the palestine national orchestra was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in twenty ten always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories so good for us it's like every palestinian living in the us court felt it was the first time they perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time. and elaine is the russians to talk on the one syria.

and welcome to al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me and. also ahead. two days of fighting in yemen and southern secessionists have taken control of the port city of aden. donald trump gets ready to deliver his state of the union address that we've just received a preview and we'll bring you some of the details and drumming up business with what's in store for britain's prime minister on her way to china. russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country but the syrian opposition boycott of the event saying. no want. reports from the conference and which was mobbed by squabbles on

the heckling of the russian foreign minister. for several hours it seemed like the syria in sochi would collapse before it began turkish backs opposition figures refused to participate after arriving at saatchi's airport overnight offended by the presence of syrian government flags. we were surprised to see that none of the promises were kept needed a brutal bombardment stopped nowhere the syrian regime flags and slogans removed from the conference banners and we have seen a lack of diplomatic manners from the host country which. two hours late spring seedings finally got underway. but the chaos continues to ring russian foreign minister sergey lavrov opening remarks in the conference hall. in the room one thousand three hundred ninety three international observers and delegates from many walks of syrian life political religious ethnic cultural and

business they pushed ahead with dialogue agreeing in the end to embrace twelve principles developed in the un stalled geneva process and to form a constitutional committee comprising syrian government and opposition figures but there was no disguising the absence of the main rebel organizations among them the syrian negotiations committee the key concern that many in the opposition have had about sochi and what's kept plenty of figures away is that this would turn into a way for russia to sidestep the official un track to peace well that's something the russians have denied strenuously here saying this was never meant to compete with geneva and now they say they are handing the baton on to stefan de mistura it's a task the u.n. special envoy has chosen to accept their constitutional committee to be formed comprising the government of this. republic delegation along with the why

represented opposition delegation for drafting a constitutional reform and the main tests for the ultimate success of sochi whether the opposition factions who stayed away can be persuaded to endorse its decisions and whether it does as russia says was always the intention reinvigorate talks in geneva rory chalons al-jazeera sochi. so yemen. have taken control of the southern port city of aden that's where the saudi backed government of president. has been basins two thousand and fourteen when i was pushed out of the capital by hoofy rebels well there was this news agency says the forces which are backed by the u.a.e. have confined have these government to the presidential palace suggesting splits and they sell the lead coalition. that has the latest. the seat of power for yemen's government is no longer under its control this is the

sudden port city of aden where secessionist say they are now in charge fighters from the southern transitional council have seized areas around the presidential palace and military bases. the prime minister's call to cease fire has not worked the government of president. is based out of saudi arabia and the man he appointed as governor of aden now heads the separatist movement secessionist said given how the made to change its government and when the deadline expired on sunday thousands of their supporters took to the streets of aden. that. we demand this corrupt gang in the liberated southern areas be expelled our youth have sacrificed for the school the sacrifices cannot go down the drain and see this corrupt gang in power to them we say enough is enough. many people in the south of accuse the government in the north of discrimination since united in one thousand nine hundred the situation has worsened since the war against the who began three years ago. we

aspire to form a state the coalition must consider our cause if not they will be the losers as we were store our country and our state not only on osama doing we are here today holding our ground you'll remain in the streets we will topple the field government we will topple bin doctor and his government as they've humiliated our people the people. the saudi led coalition was supposed to fight the iran backed with the rebels you could call much of the north including the capital. that the united arab emirates which is part of that coalition has been supporting the separatists in the south by u.s. partner saudi arabia backs the internationally recognized government which no longer has any control in the north or the south out but despite that the saudis insist the coalition has been splendid. to have. the position of the u.a.e. remains deeply consistent with other members of the coalition concerning the yemen

crisis the foreign ministers meeting last week was good evidence that members of the coalition are united and will take the liberation of yemen as their ultimate goal but instead of liberating and uniting yemen the war seems to have pushed the country to the brink of breaking up some of the job it does there. now in just two hours from now u.s. president will deliver his first state of the union address to a joint session of congress as used to outline the president's legislative agenda for the year ahead exits have been released ahead of the address the president will talk about her successes with tax reforms and also push for cross party corporation of emigration as more divisive policies and fonda promising have prompted several democrats to boycott the address. i have attended every state of the union since one nine hundred ninety eight this president doesn't respect the office of the presidency at all and so i don't want to normalise that there are many reasons first day when you just look at his asshole comments about africa and about el

