thousand and eight al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking scheme. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. at this time on al-jazeera. it's just race four and laughable. the controversial book about donald trump's presidency is released. and welcome to al-jazeera life my headquarters in doha bay and of iran and also

ahead a sign of progress north korea accepts sols offer to hold high level talks on tuesday . a so-called bomb silence wakes them to the eastern part of north from their covert states are 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. u.s. president on trucks of a new book about him as full of lies the white house is threatening legal action over the book fire and fury and slide the trump white house it paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and describes president mentally unfit for the job diane estabrook has more. president donald trump's prosecco terry 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 that an author that no one had 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 book were 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 changes to 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. 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 to seems unlikely at least for now dion estabrook al-jazeera washington and as diane mentioned in her report the book is diverting attention away from trump's new policy is on first he pushed forward on some of them the attorney general reversed and obama policy on the marijuana it kept federal authorities from cracking down on the drugs trade in the states where big creational use is allowed the government also proposed new rules allowing small businesses and the self-employed to band together to buy health insurance and that is 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 mine two percent of the nation's reserves would be opened up to private companies including waters off the california coast which have been

restricted for decades while watching the precautions communications director at the sunrise movement that's an organization that works on climate change and she says transplants of offshore oil drilling are potentially catastrophic it's a complete disgrace and it's very clear that this plan is only going to further enrich his well 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 now overstate the gulf coast over two hundred million gallons of oil into the ocean. but fisherman's livelihoods damaged the coastline and wreak havoc on the wildlife we depend on and love and those communities are still recovering from plant and they'll today will undoubtedly cause them more harm and it's not a matter of if it's really a matter when. there's move on to other news now north korea has accepted the

proposal for high level talks on tuesday the meeting will be held inside the demilitarized zone earlier this week cross border communications between pyongyang and seoul reopened for the first time since two thousand and sixteen kim jong un offered to take part in talks during his new year's address tuesday's discussions are said to focus on a north korea taking part in next month's winter olympics in the south of well robert kelly is a professor of international relations and diplomacy at the university and he says seoul will raise the issue of north korea's nuclear program during the talks. i think the south koreans will absolutely bring it up i think it's just a question of how long the north koreans will tolerate that before the talks break down to be perfectly honest i think the north koreans will probably want the talks to dance around for smaller issues like trade and i think north korea is feeling the bite of sanctions north korea worries about its axis of global financial system particularly to chinese banks which is something the americans become the target my guess is that's what the north koreans want to talk about the olympics is something of an olive branch to get that moving but what the south koreans really want to

talk about are the nuclear weapons right i mean south korea could be devastated by those nuclear weapons the nuclear weapons could provoke the americans to strike north korea which could lead to a war we're not really sure quite what will get the north koreans to the table right i mean we really we really are on the outside and we really are rather desperate for the north koreans to come and talk to us not just about what they have but also is it safe and you know try to get an uplift proliferate or a lot of questions we have about north korea's nuclear weapons program people worry about a true noble style incident out here right so anything that gets them talking right if that requires the olympics or maybe like a family reunion thing or something shared music events or someone had that there been lots of these kinds sort of low level personal person things in north korean the past mike's my concern and the commander of u.s. forces in south korea said this too just in the past few days that we've had these things before these kinds of like good moments that didn't actually really go anywhere and that's ultimately what really matters right will the north koreans really deal when it comes to the table i mean it's nice that they're athletes column and everything it's good it's not bad but it is going to actually lead to something in the past it has not there is former president alberto fujimori has

been released from hospital he was pardoned last mom by president petro publications king on health questions triggering days of protests the controversy over his pardon also sold three cabinet ministers resigned and as many weeks but you know i was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses june has rules. large parts of the eastern u.s. on the grip of a historic one to storm system being called a bomb on this map shows the areas that will see the worst of the record breaking low temperatures the national weather service says heavy snow harken force winds and tidal flooding expected on to late friday when the stone moves towards canada well the extreme weather has caused travel chaos with thousands of flights canceled leaving many travelers stranded at airports. reports 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 is canceled and we never get any information they will be canceled. or delayed and we're not sure it will be on the plan to see further south in georgia. water bottles were no match for the cold the site where temperatures this low are highly unusual that's the first time five years have seen snow or even colder this much. but back up in the northeast the situation could get worse overnight the governor of massachusetts saying friday likely won't be any better a foot of snow wasn't enough the forecast predicts single digit temperatures to move in on friday the storm that hit hard when the temperatures now expected to dip down again to minus twenty degrees celsius and below there seems little chance of

