as a theater of the absurd but make no mistake the tall european leaders are taking very seriously the prospect of a no deal breaks it's approaching on march the twenty ninth all european capitals now making sure that contingency plans are in place they'll be reviewing those over the next few hours and few days because at the moment that prospect means that it's not only the united kingdom's economy that could be badly damaged but also the european union's they're on top of all this talk of the recession looming here in europe there's been a downturn in the german economy the main engine of the european union and also worries over spain italy and of course france in the middle of the show in the yellow vest crisis so they're all looking to their own plans at the moment but hoping some sort of resolution can come forward now the main concentration is of

course on trying to push back that cliff edge brags that which appears on march the twenty ninth now if reason may can come up with some solid new strategy with across party talks then i think you'll find a good reception in the european union to the idea of moving back to that cliff edge to later in the to give more time for a new strategy and new ideas to evolve. to head on al-jazeera from the battlefield to the negotiating table will have an update on u.s. efforts to hold talks with the afghan taliban pass this self driving fifteen passenger bus is already on the road here in the united states and at about twenty other countries and when you're done you don't even have to tip the driver.

hello again and welcome back well this hour do want to start here in the western part a lot we have been talking about a very powerful storm that has come in off the mediterranean bring some very strong winds rain as well as snow take a look at the video that has committed just recently across the region as the very strong winds came on shore we did have some waves as well as in the higher elevations we were talking about snow where the temperature was cold enough and that snow actually was quite deep in some locations we did have some problems of course in those refugee camps not only there but also in parts of lebanon as well well the next few days things are getting better as that system pulls away here towards the east we are being left with some much clearer skies what we're left with also some lower temperatures across much of that area so overnight lows expression the higher elevations are going to be more like minus four to anywhere between minus five and six in some areas over here across caspian well that is where that storm system is making its way so we are going to be seeing some snow in the higher elevations for back who a high temperature

a few of five degrees there on friday getting a little bit better by saturday with the tempter there at seven degrees well here across the gulf we are looking at some cooler temperatures across much of the area the deal here on friday twenty one degrees over here towards riyadh eighteen in abu dhabi twenty two for you.

welcome back our top stories this hour on al-jazeera they've been more protests in saddam prompting the u.n. to warn the government against using excessive force saddam's government says twenty four people have been killed since younis began school weeks ago but why schools put that figure at more than forty present donald trump says north korea and iran are a significant threat to the u.s. he singled out both nations in a result of american missile defense system at the pentagon and british prime minister teresa mayes urging m.p.'s to work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union she made the appeal just hours after her government survived on a no confidence vote called by the opposition. not to colombia where cobb bomb has

exploded outside a police academy in the capital bogota that offense ministry confirms at least eight people have been killed and ten were injured witnesses say they heard a loud explosion ambulances and helicopters rushed to the scene president says he is returning to bogota to oversee police operations let's speak to our correspondent in colombia's capital and ice on the run kitty and i believe you're not far from the scene of that bombing of that bomb attack tell us about what's been happening and the latest. hi farley yes we still don't have a lot of the information let's start with the facts what we know for certain is that roughly a little over two hours ago a car somehow made it inside the biggest police academy in cologne we're hearing that at the south of the book that i happen to be a car bomb which exploded close to

a number of young cadets policemen that were participating in a ceremony at least eight people have died by the police is talking about forty one people that are injured some of them quite seriously they've been brought to different hospitals here in this city among the dead also we know that there should be the person who was driving this car and some people here in colombia ready to talking about a possible suicide attack which was to be something completely new even in the long history of violence here in colombia definitely early to describe it as that we have received confirmation that the person was driving that car would be among those who have died that now it's been many years since an attack that this magnitude that happened in at columbia so we're trying to understand more about it so who could be behind this an example. we have no idea at

this behind this that tactic you know there's been a peace accord with the part of the biggest rebel group in the country now more than two years ago they said that they condemned this attack they said they. expressed total solidarity with the victims but there are still a number of groups in the country that are operating of course for drug trafficking continue to be a huge issue here in the country there could be a number of groups interested in this is a realizing that the country that's president of. but far from the capital u.s. in the pacific region in the city of people for a security meeting there with the leadership of the military in an area where there have been a lot of killing their community leaders the. groups that are fighting for the territory where the fark used to have the influence he flew back he just the right

