doctors infiltrated the global banking system. on al-jazeera. every. this is al-jazeera. all of them down jordan this is the opposition news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes i have never had so much support as i have in the last week over my stance for border security it's day fourteen for the partial shutdown of the u.s. government and neither side is budging. and u.s.

ramps up attacks against isis in syria as the trump ministration prepares to withdraw its troops plus. thousands take shelter in thailand as tropical storm makes landfall in fears of widespread flooding and landslides. as you can see the game is only played by older generation the younger ones have different tools to play with than a rocky boardgame five thousand years old struggles to survive in the age of social media. the u.s. government's partial shutdown now begins its fourteenth day and the deadlock about funding for president from border war with mexico 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 where trump renewed his demand for the barrier saying it would stop thousands of what he called criminals from coming in. you can go to 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 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 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 back to play younger more diverse and more liberal legislators who

want reforms in health care the economy and immigration in the year but 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 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. 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 wharton al-jazeera capitol hill not to kimberly halakhah joins us live from washington d.c. kimberly so what more do we know about this package of bills passed by the house and the shutdown. yeah a couple of bills in this package the first one was essentially a major spending bill what it would do derren is it would fund until september thirtieth the number of major departments and agencies that have been shut down and closed as a result of this impasse the other one which is more controversial is essentially a stopgap measure it was a bill or it is a bill to try and fund the department of homeland security that oversees border

security and this is where the republicans are having an issue because in that funding package missing from it was the key demand the major sticking point the five billion that donald trump and the republicans in congress are looking for to construct terms border wall so this essentially is now going nowhere in terms of the fact that under u.s. law when you pass a law it has to pass both chambers in the u.s. congress and then be signed by the president but the president has already said look if this comes to my desk i will not sign it i will use the power of the pen i will veto this so the senate leader mitch mcconnell the republican the ranking republican has said look we're not even going to take this up it's dead on arrival so this is where the impasse is and this is why the government remains shut down at this hour so what happens next them. yeah well in order to try and break this

impasse the two sides are still talking which is certainly encouraging for the eight hundred thousand federal workers that find themselves still sitting at home not able to collect a paycheck so in about three and a half hours time we should see congressional leaders from both republican and democratic parties heading to the white house they will be notably meeting in the situation room this is a little bit unusual this is normally a room that reporters see only through photographs it is essentially where dealing with matters of national security terrorism for example this is where cabinet officials would meet but this is where the white house has decided it wants to hold these discussions in order to underscore the point of the president that he feels this border wall is essential for u.s. national security but in the meantime where do the hundred eight hundred thousand federal workers what does this mean for them they still don't have a paycheck this is now the fourth longest shutdown in u.s. history we've gone through one pay cycle where we see private businesses for

example banks stepping up offering temporary loans to help many federal workers that essentially to now have been living paycheck to paycheck and are now going to miss that first paycheck as of today can really thank you to the u.n. human rights office the trial held in saudi arabia into the murder of the journalist. is not enough on thursday's media report that eleven suspects appeared in court in riyadh for the first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names were released the u.n. wants an independent probe with international involvement. we are not present in saudi arabia to be able to assess these trials so i we can't give an assessment of the trials ourselves we as you know have been pressing for justice in the case for months now. and we've been calling for an investigation independent investigation with international involvement and this has not happened yet now

while we are aware that a trial has taken place in saudi arabia this is not sufficient first of all and second of all we are against the imposition of the death penalty in all circumstances lots more to come here in the news hour including more protests against the government in sudan where they live in the capital call to. target all of germany's political parties except one we'll tell you who wasn't touched and in sports manchester city inject new life into the race for the english premier league title that's all still to come. reports say eleven people from the same family have been killed in airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition that's been citing eisel in syria local sources say the attack happened at the village of a shuffle and the day was or province as close to iraq's border is an area controlled by ice so well it comes as a 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 trumps announcement of the withdrawal of u.s. troops the report says the faces attack in the past week occurred in the village on the euphrates river is held by isis fighters. also dozens of people have been killed in days of fighting between rival groups in northern syria a bomb of the dough has more now from the turkey syria the. 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 from a position through holes in syria turkey rebels in the same god they'll send reinforcements to the. to the other side over level countryside to help the other allied rebels who have been fighting.

