u.n. body that deals with palestinian refugees of course trump announces he would be slashing its funding while julie jordan posts around two million palestinians it is hugely dependent on those funds it has schools it has health care systems here as well so this is something and also of course the palestinian israeli conflict is going to be addressed this deal of the century that is now delayed again that trump has been talking about for almost a year now of the details of that very very under wraps everyone involved so these are all the things on the table but i think also maybe as you mentioned they're trying to restore some kind of confidence because of the mixed messages and almost a chaotic message coming out of this administration so there will be a press conference in the foreign ministry in a couple of hours from now let's wait and see what pompei and his counterpart have to say. thanks very much in the picture in amman in jordan stuff decker reporting to north korea now where the leader kim jong un is on his fourth visit to beijing in the year for talks with his main ally china's president xi jinping south korea

has welcomed the news. that it will be helpful for peace has more now from hong kong. all these meetings are shrouded in a lot of secrecy but what's interesting about this this time is the fact that not only the north korean news state news agency but also the chinese news agencies seem to have given information or get announced the fact that kim jong un was in beijing the north korean news agency has released pictures of him getting on a train from pyongyang along with his wife and senior officials while the chinese news agency had said that he would be arriving in beijing that's very unusual what you can take from this is that it seems that both north korea and china want it known that this meeting is taking place for china it's a very important conjecture there in the midst of a trade war with the united states a u.s. trade delegation had been there for two days to talk about a lower level trade delegation nonetheless to talk about how to head off this trade

war and we'll meanwhile north korea and the u.s. are talking about a possible second summit so having each other for support or china showing that it has leverage on north korea north korea showing that it's got china support gives them both a lot of leverage and more strength going into talks with the u.s. whatever the topic may be well still ahead here on al-jazeera the far right politician in germany is left seriously injured following of attack police say was politically motivated. the. demanding a living wage in nigeria unions threatening the nationwide strike. and that is all rather cold across the northern parts of asia at the moment which makes

it the ideal time of year for the harbin ice sculpting competition you see the beautiful sculptures that we've got there the festival of loss and sail around the fifth of february so this. time to see it now plenty more cold weather as we head through the next few days but generally speaking staying dry and the weather is quite quiet for many of us here the action is a bit further towards the southwest so for some of us in japan we'll see if it will snow around and it will cloud a most that cloud just lapping on to the west coast as we head through the day on thursday before the towards the south you can see all the rain we've got with us snow on the northern edge as you might expect but plenty of wet weather as you head further south now that he's stretching all the way down into the northern parts of viet nam so annoying is also looking roll the soggy that gradually breaks up a little bit now runs its way eastwards as we head through thursday so shanghai will see more of that wet weather for the south it should still be dry force in hong kong it's up temperature getting to around twenty two in the southeastern parts of asia are enjoying some fine settled weather at the moment there's not

a great deal of what weather around due to a few showers will be making their way into the east impulse of the philippines there they'll also be a handful of showers over parts of borneo that will be stretching their way towards the west. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very. water privatisation on anybody saying anything and. people who see every t. has something to invest the profit of a one dollar. to the last drop on al jazeera. welcome

back you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour and the turkish president has lashed out at mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about its plans to pull troops out of syria present rejected a condition that turkey agreed to protect washington's kurdish allies. state my pompei was due to arrive in jordan the first stop of his eight day middle east to syria is expected to top the agenda it is his first trip to the region after the withdrawal was announced. and north korean leader kim jong il is making his fourth visit to beijing in a year for talks with president xi jinping south korea has welcomed the news hopeful it will help efforts for denuclearization and peace. now a far right politician in germany has been left seriously injured following what

