business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. this is al-jazeera. coming up in the next sixty minutes i have never had so much support as i have a. week over my stance for border security. fourteen of the partial shutdown of the us government and neither side is budging.

on those tropical storm makes landfall. of widespread flooding and landslides. the u.s. from some protests against syria as the trump of ministration prepares to withdraw its troops plus. you can see the game is only played by older generation the younger ones have different tools to play with. in iraq a board game five thousand years old struggles to survive in this age of social media. welcome to the program the u.s. government's partial shutdown now begins its fourteenth day in the deadlock of a funding for president trumps border wall appears far from over well late on thursday the new u.s. house of representatives now controlled by the democrats passed a package of bills aimed at bringing an end to the shutdown but it's likely to be blocked by the republican majority senate and the president because it does not

include funding for a border wall with mexico well trump renewed his demand for the barrier saying it would stop thousands of what he called criminals from coming in. 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 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 rolls in jordan has more now from washington d.c. do you solemnly swear it's a day of firsts for the one hundred sixteenth u.s. congress do you solemnly swear that you knew 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 back to play younger more diverse and more liberal legislators who want reforms in health care the economy and immigration in the movie but pelosi 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 will do so. or 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 not take up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing the schreiber and. you know during a presidential shouldn't your 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 wharton al-jazeera capitol hill well let's bring in ross feingold he's an asia political risk on a list and joins us via skype now from the taiwanese capital taipei it's been two weeks now since the u.s. government shutdown began how is it affecting already nervous global markets i mean investors seem unsure which way to turn. well part of this period did overlap with the christmas new year holiday so whether it's global markets foreign governments companies looking to do business in the united states and they need to work with us government agencies haven't felt the full brunt of the shutdown yet but now that

people have returned for the new year holiday the longer this goes on and that the two parties cannot reach an agreement that the president will sign of course if there's going to be increasing concern with with investors as well as global markets yeah we know the dollar has been slowly sliding downward since at least october last year there are of course many reasons for this like the fed rate hikes that the trade war with china etc but how do they turn this thing around well ultimately the party leaders who were just discussed to report mcconnell and below sleep are going to need to reach an agreement that they know the president will sign clearly this is going to involve a larger purpose for border security whether it's a wall or a barrier we see the administration is showing some flexibility but the democrats are going to have to move a little bit and the republicans might have to reduce some of their expectations but there's going to be needs to be some latitude on both sides i think more latitude is needs to be shown from the democrats if they are going to get the president to sign something. on in terms of the border the bigger picture we know

a u.s. delegation is visiting beijing next week to resume talks with china of a terrace the reality though is that these tires have eaten into corporate profits that have contributed to stock market decline so is this game of brinkmanship lotzen last well into twenty nineteen do you think. well the business community wants a deal but they want a deal that also achieve some of the goals which lead to this situation and that includes market access in china and greater protection for intellectual property the chinese are likely to are for things in that regard but whether they are in forcible whether it's different from previous commitments that the united states government feels china has not upheld remains to be seen so for the trade issues the ball is very much in china's court to offer something i think we should expect they are going to make significant offers to the visiting u.s. delegation next week the business community again they're eager for a deal they're eager for access to the markets they are eager for some stability

but whether it's a deal that addresses their concerns and one that the trump administration can accept that really is up to china just a final thought from you before you go i mean investors tend to seek sanctuary in the dollar during times of market instability but with a growing thea's over a slowing economy and worries about china that you've just talked about is the dollar is still a safe bet it should be as obvious they reach a budget agreement which we should remain optimistic that they will near term there could be some kind of deal with china so there's just as many reasons to be optimistic on that from going into twenty nineteen and there are reasons to be pessimistic about the next few weeks are going to tell us that's going to go over the medium term or out into the first half of this year so we should be optimistic i would say on those two main issues the trade disputes with china as well as the budget and that might help investors regain their confidence in the united states market and then and the slide in the dollar ruslan go thank you very much for talking to al jazeera. storm public has made landfall in southern thailand bringing

