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the u.k. parliament leading up to a crucial vote on the prime minister's breaks that deal with the e.u. . president u.s. president donald trump calls illegal immigration a humanitarian crisis the democrats accuse him of stoking fear. and from flexible t.v. screens to intelligence household devices we check out what's on offer at the consumer electronics show in las vegas and on peter stammered with the developments in the investigation into state sponsored drug use by russian athletes moscow says it's ready to hand over material from its anti doping agency that in more sports news coming up. an anti-government rally is underway in the sudanese capital khartoum keeping up the pressure on president to step down just a few hours. addressed his supporters in the city calling for unity and accusing

foreign powers of stoking the unrest legislations have spread across sudan since mid december it began over the rising cost of food and fuel and government corruption. however remain defiant that you know. we are all together hand in hand joining forces to maintain stability however some are adopting foreign agendas being operated by outside forces to the sudan however we reiterate those who are seeking power they are welcome however there is only one route to grab power it is the ballot box it is only through transparent free elections and it's up to you the sudanese people to decide to have a morgue and joins us live now from khartoum and have always or bashir there at an earlier pro-government rally very keen to show the support that he still has yes lower he's been he's been very can his party has also been very keen to try to

show that these two of the past three days of anti-government protests that has happened that started in december and it's been going on for three weeks means nothing and that he still has the borders and people backing him up until he runs for elections next year now he has spoken about the protests and he said that people have been the people who will be protesting have been infiltrated by what he described as foreign agents and he seems to believe that those people who are protesting do not have a legitimate reason and this is not the first time president bashir is saying that has been saying about for almost a week now he's spoken to people on the eve of independence of the countries it's the third independence anniversary in his book and again yesterday to the military in their open i reckon i'll state where protests started but basically he's trying to show that he still has support and that all the opposition and all the anti-government protests means nothing and he will still hold on to power until elections next year but the anti-government rallies continue to get underway you were at one earlier the protesters managing to keep up the momentum.

yes they seem to be very eager and very keen to continue with their momentum we were very early we've seen people chanting slogans like downfall the downfall of the government that they want to regime change and they say that they're protesting peacefully they were protesting peacefully but they were not met with peaceful means that they have been tear gas fired to try to disperse protesters hundreds have been forced from their from their demonstrations the big gathered back again so it seems like they're very eager to keep on with the momentum and still president bashir steps down something he said he's not going to do so basically today has been a reflection of the state of the nation of sudan people on one side demanding that the president step down and his twenty one year rule and the president and his supporters and the other thing that they will mark a step down they will continue to hold on to power until elections come next year have other any negotiations underway between these two sides. no not at the moment because people who've been protesting it's been largely sporadic people have been organizing themselves based in neighborhoods there is a sudanese professional association that have been mobilizing the protesters over the past few days but they're not the main body that have been there not the only

body that are basically running these people in these anti monster and to government demonstrations so president bashir and his ruling party at the moment doesn't have a specific side he can negotiate with and he doesn't have what it takes basically very thing that all these promises of economic reforms of increasing civil servants salary ranges mean nothing to them they say that they've heard these promises over and over again so with president bashir having no specifics that he can negotiate with and with the process that feeling that they've heard these promises over and over again it seems like this will be clinton for quite a while have a morgan brings the very latest there from khartoum thanks ever the british prime minister tourism is insisting there is no alternative to her daily as she tries to persuade parliament to support politicians not debating the agreement which sets out the terms of precedence departure from the european union that is supposed to happen in eighty days but on tuesday night may suffered another setback the plans and parliament made it more difficult for a new deal outcome. given this house is now rejected no deal will the prime

minister protect thousands of skilled jobs in the automotive industry and others and rule out no deal it is absolutely sensible for this government to prepare for no deal and those preparations are even more important given the position taken by the right honorable gentleman with an opposition front bench that is opposed to any deal that the government to go see it with the european union it's even more important that we prepare for no deal the deal protect jobs and security and delivers on the referendum and he showed back it. and a whole life for us now in london and a busy few days ahead for the u.k. parliament now and sunny difficult times the prime minister now breaks the deal. yes i think a very difficult few days ahead as well as you say for the prime minister leading up to that meaningful vote next tuesday we expected to happen on her brakes

