gates face to face at this time on al-jazeera when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in the borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division external to sixteen's instead of being an obstacle to dole wastes into became another almost a quarter to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes seeking reelection egypt's president ends speculation and says he's

going to run for a second term. a member of a cult of the royal family accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of creating the gulf crisis to seize doha's wealth. a race against time in the u.s. as senators try to prevent a looming government shutdown. pope francis makes a plea to protect the amazon and its people during his trip to peru. egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi has announced he will run for a second that actions are scheduled to take place in march says he rose to power in twenty fourteen after leading the military and i was doing his predecessor. reports . the announcement was widely expected now egyptian president obama has put down his sisi has made it official and us that it got

a lot of out info to collect you might have been today as a to members of the sausage moments we have gone through and think about the serious challenges that face our home country and the huge expectations and the hopes we have for our homeland i find myself standing confused before my national conscious as i speak to you with the honesty and transparency we have been used to in our dialogue and hope that you will accept me for it is a presidency of that a puppy. analysts are hardly surprised by his staying in power to swear that way i think of the elections as one source solve it is just a missile or a facade of this committee that would say that he won the elections fed and square and he has significant popular support. sisi who swept to power in two thousand and thirteen after a military coup against former president mohammed morsi obtained ninety seven

percent of the vote in the two thousand and fourteen election international observers question the credibility of the results saying the election fell short of international standards. campaign promises included rebuilding egypt reviving the country's economy and raising living conditions. but almost four years into his presidency many egyptians are disillusioned with his rule concern has grown that it has brought with it a return to the authoritarian security state that prevailed under former president hosni mubarak rendering the tahir square revolution only a brief experiment in democracy. real opposition to sisi in the march election is likely to be thin on the ground potential candidates have either already withdrawn or seen their candidacy blocked some have blamed an atmosphere of fear observers say cc's tactic is a recognizable one in the region of the mubarak and his message and saddam's of the agent has used it before they would tell the international indonesian community

that they won with ninety percent or ninety nine percent of whatever the percentage but the same time there are no consequences for that so on one end it bolster that he means that intimacy of the genes on one end and the other and you know there are no consequences for that actions. cc's rule has been marked by a brutal crackdown on freedom of expression and civil liberties economic turbulence and increasing attacks by armed groups. human rights groups have been placed under severe restrictions and many critics in the media have been silenced. his allies however dismiss accusations of abuses saying his tactics are needed for security in the face of an insurgency in the north sinai region that has expanded to include civilian targets mohammed jim groom and dizzy it. me is an associate professor of political science at long island university she is joining us via skype from new york thank you very much for being with us in mohammed's report there we heard

president sisi saying he was speaking to the people with transparency are we going to see a fair and transparent election. well we're only going to see it fair and transparent election in so far as it's an election there's no surprise that president announced his candidacy today actually the contrary the converse of the surprise you didn't and it will not be surprising martin that it will or not that he's not going to win with over ninety percent of the vote the atmosphere in egypt especially around elections today is very interesting let's look at just the happenings of the past week it was just a few days ago i'm january eighth that the egyptian electoral commission said and announced when the elections would be held a march of this year it was the seventh that the former candidate actually said he would not run it was just a day after that that we heard of the possible charges here sami and i and then today the president himself coming on and similar scenes that this is not really

how elections are conducted i'm going to block a look at the vestiges of democracy for there to be an announcement just eleven days ago that elections are going to take place just eight weeks from now and that candidates have to submit their names by the twenty ninth of this month you have to announce your candidacy submit paperwork get signatures from all governments in egypt assemble a campaign team campaign for president and have election monitors in place in eight weeks now this is not really how a democratic process works and so what we're seeing is that egypt's returning to this rubberstamp democracy we're going to have shook is called an election but there really isn't any choice there really isn't the kind of quality of democracy being the voice of the people finally being heard given everything that you've said if it gyptian as are unhappy with the way that the president says he and his government have been running the country how are they likely to respond when it comes to voting on the day. we're going to see is just like in the last election

