you know some time to gain a electoral gain in the next election especially among the upper caste in the riemann's and men as well who you know who were not white. supported in the past for insight into a cost new organization called in. because the roommate this den from b.g. has come through its forward in this particular issue so they're going to gain the same day and they go to some wards from the back or rice and let you know if the b.j. pin gain from this issue is that most a loss for the sort of rule of law and ia because the supreme court did rule that the bad violated gender equality. that is right but because of this particular issue is you know is mixed with religious they've and devotion and things like that the issue of gender equality and other modern

concepts of being completely sent live but not by that because they're seeing the free and religion and you know devotion up much more important and they're being sexist for him at least you know bringing in the last number of manasseh as old instead of the fact that it's the particular board it is supposed to be a group one boarding so exempt and free of being taking sort of you know if friends eat you know that you know instead of issues of greece and men rationality logic you know gender equality and things like that with some other question it is great to get your thoughts on this we really appreciate your time that of m.g. radhakrishnan live in could have been on the program thank you. now we have some very good analysis on the story on our website i'd recommend zina southerns article that's looking at whether the temple has become a rallying point for the hindu far right that's on our web site al-jazeera dot com

let's move on to other news now and donald trump says he's ready to negotiate to bring an end to the partial shutdown of the u.s. government is invited political leaders from both parties to the white house on wednesday where the deadlock between the president and the democrats over the federal budget has already dragged on for nearly two weeks it all began with a vow over border security trump wants nearly six billion dollars to build a wall on the southern border he says it's the only way to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking where the democrats refuse saying the walls a waste of money with no budget agreed around a quarter of u.s. government agencies were forced to shut down about three hundred eighty thousand employees are being forced to take temporary unpaid leave this includes nearly all staff of the country's national parks as well as agencies dealing with housing and taxation another four hundred twenty thousand workers in areas considered essential

astral on the job but they're not being paid and that means border security and customs control at airports will continue without interruption trump is refusing to sign any budget without war funding but his bargaining position may get weaker on thursday when the democrats take over the house of representatives let's go now to our correspondent heidi jocasta she is joining us live from washington d.c. so what are we expecting heidi from this meeting between trump congressional leaders including the democrats trump has been saying tweeting you know he's ready to make a deal but where would the compromise be here. that's the biggest question out there elizabeth because the president is sending mixed messages in a sense a couple days ago he said he wants to make a deal but just this morning he tweeted again kind of digging in on this demand that he wants his five billion dollars worth of funding to build the border wall

that he campaigned on and so he's digging into this position even as he has invited congressional leaders from both parties to meet at the white house this afternoon they're expected to receive a briefing from homeland security that will likely highlight the latest border skirmish which took place in the beginning of this new year along the border of mexico and canada where border patrol agents on the u.s. side fired tear gas to a group of one hundred fifty or so asylum seekers that were trying to get over the existing border fence there so it's difficult to know what exactly will come of to this afternoon's meeting whether it may just be a photo op or whether some real work toward compromise may be achieved what we do know heidi is that tomorrow on thursday the democrats take control of the house of representatives they have their own plans they own bills that they want to polish that will try and fund the shouted government agencies how is all of this going to play out. that's right and democrats see tomorrow as

a real chance to demonstrate to american voters that they as a party can be more effective in governing then republicans who controlled both chambers of congress throughout trump's administration and to that front democrats have already said that they want to pass a stopgap measure bill that would immediately reopen the closed parts of the government and would provide one point three billion dollars of border security funding namely though none of that money is earmarked for donald trump's border wall the president has previously said he will not sign any legislation put before him that does not include wall funding but when it comes down to it if democrats pass this bipartisan bill that is already cleared the senate and if it lands on trump's desk he will have to face that dilemma whether to reopen the government or it's to unilaterally continue this government shutdown and heidi this is of course

