as a voice. reasons for six different types of bricks join the global conversation on out is iraq. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martin dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes. u.s. president donald trump professor make his case for a border war in a speech to the nation minutes from now. turkey's president rejects the u.s. call for his country to protect kurdish fighters he says the white house has made a serious mistake. and another blow to theresa may a house of commons vote makes

a no deal bret's it even more complicated. north korean leader kim jong un travels to beijing ahead of a possible second summit with president trump. the president is about to address the american people hoping to convince them that he needs the billions of dollars to resolve what he calls a national security problem at the border with mexico where the u.s. government has been partial shutdown ever since december the twenty second because of the president's standoff with democrats over the funding of a border wall now following the president's primetime television address we expect the house speaker nancy pelosi and the senate minority leader chuck schumer to give their response over to the president. americans

tonight i am misspeaking to you because there is a growing humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border every day customs and border patrol agents encounter thousands of illegal immigrants trying to enter our country we are out of space to hold them and we have no way to promptly returned them back home to their country america proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who would rich our society and contribute to our nation but all americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration it strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages among those hardest hit are african-americans and hispanic americans our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs including meth heroin cocaine and fentanyl every week three hundred of our citizens are killed by heroin alone ninety

percent of which floods across from our southern border more americans will die from drugs this year than were killed in the entire vietnam war in the last two years i saw offices made two hundred sixty six thousand arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged or convicted of one hundred thousand assaults thirty thousand sex crimes and four thousand violent killings over the years thousands of americans have been brutally killed by those who illegally entered our country and thousands more lives will be lost if we don't act right now this is a humanitarian crisis a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul last month twenty three. as in migrant children who are

illegally brought into the united states a dramatic increase these children are used as human pawns by vicious coyote's and ruthless gangs one in three women are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through mexico women and children are the big is the victims by far of our broken system this is the tragic reality of illegal immigration on our southern border this is the cycle of human suffering that i am determined to end my administration has presented congress with a detailed proposal to secure the border and stop the criminal gangs drug smugglers and human traffickers it's a tremendous problem our proposal was developed by law enforcement professionals and border agents at the department of homeland security these are the resources

they have requested to properly perform their mission and keep america safe in fact safer than ever before. the proposal from homeland security includes cutting edge technology for detecting drugs weapons illegal contraband and many other things we have requested more agents immigration judges and bed space to process the sharp rise in unlawful migration field by our very strong economy our plan also contains an urgent request for humanitarian assistance and medical support furthermore we have asked congress to close border security loopholes so that illegal immigrant children can be safely and humanely returned back home finally as part of an overall approach to border security law enforcement

professionals have requested five point seven billion dollars for a physical barrier at the request of democrats it will be a steel barrier rather than a concrete wall this barrier is absolutely critical to border security it's also what our professionals at the border want and deed. this is just commonsense the border wall would very quickly pay for itself the cost of illegal drugs exceeds five hundred billion dollars a year vastly more than the five point seven billion dollars we have requested from congress the wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal we have made with mexico senator chuck schumer who you will be hearing from later tonight has repeatedly supported a physical barrier in the past along with many other democrats they change their

mind only after i was elected president democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis and they have refused to provide our brave border agents with the tools they desperately need to protect our families and our nation the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only because democrats will not fund border security my administration is doing everything in our power to help those impacted by the situation but the only solution is for democrats to pass a spending bill that defends our borders and reopens the government this situation could be solved in a forty five minute meeting i have invited congressional leadership to the white

house tomorrow to get this done hopefully we can rise above partisan politics in order to support national security. some have suggested a barrier is immoral. then why do wealthy politicians build walls fences and gates around their homes they don't build walls because they hate the people on the but because they love the people on the inside the only thing that is immoral is the politicians to do nothing and continue to allow more innocent people to be so horribly victimized america's heart broke the day after christmas when a young police officer in california was savagely murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien just came across the border the life of an american hero was stolen