very low voter turnout because there isn't trust in the process if you remember. you know the arab spring is you know we're coming from a seven year anniversary and a year and a half after that were people lining up seven different times for elections and referendum both waiting in line for hours because they really believed in the power of their weights since the last election since the last election president sisi we have seen not just very little turnout the very little trust in this process called democracy and i think that's the scariest thing is that seven years after the arab spring we not just have a return to this kind of quasi often are turning ism but we have the year distrust of the process back into the egyptian population really interesting to get your point of view on this day if i may thank you very much indeed a cut of the royal who was at one time a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured

in an audio recording obtained by al-jazeera bin ali of pani accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the rift with qatar as a way to seize their neighbor's wealth he also says he was under so much pressure from the two countries that he wanted to end his life. reports. the man saudi arabia and the u.a.e. were presenting as an alternative to qatar leadership stepped up his attacks on the blockade in countries in a new audiotape shake of the lebanon early earth any a member of. the family says the gulf's biggest diplomatic where it was triggered by saudi and princes whom he accuses of plotting to take the towers wealth by force. has.

left him. in the old you're recording the shea says he was under so much pressure from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. that he considered taking his own life he also appeared in a video posted online on sunday where he says he was detained against his will in the u.a.e. a claim which the night but two days later when ali left the u.a.e. this is the only picture taken of him when he arrived in kuwait his family said his health deteriorated during his alleged detention in the u.a.e. he was told that he can leave to saudi arabia but not to. the end of the day he was allowed. to leave. and he has two daughters with

him. and it was about twelve o'clock at night that. there told them that they have to go to the airport and then the information changed that you are not allowed to go to the u.k. the u.k. refuses your entry and that is false. and that your daughters can live and you must still stay and. the little known shape became a central figure during the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. crisis when he was first received by king solomon but of that as he's of saudi arabia media affiliated with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. portrayed him as the head of the opposition to the qatari government but soon the shade was nowhere to be seen except for tweets attributed to him the recent statements of the shape shed more light on the g.c.c.

crisis that started in june when sandy arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut off diplomatic ties and he opposed a sea land and embargo on qatar the post from shekau the lebanon early support qatar stands for the west catered and politically motivated as. well lodges here a senior political analyst now in the shadows says the case of shaikh of dollar is part of a wider pattern of how the gulf is being destabilized but clearly this is a symptom of the larger crisis and clearly it's part of a pattern. once we understand that we see why while this is just an ordeal recording it actually reflects something that's quite dramatic in the gulf region a region that was supposed to be a stable region within the more volatile greater middle east region. so why do i say it's a symptom of a greater crisis well because. already in the gulf crisis six months

into into it the united arab emirates especially but also saudi arabia have basically been inciting against gotten all kinds of ways including the use of this man at once at one at one point in order to further destabilize cutter but clearly the the ways and means with which this crisis has been ignited by the united arab emirates have become a comedy of sorts i mean so much so that they would use this older man in order to destabilize qatar in a way that was not apparently acceptable to him so much so that he would record video saying that i'm held hostage in abu dhabi and that i'm ready to commit suicide and so simple but as i say that's also part of a pattern it's part of a pattern because i would not be has already held the former egyptian leader slash candidate to the presidency as much a feat for

a while until he releases on video saying i am being held hostage and i would not be as you know riyadh was also held saddam had it the prime minister of lebanon even reports about abdominal muscle highly the leader in yemen been held in korea so really there's a pattern of holding people up there you know you go they go there and to suddenly they get stuck for not accepting these diktats or whatever the issue of the day is so really you know we tackle an issue like this we lead with it not because this very particular issue per se is is so grave it is because it is a symptom of a larger problem that is destabilizing the entire region. buddy more ahead of the news hour including turkey escalates tension along the border with syria up to days of threats against kurdish fighters. as donald trump's first anniversary in the oval office gets closer we take a look at his record on climate change. and in sports the heat is on of the

australian open as the world's best tennis players struggle to keep the cold. the kind on his own in the u.s. where the senate has a round about six hours to prevent a government shutdown but there's still no deal politicians must agree on a bill by midnight on friday to keep government agencies funded for the next month republicans hold fifty one seats in the senate but they need sixty votes to pass the legislation thomas metz top democrats in a bid to win their support but significant areas of disagreement remain here's what the u.s. president has just tweeted he said it was an excellent preliminary meeting with senator chuck schumer working on solutions for security and our great military together with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan making progress four week extension would be best white house correspondent