police are calling a politically motivated attack frank magnet c. leads the local branch of the alternative for germany party was set upon as he left the office of a local newspaper the a.f.p. released a graphic photograph of magnus's injuries on social media this week to dominic cain who joins us now from berlin done it what more do we know. well nic the details of this case quite stark at twenty past five local time in germany yesterday evening as you say after leaving the offices of this newspaper he was set upon by three masked men using some kind of club or blunt instrument they attacked him left him on the streets he was found by two people who called the emergency services he was taken to hospital as you say the injuries that he suffered are quite graphic and it was the f.d.a. itself which posted the photograph of mr magnet lying there with his injuries very

starkly on view and saying that they that he had been that he was heart dead it's worth making the point that many politicians from mainstream parties have condemned this act and said not no matter what a person's political view is there's no justification for such acts of violence it's also interesting to say that it's vital one of the joint leaders of the party in parliament in the bundestag has said that she blames the atmosphere created by media reporting of the f.t. as to why people might feel they might want to attack members of the f.t. but it's also worth saying that this suggestion that he was half dead seems perhaps to have been a little exaggerated because it's being reported this morning that mr magnets is awake is conscious and has been speaking to the official german press agency of the day saying that he doesn't have a great recollection of what actually happened to him he didn't hear or see the people who attacked him but it's clear he's conscious he is out of any particularly

serious danger he says that he expects to stay in hospital for some time longer from the official perspective the police are investigating they've been appealing for witnesses to what happened as i say which happened at twenty past five local time yesterday evening or adama thanks very much indeed dominic a reporting from. a nationwide protest is underway in one to demand a better minimum wage the federal government had agreed to that amount but some states said they couldn't afford to pay it labor unions say that the minimum wage must be increased to eighty three u.s. dollars per month currently the lowest paid civil servants gets around fifty u.s. dollars a month let's hear now from ahmed interest across one and he joins us live from and i want tell us about the scale of the protest and what's happening. well basically the strike has been going on simonton across nigeria in thirty six

states including the capital here. a short while ago hundreds of workers across nigeria or across the federal capital. protest demanded the immediate implementation of the minimum wage. for the general walker which of course did not which the government promised but up to now it hasn't happened yet so basically what they're demanding is that the nigerian government should keep its promise of increasing the minimum wage from slightly over fifty two dollars to less than one hundred dollars and that has been the demand for the past four years or so the last approval was given in two thousand and sixteen the cost agreement was reached to increase the minimum wage from the local currency which was. nine thousand to thirty thousand and even now the labor union is talking about. minimum wage they're fighting for right now it's not enough to handle

the needs of the workers because of the inflation in the country and because of the currency has dropped significantly since the last agreement was released so the fortis is going on all across nigeria today but the biggest obstacle for many is how the states will remember only last month the nigerian government intervene to make sure that states help offset months of my abilities all workers across the country import by the state government that are about eleven million workers across nigeria who draw their salaries from the government and most of these are basically living from hand to mouth. where is this heading in a lightly solution can it be resolved. when basically they've been meeting since yesterday the labor president who i spoke to a short while ago told told me that they've made some progress yesterday about

implementation and i also spoke to a member of the national assembly whose institution was shortly receive the bill from the president ok to be thirty thousand not a minimum wage which is some sixty thirty to eighty dollars a month that's the basic minimum pay for the civil somebody told me but what do you believe is that they want deserve more than what he's getting now what be even fighting is that left team up to more for they want us but the states are saying that they are not in a position to pay the salary unless of course the federal government gives them additional funding to pay it walk us on the wrist and they want us out saying that if the budgets or the budgets of state governments can't be cut down to size western spending in government then the employer state government can afford to create its own what's the basic minimum wage which the government just approved ok well even though the story from a budget i'm going to just reporting to sudan where the president tomorrow bashir

