we got the vote we're not going along with what she 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 underway and senior democrats are said to be more focused on the twenty twenty alexion either way most agree the language used by the congresswoman was not helpful to gallacher al-jazeera washington. to come here on the news hour including venezuela's leader gets the cold shoulder as he prepares to be sworn in for a second. and how thailand avoided calamity after tropical storm. and it's more convincing when the third round of the english f.a. cup here that story of the. now the u.s. says it doesn't believe saudi arabia's version of the murder of the journalist. and will continue to push for answers

a state department official says the kingdom's investigation and handling of the killing lacks credibility and accountability the u.s. secretary of state will continue to pressure the saudis for answers when he visits riyadh next week my pump ayos eight day trip to the middle east include the u.a.e. egypt and qatar plus and jordan has more 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 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 community up pleading with the u.s. not to withdraw troops from northern syria a report by the free izzie foundation is warning that if washington leaves syria before i saw is defeated the armed group will make a comeback the report also request an establishment of a no fly zone of a northern syria to prevent type potential turkish assault on cota strongholds one

of the data joins us live now from gaziantep on the turkey syria border mohammed so the clearly very worried about u.s. troops being pulled from syria how real of those concerns. well quite thrilled out and no one understands the brutality of our eyes still more than the years the the minority community in both see the it out they remember the falzon selfie probably lost and killed by self itis the thousands of girls who have been in slaved for years some of them and they also remember their temples tomnod to mosques on the fourth hole boston all of them to islam by. fighters and now they're saying they're facing an exe this existential threat if the u.s. forces hastily leave syria concern over what will happen is city up to a possible u.s. with the troop withdrawal or is also growing look only within the region but also

the united states itself was weighted in with its own set of concerns with national security adviser john bolton was speaking in tel aviv warning. that. the use of chemical weapons was still an acceptable inside the united states will be outdoes it does done twice before if it tries to take advantage of the u.s. troop withdrawal one uses chemical weapons i'm not good reports of civilian casualties following russian air strikes in the area what more can you tell us. well yes the civilian toll is growing in that part of the aleppo countryside built only with the russian ass strikes that have killed a number of civilians including a baby in the past twenty four hours but also they see us fighting between the

higher to do you know the shah h.t.s. which many people believe is alive to. the free city and. the tolerance they have this morning heavy fighting broke out. between the free syrian army battalion of salt on solomon shah in india the two men and there's been a fierce fighting with the higher total evil sham safe to be gaining ground and taking control of more villages in that part of aleppo of course what they want is to create a divide between the free syrian army forces in the aleppo countryside and in the more front and clear off i've already there are reinforcements say to be coming from the most part. in to help the free syrian army defeat the higher to the shop all right mama dove and thank you. venezuela has accused the u.s.

of plotting with a regional bloc to overthrow president nicolas maduro government more than a dozen foreign ministers from latin america and canada have said they won't recognize madeira as president if he sworn in for a second term next week lima group says elections in may were not credible and is calling for power to be transferred to the national assembly and then a free vote can be held. very in republic of venezuela expresses great bewilderment at the extravagant declaration of a group of countries of the american continent which are receiving instructions from the united states through a video conference have agreed to encourage a coup to turn. a shot as a specialist in the us latin american relations she says the lima groups trying to help restore democracy in venezuela. well actually they do not recognize they go over men because they consider the go to make is illegitimate. you may recall when my daughter won the elections it was so without the

participation of the opposition so that's why they them believe in transpired in seo these elections and actually they are trying to send a message to like go back to dialogue let's go to negotiate is the best way in more of their to do to get back to. their more korat the pot in venice where they want to negotiate with mother water with press in nicholas mother would know what will be the best way to negotiate a democratic power so when it's well i can find he so on our way to the market i see again like a calling again for the new elections we have seen how the opposition has been on their mind a lot of political leaders are in prison right now so talking about the opposition

in venezuela is a very difficult one because we don't have a phase a man said straight now s. not just solely that wealthy people they're wealthy people or the middle class is also the poor people freedom from but this well from the asylum prizes from the political economic crisis who was created by the nicolas mother will go government so it is a message that everybody wants a change in venezuela a change of government brazil's new president jaya bowles on araa something troops in northeastern states of chiara bid to crack down on violent gangs the military is already facing a military style to forty tourism robot gunpoint in rio de janeiro. as me. it is prison. most iconic landmark christ the redeemer towers over rio de janeiro are 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 at gunpoint prompting tourists to think twice about visiting yes and i'm going to go out there and 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 rob forty people and i started 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. 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 as you narrow has impacted the number of visitors 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 on 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 an arm has vowed to take action by arming civilians experts say this will only fuel further violence laura baron manley al-jazeera. now the u.s. is sending troops to central africa says there may be violence when the result of

the democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election is announced eighteen military personnel have been deployed to get on to secure diplomatic staff and u.s. citizens people in d r c voted last sunday at a much delayed election to choose a successor for president joseph kabila well they went up to the votes of violence and polling was postponed in three opposition strongholds sparking yet more protests in the east and it's feared there may be more violence once the result is declared on sunday. intimidation and harassment against journalists opposition candidates and human rights defenders continues to take place. and this being a very sensitive as i said very tense period we are concerned that these efforts to silence dissent could backfire considerably when the results are announced and we are watching carefully and we are calling on all sides to refrain from the use of violence well let's bring in our cutting guy he's a senior of the strategic consultancy innovation task force he joins us now from

london. with the u.s. sending dozens of troops to nearby does this indicate how worried washington is that the situation in d r c is going to spiral out of control. surprised that washington is worried right now in a country where we have one hundred forty armed groups of people all the time and we are in a country where we have twenty one thousand. gentle for you when for the last twenty years and we are not truculently impressed by what's happening right now because we just hold it because kinshasa is concerned but all the country has been troubled for all the time so i'm just worried about what's going to happen and it's been a week since the election and no official result has been declared and nobody knows actually when we will get a result given that over a million people are excluded from voting so other conditions right do you think

for yet more instability and more violence. something different now it's violence in the city we have seen in the rural areas for the last twenty years and nobody was worried about that and i'm saying that today everyone is worried because it's going to happen in kinshasa and yes of course there is a huge risk that trouble comes up in the very very coming days if if the situation does deteriorate further and they declare a state of emergency perhaps do you think this instability will provide an opportunity for the computer government to crack down even further against the opposition and its supporters. the only thing we know is that it violence comes up the most exposed people are civilians and it's a very big pity and we opened with him could be done to avoid it and we also make sure that politician talk more than the going confrontation just just

a final thought to you do you think this delay in declaring the result will be seen by ordinary congolese people as the president still clinging on to power and the government can always say that given the violence it needs to be in power for long though. i don't think this is the way people should look at it what people want to do is a better life for everyone or what people want is justice for everyone it what people want is. civil services for everyone what people want is a place for place where everyone can just promote his own competition competitive advantages that's what people want today we're facing a situation with politicians trying to pull everything down and we don't think this is the work we are cutting i thank you for talking to al jazeera now hundreds of yellow vest protesters are back on the streets of paris demonstrations first began in november of a proposed fuel tax hike which was later banned and by president among. the

protests of often turned violent at least ten people have died. thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years has left one person dead and another missing it's now we can talk tropical depression but the risk of flooding still remains linesmen reports in southern thailand. less than twenty four hours after it made landfall public has been downgraded to a tropical depression the province of the concept hammered appears to have been hit hardest by the storm. but not the only five or six minutes after the storm hit the roof was blown away. dozens of buildings have been damaged power supplies disrupted and streets flooded thousands of people were evacuated ahead of its arrival. there is wind and rain we have children in our family so we hurry to hear the head of our village urged us to leave as well. the tourist

destination of coast and other islands nearby suffered no severe damage as the eye of the storm passed further south than initially forecast. the book is unlikely to have a long term effect on terrorism or economic growth in the southern provinces financial losses will stem mainly from the fact that businesses have got to shut for a couple of days. already boat ferry and flight service is that was suspended on friday have resumed there were fears public could be the worst tropical storm to hit thailand in thirty years that fear hasn't been borne out weekend as it made its way across southern thailand and by saturday morning it had moved into the andaman sea florence li al-jazeera. our time for a check on the weather has given that's right from tropical storms to winter storms here across parts of europe we've been dealing with a lot of snow across much of the area i want to show you some video that has come out of greece now yesterday i was talking about we were expecting snow in greece

well now take a look at what they did receive here across much of greece even the higher elevations take a look at that the staff are very heavy snow of course it was beautiful but it did cause some problems on the roads as well as at the airports and on the rails because of the very heavy snow causing delays in many locations we're going to be seeing those temperatures dropping across much of the region so the snow that they have seen is pretty much going to be staying on the ground at least for the next few days to go in the forecast map here where looking better conditions across greece as we go towards tomorrow so it's going to be sunny but it is going to be snowing on the ground temperature athens about nine overnight lows are getting below freezing there but we are going to be seeing those temperatures dropping so any of that snow is going to remain and get icy we're going to see those temperatures go above freezing and then go below freezing over the next few days and speaking of winter storms we do have another one brewing here across parts of the united states not too much happening right here as we go towards the next couple days but now take a look at the storm system that is coming in across much of the air. this storm out