kimberly hall get reports. a planned trip to florida to mark donald trump's first anniversary in office has been canceled at least for now instead america's republican president is reaching out to his democratic rival in this summit meeting with an invitation to the white house to try and avert a government shutdown we made some progress but we still have a good number to say the discussions will continue republicans control congress but it's a crisis the white house blames on democrats it appears unfortunately that senate democrats are entrenched in forcing a shutdown unlike five years ago when the government shut down for sixteen days this time all u.s. national parks and post offices will remain open for the boys will not get paid and just like five years ago the military border patrol and federal firefighters among others will remain on the job but they'll also not be paid right away to thirty

nine thousand one hundred seven the most is going on thursday lawmakers in the u.s. house of representatives passed a short term funding bill to keep the government open but it must also pass in the senate and democratic senators are refusing to approve any funding legislation without protections from deportation for thousands of illegal immigrants brought to the united states as children with the president come up here democrats believe they have few options given trump announced obama era protections for the illegal immigrants known as doctor recipients runs out in march based on what we have seen in terms of how the republicans have responded in the past i believe democrats simply do not trust that the republicans will actually to address the issue. despite claims to the contrary given twenty eighteen is a congressional election year it appears trump sees political advantage in

a government shutdown if the public places blame on democrats. on friday morning he tweeted shutdown coming we need more republican victories in twenty eighteen as donald trump prepares to mark his first year in office unless a deal is reached the anniversary of trump's inauguration is set to be celebrated much like the year started amid controversy kimberly healthy at al jazeera washington ok particle hain is joining us now from washington d.c. patty have just been looking at some of the news wires that have been coming in to try and help me sort this out first of all it seems as though that the debate was up till recently whether or not it was going to be a five day extension or whether it was going to be a four week extension like donald trump put forward the white house budget director . said he thinks that some sort of decision is going to be reached within the next twenty four hours where are we in all of this. where are we well we're kind of at

a standoff and what you see there with nick nick mulvaney basically he's trying to move the goalposts he's trying to say well if the government shuts down at midnight it's not actually a shutdown because basically as long as we have everybody back in the office by monday we're fine so the question is right now how far are the republicans going to go it doesn't appear that the democrats are going to cave on their core demand that they either do a five day continuing resolution which a lot of republicans don't like or they do a longer term one with protection for those illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children so basically it's a standoff in the hours are ticking by and people are getting food delivered to the capitol and the main players are we believe talking behind the scenes the president president tweeted out that they're making progress it's going to be great on security so what is actually going to mean we don't know we don't know if in a few hours i'm going to be sitting here at the stroke of midnight telling you that the u.s.

government has partially shut down i think the republicans are betting that politically that they could turn this on democrats but that's going to be difficult for them because here's what they're going to say what they are saying is the democrats partially shut down the government all to protect illegal immigrants well that might work if you were talking to the core of trump's base but the vast majority of americans in poll after poll after poll say they believe that these kids who were brought here to the country by their parents or guardians that they should be given protection it's a popular program so saying that it's going to hurt the democrats who are fighting for a popular program doesn't make a ton of sense the republicans would likely take the blame on this even if the president doesn't think that if people are telling him that that wouldn't be the case think about this the voters sent the president to the white house and gave the republicans complete control of the house in the senate because they are tired of the basically the government not working this is just the latest example that even though republicans are in charge of the house in the senate the government is still

not working in the last time this happened well the republicans took the blame for now thank you very much indeed. turkey has fired artillery shells into a kurdish controlled enclave in northwest syria the cross border bombardment of afrin follows days of threats by president's regime to one against the syrian cody's fighters known as the wind genie in turkey fears the establishment of a kurdish corridor or along its border it's been deploying troops in tanks in preparation for a ground assault a spokesman for un secretary general antonio that is is warning against increased military activity in the region we've seen the reports of shelling in africa and we reiterate our call on all concerned parties to avoid further escalation in any acts that could deepen the suffering of the syrian people all parties must ensure protection of civilians at all times under any circumstances and stephanie decker

