since the beginning of this protest in december and the tactics that they use which is in different cities and they hopped on one other towns and cities across the land and we reported that there is over almost over four fourteen people were killed a similar number of also injured since one thousand of these number and also the use of tactical mass everest wishes happening all over the country and until today. senior political activists senior political leaders they are detained and stealing the things in hospital even the minister of interior couple of days ago and that is that they had received over one hundred people. the u.s. president is threatening to declare a national emergency if democrats continue to refuse funding his plan to build a wall along the border with mexico donald trump has flown south to try to drum up

support while the three week shutdown of u.s. government departments continues can be helped it has more now from a college in texas this is one of the places u.s. president donald trump wants to build his border wall mccallan texas the busiest stretch for illegal crossings from mexico into the united states i want to thank everybody trying to make sure all the progs ront display like drugs and weapons seized at the border as he met with officials macallan for a photo op designed to convince skeptical americans additional money for his border wall is necessary trump argued those organizing the illegal crossings are the real criminals victimising the migrants they have women tied up they have tape over their mouths electrical tape usually blue tape as they call it. it's powerful stuff not good truck has been criticized for calling the latest influx of migrants into the us a crisis at the border on thursday truck tweeted the speech of president obama also

calling the situation a crisis in twenty four teeth as waves of children arrived in the united states we now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all it's certainly not impossible to enter the united states illegally especially here in macallan texas while this fence is very very tall this one right beside it is not if you're physically fit if you can swim across a river through this thick brush scale a four metre concrete wall over the razor wire you're in should be happening in our country that's what trump says he wants to stop her but his push for five point seven billion from congress to reopen the government and direct a steel border wall has become a dueling narrative for or against the president. along the streets of macallan there were signs of protest but there was plenty of support for the

president as well. trump says he still hopes for a deal in congress to pay for his wall but he's not ruling out declaring illegal immigration a national emergency freeing up already approved funds to get what he wants can really help kids al-jazeera mccallan texas. so ahead here on al-jazeera migration in the rights of british and even citizens after breaks that the british parliament continues to debate ahead of next week's crucial vote. paying the jews should muslims in germany join and jews catholics and protestants and paying the so-called washington. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well this hour we're going to start here across parts of north asia we're seeing

a lot of cold air here across parts of northeast china as well as into the russian maritimes and that means we're going to be seeing a lot of clear skies overnight lows to go way down but of astarte we'll expect to see a high for your about minus one degrees same over here with sapporo we do expect to see some showers down along the southern part of japan osaka could be a rainy day at nine coming up to about eleven degrees as we go towards sunday and more sun over here towards tokyo with a high temperature a few of about nine degrees there well across parts of china really not seeing too much in terms of rain we discussed see quite a bit of rain over the last few days but there has ended a lot more clear skies across much of the area a pleasant day over here towards hong kong with attempt a few of about twenty four degrees maybe some more clouds coming into play as we go towards sunday and much of central china will also see more clouds coming in with some a bit of showers a few there and then here across south asia we are looking at some nice conditions up towards the northern part of the philippines luzon not looking too bad for you with mila seeing temperatures there about thirty degrees and then over here towards

bangkok well more clouds in the forecast there here on saturday with the terms of their of about thirty four degrees getting a little bit better by the time going to saturday at thirty four as well. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secretly plotting new borders . as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on a zero. zero

zero zero a reminder of the top stories this hour the u.s. military says it's begun pulling out its troops from syria but a coalition spokesman refused to unveil any more information on the two thousand troops location or even the timeline for that withdrawal. high court judges in maine mall have rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists serving seven year prison sentences one and torso were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting and on the killing of range of the jews. the united states president has threatened to declare a national emergency if democrats continue to refuse funding for his plan to build a wall along the border with mexico and donald trump has fled south to try and support swat three week shutdown of u.s. government departments and. well federal workers a-g.

