and to go into that region the president took a phone call and said i want the troops come home and now the knows that there's a big difference between the president and his national security team he only wants to talk to the president and that's why we have this call now and the only thing that makes sense the united states the only alternative is to make a deal with the syrian regime and the russians to move in behind the americans fill the void that's what the kurds want if america is not going to be there in order to make sure that turkey doesn't move down and so america doesn't want either of those scenarios they don't want turkey in bait and they don't want the syrian regime and russia to fill the vacuum so america's going to be stuck there for ever and that's the dilemma and the president says the hell with this let russia and syria and iran deal with isis it finish isis off and they want to do it let them pay for it. so money is government says it's planning a major offensive against young group al shabaab in the coming days the

announcement comes just a day after the u.s. military said it carried out an airstrike killing fifty two fights and it was launched hours after the group attacked a somali army base still controls large parts of rural southern and central somalia and continues to carry out attacks in the capital mogadishu and in neighboring kenya since two thousand and seventeen the u.s. military has stepped up air raids against the young group in somalia carry out forty seven strikes last year bob is fighting to overthrow the internationally backed government mounted out has this report and a warning you may find some of the images disturbing. the destruction caused by u.s. warplanes targeting al shabaab fighters near the port city of kiss my you in southern somalia bodies and beyond all shells of vehicles lies through not a moment remind us of the intensity of their strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes as fifty two militants the somali army's sais that total

is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five ship bad militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about that victory today the airstrikes came hours after al shabaab fighters stormed a somali i mean base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu somalia commanders say six soldiers were killed in the town and two others died when a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army bottled for hours to pick up to the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon's increase the rate of strikes in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number of u.s. forces in somalia asked to delete increased in the past two years us about fighters who are linked to al qaida retain a strong presence in parts of south and central somalia they also regularly attack

targets in neighboring kenya after it's and troops to somalia as part of an african union peacekeeping force al-shabaab says it was behind tuesday's hotel attack in nairobi where four gunmen on a suicide bomber killed twenty one people five suspects appeared in court on friday in connection with the tuc police say all but one of the five gunmen who carried out the hard cock and something that is raising calls on about the threat of homegrown terrorism mohammad on the wall does it or nairobi. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including the runner up and democrats a republican congress presidential election calls a nationwide protest against results. struggling to get quality health care despite a scheme meant to help them by some of india's poor feel shortchanged. and the chance is out we'll tell you what about one of the biggest upsets is training.

so police say nothin's have used tear gas to prevent angry protesters from entering greece's parliament building tens of thousands of people rallied against a proposed name change deal with neighboring macedonia john's reports as this report. it took only an hour of peaceful protest before a small group of demonstrators clashed with police decimating fireworks over the heads police responded with volleys of tear gas clearing crowds off the square in front of parliament but most of the thousands of demonstrators here would peaceful including families with young children many had traveled overnight from far flung corners of greece to oppose the government but last week survived a vote of confidence with a razor thin majority one hundred fifty one m.p.'s in the three hundred seat legislature that's majority is likely to pass the message only

a name change deal by the end of the week and i'm asking after your kid years. to write out one hundred fifty times there is only ball macedonia and it's his greek and my kid and i'm after all my grandfather force in macedonia we cannot allow it to be sold out we are losing our values some people of the shoeing a new order they want to access the sea through the port of cecille any truckie will be the next to go then will lose a chunk of greece to albania. greece is original position was that it would. allow a neighboring state to use the name of its northern region of macedonia a decade ago it agreed to allow use of that name along with an adjective and last year recognized north macedonia but that country has now ratified the deal and it is now greece's. but the agreement has angered many here because it allows the people of north macedonia to call themselves macedonians rather the north macedonians and recognizes their language as macedonian with the preface agreement

to have. it where the north macedonia. and at the same time we give the rights to the citizens of these states. is that what macedonia for the citizen he nationality if you give the language this is called identity. and we demoed wong's walford to one of the states of the area that i am one of the macedonian and in. the agreement is a bitter pill so most greeks some have decided to swallow it but many have not these demonstrations have reverted to the original hard line position and they want prime minister alexis tsipras to declare a referendum is unlikely to take that route he knows the deal is unpopular but vows to push it through parliament with his one vote majority by the end of the jumps are open less al-jazeera athens. the right place since you don't have fired tear

gas to try and break up the latest protest against the president security forces were deployed to a student demonstration in the capital khartoum rallies calling for the end of it were al bashir has thirty year rule were also held in the city of them on rights groups say at least fifty people have been killed since protests began a month ago over the rising cost of bread president bashir is blaming his opponents for inciting protesters get over learning our freedom some young men wanted to express themselves in protest. following but there were some infiltrators and separate service who took the opportunity to put their way they are the ones who are burning and destroying public property they are the ones who infiltrated these protests to kill demonstrators. well has more now from culture. more protests broke out today in khartoum and also in the city of man protesters have been planning to converge on the parliament and once again demand the government to

