right empty the top news is the government shutdown people did not pay attention to my speech and i would guess that in many countries in the middle east they may have watched it but they don't put much stock in it because they see america in disarray and rudderless here at home and not with any clear policy in the region. one of the areas that he didn't mention was was yemen and that had recently got some attention in at least in congress hadn't it do you think it was all that he didn't talk about human no because again this administration has demonstrated that it doesn't really care about yemen i would say the obama administration also did not make it a top priority and even those who are critical in congress of the yemen war and saudi arabia and the u.a.e. i don't think they have a deep concern about the yemeni people a lot of this is just about our own politics in finding something to oppose trump with if people were really concerned about conflict resolution and yemen they would

actually be talking more about the peace process that the united nations is trying to get underway and talking more deeply about what it would take to actually protect the civilian civilians of yemen but the main thrust here in america on all sides of the aisles basically how do we get out of that region of the world and i think. speech today doesn't really change any of that broadcasters thank you very much indeed to feel thoughts most of you thank you. thank you. well more now on tom's visit to the southern border we're joined by john holeman who's just across the border into mexico john has the visit on down there. i think the reaction especially here in mexico has been sort of the muse moment miss pressure from the mexican government really just sort of letting president trump and us politics get on with itself he has actually said apart from saying

exactly that said that what his approach is he's trying to convince the united states for more investment more development in mexico and in central american countries so that people don't need. not to see the reaction from central americans here we watch president trump speech and she's there with them it was one in which they were quite offended of his depiction of them as prospective criminals entering the country but him now to talk a little bit more about this we have adam isaacson who's a border security analyst with the washington office of latin america thanks for being with us i don't so i suppose first things first do we need a border wall here do you see this as a security emergency for the united states it is not a security emergency that demands building a wall we already have three hundred fifty miles of hard wall like this across the border i guess the question you have to ask is if there were no wall and somebody ran across in two minutes where would they be in a sort of at that densely populated area you can almost see the san diego skyline

through the slats in two minutes somebody would be in a dead poppier and maybe could get away a wall has made a difference here in the rest of the area the border that does not have a wall this is rural areas it's wilderness somebody runs for two minutes and they're still in the middle of rural areas in wilderness and border patrol has a much higher chance of getting them and let's recall sixty percent rather forty eight now it's actually sixty percent the last few months of migrants who are coming across or actually stopping when they get there not trying to evade capture and asking border patrol for protection for asylum so it's a totally different. sort of deny dynamic we're dealing with now that a war would not make much of a difference for what do you think would make a difference in terms of the three. so apart from the migration of the president's talked about he's talked about terrorism he's talked about drugs and he's talked about criminals getting a look there's nothing you say there's a state of emergency something has to emerge there is no new terrorist threat in fact is a tiny six i think in six months number of suspected terrorists that they found at

the border there's no spillover violence these are some of the safest cities san diego's homicide rate is lower than the national average for instance the violence does not spillover the number of migrants is the fifth lowest since two nine hundred seventy three since i was two years old that's the lowest number and again nearly half of them are children and families now asking for protection they're not people trying to get away there's just nothing has emerged except this humanitarian need with so many more people than before asking to stay in the united states because they're afraid to go back to their home countries and that requires an entirely different approach we have seen that she since we've been covering that that a lot of people as you said their approach is to get over the fence illegally and then once they're in the united states to immediately hand themselves over and ask for asylum or would make a difference to that no because then they would be able to get over the fence well they could just go somewhere deeper into arizona where there is no fence or where the fences lower you go and the texas you've got one thousand three hundred miles

of the rio grande river much of which is on fenced if your intention is just to step on u.s. soil and wait for border patrol to come there's always going to be places they could do that and actually let's be clear according to international treaties and u.s. law the place really to do that is just across a legal crossing and present yourself so a lot of different issues here and quite a complex sort of sonora one of the things we're talking about is the fact eighty to ninety percent of drugs for example actually go through legal ports of entry so maybe one of the answers would be to up security and investment but at the moment it's become as much as anything political symbol for president trump and for his opponents in the united states john holland thank you very much indeed. coming up on the al-jazeera news hour venezuela's president nicolas maduro is sworn in for another term as thousands flee a devastating economic crisis. remembering. a vigil is held outside the saudi