salvador and about haiti my ancestors came from the continent of africa these were very racist comments and we see how they are translated into many of his policies secondly he's using our young people are dreamers in terms of a pawn in a political game and he's got them in limbo and they shouldn't be this have this anxiety about their lives well let's bring in al-jazeera senior political analyst on the shah is joining us live from london so what would you be looking for the centrists would the real state of the nation in mind. well certainly there's going to be a lot of boasting about the rolling economy as he sees it and certainly is going to be talk about infrastructure which probably will be good in terms of bridging gaps with the democrats and they'll be talking of that they'll be talk about

immigration and certainly trade and national security i think foreign policy national security in general come you know towards the end and less in for sized in state of the union as it where especially when the united states is not you know in a new type of war as it were now of course a lot of us and a lot of americans forget that they are still at the war in afghanistan. after seventeen years of war in that country and now that they are deployed in syria and they're deployed in iraq and lloyd in so many bases around the world there are more than hundreds. and twenty so far greenman state status of forces agreement in various parts of the world with with so many bases up to several hundreds so really the united states is present in all kinds of places

but for the city of the union there will be probably this time around more talk about the economy infrastructure and immigration and on the on their presence in so many places around the world my one dollar trump is actually asking for an increase in the military budget and a historic increase in defense spending and he's as we know pushing on an open door because last year congress passed a defense budget that exceeded what trump asked for the proposed budget for this year let's have a look at some of the numbers six hundred and thirty four billion dollars by two thousand and nineteen point this to increase to seven hundred and sixteen billion the extra money will be used and. crease the number of troops and bases and trump says this is balanced by cuts and non-defense spending including foreign aid on the washington d.c. based pew research center says the number of us overseas stuff is that a sixty year low so what can we take away from the increase in the military budget

yet reluctance and less involvement diplomatically it is it is mind boggling it's mind boggling really because while as i said the united states is still in a in a war in places like afghanistan but i mean afghanistan it's much of the war there is actually a symmetry called warfare against basically. insurgency in the various parts of the country and it just the war goes on and on and more defense spending and more involvement in the war everyone knows is counterproductive. just imagine that the united states spends more than more than ten times what russia spends on defense i mean it's just mind boggling that the united states spends more than the following twelve countries if spends more than fifty times the defense spending of iran or around out of iran the arch enemy of

donald trump now in the world so really we are not in any type of major warfare and we're not in the cold war and everyone knows that real security threats nowadays are more cyber or more a symmetric and so so forth and to spend such a huge budgets on defense in today's world can only lead to arms race and i think the likes of china of course are picking up some of the tab and they are increasing their defense budgets because they are competing with the united states so instead of reaching some kind of arms deals with the lack of china russia and others the united states is leading the pact in military expenditures and that will prove totally destabilizing to the rest of the world as much as it is a drain on the american economy from that madman thank you very much for that for now we will of course be going back to my one after we hear from the president

thank you for now. still ahead on the bulletin. kenya's main opposition leader vida day led the players and self the people's president and caution long as exiled president carter has pushed a lot speaks out against the spanish government. the nice pink sky by the taj mahal. or is the sunsets in the city of angels. welcome back the cold air is persisting across a good part of eastern china and through into northern parts of vietnam thirteen in hanoi when the temperatures should be about seventeen or eighteen degrees and i suspect for some a lot of how long day and we are on a cold and damp and drizzly at times so hong kong really struggling temperatures a long way below average and all weapons far shanghai temperatures are struggling

the highs of just four degrees heading into thursday still looking on the cool side but temperatures are beginning to edge upwards and that cold air will be gone from vietnam of that states the temperatures back to where they should be for annoy across the rest of indo china it is fine and caught in hewitt's much as you'd expect yang on there with highs of thirty one into southeastern parts of asia we've got a few showers for the philippines but jerry weather conditions here looking fairly quiet is looking like quite a good picture too across much of borneo java seen some showers through the course of wednesday thursday too i think they'll be some more rain around here but as you move up through them in a pinch it is generally looking fine for singapore in kuala lumpur we've got some showers around the gulf of thailand but i think for much of southern thailand through cambodia and into southern vietnam it should be generally fine showers said likely for sure lanka but also it looking largely fine one poor country sunshine high here thirty two. the weather sponsored by cat time race.

