he gets this five point seven billion dollars for a wall as you also mentioned he may make a make a pledge to the american people about bypassing congress and then invoking this these emergency powers but something like that would probably get blocked by the courts now so far about half of the u.s. networks have said they will carry his address tuesday night and the other half still haven't said what they're going to do so as you said this is the third week of the government shutdown what is the level of frustration for most americans right now it really does seem like frustration is building if you're a federal worker of course you're not getting paid but beyond that if you are a traveler and you're flying through an airport security lines are starting to build there were anecdotal reports today that at some airports people that were waiting to go through security through those screeners were having to wait up to ninety minutes garbage is piling up at national parks and monuments and then if you

or i. buy or a new homebuyer and you apply for a government backed mortgage that could be delayed so the level of frustration is increasing and that could be why the president is going before the american public tomorrow night maybe laying all of this at the feet of congress ok an estimate for us in washington thank you about eight hundred thousand federal workers are affected by that shutdown half of them on leave without pay the others are working without compensation for 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 law and 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 unusually 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 are 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 of us to do now we expect our elected officials to do what they are elected to do now they're want to walk around and say ok we're not going to pay you they cut their pay and donated 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 the president of the world bank has abruptly resigned three years before his term was due to expire jim yong kim says he will stand down from the global lending body next month and the reason was given for his resignation he has had differences with the u.s. president donald trump over climate change and the need for more development resources austins controlling share of voting rights at the bank will give prompt considerable influence in choosing a successor. a month government says it's retain control after an attempt to overthrow president. who is undergoing medical treatment and morocco soldiers took over the state radio station and andre that security forces stormed the building and killed two of them arresting the co-leader and four others alleged to have been involved. lieutenant calley from the presidential

guards erst into the national radio and television center calling for a popular uprising against yvonne's president ali bungalows soon as. the eagerly awaited day has arrived when the army has decided to put itself on the side of the people in order to save him from chaos if you're eating stop if you're having a drink stop if you're sleeping wake up wake up your neighbors rise up as one and take control of the street. outside gunshots electricity in the internet are shut down as get any special forces stormed the building in a statement the government spokesman says calm has returned the situation is under control the african union in france which maintains nine hundred troops in the country have condemned the attempted coup president goes in morocco seeking treatment after suffering a stroke last october in his it new year's address to the nation he appeared frail at times slurring his words. over power in two thousand and nine after the death of

his father who had ruled the country for forty one years. during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the bongo dentist he was challenged. opposition leader jumping to claim victory but the constitutional court ruled in favor of congo in an interview with al jazeera after the court's ruling he said he was accountable to the people was the good of equal chance you know giving really every guy when he has a chance to really make it i'm not the i'm mad the candidate you know or to restore privileges and yet high unemployment and a sluggish economy heavily reliant on. exports have made life more difficult and costly many young people are now calling for change seeing their leader as absent and distant everything is crisis education health care and everything so the young people want to do something about it. armed vehicles are now patrolling the streets of the capital the movie but with this latest coup attempt the bongo did is to hold

on power seems fragile and uncertain because hawk al-jazeera. preparing for a no deal departure from the european union airfield turned into a giant truck stop a mission of britain and join a hole in southeast england. plus pressure at the pump in mexico all tell you i feel short supply in several states. and in sport and he is pretty tame celebrates a historic test series went. by the sky nine if you. are off the coast of the italian riviera. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast we're here across china the rain in the clouds are on their increase over the next few days that's

all stemming to the old tropical system that we had down here across the bay of bengal now a lot of that rain is going to start to make its way towards the northeast and some of these locations could be seeing some very heavy rain which means localized flooding could be a problem here's your forecast map on tuesday down towards another part of vietnam you'll also see the rain and that's going to start to extend more towards parts of hanoi as we go towards wednesday so a very rainy day here with a temperature of eighteen degrees as we go towards wednesday and into the northeast it is going to start to rain in shanghai as well attempt to there of about seven but for hong kong not looking too bad the rain will be out of the picture for you at twenty degrees well bangkok is looking quite nice over the next few days and most of thailand is as well all the rain has pushed over here towards much of the west you can see a lot more clear skies across the area as you take a look the forecast map here on tuesday bangkok a thirty degree day for you there over towards manila we're looking at partly cloudy conditions at twenty nine maybe about twenty eight as we go towards wednesday but no real rain in the forecast there and then very quickly across parts

