cutting through the headlines. and in a week of special coverage we'll be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january. in the philippines millions live in overcrowded slums but some of found another place to call home public cemeteries one of those living among the dead at this time on al-jazeera. president former a gore has commented on his campaign's russia links and a much anticipated book.

i'm richelle carey this is life and also coming up the chinese president tells his soldiers to be combat ready at a grand military parade. around accuses the u.s. of interfering in its affairs and says the anti-government protests are over. at britain's national health system takes drastic measures to cope with surging to man . excerpts of a forthcoming book on the trump administration are causing a political storm in the u.s. the president has had out 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 suspected russian meddling and the election and estabrook reports from washington. 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 claimed to have dirt on democratic presidential candidates 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 an 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 banding continues to have a strong connection to president trumps nationalist core but sanders downplayed suggestions that those supporters might break with the president it's a question you 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. world. al-jazeera. the book has revealed

more and cited some trump's first year in office one of the biggest claims says that he never expected to beat hillary clinton has son donald trump jr has put out a saying his father looked as though he had seen a ghost on election night. publicly claim to more people attended his inauguration then barack obama's in private he was fear is says celebrities spoke openly of avoiding the event and i'm moving into the white house trying to set to a found a building antenna dating which forced him to spend a lot of time alone and his private room just letterman is a national security journalist for the associated press he says the republican establishment will be relieved at trump's distancing from c. panel 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 wants 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 grandin 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 says defending trump's tweet about the size of his nuclear button on tuesday the president warned the north korean leader that his nuclear button is much bigger and more powerful and that his 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 now south korea says that it's coordinating with the u.s. ahead of proposed talks with north korea says dialogue will focus on the upcoming winter olympic games and south korea that that country's foreign minister says president wants the nuclear issue to be raised. specifically tell us the foreign ministry work very closely with the two of you are or are friends to ensure that so that south north track. simultaneously with or endeavors to come to terms with north. japan's prime minister shinzo lobby is calling on north korea to change its policies. so as it gets severely cooled or in january and february we hope to cautiously watch the impact of the sanctions on north korea does have diligent people and rich resources they

could make their country richer only if we took the right policies japan is determined to do the utmost to work closely with the u.s. and south korea to pressure north korea to change its direction while also coordinating with china and russia to fully implement the u.n. security council sanctions and ultimately to make north korea abolished its nuclear and missile program. china's president is urging his military leaders to train soldiers for combat and improve their capability to win wars she's in pain made the comments at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing he said the purpose of the event was to the thought of building a strong army and a new era for china sr 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 areas as long tried to assert control over the disputed south china sea that is home to major trading routes and that's raise concern in the u.s. and southeast asia across the region china as investing in several large projects and the philippines traditionally a u.s. ally that's promised twenty four billion dollars of investment since two thousand and sixteen the central geo political issue of course is north korea beijing has played a careful game implementing international sanctions against leader kim jong un and his government but it wants to avoid a collapse of the country which could lead to u.s. allied south korean troops on its borders it's also trying to position itself as a regional broker attempted to mediate border disputes between pakistan and afghanistan robin pride joins us now from beijing with more on this event so rob these events are you know there's there's a lot of stagecraft there's a lot of imagery a lot of messaging tell me how this all played out in china how it's being cheap

treated. you know this was a show of military strength that was meant to impress some seven thousand troops and their hardware gathered in her very province i was just outside beijing to hear this speech from she where he spoke about the troops. carrying out the tasks which are being disposed be stowed upon them by the party and also the people as he moved into what he called a new era it was a speech that was also carried we're told live to thousands of other locations across china where this massive military machine that china now has was gathered for what the papers here are calling a mass mobilization exercise a real show of strength paying period as he has done its previous large military events like this in battle fatigues really sending out the message that he is very much the commander in chief and it comes a couple of months after

