he said there needs to be a permanent solution for dreamers and t.p.s. recipients not just a three year reprieve if both sides start bargaining again the longest ever government shutdown could be brought to an end rob reynolds al jazeera washington time for break here down to zero when we come back on the march and sabbat now protesters against the president plan to make that voices heard in parliament on that side of the. i know that we're expecting some more snow every passage upin we're already seeing quite a bit of it is out of this system here and if that works its way away from us there's still going to be the winds coming down from the northwest picking up a load of moisture from the sea of japan and then depositing all of that snow in the northwest so some heavy falls here elsewhere it's actually quite mild at the

moment beijing up to eight degrees on monday and by the time we get to choose day we should be up to double figures of to ten for the north there and force in order but we're still below freezing but for us it's fairly warm we'll get to around minus five heading for the south so there's a little bit more in the way of unsettled weather here for us in a sim parts of it now and there's a lot of what weather that's going to stick around for the next few days the further north expect those showers over the northern parts of vietnam and just spreading up into parts of china as well and over the high ground there we're expecting that to turn to snow that will be breaking up though as we head through tuesday so choose they force here does look like the dry a day a bit further towards the south and for the philippines it's really throwing it down currently is all due to the remains of a storm that are working their way northward say roll the west to get in for some monday but that rain does begin to ease a fraction as we head into choose day for the south though plenty of showers across many parts of job and working up into singapore.

portray someone of the. sixty's seen through the eyes of those who know it best they see. al-jazeera world goes on the road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of one of the most hockey contested locations. jerusalem's a palestinian cabbies on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the runner up in the

democratic public of congress presidential election is calling the nationwide protests on saturday the constitutional court rejected motm for use allegations of vote rigging. and major economic summit has begun in lebanon but most recent leaders on to tending the economic and social development summit have never shot it but divisions of a series. of democrats have rejected donald trump's offer to break the deadlock over the longest partial shutdown. in the us government history trumps often temper protection for some undocumented migrants if democrats back his plan to build a war with mexico. come about as prime minister is beginning a four day trip to china where he'll meet president xi jinping beijing provides an economic safety net to phnom penh which has seen souring relations with the west over its human rights record and as wayne hay reports from see a new bill chinese investment is beginning to change the shape of the seaside town . just two years ago this was

a sleepy seaside town popular with backpackers now sihanoukville is a chinese construction sites gambling is illegal for cambodians but it's thought there are more than seventy casinos open or under construction in the special economic zone the target market is not cambodians it's chinese tourists some cambodians are benefiting from the investment in the form of jobs but others are being forced out because of the construction and rising costs. but when i moved to my restruck here the rate was lower and i don't have many customers because i'm on the outskirts of town now i didn't want to move here but i had no choice sihanoukville is an important part of china's belton road initiative which aims to link asia with africa and europe through loans and investments trade between the two countries is up more than twenty percent and most goods come through here cambodia's only deep sea port this area also holds strategic value for china c n n will sits on the gulf of thailand which then becomes the south china sea where

china is involved in territorial disputes with several southeast asian nations cambodia isn't one of them but instead of siding with its neighbors when it comes to the dispute it sides with china. there have even been reports recently that the chinese are planning to build a military base along this coast the cambodian government says it's not true and in fact it would be unconstitutional but all this is happening at a time when the west is threatening to punish the cambodian government through economic sanctions following a dramatic decline in democracy and human rights investment from china generally comes with a list social or democratic conditions tell you there seems to come and i understand your conditions so let's work to make it happen i don't care about nothing but the government in beijing does like stability and the influx of chinese coming to work in cambodia has created some social tensions system aged that around twenty percent of the population of sihanoukville is now chinese the local government says there

are no problems between the communities they do. they do then vice money saw. is the. op conflict between two people. china's ambassador to cambodia recently described the relationship between the two countries as forged in steel judging by the pace of change here that sentiment is being taken quite literally when hey al jazeera sihanoukville cambodia dozens of african refugees a fear drowned off from overloaded boat capsized three people have been rescued but one hundred seventeen are missing in the mediterranean sea they were in a rubber dinghy which sound from libya most onboard came from nigeria ivory coast gambia and sudan the saudi u.a.e. coalition as north a series of air strikes and yemen's capital sana'a the military base and drone facility were targeted is the first time the coalition has carried out air strikes

