and not seeing it is part of his core political strategy which is of course playing to his own base but that's a very short term strategy i mean the base isn't enough for him to win reelection and it's not enough to preserve as we saw just a couple of months ago it's not enough to preserve the fortunes of his allies in congress so there needs to be some deeper and broader thinking and if not there needs to be some kind of off ramp some kind of. offer to trump that he can claim as a victory because you need a wall it's not about the wall it's about being able to claim a victory right jacob would you mind staying there for me. because we're going to talk about impeachment and richard it's laden some issues and i want to come back to you and talk about that in a moment that cope yeah of course ok sit tight we're going to pick up on that story we brought you on friday which has become a lot bigger in the past twenty four hours that is the profound comments made by the new u.s. congresswoman rasheed at least about impeaching donald trump and who is going to have the full details and reaction but i did want to start with this it's an opinion piece written by two late in the detroit free press two days ago before her

comments where she said plainly now is the time to begin impeachment proceedings against president trump she says and of this of the box there we have already overwhelming evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses obstructing justice violating the i'm all human schools abusing the pardon power and on and on she goes with that then andrew as you showed us on friday took it a little step further and since then it's been up front and certainly true of all this plenty to talk about here for those of you who haven't heard the sound bite that's created such a stir here's another listen. people love you and you know when your son looks at she says mama look you want bully don't worry and baby don't because we're going to go in there we're going to teach the mother. now the president was asked about her remarks and this is what he had to say it's specifically what i told her comments were just graceful this is a person that i don't know i assume she's new i think she dishonored herself and i

think she just honored her family using language like that in front of her son and whoever else was there i thought that was a great dishonor to her and to her family i thought it was highly disrespectful to the united states of america. so after the president weighed and i have to say that twitter lit up the has tag impeach the earth was propelled to the top turning has tanked in the united states and as you can possibly see there there were many many people around the world who also used it to express their views so there's a big conversation happening on twitter about this back and forth exchange on one side you have people who say that the president says and does worse things in public all the time the former u.s. attorney preet bharara for one thinks that lying in public is worse than a representative cussing in private but you have others including senior democrats who say that using such profanity is something that you might find in the president's playbook kimberley strassel she's a d.c. based columnist for the wall street journal and she says that one of the democrats

biggest complaints about him is his language and some of receipt of the leaves constituents in michigan seem to agree. become a teacher should never put that down you know always. let's get you to do that. so i would probably do it was a little bit but i think. everyone is doing. what we speculate you know it's not that i agree with the president but here's the but. so. obama you state. when you go when they go load you go. what happens. now converts woman to leave is unapologetic and says that she will always speak truth to power i know that for me i've always been this way i mean i think no one. expects me to be anything but myself

a girl from southwest detroit a little sass an attitude i think you know president trump has messed met his match i don't like bullies i go after them the same way they go after us and he's going to have to deal i'm on wavering and everyone knows that from taking on huge big bullies right back at home in the district i'm not going to back down from this biggest bully that now i have to take. and the leader of the house democrats the speaker nancy pelosi says that people shouldn't be making such a big deal out of this issue but she has also pointed the finger at the man in the white house. then he says this sure if he were a man would they be making you know what i don't know why we're making a big deal of it now and that's the way people talk. so that the way people talk let us know what you think or curious to hear if you think this type of rhetoric is helpful in u.s. politics not necessarily whose fault it is but whether you think it will affect the

political discourse in a helpful way get in touch with us on twitter using the hash tag it's a newsgroup thanks andrew we'll put that back to jack in particular who is still with us on skype out from a chatham house in london there he is so jacob nancy pelosi says it's not my job to censure members of my caucus and that's debatable she is the leader of the house she is the highest ranking democrat but does it speak to a potential split in the democrats between those particularly the new ones the younger ones who say let's go off to donald trump now and other ones like nancy pelosi who is saying let's just hold on a moment. pelosi is walking on a pretty narrow line because there's huge energy in the democratic party to hold donald trump to account through impeachment as the ultimate run mittie. majority of members of the democratic party are in favor of impeaching it's a slim majority but it's a majority it's getting that way amongst the population of the us as a whole but it's still just sort of below fifty percent so there's

