they are also focusing on the car they said it was registered sex and that the last mechanical rescission was done in about a region far away from here on the border with venus well i wear miniskirts criminal groups operate some long day i'm still standing to get rebel group of the year leonard national liberation army. obviously the strength of the bomb was remarkable actually the war stuff tackles this type the columbia scene for more than ten years what does this mean for the country that. the cloak the people of all the time called long going to in general have been quite eager to turn the page on the long history of violence in colombia and this attack is a reminder of darker times through the eighty's and the ninety's and also the early two titles and when car bombs that were almost as enormous there were explosions

happening in very often more than once a month sometimes even every week here in the capital both with bat as the colombian state the west fighting first against the drug trafficking good criminal or getting patients such as the one that you made that you can lead by public asco bar and then after that to the way it's the rebel group of a fire which also has planted bombs here in the capital but that's so there's no doubt that the distress that x.x. rattled cities are from not on the surface i know that's a little bit insane general shall i say the same time that sparked in this case every time i've signed a peace deal with the colombian government that has now legal political parties they have condemned this attack and they've also said that they are expressing their silly data to the victims of this conflict and to send it up to the latest from bogota listen to the sinking of. and coming up on this news hour donald

trump's lawyer says he never said that there was no collusion between the president's campaign team and russia so is he saying that their walls as britain's prime minister consults arrivals on a way forward on break say france activates it's a no deal flag and catherine saudi arabia meets in a politically charged asian cup match in the u.a.e. there we'll have that and more in the sports. but first here's president donald trump has stopped house speaker nancy pelosi upcoming trip to brussels afghanistan and egypt pulling the military plane that she was going to use and claiming that the partial u.s. government shutdown is to blame the political deadlock is now in its twenty seventh day in the shows no sign of ending there have been large queues at major airports across the u.s. due to the absence of security staff trumps approval ratings have taken

a hit with research indicating a growing discontent among his supporter base has appealed to trump to try to end the impacts of this senseless shutdown is inflicting great pain and every part of our country every day the impact spread impacts spread reaching the lives of hardworking americans these are the people who deliver services to the american people we should respect what they do for our country many of them are dead runs who have translated their military patriotism into civilian patriotism working for the government. let's get more now from rob reynolds in washington d.c. interesting hearing nancy pelosi there of course donald trump now stopping her from going on her international trip but crucially considering that his base usually never things there's anything wrong with what he does this does seem to have

changed that balance slightly. yes that does seem to be some polling information barbara that indicates that some of president usual supporters are growing tired of this government shutdown it is affecting them in various ways farmers not receiving their government subsidies. other people in law enforcement for instance who might be supporters of the president were not being paid and overall a konami effect look it's about eight hundred thousand people that's larger than say general motors the total. employee base of giant corporation like that so it's as if you know a huge american corporation had a broccoli going out of business and laid off everyone and stopped their paychecks so naturally it's having a big economic impact around the country in just in washington but in many many

other places now this most recent event or development was so abrupt president trump deciding that he would cancel speaker nancy pelosi delegations trip to afghanistan. that there were there was actually a bus pulled up outside the capitol building with members of congress on it bags packed ready to go off they go to afghanistan and then the president announced no you're not going to afghanistan and so they had to get off that included some very senior members of congress like eliot engel the democratic chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and adam schiff of the intelligence committee. president trump said that palosi strip he described it as a seven day excursion and compared it's a little more than a photo op and said that if she wanted to fly to afghanistan commercially she could

do so but he was not going to allow the air force planes that would have normally to. taken them to these distant points to do so this comes of course in retaliation apparently for palosi suggestion to trump yesterday that he postponed his state of the union speech scheduled for the twenty ninth of january or submit it in writing this all because of the shutdown and. this sort of behavior now is really beginning to be reminiscent i guess or familiar i should say to anyone who any parents who've you know had cranky kids cooped up on a rainy day bickering with one another real tit for tat a lot of lawmakers on capitol hill referring through it as juvenile or soften more and all of this of course in the context of the government shutdown which is now in

its twenty sixth day with no end in sight absolutely i mean as you're saying it is sort of getting a little bit ridiculous policy of the presidency there hasn't been the take this at all very controversial of course that of the child separation from migrant families that try to enter the united states illegally now obviously the huge cause huge controversy and now it seems that even more children who are separated than initially thought. that's exactly right if you can recall back in april and may that huge controversy over the child separation policy the so-called zero tolerance policy at the border where more than two thousand seven hundred kids were separated from their parents it was so controversial that president trump had to abroad abruptly make a u. turn and sign a proclamation stopping the policy well it now appears that the child separations

