ignoring corruption and causing the world's second highest inflation rate because of and to government protests is regarded as the biggest challenge to president bashir since he came to power in one thousand eighty nine some opposition groups have remember support to those the bending his that down for 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 hutton eight members of the same family have been killed in yemen in an artillery bombardment by rebels of four women and four children were killed in the government health village of shalala close to the border with saudi arabia it comes as the saudi led coalition says it's destroyed or who see drone control center that was used in a deadly attack on a military parade on thursday who thinks of also denied saudi reports that they

attacked an oil refinery in the port city of aden after a violent explosion shook the city and caused a huge fire well now israeli forces have shot a woman that was shot dead a woman near gaza's border fence during weekly protests there the killing took place during the forty second week of the march for turn rallies protests as gather every friday to demand the right of palestinians to return to israel land they were driven from during the one nine hundred forty eight war gaza's health officials say more than two hundred people have been killed by israeli fire since the protests began in march last year. the u.s. military says it's begun pulling equipment but not troops out of syria a coalition spokesman refused to reveal further details over the draw including when some of the two thousand american troops might leave secretary of state might pay a was in the region to reassure allies off to donald trump surprise announcement of a troop withdrawal more than three weeks ago he says the pullout won't hinder the

ongoing fight against i sill meanwhile turkey is saying a plan offensive against kurdish white b.g. fighters in northern syria will go ahead regardless of the u.s. withdrawal preparations are underway for the ground assault and chorus easily kurdish militia along its border as a security threat saddam consumer reports from bob which turkish backed forces recaptured from my sil two years ago. the voices of innocence. children playing amidst the complex political standoff. these innocent lives are given a chance at life in a one size all controlled city well bob that was them rated by the turkish backed free syrian army after say two years ago. janet said today they would be for 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 regard 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 beat the also who are by having more children at this thirty babies are born every day in obama. however

life still holds many challenges for them people here in alabama so i live as normal lives as possible but life has become more expensive here it's time to focus their loses value i guess u.s. dollars the local businessmen 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 interest or waiting for aid boxes. some say nothing much has changed for them after i salute left. well yes 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 feel 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 faith is river may make that dream become a reality seen on al-jazeera northern syria. still ahead for you on this news hour from london iraqi citizens get the green light to enter baghdad's green zone as security restrictions are relaxed. take element wants to cut a u. migration after breck's it where will the health service get its star. and in the spotlight japan's lympics boss has been linked to a corruption investigation peter will have those details in sport. a saudi woman who fled to thailand saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada after being granted asylum. and had barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and launched

a social media campaign that received global attention a canadian prime minister has confirmed that asylum request has been granted canada has been unequivocal that we will always stand up for human rights and women's rights around the world this is part of a long tradition of canada engaging constructively in positively in the world and working with our partners allies and with the united nations and when the united nations made a request of us that we grant. asylum we we we accepted two people including a chinese businessman have been arrested in poland on suspicion of spying. polish media say the chinese suspect is a director at the polish offices of tech giant huawei the world's second largest maker of cell phones if convicted the package faced ten years in prison u.s. intelligence agencies have previously accused of being linked to the chinese government which they say uses its technologies for espionage. u.s.

president donald trump says he will not declare a national emergency right now to secure funds for a war on the mexican border trumps republicans and the democrats are deadlocked over his demand for more than five billion dollars for the wall government departments have been closed down for twenty one days now but the president says a state of emergency is the last resort carver should do this is too simple it's too batiuk and congress should do this if they cared to do it if at some point they just can't do it this is a fifteen minute if they cared to do it i will declare a national emergency i have the absolute right to do well the democratic controlled house of representatives has voted to restore funding for several federal agencies that have been shut down but the republican senate leader says he will not put it to a vote on friday around eight hundred thousand employees missed their first paychecks

some have been temporarily laid off their jobs without pay known as a furlough while others are working for nothing it's the nineteenth shutdown since one nine hundred seventy six when new budget laws were enacted giving congress more power most have been brief but the current shutdown now matches the previous longest one when president bill clinton battled with the republicans over cuts to medicaid well and gallup has been speaking to some of the people affected in the eastern us city of baltimore and joins us now any one of some of these workers been telling you about the fact that they haven't received their salary this month and how will this is likely to impact them. well the impact is almost immediate you know this shutdown is now three weeks long and i think the realities really hit home for federal workers when on this on friday what should have been a payday they did not get anything at all but the impact goes way beyond federal workers it goes to contractors it goes to local business owners and we found out

