the news breaks members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds i don't know i've been a couple of days just what the president say in our country that is not underway and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. it's just strays four and laughable. on the defensive the white house tries to stop the release of a controversial book about donald trump's presidency. and welcome to al-jazeera life for my headquarters and me it is

a problem also ahead. a suicide attack in the afghan capital killed at least eleven people. a so-called bomb cyclon swaped sent to the eastern part of north america with states bracing for record breaking cold plus. i'm wayne hay in northern thailand home to many ethnic minority groups many people living in these hills have lived here for generations but still can't officially call thailand home . the white house is threatening legal action over a damning book about u.s. president donald trump the upcoming book and fury inside the trump white house paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and describes a president mentally unfit for the job don estabrook has more. president donald trump's press secretary came out swinging thursday saying americans are more

concerned about policy then a new book on the white house i don't think they really care about some trash and author that no one has ever heard of until today or a fired employee wants to peddle earlier attorneys for the president sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author demanding the book not be released they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election after excerpts of the. released wednesday and enraged president trump said of bannon when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind initially bannon fired off a tweet saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had one but he later tweeted that the president was a great man that prompted president trump to downplay the vitriol at

a white house meeting thursday don't really tell me a great man last night so you know you obviously changed his tune pretty quick the book is a distraction for a president who is trying to advance his policies in the face of a deepening special investigation into russia's meddling into the twenty sixteen presidential election author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration in a column thursday wolf seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he'd repeat word for word and expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes the book is prompting speculation that the twenty fifth amendment to the constitution could be used to remove the president from office but former federal prosecutor melanie sloan says that he is unlikely to imagine the majority of the cabinet and the vice president of the united states actually sending

a letter saying that the president of the united states is mentally incapacitated is very hard to imagine and there are many commentators who believe this could lead to a constitutional crisis sions sloan says impeachment is a more likely scenario but with the congress still controlled by the president's own party that two seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al jazeera washington well as i mentioned and have report the book is diverting attention away from trump's new policies and pushed forward on some of them the attorney general reversed and obama a policy on marijuana it can. federal authorities from cracking down on the drugs trade in states where recreational use is allowed the government also proposed new rules allowing small businesses then these self-employed to band together to buy health insurance and that's another attempt to roll back barack obama's signature health care law trumps also moving to expand offshore oil drilling under

a new five year plan mind to percent of the nation's reserves would be opened up to private companies including waters of the california coast which have been restricted for decades to the precautions communications director at the sunrise movement it's an organization that works on climate change and she says that plan is potentially catastrophic. it's a complete disgrace and it's very clear that this plan is only going to further enrich his wealthy fossil fuel our eyes while committing the rest of the world a catastrophic climate change threatening local economies and the environment in twenty ten we saw the b.p. oil spill devastate the gulf coast over two hundred million gallons of crude oil into the ocean it ruined but fisherman's livelihoods damaged the coastline and wreak havoc on the wildlife we depend on and love and those communities are still recovering the plant trauma and they'll today will undoubtedly cause more harm and it's not a matter of if it's really

a matter when. to move on to other news now an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others has claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel the blast happened as police were carrying out an operation searching for people who were suspected of selling alcohol illegally up the lasher who has more from kabul. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their business is to be open afghan police have been breeding businesses in shops in kabul. area where these shops are reported to be selling in the city substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shops being opened the afghan police try to stop these protestors clashes broke among the protesters and

afghan police and in these clashes number of protesters and also political wounded now taking the advantage as a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and in in the protesters. and it turned out that the hope the protest into a blood shed why killing number of people and dozens of people wounded. now the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on a. program that was set in motion before the ongoing protests in iran but donald trump is warning that they could be more sanctions to come when the new measures target five iranian entities involved in the development of the missiles many international sanctions on iran have been left in since the two thousand and fifteen deal but the latest u.s. action is being taken unilaterally protests currently taking place and. by the struggling economy which the government blames on sanctions while the u.n.

