once activists say at least fifty have been killed since the protests began the government says that number is twenty four it's not only how to that came out today and several other cities at least ten other cities also came out to protest against president obama they want him to leave and had a part in the interim independent council something he said he's 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. we reaffirm the three. and their concerns. to be positive and preserve their country and not listen to cause a destabilized and the 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 morgan of his era caught on. so ahead on al-jazeera a nation in mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy in colombia killed ten people. and

a country try ever comes out on top of the shirt stuck around and crude. hello there the weather is certainly ramping up over parts of north america for take a look at the satellite picture we can see the latest area of cloud of rain that's making its way in from the pacific that's already given us some heavy rain for many of us in the western parts of the u.s. and in the western parts of canada that system or edge its way eastwards you get more rain and spring there as we head through the day on friday but it's this system that's making its way across the plains and got to watch because as that one edges its way eastwards is really pulling itself together we'll see a lot of heavy rain all night in the southern parts of the u.s. and then on the north and pas that's where we'll see some snow and the snow really will be quite heavy the whole system then runs its way eastwards as we head through

the next few days for the south and there's a lot of quiet weather to be found across the caribbean at the moment where you have seen a fair few showers around the high temperature but even those seem to have dried up for friday and saturday so we should get away with a draw your day here not dry for all of us in south america there particularly if you're in the northern parts of argentina and through europe wide this system is still with us being with us for a good few days now still giving us some heavy rain and that system slowly begins to pull away as we head through saturday but even on saturday behind it will be dragging plenty of cloud and there's a chance of seeing want to poke a thunderstorms. taiwan. a sovereign island state. or a renegade province of china with must soon return to mainland control. as the battle for taiwanese hearts and minds intensifies. people in power investigates the

tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. taiwan spies lawyers and prostrate. on a. watching al-jazeera let's take out the top stories right now activists in sudan say two more people have been killed in confrontations between police and protesters thousands of people marched across several cities for yet another day demanding that president omar al bashir resign. as president donald trump says he wants to explore space based weaponry that could shoot down missiles he made the announcement all

unveiling a new defense strategy at the pentagon. and trump has canceled a delegation to the world economic forum in davos next week's citing the government shutdown is also scrapped house speaker nancy pelosi is upcoming overseas tour a political deadlock between trump and democrats over his supposed border wall is down its twenty seven day. president wants congress to approve five billion dollars for the construction of his border wall with mexico but many who live there oppose the idea asia castro's life from macallan in texas to tell us more so heidi that that might surprise some people to know that. that's right michel because if you look behind me here in this region there are portions of the border that are walled but there are also large swaths where there is no physical barrier between mexico and the united states and that is why the trumpet ministration has selected the rio grande valley of texas as its number one priority for new wall construction but if

you talk to a lot of the people who live here many say that there is no crisis at the border here and there's nothing wrong with the status quo and in fact they want no more wall. this land has been in the florists family for two hundred years it's were mere to florida street 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 planned 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 signed 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

they're 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. and the irony to all of this rochelle is even as the trauma ministration has partially shut down the government to assess a sense of we protect the border that shut down itself is hurting the very people the border patrol agents who are guarding this order more than fifty thousand of them are among the federal workers who are not receiving a paycheck while the shutdown is going and they come from families who live here on the border so while their union president has stood behind the president is saying that there should be funding for the border wall to be continued its construction the rank and file members of the agents that i've spoken to say they are desperate

for the shutdown to end and they have no idea how much longer they can survive this . caster live for us on the border there macallan texas thank you thousands more children may have been separated from their parents at the us mexico border than previously reported by the donald trump administration that's according to a u.s. government watchdog which says the agency responsible for taking care of the children did not track them sufficiently until a court ruled that they must be reunited with their parents the report also shows the u.s. officials were separated children well before trump's so-called zero tolerance policy came into effect last year colombia's president found souquet has declared three days of national mourning after a car bomb attack on a police academy killed ten people in bogota he says the perpetrators of what he called a terrorist attack will not go unpunished. reports from the club and capitol hill

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 in that immediate 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 attack there is an act of terror against an armed policeman. is an attack not only against the young security forces or the police he's 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. literally general office says they have invented the man driving the car bomb and says the vehicle was registered in a stronghold of the last active rebel group in the country in all don't know when this 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 in almost a decade and there is no doubt that it has rattled many nerves both here in the capital and across the country have been to close the door on their very violent past but there's no doubt there's such an atrocious attack like this for many here

might seem as if that dark past might be creeping back. russia's president has accused kosovo of stirring up tension with serbia by setting up its own army where putin made the statement after holding talks with the serbian counterpart alexander of a check and belgrade putin says he considered kosovo's army illegal and warned its creation could destabilize the region the two leaders also discussed economic cooperation including a gas supplies. 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 said there was no proof that the officers tried to conceal evidence the video of the shooting triggered mass protests leading to major changes in policing in the city a white police officer jason van dyke was convicted of murdering seventeen year old woman on macdonald in october of last year is due to be sentenced on your friday.

