counting the cost at this time i'll just hear a. personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel but the line runs through this period their daily struggles when we go get it we're just a force a stop us when we go there they shoot at us how to survive and peaceful protests to reason in a place of danger millions defines and resistance at the same time it's means not for tonight and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al-jazeera. u.s. congress approves funding to end three days of government shutdown after while senators reach a temporary deal. i'm

about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up anger in the knesset brawler over the u.s. vice president's reassertion of jerusalem as the capital of israel. turkey intensifies its military operation in northwest syria and opens a new front in the town of a free. man from the football pitch to the political playground to george way is sworn in as liberia's new president. a three day u.s. government shutdown is about to end not the politicians approved a bill to extend federal funding but the immigration dispute at the center of the crisis is still far from resolved the democrats agreed to back the bailout allowing government funding to continue until february the eighth minute turned republicans gave assurances of a vote in the coming weeks on the status of undocumented migrants brought to the

u.s. as children also known as dreamers the president donald trump has tweeted that democrats had come to their senses he also said that he was open to an immigration deal but only if it was good for the country however deep divisions between the two sides remain all our important work for the american people had to be put on hold while this manufactured crisis. we made no. progress and i want to end on the serious bipartisan negotiation. to solve issues such as immigration and border security. health care or defense spending and many other mothers so i'm glad we're going to get back to work or how does your castro has more from washington d.c. . the compromise to reopen the u.s. federal government has passed now both chambers of congress and the compromise

looks like this senate democrats have agreed to reopen the federal government through february eighth in exchange they are accepting the word of republican leadership's that the contentious issue of immigration will be the next order of business with a vote scheduled by mid february now critics and liberals and immigration advocates are criticizing democrats for having backed down from their initial demand in this fully they have wanted immigration and in particular the fates of the eight hundred thousand some young undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country illegally as children they wanted a pathway to result their immigration status included in this compromise bill that did not happen and those immigration advocates are saying that putting trust in the word of republicans to eventually get to that topic was unwise and the number one

source of mistrust from these liberal leaning democrats they're pointing the finger at president donald trump who has shifted in his stance on this immigration issue as well as a finger pointed honest twitter accounts accusing democrats of obstruction so even now as the u.s. federal cover government looks to reopen tuesday morning this bigger issue of resolving this immigration crisis still looms with the potential of the country being back at this standoff in just three weeks time. the opening date for the u.s. embassy which is moving from tel aviv to jerusalem has been brought forward to the end of twenty nine teams u.s. vice president mike pence made the announcement in israel but he was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians houri fawcett has more from west to receive them. 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 he didn't take long to return the favor by the great our. president stays to be. israel's capital jerusalem. it was a description of jerusalem that pence would repeat three times during his set piece a 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

longstanding backing for israel this speech fused that religiosity with as offered 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 u.s. would back a two state solution if both israelis and palestinians agreed that 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 the deal of the century in which jerusalem plays a major role above all this speech threw into sharp relief the different realities which the united states in israel on one side and the palestinian leadership on the other and are 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 has earned the fulsome praise of his hosts and they have a stronger rejection by palestinian leadership of any u.s. role in the resolution of this conflict that al-jazeera west jerusalem the palestinian president has been in brussels where the e.u. has reassured him it supports ambition to have easter who saw them as the capital of a palestinian state now it has been holding talks with the new foreign policy chief said that he come on honey and european foreign ministers hears european union

nations to recognize the state of palestine. we pay all due respect to the positions of the european union we truly consider the e.u. as a partner in free and and therefore we call its member states to swiftly recognize the state of palestine and we confirm that there is no contradiction between recognition. the resumption of negotiations turkish troops and their syrian rebel allies are closing in on kurdish forces and their fight to secure the border area operation to push out the syrian kurdish why p.g. is intensifying and president carter one insists it will succeed the white house has been more cautious and it says turkey must exercise restraint stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. 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 us. 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 it there's no stepping back from a free and 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 the bandon meant 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 us to fight eisel with the bulk of its fighters from the wipe e.g. the north of 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 our friend 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 ever it's been really difficult to get information out of a free because the columns 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 y. p.g. away from its borders further complicating syria's almost seven year long war stephanie decker zero on the turkey syria border mohamed atta takes a look at the key players in the battle for free and what could happen next. turkey has always been an easy with kurdish control of areas on the other side of its border with syria it's now engaged in a must of assault on the kurdish forces known as people's protection units or why p.d. in a free and district turkey considers the us backed y p d an extension of the kurdish rebel group p k k that it was for four decades and korea has been angered by the y.p.s.

