anything and just. asking and risking it all this time on al-jazeera. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter the mean maher government calls you a gringo lead terrorist hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time. the palestine liberation organization calls for the recognition of israel to be suspended. so what would you want your knowledge of their lives my headquarters here in doha

also coming up russia joins turkey and denouncing the u.s. plan to form a border security force in syria. also during cold for three pro-democracy activists in hong kong. oh i feel like going to the only deadly shootout in caracas have an operation to capture the pilot accused of leading last year's armed rebellion against a venezuela's government. welcome to the program the central council of the p.l.o. is considering withdrawing the organizations recognition of israel they've been meeting to discuss u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in one car possible from the occupied west bank. late on monday night the palestinian leadership issued a statement that could have far reaching consequences for the peace process the statement includes the call to suspend recognition of israel suspend security

coordination with it and unite the palestinian factions through reconciliation the statement comes from the central council of the p.l.o. after two days of meetings it will be discussed further by the p.l.o. executive committee and it's up to that committee to implement most policy at some point in the future. the statement also said that the u.s. is no longer a partner for peace and that the palestinians want international involvement but given that the us is perhaps the only country that can put pressure on israel will this work. we have to utilize different forms or back on to believe before it has to know that this occupation this form of brutal colonialism can no longer be accepted and therefore we have to go to the international criminal court we have to go to international court of justice we have to join organizations and accede to charters and conventions that would protect us on the one hand i'm told as. the us

president donald trump has said he will cut u.s. aid to the palestinians if that happens there will be an economic impact this factory produces extractable of leave tablets and he's part of a multi-million dollar project to encourage enterprise in jericho the occupied west bank the factory was set up in this industrial zone with japanese investment without it it wouldn't have been successful for the operations manager here it shows that there are alternatives to the u.s. for example there should be any. interest in helping. to meet other options once it's completed this japanese funded industrial zone will house around five thousand workers and that's going to have a positive impact not just a locally but across the palestinian territories now if you speak to palestinians what will tell you is oftentimes foreign aid unlike u.s. aid comes without strings and preconditions. but it's not just economics politics

also plays a key role according to one analyst palestinian president mahmoud abbas has options trying to tell the international community that i will be going to the united nations. and he's trying to say that i will have i will be patient i will stop. looking for a. two state solutions if you are not ready for it if there is a danger and if despite palestinian confidence that there is no alternative to u.s. involvement in the peace process how the international community will react is key at some point the israelis and the palestinians will need some sort of framework for talks without the u.s. will that will look like is currently in line imraan khan how does their occupied west bank the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned that the formation of his own control by u.s. backed rebels could lead to the partition of syria the u.s. has confirmed it's helping syrian kurdish fighters set up a border force of thirty thousand personnel the move as angered russia which still

has troops in syria as well as nato member turkey which considers it a terrorist group chalons has more from moscow. but russia's foreign minister had a stark rebuke for the u.s. on monday speaking at a media conference in moscow surrogate lavrov said the creation of a zone controlled by u.s. backed rebels risks syria's territorial integrity turkey's president also opposes the plan he's attacking reports of the u.s. backed kurdish border force russia type says turkey will launch its own military operation against the kurds in the northern syrian city of africa shut it. now the united states has confessed that they are forming a terror army along our border what we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it is born. turkey has fought kurdish factions inside its borders for decades and doesn't want to see them gaining more power in neighboring

syria but in northern syria the americans have long been supporting some kurdish forces this is a predictable turkish escalation against us steps to conquer ties our military partner in the syrian democratic forces into an enduring stabilisation force that can secure this terrain long term turkey has been crystal clear actually that it regards the syrian democratic forces as a threat to its interests although u.s. president donald trump promised he would stop supporting kurdish fighters the pentagon never made that official the reported thirty thousand strong u.s. backed border force would primarily come from kurdish led syrian democratic forces and would deploy along the syrian borders with turkey and iraq and along the euphrates river valley the dividing line with syrian government forces one of the syrian war's detectable trends last year was the emerging axis of cooperation

