in a way some of these sanctions imposed on north korea or a green to withdraw some of its strategic military assets in south korea and north korea is also concerned about nuclear armed bombers and submarines that while not based in south korea could reach north korea from other parts of the world so that is why it casm a divide between north korea and the u.s. about what denuclearization means but it's also widely agreed that these talks are really the best avenue to peace out as there is fear in syria there for us and sell frank you florence. well colombia's president has promised justice for those behind a car bomb attack on a police academy and at least ten people were killed it was the biggest attack of its kind in more than a decade and asunder reports from the colombian capital one of the this is the aftermath of the car bomb explosion inside the largest police academy in the country about eighty kilograms of explosives carried in

a vehicle driven into the academy compound and detonated as a promotion ceremony for cadets was taking place soon after the blast family members gathered outside the academy desperately looking for information. the task of identifying the dead now underway. colombia's president who had been attending a security meeting in the west of the country rushed back to the capital he described the attacked as an act of terror against an armed policemen. this is an attack not only against the young the security forces or the police use an attack against society this demented terrorist act will not go unpunished the explosion ripped through the surrounding area damaging apartment buildings the family lives a kilometer away from the scene of the explosion yet the windows of their apartments were shattered. we heard a giant rumble the entire house started moving like an earthquake in the windows shattered i was so scared i started crying. dichter new general office says they

have identified the man driving the car bomb and says the vehicle was registered to a stronghold of the last active rebel group in the country the although no one is claimed responsibility for the attack. colombia ratify the peace accord with fight rebels in two thousand and sixteen but other groups remain active and are fighting for the lucrative drug trafficking and illegal mining in remote areas of the country this is the worst attack that we're going to see in almost a decade and there's no doubt that it has rattled many nerves both here in the capital and across the country colombians have been eager to close the door on their very violent past but there's no doubt there's such an atrocious attack like this one for many here might seem as if the dark past might be creeping back. just. plenty more ahead on this news al including it makes me cry because it looks

so purty the countryside that could be carved up by donald trump's proposed border wall with mexico. less of this and more of that scientists come up with an ideal diet for the health of people and the planet. and a cattery driver comes out on top in this year's dakar rally in group leo we'll have more on the celebration of. the u.s. president has canceled a delegation to the world economic forum in davos the decision came just hours after he stopped house speaker nancy pelosi going to europe and afghanistan it was an apparent response to pelosi suggestion that the president cancel his state of the union address because of the ongoing government shutdown now in its fourth week mike hanna reports from washington d.c.

. the traditional prayer the opening of a senate session and mention of the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who've gone without pay for nearly a month and the fractious relationship between congressional democrats and the president continues to deteriorate in his latest unilateral action president trump canceled an overseas trip by a delegation led by the speaker of the house the bus to the airport literally turned around by this executive letter in the light of the eight hundred thousand great american workers not receiving pay i'm sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate the president writes the action described as petty and vindictive i can say that all too often the last two years the president has acted like he's in the fifth grade and. to have someone who has that kind of character running the country is an enormous problem at every level and we see it now we've seen it over the last two years and my guess is we're going

to see it in the future the house speaker continues to insist to call for the perspire moment of the state of the union address was based on security concerns arising out of the shutdown is workers make a difference in the lives of the american people including security officials who would be protecting the president in the state of the union address senior republican senator lindsey graham was scathing about both palosi is request and the president's response one suffer more rick response does not deserve another he said in a tweet speaker pelosi threat to cancel the state of the union is very irresponsible and blatantly political president trumpet early announced he would not attend the world economic forum gathering in davos now he's canceled the trip of the entire cabinet delegation this in the wake of polls indicating the majority of americans hold him responsible for the partial shutdown mike hanna al-jazeera washington.

