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i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up supporters a kenyan opposition leader are waiting for him to take a symbolic vote as the so-called people's president. dozens of saudi princes and top business men held in a corruption investigation have all been released from captivity at a hotel and riyadh. and no more anonymity the south korean government cracks down on the trade of digital currencies. by russia on the syrian war have been delayed in sochi the meeting is due to began earlier on tuesday but it's been postponed to move reports of differences between turkey and russia their foreign ministers have spoken twice already in an effort to bring all parties together on the table about sixteen hundred syrian businessmen politicians rebels and member members of civil society work and bided to the black sea resort town of sochi but the. main opposition groups are getting ready for that

meeting so a small section of the opposition groups here are in sochi are refusing to leave the airport they say they're offended by the presence of official syrian flags in the terminal building so let's go to chalons who is live in sochi covering this so it's not unusual rory that there's all types of maneuvering to get something like this going i would assume usually it happens and for the event supposed to kick off or whatever the case there's a lot of maneuvering going on to kind of dick this process so what do we know about what's going on behind the scenes in various talks to at least get this going. but i think one of the features of these kinds of syrian peace process meetings is that it's this always goes to the last minute and they're always. will they won't they questions about how the opposition and how many of the opposition are going to

attend these things we have just been told that the meeting is about to start see in the next few minutes but for the last couple of hours it's really been hanging in the balance with obviously lots of behind the scenes negotiations going on between the russian foreign ministry in the turkish foreign ministry trying to resolve this issue with the turkish backed opposition delegation who have been refusing to leave the airport of sorts they were angry when they came off the plane and basically saw syrian government flags plastered all over the branding for this congress that upset them we also have the syrian negotiations committee which decided few days ago that it was going to come to because of its belief that this is really kind of moscow pushing a moscow damascus agenda separates to the geneva peace process we don't know at the moment what the un position on all of this is because we know that stuff under mistura has come to sochi but he i think is trying. the resolve the turkey russia

dispute at the moment and his participation in this conference is still i think in doubt as well have to see how this all pans out but at the moment it does seem to be hanging in the balance so one of the criticisms obviously is that russia can't really be an honest broker in all of this because they have a clear side at a clear point of view having said that what what can they really accomplish here. well i mean you know it's difficult to see who has an unbiased viewpoint and what's going on in syria maybe apart from from the u.n. although there are various critics of the u.n. as well and yes the the opposition and turkey to some extent always said the sort she has. warring aspects and it is basically set up to try to circumvent the geneva peace process with peace process which is the one that

ultimately people believe going to come up with the final resolution of the syrian war and as long as we can be kind of filtered in to the geneva process then is likely to get the kind of reluctant support of turkey and the various opposition groups but that has to be made very very clear and that the draft documents that are being passed around at the moment seem to suggest that that has been it has been a successful push from the turkish and from the opposition to try and get this going directly into geneva and not some kind of like separate russian interests promoting track that can resolve things in moscow and damascus perspective ok well and live for us in sochi thank you. an attack on a military checkpoint in southeastern yemen has killed at least fifteen people from

a u.a.e. backed force that happened east of the city efforts hakan shabab province witnesses say the attackers fired at the checkpoint before detonating a car bomb in addition at least thirty six people have been killed in the southern port city of aden during two days of fighting after southern succession is trying to stage a coup or as part of a video the international committee of the red cross posted online about what's happening on the ground and yemen. we are going. to. tell me. of the division maybe the send. some of the so. here. we are here to get in touch with talk these are the other i'm maybe using. one of the kids. tell me what you're seeing

is this insight we are managing you see with these gates today. as well. to some. kenya's opposition is holding what it calls a presidential swearing in ceremony for its leader. the attorney general has warned that challenging the official president will amount to treason opposition supporters have been filling her own national park in nairobi for this ceremony. claims he won the presidential election in august but the electoral commission declared the hurrican yet another winner they can challenge their results and the supreme court agreed nullifying the results over irregularities the court ordered a fresh vote in october which kenyatta won i think a boycott of that vote citing a lack of the electoral reforms athens oyez live in nairobi for us so we haven't where this is exactly supposed to be there is