that will put more pressure on trumpet other democrats going to face pressure themselves if the crisis is prolonged because they're coming into the house of representatives with their own agenda things that they want to do that's right but they feel very alarmed that they have the leverage going up to this point yes there are more than eight hundred thousand federal workers going in without a pay check now on the twelfth day of the government shutdown and certainly that is a lot of pressure on both sides to come to an understanding but in this game of chicken between the republicans democrats and trump democrats feel that they have the leverage heidi thank you very much for that for now that is heidi joe castrati live in washington d.c. thank you. now why don't you get with in touch with us because we want to hear from you on all of these stories you can send us your comments on any of our online platforms on twitter you can use the hash tag a.j. news good our handle is at a.j. english but also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us

a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus one seven four five zero one chapter one four nine now chinese president xi jinping isn't ruling out using military force against supporters of independence in taiwan and his first major speech addressing the self rhode island she said taiwan's reunification but china is an eval taiwan's leader rejected that statement and said beijing must face reality under schapelle has the story. of a new year's speech with a familiar message. chinese president xi jinping has urged the people of taiwan to accept that it must and will be reunited with china in a speech on the fortieth anniversary of a key policy statement he reiterated beijing's call for peaceful unification. well . we are firmly against any plots 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 the top one is part of china and both sides of the strike belong to china thank. president she has increased pressure on taiwan since the election of psyching when as president in twenty sixteen she leads the pro independence democratic progressive party and on tuesday insisted the island's twenty three million people want to maintain self rule into without the. democratic values and ideals and way of life cherished by taiwan's people we call on china to bravely step out onto the path of democracy only then can they truly understand the persistence and ideals of the taiwanese people. while taiwan is self-governed it has never formally declared independence from the mainland however it has acted as an independent nation since one nine hundred fifty when china's nationalist government leaders fled to the

island after being defeated by communists forces the legitimacy of the ruling government today in china in just on several things as a whole economic governance of people which they have done but secondly she being national. to have to do with the chinese identity is all she can bring bang on about the need for you to take action the credibility of the party who just on their ability to deliver on that goal while in recent years china has become more assertive over its claims over taiwan and it has also managed to convince more of taipei's view international allies to cut diplomatic ties with the island. for now neither side appears to be willing to back down in this longstanding dispute enter chapelle al-jazeera. a group of british politicians and to no national lawyers has asked a visit to detained activists and saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations that they're being tortured and denied legal representation victoria gate and the

reports. this is some of the saudi activists that british politicians and international lawyers are demanding access to they want to investigate allegations that the women who campaigned for the right to drive have been illegally detained. the group also says they've been given electric shocks beaten and threatened with rape adar bam prison in. their quest to visit the women comes as the saudi government continues to struggle with the international fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi the journalist was killed by a saudi hit team in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul in october 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 men women's rights activists in britain is saudi second most

important partner for arms sales and security but the murder shows he has put a spotlight on human rights in the kingdom at least ten women are in prison for demanding more rights seven men who will say being detained for supporting them there are credible allegations that these people have been have been tortured the people as crispin blunt said the indicate the evidence suggests that people involved in the murder of tomato tree or involved in the in the torture and ill treatment of the of the women in men's men men as well in the in in their situation . saudi arabia denies allegations that the detained women are being mistreated the m.p.'s and lawyers have asked for a response by next wednesday to their request to visit the women in jail victoria gate and be i'll just there. and saudi arabia censors have caused another controversy in the world of entertainment what's going on so far well it's actually

for tom the question of how answerable are big corporates to governments and the lack of freedom of expression so here's what's happened the online film provided netflix has removed an episode of the show. from its sites in saudi arabia and here's why do you know what his nickname is. russ asa which means father of the bullet we own ten percent of which makes complete sense saudi arabia and are both places women drivers don't feel safe. they have nine hundred thirty million dollars that's a lot of money you know what's free though not bombing them there are people in saudi arabia fighting for true reform but m.p.'s is not one of them and to those who continue to work with them just know that with every deal you close you were simply hoping entrenched and absolute monarch under the guise of progress because ultimately m.p.'s is not modernizing saudi arabia the only thing he's modernizing

