role of two thousand soldiers secretary of state my home pale is in the region to reassure allies following donald trump surprise announcement more than three weeks ago he says the pullout won't hinder the ongoing fight against eisold so pump aoe is now in the united arab emirates as part of his six nation tour of the region the u.a.e. is one of four arab nations imposing a blockade on cats are both are america's close allies in its fight against armed groups then there is iran the u.a.e. along with saudi arabia considers to her and as a regional rival curbing iran's influence in the region has been a top priority for donald trump's administration in yemen the u.a.e. is backing several pro-government armed groups and as part of the saudi coalition fighting against the rebels president trump is facing significant pressure from congress to end u.s. support for the coalition let's cross to roslan jordan joining us from washington we'll talk about pompei a trip in a moment rosalind but first tell us what you're learning about this reported

supposedly u.s. withdrawal from syria. well there are a number of news agencies including the associated press that are now reporting that according to military officials it's equipment that the u.s. military is pulling out of syria as it prepares to withdraw some two thousand u.s. forces from the country and in fact a few more u.s. troops have gone into syria to carry out the logistical part removing the military equipment that they would have needed to carry out their mission which was to train and support and provide intelligence for a local syrian and kurdish fighters who were going after i sold targets in northern and eastern syria it's a process that does take some time as we saw both with the ramp up to the war in iraq as well as the pullout from iraq back in twenty eleven but obviously for

security reasons the pentagon doesn't want to talk about how long it's going to take for these forces to leave the country because they're not there with the permission of the syrian government so it's a little understandable why they're not being very explicit we should stress however that on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that the u.s. military was prepared to carry out more air strikes against targets if it found that there was an attempt to try to restart an effort to set up a so-called caliphate in either the syria or in iraq so the equipment is starting to leave at some point the people will be leaving but the u.s. stated commitment at least for now to continue to go after eisel targets still remain and for prom peo is that the message that he's carrying to leaders of the region we've been reporting it today friday he's been in both the united arab

emirates as well as behind. that's right and in part one part of the trip that mike pompei is making is to reassure countries in the middle east that even though the president wants troops out of syria and wants to cut by half the number of troops in afghanistan in south asia as it were that the u.s. is not abandoning either south asia or the middle east in fact in the speech that he made in cairo on thursday like pompei all argued that the u.s. has renewed and has deepened its presence and its connections in the middle east of course that speech has come under considerable criticism from analysts and politicians in this country but that was part of the reason why he was on this trip to reassure countries that from a national security standpoint they can still expect that the u.s. will be involved he did however say that countries in the region need to do more of

their own defense and not just wait for the americans to come in all right thank you well turkey is saying that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not affect its operation against kurdish y p g fighters in the north and sustain that preparations are underway the northern border is regarded by ankara as a gate to its security center because so ugly reports from which turkish backed forces recaptured from my soul two years ago. the voices of innocence. children playing and it's a complex political standoff. these innocent lives are given a chance at life in a one size all controlled city well bob that was the rate of by the turkish backed free syrian army after say two years ago. how to get to the day they were before their dream was to carry guns like fighters because they were afraid now they want to become a teacher an engineer like regular children or

a police officer to protect their country. located thirty kilometers south of his supporters turkey regards all bob as a gate to its security after i saw was pushed out the turkish military now protects the local population. with the city becoming a sanctuary for internally displaced its population has increased to iran three hundred thousand people the local council begin distributing id cards in july at least sixty thousand residents have received them over crowding makes it more difficult to establish control and keep records local officials say there is in what you know when i still controlled here it first target to toast bittles schools i should leave in your civilians as a human shield during the liberation operations people lived in fear until they saw that they had an alternative us think god they revived and we saw the smile on our people's faces. doctors here say local people trying to be to also who are by

