day you can use it to find the time to navigate science in a golden age with germany just so you know. the democrats take control in the u.s. house and the standoff with president trump over funding for a border war shows no sign of ending. a lot of them speak of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up evidence d.n.a. ounce pullout of u.s. troops from syria has triggered more fighting. southern thailand buckles down as

tropical storm approaches. and taking the reins brazil's new president moves to advance his policy agenda. for the new u.s. house of representatives now controlled by the democrats as pasta package of bills to end the partial government shutdown but the republican majority senate will likely block the legislation and the president is refusing to sign off on them because they don't include funding for his border with mexico earlier the new house speaker nancy pelosi vowed to keep the trump presidency in check and end the stalemate also in jordan reports from washington. do you solemnly swear it's a day of firsts for the one hundred sixteenth u.s. congress do you solemnly swear that you new faces and some familiar ones being sworn into office and then getting down to work. democrat nancy pelosi still the

first and only woman to serve as house speaker returns for a second time best to play younger more diverse and more liberal legislators who want reforms in health care the economy and immigration illegal palosi also has to temper colleagues desire to investigate and perhaps impeach president donald trump but first ending the federal government shutdown democrats will be offering the senate republican appropriations legislation to reopen government later today. we were doing so. where do so to meet the needs of the american people to protect our borders and to respect our workers that first move likely is going nowhere the senate majority leader explains why the senate will lock up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing the schreiber and. yes

a presidential should mature in other words president donald trump says he will reject any short term budget that doesn't include five billion dollars to build a wall between mexico and the u.s. something democrats oppose earlier on thursday trump blamed the democrats for the impasse quote the shutdown is only because of the two thousand and twenty presidential election the democrats know they can't win based on all the achievements of trump so they are going all out on the desperately needed wall and border security and presidential harassment for them strictly politics analysts say this does not bode well for the eight hundred thousand federal employees who aren't getting paid and for the millions at risk of not getting emergency food aid health care or other services provided by the federal government we don't just have divided government the president of one party and the house of representatives of another party but we also have divided congress where the house and senate are controlled by different parties so that's

a relatively unusual set of circumstances that makes it even more complicated for us to. for anyone to try to negotiate and find common ground on a prickly issues so far republicans and democrats say no reason to compromise because they both think they're right neither party has paid a political price because of the shutdown and that's how this is become the first drama of the new session of the u.s. congress rosalind's orton al-jazeera capitol hill and u.s. president donald trump has praised nancy pelosi for regaining her role as speaker of the house he also renewed is the amman for a wall along the us mexico border he held a briefing with border patrol officials saying they had stopped thousands he said were criminals trying to enter the u.s. last year. you can go to a barrier you can call it 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. and gallagher has the latest from washington well as expected the democrats have proposed bills that would reopen the government which is heading into a two week shutdown but also as expected the republicans have made it pretty clear they will not sign off on these proposals mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader has said he won't even put this before president trump because president trump has made it clear he would veto the democrats' bills because he wants just one thing he wants more than five billion dollars to build a physical fence or barrier along the us mexico border and equally the democrats have made it clear they will not give him that money to do that what president trump is dealing with here is a new reality in power in washington d.c. nancy pelosi is now the speaker of the house the democrats have taken back the

house of representatives and it's pretty clear this stalemate could continue for weeks to come the seems to be no solution in view and meanwhile eight hundred thousand federal workers continue to go without pay. a mexico has called on the u.s. government to investigate why its border agents fired tear gas at people trying to cross the border near. women and children were among those near the united states southern front here on tuesday the border agency says its star for responding to rocks being thrown at the incident to widespread criticism of rights groups branding it an unnecessary use of force. are dozens of people are dead after days of fighting between rival armed groups in northern syria people who'd been displaced by earlier conflict were forced to flee a camp there at may close to the turkish border or qaeda linked fighters and turkey backed rebel forces are blaming each other for starting the violence in the area it

is the worst fighting in this part of the country in three months i reports say eleven people from the same family have been killed in airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition that's been fighting eisel in syria local sources saying the attack happened at the village of in the deities or province it is close to iraq's border and is controlled by eisel and that comes as a joint investigation by al jazeera and the incident reveals the u.s. military stepped up its bombing campaign against i saw in the region since president trumps announcement of the withdrawal of american troops the report says the fiercest attack in the past week occurred in 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 director of the director of director of the center for middle east