dizzy rakes prose prominent figures of the twentieth century and how life influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution coming his own way feel castro is a feudal east the not a communist that just wanted his country che wanted international revolution became a point when the relationship came to fit in the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face at this time on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with

a call for elections in the country for the syrian opposition who boycott of the event. and. u.s. president donald trump is just a couple of hours away from delivering his state of the union address to a joint session of congress that's used to outline the president's legislative agenda for the year ahead and secessionist forces in yemen have taken control of the southern port city of aden reported so the government of president. has been confined to the presidential palace in the city. while the former u.s. ambassador to yemen. believes this latest about a moment will only prolong the war and yemen. this is going to be a complication it's going to make the process of ending the media conflict that much more difficult and will make it more difficult also to map out a way forward understanding that there are a number of different divisions within the country including most prominently

between the north and the south that are going to have to be addressed in my view what you need to do is to and the most immediate source of the fighting which is between the who tease who sought to overthrow the widget of a government of yemen and the and the government present the rabo months or hadi who still has the the support of the international community through the u.n. security council resolutions then after that you have to have a political process that is once again going to try to address these many issues of the internal divisions within the north in the south and also trying to win the support of disaffected populations particularly the tribes and news and civil society. kenya's government has declared the opposition movement

a criminal hours after its leader rylan a dentist for himself at a mock inauguration thousands of the supporters attended the ceremony insisting that hasan the judgment leader they are the presidential poll that returned who are kenyatta was there the free and fair catherine sort of reports from nairobi. i. was right loading they're taking an oath of office that is not officially recognized he swears to serve and protect the country as what he calls himself the people's president he's basing his oath of the august eighth general election that he says he won the election was invalidated by the supreme court which ordered a new one to be held in october last year. and his opposition as a. quartet that. was tuesday's rally in nairobi was largely peaceful and there was no police presence despite the government declaring the gathering and knew full and shutting down live signals of the country's main

television stations for most of the day. the ceremony itself took less than fifteen minutes and left mixed feelings on what today was sort of under climactic for the many many supporters of the opposition as of when lisa new came to witness the symbolic swearing in of and his deputy. and the reason why people went home so disappointed is because the other three main leaders including. this deputy did not show up to this event was they later issued a statement saying the absence was beyond their control but supporters here say does not look good for opposition unity or. other leaders will be here to support it would have shown us how strong the opposition is what. i do. the people we talked to told us that the important thing is that.

it's one of the that's. really the state of the of this country this is. the over the last one of. the so-called people's assembly a forum established by the opposition to operate to the county governments to elect order forms and other issues last year the opposition. to the national resistance movement the government has just declared that an organized criminal group. the supporters say it does not matter if all their hopes on him to deliver electoral justice even as they understand that the oath is largely ceremonial and.

catherine so we are now really became. a coalition of egypt ssion opposition parties is that into boycott the upcoming presidential election and calling on voters to do the same they civil democratic movements were pressured in the lead up to the march one reason for its decision not to participate the president at the. challenger former military chief of staff sami anon was arrested last week and his sentence withdrawn his candidacy and a number of other candidates have also dropped out of the race. nearly one half million afghans are expected to lose the right to stay in pakistan after the government said it's not going to extend their refugee status their legal rights officially expired in december but pakistani officials extended their stay by one month. report from a refugee camp. for several decades bogged down had been home to registered and on registered of andre fuji o.m.'s gaped a conflict and

a country to seek sanctuary here in pakistan but no because of the pressure from the international community and particularly the united states by get dante indicted wants to repack creation of the referee again because security trade pakistan has also been stressing the need of. refugees as their presence in pakistan helps of foreign terrorists to made and more among them however if you are these people they will tell you that they do not want to be turned back into a country torn apart by conflict by the government of pakistan that fund them already dried out and then raid little international assistance to help the people . government has not done enough to keep the people who really normally lived in that country and for day it did once again an uncertain future hold.

we are living here the government of pakistan must extend. country and still it won't it's one side it's the taliban and on other side is the american no one forces we are stuck with we need to know once. almost one point three million registered on the ground refugee and an equal number of unregistered refugees will feed a legal status and on the thirty first of january and it will be important to keep read that they will be given yet another extension for today. against their will. a twenty seven year old man in india has been arrested over the rape of his eight month old baby cousin the girl's being treated for serious internal injuries and is undergone a three hour operation in the capital new delhi there were around thirty six thousand recorded cases of rape sexual assault and similar offenses against

children in india in two thousand and sixteen now the united nations children's fund is warning that around sixty thousand children are at risk of starvation in north korea with the situation made worse by international sanctions the very important place because of north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs last week the u.s. announced new sanctions on several organizations and people and on the six north korean ships unicef says the sanctions are making it harder to get aid into the country now the republic of ireland is to hold a referendum in may on relaxing abortion laws which are among the strictest in europe abortion is currently illegal arland unless the mother's life is in danger with up to fourteen years in prison for a woman who break the law now voters will be asked whether to scrap the constitution's eighth amendment which awards equal whites to a woman and to her unborn child if it passes prime minister only of it out because says the government will lead slate to allow understructure access to abortion up

