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a democratic controlled house of representatives as members elected november's mid-term elections take their seats the democrats say they introduce legislation to end the government shutdown but without agreeing to border wall the incoming one hundred sixteen congress is the most. racially diverse more women were elected than ever before and first term has been through the first female muslim congresswoman the first native american congresswoman as well as the youngest representatives. let's talk about this now with our senior political analyst model new congress as we've been reporting since those midterm elections the most diverse and significant especially given the context in which this is taken place and this us president absolutely this is a very. political statement by the american people if you were it's the same

emerick of people who also voted for barack obama twice to be president the first african-american president for that matter and then voted for trump to become president but trump reinterpreted his presidency to be very creative and america the sort of white male supremacy is back in. in washington and i think this midterm election produced a new diverse america with lots of women in congress women lots of people as you said from different ethnic background in order to say that america is not exclusively white and male but rather is very diverse and diverse not only in terms of color in terms of gender but also diverse in terms of its. political sociological and economic. vision so in a way this congress will contrasts sharply with the administration is so much so

that i think the next two years will be continuous showdown between congress especially the house of representatives and the white house so you think that this house is going to make things a lot tougher for president trump i mean he warned them just after the midterm elections that if they do that he won't work with them what do you think look i think all the signs are on the wall now beginning with this warning nonsupport lucy the perspective house speaker saying that indicting a sitting. that then is not unheard of it's not illegal and the american justice department did not say the last word on this issue and let's remember congress is supreme in the united states it is that state of body and for the speaker of the house to say you never know if robert mueller does come out with a smoking gun does come out with the proof that there is

a collusion between that time campaign and russia that congress might want to act in the i think this president if that is the opening tone of the speaker of the house and also one of the leading republican senators mitt romney who was before also a presidential candidate to say yesterday in an article today for us that an article in the washington post that the american president is lacking in character and really talking about lies and deception and so on so forth so certainly we do have a house. of representatives dominated by democrats that are quite critical of the president they would probably be probing him they're going to be investigating him they're going to be investigating his family his foundation his campaign his lies even his policy toward saudi arabia and the crown prince so i think it's going to be two years of

a showdown and i think americans so many words is going to be probably preoccupied i think the white house is going to puke occupied so what that preoccupation does that leave how much room does that leave for any kind of you know policies to be implemented for an agenda domestic or foreign i think domestically we're going to have to we're going to we're going to have a real polarization between congress and the white house in every possible issue and again the opening no it was of course the closing of the government it was the border wall and the democrats insist they're going to be not going to give. the white house the budget is required for the wall they will give a maximum one point three billion dollars for security now for the war so a so it domestically is going to be part of the system polarization in terms of foreign policy i think it's going to be interesting to look at what's going to happen with the murder investigation generally speaking i don't expect the next two

years to produce any coherent well thought through strategic policies by the united states internationally because but isn't thrown past proved to be easily distracted and he will be too occupied with congress and with the various probs but and you're probably too young to remember that but twenty years ago last month bill clinton was also in a position where he was quite pressured by congress it was prob he was impeached because of the lewinsky affair. thing that happened back then with an enter in the light at the white house and so on so forth but he was so pressured in order to create a distraction he ordered operation desert fox what was that that was four days of bombing iraq why not because he did end up with any of the results in iraq simply because he needed a military operation in order to start the american people from what he was doing i'm afraid that person trump is capable of doing even worse than bill clinton so

i'm looking for maybe march april when the more the reporters expect to come out and if there's a smoking gun if there is any sort of a condemnation of the president for coalition with russia or any such deception or illegality i think we're going to have the american president reckless in a rush and irrationally but this is mean no more tensions with china over the south china sea bombing the e.u. on anything else it's not clear to me but certainly it's a is a very dangerous road at best it's going to be perilous it is a worse. it could be war. thank you for that and i think your political analyst. let's go to roslyn jordan now she's going to tell us more about what the democratic house take all of a could mean for the trump presidency new year new session of congress the public's

