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government shutdown comes to an end as president donald trump signs the funding bill. anger in the knesset uproar 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 in. iran from the football pitch to the political playground george weah was sworn in as liberia's new president. has read a u.s. government shutdown has ended after politicians approved a bill to extend federal funding president trump has now signed the bill into law but the immigration dispute at the center of the crisis is still far from resolved democrats agreed to back the bill allowing government funding to continue until

february the eighth in return 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 president donald trump has tweeted that democrats had come to their senses he also said he was open to an immigration deal but only if it was good for the country however deep divisions between the two sides remain high jocasta reports from washington d.c. . kicking the can down the road the phrase used to describe the now familiar practice of the us congress delaying a problem solution for another day the motion is adopted without objection a motion to reconsider is laid on the table on monday the house and senate voted to reopen the federal government until february eighth that buys lawmakers three weeks to agree on a more permanent budget plan this is not a moment of better selves in the back not even close we very much need to heed the

lessons of what just happened here we need to move forward in good faith. but faith between the two parties is lacking particularly on immigration that issue was the source of the shutdown stalemate as democrats demanded protections for so-called dreamers young undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children and republicans refused monday's compromise as a concession from democrats to reopen the government under intense public pressure while accepting a promise from republicans to address immigration later we have not yet protected their create just young dreamers not only should we protect them we should embrace them value with them we should be grateful for the inspiration they are to america all our important work for the american people had to be put on hold while this manufactured crisis was dealt with we made no substantive progress and i want to ask all of serious bipartisan negotiation.

to solve issues such as immigration and border security. health care defense spending and many other matters come tuesday federal offices will reopen hundreds of thousands of government employees will return to their jobs and a sense of normalcy will return to washington after three days of chaos but the difficult job of negotiating a more permanent solution to immigration and to the budget will just be beginning weaving the country wondering whether another stalemate is just around the corner heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington well david good friend is a former stuff secretary to president bill clinton he says the funding crisis is likely to hurt republicans more than democrats i don't think the american people are persuade this is democrats causing

a problem i think rather than the party that has this much political power is this inept at governing the voters we're already starting to see that just recently just today it was revealed in some polling that generic democratic candidates for congress are up twelve percentage points over incumbent republicans in house and senate races that you stagger it just to put it in perspective when newt gingrich in one thousand and four letter republican takeover of congress from the democrats republicans were up plus two points in order to college it's a debit or ten points more in favor ability race going into these midterm elections this year i don't think the republicans didn't say anything abers or less few hours 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 nineteen u.s. vice president mike pence made the announcement in israel but was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians how the faucet 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 it didn't take long to return the favor by a great r. and b. out of the president. 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 determined his longstanding 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 u.s. would back a two state solution if both israelis and palestinians agreed and israel's 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 jewson 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 is earned the fulsome praise of his hosts we have a strong rejection by the palestinian leadership of any u.s. role in the resolution of this conflict. west jerusalem all the palestinian president has been in brussels where the e.u. has reassured him it supports his ambition to have east jerusalem as the capital of

a palestinian state. has been holding talks with the e.u. foreign policy chief federally come on how many and the european foreign ministers here is the european union nations to recognize the state of palestine to hear what the children remark of 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 and 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 the operation to push out the syrian kurdish y p g is intensifying and president obama insists it will succeed the white house has been more cautious and 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 more than 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 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 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 wipe e.g. north of lots of turkey would not have dared to shell 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 roar 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 tj's 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 military 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 muhammad takes a look at the key players in the battle for offering 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 peoples protection units or y p g 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 airstrikes and ground attacks potentially put turkey in conflict with its nato ally and. 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 you are free in and none bridgwater fall turkish backed forces will control a two hundred kilometer continuous threat of serious muslim border was 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 tough position 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 saffir humanitarian consequences. ok let's bring in while washington d.c. he's a senior fellow at the middle east institute and he also served as a top syria adviser to samantha power that was president obama's ambassador to the united nations we appreciate your time thank you very much was this conflict

