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up. soon i'll be warnings canceled after an offshore earthquake triggered panic on the west coast of the u.s. and canada. turkey's offensive against kurdish fighters gathers pace in all the syria as rebel allies capture villages the fleet plus. legendary at the apartheid activist and jan sick hubris a killer loses his battle with cancer. welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of egypt where the military there has arrested the former chief of staff sami and now days after he announced his candidacy in the presidential election planned for this coming march that's according to another campaign earlier in

a televised statement the military said and i am committed violations when he announced his presidential bid without obtaining permits from the armed forces he's also accused of committing forgery to be included in the voter database the two other presidential hopefuls were forced to quit the race earlier this month one of them hunted and was set up the nephew of the former leader anwar sadat said last week that he wanted to protect his campaign workers from intimidation or arrest. the main concern is are we going to really be able to continue in the race under such a climate the answer that we've all reached is that we don't think we can continue in such an environment and we have decided not to run. former prime minister and force general overture feet also announced his address did running but he was placed under house arrest and the deported from the united arab emirates where he'd be living in exile and his lawyers say he was detained as soon as he landed in cairo and two weeks back shifu tweeted that he was withdrawing his candidacy.

well for all of this we can begin to bosher a professor of security studies at the. at joyce be in the studio could have you with us it is quite an amazing turn of events that we're witnessing here in egypt and what what does why such a cd a figure if the former military would throw his hat into the ring too to realize that there is a potential for being detained there are two explanations for this one is that he actually miscalculated the level of support that he has within the military institution and within the security interests or within the hard power institutions the second one is actually not miscalculate dissin he expected this step and this is not the end of the story you probably see something a counter reaction on his part or of the part of his loyalists so it's still too early to tell but there is somebody with he's a serious contender he was the former chief of staff the deputy head of the supreme

council of the armed forces did winning body after mubarak and he is much senior in terms of the military command in d.c. so he's somebody who is very well connected with the americans very well connected regionally so he's not someone who is a lightweight of any way but to succeed you need to be well connected within the military as well so perhaps one wonders if you look at sort of you flip the court a look at the other side he wouldn't have perhaps nominated himself to head to head into this election without knowing that he would have been support maybe not even of the top military actual arms of egypt but within the lower ranks within the the men in uniform the commission did not commissioned officers that there is perhaps some sort of you might say love for someone like him potentially within the ob forces this is a this could be the case but i think the main issue here is that with the supreme council of the armed forces which it was the really the commander of the army that all has changed in one thousand generals that were ruling on forces back in twenty

eleven and then was the deputy head. these all of these characters are gone aside from the ministry of defense and now the rest of the members of the supreme council of the armed forces are mainly city loyalists so that's why the the they wanted to give him a permission the supreme council is supposed to give whoever an ex-military figure who is going to run they're supposed to give him permission that permission was not granted to simeon and and what's happening to him now the issue is i think he knew that he knew that he would not get that permission so much so we're back to these two scenarios either he has something difficult support within the military that we don't know about and we're probably going to see the next few days or he doesn't and this is a miscalculation that will lead him to jail probably how embarrassing is this for the current president to have this sort of scenario you arrest one former chief of staff you've got former prime ministers of former military married to being detained in how in the house all being deported she said it's unprecedented in

egypt's history even with all the ships that egypt has gone through it is quite embarrassing on one end but i don't think he cares on the other end as long as he gets reelected between quotations for the next four years he will do whatever he has to do and until now we did not reach the politics level so we did not reach the assassinations the excluding high level candidates and so on but this you can see some some of this happening in the next that how do you read two weeks how the egyptian people will react to this because at the moment sort of one military man toward syria a former politician after another. they want someone they can trust they want someone who could offer them the solution to certain economic problems that they're facing at the moment things are on one and these hopes and demands of elevating the political social and economic conditions but on the other hand what we're seeing is really hard part politics it is politics between a fight between the military elite for the ruling of egypt this is less to do with

the hopes and dreams of the egyptians a more a more to do with power struggle psychological complexes superiority complexes within the generals when the military generals of egypt but we'll see what does happen in the coming days for the thanks for joining us in the studio. tsunami warnings along the u.s. and canadian west coast have been cancelled after a powerful seven point nine earthquake hit two hundred eighty kilometers southeast of the alaskan town of kodiak it was ten kilometers deep. and people woken up in the middle of the night by the tsunami warning sirens and those warnings were heeded with people flocking to evacuation centers like this into scene in vancouver island in canada let's go over to rob reynolds who's in los angeles on the west coast of the u.s. and whether the warnings have been sort of canceled now the authorities will certainly be on alert to

