christopher hill thank you sir. yes president on a visit the mexican border on thursday internet attempt to pressure democratic opponents and congress to end the partial government shutdown before heading south he will address the nation on immigration and the border on tuesday is demanding more than five billion dollars to build a wall with mexico something democrats strongly oppose trump is threatening to use emergency powers to get it built the dispute over the funding has led to a partial government shutdown much as lasted seventeen days if not every time president trump throws a tantrum and demands he get his way unless the government will be shut down it will create disaster a little courage his worst instincts which are bad enough now in march we have the debt ceiling coming up people you know people go along with this. you know nasty way of governing imagine little happen when the debt ceiling occurs

imagine little happened when the march budget occurs the government will own ravel further than it has about eight hundred thousand federal workers are affected by this shutdown half of them are on leave without pay and the others are working without compensation john hendren met some of them in chicago. from where frank laguna stands which for the past couple weeks has been at home the forecast for workers employed by the us government is gloomier than ever some will be paying their mortgages some will be paying their car payments some will be paying their credit cards as a furloughed chemist for the environmental protection agency responsible for overseeing the cleanup of some of the most toxic waste sites in the country he has been deemed a nonessential worker also non-essential it seems is the environment well there's nobody. there to safeguard current regulations and oversee any potential environmental damage so there's a violation of e.p.a.

laws there's no one there to have you know enforce current law repeated shutdowns have led to a brain drain over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown chicago and it's normally bustling but today is a usually quiet and on friday many workers will be missing their first paycheck of the year across the u.s. about eight hundred thousand federal workers who are in forty three thousand dollars a year on average are either working without pay or not working at all from national parks to the farm service agency. to the alcohol tax and trade bureau which has stopped approving labels for new beer and wine. among those federal employees is sam kitchen a correctional officer at chicago's federal prison home to some of the nation's most dangerous inmates here drug runner murder. but he's not staying home

he's considered an essential worker he's just not getting paid to do we pay our mortgage to repair house payments the judge is going to say if i can't pay my child support i do it necessary job thankless job. what a job that the public expects us to do now we expect our elected officials to do what they are elected to do now they want to walk around and say ok we're not going to pay you how about they cut their pay and donate it to some federal employees so they could get paid for now he thousands of other federal employees wait for the president who donates his salary to charity and members of congress who are giving their paychecks without pause to break the impasse and fund the government john hendren zero chicago. president says his government's approach to cracking down on fuel theft is working despite fuel shortages which of anger motorists present

understand well average or who took office five weeks ago about to stop billions of dollars and petrol theft against an oil workers tankers that is are now being used to move the fuel instead of vulnerable pipelines but that lead to shortages at the petrol pumps but it's a changing the whole distribution system that's why shortages have appeared in some places but it's approaching because we're dedicated to making sure that any progress with fuel shortages is that i could tell my seconds that we have enough fuel that the truth is that we were already seeing positive results that we have a reduction in fifty has never been achieved before so we're going to keep moving forward more than a million x. felons are expected to regain their voting rights in florida on tuesday amendment four as it's known was on the ballot during november as a mentor in elections almost two thirds of voters supported the measure passed with an overwhelming majority of sixty four percent x. felons were previously disenfranchised under state law those convicted of murder or

sexual offenses will still be unable to register to vote. designate as president of the florida rights restoration coalition he says the change represents and they have towards a more inclusive democracy. what we were thinking about was that we wanted to place people alex excess number one but number two i think what we looked at was that people from all walks of life can look at persuasiveness impact and so what took on a great the president was not how he was going to a party but rather how i was going to impact the person because what we were talking about here and what we're still talking my people you know well every day since it's up the state of this country you know people who made mistakes and were made to suffer at some point you know even after pain and and so it really was people over politics and what we were most concerned about was not how someone voted you know we used to say that we were fighting for justice heart but that

