only go this time. coveted beyond wealth thank you very much taken without hesitation. and died from. power defines our. people in power investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe. at this time on al-jazeera. moving forward south korea's president says he's willing to meet north korea's leader kim jong il. along down jordan this is al jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up raids across villages in the west bank after an israeli settler shot dead in the occupied

territories. steve bannon stepped down from the right wing bright news public falling out with donald trump. and from fires to floods thirteen people are dead in southern california as heavy rain triggers mudslides and destroys homes. south korea's president says he's willing to meet the north korean leader kim jong il if it could help resolve the nuclear standoff it comes just a day after the first formal into coming in talks in more than two years john. i do not desire the immediate reunification of the koreas it is my goal to resolve north korea's nuclear issues and thirdly establish peace during my term. denuclearization of the korean peninsula is part of the process towards peace it is our basic stance that we can never concede regarding this issue kathy novak has

more now from salt. south korean president says he would be willing to sit down with the north korean leader kim jong un if he believed there would be a ten general outcome from such a meeting he is continuing to push forward a policy of more dialogue and engagement with north korea of course he made these comments just a day after they first interfering in talks in more than two years after those talks north korea agreed to send a delegation to the winter olympics that will be taking place here in south korea next month the united states and others have a welcomed the talks but the bigger picture remains how to convince north korea to denuclearize north korea had said that it maintains its nuclear weapons pose pointed towards the united states and not to wardes its fellow koreans monday in the south korean president for his part says that the campaign of sanctions and pressure against north korea is what brought it to the dialogue table and he

thanked the efforts of u.s. president donald trump on his part of maintaining those that pressure against north korea and he wants to see future talks with north korea including talks between the military and possibly on family reunions happening between members of separated families as soon as next month the israeli army has carried out raids on a number of villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus a thirty year old settler was shot dead authorities say the father of six was killed in a drive by shooting when twenty two but it's a spate of the call he was driving has declared the area to the southwest of nablus a military zone there are reports of skirmishes in the villages of tel sato of settlers throwing stones at possum cars in the village of bloated force that has more from west jerusalem. well the israeli military says that this thirty five year old man a rabbi from the illegal outpost of about gilad just southwest of nablus in the occupied west bank that he was in his vehicle on route sixty the main road near

that illegal outpost where he lived and he was shot dead from a by a from a passing vehicle the military not saying whether it was one gunman or more but there are reports that twenty two bullets struck the vehicle that he was shot in the neck and chest taken to hospital where he was then pronounced dead at the military responded by declaring a military zone southwest of nablus israeli soldiers entering two villages tel and sorrow there were confrontations with local palestinians in those villages before the military the soldiers withdrew to the entrances of the villages they also carried out raids within nablus itself west of maybe hoods of nablus seizing security cameras as this hunt for the suspects in this incident continues israeli settlers as well gathered around a checkpoint at least one area throwing stones at palestinian vehicles in response so pretty tense situation in the hours after this shooting nablus itself is

surrounded by illegal israeli settlements and outposts has long been an area where there have been clashes between palestinians and settlers the last fatal shooting by a palestinian on israeli targets took place in september when a man entered at a checkpoint at the entrance to an israeli settlement shot dead three israeli security forces members and was then shot dead him self the difference in this instance the perpetrator or perpetrators are still on the run and since then we've had the donald trump decoration about jerusalem so the whole situation in the palin's palestinian territories is more tense there have been weeks of protest. us president donald trump's former advisor steve bannon has resigned from his role as executive chairman of the right wing news website bright bought it comes just days after a round of the remarks bannan made about trump and his son and the recently published book fire and fury well in it bannan cola twenty sixteen meeting between trump jr

and a group of russians treasonous well soon off the donald trump and to the white house steve benen was appointed the white house chief strategist which gave him a direct line to the president but four months into the high profile job he began losing his influence of his boss in april bannon was removed from a key role in the national security council things went downhill for bannon from there and then august he was fired the investment bank a ten media executive then returned to breitbart news but controversial comments like calling the sacking of james comey as f.b.i. director as the biggest mistake in modern political history only added to balance tensions with trump but bill schneider has some george mason university he says trump's falling out with bannon may only be temporary donald trump is very critical he calls him what do you call him sloppy steve and he denounced him he said that he thought he had lost his mind but trump has this history of attacking people and then eventually reconciling with them if trouble needs bannan particularly as we get closer to two thousand and twenty bannon could be resurrected everything