a certain extent because this is the dead of the night and we don't really know still at this moment if there are already waves heading towards the mainland. well it seems as if the the projected times that the waves if there had been large tsunami waves of that the times that they would have hit certain areas that were projected they did not appear so it seems that that's one of the reasons why the warning was cancelled of course there could be aftershocks we have really no good scientific way of predicting earthquakes but i will say that the warning systems seem to have worked fairly well we saw those pictures there of people in kodiak alaska which is a city about six thousand going to higher ground people in that part of the world are very well aware that they live on the ring of fire that there have been

earthquakes and that there are there is the potential for tsunamis in fact the worst earthquake in u.s. history ever occurred in one nine hundred sixty four in alaska that was a magnitude nine point two a massive earthquake but fortunately in this instance tonight there are been no reports of any injuries no reports of any damage from this seven point nine earthquake and the tsunami warning is canceled so people are no doubt all along the west coast breathing a sigh of relief and of course of the emergency services themselves raul all very well trained in the techniques and did the early warning systems they have in place for incidents like this they could have pops call this a decent dress rehearsal. perhaps a good idea it's

a very good point a good dress rehearsal it points out also the importance of continued adequate funding for these kinds of agencies which combined scientific research and warnings using buoys out at sea and using seismographic equipment and so forth so is that is another very important aspect of this there's been efforts as you may know in the united states to trim the federal budget so federal agencies like the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration need to have full funding in order to protect people from tsunamis and earthquakes and issue appropriate warnings as needed while for the moment i will leave it to rob and said to keep an eye on things said he the next few hours thank you. turkey says forces and iraqi allies are making advances in their offensive against kurdish

forces in northern syria they say they've captured several villages in the region turkey wants to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border from fight as it regards as terrorists not seventy deca has the latest from attacking in the turkey syria poulder. the village of her man which is now been announced that the f.s.a. have taken a significant why because it lies very close to the turkish border in the area just close to where we are just further east of the handle and it does play into the narrative that we heard from the turkish prime minister just a few days ago that their plan is to establish what he called up to a thirty kilometer security zone pushing the y.p. g. away from its borders it has been a fluid fight however on the ground there are incidents when villages have been taken by the free syrian army and turkish forces and you know a day or so later retaken by the white b.g. but of course turkey has superiority when it comes to the sky they're flying jets they're bombing from the air and that of course carries with it

a huge advantage the videos of african refugees being abused in libya illegal detention centers and extortion have become common warning to all views that you may find some of the pictures of the solve a big report disturbing. this man stripped naked is being told to stay silent as he's burnt with what's said to be built on plastic. in another video people are being beaten as kidnappers discuss ransom money these videos are reportedly of sudanese refugees being abused in libya a disease or cannot verify the pictures. but the humiliation and abuse of african migrants here is not new libya is a major hub for human smugglers and traffickers the use the country as a transit for a perilous journey to europe some officials have been accused of taking bribes to free people from illegal detention centers where people are kept under inhumane conditions but libyan forces deny the allegations that some are involved in rape

forced labor and even murder the poorly equipped navy and coast guard say they're doing europe's job of policing seventeen hundred kilometers of coastline and the mediterranean the navy spokesman says the issue of migrant abuse is being fabricated to force international intervention. and usually. they want to make illegal immigrants victims and to make libya look like the culprit perhaps when these things proliferate the international community will be urged to intervene in libya under the pretext of illegal immigration this is part of their plan that. libya has been fragmented between two governments and many militias vying for power last year the videos of african migrants being sold in slave auction sparked an international outcry but libyans accused european nations of not doing enough and see the onus of dealing with migrants from across africa has been dumped on libya and libya did not and cannot play the role of a police this relationship needs to be organized an international conference

between the libyans and northern european states should resolve how libya can deal with part of the matter as all if it can't be imposed on libya we cannot be a cemetery or residence or a jail. despite the crackdown by libyan and italian navies more than one hundred thousand migrants reached italy last year at least three thousand people died in boats which couldn't withstand the rough mediterranean waters rights groups say the strategy to turn people away hasn't worked and open new avenues but abuse and exploitation after years of failure europe in libya need a new approach some of the job there still ahead here on al-jazeera why the growing divide between the rich and the pole will be the focus of the world economic forum that's just opened in switzerland. for them to say that they're not willing to protect us it's a big child donald trump's political opponents accused of caving in after a deal to end the u.s. government shutdown do stay with us here on our just.