having more children at this thirty babies are born every day in l. bomb. however life still holds many challenges for them people here and so i live as normal lives as possible but life has become more expensive here it's time to look is there loses value against us dollar the local businessman raise their prices and this makes it much harder for people especially those living in refugee camps and so the problem here is everyone got used to consuming you can the public service workers i hope people soon begin to produce them looking for their own interests or waiting for aid boxes. some say nothing much has changed for them after i still left. well i guess i still work a lot even sometimes until one am to earn my living and surviving not enough but i can't beg for money i have children to feed despite the services provided and a relatively secure environment and such unity continues to move many of them wish

to go back to their homes and are hoping and expect a turkish led military offensive east of the free cheese river may make that dream become a reality seen on al-jazeera up north in syria a palestinian protester has been shot dead by israeli forces in gaza hundreds of people have been rallying near the border fence between gaza and israel protesters have been out every friday since march last year demanding palestinians be given the right to return to their ancestral lands israeli forces have killed more than two hundred people and at least eighteen thousand have been injured since protests began. plenty more ahead on the news hour including. i'm down here in the northeastern brazilian states as they are with drug gangs have been defying government efforts to bring them under control we speak to the state governor at the heart of the battle. and a smashing effort from the socceroos peter will have the gold wits that's boosting

the hopes of the reigning champions at the agent. but first security forces in sudan have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters demonstrations have taken place in the capital hard the second biggest city and even a hospital has come under fire the protesters are calling for the resignation of longtime president obama and bashir has rejected their demand ever more again reports from hard to. friday's prayers in sudan ended with calls for more protests demanding the resignation of president obama to be here and the calls were heated in several cities security forces again fired tear gas at some protestors even hospitals have been in the firing line in what amnesty international is describing as an outrageous violation of international law security forces time to hospital on wednesday they were looking for protesters injured during anti-government

demonstrations in a man sudan second largest city bullets and tear gas were fired at patients and doctors they've walked out on strike in protest the sudanese government says it's investigating what happened. to forces actually follows a protest of inside the hospital. and they used you guys alive in the nation. horrible situation and i think even though from the. situation that i can hold with all that's considered a war crime when's this protest in and demand were reported to be the largest in three weeks of demonstrations against the twenty nine year rule of president obama to be sheer police and security forces. responded with force at least three people were killed on wednesday rights groups say the number killed since protests began is at least forty the government says the total is twenty two president obama seems defiant as his party threatens to use force against those protesting his room i do know this is work give us

a week let's see who would dare challenge just one week we don't want people without permits protesting those protesting and especially those who are cut off their heads. the protestors accuse president bashir of mismanaging becan of me ignoring corruption and causing the world's second highest inflation rate because once wave of anti-government protests is regarded as the biggest challenge to president bashir since he came to power in one nine hundred eighty nine some opposition groups have lend their support to those them bending his that down also his resignation continue with more protests planned into the week all triggered by the country's economic crisis queues for bread are common the price of a loaf tripled recently the ruling party says it wants bashir who remains wanted by the international criminal court for work crimes to be reelected next year protesters seem determined to prevent that with the strongest challenge to his leadership people morgan al-jazeera hot zone.

or u.s. media is reporting that the saudi crown prince is still in regular contact with an advisor who is accused of plotting the murder of journalist. citing an unnamed source the washington post says muhammad been cited man continues to seek guidance from solid. the last official government comment on that he was in november and that's when saudi prosecutors said he was under investigation and barred from leaving the kingdom welcome johnny was dismissed as a royal advisor in october following casualties murder at the time he also handled social media accounts for the crown prince and was known for. down on voices critical of the kingdom the tiny is believed to have played a pivotal role in hostile jesus asked the nation by first trying to lure him back to saudi arabia it's believed he met a saudi teen before they left for turkey and allegedly gave orders to kill inside

