when the news breaks members of the knesset israel's parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds corruptly did just the president say in the whole country there is no other way and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on and on line. the u.s. government shutdown comes to an end as president donald trump signs the funding bill. no i'm fully back to watching algis the air i live from doha also coming up anger

in these really hanumant 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 friend and civilians in the crossfire as violence flares between rivals india and pakistan in the disputed kashmir region. a three day u.s. government shutdown has ended after politicians approved a bill to extend federal funding president donald trump has now signed it into law but the immigration dispute at the center of the crisis as saw from resolved the bill is only a stopgap measure allowing government funding to continue until february eighth democrats agree to support. it after republicans pleasure will be

a vote in the coming weeks on the status of undocumented migrants brought to the u.s. as children also known as dream as president donald trump twit to took to twitter claiming it as a big win for the republicans in saying democrats had come to their senses but deep divisions between the two sides remain how it is a cost to reports from washington 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 the brewery eighth that buys lawmakers three weeks to agree on a more permanent budget plan this is not a moment to better ourselves 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. we made no funding to progress and i want to have all of syria's bipartisan negotiation.

this fall. 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 and another stalemate is just around the corner heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington david good friend is a former staff secretary to president bill clinton he says the funding crisis is likely to hurt republicans more than the democrats i don't think the american people are persuaded that 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 is staggered it just to put it in perspective when newt gingrich in one thousand nine hundred four letter republican takeover of congress from the democrats republicans wrote plus two points in order to college it so the democrats are ten points more in favor ability raised going into these midterm elections this year i don't think the republicans didn't say anything leaders are 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 high fossett reports.

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 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 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 i 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 once 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 and israel on one side and the palestinian leadership on

the other and our 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 and they have a stronger rejection by the palestinian leadership of any u.s. role in the resolution of this conflict that al-jazeera western. meanwhile the palestinian president has been in brussels where the e.u. has reassured him it supports his ambition to east jerusalem as the capital of the future palestinian state mahmoud abbas has been holding talks with the e.u.

foreign policy chief enrique morgan rini and european foreign ministers he urged european union nations to recognize the state of palestine to hear what. 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. another world news turkish troops and their syrian rebel closing in on kurdish forces in their fight to secure the border area the operation to push out the syrian kurdish why b.g. is intensifying and president bush insists it will succeed the white house has been more cautious and says turkey must exercise restraint stephanie decker reports on 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 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 mean 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 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 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 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 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. still ahead on al-jazeera the u.n. puts pressure on the united arab emirates over alleged rights violations and the ninth valves in your old greek woman scientists reconstruct a face from ancient history.

hello there we've got some fairly severe weather making its way across turkey at the moment it's all out of this weather system here it's giving us a very heavy downpour some strong winds as well as it works its way eastwards it telling increasingly wintery there for the south where we're mostly seeing rain rather than snow it's still going to be fairly unsettled as we head through choose day and into wednesday still some showers around and some of them could turn out to be rather heavy it's also going to turn a lot cooler than it has been recently as well meanwhile a bit further towards the south and here in doha it's also a little bit fresh at twenty two degrees so maximum temperature on choose day however we are seeing more cloud drift its way southward the cloud is fizzling out but it's changing the wind direction so on wednesday will get a little bit warmer we'll get to twenty five this time instead russia going to match the temperatures they were expecting insula down to the southern parts of africa there's been some heavy rain here recently but that's all trying to move

away now so forth that should be more in the way of dry weather a little bit of cloud there coming or going in capetown so twenty two degrees will be our maximum temperature and hovering around that as we head through into wednesday as well elsewhere you can see the showers there stretching from angola all the way towards the east working their way across into madagascar and some of the showers over the northern parts of mozambique a heavy. counting the cost why the jury's still out on trump and all makes despite wall street still alive we delve into china's better than expected growth story and count the cost of negative brand publicists. counting the cost of this time on al-jazeera. how many. of you. could. class live.

welcome back a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president is claiming a big win for republicans after congress approved a bill ending at three day government shutdown the temporary measure extends funding until february eighth democrats agreed to the compromise after republican speech to hold our vote on immigration in the coming weeks turkey's ami says one of its soldiers has been killed as its troops and the syrian rebel eyes close in on kurdish forces president says the operation to secure the border will be successful but the u.s. is urging turkey to show restraint and the date for the u.s.

embassies move 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 israeli parliament but let's briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politician. at least thirteen to among the twenty two people killed in almost a week of cross border violence in the disputed kashmir region it's a flare up in tensions that have been simmering for years as marianne a hard report is threatening a fragile cease fire trickling back to assist the ruins of their homes these are some of the thousands of people who fled almost a week of cross border violence between rivals pakistan and india the villages live in indian administered kashmir christian lounge says he's returning to a home that no longer feel safe be it on the good money that are the lot of us i don't feel like coming here it's frightening look at the losses the whole village

is home to nobody feels like coming back to a village kashmir has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven and remains hotly disputed territory india and pakistan regularly trade fire across the so-called line of control the defect or border separating the parts of kashmir held by both countries but these latest hostilities extend even further the self taking place on the border between pakistan and indian administered kashmir. the competing claims have fueled two wars between the nuclear nations and behind more than eight hundred cross border incidents in two thousand and seventeen alone. in late two thousand and sixteen there was cross border fire from both sides after india said it had carried out strikes on suspected fighters allegedly moving from pakistan administered kashmir into parts of kashmir under india's control something purkis down denied it followed an attack on an indian

