bribes you've been corrupt. corrupt they did just the presidency. investigation only go this time. zero with every new. president last a former aide for us comments on his campaign's russian links and a much anticipated book. under shock here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. chinese

president orders armed forces to be combat ready at a parade wanting military might. ironic uses the u.s. of interfering in its affairs as tehran says anti-government protests have been diffused. and snow in the sunshine state the deep freeze parts much of the u.s. in a dangerous blast of cold air is on the way. police excerpts of a forthcoming book on the trump administration are causing a political storm in the u.s. president has set out on his former senior strategist steve bannon for his comments in the book and calls trump's oldest son treasonous for meeting a lawyer linked to the kremlin in two thousand and sixteen that meeting essential to an investigation into alleged russian meddling and the presidential campaign and asked to park reports. for the first time a furious donald trump publicly thrashed his former strategist over comments in an

upcoming book saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind in fire and fury inside the trump white house bannon says donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic when he met with russians who claim to have dirt on democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton press secretary sarah sanders called the president's anger at bannon justified i would certainly think that going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody the book's release coincides with special prosecutor robert miller's investigation into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand election and possible collusion by the trump campaign it includes interviews with white house insiders including bannon and paints an administration in chaos the white house tried to distance itself from ban and wednesday saying the president had

little one on one contact with bannon but bannon was the c.e.o. of the president's campaign played a key role during the president's transition to the white house and was chief political strategist until he was fired last summer in the book bennett says he advised the president to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem immediately after he took office he is quoted as saying we know where we're heading on this let jordan take the west bank let egypt take gaza let them deal with it or sink trying i would love to tell you people ban and continues to have a strong connection to president trump's nationalist core but sanders downplayed suggestions that those supporters might break with the president it's a question we're going to have to ask steve bannon the president's base is very solid it hasn't changed because the president hasn't changed his agenda hasn't changed as yet bannan hasn't commented on the blistering words from the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world dion estabrook al

jazeera. the book has revealed more insight into trump's first year and office one of the biggest claims says that he never expected to beat hillary clinton his son donald trump jr is quoted as saying his father looked as though he had seen a ghost on election night. publicly claimed more people attended his inauguration then barack obama's in private he was furious that a list star spoke openly of a void in the event and i'm moving into the white house trump is said to have found the building and mitigating which forced him to spend a lot of time alone and his private bedroom. just letterman is a national security journalist for this to say at a press he says the republican establishment will be believed to trump's distancing from steve bannon. the president's new battle with former chief strategist steve benen could create tensions with his base steve benen really helped represent a lot of the voters across the country who felt angry and disenfranchised and

supported the president wanted and now the president is saying that you've been is out of his mind that he didn't have a lot of influence either in the white house or in the campaign but steve grant who was never an establishment republican he was never part of that group on capitol hill that has run the country for so long a lot of mainstream republicans on capitol hill and elsewhere will be delighted to see the president distancing himself from steve been and that wing of the party bedded has been waging a war against incumbent republicans across the country as we head towards the midterms. the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of his nuclear button on tuesday transform the north korean leader that is a nuclear button is a much bigger and more powerful and that his button works. i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i think what's dangerous is to ignore the continued threats if the previous administration had done anything

and dealt with north korea dealt with iran instead of sitting by and doing nothing we wouldn't have to clean up their mess now. south korea says it is coordinating with the u.s. ahead of proposed talks with north korea pyongyang says dialogue will focus on the south's winter olympics next month but the south korean foreign minister says president wants the nuclear issue to be raised. he specifically tell us the foreign ministry to work very closely with you are there her friends to ensure that so that self north track. finucane flee with her endeavors to come to terms with the north korean ship. an envoy is accusing the u.s. of grotesquely inciting anti-government protests he's written a letter to the u.n. secretary general complaining about president trump's tweets in support of the demonstrations on wednesday that of iran's revolutionary guard announced the end of

sedition as tens of thousands rallied in support of the government twenty two people have been killed since saturday as rob matheson reports. on a rainy and state t.v. pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and jests during the day and. it's basically people who are believing that what's what's happening is that against him and they want to support the region by saying this is a revolutionary jeem and we are in favor of it. the t.v. pictures of these days pro-government rallies are a contrast to coverage of demonstrations against iran's leadership which began last thursday. the government has shut down some social media platforms. but pictures have been posted showing damaged cars burning buildings and chanting crowds. protests about unemployment and iran's economy which has been

