snuffer knight and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging they believe but the good because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. what we've just witnessed on the floor was the sun according. to democrats this will be called the trump shutdown. a political blame game after the

u.s. sees its first government shutdown in years. i'm sam is a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkey's president claims military action in northern syria is on the way signs on the ground are often clear that. egypt's president says he's going to run for a second term as his main rival calls for a level playing field. and pope francis makes a plea to protect the amazon and its people. don trump is blaming u.s. democrats for the first shutdown of the federal government since twenty thirteen senate negotiations went late into friday night but were unable to of the shutdown

which is now in effect across the country and then early morning twenty eight the u.s. president said democrats were more concerned with illegal immigrants than the military or safety at the border with mexico particle higher of course from washington. this is not the end of verse or 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 you'll be taking 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 office of 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 trump. al-jazeera washington. well here's what happens now the u.s. government has officially shut down hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be affected but its impact will vary across departments more than ninety five percent of employees at the environmental protection agency and housing department will be out of work that compares with about fifty percent of workers at the treasury the 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 have to take a leave of absence well if you're planning to visit the u.s. landmark tourist sites like washington's famous smithsonian museums and the national zoo will be closed but services like border and airport security as well as air traffic control will continue the state department also says visa services u.s. embassies will remain as long as funding remains our white house correspondent kimberly how it joins us live now from washington d.c. so they've got what about forty eight hours anyone think they can pull it off. well certainly congress is trying its back in session both the house of representatives and the senate on saturday trying to work out a deal there is some optimism that that can occur but at the same time the white

house has drawn a line in the sand essentially saying until government funding is restored we will not address the issue that's important to democrats democrats and that is this dhaka issue or deferred action for childhood arrivals obama era protection put in place for people who were brought here illegally by their parents as children have grown up here and would like to stay because they only know the united states as their country according to the democratic party so the president has said that they need to go back and this is really what this shutdown is all about so the talks are continuing and both have the chambers of the u.s. congress in the meantime though the president was hoping to be celebrating the anniversary of his inauguration today in florida at mar a lago but you have to remember he is a government employee and right now in a shutdown it's only essential government employees that can be working so taking a trip to florida it's become a little bit unclear whether or not that is essential or not essential considering

that is what he was planning to attend this saturday evening was a fund raiser for so a political fundraiser not necessarily essential services the president frustrated taking to twitter blaming the democrats for this saying in fact this is why in the congressional election sam in november there need to be more republicans in the senate right now they have a majority but clearly not enough because that is why we're in the situation of a shutdown right now the democrats in the senate with with you except. for yourself. shows with politics. thanks to the meeting with the wording of. the issues on the sets. a lot of finger pointing going on as you pointed out how is that blame game going down with the american public. over the looking at some of the poll numbers sammy

in the last couple of hours that as americans were preparing for this and really particularly in washington there is an individual that won't be affected by this but it's going to affect broader america in a number of respects you outlined the bottom line is that there is according to most polls quite a bit of sympathy for those who were brought here is illegal immigrants have grown up here there is an interest by a majority of americans to protect them but at the same time to put in border security so that this doesn't happen again having said that most americans are not happy with their lawmakers that they couldn't get this resolved in a shutdown the government there was a belief that should have been worked out a majority of americans pretty unhappy i can tell you too there are going to be a lot of noise making outside the white house just you know a few meters from where i'm standing a little bit later as those women's march and protests continue again on the anniversary of president trump's inauguration one i don't think he anticipated he would spend quite like this all right kimberly. and i'm told he's president of

toyotas one has told supporters of the party rally a ground operation is on the way to take it could issue controlled area of northern syria turkish forces have been amassing on the border near the syrian district of a free it's held by the kurdish y.p. gene which ankara considers a terrorist group three units have been shelling the area for several days and while groups long time crew have been mobilizing in these syria near the town of azaz stephanie vaca has the latest from the border. we've just been moved on by the military but what we saw in that location just about ten minutes from here along the border is shelling turkish tank shelling various locations also a build up of what looked like defensive materials bulldozers concrete slabs and gravel that were taken to the border wall that's a wall that you can also see behind me that white wall that turkey built along the border with syria now as the president said that this ground operation has defacto

began we have seen we have heard from our sources there is a build up of free syrian army fighters inside syria this is the least of athletes but we haven't as yet heard of a major ground push towards the in the big question mark here is the russian factor russia controls the skies and has troops on the ground we know senior officials are still talking in sochi in russia the turkish and russian so the big question mark will be what turkey will say because many people will tell you that without russian consent a turkish operation will be very very difficult russia is accusing the u.s. of trying to undermine efforts to end the war in syria washington had denied something awful for so long the turkey syria border made up of the kurdish syrian democratic forces but turkey is not satisfied vivier shorten says it's warning it could cause irreversible damage to relations now so again lavrov is weighing in on your list that the city using human rights for you is so trying to alternative