a lot of uncertainty about what whether or not it would happen what it's really supposed to be about what the swearing in is what can you tell us. i'm very sorry there's been a lot of us are talking about this day and we are expecting right at some point to congo for this ceremony these supporters have been arriving it's very odd that in the morning they've been taunting. the song's very passionate about this they really believe that's the oldest and which was invalidated by the supreme court. a lot of pressure from the supporters to make this day happen this event has been postponed twice before and that disappointed a lot of his support does he's also on the lot of pressure is all from the groups like the religious the does the public to say. to embrace.

but he say that he's tried to reach out to president hu. but the president didn't have a nation with the opposition. so like you mentioned it's going to be interesting to see what kind of takes we shall because each whereas in the east warnin in the. amounts to seize on nice talking about the president of the people's president being sworn in as the people's president what does that entail what kind of instrument is it going to be is going to. be who's going to swear he is in a jobs and also importantly what he's going to do what is that all position going to be after this day was so confident what does the average kenyan voter think about this that there's still this this back and forth and now this this huge you know alternative if you will if it's really to promote dialogue i suppose that

would be a good thing but what does the average kenyan think about this dramatic back and forth. it really depends on who you speak to people here feel his supporters are i don't think that supporters who are never feel marginalized they feel that they were cheated off the election they feel that this day means to build that president who needs more to be able to listen to them. to be able to. build that there needs to be a lot of the people we talked to say that it can all be business as usual the kenyans you talk to us saying that look i mean twenty seven. years spent. you know. really affected the economy affected people's. moods a business is people making money a lot of people you talked to today are going about their businesses are saying that they want this political season to end so that they can move on. but again

like i said people are saying that it will be business as usual richelle. live for us in nairobi catherine thank you. deputy director has resigned weeks before his official retirement a u.s. president has repeatedly accused political bias. favorite his rival hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen presidential race white house has denied having any involvement in mccabe's resignation. paul gives his state of the union address to congress later this year kicking off a second year in office as president will lay out his agenda as he seeks to rally a deeply divided nation and sagging approval ratings camberley how could reports from washington d.c. . donald trump isn't known for modesty most people expect him to spend much of his state of the union address highlighting what he boasts as evidence of success from his first year in office passing

a one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill drops in unemployment and driving the historic gains in the stock market. off the field right now out of the spiral trump is known for his off the cuff remarks but the u.s. president displayed none of that last year in his first address to congress and most expect the u.s. president will appear as what's been dubbed teleprompter trope veering little from prepared remarks his aim to sound presidential much as he did last week in davos switzerland has never been a better time to hire to build to invest and to grow in the united states no issue is more divisive at the moment been immigration trump wants twenty five billion to build his wall along the southern border with mexico something you'll request on tuesday but there's pressure on him to protect the children of illegal immigrants as well the issue is so contentious it recently shut down the government

. as celebrities like pop star cash use their star status to shine a light on sexual harassment and unequal treatment of women it's unlikely trump will acknowledge the hash tag me to movement even as his poll numbers continue to be low amongst women trump himself has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least nineteen women another president. you know makes some. reference to the need to move he will not for obvious reasons but i guess and i think that's a mistake in fact some democratic lawmakers are boycotting the address for that very reason at this forum analysts agreed he should play up republican accomplishments particularly when it comes to foreign policy i think you're going to see the president take quite a bit of credit for protests in iran i think you're going to see the president right we take credit for what has happened with isis in particular it's unlikely

donald trump will mention in his speech the accusations of collusion or russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election that continue to trouble the trump white house can really help at al-jazeera washington still ahead on al-jazeera a small u.s. government says it has come up with a long term plan to tackle drought and famine we have a report from mogadishu plus after seven decades a baseball team in the u.s. drops its longtime logo many consider an insult to native americans. we've got the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia nothing much to report here you can see some places the plow to say the heat of the day downpours