a deal you'll recall it was dramatically delayed in december the government fearing a big defeat i think a defeat certainly still very much on the cards and with that in mind. and please in the house of commons who are opposed to the direction the government is taking you up or to opposed in particular to the possibility of a default no deal for example are fighting back effectively in open combat now with the government inflicting their first defeat on tuesday night you mentioned it there a vote with cross party support tabled by the opposition labor party complicating the government's ability to use taxpayer funds to pay for any no deal breaks if it continues on wednesday with an amendment later which could be far more significant an amendment which if it is approved by this majority alliance in parliament would mandate the government to come back within just three days of losing the vote next

week three days cut to the mandate is twenty one days with a plan b. a statement outlining its vision of what happens next and what's more that statement would itself be amendable by m.p.'s who could at that point attach to it then version of what should happen next including the possibility of a second referendum so as soon as the end of next week you could see happening here in the house of commons to resume a's brigs a deal voted down the labor party who've all but promised to immediately table a vote of confidence in the government to try and trigger a general election and possibly by the end of the week even a vote on a second referendum barry and sing at the dais to watch dana thanks very much for brains abstain that from westminster. now malta says allow two rescue ships that have been stranded at sea for weeks to dock on its shores the maltese prime minister says forty nine people on board the vessels will then be

redistributed among the eight european union countries and picked up by two german charities was making the dangerous mediterranean crossing. and all other e.u. countries had refused to offer them a port of safety here's president donald trump is set to meet congressional leaders later on wednesday to continue talks on reopening the government but republicans and democrats appeared as far apart as ever in time time speeches on tuesday night blamed his rivals for the standoff over immigration and again demanded money from his mexico border wall mike hanna has more 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 affected no change and at the weekend this will become the longest ever government shutdown in the nation's history mike hanna al-jazeera washington as go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly harkat in washington d.c. and can the house this televised address from donald trump being received. it doesn't appear that has moved the dial at all laura seems that those that supported the president supported his effort to keep the government closed in an effort to try and get that five point seven billion for physical bare along the southern border with the united states and mexico that they still support him and those that were opposed still are opposed it doesn't appear that not only did donald trump persuade the american public but a similar criticisms are being leveled against the democratic leaders that spoke

right after him namely nancy pelosi the house speaker and also chuck schumer the top democrat in the senate so what we have here is just sort of a digging in of heels even further the gridlock that donald trump was supposed to when he was elected sort of try and break up a new washington over sorry hardly seeing evidence of that now having said that in terms of the crisis which the president tried to underscore in his view is the situation certainly there's no dispute between democrats and republicans that there's a problem in fact politico a poll going into this speech put forty two percent of americans believe there is a crisis and another thirty seven percent believe there is a problem along with southern border so americans are in agreement about this situation in the southern border that there is a problem with illegal immigration but the difference comes in how to solve it so this is what we're looking ahead to whether or not the congressional leaders can it

is simply were to stared out who's going to blink first and reopen the government so that eight hundred thousand furloughed workers can get back to work and where do things go next kimberly. so there are number of things that are going to be happening in the next twenty four to forty eight hours we have the president heading up to capitol hill he'll be talking to sort of the rank and file republicans many believe that they are starting to show some cracks feeling like they are being blamed for the shutdown not the democrats and as a result are starting to want to cave in if you will so we're going to see the president in a couple hours time heading up to capitol hill along with the vice president to try and continue to rally the troops at the same time a few hours after that we've got the congressional leaders that means the top republicans and democrats in the house of representatives in the senate heading to the white house this is going to be another example of them trying to come to some resolution what the president we should note his speech said could be done in about forty five minutes but they haven't been able to accomplish it thus far we're going

