throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominated rector we're doing a investigation into a. ukraine would you say bribes you've been corrupt or a corrupt they did just what the presidency al-jazeera investigation is the only goal of this time. dozens of political and religious groups joined a protest rally in the shower as pakistan's government faces pressure from the us to crack down on radical groups. fully back to watching al-jazeera live from

a headquarters in doha also ahead thirty two crew members are missing after an oil tanker collides with a cargo ship in the east china sea optimism in germany chance i'm going to merkel says she's confident of finding common ground with social democrats to form a coalition government plus. so the point is that entire treasury was rocked and al-jazeera investigation reveals a secret project to profit from the billion sought to have been stolen by deposed ukrainian president viktor yanukovych which. we begin in pakistan where religious and political groups which have been facing pressure from the government are holding a demonstration in the northwestern city of peshawar they are seeking support for palestine and the kashmiri separatist movement the protests are led by jamal.

dollar the group headed by the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks suspects hafiz saeed pakistan has recently brought donations to groups named in a un security council sanctions list and this comes as the u.s. has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars of security aid to pakistan accusing it of being a safe haven for terrorists. denies the allegation but has banned more than seventy groups which are named in that un security council sanctions list key among them is jamaat ud dawa led by the two thousand and eight mumbai attack suspect toffy saeed the us has offered a ten million dollars bounty for information leading to his arrest the trumpet ministration also wants action taken against any network that operates in pakistan and afghanistan and is seen as having close ties to pakistan's military but i only say it's a difficult balance for the u.s. which doesn't want to aljunied the pakistani government as it relies on its support against taliban in neighboring afghanistan let's speak to come on who is

in push our way those protests have been taking place tell us first about the different groups who are taking part in this rally today and what they're hoping to achieve. well. grouping. religious parties which include. me. another faction. faction or faith and of course the. political parties on board and of course the main focus. is basically the american pressure on dog gone and or data david the palestinian and kashmir to cause. everybody drawn between. the americans for the sixteen seventeen. something that. they kept and as you

mentioned the budgets on need have told options of blocking the supply routes for the americans to get on a government. that they want to continue doing gauge with the americans. and the other thing that's come out of the fact that this particular group will be holding rallies across the country and of course we have provided a fresh. approach yeah and i wonder to what extent the u.s. decision to suspend military aid to pakistan has put pressure on the government to do more to take further action against these different organisations what are they going to do about this. well as far as pressure on the law concerned the government said that it had nothing to do with the u.s. . government minister of the united nations because some of these groups

report on a watch list by the united nations security council is so biased on saying that it was north by the u.s. however a lot of people. really because of the u.s. . the americans of course have also been saying that don had nor done enough on the other hand up i'll get on it i've been paying attention to a dog and one day i've lost seventy three people they've lost over a billion dollars in fines. and therefore they said that the americans are nor justified in doing the ownership of responsibility for their failure on the project on the go in. here right now you can see the crowd dished bush but they will be more and this feeling and the american feeling and. extending through the population at large. mentioned they have already launched

march and they concluded it had been in the american president. bush. who can create about anything and of course you can see the response from the pakistani come on. pakistan thank you very much for that come on now the wild news an oil tanker has caught fire and thirty two crew are missing after a collision with a congo ship off the coast of china this happened off shanghai where the young see even me say east china sea says looking for that missing saying is from iran and bangladesh who work for and even in shipping company rescue a save the twenty one crew of the other ship involved there are concerns about the environment as a tanker was carrying one hundred thirty six thousand tons of crude oil robin wright is in beijing with more. the main priority is still for the fate of the crew members on board the tanker it is an iranian tanker the senshi and most of the crew are iranians with two bangladeshis on board as well the crew from the other vessel

which is a bulk carrier they have all been accounted for twenty one chinese nationals we are told have been rescued from this vessel this collision happened some three hundred kilometers off the east coast of china between a bulk carrier carrying grain which was apparently heading south and the tanker which was heading north with one hundred thirty six thousand tons of refined oil on to south korea of a big concern is the blaze which broke out on board the tanker which was still said to be going some twelve hours after the collision there have been reports of oil in the water of a slick developing and some of the vessels that have been sent there are specialized in trying to control pollution but the east china sea is shared by china south korea and also some of the southern islands of japan so there will be