a lot of energy behind it and pulis the i think ignores that entirely at her peril but by the same token she's aware of the political calculus not least the fact that it peach mint is one thing they could impeach with democratic caucus alone in the house but to remove the president requires a two thirds majority in the senate which is controlled by republicans so you'd need the majority leader and at least twenty republican senators to go along with this process of impeachment and i don't think we're close to that yet although these things are seismic when we get to that moment i suspect if we get to that moment i suspect it will happen fairly quickly in the sort of movement that got us there won't necessarily have been visible to the outside world but certainly pelosi is a little bit caught between these two different currents and between the sort of political realities that shasta managed and i think you've seen that in a particularly sort of evocative way in the last couple of days how important is it to white for robert mueller and his well we don't actually know what he will release at the end of the investigation assuming he does. well i think

the focus on robert muller as the sole legal threat trump does us all a little bit of a disservice because actually there are number of different percolating issues there is a sort of unspecified investigation held by the southern district of new york into trump's campaign finance issues his payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels the michael cohen issue is all out of mahler's court it originated with sort of moved to a different office there's a law at a criminal investigation into the trunk foundation there's a criminal investigation into the trump inauguration there are a number of different things which are not sense really in again muller is kind of in pieces around all of this but muller is not the central character of the way he's been sort of dramatize this sort of silent unshakable force of american politics in our opposition to trump but actually there are a number of percolating legal issues any one of which could be

a lethal threat to the trumpet ministration so i think there's a lot the democrats can do to provide air cover to mahler to provide support to subpoena using the subpoena powers inherent in their new chairmanship of the intelligence and judiciary committees in the house but it's not the only thing they can do and it's not the only issue that could really do a lot of damage potentially fatal damage to the president jacob it's been really interesting talking to a whole bunch of issues thank you thank you. this should be enough to our donald trump really but in this opinion piece from mary by how does actually the author of the book american hero which became the political film wag the dog and if you say no anyway lays out a whole lot more there last service he talks about health care he talks about immigration all these things they are the trials were trumps trials and tribulations in twenty nineteen and they are in the opinion section at al jazeera dot cotton. if you want to get in touch with us please do apologies we were a little late on the facebook live stream today had

a few technical problems so those of you who've been asking why was it eighteen minutes late technical problems but we're up and running i'm looking for your comments right now at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera click on the live video link there twitter at english of course you can reply to our tweets there or just direct message us on other whatsapp on telegram plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine. now to the war in syria and an urgent plea to the united states from members of the religious minority community they don't want the u.s. to withdraw its troops from northern syria a report from the free foundation is warning if washington leads to syria before i sill is defeated the armed group will only make a comeback the report also requests the establishment of a no fly zone over northern syria to prevent a potential turkish assault on kurdish stronghold meanwhile u.s. national security advisor john bolton is warning the assad government not to see the withdrawal of american troops as some sort of green light to use chemical weapons in the past hour here arrived in israel for

a meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday he will then head on to turkey as well now ankara reportedly wants the u.s. to provide it with considerable military support including air strikes in the battle against eisel after the u.s. pullout bolton is expected to discuss that when he meets his counterparts on tuesday in ankara president reject tiber and also pushing for the u.s. to disarm syrian kurdish forces which it's trained in the fight against eisel let's talk to muhammad and gaziantep about all of this it's all very confusing actually as i read through all of that mohammed you thinking about troops leaving but the turks still wanting support and also disarmed the kurds who you've been looking after it's i mean how does all of this pot how can all of this possibly come together. well tucker shellfish olson's this must be done on top of their priority list is that this element of the widespread you why does one have been fighting alongside u.s.

