david orr of the peatling just live from rome thank you for that. thank you for the north korean leader kim jong un has rung in twenty nine thousand with an offer of more talks with president trump but he warned his country may seek what he called a new path if washington doesn't keep its promises but macbride reports from the south korean capital seoul. even before the north korean leader spoke it was clear this was going to be a new year's speech in a different tone a softer look for a softer message kim jong un spoke of into korean relations entering a completely new phase the escalating tensions building trust. in last year's speech kim emphasized north korea's nuclear arsenal this year there was a different pledge. that in was in our parties our governments and my resolve for complete denuclearization remain unchanged we have proclaims that we will no longer

make nuclear weapons and will not use them or spread them and we have also taken various practical measures already kim jong un stressed is a bit of carrying forward momentum from twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen it seems to confirm his intended historic visit to south korea is still a long track it's a prospect that divides people here including thousands of north korean defectors. rehearsing for an end of year concert pianist kim plays a piece of music that is popular in both the north and south. when he defected sixteen years ago he couldn't have imagined the north korean leader might one day visit the south. or i got excited made me think if he comes the day that i return home i may come sooner. but now i think one of the reasons for his visit is to sustain his regime so i don't think we're going to see any unification. the mood

of optimism was also template when it came to relations with the us kim says he wants to meet with president donald trump again but had this warning. if the united states continues to break its promises and misjudges our patience by unilaterally demanding certain things and pushes ahead with sanctions and pressure against our republic then we have to seek another way to protect our country's sovereignty and interest under stablished p. stability on the korean peninsula. twenty nineteen clearly holds the prospect of further improvements in relations but with the ever present risk of the process stalling or even going in reverse public ride out as there are so. on this al-jazeera news hour including evidence of john this coming under attack during the elections in bangladesh. and why a trendy new york hotspot will have to close its doors after more than forty years . and after an eighteen month dating back one player is back in the english

premier league peter will have the details coming out. now a book written by two turkish journalists sheds new light on the planning of the matter jamal khashoggi it includes details about the preparations by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing the book also contains previously pictures of the same agents outside the residence with reportedly used to carry. the entire team didn't go to the consulates about five of them went directly to the consul's house to prepare and receive the backs the pictures confirm this fact. turkey wants to investigate this properly it happened on diplomatic grounds and

that means a forceful entry to investigate would create a crisis for turkey and even if evidence were to be found it would be considered illegal on current does not want that. jan this is being remembered during rainy new year's celebrations in new york organizers wanted to highlight how treacherous twenty eighteen had been for members of the media as they hope for a better year ahead game. it's one of the focal points of year celebrations around the world this year joining the york's mayor bill de blasio at midnight for the traditional over in the crystal ball in times square several prominent journalists had an event that was not just about welcoming two thousand and nineteen but also recognizing how dangerous two thousand and eighteen was for the profession exists in the south facing jail amy and mom all for the people who are pretty shocked by all of the

journal a bang those recognized was the committee to protect journalists an organization that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists around the world . they say two hundred fifty one journalists were imprisoned during two thousand and eighteen but another fifty three journalists were killed in target of the attacks including washington post columnist jamal khashoggi who was murdered and dismembered by saudi government agents soon after he entered saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul he was especially in the thoughts of those at times square you know it's been a pretty tough year i think that's one of the reasons that we're the honoree journalists around the world and in this country as well have struggled and i want to see a new year a year in which journalists are able to work more freely without threats and do their political work independently so prominent have attacks on the media ban in

two thousand and eighteen that time magazine named khashoggi as one of its persons of the year we didn't do anything wrong the others all journalists including two reuters reporters jailed in me and maher for reporting on atrocities against the rohingya and staff at a local us newspaper in maryland who survived a mass shooting that claimed the lives of five of their colleagues you are the enemy of the people just sit down please trumps frequent attacks on the media have also come under the spotlight in october the committee to protect journalists called on president trump to dial back the rhetoric this after a trump supporter from florida sent more than a dozen bombs to critics of the president two of which went to the c.n.n. offices here in new york there's been a lot of hostility towards the press to me you think that nationally for new year's eve to celebrate things if you got a low sleep times here is named after

