silly circling overhead and quite a bit of border patrol on the other side of the. migrants. wandering back and forth along along the border wall it's very cold the rain is on and off and it's not clear whether or not any of them are going to actually get a chance to make it across the sea. at one point border guards launched migrants apart from smoke there was tension and uncertainty in the one member of the group picked up the smoking canister and sent it back to the wall. it's the middle of the night in the one. bed is a salvador national says he's tired and he feels he's running out of options. our minds are blank right now i don't know what we'll do i don't know if we'll go back or try to cross. after several failed attempts at crossing the wall more than twelve hours scouring the border for a safe passage the group had no choice but to return to the shelter and try their luck again another day. to one. of the u.s.

president says he's 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 the majority party in the house. refusing to sign off on a spending deal unless it included funding for his bold she have a chance he has more from washington d.c. . 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 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 and there's no guarantee that anyone will actually tied up to this meeting nancy pelosi who will be taking power in the house of representatives all

my day 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 votes unless they have a guarantee that donald trump will sign that distillation of passes in the senate so we haven't really moved on that far. well still ahead here on al-jazeera in sudan opposition parties join coles for president bashir to step aside. and standing their ground we'll tell you why millions of limited in southern india a formed a human chain. howlers

when tessa's snow on the way it should be no great surprise but been fairly mild recently all this cloud tipping down from the north back i mean from the atlantic so it's been nice in spain and portugal temperatures in there are figures that will probably continue for another twenty four hours they would have a single figures as a normally brings the breeze brings six down to london seven to paris but keep twelve in madrid obviously the white is snow and that's briggs it could be significant in the alps are running at three austria and to lower land in poland germany better routes ukraine as the balkans as well this week in code isn't subzero but it might well feel it with the strength of the wind it comes up against a developing storm in the aegean so huge amounts of rain seemed likely greece and turkey with snow to top it off this is more of a winter scene than we've seen for weeks temps in the low single figures but all the action of course apart from in europe is down in the water and that's rainy and it does still affect north africa the breeze itself is keeping things cool from algiers to benghazi and then there's the rain we know what's happening in turkey it

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me it's the whole problem remind of our top stories president xi jinping says no one can change the fact that taiwan is part of china it's part of his first major speech addressing what beijing considers a breakaway province on choose day taiwan's president insisted the island wants to maintain self rule. brazil's new farai president has been sworn in during a ceremony in the capital brasilia and its first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. also u.s. border agents so far to stop people crossing the mexican border. there's been renewed debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s.

custody. to africa where 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 government protests the situation has also prompted two parties to withdraw in the past week of a war going house well 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 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 another opposition party has announced its 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 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 a 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. a memo may not force the president to resign like the opposition wants but with more protests planned and a defined president to dance or to head may not be people morgan are dizzy or two. gunmen have killed at least thirty seven herders in central mali the government called the villages in the mob the region was carried out by men believed to be hunters is the latest in the spate of violent incidents between hunters and farmers mainly over access to land and water. we will become the first and hindu temple in india's southern state of carola defying hardline protesters the women entered the

. temple early in the morning of voiding demonstrators from the conservative hindu group now the temple was historically closed to women of menstruating age defined as between ten to fifty but india supreme court overturned that ban in september since then protesters have arrested attacked females who've tried to enter well this comes after millions of women formed a human chain of support of gender equality following the row over access to the temple event looked to code of ethics of right wing groups that support the ban the issue has become contentious in the run up to india's general election which is shed rules for april or may this year the death toll in indonesia has got to at least fifteen after a landslide in tunisia is west java province heavy rains caused a wall of mud to bury thirty houses in the village of arrest me it is on monday and rescue teams have been having trouble searching for survivors because of the unstable ground in the philippines heavy rain and some but rescue efforts in areas

in the eastern region which have been devastated by floods and landslides eighty five people have died and at least twenty are still missing stuart was been hit just days after christmas displacing twenty five thousand people. the book released by two turkish reporters is shedding new light on the murder of saudi journalist you are short it includes details about the preparations made by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing is stumbling all over cynics who 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 says' 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. you're trying to depict 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 they 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 when and taking them inside the consul general is residence just a few hundred meters from the crime scene the others have concluded his remains are