between russia and turkey often joining together to criticize steps taken by the united states well if today's developments are only thing to go by that's a trend that looks set to continue into two thousand and eighteen where we challenge zero moscow more than three hundred fifty migrants burned through europe from libya have been rescued while trying to cross the mediterranean libyan coast guards received a distress call from one boat carrying migrants but soon after successful rescue another distress signal was sent from two more boats even though the route remains a death trap for many trying to cross continents it hasn't deterred thousands of people from trying to get to europe. situation now where a home concourse session has been adjourned without making a ruling on the final appeal of three pro-democracy activists joshua one nathan law and alex were convicted in their role in the twenty fourteen umbrella protests now

currently on bail and the court was due to decide if they stay free or go to jail speaking before heading into court wong said the ultimate ruling would be pivotal for protest movements in the region sarah clarke has more from hong kong. three student leaders were convicted of illegal assembly for their role in the occupy hong kong protests in twenty fourteen and the charges centered on this storming of government headquarters this was an act that was considered the trigger for the protests that shut down parts of hong kong for up to seventy nine days not today the three the trio the student activists arrived at the final court of appeal hoping to have their charges dropped. but after about two and a half hours the judge adjourned the hearing with a judgment expected in coming months after a three day trial as a. trend is better than our expectation i hope. we can know the. result of further from the court of appeal this decision is being

scrutinized here and internationally is the three activists before the court the three main student leaders behind the pro-democracy protests and this appeal is expected to have implications for the dynamics between the criminal justice system and constitutional rights in hong kong as well as the future of the pro-democracy movement. the us president trying to pin you have discussed the situation on the korean peninsula by phone chinese state media says that she's message was that the easing of tensions must continue the conversation comes ahead of a meeting in canada where officials from twenty nations will explore how to strengthen sanctions against north korea the u.s. secretary of state and canadian foreign minister will host the talks in vancouver china is not attending brown has more from beijing. i don't think china is expected to receive an invitation to attend this international gathering in vancouver after

all it is not an ally really of the united states or canada any more than russia is russia of course is also going to be absent both these countries have very different ideas about how to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula neither country favors military action. more sanctions against north korea what russia and china want is this freeze to freeze formula whereby north korea would cease development of its nuclear program in return for the united states and south korea halting their annual military exercises will the united states has said that is a nonstarter so i think perhaps that is russia and china had been present at this conference they would have proved to be a distraction not china is pouring scorn on this conference they say without key players all the important players it says in this crisis it's doubtful that anything meaningful can be achieved at least sixty one children have died from measles and malnutrition in the past four months at a remote part of indonesia the deaths are being blamed on the lack of doctors

working in a smart regency which is located in the impoverished poor province fasten has war from indonesia capital jakarta these children have been dying over the past four months and only now officials here the government here is raising alarm what is happening is that these children and their parents have no or hardly any access to health officials in that particular area there are only nine doctors for twenty two hundred twenty four villages and they are all based in the capital of the district which means that these children with their parents have to travel for many many hours by foot by boat to reach any doctor and that's of course a very challenging task sometimes even don't have any money. to go on this journey and they have been reports that children have been dying on the or on the way simply trying to reach a doctor it's a forgotten part of indonesia historically has only become part of indonesia in the

one nine hundred sixty s. many have been aiming for independence since then because they felt that they have been neglected by jack africa by the capital ever since. the number of people have been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces and a group of officers who were involved in the rebellion last year the government has been searching for their leader for action films started helicopter pilot but as well as watch the events unfold live on instagram to resupply reports. these are the last images of debating this after the shootout with venezuela special forces and we told them that we want to turn ourselves in but they don't want that they want to kill us and then where do you know the videos were posted online by police asking security forces not to show that they're ready to negotiate not only but i know they're attacking us with guns grenades they've got snipers. the government says that several died in the shoot out among them two members of

venezuela security forces five others were detained but it's not clear what happened to paris. he's a highly trained members of the forensic police who became venezuela's most wanted men when he stole a helicopter and threw grenades against the supreme court and other government buildings in june last year when thousands were taking to the streets against the government of model. since then he has been on the run posting videos online from time to time calling on the military to rise against. it is also starred in a two thousand and fifteen venezuelan action movie and unusually public profile for the usually secretive investigative police. the government says he was part of a terrorist cell trying to overthrow the president you know. the commodity

