you know at this point nothing that happens with this administration should come as a surprise but given the fact that both houses of congress and the white house are controlled by the same party we should certainly be shocked that they can keep the government open even if we're not surprised by now so what are the repercussions and how serious are serious is this all the different repercussions you mention the fact that you can have eight hundred thousand people who are either working without pay or on leave without pay not knowing where their next paycheck is going to come from over the holiday season i don't know how much. dr seuss penetrate has penetrated europe in the middle east but in the united states we call that being a grinch and at christmas time there's also economic repercussions where it's about a billion dollars a week off of g.d.p. for every week that the shutdown goes on which is. you know not. not a huge number in the context of the u.s.

economy but it does add up and is not insignificant and there are political repercussions where voters who six weeks ago went to the polls and sent a strong message against this kind of anti immigrant demagoguery. now look at her public and party and understand they are willfully ignoring the message they sent so i mean the senate is said that next session is me set the december the twenty seventh how likely is it on that day that they'll be able to come up with any kind of compromise. you know it's it's very hard to say because trump might decide tomorrow that he really wants to go tomorrow and so let's wrap this thing up or he might hold the line because the fox news crowd is is really cheering him on. it's a strong possibility that this lasts into the new year until january third when democrats actually take over the majority the house new congress comes in and

presumably if the government is still closed at that point their first order of business would be to pass a bill reopening it which would glide through the senate and land on the president's desk for that reason it's in the interests of republicans to try to find some sort of deal before then because they lose a lot of their bargaining power then. but you know this is a is a chaos president who enjoys chaos so who knows it's going to happen ok thank you very much indeed devore that shining a thank you feel phillips. and more ahead on the news hour including where the streets of ramallah where people are growing tired of the ineptitude of their political leaders coupled with the increasing. patient. hunt for a former rebel commander comes to a bloody end as the man known as quatro is gunned down by the colombian military. and after they do their best to keep the pressure on italian leaders eventis action

from syria are coming up in sport. ahead of the united nations mission tasked with monitoring a fragile cease fire and yemen's strategic port city of her data has arrived in aden is due to meet government representatives before traveling to the rebel held capital sana'a and then onwards to her data the port city is a key gateway for aid and food imports a vodka has more on the story. arriving in aden the head of the united nations monitoring mission patrick is a retired dutch general with experience of some of the world's worst conflicts the t r c sri lanka and cambodia other members of the un team touched down in yemen's capital sanaa the group will be heading to the strategic port city of today where

they're tasked with monitoring a franchise ceasefire and overseeing the vital reopening of the ports a gateway for food and aid supplies into a country where millions of people are in desperate need of both. the general for sure has an expertise in this domain and we know that he will meet with the other side very soon after that god willing the mission of the observers that had data will start. it had day to day life is returning to the city streets the ceasefire between saudi u.a.e. backed government forces and hooty rebels is seen as the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts. the war started in twenty fourteen and. we look forward to the cease fire we hope it's going to be observed not only here but nationwide. and. we hope the saudi led coalition will learn a lesson after four years of war we haven't halted all retreated even if forty years pass we will never budge you're abandoning our basic principles of dignity freedom and independence. the monitoring mission comes

a day after the un security council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to data following negotiations in sweden the warring sides also agree to a prisoner swap of some sixteen thousand detainees. the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster the war has killed an estimated sixty thousand people as many as eighty five thousand children may have starved to death and. it's hoped the by bringing stability to her day to. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow. at least fifteen people are being killed in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu one of the explosions targeted a military checkpoint near the presidential palace a second smaller attack appeared to target civilians on their way to work as what

we had reports. the first car bomb exploded at a military checkpoint soldiers and civilians among the dead. moments later the explosion also a car bomb bodies were scattered on the street just a few hundred meters from the somali presidential residence in mogadishu the go out one look at me i was at the scene of the attack first i saw a vehicle driving back and forth and we tried to stop people walking here and there and then within the blink of an eye the vehicle exploded causing havoc. on the side i was walking to my work place and suddenly there was a huge explosion there was smoke everywhere and people were screaming there were bodies all over the place the next time i was conscious i was at the hospital my leg was broken and i also lost my hand i was working to feed my five children and their only breadwinner what was my crime to deserve this who is going to feed my children now the. police say government officials have been travelling in the area