in the capital since yemen's warring sides met for u.n. talks in sweden last month. demonstrators are set to rally in the greek capital against the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia it wants to change its name to the republic of north macedonia but greeks object because macedonia is the ancient name of one of their region's greek prime minister alexis tsipras has survived two confidence motions in parliament over the contentious deal fencer openness is more from athens the reason people are demonstrating here today is to prevent that parliamentary vote from happening very demanding a referendum but i think after the referendum of july twenty fifteen in which sixty two percent of greeks voted for noble austerity and the government turns that around into a third emergency loan accompanied by austerity measures the government is loath to go into another referendum adventure it is likely to lose the vote because most

greeks are polling as being against this agreement so i think what we're seeing here is a last ditch attempt a real good to express sentiment felt by many greeks across the country but it's likely to fall on deaf ears when it's return now to the government shutdown in the us and donald trump's compromise offer to the democrats for more on this particle hang joins us live now from washington d.c. party president tom's offer was instantly rejected by the democrats so how far apart by the sides really. well really they are pretty far apart let's think about this the president offered two things protection for children who were brought here illegally by their parents but have been working or they're in school and the protections for people who basically were flee natural disasters or crime those that's called temporary protected status keep in mind those people were protected about a million people president trump is the one who removed those protections so the

democrats have less incentive to work with him because he's tried to do this but the courts in every case have blocked him where they're at right now is how this goes forward democrats are saying we simply will not start to negotiate with you until the government is reopened basically saying you're holding all of these federal workers hostage but trump is saying if i do that you won't give me my wall in the end anyway so really we they're still very much at an impasse the president made this offer but democrats instantly rejected it what's interesting is keep in mind the president was going to sign a bill without any border wall funding it was when conservative critics came out and slammed him and said it would cost him his base that he dug in and caused this government shutdown he is getting hammered from those very critics now saying that he's offering amnesty that he's offering too much so what i mean you're watching today is to see if the president starts to backtrack because of that criticism meanwhile what's happening then to those hundreds of thousands of federal workers

that you just mentioned i mean many of them haven't been paid for a month now. and a lot of people like to think that federal workers are basically they're good they've got savings the they can handle a month without pay that is not the case in the vast majority of for these workers many of them live paycheck to paycheck so we're hearing countless stories of them saying i had to call my bank ask can i pay half my mortgage i can't pay my car payment i need to pay the electric bill what we're seeing is a lot of them are going to food banks so this is having a very real impact it's not just the eight hundred thousand federal workers some who are working all who are getting not getting paid it's all the contractors that's the janitors that's the people who work in the cafeterias at the museums now federal workers will get back pay it's not at all clear that the contractors are going to get paid so this is having a real world impact but the politicians are really just still dug in thank you. on to government protests in serbia have continued for the seventh saturday in

a row thousands marched in the capital belgrade in protest against president alexander of the church and his ruling serbian progressive party that the modern more freedom for the media and opposition parties. in a group such as more from belgrade. this is the seventh time the protesters are gathering here in belgrade demanding the press freedom freedom of speech and the freedom of critical thinking but deny the head so more requests and this time these requests are addressed to the syrian opposition not to the government and one of the leader of tonight's growth is. that the opposition in syria came out with precise program and planned and not just expect from people in the streets support for not doing as he said he positions leaders what have they done seven years to earn and deserved it. this interesting moment because the analysts

from the serbian center for free elections and democracy posted all the earlier this protest is the most serious protest and certainly as these two thousand and twelve. sparty came to power but. they warned also. clear program and to fulfill it also they said the protest in belgrade must spread to other businesses and something like that already happened last night still plays in six more suit is the un special rapporteur on human rights and man march set to arrive in bangladesh young healy will visit cox's bazar where of a seven hundred thousand refugees lives since escaping a military crackdown in rakhine state in twenty seventeen myanmar's government to cease cooperation with me and has refused to enter into the country and reports now from cox is bizarre. the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has been

shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factors in greatly the u.n. says there are now more the nine hundred thousand will hinder refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh and now they are spread across a mega i can't here in cox's bazaar now it's the dry season the monsoons are behind people and life has become a little easier but as you can see sanitation lack of access to clean water and latrines can use to new to be concerned if you look here there are workers trying to prepare the can for floods that are inevitable in this part of the world there is also concern about a lost generation of children two to the lack of schools the mood here has improved

considerably since last november that is when the bangladeshi government abandoned a repatriation plan in an undisclosed agreement with the government of myanmar bangladesh had hoped to return about twenty two hundred refugees to me and bar the un warned that that could be a violation of international law there was a real outcry here and that play on it was halted so now the un special report her is shifting her attention to an island called bastion sorry it's a remote island and the government is hoping to shift a significant portion of the road into refugees here to that island it is in the path of typhoons and cycles it's prone to flooding it's literally called a floating island it's comprised primarily of silt but the bangladeshi government has already begun construction on housing and human rights groups say that refugees might not have access to basic services they've even called this island like live. in a prison so the u.n.

special reporter is hoping to go to beslan chart but no word yet on whether or not she'll be allowed access in saddam protesters against the president are planning to march on parliament on saturday going to just in the northern region of my house chanted slogans demanding the end of president bush's thirty year rule activists say dozens have been killed in a month of protests which began over the rising price of bread even moved in as more from the capital khartoum. i'm here at the funeral rites of dr is that because he was shot on the seventeenth of january. thank you with there and witnessed his killing i think he came out of course up and reset that country that he was unharmed and said that he was a captain who was trying to create egypt for testing people who were there said that the security forces them to two steps back and shot him point blank they called it an execution that people have because they don't want to hear for the past one month they say they want him to step down. and you think he

was going to do the government says at least twenty five people have been killed since the protests began but upright and i can see the numbers that means that people are saying they will continue to protest look with us find in the coming days to go to them to demonstrate should the president that they don't want him to continue. to see them once and that doubt and again so often let's have a president that would defy the clear how far do you think of her there with you that it's like a very determined to make sure that what they want is a team plan to sit down right now is the kind of process people have been protesting with the process and now the course of the recent second month and they are concerned that it was last known that her life would be lost if the u.s. military says an asteroid can somalia killed fifty to our job fight as our somali army base was attacked by gunmen around a vehicle packed with explosives into the base and jubilant six somali soldiers were killed in saturday's bomb attack in a gun battle which lasted seven hours about attacks are continuing despite losing

control of most cities and towns african union and somali troops drove the group linked to al qaida out of the capital mogadishu eight years ago. now the leader of venezuela's national assembly has led a rally against president nicolas maduro one greedo has refused to recognize the president since his new term began two weeks ago congress has declared not to row usurper meaning all of his actions will be considered null and void i mean we are united we are in the streets we have the international community the international community record only institution the national assembly take on the responsibilities at all times you can count on. dozens of people are still missing after an oil pipeline explosion in mexico which killed seventy three people crowds were gathering fuel from an illegal tap when the blast happened on friday in the state of dago that's north of mexico city

a six point seven magnitude earthquake has hit the coast of central chile it struck me a claim about four hundred fifty kilometers north of santiago a shallow quake rattled buildings in the capital money patio has retained his w b a welterweight title of to beating american adrian broner on points this was the filipinos first fight since turning forty despite being more than twenty years older than his opponent akio through twice as many punches he's won titles in eight weight divisions and this was the sixty first win of his career after the big trip back you know said he was keen for a rematch with floyd mayweather who beat him four years ago. let's have a quick check of the headlines here an al-jazeera the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential elections calling for nationwide protests after the constitutional court rejected allegations of vote rigging martin for you lose appealing to the international community not to recognize felix as president. the