well president trump wants congress to approve five billion dollars to begin construction on his proposed border wall but many who live on the border oppose the idea al-jazeera as heidi castro has more. this land has been in the florists family for two hundred years it's were mere to flood history of all grew up on a ranch tucked in the bends of the rio grande but soon the land may be sheared in half bisected by the border wall plan to be built here it makes me cry because it looks so pretty it's very peaceful the government is now waiting for the signatures of private landowners agreeing to sell this land for less than six thousand dollars a hector i haven't signed no i don't want to get paid by sign that giving me away the family says there is no safety threat here no crisis of migrants overrunning the border as president trump claims living close to the border with no wall federating where you are in mexico do you feel unsafe no i've never felt on say

u.s. border patrol considers this area to be a hotspot for illegal crossings fresh footprints show people continue to come but the greatest danger may be to the migrants themselves these two men are actually with mexican authorities and they're combing the river now for the body of a migraine who disappeared here while attempting to cross four days ago they can come no closer than the middle of the river that is the international boundary between mexico and the united states they're building a wall who which is a prehistoric. strategy to keep people out versus now that there's new technology there's sensors or blames the police chief of nearby sullivan city says he supports anything that keeps people from crossing including a wall it would be a deterrent but would when someone has ill intentions to do something in us soil the going to do whatever it takes to do their around and under and over through

about half a million people were arrested while trying to sneak across the border last year that's still near a historic low and for these residents of the border not worth the price of destroying their way of life. well how does a castro joins us now live from mccallum in texas heidi what's the status of the war where you are now when those times if you look behind me that is the portion of the border wall that's already constructed here but this part of the border is the main priority of border patrol because there are large pockets that have no barrier whatsoever you saw that in the piece that we just reported on and so the problem here is trump says that this is the priority area where there's so many crossings and the number one on the list for new border wall construction but as you just heard a lot of the people who live here say that there is nothing wrong with the status quo and in fact they do not support building the border wall here i did the

stalemate over funding for this war is also resulted in the border patrol we're hearing without paychecks how are the agents they're handling all of this that's right and that's the irony of all of this shutdown which way is to help border security is in fact hurting the very people who are sure that security most and they are the border patrol agents there are more than fifty thousand who are working during this proportional government shutdown without a paycheck and very few families here in the border region have someone that doesn't work for this agency so they are feeling that pain acutely and while the border patrol union president has publicly stood behind president trump in this call for border wall funding most of the rank and file members who we come across here in the border have said that they are desperate for the situation to end and they do not know how much longer they can continue working here without pay

al-jazeera and macallan in texas for us thank you heidi. well more than a thousand people from honduras have crossed into mexico as part of a migrant caravan bound for the united states many of them will inevitably be deported back to their home country but they continue to risk the difficult trip to seek asylum after escaping violence and poverty back home manowar palo spoke to some of them in san pedro sula. this bus arriving from mexico is dropping off a hundred migrants being returned home many were deported others like my. who left with a migrant caravan last october have come back willingly either which i think there was that i tried crossing many times through mexicali piccata and i couldn't because we would be tear gassed or the place was too dangerous or too expensive that's why we decided to turn back. in some president as main bus station between

three hundred and five hundred deportees are processed every day many of them are under the age of eighteen a local charity provides them with some money for food counseling and other services but say this bit is the charity manager says this should be the job of the hundred government one of the top ways. we're calling on the government because they should be providing attention to these people unfortunately it does not have real support programs to answer the school we as an organization can only provide assistance to a small portion of this population better than most of us in the. regional director of honduras is child services agency admits the challenges are great but says the government is doing the best they can at that time will they. try to lessen the limitations that might exist and assist as many hondurans as possible when they return from the migration route. in a poor neighborhood on the foothills of some pivotal sula we met mighty oak us the annals he's twelve years old but only now learning to read so. well he joined

a migrant caravan in two thousand and eighteen traveling by himself he made it as far as chiapas mexico before being deported you know the family were unsure if we would stay or keep going we decided to go and then we were told there were a lot of people in the immigration office they took us to the airport and put us on an airplane and then the airplane to cough cough an hour later he was one of more than three thousand one hundred miners who were deported last year charity workers say some deportees report feeling suicidal and unwilling to stay in honduras feeling they are being thrown back into a life of violence and poverty they were trying to leave behind all of this points to a failure to provide adequate assistance to migrants being sent back. lacking a more robust action by the national government to improve the lives of hundreds at home it isn't hard to see why so many keep trying to leave but if they send me back