is saudi dictatorship. well the audience might have been laughing for the saudi government certainly wasn't because netflix received a complaint alleging the episode violated the kingdom's cyber crime laws now haasan man has criticised his crown prince mohammed bin some men over the killing of journalists in the saudi concert that happened in istanbul in october and the kingdom's cozy relationship with the us was under scrutiny as well as the imprisonment of political activists including female drivers and saudis involvement in the your war of yemen as you heard then of the streaming service defended its decision saying we strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only remove this episode in saudi arabia after we had received a valid legal request and to comply with local law but using the artistic freedom card didn't quite go down too well with human rights watch in fact the executive director of the middle east and africa division sarah leah

whitson she has tweeted that nets for netflix claim to support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens not artistic she says not political and not comedic either and editor of the washington post that's karen r.t. as she called the decision quite out rageous can see just in the bottom there and some people have been sharing the link actually to it on you tube which can be watched from saudi arabia at least for the time being but people have been pointing out that if anything sad reviews move has given the show publicists and ironically it's his most viewed patriot act episode on you tube and it's got about more than one million views both south thank you very much now do get in touch with we want to hear from you on these stories we've had a couple of good comments on the u.s. government shutdown. says why is trump forcing the democrats and republicans to sign the trump was all when he claimed that mexico would pay. for the wall and bill

saying the same thing the president has promised that mexico will pay for what abdul calls his racist wall then why has he now shut down the government for the money you can get in touch with us on twitter using the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is at a.j. english but also on facebook or messages on whatsapp or telegram plus line seven for five avan triple one for nine for our viewers watching on facebook check out this video to remember the national focus the lost last year in a nation china tries to clean up its reputation as a major source of fake goods. hello again we're here across the laval we are watching several storm systems and that is going to cause some problems across much of the area so look at the clouds are here

on the satellite here on thursday we're going to be seeing a storm system parachute passing from iraq over towards iran we're going to see a mix of rain and snow as well tehran we're going to be seeing a mix for you as well with the terms they're all getting to nine degrees but as we go towards friday that storm system makes its way through the quickly over here towards the east pushing to afghanistan with mostly snowy conditions in your forecast over here towards the west though another storm system coming out of the mediterranean you can see up here towards turkey rain is going to be the problem but in the higher elevations it will be the snow also some rain down here towards parts of syria as well as down here towards parts of beirut as well well as a break away down here towards the gulf we're going to see some clouds across the northern part of the gulf that is a frontal system not a lot of rain in that but mostly clouds and what that means is once a pushes through the winds coming out of the south are going to be changing to winds out of the north or the northwest and that means here in doha we're going to see our tempers coming down also to about twenty three degrees over towards riyadh

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streaming online and trending online at al-jazeera. and the ones who requested a visit to detained the activists to see how they're being treated china president xi jinping saying that they won't give up. the indian woman who defined. millions. against it and in support of the supreme court. to enter the temple a deeper. connection all that and much more on a website. called. china has introduced a new door to regulate its bost a call us industry the legislation hopes to protect online consumers and

intellectual property and clean up the country's reputation as a major source of fake vehicle paula reports now from hong kong as a series looking into noodles and 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 in the uk all high cost is risky i don't sell any products on online shopping pass forms in china because it feels 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 past in selling the 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 countess 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 there are concerns it could give the government yet another form of control over the internet where it could rain an activity that was once the outside its influence 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 will be enforced maybe that if complaints aren't responded to quickly enough where a business has been improperly accused of an ip violation maybe they face sanctions mini 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 pardon our desire of hong kong. let's get more on this knowledge on by steve sang in nottingham he's the director of the china institute at the university of london's school of oriental and african studies very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so why do you think the chinese government is taking the step now i think it's media has to deal with the ongoing tree war between the united states and china the biggest issue in the

trade will read about intellectual property rights protection and about equal access but at the moment the trama ministration useful can sing or and the trade imbalance but the chinese do we have large that in terms. you know the state is joined by many other countries so i do have to do something to the addressing this issue so that they have passed a law or bought how effective will it be and how serious do you think china is about enforcing the law or you know beyond appearing to be doing something about it . well i think they are serious to enforce the law or. the end horsemen of the law will not cause major unwanted economic and social consequences in china so you're talking about enforcing the law breaking a significant part of the economy or causing not chinese losing their jobs then i

