honest and if we have any actual confirmation on that. it's a bit vague right now but we are getting reports that donald trump ideally would like this to be done by the state of the union address in january so he can stand in front of congress and say look i'm doing this i'm doing what president obama promised and failed to do president obama campaigned on withdrawing troops from afghanistan but as the military hoped the style bush would have hoped he was talked out of it by by the in fact he expanded the war in afghanistan trump now wants to really make this an issue it was a cool campaign issue for him as well as competition for this space so he wants to he wants this to be done it seems by the state of the union i'm going to look great in twenty twenty difficult for democrats as someone pointed out to run against you know on foreign policy and someone who's withdrawing the troops from the middle east and elsewhere which means what is now the u.s. foreign policy for weeks we have john bolton confidently expound on the new realities the new national security strategy of great powers tousling of finally

going off to iran and everything else and it all seems to be in tatters right now yesterday we were asking was the syria withdrawal a one off right now it seems it wasn't and that we have to see whether the neocons somehow regroup and reestablish themselves. all right. and washington d.c. that's worth some just peculation all right glenn karl is a former cia officer and former deputy officer on the national intelligence council he joins us via skype from boston ok so let's pick up on something that she had just said what is u.s. foreign policy right now how would you characterize it. well you ask the hard questions or your. trunks is this really he doesn't do a lot of thinking but he has visceral attitudes he's viscerally an isolationist and he doesn't care he disdains and opposes alliances so he.

i would not be surprised if he started to pull the united states out of nato even but that's that's the basis if one can make any clear and sess months of what american foreign policy is now because he is the president. almost all other americans of left and right support the post world war two international order with the united states is first of all equals and a rules based series of alliances to maintain or slowly try to develop some sort of international long consensus drawn doesn't care about that all so you can be an isolationist and still go about it and a different way and there are people that would support base troop withdrawals i mean particularly in afghanistan the u.s. has been there seventeen years so i'm sure there's that there's a school of thought that that that's fine but how concerned are you about how he is doing nice things how he is going about them with with with. chairman that's when

states didn't even know he was going to do this. well there are isolationists that's true and there are people who don't believe in vaccinations and people who think that the earth is flat also and they're quite sincere as well and equally as foolish if the united states withdraws because we do it out of idealism principle or lack of concern all of which you can say are legitimate positions to take then the fact is that something is going to happen where we are not and others will if they don't decide the outcomes will shape them and to imagine that the actions of any state are in the interests of your state is insane and that's what will happen so now you have turkey russia saudi arabia israel iran all of which will be major players in syria and the middle east without us

having any sort of a say at all and no one no american should want that because that means other people make decisions for you in their interest not yours there has been a lot of and it's an understatement to say there's been a lot of turnover and the trump administration but it is clear that this particular resignation has shaken a lot of people and in in the letter that jim mattis read his resignation letter and there were no niceties no it was a privilege to serve he was very very clear in his critique really his rebuke of donald trump's policies what does that what might the consequences of that before the u.s. on the world stage. well it's really the united states i have been saying for years ever since the rise of this populist nativists trump phenomenon is facing the greatest crisis to our american institutions since eight hundred sixty one since

the civil war when our country broke in half so what this means is is that the last mainstream well schooled educated and experienced senior official has departed and donald trump if you were an isolationist. that is a reasonably legitimate philosophy to have which i think people should oppose but it's not crazy but you have someone who really really doesn't have a sense philosophy or series of objectives except that he likes authoritarians use of would be dictator and self i'm using my words carefully he is with nativist blood and soil positions that define a nation by. who you are not what you believe your what your ethnicity is and who doesn't care at all about any other foreign country or relation that's

that's what's happening so it is a grave moment and you now here sorry to go on so on but you're not here conservative republicans in the united states expressing shock and alarm about this grave crisis which they have actually been able. to change or it's carefully and we really appreciate and the discussion very very much planned thank you. and. tensions are once again running high in spain in the central government or year after snap regional elections are cut on independence activists are holding protests and more solona they coincide with prime minister petro sanchez pedro sanchez part of me holding his cabinet meeting in that city something i go joins us live from barcelona so the protests are pretty big so on here they're pretty intense so clearly this it's not just a regular cabinet meeting explain why this is so provocative.

no and the cabinet meeting has finished and the they've just issued a press conference there as well and this is all being sent against a backdrop where you have protests pretty much mushrooming not just all of a bustling up but throughout the region as well we've seen sort of some pretty. intense a roadblock kings there as well by these communities for the defense of the republicans ross roots organization leaderless they are and they sprouted up in the wake of the failed outlawed referendum that took place fourteen months ago and it's just a sign of how there were so many issues to resolve in this and not least because of the very entrenched views that are now on either side getting of course with how at the time the government of the time really doubled down on this. and then that was replicated in catalonia as well so where is the socialist prime minister.

