isn't by the enemy we're fighting you make people who are trying to help wonder about us and as they get older the people we're trying to help are going to going to get more uncertain saw this in iraq. you know i'm now seeing it in syria he urged the president to reconsider but that seems unlikely because just after the attack the vice president made this claim we're bringing our troops home the caliphate has crumbled and isis has been defeated. one of the leaders who most clearly does not want to see the u.s. president change course the president of turkey who weighed in though he. i asked has claimed the responsibility for the attack and this may mean to affect the decision that mr trump has taken but as i know mr trump's determination about this issue i do not think he will step back against this kind of a terrorist attack. donald trump has been criticized by both parties for his

decision to withdraw u.s. troops his secretary of defense quit in protest now his claim that i still has been defeated will be openly questioned after this attack but he's still not showing any signs he will reconsider political hay al-jazeera washington now the u.s. special envoy and reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban zalmay color is meeting pakistani leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the table last week taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him accusing the u.s. of deflecting from the issue of drawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the dialogue. is our correspondent in pakistan joins us from the capital islamabad and it's quite interesting come on that while the taliban say that it won't talk about this all that one wonders what is on the agenda then in this visit and what they will talk about. her hair

the pressure on wire for the u.s. . god had been any. particular day then a drawdown get to pay day that they would be coming. earlier in the week but as you mentioned there are problems. then do you. then that you are. on the. dollar bond. because they're. meeting in door and. they were given the impression that good things would be on the agenda meeting one of the.

thing. happened historically pakistan is often does and doesn't help with peace talks maybe according to the us i mean what is this science role in this particular scenario where it's trying to get all sides of the table to talk to each other. however.

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it was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital at least twenty one people died in the assault. the red cross says one thousand people are still missing. from the capital. some more than that. now this over details of what happened inside the dusit hotel complex are beginning to march surveillance cameras capture the beginnings of the attack when heavily armed men walked into the upmarket complex. employees are running all over the place he was screaming for up on to realize that the best thing to do is to find a service place to hide. for hours afterwards terrified

workers and clients barricaded themselves in as gunfire and explosives rang out. some people are still missing hundreds of others were taken to safety you know peroration that lasted through tuesday night we go out to say for the record ever question but they make a big mistake because it was not sick who we go and sub to us kenya's president has vowed to bring those responsible to justice we are a country governed by laws rules and regulations a country that embraces peaceful coexistence we believe in these principles and values even in the face of adversity and i must also state that we are also

a nation that never forgets those who hurt our children police have started investigating they want to find out how the attack was planned how the gunman got hero who was a canyons of the foreigners who are their friends who helped them where was their attack plan and all this are questions that many kenyans want to quit consistent. al-shabaab has in the past said their tasks are in response to kenya sending troops to somalia as part of a un international force this attack comes on the third any vaziri of the killing. of more than one hundred kenyan soldiers on a military base in thousand somalia. this must have been a. park there was sleep in. in the country and was just activated for two reasons one of course al shabaab was commemorating the new virus

ari and secondly it was announcing that it is still there it is still irreverent and it's too. late for the hotel is now a crime scene and the city is mourning once more. catherine sawyer al-jazeera. let's cross over to our correspondent in nairobi mohammed. know the police investigation apparently is continuing and they are drip feeding information what are they saying. well the details. about the talk that's happened here on tuesday cut it out by. saying there were five of the first one walked in the tony to. a suicide vest and was wearing creating so many casualties in one of the restaurants here and then the four with guns get in a just that one into the complex shooting the panic. and

people the clients what is side of the complex as they were out of calls police are saying now that they are up to seven suspects and forensic investigations are going on the kenyan police are being assisted by f.b.i. agents. saying that they are paying more attention to a vehicle that's been left outside by the. said use the car when they go out in what they got into the complex and then that is the car they saying that would be doing a determination or sometime late in the day because this is a huge deal for a group on the receiving end of not only some ali special forces but also the united states military to train them and is helping them with logistics and support inside somalia and such attacks like the one here at the fourteen people side dr

prove to the world still a force to reckon. with relieving them at it out there in nairobi. regional bloc the southern african development community. to discuss disputed elections in the democratic republic of congo losing presidential candidate a motion for lou has filed a court challenge demanding a recount of last month's vote a ruling is expected by friday so you look in sixty one sixty one percent of the vote contradicting official results which declared rival felix just said cicada the winner. david how manye is a senior political analyst at the university of south africa and joins me from there good to have you with us one wonders how sudden it because it's known can actually help sort this problem out in the d r c. so there is the most important organization that deals with issues of peace and security in the region and it is also an organization that monitors