earlier in the day now the road is covered with charred cars and debris we know explosion today up in mogadishu somali capital and the first explosion was your suicide bomber and targeted security just points. in the national. somali but eventually. the station in the area and it is getting a blaze. mogadishu is often targeted by the al qaeda linked group al-shabaab its members want to dislodge the government and impose islamic law the group maintains a foothold in some regions of somalia that was forced mogadishu in two thousand and eleven. thousands of somalis have died in this divisive long battle many of them civilians see a little piece of the young al-jazeera. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and

fuel the city is about barrayar and the entire white nile stage around emergency rule are just as angry about high inflation which is one of israel's seventy percent economy has struggled since sudan lost most of its oil revenue following south sudan's independence in twenty eleven morgan has the latest from khartoum. it's day four of protests here in sudan and today it's in the southern states of south kordofan where people have burned down the headquarters of the national ruling party the national congress party and they made it very clear again once again that they want the government to do what they want the ruling party to go that they've had enough of the economic crisis this year earlier this year in january the dollar was thirty sudanese pounds two dollars but today it's about sixty seven response to a dollar and for many people that makes market prices higher and affordable to them now people have come out and protested and over the past few days we've seen people in the streets being basically free of facing brutal excessive force by the from

from be security forces people have been shot dead so far dozens have been injured even dozens more have been arrested and rights groups such as amnesty have called out on to the to the police and to the security forces and told them not to use excessive force against the protesters surprisingly the government also came out and said that they do they do not want to use excessive force and that the government the protesters have the right to air out their frustration to air out would they feel like is basically the grievances against the government is against the government but they also said this morning that they will not tolerate people vandalizing that they're not going to have people running down buildings and bridget bringing down properties a state of emergency has been declared in several parts of the country and curfews has been declared in many cities and schools and universities have been shut down indefinitely nearly nationwide making it very high. for people to congregate and what the government is trying to make sure is that people do not gather together to protest but because this is day four it doesn't seem like this problem is going to go away anytime soon and as the government tries to introduce some kind of reforms that would ease the people ease that ease them be assurance of people and make them

feel like yes something is being done to so that they can be able to go on with their daily lives and afford basic commodities which at the moment many find an affordable four million ballot papers are due to arrive in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa to replace those that were destroyed in a fire last week the blaze which also damaged more than eight thousand voting machines has meant the presidential election shuttle for some date has been delayed for a week catherine story has more. the campaign season as chaotic as it was is officially over and presidential candidates have agreed to wait until the fifth yes for the selection but the question many people are asking now is a week will they let me put everything together to be able to conduct a fairly credible election we've heard from the president of seventy that's the electoral commission saying that one of the biggest problems they're facing is the crisis in kinshasa a warehouse burned down last week destroying most of the polluting materials from

what to be used in the capital city some of the materials are still getting in and they have to be deployed to different parts of the country and this is a country with very poor infrastructure so it's a logistical nightmare just getting this materials to where they're supposed to be the government has used all help financial and logistical help from the u.n. and other countries as well so this some people are saying another is another problem it's going to be interesting to see how this week plays out the president of the electoral commission saying be patient give us time we're trying to do everything we can to make sure that we have an election that is fairly small but a lot of people with talked to really saying that this election given all the circumstances might just end up being another symbolic election. thousands of people have attended the funerals of four palestinians killed by israeli forces

during protests at the gaza israeli border on friday among the victims were sixteen year old mohammed judge who palestinians have been protesting along the border area for thirty nine consecutive weeks according to the right of return for palestinian refugees and an end to the twelve year is ready blockade since the release began moving two hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed and at least eighteen thousand injured by israeli forces. us is a increasingly frustrated living in the west bank under a growing feeling of helplessness there 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. what's needed is that the palestinian authority stop security coordination with the israelis stop working together we don't benefit anything where a lost people in the situation has become very bad every time i come to ramallah it's so hard to reach checkpoints all over the road so 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 other shows it increasing support for half particularly off the mouth 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 lack of progress on the reunification efforts most of the public today blames the two to one the blame is being placed on abbas 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 hoping for peace but you know everybody knows other side is very strong very strong every time we come a closer to make abuse then they stop it they have some risks accuse all the time they have excuses i would be able they are ready for peace but the other side are not ready you see the smile is seventy six years old and has lived in the ramallah