studies at the university of oklahoma he says the u.s. military is in a hurry to destroy i saw in the area before the forces withdraw. there are a series of small towns that are sprinkled along the euphrates right next to iraqi border that still house isis fighters 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 you know officers there the generals military have been told that they believe that 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 it's easy to claim that you're being strategic in your not. not taking out collateral damage but in reality

we see this going on all the time a saudi arabia says eleven suspects in the murder of journalists have appeared in court for the first time say prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants it's not known if they include sound of qahtani and the hum of the last cd two recently dismissed officials linked to crown prince mohammed bin said a man in a southern thailand is bracing for the arrival of tropical storm public forecasters are predicting torrential rain strong winds and waves up to four meters high when the storm makes landfall later ferry services have been suspended bangkok alway's has also stopped flights to the popular tourist island of coast hundreds of people have been moved to shelters of florence lawyers life or so from a coast summary so florence what's the latest we're hearing now. although as you mentioned topical storm is forecast to make landfall if you're not

hungry tama on friday evening it's about noon here in thailand now see tom right is about one hundred fifty kilometers south of where we are we are now on the island of course somewhere in the gulf of thailand originally the eye of the storm was full cost to cost through coast somewhere but that forecast changed in the last forty eight hours but here we're still feeling being in hearing the effects of the incoming storm i'm not sure how much you can see behind me but the waves are much more powerful than normal that reaching up to free me to becoming much further inland in much the shore but of course the main focus of attention is on the twelfth say tens of thousands of people have been evacuated because we moved to safer areas these are people living in the low lying coastal areas schools they are shut friday some of these buildings are being used as flood relief send ten people who cannot move to have stockpiled on food and petrol supplies in case that cutoff

by floods in some of the areas is one of the southern provinces of bushels gave the order over the last couple of days to start releasing water from the reservoir to decrease the potential for flash floods and the oil and gas industry has also been affected with more than two thousand workers on offshore rigs evacuated as a precautionary measure tropical storm public has been described as unusual because it's taking place outside of the monsoon season for this part of the world and the last time something like this happened in thailand was some thirty years ago the potential for damage will come not just from the rain but also from wind and waves and surge and the latest report from the time it department says waves could reach as high as five needs within the gulf of thailand but the good news is for cost of say that not expecting the tropical storm to strengthen to a thai food but we're still expecting to see. sustained rainfall over a couple of hours possibly and very likely into saturday which means they don't

need the rest of the bloody landslides and mudslides in the company probably in. florence thanks for that florence louis in a close. hour brazil's new president jailed bo'sun otto has begun his first week in office with a purge of government contractors considered sympathetic to previous left wing governments also now or held his first full cabinet meeting since his swearing in two days ago he's already unveiled plans to step up privatizations toughen prison sentencing guidelines and hand control over indigenous land claims to the powerful agriculture ministry john homan has more from brasilia. i bought a ticket. for now he's 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 hear those you need to descend to save 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 being questioned if an even harder line will work. less controversial but just as challenging is pulsar noddles aim to curb corruption he's brought in sergio morrow the man in charge of latin america's biggest bribery investigation this is justice minister but it may be tougher than he thinks nice fight against corruption it's much more easier carries off the electoral narrative that in terms of practice. the government has besides the fact felt a strong way off the president to fight against corruption been assessed establish a lot of spoil the whole. gulf or not if i jam but i don't think

so and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians are unemployed consonantal says that free market economics and small government will fix that you did you lose a government once been more income seen anybody 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 but the seats in the houses of congress so he's going to have to negotiate. with all those that backed him and that includes ex generals evangelicals i grow business leaders and the financial sector if you want to get anything done and everyone will want to search these groups they are really willing to fight each other so i'd say that 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 i president bill so now to run a successful campaign on the terrorism abuses of brazil's left of center governments now it's the time for the man from the right to see if he can do better job home and out zero brasilia. all right still ahead on nigeria when we come back u.s. stocks fall sharply after apple says an economic slowdown in china has taken a bite out of its projected sales. new cancer detection device that could say fallon's of line.