expectations of success are high the american public is so much more engaged than they normally are they are paying attention to politics they're not just letting things happen after the november elections the republicans retain control of the senate but it's the democrats who now run the house their ranks are younger more liberal more ethnically diverse and filled with many more women. they want to check president don't trump policies and to pass legislation of their own immigration reform investigating saudi arabia's ties to the u.s. and expanding health care coverage. but first ending the federal government shutdown how dangerous is this and why we need a wall the president wants up to five billion dollars for a border wall between the u.s. and mexico and he says he won't reopen the government unless he gets that money democrats say they won't give the president money for anyone that means eight

hundred thousand federal workers aren't being paid and a variety of federal services are not available until further notice the president seems to be stuck on a wall or barrier or whatever it is that he's calling it today but i think that they've given him plenty of options plenty of ways to open the government president trub owns the shutdown he is the person who said that he was going to shut down the government he needs to go away from an impractical wall and we're going to reopen the government break up. a kind of gridlock reading the members of the one hundred sixteenth congress their first chance to show the public that they can solve the most difficult of political problems and ross is joining us live from capitol hill now so talk us through what's happened so far and what we're expecting ra's. well the session of the one hundred sixteenth congress has opened currently all

four hundred thirty five members of the house of representatives are voting on a new speaker it's widely expected to be nancy pelosi and this would be her second time in the post the first time that would have happened since sam rayburn did it in the late one nine hundred fifty s. joining me now to talk about what is facing the new congress as it opens this new session is jennifer victor she is a political analyst with george mason university in northern virginia jennifer thanks so much for joining us here in algiers sending me. the first order of business it seems is dealing with the government shutdown the budget impasse how difficult do you think it's going to be for democrats who now control the house republicans who control the senate and the white house to resolve this financial crisis and looks like it's going to be quite difficult there really is no daylight between it was issues of the parties where in any and unusual situation here where

we don't just have divided government the president of one party and the house of representatives have another party but we also have divided congress where the house and senate are controlled by different parties so that's a relatively unusual set of circumstances that makes it even more complicated for us to. for anyone to try to negotiate and find common ground on a prickly issue so to start off the new congress with a sizable portion of the government in operable is it is a difficult situation and then of course there was a lot of energy that drove the two thousand and eighteen midterm election a lot of people have come to washington saying they're going to do things very differently that they're not going to do or get along just to make things happen in the most house of the fashioned do you think that energy could. somehow undermine the efforts to find compromise on the budgets shutdown i could see

a scenario where that's possible to happen i wouldn't exist back to to the new energy that's come in i think what we're going to see is the democratic party in the democratic leadership in the house of representatives under nancy pelosi trying to strike a balance between harnessing that new energy hundred twenty six women coming into the house of representatives an unprecedented number still less than twenty five percent of the of the chamber but still more women than we've ever seen and more women of color and native american women and muslim women and so forth and more veterans than we've ever seen before and so on the democratic side at least the house is going to look much different than it did before and have different priorities and different energies and i do think the party and the leadership wants to tap into that energy and wants to respect that at the same time if they just did everything that the newbies want to do that's that's why you have leaders to come in and be a bit more measured and to think more long term about strategy and so i think we're going to see a balance between a nod toward some of the more progressive substantive things that this this new

blood is bringing in and demanding and what the leadership wants to do in terms of . you know the number one job any speaker of the house has is to maintain seats in the chamber nancy pelosi is only job is to control the chamber in terms of being able to keep the majority of seats in the coming election in the next election in two thousand and twenty and so she has to find a balance in how to do that how to allow some progressive stuff to come forward but not have it be so off the rails that they lose the more moderate members of their caucus and for the republicans they're in a different position themselves not as much control as they just as of yesterday yeah that's right so in the house it makes all the difference in the world as to which party is in control being in the minority party in the house of representatives is is really a challenging position for any party to fight. themselves since the republicans in the house won't have control over committees or what the agenda is or what bills

come forward so there their job is going to be to sit around and say no basically do what they can to try to strike deals i do think there's one area where republicans and democrats might find some some compromise and some room for movement and that's in the area of transportation infrastructure traditionally historically in the united states that's been one policy area that republicans and democrats have all been able to get behind president trump has made a lot of remarks about wanting to make some movement on transportation and infrastructure and it's often been something for a long time it's been something that democrats have gotten a lot of wear out of and so it seems like it's possible if we have a lot of infrastructure needs in this country i think that's an area where it's possible to do something but in order for that to happen both sides would have to decide that they want to do something on policy on policy grounds and we don't see any signs of that yet but what about foreign policy we saw a lot of movement in the last few weeks of the one hundred fifty thousand dollars on saudi arabia its position in the world its behavior. republicans and democrats