were going on well before that that they were going on in the summer of twenty seventeen and this is according to a report by the inspector general of the department of homeland security excuse me the expected general of the department of health and human services the report says thousands of children were separated from their parents beginning in the summer of two thousand and seventeen report did not give a specific number of those children separated and this apparently was done in a in a way where records were not kept adequately and tracking was not implemented so that the report says it's not known how many children were separated or whether how many of those kids were reunited with their parents or if any of them were so it's more evidence of some disarray at high

levels of the united states government. with the latest from washington groups thank you. now donald trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani has the night saying that there was no collusion between the president's two thousand and sixteen campaign and russia but speaking on c.n.n. he said that if there was collusion trump was not involved special counsel robert muller is currently investigating the alleged links between the trump campaign and russia as well as whether obstruction of justice justice took place alan fisher has more now from washington. it's a stunning statement from the president's lawyer i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in a campaign yes i have no idea if i have not i said the president i state giuliani was a trump campaign advisor and joined his legal team back in april until now he's always backed the president who's repeatedly insisted there was no collusion at all with the russians during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign no collusion no

nothing there was no collusion whatsoever there's never has been there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign but i can always speak for myself the president has repeatedly attacked the investigation into alleged russian meddling led by special counsel robert mueller has called it a witch hunt and a hoax but that investigation has brought indictments for more than thirty people including four members of trump's campaign team among them former campaign chairman paul moran afford it was revealed earlier this month he cheated pulling data with the russian businessman with links to russian intelligence no longer is this now just a fake fraudulent investigation now it's one that hit paydirt indicating he believes there is evidence that there was collusion if you will a collaboration between the trunk campaign and the russians to influence the outcome of the election a total vault pass and it indicates that they're kind drawing

a line around of the circles around mr trump and nobody else everyone else is guilty but the top guy giuliani says the only crime that is being investigated is if donald trump conspired with the russians to hijack his democratic rivals and he says there's not a shred of evidence to support that but the white house is still employed a raft of new lawyers as robert miller's investigation continues. alan fischer al-jazeera washington. saying the u.s. the president has unveiled of revamped missile defense strategy among the concerns highlighted in the pentagon review on north korea iran china and russia and then a throwback to ronald reagan's one nine hundred eighty s. star wars initiative it recommended studying experimental technologies including space based weaponry that could shoot down missiles our goal is simple to ensure that we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the united states anywhere any time any place we will recognize that space

is a new war fighting domain with the spaceports leading the way my upcoming budget will invest in a space based missile defense layer its new technology it's ultimately going to be a very very big part of our defense and obviously our offense particle has more now on terms 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 was 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 sorry if i sounded 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 it caution it doesn't mean any of it's going to happen. with just seventy one days left until the u.k. is due to leave the european union the british prime minister is seeking a way out of the deadlock over breck's it this comes after her agreed deal with the e.u. was voted down by the british parliament on tuesday tourism a is the meeting leaders and then peace from all parties trying to come up with a new brics of the it will need to be voted on by m.p.'s and then agreed by the e.u. but in my require an extension of article fifty two delay breck's that would also need to be approved by the you can parliament in the e.u. member states if there's no deal then the default position would be a new deal praxis that means the u.k. would leave the e.u. on march the twenty ninth with no agreements in place on their future relationship another option is a second referendum which would give the public a say on how and if the u.k. leaves depending on how the question is phrased but this would also require an

extension to article fifty and is opposed by brick city years. now francis says it's activated its plan for a new deal breaks it saying that that option looks increasingly likely the european union maintains the brakes a deal agreed with may is the best that it can offer but the e.u. might be flexible on when the u.k. leaves the block as they've achieved a reports now from brussels. from sled the way as european capitals stepped up the measures to combat what they fear is the increasing chance of a cliff edge brix it at a cabinet meeting in paris the french prime minister edward to leap announce a special fifty seven million dollar investment for the country's ports and airports g.p.l. a decision i took the decision to trigger the brics a plan without an agreement the hard briggs's as we say sometimes. behalf. fears are also growing the sparkle could be taken out of one of france's most