better you. i consider myself the only legitimate president of the democratic republic of congo i call on the congolese people not to recognize someone who would take on that role illegitimately nor to obey the orders coming from him. the lebanese president is urging world leaders to make all efforts for syrian refugees to return home. michel aoun has been speaking at the arab economic summit in the lebanese capital beirut for some it's been overshadowed by a rift in the with the syria should be reinstated into the arab league and poor attendance so no one has more from beirut the low level of representation is being described as unprecedented in arab gatherings even though this is an economic summit that has a lower profile than the and while arab league summit previous economic summits at track the numerous heads of state and number of heads of state made last minute

cancellation saying that they will stay away from this meeting and it was interpreted here in lebanon as an arab diplomat. first remember explosion at an army checkpoint in syria's capital damascus the casualties in the car bomb blast the syrian army controls all areas around the capital which has been touched by the elsewhere protesters in the greek capital are rallying against the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia macedonia wants to change its name to the republic of massive north macedonia but many greeks object because it's the ancient name of one of the region's greek prime minister alexis tsipras survive to confidence motions in parliament over the contentious deal us president offered a concession to break the deadlock over the partial government shutdown donald trump's offering temper protection of some immigrants in return for money for his board but democrats rejected his offer

all right those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story stations often are. what now for peace in colombia its last remaining rebel group is blamed for the police academy bomb blast in bogota how does the attack threaten the fragile state beneath the following half a century of conflict this is inside story. hello

and welcome to the program i'm fully back to bowl it's the deadliest attack in colombia for fifteen years ten days car bomb blast in bogota kills twenty people and injured dozens in a police academy president even do case brain in colombia's last remaining rebel group the l.n. and his renewed arrest orders for commanders who have been in cuba for peace talks but start just in your is there. no more no more deaths no more kidnappings and the tax on the environment colombia says' global all those gentle squatting they see at the two hundred and forty seven kidnapped every year and about two people every three days ellen is and has been a criminal machine of kidnappings and attacks. but i'm sure colombia today's for all of colombia it is clear that the eleven has no genuine will for peace al-jazeera is. following events in bogota. president even addressed the

nation late on friday doing what everybody was expecting ending the possibility of a reactivation of peace negotiations with. the active rebel group in a call on the that that happened after the government and now that was behind the car bomb backpack that killed twenty young cadet on tears very. here in the capital. that no ideology no political fight can justify the horror that colombians had to endure he announced that he will reactivate the international arrest warrant of the leadership who is in cuba and they were expecting the restart of the peace negotiations for many here do have and 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. the largest rebel group in the country the fark had an agreement with the colombian government back in two thousand and sixteen more background on the national liberation army widely known as the e l n it's colombia's last remaining active group of iran two thousand rebels the left wing armed group was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty four by roman catholic priests and students inspired by the cuban revolution and marxist ideology their own struggle is for a popular democracy and equal distribution of land and wealth their activities include kidnappings cocaine trafficking blowing up oil pipelines and attacking multinational companies both the us and e.u. consider the l.n. a terrorist organization now n.

began formal talks with the colombian government in twenty sixteen after then president juan manuel santos signed a landmark these deal with the largest rebel group the far the temporary ceasefire was in october twenty seventeen after more than fifty years of conflicts the group resumed attacks a year ago when the one hundred one day ceasefire agreement expired and leaders demanded a new deal peace talks resumes last may first in ecuador then in cuba but were suspended into. september when the new president even dukie dissolved the government's negotiation team in havana and demanded that u.n. stop all criminal activities it would. let's bring in our panel now joining us from bogota is jorge wrists repl director of sirach a conflict analysis research center in boston luna spain we're joined on skype by christiane hairballs simer director of the international council an institute for

peace and also in bogota colombia arlene taken a professor of international relations at universidad deb rosario thank you all for joining us on inside story thank you so much for your time jorge wrists a pool in bogota if i can start with you does this attack indeed bear the hallmarks of and if it does what message are they sending the colombian government. well first yes it does bear the marks of a yell and that's the way they have all paraded in the past in their terrorist attacks the most recent one happened. and it was very similar despite some minor differences that usually proceeding that way attacking the type of targets but most important probably is the fact that there is sufficient evidence in my view brought forward by the colombian prosecutor's offices. provide credit as credibility to the