coming together to condemn what they saw will that kind of bipartisan energy continue i think it's possible that we will see some more foreign policy rebukes from capitol hill towards the white house especially on on these issues that we've seen already with the journalist. and there was another topic that came up that just escapes me where they also sort of. with the with yemen and i think there was there was also something in southeast asia in any case there does seem to be some energy particularly in the senate which is where you would normally see some foreign policy impetus coming from for them to perhaps rebuke the senate or the president from time to time on the other hand at this point it seems to mostly be symbolic they're not withholding any funds which you know the power of the purse is the main power that congress has and over the last number of decades this is not a recent thing the congress has really abdicated most of their foreign policy prowess to the executive branch of government and the white house and the executive

branch is much more powerful has many more resources in reality to do anything on foreign policy or military wise than congress does so it's traditional sort of for congress to push back against that every once in a while but they don't really have the institutional legs to stand on to really challenge the president in a very in a strongly substantive way on those issues. there jennifer victor of george mason university thanks so much for joining us here on elgin sara thank you and elizabeth one note to get in they are still casting the ballots in determining who will be the new house speaker the former house speaker kevin mccarthy is running against john vance who pulls lead but it is widely assumed that nancy pelosi the former house speaker will be assuming that position again perhaps in the next hour when the votes are counted. ross thank you very much for that jordan live on capitol hill. now we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including turkey and the u.s.

. extradition of. masterminding the. failed. being sold on the street. and novak djokovic. in. saudi arabia says the eleven suspects in the murder of jews. have faced court for the first time the state prosecutor's office has said in a statement that they seeking the death penalty for five of them but no names have been released and it's not known. felony and a cd to have recently dismissed senior officials linked to crown prince mohammed bin said mom are among those charge which has been following riyadh's handling all

. it was almost two months ago that the saudi prosecutor general's office held this press conference where they finally admitted that it was saudi nationals officials who were behind the murder of saudi journalists. back then they named eleven suspects they believed to be behind the murder of the journalist now those suspects they said that they were going to question them that they were being detained and in fact they were seeking the death penalty for five of those suspects remember was turkey that initially released photos of the people they believed to have formed that hit squad that flew into istanbul just before that fateful auto by the second and killed the journalist in the consulate now what is significant with regards to these latest developments on thursday is that the saudis are claiming that the first trial in the case of these eleven suspects has taken place or at least the

first hearing obviously that wasn't open to the media it wasn't open to international human rights organization and there is a lot of skepticism as to whether this trial will actually enjoy and you form of. professionalism or justice considering that the saudi narrative from the very beginning with regards to the murder of jamal control she has changed almost on a weekly basis from them denying that he was still in the saudi consulates or then saying that they didn't know whether he was killed or not to then finally admitting that he was dead and then saying that it was an accident and much later on admitting that he was killed however it was a rogue operation throughout all of this time many people have been accusing the highest levels within the kingdom namely crown prince mohammed bin settlement of ordering the killing of. the saudis say that they are showing that they are trying to seek justice obviously the turks view that any justice to be served has to be done so inside turkey considering that this crime took place in its. ball there has

been also a third call by rights organizations that believe that an independent investigation needs to take place one not led by turkey or by saudi arabia but maybe by a body like the united nations this latest developments will be used or highlighted by the saudis as we mentioned to show that they are seeking justice but skepticism with regards to riyadh's true intentions remains extremely high anti-government protests are continuing and saddam calling for president omar al bashir to step down and rest has prompted two of the mining parties in his governing coalition to pull out and she says foreign enemies are behind the demonstrations and the country's economic problems due to international sanctions. well. look we are under siege we face war we have lost our main revenue but we still stand firm we are suffering but we still stand firm and we are working hard to sort