here we thought a caravan going inside the school just minutes ago but it definitely too early to have pinpointed who might be behind it the fact thank you for that alessandra. the u.s. special envoy and afghan we constellation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban. leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the negotiating table last week taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him accusing the u.s. self deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the dyna. i'm a bot. the u.s. special envoy for peace and reconciliation embassador john mccullough has arrived in islamabad to hold talks with the pakistani leadership he said. talks with the afghan taliban will be taking place soon however he also issued

a warning saying that if the taliban wanted to fight then the u.s. would be helping the afghan forces but if they wanted to talk the u.s. would be ready to talk so indeed a strong message from zalmay khalilzad coming less than forty eight hours after the of one dollar bond issued their own statement the islamic emirate of afghanistan statement on the current situation in afghanistan said that the u.s. was moving away from the agenda of the or drawl of foreign forces from afghanistan and their loved one is gone would not be used against any other country zalmay khalilzad has enough period thought given the fact that those dogs have reached a roadblock the buggers canio featured will be trying to convince the taliban to come back to the negotiating table they have already to sit down with the afghan officials and pakistan had already said that it cannot have total control over what the taliban do and is only trying to fit filleted their dog for peace and

reconciliation ended war torn country russian president vladimir putin has arrived in belgrade for talks with sebi as leader alexander a vote chick they're expected to discuss issues around the e.u. bocage settlement between said yeah and possible although said he aspires to join the european union it has kept close ties with russia moscow seeks to rein for his influence in the balkans despite opposition from the e.u. . in kenya the red cross says everyone missing after tuesday's attack on an entree hotel complex has been accounted for at least twenty one people died in the assault and the first funerals of the victims were held in nairobi thursday. behind the attack says it was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognize us led as a capital of israel. we want to send a very powerful message to the that happened this week and that's given you know they're not scaring us now and tomorrow. we will destroy them. we support the

government initiative and shabaab. it may look as if that law. results but it could have been was declared not somalia. made the government and african union priests to. somalia. 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 john stratford reports on what's called. a muddy deep is one of the around three hundred within a month to keep posting this with its hospital in rough and suffering in gaza. has just been delivered conscious syrian 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 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 will plant 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 bowed 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 was of course causes 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 egyptian 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 use with held money and fuel supplies to hamas controlled gaza were bought out to the senate and today we are calling for a general strike among he a workers because of the new palestinian authority no increasing the taxes it is hurting us a lot we won't stop until the p.a. listen there are protests like this virtually every day in gaza now hamas says that the palestinian or forty's 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 i myself 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 a gain by what she had been doing both shooting system and to war to get out again . talking about the election talking about different things that we both full to have but unfortunately that is the baby or the template in going to the kitchen hit and they have to make it to more difficult to put up each of us two 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. only deeps person lines in an incubator in this hospital his life and thousands like him depended on whether palestinian and israeli

politicians will one day put their differences aside or stop at al-jazeera gaza. brazil's national museum has opened its first exhibition since the building was gutted by a large fire last year eight of the one hundred sixty pieces on display were recovered from the ashes including the bones army. the museum is trying to rebuild its vast collection most of which was wiped out by the fire in september the two thousand two hundred year old institution was considered latin america's natural history museum with more than twenty six thousand fossils. auto companies around the world are streamlining and tightening their operations fully aware that their industry is changing fast they also want to be in pole position when it comes to new technology my vehicles that drive themselves as john hendren reports now from the detroit auto show. this self driving car truly is

a ride these boxy four wheelers at the north american international auto show are autonomy's vehicles not of the future they're here now rin speed snap car lets you snap a passenger pod or a delivery pod onto what is sensually is a skateboard most are from small manufacturers but major manufacturers including ford plan to sell fully autonomy's vehicles in the next two years these fords are already being tested delivering pizzas groceries and people it's been more of an evolution than a revolution twenty one thousand cars are already packed with lane assist auto braking and other driver is cystic knowledge ease the autonomy that's available today is the autonomy that you see in your cars that assist you with the driving task you're going to see that today and tomorrow and the the the year after that you're going to see those technologies get better and better and better we're