has more from an attack in. the situation around the fifteen is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand free syrian army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of affluent and this is all in line with the political rhetoric that's been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the defense minister on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to rid of what they call terrorists along this border all of this very significant player is russia and this is why we've seen the chief of staff and also the turkish head of intelligence in moscow on thursday also told continuing on friday to try and see whether russia gives the green light why is that will russia controls the airspace over

a free and it also has troops on the ground in that area it's all about politics it's incredibly complicated and you're seeing different players now carving up trying to carve up different areas of syria expanding their spheres of influence it is a very very complicated situation we have talks coming up in vienna and in sochi and certainly it doesn't look like anyone can seem to agree on anything at the moment. pope francis has met peru's president petro publicans inskeep as part of his south american tour earlier he called for the protection of indigenous people while visiting the heart of forest condemned the exploitation of timber gas and gold he said native peruvians have never been more threatened and urged the government to recognize their culture money on sanchez is live for us and that limo the pope's first stop in peru was the amazon it's a remote place not many people live there why did he choose to go there. that's right rob the pope went to this area of the amazon where well actually in

the amazon not even one hundred thousand people live there it's a huge area with very little people but the pope has gone to lease which is one of the most devastated areas on the planet in the area. by where the gold rush with the legal gold miners. devastating that area the pope is of course a champion of the environment we we know that since two thousand and fifteen when he wrote that in cyclical. where he is he says that. vironment must be protected so when he met the native communities later early earlier on today he said that the advertisement must be protected he gave a very political speech. extract it is a practices by companies. he said large interests meaning companies really who

want to lay their hands on. gas and oil and gold and of course he says this is destroying the land of the people and in the end destroying the planet now he said that people must defend the environment because in in the end this would be to defend their lives and now he also condemned. the practice of illegal mining in peru because it's specially the area of marketing the . gold mining at the gold rush has created a situation where there's thousands of women who have been slaved into prostitution there's. slave labor and the human trafficking so. the hope urged these communities these native communities to protect the environment and to preserve their culture because ultimately preserving the culture which is a culture of protecting nature in the end they will be protecting their lands and

the environment and what's expected for the next two days is the visit draws to a close. that's right the pope will be in peru for two more days until sunday he is expected to go to the northern city of to heal which is one of the most important is the scene we do he will be holding a mass there a religious integration and on sunday he's expected to to be. a mass were nearly a million and a half people are supposed to attend but before that there are a apparently there will be a protest of the demonstrators who are critics of the pope critics of the vatican and who say the pope is not good enough to prevent and to stall in the sexual abuses in cases

a clergyman. for now thank you very much indeed. well still ahead on al-jazeera. augustinian its face going hungry after the u.s. with holds more money for a crucial u.n. agency plus. i'm charlie ends today in london for the new media festival which told us it is to transform a fitting into a ten o. that any time in sport gulfs known world number one hits a form of the i would be championship bodies here with that story. hello the deep freeze a week ago is almost a memory if anything the temperatures throughout the central plains a sudden stays in the eastern seaboard all rising pressure is high and the breeze

is something of a sudden the ne wintry weather is coming in once again across the hudson had admitted later on the pacific seaboard on little bit further inland now you look at the temperatures here were up above freezing at twelve in dallas and ford chicago zero in toronto but it was minus full you know twenty four hours ago so tempers are on their way up not much weather happening here but a snow in ontario notice more snow coming down through the rockies chain to the high ground as far south as nevada and possibly even bits of california that's been quite storm in the pacific seaboard i think that will be the concentration of significant weather well as elsewhere we watch temperatures rise twenty two again in dallas who sort of denver santa monica maybe that's less surprising there's been persistent rain on the coast of panama but it's a cost to recreate in nicaragua recently and i think it'll carry zero to be honest the shreds of cloud you see across jamaica cuba night produce a little bit of rain but it's quite likely will see even temporary flooding rain catching once again because of honduras and as i said costa rica and once again

