is any willing i think you ask and he's restored it questions about u.s. policy in the region and even if things haven't gone well and they haven't they're going ation is simply to persist there is skepticism about how deeply geo strategic trumps decision was and whether the president will even follow through. but several issues are reported to have been involved in the syria decision including the primacy of the us a strategic relationship with turkey and the avoidance of mission creep. in the last few months national security advisor john bolton has made it clear that the us was in syria to confront iran that was a position explicitly rejected in the tweet that announced the withdrawal we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being the jewel in the trump presidency the president wrote the military itself is divided there are many senior officers in the military which think these serial deployments were improved the time just or working and their eroding or military readiness but it's worth remembering that

even with these proposed withdrawals the u.s. still has tens of thousands of troops a massive air power in the region she ever turns the outer zero washington. and fed the details are emerging about trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria since twenty fourteen the u.s. military has been backing kurdish led forces who control much of north eastern syria says that the decision to leave is seen as abandoning the cads and handing a strategic advantage to iran and russia techie had been calling for a u.s. withdrawal and planning an offensive into the cut is how territory it considers those kaddish fighters as terrorists on friday president dress up type out a one welcomed trumps news calling it an encouraging development now reports are emerging that trump made the decision during a phone call with iran just days alyea without consulting any military or strategic advises the white house rejects the description of the call. live with me now from

chicago on the turkey syria border zana tell us more about the relationship between the united states and turkey and specifically between trump and what's changed and what consequences might that have in syria. well no doubt this relationship has entered a new phase something that the president made a very clear yesterday in a speech he talked about the relationship with the obama administration in the early days of the syrian crisis calling it a disappointing relationship now he says in face to face meetings and telephone conversations with trump they realize that they share a lot of views when it comes to syria so not just praising this new relationship between the u.s. and turkey but the relationship with trump himself one of the main sources of tension in this relationship over the years has been the u.s. support to the syrian kurdish armed group. when trump and now it says that the u.s. troops are going to pull out of north syria this is about abandoning an ally an

ally that they have trained an ally that they have supplied weapons like i mentioned a main source of tension with turkey now the u.s. pulling back turkey clearly happy with this new reality well isn't it appears that turkey is also now announced that their operation in northern syria is on hold what's the next move. really the common understanding the united states is the reason why this operation has been put on hold the turkish foreign minister saying that on january the eighth the u.s. and turkish officials are going to sit down and discuss this pullout the foreign minister talking about coordinating this pull out yesterday which many understand that turkey does not want this rapid withdrawal it wants an orderly exit because all eyes are now on north eastern syria an enclave which is rich in resources or oil agriculture we know that the syrian government wants to reclaim this territory

these resources would be economic assets to it that damascus government is under under sanctions and at the end of the day. doesn't want to see any to take control of the northeast without firm assurances that the. threat will be neutralized so this is turkey's position and they're coordinating with the united states and it seems that turkey wants some sort of a hand over the area to its syrian allies. there live for us on the tacky syria border. where the next but still ahead on al-jazeera anger as a new labor no one needs to bring a political consensus and hungary. and not silent anymore supporters of a disgraced south korean president find new ways to make themselves heard.

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welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour a partial shutdown of the u.s. federal government has begun the politicians failed to end their deadlock over spending president donald trump refused to back down on funding for his border wall forcing congress to without a budget deal. the u.n. security council has agreed to send a team of observers to monitor a cease fire and the city of had data they won't be uniformed and are expected to be deployed in the coming week for an initial thirty day period. nine people have been killed during violent protests against the rising cost of food and fuel

schools and universities are closed in at least five of the country's eight states the city is about. under an emergency rule. president donald trump's hardline policy on asylum seekers has been dealt a serious blow by the supreme court the proposed restrictions were rejected five four by the court's judges the measure had sought to ban anyone seeking refuge if they arrived outside approved border entry points on the order in november aimed at people travelling in a so-called caravan from central america hoping to reach the u.s. through mexico or the family of the guatemalan girl who died after she was taken into custody by border control gods is pleading with the united states to allow her father to stay in the country seven year old jacqueline was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration and shock her family disputes the official story about how she died david meltzer reports from san antonio the cortez in guatemala. when

