to bring it up to. speed systems on different. threats of a government shutdown in the u.s. is as president donald trump softens his stance on the controversial border wall. i'm sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up talks on syria and with no deal on who will make up the committee charged with writing the country's new constitution. for japanese telecom giant softbank or president makes its market

debut in one of the world's largest stock offerings. and we need the musicians and stand holding on to their musical roots as they try to keep a thousand years of tradition alive. after days of impasse u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars to build a border war he wants to avoid a partial government shutdown funding for several agencies expires on friday failure to agree on a budget could see more than eight hundred thousand government workers sent home without pay just before christmas mike hanna reports 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 case in saw that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say religion every avenue available to us possible the president's asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used 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 averted 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. an activist who's facing

deportation from the u.s. is taking up the fight for asylum seekers is organizing an army of volunteers to help the people the president's trying to stop from entering the country kristen salumi has more from new york city people have the right to seek asylum and. they are volunteers members of the clergy students and veterans a hastily assembled group training in new york we're calling on. community they've answered the call to help members of the migrant caravan at the mexican border make the final leg of their journey into the united states a call led by robbie rugby or founder of the new sanctuary coalition there is going to be confrontation. going to be confrontational we are going to. be people in to get up to protect them. this is where they're headed to wanna

a city in mexico is an official port of entry into the united states the law allows asylum seekers to enter california here and have their claims heard but the wait time has been increasing as a trumpet ministration says it doesn't have the resources to process the growing number of requests organizers believe that's a stall tactic and they hope to have five thousand volunteers there every day for the next four months to help people reach the united states they call themselves the sanctuary caravan we are thinking long term. this is not a one week action it's not a one day action that our goal is to change the national conscience volunteers say they are protecting the rights of people fleeing poverty and violence that migrants are to a large extent good people that are willing to go through a lawful process but have been put in a situation where they had no choice but to flee their own country their own culture and travel a very very dangerous journey ragbir is you. know. american woman he's fighting

deportation based on it is fraud conviction in a lawsuit he's accusing the government of targeting him for removal based on his advocacy work for immigrants you're challenging deportation orders yourself right now or it wouldn't make more sense. and that's the goal of this administration as the goal of the goal of he is the scare you into doing nothing so we cannot if we do nothing we lose volunteers pledge to act nonviolently and in accordance with u.s. law but they say when it comes to protecting the rights of asylum seekers they won't give up without a fight christian salumi al jazeera new york. a judge in the u.s. has delayed sentencing for president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn the case is part of the investigation into possible collusion between trump's campaign and russia during the two thousand and sixteen election party

called high end reports from washington d.c. . 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 by her that's right. here. 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 the 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 the law 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 our own self admitted 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 or the term supporters have been arguing the. flynn was set up by the f.b.i. but in court flynn himself admitted that wasn't true. 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. al-jazeera washington. three power brokers of the syrian conflict have failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that would draft a new constitution for the country and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met the going un special envoy for syria in geneva staffan de mistura is set to brief the secretary general is from wednesday smith as more 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 here 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 fifty 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 on 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 this story because as he spoke to the press here this evening 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. one of the world's biggest stock offerings has flopped on its market debut japanese tech giant softbank colp had hoped to raise twenty four billion dollars by listing its mobile telecoms unit. of the share price fell fourteen percent on its first day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange the company wants to become a major investor in technology startups some analysts blame a recent nationwide service outage and soft banks time is the chinese telecom

company while away from the disappointing stop joining us on skype is. a professor at the school of management and information at the university of she's oka good to have you with us first of all how much of a flop is this is a complete flop well i would be a little sympathetic considering the fact the market is self environment have been very bad as you seen in the united states in japan following the i mean u.k. has reaches nine month low end december alone the market has dropped by six percent and that sense it was a very very weak environment to start out with and secondly as you just reported there were lots of worries among the individual investors after they had a very big i would say communication problem on the sixth of december so timing wise it was a pretty bad condition so i'm a little bit sympathetic about this i.p.o. offering at this point does it also reflect though some doubt either out soft banks

that's all the c.e.o. in the self. yeah i think one real big worry amongst the larger investors are that this musical chair game that you know some think i'm playing on a growth after growth after growth expansion after expansion they're all worried when the music will stop it hasn't and they've been working out quite eloquently but if you look at the external environment of the telecommunications side in japan for example the mobile carrier i would say our contract has dropped the growth is definitely winding down i mean three years ago we still have five six percent growth but the subscriber increases dropped to only three point five last year so you're seeing a decline on top of it you've got the conventional competition from entity docomo and kitty and also a new competition come from iraq and so the environment itself where it's maturing and you've got the pressure from the competition and you've got the government basically trying to lower the price so you have quite

a lot of pressure surrounding this industry as a whole but the company's plans to try and reposition itself as a tech investor. well one of the. attraction of the stock and the reason why it's been bought in spite and so the fact that it's got sixteen times be in that's a premium compared to thirteen times in dhaka when ten times the entity. if they have the potential of much better potential of expanding into other businesses than just telecommunication as you can see in the case of the united states so this could be one of the picture that could sustain the continued growth of this group but again the worry is quite large especially when the music stops all right thanks so much for your analysis. still ahead on al-jazeera attempts by the democratic republic of congo to simplified selection it's causing more confusion. at tents calm returns to nicaragua but the anger that

