any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds corruptly did just what presidents say in no country there is not other way and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the award winning documentaries and live news on air and online. as witchcraft is sorcery killing spreads across papa new guinea. exposes shocking human rights abuses. of the specific missions darkstar when used at this time on al-jazeera. a u.s. government shutdown looks virtually certain after senators block plans to avoid it happening.

hello i'm down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a member of the qatari roll family accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of manufacturing the gulf crisis to seize doha's wealth. but francis makes a play to protect the amazon and its people during his trip to peru plus. untold brannon at the institute for cancer research looking at the possibility of a blood test which could be a breakthrough in cancer diagnosis. the u.s. government is on the verge of shutting down a procedural vote on funding for federal agencies has failed and that means that unless the senate agree on a deal in the next hour or so they'll be no money to keep them open while a particular hand joins us again from washington d.c. poppy they certainly took this down to the wire i mean what's the latest with the vote now. it's not over until it's over i'm not sure if we can do this

but if you look at the senate floor looks like there's a whole lot of nothing just some people milling about talking to each other but this is somewhat unusual they took their vote they didn't have enough votes to pass it but they haven't called it over and so as long as the vote is open senators are free to change their vote and were scenes of very important people who are critical to this debate sort of huddling around those wooden desks talking to each other scrambling to try and get a deal so it looks like it's over but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a bill you will know for sure in exactly one hours time when the government officially runs out of money so what does that actually mean because it does sound somewhat frightening to have a government shutdown you know the united states government does not collapse nonessential employees of the federal government can't come to work essential employees like those in the military and people who the f.b.i. the court system the people who are necessary to keep the government functioning

they still have to come to work and they just don't get paid so what this would look like if they settled this in the next couple of days most likely those federal workers would get their pay back that's usually what they do when these sorts of budget impasses have happened in the past and they have happened quite a bit it's becoming more the norm rather than not the u.s. government doesn't really do budgets anymore they just do these continuing resolutions and that's what a lot of members of congress are voting against they said they're simply sick of doing this they have one job and that is to pass a budget and they haven't been able to do that so the looks as of right now that they don't have the votes in that there could be a partial government shutdown come midnight one hour's time but the white house is saying even if that happens it doesn't mean that workers won't show up on monday they still have. two days during the weekend to try and make a deal as you were telling us earlier this was only a temporary measure which kicked the ball down the road so so how is congress

allowed to them to resolve the funding issue. well that's the very real question can they actually agree on any sort of a budget one of the things republicans are insisting on is that they dramatically increase military spending while democrats are saying if you're going to do that then we're going to go ahead and increase social spending and so they need sixty votes to get anything done and i think it's important to remember this is all happening in about one hour's time exactly it will be the year anniversary of donald trump becoming president of the united states he promised that he was going to fix government that was going to drain the swamp make it work but we've seen in that year is the republicans who have controlled the house and the senate have used procedural rules to basically shut out democrats they haven't asked their opinion on most pieces of legislation and so they've created this very toxic environment where the republican base is still very much although it is shrinking behind president trump and that has republican lawmakers sort of cowed but the democratic

base is fired up and especially after the most recent expletives the trump used to describe immigrants from african nations el salvador and haiti democratic base is telling their lawmakers don't make a deal with them so it is a very polarized situation perhaps we haven't seen this i don't think since two thousand and thirteen when republicans shut down the government because they didn't like president barack obama's health care bill it is another side of a growing and continuous dysfunction of the u.s. government of the politics of this country where they can't even seem to talk but that said they still have an hour and they are still huddled on the senate floor trying to figure something out but thank you ok now turkey is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels on its border with syria they were taken in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kurdish fighters known as the white b.g. in the town of a three mm turkey told them a terrorist group the army has intensified shelling on

a freedom in recent days and says a ground assault could happen soon. a qatari royal who was a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an audio recording obtained by al-jazeera banally i think any accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the rift with cattle as a way to seize their neighbor's wealth he also says he was honest 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 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 best was triggered by saudi and princes whom he accuses of plotting to take the towers wealth by force. as.

