early and significant but it was a deterrent now will the white p.g. fight to maintain territory or reengage for damascus to reach some sort of an arrangement to avert military action either by the turkish russian iranian and or syrian army's who controls thirty five percent of syria's territory which is rich in oil and agriculture is in question but the message from serious power brokers iran russia and turkey is that they will hope to find common ground jennifer there also is iraq and. now sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections in the democratic republic of congo have been delayed for a week voting on now take place on december thirtieth the president of the electoral commission said violence on the distal issues meant his staff could not be ready on time reports in the capital kinshasa it's been a long and difficult day for the democratic republic of congo's independent national electoral commission send election officials have been preparing for

a march until pated presidential and parliamentary poor that has been delayed for two years now on sunday voters were to cast their ballots using new backed controversial electronic voting machines for the first time in the country we have . election for seven days. and the election is going to take. on the tenth year of december this year. this postponement due. to. take me through. really do you just. it's a logistical nightmare millions of ballot papers are yet to arrive in the country the last batch on the gets to kinshasa on saturday the president of the electoral commission has said that the delay is mainly because of a crisis in kinshasa after a warehouse where the city's voting machines while stored was barnes' down security

and any boiler outbreak in the east i've also been mentioned that some people are angry about this position. blame all pain and suffering on president kabila and the semi president we are ready to be killed for our country this man who outside the commission's office is saying. said his executive board had held in margins you meetings with presidential candidates the catholic church and government officials to explain why it's impossible to go to the polls on sunday three main candidates a man will show diary of the ruling party felix just a caddy leader of the country's largest opposition party as well as martin for you the condit of a quality called looka did not show up we're telling him yesterday he has to be told if he and the mr day have to be moved from the actual position because of if you will of called are fed up that they

cannot have an excuse to push for the election for sure we're going to put a nod to this because this is kind of you know. of a way of you know all of the respecting people. on wednesday the governor of kinshasa suspended all political rallies in the city for security reasons this campaign period has been chaotic and violent delaying the election only adds the tension and certainty in the country catching so many al-jazeera kinshasa financial break here al-jazeera when we come back the possibility of a u.s. government shutdown this weekend is now looming a lot closer we find out why. inequality in the spotlight will tell you what one asian nation is doing to reduce its you wanting wealth to stay with us.

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. defense secretary james mattis has resigned his post at the end of february he said he's stepping down so president from can have a defense chief with views more closely aligned to his own comes a day off the trump and al to admit he was withdrawing u.s. troops from syria. the. 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 in the region. on the

presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been delayed until december thirtieth the vote for sunday the president of the electoral commission said farland sound logistical issues meant just off could not be ready on time. that the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill including more than five billion dollars for president trump's proposed wall along the border with mexico and now needs to get at least sixty votes in the one 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 a bill schneider is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university he says the looming shutdown is putting president trump in serious political trouble. 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 all be arguing those who were defeated with if they come back they can argue hey i got livered for president trump you should vote for me to come back to the wall seemed 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 doesn't 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 john he is in very serious political trouble the u.s.

has charged two chinese nationals accusing them of involvement in a massive how king campaign the justice department alleges the suspects are linked to the chinese government claims that china has dismissed a particle hane as more now 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 quitman 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 well as a china political analyst on the rise is the chinese government he says the allegation is a baseless part of an effort by washington to rally its allies against beijing. allegations are sensational but let us say that they're not proven i mean this is

the indictment reads which i've read reads more like something from the state department than you would expect from the department of justice in terms of how this affects the relationship because nothing is going to be proven provable unless they get these two individuals and go through a court trial all is doing is serving to create a greater divide especially in public opinion between the u.s. public and chinese public you know donald trump has not had very much. success in uniting his allies against china which is something he feels he needs to do because of his unilateral tariffs against them so i think he's using the fear factor here and trying to ratchet up pressure and leverage against china as they seek to get china to knuckle under and adopt a system which is more open to u.s. interests so i don't know that it's necessarily that significant that people are piling on it's just a question of whether or not they actually believe that this is done remember in