out all the problems despite the siege we have put an end to the villains we have brought security we've started unprecedented dialogue because these are the people of sudan but our correspondent have a morgan has more from them. president bashir said he is going to try to improve the living situation for thousands of people who have been protesting for a few days now now protests have been going on for more than two weeks people have been demanding that president are going to share step down and his twenty nine year rule it all started in the city of god but on the nineteenth of december when the people complained about the increased prices and the high inflation rate which was seventy percent one of the highest in the world now that's quickly escalated to people demanding that president i'm going to shoot step down and hand over rule to an interim government until elections are held people have imports i think by thousands coming out to the streets saying that they want to topple the regime and they want to see a new government being formed so that the economic situation will improve obviously in response to his promise which was not said for the first time and he actually

said it the first time days after the process started people have been saying that they've heard this from us before he said it over and over again during his twenty one year rule and that the only thing they want to see is a new regime because they have no faith in the way he's been running things and where his ruling party has been running things now while people have been protesting several opposition groups have lent their support to the people who've been do want to trade and they say that these people have legitimate reasons to be out in the streets to be demanding a new government and to be demanding that i'm going to share step down now obviously president i want to she has been very defiant he said he's not going to step down that he's going to try to reduce the inflation by nearly a third to down to down to twenty seven percent obviously this has not been met with with great with positive vibes from people who've been demonstrating today there have been protests in port sudan in the eastern part of the country in the eastern coast of the country and people have been promising to go out in the streets in the coming three days to continue protesting and till president i'm going to have done something he said he's not going to do leaving the country at a crossroad between protesters and between the president who says he's never going

to step down until elections are held in twenty twenty. u.s. prosecutors are in turkey's capital to discuss the possible extradition of a business that accuses of plotting to overthrow the government that's not good levels regarded by followers as a spirit. a leader is believed to have millions of supporters in turkey and his movement operates a large network of schools around the world he was once an ally of turkish president regift five edible one but now he's considered an enemy of the state with his movement branded a terrorist organization and the answer is golan's followers infiltrated turkey's institutions effectively operating a parallel state use this to justify a purge of the army and the civil service and one also says go in and castrated a failed crew and twenty sixteen more than two hundred fifty people were killed but glenn denies any involvement he's lived in the us since one thousand nine hundred ninety nine his supporters say he's there for health reasons but others say it's to

avoid prosecution and to you matthew bryza is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and a former white house official and he says the u.s. president has become more open to the extradition. the whole move the whole atmosphere around this issue in terms of relations between the turkish and u.s. governments has softened as recently as late august and early september the turkish side was simply furious with the u.s. side for not having agreed to the extradition request the u.s. side and president trump are putting pressure on turkey for the release of that american pastor andrew bronson so the the sides were talking past each other and then in recent weeks president trump came out and said you know i'd like to see the extradition happen and the justice department should work on it so now it appears based on press reports here that turkey has provided some some perhaps some e-mails and some other data that shows that there may indeed have been plotting between learn and his team in pennsylvania and the coup plotters for the extradition to

happen there needs to be sufficient convincing evidence to convince a judge in a u.s. court of law regardless of what president trump thinks but that also justice department officials are human beings and if the official line out of the white house had been we want to put maximum pressure on turkey as had been the case last summer well maybe they wouldn't put this extradition case at the top of the agenda now they appear to be putting it at the top of the agenda. dozens of people have died during days of fighting in rebel held parts of northern syria and there are fears that turkey is padding a major offensive against kurdish fighters so just a warning muhammad report contains flash photography ok hold on syria is experiencing its was violence in three months. the linked fighters and take you back rubles a buckling altena territory in the west and aleppo countryside both blame each

other for getting the fight. with el acknowledge that while he was the third consecutive day al qaeda fighters have been at second our positions in rural it will we have received enforcements and are pushing back fighting is now around the village of up me the mccaffrey of slowly women. activists say that al qaeda linked by a tidy the sham group is trying to cut off tuckey budget fight is in the enclave of a free from those in the northwestern province of it the group is now said to be in full control of the strategic town of that it has and several villages surrounding the but the violence is causing the now familiar scenes of an exodus of civilians hundreds of fled their homes this new wave all fighting comes of the u.s. president don't trump announced last month that he was pulling u.s. troops out of city trumps decision house and get critics at home but also thrown

