the biggest will come to we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn. the democrats take control of the u.s. house of representatives to be a check on president trump in

a more diverse but more divided congress saudi arabia says eleven of the suspects in the murder of jamal khashoggi have appeared in court five of them face the death penalty and u.s. stocks fall sharply after apple says an economic slowdown in china has taken a bite out of its project that sales. and i'm lee harvey mendo hot with all your sports formula one driver michael schumacher just turned fifty he's been celebrated at brain damage in a ski accident five years ago. the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi is hailed a new door on the as their democratic party officially takes control of the house palosi says working with the republicans who still control the senate will not be easy her party has vowed to keep trying presidency and shake its first mission is

to end the partial government shutdown which is now in its thirteenth day that this is over funding for troops border wall which the bene kratz are refusing to support . our nation is in a stark moment two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn they called upon the beauty of our constitution our system of checks and balances that protects our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government co-equal to the presidency and to the judiciary. well the incoming one hundred sixteenth congress is the most diverse in u.s. history more women were elected than ever before they include the first muslim american congresswoman the first native american congresswoman and the youngest woman ever

to win a seat in congress roslyn jordan is live on capitol hill for us so rosalynn a lot of firsts with this incoming congress and perhaps not a first necessarily but certainly it does come at a very divided and divisive time both for congress and the country. that's right the first order of business that congress has to tackle in this one hundred sixty session is the fact that the government is partially shut down some eight hundred thousand federal workers about half of them are at work but none of them is getting paid and that's because the funding to operate these government agencies ran on december twenty first day thirteen as you noted of the federal government shutdown the most visible course is that national parks and the smithsonian museums here in washington are not open but there are other lesser known effects that are starting to happen health care for the country's native

american population is being cut back food banks are starting to see a drop off in supplies and contributions being made to their inventories from the department of agriculture the state department is only operating at a very very essential level normal orders of business are not being handled which of course has a direct impact on the u.s. as form policy these are all factors that could be going on for some time because neither the president nor republicans in the senate and they still have control over are willing to entertain anything more than a fully funded border wall between mexico and the united states so when it comes to i guess breaking that impasse rosalynn does than see fellow see in her speech revealed any fault that she might have on how to go about doing that and how formidable an opponent do you think she will be in the long run for president trump

. well those two questions really do go to the fact that nancy pelosi is known as a consummate political operator here in washington she has the ability to keep her caucus in line to get people to vote for measures that they otherwise would not support. or to resist supporting measures that they might otherwise want to support because the leadership including nancy pelosi have decided that those measures would not be in the best interest of the american people she is also become a master in her many years in congress of figuring out what it takes to get people who are reluctant to come over to her side and so she's not going to reveal all of hers tactics and all of her strategies for trying to make the house of representatives more responsive and more of a check on the trumpet ministration but suffice it to say she's had some time since

the november sixth midterm election to think about how she would go about making this happen and certainly she's not going to be doing these things on the fly. and rosalynn obviously you have been covering capitol hill and in washington in general for many years now we've talked about how many firsts there are in this incoming baksho of congressmen and women do you get a sense that something is different you get us the sense of a different vibe there now. well certainly there is a real sense that congress is we assuming its role as a co-equal branch of government particularly after the september eleventh attacks there was a real sense in congress that it should defer to the judgment of the president particularly on national security issues that spilled over into how matters involving domestic issues such as health care tax policy the economy were handled as well and only in a very few cases did you see

a very active pushback from the u.s. congress against the white house but in the last several weeks we have seen more of a push back from congress not so much on domestic issues but in particular on foreign policy however the new members of congress are elected primarily on domestic issues and they have come in with a real sense that they are all gated to their constituents to try to deliver even though they're all up for reelection in two thousand and twenty thousand journal with the latest there from capitol hill rosalynn thank you. saudi arabia says eleven suspects in the murder of the journalist g. have appeared in court for the first time the prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five of them she was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october the names of those facing the death penalty have not been released

president says the killing was ordered by the highest level of saudi leadership. has been following riyadh's reaction to her she'll just larder. 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 freight for patrol by the second and killed the journalist in the concert it's 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 let's say 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 consulate so 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. bul there has been also a third call by rights organizations that believe that an independent investigation is 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 to highlight said 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. dozens of people have been killed in days of fighting in rebel held parts of northern syria the fighting is between rival rebel groups which are both opposed to assad's rule and also fears turkey is planning a major offensive against kurdish fighters in the north east of the country just a warning mohammad of those report contains flash photography. all from syria

