and actually shannon mason with. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs a much better marketer built up like real bad stuff bill made software what it is today will change the world to high tech visionaries breakthroughs inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face at this time on al-jazeera. tourism a welcomes a man well macro into britain for talks where she will pledge millions more dollars to strengthen border controls in front.

and i mean this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program turkey seeks russia's approval for its planned attack on a kurdish controlled enclave in syria. israeli forces have killed a palestinian man in a raid in the occupied west bank three homes were demolished and pope francis performs a first born papal wedding carrying two flight attendants. so then the french president a medal microland is in the u.k. holding talks with the british prime minister to resign may the two leaders meeting at sandhurst military academy west of london they're expected to reach an agreement on strengthening border controls affronts one small funding from london to help deal with a number of people gathering imports like calley to try and reach the u.k. but is expected to use a tool to try to win goodwill in breaks in negotiations well. under the deal the

u.k. is expected to pay an extra sixty two million dollars for security measures in cali and other french channel ports and this would increase the u.k.'s contribution under the two thousand and three two k. agreement which allows a british immigration checks to take place on the french side of the channel britain may also agree to take in more refugees and migrants from cali especially unaccompanied children there are also reciprocal agreements on military cooperation ok will send three helicopters to join french forces fighting troops in the zahal region of west africa in return france will supply troops to u.k. led forces in estonia part of a native deployment in response to a possible threat from russia well let's go straight now to our correspondent john holl who joins us live from san has a job to tell us more about this and why the focus on defense and security. one of two reasons probably nic first of all simply the fact that they've got a lot in common in the areas of defense and security france and britain they are

the two major military powers in the e.u. they both face common external threats and indeed threats at home as well both countries have been targeted. targeted by violent attack recently with substantial loss of civilian life they also share that border a border on the french side that includes the troubled port of calland its problems with migrants and refugees are no shortage of things to talk about in the realm of defense and security the second reason though perhaps as pressing if not more so is that if you are a country like britain facing an exit from the european union at a particularly sensitive time now in negotiations towards that end and you want to make friendships with key members of the e.u. well you simply can't do deals in areas like trade and the economy because brussels controls all of that for individual member states but you can do deals to a much greater extent on defense and security so this is really about looking to

the future about relations off the brics it. yes it does seem to be calculated in that sort of direction i think is no coincidence that this is happening right now as the second trickiest phase of negotiations tools breaks it begins trade talks met mr macro and the french president and france is the rising more and more the rising power in europe and britain realising more and more as the brig's it clock counts down that if it's to have any relevance in a future world with europe post bragg's it when it's got to do more and more relationship building with individual members so there's a sense of this is as much about defense as it is about diplomacy and the perhaps what's happening here is a sort of potential diplomatic blueprint if you like for a way in which britain can try to foster those relationships we may well see this sort of thing happening more and more with other e.u.

leaders are genuine even after the time being we are expecting it to reason may and mental macro to speak at a joint news conference shortly any time in the next half hour or so maybe a bit longer we'll bring it to you when that happens you go back to john of course . now syria's foreign minister has told the u.s. to stay out of its offense this off the sector state rex tillerson unveiled the trump administration's goals for syria which include keeping u.s. troops in the country for the forseeable future but let's be clear the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot real merge our military mission in syria or will remind conditions based we cannot make the same mistakes that were made in two thousand and eleven were premature departure from

iraq allowed al qaida in iraq to survive and eventually morph into isis. it was that vacuum that allowed isis and other terrorist organizations to wreak havoc on the country while turkish military chiefs are in russia seeking support for their plot attack on a kurdish controlled enclave inside syria turkey is not threatening the main area controlled by the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces in the north east of syria but it has said it will attack the enclave around the city of afrin in the northeast of the country where they're offering is held by kurdish y p g fighters who dominate the s.d.f. russia also has forces in the area seventy deca reports now from antakya on the turkish side of the border where turkish tanks have been massing this week the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border president russia has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area baffling for almost a week now there's been sporadic shelling after the mines in the north west of