to the twelfth week of pregnancy although the irish republicans historically catholic opinion polls suggest a majority for reform. hundreds of people have gathered for a process session rally in cotton on your just as regional parliament plan to reappoint its alstad leader collis poached a man as president but the parliamentary vote was suspended and the central government one of the possible extension off direct will from the trade the bulk of explains from barcelona. that another large scale demonstration here in barcelona in support of atlanta independent it comes on the day in which the castle and parliament dominated by those in favor of independence fully suspended the session the would have formally recognize its new leader as carlos. the only problem is the colors put him on his own self-imposed exile in brussels if you don't attempt to come back here to barcelona he runs the very very real risk of being jailed

possibly for thirty years on charges of rebellion and sedition for declaring independence for catalonia at the end of the toba saying that though the constitutional court on saturday said that if he doesn't come here to barcelona for his own investiture in person then they would suspend the session completely there is also the possibility the parliament could hold a symbolic session of their own with the possibility of putting on appearing via live or video link up for a speech to be read by somebody else on his behalf but then they run the very real risk of there being a continuation of direct control over the lonia by central government in madrid but the people here have made it very very clear where their loyalty lies with this man recognize him as carla's creature. and pushed him out has spoken out against what he's called unfaithful tricks of the spanish government addressing a group of belgian politicians via video link to keep fighting for democracy. oh.

for democracy. to be sure. respect. democracy. and this message has to some. where the. shrink. is letting the home. now as the u.k. prepares to leave the prime minister theresa may has turned east in order to find new trading partners she's now in china along with fifty business leaders are going to set up new deals and new markets china is already an important part of a some u.k. companies as philips reports from yorkshire they've been making woollen cloth since

seventeen eighty three and the expertise built up over centuries by this very british company in its yorkshire factory is now highly valued by the chinese today much of the focus is on markets in the far east and it exports more textiles and fabrics to china than to any other country. but they know where else might china in the wealthy dating sites in. fact the relationship next to get it to john james and actually make you know you can see the banks they can never answer any of their intimate things this company's business is into woven with china but the wider british and chinese economies are not so tightly bound trade house grown sharply in recent is but it's still relatively small the united states is the largest destination for british exports china is only eight. exports to

china are worth about one fourteenth of those to the e.u. which britain will soon be leaving but china's growing strength is felt in britain as elsewhere the arrival of the first train from china in london last year a symbol of china's desire to reach across the world to trade more with britain tourism a has visited china before and met president g g p at the g twenty summit back in twenty sixty but now with the prime minister weak at home and with new government documents saying that breaks it will damage the economy is there a danger the chinese will consider her a little desperate they clearly have the upper hand in many ways because they're bigger economy three times bigger i mean they're important to us in ways that probably weren't before brics it started to happen and so the best outcome really will be that she looks confident she's aware of the strategic importance of this

visit as many many things that china just want from the u.k. intellectual partnership intellectual property liberal investment environment and so the best outcome will be one where everyone comes away thinking markets when we're in the yorkshire factory they make products the chinese want there's now a lucrative trade in cloth to snooker tables the challenge for tourism a on this visit to convince china and other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire. again i'm elizabeth bron i'm in dar harbor the headlines on al-jazeera and russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country but the syrian opposition who boycotted the event and sought she says k. demands were ignored and no thermal agreements have been made. u.s.

president donald trump the set to deliver his first state of the union address to a joint session of congress in just a couple of hours that's used to outline the president's legislative agenda for the year ahead exits have been released ahead of the address the president will talk up his success with tax reforms and also push for cross party cooperation over immigration secession is forces in yemen have taken control of the southern port city of aden reports say the government of president has he has been confined to the presidential palace of the city that's where the saudi backed leaders government has been basins two thousand and fourteen when it was pushed out of the capital by hopi rebels. a coalition of egyptian opposition parties is calling for a boycott of the upcoming presidential election the civil democratic movement cited a waiver for pressure and in the lead up to the march vulture's reason for its decision not to participate catalonia as regional parliament was due to try and

reappointed to do the collars pushed him on to the president on tuesday but the votes being suspended has now spoken out against what he's called the unfaithful tricks of the spanish government and vowed to keep fighting for democracy. oh son who is the site for democracy. to be sure the vote respect. democracy is a stage in his own youth and this message has to some piece london's one of the beatles if you'll be repeats. we. all do grucci. and also did you slowly shrink. the two into stone because letting the sounds letting the colston stew look which the united nations children's fund is warning that around sixty thousand children are at risk of starvation and north korea as

international sanctions take their toll that they put in place but as of north korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs as the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us and five story coming up next thank you very much for watching. russia host talks to end the war in syria but the main opposition stays away and others also suspicious russia is the biggest backer of syrian president bashar al assad so panic place or will it simply enforce its own vision of peace this is the inside story.