the current government has tried to sort of done this sort of some symbolic reaching out and some say you know i want to generate dialogue and has been certainly gentzler in his approach to the cats a lot of issues the idea to have a cabinet meeting in wasilla you know which is almost unprecedented was really taken by a pro independent tests. to be a provocative show false they don't believe for one minute that it is a reaching out but they're saying it's a sign of how the spanish government is trying to maintain a stranglehold on this region as well very high emotions running on either side as well not least of all because so many other issues that the prime minister has to deal with this while he faces intense opposition not just from his political opponents but some point in his own policy about how he's dealing with the cats a lot of criticism of how he's being too soft and how we feel he's giving over too

much where is the catalans counterparts to saying he's not doing enough. and so there in that there is this. situation that has been going on for about fourteen months and there's still no sign yet of any middle profit company again that despite some tacit moves that they want to talk they want to keep it going but insight into what and is still unknown richelle all right senegal live for us in barcelona sunny thank you but i'm more ahead of the news hour including. american and its many allies know we're trying to do it to chinese men become the latest focus of a cyber dispute with the united states around it by a drone but there are some really for travelers who've been stranded for more than a day of britain's second biggest airport or hear from manchester united's new boss only in our soul shire ahead of his first game in charge of the english premier league side that's coming up the sport was on.

opposition presidential candidates in the democratic republic of congo or addressing supporters after an election delay voting will now take place a week later that will be december thirtieth commission says violence and logistical issues forced postponement joins us live now from the capital kinshasa so how are people in kinshasa reacting to this delay catherine. michel we are at the headquarters of the old beauty yet this is the largest. different political party in the country and the leader of that march the results of the presidential candidates you can't you have the address. came here looking for directions on what to do next following that announcement by the electoral commission and he had said that they're very disappointed if it does that make me buy that that meant that the electoral commission had all this time to plan there

are many things that there is no hopefully people will quit the election to be held to be credible but he had told. the point is to be called in to wait for those seven days that we can continue campaigning they've gone to the polls to go to the polls. on the thirtieth and ask them a lot but it's also something else michel that has come out of this meeting the exec you. all of this but he has also told the supporters that another issue then let's talk commission come back and say that they need more time that they support this shouldn't wait for an announcement or a meeting such as to just go out to the streets and make their voices and so this week long delay katherine all of these issues that the electoral commission says needs to be dealt with is a week actually going to make any difference is that enough time for them to do all

these things they say they're concerned about. that's what many people are asking. is are we. the problem then let's. talk about the syrian people. you remember last week where how you. love the. most of the machines the one issue i've also been told and the fact that mention. that mentioned this as well that about. me but i have not yet arrived in the country we expected a lot of the fact that it didn't have to be deployed as well and that the materials that have to do so they are serious logistical challenges a lot of people i think that they think that the election is going to be some wanted but the fact that the day that he let the nation he was signed.

on election that he made the. ok katherine storyline for us and thank you catherine . schools and universities have been suspended in sudan's capital after eight people died in protests against rising food and fuel prices demonstrations for it's a cartoon on thursday and their state of emergency in place in the cities of barra and get a rest. protesters are angry about inflation which is at nearly seventy percent one of the highest in the world the city's economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan in two thousand and eleven when it lost the majority of its oil outputs china has rejected u.s. accusations that it is responsible for a massive hacking operation that targeted organizations including nasa and the u.s. navy two people have been arrested yes justice department says the suspects are linked to the chinese government may find. the u.s. side is making groundless accusations against china on cybersecurity by fabricating

facts and making up a story out of. the u.s. is charging two chinese in the name of so-called cyber theft this move seriously runs counter to the norms of international relations seriously harms china u.s. cooperation and is in essence extremely nasty china is resolutely against this and has launched stern representations in the first instance how to go in as one 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 in 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. washington some flights that is however zoned at the

u.k.'s second biggest airport after drones product with standstill thursday and a shapes are sent to gatwick airport south of london as police can tell you to have for the operator of those two drones the devices reappear nearby every time the airport try to reopen its runway and if parker is at gatwick airport. well after thirty six hours of chaos the misery for passengers here again we cap or this is now tentatively reopening a very limited number of flights are being allowed to arrive and takeoff of just been inside the terminal building the arrivals area is a ghost town hardly anybody there at all but if you go into the departure area where people are trying to check in there are vast queues as the airport tries to clear the massive backlog of passengers overnight restrictions on aspace and parts of the k. were lifted to allow diverting planes to reach their final destination some people were diverted as far away as paris the netherlands but police now say that there is