putting into our vehicles now the ability to stop on an emergency without you having any action on your own in a few years all of the vehicles ford sales will be connected able to communicate with other vehicles and objects on the road to help guide travelers and autonomy as cars this self driving fifteen passenger bus is already on the road here in the united states in about twenty other countries and when you're done you don't even have to tip the driver of this three hundred thirty five thousand dollars vehicle operates here on a waiver from the government because u.s. safety laws which require a steering wheel and pedals trail behind the technology. it's all electric self driving shuttle bus designed for shared use and last year in november nobby also debuted our six passenger auden on taxicab that's a six passenger vehicle which can operate within about a five square mile area and have all of your mobility be at best. for carmakers the ever evolving automotive future means more risk what all of that all of that

translates to is additional risk and uncertainty for an industry they have to make these big investments to future for their business and the same time we're looking at business model changes where people may not actually buy the car but just by the amount of transportation or mobility needs that brain that they need. that likely means more partnerships to share the financial risk among the latest this week ford said it will team up with folks working to build electric vehicles in standard vehicles and of course some of them will drive themselves john hendren al-jazeera detroit. again i'm for the back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera even more protests in sudan prompting the u.n. to warn the government against using excessive force saddam's government says twenty four people have been killed since the unrest began four weeks ago but rise

groups put that figure at more than forty. crisis in zimbabwe could engulf the whole region if it's not addressed urgently according to human rights watch it says the voting zanu p.f. party supporters are beating up people and handing them over to police doctors say they've treated sixty eight people for gunshot wounds after protests over a steep rise in fuel prices and he said arrested hundreds of people including prominent rights activists present donald trump says north korea and iran are a significant threat to the u.s. he singled out both nations in a raise you of american missile defenses seven at the pentagon. we are committed to establishing a missile defense program that can shield every city in the united states and we will never negotiate away our right. to do this second we will focus on developing new technology not just investing more money into existing

systems the world is changing. and we're going to change much faster than the rest of the world british prime minister theresa may has reached out across the political divide and urging m.p.'s to work together on a new 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 meanwhile the prime minister of state francis held a cabinet meeting to discuss ways to prepare for a no deal breaks it it says more than fifty million dollars will be invested in sales force and airports to alleviate the impact of a so-called hard break said the contention focuses on cross border trade and transport in colombia a car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in the capital bogota the defense ministry confirms at least eight people have been killed and ten others were injured when a says say they heard a loud explosion ambulances and helicopters rushed to the scene afterwards and

those are the headlines on the news will continue here right after inside story to stay with us. security in the spotlight again in kenya after fighters attacked a hotel complex in nairobi can these assaults be prevented and what's the message the armed group is trying to send this is a story. hello

and welcome to the program. kenya's security with attacks targeting civilians and members if its military its latest assault is raising questions about the country's ability to keep people safe dozens of people were killed on shoes they were in five gunmen attacked a hotel complex in nairobi the armed group has been fighting kenyan and regional african troops and its home base of somalia we'll bring in our guests in a moment but first this update on the how mother though in nairobi. details on how getting. a tugboat was cut it here in this complex behind beautiful to riverside drive by al-shabaab just last tuesday. there were five touches on that it took them up to ten months to plan the whole portion. as well say to be frequent visitors to the compound of the middle east and restaurant inside and also having coffee they

are while they plan to see how they will be cutting out the arts hark and in a departure from pasta tots like the one votes happened here convince. our colleagues to the security forces for the whole rescue operation and how it was cut it out the number of people who were rescued was far greater than pas the toxins such as the one that's happened here but also how swift they walked in on the reacting but also and the the whole all push. is saying that they cut out the talk here because it was in retaliation for bill thompson the coalition of jerusalem that couple of israel something many people here say that would have been more pool simple to say. it will sort of tell the issue for a tox against them by boat on u.s. forces but also somali special forces twain by the united states and also been given logistical and support by the u.s.