forces in the fight against one point at the height of the for all of the war against u.s. officials have described why the most effective force against the islamic state in iraq and then the for the love and of course the why p.d. might be so useful to the united states but to talkie it's nothing more than what it calls a terrorist organization an extension of the kaddish work because patti now wants them wanted this on the books out of to twenty anywhere near that border techie house with the city of cool stuff you also want a mood just to pull support from the united states and once it's show up with a roll processes over it also wants a clear timetable for for these withdrawal in mid last a month during a form composition the president of turkey and the united states president all

trumpet agreed that they would. talk people took over the tusk or finishing off the remnants of. clearing them home the sultan to hide out. near the border city hoss with iraq so. they want that kind of support just to pull support for them to cut a job effectively they what we've seen in the united states officials are going to be the president himself changing tome on a timetable for withdrawal many times there were deaths expected don't bolt from what he had rides and to come with a proposal and clear timetable for with all those troops from syria thank you mohamed as are and have now. on skype from istanbul cassim hahn who is a professor of international relations at belton that's university nice to have you with us can this work in any way the u.s.

leaving donald trump wanting to leave but still providing support for the turks and disarming the y.p. and all these things well of course some of those aims and demands are contradicting the in in and of themselves. however i do not expect that the president would withdraw from the idea of withdrawal and i would not expect the turkish side to back of from the demands that has that it has been putting out very insisting the for the past years now this is. moment of opportunity to really eliminate the threat that has been dubbed as a matter of survival in korea in turkey and. in that i would say. i'm going to will try to make the most out of

the american offer while not assuming all the burdens that are associated with it because basically come out of the war in syria is becoming more and more by each day passing more and more about transferring of costs through one shoulder to another and i'm going to definitely would not be the one to shoulder all the burdens of dealing with the troubles that are lying ahead in syria and would like to share it as much as possible with the other actors how do you not in the united states then with damascus and russia how do you think then that. as you mentioned them damascus and russia will be viewing all of this they probably thought the idea of the us withdrawing at some stages as a great positive for them but now with these further developments how do you think

they'll be viewing it. well i think that is the dilemma of the international ations of the twenty first century nobody wants the americans but once they are out there and everybody thinks that they are not assuming. of burdens that they should share. and this is similar to case of course russians and damascus doesn't want american control in eastern syria including the areas that are in question however they also don't want to shoulder again the burdens the costs of controlling those areas so this is a bold this is a hot bowl that is being passed back and front between the parties everyone wants to see the americans gone. no doubt about that how ever nobody wants the americans to dump whatever there is risks and trips to to their their own

garden and this includes russia and the mascot's however we also have to keep in mind that russian and assad regime's forces are closer to the centers of of power. needed the. former eisel centers of power that are right now being controlled by disqualification that is being called syrian democracy. forces and. including iraq and there is our. i drink that if the turkish side and the american side cannot find an effective way of cordon meeting their appetites including the withdrawal and turkish troops antron still to to the said regions probably dollars regions at least large swaths of it in the south. that are right now controlled by these groups and supported by

the americans will be easily falling into the hands of the regime and nobody can really question much about that because the regime despite all the devious act it's committed against. works of its people is still seen internationally as is the government of syria basically so obviously isn't going to have to interrupt you it's started somewhere in iraq and leave things that has in conjoining us from istanbul thank you. just having a look at the life from trying to get some of your comments through there and i even having a few technical problems but i did have a message from either one of our message regular of the of them saying don't forget about the codes they've been through so much they've been ostracized on all sides and that they have a right to feel worried about what would come with any u.s. withdrawal your comments your questions hashtag i don't use good message me

directly if you want to. this is the news great if you're with us on facebook live more for you now on the historic moments from the u.s. congressional swearing in ceremony and later you can eat a big attack him because this fight for it is one big tuna we will find out how much a japanese sushi tycoon spent to reign in the best sushi at the markets. hello again well this hour we're going to take you towards the western part of the law and we have been talking about the rain that has been a big problem here across the region we've actually seen flooding in certain locations and the flood risk unfortunately is going to to new as we go towards the beginning of the week here's a sunday map rain anywhere from the southern part of turkey down across syria into jordan also into parts of beirut we're going to be seeing that very heavy rain continue and as we go towards monday most of that rain continues so the risk of

