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played at double game for years the u.s. pulled millions of dollars of aid to pakistan accusing it of falling short in the fight against terrorism. south korea seizes kim jong un's olive branch offering to meet its neighbor for talks next week. and this hundreds of boko haram hostages escaping me to form a captive of the. peers has called for an emergency session of the un security council to discuss the protests in iran the supreme leader of iran has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence which has now claimed the lives of twenty one protesters and one policeman riot police are now out in force in several cities mike hanna has the latest from un headquarters in new york. ambassador nikki haley called a briefing to outline u.s. priorities at the united nations in this new year and top of her list the situation

in iran if they are reigning in dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the un must speak out in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session both here in new york and at the human rights council in geneva we must not be silent the people of iran are crying out for freedom all freedom loving people must stand with their cause this echoing sentiments expressed by president trump earlier who said in a tweet the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt or a new regime all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets the people have little food big inflation and no human rights the u.s. is watching. this little evidence in the streets of tehran of the turmoil evident

in some other parts of the country but there are deep concerns expressed about the rise in food prices and drop in employment. to join the cause i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood ammonia das and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult we have tenants i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices really put me under pressure at home iran's supreme leader has broken his silence on the protests accusing iran's enemies of responsibility montazeri a force that the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack three which it can infiltrate because the recent events. all those who are at odds with the islamic republic have used various means including money weapons

politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system the islamic republic and the islamic revolution. news agency footage reveals ongoing protest in a number of regions hundreds are reported to be in arrested and demonstrators continue to defy an attempted government blackout of social media that at the united nations the new president of the security council has confirmed the u.s. has been in contact and discussions are ongoing but it's not clear at this stage whether the u.s. appetite for a formal meeting is shared by the wrist of security council members some may be reluctant to intervene in what they would regard as an internal domestic dispute my kind of syria united nations iran's foreign minister has hit back at president transfer marks telling the u.s. to stay out of iran's affairs jevons

a rift tweeted iran security and stability depend on its own people who unlike the peoples of trance regional b f f's or best friends forever have the right to vote and to protest these hard earned rights will be protected an infiltrator will not be allowed to sabotage them through violence and destruction or grand office f.p.s. media is deputy bureau chief and is currently working in tehran he says some media outlets are having problems trying to report on the protests. well for now it seems relatively calm but i have to say that it's very difficult for us to report for american i mean there are very tight restrictions on what the media can do in tehran we know there's a heavy police presence but around it's actually not been the focus of much of the press unlike the last major demonstration in two thousand and nine it's mostly been in the provinces we've had only scattered protests the last few nights with those used by the camera as far as we can tell now as much as people want to see the

revolution and some of the slogans they have been revolutionary in terms of attacking the islamic regime and somehow these have been driven by economic grievances bread and butter issues such as high unemployment soaring prices think they have been bubbling away in iranian society for a very long time and people had simply sped up the fact that they've tried reformers they've tried moderates they've tried hard liners and none of them have been able to deliver on what really matters to people which is jobs and the future of their children the u.s. plans to withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes after president again accuse the country of being a safe haven for terrorists rather than jordan takes up the story in washington d.c. . the u.s. president doll trump used his first tweet of two thousand and eighteen to attack the pakistani government accuse the pakistanis of not doing enough to crack down on

groups such as the head khan the network or the talabani say these groups are destabilizing not just pockets but also afghanistan to the west on tuesday the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley made it plain that the u.s. president simply wasn't tweeting elder to her in her words nikki haley said there are real concerns with what is law is doing to fight but the u.s. calls terrorism pakistan had played a double game for years they work with us at times and they also harbor the terrorist attack our troops in afghanistan that game is not acceptable to this administration we expect far more cooperation from pakistan in the fight against terrorism in addition the state department spokesperson heather nauert told reporters on tuesday that pakistan knows what it needs to do in order to make the

region safer and she said without going into too many details that it definitely means trying to crack down on these groups that are destabilizing the region and she said that islam abides complaints simply aren't going anywhere. to take control of charities and financial assets linked to affairs side who many believe was behind the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks that jessica name has more on that . there's a ten million dollar reward for any information leading to the conviction of hof is sayit yet piri is at a rally last week protesting u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. the united states believes saeed is the mastermind of the two thousand and eight attacks in my. by over the course of four days attackers used automatic weapons and grenades to kill more than one hundred sixty people say he has denied involvement

in the attacks and a court in pakistan found there was insufficient evidence to convict him and twenty seventeen he was put under house arrest for violating anti-terrorism laws made his release prompted outrage from pakistanis and the u.s. government which is long been critical of pakistan when it comes to clamping down on terrorism the pakistani government has targeted saeed's assets and charities they include three hundred schools hospitals ambulance services and a publishing house the government is blocking fund raising and there are plans to assume control of them the un security council has also banned two of sedes organizations pakistan is under pressure and there fly this decision. has come after the british by the americans by you and by india. this is a challenging time in pakistan u.s.