like this still there inside a well saudi arabia had allowed turkish officials to take a sample from the well but consistent that night request to empty it and conduct the search the book reveals more interesting details for instance on saudi foreign sick experts solid how to basically who is set to have dismembered touchup. his body after his killing and how often our using an autopsy saw to break a douche to a credible sources are claiming that begun his family enjoy the 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 our sources also confirm that one of the hit men 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 corrupt 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 to saudi consul general is aware that journalists remains were brought turkish authorities now how the right to ask for another search of the camp on every quest that is likely to be denied by saudi arabia so now because solo al-jazeera a stumble. all netflix is censoring a comedy series in saudi arabia at the request of the kingdom of to the host criticize the saudi crown prince over the jamal khashoggi murder now boys my mind that it took the killing of the washington post journalist for everyone to go oh no i guess he's really not a reformer the second episode of patriot with person was released just weeks after the murder of the saudi journalist it also hurley critical of the war in yemen calling on the u.s. to reassess its relationship with reared netflix has defended its decision to take down the episode saying it complied with a valid legal request from saudi authorities. a group of british

politicians and international lawyer says asked to visit detained activists in saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied legal representation rights groups have raised concerns about tensions in the kingdom they say at least ten women were arrested in may including some who come paint for the right to drive the group says seven men are also being held in connection with their human rights work the the tragedy it was obviously a total and utter 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 arabia 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 lords 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 the tech giants in france have to pay more taxes these so-called gaffer turks they've got to 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 and twenty nine team the french government her to be in pushing for an e.u. wide levy but failed to get the required support. so that because government is introducing a minimum wage ahead of this year's general elections president cyril ramaphosa is promising millions of workers better pay as he seeks to increase his voter base in rural areas critics say here could lead to increased unemployment some business owners will be able to afford to pay the minimum wage of one dollar forty cents an hour. economic economists are warning bad debt and low savings are threatening the

survival of many commercial banks in nigeria millions of people do not deposit their savings in banks of the wealthy choose to invest elsewhere and address explains. they yearn to get in bungalow farms and sells only instance some nigeria's neighbors at the peak of the season he makes about thirty thousand dollars a week despite this income he stopped taking his money to the bank at a bank he although i'm not satisfied with the services i receive a used to have an account that i was disappointed several times so i put my earnings back into the business and invest in real estate. and millions of other nigerians either not putting their money into savings account or have never even set foot in a bank. economist blame a number of factors including low income and poverty but even some of the reach looking elsewhere to take their money if you look at the investment of fortune it is that i will often especially outside of nigeria and the relatively high earners

are so shit head was in this to me and such ventus it because less is center for their voters in the country and are led to this to our side but importantly. the sabin's culture must be institutionalized by the government itself with many banks going out of business during the last decade economists say better supervision and enforcement is needed to attract the savings and investment banking system. or any pay mentioned institutions to roll into this trance of the higher profit obvious total at least are said been taken away and been combative in long it indicates that the surveillance system provided by central mungo nigella and i did end up as it insurance corp is adequate or low although it would have claimed i was on the of that of a great truth authorities banks are becoming lino with fewer branches and staff and

accusations and mergers are also becoming the new. bank used to be here someone else is renting the building now after decades of doing business the bank shut down because it didn't have enough customers many people up want and don't have enough. isn't distrust of the banking system. small businessmen like they want more from the banks access not only to loans but better returns on their savings too if that's not provided the banks may find the number of customers contributing to savings account when dealing father. reese al-jazeera. nigeria and all of our stories every year we're covering go on our website at al jazeera dot com. what you have is their homes the rubble