syria turkey borders the area on the north and west turkish troops are present inside syria on its southern edge and to the east are turkish backed syrian rebels so it is in effect surrounded. african is one of the autonomous enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p.y.t. party and its armed wing the y.p. the i.p.g. has been working with the u.s. in order to push ice a lot of syria not enough rain further east of the euphrates river in turkey seize the y.p. g. is an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe considers a terrorist organization a free has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced syrians the americans have never had a presence here unlike the other kurdish area of syria but the russians do and i'm chris says it has every right to protect its borders the timing is interesting it will let you know after you have been there for quite a long time has never through like you know was it a serious issue of the threats or turkey but there are going to probably need is

this kind of nationalistic. you know. use its military in order to be able to gain more. with the upcoming elections in turkey so i think that comes the doctor cannot be. you know set aside when it comes to the attention of tertian and into a friend tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the u.s. announcement of a so-called border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the why p.g. will form its backbone not. the united states and nato supports a terrorist organization that threatens turkey can this be acceptable it's on acceptable and inexplicable. but u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force the u.s. role has been mr trade and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is

aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved in syria's war think ankara attack iran moscow and damascus several voice their opposition to the force. once again it highlights the complicated nature of syria's war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its fear of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of stephanie decker al-jazeera and. the u.n. is calling for the yemeni port of haiti to remain open beyond friday to allow the delivery of lifesaving goods to continue on tuesday the saudi led coalition authorized the ports opening and the use of four u.s. funded cranes to help offload the aid only to handles about seventy percent of yemen's imports damage from a two thousand and fifteen strike and

a blockade by the saudi led military alliance has severely restricted access more than eight million yemenis are on the brink of famine and the country is suffering outbreaks of cholera and theory or you. is the deputy regional director for the international committee of the red cross in yemen and he said the aid is critical to prevent famine. the yemeni population is dependent on aid. it's ninety percent of the needs of the yemeni people are sustained for imports and as such. the restrictions on imports prevent. flow of commercial goods and humanitarian aid from reaching the yemeni population so that is where things should be moving on lessening those trust us we need more we need less restrictions on imports fuel is key and central for the survival of the population in yemen fuel is essential for the running most hospitals in a health system that is faltering only forty five percent of house facilities are

functioning today but fuel is also important for water water pumping stations depend on fuel. sewage treatment plants dependent fuel vehicles that collect the garbage depend on the fuel and all of this creates a vicious circle were the population being weakened after years of exhausting their resources and not having any more the capacity of staying will only have more epidemic's like diphtheria coming back to them if these conditions are not treated immediately israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the occupied west bank the army says it was searching for a man who killed a rabbi a week ago. reports from the near the city of jinnie. this is all that's left after the israeli raid that began on wednesday night three homes have been demolished it's unclear who shot first but a palestinian man is dead and two israeli special forces soldiers are injured another palestinian man remains missing his mother explains what happened was

around eleven pm we heard heavy shooting i couldn't tell where but it was close my son isn't wanted by anyone he lives a normal life he came home an hour before the race and then left the house telling me to wake him up early when he got back because he had work the israeli army said the palestinian killed was linked to the shooting of a rabbi from an illegal settlement on january ninth the palestinian health ministry confirmed his identity thirty one year old. it's unclear whether he was the main suspect in the raid his mother is too distraught to talk to the media his brother voiced the family's anger having their home destroyed. this is the israeli policy a savage and aggressive policy a policy of terrorism i think they can terrorize us i think they are mistaken palestinians in the occupied west bank are subject to israeli military law which allows homes to be demolished as punishment. palestinians hey are very angry that

a man has been killed and houses demolished and they say the israeli army hasn't given any kind of evidence or even due process now the israeli army says the operation is over for now but it's all on going to find the suspects involved in the killing of the israeli settler rabbi on january the ninth imraan khan al-jazeera west of jenin are still to come here and al-jazeera will tell you why kenya is limiting the import of secondhand clothes and why the country's fashionistas are not happy about it. apple announces twenty thousand new jobs in the united states after coming under fire from president trump nevers knowledge workforce in asia. valerie's been ready again in the east and mad in the levant in turkey where there's been snow or tide here and you see that the clouds still going through and