relations we must see decisive action against terrorist groups parading on their territory and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face u.n. sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim al-jazeera. south korea has accepted the north rare offer of talks proposing that the two sides meet next tuesday seoul said they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics which are being held in the south but it's with reports. in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might

be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes are being raised following the new year address by came north korea's leader suggested sending a team to the winter games starting in south korea next month government leaders in seoul were quick to seize the opportunity. the government proposes to hold high level talks with north korea on january ninth at the peace house in panmunjom true spillage to discuss north korea's participation in the pyongyang winter olympics. south korea's president favors talks with the north as a way of managing pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats. the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding this. the chinese say they've noted what they call positive signals from both sides of the border.

china welcomes it supports north and south korea taking earnest if it's to treat this is an opportunity to improve mutual relations promote the alleviation of the situation on the korean peninsula and realize denuclearization on the peninsula. you want to join in would you give something while offering to send a team of athletes to the olympics came. the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office the north korea nuclear bomb test last year as well as the firing of more than twenty missiles continue to defy the world u.s. president donald trump wants to toughen sanctions further as pyongyang continues to develop nuclear missiles it says it will be capable of hitting the continental united states if negotiators do meet next week ahead of the winter olympics will be the first formal talks in two years bernard smith al-jazeera well the u.s. state department is skeptical about kim jong un sincerity to hold talks with south

korea you know if if the two countries decide that they want to have talks that would be certainly their choice we have a very strong relationship with the republic of korea as we do with japan we have had a strong alliance with them for many many decades that hasn't changed kim jong un may be trying to drive a wedge of some sort between the two nations between our nation and the republic of korea i can assure you that that will not happen that will not occur we are very skeptical of kim jong un's sincerity and sitting down and having talks our policy hasn't changed the south koreans policy has not changed that we both support a denuclearized korean peninsula robert carey is a professor of political science and diplomacy at present national university he says north korea may try to use the talks to seek relief from u.n. sanctions. i think the north koreans are probably thinking that the talks are permanently a way to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea just as the american spokesman said but the top koreans have

a very full agenda the south koreans like family or unions that's a very emotional issue in south korea the south koreans are really concerned about nuclear security right where the north koreans going to do with their nuclear weapons how many they have the kind of maintenance and safety protocols that they have there's concern about your noble style incident on the peninsula so the south koreans have a full agenda my guess is the north koreans going to play that and say you know if you want to talk about all these things you want some kind of concessions we want aid we want cash and so on i would imagine the north koreans will treat this as a way to get some kind of concession in the south korean president is a liberal who was a part of the what they call the sunshine policy under the previous labor governments about a decade ago the sunshine policy was a gauge and policy would reach out to north korea and bring them into the international community and things like that and moon jane was an important architect of that he really really wants talks and he really does he really believes that talking to north korea and pulling them in is the way to actually get movement on these issues and the americans are really going the other way especially under donald trump right we've seen much more belligerent hawkish rhetoric from trump than any other president and so you've got the potential for a really really wide divergence between the united states and south korea i'm

actually really impressed in two thousand and seventeen how the two sides managed to paper over those differences but i mean this wedge this wedge issue you know a wedge a sort of divide between the two i mean this has been waiting for the north koreans for a while i'm surprised it actually took them this long to try to figure out a way to drive them apart so i had on al-jazeera will tell you about the new israeli know what the palestinian president is calling a declaration of war plus. in a few months time the stands here at luzhniki stadium in moscow will be filled with football fans from all over the world i'm retaliations and i'll have more on this later in the program with russia now and it's world cup year. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello there we have some really quite heavy snowfall developing across

parts of china of the next twenty four hours associated with this frontal system so rain across a big swathe really of southern china but as you move from wednesday through to thursday will see the area snow developing quite widely extending up towards the river valley coming southwards more cloud through thursday but it remains largely drawing the same goes across much of indo china hanoi should remain dry and across into me i'm are largely dry conditions too but further south we've got this tropical depression which will be pushing in towards more southern parts of vietnam over the following twenty four hours you can see that as we head down the southeastern parts of asia this is system on talking about and then through thursday it moves across into central southern parts of vietnam probably come to further south we've got some showers across malaysia in borneo we've got some showers across java and up through the late peninsula sherry for both singapore and kuala lumpur but into thailand and bangkok should be draw and fine destroyed cross

much of india sri lanka pakistan through into nepal and bangladesh but again we've got some very poor air quality across northern parts of india that's not going to improve any time soon temperature wise not too bad highs of twenty in the mysore twenty five in karate the weather sponsored by cateye. and the ship where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the. business radical transformation. shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and their unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on al-jazeera.