a reminder of all top stories president xi jinping says no one can change the think that taiwan is part of china it's part of his first major speech addressing what beijing considers a breakaway province on tuesday taiwan's president bashir when insisted the island wants to maintain self rule. we are firmly against any plot to create two china or one china one taiwan or taiwan independence we've achieved a major victory in a part 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. brazil's new far right president has been sworn in during a ceremony in the capital brasilia it is first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. u.s. border agents of fired teargas to stop people crossing the mexican border there's been renewed debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two

children in u.s. custody opposition parties in sudan have called for parliament to be dissolved and president 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 two women have become the first to enter a hindu temple in india's southern state of carola defying hardline protesters the women entered the temple early in the morning the voiding demonstrators from conservative hindu groups the temple was historically close to women of been straighted age defined as between ten to fifty but india's supreme court overturned the ban in september but this comes after millions of women formed a human chain in support of gender equality following the row over access to the temple the issue has become contentious in the run up to india's general election which is expected between april or may the death toll in indonesia has gone up to

at least fifteen people after a landslide in indonesia's western java province it hit on monday rescue teams are having trouble searching for survivors because of the unstable quote that's if not more news in half an hour inside stories next with laura karl stay with us. capturing the moment in time snapshots of other nine other stories providing a glimpse into someone else's world. on al-jazeera. official results from sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo going to be known for a few days but both the opposition and governing coalition level but he said they're on track to win so will there be a peaceful transfer of power this is inside story.

hello there and welcome to the program i'm laura kyle congolese president joseph kabila has been in power for nearly eighteen years but he's now agreed to step down millions of voters went to the polls on sunday to choose a successor after a more than two year delay the votes are being counted but both computers chosen kansas and the opposition are already claiming victory the election was mauled by widespread irregularities including complaints of vote rigging and violence instead it's been cut in the parent attempt to stop speculation about the results and people in some areas didn't get to vote at all because of fighting and an outbreak of the a bowl of virus we bring in our guests in just a moment but first catherine soy has the latest from the congolese capital kinshasa . we've seen a very difficult election here in the democratic republic of congo for the

companies that's what six. presidential candidates tonight from access to certain parts of the country before says violence should be sponsored by the gas and lifeless in some instances calm fourteen days it was so much his organization in some polling stations was easy to voting machines were not working and some no one knows which is registered. people they're very very angry indeed he so. says in talk of the country particularly in the east one evil time with the rest of the country's elections for those areas. to march because according to city outbreaks and to choose to be child in his that's a lot of people here really do not trust the electoral commission do not trust its profits they say that they don't believe that an action is going to be credible and that is a concern to people of these tools can possess saying that the selection is context

said then potentially there could be violence also so president of the left has to follow i was about twelve. and a lot of people there came an election that has been delayed for three years and people would never happen people for president would never step down so these thousand moments really was significant but many of his critics saying that well it doesn't really make a difference because he's possible choices ruling party kind of dates close to diary he is declared we're not then he just means that presidential system is going to push running this country who should. let's bring in our panel now and in london alcatel c.e.o. of innovation task force in paris below are journalists and chief executive officer of m r b networks and also from london alex vines head of the africa program at

chatham house if i warm welcome to all of you to the program marie let's start with you this very much delayed election has eventually taken place on the thirtieth of december but how legitimate was it you know these. everybody believes is the right thing to say that the election will karma and because they have so much hope into this election choose sort of sooth all of the problems happening in this country help solve the price of. what we saw is something which doesn't seem very legit to mit the way the organize it is part of the counter which has been. eliminated sort of. it's difficult to conceive that you held a presidential election in in two parts of part of the countries not taking part on

the and old saw it was marred we've all kinds of logistical problems we have these of working machines we've whatever you can think of so. the only thing we can see that it was not too much violence but. is not sure that this electoral process will help solve the political the ongoing and standing permanent political crisis in india see ok to what extent do you agree with us i mean many people especially opposition are crying foul and they're saying that it was deliberately chaotic so that it can be called that can be an old and cold voids do you agree with that. well when you look at these electoral process says a project you would say it has been a very chaotic process due to the fact that it has been done out of any

transparency no involvement of private sector and every think kept politically colored which means. it was really done on a way that nobody could trust it specifically when you talk about the position and today we see that the contest is quite huge and the outcome will not be accepted very easily alex the d.l.c. is a vast country it's the size of western europe and it has very little infrastructure linking east and west and north and south so why did the government refuse all international help in terms of financial and logistical aid. well originally the government did try and get international support and found it difficult to raise money and so in the end it decided to fund these elections on its own so.

