clearly. just dealing we fail to vacation in the no six flowing hezbollah's object around backed a town that is in no reason expectations one going to or not that in the future the possibility of a conflict so full do not get states to send the message that we've the warning from that they do we've gone from syria it's awful great concern to enjoy. will it keep it puts the us in a really tricky position withdraw from syria but keep israel happy at the moment but at the same time but still keep the pressure on iran but then you've got turkey saying well you have to keep helping us as well and you've got to disarm the kurds this combo will happen at once or even you suspect over a period of time. the message use is completely incoherent on the one hand the united states and top and installation talk about more push on iran views

of the nuclear issue while the main concern for the real concern is and is actually having iran too close to that goal that whether in syria and so a proxy by the isabella and even the. supply off weapon in ammunition on the huge scale to the burner so what is the message more push only on less bush or warner is around is a major threat to stability in the milk and interests or the region or we owe it is not and this what if it is waiting in those other allies in the region to a coherent message just started to form from washington on the don't find it and weave the expectations that iran actually win when president arms say it doesn't mind if you will do whatever it wants in syria that's obviously the kind of message that stays at the government and this is a further of now then comes the contradictory message of kemo sort that washington wouldn't mind the fields or would operate but if really in syria but then it's

really it's for pleasure if russia that's unhappy about it especially since the downing of the planes in september so actually what it in violence instead of clashing in its creates the the regional disability in the sense way less stable can you mention at the start of i think your first answer you talked about the disarray that the u.s. government is in at the moment where we know that do you think the u.s. can be effective internationally particularly in the middle east at this time whilst all that's going on at home. i don't think it could be effective you know potentially and administration can operate effectively even with the shutdown of government and there is a divided government between between congress led by one party and the white house by another but not this administration because it doesn't it started you toward the middle east this is a very. ministration one day it says one thing and the other it says something

differently in what if you look at what happens to the policy towards iran in syria and beyond it's very difficult to decipher what is the way forward and when the clashes with congress as we have just a few minutes earlier will continue i think. the american. in the middle east will detect it and also also our allies bosses drivers will detect that they can't rely on the on the united states and they will have to take their own steps in order to get onto the internet so it creates opportunities for them but i'm afraid if this continues in washington on no one will take in the middle east too seriously the united states drifting stuff you'll see michael berg always interesting talking to you thank you for joining us thank you very much and here's what's coming up for you on this news are taking on brazil's criminal gangs the new president sends troops to contain violence in the northeast. i'm robert

bride on the south korean island just twelve kilometers from north korea's guns where people are hoping talk of peace has silence them for good. and in sport the u.s. open champion tells herself think childish sonorously with that and the rest of us all to live life. to go back to our top story that is the u.s. . and shutdown of course now into its fifteenth day but also the increasing political talk about impeaching president donald trump we have got for us associate deputy attorney general bruce fein with us on from washington d.c. regular contributor with al-jazeera it's nice to see you bruce. let's talk about the impeachment issue it's sort of bubbled for a while it has become bigger with this video that rashid italy has put out what is

your thought what are your thoughts on the the reality here. well there certainly grounds for impeachment if we look at this standards that were employed to impeach richard nixon and william jefferson clinton the evidence with regard to obstructing the investigation of any kind of collaboration between russia and the trump campaign in two thousand and sixteen holding out the possibility of pardons perhaps to influence testimony making up the purpose of a june two thousand and sixteen meeting between trump campaign officials including is young son in russia about adoptions rather than getting dirt on hillary clinton that is there but you have a huge political calculation as well is this going to help or hurt democrats for two thousand and twenty and i think the we don't have all the evidence yet to know what the answer is

a huge element that's an imponderable is what about the mall or investigation is he going to subpoena mr trump are we going to be able to see him testify like we did bill clinton you know on videotape which could be decisive as to whether or not there's a credible case that he has attempted to undermine the even handed ministration of justice which would push i think impeachment forward not only in the house but the trial in the senate how difficult is this for someone like nancy pelosi speaker of the house highest ranking democrat she has got a bunch of new congresspeople they're young they're enthusiastic they they they want to make this happen she seems to be saying let's wait for mahler and say there's a balancing act here. then you're surely correct and part of the difficulty is that we're making political calculations to be candid miss pelosi is not really concerned whether there's an impeachable offense she's concerned whether going forward is going to impair the democrats' ability to win the two thousand and

twenty presidential election that is why when she was first house speaker in two thousand and six she said impeachment is off the table this is after the revelations that president bush and vice president cheney had been implicated in what's now known as torture waterboarding whatever she didn't want to push forward i was involved in fact and they scheduled a hearing on impeachment that was canceled because miss pelosi went to the chairman john conyers and said if you have a hearing yeah i'm going to fire you so she was very very cherry because her primary concern was capturing the white house in two thousand and eight and what she was successful barack obama did win the election and moreover in this this context however i think she has far less influence over the rank and file than she did in two thousand and six for the reasons you said you have a huge number of very young democrats they don't over there election the nancy pelosi despite her fundraising capabilities the rules were changed earlier in the week that decentralizes power out of the speaker to the various committees to have more autonomy and therefore it will be very difficult for her to control the