all of the security equipment in place largely through the help of the military to mitigate the possible effects of these drones the last recorded sighting was on thursday evening still no indication who the perpetrators are still no indication whether or not possibly one of the drones is in the hands of the or thirty's the police say they have several lines of inquiry one suggestion is that perhaps environmental protesters may have been involved in organizing this but as the authorities say it is early days their main priority is to get this airport up around ng as quickly as possible. time for weather now a staff thanks for show you have very stormy in the u.s. at the moment let's take a look at the satellite picture that shows you where all of this cloud has been expanded gradually been working its way northward since it trailed its feet over florida it certainly gave a sim very stormy conditions this gives you an idea of where the winds were straight line winds and also where the tornadoes were three tornadoes there over

florida and they did cause a fair amount of damage these are actually from just straight i we know those tornadoes but you can see the amount of damage done here this roof off some houses and destroyed some of the sheds there been brought down trees as well and bringing down trees is something that we're going to watch over the next twenty four hours also because as this system works its way to. wolf woods all the ground here is saturated so it won't take much extra in the form of wind or rain to bring down trees so they could well be quite a few problems along the sting coast as we head through the next twenty four hours or so so that's the major concern here really is working its way northward and if it moves its way away the cold air will dig behind it so we will see more of a wintery mix but mainly rain that's the main problem from this system although with the watch what's going on towards the west here it's being very very wet over the past few days this is washington state look at those waves they crushing over those homes and there's plenty will rain here still to come steph and care and just

a few hours the u.s. senate will begin debating a controversial spending bill the lower house of congress the house of representatives that is approved the measure which includes 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 senate to pass a temporary funding bill must be approved in signed by midnight on friday to avoid a government shutdown jump ministration has announced that my current seeking asylum along the southwest border will no longer be released into the u.s. all other cases are pending the change means there will be forced to wait in mexico while their asylum requests are processed mexican foreign ministry has agreed to accept them it says it still has the right to deny entry to non mexicans here in rights groups have condemned the decision john heilemann has more from mexico city . this is really quite a big change in quite a big win also for president trump and the u.s. administration this is what happens now a lot of people from central american countries like honduras and guatemala el

salvador even fleeing violence or poverty cross mexico and then cross over the mexico u.s. border illegally into the united states once they're in the u.s. they then asked the first floor and offered. an order and officer that they can find poor asylum in the united states now while that case is being processed they are reaver in detention centers all living in the united states they stay in the country that process can take months or even years because the u.s. court system is so backed up with those cases now that's obviously not a good look for a hardline anti migration of ministration you've got thousands of people living in the country while they wait for their case to be processed so that now it is going to change next coke has accepted that while those cases being processed processed those people can be brought back across and even though they're not from mexico

they can be placed in mexico now what difficulties is that going to make and what problems well the mexico u.s. border area especially on the mexican side of the obviously has a lot of problems with violence with cartels and with gangs and they've already for years been praying all migrants now dumping a lot of those people on the mexican side of the border is only going to give them fresh opportunities for people to even extort or even as we've heard of cases in which people are pressed into service for organized crime that's one of the problems another one is that mexico obviously isn't a wealthy country in comparison to the united states it also hasn't really put a lot of resume says into its mechanisms in its aid. see to deal with refugees into situations like this so the new administration on the president. is going to really have to address that and it's going to do with these vulnerable and often penniless

new population belgium's king has accepted the resignation of prime minister shows michel belgian media say king felipe has asked michel to run a caretaker government until elections are held in may he decided to step down on tuesday following political differences over an international migration deal gee mr president miguel diaz kanellos overstatements famed as the modernization and socialism cubans have weighed in on a draft constitution which will be rubber stamped by the national assembly ahead of a referendum in february sinema spoke with people about some of the changes they hope to see. after six decades the signs of decay in the western hemisphere's only communist country are evident and in recognition that nothing is in more need of modernization cuba's political system ordinary citizens like roberto ramos are being allowed to weigh in on the draft a new constitution. something interesting is happening in cuba people have the

ability to meet to debate publicly not in a physical space but in a virtual space. roberto who runs a tattoo parlor is an activist who's pushing for the new constitution to recognize same sex marriage expanding those still expensive access to internet is allowing him and many others to make demands publicly at. one of the most pressing is for economic reform but it's being resisted by some who are clinging to the old economic model of total state control it's a tug of war i think there is a part of the goal to be sure which are people in warm water more open minded looking at the world looking at the these bottle going to the vietnamese bottle i don't that that is because i have see that i have heard that musician. like many others is making perhaps the most difficult demand of all. and that is for the

constitution to give legal recognition for the right of anyone to have different political opinions whatever your political opinion may be and that you won't be considered a traitor or someone who's trying to destabilize the nation the draft constitution will no longer allow officials including the president to perpetuate themselves in power and it also recognizes limited private property but when it comes to the political system the only change so far is to make it explicit that cuba's communist party will remain as the only on. as the supreme and guiding force of society and the state even above the constitution cubans will be asked to approve the final draft in a referendum in february whether it will resemble the kind of constitution that they're asking for is still a mystery see in human al-jazeera had vanna. after the americans were the prime