between turkey and the syrian kurds pretty much always on the cards as the threat from i saw a common enemy started to recede that's an absolutely true and thank you for having me. this is a concern that has been on the minds of particularly u.s. policymakers since a decision was taken to partner with the y.p. ji specifically the syria democratic forces to go against eisel with the knowledge that doing so really put us at odds and potentially a crash course with a nato ally turkey and we are basically at that point with i saw on the verge of defeat in syria more or less defeated in iraq the turks now feel really compelled to move against. the white p.g. to prevent any sold of cation of their positions or cementing their status as an autonomy this entity in their southern flank the turks obviously knew that this was

going to bring them into some sort of tension with the u.s. given as you say the links with the u.s. links with the y. p.g. was that a deliberate intention as part of this conflict how is the how the why p.g. going to respond if a wage is driven between the u.s. and the kurds. you know the why p.g. really is in a very tough spot now because on the one hand they have invested in a relationship with the united states in a way to further their aspirations in syria and as an insurance card visa v. not only the turks but also really the syrian regime and the russians in the sense that they know that u.s. military support and the presence of u.s. military advisers give them a measure of protection against those forces but now clearly the turks have been able to achieve

a certain understanding with the russians at least for freeing and i think that seeing how cook was overrun by iraqi forces with the help of pro iranian militias without the united states being able to really do much to prevent that i think really now the turks feel that they have a free hand and as such the why p.g. is really at a disadvantage at least in the short term though i would say that i wouldn't be surprised if the russians the syrian regime and even iran decide to in some way provide. some kind of support in the eleventh hour to curry favor with the kurds and really you know limit the advances of the turks so this thing is not over and if we've learned anything from the syrian conflict is that they'll be new chapters with allegiances changing thank you very much and do those who are.

that. syria advisor to the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power we appreciate your time thank you very much. plenty more ahead on the news hour including. the. families of one hundred forty three mentally ill patients who died under the botched government policy speak of their anger. and find out how greek scientists have given a new face to ancient history. and in sports. sanchez completes his transfer from man united with. going the other way. 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 two thousand and sixteen is 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 decades in 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 war then after a lot of the number of murders became 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 poisoned chalice pope francis has apologized to sexual abuse victims for comments that he said had wounded many the leader of the catholic church says he regrets his choice of words but he insisted at the weekend that victims of paedophile priests must show proof to be believed he was defending a bishop in chile who denies covering up sexual abuse the pope also said he remains certain that one bought us the chilean bishop in question was innocent and would keep his job. coarseness internal.

how do those of use people feel here i must apologize because that would prove. it had a lot of abuse people but i have to find something certified of this translation of a legal phrase hurt and i apologize if i am willing lee hurt them but it was a wound that i opened without wanting to it's caused me a lot of pain because i've sat down and listened to and spoken with abused victims many times. former world football star george where has been sworn in as the twenty fourth president of liberia he's taking over a country with weak education poor health services and a struggling economy but he has promised to improve the lives of all liberians and i did arrest reports 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 the. first was. one of. the family was it. was. 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 of the most people of the year nice to create more jobs create jobs for you the jobless you. create. more

value to the you know we are we have a. lot of on educated people in this country george weah may not be as political experience with justice 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 was that we have been branded as inexperienced he needs to put his best foot forward he needs a stroll minister of finance that can send a message to the local and international economic players that liberia is capable of doing business. the seventy two a share in the george we're era 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 a former south african health official has apologized for the deaths of one hundred forty three mentally disabled facials that occurred while she was in office the patients died of hunger and neglect after being moved to privately run care facilities more than fifty are still missing and as tanya page reports from johannesburg the families want answers. 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 demands i. could die much longer was the top prevention health official when more than a thousand patients from a facility called life is to do many we're moving into an re just 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 lives were at risk. i want to apologize for the loss of life during the implementation of the project i know that land life loss is too many and i know that those lives you cannot bring them together but for what it's with i sincerely apologize the apology was hard to hear for christine new model for how far it is didn't say with a move to assisted 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 very dark and there was almost no skin as most people. so for me the only question that out but. she had been