by someone who had no right to be in our country day after day precious lives are cut short by those who have violated our borders in california and air force veteran was raped murdered and beaten to death with a hammer by an illegal alien with a long criminal history. in georgia and illegal alien was recently churched with murder for killing beheading and dismembering his neighbor. in maryland m.s. thirteen gang members who arrived in the united states as unaccompanied minors were arrested and charged last year they have to viciously stabbing and beating a sixteen year old girl over the last several years i've met with dozens of families whose loved ones were stolen by illegal immigration. i've held the

hands of the weeping mothers and embraced the grief stricken fathers so say so terrible i will never forget the pain in their eyes the tremble in their voices and the sadness gripping their souls how much more american blood must we shed before congress does it. to those who refuse to compromise in the name of border security i would ask imagine if it was your child your husband or your wife whose life was so cruelly shattered and totally broken. to every member of congress pass a bill that ends this crisis to every citizen call congress and tell them to finally after all of these decades secure our border. this

is a choice between right and wrong justice and in justice this is about whether we fulfill our sacred duty to the american citizens we have when i took the oath of office i swore to protect our country and that is what i will always do so help me god thank you and good night. so the president there making his national address in which he made his appeal for the funding yet again for this wall this border security wall kimberly how cute is that white house correspondent listening to the president with us and kimberly five point seven billion and it seems as though he's changed his mind from there being. a concrete wall but instead opting for something like

a steel barrier with the agreement of the democrats is what he said what do we know about. yeah well looking over the speech certainly that is one of the things that we've seen the president shift on in terms of the actual materials but i think what we really need to focus on in all of this is how this is being characterized the president is characterizing this as a crisis what we didn't hear in this speech which is notable is him declaring this a national emergency that is what many people were watching for because if this was declared a national emergency this would do a couple of things not only would it free up money for the wall circumventing congress but it also could lift some of the limits on the president's power which would certainly be of concern to many of his critics and political opponents that appears to not have not happened what the president is doing is still trying to

work with the u.s. congress you heard him there saying he has invited congressional leaders again to the white house something that has been unsuccessful in recent weeks in order to try and resolve what he says is a crisis you heard him there saying it was a humanitarian crisis that affects women and children and also has resulted according to the numbers put forward by the white house and of course we need to check these numbers but this is as resulted in hundreds of thousands of arrests of illegal immigrants with criminal records some of them resulting in crimes that have affected native born americans so this is in the president's own words a tragic reality he is determined to end and he's requesting once again not only the money for this physical barrier now made out of steel he is proposing which certainly would create jobs and continue to bolster the steel industry that the president's been working hard to rebuild but also the president believes ultimately

would pay for itself in terms of he said that there renegotiated trade deals with mexico and also a are. sultana disk decrease rather in crime and strains on local resources for example along the border so this is the president making his case as you pointed out at the start of this program we will be hearing from the democrats as well who are also going to make their case and certainly what we expect we will hear is something that we have heard from the house democratic leader now speaker of the house nancy pelosi that she believes that the wall is immoral something that donald trump took directly in that address saying in fact that he pointed out that democrats have in the past approved physical barriers and to now be using listen. we're going to get this straight now to the democratic response. to the american people tonight about how we can end this shutdown and meet the needs

of the american people sadly much of what we heard from president trumps about this sense of shutdown has been full of misinformation and even now us the president has chosen senior we want to start with the facts the fact is on the very first day of this congress house democrats passed senate republican legislation to reopen government and find smart effective border security solutions but the president is rejecting these bipartisan bills which would reopen the government over his obsession with fortune forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and effective wall a wall he always promised mexico would pay for. the fact is president trump has chosen to hold hostage critical services for the health safety and well being of the american people and withhold the paychecks of eight hundred thousand innocent workers across the nation many of them that are and he promised to keep government

