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this is. from doha also coming up dozens of pakistani migrants a few drowned after the boat capsized off the coast of. protests in kenya after another arrest over the mock you know gratian of the opposition leader plus. we'll tell you about a chinese make a project through here that the lao government hopes will help open this country. a member of criticizing the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election has been released after being declassified by u.s. president donald trump it was written by republicans says the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse that showed bias while investigating the alleged

ties between his campaign team and the kremlin well the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material emissions a fact in a statement the agency's director christopher ray told staff he stood by them democrats say the members aimed at derailing special counsel robert muller's investigation into the campaign's alleged links to russia white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign colluded with the right . government during the twenty sixteen presidential election but in the end it did not meet expectations president trump declassified the memo written by top republicans allowing for its public release even against the advice of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. investigators looking into alleged truck ties to russia hit the fact some of their

research was funded by democratic party sources it also claims the entire investigation was biased against donald trump from the beginning and that some agents expressed views privately and i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves but democrats argue the memo is simply a summary of republican talking points based on in accuracies house democratic leader nancy pelosi says it's all part of a plan to distract americans from the russia investigation led by special counsel robert muller and alleged campaign ties to president vladimir putin's government in a statement she said president trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as commander in chief by releasing highly classified and distorted intelligence by not protecting intelligence sources and methods he just sent his

friend putin a book a trump himself made the argument on twitter prior to the memos release that leadership at the f.b.i. and justice department are out to get him some analysts believe that's more evidence trump is actively obstructing the investigation if you look at the words out of mr trump's own mouth the very incriminating he said repeatedly i need somebody in the justice department who will protect me it's doubtful the memos released will change public opinion about the russia investigation still there is now an effort by some democrats and republicans to literally protect the rush of probe from what many believe is a white house effort to derail the justice process kimberly held at al-jazeera washington well melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor who specializes in government ethics she says the white house appears to be trying to destruct the public with the release of the memos. i

think they're getting increasingly frightened about what robert mueller is up to there have been other stories this week about bob muller honing in on the pattern of the trump administration in trying to engage in a cover up we saw stories about the president's spokesperson hope picks saying that e-mails would never come out and we saw that in a previous spokesperson mark carollo had resigned because of his concern about obstruction of justice so i think that the white house is has that's all going on at one side so they'd much rather distract all of us with discussions about this memo which people who hadn't seen it said it would be a hundred times worse than watergate but yet as jim comey pointed out really there's nothing in it there's nothing new or particularly in lightning in it and so by the same token i think people will now say the people who support trump well see we've got this memo and this memo shows us how corrupt it is and i think a lot of people will never have looked at the memo or have no understanding about what's in it the democrats are going to vote to push

a vote again on monday about releasing their own memo and late this afternoon the white house said if it goes to attempt to appropriate process there could be a way to release it but i think that that may be them stalling for time to avoid actually having to release the memo so we'll see what happens with the democrats vote on monday. the u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to concerns of a russia's expansion of its capability the new nuclear strategy unveiled by the pentagon in n.z. a bomb era push to reduce america's stockpile the defense secretary james mattis says the u.s. needs to see the world as it is not as it wishes it to be a defense correspondent particle hain reports in washington. u.s. president donald trump never criticizes russian president vladimir putin but the pentagon is doing just that moscow retains a large stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons and continues to modernize those

as well as its strategic systems this report says aggression from russia concerns about china and north korea and potentially iran are the reasons the u.s. needs to modernize its nuclear weapons and it's changing the wording on when it could use them saying the u.s. could use nuclear weapons in extreme circumstances to defend the vital interests of the u.s. what's new is they added this line extreme circumstances could include significant non nuclear strategic attacks the military was asked to clarify what that means it would that also involve the employment of biological weapons against the us population or allies would involve the use of chemical weapons against our people would involve a conventional attack in other parts of the world the context in which an attack occurred on the united states or allies would be how we would evaluate the appropriate response the plan also calls for modernizing the nuclear arsenal that's something the last administration wanted to do and at the time they said it was going to cost more than

