two syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives such info. to people in power on al-jazeera. the a's are two hundred forty one and the nays are one hundred nine the bill is passed a democratic controlled house passes a plan to end the u.s. government shutdown but without any money the president trumps border wall. you're watching al-jazeera. also coming up the u.s.

ramps up attacks against syria as the trumpet ministration prepares to withdraw its troops. thailand braces for a tropical storm feared to be one of the worst in decades. also ahead taking the rate brazil's new president needs to advance his policy agenda. the new u.s. house of representatives which is now controlled by the democrats has passed a package of bills to end the partial government shutdown but the republican majority senate is likely to block the legislation and the president is refusing to sign off on it because they don't include funding for his border war with mexico earlier the new house speaker nancy pelosi to keep the presidency in check and end the stalemate she remains the only woman to hold the post in the most diverse congress ever well in jordan now 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 your 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 you know you voted 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. they 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 scheiber 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 of 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 warton al-jazeera capitol hill well u.s. president has praised nancy pelosi for regaining her role as speaker of the house he also renewed his demand for a wall along the border with mexico held a briefing with border patrol officials saying they'd stopped thousands he said were criminals trying to enter the u.s.

last year. you can go to 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 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 said be attack happened at the village of shifa in the dearest or province now that's close to the border with iraq 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 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 eisel fighters dozens of people have been killed in days of fighting between rival groups in northern syria the violence forced displaced people to flee once again this time to a camp near to me close to the turkish border al qaeda linked fighters and turkey back rebel forces blaming each other for starting the fighting joins us live now from gaza yet on the turkey syria border border mohammed what's the latest on the fighting there. all the fighting has to going on the. fights as all save talk cut it out on the ball fence of in the past four days against. rebels they are trying according to officials to divide the ten it's city between a three and also holds city and rebels law to talk to you who

are on the other side in that i left whole countryside. all these are not the suppression of all small time against them once techie begins but if i'm a mum big which officials say is just the amount of time what we know is that sole flub the al qaeda. rebels have taken the tunnel and is that it's to dick tal and they have continued but the free syrian army forces are saying that difficult time for enforcement on that a bit pulsing some of these are plots although there's been a huge exit also for people particularly from bradford you come to like ottoman and how significant were the airstrikes. well quite significant as you said that the u.s. and led coalition against last stepped up its campaign against remnants of the group have been concentrating in recent days on villages along the river euphrates

but in the past two to three days most of the fighting most of the aspects of been hitting the villages of hygiene on shofar which are near the syrian border this of course to get us much of the job that is left and a ton done before the u.s. troop withdrawal which the u.s. government is going to present some say it's of the moment but there's no timetable now these us caused massive civilian casualties and many people have fled but there are bulls who have nowhere to flee and it's those who remain in those villages what bearing the brunt of the south right mohammed thanks very much two days of u.n. brokered talks between yemeni government officials and whose leaders have ended without an agreement the meeting was aimed at finding a way forward on the withdrawal of rival forces from the port city of data but the

who fees are reportedly refusing to begin withdrawing until other parts of the peace deal are implemented the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffiths will begin a new round of talks with both sides starting on saturday. southern thailand is bracing for the arrival of tropical storm public for crossed as i'm predicting terentia will rain strong winds and waves up to five meters high when the storm makes landfall later ferry service is of being counseled while bangkok airways has stopped all flights to and from some of the airport hundreds of people have been taken to shelters set up by the government florence louis is our correspondent following developments on the other to florence they're clearly expecting it to be pretty bad. as invitees it was just received word in the last few minutes going to be strong topical storm made landfall just slightly over an hour ago in compound distrait in not calling feed tamad one of the provinces in southern thailand that's about one hundred fifty kilometers south of

where we are in coast on we an island in the gulf of time and now the eye of the storm was initially meant to last through coast somewhere but that for cost changed in the last forty eight hours we are still feeling seeing and hearing the effects of the storm i'm not sure if you can hear behind me but you can see the waves are pounding in crushing the shore and the extremely powerful much more powerful than normal coming much further inland than usual and the high as high as to do we need to if people have been told to stay away from the water boat in ferry service that have been suspended since that stage at what is you mentioned it's closed in some way but of course much of the attention is focused on not on the i'm right where the maximum alert level has been issued tens of thousands of people in fact living in the low lying coastal areas have been moved to evacuation centers schools are shut for the day many of these buildings are being used as flood relief centers and people have started stockpot people have stockpiled on food and water and petrol

supplies in case that cutoff by floods and in other southern districts officials dave you know there are several days ago to start releasing water from reservoirs so easy reservoirs can take in more rainwater that by. the potential let's talk. is unusual because it's taking place outside of the monsoon season for that part of the world and the potential for damage will come not just from rain but also wind waves and surge time that department says he waits to reach as high as five meters and boats have been told to stay in now the good news however is not if it's not expected to strengthen to a thai food but it's still going to be bringing sustained rainfall over a couple of hours and that means there is a threat of severe flooding landslides and mudslides so the storm system has just and already made landfall how long are they expecting it to take until it blows through the area. well it's already about two pm here

