and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera the controversial leader of islamic jihad papa scott he is one of the most wanted terrorists in the history of israeli counterterrorism and his alleged extrajudicial killing by israeli intelligence and mossad says and being caught in the last post the outcome is only death if someone tried to. immediately searingly intention was shut down the borders kill him in damascus on al-jazeera world. what we've just witnessed on the floor was a shuttle decision to democrats this will be called the trump shutdown.

the u.s. runs out of money but it may affect day to day life less than you think. and live and work on this is al jazeera live from cairo also coming up turkish backed forces prepared to cross into syria and cross as a kurdish enclave on its border is a threat to its security. i promise as makes a plane to protect the amazon and its people during his trip to peru plus. a member of council world family accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of manufacturing the gulf crisis to seize doha as well. the u.s. government has especially shut down a senate vote to fund federal agencies until next month fail just a short time ago and the essential services and offices will now remain open

republicans and democrats are pointing the finger at one another i think ohayon reports from washington. this is not the anniversary any leader wants to have it was exactly one year ago when donald trump made this promise and became president we will face challenges we will confront hardships but we will get the job done he vowed government would work again it's clear with this. it isn't republicans who control the congress and the white house lost four of their own members but picked up five democrats still not enough to pass the bill that means many nonessential government employees won't be coming to work on monday without a deal although most essential federal services will continue the employees just won't get paid until it's over it came down to this a program that was in place to protect children brought into this country without documentation president trump threw it out and said congress should fix it he

promised to help if we do this properly docket you know it's so far away from comprehensive immigration reform and if you want to take that further step i'll take the heat i don't care i don't care i'll take all the heat you want to get. they brought him a bipartisan deal and he refused to sign it so democrats refused to help pass the budget now the white house is saying they still have the weekend to work out a deal i think it could be taken care of the money i can that's why i just said i think i really think there's a really difficult to. fix the problem for the officers for the future for now it is a standoff a functioning government held hostage while two parties wait to see which side the public will blame for the very dysfunction that trump promised to end exactly one year ago what we've just witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by senate democrats or shovel. millions of americans for the

sake of irresponsible political gash a government shutdown was one hundred percent avoidable this will be called the trump shutdown because there is no one no one. who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in more than president trolled. washington. here's what happens now that the u.s. government has officially shut down hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be affected but its impact will vary across departments all the ninety five percent of employees at the environmental protection agency and housing department will be out of work that's compared to about fifty percent of workers the treasury u.s. defense secretary says training maintenance and intelligence operations will be impacted about half of the defense department seven hundred forty thousand civilian workers will also have to take a leave of absence if you're planning to visit the u.s.

lamo tourist sites like washington's famous so in museums and the national zoo well they will be closed but services like border and port security as well as air traffic control will continue the state department also says visa services and u.s. embassies will remain as long as funding remains. a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university he thinks the shutdown will hurt president trump the most. he'd love to be able to fire congress but he can't do that and people hold the president responsible for running the federal government look the presidents republican the republicans have majorities in both houses of congress democrats are perfectly confident they can put the blame on the republicans for not being able to do what they were elected to do namely keep the government open the democrats feel empowered by this to get to christine on the immigration issue and actually most americans sympathize with the democratic position that young people who were brought to the united states as illegal

immigrants when they were children should be allowed to remain in the united states that's something that's going to be very difficult for republicans to attack so the immigration issue is central to the shutdown most americans will simply see it as a failure of governance and more and more evidence that the united states is becoming ungovernable taki is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels on its border with syria i would take it in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kaddish fight is known as the y.p. g. and the syrian town of a plane he calls them a terrorist group the army is intensified shelling on a fein in recent days and says a ground assault could happen soon that the deco is in antakya on the tacky syria border. the situation around the freeing 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 africa 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 ministry 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 a green light why is that will russia controls the airspace over a free and 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 a spokesman for us are here general antonio terrace 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 action that could deepen the suffering of the syrian people all parties must ensure protection of civilians at all times under any circumstances. but francis has called for the protection of indigenous people in the halls of peru's amazon forest out of the conflict that condemned the exploitation of timber gold which he says in danger is in danger of native peruvians. following the pope's visit in perth was. the first stop on a three day tour in. pope francis

a champion of clean environment but 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 amazonian peoples have probably never been so threatened on the lens as they are at present there is no extract of islam and. by great business interests that want to lay hands on its petroleum gas lumber and gold. 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 but the pope once here states to stop illegal miners dumping chemicals into the river destroying the eco system to protect some of the poorest communities. the government says three thousand tonnes of mercury have been dumped in the embers of rivers the sun that they receive the community depends on the river to survive community leader he 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 to stop we have to defend our territory oh along the way and mother the 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 separated from the moral degradation. and 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 been done to the poor and other. people reference to the allegations of corruption among many politicians