of india things looking quite nice across the north as well as a cell with attempt efforts night of about twenty nine degrees there. the weather sponsored by cats on race. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secretly plucked the new board. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. ocean is monocular on a zero. own

juice you. will enjoy. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now chinese state media say north korean leader kim jong il is and beijing to meet with president xi jinping china's north korea's main diplomatic ally the trop the trip rather could focus on pyongyang's efforts to improve relations with south korea. because president has praised donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria but he says the withdrawal must be planned carefully in an

opinion piece in the new york times article type of onset his strategy for syria can achieve long term peace and stability. and all trump will visit the mexican border on thursday in an attempt to pressure democratic opponents in congress to end the partial government shutdown is demanding more than five billion dollars to build a wall with mexico which the democrats strongly oppose. dozens of trucks have taken part in an exercise in southeast england testing plans to deal with long queues at the port of dover if he crashes out of the e.u. with new deal the government says it needs to prepare for all of ensure ality is what some experts predicting forty five kilometer queues once new customs checks come in from kent 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 brink's it. 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 it was in the floors of the stock and it just was itself it is a bit of fun. to prove what. i get a lot to do in something. that's only as it was but it will be done nothing like money not even the local m.p. from the governing conservative party was particularly impressed i welcomed the part of the transport ramping up rex it preparations for this trial. just about one hundred lorries when that ten thousand lorries come to the port every single day

this isn't the right routine the better thing is to use. 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 m.p.'s the tories amaze 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. 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 when

the office once a mom says is never they never going to agree one thing said it was going to be a thought. beyond the relatively clear roads and a largely traffic free dove a 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 british politicians opposed to well began launching a fight back on tuesday or than two hundred are calling on the prime minister to ensure a note that cannot happen parliamentary vote is plan which could force a second referendum trying pressure on the later of the main opposition party. back a rethink on leaving it all and speaking to labor party activists trade by their own leadership. the billionaires who live in the elegant streets of this palace of south london would you might think rob the give their children's christmas presents

away then support the labor party scene as the most left wing for generations yes in local elections last year labor took this area from the conservatives it was based on a simple promise stop the government's brix it but labor acts of his here have been left unclear if that is actually what the policy wants and it still comes out one of things that we regulate here we campaign and we do campaign regular here is the people who live in dodge village ward or almost unanimously opposed to break through and their offspring for leadership from the labor party on breaks it. a few kilometers north in the same bara it's an entirely different demographic in a london racially diverse often impoverished that just as worried about bricks it is the rich people down the road just isn't sure where the labor is on this. i think they should be unequivocal in saying where we support you we want you in this country we value the contribution that you've made to our communities and not

simply saying that but proving it to them by saying you know what it is not something that the labor party wants to be associated with. the vast majority of labor party members regard bracks it is a national disaster and criticizing party leader jeremy corbin is a sacrilege it could be himself has a preferred policy of leaving the european union and its tearing the labor policy polls the labor leadership fears the wrath of the traditional whites working class whose anti european views underpin the levites if it supports staying in the e.u. and they cannot square the circle poland's appears deadlocked yet remain supporters keep pointing out that the labor party leadership shifted position and supported staying in the european union and almost certainly they would be a parliamentary majority for no breakfast at all in any shape or form yet standing in the way of that is jeremy corbin's long held your skepticism his belief that the

