from the cold fronts itself china could be facing a debt that's according to us the global trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other old producers that they want to have more production to crisis we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. first and not a very smart. us president reacts as his former lawyer pleads guilty to lying to congress in connection with the investigation into claims of russian collusion. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you are with al-jazeera also coming up this hour as canada's prime minister heads to argentina for the g.

twenty is government imposes sanctions on saudi nationals linked to the murder of john this jamal khashoggi russia sends new missile systems to crimea ukraine's president sends a request to nato to intervene as tensions with russia mount over sunday skirmish in the black sea. and a closer look at architects deeds only new york building completed after death and now a contender for top prize. u.s. president donald trump has accused his former lawyer of lying after he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress to help his former boss in a surprise court appearance michael cohen admitted he lied last year to a senate intelligence committee that's investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election so let's speak to patty call him in washington

. the dramatic twist in investigation it would seem what has michael cohen been saying about his contact with the kremlin. well michael cohen decided not to speak to reporters as they rushed around him as he left the courthouse but if you read the indictment it basically centers on testimony that he gave to both the house and senate committees and it was all about this deal of potential real estate deal that the trump administration was pursuing in moscow he lied when he said that that project was basically killed long before the first votes were cast in the presidential election in the primary he lied about making arrangements to go to russia apparently it was so far advanced that he was going to go to russia he lied about trying to set up a meeting between then candidate donald trump and russian president vladimir putin so now he is pled guilty to lying to congress that's a serious crime carries with it up to five years in prison as you mentioned the president is reacting in probably to no one's surprise he's doing so by calling his former lawyer his former fixer his former very close confidant

a whole lot of names. that we heard. what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so we learned about a project that everybody knew it i mean we were very open with it we were thinking about building a building i guess we had a form it was an option other than what you call it we decided to strike it out differently not to do it there would have been nothing wrong if i did if i did do it it would have been a was fried fish. right so president truong accusing his former lawyer michael cohen of lying but this comes at a very difficult time for the trump administration doesn't it. it does and i think it's really important that we talk about what the president just said he said if i had done the there be nothing wrong with that let's keep in mind in the campaign the president often pregnant his children bragged about how much money they got from russian nationals as soon as the special counsel's investigation was launched

looking into a potential between of collusion with between the trunk campaign and russian officials all of a sudden they kept saying we have no business in russia so the president saying there would have been nothing wrong with it possibly true but you have to put this in the context of the fact that there's a special council looking at the possibility that he was colluding with the russians in order to win the election one thing i think is important to point out is michael cohen is facing another long sentence sixty five years for other crimes that he committed on the campaign such as paying off women who said they'd slept with the president trying to keep that quiet before the campaign the president came out and said this is nothing to do with us as long prison sentence it has everything to do with the president and the campaign and as far as line to the special counsel to investigators to get a better deal if you lie and they find out about it you go to prison for a much longer time than you would have if you hadn't made a plea deal so the president again seen several false statements also calling his

former lawyer not smart weak and. just very smart all right thank you very much patty bring us all the latest on that story from washington canada has imposed sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals linked to the murder of john is jamal khashoggi this as canadian prime minister justin trudeau arrived in argentina along with other world leaders for the g. twenty summit on friday u.s. president donald trump is also attending it will be the first time he's asked a gathering with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin so money since killing a white house correspondent can be held at reports. in a year filled with memorable foreign trips he just said it's not russia this president donald trump's first visit to south america to attend the meeting of g twenty leaders in argentina is bound to make headlines canceled his last trip to south america it april as the u.s. prepared to strike syria this time the u.s.