flooding is also going to stay in place across much of that area the snow does and across turkey making its way up here towards the north so better conditions there because conditions with encore seeing about minus two as your high down here towards quite city we do expect to see a passing shower and a temperature few of twenty one degrees where cross the gulf we do expect temperatures to begin to go up particular here in doha where we're going to be starting the day here on sunday with a high temperature view of about twenty five degrees by the time we get towards monday it gets a little bit warmer we expect to see about twenty eight here over towards abu dhabi it's going to be a warm day as well with a temperature of thirty degrees and then very quickly i want to take you to the southern part of africa we are expected to see some clouds and rain over here towards durban the rain's going to continue and we do expect to see a temperature across the region of about twenty seven degrees johannesburg a little bit warmer at twenty eight.

a lot of. control. but it's tremendous for the country so i think and i'm determined to go on could use a little at the point to for. the smashes the frankish on the couch as the king of jerusalem seizes the truth crawls and this is the great military victory the crusades an arab perspective never sold three unification of this time. we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and reported on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations peacekeepers are out there going anti-riot. challenging the forces we're challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

the headline from what's trending again big fishies trending we're going to see that a little bit later on on the news business school is that

a good time it was for mamma says some other stuff going on out there other than the usual headlines talking about the shutdown lasting for. well trump it was a lot of trump there isn't it that's what's trending saturday as they were home. i think crime was one of his key campaign pledges and now brazil's new president diable some not always sending troops to a northeast and brazilian state to crack down on violent gangs it's already facing you know the test off the forty tourists were robbed at gunpoint on a popular hiking trail in rio de janeiro man that has more on that. it is brazil's 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 at gunpoint prompting tourists to think twice about visiting your house 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 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 tram runs close to a fan a city 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 businesses in two thousand and seventeen there was a reported loss of more than two hundred million dollars in tours in revenue j.a. 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 who know the national force has already been contacted the mobilization plan is in action and is about to leave scenes like this in not unusual and 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 paul scenario has vowed to take action but arming civilians experts say this will only fuel further violence laura baron manley al-jazeera. and there's a handy who is able to narrow it down to zero dot com although the background on him his rise to fame all of his controversies and right down the bottom if i can get there it is an episode of up front with me at the house on cold is brazil's

democracy under threat have a look for yourself who is able to narrow it down to the real calm but certainly through some other stories making news around the world now and thousands of anti-government protesters are marching in the hungary in capital angry over several new laws backed by the prime minister viktor orban opposition groups union workers and students of all pledged to make twenty nine thousand the year of resistance they're calling for an end to new labor laws the ones which allow employers to demand up to one hundred hours of overtime per year protesters are also angry at the changes to the country's judiciary which they say could threaten the independence of the judges in budapest for us now from our sister channel al jazeera balkans nice to see you looks cold there how many people have managed to come out for these protests. well a few thousand people are now are the costs where in front of the parliament building right now do all position and peace are giving their speeches this is the last

stage of this that today drop this today started on the hero square here and we got this and then the protesters protesters marched here to the costs where in front of the parliament building there was also an event later on this evening that was announced by hungary and yellow vest movement which was formed a few days ago but we will see how many people are going she will respond that we should give them plenty to all keep by a major bridge here in hungary also to send a message to the government of viktor orban as you said there are a few reasons why gary and start protesting for a month now the main reason is the sole called slave law old overtime act labor law in the garion system which allows the employers to ask from their employees hundred hours overtime very year

of course implore implore the workers can refuse but unions are sending a message that not all workers are going to obtain their jobs if they're refuse this overtime hours also to billing time of this overtime hours is extended to up to three years. murder because joining us from budapest thank you for the update. the united states has deployed eighty military staff to gotbaum after a disputed presidential election in nearby democratic republic of congo president obama says the troops will support the security of u.s. citizens and personnel in case of violent demonstrations full preliminary election results are expected on sunday vote counting is still underway but the three main candidates of all the quicker they won the vote catholic bishops field of the largest group of election observers they say there is a clear winner and are demanding that accurate results be declared the u.n.

