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for justice in the shoji case for months now the u.n. human rights body calls for an independent investigation into the. thousands take shelter in thailand as tropical storm makes landfall bringing fears of widespread flooding and landslides. as you can see the game is only played by older generations the younger ones have different tools to play with. and an ancient iraqi board game struggles to survive in an age of digital me. so donald trump and congressional leaders have been meeting aps the white house this friday their meeting expected to wrap up shortly as they try to find some sort of resolution to end the partial government shutdown the masing is. to conclude in

the next few minutes there was a step forward late on thursday though when newly empowered democrats in the house of representatives managed to pass a package of bills to reopen the government is duly next month that measure though is likely to hit a wall in the senate and president trump certain divvies habits anyway and for that very reason the senate leader mitch mcconnell is calling it all political theater in a waste of time remember it is now fourteen days since both republicans and democrats failed to reach an agreement over donald trump's five billion dollars demand for border wall so i would call it political theater not productive. so i've made it clear of several occasions let me say it again the senate will not take up any proposal that does not have a real chance of passing the schober and getting a presidential signature what we're asking the pres the republicans in the senate

to do is to take yes for an answer we have sent are sending them back exactly word for word what they have passed so there's something very wrong with this picture it can't possibly be that the president is saying i will never sign but the republicans in the senate have written there something very negative about the role of government meeting the people's needs and doing so in a timely fashion the latest with kimberly how great is that the white house kimberly cameras reporters lining up pretty much everywhere at the moment talk us through what's going to happen. yeah the bottom line at the moment there's still talking they being the u.s. president and congressional leaders democrats and republicans but really all eyes on democratic leader nancy pelosi now the speaker of the house in control of the house of representatives who's on record as saying look there's going to be no wall

donald trump is not consistent with american values and you continue demand for there to be a border wall funding in an effort to reopen the government well that's simply not going to happen for the republicans part we've heard from vice president mike pence that there is no deal unless there is funding for a wall so we have this confusing situation both sides saying no deal unless you yield to my demands what we've got right now is what some are starting to call the shutdown stalemate so we're watching very carefully to see what happens coming out of this meeting things have been a little unpredictable here at the white house the last twenty four hours we saw donald trump showing up unexpectedly in the white house briefing room on thursday something we've never seen before so we've got reporters staking out their cameras staking out there also rate outside the white house outside of the west wing and also in the rose garden what the latest is that we're hearing i was just inside the white house it appears that when they come out of this meeting we're expected to

hear from congressional leaders and then we will hear from donald trump the feeling inside is that just as we saw on thursday donald trump likes to have the media focus around his narrative and he was the last word so that is the latest update we are expecting some comments coming out of these meetings with the congressional leaders apparently going first but no specific times been given just yet ok while we wait kimberly sort of conflict nor this headline in the washington post in the last couple of hours talking about pay rises for senior officials around ten thousand dollars that seems at a time when the government is shut down extraordinary timing no matter. yeah but at minimum the optics are horrendous what we've got going here is when the funding ran out for the government while the republicans were in control of the house of representatives what this allowed is for a free home pay raises for the vice president for cabinet secretaries political

appointees especially the top administration officials in the trumpet ministration what this allowed is for that freeze to thaw and that means that they're now going to get outwards of ten thousand dollar raises the optics could not come at a worse time given the fact me but eight hundred thousand federal workers who are going without a paycheck we're now into the first pay cycle as the shutdown has reached into the fourteenth day and this could continue already this is the fourth longest government shutdown in u.s. history go another week and well over it now we're competing for the longest in u.s. history so this is important as both sides dig in not only are the top trump administration officials getting raises but ordinary federal workers are not able to pay their bills in some cases we've already seen private businesses like banks and rest are stepping up to try and help people get through this uncomfortable period it's certainly going to contribute to voting anger but also just general frustration

