in any school the game winning shot with just a second left in overtime to get the rockets a one thirty five to one thirty four win. and japan's rio kobayashi is insights of some ski jumping history this win at innsbruck in austria saw him complete the third of four wins required to claim his school's equivalent of the grand slam only two of the jumpers in history have completed the four hills clean sweep. ok but as always sport for now more lights are a fish has been sold for a whopping three point one million dollars and yes famous new year tuna auction producers and wholesalers have been known to pay huge sums for the biggest and best fish but it's the highest price on record turkey has fish market reopened in a new location in time for that sell that next there.

the look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that is claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary to people in power on al-jazeera. a lot again of sullivan control. that is tremendous for the country so i think and he was determined to go on could you to salute at the point of the sword to avenge its people slaughtered eighty eight years earlier he smashes the frankish on captures the king of jerusalem he seizes the true cross and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective episode three unification of this time on

a just. in an ordinary week doctor event atar at the heart of the only functioning hospital in town in north eastern south sudan and his steam operate on around sixty patients the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and the incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a bad hospital for all their medical needs they would has destroyed almost the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost all the way including my little sister living there in the process of who you know visions of the mother to walk into the city that they're supposed to.

don't hold millions of americans hundreds of thousands of workers hostage another meeting between leading democrats and president donald trump to end the u.s. government shutdown fails to reach a resolution. has this is al jazeera live from davos a coming up the un when used calls for an independent investigation into the death of jim out criticizing the suspects trial underway in saudi arabia. the first tropical storm in three decades hits thailand bringing flooding and fear of landslides plus. bride on the south korean island just twelve kilometers from north korea's guns where people are hoping talk

of peace has silence them for good. negotiations will continue through the weekend in washington as the partial u.s. government shutdown enters its third week the standoff is over president donald trump's demands for more than five billion dollars to build a border war with mexico opposed by democrats in congress had to go again as the latest from washington. the two sides emerged from both sides of the white house with very different impressions of how their meeting went and we had a very very productive meeting lengthy and sometimes contentious conversation with the president. with democrats now in charge of one chamber of congress they came to the white house to try and find a compromise to reopen the government the president says he won't sign

a bill that doesn't spend five billion dollars on a wall the democrats say they simply will not spend a penny to build it they only seem to agree on one thing in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a. very long period of time months or even years absolutely i said that i don't think it will but i am prepared and i think i can speak for republicans in the house and republicans in the senate they feel very strongly about having a safe country but that is the key question can he keep senate republicans on his side if enough vote to fund the government it could override any potential veto reopening the government without a wall without that it could go on it for much longer both sides refusing to budge the president threaten to declare a national emergency to build his wall on his own but it seems unlikely he actually has the power to do that under the constitution political scientist eric campbell doesn't think the new house speaker nancy pelosi will cave i think the question becomes next week when they are when they are government employees who are not

getting paychecks i think that's when we really get a sense of how dug in people are on both sides of an open question about who will win the political fight while hundreds of thousands of government workers and contractors are not being paid and for many not paying their bills for them it is a question of how much more they'll have to lose before this political fight is over political gain al-jazeera washington a large brown is the director of the graduate school of political management at george washington university she says charms campaign promise for a war has unraveled. this president did run on building a wall across the southern border the reality is during the campaign he said mexico would pay for this wall mexico said they would not pay for the wall in two thousand and seventeen he came back and essentially said well we need to advance mexico the

money to pay for this wall and then in twenty eighteen he is essentially said that his new renegotiation of nafta the north american free trade agreement which now is just a us canada mexico agreement is purportedly paying for this wall but none of that is in fact true and most democrats are saying look we do have one point three billion in border security funds in the package that the house passed last night and it is the same package that the senate passed three weeks ago and the president is still not accepting it. a wall street stocks high on friday to finish a volatile week on a positive note on certainty on the global markets has come partly from another trump policy his trade war with china rob reynolds looks at how u.s. finances are shaping up at the start of the new year. stock markets

swinging wildly. a bruising global trade war and slowing growth worldwide so what's in store for twenty nineteen veteran forecaster locke's mana chewton studies leading economic indicators he says slow downs are part of capitalism upswings and downswings accelerations and the celebrations are inevitable that's part and parcel of a market oriented economy. but that cyclical slowdown is worsened by policy decisions particularly the trumpet ministrations tariffs on foreign steel aluminum and in a ray of goods made in china trump also rattled investors with unprecedented criticism of the federal reserve the nominally independent u.s. central bank it's really been a one two punch cycle slow down first then the trade sanctions

trade war rhetoric whatever you want to call it and the question right now is are we ready or what is the next punch going to be and 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. well says u.s. business when 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 where 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 when 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 twenty nine thousand could be won by the raw robert oulds washington of the murder of journalist is likely to be on the agenda when the u.s. secretary of state meets sounding leaders next week my pump aoe is also looking for more help from allies to maintain security in the region is