shutdown for months or years no matter what hurts that's just plain wrong the fact is we all agree we need to secure our borders we're honoring our values we can build the infrastructure roads at our ports of entry we can strong new technology to scan cars and trucks for drugs coming into our nation we can hire the personnel we need to facilitate trade and immigration at the border we can find more innovation to detect unauthorized crossings the fact is the women and children at the border are not a security threat they are humanitarian challenge a challenge that present trends on call and counter productive power says have only deepened and the fact is president trump must stop holding the american people hostage but stop manufacturing a crisis and must reopen the government thank you. thank you speaker pelosi my fellow americans we address you tonight for one reason only the

president of the united states having failed to get mexico to pay for his ineffective unnecessary border wall and unable to convince the congress or the american people to foot the bill has shut down the government american democracy doesn't work that way we don't govern by temper tantrum no president should pound the table and demand he gets his way or else the government shuts down hurting millions of americans who are treated as leverage tonight and throughout this debate and throughout his presidency president trump has appeal to fear not facts division not unity make no mistake democrats and the president both want stronger border security however we sharply disagree with the president about the most effective way to do it so how do we untangle this mess well there's an obvious

solution separate the shutdown from arguments over border security there is bipartisan legislation supported by democrats and republicans to reopen government while allowing debate over border security to continue there is no excuse for hurting millions of americans over a policy difference federal workers are about to miss a paycheck some families can't get a mortgage to buy a new home farmers and small businesses won't get loans they desperately need. most presidents have used oval office addresses for noble purposes this president just used the backdrop of the oval office to manufacture a crisis to stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration my fellow americans there is no challenge so great that our nation cannot rise to meet it we can reopen the government and continue to work through

disagreements over policy we can secure our border without an ineffective expensive wall and we can welcome illegal immigrants and refugees without compromising safety and security the symbol of america should be the statue of liberty not a thirty foot wall so our suggestion is a simple one mr president reopen the government and we can work to resolve our differences over border security but in this shutdown now thank you so there you have the democratic party response not nancy pelosi the speaker of the house and the senate minority leader chuck schumer listening to that with us is our white house correspondent kimberly how kim kimberly. we heard from both of them pretty much the same argument that they've

been using throughout. and it's an expensive and ineffective war anyway and the president is pretty much of cessed with this and they're calling this a a manufactured crisis. yeah if i was one of the eight hundred thousand government workers that about to not get a paycheck i would not be feeling very hopeful right now that this was going to be resolved very soon because what we've essentially seen is both sides digging in even deeper than before not only did we see the president making his case for border security but now we've seen the democratic rebuttal and essentially what they've said is what they have been maintaining all along we're not going to debate border security until the government opens the president has been maintaining we're not going to from the republican side even consider opening the government until we address border security so there's been no movement the republican side has been

very clear that it won't even take up the legislation that nancy pelosi had talked about introducing because the president has already said he will veto it they don't wish to reopen this government in a piecemeal fashion they wish to reopen it and provide the security for the southern border i think that's important to note in all of this if we pull back from it as someone who's been covering this issue for thirteen years ago i went down to the southern border spent almost a month there looking at both sides of the issue from the united states side inside mexico i'm someone who's been covering u.s. politics for twenty years i can tell you. both sides are not being entirely honest with the american people right now the truth is democrats have approved sections of the wall in the past and we've certainly seen those photos of people climbing over them and with regard to republicans republicans have certainly improved in the past

through funding for some of the technologies that democrats are proposing what we're seeing here and you heard this from chuck schumer is that the wall has become a symbol it has become a symbol of pushing back on the truck presidency for the democrats and for donald trump and it's become a. symbol of something he needs to keep to his base in terms of a campaign promise so what we've got here and i've used this phrase before is essentially a massive stare down that is going on of the question now is who is going to blink first given the fact that very correctly put by the democrats the government is being held hostage in the middle of this with eight hundred thousand workers not sure when they're going back to work or if they're going to get a paycheck for this next pay cycle all right kimberly thanks for that kimberly how that white house correspondent now let's go to the other side of the border let's go to mexico to tijuana which is right on the border of goals with the united states john homan our correspondent there and john your actually among the people