a newspaper and i think this is a tie they say like the importance of freedom in the present what is it journalism that's celebrate when writing for new years and say that's had twenty nine hundred eighty a year when you first. like in journalism. as a ball dropped in times square so the pressure but also remember all the journalists present wouldn't get a chance to see it because of the truth telling reporters in which the target peoples are go to see. their doctors in gaza and in the occupied west bank say they're fighting antibiotic resistant superbugs at an alarming rate they say israel's blockade has hurt an already disadvantaged health care system that lacks equipment and sees severe overcrowding adding shortages of basic candy about it will mean many patients don't get proper treatment and limitations of water power

and fuel for generators is lowering basic hygiene standards making it far easier for drug resistant infections to spread and according to the world health organization all the super bugs that pose the greatest threat have been reported in palestine. taliban fighters have killed at least twenty one afghan security forces in multiple attacks overnight security posts in the sa a pull province were targeted twenty six others were injured. bangladeshis prime minister has dismissed calls for a new variant after winning office for a third consecutive term shake a scene is a league party won almost all of the three hundred parliamentary seats concessive contested in sunday's general election her party's help hour for more than a decade but the opposition has labelled the result farcical accusing the government a very triggering election commission has rejected the opposition's calls for a new election. well the been allegations of attacks on journalists during this

recently concluded election al-jazeera has time to challenge as in speaking to a veteran journalist who says he was. attempting to cover sunday's. conflict is a senior political reporter who works for a big mali language newspaper. says he was attacked while trying to fill near a polling station on election day had to be hospitalized and almost lost his eyesight. the group of millions rushed towards me while i was filming started beating me and snatched my mobile phone away there were seven or eight of them it was impossible for me to resist them i started bleeding and at some stage i became senseless. the threat of violence was not the only thing that made it difficult for journalists to cover voting on sunday restrictive election commission

rules created a sense of fear and anxiety about reporting in general according to come out a level. one or two measures were relaxed later like travelling by motorbikes and entering the polling centers but the original rules and guidelines issued by the election commission made journalists anxious about their safety. is concerned about his safety but determined to continue his work as a journalist despite the attack. this is the first time in my media career despite identifying myself as a journalist and also having my press card on me that i was still attacked i have to carry on my work with a degree of fear this is the fact there is no denying it. all political parties have denied any involvement in attacks on the press. daca. in hong kong protocol crecy rally on the first day of the year is pretty much an annual event but this year activists are saying they're facing an unprecedented to

montreux in the government organized told to prevent protesters from displaying pro independence symbols at government head courses the civil human rights front said it will comply but describe the demand as a threat to freedom of expression given the polymers at the protests in hong kong and sent us this update. this march happens every year but this year there seems to be more of an urgency that ever according to protesters they say it caps off a year on presidential moves again the hong kong freedom of expression on concert taught to me and its human rights if we don't care about you just perhaps faulty just part of the same let's make them trying to. do it because it's the face that i feel i wouldn't want to be the person i could be in one day like today but you know what did you let the world you know this time lost the fight for democracy and in my case uprising try to believe we still need to come out here to. do things for

the right color to show the future generations that we have tried even if we fail we're not going to fail and to hong kong it's like it's a boat it's sinking fast behind me in the wrong wrong wrong way independents group that been bad for marching to the government headquarters so instead they're going to veer off from the rest of the protestors to the hong kong police headquarters that's just about one hundred meters away from this position where they used to be a political group but in twenty eight locked out there were banned from running from office and from even exists there's a political fallout a lot boycotting goldstone on the closure to see that only hope. independence can secure true democracy and freedom of speech for hong kong this way hong kong people can be our own masters god. and they are bound to get that now they are in defiance protesters here say they want to the right to freedom of expression they want more

