understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary to people in power at this time on al-jazeera. as witchcraft as sorcery killing spreads across papa new guinea. when east exposes shocking human rights abuses. of the specific missions darkstar when used at this time i know it is zero. u.s. democrats or republicans strike a stopgap deal to reopen the government three days into a shutdown. and

this is al jazeera live from them also coming up angry scenes in the knesset the israeli palestinian politicians disrupts the u.s. vice president's speech and the announces the american embassy will move to jerusalem as early as next year. turkey expands its offensive in northern syria and says that rush or agree to the operation. former football star george where is sworn in as liberia's latest president promising to crack down on corruption crippling his country. politicians of the united states and reached an agreement to end the government shutdown which came into effect at midnight on friday non-essential federal services have been closed across the u.s. for three days senators from donald trump's republican party and the opposition democrats have struck a deal but it's any temporary bye to call his small. it was only three days of

gridlock inside the u.s. senate but for the millions who count on them to do their jobs it was really stressful that figure out how we're going to pay our mortgage you know we don't know if we're going to get paid or not and so for some of us pretty tough you know people don't really understand what to do they got some clarity monday on the third day of the partial shutdown a compromise the temporary spending bill will fund the government until february eighth the bill includes a six year extension of a government funded low cost health care for children a priority for democrats but they didn't get what they said they would hold out for it doesn't address the issue of hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children the republican leader in the senate says if there's. no resolution on immigration legislation by february eighth when the funding runs out it is his intention to proceed with legislation that would address that that leaves congress three weeks to come up with the budget something they haven't been able to do very often you can't keep doing you know three day or

one month continuing resolutions it's you know it's bad public policy these short term funding bills do have consequences agencies like the pentagon say it makes it much more difficult for them to do their jobs affectively so there's an incentive but there is a lot of anger and distrust here on capitol hill that will make it that much more difficult to find a compromise and that tension was only made worse when president donald trump's campaign released this ad democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants in unheard of accusation accusing the opposition of being complicit in the murder of american citizens a new low in the relationship between the parties which now have just three weeks to figure out a way to keep the government from shutting down once again. al-jazeera washington the u.s. vice president has told israel's parliament that america will move its embassy to jerusalem by the end of next year my pen's made the announcement during

a speech to israel's knesset and was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians very full so this morning from west jerusalem. on the day he would become the first u.s. vice president to address israel's parliament the knesset mike pence was greeted with almost presidential ceremony by israel's prime minister it didn't take long to return the favor by a great r. and b. out of the present state would be. israel's capital jerusalem. it was a description of jerusalem that pence would repeat three times during his set piece of vent. to go before he was interrupted by israeli palestinian members of the knesset decrying the u.s. position and any prospect of u.s. involvement in the peace process there in force departure cleared the way for pens to speak to two other audiences israelis and u.s. evangelical christians for whom the jerusalem declaration was a major campaign pledge in the weeks ahead our administration will advance its plan

to open the united states embassy in jerusalem and that united states embassy will open before the end of next year pence's said that his faith largely determines his long standing backing for israel this speech fused that religiosity with as often the near total political support of the trumpet ministration for the government of the watching benjamin netanyahu including its position on iran i have a solemn promise to israel to all the middle east and to the world. the united states of america will never allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. he said the us would back a two state solution if both israelis and palestinians agreed and israel security could be guaranteed and put the onus on the palestinians to come to the table mr trump gave them jerusalem i mean what an honest broker that is once the

deal of the century in which jews for them plays a major role above all this speech through into sharp relief the different realities which the united states and israel on one side and the palestinian leadership on the other an operating in the palestinians this was further damage after donald trump's december declaration further evidence the united states could not be an honest broker for israeli ministers they were calling it emotional inspiring even zionist netanyahu later added his voice calling it a magnificent speech in particular complimenting its focus on what he called the evil regime in iran it was a powerful explosion of the enduring bond between our two countries and of your personal commitment to israel the commitment of president trump and your entire delegation on the first full day of his visit mike pence is and the fulsome praise of his hosts we have a stronger rejection by palestinian leadership of any u.s. role in the resolution of this conflict that al-jazeera western. the palestinian president has been in brussels where the e.u.

