improve opposition members say they hope the new president means what he says but they are skeptical

there are still cash shortages and food prices keep rising they feel managua has surrounded himself with the same people who helped keep mugabe in power for thirty seven years we look at the levels of. what people are living and. the. three dream. since in the. character the new administration is trying to mend relations with the international community some imposed sanctions in the early two thousands of accusations of human rights abuses political analysts say if elections next year are free fair and credible and whoever wins is democratically elected that could show signs of stability and encourage investors to release much needed funds they have to be as democratic as possible because of the elections and said it will have

a close eye on this particular election because they're obviously not quite keen on having the status of a person who got in via a military intervention as a president in the sort of improving zimbabwe's fortunes and international standing will take time but when i got one has only a few months to prove his leadership will be radically different from his former boss robert mugabe how do with al-jazeera. it's now been a thousand days since the conflict in yemen began on the site he led coalition launched airstrikes against the rebels the united nations estimates over ten thousand people and killed in the conflict and forty thousand others have been injured. as more. was walking out of her father's cement factory north of the capital sana'a when the building was hit by an ass trying but the blast waves twisted her back she's now struggling to walk doctors say her spine

was damaged during the attack while her life has been shattered by the conflict in her country loran dreams of graduating and becoming a doctor and i used to go to school and fit my life was beautiful because i could walk and right now i can't walk to school i can only go the wheelchair i used to be able to sit in the chair at my desk and write but now when i tried to write my hand hurts i used to love writing but now i can't even hold a pen. but the conflict in yemen shows no sign of abating on tuesday the hooty is fired a ballistic with syal two was the subject capital of riyadh they say they were targeting a meeting of senior officials of the yemen royal palace saudi arabia accuses iran of supplying the houthi is with the messiah and as the conflict continues there are fears of a wider regional confrontation the healthy is the remain defiant and when i heard

only and then we face a war carried out by ten countries and there are attempts to create more divisions and chaos but that has failed and we still lead the front against the aggressors. meanwhile the fighting rages near the capital sana'a forces loyal to president of the. are struggling to break earthy defense lines civilians. in the fighting. thousands of people have been killed since the start of the conflict into a thousand and fifteen and the balaam i'm going to my hope is that two thousand and eighteen comes along with peace and end of aggression and blockade imposed on my country but i also hope that all the parties come together and build a democratic state and millions of germany's struggle to find food and shelter the country which faces the world's biggest humanitarian crisis is also politically

divided first by the international community to negotiate a settlement suffered a setback earlier this month when the country's all stood leader. was killed by the whole thing is inside iran but for many yemenis like neuron to have suffered the most in this conflict and and to the fighting can't come soon enough. communities in the central philippines to become a cleanup after tropical storm titanic hit last week the same region was ravaged by a powerful typhoon just four years ago and locals have barely recovered jimmy allen dillon reports from palo central philippines. this is what's happened to the town of the valleys today in the plains but so many communities here it was long had to pack my property in natural disasters but topical storm talk has made life even more difficult now at least forty people were killed when it struck just in

philippines last thursday and majority of those who died from here buried alive in their homes after boulders and mud came rushing down from the hills that includes members of the but easter family. but they say they've come to accept the risks of disasters like this what that might mean we can't do anything because it's all up to god we are all headed back to him all of us in the end will have to face her maker. but security experts believe this is such a mindset in many communities must be changed that deaths in disasters like this one should be seen as preventable while we are a lets see if you consider us a very faithful faithful community. we lay everything to god we failed to in thirty nine lives that we have to do something us people debate

both to prevent those things from happening local government only when there are. an emergency and that would be too late already experts say people living in dangerous areas should not only evacuated but they should not be living there in the first place they see the government should focus on strengthening communities to prepare better and be independent so that mass casualties can be avoided in november two thousand and thirteen typhoon haiyan struck central philippines killing at least eight thousand people and millions who lost their homes by law is just one of the many towns that managed to rebuild itself in the four years since typhoon haiyan struck but experts question just how prepared these communities are should another typhoon of such magnitude strike again we can never be called for that because it's always there's always unknown it's always unknown you never know

the outcome but in terms of the social. expression of the people. i think i think we can survive more. for a region that was the target they take would leon many see the impact of tropical storm contact should be seen as a warning that crucial lessons have not been learned. by the latest central philippines they seventeen people have been killed in air strikes and serious at the province it's believed four children and two women are among the dead the syrian civil defense the first responders known as the white helmets so the death toll is higher because in the figure at nineteen provinces been a rebel stronghold for three years and president that has recently launched an offensive to try to retake it that is this court has ruled that the taxi hailing company is a transport company and must be regulated that's what the bar argues on the other