a very important party congress here which marked the end of his first five years in office as president and the beginning of his next five years where he really cemented his hold on power many analysts here are describing him richelle the most powerful chinese leader now in living memory. and he seems to be trying to also exert that power or at least show that power outside of this country as well what message are signal do you think he's trying to send at this particular moment. the optics do seem to be pretty clear from from this display china's military has been growing in strength china now spends year on year more and more of its gross domestic product of its budget on its military it is still has to be said to warthe by the military spending of say the united states but increasingly china has more hardware that it likes to show off for example in the past year it has taken

delivery it's in the process of commissioning its second aircraft carrier it's only a few years since it's got its first aircraft carrier and we understand the third is now being built so exponentially it is increasing the power of its military military and it does send a message to regional rivals such as japan with whom china has territorial disputes and as you mentioned there are also neighbors in the south china sea with whom or china has disputes in that stretch of water and in directly beyond that of course with the united states it does send a signal in that direction china's biggest concern right now is the could we're in the peninsula and as we move into the new year the fear that tensions will continue to escalate there there is still a very real fear of some sort of conflict well this is i think a timely reminder that regardless of what happens china increasingly does have

military options of its own if it has to call on them to show. thank you. iran's u.n. envoy is accusing the u.s. of protests clay inciting anti-government protests in a letter to the u.n. secretary general complaining about president trump's tweets in support of the demonstrations on wednesday the head of iran's revolutionary guard an ounce what he called the end of sedition as tens of thousands rallied in support of the government twenty two people have been killed since saturday as matheson reports. on a rainy and state t.v. pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and today. it's basically people who are believing that what's happening is a game and they want to support the region by saying this is a revolutionary dream and we are in favor of it. but 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 of people have been arrested the u.s. is demanding an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council if the arrangement 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 but it's not clear if both sides will be on the same streets at the same time matheson al-jazeera still had on al-jazeera a turkish banker is found guilty of taking part in a scheme to violate u.s. sanctions on iran and snow in the sunshine state or to freeze scripts much of the u.s. including florida and dangerous blast of cold air is on the way. skies

by the taj mahal. are as the sun sets in the city of angels. hello and welcome to international weather forecast this is the area of low pressure is right across the u.k. the low countries giving really severe weather conditions with very very strong winds and also some flooding now that low is gradually filling over the baltic we've got another area of low pressure further towards the west and in its warm sector we're going to see some well very warm air so temperatures word on instable figures across the u.k. france and down into parts of switzerland there's going to be a significant snow melt risk here with the risk of avalanches fine across much iberian peninsula we've got still unsettled weather conditions further towards the east and then heading on through into friday chances some rain some showers in places but generally some slightly quieter conditions southeastern parts of europe

not too bad athens there fourteen but on the eastern side of the mediterranean turkey through into cyprus we've got some rain likely here from the low pressure center otherwise fairly brisk winds but weather conditions quiet at the moment nineteen the high in karo for central parts of africa the weather here to friday quite some showers with a bow on the congo but otherwise much of the region drawing fine lagos nigeria sunny and highs of twenty nine but we have got tropical cyclone a for effect in the eastern side of madagascar and over the next few days we could see anything up to a meter of rain there with sponsored by qatar race. you are making mounts 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 saturday no evil person just wakes up the over the morning in says i want to scour the world in darkness and this is a dialogue that could be worth leading to some of the confusion on line about

people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories right now u.s. president donald trump says his former chief strategist steve bannon has lost his mind to quote and described trump's eldest son as treasonous and unpatriotic in a new book comments of her to meeting between donald trump jr and a lawyer with the russian government connections china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for combat and improve their capability to win wars speaking at a military ceremony being said the event showcases china's military might and