one hundred times i'll go back two hundred. heading home to see his daughter says it won't be long before he heads north once more but. some pivotal. well as asylum seekers continue their journey towards the u.s. it's been revealed thousands more children may have been separated from their parents had the border with mexico than previously reported by donald trump's administration that's according to a u.s. government watchdog which says the agency responsible for taking care of the children didn't track them sufficiently until a court ruled that they must be reunited with their parents the report also shows that u.s. officials with separating children well before trying the so-called zero tolerance policy came into effect last year he says schwartz is a see a senior attorney at the center for constitutional rights she says the number of families separated it may never be known. the inspector general's report stated that over nine hundred kids who had been separated from their parents had

actually been released prior to the. california court ordering reunification for a certain number of kids also the sort of numbers that we have been hearing in the in the media about how many kids were separated really only refer to the number of numbers of children separated from their parents if those parents were eligible for reunification through this court case that court case excluded from that class anyone with any kind of criminal record or allegation even an unproven allegation from another country was enough for the court for the border customs and border protection to determine to separate the parent from the child and those numbers also excluded any kids who had come in not with a parent but with a grandparent or an aunt or a brother it was really

a very limited number so it's very unclear how many kids were actually separated from family members and because of the terrible tracking system or really the complete lack of a tracking system it may never be known how many kids were separator. still ahead on al-jazeera new bribery claims against mexican presidents cost and present in the trial of a drug kingpin in new york. and qatar and saudi arabia meet in a politically charged asian cup match in the u.a.e. leo will have details for you in sports. by the springtime flowers of the mountain leaked. to the sun smartphone on the weekend story. and so quite quiet over the southeastern parts of china at the moment for most of us it should be draw and find a top temperature in hong kong around twenty degrees and force in shanghai will be

up at around eleven there will be a bit more cloud building as we head through the day on saturday and that could give us one or two showers but really nothing to write home about a bit further towards the south and we're finally seeing a few showers over the philippines this is the latest system that's been working its way northward bringing want to see rather heavy showers and then we're seeing in of the few just for the far south coast i think as we head through the day on friday will be a bit drier but only because we've got the remains of an old tropical depression heading their way towards us and that's going to bring us some rather wet weather particularly late on saturday and into sunday elsewhere we still got those rather poky showers i reports of bali and into parts of java we're also expecting little to all the shop showers to make their way towards singapore as well towards the west and for many of us here it's fine and dry there has been a bit of cloud over the northern parts of india that's all moving away though taking the snow with it and somebody is looking generally quite quiet as we head through the next couple of days new delhi will get to around twenty one degrees and

for the south forcing colombo thirty the showers here seem to have eased as well friday should be mostly dry. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has coalface i legal protest i will start to police to his horse to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice for votes for lots of different reasons what's the difference types of bricks join the global conversation on al-jazeera. rewind returns to care bring your people back to life from start with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in libya i was the global for us and the like and the others through the rewind continues with children of conflict

we'd love some peace in this world especially ingerson children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he wants to explore space based weaponry that could shoot down missiles he made the announcement while unveiling a new defense strategy at the pentagon. president trying does also cancel the delegation to the wild economic forum next week sizing the government shutdown he's also scrapped house speaker nancy pelosi as upcoming overseas tours calling it said

p.r. events. colombia's president eve on duke a has promised justice for those behind a car bomb attack on a police academy and bogota at least ten people were killed it was the biggest attack of its kind in more than a decade. britain's prime minister isn't dead duck with the leader of the opposition have breaks it deal to reason may has been holding talks with m.p.'s seeking a breakthrough to head divorce agreement with the e.u. is emphatically rejected by parliament but jeremy corbyn is refusing to join the discussions unless she rules out the prospect of a no deal breck's it paul brennan reports from london. having so comprehensively rejected the prime minister's brings you to live this week from across the political spectrum a steady stream of m.p.'s have been falling into the continental us supposedly to discuss constructively with the government what they will support. this is just

a one to one very early on in the in the process but i i made the case repeatedly that no deal would have to come off the table before i think any substantial discussions could. happen if they want to move forward the one who is sure it needs it needs monday's it needs up for its credibility one of the ways that they to get a mandate will be to to use a people. thank the main opposition labor party says the prime minister's office has come too little too late and they've described it as nothing more than a stunt with no deal on the table the prime minister would enter into from each orks just to run down the clock and try to blackmail him to vote through her book deal on a second attempt across parliament and even within each of the parties the political differences appear to be hardening rather than softening the prime minister's plan b. will be presented to parliament on monday for a ninety minute debate

