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 the economy but that has not stopped the protests despite a 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 to 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. on 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. and memo may not force the president to resign like the opposition ones but with more protests planned and

a defined president sudan's are ahead may not be easy people morgan al-jazeera the tomb. to the head on al-jazeera i new book reveals the planning behind the murder. plus. and hong kong reporting on whether china's new e-commerce laws will be effective and wiping out counterfeit goods probably online marketplace. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis the skies are clearing temporarily across iran as this cloud newsies was beating the cold dropping snow now afghanistan the next development is already taking place in the eastern mediterranean because it's not going to sit there loads of rain seems like the incident overseas that some height

that was for toss into lebanon most likely overnight and then syria and northern iraq had to sweep through fairly quickly such that but i would give you a look pretty similar to be honest longshore breeze sixty in beirut in the rain but this rain has ganged up against the high ground of west and iran producing i would think flooding on the eastern side of iraq and snow in the higher ground as it crosses the border now that rain comes as kuwait. generates cloud to the south that's your northern saudi the breeze in juices it's a southerly sconce a potentially dusty one it lift temperatures a little bit for riyadh for bahrain for qatar for example which is a pleasant change and the skies should be blue but quite possibly and dusty as well big rains and possibly more than you might really want are showing themselves and i'm going to touching zombie dancer but sort of the eastern side of south africa persistent line is right the top of the a but they are heavy showers. the with the

sponsored body counts on the use. the latest news as it breaks i'll go into both sides of the political spectrum are you militants in their criticism of this government with details coverage only change so far as to make it explicit that cuba's communist party will remain as the only party. from around the world the idea of an armed intifada as opposition to the occupation is gaining support that's moving away from diplomatic negotiations. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera brazil's new farai president john abell

scenario has been sorn enduring a ceremony in the capital brasilia in his first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. present she 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 one insists that the island wants to maintain south roll and 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 rocks being thrown at them. now the united nations has accused yemen's warring parties of failing to honor a ceasefire agreement in the port city of her data under the deal struck in sweden who the rebels and pro-government forces are to withdraw from the city and the law agencies to distribute much needed aid rob matheson to. look at the fried.

rare smiles in the yemeni port city of hadera on the streets cautious optimism about the un brokered cease fire which appeared to be holding in the closing days of december. during the almost four year conflict in yemen data and the people who live here have been bombed and shot at. as opposing sides of the battle to control the city the port of her data is yemen's lifeline where most food imports equipment or medical supplies arrive desperately needed by hospitals like this one in the city of ties in western yemen which patients including fired one hundred rely on to survive. i'm from our marker and there's no renal dialysis the most important thing is my treatment without it die. much of tell us has been destroyed as have many other parts of yemen at least sixty thousand

yemenis are reported killed in fighting nationwide between warring factions including hooty rebels and pro-government forces backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates its. aid agencies say millions are close to starvation it's estimated eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition some hope the worst is over. god willing we will see a better future the end of the crisis and peace in the region in particular intelligence i don't. expect that in twenty nineteen for yemen the war will stop and peace or political reconciliation. in the sun are to the north of to ease more devastation but here too among the destroyed buildings some optimism. and we hope the aggression will stop and the economy and life will improve we are so tired. back in her data not everyone is convinced the ceasefire will hold.

decision is just income paper we haven't seen any results yet reality and data is contrary to what we expected. at the dawn of a new year there are glimmers of hope for the people of yemen but no one can be sure how long that hope might last rob patterson odyssey. the u.s. secretary of state has sought to ease concerns over the withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria but ministration has come under pressure from allies and senior republicans since the president suddenly announced the pullout last month but my point says washington remains committed to its goals in the region. the decisions president made on syria in no way changes anything that doesn't ministration his working on alongside israel the kind of rice campaign continues our efforts to countering the question continue and our commitment to middle east ability in the