is experiencing its last violence in three months. i'll buy the link for it doesn't take you back rubles a buckling altena territory in the west and aleppo countryside both blame each other for cheating the fight. for the third consecutive day al qaeda fighters have been at second our positions and rule it will we have received reinforcements and are pushing back fighting is now around the village of up me some of the. 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 northwest and provinces but. 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 some fled their homes this new we will 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 days now as kumble between regional powers to fill the void left will be left by a u.s. troop withdrawal. at a meeting in one club the presence of techie on the iraq project a bad one on but himself. agree don't create a corporation. the arch. 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 safe and and it's death but the feeling of last week. in. protect them from destruction by. its. city and. its troops on the boulevard tonsil moving into city and headed for the. fall of syrian rebels allied to top the. beach officials insist it's just

a matter of time before it was launched. into. coming up on this news hour from london malta refuses to allow two boats carrying rescued migrants to despite high winds and deteriorating conditions on board china becomes the first nation to land a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon and novak djokovic drops the opening set of a match for the second day in. what happens next. sudan's president omar al bashir has promised economic reforms as he battles calls from protesters and opposition parties to step down two parties have withdrawn from the national coalition government amid ongoing demonstrations but the president remains to find people morgan reports from the capital khartoum. for more than two weeks

his opponents have been calling for him to step down but almost bashir says he's going nowhere amid a crisis he blames on international sanctions. you know about a dish. we are under siege we face war we have lost our main revenue which was the south spectrum but we still stand firm we are suffering but we still stand firm and we are working hard to sort out all the problems. the protests in sudan started over the state of the country's economy with people complaining of bradshaw's he has a high prices those complaints then escalated into calls for the president to resign curfews and emergency rule were imposed in some cities with some social media platforms blocked by the government the sudanese authorities say about twenty people died in the protests march by police using tear gas and live ammunition to disperse crowds opposition parties say the figure is higher learning more of the

images out there that. we've gathered the figure of about thirty nine killed are missing says thirty seven put the numbers we have are from our officers in various parts of the country who are working for the protests to continue to the regime is overthrown. and recent days more protests have taken place just this one in the eastern city of port sudan once again her demands for the government to step down as events are going to bashir has announced measures he says will improve the economy and reduce inflation but his critics are not impressed they said that heard his promises time and time again during his twenty one year in power and they've had enough they've now place to put an end to his rule and while it's not the first time for the president to promise reforms some analysts say the tone use this time indicates the impact of the protests on the government. ruling party is now looking for alternatives to the tactic of suppression by the security forces and trying to use politics to mobilize more groups to counter the protests i think this is the beginning of

a new step. the protests will continue long term even if they stop for a few days there. throughout his twenty nine year rule president already bashir hasn't faced demonstrations for this long with no end in sight and as he struggles to appease those protesting it seems he might face them for longer he will morgan of his era start on. the u.s. government has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens to be careful when visiting china but notice warned americans to be aware of what it called arbitrary enforcement of local laws two canadians were detained in china over the past two months accused of a tip it is in danger in china's security that followed canada's arrest of a top chinese take executive on suspicion of evading u.s. sanctions on iran. we go shares an apple closed down by around ten percent of the end of trading in new york after thursday's reducing its revenue expectations by up

to nine billion dollars c.e.o. tim cook says the trade war between the u.s. and china is to blame al-jazeera is high the castro explains. yes i phone when a confident tim cook and announced the launch of apple's i'm ten in september the fanfare couldn't mask the risk his company was taking. would he not consumers across the globe he willing to pay the one thousand dollar price tag of the latest and greatest i phone and now the answer is likely not on wednesday apple revised its revenue forecast for the first quarter lowering it by up to nine billion dollars and cook says it's to do weak i phone sales in china it's clear that the economy began to slow there for the second half and what i believe to be the case is the trade tensions between the united states and china put additional pressure on their car the u.s.