expansion in more than syria after the us backed into the group and the fight against all but of the washington state it will train an army to patrol the border region with the wipe india as a key component tuckey responded with its own military. offensive air strikes and ground up tuck's potentially puts turkey in conflict with its nato ally and turkey say this may expand its operation in mosul in syria to the city of mumbai each after our freedom has been cleared the task of taking of a member it will fall off auction of the free syrian army that's allied to the syrian government whether the us will try to convince turkey from taking number as it's done in the past is unclear at this stage russia syria's ally says it will not interfere in the conflict but it does control over enclaves airspace which means turkish air strikes that began on twenty january must have had russian clearance if

our freeman and none bridge waterfall takesh backed forces will control a two hundred kilometer continuous threat of serious mo from border was to of the euphrates but his main aim is to create a thirty kilometer saves all along its border which means the rest of the territory could be hundred over to the syrian government. opens a new front in the near seven year long syrian war which activists say has already claimed more than three hundred forty thousand lives a city of our friend could also have severe humor. teddy and consequences still ahead and al jazeera plans to move the hinge of refugees back to me a model laid as concerns grow over their safety. mexico records its highest homicide rate in decades in the middle of a spike in drug related crime. by

the springtime flowers of a mountain link. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello there we've got a fair amount of wet weather that's popping up across the southeast in parts of china not a great deal to see for choose day just this little bit of cloud here but you can see the winds feeding up from the south and that's what's dragging you know all the moisture plenty more following it as we head through wednesday so many of us are going to see a fair amount of cloud and quite a few outbreaks of rain on the northern edge of that as you might expect at this time of year we're seeing some snow for shanghai so it won't be a warm day and i'm just getting to four degrees out a little bit further towards the south and we've seen some pretty sharp showers here see plenty of them over mindanao there and across borneo we're seeing more breaks in the cloud hey there's a thick cloud cover cover towards the south and forcing java looks like it's going to stay pretty wet over the next couple of days at a cost that is likely to see some pretty lively showers watch out for the north as

well because this is larry of low pressure is working its way northward across parts of thailand and some of us are likely to see some very heavy rain out of that now meanwhile across many parts of india it's fine and dry was just well this is for all the small weather feature here is small but rob the powerful is going to give us some heavy rain there over post new delhi sixteen degrees and wet to doesn't feel particularly pleasant for tuesday should be a bit brighter though as we head into wednesday and get to eighteen. there with sponsored by the time. the century you see egypt the sort of manpower of the nile. we are harming any of the nile basin countries they don't mean the most when they give a get their water from rainfall upstream this dominance is being challenged by countries who want to gracious i know some people the nature. unfortunately of this circumstances have changed in changed quite a. struggle over the nile at this time on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour a three day u.s. government shutdowns about to end after politicians possibile extending federal funding until february eighth democrats agreed to the temporary measure after getting assurances from the republicans about a vote on immigration in the coming weeks. turkey's army says one of its soldiers has been killed as its troops and syrian rebel allies close in on kurdish forces president shows up tie up out of un says the operation to secure the border will be successful. the opening date for the u.s. embassy moving from tel aviv to jerusalem has been brought forward to the end of

twenty nineteen u.s. vice president mike pence made the announcement in the knesset but he was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians andrew symonds has the reaction to pence's visit from bethlehem. there may be some expression of mood here as mike pence is hosted by the israelis less than five kilometers from the other side of the separation wall but right across the occupied west bank the anger is subdued this is the same district that all too frequently sees confrontation between protesters and israeli forces in a rehabilitation hospital a short distance away lies a teenager who has nothing to do with the protests but just in the wrong place at the wrong time just over a fortnight ago. i am wrong about that wrong with us and all i wanted to do was go to school to take an exam and i was shot says has son miss her who is paralyzed

from the waist down he says he was about to get on a school bus and shooting broke out as israeli forces on a raid withdrew they'd met resistance some distance away from where he stood he's depressed and doesn't want to talk about mike pence and he says protesting against the visit won't have any effect right now the biggest activity in major square is taking down the christmas decorations pen's had wanted to make this a focal point of his visit before it was boycotted by the palestinians he wanted to spread a message calling for more protection and more recognition for christians right across the middle east. most christian leaders say pents wouldn't be welcome here this lutheran pastor is one of several clergy investigating the church to which parents belongs he calls him a christian zionist these are groups that read the bible in a way that actually. you know instead of focusing on liberation they focus on

occupation they are interested in out of my get done. in wards back at the hospital house on mr is with one of his relatives every day of the week. with this is what the us wants to partition the region and terrorize our people what's happening with pence addressing the israeli knesset is nothing new. the war here has one window looking out on occupied land and an illegal israeli settlement just behind it out of sight is jerusalem for palestinians it now seems further away than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera bethlehem in the occupied west bank. the un is putting pressure on the united arab emirates over alleged human rights violations it's being accused of arbitrary detentions and torture as well as suppressing freedom of expression the u.a.e. insists it is taking action but some activists remain unconvinced that in baba has

more 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 have done knows all about the u.s. lebanese business and 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 after 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 where 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've realised 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 two to regular prisons continues as well so there needs to be

a root and branch of all of the 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 amorality culture and in the session itself the minister of state for foreign affairs strongly defended his country's human rights record to 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 lady barbara al-jazeera at the u.n. in geneva. in yemen at least seven people have been killed after an airstrike hit a building which doubles as a home and a medical center five others were injured in the attack in the northern province of sada it's believed the airstrikes were carried out by the saudi led coalition. bangladesh has delayed plans to repatriate hundreds of thousands of ranger refugees