you do have to accept that i think. but it's correct for the of a to speak a guest on your program have highlighted the difficulties of of conducting a credible election in a country like the democratic republic of the congo which is so massive as you've said the size of western europe and we have a polling infrastructure my own worry of this is that the government didn't accept significant international monitoring of the elections so for example the european union was excluded from deploying a very large credible team across the country and so that gets to the heart of this issue which is whatever the result is of this election will be will congolese trust the result and that's the problem here does this solve some of the political issues and move the country on or does it set it back and that's the big worry i think i mean if that's true isn't it because despite all of these challenges in the just

the coal obstacles that very many people passive is a menace to cost that that ballots will they accept the results that comes out in a few days' time. you know the problem is if. the government. announcement the victory of its candidate of course it would be massive rejection massive and probably they will be prato standard but at the end of the day after also a massive repression we can predict that the government which is very much prone to violence will resort to. a crackdown or what we can see we will probably see that. well after the protest they will wait for the storm and continue business as usual and proclaim their own candidate the incumbent

president would proclaim its its own candidate and well and the international community of what you call the international community. probably will. you know communiques saying the things did not happen that the the right way but as we saw in many other countries lag. were nothing will happen and that's the tragedy of the country that the own leaders are not really interested in change and improving the situation improving the lives of the people even you know sort of improving the the only kind of me just think of themselves because serving foreign interest and those foreign interests i'm not interested in having is structured democratic and strands wherein government regime in ok i'll do you

share that pessimism do you think joseph kabila is chosen successor dari emanuel ramadani said dari is likely to be declared the winner and that no one is going to do anything about it. i'm just surprised about how people approach is election these wars just three elections in one presidential national parliament and provincial parliaments and just to be frank with you national parliament is supposed to raise the government and provincial parliament is supposed to raise the provincial government i'm just surprised about the focus on the on the presidential election just for your information in congo constitution the end of state doesn't have that power we give to kabila it's i think of the past the next president to be very weak so we need to understand that our focus should go to the parliament my

question is if today he goes as a president and the majority of the parliament go to the opposition the question will be very different and the question today is our is going to be the election at the presidential level and the parliamentary level and then that's where we get the information and now we know how the city is going to be in power has quite an interesting take on it isn't it is this shift of focus away from the one man in power to the parliamentary system not something that we've seen via much of in the day r.c. do you think that it is that now is the time for that side of the power to rise up and take charge. well there are three things here one is obviously the credibility of this process will opposition parties be apt to get a majority in the assembly if it's of a three issue election even with all the problems that were discussed we'll see that pretty soon tend to think that

a massive systematic fraud is very difficult to achieve in congo given the atmosphere and scrutiny of civil society activists and of us and so i think it's probably right that we'll see a much stronger coalition of opposition parties we've been the parliament then the question is can they work with each other i mean they failed to unite around a presidential candidate they were united for less than a day and that's been one of the problems i think of the opposition is division and then thirdly i think it's wrong to think that the people want instability in congo certainly the international community wants to billet easy and the two major powers with the greatest amount of influence in congo a probably some africa and angola both driven by stability in the congo so they will have some influence over this process too i suspect although much of this will

be determined inside the democratic republic of the congo itself alex has just touched on how much leverage those countries the international community as a whole will have in the autumn after this election. well look i don't think the west has a tremendous amount of influence and the u.s. ambassador was per was was pushed out of the country before the elections. the congolese government the government made that quite clear he was unwelcome but i do think some of the neighbors have have have influence of mentioned i'm governor and south africa i think they can play a positive role at times in the congo and then there's mischievousness in eastern congo where you have some proxy wars going on in eastern congo where rivalries between burundi and rwanda for example and that can but sometimes can be positive but often it can be more negative marie would you agree with us where you're pretty pessimistic about the immediate future for the fame but is there room for