is a broiled in trade disputes with europe canada and china. and a border fight with mexico as well as a climate policy that is modeled it best trump will just like the previous g. twenty be surrounded by leaders who have serious disagreements with him. two meetings with chinese president xi jinping as russian president vladimir putin will be closely watched we can have trade that's meant for stupid people troubles railed against what he calls unfair trade practices by the chinese and has slapped import tariffs on hundreds of billions of goods he's threatened to significantly increase those tariffs next year his meeting with will be an attempt to cool tensions were someone in his meeting with putin comes as russia's latest incursion in crimea condemned by european allies has heightened the possibility of

war with ukraine. it will also be the first time trump is in the same room as saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon since the death of jim. he's the washington post contributor who last month was referred in the saudi consulate in istanbul toughest faced heavy criticism following his recent decision to back the kingdom and ignore the assessment of the cia which reportedly believes the crown prince was involved he will no doubt be eager to reinforce to the world he has trump's full support one issue where the g twenty leaders could find common ground climate change it was an area of disagreement at the last meeting in germany now a recent decision by the trumpet ministrations of barrier report on the disastrous effects of climate change could make agreement on this issue once again a tough sell can really help at al-jazeera the white house let's go live now to

terry's a bow who is employed as ira's forest and so all eyes of course are going to be there on argentina as this summit gets under way on friday to raise a the presence of the saudi crown prince does bring the matter of jamal khashoggi into sharp focus has there been much of a reaction that the sanctions from canada. well most definitely where we are right now this on the other side of town this is where protests against the g twenty are happening but mohamed the entire month presence here in one side is has definitely changed a bit be agenda of the g twenty summit he's staying at the saudi residence here and one aside as he arrived on wednesday very early in the morning and just as that was happening is when human rights watch that asked argentine judiciary to open up on this investigation into a war crimes and torture but also the killing of jamal khashoggi the latest information we have from argentina is that a judge requested information from the foreign office here and foreign office said

that mohamed bin had money has diplomatic immunity. and that in any way to be able to touch him it has to go all the way to the supreme court but the other question that remains is who is going to meet with mohammed let me tell my let me tell you about two weeks ago the argentinean government was saying that a meeting was likely going to happen between him and for the president now he still might be one now the government saying that it's subject to timing whether there is enough time for both of them to meet donald trump recently said that he's ok with a meeting with the saudi crown prince but it's also a subject to time so the most interesting thing is going to be who is going to be talking to him because there are many foreign leaders that are coming here to argentina who do not want to be shaking hands with it we do not want to be seen shaking hands with the crown prince. and of course another big issue at the summit will be the protests that are taking place people are not happy about austerity

measures because it is a very difficult economic situation there in argentina just tell us about those protests. well process have been ongoing all week where on this other side of town this is the people summit where people are gathering to debate ideas they say that the g. twenty represents the richer nations of the world but that latin america africa asia are underrepresented and it's people like them that are here to talk about development fighting inequality among so other issues let me show you a bit here they're saying that if ways of making a living organizations and struggle because another organization that defends. poor people here in argentina fighting inequality among other things the all of this people are marching and preparing a massive demonstration this friday against the g twenty summit and the international monetary fund what's interesting is that argentina's government has blocked most of transport around the city most of the streets are blocked so it's

going to be very very difficult for people to move around the main objective for them is to prevent a similar situation of what happening hummingbird last year when hundreds of people were detained and violence took over the city. thank you very much to raise a berm when as as our. u.s. senate is expected to debate next week on whether to end american support for saudi action in the war in yemen it comes after a majority vote on wednesday to go ahead with the measure and what's been described as a rebuke to the trump administration meanwhile the un's humanitarian chief is in the yemeni capital sanaa for three days of talks. is calling for a cease fire he's also meeting aid workers displaced families and communities to assess the scale of the crisis. i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation

which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of hostilities especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around who data secondly i'd like to see the environment in which the aid system operates made easier for all the aid agencies keep the ports open keep the roads so provide access to all the key facilities. ukraine's president is calling for international help in his nation's standoff with russia but trump our shanghai wants nato to deploy ships to see if he's accusing russia of blockading ports and this comes as russia deployed more sophos to air missiles in crimea tensions and fled since the russian coastguard fired on three cranium vessels on sunday seizing neck crew ukraine is already to pad national in several states bordering russia in

