and how we've gotten here that jason bend as the intro noted you know it's been more than fifty years since a police officer nandu chicago police officer of service ever been charged with murder and actually this is the first time in chicago history that an on duty chicago police officer has ever been charged with the killing of an african-american man woman or child ever and this never would have happened if people from the communities have been most impacted by police abuse didn't fight to force the city to actually release that video and then to use that video to force all of us to to reckon with the reality of systemic police abuse. and unequal justice i mean and the voices of young black folks in chicago been felt throughout the world so right now i think there's also while while there's pain. this is we haven't forgotten that this is an historic moment that we're on the verge of a what's called a consent decree to address the chicago police department ongoing pattern in

practices of of civil rights abuses of human rights abuses in black communities and the decree that will be overseen by a federal judge and can be enforced by the very people of the community here in chicago and so that's historic and it's only because people stood up and fought chicago's. powerful machinery denial that we're in this very moment in which real change is possible so while today is it is a important reminder of how far we have to go we know the path to get there and it begins with ordinary people standing up and speaking out for equal justice craig let me ask you about that path do you think that it's likely we could see a broad a groundswell of protests and reaction to the sentencing. i i think that i expect people and it's and not just with respect to the sentencing but i expect people as here in chicago as they have been as we have to continue to stand

up and to speak out against injustice and to ensure that voices are heard i think back to when this video was first released and it was a really historic moment and i and i remember a couple days afterwards it was in the u.s. the biggest shopping day of the year this is black friday after thanksgiving a couple days after his release and young folks took to the streets but took two magnificent mile and we're in on michigan avenue in chicago where. it's well known some of the most pos stores are and business owners lost means and millions in profits on this day the busiest shopping day of the year but what i can't forget even more than anything else in terms of how things how that message was heard in and how young folks voices were heard. instead of hearing the usual

you need to arrest all those young people who are out there in the streets instead we heard in this is even from the most privileged among us that mr mayor you need to do something about the reason why people are out mistreats and the jack is out of the box is hard as i think some are trying to put that jack back in and. it's out there and. we can't go back to the days of denial craig cross and then from the university of chicago's north thank you very much craig for sharing that with us thank you so much for having me i deeply appreciate the opportunity. well there's plenty more ahead on this news hour and. mourners turned on police at the funeral of a nine killed during anti-government demonstrations and three dog. it's difficult i miss my daughter very much she's been left holding her grandson we look at the

venezuelan children abandoned by their parents out of desperation. and the rules of basketball provided computing ending for the english crowd at the n.b.a. is london games he said will be here to explain and. colombia's president has asked cuba to handover ten members of a leftist armed group accused of thursday's car bomb attack in bogota yvonne do k. has reactivated arrest orders against need is involved in previous peace talks with the government twenty one people were killed after a car packed with explosives detonated as a police academy the group has not claimed responsibility for the attack. explains what this means for peace talks between colombia's government and the rebels. president to address the nation late on friday essentially doing what everybody

was expecting ending the possibility of a reactivation of peace negotiations with the land the last active rebel group in colombia. that happened after the government and now that the land was behind the car bomb backpack that killed twenty young cadets on tears day here in the capital bogota ducasse said that no ideology no political fight can justify the horror that colombians are had to endure he announced that he will reactivate the international arrest warrant of the leadership who is in cuba and they were expecting a restart of the peace negotiations for many here due to had no other option after this attack on thursday and this means that colombia will not have

the possibility at least for now to reach a complete peace something that most colombians hope could happen after the largest rebel group in the country the feyerick had signed an agreement with the colombian government back in two thousand and sixteen. mourners and police in sudan have fought after the funeral of a man shot dead in anti-government protests in the capital activists say at least fifty people have died since demonstrations began last month rama devout has more from khartoum. scenes of violence in the sudanese capital khartoum on friday morning as more people died at the hands of security forces police attacked mourners with gathered for the funeral of while you bashir the sixty year old died after being shot by police who had accused him of hiding protesters in his house in a suburb of the capital khartoum a police vehicle was overturned by the mourners as the confrontation got worse.