claudia mckeon said goodbye to her daughter jacqueline on december first she never imagined it would be the last time she'd see her alive but what started out as the dream of a better life quickly turned to tragedy and just a week after her husband and daughter left this remote village and headed north the united states cloudy receive the news every mother dreads. the moment i found out that my daughter died i felt an immense pain in my heart. it was something that i never thought would happen when she heard that her father was going she decided she wanted to go to jacqueline died in a texas hospital two days after being taken into custody by u.s. border patrol domingo kyle says his seven year old granddaughter was happiest when she was at her father's side jacqueline jumped at the chance to join her father on his trip north and her family saw it as a chance to escape the poverty and lack of opportunity that plagues their community

and that. the girl made the decision to go to the united states and she was excited leaping up and down she was really happy but after they left we don't know what happened it hurts it really hurts the cornfield where jacqueline used to play is quiet now and the shack where she lived with her parents and three siblings is locked up the memories of the little girl are too painful yet even as her family mourns others are preparing for their own american dream in communities like because it's rumored that smugglers are convincing people to bring their children on the trip north promising to the have a greater chance of getting political asylum for authorities here it's a worrying trend. if her husband is deported cloudier doesn't know how they will ever pay off their debt to the smugglers who took him in jacqueline to the border wanted me to find we don't have the means to support our children that's why my

husband left i'm pleading to officials in the united states to let him stay and work so we can get ahead for now the cow family awaits for jacqueline's body to be returned so they can say goodbye for the last time david mercer al-jazeera san antonio as one of mala. let's bring you more on those protests in sudan has been morgan is live with me with the latest from khartoum live in sudan has been difficult for some time now what triggered this round of protests well first of all mr let's remember that sudan has been facing an economic crisis for the past few years partly because of u.s. sanctions which were imposed in one thousand nine hundred seven that was lifted and twenty seventeen but then they also had to face our loss of a huge loss over of their g.d.p. when south sudan succeeded in twenty eleven that has created a huge gap in our hard currency the supply so people of the have been seeing market prices rising over the past few years but just think about it this way into in an

earlier this year when people protested the value of the dollar to the to the sudanese pounds was about thirty to a dollar now today as it stands is that it's more than fifty to a dollar for many people that's an inflation that they cannot cope with market prices of become very expensive big cannot afford simple basic goods to people have come out to protest it started obviously with bar and state or a state of emergency was declared as the seven people people were killed not just a number of it in the diary of as well because people have been protesting saying that the price of bread simple basic bread is quite expensive for them to afford and there was no need for bakeries to be able to big red so they had to increase the price of the prices from wanted in this pound resort in these sudanese people found that completely unacceptable to that went out to the streets and protested and that protest has been spreading around the country including the capital khartoum what's been the government response to these protesters and is it likely they'll actually be able to resolve such an entrenched economic challenges. well

the government yesterday came out in a very rare press conference and said that they don't want the security forces to go after the protestors they don't want the security forces to use force with the protesters but obviously that's a little bit too late because yesterday on friday one person also died in protest and in our barroso we have a total of nine people who have been shot dead by by security forces during these protests over the past three days and more than a dozen injured like we've got dozens of people in hospitals doctors are reporting that people are coming to them with not just what bullet wounds but you know tear gas and tear gas and in desperate need of medical medical assistance so yesterday the government came out and said that they do want security forces to use force against against the protesters but they're also blaming rebel movement star for rebel movements for the protests they're saying that the opposition groups and the armed rebel groups are the ones behind these protests and they're trying to make sure that these people don't follow the rebel oppositions the rebel movements if they really are behind those but for now the government seems to be trying to avoid

using force out with the protesters so that no more lives are lost as there is have been morgan that live in karachi and. and in spain thirteen people have been arrested after pro independence supporters in catalonia fought with police the secessionists of protesting against the spanish government holding a cabinet meeting in barcelona they're offended by the timing of the session which comes a year after madrid blocked the region's bid for independence. and demonstrators have also rallied in hungary to protest against an amendment to labor laws what critics are calling the slave law would allow employers to force people to work more overtime and even delay payments for up to three years nationwide protests have been held since last week people from both sides of the political spectrum have criticized the law robin forrester walker has more from budapest. we've been with the protesters today on the streets. many thousands of. expressed their

frustration with the government. just the maybe they are calling this place because it means they're going to have to work a lot of. work. that the protesters say is going to be. between the executive. and the judge and that's where they come up. with. these laws into being without having listened to us and they say they. are hearing over the trade unions are meeting and they intend to hold nationwide strikes it still remains to be seen whether this movement has enough momentum to keep going through christmas eve into the new year but this opposition movement. they are going to need to keep up the pressure in new ways to challenge.

