could use a little at the point too for sword to avenge its people slaughtered eight hundred eighty is he smashes the frankish on the couch as the king of jerusalem he sees is the true cross and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective episode three unification of this time on a just. you can go to barry or you can go 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 still demanding his wall along the mexican border. coming up. as you know have been pressing for justice. for

months now calls for an independent investigation into the. u.n. human rights body. bracing for the worst. tropical storm makes landfall. as you can see the game is only played by older generation the younger ones have different tools to play with. game five thousand years old struggles to survive in this age of social media. 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 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 doesn't

include funding for a border wall along mexico's renewed his demand for the barrier saying it would stop thousands of what he called criminals from coming in wells and jordan as more 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 new faces and some familiar ones being sworn into office and then getting down to work. democrat nancy pelosi still the first and only woman to serve as house speaker returns for a second time best to play younger more diverse and more liberal legislators who want reforms in health care the economy and immigration in the u.k. 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 lock up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing the scheiber and. yes a presidential should mature in other words president donald trump says he will reject any short term budget that doesn't include five billion dollars to build a wall between mexico and the u.s. something democrats oppose earlier on thursday trump blamed the democrats for the impasse quote the shutdown is only because of the two thousand and twenty presidential election the democrats know they can't win based on all the achievements of trump so they are going all out on the desperately needed wall and border security and presidential harassment for them strictly politics analysts say

this does not bode well for the eight hundred thousand federal employees who aren't getting paid and for the millions of risk of not getting emergency food aid health care or other services provided by the federal government we don't just have divided government the president of one party and the house of representatives of another party but we also have divided congress where the house and senate are controlled by different parties so that's a relatively unusual set of circumstances that makes it even more complicated for us to. for anyone to try to negotiate and find common ground on a prickly issues so far republicans and democrats say no reason to compromise because they both think they're right neither party has paid a political price because of the shutdown and that's how this is become the first drama of the new session of the u.s. congress rosalind's warton al-jazeera capitol hill committee helka joins us live

now in washington d.c. kimberly so what will consume less than about the package of measures voted in by the house to bring the shutdown to a close. yeah it has two parts the first would open up the major agencies and fund them until september thirtieth the other part of this package was a stopgap measure essentially it would provide short term funding for the part of homeland security and here's where the sticking point is dare because what was in this package passed by the democratic controlled house was not the five billion that president donald trump is looking for to fund his border wall and the southern border of the united states and mexico what does this mean moving forward this means that the president says i'm not going to sign it when it comes to my desk and that is necessary for it to become law which means that the u.s. senate is not taking up this measure because essentially it's dead on arrival so the president a late on thursday attended the white house briefing room showed up unexpectedly to defend his position saying that it's necessary to stop illegal migrants from

entering the united states. you can go to barrier you can go do whatever you want but essentially we need protection in our country we're going to make it good. for the people of our country want it i have never had so much support as i have in the list week over my stance for border security for border control and for frankly the war over the barrier president says and he is backed up by his vice president saying there is no deal unless there is a wall so essentially it's a game of brinkmanship now which it comes down to whichever side is going to blink first there is going to be a meeting a congressional leaders at the white house coming up in about two and a half hours it's unlikely where things stand right now that they'll be able to break this impasse and what does that mean for the eight hundred thousand federal workers who have been furloughed some of them are not receiving

a paycheck well this is now gone on two weeks that's one pay cycle they don't have a paycheck for the first time tough for some of them that are living paycheck to paycheck and that means that some private businesses restaurants banks for example stepping up to help those things are headed to breaking the history books if this goes on for one more week this what essentially be the longest government shutdown in american history so this is difficult for federal workers and at the same time a lot of frustration with members of congress putting a lot of pressure though now on republicans to try and resolve this given the fact that the house now controlled by democrats has shown good will in trying to pass these packages but so far they have been rejected by the republican controlled senate as well as the president republican donald trump can really thank you. now it's just been announced that the u.s. secretary of state will visit the go free gen next week might pump aoe will visit

the united arab emirates and saudi arabia from tuesday the u.s. state department says pompei will ask riyadh for an update on the investigation into these killing in october he had said there was no direct evidence connecting the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the murder. now the u.n. human rights office says a trial held in saudi arabia into the murder of jamal khashoggi is not enough on thursday saudi media reported eleven suspects have appeared in court for the first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names have been released the u.n. wants an independent investigation with international involvement in mike hanna joins us live now from the u.n. mike so what more has the un's human rights body been saying oh very clearly the un human rights body completely concerned about the situation not

being able to ascertain the impartiality all fairness of that trial that began in riyadh this week at continuing to call for some kind of international independent investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi this is what the spokesperson for the u.n. commission of human rights to say. we are not present in saudi arabia to be able to assess these trials and we can't give an assessment of the trials ourselves we as you know have been pressing for justice in the shoji 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 well human rights organizations have also called for some kind of

independent investigation questioning the impartiality of the saudi court and also questioning possible involvement of the entire saudi system in the murder of jamal khashoggi the issue is quite simply in terms of international law the un any legislative body of the un the general assembly the security council can call give the secretary general a mandate to call for an independent investigation however it would appear that the un bodies are waiting for one of the member states to make that call to the security council or the general assembly to then pass on the mandate to the secretary general essentially looking for some kind of political cover waiting for direction from turkey or from saudi arabia any interested party to make this independent investigation possible at this stage it would appear to be a stalemate but it must be stressed that in terms of international law the u.n.