there had been another funeral this for a doctor hundreds turned out for that but because of the team had been shot dead while trying to treat wounded for testers. overnight one protest of many are around the country focused on the hospital where the doctor and the boy died a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief combined i believe many here still mourn i don't know what 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 and after friday prayers a seemingly endless stream of people determined to make their voices heard we have to worry about the shoot to kill attitude due to the fact that the bullet that was used seemed to be explosives when it touches the urn you know i cannot get and therefore he said but it is impossible and don't you think it's high it's been full weeks since the uprising began at first it was over the

tripling of the price of bread and fuel the economy is flatlining with astronomy can inflation rates or fission figures put it out seventy two percent but now people say it's not just the soaring. rises and the lack of cash but it's about the way the country has being run for the past thirty years the government says wolf you were on the floor of no arrived starting to leave the crisis he also announced that printing of more currency notes and the raising of salaries but what does the city that is not enough they'll be satisfied with nothing short of the removal of president obama and bashir from power one hundred forty. the secretary general of the arab league says it's not the right time to reinstate syria's membership of the twenty two member bloc citing deep divisions arab league ministers have been meeting in beirut lebanon has been pushing to restore syria's

membership which was suspended in twenty eleven following bashar assad's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests last month the u.a.e. and bahrain reopened their embassies in damascus for the first time since the beginning of the conflict. yemen's warring sides have failed to reach an agreement during talks in jordan who the rebels and the yemeni government have been negotiating in amman over a prisoner swap deal that was agreed in sweden last month but both parties have accused each other a lying and hiding crucial information about detainees they have now decided on a time table to exchange their views on the details of the deal israeli forces have used to live fire and tear gas on palestinian protesters along the gaza israeli border fence at least thirty palestinians including three medics were injured this footage shows one of three ambulances that were hit by the tear gas demonstrations have now run for forty three consecutive fridays as part of the great march of

return protesters have been calling for the right of return of palestinian refugees and an end to the more than a decade long blockade on gaza by israel and egypt stratford was at the demonstrations in gaza. we've seen a lot of gas fired today yet again this is the pulte week of the friday protests along the gaza border along with i mean if she's taking the way now there's a lot of anger here in gaza specifically at the moment over the withholding by israel of millions of dollars donated by cots a lot of which is going to go towards buying fuel for gaza there is a serious fuel crisis on the strip at the moment hospitals a saying that some of the may have to close down the big issue certainly pull the israeli government is that a lot more of this money is going to go to wolves paying hamas employees in the next yahoo government under pressure. by what i described is right we're going to

see in that government that accuse him of basically paying hamas to keep the situation calm and in the street understand it thousands of people have been protesting in other areas along the border since. the people we speak to say they will continue protesting until israel's twelve day when seems ok is that to call stop an al-jazeera gaza. donald trump has denied reports that he directed his former personal lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow democrats say they'll verify the allegations published by buzz feed's the office of special counsel robert muller who's investigating the trunk campaigns links to moscow has cost us on the report in a statement his spokesman said buzz feed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's office and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony on not accurate more on that report now from our white house correspondent. it's an

explosive report based on allegations by investigators if true the claims against u.s. president donald trump are the most direct proof that he broke the law and could potentially end his presidency the damning report by two u.s. journalists says trump allegedly directed his longtime attorney michael cohen to lie in testimony before congress hording to the report trump wanted cohen to tell congress that negotiations over a trump tower project to moscow during the twenty sixteen presidential campaign happened months earlier than they actually did look that's absolutely ridiculous i think that the president's outside counsel addressed this best and said in a statement earlier today those categorically false the report also says trump directed cohen to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir putin to discuss the project claim he's

repeatedly denied there is absolutely no scholars or no collusion no collusion no solution with the russian cohen was sentenced in december for various crimes which included false statements to the f.b.i. something trumped tweeted about in response to the latest allegations pointing out cohen is a proven liar but the latest claims published in the online publication buzz feed site to. unnamed law enforcement officials state that cohen's testimony is backed by tax and e-mails already in possession by special counsel robert muller looking into trunk campaign ties to the kremlin not only that and impeachable offense but that could actually be something that could move senate republicans to actually begin to to break from this president earlier this week trump's nominee for attorney general bill barr admitted directing someone to lie would amount to obstruction of justice you wrote on page one that a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction is that right but. yes