a trillion dollars over thirty years this plan would undoubtedly be even more expensive and that has not been something that congress has been really willing to fund at this point. u.s. also wants to build a new kind of weapon a nuclear warhead with less impact but critics say that could make nuclear war more likely they are literally having weapons that give the president more options to start a nuclear war and that is becoming dangerous quickly we have this president who we all know is impetuous irrational and not always unsound mind recently three high ranking former diplomats went to capitol hill with the warning that the massive destructive force of a nuclear weapon was no longer appreciated or even feared by some in those days people seem to have an appreciation of what would what would be the result of a nuclear weapon if ever used i fear people have lost that sense of dread the u.s. under president trump is trying to improve its nuclear arsenal and the potential

reasons to use it they say in order to improve the odds it won't have to political hane al-jazeera washington well the former u.s. state department official a son of god says the renewed emphasis on these types of weapons is troubling. i have no doubt that the professionals at the department of energy department of defense in the state department who analyzed those threats in developing the nuclear posture review had very good and important information where i differ with the final product that was rolled out the south after noon is its. case that low yield nuclear weapons have any stabilizing or valuable role to play in today today's threat context in fact i would make the opposite case that there is no real such thing as a surgical nuclear strike on a potential enemy i also have observed that over the last ten to twenty years there

is some very strong and compelling can conventional alternatives to a potential nuclear strike so this renewed emphasis on these types of weapons is troubling and does not leave our allies i think in a very strong position and i don't see how it compels china whose threat i think is somewhat overstated and certainly russia to alter their calculus. dozens of pakistanis are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya they are among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of simyra pakistan's foreign ministry says it's confirmed the deaths of eleven of its citizens only three people are known to have survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean and reach italy well adorn is something international organization for migration he says the boat was probably overloaded. we know that the weather was calm so that's indicating that indicating that the smugglers who are cavalier to say the least huge lead overloaded this

vessel so this is just really what happens and we need to get the word out to people desperate people around the world who think they're coming to a better life and they're reading about it on social media that it's not the case but these two people have been killed and nineteen injured in a barrage of rocket attacks on towns on the turkish border with syria. turkey's government says the rockets were fired from a kurdish enclave on the syrian side of the border as were more than two weeks of intense fighting since turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian kurdish forces known as the y.p. jeep turkey says the white b.g. is a terrorist group and the y.p. g.'s accusing turkish backed fighters of mutilating them food in the corpse of a female kurdish fighter and more of pictures of the victim are circulating on social media she is understood to be a member of the all female kurdish women's protection units footed seen by a desire appear to show free syrian army fighters standing over her body in

a village near the turkish border you know local media say air artillery strikes in eastern guta have killed five people including a child further north an airstrike hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo southeastern countryside it's believed seven people were killed some of them children. now thousands of people in pakistan have held mass sit ins demanding their arrest and execution of a police officer after a male model was shot dead it was the second their rallies after the killing of a twenty seven year old nucky masood in an operation on wednesday his family denies the police claim he was a criminal the officer who led the operation has been relieved of his duties have been protests in kenya after the government arrested a second lawyer involved in tuesday's mock you know gratian of the opposition leader. protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi where no way i'm going to be given a was taken from his home in a dawn raid the gunas stood beside a dingo he proclaimed himself the people's president to protest last year's

election three private television stations that had planned to broadcast the event remain off air despite a court ruling allowing them to resume operations catherine sawyer has more from nairobi. it's four days and there's three television stations a steal off despite a court order for resumption of services until a case that has been filed by a human rights activist is hard and the time and in the next two weeks we also know that three journalists went to court to block police from arresting them they've gotten some reprieve the court has ordered that they should not be arrested until their case is determined and very early this morning police raided and arrested one of your position of politicians has called me when i mean very fiery he says the self declared leader of this national resistance movement which is a movement that was started by the opposition coalition by adding the opposition

coalition a last year to push for lesser reforms through a peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by the government as an organized criminal group i'm not a lawyer t.j. could you uncle who administered this oath who presided over this more inauguration of ryan on tuesday and was arrested by police and when stay has been released he set to appear in court next week and will be charged with administering an unlawful oath or all these creating a lot of consign here in kenya with saltus in statements from the african union we've seen statements of from the european union and the u.s. condemning both loading does the swearing in and this media shut down. for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back the global push to get some of the ton of info to fund million children not getting an education back into the classroom plus is a cesspool of flu cesspool of funky blue at the far right now the u.s.

