u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the u.s. . president truncates the us and the iran nuclear deal for now bob says it needs to be overhauled. and welcome to al-jazeera live from headquarters in doha libya and as

a purana also ahead. the president not only use that for good while she used it more than. democrats dismissed president obama's denial of his offensive comment about some countries which has sparked a global outrage. a new u.n. report blames the regional rivalry between saudi arabia and iran while singing the war and yemen. the data stack from the annual consumer electronics show we have a report from las vegas. u.s. president has extended the land nuclear deal but said this is the last chance he has warned america's european allies that he'll withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen agreement if its demands to change it or not met alan fisher has latest from washington. europe's diplomats met in brussels to urge the u.s. . to continue with the iran nuclear deal seeing the believe it improved global

security know donald trump has agreed but says he won't do it again in a statement issued from the white house he called on his european allies to negotiate a supplemental deal in the next one hundred twenty days which would place a fresh restrictions on iran saying today i am waving the application of certain nuclear sanctions but only in order to secure our european allies agreement to fix the terrible flaws of the iran nuclear deal this is a last chance in the absence of such an agreement the united states will not again we have sanctions in order to stay in the iran nuclear deal and he warned those who for whatever reason choose not to work with us will be siding with the iranian regime's nuclear ambitions and against the people of iran and the peaceful nations of the world under u.s. law the president has to regularly recertify the deal donald trump has repeatedly called the iran deal the watch he's ever seen and pledged before he became president to scrap it at the end of last year he want he was ready to step away

iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal but one of the deals architects says the deal is working there is no dispute that iran is living up to its obligations which we negotiated with iran and it's like that we should live up to our obligations to that does not mean that we shouldn't address other aspects of iranian behavior which course concern whether it involves aggressive foreign policy it's ballistic missile program it's human rights record top white house also knows the new round of non-nuclear sanctions targeting groups and individuals it believes have committed human rights abuses and blocked freedom of speech in iran but insists it is outlined to europeanize what it wants to see happen but there's no indication the unit peons are ready to renegotiate a deal in the next one hundred twenty days that took years to craft and put in place alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well iran's foreign minister mohammad says the lot. on twitter. a desperate attempt to undermine

a solid multilateral agreement saying the people on the streets had to get. 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 jordan but has said that they're still there and you could have. no impact at all in my life the price of rice is doubles the sixpence to millions in rent meanwhile the children of official people don't exist money goes my pockets out of the pocket of the woman selling things on the street which people but some are still willing to stand by their president communism and television news is doing his best of course there are some problems in the country sanctions pressure from abroad naturally impacts the 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 right with him and tolerate the situation the nuclear deal had some success the lifting of sanctions letter 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 trump has created so much uncertainty about the nuclear deal that iranians say it's been as harmful as sanctions that the deal was meant 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 because. opinions have no balance on any issue there's always changing his mind and for me as an iranian and for most iranians it doesn't

matter if the us pulls off the deal as long as european countries cooperate with us we will stay in the deal the zero zero zero summer audience don't care about the nuclear deal and say they simply want to get on with their lives. i just want to make people happy that's said and i don't care about anything else making people happy is a kind of arts and i'm not interested in these kinds of nuclear conversations was oh so close iran's government says it's ready to deal with any scenario so too it seems are its people. now have a man leverage as the chief executive officer at a political risk consulting and she says the us president has no vision for what he wants as an alternative agreement. we've seen i think a lot of disarray within the administration and in part over the summer even the

cia director here michael pompei o who himself is a staunch iran hawk a real anti iran advocate when he was in the congress even the cia director pompei a had to admit that he had written a letter to a general soleimani the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps because there is such there is there's such disarray that i think that people in the administration even those that are viscerally anti iran like the head of the cia understand that they need to do something they can't ignore the fact that iran exists that it's an important power in the middle east whether you like it or not so i think you'll continue to see president trump trying to stumble forward with all sorts of negative blustery rhetoric but then i think you may also see people like the cia director pompei o perhaps even rex tillerson the secretary of state or defense secretary mattis doing some other things to potentially reach out to iran or to at least try to stop the chaos that is caused by by president trans trumps