person that wanted to vote for bank of trump that that person that was you could have all the folk rock obama who could we believe that every american citizen no matter how they think no matter what their political persuasion maybe this serves an opportunity to have the importance that is what a more inclusive democracy is all about. still ahead on al-jazeera and especially our marks a step forward in iraq iran and spite point holiday. and in support india's cricket team celebrates a historic test series win. hello again it's good to have you back we're here cross united states were watching one system make its way towards the eastern seaboard this is the clouds right here the system is moving quite quickly most that would snow across the great lakes rain

down here towards the south but by the time we get to tuesday most of the weather will be out here across the atlantic but still across the canadian maritimes we could still be seeing quite a bit of snow activity there out here towards the west a much different story we're going to see a big storm system coming in off the pacific and that is going to bring a combination of snow winds and rain and that means we're also going to see some flooding and mudslides across much of the area anywhere from british columbia all the way down towards him for cisco here on tuesday the storm makes its way in simpson's go on tuesday and into wednesday the rain is going to be on the increase los angeles you'll be seeing a mostly cloudy day for you at about one thousand degrees there well here across the caribbean we are looking at mostly dry conditions down towards the south and the east yes and some showers here across parts of cuba the cayman islands over towards cozumel as well over the next few days the rain is going to continue across much of the yucatan down towards guatemala twenty two degree day few managua about thirty three here on tuesday but as we go towards wednesday it will be a nice day in mexico city partly cloudy at twenty one and vanna

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documentaries. and live news on air and online. watching out to syria let's recap the top stories for you government says it has crushed an attempted coup by a group of soldiers two of the alleged plotters were shot dead and five others were arrested for trying to overthrow president ali bongo he's been out of the country since oct of supportively receiving medical treatment in morocco. because president says his strategy for syria can achieve long term peace and stability in an opinion

piece in the new york times wrote to tyburn upon also praised president trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria chinese state media say north korean leader kim jong un is in beijing to meet with president xi jinping he visited the country three times last year china's four korea's main diplomatic ally and focus on pyongyang's plans to improve relations with south korea. one of the most senior catholic clerics involved in a sexual abuse scandal and france has gone on trial hartnell fully barberin that is the archbishop of leon is accused of helping to cover up abuse or such a party has more. sixty eight year old cardinal food. one of the most prominent catholic figures in france arrived for the start of his court proceedings the archbishop of leon is accused of helping to cover up abuse in one of his parishes five others from his diocese are also facing charges. the case is about father bernard print on who has acknowledged abusing boys and is set to be tried later

this year more than eighty five people say he abused them during the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. his alleged victims came to court hoping for answers but. the cardinal is responsible for the diocese and in two thousand and thirteen he promoted a priest as dean who some years before had admitted to having abused children when you were responsible for a person who has admitted to having abused and raped children to promote his deen and thus putting him in contact with many more believers and children is simply irresponsible in the most awful i think that at last we will know to truth about the mechanism of silence and i think that the three days away for us to have real answers as you know how it was possible for a sexual predator to remain in this position for fifty years of responsibilities without being a single question. cardinal faces up to three years in prison and a fine of fifty four thousand dollars if convicted of failing to report the abuse of minors he denies the allegations. there have been numerous cases of sexual abuse

of children within the roman catholic church. and pope francis has reiterated the church's commitment to preventing such crimes. she. can't refrain from speaking about one of the plagues of our time which sadly has involved some members of the clergy the abuse of minors as one of the violence to most heinous crimes conceivable such abuse and absorbedly sweeps away the best of what human life holds out for innocent children and causes a reparable and lifelong damage the holy see in the church as a whole are working to combat and prevent these crimes and their concealment in. this case will likely hinge on whether cardinal barbour should have reported a priest under his responsibility to police once he learned about the allegations against him for now the cardinal will have to answer some very hard questions in this courtroom in the days ahead dorsett jabari al-jazeera. france plans to

introduce new legislation to tackle unofficial demonstrations according to the prime minister at war it's in response to the ongoing yellow vests protests across france that started when november and have often turned violent prime minister told french television that the right to demonstrate should be preserved but that people who break the law must be sanctioned their pay and commission has again said there will be no renegotiation of the brics a deal that was agreed to with british government with just twelve weeks to go until the u.k. leaves the e.u. commission president juncker says negotiations are over as prime minister trace a maze expected to put the deal to a vote of parliament next week she's put off at the center of it after facing opposition from many m.p.'s and her own party. will be setting out measures which will be specific to northern ireland will be setting out proposals for a greater role for parliament as we move into the next stage of the negotiations and we're continuing to work on further assurances on further undertakings from the