cyber crime it's possible to do almost anything including spoofing so if you're the cia you could literally make it look like somebody was trying to do something and until it's proved and you go into the means and methods and you start saying this is the technology that was stolen and this is how it was used in china it's very difficult these are just allegations unproven at this point. now the u.k. second biggest airport has been brought to a standstill offer the parents of drones forced the cancellation of all flights british troops have been sent to gatwick airport south of london as police continue to hunt for the operator to drones the devices reappeared nearby everytime the airport tried to reopen the runway more than one hundred thousand passengers have been stranded and about seven hundred fifty flights disrupted. nearly six hours on the. council after that they said to us you have to get out

from. all the families. going back to london's. i have never seen any airport anywhere in the world. this way eighteen months ago we had a little bit of a scare when idiots who were jumping to close to forty minutes five flights this is several orders of magnitude that whoever is behind this has very carefully and deliberately targeted the single runway airport at a time when it rethink is under maximum straight opposition protesters in hungary are expected to run again on friday after the president signed off on a controversial labor reform which opponents according the slave law that allows employers to force people to work overtime and delay payment for up to three years robin forced to walk in the capital budapest. new life has been breathed into the

hug area and opposition thanks to controversial laws passed by big governments in the hungarian parliament behind me the first law would create a parallel court system where the justice ministry would appoint judges and human rights groups say there is a further erosion of hungary's independent judiciary the second piece of legislation is a labor law which is really fired up a number of different organizations groups and political parties from both the left and the right because what it would mean would be that companies can demands more working hours from their employees by up to four hundred hours that's an additional day for every week of the year there have been two permanent tents established here outside the parliament by the hard core of civil society activists who say they're going to stick it out throughout the christmas period and into the new year hello sabrina hi how you doing. i gather that you've been here for the last week and the

right is the first of this time and you've had a couple of very chilly nights it's pretty cold and you know you need to. go down yesterday i do want everyone to have that's what you need. to stand to to have rash to stand up for it if you're not a little christian now it's victoria's the government says that these laws are necessary and that this legislation is in line with the sorts of laws that you see in other european union countries now the widening global wealth gap has spot social unrest in many parts of the world that's raising particular concerns in thailand after one survey named the country as having the biggest disparity one percent of the population there controls more than sixty six percent of the country's wealth scott had reports from the capital bangkok. even though the physical distance between thailand's rich and poor can be small for two it's just

a matter of metres the wealth gap between them has been steadily widening and according to one report it's now the world's largest tos lived in a bangkok slum for forty five years and now in the shadow of the capital's latest ultra luxury model she picks while vegetables for her dinner who's worried should be kicked off the land her situation is not unique. a recent international report put thailand at the top of the wealth gap list in a country of nearly seventy million the richest one percent controls sixty six point nine percent of the country's wealth economist a bank executive planned it raised concern on social media about the growing wealth inequality as it leads to social unrest like with the rival thai political groups known as the red shirts and yellow shirts that. things have been in new qualities you know for me the. red target.

problem is quite clear to me that inequality at the grassroots suntanned capitalist thailand's military government quickly responded to punk punit and the wealthy record when you look at the data. the real data come from many countries table six have only forty countries that country one in down but if you look at all. so for those ties at the lower end of the wealth chart it's not just about having few or no assets or even a low income it's about the lack of opportunities and resources so their chances and hope of changing their environment working their way up are extremely low a great deal of industries in retail in thailand are controlled by a select few firms or families they're well connected to the government ensuring their position top. top up lim chip program runs a craft beer company but he says he had to shift his brewing out of thailand because of regulations that favor the too large beer companies huge production

minimums and strict advertising laws he was even arrested emanuel. you cannot do it because someone already told superior to fire that you are in the country that you know oh man not really. and really i think it's possible for them to many people live at the moment so all their money evolved according to economists pumping it those unfair advantage is given to people who are already at the top of the wealth chart are the most damaging to the economy and the country it not only makes the rich richer but it takes money and opportunity away from others scotland al-jazeera bangkok. are tough a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera 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 can have

a defense chief but the views more closely aligned to his own it comes a day off the trump announced he was withdrawing u.s. troops from syria. and thousands of kurds in northern syria have protested against trump's decision they want clear assurances from the u.s. led coalition after threats by turkey's president to attack kurdish fighters in the region washington's support of syrian defense forces allied with kurdish fighters and strained relations between washington and turkey. the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been delayed until december thirtieth. the vote had been changing for sunday. the president of the electoral commission said violence and logistical issues meant to start could not be ready on time. the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill including more than five billion dollars for president trump's proposed wall along the mexican border it now means to get at least sixty votes in