groups had to art part of the terrorist cell was killed the other paul was captured more than five people were captured there confessing telling us everything they planned on a civil lawsuit on monday he's mother pleaded for his life so in my little i am the mother of all skipper is he is trying to turn himself in let him do it protect his wife he is fighting for his country for venezuela. had been hiding in a home outside contact us people there took to the streets to show their support for the pilot not knowing whether he's dead or alive. well still ahead here on al jazeera many questions after the u.a.e. alleges that incident in the sky above the gulf but the title says it never happened. the u.s. marks a holiday dedicated to slain civil rights leader martin luther king but is his dream being kept a long. we'll find out straight after the break. from

the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. however got some very nasty weather piling into europe as we go on through this coming week certainly wednesday into thursday we will see some stormy weather slipping in from the atlantic and it will rattle its way across the u.k. at the moment we've got quite a rash of wintry flowers coming through a lovely speckling of snow showers there just toppling into scotland and that will push its way further east which as we go on through the next few hours will sosa just seven celsius top temperature in london very cold have really freshening up on recent values nine degrees f. of paris and eight in sheer not too bad i'm afraid at around thirteen degrees in range of the mid teens at all safe athens before many past you can see we have now got an area of wintry weather starting to push its way in and it will make its way

right across much of europe as we go on through a whedon's day said quite a rattling of snow showers coming into those central and eastern parts getting into ukraine getting into moscow temperatures here just minus seven celsius would be plus seven further west the city still fairly cool enough with that most westie wind coming in and it deep area of low pressure which will make its way across the british isles into the low countries through wednesday and on into thursday for the south is generally try. the winter sponsored by qatar and meese. you are making very pointedly mounts where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on sam do no evil person just make something of it in the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue. well that could be what leading to some of the confusion about people

saying they don't actually know what's going on. join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera. of the like you're watching artists their arms a whole raft of our top stories the central council of the p.l.o. is considering withdrawing the organization's recognition of israel they've been meeting to discuss the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. also russia's foreign minister is warning that a u.s. coalition plan to build a syria border security force could break up the country the plan has also been criticized by turkey and the syrian government the u.s. has confirmed it's helping syrian kurdish fighters set up

a thirty thousand strong force. to hong kong and has been adjourned without making a ruling on the final appeal of three pro-democracy activists joshua want they took more than alex char work of it did over their role in the twenty fourteen protests they're currently on bail but the court was due to decide if they'd stay free or go to jail. now the united arab emirates has accused qatari air force jets of intercepting two civilian aircraft going to bahrain qatar says the whole thing is made up and u.s. central command in the middle east says it hasn't received any reports of civilian flights being intercepted in the gulf skies that in barbara a small. and morality passenger plane takes off from dubai on monday the civil aviation authority of the united arab emirates said to qatari jets had intercepted a plane like this bound for her reign but in international airspace later u.a.e.

state media reported a second battery inbound plane had been intercepted by qatari jets qatar totally denies the claims we are used to such false claims. you know since the. national. agency of the national agency. this might go through for the normal people but. for countries. and high tech and they have radar image and it's will be obvious for them that this is a light bahrain's foreign ministry issued a statement saying the ministry of foreign affairs affirms that this hostile behavior by qatar against civil aircraft has become frequent in recent times and jeopardizes the safety of civil aviation and poses a threat to the lives of civilians. the timing here is interesting over the weekend qatar filed a new complaint with the united nations over what it called the second violation of qatari as base by m r r t jets in recent weeks what's clear is the air blockade

imposed on qatar since last june has highlighted issues around how much airspace each country has qatar for example are left with very little air space and therefore they are relying on the overflights of bahrain to space to be able to fly in and out of the states so it's definitely the spotlight on a potential problem that i'm sure could be addressed and in the outcome of the stock prices this latest round of claim and counterclaim comes as qatar as defense minister is in london to meet his u.k. counterparts recently caught up placed an order worth nearly seven billion dollars with britain's be a systems for twenty four fighter jets it's a reminder that despite the blockade hotter still has our eyes and spending power. in a phone call with the emir of qatar on monday president trump raise the nation's efforts to fight terrorism something welcomed by the defense minister this is another to prove to the you know the quartet's the embargo. although

