he's here in munich and it's going to keep going to be i soon in afghanistan with some taliban fighters a new call to arms for taliban leaders a threat to their authority. to see also children a new study from islam the only love me but. unprecedented access i still and the taliban at this time on al-jazeera. what we've just witnessed on the floor. of democrats this will be called the trump shutdown. the u.s. government runs out of money but it may affect day to day life less than you think

. of them are. live from doha also coming up. back forces prepared to cross into syria i'm cursed as a kurdish enclave on its border is a threat to its security. says makes a plea to protect the amazon and its people during his trip to peru. and we're at the sundance film festival which is this year overshadowed by sex scandals in hollywood. the u.s. government has officially shut down a senate vote to fund federal agencies until next month fail just a short time ago essential offices and services will now remain open and republicans and democrats are pointing the finger at each other as he called a 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 dr 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 month i actually 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 sudden call decision by senate democrats should show. millions of americans for the sake of irresponsible political games the 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 presidential. washington. well 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 around fifty percent of workers at the treasury u.s. defense secretary says training maintenance and intelligence operations will be impacted around half of the defense department seven hundred forty thousand civilian workers will have to take a leave of absence and if you're planning to visit the u.s. tourist sites such as washington's famous smithsonian museums and the national zoo well they'll be closed but services like border and airport security as well as air

traffic control will continue the state department also says visa services at u.s. embassies will remain as long as funding remains. as a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university he thinks the shutdown will hurt president trump so 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 they did take a stand 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 while it's 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. 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 u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international anger. that egypt and jordan spent two days in israel where he'll address parliament says i made it clear he has no welcome 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 top administration 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 c.c. 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 rivlin the palestinians have snubbed the vice president's visit you cannot meet people when they're insult you when you humiliate you when they ignore you when they say they do. enemy you have to post a clear message we are angry we don't accept this and this is cannot continue should not be hypocrisy this is hypocrisy if we need to we are not on a star on some mike pence is traveling to the middle east to convince everyone the u.s. can still be an honest broker in the peace process that 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. turkey is mobilizing thousands of free syrian army rebels inside syria they were taken in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kurdish fighters known as the white in the syrian town a bath rain he calls them a terrorist group has intensified shelling on afrin in recent days and turkish

officials say an offensive is imminent seventy the aca is an anti-hero in the turkey syria border. the situation around the fighting 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 tools 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 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. then sas olympic committee is meeting with north and south korean officials to discuss their plans to participate joint play in next month's winter games that have arrived the irish seized quarters in the swiss city. after holding their first high level talks in two years seoul of cognac agreed to march under a unified flag during the opening ceremony and jointly field a women's ice hockey team but those moves so require i.o.c. approval. looking forward first of all to constructive meeting today we had more than twelve hours of talks and negotiations yesterday and in

a very constructive way so i hope we will come to a good result today and you will be the first one to know right after the meeting where we can hopefully. communicate good results in the olympic spirit. egypt's president adult fattah el-sisi has announced he is running for a second swept to power after leaving the military coup to ask his predecessor mohamed morsi in two thousand and thirteen sisi won the election a year later with ninety seven percent of the vote. voted for equality today as i remember the decisive moment 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

consciousness 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 the presidency of the republic. well a number of parliamentary blocs have already pledged their support to sisi but let's take a look at some of the rivals that he's likely to face and mark his election now one of them is human rights. he's been charged for making a hand gesture in public and if convicted in march he'll be jailed and disqualified and we have all because. he was arrested after announcing his intention to run he's serving a six year term for violating regulations banning military from politics but many say that sees his main challenger in the election will be retired armed forces chief of staff sami. he's announced his intention to run just an hour the incumbent president on friday march next will be the first since the revolution that ousted

hosni mubarak seven years ago if poll after that was in two thousand and twelve that 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 twenty thirteen. the process has called for the protection of indigenous people in the halls of peru's amazon forest the head of the catholic church condemned the exploitation of. gold in the area which he said is in danger of peruvians but a son says is following the pope's visit. long enough for. 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 new 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 the pope once here is paid to stop illegal miners dumping chemicals into the river destroying the eco system go to fix some of the poorest communities. the government says three thousand tonnes of mercury have been dumped indiana's 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 primary this would drinkable water we need to take care of the forest we need fish farmers and we want to nickel mining to stop we have to defend our territory.

