want to see for example the syrian government taking control of the area without firm guarantees that the y.p. g. presence or this threat according to turkey will be neutralized what turkey would like to see is the united states hand over this area to its local allies in syria two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least six people suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu thirteen others have been injured it's unclear who is behind the blasts. nine people have been killed in sudan during violent protests against the rising cost of food and fuel the government has extended a state of emergency the cities of director are under emergency rule and demonstrations spread to the capital khartoum on thursday schools and universities are closed in at least five states given morgan has the latest from car too. sudan has woken up 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 nine 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 for calm they've also accused our former rebel movements to be behind the protesters and trying to get them to overthrow the government we've 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 would 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 and 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 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 for better living conditions where the next but still ahead on al-jazeera once popular now the tide is turning against but libya's president as he is accused of clinging to power. not silent anymore supporters of a disgraced south korean president find new ways to make themselves heard. hello again it's good to have you back we are watching an increase of moisture and

rain across parts of the philippines that has been the trend over the last few days and if you notice here on the satellite a lot of those clouds are making their way to the north so from manila that means the rain is coming into play and it's going to stay not only saturday but also into sunday as well over here towards the west though it's been quite nice across thailand and malaysia but we do think we are going to see more rain over the next few days coming into play down across the central areas for qual and poor it is going to be a mostly cloudy day few with a temperature of thirty three degrees as we make a way down here towards australia with thunderstorms are still going to be a problem and that is all due to a frontal boundary here across parts of brit's been making its way towards the north into queensland so that is going to cause thunderstorms here on saturday and into sunday as well out here towards the west though it is the heat we are looking at fire warnings in place across much of this area perth thirty five degrees those ones winds are coming in from the north we do expect you to stay into the thirty's as we go towards monday as well temps are there thirty four degrees adelaide we do

expect to see about thirty one degrees there and then very quickly a parts of new zealand we are looking at some cloudy conditions for the north island with auckland seeing a temperature of twenty two in christchurch about fifteen. on countering the call to perils of a three year u.s. trying to play for you tire of poker. used to. quip opec will review the year that was a new dawn shaping the global economy. currently would call on. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour a partial shutdown of the u.s. federal government has begun to politicians fail to end their deadlock over spending president refused to back down on funding for his border wall forcing congress to adjourn without a budget deal. two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least six people and injured thirteen others suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace and. nine people have been killed in sudan ensuring 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 cities of. 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 wear uniforms or 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 whom the rebels and the saudi embassy backed yemeni government at talks in sweden last week our diplomatic editor james bays reports from u.n. headquarters this resolution passed unanimously endorses the deployment of u.n. monitors to yemen i'm told the first advance team could be there in her data in a matter of hours they will then decide how many monitors there should be i'm told mission we were talking about thirty but they could go up to a figure of one hundred sixty seven the other thing the security council hopes this will do is bring momentum to the peace process with more talks to you in january the u.k. ambassador was the one who drafted this resolution the most important matter now is

that we turn to urgent implementation it's vital that the parties follow through on their commitments to pave the way for a formal relaunch of negotiations and at the same time mr president delivering real improvements on the ground that make a tangible difference to ordinary yemenis there were some tough negotiations to get this passed including an unseemly ryle between two allies the u.k. and the u.s. i'm told it even went to the office of the foreign secretary and the secretary of state one of the things that come out of the original draft resolution drawn up by the u.k. is the provision of accountability for crimes under international humanitarian law that something that would have targeted the saudi led coalition it seems the u.s. has been doing the coalition's bidding and got that section removed. president donald trump's hardline policy on asylum seekers has been dealt a serious blow by the supremes course the proposed restrictions were rejected five

four by the court's judges the measure had sought to ban anyone seeking refuge if they didn't enter the country using improved border entry points on fresco is a former u.s. deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration he says the court's decision suggests president trans asylum ban is illegal. what the supreme court did today was monumental because it basically saying all that even as the litigation proceeds through the lower courts in its full adjudication of the mayor it most likely by the time to get to the supreme court was a brain court will say that the trumpet file of it was illegal what does this engine today have enough for a decision from a few weeks ago by block. so for the last thirty forty years in the us how do the files back to what the asylum but you said was of long as you present yourself or a file of the matter. that the united states the president tried to do is say no