protection of israel continues in the same way it did before that decision was made . a book released spy to take its reporters as shedding new light on the murder of saudi journalists. includes details about the preparations made by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing in istanbul in october cinema has a story. diplomatic up trusty the dark secrets of the question to murder the title of the first book to be written on the murder of saudi journalist to mouth. the authors conducted a series of interviews the third officials to find out what happened before and after the journalists killing going to stumble nearly three months ago. the book says' the case is the first of its kind a month secret service assess the nation's worldwide people we've talked in istanbul said they want to know more about what happened it's good rather than those who were waiting for a result whoever is responsible for this murder must be brought to justice because

a turbaned in our country. investigative journalist fairhope in new wrote the book with documents and footage gathered by his colleagues from turkey's sabbat daily newspaper. goodling the primary sources told us a bit 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 agents 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 like the 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. who is set to have dismembered hushes body after his killing and how often our using an autopsy saw to breach a douche or credible sources are claiming not to begun his family enjoy the villain 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 our sources also confirm that one of the hit men saddam stanny died in a suspicious car accident in saudi arabia maybe he was leaning toward talking but the author sources say the crime was committed in istanbul because the saudis wanted to show turkey is no longer safe for opponents of governments in order to finish the investigation and file possible indictments it is necessary to know the location of remains many people here in turkey strongly believe this diplomatic residence in istanbul that long so saudi consul general is aware the journalists remains were broke turkish authorities now how the right to ask for another search

of the compound i requested is likely to be denied by saudi arabia. al-jazeera a stumble a group of british politicians and international lawyers has asked to visit detained activists inside investigations are being tortured and denied legal representation rice course of raise concerns about detentions in the kingdom they say at least ten women were arrested in may include ing some who campaigned for the right to drive the rights groups say seven men are also being held in connection with the human rights work. the crucial the tragedy was obviously a total disaster for saudi arabia and it would seem that the responsible people who were 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 freedom from the so-called guardian

lords in a way that was a was a huge step. internationally and rightly paraded to such and then in power well these people being locked up internet services in the democratic republic of congo or expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday and advisor to president joseph kabila says access was shut down to stop people speculating about the outcome of the vote several candidates have came to be in the lead in the election to choose could be the successor the poll was marred by violence complaints of vote rigging and delays. in mali gunmen have killed at least thirty seven head is in the center of the country the attack on villages in the mop to region was carried out by men believed to be hunt is according to a government statement it's the latest in a spate of violent incidents between hunters and farmers mainly over access to land and water the un special envoy to somalia has been ordered to leave accused of

interfering in the country's internal affairs the government issued a statement saying nicholas hastened would no longer be allowed to work in somalia on monday hey some had urged the government to safeguard human rights he had written a letter demanding answers over civilian deaths during a protest last month. china is set to introduce a new law to regulate its vast e-commerce industry the legislation aims to protect online consumers and intellectual property and clean up the country's reputation as a major source of fake goods did it upon reports from hong kong as part of a series looking into new laws for twenty nineteen. this hong kong jewelry brands expansion into mainland china was a tough lesson for its founder and designer her short foray into that market ended when one of her signature pieces was copied and sold under different brands she has since expanded her collection half the sales are online but you won't find her

jewelry on any of china's main internet retail sites a vehicle where high cost is risky i don't sell any products on online shopping pass forms in china because if you like i'm just giving away my designs and not getting anything back and this is the problem those behind china's new e-commerce law are hoping to tackle the legislation is looking to close some of the loopholes in the world's largest retail market which is worth more than one trillion dollars in twenty seven t. . the individual platform will be liable as well as the person selling or goods so the shift the onus is suddenly the platform has to be responsible for making sure that it polices itself doesn't allow for the counterfeiters to be sold according to the organization for economic cooperation and development china is the world's largest manufacturer of counterfeit goods and many of the knockoffs ends up on the streets as well as in cyberspace the new legislation applies to operators of online

shopping platforms the company selling products and services on them and independent merchants with their own websites all of whom must register with the government. there are still many questions over how the law will be implemented and they are concerned it could give the government yet another form of control over the internet where it could wane an activity that was want out side its influence in my view is still if a business is legitimate and they're not infringing counterfeit they will be ok but we don't know how it's going to be policed we don't know how it will be enforced maybe that if complaints are responded to quickly enough where a business has been improperly accused of an ip violation maybe they face sanctions many jones says the law is good news for designers and small business owners like her she plans to relaunch her brand and some of china's top online shopping platforms and expects to have a profitable twenty nineteen if you go palin of his era hong kong. japan's emperor