is charging a ten percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports and china has responded in kind to sixty billion dollars of products shipped from the u.s. within two months the u.s. tariff on china will escalate to twenty five percent if the two countries don't come to an agreement i respect china and i respect president xi but killing us. some. seven billion dollars trade deficit is less. five hundred. promised more and over longer term consequences they say the trade war can create a negative feedback loop apple's losses have pulled down global markets which may further harm china's weaken economy which only means more losses for u.s. companies that do business there chinese consumers have responded by turning inward choosing cheaper domestic brands over u.s. luxury goods from apple two or three dollars meanly because the quality of phones

from china is local brands have become better and better their market shares are rising the homegrown huawei dominates the smartphone market in china its chief financial officer was arrested in canada last month accused of violating u.s. sanctions in her business dealings that stirred anger among chinese consumers giving them still more reason to support while away and boycott apple we still have a possible sixty day window for them to come to some sort of temporary agreement i think if anything the trade war is bringing tensions that we already saw between the u.s. and china economically for trade talks between the u.s. and china are set to resume in beijing this week heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well apple is coming in the fire in europe as well the company has pulled some of its older i phone models off the shelves in germany after chip maker accused it of infringing its technology for mccain has the details.

thursday's development is bad news for apple now that qualcomm has found the money the resort says to stump up one and a half billion dollars to pay into the court in munich to make clear that it wants an injunction on the sales of i phone sevens and eight syrian germany but also the i phone ten that was met that was sold in germany in twenty seventeen that cannot now be sold across the counter by apple the interesting thing here is that apple had unilaterally taken the decision to withdraw these products from sale when that first ruling was made before christmas this is part of several court cases qualcomm is taking apple to as it were regarding its particular patent regarding the technology inside devices such as these which help the battery strength which are involved with the modem the important thing to say here of course is this is not a final decision that will come in the months ahead but for the time being apple

may have wondered whether qualcomm had the determination to find one and a half billion dollars almost of security will now it knows not only it has the determination but it also has the money to do it. so tough times for apple wolf for more on this we're joined in the studio by basil crossly a journalist with tech radar thank you so much for coming in to al-jazeera so do you think tim cook is right when he partly blames apple's lower expectations of for the quarter on the trade tensions between the u.s. and china well i think blaming anything on china on the chinese economy is an absolutely correct thing to do because it is such a huge economy it's the second largest economy in the world and so any anything that happens i was going to impact any business and apple is obviously a big business so don't impact it a lot we're just seeing though how in china for example a way is a massive play a solution possibly outperforming apple i mean how much is that yes china's

a big economy how important is it that apple and is apple managing to stay competitive now a major competitor it's a local company obviously it's a chinese manufacturer it produces much more affordable smartphones as well in addition in the top end wall way products innovating quite aggressively you've got phones with three cameras you've got funds that wireless charge other phones by just placing them back to back apples to refine it doesn't really innovate at the top and it charges big bucks for products that it gets right wall way is offering people a shiny new option to upgrade to and of course especially with these tensions any potential internal chinese animosity towards us they might opt to upgrade to a local company i say local but chinese matter when you say that apple doesn't innovate i mean obviously you're the expert here but i remember when apple was almost a by word for innovation you know the first ipod then the i pad and of course the i phones that we all love so why is it getting left behind i'm specifically talking

about small phones right now and some coke a very specifically address the fact that any shortfall was within i phone and specifically i phone upgrades as well here is what you refer to paul's been left behind potential. as a consideration for upgrades two reasons one apple i phones last for a very long time apple has offered a battery replacement system scheme sorry over the last year and it's meant that it's a really attractive option to upgrade via improving your battery and getting battery replacement rather than forking out one thousand pounds for any phone whereas while way off is actual features that differentiate how much longer do you think a decent they still are i do think apple will remain as the market leader for smartphones well that's the thing they own the market leader for small things the market is actually something followed by huawei was a recently of its apple as the number two in terms of number of units shipped so i actually apple's been isn't there a kudos though to i phones that perhaps the other two don't share definitely

definitely but there's also kudos to wall way for example they're the guys who pioneered a little h d c and wall way that tech with the cameras where you can bluff the background and keep the foreground shop so everyone kind of borrows from everyone what apple's done is become a very very ubiquitous brand with every man and woman and if they want to hold onto it i think now they need to aggressively and if i can be interesting to see how they play it as a currency journalist from thank you. now speaking of china china has made history by landing a spacecraft on the so-called the dark side of the moon landing highlights china's growing ambitions to rival the u.s. russia and europe not just when it comes to smartphones but in space victoria gave him he tells us what inside the probe could offer about earth's nearest neighbor. the dark side of the moon which can't be seen from has long been a source of fascination an unexplored frontier celebrated in popular culture but