you will be banned from seeking asylum laws you wait for we get through one of the eighty. one of the port of entry on the southern border and what today's ruling coldly illegal congress already know it was. viable and there were block people from applying it they can find someone they play or. their intentions or quite bright side will they thought well because we had five justices that have been appointed by conservative presidents for sure we're going to have this decision but what justice roberts show today showed that in past immigration the most notable one being when don't know off the obama administration and justice roberts that that. about immigration. he's a very moderate does and sided with the liberal wing of the court because the science is very clear here to say you can apply for

a file and then literally use these words here respective of whether you entered the board of entry or in the green before the fact that it doesn't take a rocket science as i said and that's what the congress requires and both in the ninth circuit with a very conservative judge and in the brain court with death of robert both prime conservative judges have this law cannot be interpreted the way the president. well the family of the guatemalan gal here 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 have family disputes the official story about how she died david massa reports from san antonio to 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 what a mile and village and headed north the united states cloudy received 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 then. getting 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. 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 is one of. the livia's president evo morales plans to run for a fourth term but the opposition says it's unconstitutional and as they choose to move disregarding a referendum to minutes the number of times a candidate can stand the decision has led to protests across bolivia with some of the most intense demonstrations in the city of santa cruz. is that. this saying that democracy in bolivia is dead but the government is not respecting the constitution and they'll stay on hunger strike here in the main plaza in santa cruz until it does the all rich east as oppose president since he came to office in two thousand and six but their anger has intensified even among his traditional indigenous supporters and he's not just abandoned indigenous people he's lied to

them he's worrying an indigenous mask he's not indigenous. president morales held a referendum in february two thousand and sixteen asking to change the constitution so he could stand for a fourth term in office he lost that he had that decision by and is standing again next october his supporters were delighted his opponents outraged if. this decision puts into question the rule of law and democracy in bolivia the government and its party control the electoral commission the legislature and all the democratic institutions there was no independence of power in. anger mostly centered here in santa cruz erupted last week with protesters setting ablaze the electoral commission office divisions here run very deep along class ethnic and

reason the lines so to the passions spilling over here at the electoral commission office is an act of violence that many fear is only a taste of what's the cop. who ordered the attack is the subject of accusation and counter accusation president morales who celebrated his thirteen years in office at the ceremony and has meanwhile accused the united states of interfering in bolivian affairs of supporting the opposition after the state department has to stay calm and respect the constitution. is still enjoys the. support. why is the opposition scared because they're not organized we've got more than a million people in our party they've got less than one hundred thousand that's what they want the election to know because the electorate doesn't even know who they are. but the opposition movement is growing the road towards next october's presidential election looks likely to be a rocky one. santa cruz believe.

germany has closed its last active coal mine workers brought up the last lumps of coal and hundred one to president frank while the styli as a ceremony the industry helps germany to rebuild after world war two the country hopes to cut greenhouse gas emissions by forty percent by twenty twenty but it still generates almost two fifths of its electricity from fossil fuels. supporters of an aston south korean president are turning to online video sites to demand her release talken hey was jailed in april for twenty four years for corruption and abuse of power conservatives say they have lost their voice in politics after she was removed from office eugene journal reports. your dad his team go live every weekday at six pm it may look like a television studio but this is china's office in seoul the audience exclusively on

you tube. 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 term president continue. new. people with conservative right leaning views who do not agree with president parks and pietschmann have nowhere to turn for news they're trying to fill that void and it might at the height of the turmoil surrounding park she gave child an 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 became 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. seven out of ten people over fifty own a smartphone 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 if they echo one's 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. to you too much about there aren't any regulations to control what

gets posted on youtube 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 saw. time to study attained doha 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 win 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 your day and 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 this time and or some highs investors are also worried about slow economic growth and trade tensions with china . two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least six people and injured thirteen others suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu. 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 and cities of at. under emergency rule. the u.s.