ministry of course the group is up against the poles to the world at the moment that they are on the receiving end and losing ground very fast is somebody of the best deal of force to be reckoned with and such a tux would come in really hunted for them to prove that this kind of steel a talkin kind of altus much damage possible mohammed i don't feel inside story. let's take a closer look at al shabaab which was formed in two thousand and six after a brief civil war in somalia. it took control of vast areas in two thousand and nine including the capital mogadishu and major ports in twenty eleven an offensive by twenty two thousand ethiopian and african union troops pushed out fighters from mogadishu and a year later military action forced the armed group to leave the vital port city of kiss my oh but by twenty eight teen had lost substantial territory yet it still poses a security threat now the targets kenya for sending troops into somalia in two thousand

and twelve that was in response to a series of abductions of western tourists and aid workers in parts of kenya near the somali border in twenty thirteen attacked the westgate mall in nairobi sixty seven people were killed two years later one hundred forty eight people died in an attack at a university in garrison in eastern kenya and in twenty sixteen the armed group struck a kenyan military base in somalia killing at least one hundred soldiers. let's bring in our panel in nairobi we have security analyst list if i use a folly in oslo we have figured the hanson he is the author of the forthcoming book hornets and rift fault lines of the african jihad also in nairobi is. she's a political analyst she's also the executive director of c.s. a place that's an ngo that works to encourage women and young people to participate

in politics good to have you with us on inside story thanks for joining us the most obvious of ali it's now being reported that some of the attackers were in fact kenyans what does that say about al shabaab in kenya and their operations and their ability to strike this way. fast of all these these of course not homegrown terrorists these terrorists that were recruited by al shabaab which is a group operating in somalia what i was shabaab has been doing has been recruiting from among. tons of fuel peons british from the united states of america and many other nationalities to fight in their horrible course in some of the well it's not the first time that they've tried to recruit kenyans to fight for their cause staying here are they hanson you were nodding along talk to us about this recruitment and how concerning it is. no i was noting because these type of

operations also wisc it there in general planned in somalia and stuff by people trained the inside of somalia but as the previous speaker said shabab has been highly successful in the past in recruiting kenya and stands on the ends and indeed no we don't see dozens one of the attackers from in the westgate was actually on the wheaton seats and so they have been quite successful in recruiting old side of kenya especially outside of somalia story is specially kenya but i suspect these people to be in the past trained in somalia a part of the core organization of the ship and this mission must have been planned for quite a while and what is it that makes them so successful at this recruitment i think there's a lot of. things inside kenya that creates fertile groans for recruitment it is poverty it is use a youth employment in addition to that you have a distrust between youths and the police all of these things have to be worked with

but i also have to say that there has been a lot of progress on the kenyan sighting doing counterterrorism and also these softer sides of the radicalization in the country while an extremist and a lot of it is handled by the civil society but there has been progress inside kenya and curtailing these efforts by the shabab and this month in the kenyan that words. according to reports by western and regional security officials intelligence services in kenya were in fact warned back in christmas that as shabab was planning some sort of attack in the country on high profile targets and these reports also seem to say that. the intelligence officials were frustrated that they hadn't gotten a greater response from kenyan authorities do you think this attack should have been preempted by security forces in kenya. i think that we have to. and the kind

of situation that we're in because when we talk about terror attacks in kenya they happen quite frequently and for a country within this region where they're ones where it's quite the most so when we talk about warnings we're always receiving warnings is always higher i also remember when we were having our people were traveling they were being warned about terror attacks not just in nairobi but wells are talking about malls and also offices and things like that so when you hear people crying wolf for setting alarms often off course people will not take that seriously so it's unfortunate that that did happen but i do have to say with the with a security forces handle the situation this time around on tuesday we can see quite an improvement as compared to what happened in twenty thirteen with west yes we do hear. that security forces were in fact on the scene in the hour of when this

attack was taking place but it does still beg the question about the effectiveness of the security or power of parents in kenya seeing that was able to carry out such an attack and kill a number of people. that is true because even when we look at when we drive around they will be for instance a lot of the lights have security cameras were constantly being told to be aware you cannot enter more or any public building without first very faint your identification metal detectors we have security guards who practice down so people our where that this situation is tense people where that we do need high security within that country but it is unfortunate when we talk about i've had the previous panelists talk about the high had employment treat and the high number of young people what we're seeing is young people being ostracized we're seeing that they're trying to find a grouping where they extremist groups or whatever to feel that they fifteen to