now thanks to a pioneering chinese space mission it is being explored for the very first time the chunky four spacecraft was launched last month and successfully landed on the far side of the moon at two twenty six g.m.t. on thursday. by ground zero used the whole process was as expected the result was pretty precise and the landing was very stable the current one being location is our most ideal landing place in other words we were right on target the chunky four carries a rope which will study the means to rain and send back samples to the scientists say the far side of the moon is geologically different to the near side one of the goals of this mission is to find out more about what lies beneath the surface but china's space dreams don't end that it wants to catch up with the united states and russia one day even leave the world space race china is treating the moon as the

first big outpost in deep space for its long term plans it's already sent several missions to the moon it plans to send even more in the future including a sample return mission at some point but china is also setting its sights for mas and the asteroids and probably beyond it's been almost fifty years since neil armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon now the space race has a new contender china but as much as all world has changed the moon's mysteries continue to capture people's imagination victoria gate and be al-jazeera. more still to come here and i'll just sit here including is the trial of the mexican drug boss chapel resumes in new york we look at the prospects for his defense. and the new non invasive test that's breathing new life into cancer diagnosis. but now let's take you to the white house and that's sarah sanders the white house

spokes woman oh introducing. the president who we understand is about to come out and address the assembled press there he is let's listen to what he has on day at the hundred sixty on the earth was sworn in. you know happy new year happy new year to everybody. thank you very much i appreciate that thank you i just want to start off by congratulating nancy pelosi on being elected speaker of the house it's a very very great achievement and hopefully we're going to work together and we're going to get lots of things done like infrastructure and so much more know they want to do that very badly said why so hopefully we're going to have a lot of things that we can get done together and i think it's actually going to work out i think it'll be a little bit different than a lot of people are thinking so i can graduate there and see tremendous tremendous

achievement and i just wanted to explain to folks that i'm within the day as people i've known very well over the last two years people that have been extremely supportive of what we're doing on the border they are tough they are smart they think they love our country they they have every quality and i'll tell you what i really don't well and they have the kind of qualities that we need in our country and they've done a fantastic job at the border it's ice and its border patrol and a man who's really become a friend in a sense brandon i will say this brandon judd has been a stalwart in terms of justice for people in terms of fairness and in terms of the tough this unique you have some pretty tough situations it doesn't get much tougher so i just want to thank brandon and all of the folks i'm going to have them introduce themselves right now and also say

a few words about the wall about you can go to a barrier you can go and whatever you want but essentially we need protection in our country we're going to make it. good the people of our country want it i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the wall or the barrier i have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in in terms of people writing in and tweeting and doing whatever they have to do i have never had this much support and we've done some things that as you know have been very popular so i'm going to as brendan judd to just step forward and say a few words this group is apprehended last year seventeen thousand criminals trying to get across the border seventeen thousand and that's one category there are plenty of others the other thing that has been so incredible is what they've

done in terms of drugs and stopping drugs and with that and with everything else plenty unfortunately come through our southern border but i'm going to has branded to come up say if you are it's and maybe introduce our our friends and some very brave people fred in place thank you. thank you president and we really appreciate all the support that you've given them the border patrol we appreciate the support you've given ice my name's brandon jet i'm the president of the national border patrol council i've been a border patrol agent for twenty one years i can personally tell you from the work that i have done on the southwest border that physical barriers that walls actually work you hear a lot of talk from the experts that you hear a lot of talk that there are experts that say that walls don't work i promise you that if you interview border patrol agents they will tell you that walls work i worked in naco arizona for ten years we didn't have physical barriers in naco and

illegal immigration and drug smuggling was absolutely out of control we built those walls those physical barriers and illegal immigration dropped exponentially. anywhere that you look where we have built walls they have worked they have been an absolute necessity for border patrol agents in securing the border we need those physical barriers and we appreciate president trump and all of his efforts in getting us those physical barriers there's also a lot of talk on the shutdown that federal employees do not agree with the shutdown i will tell you that's not true and with that i'd like to introduce our though he is the vice president of the national council he's also a longtime border patrol agent out of the tucson sector and he's look he'd like to say a few words about the shutdown. thank you thank you everybody once again my name is . i am vice president of the national border patrol council and i want everybody to

