we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world send a matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump calls illegal immigration a humanitarian crisis as he demands funding for the border war the democrats accuse him of staking fear. and i mean this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in the program north korean leader kim jong un wraps up a visit to china that was seen as preparation for his next summit with donald trump

. an opposition leader in the democratic republic of congo demands the results of the presidential election be published after another delay. and from flexible t.v. screens to intelligent household devices we check out the latest patch to the consumer electronics show. so then president donald trump has put his case for a border wall directly to the american people in a televised address the democrats in congress to approve funding for the project and end the standoff which is shut down parts of the government for almost three weeks mike hanna has more now from washington. the deadlock between congress and the white house continues democrats refusing to provide funding for a wall on the southern border president trump adamant he will not accept any budget bill that doesn't this is a humanitarian crisis

a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul the facts though do not support the contention of a spiraling crisis wrists at the southern border in two thousand and seventeen was the lowest in forty five years the number of would be migrants detained last year was list them half of the total arrested in two thousand and seven 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 then were killed in the entire vietnam war but this is contradicted by the drug enforcement administration which in a report last year said virtually all of the heroin sold in the united states comes through legal points of entry thank you and in a joint appearance the democrat leaders in the house and senate dismiss the address as nothing more than cynical korea mongering this president just used the backdrop

of the oval office to manufacture a crisis stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration the president's address and the democratic response has effected no change and at the weekend this will become the longest ever government shutdown in the nation's history mike hanna al-jazeera washington well john holdren has been following the journey of hundreds of asylum seekers from central america who are trying to cross into the united states reports now from tijuana where many feel vilified by trump's speech. we were in one of the impromptu shelters that been set up in two one a mexico to try and help central americans trying to get across the border into the united states and give them some support and shelter this one's in the church we would we watch president trump speech with them in the first reaction here was

really people quite offended especially his depictions as some people crossing illegally as criminals he told stories about a murderer and about a rapist they said you can't just stick his head in that same bucket there's a lot of good people here trying to get there they were talking about why they've gone in this dangerous journey north to president trump actually alluded to saying that things are so tough back home they didn't have a lot of choice even because violence because of the gangs the really terrorized vast parts of the countries where they live all because of poverty trying to escape make a better life for themselves in the united states some of them are doing the virus cyalume some of them. willing to jump over the fence hand themselves in straight away and then start the asylum process that way and some are simply saying that after really hearing about president trump poster and their chances of getting into the united states that way they just going to try and pay a people smuggler and go across the border obviously that's been happening for some

time now and it's what president from is trying in part to prevent by putting up this wall but illegal migration and apprehensions of the border have been going down for more than a decade in the united states he will so made a point the president about drugs he said that the war will almost pay for itself because it will stop vast quantities of drugs being trafficked over the border to the u.s. actually most drugs pass through ports of entry into the united states is smuggled along with the lines of people and vehicles going through the war wouldn't necessarily affect that but this is become a potent political symbol for the president and for his opponents in a battle that he's determined to win. now than the north korean leader kim jong un has wrapped up his visit to china a day earlier than expected was the talks with chinese president xi jinping could lay the groundwork for another meeting with donald trump this little detail on his schedule provided by either side but south korean media is reporting that kim meant

she for about an hour well it's but now to katrina you who's been following the story for us from beijing katrina do you read anything into this early departure sure is it's a little import well so far we haven't received any details as you've said there has been very little information since condone arrived in beijing on monday this trip has been shrouded in secrecy we do know that this afternoon his train was seen leaving they doing and there are reports that kim jong il intruded a chinese traditional medicine factory this morning then had some lunch with some top chinese officials perhaps even president xi jinping himself before boarding the train shortly after now there has been no official information so far either from the north korean government or from the chinese side there were reports that yesterday. met with president xi jinping for an hour and they were expected to have discussed a possible meeting between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un in the next few months so far we have no

confirmation of their spot we expect some information from chinese for china's foreign ministry over the next few hours now of condolence train does return home he's expected to arrive perhaps just after midnight but there are also there's also . the chance that he could be visiting another chinese city on the way back home so we should have more information about that later how important is it katrina for china to feel involved will be involved in the talks with the united states and when they him. i think it's an extremely important i think china is always very conscious of the optics and such i know i mean we can't overlook that the timing of this visit this is happening just as china has also just closed off some trade talks with the u.s. and the really sort of leveraging this relationship that they have with north korea