who fled violence in me and mine the process was due to begin on tuesday but a list of verifying the details of people to be sent back is still incomplete or than six hundred eighty thousand have crossed the border to bangladesh since the crackdown began last august charles stratford has more. foreigners and his wife should jeter it doesn't matter whether the stance of the myanmar bangladeshi government's repatriation plan has been delayed they say they would not have agreed to return to myanmar anyway and. if we do here at least we get a feel if we are killed a member there is no federal data just burnt. we must be recognised as a hinge we want to houses rebuilt and freedom of movement if they kill us and meanwhile they just burn the bodies that even three children into the fire some as young as my son thought about thought about us about. buying the day says the list

is compiled of the names of more than a million refugees has not yet been submitted to the myanmar government. plan would then involve verifying the names of each refused on that list before giving it back to bangladesh all sorts heels who will then ask refugees if they want to return the religion of their citizenship withdrawn in what was then burma thirty five years ago the myanmar government considers them illegal immigrants. aid agencies say me and more soldiers and armed gangs killed thousands of men women and children in recent months a situation described by the un as ethnic cleansing the me a mark of them and has denied the claim and any independent investigation and says temporary shelters are ready for the refugees it allows to return the idea of asking range of refugees many of whom have seen their family members killed and their homes destroyed if they want to voluntarily return to me and ma now has been

described by aid agencies and rights groups as a farce the united nations says the basic conditions which made the ranger so vulnerable to decades of persecution and violence inside myanmar remain the same the united nations refugee agency says three things are vital in any future repatriation process and the first thing is they need to see the citizenship issue legal status resolved in myanmar the critical issue and the second thing is they need to be able to go back in conditions that are safe and secure number three they need to be able to go back to a home to a village that is going to reconstruct in a place to live the bangladesh government says it's vital any repatriation process is voluntary and safe but western governments say the range of security cannot be guaranteed and the u.n. special report on human rights banned from entering myanmar says those responsible

for the killing and destruction must be called to account until fire says his father was hacked to death by a gang of men as he tried to flee their village he doubts anyone will ever be punished for that chance strafford al jazeera couponing refused camp bangladesh. mexico has recorded its highest homicide rate in decades with just over twenty nine thousand murders last year that's a twenty seven percent increase from twenty sixteen mexico's murder rate is also expected to be higher than official statistics that's because the tally is based on the number of murder investigations and not the number of actual victims john homan reports 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 emerge 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 will then after a lot of 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 election year in mexico and so by june this is going to turn into someone else's problem and with over a decade of intense violence in the country it really has turned into a bit of

a poison chalice former world football stars george weah has been sworn in as the twenty fourth president of liberia he's taking over the country when we catch occasion poor health services and a struggling economy but he has promised to improve the lives of all liberians and i did a support someone rovio. 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 medway for the new presidency in his inaugural address we had knowledge the enormity of the responsibility of his new office asking liberians to hold him to account was was it was i was the was.

also asked his countrymen and women to do their part. the mood is electric but already some of the strong support bees mainly the unskilled and employed beginning to sound impatient and want to see the results that most people have been yet to create more jobs create jobs what are you job as you. create. more value that you. 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 good what he doesn't doesn't read sixty years may and may 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 it is a period when he needs to be decisive because because that we have been branded as

inexperienced he needs to put his best foot forward he needs a stroll 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 share in the joy that we're it was long going to come of many will be watching closely now to see if you can replicate the success of the soccer pitches of europe as leader and president of this country aren't you chris. morrow via. and this is al jazeera these are the top stories the three day u.s. government shutdown is about to end after politicians passed a bill extending federal funding until february the eighth democrats agreed to the temporary measure after getting assurances from the republicans of

a vote on immigration in the coming weeks. all our important work for the american people had to be put on hold while this manufactured crisis was dealt with up we made no substantive progress and i want to end on a serious bipartisan negotiations. to solve issues such as immigration and border security health care defense spending and many other matters so i'm glad we can finally get back to work here the opening date for the u.s. embassy moving from tel aviv to jerusalem has been brought forward to the end of twenty nineteen u.s. vice president mike pence made the announcement in the knesset but it was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians. the european union's reassured the palestinian president that it supports his ambition

to have east jerusalem as the capital of a future state mahmoud abbas has been holding talks with the e.u. foreign policy chief federica murray any he urged the e.u. nations to recognize the state of palestine. turkey's army says one of its soldiers has been killed as its troops in syrian rebel allies close in and kurdish forces president treasure tell you about a month says the operation to secure the border will be successful however the u.s. is urging turkey to show restraint in yemen at least seven people have been killed after an airstrike hit a building used as a home and medical center five others were injured in the attack in the northern province of sada it's believed the strikes were carried out by the saudi led coalition. bangladesh has delayed plans to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the hinge refugees who fled violence in me and the process was due to begin on tuesday but a list verifying the details of people to be sent back is still incomplete the un

has warned that i must go home voluntarily with their safety assured those are the headlines here and al-jazeera the news will continue in about half an hour after inside story by for that. the gap between wish and poise getting wider most of the wells wealth generated last year and enough in the pockets of plenty of that which people billions are struggling simply to survive why can't the well be more it will this is inside story.