akihito has a dress well wishes at his final new year parents 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 years. now forty one year old's new york city institution is about to close its doors for goods but not by choice the cornelia street cafes the latest victim of rising rents in the once bohemian neighborhood of greenwich village christian salome has a story. this night out at the legendary cornelia street cafe is bittersweet for patrons and performers alike of course the third but at the. start. to moving. 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 stay the been given to us and for the community it's come 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 are all artists opened a little one room café. because we were artists all kinds of other artists . just sort of a crude. but the cap is greenwich village neighborhood has changed a lot since then. but the porn ilya street cafe opened in one nine hundred seventy seven the rent was four hundred fifty dollars a month now it is

a staggering thirty three thousand dollars and 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 or on my block blame 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. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera brazil's new

far right president also narrow has been so on injuring a ceremony in the capital brasilia in his first speech as president he promised a free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. to solve corruption privileges advantages have to end political favors forced trading work that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforth as an undeniable persis that is to put first and foremost the interests of the brazilians. 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 saing when insisted the island wants to maintain south pole. we are firmly against any plots to create to china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've

achieved a major victory in the party against taiwan independence or separatist activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact that taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border at juana 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. the u.s. president says he is ready to negotiate an end to the partial 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 twenty two opposition parties in sudan have called for parliament to be dissolved and president omar al bashir to step down following protests over the cost of living the party say a transitional government should be set up to pave the way for elections and 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 republicans since the president announced the pullout last month that might bump ala says washington remains committed to its goals in the region you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues right after the stream to stay with us. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing realities starts from the very beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to al-jazeera. hired by me ok and join the stream today we're joined by a superstar of afro beat me hootie we're talking about his music his commitment to activism and the inspiration for his latest album i really could be larger family

and his band will play some of his best known songs in the studio today and we want to hear your questions and comments join the conversation on twitter facebook and the al-jazeera live stream. femi kuti is one of the leading lights of african music over a forty year career jazz and funk intoxicating effect having several grammy award nominations along the way his music is an inspiration to famous musicians including common and most stuff as well as younger african musicians starting their careers and he strongly committed to progressive causes not least to his work as a goodwill ambassador for the united nations children's fund now femi is touring his tenth album the recently released one people one world.

every kid see. i believe my eyes you will hear all the strain welcomed by people who are into a family kuti kongs that they haven't experienced that i have dipped into your instagram account to give people a little flavor so this was santa cruz california i'm just going to quit playing here so you can get the full effect of people. that look like. what i notice is that the audience is

a come to see you are so diverse you can tell me something about afrobeat about how it reaches such a broad audience why you think you are able to do that i think probably is the correct term in music of today because. i think i've been privileged to travel and use this as a direction to mold my music so i think this reaches out to everybody and what i talk about happens in every nation really take for instance the album one people one world everybody can understand this. we talk about justice peace and love it's very simple catchy wars that. kindergarten kind of so i think this is what cuts across everybody i think our community would agree we got this from edward on twitter who says i believe families music is more optimistic and this latest album his messages are more about is more about inspiring the next generation to be confident and to unite for a collective good africa will be great again is one of my favorite so he mentions

her latest album what is it that's made this different than the other i think experience and maturity and then of course my children being a follower of how to really redirect my thinking. your children calm down the you have to find answers and you have to find positive answers for your children you can't really be negative if you leave you feel that way so i'm even forced to now find solutions politically socially because my children demand this as a father from me so of i think my whole life has changed and i think this probably have to give this about seventy percent to my children making me more responsible and only sell your son is playing or that i'm just have a look at my laptop everybody this is this is a matinee and he's playing on this actual hour it was what this is that me it's the greatest feeling a father can have women period i think when your you see your son doing well not