along the way and mother the peruvians packed the streets to cheer the pontiff eighty percent of peruvians are catholic. at the presidential palace in lima the pope said the environmental degradation cannot be. paraded 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 infix everything with the greatest harm being done to the poor and another. paper of reference to the allegations of corruption among many politicians in latin america for now prove put aside their anger at politicians to cheer and welcome their most important religious leader was innocent just i just believe us. seller has had on al-jazeera as donald trump's.

oval office and then as we take a look at his record on climate change. hello there we've seen yet more heavy showers over the southeastern parts of asia recently you see plenty of bright white cloud on our satellite picture and it's been burning i wear we've seen some of the wettest of the weather in the last twenty four hours i think as we fast forward into sunday some of the heavier downpours a likely to be in mindanao the show is here really do look very heavy for sunday and then on monday they gradually begin to ease up a little bit and instead on monday some of the heavier showers a lightly to be around parts of jobs over jakarta expecting to see court if you have to downpours for the northern parts of australia also very wet here is you would expect at this time of year darwin seen a lot of very heavy rain and there's plenty more still to come this whole region

here is likely to see some pretty sharp showers at times further south where we've had a problem with some hot weather it's now easing off so twenty eight the marks of a mess in melbourne adelaide around thirty one and further towards the west force in perth the showers should stay away from us the not too far just to the east but they should stay for us and twenty nine degrees will be our maximum here over towards new zealand we've had a lot of heavy rain recently that has mainly cleared away does look a lot drier for many of us there on sunday with the rain isn't too far away it's actually edging its way eastwards and it'll be cloudy a little bit soggy there on monday. counting the cost why the jury's still out on. wall street. we delve into china's better than expected growth story and count the cost of.

counting the cost time. and again what is there has to remind you of our top stories republicans and democrats in the us a pointing fingers at each other for a government shutdown that has come into effect a senate voice to fund the federal agencies until next month failed as comes as donald trump one year in office as president. free syrian army rebels are being mobilized inside syria have taken in

a convoy of buses as possible for turkish military operation against kurdish fighters there as the y.p. g. in the syrian town of. the turkish army has intensified its shelling on the area and recent days and says an offensive is imminent. and egypt's president sisi has announced he is running for a second and swept to power off the lead in the military coup to alice's pretty slim on the morsi in twenty seen his main challenger will be former forces chief of staff. 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. claimants met with world wide disapproval and left the u.s. isolated reports from paris it was followed by a series of climate related disasters in the u.s. 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 global effort. then things changed. the united states will cease all implementation of the non-binding paris accord redouble trumps efforts to strip away the environmental policies that was created as a did not end that 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 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 wildfire 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 where here where we're not going away on the international stage and president macro a friends make planet 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 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 there would no doubt be huge relief should the u.s. decide to stay within the powers accord but who knows which way the white house when it may blow. parents later on saturday will have a one hour special seventeen g.m.t.

looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect in his second year. but enjoy refugees who escaped to bangladesh and to start returning to memoir next week and six hundred fifty thousand and living in makeshift camps after famed violence and persecution over the past five months but the un land rights groups are raising grave concerns about the process that has more. user hinge of men women and children just some of the new arrivals they fled me and more into bangladesh in recent days and now being provided shelter in a refugee camp close to the border. says she paid a boat with around seventy dollars to ferry her family across the river into bangladesh. but she and her three sons then got separated from her husband's sixteen year old daughter and the boy's grandmother she doesn't know where they are my son is a. little to 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. the myanmar government considers the region illegal immigrants and they've suffered decades of persecution the latest crackdown began a rebel group attacked police posts killing a number of security forces in all this last year hundreds of thousands of 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 sing and. carrying what few belongings they have to hear a songs are taken to collect their shelter kits. the distribution center is

a twenty minute walk through the camp where more than six hundred fifty thousand rahimtoola refugees leave now. the families are handed bags containing basic household goods and healthcare items. although the number of crossing from myanmar to bangladesh in recent weeks has dropped considerably. according to the international organization for migration around two thousand four hundred people crossed in december alone. now the plan put forward by the myanmar the bangladesh governments to stop repression ranger that wants to go back to myanmar is due to start a couple of days but it's new arrivals like these that highlight just how vulnerable and afraid the regime germy remain. the u.n. and international aid organizations say it's too early for refugees to return when the security cannot be guaranteed i when was not involved in we've had three lease

talks are happening file actually between the two governments but as you can see today we are still having people arriving on a regular basis in desperate need of humanitarian support to here and the boys are taken to the place where aid workers a building the shelter this chinese bamboo wood tops all in heart will be home for the full see will future i hope my husband daughter and grandmother can find to see here she says. the refugee camp phone with. germany's chancellor angela merkel says she's optimistic that the opposition social democrats will give the go ahead for talks to form a coalition government she held talks in paris with france's president he wants germany to support his plans to reform league european union has been unable to form a government since an election in september. facebook is launching a survey for members to identify news sources that are trustworthy chief executive

mark zuckerberg wants to prioritize what he calls high quality news saying there's too much sensationalism and misinformation in the news feed. is not expected to release the results of the survey. now the thirty fifth annual film festival is underway and parks says here in the us days if that's the law of losing say a case for independent film then this has inventors been overshadowed by the industry's recent scandals over sexual misconduct brunell's 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 in 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 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 experience 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 all read first of all 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 robert oulds al-jazeera park city utah. adonis with trials as a film critic and historian he says lost his sex scandals and hollywood have opened the way for more female directors in the industry. female films the male lead male directed films are going are being taken even more seriously this

year than they might have been asked certainly i mean we did see this incredible you know wonder woman you know that was directed by one and you know and that was the number two domestic film of the year award three of women in the other two top domestic and of the year at least you didn't last and i were also you know led by women think that sundance will eventually have a sort of a trickle effect you know as nice as more of these women filmmakers because people like patty jenkins that's where they came from you know and eventually the blockbusters they have to be directed by somebody. these are the headlines on al-jazeera republicans and democrats in the us a 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 what we've just witnessed on the floor was a shuttle decision to democrats to show. millions of americans for the sake irresponsible political. 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 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 to jerusalem the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital provoked international pencil case egypt and jordan and spend two days in israel where he will address parliament palestinians have made it clear he is not welcome to he is mobilizing thousands of

free syrian army rebels inside syria they were taken in a convoy of buses as part of a military operation against syrian kurdish fighters known as the y.p. g. in the syrian town about three mm he calls them a terrorist group the army is intensified shelling on the theme in recent days and turkish official officials say an offensive is imminent. in sas so olympic committee is meeting with north and south korean officials to participate jointly in next month's winter games delegates arrived at the i.o.c. his headquarters in the swiss city. after holding their first high level talks into his soul and agreed to march under a unified flag during the opening ceremony and jointly field a women's ice hockey team but those moves still require approval and egypt's president. has announced he is running for a second term he swept to power after leading the military coup to oust his

predecessor mohamed morsi in twenty thirteen main challenge will be former armed forces chief of staff. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the costs america's controversial president continues to polarize opinions. marking one year since he was sworn into office al-jazeera brings you a special program about the impact president trump time at home and around the globe trump's first year on al-jazeera. this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week wall street's happy but is the us recovery all down. what does it mean for the rest of the world. also.