supreme court has narrowed to restrict president donald trump's restrictions on asylum seekers five of the court's nine judges decided to keep a block imposed by lower tribunals the measure sought to ban anyone seeking refuge if they arrived outside official border entry points those are the headlines up next counting the cost. and the reported world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost around zero the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week two thousand and eighteen the year in review the good the bad and the ugly of two thousand and eighteen starting with a trade war between the largest economies on the planet. plus carter became the first middle east country to leave opec and saudi arabia became a riskier country to do business with. talking tag it was three years social media face a backlash three d. printing got a boost. and last but not least paying for climate change is a huge question of two thousand and eighteen drew to a close find out why that matters. trade disputes bragg's it renewed u.s. sanctions on iran and the gruesome murder of a saudi journalist political and economic risk was highly visible in two thousand

and eighteen the international monetary fund and world bank are warning trade tensions are threatening to rip apart the global economy soaring that is also threatening to spoil the party in april the i.m.f. warned it came in one hundred sixty four trillion dollars. doric peak it's advising governments to prepare buffers to protect themselves and maybe more danger ahead even if the world economy is projected to grow by three point seven percent this year and next gregor irwin from global council has more on the global economic outlook. i think the really big concern is is china no china growth prospects for main goods in china nobody's expecting a major slew don't to morrow and chinese growth but the big concern about china is that debt to g.d.p. is still rising is projected to rise further still it's very high by the standards

of other countries or by historical standards and frankly it looks unsustainable so i think i think that is a genuine concern over the next few years for the stability of the global economy we're not in a trade war yet but there is a risk of a trade war one of the concerns about a trade war is if that wouldn't just involve the u.s. and china would inevitably dragon other countries as well and other countries would be caught up in the crossfire if you like between the u.s. and china right know i think the fear is to describe u.s. policy as unpredictable also quite aggressive equally i think when you look at when you look at china's policy stance also what europeans might do if there are any measures significant measures introduced targeting china or others i think we can we can expect to see retaliation and that that's where the trade war scenario really begins to potentially become a real one on the up side the world's largest and second largest economies recently

agreed to postpone new trade tariffs for three months from generally the first but the poles does that mean the war is over the u.s. and china's differing opinions over intellectual property protection need to be ironed out greg swenson founding partner of london based brig macca dam explained the trade dispute isn't going away anytime soon and most both sides make concessions i don't think that's the goal has been demonstrated or the core has been articulated well by the president what he seems to dwell on is the trade deficit and he picks these arbitrary numbers or targets for trade deficit reduction which i think is a mistake or it would. should focus on is that china is violating all kinds of free market and open market policies and rules you know they've taken them to the w t o sixteen times in the last couple of years and they've won all sixteen times but that doesn't seem to be fixing the major problems which are you know theft of ip and. you know the complete disregard for free market principles so look i wish that

there was a better way and perhaps there is he's picked this one and i think that he's that he's somewhat lost the narrative or lost the messaging battle because it looks like the u.s. is provoking a trade war when in fact what they are which is trying to do it is fix something that needs to be fixed i don't think these these tariffs will stay in place because they're there self-defeating it's not going or it's not really going to hurt the american consumer of the american economy you know in many ways that the president's playing with house money the you know the economy is is kicking on all cylinders two thousand and eighteen month a decade since the global financial crisis hit since then greater regulation has been introduced but ten years later it's young people who seem to be picking up the bill russell jones a partner at llewellyn consulting and former employee of lehman brothers spoke to us about the legacy. i think that have to be some really innovative responses to

this i mean income inequality wealth inequality huge issues and as you hinted there is increasingly an intergenerational element to this with the young feeling that they're getting very much the finn end of the wedge as it were i think politicians are going to have to be agile innovative. my sense is the way to look at this is that we need to become more interventionist but doesn't mean that we have to abandon the sort of capitalist model which has not withstanding the crises we experience has been so successful for so many centuries but in order to make that capitalist model work and work well we're going to have to redistribute more and we're going to have to think of some some new ways of doing that my sense is that higher taxation on the wealthy is is unavoidable my sense is that more transfers from pensioners back into the younger generations is unavoidable we are going to