youthful exuberance that they feel in pushing forward on impeachment whether she wants to go there or not one more question for you person this is about the government shutdown fifteen days now i believe you slosh work through two previous shutdowns. based on previous experience do you think there is any hope of a resolution to this one any time soon. well i doubt that there is going to be a resolution soon for their primary reason that i think both the democrats and the republicans that president trump and palosi think they're gaining by standing and avoiding any kind of compromise and the reason why make that observation is that there are literally scores of compromise of proposals you could go from five billion for the sens to three billion and you could throw in some kind of relief for the children who are here that are the overstays temporary protected status diversity lottery and

a whole host of compromise situations out there and none of them are even on the table it's either take it or leave it and you know it's like ultimatums and both sides must because they're resisting compromise believe they're gaining now both answers they both can't be true but i think that for that period of time and causing the president to say we may be here for a year and the democrats not blocking into a well maybe that's going to be the case i do think we're at least for three or four or five more weeks before we can see any kind of pressure building to come up with some kind of resolution where both sides get something and some prospect is not bruce fein wants to have you with us again thank you. brazil's new president is sending troops to the northeastern states in a bid to crack down on violent gangs the military is already facing an early test after forty tourists were robbed at gunpoint in rio de janeiro warbird mammie has more. 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 cocoa vida mountain has become known for violent crimes dozens have been ambushed held hostage and dropped at gunpoint prompting tourists to think twice about visiting you know the saying i'm going to go out behind the north 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 rob forty people and it's a little bit scary as a tourist you want to be safe you want to go you don't want to miss your cell phone your wallet your camera. it's not the first incident last year the area was closed after a polish man was stabbed the trail runs close to a fan. that is home to some of the poorest in the city. many fear that it's a run by drug gangs and criminal organizations rising violence and read the janeiro

has impacted the number of visits has in two thousand and seventeen there was a reported loss of more than two hundred million dollars 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. 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 but arming civilians experts say this will only fuel further

violence laura bush man al jazeera venezuelans accuse the united states of plotting with a regional bloc to overthrow president nicolas maduro his government more than a dozen foreign ministers from latin america and canada have said they won't recognize my daughter as president if he is sworn in for a second term next week this so-called lima group says elections in may were not credible is calling for power to be transferred to the national assembly until a free vote can be held in chile at least sixty homes have been destroyed in dozens of wildfires as the central coast suffers an intense heat wave in chile sixty homes . have been destroyed you know might have read that already some of the fires yet to be contained with more than two thousand six hundred hectares burned so far the fire season there only just beginning unfortunately thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years has left one person dead and another missing even though it's now we can to a tropical depression the risk of flooding still remains for its louis reports from

coast summary in southern thailand. less than twenty four hours after it made landfall public has been downgraded to a tropical depression the province of no concept appears to have been hit hardest by the storm. but. 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. fall there is wind and rain we have children in our family so we hurried here 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. public it's 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. is what's coming up on this news hour showdown over immigration this isn't one of a strain yes largest cities. shoppers in turkey face extra charges at the two we'll tell you about that and also in sport that a sentence like it's continued to struggle in the absence of their star player.

hello again well this hour we're going to take you towards the western part of the lawn 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 every 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 for cold conditions with on chorusing about minus two as your high down here towards quaid city we do expect to see a passing shower. temperature few of twenty one degrees were here 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 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 twenty eight. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brian new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries they has been a number of reforms put in kies since the program was filmed rewind begins with mohammed at the time when i was in the i was the global the. and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded a scholarship rewind on al-jazeera al-jazeera was there when a story breaks the group's closing day to see what happens next week on the fired

by that barrier square model barricaded all seven streets that beat to hear that movies now is being all about change people have gone to hear barrier the mission of the national army sixteen times i only complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. there on the news. these are the top stories president donald trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last more than a year if he doesn't get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico he is threatening to use emergency powers to build it if