the opinion has impose tariffs on rice exports from cambodia and man maher the block says its previous policy which allowed cambodia to export most goods to be free is damaging european producers committee a special trading status is also under threat after the un put it on notice over its human rights record saying hey has more from phnom penh 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 it's 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 suge to eighty percent in the past five seasons. until now cambodia and me and maher 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 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 has come amid a surge of investment and trade with china privately his attitude may be different though given that cambodian businesses osip 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 sector 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 the trade in wire months and strengthen the link on the 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 wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. scientists say we need to double the amount of fruit and nuts and vegetables we eat and half the amount of meat and sugar to help the health of the planet experts from sixteen countries say if we do this it could also prevent more than eleven million premature premature deaths

a year by two thousand and fifty as well as reduce the effects of climate change but the targets they've set could be tricky for some they say the ideal diet limits daily poultry consumption to twenty nine grams that's equivalent to one and a half chicken nuggets and red meat to just seven grams the report published in the lancet says fish would need to be limited to twenty eight grams a day about a quarter of the medium size fillet the experts say egg consumption would need to be restricted to around one and a half a week per person but they say all that can be balanced out with five hundred grams of vegetables and fruit every single day this is a crucial issue are not going to be there tomorrow but it is important to have goals and some might call them. radical goals or progressive extreme goals even but if we don't move strongly in the right direction the kind of planet that we will turn over to our children will be a seriously degree the planet with underneath the populations and that's not the

kind of world i want my grandkids to be living in. a rally driver. was on thursday crowned the winner of the dakar rally that finished today and peru it's the third time the kateri has been crowned champion of the grueling off road race i had a sanchez reports from tesco and southern peru. cheered across the finish line and. the winner once again of a race which demands so much a few calls on the drivers and you know it's really very difficult is not. always that. you know it's really hard. but i am really quite happy with that in the forty eight year old qatari beat spain snuck by forty six minutes a man regarded as a rally race legend. and i'm going to w.w. it's been a very difficult. but we happy to have reached a finish trying. to meet

a competing as a woman is about overcoming challenges it has. perhaps in march a cycle it's more difficult for women because we have less physical strength and you need to be strong she was not alone seventeen women competed in the race this year the largest group of women yet to take part in the competition. driver says men have an unfair advantage at the dakar back out is not total abs this is really for boys and that every day ladies fight of a story let's show her. some peruvians criticised event organizers for the decision to run the race through challenging yet fragile southern desert region. a peruvian driver says the rally puts on the world stage. for being one hundred percent peruvian it's a chance for the world to know about june it's

a window on peru. i'll bet is another say though sandy dunes made the race a very tough one many drivers here say it's been one of the most challenging doc cars more than twenty five percent of competitors pulled out but many here say they will do it again. for his victories a chance to show young people around the world the good of doing sports i wish you know for all that to do. you know to keep. himself you know. always. development. you know some think you know for a for his life you know. and for the followers of the race the closing of yet another adventure we're simply reaching the finish line counts as a victory mcginnis and just a. quick

recap of your headlines right now on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has canceled a delegation to the world economic forum in davos next week citing the government shutdown is also scrapped house speaker nancy pelosi is upcoming overseas tour the political deadlock between track and democrats over a supposed border wall is now in its twenty seventh day 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 rence who have translated their military patriotism into civilian patriotism working for the gun trump says he wants to explore space based weaponry that could shoot down enemy missiles made the announcement while unveiling

a new defense strategy at the pentagon that called north korea an extraordinary threat. that review came on the day pyongyang's top on boy landed in washington d.c. to discuss a second summit between donald trump and kim jong un kim yong chole has been leading the nuclearization talks with the u.s. and is expected to meet with secretary of state my pompei oh. at least ten people were killed and a car bomb attack on a police academy and the colombian capital bogota it is the biggest such attack there and more than a decade activists in sudan say two more 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 have been demanding the resignation of president omar al bashir but he is blaming the protests on foreign agents. and the african union has called on democrats republic of congo to suspend the declaration of final election results plan for friday saying there are serious

doubts over the vote losing presidential candidate martin viola has filed a court challenge demanding a recount of last month's valid he insists he won sixty one percent of the vote entre to an official salt which declared his rival. the winner there's other headlines keep it here on al-jazeera next as people in power. shadowy financial operations are propping up north korea's economy tempering the elite and fueling the nation's missile and pistons. want to win east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera. talk to one sovereign garden state or a breakaway province of the people's republic of china the bust inevitably return to mainland control as the battle intensifies to influence tyrolese hearts and

minds on this question we've been to investigate the tactics opposed to reunification is only a matter of time. asia's most vibrant democracy is feeling the heat from an increasingly powerful neighbor that claims it has a renegade province over that one yet we have a. president that i think in the democratic wave of one element and in any way. the two sides share

a complicated history of civil war in china drove the fleeing nationalist army to taiwan in one nine hundred forty nine. it's had its own government since its own laws. and lately off freedoms not seen in many parts of asia and yet formally taiwan is not a country i love it's all very well wouldn't you go for a good. school i do wish. you luck because literally group. the supporters of unification between china and taiwan insist both sides agreed in one nine hundred ninety two that there is only one china. but within taiwan the so-called one nine hundred ninety two consensus is the subject of much debate womans and will enjoy them playing because it's home.

