good jolt we detailed coverage is the second time this year doctors walked out on strike the government is funded by issuing suspension. from the around the world increased warning level calms us a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. this is zero. hello i'm the stasi attain this is the news hour live from our headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn nancy pelosi becomes the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives the opposition that body expected to challenge the president. and after pledging to wed with the new congress donald trump reiterate

his demand for a wall at the mexican border. sudan's president tries to stem the tide of protests with another appeal to the people. and the evidence the announced pullout of u.s. troops from syria has intensified the fighting there. the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi has hailed a new door in as a democratic party took control of the lower house of congress pelosi welcome to the most diverse group of representatives in american history with more women elected than ever before but she says working with the republicans who still control the senate will not be easy she has a valid to keep presidency in check its first mission is to end the partial government shutdown which is now in its third day. our nation is in

a storage 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. for more on this let's cross live to al-jazeera as rosalind jordan in washington d.c. rose we've seen lots of pomp and ceremony today but the country is still in the throes of a partial government shutdown what are the chances that the democrats and republicans were actually managed to work together to end it. well associate that's probably the biggest question that's being asked not just by political watchers but certainly by the eight hundred thousand us federal workers who are not getting paid

half of them are being made to work and they still don't know when they're going to be paid because this is very much a political impasse to join me now to talk more about resolving the federal budget shutdown as well as other issues facing the new democratically controlled house of representatives christine pelosi she is a civil rights lawyer she is the chair of the california democratic party's women's caucus and she just happens to be the daughter of the new speaker of the house nancy pelosi christine palosi thanks so much for joining us here on al-jazeera my pleasure thank you so pomp and ceremony over now trying to set the rules of debate trying to figure out how to get the government back open to serve the u.s. public how is it going what does your mother believe is going to be the toughest hurdle to clear in order to reopen the government well it's a great day for democracy it's a beautiful day to see over one hundred women being sworn in see nine states

congress together of any five of them democrats but they're public and have their members too and that's very exciting so we're hoping that on a day like this the first thing that congress will do will vote to reopen government the house members we voting momentarily on that it will go back over to the senate where it was passed one hundred to zero and then the senators will have to make a decision about whether or not they want to bring it up again but really when you talk about the federal workers who are providing vital services to the american people and going without money and paychecks themselves it really is a sad time in our country so our hope is that the house members will vote the senate will have the sense to pick it up and that there will be a vote to reopen government in the senate as soon as possible one of the things that the speaker spoke of. on thursday was the fact that congress is a co-equal member of the government it's not subordinate to the executive branch or

popularly to the president how do you expect to see the house of representatives in particular and congress overall exert its influence as provided for under the constitution well as speaker pelosi said it's article one section eight not only are they co-equal branches of government but the first branch of government is the legislative branch so when it comes to legislation to open the government and reopen the government and to protect health care and to otherwise meet the mandate of the voters they'll be legislating they'll also be litigating the house of representatives now the democrats are in control so they will step into the shoes of the former obama administration officials who are defending the affordable care act's protections for people with preexisting medical conditions against a lawsuit that the trumpet ministration supports also they're doing oversight so one of the things that is going to happen is that you will see oversight by people with very important gavels adam schiff alicia cummings maxine waters and others will be playing an important role to find out why were these decisions being made

in the executive branch and where can we possibly have some leverage to change those decisions only to reopen government but to make government work more responsibly for people we were talking before about the need to reach across the aisle to speaker talked about the need to reach across the aisle because people just don't represent those who share their political views they represent all of the people who live in their districts how important is it to do that kind of bipartisan outreach can it be successful as we look to the two thousand and twenty presidential election being right around the corner but i think it has to be one of the things that we were doing in putting together over ten thousand grassroots events to protect our care something the speaker also mentioned and making millions of phone calls is that we would tell people you're not calling a democrat or republican and you're not calling as a democrat. or as a republican you're calling as a patient you're calling as a mom you're calling as a son of a of a patient so tell your story speak your personal truth and appeal to the members as

someone who represents you as a patient as a constituent and not as a partisan and that's why we were so successful in building support so whether it is the personal storytelling and appeal when it comes to health care or whether it's gun violence prevention or whether it's climate action you have these bipartisan coalitions out there with the public is far ahead of the politicians and as the speaker said today congress needs to catch up. leave it there christine palooza daughter of the once and current house speaker and a civil rights attorney member of the kemp california democratic party the southsea we will turn it back to you obviously now that congress is back in session it's back to a lot of late nights a lot of meetings in and discussions and trying to find an effort to get things back on track certainly both republicans and democrats are hearing that from their constituents that they are starting to be affected by this government shutdown back