have to do this otherwise the political environment we face which is already let's face it pretty fraught is going to become even more unpleasant and even more difficult to deal with i would say that addressing an income inequality is something which will help to save the current system rather than undermine it after the end of the last global financial crisis record low interest rates in the us meant many developing nations borrowed in dollars or that came back to haunt them this year you see the dollar has strengthened and it's now costing those countries a lot more to repay their debts and for economists it's raising alarm bells we spoke to timothy ash senior emerging markets sovereign strategist with a london based blue bay asset management. well it means more pressuring we you know we enter the year in a goldilocks scenario for emerging markets or appeared that way with d.m.

central banks tightening but moderately but the assumption was that global growth would stay pretty robust and as long as global growth stayed fine then on the revenue side emerging market countries will be more than able to cope with with higher d.m. and u.s. rates i think what's changed in terms of perceptions has been the dollar rally that's one thing that obviously increases debt service costs in hard currency in dollars from any image in markets and i think the other one has been concerned about trade wars and what it means for global growth argentina was one of those countries that made a cry for financial help its currency the peso last time off its value against the ball of this year the country already has some of the highest interest rates in the world and is now in financial life support well during two thousand and eighteen it secured a fifty seven billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. the largest ever loan in the funds history because argentina was truth's not of the

markets for so long its waiting is still relatively low and therefore the imperative is more urgent if we aren't. investors locally but also foreign direct investments the chances of a default near term low because they do have good relations with the i.m.f. but i think what needs to happen for the time being is that there needs to be a greater burden sharing it had actually now mostly going on for investors and local taxpayers it needs to be more on the corporate sector which has been receiving a lot of subsidies jiggly for example to invest in energy in electricity where they hadn't been any investment for ten or twelve years but also the foreign direct investment investors who are going to have to bear some of the additional losses now in the murder of saudi journalist jim outhustled jihad these countries

consulate in istanbul shocked millions we are asked how much power saudi arabia really wields over the global economy chris garcia used to work for the u.s. department of commerce on the president trump and is the chief executive of because financial he gave us his perspective on the importance of the kingdom's oil to the rest of the world. it's actually quite important certainly particularly in the short run this is why when we look at some of the potential retaliation tactics that the saudis have threatened we have to take them seriously the saudis have significant assets they hold probably the third most natural resources with about thirty five trillion dollars worth of natural resources within their territory and if the saudis do make good on this retaliation threat potentially raising prices by cutting output of oil production raising oil prices up to four hundred dollars per barrel from eighty dollars per barrel which is about more than double just about

the all time high of two thousand and eight all time high of one hundred fifty dollars per barrel that would have significant reverberations throughout the global economy u.s. shale exports and the shale industry has taken off we have seen a boom here in the u.s. and we're now on pace to beat saudi arabia and surpass saudi arabia by city banks estimates next year as an overall leader in both crude and overall oil product exports but however in the short run that's what we have to be most worried about it's the short run repercussions of the saudis cutting output that would send shock waves throughout the global economy but i would say that that that's leverage it would diminish in the long run unless they diversify as the world continues to diversify itself from its energy resources still to come on counting the cost tales from the crypto why digital currencies like bitcoin and ripple out of favor in two

thousand and one thousand. back in november iran was effectively shut out from the dollar dominated financial system when the trumpet ministration decided to re-impose sanctions the measures aimed right at the heart of these republics economy oil eight countries received a six month. waver but this still puts enormous pressure on to her on this mode to solve of assure you president of s.d.b. energy international we explain what's next for iran and the oil prices there is there an expectation in the market that in the next six months i need two thousand one thousand the market is going to face our oversupply due to their higher expert capacity from us and once a lower demand so the market moretti at that time if for any pressures iran is in the all of these eight countries that are importing oil from iran and there are going to get any types of back to iran and iran can only import humanitarian goods