feel that they are part of a community and they can contribute to that so that government not only needs to look about security and securing the country it also needs to look at its young people what is the government doing to make this environment conducive for them so when we do see instances of recruitment when we talk about recruitment of extremist groups such cases are reported although they have started having initiatives we've had lindane cheesey and things of that sort they haven't quite grown when we talk about people reporting incidences of neighbors acting suspicious and things like that so those are some of the conversations that we need to have not fully realized when our security agencies only mostafa. after the westgate assaults of course that took place and twenty thirteen kenyan security forces really cracked down some would say indiscriminately on muslims and as well as ethnics or mollies on the premise that many of them might be members and that in turn so the ngos are among

the community which some say leads to recruitment is there a risk that the same thing happens now after this attack considering that the president has come out and spoken but he also did say. that he's going to go after other words everybody who carried out this attack first of all before answering the question and recruitment which we need to be careful what what actually what causes you know terrorism and and hate and recruitment if we compare with twenty thirty in the way the security agencies and forces responded to this particular can do see it's a deed to hartselle they were efficient swift and they overwhelm the terrorists within minutes the terrorist were put on the defense mode meaning that they were able they were able to to you know immediately carry on the offensive and achieve the lift polity that they had hoped for now this comes as a result of the largely the the reforms that have taken place have been carried out

within the security sector in the country it's of the proper coordination a better coordination this time and within a very short time they were able to contain the situation pinned down the terrorists to a corner and then rescue of a seven hundred kenyans talking about the big government well some recruitment now compared to day in twenty fourteen when you had these groups controlling the narratives they kind of were controlling the ideology the robust ideological push but engagements and programs and interventions that kenyans have put in place of make sure that these guys no longer control the narrative the their ideology is start of the fact that al-shabaab today can actually see that they carried out the attack because of a lawful reason the united states of america has shifted its embassy from tel aviv

to jerusalem to see that this is a group on its back foot is not coordinated and that its leadership has been the carpeted and this is this is a large extent as a. out of the security agencies on one side and the communities in kenya watching together to address the challenge of terrorism of course recruitment will always take is it happens in the united states of america and britain in norway there will always be these bought up walls that will be recreated to do this kind of thing going to come over to you in a second because you want to jump in and let stuff ali on well one more point. you're saying that they are on the back foot but here is the assessment by the international crisis group they're saying that al shabaab has proven as resilient across parts of east africa as in somalia itself adapting one under pressure by relocating its operations and reorienting its recruitment you don't agree thank you

i just want to read to read that for a terrorist group to remain relevant and to prove its resilience they simply need to carry out you know an attack in a year or an attack after every two years for them to to stage a comeback and this is typical of any terrorist organization al shabaab has been active inside somalia has been active on the fringes of the kenyan borders in monday but it has never carried out a major terrorist or other it has never staged a major terrorist attack in the capital city of nairobi scene's twenty thirteen when the attack whisk it ok well they have been trying to attack kenya but most of their plans have been thwarted by security agencies meaning that unable to penetrate the country as they used to before or right think please go ahead because i see you want to jump in and also tell us why this. particular. no i just need to. also comment up on the previous speaker because i agree with him

that the shape of has been weakening inside of kenya but the predictions of bob's death very premature and they stable able inside somalia for that to last years they've been slightly is growing in fact i would say in their influence inside somalia and that's the big dilemma of kenya this has to be sold to a force inside of somalia also its old site of of kenya where these attacks are actually planned and staged into kenya so kenya has done a lot inside their own country and they are not safe yet but there has been progress but when you have these things going on inside somalia then there's bonet to be several attacks in the future and some of them might just sleep through that happens quite easily and in fact some of the kenyan success in some of the courses for the shabab attacking we saw you know that the shape of a bear had one statement blaming the united states and the fact that they

recognized the rousseau lemmas the headquarters of. the capital city of east right but at the same time shabab locally situated and distributed several videos talking about kenya and the kenyan intervention because the kenyan intuition was crucial in the defeats that the shave off they're all suffered in the period two thousand and eleven until two thousand and fifteen where it kind of stopped allies itself basically they were offensive against us mio the kenyan intervention kenya has been very important inside somalia in countering shabby influence but as i say no share will be stable and i don't say that this is that trolls of this. organization i don't believe that ok i know rima al shabab however was active in kenya even before it intervention in somalia but to what extent have actually bob's activities escalated in your opinion since kenya's intervention in somalia.