the saudi consulate let's make more money she's a professor of political science at the university of waterloo thanks very much for speaking to us what do you make of these reports that mohamed bin sandman is still in regular contact with him. i'm afraid i'm not surprised i think what we're seeing is continued frankly cosmetic changes to how the kingdom operates this is in line with the reorganization of intelligence services telling us about the capital punishment for five individuals who were complicit in the murder but without providing frankly evidence that this is even happened or that there were trials or what kind of trials it seems to be that saudi arabia continues to think that this is a p.r. problem and if they were to make the kinds of cosmetic changes that would satisfy the international media that the attention will go away but what they don't seem to recognize that there are serious and deep concerns with the way that saudi arabia

is behaving in treating its citizens and treating its dissidents and of course in its more broader kind of regional political behavior as well so what you're saying is that for muhammad bin sound man he doesn't feel worried at all in the aftermath of the. affair. i don't think he is and i think he's right in the sense that you know frankly we haven't really seen international censure of saudi arabia he was welcomed back to the g. twenty maybe not in a warm embrace by everybody but certainly we didn't get the ostracization that one would have of a leader behind potentially discouraging to murder so i think frankly he is reading the tealeaves that eventually over time countries will forget about this and it's about managing this from up public relations standpoint and that's what we're seeing with qahtani it's really about just you know reorganizing things and eventually people will forget about it and already i'm afraid to say that people are turning their eyes away from the complicity that the regime has had in the

murder of about the how much influence do you think the solider qahtani still holds behind the scenes i think a lot he's a trusted advisor and i think in a kingdom which is very dependent on loyalty where you know there are many technical advisors but loyalty is sparse particularly don't forget here the crown prince is surrounded by a lot of enemies i think it's a lot of people who may even be within his own family wanting the top job and feeling that the country needs to be changed so clearly he seals and it's been you know well i think documented that he feels like a tiny is a loyal advisor probably is and so i think therefore that reasons are it's enough to explain why he continues to be in the picture all right a small money we thank you for speaking to us from canada thank you now a saudi woman who fled to thailand saying she feared her family would kill her husband granted asylum in canada a half. has boarded

a flight from bangkok to seoul where she will take a connecting flight to canada put on had barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and spoken to out about her case on social media earlier this month. the u.n. h.c.r. has made a request of canada that we accept. noon as a refugee and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world and i can confirm that we have accepted the un's request. in brazil a state governor is refusing to back down on his prison reforms this fight criminal gangs retaliating against them some inmates have been moved to other prisons and had their phones confiscated in say or their state governor in the capital for

tellers or has been explaining his crackdown to our correspondent or. the authorities at the state security headquarters daily plan their next steps in the battle they know there's a need just began. the monitoring for further violence from drug gangs which launched a wave of attacks across sierra after moves to curtail the power of their leaders serving time in jail. president. sent national troops they were welcomed by the say our state governor can be with a he's from the opposition workers' party. this is a moment of union in this country brazil should work together with the national government to tackle this problem there are painful consequences but we must work in that direction to win the fight against organized crime in brazil it was the governor's initiative to tackle the growing strength of the drug gangs starting in the prisons. as soon as we started reorganizing the prison system the attacks took

place on the streets gang members reacted by trying to intimidate the state government trying to make us back off but we are doing exactly the opposite we are tightening our actions removing any kind of communication from inside the prisons isolating and transferring some of the prisoners to other states. the two main drug gangs are the cell paolo base first capital p c c and the rio based red command that fight for supremacy often coordinated and fought within these walls. the irony is that these prisons were built to contain the captured drug members instead they've become recruiting and training grounds and even power bases the author said that that must end. their initial priority is their fight in the jails however the state is also dealing with the gangs on the streets while implementing social programs to try to lure youngsters away from the lucrative but deadly trade so what's going to be sore criminal groups born inside the prisons so for decades we