the one hundred member senate to pass but it's not yet clear that will happen me 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 hocking campaign the justice department says the suspects are linked to the chinese government a claim that beijing has denied washington says the pair targeted at least forty five u.s. organizations including the us navy and nasa are also accused of targeting dozens of other companies in at least twelve countries and the u.k. second biggest airport has been brought to a standstill after the appearance of drones forced the cancellation of all flights but his troops have been sent to gatwick airport south of london because police continue to hunt for the operator to drones the devices reappeared nearby everytime the airport management tried to reopen the runway. more than a hundred thousand passengers have been stranded and around seven hundred fifty

flights disrupted well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off the street states have done so much in battle. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities starts from the very beginning of the. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera. how can poetry make an impact in an ever more uncertain world well today on the street we'll hear from three black muslim writers whose work is really bigger a take of the art for my family ok. send your questions and your comments via twitter and as always on youtube for this.

in the u.s. interest in poetry is reaching new heights with a number of people here reading poaching almost doubling over the last five years the national endowment for the arts says the biggest increase in poetry readership is among young nonwhite people between eighteen and twenty four and young black muslims are in the vanguard of those presenting compelling poetry to new audiences here in the u.s. today we are joined by three poets who are boosting the profile of the art form tarik touré is a west baltimore born writer whose work examines social justice arts and culture and black muslim experiences his latest book he happens to have just right in front of him is called team parts and it examines faith family and fatherhood. city of this year is a two time youth poetry grand slam champion and her most recent book seven surveys the challenges that society places and black muslim women and offers a spirited message on how to overcome adversity and how my tool is twenty seventeen

baltimore city youth poet laureate he starts with invisible cage listen to my heart go. me to do day to do day to do day do do day. capitalism wants to put an end that there is god and me because to them god is wealth but god himself a never been dollar bill green i've seen politicians baptized in false dreams but i've been graced with psyching enough to see past the facade and recognize god that's because i've been graced with the spirit of fidel ready to castrate my ghetto with the castro falsetto waging war against minimum wage with the rage of failed. him a koofi witnessing the bloody aftermath capitalism leaves behind when

the left behind the machine says you're fine then it takes your struggle and it tries to refine like sugar it's a domino effect god bless how we've resurrect then take our bones and add to the shrine how divine death must be that's what the poor man who used to be the floor man before he was a four man before blacks were whole man he knew he was the whole man he needs somebody to hold man they held him down the whole man square cops never cared so today he got to hold hands and pre say verify in saddam's mom written the qur'an for me some say die in war fight ensued been on the to me but them people are really down for the cause because if they could they put me down for the cause just because then they were asked now come how come and he will say with a grin like martin muhammad should have known that the marksman already mocked him

men who speak against the invisible cage are marked men the invisible hand of karl marx with marks around his neck a fixie if less fills cut him pills are still filled with. how does one make me pick enormous fear might have caught ken if i never caught on to the post of the gold coast. removing the tumor your brain centric countries attempted to make black men their own prison for profit now profits in prison mandela's medallion keeps must live in even though they tried to end next march so i'll make sure that i'm always best the cornell west key came from the west livin in the west sin must come but the government tell them that are meant to tell them that are meant to this poem right here with me to dismantle the invisible cage you're watching poetry in the stream in our community is feeling here says mohammed

tall who you just saw perform is a lyrical prodigy that's what it delivery and performances of always wild me very proud of him in his achievements being poet laureate of baltimore and all another person writes and this is a meter she says i became extremely infatuated with mohammad's poetry when i was first introduced to slam poetry particularly his wordplay and use of rhyme and cadence it's safe to say he has influenced my poetry style and many different ways throughout the last couple of years. you were at a point where you are influencing younger poets out there but i want to talk about how you got started because i know there was a point in your life where you were told you weren't good enough to be a poet. a high school. and basically they think i have to compete for a spoken word in a specific competition. a year later i transfer schools. and we had