is expected to address a military parade in the city where protests over rising prices and government corruption started three weeks ago demonstrations have since spread across the country often turning violence calling for bashin to step down often in the thirty years and authorities say at least nineteen people have been killed but the rights group amnesty international has put the death toll at thirty seven thirteen written jim and of arrived in bangladesh off to being deported from saudi arabia believed to be part of a big group who appeared in a video posted online from a detention center in jeddah the man have been protesting their return to bangladesh because actually from neighboring man which views are unjust as illegal immigrants. the former chairman of car company misson has declared his innocence in court in turkey saying he's been unfairly detained charles gun is accused of underreporting a salary by millions of dollars he was fired by the board of mismanagement to be

she kept on by renault from abroad has this report. this was government's first chance to publicly answer allegations against him the presence of diplomats to hear it was evidence of the international nature of this case in court gone denied any financial wrongdoing saying he has always conducted business legally and fairly he said he dedicated the last twenty years of his life to the near san company he chaired until recently engineering its alliance with french automaker renault his lawyers argued his continued detention is grossly unfair. the session of the court today was held in order to request the court to make the clear reason for detaining mr gone under the suspicion you know that the reason we made such requests for procedures to take place today as mr ganns defense team is

we believe there's no reason for him to be detained out of this case is attracted intense media interest given goans international stature the man who turned around the fortunes of renault and then did the same with their son it's made his fourth from grace all the more dramatic. it remains to be seen what why duran packed the case will have on carmakers in france and japan and if they'll be any diplomatic fallout between the two governments. the personal impact on gone is all too clear while the court considers the allegations he remains in detention robin wright al jazeera tokyo. now than fears tech rivals apple and samsung teaming up to share content samsung's smart t.v.'s will be able to access movies on apple's i tunes platform and news of apple devices will be able to stream their content on samsung t.v.'s the partnership is a change in apple's strategy content exclusively for users of its devices something

meanwhile is looking for new revenue after announcing announcing a thirty percent drop in its quarterly profit or europe is bracing for more freezing cold after seven people died in the german elstree a weekend of heavy snow a state of emergency has been declared throughout southern germany where more than half a meter of snow cause traffic and transport delays and the second highest level launch warning is now in force across the alps. the president of the world bank has resigned three years before the end of his term jim yong kim says he'll stand down next month but didn't give a reason he said differences with the u.s. president donald trump over climate change and the need for more development resources america's share of voting rights at the bank will give trump considerable influence in choosing a successor. the british prime minister is holding another cabinet meeting and speculation grows about her government's next move on brics politicians a jew to vote on to resume

a departure deal next week but as long as lee reports from london pressure is building on the main opposition party to support efforts to cancel breaks it altogether. the millionaires who live in the elegant streets of this part of south london would you might think rather give their children's christmas presents away than support the labor party seen as the most left wing for generations yet 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 party wants and it still comes out one of the things that we regularly hear we campaign and we do campaign regular here is the people who live in dodge village war or almost unanimously opposed to break through and their offspring for leadership from the labor party on budget. a few kilometers north in the same 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 as unsure whether labor is on their side 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 bracks that 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 it's tearing the labor policy a pass the labor leadership fears the wrath of the traditional whites working class whose anti european views underpin the levites if you. supports staying in the e.u. and they cannot square the circle parliament'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 euro 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 and acts of his 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 lee al jazeera london.

ok let's have a recap of the headlines here on al-jazeera and the turkish president has lashed out at mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about its plans to pull troops out of syria a recip type of man rejected a condition that turkey agreed to protect washington's kurdish allies. he said. it's impossible for us to accept the message that bolton gave from israel the americans don't know who out of my quote the citizens who are the white. i guess they don't know them these terror groups the p.k. k y p she. can never be a percentage of my kurdish citizens well both bolton and top diplomats might pump air or on a mission to reassure allies over the us president's decision on syria but perry is beginning his middle east tour in jordan he'll be visiting the capitals of eight countries over the next few days including egypt qatar and saudi arabia and north

