as well or potential room for cooperation on security and you know maybe it's possible that they might be able to increase trade although you know when it comes down to specifics the officials on both sides of this point i think it's mostly goodwill they haven't really figured out what exactly the. new friendship is going to look like although in their defense you know it's still it's still the first day brian winter speaking to us there live from new york thanks for your insights brian thank you u.s. border agents have fired tear gas at migrants to stop them crossing the mexican border a tirana women and children were among the one hundred fifty migrants trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them there's been a new debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody. in tijuana money can you tell us about where you are now and why so many people tried crossing that border last night. we're just

south of the u.s. border into one of this is actually a popular spot where people will cross over to the united states illegally we've heard rumors the last few days that the migrants were staying at a local shelter here in the want to who'd been there for over a month now and getting tired of saying there we're going to cross over this fence all at once on new year's eve and in fact we did see last night somewhere between one hundred and one hundred fifty individuals that were attempting to cross that was a large border patrol presence here a lot of the groups that we saw last night were women and children but again somewhere around one hundred or one hundred fifty individuals groups of hondurans and salvadorans who later split up at one point border patrol agents deployed tear gas on one group of asylum seekers who promptly picked up the tear gas canister and tossed it back over the fence what we saw later on in the evening was just smaller

groups of that one hundred or one hundred fifty individuals walking up and down the border wall looking for a place where they might be able to cross but as far as we could tell we didn't see anyone we haven't heard reports of anyone who was actually able to cross over last night earlier before this broadcast we did see one woman and her son that was being taken away by border patrol but we don't know whether or not she was part of that that larger group that's staying in the shelters here and see want to and again we can't confirm whether or not anyone actually was able to make it across the border last night and then what do you hearing now about what happens next and then visit this so-called caravan. well we have to keep in mind that there is anywhere between two thousand and five thousand migrants that are staying and want to right now central american asylum seekers that started arriving in november and have been sort of stuck here want to in limbo and all of them have different ideas they have different plans about what they want to do while they're in to you want to some of

the moves told us that they want to stay for as long as it takes till their number is called so that they can plead their asylum cases to border officials others have been granted work visas by the mexican government and some of even found jobs here or to other cities in mexico but then those there's others who have said that they want to make it across the border by any means as soon as possible and of course we did see that play out last night with that group of one hundred to one hundred fifty people who tried to jump over the fence only to be met with that heavy border police presence and and as far as we can tell they will try again in the future even though we don't know when that might be. here is not speaking to us from the mexican border thanks tony. plenty more ahead on the news hour including a new book reveals the planning behind the matter of jamal khashoggi in turkey. as cuba marks sixty years since the revolution the country prepares to vote on constitutional reforms. and roger federer and serena williams do battle on the

tennis court the action from switzerland hoppen cup win over the u.s. in sports. donald trump says the u.s. won't twist straw from syria and in a hurry after coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures in his republican party last month the u.s. president suddenly announced that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately following what he described as their victory over eisel despite the withdrawal from syria u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is says washington remains committed to its goals in the region the decision was made in syria. changes everything that this administration is working on once that is. continues for russia and middle east. protection of israel continues in the same way it did or that was

made meanwhile the war between syrian president bashar assad and rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase it province is the last remaining opposition enclave people there are bracing for a government offensive as assad tries to bring all of syria under his control mama doe reports from the turkey syrian border. this is very hot town in mosul serious in the province it libya's home to three million people who since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively trumped it is serious last remaining a position on controlled by a celtic assortment of rebels. syrian president bashar al assad strengthened in recent months by support from powerful allies and that we opening up their embassies in damascus by some arab countries is vowing to launch an invasion it live with its cinder block thomson villages could soon be subject to rockets bottle

bombs and even class the pumps. the rebels are putting more debris face while. today we are all gathered here and ready to fight until the last drop of our blood we are the songs of this territory and we know it very well and so do the people displaced from all over syria who are now living in this small geographic area which is just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on. in the middle of lips of rolling olive groves the displaced live in some of the most desperate conditions possible with no proper housing they are the must see of the elements. i mean. we lack everything there is no food no money we have nothing that winter and floods are making life even more difficult when it gets a little windy our tents just fly away. humanitarian workers warn

a full assault on it live could spark a refugee crisis of historic proportions driving millions of people into turkey and europe yet this theater of war is never locking in action in another corner of milf in syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march. they're headed for the kurdish held city of members in support of the plan defensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territories syria that it holds sway over turkey considers the kurdish y p d fighters who control men beach terrorists. turkey's main problems with groups who considers terrorists finding a foothold in territory to administer inside syria i'm talking of the so-called terror corridor the p y g m p y d kurdish organizations but there is also the issue of syrian refugees turkey believes there is a great need to end the conflict in syria so the refugees can return the moment of