the president trump is referring to pretty much is as being the scourge of the earth the people who are likely to torment to murder to rape pillage and plunder if they were to get into the united states is that how they seem to you. well we actually just watched the address with some of them and got their reaction immediately a small shelter here set up by a church to care for people from central america that came in the caravan to try to get to the united states and they say they're very offended obviously with that sort of depiction of president trump gave a couple of cases they know of rape in sort of murder and said we're not criminals obviously we're people that are going to the united states some of them to try to escape poverty back in their homelands some of them to try and escape the violence that singo countries like honduras el salvador and to a certain extent. so they were very offended obviously by the depiction of him

another thing that we've heard since this started people from those countries saying even if he builds a wall people will still get through because the necessity to reverse their country or to find a better life is such that they will get over any obstacle and the president is making quite a big play on this illegal immigration but the people that you know with there in the vast majority of people who came in that caravan i mean they want to cross into the united states legally dead day and they want to they want to start the process which is their right and that is to seek asylum. there's actually different cases within the care about remember at one point there was more than seven thousand people traveling through mexico that's now gone down along through or just more than seven hundred but there are people that have lined

up they've got the number to go and present their case at the u.s. border for asylum at the port of entry there of the people who have taken another route which is to go over the border illegally and then present themselves to lure enforcement agents on the other side as soon as they possibly can and ask for asylum that way once already in the united states because it makes the process a lot shorter they don't have to wait in mexico for two months and then there are people we talked to today said i've got this far it doesn't look promising especially given what the president is saying at the moment when all of this comes down i'm just going to jump the border and disappear so i think as with kimberly was saying about the politics in the united states it's it's the same here there's not one clear cut case there are a lot of different people wanting to do a lot of different things but the one thing they have in common is they're all desperate to get to the other side. john home and live in tijuana mexico just on the border with the united states. now the white house described the situation

along that border where john is an unprecedented crisis but numbers show illegal crossings have dropped consistently for almost two decades there were fewer than four hundred thousand apprehensions along the u.s. southern border during the twenty eighteen fiscal year and that's a significant drop from the early two thousand when the number of from reached over a million arrests now the trumpet ministration has said sixty thousand people try to enter illegally through the u.s. border every month but last year the highest attention month on record had about twenty thousand less than that figure now there's been an increase in the number of people seeking asylum in twenty eighty more than ninety thousand people submitted a request most people living in the u.s. illegally would not smuggle through the border they overstayed their visas or i'd never speak to steve clemons who's washington editor at large for the atlantic and

he's joining us from d.c. so it sounds very much as though president trump is conflating an awful lot of different factors to present a picture which is designed to elicit a great deal of fear among the american people do you think he succeeded in doing that. well we won't know until tomorrow but his his comments tonight were reminiscent of his inaugural address when he came in a painting a very dark and horrific picture for the state of america today and martine you're the first person tonight to have heard mention the word asylum and the covenants that the united states belong to in processing asylum seekers and humane way doesn't mean everyone gets in but there's a process that other countries in the world have dealt with it and of course we have nasty memories in our past of people who were suffering from horrific circumstances who sought either to come in the united states or places in europe

and were rejected so these covenants were put in place and these people were being rejected and donald trump did not mention asylum not at all the word didn't come up what he did is he talked about everyone who wants to come to this country in terms of being rapists and murderers and criminals and gang members and i think that he painted a very stark picture but just like his inaugural speech that speech did scare many americans but it did not scare the majority of americans who understand the contributions that many who have come to this country have made now the president has become the president that only is without exception pretty much his campaign promise is this was central to his campaign wasn't it to build a wall to keep out all these. illegal immigrants is he just is he said committed to the to the mantra to the don't change if you like that he's actually failing to see what actually is necessary on the ground i mean is it