heavy rain and winds to over twelve provinces poets and schools have closed as forecasters are predicting waves up to fall. as of people have been taken to shelters set up by the government of florence and he joins us live now from the on in the coastal move province and now that storm public has made landfall just bring us up to date on what's happening on the ground well. yes well time for a tropical storm made landfall as about twelve forty five in the tongue right specifically in district. initially for cost the eye of the storm was also initially for cost to pass through the i dunno where we are now it's a hundred and fifty kilometers north of the camera that has since changed it was still feeling the effects of the storm it hasn't stopped raining all day the waves extremely powerful and strong much stronger than is normal that coming much much

further ashore people have been told to stay out of the water boats and ferry services flights have been suspended in council for the rest of friday but it really is. the main focus of attention because this is where this is the area that's bearing the brunt of tropical storm now according to time disaster. thousands of people have been evacuated not just enough but also in other southern provinces schools as you mentioned have been closed for the day some of these buildings have been turned into floods shelters people have also stocked up on food water and petrol supplies in case they are cut off by floods over the past few days a week asian officials also gave orders for reservoirs some reservoirs in the southern provinces to start releasing water this is so that these reservoirs can take in additional rainfall by decreasing the potential for flash floods and it's also the end of the oil and gas industry that's been affected the energy ministry

says more than. two thousand workers have been evacuated from offshore oil rigs as a precautionary measure torrens we know that thailand is a big tourist hot spot how is the industry lucky to be affected do you think. this time this this weather pattern is not likely to last for very long in fact for costas are expecting this storm because it made landfall a couple of hours earlier than expected it should cost the whole cost of the southern provinces of thai then hopefully by saturday afternoon or early to say just before what was initially for cost now is still going to dump heavy amounts of rainfall so that is still a threat of not just severe flooding but also landslides and mudslides but authorities say they are prepared for the situation they've already ready to back to a ship that just they've got a bomb system in place it just means that some tories will have just stick out on

their own waited out on saturday and friday because flights and ferries that this happened suspended which means there's no way off the island there's no way to get off i'm not calling sea tama as well but if they stay put then they should be saying now as i said this weather system is not expected to last seven shouldn't have a prolonged effect on the tourism industry in southern thailand all right so florence maybe then close some of florence thank you well for a closer look at what to expect in thailand let's cross now to our meteorologist ivan carbon how how bad is this likely to get well as florence said we made landfall just about four hours ago the storm is going to weaken now that it's on land from a tropical storm to possibly a weak tropical storm or even a tropical depression so let's put the satellite image into motion for you you can see the clouds affecting not only most of southern thailand but also into myanmar as well this is what we're looking at right now in terms of the speed when it made landfall we're talking that the storm has sustained winds of seventy five. as for

our making a speed of eighteen kilometers to the northwest it's going to continue making its way towards northwest across that very narrow strip of thailand right there and into the southern tip of min mar as well so we're going to still see over the next twelve to fifteen hours as across into thailand we're going to see quite a bit of heavy rain across this area we've already seen in one location about one hundred ninety nine millimeters of rain falling just in the last twenty four hours so the amount of rain coming out of the storm is still quite impressive as we go towards saturday the storm is going to enter on to the other side into the adamancy so we're going to watch net and then really still continue to bring a lot of heavy rainfall then continue to make its way into the bay of bengal even the end of a nicobar islands could be seen as very heavy rain into this area as we enter into sunday as well as into monday so in terms of what we're going to be seeing left in terms of the rain well still very heavy rain across much of that area we do think there's a potential to see as much as another two hundred fifty millimeters on top of what

we've already seen so that means the flash flooding the mudslides and landslides are still going to be a big problem back here. all right kevin thank you very much lots more still to come here on the news hour including going nowhere saddam's president rejects coals by protesters to step down and a new cancer texan device that could save thousands of lives plus. find out why this n.b.a. star's been branded a traitor far will be here with more later in the program. now 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 say the attack happened at the village of that's in the darrow's or province it's close to iraq's border and is an area controlled by ice so it comes as the joint investigation by

