at this time. you should be true it's good that we should live with you. democrats dismissed on the terms denials about his offensive comments which are spark fury of the world.

and of them joining with all of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up president trump says he'll approve the iran nuclear deal one last time but once it's crossed must be fixed soon or the u.s. will withdraw. more violent protests and over the government's austerity measures almost eight hundred people have been arrested and facebook shares fall out of mark zuckerberg announces changes to its news feed to prioritise polls by friends and family. u.s. president has denied using vulgar and de broglie true language to describe haiti el salvador and countries in africa donald trump's alleged to have made the comments during a white house meeting on draft immigration legislation the floods have been widely condemned across america as racist and offensive our white house correspondent

kimberly how could reports. surrounded by members of the african-american community at a white house ceremony honoring the civil rights icon dr martin luther king donald trump made no apology for his alleged racist comments a day earlier that's right series of early morning tweets donald trump denied media reports. that he had called haiti el salvador and african countries shitholes during a meeting with senators on immigration but he did admit the language he used was tough he also denied saying anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country if more were here to standing beside the president in the oval office was dr martin luther king jr's nephew later he told al-jazeera he believes trump has much to learn about tolerance but is not hateful i honestly

don't think the president is a racist i think he's racially uninformed we've got time to put democratic senator dick durbin was at thursday's white house meeting and says trump made the controversy all comments words he calls vile and racist. hate filled for which it is said there were people. traps comments have stung many in the country including the tens of thousands of haitians who came to the united states after the devastating twenty ten earthquake it was kind of disturbing you know it was hurtful to my community. my current members of the president's own republican party have distanced themselves from trump's comments calling them problematic as politicians try to come to an agreement on immigration and funding to avoid an imminent government shutdown i read those comments later last night so first thing that came

to my mind was very unfortunate unhelpful it is incomprehensible that these words came out of the mouth of the president of the united states of america a country that was founded on. being free from discrimination the calls for the president to apologize for his remarks are intensifying inside and outside the united states. but for now it appears that apology is unlikely kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington to the world in the last hour the african union's mission in washington has expressed outrage and demanded an apology from trump and both want to el salvador in haiti which has been marking the eighth anniversary of its devastating earthquake of all launched official protests particular haim looks at reaction from around the world. he once said when he was in the oval office america would be respected around the globe that isn't happening just the opposite actually

according to polls and that will be even worse now that he has called africa el salvador and haiti shitholes reaction from the united nations was quick these shocking and shameful comments from the president of the united states i'm sorry but there's no other work on communities but racist. you cannot dismiss entire countries and continents as shitholes whose entire populations who are not white. affluent welcomed the president's model denials not believed by most considering he so often gets caught say blatant lies this remark is being taken personally in haiti marking the eighth anniversary of a deadly earthquake you know you've got to tell you we all have to get together and respond to trying to say is many years since haiti has been a shithole country now we are any merging country we can do things we want our

independence in the past in kenya unfortunately the american people elected an individual who's been accused of multiple counts of sexual assault is a proven liar and clearly a racist i don't want to leave my country i love my country it's a beautiful country with beautiful people south africa well what i feel about what do you know tavis with the statement that i think i've. got to make the mistake that people cite and zimbabwe is now proves you have to think that he's a white supremacist but now when you come up with outright racist comments i think i just need to. various nations of the woods. from the american people themselves around the globe condemnation disgust even now after so much a sense of shock this is the president of the united states who many now see as an unapologetic races. zero washington

well after months of political posturing the us president has decided to extend the suspension of sanctions against iran one last time but a senior administration official says he wants the iran nuclear deal strengthened by washington and its you are p. and allies then the next one hundred twenty days or the u.s. will withdraw all the waiver as part of the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal it was brokered by world powers bought u.s. congress requires the president reaffirm the agreement every ninety days and the last headline in october trump declined to certify iran's compliance but congress didn't act to impose sanctions and even though the president live signed off on the new deal new sanctions will be imposed on fourteen individuals and entities for human rights abuses and supporting iran's weapons programs alan fisher is following the story in washington d.c. . but we know the donald trump hasn't been happy with the nuclear deal for some