found that's not so much cloud that is more low temperature detected by the satellite is it sees clades segment just proves the point has been snow backs and tench of nine in aleppo the right running through northern syria even northern iraq and i oversee bit of height and you get the white stuff quite easily it isn't using a southerly breeze ahead of it's of baghdad's eighteen and kuwait's twenty two once it goes through the wind direction changes so the temperatures tend to drop but given that the sun is also out conversely aleppo's up to eleven if you feel the difference sun's out throughout turkey as well the snow was gone through azerbaijan to the north and iran probably were hitting terabits the mountains to your north but we have got the hint of rain then run across the gulf into the iranian side here writing or bit of snow at height weight still maintaining the eighty degrees it's not my suggestion to shower to the south of that nothing on the full cost is that wind direction changes admittedly and if there is a hint of a shower to process or q right i think it's no more than

a hint to be honest otherwise the arabian peninsula is quiet dry of course shells might build on the southwest of saudi otherwise nothing. thank you.

again a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera french president about all that is in the u.k. talks with british prime minister to reason with border controls top of the. military chiefs are in russia seeking support for their planned attack on a kurdish controlled enclave inside syria. the united nations is calling for the yemeni port of haiti to remain open to be on friday to continue the delivery of life saving. the u.s. president donald trump says his plan to build a wall along the u.s. border with mexico has quote ever changed or evolved directly contradicting comments made by his chief of stuff on wednesday john kelly told hispanic lawmakers that some of trump's immigration views jury in the campaign uninformed and later in

a t.v. interview kelly insisted his views had evolved but sit in apparent rebuke to cali trump tweeted that the wall is the wall and it will be paid for in mexico mexico's foreign ministry has issued a statement denying this. well mexicans living in the united states is sending home record amounts of money is concerned grows ever trumps immigration crackdown last year workers in the u.s. transferred twenty six billion dollars a lifeline for some of mexico's poorest communities when repeller was not from what haka well uncertainty over the future of these written says has some families very worried here. who leanna cruz and her mother or handcrafting pottery the same way most of the women in the town of san marcos make a living it's not always enough to make ends meet but who yanna gets help from her brother who lives in the united states that. this work that i do helps us and sometimes when my brother sends money that helps us to. ghana isn't the only person

here who receives money from relatives in the u.s. . this line outside a local wire service is a common sight and on most days the line can be much longer for many mexicans these remittance payments can be a way out of poverty is that they may says so they use this cash mainly for food to buy clothes to build their homes and they also use a very small amount for savings. last year remittances sent from the united states increased by four percent experts say it's a result of changing policies in the united states. there's a fear among immigrants that the u.s. government will take away what they have part of the reason for the increase in remittances is over the fear that their assets will be seized this year money sent home by migrants has historically been an important part of the mexican economy accounting for more than two percent of the country's g.d.p.

in two thousand and seventeen remittances outpaced all of mexico's commercial exports combined excluding oil and according to mexico's central bank that cash totaled twenty six point one billion dollars between january and november of last year. for families like cruz and her mother it's pottery that puts food on the table but that extra cash her brother sends goes a long way in maintaining their quality of life whenever i. walk in mexico. pope francis is the people of the chilean coastal city to continue to be welcoming towards migrants by the comments during the holy in the k. which is experience to be moved immigrants from several countries rise has been so far there are nearly two dozen slums in the outskirts of the city pope francis reminded the residents to remember to be his spiritual a lot of america it's a lucy newman a small history. pope francis is the last stop in chile is perhaps his most political he is in the northern desert city of which is home to huge numbers of

immigrants from peru and bolivia as well as from colombia and even from haiti and immigration is the main theme of his last homily he said that christians needed to keep their doors open to those who are forced to flee their homes clearly this is a message that is earmarked beyond chile's borders especially on this week when the issue of building walls to keep immigrants out is on the front pages once again this has been a difficult trip for pope francis in this country where this is the world's largest catholic region but in chile his visit has been marred by the nagging issue of sex abuses against children in the catholic church this is despite the fact that he asked for forgiveness he said he felt shame and pain for it but the continued presence of a bishop who's been accused of covering up sex abuses again has cast a shadow over his trip from chile he goes on to neighboring prune for the second

