more confident and feel more energetic to feel more alive. to the rhythm our lives are vital source of substance to the country's it flows through this normal thing called on who can lay claim to. isn't going to give them the sense we found voted for it but with this comes a destabilizing rivalry the country suspicious of each other's intentions the battle for control of the republicans transponding seen consultation was not often included hunters because of some unknown feel struck a little bit but this time on al-jazeera. the u.s. state department designates hamas leader ismail haniyeh a global terrorist and announce sanctions against him. this is the e.u. steps up with an extra fifty three million dollars of aid for palestine after the u.s. decision to withhold funding. and

i'm glad this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program donald trump signs an order to keep the guantanamo bay prison camp open and possibly send i still faces that. judge says usa gymnastics dog larry nasir is non-dangerous of sexually abused two hundred sixty five. and a triple treat for stargazers as parts of the sea a blue moon a super moon and a total lunar eclipse all rolled into one. so the u.s. state department has designated the political leader of hamas it's not a global terrorist and has slapped sanctions on him it means any u.s. based assets he holds will now be frozen amasses the palestinian faction which is

de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven it's already considered a terror organization by the united states of the hamas officials have also been added to the list. this is not. just for a big. no religion it's for this reason we are considering this statement of the foolish statement committed by people who know nothing about what freedom for. what is my day i was born in a refugee camp west of gaza city he was close to hamas a spiritual leader the latest shake up and yes and but he was relatively unknown until he headed the how massless that won the palestinian election in january two thousand and six and became prime minister he was elected to be the masses political chief in may last year and is seen as pragmatic and flexible in his attitude towards israel spinouts a rose in jordan has more from washington d.c. and rose why is this all happening now. well the u.s.

government typically in the business of constantly revealing who should be on this list of terrorists as the u.s. government calls them and who should not be sometimes the decisions are made for purely political reasons sometimes they are made on the grounds that the person or the entity named is posing a national security threat nathan sales who is the state department's new coordinator for counterterrorism is in tel aviv on wednesday and during his remarks at a conference there on counterterrorism efforts he made this announcement and here is the president a hamas political bureau is also closely tied to the group's terrorist operations including attacks on israeli citizens and he has been a member of hamas and the one nine hundred eighty s. and he rose through the ranks in large part but continually championing terrorism

against israel and years calls for a renewed into fatah just last month underscore how important today's designation is we will not be distracted by hamas as efforts to obscure its true and bloody nature. rose to the years hint that it was going to take this action. nic the u.s. typically does not say when it's going to put a person on the list or put an entity on the list or remove a person or an entity for that matter however it is worth noting that in the release that the state department put out on wednesday it noted that he had been involved in the planning or execution of attacks on israeli civilians but also in this is important from a washington perspective had been involved in the planning of the execution of attacks on seventeen u.s. citizens and so that is perhaps the more pressing reason why is while honey is on

the list not only does this designation target his personal financial assets and bans him from ever coming to the united states but it also creates the potential that the u.s. might try to prosecute him in connection with the deaths of those seventeen u.s. citizens so it's early days but that's probably the more significant reason why he's now on this list or of us a picture from washington d.c. rose jordan thanks a lot well earlier the european union said it will give an extra fifty three million dollars in aid to palestine following the u.s. decision to withhold funding that used foreign policy chief federica more greeny maybe not a splinter to during his meeting in brussels the aid cannot come soon enough for the two million people in goes where an israeli blockade has led to western humanitarian situation in iran cohen reports on the day to day challenges its people are facing. is crumbling the siege imposed by israel and

egypt now in its eleven pm and three walls have left its infrastructure in ruins everything is in need of repair replacement buildings roads house services. this is a shot they a refugee camp mo nobody out of this house is not fit for human habitation according to the local united nations agency yet there's no money for even basic repair much less extensive reconstruction. one on for we are a family of eight people living in a small house until now we can provide food and i can't expand knowledge i only have two small rooms and the house is too small and it's falling to pieces the blockade dictates the day to day reality for two million people in gaza where israel controls the borders space and walters goes an economic experts are warning that even if help is given immediately as security and humanitarian situation might be unavoidable many youth don't but. many of the first they want to leave

gaza they want to leave anywhere the social. good i says and go under but it's. hey in ramallah the news that the israelis are talking about a billion dollar deal to ease humanitarian suffering in gaza has been met with skepticism and experts are wondering what any deal might actually mean or what does that really needs is an entitlement a serious entitlement effort led by the by the studios i don't think about very sorry lives are of the bottom three to speak of all development of gaza at a time when it's lie and is putting forth for the bed the development of gaza many blame israel for gaza's current state but others also say that the rift between the palestinian authority and hamas the largest political group in gaza has meant that things have stagnated gaza remains under siege imran khan.

