tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society impacting you don't think there's anything much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians announces the era. with a government shutdown looming u.s. president donald trump backs away from demands that congress from his border wall. along down jordan the stars there are live from doha also coming up three outside brokers meet to discuss syria's future with the talks and with no agreement. efforts to end america's longest for war the u.a.e. hosts talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. . on the democratic republic of congo prepares to hold its first election in

sixteen years but there are fears technology could get in the way of the vote. this president donald trump has but down on his demands for five billion dollars for a border wall in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown funding for several federal government agencies expires on friday failed to agree on a budget could see hundreds of thousands of government workers sent home without pay just before christmas like this update from washington d.c. . well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shutdown the government should he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position in the creation saw that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say we're looking at every avenue available to

us possible the president's asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used and to protect our borders and for that give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people the having a secure border but a shutdown still not a verb democrats of turned down a compromise republican offer of a one point five billion dollar amount for border security not the wall but democratic leader nancy pelosi says this would amount to giving president trump a one billion dollars slush fund as she put it but neither side of the aisle once a shutdown just before christmas and most observers believe that there will be some kind of short term extension agreed on. well a judge has suggested u.s. president donald trump's former national security advisor sold out his country when he lied to the f.b.i. about russia contacts michael flynn was due to be sentenced on tuesday but his no

one has requested a delay following the judge's comments the case has bought some investigation of possible collusion with moscow in the run up to the twenty sixteen election from washington this particle. was the phrase he coined locker up following michael flynn as he enters federal court. after all is a key campaign advisor to donald trump this was his line bought her that's right. yes that's right. but now it's not the president's past political opponent but flynn himself facing time behind bars because he got paid by turkey during the campaign and didn't disclose it and he lied to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russians the judge not holding back his disgust or disdain he told flynn he sold out his country and even asked why he wasn't being charged with treason when it was clear flynn was likely facing much more than the zero to six months recommended by the prosecution the judge gave flynn more time to

cooperate mr flynn could have just said i want to be sentenced now the reason why he didn't because he expected the judge to throw him into the slammer for a while. and he must've thought in my judgment that there were additional things that he could contribute to the mall or investigation or other companion investigations otherwise the dish and all delay isn't going to do him any good at the white house the president and his spokesman continue to defend their former national security adviser by blaming the people who investigated him what we do know that was inappropriate by own self admit it's of james comey is that the f.b.i. broke standard protocol in a way that they came in and ambushed and roll flan in the way that they flush in him. term supporters have been arguing that flynn was set up by the f.b.i. but in court flynn himself admitted that wasn't true then and after hearing from

the judge it's clear the next time he returns to court a man who once could walk into the oval office could be leaving in handcuffs michael flynn locked up. in washington. for three key power brokers in the syrian conflict a failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that would drop the new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva ben smith was there and sent this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from

opposition groups but this other fifty there's a been a lot of haggling over who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in the store because as he spoke to the press is receiving this was his last statement to the press you report to the u.n. secretary general but he's leaving the post and handing over to a norwegian in the new year and there's so much further to go before a credible and inclusive committees established that's according to the outgoing u.n. special envoy to syria staffan de mistura he steps down on december thirty first after four years leaving his successor to find a un broken political solution to end the conflict. these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace or death treaty and a conference and everybody embraced each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all this and hopefully in the best

way for day very people the two constants in this conflict over the last four years one that it's never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shifts of what they're being the military events and the facts on the ground and the political position just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant. there is always being the syrian people suffering. or staying in syria the united states and avoid jim jeffrey has confirmed that u.s. backed kurdish fighters will move from northern iraq into northern syria where the move comes after turkey threatened southern military action in the city of monday's that's near the turkish border unless us but fighters leave the area so in a report from istanbul. turkish military reinforcements have already been sent to the border with syria president treasure to tell you border guard says

a cross border operation against what he calls terrorists can begin at any moment the target is the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. is mainly made up of the y.p. g. or kurdish peoples protection units it won't be the first time the turkish military has confronted the kurdish armed group on syrian soil but if this offensive does happen it will be the first time turkish troops are targeting the group east of the euphrates river where its nato ally the united states stations its troops. erdogan announcement followed a visit by u.s. syria envoy chip geoffrey to ankara last week jeffrey said he told the turks their plans offensive is a bad idea u.s. support for the why peachey has strained relations but jeffrey confirmed arrangements are being made to address turkey's concerns the. deployment across the border. with our understanding but also with the