in latin america for now prove beyond sport aside their anger at politicians to cheer and welcome their most important religious leader was innocent just i just gave us. a cattery royal who was a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis has been manufactured and already a recording obtained by al-jazeera. pani accuses saudi arabia and the away of fabricating the rift with cattle as a way to seize them neighbors wealth he also says he was under so much pressure from the two countries that he wants 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 audio tape shake of the lebanon early earth ernie a member of. your family says the gulf's biggest diplomatic best was triggered by

saudi and immorality crum princes whom he accuses of plotting to take qatar's wealth by force. as as well . well. in the old you're recording the she 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. they told them that they have to go to the airport and then the information changed that they 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 in the. the little known she became a central figure during the gulf cooperation council 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 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 shed more light on the g.c.c. crisis that started in june when saadi arabia the u.a.e. and it just cut off diplomatic ties and imposed a sea land and. the post from the lebanon early support qatar stands for the west is public and politically motivated has zero. hair on al-jazeera the sundance film festival which is this year overshadowed by sex scandals in hollywood. and. first anniversary in the oval office and me as we take a look back on climate change. the

storm has gone and i don't blurt out completely it's been a windy last few hours in better roasts on the baltic states need still see the curl of cloud that's indeed where it is the cold front that emanated from it is just lead to yet more snow in the alps and its position we find ourselves in on saturday snow on the outs in the tirol and more coming here on the next system running through eastern france that she telling off or on the way down the western side of the french arses rain behind that and a feral breeze still whipping up the seas in northern spain everywhere to the east it's certainly cooler there's been significant snow i would have formed overnight in hungary and there's more to come the next system coming through so sunday looks a particularly wintry scene here the winds thirty stiff once again but was temps up in double figures for london paris is come sunday with rain and yet more snow ahead

of it so this is all happening over the land mass of europe for all the quality really over the water the mediterranean but the still a potential for some rain in western libya all the saturday sixteen degrees in to us as a result the opposite breeze means it's much warmer further east is actually twenty in cairo on the skies a lot clearer in turkey is the breeze picks up in the southerly here so also should be dry in tunisia on sunday.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of all top stories republicans and democrats in the u.s. of pointing fingers at each other for a government shutdown that has come into effect a senate vote to fund federal agencies until next month failed this comes as donald trump completes one year in office as president. free syrian army rebels are being mobilized by turkey along its border with syria as part of preparations for attack this military operation against kurdish fighters known as the white p.g.

in the syrian town of a green. has intensified its shelling on the area and recent days and says ago ground assault could help him soon. and a cafe royal who was a close ally of saudi arabia says the gulf diplomatic crisis be manufactured and recording obtained by al-jazeera shake up to eleven. accuses saudi arabia and the u.a.e. of fabricating the rift with cattle to seize doha as well. the thirty fifth annual sundance film festival is underway in park city in the u.s. state of utah at the wells leading so case for independent films this is event has been overshadowed by the industry's recent scandals of a sexual misconduct reports. this year's sundance film festival comes at a moment of cultural change one of the main topics of discussion the fallout from the harvey weinstein sexual misconduct scandal the rise of the me too movement and the demands for more representation by women in the film industry is kind of

a tipping point because it's changing the order of things so that women are going to have a stronger voice and i think the role for women to be able to step forward and exercise their voices more and more i think is a really wonderful thing and i think the rule for men right now would be to listen about one third of the nearly two hundred films presented here this year are by women directors including holiday a film shot in turkey whose swedish director says women everywhere are fed up with keeping secrets as an artist i hate censorship and any kind and it was a kind of shit like no that's too private that's too easy that's too weird we don't want to know the film's lead actress victoria sun is part of the me too movement i spins right now and there's a lot of. females who are really taking this very seriously documentaries on view here at the festival include biographies of women who fought for their rights

and an unflinching look at gender disparities in the film industry. arvi g.'s the bio pic of pioneering female lawyer in the us supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg i'm so proud of all of the women who have had the courage to speak out seeing all read is a portrait of the powerful women's rights attorney gloria ole read and half the story examines women's employment in films with ninety one percent of top feature films and eighty four percent of all television shows directed by two thousand and fifteen this despite the fact that fifty percent of students a top film schools are women festival strategist and publicist kathleen mcinnis is an advocate for female film industry professionals and we have celebrity that's the thing that we have that's different than the other industries i think a lot of the hospitality industry i think of the service industry they are invisible almost to a lot of people we don't have invisibility we have celebrity which has

a lot of visibility visibility and now more power to accomplish change. park city utah. is a film critic and historian who joins us on the scott from berkeley and california good to have you with us just how significant a platform is sundance for the me to movement. oh i think it's absolutely a very significant one that needs to move. i mean it's the kind of thing where that's where hollywood goes for its ideas and you know it's sort of angle replenishing what's coming next you know the stars of the last few years all and it's come from there and most of them you know the ones that are worse in the last ten fifteen years so i definitely don't need matters and i think we need to make it you know as your segment just said very well i think female fronted films and