depends on how donald trump regards the band and how we use him how he treats him most republican members of congress critically in the senate especially the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell they're doing a little happy dance tonight because they're very pleased with the downfall of the band and he was threatening to oppose them with insurgent candidates the insurgent candidates are still there look before there was the man and there was a tea party movement which rand insurgents against republican incumbents so the threat is still there but battle really a pit in my eyes than personalized that threat so for the moment the republican establishment is relieved. u.s. judge has blocked the trumpet ministration from ending a program a shooting children brought to the country illegally by their parents from deportation the judge in san francisco says it must remain in place while litigation of a trump position is ongoing so far the republican controlled congress has failed to reach a deal on the status of some seven hundred thousand so-called dream immigrants trumps

all to repeated his call for a bootable on mexico as pot immigration reforms i'd love not to build what you need the wall and i will tell you this the ice officers and the border patrol agents adam just recently out they say if you don't have the well you know in certain areas obviously that are protected by nature if you don't have the war you cannot have. more now from out there was can really help it. well certainly there has been repeated speculation about the president's mental fitness when it comes to his presidency those accusations intensifying in the past week but that may have been countered by a spontaneous press conference by the president a bike burning issue that has been under resolvable in the united states for years and that is the issue of illegal immigration as well as border security the president showing that he not only despite accusations to the contrary was engaged in new the issues but he also seemed to signal that there was

a willingness to work with his critics particularly when it comes to issues like border security and something known as doc our deferred action on childhood arrivals essentially what to do about thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the united states living here for years but brought here as children many now adults we don't have six months from the start but i think you're going to negotiate i mean well agreement we won't i mean you know it's possible we're not going to agree with you when it's possible but this should be no reason for us not to get this done that joke i will say when this group comes back hopefully with that agreement this group and others from the senate from the house comes back with an agreement i'm trying to get i mean i will be signing now the issue of immigration is key to a looming deadline and that is funding the u.s. government that deadline a little more than a week away may have something to do with the fact that republicans democrats along with the president working together in

a bipartisan fashion the president is still insisting that he wants funding for his border wall along with southern u.s. border with mexico but seems to be striking a more conciliatory tone with his political opponents that may have something to do with the fact that this is an election year congressional elections are set to be held in november. a seven point six magnitude earthquake has struck about one hundred sixty kilometers off the coast of honduras the pacific tsunami warning center has issued a warning for puerto rico the u.s. virgin islands and mexico. flooding and mudslides caused by a powerful storm in southern california have killed at least thirteen people thousands have been forced from their homes repels reports from the sanctions. torrential rains moving inland from the pacific ocean devastated the very same parts of california that were ravaged by wildfires last month the only words i can really think of to describe what it looked like was it looked like

a world war one battlefield it was literally a carpet of mud and debris everywhere. deadly mudslides raced down canyons in montecito near santa barbara leveling homes and destroying everything the fires left on harm i heard the rumble of the rocks and we looked over the river and the trees are just coming down true true true we heard of a little baby. cable. dug down out of the food and the right can you. got it out of the bottle that's no. hope that's ok to. a car lay stranded the fate of its owner on known rivers of thick gray muck course through upscale neighborhoods and roads were overwhelmed including the major north south coastal highway one hundred one the

recent fires stripped steep hillsides of brush and other vegetation that normally anchors the earth in place firefighters say the burnt landscape makes the soil more susceptible to giving way without warning in heavy rain what happens once the ground gets saturated the soil it starts giving it's kind of like building a sand castle at the beach says out sand get saturated with water it's going to slough off and that's what we're seeing here behind me. as crews work to clear roads and move debris word came that several residents had died in the floods thousands of others were under mandatory evacuation orders the death toll is expected to rise rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. time for a short break here on his hero when we come back the syrian bombardment of eastern do to intensify civilians inside the rebel held on claims say the warplanes just won't stop. mexico city's new drive to force millions of

