a young so molly refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. i was told i was lucky too good to hear i was a really really hard to god answered my prayer but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera world asked sally was when they use american dream is still alive and so molly in america at this time on al-jazeera. countdown to closure the u.s. congress has one hour to approve a budget or shut down the government we're live in d.c. . hello i'm off indonesia without jazeera live from doha also coming up just hours

before the opening of the winter olympics forty seven russian athletes have their appeals rejected and are told they can't take part plus. our forces have the inherent right to self-defense. washington denies accusations of war crimes in syria after a u.s. airstrike kills almost one hundred pro asset fighters. what the meum our government didn't want the world to see evidence of a massacre and the journalist who revealed it have been jailed. for the talk is ticking closer to midnight on the east coast of the u.s. and it's looking increasingly likely that congress will miss its deadline to approve a budget and avoid yet another government shutdown the second in three weeks the agreement struck by republican democratic leaders in the senate is facing stiff

resistance from both camps one republican senator rand paul is so very mentally opposed to the proposed budget that he's taken to the floor talking for so long that the deadline will pass. now what's being proposed is a two year deal which would increase spending on both defense and domestic programs to the tune of three hundred billion dollars more than half of that would be for the military alone on the domestic front health care and education would receive more cash which satisfies many of the democrats but not all of them are happy the democrats' leader in the lower chamber the house of representatives nancy pelosi refuses to vote yes because there's no provision for young immigrants who enter the u.s. illegally as children the so-called dream is there's also opposition from some republicans budget hawks like senator paul from kentucky who are simply against increased government spending let's go live now to christen salumi our correspondent who's

covering this for us in washington d.c. so we're less than an hour then before the deadline expires what stage are we at. well the senate just took a break they're in recess they are unable to move forward at this point and it's not because they don't have the support for this massive spending package it's because of one senator and a procedural move basically in order to end debate and call a vote they need all hundred senators to be on board and one senator rand paul is opposed to moving forward he was calling for an amendment to be voted on his issue is the cost of this package three hundred billion dollars more in the next two years and coming on the heels of a massive tax cut last month this is going to push the federal deficit over a trillion dollars and he's not having it he wants to vote on his amendment to

impose spending caps this is an issue for a lot of conservative republicans of course democrats have their issues as well they're not happy that this package doesn't include a resolution to the issue of immigration and specifically a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who were brought to this country illegally when they were children so they're not happy a lot of them about that as well but the senate leadership does believe it has the votes to go forward it just has to overcome this procedural hurdle but it clearly is not going to happen before midnight at this point they're in recess until just after midnight an hour from now in the white house is telling federal agencies to prepare for a lapse in funding appropriations all right thank you for that christi salumi correspondent and now we can speak to piece of refuse is professor of political science at the cypress college she's joining us live now from los angeles and thank you for joining us once again so it is now pretty much certain isn't it that

congress is going to miss this deadline what happened to that new spirit of bipartisanship that was being trumpeted by the leadership of the senate. what happened is that there were objections on two causes and one of course was the lack of the resolution for the docket immigrants young student young people who came to america when they have a super young their parents brought them here and they don't have any future in this bill and the democrats and thing that people o.c. is very upset about that and the other thing is that the tea party republicans what's called freedom caucus as well as some libertarian republican rand paul believe that they should not be spending more money than they're taking in that much of a debt and deficit deficit skyrocketed with the tax cuts the president from push through one point five trillion dollar higher debt up to twenty trillion now and they're very uncomfortable so there's both is left on the right are against this bill because of that trying to resolve it some of the i mean how does this reflect

upon the trumpet ministration given that he's had a pretty tough time getting any legislation passed by congress and can't even keep the lights on in washington it doesn't look too good on the administration because they boast about how they can get things done since they have a republican majority now in their president from has a strong leader according to his propaganda sources it's people who pushed him into the election and this is not turning out to be that way the biggest accomplishment was this tax cut and that was not accomplished more if you look at the actual economic results of it because that huge tax goes in a driver has driven up the deficit in the debt and it doesn't allow money for investment increases interest rates and it has an effect on the stock market going down right now well of course the administration is saying all that doesn't also is if you will jump to the tax cuts but tell us about how a government shutdown actually affects civil servants the false numbers of people across the country who work for the federal government what does it actually mean for them. it means that most of the civil servants who work for the government are