panama. and this is. it's because. the young liver tree is. the commander. that they can. bring. together with their super league and he just. took risking it all the distance on al-jazeera. when the news breaks members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds. up to date just what the president say in the whole country that is not other way and when people need to be head china has

a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour egypt's president of delphos sisi has announced he will run for a second elections a shadow to take place in march it was expected to be a candidate with no serious challenge to his reelection. u.s. president donald trump has met top democrat chuck schumer to prevent a government shutdown both described progress but she almost said areas of

disagreement the main senate has until midnight friday to agree on a bill to fund government agencies for the next month. a cut of the royal who was a one time a close ally of saudi. arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an audio recording obtained by al-jazeera shake up the love me accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating qatar to seize their neighbor's wealth well let's hear more now on what the shaikh had to say. and i've delivered. some startling. unless he. and i stood them. and he said. and i. got. them. i didn't.

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a little while it. could be. the u.s. defense secretary says the focus for his nation's national security has moved away from terrorism on to the competition between the great powers jim mattis has accused china and russia of being reversion ist powers as he laid out his defense policy plans it's the first new strategy of its kind since twenty fourteen shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c. general mattis warned that washington was in danger of losing what he called its qualitative edge in weaponry against china and russia that's despite the estimates that say that washington spends more than the next eight to ten countries combined on weaponry including russia and china this was the pentagon's interpretation of the white house national security strategy released last december and it reiterated

the same points the change in emphasis to great power competition from terrorism was the first point he made. we face growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia are from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models pursuing veto authority over and other nations economic diplomatic and security decision rogue regimes like north korea and iran persist and take an outlaw action that threaten regional and even global stability violent extremist organizations like isis or lebanese hezbollah or al-qaeda continue to show hatred destroying peace and murdering innocents across the globe what's particularly striking about the pentagon's defense strategy and the white house is national security strategy is they completely contradict what donald trump said on the campaign trail that he would be putting america first that

he would withdraw from international entanglements that the u.s. would no longer be the world's policeman it's clear from these two strategy papers that both his defense secretary and national security adviser don't agree well michael o'hanlon is a senior fellow at brookings institution and a specialist in american national security policy is joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much for being with us the jump administration has long said that it was going to boost significantly the funding that the military gets in the u.s. how much of this was essentially a sales pitch by the pentagon and the military to get that cash. well i think that secretary matt is very sincere in what you reported just a moment ago that he does believe we are losing our qualitative towards other cut trees despite the big size of the american defense budget and it's partly because we spent a lot of money on the wars in the middle east and we spent a lot of money on our own people of volunteer force that's expensive and there have

been budgetary problems in washington that have prevented good proper use of resources and then finally technology use advancing and creating new opportunities all the time even for countries that may not spend quite as much but can exploit opportunities in cyber an artificial intelligence and precision missiles things like that so i think the argument is sincere it may or may not be essential i may or may not agree with the amount of money that they're asking for but i think they deeply believe that america is losing an edge that's been so crucial for deterrence especially in the face of china's rise and russia's revanche ism and so i think the general logic is is pretty sincere and pretty well laid out is it reasonable to for him to suggest that there is an element of military antagonism that's going to come from russia and china given that donald trump the trumpet ministrations

policy all of america for us to see how he was telling us has basically pulled pulled america away from its international commitments if you like and therefore has created a vacuum which russia has stepped into in for example in the middle east in syria and china has stepped into for a long time actually in places like africa and sounds as though they don't actually need to have any military action because economically they're doing pretty well in the world anyway because of that policy. well first of all it would be i think a mistake to say that the russian and chinese assertiveness that you just mentioned is somehow a response to the america first doctrine of the trump of ministration as you know the things you just mentioned all happened before donald trump was even president and so i think what you're seeing is that these two countries are flexing their muscles on the world stage regardless of who sits in the white house and the question is what should the united states do in response your point's well taken that not all the responses can be or should be military and some of this