any legislative body of the u.n. can call on the secretary general to launch an independent impartial investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi mike thank you. tropical storm public is battering southern thailand after making landfall on friday one official one's been killed and another is missing after their boat capsized on the popular tourist island of ko summary ferries and flights have been suspended from there florence marie 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 no concept 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 are 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 some an island north of new concept boats ferries and flights have been suspended yesterday we went back from the moon. because me planned to come back from somewhere. today. they said they stopped. yesterday afternoon power supplies have been disrupted in some areas the eye of the storm was initially forecast to pass through coast some bad tests 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 ondemand sea but the amount of rain it dumps in the region still means a better threat of severe flooding florence louis al-jazeera. will break out to zero when we come back turkey pakistan a controversial businessman with multi national interests while this visit by pakistan's leader to turkey comes at a crucial time. and more protests against the government in sudan but the president refuses to quit long enough to stay with us. hello again and welcome back well across china we have

a frontal boundary that's really lingering here across parts of the eastern sections and into the central regions but that's going to start to move fairly quickly down towards the south so here on saturday some rain showers making their way over towards fuzhou even towards taipei but as we go towards sunday that front makes its way down here towards the south conditions are a little bit cooler to the north but we are going to sing clouds lingering particularly over towards hong kong where you are going to sing a mostly cloudy day for taipei the rain continues few with a temperature of about twenty degrees as we make our way over here towards parts of india we're going to be seeing some clouds pushing in particular over here towards the west those we could be in towards parts of new delhi but we are going to be seeing the rain towards the north and in the higher elevations it is going to be snow as well down towards the south the clouds will continue for colombo a high temperature few about thirty degrees neg her about twenty eight in kolkata here on saturday of about twenty four degrees for you as we go towards sunday as well and then very quickly over here across parts of the gulf we are watching quite a bit of clouds across much of saudi arabia over the next few days so from saturday

to sunday those clouds will continue but here in doha we are looking at a southerly wind and we do expect to see attempt a few of about twenty four degrees. in a four part series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians view somebody with a difficult job rather than an authoritarian leader of imperial ambitions and many critics have pointed out equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum andrei necromancer discovers a complex towards that country's leader and his policies in search of putin's russia are now jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour 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 as the deadlock over the border war continues. the un's human rights office says a trial held in saudi arabia for the murder of the journalist is not enough on thursday saudi media reported eleven suspects have appeared in court for the first time the u.n. wants an independent investigation with international involvement. in schools are 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. pakistan's prime minister just took part in

a joint news conference with the turkish president in ankara imran khan is not today visit to turkey is trip coincides with a chance of all schools in pakistan run by the u.s. based turkish business month or to laguna and to a charity backed by the turkish government. well boone's estimated of millions of supporters in turkey and his movement operates and it work of schools around the world he was once an ally of turkish president type heard of one but now he's considered an enemy of the state or one accuses him of masterminding the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt which grew and denies in december the supreme court of pakistan ordered the government to declare goons movement a terrorist organization schools in pakistan run by his pac foundation and then seized on of iran by the turkish government good and has lived in the us for twenty years but american prosecutors are currently in ankara discussing the possibility of his extradition what's the name is live for us in ankara with the latest so the pakistani prime minister and the turkish president just finished

a news conference tell us what they said. well the news conference actually happened by later at a table that the meeting ended delegations meeting between ball size a manhunt a rived in turkey actually the day before yesterday he spent his day in konya in a hole a city of turkey and in the turkish capital yesterday he met with businessmen because iran home was it was emphasizing that they are trying to reconstruct to rebuild pakistan and today in the news conference between the two leaders they mentioned that actually i don't mention that turkey welcomed pakistan's decision to shut down schools that belong to a good man organization and them being transferred to turkey's foundation and then geo the trans took his educational facilities abroad don said that the violator liberations are already very strong and they will be improved and the trade

actually will be boosted pakistan and turkey has some defense some deals in defense industrial billion dollar worth of defense industry agreements are on the table also iran hum mentioned that both leaders discussed the situation with india and humanitarian conditions in kashmir and one hundred said that they are planning to build a five million houses so he in my to turkish construction companies to invest in pakistan and both leaders actually affirmed there's a firm stance against against what they called terrorism also add on an ounce that after the local elections that is going to take place on march thirty first a summit will be held in istanbul in order to meditate for afghanistan and pakistan so it's got a after march thirty first there will be a turkey afghanistan pakistan summit to discuss about the