step down and the president omar al bashir but soon they were dispersed by security personnel using heavy tear gas or other passive in demand in the forty third street where i was there have you to a gas house has been used and a cameraman working for has been as a freelancer has been apprehended and that's a part of a systematic kaka down on journalists particularly if they used t.v. cameras and t.v. cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today or so president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protester he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a party says and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are pretended there is something he said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do

this type of things and to put blame on the government of david shane is a former deputy chief of mission at the u.s. embassy in sudan and he says it's unlikely these protests will lead to president bush's resignation. i was in khartoum in one thousand nine hundred five on the numeri government was overthrown by very similar protests in the street but they lasted for a shorter period of time they also were pretty much confined to khartoum and eighty five whereas these protests are taking place in various cities around sudan so it's a different situation there are other differences too however that perhaps favor president bashir but it is a very dangerous situation now so long as he has the support of the security apparatus both intelligence and military in the country i'm very dubious that he would step aside i could perhaps see the possibility of his announcing that when

elections come up in two thousand and twenty which they are scheduled for that year that he would not run again hoping that might remove sort of the impetus for these current protests i doubt that would satisfy the protesters however and discourse not even certain he would make such a move but that would be one possibility short of that i'm not sure i see him standing down unless the security services start to develop schisms some of which are opposing him fight is there a link to al qaeda say they carried out some attack on u.n. peacekeepers in mali the group says it was a response in response to a visit by the israeli prime minister at least ten peacekeepers from chad were killed and twenty five injured on sunday the u.n. secretary general has called for. a stray shell fire in libya has killed a news cameraman who would for al-jazeera and other media organizations thirty five year old mohammed been heavy for died on saturday while on assignment with

a libyan militia fights between rival militias in libya has killed and injured hundreds. zimbabwe's president. will skip the world economic forum and return home as the number of demonstrators killed by security forces continues to rise activists say at least a dozen people have been killed during demonstrations against the doubling of fuel prices police arrested more than six hundred people and the government doubled the fuel prices just over a week ago to fix a currency crisis that caused nationwide fuel shortages. who is senior consultant for southern africa at the international crisis group he's concerned after president magog was postmen warn that the crackdown is a taste of things to come it is a disturbing statement and it comes on top of a range of other statements that we've seen in the last couple of weeks look last couple of days especially from zanu p.f. yesterday accused the m.d.c.

civil society groups and business of pursuing a terrorist agenda in zimbabwe so the situation is not looking good at all on that front there is a number of of new stories circulating at the moment talking about splits within the party between the military and the party and so forth and there is a lot of confusion as to actually where the center is in terms of power the extent to which the new p.f. is marching in step and the government is marching in step of course is a good question some people say there are these huge splits the say a good cop bad cop approach is being pursued but that certainly is one of the big burning questions at the moment that many of us are trying to look into. the african union says it's postponed a high level visit to the democratic republic of congo this comes as the opposition leader martin for you know challenges a final ruling from the top court declaring his rival feelings to be the winner of the presidential election major miller has more now from can show us. the highest

court in the democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix. the. constitutional court judges dismissed an appeal by his rival martin for you who alleged widespread vote rigging on polling day last month. for you accused me of making a power sharing deal with the outgoing president joseph kabila both deny that by you lose refusing to accept the court's ruling and is urging everyone to reject. 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 a by orders coming from him. well for you know call for peaceful protests the streets of the capital kinshasa appeared as they would on any other sunday calm and quiet. unlike the celebrate two scenes by security supporters that greeted the

final ruling by the constitutional court. some of service say despite the allegations of vote rigging the promise of a new face of the presidency may be enough to allow for a smooth handover of power and that it's both a victory and a loss for congo's opposition should in this day are concerns joseph kabila will wield power when he leaves office he is behind the scenes is behind the decision but it depends the way just a kidney we rule during a disturbed if you can't cut its relationship with god you know all knots but the system. is not yet finished he's still there despite the allegations and denials of murky deals to get elected to security is due to be sworn in on tuesday there's been a mixed reaction from the international community the southern african development

community has welcomed the results appealing for everyone to accept the court's ruling while the european and african union say that serious concerns about the final result what they have to say may be of little importance for many congolese who want to separating change from their new leader from either mellow al-jazeera kinshasa still ahead here on al-jazeera. over the government shutdown of the united states goes viral on social media. that's why colombians of flooding the streets after a car bomb attack last week. goes porton twenty minutes or so the comes top run side iran advance to the quarter finals of the tournament. from flowing in winds to an enchanting desert breeze.