al jazeera and the intercept reveals the u.s. military has intensified its bombing campaign against isis in the region since president from announcement of the withdrawal of u.s. troops well the report says the faces attack in the past week occurred in cash in the village on the a fatal river is held by eisel fighters also dozens of people have been killed in the days of fighting between rival groups in northern syria with al-jazeera is monitored though joins us live now from gaza that's on the turkey syria border mo just bring us up to date with the latest on the fighting on the ground. well don fighting is still going on in the aleppo contre side with some of the fighting spinning all into it in the province which is one of the last remaining strongholds positions from holes in syria turkish rebels in the mall for saying they'll send reinforcements to they

are. to the other side over level countryside to help the other allied rebels who've been fighting the al qaida. allied rebels who say to be making some progress therefore they have taken the strategic tollner of that and is. a few villages around it so. that enforcement of the scent of course part of policy. and activists say that the rebels are cutting out some pretty to fighting and some sort of strikes against the tuckers allies fitting that they would be cutting out on offensive against them once turkey gets to the toss off. launching the offensive that it is planning for the city of mumbai in the northeast and mom of the u.s. as we're saying they have stepped up their ass strikes against targets in the region how significant of a. well quite significant there's been an

uptick in the number of aerial bombardment the u.s. led coalition has been cutting out against places which are believed to be a hideout for around months the fighters have largely been hiding according to officials in villages on the banks of the river euphrates and so far most of the bottom and have been hitting the villages of hygiene and shot and they are people who fled but there are those who couldn't. who are paying the price of course the u.s. forces in iraq time they want to get us much of the tasco tomba completed before the withdrawal of the u.s. troops happens thank you now the u.s. television network c.b.s. has refused a request by egypt to stop the broadcast of an interview with president. in the

interview with counterfeit show sixty minutes c c says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against isis fighters in north sinai it also denies that egypt is holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. so when we don't have the political prisoners and war prisoners of opinion we are trying to stand against extremists will impose their ideology on the people the now they are subject to military trial only one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law and condemned it and cannot remember mr president the organization human rights watch says that there are sixty thousand political prisoners that you're holding today as we sit here and a lot of them need i don't know where they got that figure in but 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 or despite cc's denial rights groups say egypt's jails are filled with political dissidents human rights watch says political presidents

are routinely subjected to torture and rape while in detention the group also says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent egypt's most notable political prisoner is former president mohamed morsy it was overthrown by sisi and a twenty thirteen military coup and some of them to me is al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has been under house arrest in egypt he was detained while on holiday in cairo an accused of spreading false news but has never been formally charged sainz imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his release well as professor of law at rutgers university she says egypt's courts are being politicized. 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 got 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 egypt has 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 u.s. prosecutors and the turkish officials in ankara to discuss the possible extradition of the man turkey accused of plotting to overthrow the government which would have gotten is regarded by the fall of us as a spiritual leader of these billions of millions of supporters in turkey and his movement operates a network of schools around the world was once an ally of the turkish president of typo to one but now he's considered an enemy of the states with his movement branded a terrorist organization or one says goons followers infiltrated turkey's institutions effectively operating a powerless state uses to justify a purge of the on. in the civil service otoh it also says good and orchestrate the failed coup in twenty sixteen but he denies any involvement goons moved in the u.s. since one thousand nine hundred ninety is supposed to say he's there for health reasons but others say it's to avoid prosecution in. what matthew bryza seen