development center situations in both countries and also another leg off the event will be held in islam about so them thank you. now reports say eleven people from the same family have been killed in airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition that's been fighting eisold in syria local sources say the attack happened in the village of the. resort province that's close to iraq's border and is an area controlled by eisele when it comes as a joint investigation by al jazeera and the intercept reveals that the u.s. military has intensified its bombing campaign against isis in the region since president trump's announcement of the withdrawal of u.s. troops well the report says the fierce the tac 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 armed groups in northern syria the violence forced displaced people to flee once again this time to a camp near at me that's close to the turkish border. police in sudan fired tear

gas to disperse to government demonstrators gathered again after friday prayers protesters want the president bashir to step down as anger over rising food prices and government corruption at least nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month even more when i was more know in the capital khartoum. once again we've seen people coming out and protesting against president i want to assure is twenty nine year rule they said they want him to step down and that they want an end to his rule now president bashir has been facing this for three weeks now but he said he's not going to step down and give in to the demands of the demonstrators he says that they have been infiltrated by foreign forces and that rebel groups from darfur are also part of a big plot to try to topple his regime and his rule and his government as well but obviously this is not being going on does it not start to randomly it started with hiked red prices and high inflation one of the highest in the world at seventy percent but that's quickly escalated to people demanding that president bashir step down they said it's because of his policies that the go to that the country is now

facing an economic crisis opposition groups have also come out and said that they believe that these protesters have legitimate reasons to be protesting and demanding that president obama the should step down now at the moment there is no step there's no middle ground for the two sides the demonstrators are saying that they want president i want you to step down and that is the only compromise they will that they will be able to accept from him but the president said he is going to continue he's going to try to improve the economy he offered to increase salaries of civil servants but that obviously fell and deaf ears as people continue to protest with more protests and demonstrations being planned in the coming days as well so it's not clear how this would end when it would end with two sides having different demands and new middle ground there are concerns that more lives would be lost amnesty international says at least thirty seven people have been killed as of last week but the opposition groups are saying that more than forty have been killed and over nine hundred have been imprisoned so they are concerned that as people continue to demonstrate demanding that the president step down more lives would be lost and more people would be injured as no side comes to an end egypt is trying to stop the broadcast of an interview. that president abdel fattah

el-sisi gave to us t.v. network c.b.s. in the interview with a current affairs program sixty minutes c c says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against eisel fight to the northern sinai he also denies egypt is 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 will impose their ideology on the people now they are subject to military trial only one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law i can . remember mr president the organization human rights watch shows 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 well despite cc's denials rights groups say egypt's

jails are filled with political dissidents human rights watch says political prisoners are routinely subjected to torture and rape the pupils are says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent egypt's most notable political prisoners the former president mohamed morsy was overthrown by sisi in a twenty thirteen military coup and for more than two years al jazeera journalist mamata saying has been under arrest in egypt he was detained while on holiday in cairo and accused of spreading false news but it's never been formally charged the same as imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his release. now 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 election but the ruling coalition of the outgoing president joseph kabila

insists its candidate won the most. two days of un brokered talks between yemeni government officials and who the 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 thiis are reported are refusing to begin withdrawing until other parts of the peace deal are implemented the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths will begin a new round of talks with both sides starting on saturday now politicians from germany have been hit by a hacking incident the hackers targeted all parties except for the far right you have the movement german chancellor angela merkel is also said to have been affected but the government says its internal network was not compromised the hackers released personal data that includes private e-mails cell phone numbers and credit card details the mccain has 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 were 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 a great deal of questions being asked by federal sources right now now in iraq a five thousand year old boardgame is in danger of being forgotten damas a traditional game similar to checkers that's popular around the world but the iraq you version as. to survive in the digital era as in one com reports the simplicity of dhamma is fighting to grab the attention of young people growing up with video

games. 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. that i learned how to play the game when i was only thirteen my father and grandfather used to take me to watch dhamma 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 mood of 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 to folkloric an archaic game. played very very well 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 games there are a 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 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 will 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 always gather to spend some time socially and play games in that respect things really haven't changed over the last five years. which is it. will report on another board game that's now read the traditional chinese table game. disappearing from on kong david apollo a report. on what's being done to say. the headlines here on al-jazeera 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 as the deadlock over the border wall of mexico continues the un human rights office says a trial held in saudi arabia into the murder of a journalist. is not enough on thursday saudi media reported eleven suspects have

appeared in court for the first time state prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five of the defendants but no names have been released the u.n. wants an independent investigation but 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 but u.s. secretary of state will ask riyadh for an update on the investigation into his killing when he visits saudi arabia as part of a tour of gulf nations from tuesday in october might pompei oh there was no direct

evidence linking saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man to the murder on payroll to visit qatar the united arab emirates. airports and schools up close in southern thailand as tropical storm makes landfall. bringing heavy rain and winds to more than twelve provinces hundreds of people have been taken to shelters. police in sudan have fired tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators have gathered again after friday prayers rallies have been ongoing for the past two weeks just as one president omar bashir to step down as anger about rising food prices and government corruption. i think nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month politicians from germany have been hit by a hacking incident. except the far right. those are the headlines this.

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