to receive the paychecks this friday but without a last minute resolution about eight hundred thousand of them will not be getting paid and many are now facing tough choices and i've got a small from baltimore. this government building in the heart of downtown baltimore is normally a hive of activity its doors are now closed its workers furloughed and the impact on the streets close by is clear over the last few weeks mohammed has seen his business declined sharply it's what's. he tells us he leave the area if things don't return to normal soon if you see you know. like nothing here you know it's like your knee is killing the business and. the been you know. darryl burton's been a federal employee for decades this isn't the first government shutdown he's lived through but the longer it lasts the harder it gets for his family or drop of gas in the car today or do our way to the weekend do i do buy groceries today or from

a way to enough. things that i can get a little bit cheaper in all twenty three thousand federal employees across maryland are either working without pay or of been furloughed it's one of the worst affected states and the impact is widely felt when this partial government shutdown ends there's a good chance that the eight hundred thousand federal workers will get back pay for those contracted by the government to rely on federal resources to provide services that can mean the difference between life and death the future is less certain nevertheless we've met people here so committed to what they do that continuing to work not knowing where their next paycheck will come from native american life lines receives federal funding from a now closed government department staff to provide support for addiction mental health and vital medical services not that i can save everyone but at least being here they know that they have a home and

a safe place to be and we won't be able to pry that. no worries me if there's no resolution by saturday this will be the longest government shutdown in u.s. history it's a prospect that many here and across the u.s. consul for to face to gallacher al-jazeera baltimore maryland. the u. president jean-claude though says a new deal breaks its would be a catastrophe and that he's in constant contact with united kingdom to try and prevent that happening british m.p.'s a debating prime minister to resign may's deal ahead of a crucial vote next week the government's already indicated it wants to reduce european immigration by eighty percent when it leaves the blog mostly as this report now from london. remember this it was one of the reasons leave one in the back seat referendum take back all the money the u.k. gives to the european union and spend it on the british health service instead it proved a very powerful message but how to square that with alice sandra's story by the

time he'd left italy for london he had a master's degree and four years specialist experience in mental health nursing is starting salary in britain was around twenty five thousand dollars a year under the government's new proposals he would never have been allowed into the u.k. because that salary would be too low for him to get a work permit after brick says i know who is going to pay for the visa for working visa in the future for obviously a lot of people decide to don't apply. meanwhile even in this period of the thirty nine on the net or three years. they they will sign up before for example in the u.k. rather than the ten thousand and. two year struggle as it stands there are one hundred thousand unfilled roles in the british oil service and dire warnings about on the looming crisis as european nationals leave the country the royal college of nursing is so worried it has joined the campaign for

a second referendum calling for a rethink about leaving the e.u. as well. there's something quite challenging about thinking that highly skilled always means time and what we need to do is really think in the public sector what is the value that people bring in the lives and minutes. it's often in terms of the skills that i have so i think we need to think differently what's happening in the health service reflects a bigger question is immigration really the problem. there are two entirely conflicting narratives that play in the u.k. at the moment the government's arguing that there is far too much european migrant labor and is taking away jobs from british people but at the same time the government congratulates itself on having read called low unemployment it does rather raise the question if the government does what it says it wants to and reduce european immigration by eighty percent and who exactly is going to do all the work there is an argument in cabinet between people who really care far more

about restricting immigration than about you care call me led by the prime minister and the rest of the capital and of course the business community who want to make preserving the interest of the u.k. economy a priority and have fired just hasn't been resolved like having argued that the u.k. was at breaking points because of uncontrolled immigration politicians are now presented with a chance of reducing is enormously if that happens the country will find out where the migrants such a problem to roll lawrence lee al-jazeera london. no deal breaks it is also worrying those outside of the european union with japan's prime minister saying both britain and the e.u. should work to avoid it japanese car makers including and honda have major factories in britain which is also a base for other companies from japan she says he supports the draft agreement the british prime minister is trying to push through. it's not most it says it has