ministration. supporters of an alstad south korean president are turning to online video sites to demand her release hakan hey was jailed in april for twenty four years for corruption and abuse of power conservatives say they've lost their voice in politics often she was removed from office reports. toungoo dan is team go live every weekday at six pm it may look like a television studio but this is chung's office in seoul the audience exclusively on you tube. and mike is a right leaning channel with close to three hundred twenty thousand subscribers. chong says the political scandal involving former president weakened the conservative voice in south korea's mainstream media. but she still has a lot of support and their protests against her impressive meant continue. new.

people with conservative right leaning views who do not agree with president parks and pietschmann had nowhere to turn for news if you're trying to fill that void and it might at the height of the turmoil surrounding park she gave child one exclusive interview which proved a turning point for him when park was removed from office he lost his job of thirty years as a journalist at a national newspaper and was forced to look elsewhere for a platform to express his opinions he found it online. he has since become a star in the political online news arena the latest battleground for south korean politics. after the change in administration conservative political pundits were pushed out of the mainstream media then while searching for a new place they came upon this new media space called u two and made their home at a weekly conservative rally many protesters most of them in their fifty's and sixty's are eager consumers of the news. simon out of ten people over

fifty own a small town in south korea and what the country boasted one of the world's fastest mobile internet connectivity there is no shortage of you tube videos to watch especially political views. i'm dumb but. i don't watch anything else my wife watches other channels just so that she can have conversations with other people but i only get information from you tube i don't watch anything else but depending solely on one outlet for news is raising fears about the spread of misinformation. you too much about there aren't any regulations to control what gets posted on you tube so we see a lot of extreme stories being told because people are drawn to radical and provocative content. for conservative voters opposed to the democratic president. they will continue to listen to news that suits their views. al-jazeera so.

i missed on the attainder and these are the top stories a partial shutdown of the us federal government has begun to politicians fail to end their deadlock over spending president donald trump refused to back down on funding for his border wall forcing congress to adjourn without a budget deal we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long fears of that shutdown led to some of the west losses on wall street in years all major u.s.

indices lost sixteen to twenty six percent from their summer and autumn highs investors are also worried about slow economic growth and trade tensions with china there have been explosions in somalia's capital mogadishu initial reports say six people have been killed and at least thirteen injured a suicide car bomber attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace the u.n. security council has agreed to send a team of observers to monitor a cease fire indian's key port city of data they went to a uniforms and won't be armed and are expected to be deployed in the coming week for an initial thirty day period. nine people have been killed in sudan during violent protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in at least five of the country's eight states the city is about to bar and direct imagine see rule demonstrations of rallies in hungary to protest against an amendment to neighbor was what critics are calling the slave lol but al

employers to force people to work more overtime and even delay payments for up to three is nationwide protests have been held since last week people from both sides of the political spectrum have criticized the middle those are the headlines join me for more news here off the yemen the saddam bus bombing. called the must move hussein has now been held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he's a journalist journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence voices of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable in the immediate release of all

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are not the first country to make this mistake. yemen. after nearly four years of relentless conflict the world has grown used to images of killing and destruction. there is a danger the trolling news coverage can make viewers desensitized to prolonged conflict especially to the human suffering. but sometimes a single event can make the world sit up and take notice. a bombing on thursday the ninth of august twenty eighth seen in the northern yemeni city of sadat knew the border with saudi arabia was one such events the argument about the when the economy appears on the. why the lead really got out about how you know what a here's how we're going to live the high life. and you can get he

didn't even know if i'm seeing that and i have a leg just wow thanks a lot and i want the last lesson in the good advice none of that on supplied up the salon how bad it was that i had been sending. this film looks at what's happened that day and how planes deployed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition managed to bomb a bus full of yemeni schoolchildren in saada killing nearly everyone on boards.

yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. in twenty eleven a revolution parts of the so-called arab spring ousted president ali abdullah saleh . the armed group in the north of yemen. took advantage of the instability they moved south and ultimately captured the capital sanaa seizing power from the governments of new president opted rubble and food had to. decide who to take over prompted a group of arab states led by saudi arabia and including the united arab emirates to launch an all out of top positions in march twenty fifteen saying that the who things were supported by iran and.