understanding of. one of the various steps that are being taken. the white beach in the peshmerga are viable kurdish forces but kurds in northern iraq are allies of the u.s. and turkey they are likely to be deployed along the borders between syria turkey and iraq the y.p. she controls a continuous strip of territory from iraq to the eastern banks of the euphrates river almost thirty percent of syria's territory. the first one is any two p. y. g.'s y. p. g.'s territorial continuity alongside the turkey's border and turkey is planning to infiltrate introduced syrian territory the white p.g. already enjoys self rule which turkish leaders reject because they believe the y.p. cheat is an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which is fighting for kurdish autonomy in south east turkey. for that we have said and we are saying it no we will begin our operation to rescue the east of the

euphrates from the separatist organization within a few days turkey says any operation would not target u.s. troops but the white b.g. is an important element in washington's syria strategy and the trump administration's only syria giving its leverage and influence in any political settlement turkish leaders know that and are treading carefully so as not to rupture a relationship with a strategically important ally. the u.s. envoy for syria is now stressing washington's ties with armed groups in northern syria are tactical temporary and transactional such a description is unlikely to please the white peachey or satisfy turkish leaders but the u.s. says steps are being taken turkey has had to say whether they are enough to prevent military action senator al jazeera istanbul u.s. officials on representatives of afghanistan's taliban are meeting in the us for three days of talks in the past year washington has stepped up its diplomatic

efforts to end america's longest war on fish as more from washington d.c. . faced with a resurgent taliban u.s. president donald trump has approved sending more troops into afghanistan but with the military push he's also trying to establish new peace talks the u.s. special peace envoy to the zalmay khalilzad has won the support of pakistan which will significant influence over the taliban and he enlisted the help of so. rebiya and the united arab emirates as well all four have been sitting down with taliban representatives in abu dhabi for the time being the pride a t.v. show for the taliban would be a peace deal with the united states and also for the afghan government as long as they're part of the political power i think they would be the thinking on that initial with an even countries including pakistan so the priority things for the taliban will be just how we can they can stop this war and put an end to the destruction that's happening every day in the country. afghanistan is america's

longest war troops went into the country after the attacks in the u.s. it tempered two thousand and one and forced the taliban from power but the taliban never went away the war has cost more than a trillion dollars in financial terms and more than one hundred forty seven thousand people have died there including more than five thousand americans it's understood the u.s. is pressing for a six month cease fire while the taliban wants a clear timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops in the country war in afghanistan will only end when afghans sit together with mutual respect and except and discuss a political roadmap for the future so our efforts. and those of our partners are our focus on the subject right now previous efforts to broker a peace deal in afghanistan have failed but this is the third time that the u.s. and the taliban have met this year and so that sparking optimism that some hope

things might be different this time no one is offering any guarantees but it is possible what me a marriage is a roadmap for future talks now a number of countries have interests and stakes in afghanistan and so reaching a final deal will be difficult and in the meantime the fighting continues. alan fischer al jazeera at the white house our time for a short break here and al-jazeera when we come back with barely one hundred days to go until brags that to resume his government says it's making preparations for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without a deal plus. musicians into trying to keep the thousand years of tradition alive or not stay with us.

hello again it's good to have you back or watch is a very stormy weather here across the eastern parts of the med bring some heavy rain across turkey over the next few days as well as well look he had beirut we're looking at also down here towards aleppo and jerusalem will see some rain as well on wednesday as we go towards thursday things get a little bit better as a system makes its way towards the east a little bit of scattered showers still remaining along the coast but most of the rain remain into the northern part of iraq down towards baghdad where we're going to be seeing a few breezes and gusty conditions few at one thousand degrees and quite city how what twenty three degrees as your forecast high here across parts of the gulf we are looking quite nice for most locations twenty five in doha over here to be a twenty five as well we are seeing some showers passing down toward the south for somalia you could be seeing some heavy rain in your forecast but that is going to start to ease up as we go towards thursday miska a nice day for you with the temperature on thursday of twenty five degrees and then very quickly down here across parts of southern africa we're looking quite dry down

here towards the south maybe a few clouds down here just to the south of durban we are going to sing attempt a few of twenty seven degrees harare finally out of the rain over the next few days so that looks good twenty seven degrees there in cape town a partly cloudy day few with a temperature of twenty three. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine le pen's national rally property generation eight. part two of a special two party investigation on al jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here this hour u.s. president donald trump doesn't back down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border war he's trying to end the standoff at a federal spending and avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. turkey russia and iran are failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that would draft syria's new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers are meeting in geneva they say they'll try to ensure the committee convenes early next year. u.s. officials and representatives of the afghan taliban are meeting in the u.a.e. for three days of talks it's believed the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire i was drawn to foreign troops in the future. for