consulate in istanbul to mark one hundred days since his murder. and a bowing out why a japanese wrestling champion is putting a year before the took your name picks peter explains in sport. a surprising election result in democratic republic of congo means a major opposition leader will likely take overs president anding eighteen year rule but felix securities victory is being overshadowed by allegations of vote rigging and fraud in principle catholic church has reportedly suggested the runner up martin for you actually won by a landslide and as her attacks are reports we can shatter the results have some celebrating and others protesting on the streets. and announcement a few expected one that could set the stage for the first democratic transfer of

power since independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty feel it. is father lead congress opposition for more than thirty five years had a message of unity. oh. i know how many of you find it hard to accept but 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. thousands of his supporters poured onto the streets to celebrate their hold it will be a new beginning people are suffering this country there's no job in this country i was in south africa i'm going to come back i'm going to there's no job and country . people there's people aboard to study and after that there's nothing the result triggered protesters in goma and congolese catholic chastely days are also questioning the result local authorities in concrete in the south west of the

country say at least two civilians and two police officers were killed during riots several police stations were torched. just a kid is rival martin five is rejecting the provisional results and alleges what he calls an electoral. act to sue you all those who learned of the truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national bishops the past couple conference sankoh of 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. categorically the result published by the election commission president. this in the international community to the surprise victory is at odds with other tongues. the catholic church of congo did its tally and announced completely different results therefore i think while remaining calm and avoiding confrontation that we must have clarity on these results which are the

opposite to what we expected. with a history of coups conflict and contested elections the d r c has been on edge during campaigning with allegations of widespread election irregularities including vote rigging and violence. to take anyone deny. even if. they have. the internet has been cut off for weeks in an apparent attempt to stop speculation about the results rights police had been deployed the vote that was two years old finally see the exit of president joseph kabila nearly eighteen years in power but they are questions about how much influence he will still have. conciousness. well i mean this year's african affairs commentator joseph a chain of thank you very much indeed for coming in so it's kind of bizarre situation where an opposition leader wins and then people are crying foul well what

motivators called intellectual coote could could it have been engineered for an opposition leaders were not this it's very difficult not to believe so because a save the far edge is it true your foreign labor to. extended by several weeks results released three o'clock at night so it's very difficult but quite clearly also the money in which the now the fuck to. mr said he and his conversation with mr kabila and everything else that reson cuomo has been saying is like that's very difficult not to believe so so so what are you suggesting that kabila has come to some arrangement with the security come to a deal and and the elections rage in his favor what would that deal in. entail clearly inside congo and said it congo and amongst congolese peoples of spoken to including in kinshasa it's very clear the case that mr kabila basically wants to have

a front tempted to use he's kind of did but it was very clearly very difficult for them to have the country to win so it is easier for him to be able to have somebody like this that would perhaps protect his interest one in congo and also guarantee an extension of the proxy leaders because of the region basically who's the ugandan president during his pro president but much more so kabila is in a state in which he couldn't really get any other way except by these and so what what would he be asking for protection for him. to protect him his family and by extension protection for him and the interest that actually kept him in power for the zones how concerned are you that this that there could be more violence as a result of this if people do believe that it wasn't a fair result and then what will happen i think that is probably the more important thing and at the moment because it is a position versus a position. you can say he has got the advantage that he's got the name of his father his father was extremely popular opposition leader and in fact a lot of the votes that he would have got on married anyway would have been as

a result of his father so partly because of that maybe to me mean that there's a possibility that there would have composition they were to talk acetic as they did talking to for you but i don't see how for you lou would talk to joseph kabila and what about for you what kind of recourse does he have any is it would he get much appeal to the prosecution of court that result will interestingly that is not true route to take but as of this evening the feeling is that it would be a waste of time because most of them are basically would be just as people so that clearly brings a worry congress that a big country very difficult to manage the big thing is security how that because it is about to mobilize and organize and create destruction in which interested parties like those emerging from the community don't go violent beyond the street is after the challenge for them and what about the response from international media we saw the french foreign minister suggesting that there might have been you know the results might not be what they should be and the catholic church in also said that the results don't don't tally up what how much influence does the