korean leader kim jong un is making his fourth visit to beijing in a year for talks with president xi jinping and south korea has welcomed the news hopeful it will help efforts for the new station and peace a far right politician in germany has been left seriously injured fully what police are calling a politically motivated attack frank magnet suit leads to local branch of the alternative for germany party was set upon and he left the office of a local newspaper and nationwide protest is underway in nigeria to demand a better minimum wage the federal government's had agreed to in amounts but some states said they couldn't afford to pay it. sudanese president omar al bashir is expected to address a military parade in the city where protests over rising prices and government corruption started three weeks ago the rallies have spread across the country calling for ben she had to step down after nearly thirty years in power authorities say at least nineteen people have been killed during the protests egypt has

been chosen as host for this june's africa cup of nations football tournament egypt will replace cameroon he was stripped of hosting the competition because of delays in infrastructure and concerns over security south africa was the only other country in the running to host the twenty four team event you're up to date with headlines the news continues here right after inside story from. centuries of close ties to ukraine have cut ties with russia. dire consequences but what's triggered the split was a politically motivated. story. i

know and welcome to the program the problem the eastern orthodox church has over two hundred fifty million members around the world that spiritual leader is based in istanbul but for follow us in ukraine there is a new found independence churches that have officially cut ties with their russian branch accusing it of what they called propaganda the decision has angered russian leaders will bring in our guests in a moment but first mohamed. discussion from moscow. oh oh bartholomew the first the leader of the eastern orthodox church and a man at the center of what's being described as potentially one of the biggest

rifts in christianity in recent times. with his signature on saturday he officially split most of ukraine's orthodox churches from centuries of russian jurisdiction. flow forfeit your motive on sunday during a service in the turkish city of istanbul to mark the orthodox feast day of a pick any the document for the separation also known as the thomas was officially handed over to the leader of the now independent ukrainian orthodox churches as most of watching from the side petro poroshenko the ukrainian president he's pushed for ukraine's orthodox churches to split from what he and others have described as russian influence and propaganda ukraine's churches have been under pressure to sever ties since the country became independent after the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred ninety one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea in two thousand and fourteen ukraine imposed martial law in november saying it feared

a full scale invasion after russia captured three of its vessels in the current strait a third muslim the us say if a fish the ship and the toll most for us is actually another act of proclaiming ukraine's independence it will complete the assertion of independence of the ukrainian state strengthen religious freedom and enter confessional peace it will strengthen the rights and freedoms of citizens live in moscow political analysts say this is as much about politics as it is about religion and the impact of a church but at the own religion is built on the bus and the crane is a working ofo but both the positions of moscow but in you know in ukraine and. in the long way around the region the been done so good and orthodoxy and over ukrainian states from russian. in general the. split has been largely boycotted by ukraine's largest orthodox church which remains loyal to russia. moscow in the russian branch of the church have also cut ties with istanbul

which is regarded as the center of the eastern orthodox faith it's unclear how all this will ultimately play out but for many in ukraine the creation of an orthodox church independent from moscow is a momentous step toward ukraine's political independence from russia. moscow well let's take a closer look at the eastern orthodox church now it's one of the oldest religious institutions and second largest after the roman catholic church it has more than two hundred fifty million members around the world most of whom live in eastern europe greece the caucasus and parts of the middle east and africa orthodox church as a self-governed but the patriarch of constantinople based as bull is that spiritual leader. well let's bring in our guests now joining us from kiev as valentini jaco shipp professor of political science at the national university of academy in london as

there then professor of sociology of religion and department head of theology and religious studies at king's college london and joining us and scott from moscow is alexander birch esky senior foreign policy at gazeta dot our view that's a russian newspaper a very warm welcome to all of you let me start with mr bush there and london are we seeing the biggest schism in christianity in the hundreds if not a thousand years. it's obviously not the biggest schism in christan it's a moral or i would be very careful about using the word schism because it has very kind of derogatory connotations within the orthodox in christan is in general you know it means god of the oil always hubris if you like it's it's about. all the. national churches in within the orthodox tradition have a degree of independence and this is how they actually have co-existed for four