think they may well be. more creative if you know how to enforce the law or what do you mean by more creative. which means that they will enforce the law strictly ok well we're talking about e-commerce law here but how much of your we know counterfeit sales would you say our online and is anything being done to stop the sale of counterfeit goods on the streets well there are huge number of counterfeit goods being sold on in various online platforms in fact that most of your. difficulties that you buy are nine hundred even outside of china and you in the end went through some of those platforms in china so we're talking about a very large quantity and there are also a huge amount of counterfeit goods being saw on the streets in different parts of

china in china as well now just to enforce the law against all these will be very very difficult in the best option. and of course there are always political considerations in the enforcement of a law ladies has to say it's very good to get your expertise on this that is save sang joining as live from nottingham thank you. now a tropical cyclone is heading for thailand and myanma storm has already brought a mass of thunderstorms to vietnam and as it makes landfall this will be the first time that a cyclon has had thailand in january and at least sixty a good as well we're joined now by our meteorologist kevin scott why a stone so rare here heaven well if you first of all the time of the year where we've never like we said we've never seen a star cycle or make landfall you had a depression storm typhoon in this time you know it's winter the waters are cooler

but when you talk about this particular area it's not like it's open to the pacific like say the philippines or taiwan this is area is really kind of guarded by land the only water that's commune to it is the gulf of thailand so the storm is actually positioned really correctly to stay in open water in the gulf of thailand until it makes landfall in about forty eight hours so they're rare but when they happen as we've seen and the pasta was i think harriet and with a history that deadly that's right in one thousand nine hundred it was a one thousand nine hundred sixty two we're talking tropical storm harriet making a very similar path as what this is can we show the these satellite real quick of where the storm is located so you see where the storm is located right now just the southern part of the coast of vietnam the storm's going to be making a turn to the northwest in forty eight hours we do think we're going to sing landfall this is a very similar path as what harriet made as a tropical storm and harriet we're talking over nine hundred people are dead

because of that storm of course we're talking one thousand nine hundred two things were a little bit different than but they also saw ten thousand people made homeless by the storm i don't think the numbers are going to be anything like this but still they don't see storms like this every day like this in the philippines does so this is something we're watching i unfortunately the flooding is going to be a major issue here i don't think the winds can be a problem but storm surge and waves are going to be a big problem when can. predict which areas will be affected and as you said this isn't a regular occurrence in thailand so given that just how prepared are authorities for something like this where they have had plenty of time and the joint typhoon warning center has the warnings out they have the path out not only for thailand across myanmar and then into the admin see where it's expected to still stay a tropical storm we do think that with this particular storm we're talking anywhere between two hundred and four hundred millimeters of rain in a period of about twelve to twenty four hours across this area very mountainous so

that's where we're seeing flash flooding in landslides a big problem here of course flooding when you talk about storms like this flooding flash flooding is always the top killer when you're talking about storms can thank you very much for that thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making news around the world israel's public security minister has vowed to make conditions worse the palestinian prisoners get the jails would soon begin rationing water and reducing or ptolemy given to president of representatives off some israeli security agencies have previously raised objections to such proposals the group representing palestinian president says some of the policies have already been put in place. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is also moving ahead with plans to expand illegal settlements as he launches his re-election bid last week israel announced to extend an existing settlements south of bethlehem from there stephanie

deck of the polls. we are deep in the occupied west bank just south of bethlehem we're trying to find the location israel has earmarked for the latest announcement of its illegal settlement expansion an area rights groups are calling to it's striking how many settlements are already cut across this land land that is meant to be part of a future palestinian state. resident need for wagner helps us find the hills a small group of settlers are already here. for example take bethlehem their settlement block in from the north and road sixty from the west and the settlement of efrat from the south and to koa is there behind us what's going to happen to us what's left where should we palestinians breathe when you're looking for west bank today it's not a listing and continuities you're going to continue to between the villages and

cities all e business zero. to five g. is an expert in the geography of the land where the settlements are and what their presence means here's your resilience so we have a big live view of settlements this is the more than any bloke and you have to give i was able broke on my earlier that we look at me in the big kind of go to. the jordan valley but it's more dangerous than this one it's me in that all the biggest city in north of this garage it's your own will be divided for two pieces one of them is surrounded with certainly in the north and second settlement and so there is no go for the city one word the rights group peace now is fighting this latest expansion in the courts arguing this land should be allocated for palestinians not to build more illegal settlements i'm afraid that the coming months before elections will be used by the settlers to set facts on the ground that the