to you roslyn jordan speaking to us there from washington watching events for us thanks. u.s. president donald trump has also praised the fed regaining her role as speaker of the house but he used the occasion to renew demands for a wall along the us mexico border he held a briefing with u.s. border patrol officials saying they had apprehended thousands of what he called criminals trying to get across the border last year everybody you can go to a barrier you can go to whatever you want but essentially we need protection in our country we're going to make it good to the people of our country want to 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've been aboard traill 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 not go arizona for ten years we didn't have physical barriers in narco and illegal immigration and drug smuggling was absolutely out of control we built those walls those physical barriers and illegal immigration dropped exponentially and it got to has more from washington d.c. and joins us live so i need this so what happened what we've just seen now in a surprise press briefing with president trump addressing the media is this part of a new campaign now that the democrats have the house. i think the very simple answer is this was an attempt to steal the limelight the limelight back from nancy pelosi because today the news cycle was absorbed with watching nancy pelosi once again become the speaker of the house watching all these new faces over

a hundred women including the first palestinian american the first korean american the first native american and we know that the president likes to watch cable news and i think this was an attempt for him to steal back the limelight from the democrats and this huge shift in power that will have a very real effect on the remaining part of his presidency on the next two years this was an impromptu event we were given about ten minutes notice in the briefing room the president's never spoken in the briefing room before and didn't take any questions afterwards essentially what the president is doing here is talking to his base they like this fight they like the fact that the president is standing up to try and put a physical barrier or a wall on the u.s. border but it really doesn't change anything now that the democrats have the house of representatives it seems pretty clear that the president will not get the five billion dollars that he wants the government will still remain in shutdown is day thirteen now we're almost up to two weeks and it looks like there is no solution at the moment on friday there will be another meeting again between both parties but

the president has put his foot down he wants this money he keeps making the same argument but again he doesn't seem to recognize or doesn't want to deal with the new reality of this big power shift in washington d.c. that will prevent him getting the money that he really wants and i believe president shunters will say tweeted a new video about his war what kind of reaction every seen so far so all of his comments today. i mean these kinds of videos this kind of propaganda that the president puts on his twitter feed is not unusual we've seen him do it before the video you're talking about is one that just frames immigration in the terms that he likes to talk about he talked about criminals today he talks about them as being illegal aliens it just once again reaffirms his position on wanting this physical barrier along the u.s. border remember this was his signature promise to his base during his campaign he said i will build the wall of mexico will pay for it the crowds all chanted build that wall build that wall and he doesn't want to back down from that position he

wants to get the money he needs to build that wall otherwise he'll look weak but once again there's been a huge shift in power here in washington d.c. now that nancy pelosi speaker of the house again and the democrats are trying to put forward bills to get the government open again mitch mcconnell is saying he won't put any of those bills in front of the president because he won't sign them so the stalemate continues the president can keep on making these arguments about getting money to build a physical wall along the u.s. border but it simply doesn't look likely to happen at this point in time our desires and gallagher in washington d.c. thanks andy well mexico has called on the u.s. government to investigate why its border agents fired tear gas at people trying to cross the border or women and children were among those near the united states southern front here on tuesday the border agency says its staff are responding to rocks being thrown at them the incident widespread criticism with rights groups branding it an unnecessary use of force. eleven suspects in the murder of

journalist jamal khashoggi have appeared in court for the first time in saudi arabia state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names have been released so it's not known if two recently dismissed senior officials linked to mohammed bin sound are among those charged jamal outside al has been following saudi arabia's handling of the case. 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's 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 and then saying that they didn't know whether he was killed or not so 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 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 to highlight said by the saudis as we mentioned to show that they are seeking justice but skepticism with regards to strew intentions remains extremely high. plenty more ahead on this news hour including taking the reins brazil's new president moves to advance his controversial policy agenda. stranded at sea

a charity boat carrying refugees rescued from the mediterranean seeks safe haven. and in sports we look back at formula one legend michael schumacher his career on his fiftieth birthday. dozens of people are dead after three days of fighting between rival groups in northern syria people who'd been displaced by earlier conflict were forced to flee a company close to the turkish border as fighting fled al qaeda linked fighters and rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence in the area it's the west fighting in this part of the country in three months the latest fighting is happening i need days off the u.s. president announced american troops will leave syria and their affairs turkey is planning a major offensive against kurdish fighters in syria any time soon monitor reports