to see that and then we know that the president on thursday will be heading to the southern border where he continues to make his case that this is a crisis in an effort to try and resolve this issue but so far it does not look promising doesn't ok kimberly many thanks for bringing us up to speed with the ins going on that. john heilemann has been following the journey of hundreds of asylum seekers from central america trying to cross into the united states. many feel vilified by trump's speech. we were in one of the impromptu shelters that been set up into one 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 from 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 the 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 of the 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 asylum 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's current posture and their chances of getting into the united states that way they're 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 trump 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 also 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 this along with the lines of people and vehicles going through the wall 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. plenty more still ahead here on this news hour including. teachers and doctors and zimbabwe joining forces to make a stand against the government's. need to. visit china a day ahead of schedule plus erfurt adult all. the player fans want to see in action at the australian open will have an update on the

spaniards later and sports. has made a stop in iraq on his tour of middle east capitals my pompei arrived in baghdad where he met iraqi leaders as well as u.s. troops stationed at believed to discuss u.s. concerns about iran's influence on iraq a top u.s. diplomat is in the region to reassure washington's allies about trump's plans to withdraw troops from syria. on the. years. and has the latest from baghdad. this was an unscheduled visit but top of the

agenda for both the americans and the iraqis are two very different things the first thing for the iraqis will be carful cation on the u.s. role within the country itself the u.s. president donald trump visited just after christmas he announced that he wasn't going to pull out u.s. troops from iraq he actually did speak to anybody within the iraqi leadership he made that decision on his own so the iraqis would be seeking clarification on that for the americans is very much about the iranian role within iraq you society both politically and militarily will be seeking clarification on what exactly iran is up to here in iraq now iraq actually has a sanctions waiver to do trade with iran so the americans have long criticized that they're the ones that gave them the sanctions waiver but they have been very critical of it as well turkey's foreign minister is insisting that his country will reject the u.s. request not to target kurdish groups in northern syria once american forces leave.

dressed ballance a day off to u.s. national security advisor john bolton reiterated their request in ankara bolton's comments angered president stepped up and he says he will not compromise on kurdish y p g finds as. terrorists. release two for the us to be this intertwined with a terrorist organization makes leaving it that much more difficult we continue to hear different voices coming from different levels of the american administration everyone can see we've been fighting against terrorist organizations in the region from day one we need to prevent people i.p.g. from turning into a growing threat to our country we need to act against that so because ok reports from the end northern syria. we are in a town that was liberated by the turkish backed free syrian army a while ago and the stone was vons why are still boned by other coalition forces and it has been hurt a lot with its people with its buildings and after it was liberated by the turkish

crack free syrian army the margaret is the most graphic it has changed people who have moved out so far has returned and there is some other migration from other places inside syria every little a normal life has begun as we are told because there are schools there is a courthouse there is a major reason that they call where the local council functions and there are local police forces that is mentored by the turkish turkish army members here and when there is a vendor the local police forces here could interfere immediately however of course it was fear here is different to the kurdish dominated areas in northern syria these people here in they most of believe that if a turkish military offensive is held against a pew idea and we have a controlled area. those places could be liberated and they can go back to their

homes like members or other places there is a void working to resolve the blockade of qatar has resigned retired general anthony zinni was the trump administration's point man on the g.c.c. crisis well in jordan explains why he quits and takes a look at the state of us to play him see 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 us stablish a nato like organization called the middle east strategic initiative army said no more zinni has submitted his resignation. anyways just challenged. no. 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 anytime 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 data 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 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 peo 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 human rights watch says venezuelan intelligence has detained and tortured military personnel accused of

plotting against the government this report says detainees described being strangled deprived of food and electrocuted concessional pressure is building on present this month henri to step down he's due to be sworn in on thursday for a second six year term us in several ways no power is considered majority government illegitimate. prue's attorney general has resigned over claims of meddling in their corruption and construction right. says his decision was aimed at protecting the independence of the prosecutor's office his tenure has been mobbed by accusations of often political favors in exchange for bribes. celebrations and protests and guatemala after the government announced it was pulling out of an international corruption nine months earlier than expected back panel have been investigating top government officials and the president.

