part of genesis the listening post provides a critical counterpoint to trying to bring mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you want. us politicians agree on a stopgap funding bill to end the government shutdown. and

welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth for autumn also ahead. four hundred thousand children among millions on the brink of starvation because of conflict in the democratic republic of congo's. iraq and the israeli parliament where the u.s. vice president has reasserted america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. and a story of pace from a country at war going to get serious first ever could attend. a three day u.s. government shutdown has ended all to politicians approve legislation to release federal funding but the immigration dispute at the said to of the crisis is far from resolved which is why the new dollars already is. stopgap measure allowing

government funding to continue until the eighth of february or democrats agree to support it after republicans pledge there will be a vote in the coming weeks on the status of undocumented migrants brought to the u.s. as children learn his dream is to took to twitter to say that this has been a big one for his party and democrats have caved and come to their senses he says he's open to an immigration deal but only if it's good for the country castro reports now from washington d.c. . kicking the can down the road the phrase used to describe the now familiar practice of the us congress delaying the 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 worry 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 protect their courageous young dreamers not only should we protect them we should embrace them value them we should be grateful for the inspiration they are to america all our important work for the american people to report all wallace manufactured crisis was dealt. we made no substantive progress

and i want to. on the serious bipartisan negotiation. to solve issues such as immigration and border security health care or 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 here's how some of the dreamer undocumented migrants are reacting to the shutdown deal. like no outreach i'd wager on various by what's going on because they have shown us that they do not care

about us all the things that. are going on shows how much that they hate us but i don't understand why they hate us we're here working hard to no taxes trying to get a better education or training our crew may be better yet they do not they don't care they don't care that we're out here. not knowing what's going to happen next is just another form or another form of betrayal i've lived my life oh my entire life in this country i pledge allegiance to its flag and so for them to say that they're not willing to protect us it's a betrayal. moving on to other news the turkeys campaign to push kurdish wifey g. forces out of northern syria as being slowed down by bad weather turkey has risen the offensive enough for him to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border stephanie decker has more from the turkish syrian 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 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 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 y. p.g. . 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 africa and 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 jews 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 al-jazeera on the turkey syria border. to the democratic republic of congo now where aid workers of one of mass starvation because of conflict they say three million people in the castle region don't have enough to eat and four hundred thousand children are fighting between the army and rebels has meant farmers have been unable to plant crops for several years as catherine sawyer reports. was.

a year old couple go to his mother more backa and three siblings spent two months on the route from their village to a scythe capital kananga with little to eat they had fled the fighting between government forces and the combine and supper which was adding to communal conflict that already existed it's been a month since their arrived and both mother and son still have symptoms of malnutrition. it was very hard walking so long with my children at some point i couldn't walk at all if it wasn't for the help of the people we were with in the forest i would have died. at another nutrition center mothers bring their children to get weighed and for food and medicine she did tom was distended belly discolored hand and left their chicks data all these signs that he needs assistance humanitarian agencies say about four hundred thousand children in this region are malnourished and more than three million people are facing starvation because they

have been unable to plant crops for three seasons it's quite difficult to see they're still on the crisis in class five because most of the affected are in five villages that are hard to access people who had fled to the forest but are now coming back home and those who are still displaced. much help let's not forget this has been a protection crisis and right now when the conflict has. been dispersed in certain areas we start to see in very difficult cases of children that have seen a lot of atrocities committed on their on their farms we've seen children that have to witness how their parents were killing her mother people here are now receiving some made but in this area last year dozens of people were killed the catholic church put in the figure for the antiochus a region since the conflict began at around three thousand both rebels and government forces accused of the killings and. i do not want to go back to my home

village my house is destroyed my children were killed how could i return. at the center. we're told she is going to be all right he'll get all the medical the any help needs to be consigned is that many other children would be so fortunate because aid agencies don't have enough resources to go around catherine dizzier central in the democratic republic of congo for we are going to get more on this now we're joined by. is unicef acting representative of the democratic republic of congo joining us live via skype from can charge a very good to have you with us on al-jazeera thank you for your time we know that it was already a bad situation for children in the car side of region tell us about what you're hearing about the conditions for people there. thank you very long.