a lot of concern in all of those countries about any developing slick and which direction it may be heading. egypt has denied a report by the new york times that it has asked the media in egypt to pay down opposition to president trump's decision on jerusalem in a league phone recording a senior intelligence officer reportedly told t.v. talk show holes to influence if he was to back the decision the newspaper quoted intelligence officer captain ashraf al kali asking hulse how is your muslim different from ramallah which is a current based on the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank and cali was quoted telling the whole intifada would not serve egypt's national security interests egypt's state information center says he holds deny reports that the intelligence officer had spoken to them it also says the article. it's not provide evidence that i shuffle coley is an egyptian officer and reiterated that it's hands on jerusalem has not changed. meanwhile talk about jordan which says the arab

league will seek international recognition of a palestinian state after donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital some members of the organization has been meeting in amman have been protests in jordan and several other cities in the region after the us president decided to recognize it was them as israel's capital to speak to mamma john jr who's in ramallah forests in the occupied west bank mahmoud let's start with this report that egypt should media being told to downplay protests against jews name recognition they are denying this of course one of the reactions what more can you tell us about this first well for we're not getting a lot of reaction here in ramallah about this report or. disavowal of the report denial of the report nonetheless what a report like this does here is it really sort of solidifies and confirms the

palestinians on the ground here their worst fears being that you know there's been a since. that since donald trump made the decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel there has been a far more resounding silence from the arab world than would have initially been expected yes there have been public condemnations by arab leaders that's all true but there has been a sense here that behind the scenes many of these arab leaders of any of these governments. realize that this is something that is probably going to go forward and that they're not going to keep talking about it and keep trying to raise the issues so i expect that in the coming hours we will be hearing more once this report from the new york times in the denial from the egyptian government becomes more widely disseminated. in the occupied west bank but for now

having spoken to so many people about this issue in the last week or so i can tell you that i believe that it is something that they will say well this really kind of confirms our worst suspicions and the arab league meanwhile is looking for international recognition of a palestinian state they have been meeting in amman again the question being whether there is consensus among arab leaders as how to move forward. well publicly at the moment there is consensus obviously this was not a meeting of the arab league in which every member state was there but the public spin on it is that the arab league is stating that much more needs to be done by arab states firm plan needs to be made in the international community must follow suit in order that

a palestinian state is recognized and created and that should be happening going forward that all being said though at the moment this meeting which was held in amman has adjourned and what we expect is that another meeting is going to take place by the full arab league in the coming weeks maybe the next month month and a half and that there will be more forceful statement coming from there but all of this being said the fact of the matter is it doesn't really change much on the ground here right now there is still much anger in the wake of trump's decision every week seemingly there have been protests in the occupied west bank and in other countries and also in gaza and it doesn't seem as though that's going to stop now we did hear from one of the officials present at that meeting of the jordanian foreign minister here's more of what he had to say about that meeting. if not become our goal is to elevate the american decision to recognize jerusalem as the

capital of israel and to assume that it has it legal effect. we have specific requests the most important of which is the recognition of the palestinian state with jerusalem as its capital according to the jews the full nine hundred sixty seven borders. thus far palestinian leaders have said all of this really just goes to show that the international community and the arab countries need to continue to support the palestinian cause in the palestinian people both economically and politically folly. thank you very much for that mohammed john john reporting there from ramallah in the occupied west bank still ahead here on al-jazeera there's just no proof a u.s. senator says evidence that american diplomats in cuba were targets of a sonic attack is just not the. last donald trump defends his mentor states the u.s. president says he's a genius. welcome