motorists to take lessons for the first time on the table. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. welcome back we've seen some colder air pushing its way down through the caucuses and through into western parts of asia for the last couple of days so back to struggling with temperatures of six tehran's not particularly warm either by that they're faring better nineteen degrees is a high and around the eastern side the mediterranean the weather conditions remaining find the twenty degrees in beirut as you start to pick up more of a southerly breeze here in the arabian peninsula still seeing the risk of showers a sudden end of the red sea and also we've seen showers working the way down through the gulf and the threat of showers still there slightly during the course of wednesday for qatar and through towards the rest of the gulf states and then as

a head on into thursday we should find it brightening up a little bit temperatures generally not too bad riyadh just getting up to twenty one degrees celsius across into southern portions of africa we've lost the remnants really of tropical cyclone aver across madagascar but still plenty of showers across the island with the southerly flow we're getting showers for parts of mozambique coastal areas anyways some b. and zimbabwe picking up a fair few showers but through much of southern angola through namibia botswana into much of south africa weather conditions a draw in fine with temperatures expected to be in the mid twenty's for cape town the risk of a shower for durban in johannesburg johannesburg seeing highs of twenty two degrees . the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. you are making very pointed remarks when they're on line 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 say no evil person just wakes up the over the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness this is

a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion on line about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera a south korean president moon jay and says he's willing to meet the north korean leader kim jong il who proposed a summit to resolve differences between both nations of appealing young's nuclear program that follows hot of the talks on tuesday. the israeli army has carried out raids on villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus soft on israeli settler was shot that is to clear the area to the south west of this

a military zone. and u.s. judges blocked the trumpet ministration from ending a program which prevents children brought to the u.s. illegally by their parents being deported trump wants to end the scheme and last but congress remains deadlocked over the issue of. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali harman a as blame the western powers for the recent unrest in his country and i also suggested to her arms regional rival saudi arabia that funded some of the demonstrations he says iran's enemies took advantage of economic problems to try to destabilize the government same as more from tehran. when anti-government protests began last month iran's supreme leader said he would speak about the unrest at an appropriate time knowing his would be the final word. on tuesday ayatollah ali khamenei blamed foreign intervention by iran's enemies for the demonstrations that resulted in the deaths of at least twenty two people you.

see that even according to evidence there's a triangular part and it was formed by the u.s. and zionists the money came from a wealthy government it appears in the gulf and the third element where henchmen hide his minions but his plot he also had a warning for anyone seeking to use these demonstrations to overthrow iran's government you failed he said and you will fail in the future to i i in his speech the supreme leader said that what he called foreign agents who were behind the anti-government demonstrations adopted the slogan of high prices knowing that that was something that would resonate with many iranians so many acknowledged economic hardships faced by iranian families and admitted the country had work to do to solve its own problems. but people struggling to pay their bills say there needs to be less talk and more action to improve living standards the single most effective the said yeah these protests are because of economic problems people are

frustrated they have to pay rent they have university students and their families to salaries are not enough for their expenses that joe make one child that has been some economic depression in society for a while job opportunities have decreased god willing it will get solved we're still not just this said the more but economic problems were a preliminary cause but some people and some foreign agents misused the situation to create tension with one man who didn't speak to us on camera said iran's leaders have been blaming foreign countries for domestic problems for years and that it's natural for people who are frustrated with their leaders to take to the streets after all he said that's how the islamic republic of iran came to power in the first place same bus robbie al-jazeera to herat. turkey's foreign ministry has some of the ambassadors of iran and russia to protest against the violation of a deescalation zone in syria turkey is reportedly accusing syrian troops of breaking the deal in their push to retake opposition held areas of russia iran and

turkey agreed on four deescalation zones in may last year in an effort to end the seven year war moscow and tehran support the syrian government while turkey backs opposition groups. another deescalation zone is the damascus suburb of eastern ghouta the syrian government's bombardment of the rebel held on places intensifying rebel fighters are desperately trying to cling on to the territory even resorting to talks with syria's ally russia four hundred thousand civilians are struggling to survive the winter there with medical and food supplies running low but as more. the fog of dust from buildings reduced to rubble was still thick as people began transporting the injured and pulling out the dead. twenty three people were killed in strikes in eastern guta on monday night. no home team of the derby the warplanes didn't stop day and night they shell only civilians and tall good residential neighborhoods and markets eastern ghouta is