always on the cards i suspect some parts of the south china sea will see the heavy rain level make its way toward similar place there's a possible a to see some lively showers from time to time but it's very hit and miss for many it's not going to be too bad over the next few days indonesia probably seeing the more organized bad of rain then that shows up with some very wet weather extremely wet weather that we're seeing across northern parts of australia recently this little clutch of storms has been in place really quite some time seeing some staggering amounts of rainfall just offshore just a minute caledonia just notice this is where we have tropical cyclone just swirling away system weather to come through here but take a look at darwin one hundred forty one millimeters of rain in twenty four hours over the last five days a staggering six hundred ninety eight millimeters of rain coming down that's almost twice the chantry average rainfall over around three hundred eighty six millimeters of rain is the wettest month but you don't expect to see that kind of total coming through more wet weather so go on through a way to stay hopefully

a little dry there for darwin a few showers there into western australia further south decidedly cooler than for meldon. i don't want to live in the world where everything is the xining made in china. is in my hands of the corporation the only way to be subversive is to be able to control. spearheading a global movement to democratize technology. at this time.

i'm richelle carey let's take a look at the top stories now on al-jazeera talks hosted by russia on the war in syria have been delayed in sochi the meeting mr to began early on tuesday that has been postponed amid reports of differences between turkey and russia the foreign ministers have spoken twice already in an effort to bring all parties together to the table kenya's opposition says it will swear in its leader raul loads into as an alternative president turning general has warned that challenging the official president will amount to treason ceremonies being held at a peru national park in nairobi. an attack on a military checkpoint in southeastern yemen has killed at least fifteen people from the u.a.e. back course it happened east of the city of tal and shop a promise in the say the attackers fired at the checkpoint before detonating a car bomb. the united nations is warning that humanitarian aid is increasingly

critical for people living in conflict somalia is particularly vulnerable to food shortages after years of war and drought but now the government says it has a plan to improve food security meaning miller has more from mogadishu. aminah and her family left their home in chip about three hundred kilometers away to find food and security in mogadishu a severe drought last year meant they could not grow any crops and they feared for their lives as rival plans for but there is nobody left in my village accept very young people it was too much fighting and we had to leave because there was no food at the peak of last year's dropped more than three million people were in need of urgent humanitarian assistance the united nations says that numbers dropped about only by half a million the humanitarian needs are still very high and we are still seeing the tradition levels that are amongst the highest in the world so that very much once

again to get attention at the same time the progress that we've made shows that we have a much more effective response mechanism in place as compared to twenty eleven when quarter of a million people died. three hundred thousand children under the age of five are malnourished but the effects of the drought in parts of southern somalia including the capital mogadishu have eased more assistance is now needed in the north with has been low rainfall and the u.n. says two point seven million people will be in crisis between now and june since the famine in twenty eleven billions of dollars have been spent on emergency relief but the government says it can no longer rely solely on foreign aid and most wind long term solutions to conflict drought and the displacement of people they've been through national institutions to tackle these challenges but now the government

says it's come up with a plan. last year the government open to the department to deal with humanitarian and disaster management and its planning long term investment for development in rural areas usually the worst hit by drought we have the longest. sea caused as well as we have two rivers we have fertile land. and so country like so much earlier is something that could have been avoided very long time but because of lack of an institution it's industry thousand nine hundred ninety nine to one up to now and that is why we have seen these droughts keep coming back. mu funding to produce food including in agricultural and fisheries sick does hopes to break the impact of drowned and the cycle of suffering but somalia's government says it will take time for me to malone al-jazeera mogadishu. saudi officials say all detainees held as part of an anti-corruption investigation

have been released from the rest carlton hotel dozens of princes senior officials and top businessmen had been detained and confined in the luxury hotel which was used as an interrogation center the saudi government launched the perch in early november. until all one of the kingdom's top international business and was released on saturday. as an assistant professor at the defense studies department of king's college london he joins us via skype from showing him an oxford shire in the u.k. so thank you for joining us so andreas let's actually talk about one of the last people to be released we were just talking about prince ali he's all received famous he's internationally known a lot of focus on him what does it say about the fact that even he was detained he was one of the last people to be released but once he was released he was saying fairly positive things that are at the very least neutral things about what he had been through what kind of message does that set. well i will leave been to london