to look at the weather across asia there is a start in north eastern areas we've got this area of cloud coming up from the south into southern parts of japan this frontal system and that's going to result in some rain developing across this search in the course of money cycle could turn what tokyo dry at least to begin with but we will then see a frontal system developing and pushing towards the northeast heavy rain later on monday through choose day before we see a clearance a somewhat brighter condition certainly for western areas later on subzero temperatures across much of the korean peninsula beijing struggling at two degrees and further south is looking considerably colder with time so big changes taking place here here we've got this frontal system with snow on its northern edge you know. pretty wet but temperatures still up at fifteen hong kong at nineteen move that through twenty four hours and dropping to fourteen hong kong just eleven

degrees in shanghai and nice from a five degrees celsius and always also seeing a big drop in temperatures pub at ten degrees compared with the recent days some showers likely here but across much of the rest of indochina not too bad miramar germany dry and fine northern part. the philippines not too bad southern areas in some showers dry conditions across much of borneo and some heavy rain still likely to be affecting parts of java. there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was material support to terrorists the holy land foundation was the biggest muslim charity in the us they were considered to be a legitimate american charity because we were able to see the secret because we were able to tell it in a two part series al-jazeera world examines one of the most controversial court cases of the so-called terror the holy land photos at this time.

our top stories on al-jazeera several pakistani political groups including some banned by the government holding a rally in this after the u.s. suspended a's funding military aid funding to pakistan in an effort to pressure the government to crack down on radical groups an oil tanker has caught fire and thirty two crew are missing after a collision with a cargo ship off the coast of china as search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh and egypt has denied a report by the new york times which says he gyptian officials asked media in egypt

to pay down the opposition to president travels through slimness decision and leaks phone recording a senior intelligence officer reportedly told t.v. talk show host a convinced their view was to back the decision but the holes deny having ever spoken to the officer. and now the news italia and coast guard says at least eight people have died and eighty six others have been rescued from a boat off the coast of libya rescue agency say many more are still missing the international going to zation for migration cause the mediterranean sea the why. deadliest order one hundred twenty thousand refugees and migrants arrived in italy by c. last year meanwhile nigeria is speeding up the process of bringing its citizens home from libya after allegations of exploitation and abuse the foreign minister says two aircraft are being sent defying eight hundred people home in the next few days it's part of the plan to return around five thousand refugees to nigeria their

repatriation process follows revelations that african migrants trying to reach europe were being sold as slaves in libya. al-jazeera as investigative unit has obtained secret documents that reveal a profit by eastern european oligarchy to profit from billions sought to have been stolen by viktor yanukovych ukrainian president was overthrown in twenty fourteen officials froze one point five billion dollars soon afterwards but as well jordan reports the monies return to ukraine is far from guaranteed. when he fled ukraine in twenty fourteen victory on a covert a goal that he and his men could carry he headed to russia soon after ukrainian officials found one point five billion dollars stashed offshore and they froze it the day he ran away from the country the entire korean treasury and its accounts had a few thousand dollars so the point is that entire treasury was rocked. today

al-jazeera has discovered the young covert plan is working closely with the russian government we obtained an unsigned copy of a secret deal a plot to sell tens of millions of the frozen money unbelievable. it sounds like an agreement between a criminal busts you can assign it with your blood. the document names to all agog says the buyers one wanted in ukraine the other a russian property magnate but the seller is hidden behind an offshore shell company based at this law firm in cyprus. all the bank documents and company records eventually led us to moscow under a surrogate. gas tycoon who was young a curvatures money man and the seller of the frozen assets he was given control of a chunk of the gas trade he made a lot of money for himself and then he cut back most of it than to his political patrons which was you know going to cave which was at

a time which is son. wanted in ukraine and sanctioned in the u.s. and europe he travels under armed guard in a multi car convoy rarely appearing in public. we tracked down his former chauffeurs and they revealed his regular meetings with the russian government we often drive into the ministry of economic development the ministry of natural resources the national space agency. also the russian presidential administration and state oil and gas firms. aside from frozen assets ukraine's intelligence agency says katrinka is trading oil gas and coal in the conflict zones of eastern ukraine fueling corruption and conflict in a country that was once. didn't respond to our request for comment well jordan al-jazeera. menage of origin is in russia and ukraine analysts said the i. will incite she says this report further highlights how entrenched corruption