crimea and is restricting movement of russian citizens under simmons has more from the ukrainian city of kharkiv in one of the regions under martial law. the reason unusual atmosphere here in hockey ukraine's second city forty kilometers from the russian border the only outward sign of martial law being imposed on a number of shirts made by the police on cause entering and exiting the city's confines but there is also a concern amongst people really that there isn't a feeling that more protection is arriving they expect to do a lot more to happen especially in view of president poroshenko is warning that russia could invade that there was a buildup of tanks on the border a lot of concern though indeed frights and so people want to know why there isn't more the way of action now local officials are seeking clarification from the

central government about walk the martial law means because a whole raft of measures could be introduced if the situation escalates if there is some form of invasion or another major developments in the conflict so a strange atmosphere as i say here with al jazeera live from london more still ahead for you on the program syria's broad has failed to agree on key issues in the latest round of talks and a cocktail of lies zimbabwe's opposition lashes out at the government as thousands protest over the country's economic collapse. alor remains far nationally ready for central and southern china what cloud there was over hong kong is drifting out of the way what fathers of the himalayan

himalayan platters hide doesn't produce any significant rain or indeed snow these temperatures don't allow snow at all twenty in shanghai twenty five in hong kong i want to show us what develops in the west in sichuan hunan that it was easy but there just a good scotching i think lotteries fine and dry picture does throughout southeast asia does start india as well at the moment is the northeast monsoon season you see crowd in sri lankan towel lager and some of the highest official occasion bring snow up the hindu kush beyond otherwise it's low humidity not particularly hot down twenty six in delhi it's the air quality is a problem throughout the winter showers persist in time allowed to in sri lanka and so they should but they're not always heavy not even there every day in the arabian peninsula showers come back again as an active weather system the eastern med site for western saudi arabia into jordan and iraq that weather system will slow the spread and it was but it's cloudy ahead of it probably kick up some dust as well so

dust storms followed by thunderstorms and the normal this time of the year but south of that it's all pretty quiet at the moment. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the wilds. that celebrate the human spirit. against the arts. al-jazeera selects palestinians.

welcome back just a quick look at top stories now the u.s. president has accused his former lawyer of lying off the feet of guilty to making false statements to congress michael cohen says he lied to a senate intelligence committee that's investigating claims of russian collusion during the two thousand and sixteen election. canada has imposed sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals linked to the murder of journalist. canadian prime minister justin trudeau is in argentina for the g. twenty summit saudi crown prince mohammed bin so money is also there. and ukraine's president has called on nato to deploy warships to the sea of oz of amid rising tensions between ukraine and russia petro poroshenko has accused the russian president of attempting to annex his entire country. a missed opportunity this is what the u.n. envoy to syria has called the latest talks involving iran russia and turkey to try

and end the war stuff on the mistura says he's disappointed with the failure to set up a un backed constitutional committee meanwhile syria's u.n. ambassador is cool for the west to lift sanctions to help refugees return so you hold reports now from kazakhstan's capital estonia where the talks have been taking place. it's a new round of syria talks the power brokers russia iran and turkey brought the warring parties their allies yet again to the capital. the united nations was also invited the special envoy to find a mistake i was hoping for a breakthrough in what is likely to be his last diplomatic mission before leaving office but there was no deal on the formation of a un constitutional committee russia's presidential envoy alexander lovren so the issue of the committee is important and its creation is their goal moscow knows it won't get the backing of the west for its plans for post-war reconstruction and

refugee returns if damascus doesn't engage with the un led political process so much that enough issues were thoroughly discussed yes there was no deal no formal announcement about the committee creation but details are being discussed on the show seriousness and i'm optimistic there will be a solution them a student said this meeting was another missed opportunity to accelerate this stablish ment of what he called a credible balanced and inclusive syria owned syrian led un facilitated constitutional committee but he said he remains committed to facilitate for their efforts the target date to set up the committee is by the end of the year that is what france and germany requested during the last meeting on syria and istanbul in october there are no longer calls for syrian president bashar assad to step down but the u.n. political process that involves a new constitution and free elections is about curtailing his powers and changing syria's system of government. that is why damascus is resisting the un committee's

