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 veterans who have translated their military patriotism and to civilian patriotism working for the government. so i had hair on al-jazeera shakhtar alice and south africa challenge me off artist to provide them with permanent home. i'm wayne hay reporting from phnom penh where european tariffs may be about to put a dent in one of the best performing economies in the world.

beautiful satellite picture here showing the cold air streaming out of siberia trust the water pick something cloud has been throwing snowed hokkaido about that driving force is weakening to some degree so the forecast should give you a fine looking davis sunny day saturday in minus one and sapporo eleven in tokyo notice which is about where it should be nasser it's a fine looking day temp maybe a bit too high for pyongyang so in beijing for the time the year brought in it's been this winter's been up and down all over the place we're just down below freezing in pyongyang can sunday when the tide forms once again and see if you pan is your disappointing western view and snow on the mountains if you look west from tokyo which is a pretty warm sixteen unusual weather still in china as well with this feed from the sas which shouldn't really be around in january we are picking up cloud and eventually would turn that into rain in the middle of china running up towards the han the yangtze valley where it's right or occasionally snow at heart there is

a bit of a gap most of southeast asia is relatively dry as a lot of cloud around even now in cambodia and some vietnam but the heaviest rain in the form of thunderstorms big ones and that there will be curly into the philippines is current the dam in indonesia and the singapore. corruption has reached a love like. that before john kerry. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will the people with the truth and nothing else. winning the white house unfair game.

again you're watching on their hands reminder of our top stories this hour in sudan mourners of a man who died during thursday's protests have attacked a police vehicle in capital khartoum. a six year old. was shot by security forces on unarmed demonstrators shelter in his home. african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote the government has rejected that. a leading u.s. politician says a new allegation about donald trump is one the most serious so far as president is

reported to have told lawyer michael cohen to lie about a building project and. john of the house intelligence committee says he will do all he can to stop the truth. and investigative journalist to help expose corruption in african football has been shot dead in gone as capital hussein was part of an undercover probe to expose corruption and by award winning journalist and us army your investigation led to the resignation of the head of the gonna football association i'm a bartender reports from across. relatives and friends gather at the family home of the murdered journalist ahmed hussein. he was shot multiple times just outside his home in accra and what appears to be a targeted killing almost all do is from the north the other families were from this place is all here morning you know it's something very shocking and what people were even intending to do we have been. in moscow come to talk to us not to

take the law into our hide because we don't know who is responsible. of this unfortunate incident and that worked closely with the award winning investigative journalist and last army together they expose corruption in the gun into to sherry health sector and most recently saw several hours after the killing and asked posted a video on twitter showing a member of parliament making threats against ahmed in june last year after the latest exposé on so it led to a lifetime ban from the sport for the head of ghana's football association for bribery and corruption ghana has a very good track record of press freedom not only in west africa but across the entire continent and that's what's made this all the more shocking media and civil society organizations are concerned that that environment could be changing the south come to. that which we need to do something extra not only to maintain our position but also to ensure their rights atmosphere is governed sheet for

participation as in england going as president has called on the police to act quickly to bring to book the perpetrators of what he called a heinous crime. as the family prepares to bury ahmed and mass and his team say they are devastated but unshaken in their resolve to continue exposing corruption i'm up watching al-jazeera across. north korea's top perm boy has arrived in the u.s. to discuss a possible second summit between donald trump and kim jong un kim yong toller arrived in washington d.c. on thursday he's been leading decoys ation talks with washington and is expected to meet section of state might compare on friday president didn't trump said pyongyang is still an extraordinary threats prinsloo is following developments from south korea's capital seoul. the expected meeting between u.s. secretary of state might pompei and north korean official kim yong chill is expected to restart momentum that was lost on denuclearization talks between north

korea and the u.s. it also comes amid all the positive signals that we've been seeing in the region recently south korean president had urged north korea to take bold practical action towards nuclear disarmament now he had also urged the u.s. to consider declaring a formal end to the korean war to encourage north korea to take more steps towards giving up its nuclear program and we've also seen north korean leader kim jong visit beijing to meet with chinese president xi jinping possibly to strategize over a possible upcoming meeting between u.s. president donald trump and kim jong il and now progress since that first meeting took place in singapore in june last year has stalled we've had very little concrete evidence that north korea is getting rid of its nuclear arsenal it has yet to announce a timetable it's still operating its missile bases and it's thought to be