government will not want to fight against and the government will issue new plans a new. fact because they feel that it's a window of opportunities not knowing what will be after the elections and with trumpets ministration in their back they can do whatever they want back in the west bank on a road that skims a small palestinian village we come across to israeli settlers. we ask them where the new allocated area is. and they say it's in the settlement of a from what they believe that this is their land given to them by god unless there is significant pressure on israel by the united states and the international community to reverse this decision peace now tells us that it's only a matter of a couple of years until see bulldozers arrive here and start building thousands more illegal settlement homes stephanie decker al-jazeera south of buffalo him in the occupied west bank to the philippines now where rescue workers a struggling to reach areas cut off by floods and landslides that have killed at

least eighty five people storm just days after christmas displacing about twenty five thousand state of calamity has been declared in three provinces at least fifteen people are dead in indonesia after a series of landslides in west java province twenty people are still missing and as mariana harmed reports the rescue effort is being hampered by ongoing heavy rain and the threat of more landslides. the wall of mud and debris came without warning just before sunset on new year's eve. it was about one hundred people live in the village of tsunamis me it slammed into the heinz burying at least thirty buildings mimi up to their broods. around to the back of my house and saw the bomb turn upside down and then be carried away our source soil so much soil coming my way very very fast at least thirty five people are thought

to have been swallowed up by the landslide survivors and rescue workers for the most part using basic tools they hands and to clear the thick mud to find survivors and the deeds but this is dangerous work ongoing heavy rainfall on the unstable soil has triggered at least full more landslides hampering the refits soon it is me village is on the hill one of more than sushi areas within the sukhumi district that disaster relief officials head assist to be at medium to high risk because you are not in to create your policy to make sure. you use the wave relief invest jeff is really weiss and. but that's little comfort for those whose family and friends i did well still missing so we wanted a little that day my brother was visiting me down at the beach in the afternoon he

said he wanted to return to his house i asked him to stay overnight but he said no i'm afraid of the tsunami and then i heard what happened there i came straight away to look for him. indonesia was hit by more than two and a half thousand disasters in two thousand and nineteen including earthquakes cannick eruptions tsunamis and landslides. this disaster on the last day of the year took the death toll for two thousand. and eighteen across indonesia to more than three thousand the highest number in more than a decade median hond to syria. well families have been displaced and myanmar's a rock and state the u.n. says some twenty five hundred people were forced out of their homes after fighting the sea between security forces and a buddhist group called the other khan army and twenty seven taken a military campaign there drove more than seven hundred and thirty thousand muslims

into neighboring bangladesh. a train crash in denmark has killed at least six people the accident happened on the great belt bridge which links the central danish islands of zealand and fen the passenger train was heading towards the capital copenhagen when it was hit by the roof of a cargo train that was blown off by strong winds the bridge has been closed while authorities investigate now 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 that nicholas hay some would no longer be allowed to work in somalia a few days ago hasten wrote a letter to the interior security minister and in it he asked for information about the arrest of a former al-shabaab leader turned politician and civilian deaths and protests that followed last month. japan's emperor akihito has given his final new year's speech ahead of his his abdication in april tens of thousands of people filled the core charge of the royal residence in tokyo eighty five year old akihito was joined by

his wife and eldest son as he watched the japanese people peace and happiness and for akihito will be the first monarch in two hundred years to step down from the throw. now argentina is known to have the best polo in the world and one of the reasons why is the quality of its horses but it's not all down to nature animal cloning has become common practice in the sport and has to raise a boy reports it's also created a heated discussion about the ethics of such practices. horses at the most important tournaments in the world they may all look the same except that a few of these horses are clones. they were created here at this center fifty kilometers outside when a site has had a man keiser explains that to clone a horse they take tissue from the neck of the animal they want to copy then what's generated out of that tissue is inserted into an empty cell. there's no sperm