a positive impact. you know i like the idea that african countries especially now neighboring countries maybe and probably all saw south africa might have a positive influence in solving the congo problem but i think is so far is just a dream because those are two actress one of not the major states there you know you have for companies huge mining companies with. an intrigue set off of. activists. with which are stronger than any government and not only india are see you see what you call our global world. where some company major companies are stronger than

nations than public governments so in congo this is very much so and we mention two actors angola africa but they are also one dollar or they all saw one there was very influential. which has its own agenda there so how can you. solve the problem alls or poor all listed people together and to have a common goal in see which is which since right now are very very difficult and when you hear about the up war or the. unstable situation in eastern congo so you have wonder has very much its hand in it. what south africa does have and does not and let me give you another example of the weakness of african countries. prior to the election there was

a meeting. in brussels we'll go next door where the try to sort of. influenced the not to choose and choose a candidate but choose to make sure that everybody everything will happen in a proper we know that the electoral process will lead to a clear leadership vendor there the congo did d r c did not even attend it and so it has no impact whatsoever sort of grammys. and also i beg to differ to disagree on the on. your position which is divided i think to make a great great effort in choosing one candidate even if backed agreement did not last very long what we saw at the end is that the matter was.

appointed common candidate was clearly there will be the leading candidate in that election and if we can believe the pause is really outstanding ok well let's let the us all a similar but i'm going to jump in there and bring our allies ok time for you lou he has promised better governance let's go back to the parliamentary system the you're talking about earlier can he deliver on that can he shape congo to be better thanks very much for this question again let me tell you personally in the matter of who is a brilliant god. but let me tell you again that congolese constitution say's the government comes from the majority and there's somebody if today you lou wins these paul and he doesn't have the majority of somebody then unfortunately not be able to do anything just for your information the main specific tasks of the head of

state in congo is in foreign affairs and military of is the rest is supposed to be in hands of the prime minister was issued from the majority of assemblies so again let's just don't focus on one person and this sort of growing management in the congo is now ending with joseph kabila which i think is the main important thing that we get out of this election is it ending there if we have said dari replacing him will we not just see more of the same strong man politics the only thing that can keep shut out doing the same think is that if so that it takes the place and the parliament is totally controlled by the same political group then they can mentor and this is the situation if not then i'm sure there is a change tide it's a game changer time ok and if this is the cause of the challenges that are facing say we've got the second deadliest outbreak of ebola in history in parts of the

country all this election uncertainty what does it do when it comes to tackling that major health crisis. well the democratic republic of the congo historically has. some of the best international learning and experience in combating ebola in fact it's been a shame at times that the congolese experience hasn't been used elsewhere it was ignored for a while when there was the crisis in the manner of the union west african countries of guinea see really own in liberia this is the second deadliest outbreak and it's obviously horrible timing that it overlaps with an election but i do think that the congolese have experience they have expertise they have international goodwill to work with them and so i think this is something that we'll probably see a key focus and in twenty nineteen i would say it's one of many problems in the congo but it's not the primary one the time we want to think is about the politics

that the country is facing one to the moment ok and of course another one is the security situation is because you have armed militia groups along the borders marie how fragile is that situation and again in these uncertain times how can that be exploited. you know the security issue is linked to the governance issues as as long as you don't have illegitimate power in kinshasa which everybody recognizes. you will have that weakness. of the extreme parts of the countries be especially in the eastern part where you have or most of the wealth and the mining wealth and as we know. the one of the i would say the main point of all of this and ruling government is that did those they don't even control or i would