a. part of the courses of death of many of the victims point to neglect malnutrition pneumonia and still hydration. south africans had been shot probably on the scale it involves some of the countries close enough honorable citizens who were at the mercy of a government that. 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 where also not forward so we are doing everything to them so that now we follow all the police and protocols. the families say they want raised until those responsible are sent to jail that the deaths of one hundred and forty three people demands nothing less tony have had al-jazeera johannesburg. a german nurse already

serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged over a further ninety seven deaths in two hospitals now as horrible was jailed and twenty fifteen for killing intensive care patients he's admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure so he could try to revive them. 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 ancient athens john psaropoulos reports she died aged between fifteen and nineteen years old but her hard worn looks suggest someone twice that age her height of a little more than one and a half meters 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 at the athens university orthodontist who led

a team of scientists studying her says there is no sign of a violent death in their practice most don't use 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 has 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 thickest. 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. because i want to get this whole year 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 pitted livestock but the missile looked like period was a paradise compared to what came before and after the climate when 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 napoleon by yet the caves population grew with agriculture as many as thirty four people lived in it at the height of its occupation by the sea says digging that 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 still ahead and al jazeera the u.s. says it is stepping up security screening on cargo planes from six middle eastern

airlines. while the business leaders descend upon the swiss resort town of dumb ass but will the summit come up with a solution to global inequality. and in sports six china's truly an open champion no joke of it has been knocked out. from cool briskness and fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. 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 in 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 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 there as we head into wednesday and get to eighteen. there with sponsored by the time. the controversial leader of islamic jihad

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you are going to see a reminder of our top stories this hour a three day government shutdowns ended up to president donald trump signed a funding bill politicians pass the bill extending federal funding until february the eighth democrats have agreed to the temporary measure mobs are 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 troops in this syrian rebel allies are closing in on kurdish forces president one says the operation to secure the border will be successful that the u.s. is urging turkey to show restraint. 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 israel but was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians in parliament while politicians and palestinians have boycotted pence's visit to the region. has the reaction 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 now at the line with us and all i wanted to do was go to

school to take an exam and i was shot says has a 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 who calls him a christian zionist group that read the bible in a way that actually. you know instead of focusing on liberation they focus on occupation they are interested in my get done. in wards back at the hospital house and mr is with one of his relatives every day of the week. 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 border here has one window looking out on occupied land and 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 ok let's speak to craig fehrman in bloomington indiana via skype he's a freelance writer who's been covering my pens since his campaign for governor of

indiana in two thousand and twelve thank you very much for being with us mike pence has said that his belief as an evangelical christian framed as his position on israel and clearly that's becoming a focus in this visit to the middle east before we talk about that specifically can you give us some idea of what the core beliefs are of evangelical christians for our international audience. sure well it's a complicated term but to simplify it i would say that these are protestant christians their main beliefs are that the bible is literally and in error and in errantly true and also that salvation can only come through jesus and those beliefs combine to make their very personal in their lives their someone their people who every where they turn in their lives they see jesus as a presence there and they try to honor and live up to his ideas so if those ideas are everywhere in their lives of course that means they'll be in their politics as well and for that reason evangelical is as much a political as a religious term in america today and therefore why does that fit into the time for

the ministration why was mike paying this such a good choice as a running mate well a republican can't win unless he or she can can marshal the evangelical vote and obviously trumps biography and any attempts he makes to talk about religion don't come through very very clearly but somebody like mike pence is really the perfect spokesman and the perfect endorser for the evangelical movement he's not somebody tries to court the evangelicals he himself is an evangelical and that he says he trumps ok even though most politicians of course a pragmatist particularly when it comes to votes and sometimes pragmatism and religious beliefs don't follow done the same path do you think that there's going to come a point where it's going to be hard for mike pence in the trunk administration to appease the evangelical base in the face of real day to day politics. well there definitely will be trade offs and choices but i think one of the