with the government that just seems to be increasingly dysfunctional with each passing day and hour ok kimberly said time we'll talk to you again so no three when we hear from one of those news conferences meantime here's some thoughts from eric town who is a political analyst in washington and we spoke to earlier he told us the political blame game will only increase the longer the shutdown goes on. who wants to own a shutdown where you have more than eight hundred thousand americans going without work many of our national parks here in washington d.c. many of the museums are now closed so the smithsonian is not even open right now and so the president simply does not want to own this the markets are now being impacted as a result and so i think the president simply didn't understand the impact and the tentacles that a shutdown would have and so what you're seeing is the president trying as best he can to get this hot potato off as lap the quote the problem now is because the

president on video called for this shutdown and own it now he's got a government by the rush limbaugh and ann coulter fear of the party and if he and if he backs down he has to worry about that that very fragile and diminishing base and will they continue to stand with them as his reelection campaign begins to heat up let's look more at how this partial u.s. government shutdown is having knock on effects beyond washington erick talked about it seems for example there the fact is this is one of the issues affecting stock markets as well as investors worry about the state of not just the u.s. but the global economy here's rob reynolds now with a look at how finance is a shaping up at the start of a new here. stock markets wildly. a bruising global trade war and slowing growth worldwide so what's in store for twenty nineteen veteran forecaster locke's mana truth and studies leading economic

indicators he says slow downs are part of capitalism upswings and downswings accelerations and liberations are inevitable that's part and parcel market oriented economy. but that cyclical slowdown is worse than fight policy decisions particularly the trumpet ministrations tariffs on foreign steel aluminum and a ray of good. 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 businessman tommy yep sells toys made in china had a initial thought to start store to 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 eighteen 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. good be one. washington. now the u.s. secretary of state will be visiting the gulf region next week. going to visit the united arab emirates saudi arabia among other countries from tuesday the u.s. state department. for an update on the investigation into jamal khashoggi killing

in october he had said there was no direct evidence connecting saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman to that we'll talk more about this with rosalynn jordan in washington d.c. d.c. he's on capitol hill today and what else to expect from this trip because it's basically eight countries in eight days was it. eight countries eight days not much time for sleep a lot has been packed into the secretary's agenda here not only is he going to be putting pressure on. elevate its credibility about the story that it's been telling about the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi it's also going to be putting pressure on all eight countries that he is visiting to was do more to try to withstand the influence of iran in their internal affairs the u.s. considers iran perhaps one of its top two or three foreign policy objectives and it feels that if by dealing this face to face being that they might be able to get

a little further along in their ham pain to isolate iran on the global stage the secretary is also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait sitting and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen ok do you think the gulf crisis the gulf diplomatic crisis will get a look in as well ross because that's something which seems to. lower on the agenda particularly in light of the khashoggi case. senior state department officials have told reporters that this will be on the agenda that the secretary believes that the

u.s. government believes that the ongoing rift between qatar and its neighbors in the gulf is making it easier for iran to expand its influence around the region in ways that neither of those countries nor the united states would appreciate and so there is going to be an effort to have discussions with all of the members of the g.c.c. during pompei o stops but there's no assumption that any breakthrough is going to happen during the trip there's also the possibility of trying to once again schedule a g.c. summit here in the united states but again officials don't know how quickly that will come about it really depends on what comes out of the discussions during this upcoming trip ok thanks for the update rosalynn jordan in washington meanwhile 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 that appeared in court for the first time state prosecutors seeking the death penalty for five of them but no names have

been released the u.n. though is looking for an independent investigation with international involvement more from mike hanna he's at the united nations in new york. well the un making very clear that one independent international investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a spokesperson for the high commissioner for human rights insisting that it's impossible to adjudicate on the impartiality of the process under way in riyadh the trial there off eleven suspects in the murder beginning this week the spokes person had this 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 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 a number of human rights organizations have also cost out some of the legality or impartiality of that process in riyadh also calling for some kind of international independent investigation into the murder but the situation is that the u.n. is quite capable of michigan ating such an investigation by itself all it requires is one of the legislative bodies of the united nations the security council of the general assembly to give a mandate to the secretary general to start such an investigation however it would appear that un members are looking for some kind of political cover they want one of the interested parties in the situation to approach the security council or the general assembly and make such a request the interested parties turkey and saudi arabia that's unlikely it would