suffers as worst flu outbreak in a decade or more in the stay with us. well i'm led to believe that punxsutawney phil saw his shadow on groundhog day could hardly believe that we look at the amount of cloud that we do have here but yeah that did brighten up in pennsylvania enough for the ground hope to lead us to believe that we will have six more weeks of winter certainly and with a good chance of six more days of winter minus one the top temperature in new york minus six in ottawa a fair amount of snow coming in across the northern plains and over towards the rockies and that will continue to spill its way further eastwards as we go through our sunday set a cold enough for the super bowl on sunday and temperatures will struggle to get

anywhere near zero one degree celsius around the midwest across the northern plains minneapolis course but that's taking place down to the southeastern corner very heavy rain a possibility of some flooding here further north as you can see it does stay a rather wintry at least for the short term by the south it's not too bad it still hasn't sunshine across much of the caribbean a little more cloud over towards northern parts of cuba the think is cloud will be across the western side of the caribbean always a chance of wanted to showers creeping into panama into nicaragua into cost to recreate for the next few days elsewhere largely dry ice rantis mostly want to see showers around the leeward but fine for the west. 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. zero six swear every. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on the al-jazeera the f.b.i. director first of a raid was told to stop he stands with the u.s. congress for instance memo saying the f.b.i. and department of justice abused their power democrats say the memos aim but do right in the middle of probe into russia's alleged links to the trumped up. u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear arsenal because worried about russia's

expansion of its weapons capability new strategy unveiled by the pentagon and here a push to reduce america's stockpile. and dozens of pakistanis are feared to drowned off the coast of libya there among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of this water only three people are known to have survived trying to cross the mediterranean into. that would jeopardize school crisis is building over who controls the world's longest river the nile on monday the presidents of egypt that on and the theory here met in addis ababa to resolve the dispute of the building a dam in the open but there's now a militia dimension to the standoff explains. i. sudanese troops massed on the border with eritrea they're responding to reports that eritrean any gyptian soldiers are on the other side. sudan believes egypt sent troops to earth try a month ago a move sparked by

a land dispute over what's called the helike triangle and warming relations between sudan and turkey not like we are now confirming that we are ready here in this place and that our forces are ready to do what is asked of them at any time the border closed last month sudan's ambassador in cairo was recalled and now this sudanese troops seem to the border. but the tensions between egypt and sudan didn't start here. into ethiopia what is planned to be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam is sixty percent complete and designed to revolutionize ethiopia's economy turning it into the continent's largest power generator and exporter the five billion dollar dam is being built on the blue nile river fifteen kilometers from sudan's border sudan supports the dam because it will regulate floods provide electricity and irrigation but egypt's president. who

seeks reelection next month says the dam would disrupt the flow of the nile to almost one hundred million egyptians and potentially cripple the farming industry ethiopia accuses the egyptian ally eritrea of sending rebels to sabotage the dam eritrea denies it. c.c. says he doesn't want to. this three presidents made on monday an address and a show of unity. you can all be completely assured in ethiopia in sudan in a new egypt as responsible leaders we met we spoke and we agreed and there would be no damages on anyone what's in the interest of ethiopia is in the interest of egypt it's in the interest of saddam is in the interest of egypt and what's in egypt interest is also in that of the theo peace we are speaking as one nation not three nations with one voice. that image however contradicted by these latest pictures