both rain and snow are heading for afghanistan which i think will be welcome and you can see the connecting system is a nice arc of cloud hearings for iran and there were police say it's always where us was so the daytime focus for friday looks like this potentially vast amounts of snow to afghanistan and there's a big gap through iran and even the event where you pick up the next storm system near turkey bringing rain to southern turkey fan also syria maybe just catching lebanon as well but probably staying largely offshore so suddenly breeze ahead of that potential there for quite warm maybe dusty as well temperature wise at this time the it is a lot of variation to go for really twenty three and twenty five in abu dhabi and thirty for mecca you could say that for most days in the winter to be quarter was pretty good spread and there's very little cloud around at least sas of the saudi border there is however an awful lot of action from the sky in southern africa is that what time of the year the obvious dark green blobs go from the coast of mozambique up through zimbabwe zambia up towards angola temporarily the showers

further south and south africa so they're not there in botswana i looked at a drive day on friday seems quite likely and possibly substitute although if you're in durban you're very close to seeing big thunderstorms. a lot again solid being in control. but it's tremendous for the country so i think and he was determined to go on could use them at the point to the sword to avenge. eighty eight years earlier he smashes the frankish on the couch is the king of jerusalem he sees is the truth crawls and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective never sold three unification of this time on the jersey.

and again you're watching i just remind of our top stories this hour the new u.s. house of representatives now controlled by the democrats as passed a package of bills to end the partial government shutdown but the republican majority senate is expected to block. a joint investigation by al-jazeera and the intercept has revealed that the u.s. military stepped up its bombing campaign against isis the president's decision to withdraw troops reports say eleven people were killed in u.s. led strikes in northern syria and i still controlled territory. airports and schools have closed in southern thailand as the region braces for tropical storm hundreds of people have been taken to shelters. a shares in apple have closed down

ten percent in u.s. trading its worst session since twenty thirteen it comes to c.e.o. tim cook surprised investors with the announcement it is slashing revenue expectations by up to nine billion dollars he's partly blaming the u.s. china trade war as heidi castro explains. this i phone when a confident tim cook and now since the launch of apple's i'm still 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 due to 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 but they've been killing us some. seven billion dollars trade deficit is less. five hundred. promised more of 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. to lamely 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 before trade talks between the u.s. and china are set to resume in beijing this week heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. egypt is trying to stop the broad cost of an interview president the

fact that his c.c. gave to us television network c.b.s. in the interview was kind of says show sixty minutes she says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against isis fighters in north sinai he also denies egypt is holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. so when we don't have the political prisoners and or prisoners of opinion we are trying to stand against extremists will impose their ideology on the people the now they are subject to the fair trial the one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law and condemn what i cannot remember mr president the organization human rights watch says that there are sixty thousand political prisoners that you're holding today as we said here and a lot of other than me i don't know where they got that figure in but i said there are no political prisoners in egypt and insists that whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. well as you heard their rights groups say egypt's

jails are filled with political dissidents human rights watch says political prisoners are routinely subjected to torture and rape while in detention it also says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent egypt's most notable political prisoner is former president mohamed morsi who was overthrown by sisi in a twenty thirteen military coup a professor of law and director of the center on security race and civil rights at rutgers university she says the digital process in egypt is only part of the problem. the problem is that the judiciary there's a lot of questions whether it has been politicized and whether there is pressure on some of the judges to convict there's also serious concerns with the evidentiary process where defendants are not given the opportunity to bring forth the evidence and even defense counsel have gone on the record in egypt saying i haven't had

a chance to defend my client so the process itself has many flaws and that's been documented so but but that's despite the fact that's the second order issue the issue is why are they being indicted in the first place and i just want to know that you know the vast majority of these. detainees are accused of being associated with the muslim brotherhood and what's problematic about that is that this work was criminalized after the president mohamed morsy who was democratically elected was deposed and ultimately in a military coup arrived a kurd and then all of its members who were very open politically who participated in nonviolent political activity became criminalized all of a sudden and if you were even accused of being a member you're automatically arrested and detained so egypt has quite a regime has created quite of a human rights catastrophe with these tens of thousands of people and some of whom are also secularists and human rights activists who have nothing to do with the

