a lot of differences between these two countries these two nato allies which have really had disputes over the syria strategy in recent years president ordered on friday in his speech outlining how this relationship has improved and how he sees eye to eye with president trump on issues regarding syria just a few days ago donald trump announced the withdrawal of american troops from northeast syria this is not just about a pullout this is about america choosing turkey over its ally the syrian kurdish armed groups that alliance really has angered turkey they've been angry that the u.s. has been giving the white p.g. weapons and training they consider the syrian offshoot of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party or the p.k. k. which has been waging an insurgency against the turkish state for decades now so turkey welcoming this decision and reports that there will be coordination in the upcoming days turkey postponing a planned operation into syria giving time for talks with u.s.

officials it seems turkey wants an orderly pullout they don't want the american troops to rapidly pull out because northeastern syria will be up for grabs they don't want to see for example the syrian government taking control of the area without firm guarantees that the y.p. g. presence or the 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 sami nadir is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs he says the u.s. withdrawal from the region risks leaving a power that you. it seems that the decision is not based on vision or. plan because because it's in contradiction actually be with the main strategy of. washington that said that not the number one objective of the united states and the region is to face you're wrong this has

been very well articulated by john kelly by bolton and by general mattis who just resigned so the big question here in case officers of it with the role would who will benefit from with this withdrawal would who will fill the void especially that. president during his campaign has criticized that it is his predecessor president obama who decided to withdraw unilaterally from iraq and this pave the way to iran expansion in that region and the emergent of isis today he's taking similar moves by withdrawing from syria which is the same arena in the middle east and that is a big question mark about who are gonna fill this void. whether it's next but still ahead on al-jazeera and two explosions in somalia can

at least that people near the presidential palace. hello again we're here cross north asia we are watching a front about you make its way just to the south of japan so that means as we go towards sunday a better day for you in terms of clouds and also snow in the higher elevations but that's not going to last too long we do think by the time we get to monday we do expect to see more in terms of snow there so here on sunday sendai at ten degrees tokyo not looking too bad at twelve but here we go on the western part of japan we do think we're going to see some sea effect snow especially on that west coast coming in from the north westerly winds that we're going to be seeing as well as cold winds there as well over here towards batar minus fifteen is going to be your high beijing is going to see a high of about zero degrees there well for china not looking too bad but we do

think we're going to be seeing some rain in hong kong over the next day if it's not rain is really going to be the clouds light rain as we go towards sunday with attempted there of about twenty two degrees and on monday really the rain starts to move to the north but the clouds really stay into your forecast shanghai though it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of eleven degrees and for the philippines we are looking at more rain in the forecast particular up here towards luzon over the next few days and we do think that rain is going to stay in place at least for the next forty eight hours so for manila it is going to be a rainy day with you temperatures of twenty six. we want to go to three. homes with. one of those six. and. there's no and the more because there's always a small. really good because.

we're united states private. public function your shadow on al-jazeera. 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 do without a budget deal. of the shutdown led to some of the whilst losses on wall street in investors are worried about slow economic growth and

a possible recession the prospect of the government shutdown also triggered off a sell off around the wild. two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least thirteen people suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu it's unclear who is behind the blasts. nine people have been killed in sudan during protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in at least five states the cities of act. and the entire white nile state agency roll protesters are angry at high inflation which is running as around seventy percent of the economy has struggled since south sudan became independent in twenty eleven and it lost the majority of its oil revenue to morgan has the latest from khartoum sudan has woken up pretty quiet today compared to the past three days where it's been seen 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 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 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 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 quote 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 or for better living conditions. nigerian police say they've arrested a boko haram fighter believed to be the key planner of the twenty fifteen bombings in the capital a brooch or. several others who confessed to their roles were arrested in lagos the twin blasts killed fifteen people and injured dozens more more than thirty thousand people have been killed and millions forced to flee from boko haram violence in northeast nigeria in southern france one driver has died in a car crash at a roundabout blocked by so-called yellow vest protesters these are live pictures of the mass demonstrations they were triggered by rising fuel prices and are now in