accountability and they want real democracy but not the border they want others to be afraid. at least five people have been killed and dozens of others are still missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide in indonesia the mud buried thirty houses in the village of sin arrest me in west java seasonal rains of course several landslides and widespread flooding in recent days british police say they're treating a stabbing attack in manchester in the north of the country as a terrorist incident three people were injured at one of the city's railway stations on new year's eve the police are questioning a suspect in searching an address in manchester. rescue workers in russia have found an eleven month old baby girl alive in the rubble of a collapse apartment block the incident was taken to hospital the building was brought down by a gas explosion which killed at least seven people in the city east of moscow on

monday rescuers are working in subzero temperatures as they search for thirty six people who are still missing. a forty one year old new york city institution is about to close its doors for good but not by choice the cornelia street cafe is the latest victim of rising rents in greenwich village that's a neighborhood the business helped to make trendy christian salumi has a story. this night out at the legendary cornelia street cafe is bittersweet for patrons and performers alike. the artists han voted one of the ten best places to hear jazz in the world is closing its doors after forty one years eliminating a venue that has fostered countless poets and performers as well as musicians. this will be. irreplaceable. both for the people who

have performed here the stage the been given to us and for the community it's it's a catastrophe on a robin hirsch says even with an award winning restaurant and multiple nightly performances he can no longer afford the rent three of us who were all artists opened a little one room cafe. because we were. all kinds of other artists . just sort of a crew. but the cap is greenwich village neighborhood has changed a lot since then. but the cornelia street cafe opened in one nine hundred seventy seven the ranch was four hundred fifty dollars a month now it is a staggering thirty three thousand dollars in the village is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the country thanks in part to the very artists who

helped make it trendy and are now being pushed out. these days it's primarily high end boutiques and chain stores that can afford to be here i like to call it the mauling of manhattan because every store that was in suburbia that i ran away from when i moved here four years ago now they followed me here they're on my block her she blamed societal changes as well. the contemporary relationship is not amongst people and some with you and your screen and if you go to starbucks that's what you see and so it's the final curtain for cornelia street and the end of an era for the village art scene kristen salumi al jazeera new york. already it's time for the weather now rob is here and he's taking us to canada yes which should be reliably frozen in the winter but like most weather in the world it's not anymore but however let me take you to toronto where it is cold enough for this some really aside now this doesn't this huge thing and i don't our strength there or enjoying

it is when to the average temperature but plus two by day however there's a huge puddle of water on top of this is warmer than you might expect in complete contrast from last year which was a really cold one you know it is in fact the east coast of the u.s. and canada have been recently this is a deflating from the rain that slow moving front in this will have happened in both tennessee and kentucky not a huge amount but it's already wet and that's the frontal system you think should be so we sweeping out of the way not necessary now there is cold air out is just come back in again into the dakotas from the middle of canada these are temperatures by day minus fourteen but it wasn't like that so only just as the missouri that runs up through north dakota starts to freeze us arctic sea smart rather when the water freezes on top but it's still really couldn't still flowing you tend to get these ice jams which introduces flooding in general area not to good thing and not something you normally expect however that's we said at the moment this cold you want expect to then push down behind across the great lakes it

won't do that because the whole motion is stopped fausta rain returns to mississippi valley and the appalachians it warms up or is currently very cold marty . thank you still to come here on the al-jazeera news internet access is shut down in the democratic republic of congo counted following that tense presidential election. the. president could have an impact on the global stage. and launches a rocket into the new year will have all the details in simple. short films of hope and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds.

selects. and. on the. 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 the 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 earth.