bodies of authority on the parts of the syrian territories that is a fact and that does contradict they are an obligation. now they have even more far reaching plans and we'll have to keep that in mind and try to find ways that look of pain came from undercutting the sovereignty of the syrian state. of the u.s. defense secretary says the focus for his nation's security has moved away from terrorism onto the competition between the great powers james mattis the focus would be on countering china's expanding military and an increasingly aggressive russia it's the latest sign of shifting priorities in america's defense strategy egyptian president of the fatah has sisi has announced he'll run for a second term the elections are set to take place in march sisi rose to power in two thousand and thirteen after ousting his predecessor the country's first democratically elected president in a military coup one hundred jump june reports the announcement was widely expected

now egyptian president was picked as sisi has made it official and instead of going to have voted for equality today as i remember the size of 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 the presidency of the republic. analysts are hardly surprised by his staying in power this way or that way i think of the elections as one source of energy to see your facade of this committee. would say that he won the elections fair and square and he has significant popular support. c.c.

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 hater 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 the helplessness absence of themselves the agent has used it before they would tell the international indonesian community that they won with ninety percent or ninety nine percent whatever the percentage by the same time there are no consequences for that so on one end it bolster that eames that intimacy of the genes on one end and the other and you know there are no consequences for that actions. 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 does it. former armed forces chief of staff sami

annan says he'll also run and called for state institutions to be neutral towards all candidates of the i'm a warlock with arsenal if i am elected to this historic position to save egypt that belongs to the people i call on all citizens to do their part in their responsibility to the nation. i can the country's institutions both private and military to remain neutral towards all who have announcer candidacy and to not take sides of the current president this is against our constitution he is merely a candidate among other candidates or still the common al-jazeera indonesia steps up its response to a health crisis and papá province. and gender politics takes center stage of this year's sundance festival in the wake of the hollywood sex scandals.

hello there the clouds are gathering for the southeastern parts of china at the moment so we're going to see a little bit of whether there as we head through the day on sunday but i think overnight on sunday and into monday that cloud will disintegrate most of us will have a dry day by the time we get to monday still going to be quite mild as well shanghai there at twelve degrees and for hong kong will be up at around twenty four meanwhile towards the west and for many of us across pakistan and india at the moment the weather is fine and dry is just in the far south we've got one or two showers drifting their way across us also they're acting as in sri lanka as well heavy downpours out of the showers so although they're fairly well broken up if you catch one you will know about it further north fine and dry but still a problem with small visibility so twenty two degrees their maximum there in new delhi bit further towards the west and those temperatures are fairly similar here in doha we're around twenty one or twenty two at the moment the winds still drifting down from the northwest and no huge changes for us as we head through the

next day or so it's towards the north where we've got slightly more mobile weather but one weather system that's pushing eastwards at the moment that's easing off so it's just bringing nothing more than a few outbreaks of rain there as we head through the day but further west you see more cloud piling and rather an intense storm making its way into turkey there for monday. welcome back you're watching out there are time to recap our headlines down trump is blaming us democrats for the first federal government shutdown since two thousand and thirteen senate negotiations went into friday night but was unable to avert the shutdown which is now in effect across the country turkey's president

says a military operation to take the syrian town of a frame from kurdish y.p. g. forces is on the way to the shammy has intensified its shelling on the area in recent days and warned an offensive is imminent egypt's president different than sisi has announced he's running for a second term cc's main challenger will be former armed forces chief of staff. 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 pence will go to egypt jordan and spend two days in israel where he will address parliament the palestinians have made it clear he's not welcome with them 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 and all the protests may not be is 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 trump 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 c.c.