rhetoric. let's move on to other news now the u.s. president has denied using the word shithole to describe haiti el salvador and countries in africa but a democratic senator who was in the meeting with trump allegedly made the comment says that's not true our white house correspondent committee how good has more on a controversy that has spread far beyond the american capital. 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. 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 used was tough he also denied saying anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is

obviously a very poor and troubled country. 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 do it 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 stunned 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 michael. 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 kimberlee help at al jazeera washington. well a short time ago african and best interest of the united nations issued a joint statement condemning trump's remarks. the african group of a to the united

nations met in emergency session on twelve. twenty eighteen to consider the remarks made by the president of the united states and is extremely appalled at and strongly condemns the outrageous racist and xenophobic remarks attributed to the president of the united states of america as widely reported in the media demands a retraction and apology now a new u.n. report on the war and yemen shows the extent to which some of the arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict the report bolsters accusations by the new with iranian weapons have been supplied to help the rebels and u.n. experts were also critical of saw the lead a coalition air strikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths are diplomatic as a james bays has more from the u.n. . this is a report to the u.n.

security council has not been made public it's only been given to the fifteen members of the security council but i've been allowed to read a copy and it's very hard hitting and very critical of all of the parties in the war in yemen it questions whether yemen can continue to be one country it says in the south because of the length of the war and the divisions that have emerged there is the real possibility of secession into a separate south yemen it says in the south of the country people displaying the flag of the old country of south yemen and are not loyal to president had he although they're formally under his command it says that president heidi has no longer effective command and control of the military and security forces in the south of yemen it says one of the reasons that there is this lack of stability in yemen is actually the forces that have been built up by the saudi led coalition it

says that there are proxy units that they have drawn up but it says that these units will do more to further the fragility of yemen then they will do to hold the state together it says they pose a threat to peace and stability in yemen it is also very critical of the coalition for civilian casualties in yemen it says that it appears that the saudi led coalition has not been following international humanitarian law and it says it's likely that some of those who are responsible for planning and executing airstrikes fall under the designation of the security council as people who should be subject to sanctions again the another damning part of the report is about the u.n. a part of the coalition in the camps there running inside yemen it says that there has been torture in these camps it talks about beatings electrocution constrain

suspension the use of what it. calls the cage which is confinement in a cage in the sunlight and the denial of medical treatment it says working with the government of yemen gives the u.a.e. plausible deniability so it is a possibility on now given this report by the panel of experts that the security council must consider whether there should be sanctions against members of the coalition and also sanctions against iran because the who these sides are also criticised it says that there have been military remnants of military equipment and drones that are of iranian origin and were introduced in yemen after the security council adopted an arms embargo to head on the bulletin. and then lawyer for anti-government protesters in the democratic republic of congo tonight for catholic league against the country's president and high profile

arrests as a corruption investigation targets argentina's union made its. well or our marty was briefly shut down by snow and it's certainly a wintry look to that cloud that retreating and the next lots coming in little bit further north in fact looks like turkey than the northern caucasus across the caspian and eventually probably just catching north again we'll see significant snow maybe up to half a meter that turkey gets it first and then things cotton down temperature wise it turns colder again ankara gets the snow back by sunday five degrees colder air affects aleppo down to about eleven as your day max from baghdad picks up a suddenly from the same circulation it's remarkably warm here at twenty two

degrees and terence holding on to the thirty's well back is right on the coast five degrees chances are there be a little bit more snow in la and it's quiet hillside so the arabian peninsula is settled by this time of the year not much cloud around not much breeze it's not particularly dusty twenty five in there has a max twenty three in sun of course as always it's warmer in mecca for you to go a long way south beyond the equator to become significant rain again and in southern africa it's a pretty well pretty standard story from angola through northern zambia towards tanzania it is wet. and ambitious. to reveal the truth about.