a matter of him being committed to the as i say you know campaign promise. i want to give you a response that's not a kneejerk one because president trump has demonstrated in the past a nimble flexibility to redefine what he wants or where he wants to go i covered him during his campaign before he was elected and literally in three days he gave three different speeches one in mexico one in arizona one another place that had three different messages on immigration what has happened is that those people within some of the media community within fox news those people who have been some of the major icons of the of the right and his base have told him if he does not stand by this wall which was only one of many messages he gave in the past that he would face a collapse of much of the support of his base so what we see right now and i think you've alluded to it earlier is

a political act that's designed to position himself for the two thousand and twenty presidential race because he fears that if he doesn't stand this this is now a defining challenge for president trump it's not one that he can work away but to be honest about your question he showed an ability to flip on a dime in the past and to redefine what his views were but this particular issue has now because of what he's done become very defining it's become a defining battle for the democrats as well and they are in a tug of war and it's completely as zero sum game it's very hard to imagine how we get out of at this point and tonight nothing changed the status quo of paralysis in washington continued it was not solved you know honestly it would have been better if he had declared a national emergency it would have been a pathway to reopening the government that did not happen only perpetuating the stand still has has happened this evening steve clemons thank you very much indeed . well you got

a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including why the u.s. envoy tasked with the result of ng the blockade of cattle by its neighbors has resigned. and this ill nervous election result in the democratic republic of congo by the country's largest opposition party says its presidential candidate won. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello january in southeast asia should be bone dry so this is a very unusual sight. in public that went through southern thailand i should have been there in january well the remains of caused all this and that significant rain all the way from in ma up towards you none in china it is moving east was it goes beyond you know and and it will produce snow in the higher ground in the colder and

middle of china a run out towards shanghai where may well rain concerts in a total there could be over a hundred millimeters in places that normally get four or five on thinking particularly of northern laos northern town and you not so say an unusual event hong kong misses you should have a fine couple of days now that has moved further south where equally it's different and all this is a dry spell very few showers if any in the philippines not that many men lazy or indeed in indonesia that there are going to start to grow again i think mark concentrate further west of singapore kale and sumatra seem like he had a few and that he wants to close in borneo in some ways a bit it looks like jobs are in bali for example rain dry showers will come into the philippines there will reappear nevertheless this is been a couple of dry days for him to be speaking there's a couple more to come for most. the weather sponsored by cats own race.

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minder the main story here at al-jazeera the smalling president trump has said in a televised address that a wall of the u.s. border with mexico is a critical part of all disappear it's in he's called for congressional leaders to meet only wednesday. the two top u.s. officials are in the middle east and they're seeking to reassure washington's allies about the trump administration's plan to withdraw troops from syria national security advisor john bolton says turkey must not target kurdish groups that the u.s. has been arming and training the americans leave well that demand has angered the

turkish president jamal. from ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced on twitter that the withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he signed bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make a compromise on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y.p. ji the p.y.t. and i saw we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria and land very soon. as far as turkey is

concerned the y. p.g.d. a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting eisel critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is rust territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas but turkey says the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating eisel include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion in mrs syria and then must be

cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria are godless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a plan joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the this agreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what its wants to do in syria. and iraq. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is in jordan this is his first stop on an eight day middle east tour he's also set to go to egypt to saudi arabia to kuwait and qatar

seventy deca has more from the jordanian capital amman. so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not affect its fight to lessen to contain iran and its influence in the region there is a press conference between your state is your damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides want to see a political solution to it was in touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanian saying that they saw this as a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east where the sect of state will be heading on to egypt where he's expected to give a keynote speech interestingly that will come ten years to the time when the former president barack obama gave his middle eastern speech also

