drawn by women drivers pull for some extra features like a panic button and twenty four seventh's monitoring of drivers the current tensions between countries along the river nile have their roots in a colonial cost equal point of view not a tent non-agreement physicals victory for the new political realities on the ground or increasing the sense of uncertainty over cohen as the rhythm out there with the need to do that and when you tell the countries the it's a good neighborhood it's kind of a defeat for the struggle of the nile but this time on al-jazeera. well that money's not going to unless they shut down and negotiate peace. us president donald trump threatens to withdraw aid money to palestinians if they don't resume peace talks with israel.

i'm old matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up reports of a new u.s. proposal that offers millions of young immigrants known as dreamers a path to citizenship plus. i'm not fussed about the law in paris where the city is on flood alerts as the river thing continues to rise. enough with the nightmare. and the plan to open up the sky over africa and make air travel easier across the continent. the us president is insisting millions of dollars in american aid will be withheld from palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel and the world economic forum in davos donald trump said the controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the

capital of israel will not be changed alasania leaders say a two state solution can only be achieved with east jerusalem as their future capital from the diplomatic editor james bates reports. the us president seemed to me to see arrived here peace and prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems further away than ever you might think that when you've alienated one sided in negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to them flanked by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu the author of the of the deal showed that's not his way when they disrespected us a week ago. not allowing our great vice president to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in support tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that money's not going to them unless they

sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and they're going to have to want to make peace too or we're going to have nothing to do with it and. of course the reason the president pends on his visit was shunned by the palestinian president and heckled by palestinian members of the israeli parliament the knesset was the controversial u.s. decision made last year to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital something again praised down false by prime minister netanyahu. this is the store. that will be for the mark to market for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we don't talk about it and they never got past seriously we took it off the table not to talk about it anymore. one one point and you'll give us some

points later on the negotiation if it ever takes place i don't know that it ever will take place that seems to be a complete misreading of the situation the president is suggesting that he's removing of the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe he's making it an even more divisive issue. previous u.s. administrations knew the recognition card was one they needed to keep it not use to maintain leverage with the israelis a two state solution requires pressure on the israelis to give up illegal settlements they built on land that should form a palestinian nation great honor to be from the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james space al-jazeera davus the u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley told a security council meeting that the palestinian leadership lacks courage needed for a peace deal. rejected by her palestinian counterpart kristen salumi is at the

united nations. the united states and palestinians exchanged accusations during the security council's monthly debate on the middle east palestinian ambassador riyad monsoor spoke passionately about how his people had been demonized and dehumanizing and accused of disrespect while the israelis were rewarded for building settlements on palestinian land he pointed out that jerusalem status according to previous international agreements should be decided in negotiations but the united states ambassador nikki haley accused palestinian leadership of walking away from peace talks. and response to repeated this our position i am compelled to clarify further our position is not intended as this respect i repeat this respect. and should not be translated as such by anyone in the contrary

it is a position rooted in full the spec for the law for the principles of justice and equity for the charter floated this concept for the assembly and for the kids long international consensus and the parameters of a peaceful solution we will not chase after a palestinian leadership that lacks what needs what is needed to achieve peace to get historic results we need courageous leaders history has provided such leaders in the past for the sake of the palestinian and israeli people we pray it does so again the united states is isolated in its position here at the u.n. even its closest allies in the security council the united kingdom and france voted in favor of a resolution calling on the u.s. to rescind its decision to move its embassy to jerusalem the u.s. veto that resolution. donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to millions of undocumented immigrants brought

to the u.s. as children it would mean a one point eight million so-called dreamers will be protected from deportation back to the country of their birth the plan submitted to congress would also create a twenty five billion dollars fund to finance a wall along american southern border with mexico the white house says the proposal could attract enough votes to pass through the senate heidi joe castro's joining me now live from washington heidi what more do we know about this plan. well rob the white house is framing this as something that's helping immigrants by offering a pathway to citizenship for those too close to two million dreamers but it is doing so at a bitter price for immigration advocates the most significant change as far as looking into the future of u.s. immigration policy is the rolling back of family sponsored immigration which currently makes up about half of the one million people who become u.s.