well. 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. he 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. they told him 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 interview and that is false. and that your daughters can live and you must still say and. the little known she became a central figure during the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. crisis when he was first received by king solomon bit of that as ease of saudi arabia media affiliated with saudi arabia and the u.a.e. portrayed him as the had 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 saadi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a sea land and embargo on qatar the post from share how the lebanon early support qatar stands for the west catered and politically motivated has. egypt's president. has announced he's running for a second term in march as elections he swept to power after leading the military coup to oust his predecessor in twenty thirteen a year later he won the election with ninety seven percent of the vote the former army chief sam annan says he will also run. pope francis has called for the protection of indigenous people while visiting the heart of peru's amazon rainforest the head of the catholic church condemned the exploitation of timber golden era which he said is endangering native peruvians. is following the pope's

visit in peru. the first stop on a three day tour in. pope francis a champion of clean environment that members of amazonian indigenous communities the pope says they are the most vulnerable people and now they're living in danger and then you see the native peoples have been so threatened on the lens as they are at present there is new extract of islam and pressure being exerted by great business interests that want to lay hands on its petroleum gas and. more than anywhere else than here in the mother the region the government says the gold rush has destroyed more than thirty two thousand hectares of forest nearly eight hundred thousand kilos of gold are produced here every year the pope once here is placed to stop illegal miners dumping chemicals into the river destroying the eco system could affect some of the poorest communities. the government says

three thousand tonnes of mercury have been dumped in the am as of rivers that the community depends on the river to survive community leader says they want the pope to help yes i mean that the river is contaminated with fish a prime minister drinkable water we need to take care of the forest we need fish farmers and we want to stop we have to defend our territory. along the way and. peruvians packed the streets to cheer the pontiff eighty percent of peruvians are catholic. at the presidential palace and the pope said the environmental degradation cannot be sept. rate it from the moral degradation. yes how much evil is done to latin american people and the democracies of this continent by the social virus a phenomenon that inflicts everything with the greatest harm being done to the poor

and other. people reference to the allegations of corruption among many politicians in latin america. are now prove beyond split aside their anger at politicians to cheer and welcome their most important really just leader. in this i just i just how do they view. us vice president mike pence is on his way to the middle east for a three day trip to discuss moving the american embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital has provoked international ngo pens will go to egypt and jordan and then spent two days in israel where he will address parliament palestinians have made it clear he's not welcome alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . america's vice president flies to the middle east with the country still facing international anger over its controversial decision to declare jerusalem israel's

capital while the protests may not be as furious or widespread mike pence will find there is still deep seated resentment at the american position typically these trips are about. trying to demonstrate support for u.s. priorities and prerogatives in the region and you know demonstrate how close we are with our allies and demonstrate how close we are with israel and demonstrate that we can come to some kind of compromise with the palestinians it's a big show these trips are ostentatious for a reason. but the practical kind of nuts and bolts of the trouble ministrations approach on this issue is a known failure donald trump made his controversial announcement last month it is time. to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. a more number of sites had previously been identified it could still take several years for the switch to go through pence will first go to egypt where

he'll meet with president i'll see see other senior figures of told him they're not interested in seeing him from there it's on to jordan and the face to face with king abdullah finally he will be in israel for two days where he will meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu and president reagan revelent the palestinians have snubbed the vice president's visit you cannot meet people when they're insult you when humiliate you when they ignore you when they sided with your enemy you have to particular the message we are angry we don't accept this and this is cannot continue should that be hypocrisy this is hypocrisy if we meet you we are not honest to our own son mike pence is traveling to the middle east to convince everyone the u.s. can still be an honest broker in the peace process there donald trump believes as a self-proclaimed deal maker he can still pull something together pence's visit will test the new waters alan fischer al-jazeera washington. let's also to come here now does a rank looting international concern over the plan to repatriate hundreds of

thousands of ranger refugees to me a mob set to begin in a few days' time. and thirty years after losing their homes in an earthquake these people are still waiting to be really housed more on that stay with us. does it increase in. well it's been rubbish rather than the event in the last day or so clouds swept through there bringing cold there for a bit of grain the snow certainly cold running running through the bekaa valley into syria and iraq that's gone through was army see daylight and saturday so the sky should be largely blue and the temperature is not high will be feeling a bit better i think with the sun sky the snow has gone into iran that extends down towards the gulf with some rain already formed in kuwait probably be a little bit more following that things quieten down a slow rise in temperature but not much at eighteen in baghdad cloud filling the sky i think for lebanon from those in egypt and probably a good policy to be as well not a huge rise in temperature was up it's

a southerly breeze over the site now throughout the arabian peninsula should be drawn at this time the ever sometimes you do get right in there as bit goes through kuwait it might spark a sharon by i don't think so but there's a breeze change written only now as a rod in the suddenly picking up dust of the last couple of days it will be a noisy might also bring some dust with it's are east and saudi and into cattle twenty two here thirty three in mecca refining dry looking picture which exists all the way down through africa until you get to the proposition of running running from angola to southern tanzania. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. 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 man maher government calls you a gringo lead terrorist hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time.