has reassured him it supports his ambition to have easters from its palestine's capital but worried about us has been holding talks with the e.u. foreign policy chief federica mongering and european foreign and european foreign ministers about us is also a european union nations to recognize the state of palestine. turkish troops and their syrian rebel allies are closing in on kurdish forces as they fight secure key areas along the border turkey's operation to push out the syrian kurdish y p g is intensifying and president reza type and says it will succeed stephanie teka has this. it's almost becoming routine shelling and heavy artillery fired by the turkish army into syria. the monday border new development with turkey opening a new front in the ground offensive free syrian army fighters will now move towards africa and from the east. initially the f.s.a. forces entered syria through turkey from its west and northern borders and after

the airstrikes and heavy shelling helped pave the way in the first twenty four hours turkey says it is targeting y p g fighters a kurdish group it says is a terrorist organization which also happens to be america's strongest ally in fighting isis and in syria as ever complicated web of regional and international allegiances enter russia key to allowing turkey to operate in a free in something many already knew but the turkey's president admitted to on monday for the first time. we will handle a free there's no stepping back from a free we discussed this with our russian friends we have an agreement with them. turkey's top military officials and intelligence chief for in moscow in the run up to the offensive russia had military personnel in africa in which it has now pulled out the people of africa and we've spoken to feel a sense of abandonment a feeling of betrayal echoed in a news conference by the syrian democratic forces further east of a free in the group backed by the u.s. to fight eisel with the bulk of its fighters from the y. p.g.

enough lots of turkey would not have dared to show our cities or villages or commit crimes against our children without russia violating their ethical obligation towards us and giving the green light to turkey to fly their jet fighters over offer in skies therefore russia is required to provide an explanation of the circumstances around the turkish aggression against our people an explanation may be hard to come by the politics of syria's war are being played out behind closed doors the war however is as active as. it's been really difficult to get information out of a free because the culms have been so bad but we have managed to speak to some sources who tell us that life inside the city of offering itself is pretty normal they say the y.p. g. is adamant that they are not going to give up the city or the region they do tell us however that from the border going to just the people who live there many have moved further into because of turkey's relentless shelling and that is something that we've been hearing here intensively throughout the day. there's been

a steady stream of minute she hardware heading to the border turkey says it will not stop its offensive until it is pushed the wipe away from its borders further complicating syria's almost seven year long war stephanie decker zero on the turkey syria border. the united nations is putting pressure on the united arab emirates over alleged schiemann rights violations its claim the gulf state allows arbitrary detention and torture while suppressing freedom of expression but in barbara reports now from geneva. at the u.n. in geneva the united arab emirates was at the center of attention on monday but as they were lining up with the national flag one floor above diplomats lined up to highlight how the u.a.e. needs to improve its human rights one of the areas of concern in the recent u.n. report is arbitrary detention and torture that's something ninety how down knows all about the u.s. lebanese business woman was arrested at his home in abu dhabi he still doesn't know why he held in an unknown location and beaten over many months he was eventually

convicted of supporting terrorism and based on a confession made under duress you know interrogators threatened to. to do things to my wife i couldn't i couldn't take it off the all the physical abuse was you know somehow following when it came to that and i know he was serious because whatever he said before he did. so i could not i told him you know whatever you want i'll sign anything. as a side event at the un victims of abuse and their lawyers spoke out people like david hague as managing director of leeds united football club he travelled to the u.a.e. to resolve a business dispute he was thrown into jail where he says he was tortured and sexually abused he now works to get legal redress for people who've gone through similar experiences i've seen it time and time again when unscrupulous companies

realize that the u.a.e. has a terribly weak and corrupt justice system open to manipulation and bribery and they use it as a litigation tool and it's happening time and time and time again so when it was happening to me i thought i was the only one but i realize there are hundreds possibly thousands of others over the years the system of secret prisons remains that hasn't changed at all then the unfair trial processes once persons of brought her to regular prisons continues as well so there needs to be a root and branch of all of the whole system and they have the opportunity to do that no. as part of its charm offensive here in geneva the u.a.e. is putting on a display of traditional morality culture and in the session itself the minister of state for foreign affairs strongly defended his country's human rights record the u.a.e. delegation said they were implementing previous recommendations like better support for foreign workers and tackling domestic violence but there was little of