years so i hope the current situation will not lead to this bleed but eventually to the more kind of balance within within eastern orthodox admit mistakes why do you think that the patriarch in constantinople is granting autonomy to ukraine and how much of patriarch bartholomew the decision is based on religion and how much of it as political. well it is a political definitely a political step the wrists not much of religion according to canonical traditions or economical pottery ark couldn't have broken the green mint or three hundred thirty in something else years old or and dispossess russian butter kate of it's legal right to operate in

ukraine but it was done it's political step and it's a logical because a communicable butter cape from istanbul was approached many times by ukrainian political leaders who wanted to add to ukrainian political independence also some signs of being separate from russian church with the center in moscow as political step it leads to two most important results one that that part of ukrainian offered up short she was split from ukraine in one thousand nine hundred ninety two now becomes canonical so it means that all their religious services have value from the religious point of view before when the ukrainian to split away churches were not under the ages

of if you medical petrarch ate all what they were doing it was questioned by many christians here if there is a real leader just the little so this is one important issue that further services all of these two ukrainian or churches which united now will have value according to the league just standards but in or in other aspect it leaves this decision of if you medical party. from istanbul leads to splits political split in the world orthodox christianity now his step was not supported by any other church maybe it will be supported by diageo oral buy. or maybe bible garia but the rest are not supporting it and think that it is an invasion on russian also the church canonical territory and we have these two

results and one that you know of and could that lead you know to what i referred to as a schism earlier the fact that the orthodox church which has you know of some three hundred million followers the russians have said that they are going to break off relations with constantinople because of this decision mr brashness k. how would the other orthodox church is going to going to deal with this decision do they feel any pressure to align themselves with either constantinople or with moscow. of course the situation new is very difficult for now to decide i think actually all will depend from father q will the head of a russian orthodox josh diplomacy is very complicated figure very connected do a lot of good in the brezhnev russia but also south by a very powerful player so all will depend on his diplomacy how he will deal with those countries of course you will be of course consulted whether you're george

diplomats because he's very bored you we have russian orthodox schorsch redemption relationship with churches let's say of syria which is an ally of russia with a bulgarian which is e.u. country greece which is very close to russia historically and religiously it will be very big will not do the armed georgian self also but to the russian state so i think for him it's now it's now the time to craft a very you know a very you know shy diplomacy by should work for those countries although slice this position will be weakened when he is already working and we've heard from him already and he has not being diplomatic he sent constantinople as patriot authonomy a very hostile ewood letter saying things like you will for avenues the possibility of saving the unity of god's holy churches you'll say still be the saddest and the orthodox will in the suffering you quarrels so also talks ukrainians will follow you to the last judgment miss astaire and as this damaging and divisive for

christianity. in fact we can see this we can observe with probably a lot of concern this inflammatory rhetoric from from both sides and i can get understand why it's a huge blow it's a huge challenge for the russian orthodox church which has about probably between thirty to thirty five percent of all the spirit in ukraine and for a number of diplomatic reasons which my my my my colleagues have just identified. also it's a big problem obviously a challenge now for the ukrainian church and for the ukrainian state you know how it would go about where all the we're only at the beginning of creating this new church and this church and the ukrainian state will have to deal with a number of challenges so i understand this rhetoric in particular for take account of the geopolitical context but i do hope that behind this rhetoric there is

a kind of realisation that we need to take care of the ordinary people ordinary believe us of the political implications of this and that's my hope that might result actually in. this relationship between the ukrainian orthodox church the independent church and the moscow but very kate and all the ramifications for the orthodox church as a whole there would diplomacy that alexander has just used will be key to the situation messy accuracy of of got ukraine's security service at the moment investigating interrogation even priests who are loyal to the russian orthodoxy i know that our other guests are talking about diplomacy but if we look at what's happening on the ground is this going to provoke russia how much is this going to provoke russia do you think well you see if you cranium security

service is doing something to pressure.