the united nations estimates that since then around six thousand six hundred yemenis to billions have been killed ten thousand five hundred injured and the largest humanitarian crisis in the world including famine and widespread disease has been allowed to develop. it's in this context that the bombing in soft a known who the stronghold took place. an international news story circulated saying that coalition forces had hit a bus carrying children on a summer school excursion. this little boy covered in soot and surrounded by the dead just minutes after the strike was asked if you was ok. my legs he said. the western saudi led coalition responsible offering no apology dozens of children killed in a saudi led coalition air strike that hit a school bus the instant caused outrage was condemned around the world. so to

forces beyond school. managed to shock a lot of people this is a school bus this is not a military target of course what happened was dozens of children were. fifty one people including forty children were killed and seventy seven others injured in the thought that attack. the international red cross said their medical team does hospital received the bodies of twenty nine children each under fifteen. the hospital also treated forty eight injured patients of whom thirteen were children. hell it was a few sort of film that you had to go to for him or us who were telling us at home

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the basic explanation about why these tragedies have happened is because often in war your intelligence is not very good and if you have someone who is trying to win a war fast who has a sense of impatience and recklessness they will take shots even when they should not and i believe that sometimes what the saudis have been doing. the initial saudi reaction was to deny responsibility for the bomb hitting the school bus. coalition spokesman maliki told c.n.n. the attack had been on what he called and it is a myth targets and that this was not a school bus and maliki went on to see that the targets had been after a few rockets launched sites that had been used the day before to attack the southern style to city of design killing one civilian and injuring eleven other is . just falling on western diet be the i don't i scream assure you all

yes and i said yes but if we are not only did you waste time. when the bombing initially and didn't what we do every time the terrible. same thing as we said from the bomb to weddings same thing as i said we found a few same thing as we said from people in the market place they always say that. initially because i've always saved it really quite unlike what. can a bug out bag that i got and i got i was a lot guidant human got it was so out of a bag had bag of oil men bought other to what i had a high. profile so i didn't have a bad ha ha about big boy caliban and. at helen at that i want to tell them i get what happened in.

this mobile phone survived the attack but it's only going to knott's. there were video clips on the phone of the children on the bus before the bombing. once these were made public it became difficult for the coalition to stick to its original story. the next day they announced that the bus bombing was natural damage resulting from another strike against a so-called legitimate targets and now the deal judy is an iraqi academic who sympathizes with the coalition in this conflict on whom it is he was in a jar people that are more length of knowledge to have. i don't see it either noel made out of society or by them to have thought about what they are and what you know how he started. with human garbage and the home of them in the rubbish area

but the color nautical mile long walk into the nearest. doris you know head of. your own a day. one hundred thelema oh democrats over to him if you had had us over so on and what was going on there or not the heart of the lottery you have to made in. the united states has provided to coolish and with military support since twenty fifteen yes. the blowing up of a bus with civilians and children it is a horrible incident but first we have to find out the facts. then the united states has to make some choices if in fact our saudi allies were not involved in this we will continue this type of support for some time. we have made it clear at the u.n. from the secretary general's perspective and the perspective of the high commissioner for human rights our outrage at the targeting of minibuses and we've

called for there to be. a thorn investigation into this attack obviously these various attacks obviously all international humanitarian law must be respected and we need to make sure that there is a proper test a geisha and we'll have to see whether that happens or not. the thought the bus bombing triggered international condemnation. the commander of u.s. air force the central command lieutenant general geoffrey harrigan severely criticised both the coalition and the saudi authorities. the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrets went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi let's coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack.

and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident what we want to see is a stop to the fighting where we want to see is stuck to the humanitarian suffering what we want to see is a halt to civilian casualties members of the security council. met and heard that briefing from the assistant secretary general on the recent attacks inside which resulted in large numbers of civilian casualties including children they expressed a grave concern at these and all the recent attacks in yemen.