has always been the liberal poster child of saudi arabia he's always been the guy who was going out in public especially in the west saying that you know saudi needs to reform we need more women rights we need to. reform the redistribution of wealth and so he was someone who actually that was actually very shocking for everyone because he's been very a very liberal proponent of most of the stuff that mama been so mine was want to implement and then he was detained for many months and i think if you look at the pictures it kind of looks like you had quite a hard time he looks like twenty years older than him but so despite all this you know there's been a lot of allegations of torture we none of this been verified but now he's been released and he goes out and actually seems to try to paint a positive picture which seems to say having someone is trying to use him to basically show international community that what he did was justified and that even someone like i would leap into

a lot of who should have remorse as she should have you know a grudge against the king as government is actually willing to speak out on behalf of the government saying you know it was actually not that bad and it was necessary and i've been free and until i think it was let me ask you they get do you think that that will be effective how do you think that that will be received if the point at n.b.s. doing this was to open outside and to the international community more to the business community what kind of do you think that they will see that this was maybe a good thing. no big i mean a couple of sides to the story i mean the one thing is did london so mind do this to exercise two to basically consolidate power for himself for the sake of having more power and to get getting rid of people who who might possibly challenge him is it about corruption and then is it about corruption in terms of internally showing people internally in saudi arabia that he's willing to take a hard hand even against big shots or is it about corruption towards the messaging

towards the international community telling the international community that he's willing to take whatever is necessary to open up the kingdom and i think that was the dilemma that he was under because first of all i think the message was internal i think in turn he wanted to show them that the pictures will get arrested and nobody everybody's equal in front of the law although his family is obviously a lot more equal than others and then obviously it was the international community that showed actually that saudi arabia was willing to do whatever necessary ever truly without following the rule of law to get rid of people and also deprive these people of their private assets that obviously sends the wrong message to investors and business people because it is some sort of ever trying is there how is there just is when there is no proper rule of law being followed they have never been any accusations people have never shown up in court they were just detained and ended up in a hotel and a very dubious circumstances certainly now very little if any transparency that is true and a screen. thank you. colombia's government has suspended peace talks with rebels

after a series of bombings over the weekend seven law enforcement officers were killed during the attacks on police stations in three cities president manuel santos has blamed the armed groups for the attacks. the reports from. three bombs attacks in less than twenty four hours was interpreted as a clear message from the u.n. about its faith in the peace process in colombia in the aftermath of the country's president juan manuel santos had his own. my patience on the patience of the colombian people has its limits so i have taken the decision to suspend the start of the fifth cycle of negotiations which was shared world for the coming days until we see coherence between the words and its actions. talks between the government then the active rebel group in colombia have been going for more than a year last october they agreed on a ceasefire but the rebels launched

a new offensive when it expired earlier this month the targeted oil pipelines and security forces the bloodiest of the week in attacks took place in the coastal city of. where five officers were killed. president santos flew there to inspect the aftermath under increasing pressure to win the peace talks for good in the eyes of the taxi indicate the group's leadership is divided over the way forward. as an organization where different tendencies converge on are expressed both politically and militarily they also have an historical issue with timing they're unable to understand when it's the right moment for doing or not doing something this attack happened at the worst possible time public opinion not only rejected them but also closed the political space government had to continue negotiation the year lynn says it's willing to take part in another ceasefire but its attacks will continue until the moment it's agreed upon the truth is that unlike the successful talks

with five gravels who signed the peace deal with the government a year ago the negotiations with a year len seem increasingly bound for failure leaving the dream of a columbia completely at peace in its stead troth i listen i'm just. starting on tuesday south korea's government is banning anonymous trading so this means traders can make cryptocurrency deposits only from bank account set up under their real names at the novak explains. park young uk hasn't worked since he quit his job at a pub in july he hopes to find a new role through a government employment program in the meantime he's trying his luck trading digital currencies. i've been living off my savings i have expenses but knowing comes so i thought big going could be a way to earn some money with a. park could only invest about five hundred dollars but was happy to make one