giving us the opportunity. because i was actually. a problem. we know was that more going born in change children in the regime day before you display years due to officials disease. and also due to chronic malnutrition so you can imagine what is done which as you praise the community it. would be a good culture of. destruction so if one of. us where there was you know you greet. it certainly sounds like the maids a very quick way to a mention of the number of people who are affected so what does unicef and other aid organizations are doing to help those in need and do they have the resources they mean. that we can step from partners are we done before front of responding to this problem even prior to the crisis for example in two thousand and seventeen last year together we talk now as we reach two hundred

thousand children including about fifty thousand and that's a region we treat mental model picture what to govern one small partnership we want to get out with the government we do not have. to launch a commonality what now at the outset and address model to should on long since children and this is now what we are spending not just keep for two thousand and eighteen for example we had ten fifteen one point two million children including a four hundred thousand children today and spoke about caylee and i was struck eighteen my very simple expects. one that he used to teach children while mom never thought we want to expound the mornington of the situation among small does that children and beyond their capacity get caught need to do that which you are great bargain we also intend to provide or to i mean why does it all worry tony gives wilhelm dam to me get to the you know it would you buy food for your children and yeah i'll still and last used to when i walked out i

didn't yell because we know that you christian get what gravity is in hell it is pretty cut to all sorts of stuff that just took resources. mr with thank you very much for your time and giving us the this information unfortunately we don't have a great scott connection with you. but i think we do understand more about the work that the open eyes ation is doing at this time and the d.s.a. thank you very much for your time. while a look at the weather back to ben the search for answers in afghanistan after a hotel siege that killed eighteen people. i have to will tell you those affected as the u.s. slaps small screening voles on airlines. from the clear blue sky of the doha. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city

of. hello probably the biggest news in europe has been the amount of snow that's fall on the alps recently well the clouds just clearing so it's almost over but of course it hasn't left us alone typically avalanche risk is that is the worry for the next several days possibly a week or so this is so much snow on top now and i think tempers were raw is that you'll see this sort of thing that's just a small long but they're so easily triggered they course will be deliberately triggered as soon as possible and to be honest with the skies clear and have just slowly rising no less dangerous but it does least you can fly drop explosives into the snow and set off the avalanches and i will be then because look there's nothing then after that single figures the code is tested in eastern europe really cold and ukraine is minus seven in kiev but double figures in the british isles and in france incoming atlantic weather means rain i think for wednesday fourteen degrees

in london and twelve in madrid on but a live news iraq so yeah it's warming up again. so much of the action is in eastern europe that's been shown really broad develops in east and south of the mediterranean and north westerly breeze if you shot it in northern egypt the eastern side of libya that might well continue keeping temps at sixteen in benghazi reza sun's out in a cheese. the way sponsored. the scene for us there on line. and in yemen that. number not because the situation is. or if you join us on sat. this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who. joined the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

so to have you with us on al-jazeera these are all top stories u.s. politicians have agreed on a compromise that ended a three day government shutdown president trump held the stop gap as a big one for his party about the immigration at the heart of the crisis has yet to be resolved turkey's campaign to push kurdish forces out of northern serbia has been slowed down by bad weather and the offensive in a plane is now in its food stay turkey wants to create a thirty kilometer buffer zone to protect its border and three million people in the democratic republic of congo are on the brink of starvation between the army

and rebels as for venting farm and planting crops for several years. now dozens of refugees who've been held in australian prison camps on pop mannus island have left for the u.s. forty men are being moved as part of australia as resettlement deal that was brokered with the obama administration that's the second group of men to be moved from the island another twelve hundred to spare. the future under australia's hardline immigration policies people are trying to reach its shores and make me buy intercepted and sent to prison camps on the pacific islands and that asylum camp closed last year. a judge in myanmar could decide whether to grant bail to two voices journalists accused of violating the country's official secrets act while law and choice so it had been covering the violence in iraq and state where military offensive has forced six hundred fifty thousand one hundred muslims to flee that's the past third here and since being detained last month a found guilty the journalists could face fourteen years in jail. israeli