a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria has opened the gates crumble by regional powers such as turkey and iran aggressively pursue their interest is. frilling i'm wondering why the united states congress why preview for items of course a deal with the syrian regime uninvite that it forces them against the problem talk itself without football now when cut is held territory from syria remains the missing plug in assad's want to reclaim the whole of syria is just the mark of time . before you can see the pope from the mohamed atta was there because the. gunman have killed at least thirty seven herders in central mali the attack on the villages in the mop the region was carried out by men believed to be hunters according to a government statement it's the latest in a space of violent incidents between hunters and farmers mainly over access to land

and water after a voyage lasting more than a decade and nasa probe has performed the most distant flyby in the history of space exploration the new horizon spacecraft successfully observed to the ultimate space rock the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humans how does your caster has more. its name means a place beyond the known world and ultimate tooley shown in this artist's rendering is just that an object most likely a rock more than six and a half billion kilometers from the sun because it's so far from the sun and the sunlight is so weak out there temperatures are down near absolute zero and as a result of that chemical reactions. are socially frozen. so the object is in such a deep freeze that it's perfectly preserved from its original formation essentially a dinosaur from the beginning of our solar system frozen in time scientists didn't

even know it existed until the hubble space telescope spotted ultimate hooley four and a half years ago it's beyond pluto in the kiper belt at the edge of our solar system until now ultimate tool e. has been seen as nothing but a speck of light shaped like a long dated potato. it's taken nasa as new horizons spacecraft nearly thirteen years to get this close within thirty five hundred kilometers of the object. and though the fly over happened at exactly five thirty three g.m.t. the scientific team that celebrated the moment like a second new year at the applied physics lab of johns hopkins university has to wait longer before the big payoff of high resolution photos and data is delivered those signals are now traversing space and will begin arriving in the next few days

everything that we're going to learn about ultimate from its composition to its geology to how it was originally a symbol whether has satellites and atmosphere of those kinds of things are going to teach us about the original formation conditions of objects in the solar system tuesday morning brought a promising sign we have helped the spacecraft we just cutler's the most distant site. a phone home message from the new horizon to tell scientists to successfully survive the fly by. to help he says in the wait here's the mission's own theme music written by astrophysicist and new horizons team member brian may also be the lead guitarist of the band queen. is ultimately one long rock or two that are touching does it have ice or craters the answers will be clues to understanding the origins of our solar system. castro

al-jazeera washington. well negron battles as a senior writer for space dot com an online publication she joins us live on skype from new york meghan tell us about ultimate just how significant is this mission and how much can this rock tell us about how our solar system was formed. sure so thanks for having me and this mission is really exciting so you probably heard about its twenty fifteen fly by of pluto which in enough itself was an incredible accomplishment it turned fuzzy dots in the sky into real world with real geology and. shortly after that five i was completed they realized that they could actually do it again with this new object that's even farther out it's four billion miles away from earth in the hyper bell which is the same sort of general region as pluto but further away and this object is really tiny it was literally just the speck in the hubble space telescope field of view it was it wasn't even identified until

after new horizons has launched so it's really just sort of piggybacking on what was already an incredible mission and bringing more new science about this really distant cold outer reaches of the solar system which is also a really good way to look back at how the solar system formed and what it was like in those early days because there's not a whole lot go a lot out there in some way. so meghan tell me a bit more about the rocket self why is it that this particular op can reveal so much about the formation of the cell a system. sure well it's not this particular rock so much of like literally at the rock out there we just don't have a lot of data about objects in the paper belt so getting anything is really great for science so we don't know a whole lot about this object right now we don't even know if it's one object or a couple of objects sort of stuck together and floating together so i think i can't

really answer your question except stay to did wait to hear what the why by teachers show and meghan i also want to ask you about the new horizons days and that we're expecting to get i mean as i understand it we've had a message to say that the new horizon has is has completed a mission and when will we actually get all the day set and what might that days end up like. stories so this is where you have to be really patient so basically right now we have an early image from the approach and we have confirmation that the spacecraft was operating properly during the five by and all of that but the problem is the spacecraft is now so far away that it takes us six hours to get information back and it's working on a transmitter that uses a quarter of the power of a standard light bulb so it sends back data really really slowly and that it has to cross a really far distance to get back to scientists so we're actually not going to have

all of the information from this fly by until about twenty months from now almost two years from now because it takes so long to get all that information back so it's really going to be an ongoing process they're expecting to have much clearer images of the object itself tomorrow and then sort of what comes when will be all up to the scientists and how they get sent out the beta meghan bothwell of speaking to us the about this very exciting discovery from new york thanks so much megan thank you. still ahead on al jazeera. western leaders appeal to the congolese government to restore internet access after elections that. fast riots the final castle for one of new york's most famous jazz. and a ha don't want as the rockets into the new year they will have all the sports coming up.

