testimony could further damage the president's image and strengthen the investigation into russian into ferrers in the twenty sixteen election in december kohima sentenced to three years in prison for lying to congress and his role in paying hush money whilst working for trump the candidate it u.s. secretary of state might pump a it has laid out the trump ministrations vision for american policy in the middle east speaking in cairo he called u.s. leadership a positive force in the region but the main focus of his speech was confrontation with a wrong charles truck that has. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei always touring the middle east almost described as a mission focused on shoring up support among arab allies against iran. since withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal last year the u.s. has increased pressure on teheran which he accuses of being a destabilizing force in the region many middle east experts say pushing iran into

a corner is a dangerous move but in the egyptian capital cairo america's top diplomat didn't mince his words the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country. as middle east follows confusion about donald trump's withdrawal of a around two thousand u.s. troops from northern syria. the president's announcement schult arab allies as well as a u.s. political leaders and military commanders concerned that the battle against eisel in syria and the wider region is not over yet pompei out try to reassure them president trump has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we always

do and now is the time but this isn't a change of mission we were made committed to the complete dismantling of isis the isis threat and the ongoing fight against radical islamism in all of its forms the u.s. withdrawal from syria is also having ramifications for american relations with nato ally turkey u.s. troops have been working with kurdish y.p. chief i choose who control a large area of northern syria close to the turkish border turkey considers the y. peachey a terrorist organization the president received type order one said the suggestion on choose day by u.s. national security adviser john bolton a protecting the white p.g. as a precondition to the u.s. troop withdrawal plan was a serious mistake it was very little if anything from pumpin about the store while the israeli palestinian peace process very little on the saudi and amorality led war in yemen that has killed tens of thousands displaced millions with millions

more threatened with famine and disease. pressure increased on president trump from both democrat and republican senators to end support for the saudi involvement in yemen after the murder of saudi journalist to marcos. many suspect crown prince muhammad bin solomon ordered a saudi hit squad to fly to istanbul last october that the united states is the main provider of saudi military assistance aid and support in the war in yemen so the the not united states is not an objective observer of the war of yemen it's an accomplice in the water of yemen. pompei was keen to lay much of the blame for what many describe as years of chaos in the middle east on former president barack obama's administration. president trump has reasserted america's control as a force for good in this region he said we have rediscovered our voice. there are

millions of people throughout this region who are grateful for the u.s. led coalition success in the battle against eisel but there will also be many made nervous by a u.s. administration that blames the region's instability in the previous u.s. president on the wrong. al-jazeera. news hour including questions increase about the validity of the presidential election result in the democratic republic of congo vigils in washington and one hundred days after the death of. among dozens being investigated in spain for match fixing. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has vowed to correct the mistakes as he was

sworn in for a second six year term the u.s. and thirteen other countries in the americas say they would recognize his presidency venezuela is battling skyrocketing inflation food and medicine shortages and is seeing an exodus of people to neighboring countries today is a bow reports. and a typical swearing in ceremony in venezuela the constitution says it should have happened at the national assembly but because the opposition controlled parliament is considered to be in contempt. confirmed at the supreme court. here i am standing ready to democratically take the reins of our fatherland to a better destiny to a higher destiny we have achieved and we will continue with. on the streets people celebre. ated muddled us you time in office on the beach well i'm calm you're just so there's a mortal threat and what i'm other they say that any changes in this country need

to happen with the self-satisfied little something this government the thing that was in order to get this country out of the economic crisis and most of those here blame outside economic powers for the crisis and businessman for the hyperinflation . we have an income in the businessman turn our salary into salt and water i cannot by anything i hope adorable now go after those who are affecting the people. he. also attended a ceremony at a military base reinforcing the union that exists here between the military and civilian rule and. it is this bond that has helped keep mother would face and that's why members of the opposition appeal to the military on thursday they said they won't acknowledge the president because he was elected in a vote that was filled with irregularities. i'm telling the