congress doesn't meet its demands u.s. national security advisers warns the government not to see the withdrawal of american troops from syria as a green light to use chemical weapons members of the minority community are pleading with the u.s. not to remove troops and the un's envoy to yemen's arrived. on a mission to convince opposing sides in the country's civil war to adhere to a fragile cease fire if it's previously helped broker the cease fire in the port city of data. dozens of people have been killed in the latest ethnic violence in the west african nation of the kenya faso seven people died when armed men attacked the village of which is made up largely of people of must see ethnicity but then the following day you're good residents retaliated by killing thirty nine people in the herding communities across the region because. the minister of interior in brick you know first 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 one hundred kilometers away from the million border where insurgency is taking place the men that were behind this attack were said to be from full on the ethnic origin the philosophies are a group of herders that struggle along all of this a hellion countries. their distinctive with their long robes and garbus the next day villagers from that area sought to get revenge and the attack to anyone that looked for lani at least forty people had been killed they went out with guns and knives and this attack comes at a time where the insurgency in this hell area is increasing back in december the armies of the five saheli in 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 d.q. a brick enough so national has been and has been behind numerous attacks in one and in the regions of brick you know fast so you know 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 and the ethnic groups but are there numerous ethnic groups that are in brick you know fast so the u.s. is sending troops to central africa over fears there may be violence when the results of the democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election is actually announced first of all our military personnel have been deployed to. see to secure diplomatic staff and u.s. citizens there of course people in d.l.c. voted last sunday and they're much delayed election to choose a successor of the president joseph kabila and the run up to the vote did see violence in fact postponing. voting was postponed in three opposition strongholds

sparking protests in eastern regions and in the last couple of hours well election officials actually said they're not expected to announce the results until next week. 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 we heard from a little bit earlier c.e.o. of the strategic consultancy innovation task force he told the u.s. is showing concerns now yet the country's always been on the edge. surprised that washington is worried right now in a country where we have one hundred forty groups of people all the time and we are in a country where we have twenty one thousand. a gentle for you when for the last

twenty years and we are not trapped sort of the impressed by what's happening right now because we're just warning because kinshasa is concerned about all the country has been troubled for all the time so i'm just worried about what's going to happen whoever something different now it's violence in the city we have violence 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 violence comes up the most exposed people are civilians and that's a very big pity and we opened with them could be done to avoid them to and we also make sure that politicians talk more than the going confrontation. speculations

mounting about a historic visit to south korea by north korea's kim jong un having relations are having a marked impact on the heavily fortified border that separates south this reporters from south korea correspondent robin wright who travel to young count island a short distance from the north korean mainland from its observation points you can clearly make out the coastline of north korea just twelve kilometers away and at times of extreme tension young pealing 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 you know until the good things should improve for better kim jong un wants to sort of. given that must feel free conciliation things will improve but the fractious history of into korean relations makes others more cautious talking. with their track record and it'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 chain didn't 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 and could eventually become part of a bygone era rob mcbride al-jazeera young people island south korea five teenage girls have died in a fire at a games center in northern poland it's believed the fifteen year olds were celebrating a birthday in what is known as an escape for and this is where players are locked in a room and have to solve clues in order to get out safety checks have been ordered at one thousand such brains across poland. the orthodox church of ukraine is split from its religious leadership in russia their chemical patriarch in istanbul which

is their churches worldwide had signed a document granting its independence the russian church is said to have broken all links now with its ukrainian parish is more from rob matheson. with a simple sweep of the pan ukraine's orthodox churches gain their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate russian religious leaders and deepening of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author talks church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an

agreement made two centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia. but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to sever ties since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen when large parts of eastern ukraine were taken over by russian backed forces and where fighting continues. crean's leadership headed by president petro poroshenko who's been attending saturday's ceremony accuses the russian controlled side of the church of spreading pro moscow propaganda a charge russia denies if you feed into the you dear ukrainians this is stark a feat this is a great day i'm sure that it will go down in history for river. the document authorizing the separation known as the thomas will be taken back to train on

sunday the author talks christmas scene a celebration is to be held in kiev the following day a celebration the church as leaders in russia may not share but modest odyssey. thousands of anti-government protesters are back on the streets of hungary calling for an end to the new labor laws the ones which are allow employees to demand up to four hundred hours of overtime the year opposition groups union workers students that will pledge to make twenty nine team the year of resistance protesters also angry over the changes to the country's judiciary which they say could threaten the independence of judges more from al-jazeera. in budapest. a few thousands of people took to streets of look at this today protesting against so-called slave law or do over time act that was passed in the hunt gary in parliament last month they're criticizing that law they're saying that this law people in hungary were even six days per week in this overtime.

two hundred fifty overtime hours are put on up to four hundred overtime hours for year workers can refuse to work overtime but the unions are saying that some of the workers will get fired if they refuse this overtime eggs or refuse to work overtime hours this it protests are organized by the united states' position from the far right to the far left they're all united in this protest and they are calling de year two thousand and ninety a day year of the resistance against the regime of viktor orban. has been a huge police presence on the streets of melbourne australia result for says move to break up competing rallies for right nationalist. we're protesting against a youth crime problem which they blame on people of african descent this report

from gatineau that 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 a left wing groups hurling insults across the police line with a very different use of the kind of a stray lia in which they wish to live and immigration nationalists say they came out to protest against crime on the beaches which they blame on a stray leons of african descent ok doing the wrong thing and the stealing of forever hurt me all over we want to buy just but we want to draw back we want the lot 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 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 park kathy novak al jazeera melbourne sport coming up on the news with sana in asia's biggest international football tournament as big. in the get out of the arab emirates that in the rest of the sport.

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