documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. the government of voids a complete shutdown passing a bill to raise the debt ceiling for a month or two here. and welcome to. headquarters and. also ahead the historic moment the

north korean leader. in south korea. launches a major operation in the sinai peninsula and in hospitals on alert for casualties and massacred two journalists and jailed after uncovering what the government did not want the world to see. the u.s. congress had approved a spending bill ending the government shutdown the house of representatives passed a new federal budget which must now be signed by president to the. earlier the senate missed a deadline to pass the legislation which resulted in the second shutdown in just three weeks was blocked by a senator from republican party who opposed the budget deficit so let's get more on this now we're joined by white house correspondent. she is live for us and

washington d.c. so it has not been easy but the legislation has been passed one of both sides getting. both sides are getting a lot of money that's what both sides are getting and that's where the contrary controversy was and that's why this government shutdown occurred because there was one lone senator rand paul from kentucky who said to his fellow republicans we are usually the party that restrain spending but in this case you have a pretty good example of what happens when one party is in control of congress as well as the white house there is simply no restraint and everybody gets what they want and that's certainly what's happened here to avert a government shutdown but certainly this is going to be the debate moving forward because what we're seeing here is basically very high limits put in place on defense spending which is what republicans were looking for but no cuts to the

entitle and spending that typically democrats are pushing for this would be things like social security programs for the elderly medicaid and medicare government health insurance essentially for those that need support in their later years or simply do not make enough money to pay the bills to go to the hospital so this is a big boost in all areas across the board now the white house is of course going to the president is going to have to sign this into law and the white house does say it will have its own budget for the future that's going to be presenting on monday but again the big controversy in all of this is the fact that there seems to be restraint spending in washington what impact that could have on the economy is certainly concerning and certainly taxpayers concerned about what this might look like for the future and not everyone is getting something and not everyone is getting what they want because of course a key point of contention was the fate of the child immigrant children who brought to the u.s.

as an illegal immigrants the so-called dream is what what happens to them now. well that's unclear i mean the president ended those protections that were in place under barack obama in march is when that will go into effect and this is certainly what shut the government down before around donald trump's anniversary of being one year in office was this issue of what to do about the so-called dreamers over that dock of protection that you often hear talked about in the united states children that were brought to the united states illegally by their parents have grown up here now often in many cases have jobs have gone to university and really no no other country then the united states is home they are looking for legal status the chief of staff john kelly at the white house has said that there will be no prioritize ation in terms of deportations when those protections end but certainly the white house is looking to congress to address this this was

a key issue for top democrats like chuck schumer and nancy pelosi who said they would not support any of these spending bills until that was addressed it appears the democrats have not won of course again they are not the party in power right now on capitol hill but there have been assurances given by top republicans in the house of representatives as well as the senate that that will be addressed but again that is not put in writing and that is leaving many feeling very uncertain this morning or at committee thank you very much for that for now that is can be held at the very nations from washington d.c. thank you. well let's move on to other news now and we have pictures from just a few moments ago of the opening ceremony at the winter and then picks chang the show piece of events just begun and comes on the back of a show of unity between north and south korea. for the sister of north korea's leader has become the first member of her family to step foot in self korea since the two countries went to war in one thousand nine

hundred fifty community is part of the north korean delegation. survived for the games south korean leaders hope the events a chance to revive meaningful communication to a long period of tension on the north coming is nuclear and weapons programs like correspond to the tashi going to aim is joining us live now so we'll get to the politics of it all in just a moment but what's happening where you on a tough ship. well a lot of people have asked why there is no snow here in cancun that is because it is the second olympic venue it will host the ice sports so come figure skating competition hockey competition you will be hearing the name of this coastal city quite a bit it's more than two hundred thousand it sits along the east sea with the mountains pine trees and beaches it is a popular tourist attraction among south koreans and now after several years of

a building spree to prepare for an influx of international visitors the people are ready to be in the international spotlight and. also and absolutely in the international spotlight of course as on sister kim jong. how is her presence being being received in the south the tosh. elizabeth there has been wall to wall coverage today kim yo junge she is clearly the main attraction going into the opening ceremony she's a trusted advisor of her brother kim jong un and she is really ascended the ranks in the north korean leadership rather quickly there's been speculation in the south korean media that perhaps as someone who has the ear of the leader and the authority that she'll be relaying the concerns of the north korean leader to president moon in be having lunch with him tomorrow and there's speculation that