its long been symbolic of the grave human rights abuses committed during the so-called war on terror but now u.s. president donald trump has decided to keep the notorious kuantan of a military prison open through an executive order his predecessor barack obama had promised to close a facility in cuba within a year of taking office but while many prisoners were released obama was unable to shut down guantanamo together in his state of the union address on shoes they warned that hundreds of dangerous terrorists could be released in the past but this would no longer be allowed to happen. i am asking congress to ensure that in the fight against isis and. we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists wherever we chase them. where ever we find.

and in many cases for them it will now be one ten and a. quarter of almost ten years since the last attained he was taken to guantanamo bay so trying to proposal to start sending people there again is a major departure seven hundred eighty people have been held there at different points since two thousand and two many without charge or criminal trial most have since been freed with one hundred ninety seven transferred repatriated or resettled under president obama before the one people are still being held the bomber was unable to fulfill his pledge to shut guantanamo altogether because some prisoners were deemed too risky to be freed include khalid shaikh mohammed the alleged mastermind of the nine eleven attacks he was charged with two thousand nine hundred seventy three counts of murder well the u.s. president avoided criticizing russia in his speech and now he's released a classified document that alleges and he trumped bias at the f.b.i.

which is investigating his links with russia democrats say the trumpet ministration is trying to discredit the inquiry a white house correspondent committee how could this. thank you and god bless america goodbye for many people it was the text of donald trump stated the union speech that made headlines instead it was his unscripted comments as he left the chamber referencing a secret memo purporting to show top law enforcement tools were used for political purposes of the twenty sixteen presidential election was released for iraq the war on the. right. it's a classified memo written by top republicans and members of the house intelligence committee they allege it shows a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration will investigating the truck campaign during the u.s. election republicans on the house intelligence committee voted on monday to release

the classified memo to the public despite protests from democratic lawmakers and the department of justice the memo al the partisan decision to make it public have only intensified the controversy surrounding the inquiry by special counsel robert muller into accusations of russian election meddling and potential kulu with the trump presidential campaign democrats argue it is all part of a wider effort by republicans and the white house to undermine the moeller investigation by continually raising questions about its fairness this week a top f.b.i. official announced he was stepping down after trump personally criticized him on twitter for having ties to the democratic party and recent reports suggest trump himself wanted to fire mahler thank you still thank you for that very well you're going straight story the russia investigation has clouded trump's presidency from

the start yet as truck checked off his list of what he sees a successes in his first year. there was barely a mention of russia in his state of the union speech and despite an almost unanimous vote by legislators to further sanction russia for interfering in the u.s. election the white house on monday decided not to move ahead with those sanctions the white house has received a classified memo and says it's under review the president now has five days to make good on his promise to make it public kimberly healthy al-jazeera washington. one person has died and another is seriously injured after a train carrying republican congressman including house speaker pull ryan collided with a vehicle the u.s. state of virginia and the officials were headed to a party retreats when that passenger train slammed into a garbage truck the white house says no members of congress or the staff were seriously injured a u.s.