substance on areas such as ending torture or the death penalty for many international rights groups the u.a.e. has a long way to go there. at the u.n. in geneva for the sort of come here on al-jazeera. if. it's a song that says families of one hundred forty three mentally ill patients who died under a bush government policy speak of their anger. and the nine thousand year old woman greek scientists reconstruct the face from age history. hello there for some of us in australia we've seen an awful lot of heavy rain recently so we are now out of this area of cloud here under that we seem to wrench

the heavy downpours almost everywhere some places reporting on hundred forty seven millimeters of rain and then further towards the east here we've seen one hundred sixteen so clearly lots of what weather there are more still to come in fact we've got this little developing feature which will gradually push eastward fare towards queensland as we head through wednesday further south of course has been incredibly hot here but the heat has now east diffraction for sydney looks like thirty one degrees will be our maximum course it will be slightly hotter than that if you head out towards the west and suburbs further south well first of force in melbourne now we're only at around twenty four getting to around twenty five there as we head into wednesday adelaide will see the temperatures rise once more there will be all the way office thirty one on wednesday and for perth we hover at around twenty seven now over towards new zealand we've had a lot of stormy weather over the last twenty four hours also all thanks to this weather system here part of some very very heavy downpours and the system is only slowly moving away so still plenty more wet weather for us across the north island

for tuesday the south island will be a lot brighter system clears the way for wednesday but we do see a little bit more unsettled weather in the south. rio has big plans to turn its largest favelas into spectacles. but inside the fellows. has big plans such as a. building since the age of twelve listen trained yet skilled architect has as good a chance as any at seeing his vision come to light. the pedro and the mosque to plan out the concluding part of rebel architecture at this time on al jazeera.

and i get a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and the u.s. senate to survey to to temporarily end the government shutdown off to democrats and republicans agreed on a short term spending bill us vice president might pens has been heckled by israeli palestinian lawmakers during his speech to the israeli knesset you know america will move its embassy to jerusalem next year. and turkey's president insists his military will take control of the kurdish held enclave of african in northern syria as it batters the area with artillery aircraft and ground forces. now two thousand and seventeen saw mexico posted its highest murder rate since records began with more than twenty five thousand people killed in violence is said to be a central issue july's presidential elections joel holeman has more from mexico city. new government figures show that two thousand and seventeen was the deadliest

year in decade to mexico and there's a variety of reasons for that apart from regular crime it's also the country's cartels which continue to battle over territory and. drug routes apart from that when the government manages to capture one of their leaders others usually a murderer to try and fight for their place so all of this brings more bloodshed but analysts say there's another reason why the number of murders has gone up and that's that the government hasn't taken this on effectively since it's been in power in the first couple of years president pena nieto didn't really want to talk about the drug war then after a low the number of murders becoming creeping up again and still there wasn't really any coherent strategy apart from carrying on doing what the previous administration had done that's continued through two thousand and seventeen the government just passed a new security law which keeps the military on the streets instead of the full scale reform of the country's many police forces that experts say has been overdue

for years now or into a lecture near mexico and so by june this is going to turn into someone else's problem and with over a decade of intense violence all patients that occurred under her tenure the patients died all to be moved to privately run care facilities and as tanya page reports from johannesburg the families want hans's. the families of the one hundred and forty three mentally disabled patients who died under this woman's watch into song when she entered the room. the song to moms says donna much longer was the top prevention health official when more than a thousand patients from a facility called life is to many women lived into an reaches did care facilities because she thought they needed to be reintegrated into society and to save money

many of the case centers will equipped despite other witnesses testimony to the contrary she insists she was never warned my boys were at risk. i want to apologize for the loss of life during the implementation of the project i know that line life loss is too many and i know that those last two cannot bring them together but for i did so with i sincerely apologize for the apology was hard to hear for christie new model for how far it is didn't say with they had moved his sister to and after a month of searching by the time she did find her it was far too late it had looked like she had died a long time ago. literally her skin was dark and there was almost no skin as most people. so for me the question that out but. she had been in the. fight. the courses of death of many of the victims point to neglect

