that means the contours of this story are shaped by the interests of the countries involved only on al-jazeera. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. one on one east meets those desperately seeking any way they can at this time on al-jazeera. sorry but there's no other work on can use for it racist donald trump earns a stinging rebuke from the u.n. after being accused of a crude oval office outburst about migrants. oh

i'm so tired and this is a lie from london also coming up more violent protests and over the government's austerity measures more than seven hundred people are arrested for progress in talks to form a new coalition government in germany after months of deadlock but hurdles still remain plus. one hundred thomas floating through a jungle in papua new guinea but i'll be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated i would just the last seven years on the profits from the number have been softened abroad. the u.s. president has denied he used language to describe countries like haiti el salvador and paul so africa as alleged made the comments during

a white house meeting on draft immigration immigration legislation but the claims have already drawn outrage from around the world including from the united nations with a cultural from the u.n. human rights office says if true the president's remarks were nothing but racist. these are shocking shameful comments from the president of the united states. there's no other work on can use but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. formal welcome or we think gauging reaction in some of the conscious allegedly referred to by trump has what they are saying. with now this that means that he's a president who's destabilizing a president of all the words who is unacceptable in the name of the haitian people we as part of a patriotic emergency that is biting for real change in haiti we demand that donald

trump apologize before the entire african continent as well as before haiti the country whose blood has been used by ancestors who have served with their minds and bodies to liberate the united states itself from slavery. this is not a shuttle country neither is any other country industries and it is extremely offensive for president trump to make statements about other countries that are really not complimentary of the u.s. is open positions on those countries and it's unfortunate that he makes those statements obviously we know position to stop any president from saying anything they wish to say but all we can say is that. developing countries do have difficulties and those difficulties are not small matters. it's not as if the united states doesn't have difficulties. he's not unexpected from somebody

over his nature going to do for me your standard procedure so i don't feel. in the room i just think it's normal since i mean someone i can come all rude go to as a transit to a strip of water you. can really help as he's in washington d.c. with the latest sign can be just one more reaction just popping up straight on the reuters news wire that the u.s. ambassador to panama has resigned on principle telling the state department he can no longer serve the trump administration i mean there's been criticism of donald trump throughout his presidency but does this feel really like he's crossed the line. well it certainly crossed the line for a number of diplomats as you pointed out just there and that reaction continues discussed to disappointment this is certainly putting many in the u.s. state department who represent the united states around the world in very difficult positions we've seen some of them taking to twitter trying to try and clean up if

you will the comments that the president is denying taking to twitter in not one but two different tweets to deny the accusations that he used this vulgar language to disparage people from other nations particularly in africa saying that he did use strong language but not the words that were are being reported but this is being disputed by a top democratic senator who was seated next to the president in this immigration meeting dick durbin in fact he says that the president did use what he calls hateful words and he used them repeatedly and i can tell you that this is something that is of concern to many here in washington including members of the president's own republican party a very prominent republican congresswoman ileana ross late and late and rather is saying that is in her view in comprehensible that these words came out of the mouth of the president of the united states a country founded on being free from discrimination so the ripple effect and

reaction of the president and his against the president's words is certainly continuing to build those to support the president including the news channel fox news or excusing as is vulgar language is the language of the bomb the way some. people they put it speak and of course that's how they excused his sexist comments during the campaign and where is how his power base may be will excuse the whole fear of the whole furor about what he said. there's no question that there are many in the united states who are completely comfortable with what the president has said they have elected him because he has these very nationalist values they have certainly supported and turned a blind eye if you will to some of the comments that he made on the campaign trail with regard to grabbing women dismissing it as locker room talking this is another example of that you're absolutely right as i watched fox news this morning there

certainly was coverage of this but it was very different in tone excusing it what the feeling is here in the united states is this is a divided country this these comments stem from a very heated discussion on immigration and border security one that the president's base very much wants to see the president put in place and so while they may not like the language they certainly are turning a blind eye to it in the hopes he can accomplish stronger border security ending the visa lottery program and also to making sure that that wall he promised to build will get the funding for the really important issues that we should be talking about rather than the kind of vocabulary the president's using many things can really help speaking to us from washington d.c. meanwhile president trump has canceled a visit to london to open the new u.s. embassy he says it's because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off they don't building even though the decision to move the embassy was announced on the george w. bush from london the fucker reports. the building at the center of

a new trouble with the storm finishing touches it being made to the u.s. embassy south of the river thames away from the heart of the city but the american president's not happy the reason i canceled my trip to london he wrote is that i'm not a big fan of the obama administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one for one point two billion dollars deal the embassies now expected to be opened by u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson next month from the street like many other u.s. embassies around the world it's a giant forty five box this one happens to be surrounded by a moat this also somewhat different it's apparently very green topped with solar panels and the screens that designed to aid climate control is also taking shape in an area of urban regeneration that according to some is a little bit more evocative of the previous u.s. administration than the present war and that could be the problem the bearer of