armed forces the chain of command is broken and you know it in order to be a general there has to be a colonel the commander in chief of the armed forces lost the popular vote nicolas maduro is stealing symbols and using a paper crown. for now it's unlikely that the military will rebel against my little but it's the population's every day struggles that pose the major challenge. the government cannot control the economy in fact with every measure they take the situation gets worse because of the hyperinflation i think the government won't be able to solve it ungovernability is an issue and not because of the opposition but because of economic difficulties and the failure of basic public services. he has a plan in place to get the country out of the crisis. that is his followers but not

those who are desperate for change. well president mature is swearing in ceremony was met with protests and dozens of neighboring countries. he was among demonstrators in colombia view the venezuelans leadership has a national security threat. most of the protesters here or migrants who have fled the economic and social crisis back home. and are here to protest the beginning of president nicolas maduro second term in office we're hearing from the venezuelan consulate in colombia capital many of them are holding venezuelan flags for signs where they say that it's not their legitimate president. and they're also demanding to free their country from what they describe as a criminal because. it's

a dictatorship. when you have a recording machine when you have a system when you are forced. to. record secret service officers caught at your house. you could make five year old kids. protests like this one have been held in front of various well and consulates and embassies in another fifty cities across the americas and europe there's no doubt that the venezuelan crisis has created huge consequences in many countries no were more than here in colombia has received one point five million venezuelan migrants in the last three years something that worries the government here very much the vice president of colombia . earlier said today that the crisis in venezuela has become now

a national trend for colombia. speaking to eric volz with his vice president of the council of the americas and a film white house special envoy for the americas he says it remains to be seen if nicolas maduro is the right person to correct the mistakes that have devastated venezuela's economy. the bottom line is that it is an interesting acknowledgement that things are not perfect that there have been mistakes and that things do need to change the question is is he capable or willing to actually take the steps that will be required for fundamental change to get venezuelan economy back on track to get venezuela's democracy back on track and i think a lot of people in the international community anyway would say no the situation in venezuela right now is desperate you have approximately ten percent of the entire population over three million people from venezuela have left the country many are in colombia or brazil or some of the islands in the caribbean others have migrated elsewhere in latin america or some to europe or north america so this is an

increasingly desperate situation of course he's looking to blame other people for his failings but the movement has destroyed venezuela they've corrupted and taken over the energy sector which is really the engine of growth in venezuela they've nationalized all of the private sector they've taken over the institutions of the state the supreme court the military the educational system and so there's no credibility at all to blame the international community for the failings of having said that it is interesting that he has acknowledged that there have been mistakes . it was around twenty four hours ago that the long delayed election results were announced in the democratic republic of congo the country's election commission surprised many by naming the opposition candidate. but officials in the catholic church say those results don't match the challenge from their own observers as hiram a tassel reports from the capital kinshasa the results although provisional have led to celebrations for some and protests for others. and once meant

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. who had seen his father lead congress opposition for more than thirty five years had a message of unity. 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 to suffer in this country there's no job in this country i was in south africa and there's no job and country. people these people are going to stere and after that there's nothing the result triggered protesters in goma and congolese catholic church leaders 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. she's a kid is rival martin five is rejecting the provisional results and alleges what he calls an electoral. cure all those who learned of the truth of the ballot boxes especially to congress national bishops oppose couple conference 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. others in the international community say the surprise victory is at odds with other tongues. a 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. anyone who denies. the internet has been cut off for weeks in an apparent attempt to stop speculation about the results writes police had been deployed the boat that was two years old was 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. kinshasa. election result has been trending worldwide sarah kyra say with

a round up of social media reaction. well let's start with this reaction. because this was the moment when says kathy and his wife found out about his win and so many more people in the democratic republic of congo been celebrating his victory just in the same way. and on the streets of kinshasa this was the reaction they've been plenty of videos like these being upstaged many people around the world joining in on those celebrations soon quite a lot of excitement there often months of delays and there seems to be a general sense of relief on social media the result has finally been declared is what many believe means change is coming but jubilation aside some people from both in and outside zim across that republic of congo say they're still surprised by the election results to get this far reaction and be election a it was a shocker i think late last night when the results came through were pretty much