the global on the ice inclusion in syria into chaos there's now less kumble between regional powers to fill the void that would be left by a u.s. troop withdrawal. at a meeting in one club the presence of techie on iraq for adopt a bedouin and butt home sala agreed on clay to call push. the arch pick up. eisel and other terrorist groups pose a threat to both turkey and iraq and the countries will cooperate in fighting terror in the coming days i hope we will increase our relationship in this regard. on wednesday president trump in a part in tinge of tone announced that while u.s. troops will soon live syria there was no clear timetable he said he was keen to protect america's kurdish allies the wipe e.g. a group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization we want to protect the kurds nevertheless we want to

protect it but i don't want to be in syria forever. it's sad and it's death but the cubs are already feeling a bundle of them last week cut a deal with syria shelving their aspirations for autonomy in return for it jim protect them from destruction by taking. turkey assists out its practically all to military operation against sunni and kurdish fighters is still it's been massing troops on the boulevard of a sun tonsil ruling into syrian territory it holds sway over five thousand of syrian rebels allied to top you all for watching on the city of none beach officials insist that this just a matter of time before the offensive was launched one hundred at all does it or doesn't it. al-jazeera has seen evidence of food meant for starving yemenis being sold at

a marketplace in the capital sana'a the world food program has accused both of what the rebels and saudi amarok that forces of diverting aid in areas under their control mohamad john june has the story. on the streets of the capital sana'a aid that was supposed to be distributed is instead being sold in yemen home to what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis both sides in the conflict now stand accused of stealing food aid the world food program says about two thirds of aid delivered to who the controlled strongholds such as sanaa and saddam is being stolen by armed groups were extremely concerned by what we've discovered in the course of our inquiries we noticed in recent months there were increasing volume soft food for sale in the markets in the capital so now this obviously happens occasionally in war zones where people are desperate and they will sell

food to meet other essential needs who the rebels deny any involvement. one official told jazeera he blamed individuals for the thefts and said anyone involved would be put on trial. has been the government will hold responsible anyone who commits such mistakes and the government will take all the full measures according to law and justice against anyone who does that the un food agency is now threatening to suspend some aid shipments unless more is done to stop corruption that's causing the people of sanaa to grow more concerned. that if the yemeni people depend on foreign aid and humanitarian assistance if it is stopped him and will face a humanitarian catastrophe we don't have jobs and we don't have salaries and you can't work the assessment from the world food program came after the release of an investigation by the associated press news agency which said it also saw documents suggesting that rations intended for families into areas are being stolen by armed units working with the saudi u.a.e.

coalition forces in recent weeks a un supported peace process that started in sweden has led to a fragile cease fire in the strategic port city of her data and while the level of overall violence there has been reduced the u.n. has expressed disappointment that much needed humanitarian corridors have still not been established. we're going back to washington d.c. now to do more on our top story the new u.s. congress democrats taking control of the u.s. house of representatives let's get more on this and speak to steven rogers the not new jersey hasan advisory board member of donald trump's presidential campaign and a former member of the f.b.i. national joint terrorism task force the straw just very good to have you with us on al-jazeera while the g.o.p. leadership and the president work with the democrats do you think. yes at the end of the day they will have no choice but to work with each other keep in

mind that the democrat party is on the verge of a civil war meaning that the extreme left liberal democrats are seeking to bring a socialist agenda to this country and that socialist agenda obviously will be rejected by the republicans but also it is going to be rejected rejected by the democrat conservatives so while the democrats may be trying to move forward on issues like impeachment and other issues that are not helpful to the country the g.o.p. which continues to maintain power in the senate will move forward with the president's agenda now saying all of that no one wants a stalemate they will come together and do what's right for the american people we've already heard from the new house speaker nancy pelosi expected to be the new house speaker about impeachment saying that they want pain just for political

reasons but they also want to avoid m.p.h. meant for political reasons what do you think president trump on the republican party will make of this is it going to make them nervous. not at all the american people what i am finding out they're just tired of politics as usual in washington this is all political posturing it does no good for the american economy no good for the issues that president trump has had many accomplishments with regard to our quality of life here so the g.o.p. and the president are going to move forward with the president's agenda and in two thousand and twenty i could assure you the landscape will be changed in favor of the president of the united states they haven't moved forward yet on the budget at all the new congress is being sworn in on the fourteenth day of