permanent residents each year what the white house is proposing is that immigrants will no longer be able to sponsor their parents or their siblings or their adult children democrats are calling this a bitter pill to swallow and attacking it as an assault on the very values that are stood for by the statue of liberty. heidi this was the central issue at least immigration was the central issue at the u.s. government shutdown that we saw just within the last week or so how is this being received. it is being thoroughly attacked by all sides here rob republicans have come out and said that this offer for a citizenship to the dreamers is nothing short of amnesty and the right wing publication breitbart labeling president trump as amnesty dawn in its latest headline and on the on the left democrats are attacking it equally viciously saying

that this is essentially holding dreamers hostage at the expense of the rest of the legal immigration system and that this proposal asking for twenty five billion dollars in border wall funding is simply a nonstarter but the context of all this as you bring up is that looming deadline now which is pushed back to february eighth for a permanent more permanent budget to keep the u.s. government open and it is certainly again in familiar refrain because again it will be this immigration bill that may once again throw the wrench into negotiations and we very well may find ourselves again in yet another weird block just come two weeks times or three weeks rather thanks heidi britain's prime minister teresa mayes under pressure to withdraw an invitation to the saudi crown prince over his country's military action in yemen crown prince muhammad bin solomon is due to

visit london within weeks groups including stop the war and the out of the organization for human rights in the u.k. want me to cancel his visit a saudi led coalition intervened in yemen the civil war in twenty fifteen stephen bell is the spokesman for the campaign to block the saudi leaders visit and a member of the palestinian solidarity campaign he says crown prince muhammad and solomon is responsible for the world's worst humanitarian crisis. we are calling upon the u.k. government to withdraw the invitation. in our view it is not acceptable to lay out the red carpet for someone who is responsible for what the un says is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today the fact that the most recent u.n. report indicated up to love a million yemeni children risk from all cholera famine and the blockade of the country stuff and infrastructure all this means it's not suitable to invite

someone who is the prime responsibility for the continuation of the war opinion polls have indicated over sixty percent oppose continuing. military arming of the saudi regime this is i would say broadly reflected in parliament insofar as are all the major parties apart from the gut. and the pink contingent are against the continuing to support the saudi. war efforts so we think that public opinion is broadly on our side but it's necessary to organize to bring political opinion into line. the un's aid coordinator for yemen is leaving the role jimmy mcgoldrick served in the position for two years he announced his resignation just

two days after the un's top negotiator for yemen said he would step down the u.n. has made a record appeal for nearly three billion dollars to combat famine cholera and the theory. i'll leave yemen with a great deal of mixed emotion i think sadness because of the suffering that's taking place frustration because we haven't i haven't been able to do more for the people this country and in the same time more and more people of become vulnerable because of the crisis still ahead on al-jazeera another step closer to doomsday scientists issue a dire warning and how humans are destroying the earth. plus heavy security as one of the most controversial bollywood films in years opens across india. binny's pink skies by the time half. hour is the sun sets in the city of angels.

winter's come south it's been snowing in shanghai a rare event is probably not going to repeat it on friday but it will be cold a max of a nice three degrees you feel a bit of a chill in hong kong as well i think but the snow is going to stay in landing and chart vertical expand fifty bit further north come saturday as temperatures start to try and recover in hong kong and to a small degree in shanghai as well but that's proper winter as it should be proper big rain in the wet season is still falling in indonesia in java and in bali was recently both one's been flooding but in malaysia has been a much drier affair what we do and you saw from the satellite picture and the forecast see showers a long way north this time here in the gulf of thailand a hint that maybe even in bangkok rare ones occasional ones but they shouldn't really be the. late january. we've recently seen thunderstorms in delhi proper snow for you and him a share pradesh is going away now is still on the ground it's how to stir up the

air to some degree dark it may be not that helpful it did cause closure of many roads which is to be expected and they're probably now open to be honest but the fact he was there at all meant that the air quality has been improved to some degree new delhi but it's still cold hard to see at night. the weather sponsored by cateye base. it's the skin election and the cancer pulling its own the star looks like i can make you happy. and he's telling me as i'm ok. on the vote this time.