ok or any any you know any person who pretend it's another it's ok in a statement the new house intelligence committee chair adam schiff said the allegations of a cover up are the most serious to date and vowed to do what's necessary to find out if it's true michael cohen is scheduled to testify publicly before congress next month but already some congressional democrats are threatening to start impeachment proceedings against the president based on these latest accusations kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor and an expert on government ethics she joins us now via skype from washington d.c. melanie just how damaging is this for president some members of congress already calling for impeachment. if indeed president trump attempted to

obstruct justice by having michael cohen lie now before congress when he testified that would be an impeachable offense so that's why we've heard members of congress talk about this although they've all been there hold to say if these allegations are accurate then it would be impeachable and now this evening we have the very i mean usual circumstance of a spokesperson for the special counsel's office coming out and saying that not everything in the buzz story is exactly accurate although buzz feed is standing by its reporting and so what does that mean for what could happen next and what would be the next step. well buzz feed has asked a special counsel to be more specific about what in its reporting it is it's arguing against it saying is inaccurate i doubt that the special counsel will say anything more this will allow the president trying to say see buzz feed's lying none of it's true but the reporter for jason leopold is

a well respected journalist in town in washington and it's unlikely he has everything wrong so i think there's going to be a lot of questions about what's out there and as always we'll all be waiting to hear what special counsel moller has to say when we eventually hopefully do in fact see the report how far along is that murder investigation and when might we see a reporter or him more revelations. well that's really the sixty four million dollars question everybody is white waiting with bated breath to see that report and as we saw in the attorney general confirmation process this week william bars that it's not clear that he would necessarily release the moller report or will in fact present his report to the attorney general and it will be up to the attorney general whether or not to release it publicly now there will be a great deal of pressure on bard to release it so it's hard to see how he keeps it entirely within the department of justice. while there been many stories talking

about how this is winding down and the ball or probe is coming to a conclusion that really nobody knows let me ask you more about william confirmation hearing because as we had he did say that a president to persuade someone to commit perjury is committing a crime and if he is confirmed this is all going to favor the land in his lap. yes absolutely and that was why senator any closure was asking those specific questions and it does appear that it's there's a good likelihood that president trump was trying to persuade michael cohen not to tell the truth i mean we've learned more and more about president trump's relationships with moscow first he said there was no he never was trying to build a tower in moscow that he had no the efforts to engage in any development in moscow and then that turns out to be not true and it does appear that he was having michael cohen tell say things that were not true in his congressional testimony.

michael cohen had said that previously the buzz feed report was much more specific than it had been in the past but michael cohen has previously stated that president trump has been he lied on behalf of the president and there have been other indeed many other issues where michael cohen has said that he committed campaign vile finance violations at the behest of the president so the number of potential crimes that the president may have committed is mounting and it will be interesting to when we all see what the special counsel prepares because he has so much more evidence than what we have ever seen a rate gate has been cooperating for quite some time and assistant to paul man a for it who's been convicted of many crimes and apparently there's a great deal of evidence that we don't know that gates has provided to the special counsel of other crimes. interestingly we also saw rudy giuliani earlier this week

say that while he never said that there had been any collusion with russia only that the president himself had colluded which is of course an entirely different line than the president has taken in the past where that can't be he said that neither he nor the campaign ever colluded so we have a constantly changing stories here melanie sloan there from the federal prosecutor thank you feel inside it's not any. well still ahead on al-jazeera but in the end mecha go straight for the roll back to all fake reassess the rhetoric and the reality around the u.s. president's planned border war with mexico. and rout the eastern end of the irish border where people are worried bricks it will throw up valley is today a business. and in sports one champion knocks out another as last year's it's truly an open winner makes an early exit peter will be here with.