international community have on what happens next do you think if any at all france is rather discredited in calling we just as the discredited in london but they allowed themselves to actually have the negative perception that basically the foreign powers of interest but while france is on the other hand some of the more silent business driven interests including china including russia that we don't hear about they're very much down there and perhaps the underlying deals of the deals that we're not seeing on the table at the moment joseph cheney are very interesting to your thoughts thank you very much for coming in. and the unions and boyd to yemen has called on warring factions to maintain a fragile ceasefire that softer at least five people were killed by who think drone strike on a yemeni government military parade it back in large province is threatening u.n. peace efforts to end a four year war millions of yemenis are on the verge of famine those debar imports that issue one hundred fifty b.s.u. will be a win in his army of about. a

deadly drone attack on a military parade outside the southern port city of eight. zero zero zero. zero the fighters targeting troops as well as commanders from the saudi led coalition are the leading chaos in the minutes following the attack then the casualties can be seen as people scramble for cover oh but. it comes as a blow to yemen peace efforts after cease fire was signed for the key port city of hadera the last month. it also comes just a day after united nations envoy martin griffiths told the security council that the agreement had brought a considerable deescalation to the conflict the airstrike was carried out by a cost of two drone targeting the air base in the southern province of latch. this attack will likely raise new questions about iran's alleged role in arming to these

with drones and ballistic missile technology yemen plunged into civil war in two thousand and fourteen but hopes were raised last month that the country was moving towards peace after the two main protagonists agreed to a cease fire in her data to allow humanitarian aid into the country. for now this latest attack will only put further strain on an already fragile peace process door such a pari al-jazeera. turkey's foreign minister says gains made in northern syria by armed fighters formerly linked to al qaeda will be reversed taria sham has signed a cease fire with other rebel groups that handed control of province. yet it it's a fact that terrorist organizations are operating in italy and we did not bring these terrorist organizations to the region it was the regime it deliberately opened up the color doors for them to get to these radical groups have been attacking

moderate groups we are certainly taking all the necessary measures to stop them or the moment ago has more from. talking foreign minister manouchehr was shocked to say cell phones have by hired into him in a shop. against other opposition groups including some supported by turkey is meant to give the group more territory and influence something turkey would not allow he called the global terrorist organization and said on cut i will ensure that the gains that have made including taking complete control off in the provinces will get it lost the foreign minister said they were in talks with russia to ensure that they act together to. carry out an offensive against the higher to to hit a shot which has gained so much ten to thirty in the past two weeks the group pas awaits our taksin on all position groups including the free syrian army which is

allied to taki and eventually signed an agreement with the national liberation front another. turkish allied group something that give it the complete control of that province of course the foreign minister's comments come hop on the heels of a promise by the turkish president that an offensive on kurdish groups like the wide p.d. and the p.k. k. in the city of none beach will happen very soon turkish officials insisting that there are fences on men beach to them or what they're calling ten of his elements like the y.p. d.m.p. k.k.k. is not changed on the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria but will happen whether the u.s. troops leave or remain in the country. what you are serious still ahead here kay's biggest carmaker announces it's slashing thousands of jobs and breaks it is partly

to blame. we'll tell you why new technology is making it harder to state just another face in the crowd. and a country champion shows no sign of slowing down and at the dakar rally in the roof peter will be here with action from stage four. hello there snow it's continuing to fall across parts of europe is the satellite picture then showing the latest area of cloud sinking its way south as another one following hot on its heels so we are going to see some wintry weather during the day on friday and that will gradually make its way towards the northern outs once more bringing us yet more snow but then that will actually peter around to by the time we get to saturday the ouse is looking a good deal dry up it's not going to last there because this next system is going

to sink its way southwards and sunday is looking like we're going to see some very very snowy weather during the day now a bit further towards the south and the next system is making its way into turkey not staying in the western parts of turkey for now but it's gathering strength as we head through the day on saturday so on saturday it will probably be pushing a bit further south so for us in the northern parts of libya we're likely to see some of that what with the two before eventually that begins to pull its way eastwards as we head into sunday and monday towards the west fine and dry for us here robots up at around seventeen degrees a bit further towards the south arm for the central belt of africa zloty fine and dry it's also still very warm call to up at thirty three degrees but to the south that's where we've got a few showers around and some of them are looking for all the heavy day in parts of kabul. rewind returns a can bring your people back to life. with brand new updates on the best of

documentaries there has been a number of reforms put in place since the program was still continues with. we were following orders we send young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have them make life and death decisions rewinds on al-jazeera and the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of the west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to full drive this one five years on the syrians still feel battered even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the your.

