it was that it's not about pain what i was sort of painting the community story you know taking my ego out of the equation and thinking what they want. you know learning from the students the water that runs four members down to the ocean and there's a particular place that carries stories. and i love. the state of my intention just to put it out there that i'm here to to be your servant and please with a spiritual flow through me don't let it start with me.

i. just started to just float this block everything you know and just receive the energy from. what. i was looking for confirmation on what we're painting on this specific. we're talking star out there is treading water and out of the car and i see that huge splash. that looked into it at the beach and all these guys are like pointing out there that like you know when you're all in the water and a bunch of people are pointing out at something you freak out about what the hell is that. we use seal will stick sticking out of the water you know they look like to me big shaka just like this. and then they started doing this and it was as if they were

saying what sign up how is it yeah. because that was my confirmation those if everything came full circle i never had any questions after that it was a prophet with two close. spiritual every color that we're going to use in this. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very good that this was a problem with us is should anybody say anything and. those people who see every two years something to invest a profit of one dollar. to the last drop on al-jazeera.

in a world where journalism as an industry is changing. fortune or to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . and the war on terror begins with but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein this is a regime that has something to hide they have their a significant propaganda machine and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq since the one nine hundred ninety one iraq a deadly deception on al-jazeera.

hello again peter they'll be here in doha with a quick reminder of your top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump says the partial american government shutdown could last more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico he's threatening to use emergency powers to build it if congress does not need 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 unless 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 it's another way of doing it but if we can do it through a negotiated process we're giving that a shot the u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei o heads to the middle east for an eight country tour next week the murder of the saudi journalist tomorrow is expected to be high on the agenda when he meets saudi leaders he'll also be looking to reassure allies after president trump's decision to pull american troops out of syria counting centers in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa have started compiling the results of last sunday's elections the three main candidates have all declared they won the vote catholic bishops feel to it the largest group of election observers they say there is a clear winner and they're demanding that accurate results are published venezuela has accused the u.s. of plotting with a regional bloc to overthrow the president nicolas maduro his government more than a dozen foreign ministers from latin america and canada have said they won't recognize as president if he's sworn in for a second term next week the lima group says elections in may we're not credible and

is calling for power to be transferred to the national assembly for a free vote if it can be held. hundreds of police have been deployed in melbourne and australia where far right groups are rallying against crime they blame on people of african descent a counter demonstration is being held by a group supporting multiculturalism a fish has been sold for a whopping three point one million dollars in tokyo is famous new year tuna option sushi producers and wholesalers have been known to pay huge sums for the biggest and best fish but this is the highest price on record those are your headlines up next it's witness season by for that.

there's going to be classes of students coming pretty much every hour so it's going to be anywhere from kindergarten to high school as each class of students comes you folks teach them. how to do everything so they get culture and through oily gulag but i don't think they get enough of this style or like some of those kids and you don't you think that these kids would just love you know that circle sure they want to do it all the time it's kind of not true. i'll make the merle think it

speaking what we see to our eyes and it's going to help represent. core you really is. there we're going to be giving us certain skills or more important to me they were bringing something into the community that we had and had a long time and those stories were going to have a visual place in our community we have three walls and each one has a different song that's going to be associated with it and the stories are going to be of people one place what is the song that we've chosen for this one. is not. have a composer here and you have. if you look at our land people when you look at all of the names there's most likely stories there's more level attached to them at home i know in a. way i mean me the place where the rain really found the simple manner but it's about being attached to this place and about knowing your place we always forget

work with you on an army to take care of what is around us so that you can take care of what i feel that this year i'm going to help us to see that. one of the things that the students really wanted in the bureau was one of the shoes. came on or is it ok if i paint you and then i asked her like can you show yourself to me that is see anyone. but i couldn't see her face. right when they started and she who i felt like i was spinning everything was going like this in a vacuum what kind. you know like how an old lady sounds which it's all stories

that's what it sounded like in my ear i just push in the back of my head see. i don't want to be center of to i don't you just have to have time to. the thing the shoes during the moment and if we're going to honor her make sure that she's not the main focus the focus should be on water. it makes sense because we're only focusing on one movie should be focusing on the bigger picture what is the bigger picture that's above water. so i wanted to bring you over here because what started me. standing for the mile not occurred right there in one nine hundred seventy nine we had a really severe drought here like we had no water and the catalyst dying my dad was in charge of all of the water parker and i went to the rock and put my arms on it

in and he said if you bring rain from my father said i will take care of you for the rest of my life and so will my children i sealed my children in this promise to this poor hospital and to wonder why i'm sure was sitting there i'm sure she said ok i'll take that if you mean that i'll take it. issue really. the key to the radio for you moment the reins to use. all these bus loads of kids are supposed. to mail think the cost of the call