a posh government shutdown because they can't agree on the budget how do you see this playing out i see it playing out as we saw this play out one ronald reagan was president of the united states and the speaker of the house was a tip o'neill there was the same challenges that the president reagan had that president trump is out having the g.o.p. back then and democrats did not see eye to eye but they did come together i see i am hopeful and i really believe that with regard to the budget they will come together and they will have a vote and it will satisfy both parties a lot as to rodgers thank you very much for your time on this that steven rogers live in new jersey. ok still ahead on the news hour weather warning from thailand as hundreds take refuge from an impending storm. financing yet another century the batsman has got and they are on target to make history against this train yet there

is here and a moment. we've got some rather wintry weather pushing over towards afghanistan at the moment a fair bit of cloud sliding across the region to was that western side of the himalayas of the fed but a cloud to still spilling out that will produce some outbreaks of rain and also some snow pushing into northern areas of syria thirteen celsius then in the last eighteen degrees in beirut quite a stiff wind coming in from the eastern side of the mediterranean and quite a keen when too over towards afghanistan towards to minister but some places of rain sleet and snow it clears through was to go through sas they brought us guys do come back in behind some bright skies to across that western side of iraq pushing towards the med it's right about you can see the cloud on the right that's just

knocking on the door of lebanon still pushing i would say would syria still some wintry weather there in place for turkey lossie thought of driving while across iraq but instead be getting up to well a pleasant twenty three or twenty four celsius here in doha over the next few days settle sunshine as you can see across much of the region they have decided to. solve south africa but the eastern side of the country will continue to be some showers showers there with the botswana pushing up towards zambia and also zimbabwe . water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad to water privatisation on anybody it's the only field. goals people who see every two years something to

invest a profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think it will do a great or a good job with detailed coverage is the second time this year doctors walked out on strike the government is funded by issuing for thanks and. from there around the world the increased warning level collins is a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home.

it's good to have you with us on the news hour these are our top stories live pictures from the u.s. house of representatives where the democrats are taking control of divided government as expected to put more pressure on president trump the democrats introduced legislation to end the government shutdown but they plan to do it without agreeing to. saudi arabia says eleven suspects in the murder of journalist have faced court for the first time state media the prosecution seeking the death penalty for five of the accused sudan's president omar al bashir continues to face sometimes violent protests against his rule has prompted the nineteen year party is and has a governing coalition to pull out of. the demonstrations have been whipped up by foreign enemies and that economic problems are due to international sanctions.

brazil's new president. moving quickly to deliver on his campaign promises just hours after being sworn in he gave powers to the agriculture ministry to manage the amazon rain forest and mentalists are appalled markets the cheering at the prospect of less regulations john heilemann has more from. now his president. can begin making good on his election promises he'll face some big challenges. crime is number one sixty thousand brazilians were killed in two thousand and seventeen alone. giving people access to guns and police to kill you're going to descend to cowboys to defend themselves owner and respect those who sacrifice their lives for safety. the brazilian this is already. kill thousands most of them young black it's being questioned if an even harder longer

wook. less controversial but just as challenging his boss a novel saying to curb corruption he's brought in sergio morrow the man in charge of latin america's biggest bribery investigation this is justice minister but it may be tougher than he thinks nice fight against corruption it's much more easier terms of how like the narrative that in terms of practice. the government has besides the fact felt a strong way off the president to fight against corruption been assessed establish a lot of oily call this. gulf war and that if i jam like this i want and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians are unemployed consonantal says that free market economics and small government will fix that you do give the government once been more income seemed to do that but if he really wants to balance the books you have to make cuts to brazil's generous pension system it

takes up more than half of the federal budget that would be deeply unpopular how far president also not to get some responding to all of those challenges is going to be decided here in brasilia where his party has only about him but the seats in the houses of congress so he's going to have to negotiate with all those that backed him and that includes x. generals evangelicals business leaders and the financial sector if you want to get anything done and everyone will want to search these groups they are really willing to to fight each other so i'd say that the challenge is how to put these groups together and how to align expectations sold that these groups become part of a government and not fragments. president bill so model run a successful campaign. of the air is it abuse is a produce left of center governments now it's the time of the from the right to see