not considered essential workers meaning people's lives are not in danger if they don't go to work that's probably at least half the civil servants will be furloughed they'll be have to stay home in the next few days and not get in or not get paid some will have to go to work and not get paid right away and their paychecks to be delayed so it's a very demoralizing situation for many of the federal committed government workers or spend their lives serving the country. not just bureaucrats goes public servants who care about the public interest all right peter matthew thank you very much indeed wright was saying with the financial theme and stocks of promise to move it for a fifth time in six days it is now trading ten percent below the all time highs that was set just on january the twenty six now on thursday the dow jones fell by more than a thousand points after large gains in the first weeks of twenty eighteen they started dropping a week ago after the u.s. labor department said that salaries were rising at a faster rate for january and whilst that's good news for the overall economy

investors worry that higher wages will ease away at corporate profits and prompt the federal reserve to raise interest rates faster and stock markets in asia have been plunging as nervous investors react to movement of more street hong kong's hang seng loss three percent at opening japan's nikkei lost three percent putting the index on track for a week loss of more than eight percent gabriel elizondo has more. make no mistake about it this was a huge stocks plunge the big question is what's causing it now there are a whole host of reasons but most economists and traders are pointing to three key things number one concerns over rising deficit spending the federal budget that's being negotiated right now in washington is expected to add at least three hundred billion dollars in deficit spending over the next two years add that with one point

five trillion in deficit spending for the new tax overhaul plan that trump and the republicans pushed through late last year and you're seeing these huge amounts of money that is added to the deficit and that is really concerning wall street the second reason is inflationary concern and rising interest rates and the third being political uncertainty in washington with the trump administration's continued fights public battles with the f.b.i. and the continuing russia investigation leaving the markets uncertain about the political future of the administration and how they're going to navigate all of this markets don't like any uncertainty and they don't like political uncertainty either. be a a. be

. now with the winter olympics official opening just hours away an appeal by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to take part in the games has been rejected the court of arbitration for sport dismissed their case the russians had appealed against their exclusion by the international olympic committee over the twenty fourteen day ping scandal at the sochi games almost one hundred seventy russian athletes have been cleared to compete meanwhile the japanese prime minister shinzo abi hayes arrived in south korea ahead of the opening ceremony before leaving for pyong chang mr our base said cooperation between between japan the u.s. and south korea over north korea's nuclear threat remains strong the north korean delegation including kim jong un jenga sister kim jong is due to arrive in pure china within the hour let's go live now to our correspondent natasha good aim who

is in gagnon we'll get to where you are in just a minute the first this news devastating news i would imagine for so many of these russian athletes who've been barred completely from taking part. devastating indeed martini's athletes were waiting for a down to the wire green light to compete here in the peeling chiang winter olympics they've just found out that's not going to happen the court of arbitration for sport or c a s has dismissed forty seven appeals from athletes as well as coaches who were hoping they would be able to compete during these winter games this is tied to the massive russian doping scandal that dates back to the twenty fourteen sochi games it ensnared more than a thousand athletes across several sports athletes for life from competing in the olympics but there will be russian athletes competing in these games one hundred

sixty nine athletes they've been carefully screened by the international olympic committee they will be allowed to compete they'll be allowed to compete as so-called neutrals so they'll march under the olympic and not the russian flag a spokesman for the russian athletes here in pyongyang was contacted earlier and so far he says it's too soon to comment on this ruling and next the trash will so now the v.i.p.'s are starting to arrive. on his way mike pence you know the u.s. vice president and indeed came. is usually arrive so the v.i.p.'s are arriving what chance then all of that being a significant meeting of these delegations you think. you know it depends some analysts say that the mere fact that such a high level delegation from north korea is coming is in and of itself a milestone of sorts kim jong sr will be the first member of the camera ling family