a theatre arts class in the draw for that day was to tell a story and it didn't matter which medium we chose we just have to tell the story and i remember a year ago i would have paul and i said let me i was come to one class everybody loved me i was i want to share this poem with your and when i shared everybody went crazy well. this is one crazy guy gal but i was like oh yoda that's hot like. it was it was a very wide diverse group of young people. and then it just took off from there my mentor at the time jake mayberry he he heard about my performance and he came in met with me after class and he said i want you to come to our poetry club on thursday and so when i went to the poetry club i perform the same paul he was like congratulations you on the baltimore city poet you'd seen and a year ago if you was telling me you need to join this team you need to sign no you have what it takes and i was like no i don't think i have what it takes so as soon as we left the room i ran to the bathroom of course and said you're the one who

threw you for what you think. oh my laptop i got a picture from your twitter profile picture and i am wondering whether are you born a poet does that poetry comic in you when you with that little bit here don. when you already have power i think so i think a lot of what you see just like my development created the poetry a lot of the poetry that i speak on especially in the new book that i just published seven it has a lot to do with my development growing up and the things that i saw as a child both tom and triumphs so i think those are really the foundational moments to create the poet that is here today. so we are getting a few questions online there's a lot of love for all of us. just say put that out there but there are a few questions in how one even gets started so i'll give this one to you tariq yves writes into the stream how old were you when you started writing and performing and was it difficult for you to find poets you felt that you could

identify with. daughter writing when i was about seven but i didn't perform an actual poem until i was a freshman in college and i basically was richard in my freshman year from football and i mean just have nothing to do basically it was just like. they had a black history month program and i ended up being asked to do something because people knew that i wrote and like mohammed said like you've done reading it and then like is a pause and then i people saw going crazy and i was like. ok i guess this is the thing though so i started publicly sharing my so. i think that for me it was people like. who's a great poet i just came across one of his videos and then i saw watching more like def poetry stuff and i was like i think might want to do that i was interested when i learned how to actually write and participate in the art form it kind of just took off from there so do you when did you know that you were good when did i know

that i was good. maybe. they didn't. i for me it was a situation where nothing i would qualifies as good but it was a situation where i had dealt with. i had to look like a lie and like trying to get into poetry so rigidly i tried out for like different poetry kings and i didn't make it and then i went up to somewhere at that time i was living in prince george's county and you want to go where baltimore like that so far and sort of i just really want to do this woman just really want to try to do we just do this so just me all the way up to baltimore and i prefer it and like i said there's a moment where i'm fat it just take a moment and then. no one even said anything the coach and the found. kind of more thing he would like called my mom says that he was like listen i understand that you all are very far but we need her. and for me that was like

wow because i had dealt with like so much rejection like in the process and stuff like that that i was just like oh. dear we're not going to make people wait anymore to see you perform live so i know you're going to get ready while many could does this no more rejection there sosa deal now perform for lay on a message to her niece about the strength and lineage in her skin color and while she gets ready to listen to the nasa taylor and philadelphia writer who explains why susie as work is so important to her people often forget how influential black muslims have been time. from the. to the black arts movement but often we do talk about black muslims we only focus on them and so they do use work because she's a black muslim actively transcribing her own history and that kind of follows the footsteps of black woman it's what came before so just so you could also write about fighting so and that's something that i see greatly reflected in city as book

seven. for one my niece grows up with too much backbone for men to kneel before huss ten and a tongue as sharp as fire and she asked me. what do you do with skin that screams however i will tell her right because i could be well so ignorant to tell you not to system us soldier safe in the melanin in your skin for ink so join your truth but know that they will come for you even when your supro to buy as they had to send for them and their privilege what try to take all the letters up your page to write their legacy and once there is no more ink their privilege will say well i don't see color so i asked god to make you of ink for when you are broken and bloody from them you can rewrite your legacy by tenderly caressing your skin because. there is an angel in you and god sends you

a book that rhymes so that you could define the divine in you name one of our prophets who was a poet who song was more of sons to shine for you and she would ask me what kind of poet she does just can love to recite and i will tell her and ensue writing poems that prove like survivors for writers never die we make heartbeats out of syllables and the next hundred out of semi-colons for when my missis grows up with too much backbone for mensa mill before has bad in its own as shop as fire and she asked me . what do you do with skin that screams tever i will tell her let it be heard for us skin is the most supreme spoken word. the words of bashir our community is responding and says the two things that to dia