here it's considered a sexual reproduction even though the initial cell we want to clone had a mother and a father. then they wait for a few days to see if the procedure is successful so they can later implant the embryo. this fall as you can see here is a clone of course said if playing argentina with polio championship it was created in a laboratory and implanted in this way it is expected to be as good as the original version. has been leading the cloning process in argentina he says that cloning has helped them accelerate the record auction process of what is considered an exceptional horse. but we cannot clone experiences what nature does we copy it in a lab and it has inefficiencies it's always an imitation of nature and even though

we reset tissue to start from the beginning we cannot delete the genetic marks in the d.n.a. so it's not crazy to think that the clones are born with more experience than in the original animal. considered argentina's best polo player has cloned his mare quite a bit more than a dozen times the mayor and her clones are the stars of every tournament in the country. they don't know part of the discussion over the ethics of horse cloning has forced the polo association to regulate what can be allowed in the industry if they get a lemon that there is a big debate eight hundred twenty five laboratories want to mutate change and adapt and that's why our association with the government decided that cloning is one thing and manipulating genetically is something else. the demand for horses is what has made this industry and even though ethical questions about animal cloning remain it has allowed some of argentina's best horses to transcend in time.

when a site is. now off a path and from new york university school of medicine spoke to us about the consequences of animal cloning and why he thinks that's an ethical. cloning gives an obvious advantage to those able to afford to do it it's not cheap to clone horses very expensive probably one of the few sports where the participants could get away with it is polo where there's a lot of wealth. but it undermines fair play and again no one would be cloning horses if it didn't give an advantage to those who can write them the problem is when you clone a horse or for that matter any enema whether it's for sports or food there is danger of making an in a mole with genetic problems with birth defects or prone to diseases we saw that long ago with dolly the sheep viewers who remember that she died early and had many

many diseases cloning carries risks and so the horse may not be as healthy if things work out well and you could get an excellent horse people are not sure whether they should permit this and i don't think they should in sport it also comes up in farming because again you might make in a militia that can produce a lot of meat or wool or whatever at the cost in terms of to formed in a ml's or dead in a ml's is very hot so i think in a mill welfare mitigates against cloning right now unless we make some progress in making it safe for boy it's difficult to justify. coming up on the news the mascot who has a fall from grace said i'm a just. explain just ahead. let's

find out what people are talking about and sports today is joe and as a thank you india's cricket fans are building up to work could be a historic few days their team goes into the fourth and final test match against australia with a chance to win a series for the first time in the country the final match will begin in sydney on thursday with india leading the series two one as with many international cricket matches there's been plenty of trash talks and staying the fans during india's win in melbourne the mike friends picked up a straining captain tim payne sledging india's punts has been stood down for the match paintings dim by asking if he could babysit while the mats one got the last loft when he posed with payne's wife holding one of the australian captain's

children boney pain also caption the picture best brain he says has gone viral with puns winning praise for being good sports even pain was impressed we were obviously the parents house yesterday i. just had a quick chat to resharpen my wife actually happen to be there so we just had grabbed a quick photo and he was a good sport and easy on the field so to be honest. favorites by a night of i would have banter between two week capers which is being pretty light hearted and pretty friendly so. i enjoy the way he guys are bad it always shocked by that why would always he's i just he looks like he has a hell of a lot of fun. now there is plenty of fun and games surrounding one of america's biggest sporting spectacles of the year first though serious stuff the boston bruins beat the chicago blackhawks four two in the end eight shells winter classic

it marks the start of the year and it took place at notre dame stadium home of the football team known as the fighting irish and the players played up to be patient you want to win those games when you're on a big stage like that i know it's a regular season game but still you know the meaning is different when you're playing from memphis and seventy six thousand people in in on national t.v. so we know it's what's at stake in those games and you know you make the most of it so i think it's a very thrilling work room and guys were i thought it was fun and great to it now you may have noticed those two bruins dressed the little differently let's call it challenge channeling their gangsta look the story behind the outfits is that on a pre-season trip to china the team got hooked on the netflix t.v. show peaky blinders it's about a twentieth century english gang they figured it would be fitting for a game at the home of the fighting irish and it's been