i think that it does play a role because when we think about the attack that happened in. twenty sixteen then even after what happened on tuesday a lot of people are asking questions as to why are we still in somalia do we still need to be in somalia because in twenty sixteen they had said the reason for the attacks was because of our forces our security forces being installed mallya they have also been particular cases of where people feel in secure those who are living close to the border and we cannot forget that when they put a security crackdown within this city a lot of saw miley kenyans were put into. a stadium in treated like prisoners and they didn't have access to their basic rate so it created a lot of anger i mean more city and also in areas within our city where we can talk about which is an area that's not far from nairobi which is the c.b.d.

a lot of citizens who are ten and right of somali descent do not feel like they belong in the country so as much as we talk about internal. appraising we do have to recognize that there are people within our country who are kenyan but they do not even feel kenyan are citizens and that you need self give them more t.v. show and to join extremist groups and that in itself can fuel such things and just because the are linked to some extent a lot of kenyans feel that perhaps it's about time our government starts to begin to talk about exiting storm if in that case has anything to do with their text that happened on tuesday how likely is about a remark in soaring as well that the opposition leader in kenya rollo doing in the past called for troops to be withdrawn last year as well there was a lawmaker there petition the national assembly demanding the same so do you think

that kenyan authorities now are going to be weighing the price that they're willing to pay in light of such attacks in terms of achieving what their objectives are in somalia. i think it's very likely but i do want to be optimistic because we are talking about this security of our country we also have to recognize that we do have a cabinet secretary who is known for being a man of action known for being a man who decides to take things into and use or not hand so it is something that we can all saw put up to the forefront and see put it on the table it's something that can be discussed especially as we talk about the sort of attacks that we're receiving should we be doing the things that we've been doing because at this seem tame is it working for the kenyan people and if it's not what sort of choices do we have to make sure that we change the direction that we're taking for the safety of the kenyan people must stuff via african union mission has recently said that it

does aim to eventually exit from how likely it is that the forces will actually be able to maintain security without support. this point even in the next one it's highly unlikely that the somali national army will be able to contain. on their own. the people the somalis the government of somalia will need this multinational force. to continue to support the somali national army to stabilize some of the cities to train the police the the security agencies this there on the somali national army until they are ready to be able to take on fully contain it without that i don't see that this somali national army and the somalis being able to actually contain al-shabaab on their own in the next six months or one year or even

two years so we we are in this for the long haul i think stay give the kenyans withdrew from samaya hypothetically speaking here would that then remove one of the main reasons why al-shabaab targets kenya. do you agree with the people who say that the kenyan intuition prompt a lot of attention from the shabab but we draw no i don't think will be sold and the problems because as the previous speaker said the somali army is not ready to take charge and as i said previously decent tax in the past have been planned in suicide somalia and they've been staged by core members of the group trained inside somalia so somalia isa major problem for kenya on the ship a presence unfortunately i also think that there's something wrong with the strategy inside somalia firstly you have to provide some kind of security and safety in the countryside what happened though is that the shabab has been able to

operate relatively freely in the countryside in supposing liberated areas so they can harness a support from the local population or force the local population in but so brought in not proof and they. haven't they say they have suffered step by family and they have they have suffered they they suffered setbacks in the period from twenty eleven until twenty fifteen after twenty fifteen they didn't have that much of setbacks they stumble ised if you look at their attacks for example in mogadishu it stable slightly growing and so for the last years this is a stable organization it's not those organization on the verge of collapse but what i don't show me are predicted to collapse many times for the last eighteen years unless you're shaking your head you don't agree. al-shabaab has been reduced to a criminal gang that extorts somalia not reduced to holding to a level where they're just basically competing with in certain parts of somalia to