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

a judge in a u.s. court of law regardless of what president trump thinks but that also justice department officials are human beings and if the official line out of the white house had been we want to put maximum pressure on turkey as had been the case last summer well maybe they wouldn't put this extradition case at the top of the agenda now they appear to be putting it at the top of the agenda. now the un's human rights office says a trial held in saudi arabia into the murder of the journalist is not enough on thursday saudi media reported eleven suspects had appeared in court for the very first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names have been released the u.n. wants an independent probe with international involvement and on wednesday the streaming service netflix caved in to saudi arabia's request to take down a standup comedy episode that criticized it sarah curran has an update on that story. american comedian has done man has at the center of all of this has since

responded to the removal of his patriot act episode in the tweets he jokingly implied that the ban is counterproductive he also added that it's been trending online now netflix had taken down one of his episodes that criticized saudis involvement in the war in yemen and took a swipe at crown prince mohammed bin solomon over the killing of journalist in the kingdom says it's violated its cyber crime law just so authoritarianism is on the rise for the eighth year and netflix is now facing calls to start releasing transparency reports many of its big tech pays including apple facebook google and even so it's a now released by annual report detailing government requests they receive from countries they operate in now reports so it's delve into specifics but they help shed some light on government interference brings up the question how big corporates onto a thorough tarion government school has been condemned for supporting chinese state

censorship bearing in mind china was once again the worst abuse of internet freedom in twenty eighteen so much so that in all this google employees publish an open letter demanding it cancels its plan to build a sense its search engine in china governments in countries such as iran and egypt rewrote restrictive media laws to apply to social media users and jailed critics under false news claims and in april russia bans mobile messaging app telegram g.'s to its refusal to make encrypted data accessible to the federal security service now iran followed that same month citing national security reasons then as of the beginning of this year vietnam introduced a new cyber security law criminalizing criticism of the government online and forcing internet providers to hand over a user data when requested now is also our space book angle to agree to comply with the new rules. two days of un brokered talks between yemeni government officials

and who think leaders have ended without an agreement the meeting was aimed at finding a way forward on the withdrawal of rival forces in the port city of the data but the who things are reportedly refusing to begin withdrawing under other parts of the peace deal are implemented the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths will begin a new round of talks for both sides starting on saturday so dan'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 i was drawn from the governing coalition government demonstrations continue but president bashir is refusing to budge even morgan reports in 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. we

are under siege we face war we have lost our main revenue which was the south. 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 years and high prices complaints then escalated into calls for the president to resign curfews and emergency rule were imposed in some cities with some social media platforms blocked by the government the sudanese authorities say about twenty people died in the protests march by police using tear gas and live ammunition to disperse crowds opposition parties say the figure is higher. 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 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 that 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. are the severe. throughout his twenty nine year rule president obama to 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 and his era start on. all right i few moments kevin we're back with more weather but still to come here on al-jazeera a spanner in the works we'll look at how the u.s. partial government shutdown may affect the global economy. and we'll tell you why white farmers in zimbabwe are skeptical of the government's new promises and in sport as a city i'm not giving up their title without a fight or action from their showdown with the opponents for us all to come after the break more of that stay with us. from long flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. well from tropical storms in thailand to winter storms here in the southeastern part of europe we're dealing with them again and it's because the weather pattern is really not changing across much of this area take a look at the satellite image you notice all the clouds across parts of greece as

well as into turkey this is another round of storms across the region here's an air of low pressure that is now pushing in to the black sea as you can see right there we also have another area of low pressure back here across parts of southern italy moving into greece both of these systems are we're going to be dealing with these for the next couple of days let's take a look your forecast map here as we take a look what's happening for the rest of the day here on friday we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain across much of the area as well as snow take a look down here towards greece though just to the north of athens greece is going to see some snow also in the higher elevations temperatures overnight going to be dropping down into the freezing areas and we're going to be seeing a lot of that wet snow and rain turn to freezing ice in some locations so it is going to be a slick mess right there as we go towards the next couple of days notice how we watch those storms continue to make their way towards the east more snow for parts of turkey but here across central europe our next system is coming down this one is going to bring quite a bit of snow across parts of central and eastern europe and then make its way down

across the southeast again as we go towards next week. the winter sponsored by cat time race. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. what's wrong with us is should anybody say anything. those people who see every two years something to invest the profit of a one dollar. to the last drop on al-jazeera bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with a smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy the taste of it and not get the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen alone we start tripling and use among us high school students