security council is set to meet on friday and to discuss those demonstrations. the protests but added that his troops are ready to intervene if needed at least twenty two people have died in the west reports from. the size of these pro-government rallies is a message to iran's critics at home and abroad. iran's government has plenty of public support and is here to stay speaking to a crowd in the northern city of mashad even a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by four of an imminent overthrow of the government was a miscalculation. that. this crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america zionists and all the arrogant powers. in recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining iran's way of government

especially in the face of violent instability. but they don't necessarily support president hassan rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked government demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the rouhani administration. the main issue for the papal is currently inflation and the economy economic problems have resulted in corruption and moral issues in society economic stability is very important everyone who takes office makes some promises but they can't fulfill. the recent protests because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost draw any promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal in two thousand and fifteen government supporters are calling for all

iranians to be a part of solving the country's problems. the government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on how iran's leaders deal with the country's economy and what even if they are the legitimate grievances of their own people. north korea has accepted the south for talks on. that's the area between the two countries earlier this week. for the first time since two thousand and sixteen. north korea taking part in. large parts of the eastern u.s.

on the grip of a historic one to storm system being called a bomb on the map shows the areas that will see the worst of the record breaking low temperature as the national weather service says heavy snow hurricane force winds and tidal flooding are expected on to late friday with the storm towards canada well the extreme weather has course travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled leaving many travelers stranded at airports ports now from new york. a large chunk of north america was already in a deep freeze now the northeast coast is being hit particularly hard from a winter blizzard massachusetts bearing the brunt of it blowing snow white out conditions along the coastal regions of the state there was icy flooding. in the seaside town of scituate massachusetts boats were seen floating in icy waters all of the northeast of the u.s. was hit with what meteorologists were loosely calling a snow hurricane it closed many schools and government offices in new york heavy

snow and particularly high winds nearly brought the city to a halt and by afternoon most businesses had closed up for the day the mayor declared a winter storm emergency and has to residents to stay indoors. this is a serious serious storm between the very low temperature the strong winds the driving snow everyone should take this one very seriously and take precautions that conditions brought airports to a standstill thousands of flights canceled in the northeast leaving travelers either queuing up to rebook or stranded unsure of when they might be able to fly appetite was canceled and we never got any information they would be canceled. or delayed and we're not sure it would be on the plan to see further south in georgia water by. no match for the cold for the site where temperatures this low are highly

unusual that's the first time. i've seen snow or even colder this much. but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight governor of massachusetts saying friday likely won't be any better a foot of snow wasn't enough the forecast for digit temperatures to move in on friday a storm that hit hard when the temperatures. dipped down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance much melting away. york still ahead.

hello there this is a weather continues across parts of north america here's the storm responsible still developing as it runs its way towards the northeast so for new england and for the eastern parts of canada does look very very wintery very disrupted over the next day or so there's that system here as we head through the day on friday behind it yes the snow will have to it but it will certainly be cold look at that new york has a maximum temperature just minus nine and for atlanta only one very cold for many of us here and it looks like the temperatures will drop further to some of us as we head into saturday this time minus twenty two certainly a cold day meanwhile towards the southwest it is milder for us in l.a. a temperature making it to around twenty four which is seventy five in fahrenheit if we head down towards the central americas here we've got this huge area of cloud that's been with us for the past few days and it's going nowhere in

a great hurry so they could well be a problem with flooding here over the next few days particularly to parts of panama and costa rica but i'll be through towards the northeast there's also going to be some sharp showers here for jamaica and forth across haiti it could well be a few very heavy downpours here as well meanwhile for south america we've got our usual rush of showers that stretching all the way down to rio but also for the south another weather system is pushing its way north was given showers to porn stars. in russia many migrant. and grazing. echoing an increasingly global trend. to exploitation. people in power investigate. little pakistan. this time zero.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories the white house is threatening legal action out of an upcoming book about u.s. president donald trump it paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and a president described as mentally unfit for the job an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others i feel has claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security personnel the death toll is expected to rise and large parts of the eastern u.s. are in the grip of a historical winter storm system being called

a bomb cyclonic new york's mayor has declared a weather merge and city before constance predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow. to top and now with the government is working towards the goal of eradicating statelessness by two thousand and twenty four more than four hundred thousand people without citizenship are registered with the top government of the actual number though is thought to be more than three million many ethnic minorities living in border areas when hey reports from my tank. in the hills of northern thailand there are millions of people whose lives have been hanging in the balance for years people in this village in chiang mai province belong to the ethnic group whose ancestors migrated around the region centuries ago facing persecution along the way. those living here now have been in thailand for generations but many still don't have type paperwork the village chief says he was the last person here to be granted citizenship sixteen years ago. and in the past i