in thailand the forecast as i've said the much much of the rain is going to last through song today and that's why the airports in both i'm sorry said it didn't happen to spend on friday waiting to see what's going to happen on saturday some by the smaller boats i'm not running on time today we know that the marine parks are closed right through to today because the forecast is for the rain to process to continue right through to saturday before it moves past thailand and goes into the ondemand sea. lawrence thanks very much. still to come here on al-jazeera going nowhere sudan's president rejects calls by protesters to step down. also ahead we'll tell you why white farmers in zimbabwe are skeptical about the government's new promises.

and other skiers in europe are going to love this it's getting steadily colder vast amounts of snow are falling out of the sky in what looks like fairly benign clavius can be moving south and in doing is also in counting as has been the case for ages not the warmest circulation down around the g. in the eastern med so snow as it comes through germany and austria is going to be worthwhile and not to be a third dump this last week and then the vast amount is develop and the ukraine greece up into belgariad our bay area and inside turkey as well and the flooding in southern turkey is just going to be in the house with yet more rain on its way through both greece and turkey got rain to come as you can see already you know friday into saturday again nice blue snow for central and eastern europe to the west is cool down this five degrees in london twelve in madrid but the weather is required here frosty nights at least in france and england but to find looking days in the sunshine for the most part typical winter really so we got to see in the

central eastern mediterranean it's been keeping temperatures below where they were about light to be and with today's eleven and possibly wet on friday this big disappointment things to improve it on saturday but not a huge amount than the rain sweeps into libya and the temperatures drop here as well. rewind returns a can bring your people back to life. with new updates on the best of. begins with mohammed and i was. i was the global. and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded. on al-jazeera.

these are your top stories so far this new u.s. house of representatives which is not controlled by the democrats has passed a package of bills to end the partial government shutdown but it's likely to be blocked by the republican majority senate as the border war continues. the joint investigation by al-jazeera and. the u.s. military has stepped up its bombing campaign against vice president decision to withdraw all u.s. forces. in school so closed in southern thailand as the reaching braces for tropical storm hundreds of people have been taken to shelters. egypt is trying to

stop the broadcast of an interview with president. given to us television network c.b.s. now in the interview with the current affairs show sixty minutes c c says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against eisel fights 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 who impose their ideology on the people the now they are subject of a fair trial the one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law and can then they will come and have a number mr president the organization human rights watch says that there are sixty thousand political prisoners that you're holding today as we said here i want to show mcgovern added to me i don't know where they got that figure can i said there are no political prisoners in egypt and lebanon says that whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene

regardless of their numbers mamak and how that will now despite cc's denial rights groups say egypt's tales jails are filled with political dissidents as we were hearing there in that clip human rights watch says political prisoners are routinely subjected to torture and rape whilst intention the group also says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent egypt's most notable political prisoner is the former president mohamed morsy who was overthrown by sisi in the military coup in twenty thirteen for more than two years al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has been under arrest in egypt he was detained whilst on holiday in cairo and accused of spreading false news but has never been formally charged hussein's imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his release. aziz is professor of law and director of the center on security race and civil rights at rutgers university she says the judicial 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 say 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 were automatically arrested and detained so easy to test quite a different 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 so the arabia says eleven suspects in the murder of the journalists have appeared in court for the first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names have been released it's not known if two recently dismissed senior officials linked to mouat been so mom or mungo's who'd been charged. two people have blown themselves up during a gunfight with the security forces in tunisia it happened in the turn of during a raid of what the interior ministry called a terrorist hideout three other fighters were also killed thought to be senior members of an eyesore linked armed group operating in city busied province south of

the capital city tunis. the 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 as well as the youngest woman ever to win a seat in congress democrat nancy pelosi was elected as house speaker for a second time is the third most powerful position in washington i'm particularly proud to be a moment speaker of the house of this countless which marks the one hundredth year of women having the right to vote. and that you have. the ability and the prevalence just over one hundred women members of congress the largest number in. mexico says the u.s. government must investigate why border agents fired tear gas at people trying to

cross the border near to wana women and children were among those near the u.s. selling frontier on tuesday the border agency says its staff were responding to rocks being thrown at them in the door widespread condemnation with rights groups calling it an unnecessary use of force. brazil's new president says he's open to the possibility of the us operating a military base on his country's soil the move would form a shop shift in direction for brazil's foreign policy. russia's support of neighboring venezuela and significantly wrapped up tensions in the region after being sworn in on tuesday he pledged a new direction for brazil and strongly aligned himself with washington john coleman has more now from brazilia. of course from now he's president. can 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 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 his boss a 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. it's much more easier terms offer like the narrative then in terms of practice. the government. they say felt a strong off the president to fight against corruption in assessed establish