and head to head comparison ysaye versus conventional cigarette which one do you think it's healthy my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no on al-jazeera . welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera the new u.s. house of representatives which is now controlled by the democrats a package of bills to end the possible government shutdown but it's likely to be blocked by the republican majority senate as the deadlock over the border war with mexico continues. to the schools are closed in southern thailand as tropical storm public makes landfall it's bringing heavy rain and winds to over twelve provinces

hama's of the evil have been taken to shelters. and a joint investigation by al-jazeera intercept has revealed that u.s. military has stepped up its bombing campaign against salva by. composition to withdraw american troops from syria. well more now on our top story the partial u.s. government shutdown has been one of the issues affecting stock markets as investors worried about the state of the global economy right reynolds looks at how finance is a shaping up at the start of the new year. stock markets winging wildly. a bruising global trade war and slowing growth worldwide so what's in store for twenty nineteen veteran forecaster locke's mana chewton studies leading economic indicators he says slow downs are part of capitalism upswings and downswings accelerations and d. celebrations are inevitable that's part and parcel of

a market oriented economy. but that cyclical slowdown is worsened by policy decisions particularly the trumpet ministrations tariffs on foreign steel aluminum and in a ray of goods made in china trump also rattled investors with unprecedented criticism of the federal reserve the nominally independent u.s. central bank it's really been a one two punch cycle slow down first then the trade sanctions trade war rhetoric whatever you want to call it and the question right now is are we ready or what is the next punch going to be in are we are we ready for it. in december general motors said it would close five plants and lay off thousands of workers in part due to soaring steel costs companies large and small are scaling back plans for twenty nineteen. los angeles business when tommy yep sells

toys made in china had the. initial thought to start store two next year but that may be back to the drawing board germany. sweden italy switzerland russia and other developed countries have all had negative growth for at least one quarter and china is clearly in a significant slowdown. as for the us the us is not in imminent risk of a recession but we're continuing to slow in the longer we slow the sharper the slowdown the closer we get to recession risk. consumer spending is still strong u.s. shoppers want more than eight hundred fifty billion dollars worth of goods in the twenty eight thousand holiday season it's always possible to remain optimistic and hope that policymakers make wise decisions and that the global economy doesn't tip into recession on the other hand the optimist who jumped off the higher state

building you know what he said on the way down so far so good. so buckle up twenty nine team could be one bumpy ride robert oulds washington politicians from germany have been hit by a hacking incidents the hackers targeted all parties except the far right movement johnson i'm going to merkel's also said have been affected but the government says its internal network was not affected the hackers released personal data that includes private e-mails cell phone numbers and credit card details to zimbabwe now where white farmers who lost everything in the government policy to redistribute land to black people say compensation plans fall far short of what's needed and that's harm in tulsa reports from chegutu they're skeptical about ever seeing any money from the castro government. ben three says returning to the farm that was

seized from his family nine years ago is 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 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 are 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 kastrup government needs at least nine billion dollars to compensate four thousand displaced white farmers government. over a. much needed funding. but it. has to be. rightfully.

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 lent them and. we don't know and so forward from us to be considered i feel 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 were 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 here 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 gigot or. malta has allowed to migrant rescue ships into its waters to take shelter from a storm in the mediterranean e.u. countries are still deciding the fate of dozens of people on board reports on the 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 off 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 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 right here. well there we can. go into reporter safety to this situation. without having to fear over here. desperate the first solution the best see what she's crew can hope for is that some other countries step forward to offer these people the chance to claim asylum until then see what has little option but to wait . for something to change car leg al-jazeera. brazil's new president jabal sanaa rose says he's open to the possibility of the us operating a military base on his country's soil well the move would be