again you're watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the antigovernment protests in iran the supreme leader of iran has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence which is not can the lives of twenty one protesters and one policeman. here's ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says washington will withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes after president trump again accused the country of being a safe haven for terrorists. south korea has accepted north korea's offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday seoul said they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics. u.s.

president don trump has threatened to cut aid to the palestinian authority claiming it is no longer willing to talk peace last month and get palestinians off to recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and now a new israeli law makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem to the palestinians a spokesman for the palestinian president calls that they couldn't to a declaration of war i'm a judge in reports from occupied east jerusalem. it was to say the least a controversial vote members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of jerusalem instead of a simple majority of sixty one votes now a supermajority of eighty votes or two thirds of the one hundred twenty seat knesset will be needed to approve any legislation ceding parts of jerusalem to any foreign parties it places a major hurdle in the path of jerusalem being part of any future peace talks

palestinian leaders while frustrated are not surprised saying similar laws are being pursued in an israeli effort to consolidate its occupation look a film that some promise in all its screens that we are moving directly in a number of puff you know in the puff no they change its own. this is a victory if there is however considerable confusion about what happens next one of the key questions for palestinians now is what impact this legislation will have on areas like of iraq up where we are now and the traffic refugee camp it was originally expected that as part of the bill the knesset would also vote to allow for the changing of jerusalem's municipal borders meaning that neighborhood such as and struck out refugee camps both located behind the security wall would no longer be part of jerusalem municipality which could among other things potentially strip approximately one hundred fifty thousand palestinians of their residency status

that provision however was withdrawn at the last minute the head of the covert aka brezec ins committee says even if the law were to pass his group would make sure it won't go into effect immediately. i don't think that will happen before five or six years because we go in to go to court that we as a committee over here by the name of our people we are going to go to the court and helping us and this committee's of the human rights on they were can and some of them for another some of them but they will help us to go to court to stand in the court again while the exact date isn't known it's expected the knesset will attempt to debate the issue of jerusalem you disapprove borders in the near future adding another note of uncertainty during a time already full of concern the homage improvement. in occupied east jerusalem the leader of israel's opposition is said qatar has criticized the new law what the

bill has it has a political ramification on behalf of the political bodies and elements in the israeli political seam who say we should make sure that nobody negotiates anything to do with jerusalem so that's a political question for the future it has no bearing on anybody's daily life in jerusalem now does it have any effect on the israelis percent i can tell you that it was only a kind of a very timely minute item on the israeli national agenda today although it's made the headlines and that's part of our criticism about it because it's a useless law with no real impact on anybody nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the group boko haram have managed to escape they were found near mon goodnow close to the north eastern border with chad the army says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who have been kept in

forced labor camps and made interests has the latest from a bush. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground on elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern nigeria now these areas they fled from chile islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with niger cameroon and china they've been some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake chad region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept bible quote i came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a book what i have been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mahmoud why did when he made that announcement since that announcement was seen daring and

sometimes devastating attacks by boko haram fighters in northeastern nigeria and they have taken a lot of hostages some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be against boko haram and boko haram has so far proved to be a resilient fall in northeastern nigeria boko haram is still holding many people hostage catherine so i met some of the families as well as former captives of the armed group in mother godling that's in northeastern nigeria. this mother's in mud a galley a desperate for news of their teenage daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram almost three years ago that talk is also killed many in the village in the face nigeria calamity brahim stills arabi was seventeen years old woman sitting alone in the city only god knows where she is i've been praying to him to bring her back oh keep a sanction maybe you can help us find her several other girls from this area have

returned home after the. the cop his which gives this mother's hope thousands of people mostly women and children have been abducted by. managed to escape say they were forced to become wives signed up how was life with her. we suffered a lot my husband beat me but i made good friendships with other women who had also been abducted. and how did you manage to escape. one day my husband left in a hurry he didn't tell me where he was going then i heard nigerian soldiers were coming so i just started walking. in twenty fourteen more than two hundred girls were kidnapped from the secondary school in chibok some escaped. after negotiations between the government and. one in a hundred girls remain prison as. the catholic church is taking