elections guided by the guideline for monitoring and it has troops in the country under the auspices of the year and. what's happening on the ground that does quite clear if it does not attended to now the chances are high that there will be massive violence and given the used of the city. has huge implications not just for the country but the entire region particularly neighboring countries indeed and exactly i mean right now what we're waiting for is this appeal hearing to be heard but i mean there are two scenarios are they not only going to play out one way or the other the result stands and wins or the result is overturned and who wins either way as you say chaos ensues and when you have heavyweights like civil roma poser and paul could guard me at this meeting they really want to make sure that there isn't another continental conflict

which involves their nations in directly or directly. indeed and i think what is critical is to firstly give the congolese people the chance to be guided by the constitution of the city and the pronouncement coming from the constitutional court on the outcome of this election and will guide the regions to intervene and as it appears. quite a number of people do not have confidence in the judiciary given some of the rulings in the past and therefore it is quite interesting to see what's going to happen in the next two three days however there is a need for contingency plans should violence break out of the two options that you

have laid out but there's also a third one which to negotiate and to have a clear fresh she likes since all form a government of national unity is something that is quite common in this part of the world is there we are out of this dilemma at the conference how likely is that it in the light of the fact that the constitutional court has been made up of representatives that were put into position there by the former president kabila and therefore do they have you might see the clout the will power to really look into the matter honestly impartially and act accordingly do you have faith in the way that the constitutional court is made up in in in the d r c. the court previously has been questioned. based on the rulings and given the fact that there's been a lot of gerrymandering happening in the sea that the government has much more sway

and it can influence the courts so it really depends what they're going to say. and when the ruling comes out the region need to be ready and the u.s. and all forces in the world the united states have troops in that region you have the subject troops also in the including south african soldiers so it is a question of negotiating with the or all players in the sea to ensure that peace prevails which is the what does up to the moment david money thanks so much for joining us from johannesburg. well carol be here with the weather in a moment but still ahead zimbabwe's president calls again for calm after what out of us are describing as a brutal crackdown by soldiers. and the u.n. agrees to send

a team of monitors to support the yemen cease fire and the vital port city of data . and it's down to the wire in the peruvian desert as the world's toughest driving competition reaches its final stage to stay with us. through tranquil arabian canyons. and the long carefree winters in affiliation gondola. well we have been talking about the big storm here in the eastern part of the mediterranean with the rains the winds as well as the snow but also we're dealing with some just storm conditions across parts of egypt take a look yesterday a what cairo was dealing with it's not only cairo but also the port cities on the red sea some of those port cities actually had to close their ports because of visibility had been so low in the region now that same weather system is making its way towards the east that we are dealing with visibility dropping in many locations

across that area as that system is also pushing east here across parts of the arabian peninsula many cities have dropped their visibility is in some locations down to less than one kilometer in some locations less than half a kilometer we're talking about riyadh over towards as well as into quite city with this system pushing through and it's going to be a big problem as a system continues to make its way towards the east into the southeast so we are going to be dealing with a dust storm across much of this area over the next day not only that we are course can be dealing with temperatures dropping as the system pushes through as well today we're going to be seeing those temperatures not too bad in this area into the mid twenty's for tomorrow we are dealing with much lower conditions here in doha twenty one overnight lows going down to about sixteen degrees so it could be quite cool over here to israel at about nine. the winter sponsored by cat time race. sure true names at home. and inspiration.

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book about what you observe as news hour with me. of all top stories the british prime minister theresa may is urging m.p.'s to work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. she made the appeal just hours after the government survived a no confidence vote called by the opposition. has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed nineteen people in northern syria for americans to soldiers under two civilians amongst the day that. at least twenty one people have died in this in an attack on a kenyan hotel the number could rise as many others remain miss. says the assault was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital.