of the southwest is going to be bringing some very messy weather and very heavy snow as we go towards mid week seven thank you very much for that last also to come here on al-jazeera a showdown over immigration at one of australia's largest cities. shoppers in turkey takes extra charges at the till we tell you why. in sports the los angeles lakers going to have to struggle in the absence of their stop play ball and now stay with us. bigger and potentially more dangerous that's the best way to describe what's happening with a smoking alternative known as favorite i enjoy the taste of it and not get the harmful effects of what smoking does between two thousand and thirteen in two thousand and fourteen alone we 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 on al-jazeera.

and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dr evil face one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. welcome back a quick recap the top stories here on al-jazeera president trump says the possible u.s. . shutdown could last more than

a year he doesn't get funding for all along the u.s. border with mexico is threatening to use emergency powers to build it if congress doesn't meet his demands the u.s. says it doesn't believe saudi arabia's version of the murder of the german. u.s. secretary of state might pompei or will continue to push the saudis for answers when he visits riyadh next week. and members of the religious minority community are pleading with the u.s. not to withdraw troops in northern syria a report by the three years leading foundation is warning that of washington leave syria before eisen is defeated the armed group will make a comeback. now iran is making a push for peace in afghanistan and head of a likely u.s. withdrawal of troops the country's deputy foreign minister has met with afghan officials and president ashraf ghani in kabul. briefed ghani about recent rounds of talks with taliban representatives in tehran the taliban is believed to control nearly half of the country and has been behind many attacks targeting government

forces well into the team as a lecturer at university and joins us live now from the afghan capital kabul last week the iranians hosted the taliban in the capital tehran for talks and this week the iranians are in afghanistan briefing afghan officials on what happened so how much influence does iran have in terms of brokering these talks do you think. well after the conference in afghanistan a you see a lot of conducive political environment in the the current iranian delegation was done on this part of the larger process you've been in the stain that the iranian government in basad in afghanistan just to put it to say that they have influence over iran the the taliban leadership and you know better shanghainese just what it did in afghanistan and just what did the national security adviser afghanistan hear sure that can go in that we would like to can we not meeting with can go meaning the taliban leadership and they will not act like saudi arabia so as long as we see

the change in the american in washington ians that rhetoric toward afghanistan as long as we see here the shift of the can go meant that the taliban and the afghan government would be sitting to each other in iranian and part of that and i think we have to forget about the past because iranian has been blamed by a lot of money wishes and sit in afghanistan but we have to listen in just move forward with up optimistic hope and how do you think other international stakeholders like the u.s. be viewing iran's involvement here i mean just last year senior u.s. officials blamed iran for trying to destabilize afghanistan but yet president trump wants to pull u.s. forces out of the country. both the african gomen in the danny and goldman are just living in the middle of hope and fear they government is trying to juggle a political balls and they would like to sure that if taliban leadership is part of the future afghan government they should be having very badly but in relation with

the taliban leadership and that the same time they say that if you are not dead not part of the political settlement between the taliban and the afghan government i think they will have a very bleak and very dark future so that's why the iranian is is not very harness with the afghan government but they're trying to ensure the strategic interests that's why we have to be in the afghan government should be very careful about judging the iranian route in afghanistan and they should be very careful how they can act and how the iranian contribution could in short the lasting peace in afghanistan ok just a final thought from you in design i mean many countries of trying to get a strategic foothold in afghanistan countries like russia the u.s. china india but all have failed to bring about peace so why do the rain ians think they can do better than anyone else. well iran have a nine hundred kilometer rumy border with afghanistan they have a strategic or maybe historic relation of ghana's than they have been

a country who are engaged in afghanistan and have been criticised also for destructive operation in afghanistan so now looking back to historic allision their influences their connectivity with afghanistan i think iran will be able to play a positive through but i'm not sure how hard is they done in government will be and how impartially they would be acting toward the future of afghanistan i've got time for one more question for you in desire i mean the u.s. has even gone a step further by putting sanctions in place against afghan taliban members involved in attacks as well as iranians who washington says provide financial and material support to the taliban so are we seeing the proxy war between the u.s. and iran play out in afghanistan as well well iran has not been only blamed for their proxy destructive operation of ganesan but iran has been criticized by the u.s. in syria in yemen and maybe other countries in middle east so iran in the u.s.