girls who risk being kidnapped if they return home anybody any clues contact with stayed with them for a month or two months or more when they come back to the community this suspicion is still there these people really to be incorporated in the community or they spies men and boys are also in danger many have been taken and forced to fight for . when they escape they have to face tough military screening to make sure they're not active members of the group the screening process needs to be more transparent people need to know what happens once you surrender yourself to the military and if you are in a sense like most of the people are then what's going to happen to you what are what is the process you're going to go through because once they know that's they're going to be able to come back more back in my galley zainab says she was

seven months pregnant when she returned now she just wants to take care of her child and prays often for the imprisoned women she forged relationships with back in the forest katherine sawyer al-jazeera but the galley northeast nigeria. two thousand and eighteen is said to be a big year for russia and for football fans worldwide when the world cup kicks off on june the fourteenth while the tournament is an opportunity for russia to showcase itself to the world it comes in the shadow of western sanctions over ukraine and a sports doping scandal and the latest in us is looking ahead to this is big stories rory chalons reports from moscow. empty stadiums often have an atmosphere of expectation about them they need the rule of a crowd to bring them alive and moskos luzhniki stadium fresh from a complete refit is waiting for the biggest footballing spectacle of them all and ice is the direct construction took about three years corbett had to be demolished

except for the external walls the statue huma's a high technology facility the base has natural grass with a special ventilation and a heating system and there are more than sixty five kilometers of engineering tubes under it the readiness of russia's twelve world cup stadiums is facing the usual pre-con petition scrutiny catherine burke's temporary stance raise concerns a few months ago assures us everything will be fine all together they'll be seven matches played here at luzhniki including the opening match the semifinal and the final itself together with the olympics the world cup is one of the two biggest sporting events in the world which makes it not just about football but about politics to. the glory of russia's last big sporting bonanza barely lasted beyond the closing ceremony two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi were

tarnished first by russia's military involvement in ukraine and then a widespread stoping scandal so providing everything goes well this summer the world cup is an opportunity to mend russia's reputation somewhat and it happens to be a presidential election year too. disperses extremely tremendously important for russian politics for russian. empire and. for military force. to lesser extent economic force political force. sports means kind of a war for for the salutes national pride matters hugely in russia particularly with many people left poor up by the recent recession in a wintry central moscow they dare to hope. of course we believe in our football team we believe in our victory we will aim for the finals we are supporting them we

believe in them this is our russia summer can't come soon enough we'll reach allan's al-jazeera moscow. next in the series will be looking at the upcoming winter olympic games in south korea and safety concerns about the host town not far from north korea's border that's on wednesday on al-jazeera dozens of hollywood a listers including reese witherspoon and meryl streep of donated to a legal fund to help fight sexual harassment the time's up campaign was already set up thirteen days ago has really seen more than thirteen million dollars pledged it's intended to help women and men who would otherwise be unable to fund legal action. soldiers there these are the top stories the u.s. has called for an emergency session of the u.n. security council to discuss the anti-government protests in iran the supreme leader

of iran has blamed his country's enemies for six days of violence which has now claimed the lives of twenty one protesters and one policeman. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says washington will withhold more than two hundred fifty million dollars of aid to pakistan the decision comes after president trump again accused the country of being a safe haven for terrorists pakistan had played i double game for years they work with us at times and they also harbor the terrorists that attack our troops in afghanistan that game is not acceptable to this administration we spec far more cooperation from pakistan in the fight against terrorism south korea has accepted north korea's offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday seoul said they would mainly focus on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics washington meanwhile says it skeptical of kim jong un's intentions

saying he may be trying to drive a wedge between the u.s. and south korea the palestinian president's spokesman says the news really know which makes it hard to hand over parts of jerusalem is equivalent to a declaration of war israeli m.p.'s pass the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory at least thirty people have died in peru after the bus they were traveling in plunged eighty meters off a cliff into a rocky beach the bus was carrying fifty seven passengers to the capital lima when it collided with a truck along a narrow stretch of highway known as the devil's curve rescuers had to climb down to the beach and have been battling the tide to recover bodies nigeria's military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by the group boko. have managed to escape the found may gone close to the north eastern border with chad those are the headlines of the news continues here on al-jazeera

after inside story. donald trump said jerusalem is the capital of israel and now israeli m.p.'s of pasta new law making it harder for any future government to compromise with the palestinians one hopes then for a two state solution this is inside story.