howlers a new year was seen in underwriting for many places in the east including new york flooding happened in kentucky is also a result of this frontal system which the south is pretty mild now it's sweeping out of the way and it remains a cloudy system temp has come down to single figures new york or at fall and the real cold air is up behind it is if anything leaking away as bit of a mild spell of weather here again is the emphasis of this was coming from the science really and the lack of driving is that arctic cold air from canada but evening kanda winnipeg's is up to zero that really is quite hard for this time the obviously the pacific is feeding loads of rain into washington state and then b.c. with snow on the mountains the skiers will love it but the rain returns to the southern states but just in the panhandle of texas otherwise this is got flooding

potential written over every once more but sense of all this it's all gone quiet as a gentle steady breeze occasional light showers and that's front to b.'s and of course light rain fairly often in the jurors course mullen down towards costa rica but otherwise this is a quiet time of the year although you are prone to the when this billie's and as i said duress. thanks love to make loans to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day and it is an urgent national city that it be officially requested. of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera.

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a reminder of our top stories this hour brazil's new far right president. has been sworn in during a ceremony in the capital brasilia and his first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. u.s. border agents have fired tear gas at migrants to stop them crossing the mexican border adhir want to women and children were among the hundred fifty migrants trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them. now says new horizons spacecraft has undertaken a successful fly by of a rock a six and a half million kilometers from the rock is said to be the oldest cosmic body ever explored by mankind. cuba is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its communist revolution led by fidel castro the ceremony includes a speech by fidel's brother raul who stepped down as president last year ending his family's six decade rule fidel castro inspired and guided leftwing movements

throughout the region since the one nine hundred fifty s. but now the left is out of power in most of that in america and cuba itself is hesitantly opening the door to private enterprise. has more on cuba's influence. would be a good one as they will call. her on the first of january nine hundred fifty nine although we've got to be off to overthrowing the repressive but to reach it was a new dawn many didn't expect them to survive long especially as united states actively try to undermine fidel castro's government. back in the failed one nine hundred sixty one bay of pigs invasion and imposing an economic blockade survives to this day still it was a friend of castro's. the need 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.

led by fidel and his brother old and now miguel. 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 and we actually have to do a lot of different things to nurture the private sector because that's also a positive not only for the economy. but also for the lives of a majority over to. zero. about thirteen percent of the workforce has gone private off the desert in 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 what 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 a constitutional level on the whole world the people who run the country today may have a different. repartition 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 then to

sweden oil drying up but cuba says it socialist flame sixty years on still burns bright that they'll continue to defy the odds and survive and thrive that al-jazeera. a book released by two turkish reporters is shedding new light on the matter of saudi journalists. it includes details about the preparation of made by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing in istanbul in october sin and cos you know it has the latest. diplomatic up prosti the dark secrets of the jim murder the title of the first book to be written on the murder of saudi journalist a mouthful shuji the authors conducted a series of interviews a turkish officials to find out what happened before and after the journalists killing going to stumble nearly three months ago. the book stays the case is the first of its kind among secret service assess the nation's worldwide people we've

talked in istanbul said they want to know more about what happened it's really good rather than that we're waiting for a result whoever is responsible for this murder must be brought to justice because it happened in our country. investigative journalist fairhope in new wrote the book with documents and footage gathered by his colleagues from turkey sabbat daily newspaper question goodling the primary sources told us that the hit squad had discussed the plan one hour before her show she was killed first they'd offered to take him to riyadh and if he doesn't accept they'd kill him they knew he wouldn't accept the plan to wrap his body parts in plastic bags then carried out in luggage this new video was released by the team behind the book on monday it shows senior saudi agent's name does a tiger team sent to kill has to come so late unloading luggage and bags from a win and taking them inside the consul general residence just a few hundred meters from the crime scene the others have concluded remains are likely still there inside a well saudi arabia had allowed turkish office also take

a sample from the well but consistent at night requests to empty it and conduct the search the book reveals more interesting details for instance on saudi foreign sick experts solid how to break. who is set to have dismembered hushes body after his killing and how often our using an autopsy saw to breach a douche to a credible sources are claiming that begun his family enjoyed a villa and pool in jeddah now far from riyadh i don't think the saudis would punish such committed servants because i don't think they have many or sources also confirmed that one of the hit men. died in a suspicious car accident in saudi arabia maybe he was leaning toward talking to the author sources say the crime was committed in istanbul because the saudis want to assure turkey is no longer safe for points of corrupt governments in order to finish the investigation and file possible indictments it is necessary to know the location of question remains many people here in turkey strongly believe this