their sixth week the turnout in paris appears to have dropped significantly after the government canceled the new taxes but many have kept up traffic disruptions to protest against a manual of their economic policies. the head of the u.n. team tasked with monitoring a cease fire has arrived in the yemeni city of her data on friday the security council agreed to send a team of observers to oversee a u.n. brokered ceasefire between truth you rebels and the saudi immorality backed yemeni government the monitors won't wear uniforms all be armed and the initial and deployment is expected to be for thirty days our diplomatic editor james bays has moved from u.n. headquarters in new york. 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 the launch 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's 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. palestinians increasingly frustrated living in the occupied west bank and there's a growing feeling of helplessness they've told al-jazeera it's made worse by a greater israeli military presence and also by the ineptitude of their own political leaders stephanie decker reports from ramallah. it's been especially tense few weeks in the occupied west bank palestinian shootings in israeli incursions have killed people on both sides palestinians tell us they had not seen this amount of israeli soldiers on the streets of ramallah in years ramallah is the seat of power for the ruling palestinian authority and supposedly under full palestinian security control its outage an already pessimistic atmosphere. needed is that the palestinian authority stop security coordination with the israelis stop

working together we don't benefit anything where a lost people. the situation has become very bad every time i come to. it's so hard to reach checkpoints all over the roads the traffic is a nightmare we hope that the world will do something to change this political situation a recent poll across the occupied west bank and gaza indicate that almost two thirds of palestinians want the resignation of president mahmoud abbas and overflows it increase in support for half particularly off of the escalation here in the west bank and also in gaza and the poll also suggests that the idea of an armed intifada as opposition to the occupation is gaining support that's moving away from diplomatic negotiations. carried out the survey he says the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas are facing increasing questions about their credibility the lack of palestinian unity between the rival political groups fatah and hamas is

a major issue significant. for the progress of the reunification. most of the public today blame the two to one the blame is being placed on the boss on the rob a ban on hamas this is a significant change from the past in the past most of the blame was being put on hamas most people here say that if palestinians were united they would be stronger to deal with israel everybody. you know everybody knows other side is very strong very strong every time we come closer to make it be used in the stop it. we have excuses the already other side they're not ready you see the smile is seventy six years old and has lived in the all his life. in the palestinian authority to is controlled by israel just like us they should be a sovereign palestinian state every time the israeli want to read the terms they go

in they go out they do what they want. as another year draws to an end palestinians say they seem to be moving further and further away from their hopes of one day achieving their own sovereign state stephanie decker al-jazeera in the occupied west bank the u.s. supreme court has an hour early voted to reject president donald trump's restrictions on asylum seekers five of the nine judges decided to keep a block that was imposed by lower tribunals trump and signed an order last month to ban asylum for anyone who didn't enter via an official border point and the family of the course of your diet after she was taken into custody by border control guards is pleading with the united states to allow her father to stay seven year old jacqueline was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration and shock her family disputes the official story about how she died david massa reports from san antonio cortez in guatemala. when claudia mckean 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 mall and village and headed north the united states cloudy received the news every mother dreads media i quote 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. 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 and jacqueline to the border or to africa 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 is one of. us supreme court judge ruth bader ginsburg has undergone surgery to remove cancer from one of her lungs the eighty five year old is said to be resting comfortably in a new york hospital after surgeons removed two malignant snuggles she previously had colon and pancreatic cancer judge ginsburg is one of the most senior justices on the supreme court's liberal wing germany has closed its last active coal mine workers brought out the last lumps of coal and handed one to president frank while the steinmeyer at a ceremony the industry helped germany to rebuild after world war two the country hopes to cut greenhouse gas emissions by forty percent by two thousand and twenty

still generates almost two fifths of its electricity from fossil fuels. spain's bumper christmas last three has been drawn with this year's prize topping two point seven billion dollars it was a very emotional moment for at least one of these schoolchildren given the opportunity to call the list of prizes on live television series and danny. said that. the two hundred year old lottery held each year on december twenty second is known as el gordo all the fat one the top prize for a winning ticket is four hundred fifty five thousand dollars but there are also plenty of smaller prizes el gordo is ranked as the biggest lottery in the wild in terms of total prize money.

