it sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question then sort of throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just a nominee director we're doing a investigation into. ukraine could you pay bribes you've been corrupt been not corrupt i did just the presidency challenges here investigations the only gods at this time. i will quote steve bannon. he's lost. beyond therapy a controversial new book on donald trump says everyone he spoke to inside the white house was critical of the u.s. president.

but i'm fully back this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up government supporters in iran rally for a third day against opposition protests. homeless famished and sake in yemen we discussed the world's worst humanitarian crisis with a top u.n. official and opening the door to diplomacy north and south korea agreed to hold talks for the first time in more than two years. the author of a new explosive book on the trump white house has spoken publicly for the first time since its early release on friday michael wolff says the president has no credibility and his staff say is like a child who needs instant gratification wharves the book called fire and fury paints a highly critical picture of life inside the oval office describing the president

as mentally unfit for the job trump is taking to twitter saying the book is full of lies misrepresentations and sources that don't exist but wolf told us network and we see that he stands by his claims. they say he is. a moron in. there is a competition to sort of get to the bottom line here of who this man is let's remember this man does not read does not listen so he's he's like. it's like the pinball just just just shooting off the side particle hain is in washington for us patty a pretty damning portrait of a us president any reaction so far yes well president is doing what he always does when he seems to feel that he's been challenge he's trying to discredit the author sending out a tweet overnight saying that he never talked to him he didn't give him access well

here's the thing reporters are in the white house they know he was given access because they saw him there all the time here's the difference if you're a member of the media you get a great bat that way people in the white house know instantly if you're not if you're somewhere that you're not supposed to be he didn't have one of these badges had a blue bat which allowed him michael wolff the author to basically walk around the white house he is standing by his claims that he did speak with the president even though the president says he never talked to him let's listen. i spoke to him after the inauguration yes and i had spoken to i mean i've spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign in the white house so my window into donald trump is. is pretty significant but even more to the point i spent this i spent in this was really the sort of the point of the book i spoke to people who spoke to the president on

a daily sometimes minute by minute basis so this this book was really i mean in a sense in a sense there was one question on my mind when i began this book what is it like to work with donald trump. so what does this actually mean well let's look at the claim where he says that basically everyone around the president feels that he is mentally unstable and able to actually do the job of president of the united states why does their opinion matter well when it comes to the cabinet it could very much matter there's been a lot of talk not taken all that seriously but this book could change that dynamic about invoking the twenty fifth amendment that's basically when two thirds of the cabin the vice president write a letter to the congress and say he's unstable he needs to be removed he can fight that and then it's up to the house and the senate the majority the house and the senate to decide if you should save his job but this is a damning portrait saying that literally one hundred percent of the people who interact with donald trump think that he is not up to the job patty thank you very

much for that patty cohen live for us in washington. now world news the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says it has intercepted a missile fired by hoofy rebels towards the kingdom and war is having a devastating impact in yemen with widespread food shortages and a major cholera break stephanie decker has more. forced to live out in the open these yemeni families of escape the fighting new to the border with saudi arabia now they have to bury the elements on the streets of who data their daily routine know for everyone to see this war has displaced hundreds of thousands of people well a lot of them and i don't i came from we ran for our lives now we sleep on the floor no mattresses or blankets and it is really cold we have no income outrigger nor suffering any of us fall sick we cannot afford treatment a condition is really terrible needless to say we are living in fear. this war now

almost into its third year is all about regional politics and control the consequence of that has created what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis in aid agencies are not able to access the majority of those in need. we have they're scared or our life has turned upside down and we can't afford a decent meal we're now begging to eat and feed our children were living in the streets on charity. some basic supplies are getting through a blanket to keep warm it is winter now and temperatures drop at night in a fire offers little comfort these people face an uncertain future with no idea when they can go back home what will be left of it once they do stephanie decker. well i'm very pleased to welcome to the program now mark un's humanitarian chief he's live from the united nations in new york thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera a pretty dire situation with more than eighty percent of yemenis now knocking food