from gaza near the tekkie syria border. last compliance in three months. for it doesn't take. up buckling altoona territory in the west another pool could. both blame each other for cheating the fort. for the third consecutive day o'connor the fighters have been at second our positions in aleppo we have received the force manson are pushing back fighting is now around the village of me some of the. activists say that al qaeda linked. group is trying to cut off talk you bug for it is in the north from enclave all. 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 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 has and get critics at home but also thrown the global on the ice inclusion in syria into calles days now as crumble between regional powers to fill the void that will be left by a u.s. troop withdrawal. at a meeting in noncredit presence of techie on iraq project a bedouin and but himself agreed on create a call for action. dodge pickup. eisel and other terrorist groups pose a threat to both turkey and iraq and the countries should cooperate in fighting terror in the coming days i hope we will increase our relationship in this regard.

on wednesday president trump in an apartment change 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 cut the y.p. a group turkey considers to be a terrorist organization we want to protect the kurds nevertheless we want to protect but i don't want to be in syria forever. it's sand and it's death but the cubs already feeling a bundle last week. in return for. protect them from destruction by turkey. to talk it's to call the ultimate a troll post from a ghost city and destroyed is. its troops aboard tonsil moving into city and totally it's full. of syrian rebels allied to talk the truth and. beach officials accused

of time before the france it was launched. doesn't it. and now there are reports eleven people from the same family have been killed in as strikes by the u.s. led coalition that's been fighting eisel local sources say the attack happened at the village of and the duras or province it's close to iraq's border and is an area controlled by eisel it comes as a joint investigation by al jazeera and the intercept reveals the u.s. military has intensified its bombing campaign against eisel in the region since president announcement of the withdrawal of america's troops the report said the fiercest attack in the past week occurred and. the village on the euphrates river is held by isis fighters donald trump claimed i saw had been defeated when he announced he was bringing american soldiers home from syria in december joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of

oklahoma he joins us now on skype tell us about the rationale for this ramped up air assault president says i've been defeated but his military is clearly still fighting them. indeed there are a series of small towns that are sprinkled. along the euphrates right next to rocky border that still house isis fighters there are about sixty thousand people there all together with a few thousand isis fighters we believe hidden amongst the population and so the united states is in a hurry officers there the generals military have been told that they need to leave it at first it was one month now it seems to be a four month window before they leave but they're clearly in a hurry to try to destroy isis in these last towns and that means ramping up bombing and it seems that there has been you know there's less care being taken about targets than there was previously i want to ask you about that because this

was an area where there are also civilians and it's quite densely populated as people have been fleeing fighting elsewhere what do we know about the targets of these asterix well according to people on the ground there there's been a lot of you know indiscriminate bombing. there in a number of cafes that have been hit of course computer cafes where people are trying to communicate with the outside world hospital was hit now isis members were in the hospital but it's it's a very difficult not to her civilians because there are there are not many houses left standing that are integral and so people have tended to get into smaller and smaller areas inhabitation and it means that there's a lot of destruction going on as we saw in iraq on will so in other places this you know it's easy to claim that you're being strategic and you're not. not taking out collateral damage but in reality we see this going on all the time to show there's

also quite a large disparity between the number of civilians that the us says have been killed in coalition air strikes just over a thousand i believe and what monitoring group say which says more between seven and eleven thousand how do we explain that disparity well i don't think the military is counting very carefully and if this is the same thing we've seen what other militaries in the region knew all lowball the collateral damage that's going on but we know from photos in syria we look at iraq where where the united states said they were being very strategic in their new bombing and almost none of the houses were left standing so there is a lot of collateral damage it's very hard to avoid it in a situation like this there's also been a temporary ceasefire between the kurds and i still in pots of the country is that concern that the u.s. withdrawal is giving i still a chance to regroup we're likely to see a resurgence of eisel you know that's

a big question obviously the long term solution to the isis problem is the return of the centralized state and central authority of the police force and a military in syria now the americans want kid that to be a kurdish an air force that they were putting up the s.t.'s now went to america withdrawing and means it's not going to be that of course it's going to be. we believe that the syrian government force now the turks have said they want to come in so there's confusion about what kind of central state is going to come back and whether america will in a sense cooperate with the outside stay whether russia will in order to build up a strong police force in order to protect this region from a resurgence of ones which could easily happen joshua landis speaking to us there from the university of oklahoma thanks for your insights joshua. u.s. prosecutors are in turkey's capital to discuss the possible extradition of the man