security council met behind closed doors to discuss the vote as well dozens of people have been killed in the latest ethnic violence in the west african nation of bicheno faso seven people died when armed men attacked the village of years ago made up largely of people love the must see ethnicity in reprisal attacks the following do you agree residents killed thirty nine people in for money hurting communities across the region more from nicholas hawke. the minister of interior in britain f.s.a. may call this a terrorist attack but no one has claimed responsibility for it and no one has been arrested it all started on the night of the thirty first where gunmen on motorcycle killed shot down a village chief just a hundred kilometers away from the million border where an insurgency is taking place the men that were behind this attack were said to be from salon the ethnic origin the philosophies are a group of herders that struggle along all of this highly in countries. their

distinctive with their long robes and garbus the next day villagers from that area sought to get revenge and they attacked anyone that looked full on the at least forty people had been killed they went out with guns and knives now this attack comes at a time where the insurgency in this how the area is increasing back in december the armies of the five salient countries friends as well as the united nations a valued to bring peace and security in this region but they have so far failed one man muslim jiko a burkean afonso national has been and has been behind numerous attacks in wanted to and in the regions of brick you know faso now some of the people that we've spoken to from the government say perhaps that he may be behind this latest attack to try to sow division among the population between the full on the ethnic groups but there are numerous ethnic groups that are in breaking

a fast so the tensions reach boiling point on the streets of melbourne australia are off to far right nationalists faced off against and he racism campaigners members of the far right rally were protesting against melbourne's youth crime problem which they blame on people of african descent this report from kathy novak . been 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 stray leah 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 forever hurt me all we want to fight is 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 just fine i only had 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 ups couples 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 melbourne. in chile sixty homes have been destroyed in dozens of wildfires as the central coast suffers an intense heat wave some of the fires a yet to be contained with more than two thousand six hundred hectares been so far the fires season there is unfortunately just beginning. now a japanese sushi entrepreneur has paid three point one million dollars a record for a giant bluefin tuna fish in tokyo's famous new year to no auction sushi produces in wholesalers have been known to pay these huge sums for the biggest in the best fish but this is why a more this is the highest price on record but it comes with a concern because there are warnings that the species the bluefin is close to extinction with stocks of pacific bluefin depleted ninety six percent from their pre industrial levels but these are amazing pictures as well give you an insight into that annual what's a tradition i guess new year's tradition in japan now to

a story we've been following on the grid since it first began the ongoing doctors strike in zimbabwe andrew has got an update for us on that it's well doctors are now participating in the strike and saying that they are refusing to attend to emergency patients that's the update that we have and they say they want to tense emergency patients until their demands for higher pay and better work conditions are met by the government now the doctors association denied claims by state media in zimbabwe that the strike had ended after a meeting between doctors and the first lady i'm a man of god but where she assured them that the government was addressing their grievances. and i now. the doctors have told me that. some of the issues can be solved but others will take time to be solved i'm pleased they have informed me that going back to what now. nurses and teachers have also joined the strike also demanding higher pay and better work conditions they want to be

paid in u.s. dollars instead of local bond notes that devalue constantly and now some baba adopted the u.s. dollar when its economy crashed in two thousand and nine so there's some mixed reviews here those people who are tweeting their calls for the government to listen to the demands of these doctors david coltart is a zimbabwe and human rights lawyer who is calling on the health minister to meet with them candidly with the doctors association and listen to their complaints but he also understands that the government is in a difficult position here to meet the demands because if they raise the salaries they fuel the already crippling inflation in the country now if you're in zimbabwe and we'd like to hear from you get in touch with us let us know what you think about this latest development in the doctor strike you can connect with us on twitter using the hash tag agent is good. thank you and yes plenty of other ways to get in touch with us don't forget we're putting them up on screen a hash tag a.j. news good live a little bit quiet the last few still talking about donald trump a fact. why is just said i'm confused why did the americans vote for this man and

i'll give you what you just going back to this point of i guess the disbelief that some people that donald trump became the president in the first place and is still there despite all the controversies we have seen larry says greetings from europe hello larry thank you to all of you watching from around the world we do appreciate it once again for the crew on facebook live a story for you now that will be covered on the grid about netflix caving in to saudi arabia's request to censor the canadian house on the national debate on that and then in sport take off is fast approaching with a look at who might spring a surprise a page's premier football tournament the agent. arts