fuel water and access to healthcare can you tell as far as where things stand as far as the humanitarian response plan for yemen. well those people who your years have just seen in your report to just some of the nearly twenty million yemenis who are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in the u.n. we've prepared a plan for twenty eight to reach many many millions of people and we need two point five billion dollars during the course of the year to do that i am today announcing the largest ever allocation we have made from the un central emergency response fund an allocation of fifty million dollars to get the aid operation pump primed for twenty eighteen and the fact that i'm having to do that obviously is not a success measure that is a sign of exactly how desperate the situation aid the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the country looks like the apocalypse and unless

unless the situation changes we're going to have the world's worst humanitarian disaster of fifty years is a large allocation of funds you say but what good is all that money when u.n. agencies don't have full humanitarian access to some of the hardest hit communities in yemen. so three things need to happen if we're to avoid this terrible tragedy firstly there does need to be a scaling back of the military activity there's been a big intensification of the bombing and the fighting and the shelling when the un of identify five hundred eighty airstrikes bombs dropped from the air in the course of december that's twice the number that we identified in november of course all that follows the atrocious missile attacks we chill report picked up as well from yemen into saudi arabia so the fighting needs to be scaled back secondly we need to keep the ports open access as you imply is a key issue and from november early november to late december the key ports on the

red sea were basically closed they have been reopened yemen imports almost all of its food and fuel and medicines those ports need to be kept open and then thirdly we do need more money for the aid operation the u.n. in the second offered twenty seven team of its own as was able to reach seven million people with food and millions more with water and health supplies so we're able to make a big difference right if those three things happen it's not just hunger and famine is it we're now hearing also of outbreaks of more diseases in yemen like diphtheria in addition to cholera can't kenya aid agencies cope with these additional crises can they bring in the help they need for those kinds of situations. well we need to scale up our response the. cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases out there under twenty seventeen this terrible new. theory or a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization as

already affecting up to five hundred people with dozens and dozens of deaths in the last few weeks that is going to spread like wildfire unless we can scale up the immunization program and sustain the health services and the things i've talked about the things that need to happen for people's local guy want to ask you know a more political question norway announced this week that it would stop supplying weapons to the united arab emirates because of what it called grave concern over the humanitarian crisis in yemen but the u.s. and britain continue to supply the saudis with billions of dollars worth of weapons the u.s. also provides medicinal military support to saudi arabia and there are many people who say they are in a way complicit in this crisis in yemen why isn't there more pressure on them from the united nations from the security council given the situation that you've described to sell shouldn't they be doing more of the security council level

well i think it's a very fair question to ask why the security council has an engaged on the yemen crisis in the way it has recently for example on syria last month on syria the security council came together to agree an extension of a major a don't ration to reach millions of people inside syria and hasn't been able to do the same thing in yemen and i think you need to ask that question to the members of the security council the member states what i do and would you like. to be deciding what to do what action precisely would you as the amount of time and boy you would like the security council to take. well i set out a five point plan to the security council beginning of november particularly to deal with a blockade that was put in place of that time so i would like the ports to be kept open i would like the military activity to be scaled back i would like all of the parties to this conflict on all sides to fulfill the responsibilities they have

to uphold international humanitarian law to protect civilians and to remember that even wars have little ones and everybody the parties to comfort themselves and those outside with an influence on them has a responsibility to do that mark local thank you so very much for speaking to us marco kong is the u.n. humanitarian affairs chief joining us there from new york at the united nations thank you so much. now supporters of iran's government are rallying after friday prayers demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of unrest in which at least twenty two people have been killed on tie government demonstrators had been protesting over economic instability is in tehran with more. another day of pro-government rallies in iran seemingly part of a two pronged approach by the government to cement the writ of the state's large

groups of public support on the streets coupled with a heavy police presence in flashpoint cities across the country at friday prayers a senior cleric close to the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei took the opportunity to remind his countrymen of the country's real enemies who he says are behind the unrest in iran let's say announced this is what is happening saudi arabia gave the money the u.s. did the planning it was coordinated from u.s. control rooms inherit and erbil weapons have been transferred little by little to iran they wanted to finish us in february that was the plan. but there are signs that iran's leaders do sympathize with at least some of the antigovernment protesters cut them he said to those who came out into the streets to protest for economic development and for a change to how the country's economy works for economic upliftment for themselves and their families he said that those protesters were right to do so and he also urged the government to recognize the fact that their message should not be lost in