surprising things in america is that you banjo locals themselves are very pragmatic i mean you just have to look at their support of trump somebody who been accused of multiple affairs somebody who doesn't live the kind of life and evangelical tries to live but evangelicals pragmatically are ok with that because they're getting things like the kind of judges appointed that they want and other decisions that line up with their beliefs so that time may come but it's not going to come at the end of a little sort of most pragmatic people and equation one of the reasons that mike pence is in the middle east is to try and reassure countries there that the u.s. can still be an honest broker when it comes to the middle east how easy will that be for the u.s. to do given the fact that its personnel have quite clearly named nailed their colors to the mast and have already specified what side that they're on sure it's especially for somebody like pence i think it's going to be difficult to appear as any kind of fair broker when he was in congress early on when he was

a lot more open than he is now it's vice president he said quote my support for israel stems largely from my personal faith and quote so he was somebody in congress who would quote verses from genesis and use them to justify american foreign policy that's what i talked about when i said that evangelicals have a very personal relationship with christ and see that in their everyday lives and uses the literal meanings of the bible to justify foreign policy and that obviously puts him on a certain side based world really interesting to get your views on this craig fehrman thank you very much indeed for being on to zero our pleasure. in yemen at least seven people have been killed after an airstrike hit a building which doubled as a home and a medical center five others were injured in the attack in the northern province of saddam it's believed the airstrikes were carried out by the saudi led coalition. the first batch of supplies is since riyadh's aid announcements to warhead to yemen have arrived in madiba a saudi air force plane with humanitarian supplies landed in the northern province

the coalition has promised to open land sea and air access to ensure delivery ria and says its operations will increase imports from one point one million metric tons per month in twenty seventeen to one point four million metric tons per month this year the conflict and the blockade has left millions of people without food and clean water doctors say hospitals are running out of supplies as they struggle to combat outbreaks of diptheria and cholera as well as man nutrition or the economy reports. it's been a tough start in life nine months old mariam has only known hunger so far her parents too poor to pay for food and humanitarian aid unable to reach the area because of the conflict now she suffers from severe and acute malnutrition just four kilograms mariam weighs less than half the average for a child of her age. we couldn't get to the clinic before because we didn't have

money for the journey says her grandfather like many others in the waiting room the family fled nearby towns with people live on the boat and strikes by the saudi led coalition and artillery fire by duhoux thiis to reach this clinic they had to take mountain roads in the v.a. dominie armed groups that roam around yemen at very trying experience for these him a seated little bodies. since the start of the war in two thousand and fifteen half of the health facilities of yemen have shut down and during that same time an estimated three million children were born out of those three million two million of them have been born out of hospital and the majority of them they have been born or thought without the support of the skin. that. increases the risk of sanctions for the children and a magician would be one of the meijer this is now. one point eight million children

and others in the country and out of almost four hundred thousand such severe acute malnutrition an estimated twenty five thousand children a year are dying at birth or shortly after many of those who survive are barely hanging on to life. by then my or for that no matter what we do once they leave they will get sick again because they're not taking enough item and any bacteria any disease will get to them there's no income no way for the parent to feed their children let alone getting medicine. yemen relies on its ports for food fuel and medical supplies under international pressure the saudi led coalition ease the blockade last month allowing goods to enter the ports for thirty days now as the u.n. and humanitarian organizations are calling for access around the country and for ports to remain open the program is that if we continue to be.

in a situation where the food cannot enter the country or fuel the country then we are going to. all the outbreaks this year or me. of the last year outbreak the conflict in yemen is fragmented and polarized hopes of a political solution remain elusive. but if and when this happens to true my yemeni children are going through will stay with them well beyond the end of hostilities but at the. united states is going to increase security screening on cargo planes from six middle eastern airlines arriving at u.s. airports the transportation security administration says the enhanced cargo screening program is part of an effort to raise global aviation security emergency amendment covers egypt air royal jordanian saudia qatar airways emirates and to hand jack thomas thomas to moscow is a former deputy undersecretary at the u.s.