top stories. president donald trump has visited the border with mexico to drum up support for his proposed border will trump wants more than five billion dollars to start construction is locked in a standoff with u.s. democrats who refused to fund it. has vowed to expel the iranians from syria he was speaking at the american university in cairo and took aim at former president barack obama and he blamed for the rise of. post-election violence people dead in the democratic of congo opposition candidate. has been declared the winner and many of those are disputing the outcome. i mean his room president nicolas

maduro has been sworn in for a second six year term but dozens of countries boycotted the inauguration ceremony and consider his role to be in addition it sure is a bow has more from caracas. we're about fifty mg oxy away from where the swearing in ceremony took place and that the supreme court on the reason why it's happening there is to go the government continues considers the national assembly to be a contempt that it does not recognize that because it is controlled by the venezuelan opposition and the constitution says that if that if that if it doesn't happen at the national assembly it should happen at the supreme court you can see right behind me there's thousands and thousands of people but i've come here to show their support not totally for president. i don't know so for chavez socialist revolution they're saying that any changes that happened in venezuela be to happen with the revolution and that is this administration that needs to make the

necessary changes to come out of the economic crisis that this country has seen in the last two years over three million people have left minutes without already many of them escaping the ongoing crisis for precedents from latin america i've come to this where i mean ceremony also representatives from russia and china there have been been members from the united states and from the european union i think all of us how to become more and more isolated in spite of that make model go so that goats not need to be here on this day are here for example cuba about the size of russia computers got folks important. that they support the current administration however talk our way from your first day startled by the old guard really worried about what really happened in this country that you say that was elected in any legitimate election where crowd was committed and that. they won't recognize his

administration and their opposition right now is that the national assembly they're going to announce what steps they're going to take in spite of this the government has said that if they continue through this about not recognizing the current administration the national assembly could be shut down. economic british car money fracture jagger landrover is to cut four and a half thousand jobs at u.k. plants the company is blaming falling sales in china and concerns over brics it plans a part of a three billion dollar plan to reverse several months of financial losses the fokker of course. it is the country's biggest carmaker employing more than forty thousand workers in the u.k. but jack you are landrieu is in trouble and struggling to turn a profit reviving the luxury brands fortunes means cutting jobs for half thousand are expected to go most are in management and marketing some production jobs might

also go the company's speed hit by a perfect storm of problems sales in china one of his biggest markets have slumped trade tensions with the u.s. have led to a fall in conceive is making big purchases. the company's also been affected by a fall in global demand for diesel cars ninety percent of g q a line drive his production. and a home there are a big worry is over the u.k.'s competitiveness post breaks it the company says a batiks it deal could cost it one and a half billion dollars a year the government's promising to help those who have lost their jobs it is a brilliant skilled workforce it's a real asset to this country and whatever the terms of the announcement we will do everything that we can to make sure that they can find jobs that make use of they really valuable skills this isn't the first blow to job to

a land rovers workforce the company owned by india's tata motors already cut a thousand temporary contract workers at its plant near birmingham it also recently announced it would behoove all production of the landrover discovery to a new plant in e.u. member slovakia employing three thousand people jack your land rover has been forced to streamline it is the pay for reality of uncertain times costing thousands of people that livelihoods believe barca which is iran. one hundred days ago. was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul and have been gathering outside the mission to remember the journalists and vowing not to give up the fight for justice i am report video just

a few seconds long yet it's helped uncover a murder plots hatched by one of the world's richest governments. one hundred days have passed since security cameras recorded jamal khashoggi entering the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again after continually lying about what happened to the journalists saudi authorities eventually admitted he was murdered inside the consulate however told now no one has been punished for the crime turkish investigators identified one thousand suspects went to the country as part of a so-called hit squad it's included former diplomats and close aides to crown prince mohammed bin sandman and although intelligence agencies such as the cia have said they're fairly confident inside man was behind the murder of the journalist the kingdom has always denied his involvement instead blaming the crown prince's advisor saddam funny and general ahmed. the saudis say justice will be delivered but it'll be in their own way. that's we seems this through having secret