accusing the man accuses i'm sorry of plotting to overthrow the government turkey blamed him for orchestrating the failed coup in twenty sixteen which killed more than two hundred fifty people since then turkey has arrested or dismissed tens of thousands of people accused of having links to grillings movement and denies any involvement in the coup and has been living in self-imposed exile in the us since one nine hundred ninety nine sudan's president omar al bashir has promised to push through economic reforms as he defies calls from protesters and the opposition to step down two parties have withdrawn from the governing coalition as anti-government demonstrations continue but president bashir is refusing to budge he morgan reports from the capital. for more than two weeks his opponents have been calling for him to step down but only bashir says he's going nowhere amid a crisis he blames on international sanctions.

we are under siege we face war we have lost our would mean revenue which was dissolved. 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 just on high prices complaints that 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 see the figure is higher. we're going to the images out of the dream that we've gathered the figure of about thirty nine killed are mostly says thirty seven but the numbers we have are from our offices in various parts of the country we are working for the protests to continue to the regime is overthrown in recent days more protests have taken place 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 say that hurt 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. through one 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. of this affair. 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

a longer morgan al-jazeera cartoon still ahead on al-jazeera. swept off the streets how a change in the law and hungary is making its home mysticisms even more vulnerable . u.s. stocks fall sharply after apple says an economic slowdown in china has taken a bite out of its projected sales. i know that joke of it stops the opening session and magic for the second day in succession to me i will tell you what happens next in force. how the snow and the freezing rain are both come a long way south in the u.s. so in oklahoma texas we are the snow we're freezing rain and that's going to probably fade out in the next few hours and you go to a picture of rain being the likely main problems it runs through already southern

states in the southeast corner the air behind it is nothing like as cold as it was so six in chicago modest to many pay thinking it was minus thirty and we've had two days ago so things are much much warmer on the pacific coast as rain stretch down for california lots of snow for d.c. as you can see and that position will continue with the rain fell during saturday at the same time but of backwash probably high ground snow running up through the northeast corner here the rain is out of the way and we're left behind was sunshine and a half sight rose of the warm conditions considering that she made winter very quiet weather in the caribbean now you see grey clouds here there's a light rain showers a name or not they'll hit billy's honduras costa rica maybe but otherwise it's a fine time of the year that streak agreed to go through florida like give a decent shower or two in mexico probably sundries well that's the wettest place otherwise it's spotty showers there aren't that many.

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. where every. welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives nancy pelosi has hailed a new dawn as the democratic party officially took control of the lower house of congress but i see valid to keep the trump presidency in check and end the partial government shutdown. donald trump has pledged to work with the democrats while renewing demands for a wall along the us mexico border he says he has received overwhelming support for

his plans. eleven suspects in the mouth of journalists. have appeared in court for the fest time in saudi arabia state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants. brazil's new president has held his first full cabinet meeting since being sworn in two days ago his chief of staff announced a purge of government contract is seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations also narrow has already unveiled plans to step up privatizations toughen prison sentencing guidelines and hand over control of indigenous land claims to the powerful agriculture ministry john heilemann has more from brazil today puerto rico. some are now his president not open begin making good on his election promises he'll face some big challenges. crime is number one more than sixty thousand brazilians were killed in two thousand and seventeen alone noddle

solution giving more people access to guns and police more license to kill you're going to the citizens deserve to have ways to defend themselves will honor and respect those who sacrifice their lives for safety. but brazilian officers already killed thousands most of them young black it's been questioned if an even harder line will work. this controversial but just as challenging his posts are not all saying to curb corruption he's brought in sergio bordeaux the man in charge of latin america's biggest bribery investigation this is justice minister but it may be tougher than he thinks the fight against corruption it's much more easier terms of electoral narrative than in terms of practice. the government has besides the folks felt a strong off the president to fight against corruption been assessed to establish a lot of the whole. governance if i jam but also all that

stuff and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians run employed consonantal says that free market economics and small government will take you to google is the government one spend more than can see. but if people really want 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 to the seats in the houses of congress so he's going to have to negotiate with all those that part him and that includes ex generals evangelicals business leaders and the financial sector if you want to get anything done and everyone will want to say these groups they are really willing to fight each other so i'd say the