struggling after years of sanctions have grown to include demands for greater freedoms hundreds. people have been arrested the u.s. is demanding an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council if the arraigning dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the u.n. must speak out president donald trump has sided with the anti-government protesters he's tweeted the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian 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 iran's foreign minister has tweeted back saying iran's security instability depends on its own people who unlike the peoples of trump's regional b f f's are best friends forever have the right to vote and to protest. more

pro-government rallies are expected but there have also been calls for more demonstrations against the government it's not clear if both sides will be on the same streets at the same time matheson al-jazeera. myanmar is marking seventy years since and dependence from great britain there has been no mention of the rohingya crisis despite talks of peace with ethnic groups the government says there are ongoing attempts to end decades of fighting with ethnic groups peace conference is due to be how later this month but the most powerful rebel groups say they may not attend a crisis has not been addressed in previous talks more than six hundred thousand one hundred muslims have fled to bengal best to escape the military crackdown in me and maher. china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for real combat and improve their capability to win wars she isn't paying made the comments

at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing so the purpose of the event was to have the thought of building a strong army in a new era for china senior you see it at the beginning of the new year the central military commission holds the mobilization ceremony with the purpose of implementing the spirit of the nineteenth national congress of the party and the thoughts of the party on building a strong army in the new era and calling on the whole armed forces to comprehensively strengthen real combat training. she has been trying to strengthen china's influence in a number of the important areas beijing as long tried to assert control over this to the south china sea home to major trade routes this is provoke concern in the u.s. and southeast asia across the region china is investing in infrastructure projects to boost influence and the philippines traditionally a u.s. ally promised twenty four billion dollars of investment since two thousand and sixteen the central geo political issue of course is north korea has played

a careful game and for meaning international sanctions against leader kim jong un and his government but it wants to avoid a collapse of the country that could lead to u.s. allied south korean troops on the border it's also tried to position itself as a regional deal brokered attempted to mediate border disputes between afghanistan and pakistan government pride joins us now from beijing so this this event rob just how huge how impressive was it how is it actually being treated in china. and you can tell we're having a few technical issues there with rob we will try to reconnect with them shortly and in the meantime a spokesman for u.n. secretary general antonio terrorize has called for an end to any more violence and iran the secretary general is following with concern recent developments in the

slavic republic of iran he deplores the loss of life in the protests he urges respect for the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression and that any demonstrations take place in a peaceful manner further violence must be avoided still ahead on al-jazeera that may have escaped the fighting but there are new realities not much better displaced syrians endure freezing winter and the open. militia had spec's close presidential election as candidates in the race the top job. hello there we've had some very active weather across europe recently it's all thanks to this spiraling massive cloud herit but winds to the netherlands of over one hundred forty kilometers per hour in the whole of this region was very very

windy and pretty wet at times too that system is just running its way towards the northeast and slowly becoming less intense as it does so in behind it there's the next system pushing in but this one isn't quite so intense so heavy downpours for some of us in france and a fair amount of snow over the alps and this one gradually edges its way eastwards as we head through friday we see some rain tailing back through parts of spain portugal but to the north of that there is still rather mild like about nine in london at around twelve in paris the southeast corner of europe it's very quiet to the moment we're looking at fine sunny weather and athens will get to around fourteen degrees across the other side of the mediterranean it's fairly on several currently you can see one system there making its way into turkey that's just stretching down towards the northern parts of egypt and libya the whole thing is working its way east would say for the north case to be egypt should be a bit brighter there for some friday the systems making its way through lebanon in the east that meanwhile elsewhere generally fine and settle for us across the

northern parts of africa with nineteen at the maximum temperature there him. point.

watching out to sara let's recap the top stories this hour yes president donald trump has lashed out at his former chief strategist steve bannon saying he's lost his mind it follows the publication of excerpts from an upcoming book for bannon it announces trump's eldest son is treasonous and unpatriotic comments are made about a two thousand and sixteen meeting between trump jr and a lawyer with kremlin connections. to the u.s. accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's to mastic affairs after washington's ambassador called for an emergency un meeting to discuss anti-government protests and iran at least twenty two people have died in recent past china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for real combat and improve their capability to win wars xi jinping made the comments at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing he said the purpose of the event was to showcase the country's military my this new era for china. and we have reconnected

with our robin pride he joins us again from beijing so rob i have a question that i pose to you tell us more about this particular display and how it's being treated in china. this was a very powerful display of military might that was meant to impress some seven thousand troops and military hardware gathered in could be a province that's just outside beijing to hear the speech from xi jinping event that was also we are told carried by live television signal to full thousand other locations across. china where the rest of china's all powerful military were gathered to hear this speech as she jumping urging his troops to carry out the tasks which have been bestowed upon them by the people and the party he said as he entered what he called the new era as he has been seen previously

