this is me again he's busy. with his young river trip submissive think neither read nor write think they know there are some great interest. in getting the good there to him anything just turned the system you know a destroyed one al-jazeera. sorry but there's no other work on can use but racist donald trump earns a stinging rebuke from the un after being accused of a crude oval office outburst about migrants.

and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. more violent protests in china zero over the government's austerity measures more than seven hundred people are arrested firm progress in talks to form a new coalition government in germany after months of deadlock but hurdles still remain plus. an andrew 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 asked in the ninety years derogatory language to describe countries like haiti el salvador and parts of africa it's a ledge donald made the comments during

a white house meeting on draft immigration legislation but the claims have already drawn outrage from around the world including from the united nations who put call vill from the u.n. human rights office says if true the president's remarks were nothing but racist these shocking 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. well we think being gaining reaction in some of the countries at large they refer to what they're saying with. 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 a party 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 highty or 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 position oh policy positions on those countries and it's unfortunate that he makes those statements obviously we're no 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 and it's not as if the united states doesn't have difficulties. is not unexpected from

somebody of his nature going to follow through your reading rooms kind of person so i don't feel. room i just think it's it's you know most is when someone like you. all will go to. your sister. is in washington d.c. with the latest campaign with grown used to the president making outlandish remarks over the course of the last year this one feels like he's crossed the line. yeah i am pretty uncomfortable just a few moments ago sue as the president is standing surrounded by prominent members of the african-american community at a previously scheduled white house ceremony honoring the civil rights icon dr martin luther king the president did not in any way acknowledge or even answer the questions of april ryan a prominent african-american member reporter of the white house press corps when asked if you'd like to respond and what was interesting as we heard from martin

luther king's nephew he did not speak to this controversy directly but certainly he is well as dr ben carson the housing and urban development secretary spoke repeatedly in language that suggested that they were trying to heal and clean up some of the the mess while also pointing to the fact that what is needed desperately in the united states right now is equality dignity and healing the divisions of the age almost speaking to the president's remarks directly now the president is denying that he has said anything racist into morning tweets he said that he use strong language but never anything derogatory but that is being contradicted in fact by a very prominent democratic senator dick durbin who in fact was seated at the meeting and says the president in fact did make what he considers to be very racist and vile comments. to no surprise the president started tweeting this morning good night good news for sure. it is not true that he said these hateful things and he

said them when he did and when i mentioned that fact that he should do we need more patience. and then he went on when you started to describe the immigration from africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure that's what he used in the file folder comments calling the nations that come full circle. exactly used by the president not just once but repeatedly. i'm reminded of some of the. the offensive language he used the very extreme sexist language he used during the campaign and how some of his supporters sort of excused by saying it was the language of the locker room it was the language of the bar is this really how those surrounding him may be excusing even this. it's how many surrounding him his supporters very much so in middle america are certainly. not making excuses for it

but almost holding their nose just as one would say i don't have to like my heart surgeon i just want him to do a good job that's how many have reacted to the comments on the campaign trail and again in regards to this not making excuses for it but trying to turn a blind eye if you will given the fact that jobs are very strong in the country right now that in fact the economy is strong the stock market is up and these are all things that donald trump also promised to do and has been trying to highlight but again it goes back to his actions and his language which constantly take away from perhaps some of his more positive press the president has no one to blame but himself when it comes to that and you're right there is a solid base but there are even some who did not vote for the president that are happy with these results but also discussed it by the president's actions and language particularly when it comes to the situation where there have been alleged racist remarks made but what many americans have tried to do is given the fact that this is the president of the united states they've tried to separate his

personality from his product to vittie but again it is the president that continues to step on his good old good head lives by his own actions and hurtful words against him as a first time he's been compared to a surgeon carefully very great to get your thoughts from washington d.c. . meanwhile president trump has canceled a visit to london to open the new u.s. embassy he says is because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building even though the decision to move the embassy was announced on the george w. bush from london fokker reports. the building at the center of a new trump twitter 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 fortified 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 mare 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 pop in j. and city hall on a visit to washington last year prime minister teresa may invited trump on