judge says that more than two hundred sixty five people have come forward to say that they were victims of convicted sports talk to larry not that he's back in cold to be sentence for more sexual abuse charges around sixty people are expected to have their statements reading court over allegations nasser abused them i think the league club in the u.s. state of michigan now say was sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in jail earlier this month resulting in over one hundred fifty women and girls during his time as a doctor for the u.s. gymnastics team among his victims were medalists including the u.s. gymnast seaman biles who won four gold and a bronze in the two thousand and sixteen rio games in an interview balls praised the judge who presided over nurses for sentencing and explained how difficult it was to speak out. i think it's very hard for someone to go through what i've gone through recently and it's very hard to talk about. but i think the judge

is my hero just because she gave it to him and didn't let him get any power over any of the girls and letting the girls go and speak was very powerful you can't hurt you anymore you know he. can't. still to come this hoffa struggling to cope with the grandmother bringing up twenty children of the twin bomb attacks in somalia is now fifteen hundred. and we join colombian special forces on night patrol as they try to stop smugglers along the lowness border with venezuela and that's. how we got a good mobile fade in the weather across the southwest and prosecute now the latest band of cloud of gray blustery shallow as felt in the way in

a lovely suspecting of salecl out there across scotland and northern ireland at a low continue to make its way further south which as we go through the next few days the main rain bad will sink south was just brought some rather lively wrangle showers into pos of northern france recently added to the flooding problems but the main system is now easing further south with so some wet weather some winter weather over the outs the good old covering a snow once again over the alps mixture of rightness snow there into northern parts of spy but into the southeast a few jenny fine and dry cool want to moscow even for moscow temperatures now hot around minus eight degrees celsius that warms up as the snow rolls in for friday and the snow bands still stretching its way down across the out some wet weather there into northern parts of italy western side of the med it's right now but for much of northwest europe it's going to be a cold side yes a nobley wind talking in ice house in london but it will be lousy dry which include spells of sunshine down some weather that we have around the mediterranean also affecting the fall northwest of africa not too bad in a batch of around sixteen degrees celsius but rather cloudy that fortune is the

changes for the high of ninety degrees. to journey through memories by sri lanka's civil war. divisions and then to lose and still run deep. as a once exiled tamil gorilla struggles to comprehend how things went so wrong. demons in paradise and witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera.

and again a reminder the top stories here on al-jazeera and the u.s. state department has put the senior political leader of hamas this money on its terra blacklist this financial assets in the u.s. have been frozen and he's now the subject of a travel ban on. u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order to keep the guantanamo military prison open reversing an order by his predecessor to shut the facility down. and the u.s. judge says that more than two hundred sixty five people have come forward to say they were victims of convicted sports talk to larry nasa is backing cole to be sentence for more sexual abuse charges to a british lawyer seeking to get saudi arabia suspended from the u.n. human rights council over its own human rights record the kingdom is accused of arresting dozens of political activists and detaining them without charge so i'm going to go as this report. it's

a case that has been given little attention given the recent state of affairs in saudi arabia thirty of its citizens detained without charge and of of thirty one who have apparently simply disappeared no one knows where they have gone or whether they're being held and what have they been charged with any offenses a violation of saudi and international rules say the british lawyers who authored the report into the arrests and are now calling for the u.n. to suspend the government of saudi arabia from the human rights council if they are committed to human rights and the instruments that they signed up to as well as international law then there's no need for a suspension if they put that into practice but those who breach provisions of international codes should not be allowed to do that and still sit on a council that reviewers human rights around the world with the double standard should be stopped much may have been made of the recent changes in saudi arabia

since the countries of the throne mohammed bin salman assumed a wider role women have won the right to drive the last country in the world to have lifted that ban and a high profile corruption crackdown against members of the elite two significant attention around the world but human rights groups say while these actions are part of a determined effort to change saudi's troubled image the reality is far removed from that vision of change dissent is silenced calls for change our sense it and even messages on social media can invite imprisonment and punishment the fact that both simple activists i mean please jean according to our accounts and maybe more now that this new report has emerged our jail soley for the human rights activism and this is absolutely not acceptable and i mean that the efforts of the crown prince to brand himself as a reformer cannot fly in the face of such blatant human rights violations as a member of the un's human rights panel. there is much pressure on saudi arabia to

fulfill its duties in that capacity one way would be to get key allies such as the u.k. a major exporter of arms to the kingdom to convince them to fulfill their legal obligations saudi's rulers are expected to visit britain soon but there are concerns as to how much of an effect prime minister theresa may would have on calls to respect the values that meant to uphold as members of the human rights council saudi arabia may be sensitive about his image question is how much would it be prepared to prove that it's willing to accept change within the kingdom. jazeera london heavy explosions have rocked yemen's capital sonorous the saudi led coalition targeted weapons tools used by the hutu rebels who control the city according to local residents there were at least five raids by coalition warplanes wednesday meanwhile here in southern port city of aden some forty thousand civilians are stranded