from. the question of who controls the nile the world's longest river and the region's most valuable resource is threatening military confrontation ballasts al jazeera a u.n. reporters accuse north korea earning nearly two hundred million dollars last year by exporting ban commodities around the world accused of supplying weapons to syria . exporting colder number of asian countries getting help to set up front businesses and bank accounts across the world under un sanctions north korea is forbidden to export coal lead textiles or seafood the sanctions are designed to limit funding for its nuclear program the french president emanuel my cross says education is the most important way to ensure security and progress speaking at a conference in the seventy's capital part of the global push to have every child in school by twenty thirty as nicholas hart reports only half the money needed to fulfill that goal was pledged. they came to the conference of beat

donor countries will take the right steps and pledge more money to children's education because two hundred thirty four million children worldwide are out of school half of them are young girls. truly a killer does a former australian prime minister she heads the global education partnership a platform to mobilize funds to get children back to school she says funding from donor countries has stagnated in some areas of africa it's dropped here we are trying to get the world community to side let's solve the global learning process let's get the quarter of a billion children to die in school into school and let's lift the quality of education for hundreds of millions more who are in schooling i don't learn to read or rot or do any math because the quality currently is sized. world and african leaders came to the stage promising to make education

a priority in the audience or children affected by the education deficit here and their advocates among them visually impaired and he said bobby from south africa she says these are all empty promises. to have the same situation where they are. very early or they are not given opportunities and the same situation again which are with disabilities will be excluded from a good patient they won't have well not changed enough trained teachers to to be in the classroom. what if the teachers. the global education partnership school was to raise four billion dollars for the next three years with a commitment of two point three billion dollars the pledges have increased but they're still short of the target big promises like these have been made before but have been left unfulfilled now african and other developing countries are stepping in to ensure that their children can go to school. more than fifty developing

countries announced they would increase their public expenditure for education to one hundred ten billion dollars. this is an unprecedented move developing countries are increasingly less dependent on western donor agencies and this for many of this conference is worth celebrating because hawke algis the right to car. about ten thousand people have been told to leave their homes in argentina due to heavy rains and flooding the deluge sent a wall of modern day down the river insult in the north west forcing some residents to be plucked to safety officials say the river rose six meters and is expected to continue rising over the coming days. and in bolivia at least six people have died following severe flooding in santa cruz thora to say at least fifty thousand of them left homeless after homes were destroyed in days of heavy rain the hardest hit areas and in the southern border in argentina. mexico's foreign minister says his

country's relationship with the u.s. is closer under president trump than with previous administrations lewis if it got a was speaking alongside his u.s. and canadian counterparts he said that despite the u.s. and mexico as well known disagreements there working relationship had improved the u.s. is experiencing its worst flu outbreak in a decade fifty three children have died this winter and through related hospitalizations are at an all time high health officials are people to get the flu vaccine despite questions of its effectiveness as christensen. hospital emergency rooms across the country are inundated with sneezing coughing sniffling patients in atlanta georgia grady memorial hospital opened a temporary mobile emergency room and closed in plastic tents to handle a twenty five percent increase in visits in the month of january the flu this year has been dangerous our volume in the muncie department has reached such a critical number and not only us but our inpatient colleagues we really need to

bring in an additional resource the very old in the very young are the group that tend to be in the most danger from catching the flu is a cesspool of flu a cesspool of funky flu at the e.r. right now in florida one tired nurse posted this now viral video after working a twelve hour shift as watch this i'm going to teach elementary trick it's. her advice is simple cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough wash your hands and avoid bringing healthy people to the emergency room the u.s. centers for disease control says the hospitalization rate for flu is at an all time high this year with forty nine of the fifty us states reporting widespread flu activity still the scale of this outbreak is dwarfed by one which occurred one hundred years ago this month one of the deadliest in history in one thousand eight hundred spanish influenza spread around the globe in the aftermath of world war one