doctors in zimbabwe say sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after protests this week seventeen of the victims of her emergency surgery there are have been days of violence between demonstrators and security forces many angry over a steep rise in fuel prices police have arrested hundreds of people including prominent rights activists president gore has been speaking on social media his part of what he said on twitter on thursday i have been deeply saddened by the events in our beloved homeland violence will not reform our economy violence will not rebuild our nation he goes on to say that resolving zimbabwe's economic challenges is a monumental task and while it may not always feel that way we are moving in the right direction there it is a senior researcher at the institute for security studies in pretoria in south africa joins me live from harare in zimbabwe good to have you with us sir what are

you hearing about this crackdown and the way it's being implemented by official forces. very heavy handed approach very reminiscent of the mcgarvie era the military have been deployed once again live. being used and people are being arbitrarily dragged from their homes and being beaten up if they are suspected of having taken part in the demonstrations that took place between mind and when. they are also being arbitrary arrests of people who are civil society leaders and activists and the internet was completely closed down on tuesday afternoon. when and social media platforms remain closed by the government of zimbabwe so it's a very heavy handed response. in the immediate now but sort of these protests and

the on going anger in the public debate hasn't really happened overnight sort of the new milingo government hasn't been able to attract foreign investment since it took control elections and it hasn't been able to control inflation which is jump what some five percent in september to nearly thirty five percent in december what seems to be going wrong with the way the government are acting. the problem or the grounds for the problem was laid quite a few years ago under the mcgarvie government when the mcgarvie administration began basically creating money out of nothing that's it's rather complicated because zimbabwe is a dollar rise economy but they sickly the government began paying off their debts by infusing electronic money into the banking system which wasn't really backed by any u.s. dollars a tor so the value of that electronic money these electronic book intrigues

zimbabwe basically operates a cashless society and depends on electronic transfers the value of the c electronic money has declined steeply it's now about a third of the real us dollar and of course people are paid in c. electronic it's electronic form so the the purchasing power of this challenge has declined enormously and of course when the fuel price was hijacked by about two hundred fifty percent this represented yet a further decline in the purchasing power of workers' salaries and that's what sparked the violence and that's basically it's the fundamental economic problem which is causing the these social protests and the disturbances on the street of course it doesn't help here but of course the government has tried to sort of offset the violence by you might say offering wage hikes to civil servants in a massively increasing their salaries while as you say increasing fuel prices on

the other which is sort of you know will to try to balance the books but certainly hasn't helped the situation you can sort of take you know take from one hand and get from one hundred and take to the other could just infuriates the public when they don't actually see any net gain in their pocket. well the increases in calories being a huge it's been marginal because of the quality of the incoming. finance minister during gaijin fiscal consolidation and to try and rein in government budget deficit which behind the creation of the electronic money in the first place. the moment government increase will double servant salary. increase for the budget deficit increase of government debt the creation of more of the electronic money and the salaries will simply decline and go back to where they were in the first place very briefly present drug war will shortly be going to davos to the big leaders meeting

of business and finance globally he was trying to track that foreign investment into his country and with what we're seeing over the past few weeks he's going to have quite a tough sell is he not for those who might even consider thinking about investing in his country certainly that the current situation does not look like an attractive investment destination but from an economic point of view because of very difficult for investors to repatriate their profits and also in the in the sense of political the bullet where obviously the events of the last few days of show and with the country is highly volatile at the moment for the moment thanks so much for joining us from harare so good to have you with us welcome. the u.n. security council has voted unanimously to deploy up to seventy five observers to yemen's port city of the data now the monitors will be sent for six months to

supervise a cease fire on the withdrawal of rival sources of sort of truce deal was signed in sweden last month james spader's has more from the u.n. . a unanimous vote by the security council to extend and expand its monitoring mission in her data they've now authorized up to seventy five unarmed u.n. monitors for a period of six months the big worry on the ground is that the ceasefire won't hold for anything like that long it came into force last month but is extremely fragile and shaky with numerous violations reported u.n. secretary general antonio good terrace says keeping and extending the peace is one of his key priorities for the year ahead last month stockholm agreement on yemen helped to avoid the catastrophic military confrontation in the data it would have greatly increases the risk of famine but much more needs to be done to ensure that

the parties leave up to their commitments and that the true political process finally leads to peace beyond her data in amman jordan talks about an exchange of prisoners something that was originally supposed to happen before last month stockholm agreement have finally gotten underway the prisoner exchange is one of the confidence building measures that the special envoy has negotiated so it's a very important part because it shows good faith and it was part of the agreements reached in stock and confidence building is good in its own and it's a marriage there's still not enough confidence though to name a date for the next stage of political talks they've now slipped to february kuwait was talked about as a venue but the who things are uneasy about going there and now germany is being mentioned james berry's outages era at the united nations. in libya five people are being killed in fighting between rival armed groups on the outskirts of tripoli the