a separate state visit to the u.k. but no dates being 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 a loan from london waxwork museum out into swords or donald trump may be unwilling to come to the u.k. himself but there is a rather suspicious look alike on standby any comment mr president. turkey's prime minister is urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian

government's offensive in a province one of the rebels last strongholds. dream says the army could force even more people to be displaced one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks russia and iran back in the forces of syrian president bashar al assad while turkey supports opposition funny to you. and the united nations has expressed its constant over the latest escalation in fighting with a warning that deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered war crimes more than eighty five people have been killed in the past twelve days had a huckster reports. this has become the norm in east. l.a. to civilian casualties as the syrian government steps up its attacks and flushing out rebels in the damascus suburb was this is the last rebel held and clay 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. the country where many people is. finding continues in other areas. right now and she. faces of the siege. this was loquats first mission to syria since his appointment last year. 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 arrests jaring antigovernment protests in china zia more than seven hundred seventy people have been detained in many 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 which some have blamed on criminal elements national home or is in tunis. the build up 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 the poverty unemployment and improving the living standards for the years but 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 is to install the new tax system the problem with the taxes is that to decrease more resentment among people on the other hand you've been asking international institutions for loans but the international monetary fund for example says that it cannot give money to that it is in 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 the

g.d.p. of tin is yet the government says it will slash that number by the number of employees by twenty thousand but you do if you do that this is exactly what you get people to take into the stories and more process into the good just lead to further instability. still ahead on. the palace president and catalonia is in brussels to meet his newly elected m.p.'s and we'll tell you want the u.s. marriott hotel chain is in hot water with china. hello we've got some rain and some snow in the full cost of course northern areas of the middle east at the moment we've got a famine it's a cloud moving through the black sea the caspian sea rural schools is beckett's down towards kazakhstan so there will be some heavy snowfall some heavy spells of

rain coming through some of those snow we areas could see as much as twenty five centimeters of snow as we go on through the next couple days a fair bit of snow that just around the turkish mountains and this we go on through sunday will see somewhat of weather just making its way towards that eastern side of the med towards syria lebanon jordan beirut around sixty degrees celsius but for many it will be five and dry as is the case across the arabian peninsula don't have around twenty five celsius that a bit of a damp weather down towards the southern end of the red sea into the gulf of aden but for most it will be settled at it will be sunny again temps here in doha around twenty five celsius with some pleasant sunshine as a winds fullbacks and then lifted dust and sand to worry about father's rights issue across a good part of southern africa into mozambique into a good part of zimbabwe northern possum mozambique along with northern areas of madagascar could see some very heavy rain as we go on through the next couple days it joins up with those flooding rains that we have still continuing across the.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here on ars is there a us president donald trump has been criticized for reportedly using offensive language to describe haiti el salvador and african nations he has issued a denial saying he used tough language but not the words which are being reported. president champus also counsels a visit to london to open a 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 county austerity protests and china's a. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with social democrats rivals to open government coalition talks it's time to trying to revive a power sharing agreement that's been in power since twenty thirteen must be approved by s.p.d. members next week david chase reports. the breakthrough came after leaks or stink

twenty four hours of negotiations between the parties for polluting more than five days of talks the political limbo in germany seems finally to be over it's it it was steve the c.d.u. unanimously approved a paper or the results of the exploratory talks which many participated and which was based on a broad fondation and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming a stable government will serve them accomplish a profit as 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 the refugee. by grecian 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 capped at two hundred twenty thousand