to step foot on south korean soil since the korean war you also have the ceremonial head of state attending but it's thought that perhaps this will be more of a ceremonial type thing but it is sending a clear message according to analysts that north korea is ready to improve its relationship with the south korea of course there are critics who say by allowing this high level delegation some of whom have been sanctioned by the united states for human rights violations to attend that all it's doing is advancing the north korean agenda and that the north koreans really want to ease the punishing sanctions against them and to perhaps drive a wedge between the united states and south korea and alliance and finally natasha tell us why. you know china which is where the opening ceremonies going to be.

right but we are in the second alleged big venue of these olympics we're in a beautiful coastal city on the east coast of south korea it's called. this is the east see behind me with the sea the mountains and the pine trees this is a very popular tourist destination with south koreans incredibly picturesque martine and there are now this town which has been in the midst of a several year building spree to prepare for this influx of international visitors is getting its moment in the spotlight people here are very excited last night the north korean had an koreans had an art troupe that performed at the art center here there was a one hundred forty member orchestra there was a singer it's one of two performances the growth koreans will give in south korea and the interest martine was so great these tickets were given as part of a free lottery more than one hundred fifty six thousand people applied to be able

to go to these performances and there were talk that some of these tickets were being sold for nine hundred dollars each all of us here in a very envious the tasha getting thank you very much still to come here on out to sara. protests in bangladesh after former prime minister how leaders here is sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement. from brisk news in few weeks. to the womb trying to use of southeast asia. however we've got more clouds spilling into the east the side of the mediterranean over the next day or so you can already see the cloud starting to show it's had nothing to walsall events it should be too bad in terms of what weather as we go on through friday but to twenty four celsius there was some hazy

sunshine full beirut twenty two degrees in jerusalem as we go on and see where saturday will similar values on this time which is the cloud and the rain not too far away i think that right at this stage affecting greece and west and keep it for the most part it stays fine and try cause a good area of the middle east actually that's in the case across syrian peninsula twenty five celsius here in doha when starting to ease off so all the way of warmth to our sunshine she settled and sunny then over the coming days i think it was starting to lose a son shot across the western side of south africa the western cape in full some welcome rainfall as we go through friday night into saturday you can see the cloud of right just off shore there heading towards cape town twenty two celsius here on friday come saturday it makes its way through are we looking at maybe ten fifteen millimeters of rain we could always do a little more than that but at least we're going to see some nevertheless nineteen celsius in capetown further north an ace the showers continue. the weather

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let's take a look at the top stories here in the u.s. is heading for its second government shutdown within a month that's after the senate adjourned without holding a votes to pass a budget deal the agreement struck by republican and democratic leaders in the senate has faced stiff resistance from both camps stocks and plans to wall street for a fifth time in six days and are now trading ten percent below the all time highs that was the twenty six on thursday the dow jones fell by more than a thousand points as only the second time it's ever happened. and the reuters news agency says it has evidence of a massacre of ranger men in me amman last september carried out by security forces with the help of buddhist villages and this is the first time such an account has been backed up by witness statements from buddhist villages and the security security forces themselves now the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained in mia maher and they've been denied bail

a warning the. report contains images that some viewers may find disturbing. it's a chilling and detailed account of what can only be described as a premeditated massacre the photographs provided to reuters by a buddhist village elder don't lie the first the news agency says was taken on september first and shows the ten ruhi captives lined up in a row the second taken the day after shows their slain bodies in a mass grave their ages range from seventeen to forty five among them were students fishermen farmers shop owners fathers they were all part of the same community from the village of indian in myanmar's northern rakhine state but a little bit about the building when they were taking them away they said they do not worry we will send your sons back soon we have taken them for me till i die hard on all that you know of indian six thousand rocking chair remained in the village as of october and surprisingly their relatives are reluctant to move back