without aid they sought refuge in the city during the three year long civil war only to find themselves trapped after fighting broke out over the weekend between secessionists and government troops the government remains a blockaded inside the presidential palace and the u.n. says it's too dangerous to distribute. a kenyan opposition m.p. has been arrested after the stage inauguration of riley on tuesday the mock swearing in of the opposition leader was condemned by the government as a form of treason catherine soy in nairobi has more. a very tough statement coming out of the interior ministry with a cabinet minister saying that what happened on tuesday was an attempt to overthrow the government so basically talking treason he said that the government has launched investigations into that and also investigations into pop conspirators and facilitate says he says that the government has also launched investigations into media houses particularly local media houses whose lives signalled was switched off

and he said the reason why that happened is because it was a threat to national security we also had that who presided over the swearing in. was arrested interrogated and we know that the government has declared this national resistance movement which is. a unit that was introduced by the opposition last year so the government has displayed this movement an organized criminal group so a very tough position taken by the government and will be interesting to see how this investigation will conclude whether it will lead to their arrest of reloading i was very careful with the words he used in the oath thing on tuesday swearing to be the people's president which is not exactly the same as the president of the republic of kenya he also has a huge following you can just tell from the number of people who turned up for that swearing in on tuesday a walk day so perhaps going to be problematic to arrest him but government

officials saying that nobody is above the law it was one of the world's most deadly attacks in recent history more than five hundred somalis were killed in twin bombings in mogadishu three months ago among them paramedics and civil servants but many of the dead were also parents left more than one thousand five hundred forty children orphaned read imola as this. medina mohammed plays with her three month old grandson has and his grandmother is looking after him because his mother was one of the hundreds killed in the twin bomb attacks in mogadishu last october i've asked and was just eleven days old when the bombs went off as well as has since mother two of medina's other daughters and niece were killed their bodies were never found. the most difficult thing is that i've been left with twenty children to look after i'm really old now and

a calm provide for them a come with them houses can do anything for them the only way we are surviving right now is money from well wishers it is not enough for all of us. the truck bomb blast and a second attack later the same day killed five hundred and ninety people injured hundreds more and orphaned at least one thousand five hundred and forty children in most cases their extended families are looking after them no one claimed responsibility for the attacks but police suspect i'll shabaab fighters may have planned it the truck bomb blast completely devastated this area where a popular hotel once stood since the last summer business owners have come back running a makeshift restaurant some of the customers here were injured in the explosion but people here say they want to support the hotel that for them it's a show of defiance a smile is part of

a local fund raising group as the injured were rushed to hospital the group began collecting money to help them families and local businesses affected five million dollars was raised very remarkable this city has gone. it is a great city and problem so are going to be able to get all of them together every pro. then came. the national community or other people or other government come to form their own. hoping to others. following the explosions tens of thousands took to the streets condemning the attacks. latina and her grandchildren are a small part of a large community of survivors still in recovery she says despite the pain and loss all have family can do is move on. al-jazeera look at issue. but as well

as economic collapse has led to a surge in crime not just at home but also in neighboring colombia criminal gangs are finding it increasingly lucrative to smuggle goods across the border and sold them with inflated prices and it's under ramp yet she went on night patrol with colombian special forces hunting smugglers along the venezuelan border. shots ring out over to see mom believe a bridge dividing colombia and venezuela as people dodge and run for cover. in the last four months at least fourteen gun fights have erupted in the border town of. the gun battles have left forty people dead as colombian in venezuela and crime groups fight for control of the lucrative contraband of goods on this porous lawless border. the mayor says people are terrified. that in with we need the national government to wake up about the effects of venezuela's crisis we are being told we need to prepare for what will come what is not what will come it's already here. since been this way president shut down the border last year to all but