clearly the thirteen so-called are false this is approved by your friends and over a day something in you comes up prove that. lying to their people. it's hard to predict how long the crisis will last but qatar is hoping its legal and humanitarian arguments will persuade its allies to intervene with al-jazeera london . well joining me now on such as a child is a car assistant professor of gulf politics at qatar university could have you with us on the program what are we to make of this first the statement that's been released by the white house and also this apparent conversation between president trump and the emir of qatar supporting him in his moves to fight terrorism well even though in the in the statements on to specifically mention the issue that is happening these days is in the present time is trying to ease the tension or to not to take sides in this in this conflict and show in the clearest report to god they're having in mind that what he said last year was

a very strong trend to do to recover the much of the you know this state within the at the establishment since this news broke some commentators that we've had on al-jazeera have suggested that the statement on the telephone conversation or a tacit indication to saudi arabia to to back off or to cease to a certain extent upscaling any issues regarding the g.c.c. crisis is that how you read it yeah i think i believe that what they are trying to do is to avoid that this new insulin this going for them is going to be a bit and u.s. coalition in already existing crisis so i think there's a diplomatic way forward from time side to say calm down a race of the nation we need to solve this he's stating that the big problem in our steel terrorism and the iranian threat and that there isn't a great job in this sense so why include in another element that is going to disturb the unity indeed in the statement i'll just read

a bit of it for our audience the president thanked the emir of. qatar for the actual counter terrorism or extremism in all forms including being one of the few countries to move forward on a bilateral memorandum understanding of. landing quote saudi arabia has kept pretty quiet over this incident what do you think the reason is because normally they like to jump on any issues regarding violations that qatar may have produced well maybe they don't want to get engaged in this new event that this actually involved in any rate and not how the. directly. saudi foreign ministry issued a statement calling them and thereby elation if this place. is not making a further statement it seems that they are trying to avoid any escalation us as well or that since they did not receive any support from the united so directly about this specific incident they don't want them to be the ones put in the mall or into the fire however you read this situation there is a psychological game being played here and when you continue whichever side it is

to chip away at a country's reputation then a nerve see international community is this another chip that big game of who's right and wrong what is news what is false news it could be in the statement of the foreign ministry from mr. got there and they mentioned that there were other bio lasers by military airplanes from that took place in in the summer in january in this. lesson one month ago but they didn't make an issue about that even though it is even more critical to have a space violated by a military aircraft. something related to see the libation but in any case that they don't want to make of this big deal. about the. center they are trying to use this as a way to diminish their they're a pretty do you find it a bit old though that if this passenger plane was surrounded by qatari military

jets you have hundreds of passengers on the plane all with mobile phones and social media that nobody's filmed anything from the plane the plane lands and apparently bahrain and bahraini state media haven't jumped on to this potential. goldmine of a story to interview passengers off the plane saying what was it like absolute silence so it does beg the question whether this actually happened at all there are always there or there is the double talk about what if this really happened in this . but there also there me that is i was there for this are claiming that there were also by election of the space mr there's a back for think that there are ten or you did it first it seems that there is never a day behind this that is trying to blame others for things that they are not told in and finally this is the big issue that we are in there dealing with since june you know well we'll leave it there for now the chairman of the car thanks for joining us on al-jazeera. u.s.

police have charged a couple with torture after thirteen starving children were rescued from their home some were found chained to their beds one of the children managed to escape and alert police in california money in the hunt has more. a family photo appearing to show david and louise typin surrounded by their thirteen children those children ranging in age from two to twenty nine and now being treated in hospital police say they found them locked up in their home starving and in filthy conditions medical staff treating them spoke of the shock at what they in counted in the time we live and it's unfortunate to see that it's actually heartbreaking for the staff and. you just it's unbelievable what you see. police were called to this family home in paris east of los angeles on sunday they say a girl had managed to escape and call them from