appear that saudi arabia would make the request turkey has insisted that it does one some kind of independent international investigation headed by the united nations but as yet it has not made an official request to any of the united nations bodies. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour turkey pakistan and a controversial businessman with multinational interests why this visit by pakistan's prime minister to turkey comes at an important time also more protests against the government in sudan with the report coming up from cartoon sport the grand slam hopeful putting in some extra work at the start of a new tennessee's. tropical storm public is battering southern thailand after making landfall on friday a fisherman's been killed and others missing after their boat capsized in the

popular tourist town and of course summary ferries and flights have been suspended from there florence all 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 public made landfall in the province of new concept hammer out 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 an island north of new concepts both ferries and flights have been suspended

. and there we went back. for more. because me come back from. today. 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 undermanned sea but the amount of rain it dumps in the region still means there's a threat of severe flooding florence louis al-jazeera. reports the eleven people from the same family have been killed in airstrikes by the u.s.

led coalition that's finding i saw in syria local sources servia time captain of the village of shot in the drams or province close to iraq's border and an area controlled by i saw it comes as a joint investigation by al jazeera and the intercept reveals the u.s. military has intensified its bombing campaign against arsenal in the region since president trump announced a withdrawal of american troops there are reports that say the fiercest attack in the past week occurred in. the village on the euphrates river which is held by ourself. also dozens of people 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 to make close to the turkish border more from mohamad joe he is. also on that turkish syrian border. the fighting is still going on in the whole contra 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 turkish allied rebels in the mall for saying that they are sent reinforcements to their. 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 taken the strategic tom all that and is. a few villages around it so. that enforcement of descent of course part of paul's. and activist. rebels cutting out some pretty to fighting and some sort of strikes against the tuckers allies feeling 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 i still remnants of the fighters have largely been hiding according to officials in villages on the banks of the river euphrates pakistan's prime minister has held a joint news conference with the turkish president and uncorrupt imran khan on two day visit to turkey a trip coinciding with the transfer of all schools in pakistan run by the u.s. based turkish businessman for two a good to a charity backed by the turkish government but golan is 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 in fact one accuses him of masterminding the failed coup in twenty sixteen which girl and denies in december

the supreme court of pakistan ordered the government to declare girland movement a terrorist organization or schools in pakistan run by his foundation have been seized and will now be run by the turkish government go on himself has lived in the u.s. for twenty years but american prosecutors are currently in ankara discussing the possibility of his extradition. with more now from ankara. pakistan's prime minister iran hones visits came after supreme court in pakistan declared that fertile lucky man organization is a terrorist outfit and their schools are banned in pakistan and after that those schools that belong together an organization were transferred to myra foundation an ngo that was founded by the efforts of the government after july two thousand and six in the failed courts and it runs the educational facilities of turkey wrote it in the press are worth between dawn and iran hon prisons are gone express his pleasures took his pleasures about pakistan's decision toward school and

a store going to zation and he mentions that the violators of asians are going to be improved and the trade by little trade will be posted here mainly mentioned about the defense industry agreements which is currently already billions worth and on the other hand around her mentioned that two leaders discussed about the situations in kashmir in the facts in kashmir and the relations with india he also mentioned that pakistan is being recalled from that then they will be building five million homes that's why he invited turkish construction companies to come and join in this effort in pakistan until there is a firm their stance towards fight in fighting against terrorism on the other hand prisons are gone announced that after the local elections that is going to take place on march third two one there will be a summit that is going to be organized for turkey afghanistan and pakistan and that

it is are going to be announced soon police in sudan to fire tear gas to disperse anti government demonstrators have gathered again after friday prayers protests as one present owner of a ship to step down there is anger of rising food prices and government corruption and at least nineteen people have died since the amorous started last fall from have a morgan in. once again it seems people coming out today to protest against president obama to be sure and demand that he step down and his twenty one year rule now would all thought of three weeks ago when people started complaining in the city of hadera about the rising price of bread and other living commodities they said that inflation which is about seventy percent which is at about seventy percent is quite high and very unbearable for many of them that quickly escalated into protests demanding that the government president obama to share has been very defiant since the protests started he said he was going to try to improve the economy and yesterday he spoke to civil servants saying that he's going to increase their salary so that living conditions become better for them but people have been saying that they've produced promises over and over again now let's step back and see what