london sadique khan drew his own conclusions from trump's decision many londoners have made it clear he tweeted that donald trump is not welcome here while he is pursuing such a divisive agenda it wasn't long before the u.k. spahn secretary boyce johnson intervened saying we will not allow u.s. u.k. relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in city hall on a visit to washington last year prime minister to resume a invited trump on a separate state visit to the u.k. but no dates been sent the petition against the plan gained more than a million signatures following trump's crackdown on immigration from majority muslim countries as for the old embassy in grosvenor square one of the most expensive addresses in the world it's been bought by qatar and the money used to build the new embassy america's association with the square goes back two hundred years is now destined to be turned into a luxury hotel behind on a minute could it be is it. well almost alone for blood waxwork museum about him to

swords donald trump may be unwilling to come to the u.k. himself but there is a rather suspicious look alike by any comment mr president but. turkey's prime minister is urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive and province one of the rebels last strongholds but now says the army assaults could force even more people to be displaced one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks russia and iran by the forces of syrian president bashar al assad while turkey supports opposition fighters. and the united nations has expressed its concern over the latest escalating in fighting with a warning that deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered war crimes with an eighty five people have been killed in the past twelve days and

a huckster reports. this has become the norm in eastern good. day to civilian casualties as the syrian government steps up its attacks and flushing out rebels in the damascus. was this is the last rebel held and claves and regime forces backed by russian strikes have been intensifying attacks in recent months russia has rejected accusations it's been targeting civilians. turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing the strikes needed to stop for peace talks to succeed an unnamed turkish source said ankara had summoned iranian and russian ambassadors syrian president assad's backers to express its discomfort those airstrikes are in what was meant to be a deescalation. and the un's envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence

and go to while things are now. in the country where many people is. finding continues. right now she said about age of the siege. this was low cooks first mission to syria since his appointment last year. the mob russia is due to host the syrian national dialogue congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meaningful dialogue to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. the u.n. says it's concerned about the number of iraq's jaring antigovernment protests inching this year more than seven hundred seventy people have been detained in nearly a week of sometimes violent demonstrations over plans to raise taxes on the price of basic goods the government has deployed troops to help contain the unrest with

prime minister youssef child head calm some in his government are blaming the disturbances on criminal elements hashim a whole bar is in china's forests and sent the south and. the buildup continues the protesters say that they will continue their movement for as long as it takes until the government scraps the austerity measure there's a sense of anger here and frustration at the government people say that they were hoping that after the two thousand and eleven. revolution living standards for tunisians would improve and they say that what happened was the totally the opposite of the blame the government for breaking the promises they made on cutting of poverty unemployment and improving the living standards for the years about the government faces a delicate task as we speak on one hand in needs sources of revenue this explains why he has implemented the pool and also installed the new tax system the problem with the taxes is that to decrease more resentment among people

on the other hand we've been asking international institutions for loans but the international monetary fund for example says that it cannot give money to the citizen government alas it starts reforming its public sector just to give you an idea about how delicate is this situation there are about eight hundred thousand government employees wait till bites into something like twelve percent of g.d.p. often is year the government says it will slash that number by the number of employees by twenty thousand but you if you do that this is exactly what you get people to take into the stories and more process into. good just need to be further instability. still ahead on al-jazeera and it has president of catalonia is in brussels to meet his newly elected campaigns and reports on how south africa is struggling with the issue of laundry distribution twenty five years after the end

of apartheid. how are the skies a largely clear across a good part of china at the moment in the southern areas of china cold enough in shanghai at seven degrees celsius seventeen celsius there for hong kong a little child really as we go on into sunday may be a touch with the winds coming in from a south easterly direction only a few showers pushing their way towards central vietnam but nothing too much to speak of a few showers to push in the way towards southern parts of india southern areas of sri lanka but the big change takes place further north you see this little area of cat here across the northern plains winds picking up over the next day as i say that should help to shift the focus and small twenty two celsius there phonied delhi simply similar values as we go on into sunday actually elsewhere as you can see largely dry wanted to show was there

a possibility into us for lanka then. dry across the rebel peninsula more warm sunshine not bad here in doha eyes of around twenty five degrees a little bit of cloud there just around the southern end of the red sea much to see one of two spots of light sensitive areas to get a little bit of cloud coming through here for saturday so the possibility of a little bit of that weather but nothing too much to speak of will see things certainly pleasantly warm haven down on sunday as the winds ease off nicely. and you need. an ambitious young artist from the mean streets of mozambique to settle to reveal the unseen truth about his country's. future the mozambique enclosure seem to be just did not meet the challenge of changing. the new african photography mario myself. at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is being criticized for reportedly using offensive language to describe haiti our salvador and african nations is issued a denial saying he used tough language but not the words which are being of course aids president trump has also counseled a visit to london to open the new u.s. embassy saying he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building and the u.n. has expressed concern over the arrest of more than seven hundred seventy people