a development on the same day that state was here in jordan that the former general anthony zinni who was tossed with trying to deal find a solution to the blockade the gulf blockade resigned saying that he was having difficulties in getting all sides getting the leaders of the countries to allow to any form of mediation so this is the context on which pair now embarks forward but the message from the americans is that despite this pullout in syria they remain steadfast ally and they will remain very much present in the region well as you just heard from certainly the retired u.s. general anthony zinni has quit he served as the trumpet administration's envoy working to resolve the dispute between castro and its neighbors the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt imposed a land sea and deprecate. twenty seventeen when jordan has more on his resignation and the state of u.s. diplomacy in the region. for the last year and a half retired u.s.

general anthony zinni has had two jobs negotiate an end to the g.c.c. crisis in which qatar has been isolated by its gulf neighbors since june twenty seventh team and helpless stablish a nato like organization called the middle east strategic initiative army said no more zinni has submitted his resignation. anyways just. no point in. time because the situation in the middle east can always get more unstable unfortunately it is extraordinary important trusted intermediary parties to ensure that the situation does not deteriorate further according to reports zinni said he's leaving because no country in the dispute is willing to negotiate in good faith what's more analysts eager neubauer says the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist up and it plans for a u.s. brokered discussion in washington in october former secretary of state rex

tillerson had hired zinni a former military commander in the middle east after his own efforts at shuttle diplomacy failed to end the blockade zinni insists he had full support from officials at the white house which had recently asked him to add the regional military alliance to his to do list analysts say that without an end to the qatar blockade and no sign of the white house hosting a g.c.c. summit any time soon such an alliance has no chance of being stood up even though he were tasked to help resolve the gulf crisis once that was no longer tenable at least in the current environment he sought to appear to rest through integrated military cooperation and what emerged of. became an impossibility the state department thank isn't for his work saying that quote his mission was to help introduce the. concept of the middle eastern teaching alliance

and start a conversation with leaders in the region that is happening and well underway thanks to his efforts for now it falls to secretary of state mike pompei o to discuss the blockade and a possible military alliance during his first major trip to the middle east however pompei is top priority and that of the white house is the isolation of iran at any cost that means anthony zinni his work could end up being neglected for the foreseeable future rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington kim jong un and chinese president xi jinping are expected to discuss a second summit with the united states on day two of the north korean leader's visit to beijing kim arrived in china on tuesday his fourth trip to the country in the past year south korea media reports the two leaders met for about an hour kim's visit comes just days after warning he may take another path if the u.s. doesn't ease sanctions and pressure to denuclearize the korean peninsula can go

live to katrina you who is in beijing for us and katrina four times kim has gone to beijing in the space of a year whereas before had never even been heavy as an indication of how influential china still is on pyongyang. that's right well china is north korea's biggest trading partner and its biggest ally until young not only relies on beijing for trade in many ways also relies in beijing for its security now as you mentioned it's his fourth time visiting china which is remarkable because as a leader of north korea he had never left the country so it's really important to see that in that context and for china it's important to keep north korea close because they see denuclearization in north korea as important for the stability of the region and here in china's state media are painting that relationship really as

a big brother relationship between china and north korea it's not president xi jinping going to pyongyang it's coming here perhaps seeking advice seeking guidance from president xi jinping ahead of important international meetings as we saw last year ahead of that meeting with president u.s. president donald trump in singapore and for china it's important to show the world and specifically to show the u.s. the level of influence it has with pyongyang indeed because the chinese may be hoping. to be able to slip in a little bit of influence with regard to his own situation its own diplomatic standoff with the united states and of course i'm referring to the the trade war. that's right now china just going back to china has said that it supports any talks between the u.s. and north korea but what's interesting as you mention is the timing of this visit of kim jong il to beijing now this is happening at the exact same same time that we

