clearly make out the coastline of north korea just twelve kilometers away and at times of extreme tension young pealing island has found itself in the sights of north korea's guns eighty years ago it was the scene of an artillery jewel that killed four people and wounded nineteen others the most serious clash since the korean war today the same waterfront is that peace following a year of diplomatic engagements between the leaders of north and south korea. for many of the two thousand people who live and work here things have never looked so good you know until the good things should improve for better kim jong un wants that sort of one day and given that must feel free conciliation things will improve but the fractious history of into korean relations makes others more cautious talking. with their track record and it is possible that they might change in an

unpredictable way so i don't have complete trust. today the only sound of gunfire comes from the firing ranges of the marines who are based here. the shelters that people are taught to run to when the event of an attack are chained in locked. one of the houses destroyed in the attack has been preserved as a memorial the disputed maritime border has long been a flashpoint between north and south korea in addition to the shelling of twenty ten there have been deadly clashes between naval vessels near here but the remarkable improvement in korean relations in the past year is having a remarkable impact on the heavily fortified border separating the north and the south. guard posts along the demilitarized zone have been dismantled and the numbers of weapons facing off against each other reduced. assuming the process

continues the fortifications of young people know england could eventually become part of a bygone era rob mcbride al-jazeera young people island south korea have a data belonging to hundreds of german politicians including chancellor angela merkel has published online and make the information includes how much dresses numbers and credit card details it's not clear whether the officials were targeted by hackworth or victims of an internal l a political party not affected was the right wing air fifteen minute hang it has more 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 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 at 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 angela merkel's 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. still ahead on al-jazeera some white farmers and zimbabwe say the latest government compensation offer is too little too late and we'll hear from one of the teams getting ready to make its debut in its and the biggest international tournaments. from cool briskness in few weeks. to the warm tranquil to this of southeast

asia. and we're going to welcome back to international weather forecast well a mix of rain and clouds across parts of china over the next few days you can see the clouds down here particularly over the northern part of vietnam but as we take a look what's happening here on saturday the rain's going to continue to push down here towards food show shanghai's getting a little bit better but cool a few as that front makes its way towards the south hong-kong once that front pushes through you're going to be dropping in temperature to about nineteen degrees but taipei it's going to be a cool nineteen with rain in your forecast as we go towards the beginning of the week we're also watching what's happening here in thailand of course a system has moved through we are seeing the residual rain on the backside of the system make its way towards the west over the next few days the possibility of flooding is still going to be a problem for many areas particularly into myanmar expects that southern part of myanmar a little bit further to the south not looking too bad seasonal over here towards calling poor with a temperature of about thirty four degrees maybe thirty three by the time we get towards the weekend and then here across parts of india we do have some clouds

making their way in from the west those clouds will have a few showers in them but for new delhi those clouds will push through by the time we get towards saturday and we are looking a much better conditions there attempt a few of about twenty degrees i do about twenty nine and over here towards kolkata about twenty five your forecast. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. a lot of television control. that is tremendous for the country so i think and he was determined to go on could use a look at the point to for sword to avenge its people slaughtered eight hundred eighty is he smashes the frankish shot it captures the king of tourists that he sees is the truth crawls and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective that was sold three unification of this time on a just. with

bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera is correspondents live in green the stories they tell. us about it. al-jazeera fluent in world news. watching al-jazeera let's take a look at the top stories right now president says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico is threatening to use emergency powers to build it if congress

doesn't meet his demands here such a state might pompei ahead to the middle east next week murder of journalists he's expected to be on the agenda when he meets saudi leaders in the eight stop tour will also seek to reassure allies after president announce meant to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. foreign minister some twelve latin american countries and canada say their governments will not recognize nicolas maduro as venezuela's president if he's sworn in for a second term next week but venezuela is rejecting the move accusing the regional bloc of organizing a coup. wall street stocks surged higher on friday to finish a volatile week on a positive note after donald trump signal progress in the trade war between the u.s. and china the sentence have dragged on for nearly a year on business and speaking stock markets worldwide likes it al us finances are shaping up at the start of the new year. 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 celebrations are inevitable that's part and parcel of a market oriented economy. but that cyclical slowdown is worsened by policy decisions particularly the trumpet ministrations tariffs on foreign steel aluminum and in the. ray of goods made in china trump also rattled investors with unprecedented criticism of the federal reserve the nominally independent u.s. central bank it's really been a one two punch cycle slow down first then the trade sanctions trade war rhetoric whatever you want to call it and the question right now is are

we ready or what is the next punch going to be in are we are we ready for it. in december general motors said it would close five plants and lay off thousands of workers in part due to soaring steel costs companies large and small are scaling back plans for twenty nineteen. los angeles 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 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. oh. so buckle up twenty nine team could be one. washington hundreds of police have been deployed in melbourne australia where a far right groups are rallying against crime they blame on people of african descent the activists are meeting at the popular st kilda it's beach pardon me for what they call a discussion of melbourne's youth crime problem