army base in new jersey that left eight hundred soldiers did some an indian administered kashmir hoping bunkers will protect them when the next shells fall. regards the line of control is only about fifty or sixty metres away from where we are standing a number of community bunkers have been installed here and we believe the government to build even more. many here say the region hasn't felt safe e.u. is officials have closed some schools and diffidently impacting a new generation that's only ever known the hostilities still ities that threesome the fragile ceasefire forged around fifteen years ago and the well being of people on both sides of the border maybe on the hand al-jazeera. the conflict in yemen and if located by the sounding led military coalition has left millions of people without food and clean water doctors say hospitals are running out of

supplies as they struggle to contain outbreaks of diphtheria and cholera as well as manner attrition. has our report. it's been a tough start to life nine month 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 acute malnutrition a just four kilograms marian 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 towers with people live on the boat airstrikes by the saudi led coalition and artillery fire by the who thiis to reach this clinic they had to take mountain roads in the v.a. the many armed groups that roam around yemen a 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 in the majority of them they have been born on this. earth. that. increases the risk of sanctions for the children and a magician would be one of the meijer this is now children one point eight million children and others in the country and out of almost four hundred thousand suffer 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. so for them i offer that no matter what we do once they leave they will get sick again because they're not taking enough vitamins 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 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. the country then we are going to. all the outbreaks this year or me. of the last year. the conflict in yemen is fragmented and polarized hopes of a political solution remain elusive but if and when this happens the trauma yemeni

children are going through will stay with them well beyond the end of hostilities for the army. the united nations is blaming inaction and leadership failures for the shop rise in the number of its peacekeepers being killed at least fifty six of them died last year the highest tally since one thousand nine hundred ninety four a new report warns there iconic blue helmets and un flags no longer offer them protection and it says peacekeepers must be allowed to use force when necessary there are more than one hundred thousand u.n. peacekeepers worldwide. 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 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 not done 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 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 but when it came to that 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'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 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 to the barber al jazeera at the u.n. in geneva a german no so ready serving a life sentence for two murders has been charged over for the ninety seven deaths in two hospitals neons toggle was jailed in twenty fifteen for killing intensive care patients his admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure so he could try to revive them. three members of the u.s. top gymnastics board have resigned amid an ongoing sex abuse scandal involving

a team doctor and young female athletes a court case in michigan is currently hearing the victim's statements against larry nasser he's facing a prison sentence after admitting sexually abusing girls in his care in or more than one hundred women and girls with forty that nassar assaulted them. mexico has recorded its highest homicide rate in decades with more than twenty five thousand murders this past year that's a twenty three percent increase from the previous year but the actual murder rate is expected to be higher than official statistics john heilemann has the latest 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 the leaders others usually emerged 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 currying on doing what the previous administration had done those continue 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. an erupting volcano has showered rocks on a japanese ski resort injuring more than a dozen people two of them seriously this was

a moment debris fell on the ski fields near the town of course not so four people were caught in an avalanche one of them is still missing scientists in greece have reconstructed the face of a woman who lived nine thousand years ago she's named don and offers a glimpse into life in ancient athens johnson apis has the story 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 of the athens university orthodontist who led a team of scientists studying her says there is no sign of a violent death in the practice was born 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 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 focused. dawn was so named because she lived at the dawn of modern civilization around one 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 were 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 it easily and did a bit of agriculture later on people had to found more intensively because the population was growing. the caves population grew with agriculture as many as thirty four people lived in it at the height of its occupation but easy says digging the she understood why they preferred it it was cool in summer and warm in winter an effect constructed housing has really been able to reproduce jumps at opal us al-jazeera athens. hello again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. president is claiming a big win for republicans after congress approved a veil anding

a three day government shutdown the temporary measure extends funding until february eighth democrats agreed to the compromise after republicans fights to hold 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. we made no substantive progress and i want to ask. all of through negotiation. fall issues roshan and border security health care defense spending and many other mothers so i'm glad we're going to 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 israeli parliament but was briefly interrupted by protesting israeli palestinian politicians. turkey's army says one of its soldiers has been killed as its troops and syrian rebels are lies

close in on kurdish forces present or ship type bedouin says the operation to secure the border will be successful but the u.s. has urged turkey to exercise caution the united nations is blaming inaction and leadership failures for the shop rise in the number of its peacekeepers being killed at least fifty six of them died last year the highest since one thousand nine hundred ninety four a new report warns there iconic blue helmets and un flags no longer offer them protection three members of the u.s. top gymnastics sport have resigned amid an ongoing sex abuse scandal involving a team doctor and young female athletes larry nasr is facing a prison sentence after admitting sexually abusing girls in his care in all more than one hundred women and girls are reported to have been assaulted by nasa and in japan more than a dozen skiers have been injured and one is missing after they were caught in

a volcanic eruption rocks rained down on the ski fields near the resort town of four people were caught in the avalanche and those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after counting the cost. the controversial leader of islamic jihad papa scott he is one of the most one internists in the history of israel you come to terms on his alleged extra judicial killings by israeli intelligence and mossad assessing being caught up in the must close the outcome is only death if someone tried to. immediately syrian intention was shut down the borders don't kill him in damascus on al-jazeera world.