palestinian members of the country's parliament the knesset have called a speech by the vice president of the united states mike pence repeatedly described jerusalem as israel's capital and said the u.s. embassy will move there by the end of next year how for such reports from west jerusalem. on the day he would become the first u.s. vice president to address israel's parliament the knesset mike pence was greeted with almost presidential ceremony by israel's prime minister he didn't take long to return the favor by a great author. president stays in. israel's capital jerusalem. it was a description of jerusalem that prince would repeat three times during his set piece a vent thank god 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 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 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 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 wester slim. now a year ministers have reassured the palestinian president that their support has ambition to have east jerusalem as the capital of a palestinian state mahmoud abbas met a new foreign policy chief federica moderating and european foreign ministers on monday when he asked them to recognize the state of palestine. to join up the talks were a but the recognition of the state of palestine when the importance of this despite some media saying that it could stop negotiations never you recognize the state of israel and you recognize the state of palestine and then we go to the negotiations and we are not the ones who are delaying or stopping the negotiations. security forces of god investigated with a gunman who attacked a popular tourist hotel and managed to avoid being searched at the main gate at

least eighteen people killed at the intercontinental hotel in kabul at the weekend jennifer glass is there. the afghan government continues to investigate how this attack on an iconic afghan hotel happened there's no question it was well planned and highly coordinated the attackers had a lot of weapons and ammunition and they also targeted rooms with prominent individuals suggesting they had insider information and perhaps a cache of weapons security sources suggest already planted inside the hotel well in advance of this attack now there's been some accusations that it may have been connected to the new private security firm that it's taken over just three weeks before they were in charge of the external security checkpoints coming in and outside of the hotel inside the hotel hotel management was in charge of security we understand that there were some communications difficulties that some v.i.p.'s on the orders of the hotel management were allowed to come in and not be searched we do know that the x. ray machine for baggage was not working for several weeks so definitely some holes

in security the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack a very very highly coordinated attack that went on for many many hours with the fighters going room to room people trapped on balconies for many hours you can see a sheet there hanging some of them trying to get out as this attack went on but the real question for the government is going to be how did they get people inside the building who is helping the taliban to carry out this very very complex attack that killed so many and has the government wondering can they prevent something from having something like this from happening again. the u.s. government is ordering six middle east of add ons to carry out extra security checks will be intensively screened followed intelligence reports of a. tax plan on flights to the united states shihab rattansi explains. the emergency order means that all cargo loaded on to airplanes from five muslim

majority countries will be required to adhere to what's called a cas or air cargo advance screening protocols the transportation security administration admits that most of the requirements were already being voluntarily applied by airlines around the world. six outlines egypt road jordanian saudi emirates and he had served in the us from cairo international airport in egypt queen alia international airport in jordan king abdul aziz international airport and king khalida international airport in saudi arabia doha hammad international airport encounter and dubai international and abu dhabi international airports in the u.a.e. will be affected turkey had already been mandated to participate in a class following a failed plot to blow up an australian airliner in the summer as part of the plot high grade military explosives was sent from turkey by a cargo a coast means air carriers will have to provide details as soon as is possible prior to the looting of cargo to u.s. authorities such as the origin of

a shipment of the sender its i to the reasons it was originally sent its destination and contents these procedures are not designed to be extremely prohibitive works really. difficult for the airlines that they understand yes i understand that they're going to try to streamline this but again i don't think it's a bad move by the t.s.a. i think it's a prudent move and again it's a move that already has some precedent it's being done in other places around the world voluntarily the goal is to detect a normal ease authorities give the example of a one hundred dollar printer that's freely available in the u.s. being sent to the u.s. at a cost of five hundred dollars through one of the five countries it's hoped that the information supplied to a cast would flag the shipment for further inspection the t.s.a. says the new requirement isn't based on any quote brand new intelligence but a demonstrated intent by terrorist groups to target aviation possibly with a bomb concealed in a large other chronic device the trunk of illustration is reported to be considering extending the requirements to all cargo bound for the u.s.