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here is trying to tell us about. the biggest game in town at the moment it's the hottest ticket in asian football gets underway in just a few minutes the asian cup kicks off on saturday with the u.a.e. taking on gulf rivals bahrain and abu dhabi and thailand are the other sides in the home nations group the reach the semifinals at the last asian cup in twenty fifteen but they had into the opening match not in their best form they've only won one of their last four games. on a kid. in our last participation in the asian cup we came out of it positively we came third in australia now with this tournament in the u.a.e. we have the support of the public and the land and i hope we can benefit from the fact is. bahrain are looking to make the knockout rounds for the first time since two thousand and four having exit at the group stage at the last three editions bahrain have won their last three matches in which they scored ten goals conceded

not. we have a lot of information we know the cause of all the quality of the u.a.e. team this is because this is not far away from the vine and and everybody you know everybody is be sure that the in from the gulf. about ok even speaking to the strong quality of the u.a.e. team we know that you e.g. mizuno are the best of it from our group this is the biggest ever asian cup it's an expanded tournaments from eighteen to twenty four teams the final will be played on february the first here's a tweet from the indian football team who are feeling the second youngest team at the asian cab we've worked really hard to be here and we will try to put up the best show possible and here's a shot of the philippines team arriving in the u.a.e. that was posted on the a.f.c. instagram account they're making their debut at this asian cup and they're coached by former england manager spend goran eriksson lots of chatter around the syrian

team having beaten the odds to qualify they face palestine in their opener on sunday well joining us now is martin low a writer on asian football martin who are the favorites to win the tournament do you think. it's going to be one of the big four that expects the teams that usually gets that woke up so you go kind of iran and south korea japan australia in the last four years iran it's been very dominant at the very last waltz competitively and ups to spain at the world cup so you can see what kind of pedigree they bring to the top and the question mark is surround in the style of play they very much play on the docks and how to counter teams rather than dictating play which they are the talent for and not regarded to say that south korea go into this top and edging it with iran and they're in talk or i have got

this player in asia at the moment and so home and he's doing pretty tall and hotspur the moment and also guts and a new manager who seems to fit the style of play and i think they look strong to him contest later on the other two that we usually consider japan and australia a bit in transition at the moment they've got new coaches and they've left out a couple of players and also faces quite a few injuries so they expect maybe iran south korea it's kind of a big test in final ok which teams would you say are are the dark horses. as a says difficult to look outside the top four to actually win the saying we're looking a surprise and i mean the samis being the final tarlac the best kind of team full of their incredible form at the moment the building towards that twenty twenty two woke up and it will speak to whether the relief that test this team book in the

last international rounds they went to europe and be switzerland true by step so there goes the thought team that and they're ready full of confidence to kind of take on the best an asia. average age of the team about twenty four so they've got a lot of youthful exuberance that i think can test it elsewhere i think you'd look at any kind of teams from the go for a korean up level behind the elite and so you've got that the hosts you wait as you said on the program for they've come into it and quite up or put in hosts of a sort of brochure of the woke up and the thing can happen but also saudi arabia. can often have a very mixed woke up and they are the last of us much five nil but it does recover somewhat from that they do place my coaching football and some very decent attacking procession baseball the question marks rely on whether the couple players are ready to actually contest the final round of the two on. ok ad just really

quickly found that players. as so many other said was is the best plan asia at the moment is head and shoulders above anybody else and if you're looking for anybody else the big names are mainly out so i mop up man that a lot fewer years would have hurt him he's injured unfortunately the same for kind of our moyer and also scott under and she could go our been left out as well so a group names can look out for. any very comfortable sense but for me to carry this out i think you can probably move to a top leach and yes colmes response look out for but also never from the qatari aspect of my fish twenty one year old slime when it looks very decent and needs somebody again wants to meet but you're like ok impressions so we're going to have to jump in there but thank you so much for your time martin though thanks again let