and final leg of his south american trip where the issue is again expected to come up. it seems the paper is staying busy on his trip but even finding time to officiate the first ever born marriage on his plate he was this celebrant at the wedding of two flight attendants from chile's latin and their life a couple tied the knot in a civil service back in two thousand and ten but their religious ceremony was canceled because that church was badly damaged by a massive earthquake that hit jenny. i don't feel sorry about the pope married us the pope married us he took my hands and said if you want to marry then i can marry me. something totally extraordinary happened to me with but it's. the hostesses and the stewards were going to get their photos taken and once we're coming in for a couple you know we've been married we met on a plane and you're to go that's all they said i said well that's interesting and then as they walked by they came back and said. mary it's

a religious ceremony which obviously has never happened a lot of people played before they were super happy. the first the pope heard about it was this morning too it's not like you're with people it's part of the plan it's one of the grandchildren isn't it now if ever it says throw in the world's largest passenger jet a lifeline with a deal worth as much as sixteen billion dollars the dubai based airline has ordered twenty three a three eighty s. with the option to buy sixteen more it see first order for the super jumbo in three years had previously warned it would have to stop production of the double decker planes if the deal fell through. authorities in turkey have removed an airliner from the shore of the black sea after it skidded off a runway it travels on airport on saturday a large crane was used to lift the pegasus airlines boeing seven three seven from the cliff edge all passengers and crew survived the accident turkish media say the pilots played me a sudden surge of speed from the plane's right hand engine that forced it to swerve

to the left. a fall on a bus in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers and five people managed to escape from the vehicle when it caught light the victims were all migrant workers from neighboring uzbekistan and the bus was traveling in a remote region on the main route between was pakistan and russia there's no indication yet of what cools the blaze the police launching an investigation gunmen in pakistan have killed two women working on a polio eradication campaign in the southwestern city of what so kena b.b. and her twenty year old daughter lisa were giving immunization drops to children when gunman on the motorcycle shot it this week pakistan wants to drive against polio across the country. zimbabwe's president says that elections will be held in may or in june according to the state run herald newspaper it says that emerson man and god made the comments on his visit to neighboring mozambique grad took over from robert mugabe in november the elections will be zimbabwe's first without

mugabe since the country gained independence nine hundred eighty. well a number of countries in east africa have agreed to ban imports of secondhand clothes by next year rwanda tanzania and uganda have already started taxing the more heavily the idea is to give local manufacturing a better chance but in kenya many people don't want to see a band brought in. has more now from nairobi. across nairobi there are many street markets like this one was shoppers rummage through piles of secondhand clothes bargaining for a good deal here at tory market for a list and ten years been selling used clothes for two months with prices ranging from as little as under a dollar to about five dollars an item she says business is good yeah we are fun but we are fond of second hand clothes new clothes today are sometimes made from cheap material but we rely on second hand clothes because we know it's affordable

and the quality is good when you were doing is our government figures show that in twenty fourteen secondhand clothing contributed ninety five million dollars to the kenyan economy that grew to one hundred twenty eight million dollars by twenty sixteen oxfam says that in twenty fifteen east africa imported more than one hundred fifty million dollars worth of secondhand clothes and shoes mostly from the u.s. and europe but cheap imported clothing hasn't made it easy for the local textile industry to grow already struggling with poor facilities and a lack of money. they are however a few exceptions one of them is this factory which produces mostly high end clothing owner just wind up bt says this is necessary to ensure his business survives in a market where used clothes are so cheap so we would largely do business where each of the less would have less impact of secondhand clothes for example the business

that we were going to in the region will be corporate uniforms you can expect the police uniform to be second and it has to be brand new so we found our own pockets . local industry leaders say well curbing the secondhand clothing market could help the domestic industry grow the local textile industry has too few skilled workers and it's also impacted by illegal him. ports from asia and the middle east some say a ban on the secondhand clothing market is not the solution for market driven. a bit of what we would really make a difference for the textile industry is if we actually drove competitiveness competitiveness in the in this area look at if you look at india if you look at china you look at vietnam bangladesh the textile markets are huge those like the list who make a living from selling used clothes say any sort of ban would mean thousands of people would lose their jobs while others argue that as africa's spending power