tartarus take a look at the top stories here on the out of their news. president trump says the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria will now happen more slowly this is track from his abrupt announcement last month that all two thousand american troops will be brought home immediately after what he called a victory over i saw. a new book of his fresh details about how saudi a protest planned the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the book contains previously unseen pictures of the same agents outside the south saudi consulate residence with bags reportedly used to carry remains. the north korean leader kim jong un says he's willing to meet u.s. president donald trump at any time in his me a message he also warned the pyongyang may sink what he called

a new path if washington doesn't keep its promises. now they're being rest of cooperation between libya's rival governments after years of conflict and division this follows several international attempts to bring peace as mahmud up to one hundred reports from tripoli. police officers from libya's two rival governments met for the first time in the eastern city of bani. after four years of political impasse officers working on the and back to tripoli government set with others affiliated with the tobruk based parliament the interior ministry in the capital tripoli says the move is to unify security measures and maintain in only libyan to tory's the officers discussed ways to link their security databases and coordinate a national comprehensive investigative system. the meeting comes after a recent spate of attacks that targeted state facilities in tripoli behind national

election commission in may the national oil corporation in september and the foreign ministry in december. civil people were killed and others wounded the three buildings were c.v.a. really damaged analysts believe the meeting game is their right to stab to bring the two sides together. and they had to edit this decision was made after pressure from the international community on the local stakeholders of the libyan crisis the pressure from the un security council to unify libya's institutions was also sustained by the paris and polar move meetings that many people are hopeful the officers meeting could bring change since the rivals met face to face inside libya with no mediators however observers say it won't be effective alist some armed groups are contained and their arms confiscated but this move is similar to efforts

by egyptian army generals to unite raver libyan military institutions for the last two years cairo has hosted meetings between military officers from the tripoli government and those who support the war lord khalifa haftar but libya's armed forces are still divided have those forces control the east of libya and bad government controls the west but would have to his recent deployment of fighters to take control of certain areas in the south and central regions many down with the warring sides will find peace. tripoli. in a few days provisional results from the democratic republic of congo's election the jews will be released in an apparent effort to stop speculation about the outcome the internet has been shut down several candidates have claimed to be in the lead but they're now silent for sunday's vote. rigging and

delays more now from catherine soy a correspondent in kinshasa. we've not seen any government statement about this internet shutdown but we're being told that part of the reason why it happening is because of all this. being said online by people we have spoken to an official of amnesty international who say that this is an abuse of the rights of the people are we expecting preliminary results to be announced and it's been quite quiet particularly in the capital kinshasa where i am people waiting for those results but several presidential candidate at least the main ones are saying that they're confident that he the election is fair and they're going to remain. the ruling price. saying well. i held a press conference on monday and that. they're indicating that by you in the lead i

did speak with our presidential candidate and he said that in a fair election there is no way the ruling party. and we are in the clear what are you going to do what are you going to structure your supporters to do and he said that this will be a problem case and to the people in this is a big concern to many that i've been talking to they say that the election contest and potentially there could be violence and they're worried about that. so dan's president omar al bashir has ordered a commission of inquiry into nationwide protests that began almost two weeks ago it will look at how police responded to the demonstrations which have killed at least nineteen people and it comes as security forces again use tear gas and live fire to disperse crowds in the capital cults dozens of protesters were arrested there calling on the president to step down to end his twenty nine year rule despite his promises to implement economic reforms. but how to get media we

shall enter into a new era where unity is reinforced and harmony is maintained in the whole country all with the aim to face the challenges and threats hovering above our head and here i renew the call to be honorable sudanese people in and outside of sudan to come together and stand united to parade on the good and not the evil we will join hands to denounce violence steer away from wars to engage in dialogue is the only means to resolve differences the german chancellor angela merkel says her country will keep pushing for global solutions to challenges like climate change and migration in twenty nine hundred she spent a significant part of her new annual new year's address highlighting the importance of international cooperation and she also referenced her party's political losses this year. leave them at the given dear fellow citizens a year with ups and downs and lies behind us with happy and sad moments each of us

will associate it with something very personal tonight i am thinking in particular of the extremely difficult political year that is coming to an end today. and it from six democracy lives from change and while subject to the times we build almost our previous us has left us and shaped things in the present for those who come asuras my conviction guides me in this i will only muster the challenges of our time if we stand united and what together with others across borders. that brazil's new president is due to be sworn in later today tuesday j a both a not a is a divisive figure whose praise the country's policies military leaders john holeman looks at what his presidency could mean for the rest of the world. this covers more than half of brazil yemen simmering forest it's known as the. storing billions of