explosions have interrupted the first day of a fragile cease fire in the yemeni port city of her data it's not clear who is behind the blasts the country's warring sides agreed to a truce that talks in sweden last week more now from a judge in. q. as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting in this is one of the problem of the sweden agreement because it has actually linked to. the flow of humanitarian aid with the security situation and her data to be honest they should have actually been to her they'd up all of this would allow food and medicine first come into into the data even though oh the in control because they know i didn't have said before that if i

put a cent over he would have had an aid coming to yemen is coming through her day that is that yemen is suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis aide workers say the situation around her they do remains desperate. indication to get access to care to see key. data in focus a key that says where around the city for example. it's an. intercept for data because there was no access to care from data to read and which is almost. a road. in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president. agreed not only to pull back fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of you in supervised neutral forces for now many yemenis hope that this truce will hold no

matter how tenuous the situation on the ground remains. a yemeni mother unable to travel to the u.s. to see her dying son because of president trump's travel ban has received a waiver shamus who lays technically banned from entering the u.s. due to travel restrictions on mostly muslim countries husband had appealed to the state department to sign a waiver so she could see her son the two year olds on life support a california hospital. the u.s. president's charity the trump combination has agreed to shut down as part of a legal battle with the state of new york the foundation's alleged of operated as an extension of donald trump's businesses and political campaign if the state wins trump will have to pay thousands and penalties will be barred from running other charities foundations lawyers say they've been planning to close for months and any legal violations were minor but it was on that has more from new york. new york

attorney general barbara underwood gave us a gaping rebuke of the way the trump foundation work she said there was a shocking pattern of illegality involving the trump foundation including unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign and in a statement she said that the trump foundation functioned a little more than a personal checkbook for donald trump to serve for his business and political interests essential trump foundation was used by trump to pay for legal bills related to his business even pay for a piece of artwork for one of his golf clubs and also make an illegal political donation now the trump foundation overall is a very small part of the trump organization portfolio was founded in one thousand nine hundred eight and at its peak it had about three million dollars it was run by donald trump and three of his children evolved don jr and eric there's about two million dollars remaining in the foundation that will now be distributed to. needy

organizations but it will be a court that will oversee that distribution of the final remaining money now trump it should be noted has said that the foundation has done nothing wrong and that this lawsuit from the new york attorney general was nothing more than politically motivated but attorney general barbara underwood has said that this is an important victory for the rule of law making it clear there is one set of rules for everybody while the trump that. dacian will be shut down the lawsuit in. illegal activities related to it will continue now a month long workers' strike in chile is puerto vallarta razor has become violent and spread to other ports protesters threw molotov cocktails on the roof of a building and police responded with water cannon valparaiso as a key port for food shipments workers are demanding more formal contracts and improve working conditions. the u.k.

government's making preparations in the event the country crashes out of the e.u. without a deal next march just over one hundred days to go before the u.k. is due to leave the block with a parliament in deadlock ministers have agreed to step up planning for a no deal bragg's it thousands of troops are on standby for any civil disruption ministers are also sending letters to a hundred forty thousand companies advising them about preparations lansley has more from london. of course the default position for the u.k. if the parliament here votes down sarees a maze proposed deal to leave the european union is of the u.k. crashes out without any deal it's all and in this last cabinet meeting before parliament breaks up for christmas they have been discussing ramping up no deal scenarios even things that were suggested like the government's emergency committee known as cobra which only usually meets when the something like a terrorist attack meeting every day in the new year before the meaningful vote just to make sure that the country's prepared for a no deal and there are some fairly biblical warnings of things like the u.k.

running out of food or medicines or all the airports closing in dirty drinking water all the sorts of stuff which of course people who don't mind or no deal say as an inside scare but people who say it could be disastrous then say to them well how do you know that the country's going to be ok and why would you want to risk it and that's part of stories may's argument too because other than staying in the european union and abandoning the inside projects three's a maze argument says look we don't have to have no deal we could have money deal which keeps the u.k. in the customs union with the european union for some time keeps the traffic moving through the borders and therefore you get around all these problems in the psychological game that's now being played with m.p.'s it's a send them home over christmas and give him a bit of time to think and hope that they change their minds and end up not actually going against about supporting sarees amaze deal when it comes back to a vote in the middle of january belgium's prime minister has resigned after losing a confidence vote sheilds michel had been leading a minority government for

a week after his coalition partners walked out of the alliance a flemish nationalist party quit over michelle's decision to sign a un migration pact that critics say an increased migration into europe. the agreement saw violent protests in belgium over the weekend and rallies attended by far right leaders including rena penn and st bernard. voters in the democratic republic of congo are about to elect a new president for the first time in sixteen years electronic voting machines will be used for sunday's elections as catherine sawyer reports in the capital kinshasa many voters don't know how to use them and the opposition are worried about used to rig the results. the conversation in tea shops such as this one on the edge of the river is all about sunday's election and electronic voting machines. to see if they're concerned by the general lack of information and what's expected on them on voting day. we don't know what to expect we might do the wrong thing they should