over a period of two years it killed tens of millions of people globally including six hundred seventy five thousand in the united states alone this flu strain may not be as deadly but the national institute of health is still advising americans to get a vaccine even though a canadian study found it was less than twenty percent effective we should point out that even though the vaccine is less than optimal it's efficacy that the small to moderate amount of protection you get against influenza by getting vaccinated is always better than no protection at all by not getting vaccinated that's very clear with as many as ten more weeks left to this flu season u.s. health care workers are looking for all the help they can get kristen salumi al-jazeera allow us investing billions of dollars in a high speed rail line being built by a chinese company at a run from united in southern china to allow capital of m.t.m. before then surely connecting with another line being built in thailand in the

third installment of our series global trade routes wayne hay reports of the progress being made in laos. these normally quiet previously untouched hills of northern laos and they are filled with the sights and sounds of heavy construction around the town of the one problem rapid progress is being made on a chinese built high speed train line it will cut through here and cross the mekong river on its way from southern china to the lao capital vienna. the communist government of law says it wants the landlocked country to become land linking beijing sees this project as a key part of its belt and road infrastructure plan linking china with the rest of asia europe and beyond when this line is completed it will run for more than four hundred kilometers more than sixty percent of which will consist of bridges and tunnels that makes it a very expensive project one that some say laos can't afford experts worry it will add to the government's already heavy debt loads the cost of the project is six

billion dollars with most of the money coming from chinese grants and loans this is significant because. ours. is only folk involved in billion so close to fifty percent of g.d.p. in this project we would be in five years time so that in we can expect around ten percent of public investment just for those process. one of the stops will be just outside long providing which is a unesco listed talent for its unique lao and french architecture there is concern the new project will attract too many tourists putting a strain on the town's facilities and infrastructure. that many people and small businesses here survive off the tourism industry so the prospect of more visitors spending money is welcomed. well about three years ago there were

more tourists but now there aren't as many so we are earning less money so we're looking forward to the train had. some studies have found that china will receive most of the economic benefits from the large projects it's involved in around the region laos is one of asia's poorest countries so when the railway is finished by late two thousand and twenty one it will be hoping its big investment will start paying off straight away wayne hay al jazeera long laos and in the final part of our global trade route series we'll be looking at the planned trans africa railway line that will connect west africa with the east and then watch that on sunday. i thought a quick recap of the headlines here on al-jazeera the f.b.i. director christopher ray has told his staff he stands with them after the u.s.

congress released a memo saying the f.b.i. and the department of justice have both abuse their power democrats say the memos aimed at derailing the mulla probe into russia's alleged links to the campaign the u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear arsenal because he's worried about russia's expansion of its weapons capability the new strategy unveiled by the pentagon ends the obama era push to reduce america's stockpile dozens of pakistanis are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya they are among more than one thousand people on a boat which capsized off the city of only three people are known to have survived trying to cross the mediterranean to italy. at least two people have been killed in one thousand injured in a barge of rocket attacks on towns on the turkish border with syria. government says the rockets were fired from a kurdish enclave on the syrian side there's been more than two weeks of intense fighting in the area since turkey launched an offensive to clear it of syrian

kurdish forces known as the y.p. g. turkey says the white b.g. is a terrorist group. thousands of people in pakistan have held mass sit ins demanding the arrest and execution of a police officer after a male model was shot dead as a second their rallies after the killing of twenty seven year old nucky mehsud in an operation on wednesday his family denies the police claim that he was a criminal the officer who led the operation has been relieved of his duties they've been protests in kenya after the government arrested a second law involved in tuesday's mock you know gratian of the opposition leader rhino dingo protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi where the lawyer going on the governor was taken from his home in a dawn raid by going to stood beside him when he proclaimed himself the people's president to protest last year's election three private t.v. stations that are planned to broadcast remain off air despite being alive them to

resume their operations well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one to one east china's prison over the stage and that's what. i'm counting the car some of the biggest names in tag out with record earnings but they're also under scrutiny by regulators in what's being called at sec black a look at business relations between the u.k. and china plus another scandal in the german auto industry counting the cost at this time. there the children with nowhere to go and no one to care for them. in china the sons and daughters of jailed criminals are often left shunned and alone.