i missed on detail in doha and these are the top stories the u.s. federal government has partially shut down after politicians failed to end their deadlock over spending president on old trump refused to back down long on funding for his border wall forcing congress to adjourn without a budget deal we're going to have are 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 and 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 the

prospect of the shutdown also triggered a sell off around the wild. in southern france one driver has died in a car crash as roundabout blocked by so-called yellow vest protesters these these protesters and demonstrations were triggered by rising fuel prices and are now in their sixth week the turnout in paris appears to have dropped significantly after the government canceled the new taxes but many kept traffic disruptions to protest against emanuel micron's economic policies two explosions in somalia's capital have killed at least thirteen people suicide car bombers attacked a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in mogadishu it's unclear who is behind the blasts nine people have been killed in sudan during protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in at least five states the city's about to bar and get a rest and the entire white nile state are under emergency rule those are the

headlines and the news will continue here after talk to al jazeera. michael. you can. see. the peace treaty signed by government leaders and separatist rebels in mali three years ago was meant to usher in a new iraq of peace and stability in the northwest african country but progress in implementing the agreement has been slow and insecurity has grown the violence that

began with the uprising and seizure of territory in the north has now spread into previously stable central mali on groups have taken advantage of interethnic grievances and local resentment towards the government to spread fear and chaos forcing thousands to flee president. who has ruled since twenty thirteen was reelected earlier this year for a second term he announced a government reshuffle aimed at restoring peace debility and foreign investment all important to boost the economy and reduce poverty as part of the reshuffle. was named new minister of foreign affairs is a thirty five year old appointment the beginning of comprehensive institutional reforms and how can peace be achieved in the foreseeable future we find out more as . minister of foreign affairs talks to the.

foreign minister thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you for having me a lot of things have gone. wrong in mali since the multi-dimensional crisis that was triggered in twenty twelve in almost seventy is. witnessed a coup an insurgency intervention by french u.n. and african troops and yet. today armed groups are reorganizing extending violence from the northern to the central regions why is it so hard to bring peace and security to your country i think it's a very dramatic narrative that you're giving right now because miley has gone through a lot since two thousand and eleven we have indeed gone through a military coup an insurgency but we also have had a lot of successes we organize two peaceful presidential elections we have

a peace process that is ongoing we have a d.d.r. that just started we have a full ministry in charge of the peace process we have the six percent growth rate this is positive outcomes that we've had from this dimensional crisis that you just described it's good to point out the positives because you are right they are indeed positives but when you look at the news we had money in authorities saying a few days ago that they arrested four men with links to i saw who were planning attacks in several west african capitals we've always known about the out kind of threat but what about this i saw threat today how real and how serious is it and what's being done to prevent the group getting a foothold in this region so the terrorists issue is not a mali an issue we have been experiencing all it all over the world it's really difficult or i would say even in accurate to take out the security issues of mali out of the issues of this the whole region that is why we have for example. which

is in military partnership between five somehow countries namely. eighteen year chad. in order to curtail their tourism issue and as a whole region there is terrorist issue in this whole region and also in there and indeed not just in mali but in the genre as well in all these countries and i will get to the g five in just a second to ask you why. why it's taking a while to get this sports off the ground but just coming back to the violence in mali they has been into communal violence recently there has been intercommunal violence that is not linked at all to some terrorist elements infiltrating some of these regions which have had grievances it's way more complicated than that perhaps you can explain to our international audience so in mali what we currently have is that position of multiple different security crisis that we've had over the years in the central part of mali it's really a difficult situation it's

a complex one that cannot be simply described as a terrorist situation you have some cultural aspects of it you have. it's being described as an ethnic conflict which is in my opinion not currently the case you have what is it it's a pastoralist issue that has been exacerbated by terrorist groups that has been utilized by terrorists so the armed groups have infiltrated the as a local community do they do have infiltrated those local communities that have had grievances that have had grievances having grievances been addressed by the government of the local community so if you let me finish i can tell you that what we currently have again is a pastoralist issue between. herders that are against bozo herders and it's a complex situation security situation that has been exacerbated by terrorist groups now it is being perceived as an ethnic conflict which is not necessarily the