all his life. on the palestinian authority to is controlled by israel just like us they should be a sovereign palestinian state every time the israeli want to raid the towns 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. and more still ahead around here including the family of a seven year old girl accuse the u.s. border patrol of contributing to her death after she died eight hours after taking being taken into custody. we have an exclusive report from a remote eastern region of to jackie stung by neglect and intimidation by the central government is hearing fears have been new to violence. sport lir will explain why this caught hers caused among sports fans across the world.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe fast moving systems moving from west to east across much of europe right now that's because the jet is going basically parallel and we're seeing those systems bring some very heavy rain across parts of central europe and that is going to continue so here on sunday rain anywhere from london all the way down towards paris we do have a couple of systems coming in off the atlantic that will be problems temperature wise not so much a problem we are looking at seasonal temperatures for this time of year out towards the east the it is going to be snow but it's going to be wet snow take all of those temperatures getting just above freezing during the daytime than overnight those temperatures start to come down again so it's going to be a little bit mushy but down here towards the south we're looking a book or us seeing about five degrees or with a mix of rains don't you forecast down towards athens it's going to be

a nice day at seventeen degrees there well here across the northern part of africa we are looking at mostly partly cloudy conditions across much of the area nothing in terms of rain though you can see the clouds coming in towards tripoli as well as been gazi with some clouds coming in from the north and winds coming in from the north as well over here towards cairo not looking too bad on sunday as we go towards monday we are looking at a few more clouds right there but up here towards the west we are seeing some clouds coming into parts of morocco and robot it's going to be clouded if you with a temperature of twenty degrees.

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and again are none of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. envoy to the global coalition to defeat eisold brett mcgurk has quit over president trump's decision to pull troops from syria. the u.s. federal government has partially shut down after the senate failed to approve payment but don't trump's controversial wall along the mexican border. and at least fifteen people have been killed more than twenty five injured in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu. thousands of people in serbia have taken part in an anti-government protest for a third successive saturday demanding policy changes and accuse president alexander of becoming increasingly authoritarian those weak opposition politician bo christopher which was attacked with his supporters accusing the government of intimidation. french police have used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse demonstrators as the yellow vests protest continued in paris for

a sixth weekend the interior ministry says there were only around two thousand protesters in paris half the number recorded last week the recessions began more than five weeks ago against plans to increase fuel tax and low turnout is seen as a sign that president nothing's economic concessions are working final sprint has more from paris hilton's mid-morning now well into the mid afternoon and already protesters have been on this constant march through paris not stopping going through the main monuments of paris and it's been really a game of cat and mouse with the police who have to constantly follow them everywhere trying to stop them going down particular roads trying to keep other areas open all the mosque moving it has been very peaceful. or have been a little bit of confrontation with the police but mainly. are the numbers are growing and they often are ready or maybe as many as a couple of thousand people here now continuing of the six. saturday

a protest people here that we've struggled through not a troll happy with the concessions emanuel mark from has made and they say that they will keep protesting right into the news. thousands of people have been demonstrating in hungary in protest over changes to employment rights and pay the new legislation which opposition parties have nicknamed the slave law allows companies to demand more than four hundred hours of overtime from their employees from budapest robin first year walker reports on what's driven the government to take a step and why it's promote such an angry reaction. hungry at christmas time with more than two percent average growth low taxation it's an attractive place to come and spend your money. hungry economic model depends a lot on german car manufacturing and twenty seventeen it made up twenty nine percent of industrial output soon a billion dollar b.m.w.

plants will provide thousands of jobs in the east but there's a problem a shortage of skilled workers. the government hopes its new labor law will fix that allowing over time of more than four hundred hours a year but that has angered the working hunger areas more than eighty percent according to recent polls opposed to legislation that will make them have to work more opposition groups have united in protest from the left and the right calling it a slave law. andries government says that's not the case the hungary and regulation is fully in line with the european regulations and has nothing to do slavery that's political cold but which is being used by extremists for the philippine and political activists on the ground the real problem is that as a matter of fact these political protests are nothing to do with the labor govt most of them are very educated and some believe the law will only worsen the problem and variance have been working much longer hours in recent years than

anyone in western europe so if you just check european union statistics eastern europeans work more than western europeans in hungary and work more than people in western europe so there's already a lot of overtime in the system and secondly wages are very low so if you make people work longer hours for the same wages is just an incentive for people to move away the way that one gary in government sees it the gary in economy is a victim of its own success with near full employment but it might have more to do with the fact that hungary has a strict immigration policy and skilled gary ans seeking better opportunities abroad. young hunger ariens like peter are increasingly interested in leaving hungry and starting their careers elsewhere and are hungry and syrians and i just saw exactly the same motivation and that they just wanted something better than hunger we can offer and at the same time they just so that. that trying to not