a new era and iran's u.n. envoy is accusing the u.s. of grotesquely interfering in internal affairs by inciting protests military general says the protests have finished after days of unrest which left at least twenty two people killed. palestinian leaders have responded with defiance to u.s. president tunnel trump's threat to cut aid and take true islam off the peace to go table the palestinian authority and a un agency for refugees face losing around three quarters of a billion dollars mohammed champions fair to people in the occupied territories and this report from ramallah. a mother of three palestinians 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 gold 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 would then than a fool like so many other palestinian refugees here relies on this unruh is 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 couldn't so survive 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. getting scarcer the only thing it seems palestinians can count on is even more uncertainty mohammad. among the occupied west bank. politicians have taken their first step to allowing the

death penalty for what they call terrorists a draft law in the knesset was passed that would ease restrictions on capital punishment a lot of platypi apply to people convicted of murder and incidents classified as a terrorist attack currently the death penalty can only be used if a panel of three military judges passes the sentence and muscly but the new legislation with say a death sentence handed down with only two out of three judges approval the bill still fires three more readings before it becomes a law but let me push you should. i think that the stream situations there is also simple logic and simply much easy if someone murders in laos he will not spend the rest of his dog in jail and he will be executed turkey says the u.s. has interfered in its domestic affairs by convicting a turkish banker for violating sanctions against iran until an eight others were accused of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through american banks disguised as food and gold sales are sensible and the reports from new york.

attila took the stand and insisted he never conspired to evade u.s. sanctions at the deputy general manager of hulk bank his attorneys suggested his boss and others were to blame but it was a tila who was arrested while traveling to the united states while his boss and others charged in the case remain free in turkey the only other defendant to face trial in the us turkish ronnie and gold trade and reza rob he pleaded guilty and became a key witness for the prosecution making accusations that rose to the top of turkey's government saurabh testified he paid tens of millions in bribes to government ministers and the scheme that president rest of tired and want himself had authorized when he was prime minister turkish officials who initially lobbied u.s. officials for release have now moved to condemning him and seizing his assets the very fact that everyone has been so concerned about this case does suggest that at

some level he feels vulnerable however given the ease with which he's dealt with previous allegations of corruption in the past it's hard to imagine this it's hard to imagine a sort of suggested this is going to be the thing that brings him down everyone's government claims the u.s. is trying to weaken his government and do the bidding of political rival for to lead glenn lives in the united states they go. back to. this court case or stop being judicial became completely political with the sole aim to corner turkey and its economy and damage the country a charge prosecutors have described as ridiculous you can choose to willfully help iran said acting u.s. attorney june kim in a statement or you can choose to be a part of the international banking community transacting in u.s. dollars but you can't do both so rob provided no evidence that a tila ever took a bribe but as u.s. prosecutors successfully argued that didn't mean he was innocent now he could face

decades behind bars for a scheme he helped design but others including zurab got rich off of christian salumi al jazeera new york. a tory government says it has prevented a coup against president being and grama security forces gunfire to disperse what the government says were mercenaries gathered near the border with cameroon one man was killed the government blamed opposition groups president obiang has been accused of corruption and human rights abuses he's been in power for nearly four decades the european union's foreign policy chief has called for an end to the u.s. led embargo against cuba greenies comments came after washington decided to tighten restrictions on her vanna greeny is on a visit to the communist island nation she is hoping to strengthen europe's political and economic ties the blockade is not the solution we europeans have said this to our american friends many times and we've reaffirmed it repeatedly in the

united nations. the blockade is absurd meet it is illegal and the european union will continue working to put an end to it and peru a second minister has resigned over the pardon given to former president mori defense minister diego he has to part sure comes after of the culture minister resigned last week which more was released on health grounds last month triggering days of protests he was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights violations including murder. conservationists in brazil are trying to figure out why more than eighty dolphins have died in less than a month. and every day. in america. endangered marine animals. hospitals are having to take drastic measures to cope with surging winter demands the national health service says non-emergency could be