prestigious exports the united kingdom is by far the biggest market for champagne but hard brags it on a falling pound could put an end to such expensive tastes it could also mean u.k. produces cut three of the e used rules could use the name champagne for british sparkling wines and we are a small producer and there are a lot of british wine lovers who really appreciate what we do so it is important only one thing. the germans to preparing for the worst already hit by falling exports and under the shadow of a technical recession the chancellor is still keen to reach an agreement to harden the tight we still have time to negotiate but we are now waiting to see what the british prime minister proposes. but how much time that was the question i posed to european think tank in brussels will briggs it be perspire and obviously it's

a bit of a service because. at the end you come back to the same. point of friction and also at the same solutions. the problem is of course sovereignty britain wants to regain its sovereignty if the union jack is taken down from the a ray of flags flying inside the e.u. council after a hard exit british citizens will face difficult times. spain contains the biggest number of ex-pats from the u.k. watching the scenes in the house of commons back home has led to increasing anger and frustration amongst them i just wish that they'd stop their infighting. some so everybody agrees. the message coming from the brits in spain is remarkably similar to to reason may's as one man put a. the people voted out they me out and we should be out.

what's more still to come on this hour including kenyans bury the victims of tuesday's attack on. carried out by the. the bells of belgrade to ring out as huge crowds. on a visit to his. song. of revenge. levin years later. hello there it's all quite cold for many of us in the northwest and parts of europe

now you can see the coldest screaming down from the north and it's dragging in some speckled clouds with it those speckled clouds are actually bringing us quite a few flurries of snow here's the leading edge of that cold air and you can see it sinking its way southward so it's opening the door for yet more cold weather across many central parts of europe as we head through the day on friday for the west though things are changing here once more you see more clouds here and a fair amount of rain there will be some snow when it's needing edge but it will be dragging up the temperatures as that system makes its way across the us we're seeing some more intense rain on it as we head through the day on saturday so for the bay of biscay we'll have a little area of low pressure that will whip up the waynes there for parts of spain and portugal and the rain will be rather intense as well for the other side of the mediterranean well things are calming down now for the northeast impossible this certainly not warm cairo is a maximum just getting to nineteen degrees for the west we've got a few showers just making their way on to the coast about geria as we head through friday on saturday

a top temperature in ouches of around fourteen degrees for the central west of africa there's plenty of sunshine here is still hot in katsu about thirty two degrees but watch out for the gold shower in uganda and also. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life from start with brian you updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in i was the global the us and know the like and the other student rewind continues with children of conflict. we'd love some peace in the school especially considering that children do not have any rights rewind on al-jazeera. when the news. and the story. when people need to be hugged and the story needs to be told. with exclusive interviews and in-depth

reports. al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries. and light needs on air and online. hello welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the un has warned sudan security forces against using excessive force to stop protestors were calling on the president to stand down a child and doctor have reportedly been killed in the latest in stray sions against

the present. doctors in zimbabwe say sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after days of protests there over the rising cost of fuel and at least ten people have been killed in a car bomb attack on the national police academy in the colombian capital will. go to kenya now where seven people have been arrested in the country following tuesday's attack on a luxury hotel complex in the robie the country's red cross says all the people who were feared missing after the assault have now been accounted for that means at least twenty one people died in the attack catherine sort of reports now from the kenyan capital. do you get and have families spend many hours waiting for news of her son in law james old war she says he was a footballer a media personality and a good son has been and father is someone leaves the whole l.t. loosely in one ear splitting the iraqi reasoning and this is what to me too it can

never be that he's more. of a draws among the twenty one people killed when gunmen attacked nairobi's doocy to tell complex on tuesday many more injured families of those who died have been coming to this morgue it's an incredibly difficult time they've been going through sessions of counseling but the pain will not go away any time soon we go to a hospital not too far away from the morgue and all but his family are praying he survives his injuries was a taxi driver working right at the duty to tell daria. here he is on tuesday after being shot twice in the stomach he's now hired to tucson and is in intensive care doctors say he's stable but not out of. the bay in the morning he was in reality you're in a lot of pain so the doctors had in fact in fact when i came to check him the

doctors had to chase us out so that they can give him some interview of us first because he was even struggling to speak. claims it's behind this attack and say did indeed highly ation us president donald's traumatization to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. to see to town is owned by a tie a multinational company and the riverside complex is kenyan owned. it's reason to use a excuse to attack nairobi. absolutely no association between this facility in the united states of america there is no u.s. embassy here or u.s. facilities here even us and here. police are still gathering evidence and it's now imagine that some of the attackers were kenyans and well known in their neighborhoods several people have been arrested. right now james wood was found at the morgue say they just want to grief bury their in the teeth and get answers as