us know what you think you can tweet me directly at underscore as smile it's now back to come oh thank you for a no finally another example about changing social habits maybe yesterday we talked about was called dumb of the iraqi version of the checkers board game which was suffering a decline well today it's mahjong in hong kong if you go palin with this now on how the younger generation with their mobile phones and they computer games don't know how to play the classic game anymore and how work from our own craftsman is dying out. the cash flow is once a familiar sound in almost every hong kong neighborhood marjon was so widely played it became synonymous with the city's culture but over the years as gambling lost titans and the younger generation lost interest the margin tables that are once seen everywhere started to disappear. and so did the intricate handmade tiles that define the game. is one of the last three march on artisans in hong kong and the

only woman left chiseling away at the blocks ok so you know why working on this is like a walk down memory lane it is like a cassette player which allow me to replay my favorite songs again and again. she grew up in this tiny shop under the stairs of a dilapidated building and has been working here since the age of thirteen. she inherited the business from her father in the one nine hundred seventy s. when business was booming now the handmade tiles compete with cheaper factory made ones and the electronic versions we gave them are going to be part of everyday life with the center of social gatherings almost every home had a set but now it's become more for novelty even a collector's item and a reminder of hong kong power in one of hong kong's oldest neighborhoods a youth hostel is dedicated to keeping the city's marjon culture alive because the living area in hong kong is photos so not many family they can afford to put

a milestone table in the living room that's why they have less chance to play macho . of course now many young people they prefer to focus on the mobile phone more games with things of family. mahjong is played by four people around the table they line up the hundred fourteen pieces dissuades and sequences by choosing and discarding tiles first to complete a full set in a particular order when. the hong kong government listed mahjong tile carving as part of what it called the city's intangible cultural heritage because that's hasn't stopped the decline in getting him away no matter how much i want to hang on to this art i know the end would come she says no younger craftsmen or women are joining the trade it is a fading heritage and she wants to keep going as long as she can divvy gopalan hong

kong. just before we go quick update on the government shutdown tweet from donald trump whilst we've been on air he says this i don't care that most of the work is not getting the democrats i want to stop the shutdown as soon as we're in agreement on strong border security i don't think there's any evidence that a majority of those eight hundred thousand people are democrats seems to think that i mean the white house ready to go we. are told us there will be lower level talks going on this saturday thanks for joining us for the grid. we'll see you back here tomorrow fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. .

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stock market of twenty eighteen find out where china is headed in twenty nineteen brazil's new president has an economic challenge plus taxing times for technology giants and france at a profit warning from apple counting the cost on al-jazeera. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home algis the internet will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years absolutely i said that. day sixteen of the partial shutdown of the u.s. government with neither side showing any sign of copra mine.

hello i'm in london you and al jazeera also coming up on the program members of the religious minority in syria say they fear for their safety if the u.s. withdraws its troops cracking down on crime brazil's new president sends in the military to contain violence in the northeast also. brought on the south korean island just twelve kilometers north korea's guns where people are hoping talk of peace silence them for good. negotiators in washington a working through the weekend to try to break the deadlock over the partial government shutdown president donald trump is demanding more than five billion

dollars to build a border war with mexico something the democrats in congress strongly oppose trump is threatening to use emergency powers to get it built and says he's prepared to let the shutdown last for months or even years but he called i reports now 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 a 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 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 al-jazeera washington or gabriel is on the is live for us in washington now so the plan is to have negotiations over the weekend but with both

sides sticking so families that positions is a liking to be any progress. well i think there's a lot of pessimism in this city right now i don't think anyone is expecting anything a media to happen in terms of progress they are meeting president mike pence is meeting now or was within the last hour or so first with staff members from various lawmakers from the senate and the house of representatives but the negotiations between the key principles here which would be donald trump and nancy pelosi the speaker of the house those are the two people that really hold the keys and key in all of this we don't expect them to meet today or in any time this weekend so it's slightly lower level meetings at this point that's not giving a lot of confidence to a lot of people that hope that this ins soon this is really just become a battle of wills so to speak both sides have dug in with their position and it's