a big hit and remember how we told you know the dame is usually a football stadium well maybe that explains the leprechaun losing his footing he's the indiana university's famous mascot and obviously more at home on a footy field but at least he showed the pluck of the irish on this occasion in picking himself up and carrying on. wasn't good day all round for mascots on cheese day there was an incident at college football's sugar bowl georgia's bulldog mascot go was enjoying his moment in the limelight when his university of texas counterpart be vote a huge longhorn steer to exception the vote charge knocking down a metal barriers separating the mascot luckily his handlers were able to calm him down and it was a dog who was on harmed although journalists was left with a few scrapes from the ball and the whole thing didn't end well for the university

of texas mascot as this twitter user pointed out it looks like the vote is in timeouts having to look at the wall and not the game or he did become a global trend for a while and texas won the game. leah will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to liz joe thank you very much for that and that will do it for this news grid remember to keep in touch with us on social media the hash tag as ever at a news group we'll see you back here in studio fourteen at ten fifteen hundred g.m.t. on thursday. water

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on a ballot for mr barr you're watching al-jazeera life from london also coming up. president trump has to meet republican and democratic leaders seeking to end the twelve day partial government shutdown. the number killed by landslides and flooding in the philippines rises to eighty five as rescuers reach cars off communities. and six killed when a passenger train hits daybreak from a cargo train on a bridge linking denmark's teammate alliance. other two women in india have defied religious hardliners and entered one of the world's largest hindu pilgrimage sites the shopping mall the temple doesn't allow women of menstruating age inside the shrine despite a ruling by india's supreme court lifting the ban the move by the two women has led

to process and a backlash from conservative hindu groups has the latest. the under the cover of darkness and escorted by police these two women defied religious hardliners by entering one of hinduism holiest shrines the shop every mullah temple in the southern state of carola which attracts millions of worshippers ear their historic move is backed by india supreme court which in september ordered the authorities to lift the ban on women or girls between the ages of ten and fifty from entering the temple. but the temples authorities refused to abide by the court's ruling and subsequent attempts by women to visit have been blocked by thousands of the booties supporting the ban. conservative hindu group say they believe women of menstruating age would defile the temples in her shrine local media is reporting the chief priest briefly shut the temple for purification

rituals it disappear ne ne's she offered up politics and elected in politics by am saying days after these two women ended up being shy and dead in a year but dad the a.d.d. atmosphere in that replay in my eyes is so peaceful that even there have been these three men very endearing babbit not object deaded not paris is their very very peacefully silent yeah allowing gays to be men to war and what ship before that border. the care of a state president of the hindu nationalist party claims that these events are politically motivated the be dippy the bin thing the local government plan what happened there declared a mission to start. to achieve this commune is going to photo any devious means advantage to be did this. on tuesday millions of women from across the state formed a six hundred twenty kilometer human chain and called it the woman's wall it's an

issue that's become increasingly contentious in the run up to india's general elections scheduled for may on the door such a party al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to compromise to end the possible government shutdown which has been in place for twelve days president trump has invited political leaders from both parties to the white house a day before democrats take over the majority policy in the house of representatives trump has been refusing to sign off on any new spending unless it into five billion dollars to his mexico border wall the shutdown is affecting thousands of public employees. the former republican presidential candidate mitt romney has attacked president trump in an article for the washington post's romney who's an incoming senator for utah said trump has not risen to the mantle of the office he said he agreed with many of trump's policies but quote with the nation so divide is resentful and angry presidential leadership in qualities of character is

indispensable and it is in this province where the incumbent shortfall has been the most glaring let's go to zero as heidegger castro she's live in washington d.c. for so heidi an important meeting later between trump and various political leaders what do you expect to come out of this meeting clearly there's pressure on all sides isn't that to come to some sort of compromise to end the shutdown. that's right felicity because we are now in day twelve of this partial government shutdown with more than eight hundred thousand federal workers going without a paycheck this afternoon's meeting is a bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders of both parties and trump but while republicans will be present the real negotiations will take place between the democrats and trump himself that is because there's already a bipartisan bill that had already cleared the senate that is pending it would devote about one point three billion dollars toward border security though not to