a day visit to the legion will include the united arab emirates egypt and qatar also in jordan has moved from washington. 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 riyadh to elevate its credibility about the story that it has 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 hand 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 u.s. his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in the yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether they're way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen. of the un's human rights office has criticized saudi arabia's handling of the shoji case the journalist was murdered at the kingdom's consulate in istanbul in october eleven suspects are on trial with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for five of the accused mike hanna has more from new york. well the un making very clear that it once and 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 underway in riyadh the trial there of the 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 outside 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 michelle 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 it'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. tropical storm public has weakened after making landfall in southern

thailand but the risk of flooding remains early one fisherman died and another is still missing after their boat capsized storm knocked down trees blew off roofs and forced thousands to evacuate it is thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years florence louis has more from the tourist island of coast. well the storm is now moving in a northwesterly direction of course the tide the southern provinces of thailand and it seems to be losing strength it's expected to be downgraded to a tropical depression now and the latest for concert that by the end of sausage day the storm would have moved into the andaman sea the worst affected area so far seem to be see tama where as you mentioned the storm made landfall on friday afternoon trees were uprooted buildings were damaged electricity poles were down streets were flooded but thousands of people have been evacuated ahead of the storm and loss of

lives has been kept at a minimum now the worst seems to be over for. which bore the brunt of topical storm and services that was suspended on friday looks set to resume on saturday that says only seems to be the case for some way as well where we are which is about one hundred fifty kilometers north of. the island in the gulf of thailand the flights to and from some we will resume boats a boat in ferry services to select a destination is set to resume by sub today afternoon as well now the storm as i mentioned is moving in a northwest in the direction which means that the tourist hot spots of krave and look at which the south but west of where we are will largely be sped now it's still going to be bringing packing heavy winds and strong winds and heavy rains but really it's not it's expected to be spread large down the age and still many tourists would seem choosing to leave some of the small islands around the cat

before the storm arrives you know has not turned out to be as strong as ignition a bit but the thai chamber of commerce says economic losses could still reach about one hundred fifty million dollars largely stemming from the need to seize business activities. of five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out to the room where they were playing an escape game in northern poland the girls all aged fifteen were celebrating a birthday police don't yet know what started the blaze the government is would have nationwide checks in places where skate games are held players in a room and must solve a series of clues to get out. still ahead on al-jazeera taking on brazil's criminal gangs a new president sends troops to contain violence in the northeast. and a massive data breach in germany sees politicians data published online on what is a was it a leak or a hack. hello

again and welcome back we're here across the united states we are looking at a weather system down here towards the southeast it is making its way up the east coast and going to cause of problem here for parts of new york as we get to the beginning of the weekend heavy rain is going to be a problem there also probably affecting parts of boston so if you have international travel into any of these cities you could expect some delays there well the west coast rain all the way down from british columbia basically down towards san francisco we're going to be seeing some clouds down towards l.a. fourteen degrees there but as we go towards sunday a lot of that rain makes its way towards the east but it's going to turn to snow expression the higher elevations but it's going to be a rainy day with a term for there a fifteen degrees here across much of the caribbean we're going to see a frontal boundary that came in from the united states that system is going to

continue to make its way down here towards the southeast and bring rain or anywhere from cuba down over towards parts of jamaica over here towards the bahamas will see rain as well as we go towards sunday the rain continues for much of that area down towards santa domingo though it is going to be a nice day for you at about twenty eight degrees down here towards panama a lot of rain in the forecast over the next few days with the temperature there of thirty to managua a partly cloudy day at thirty three and up here towards guatemala about twenty four degrees for you. it was one of the biggest bank robberies of modern times with over eighty million dollars stolen from bangladesh a central bank one of one east investigates how cyber hunters infiltrated the global banking system and on al-jazeera. i mean this was different not just whether someone was going for some of the favorites but there's going to be a mean streak i think it's how you approach an official and after that is

a certain way of doing it you qantas fives and inject a story and fly out. hello again you're watching i do see a reminder of our top stories this hour president donald trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last more than a year if he doesn't get funding for war along the border with mexico he's threatening to use emergency powers to build it if congress doesn't meet his demands. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei overheads than middle east for an eight country tour next week the murder of journalist jim out a shogi is expected to be on the agenda when he meets saudi leaders would also be

looking to reassure allies after president trumps announcement to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. tropical storm has weakened after making landfall in southern thailand one fisherman was killed and another one missing after their boat capsized when the storm battered the coast. hundreds of police have been deployed in melbourne australia where far right groups are rallying against crime they blame on people of african descent the activists are meeting at the popular st kilda beach for what they call a discussion of melbourne's youth crime problem account a demonstration is being held by a group supporting multiculturalism police of want both sides they'll be out in force to keep the beach safe kathy novak has more from melbourne. police have turned out in force as promised they have been patrolling in large groups along the beach we've seen mounted police on horseback and also choppers overhead wanting to prevent any outbreaks of violence as far right groups gather here on st kilda beach