european union in relation to the concern that's been expressed by parliamentarians dozens of trucks have taken part in an exercise in southeast angle and has plans to deal with long queues at the port of dover if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal the government says it needs to prepare for all eventually allergies with some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues once and customs check out from kent jonah hall has this report. in the dawn light a traffic jam emerges a convoy of trucks simulating the long queues for customs checks at britain's ports following a no deal brinks if. this was a live exercise operation broke the government's plan to ease congestion on major southbound routes by diverting trucks to the disused manston airfield from there forming an orderly procession through the kent countryside on smaller roads to dover port the contingency plan or traffic management measures the department of

transport described it was given another label by one of the drivers involved having is a last minute thing because there was enough loser for the stock and he just wasn't tough it is a bit far off. to prove what. i get a lot to do in something. that's only as a reward but it will be done nothing like the money not even the local m.p. from the governing conservative party was particularly impressed i welcomed the both the transport ramping up wrecks it preparations but this trial is on the road to smaller scale it's just about one hundred lorries when they're out ten thousand lorries come to the channel ports every single day this isn't the right routing the better thing is to use. it's an airfield. it's estimated queues for customs checks at dover in the event of a no deal briggs it will stretch more than forty kilometers involving thousands of vehicles and taking many hours to resolve it wasn't immediately clear what this

exercise involving just eighty nine trucks was designed to demonstrate a cynic might suggest that all this is political theater part of the government's last ditch efforts to convince doubting employees that tourism a's brings a deal that they'll be voting on next week is better than the chaos of a no deal exit from the european union where this live test did succeed was in showing off the very last minute nature of the government's no deal planning and it served as a timely reminder of the vexed state of british politics then they're going to agree they don't agree on anything so they know the lady was one thing conservative woman was once a doctor is is never the never going to be one thing said it was going to be a thought. beyond the relatively clear roads and a largely traffic free dover port on the first working day for many of the new year were misleading only

a hardy few expect no deal to be an easy ride jonah al-jazeera southeast england had a brazil's environmental protection organization bama has resigned after the new president terrible sorrow criticized the agency's spending us and our has frequently criticized organization which is responsible for protecting the amazon rain forest and a right wing president has also announced that the funding of nongovernmental organizations will be rigidly controlled. the prime minister of bangladesh has been sworn in again after winning a third consecutive term in office summer's election saw shaken has seen his party when more than ninety five percent of seats in parliament the opposition accuse the government of rigging the results and called the farcical tunbridge pottery has the latest for us from dhaka. takes over for time as prime minister of bangladesh she has a new cabinet at least forty seven ministers dipped a minister and state minister a lot of new faces thirty one so to speak

a lot of the old gods are gone but a lot of challenges ahead our campaign was on economics she faces very high unemployment and there are issues like garment labor wages that are also way growing. and that's a major challenge for the government and also to tackle the opposition which are demanding a new election however we'll have to see how this new cabinet performs as for the opposition there right now staying off the street in fear of arrest and detention of other active in the diplomatic front yesterday that a meeting with thirty diplomats what they say was that presented them with video and documentary evidence of vote rigging and violence we'll see how things process but they have to mobilize in order to make any impact in coming days. as a dent in its democratic process in this election and they'll be consigned for stability in coming years celebrations have been held in cambodia to mark forty

years since the fall of the brutal crime rouge regime around two million people were killed under their rule and were a seventh is known as victory over genocide they are simply nation day scott hi-lo reports from phnom penh. cambodia and father and son reflecting on the darkest of times for this nation as it marks forty years since the fall of the camaro rouge seen by many here as a rebirth for the country. at sixty eight oatley is lucky during the four years the camero rouge ruled cambodia from one thousand nine hundred five to seventy nine almost one in five people died that's nearly two million from either execution starvation or disease lisa says he still has samas to feed his family and was tortured when he was caught. and i am thankful for what happened and you know others have been it's a baby and my family from starvation. but at least the i don't feel that we had the