hand that it's an online digital platform and shouldn't be subject to the same rules san francisco based firm operates more than six hundred locations offering low cost transport to millions of users but it's also been accused of unfair competition has made parker explains that a london it's a judgment with big implications for other companies the european court of justice ruled that is a taxi service and not a technology firm as the company insists it may have to comply to the same regulation as other transport firms rules that can be censored country level the long running cold case was first bought by taxi drivers in spain with a backlash against the explosive. thousands of taxi drivers took to the streets accusing the company of unfair competition there were similar scenes in several other cities this was paris and this demonstration brought central london to

a standstill and deliberate although has been under mounting scrutiny after a driver with previous criminal convictions allegedly murdered a british embassy work of this month. the london luba had its license revoked back in september for breaching operating rules including its handling of alleged sex attacks still there were three and a half million users here and many were angry with that decision part of the company's ensuring appeal is that is sufficient and cheap bunch cheaper than traditional black cabs for now it's been allowed to continue operating in the capital while its appeals the decision the european court's ruling isn't legally binding but it does send a message to other high tech firms is one of several companies facing legal battles in recent years. another some francisco based firm allows people to rent out their homes to visitors but cities such as barcelona and burn lane want to regulate usage to avoid driving up rents and forcing out locals experts say it's important to

uphold regulation without stifling innovation if you look at many of the new take firms yes they have a new way of delivering things but the main reason they're making money is often by getting around roles tax regulation the kind of things that the average companies have to apply with the digital revolution to sing at breakneck speed now the law needs to pick up the pace they've parka al-jazeera london. to say we're journalists around the world are calling for the release of our colleague hussein has not been detained in the gyptian prison for a year staff of the arabic channel based headquarters in doha have been showing their support for his same by marking the year he was taken into custody was visiting family security services saying he's under investigation but haven't referred him to a course u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn has called on egypt's president until fattah el-sisi to release journalists being held in his country including al jazeera

markland who say one message to the christian c.c. is. please release from what you're saying but also please release of the journalists that are being held merely try to report the truth of what is going on without knowledge of the truth how do we know where we're all going and imprisoning journalists is completely wrong denying people the opportunity to understand what is happening in a particular society is completely wrong stand together everyone around the world for the necessity of the freedom of speech that is the right to know the right to know what journalists are finding out for us we can find out much more about the stories we're following on our website at. al-jazeera dot com.

mind of the top stories on al-jazeera president donald trump is celebrating his legislative victory which will allow for the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system in thirty years earlier the u.s. house of representatives gave the one point five trillion dollars tax reform bill its final approval will not pass the president trying to be signed into law all republicans have praised the bill which will repeal parts of obamacare the recent poll suggested fifty five percent of americans oppose that. it's been an amazing experience i have to tell you has it been done in thirty four years but actually really hasn't been done because we broke every record it's the largest i always say the most massive but it's the largest tax cut in the history of our country to reform but tax cuts. really stopping structural. president trump has also threatened to cut all financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft united nations resolution against his decision to recognize jerusalem as

israel's capital and palestine people have been protesting against the u.s. moves by calling for another day of rage in the occupied west bank custis between demonstrators and dissuading security forces us in bethlehem protesters marched in defiance of the u.s. decision. to bump was new president emerson man and dad has delivered his first state of the nation address in the capital harare his speech focused on the economy which he promised to revitalize by opening it up to foreign investors after years of isolation. uganda's parliament has voted to amend the constitution in a controversial move which was alive president yeah remiss of any to stand for election again the bill of most the age gap of seventy five years on the president allowing seventy three year old new seventy further extend his three decades in charge earlier to opposition politicians were detained as they try to ends of automat for the second day of debate on the issue myanmar has built an independent

un investigator from entering the country and he says she's disappointed by the decisions of the me and mark government there's something terrible is happening in a kind state of say those are your current headlines to stay with al-jazeera people on power is next for me in the team here in london thanks for watching. kenyan elections intractable war in syria griffy g crisis troubles in venezuela and tensions on the korean peninsula and elegies era news special looks back on the biggest stories of twenty seventy two d. eyes of families who lived through the. rebellion ravaged remains of turbot a suburb just a few kilometers from.