a big military gatherings like this she jumping was in army fatigues military fatigues very much sending out the message that he is the person in charge as you might imagine this is been making all the headlines in the state run media here in china has been the top story also on the front pages of the newspapers talking about xi jinping mobilizing the people's liberation army really presenting xi jinping as the man very much in charge and this does come a couple of months after the all important party congress here which marked the transition between his first five years in power and the start of his next five years in power where he really really seemed to cement his hold on that power making him see him as most analysts here now telling us really the most powerful chinese leader in living memory richelle a lot of this is internal messaging but clearly there must be some external

messaging as well for people outside of the country to receive considering all the tension that's been increasing. in the area. pics from this do seem to be pretty clear china has year on year been spending more on its military its defense budget is still gwar by that of say the united states but year on year it has been spending more getting more sophisticated equipment it is in the process for example of just commissioning its second aircraft carrier a third is already being built so this does send out a message of just how in powerful and influential the military is becoming to people like rival neighbors such as japan with whom china has territorial disputes also other neighbors in the southeast asia with whom china has disputes in the south china sea and through them bore in directly to the united states of course

but the real concern at the moment as you mentioned earlier is what is happening on the korean peninsula are the concerns that as we get the new year whether tensions will continue to escalate whether there is a possibility of some sort of conflict emerging and this is i think a timely reminder that whatever happens china increasingly does have military options of its own that it can call on if it has to. press in beijing thank you. palestinian leader bonded with defiance to u.s. president ronald trump's threat to create a palestinian authority and a u.n. agency. saying around three quarters of a billion dollars. long. accusing palestinians of not wanting peace talks chamchamal parts from ramallah in the occupied west bank. for. a mother of three palestinian refugee children a routine trip to the doctor was already riddled with complications. but after

hearing the u.s. may decide to cut more than three hundred million dollars of annual aid to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees or as it is known she now worries a bad situation may worsen. it's getting more difficult it's getting more complicated and things aren't getting solved everything is becoming more expensive going to laws available to the poor is not nowadays on wednesday residents of the occupied west bank woke up to the news that u.s. president donald trump may halt aid payments worth hundreds of millions of dollars to palestinians if they're no longer willing to talk peace sixty year old wooden a fool like so many other palestinian refugees here relies on this supported clinic in a refugee camp a health center that depends on foreign aid. it's hard because of the difficult situation in all conditions and it allows us to go to this clinic while officials

tell us they've not been informed by the u.s. administration of any changes in funding to the agency the cuts could have a devastating impact approximately five million palestinian refugees are eligible for services close to eight hundred thousand of them live here in the west bank and another one point three million are in gaza condemnation from palestinian officials who insist they are still very much committed to the peace process was swift many of them said palestine was not for sale we've lived for a long time without american aid and we can sort of buy without american aid and if it's really means that there will be more hunger and less ability to survive look at what the gazans of staying because of the israeli siege of gaza. but but people you know i'm not willing to sell their homeland for money now faced with the prospect of

a political solution growing dimmer and humanitarian aid getting scarcer the only certainty mohammed and dizzee into the occupied west bank. at least fourteen people have been killed in airstrikes in northwest syria this footage shows the aftermath of a strike which destroyed a hospital may outskirts of it three people were killed and eleven people died in other strikes across it live in hama the syrian opposition says russian and government forces carried out the attacks in the province and province is thought to be the largest remaining rebel held area in syria. and wherever they can on the side of roads in open fields syrians are still on the move trying to fight. that have become battlegrounds and as we fled the bombardment and the a strikes we cango back because a house was hit and it is now destroyed they are targeting civilians and their homes not the rebels. the recent wave of displacement coincides with winter weather

setting in making life even more difficult near freezing temperatures are common here and many fear they may have to live out in the open for a long time they have nothing to return to and some of their villages have been recaptured by government forces for many going back is not an option. we had to leave the area because of airstrikes we tried to return to the village but it was talkative again we hope that the regime doesn't control the area the united nations says up to sixty thousand people have been displaced in recent weeks it also says aid is scarce there are already an estimated two hundred thousand displaced people and people who fled from areas across the country retaken by government forces. are being displaced for the past seven years running from one place to the other it's horrible if god doesn't help us no one can. even the children the regime wants to control every single area. the violence is not confined to areas close to the

frontlines villages across the province are coming under fire. hospitals bakeries markets have all been hit by airstrikes it live under rebel control in two thousand and fifteen it is also supposed to be a russian guaranteed deescalation zone. it is a heavily populated province an estimated two million people who live there people fear the presence of. a coalition dominated by a front which declared its independence from al qaida could be used as a pretext to launch an all out offensive the russian military did say the main goal is to defeat that group in syria in two thousand and eighteen. people are worried pro-government forces want to storm rebels however believe the military campaign aims to recapture a military airport and lift the siege on to loyalist towns in the province whatever the objective the offensive continues to cause much suffering.