filed a criminal complaint against its former chairman colace. japanese prosecutors have also added two new charges of financial crimes including breach of trust is already accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars in denies the charges and says he's been unfairly detained for almost two months he was fired by the boards of mr mitsubishi kept on by running. china says it's highly concerned about the detention of the businessman and poland a polish national of the chinese directorate the tech giant who way be accused of spying u.s. intelligence agencies accuse you of being linked to the chinese government and that is technologies could be used for espionage through you has more now from beijing. the man arrested is a chinese national who reportedly works for huawei which is a major technology firm here in china and he's been living in poland for more than ten years not many details so far from poland's intelligence agency but they do say

that this is an operation that has been planned for a long time in that which was implemented very carefully now huawei is a technology company that's no stranger to controversy they have very close ties to the government and they work to develop telecommunications mobile foreigns internet technology now they've always denied that they funnel any information back to the chinese government that they work directly with the chinese government but still there are many fears that qual way technology is the news as a back door for information or intelligence for the chinese government a so much so that japan for example has blocked while away from being used in the government contracts the u.k. australia new zealand has blocked while way from participating in any five g. network trials and long one joe who is an heiress and executive of quali was arrested in canada late last year at the request of washington for allegedly violating u.s. sanctions now at the moment the story isn't receiving much and here in china actually the opposite any reports of the arrest are being very quickly removed from

chinese social media which is indicating that this is not a good news story for china and there are already some fears of what this might mean going forward of course after among wonder was arrested in canada there were two canadians who were detained here in china that the chinese government denies that they're related but still there are fears of what could happen to polish nationals moving forward now if this chinese national is found guilty of espionage he could face ten years in prison and at the moment he's already looking at about three months in detention. germans officially registered as jews catholics and protestants of for decades been required to pay what's called a church worship tax the money is then given to the relevant faiths well now one leading christian democrat politicians says muslims should be brought into this arrangement to free them from the influence of foreign states dominic casey explains. there.

this is the rushed gerta mosque in berlin one of the newest and considered by some to be one of the most liberal in germany from the outset the emphasis here has been on inclusion driven by its founder syrian artist her decision to allow men and women to worship here together polarizes opinion now she says she wants the muslim community to help itself by agreeing to pay to finance itself. the time for a kind of mosque tax is long overdue the most communities in germany and in europe must become independent from the so called countries of origin and thinking about it gave me the idea of saying communities should finance themselves and that can be done through a kind of mosque attacks and in this way it makes me think of one of the five pillars of islam zach at. but that view is not universally shared among muslims here many believe the suggestion is counterproductive by induction financing in germany the mosques already finance themselves there are

a few that used foreign money to build and finance the purchase but that's a handful ninety nine percent are funded by membership fees and donations so if you bring the model of the mosque tax then you once again take the tax from muslims themselves. the idea of taxing religious worship is not new in germany for many years the jewish catholic and protestant faiths have accepted some form of levy or tax the person identified as a christian and once their income tax bill has been worked out a further proportion is deducted and given to their chosen faith to disperse as it sees fit in the political sphere the idea of a mosque tax appeals to many christian democrats for two reasons sealant him talk or didn't on the one hand it's so the growing muslim community in germany gets a stronger domestic connection aligns itself with german society i makes a contribution to integration and on the other hand it's so the influence of foreign donors could be resisted. mosques funded by foreign states or individuals

have been growing in number in recent years many conservative politicians here have raised concerns over the role of the turkish government and if some of the gulf states. the idea of a mosque tax has been raised here in germany before but nothing substantial has really come of it the question now is how much the port amongst muslims there would be for such a plan and what would wider society make of it dominick cain al-jazeera at girton mosque in berlin. so let's have a recap of the top stories here in our desire and the u.s. military says it has begun pulling out its two thousand troops from syria a donald trump surprise allies when he made the decision last month has the latest now from the turkish syrian border. they're not saying