continues to be in ukrainian politics or option is not just an economic issue especially for ukraine it's a national security matter and this is for two reasons the country is a standoff with russia it is a military armed conflict where a russian backed militants in reaches what it means that if you if corruption is not rooted out then ukraine's political class political elite becomes more exposed and vulnerable. to rush a violence is it means that the entire effort in two thousand and fourteen to bring the country out of this corruption of this. destructive system and move the country towards the west towards the european union has failed and this is something that russia is is really interested in so for ukraine to be

a success story to have a strong economy it is a must they have to tackle corruption they have no other option and if you want to watch the full investigation the only gox will be broadcast on al-jazeera for the first time on sunday at eight pm g.m.t. and will continue every day at these times you can also see the program articles and documents online at al-jazeera dot com slash the oligarchy. german chancellor angela merkel says she thinks major parties can form a coalition government of resume talks in berlin a potential sticking point though between i'm going merkel's christian democrats in the social democrats is the refugee crisis is go but it's coming. i think we can do it we will work very quickly very intensively that's what we set out to do and you always think about what people in germany are expecting all those who always hope that politics will solve the problems in create the framework for people to live well it'll come true i am optimistic about these talks but i also know that there

is a lot of work ahead of us in the coming days we are willing to take all the work while the two political parties are divided over whether to allow relatives of people who are already in germany to join them dominic cain has this story from bavaria. it's time for nine year old michael michael to do his homework and as in many families his big brother is on hand to help in fact twenty two year old mahmoud is more of a father to michael than an elder brother. because as yazidi refugees these two have been granted asylum in germany but for the past two years their parents and siblings have been stuck in a holding camp for migrants increase when the view of the. germany told them they could come join us here but then a few months ago we were told they could not go the official said you have no documents that prove your brother is related to your parents paid for the papers to

compromise then they said they needed to test michael's d.n.a. and they'll finally they've said that ok your parents can come. but the brothers hopes of a reunion have been dashed twice before and their situation is not unique since twenty sixteen germany has put a temporary hold on reuniting the families of people who are not classed as refugees the bavarian christian social union and go to medical system party in the southern state says while genuine refugees should be allowed in those with subsidiary protection and his claims for asylum are rejected should not we object to the roped off so called subsidiary. except that if you choose to bring their family to terminate because to be honest this would. exhaust our capacities what makes this view more interesting is that stefan meyer

speaks on this issue not just for his party but also for angle americans christian democrats but this particular point of view is not shared by the social democrats and with coalition talks between the three parties now intensifying in the new year the question is might this issue be a sticking point. because the social democrats believe that where possible families who qualified to be reunited should be allowed to do so the political fight in germany is now about how to bring the government together from parties with such differing views from mahmoud and michael much longer it's how to bring their family back together dominant gang al-jazeera in bavaria. malaysia has approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of flight m h three seventy in the indian ocean despite at three year search for the missing plane its disappearance in twenty fourteen remains one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries it was en route to beijing from kuala lumpur when it went missing with more than two hundred thirty

people on board. they've been long queues outside supermarkets in venezuela after the government ordered them to slash prices rampant inflation in venezuela has risen to above one thousand percent as led to widespread shortages of food and medicine president nicolas maduro brains economic crisis on an international inspectors. innocently given what we arrived early but we couldn't get in the prices were much lower last night but today the price is a normal they ridiculous prices elevated compared to the income of venezuelans well most venezuelans. in we understand the supermarket chains have a right to increase prices because it's relative but none such an exorbitant manner three hundred percent i think there should be a bit of control and if there were some control we could purchase things. now u.s. government allegations that diplomats in cuba where tague or possibly by a sonic weapon attack are being dismissed by