only had a car that identified me as a highlander but now i have a tiny nationality car i'm very happy when i have money i can buy everything i want i can buy a house a car i'm glad those things remain a dream for so many others like hmong tong d.d. who was born in thailand to parents from me and mob eight years ago he won a paper plane throwing competition and was granted a temporary passport to represent thailand at a competition in japan the government at the time promised he would be granted permanent status upon his return. he's now twenty and is still stateless he works part time in a drone shop and teaches stateless children how to fly them. i feel very sad because people promised they would give me time nationality they were senior people and had promised me when i was just a little boy but they broke their promise. last year the military government valid to grant time nationality to another eighty thousand people but that would still

leave hundreds of thousands if not more waiting there are many challenges facing stateless people in thailand they have to ask for permission before leaving their village they have difficulty accessing proper education or employment and can often become victims of corrupt government officials trying to take advantage of their vulnerability. in fact in the last few years many people have had their id cards revoked after it was found they had paid bribes for them at this small government office alone four thousand corrupt cases were uncovered the government sent in more staff to resolve the problems but those in charge say the workload is huge. this is a very delicate job and it can slide into corruption therefore we have to be careful that's why we can only process two nationality cases per day and i'm a good for people waiting it's not just a case of having an id card it's a matter of dignity pride and a sense of belonging after generations of uncertainty when hey al jazeera may turn

district thailand well let's get more on this now we're joined by benjamin flocke a human right three thirty to an advocate he's joining us live from bangkok very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the thai government has actually granted statehood to thousands of the past few years how much progress do you think it has made. well it's made some progress but that's been largely symbolic i think the effort to eradicate stateless before twenty twenty four is long overdue and it sends a signal that there is an exercise of political will finally coming out of bangkok and it's really no small thing when you consider that the real number of stateless persons in thailand is probably approaching three million and in a country of sixty six million people it's a sizable percentage a sizable increase in the citizenship of the country. but the porton thing to keep in mind is that with every new right that is conferred upon new citizens of the

country there are corresponding duties corresponding responsibilities new citizens will have to undertake regarding for example the payment of taxes service in the military voting in elections it cetera and so in that sense it's of great benefit of course to the new citizens of the country but it benefits and benefits the government as well and it is something as the sole and the pool that those who a stake in this would very much like a report also uncovered some of the problems like corruption around the quantity of statehood what some of the challenges that is standing in the way at the moment. well for the people themselves for the state this is stateless persons statelessness has often been described as the denial of the right to have rights right because for individuals lacking a nationality they may have the human rights that they're essentially born with but but lacking citizenship they have no way of accessing those rights no way of giving

those rights meaning so for those people the challenges are numerous in terms of accessing health care education etc on the positive side and of course avoiding the exploitation in the vulnerability to trafficking and to and to manipulation on the other side but for the government as was mentioned in the package corruption is one of the biggest problems that has always attended this problem in the north. it's far geographically removed from bangkok which is the which is the center of power here in thailand and the border region is very mountainous the overwhelming majority of the border between thailand and myanmar for example is not clearly didn't do mark a did and so you have problems of personnel these are the corruption but you also just have problems of geography in trying to determine just where that line is drawn and and what documents can be accepted toward proving one's one's nationality and this is about can i you touched on this brief in your first answer but just how much political will do you think there is in thailand and statelessness given

status this is a problem actually around the world something like at least ten million people a stateless how would thailand to efforts elsewhere to grab people state good. well thailand is not exceeded to either one of the un conventions on statelessness on the one hand on the other hand we judge these countries largely by results and what we're seeing here is that while no one knows what the government of thailand will look like in twenty twenty four what this could be is an example of a military government that's obviously on encumbered by the checks and balances of a democratic governance system using its authoritarian powers to confer rights on citizens rather than to take those rights away which is which is unusual quite frankly so it really is a positive sign of these of the political will being exercised in bangkok and only the next six years will prove whether or not that political will is sustainable

well i must as a black am afraid that is all the time we have we thank you very much as always for your time that is benjamin's joaquin joining us live from bangkok thank you. but now tech firms have admitted to serious for one chips that power billions of computers servers and smartphones around the world experts and all scrambling to fix the issue before sensitive information stored on the chips becomes vulnerable to hackers all platforms are biscuit including apple and microsoft rob reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every computer smartphone in server sold in the past twenty years packers if they are able to install some malicious software on a computer and then go the extra step to take advantage of this problem they can access some really sensitive information including passwords encryption keys that