time on the campaign trail before he became president he said it was a terrible deal that iran got too much for too little and he was going to scrap it when he got into the white house as president he has got to recertify it every ninety days the last time he did it he said he really wasn't happy about it and he asked congress to look at what options were possibly available to the united states this time around he's recertifying but he says that's it this time and no more and he says he wants to work with his european counterparts to find a new supplemental deal that they can put in place which would essentially mean more restrictions on the iranians and he's not talking just about the nuclear program but about other things now just twenty four hours ago in brussels the europeans got together and said iran is in compliance they're doing everything that's in the deal the understand some of the other issues that donald trump is raising but that wasn't part of the deal you know the administration says they're quite far along the road of discussing with their european counterparts what they

would like to see in a new supplemental deal and that is probably true but it's only discussing what they would like to see there is no suggestion that the europeans at the moment are set to rip up the deal and say right let's start to renegotiate the only one hundred twenty days to renegotiate a deal that two years to put in place that seems like a very tight time scale as we nor the europeans think that the iranians are not doing anything wrong when it comes to the actual tam's of the iran deal outside the iran deal we know that donald trump is very keen to put pressure on the iranian regime has done not by imposing sanctions on fourteen individuals and entities which the americans believe have restricted human rights and also freedom of speech particularly after the most recent demonstrations in tehran but this is all about the around one hundred twenty days to see if there is going to be some sort of supplemental deal that the europeans can agree to and the iranians will accept

donald trump says he's only going to speak to the europeans this is a negotiation with turan so one hundred twenty days and we'll see what the united states decides to do with the around deal. iran's foreign minister mohammad reef has reacted to trump's announcement he won't own twisted that they are on nuclear deal is negotiable and rather than repeating tired rhetoric the u.s. must bring it south and to compliance spoke to people on the streets of tehran to get their view of the deal. nearly two and a half years after the nuclear deal was signed many iranians say they haven't seen any real benefits and that president hassan rouhani promised more than he could deliver wieczorek but has said that this then you could have the money neatly deal had no impact at all of the price of rice as doubles the sixpence he paid millions in rent meanwhile the children of official people don't exist money to my pocket or to the pocket of the woman selling things on the street which people but some are

still willing to stand by their president communism intelligent people that he is doing his best of course there are some problems in the country sanctions pressure from abroad naturally impacts livelihoods and the economic situation but if we just blame the president and say he is the one who has to do something of course he cannot we should stand next to him cooperate with him and tolerate the situation the nuclear deal had some success the lifting of sanctions let iran sell oil again freely on the international market exports are up to more than two million barrels a day but gains have been overshadowed by u.s. president donald trump's aggressive stance towards iran every few months the iranian nuclear deal was thrown into chaos and managing that political turmoil takes up so much of the iranian government's time that there isn't a lot of room left for public discourse about much else has created so much uncertainty about the nuclear deal that iranians say it's been as harmful as sanctions that the deal was made to lift many people are frustrated that foreign

investors are too scared to come to iran and the value of their currency keeps falling. trump is a person who has a psychological problem his opinions have no balance on any issue is always changing his mind and for me as an iranian and for most iranians it doesn't matter if the us pulls out of the deal as long as european countries cooperate with us we will stay in the deal oh oh. oh summer audience don't care about the nuclear deal little and say they simply want to get on with their lives without the money never had to live on the show i just want to make people happy that said and i don't care about anything else making people happy is a kind of ourselves and i'm not interested in these kinds of nuclear with conversations oh oh oh oh oh oh it was government says it's ready to deal with any scenario so too it seems are its people. well trumps also

counseled 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 whole building even though the decision to move the embassy was announced by george w. bush's administration in london the far boards. 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 on 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 trumps 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. spawn 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 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 but hang 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. al-jazeera london. still to come this half hour after months of uncertainty a breakthrough in talks to bomb iraq or nation governments enter and many. will take you to las vegas to look at what's on display at the consumer and china show.