allied rebels who say to be making some progress they have taken the strategic tom over 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 fearing that they would be cutting out an offensive against them once turkey gets to the toss of. launching the offensive that it is planning for the city of mumbai there's been an uptick in the number of aerial bombardments the u.s. led coalition has been cutting out against places which are believed to be a hideout for remnants of the fighters have largely been hiding according to

officials in villages on the banks of the river euphrates for pakistan's prime minister is meeting the turkish president during his two day visit to the country imran khan's trip coincides with the transfer of all schools in pakistan run by the u.s. based turkish businessman for tuna goonan to a charity backed by ankara gooden's estimated to have millions of supporters in turkey. and his movement operates a network of schools around the world he was once an ally of the turkish president . but now he's considered an enemy of the state and accuses him of masterminding the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt which gülen denies in december the supreme court of pakistan over the government to declare goons movement a terrorist organization schools in pakistan run by his foundation have been seized and will now be run by the turkish government goons lived in the u.s. for twenty years but american prosecutors are currently in ankara discussing the possibility of extradition so them cost is an anchor with the latest. this was

prime minister in their own homes first officer visit to turkey hen the visits came after the supreme court in pakistan declared to goodness organization as a terrorist outfit and bend its schools affiliates in pakistan after wards the schools were transferred to turkey's mari foundation an entity that was established after the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen which conducts turkey's educational facilities abroad of course this is not the almost thing about . followers of the counter effect operations are still underway the tensions are continuing the investigations are still ongoing however there was a there was an important guest from united states which is a five member u.s. delegation who came to discuss the details of turkey's claims that turkey is evidence that has been presented to the united states to ask for grants extradition so the still a geisha has been meeting with the turkish officials prosecutor's office plus the

financial crime investigation board however despite all these efforts i have to remind that the extradition is a long process and the united states hasn't actually promised that they would be extradited for to lock it in and his followers this is from germany have been hit by a hacking incident the hackers targeted all parties except for the far right if the movement chancellor angela merkel is also said to been affected by the government service internal network was not compromised because released personal data that includes private e-mails cell phone numbers and credit card details don it came as more now from berlin. we know that more than nine hundred politicians from almost every party in germany have been affected many of them from merkel's christian democrats or from have a very interesting social union allies but it's not just politicians who've been affected here one interesting line it's being reported by several different.

agencies is that the form that the attack took was rather like the advent calendar principle in other words on the first of december a particular twitter handle was putting out information sensitive information about people in the public eye and that every day that went by there would come a new revelation as it were of details about specific individuals then from the twentieth of december it's reported that the attack took the form of attacking politicians releasing politicians' details then from the twenty eighth of december this particular source on twitter went cold went dark as it's now being reported that the specific twitter account has been closed the question will be who is behind this there's a lot of speculation in germany this morning as to who might be or might not be responsible for it but people are very impressed by the way this is being done and there are as i say lots of questions asked not that many facts and certainly the

twitter account concerned seventeen thousand followers not anything at all since the twenty eighth of december closed this morning that element closed but certainly the investigation is very much open and although as you say angle americal confidential details have not been late very many details of very many of her colleagues have been and so as i say great deal of questions being asked by federal sources right now britain's foreign minister has voiced concerns for a dual u.s. u.k. citizen charged with spying in russia russia's f.s.b. state security agency detained paul whelan moscow a week ago he was charged with espionage but the details have not yet been released we did this family says he was visiting russia for a wedding. we stream we worried about paul whelan. we have offered consular assistance the u.s. are leading on this because he's a british and american citizen but our position is very very clear which is

a very straightforward point that individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage police and so than have fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators who gathered again after friday prayers were just as one president bashir to step down there's anger rising food prices and government corruption of these nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month will hit the morgan joins us live now from the capital khartoum how large of the protests been today while this denise professional association which have been organizing the past few protests have called out for people to again once again go out to the streets and demonstrate a few of them did in various neighborhoods around the tomb and it's the same city undermine so people did protest saying that they do want to see a new regime and that they want president i'm going to shoot just have done obviously something that's been happening for now three weeks people have been protesting and it all started over the hikes in bread prices and and high inflation