hundred dollar profit when prices surged came to one's company specializes in block chain the technology underpinning crypto currencies he says they're attractive for many who find it hard to keep up with the rising cost of living. bank interest rates are low and there are limited to opportunities for investment so the need cryptocurrency is appeared along in on time to return on investment it's estimated more than two million south koreans own cryptocurrency. south korea accounts for ten percent of global trade but south korea's economy accounts for less than two percent of the global economy so the market is overheated by about five fold at times demand has driven prices on local exchanges higher than those overseas a markup known as the kimchi premium. has a phenomenon that can be described as a craze a culture tantamount to gambling has been promoted the justice minister parks said

he has made a similar comparisons to gambling which is generally illegal here for south korean citizens earlier this month he said his ministry was preparing legislation to ban crypto currency trading. global prices tumbled after the comments then the president's office clarified that a band was just one measure being considered the government says new regulations banning anonymous trading are designed to prevent crimes such as money laundering and tax evasion it's also concerned about security north korea is. suspected of being behind hacks targeting south korean exchanges but many investors aren't happy park young says the government is trying to go back in time and more than two hundred thousand people have signed an online petition against a major cryptocurrency crackdown kathy novak al jazeera soul american baseball tame the cleveland indians has decided to get rid of

a controversial logo from their uniforms and she for who image has been criticized as offensive and racist by the native american community and other groups she for who is a caricature of a native american first appeared on the indians uniforms in one nine hundred forty eight major league baseball says it will be removed next year while van molten rock are spewing from the mayon volcano in the philippines more than eighty thousand villagers from the surrounding area have been forced to hide in schools turned into emergency shelters authorities say villages in the danger zone should be turned into a permanent no man's land to avoid future evacuations. these are your top stories right now on al-jazeera talks hosted by russia on the syrian war have been delayed in sochi the meeting was due to began earlier on tuesday but had been postponed amid reports of differences between turkey and russia their

foreign ministers have spoken twice already and an effort to bring all parties to the table about sixteen hundred syrian business been politicians rebels and members of civil society were invited to the black sea resort town of sochi but the main opposition groups and also the kurds are boycotting that meeting. kenya's opposition is holding what it calls a presidential swearing in ceremony for its leader raila odinga the attorney general has warned that challenging me official president will amount to treason opposition supporters have been filling in for her a national park in nairobi for this ceremony that attack on a military checkpoint in southeastern yemen has killed at least fifteen people from a u.a.e. backed force and happened east of the city of a talk in shabab province witnesses say the attackers fired at the checkpoint before detonating a car bomb and secessionist forces in southern yemen have attacked

a pro-government military camp and it's still latest escalation in violence by the u.s. backed forces after they tried to take over the government held city two days ago. saudi officials say all detainees held as part of an anti corruption investigation had been released from the ritz carlton hotel dozens of princes senior officials and top businessmen had been detained and confined in the luxury hotel which was used as an interrogation center the saudi government launched the purge in early november prince i will aid been talal one of the kingdom's top international business men was released on saturday the speaker peddling his parliament has postponed the vote for the region's president. of honest and self-imposed exile in brussels he is the only candidates it's unclear when this will take place spain's prime minister has warned parliament speaker roger torrent that he will face legal consequences if i'm honest elected to the new president which amount left spain in october yet has death the director entry mccabe has resigned just weeks before he

was due to retire he's been repeatedly criticized by the u.s. president for alleged political bias keep it here revel geek's is next. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one beijing shelter is giving them a home when he speaks the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time on al-jazeera digital technology is on its and its knees and even. in a t.g. billions of country nations you know ok it seems to me to stop and manage. in which everything in our lives to train. and intended. that is convenient for profit and surveillance he only needs. to move.