during anti austerity protests in china zero. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party has struck a deal with social democrat rivals to open government coalition talks it's time to try to revive the power sharing agreement that spain power since twenty same must be approved by s.p.d. members next week david chang two reports. the breakthrough came after a break sourced in twenty four hours of negotiations between the parties of polluting more than five days of talks the political limbo in germany seems finally to be over. it's it it was the the c.d.u. unanimously approved a paper or the results of the exploratory talks at which many participated and which was based on a broad funday sion and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming a stable government. s. the s.p.d. we have decided unanimously to give the party leadership a mandate to negotiate a coalition the biggest hurdle in the talks was to reach an agreement on refugees

and migration the open door policy championed by angela merkel led to more than a million refugees being granted asylum in germany during the years twenty fifteen and sixteen the political price for that decision was the entry of the far right alternative for germany who gained more than one thousand seats in the parliament the border stuck by good numbers will now be kept to two hundred twenty thousand per year and agreement has been reached on even more controversial question of how many relatives will be allowed to be reunited with families already in germany one thousand cases will be considered per month with strict conditions attached friday's agreement though has one final hurdle to pass a special conference in bonn later this week of the social democrats will have to give their approval before the coalition tours can formally go ahead. well the youth of the social democrats is one of the most vocal parts of the party are

calling for opposition they believe in s.p.d. outside of government would have the opportunity to to reenergize true we think it's. in a radical shift on german objects paul to the party said they would end the beach italy supplying weapons to countries involved in the yemen conflict and tighten guidelines on sales the talks also agreed common ground on strengthening the euro zone and close partnership with france and driving forward with reforms in the european union they also promised to boost germany's contribution to the budget david chaytor al-jazeera berlin the spanish government has dismissed the possibility of former council leader colace priest ruling the region from self-imposed exile in brussels earlier pushed a moment that members of his pro independence movement in capital the power independence together for catalonia coalition took thirty four seats in last

month's election and still finished behind the unionist citizens party on friday some of the new secessionist m.p. said they hoped would be approved for another term as president of the catalan regional parliament and the majority government says it will contest any attempt in the courts has more from brussels. well colors put them on seem to be in a jovial mood here in brussels as he took part in that meeting with people from his party who were elected to the catalan parliament last december and members of the other main probably independence party he didn't actually talk to the press himself it was left to spokespeople from his party who were adamant that he would very soon be sworn in as the cattle on president there are a number of obstacles that they face mr push them on won't go back to spain and neither will the deposed ministers that he came to brussels with last year when

they were facing a european arrest arrest warrant that's gone away but they still refused to go back now mr push them all says that he might make his investiture speech which has to happen by the end of the month via video link some opinion say that would be unconstitutional the spanish government say it would be illegal so do the party which won the most votes in the regional elections sudha done us and we're waiting to hear from the catalan parliaments lawyers as to very advice but the message here really was that that's not going to sway things that if in fact the parliament does choose to relax mr pushed him out as well as regional president then it would be an affront to democracy if anybody tried to stop that you know entity from the rest of the of the impairment in even to this is. to be here in brazil to who you believe to give him confidence and so in say his name

in each one of you know intimately plans. well there is another problem for mr group among the several of their m.p.'s were actually jailed in spain so there are many unanswered questions about exactly how and when they can start their jobs when they can take power. demonstrations have taken place in the palestinian territories after groups including fattah and hamas called for a day of rage and response to the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it comes as israeli forces maintain road blocks and conduct raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank looking for the killer of an israeli sackler eighteen palestinians have been arrested so far on thursday two palestinian teenagers were killed during scuffles with israeli troops twenty five years after the end of apartheid land remains one

of the most divisive issues in south africa the vast majority of the best land is still owned by white farmers now as the governing a.n.c. meets to celebrate its one hundred six anniversary and wants to make major changes to the constitution so it can appropriate land without paying compensation on your page because. these men are serving a site they manage they think of themselves as property developers sorts this is what they call phase one of the land invasion more than ten thousand shacks they say they're tired of waiting for the a.n.c. to give them land there was a pause when taking over from the above the government was upper to send horses with him but he never bonded. but there we are keeping on promising promising promising but not now we are saying enough is enough. one of the main reasons the n c was formed in one thousand nine hundred twelve was because black africans were losing their land often being forcibly removed from it more than