you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says millions of dollars in american eight will be withheld from palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel palestinian leaders insist a two state solution cannot be achieved if the u.s. continues to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. donald trump is proposing a plan that could give citizenship to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children under the proposal one point eight million so-called dreamers would be protected from deportation it would also create a fund to finance a wall along america's southern border with mexico. human rights groups are calling on britain's prime minister theresa may to console

a visit by the saudi crown prince over his country's military action in yemen prime prince muhammad bin solomon is due to visit london within weeks. ok let's go back to the top story this and the news that the u.s. president donald trump says aid is going to be withheld from palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel palestinian ambassador to the u.n. riyadh months or has told al-jazeera that palestinians have lost faith in the trumpet ministration. well you see when when the president and nikki haley say that jerusalem is of the table and there are tacking on a war and with holding money against this humanitarian organization which means that they are saying refugees of the table then they left nothing on the table there is nothing left and if there is nothing left and they are totally in the camp of the israelis then they lost their capacity to be the mediator between us and

israeli and to be the only one that is close to the end of the process that is why we are saying we want a collective process from the international community to play a positive impartial role between us and the israelis that that can lead to the end of the israeli occupation that happen on the fourth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and to the independence of the state of palestine with east jerusalem as its capital and therefore to save the two state solution the u.s. is urging turkey to stay focused on defeating eisel in syria and not to get distracted by its operation against kurdish forces near its border turkish president of egypt i heard one met military leaders at the operations command center near the border on thursday turkey launched the operation to clear the area of u.s. backed kurdish fighters from ankara sees as a threat to its security the white house says u.s. president donald trump asked out of one to deescalate operations and

a phone call on weapons to turkey disputes the content of that call. particularly in a free operations turkish operations inferring in all operations in a frame that have the effect of inducing friction into the equation of making it hard to focus on why we are in syria which is the defeat of isis in the afraid as we rally or a negative thing the un has begun another round of talks with the city and government and opposition in vienna just days before syria's close ally russia is due to host its own negotiations but turkey's latest military assault is expected to complicate the talks further for the past six days turkish forces have been attacking kurdish y p t fighters in the northern city in the region of fifteen turkey wants to push the fighters out of the area and create a buffer zone along its border with syria well that operation enough rain has also triggered contriver see in germany where the government's postponed a decision upgrading military tanks supplied to ankara turkey is using german made

leopard two tanks in its offensive in northern syria and it's been pushing for upgrades to protect them from mines that's fueled a debate in germany about berlin's approval of arms exports just the anglo merkel's caretaker government says it won't consider the request until a new coalition deal has been signed weeks of heavy rainfall in fronts of caused widespread flooding in the country's north and east rescue workers have evacuated people from their homes paris is on flood allowed as that of a saint is rising fast natasha botha reports. stranded restaurants and submerged bridges as the river seine in paris continues to rise its pedestrianised banks have disappeared usually bustling with walkers and cyclists and now a no go zone and the city is on flood alert no privacy to get within we have overcome for some hate whites into floods going over six majors one in spring and

the other in winter it is clearly a question of paris adapting to climate change you from. the city council has put in place special measures river traffic has been stopped only emergency boats are allowed and ten pre-flood barriers are being installed paris's world famous museums are also playing safe the louve has closed a wing and is moving some works to higher ground for some people here the swollen river has become something of a tourist attraction for more than one hundred fifty years parisians have used this statue as a gauge now normally the water level is around two meters and the fields of the statue are visible but the i.p.s. and we're live right down there and we've heard about the statue most of. my work in offices nearby and we've taken precautions in case there's a flood and power cuts over the past century the same has risen in paris several times but it's not over flowed since one thousand nine hundred ten when flooding