female lead in male directed films are going are being taken even more seriously this year than in past certainly i mean that's good news isn't it because sundance has some thirty seven percent of its films directed by women mainstream cinema only has three percent and you know that's not a great conspiracy. that needs to change i mean we did see this incredible you know wonder woman you know that was directed by a woman you know and that was the number two domestic when we you know to me and the three women in the other two top domestic into the year at least you didn't receive the question i want also you know led by women it's using as you go back to senate is that i'm saying that i think that sundance will eventually have sort of a trickle up effect you know as these as more of these women filmmakers because because people like harry jenkins that's where they came from you know and

eventually the east blockbusters they have to be directed by somebody so they usually climbs into town and you know how strange is it that harvey weinstein is not that this terrorist. it's strange it's true when people say that in the last say five years he perhaps was not the you know force of nature that he had. twenty eight he wasn't controlling quite as much as you have been but still there's this sense of this that we could just keep spending more and more into crazier parties now that's not happening this year i think there's a feeling. you know without hardly maybe people can be a little more adults with the war yes i mean i think it's true he did a lot to affect the landscape and everybody at sundance knows that and certain people are still going to be bidding wars but maybe not quite on the harvey weinstein level ok it's

a little more of an honest film festival perhaps they see what i want to see will favor a film just as you know in the last take away from me. ah well what i want to see great i happen to see it is our new president which is a russian documentary about. job growth in told is completely true it is to a russian media accounts which i suspect is going to be. able to watch that's that's what i'm looking forward to it i couldn't speak to a paper yet other than that i expect i have to agree with you that if i was going to be fascinating and visual fire and fury perhaps daniel smith rousing thanks very much for joining us there from back a thank you. u.s. 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 to jerusalem the

u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international anger will go to egypt and jordan and spend two days in israel where he will address paula meant palestinians have made it clear he is not welcome. egypt's presidential fattah el-sisi has announced he is running for a second term swept to power after leaving the military coup to oust his predecessor mohamed morsi in two thousand and thirteen sisi won the election a year later with ninety seven percent of the votes. today as a to members of the moments we have gone through and think about the serious challenges that face our home country huge expectations and hopes we have for our homeland i find myself standing confused before my national conscious 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 the presidency of the republic. now a number of parliamentary blocs have already pledged their support to sisi but let's also look at some of the rivals he is likely to face in march his election one of them is human rights lawyer khalid ali he's been charged for making a rude hand gesture in public and if convicted in march he'll be jailed and disqualified because console was arrested after announcing his intention to run his serving a six year term for violating regulations banning military from politics but many say that ccs main challenge in the election will be this man the retired armed forces chief of staff sami he's announced his intention to run just an hour after the incumbent president on friday so the marshal action will be the third since the revolution ousted hosni mubarak seven years ago the first poll after that in twenty

twelve was won by mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood he is now in jail after sisi led the coup to remove egypt's first democratically elected president in two thousand and thirteen. facebook is launching a survey for members to identify news sources that a trustworthy chief executive wants to prioritize what he calls high quality news saying there is too much sensationalism and misinformation in the news feed. is not expected to release the results of the. now in his first year in power president donald trump has stripped away many obama environmental policies his announcement last june that the u.s. would pull out of the paris agreement met 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 fifteen 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 global effort. then things changed the united states will seize all implementation of the non-binding paris accord. to strip away the environmental policies of its predecessor 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 dissolves this careered across the united states residents of california where 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 where we're not going away on the international stage and president macro affronts make planets great again. just this week macro a 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 coins 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. al-jazeera parts. well later on sas they will 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 his second year. america i'll these all the headlines on al-jazeera republicans and democrats in the u.s. are pointing fingers at each other for a government shutdown that has come into effect as senate vote to fund federal agencies until next month failed this comes as donald trump completes his one year in office as president what we've just witnessed on the floor was a shuttle decision that senate democrats should show. millions of americans for the

sake irresponsible political games the government shutdown is one hundred percent of what about this will be called the trump shutdown because there is no one no one who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in more than president trump free syrian army rebels are being mobilized by turkey along its border with syria they were taken in a convoy of buses as part of preparations for a turkish military operation against kurdish finds is known as the white p.g. in the syrian town of the three in the turkish army has intensified its shelling on the area in recent days as a ground assault could happen soon. as vice president mike pence is on his way to the middle east for a three day trip discussed moving the american embassy in israel to jerusalem the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international anger

pen's will go to egypt and jordan and spend two days in israel i have addressed parliament palestinians have made it clear he is not welcome. there's all the headlines i'll be back with more news on. counting the cost. of an expected growth story and count. the cost. of. the u.s. withhold aid for palestinian refugees the trumpet ministration says the view when the agency responsible for the money needs reform palestinians say they are being punished for defying the u.s. over jerusalem so with humanitarian aid being used for political blackmail this.