allegations of fraud in democratic republic of congo despite an opposition candidate being announced the winner of the presidential election. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up attempts to end the u.s. government shutdown asked donald trump walks out of a meeting with congressional leaders. u.s. secretary of state is in egypt where he's expected to outline president trumps middle east policy in a speech in cairo. and concerns over the new technology that lets retailers read customers move. so the much awaited provisional results from the democratic republic of congo's election are out and a winner has been declared it could set in motion the country's first peaceful transition of power since the one nine hundred sixty s.

the opposition candidate kerry won more than thirty eight percent of the eighteen million votes cast on december thirtieth that's according to provisional results unveiled by the election commission promised to be the president of all congolese and hailed the outgoing president joseph kabila and important political partner. i know how many of you find it hard to accept what i say with sincerity i pay homage to president joseph kabila president of the republic today we must no longer consider each other as adversities but rather as partners and democratic change in our country. but now martin he's the runner up who led the polls before the vote has dismissed the results and electoral he called on observers to publish what he called quote real results tallies compiled by the influential catholic church also indicate that fire is the clear winner. out to sue q all those who learned of the

truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national bishops the past couple conference sankoh and the church of congo through your historical observations we ask you to reveal to the congolese people and to the whole world the name of the person who really was our people's choice. good rejects categorically the result published by the election commission president well given the situation security has been stepped up on the streets of the capital kinshasa as many fear a potential standoff could lead to further violence but there were also scenes of celebration. has more now from kinshasa. the list is that katie has spoken and in his speech he called president joseph kabila the father of democracy he said he's going to be a president for everyone in congo not just his supporters and he thanked the other candidates namely martin for the manual to die and he's willing to work with them to build a better congo we also heard from us and for you he is the man according to opinion

polls who was supposed to have won this election he says he feels that the election was stolen he's called on his supporters to defend the vote he has the option of going to court if he so wishes but he feels that on a viable option he could maybe try to whip up some kind of fitzsimons among his supporters to try and see whether he can actually gain some traction or get people onto the streets to support him he also said he suspects that he is the katie made some kind of deal with president kabila to make sure they steal the vote for you know is a coalition candidate he has the backing of a big opposition leaders that noise going to be who has not been allowed to come into the country to campaign he's effectively in exile and is thought that he has more support. for example katanga province and the because he has a lot more backing from the opposition leaders that's why he feels he gained when he won the election but according to later commission in the case he won this election by you have the option to go to court the key thing of course now is how

the porters react either going to listen to his call to be vigilant to rise up and defend the vote. a spokesman for the answer group. and he said results sort of a new era. and you know it is quite a surprise since anything but should bury i decide is a new beginning we still have to wait to see what will come out from people context the results and hope that the process is going to be much more a keener than the electoral process so that we die end up in a situation that surprising because people don't feel represented in the result and just being that released now it is quite a shock for everyone but it is a new beginning so let's wait to see what will happen we have any challenge as and the final hour counts on the votes it is and this time as we are discussing the

sign for us coming real time as we look at it much closer will just we'll be able to decipher if those results are credible but as we discussed there lection are a naive and with the result the fact that those chosen candidate from the current regime can be allowed not to we use a small victory that accompanies people can claim for the past two years defeats and the numbers in the streets they were able to push the what is government to organize elections now with these results now people have to try to readjust and figure out is it really do we know or not what about those who didn't but gloat and tend to people at the end of this electoral process actually trust. that there will be determinant factor are if people will heed to streets in demonstration for their voice to be heard are that we use it as a new beginning for the r.c. club a better life for many police. suppressant donald trump has walked out of

a meeting with the democrats after they again refused to fund a border war with mexico the standoff has seen the government in a partial shutdown for two and a half weeks my kind of has more from washington d.c. . the bill is passed and i. the spending bill is passed in the house significantly ache republicans break ranks and vote to the democrat majority but there's little possibility this legislation will go to the senate republican leader there insistent he will not allow the passage of any bill that does not have the approval of the president who continues to insist he will veto any measure that does not include funding for the border wall you can never have border security or less you have a steel barrier a concrete floor or whatever you want but without it you will never have you can have the greatest challenge in the world you will never ever in a million years you will not have more secure care that the majority of federal

employees who will not be paid this week would appear to disagree some being urged to speak out by democrats we are the faces behind this shutdown we are the real people who work in the bureau of prisons and the transportation security administration and other federal agencies today doing so without federal pay. democrat leaders went to the white house for another round of talks but the meeting ended in failure when the president abruptly walked out then sending out this tweet in reference to democrat leaders of senate and house just left a meeting with chuck and nancy a total waste of time he says i asked what's going to happen in thirty days if i quickly opened things up are you going to approve border security which includes a wall or steel barrier nancy said no i said bye bye nothing else works it's cold out here and at the temperature wasn't much warmer in the situation room again we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way and he just walked out of the meeting