outside the headquarters of a un backed anti corruption commission a group of court amal and celebrate they say the international commission against impunity in guatemala or seasick to short has unjustly imprisoned their family members and they want the panel out and thanks to guatemalan president jimmy morales they might get their wish. not. helping our president recover the rule of law they have been so many violations of our rights we've been fighting for eight years and won't allow foreigners to keep trampling our country. throwdown for people who oppose cizik i'm arriving here at their headquarters they're setting off grabbers waving their flags and bring up my peace signs here on the wall i get it so these days here are done. at one point police officers escorted staff out of the building a spokesman said international personnel were being asked to leave the country as a security precaution. on monday president said he would expel the anti

corruption group. during its time in guatemala the commission has put national security public order to belittle and respect for human rights at risk for more than anything. it has put it risk the sovereignty of the state of guatemala. in august morales announced he would not renew c. six mandate which was set to expire in september two thousand and nineteen days later he banned its commissioner colombian prosecutor says from reentering the country. analysts say morale is decision to expel the group violates a constitutional order and international law. why is he doing this firstly he's being pushed by many of these political collaborates his who all being tried for corruption he's also received a lot of help from businesspeople who are being tried for corruption and probably

the biggest reason the legal process is against him he's brother and the son outside of the constitutional court another group of guatemalans holds a quieter protest they hope that the country's top court will rule against morales decision that your fantasy with him you thanks to the commission mafia like business. and that's what they don't like this is going on off the powers that existed since independence it's the only entity that's been able to uncover corruption you know but even if the president's ruling is overturned there are fears he will push it through and set off a constitutional crisis what many see as this country's most effective weapon in the fight against corruption could be coming to an end and guatemala's future hangs in the balance david mercer out zero in guatemala city. well saying sort of in the region there's the weather. lots of flooding in south america at the

moment let's take a look at what's been happening then starting in sao paolo where there's been an awful lot of rain and this is what it looks like there at the moment actually these are pictures of from yesterday showing the rain that we had yesterday and as you can see some of the roads there are impassable and some of the cars they're well and truly submerged now that area of rain has eased a fraction but instead this area just to the south of briefly got going and that's what's given us to french really heavy rain in the last twenty four hours or so say these pictures are from korea and this showing the lightning that we've seen there and then just over the bridge is a place called reza sense here and there is where my brother in law lives and this is his house as you can see he's not the best photographer but there is a lot of water that shouldn't be there and my other brother in law is a little bit better at photography and you can see outside his house at the moment there's a lot of water around as well now the amount of water we've had in residencies is one hundred millimeters in just fourteen minutes which is an awful lot of rain and that's what's caused all of flooding in fact we've had around five hundred

millimeters in the month now really on the ninth we usually have only around one hundred fifty in the entire month so with one way ahead of that and the rain hasn't finished yet it looks like we're going to see plenty more of it this is typical of an el nino setup we don't quite have ale nino at the moment so if we do have a new year things here could get even worse. what a useful family you have stuff still ahead here on al-jazeera the taliban cool off gets another round of peace talks for afghanistan this time over who gets a seat at the table and the exhibition in new york looks at america's history through the eyes of the artist and to walk home. classics shutting out schifrin see who's denying the american an event called it going world cup with peter with all the action ahead in spain. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with

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and there again you're watching our sister as a reminder of our top stories this hour and the government protesters a keeping up the pressure on president to step down he addresses supporters in khartoum refusing to quit and blaming the economic problems on foreign interference . british prime minister treason mayors insisting there is no alternative brecht's deal and she tries to persuade parliament to support it. debating the agreement which sets out the terms of persons departure from the european union. and donald trump is set to meet congressional leaders to continue talks on reopening the government will take place a day after trying to blame the democrats for

a standoff over immigration his rivals accused him of holding the american people hostage. the latest round of talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. has been called off for disagreements over the agenda for the two day meeting which is meant to starting wednesday. canceled a meeting with 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 of 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 u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad the united states. 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 anytime anywhere but for the talks to succeed in afghanistan needs help from neighboring pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven for taliban leaders. dismissed by the pakistani government pakistan being the immediate neighbor one a star is interested that any development in afghanistan leads to peace and stability of the region gotten the efforts underway to words a political settlement in a fantasy and the drawl of u.s. 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 of 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 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 gold used to ensure a. peace deal. the two gains momentum last year but it's unclear if all the parties are willing to make concessions and there we were in a unity government. and there are more talks on the way this time twenty percent says

