that ex. remarkably mr de mistura made no mention of the most significant recent syria development the withdrawal of u.s. troops something the further strengthens the position of the syrian government and of russia in the ongoing diplomacy the u.s. special envoy for syria james jeffrey was supposed to be in new york for this meeting he canceled his trip presumably because part of his policy has now been dismantled by the president the u.n. the u.s. allies even members of the u.s. administration still reeling after president trump's decision james pays out his era at the united nations the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill which includes more than five billion dollars for president trump's proposed war along the border with mexico and that means to get at least sixty votes in the hundred member senate to pass but it's not yet clear if that will happen a temporary funding bill must be passed and signed by midnight on friday to avoid

a government shutdown let's bring in bill schneider is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university joins us live from los angeles bill good to have you back on the program so the house has now passed this temporary spending bill that includes five billion dollars for donald trump's border wall but that's never going to pass the senate is this just a window dressing exercise by republicans. yes republicans have control of the house now they will lose it in about two weeks when their new house takes over that will be a democratic house this is a final statement by the republican house in support of donald trump remember these are a lot of defeated republicans who might like to come back some day and they can argue argue those who were defeated if they come back they can argue hey i got liver for president trump you should vote for me to come back so bill this now potentially increases the chances of this partial government shutdown does this mean in purely

simple terms that many government workers might not get paid for christmas well they might not get paid by christmas but every government shutdown has ended with employees of government employees getting pay that is just get paid a little bit later in fact they get paid and they have to work so in some ways it works to their advantage but they will be missing some of their money just before christmas and that is not a good signal in terms of the machinations bill we know that republicans need democratic votes to pass spending legislation in the senate so a partial shutdown is all but assured if trump and the republicans insist on funding for the war so what's likely to happen then come friday in terms of this other vote. well this enemy and i even take it up. chuck schumer who's the democratic leader it's still remember him a republican senate will be next year but he says it's dead on arrival and there won't be any democrats or more than

a couple of democrats who would vote to give the president the money for the border wall so it really is dead on arrival if it is taken up at all by the outgoing senate remember the outgoing senate goes out in about a week bill just a final thought from you in terms of the bigger picture how is all of this playing into the wider political landscape i mean summit senate minority leader chuck schumer paints a picture of doom he says look the stock market's down we have a potential government shutdown looming and now the defense secretary james mattis has resigned he says trump is plunging the country into chaos as he writes well i think that says reasonable argument to make the wall seem to be closing in the mall or investigation the payoff of hush money to the women who claim to have had affairs with donald trump now we have this partial government shutdown coming we have a cabinet official who does something very rare in the united states he's resigning on an issue of differing principle with the president that does not happen very

much the last time i can remember it was just before world war one when the secretary of the state of state who was a democratic isolationist resigned because he thought the president wanted to get the united states involved in world war one you don't see many resignations on principle and this i think is a very serious matter for voters to weigh when they look at term president drop he is in very serious political trouble bill schneider thank you for talking to al jazeera so official break when we come back. the law has been broken and we will do everything within our power to find those responsible travel chaos as drones force mouse flight cancellations at one of europe's busiest airports. find out why most. of the. day one of

a new era in television news we badly need at this moment and this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand or hinder refugees who live here. i got to commend you all i'm hearing is good journalism president hosni mubarak has resigned. after all a lot of cover ups on the high wire diplomacy. loved ones some form of closure he saw the syrian army. in the city as well as posters of syrian president bashar assad to record a. hundred meters away from us we're on the front line but. the market doesn't happen now.

the target adored by millions because stone's most famous cricketer arrived as prime minister on a blaze of national celebration. now one hundred days into his leadership people in power asks whether delivering on promises will be as easy in practice as it was in theory right now the nation is not feeling confident right all people are disappointed with the bombing in iran's one hundred days on al-jazeera. kidnappings and murders in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea and in syria. i don't understand why he was kidnapped. schools of crimea and to have been arrested tortured and killed most believed by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour u.s. defense secretary james mattis has resigned and will leave his post at the end of february he said he's stepping down so president trump and other defense chiefs with views more closely aligned to his own comes a day off the trump announced he was drawing u.s. troops from syria. and thousands of kurds in northern syria have protested against trump's decision and they want clear assurances from the u.s. led coalition after threats by turkey's president to attack kurdish fighters in the region. and the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill which includes funds for president trump's proposed wall along the

border with mexico now means to get the sixty votes in the one hundred member senate. but it's not yet clear if that will happen. now the u.s. has charged two chinese nationals accusing them of involvement in a massive hacking campaign the justice department alleges the suspects are linked to the chinese government claims that china has dismissed but to go hang has more from washington d.c. . at the justice department sweeping allegations against two chinese nationals accused of widespread hacking the victims included companies in banking and finance telecommunications and computer consumer electronics medical equipment packaging manufacturing consulting healthcare biotechnology automotive oil and gas exploration and mining the government says the hackers were able to get into the computers of nasa the energy department and the navy stealing the personal information of one hundred thousand sailors they wouldn't name the companies that