per year and agreement has been recently 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 these are the sort of democrats is one of the most vocal parts of the party calling for opposition they believe in s.p.d. outside of government would have the opportunity to. reenergize truing re think it's an agenda in a radical shift on german arms exports the party said they would end the siege 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 in 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. the spanish government has dismissed the possibility of former catalan leader colace pushed among ruling the region from self-imposed exile in for all souls which the moment met members of his pro independence movement in the belgian capital the pro independence together for catalonia coalition took thirty four seats in last month's election but still finished behind the unionist citizens party on friday some of the new secessionist m.p.'s said they hoped would be approved for another term as president of the catalan regional parliament but then richard government says it will contest any attempt in the course of a 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 parliament 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 empire going into this is who's going to be here in brazil who get them to give him confidence and know that somewhere in spain is not named in east once we get into the last. well there is another problem for me is the group of the several of their m.p.'s were actually jailed in spain so there are many unanswered questions about exactly how. they can store jobs when they can take power demonstrations have taken place in the palestinian territories

after groups including facts and how must call for a day of rage in response to the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it comes as israeli forces maintain roadblocks and conduct raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank looking for the killer of an israeli settler eighteen palestinians have been arrested so far on thursday two palestinian teenagers were killed during scuffles with israeli troops. police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas to disperse chants go as they were mourning protesters killed in recent demonstrations at least seven people died in protest in the capital kinshasa on new year's eve the demonstrations on friday were organized by catholic activists who've been protesting against president joseph kabila his refusal to step down from office the chinese government is warning foreign companies operating in their country to respect china's sovereignty it comes after a major slip up by the u.s.

based marriott hotel chain which is apologize for referring to tibet taiwan hong kong and macau a separate country is in an online survey adrian brown is in beijing. well marriott's customer loyalty program has found itself at the center of assortment with china's government its blunder was to categorize tibet taiwan hong kong and macau as countries this happened in a customer survey and of course the inevitable firestorm has now happened on social media the gaffe was identified by chinese netizens and some of those medicines and are calling on people to boycott the marriott hotel chain one newspaper in central china even says that marriott should be kicked out of the country now the hotel has apologized repeatedly it says that an investigation has now begun and it denies supporting separatist sentiment in china but the company is still being punished

the marriott website and chinese up has been closed for a week to make matters worse the friends of tibet group put a post on twitter praising marriott for recognizing tibet as a country and that posed received a like from someone in the marriott group now on friday china's foreign ministry waded into the row it said that it was important that foreign companies operating in china obeyed chinese laws and respected the feelings of chinese people you can be sure that many other foreign firms in china and are studying their websites and apps to make sure this blunder is not repeated and of course this all happens at a time of growing concern that we could be on the verge of a trade war between china and the united states happening again is logging industry is booming it's just ever taken malaysia as the world's biggest exporter of tropical hardwood but environmental groups are accusing the pacific nations

government and 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. rain forest used to offer its protection but recently that changed. the forests around palmy o. are disappearing fast as they have been right around papua new guinea we have lost everything we were been here two years ago we would lose to new york or new to ruby 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 years 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 their reports substitute. this 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 a 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 over in in places looking companies have subsidized 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 deals is a disaster it's a disgrace there's definitely some that are legal 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. it's going to remind of the top stories on al-jazeera outrage is mounting around the world after u.s. 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 the white house on thursday chung has issued a vague denial on twitter and he used tough language but not the words which have been reported to put kovel 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 word 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 trump has canceled a visit to london to open the new us embassy he says this because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building although the decision to move the embassy was announced under george w. bush turkey's prime minister is edging iran and russia to rein in the syrian

government's offensive in a province one of the rebels last strongholds may not only 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 during anti-government protests in china zia 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 ships to help contain the unrest as prime minister yourself child had urging calm. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with the social democrat rivals to open government coalition talks it's time to try to revive

a power sharing agreement that's been in power since twenty three must be approved by s.p.d. members next week today with the headlines but stay with us on al-jazeera inside stories coming up next. violent protests in should this year hundreds of arrests there's anger over price rises and tax hikes but the government says there's no other way to cut a ballooning deficit so how will to be zero was over its deep rooted economic problems this is inside story.