really tall in your your line but just seen his smile being involved i mean it was . i don't believe is there a big award their love probably it was so emotional for me. i have to see people this picture here because. i've seen a lot of of images of you and your family and there's a picture here of you and your eldest one is a little bit young as he was nine and i just see love all i'm saying is this is love you're looking at him my dear me was. taller than me. but this is how it started. it's so beautiful it's i mean life is so life is i mean those are the things i've made my music change which is like this i go back in time and i see so my life goes quickly i see beauty in them in the world and i try to put this through my music before i was very i was

a fighter you could see with my music from the albums trucks like stories or even similar lives i was wrong or what happened to my father i was trying to live through that grunow and on like i said being a father myself when i see my children grow up seeing so much love around me i try to spread this around the world what goes on in my life you mention your father i mentioned your son this is a tweet we got bridging those two things this is someone who says as much as i think this comparison to your father. is not necessary his children i mean your children for me are doing a great job to me sign is said to carry on the legacy he might just bring and add a new flavor with it so people are recognizing that familial link there but i want to move on just a little to this because someone seeing the video we saw the very beginning of the show with the energy that you had there this person asks a question which i think it's on a lot of our minds how do you find the motivation to give us to almost free world

class shows every week whenever you're in lagos at the do africa shrine you in your band have been doing this for over a decade and the quality of the craft on display each time is inspiring i think this has to do with them to the case for love for my people understanding that there's a lot of poverty around me and believe in our. contributes in the area where the shrine was billed was give people the privilege to just come in free and watch us and then he said to turn professional and the musicians around we have to understand that we shouldn't look down on the audience you never know who is watching you and so you have to respect it will be disciplined by dr house will we have to give the same kind of energy and this will make us more professionally professional and so this was my case of the band i'm happy those that have stood beside me or with alongside me on the stand what i'm doing if you feel this with the audience so we have about probably a thousand people come in we can we can just watch the band for free so i'm looking here is boulder colorado femi kuti in the positive force boulder colorado what is

the difference in the show that you did that and the show that you would do at the shrine are you doing femi light when you're on tour and you do hardcore fans at the shining but the difference the difference is we were costumes were more professional. like. when we're rehearsal we put is like it's like a magnet you you have to put hundred percent of the competition starts you are flexible so we put like a thousand percent at the rehearsal when we want or even even make a mistake on stage you hardly hear and we can play around the mistake we can joke about it because we have repeated it so many times so we are going to hear from you give one hundred percent in just a moment the first song on our show today no work no job no money but first let's hear from one of his fans i open coalescent us this comment about the impact of families at work. i love for me especially because he created his own mission of

funky awful beats that blew our minds and we are connected very strongly with my generation and femi has beauty has worked very hard to maintain that for me the waffle be blunt you know since then he is music to me represents african conscious music tradition and he constantly reminds us that we should never settle for less for money the us long live fairly long rifle beats long enough ago thank you. the dumber than a. live oak i think the little. donkey when i'm typing barney to run with the news.

so where did all the fall be dealt with. i think when i find it difficult to get out of office. regarding glasses i'm going to get off the bottom of the. nominee of the bar there's not a lot of the. night and good. luck in the long haul for long as they suffer enough. to get a. bit longer eat. all the three weight and frankly all of the

many old under thirty something awesome all of the stuff going to the good and skills of the people in the cause it's all. good thoughts all. the suffering enough not to have to feel nothing and i. agree. to talk really good for you aren't. going to result in a small the this is. well it's up for the case but it's not written out of the back and i mean not to try to get all three. really if you aren't. redundant they're both responses we've got to produce something probably come. along this stuff enough to track missional god i like

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of the three songs to. come out the insults to. the three. common faith down by me tell me which the branding. the band member said we can take them this is everybody yes just isn't everybody and that's our band leader where you and me and. you have a lot. on keyboards. who dances. but she's different on stage and we're just you know with i still say so to see the four packed of dancing oh i want to talk about you actually you could hear that in that song every single song you sing i'm going to show an image and this is you

doing some humanitarian work with the international rescue committee surrounding by kids who love you and i'm trying to think what is the draw to i'm going to show one thing first. kind of musician there are a bunch of kids. click play let's have a look. it's a lovely though drawn to you what is it that you bring when you go out and you go out into the community and you say i'm going to use my my fame is what are you doing. i'm taking humility i'm taking my honesty and most importantly the music