department of homeland security he thinks the move is in line with the rest of the aviation world so i really think we have here is an attempt by the transportation security administration simply to kind of button up security and make things a little bit more a little tighter now for things coming in regarding things in the past we have had instances in the past of cargo coming in that could be utilized for bomb making we've had some ins situations in the past with a q a p in the arabian peninsula attempting to smuggle explosive devices in computer printing cartridges so we have had some examples of that in the past but i don't think that we see anything here that's possibly triggered an emergency action by the t.s.a. there's going to be some cost involved certainly there's going to be some more mad hours involved certainly but these these procedures are not designed to be

extremely prohibitive were extremely. difficult for the airlines that they understand g.s.a. understands 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 some precedent it's being done in other places around the world voluntarily. politicians and business leaders from across the globe are gathering in the swiss alps for the annual world economic forum but the center of this year's summit is the debate surrounding global inequality and the growing gap between rich and poor u.s. president donald trump's attendance has raised eyebrows as his agenda runs contrary to the pro globalization approach of the event on a whole reports from davos the rising economies of asia new leadership in africa nationalism versus internationalist values donald j. trump versus much of the world this year's world economic forum annual meeting in

the swiss ski resort of doubles offers as wider perspective on the global economy as any in recent years some things don't change the fall in snow. the delegates shuffling through it c e o's n.g.o.s include says and disruptors including seventy heads of state and government the security bristles snipers soldiers and checkpoints at a time of heightened threat. special attention this year is reserved for donald trump whose closing address on friday is the meetings most and to subpoena to moment i protests have already taken place by. trump is the first u.s. president to visit down most in eighteen years and one who stands apparently opposed to the devil's ethos of globalism with his america first policy of economic nationalism i think we should be surprised i was always plays

where we look for surprises and i hope it would be a positive surprise for your expect him to be rather more can fill it's can conciliatory robert. has his feisty self i six or facts he is coming to davos is already a message in itself trumps inauguration that so dominated as the snow fell on davos last year feels like a long time ago now an upswing in the global economy has lifted the mood of many but they'll be asking themselves here is it sustainable n.g.o.s will again warn that global growth can only go up if inequality comes down the world's eight richest people they say hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest four billion this year's meeting with c.e.o.'s to be improve their companies contribution to society that's the sort of focus down horse isn't best known for. al-jazeera

devils. court in michigan continues to hear victim statements against the former u.s. gymnastics team doctor laurie nasa now charged with sexually abusing young female athletes several dozen victims gave their testimony during the fifth day of the doctor's sentencing hearing naso faces up to one hundred and twenty five years in jail after admitting sexually abusing women and girls and his care still ahead on al-jazeera one a norwegian athlete skis her way to gold after an injury layoff it is good to have all the details in sport.

and it's time for the sport here's peter. thank you very much manchester united's number seven shirt made famous by eric cantona david beckham and christiane a rebel the will now be worn by alexis sanchez the strike a complete city's move from arsenal on monday centuries swapped places with his fellow twenty nine year old henrik italian the chilean spent three and a half years at arsenal and has also won the cup america with chile twice he could make his debut on friday in the f.a. cup fourth round when united travel to yeovil town. as mentioned make italian as part of that swap deal the armenian joined united in twenty sixteen but he said to fill them out with manager josie marino he'll be hoping to revive his career now at aussie i'm. very happy. we could finish this deal and i'm very happy to be

here it's around come true because i've been always going to play for arsenal and now i'm here i'll do my best for this club to quit story six times australian open champion novak chalk a bitch will not get the chance to play for a seventh title in melbourne the former world number one was knocked out of the tournament in a shock defeat on monday tatyana sanchez reports. no fact jack of it was playing in his fast tournament in six months after a time out with an injury i. the saddest run in the australian open came to an end when he was overwhelmed by twenty one year old unseeded here on chung i beating the twelve time grand slam champion in three sets becoming the fast korean to reach a grand slam quarterfinal. i'm just happy to know about.