spot months of protests still hanging in the air. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast or here across europe we are watching still some very stormy weather down across parts of the aegean sea a lot of rain a lot of winds with this one storm the good news is by the time we get to wednesday that storm system makes its way more towards the east and really it's going to be across central portions of turkey down across syria lebanon as well that will be seeing very heavy rain as social with the storm also some snow into the higher elevations now by the time we get towards thursday it moves a little bit more towards eastern parts of turkey and it's really going to start to dissipate as we go towards the end of the week here towards the northwest it is going to be the winds as the storm system comes in off the atlantic brings some

very windy conditions as well as rain london a rainy windy cloudy day for you here on thursday down towards work about seven degrees there but sun and your forecast for madrid about twelve degrees as your high well down across the northern part of africa that same air of low pressure is still going to be causing some windy conditions anywhere from libya all the way over here towards parts of turkey and also down here across parts of the middle east we are going to be seeing cairo with windy conditions along the coast as well alexandria you can be seeing some rain in your forecast but as we go towards thursday things begin to improve and we're going to see partly cloudy conditions for cairo with a temperature of nineteen. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks we heard some noise. this was known as sniper alley one of the most dangerous intersections and sadly. it didn't

come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the nightly pyrotechnics of the furniture. can remember sure that's get the hell out of sarajevo holiday and hotels on al-jazeera . you're watching out just zero a reminder now of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his threat to shut down the government over a funding dispute for a controversial border war shut down would leave hundreds of thousands of government employees without a. russia iran and turkey have failed to agree on the makeup of the committee to

rewrite serious constitution and help end the war foreign ministers met the outgoing un special envoy for syria in geneva stuff on the mistura set to brief the secretary general later on wednesday. all of the world's biggest stock offerings flopped on its market debut shares in the mobile unit of japan these tech giant softbank fell fourteen percent on the first day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange. voting is under way for the presidential runoff election in madagascar former leaders and. marc ravalomanana have cast their ballots. well holy no one thirty nine percent of the votes in the first round while rather low man amana won thirty five percent about four point five million people turned up to vote in november out of the ten million that are eligible there are fears the result could spark violence candidate rejects the outcome electronic voting machines will be

used for the first time in sunday's elections in the democratic republic of congo as catherine sawyer reports that the people don't know how to use the machines the opposition is worried for be 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 say 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 leaves next to this 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 rig the election. people across the country have never seen this machine and that's why we're all worried they're asking what shall we do it how will we know if we have been cheated so 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 demick 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 burned 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 are increasing election tension nationwide he at the stonecutter still shop they just want a fair election as well as a leader who will help make their lives a little more bearable catherine sorry al-jazeera kinshasa a yemeni mother unable to travel to the u.s. to meet her dying son has received a waiver she's technically banned from entering the u.s. due to travel restrictions on mostly muslim countries placed by the trumpet ministration john hendren traveled to oakland california to talk to the two year olds father. here in a california hospital the u.s. travel ban his left a two year old motherless as a rare brain disorder carries him into the final days of his life his second day in

and the u.s. took him to the hospital and they were shocked how skinny you were as they were us were those doctors on the nurse. when they were seen and like this all time this is what's happening in backing him and like his father an american citizen is among the youngest immigrants to suffer from the american travel ban since he arrived in the u.s. in october of dollars you many mother has been unable to see him because of the trumpet ministrations ban on travelers from yemen in six other mostly muslim nations on tuesday the u.s. granted his mother's waiver and a chance to hold of dilla once again but for two years nothing happened until monday when ali hassen in the council on american islamic relations called a news conference to appeal directly to the american people you know we've got a lot of foreign service officers deployed all over the world that are making these decisions on a daily basis and they're trying very hard to do the right thing at all times for

the house and the wait has been traumatic ali hassan says it's hard for him to tell such a personal story but he decided if he didn't go public his son would die without ever seeing his mother again and she would regret the bed that she gave it to me on september that's when the last time she said she would regret everything so if you had not gone public. what would happen. i would just see my son dying on the on or taking off our mayor mom on. without his mother with as a mother after marrying his wife shaimaa two years ago ali was told her visa would soon be approved. then came the trump travel ban which brought protesters into the streets and airport waiting rooms until a few months ago little of dildoes stayed with his mother in yemen growing thinner sicker and sharing hospitals with thousands of victims of the war in yemen. desperate ali brought his son to cairo and then the u.s.

for care of my son go through. it's really hard for him i mean he was never from the mother and then his face in there it's just it's crazy you know no matter what color you are. family should be together no matter what this fall stop breathing on his own then closed his eyes for the last time and stop responding entirely doctors say the end is days away is strength and the speed of his mother's plane will determine whether on wednesday evening the hudson family will get that chance john hendren al-jazeera oakland california belgium's prime minister has resigned after losing a confidence vote sheilds michel had been leading a minority government for a week when his coalition partners walked out of the alliance the flemish nationalist party quit over michelle's decision to sign the un migration pact that critics say would increase the number of migrants coming into europe right leaders

such as fonts marine le pen out in violent protest against the plan on sunday. the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may is due to last question session in parliament for the year it's happening as the government bears for the possibility of a no deal breakers it next march there are just over one hundred days to go before the u.k. student leave the european union with parliament in deadlock ministers have agreed to step up planning for a crash exit thousands of military personnel are on standby a friendly civil disruption ministers are also sending letters to one hundred forty thousand firms advising them about preparations penny marshall the actor and director who was one of hollywood's female trailblazers has died the seventy five year old was known for her role in the one nine hundred seventy sitcom eleven and shirley and she made her lasting mark as a.