what the human cost here is in 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 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 lifestyle now it's one o'clock like nothing here you know it's like any is going to the business and there have. 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 for drop again in the car today or do our way to the weekend do i'd buy groceries today or from the way to enough going to be a fare on from 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. you know 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. counterpart to face with eight hundred thousand people facing a lot of disruption and hardship from this the stakes are high how do people feel about being caught up in this political spot. where you would think at this point in time people would feel angry but i think the more word certain the ones that we met because of the decisions they're going to have to make whether as that one interviewee said to put gas in the car fuel in the car or food on the table they do blame the president maryland is a democratic state it voted for hillary clinton twenty sixteen so there isn't much support for the president here but there is a clear message for each of the people that we've met some on camera some off camera and others to the politicians in washington d.c. and that message is get together and sort this out because this is now becoming by saturday the longest consecutive partial government shutdown in u.s.

history this is already one day without a paycheck and some homeless charities say that most families are two paychecks away from being homeless so the longer this gets on the more desperate is not only for federal workers but for those people that make money off of federal workers i'm talking about restaurants contractors in effect way more than eight hundred thousand people and they are now becoming desperate and they more than anyone else in this country perhaps would like to see a solution now all right well thanks very much andy gallacher there with the repercussions of this partial government shutdown reporting from baltimore britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt says the nation might have to stay in the european union if parliament rejects prime minister to resign may's breck's it tail as been a third day of debate ahead of the vote next tuesday the deal agreed with the e.u. has been criticised by m.p.'s right across the political spectrum and looks unlikely to pos. we can no longer assume that by rejecting this deal there will

be a better shade of breath sit. what is more likely if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of bricks it paralysis and. when that happens no one knows what might happen and the big risk more people worry about is that we don't touch it deliver what people voted for. and it was immigration that has been one of the main issues raised by that leave campaign in the referendum the government a little already indicated it wants to reduce european immigration by eighty percent when it leaves the e.u. but as with most things backs it the situation is complicated not sleeps bangs. remember this it was one of the reasons leave one in the backseat 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 this is starting salary in britain was around twenty five thousand dollars a year under the government's 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 to 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 nerf you really are not they they will find out before for example in the u.k. rather than. ten thousand and. two yes sagal as it stands there are one hundred thousand unfilled roles in the british oil service and dire warnings a balance of a 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 a whole there's something quite challenging about thinking that highly skilled always means highly and what we need to do is really think about in the public sector what is the value that people bring in the eyes a minute in terms 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 it's a safe sees there are two entirely conflicting narratives at play in the u.k. are the moments 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 could run. unemployment's it does rather raise the question if the government does what it says it to european immigration by. then who exactly is going to do. there is an argument in cabinet between people who really care far more about restricting immigration than about

a letter by the prime minister the rest of the capital and of course the business community who want to make preserving the economy a priority and that hasn't been resolved like the u.k. was at breaking points because of uncontrolled immigration politicians are now presented with a chance of reducing sleep if that happens the country will find out what the. problem to rule. zero. well still ahead for you what's in a name the parliament in macedonia a contentious name changed and decades. while. the best thing since sliced bread. and mashing at. goldblatt's that's boosting the hopes of the reigning champions at the asian cup.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for more snow is on the way here for central parts of europe where we're dealing with snow all week long it has been deadly in some locations because of the avalanche threat which will continue to stay quite high over the next few days but i want to show you what you can expect to see through the weekend because by the time we get to sunday that is when we are expecting to see our next really big shot of snow across much of the area here up to the north you see the rain but that is going to turn to snow as it makes its way down here towards the south across much of the elves that is going to add at least another sixty to ninety centimeters of snow on top of what has already fallen so a very dangerous situation there down towards the southeast watch an area of low pressure and that is going to make anywhere across the eastern part of the med very very unstable over the next few days here on saturday we are looking at that area