european union is a block on workers' rights with bricks it now coming to a head many labor m.p.'s are involved in parliamentary maneuvers to stop both the no deal and potentially force a second referendum to try to block the entire projects if the u.k. does end up leaving the european union and expects a raft of resignations by labor m.p.'s in the exodus who say jeremy cole been promised to listen to the views of his membership and is now bent on ignoring them could end up destroying corbin's hopes of becoming prime minister lawrence li al jazeera london. france is planning new legislation to tackle unofficial. it's a response to the ongoing yellow vest protest across france that started many november and often turn violent the prime minister told french media the right to demonstrate should be preserved people who break the law. several mexican states are facing shortages at gas stations after a government crackdown on fuel theft on lyons have formed

a petrol pumps in mexico's second city hora and the government says the disruption will continue as it seeks new ways to criminal gangs alan fischer reports. the say there's no shortage of petrol but that's little comfort to motorists caught in the growing lines across central mexico the state all farm pemex is changing distribution methods to be criminal gangs they've been tapping into pipelines stealing thousands of barrels of petrol it a time that inflicts steep losses for the company and the country the changes mean some places a struggling to keep their tanks food one of the washed affected mexico's second city quite a lot of love out of there it's really bad because we already went to silver stations but we didn't find any gasoline it's been three days already there's all this us that are it's a disaster everywhere to disaster i've been to two gas stations and they don't have anything look at this where else do we have to go if there isn't anything here where else do you go. mexico's new president says he's no idea how long people will

face shortages that the truth is that we're already seeing positive results we have a reduction in fair that has never been achieved before so we're going to keep moving forward pemex says about seven billion dollars in fuel has been siphoned off since twenty sixteen alone the president has ordered the military to start securing key installations while the company is changing distribution to use more tankers and fewer pipelines that are easily targeted alan fischer al-jazeera said and says it's arrested more than eight hundred protesters sense anti-government demonstrations began almost three weeks ago authorities say at least nineteen people have been killed in clashes but amnesty international that's that number much higher and some journalists covering the protests have suffered and temptation and violence are partow here morgan has this report. when she was told to cover anti-government protests for her newspaper robin knew it would not be an easy assignment she'd heard of arrests in previous protests but didn't expect it to be

her turn and just for carrying out her work. i went to cover the protests when a pickup truck came and fired a protest has people fled in different directions i ran into a hospital tear gas was fired into the building mosques men came in and started threatening people and when they found out i was a journalist they arrested me along with the others they were beating people they arrested with battens as they took us to the station. protest in sudan started in december with a bread price rises and closure and within two days they take into anti-government demonstrations with people demanding the president wanted to she will step down to twenty nine years in power the protests spread nationwide and some social media platforms are blocked workers from various sectors went on strike many were arrested for saying they wanted a change in government. we were holding our posters and had barely come out of the university compound when men in pickup trucks came and

started beating us and told us to get in the pickup they took us to the station and started humiliating us and calling us names. the protests are now in their third week with more to come in the days ahead sudan's government says eight hundred sixteen people have been arrested since the protests began but opposition groups and activists that number is well over a thousand the opposition also says security forces are intimidating people and. the demonstrations from spreading the government says nineteen people were killed in the protests but amnesty international says the number was nearly forty in the first week uloom the head of the police says his forces did nothing wrong. with. the incidents and. those who want to destroy and loot and those who have alternative agendas for used weapons and burned institutions and instigated people to protest against the nation. the protesters with the highest level of

professionalism and self restraint. they will continue to protest against president bush. the government says it will remain in power more lives are expected to be lost and even more are expected to be arrested as the two sides remain defiant people morgan zero. that a brazil's environmental protection organization has resigned after a new president. criticized the spending also has frequently criticized obama which is responsible for protecting the amazon rain forest the new right wing president has also announced that the funding of non-governmental organizations will be rigidly controlled. says it's pulling out of an anti-corruption commission nine months earlier than expected back adi has been investigating top government officials and the family of president. last year he decided not to renew its mandate and this week refused to allow the head of the commission back into water mala or alice says it's interfering with the country's internal affairs. the prime

minister. sworn in again after winning a third consecutive term in office this summer selection is seen as a party when more than ninety five percent of the seats in parliament the opposition accuse the government of rigging the result and called the vote. skin whitening creams are being seized from shelves and as the government forces a ban on the products sales in african countries are worth billions every year but many fear the ban in rwanda will encourage customers to buy on regulated products which could put women's health at risk or borne mainly reports. i've been preparing anoint she says will make her more attractive to her husband who prefers light skinned women. but she's concerned that a government crackdown on the creams will impact on her beauty routine and her identity. if i don't have these products i'm afraid o.