the vice president asserted of course that democrats were blocking reopening the government not president trump yes speaker pelosi that if he opened things up quickly if we reopen the government quickly would she be willing to agree to funding for a wall or a barrier on the southern border and when she said no the president said goodbye. earlier the president walked up to the hill for a meeting with the republican caucus and tonight there was any division within the party the democrats have lost support there is tremendous republican support unwavering as you probably know thank you very much but the republicans who wavered and voted with democrats in the house sent a different signal that this standoff is no longer one on purely partisan lines my kind of al-jazeera washington. your sector of state might pump is in egypt's

where he'll be giving a major speech on the trunk administration's middle east policy his stopping car it was part of an eight day tour of the region the city is where former president barack obama delivered his address to the broader muslim world in two thousand and nine well on wednesday palm post stopped in iraq to meet u.s. troops and reassure government officials about america's commitment to the. fights against eisel in about an hour from now pump air will meet egyptian president fattah el-sisi and then later on thursday there's his policy speech where he's expected to address increasing pressure on iran and troops decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria he will also hold talks with the egyptian foreign minister some minister create. ties between a donald trump and c.c. have grown despite egypt's controversial human rights record egypt is one of the biggest recipients of u.s. foreign aid is also one of four arab countries that some posed a blockade on cutter a closer strategic ally of the united states a washington wants egypt on board for

a broader regional alliance against iran and crucially for the success of trump's so-called deal of the century to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict chinese president xi jinping has voiced support for a second summit between north korea and the united states north korean leader kim jong il and ended a two day visit to beijing on tuesday the site provided much detail about the schedule of what the leaders discussed she has since told local media he hopes kim and donald trump will meet each other halfway on the issue of denuclearization if they meet again. but it's been forty years since the united states and china formally normalize diplomatic relations but the relationship between the two superpowers has become contentious lately the late seventy's group between u.s. president jimmy carter and chinese needed pain brought about decades of peace stability and prosperity and while she's paying a donald trump of acknowledge the historic milestone relations between the two nations aren't what they were

a decade ago katrina you has more now from beijing. today china and the u.s. are celebrating forty years of diplomatic relations at beijing's great wall of the people but when you look at the relationship and the state of it today there is not much to celebrate it's actually reached a low point according to chinese state media today they blame the u.s. squarely for this saying that the u.s. has persisted in a cold war mentality and is refusing to accept china's rise but for the u.s. it's much more complicated than that since trump came to power he's complained of unfair trade practices such as resulted in this long running trade war we saw a group of washington negotiators come to beijing this week to try to sort out a solution the talks were reportedly constructive but no result was seen there has also been a long running conflict over the south china sea tensions over that particularly the parasail islands which china has laid claim to and is continuing to build

military facilities on but the u.s. has said that there are many other parties that claim those territories including vietnam and taiwan and the u.s. has persisted in regular freedom of navigation operations in that area much to the hire of the chinese government and actually this week the u.s. sailed a warship very very close to the parasail islands so moving forward there is a celebration today in beijing but remains to be seen whether this relationship will be able to improve this coming year so they are not zero of course optimism about the prospects of. millions remain humanitarian situation. out of the still a weather warning in force for the amount of snow and strengthening winds for says

germany to feud with their ignorance and almost all of austria and its. this cloud here that is doing the general science with movement because the strong northerly wind is getting colder the snow is still falling and of course the cold in the star as reese's fossils as athens but the temperature change here we go a little low pressure area one if needed reacts exact means rain comes back to athens and the rest of greece temperature rises still snow and daguerre in albania and this not exists in austria and southern germany to the west things are look quite as you can see temperate but where they should be maybe a little bit mild even if this time the air because the difference in weather central europe and western europe how they get to friday and all the snow has gone the winds of change direction and it's quite and down a little bit further south as well so the end of the week looks a little quiet at least some that been suffering recently but of course that low spinning up in the adriatic we got a very strong wind running right across the western med off the coast of algeria

into new zealand at the temperatures think of the big winds and the big waves that they bring and that exists i'm afraid through thursday and indeed friday bringing showers and probably thunderstorms to boot. short films. and inspiration. snow stories of three young women challenging the world around them. al-jazeera selects.

a reminder the top stories and opposition candidate to felix to kennedy has been declared the provisional winner of the long delayed presidential election in the democratic republic of congo the runner up. dismissed the results as. u.s. secretary of state might pompei it was in egypt where he'll be giving a major speech on the trumpet ministrations middle east policy on wednesday pump has stopped in iraq to reassure government officials about america's commitment to the fight against. president donald trump has walked out of a meeting with the democrats off they refused to fund the border with mexico they called the meeting at temple waste of time tweeted that he had said to the democrats at the standoff has seen the government in a partial shutdown now for two and a half weeks. across the border in mexico central americans hoping for asylum in

the united states have been following trends repeated cools for increased security john heilemann reports. but the central americans watching president trump speech from the mexico u.s. border the main reaction was indignation as he once again depicted them as prospective criminals and yet it's here in the sense that what he said is offensive to me because we're not all the same there are criminals everywhere he should give us an opportunity to cross the only thing we want is to work and support our family as president trump hopes his message will help him get the funds for a good will which he says will stop them along with drugs and terrorists despite the fact that the last two overwhelmingly come through legal entry points if you want to prove border security right now.