if he can do better to just hold out zero brasilia. well let's get more on this now we're joined by a tick of an army the amazon campaign coordinator for going pays and she's joining us via skype from in the brazilian state of south follow very good to have you with us on al-jazeera juggles now or has starting his presidency stripping and degenerates people of their rights transferring the regulation of and the didn't reserves to the agriculture ministry which is of course controlled by the powerful agri business lobby how worrying is this for your organization for the environment. i think it's very alarming. seems seems. he's got a mole has made a lot of promise that sounds like it's right for the forest and its people

i think that brazil has in the past decade doing it contribution by. reducing significant weight that the forestation of the amazon and that was for a serious offer reasons but two main reasons were actually creation of more protected areas including indigenous alliance and also more fud inspections and he's got his ations spite they perceive an environmental agency these are to choose things also that also matter our government. actually they are already mannish in that power and also she sighed repeatedly and continue to say that there will be no war demarkation no new and most lines. but facets not only weren't some for the environment it's

also for human rights and specially for us people and he's also said that n.g.o.s have too much power that they're taking advantage of indigenous people are you worried that this government is going to make it harder for n.g.o.s to operate in brazil. yes this is warm of our concerns. i think that. society in brazil will continue to work and stand in solidarity when not only what they needed most people but when the communities from the forests and from all of their. resume because. not only full on well it's primarily for their rights to exist but also their use already a lot of studies showing that the floor is that is that has people

believing in it cardinals presidio and ladies that rolls a fact way to protect forests and actually addresses what also a man who wants to and because he wants to open those projects. for economic exploitation and actually economic gold cannot make development for mental. protection must go hand in hand and not separate and not to go in opposition that's manami thank you very much for your time on this that is the amazon campaign coordinator for greenpeace taken manami live in moscow thank you. now the number of people killed in a building collapse in russia has risen to thirty six children are among the dead more as a place to flowers and candles outside the apartment blog and magneto goal is to

moscow rescuers are still trying to find three people missing since the suspected ghastly explosion in the building on monday a baby boy who spent thirty five hours and freezing temperatures was found alive in the rubble on tuesday. to exercise extreme caution as a tropical storm is expected to make landfall in the south this weekend hundreds of people have already taken to shelters set up by the government. up to four weeks a. fact of the five million people experts also say that flash floods and landslides made the. world cup more.

let's go live now back to the u.s. capitol washington d.c. where the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives following the midterm elections in november and as expected nancy pelosi has been elected house speaker at these live pictures from the u.s. congress with. a whole host of new congress men and women being sworn in for the one hundred and sixteen u.s. congress what the democrats taken control of the lower house the house of representatives. right it is time for sport now his lia thank you liz for michael

schumacher is the most successful formula one driver in the history of the sport and on thursday his family is celebrating his fiftieth birthday little is known about the health of the f one legend he hasn't been seen in public since he was brain damaged in a ski accident five years ago however his family did make a rare statement on the eve of his birthday saying michael can be proud of what he has achieved and so are we you can be sure that he is the very best he is in the very best of hands and that we are doing everything possible to help him please understand we are following michael's wishes in keeping such a sensitive subject as health and privacy she mockers career was filled with many highlights he was the formula one world champion seven times winning the title five times with ferrari he topped the podium in ninety one races from three hundred six starts and still leaves lewis hamilton by eighteen wins on the all time list he raced twenty seasons in formula one all together representing ferrari benetton and

mercedes now philip duncan is a former formula one correspondent for the press association he says schumacher has secured a permanent place in the sport's history. you know michael as he changed the sport in two massive ways the first was his fitness he was you know one of the fittest drivers the form one had ever seen he took he sort of the other drivers weren't fit before went one you know up up for it before but he just turned the work up slightly he was leaving he was constrained in his diet his his fitness is whole regime was a completely different ball game so that was one of the ways he changed the sport in that sense the second was building super team around him and making sure that he was the priority within that team. as he had enjoyed great success at benetton and then he went through are into a brawl with him and between them they've sort of masterminded the incredible success they had a ferrari so long as he remembered as a fantastic driver and one he was so pivotal in changing this four and that and how we see more than four ones that are michael's are very intense character and full