which is now seventy percent one of the highest in the world so people today also came out in protest that they were once again to spread by security forces and right now it's a little bit more quiet but they've been promising that they will continue to protest especially during the night because they said it's going to be easier for them to protest and security forces so this is not the end of the protest as we've seen as as we see it there will be more protests over the coming days and i said different definitely over the coming hours as they promised and he by the president had promised to raise salaries and improve the economy but that doesn't stop the protests so what else can the author. well daryn the protesters have been demonstrating for the past few weeks that they want him to step down opposition groups also came out and said they want him to step down and his will that's the only thing that seems like it would put an end to the protests and the people marching but but the president also said that he's not going to go away he says he's going to continue his rule and till election comes honey tony and he is that and there are possibilities that he will run a getting better election and might also win so people seem to believe that the all

the promises he's making all the compromises he's making if any might will not would would not be a solution that they want what they want him to do is to step down so at the moment there's very little concession point between the two sides between the demonstrators and between the presidents it's not clear how long this would go and how it would end with two sides having different demands and no middle ground for the two sides here but thank you now the u.s. has 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 in the church has not said which candidate it believes won the election but the ruling coalition of the outgoing president joseph kabila insists it's kind of it one of the most votes in zimbabwe white farmers who lost everything in the government policy to redistribute the lands of black people say compensation plans fall far short of what's needed samatar sort of puts from chair good to they're skeptical about ever seeing any money from the government

bentley 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 doubts his 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'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 government with. the much needed funding.

but. just before and. 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 with the senior officials in the ruling party just. because i don't have land in the moment. we don't have land so forward from us to be considered i feel 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 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 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 livingroom. for been three 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 how to metastasize al-jazeera secretive zimbabwe well for more on this let's speak to piers pigou he's a senior consultant for southern africa at the international crisis group who joins us live from johannesburg appears this figure of fifty three million dollars which the government says it's setting aside for compensation is nowhere near what white farmers are asking for but in a country where much of the population is in dire poverty why is the government even talking about this figure at all. it's not entirely clear which part of the broader set of compensation claims this fifty three million is marked for it would seem that it may be

a priority payment to investors who took the zimbabwean government to the international center for the settlement of disputes on investment which is a world bank body rulings were made against the zimbabwean government and to the tune of we think over forty million dollars for the government to. underscore its verbal commitments to compensation issues and to really access international financial institutions it needs to make good on the rulings that were made by the center some years back but as your piece show yes sorry now i just wanna jump in piers and say i mean what do what do ordinary zimbabweans and war veterans make of this compensation scheme i mean many of them have no land at all even after the land was confiscated by a garbage. yes look you know i mean the whole

situation is shrouded in a passerby we don't really know what's going on this figure of nine billion that was mentioned in your report is contested by the government which has been doing his own evaluations and sort of puts the figure closer to four to four billion and i think there's some discussion on are still going on with some representatives of the farmers former zimbabweans of course the big question is who owns what president bush. told zanu p.f. conference in december that the country's land audit was close to completion this is been something which has been in the works for years now to determine exactly who has got what and it's quite interesting that the government is now talking about beneficiaries of land reform are the ones who are going to have to pay for the compensation to the farmers to the white farmers that were kicked off their land so it's really very unclear at the moment but certainly it seems that the government is trying to keep pilot light. underneath this broader promise for

compensation by preface by preference in the. investment deals piers a final brief thought from you the government of zimbabwe has promised many things when it comes to spending commitments but has failed to deliver on many of those so do the white farmers have much hope that what ever happened well you know i think the cynicism that was expressed by ben for it than others is is pretty well founded certainly the government has failed to date to live up to its budget commitments and the big question is how on earth are they going to be able to afford this when they can't even pay for basic medicines at the moment the country is absolutely bankrupt. thank you very much for talking to al jazeera. now tropical storm public is battering southern thailand after making landfall on friday one official has been killed and another is missing after their boat capsized on the popular tourist island of coast these are live pictures from the