that. i would not go back there how can i go and they killed our husbands we have all listened babies how will they survive myanmar's military says the ten men belong to a group of two hundred terrorists that had attacked them earlier but accounts given to the news agency by both ranger and buddhist witnesses deny such large scale attack ever happens in the village the writer story draws for the first time on interviews with buddhist villagers who confessed to torching rohingya homes bury bodies and killing muslims it also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves the two reporters behind the story and your story who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly obtained confidential documents the statement released by the military on january tenth confirmed what they were

preparing to report ten write in demand had been massacred in that village at least coincided with a. judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists under the official secrets act they've been denied bail and the convicted could face up to forty years in prison on the silver al-jazeera. but we've been speaking to a same abraham who's a senior fellow at the center for global policy and he is the author of the rectangle is inside me a miles hidden genocide that he says the international community needs to respond immediately to this reuters report. well the ranger had been described as the most persecuted minority and the one who would buy the un they've also been described as the most friendless minority in the what it would simply nobody advocating for them on the international stage and evidence like this is continuously coming out there is absolutely nothing and there is a poor that we didn't know before i hared testimony to such as those myself just

weeks ago when i was in accounts in bangladesh what makes this report very different is that is backed up by testimony from their kind local buddhists themselves and security forces pair scenario who were encouraging and participated in the burning over the g.'s and the massacring of civilians so we know how and contra bear to pull evidence from multiple sources all pointing to the same day of pre-planned massacres by the myanmar military and we also know nor that the two journalists from. journalists there have been detained because they have managed to get this evidence rather than on the comp tough charges of handling security information as well as what the me on maher government claims on this so far you know we have had seven hundred fifty thousand were injured are being forcibly displaced and there's been absolutely nobody action from the international community whatsoever to take any sort of action and no we have concertgebouw evidence of massacres general. not just of indian it but also from other villages

that too like tuli and. so this information is going to continuously camo them on a regular basis until the international community decides to step up and take action this will continue to happen and unfortunately you can no add me on maher onto a long list of generous aids dobbin perpetuated in the world did nothing except stand by. syria has accused the us of committing a war crime by bombing fighters who were loyal to president assad in the eastern province of deer is or the u.s. led coalition says one hundred fighters allied to the syrian government died in the airstrikes it says they were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of its ally the s.d.f. from washington our pentagon correspondent patty culhane has more. i said at

a briefing with secretary of defense jim mattis he was off camera but on the record and he called what happened in syria a quote for plex in situation and he said because for years the euphrates river has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u.s. or u.s. backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they talk about it before and he said that didn't happen this time he said u.s. forces were embedded along with the s.d.f. and they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in say that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s.d.f. headquarters says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesn't think that the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a great success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each other still the russian ambassador to the united nations was less than pleased i asked him to remember that the. syria illegally in fact. they would look like the. they claim with. the fight international terrorism but

we see that it goes beyond that. to confront those who really fight the terrorists with the ground with the city and say is is giving the secretary mabus didn't speculate on how many casualties were caused by the firing from u.s. jets and heavy artillery positions but he did say that they took out two of the incoming tanks and the heavy artillery positions the u.s. is calling this self-defense and warning that that happens again the left again. well elsewhere in syria for a fourth consecutive days the bombs have been raining down on rebel held areas which have been designated deescalation zones local media say government and russian air strikes have killed at least fifty seven people in eastern guta that's very close to the capital damascus and those killed include children and a doctor and the attacks of escalated in italy province two ever since

a russian jet was shot down on saturday more than two hundred people have been killed in just four days mommy gem june reports. by thursday the bombing raids in eastern hudler had only intensified at least two dozen were carried out and activists say they see no end in sight to this horror from the sky . then vote at all. because of a plane. the night before fires in the town of modest in the month the target of dozens of air strikes. that's despite it being in the northeastern province of idlib a rebel held area and one of syria's so-called deescalation zones whose borders were agreed to by russia turkey and the on bombing raids carried out by russian and syrian forces have only intensified since a russian warplane was shot down by rebels on saturday when another blazes put out