challenge is how to put these groups together and how to align expectations so that these groups become part of a government and not fragments. president bush to run a successful campaign on the air or is it abuse is a produce left who said to governments now it's the time for the man from the right to see if he can do better still holding out zero brasilia. today is of un brokered talks between yemeni government officials and treaty leaders have ended without agreement on the withdrawal of rival forces from the port city of her data that he is a reportedly refusing to begin withdrawing until other parts of a peace deal are implemented un special envoy to yemen mohsin griffiths will begin a new round of talks with both sides starting on saturday and as the humanitarian crisis continues al-jazeera has seen evidence of food meant for starving yemenis being sold at

a marketplace in the capital sana the world food program has accused both the treaties and the saudi u.a.e. backed forces of diverting aid in areas under their control the hama 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 saga is being stolen by armed groups where extremely concerned by. what we've discovered in the course of our inquiries we noticed in recent months the increasing volumes of food for sale in the markets in the capital sanaa 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 people 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 we 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 in ties are being stolen by armed units working with the saudi u.a.e. coalition forces in recent weeks a u.n.

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. two people have blown themselves up during a gunfight with security forces in the two million town of jill the interior ministry says it happened during what during a raid of what it calls a terrorist hideout three other feiss were also killed they are thought to be senior members of an ice linked group operating city because they had province south of the capital tunis. malta has allowed to migrant rescue ships into its waters to take shelter from a storm in the mediterranean countries are still deciding the fate of dozens of people on board car a leg reports on their treacherous journey so far. 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 from the day inside. 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 and 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 the rescue more than thirteen 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 way whether we. go into reporter safety to this situation. without having to feel very. desperate the first solution the best that sea

watches crew can hope for is that some other country steps 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 a leg al-jazeera. hungary's homeless are living in fear of a new law that makes sleeping rough a criminal offense the government says it's trying to preserve human dignity but critics say being forced into hiding is leaving many homeless people even more vulnerable from budapest join a whole reports. the sleek clean boulevards of budapest this is how an increasingly also tyrian government wants them to look no refugees or illegal immigrants and no no homeless people either we're just trying to enable our author of this to step up against something which we believe is against human nature and human dignity and we would like public spaces to get their meaning back and operate as they were

intended it's not a decision the government took lightly the previous attempt was ruled a violation of human dignity by the constitutional court so the government changed the constitution itself all of which is heartbreaking to people like youngish torak lives in a caravan after he lost his home his job even his family when a house fire and no insurance left him with crippling debt. i'm afraid of it i can't say better i'm afraid it can. happen any time i wake up every morning scared that someone may knock on my door and say we can take your stuff away go elsewhere the government did sists it's looking after the people being swept off the streets but we take care of them we provide shelter provisions and all the support that is required not service a social workers but they believe that the shelter system is not an assault on this problem heather and the government still thinks about opening some new shutters

but the numbers show that there are more than thirty thousand people leaving homeless in hungary at the moment there are eleven thousand places. cycling's through the city volunteers carrying food and blankets search for those who have not made it to a shelter for the night in a railway station underpass where dozens once slept they find just three people. too many people in this in the shelters so there is a one hundred person and here we is there more than one hundred first militia or so it's a crowded and overcrowding in the shelters so the volunteers means many homeless people have gone into hiding making them even more vulnerable to the elements shelters like these this one is a private facility barely come close to meeting the needs of the homeless on the streets and while it's obviously a good idea to get people off the streets in below zero conditions like this and volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's

decision to criminalize homelessness in hungary one social worker described it as projecting power over the powerless jonah how al-jazeera budapest. southern thailand is bracing for the arrival of tropical storm public hundreds of people have been taken to shelters set up by the government ferry services have also been cancelled forecasters are predicting torrential rain strong winds and waves of up to four meters high when the storm makes landfall later on friday shares in apple have closed down ten percent in u.s. trading and it's west session since twenty thirteen it comes off to see over to tim cook surprised investors with the announcement of thrashing revenue expectations by up to nine billion dollars he is blaming the u.s. china trade war as castro explains. this i phone when a confident tim cook 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 consume or is across the globe you 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 week 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 have put additional pressure on their cause 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 the president but they've been killing us some hundred seven billion dollars in trade deficits less. seismometers. but economists warn of longer term consequences they say the trade war can create a negative. we are now hearing from nancy pelosi at the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives she's giving a press conference on capitol hill. the appropriations committee congresswoman the c. of all of the hard. lessons here ok now mr clyburn had come from the chariot we are. as you are aware of we have we are diligent. diligent and persistent in trying to open up government as i said today on the floor we will take ideas good ideas from wherever they come including the idea