a counter to menstruation is being held by a group supported multiculturalism police have warned both sides will be conducting weapons arches and will be out in force to keep the beach safe let's go to kathy novak who is at the beach right now in melbourne so what's happening where you are kathy. well michel police are out in force as they have promised we've seen large groups of officers patrolling up and down the beach we've seen mounted police on horseback choppers overhead basically wanting to prevent any outbreak of violence as these groups of far right extremists have gathered one of the quotes on their web site was saying that they want to show the government that we will not stand for the cover up over african crime on the beaches the far right organizers include people who have been convicted in the past of inciting content of muslims they're generally anti immigration and more recently they seem to have turned their attention to what they see as

a spike in crimes committed by a strain of african descent but on the other side there have been rallies by people who say that should welcome immigration who are here to back the african australian community and police right now are just trying to keep those two groups apart it has been so far relatively peaceful we have seen one person take it away from the main group here but other than that the groups seem to be staying apart rachelle kathy is there a major problem with gang violence in melbourne. well that is a point of heated debate here in melbourne and there have been stories in the media that have portrayed what seems to be this outbreak of african crime they say they're saying that the city is relatively under siege if you like and some of that rhetoric has even been backed up by ministers in the history of the in government

some suggesting that australian citizens are fearful of going out at night but tory and police in the state of victoria here in melbourne where i'm standing don't quite go that far they acknowledge that there has been. an outbreak of crime in general but they. don't put it down to gang violence and certainly not specifically to african gang violence so those who are here in support of the african australian community say it's unfair to paint begin higher community with the same brush as a few people who have committed some crimes here in melbourne kathy novak live for us in melbourne thank you police and susanna fire tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrators who gathered again after friday prayers testers want president omar al bashir to step down over rising food prices and government corruption at least nineteen people have died since the unrest started last month.

deployed eighty military staff to go beyond after a disputed military election in nearby democratic republic of congo president donald trump says the troops will support the security of u.s. citizens and personnel in case of violent demonstrations but counting is still underway but the three main candidates have all declare they won the vote at the bishop's field the largest group of election observers they say there is a clear winner and they're demanding accurate results be declared and security council met behind closed doors to discuss the vote sense and dependents in one nine hundred sixty there's never been a peaceful transfer of power in the democratic republic of congo. president sending troops. in a bid to crack down on violent gangs about in crime is one of his campaign pledges but brazil's already fragile tourist economy may take another hit after forty tourists were robbed at gunpoint on thursday on a popular hiking trail or more. it is presumed is most iconic

landmark christ the redeemer towers over rio de janeiro seen by many as a symbol of peace but the trail leading up to it on coke of god amount and has become known for violent crimes dozens have been ambushed held hostage and dropped a gunpoint prompting tourists to think twice about visiting the scene i'm going to pull out because we know they've advised us that tourists were robbed yesterday so we didn't hike up we have our camera so we didn't go i didn't want to go because the people there day robbed forty people and it's a little bit scary as a tourist you want to be safe you want to go you don't want to miss your cell phone your wallet your camera. it's not the first incident last year the area was closed after a polish man was stopped the trail runs close to a family. that is home to some of the poorest in the city. many are run by drug

gangs and criminal organizations rising violence and read the janeiro has impacted the number of businesses in two thousand and seventeen there was a reported loss of more than two hundred million dollars in tours in revenue. both scenarios swept to power on a promise to crack down on crime and corruption to fulfill his promise he sending three hundred soldiers to the northeastern state of seattle to contain violence by criminal gangs. for those although the national force has already been contacted the mobilization plan is in action and is about to leave scenes like this in not unusual in brazil's northeastern state there's been a wave of attacks in the previous few months that's included armed robberies and the targeting of public buildings and banks brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world with tens of thousands killed every year both in our has vowed to take action but arming civilians experts say this will only fuel further

violence. laura birdman lead al-jazeera. pakistan's prime minister has told the president of turkey he wants to strengthen the relationship between the two countries out of this today visiting her emraan khan had already agreed to transfer a school set up by foot who will go on to a turkish charity turkey blames cohen's followers for an attempted coup in two thousand and sixteen and casella reports turkish prison trip so far john and pakistan's prime minister eman han arrived at the presidential complex and after friday prayers this is homs first visit to turkey since taking office and there were many issues to discuss the love the connection between turkey and pakistan has always been that. i want to stress that we want to dig this relationship to a much higher level. a level that so far has not been reached trade

relations between turkey and pakistan have gained momentum in recent years with agreements reached on the weapon sales worth billions of dollars this meeting between air don and hun comes just weeks after pakistan handed management of schools associated with the turkish businessman that's a law given to turkey's martyr foundation tricky because this killer who's been in the united states since one thousand nine hundred ninety of a massive mining a failed coup attempt in two thousand and sixteen and his supporters of attempting to overthrow or john's government for too little.