along with me i took my i took my musical instrument and i think they also meant a wall wondering what was in my bag and they could say what's me about what's in your bag so i opened it and. of course i think he realized it was a musical instrument is it politically and i was like all this was in my degree it was. another to someone and i mean you have to see the the suffering that is beautiful it's really heartbreaking and i wish i had. the magic wand like changed their lives and all i had was my musical instrument i didn't have enough money because they were very they were starving there and i thought all i could do was probably give them some pool play my musical instrument so i did play for them and then they said to follow me around like you obvious in the studio is it by. those they said follow me everywhere i was going i say well it was really it was nice very joyful so here are a couple more people that would likely follow you anywhere this is to perkins who

is watching you perform on the show and says it was electric that means energy is a rare rocking the extreme studio someone else writes get energy that's his hand or he says simply genetic pushing on the topic you were just talking about why people are following you this is a world publicist who says his music touches on the true story of nigeria and the need for gerry adams both young and old to read about and remember their history he also addresses societal issues like poverty unemployment and political issues like corruption on his songs those can always be popular topics. you're exposing corruption you're doing at the song these are serious issues that the lyrics that i wrote down different resources from africa in the last last song we heard what's the pushback what do you face in terms of obstacles when you get up very difficult for you to get rid of these days i get ready for you which is fantastic. what we build the strike it was we had lots of police raids and for

a good eight years this was so hard to move into the shrine and i had to move in with my children and to build somewhere very safe for them on top of the building like a secret compartment where we were just having police raise after police raids and this went on for good it is but this reminded me of my father so i stood strong many people don't realize all this happened in my life because i had like a complete blackout from the media the the government paid a lot of meat. people not to write about the raids or what was going on so it was a complete blackout in my life so but at this time i had i still had the opportunity to talk so unfortunately for the government i was still making my name was creating a big impact in san francisco miami wherever i was storing parties i mean i have very strong support outside the country and people back home don't realize this because nobody really talks about it thank god for social media now i compose this

shows and people like you talk to people on social media all the time they don't even believe it's me by the. way that you write that because i'm very tired or my english can be very bad and forgive me for that people people come to the shrine now because it is famous because you are playing them because there is a more i was there i am so glad you see. first of all let's see him dancing everybody so you have to believe that even the president france will be done see at the shrine of the irony of that this is a very limited i think. he was trying so i have moved i cannot know it was more like. this i

was doing all the moves by you got here he's here here is he sitting at this right have a look at my laptop here and as it is a little secret so he's here he's a very nice things about president mccall he's having a fantastic time units haven't you chad. is you obviously blonde it is and you don't like politicians because he was very honest i have to see he reached out to me and said he wanted to come to the shrine i mean people like pretended they were bringing him and when i saw him face to face was i wanted to calm here what's june two thousand and two and what he what i got from him we spoke about the my great crisis he was willing to address africa's problem and princie and france's role and so the next time i have the opportunity i'll be speaking frankly with him on many of these issues that i'm very concerned about but he was very open he didn't have this kind of barrier like or like a snob kind of thing and he he he insisted he wanted to come to this trying despite

all the feedback like don't go and he was like he even said it several times i was fine we could see in two thousand and two people pretend it was my father but to pretend it was because of my father and no matter how many times a mentioned my name they give credit to my father so i took it to another level well whether it's for me is still the police simple it's a game we're playing africa has to be for you making a statement by saying could cause he is the slowest so. it's fine for me the call my father my name the bottom line this ryan is there for there must be one of africa and we want total freedom for africa to excel and i strongly believe given the opportunity africa will excel and will be their way of the world imagine we had real allies like in europe i mean can you imagine travelling from lagos to dramas but by train those kind of trees we see three hundred center kilometers per hour what wow the beauty africa will spread in the wall and this is what i see this is my dream with my music segue to this last question from someone also named family

if you are not in nigeria. no no you. only here on twitter says please ask him what he thinks about new they do generation of musical activism nigeria and africa. i would want to be critical of the artist because we were all young and we bought their song that are very. outspoken these days i think i heard one of i can remember the names i think and follow i know he's outspoken very few that are speaking out but what my the only thing i fear about is i wish more than musical instruments because what happens in music is a serious law or medicine what happens when they get to my age and is that going green onboard another generation will come and the only reason you'll be relevant is eve you have something to offer for the next generation my father is important because he was a composer historied music you talk of people like miles davis disagree less be