a leading republican senator jeff flake says there is no evidence based on classified intelligence stuff at the u.s. embassy in havana were ordered home after some suffered permanent hearing loss and brady injury two years ago. i'm not suggesting that nothing happened. but evidence of attack the cuban government. earlier. i did not see evidence of that sort of talk about what i see the classified setting. that is inconsistent with cuban said the. girl we're here to. an estimated one hundred million americans are facing huge problems because of severe winter weather at least nineteen people have died new hampshire and mt washington reported a wind chill of minus sixty eight degrees celsius many cities are working to find shelter for thousands of homeless people. u.s. president donald trump has hit back at accusations that he's mentally unfit for office describing himself as

a stable genius is comments were sponsored by the publication of a book questioning his abilities the book also claims his staff view him as infantine as john hendren reports from washington trump's latest attacks on author michael wolff have again overshadowed his policy agenda. and i did a quick interview with him a long time ago having to do with an article this book clearly has donald trump rattled the suggestion in fire and fury the cabinet members and allies to question trump's intelligence and his fitness for office have gotten under the president's skin the book has driven a wedge between trump and his one time closest adviser steve bennett but i don't know this man i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and it was one of those things that's why sloppy steve is now looking for a job as republican leaders met the president to discuss their legislative agenda for twenty eight teen drama began his day with a barrage of morning tweets certainly wrote throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart and he said that

winning the presidency qualifies him as not smart but genius in a very stable genius at that and defending himself against the allegations in this book president trump was knocked off message in it steve bannon says he's lost his stuff media mogul rupert murdoch calls him an idiot and staffers describe him as a semi literate fool but what the republicans who met with trump on saturday wanted to talk about with their plans for twenty eight teen and immigration reform it was candid it donald trump signature campaign and we are building a wall on the southern border we need safety we need cameras and i will have mexico pay for that wall it turns out he might have that half right the administration's plan for an immigration overhaul would spend eighteen billion dollars over ten years and add five hundred five kilometers to an existing border with mexico and the u.s. congress would pay for the bill is expected to restore some protection for the

so-called dreamers children of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u.s. by their parents trump recently rescinded an obama era rule protecting them but democrats fear the new immigration funds could be used to deport dreamers who registered for the program or their families they don't have resources. the deep for eight hundred thousand dreamers it's not at all clear that the information that the dreamers volunteered to the government to establish their right to be legally zero work at work and otherwise could be used to identify and detain and then deport the dreamers but immigration was not the top question trump addressed on saturday john hendren zero washington. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera several pakistani political groups including some banned by the government have been holding a rally in push our they're protesting against the u.s.

decision to recognized them as israel's capital the romney comes as the u.s. has suspended military aid to pakistan in an effort to pressure the pakistani government to crack down on radical groups an oil tanker has caught fire and thirty two crew are missing after a collision with a congo ship off the coast of china says teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh egypt has denied a report by the new york times which says egypt and officials asked media in egypt to play down the opposition to president decision and in these phone recording a senior intelligence officer reportedly told t.v. talk show host convinced arab us to back the decision but the holes deny having ever spoken to the officer. in germany chancellor angela merkel says she thinks major parties can form a coalition government have resume talks in berlin but a potential sticking point between i'm going to miracles christian democrats and

the social democrats is the refugee crisis. is goebbels kundalini. i think we can do it we will work very quickly very intensively that's what we set out to do and you always think about what people in germany are expecting all those who. always hope that politics will solve the problems in create the framework for people to live well in our country i'm optimistic about these talks but i also know that there is a lot of work ahead of us in the coming days we'll willing to take on the work. and a u.s. government allegation that diplomats in cuba american diplomats in cuba were targeted by a sonic weapon attack being dismissed spy and leading republican senator jeff flake says there is no evidence based on classified intelligence has been told by staff at the u.s. embassy in have on a well ordered home after some of them suffered permanent hearing loss and brain injury two years ago the cuban government has denied any responsibility.

those are the headlines coming up next it's inside story. this fury in the white house as a new book lays bad done all trolls first year in office the u.s. president has slammed it calling the author a loser but what's all the ramifications of this book for the middle east and trump's presidency this is inside story.