this is the fourth visit that kim jong un has made to beijing. under a year really and so china is really keen to show the world and show the u.s. the level of influence it does have with north korea and when it comes to talks about denuclearization and indeed maintaining sanctions are concerned only there for a moment thanks very much for the katrina you're reporting. that it doesn't diplomatic missions in the australian city of melbourne have been evacuated after a suspicious packages were delivered to the samples are being tested for hazardous material but there have been no reports of harm to staff some of the packages is said to have contained especially those material used in building that can cause cancer the confidence of greece egypt thailand new zealand among those targets the u.n. envoy to yemen is due to update the security council on its latest efforts to end the nearly four year war that most gryphus has been holding talks with both sides meeting the yemeni president. will heidi in the saudi capital and choose that and

the who the rebels and so on a group has won some to stick to the fragile truce agreed last month and sweet he's hoping to bring them together for a new round of talks later this month retired u.s. general anthony zinni has quit his job as it is to travel ministrations envoy working to resolve the dispute between qatar and its neighbors the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt impose a land sea and air blockade on doha in two thousand and seventeen wasn't 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 help establish a nato like organization called the middle east strategic initiative for me so no more zinni has submitted his resignation to anyways just challenged.

he did not waste his time because the situation in the middle east can always get more unstable unfortunately this 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 is in for his work saying that quote his mission was to help introduce the. concept of the middle eastern teaching along it's 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 peo to discuss the blockade and a possible military alliance during his first major trip to the middle east however pompei was top priority and that of the white house is the isolation of iran at any

cost that means anthony zinni is work could end up being neglected for the foreseeable future. al-jazeera washington what is the u.s. or state michael perez in the middle east of these drought to step up efforts to put pressure on iran he's also using his eight day to its reassure washington's allies about trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria stephanie decker has more now from 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's influence in the region there was a press conference between your state mr damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides wanted to see a political solution to it was a touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanians saying that they saw this as

a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east now 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 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 later in the show we're going to have more analysis on north korean leader kim jong un's visit to beijing plus the taliban call off yet another round of peace talks for afghanistan this time anybody gets a seat at the table. hello the snow is falling heavily it's still falling out it still will hold a warning out for southern germany the very now and austria until friday the

driving force is this low pressure area now some scandinavia a cold northerly wind adding to the chills already there on this white cloud contains all the moisture so there's yet more to come that's not just been germany and austria but it has prince really been those two countries all the northern facing out's back through france and some in italy would have had a meter and a half more to come and the whole cold air mass moves south spinning up a new little area of low pressure in the navy attic so that's going to bring more stuff to greece balgair in albania and rain for the south in greece and that rain moves across the g eight into what's turkey in the following twenty four hours with snow for the other countries in southeastern europe there's some easing in the snow for poland in germany but look at this vienna still sitting in it so that's why the warning is there for austria and southern germany huge amount of snow already cause troubles more to come and of course the cold air spinning up in the central med means it remains fairly cold in tunis at thirty degrees because of that wind speed

and wind direction a whole lot moves eastward so there may be a few showers on the coast of libya but probably is dry.

again you're watching a reminder the top stories of a new u.s. president has put his case for border war with mexico directly to the american people he said is necessary to result security drug trafficking and a humanitarian crisis for the democrats who accuse him of stoking fear. a u.s. envoy with resulting in the diplomatic crisis between qatar and its arab neighbors has resigned reports retired general anthony zinni quit ju-ju the unwillingness of regional leaders to engage in dialogue. with north korean leader kim jong un has wrapped up his visit to beijing earlier than expected little details have been released about his trip it was hoped it would lay the groundwork for another meeting with u.s. president donald trump so let's take that very story we can speak to mason richie

who's an associate professor of how to cook university of foreign studies he joins us now from soul mates welcome to the program so he came he went what you think was achieved. well it's a bit difficult to say what was achieved since details are a bit thin but assuming that things went well and we have no reason to believe otherwise for the moment. obviously in the first place the two leaders coordinated head of the potential kim trump summit exchange views and expectations they sent a message in second place i think to trump in the u.s. . they're back on side again the two traditional allies and you know especially from kim's perspective china does represent a potential weak point for any upcoming potential u.s. tightening of sanctions in the third place kim landers his image again as