your stevie wonder they are only relevant because the music is should be seen as medicine or law or engineering on a little grayer than this picture here with you and your fella but you are still growing so they're out and so we're going to end this show with another performance from the ferry thank you so much for the new land the positive force. one people one world that's a live thing over on his latest album and while he gets set up let's hear from angelica joe another african music legend who's touring with sammy and had this to say are you working before somebody recently also as you said goodwill ambassador both of us will be working on many issues in his image his honesty has always come across very strongly. most importantly being the son of a legend is easy but he kept the torch very high by keeping making africa equal even more than forty.

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do. this is the first the place of the head space the guy with the right pieces don't push the place. the. sleazy just kind of pompous and. more with more diversity the new law of the u.s. congress what it needs for the first time on january third well what it means for the democrat and for president joining us for coverage of this historic step in american politics the new us hold on else is there i am a division every weekly news cycle going to see any sense breaking stories and then

of course there's donald trump the town through the eyes of the welts janel ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the and aisle ation of israel that is not what that phrase means. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most embarrassing is a free palestine are they listening placed on al-jazeera. it's a tool to climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tigers nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness but it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow petards example but how do you measure it. it's a nice happiness is what we ensure it's here that it is quantifiable but by simply

turning its pursuit into policy the time has done what no other country has. thanks love to make loans to sufferings because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day a nineteen it is an urgent national missile. visually request rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. being addressed as the people of taiwan saying nobody can change the fact of a cell for island is part of china.

so you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters in doha fully back to old so ahead jade of all scenario is sworn in as brazil's new president with promises to crack down on corruption and improve the economy. don opposition parties joined calls for president omar al bashir to step aside plus. why it's the last call at one of new york's most famous jazz venue. thank you for joining us chinese president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against those who support independence for taiwan in his first major speech addressing the south island she said nobody can change the fact that taiwan is part of china he says people from both sides should seek peaceful reunification

when samos forty years since beijing offered to open up communications with taipei after decades of hostility. well. 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 activities nobody and no party can change the historical and legal fact that taiwan is part of china and both sides of the strait belong to china on tuesday taiwan's president in wayne insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain south roll . or if you don't have a good highway i want to appeal to china and must admit to the reality of taiwan's existence and must respect our twenty three million peoples insistence on freedom and democracy and 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 so he speaks more

about this not a gram on webb who is a research fellow at the as rajaratnam school of international studies at nih on technological university he is a line from singapore thank you so much for being with us again graeme what did you make of president she's message to the taiwanese people did you hear anything new well not really this is a consistent message put out by the chinese government over the last forty years under the ten year old struggle premiers and now with the r.c.t. being in pole since the last couple of years he is giving up the same message albeit in a more shock will inform us than. for various reasons because there is a timeline at the end of the day when it comes to reunification and the chinese government has to achieve this goal at some stage. you say he talked in a shop a stance he talked about the use of military force if necessary we had

a day before taiwan's president warning against continued threats from china how do you see this playing out how do you see their relationship evolving under these two leaders well i don't think it bodes very well for the current relationship because as you know daryn one has very strong views about firearms autonomy and the jury independence if you like something that is always champion and of course that so ruffled the feathers of the chinese government since the d.p.p. the democratic progressive party came to power and least sixteen things were very different from twenty or twenty six feet under the nationalist party to quinton on the right and zero and so on the chinese government will have to go back to the salad days of that relationship when there was a particular when there was a government in power that was inclined towards the one china policy so i think right now over the next. year or so things will be

a little bit choppy but we have to look to the twenty twenty general elections which is what the chinese government is doing to see how they can ship the ground to get the outcome which they want which is to have the equipment on the national spotlight come back to power which is more favorable to cross st lucia they're already deep business cultural in fresno names that have been developed between the two countries you know in china talks about reunification if that were to happen one day how would it where i put it be one country two systems. most likely you can run away from the reality that. taiwan has diverged considerably from their chinese counterparts for the last forty or so years i mean there is a large or well arching chinese culture that joins the two entities but in many ways are the taiwanese people and the chinese people for that matter have actually gone along separate paths more in terms of the political systems the popular culture. the social social preferences and so forth and so i think i'm