the mix to head on al-jazeera overcrowded and broken we go inside haiti's prisons and look at the challenge to reform the justice system us going going gone to final tokyo's famous fish market. hello we've had some very disruptive snow across parts of central china over the past twenty four hours or so still some snow in the picture as we go on through the next twenty four hours but then we're going to focus over the next twenty four hours across the southern parts where we'll see some really heavy rain setting in and that is likely to lead to some flooding there we go with our snow on the northern flank but is going to be southern parts which will see the worst of the weather see go on through the next couple of days on through the weekend then

meanwhile a good deal quieter across south asia right away and cross the northern plains once again so temperatures new delhi around nine hundred s. with that fog and smoke wanted to show was a possibility over towards me and my but otherwise it really is a very quiet picture many places staying dry we'll see temperatures getting up to thirty celsius in colombo some pleasant sunshine coming through him some pleasant sunshine too across the region peninsula high here in doha of around twenty six degrees perhaps a little more cloud just around the southern end of the red sea might see one or two showers here for a time but nothing much to speak of for most of us across the red in place that will stay fine and dry dry weather now making its way into the events over the next day or so we should see bright skies returning after a spell of very wet and windy weather. you are making very pointed remarks where there online the main u.s.

response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on sense no evil person just wakes up within the morning and says i want to color the world in darkness and this is a dialogue and that could be what's leading to some of the confusion the lying about people say we don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. our top stories on al-jazeera the author of a controversial book criticizing us president donald trump's administration is standing by his work michael wolff who spent months in trump's white house says the

u.s. president has less credibility than perhaps anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point the author has spoken publicly for the first time since the books are leaving lease on friday. the united nations is approving his launches ever allocation of funds to help relieve the humanitarian crisis in yemen the u.n. humanitarian chief tells al-jazeera fifteen million dollars will be set aside the war in yemen is having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages and major operates of cholera and diphtheria and supporters of iran's government are rallying after friday prayers there demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of on less opposition supporters have been protesting over economic instability. more now on our top story and that new book with an inside look at the trump white house joining us now is scott lucas who is a professor of americans the. he's at the university of birmingham and joins us from atlanta thank you very much for being with us so i number of things revealed

over the last few days and michael wolff says trump's our white house basically has no credibility that he's like a child he does not read does not listen do any of these revelations surprise you in any way no. they are very dramatic michael was making the most of them but they do complement what we have already heard about donald trump including from sources inside the administration and on capitol hill for months to be a bit more charitable than the way that was portraying it donald trump doesn't really take in information out well he gets bored quite easily he prefers to be rallying his base or to be on twitter so we know that he takes a lot of his information from american television in particular from the boss news channel and it has raised concerns for months about people about whether he really has the stability in the intellect to be holding down the post let alone when you

have them in the revelations about possible links with the russians do you think the revelations about him being and fate that many in the white house see him as unfit to be president does this make a case for the twenty fifth amendment to be mentioned to be you know for him to be removed from office is that a possibility today but again we we've had this discussed actually for some time about the twenty fifth amendment which is invoked when you raise the question of competence to do the job the problem here is we have no precedent for this although american presidents have been impeached or threatened with impeachment in the pounds of think back to bill clinton that less than twenty years ago there has been a very definable offense you know possible criminal offense which is implied when you invoke the twenty fifth amendment you're not doing it on criminal offense but on that judgment call right can this man do the job. among the serious claims as you've said yourself made in this book is about that twenty six thousand campaign