become too dark like i used to be i still have a few products left but i hate the thought of becoming darker. the government introduce a ban on skin whitening products november and since then they've seized thousands of bottles from shop shelves. putting my chief was. getting a few. in november president paul kagame and tweeted that the koreans were unhealthy and should be reined in quickly his concern is backed up by the world health organization which banned the creams active ingredients hydro quinn and the mercury in two thousand and one it says the chemicals could lead to kidney or liver failure skin cancer and the formation of dark skin packages known as hyperpigmentation but many ignore the warnings across african nation skin whitening is a lucrative business worth billions and an estimated four in every ten african women bleach their skin and rwanda's capital there are mixed reactions.

sometimes they have such a drastic effect on the skin that you can meet someone you know and not even recognize them it's a good development. i'm very sad that these products have been banned we'll just have to use what is locally available but the people who made that decision need to know that these products make women feel beautiful. despite widespread popularity other african countries including kenya ghana and south africa have also banned the creams but unregulated versions are easily available to buy illegally on the internet this could become dangerous for people like our mana who are not ready to give up the notion that lighter skin is more beautiful nor about a manly al-jazeera. gray says asking it set a sense to contribute some of their own money so it can buy new warships and they

may have to look abroad for funding. greece's thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limited reserves i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still

owes the government money if you give us no i won't contribute the country has much bigger priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind the european union is a real union it will help with our defense complicating matters to former defense ministers are now in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs that enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this in one thousand the george a virtual ball the name of its benefactor and helped greece defeat the ottoman empire. second time. in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to

extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered well supposedly one of the reasons for the greek fleet wants to update last. words is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to. actually becoming for what they call green water navy blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek shipping as a constantly helping the armed forces but renewal costs many billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family. farms. goalkeeper country. parents.

in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word algebra were going to the limits of modern technology forty percent faster than the speed of sound they gave us the final building block to find they discovered it mediæval towards is a. science from a golden marriage with jim. on al-jazeera.

the time for sport with andy. thank you very much well the highest ranked team in the asian cup of made a winning start so that sort of meant three time champions iran with two strong for yemen in their group open up this game in abu dhabi finished five nil to iran yemen are the lowest rated side at 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 are the other teams in this group and they play each other on choose day twenty fifteen run as south korea struggle to overcome the philippines another team making that solomon managed by former england ivory coast and mexico bostonian eriksson the philippines had less than twenty percent possession but still had chances to pull off a huge upset south korea eventually got the breakthrough they needed in the second half or new jar with the go tottenham's son here in maine will join up with the

school for their final group game. in the philippines just one of the seams 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 team compete at this level for the first time. koreas really you know technically they're so good tactically they're 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 harvey 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 same action as monday night and the agent of the coca stand of almighty ahead a day to forget an ally in the scored an own goal there for china's equalizer and another misjudgement private suit will bring china out 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 a lesson rooted never has india's cricketers are celebrating a famous victory vera kohli's team of want to 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 to 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 seventy years ago. i. india team came to show their fans they got all the moves off the field as well the national team's failed in eleven previous attempts to win a series in australia and this win underlining the status of the world's number one saying. 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 and 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. they've stood up in in the big moments all when our falling on a guy one of the good guys drag them back into the contest or when they're in front of a good prize put the foot on us and took us out of the game like they did here in melbourne sydney 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 that they dakar rally it's taking on one of the toughest courses in the history of the rice the root drivers and riders through the peruvian desert and this year there's a little respite in the way of mountains mud or dirt tracks marianna 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 cons. to additionally held in northern africa this year the latin american country of proof is the venue for the forty one year old rally it's on since ninth he says he's made.