shocked on the first on who the president elect to be there was or became. the first lead my thought was yes for you and that's what i wanted to see as next prez president however you can is a positive side of the election is we as your os people have chosen our president supposed time will be. the return change of power based on what people want and it's nice to see. for our country it should start on was moving the right direction now on social media hashtags d.l.c. election and president already see those have gone viral with one of them even trending worldwide now walsh for k.f.c. is an opposition figure there although skeptical that it signifies a true change among queues in joseph kabila even of using him as a smokescreen to continue to run the show from behind the scenes and this person has tweeted that it's sad congo has a scene in a new leader in so many years and that person doesn't seem politicly happy over the

election results either but. another person who responded to them said rather optimistically that we just have to wait and see and see everything how it will be playing out in the future but people have also been retreating in this where one user has referred to the election as a case study for the future of the d.l.c. but this user who seems rather happy about results shows a heartfelt message where she talks about her father who's seventy and writes his entire life this would be the first free and fair election that he has witnessed and then adds that this is so important sarah higher still to come here at al-jazeera the u.k.'s biggest carmaker announces slashing thousands of jobs and bracks it's partly to blame. bowing out for japanese wrestling champion is quitting a year before the tokyo lympics peter will explain in style.

from the beyond limits of asia. to the city seems. hello there some of us in china have seen a fair amount of wintery weather recently these pictures are from henan province and you can see the snow that we've had there not all settled quite nicely and it was all in the northern edge of this rain band here it gave some of acim very very wet weather a lot of it was rain but on the northern edge it was stone we could well see a little bit more as we head through the day on friday on saturday that carol be breaking up of it so more risk getting away with a draw a day but i do think that will be a bit thicker particularly later on during the day for the southeastern parts of asia here that's a good deal of dry weather covered lay the philippines have seen plenty of sunshine little bit of cloud just floating across the faso the parts that has brought us a few showers is still going to be with us for friday there's also some showers

bubbling up over parts of borneo and those are drifting their way towards the west so some marches catching quite a few of those but don't be surprised if you see a shower in singapore or k.l. we had out towards the northwest to plenty of sunshine to you can just see a little bit of cloud drifting up towards the north that could bring some snow particularly over the northern parts of pakistan and the northern parts of india but further south largely drawing a bit different in sri lanka there the clowns are gathering here once more it's looking pretty wet even as we head through sunday thirty in colombo. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. in this year new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport trade people in power travels to agadez to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pocket and the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they are from here because more is going to. europe

migration on a. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's very challenging they believe but they feel because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are with the people who believe that tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. this is take a look at the top stories here in the u.s.

president has been to the country's southern border in a bid to drum up support for his proposed war with mexico drums demands for more than five billion dollars for the wall has led to a partial government shutdown almost three weeks now. and the u.s. secretary of state has called on the arab world to unite against iran he was speaking in cairo and mike pumpin laid americans america's vision for the middle east and blames the forward or administration. the chaos in the region. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has vowed to correct the mistakes as he was sworn in for a second six year term the u.s. is among thirteen countries in the americans that have said they won't recognize his presidency. it's one hundred days since the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered in

the saudis in the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul people have been gathering outside the mission to remember him and they vowed not to give up the fight for justice questions remain unanswered among them who gave the order for his killing and why jamal reports 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 and 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 your thirty's eventually admitted he was murdered inside the consulate however tall 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 claiming the crown prince's advisor saddam funny general ahmed and. the saudis say justice will be delivered but it'll be in their own way. that's way it seems is through having secret court hearings that are closed to the media and international human rights groups where the accused on to maintenance death penalties are sold 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 was a money issue instead of a sublieutenant yani according to turkish law because saudi arabia is not cooperate ing 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 this amnesty international is one of the groups calling on

sarky to request an international independent inquiry into question she's murder members of the human rights group held a vigil outside the consulate from thursday to march one hundred days since his killing well obviously the murder took place here in istanbul so it's right and it's important that the text archives keep up the calls for an independent u.n. investigation but really the international community as a whole needs to commit to this investigation to ensure that that's what happens and justice is done it was reported the crown prince mohammed bin son man was told by president trumps advisor krishna not to worry about before lots of the murder of course all three because it would die down within two to 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 handed up being martyred and still no justice has been served demolish i address here to istanbul well the saudi jan this