have been confronting each other in a number of other countries a number of other strategic grounds afghanistan and afghan peace should not be politicized the united states should be ensuring that they should not be blocking the iranian positive contribution but at same time the afghan government in the united states should be ensuring that iran should not be putting a foothold here to ensure their interests to that than to be ensuring the afghan interest in the united nations mission sex in afghanistan into thank you very much for talking to mouths are. now there's been a huge police presence on the streets of melbourne in australia as officers move to break up competing rallies far right nationalists where protesting against a youth crime problem they blame on people of african descent reports. wasn't killed in melbourne is usually a place to relax at the beach not today instead a scene of far right nationalists facing off against left wing groups hurling

insults across the police line with very different views of the kind of a strain aliya in which they wish to live and immigration nationalists say they came out to protest against crime on the beaches which they blame on australians of african descent ok doing the wrong thing and they're still not for everyone when the all over we want to ever exist but we want to draw back we want the law but the sudanese australians in particular have been under scrutiny recently with local media airing reports referring to african gang violence but those who rallied in support of multiculturalism in australia say the minority group has been made a scapegoat for bigger issues i've lived in melbourne my whole life now there isn't a problem with african crime we have issues with us not having enough and guys meant things today about the fact there's the fact that they tried to scapegoat it on africanus ryans is really disappointing only prior notice that the far right groups would be rallying at the beach and that counter protest would be staged in

response to doing all they can to keep the two groups apart to prevent any escalation of physical violence the opposing sides moved from the beach front into the streets of st kilda shutting down roads as police maintained their lines using pepper spray at times to break up scalpels extraordinary scenes outside the iconic luna park where children come to ride the roller coaster is likely to be much more frightened by the anger on display outside the fun part kathy novak al-jazeera. now there are now speculation is mounting about an historic trip to south korea by north korea's leader kim jong un improving relations are having a marked impact on the heavily fortified border that separates north from south south korea correspondent rob mcbride trouble to young people line and a short distance from the north korean main from its observation points you can clearly make out the coastline of north korea just twelve kilometers away and at

times of extreme tension young peeling island 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 even until the good things should improve for better kim jong un wants to sort of. given that must feel free conciliation things will improve you know but the fractious history of into korean relations makes others more cautious talking. 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 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 i learned could eventually become part of a bygone era rather macbride al-jazeera young people island south korea ukraine's new orthodox church has been granted independence by the global orthodox church leaders based in turkey ukrainian president petro poroshenko attended a ceremony marking the occasion in istanbul for centrism crimean churches have been under the authority of the russian orthodox church on the move and that moscow. turkey has introduced a charge on single use plastic bags in an attempt to clean up the mediterranean its waters are polluted with thousands of tons of plastic every year but manufacturers say tens of thousands of jobs and add risk and cost yahoo has more from a stumble. like many countries worldwide turkey has a major problem with plastic waste turkey is your second largest plastics producer and six in the world. millions of tons are thrown away every year.

often ending up in the mediterranean sea and littering turkey's coastline it is estimated one hundred. forty four tons of plastics from turkey alone and up in the sea every day one art of every five fish has my full plastic in its digestive system and one million. birds are suffocating in plastic bags every year. the turkish government is implementing what is called a zero waste policy turkish m.p.'s passed a law aimed at cutting the cost stemming from pollution in the long run single use plastic facts are the first target. from now on shoppers will have to buy plastic bags shops carts given the way face a fine farmer's market traders around sure have the new law will work it would cost

too much for a customer how would we charge them everybody keep the bags and use them again the turkish government estimates every turk uses four hundred forty plastic bags every year with the new plastic bag tax that total is expected to fall to forty a year by two thousand and twenty five many people here are hopeful the new government's measures to reduce plastic consumption will be just as successful as the ban on smoking in public places a decade ago and more mentalist say the success of the new regulations depends on troops being for sponsible citizens they need to be encouraged to avoid single use plastic packing and to help save the world from the dangers of pollution. plastic bag makers say the law could make tens of thousands of factory workers redundant god bags can be recycled for maximum of three times the main problem is a lack of awareness and decomposing. turkic current the recycles thirty percent of

its plastic waste within the next twelve years the government says it is aiming for one hundred percent so now because solo al-jazeera a stumble time for short break you're not just iraq when we come back. pollin in hong kong reporting on how the craftsmanship and the art work behind one of the city's traditional games if there is appearing on in sport the world number one the stuff of his first defeat of the new season a subtle but there with that story of the great hall of the status. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word algebra we're going to.