meeting in trump tower involving a russian lawyer with trump's son to get dirt on hillary clinton which trump is said to have been aware of what implications do you think for the investigation of a legal implications here. you know i think that's the most damaging revelation of the book and it's compounded by the fact that it comes not from an enemy of truong but from a former ally from steve benen because this mading what it came out several months ago was the first confirmed evidence that trumps inner circle were talking to the russians and that they were talking about using material including possibly stolen easement e-mails in the campaign now the fact that the meetings occur lor's investigating that as one might have been ari but of course there's a second on of inquiry and that is that trump has denied any knowledge of these meetings and that indeed has been accused of dictating a false number random about the meetings and that could constitute obstruction of

justice which is both a legal criminal charge and also political charges that could lead to impeachment as kanakas said the president's strategy right now seems to be to portray bannan and the author of this book as a lie as he's also threatening to sue do you think he will actually go ahead with court action and that would be particularly risky for him wouldn't but i think it's risky for two reasons i think the first is. you know when you risk court action or when you try to stop publication of the book you're tending to indicate that there is some substance to the allegations but more specifically if there is a lawsuit say for defamation of character donald trump would be called upon to testify in that case which exposes him to possible questions as to whether his testimony is reliable and that is a huge risk for a sitting president to take never a dull day and us politics these days thank you very much for speaking to us cotton

because joining us there from atlanta thank you for your time thank you. now pakistan says he's disappointed with the u.s. decision to suspend millions of dollars in military assistance washington blames islamabad for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan on monday president of trying to eat it that the u.s. had foolishly given pakistan billions of dollars in aid with nothing in return but lies and deceit pakistan has rejected those accusations tariq peers advise a political analyst he says pakistan has already been shifting towards closer ties with china but china is a very you know this is a partnership which is called strategic cooperative partnership with china we are building everything from the fight. to the sea to the million investment of sixty billion dollars that china is making in pakistan there is everything is happening on the basis of partnership between pakistan and china so basically this

strategic direction has already shifted from washington to building just that there is a certain mindset still in islam about that maybe we still need to be connected with washington and maybe at a limited level so was as the time goes by and if the u.s. sanctions continue i think pakistan should the united states might lose pakistan for a long time to come. russia says it hopes talks between north and south korea will lead to agreements that settle tensions on the korean peninsula after years of silence pyongyang and soul are set to meet on tuesday the meeting will focus initially on north korea's participation in next month's winter olympics in pyongyang china and south korea but officials in seoul say discussions are expected to move on to what they say are other areas of common interest foreign three reports. in a few days the truce village of panmunjom on the demilitarized zone that separates north and south korea will be

a hive of activity representatives from the two countries will hold high level talks here for the first time in more than two years earlier this week north korean leader kim jong il ishita dialogue in his new year's day address four days later his government agreed to hold talks the announcement came just hours after the u.s. and south korea agreed to postpone and your military drills for the end of february these have long been regarded as provocative by pyongyang. leaders agreed not to conduct south korea u.s. joint drills. and to do their best to ensure the security of the olympics. next week's discussions will center on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics as well as generally improving into career relations. but officials here in south korea are also hoping the negotiations will eventually lead to north korea returning to international talks on its nuclear program even so president

when jay and it's cautiously optimistic saying we should refrain from making premature judgement or expectation. the japanese defense minister also sounded a lot of caution but. north korea goes through phases of apparent dialogue and provocations but either way north korea is continuing its nuclear and missile development we have no intention of weakening our warning and surveillance. speech said north korea with its nuclear weapons program and even called for the mass production of deployment of nuclear warheads at this house. from the conservative perspective in north korea trying to buy time the majority seems to believe the north korea is trying to finalize its technical development to to achieve operational i.c.b.m. so you know as us the cia has announced before they are talking about two three month time in terms of finalizing the i.c.b.m.