always puts an emphasis on our speaking your truth i think you just heard her do that and not ending your poems in victimhood with her help i've been able to take and bring a level of wrongness and poetry to power to my poetry which didn't exist before and another person writes in that she's had the pleasure of watching severe performance and says that she loves it because for me it was the first time as a black muslim that i saw part of myself reflected in poetry so do you feel that you have an extra responsibility that the gentleman i have aside if you don't have your own representing then you're representing him ok. yes definitely i feel like. it's just kind of like you are to have a responsibility as a black person you are you have a responsibility as a muslim and i'm a woman feels like i have that responsibility as well this isn't to take away from

the fact that you know they have their own intersections i feel like i have a responsibility. to represent all of my voices. you know there are people online that of course that they relate to that may relate to what you're saying but they also relate to the men on the panel also this is a person i read this week a little bit earlier he follows up i've been a follower of these two young brothers for a couple years now and it's really inspiring how talented they are and how well they capture emotions and reflections from the perspective young black muslim men so i want to pick up on that theme to go to this tweet this is jacob mayberry he's also a poet and i've been going through his twitter feed just scroll through it you'll see some powerful performances there he says baltimore spoken word represents the ultimate mixture of message and emotion the power and the writing and the performer we strive to affect change with our poms that they have to be that level what is

baltimore spoken word how does it differ what sets apart if i make one point. is actually my mentor that came to me in the classroom. i think a major emphasis placed on poetry in baltimore is that it has to be social justice driven and as we utilize it is more of a tool to build community more so than anything i guess kind of like how the foundation is lead so a lot of the young poets that you see coming out of this out of the city are more socially inclined. and they want to do the work they want to see change occur and i feel like poetry is the conduit for that. i know you know there's a connection you feel there is a connection between the poetry. making social change and really impacting people's lives you've heard that you seen it can you share one of those stories with us so i was in dallas and literally there was

a kid who came to see one of my performances and afterwards he came up to me was les really teary i. did a poem about my mother and he said look you know i don't know you but i just had the worst argument with my mother. we just completely just fell out before i came here and he was like everything you say i really think i'm going to go talk to her so for me i think a lot about our relationships and how our relationships with with and all of these systems and how we lose people and the fact that he was able to do that for me was be it was something i really touched me and it was in the first time when they happen but the intensity of the moment really struck me and i kind of just i was just in awe it was like speechless like are read all these poems and now it's like ok thank you. i think it's very powerful back to bottom which was just spoiled with you know over and over again is

a city that's where we're poets peripherally are will continue to thrive and it's going to be so many more years down the line more kids come up you know yes you know you don't come to me on the stream. without performing so i know you're going to go and get ready here and you get ready and. so are gas for talking about baltimore being spoiled for poets graham jackson here i think what agree says poetry in baltimore will be as big as hip hop in less than ten years time the world wants content now rap and hip hop nowadays don't provide the same nourishments anymore and here they go on to say you hear the baltimore sound in a lot of national poets simply because they admire and be the work that we do. going to see taric perform. we need to know about this poem is that it is about african americans in the united states embracing islam again from their heritage in africa this is a beautiful title i found god in

a billion pie territory i found god. in a big. i've seen coffees placed atop the heads of felons who smiles because while the mississippi. witness the crackling morse code of tests big double for life ref. incinerate a suicide note the a slam on no turmoil but the don't feed into merriam the philosopher malcolm that animal to chabad this ship set sail in the name of jesus hey zeus prophetic nouns inscribed on the broadside of vessels blessed by the highest councils and the lend him in cargo aboard it to the lend to turn souls into profit with the leaven the face children of mohammed in its belly back and forth on the

atlantic for a mother raising her shackled hands to the heavens to beg a lot to live in his name so the famished smiles of her family fall in once again into chains and we proclaim their shot in the same position distant mother i hope you'll see that the dawn is the ate away drum still shaking us to the atom that sue jude has dignified our posture yet again know that a third of this nation's children are black like you both like you wriggle like you that think hair falls in the spines of crans and valleys and mountain tops we have never had a home here but lord knows we can turn a bando into paradise lord knows we can turn lemons into lemonade left her alone law your down payment just enough us to buy land is religion in cold cash you should see we've made space here bothers arabic gorgeously broken over a southern twang saw a nest under