malnutrition pneumonia and dehydration. south africans have been shocked by a scale that involves some of the country's closure of honorable citizens who were at the mercy of a government that failed they want to answer and just police are investigating and provincial government promises the tragedy will not be repeated in a number of areas the protocols were not properly followed and that the police is well also not followed so we are doing everything to him so that now we follow all the police and protocols. the families say they want traced until those responsible are sent to jail that the deaths of one hundred and forty three people demands nothing less tanya page al jazeera johannesburg. authorities in sudan have released seven detained journalists they were arrested after covering protests over an increase in the price of bread and other products say it's become even more

difficult for the press to operate freely in sudan a simple mortgage reports. he's been walking through these gates every day for eighty years but as money who runs his own daily newspaper al tayyar says a lot has changed and not for the better he now has fewer staff because he can't afford to pay them all additions of his paper have been stopped from going on sale more than twenty times in the past here four times just this month and i say you know. press freedom in sudan depends on the political atmosphere when we started working in the ninety's the freedom was much more than it is now there are a lot of restrictions the government uses like confiscating the papers after printing to cause economic loss stopping some articles from being published restricting the movements of journalists it comes down to the political scene with no regard to the media laws i'll tell you it is one of more than have a dozen newspapers which were confiscated before hitting sudan streets in the past twelve months editors a national security agents at

a printing press houses confiscate additions that contains tourists critical of the government some newspaper readers now turn to the internet to find out what's going on in the country but you're but how can we tell you what we're telling i open social media and. then i go to the websites i check several websites that can give me the critics news news that i believe is factual all survive we had this there's nothing you can do when the papers are confiscated you can't get a chance to go through the news so we turn to the internet and see what's there the international organization reporters without borders ranks sudan one hundred seventy fourth out of one hundred eighty countries on its press freedom index and there are concerns it's about to get even tougher for journalists in sudan to do their job members of follow months are deliberating a bill to allow national security agents to shut down newspapers radio stations and t.v. stations for fifteen days without sizing any reason and if that bill becomes law students press council would have the power to indefinitely ban any journalists who

write or broadcast anything that opposes government policies that a journalist detained this month we're covering protests overhyped. read prices the government failed to respond to requests for comment on the arrests are on the freedom of the press. at the hague it is the right way to regulate the press is through the courts since the rule laws more than a single law confiscating papers or things like that is not a good idea and journalists who are detained should be presented to court and if they have any fault they should bear responsibility but the shouldn't be put in jail without any clear charge directorate for editors like last man the concern is not about being charged for what they report on but being prevented from reporting in the first place and the shutting down of any outlet that doesn't follow government lines he will morgan al-jazeera khartum former well football star george ware has been sworn in as the twenty fourth president of liberia is taking every country with weak education health and a struggling economy how to dress reports now from monrovia from the same football

pitch that propelled him to global fame george where took the oath as president of liberia the national flag was lowered as former president ellen johnson sirleaf made way for the new presidency in his inaugural address we acknowledged the enormity of the responsibility of his new office asking liberians to hold him to account. he was going to do was was he was he. was. really was that he was was was was. also lost his countrymen and women to do their part. the mood is electric but already some of the strong support bodies mainly the unskilled and unemployed beginning to sound impatient and want to see the results the most people out there

yet i still create more jobs create jobs what are you a job as you. are focusing on is that if you are to add more value to that you know we ask we have a. lot of on educated people in this country george weah may not be as positive experiences with us but he's got a lot of what he does with us right sixty years main and will not set him apart from just leaders but many say the next six months will determine which direction he will take liberia and it sort of. analysts say that is a period when he needs to be decisive because was that we have been branded as inexperienced he needs to put his best foot forward he needs a strong minister fayyad that can send a message to the local and international economic players that liberia is

capable of doing business. the sentiment and to a shame the george wira was long going to come of many will be watching closely now to see if he can replicate the success of the soccer pitches of europe as leader and president of his country i met you chris. morrow via the united states is increasing curity requirements for six middle east and allies will have to undergo an enhanced cargo screening program when flying on specific routes she ever turns he has this. the emergency order means that all cargo loaded on to airplanes from five muslim majority countries will be required to adhere to what's called a cas or air cargo advance screening protocols the transportation security administration admits that most of the requirements were already being voluntarily applied by airlines around the world six outlines egypt road jordanian saudi emirates and he had served in the us from cairo international airport in egypt