continuing to improve its missile capabilities in fact a recently released report by the u.s. missile defense review concluded that north korea remains a significant threat now essentially north korea and the u.s. conduct gree on what denuclearization should look like the u.s. wants complete and verifiable denuclearization north korea argues that that would put it in a defenseless position and it wants its actions to be met by corresponding actions by the u.s. either in the form of removing some sanctions or removing its strategic military assets from south korea so that's a huge chasm between the two countries but talks on denuclearization between the u.s. and north korea are still seen as a possible new avenue to peace. israeli forces have demolished the family home of a palestinian teenager accused of murdering an american israeli civilian israeli soldiers surrounded the home of in the occupied west bank village of early on

friday the seventeen year old is charged with us for a shopping center in september. syrians have told al-jazeera they feel suffocated and trapped by the torturous process they're subjected to by israeli authorities just to go to work from long angry lines at checkpoints to tough travel restrictions many say they're fed up with endless delays seventy dekker reports from one checkpoint in the occupied west bank day after day hours before the sun. cold and cramped this is the only way for these palestinian workers to leave the occupied west bank to get to their jobs in israel. all of them have israeli work permits but we're told it can take up to two and a half hours to get through this checkpoint because of it but it is the same thing every day this is not a live and what country in the world does this take place that only happens to us

palestinians here because of the occupation these workers try to jump the queue. but there's little space down below. fights often break out here everyone is frustrated. yesterday was harder than today they close the doors for a while and we are trapped yeah most of the school cool the suffering that we endure our work is one thing and the crossing is something else all our energy is taken from us here at this checkpoint so when a person loses all his energy here what is left if the israelis wanted we could cross in five minutes to around five o'clock in the morning now we've been watching thousands of palestinians cross here in the last hour or so i don't think anyone who doesn't have to enjoy this on a day to day basis would ever understand what it's like. we also one of the workers to film this crossing for us once inside more hold ups and queues and more

frustration israel maintains that these security measures are essential to prevent potential attacks. there are many checkpoints across the west bank this is the main entry point in and out of jerusalem from there's always heavy traffic and people are fed up you know every day they tell us they will find a solution when are they going to find a solution for this everyone is frustrated when they come to the checkpoint they lose their tempers we are a people who don't know what is going to happen to us. so many palestinians have told us these measures make them feel suffocated and trapped there's been no movement on the political front no peace talks since two thousand and fourteen and a delay in the announcement of the us president donald trump's peace plan everyone we speak to says israel's occupation dictates their lives and there seems to be a resignation that there is nothing they can do to change that. stephanie decker

al-jazeera bethlehem in the occupied west bank. their opinion has imposed tariffs on vice exports from cambodia and man mom block says its previous policy which allowed cambodia to export duty free. produce says when hay has more. 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 surged 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 who 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 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 build the trade in wire months and strengthen the link on the kind of sums 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 who the rebels have rejected the role of an expanded u.n. group wanted to oversee the ceasefire in yemen a un team tasked with supervising the trees came under fire in the city of data on thursday they were leaving a meeting with a. government delegation when shots were fired no one was.

now if you live in a shack in south africa what are your rights that's the question that hangs over millions of shanty town dwellers in places of the eastern province of. one rights group says hundreds of people are being thrown out of their homes which is illegal unless they provide their with new housing i mean the miller has more from durban. just below the main road on a hillside in cato christe in durban these people have built a makeshift homes the shacks at the canano settlement are made out of plastic wooden boards and metal sheeting providing little protection from rain and the intense humanity. has lived here for two years after losing her job and not being able to pay rent elsewhere she built the shack after her previous one was burnt down she says by police. in the lobby with the mafia back to the prison but when they got here they started shooting from the top and then came down and continued

shooting we asked what the problem was and they told us to leave and that this was in our place they got into our homes and burnt everything down this community leader says forty six shacks were demolished and some burned down during the vixens . despite repeated evictions dozens of families have returned and continue to live in the k'naan a settlement many say it's not by choice but necessity the areas close to schools clinics and places of work but they say they live in fear worried police will come back and evict them again schachter as association. dollars says the vixens i legal because the city doesn't have a court order and as required by law it's not provided alternative accommodation for those it's evicted the group says the rights of people living in two thousand three hundred shacks settlements across the country are being ignored we have been receiving interrupted seeing the number of every sin in the city i mean just before