a northern bebop can't shake the jazz out us dept can't build the boom bap off our lips for us this is always been about burning masses house to the ground and dancing in the. a stadium full of our ancestors looking on this the ology has always been about associates of justice a parade of freedom marching to the soul overturn home so one day the giver of light sees the light or not bass's sees us for our faces and welcomes us back beyond the veil. you were just listening to tora tora way our community has to worry about that piece you just heard mama cam tell me the rashad on twitter says what it all some gifts are is community and to the world i had the pleasure of receiving an advance copy of the second volume of poetry from which that piece was just from my thoughts

reading that work two parts oxygen is an emotional tour de force resonating on a cellular cellular level it is honest raw and unflinchingly then takes so as you are reading now we actually got a comment live on you to promise a four four says how do we move black muslim poets out of the nice category and have it seen as a fully muslim or is slavic poetic form of expression and i would also say mainstream then how do you make this mainstream do you think there is a way or does it need to be part i think our responsibility as a poet and with these three phenomena people. to system for. my job is to continue writing and the people who produce the shows will work with them to see if we can get more but our job is to write and convey as authentically as possible. should be our focus as far as a niche category. is also rooted in expressing our

experiences in coming to a slam in being muslim and all of that and all those things intertwine mother she became muslim by. becoming a part of you know back liberation movement and things like being interested in deeply involved in trying to find herself in a society that didn't want to and then she became muslim because that was the answer for her so they can't be detached from me isn't particularly in each. poets writers all the way for. the position of your poetry is beautiful you i can see you appreciating each other's poetry but i want our audience to see what it's like when an audience appreciates their poetry it's kind of like a wild concept have a look at what will have a jazz to audiences when he gets on stage. probably

going somewhere. trying to. be beguiling. trayvon martin there were. so did you know the words that is like a song and i. was like especially that it was like as everyone knew that everybody was going the right thing yeah the right thing i'm going to start saw things like i got a target of about islam by literally people come up to him and be like i am i my family. when you on stage and the audience is feeling you and you are feeling them just in in a word each if you describe that feeling mohammed. to dia and that it george. so we just got this questionnaire that says looking forward

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inches closer to a government shutdown. of a president border war with mexico. has been broken and we will do everything within our power to find those responsible. as the u.k. . and a major security of the drones are detected. and we hit the slopes into stop with hopes that skiing can help bring tourists to one of. the friends james mattis has resigned citing differences with president trump he said he's stepping down so the president going to have a defense chief with views closer to his own comes a day off the prompt announced u.s. troops withdrawal from syria reports from washington d.c. . thank you is here is the real deal is the real deal think the president trump

initially surrounded himself with generals james mattis the secretary of defense michael flynn as national security adviser followed by another general h.r. mcmaster and of course john kelly who was moved from homeland security to take over as chief of staff all are now gone or going to matter some particular seen as a central figure in keeping a largely dysfunctional white house party functional secretary mabus was one of the few symbols the few items of strength and stability in this administration everything that indicates stability everything that indicates strength everything that indicates knowledge is leaving this administration when president trump criticize nato and threaten to leave it matters was the one reassuring allies behind the scenes he helped push the president to moderate his position on the g.c.c. crisis. and he was able to get the president to make an open ended commitment in

afghanistan while loosening restrictions on u.s. troops fighting there. and when trump tweeted out that he was banning transgender service members matters slow rolled the order until courts put it on hold the president's disenchantment was inevitably made public i think is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth it would appear the final straw for james mattis was what many believe was a unilateral executive decision to withdraw u.s. forces from syria the secretary's resignation letter coming less than twenty four hours later making clear the core difference in his belief in multilateralism and respect for allies and the president's lack of either the letter continues because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position. this departure is different from the many that have gone before highlighting like no other the maverick nature of a president that critics insist increasingly spurned said vice even on the eve of

a possible partial shutdown of government one that announces the resignation of a respected if not revered man who served his nation for decades in a tweet. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well a former u.s. assistant secretary of state p.j. crowley says the trumpet ministration has lost one of its last to strategic thinkers. we are setting record after record in terms of turmoil within the trump administration turnover for a variety of reasons whether in this case intellectual difference you know or are accusations of corruption. so i do think that what we have lost here is the last genuine conventional you know thinker in terms of national security policy someone who understands the importance of alliances and the importance of predictability in