didn't have a proper policy to debrief or improve the penitentiary system that was never prioritized not only here but in the whole of brazil so when that stayed the site it to act against these gangs didn't react as strongly but the street is even stronger. the violence affects many layers of brazilian society the attacks and said frightening away investment especially in the vital tourist industry why do. i see a reduction of fifty percent of the about the shrimp i'm selling these days the beach is quite empty especially for this period of summer holidays in brazil. the focus now is back behind these walls but few expect to stay there for long than usual in their al-jazeera for to listen still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour paying to pray should muslims in germany join jews and catholics and paying the so-called worship tax and japan's olympics boss has been linked to

a corruption investigation peter has the details a little later in sports it's. hello again and welcome back well here across the western part of the levant we have seen quite a bit of snow and rain over the last couple of days things are looking much better but i want to show you some images that have come out of parts of lebanon expression the higher elevations look at all the snow that has accumulated across this area now the still going to be dealing with the snow but there is going to be some rain coming into the forecast over the next few days but look how high the snow banks are this could turn very messy as the rain comes into play saturday really not looking too bad here across much of the region but we are going to be watching that weather system coming out of the mediterranean and there is the rain by the time we get to sunday no snow and that's going to cause quite a bit of a mess if those temperatures do go down below freezing which they may in the

overnight hours that could turn icy for many locations well here across the gulf we are looking at clouds across much of the area particular up here towards the north and that is going to mean we are going to be seeing a mostly cloudy day overcast day for many locations here for so for doha twenty two degrees here on saturday going to bout twenty three maybe a little bit more of a break in the clouds as we go towards sunday afternoon and then very quickly across parts of madagascar mozambique very heavy rain shows had been the trend over the last few days we are seeing those coastal showers continue across most of the area but down towards cape town it is going to be partly cloudy with a temp a few of nineteen. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this who writes is that a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no

limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to break through the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing coming soon one of the really special things that work in progress here 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 working for the channels they believe but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

and again the top stories on the al jazeera news hour the head of the u.n. mission in the democratic republic of congo is warning of more violence while the dispute over the presidential election results continues the losing candidate martin says he won sixty percent of the vote citing figures from catholic church observers this contradicts the official tally which crowned his rival felix as the winner the u.s. military says it started to pull out a clip from syria but commanders aren't giving details on when troops will all go home the operations underway three weeks off for donald trump surprise announcement to pull out. security forces in sudan have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters they're also accused of attacking injured demonstrators while they were receiving treatment at a hospital and. well it's the day hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the

u.s. should have received their paychecks but their wages have been blocked by a political fight over funding president trump's demands for a border wall as a partial government shutdown enters a twenty first day so if the deadlock continues into saturday it will be the longest consecutive shutdown in america's history nine departments including agriculture and homeland security state transportation interior and justice all affected some eight hundred thousand workers across these departments are not being paid roughly four hundred twenty thousand of them have to keep working because they're classified as essential personnel applications for unemployment benefits are piling up as the shutdown continues and thousands of federal workers are looking for assistance to get by well close to washington d.c. is the state of maryland that's where more than twenty thousand federal workers have been affected. census this report from its largest city all to more. 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 although marie has seen his business declined sharply it's what's. he tells us who leave the area if things don't return to normal soon if you see you know a lifestyle now it's one o'clock like nothing here you know it's like any is going to the business. of the bin 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 for drop again in the car today or do our way to the weekend do. buy groceries today or from the way to enough going to be a long from things that 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 the 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. new 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 let's get an update and bring in andy gallagher he's joining us

from baltimore and what are you hearing about the shutdown. well and the last hour or so the house has voted to give federal workers back pay that bill will now go to the president's desk where you can assume a given that he says he feels for all these federal workers are going to or he would pay that but it's a brutally cold day here in baltimore and a bitter reality for those over twenty thousand workers in this state that haven't got paychecks a day you can just see in our report the kind of choices those people are now having to make but it's perhaps those contracted workers that will suffer the most think about people cleaning toilets people waiting outside airports in cabs and restaurants around federal buildings that are not going to get anybody told they tell us the longer this goes on the mall they will suffer the more hard choices they are going to have to make so once again the house has passed a bill to give federal workers by one says government shutdown is over and there's