this one seven communities have face of action so we have to alter court just last year top ten interdict against the city which in falls more than twenty to forty one fabulous the municipality refused to speak to al-jazeera saying the matter is still before the courts but earlier issued a statement saying some land is not meant for human occupation according to government statistics fourteen percent of the africans live in informal settlements the government provided three point two million free houses for the poor in the last twenty five years but the people's environmental planning organization says about twelve million south africans don't have adequate housing people living at the canano settlement say there's some relief after the court stopped any further the vixens they say what they need is a permanent solution for me keto crist was a do not tell now caffeine addict take notes or a new report adds to evidence that climate change is putting off the walls while

coughing species at risk of extinction the research conducted by scientists at britain's royal botanic gardens shows coffee growing regions shrinking as temperatures increase and rainfall becomes was project. i think climate change is a particular concern because the species we grow occur in very narrow climatic envelopes that means that as as the climate changes as temperatures increase and rainfall decreases the suitable area for growing this coffee diminishes. and you find plenty more on our website get dress that al-jazeera dot com. with out there these are our top stories in sudan mourners of a man who died during protests have attacked

a police vehicle in the capital khartoum local media say a sixty year old more we are khaleel was shot by security forces on slicing arms demonstrators shelter in his home mohamed fadel has the latest from khartoum protesters are once again in the streets particularly in the eastern suburbs and that has been going on since the early hours of the morning after the burial of sixty year old maja bashir a man who was shot yesterday during the protests but he wants only this morning in the hospital anger has mounted after the killing of this man and also two other people a fourteen year old boy and a doctor the african union has called on the democratic republic of congo to postpone the announcement of its final presidential election results saying there are serious doubts over the vote but the government has rejected that call. leading u.s. politicians says

a new allegation about donald trump is one of the most serious so far the us president is reported to have told lawyer michael cohen to lie about a building project in moscow the chairman of the house intelligence committee says he will do all he can to establish the truth. meanwhile donald trump is blaming the u.s. government shutdown after he cancelled sending an american delegation to next week's world economic forum in switzerland he's also scrapped a planned overseas trip by house speaker nancy pelosi and she has suggested trying to delay his state of the union address if the four week shutdown doesn't end the standoff is over tom's demand for billions of dollars for his border war israeli forces have demolished the family home of a palestinian teenager accused of murdering an american israeli civilian and really soldiers surrounded the home of. in the occupied west bank village of early on friday the seventeen year old is charged with stabbing a u.s. born shopping center in september. with all the headlines more

news continuing here on al-jazeera that's after inside story. 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 will bring in our guests in a moment but first this update on the how mother though in nairobi. details are now getting really tucked up 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 up in the middle since restaurant inside and also having coffee they are while they plan to see how they will be cutting out the uk talk and

in a departure from pasta tots like the one bought top and he convinced. 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 the pasta a toxin such as the one that's happened here but also how swift they walked in on the reacting but also and the whole all partition. 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 ition 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 probes to the world at the moment that they are on the receiving end and losing ground very fast is somalia the best deal of force to be reckoned with and such a tux would come in really hungry for them to prove that this kind of steel a talkin kind of altus much damage possible muhammad 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. 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 august issue and a year later military action forced the armed group to leave the vital port city of my o. but by twenty eight teen had lost substantial territory yet it still poses a security threat it's 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 and twenty thirteen attack 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 to figure out 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. of all these these of course not homegrown terrorists these are 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 think you're only hansen you're 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 seen 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 for tell 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 side so for the radicalization in the country while an extremist a lot of it is handled by the civil society but there has been progress inside ghana and curtailing these efforts by the shabab and this month in the kenyan that works. 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 there is always. i also remember when we were having our people were traveling they were being warned about terror attacks not just in their role be but well so talking about malls and also offices and things like that so when you hear people crying wall 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 that 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 oh 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 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 wear that this situation is tense people wear that we do need high security within the 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 ostracised 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 the 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 on 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 or in some recruitment now compared today 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 part 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 a.