freedom from the floor and we lost that authority to the vietnamese but some feel that regardless of the deep emotional and physical scars from the camaro rouge regime those four years need to be remembered through education and memorials like at one of the infamous killing fields just outside penn and it's only part of life so it's. very hard even though you want to change but we cannot change so in that it would be need to. transform. almost seventy percent of cambodia population is under the age of thirty born at least ten years after the fall of the camaro rouge now most of them feel as though this country is dark period it shouldn't and cannot be forgotten but that the government and the nation must not dwell on the past leeson any met was born after the camaro rouge regime he now has a son all three generations are hoping for more on the. congo and i know

i make an effort today for the next generation with my son to help them have much more than i did try not to compare things in the past too much because even in my time things have changed so much. the only surviving senior camaro rouge leaders were found guilty of genocide just two months ago by war crimes tribunals. while the brutal regime came to an end thanks to a vietnamese led invasion the government underlines the need for independence. forty years ago was a mistake for an independent and it was a mistake a cold war so that's why to prevent to have. a new young state i think so going to be and dignity and independent is a must and it's a cambodian tradition to release birds to shed bad luck as the people here feel lucky the chapter of oppression and genocide is behind them and many still are hoping for more more freedom and more opportunity scott either al jazeera phnom

penh. the rights of women in iraq have come under the spotlight as they take on their roles and society but activists say there is a long way to go before women are treated equally around counterparts in baghdad. it's been fifteen years but finally the iraqi women's wrestling team is back on the mat. the team like many other sports teams was disbanded after the u.s. led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three but much more than that it's part of a wave of women taking bigger roles in iraq and society but unfortunately our society does not accept women sports but many iraqi women are defying these restrictions and adamant to bring achievements to iraq by raising its flag by women in international tournaments and it's not just in sports in southern iraq a former ambassador wants to revolutionize the farming industry. she's aiming to

grow tomatoes and other vegetables in greenhouses without fertilizes in other words to be completely organic. as a woman i took up the responsibility to cultivate my lens and aim to achieve progress as a female farmer i want to break up stereotypes and restrictions on women in tribal society and will support the role of female farmers. rights activists are increasingly hopeful that things are changing for iraqi women but they still feel those in charge are resisting the change the talent is that we are facing that woman. is that there is no. one among the. women but suppose woman equality this is one of the nor the hindrance of all men progress in iraq women make up twenty five percent of iraq's parliament they come from across the political spectrum and it's in shrine and in law rights activists say that is crucial and they're hoping that women will play an increasingly larger role in iraq

their own car. coming up and sport a day to forget for kazakhstan's goalkeeper as his country makes its first ever asian cup appearance.

time for sport with andy. thank you very much well the highest ranked team at the asian cup of made a winning start so that sort of meant three time champions iran with two strong for yemen in that group open up this game in abu dhabi finished five nil to iran yemen

all the lowest rates in this year's event and they were also making that for them and. iran they are looking good in their efforts to win this title for the first time since nineteen seventy six vietnam and iraq of the other teams in this group and they play each other on choose day twenty fifteen runners of south korea struggle to overcome the philippines another team making that solomon managed by former england ivory coast and mexico boston ericsson the philippines had less than twenty percent possession but still had chances to pull off a huge upsets south korea eventually got the breakthrough they needed in the second half our new jar with the go top names some here in maine will join up with the squad for the final group game. in the philippines just one of that seems to benefit from this tournament being expanded from sixteen competing nations to include twenty four countries fans in the capital manila getting the chance to see that same compete at this level for the first time. koreas really you know

technically they're so good that they can lead this so good they're always going to have more possession than us. but we were defended we defended so well we had two really good chances from avi but the and just so close to almost getting a point there. also in group c. china came from a goal down city kurdistan the third seen in action this monday making their agent that coke a stand of almighty ahead a day to forget an ally in the scored an own goal there for china's equalizer and another misjudgement chance to grab a seat in china for improve on their run to the quarterfinals four years ago. premier league leaders liverpool have been knocked out of the f.a. cup by walls liverpool made nine changes to the starting line up and walls took full advantage in this third round game winning c one thanks to goals from him innocent rubin never has india's cricketers are celebrating a famous victory vera kohli same have won