were targeted but did say many of the attacks were aimed at managed service providers you've all heard about situations where you see somebody essentially the cyber equivalent of breaking into a house this is more like breaking into and getting the keys from the maintenance supervisor who has keys to hundreds and hundreds of apartments and all the residents in those apartments according to the indictment the to work for the chinese government and are believed to still be in china meaning they are unlikely to actually be arrested but this comes at a time of increased tensions between the u.s. and china after the arrest of a chinese tech executive at the request of the u.s. on charges of violating sanctions and the clock ticking on a ninety day window hoped it ending the trade war leading to another bad day on the stock market as the u.s. injects even more tension to the over the front u.s. china relationship. al-jazeera washington. spain

southern coast thirty three others were rescued by the local maritime so this all had traveled from north africa and sixty one thousand migrants of arrived in spain since the beginning of time to eighteen. now the u.k. second biggest airport has been brought to a standstill after the appearance of drones forced the cancellation of all flights british troops have been sent to gatwick airport that south of london as police continue to hunt for the operator of two drones the devices reappeared near the airfield everytime the airport tried to reopen the runway more than one hundred thousand passengers have been stranded and about seven hundred fifty flights destructive. was sitting on the run nearly six hours on they tell as between the flies. they counsel they offer that they said to us you have to get out from. we get our old the family is. going back to london's. i have never seen any airport anywhere in the world affected by drugs in this way

eighteen months ago we had a little bit of a scare when an idiot through a very cheap price for forty minutes five flights this several orders of magnitude. whoever is behind this has very carefully and deliberately targeted the single runway airport at a time when it rethink is under maximum straight. there's been a revamp of saudi arabia's intelligence service in the aftermath of the. king solomon ordered changes following global outrage over the killing of the saudi journalist inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul last october well the us senate last week blamed crown prince mama bin sound month for the crime it's believed the fifteen man hit squad was put together by officials close to the saudi royal off with siri the deputy head of general intelligence and sadat khatami a senior court advisor have since been fired the changes will lead to the creation of three new government agencies to improve intelligence operations they'll seek to

ensure those operations are in line with national security goals international law and human rights commitments the committee behind the restructuring was headed by the saudi crown prince. well best my mom is a professor of political science at the university of waterloo she says the intelligence services shakeup is aimed at deflecting attention away from the conference. i think the optics of reform are clear and the message being protected here is that there is checks and balances in the system that there's oversight but frankly it doesn't really address a bigger cloud hanging over the crown prince that he was implicated in ordering this murder of to show she and so frankly the key issue it doesn't go away but i think the cosmetic restructuring is meant to try and deflect attention from those who sort of tried to argue from within the kingdom that this was just a run away agency but again it doesn't address the core argument the idea here is

that these three departments are going to be overseen by this committee and the head of this committee is going to be the crown prince it really is just i think quite. difficult to sort of see to it as a genuine effort but more importantly i think much of the saudi establishment really believes that people need to move on that you know this was just one man that was killed and that frankly the world is going to eventually you know focus on another great news item and eventually forget about the murder of her show she and slowly but slowly people normalising haven't been so many again there's been a low turnout in voting in togo off the coals by opposition on religious leaders for a boycott of parliamentary elections it's estimated that only about eight percent of eligible voters showed up to cost a ballot bowl today as it has been. after weeks of deadly anti-government protests in togo election day in the tiny west african country was calm under heavy military presence. we're in much of everything is quiet but the atmosphere is not comforting

opposition parties called for a boycott after their demands the regional mediators were not met. they were convinced the vote was rigged by the ruling union for the republican party it's expected the ruling republicans will hold on to their parliamentary majority. some of said we should not vote because of the lack of political understanding. the opposition has been demanding an overhaul of how elections are conducted they also want transparency and constitutional reforms to place presidential term limits. he shouted in a public this this issue i am not voting choosing to not vote is also a choice i just follow the instructions given by opposition leaders hundreds of thousands of protesters have been calling for the resignation of their president for nursing day house rules since his father died in two thousand and five the

senior narcing bay was a military general but took power in one thousand sixty seven through a coup. because you know they are perpetrating violence and abusing human rights. amnesty international says togo continues to arrest and detain people arbitrarily torturing and killing citizens and now togo returns to business as usual one of the world's poorest countries with half of the seven million told willy's living on less than a dollar twenty five a day according to the world food program freedom house says togo has no freedom and adding insult to injury total ranks near syria and yemen as one of the unhappiest places on earth paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. now the b.a. summer it's with just some of the world's most famous ski resorts ness well known though is south and that op is the only resort in tajikistan where