foot traffic violence has increased tenfold. inflation is too profitable at them station for the gangs. in two years the colombian peyser has increased forty times in value over diminished when and believe cross border smuggling once limited to petrol now extends to scrap metal fruits meat or anything that can fetch three times its price in venezuela. this response has been increasing police presence on the ground. so we're going to look for trucks full of contraband in those areas probably informants already warned the smugglers of our prisons so the trucks can be hidden in one of the trails. in pitch darkness in complete silence the officers patrol to a maze like collection of ever expanding trails but it's like finding a needle in a haystack i mean this in. colombia special forces are on the lookout here on the

river which divide spain its way from colombia this is just one of over one hundred forty known crossings that smugglers use to move goods into colombe of course it's practically impossible to control all of them despite the police best efforts but experts say the fight is also undermined by the lack of collaboration between the two countries and exacerbated by persistent corruption there's no doubt that the border is being sold to the highest bidder this area is in the hands of criminal enterprises dedicated to drug trafficking large scale smuggling extortion kidnapping human trafficking and it has been activated by the closure of the border the rising crime is just another side of be increasing economic and social crisis have been the swale and that has no end in sight alison that i'm. home calling has voted to battle

a very sales members of the legislative council passed a bill that will completely abolish the market within the next three years it includes a ban on hunting trophies and ivory taken from elephants often one hundred seventy five china imposed a complete ban on ivory sells last month's volkswagen supervisory board has called for an immediate inquiry into who commissioned tests in which monkeys and humans were exposed to toxic diesel fumes volkswagen suspended its chief lobbyist on tuesday following the controversy and they were has suspended a board member over the scandal the monkey experiment took place in new mexico in two thousand and fourteen and was funded by daimler and b.m.w. . or a celestial event known as a balloon the blood moon has been gracing the night sky the three lunar eclipse meant the moon appeared much bigger brighter redder than usual expects gold could be seen in north america the middle east asia russia india and australia the last

super blue blood moon was back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two people from all over the world watch the rare directly. and i don't care if it's three thirty in the morning i'm going to come and it's completely worth it it's amazing it's gone through so many stages it's. really beautiful. there over a lot of extraordinary things happening now adays this may be one of those extraordinary things. we were really amazed by that i mean it's next to the volcano so it's a really good view to share with others this is a once in a lifetime no one is you know. that we feel we're part of history. but there are a lot of the top stories here on al-jazeera and in breaking news the u.s. state department has put the senior political leader of hamas ismail haniya on its

turbulent list the masses the palestinian faction which has de facto ruled the gaza strip since two thousand and seven i mean is now subject to a travel by lynas had his financial assets in the united states frozen al-jazeera israel's been jordan has more on this developing story. this doesn't nation says that. and i'm quoting now is the leader and president of the political bureau of hamas going on to say that he has close links with hamas is military wing and has been a proponent of armed struggle including against civilians continuing to quote he has been involved in terrorist attacks against israeli citizens hamas has been responsible for an estimated seventeen american lives killed in terrorist attacks u.s. president all trump assigned executive order to keep the notorious prison at guantanamo bay open revoking a decision by his predecessor to shut it down in his state of the union address on tuesday warned hundreds of dangerous terrorists has been released in the past but

this would no longer be allowed to happen the u.s. military prison in cuba has long been a symbol of human rights abuses during the so-called war on terror the european union is giving an extra fifty three million dollars in aid to palestine following the u.s. decision to withhold funding the european union's foreign policy chief greeny made the announcement as a dozen is meeting in brussels u.n. has warned that gaza's economy is on the verge of collapse to british lawyers have submitted a review of human rights in saudi arabia to the un human rights council is seeking to get it removed from the body sick used of arresting political activists and detaining them without charge. a year as john says more than two hundred sixty five people have come forward to say they were victims of convicted sportstalk to larry nasir he's back in court to be sentence for more sexual abuse charges around sixty people are expected to have their statements read out in court

over allegations that nassar buz them at an elite club in the u.s. state of michoacan right up to date with the latest headlines the stream is coming right up. i have for me i can and i'm only going to live is there a dark side to the world of social media and fluence earth is not a trick question today the stream examine step how at the ethics behind the insta famous and some other media messages.