a short drive to the capital damascus which is remained relatively calm throughout the war but the lives of the four hundred thousand people here are very different the never ending stream of bombs has created shortages of everything from food to fuel. the last two weeks have been especially intense one hundred twenty six people are estimated to have been killed since december twenty ninth. the new i five the for the night of the video we demand the international community stops the shelling of innocent civilians we don't have any food or mates in here and use kuta we under siege for a long time and we hope god will help us. syrians contemplating leaving their homes are faced with a dilemma for example the displaced who sought refuge in opposition held it lib are in danger again it is the largest rebel stronghold and government forces are in the midst of an offensive to regain control tens of thousands of civilians already in

dire circumstances have been recorded as displaced since the first of december due to the fighting with the onset of winter save shelters among the biggest concerns as many families are fleeing into areas that are already at full capacity into communities with depleted resources people in eastern guta fear if they leave their homes they'll never be allowed to return the un is accusing the syrian government of implementing a policy of force displacement to radically alter the demographic makeup of areas previously controlled by the opposition natasha going to aim al-jazeera. police in tunis here have fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital who stormed a supermarket during the anti-government protest demonstrations have been taking place since monday when people rallied in more than ten towns against the government's planned price and tax hikes it says the measures are necessary to reduce its ballooning deficit and satisfy international lenders the prime minister

youssef show head says twenty eighteen will be the last year of economic hardship for. up to one hundred migrants are feared drowned off the coast of libya after their rubber boat was punctured only sixteen survivors were found by the coast guard. incident happened near the city of zawiya migrants and two other boats trying to make the perilous journey to europe also rescued. in total because god picked up about three hundred lives. now internet activists and opposition politicians in germany have expressed outrage over a new law aimed at combating online hate speech facebook twitter and other social media sites are being forced to remove offensive content or face fines of up to sixty million dollars opponents say the legislation allows freedom of expression in germany to be policed by u.s. based multinational companies to reports from berlin. the first victim of the new law is no less than the deputy leader of the extreme right alternative for germany

party tricks one stalk responded to a new year's eve greeting by police in cologne posted in arabic on twitter the city was the scene two years ago of mass sexual assaults jeering celebrations both of the suspects were described as being of north african and arab origin. in a post on twitter and facebook she asked what the hell is happening in this country do you think it's to appease the barbaric gang raping hordes of muslim men stalks accounts were temporarily suspended on the ground she had violated the new hate speech law party said legitimate political opinions had been censored not about censorship but of course this law does give full a titian's like mrs fun story of the opportunity to claim that there is political censorship in germany and to portray herself as a martyr and i think this is one of the biggest political mistakes in passing the end i hate speech law because it helps parties like the if the to transport their

narratives into the population and gain greater popularity the justice minister marse who introduced the legislation said it will prevent calls to murder hate speech and holocaust denial which he described as attacks on other people's freedom of expression but opposition is mounting the green party is leading the charge for changes in the law. it's a very sensitive area and the question of where freedom of speech ends and the protection of personal rights begins has been determined to the very highest judicial levels in germany for decades the law now is too abrasive and gives too much power to the companies facebook says the legislation is fundamentally new it's unique in the world because of its complexity is a challenge for all involved even though german satirical magazine on the internet

has become a victim of the new laws twitter suspended their account after the use of frayed barbaric hordes while poking fun at the controversy. i spoke to the editor in frankfurt over skype yes. we'll have to keep watching this because funny talk is ambivalent and we know that real people struggle with it how are a bunch of what's going to distinguish german courts struggle as well the magazine is now back online its latest issue has a cartoon of president donald trump asking his secretary of state how they can restore some safety rex tillerson replies stop all this tweeting you idiot david chaytor al jazeera berlin bad weather and a fire are complicating the search for thirty two missing sailors off the coast of china they were onboard an iranian oil tanker which collided with a cargo ship on saturday fires when burning on board the tank of a three days that is preventing crews from getting close to it the tanker was

carrying more than a million barrels of oil sparking fears of an environmental disaster in the east china sea or the chinese government says it had not found a large scale oil leak agent brown has more information high. the drummer's happening some one hundred sixty nautical miles out in the east china sea it's happening in international waters which is why the response has been international south korea has sent a number of coast guard vessels u.s. military has sent an aircraft to help in the search for the thirty two missing crew members from that stricken iranian oil tanker now the moment there are two operations taking place one to put out the fire that broke out on the tanker the other of course to find those missing crew members now the tanker was carrying more than a million barrels of ultra light crude oil known as condensate it's very toxic it's also colorless odorless which means it's very very hard to detect the priority now