a mobile phone she found in the house the go told police she was seventeen they say she was so amazed cheat appeared to them to be just ten years old police risk you twelve brothers and sisters some of the malnourished and chained to the beads they arrested their parents fifty seven year old david tippin and forty nine year old hip and some who saw the police operation chose not to show their faces on camera one said she saw the mother being arrested she was just like been acting a little weird and. does a kid the police officer was talking to her and she just kept like smirk you know him in like kind of like this she's been twice down before they were all in pj's because it was early in the morning. they were very very pale skinned like almost like they've never seen this and police gave no indication as to why the parents had kicked the children captive the father is reportedly

a schoolteacher neighbors say the tippins and their children really emerged came out. and they don't have to mow the lawns together and then they'd all go away and i always had a suspicion because the house never looked like there was a lot of action in front of it a facebook page that appears to have been created by the parents shows the couple getting married in posts from two thousand and sixteen and surrounded by their children all in matching dresses and suits the parents have been charged with torture and child endangerment into being held on by zero at nine million dollars each medium honed al-jazeera americans are going back to work after the days national holiday to celebrate martin luther king day of the day when everyone's asked to serve their community in memory of the late civil rights leader president donald trump played golf i would fisher reports from washington d.c. . across the united states there have been several events to mark the life of

martin luther king at his memorial in washington his son led the commemoration i'm not here to talk about what has not happened because we know what has not here or what i am going to do is to look to the future to figure out how we as a nation can come together. and. the nation that we always have been in alabama where the civil rights leader was in charge of the charts the united and you statute to the international icon this unique memorial only dr king's legacy but now the courageous men and women who stood and fall out for civil rights and justice during the fifty's and sixty's the president spent the day golfing in florida but mark the occasion in a video message it is the dream of a world where people are judged by who they are not how they look or where they come from but this president still faces claims he used a vulgar word to refer to african countries and others during immigration talks or

two republican senators said he didn't use the word fellow republican lindsey graham didn't deny it was pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room just to report the news democrat dick durbin was thought to be the source of the leak i know what happened i stand behind every word that i said the right threatens to do real talks on the immigration issue no one is daca the policy protecting thousands of undocumented migrants brought to america as children the u.s. government is facing a complete shutdown by friday unless there's a deal on spending limits the democrats say their position is absolutely clear no deal on deca no deal on spending alan fischer i'll just near washington. you're watching off their arms the whole robert these are all top stories the central council of the p.l.o. is considering withdrawing the organization's recognition of israel they've been meeting to discuss u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. also russia's foreign minister is

warning syria could break up because of the u.s. helping to form a security force of thirty thousand many kurdish fighters on the syrian border and turkey is threatening to respond by attacking the kurdish stronghold of the three in northern syria a homegrown court session has been adjourned without making a ruling on the final appeal of three pro-democracy activists joshua one nathan law and alex child are convicted over their role in the twenty fourteen umbrella protests now there are bail and the court was due to decide if they stay free or go to jail more than three hundred fifty migrants bound for europe from libya have been rescued while trying to cross the mediterranean libyan coast guards received a distress call from one boat carrying migrants but soon after a successful rescue another distress signal was sent from two more boats even though the route remains a death trap for many trying to cross continents it hasn't deterred thousands of

people trying to get to europe double trouble shooting ping have held a phone conversation focusing on the korean peninsula chinese state media say she's message was that the easing of tensions must continue pope francis has arrived in chile his first stop on the visit to south america crowds greeted the pontiff fans he drove through the streets of the capital santiago but there were ten scenes ahead of the visit after five churches were vandalized in recent days security for the papal visit has been ramped up. the number of people having been killed during a shootout between venezuelan special forces a. police pilot accused of leading last year's rebellion against the government now the pilot times been on the run for six months after he stole a police helicopter that attacked government buildings or has posted videos of himself on social media showing his injuries from the fighting to jude last year

president stole a helicopter to throw grenades and shoot at government buildings in caracas those were the headlines about the board use it thirty but it's next. it's the street do stay with us. a year in power america's controversy president continues to polarize opinion. in a week of special reports al-jazeera examines his impact at home and around the globe. donald trump's first year. tough talk on immigration policy has tens of thousands of people wondering whether they'll be forced to leave the country from the potential legal residency programs to the president's opposition to so-called chain migration we speak with a.