talks so my least the illegal types and the somalis are paying this time because if they don't pay they are threatened ill hey let's buy our banners we're running out of time on psycho angry with you destroy think my all star will run you know it is knowledge of us the folly running out i think finally from you it is true that i was shot i think you can just look at that you could just look at the tax rates in what they should to prove that that is wrong you can look just look at the time they managed to hold the territories in bill you by this organization have suffered setbacks from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and fifty and know they are stable and they are not going to be defeated and they are quite powerful in numbers compared to for example all their affiliated organizations so i don't think we will see their disappearing this is not the drunk's i do think kenya has improved but i think the solution is actually inside somalia one final last time saying what kind

of numbers are you talking about iraq what you mention numbers what kind of numbers are you talking about estimates put them at between seventy one thousand is that correct. i would put the estimates likely over between five and seven thousand but still very powerful still able to talk inside on that issue still able to hold territories and still able as we saw today to heat can there be a writer on that note we'll have to leave it there we've come to the end of the show i thank you very much for joining us for use of early from nairobi from oslo and now you are from nairobi as well thank you very much and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story from myself the whole team here in the house but i don't know.

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missile defense program. a car bomb outside columbia's main police academy needs at least eight people dead also the leading right school but he uses the saudi government of a pattern of lawless behavior which has been exposed by the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. and i'm only a hearty note with all the day's sports as twenty three time grand slam winner so. williams dominated the third round of the australian open in melbourne we have that story and more later in the hour. u.s. president donald trump has just outlined a new missile defense review at the pentagon his singled out iran and north korea as ongoing extraordinary threats this is seven months after he declared that the nuclear threat had been eliminated we are committed to establishing

a missile defense program that can shield every city in the united states and we will never negotiate away our right to do this second we will focus on developing new technology not just investing more money into existing systems the world is changing. and we're going to change much faster than the rest of the world. and has more on trump's missile defense review from the pentagon. the biggest headline is that he wants to basically weaponize space and i think it's interesting whether he meant to or not and the president said that he wants to use space for often civ and defensive weapons now in all of the briefings leading up to this the focus really on making sure that the united states could shoot down any missile the president though just said he wants to weaponize space that's going to be incredibly controversial if it wasn't just

a misstatement scuse me so what the pentagon isn't visioning is these satellites that can basically track and see missile launches basically as soon as they happen they also want to spend money trying to figure out what kind of weapons could be put into satellites that could be used to shoot those down this again is going to really jar the international order most countries have been very reluctant to even consider weaponize in space but the president says he wants to go there but again the president can say what ever he wants and yes it is a powerful position but he doesn't control any money he can propose this in the budget you can also ask for drones is one of the proposals that can shoot down missiles with lasers and that technology doesn't exist so he can ask for all of these very safe eyes on him things but he can't actually do it unless he can get congress on board and let's not forget democrats now control the house of representatives they seem less likely to give the president one he wants so this is

a big pronouncement but caution it doesn't mean any of it's going to happen on it speaks more about this matter every gomez who is a policy analyst for defense and foreign policy studies at the cato institute is live from washington thank you so much for being with us so space is going to be the new war fighting domain say is donald trump how convinced are you by the president's missile defense radio will what he's proposing adequately protect america. well there's a big difference between what donald from said in his speech and what's actually in the review itself the review itself says that the united states is very interested in seeking a sensor layer in space so satellites that could observe missile launches and detect them sooner but there isn't many mention of putting weapons in space yet pentagon said that it would do another study over the next six months whoops for the feasibility of that idea but historically speaking while that would be a very very controversial step for the united states to make the cost and technical difficulties of actually putting up interceptors in space has traditionally been

very for have it is terror anything else in this region you know that is find interesting perhaps that you think will adequately protect america. well i think it's interesting that the administration has put china and russia so far forward in the us they are and they still preserved the sort of what i have referred to as a fig leaf of saying that missile defense is meant for rogue countries like iran and north korea but there is a lot in the missile defense review that talks about things that china and russia have done on the capability side and how the united states is going to introduce things to try and counter those so while china and russia aren't the primary focus they have a much bigger role to play in this review the previous ones i think that's a pretty big rhetorical thing for the united states we've done right you mention north korea and we know that the north korean envoy is heading to the u.s. and he's due to meet them pay on friday i think the end sailing on this strategy is

