well on tuesday taiwan's president sighing white insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain south roll. to this highway i want to appeal to china that it must admit to the reality of taiwan's existence a must respect our twenty three million peoples insistence on freedom and democracy must deal with our differences in a peaceful way as equals and it must be the government or public agencies that happen authorized by the government to sit down and talk with us. a group of british politicians and international law is has to visit detained activists inside to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied legal representation rights groups have raised concerns about the detentions in the kingdom they say at least ten women were arrested in may including some who campaigned for the right to drive the rights groups say seven men are also being held in connection with the human rights for the the tragedy it was obviously

a total disaster for saudi arabia and it would seem that the responsible people who are responsible for the operation were also responsible for the detention of these saudi arabian women's rights activists at exactly the same time that saudi arabian women were getting the right to drive a major step for their own personal freedom and freedom from the so-called guardian laws in a way that was a was a huge step. internationally and rightly paraded to such and then in parallel these people being locked up. still ahead on al-jazeera trapped in syria's war winds down the last remaining opposition and pay for a sense for a final battle with government forces last western leaders appealed to the congress government to restore internet access and set.

hello as the new year was seen in under a rain from many places in the east including new york flooding happened in kentucky is all a result of this frontal system which the south has pretty mild now it's sweeping out of the way now it remains a cloudy system temps conduct a single think is 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 down from canada but evening kanda winnipeg's is up to zero that really is quite high 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 or 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 of these and of course light rain very often in the jurors course modern 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. short films of hope.

well you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories this hour president'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 to stop people crossing the mexican border wanna women and children were among those trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them. and president xi jinping says no one can change the fact that taiwan is part of china this is part

of his first major speech addressing what beijing considers a breakaway province on tuesday taiwan's president citing one insisted the island wants to maintain self rule. at the u.s. secretary of state has sought to ease concerns over the withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria the trump administration has come under pressure from allies and senior republican since the president suddenly announced the pull out last month but michael says washington remains committed to its goals in the region the decision person made in syria is in no way changes anything that this administration is working i've long said israel. continues our efforts to care really pressured to do you and our commitment to middle east ability and the protection of israel continues in the same way it did or the decision was made. meanwhile the war between credit president bashar al assad and syrian rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase adlib 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 mahmoud idol reports some guys the turkey syria border. this is ari how town in north of syria said the promise it libya is home to three million people who since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively troubled 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 bombs. that 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 are now living in this small geographic area which is just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on what to me are. in the middle of it leaps 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 dance just fly away. humanitarian workers want 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

north and syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march. they're headed for the kurdish held city of men beach in support of a planned offensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territory in syria that it holds sway over turkey considers the kurdish y p d fighters who control members terrorists. turkey's main problem is 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 kumble by regional powers such as turkey and iran to aggressively pursue their interest in the city feeling abandoned by the

united states congress why premier fighters of cotton deal with the syrian rebellion and invited its forces to protect them against the planned talk it's often without football now when cut is held territory in all from syria remains the missing plank in assad's plan to reclaim the whole of syria it's just a matter of time. before he conses uptimes from the mohamed atta was it or doesn't. internet services in the democratic republic of congo are expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday and adviser to president joseph kabila says access was shut down to stop people speculating about the outcome of the vote several candidates had claimed to be in the lead in the election to choose kabila successor the poll was marred by violent complaints of vote rigging and stealing. has more from kinshasa. we've not seen any government

statement about this internet shutdown but we're being told a part of the reason why it happening is because of all this. being shared online by people we have spoken to an official of amnesty international who say that this is an abuse. of the people now we are 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 candidates at least the main ones are saying that they are confident that he the election is going to remain so a model should carry the ruling party's candidate as well saying well we're it is one of. these for you i held a press conference on monday and that tallies there in the key thing for you is 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. should diary and we now. declared

really i want to you will be what are you going to instruct your supporters to do and he said that this will be a provocation to the people in this is a big concern to many that i've been talking to they say that the election contest potentially there could be violence and they're worried about that. the u.n. special envoy to somalia has been ordered to leave accused of interfering in the country's internal affairs the government issued a statement saying nicolas hastened would no longer be allowed to work in somalia on monday hasten had urged the government to safeguard human rights he had written a letter demanding answers over civilian deaths during a protest last month. in sudan pressure is mounting on president omar al bashir to resolve a growing political crisis opposition parties have joined calls for him to step down following weeks of anti-government protests and one party says it's withdrawing from cabinet he morgan has more from sudan's capital khartoum.

thousands have been demonstrating in sudan to mending president almost bashir step down now twenty two different opposition parties are also calling on the president to resign. the government needs to end its rule and step turns we need to form a provisional council and a transitional government that will run this new stage and 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 another 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 draw any representation we have in any official post. the crisis started two weeks ago with a protest in the city of overbred shortages and rising prices that's quickly spread to other parts of the country and turned into demonstrations calling on president

said bashir to end his twenty nine year old 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 the dance constitution is amended more demonstrations are planned in the coming days but some analysts say that likely won't change the president's position . of all of the continuation of protests in cities including khartoum doesn't mean it's a people's revolution yet there are many factors that 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 step down effective so things can change

down the road. a memo may not force the president to resign like the opposition wants the truth more protests planned and a defined president to denser it ahead may not be easy people morgan all to zero to . japan's emperor akihito has a dress well wishes at his final new year appearance before he abdicates in april thousands of people were on hand for the annual greeting at the imperial palace in tokyo emperor akihito is handing power to his son the first succession of a living japanese monarch in two hundred he is. now after a voyage lasting more than a decade and nasa probe has performed the most distant flyby in the history of space exploration the year rise in space spacecraft successfully observe the ultima thule spacewalk the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humans how does your castle 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 truly has been seen as nothing but a speck of light shaped like a long gated 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 to help the spacecraft. we just copters the most distant fly by a phone home message from the new horizon to tell scientists to successfully survive

the fly by. to help he's 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. megan vitale is is a senior writer for space dot com an online publication she says only ill take more than a year for all the probes data to return to nasa. 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 about 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 data. now again i'm fully back people with the headlines on al-jazeera brazil's new far right president who has been sworn in during

a ceremony in the capital brasilia and his first speech as president he promised to free brazil assumption and crime and improve the economy u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border wanna women and children were among those trying to breach the border fence border agency says it was responding to the rocks being thrown at them. the u.s. president says he is ready to negotiate an end to the possible government shutdown which has been in place for nearly two weeks donald trump has invited congressional leaders from both parties to the white house on wednesday he's been refusing to sign off on a spending deal in the knesset included funding for his border wall. president xi jinping says no one can change the fact that taiwan is part of china it was part of his first major speech addressing what beijing considers a breakaway province on tuesday taiwan's president sighing when insisted the island wants to maintain self rule. we are firmly against

any plans to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in the fight against taiwan independence or separatist activity nobody and no party can change the story cool and legal fact the taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china. twenty two opposition parties in sudan have called for parliament to be dissolved and president omar al bashir to step down following weeks of protests over the cost of living a party say a transitional government should be set up to pave the way for elections. internet services in the democratic republic of congo are expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday and adviser to president joseph kabila says access was shut down to stop people speculating about the outcome of the vote several candidates had claimed to be in the lead in the election to choose kabila successive and nasir as new horizons spacecraft has undertaken

a successful flyby of a rock six and a half billion konami's from if the rock is said to be the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humankind those are the headlines coming up next here. do stay with us. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank when one used investigates how cyber hackers infiltrated the global banking system and on our desire.

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