much melting away. york to china three airports. experiencing delays because of heavy snow the weather has been raised to its second highest level. could see the first centimeters of snow still ahead. and computer chips tech firms rushed to patch a security full. of devices worldwide and. time efforts to save the ancient balance and. hello there are some of us in the middle east we're seeing some very heavy rain and a fair amount of snow to one system that's moving away towards the east that warns

of fizzling out but the system that we're really looking at is towards the west it's been giving us some heavy rain already to parts of turkey and now is stretching towards the south as well so through lebanon all the way up into turkey it does look very very wet and over the mountains we're looking at some snow that system who well give us a problem with flooding and landslides before eventually clears away and it should clear away quite readily so saturday should be a brighter day beirut they're getting to around sixteen degrees which is sixty one in fahrenheit now a bit further towards the south and here in doha our temperatures are hovering around twenty four but i think it will get a little bit warmer as we head through the day into saturday twenty six degrees will be the top temperature and then the winds will be help as we head into sunday even further towards the south and we've got all storm that we've been watching that's just grazing the east coast of madagascar that's going to give us some torrential heavy downpours it is likely to give us a problem with flooding and with some landslides as well so major problems here in the eastern parts of madagascar and the main problem with this storm is due to the

fact that it's moving quite slowly just edging a little bit further south was as we head through saturday but still giving us an awful lot of rain. here's the start. of our. life our work. reveals the little architecture and it's really everything in this from the rama. to the n.p.r. director for the patient just need to know how to be told the architecture of. the rebel architecture series this time.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has tweeted saying a new book about him as full of lies that paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office and suggests that the president as a mentally unfit for the job the white house has threatened legal action. north korea has accepted the salts proposal for high level talks on tuesday discussions will focus on pyongyang's participation in next month's went to an ex and the south the announcement came hours after the us said that it's agreed to delay and your joint twenty two exercises with the south until after the games and large parts of the eastern u.s. are on the grip of a historical interest only system being called a bombsite clone new york's mayor has declared a weather emergency the forecast is predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow on. the u.s.

as imposing new sanctions on iran on a ballistic missile program they were set in motion before the ongoing protests in iran donald trump is warning that they could be more sanctions to come the new measures target farther on an end to. development of the. u.s. action is being taken. a protest. by the struggling economy which the government sanctions. and the u.n. security council. but added that his troops already needed twenty two people were killed in the rest . of. 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 mush even a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow the government was a miscalculation. 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. power. 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 the now waning anti-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 them at. the recent protests because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because of officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic boost ronnie 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 admit

are the legitimate grievances of their own people. 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 futile personnel last happened carrying out an operation searching for people who are suspected of selling alcohol. and the last hole has. 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 raiding businesses in shops in kabul. area where these shops are reported to be selling elicit 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 protestors and afghan police and in these clashes number of protesters and also police wounded now taking the advantage of a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and in the protestors. and it turned the whole of the protest into a blood shed by killing number of people and dozens of people wounded. the u.s. has confirmed suspending security aid to pakistan to blame for islam failure to take decisive action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with he said nothing in return but lies and deceit part of stan's government rejects the accusations saying it's made huge sacrifices to help the us fight the so-called war on terror the egyptian branch of isolates calling for attacks on the palestinian group hamas has released

a video asking its followers to attack the gaza based group before showing the execution of a man it said was a collaborator i still has claimed responsibility for recent killings in egypt the latest online people shot dead outside a church near cairo the new isom video blamed to masses failure to prevent the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and its crackdown are armed groups in gaza as reasons for attacking harass protesters in the french capital have condemned israel for arresting of ours today and girl who slapped an israeli soldier in the face that diverse march through paris demanding the release of sixteen year old the mimi she was detained last month and has been indicted on several charges including assault thailand is working towards its goal of eradicating statelessness by two thousand and twenty four more than four hundred thousand people without citizenship are registered with the thai government but the actual number is thought to be more than three million many ethnic minorities