violence fractures a four month old u.n. brokered cease fire that libya has been in conflict since the two thousand and eleven uprising that toppled mama gadhafi the un backed government in tripoli has been working on a new security plan but has achieved little without a national police force or army. the palestinian health ministry in gaza is warning that at least three hospitals may be forced to close because of power shortages there isn't enough fuel to power generators that backup unreliable electricity supplies charles strafford reports on what's causing the latest shortfall. home early db is one of the around three hundred women a month to give birth in this women's hospital in rough southern gaza. her first child has just been delivered by inches area in section. there are daily blackouts across the palestinian territory so this and many hospitals like it rely on generators for power for at least twelve hours a day but the fuel for the generators is fast running out again as much as

a lot of chicken if you cross the sea and the israeli siege in general for twelve years has got worse over the last year we have to delay many procedures because of a lack of electricity and we having to distribute all plank it's because it's so cold for the children without heating with the latest fuel crisis started when israel banned the transfer of the third installments of millions of dollars from qatar to pay for fuel and the salaries of from us employees. with an election looming in israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu has battled to pressure from politicians and people accusing the governments of allowing the payment of hamas to keep the situation in gaza calm which it has been relatively speaking in recent weeks because the us has two million people just suffering a fuel crisis this is a protest by palestinian authority employees in gaza angry with president mahmoud abbas for increasing taxes on their salaries the. was repeated gyptian and

un reconciliation efforts have failed to heal the more than decade long rift between hamas and the palestinian authority which is dominated by abbas is fatah party. people are increasingly angry with abbas and the p.a. which has for years with held money and fuel supplies to hamas controlled gaza far darker than it did today we are calling for a general strike among he a workers because of the new palestinian authority and all increasing attacks on us it is hurting us a lot we won't stop until the p.a. listens there are protests like this virtually every day in gaza now hamas says that the palestinian authorities refusal to allow vital funds to pay promising you know authority employees here in gaza is a bid by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas to cause whatever must describe the civil unrest or anybody to remove that much from her. i do believe that the

palestinian authority with owned a concession that we've been giving to them from hamas and something like that doesn't sound that out interested to have again what she had in building both shooting system and toward to get out again. talking about the election talking about different things that we vote for to have but unfortunately that is the baby or the template didn't get us to the chin hit and they have to make it more difficult what each of us do in the division and to distort our unity at least two hundred fifty palestinians have been killed mainly by israeli army sniper fire since we can be friday protests started near gaza's border fence almost a year ago. i'm only deeds postponed some lines in an e.q. place in this hospital is life and sounds like him depended on whether palestinian and israeli politicians will one day put the differences aside stop al-jazeera gaza

. and pay the u.s. government workers all getting increasingly desperate has the partial shutdown drags on president trump has signed legislation to ensure they receive back pay but only as. the shutdown ends. reports on how people are trying to make ends meet. in downtown washington d.c. the sounds of a rhythm and blues classic but in a sign of the times in america the lyrics take on a new twist. in. the senate and for some people who work for the u.s. government this is what it's come down to standing in line waiting for a free meal four hundred twenty thousand federal employees deemed essential are working but without pay another three hundred eighty thousand have been sent home also without pay like dren a home in a cashier at the smithsonian museum struggling to make ins meet financially having

not worked in weeks how about trying to go to a gas station to have a spot dollars toppings the paychecks stopped but the bills did not she had to make choices car payment or groceries that didn't think this would happen i didn't think it was going to go throughout when all we up until the first when they said ok budget is over you know for your laid off until this is over with and just saying that this is not going to happen this is not happening there the accountants bookkeepers security officers you name it they do it the civil servants who quietly behind the scenes do the jobs of keeping government running or used to before it all ended with the government shutdown just here in washington d.c. there are about two hundred thousand people that are federal employees of those tens of thousands are now not receiving a paycheck and they have no idea what their future holds don white has worked for

the government for thirty seven years and now this can't make money or get my car no i've got two daughters in college. these women. inside volunteers from world central kitchen hunger and poverty organization hand out food this is the first day they've done this after most journalists had gotten their stories and left those in need had not the line still extended around the block while nearby the man with the guitar still played now all too familiar lyrics . gabriel's on al-jazeera washington. views a slam dunk becomes a case of what he might have seen for the l.a. clippers will be without action from the n.b.a. to be of such a price.