hello tropical cyclone joyce is now over land and you know what that means when these things come overland they lose all their feed warm waters they fall apart but they leave a lot of rain behind the potential for this one was up to two hundred fifty millimeters i think it'll be less than that but it will spread rain throughout western australia and for times to have its circulation without will be barely gale force winds now the last it will be notable there was showers and running through possibly northern territory down south australia the big change taking place in the bottom here you'll notice because you know it's summer eighteen degrees the max in melbourne and the cooler as hitting the sydney as it goes for the big drop in temperature here is right we got twenty one by the time we get to sunday all that's accompanied by some pretty big thunderstorms as well if you've got two disappointing days in melbourne despite the sunshine now upon you it's not very warm the same time it's cloudy for the west and perth might well pick up significant rain from the remains of joyce but on the get to sunday twenty five

degrees and wet look that new zealand has seen the rain setting on the western side of south and you can see it's still there out of that white top cloud this big arc looks dangerous but it's staying away see going to find day on sunday twenty three or twenty four degrees for the most part. on. seventy dollars a barrel we drive. one of the economic reasons behind the. we look a little closer at the whole stray big. whether someone telling. me i think it's how you approach an official.

story and. a quick reminder of our top stories here on. president trump strong condemnation from around the world for his alleged use of offensive language to describe el salvador and african nations making the. us president donald trump decided to waive sanctions against iran one last time but officials say he wants the iranian nuclear deal strengthened with a follow on agreement in a hundred and twenty days of the u.s. will withdraw. from his council a visit to london to open the new u.s. embassy saying it doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building. china sea and authorities have arrested another one hundred fifty people including

local opposition leaders on friday in response to the latest demonstrations there well close to eight hundred people have now been detained after almost a week of protests over the government's plan to raise taxes on the price of basic goods. this report from tunis. i angry crowds denounced the arrests of hundreds of people. the government says those who have been detained were involved in attacks against police stations the protesters on the other hand accused uneasy and authorities of an indiscriminate crackdown look but it was clear in your piece on c.n.n. is that the biggest problem is with those who govern us nothing is changing to this is the same elite that govern us the same tactics they claim there are freedoms if you express your views in the streets you end up in jail the police are chasing us . the police have been given strict orders not to use force to disperse the crowds

these are tense times in the country. oh it was protesters are venting their frustration of the government after it introduced austerity measures and increased taxes officials here say the measures are crucial to eliminate a budget deficit and improve declining revenues from agriculture mining and tourism to his ears vital economic sectors. nobody badly not that we want the government to scrap the tax increases many people are suffering because of the price rises particularly and poor areas like city busied catarina in tatler where communities have been grappling with discrimination for decades this is made by the government as against the will of the people. prime minister used to share here has visited some of the areas of the protest has accused the popular front

a coalition of leftist opposition parties of inciting and rast but the opposition insists the rallies are legitimate expressions of frustration over a government they say has betrayed its own people. army units have been deployed in many cities to protect government buildings and prevent it descends into chaos this is a delicate issue for the government if you bet your ass all the tax increases the budget deficit will continue to strain the state's finances but if it goes ahead with the austerity measures public anger might lead to further instability. sonus. turkey's prime minister's urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive in the province while the rebels last stronghold in early gilder him says the army could force even more people to be displaced hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three. well the united nations has expressed its

concern over the latest escalation in fighting with a warning that deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered war crimes in just one damascus suburb more than eighty five people killed in the past twelve days and hopes to force. 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 suburb was this is the last rebel held enclave 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 there is. finding continues in other areas. right now and she said about eighty to see. this was low cooks first mission to syria since his appointment last year. we were brushed 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. government officials in pakistan's punjab province say d.n.a. tests show that six girls were raped and killed by the person whom our did eat you

will see him up on sorry there have been angry protests across the country since a now his body was found in a lovely or choose day test to say the authorities must do more to catch the perpetrator says the local government says the merger will. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with their social democrat rivals to end the coalition talks it's empty trying to revive the power sharing government that's been in power since twenty thirteen must be approved by s.p.d. members next week david cheeta reports. the breakthrough came after an exhausting twenty four hours of negotiations between the parties concluding 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 at which many participated and which was based on a broad funday should and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming

a stable government seldom accomplish it for five 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 refugees and migration the open door policy championed by angela merkel led to more than a million refugees being granted asylum in germany join 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 these are the sort of 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. reenergize true we think it's an agenda. in a radical shift on german objects the party said they would and to be gently 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 inclusive 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. facebook shares fell four percent on friday after c.e.o. mark zuckerberg announced major changes to the way the performer's news feed is