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the families of the victims were not alone in the u.s. connection. said the bomb that killed forty children in yemen with applied by the u.s. . they said it was a two hundred and twenty seven kilo laser guided mark. made by lockheed martin. in a leading u.s. defense contractor. former u.s. president barack obama blocked arm sales to saudi arabia in twenty six. after u.s. weapons were used in an attack on a funeral in sanaa killing one hundred forty people however u.s. president donald trump overturned that's ban in twenty seventeen. the u.s. has been utterly complicit in the destruction of the us government as the biggest

arms dealer anywhere in the world involves our catastrophic because we're seeing in yemen right now a river has been a terrible humanitarian catastrophe and yet u.s. companies have profited every step of the way when that bomb was dropped it was a lock even martin bomb made in the usa. the politicians are concerned that the united states has no direct involvement in causing that humanitarian conflict and that humanitarian outcome so our elected representatives want to be certain in their mind that our actions or our in actions are not contributing to the deaths of civilians and children. as international pressure increased the coalition started to shift its position further denying responsibility was no longer an option and. its public statements began to just it might be seeking to other ways out of the

crisis i was considering opening an investigation. if in fact there was an allegation of a school bus incident as has been suggested then it's important for the commander to to advise his coalition. allies to go through the process of doing an after action review there may have been problems with the weapon system which is very rare there may have been problems with the operational control there may be some questions about the rules of engagement these are what these types of posts incident allegations are intended for. the coalition formed what it's called the joint incident assessment team the g eight. it's admitting

that the coalition had ordered its jets to avoid hitting the bus as it was carrying civilians but that it had been too late the coolish and apologized for the loss of life and wished those injured to a speedy recovery. however human rights watch said in a reports in august twenty eighth seen that the g i eighty work was not credible adding that it was covering up more crimes. so that i'm going to be a list dawson of what i need to watch it made in the morning on the dinny if you need to get a month or. more. i use an old timer just father he. got what he was sort of going to. really. have and how did. he got. to be credible and

accountability mechanism needs to be unbiased and needs to be seen by the world. is impartial with regards to the various parties and that that will be the real test of whether. i think how debility mechanism works or not. the reason that. so you feel that alliance eventually apologize from part of the school bus was because because because we're always being told that so to resume is monitoring itself for war trains we're always being told that we're taking every precaution possible to avoid killing civilians and yet some who is being trusted to evaluate itself for war crimes when we've seen reporting which has come from the.

from the say the late coalition's own investigations they've almost always been a total whitewash they've always. find ways to absolve themselves of responsibility . to have the i would limit or larger well limit to what the other one i guess by then that i'll offer them a little. bit of a higher with a short. shove are largely just half of them a. bad guess i'll only get in this if i had a good image. and then they get mad about obama and then him and the real. bear the bonehead mad man that so many that would you are that run with the ad and i would lead the game and then i'm a bit of a money. her on that about. the

saw the bus bombing did draw why do global attention not just to the war in yemen but to the saudi you equalisation strategy and methods. it's also beg the question as to when the international community would finally cry enough is enough. it's a war that they have invested a lot of money and time and effort if it's in a period when the saudis are trying to redefine their image on the world stage and to accept defeat in a conflict in a small country like yemen. to a force that's largely backed by iran this would simply be a blow to saudi pristine that is so great that it doesn't allow them to think rationally we've seen three years worth of saudi air strikes so i think we have to declare the strategy unsuccessful and look for something else why they just refuse

to accept the possibility that they're losing when to most of the rest of us it appears that yes they are those. that the status quo in yemen is clearly unacceptable the war's gone on for too long our hope is that the parties in the region and and in the wider world will come to accept that the war in yemen has gone on too long that no one is winning it this kind of crisis doesn't benefit any party. most of the world agrees that the war has gone on far too long and caused untold

unnecessary suffering to millions of yemeni people. since the start of the bus bombing there have been two significant developments with a direct impact on the war and those involved. the first affected how the world now views saudi arabia. on the second of october twenty eighth seen the saudi journalist jim. who was living in the united states was murdered in the consulate of saudi arabia in istanbul. most other countries reacted with disapproval if not horror at the extrajudicial killing of an innocent man on foreign soil all eyes turn to saudi crown prince mohammed bin said a man who denied any responsibility. the truman administration took him at his word despite advice to the contrary from its own intelligence agency but american

politicians have been forthright in their condemnation sadly president trump continues for crying his love and affection for the saudi regime the brutality and lawlessness of the saudi regime as everybody in this country now knows was made clear to the entire world with the burt of dissidents saudi journalist jamal khashoggi maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes i just believe that the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as india says around. think you'll ever be normal again