how often are remarkably mild winter so fast things are about to change not so much in southern china still twenty one on kong but i'm in the middle this developing rain and snow are really blue spots are we get to say the tension shanghai has dropped to plus three it may well snow in shanghai itself can is a vast amount further inland in china but it remains warm still in hong kong versus as in china to be honest the a bit of a turbulence in the atmosphere around new delhi asunder storm reported you see the cloud developing there it doesn't seem to done anything at all to change what's happening on the ground it still was quite cold chilly for people living there it's misty foggy all smoky that's true the plain north india showers by this time have

reached the pole katmandu reporting and we're lucky to get where i see otherwise things are quiet except down in the bay of bengal was a bit of hint of shower stuff going on here. there has been a bit of a dusty breeze blowing the northeast of soggy circut on towards the u.s. it's going to cut all the wind is dying atmosphere will drop a little bit twenty four degrees and such you want in mecca it's always warm with the west development of cloud here in western society. the scene for us where there online what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an

activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al jazeera. your child is their lives all wrong a reminder of our top stories egypt's military has arrested a former chief of staff savio days after he announced his candidacy in the presidential election planned for. tsunami. warnings. continue along the u.s. and canadian west coast they've been cancelled in fact after a powerful seven point nine earthquake hit two hundred eighty kilometers southeast of the alaskan town of kodiak there were scenes of panic on several coastal towns

are people ordered to move to higher ground. also turkey says its armed forces and rebel allies are making advances in their offensive against kurdish y.b. g. forces in northern syria they say they've captured several villages in the a freed region. so u.s. vice president mike pence has visited the western wall and occupied east jerusalem during the second and final day of his visit it's one of the holiest sites in judaism or this was shown around the site by a rabbi earlier in the day he met with israeli president of the village and told the holocaust memorial are a force that has more from occupied east jerusalem. well after his speech to the israeli parliament the knesset on monday tuesday saw mike pence and his host really doing something of a victory lap given just how much support there has been for the tenor of that speech which was seen as incredibly supportive of israel without really any other side of that coin and there was very very little in terms of any kind of appeal to

the israelis to change any course of action in terms of their relationship with the palestinians or anything else it was seen as a speech almost unqualified in its support of israel so when meeting the israeli president reagan rivlin mr rivlin called mr pence a mench a man of integrity and honor mike pence in his comments during that meeting talking about jerusalem once again being the capital of israel as far as united states is concerned very much the watchwords of his visit so far he's been repeating that phrase many times saying that he still saw a possibility of progress in the peace process with the palestinians based on that fact of course for the palestinian perspective that is no longer a prospect the u.s. being a mediator or a broker in the peace process there was a statement to that effect from saberi coude the long time negotiator and now chair of the executive committee of the palestine liberation organization mr pence then

went on to visit the holocaust memorial yad vashem with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and then came to occupied east jerusalem to visit the western wall the holiest site which jews can pray at in jerusalem and he said that that visit was inspiring he now returns the united states with the fulsome praise of his israeli hosts here but also the even more certain condemnation of the palestinians you now say it with even more certainty that the united states cannot be part of the process going forward. hundreds of women have taken to the streets of nairobi to raise awareness over allegations of sexual assault coming out a hospital in the kenyan capital dozens of vulnerable women who just given birth allege they were sexually violated by male staff during their stay. now the man is the father of south africa jazz has died from prostate cancer you're back to.

keep us kalen was famous for his distinctive afro just sound this chris band of all than five decades he gained international recognition through hits such as sweat o. blues a song that became synonymous with the anti apartheid movement in south africa a scalar was seventy eight speaking to al jazeera back in two thousand and seven he stressed the importance of music as a unifying global force against apartheid south africa i think it was a major catalyst to do. the entire world the buggers it was happening in south africa. harry belafonte and miriam gay were actually started around nine hundred sixty three to sing a lot of songs and when they won a grammy for an album called an evening with bela for and then my gay were and they were immediately banned but it took another twenty years for it to get and by nine hundred eighty six nobody was recording is cd with the song that ever said reserve

a good done with the bird free nelson mandela now to be self acute as a research of the al-jazeera center for studies he says most again as music transcended south africa's borders project to be anti apartheid struggle to the rest of the world. she took the struggle of south africa to unfamiliar territory as particularly in europe for many people formed various concerts and he made a point all those performances that highlighted the struggle of people of thought of it at the time so you must go yes he's up there with the likes of nelson mandela older sister i mean his legacy will always be there are certain songs for example that to compose that will never. leave south africans and many people of los remember one particular song it's still which is the sound of every occasion in south africa and he will always be remembered because of that amongst many other things but importantly he he contributed not only in in the art and sort of the but