tons of the planet's carbon dioxide. it was already being cut but the now brazil's incoming president wants to see it opened up to the business. people believe. if we need to we're going to propose democratically the congress change the laws of the environmental policies don't disrupt brazil's development. it's not just the environment john abell sinatra's election is part of a new global wave of populist conservative leaders. and that the victory of balsa narrow as a victory for the ultra right which is beginning to be a real force in the world brazil is very strategic one of the most important countries in latin america it has this relationship now with the u.s. and other countries like austria turkey and the philippines oh. but the relationship will sinatra's most interested in is with this man they share a love of social media and the distrust of the press will sinatra's even been

nicknamed the trumpet the tropics between them they now rule over the two largest economies in the americas it's an abrupt about face from the left this governments of brazil's recent past history. looks pretty quiet now but it felt some of the biggest tremors of change hundreds of thousands of people marched against a corruption scandal during gulf brazil's political class that together with problems with the economy and specially crime many people fed up and ready to take a chance on an absolute outlier diable so not all. analysts say there's danger he could eventually have to another global trend strongmen undermining democracies he has a fondness for brazil's authoritarian past well so well i'm in favor of torture and the people are in favor of that. that doesn't lose him points for many here who see it is just plain speaking they'll judge him instead on how he acts to tackle

brazil's many problems john homan. sao paolo. and keeper is celebrating sixty years since the victory of fidel castro's revolution and inspired and guided left wing governments are out the region and beyond that new shrine and looks at the influence that kiba had and perhaps il has in latin america. the bearded ones as they were called road into heaven or on the first of january nine hundred fifty nine on a wave of optimism after overthrowing the repressive regime it was a new dawn and many didn't expect them to survive long especially as the united states actively try to undermine fidel castro's government most notably back in the failed one nine hundred sixty one bay of pigs invasion and imposing an economic blockade survives to this day. stella colonial was a friend of castro's. then meaning of. the one nine hundred fifty nine

revolution was a historic continuation of the liberation wars the wars of independence cubans have always been fighting against spanish colonialism and then against us interference. by fidel and his brother role and now. has constantly adapted to changing circumstances embracing help from the soviet union then turning to tourism and special measures in the soviet union collapsed and now allowing the growth of private enterprise albeit cautiously reluctantly we've made progress i have to say. but where a long way from you know accepting the fog that we need we actually have to do a lot of different things to nurture the private sector that's also a positive not only for the economy. but also for the lives of majority over cuban people. about thirteen percent of the workforce is gone private often does

a low paid state sector jobs to work in the more lucrative tourist industry and industry selling visions of a socialist dream up to this man died in bolivia in one nine hundred sixty seven trying to spread cuba's brand of socialism throughout latin america or though he felt his influence is still felt if not at government level that trade trade union and social movements throughout the region and of course in cuba are itself the country the arkansas adopted as his home cubans will vote on the referendum in february on the kind of socialism they'd like to see in a revised constitution perhaps more market reforms and increase foreign investment . something that well i'd like to know what i question is what kind of socialism are we talking about i consider myself a socialist but doesn't mean it can be imposed to cause. situational level on the whole world the people who run the country today may have a different interpretation of socialism tomorrow and saying something is not

socialist could be enough to restrict someone's constitutional rights its allies in the region the disappearing brazil for instance sending cuban medics home. drying up the. sixty years on still burns bright that they'll continue to defy the odds and survive and thrive. on the. winning team a given a prestigious national by their president peter will be here to tell you all about it in sport. as it breaks. the political. criticism. with detailed coverage only. to make explicit the cuba's communist party will remain as the only. from around the world the idea of an armed.

opposition to the occupation is gaining support moving away from diplomatic negotiations.