terms of policy you know now you know president trump seems to surround himself now more increasingly you know with you know more political thinkers there has been a trend here rooted primarily in policy differences you know whether it's about the composition of the united states you know the movement of american forces to the us mexico border and now pulling out of two very significant operations you know without a strategic understanding of what happens next you know all of this is contrary to how you know general mattis or secretary mattis how he has looked at the world how he's done business and i think this was simply a last straw i think we all understood that at some point in time it was inevitable that either you no matter. would step down or are you know donald trump which tire of his service i think it's what's shocking here is how quickly it has occurred

well donald trump has been defending his decision to withdraw all u.s. troops from syria and and then campaign against i so it's alarmed washington's allies and kurdish fighters in syria who fear it'll allow eisel to regroup trump says it's time for other countries to step in and fishes more from washington d.c. . u.s. president has declared the war against eisel has been one insidious we've. eaten them and we've beaten a badly and he's taken to twitter to reject the idea the decision was unexpected writing getting out of syria was no surprise i've been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i very publicly want to do it i agreed to steal longer the white house is pushing back hard against two stories which have been circulating in washington since the decision was made first of all the president at the one of turkey told donald trump he was about to launch an attack against the kurds in syria a key u.s. ally and the u.s.

had to get out of the way not true the say and that no one in the washington establishment knew this decision was coming not true they say key military officials were briefed. donald trump called for the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria and april but was convinced to delay by military and security officials this time he wouldn't be dissuaded from fulfilling a campaign promise it's good for him there's no doubt about it i think he could have done it in a better way don't forget the anti isis coalition is composed of some sixty nations that even consult with their one key ally israel insisted it would step up operations in syria when america withdraw its and will continue to act. in syria to prevent iran from two military entrance it's over against us and russian president vladimir putin welcomed the decision but still isn't convinced the americans will go. the united states have been present in afghanistan for how long

seventeen years every year they say that they are withdrawing troops from there and so far they remain there so far we see no signs or were drawn of troops from there on capitol hill there's an effort from members of both main parties to have the president reconsider it is in our national security interest not to withdraw at this time in my view because if you do so now the kurdish fighters the kurdish forces will be decimated by turkey assad or maybe isis it is clear to me that if you withdraw now based on the going to dishes on the ground iran is a big winner inside syria donald trump insists the u.s. gains nothing by continued presence in syria his big decision is about to be put to the test alan fischer al-jazeera washington. thousands of kurds in northern syria have been protesting against a pullout of u.s. forces. there appealing to the us off the threats by turkish

president reza tiber go on to attack kurdish fighters in the region washington support of an alliance of rebels or in defense forces and kurdish fighters and strained turkish u.s. relations you know the outgoing u.n. special envoy to syria has given his last briefing to the security council urging unity to help the syrian people staffan de mistura successor the norwegian diplomat get pederson to take up his post in early january james bays has more now from the united nations. it was a rare moment something that doesn't normally happen in the security council. but how will these pictures of the special envoy stefan de mistura at the end of four and a half years in the job going around the security council table shaking the hands of ambassadors be viewed by the people of syria. they have nothing to celebrate u.n. diplomacy has been a failure the only people who can celebrate victory those who've led

a brutal military campaign russia and syrian are lies. over the last year russia has also dominated international diplomacy on syria with iran and turkey in january it called for a new constitutional committee to be set up but it then allowed mr demers stories efforts to form that committee to be undermined by constant quibbling by the assad government over the names of the members this week russian foreign minister sergei lavrov travel to geneva with seventeen new names for the committee names the un couldn't accept as they would have given the committee a pro regime bias i'm told this led to an angry phone call between mr lavrov and the u.n. secretary general despite all this is over in the security council mr de mistura put a positive spin on things so let's be frank i know we always look at the full of empty there has been and there is real progress we

really have a live there rule they'll procedure become a live to be clear but we need to go that extra. remarkably mr de mistura made no mention of the most significant recent syria development the withdrawal of u.s. troops something of 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 and reports say that trump is also planning to pull out thousands of u.s. troops from afghanistan about half of the seven thousand soldiers there could be back home within months u.s. had a military presence there and just after the nine eleven attacks in two thousand and

one. now the lower house of the u.s. congress has approved a spending bill including more than five billion dollars for president trump's proposed wall along the mexican border well the draft law needs at least sixty votes in the one 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 bill schneider is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university he says the looming shutdown is putting president trump in serious political trouble 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.