ferries and flights have been suspended from there florence new reports. tropical storm public unleashes its fury on southern thailand meteorologists say the timing is unusual as it's well outside of the monsoon season. made landfall in the province of not constitute on friday hours earlier than expected the government issued a maximum alert warning for the area officials had given orders days ago to start releasing water from some reservoirs in the southern provinces to lower the levels and reduce the potential for flash floods. thousands of people living in low lying coastal villages have been moved to higher ground schools shut with some buildings turned into emergency shelters the oil and gas industry has also been affected more than two thousand workers have been evacuated from offshore rigs on coast an island

north of new concept boats ferries and flights have been suspended. and there we went back. for more. because me plan to come back. today. said stop. yesterday afternoon power supplies have been disrupted in some areas the eye of the storm was initially forecast to pass through coast that it's changed but we're still feeling the effects of tropical storm it hasn't stopped raining and the waves are much stronger than usual and people have been told to stay out of the water. the storm is losing strength as it crosses southern thailand and heads into the on demand sea but the amount of rain it dumps in the region still means a better threat of severe flooding florence louis al-jazeera. all right time for check in on the weather now kevin's here again that's right we know because we've

made landfall that doesn't mean we're quite out of the woods yet with all the rain that's going to seeing where the system i want to show you what we're looking at right now we're looking at a lot of clouds but not as big as a normal system you'd see maybe making landfall in the philippines or in taiwan but we are still dealing with quite a bit of rain with this particular storm the winds have come down since the last time i spoke to you were down to about sixty five kilometer per hour winds last time there were seventy five the storm is moving to the northwest at thirteen kilometers so it is slowing down as it is over parts of the parts of thailand right now it is still going to produce quite a bit of rain with those still think anywhere over two hundred millimeters of rain is going to be seen with the storm now the storm surge on that eastern side of thailand is going to decrease because as the storm pushes through that means there's less wind on that side but the big problem here is going to be the storm surge on the other side on that western side of thailand once the storm makes its way towards the andaman sea we're going to be watching that as we go from saturday to sunday the storm pushes into the andaman sea and it could really intensify as it

gets back into warmer water but we don't think it's going to get that strong we're still looking at still very heavy rain out of the storm over the next twenty four to forty eight hours and it is still going to be a big problem not only just for thailand but also into that southern area and men mark would be experiencing some localized flooding as well. kevin thank you very much lots more so to come here on al-jazeera taking the reins brazil's new president moves for his policy agenda. and then you come said detection device that could save thousands of lives. lost. and spoils find out why this n.b.a. star received such a hostile reception on the state of us. by making the fish every new sankoh brings a seemingly simple breaking story said that of course there's donald trump told

through the eyes of the welts janel ace that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they were told on the story that matter the most in better use a free palestine listenings paste on al-jazeera. it could be the biggest lie in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secret could block the borders. as the struggle for resources been pencilled far as some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. on a. welcome

back a quick recap of the top stories here on the algiers. or 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 it's likely to be blocked by the republican majority senate deadlock over the border continues. a joint investigation by al-jazeera and the interceptors reveal the u.s. military has stepped up its bombing campaign against syria to president trump decision to withdraw american troops. and airports and schools have closed in southern thailand as tropical storm makes landfall it's bringing heavy rain and winds to over twelve provinces hundreds of people have been taken to shelters. two

days of u.n. brokered talks between the 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 from the port city of her data but the who things are reportedly refusing to begin withdrawing on to other parts of the peace deal are implemented the un special envoy for human martin griffiths will begin a new round of talks with both sides starting on saturday. two people have blown themselves up during a gunfight with security forces into a newsy it happened in the town of zuma during a raid of what the interior ministry called a terrorist hideout three other fighters was killed thought to be senior members of an ice a linked group operating in city bird sued province south of the capital tunis. now the us television network c.b.s. has refused a request by egypt to stop the broadcast of an interview with president abdel fattah el-sisi in the interview with a current affairs program sixty minutes c c says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against eisel fighters in north sinai and he also denies egypt was

holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. we don't have a political prisoners who are prisoners of opinion we are trying to stand against extremists were imposed their ideology on the people now they are subject to a fair trial the one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law and. have never 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 but i said there are no political prisoners in egypt and residences but whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene regardless of their numbers. well despite cc's denial 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 the group