a full debate on a crucial vote on it is show jewel for tuesday twenty ninth of january even as the government has been holding consultation meetings with senior employees here at the cabinet office in whitehall the spirit of constructive dialogue with the prime minister promised appeared to be contradicted by her own official spokesman in downing street just a few reasons away when he told the lobby briefing of journalists of color but not return remains inflexible to the idea of either a customs union extending. a second referendum or taking no deal of the table it remains to be seen where a compromise exactly can be reached. on an al-jazeera central london well rice exports from cambodia have been hit with the e.u. tariffs the bloc says its previous policy which allowed cambodia to export most goods jussi free had been damaging produces the country's special trading status is also under threat after the e.u. put it on notice over its human rights record when he joins us now live from crown

pen when has there been any response from the cambodians yet. well in terms of a direct response to the announcement from the european union about the rice tariffs them announcement it was made thursday morning local time that those tariffs come into play friday they're in play now there's been no real direct response to that announcement in a broader sense over the past few months we've seen a very defensive approach from the government really there's no doubt that they feel they're under attack from the west particularly from the european union but we have to remember as you mentioned there are two separate issues here the there are the rice tariffs which are being brought into play because of an oversupply in europe and then there are broader tariffs on all goods exported from cambodia to europe which may come into play over the next year to eighteen months in response to the political situation here but there's no doubt that have both of those scenarios play out it's going to have a very serious impact on this country. for the past decade cambodia has had one of

the best performing economies in the world thanks largely to the biggest buyer of its goods europe but the european union isn't happy and is taking action its impose tariffs on rice from cambodia and me and mom for three years following a complaint from italy the italians want to protect their rice industry from falling prices caused by imports from the two countries that surged eighty percent in the past five seasons until now cambodia and me and mar enjoyed tariff free access to european markets under a program designed to help developing countries despite being planned for some time the announcement from the e.u. seemed to catch the cambodian government off guard. the ministry just received the official statement which is sixty four pages long from the you a few minutes ago so we will discuss the details internally first i apologize we have to delay the press conference. the news gets worse with the e.u.

signaling it will also place tariffs on all other goods from cambodia as punishment for what it says is a deterioration in democracy and human rights ahead of last july's election the government launched a crackdown on dissent which resulted in the largest opposition party being disbanded prime minister hun sen has remained publicly defiant in the face of increased pressure and scrutiny from the west which is come amid a surge of investment and trade with china privately his attitude may be different though given that cambodian businesses sit to become less competitive in their biggest markets europe the first step initiated by the e.u. in october will see cambodia under investigation for six months after which the formal process of imposing tariffs will begin the move would be particularly hard on the garment which employs around eight hundred thousand people activists say the action by europe provides an opportunity for the government to clean up its act

it's very important for the government to make sure that you know they have the capacity enough to maintain the in wester and also to. strengthen the economy can isms reduce corruption in europe buys more than forty percent of cambodia's exports but right now the old saying that the customer is always right doesn't seem to be holding true when are we seeing any signs that the cambodian government is prepared to make changes to avoid the complete cancellation of their tariff free status. well we're seeing them make some concessions but they're unlikely to be enough at this stage anyway to change the mind basically we're in a six month probationary period so if they are going to change the minds of the european union then that now is the time to do it one of the main concessions they did was to change the law related to band politicians when the cambodian national rescue party was dissolved more than a hundred of its members were banned from politics for five years when they can now

apply to re enter politics but to do so they have to apply all the way to the prime minister one saying they had to acknowledge admit that the original court ruling was right and just so basically it amounts to seeking a pardon and clearly most of those members won't be willing to do that we have to also remember that the leader of that party kim carr is still under house arrest in phnom penh awaiting trial on treason charges and just this week on wednesday a member former member of the he was arrested for comments he made online about the use tariffs now he has been accused of trying to overthrow the government so clearly there is still a long way to go if the european union is to back down from that threat to impose tariffs on all goods exported from cambodia is there is a way in hey speaking to us there from phnom penh thank you wayne activists in sudan say two people have been killed in confrontations between police and protesters thousands of people marched across several cities for yet another day of