of the afghan and pakistani governments and they are focusing on the taliban to the negotiating table with pakistan's help come ohio explains and one delegation is in pakistan to try to convince pakistan to convince the afghan taliban to accept the government and face to face negotiations however both the united states and the afghan government have been asking pakistan to do that that dollar bond not listening to anybody saying that the regime in. regime installed by the united states under david dog directly to the u.s. now last time after their dog dog be on december the seventeenth and reached the u.a.e. and so would you officials were also present the government delegation was sitting in abu dhabi however the taliban refused to meet them so it is going to be a difficult doss august on also saying that the stakeholders in the region should

also share their response ability for drying to find a reconciliation and of honest on august on it already the prime minister cameron khan also saying that it is a key priority for pakistan and the regional countries do establish peace indicted war torn country. and bangladesh thousands of garment workers are on strike for a fourth day. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets of protesters who are demanding higher wages and under around the capital dhaka one person has been killed and fifty others injured in the confrontations is the world's second largest government make up china. electoral verdi's in the democratic republic of congo's a provisional election results could be announced within the next two days it was supposed to be released on sunday but the electoral commission said that wasn't possible due to data collection problems or widespread reports of irregularities

when the election took place at the end of december. this update from kinshasa. all the saying that when they finally leave could be. twenty four or forty eight hours. to be in that building baby hi neat commission have been deployed in iraq and the area. this plane had been barricaded. inside that building counting some of those they say the reason why it's taking so long is because people are remote they've. been no road to the roads of unity bad beat maybe opposition leaders of. the. ruling party candidate. that if that happens. and in the past when that happens. that it could be violent but now as you can see behind

me the street people are going to buy the business waiting for the results to date . within forty eight hours but have been warned it could be longer than that. nigeria's president says he will raise the minimum wage but not by how much. protest by workers demanding better pay his previously agreed to increase it to eighty three dollars a month but it wasn't put in place because some states said they couldn't afford. a crisis in a decade hundreds of doctors have been on strike for weeks and now teaches a joining forces to mounting the government do more to help make ends meet present gupta reports. a new year a new term but an actual start for the students of zimbabwe. i was there and instead of notebooks inside classrooms some teachers are outside holding placards

they say they can only hold classes for two days a week and a threatening to go on strike in the coming days they want their salaries to be paid and u.s. dollars to shield them from a spiraling currency crisis this was at leeds was a negotiated and agreed into and it will be the spending that we need to really i would say that the violated that night. of unfillable practice for the second month in a row hundreds of doctors are staying at home they too want their salaries in dollars and a demanding better working conditions we wanted dad be mitigation offenders to be dangerous people too was a wonder that would diminish in terms of salaries good salaries in terms of the vehicles as a kid something towns could lose both of them was made public hospitals are running out of medicines and pharmacies are turning away people unless they're paying in dollars. there's not enough resources in the hospitals we're statuses patients are

even being told to buy out any syringes. but the government says it doesn't have enough foreign currency to meet the protesters demands zimbabwe depends heavily on imports and uses bone notes and electronic currency that's picked to the dollar a shortage of dollars means those bones are losing their value but they should now with the immediately now or tomorrow go into negotiations where the government will offer in terms of a million or aiding the plight of the civil service in the areas that they demanded on the streets of the capital harare lines like these are all too common a price. basic goods have more than tripled and there is a fuel shortage this crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing president emerson and al gore who promised economic growth and for investments to prince about we out of two decades of finance you disagree. robert mugabe.