they say they are here to show the government that they will not stand for what they say is an outbreak of african crime on the beaches there has been some focus in the media in the past couple of years here in melbourne on stories about crimes committed by a strain of african descent and some of the people who have come out to protest on the far right side include people who have been convicted of inciting contempt of muslims in the past they're generally anti immigration and lately they seem to have turned their attention to the african australian community so on the other side there are those who have come to demonstrate in support of the african history and community and of immigration in general so police are here trying to keep both of these groups apart specialization is mounting about a historic visit to south korea by north korea's kim jong il improving relations

are having a marked impact on the heavily fortified border that separates north and south korea correspondent rob mcbride traveled to young. short distance from the north korean mainland from its observation points you can clearly make out the coastline of north korea just twelve kilometers away and times of extreme tension young people has found itself in the sights of north korea's guns. eight 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 most feel free conciliation things will improve but the fractious history of into korean relations makes others more cautious talking to continue. with their track record and it's 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 and 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 into 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 piano england could eventually become part of a bygone era rob mcbride al-jazeera young people island south korea britain's foreign secretary has voiced concern for a former u.s. marine charged with spying in russia paul whelan who holds u.s. u.k. canadian and irish passports was detained in moscow a week ago he's been charged with espionage but the details of not been released when his family says he was visiting russia for a wedding. we are extremely worried about paul whelan. we have

offered consular assistance the u.s. are leading on this because he's a british and american citizen but our position is very very clear which is a very straightforward point that individuals should not be used as pawns of diplomatic leverage a private data belonging to hundreds of german politicians including chancellor angela merkel has been published online the leaked information includes home addresses phone numbers and credit card details it's not clear whether they were targeted by a hacker or a victims of an internal league the only political party not affected was the right wing a f d dominic cain 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 late very many details of very many of her colleagues have been and so as i say great deal of questions being asked by federal sources right now. brazil's new president jail is sending troops to the northeastern state of seattle to crack down on violent gangs follows the robbery and gunpoint of forty tourists on a hiking trail in rio de janiero laura bird unmanly has more. it is presumed 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 kokoda mountain has become

known for violent crimes dozens have been ambushed held hostage and dropped at gunpoint prompting tourists to think twice about visiting you know the scene and 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 they 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 stabbed the trail runs close to a fan a city slum that is home to some of the poorest in the city. many fear that it's a run by drug gangs and criminal organizations rising violence and read the janeiro has impacted the number of visits has in two thousand and seventeen there was a reported loss of more than two hundred million dollars interest 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. the national force has already been contacted the mobilization plan is an 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 banks brazil has one of the highest murder rates in the world with tens of thousands killed every year paul scenario has vowed to take action but arming civilians experts say this will only fuel further violence. man made al-jazeera. adama is an ancient board game in iraq similar to checkers

while known around the world but the iraqi version is struggling to survive the digital era explains. is 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 to the player 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. mahmood a below is

a historian who loves the game because it's easy to learn but to master. the. dharma is a game that requires training of the mind patience and strategy which only the senior citizens possess nowadays in order to play such a board game while the younger generations are more occupied with social media platforms the game is now merely played by the old as opposed to the young as they consider 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 that a multiplayer that you can play against anybody in the world with an internet connection 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 grandfather used to play i don't remember it we live in a different era we play online. although the game of dharma may be dying out and

isn't as popular as before the social aspect of gaming remains whether it's computer games or board games people will always gather to spend some time socially and play games in that respect things really haven't changed over the last five thousand years. back. let's get around the top stories now president donald trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the border with mexico he's threatening to use emergency powers to build it if congress doesn't meet his demands the southern border is a dangerous horrible disaster we've done a great job but you can't really do the kind of job we have to do on less you have a major powerful barrier and that's what we're going to have to have but we could

call a national emergency and build it very quickly and some other way of doing it but if we can do it through a negotiated process we're giving that a shot a u.s. secretary of state might prompt a zero heads to the middle east for an eight country tour next week the murder of journalists expected to be on the agenda when he needs sounding leaders also be looking to reassure allies of the president trumps announcements to pull out u.s. troops from syria tropical storm public has weakened after making landfall in southern thailand but the risk of flooding remains one fisherman was killed and another one missing after their boat capsized in the storm hundreds of police have been deployed in melbourne australia where far right groups are rallying against crime they blame on people of african descent account a demonstration is being held by a group supporting multiculturalism police have won both sides they'll be out in

force to keep the beach safe private data belonging to hundreds of german politicians including chancellor angler merkel has been published online the leaked information includes home addresses phone numbers and credit card details it's not clear whether the officials were targeted by a hack or a victims of an internal leak. five teenage girls have died after a fire broke out in.