tensions have escalated since president chai of the independence leaning democratic progressive party took office both sides ramped up military activity in the taiwan straits off to beijing cut diplomatic contacts in two thousand and sixteen. china also forced a string of airlines and companies to amend references to taiwan on their websites iow while summing us out would be on the way out on the all these recently. was young oh young guy goes on water we're hearing and out of. frosty relations with china come amid a strengthening of ties with the united states officially washington agrees with beijing that taiwan is a part of china but on officially it's one of the island's main allies. this year the u.s. opened the new two hundred fifty five million dollar complex in the capital taipei

it also committed to stronger military support for taiwan and passed a bill encouraging visits between officials from both sides as went down thinking it is feeling i don't think my president wanted to choose sides between china and the united states but the situation needs to be at least countrol manageable so all we are walking on the thai roll. for the chinese communist party a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the taiwanese people continues. here this year beijing announced its so-called thirty one measures placing such an taiwanese businesses and individuals on an equal footing with their chinese counterparts. within taiwan china is also making its presence felt. people in power investigates the fringe political groups working with beijing not to get eaten for nothing i think it's.

really nice. we find out some of the ways china gathers information inside taiwan all to juggle their boots or you will. also go. ahead of local elections at the end of the year there are fears things could get even more intense almost sold in helpless it's just it's yellow jungle in the eat. what's happening here. they showed up just after six in the morning or their job at out of privacy pro unification politician one being drunk says he was completely unprepared and he was it will hold you to positive gender. identity to hell with them and know just that god. what followed was live streamed

by one on his facebook page the video here today and who are. injured via. the standoff which lasted forty minutes ended when police broke the lock i mean even when i was either on or helping a man. and him a good sound to many. passengers are listening to. the raid might not have happened were it not for this man joe home shoe a chinese citizen and former student at one of taiwan's best universities. he spent fourteen months in jail for attempting to recruit spies for beijing a charge he continues to deny today so holmes so that once will that be it among joe's alleged collaborators. when we meet again it's at a hastily called press conference. his father and two members of his political

party have just been indicted and are awaiting trial we'll let you see what the reason for that. one should be or why. you know it's also the wisdom of god i don't think you go that. wasn't what i wanted to. but prosecutors insist the three politicians took money from the chinese communist party with former student joe home shoes acting as a middleman. the national chain she university is where he caught his postgraduate degree. joe declined our request for an interview but we managed to speak to a former exchange student at one of taiwan's other universities she's asked that we hide her identity. joe you'll run home courses here whole ball will go through for hashimoto's four. hundred one. coming out for you and maples on hold the

real. amy says she quickly suspected something was wrong but government officials wouldn't leave her alone to hunt for the washing machines and some. hobo junkie. who was on the one hundred dollars you. wait until you get home and joseph should mobile home to do so. three pm on a weekday afternoon outside the presidential palace in taipei and this is a regular site. members of the concentric patrick as an alliance are on their way to one of the city's best known van mocks taipei one o one. here they broadcast their message on unification to tourists from mainland china but they cannot tell you. that. and that is not what i

want to let you do the bell and i went over there to the fencing and they take on followers of the following spiritual movement who are publicizing the plight of their fellow practitioners in mainland china where the group is outlawed in the us but are you buying at the. and i had done this for you i knew that. today's exchange ends peacefully. but that hasn't always been the case. the concentric patriotism alliance has members regularly feature in online videos like these. their targets include pro independent supporters. democracy activists. as well as the following any kind several of their members have been convicted of assault. within taiwan questions over the methods

and funding sources of the concentric patrick ism alliance have swirled for some time. people in power has been investigating. posing as a mainlander who has recently moved to taiwan are under cover researcher has been getting to know the group. among the first things we learn is that co-founder jang su year is running in this year's local elections. the whole. thing of. this conversation with a supporter confirms what many have long suspected that the group pays people to attend it's events. on. the concentric patrick ism alliance is headed by seventy five year old child.

originally from mainland china chao hosts of both hong kong and taiwanese identity cards. in this video he's in central taiwan marking the anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party. but chow was not always a believer. in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he wrote a letter to the then british prime minister margaret thatcher objecting to hong kong being handed back to china his letter began it is known to all that communist rule is characterized by suppression that leads only to bloodshed deprivation and dire poverty clearly chao has since had a change of heart but are chinese authorities funding his political activities here's what jang syria co-founder and manager of the concentric patriotism alliance

has to say only. you know. that i handwritten and. then you and he and you've written to. him something. that he was. really not and you. know. at the offices of the taiwanese government spokesperson says more can be done to regulate all political groups. but even before changes to legislation police have started to act in early august

they raid the offices of another fringe party the china unification promotion party and the home of.