because it's already in every single class kid and all the kids go with. that just shows how much more connected to the water. we have not had rain like this for months and months so this is huge for us this is why me and if you're going to put our living history on the side of the building then it's not just what you do but it's what you feel and the rain and the wind it's all part of who we are and so you are to me what you have to. you don't have to really explain what's going on the wall as if they've never heard

of it. they are beginning here in this community. old their stories. will go. to. a new. school kind of like. this you. smiling to say. any information that might help them to paint. and he paused that old t.v. and she wanted to be sure that if we were going to do portraits on this wall that they were going to be accurate and with her younger daughter a couple a who's a seer she can give you a very detailed account of how. it looks like. but

it's the most speaking the best for the sake. of taking her notes and i'm trying to paint the face my first pascals i can just do it in black and white real quick so that the kids can fill it in and then for whatever reason the most based on her husband's face they both came out japanese look at the poor like. this looking like my mom. and i'm like. oh oh. oh oh oh. oh. oh. oh oh oh i just paint i don't question right

if you trust right so if you if you trust god or if you trust the higher source then why do you question so that's how i pay my just grab a kind of start spray i mean trust that it's going to go. i'm sure he takes no wants himself and makes him feel about things and being in the primaries so i am going to tell you what i want to tell you and then i should just like when i sit here for a long think i'm on it and then tell you who imagine the more water that could. get the. when i lived in california it was me by myself so if i missed stuff it was my mistake if i had

a success it was my success but coming here in the pain of bar culture. it's more of a sense of almost that these people don't know. they asked my husband and i felt like they were doing the right the. message you know if we compared it to the economy or twelve you guys are not ok one is a captain one is another gate or the rest of us are your crew automated and he used to be don't want to see in the dark we are creating chaos he had to be able to see . what the poor helping us i definitely feel like it's pressure. and you really got started the some of the characters and faces this dead wrong. you know why this is challenging is because you're trying to paint someone that he isn't that he can't

see a cast see them physically i have to close my eyes and try to visualize them. because i have this illustration training used to like pain from a photograph. so that's been part of my artistic development lately. to take what i was young i was trying to prove myself to myself and i also think i'll prove myself to my peers. i think you know you work so hard to build your name and make a reputation for yourself it costs you relationships a costumer i'm with loved ones. moving to california to the bay area and i really realize how much it changed me. in the constant you can be like you on the canvas up you can put a crown on your piece if you can back it up so coming back to hawaii so battles

here i was pushing them pushing and not realizing that. valuing how it is here. in the writing community and the graffiti world history of will tell you they don't michael because of the way he's played things all he puts himself on his pedestal over everyone else because he's too busy being a king. for people who stay here when you go away they think he left you're no longer holy. they don't know it's still it's in your heart not where you physically are. it's plain to think that my age still got to prove myself to people. can i claim that. i love crime because he's kind of like like he can fish or that's somehow

imagination and creativity. i think the film is like a kid in a man's body he always has a smile on this face. how to take negative and turn it into positive or. you know when i see the kid succeed and feel like they're succeeding. or i should have succeeded or i'm. well because i didn't have that growing up. i want to make sure it doesn't happen to them. because they might. and so i've taken time out to sit with these kids. and say to my so. i wish somebody took them over three years ago. to explain stuff to me so i didn't have to take so freaking long to get to this point

i will be helping people a long time ago if i heard somebody teach me. so looks like i got a great shift tonight. is how i like to work. when no one's wrong. i can just really focus on the morning here and do but at home getting from rest because i'm one of the big bear. it's crunch time. i thought i would never die i still like being here and i especially want us i think quiet like this so i can hear the pain you hear everything around me and. when i hear more than. one or so here. yeah it's

like it was quiet. the business of the day. not one of those people they can see or maybe sense the energy i'm not that gifted my gift is in my hand what i take him through my ear hold onto my hand in my hand starts moving. and that's how i do it.

the biggest concern for the three walls was sheer support. pain team on a war. you know it's hot and like this. so weird trade off because in the cold it lowers the pressure they can giving you more control but the paint dry slower but then in the heat the pressures like the cans are hot right now so mixed up and. you only hear one. the faces are only about this big i think so in spray paint you know like the spray can sprays like this they're going in the face of the sticks even you think about how you doing eyelashes and nashville's at that size so i had to use a skinny cap. so skinny cap is like the plastic cap that comes on top of the can you kind of couple holes in it and cut one in the top so that you could stick your

finger through it to reach them as over and you could too small holes so that it doesn't let all the paint through it's like a little stencil and then only a fine line comes out like a sharpie. see . i saw him putting on the scales i saw him stepping back i saw him putting on more skills and all this what an hour before nandini and still not been satisfied until he finished her hair. and then i felt like the

worry in his face and gone away and he was sure because he threw the stories you a chance to everybody had a. relationship with are. getting closer. or while. now. that matters to us. as we go home why do you live here right yeah yeah so thank you for your help in getting else you know my self but i would push hard. you know i know you're right and i totally i totally understand by. now that.