i am doing this all the benefit of saddam people so bad they see the importance of our. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. government's on the verge of shutting down procedural vote on funding for federal agencies has failed that means that unless the senate agree on a deal in under an hour only essential offices will remain open. qatari royal was a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured in an audio recording obtained by al-jazeera. accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e.

of fabricating the rift with cattle to seize their neighbor's wealth. and egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi is running for a second term in the march elections. has out of his name to the list calling for state institutions to be neutral towards candidates. now range of refugees or skype to bangladesh are due to start returning to me and from next week more than six hundred fifty thousand are living in camps up to fing violence and persecution over the past five months but the u.n. and rights groups are raising grave concerns about the repatriation process that has more. these religious men women and children just some of the new arrivals they fled myanmar into bangladesh in recent days and now being provided shelter in the refugee camp close to the border. says she paid a boatload around seventy dollars to ferry her family across the river into bangladesh but she and her three sons then got separated from her husband sixteen

year old daughter and the boy's grandmother. she doesn't know where they are my son is a man and young woman was the me and my soldiers were demanding girls they said give us girls and save yourselves they have been giving there are hidden cards that say we are from bangladesh was that the myanmar government considers the really just legal immigrants and they've suffered decades of persecution the latest crackdown began after ricky jay a rebel group attacked police posts killing a number of security forces in all this last year hundreds of thousands of regime joe fled to violence the un has accused me of ethnic cleansing it's estimated that the army killed at least six thousand seven hundred range in the first few weeks of the crackdown on someone. we don't want to go back my brother in law and my nephew were slaughtered as my children are still so young they are safe but the i don't see killed our city and. carrying what few belongings they have to here and has

some za taken to collect the shelter kits the distribution center is a twenty minute walk through the camp where more than six hundred fifty thousand regional refugees leave now. the families are handed bags containing basic household goods and health care like tombs although the number of ranger crossing from myanmar in to bangladesh in recent weeks has dropped considerably according to the international organization for migration around two thousand four hundred people cross in december alone now the plan put forward by the myanmar the bangladesh governments to stop repatch creating ranger that wants to go back to myanmar is due to start in a couple of days but its new arrivals like these that highlight just how vulnerable unafraid the regime germy on my remain. the u.n. and international aid organizations say it's too early for refugees to return when

the security cannot be guaranteed iran was not involved in creation lease talks are happening while actually between the two governments but i see you can see today we are still having people arriving on a regular basis in desperate need of humanitarian support to here and her boys are taken to the place where aid workers a building the shelter this tiny bamboo and top all in heart will be home for the full see will future i hope my husband daughter and grandmother can find us here she says stratford al-jazeera the refugee camp fun with. the lebanese army has found the bodies of nine syrian refugees who froze to death trying to cross the border into lebanon they died during a snowstorm near a border crossing in a mountainous area six others were say but one later died in hospital patrols are looking for other refugees caught in the storm and arrested two syrians on smuggling charges. well in mexico city hundreds of people who lost their homes in

the earthquake thirty two years ago are still waiting to be re housed they've been living in temporary camp since then the list of people looking for a new home grew longer last year after another big earthquake they did most as their story. jeannette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack officials said it was a temporary solution but thirty two years later jeanette is still here. back then if someone had told me that one day i'd have my own children and grandchildren but still be living here i wouldn't have believed that the government raised our hopes and then abandon us. around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp camp president alfredo vegas tries to keep pressuring city officials to deliver on their promises. but if the government would

have told us they weren't going to give us apartments we would look for alternatives every year but. here's our agreement we're going to deliver so this dream with her. this past september another powerful earthquake rocked mexico city hundreds of people died and once again thousands were left homeless. at your place as apartment building collapsed now she lives in this makeshift camp in a city park petra can't afford local rents so for now the sixty four year old sleeps in this tent. you have to be here in the camp all the time and put pressure on the government and we don't want to be left here on the street for too long because we're senior citizens and we're vulnerable some of those displaced will benefit from government programs to cover short term rent payments and provide credits for housing loans but as winter temperatures drop others fear they'll be