assertiveness is probably natural and it's not all bad especially in the case of some of what china does around the world so i don't think we need to view this as a return to cold war but i do think there are serious challenges and russia in particular it worries me one one small criticism i would have of this document like the national security strategy it tends to equate russia and china and i think there are dramatic differences between the two which probably require a little bit more parsing michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution thank you very much indeed. thank you kind sir now in his first year in power president donald trump has stripped away many obama era environmental policies his announcement last june that the u.s. would pull out of the paris agreement in twenty twenty minutes with world wide disapproval and left the u.s. isolated and as nick clark reports from paris it was followed by a series of climate related disasters in the united states from devastating

hurricanes to wildfires. december two thousand and fifty the paris agreement is forged a historic moment twenty years in the making. that final accord agreed here in paris was a momentous achievement and a unanimous a hold of the. then things changed the united states will cease all implementation of the non-binding paris accord we don't all trumps efforts to strip away the environmental policies that his predecessor did not end there he's pushed to bring back mining jobs with as he put it beautiful clean coal he's opened the way for offshore oil exploration that is being dismantled to us.

but then climate disasters have careered across the united states residents of california where the rico and texas will need a reminder that two thousand and seventeen was unusually cruel property and livelihoods destroyed on a massive scale. from harkens to wildfires the u.s. was struck by sixteen climate and weather disasters in one year with losses according to one report exceeding three hundred six billion dollars we need to be careful not to attribute any one of these events to climate change per se it's pretty clear that climate change is increasing the odds of extreme weather and events like those we've seen recently hurricanes wildfires etc i've not seen any real indication that the president is necessarily cognizant of that as cities and states have stepped into the federal void in the us to say we're still in the paris agreement we're here we're and we're not going away on the international stage and

president macro affronts make planets great again. just this week macro ceded to the demands of a long standing environmental protest and abandon plans for a new airport and western fronts in december he has to the one planet summit to raise finance to fight climate change donald trump is looking at this climate change issue as much more of a domestic politics issue than an actual scientific and national security problem which he should be but in mandarin my coin is definitely filling that void since the united states is now not a leader on climate change anymore donald trump has recently said he may yet stay in the paris agreement should the deal become more favorable but many say that he's never been able to articulate a criticism of the agreement that actually reflects what it says that would no doubt be huge relief should the u.s. decide to stay within the paris accord but who knows which way the white house wind may blow the al-jazeera parts. well that is because the president of the friends of

the united states he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time given the fact that french presidents macro has effectively as nic said there stepped into the void as it were when the u.s. said that it was going to pull itself out of the paris agreement do agreements like the paris agreement actually need the united states to work not right now i mean the trump administration is showing to the global populace as well as the united states that they don't care about the environment they're willing to sell off u.s. lands and u.s. waters to the highest bidder whether it's an oil company gas company or a coal company and i think there's been a fallacy in the international world and the international community that they needed to wait for united states and now i think that we have met crow and leading the global population into

a more fruitful agreement and we have to keep the progress growing as we were just saying there have been a significant number of climate related incidents in the u.s. in the particularly in the last year do you think that as a result of that because the devastation of them has been significant people have lost their homes their livelihoods on a lot of money do you think that that is going to encourage people in america to put more pressure on the trumpet administration to do more about climate change. oh absolutely i mean we are seeing unprecedented damage three hundred billion dollars this year sixteen major storms look puerto rico is still suffering from the damages of the hurricane and you know what we're seeing now is you know the american people are going to start rising up they're taken action at the state level they're taken action at the federal level and you know they are marching in the streets right now and you know we have our rights we are we were using them we

are marching and we are suing and so friends dear earth and other environmental groups around the country are litigating against the trump administration for all the damage that they're doing to the environment he is not an emperor we have a rule of law here in the united states and we will force him to obey the law in terms of the time scale for these protests in the action that you are talking about one of the hallmarks that seems to be the case as far as the trumpet ministration is concerned is that statements are made but actual action doesn't take place immediately is this an issue that you feel is an absolute imperative or do you think that this is something that will take time because before it becomes a significant threat within the united states. yeah that's a really good question. the rules that he is repealing or trying to strike down the rules to regulate carbon emissions from coal fired power plants to protect safe

drinking water to ban and. toxic chemicals from food supply those will all be litigated and the courts will decide that but there's something that's more insidious what this administration is doing which i think is for more immediate concern and that is they're trying to cut the budget of the environmental protection agency by thirty percent they are replacing the scientific advisory panels in the policy advisory panels with non-biased scientists with. with advisors that are paid by their oil and gas company and so what they're fundamentally doing is trying to rewrite the rules that abides by and creating a much more industry friendly. environmental protection agency because from friends of the half in the united states thank you very much for your time and saturday we're going to have a one hour special at seventeen g.m.t.

looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect in the second year the u.s. is withholding another payment to the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees the forty five million dollars was promised last month for food aid this is on top of washington's announcement on tuesday that it was going to cut back more than hoth one hundred twenty five million dollars aid package u.s. ones other countries to step in then provide more money and non-con looks at what this means for people in the gaza strip. this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flour about this big needs to last

a family of nine for that long so there's already a cute shortages. for sure we are worried because this is the only help we have to live we have no choice from where else are we supposed to get food we can't buy it can't work there is no work and they decrease to eight what shall we do there's about two million people in the gaza strip now about one point one million of those people rely on food aid in some way or another is people like these that are going to be affected the most now the u.s. president has said that he wants changes to the way under all price you also once the international community to step up and donates a lot more aid and he said that the u.s. is very generous but other countries need to step up whether by withholding it is actually taking food away from people like these still i had an al-jazeera sports a heroic final effort from the olympic skiing champion speeding off into retirement

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you thank. me at. a one. thank you very much while australian open organizers have been defending their decision not to suspend play after a second straight day of extreme heat in melbourne players including never say conditions are right on the limits with on court surface temperatures of close to seventy degrees being recorded so how mike reports. when does hot weather become dangerous or athlete is the question again being asked by players and organizers

that the australian open. temperatures have been hitting forty degrees centigrade in melbourne croatia's petra markets there she had to take painkillers after the reflected heat from the playing surface gave her blisters. alys a corner he had her blood pressure checked during her loss against marty the french player wants the events extreme weather rule to be reviewed playing in this condition is of course very dangerous for the health of the players. the limits of not playing the matches is really high it's like it needs to be a five degrees in and. i think this should be a little bit lower tournament officials admit the conditions are tough they came close to suspending play button fist safeguards in place are appropriate tournament director craig tiley thing these are professional athletes we are at the end of the day an outdoor event we want to stay in outdoor event as long as possible but at

the same time ensuring that the health and well being of players is taken care of britain's haven't had to endure three and a half hour match in the heat of the day was that he one is much against nick especially ashley and dealing with the conditions it's part of being an elite athlete i mean if people do start to become ill then it won't be a concern was from. just getting through. the weather has a knock the world number one out of his stride rafael nadal had opted to play in the lead with t. shirts throughout the tournament a smart move he then to the last sixteen playing tennis every bit as hot as the weather so al-jazeera. local favorites senate kerry also all sides through to the fourth round after beating his childhood hero frenchman joe wilford song of the seventeenth seed defeating song in four sets his best performance in melbourne is reaching for a farce that was back in twenty fifty and just hoping to become the first australian men's champion in full seating yes. i knew it was only

a. very nervous. mean obviously follow through there on the fourth break was call of getting ready for a few mentally. is how you know got a couple of you know i mean it was it was surreal. but when twenty fourteen u.s. open champion mansion it all started through to the fourth round. work hard to beat american ryan harrison seven six six three seven six the crowd will play ten seed public or an impostor next. and the women's draw number two seed caroline wozniak e is safely through to the last sixteen after almost being knocked out in the second round the dane had a easier song of it in this match against katie persons of the netherlands the former world number one winning in straight sets last night he is yet to win a grand slam title. is close to being out and yes there was

a nice day still feeling like and have you know an opportunity and today i walked out and i thought i started better in my matches so playing on better and she played well today served i think well and. yeah i'm just happy to be through. reigning french open champion in your lane auster panko is outs latvian eliminated by and that's consequence of a stone near possible i take it in three sets she will play. navarro in the last. manchester united manager joe is a marine who has confirmed the club are in sauce with arsenal about signing strike alexy sanchez the chilean will be out of contract at the end of the season not confident but also not. what your political. unconfident think you. just relax and. we defeated you