living in border areas when hey reports from a town. 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 my 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. 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 made district thailand turkey has accused the u.s. of unprecedented and appearance in its domestic affairs after an american court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran evade thank chance left how can a teller and eight others have been found guilty of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through u.s. banks disguised as sales of gold turkish president of iran has been implicated

in the case. this is a scandalous decision of a scandalous case it was clear from the beginning that this case was. interfering in turkey. illegally same for less than area has been put into practice and now we won't know how long the us administration we don't know what to look when its network with blood demi conducts the system in their favor through the links they had established. tech firms have admitted a serious throw and chips that power millions of computers service and smartphones around the world to experts and to fix the issue before sensitive information stored on the chips becomes vulnerable to hackers or platforms at risk including apple and microsoft reynolds reports. the world's biggest technology companies are scrambling to fix critical cyber security flaws that could compromise every

computer smartphone and server sold in the past twenty years packer's 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 including apple microsoft and google the flawed chips are made by intel a r m and a m d google's project zero security team said it found the flaws some time 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 has also developed an emergency patch that will automatically be applied to all devices running on windows ten apple has not publicly disclosed anything. 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've got no device it'll become more vulnerable to hackers if you go to a new device it may slow down if it's a government chip and saw that 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. fine it was built in the arabian gulf. heritage dating back thousands of years but the

construction of the traditional doll is now under threat that has. the historic port of thought and is to die mom trying to keep the ancient workmanship alive. history books say downs 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. taliep kafeel now syria has been sailing tourists along the coast the twenty years. i don't 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 port of sewer situation on a lagoon in eastern oman was once home to a fleet of hundreds of downs the portuguese the dutch and the british 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 aspire a field advantage of all india and africa and so also became a major center for the ship building industry a tradition steeped in history and culture that is now struggling to survive. this is the only dalla building yard in school and 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 allie's family had been building dallas for more than three hundred years to have the. main challenge we face is the introduction of fiberglass fiberglass dhows 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 predominantly 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 the us the name of which is actually a swahili word originating in east africa the arabs simply call them 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 taliep say they are determined to preserve . that al-jazeera. now again and there's a problem in the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has tweeted saying a new book about him as full of lies fire and fury and the white house paints a highly critical picture of the administration the author michael also suggests

that trump was mentally unfit for the job of. being released ahead of schedule a white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders has spoken out against the. it's described as four and laughable if you was unfit he probably wouldn't be sitting there wouldn't have defeated the most qualified group of candidates the republican party has ever seen. north korea has accepted the south proposal for high level talks on tuesday discussions will focus on pyongyang's participation in next month's went to an impact from the south the announcement came after the us said it's agreed to delay annual joint military exercises with south korea until after the games. perot's former president alberto fujimori has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president. on health grounds triggering days of protests for joy was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses during his rule

large parts of the eastern u.s. are in the group over his stark winter storm system being called a bomb cyclon new york's mayor has declared a weather emergency with forecasters predicting up to twenty five centimeters of snow. the u.s. imposed is imposing new sanctions on iran over its ballistic missile program the measures target five iranian entities involved in the development of the weapons the sanctions were set in motion before the ongoing protests in iran donald trump is warning there could be more. the u.s. has confirmed that suspending security aid to pakistan it blames his failure to take decisive action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday donald trump tweeted that washington had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid when he said nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan's government rejects the accusations saying it's made huge sacrifices to help the u.s. fight its so-called war on terror those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay

with us as rebel architecture is coming up next thank you for watching. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support for terrorism the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the usa they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we were able to see the secret of we were able to tell it in a two part series on al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called war on terror the holy land followers at this time on al-jazeera. architect has always defined the human. trump the simplest structure is to the greatest monuments. but a rebellion is underway. led by a new breed of architects that puts people before icon. architects using the.