just hard to see how this could be resolved quickly donald trump of course saying he will not reopen the government until he gets money for that wall of course the democrats nancy pelosi saying will give you money for border security in general but not necessarily for that wall and that's really the big impasse right now it's really unheard of to see this we've had twenty one government shutdowns in the u.s. in history here but this one by far is seems to be different in the sense that there is no single simple way out of this and no end in sight and hundreds of thousands of government employees of course up in the taso how is the shutdown affecting that. it's terrible quite frankly i've got two issues number one is we've got about eight hundred thousand government employees that are either not getting paid or been furloughed while this is going on those are government employees from a wide range of departments everything from the national parks service to the t.s.a. the officials that screen luggage and security checkpoints at airports to the coast

guard that's affecting them and their families directly but it's also millions of other americans that somehow benefit from government programs that are affected for example thirty eight million americans get food stamps or these are government subsidies to help them pay for groceries these are the working class or poor americans that program could potentially be threatened as long as the government really main shut down so it is a potentially millions of people that are being affected by this and millions of mostly lower income or middle class americans are feeling the brunt of it all right thank you very much deborah was on washington. meanwhile the first palestinian american woman to be voted into the u.s. congress has been criticized for using an expletive against president trump democratic congresswoman made the comment just hours after being sworn in calling for the president's impeachment and gallica reports. newly sworn in but already

courting controversy detroit congresswoman rashida to lead concluded to celebrate three speech on thursday with a comment that's attracted widespread attention bullies don't play and the baby gets out 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 the language we use our language i don't like it again establish any language standards for my colleagues and i don't think it's anything worse than the president when the president said some in the democratic party are said to be angry to leave 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 a peach him but he has 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 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 election either way most agree the language used by the congresswoman was not helpful to gallacher al-jazeera washington.

u.s. national security advisor john bolton has warned syria against using chemical weapons as american troops prepare to withdraw from the country both in spoke shortly before landing in israel where he is due to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu he later heads to turkey for talks with president russia type on meanwhile members of the religious minority are paid in with the u.s. to not withdrawal that troops from northern syria a report by the foundation is warning that if washington leave syria before i sill is defeated the group will make a comeback the report also requests the establishment of a no fly zone of the northern syria to prevent a potential techie assault on kodesh strongholds so if war in this let's go to mohamed atta who is in gaziantep on the turkey syria border how much reassurance john bolton's comments providing for those syrians who are against the assad government. well very the shooting for what

is left of the syrian opposition particularly those holed up in the last remaining stronghold of opposition groups in syria which is needed of course we have been seeing in recent months of assad didn't bashar al said you know emboldened by the opening song embassy some also knew the games he is hot in the war with the help of russia of course on iran and it's a very unlike me it's a diploma thought he would be using chemical weapons of these points and. you know spoil everything for himself. what is of a good way to consign they say ease of it tom. flights is something that might happen in case of a hasty with the goal by the u.s. forces and despite what president trying says about i still being defeated how how

much concern is that it could still regroup in reappear on the battlefield again. while at the moment they're on the receiving end and they are in the hideouts very far away in the south and pottle city right in the thick of the border with it out along the banks of the euphrates river in recent days that medic and forces are tucked up their company and i guess the remnants of targeting villages where they have been hiding just yesterday they killed a woman who said to be a wife of one of the foreign fighters within. fighters who still holed up with their so a lot of walker has been done in clearing away what is left of the group but again . these are people who know the target and they know where the country's and if they see and it's luck in the work. and. pollution has been brewing push of it

with the withdrawal of u.s. forces. is the possibility and z.b. is also on the people who will pull the forces on boats why they've been making this claim but they're freezing on an existential problem. ahmed. thank you. now the un envoy to yemen mohsin griffiths has arrived in the capital sana he plans to meet his the rebels in an attempt to shore up a cease fire in the port city of data griffiths well ventral to saudi arabia where he will hold talks with yemeni government officials in riyadh the data is the entry point for the majority of imports in yemen a more than twenty two million people depend on humanitarian aid to survive. thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years left one person dead and another missing as rain wind and surging seawater lucia trees and brought down power lines it's now we can to a tropical to.