than i was up there with a feeling that it can it can. but also with the feeling that. it can move in the few moves as a good over chose theo walcott is hoping to kickstart his club and international career following a twenty eight million dollar move from asked lots of everton the forward hasn't represented his country for two years and is joining up with their former england manager sam our dice. i felt that with the manager seemed to get the best of players especially when first coming in and just the plans for the future of the club and i felt like i won't be part of that fantastic history and i want to make that history present and i want the club to push on and you know try to reach the levels that enough to like it can with the players particularly coming in belgium's thomas peters has a one shot lead at the halfway point in the abu dhabi championship agency want to record four points on his ryder cup debut in twenty sixty seven birdies to reach twelve on the park and there are still some big names on the shoulders are up for

a poor first round wellman born dustin johnson right back in contention after a round of sixty four and only macrorie is just three shots off the pace the four time major winner is back from injury after three months out of the game. thank you very satisfying you know i've done quite a bit of work on the art you know over the offseason and worked a little bit on my swing and a couple little tweaks here and there and you know they seem to paid off already you know and couple little swing thoughts that i still have but it's it's nice to see that the work that i've put in on the range can translate on the golf course and you know that's been a great thing to see for me over the last two days full time overall world cup champion lindsey vonn just missed out on another race when the american last time i meant some somewhat at this world cup event in italy when one of her skis kicked up in the air but vonn still managed to finish second after missing the twenty fourteen olympics because of a knee injury the twenty ten downhill champion is set to return to the winter games

in town chang next month. and then another skiing great sign of her career in some style about same event medalist julia mancuso completing her final program dressed as wonder woman the thirty three year old missed out on qualifying the next month's winter games but will retire as the most successful american female skier in the olympic history. ok that is i suppose doing for now more later. well london's bleak winter is getting a bright make over landmarks in the city have been adorned with lights and installations as part of the forty first of all the works of dozens of british an international office are also being put on display in some of the capital's best known buildings reports. a tunnel of triangles lighting up london's dark winter night a line of. weaving through the streets this is london's lumiere festival the chance

to see the city in a different light for four nights only with the capital as there canvas some of the fifty artists have transformed it by conic buildings with large scale projections westminster abbey with its martyrs painted in glorious technicolor that the original architects could only have dreamed of audiences have to wrap up warm but organizers say it's a chance to change into something other than a screen company that i run that produced the event it's really dedicated to creating moments in people's lives that are away from the screens you know whether that's a phone or tablet or a computer or tele you read all of those things you can be anywhere you can meet anyone you like but actually it's not real the free festival hopes to more than a million visitors at a time of year when most stay at home some of the works into active and stick to it like this sculpture called control trolls.

the more playful ones like impulse get adults a chance to play in a public street like children once did leicester square is overrun with nocturnal animals a reminder that we share this city with others that we don't always see we tend to be very self centered and actually we're part of a much broader picture and everything is connected artists and scientists collaborated for this piece of cosmic scope a chance for viewers to contemplate our universe. is trying to be quite a kind of holistic or total statement about the history of our understanding of the cosmos and the cosmos itself and our place importantly within it and what it means to think about the universe in terms of one's own individual existence some of the pieces do pose a question like this one water by dutch artists the idea is that we are underwater after the effects of climate change and rising sea levels have taken their toll and it is eerily surreal to muss yourself even further you can take out your phone

download the soundtrack the goes with it and plug in your headphones. illuminating spaces that people would normally pass by without a thought do me a is a rare chance to see london in a new light charlie rangel al jazeera. and that's it for me for this news hour i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news. because

you can't. just. al-jazeera do is get the whole story the background the history and how issues in other parts of the world it can exist because of the high off air and the damage looks like by the fellows on the back of these trucks we understand all the important issues and don't want to go good knowledge gets us and signs into what's around the corner is still the citizen that mine owners hear more about profits than they do their work is safety so when the story develops al-jazeera is already there on the ground talking with people america's controversial president continues to polarize opinions donald trump do solemnly swear marking one year since he was sworn into office al-jazeera brings you a special program about the impact president trump has had at home and around the globe trump's first year on al jazeera. rio has big plans to turn its largest

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