turned the city into a french fenice flood prevention has improved since then but experts say it's not enough a major flood in paris could hit the whole country it could go between a three to saute billion euros in terms of the direct advantages but also discord have consequences at the macroeconomic level because there are paris in the region resent one sword of the national g.d.p. so it can have impact on growth under the drug market are on public finance to. the rising water is the result of weeks of heavy rain in france forecasters say drier weather is on the way people here hope it will be just in time to prevent paris's historic center from becoming swamped with buckler al-jazeera paris. got to known as parliament has to choose its new regional leader on tuesday but the only candidate on the ballot is carlos cristobal who is in self-imposed exile in brussels the former catalan president left spain and october after his government

declared independence in a referendum ruled illegal by madrid. a court in brazil says former president luis enough. should have his passport taken away from him on weapons to his conviction for corruption and money laundering was upheld it's a big setback for the politician who was planning to run again for the presidency this year that is a bow as more. as an act of defiance against a courtroom that confirms. on corruption charges brazil's workers' party. the former president and there are fish candidate for this year's presidential elections that will take place in october you will remain defiant and he said that if he becomes brazil's president again he will rule for this country's most vulnerable on wednesday a unanimous ruling. with little room for a pupil higher courts and electoral forty are expected to block his candidacy

convicted for receiving over one million dollars in bribes paid by a construction company in the form of a renovated triplex his lawyers say that the case is politically motivated that is the victim of political persecution and that there is not enough proof to condemn him. what we saw was that more than once president lula was convicted without ever having committed a crime the votes read during the day by the appellate court judges were not able to demonstrate any elements that would indicate that a crime had been committed. they also said that if you won right are being violated the law will continue appealing to the higher courts and the party says that he will be the candidate and till the very end. but he could be detained along the way something that would increase the tension the polar ice station and the political turmoil that already exists in this country. hindu nationalist groups have targeted

cinemas in parts of india for the opening of the bollywood film but the film depicts a ramon's between a hindu queen and a muslim king protesters say it's inaccurate and disrespectful reports. release day for padma vos and cinemas nationwide resemble security checkpoints the bollywood blockbuster has already provoked months of protests by some members of the hindu community. on a day cinemas braced for more reaction. to the film portrays a fourteenth century hindu queen who belongs to the high rajput cost and. a muslim ruler the sticking point was an alleged romantic dream sequence between the characters seen as a step too far by right wing hindus it never existed but the room is where enough the lead actress to pick a pope to coney to receive death rates. activists from she rushed put conny

santa seen by many as a hardline nationalist group of late proteus and several indian states anger escalated last week when india's supreme court rejected bids by four states to ban the film. community lives only to protect the country the religion and one self-respect. can be noticed in a crowd he's disciplined never flees a battle and is always ready to die yet. this debate over whether their concerns are relevant historians say there is a whole evidence the hindu queen existed and a confident she's a fictional character and a super poem fans of the movie project at the protests apart from all the corner was. a wonderful kind of movie recreates it did always what watching so you know why miss out on this one just because of one controversy. it's only politics they want media attention why don't they just watch the movie as

entertainment this is nonsense. hardline hindu ism is on the rise in india some say emboldened by prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party indians are waiting to see if they'll be further reaction to the movie at the box office or on the streets dallas. a symbolic doomsday clock which represents how close humanity is to destroying the planet is the nearest it's being to signaling the end of the world since one thousand nine hundred fifty three the clock was moved forward by thirty seconds on thursday by the bulletin of atomic scientists because of mounting concern over a nuclear war and climate change the last time i thought was it two minutes to midnight was when the u.s. and the soviet union were testing hydrogen bombs richard some of them as a member of the science and security board at the bulletin of the atomic scientist he says it's more important than ever to educate the public on the scale of threats we face one of our main motivations and even having the things that look i'm going