a specific timeline some movements or locations they say for a professional reasons and this was the calmest some sort of relief to the turkish leadership that had been intimidated by the comments of john bolton the u.s. national security adviser last week when he said u.s. withdrawal of its troops from syria would be hinged on protection for y.p. the fight is a group that is fighting in syria your sexual state my pump has arrived in bahrain the latest stop of his middle east to left car on friday morning after delivering a major speech of donald trump's middle east policy what in the gulf pompei would be promoting a plan for a new military alliance against iran high court judges in memo have rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists seven year prison sentences wallowed in the shore so who were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting on an army

killing over hinge villages. the u.s. president is threatening to declare a national emergency if democrats continue to refuse funding for his plan to build a wall along the border with mexico trumpets fled south to try to drum up support while the three week shutdown of the us government continues thank. goodness and mages says it has filed a criminal complaint against its former chairman thomas gunn japanese prosecutors have also added to new financial crime charges including breach of trust he's already accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars and denies the charges. china says it's highly concerned about the detention of a businessman in poland a punished national and a chinese director at the tech giant or way of being accused of spying if convicted the pair could face up to ten years in prison u.s. intelligence agencies accuse one way of being linked to the chinese government that

sit inside story coming right up. accusations of an electoral cool in the democratic republic of congo after three weeks she said katie is announced the winner of the presidential vote will there be a peaceful transfer of power could this mock a new beginning for the country this is inside story.

and welcome to the program for a two year wait for a new leader has come to an end in the democratic republic of congo but already a post-election crisis is brewing. the leader of the largest opposition party has been declared the winner of the long delayed presidential election to replace joseph kabila but a second opposition rival is denouncing the result as an electoral hold up and martin for you know is calling for protests now the provisional results from the electoral commission showed just under thirty nine percent voted for katy the leader of the u.d.p. yes martin for you know of the for citizenship and development party was second with nearly thirty five percent third with twenty four percent was emmanuel. candidates of outgoing president joseph kabila a voter turnout was forty seven percent only around eighteen million out of forty million eligible voters cast a ballot so who is fully. the fifty five year old is

a son of katie the longtime opposition leader and founder of the union for democracy and social. who died two years ago flake spent his early life in brussels where he became a huge d.p.s. activist after various roles in the party he inherited the leadership last year if his victory is confirmed he will only be the second leader to take power through the ballot box since independence from belgium is promising to fight corruption return the rule of law and fighting by rebels in eastern d r c we're bringing our guests in just a moment but first al-jazeera has more from kinshasa. outside the party headquarters of the k.t. it is a con the atmosphere his supporters a business no banking business and hold that he's made it would be a new beginning for the country and single some kind of new direction in terms of economic recovery.

really misstepped to security. in his country and our country will grow forwards in other parts of the capital kinshasa the mood is more subdued more quiet some margin for you he said in reading that she's like amy made some kind of deal with president joseph kabila which ultimately was he could be pulling the strings from behind the scenes are said to be still running this country and it actually came to him that becoming a yes man who just does what he's told by. other challenges of course in terms of the rest of the country these economy he asks deal yet to create jobs he has to also bring in private investment as well as deal with ebola outbreak in the east the country yes deal with i'm racist also in the east of the country between militia groups and some. i suppose of the media he's immediate challenge is of

course trying to unite a very divided country he only won by thirty eight point five percent of the far east means a lot of people didn't vote for him. as many congolese as possible. everyone not just listened walters and this was also important to convince you will watch the speeches of him who don't trust his motives that he's going to be his own man and he won't be a puppet president chosen of. planes as. well as spring in our panel now from geneva on skype is benedict djoko historian and coordinator of the lee come. beli movement a civil liberties organization from paris. political consultant and economic analyst and c.e.o. of innovation task force and in london indigo alice rest can tell tent at various maple crafts welcome to the program thank you for being on inside story benedict

engine eva how credible are the election results released by the electoral commission and i think that is going to. church. the result do not owe to respond to will they have observed so i think that the election as they call it is a problematic one. if. you look at the early church. reading of the numbers i think that. president will have the service problem of its embassy. in paris is true that the catholic bishops conference of congo whose preferred candidate is not a secret it's martin for you says it made verifications and has results that are totally different from those of seventy the electoral commission who in your view has the right the correct results that represent the will of the congolese people.