anti-government demonstrations demanding the president's resignation but to him al bashir remains defiant from khartoum hears him morgan with more. freedom peace and justice these have been the demands of protesters for nearly a month along with a demand for sudan's president omar al bashir to end his nearly three decades in office and step down are not the only one here still more in other words that you know our demands are the demands of everyone and god willing we will continue a new group be successful our protest today is large and we are going in the right direction we will go to the presidential palace we just want peace freedom and justice like the rest of the world. the protests began last month in the city of odds but when the government announced it would hike bread prices in a country where inflation isn't nearly seventy percent one of the highest in the world hundreds protested to voice their anger the demonstrations have since spread across many cities in sudan including the capital had

a tomb officials have shut schools and universities and cut off access to many social media platforms police have used tear gas and live ammunition as the e.u. and the un called on the government to not use excessive force against those protesting the high commissioner for human rights michel bashfully called on the sudanese government to protect exercise by all people regardless of the political affiliation of their rights freedom of expression and peaceful assembly she also urged all sides to refrain from the use of violence activists say at least fifty have been killed since the protests began the government says that number is twenty four and it's not only the two that came out today several other cities at least ten other cities also came out to protest against president bashir they say they want him to leave and had a part in the interim independent council something he said not going to do but president bashir has been defiant in the face of the demonstrations he has accused those protesting as being influenced by external forces he will be reaffirm that we care about the young and their concerns we call him to be positive and preserve

their country and not listen to cause that destabilize sudan and its security with the demonstrators making it clear that they want change now the protests are becoming the longest since a gang gained independence and the biggest challenge to president obama to bashir since he came to power twenty nine years ago people morgan all do their own cartoon seven people have been arrested in kenya after an attack on a luxury hotel at least twenty one people died in the rabi attack which was claimed by the armed group catherine sawyer reports. studio 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 their healthy lives in the morning is for them to be back in the evening and this is what meets you it can never be that is not. a draw was among the twenty one people

killed when gunmen attacked nairobi's deceit hotel 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 conflict 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 j. his family are praying he survives his injuries he was a taxi driver working right at the do c. to tell beriah. here he is on tuesday after being shot twice in the stomach he's now hard to satirise and is in intensive care doctors say he's stable but not out of danger could be in the morning he was in the rhythm of the us 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 injury of us first because he was even struggling to speak. about claims it's behind this attack and

said it's in retaliation for u.s. president donald trump's position to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. we do see two town is owned by a tie a multinational company and the riverside complex is kenyan owned it's almost far fetched reason to use an excuse to attack my rabbit first of all there's absolutely no association between this facility in the united states of america there's no u.s. embassy here or u.s. facilities in the u.s. enjoy here. police are still gathering evidence and it's now in march 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 sees the just want to green army there in the teeth then get answers as to why this happened catherine zero. an investigative journalist who helped expose corruption in african football

has been shot dead and gone as capital accra amid hussein was part of an undercover probe led by award winning journalist and us are and now your pictured here their investigation led to the resignation of the head of the ghana football association and dozens of football referees and officials were banned a judge in the u.s. city of chicago has acquitted three police officers accused of trying to cover up the shooting of a black teenager four years ago the judge says there's no proof the officers tried to conceal evidence the video of the shooting triggered mass protests leading to major changes in chicago policing a white police officer jason van dyke was convicted of murdering seventeen year old macdonald in october last year. three mexican presidents are now facing allegations of taking bribes in the trial of working in el chapo guzman in new york prosecutors want the suspected leader of the senate lower drug cartel to be

sentenced to life in prison kristen salumi has more. video evidence shows an american drug enforcement agent and mexican marines raiding a home in search of joaquin el chapo guzman whose trial is playing out like a tele novella in a brooklyn courtroom the agent leading that raid testified about capturing guzman in two thousand and fourteen after guzman self described right hand man alex of twenty days dropped a bombshell in the court describing a bribe to former mexican president and ricky pena nieto so when days who has himself pleaded guilty to trafficking charges testified that guzman bragged about paying yet so one hundred million dollars a claim yetto spokesman has called false and absurd the bribery claims are being raised by attorneys for guzman who have suggested that another man is miles and.