work and mandate it doesn't want a new charter as we produce something. important and be a political to start a process war in more than forty years for reasons of course for instance we have been using. the so-called asked in a for is about undercutting and sidelining the un but russia can't formalize the syrian government's victory on the ground without the international community that means damascus will have to give up at least some political power for now however it is showing no intention of doing so that when asked in a georgia's opposition party says it doesn't accept the results of wednesday's presidential runoff which saw a former french diplomat elected as the head of state so amazed me is set to be the country's first female president she was born in paris parents fled georgia in one nine hundred twenty one following its an exception by soviet forces there are many

was posted to the georgian capital as the french ambassador to georgia in two thousand and three but later gave up the posts of his georges foreign minister the sixty six year old ran as an independent candidate but was backed by the ruling georgian dream party well been forced to walk a brings us more now from tbilisi. really received sixty percent of the votes in yesterday's turnout now that is an extraordinary turnaround when you consider that in the first round of these elections she and her rival. they were practically neck and neck i think then she had just a percentage point over here in the first round poll and the reason for that was that she has been very struggled let's say to resonate with voters because of remarks she made about georgia's war with russia where she said georgia should shoulder some of the responsibility there was a new p.r. campaign that so want to patrol the opposition as criminal as

a dangerous step backwards for georgian politics because greg overshadow her rival had promised to pardon members of the former government who had been charged with abuses of power while in office some of them are in jail some of them have gone into exile and i think georgians were not ready to see these people come back into georgian politics but perhaps the crucial thing that helped. was this often made by the government to pay off the debts of up to six hundred thousand more georgians around about half a billion dollars this country suffers from extreme poverty and i think this was an opportunity that georgian vote is simply could not resist the opposition accused them of mass vote buying with this initiative they now say that they are going to

meet and they're going to discuss the next steps how when and what to do to challenge these results but it looks like. it will be george's next president. supporters of prime minister run a wickramasinghe have pushed through a vote in parliament to cut funding for the man who's replaced him former strongman mentor rajapaksa took over the job after the president removed wickramasinghe bunging the country into a political crisis supporters fought with their opponents and police during two previous votes of no confidence against him three policemen have been found guilty of committing extrajudicial killings in the philippines in the first known conviction since the president's controversial war on drugs the officers were sentenced to up to fourteen years in prison for killing a seventeen year old they alleged was a drug dealer present we're going to tell tale launched the crackdown in two thousand and sixteen left thousands of suspects dead many at the hands of police and along to human rights and. the chinese government has

ordered a medical team to halt its work after it caused international outrage by announcing it helped make the world's first gene edited babies chinese scientists jan quayside as he and his team altered the d.n.a. of twin girls before they were born earlier this month to make them resistant to the aids virus now scientists were around the world have condemned the work as irresponsible as not enough is known about the risks of gene editing china's science and technology ministry is calling the team's actions illegal and an acceptable and has now ordered an investigation what is in bob way now where thousands have been protesting against that country's economic collapse the opposition has accused the government of giving the public a cocktail of lies over its promises to increase jobs and stop inflation which spiked to its highest level since two thousand and nine just last month arm which also has more now from the capital harare. the last time opposition supporters

protested was back in august when six people were shot and killed by soldiers they are back on the street after the police assured them they'll be safe if they march with peaceful they once about his government to fix the struggling economy create jobs and bring down food prices they also say president bush should resign insisting he still elections in july i'm up to our ground well that well then there's a crisis of legitimacy summoned up by hers was come from tiger. but was there preserved from this point of view. that there. was when i got was it'll take a long time for the economy to recover and that zimbabweans need to be patient some government officials made a maybe. it's just try. a lot of them find

a role it was maybe a little bit i mean well there are. some fuel pumps are dry motorists queue because of shortages is the second fuel crisis in just over a month there's also a shortage of foreign currency especially the u.s. dollar. to. the main opposition leader insists when i got was administration has failed he says levy more protests if the situation doesn't improve. al-jazeera. united nations refugee agency wasted millions of dollars in its response to africa's largest refugee crisis including paying for a parking lot of a gun in prime minister's office the un agency helped provide food and shelter for people who fled south sudan for uganda in two thousand and sixteen but eleven million dollars is now being spent on a recount of the refugees with fears the numbers could have been inflated by hundreds of thousands gather was praised for welcoming the refugees but has faced