queen alia international airport in jordan king abdul aziz international airport and king colleague international airport in saudi arabia doha international airport encounter and dubai international and abu dhabi international airports in the u.a.e. will be affected turkey had already been mandated to participate in a class following a failed plot to blow up an australian airliner in the summer as part of the plot high grade military explosives was sent from turkey by a cargo make us means air carriers will have to provide details as soon as is possible prior to the loading of cargo to u.s. authorities such as the origin of a shipment of the sender its i to the reasons it was originally sent its destination and contents these procedures are not designed to be extremely prohibitive works really. difficult for the airlines that they understand yes i understand that they're going to try to streamline this but again i don't think it's a bad move by the t.s.a. i think it's a prudent move and again it's a move that already has been president it's being done in other places around the

world voluntarily the goal is to detect a normal ease authorities give the example of a one hundred dollar printer that's freely available in the u.s. being sent to the u.s. at a cost of five hundred dollars through one of the five countries it's hoped that the information supplied on the a cas would flag the shipment for further inspection the t.s.a. says the new requirement isn't based on any quote brand new intelligence but a demonstrated intent by terrorist groups to target aviation possibly with a bomb concealed in a. large other trolling device to trump administration is reported to be considering extending the requirements to all at cargo bound for the u.s. she every time see al-jazeera. now and scientists in greece have reconstructed the face of a woman who lived nine thousand years ago she's named dawn and offers a glimpse into life in engine things jones propolis has this report she died aged between fifteen and nineteen years old but her hard worn looks suggest someone

twice that age height of a little more than one and a half metres suggests limited nutrition and doctors say she had difficulty with her hip dawn as she's being called probably lived her natural lifespan at a time when life took a great toll on the body the athens university orthodontist who led a team of scientists studying says there is no sign of a violent death in their product is what dawn used to mouth as a sort of tool for example eskimos used to soften steel skins with their teeth door was born with a normal job but is moved forward with used we don't know what she did with. her skull was scanned and reproduced in a three d. printer her face was then built up around the copy of her skull the tendons muscles and skin laid on in layers the bone structure providing information about where the muscles were ficus. dawn was so named because she lived at the dawn of modern

civilization around nine thousand years ago the glaciers were receding across europe and the continent was awakening to the temperate climate we enjoy today people like dawn were transitioning from hunting and gathering to growing their own food evidence from the cave reflects that transition dawn would have eaten wild game and fruit but also the produce of agriculture kept goats and some grains. and i want to get a life in dawn's day was tough she reminds me of the mountain dwelling women of decades ago had chopped and carried firewood and she did livestock but the missile looked like period was a paradise compared to what came before and after the climate mean they could find for days only and did a bit of agriculture later on people had to found more intensively because the population was growing by yet the caves population grew with agriculture as many as thirty four people lived in it at the height of its occupation peabody she says she

understood why they preferred it it was cool in summer and warm in winter and in fact constructed housing has really been able to reproduce jumpstart opal us al-jazeera athens. all right to stop her recap the headlines here in algeria and u.s. senators have voted to temporarily and the government shut down after democrats and republicans agreed on a short term spending bill and non-essential federal services across the united states were closed off and both parties earlier failed to agree a budget in iraq over immigration the new deal will only keep the government running until february the eighth which is when democrats want an agreement on the better protection of young immigrants. the u.s. vice president has told israel's parliament the u.s. will move its embassy to jerusalem by the end of next year and mike pence made the announcement during a speech to. israel's knesset switch was initially interrupted by protesting

israeli palestinian politician all things. palestine's president mahmoud abbas refused to meet pensees instead in brussels where the e.u.'s foreign policy chief has reassured him the bluff is firmly committed to his two state solution with these to reach them as he promised. turkey's president insists his military will take control of the kurdish held enclave of african in northern syria as it back says the area without ten every aircraft in the ground forces the operation to push out syrian kurdish y p g fighters will now also target the towns of man beach and the y p g is a us ally group that turkey considers terrorists former football star george where has replaced africa's first female head of state as liberia's new president he's been sworn in off to winning by a landslide against vice president joseph in december succeeds in a real peace prize winner and johnson said yesterday we had lines stay with us said

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