by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello you know welcome back to the national weather forecast we're here across china over the next few days we do expect to see it increase of clouds as well as rain across much of the area not looking too bad as we end the weekend on saturday about the same as we saw on friday but we are going to see with that southerly flow an increase of that moisture as it makes its way towards the central part of china so here for joe on saturday a nice day if you are twenty three hong kong a little bit more clouds at twenty but take a look what happens here on sunday a lot of rain across parts of the central areas over here toward shanghai though winds are going to start to come out of the north so your terms are coming down we do expect to see about eight degrees there well down towards the south let's walk over here towards the philippines because watching very carefully out here towards east notice those clouds right there we do have a weak system we don't expect it to become a tropical storm it could become

a tropical depression but either way it is going to bring quite a bit of rain to parts of the southern philippines over the next few days particularly as we go towards sunday that is where we could be seeing some localized flooding across much of that area from manila though from sunday night to monday do expect to see it increase of clouds over the next few days down here towards the south across jakarta we are going to be seeing some more rain in your forecast attempt to there of thirty one and polo a temperature of twenty nine. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. shadowy financial operations are propping up north korea's economy compering the elite and fueling the nation's missile into ships. one on one east investigates north korea's secret money on al-jazeera. and this is different whether someone is going for something that's very real it's better when it's real and it's how you approach it shall not it is a certain way of doing it i just. inject

a story in the out. we're talking about ivory poachers who have decimated populations of elephants and the almost always shipped the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start your search looking in the wrong place this radiocarbon dating method the trade of ivory has to be built then we have a place he could focus law enforcement on to take those out and put. the source of the r.v. from countries in the take no prisoners. come back and a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s.

president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un will need for a second time at the end of february the white house made the announcement off to north korea's leader nuclear negotiator held talks with trump and secretary of state's mike on pay or. chicago police officer jason van dyke has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for murdering a black teenager a case which sparked mass protests against police brutality in the u.s. mcdonald's families say they're disappointed with the sentence. mourners and police and through don have thought after the funeral of the man shot dead in anti-government protests in the capital khartoum activists say at least fifty people have died since demonstrations began last month. the white house is denying accusations from the house speaker that donald trump put troops and civilians working in afghanistan in danger by leaking information about a planned congressional trip there had cancelled their military flights on stay citing the government shutdown but nancy pelosi is accusing the president of

revealing information about the trip calling it very very irresponsible pelosi and trump are at loggerheads over funding for a us mexico border wall. we might think go. ahead like. that the president. elling action has made it seem. dangerous because it just saying to him that here you see that coming next we may. never get. into a battle you know you just never plan. to help him understand that people really want to shoot him. well from the moment at this conceived by his campaign donald trump's rhetoric on the border war with mexico has sometimes strayed far from the reality on the ground allen fish has more they going

to come it was a promise from the early days of his presidential campaign we're going to build a wall it's going to be built. it's not even believe it or not it's not even a difficult thing to do. but the row over who will pay for the war has partially shut down the u.s. government and donald trump is doing what he can to get his way first up he said mexico would pay for the wall but in the end mexico stands for the world but just days ago he insisted that that would come through a new trade deal with mexico when during the campaign i would say mexico's going to pay for abby asleep i never said this and i never meant to get a rise out of jack yet one of his own campaign documents called pay for the wall actually states it's an easy decision for makes co make a one time payment of five to ten billion dollars. and economists dispute that the new trade deal comes even close to paying for the wall. the president has also

claimed in a tweet that much of the wall has already been fully renovated or built one but no money has been earmarked for the war and while there has been some reform bushman and repair there has been no construction on a new wall anywhere on the three thousand one hundred kilometer southern border over what should begin on a twenty two kilometer stretch in february when the president talks about drugs coming across the southern border he gets some things right yes on average three hundred americans are killed every week because of heroin yes most of it is coming from mexico and across the southern border but the u.s. drug enforcement administration say most of the drugs are smuggled through legal ports of entry donald trump says his policies on the border of the tearing people from traveling to eating people have not been able to get through or nearly build walls makeshift walls and fences or border patrol officers and military there are no staying in mexico or going back to their original countries this is true