a shop shift in direction for brazil's foreign policy goals and auras and russia's support of neighboring venezuela had significantly ramped up tensions in the region after being sworn in on tuesday he pledged a new direction for brazil and strong align themselves with washington john holdren as more from brazil. i bought a ticket to fulfill my 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 good you need to descend to save the cowboys 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. 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 is his justice minister but it may be tougher than he thinks nice fight against corruption it's much more easier terms of how like the narrative that in terms of practice. the government has besides the fact felt a strong way off the president to fight against corruption been assessed to establish a lot of spoil the whole. gulf are not if i jam. and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians are unemployed also not all says that free market economics and small government will fix that you know did you get the government one spend more income seen them do that but if he really wants to balance the books you have to make cuts to brazil's generous pension system it

takes up more than half 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 growth 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 of the air isn't abuses of brazil's left of center governments now it's the time from the right to see if he can do better to just

hold it out zero brasilia. the u.s. has demanded the democratic republic of congo's election commission to release 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 vote but the ruling coalition of outgoing president joseph kabila insists it's come to that one the most that. china has made history by landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon has a first look as seen from china's space craft chinee for the pro good offer insights into the moon's origins and evolution china says the touchdown opened up a new chapter in lunar exploration the mission highlights china's growing ambitions to lead the space race a new device that could revolutionize cancer the section is being tested in the u.k. the breathalyzer is designed to pick up early signs of the disease quickly and painlessly

if successful dr said could save thousands of lives isn't a buck. 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 already with cancer whose breath is being collected by researches. she has a condition called barrett's esophagus that could eventually turn into camps. the test requires patients to breathe into a breathalyzer for ten minutes the device collects ab or molecules given off as a waste by the comes to cells these are then sent off to a tree for further analysis it's much less invasive and. a lot better have to be coming every couple of years for. 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 most cancers are detected quite late and the only way we're going to really make inroads into improving outcomes from cancer is by tech detecting it much earlier so we're really passionate 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 ging to council last year the disease killed an estimated nine and a half million people the technology will be tested over a two year period if proven it could be used around the world within a few years a simpler cheaper quicker way to tackle one of the world's deadliest diseases.

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welcome back now in iraq a five thousand year old board game is in danger of being forgotten dhamma is a traditional game similar to checkers that's awful around the world but the iraqi version is struggling to survive the digital era as anyone can reports the

simplicity of the fails to get the attention of growing up with video games. in his seventy's but he is a champion in the streets of erbil the defacto capital of the kurdish region of northern iraq he's playing a game that's five thousand years old people here consider him to be the undefeated king of this ancient strategy game. that i learned how to play the game when i was only thirty my father and grandfather used to take me to watch dharma playing as part of st tony mounts my fascination grew day by day to the game and i've become a professional player now they sold a as you can see the game is only played by older generation and the younger ones have different tools to play with. diseases and the only one who tries to keep the game alive as homage to this land is ancient past from the time before iraq even existed. a below is

a historian who loves the game because it's easy to learn but to master. the. dharma is a game that requires training of the mind patience and strategy which only the senior citizens possess nowadays in order to play such a board game while the younger generations are more occupied with social media platforms the game is now merely played by the old as opposed to the young as they consider it a folkloric an archaic game. where. while social media is popular gaming is also popular across iraq in cafes like this it's no surprise that games like dying out from the competition is this online video game is that a multiplayer that you can play it. anybody in the world with an internet connection for most of the youth have either never heard of dharma or it's a game that they barely remember. but isn't that the game my grandpa used to play i don't remember it we live in a different era we play online. although the game of dharma may be dying out and

isn't as popular as before the social aspect of gaming remains whether it's computer games old board games people will always gather to spend some time socially and play games in that respect things really haven't changed over the last five thousand years imran khan how does it fact that i don't sell today we report on another board game that's now a rare sight the traditional chinese table game of mahjong is disappearing from hong kong they've got paula reports from two g.m.t. on saturday on what's being done to save it or topple sport far as it daryn thank you so much a top qatari official has been blocked from entering the united arab emirates for the asian cup which begins on saturday so he who is vice president of the asian football confederation wasn't allowed to take his flight from amman to the u.a.e. he was told this clearance to enter hadn't yet been registered the f.c. say they are investigating the matter the incident happened with qatar still under