filtered it's part of a personal challenge circa berg set himself to fix facebook and it will see the news feed filter change to prioritise pulls from family and friends so coburg said he wants to make the facebook experience quote more meaningful for its more than two billion members by reducing the amount of content for media organizations businesses and brands he says the explosion of branded content in recent years has crowded out personal moments zuckerberg admits the changes could actually reduce using gage meant with facebook where jacob silverman is the author of the book terms of service social media and the price of constant connection is the changes could be bad news for traditional media brands to. i'm afraid it's not going to help news outlets in any particular way over the last year we've seen facebook incursion news outlets that sometimes pay them to produce video which can be consumed very readily in the news feed and now that's probably all going away any publication that's done

a so-called pivot to video is probably facing subtribe will i think where this is also disturbing is that zuckerberg seems to distinguish between what he calls passive content and content that's more engaging that involves your friends and family talking now does that mean that he thinks that news is sort of passive content and not worth engaging with it certainly seems so and that in general news is going to discount in people's feeds because it's not seen as the kind of dynamic thing that people want to gather around now would you like the chance to read a story to your children in the evening but you find the sometimes you just don't have the time well the answer could be found at the annual c s technology show in las vegas here it is a big out look like well bought named can do exactly that a bedtime story some monks thousands of smart gadgets and artificial intelligence devices being exhibited at the home. well reynolds has more now from the exhibition where he's been making our bosses latest virtual reality technology. while way the

company is one of the leaders in this technology in wall ways andrew bones you are no is going to give us a little demonstration enter what do we got here so this is going to be the wall wave. and this is the second generation for us last year we had the v one and that had a mounted cell phone on the front and this one has its own l.c.d. screen. and on the the the bike here right look look me up in an eye for a minute so we're going to put you in a tank to take. a you actually invincible right now and this is very very lifelike i must know i think something bad just happened to me the thing that people have been looking forward to is is the technology coming forward in leaps and bounds as far as that the picture quality and looking at that image also the weight of the headset is is something that's in in the pastas just being a little bit soo much especially because it's all front forward heavy and so people would find that they get a lot of pressure on the nose and it's distracting on yaz so we've we've worked as

hard as we can to make that as light as possible and as comfortable as possible testing ok well thank you very much indeed for the demonstration and that's the always a virtual reality set which is given me the opportunity to ride to take for the first time in any form of reality. crisis and i asked a recall of one hundred sixteen thousand many bands because of a software glitch a car giants admitted that the problem could cause vehicles to stall and consumer complaints for sometime over the two thousand and seventeen pacifica model and some drivers saying because of lost power or stalled while both driving and stationary you can find out much more and out to save the cars. very quickly mind in our top stories on al-jazeera is mime ting around the world

after president donald trump reportedly used offensive language to describe haiti el salvador an african nation he said to have made the offensive comments during a meeting on immigration at the white house on thursday tom's issued a vague denial on twitter saying he views tough language but not the words which are being reported however a democrat senator who attended the meeting says he heard him make the comments. so we should do we need more patience. and then he went on when we started to describe the immigration from africa that was being protected in this bipartisan measure. that's what in your blood all over the clothes calling the nation's the code for your clothes the exact words used by the president that were not just words that would be the. president trump has also decided to waive sanctions against iran one last time he says he wants the deal strengthened with a follow on agreement or the u.s.

will automatically withdraw he also called on key european partners to join the u.s. in fixing what he called the significant flaws in the greenman the u.s. has also sanctioned fourteen iranian individuals for human rights abuses censorship and a weapons program for nation. meanwhile president drums counseled a visit to london to open the new us embassy he said it's because he doesn't approve of barack obama selling off the old building of the decision to move the embassy was announced on the george w. bush turkey's prime ministers are ging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive in its lead province one of the rebels' last strongholds banally gail durham says the army is soul could force even more people to be displaced one hundred and twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks . kinnison authorities have arrested a number of one hundred fifty people including local opposition leaders in response to almost a week of demonstrations there both eight hundred people have been detained because

of their opposition to the government's plan to raise taxes and the price. you are for we have today those are your headlines stay with al-jazeera counting the cost is next thanks for the company. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. one on one east meets those desperately seeking low anyway became at this time on al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week oil hits its highest level since two thousand and fourteen we look at what's behind the rise of black gold. also this week anger over all sterritt see we examine the economic reasons for the protests in tunisia.