with these teachers say the government needs to do more to help those who are struggling. on just zero. more than a dozen diplomatic missions in the australian cities of melbourne and canberra have been evacuated after a suspicious packages were delivered to them samples are being tested for hazardous material but there have been no reports of harm to staff some of the packages are said to have contained a spend those material and used in buildings that can cause cancer patients affected include the u.s. egypt thailand and italy north korean leader kim jong un has wrapped up his visit to china a day earlier than expected and was hopes the talks with chinese president xi jinping could lay the groundwork for another meeting with donald trump there was little detail on his shadow provided by either side but south korean media is reporting that kim met she for about an hour a trainer you has this update from beijing. kim jong un's train was seen leaving

beijing this afternoon and ever since the leader arrived in beijing on monday evening this trip has been shrouded in secrecy there have been reports that the leader visited some traditional chinese medicine factory on the outskirts of beijing earlier this morning before returning to beijing to have some lunch with some top beijing officials possibly even president xi jinping himself but we have received nor details about the visit from either the north korean all the chinese government we do know that president xi jinping met with kim to win yesterday for about an hour and they were expected to have discussed a possible future summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong un over the next few months now it's unclear whether kim jong un's train will return straight to pyongyang or whether hubie stopping by another chinese city but what is clear is that this trip has been very positive optics for both north korea and china for north korea they've been able to show the world that they have a very powerful friend in china and kim jong il has been able to demonstrate

himself as a more confident statesman than he was last year and for china well they've been able to show the world that they have very strong influence when it comes to pyongyang this is kinda wounds fourth trip to china in just under a year and this relationship is very important especially when you consider china's relationship with the u.s. china is currently embroiled in some very tense trade negotiations with washington and they're wanting to do what ever they can to improve their position in those talks and certainly leveraging this relationship with pyongyang is one of those ways. the office of andy warhol is instantly recognizable and uniquely american that's more to it than campbell's soup cans and marilyn monroe as this is a name we discovered as a retrospective of his work and new york. from consumer goods to celebrities with a technicolor twist andy warhol elevated every day images to high art his commentary on american culture is now on display at the whitney museum of american

art warhols genius in my opinion has always been to ground what he does in both the language of the history of art and the language of commerce and commercial culture and to bring them together the first retrospective of his art in thirty years andy warhol from a to b. and back again includes his early work as a commercial artist in the one nine hundred fifty s. illustrations that are beautiful in their own right and show a link to later works in both subject matter and techniques reproductive techniques the photograph is absolutely key to warhols work and there's no doubt that when he married painting with the soak screen he really changed things techniques that were considered groundbreaking at the time still seem relevant in an age of social media when we are bombarded with images and everyone it seems is seeking their fifteen minutes of fame and it was a series guns cross and i just have the the gun and the cross and of course the

hammer and sickle curator donna de salvo says the darker side of that culture shows up in warhols later years reflecting the social upheaval of the late one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's clued in the anti-war and civil rights movements showing us that these are just photographs so do we believe them we want to believe them but if you think about it it's just a photograph so it really that feels very contemporary because we live in a world now where we can also talk about digitally altered in the ages. causing the viewer to wonder what's real leaving no doubt warhols work still resonates christian salumi al jazeera new york. still has hair on a slippery slope. of the. day.

now and has peter thank you very much laura we'll start in russia where that country's n.c. doping agency has announced it's reached an understanding with the world anti-doping agency to hand over crucial data on drug use by its athletes water officials are expected to arrive in moscow today for their third visit to collect the data the country missed a deadline to handed over at the end of last month and wada say they will not be laid off the hook for that the information from the moscow lab could help water fall doping charges against numerous russian athletes. as far as we

know intensive communications with. are taking place through our sports department we have reached understanding with water representatives regarding future interaction as you know the daughter was ready to transfer the last time as well indeed difficulties came up regarding what dr storage devices are used and how they will be used and so on i would rather say these are not the questions of subject matter but the logic sticks. now this all started back in twenty fifteen when a state sponsored doping program in russia was exposed the country's athletes were barred from international events and risotto was suspended but in twenty eighteen they were reinstated by a border despite not actually fulfilling all the criteria to have been readmitted then on thirty one december they missed the last deadline to allow water fishel full access to data at the moscow in the barratry orders compliance review committee is set to meet in montreal on the fourteenth and fifteenth of january

where a decision is expected to be made on who saw his suspension. one of the favorites at football's asian cup has been pushed all the way by a team ranked one hundred twenty seventh in the world four time winner japan coming from behind to be turkmenistan three two a short time ago another group f. match kicked off nearly twenty minutes ago it's no no between oman and becky stan and in the later game in the united arab emirates qatar line up against lebannon. liverpool in egypt forward moments alive has once again been named the caf african player of the year beat fellow nominees liverpool teammates and arsenal forward america obama young in the same three were nominated last year and also won the award he said he hopes to be back again in twenty twenty. i think. so. too you know. i always see myself.