have a group of negotiators from washington here in beijing trying to seek a solution to this long running trade war between the u.s. and china and china of course is looking a looking to increase pressure on washington to improve its hand in those negotiations with these trade talks and the foreign minister here in china has denied that the coincidence of these two things happening at the same time here in beijing is just a coincidence it's not by design but surely there is no denying the power of that this knesset doing beijing is showing the u.s. that look if you want to see denuclearization in north korea if you want to see the maintenance of sanctions you really need to acknowledge the importance of the role china plays in that and perhaps you should also maybe listen to us when it comes to negotiations on things like trade katrina thank you for katrina you live in beijing now let's go to the south korean capital seoul and chorus from the pride and rob the south koreans always seem to be fairly welcoming the of the chinese involvement

with the north koreans is that the way they feel at the moment with regard to this latest set of meetings taking place in beijing. i think so martin and it does seem to indicate that we are going to see a flurry of into international activity on the summit front there does seem to follow a pattern that kim goes to see she may be out of deference to the far more important neighbor maybe getting guidance on how to deal with the u.s. and then lo and behold we then see a summit being announced with with trump everybody has been expecting an announcement of a second summit meeting between trump and kim both sides of said that they want one so it has led to speculation that we may be getting an announcement quite soon there has been media reports about u.s. officials being in viet nam as a possible location for this fourth coming summit should it take place that seems

to be favored at the moment but if you're looking for a longer odds then possibly bangkok or even hawaii have been mentioned here in south korea it's also led to speculation about when we might expect the next into korean summit of course kim jong un was meant to visit south korea people of expecting this visit an historic visit by a north korean leader to take place within the past month or so it hasn't happened there's been an awful lot of speculation about what has been the reason for this apparent delay has it been bargaining measure by the north koreans maybe to put pressure on the south koreans to then pressure in turn the u.s. more plausible explanation might well be that the north koreans have been holding off from having a further meeting with the south koreans because both sides know that they have to have something more tangible with this will be their fourth summit there have been agreements there has been progress but they need something more concrete possible economic cooperation between the two that they can show their domestic audiences

for that to happen they have to have exemptions from sanctions for that to take place they need to get the u.s. on board hence the importance of a successful meeting between north korea and the u.s. to allow all this to take place marty. rob mcbride live in the south korean capital seoul thank you now britain's parliament has approved financial measures making it more difficult for the country to leave the european union without a deal it's another major blow for prime minister to resign may's bracks it strategy gena hollings planes. the british government is preparing the country for life outside the european union in particular for the possibility of leaving without a deal over future relations it's not a pretty picture queues of trucks shortages of food and medicine it is for many in parliament a worst case scenario but one that grows more possible by the day. hardly surprising

then that those opposed to a no deal breaks it are doing all they can to prevent it i believe the government should rule out no deal but i think if it won't tim palmer it must make sure that it has the palace to do side if it comes to the crunch it is time for members of parliament are also i start ruling out deeply damaging options to our country voting by a majority in favor of a measure that blocks public spending on a no deal outcome m.p.'s on both sides demonstrated their opposition to the government's current course. it's a significant defeat for the government here the successful amendment to the finance bill tabled by the opposition labor party with wide support is perhaps not the first salvo in a campaign aimed at forcing the government's hand it doesn't mean no deal planning will stop nor that no deal won't happen but it does put much more pressure on the prime minister to find a position that a majority in parliament can actually agree on she wasn't in parliament but to

resume a knows that if there is no appetite for no deal and her own plan gets voted down next week then her options are greatly limited feed her go cap in hand to the e.u. leaders and plead for something better or consider doing what an increasing number of people and m.p.'s wanted to do which is hold another referendum there isn't a majority in support of any of the particular rights and outcomes and that definitely isn't a support for no deal so it is supported by around a quarter of the country around half those who voted leave in the e.u. referendum but it isn't as popular as remaining in the european union would be and when you ask the public which would prefer staying in your opinion or leaving with no deal staying in the european union does come ahead eighty days to breaks it and counting it is still firm government policy to take britain out of the e.u. on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events joe now al-jazeera london the largest opposition party in the democratic

republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed winner of last month's election the union for democracy and social progress says felix just a kennedy has won the historic vote is calling for a terror transition meeting with the outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results of the vote. but one of the main observer groups of the election india is now reporting serious irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that it monitored r m a tosser has the latest from the capital kinshasa shopkeeper blank knows the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history could several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on. oh people never the political situation right now is affecting business very few people are spending money. in case things.