three weeks of protests have done to sudan. educational institutes have been closed down social media platforms like twitter facebook and what have have been blocked by the government so that people cannot call for protest that is filled happening despite the government shutdown of social media so people are saying that they will continue to protest amnesty international says at least thirty seven people have been killed but the government is the beating that figure and says only nineteen have been killed and several have been injured in the protests but people have been very defiant they say they will continue to protest this if they will continue to demand that the president step down and the president says he's also going to be very determined to stay in power until elections in twenty twenty so it's not clear where this would end and how long it would go on for but what what is the fact is that president bashir has never had to face like the protests this long before he has faced protests during his rule yes but never for this long and he seems to be very confused about how to handle it because people have not given him much of an option besides stepping down something he said he's not going to do so this may be going on for a while before solutions are found if ever there is one the u.s.

television network c.b.s. has refused a request by egypt to stop the broadcast of an interview with president sisi in the interview with the current affairs shows sixty minutes see she says the egyptian army is working alongside israel against arsal fighters in northern sinai he also denies egypt is holding tens of thousands of political prisoners. so when we don't have a political prisoners and or prisoners of opinion we are trying to stand against extremists will impose their ideology on the people now they are subject to a fair trial one hundred may take years but we have to follow the law and. 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 and i said there are no political prisoners in egypt residences but whenever there is a minority trying to impose their extremist ideology we have to intervene

regardless of their numbers despite these denial rights groups say egypt's jails are filled with political dissidents human rights watch says political prisoners are routinely subjected to torture and right plumbing detention the group also says hundreds of civilians are being sent to military trials for political dissent of course egypt's most notable political prisoner is the former president mohamed morsy overthrown by sisi in a two thousand and thirteen military. when we come back fighting colombia's drugs gangs is now more dangerous than ever so why are community leaders refusing to give up the war on drugs also hackers target political parties except one will tell you who wasn't touched in that. and scored an n.b.a. star who wasn't welcome at his latest game more than he likes.

hello again and welcome back we're here across the western part of the we see here pretty pretty much some very heavy rain and showers over the next few days as these storm systems are coming out of the mediterranean so look at your forecast map here on saturday plenty of snow across turkey down through syria we are going to expect to see an increase of rain as we go from saturday as well as into sunday temperatures are going to be dropping as well so for aleppo nine degrees there beirut a rainy day for you with a temperature of about fourteen degrees and also some clouds in the forecast for baghdad at about eighteen degrees there well that same weather system is also going to bring some cloudy conditions across parts of the arabian peninsula particularly up here towards the north not looking too bad here on saturday but as we go towards sunday we are going to be seeing an increase of clouds across much of that area we could be seeing an embedded rain shower but it's not going to be too heavy at times

over here towards doha twenty four degrees for you there but down towards the lala it is going to be a nice day to high temperatures into the high twenty's and then very quickly as we make our way down here toward the southern part of africa a lot of clouds and rain particular up here towards the north we're going to be seeing durban with a rainy day for you at about twenty seven degrees and then as we go towards sunday the rain continues and also makes its way up towards johannesburg with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees there. the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary to people in power on

al-jazeera. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh's central bank one of one east investigates how cyber hackers implicated the global banking system and on al-jazeera. the news on here at al-jazeera these are our top stories donald trump and

congressional leaders are meeting at the white house they are trying to find some sort of resolution to end the partial government shutdown and the democrats in the u.s. house of reps the representatives have passed a package of bills though to reopen the government until early next month we are waiting for a live news conference from the white house. on pay as to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week during a trip to reality's good night day middle east tour coming up which will include visits to the united arab emirates egypt and qatar. and the un's human rights offices a trial held in saudi arabia and the murder of is not sufficient on thursday saudi media reported in levon suspects had appeared to court for the first time the u.n. though wants an independent investigation with international involvements. so let's return to our top story as we say there is this meeting at the white house between the president and congressional leaders been happening behind closed doors in the