also says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent egypt's most notable political prisoners former president mohamed morsi was overthrown by sisi in a twenty thirteen military coup of the more than two years al jazeera journalist on hussein has been under arrest in egypt he was detained while on holiday in cairo accused of spreading false news but has never been formally charged with sayings imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his release brazil's new president jaya both says he's open to the possibility of the us operating a military base on his country's soil a move of bishops' shift in direction for brazil's foreign policy. said russia's support of neighboring venezuela and significantly ramped up tensions in the region after being sworn in on tuesday the president new direction for brazil strongly aligned himself to washington. john holeman has more now from. puerto rico. now he's president joy 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 know that it is hands this have 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 novel saying 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 the fight against corruption is much more easier terms of the electoral narrative that in terms of practice. the government has

besides the fact felt a strong off the president to fight against corruption been assessed establish a lot of oily whole. gulf or not if i jam post all that stuff 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 give the government once been more income seen anybody 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 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. president bush will run a successful campaign on the air is it abuses or produce left of said to governments now it's the time from the right to see if he can do better to hold out zia to brasilia mexico says the u.s. government must investigate why its agents fired tear gas at people trying to cross the border near to one a woman and children were among those near the u.s. southern front here on tuesday the border agency says its staff were responding to rocks being thrown at them the incident drew widespread criticism for the rights

groups calling it an unnecessary use of force. now a third woman has entered one of hinduism holiest shrines breaking the centuries old tradition barring females eighteen ten and fifty it's not clear how the sri lankan national got into the sort of mala temple in the indian state of kara on wednesday two women offered prayers inside the temple sparking anger across the state one person was killed in fighting which includes some protesters who support the ban on women inside india's top court and lifted the ban in september a former mayor in the philippines has been killed in a confrontation with the police local media say taliban was shot by officers during an anti drug operation in qatar bottom city president teddy had accused him of drug trafficking. now a record thirty three million visitors are heading to greece every year and they're helping revive a previously depressed housing market non europeans are being encouraged to buy for the chance to get a visa to stay they spend enough reports from athens and. has

just sold this one bedroom apartment to a chinese investor it has a panoramic view of athens but until last year the owners would have been lucky to get half the price it fetched two hundred eighty thousand dollars that's the minimum investment required for a greek golden visa which allows non europeans to live in europe it's the cheapest such visa in the european union and it's brought a flood of new money into a depressed real estate market. the main priority for people who buy these properties it's secure the golden visa and freedom to travel in europe they see it as a cheap investment in a property they intend to rent out. half of all golden visas in greece go to chinese nationals chinese companies have set up shop here to renovate and manage their properties foreign money is a bonanza for estate agents like who've seen their business jump by more than fifty percent in

a year and tourism is part of that bonanza short term rentals are booming in central athens and boutique hotels are springing up during the past decade house construction and house sales have fallen by ninety percent that has wiped three billion dollars off the tax revenues that were raised when property changes hands so government introduced the highest taxes in the european union on property ownership anyone with real estate must pay to keep it and failure to do so means the government may seize it and their bank accounts. greeks are being forced to sell the property they spent generations building to meet tax obligations the head of the hellenic property federation which represents owners met greece's creditors when the property tax was introduced. predators said that this was a tax greeks must learn to pay because their real estate holdings are large compared to those of other europeans i don't think credit is understood that this

tax goes against core values the greeks worked hard to build their property they often have to care overseas nobody handed them this property. the selling spree is also encouraged by banks which are foreclosing on twelve and a half billion dollars worth of property that backs non-performing loans and they've severely cut credit for new mortgages so even though average property prices have fallen by forty percent in the past decade few greeks are in any position to take advantage of opportunities jump al-jazeera athens now more and more us in our cities are becoming what health care experts are calling pharmacy deserts from oregon on the west coast and baltimore in the east low income and minority neighborhoods are left without local drug stores and with the widening scope of services that pharmacies offer in the u.s. they are increasingly important part of the national health care system john hendren reports from chicago. for miles around every pharmacy has abandoned rita