a century later most of the best land in south africa remains in the hands of a few thousand mostly white commercial farmers. after twenty three years and how a b. and c. is only managed to return a fraction of the land to black people the latest research suggests about twenty percent that makes land a defining issue and one the n.c. things it may be able to solve if it changes the constitution allowing it to take land without giving compensation to the n.c. says it won't go ahead with the change if it will hurt the food supply dan craig can't see how that's possible he's been representing farmers and talks with the n.c. and says many people like him are committed to returning land to black people and we want to work with government and we have funding models and we extend property rights to new farmers we can actually make much much faster progress if we work together. i've not lost hope in terms of land reform in any way but from an

economic point of view there are concerns over how changes to the constitution will impact farmers if you compensation they would not be able to sue sedates all that practically all the detroit at least seventy five percent of their through the value of the land so that they would default on those. loans that they have with the banks but these men believe the date owed to them and their people is far more important the a.n.c. government may have been too slow to help them but if it speeds up the transfer of land into the hands of black people it could dramatically change the face of land ownership in south africa a tiny page al-jazeera johannesburg happen new guinea's logging industry is booming it's just overtaken malaysia is the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood but it could be coming at a cost environmental groups are accusing the pacific nations governments of sitting back and doing nothing while it's rain forests are systematically destroyed andrew

thomas has been to one of the main logging areas to have a look at the impact firsthand. the extremely remote location of this rainforest used to offer its protection but recently that changed . the forests around palmy oh are disappearing fast as they have been right around papua new guinea we have lost everything we were been here two years ago we were just a new year old or new going to be tree or maybe looking at the birds flowing out all the troops but no look at this so we would have been in the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of the forest. papua new guinea has more of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases or a.b.l.

threatened them they were supposed to be issued to agricultural companies to clear land they intended to farm on but most s.a.b. else which now cover more than ten percent of papua new guinea's in thailand a mass were issued often corruptly to logging companies the timber is processed in china and sold on around the world as kitchen flooring palm oil plantations are eventually planted but there are a poor substitute. is supposed to avoid emotion and reports like this but this scene is just profoundly depressing when i first took my breath away i mean just look at it this is a landscape that's being scarred. logging companies say they brought jobs services and roads to poor parts of papua new guinea and paid landowners but this satellite imagery with pictures taken in twenty thirteen and again this year shows in just one area the extent of what's been lost. john powell rear helped the malaysian

company to negotiate its access but he quickly felt locals were being pressured into sunny onesided agreements i feel embarrassed i say i must tell you we were looking for yes this is why without considering all the simplifications we offered to bring him and we were in in places looking companies have subsidised the local police those trying to stop the loggers say they've been beaten by them held in shipping containers and threatened with arrest hours given. my family. by a policeman in uniform carrying a gun and in the night. in papua new guinea's capital two politicians and officials have been accused of being too close to the logging companies and of taking bribes to help deals go through the country's new lands minister doesn't deny that but

says he is part of the solution is a deal's is a disaster it's a disgrace there's definitely some that are illegal there's no question about it and they will be cancelled they will be cancelled and all logging will stop but it's not stopping we're just painting these new britain the logging is devastating you're right it is not stopping because of the fact that we still have to go for the process there's a legal process lot of the east but it's going to stop it will stop in many places logging companies are appealing the cancellation of their licenses but while court cases drag on the trees keep falling under thomas al-jazeera pommy oh papa new guinea. let's get a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera outrage is mounting around the world off the us president donald trump reportedly used offensive language to

describe haiti el salvador and african nations he said to have made the offensive comments during a meeting on immigration at the white house all thursday trump has issued a vague denial on twitter saying he used tough language but not the words which are being reported in for coville from the u.n. human rights office says the president's remarks if true are undeniably racist these are shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states. sorry but there's no other work on can use but racist. you cannot dismiss the entire countries and continents shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. formal welcome. meanwhile president has canceled a visit to london to open the new us embassy he says it's because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building although the decision to move the embassy was announced on the george w.

bush. talk as prime minister is edging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive in the province one of the rebels last strongholds but now. says the army assaults could force even more people to be displaced one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks russia and iran backed the forces of syrian president bashar al assad while turkey supports opposition fighters. the u.n. says it's concerned about the number of arrests chairing anti-government protests in china's ear more than seven hundred seventy people have been detained in nearly a week of sometimes violent demonstrations over plans to raise taxes on the price of basic goods the government has deployed trying to help contain the unrest with prime minister. tom german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with that social democrats rival's to open government coalition talks the

attempts to try to revive a power sharing agreement that's been in power since twenty thirty a few approved by s.p.d. members next week the parties have found common ground on account for refugee arrivals and is own policy there's a headline stay with us al-jazeera us scapes next. twenty first century africa a continent undergoing great change and finally seizing control of its image but it's been a long pants on that years ago photography was a could go deal to going after going without a place to be. right now it's time for the independent.