perhaps he comes with an invite in hand to invite president moon to visit north korea cura speculation but there's clearly a lot of optimism here in the south president moon is very pro in gauge it with north korea keen to seize the young chang winter olympics as a moment to rebuild the relationship between the two koreas all right natasha thank you very much for that for now that is the tashi good name joining us live from hong thank you. well a last minute appeal by forty one russian athletes and coaches to take part in the games has been rejected the court of arbitration for sport dismissed their case the russians appealed against their exclusion by the international olympic committee over the two thousand and fourteen don't think scandal at the sochi games nearly one hundred seventy russian athletes have been cleared to compete because their country is banned i'll be flying a neutral olympic flag. to egypt now where the army has launched its quite

a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula the army's website announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles in north sinai hospitals have been put on high alert and wanted to prepare extra beds and nursing staff to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations. by the. this morning law enforcement forces began implementing the plan a comprehensive confrontation against the terrorist and criminal elements and organizations in north and central sinai and other areas in the delta of egypt and the desert back in the west of the nile valley this comes in addition to training and other operations on all strategic directions in order to tighten control of the ports of the egyptian state. well egypt has ramped up operations in the sinai in response to a string of attacks in the region the deadliest was in november last year when a gunman killed more than three hundred civilians at the mosque president. declared

three days of mourning and said the death would be avenged he pledged to secure the region within three months dozens of soldiers have also been killed in attacks over the past past year twenty six died in a single suicide blast in july while eighteen more were killed in an ambush in september and coptic christians are also a frequent target more than one hundred were killed over the past year in a series of bombings and shootings. while president. praised the operation in a social media post saying with pride i am following the heroic offensive of our children and the armed forces and the police to clear the land of our precious egypt from the terrorist elements the enemies of life and as always long live egypt let's get more on this now are joined by omar to shore professor of security studies at the heart institute always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as

we mentioned they have of course the many attacks in the sinai it's a very insecure region why are we seeing such a massive operation now though does it have anything to do with that upcoming general election. probably if you saw the per turn from twenty thirty the words you would find the scale ations happening with the major political events are coming up on the coup happened in july twenty third miscreation following in september and the whole idea of part of the coup or was all that of the new regime coming is that the security and counterterrorism needs to be implemented. but also elsewhere the interesting part about the communique of the armed forces is that the not talking just about. that escalation in central delta and there is in this creation in the western deserts which are the two other areas that you saw some point of political violence happening in there. i think it has to do a lot with the forthcoming presidential elections i think these escalations and the level of. men and you know ship to sinai is not new cutting

the you know suspending the internet communications blocking roads this is all not new has been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty fifteen as well so i'm not sure if there's something new or there's a measured saying that you know the strongman is back he's trying to secure the region and therefore mobilize for him in the next presidential elections which is happening next month it's not new but is it worrying because president said that only brute force would be used to end terrorism and as you've mentioned internet communications have been cut off during the offensive so does this essentially give the egyptian army cop logic to do whatever they want in the region. you know the traditional killings massive bombardment using f. sixteen presidential in residential areas using heavy artillery in residential areas you have evacuations happening along the borders he calls recently of evacuating five kilometers surrounding airport porters almost in the sea near the

city center so five kilometers these are areas with a high level of population living their population density as you know the has been basically a lot of violations. not constitutional as many of them are illegal but again there is nothing to hold back that is still not winning the exact question and yet these groups still operating and active and able to carry out you know massive devastating attacks in the. book i'm writing on how isis fights in general in egypt between twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen there was a province alone cleaned it hundred eighty attacks over it on an eighty attacks in three years so this is probably an attack every day and a half and until now there was on stopped twenty seven years to still did not do this. twenty seventeen probably will have something similar like an attack every three days. so on one end of the all these tactics despite all the violations have

not been successful counterinsurgency or counterterrorism tactics on the other end you have the use and the manipulation of these this violence that is going on for political purposes mainly to give his own debt and they need to give it to b. c. for the current if you can't thank you as always for your time on this on our show i thank you. still ahead on the bulletin why a massive lump of fat has made its way out of london phillip and into a museum. however still saying something of a wintry mix making its way towards japan at present see the moving through the sea of japan heading towards honshu behind that the weather system will dive its way through that will eventually push its way towards pyong shang at the moment

temperatures hovering around freezing in the heat of the day but i think it will turn a little cooler as we go on into the next day or two rather cloudy that will help to hold the temperatures up for punching as we go on through saturday two degrees celsius then but it does sweep through there we go minus three the high as we go on through sunday other side of the sea of japan going to heat that is pushing into tokyo bay a little on the gray side not too bad temper just getting up to around thirty degrees celsius but on the other side of the mountains we could still see one or two snow flurries coming through meanwhile full central areas of china because a little bit of snow coming in here into the southwest hong kong gets up to a pleasant twenty two degrees and falls back a little as we go on into sunday quietest guys do come back in with that northeasterly wind but you will notice the cooler feel to things as we go on through the course of the week and into the early part of next week meanwhile dry for the philippines over the next day not too bad for thailand but some very heavy showers in these.