of low pressure bringing some rain here to tripoli as well as over here towards been gusty winds are going to be a problem as well and then as we go towards sunday that storm makes its way more towards the east bringing more heavy rain across parts of the lebanon as well as syria a lot of the refugee camps have been flooded because of the situation here across northern parts of egypt it is going to be windy as well benghazi you'll continue to see more rain in your forecast and tunis it's cloudy day for you with a temperature of fourteen. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on but what is this gross 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 pay for the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have

a fantasy growing pains coming soon russian filmmaker andre neck rosol travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin the russian economy is in crisis tank and unstable oil prices fluctuating cards half of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge now economists calculate everything we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes away our flags. in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're with the news hour live from london just a quick look at the top stories opposition candidate martin five says he won sixty one percent of the vote in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election his rival felix tisha katie has been declared the winner but saying he got just eighteen percent of the vote and will challenge the result in court. security forces have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people protesting against the government in khartoum rights groups have accused them of using excessive force even attacking protesters in a hospital and the u.s. military says it started pulling equipment but not troops out of syria a coalition spokesman refused to reveal further details of the withdrawal including when the two thousand american troops will leave. now getting around the iraqi capital is a bit easier for everyone these days the heavily fortified green zone has been a symbol of insecurity for years now but security forces are effectively declaring the city safe and have removed checkpoints and barriers and one call reports from

baghdad. they call it the transition from green to blue where green only soldiers give up control to the blue berets of the iraqi police force that can now easily pass through baghdad's international zone also known as the green zone without checks and special passes a situation thinkable just a year ago. under the old is a problem. officials across major cities in iraq are checkpoints and concrete barriers designed to protect against suicide in tall buildings the prime minister even took a very public walk around baghdad on monday. transitioning from green to blue for iraq something inevitable this came after the end of the military operations against isola cross iraq there's a ground for the iraqi police to handle security and leave other military forms out . the main cities the european union advisory mission to iraq is pushing into that direction in collaboration with the police force for several reasons on top of them

getting rid from eisel threat in the green zone is home to iraqi political establishment and foreign embassies according to the american media the us has its concerns over the green zone opening up its embassy in iraq is the largest of its diplomatic missions in the world the european union advisory mission to iraq is helping iraqi police deal with security but insists it's the iraqis who are leading the charge the mission is important because at the moment we are in a phase where in iraq after winning the war against there's the security forces the police is in a transition phase from more paramilitary. forces to a superior. local police force the people in the city it's been i think to drive around the green zone an area denied to them for the last fifteen years. when i first crossed the bridge leading to the green zone i was in tears for fifteen years

we rocky's were deprived from these roads we are so happy to have the right nima the green zone is open now for the public families and employees can drive through now usually we are happy for the city of mint down are the days of roads being shut down with concrete walls gone our traffic jams this is a relief for iraqi people in the end. keeping baghdad safe requires a large and coordinated daily operation which begins at four am with iraqi police forces finding out across the city. and it's not just the green zone all over the city streets opening up. as you can see the removal of these concrete barriers is quite a major operation but it is a crucial one not only does it ease congestion on the roads of baghdad but it gives people a sense that things are safe in the city and these scenes are being repeated across iraq iran al-jazeera baghdad. the un special rapporteur for human rights in north korea has described the country as a prison speaking from seoul thomas

a chair quintana confirm the presence of political prison camps after speaking to north korean defectors he says hundreds of thousands of inmates are held in these facilities and to subjected to a continuing pattern of ill treatment and torture the fact is that we all the possible developments we want to just written in the bus here it is sort of more writable that the reality for human rights on the ground remains unchanged and continues to be extremely serious. of those who lived in the north of recently that i interviewed you and businesswoman some big counts of ordinary people being instructed to explode at the labor and serious human rights violations touched such as forced evictions in the name of development stories were told to me of the building including children being subject to long hours of forced forced labor we

are they were forced to work without remuneration high court judges in myanmar rejected in a pail by two reuters journalists serving seventy of prison sentences while alone and convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army massacre the villages are poor to say they were framed by police who gave them classified documents reuters has condemned the ruling party has called on me and sun city to look at whether due process was followed in the case scott hyla has this update for us from my cause. the high court in yangon announced that it had rejected this appeal in the afternoon on friday they said that there was not enough evidence that these two gentlemen were innocent so they were saying that the conviction was upheld and also is when it comes to how long they would spend behind bars they were sentenced to seven years back in september there was a possibility with the appeal that that sense could be reduced but the court's on friday the high court in yangon saying that there was