meanwhile the un finally managed to bring all the warring factions in yemen together at formal peace talks in the swedish capital stockholm. the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths managed to broker a peace deal and declared a cease fire between pro-government forces and who the rebels in the port city of who they dared to start on the eighteenth of december twenty eighth teen after the saddam bus bombing a group of u.n. experts said that saudi and immorality forces may have committed war crimes in yemen. so everyone went into the peace talks knowing the seriousness of the saudi let action but peace could only be attained with the full participation and cooperation of mohamed bin sandman. sometimes the diplomacy needed to achieve peace has to involve suspending condemnation of the brutality is and illegality is of war.

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i missed on the tape and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we're going to our shutdown nothing we could do about the u.s. senate has failed to reach a deal to pay for donald trump's border wall forcing a partial government shutdown. curfews a state of emergency and move school closures into don as people protest against rising prices and corruption. and a country on the edge we'll tell you why minority is up in arms against the government. there have been two explosions and somalia's capital mogadishu initial reports say six people have been killed and at least a thirteen injured suicide car bombers have attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace you're watching video from

a local news media here this is the streets near the national theater and the presidential palace it's believed there was one blast and then a second blast just minutes later both explosions heard across the city although al-shabaab has been known to carry out such attacks in the past there's been no yet claim no claim yet of responsibility. for a partial shutdown of the u.s. federal government has begun the political stalemate follows president refusal to back down on funding for his border wall forcing congress to adjourn without a deal on spending the impalas leaves hundreds of thousands of federal workers facing christmas without pay my counterparts from washington. on this vote the yeas are forty seven as evening fell it was clear there would be no agreement in the senate democrats adamant they would not vote for any bill that included funding for the border wall and the senate majority leader acknowledged the inevitable hope

show democrats will work with the white house on an agreement that can pass both houses of congress and receive the president's signature democrats have offered three proposals to keep the government open including a proposal offered by leader mcconnell that passed the senate unanimously only a few days ago we are willing to continue discussions on those proposals with the leader the president the speaker of the house and the leader of the house all five are necessary to get something done a procedural bill was passed that essentially places the onus on congressional leaders to strike a compromise with the president we're not voting on anything else in this chamber. relative to this issue until a global agreement has been reached between the president and these two leaders and the leader of the house on thursday the house passed a funding bill that included five billion dollars for president trump's border wall

or fence but without a vote in the senate the bull remains in limbo and funding still not there for what president trump described as a beautiful wall tweeting out the image earlier in the day the president insisted he would not compromise and he were talking about five billion dollars so it's a tiny fraction but unfortunately. they've devoted their lives to making sure it doesn't happen but then he sent a team to negotiate with congressional leaders which included his chief of staff close advisor jared and the vice president. house members went home for the night as did many senators they hope that the president will back down and that the partial closure of government will last a matter of hours rather than days or weeks the president confirming in a tweet that he's canceled as should jule trip to florida adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border maicon

a washington well president trying to turn to social media after the shutdown became inevitable tweeting this edited video statement we're going to shut down there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long well wolf street had its worst we have losses in years ahead of the u.s. government shutdown investors are worried about slow economic growth and a possible recession all major u.s. indices lost sixteen to twenty six percent from their summer and autumn highs the

prospect of a government shutdown also triggered a sell off around the wild the dow jones industrial average finished the week nearly seven percent lower that was its worst weekly dropped since two thousand and eight the tech critz nasdaq was down eight point four percent at the shop a strop also since two thousand and eight and the s. and p. five hundred was down nearly seven point one percent the biggest for since twenty eleven ivory johnson from investments believes the u.s. will start to feel the effects of a slowing economy next year. we've had nine straight quarters of g.d.p. growth on a rate of change basis that's impressive it's never happened before if you go to quarter one we had two point two percent growth it jumped to four point two percent in the second quarter and then three point four percent was just revised downward so essentially what's happened is we're going from great to good which is bad we're not just decelerating on the g.d.p. front but also inflation has peaked we had inflation peak at two point seven percent it's