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good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories both chambers of the u.s. congress have a point to spending bill ending the government shutdown the house of representatives now lipase new federal budget which now must be signed by president trump to become early in the senate missed a midnight deadline to postulate nation which resulted in the second shutdown in three weeks. the opening ceremony of the winter olympics in chang is officially underway in north korean delegation will be in attendance which includes leader kim jong un sister kim jong. and the gyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula on its website announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase in the number of military vehicles and no sign on. now for a fifth consecutive day bombs have been targeting eastern ghouta on the edge of the

syrian capital damascus aid agencies say government and and russian. strikes have killed at least two hundred thirty people or rights groups say hospitals have been another target of strikes and clued in the bombing of the red crescent center we're following a five year government siege the on claim is running desperately low on food medicine and medical equipment and as the number of those being killed in eastern guth arises by the hour the war is taking its toll on the survivors. and they. think it. and they think you know. but. it is shelling and destruction every time the plane turns out there are twenty five explosions here demolishing the entire country people don't dare to leave the shelters can leave in the cold is given to us there's nothing in the shelters the

people who believe in peace talks in geneva don't see what's happening here on the ground. well syria is accusing the u.s. meanwhile of committing a war crime by bombing fighters loyal to president bashar assad and there as a province the u.s. led coalition says one hundred fighters loyal to the syrian government died of the airstrikes it says they were in response to what it called an unprovoked attack on the headquarters of its ally the syrian democratic forces but russia which backs says the strikes are part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region. and turkey has resumed bombing raids of the northern syrian on claim of a fleeing after a five day break kurdish media posted this video showing turkish airstrikes on the outskirts of the area turkey began an air and ground operation last month to oust the why p.g. promising it was the y.p. gene as terrorists. the israeli army is suing the family of

a young palestinian man who was crushed to death by one of the army's their cause they say the twenty one year old damaged the jeep before the incident which happened three years ago and one can report. the israeli army killed a beloved name in june two thousand and fifteen and now it wants twenty eight thousand dollars the damages to this jeep the crush of the twenty one year old after his death ability family filed a lawsuit against the israeli state the case continues there in january this year the army build the family. this is a copy of the lawsuit given to us by the family lawyer. they reopened our wounds. they're so shameless that they're demanding compensation not because they want the money because they want to make it impossible for us palestinians it's not about the money they want us to give in but we say we have the right you won't break because. in june two thousand and fifteen there was

a raid by the army and go through leader mullah that turned violent the israelis say a below three of five all of the jeep which then swerved into him for over three hours the family says the army wouldn't allow medics to treat a villa as he lay beneath the jeep he eventually played to death the entire village turned out funeral. lawyers say asking for compensation is part of a new israeli strategy to penalize palestinians for any kind of resistance and. honestly we're not used to seeing this sort of claim but if you take it in context where israel is going when it comes to killing finds and bills of votes in the knesset i think they're heading to a level where anyone who utters the word occupation can be harassed arrested and possibly find that he might be considered to insult the state and its inhabitants al-jazeera reached out to the israeli ministry of defense for comment it says it

has submitted a statement of defense to the court stating that the event in which the plaintiffs was killed constitutes wartime activity as defined by the law and therefore the state is immune from prosecution in this event in the light of the damage that was caused to the i.d.f. jeep as a result of the molotov cocktail through my the plaintiffs the ministry has filed a countersuit. remembered very fondly here anything as a martyr to the palestinian cause graffiti of his face adorns the walls of the village and people here say they'll never forget about him. the family say they will continue to fight for justice for the law and they've named their new born son after him they say they were. rather face whatever consequences there may be than pay the israeli army any money imran khan how does it go for the maalik occupied west bank. the female activists has been detained in saudi arabia for seventeen days and what rights groups are calling a quiet government crackdown on human rights campaigners know how he has been held

accountable cough to being questioned by police who accuse her of advocate and women's rights on social media she faces five years in prison and charged and found guilty on thursday is how the court sentenced journalists to five years in prison for what it called insulting the royal court. supporters a form of on who they should promise to highly busy continuing to protest after a court ruling against family she was jailed for five years on wednesday for laying around two hundred fifty thousand dollars in donations meant for an orphanage and elder son and four aides were given ten year sentences the supporters say the villain is politically motivated and the child leave of course from dhaka. thousands of people came out of the city's biggest mosque buy them a car to protest against former prime minister khaled does yes friday the heavy presence of riot police in the straight a lot of this protest are gathered near the