or necessary goods those foods that are not subject to sanctions back to iran so they're kind of bartering their oil for food or medicine or necessary goods and now we have european union that they are coming up with a specific channels of trade with iran banking transaction with iran and if these channels are built for a more formal and more usable ways that are working with iran this of course is going to weaken nines and dollar as it were and also iraq is now selling its oil in a local currency to these countries so i agree i mean if he pushed this more or if we want to use this as a weapon is going to and if he is as losing its influence we cannot also denying the fact that it's all have it's own and sequences and iran's economy cut or became the first country in the middle east to quit opec in two thousand and eighteen his decision to move away from the cartel and focus on its natural gas exports comes at

a time when questions are being raised about who's really setting global oil policy there's a feeling that saudi arabia along with knowledge opec countries like russia and the usa accord in the shops. it's very difficult to understand the russian oil for countries to be either in or not in the organization of course you can say there is a certain concentration of power with the bigger players they have something to say and their decisions have his huge impact but of course at the same time if you if you look on the smaller numbers producing maybe two hundred thousand barrels a day four hundred or more of those volumes don't really matter so much when it comes to the end of the day it's always nice if you have more countries are part of it but why do they can contribute well i hope it is a research organization so having access to that research is maybe interesting for those countries but also i would guess having an international platform for the

politicians can be seen to communicate and to be on the same level was politicians are public and the production cut is necessary because there's quite a lot of surplus right now and it's not necessarily just because of the rain and story of the consequences but it is because a lot of supply is emerging from many other countries and on top of that the biggest supply addition this year of course is to us we've also reported this year on countries trying to diversify their economies away from oil and plan for a different kind of future and young people and women demanding a more inclusive role in that society one of the advisers to governments in the middle east is the international monetary fund christine legarde the managing director of the i.m.f. was in doha earlier this year in an exclusive interview counting the cost asked her about the role of women in the region and the changing economic headwinds. well because i care about this region of the world and because i visit very often my

first advice would not be to the young woman it would be to the leaders of those countries and my advice would be first of all look to legal structure your legal arsenal all the laws providing equality for men and women second i would say look at your budget are you providing for parenting leave are you providing for childcare centers are you helping the woman access or stay on the job market so that would be my first. my first call to the leaders because policies can actually change them up and i would also say to them and to people if i can reach out to them change your mindset consider how valuable women can be for your economy how much additional growth they can provide how much more sustainable that growth will be more resilient it will be and how much inequality

you're going to eliminate and then i would turn to the woman my sisters and i would encourage them to number one get as much education as they can and i hope that this is accessible in the country where i talk to them not always the case i would second say. have enough self-esteem take confidence in what other women in the area or beyond can achieve and just be yourself and make sure that you have a voice and if you can't find your voice get the support of other men and women who will be supporting you along the way millions in the u.k. are worried about what the new year will bring that's because the government has yet to reach a consensus on how to exit the european union at the end of march or u.k.'s economy is slowing and the currency is weakened as politicians continue to argue many voters are beginning to ask if isn't expensive miscalculation peter dixon from

commerzbank has more i think when you look back to three years ago those people who pushed for bread state i don't think i expected to win and they could never had a plan to deliver in the event that they did so now we've wasted an awful lot of time and effort since the referendum trying to figure out how to deliver bragg's it which it's not even clear that the electorate now wants so it has indeed been very expensive both in terms of absorbing government time. to the energy which businesses now have to spend in order to prepare for something which frankly may not even yet happen g.d.p. is about two percentage points below. where it would otherwise have been in the absence of bragg's it and that can be calculated in in a number of ways when that's a bit like saying you know we've almost lost a year's growth. over the two year period which is you know quite a quite a considerable quite a considerable sum. so without putting a precise figure on it i think it's fair to say the numbers being well i think on the on the current. projections on the assumption that we don't get

a hard bragg's it you know growth will continue to remain in the area of one half percent give or take a little bit obviously at the start of the year if we get continued uncertainty then that could lead to maybe a bit more we does in. vesper growth consumption would of course be impacted by the strength of inflation if there is a d.d. any as a result of the of the weakening pound so at the start of the year out suspect will get off to a slow start but on the assumption that some of his presidency. is eliminated or smooth away then over the course of the year i rather hope and i think the consensus expects to that growth next year will be similar to what we've seen this year more people in two thousand and eighteen have access to the internet than safe drinking water and the world's digital population keeps growing the rof is the world is not reaping the so-called digital dividends of this transformation or than