a blockade imposed by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt bachus their city manager pep guardiola has admitted his side's english premier league title defense was all but over had they not beaten leaders liverpool on thursday the champions playing at home down the reds two one it was the first time this season that liverpool have tasted defeat in the league sergio where only resign and getting the goals for city. both teams played to to win. and. nothing so is not the final it was a final for us because it was in today was almost over. and we need today we are already there so know the premier league is everybody time again to see the top in the future to the end we lost it and we have to take that we take that some of us came in last and i will live and move on that point of view. it's not really cool but it's one of the results they could have happen it's been the one we didn't

like but still have to take it so i know that's given moon well despite losing liverpool are still top of the league believe man city by four points had city lost there would have been a ten point gap between the sides. even to stark astronomer naldo has added yet another war to is already large collection he was named player of the year at the globe's soccer awards in dubai its third time in a row that he's won the honor and a fifth in total and twenty thousand more and also helped around madrid win the champions league however the portuguese forward missed out on a six ballon d'or with croatia as luca moderates winning it we're told also won the fans award ceremony it's a new year. i dreaming to win many many things many important trophies for juventus which is now it's is my my new club so i'm so glad it's. what's up and in two thousand and eighteen it's done it's finished i'm a parson i'm

a person with a lot of i like challenge so my life now my new life now it's an juventus i want to win much as i can. as san antonio spurs beat trauma raptors to win their third straight game in the n.b.a. it was. not a very good reception for trauma squire leonard he was booed heavily from the moment he stepped onto the court in san antonio leonard to push his way out of the spurs in the off season scoring twenty one points on the night or raptors player de mar de rosen had his first career triple double leaving sam and tell you two hundred and twenty five two hundred and seven victory at spurs tenth straight win over at home. and it was the battle of the western conference powers over in california james harden help decide the houston rockets to keep defending champions opponents day warriors harding had his fifth straight forty point game and he

scored the game winning shot with just a second left in overtime to give the rockets a hundred and thirty five to one hundred thirty four when their six straight victory of the minnesota wild pulled off a dramatic win against the trauma maple leafs in the n.h.l. on thursday the game was tied at three zero heading into the third period in toronto was crazy scored just over four minutes in to give minnesota a four three leave the first and only time the wild lead in the game but they managed to hang on for the win just their second victory in their last eight games to. world number one know that john was forced to go the full distance for the second straight day at the katter open in doha on thursday jock which surrendered the first set of his quarter final against georges nicolaas. six for the serve also lost the first set of his previous round match just as he did on the last occasion the fourteen time grand slam champion came roaring back jock which won the next two sets six three six four. jock riches semifinal opponent will be spain's roberta

battista a good to the tournaments seven seed to care of three time grand slam winner standard ranken thursday sporting quarter final completing his victory and straight sets six four six four over in brisbane two thousand and fourteen u.s. open runner up kori's enjoying a good start to the new year the japanese has made his way into the semifinals there and she corey was up against the world dimitri also in the quarter finals the world number nine defeating the bulgarian seven five seven five he faces french and german in the final four on saturday. and on the women's side course compassionate u.s. open champion has reached the semifinals but she had to do it the hard way after aniston seven stovall won the first set six three osaka stormed back to take the second six love the twenty year old then completed her comeback by wrapping up the third six or to book a semi final meeting with at least three. and that's all you sport for now more

later back to you daryl thank you very much does it for me daryn jordan for the news my colleague peter building is up next with more of the day's news stay with us don't go away. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of astronomy. copernicus is this day to these medieval astronomers from the golden age. that streams in many ways with all the computers of the day you can use it to find the time you could not

thinking science in a golden age of german. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brittany's happiness is what we ensure it if that is quantifiable of but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. solid being controlled. but it's tremendous for the country so i think and he was determined to go on could you do salute at that point too for sword to avenge its

people to eighty eighty is he smashes the frankish on captures the king of tourists that he sees is the truth crawls and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective episode three unification of this time on a. i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security it's state number fourteen for the partial shutdown of the us government and neither side is budging. you're watching al-jazeera live from a.