situation room within the white house we believe as we wait to hear from donald trump and nancy pelosi will speak to bill schneider in washington d.c. a public policy professor at george mason george mason university and a regular contributor here at al-jazeera nice to see you as always bill we are now fourteen days in tempe shutdown and i would like to know if you can see a way through this because everyone really does seem to be holding their line. well as long as they do that there isn't really any way to do this because the president has to sign any legislation that passes congress the house has passed a bill to end the shutdown it opens most of the government for the rest of the fiscal year until september actually only the homeland security department is given a shorter reprieve and the bill allows them to reopen but only for about a month the president has to sign anything that's passed and it has to get through the united states senate and the leader of the united the republican leader of the

united states senate says that he will not put anything on the floor for a vote that the president will not sign so we are at an impasse it's one thing to be at an impasse bill oh let's just hold on a moment bill because i believe if we go or not the policy is on our way out from the white house now she has held that meeting she's of course the highest ranking democrat now the speaker of the house let's have a listen to what she sense yes please good night and time. and to compensate. and never. ever tell you. that. this is the health of the american people paychecks are being held with help from people who serve the needs of the american people and our border security will

scheffer if you give not resolve this issue we are committed to keeping our borders state. that has always been our principle to honor the oath of office that we take to protect and defend our country and our constitution. we can do that best when government is open and it made that clear to the president. you know i basically same thing is what the leader of the speed. there said the bottom line is very simple we made a plea to the president once again. joe hold millions of americans hundreds of thousands of workers hostage open up the government and let's continue the discussions i pointed out to him for instance a call i got in my office this morning a fire dispatcher from upstate new york said it wife is pregnant signed a mortgage can't get the f.a.a. to approve it now f.h.a. to approve it because the government is closed this kind of situation is happening

in millions of instances across the united states in one way or another so we told the president we needed the government open he resisted in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. the discussion then just that we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said that was somewhat contentious and we'll continue discussing of course but. it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government. that you know are you know. at the moment meeting on their own when you have one we're watching. how do you define progress in a meeting when you have. an under the better understanding of each other's position

when you eliminate some possibilities if that's a jazz fest long as we make some progress that's not too much of a very very very tightly wound. think that you're right that a lot of those are everywhere you're not your bank you know you do not. say new democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer speaking at the white house outside the white house off their meeting inside the white house. with president trump nancy pelosi called it a lengthy and contentious discussion chuck schumer said we made a plea to the president don't hold americans hostage open up the government and continued discussion of going back to bill schneider just now as we speak to him just before that started bill that sounded like a whole lot of nothing basically almost no progress made. that's exactly right and what she said that was most disturbing even chilling was that the president she

reported the new house speaker reported the president said he's prepared to leave the government closed or at least partially closed for months even three years i mean this is truly incredible we've never had any situation like this in the united states what it means is that the president and congress are not doing their jobs and americans are going to start to get very very angry over it and this is what i want to throw out the already are yeah well that's the thing just before we went to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer i was going to ask you isn't it incredible that politics gets in the way of people the people who are supposed to be served by the fall decisions it is so obvious that they are the ones who are going to suffer here and yet there is this stubbornness on all sides to not get them back. that's right and not only the government workers are suffering but there are a lot of people who use government services and offices are closed people are here in washington where i am right now they plan these trips probably wouldn't for a long time they want to tour museums the museums are all closed there are vital

public services that are needed and the government offices are closed i mean it is just incredible that the president at least is willing to leave the government shuttered or much of the government shuttered for what he said could be years that is incredible. bill schneider thanks for staying with us good to get your analysis after we heard there from. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer i'm going to check in with kimberly how could he get now our white house correspondents there on the other side of sixteen hundred pennsylvania avenue so it just incredible that there have been three meetings now we should point out i was with mccain least three of these big meetings the first one very much in public in front of the cameras and nothing has been achieved nothing's been achieved reporters as they were coming away from that stakeout that you played just a moment ago with nancy pelosi they were all shouting no deal no deal sensually what this is is we also had a report that the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell left the white house