diplomatic residence in istanbul that long to saudi consul general is aware the journalists remains were brought turkish authorities now how the right to ask for another search of the compound request that is likely to be denied by saudi arabia . al-jazeera istanbul. south africa's government is introducing a minimum wage ahead of this year's general elections presidency will run a poser is promising millions of workers better pay as he seeks to increase his voter base in rural areas the bill has been criticized by opposition parties who say it was rushed through parliament critics say it could lead to increased unemployment as some business owners won't be able to afford to pay the minimum the minimum wage of one dollar forty cents an hour pressure is mounting on sudan's president omar al bashir to resolve a growing political crisis opposition parties have joined calls for him to step down following weeks of antigovernment protests and one party says it's withdrawing

from cabinet him or morgan has more from the capital khartoum. thousands have been demonstrating in sudan demanding president almighty bashir step down now twenty two different opposition parties are also calling on the president to resign. the government needs to end its real and step times that we need to form a provisional council and a transitional government that will run this new stage to prepare us for the new elections. the opposition groups say they will submit a memo with their demands to the president on wednesday in a further set back for the government and the opposition party has announced it's withdrawing from the cabinet will. we realize the consequences of the current events and we are proud of our historic stand being in the thick of it therefore we decided within our political bureau to withdraw any representation we have in any official post. the crisis started two weeks ago with protest in the city of overbred shortages and rising prices that's going to spread to other parts

of the country and turned into demonstrations calling on president and bashir to end his twenty nine year rule amnesty international says at least thirty seven people have been killed as police responded with tear gas and live ammunition the president has promised to cut costs and improve economy but that has not stopped the protests despite the growing calls formerly bashir and his ruling party to step down the president seems determined to continue his term until elections scheduled for twenty twenty elections that he's not eligible to stand in unless a dance constitution is amend it. more demonstrations are planned in the coming days but some analysts see that likely won't change the president's position. the continuation of protests institution including khartoum doesn't mean it's a people's revolution yet there are many factors there are needed to make this a popular revolution and the sudanese president knows that this time there are factors missing to make demands that he steps down effective so things can change

down the road. may not force the president to resign like the opposition wants but with more protests planned and a defined president dancer to head may not be easy people morgan al-jazeera. well provisional results from the democratic republic of congo's contentious election are due in a few days internet access has been cut off in an attempt to stop speculation about the outcome several candidates had claimed to be in the need but have since gone largely silent sunday's vote was hampered by violence complaints a vote and delays catherine so it has more from. we've not seen any government statement about this internet shutdown but will be part of the reason why it happening is because of all this. being said on my people we have. a national. and. people are we expecting preliminary

results to be announced and it's been quite quiet. where i am people. who called. presidential candidates. are saying that they're confident that he the election is. going to remain. well. i held a press conference on monday and. they're indicating that. it's because our president did and he stated that in a fair election there is no way the ruling party. should dari and we now offer if he's declared we know what are you going to do what are you going to structure your supporters to do and he said that this will be a provocation to the people in this is a beacon fans who maybe that i've been talking to they say that the selection is contested and potentially there could be violence and they're worried about that.

text giants in france now have to pay more tax the so-called gas attacks named after google apple facebook and amazon is to ensure global digital firms pay their fair share the measure is expected to raise around five hundred seventy million dollars for france in twenty nineteen the french government had been pushing for an e.u. wide levy but failed to get the required support earlier we spoke to technologist and balcon he says it won't financially hurt giant tech companies like facebook to pay more taxes. this really all comes down to the balance of power between governments and these huge tech companies multinational companies who has more power these days and i think that remains to be seen i personally think that tech companies are currently looking stronger so it would be in the interests of the other states to stick together so that they can exercise some more power over the

small to nationals we're talking about companies that pay maybe eighty percent tax where other companies pay twenty three percent and even if you look at the tax that france is proposing they're looking to make about five hundred million euros this year and if you think about the revenue the earnings just in the last quarter just in the last three quarter three of two thousand and eighteen of just facebook they made fourteen billion dollars so that's about four point five billion a month if you break it down to days that's about one hundred fifty million or so at day so if facebook was to pay the end hired c. of the tax that france wants to sue to levy. that would take about four days of earnings right now so we're not really talking about anything that's going to make a huge dent but this is a power play so really it again remains to be seen where the actual power lies here and i think it's in our interests as individuals and citizens that our

democratically elected governments can keep these multinational tech companies and check rescue is in russia have found an eleven month old baby boy alive and the rubble of a collapsed apartment block the infant survived that he al is in fact the right temperature in this the building was brought down by a gas explosion which count at least nine people in a city east of moscow on monday rescuers are looking for another thirty two people who are still nothing. 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 and the once the humean neighborhood of greenwich village kristen city me has the story. this night out at the legendary cornelia street cafe is bittersweet for patrons and performers alike.