howlers bit more winter rain to come in here of china you think it's come from this stretch of cloud here and you'd be largely right because left behind a bit of a pole so the rain is back in you nine high a graphical says it's not snow it's cool down a bit in hong kong and ninety degrees is the forecast max for monday shanghai bit that and come tuesday also the rains disappeared not not much else has changed but more sunshine temperatures and all the same lines this draw or slightly colder as helping to in hans the rain this recent the wrapped around the tropical depression into the central philippines there it is in the class so it's got walls coming in from the water around it took a bit of code tends to exaggerate the effect so it's already started raining and i think bendy will be a particularly wet one through most of the philippine oncet to clean the middle then is a bit of a gaffe a lot of clouds mostly but the next darker green is this is just trying to catch singapore might miss it and the answer is something borneo towards western side of

java i think much of sumatra is at risk from showers as well as the general picture than for tuesday philippines violets are a little bit dry but the secular nation still hinted at again in the middle so that could be worth forty eight hours two days worth of heavy rain for you. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. in search of a safer neighborhood it was a huge will we make a mouse into being a man who can put my family in a home that they deserve that's a problem for me struggling to secure a home through really quite about what the end of all is all we don't we could potentially lose our house and living paycheck to paycheck there's nobody to blame and live with the consequences every day of the choices that have made hard. on al-jazeera. we know how we know the problem that affects this part of the world well that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of well

we have gone to places and we point on a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations before it really anti-riot. you are challenging the forces were challenging companies are going to places where nobody else is going. to zero a reminder all top stories this the israeli military says it's carrying out a strikes on iranian forces in syria syrian state news is reporting that hostile targets have been shot down on sunday israel says it didn't set to the rocket in the golan heights. took his president talk about it one says he's ready to take

over control of man vinci spoke on the phone to president trump about the u.s. withdrawal from northern syria they agreed on the need for a negotiated settlement and joint steps against eisel. somalians government says it's plenty of major offensive against. in the coming days and nights when it comes just a day off for the u.s. military said it carried out in a strike killing fifty two fights. the un special rapporteur on human rights and men mom has arrived in the coach's bazaar in bangladesh to assess the plight of range of refugees well the nine hundred thousand range you have settled to many of them escaped the military crackdown in myanmar in two thousand and seventeen it's actually going to name is the. the u.n. special reporter 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 world hinder refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh team 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 plane 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 cycling's 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 living . prison so the un special rapporteur is hoping to go to beslan chart no word yet on whether or not she'll be allowed access. a senior u.s. republican senator says he'll urge president trying to meet the leaders of pakistan

and afghanistan so they can come up with a plan to end afghanistan's war lindsey graham made the comments in islam about his more. the rejected by the u.s. senator lindsey graham comes at a time when the special representative for peace and reconciliation and i would run a stand. has just left islamabad he words hoping to meet the afghan taliban head and up against any captured however the afghan taliban walking out of the orthodox saying that peace and reconciliation would only. if the americans were willing to give a timeline for withdrawal it must be undistorted that the senate. was the president's all for us forces to continue and of iran and stand as relevant in syria he has already met the pakistani prime minister. said he agreed with the prime minister kron that their relationship would bugger stanford we're strategic one and not our

transactional one here and also praised the progress danny efforts to fence the border raid on one it's done something that the governments are not happy about but he said that he will be recommending to the u.s. president that he should in white or hold the dogs were up against any prime minister and dr archer of ronnie as soon as possible however the often taliban are continuing their demand for the red drawl of ford for safety and there are problems ahead we broke through the u.s. senate about the fact that the engagement has continued for all more steward decades and yet there was no end in sight to dad bloody conflict senator it's been eighteen years since the u.s. launched the attack on one is done in reprising. and it's cost a trillion dollars and there is no end in sight aided to period that the taliban are much stronger than they were when you first came in so how long did the united

states committed to stay in a one historian and they did willing to spend all their money to continue this campaign against the of one taliban thank you that's a really good question as usual i get that question asked all the time when did it cost us since nine eleven. a lot more than a trillion dollars pay now or pay later the good news we're at a point where our military presence is literally ten percent of what it was ten years ago that most of the fighting is being conducted by the afghan military support from us that we now have a new partner in pakistan that the pakistan military has done things unless the eighteen months we've been hoping for for eighteen years as to time the old saying is you have the watches we have the time to the taliban in case you're listening time is not on your side. the partial government shutdown in the united states