a test series in australia for the very first time the fourth test in sydney finished in a draw and that meant india took the series two one no australian scored a century during the series while india managed five it's an achievement the saluted india since their first sort of australia seven years ago. i. india team came to show their fans they got all the moves off the field as well the national team has failed in eleven previous attempts to win a series in australia and this win underlining the status of the world's number one team. we understood as a team we are on the right track but the fact that the reward has come in the most historic cities for indian cricket is you know a cherry on top of the cake and something that as i said in the ten years that i played is the proudest moment that i have experienced and it was so happy for the whole team because it's a young bunch of guys in to have that belief and to keep striving for excellence on

a daily basis and to get a reward like this. we definitely have to be happy. stood up in in the big moments when our falling on a guy one of the good guys dragged him back into the contest in front. put the foot on us and took us out of the game like they did here in melbourne. but we can learn a lot from the why they went about it we're going to make sure we do now compared it says a big dakar rally it's taking on one of the toughest courses in the history of the rice the route will take drivers and riders through the peruvian desert and this year there's a little respite in the way of mountains mud or dirt tracks in a sanchez reports. a list look at the vehicles and their drivers the toughest race in the world is gone with five hundred forty one competitors and three hundred thirty four counts. traditionally held in northern africa this year the latin american country of peru is the venue for the forty one year old rally

it's since ninth dakar he says he's made it to the finish line nearly every time now he says he'll need to be very focused but that usage will be a very difficult even though it's a few a day i think it will be very tough and several of us already know peru and we already know how difficult it is among the competitors one hundred thirty five rookies who don't know what's it like to race in one of them dutch pilot was sleep it and says he's trained for two years we go from the motor was riding in the riding you know you have to learn navigation and writing together and that's big a big thing because you're writing. best for navigation. this one country rally will be special the largest group of women seventeen are racing in various categories and for the first time a young man with down syndrome you can run will compete next to his father all the

way from all the particularly challenging those pilots in the first half. evolved to be good to me. john i did not mean apparel love not because of what. nearly three thousand people will support a diverse mix of vehicles along the way others will be their own mechanics because it is such a hard rally for many competitors the objective is not to win but to reach the finish line imo. we have to encourage the drivers and wish them well. many peruvians are thrilled the five thousand kilometer race begins and ends in lima with that in the end what good ways by the way could be held anywhere but having the race improve is wonderful because we have cultural traditions and history to show the world. although many critics say the dakar ruins the cultural heritage for others the rally is an inspiration. and for groovy and

a chance to showcase what their country has to offer and innocent just want to see that. the charges have advanced to the n.f.l. for. so many different ways and there's a collective team went to a great opponent and defending super bowl champions the philadelphia eagles just made it through against the chicago bears missed a last minute field goal attempt as the game finished sixteen fifteen to the goals it was a crazy game and that's a tremendous team. you know play here this is a crazy place to play and you know our difference here i mean jack and i really you know the first half there's you know we should remember fans are streaming to think impacts and there you know yesterday it was really just still play the play it was just a few games manage ok that is why sport is looking for more lights out. that's all for me for the news hour keep it here i'll be back on at the start of the break for the day's news.

in a full top series a russian filmmaker travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin many russians bukit timah somebody with a difficult job to do rather than an authoritarian leader with imperial ambitions and many critics of putting a equally critical of the west meeting with russians from across the political spectrum under a neck wrestle discovers a complex attitude towards that country's leader and his policies in search of pigeons russia the now jazeera.

al-jazeera. where ever you are. in news year new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport for people in power travels to agadez to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pocket on the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they're from you know this is more going on one bottle of white not one not gold not yet. europe migration on a zero. to

. the little. military coup attempt failed single bomb with two of the suspect the plotters killed and five others are arrested.