say one third of the dared to marry so. that was part of the challenge to organize in any election in that huge country even and you know if you take a regular african country it's still a huge challenge to organize elections saw imagine what it is for a country which is larger than central europe we've no infrastructure we've nothing and so the border issue is is part of all this you know there's no the government is too weak the center of power is too weak so everybody feels empowered to do it to stop wars and do whatever you have you know these appeal to chaos is very strong our lives the ethnic violence they were uses as reasons for

a complete vote postponement in three key opposition areas about benny and young be the people there except there's reasons to not have their vote i think i believe it's not going to be held until march and what impact is that likely to have today it's done and unfortunately these people have been isolated and i hope in the next three miles there will be able to forceful dail on a members of parliaments and this is beyond us but what i'm saying is that the country is huge as is and that is has been saying and that's why i've been insisting on the fact that we had three elections one of them being professional somebody with generates the provincial government with the governor elected among them the most important thing we need to understand is that congo is a decentralized nation to define isn't that constitution and that's where we need to go so that we have

a little management to solve the local problems and if we don't do that should i be isn't part of congo the southern part of congo or the rest of the cong. no it to be mismanaged because it can't just be a minute from kinshasa and that's where the constitution say very clearly that we decentralize country and these election with three elections in one and it's important that we give the importance of each of these elections and sort of we understand that this is a change time and we will not have one person sitting in can just doing everything but ok to be very limited in terms of results so. how likely are we then to see congo's first democratic transition of power if not at the top then at these lower levels that i was talking about well look up see right and it's why we keep hammering the point i think all three of us that coalition politics is going to play a very prominent role in terms of congo's future there's no doubt many congolese one prosperous and stable future and how you unlock that with coalition politics

by for the central level but also the provincial level is going to be the pathway forward. we'll see i mean it's been difficult at times for the opposition as i've already highlighted to to reach a common platform but the dynamics within the assembly may well force pulling together i'm not so worried if we have a symbolic weak central president in the country it's not a bad thing to see an end of strongman politics within central africa if that's what happens and in the democratic republic of congo in particular but it will need a much more assertive political class that will have a longer term developmental vision ok and well the election results will have to show us whether that's possible absolutely we watching very closely indeed many thanks to all our guests for joining us today alcatel maria bello and alex vines.

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stand up for human rights. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the number. one begins with mohammed at a time when i was in libya i was. like any other student i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship rewind on al-jazeera . a message of peace with a threat of force china's president xi jinping says taiwan must remain part of the mainland.

example robyn you're watching al-jazeera headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes searching for survivors in the philippines after flash floods and landslides killed at least eighty five people also brazil's new president promises to crack down on crime but improve the economy question his lack of experience. new horizons for the us it completes the. getting straight. into the program trying to use president xi jinping is not ruling out using military force against those who support independence for taiwan in his first major speech addressing the self rule dialogue she said nobody can change the taiwanese part of china he says people from both sides should seek peaceful reunification wednesday months forty years since beijing offered to communications with taipei

after decades of hostility. 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 part 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. taiwan's president insisted the islands twenty three million people want to maintain self rule. or. 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 have been authorized by the government to sit down and talk with us. in the telling and there is a political analyst who advises the chinese provincial and city government told

economic and development issues he says the chinese president has broken new ground in his speech addressing taiwan. i think it's best to look at this in terms of what it means to taiwan and what it means to parties outside of taiwan i think this is directly aimed part of it at least the explicit use of willingness to use force and things like this at outside influences within between china and taiwan i think he broker new ground by talking about them to have their own army to have a coexistence as one one china two systems and things but i mean there's a this real sharp dividing line between outside interests which we've made very clear will not be accommodated and i think in part he does not want donald trump as he has done in the past to try to use taiwan as a lever especially as these upcoming trade negotiations on the seventh or coming forward well the death toll in the philippines is no eighty five at least twenty

five people still missing rescue operations in areas devastated by the floods and landslides have put but by heavy rain but still will spawn hit just days after christmas displacing some twenty five thousand people this is the very latest war correspondent jamila island in the capital for us jim a lot of the storm has passed now and for the cleanup operation continues for those people that have survived but for the authorities the search and retrieval operation carries on so what's the latest though. well definitely so because these devastations happened in at least three areas across the biko region in one area in particular is in a town called comedy the north they're basically the province called cambodian historic day the roads and the bridges leading to the devastation site has been cut off so now the major issue here not just in retrieval operations but is in rebuilding the infrastructure because it is critical to be able to bring much