and did not speak to reporters i think it's pretty fair to say that nancy pelosi summed up how that meeting went when she said contentious it doesn't appear that either side with able to come to an agreement of any form or fashion even laying the groundwork for a potential agreement well this is always been the sticking point about the funding for the border wall for donald trump it now appears that just reopening the government is also a sticking point as bill schneider pointed out some news coming out of that meeting that in fact from says he's prepared to keep the government closed for months even years until he gets the funding for the border wall so that he can keep a campaign promise democrats digging in their heels saying we're not even going to talk about border security until the government is open so i it appears that this sort of partial shutdown stalemate has only intensified and is this what it's actually about kimberly not just the wall itself those sensibly that's what we keep hearing about but the fact that donald trump has to show he's

a fighter and he's and he holds his line and he won't be pushed around by this new democratic house. there's no question that that is part of this we saw donald trump trying to get the last word to you late yesterday when nancy pelosi was getting all kinds of attention becoming the speaker of the house he popped into the white house briefing room to kind of capture the narrative he likes to be the center of the narrative we expect that is about to happen once again we've had reporters and cameras assembling in the white house rose garden where we are told it's possible donald trump will come out and make some sort of statement so this is certainly in part about donald trump he needs to keep a campaign promise because remember in the sort of ongoing campaigning of a us presidential elections it seems as soon as one ends another begins we're already now focusing on two thousand and twenty and donald trump is thinking reelection but the other thing in all of this have to stick this into the

discussions too and that is the fact that there hasn't been coppery hense of immigration reform in the united states for twenty years congress after congress after congress has failed to come up with some sort of modern immigration system so both sides agree there needs to be reform they disagree on how to do it and that is the stalemate that they're out right now ok thanks for now kimberly hopefully as you say we will hear from president trump himself a little later i want to go back to another of our top stories now the u.s. secretary of state who is making a trip to the middle east what's he up to well let's talk to joshua landis about it he's in norman oklahoma on skype director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma countries in eight days joshua all through the gulf going through allies. and countries which are feuding against each other as well what do you think my company can achieve with almost one country every day. well

this is a hand holding out this is really to reassure i think our allies that are foreign policy is not in shambles or not completely confused because after all president trump. announced that he was going to withdraw from syria very precipitously and this has shaken a lot of people particularly in the gulf the saudis and others who were hoping that the united states would remain there for the long haul to roll back iran shaken israel and of course turkey and the u.s. have a lot to talk about because turkey is now moving closer to the u.s. because of this change in policy and speaking of israel i think john bolton as well national security adviser is going there as well as us again what you say that reassuring yes we're still here don't worry about syria don't worry about iran yes absolutely we're going to continue to push against iran's malignant behavior as he calls it and and i'm sure he's going to say look at israel is in

a much better position to date because of president trump it's two major enemies iraq and syria are devastated iran has new sanctions and is being constrained and the gulf countries are very friendly with israel today the u.s. is supplying israel with ever more arms and so israel is in a very good position a position that it has never been in before in the middle east is there anything in the middle east that isn't to do with iran at the moment and i say that more as a way that the united states would try to portray it's to pretty much anyone who doesn't that everything comes back to that to iran in a way. well it does i mean for many of the gulf state arabs it does the the u.s. is going to try to put a good face on this and president trump's desire to withdraw from syria say that it it changes a very small part of our policy but not the larger part which is to to

constrain iran and that is still the heart of president trumps middle east policy so it's good talking to you just went on to thank you for your time pleasure. politicians from germany have been hit by hacking incidents but hackers targeted all the parties except for the far right i have to movement chancellor angela merkel is also said to have been affected but the government says its internal network is not hacked it released personal data including private e-mails mobile phone numbers and credit card details more dominant kane. 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 her bavarian christian 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 leaked 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. in the southwest of colombia community leaders and human rights act advocates are being killed at the rate of one every three days they have been targeted by armed groups fighting for control of land used to cultivate drugs but the rate of killings has increased since the signing of the peace deal with two years ago as. he reports now from calcutta. hundreds of dinners indigenous people attend the funeral of. a young community leader he's the latest defender of human rights shot dead in the kalka region of colombia his