thousands of migrants are waiting on the mexico side of the border as the u.s. process is asylum claims the trumpet ministration says asylum requests have increased over the last year but most of the incest will not be approved finally donald trump says most americans want the war built but a new poll says fifty eight percent of americans don't want the wall while forty percent do it is an issue which is clearly divided opinion split the nation and shut down the government alan fischer al-jazeera washington. whole venezuela's economic crisis has taken a severe toll on children many have been abandoned by their families who've left for neighboring countries to escape the financial hardship a growing number of children are living on the streets and orphanages are running out of space and money to house them from caracas to reason reports. going to holly's eleven years old his mother left him in this orphanage two years

ago she went to colombia to escape the ongoing crisis in venezuela. in the year we were received here with open arms we are taught many things and i don't want to leave my dreams behind. this is the the orphanage a place that provides a home to at least fourteen children and gives an education to dozens of others. they were legal is in charge he says that what's been happening here is yet another consequence of the crisis i mean. we receive children from other places that we try to keep because there is a process for abandoned children one woman came with a three month old baby that she couldn't feed we were going to the level of undernourishment has increased among children because families colonel freed them but the situation is not easy for the managers of them. finding resources to support the kids is becoming more challenging every day both handling this

orphanage are struggling to make ends meet they have to feed the children and you can see right behind me and educate them these are the latest donations then they have received you can see all of this bill and with all of the money they can barely bag one pack of bags the other problem are the medicines john yaris is fifteen and has a neurological problem we're told he needs all these medicines to control the condition they're almost impossible to find and when they're located they're expensive president has announced new measures to end the economic crisis in venezuela but most economists say that they're unlikely to improve the situation anytime soon hyperinflation makes life here extremely difficult for most people. daughter was one of those who left she left her five year old son son in her mother's care but in this case it's difficult i miss my daughter very much i really

need her the situation here is harder and harder every day prices go up and up you work and work and it's not enough for anything there is no official data on how many children were left behind and in which conditions in the past two years almost three million venezuelans have left the country it is an issue that wars lawyers like. i moved to what we're seeing now is a new phenomenon of children that are left behind but some are cared for by their families and others are not so there is no control over who is responsible for their child legally whether they are studying or living on the street family thing venezuela are struggling to deal with the impact of the country's crisis leaving their country and children behind is for some parents the only option they see to survive the several paragraphs there are reports coming out of central mexico where at least twenty people have been killed and more than fifty injured in a pipeline explosion will bring you more details as soon as we get them

a kenyan courts ruled that five suspects inches days hotel attack must be held in custody including a canadian national they're suspected of helping gunmen who stormed the dusit complex and killed twenty one people the somali based group al-shabaab says it was behind the attack prosecutors say the investigation is complex and they're pursuing more suspects in kenya and abroad. the democratic republic of congo is rejecting the african union's attempt to intervene in the disputed presidential election the a.u. is calling for the announcement of the final result to be postponed because of election fraud concerns provisional results which declared opposition leader felix she said hetty the winner being challenged in court by his rival. accusing chief security of crossing to rig the outcome with outgoing president joseph kabila. an appeals panel at the international criminal court has granted

a last minute request to extend the detention of former ivory coast president. prosecutors have asked to keep him in prison while they appeal against his acquittal he was tried over post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed or still faces a twenty year jail term back home for financial crimes british prime minister trees i'm a will speak to european union leaders this weekend ahead deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament three days ago may has been given until monday to come up with a plan b. she's already meant other rival party leaders in the hope of reaching a breakthrough opposition leader jeremy corbin is refusing to join cross party discussions until a no deal breaks it is ruled out well the biggest issue facing any brics it deal is the irish border which would become the only land fronted between the united kingdom and the european union needs barco reports from calling for block where

local businesses are fearing for their future. for the past twenty years the question hasn't mattered but then it happened. during. his high end is consumed as far away as china the north shore is british the south is irish the waters in between are shared across border agency works for the interests of both sides. but it hasn't always been this way not far from here in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine eight. thirty years of violence in northern ireland was a militarized.