a new generation of local ski is a dreaming of sporting glory the country's also hoping to boost tourism for winter sports and explains. at least fifty percent of the stone is over three thousand meters above sea level it's one of the most mountainous countries in the world mountain ranges that defy national borders include the premier's which stretch into northern afghanistan the allée and the chin which reach into kazakstan was because stalin killed a gestalt in china but as you can stand has only one ski resort soffit is about seventy kilometers north of the touchy capital ducharme bay it was built during the soviet era but has been renovated and expanded in recent years after the first big snow fall of two thousand and eighteen olympic slalom skia aleesha caused a lot of as a lesson to give he represented tajikistan in the two thousand and fourteen olympics held in sochi russia well i think. whenever i'm teaching the kids i feel

great because this is my sport i teach them from the bottom of my heart because these kids will become flag bearers of the deacon's then. aleesha teaches these children for free the kids come from poor families who can't afford the latest warm clothing but that doesn't in any way dampen the children's enthusiasm. i have been skiing for one year i want to ski in other countries i want to be the best at this poll. there may be only a couple of runs on these mountain slopes but they are enough to challenge these young learners and some who are considerably older now i haven't skied for twenty five years but i cannot tell you how much of a pleasure it is to be skiing again for the first time and especially here in tajikistan.

back at the ski school children are preparing for another lesson eighteen year old medical bone helps them tighten their boots and ski bindings. from early childhood i had a dream to ski and so now my dreams come true because for six years i've practicing i've always wanted to represent my country and of course get the first prize. despite the uphill struggle of living in one of the poorest countries in asia these children have the enthusiasm and potential charland for being downhill champions one and all. that al-jazeera soffit darrell tajikistan all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's all just there at the. right time for a picture of the headlines here on al-jazeera right u.s. defense secretary james mattis has resigned and will leave his post at the end of

february he said he's stepping down so president donald trump kind of a defense chief with views more closely aligned to his own comes a day at the trump announced he was withdrawing u.s. troops from syria. meanwhile thousands of kurds in northern syria have protested against drums decision they want to reassure and since in the u.s. led coalition after threats by turkey's president to attack his fighters in the region washington support of syrian defense forces allied with kurdish fighters that strained relations between the u.s. and turkey. fellow house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill which includes funds for president trump's proposed war along the border with mexico it now needs to get at least sixty votes in the one hundred member senate to pass it is not yet clear if that will happen a temporary funding bill must be passed and signed by midnight on friday to avoid a government shutdown. the u.s. has charged two chinese nationals with involvement in

a massive hacking campaign the justice department says the suspects are linked to the chinese government a claim beijing has dismissed or says the paya targeted at least forty five u.s. organizations including the u.s. navy and. also accused of targeting dozens of other companies and at least twelve countries in of migrants have been found dead of spain's southern coast thirty three of those were rescued by the local maritime service all had traveled from north africa more than sixty one thousand migrants arrived in spain since the beginning of twenty eighteen. the u.k. second biggest airport has been brought to a standstill of the appearance of drones forced the cancellation of all flights british troops have been sent to get we get bored south of london as police continue to hunt for the operator the drones the devices reappeared near the airfield every time the airport tried to reopen the runway more than one hundred thousand passengers have been stranded about seven hundred fifty flights disrupted

the presidential election of the democratic republic of congo has been delayed until december thirtieth the vote had been shut off a sunday the president of the actual commission said violence and logistical issues meant his staff could not be ready in time all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power stations are watching by the. young african footballers are traveling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when one east investigates thailand's football factory on al jazeera. in july twenty eighth imran khan's p.t.i. poetry dramatically overturned the political status quo in pakistan and he became its prime minister which will a former cricketer turned politician be able to keep the electoral promises he made

to limit our pledges to revive the economy fortune justice and most challenging me to defeat corruption and montana has no idea what is against what is actually fighting against and what kind of resistance would come and not just from the politicians it's going to come from all quarters inspects the dentical of the center. construct. that resistance develops. pakistani journalist by rahim shamsi to weigh up the successes and failures of counts first one hundred days in office.