as it's always been. like see it was like so much pressure but i wanted it was not going to do it again so i believe i have to be here again this year so i'm happy to wait a second time. thinking about it with something just put me in the heart of much as it can be here next year. says he is happy for egypt to host the africa cup of nations this year but fans in cairo were more cautious many are concerned about the country being given the continent's biggest football tournaments in recent years attendances that local matches have been restricted because of security after the twenty eleven arab spring. and like do we truly have the resources needed for the organization was an egyptian i'm very happy and i'm very happy that event like this is taking place the person who she will be the next step to come up with the next step be a positive one will be

a step that can benefit soccer in egypt all because of the poor condition of pitches the lack of an audience and the prison security restrictions will things go badly given these issues will even happen this year and more years to come that's my opinion will have a positive effect or will be a burden if i just became of the right time soccer at the moment is not going very well with regards to its audience security and state of affairs this i believe can greatly boost tourism it will help bring egypt out of its current crisis but how fans will watch games is another question qatar based be in has announced it will stop its t.v. service in egypt egypt among four countries that imposed a blockade on the gulf state eighteen months ago be in continues to be in dispute with saudi arabia based be out q which broadcast fee for world cup matches without having the rights. tennis world number one simona halep has had a difficult start to her preparations for the first grand slam tournament of the season with five days to go before the australian open had no loss to move the

fifteen ashley barty at a warm up event in sydney it was bodies first victory over the top ranked player in six meetings to go into the quarter finals simona halep was runner up in last year's australian open but a start of the season with her coach. world number two rafa nadal is also preparing for the grand slam tournament in melbourne the thousand and nine champion says he's ready for the first major of the season after sitting out a warm up last week with five injury. is just unbelievable although all the things that the tournament is doing is just fantastic for the players or for the promotion of our sport so everybody wants to play well. i really hope i have a good week of preparation i think. adele's been on the mind of the world number one there's he plays up for the ferns ahead of the tournament the other joke of it posing with these avatar on the real court the serbs gunning for he's seventh

straight open title and he knows not one of his major hurdles. i was actually talking with my. you know the most exciting matches. with you know whether it's me and you know they all. went almost six hours in the two thousand and twelve finals cernan open was. definitely in my memory. the greatest most exciting match that i was never. nine time world ready. one stage two of the death already the frenchman raced across the peruvian there's a doings as conditions tested his main rival stefan petter hansel and. the stage when put forth in the overall standings while south africa the valley is the way. the denver nuggets are sitting pretty at the top of the n.b.a.'s western conference

and then when the over the miami heat settled into position. for a triple double of the season scoring twenty nine points eleven rebounds and ten assists as the nuggets beat the heat one hundred three ninety nine. lead the toronto raptors to victory with thirty one point six assists and four rebounds against the atlanta hawks a key steal in the final minute help set up a go ahead down from zero g. and no be securing a one hundred four one hundred one win for the raptors it's the ski defeat everyone is talking about us lympics star mckay the shiffrin was denied a record equalling eighth win in the world cup slalom by a tenth of a second placing in dance no fall in the austrian resort of flour how petter of love. beat the twenty three year old in an extremely close finish a race then should print but it was just not enough love is the first skier to beat the american in a women's slalom since the start of last season she celebrated with

a face plant in the snow. and that's all the sport laurie said thanks very much now the annual consumer electronics show is underway in the u.s. usually it's a place for innovators and new technologies but this year there's anxiety of a tumble in stock prices trade tensions and reports from las vegas a lack of new ideas 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 only ad t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from view into a box that is the first roll bull 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 but we have piles of laundry always waiting to be folded and 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 at c s 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 this is one example. elec you build as a digital companion for elderly people living alone i try to be a friendly 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

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