looking promising and hungry hungry is not alone countries including poland slovakia and the czech republic are struggling with their own labor shortages. the showing of low cost labor powering europe from its east is beginning to wear off. robyn first you will i'll just era budapest. after months of hunting him in the colombian jungle security forces have shot and killed the man known as quatro the former fox commander refused to surrender as part of a peace deal in twenty sixteen he was accused of drug trafficking extortion and murder shot betis reports. by senior ministers colombia's president rallied reporters for his big news boy. i can't confirm that troia was killed in an operation he was killed by the heroes of colombia i don't know that mark and i don't know this is quote your full name walter patricio arizona he was one of the

most elusive and powerful rebels in colombia wanted for drug trafficking extortion and murder. while cho commanded the all of us in a state of front a group of up to eighty former fark rebels who have refused to twenty sixth in peace deal with the colombian government they continue to traffic cocaine and fight security forces this colombian police and military search the jungles for him for months this is really a pretty strange this is an effort persistence we may not find out of today but it could be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow in a week or two we're not going to rest or stop this offensive the manhunt escalated after his group kidnapped and murdered to ecuador in journalists and their driver in march colombia and ecuador put on their most wanted list and offered hundreds of thousands of dollars for information leading to his capture. more than

three thousand army police and special forces were deployed to find him then on friday from the former front front line and cocaine capital the colombian president took the podium and made a you your you know i had a cloud on today i want to make clear that for quatro our party is over colombe a menace in many communities in colombia will now sleep in peace because one of the most horrendous criminals that our country has known has fallen. well cho was shot and killed in a military operation near the ecuadorian border shallop ballasts al jazeera. the family of the cotton ball and girl who died at the us mexico border two weeks ago is pleading with the united states to allow her father to stay seven year old jack in king was taken to hospital suffering from dehydration and shock after being detained by u.s. border guards david messages being to meet the family at the home 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 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 then he at them was. 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 cloudy it doesn't know how they will ever pay off their debt to the smugglers who took him in 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 sickert is what amala iran is holding military drills in the strategic strait of hormuz at the entrance to the gulf a passageway for nearly a third of the world's seaborne oil exports and. thank you to simulated landing by the elite revolutionary guards on the rain and of question locations in the strait friday rain an army speedboats shadowed a u.s. navy aircraft carrier that entered the gulf the strait of hormuz is the only access to the sea for iraq a training qatar and kuwait. and the eastern region of tajikistan known as action has a long history of opposition to the government in the former soviet republic gone

about action as its own distinct languages and culture but there's also widespread anger at a lack of employment and opportunity with drug smuggling from neighboring afghanistan a major issue in this is to his series from inside educated on john stratford travelled to regional capital coral or the army was sent in after protests earlier this year it takes fifteen hours to get to the town of cork the capital of the semi autonomous gorno but action region in eastern tells you can stand the broken road winds its way through the premier mountains bordering afghanistan the people here have long complained their demands for better infrastructure jobs and respect for their distinct culture or ignored by central government the mountains about action on a provided a natural defense against all those who tried to impose their wealth already on this region for centuries the chinese the russians the british all have

struggled to control a people with a distinct culture a distinct identity but recent protests here in horror suggests that the government into sunday is facing similar challenges even today the majority of going about actions approximately two hundred seventy thousand population ishmaelites. in september there were demonstrations against what protesters say has been gears of neglect and intimidation by the predominantly sunni muslim government. unemployment is estimated to be around fifty percent there are no major industries which could offer jobs. president and will mali rock on whose roots as you can stand for more than twenty five years has banned opposition parties imprisoned political leaders and journalists and crushed any independent media across the country he's also criticized local leaders often described as warlords as well as regional government

officials for what he sees as their failure to crack down on drug smuggling from afghanistan it's a national and seen all caught exegesis say corrupt officials are involved tons of heroin and opium a smuggled across the border every year. this government mind refused to let us interview anyone on the streets and wanted names of anyone we had tried to talk to . we contacted one person by telephone and recorded disco. we were. quite a. very. you know. i'm least say president is aware of the risks of a crackdown in gorno box on

a region that accounts for almost hoff of to. but. the people of that action are easy to mobilize it's a conservative society it's enough to just call someone a brother to him to them bring a thousand five hundred people from his village to support your thirty's no it is a risk of crossing a line that's what president rahmani scared of the president sent the army into the region in two thousand and twelve off the bottom intelligence chief was stabbed to death around fifty main civilians and soldiers were killed in the fighting that followed the risk of renewed violence is testing the government again one that critics say has to be year is relied on its intelligence services police and army to silence dissent. at al-jazeera hawg tajikistan still ahead on jazeera conservatives in south korea tend to social media.