accusation that they did. against the leadership the other point in terms of the message it's basically a message that we do not know if it is of the entire group which is a federated quite known cohesive group in terms of decision taken ways dad is at least from one part of the group that they are withdrawing their support for the land to negotiate to the government an end to the. to the conflict that they have going on for the past fifty two years with the government of colombia interesting car hey the target at the general santander police academy supposed to be one of bogota most protected installation what does the fact that they were able to target this military academy say about their strength and also what does it say about the government the authorities level of preparedness.

well one has to say that it is very difficult to have complete protection against a terrorist attack i mean it's very difficult to. say so complete in vulnerability to these type of attacks second this was a center of studies it was actually not a military but a civilian place in the sense that the police is a civilian institution in colombia of course there were armed guards and there was protection but this is not a place where police operation that we're dealing carry out there is not a storage of goans or explosives it is not as well guarded us all there are police installations these off to roll is a university center where there are hundreds if not thousands of students preparing for their careers their careers in terms of police officers and that's why there

were by the way show many foreigners that were studying for because all to central america in these occurred in our lane in bogota even duquesne was elected colombia's president on a no and we form a no an order platform i should say but he somewhat moderated once he took office do you think this attack will change his course how do you see the government responding in the short and in the long term. i think the government returning to a hard handed strategy unfortunately this was ducasse promise as you mentioned and he had attempted to strike a more can fill or conciliatory tone and to take a middle road not rejecting completely the peace process but also not buying into them completely as a one man like those of previous president has been accused of doing so given the new military and police leadership the duca has appointed at the end of last year

and given this event and his announcement that he's going to end any possibility in the near future of talks through the election i think that what we can expect is a return to more violence and more militarized strategy and little help here with our own shutting the door entirely on negotiations in the not so he has offered to keep the door open if the l.n. establishes a certain condition such as bringing all kidnapping victims and seething their criminal activities related to terrorist attacks picking excedrin but these are conditions that he had laid out at the very beginning of his government and it's difficult to envision the l.n. actually complying all right let's bring in christiane into the conversation christian in boston. in the last two decades you were recently in colombia in the last two decades and has never been capable or shown much interest in carrying out high profile acts of violence what does this attack if they are indeed behind it

suggest about their capabilities and their intentions. well indeed this is surprising in terms of their impact their pack as head however i would echo the words of others that it will that. is not a cohesive group it's a federation with different commanders and i wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't something that had been agreed by the force structure but if it is confirmed that the un is behind it it's probably a faction of the un and i wouldn't be surprised if this end would trigger severe internal discussions because i'm pretty sure not everybody inside there are going to say sharon agrees with that if it's interesting that you say they're not a cohesive group it was expected that with that they would fill the vacuum left by the fock after the fox signed a peace agreement with the government in twenty sixteen but they haven't done that is that the case. oh yes they have indeed done it but what that the security

situation in colombia after the peace agreement with so far which was the main rebel group and was signed a couple of years ago is that you still have a left wing politically motivated army. and since quite a long time ago and colluding with your criminal activity so there is a struggle inside they're going to say should be between those who are still stick to the political line and the other ones who are creating you have an upper hand because they have more money and more power or more links to my way of living in the criminal activities here interesting are they in now but what i really want to know about the strength of the group today did they absorb the foxy legal economies and territorial control it was again as i say expected that they would fill that gap it would fail that vacuum but what happened in your view they didn't have the capacity to field a vacuum spaces that the far left in order to be able to capture the

reins from criminal activities that. were producing the illegal read the illegal funds. and he's currently in at least five areas in the country they did try to expand to several of those areas but one has to remember that in most areas of regions where the they are facing criminal organizations there are also disputing those illegal rents illegal funds with them then they have not been relatively successful and that is important because it explains two things one that the higher risk that there are no with this terrorist campaign and after the ending of the peace negotiations that was the create by. yesterday it is a higher risk but it is localized and second that.