other senior figures of told them 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 not be hypocrisy this is hypocrisy if we meet you we are not on a star on something 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 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 now and it is deploying military paramedics to carry food and vaccines to a remote part of its eastern province of papa and they sixty one infants have died there in the past four months from lack of health care our correspondents that

vasant traveled to the area reports from a hospital in the i got area of point province. here the extent of the health crisis in part one becomes painfully clear undernourished and very seriously ill children are still being rushed to this hospital and this is the only hospital for around one hundred thousand people here in the us my district and conditions are very very basic maria has just traveled for around five hours by speedboat to bring her little daughter she paula she says she's one years old and look she's extremely undernourished not only undernourished because of a lack of food but the are smart people in contact with the outside world are rapidly losing their traditions and also their knowledge on how to give nutrition to their children the indonesian government is pouring money into this region but many building infrastructure and living conditions the basic health conditions of these people are seriously deteriorating. rangar refugees who escaped to bangladesh

are due to start returning to me in mind next week more than six hundred fifty thousand a living in makeshift camps over the past five months after fleeing violence and persecution by the un and rights groups are raising grave concerns about the repatriation process charles stratford has more. religious 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 the refugee camp close to the border. 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 sixteen year old daughter and the boy's grandmother she doesn't know where they are my son is a man i knew i wouldn't want 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 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 no. 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 her sons are taken to collect the shelter kits the distribution center is a twenty minute walk through the camp where more than six hundred fifty thousand rahimtoola refugees live now. the families are handed bags containing basic

household goods and health care like tombs and although the number of ranger crossing from myanmar 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 it's new arrivals like these that highlight just how vulnerable and afraid 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 actually she 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 her boys are

taken to the place where aid workers are building the shelter this tiny bamboo and top hole in heart will be home for the foreseeable future i hope my husband daughter and grandmother can find us here she says stratford al-jazeera the refugee camp fun with the. police in nigeria say four american citizens kidnapped earlier this week have been found abandoned by their captors the two americans and two canadians were abducted by armed men in kaduna state on wednesday police say their captors abandoned them after citing a police chopper. francis is just arrived in the city of true halo in northern peru to visit an area hit by funding last year the head of the roman catholic church is also expected to hold a mass and talk about climate change earlier he visited peru's amazon region where he called for the protection of indigenous people. but they are such as has been

following his visit. the world there. 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 there are going to be the native amazonian peoples have probably never been so threatened on they are lens as they are at present there is no extract of ism 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 placed to stop illegal miners dumping chemicals into the river destroying the eco system going to affect some of the poorest communities. the

government says three thousand tonnes of mercury have been dumped in the am as of rivers the son 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 conti fish a primary this would drinkable water we need to take care of the forest would need fish farmers and we want 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 and the pope said the environmental degradation cannot be separated from the moral degradation. and how much evil is done to an 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 other. people referenced to the allegations of corruption among many politicians in latin america are now proved put aside their anger at politicians to cheer and welcome their most important religious leader was an aside just just to the us. the thirty fifth annual sundance film festival is underway in park city in the u.s. state of utah it's the world's leading showcase for independent film this is event is being 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 role 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 of any kind and it was a kind of friendship like no that's too private that's too easy that's too when we don't want to know the film's lead actress victoria son is part of the me too movement i spins right now and there's a lot of. females who 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. r. v g the bio pic pioneering female lawyer in the us supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg i'm so proud of the women had the courage to speak out seeing already 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 that the service industry they are invisible to a lot of people we don't have an visibility we have celebrity which has a lot of visibility visibility and now more power to accomplish change. park city utah.

and it's time to take you through some of the stories we're following now donald trump is blaming us democrats for the first federal government shutdowns and two thousand and thirteen senate negotiations went late into friday night but were unable to avert the shutdown which is now in effect across the country the u.s. president said democrats were more concerned with illegal immigrants than the military or border security turkey's president says a military operation to take the syrian town of affray in from kurdish y p g forces is underway the turkish army has intensified its shelling on the area in recent days and he's warning it offensive is imminent seventy deca has more from turkey's border. now as the president said that this ground operation has defacto began we have seen we have heard from our sources there is a build up of free syrian army fighters inside syria this is the least of athletes but we haven't as yet heard of a major ground push towards africa in the big question mark here is the russian

factor russia controls the skies and has troops on the ground we know senior officials are still talking in sochi in russia the turkish and russian so the big question mark will be what turkey will say because many people will tell you that without russian consent the turkish operation will be very very difficult i egypt's president of fatah has sisi is announces running for a second term he swept to power after leading the military coup to oust his predecessor the first democratically elected leader of the country in two thousand and thirteen cc's main challenger will be formal armed forces chief of staff sami on the. 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 pents will go to egypt and jordan and spend two days in israel where he will address parliament palestinians of may be clear he's not welcome pope francis has arrived in the city of to a fellow in northern to visit in the area hit by flooding last year the head of the

roman catholic church is expected to hold a mass and talk about climate change he visited produce amazon region where he called for the protection of indigenous people those are your headlines. we're back with. america's controversial president continues to polarize opinions. 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 trumps first year on al-jazeera.