to the trouble of selling it every year is to motivate people to be concerned to learn about these issues and to make interviews and concerns known to all governments we see a lack of will. so for example us russian relations deteriorated was no ongoing high level talks about nuclear arms control between us and russia the two countries which between them have almost all of the nuclear weapons in the world and i think it's this lack of strong international action concerns us and that's very much junior and climate change as well. buying a ticket to fly anywhere in africa is notoriously expensive and difficult rules and regulations mean passengers often have to take the long way home the idea of a single airspace was proposed first thirty years ago now it could really take off at a meeting of the african union in ethiopia page reports. ethiopian airlines is spreading

its wings across africa buying parts of other country's national carriers the a.t.o. paean expansion is expected to be boosted by the african union's launch of the single is space during its summit in edison this week mark potter who runs the african diaspora forum in south africa he's originally from ivory coast and constantly fear travel complaints flying in africa. are when. two weeks ago. but to get guns on your have to pick three different flights and i could not believe. when i when i fly to france after ten hours. i live in france i mean another continent africans often have to fly to european cities as transit stops first before flying on to african countries journeys that

should last hours sometimes take days not only does time consuming and expensive air travel keep families apart but it hinders economic development easier travel will help africans do business with each other another important priority for the african union. prosper is the chairman of the pan african business forum the entrepreneur runs a charter flight company to help business people get around the lack of direct routes as well as liberalizing is space for african airlines he says the a you should be charging international carriers more to fly in africa. this is all is this where everybody come and do whatever he wanted you can't do that in the u.s. you can't do that in europe but you can come to africa you can fly in and get up anywhere. into that there's billions the airlines association of southern africa says a single is space could provide

a major boost to the continental airlines if you look at the whole question of international aviation into africa eighty to eighty two percent of the passengers are carried by international airlines and the eighteen percent is owned by african airlines so there's a huge disparity between. the united nations says up to the year twenty fifty more than half of the world's population growth will be in africa or the launch of a single is space is a step closer to meeting their travel needs and aspirations tinier page al-jazeera johannesburg. this is al jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump says millions of dollars in american aid will be withheld from palestinians unless they pursue peace with israel palestinian leaders insist a two state solution cannot be achieved if the u.s. continues to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. donald trump is

proposing a plan that could give citizenship to one point eight million undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children it would also create a fund to finance a wall along america's southern border with mexico i did jocasta has more from washington d.c. . the most significant change as far as looking into the future of u.s. immigration policy is the rolling back of family sponsored immigration which currently makes up about half of the one million people who become u.s. permanent residents each year what the white house is proposing is that immigrants will no longer be able to sponsor their parents or their siblings or their adult children democrats are calling this a bitter pill to swallow and attacking it as an assault on the very values that are stood for by the statue of liberty human rights groups are calling on britain's prime minister theresa may to cancel a visit by the saudi crown prince over his country's military action in yemen crown

prince mohammed bin solomon is due to visit london within weeks. the u.n. has begun another round of talks with the syrian government and the opposition in vienna just days before syria's close ally russia is due to host its own negotiations but turkey's latest military assault is expected to complicate the talks further for the past six days turkish forces have been attacking kurdish y p g fighters in the northern city and region of a fleeing. a court in brazil says former president lou if enough feel a little of this so should have his passport taken away from him on why this day his conviction for corruption and money laundering was upheld it's a big setback for the politician who was planning to run again for the presidency this year paris is on the flood alert after the french capital recorded to double its average rainfall for january floodwaters engulfed homes in the streets of the same his rising disrupting transport services those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story by phone now.

from afghanistan to south sudan to syria aid groups that were once almost universally viewed as neutral increasingly find themselves targeted why the change and what can be done to make things safer for aid agencies and the critical work they do this is inside story.