for over two decades imran khan pakistan's former cricketing hero has cultivated an image as a known crusader fighting against a corrupt dynastic elites who keep the stranglehold on this country's politics. they fly south to suddenly a subset of us are just out. to find out exactly funny i wonder. well what if a candidate are you serious negative and ron hubbard about being totally anti-corruption having zero tolerance for it and how he sort of actually pointed fingers at poor people's party and and the two largest parties of pakistan as being corrupt and being just sponsible for all that is happening given here in this

country nobody thought it's going to take off the people of pakistan are so tolerant of corruption as being a part of the political elite that this narrative will never take off but that narrative did take off and this year after a bitterly contested general election khan and his pakistan that he can soft finally achieve the power he so desperately craved imran khan promised that the first months of his government would start an irreversible process of change of ending corruption and building a powerful economy of looking after minority communities and refocusing the country's foreign policy he pledged in other words to create a whole new pakistan. i'm a pakistani television journalist and over the last fifteen years i followed him on hans long journey from the political margins to the top job now i'm curious to

see how he'll manage the realities of power will he be able to keep his promises. are. you watching the freshly minted prime minister amid all the pomp and circumstance and being greeted by the powerful military who have ruled pakistan for nearly forty years it was hard to escape the thought that he'd been handed a poisoned chalice. not one of his b. discusses in the last seventeen years since pakistan came into existence and served out his or her term. yet imran khan was determined to show that he could hit the ground running he is the first pakistani politician to announce one hundred

day agenda for his new government. yeah one hundred. hundred. two hundred. hundred or so months of the year with the goods out party of these subsidies. straight. up is subsidy of a structure that was all started up subsidy. jordan. got to block the opposite of daughter. that actually. so how is that one hundred day plan going. is pakistan's largest city its commercial and financial center its largest port and the gateway to the vest of the

country it's a good place to assess the new government's progress chances of success. i know in supporters would like to give them more time but the first one hundred days have been marked by rising expectations as thousands expressed their despair and prostrations the injustices they have suffered so long hoping the new government will offer them some comfort and jane thank you so much in a moment. oh yeah oh yeah and i'm barely. uniacke i'm very. sorry i'm be using our i'm not my girl by the future we're going up to her name it and i think i'm. from protests about police shootings in college and competence to coles that something be done about for didn't build it this demo has it all a pot pourri of complaints and problems and demands they want iran han to address.

today we are here to show solidarity with among them our stands alone tied on fourteenth of august in a shootout. they were in a car and a police bullet hit us after a mugging what do you expect from the people because now they are in power the government forced off on their promise the police has promised that they will change the rules off automatic weapons on the street so they should not just talk about it and they must change it physically we have still not seen that change secondly we hope that more that there is a law that hospitals must provide emergency care so i hope that law will be implemented implemented in its true sense that it was not. an opposition i really want to consummate the limitation of the right i mean we focus of us policy is now one hundred days nearly over prime minister we

expectations are still riding on. the. demands for justice and an end to corruption have been a recurring theme in this country for many years but although the new government has moved against its political opponents like review cyber instructions who have promised much it has still to challenge the powerful vested interests that truly dominate pakistan despite the need for it to do so. this beautiful residential suburb was built recently but behind the facade is a story of intimidation forced evacuations and violence. but.

nearly two hundred villagers were forced out of their homes big business groups with links with local politicians and police but most of them off those who resisted soon. moved out and his elderly father didn't. come out of her. corner. is fighting his case through the courts but the pakistani judicial system is notoriously slow and skewed to favor the rich and powerful cases take months

even years before a final judgment is made more to the point there's no sign yet that in manhunts government is doing very much to tackle land mafias or other powerful individuals. he's a professor karachi university a political analyst and an expert in international relations pakistan it is i mean i hate to use this word but there are actually masses. the peoples trayvon it and i personally think time has no idea what he is against what he is actually fighting against and what kind of resistance would come and not just from the politicians it's going to come from all quarters if he spreads the tentacles of this anti-corruption construct. in fact within a few weeks of han taking office the pakistani media was reporting on the financial

wrongdoing of some of his own ministers the birkie works for one of the country's leading english language newspapers some of their party members themselves are facing allegations have faced allegations previously as well particularly in the. previous government and labor but on so one would have wanted them to start cleaning house first and then move on to allegations and you know what they do they come on t.v. and they talk about corruption cases and they keep talking about corruption on the opposition so maybe if they sort of went a little more had a little more introspection and started off from their own party that would make a difference also i think they will get caught up in this rhetoric eventually in any case because it's not as simple the option isn't as simple to get rid of.

so how exactly will the government keep its own house in order. it's a question i took to moran is smile one of the co-founders of the p.t.i. party and now the governor of the sin the province we believe in starting accountability from ourselves the prime minister present himself first to the authorities saying used you can start from me and then go down to others i'm not saying that all everyone in p.d.i. or in this government is an angel there must be people who don't believe in our agenda or program but you know everybody is going to learn the lesson we're not going to spare anyone we have from sitting going we're from opposition we from any walk of life we'll treat everyone the same got to do her justice just rhetoric well it remains to be seen but so far find words have yet to translate into action. eliminating corruption wasn't the only major change that

a manhunt promised during the election he also pledged to turn around pakistan's ailing economy and create jobs. right yeah.