i'm very clear with you i think the process has been all very chaotic and i'm not surprised to ever resolve that give room for discussion so today we are in front of. what i call official body which is seventy which is that mr. warren this election and apart from that we have another group who says unfortunately it is not the data that we have i would say that beyond people beyond . election we have management of the country which is to my point of view the most important thing at the end of the message from the catholic church they say if a part of the election says that they are not they don't agree with the results they can use the legal framework to try and contest the results so of the is going to be the indigo alice in london you'll farts is this win by katie who leads one of

the biggest and oldest opposition parties in the d r c is it really a shock was this election stolen from the congolese people as montelena claims. i think ultimately what we're seeing various maple carful support this is that we are approaching this this age basically where this this is when has been completely fabricated a century what the opposition has won and it's in some ways the right result for congo we have not seen shattering being forced into a position where the congolese people definitely did not vote for him what we've seen is that if sketchy is won but it is still not the correct result i think that's very clear i think the most important thing to remember about these results is ultimately they are provisional and there is no guarantee that these results will be the final results there's no guarantee the constitutional challenge will not be confirmed i think that's the most important thing to remember as we're

talking about this a lot of the media have been talking about the winning right but actually obviously already held is that he's actually just been the provisional right if if these results stand as they are today if they stand what would that mean how how high is the risk in diggle of violence today if these results stand. i think actually what we've seen with sanker coming out recently and saying that they do not agree with these results i think that is important but ultimately the most important thing is that the u.p.a. ass who to be honest feel the most feel the most militant of the street activists that will say definitely coming out in kinshasa i think it will be a lot less a lot less violent than we expected to be ultimately. it doesn't mean that the civil unrest will not be as widespread i think martin for you lose. kind of his support is spread wide across the country and that will mean that nationwide there

will be civil unrest that will be violently or oppressed by security forces i think that's very much made clear with the history of congress that stands benedict in geneva as indigo points out it's very important to insist on this these are provisional results they're not the final official results. in his very first reaction though a fairly. praise dose of kabila the outgoing president saying he considered him an important political partner and not and enemy was there a deal made between kabila and she said katie in your view as martin for you know is accusing them well i think that some of those may be many of those and we also will generally. quoting. you know. these elections. and these this is really a big problem i think focal these people because if we go with the president

who are suspected of lot. of the election is evil walls ability in the country. this election is the chance to get in the certain way i think was seen as a way of police to look at you lower. legitimacy because. his election as he says will dispute in two thousand and sixteen two thousand and eleven. if the election of mr is just that it was a lot disputed it will have that he was indeed was the president of the global so i think it's really cool to think about the sunni because we see today people or so although not all the country and i think it's important is so that that are we truly saying but we'll need to think about our new poll where there is still those elections. what will the president look like the legitimacy that. will

last for cities alcatel paris you agree with that with us that does this victory if it's confirmed does it benefit in any way. the most important thing is that kabila is a citizen of congo or saw the results of the seeds so i think we don't need to frighten wherever in this country it's maybe the time for us to learn from his mistakes a measure that the country learned from it and then do better i do believe that it's more important to look at beyond the election that we had to compare now we have a result of of out of elections if it's there will be a need of governance which of the most important thing with there was a with or without this country will still exist so whether comes we need to understand that the nessun is beyond people right indigo your thoughts on this there have been a lot of accusations of camilla and to security making

a deal prior to these election results being announced is that the case and if it is the case once the results are confirmed what role for kabila in any future. government or in the future of the d r c i think ultimately what we've seen is that it's become cut as completely untenable for kabila to do his intended let's say call a plan a of putting shattering and power after an unfair. rigged election because there's no doubt that these elections were going to be rigged they were going to be unfair the most surprising thing obviously is that it's been to carry this who's now been appointed this string paula i think there's no doubt that. he will be this this kind of puppet the only question is that the puppet master is the same but the puppet has changed rather so shattering was going to be the puppet.