allegations of corruption during the process. storing skyscrapers luxury areas hotels and even humble homes that competing for top form as well the architecture festival in amsterdam one of them is an apartment block in new york by the late the rocky pretty shocking tact zaha hadid gabriel as all know went there and reports on had its towering legacy it's likely to become one of the crown jewels of chelsea's regeneration and already a distinctive addition to the manhattan skyline node simply as five twenty west twenty eighth this brand new apartment block represents a dramatic shift away from the hard angles of most buildings in the neighborhood dynamic curves dominate the elegant hand crafted metal facade creating its signature chevron pattern. the chevron councilman's idea of smith's novels.

it was designed by the late new rocky british architect zaha hadid. and is one of the shortlisted buildings at the root architecture festival taking place in amsterdam. i did also design the inside of the building from the lobby to the spa. and of course the apartment's craig is the executive vice president of the company that built it and we like to bring the architecture theme into the residence as well in this penthouse we have the means the opportunity to have a three level stair cement a lot of them in these have even if the stair connect all three levels so who would live in a house like this well for starters you will need a lot of money fifty million dollars will get you the penthouse suite and the cheapest unit sells for five million dollars meaning that for most of us we'll have to enjoy this building from the outside it's built right next to the high line a popular elevated park here in manhattan and that proximity brings

a special significance says ed gaskin a senior associate at how deeds company been amazing to see how people react and respond to the building as a piece of artwork so i think that contribution to the high line and elevating the rest of the neighborhood first of all it just something back to the community zaha hadid never got to see her first new york building completed she died in two thousand and sixteen this is a note to her this is something that is her legacy this are only building in new york city and in this whole northeast actually and so if you want to know is they can come of this building a corner of manhattan that will forever be a reminder of a remarkable life's work gabriels andu al-jazeera new york and finally the united nations has voted to get up stand up stand up for the rights of

reggae music by adding it to its wild heritage list. the. lawn was. a un heritage agency and esko says the music genre popularized by bob marley and other musicians is worthy of protection for its contribution to social and political justice reggae originated in jamaica fifty years ago with song lyrics tackling issues around inequality and police brutality. just a quick look at top stories this hour now u.s. president donald trump accused his formal lawyer of lying after he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress to help his former boss in a surprise court appearance michael cohen admitted he lied last year to a senate intelligence committee that's investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election he said he lied about the timing of

negotiations with russia over proposed trump talent in last go to be consistent with trump's political message is a weak person and what he's tried to do is to other research shows so he's lying about a project that everybody you know if we were very open with this we were thinking about building a building i guess we had in the former was good options other than what you call it we decided i decided ultimately not just do it there would have been nothing wrong if i did do it if i didn't do it there would have been out there that would slices. canada has imposed sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals linked to the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi this is canadian prime minister justin trudeau is in argentina for the g. twenty summit on friday u.s. president trump is also attending it will be the first time he's at a gathering with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma killing. well in all the developments the u.s. senate is expected to debate next week on whether to end u.s.

support for the war in yemen meanwhile the u.n. humanitarian chief is in the yemeni capital sanaa for three days of talks caucus calling for a cease fire is also meeting aid workers displaced families and communities to assess the scale of the crisis. ukraine's president is calling for international help in his nation standoff with russia petro poroshenko wants nato to deploy ships to the sea of oz off what he's accusing russia of blockading ports. and it georgia's opposition party says it doesn't accept the results of wednesday's presidential runoff which saw a former french diplomat elected as the head of state solo maser of many is set to be the country's first female president. for security and cooperation in europe says the ruling party backed candidate enjoyed an undue advantage jaring the campaign. a.j. select is coming up next there will be more news after that twenty five minutes times they without you sarah.

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