to the polls in july to elect a new president and it's already shaping up to be a historic race it's the first time candidates can run without the backing of a party and pendants are vying for the top job. now what lies ahead for mexico and two thousand and eighteen. mexico's presidential elections are heating up led by leftist firebrand andres manuel lopez obrador he ran in and lost the past two elections now lopez obrador is riding a wave of public discontent to lead the pack of candidates to name most signals that. we haven't heard the possibility of ending we will stamp out corruption by. report markets. and for the first time in mexico's history independent candidates have joined the race. but with. their political parties i don't think any of them

are in it for the people. i don't trust any of the candidates. only believe them when actual changes start to happen. analysts say that people must be engaged and hold candidates to account if they want this election to be different. the political class loves it when society doesn't trust them then you separate yourself and leave public spaces where the government doesn't like is when social media is buzzing with discussion and debate as. never before have mexicans had such a variety of candidates to choose from and with the july first election quickly approaching many people here are asking what impact a younger more educated and more politicized generation of voters could have on the country's future david mercer al-jazeera in mexico city. and the next support in our series takes a look at the business of two thousand eight hundred could be make or break break

for britain's withdrawal from the european union and if the first round of talks is anything to go by and could really be a struggle that's friday here on al-jazeera. a bone chilling cold to seize much of the u.s. and a ferocious new blast it's on the way they're all just are calling it a genesis. that's a cyclon of snow on land that's expected to bring dangerous conditions to the u.s. east coast john hendren reports from chicago. a deadly arctic freeze his blanketed the american midwest with lingering record breaking cold in minnesota last week forty five below zero in spots colder than the surface of mars in north dakota wind chills of fifty below celsius or fahrenheit at that point they're pretty much the same in chicago setting record lows in the new year a river of ice. really stings the face and i usually don't come out

here like this i'm normally dressed like a ninja only my eyes are showing now a new storm targets the entire u.s. eastern seaboard with the rapid recluse force of a bomb we're going to see what we're also called the bomb a storm that street in so rapidly in twenty four hours that it almost seems like a hurricane with snow wintry weather has frozen fountains from new york to south carolina drop the first snowflakes in tallahassee florida in thirty years and frozen niagara falls in time in iowa it suspended this car in place i can even tell you how many anxious the ice that it has on it and left vehicles piled up in a deadly crash on the new york thruway but the record setting chill does not make global warming fiction other parts of the world if you look at temperatures right now are actually somewhat above normal where one of the coolest places on the planet right now so this is in no way refutes the notion of climate warming or

climate change the lethal cold has left two dead in milwaukee one in detroit and several more as far south as texas despite warnings against a new will polar plunges some in boston traded in parties for swimsuits in boston harbor. the u.s. national weather service has issued. when jewel advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada with the munsters no descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren and chicago. michelle carrying these are the top stories right now on al-jazeera u.s. president onil trump lashed out at us former chief strategist steve bannon saying he's lost his mind follows the publication of excerpts from an upcoming book in which ran into now it's a strong sell to son of treasonous and unpatriotic it's over two thousand and

sixteen meeting with a lawyer with kremlin connections the white house press secretary calls the claims baseless and the white house is defending trump's tweet about the size of its nuclear button on tuesday trump warned a north korean leader that its nuclear button is a much bigger and more powerful button and that his button works i don't think that it's tontine to stand up for the people of this country i think what's dangerous is to ignore the continued threats if the previous administration had done anything and dealt with north korea dealt with iran instead of sitting behind doing nothing we wouldn't have to clean up their mess no iran's ambassador to the u.n. is accusing the u.s. of interfering in his country's affairs after washington's ambassador called for out emergency meeting to discuss anti-government protests at least twenty two people have died since saturday a. man maher is marking seventy year sense and dependence from great britain that

there has been no mention of the right hand to crisis despite talks of peace with ethnic groups they government says there are ongoing attempts to end decades of fighting with ethnic groups or enterprises has not been addressed more than six hundred thousand rohinton muslims have fled to bangladesh a military crackdown and me and our. the european union's foreign policy chief and top call for an end to the u.s. against cuba. comments come after washington decided to tight restrictions on have anna. on a visit to the communist island nation she is hoping to strengthen europe's political and economic ties china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for real combat and improve their capability to weigh. made the comments at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing he said the purpose of the event was to showcase the country's military might and in this new era for china. those are

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