take the time to understand what's going on we were all affected by the shutdown we have skin in the game. however it comes down to border security and we are extremely grateful to president trump and we fully support what he is doing to take care of our nation's borders to take care of the future of the united states it has nothing to do with political parties you are going to ask yourself this question if i come to your home do you want me to knock on the front door or do you want me to climb through that window. we fully support the president and all his efforts to secure our nation's borders. when it was well we've been hearing both from president trump and then representatives of the national border patrol council they're very much supporting trump's policy on trying to build a wall along the border with mexico brandon judd

a little earlier the president of the national border patrol council saying that walls work so let's bring in hi there joe castro in washington d.c. she was this into this as well heidi what do you make of this i guess pretty unconventional way the president has brought these three representatives of border patrol here in the white house at the podium usually reserved for cyrus and there is the the press secretary and speaking about about the border war heidi what do you make of it just. that's right this doesn't really change anything about the dynamics that we have been reporting on for the last few days as far as the stalemate over the wall funding that's keeping shut part of the u.s. federal government as you see the president though surprised everyone by appearing in person at this press briefing usually it's just his press secretary who is

addressing reporters this briefing was called in just a few minutes notice for members of the media and it appears that trump who is still having his members of the border patrol speak on his behalf about the reasons why they support building this wall that this is just trying to continue to build this case to win over the american public for his reasons on staying firm in his demand that this border wall is needed and what's most interesting isn't so much that the content of what they're saying which is backwards i mean if i can just go read out a few hour heidi we're just going to go back to donald trump who is speaking again let's listen in up technology this type of technology certainly than i do having drones and various other form of sensors they're all fine but they're not going to stop the problems that this country has we've never had more people wanting to come to the united states and that has to do with the economy and has to do with a lot of other things where we're doing great as

a country but the better we do the more people want to come in and so folks i just want to thank you very much it's an honor to be with you and i'm glad you came i'm glad we came out here. the first time i've ever done this is the first time i've done it i've done it for you and i'm very proud of that because you have done a fantastic job and i want to thank you for it thank you very much thank you all very much thank you very much right. there is that there are no taking questions from the assembled journalists we go back to heidi castro heidi again we heard the president there reiterating the points he's been making over the past few weeks will be a lot longer than that about the war on the mexico border again what did you make of his last statements. well again this is so much of a public relations campaign at this point this standoff over the border wall

funding that's keeping the federal government partially shut in trump knows that today is the day for democrats to celebrate we've seen all afternoon those images of the youngest and most diverse class of democrats being sworn in as members of the house of representatives we saw the historic return of nancy pelosi as the still the only woman to ever hold the post of speaker of the house we saw her surrounded by children it's really a day of the woman in day for democrats but trump knows that the other side of this is what he's holding out on which is the funding for the border wall which is keeping the government closed as you'll recall he has said he will not sign any funding bill to reopen the government unless it includes that five billion dollars he's demanding to fulfill his campaign promise of building the wall between the u.s. and mexico and so he has taken as you just heard him say the first time he's ever

done this addressing reporters in person from the briefing room which is usually reserved for his press secretary but he is making this case to the american public trying to take a attention away from the gains of the democrats that have dominated the headlines in the u.s. today and he's trying to redirect that focus onto his efforts the other side of this debate which he says is supported by members of the border patrol themselves which is why you saw those gentleman speaking also supporting the president's views that this border wall is necessary so again is just a battle for the public's attention to show them that their president is still at work even as more than eight hundred thousand federal employees are going without a paycheck and as the government is partially shut down barbara comes through with the latest from washington heidi think you. that fewer migrants and refugees died crossing the mediterranean sea in two thousand and eighteen compared to previous

years that's according to the un's refugee agency that number of migrants who died or went missing while attempting to process the mediterranean fell by more than a quarter compared to the year before to just over two thousand two hundred now the number who arrived in europe also dropped by roughly the same proportion last year to just over one hundred thirteen thousand that's around sixty thousand fewer than two thousand and seventeen spain has become the main gateway into europe for migrants travelling from north africa with around fifty six thousand people registered as arriving there by sea in two thousand and eighteen it's really and it's hard line anti immigration government cut its number of arrivals dramatically last year to around the fifth of the number who arrived in two thousand and seventeen all the figures are far below their peak in two thousand and fifteen when an estimated one million people cross the mediterranean into europe mostly from