no clear indication that that will happen any time soon but again it's those of the people on the periphery of this argument between president chump and the democrats who are really suffering whose families are really suffering and whose businesses ultimately if this goes on for much longer may face closure how angry are they at the situation having been caught up in this political stalemate. well we have met anyone here over the last couple of days that has told is without prompting that they feel like innocent pawns in a political argument they're not so much angry as they are worried because you heard someone like darryl in my report just choosing between putting gas in the car and food on the table those are fundamental decisions that really affect families across the state of course across the country that they have a message and i asked each and every person that we interviewed if they have

a message for the president the message is for the politicians in washington d.c. to sit down together and sort out this argument because they simply cannot take this partial government shutdown for much longer all right andy gallagher thank you scientists are warning the world's oceans are warming up much faster than previously thought a new study by the journal science reports that climate change is getting worse and we need to act now before it's too late twenty eight thousand set a new record and global warming with manmade greenhouse gas emissions largely to blame ninety three percent if it is absorbed by the oceans while it might make for a warmer swim it depletes oxygen and it kills where we life warm waters also means higher sea levels more moisture in the air plus more floods and more powerful storms and while almost two hundred nations plan to phase out fossil fuels this century scientists say leaders need to take action faster let's speak to one of the

report's authors kevin trenberth he's joining us from boulder colorado he's a senior scientist at the national center for atmospheric research good to have you with us on al-jazeera so why is it that the number is now are much higher when it comes to measuring the heating of the oceans. well the ocean was not long to climb purposes for many years there were some instruments called expendable that the film aggressively moved maybe for military purposes to get certain aspects with temperature of the ocean but they weren't precise enough and these have now been we process each manufacturer produce them with a slightly different shape and they didn't measure the depth that would say we knew from the temperature and now we have calibrated all of these much better so we know much better what was happening in the past and nowadays we have an array of thomas profiling floats that are out there called argo that are producing excellent

measurements of the ocean the contents that enable us also to get some of them and how best to fill the gaps that we had in the past both in space and time so we have new analyses of what is happening globally and there are three different groups that are producing these and there is also a new map that has been produced to give the smashmouth of the ocean heat on things as well and they're all now i'm grieving and the numbers are about forty to fifty percent higher than they were in the last intergovernmental panel on climate change or so what are the implications though for climate change with the oceans warming up much faster than previously thought. we're going to be warming up first with we're also the ocean continent is the rate is actually accelerating now the new numbers actually agree better with the of the climate models what we've been saying

all along the average at least now and then for that part won't give us a basis knowing what's going to happen future and so there's only been able to do so with all of this what will happen in the future because of course all sort of relates to right because there's the oceans will expand expand and. you go to warmer oceans have consequences as you well as we now see. the speeds are right kevin trenberth we thank you for joining us from colorado you're most welcome now high court judges a man maher have rejected an appeal by two reuters journalists serving seven year prison sentences while loan and child so were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army massacre for a hinge a village or as the reporters say they were framed by police who gave them classified documents china says it's highly concerned about the detention of a businessman in poland a polish national and

a chinese manager at the tech giant weiwei are being accused of spying poland says the chinese man's arrest is linked to his own behavior not his employers us intelligence agencies have alleged that why waste technologies could be used by the chinese government for espionage. germans officially registered as jews catholics or protestants have for decades been required to pay what's called a church or worship tax the money is then given to the relevant faiths and now one leading christian democrat politicians as muslims should be brought into this arrangement to free them from the influence of foreign states dominic cain explains . there. this is the rush to go to a 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 zakk at that view is not universally shared among muslims here many believe the suggestion is counterproductive. 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 in donations so if you bring the model of the mosque tax then you once again take the tax from.