to why this happened catherine sali al-jazeera arabic. and then the cover journalist who helped expose corruption in african football has been shot dead in the guinea and capital across awkward hussein was part of an undercover probe led by award winning journalist and my or an ass pictured here their investigation led to the resignation of the head of the ghana football association the ghana journalists association says the media is under serious attack in the country before his death was saying had made a complaint to police after his pictures were published on national t.v. . the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to suspend the declaration of final presidential election results planned for friday in a statement issued after a meeting of a u. heads of state in the ethiopian capital the organization said that there were serious doubts about the vote losing presidential candidate martin for you as far

as a court challenge demanding a recount of last month's ballot he insists that he won the sixty one percent of the vote contradicting official results which the player the rival felix has said be the winner of 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 the backup unreliable electricity supplies stratford reports from gaza or what's caused the latest shortfall. of money deep is one of the around three hundred women a month to give birth in this with its hospital in rough southern gaza the first child has just been delivered conses arean 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.

if you cross this 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 we having to distribute more blankets because it's so cold for the children without heating the latest fuel crisis started when israel and the transfer of the third installment millions of dollars from cancer to pay for a few of the salaries of for months employees. with an election looming in israel prime minister binyamin 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 was all over the course gaza's two million people just suffering a fuel crisis this is a protest by palestinian authority and poising in gaza angry with president mahmoud abbas for increasing taxes on their salaries are. the 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 of 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 want to stop and tell the p.a. listen there are protests like this virtually every day in gaza now hamas says that the palestinian authority'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 again by what she had been doing both shooting system and toward 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 to get us to the chin hit and they have to make it more difficult for to 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. i'm only deeds postponed some lines in an incubator in this hospital is life and sounds like him dependent on whether palestinian and israeli politicians will one day put the differences aside torcetrapib al-jazeera gaza.

thousands of people lined the streets of belgrade earlier to give the russian president a lavish welcome as he visited saints of a temple in the serbian capital bloody where putin is on a one day visit to the country during a news conference he accused the authorities in kosovo of taking a series of provocative steps including the siding to set up its own army he said the move had ratchet up tensions with serbia and could destabilize the region. has more now from belgrade. as suspected kosovo was one of the major topics you in the meeting of two presidents alexander who told his counterpart about the latest events the cost of government has decided to raise import taxes on goods from serbia and bosnia and herzegovina and also bound decision of course of the security forces to transform into a real army put in said that these the seized in the boat forming possible armies not in agreement to solution to vote forty four he also reminded that community of

syria municipalities hasn't yet been formed so russia is concerned about the stability of buchan's region. said he will ask putin for advice about the problem of communication that pushed enough in the future twenty one agreements resummon between russia and subi are related to railway modernization and to potential and gas pipelines serbia and russia are longstanding allies and that message to the send once again put in underlined that russia online the western partners doesn't try to put in front of artificial choice russia or european union. scientists say we need to double the amount of fruit nuts and vegetables that we eat and harve the amount of meat and sugar help the health of the planet experts from sixteen countries say that if we do this it could also prevent more than eleven million premature deaths a year by twenty fifty as well as reduce the effects of climate. ange but the

targets they've said could be tricky for some though they say that the ideal diet limits they really portray consumption to twenty nine grams that's equivalent to one of the have chicken nuggets and reg meat to just seven grams a day now there are reports that was published in the magazine the lancet says fish would need to be limited to twenty eight grams a day which is a quarter of a medium sized fill it the experts say egg consumption would need to be restricted to around one and a half a week per person but they say that all of that can be balanced out with five hundred grams of vegetables and fruit every single day joining us live now from stockholm via skype is dr fabrice the clerk who was one of the authors of that report he's also a science that director of eat which is a global nonprofit startup that ikeda to transforming our global food system thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so we just picked up

a few bits from your reports i mean on the face of it it effectively means a lot less meat a lot less alamo products and a lot more vegetables and fruit how is that first of all how is that going to help our planet and our waistlines. if you know writers of the musical to just pull those meat that is not true it was basically a small hamburger or maybe a man who truly if you trees or even a chicken curry it gets you to force it into a fish to eat that's a bit about these people or it's not that you can make delicious and very healthy menus with that the most important point is that the die during conditions are completely primarily bounded on an individual suspect ali who serves as lipids which is compatible with the role of religion diet we should be really really needs to be to keep going and overweight in western countries but we also ensure food adequacy and good security.