is to prevent the ship exploding and then sinking and of course that would threaten a real environmental catastrophe in the meantime officials in shanghai say there is no evidence that this accident is affecting traffic going into or out of the ports shanghai of course is one of the world's busiest ports officials also say that an exclusion zone is now in force which means that no vessel can sail to within ten kilometers of the accident site and it's possible there is this rescue operation continue that exclusion zone will be widened. now to one of the world's largest cities where you surprisingly don't have to take a test to get a driving license on the roads of mexico city three people are killed on average every day and thousands of traffic accidents are reported well now reckless drivers around the government pressure to steer away from bad habits of zeros david.

it's a typical tuesday morning in mexico city and parents drop their children off at school it's a chaotic scene on the prize make up in her rearview mirror another leaves her car in the middle of the street an argument breaks out after a man backs into a vehicle that's being double parked. mexico city is one of the world's most populated metropolises every day more than five million vehicles clogged streets. road accidents are common more than a thousand people die in crashes every year traffic accidents are now the leading cause of death for children between five and fourteen years old the government says this must stop as much as what it does traffic related that's unacceptable because they can be prevented we can do this in steps through new regulations infrastructure that no decent training. officials have already reduced speed limits and install traffic cameras now efforts to change driving culture are focused here

this is one of the government offices in mexico city where people come to get their driver's licenses or maybe i should say where people come to buy their licenses because all you need to bring here is a piece of government id a utility bill and pay the equivalent of forty dollars and within five minutes you're walking out with a license to drive it's just that easy. but this is changing starting in two thousand and eighteen drivers will have to take driving courses international schools before applying for a license it's a big change but one that many residents say is necessary but. i still feel a little bit nervous even though i try to control it. by taking this course will help me avoid getting into accidents. the habits of millions of drivers will take generations but in one of the world's biggest cities the cost of doing nothing is

simply too high david mercer mexico city. heavy snow has trapped an estimated thirteen thousand tourists at one of switzerland's most popular ski resorts the snow full stop lifts and block ski runs in train services also halted some people trying to leave the resort to nearby villages. website it is on his screen the address al-jazeera. the top stories here south korean president says he's willing to meet the north korean leader kim jong. un proposed a summit to resolve differences between both nations of a nuclear program that follows high level talks on tuesday. so. i keep myself open to any maiden including the summer with north korea if it's

helpful for an improvement of self north relations or a settlement of the north korean nuclear issue but to have the summit some conditions must be established i think a certain level of success that must be guaranteed the israeli army's carried out raids on the villages close to the occupied west bank town of nablus often israeli settlers shot dead is to clear the area to the south west of listen militarism. a judge just blocked the trump administration from ending a program which prevents children brought to the u.s. illegally by their parents from being deported trump wants to end the scheme in march but congress remains deadlocked over the issue. flooding and mudslides caused by a powerful storm in southern california have killed at least thirteen people some houses in santa barbara county were completely leveled many more were damaged forcing thousands of people to leave. a seven point six magnitude earthquake has struck off central america sparking a tsunami warning in the caribbean the earthquake struck me remote islands belong

to honduras the tsunami alert has been issued for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. u.s. president donald trump's former advisor steve bannon has resigned from his role as a as executive chairman of the right wing news website but bought it comes just days after a round of remarks about him made about trump and his son the recently published book and fury. turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the ambassadors of iran and russia to protest against the violation of a deescalation zone in syria turkey is reportedly accusing syrian troops of breaking the deal in their push to retake opposition held areas of the province. police and capital have fired tear gas at demonstrators have stormed a supermarket during the anti-government protest demonstrations against tanks and price hikes began on monday with rallies in more than ten towns those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream statement that's watching. facing reality your president said that there would be

a complete one hundred percent order that orders hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying that the future of the g.c.c. will be. here their story. on talk to how does iraq at this time. ok when the stream the u.s. attorney general has made a change that goes off the legal maulana. is actually in contradiction to u.s. public opinion about. now what effect will this legislative change half get into the debate about the impact that. has.