targets of russia's efforts to help donald trump when the two thousand and sixteen presidential election that is the finding of a report from the us senate intelligence committee black americans make up nearly thirteen percent of the population and tend to vote democrat. kauser has a story. about september twenty sixth seen was a vulnerable time in charlotte north carolina the city was an upheaval over the police killing of a black man in the us presidential election was just over a month away andrew feet was among the local activists using social media to organize protesters there was somebody to reached out and said can we share this on our on our criminal justice reform page or something like that and i looked at the page and i had about three to four hundred thousand followers you know likes or something like that so you know i'm thinking it's legit but black matters us was actually made by hackers working for russia's internet research agency or the i r a

a senate intelligence committee report found the most prolific ira efforts on facebook and instagram specifically targeted black american communities in appears to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black americans as assets if these people were able to church facebook twitter you sue google cia f.b.i. the obama administration of course they're going to trick the activists that are on the ground there. but trick them to do what u.s. intelligence has concluded russia wanted donald trump to win the presidency knowing that african-americans by and large were supporting hillary clinton they need to find some kind of way to intercept that leaders in the black church say russian hackers preyed on african-americans historic disenchantment with the u.s. political system by tying that system to clinton and encouraging

a paralyzing anger against her they polarize they highlighted the issues of. blacks in america and. and again it was divide and conquer the protests that filled the charlot streets garnered national attention and inflamed racial tensions just weeks before the presidential election when it came time to cast a ballot the voter turnout among black americans was down seven percent from the previous presidential election now the question is how much of that was due to russia's influence and was it enough to determine the winner do you think donald trump would be president if the russians had interfered directly targeting african-american voters in the u.s. no i don't think he would be president the u.s. government says there's no way to know for sure but to the people who were targeted by russia's influence campaign the answer is already clear heidi castro al jazeera

charlotte north carolina thirteen miners have died in methane explosion at a coal mine in the czech republic last happened about eight hundred meters under ground in the city of carving under the polish border eleven of the dead miners were polish in two or check the site is operated by the state owned mining company ok.d. tribal elders in a town on the kenyan ethiopian border calling for calm after twenty one people died in a week at ethnic violence welly said saw on both sides of the border fighting in ethiopia between ethnic romo and somali communities this year has forced thousands of people to escape to the kenyan side samus ravi reports from nairobi. a refugee crisis is playing out on the ethiopia kenya border. last week a decade's old dispute over tribal lands on the if your side of the town of moore yalit turned violent again forcing the most vulnerable to flee into kenya. if you

want to go back home but our houses have burnt. the population of a split by an international border that runs through the center of the town a legacy of colonial rule that adds to the tensions in a place divided along ethnic lines for generations continuing fighting this year has forced thousands of refugees into kenya many are still there too afraid to go back their population that is here is to go back. to. being. worked on and if this people stay here most likely the host communities will have a lot of pressure on their food stocks. the tribal elders on the kenyan side say they want an end to the bloodshed and are worried about communities on both sides of the border. what's happened of the ethiopian side really worried us members of the community government and security officials we are making sure what

happened on they feel pain site doesn't spill over into kenya peace committee meetings in kenya during the past week involving both somali tribal elders are seen as a key part of maintaining peace on the ethiopian side these communities live on both sides of the. individual on the side so if one of the. immediate impact on families from. those who escape fighting are safer now living with friends and family on the kenyan side of a divided town but the situation remains fragile for a lasting solution experts say the ethiopian government must resolve the land dispute in my knowledge but it is difficult to divorce the fighting in a small. border town from the bigger tribal dispute between ethnic communities something that's been going on for years and cuts across international boundaries for now aid groups and local leaders here in kenya are trying to make sure that score settling doesn't bring the violence over the border. and i wrote

a place in japan have reportedly raided the home of nissan's ousted chairman after prosecutors filed a new charge against him carlos go on is accused of trust on top of allegations city understated his salary over a five year period he's been in detention center nov on thursday a court rejected a request to keep him behind bars during the investigation. the winding global wealth gap has sparked social unrest in many parts of the world that's raising particular concern in thailand after one survey named the country as having the biggest disparity one percent of the population controls more than two thirds of the country's well reports from bangkok. even though the physical distance between thailand's rich and poor can be small for two it's just a matter of meters 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 to swear it 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. 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. brit. problem is quite clear to me that inequality at the grassroots some town capitalist thailand's military government quickly responded to pump on it and the wealth

reports when you look at the data the real data come from many countries table six have only forty countries that country when in doubt but even look at all country around it will be a number one 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 at the top top up lim chip doggoned 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 on.