we're getting closer. to talk about some magic stuff like as soon as i finished painting my. body that's when it rained i mean it was like hot and sweaty that the no where the rain shows up in the dumps it was right when i finished that was like ok i think she's ok with it. the old started in the rain finished in the rain and then fifteen minutes later then the sun came back out it was sunny for us i think that was the moment but i realize like. this is amazing. ok. was.

it i. was. was. was. was. was. was he was was was.

more looking the more we. don't know if you can become. but it's not. over here we have our first ball fall on our wall we have the lariats from the marriage that we first this meant it was written by emmeline in case. i came up with the idea of the sun in the moon being held by hans and it's like the water from coming from the. just like the rain and it's the rain coming down to the i know. we have money to look at her over and we visited the school that might work as art or salivates art and. this is us at the. in a mill we have are three people in the past the present and the future. oh yeah we have the cool laws but we're people just you know to see you know so we

can know what you want the look. i know this is the question to you have you seen deeper meaning did you find yourself through it is was did you find your elements your point of. view for years to over in these war. i mean what does wall does is it makes us aware though we cannot always do things or the same way over and over and over and think that we're going to evolve as people it helped us to see things in a totally different light not of stories are really trying to deny to turn on them they're on the wall emboldened right cause you can't miss it.

are we all transforming and as we do that what we me and what we are becomes so much deeper than that so what's really amazing about being here at this time at this moment as cannot. in this generation. to me my heart is in the people i can walk away from the peace. but i know who is from the people best my heart is my connection to them. there's lots to learn from lots of great sources all of that helps me to acknowledge that ok the ego got me this far i don't really need it so much now someone is leaving here let's try going with felt that.

this helped me remember where we how we store my cultural identity. and so moving forward it's my responsibility to help others remember. and want to resolve these kids to become an official story tom. i'm not just me anymore i'm a norm with this one solution. because i'm learning more about my whole life size it can be more face to face with my own shortcomings things that i want to change. there's a difference between estonia and me. and i'm trying to make us share more.

me. when a french soldier was murdered in the so-called terrorist attacks. his mother retaliate used with love. speaking out against intolerance and alienation she travels the world with the resolve of agree. even mother who lost a son but adopted a generation. latifa of fighting i was a witness documentary on zero zero zero. hello again it's good to have you back well i do want to take you over here towards the western part of the levant we have been dealing with flooding as system after system has becoming in off the mediterranean a lot of refugee camps have been flooded because of the very heavy rain that we

have seen there unfortunately of the next few days things look about the same as what we have seen before another system is making its way in from the west that's going to bring snow up towards the higher elevations but in syria we are looking at the increase of rain so here on saturday partly cloudy conditions and as we get to the evening more clouds coming in and by the time we get to sunday we are looking at some very heavy rain across much of that area down towards beirut it's going to be a rainy day for you as well attempts are there of about fourteen degrees as make a way down here towards the arabian peninsula and also the gulf well we do have some clouds that are pushing through we do expect to see maybe a little bit of rain coming out of these clouds as we go through the rest of the weekend war clouds for riyadh where the terms are they have about twenty seven degrees doha winds are coming out of the south we do expect to see about twenty four in your forecast in abu dhabi twenty five is going to be your high and then across the southern parts of africa we are looking at some rain coming up towards durban temptress have come down few there but down here towards cape town it is

going to continue to be a nice day a twenty two degrees here on saturday and twenty three on sunday. it made me every week a new cycle brings a series of breaking stories to joy and then listening feist as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on al-jazeera.