have told us what to do before now we'll just learn on polling day. in another village on the outskirts of kinshasa. who lives next to these polling station has similar concerns about. people in my village no nothing no proper explanation just forts and hope for the best some opposition leaders and civil society groups fear the south korean voting machines being used for the first time here could be manipulated to wreak the election. people across the country have never seen this machine and that's why we are all worried they are asking what shall we how will we know if we have been cheated some in their areas have not even seen us money on the place i'm concerned the election is already set up for dispute and violence the electoral commission says the process is fairly simple and takes about a minute one hundred five thousand machines are being installed in eighty thousand

polling stations a logistical nightmare for africa second largest country with bad druids limited electricity poor security and any damage in the. on top of a fire in the capital is causing controversy both in materials are still being distributed to different parts of the country but a warehouse. where the fetus machines were being stored was fined down last week destroying most of the material the want to be used on fourteen day the building has been. investigating but politicians. are blaming each other for the fire. the various problems i increasingly lection tension white. they just want a fair election as well as a leader who will help make their lives a little more bearable kathy soliah al-jazeera kinshasa. has

a rich history of music and storytelling dating back a thousand years in the latest in a series of reports on the central asian country child stratford went to a music school in the capital to see how to keep their traditions alive. the name of this ancient times folk song is. legend has it that it was first song by a mother whose daughter married a man in a village on the other side of a river but there was no bridge to cross. the mother would stand on the bank and sing it in the hope her daughter would reply. means i miss you. know month month. month this is a gift from god to me and i'm thankful to god for this and so through my fingers i

share this with everyone this is not just for me. shows me around the go to mange museum and music school in. the capital city of tajikistan the school was opened by go to mange zulkey because of a movie star and musician who became famous in the one nine hundred forty s. during the soviet era this is a rhubarb believed to be one hundred years old from bottle a region that stretches from southern tajikistan into northern afghanistan. these type of instruments is believed to have first been played almost a thousand years ago as you can imagine there are stories to be told about these instruments this for example is a traditional tongue boar it's believed to be around four hundred fifty years old traditionally the leather supposed to be taken from a killed pregnant horse the strings from a killed

a pregnant goat and the maimed body here the wood taken from an apricot tree that is just about to go into full bloom and the belief is that when the instrument is played you can hear the voices of the infant go to unhorse calling for their mothers. not only plays these instruments but he makes them to. yeah she had made craftsmanship is very hard especially drilling you have to do everything with your hands from the moment i see the wood i magine how that use treatment will sound. he's joined by fairly musicians in his group called sabol meaning sky. plays a role and cena plays the dark which is a type of drum. group of over the years to europe and america.

they play a piece called. composed in the one nine hundred forty s. means news from the mountains. zero. tajikistan. the headlines here and al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border wall is trying to end the standoff over federal spending and avoid a partial government shutdown by the end of the week a u.s. federal judge has delayed sentencing for president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn. says part of an investigation of possible collusion between campaign in russia and the run up to the twenty sixteen election delay is complete

his corporation and special counsel robert muller's russia. turkey russia and iran have failed to agree on the make of that committee that will draft syria's new constitution the way for elections foreign ministers are meeting in geneva they say they'll try to ensure the committee convenes early next year. well the departing u.n. special envoy to syria says there's still much further to go before a credible and inclusive committee established these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace order treaty and a conference and everybody embraced each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all death and the hopefully in the best way for the very people they are too confident in this conflict over different last four years one they'll never be in a constant moment of anything they're being constant shift of what they're being

the military event and the facts on the ground and a political book fission just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant there have always been the syrian people suffering. u.s. officials and representatives of the afghan taliban are meeting in the united arab emirates for three days of talks it's believed the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire and withdrawal of foreign troops in the future britain's governments making preparations in case of crashes out of the e.u. without a deal just over one hundred days to go before the u.k. is due to leave the block with parliament in deadlock ministers have agreed to step up planning for a no deal drugs. all right and those are the headlines the news continues here in algeria after listening post station consorting. young african footballers are travelling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players

but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when east investigates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. facebook to inform the public of ok britannica's access to fifty million profile political consulting oxidative tends to social media giant everything you read by trash on a five four site has come to trial and after knowing i think is the highest i could only write a book trying to put up a warmer to give birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week facebook's two thousand eight hundred its year in review is not a pretty picture there's a lot not to like four hundred and eighty news outlets in hungary are consolidated all under one roof and the regulators just look the other way activists armed with cameras are documenting the way the american authorities go after an.