politics of sort of a shaped understanding for example of nine racialism in south africa which remains one of the cornerstone you know in the south in politics particularly in the course of. the different races and sort of where he was one of those people who went around the world preaching the concept of nonracial and that people should be affected not by the kind of the skin but by who they are india's prime minister has opened the world economic forum in switzerland with a warning that protectionism is gaining ground while globalization is losing its appeal because president donald trump who champions and america first economic policy is expected to join seventy other leaders at the three day summit jonah hill has more from devil's. 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 globalization if you put it instead of globalization the power of protectionism is putting its head up their wishes not have them soon globalization but to tame the natural flow of globalization special attention this year is reserved for donald trump who's closing address on fridays the meetings most and dissipated moment. 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 really look for surprises and i hope it would be

a positive surprise for your expect him to be rather more can fill its current conciliatory rather than. his feisty self i six the fact he is coming to davos is already a message in itself trump's inauguration that took place amid such global uncertainty at the same time as the davos meeting last year it was like a long time ago now a general upswing in world economies has nifty 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 well as the poorest four billion this year's meeting with c.e.o.'s to be improved their companies contribution to society that's the sort of focus downforce isn't best known for don't hold al-jazeera downforce.

did a worrying sign for the anti protectionist focus on the trumpet ministrations impose tariffs on solar panels and washing machines being imported into the us mexico has been directly affected and says it will use all available legal resources in response china and south korea oppose the move which could see goods tax up to fifty percent in some cases. now u.s. politicians have agreed on a compromise that's added a three day government shutdown but the immigration dispute at the heart of the crisis is still to be resolved specifically what will happen to young undocumented immigrants who've been protected from deportation under the dhaka program now the u.s. president donald trump is touting the stop gap deal as a victory for his party tweeting big win for republicans as democrats cave on shut down now i want a big win for everyone including republicans democrats and dhaka but especially for our great military and border security should be able to get there see you at the

negotiating table i did a castro has more from washington d.c. kicking the can down the road the phrase used to describe the now familiar practice of the u.s. 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 let me repeat that buys lawmakers three weeks to agree on a more permanent budget plan this is not a moment to put 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 protect their creators 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 had to be put on hold while this manufactured crisis was dealt with we made no something to progress and i want to err on the serious bipartisan negotiation that will. 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. going to south asia now a pakistani police have arrested a man suspected of raping and killing a seven year old girl their bonds ari's body was found in a rubbish dump earlier this month the suspect was arrested near the city of course or where the girl was found her death sparked massive protests across the country with many calling for justice u.s. defense secretary jim mattis says the plight of the rohingya refugees from me and my is even worse than the media has reported that has made the comments during a trip to indonesia ringler refugees are due to start returning to me in march from bangladesh as part of a repatriation process that's expected to last two years more than six hundred

fifty thousand breaking go have fled to bangladesh since mia marrs army launched a crackdown in northern rakhine state last august dozens of refugees who've been held in australian prison camps on papua new guinea's and madness island have left for the us forty men are being moved as part of a resettlement deal that was brokered with the obama administration and australia's immigration policy people who are trying to reach it shores illegally by boat or it is that did and said to prison camps on pacific islands madness island closed last year and you can follow all of those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated twenty four hours a day. you're watching under there i'm still robin these are our top stories egypt's military has arrested a former chief of staff sami and and days after he announced his candidacy in the

presidential election planned for march that's according to an un's campaign team earlier in a televised statement the military said an uncommitted violations when he announced his presidential bid without obtaining permits from the armed forces. tsunami warnings along the u.s. and canadian west coast have been cancelled after a powerful seven point nine earthquake hit two hundred eighty kilometers southeast of the alaskan town of kodiak there were scenes of panic in several coastal towns where people were ordered to move to higher ground turkey says its armed forces and their rebel allies are making advances in their offensive against kurdish y.p. g. forces in northern syria they say they've captured several villages in the afridi region turkey was to create a thirty kilometer deep buffer zone to protect its border from fighters it regards as terrorists u.s. vice president mike pence has visited the western wall and occupied east jerusalem during the second and final day of his visit it's one of the holiest sites in

judaism pents was shown around the site by a rabbi earlier the day he met with israeli president derivative leonard toward the holocaust memorial the man known as the father of south africa jazz has died from prostate cancer. he was famous for his distinctive afro just sound his christan to more than five decades but he gained international recognition through his hits such as so wet oh blues a song that became synonymous with the empty apartheid movement in south africa he was seventy eight years old. hundreds of women have taken to the streets of nairobi to raise awareness over allegations of sexual assault and killing at a hospital in the kenyan capital dozens of vulnerable women who had just given birth allege they were sexually violated by male staff during their stay the

government says it's investigating those are the headlines from al-jazeera the al-jazeera news group the three other gator is in thirty minutes time next is the street do stay with us. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. hi i'm femi ok and you're in the street. all this life of the sundance well. today i'm joined by the director.