a lot of the whole. gulf or not if i jam because of all that stuff and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians run employed consonantal says that free market economics and small government will fix that you know did you get the government once been more income so. but if people really want to balance the books who 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 both are not to get some responding to all of those challenges is going to be decided here in brasilia where his party has only about ten of the seats in the houses of congress so he's going to have to negotiate with all those that backed him and that includes x. generals evangelicals 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 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. president bill so now to run a successful campaign on the air isn't abuses of brazil's left of center governments now it's the time of the man from the right to see if he can do better to join home and i would visit a brazilian. 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 bush is refusing to budge a bit more than now from the capital khartoum 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. the 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 edges and high prices those 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 say the figure is higher. reward of the images out of the game that we've gathered the figure of about thirty nine killed are mostly says thirty seven but 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 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 they've heard his promises time and time again during his twenty nine 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 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 or his era or term the us is demanded the democratic republic of congo's election commission released accurate results from sunday's presidential vote earlier the congolese branch of the catholic church said it knows the outcome based on information from the forty thousand monitors it deployed the church has not said which candidate it believes won the election but the ruling coalition of the outgoing president joseph kabila insists its candidate did win the most votes if you appear set to start energy production of the controversial grand renaissance dam in twenty twenty nine the water and energy minister says the dam is expected to be fully operational by the end of twenty twenty two it is part of ethiopia's bid to become africa's main power exporter in zimbabwe white farmers who lost everything in a government policy to redistribute land to black people say compensation plans

fall far short of what's actually needed as haram a tassel reports from good to they're skeptical about ever seeing any money from this cash strapped government bentley says returning to the farm that was seized from his family nine years ago it's difficult he's distraught to see the farmhouse in such a state and doubt zimbabwe's government will keep its promise to pay fifty three million dollars to compensate a former white commercial farmers i believe what is happening is government is. trying to make the right noises in order for the international community to come in behind them and say we're prepared to put money into this but they're not serious about it. the compensation is for improvements made to the farms such as dams and tobacco bans but farmers who lost everything say fifty three million is nowhere near enough it's estimated zimbabwe's cash strapped government needs at least nine billion dollars to compensate four thousand displaced white farmers. with.

the much needed from the. day. but. truly. compensating whites is not popular with some black war veterans who helped force the farmers out there that say much of the good land were to senior officials in the ruling party just. because i don't have land in the moment. we don't have land so far away from us to be considered. i mean it's an insult the commercial farmers union says several farms are overgrown with weeds and wild grass on this land the sunflowers maize and mangoes that will once here are long gone this used to be

a four bedroom house and this was the kitchen the taps or over there they've been removed people who came in took the tiles and the sink so and whatever bricks they could find the house traced all the way back there that used to be the lounge and the living room for bend free compensation if it happens is not enough he says property rights and the rule of law have to be respected otherwise history will keep repeating itself. al-jazeera zimbabwe. this is al jazeera these are the top stories so far the new u.s. house of representatives which is now controlled by the democrats passed a package of bills to end the partial government shutdown however the republican majority senate is likely to block the legislation and the president is refusing to sign off on them because they don't include funding for his border war with mexico earlier the new house speaker nancy pelosi vowed to keep the trump presidency in

check and end the stalemate 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 that our system of checks and balances that protects our democracy remembering that the legislative branch is article one the first branch of government equal to the presidency and to the judiciary airports and schools have closed in southern thailand as the region braces for tropical storm forecasters are predicting to rental rain strong winds and waves up to five meters high when the storm makes landfall hundreds of people have been taken to shelters various services have also been suspended a joint investigation by al-jazeera and the interceptors revealed the u.s. military has stepped up its bombing campaign against isis or so after president

from the decision to withdraw american troops reports say eleven people were killed in u.s. led strikes in northern syria in ice or controlled territory saudi arabia says eleven suspects in the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi have appeared in court for the first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants it's not known if they include two recently dismissed officials linked to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some aren't. brazil's new president says he's open to the possibility of the us operating a military base on his country's soil the move would form a shop shift in direction for brazil's foreign policy both scenarios russia's support for neighboring venezuela had significantly ramped up tensions across the region those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story to check out the website it's always there for you al jazeera dot com is the address also used. in every weekly news cycle brings

a series of breaking stories then listening faced as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter and demands on al-jazeera. facing the anger for defying an ancient tradition they entered one of india's holiest hindu temples where women aged between ten and fifty and not allowed hundreds of thousands are now united in a fight for their rights and they succeed against the religious conservatives this is inside story. hello there welcome to the program i'm laura kaya the indian southern state of kera is at a standstill following violent protests off the women and in one of hinduism earliest

shrines for the first time a ban on women getting access to the temple was lifted by the country's top court but conservative groups objected to tell.