two billion people actively use facebook on a monthly basis which has had a decisive year or less to read the principle research sure and policy director of the european future innovation system center has more. in terms of facebook i think it's been it's been particularly hard hit by some of the concerns that have arisen . over over the different scandals that have taken place in terms of the access to data and the use of the data particularly related to elections and i think that's harder in effect i think also there's and that's that's a sort of natural trend in any market people particular i would say the younger generations are looking for a other tools and moving to other areas other ops and platforms so there is a sort of a natural trend i think linked to the sort of hit that they've taken from this sort of privacy abuses that took place related to bricks it's another of the referendums on elections or more in the last year or so i think this is had sort of the

negative effect is that the pick of facebook. i'm not sure of the case of the gravity strong position but i think it's again it's a very good example of where there's a need for clear regulation and checks on that's the use of the data is collected by such a company staying with digital want to difference a year makes this time twelve months ago bitcoin mania was all around but the crypto hype hasn't been matching the reality lately bitcoin is down around seventy five percent from its all time high of nearly twenty thousand dollars depending on what exchange you're looking at garrick hellman has more on the drivers behind the situation we've seen prices of crypto assets like they coined go up and down in the ten years that they've been exist in existence because it just celebrated its ten year anniversary it's a new asset class it's uncertain how we should value it and the type of all to lety were seen is not a surprise however i think there's

a growing acceptance and acknowledgement by just not just technologists but also regulators that blace technology and crypto currency are very much part of the future architecture of our financial system and there certainly has been some work . done by you know academics and others looking at trades on certain exchanges that do look suspicious i think there is a big question mark around that there's questions around how much trading volume is real and how much of it is spoofed or is washed trading i think there's a general consensus that there has been some some you know monkey business basically at work at some exchanges at least and that's all part of the maturing of the space and something that needs to get cleaned up for institutional investors and retail investors feel more confident comfortable owning krypto assets two thousand and eighteen so the world's first habitable three d. printed howe's is the newest technology causing a stir in the construction industry known in the trade as additive manufacturing

some say could change how we live and construct homes in the future simon hotz from innovate u.k. explains how it works. well actually that the technology is actually relatively mature in smaller scale so small scale three d. printers have been available even for domestic use for many years now what you're doing with with a large scale three d. printer is really extending the scale and the size of that three d. printer but there's a fundamental difference is that domestic three d. printers will typically use plastic they will heat up the plastic till it becomes a liquid and then print that liquid in a line there wait for it to call and then print the next layer now with houses if you're using a concrete for example you have to wait for that to set or to become solid before you go to the next layer so whilst the similarities are there with with domestic three d. printing it's actually a lot more complex to do this for with structural materials such as required to

build a house who exactly will have to pay for saving the planet is a big question these days u.n. body published their answers in two thousand and eighteen following three years of research we can limit global warming and prevent climate catastrophe if radical change is made now we're here in the middle east an area that is petro dependent and trying to find ways to diversify away from fossil fuels and create jobs for people who live here so we asked michael graham professor of energy and climate change university college in london what a carbon free future looks like for this region. middle east obviously has a concern that much of the middle east is dependent upon oil. not so much on coal and coal is the first in the line of fire the biggest sinner in terms of climate change if you like. but one issue for the many in the middle east is what does the

future look like if we do have to curtail the oil demand. that's probably going to affect some other regions or show it was first because they're actually a bit more expensive than a bit more carbon intensive but still we're talking about rather than the past century largely fuel an expansion of coal in oil this century being about their contraction and the rise of solar wind other renewable sources so that's the first thing we need to think what's the energy economy of countries in this case middle east countries traditionally heavy dependence on oil significant on gas that's kind of both good and bad it's called much cleaner than coal. burning we've have to missions in the power sector partly by using gas instead of coal and that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag. you when you do drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net