court hearings that are closed to the media and international human rights groups where the accused aunts name to death penalties are sought seemingly arbitrarily it is one of the reasons why the turkish government sees the culprits should face trial in istanbul and vows they will be tried in absentia even if saudi arabia refuses to hand them over all of them one issue instead of a subdued yani according to turkish war because saudi arabia has not cooperated the suspect can be tried in absentia but without issuing a final verdict turkey can also defer the case to the united nations or other international bodies amnesty international is one of the groups calling on turkey to request an international independent inquiry into murder members of the human rights group held a vigil outside the consulate on thursday to mark one hundred days since his killing obviously the murder took place here in istanbul so it's right and it's important that the turks the artes keep up their call for an independent un

investigation but really the in stash community as a whole needs to commit to this investigation to ensure that that's what happens and justice is done it was reported that crown prince mohammed bin sandman was told by president trump's advisor christian are not to worry about the fallout of the murder of course rocketry because it would die down within troops for three months one hundred days on and it seems that there is a risk that the international community will forget about the saudi journalist who entered this building to get married but summed it up being murdered and still no justice has been served. istanbul one person has been killed and dozens injured in clashes between police and textile workers in bangladesh and he's used water cannon and tear gas to disperse thousands of workers who are protesting for better wages a strike action has now ended a fifth day forcing dozens of factories to close can be a chadri reports from dhaka. relatively peaceful here and made progress i mean

industrial zone where lots of garment factories are located now there were protests here in the morning from eight till noon most of the workers left after a discussion with the owners about their heavy presence of security you can see behind me not twenty kilometers from here there's been violent clashes and sub our industrial zone this is the fifth consecutive day the garment workers have been demanding for higher wages at least one worker was killed on tuesday by police firing there's been also lots of injuries a journalist was bitten by the police while covering this garment and dress a very sensitive area for bangladesh eighty percent of the export. through the garment textile businesses now we spoke to. who is the president of the garment federation union and she told us to argue the war to go back to work and peacefully result the unions are planning to sit with the government and business they called us within the next few days and try to resolve this peacefully till then we'll have

to see how the garment workers abide by this it has been a rough five days for the garment sector in bangladesh. it's becoming harder to stay just another face in the crowd and i just in facial recognition technology has been shown cased at the consumer at trying to show in las vegas it's rapidly making its way into everyday life and there are some concerns about it on regulation to use well reynolds has. high rock cyber links face me you can learn a lot about you at a glance you are male. sixty five and you are surprised right now and like stephen forty right now and i'm happy that the taiwan based company's advance facial recognition system will be deployed in stores so that retailers can target customers with products based on their emotional response to advertising become post different ads to the person and furthermore they can also recognize that

you're happy or you're angry about this so you can take some actions from the system to change the air yeah like getting on your reaction yes exactly so it really calls this in the hansing the customer experience others might call it creepy rapid advances in facial recognition technology together with artificial intelligence are creating some concerns about privacy and the autonomy of the individual but there's a lot of opportunity for having the fish working systems be used in ways that personally i don't think would be appropriate that i think might be dystopian orwellian cyber link says it carefully protects its base data but in an era of ever more sophisticated hacking and unscrupulous corporate business practices facial recognition could be misused facial recognition is a technology which supercharges surveillance using artificial intelligence on the purely benign if somewhat bizarre side sony makes

a robot puppy which upon recognizing its owner's face begins to hit them full on in digital adoration but amazon which owns the popular. phone link video doorbell system ring has reportedly applied for a patent on a system to identify so-called suspicious characters that's raising obvious issues to do with racial profiling these are cameras that are trained on the public when that kind of technology is the point in communities surveillance is going to have effects on people of color on political protesters on on on immigrants that are really harmful many technology executive say just like cars and trucks have to abate the rules of the road for everyone safety technologies like ai and facial recognition need regulations to prevent abuses but so far most countries including the u.s. rely on the tech industry.