party central office but they've been described since because of the police all eyes are on the high court now bangladesh nationalist party wants to appeal her body. called so heavily influenced by the government critics and opposition are saying the barnabus court is nowhere neutral specially in the lord called they're influenced by the government and about it was politically motivated we have yet to see what the high court ruddock will be to ugs our case never the last bangladesh nationalist party saying it will still run for the election even if their leader is behind the bar that other leaders to give them guidelines including colored as the sun was in london but the protest across the country's continuing critics annexed by their saying was a major concern for instability in the country unless the major nationalist party takes pride in the election otherwise the country will go into political uncertainty down the road the prime minister has announced election to be somewhere

around december of this year and we have yet to see how the political fallout is down the road. the reuters news agency says it has evidence that one hundred men were massacred in myanmar last september it's the first time such an account has been backed up by witness statements from the villages and security forces themselves and the two journalists behind the investigation have been detained in myanmar and denied bail are warnings yada silver's 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 get 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 wallow in your story who are both myanmar nationals and were detained on december twelfth for allegedly attaining confidential documents the statement released by the military on january tenth confirmed what they were preparing to report ten right enjoyment had been massacred in that village and release coincided with a. judicial request by prosecutors to charge the two journalists under the official secrets act they've been denied bail and if convicted could police up to forty years in prison for the silver al-jazeera. and taiwan rescue operations the sun and wind down after a devastating magnitude six point four earthquake aftershocks have been hampering the search for survivors who are five people still missing in the port city of piling in tuesday's quake killed at least twelve people and injured hundreds were

because of demolishing the dangerous buildings left badly damaged by the quake. now people usually visit museums to see art but what about a big lump of fat from a sewer in london there's hope saying the so-called fat up close will make this is think twice about what they flushed down the toilet named falco went for. historians often say that you could judge a civilization not from what it builds but from all it gets rid of which is why the museum of london has a brand new exhibit on display six three really strange brace yourself. lots of name cumulus some of called it the beast of white chapel after it was found blocking up an east london sewer to us though it's a far burg and this is just the tip of it in its entirety it was two hundred fifty meters long the length of two football pitches and weighed one hundred thirty tons

sixteen african elephants. so what's it made of well as you can probably imagine a vast amount of fat that a sprinkling of human excrement and then all the cities in the just the balls things like some of what wipes cotton buds things that can easily be broken up on the ground and it smells apparently like rotting meat of the dirtiest toilet you can imagine it's also home toxic the worst case scenario if you. incorrectly it's day three simply got the balls to say we thought about whether we should pick let's freeze it put it in freezer but instead what we decided to stay dry and that has reduced some of the risks around the city. but it's not all over for the big east of want chapel where most of it was being carefully destroyed some of it was so rich in fact that it was also rich of energy has been transferred into bio fuel to power london's number twenty two books like all good stories this is

a cautionary warm because thames water the looks of the drain spends more than a million dollars every month to keep it strains blocked and most of the budgets gone i'm shifting this mother of all blockages so if there's a lesson to learn from all of this is because you pour down the drain be careful what you flush because it could really appear tough for you. to reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news on our website that is that al-jazeera dot com. and again on the there's a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill ending the government shutdown the house of representatives now only passed a new federal budget which must now be signed by president trump to become law well

earlier the senate missed a midnight deadline to pass the legislation which resulted in the second shutdown in just three weeks. and other news the opening ceremony of the winter olympics in chang is officially underway a high level north korean delegation will be in attendance which includes leader kim jong il and sister kim your child. the gyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula on his website announced the start of the offensive local media is reporting what it calls an unusual increase of the number of military vehicles and north sinai. well for a fifth day bombs have been targeting rebel held eastern guth or on the edge of the syrian capital damascus aid agencies say government and russian air strikes have killed at least two hundred and thirty people in those five days rights groups say hospitals have been another target of strikes including the bombing of a red crescent center. well as the number of those being killed in eastern guth

arises by the hour the war's taking its toll on the survivors. and they. think it. will go but still. it is shelling and destruction every time it turns out there are twenty five explosions there demolishing the entire country people going to leave the shelters first start those who can leave in the cold is given to us there is nothing in the shelters the people who believe in peace talks in geneva don't see what's happening here on the ground. turkey has resumed bombing raids over the northern serbian enclave of a free and after a five day break kurdish media posted this video showing turkish airstrikes on the outskirts of the area turkey began an air and ground operation last month to the

wipe e.g. from a feeling that regard them as terrorists those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next. is north korea playing games with the winter olympics fees from both korea set to last under a unified flag of the opening ceremony of the south poles on the red carpet and also on forces will pervaded young so can the honeymoon last this is in size for e .