left out in the cold. politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government will fail david mercer al-jazeera in mexico city. now in his first year in power president 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 met with world wide disapproval and let the u.s. isolated and as big clock reports from paris was followed by a series of climate disasters in the united states and hurricanes wildfires. december two thousand and fifty the paris the grievances forged a historic moment twenty years in the making. that final accord agreed here in

paris was a momentous achievement and a unanimous global effort a whole lot of. 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 was created as a did not end there he's pushed to bring back mining jobs with as he put it beautiful clean coal he's open the way for offshore oil exploration and his move to dismantle the u.s. clean power plant. but then climate disasters that careered across the united states residents of california were to recoat 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 where 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 in 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 michael 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 she reflects what it says there 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. i'll just their parents and on south a day we'll have a one hour special at seventeen hundred g.m.t. looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect in his second. now scientists in the u.s. have developed a universal blood test capable of detecting eight different types of cancer the

procedure called cancer seek aims to catch the disease early and save lives experts are hailing the development but say more research is needed is paul brennan. the scientists here at john hopkins university in baltimore analyzed more than a thousand patients who chose symptoms of cancer to see whether this new test would accurately confirm the diagnosis and they were excited to discover that for certain tumors the council's seek test was up to ninety eight percent accuracy and the same test was effective for eight different types of cancer polluting five which no early screening currently exists here's how it works as a chuma forms and grows the cancerous cells within it change reproduce and die sometimes cierra shed cells that can get into the bloodstream and when cancer cells die they can also release d.n.a. and other fragments that also get into the blood cancer seek is described as a liquid biopsy and analyzes a patient's blood sample for traces of that cancer d.n.a.

and identifying which genes in mutations are most active can identify the type of cancer and the best treatment the importance of early diagnosis of cancer can't be understated for example in the case of bow counts ovarian cancer and breast cancer ninety percent of those diagnosed early will continue to live for more than five years but the survival rate if it's caught at an advanced stage is much lower in the case of a variant cancer is just five percent in the u.k. cancer specialists are giving a cautious welcome to the findings but this is a very exciting first step along the way to such a blood test they've shown that you can pick up a toy any traces of the cancer in the blood. but potentially has the ability to pick up cancers early on and identify patients for surgery but it is

a first step another specialist though wants to see the test accuracy improved stage one when we want to diagnose these cancers this is a do it is quite low it's just about forty foot so that is something. that might hold this test back. when we try to think about implementing it. the baltimore study worked with patients who had already shown symptoms of cancer the true breakthrough will happen if this test can identify cancer before the symptoms. that could really make a massive impact on survival rates this test is one step closer to the. al-jazeera. time for a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. government's on the verge of shutting down a procedural vote on funding for federal agencies has failed that means that unless

the senate agree on a deal on our own essential offices and services will remain open particle again has more from washington d.c. doesn't think democrats are willing to cave republicans pretty much saying the same thing so it is a standoff they are holding the government hostage but just to keep this in perspective again this simply means that nonessential federal employees will not be able to come into work the basic functions of the federal government are expected to work if this doesn't go for a very long time if it does go for a very long time then it impacts the economy then it's a much bigger story right now the story is on the year anniversary of president. the government that he promised to fix is broken it qatari royal who was a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured and an audio recording obtained by al-jazeera. fanny accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the rift with cattle to seize their neighbor's wealth. egypt's president

abdel fatah ceases running for a second term in the march elections for mommy chief some of them as added his name to the list calling for state institutions to be neutral towards all candidates. but francis has met peru's president pedro public kocinski as he wraps up his south america talk earlier he called for the protection of indigenous people are visiting the heart of peru's amazon forest the pope condemned the exploitation of timber gas and gold in the area he said one thousand peruvians have never been more threatened and there's the governments to recognize that culture turkey is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels on its border with syria as part of a military operation that threatened against syrian kurdish fighters known as the white b.g. were based in the town about three in the army's intensified shelling unafraid in recent days and says a ground assault could happen soon the lebanese army has found the bodies of nine syrian refugees who froze to death in a snowstorm trying to cross the border into lebanon soldiers are looking for others caught in the blizzard well those were the headlines the news continues here on

al-jazeera up to talk to a state that's watching. america's controversial president continues to polarize opinions. 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 trumps first year on al jazeera. and. you will be able to. see. with wars and conflicts continue to rage in crises off the crises threatening the safety and wellbeing of millions of people around the world the question is who and how.