she every time see al-jazeera. now erupting volcano in central japan has caused an avalanche at a ski resort killing one person a volcano a shallow and rock sound scale is entering more than a dozen some of them critically a six man is a japan self-defense force were trapped by the avalanche when they were taking part in training session. pope francis has apologized to sexual abuse victims for comments that he admits wounded many the leader of the catholic church says he regrets his choice of words when he insisted at the weekend that victims of paedophile priests should prove to be believed he was defending a bishop in chile who denies covering up sex abuse. this is oscar nominations will be announced later on tuesday and for the first time as a film in the running it is a documentary centered on the uprising that began in two thousand and eleven reynolds reports. from syria's civil war

a documentary about a man of peace. little gun is the story of activist. who wanted to free syria from the assad dictatorship but renounced violence and confronted heavily armed police and troops with symbols of brotherhood yes matar as iconic as he was and still and what he meant to the syrian people and his peaceful initiative of facing down you know violence and gunfire with roses and bottles of water is something incredibly powerful. a film crew into the besieged city of daraa would have been suicidal but syrian american filmmakers he was determined we ended up recruiting over over the internet then over social media and talking to people that we know to find somebody inside the city of who has you

know a legit camera that we can work with so we used our hotel in turkey as like a base camp and we gave activist a crash course about how to shoot a film and how to set and you know and the framing directed the film. and i was calling the shots basically you know on cutting and. you know and talking to these people and directing camerawork and it sounds easy right now but it's definitely was it was very very difficult you know a process. of putting one scene to activists being interviewed sit calmly as a sniper opened so. they were seen in the film all don't want the best snipers only two hundred meters away from us i think we are safe. and i was like what the story of little gandhi

has no happy ending. our was arrested and tortured to death the nonviolent approach to change with the international community failed in syria descended to. follow the steps of martin luther king and mahatma gandhi and that was incredibly you know. inspiring to hear him talk about this in the suburb of damascus in a set on set that looks like world war two said little may or may not get in but the story it tells and the determination of the people who wanted to tell it is the chief of the. los angeles. with the headlines on. u.s.

politicians have a compromise that's ended a three day album shut down president of the stopgap deal as a big one for his party the immigration dispute at the heart of the crisis has yet to be a result specifically what will happen to young illegal immigrants who are being protected from deportation all seven of the so-called dreamers protested after the funding bill was a green. outreach i'd wager on various by what's going on because they have shown us that in turn i care about us all the things that. you know i'm showing how much that they hate us i don't understand why they hate us we're here working hard to you know taxes trying to get better education trying to i could maybe better yet they do not they don't care. to his campaign to push kurdish one of northern syria has been slowed down by bad weather the offensive in a flame is now in its fourth day so he wants to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border. and tensions over what's

going on and often have boiled over germany its hand over airport. kurds holding flags representing northern syria and iraqi kurdistan chanted fascist at the one and reference to turkey's president took his offensive has sparked protests among the kurdish diaspora. aid workers say three million people in the democratic republic of congo on the brink of starvation fighting between the army and rebels has prevented farmers from planting crops for several years. now dozens of refugees who had been held in australian president caps on medicine and have left for the us forty men are being moved as part of an australia strain is resettlement deal that was brokered with the obama administration is trying to send refugees who try to reach the country by boat to prison camps that runs pacific islands the mad asylum camp close last year. i mean judge has denied

bail to voices journalists accused of violating the official secrets act. and reported the scape of six hundred fifty thousand from the military crackdown and racan state those are the headlines the stream that's coming up next. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter the me and maher government calls you a gringo the terrorist hear their story on the talk to al-jazeera at this time. ok and you in the street. oh. why. oh. why did you.