a three year higher so anytime you have growth and inflation decelerating at the same time you'll see that's where you see the growth stocks the technology stocks get get get beat up pretty bad is because you know companies are predicate the value of a company is predicated on future earnings and so those are things don't look as robust when you start to global economic slowdown. the headline rest notwithstanding i don't think it's as much to do with trump or the fed or these other issues it's just we're at the end of a business cycle we've got wage growth at two point nine percent and that's significant because that's a lagging indicator and in time you see wages go up go up corporate profits get squeezed and when poor profits get squeezed their turn to lay people off and so that's an indication that going forward in two thousand and nineteen you will start to see average americans start to start to feel the burden of a slowing economy nine people have been killed in don sharing violent protests against the rising cost of food and fuel the government has extended

a state of the match and see the cities of. imagine cyril and demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on the. schools and universities are closed and at least five states have a morgan has the latest from cutting back so that has been a pretty quiet today compared to the past three days where it's been seeing protests in several parts of the country including the capital khartoum several people have been injured and more than and at least one have been killed so far it's not clear yet how the day will play out but the government yesterday came out in a very rare press conference and called. socom they've also accused our former rebel movements to be behind the protesters and trying to get them to overthrow the government and seen people who have been protesting calling for a change in regime calling for an overthrow of the government calling for different economic policies now the government is worried that the opposition will take advantage of the current situation what is it to ation the situation is that a lot of people in sudan can no longer afford bread and there is shortage of bread in bakeries not only just bread as well but there's also shortage of liquidity of

cars to people would line up at a.t.m. trying to get their own money from their banks but they cannot access their own money because there is no cash in banks we've seen people over the past few days lining for fuel as well so people have become frustrated and they've been taking it taking out their frustrations by marching to the streets and demanding different economic policies and different economic reforms and a different government a regime change basically and the government is worried that the opposition would take advantage of that today has been very quiet but most of the protests have been starting after the afternoon prayers which is about one or two local time and it's expected that more people will be coming out to protest and there is this there's concern that the police would again use tear gas and again use live ammunition and that more lives would be lost as people protest for better or for better living conditions the u.n. security council has agreed to send a team of observers to monitor a cease fire and yemen's port city have had data they won't be wearing uniforms all be armed and are expected to be deployed in the coming week for an initial thirty day period it's part of a peace deal agreed by the rebels and the saudi embassy backed yemeni government

talks in sweden last week. president on trump's decision on thursday to withdraw u.s. troops from syria surprised and angered many in washington and more questions are being raised about his foreign policy after reports of a possible withdrawal of forces from afghanistan she had written he has not there's been no shortage of voices in washington expressing dismay at donald trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria and the subsequent resignation of defense secretary james mattis i'm shaken by the news because of the patriot that general secretary. is. and now with reports that the president has ordered a withdrawal from afghanistan republican senator lindsey graham has called for congressional hearings on both decisions the foreign policy establishment is confronting one of its greatest fear is that trump meant what he said on the campaign trail we're worse in the middle east that we were fifteen years ago i mean right now it's a disaster once trump filled his cabinet where people who did not share about view

though the establishment thought it was safe i think it's fair to say that the establishment never wanted this moment to come to establishment and that is certainly as a member of that establishment in good standing. is unwilling i think to. ask and he's restored it questions about u.s. policy in the region and even if things haven't let me have it there can ation is simply to persist there is skepticism about how deeply geostrategic trump's decision was and whether the president will even follow through. but several issues are reported to have been involved in the syria decision including the primacy of the us a strategic relationship with turkey and the avoidance of mission creep. in the last few months national security advisor john bolton has made it clear that the us was in syria to confront iran that was a position explicitly rejected in the tweet that announced the withdrawal we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency

the president writes the military itself is divided there are many senior officers in the military which think the serial deployments were in periods of time just aren't working and they're eroding military readiness but it's worth remembering that even with these proposed withdrawals the u.s. still has tens of thousands of troops and massive air power in the region she ever terms the outer zero of washington. let's bring you more on the breaking news out of somalia two explosions had in the capital mogadishu joining us on skype is journalist mohammad bulbul mohammed tell us just what we know at this stage do we do we have any claim of responsibility yet and thank you to when explosion is today up in mogadishu a somali capital and the first xplosion was a suicide bomber and trying to get to a security checkpoint. in the national name a condition is somali presidential palace the second blood has

a cord at them given the statue which is not far away from the city would be placed explosion happened yet no group has claimed responsibility for the plastic.