johnson's neighborhood on a summer day i really could walk to the one. too far from here. they close with the one another. to find the medication she takes for cancer in a recent spinal surgery she now makes a winding five mile trek on public transportation some of her neighbors have neither the patience nor the money to make it. welcome to the pharmacy desert the place in major american cities where garbage strewn like urban tumbleweeds before what used to be corner drug stores it's a growing phenomenon in poor minority neighborhoods across the united states it's saying racially motivated because they vaal mainly. black and latino communities it is in neighborhoods like these that the u.s. opioid epidemic is at its worst addicks suffer an opioid overdoses are often left without access to the lifesaving drug narking this man survived because these

police officers were nearby with a ready dose you may have a child that's on so what if that child does not have a local pharmacy in their area and they can't get that rescue inhaler. patient in the emergency room or the outcome may be worse. chicago's cook county hospital system has tried to fill the gaps with mail order pharmacy but mail order doesn't provide the counseling in-store health clinics flu shots and other services local drugstores offer pharmacy professor demon says for pharmacies it's simply a business decision to leave areas where more of their clientele used government insurance if an area is not profitable just. like any other business when when you think about reimbursement rates for pharmacies with public versus private insurance much lower cities are increasingly becoming a land of drugs. well there are. the

affluent north side. directly across the street from another. johnson her neighbors are hoping the longer distance they have to travel doesn't mean the difference between life and death.

welcome back now in iraq a five thousand year old boardgames in danger of being forgotten dhamma is a traditional game similar to checkers that's popular around the world but the iraqi version is struggling to survive in the digital era and one can't report. shake as easy as in his seventy's but he is a champion in the streets of appeal 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 and behold olga may amend that i learned how to play the game when i was on that my father and grandfather used to take me to watch dharma playing as part of st tony matt's 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 to what the player with. is eases 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. mahmood 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. played very well social media is popular gaming is also popular occurred. iraq in cafes like this it's no surprise that games like dying out from the competition is this online video games that are multiplayer that you can play against anybody in the world with an internet connection that for most of the youth they've 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 or 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. and on saturday we'll report on another board game that's now a rare sight the traditional chinese table game marshawn is disappearing from hong kong al-jazeera is difficult part and will report from two g.m.t. on saturday on what's being done to save it. time now for the sport here's andy thank you so much don well the top three football official has entry into the united arab emirates delayed ahead of the asian cup which begins on saturday. who's also vice president of the asian football confederation wasn't allowed to take his

flight from out of school e.u. eight but the qatar football association has now confirmed he is in the country cats are still under a blockade imposed by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt. or yemen of qualified for the tournament for the first time in their history the lowest ranked team in the competition groups alongside iran iraq and vietnam remember the security situation in yemen really bad at the moment means the domestic league is suspended and the national saying that's a play all the home qualifies in cuts are a lot of conditions back everyone but this has become normal players are trying to focus on doing good. they want to challenge you the third constantin and i think suffering generates creativity this is our goal in the coming days manchester city manager put quite a goal or admitted his science english premier league title defense would have been all but over how they not beaten leaders liverpool on thursday the champions playing at home the liverpool two one it was the first time this season that

liverpool have tasted defeat in the league where only your son and getting the goals for city both teams played to win and. nothing so he's going to find it was a final for us because it was in today was almost over. and we need today we are already there all know the premier league is everybody try again to the top in the future we lost it and we have to take that we take that on the first game we lost it all alive and well from that point of view. it's not really cool but it's one of the three results they could have happened with the one we didn't like but still have to take it to him oh that's given moon well despite that defeat liverpool are still top of the league their lead man city by four points had city lost there would have been at seven point gap between that seems the event to start kris jenner now there has added yet another award to his collection he was

named player of the year at the globe soccer wards in dubai's the third straight time he's won the honor this event organized by the european club association in twenty eighteen an hour helped round madrid win the champions league however the portuguese forward missed out on a six ballon d'or that's when i went to croatia is. it's a new year. i dreaming to win many many things many important drivers for juventus which is now it is my my new club. gloves. what's up with in two thousand and eighteen it's done it's finished. i'm a person i'm a person with a lot of i like challenge so my life now my new life now it's in venter's i want to win this much as i can the san antonio spurs beat the toronto raptors to win their third straight game in the n.b.a. .