ones obviously the number one goal and racing was the priority so when he was at the track he was you know fiercely competitive and it was a career what didn't go without controversy of course and on site is you know amazing success in the car there were no incidents on track was he with damon here in ninety four ninety seven and then at a record the title decider and in two thousand and six in monaco where parties cause you really to stop and fernando alonso from setting a time qualifying better or that side he was obviously a fantastic racing driver and one who go down as one of the greatest of all time for course. ole gunnar saul shire says he wants to say on his boss the manchester united after making history in just four games at the english premier league football club a two nil win at newcastle met the norwegian match the legendary matt busby but he also won his first four games in charge in one nine hundred forty six from a kaku scored with his first touch after coming on as

a substitute while the second was struck by marcus rash hurt so shire is contracted until the end of the season but for now he's just enjoying the winning feeling. the most anticipated match of the season so far takes place later on thursday leaders liverpool up against defending champions manchester city both managers respect each other's teams those cities pep guardiola rates his mohamed salah inspired rivals as the best club in europe if not the world liverpool's boss even want to step further you have to be brave you have to be full of. angry again all that stuff like going to all the other games we have to be that but with the knowledge of the opponent is for me still the best team in the world that's how it is and i don't say that to say that i did weeks ago because i'm support him one hundred percent my opinion because that way the way how they play and over the things they achieve the things they will achieve and all that stuff so nothing changed only the points changed but

not the preparation for the game i cannot figure out imagine so what happened in the past is going to happen in the future so every time when we win a lot of games i mean that in the means that is going to happen in the future i have the feeling everybody can beat us but also have the feeling of we can beat everybody. world number one novak djokovic was forced to go to the full go the full distance for the second straight day at the qatar open in doha on thursday djokovic she surrendered the first set of his quarter final against georgia last thirty six for the serve also lost the first set of his previous round match but just as he did on the last occasion the fourteen time grammy slam champion came back. the next he said sixty and sixty one. joke which is to mean final opponent will be spain's over birth but this is good the tournaments seven took care of three time grand slam winner. in thursday's quarter final but to set

a good completing his victory in straight sets six four six four. over in brisbane two thousand and fourteen u.s. open runners up at cape corey is enjoying a good start to the new year the japanese made his way into the semifinals there corey was up against grigor dimitrov in the quarter finals the world number nine defeating the bulgarian seven five seven five he faces frenchwoman jeremy sharkey on in the final four on saturday. and on the women's side cory's compatriot u.s. open champion naomi osaka has reached the semifinals but she's had to do it the hard way after and this. one the first set six three stormed back to take second six love the twenty year old then completed her comeback by wrapping up the third six fourth to go to sydney final meeting with the c.e.o. story. to test jarhead his third century of the series to put

in india in a commanding position and on target to create cricket history in australia he played a typically rock solid innings to be unbeaten on one thirty at the end of the first day of the fourth test india finishing the day on three o three for four they lead the series two one as they chase their first series win in australia. we would like. to be just probably you don't what with that. three hundred four. on the first day but i didn't get in a good position but you want to look at how we are going to do with more of south africa are on top after the first day of their second test against pakistan in capetown young fast bowler leafier continued his good form from the first test taking four wickets to rip through the pakistani badly in line up captain sarfraz ahmed top scored with fifty six as the tourists were all out for set one seventy

seven aiden markram then hit a quick fire seventy eight as the hosts reached one twenty three for two at the close of the play and martin guptill hit a century and his first one day international since march to help new zealand match a massive three seventy one for seven against sri lanka the recalled james hammered an unbeaten forty seven off just thirteen balls and then took three wickets to restrict the sri lankans in their pursuit of victory pereira's want to to not enough as the visitors were all out for three twenty six new zealand winning the first o.d.i. by forty five runs the l.a. lakers played their fourth game in the n.b.a. without the injured le bron james and slumped to a one zero seven one hundred loss to the oklahoma city thunder look advantage and dennis smith jr led the mavericks with eighteen points of peace to get charlotte the mouse picked up a rare road with no one twenty two to eighty four. the cross country world cup is

ongoing and the latest round was all about the female athletes and did. increase her lead at the top of the overall standings after claiming her second victory in germany she completed four laps of the two and a half kilometer course and twenty six minutes. that's all for sport mayor thank you very much and that does it for the al-jazeera news hour from the edges of a problem thank you very much for watching. the weather online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was

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