you could call it the schumer or the policy or the trump shutdown doesn't make any difference to me just words president trump says he's ready to keep the u.s. government closed for years as the deadlock over his border wall enters a third week. you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the u.s. secretary of state is expected to push saudi arabia to come clean on the murder. during his forthcoming visit to the middle east. on foreign stay on the island of course in thailand where the damage caused by

tropical storm is not as bad as initially feared. also ahead by donkey's are facing extinction in northern nigeria. the u.s. president donald trump is threatening to impose a national emergency as a partial government shutdown enters a third week a meeting with senior democrats failed to resolve the deadlock over mr trump's demand to fund a border war with mexico negotiations will continue through the weekend in washington patrick or haim as the latest. the two sides emerged from both sides of the white house with very different impressions of how their meeting went and they had a very very productive meeting a 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 threatened 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're when they're government employees who are not getting paychecks i think that's when we really get a sense of how dug in and people are on both sides of an open question about who will win the political fight 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 particle hane al-jazeera washington laura brown is the director of the graduate school of political management at george washington university she says mr trump's campaign promise for a wall on rival. 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. one of the first muslim female members of the u.s. congress is facing criticism for using an expletive against president trump democratic congresswoman. made the comments just hours after being sworn in the president has called her language discreet small but standing by her remarks is

that of. newly sworn in but already courting controversy detroit congresswoman rashida to lead concluded to celebrate free speech on thursday with a comment that's attracted widespread attention bully don't wait and maybe it's not because we're going to go in there really the mother. i believe is part of a new generation of democratic lawmakers many of them women coming to power for the first time most are seen as progressive and keen to hold president trump to account i don't like their language we use our language i don't get the stablish any language standards from my colleagues. i don't think it's anything worse than the president when the president said some in the democratic party is said to be angry to lead comments fearful that it could be seen as playing politics rather than pursuing oversight we had a very very productive meeting his part the president claims impeachment is not on

the democrats' agenda so i think it's very hard to impeach him but he was done a great job that's number one and. and we've been talked about that today i said why don't you use this for impeachment and then she said we're not looking to impeach you i said that's good that's good to leave comments so widely seen as premature but the new generation of lawmakers in the house may present the party's leadership with challenges huge number of new members who are quite bold if you will. have their own mark and may say we don't care what he says we got the vote we're not going along with what he says impeachment is a risky move for the democratic party and many are telling new members to be more cautious special counsel robert muller's probe is still under way and. democrats are said to be more focused on the twenty twenty election either way most agree the language used by the congresswoman was not helpful to gallacher al-jazeera washington.

the u.s. says it doesn't believe version of the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and will continue to push for answers a state department official says the kingdom's investigation and handling of the killing lacks quote credibility and accountability the u.s. secretary of state is expected to step up the pressure on the kingdom for answers when he visits riyadh next week might prompt eight day visit to the middle east to include the united arab emirates egypt and cateau the u.n. on weapons day reiterated its call for an independent investigation into the crime jordan has more now 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 a lobbying 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 city 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. members of the religious

minority the z.t. community pleading with the u.s. to not withdraw troops from northern syria a report from the tree foundation is warning if washington doesn't leave syria before eisel is fully defeated the on group will make a comeback or for false or request the establishment of a no fly zone over northern syria to prevent potential turkish assaults on kurdish strongholds. thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years has left one person dead as rain wind and surging sea water levels uprooted trees and brought down power lines is now we can to a tropical depression but the risk of flooding does still remain thousands of tourists were left stranded when airports and ferry services were shut down before public made landfall thousands of residents were also forced to evacuate florence levy has been following developments from the island of coastal movie forrest florence what's your reading of how the authorities handled this.

well i would say they were very very cautious and in days before the storm approached they had evacuated bounds of people in the southern provinces they also grounded boats and ferry services the airports were shut and we've seen a loss of lives kept at a minimum on days before the storm approached as well they were gratian officials across the southern provinces had given orders for reservoirs to staunch releasing want to so that when the rain eventually came that would be reservoirs would be able to receive this rain and that was less chance of less potential for flash floods so we're seeing a loss of lives at a minimum and really it appears to be the worst of the storm has passed in fact the time that department says the storm has moved into the andaman sea it has already been downgraded to a tropical depression still bringing rain and winds but nowhere near as strong as when it first made landfall on friday off and here on me as well we're seeing service is resumed and son has just come out it was raining this morning but it really appears that this storm has this the worst of the storm is over. and this is

unusual florence because it's not the monsoon season there so in theory this storm system should never have happened in the first place. that's right but this is also a part of the world where it is quite common to receive heavy rainfall at this time of the yeah in fact people that they would tell people who live in co someone to didn't seem very afraid all that by i mean the rain and the waves in the wind were much stronger than usual but there was a sense that this was even though this was unusual this was something that they could very well cope with and their worst fears have not come true we drove around the island and seen really very little damage the worst affected areas really seem to be. where these tropical storm made landfall on friday off to noon but even if it was just the reports that we're getting is that dozens of houses were damaged power supplies were interrupted temporarily because electricity poles but as i said

loss of lives have kept at a minimum florence thanks very much still to come here on al-jazeera taking on brazil's criminal gangs the new president sends troops to contain violence in the northeast plus. but brought on the south korean island just twelve kilometers from north korea's guns where people are hoping to.