a normal leader normal leaders go in visit their allies in have some let's in the fourth place i think the economic message here is significant you know he's visited a pharmaceutical factory apparently in between the lines you're obviously reading a little bit there into how kim plans on continuing to focus on economic modernization and reform so looking ahead to this potential second summit with donald trump how important is it for china and indeed north korea for china to be stymied of the shoulder of north careers as these talks go on. i do think that it's important for china china was quite unhappy with being cut out of the diplomatic process as it was beginning really in two thousand and eighteen and of course it wasn't until march twenty eighth seen when she and kim

met and began to patch over the differences had accrued between north korea and china throughout the years prior to the diplomatic process that's taken place so i think it's important for she just sent a message that he's back in the game and that he's playing an important role again in north east asian security affairs. we appreciate it perspective thanks very much . the latest round of peace talks for afghanistan have been called off after the taliban refused to meet u.s. representatives it follows disagreements over the agenda for the two day meeting which was meant to start in carter on wednesday as this report. taliban leaders canceled a meeting with the u.s. officials only a few hours after telling the media they were willing to hold face to face talks in qatar in the coming days and the reason is differences over inviting the afghan

government delegation to join the talks a few days ago the taliban rejected an offer to meet afghan government representatives in saudi arabia preferring instead to hold talks with the u.s. special envoy. at the united state in taleban both have some cards taliban also try to play chess board in politics they don't want to open up. they want to give little intake a lot. the afghan government says it's ready to me the taliban any time anywhere but for the talks to succeed afghanistan needs help from neighboring pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven for taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government pakistan being the immediate neighborhood

understand is interested that any development in afghanistan leads to peace and stability of the region gotten the efforts underway towards a political settlement in afghanistan and the draw all of us troops should be part of a peace process we did to ensure that it is nor bar vacuum in afghanistan. despite huge international aid and a military campaign led by the us war is far from over. and the taliban is far from defeated reports that the trump administration might be withdrawing troops in the coming months triggered panic among afghan officials but the u.s. isn't the sole player in the region the russians invited the taliban and the members of the kabul based afghan peace council for talks last year saudi arabia and the u.a.e. took part in the last round of talks in december. iran has also been active over

the last two years building bridges with the taliban and the government iran says its goal is to ensure an afghan led peace deal. with the talks gained momentum last year but it's unclear if all the parties are willing to make concessions and they can we on a unity government has made about al-jazeera a controversial bill passed by india's lower house of parliament to spot protests in the northeast instead of a sign the legislation give citizenship to members of some religious minorities who fled persecution in their own countries but opponents say it will take jobs away from indigenous groups the bill which still needs to be approved by the upper house has also been criticised for its scrutiny of islam. human rights watch says venezuelan intelligence has detained and tortured military personnel accused of plotting against the government its report says detainees descried being strangled

deprived of food and electrocuted international pressure is building on president nicolas maduro to step down is due to be sworn in in fact on thursday for a second six year term the u.s. and several regional powers considered moderate government illegitimate. sydney's president omar bashir is expected to speak in the capital khartoum on a day where more rallies for and against him are planned the protests calling for bashir to step down have spread across sudan since mid december it began over the cost of food and fuel and government corruption president bashir is refusing to resign and has praised the army's response to the protests. the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed winner of last month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress says it's counted it. has won the party says it's had a transition meeting with the outgoing president joseph kabila an advisor to could be and denied that such meeting took place meanwhile one of the main observers of

the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is reporting irregularities in more than half of the counting centers it monitored. as the latest from the capital kinshasa. shopkeeper blank. the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history coote several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on little. people never the political situation right now is affecting business very few people spending money. in 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 at n.p.r. since independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty that's it

everybody here except the un many people hoping to help in decades of having an economic. opposition leaders say they fear the vote will be manipulated to favor president joseph kabila as preferred successor emanuel should dari the old. result that what they decide. is not negotiable and then we are calling to you. to be vigilant. all the rules. norks something was deported from the ruling party have already started celebrating and did not allegations of fraud they insist only the electoral commission known here as simi know the outcome. three children in the us while we have to state the