a suitable punishment of seven years because of the severity of what this case was about that it threatens to harm national security so these gentlemen for now will stay behind bars according to the high court in yangon for seven years now very soon after the word came out about this on friday the editor in chief of reuters made a statement today's ruling is yet another in justice among many inflicted upon why lone and just so do they remain behind bars for one reason those in power sought to silence the truth reporting is not a crime and until meehan maher writes this terrible wrong the press would mean maher is not free and the inmarsat commitment to rule of law and democracy remains in doubt now for the future what could happen to these two journalists now that their appeal has been rejected the defense can appeal to the supreme court in myanmar's capital neighborhood or there's no indication or word that they will do that yet and then the only other option for them is if unsung suchi the state

council the leader of myanmar issues a pardon but again there's no word if that's going to happen either the japanese conjoint nessun is filed a criminal complaint against it sacked chairman comus gun the breach of trust and is accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars he was arrested on november nineteenth allegations of false accounting and immediately i know san gun is protesting his innocence but as lost an appeal against his detention pending a trial. well to political developments in venezuela now opponents of nicolas maduro staged a protest in caracas as he starts his second term as the country's president woodrow was sworn in on thursday but his election victory has been denounced as forgery lent and opposition leaders are discussing ways to remove him an opposition rally was held outside the headquarters of the organization of american states ahead of the opposition run congress is challenging the jury's right to the presidency saying he's ready to assume power himself and call new elections. the

governor of say our estate in brazil is refusing to back down on his prison reforms despite retaliation from the region's drug lords criminal gangs have been split between different prisons and phones have been confiscated to curtail the power of jailed gang leaders the state governor in the capital. has been explaining his crackdown to danielle shrine that. the authorities at the state security headquarters daily plan their next steps in the battle they know has only just begun. 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 sarah state governor camille santana or the 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 tax 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 first capitol police e c and the rio based red command their fight for supremacy often coordinated and fort 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 authorities have

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. resort 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 macedonia's parliament has approved a change of the country's name it will now be known as the republic of north macedonia and a deal and ending a decades long to speak with neighbor greece which has a region called macedonia greece has consistently blocked macedonia's entry into nato and the european union arguing the country's name was intended to confer rights of a weak territory and appropriated greek culture there's plenty of opposition to the name change macedonian nationalists abstained from the vote in parliament in protest as demonstrated in skokie for three days they say the change is a capitulation to greece. now new research from the world health organization says people are not eating nearly enough fiber and nutrient that's found in most types of fruit and vegetables such as from the university of otago new zealand found eating more fiber can significantly cut the risk of heart disease diabetes cancer

strokes and early death fiber is also found in whole grain cereals past bread not and pulses but it's fallen out of favor with the advent of low carbohydrate diets. well i'm to say we're joined now by one of the co-authors all that report andrew rannells from the university of otago new zealand joins us now via skype from dani didn't thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so for those that love bread and pastor like myself this is very good news but also somewhat surprising because we're often led to believe that leading a having a low carb diet is actually more healthier for you yes absolutely that's the current fad at the moment is to look at the quality or the quantity story of carbohydrates but what we're interested here is looking at the quality of the carbohydrates can be sugars it can be starches and it can be fibers and each of those things respond differently in the body so what we looked at we looked at markets of high quality carbohydrates so they were and we transfer really good

reductions as you said in premature mortality in heart disease diabetes and certain cancers and that's mainly from eating the more whole grain based breads and cereals as well as vegetables fruits and pulses all legumes so just to be clear the low carb diet thing has has meant that actually we end up many of us end up with jetting fiber which is found in good carbohydrates because we're trying to avoid sugar which is a so-called bad carbohydrate you know essentially that's true i mean from our paper we found that most people should have around twenty five to twenty nine grams of fiber from food per day and a low carbohydrate diet having less than forty percent of total energy is not compatible with that sort of amount. is there a social economic factor to this the recommendations that you make in this report can it be particularly expensive for for people to adopt these kind of habits i mean potentially if you.