brother says it's only seen we're speaking out he made a strong statement against armed actors at a community meeting and sentenced himself to death as they say they were there the day but who knows which ones they were they could be any of seven different criminal groups dissident rebels paramilitaries and other armed gangs fighting to control this land for the lucrative cultivation of coca crops the plane to use to make o'kane. any legal gold mining. at the thousand and sixteen peace deal with fire rebels ended their decades long war against the government but left the power vacuum that the state as failed to feel. indigenous leader and senator. has received death threats for denouncing the criminal groups activities. he was given an armored car but no body guards. we don't know who will be next it could be

me a family member or a companion we are living in constant fear of what can happen in any given day the norden cow can degenerates association has compiled a list of the death threats received by its members but says the government needs to recognize the systematic pattern of the attacks. there's a killing every day indigenous social leaders human rights defenders we are denouncing the government's lack of attention. to. the overall number of killings yes fallen since the signing of the peace deal but the same is not true when it comes to community leaders and human rights defenders four hundred have been killed since two thousand and sixteen one hundred sixty four in two thousand and eighteen alone. under pressure the government invited the special reportorial from the united nations on a fact finding mission he met with hundreds of community leaders and victims of attacks i mean you can only. somehow it's

a systematic against the founders want to blame this government but. really. the government of president says many of the problems date back to the previous administration but unless more is done people will continue to pay the ultimate price for speaking out. just a reminder we're waiting to hear from president donald trump in the rose garden at the white house with her. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer on the democratic side are ready what will donald trump say about the prospect of the u.s. government reopening again prospects do not look good it has to be said so we will bring you that live when it happens i say that as a warning somewhat andy because i apologize in advance if we have to sprint through as quickly as i interrupt for more trump in surats as he often does will not joke which is suffered his first defeats of the new tennis season in the last few

minutes the world number one was beaten in the semifinals of the cats are open by roberta goodes djokovic at a pretty frustrating night in doha against a player ranked twenty four in the world the reigning u.s. open and wimbledon champion beats him here in three sets by his spanish opponent both players building up to the first grand slam of the year that is the australian open which starts on january the fourteenth. well germany's alexanders vera feature rich in the title decider at november's season ending a.t.p. finals the world number four is yet so in a grand slam but he's looking good in his preparations for melbourne here he is guiding germany into the final of the hopman cup team events despite so little bit of a slip here against matt a bit of australia where it went on to win this match and his country will take on switzerland in saturday's five. now it's up to terrific football official how does entry into the united arab emirates delayed by twenty four hours ahead of the asian cup which begins on saturday so. the who's also

a vice presidents of the asian football confederation wasn't allowed to take his flight from a man to the u.a.e. but the cats or football association association has now confirmed our mohammadi is in the country cats are still under a blockade imposed by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt all despite that blockade the man in charge of world football says he still opens the idea of catalyst twenty twenty two world cup being shared with saudi arabia and asian cup host the u.a.e. if president giani in france he wants to expand cattles tournament from thirty to forty eight seems what earlier on we spoke to football writer underwater about how likely that expansion is and how the ninety's delayed entry reflects on the organizers. you know seldomer how to manage eat. is not only the the organizing. director of the competition but he's also an a.f.c.