muslim brotherhood alleges talks between a yemeni government officials and hooty leaders have ended without agreement on the withdrawal of rival forces from one day to the u.n. teams in the port city to monitor a cease fire which is holding so far but the who does all reportedly refusing to begin to pull out until other parts of the peace deal are carried out a new round of talks begins on saturday. and as a humanitarian crisis continues as it 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 who these and the saudi u.a.e. backed forces of diverting aid in areas under their control and how much june has the story. on the streets of the capital sanaa 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 there were 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. that has been the government will hold responsible anyone who commits such mistakes and the government will take all the full measures according to law and justice against anyone who does that the un food agency is now threatening to

suspend some aid shipments unless more is done to stop corruption that's causing the people of sanaa to grow more concern. 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 a so-so. he did press news agency which said it also saw documents suggesting that rations intended for families and ties are being stolen by armed units working with the saudi u.a.e. coalition forces in recent weeks a un supported peace process that started in sweden has led to a fragile cease fire in the strategic port city of her data and while the level of overall violence there has been reduced the u.n. has expressed disappointment that much needed humanitarian corridors have still not been established. a new device that could revolutionize cancer detection is being tested in the united kingdom

a breathalyzer designed to pick up early signs of the disease quickly and painlessly if successful doctors say it could save thousands of lives as. much as. it's called the breath biopsy a new weapon in the war against cancer. this. is going to. keep rebecca cold drinks one of fifteen hundred people some already with cancer whose breath is being collected by researches. she has a condition called barrett's esophagus that could eventually turn into cancer the test requires patients to breathe into a breathalyzer for ten minutes the device collects born molecules given off as a waste by the comes to cells these are then sent off to a lab or a tree for further analysis it's much less invasive and. a lot better i wouldn't have to pay coming every couple of. so you wouldn't have the paying

fifteen minutes. without any sedation scientists are hoping to determine whether different types of cancer give different readings early detection can significantly increase people's chance of survival i think it's a revolutionary idea where 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 say 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 genetic counselor 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 only a few years

a simpler cheaper quicker way to tackle one of the world's deadliest diseases. al-jazeera. and you can find much more in all the stories we're covering here on our website and just call. our it's going to round up now our top stories the new u.s. house of representatives now controlled by the democrats as passed the package of bills to end the partial government shutdown but the republican majority senate is expected to block it earlier the new speaker nancy pelosi hailed a new era as party officially took control of the house. 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 to the presidency and to the judiciary a joint investigation by al-jazeera and the interceptors revealed the us military stepped up its bombing campaign against isis its after president trumps the situation to withdraw american troops reports say eleven people were killed in u.s. led strikes in northern syria isis controlled territory the latest talks between yemeni government officials and hooty leaders have ended without agreement on the withdrawal of rival forces from her data the u.n. team is in the port city to monitor a cease fire which is holding so far but the hoodies are reportedly refusing to begin their pullout until other parts of the peace deal are carried out the new round of talks begins on saturday southern thailand is bracing for the arrival of tropical storm pavel forecasters are predicting tarantula rain strong winds and

waves up to five meters high when the storm makes landfall later very services have been suspended bangkok airways has stopped all flights to coast airport hundreds of people have been taken to government shelters brazil's new president jalal narrow has held his first full cabinet meeting since getting sworn in two days ago is chief of staff announced a purge of government contract is seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations also naro has already unveiled plans to step up privatizations toughen prison sentencing and hand control over in didn't get a slammed claims to the powerful agriculture ministry. shares in apple have closed down ten percent in u.s. trading in its worst session since two thousand and thirteen it comes off the c.e.o. tim cook surprised investors announcing that revenue was being slashed by up to nine billion dollars those are the headlines. the week began with.

a truce in the u.s. china trade. the. us is leaving the biggest. we bring you the stories in the economic world we live in counting the cost. i'm catherine. a year ago it was. the democratic republic of congo's capital and. today as a presidential candidate. with security forces using. the nation to disrupt. some parts of the country. he's the biggest threat to president joseph kabila and the. candidates.