rescue efforts begin a new were seen as an escalation because isis has largely been defeated the. zones were marked out around syria escalation while the united states and russia were interested in destroying isis now that isis has largely been destroyed these deescalation zones have become up for grabs you see turkey rushing in to wrap up rain in the north united states say it's going to stay for the long haul in syria it owns twenty eight percent of syrian territory and the syrian regime is trying to grab the remaining rebel parts of syria including. which has been surrounded and bombarded the last. eastern huta near syria's capital damascus is also still in the hands of rebels and like it is also under intense bombardment dozens of men women and children have been killed in the last four days. many

residents believe pro-government forces are pushing for a decisive outcome to the war in syria while the united nations has called for a month long truce to evacuate the wounded that appeal hasn't made a difference even for those accustomed to the carnage of this seemingly endless conflict this most recent bombardment has been terrifying. bangladesh's former prime minister has been jailed for five years for embezzling around two hundred fifty thousand dollars in donations that will meant for an orphanage her eldest sonne and four aides were given ten year sentences the seventy two year old who served as prime minister three times but the sentence could now bar her from running in december's elections zia also faces around thirty other charges including allegations of orchestrating political violence she and the current prime minister sheikh hasina have ruled the country will turn that leases

nine hundred ninety one she says the allegations of part of a plot to keep her and her family out of politics they're a fish is that her jail sentence could trigger political instability. protests are broken out in the capital dhaka police firing tear gas at zia's supporters her party has called for nationwide demonstrations on friday to protest against the verdict. has been monitoring events in dhaka. former prime minister and bangladesh nationalist party chairman cullen as the i was brought to this old central jail in a makeshift accommodation basically a day care center this central jail no longer exists here the central jail has been moved to its cut off the city she was brought to by a white s.u.v. accompanied by her domestic cattle chilled be kept until from their order now the defense counsel told me they will file for it and pill with the high court that depends on how soon they get the starting five verdict in their hand that could

take weeks or even few days the call don't open till sunday a lot of onlookers here and curious people heavily cordoned off area and i would try to talk to a lot of people didn't want to go in the camera because of heavy security presence and now we know a lot of people out there like or told us the country faces a serious political uncertainty in the year of the election if the ruling party with a smaller party goes into election without the main opposition party critics an expert told us that probably won't be accepted by a majority of the population and the country will go into a turmoil and uncertainty without a inclusive election down the road. deal with al jazeera and these are the top stories the u.s. is heading for its second government shutdown within a month that's after the senate adjourned without holding a vote to pass a budget the agreement struck by republican and democratic leaders in the senate

it's a stiff resistance from both camps chris and silly me has more from washington. well the senate just took a break they're in recess they are unable to move forward at this point and it's not because they don't have the support for this massive spending package it's because of one senator and a procedural move basically in order to end debate and call a vote they need all hundred senators to be on board and one senator rand paul is opposed to moving forward he was calling for an amendment to be voted on his issue is the cost of this package. plunged street for a fifth time in six days and now trading ten percent below all time highs set on january the twenty six on thursday the dow fell by more than a thousand points only for the second time ever. russia's these agency says it has

evidence of a massacre of ten right in germany mia ma last september that was carried out by security forces with the help of buddhist villages the two german this behind the investigation of being detained in mia ma and denied bail and appealed by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to participate in the winter olympics has been rejected the court of arbitration for sport dismissed their case just hours before the games are due to a can the russians had appealed against their exclusion by the international olympic committee over the twenty fourteen day things that the sochi games almost one hundred seventy russian athletes have been cleared to compete violent protests appearing on the streets of bangladesh is capital dhaka after former prime minister . was jailed for corruption or i'd have to say those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next is the story. facing

realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. to me ok. protests politically motivated arrests and a state of emergency in the mall so what does it mean for the country's future this show we have a community buzzing on twitter and if you're joining us live on the cheap you can join the conversation as well and you to be in the street. a political crisis is unfolding in the mode.