the wall per se so the question is whether trump would sign off on that bill once it clears the democratically controlled house that will be sworn into office tomorrow and then the pressure will be on for trying to decide whether to keep the government shutdown over his demand for that full five billion dollars to build the border wall that he campaigned upon or whether to reach a compromise and all eyes will be on him because if he were not to sign that bipartisan bill then he would have to take full responsibility for unilaterally extending this government shutdown early we sure are sorely missed ago those stating coleman's made by mitt romney in president trump how significant is his comments do you think. that's right they were pretty remarkable these this op ed written in the washington post by mitt romney who is no newcomer to national politics of course he was the republican nominee for president in two thousand and

twelve and he went on to write that trump's conduct over the past two years particularly his actions last month referencing that withdrawal of u.s. troops that announcement to do so in syria and afghanistan is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantel of the office as romney's writes and it's a question of why romney decided to renew this criticism in this this relationship that has made a turn for the worse with with trump now romney will be sworn into office as a freshman senator tomorrow so this certainly sets him up to be the new intraparty critic of trump from republicans themselves but there's also speculation that romney may have other motives that he could be getting ready for an unlikely but still possible bid to challenge trump in the republican primaries in two thousand and twenty such a thing would be a long shot it's very rarely undertaken in u.s. politics for a member of a sitting president's party to challenge him for reelection however it may happen

trump still remains very popular with his core of republican voters who do vote in primaries recently all living in very unusual political films there in the u.s. custer in washington thank you. now rescue workers in the philippines are struggling to reach areas caused by floods and landslides that have killed at least eighty five people storm hit shortly after christmas devastating central provinces the casualties including children were mostly killed when their homes collapsed a state of calamity has been declared in three provinces to give them access to emergency phones and jochen has moved from manila or those rescue operations the main focus remains to be rescue and retrieval operations but local government officials also say the critical part here is infrastructure that is because the

roads and bridges leading to several areas in the beagle region have been destroyed these are critical because much needed aid need to be brought as you know be called province this might be always at the forefront of natural disasters here is seem to be the best when it comes to emergency response in the past it has always achieved its zero casualty goal but not this time there was not even a declared typhoon but due to incessant and heavy rains several areas suffered landslide there have been triggered by flooding this is something that surprises local government officials here they had protectively evacuated more than twenty thousand people in preparation for this heavy rains but that did not stop this disaster at least fifteen people have died in indonesia after a series of landslides in west java province twenty people are still missing but it's not

a honda reports the rescue effort is being trampled by ongoing heavy rain and the threat of more landslides. the wall of mud and debris came without warning just before some seat on new year's eve. it was about one hundred people live in the village of tsunamis me it slammed into the heinz burying at least thirty buildings many up to their bruce. i'm going to have to run to the back of my house and saw the bomb turned upside down and then be carried away our source so much soil coming my way very very fast at least thirty five people are thought to have been swallowed up by the landslide survivors and rescue workers for the most part using basic tools they head and to clear the thick mud to find survivors and the deeds but this is dangerous work ongoing heavy rainfall on the unstable

soil has triggered at least full more landslides hampering the refits soon it is me village is on the hill one of more than thirty areas within the sukhumi district that disaster relief officials head assist to be at medium to high risk because you . have to create your policy to make sure. you use their way of relief invest is really weiss and. but that's little comfort for those whose family and friends did well still missing. that day my brother was visiting me down at the beach in the afternoon he said he wanted to return to his house i asked him to stay overnight but he said no i'm afraid of the tsunami and then i heard what happened there i came straight away to look for him. indonesia was hit by more than two and a half thousand disasters in two thousand and nineteen including earthquakes. tsunamis and landslides. this disaster on the last day of the

year took the death toll for two thousand and eighteen across indonesia to more than three thousand the highest number in more than a decade made in holland. six people are being killed in a train crash on a bridge in denmark it is the country's worst rail accident. bridge where it happened connects denmark's two main islands reports. images from inside the danish passenger train show the extent of the damage. one hundred thirty four people were on board when police say it was hit by an unknown object during high winds six passengers were killed several others were injured it's believed that deborah from a passing freight train possibly a tarpaulin may have come loose and hit the train prompting the driver to brakes.