root of it coming back to my question is have the grievances been address what has the government done to address the grievances of the local communities in the center in the north which was the origin of the crisis in two thousand and twelve twenty thirteen so it's again it's more complex than that it is how it's been described in the news but for example when we're talking about grievances in the not. and regions of mali you also have to understand that the issues that have been brought up by separatist rebels in northern mali are the same issues that other groups with throughout the country are currently facing lack of access to. to medical services like to be yes exactly to basic services so what the government is currently doing is making sure that those basic services are reachable for all of the population and we currently have an institutional reform going on so

that those local services and the local population feel closer to those services let's talk about the g five because you touched on this and countries including mali joined forces in twenty seventeen to establish this multinational force security force with the aim of defeating armed groups in the region the primary aim more than a year after it was set up this force has yet to to fully become operational from what i understand why is it proving difficult to get it off the ground is it just down to a lack of resources and funding as we're hearing or the other factors and are there other factors there's definitely a lack of funding for the joint force to be fully operational we currently have in you know over four hundred million euros per year now it's our job to make sure that into the international community understands that this joint force is the only sustainable solution we currently have in order to curtail the fragile security

situation that we have in this hell region saw once we are able to do that then the international community does understand the need for us to have destroyed forces operational another aspect another difficulty of it is that this regional force is basically a corporation between military forces of five countries and some of them are perceived as weak such as the one in we currently have. but we are rebuilding we have been rebuilding since two thousand and thirteen and we also have to explain better that military forces that have more capacity struck such as the charge in one right in the scheme of eighty five the whole region can really pull up all of the other military forces and build their capacity what would you say to people who say that this g five experiment can't really work in a region that is crowded by sometimes competing military and domestic initiatives i would tell them that what we are doing right now is what the international

community needs and this is what they're asking us to do which is take ownership of our own security situation so we are not in a negative. atmosphere here we are trying to find solutions to our own problems in this is what the international community has been pushing african countries to do you were at the g five donor conference in mauritania earlier this year but president wasn't in attendance despite being perhaps. one of the most important countries in this chief five from a security point of view why did not attend the president president of mali he has a lot of competing meetings that he has to attend if he could not attend this one he could not you mentioned you know the fact that some countries had militaries that were perceived perhaps as weaker than the others are you happy with the current structure of the of the g five they have been reports that mali wants

perhaps a bigger position a bigger role within this g five and that this been some discontent about mauritania taking a leading role can you deny or confirm these i can't tell you that rumors are rumors what i can tell you is that what we are trying to do is for five help countries that are facing the same security issues to work together in order to curtail a growing terrorist so these are just rumors about the tensions with mauritania these are totally relevant to the operationalization of the joint force of the chief i said it's not just of course the armed groups as you've said it's also drugs trafficking human trafficking in this region and the g five mandate i understand is to fight all of this it's a very tall order you what it is it is isn't it so how do you actually prioritize with. all these things that you have to fight with the different agendas also of your allies and european partners who are perhaps more interested in curbing

illegal immigration how do you prioritize which of these to focus on the good think that you first to hell again is that we have five so how country is that all agree on why we came together we have an african union which is a continental organization that does support our efforts in the sahara region and we need the lead of the african union in order to shore european partners that we know what we're doing and we know why whatever we are concerned what is what is the most urgent task right now for this body all of these need to be addressed sumo tenuously you cannot just take one separately from the others they have to be taking that into account in your sleep when we're talking about the whole there is also a development branch of the g five so help called. meaning that you cannot take away the security aspect of it without addressing the development needs of the region so we're doing both at the same time again it's a complex situation it's

a multi-dimensional situation so all of those issues need to be addressed at the same time ok let's move on to the issue of human rights if we can foreign minister one of our teams was recently at the mali mauritania border and they encountered a number of mali and specifically from timbuktu who crossed into mauritania that currently some thirty seven thousand refugees at the matter refugee camp in mauritania and most of them say they come from mali can you tell us can you shed light us to what's happening right now in the region and why we're seeing this exodus so. exodus is a big word what we're seeing in the region and what we've been seeing over the past five years are people crossing one border to the other to seek refuge when there is a security crisis in a certain region what mali is currently doing is making sure that those refugees who are.