needed aid to those who need it most as you know this is a a death photos that has moved very slowly but what is really surprising about this this this devastation in particular as you know you've covered disasters in the philippines because the region is supposed to be the best area when it comes to responding to natural disasters it has in the past achieved its zero casualty goal there was really no declared thai food but because of heavy incessant rains several of these areas suffered. landslides brought about by the flooding and incessant rains protectively local government officials evacuated about twenty thousand people in different parts but that wasn't enough really to stop this from happening so when they did leave it there for them of course keeping. the rescue and recovery operation in the days of boats. was still in the region because the death toll in indonesia has gone up to at least fifteen. indonesia's west java province heavy

rains also calls a wall of mud to bury thirty hurls in the village of service me it is on monday the rescue teams are having trouble searching evils of obvious because of the unstable groomed. so to south asian our two women have become the first to address hindu temple in india's southern state of carola defying hardline protesters the women entered these temple temple early in the morning or avoiding demonstrators from the conservative hindu groups now the temple was historically closed off to women of menstruating age defined as between ten to fifty but india's supreme court overturned that in september while since then protesters have harassed and attacked females have tried to enter the temple and of course this comes after millions of women formed a human chain in support of gender equality following that row over the access to the temple the event looked to counter efforts of right wing groups that support the ban on women the issue has become contentious in the run up to india's general

election which is sure jeweled for either april or may brazil's new president jabal sonera has been sworn in during 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 calls the unity a promise to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy john holmes reports from the capital. standing in the shadow of her hero for christina new year's day is the start of change help with anything 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. to. fulfill joe you've been to model for years he was a low profile congressman now he's been catapulted into power as 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 bilson otto's main promise beating corruption appeals to brazil's political class has been engulfed by scandal. void is full it is about those charges of political favors force trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforward 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 can and not just his supporters leaving his inauguration in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think he will do a great or a good job but this is a man who's admitted he knows little about the economy and who security plan has

revolved around giving people greater access to guns and police more license to kill i'm. also 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. what was a warning perhaps for those who hope there will be a more moderate president then candidate joe you bought some murdo may see no reason to change john heilemann al-jazeera brasilia or stay on the constant u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border to

warn the women and children were among those trying to breach the fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them there's been renewed debate about america's immigration policy after the deaths of two guatemalan children in u.s. custody. the u.s. president says that he's 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 of both parties to the white house on wednesday just a day before democrats take over as the majority party in the house tribes been refusing to sign off on the spending deal unless it included funding for his border war she has returned seen as more from washington d.c. . 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 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 and 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 thursday didn't even reference this meeting in her tweet and her response to the invitation she simply said that she will be pursuing that just lation 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 votes unless they have a guarantee that donald trump will sign that this nation but passes in the senate so we haven't really moved about far well still ahead here new book reveals the planning behind the bit about the show. plus. hong kong reporting on whether china's. laws will be effective and wiping out counterfeit goods in the online marketplace.

through tranquil. and it's an. alligator welcome back to your international weather forecast well here across europe we are still looking at some stormy conditions down across much of the eastern med this been the trend over the last several weeks storm after storm and unfortunately as we go through this week we're going to see back to back storms again across much of this area to the north we are looking at a photo boundary here across the eastern part of europe that's bring some snow across much. that area temperatures today getting a little bit above freezing as you can see warsaw at three vienna at seven but tomorrow those temperatures will struggle to get above freezing across much of that area take a look at kiev as we go towards thursday we're looking at minus one moscow minus one as well here towards the west well the trend over the next week is going to be

quite nice temperatures a little bit lower for london five degrees there but i do think that as we go through the rest of the week we're going to see some very nice conditions plenty of sun across much of this area down here.