just to see him again on the tour. i'm just like my dreams come true dominick team fails to reach the quarter finals as well he joins joke of it the number fifteen was knocked out by american tennis who'd never previously want to think grand slam was def we had a. real pinch me moment like. wow this is really hopefully. i'm going to be really upset. but it was better news for the defending champion roger federer the thirty six year old has reached the porch a final stage thank you martin fisher of it six four seven six and six two maintaining his impressive record of not dropping a single set at melbourne during this entire tournament thank you thomas

burgess next year i'm looking forward to playing against him he seems in good shape and i'm happy he's over his back issues that he also had at the end of last year so that's a good thing women's wild number one simona halep is still looking for her first grand slam title the romanian showed little fine of tiredness and she took to the court against my backpack she battled for almost four hours in the third round to get to the point i was going to go through this much a little more easily than winning in straight sets victory and sixteen. and us open finalist madison keys advance to the last eight with a straight sets victory over eighth seed carling go see a show play form australian and u.s. open champion angelica other for a place in the standings cupboard the only grand slam singles when i left in the tournament the town of al-jazeera. russian athletes who were given a lifetime ban from the olympics have a final chance to have this suspensions overturned in time for the winter games in

pyongyang chang thirty nine of the forty three disqualified for doping at the saucy games have begun appealing at the court of arbitration for sport the decision is due at the end of the month just nine days before the start of the olympics the i.o.c. has banned russia from these games over allegations of a systematic doping program but those who prove they are clean will be able to compete as neutrals and the russian issue has overshadowed the upcoming olympics but last week's announcement of a joint north and south korean women's hockey team was seen as a big step towards peace between the hosts and the neighbors still not everyone is happy with the arrangement south korea's coach suggested it's something of a compromise is a tough situation as are our team be used for political reasons but you know it's kind of something that's bigger than ourselves right now and and we're dealing with it it's best we can and we know that we have no control so you know why stress about it why worry about it and even like we even talk to our players like don't

complain about it because it's just negative energy it's going to make you feel worse it's going to make you play worse so just focus on what you can control and we're going to do our best norway's tural shasta christenson has bounced back from injury to claim the final world cup slopestyle event before the twenty eight hundred winter games begin in south korea christiansen had spent a whole year out of action with a knee injury but that's has come back to win a gold medal at the mammoth mountain in the united states is looking strong ahead of the games next month finishing this event ahead of sweden's world cup leader jamie lee burman son who entered the event with a one hundred seventy nine point advantage as well as home favorite caroline clay. the new england patriots will play the for the delfi eagles in this year's super bowl in minneapolis minnesota the patriots have now reached eight super bowls since two thousand and one under the leadership of owner robert kraft coach bill belichick and quarterback tom brady earlier i spoke to n.f.l.

broadcaster michael colson says the patriots' impressive run under the street you cannot go on forever kraft is seventy six i believe bill's sixty five and brady's forty and forty is is old for a quarterback not many quarterbacks continue to play effectively at that age so you wonder how many more they have how many more they have left they'll probably continue on until they get tired of winning and there was of course a huge conspiracy theory around that the theory was the owner had forced bill belichick to get rid of tom brady's backup quarterback to make up a low whose contract was about to expire they weren't going to be able to resign him and so the theory is that belichick wanted to dump brady i find a little hard to believe that you dump the most successful quarterback of all time while he's still playing well they were celebrations across the city of

philadelphia as the eagles secured their super bowl spot against the patriots they beat the minnesota vikings thirty eight seven in the n.f.c. championship game the eagles have twice played in the super bowl most recently in two thousand and five but they've never won it and that's all the sport will have another update for you again later funny but to voters here with all the latest on these stories in a couple of minutes on world matheson thanks for being with. and

monday put it on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the war. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on

al-jazeera. ahead of the new book the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives such info sanctuary to people in power at this time on al-jazeera. the u.s. government shutdown comes to an end as president donald trump signs the funding bill.