is also remembered at a bipartisan memorial event on capitol hill in washington among the speakers the u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi she criticizes trumpet ministrations response to the killing is we decided that commercial interest should override. the statements that we make in the actions that we take then we must admit that we have lost or moral authority to talk about any atrocities anywhere any time we must carry on because show his mission to defend the free press our strongest boer war against injustice let's talk now to our correspondent mike hanna who's in washington a mike it seems one hundred days on and congressional leaders are not a tour prepared to allow this issue to to go away they want to keep it prominent on the political agenda very much so as speaker after speaker and sustaining that the

memory of jamal khashoggi will best be served by protecting freedom of the press but also by continuing to press to hold those accountable for his murder members of congress making very clear that they are intent on introducing concrete measures to force the trump administration to respond in some way president trying for his part appears to believe that the whole matter is done and dusted that it's over but throughout the course of this memorial it was made very clear by congress members that they will not allow him to just walk away from the whole matter and now the republicans are in charge of the lower house of congress the house of representatives will that reinvigorate if you like the congressional demands on the white house for them to take a stronger stance against saudi arabia. well one must remember that there was a unanimous vote in the senate holding saudi arabia accountable and saying that the

crown prince mohammed bin solomon must accept responsibility for the murder now that was never taken up in the house which was at that stage controlled by the republicans but now you have a democratic majority in the house this may well change and we've heard from members of that democrat controlled house that yes they will be seeking forms of legislation to hold saudi arabia and to hold the crown prince him self responsible for the murder that would most likely then be taken up in the senate the senate has already made very clear that on this case there is bipartisan agreement on holding saudi arabia responsible so certainly one can expect legislation emerging from congress in the weeks or maybe months ahead the question is what will president trump do how will he respond to it will he attempt to veto it's going to be a very very strong pressure put on him by congress mike hanna live in washington

thank you and air france is to suspend its flights in saudi arabia from next month apparently due to the ritz poor economic performance direct flights between paris and riyadh will be taken over by saudi arabian airlines in the first of february. turkey's foreign minister. says gains made in northern syria by an armed group formerly linked to al-qaeda will be reverse hired staff korea al sharpton has signed a cease fire with other rebel groups to take control of province. although we get 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 our correspondent mohammed

a day has more from gas in tap in turkey near the syrian border. talking foreign minister manouchehr was shocked to say style first served by hurting time in a sham. 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 group a terrorist organization and said on qatar will ensure that the gains that have made including taking complete control of the provinces will be rust 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 tahir a sham which has gained so much territory in the past two weeks the group of which are toxin opposition 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 gave it the complete control of that it leaves the 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 mum beach will happen very soon turkish officials are insisting that there are fans here on monday to three more what they are calling terrorist elements like the y.p. d.m.p. k.k. is not changed on the us troop withdrawal from syria but will happen whether the us troops and leave or remain in the country at least five people have been killed after his the military drone struck a yemeni government military parade in la each province it may yet see all the way in his army. he fighters have been fighting the

yemeni government which is backed by the saudi emirates the military alliance his say scores of soldiers were killed in the attack but a yemeni commander denied that saying everybody was safe. the japanese prime minister shinzo abhi says he wants britain and the e.u. to avoid a no deal breck's it he says his government supports the draft agreement that terrorism a the british prime minister is trying to push through the british parliament m.p.'s are expected to vote down the deal next week britain is due to leave the european union at the end of march. i mean me. we want to vote to avoid a no deal the world to we strongly hoping this won't happen japan supports the draft agreement to maintain stability the british car manufacturer jag land rover has announced plans to cut four and a half thousand jobs at its u.k. plants the company is blaming foreign sales in china and concerns over brags that

the decision is part of a three billion dollar plan to reverse several months of financial losses knee fucker reports. it is the country's biggest carmaker employing more than forty thousand workers in the u.k. but jack you a land rover is in trouble it's 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 may also go the company's been 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 consumers making big purchases. the company's also been affected by a fall in global demand for diesel cars ninety percent of g q a landrover is production. and i hope there are

a big worry is over the u.k.'s competitiveness post breaks it the company says a batiks it deal 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 that they really valuable skills this isn't the first blow to child 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 move all production of the land rover discovery to a new plant in slovakia employing three thousand people. jack your land rover has been forced to streamline it is the pay for reality of.