results of the election. we'll make the announcement of these who are working like. how can we. use i was in your position i should ask you how will. this result you know with. the government has cut internet and islamist services to prevent speculation on social media about who has won some people fear they could be violent if the final results are rejected by the liz's. concetta egypt says it will be ready to stage africa's biggest football tournament in just over five months time the confederation of african football awarded who's the rights to egypt in dhaka on tuesday p.t. south africa cameroon was stripped of the competition two months ago because of infrastructure delays and security concerns egypt's last host of the tournament

thirteen years ago but struggled to organize such events since the arab spring of two thousand and eleven i promise it. will do a service to america i think it would have been next june and july we have a short period for egypt is it such an event it would be tat first time and it would still be one of the trouble. i promise if all you have conditions will be ready for the world and we're very happy in our country. the annual consumer electronics show is underway in las vegas usually it's a proving ground for innovate is a new technologies but this year there's anxiety over tumbling stock prices and a trade war between the united states and china reynolds has more now from the. four thousand companies from dozens of countries rolled out new products at the consumer electronics show l.g.'s new flexible t.v.

screen made a big splash. algy has an all ad t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from view into a box as the first roll will flexible screen that we've seen produced from a major television manufacture the price tag around three thousand dollars this year there's an air of anxiety in these corridors tech stocks have been tumbling on wall street apple made a surprise announcement it would miss sales targets blaming weak demand in china chinese telecommunications giant weiwei is here even though its chief financial officer is under house arrest in canada fighting american efforts to put her on trial for fraud you know major chinese tech executives are attending c.e.o.'s giant tech companies are displaying smart home devices face recognition systems and more big picture products and then there are guys like golly rows of who got tired of

folding all this kid's laundry that we have piles of laundry always waiting to be folded who doesn't rose of the appliance called fold of eights will go on the market later this year price that about a thousand dollars on the corky side c e s twenty nine hundred features wearables for pets smartphone controlled doggie doors and a baffling proliferation of internet connected intelligent toilets there are plenty of items here that are fascinating and some will prove to be big hits with consumers others frankly nobody really needs but there's no truly revolutionary technology on display here it's a yes in fact many analysts would argue that the last really big innovation was the smartphone introduced by apple nearly a dozen years ago the next big wave might be household devices with advanced artificial intelligence or a lie this is one example. elec you build as

a digital companion for elderly people living alone i try to be a fairly intelligent presence in your day to day life companies are charging ahead with ai that will become deeply embedded in people's lives with little regulation or public debate the impact of this technological evolution will change human relationships and society in the coming decades for better or for worse robb reynolds' al jazeera los vegas. or let's have a check of the headlines here announced there and u.s. president dollar trump has put his case for a border war with mexico directly to the american people he said it's necessary to resolve security drug trafficking and a humanitarian crisis 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 the democrats are accusing trump of staking fair and all demanding he reopen the government without funding for the war. and children at the point i'm not a security threat they are humanitarian challenge i challenge the president comes on call and counterproductive policies have any teeth and and the fact is president trump must stop holding math people hostage might stop manufacturing a crisis and must we open the government the north korean leader kim jong un has wrapped up his visit to china a day earlier than expected was hoped the talks with chinese president xi jinping could lay the groundwork for another meeting with donald trump there was little detail on his schedule provided by either side but south korean media is reporting

that kim she for about a mouth. a u.s. envoy tarts with resolving the diplomatic crisis between qatar and its arab neighbors has resigned there are reports that retired general anthony zinni quits juta the unwillingness of regional leaders to engage in dialogue more than a dozen diplomatic missions in the australian city of melbourne have been evacuated after a suspicious packages were delivered to them samples are being tested for hazardous material that have been no reports of harm to stuff human rights watch says that venezuelan intelligence have detained and tortured military personnel accused of plotting against the government its report says detainees described being strangled deprived of food and electrocuted international pressure is building on president nicolas maduro to step down right up to date with headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up right after inside story live from.

turkey's president's criticizes the conflicting messages coming from the administration over its promise to pull out troops from syria national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on this but turkey warns it won't compromise this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. many were caught off guard last month when u.s.

president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about.