perhaps also getting chip ahead of what's expected to be another meeting between. well i think it won't be because iran iran was also a big country of those the united states brought in missile defense system to europe to deal with iran and even though we have the iran nuclear deal the united states continued the point of systems anyway even though it's been significantly reduced so i think with missile defense things kind of take on the nature of all their own once you start actually doing these kinds of expansions and research and development you sort of find a future even if the original one goes away and that's what i think china and russia are really worried about when they look at missile that it's not what it can do now but it's the potential of what it could do in the future the difficulty of reining it in once you start twenty eighteen the u.s. announced it was pulling out of the i.m.f. because they claim the russians weren't respecting this what will be the

implication of this new review this review for you know. or perhaps not efforts to improve relations with russia and also. the idea of striking a better trade relations with china what implications for that. well the i'm not sure if it's classified this is good news but the fact of the matter is that china and russia have never really believed us reassurances about missile defense before and they have always sort of done things on nuclear weapons with the assumption that missile defense systems could be turned against them if the u.s. really wanted to so i think that what we're going to see is an acceleration of already existing things that the chinese and russians were doing in the nuclear space to overcome missile defense more research and things like hypersonic weapons more research in their own missile defense systems that kind of thing i don't know if it will have much of an impact on the u.s.

china trade negotiation but i think in general it will just sort of further worsen the u.s. china relationship that was already sort of on a downward spiral caused by the trade issue and other issues i'm very good to get your insight on this thank you so much for joining us eric gomez from the cato institute joining us from washington thank you for your time thank thank you in other world news a car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in colombia's capital bogota the defense ministry confirms at least eight people have been killed and ten others injured witnesses say the blast was so strong it destroyed windows in building several blocks away president even on his return to bogota to oversee the police operation has more for us now from colombia's capital joins us live to tell us about the latest. and what we know happened. well point we can confirm that the explosion happened to be inside the police academy not outside

but there are a number of versions describing the attacker managed to get inside the cab let me. be the one that gaining more strength says that he was entering like any terror. the witness car when a dog. discovered the presence of the explosive and at that point the attacker try to ran away with followed by the police and possibly he ended up crashing into a wall and that's when the car bomb exploded there are other questions that say that the driver might have ran away from the car but the police shooting that car might have caused at the explosion to happen these are all speculations that this point what we do know is that car bombs managed to enter the police academy and it exploded close to a number of young cadets that were participating in

a ceremony and that there are at least eight possibly nine days. and over forty people who are injured there have been brought up in that different part of the capital but with no claim of responsibility as of yet. but who could be behind this . now claim yet and i truly there are so many culprits that could be behind this attack that it's. difficult to speculate at this point there has been condemnation. from across the political spectrum here. at the right all the way to get a new party of the fire rebels that have signed a peace deal the former rebels that have signed a peace deal with the colombian government now book or two years ago there is still a rebel group operating in the country. the national liberation army there are

dissidents out the fark in there are a number of criminal groups that have appeared in the last two years in our fight in different territories in colombia to control the drug trafficking get here illegal mining and so on so we have no idea who could be behind this. from a press conference that is about to start a side cabinet meeting at the end of a meeting between the president of colombia the minister of the french and the military leadership of the country thank you for that. for us in bogota they have been more protests in sudan prompting the u.n. to warn the government against using excessive force the demonstrations have become the long as sendmail sustained against president omar al bashir the protesters want him to resign blaming him for the weak economy and rising prices saddam's government says twenty four people have been killed since the unrest began four

weeks ago but why schools put that cigarette more than forty morgan is in khartoum with more i'm currently in peru where people have been protesting once again people come out to the streets to protest against present owner should have been asking for him to step down for the past four weeks the longest protest in strengthening tendency if you see behind me and the people burning up people and the other side of town employee here have been tear gas actually police firing live ammunition to try to disperse the crowd that has not stopped them they've been dispersing in different parts of the town and it's not in the two that came out today several other cities at least ten other cities also came out to protest against president bush who they say they want him to leave and had a party an interim independent council something he said he's not going to do now he said that he's going to try to improve economic conditions but people are saying that they produce promises over and over again and that the only thing they would like to see is for him to step down and hand over power he's been very defined the protesters have been very defiant as well and it's not clear where or how.