increases the lure of secondhand clothes will likely decline. al-jazeera nairobi at least four people have been killed by a major storm lashing northern europe winds of up to a hundred forty kilometers an hour have hit the netherlands causing trains and flights to be canceled in germany rail operator georgia says it suspending long distance services across the country two teenagers in australia have become the first people to be rescued sea by drone swimmers got into trouble off their legs head beach south of brisbane a lifeguards launched the drone and used it to drop a rescue pod into the water to swimmers then used it to get back to shore. the u.s. tech giant apple says it's going to create twenty thousand jobs for american workers the companies under fire from president trump for employing a large workforce in asia for avoiding u.s. taxes by having huge reserves of cash in foreign bank accounts she had for tansy as

this report. apple has long been criticized for its huge cache of some two hundred fifty billion dollars that it made through its foreign subsidiaries but refused to repatriate to the u.s. in order to avoid paying u.s. taxes that's ninety four percent of its total cash under the new tax bill passed at the end of last year apple and other multinationals got what they long wanted a reduction in the tax rate on those holdings from thirty eight percent to fifteen and a half percent however apple has to pay that fifteen and a half percent whether it repaired trees the money or not on wednesday apple announced its tax bill come to thirty eight billion dollars a saving of some forty two billion dollars according to analysts the company also announced it will open a new campus in the u.s. twenty thousand more employees and spend three hundred fifty billion dollars over the next five years this is really good for apple's p.r. without is out there talking about an innovation find jobs money back in the

pockets of their employees money being repatriated so this is a win win all around however it's not clear whether the expansion plans are new and apple hasn't announced any changes to its manufacturing model which is based around asian factories nor is it clear how much of its money it plans to repatriate all analysts say much of any repatriated money may go to paying down the ninety seven billion dollars in debt that it incurred as it rewarded its shareholders in stock buybacks and dividends and giving its shareholders even more billions of dollars and that could spark controversy without the announcement of the new campus and more job creation in the u.s. but as for those jobs at the new campus many will be in technical. no location has yet been announced but according to reports they will be paid an average of thirty six thousand dollars a year other investments will be in expanded data centers around the u.s. warehouses for equipment this is an announcement that should be capitalized on by

president trump who criticized the company during the presidential election campaign. and on wednesday the dow june sixth twenty six thousand points for the first time an indicator that the president is used to suggest a booming economy has also hit a record closing price so it seems like a. plan is working as he laid it out tax reform tax cuts he wanted. a fact very meaningful way that jobs are going to be coming back and most importantly money that's been coming back but the main beneficiaries off the dow's rally and apple's announcement will be the minority of americans already raking in the cash from their stock market investments. let's have another look at the main stories making news here on al-jazeera and french president tomorrow macro is in the u.k.

for talks with the british prime minister to resume a they're expected to announce an agreement on strengthening border controls france's demoting more funding from london to help deal with a number of people gathering in ports like to try and reach the united kingdom. and they are the two major military powers in the e.u. they both face a common external threats and indeed threats at home as well both countries have been targeted. targeted by violent attack recently with substantive loss of civilian life they also share that border a border on the french side that includes the troubled port of calland its problems with migrants and refugees are no shortage of things to talk about. military chiefs are in russia seeking approval for their planned attack on a kurdish controlled enclave inside syria turkey says it will attack the enclave around the city of affray in the northeast of the country tensions have been stoked in recent days by the u.s. announcement of a so-called border force based around the kurdish why p.g.

united nations is calling for the yemeni port of hoodie to remain open beyond friday to continue the delivery of lifesaving goods on tuesday the saudi led coalition authorized the ports opening and the use of four u.s. funded cranes to help offload the hate over eight million yemenis are on the brink of famine is ready forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the town of janine in the occupied west bank israeli police were searching for the killer of a rabbi who was shot that week. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his plan to build a wall along the u.s. border with mexico directly contradicting comments made by his chief of staff wednesday john kelly said some of trump's immigration views jury in the campaign well uninformed and the president's views had evolved a foreign abbas in kazakhstan has killed fifty two passengers only five people

managed to escape the victims were all migrant workers from neighboring uzbekistan they were on route to russia. and that's it for now for news coming up in around twenty five minutes i'm going to. tell march under the same flag at the winter olympics but will sports diplomacy between north and south korea extend to politics and the burning issue of nuclear weapons or is kim jong un exploiting concerns about america on the unpredictable donald trump this is inside story.