system and it looks like this is a perfect action on their side you know to buy time. last year north korea test fired three to continental ballistic missiles or i.c.b.m.'s including one that it's capable of reaching the u.s. mainland ready hope the upcoming talks really the best option for now of deescalating the crisis on the korean peninsula largely al jazeera so. zimbabwe's new president has ruled out forming a coalition government with the opposition m.s.n. one god made the statement after visiting opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who is battling colon cancer at his home in hylands came to power in november after forcing out longtime leader robert mugabe the first change of presidency in more than four decades has led to renewed hope in zimbabwe of a return to democratic norms. in peru former president would you morry has been released from hospital he was pardoned last month by president. because of poor

health the decision triggered nationwide protests and led to the resignation of three cabinet ministers fujimori was serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses during his rule . to haiti now which has some of the most overcrowded prisons in the world human rights groups say around eleven thousand inmates live in inhumane conditions their pride is just one of the many problems being addressed by the new u.n. mission to haiti to resettle reports from port au prince. it has been trying to find his brother for more than a week he visited more explicit ations and has just been notified that he's being held here at the port au prince national penitentiary. when. the police arrested my brother and he was not part of the gang and they took him away and we're looking for him he was sowing water on the street. the accounts of relatives

visiting the prison hi led to problems the justice system here is facing we were just inside the prison and we were not allowed to film it is overcrowded and people are living in dire conditions the. video obtained by the associated press use agency last february shows what life is like inside malnourished inmates barely surviving in prison cells overcrowding is one of the highest in the world at more than three hundred and fifty percent of over eleven thousand prisoners eight thousand are detainees awaiting trial. united nations peacekeeping troops left haiti two months ago the u.n. mission is now fully focused on improving the justice system. we met the un representative in port au prince who says the task ahead is an enormous challenge we have started to try. already to work in local. tribunals

of premier installs and help them with the people who've been in prolonged pretrial detention for the longest period of time to actually appear before a judge. and it's not just what's happening in the prisons but also the conduct of security forces. a police operation last month in the grand ravine area of port au prince left at least nine people dead some inside a school the victims included a professor and an armed security guard among others human rights groups fear an increase in abuses and they need to confront impunity they need to hold people to account even high level high ranking people so that there isn't an abuse of the law by overcrowded prisons allegations of police abuse as well as massive corruption are some of the biggest challenges for the next few years the question is whether haiti's government leaders and the new u.n.

mission can succeed in reforming a system that urgently needs to change. port-au prince haiti. and japan the world famous to keiji fish market has held its last pre-dawn new year's auction before closing down for relocation. the highest bidder paid more than three hundred twenty thousand dollars for a giant two now weighing one hundred kilograms to keiji is one of talk is most popular tourist attractions and has been open for eighteen years the fish market will now move to a new location in october. hello again i'm fully back to bo with the headlines on al-jazeera the author of a new book criticizing us present donald trump's administration says he's standing by his work michael wolff spent months in trump's white house he says the u.s.

president has quote less credibility than perhaps anybody who's ever walked on earth at this point end of quote wolf has spoken publicly for the first time since the book's only released on friday. they say he is. a moron in the. there's a competition to sort of get to the bottom line here of who this man is let's remember this man does not read does not listen so he's he's like a. it's like the pinball just the shooting off the side the united nations is approving its largest ever allocation of funds to help relieve the humanitarian crisis in yemen the un humanitarian chief there are fifty million dollars will be set aside the war in yemen is having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages and major outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria. the situation in yemen today right now to the population of the

country looks like the apocalypse and unless unless the situation changes we're going to have the world's worst humanitarian disaster for fifty years. supporters of iran's government have rallied after five day of prayer is there demonstrating for a third day across the country against a week of unrest opposition supporters have been protesting over economic instability. pakistan says it's disappointed with the u.s. decision to suspend millions of dollars in military aid washington blames his lama bob for failing to take action against taliban fighters targeting u.s. troops in afghanistan north korea has accepted south korea's proposal for official talks on tuesday the first in two years the meeting will be held in the demilitarized zone is set to focus on pyongyang's participation in next month's winter olympics and zimbabwe's new president has ruled out forming a coalition government with the opposition amisom and gaga made the statement after

visiting opposition leader morgan china iran who is battling colon cancer you have to see it with the headlines the stream starts right now. 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 we'll ask the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea counting the cost at this time of al-jazeera. welcome to a new year of the stream a live on al-jazeera and the chief i'm femi oke a now lab maze meet driverless cars and robot caregivers all once part of some inside my fantasy but the future is he at right now today on the street. the story of human evolution is one that is intimately tied to meet once we started

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