put off for weeks and provided taxpayer funded free health care for more than seventy. reports there are concerns about its future. hundreds of british hospitals are in the grip of a winter crisis patient numbers regularly surge during the colder months but this year sickness levels have sought to ease the pressure health officials have by doctors in england from carrying out all non-emergency surgery such as counteract to hip replacement operations until the end of january people have been told to only go to hospital in a real emergency some patients are waiting twelve hours to see a doctor others are being treated in kodos medical stuff but also feeling the strain on twitter this doctor apologized for the third world conditions at the hospital he worked in. i shouldn't be and t. is every day at work because of a lack of resources and lack of capacity wrote this nurse an estimated fifty five

thousand procedures are expected to be postponed in the coming weeks and h.s. chiefs have defended the move this is a planned response to a winter that we knew was going to be difficult and we are managing that in the way that we expected and we're taking early action we're not waiting for have to respond to. the n.h.s. is one of the u.k.'s most revered institutions offering free health care to all u.k. residents but it's under mounting strain so much so that this time last year the red cross the international aid group said that if things didn't improve that it raised a humanitarian crisis. and the n.h.s. is still struggling to cope many doctors blame successive governments for starving the service of funding all in a gradual attempt they say to privatized the public health service we've seen the n.h.s. over this decade undergoing the biggest funding squeeze since it began. seventy years and what we've seen in this decade is approximately forty billion pounds of

cuts by the time we get twenty twenty not simply on pressed into the n.h.s. it's not surprising we're seeing the kind of scenes that we are persuaded to run last winter the government insists the delays are part of a well planned system but the cancer operations and time critical procedures will go ahead as planned but all many people can see is a cherished service sinking deeper into crisis the dark al-jazeera london a bone chilling cold has seized much of the us and approaches new blast it's on the way. calling it a bomb genesis a cycle of snow and when it'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 there pretty much the same in chicago setting record lows in the new year a river of ice it 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 ruthless 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 just south carolina dropped 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 we're 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 parkas for swimsuits in boston harbor. the u.s. national weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. . is expected to strike hardest in new england john hundred zero zero zero chicago .

recap the headlines now on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says former chief strategist steve bannon has lost his mind and i described trump's eldest son as treasonous and unpatriotic and a new book the comments refer to meeting between donald trump jr and a lawyer with russian government connections the white house says the allegations are baseless i think that is a ridiculous accusation and one that i'm pretty sure we've addressed many times from here before if that's in reference to comments made by mr bannon i'd refer you back to the ones that he made previously on sixty minutes worry called the collusion with russia about this president a total farce so i think i would love to look back about fifty but he's been inconsistent it's been him certainly has been the president or this administration china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for combat and improve their capability to win wars speaking at a military ceremony station paying said the event showcases china's military strength and a new era south korea says it's coordinating with the u.s.

ahead of proposed talks with north korea downing says dialogue will focus on the upcoming winter olympic games in south korea but that country's foreign minister says president moon wants the nuclear issue to also be raised pants prime minister shinzo obvious again calling on north korea to change its policies around you an envoy is accusing the u.s. of protests play interfering in internal affairs by inciting protests washington's ambassador call for an emergency un meeting to discuss anti-government demonstrators a military general says the protests have finished after days of unrest which left at least twenty two people dead. turkey has called a us court verdict unjust and scandalous by convicting a turkish banker for violating sanctions against a rod it's accuse the court of using fake evidence to find the senior manager of a bank and eight others guilty of money laundering. attila and others who are

accused of moving billions of dollars of iranian money for u.s. banks disguised as food and gold sales. and those are your headlines this continues story al-jazeera after the strain you better. valued is a gem of africa my ruby has gone through many changes over the past decades. to al-jazeera travels to the kenyan capital to hear from those who witnessed the city's progress to becoming a metropolis and discusses where it's heading now at this time on al-jazeera. ok i'm really good and these are our guests on the stream so what do you see i see an array of different shades of black p.t. on today's show why people with dull skin and facing discrimination from within and outside the.