turkey in to greece. well italy and malta have closed their ports to boats who have rescued migrants from the sea that's left those who do attempt to cross an even more dangerous expedition of the crew of a refugee rescue vessel stranded at sea for almost two weeks is warning that conditions on board are deteriorating the sea watch is one of two boats stranded off malta in gale force conditions karl leg reports. from the desperate conditions of the camps of libya to this. nearly two weeks at sea and a big storm has blown up on the western mediterranean as the storm approached and the crew prepared their passengers for what was coming. we're going to move the for everybody. in sight. thirty two people men women and little children are now huddled below deck many

a seasick facing several more days of high winds and rough seas. many nationalities are represented here refugees running from libya include ashwell abdullah who has a ready escape to the war in south sudan you know. i'm here on this boat by the grace of god and thanks to the people of the ship life in libya was very difficult people are dying every day you get taken you get put in a room you get tortured every moment you're in libya your heart beats hard you don't know what will happen next. since their rescue more than thirty days ago the refugees needs have been relayed to governments around europe the netherlands has made an offer to take some of the people on board but only if other nations step forward to. its part of the hard line taken by many european union nations

against the arrival of people from libya. italy has refused to allow any ngo rescue ships to land refugees and multi itself has prevented ngo ships from operating out of ports on the island the right to. go into a border safe for the. security. of. desperate for solutions the best see what use crew can hope for is that some other countries step forward to offer these people the chance to claim asylum until then see what has little option but to wait. for something to change car leg al-jazeera. brazil's new far right present. this first full cabinet meeting since being sworn in two days ago his chief of

staff announced a purge of government contractor is seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations it's part of an attempt to transform brazil's political and economic climate a mayor in mexico's southern state of ohio has been shot dead just hours after being sworn into office gunmen opened fire on the handle as he was on his way to a meeting for other people were wounded in the attack a man has been arrested in connection with the killings the trial of one of the world's best known drug lords is resuming in new york after the holiday break prosecutors have been outlining the allegations against mexican walking and chapo guzman since november but there have also been some unexpected moments in the zonda now reports. just the most of. his life is the world's richest and most feared drug trafficker was dramatized in the hit television series and spondee genre of folk

songs back in his native mexico but inside a brooklyn courtroom the real life which joaquin el chapo guzman is playing out and it's no less than say tional among some of the extraordinary exhibits seen by the jury so far pictures of specially built submarines that prosecutors say carried millions of dollars of cocaine from colombia to guzman in mexico and elaborate tunnels they say he then famously used to get into the u.s. . and then there were cans of pickled whole opinio peppers which it's claimed el chapo used to smuggle upwards of forty tons of cocaine into the u.s. worth five hundred million dollars a year this was guzman's favorite weapon a diamond encrusted thirty eight caliber with his initials on it. security is tight for the trial with no cameras or video allowed inside the courtroom but that didn't

appear to stop guzman's beauty queen wife emma coronel who was at one point caught with a cell phone in the courtroom the prosecution claimed she was secretly trying to text her husband through his lawyers i'm not going to go on a macho guy like that if this guy's guzman's defense lawyers made the sensational claim that two former mexican presidents personally took millions in bribes from the sin aloa cartel they're pinning their hopes on an acquittal on arguing the real culprit is this man is male. a former ally of guzman and current head of this in a little cartel. i know what i'm coming back into. but this rare audio recording allegedly of el chapo guzman negotiating a multimillion dollar cain shipment was played in court analysts say it will be hard for the defense to refute the recordings that we heard in court the recordings

with all chappell's voice it just really stings and i think that that makes it very difficult that they'll be able to pull it off if convicted guzman faces life behind bars but with several more people expected to testify the trial likely will not end at least for a few more weeks gabriels on doe al-jazeera brooklyn. i new device that could revolutionize cancer detection is being tested in the united kingdom the breathalyzer is assigned to pick up early signs of the disease quickly and painlessly if successful doctors say that it could save thousands of lives barker reports so much. it's called the breath biopsy a new weapon in the war against cancer here is going to read into this here at ten minutes and it's going to. keep rebecca cold drinks one of fifteen hundred people

already with cancer whose breath is being collected by researches. she has a condition called barrett's esophagus could eventually turn into cancer the test requires patients to breathe into a breathalyzer for ten minutes the device collects airborne molecules given off as waste by the cancer cells these are then sent off to a poetry for further analysis it's much less invasive and. a lot better i wouldn't have to be coming every couple of years for dental. so you wouldn't have the paying fifteen minutes. and the sedation scientists are hoping to determine whether different types of cancer give different readings early detection can significantly increase people's chance of survival think it's a revolutionary idea most cancers are detected quite late and the only way we're going to really make inroads into improving outcomes from cancer is by tech