a very good reception there for toronto squire leonard he was booed heavily for the moment he stepped onto the court in san antonio learned he pushed his way out of the spurs in the off season school twenty one points on the night though former up to supply of the model rose in his first career triple double leading seven sen one twenty five to one i seven victory that is the spurs ten straight win over at holland. it was a battle at the western conference powers over in california james harden helps his team the houston rockets defeat defending champions the golden state warriors harden had his fifth straight forty point game and the school game winning shot was just the second left in overtime to give the rockets a one thirty five to one thirty four win. that is their sixth straight victory. india looks to have batted australia out of consent in the fourth and final test

under insights of a rare in fact their first ever series win in the country should swap a gyroscope one hundred and ninety three while finished unbeaten on one hundred and fifty nine before india declared on six hundred twenty two to seven in melbourne australia with twenty four without loss at the end of dates. when you're playing sport at the horse level and you don't perform as well as should you going to cop criticism we all know that we all are all expect that and and we're all used to it there's no point showing wife. sign and making excuses when we know we come up short with the ball in the last two test matches. obviously we knew. nobody gets that real thing but their body language were really good they were pushing them to . do good as they have done a day or two lee they were playing their little bit but today we did we'll a good school the minnesota wild pulled off a dramatic win against it's run so my police in the n.h.l.

on thursday the game was tied at three all heading into the third period in surround so it's a precise school just over four minutes since he gave minnesota a four three lead the first and only time the wild lead in the game they managed to hang on for the win just their second victory in their last eight. years. while the born of a jock which was forced into a third set for the second straight time at the cats are open joke which leads in the first settlers quarter final against georges nicholas but she's really six four just as he did in the previous round if all teams handle and slam champion coming back he won the next two sets six three six four. is semifinal opponent will be spain's roberts about the star groups that form at seventy beats in three time grand slam winner stumper brinker good to be completing his victory in straight sets six four six four. every brisbane twenty fourteen u.s.

open runner up carla she curry looking good at the start of the new year the japanese players into the last for a few currie was up against dimitrov in the quarterfinals here the world the nine defeating the bulgarian seven five seven five faces france's german sharlee in the final on saturday. and the women's draw a u.s. open champion i.m.e.i. soccer has reached the semifinals and a stars is sevastopol winning the first set of the quarter final before i saw kane but so when the time i soccer building up to the first grand slam of the year that's just really an open which starts or later on this. i saw it as never previously got past the fourth round. ok more sports throughout the day but that is it andy thank you very much indeed now a new device that could drive aleutian cancer detection is being tested in the united kingdom the breathalyzers designed to pick up early signs of the disease

quickly and painlessly if successful dr said could save thousands of lives as this report. it's called the breath biopsy a new weapon in the war against cancer. this. 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 cancer. 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 going to. say 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 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 counsellor 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.

all right well that's it for me. but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news so stay with us seen in a way. 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. what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen in two thousand and fourteen alone we start tripling and use among us high school students and head to head comparison versus conventional secret which one do you think it's my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no. generation after generation and then work under the merciless son of northeastern state. in this slum there's no sewerage running water or other basic services sixty percent of the

people here are not living in poverty their needs are so great and their pockets so empty that they are easy prey during election time for politicians they can come here and buy their votes for as little as ten dollars of course if i'm a politician and i gave culture and education to people i'm in pairing them and if i'm impairing them they may not vote for me so that's why it's in their interest to keep things as they are. it's a vicious circle of inequality aggravated by a severe recession and governmental staring that's left thirteen million brazilians unemployed and even if the next government can start the recovery process those living here at the bottom of the social ladder will be the last to benefit. a lot of control. but it's tremendous for the country.

could use a little at the point to. eighty eighty is 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 episode three unification of this time on a just a you know. you can go to barry or you can go to whatever you want but essentially we need protection in our country neither side is budging it's day fourteen of the partial shutdown of the u.s. government and donald trump still demanding his wall along the mexican border. down john this is out is there a live from doha also coming up. we as you know have.