this time. it's good to have you on the. top stories u.s. president donald trump says he'll extend the iran nuclear deal just one more time promising to end it if it's not renegotiated is calling on america's european allies to put new restrictions on iran as part of the agreement. african embassy to the united nations have demanded an apology from the u.s. president that follows reports offensive language and reference to several

developing countries and a white house meeting on immigration reform and a new u.n. report on the war and damage the extent to what saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict that bolsters accusations by the u.s. that iranian weapons have been supplied to what the rebels u.n. experts were also critical of saudi led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths. leaders of the catholic church of the democratic republic of congo have vowed to continue fighting for justice following violent protests for months demonstrators have been demanding president joseph kabila step down the church has organized a. many of those rallies compared us to expire a year ago catherine sawyer reports from the capital kinshasa. catholic faithful in kinshasa hold a mass for people killed by police in reason political unrest the charge had called

for protests a new year's eve after the expiry of a political deal between the ruling party and opposition signing to sixteen when the presidential election failed to happen the politicians had agreed to for the poor last december that did not happen either the deal had been brokered by the catholic church was shocked and ashamed by the. disorder and. victim or why desire to hang on to power at a cemetery a distance away for tacky to shake and his friends carry his father's body for burial joseph attacker was a staunch catholic they say he tried to seek refuge in the church a police kept shooting levy him in every human being is seconds it's the responsibility of the government to protect people. he was one of more than forty million catholics in the country that's more than half the population with such

a big following many people feel that the charge has the power to push harder for political change many congolese are increasingly looking to words the catholic charge for guidance in this difficult times they hope that the power was this has been taken by the charge is going to put more pressure on the electoral commission to organize a credible election without delays and on president kabila to peacefully step down but some political analysts say by organizing street protests the catholic church has overstepped its wrong and somewhat lost its neutrality expenditure to do is to continue to denounce this regime to denounce this government and say that maybe strongly and frequently and follow up. and hopefully that may lead to. some more mental real god one of the call is lead to a river of one mission by the people not by the church. president joseph kabila

stam ended a year ago and the electoral commission has since built to organize an election citing logistical security and financial problems the opposition on the other hand has been we can't buy in tunnel wrangles most people in the democratic republic of congo like those who are barren jews if a tacky say they're angry and frustrated catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa. argentina's former vice president armada who has been released from prison on bail after being held for two months over corruption charges he was detained because of fears he could interfere with the case who is one of a number of high profile figures accused of embezzlement also of another former president cristina fernandez de kirchner she's also accused of corruption but has immunity after winning a senate seat in october. now several of argentina's high profile union leaders are

facing corruption charges many had organized mass protests against government cuts to salaries and pensions to raise a boy reports from you require where the latest arrest took place. this house in the small city of new why has raised a lot of questions over the years its size and opulence intrigue people like and don't you who has been living here for ten years he has just found out that he's leeward is a fugitive argentinian labor union leader. there was something strange because of the amount of money and i believe that maybe it was money laundering but he was good with the community and it was none of our business the owner of the land this matter is still the leader of an important lever you really were in argentina he was arrested here last week and he's awaiting extradition to his home country police say they found at least five hundred thousand dollars in cash and weapons they also ceased luxury cars like mercedes and ferraris worth at least two million

dollars. not a fellow out of here owns at least two properties in order wine in this one specifically we also had a private so with exotic animals this place was raided by the police at the request of an argentinian judge that is investigating him for money laundering and corruption because his lifestyle is not compatible with his income as a labor union leader well see that he's not alone lever union leaders are being invest. and detained in argentina most of them are accused of corruption and many an argentine are shocked by the amount of money seized by the police in different operations are going to. argentina and societies demanding that the leadership be less corrupt and the justice system is reacting we asked people in a poll which would defines libby unions and most of them said corruption since the government of president one preyed on and his charismatic wife. labor unions in

argentina have had a crucial role in defending workers' rights precedent. argentina needs to change and he's planning to push for labor reform but union leader. the latest arrests are a way of pressuring unions to support the government's plans. if there is corruption then it should be investigated a new leader should emerge but there are many that are not corrupt i will continue pushing the government in the poll says it wants to impose that i believe would hurt many of the cheap mints workers of going into argentina as labor unions are among the strongest in latin america but corruption has tainted their image their capacity to tackle this problem will likely decide if they have what it takes to look after the people they represent. as. your ally. the spanish government has dismissed the possibility of former. governing the region from