detecting it much earlier so we're really passionate in cambridge about finding new technologies that could revolutionize the way that we detect cancer at a very early stage right at the point of g.p. surgery globally one in every six deaths is jean to cancer last year the disease killed an estimated nine and a half million people. the technology will be tested over a two year period if proven it could be used around the world within a few years a simpler cheaper quicker way to tackle one of the world's deadliest diseases. a string of dutch islands in the north sea are enjoying a sudden windfall of the cargo lost by a transport ship washed up on the shore about to up to two hundred seventy containers fell off the panama flagged cargo ship in rough weather breaking open on the shores of their shelling environment they contain furniture toys and tech goods

as while as well as car parts or the goods are considered flotsam on the island and can be salvaged by locals three containers carrying hazardous materials have yet to be found. so ahead this hour norway leads the way for the women in the process country world cup i will have more from that whole petition in sports. business update. it's going to get the.

business updates. going places together. and now here's what the sports. thank you manchester city are just

a few minutes away from moving to second place and closing the gap on the english premier league leaders liverpool they lead to one thanks to goals from sergio aguero and leroy here they will close the gap to four points. in the standings if they can go on and beat the reds here michael schumacher now 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's been he has not been seen in public since he was brain damaged in this accident five years ago however his family did make a rare statement on the eve of his birthday they said michael can be proud of what he has achieved and so are we you can be sure that 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 and keeping such a sensitive subject as health and privacy she mockers career was filled with

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 philip duncan is a 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 well the drivers weren't fit before went one you know up front 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 to have a 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 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 that what didn't go without controversy of course and on site is you know amazing success in the car there were there incidents on track with damon here in ninety four villanova ninety seven and then it arrested the title decider and in two thousand and six in monaco parties cause you really to stop and fernando alonso from setting a time qualifying better or better side he was obviously a fantastic racing driver and one who will go down as one of the greatest of all time of course. world number one novak djokovic was forced to go the full distance

for the second straight day at the qatar open in doha on thursday djokovic surrendered the first set of his quarter final against georgia's nicolas buster lashing billy 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 grand slam champion came roaring back joke a bitch won the next two set six three and six for. djokovic is sydney final opponent will be speaking to roberta about the stud good the tournaments seventh seed took care of the three time grand slam winner. in thursday's quarter final but completing his victory in straight sets six four six four over in brisbane two thousand and fourteen u.s. open runner up corey is enjoying a good start to the new year the japanese has made his way introducing me finals there isha corrie was against grigor dimitrov in the quarter finals the world

number nine defeating the bulgarian seven five seven five he faces infringement jeremy sharkey in the final four on saturday. and on the women's side misha cory's compatriot u.s. open champion only osaka has reached the semifinals but she had to do it the hard way after anastasio. won the first set six three osaka stormed back to take the second six love the twenty year old than completed her comeback by wrapping up the third six four to book in sydney final meeting with this year so ready. to test our pujara hit the third his third century of the series to put india in a commanding position and on target to create cricket history and 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 leave the series two one as they chase their first series win in australia. we would like.

to be just probably you don't. to them to fall. on the first day but i didn't get in a good position. it was a 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 and cape town young fast bowler doing a do on early fear that continued his good form from the first test taking four wickets to rip through the pakistani battling line up captain sarfraz ahmed top scored top scored with fifty six as the tourists were all out for one seventy seven eight in markram then hit a quick fire seventy eight as the hosts reach one twenty three for two at the close of play and martin guptill hit a century in his first one day international since march to help new zealand amass

three hundred seventy one for seven against sri lanka three called james hammered an unbeaten forty seven off just thirteen balls and then took three wickets to restrict the sri lankans and their pursuit of victory pereira as one zero two 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 at done it and dennis smith jr led the mavericks with an eighteen points piece against charlotte the maps picked up a rare road when one twenty two take eighty four. the cross country world cup is going on going and the latest round was all about the female athletes and it also berg increased 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 in twenty six minutes that's our sport now back to barbara

mayor thank you very much for that and that is it for this news hour do stay with us going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news thanks for watching.

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