let them access even more sensitive data security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in computer chips used in nearly all devices the flaws dubbed specter and meltdown by security experts would allow intruders to steal any data. on the systems companies involved include apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m a m d google's project zero security team said it found the flaws sometime last year the company announced details of how it is working to protect users of google cloud and android devices it says a new version of the chrome browser debuting later this month will include fixes microsoft is also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed any fixes for its operating systems those patches will address the melt down bug but they

could significantly slow down device performance in some cases by as much as thirty percent if i have news for if you got no device it will become more vulnerable to hackers if you go to a new device it may slow down if it's a government chip inside it the other flaw called spector is harder to fix and will ultimately require a redesign of the chips themselves rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles the egyptian branch of i so is calling for attacks on the palestinian group hamas. and its follow us to attack the gaza based couldn't push on the execution of a man it said was a collaborator i feel has claimed responsibility for recent killings and egypt the latest on nine people shot dead outside a church. in u.i. some video blamed his office failure to prevent the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and palestinian groups crack down on

gaza as reasons for attacking her not. now there may be in golf has a rich match on heritage dating back thousands of years for the construction of the traditional. threat. in the historic port of sword an eastern i'm on trying to keep the ancient workmanship alive. history books say dallas have been sailing the warm waters of the gulf for more than two thousand years but exactly who invented this ancient type of vessel is lost in time maritime scholars believe they could have originated in china around six hundred b.c. . the sails have been replaced by an engine but they are still used for trade fishing and tourism along the coasts of the united arab emirates saudi arabia qatar yemen no mas. ok for now syria has been sailing tourists along the coast the twenty years. i live in

create on the sea the sea is everything to me it's a type of therapy i've spent my life on the ocean on boats like these which are so important as symbols of our heritage. the historic pulte of sue situation in eastern oman was once home to a fleet of hundreds of dallas the portuguese the dutch and the british pulled their boats in these waters over the centuries all keen to benefit from its ideal trading location. it takes only five days to sail to india from here. maritime trade started flourishing here in the seventeenth century with places aspera field the vans of all india and africa and so also became a major center for the ship building industry a tradition in history and culture that is now struggling to survive.

this is the only dalla building yard insua now. this boat is being built for a country owner when it's finished it will cost more than three hundred thousand dollars and that's without the engine. in keeping with tradition it's being constructed almost entirely from a cd and. originally these boats were literally lashed together using rope. and even now little metal is used as in the past the wood is imported from asia and africa alys family have been building dallas for more than three hundred years the had the. main challenge we face is the introduction of fiberglass fiberglass dows are easier to build and they are cheaper but wooden boats last much longer fifty to sixty years of course this is our heritage and we must protect it people must know their traditions and protect the without our traditions who are we. many of

these predominately indian fishermen spend weeks at a time at sea many of their fathers also sailed fishing and trading down to and from india they are reliant on their dals the name of which is actually a swahili word originating in east africa the arabs simply call them self and meaning ships. a testament to the commercial and cultural impact they've had over centuries in the gulf and well beyond a tradition that people such as captain. to preserve. the again out of the harbor the headlines on al-jazeera the white house is threatening legal action of an upcoming book about u.s.

president donald trump fire and fury inside the trump white house paints a highly critical picture of the current administration the author michael wolff suggests that trump is mentally unfit for the job the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has spoken out against people. it's just raise for and laugh a bore if you was unfit he probably wouldn't be sitting there wouldn't have defeated the most qualified rube of canada's the republican party has ever seen an explosion in the afghan capital kabul has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted security council now police were carrying out an operation against illegal alcohol silence when the blast happened the death toll is expected to rise. the u.s. is imposing new sanctions on iran of a missile program the measures target five iranian entities involved in the development of the weapons that were set in motion before the ongoing protests in

iran and donald trump is warning there could be more sanctions to come turkey has accused the u.s. of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran evade sanctions. and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of food and gold. large parts of the eastern u.s. are in the grip of a historic winter storm system being caught a bomb. in new york the mayor has declared a weather emergency forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow. in china at least three airports have been shot and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snowfall the weather alert has been raised to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow. right other headlines on al-jazeera to stay with

us people and power is coming up next thank you very much for watching. on counting the cost we'll look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all well i asked the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. migration whether for safety and freedom from conflict and repression for economic benefits has become one of the dominant things of our time but this huge flow of people is don't be aimed at europe the united states many from central asia it's a russian state so what faces the on iran.