self-imposed exile in brussels earlier push to moderate members of his prone head of the movement and the belgian pappa told them barber has more. 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 problem dependents 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 and 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 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 in india and chooses. to be here in brazil who get them to give him confidence and so really it's amazing that he not only in east once we get into the only place where there is another problem for mr

push to moms group and that is that 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. jobs when they can take power. now german chancellor angela merkel's conservative party has made a deal with that center left rivals to open talks on the form of the coalition government leaders say they're hoping to end months of political uncertainty following september's elections they have spent the past five days finding common ground on issues like refugees and the eurozone. the number of dead in tuesday's mudslides in southern california has risen to at least eighteen search and rescue efforts are continuing santa barbara county after flash floods swept down hillsides carrying boulders bigger than cars six people are still believed to be missing dozens of homes were destroyed just weeks after a huge wildfire swept through the area. now facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg has announced changes to the way the platforms and news feed is filtered in the coming months it will start prioritizing posts from family and friends zuckerberg said he wants to make the facebook experience more meaningful for its two billion members he says the explosion of branded content in recent years has crowded out personal moments he's also concerned about stage influence. now the biggest consumer technology expo in the world us wrapping up and las vegas they consume out of tonics show all saying yes a feature thousands of smog gadgets official intelligence devices and high tech cars rob reynolds reports. at the end you will c.e.o.'s show there isn't any start only new innovation no new must have shiny tech object there's no one awesome gadget this year it's going to be new technologies it's going to be virtual reality augmented reality and i don't think i've seen any one

thing i see much of trends and ideas one of those trends is toward more and more sophisticated technology in automobiles toyota announced a deal with amazon to deploy the aleck's artificial intelligence assistant in some of its vehicles eventually automobile a will discern the mood of a human driver by emotional mapping and sensing more stress the car can actually then offer to take over more control of the vehicle and become fully autonomous auto makers are moving swiftly toward their goal of fully autonomous vehicles the ride sharing app lifts says that by the year twenty twenty one the majority of all rides it gives to its customers will be in self driving cars another theme this year a fierce rivalry between alexa and google assistant to spearhead a i in the consumer product category amazon took the early lead and i i think that

they're probably going to keep it at least for the near future in the virtual reality field purchases are predicted to increase by twenty five percent to nearly five million units in twenty eighteen and then there are the now familiar internet connected household appliances l.g. and samsung both have fridges you can talk to i don't know. why you'd want to have a conversation with your fridge the consumer technology association predicts the total consumer tech industry revenue will reach a record three hundred fifty billion dollars this year robert oulds al-jazeera las vegas. and again on it is a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president says he'll extend the iran nuclear deal just one more time promising to end it if it's not renegotiated is calling on americans european allies to put new

restrictions on iran as part of the agreement. and other news african to bastardize to the united nations have demanded an apology from the u.s. president it follows reports he used offensive language in reference to several developing countries and a white house meeting on immigration reform the african group of a to the united nations met in emergency session on twelve. twenty eighteen to consider the remarks made by the president of the united states and is extremely appalled at and strongly condemns the outrageous racist and xenophobic remarks attributed to the president of the united states of america as widely reported in the media. demands every traction and

apology a new u.n. report on the war and yemen shows the extent to which saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict it bolsters accusations by the us that iranian weapons have been supplied to help the rebels led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths have also been crushed sized turkey is urging iran and russia to rein in the syrian government's offensive in problems one of the rebels' last strongholds it says the army assault could force even more people to be displaced. the number of dead and mudslides in southern california has risen to at least eighteen search and rescue efforts are continuing and sought santa barbara county where flash floods swept down hill slides on tuesday destroying dozens of homes six people are still missing argentina's former vice president has been released from prison on bail after being held for two months of a corruption charges a model is one of a number of high profile figures accused of embezzlement while serving under former president cristina fernandez de kirchner she's also accused of corruption but has

immunity after winning a senate seat in october those are the headlines on al-jazeera artscape is up next. century africa is going great find. it all good years ago for dogs.