vice president which only increases the embarrassment as far as the organizers are concerned because it's asia's showpiece international tournament but what would like to think that this is a one off incident and the tournament can progress smoothly though i understand he wasn't the only person who was. initially at least refused entry to the u.a.e. so it does it it does smack of some kind of geopolitical. shenanigans look it's very important that the usa could on a good show at this event it's asia's trying to intimate it's at the same time of year as the world cup will be it's roughly the same temperature as the world cup will be in qatar and all eyes are going to be on asian football in all things asia as far as this is concerned over the next four years this idea of sharing has got issues it's got problems number one who are could talk at

a share if extended neighbors then we're fully aware as all of us are of the geopolitical tensions in the area who else could they share with if not saudi arabia if not the year eight well possibly they could share with omar and maybe even turkey but that's really a long shot yemen have qualified for the tournament for the first time in their history the lowest ranked team in the competition are correct with iran iraq and viet nam the security situation in yemen means the domestic league is suspended and the national team has played all their home qualifiers in qatar. a lot of conditions back or everyone but this has become normal for the players are trying to focus on doing good. they want to challenge the thirteenth dances and i think suffering generates creativity this is our goal in the coming days manchester city manager pep guardiola says his size english premier league title defense would have been all this over had they not beaten leaders liverpool on thursday the champions

winning against liverpool two one it was the first time that liverpool have lost in the league this season surger acquire and leroy sonic getting the goals for city both teams played to to win. and. nothing so is not a final it was a final for those people to sing today was almost over. and when today we are already there so know the premier league is everybody try again to see the top in the future we lost it and we have to take that we take that some of those game losses are 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 barely man city by four points the sames now taking a bit of a break from legal action is the third round of the english f.a.

cup gets on the way. the terms are up to star koala leonard got a less than friendly welcome on his return to san antonio but. when it clearly hasn't been forgiven for taking the decision to leave the spurs in the off season he did there scored twenty one points in this game but it wasn't enough for a raptors win from a toronto pride to modernize in his first career a triple double leading san antonio to a one twenty five to one i seven victory it is the spurs tenth straight win over its run so at home. it was a battle of the western conference powers are from california james harden helped his side the houston rockets defeat defending champions the golden state warriors harden at his fifth straight forty point game and he scored the game winning shot was just a second left in overtime to get the rockets a one thirty five to one thirty four win that is their sixth straight victory. and india looked to have batted australia out of contention in the fourth and final

test their inside of a first ever series win in the country chad swapper joris scored a hundred and ninety three while punt finished on base and on one hundred fifty nine before you declared on six hundred and twenty two for seven in melbourne australia were twenty four without loss at the end of dates who when you playing sport at the highest level and you don't perform as well as sure you're going to cop criticism we all know that we all recall expect that and and we're all used to it there's no point showing why from from and signed and making excuses where we know we come up short with the ball in the last two test matches obviously when you bad foot long nobody gets that a real thing but their body language were really good they were pushing themselves to look good as they have done it actually they were playing a little bit but today we did well a good that's where we go to school. ok more sports throughout the day but that is it for now thank you andy and he managed to get all the sport through because

donald trump have spoken yet it does seem to be imminent but we've seen him through the windows all the white house that live news conference from the rose garden coming up soon right here on out to see. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with the smoking alternative known as v.p. i enjoy the taste of it and not the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen in two thousand and fourteen alone the start tripling and use among us high school students and head to head comparison ysaye versus

conventional cigarette which one do you think has helped my opinion i think they're both dangerous take no one else is the i'm. taking you live to the white house now where we are about to hear from the u.s. president donald trump speaking off the talks to try and break the deadlock of a shutdown that's less than range from one sixty to one hundred eighty thousand and this really took people by surprise this is a great number i think it has a lot to do with the factories and with the companies that are moving back into the united states who have left and now they're coming back to us and sort of being in other countries. i can't tell you what that does to other countries but i'm the president of this country so three hundred twelve thousand jobs was a tremendous number and obviously having

a big impact on the stock market today and i do want people to remember that we've had a tremendous success despite the fact that i'm in the midst of negotiating incredible trade deals for a country that should have been negotiated many years ago by both parties to be honest but many years ago. we are doing very well in a negotiation with china we pretty much concluded our negotiation with canada with mexico we have done the deal and signed a deal with south korea which a lot of people said was not going to happen would be impossible it's a good deal it was a horrible deal it's a good deal i think a lot of this has to do with the fact though that already companies are moving back into our country that have left our country in some cases in some cases they're moving back because they want to be here but in many cases these are or mobile companies that have left and gone to other countries and now they're coming back to the unite.