election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causing delays now they're expected to be announced later this week this could be the first democratic transfer of power in the us since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty that's if everybody here except the un many people hoping to help in decades of conflict and in on it and make. opposition leaders say they fear the vote will be manipulated to favor president joseph kabila as preferred successor emanuel should diary result. the result that what you cite. is not negotiable and then we are calling. for to be vigilant.

all the rules. supporters from the ruling party have already started celebrating and deny allegations of fraud they insist only the electoral commission known here as see me know the outcome. while we have to study the results of. the remake of the. how. i was in your position i should ask you how will. you know when. the government has cut internet and islamist services to prevent speculation on social media about who has won some people fear they could be violence if the final results are rejected by the liz's al-jazeera. the sudanese president

has dismissed calls to step down and praise the army's response to antigovernment protests omar al bashir made the comments at a military parade in ads for that society where the demonstrations began three weeks ago the protests calling for bashir to step down have since spread across the country of origin say at least nineteen people have been killed but i am the sea internationals but the death toll of thirty seven has been more than has more from the capital car too. anti-government protests are now in its third week people have been demonstrating demanding that president obama and his twenty nine year rule and step down now would all start over the economy over the rise in bread prices and inflation of seventy percent one of the highest in the world and the protests spread nationwide schools and universities had to be shut down social media platforms such as twitter what's up and facebook were blocked by the government now today president obama to travel to river nile state and went with the military and

spoke about the situation that the country is going through but. unfortunately those who are conspiring against sudan have been able to plant some agents and some traces in our midst unfortunately that meld inside those with weak souls those who vandalize and in the meantime our people have been building and developing every day to renew projects but on the other side they want to destroy my greetings to the military forces which have guarded the nation and protected it and broke down all conspiracies by the colonizes disappearances and their agents now this is not the first time that the president has spoken he has spoken on the eve of the country's sixty third independence anniversary and he said that he was going to increase the living wage and he was going to try to improve the economic situation but that did this did not stop the protests forces have been going on going including today and more are planned in the coming days now the government has been criticized for using what has been termed as excessive brutal force they just haven't have been killed in the process according to enter into the human rights

group amnesty international but the government is saying that mine thousand people have been killed and over eight hundred have been arrested. the united nations envoy to yemen has met the yemeni president. hadi mohsin griffiths spoke to president hadi on tuesday in the saudi capital riyadh before that he'd had meetings with the rebels in the yemeni capital sanaa this is calling on both sides of the civil war to follow the fragile truce they agreed to last month in sweden have been reports of violations especially in the port city of where most of the country's food and medicine must paul through before distribution. sigurd knew a bar is a middle east analyst he thinks the fact that negotiations are ongoing is a positive sign. the aid house been coming in through yemen and throughout the war from who date of the problem is that it is not enough for you can't just have one

entry point of humanitarian supplies into a country of tens of millions of people so that to ensure a transition continues obviously whitehall i think what is important to understand is that the deal over who died i was a. test if you will for the parties to see if they can agree on this they might be able to agree on other issues that are more complex and difficult including potential power sharing your arrangements and so forth so i think that the political talks will there will be no next face of these talks but for now the fact that there are u.n. monitors on the ground and who they doubt to ensure that the ceasefire is holding is in itself a success right that's all for me for this. because elizabeth khurana will be in this. and she'll bring you the very latest reaction from washington to that trumps the national address stay with us.

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