of the appropriations bills passed by the republicans in the united states senate they passed six bills four of them on the floor with over ninety votes two of them in committee unanimously and those six bills can cover eight agencies departments of government that could be opened just by the stroke of the pen of the president of the united states separate from that we are sending what the senate set also passed which is a bill to extend to have a continuing resolution until february eighth taking their exact date from the senate that would cover homeland security and give us the weeks needed to negotiate an agreement to open up government in that department. again we've taken word for word and i'm going to yield in

a moment after mr hoyer to our distinguished chair of the appropriations committee to demonstrate how purely republican and senatorial these measures were and so we are we have separated out their two boats one on the eight departments of government that could be open now to meet the needs of the american people. to meet the needs of the american people to protect our borders and and to protect our workers and again the other bill is mostly about protecting our borders so in that spirit i want to try distinguished democratic leader of the house mr hoyer to talk about the need for us to open up government thank you very much and congratulations speaker on your reelection. we're here late tonight later than you would usually expect the.

people. that was nancy pelosi the us speaker from the house of representatives giving a press conference on capitol hill ahead of an expected vote to try to end the government shutdown in the coming hours. coming up in sports norway needs the way for the women in the country well. we'll have more.

thank you so much manchester city have beaten liverpool two one at home to go second in the english premier league standings sergio aguero and leroy sunday were the men with the goals for city they've reduced the reds advantage at the top of the standings to four points and now michael schumacher is the most successful formula one driver in 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 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 and six darts 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 into 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 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 to the 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 our into ross brawn 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 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 we'll see with damon here in ninety four villanova ninety seven and then at a rest of 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. 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 lash 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 and brisbane twenty fourteen u.s. open runner up corey is enjoying a good start to the new year the japaneses made his way into the semifinals there to corey was up against grigor dimitrov in the quarter finals the world number nine defeating the bulgarian seven five seven five he faces frenchman jeremy charedi in

the final four on saturday. and on the women's side misha cory's compatriot u.s. open champion naomi osaka she's reached the semifinals but she had to do it the hard way after anastasia won the first set six three osaka stormed back to take second six love the twenty year old then completed her comeback by wrapping up the third six four took a semi final meeting with the story of. south africa are on top after the first day of their second test against pakistan in capetown young fast bowler do on the fear continued his good form from the first test taking four wickets to rip through the pakistani batting line up captain sarfraz ahmed top scored with fifty six as the tourists were all out for one seventy seven eight in mark then had a quick fire seventy eight as the hosts reach one twenty three for two at the close of the play. and martin guptill hit a century in his first one day international since march to help new zealand amass

three 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 in their pursuit of victory pereira as one of 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 good on it and dennis smith jr led the mavericks with eighteen points at peace against charlotte the maps picked up a rare road win one twenty two to eighty four and the memphis grizzlies went down to the detroit pistons kenard had a late game run with back to back three pointers just in the pistons to a one on one ninety four when the cross-country world cup is ongoing and the latest round it was all about the female athletes and build us the burgen creased 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 but the real photo finish was between russia and the u.s. for third place the u.s. came out on top but only by a fraction that's all your support for now will have more later ethiopia's controversial grander nascent stem is expected to be fully completed and operational by the end of twenty twenty two the water and energy minister says it should start producing energy in twenty twenty down as part of ethiopia's bid to become africa's main power exporter but people in neighboring egypt worry the dam could lead to major water shortages. china has made history by landing a spacecraft on the side of the moon has a fast look as seen from china's space craft. the probe could offer insights into the marines origins and evolution china says the touchdown opened in

a new chapter in lunar exploration the mission highlights china's growing on visions to lead the space race. that's it for meanest audio tape for this news out of the back in just a few minutes. just . call the saying has now been held in pretrial detention

for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said journalists journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence wars of truth we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating john and this is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of all colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists attained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. in a four part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view pushed him to somebody who was

a difficult job rather than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and many critics of putting equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum under a neck wrestle discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia are now jazeera. two months ago the american people spoke and demanded a new dawn. nancy pelosi reclaimed the speaker's gavel in the u.s. house of representatives and a new political reality begins for president trump. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after pledging to work with the new.