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hello i'm sorry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes the u.s. senate's refusal to fund border wall leads to the first government shutdown this year. curfews a state of emergency and more school closures in sudan as people protest against rise in prices. and corruption. and we speak to the guatemalan family whose hopes for an american dream ended in tragedy but others are not giving up plots. just 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 south koreans turn to a news source for news youtube becomes the voice of thousands.

the u.s. federal government has partially shut down for the third time this year the political stalemate follows donald trump's refusal to back down on funding for his border wall it's an idea strongly opposed by democrats the president took his frustration to twitter 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 and 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 the impasse leaves a quarter of the government unfunded over the christmas holidays eight hundred

thousand federal workers will continue to work without pay or be placed on unpaid leave those affected include customs officers responsible for securing the us southern border with mexico the shutdown also has implications worldwide particularly on the economy wall street saw its worst week of losses in the years with all american major indices down to two to three percent on friday the prospect of a government shutdown also triggered a sell off in markets across the world more from mike hanna in 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 they 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 his shed jule trip to florida adding while we wait to see if the democrats will help us to protect america's southern border mike hanna al-jazeera washington democrats say funding for the war is unnecessary because

government statistics don't support his claims it will reduce crime the u.s. based catto institute has studied figures for the border state of texas if found conviction rates for immigrants were much lower than those born in america out of seven hundred eighty five homicide convictions in two thousand and fifteen seven hundred nine were for offenders born in america illegal immigrants were convicted of forty six of them and legal immigrants thirty some u.s. commentators argue immigrants face fewer convictions but are arrested for more crimes but the data shows the arrest rate is actually lower than for people born in america as we've mentioned wall street had its worst week of losses in the years ahead of the u.s. government shutdown average johnson from balancing 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 the 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 high and 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 predicated value of a company is predicated on future earnings and so those are earnings 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 return 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 u.s. president 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 shihab rattansi has more. 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 and shaken by the news because of the patriot that general secretary models. 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 fears the trump meant what he said on the campaign trail where force in the middle east that we were fifteen years ago i mean right now it's a disaster once trump filled his cabinet with people who did not share that view though the establishment thought it was safe i think it's fair to say the establishment never wanted this moment to come stablish not been met as certainly as a member of that establishment in good standing. is unwilling i think to. ask and he's restored questions about u.s. policy in the region and even if things haven't gone well nihad their condition is simply to persist there is skepticism about how deeply geostrategic 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 adviser 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 wrote the military itself is divided there are many senior officers in the military we think the serial deployments were on periods of time just aren't working and there are 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 turns the outer zero washington. further details are emerging about trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria since two thousand and fourteen the u.s. military has been backing kurdish led forces who control much of northeastern syria the decision to leave is seen as abandoning the kurds and handing a strategic advantage to iran and russia turkey had been calling for

a us withdrawal and planning an offensive into the kurdish held territory considers kurdish fighters terrorists on friday president rajapaksa about of the unwelcome trance move calling it an encouraging development now reports are emerging trant made the decision during a phone call with out of the one just days earlier without consulting any military or strategic advisors the white house rejects the description of the core. the hold with live now from chuck i only to keep syria borders so close to all sign this being interpreted as a sign of improving relations between the u.s. and turkey yes a new phase in that relationship something that the turkish president or the guy and explained in detail in a speech on friday first talking about the relationship to during the obama administration saying in the early years of the syrian crisis we were disappointed

but i am in understanding with president trump so it's not just a better relationship between the two countries but a good relationship with the u.s. president so a new face in a relationship that was strained in recent years particularly over the syria strategy the u.s. president's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the north east of the country is not just about a withdrawal but it is about abandoning the y p g the syrian kurdish armed group its allies in syria a group that turkey considers a terrorist organization so trump chose turkey over the y.p. gee we have to remember over the past few years turkish officials have repeatedly criticized the u.s. policy of arming and training training this group because they believe that this group is not just fighting i saw what this group had plans to create a separate the state in north east syria. so you know the turkish military was about to launch a campaign what do we expect them to.