saying one was not off the mark when she gave a speech on tuesday saying that you know the chinese people are the taiwanese people sorry i'm not really inclined towards unification and that the recent local election results in november which were in favor of the care he should not be read as as a sign that taiwan is ready for for people of the creation because the election outcome was more about the p.p.p. is poor economic performance rather than about national park liberty is of the county's people right our final question for you graham before we let you go what about this threat by she to use military force if necessary is that just said fred or can we not roll that out. we should not take the risk or ruling it out because we have to look at things from the chinese communist party side the legitimacy of the c.c.p. the ruling government today in china hinges on several things first of all economic

governance of people which they have done but secondly achieving national objectives they have to do with the chinese identity and soul seeking thing that's bang on about the need for unification the credibility of the party hinges on their ability to deliver on that goal so it's not really rhetoric anymore and if military force healthy used to force the outcome at some point in the near future i think we can rule out the possibility that the government will actually do that thank you so much for talking to us thank you for inside graham on the web joining us there from singapore. brazil's new president. has been so enjoying a ceremony in the capital brasilia the former army captain represents a major shift to the right in latin america's largest country in his first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy john home and be forced from brasilia. standing in the shadow of her hero

christina new year's day is the start of change help me that. it's the opportunity for the country to grow it's an opportunity to stop being the country known for corruption and this opportunity is named boston otto. to puerto rico. to join your bullshit model for years he was a low profile congressman now he's been catapulted into power is the leader of south america's biggest economy but the far right populist has polarized brazil supporters love his plain speaking style and hard stance from crime opponents fear his intolerance of activists minorities and ambivalence to the environment but but also noddles main promise beating corruption appeals to brazil's political class has been engulfed by scandal. this for her it is full it is that this is the political favors force trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforth as an undeniable purpose that is

to put first and foremost the interests of brazilians. he's also promised to crack down on crime and revive a sluggish economy many believe that he turn not just his supporters leaving his inauguration in a poll just sixty five percent of people said that they think it will do a great or a good job but this is a man who's admitted you know as little about the economy and who security plan has revolved around giving people great the access to guns and police more license to kill. bill so not as opponents worry about the lack of substance and his affinity to the military dictatorships of brazil's recent past in his speech to congress he committed to democracy but the effect was slightly spoiled by his final remarks directed against the leftist workers' party which governed here for years. but.

this is our flag it will never be red even if we need to shed our blood to keep it green and yellow. was a warning perhaps for those who hope that he'll be a more moderate president and candidate john abell sonata may see no reason to change john heilemann al-jazeera. u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border. women and children were among those trying to bridge that border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them has been renewed debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody. the u.s. president says he is ready to negotiate an end to the partial 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 just a day before democrats take over as a majority party in the house been refusing to sign off on

a spending deal unless it included funding for his four wall shavar tanzi is in washington with the latest. the white house says congressional leaders are being invited to a briefing on border security by senior members of the department of homeland security clearly donald trump is trying to continue to frame the shutdown inter in the terms that he prefers which is it's because the democrats don't want secure borders that the government is shut down and this hasn't gone down terribly well with democrats there's no guarantee that anyone will actually turn up to this meeting nancy pelosi who will be taking power in the house of representatives almost thursday didn't even reference this meeting in the her tweet and her response to the invitation she simply said that she will be pursuing legislation on thursday to reopen the government but then there's still that question as to whether any legislation passed in the house will have

a vote in the senate because the senate republican leadership says they won't have any vote unless they have a guarantee that donald trump will sign that a solution that passes in the senate so we haven't really moved on about four. internet services in the democratic republic of congo are expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday and advisor 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 a successor the poll was marred by violence complaints of vote rigging and delayed it's in sudan pressure is mounting on president omar 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 the capital khartoum all thousands have been demonstrating in sudan demanding president almighty.