isn't it is that shift a president trump a time democrats for rejecting his proposal to end the shutdown and provide funding for his border will the democrats say his plan was not offered in good faith political hay in his lexus from washington. a sign of the times a food bank sets up on the streets of the nation's capital aimed at feeding federal workers that are not getting paid many live paycheck to paycheck so for some this is the only way to feed their families. they aren't getting paid because u.s. president donald trump says that democrats want to put them back to work he needs money for his often promised border wall democrats have said no they'll debate border security but only after the government is reopened i can't see us keeping federal employees if hundred thousand people of work while we go back and forth on the gauche ations these negotiations could take three of four weeks also appearing

on the president's favorite conservative network fox the vice president seemed to admit the federal workers are leveraged and i mean you don't really think you just want to live rich and want and that you figure if you don't keep the government closed that then they're going to go nowhere well again i i go i was there i was sitting right next to the president when speaker pelosi said. if she if we reopen the government and took thirty days to negotiate but that she would not give the president and i want to i want to ask you what your security or wall house speaker nancy pelosi actually said no to a wall democrats say they will fund border security the president walked out of that meeting but as the polls turn against him and his wall he's making democrats an offer he will reinstall the protections that he took away from around a million migrants in exchange for his wall so far democrats say no it is the impacts of the shutdown continue to spread across the country from long security

lines at airports to federal loans not being given americans are wondering how this ends with no answer in sight pedicle al-jazeera washington jeff hauser's executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic kampala see research he says the shutdown will make people reconsider working for the government. well it should never been allowed to occur in the first place it's a catastrophe for the workers it's particularly a catastrophe for workers for contractors who don't work directly work for the federal government but work on federal programs because those people are not even going to be guaranteed back pay at any point in time these are just lost hours it's going to undermine the morale of the federal workplace it's going to make people reconsider whether or not they want to work for government because often they're taking lower pay to work in the public interest in the federal government but in return they're supposed to receive a certain consistency of employment which obviously has been blown up in their face

and i think that problems are only going to get worse because i don't even know after this shutdown ends what we're going to see in the fall of this year when the next budget is going to be due i think that as of now the polling shows that people why we believe that trump is more responsible nearly by a two to one ratio i think this is seen by the fact that the senate unanimously passed something that was also voted on by the house which is to just move forward with the previous levels of funding and avoid a shutdown republicans are trying to move away from that position that they had taken in the senate once donald trump changed his mind on it but i think the democratic position is probably stronger politically but obviously this is going to exacerbate americans concerns with their federal government as a whole and their sense that washington and american politics is completely broken right now which i think is a correct takeaway and i think it's one that's growing even more cemented. in colombia president even has joined demonstrators to condemn

a car bomb that killed twenty one people government leaders blame colombia's last remaining rebel group the. lessons are m.p.'s he sent us this update from. thousands of people both here in the capital and in cities across colombia march demanding an end to the violence after a car bomb attack on tears they killed twenty young cadets the government believes that they yellin the last standing rebel group in the country is responsible so people came out dressed in white are holding the white flags saying that life is sacred and that they are tired of what they describe this terror attacks in their country while people are united here in this message against violence there were some tensions along the route as colombians remain at the same time deeply polarized on how to move forward especially on how to achieve complete peace

in the country the president even duke it decided to shut the door to any possibility of continuing peace negotiations with to land and now that allegedly they were behind this attack by some people here are saying that that's the wrong decision that going back to a state of war will bring more death and more attacks there's no doubt that thursday's car bomb attack has jolted many nerves here in the country colombians were just starting to bring down their guards when it came to violence after decades of internal conflict but at least for today they came out and said that all together they want an end to the violence so it goes constitutional court has released a list of for. kind of it's allowed to run in next month's presidential election.

is running for a second term but the main opposition leaders from taking part in the capital talk . the decisions taken by the constitutional court behind me are usually a formality and go unnoticed but this year missing on her list of candidates for this upcoming presidential elections are two heavyweights the opposition the son of the former president of senegal karim wadded and the popular mayor of the car khalifa sol now they've both been sentenced to prison time for corruption charges one was freed and amnesty the other is still in prison but both were hoping to run in this election and this has paved the way for outsiders to take the limelight notably this one song who was very popular on social media and among young people he's taken to the stage criticizing michael saying that he's using the courts to clamp down on the opposition there's been a chorus of condemnation and reaction from not just politicians but also remembers

of civil society questioning whether this can be a real free and fair election when two of the main opposition figures are not taking part in the race there is a lack of trust of opposition and even. majority of citizens towards was elected in management but are sort of security forces as a bee. in general in shutting peace and security is one of the most stable democracies on the continent organizing free and fair elections for the last fifty nine years president says that this one will be no exception but with this decision from the constitutional court and certainly sets the tone for this election that will take place in just a month's time. a new government health care plan in india is being criticized for failing the people it's designed to help. as many poor indians are still not able to access to free health care they were promised he tore

a game as us. this is what passes for a waiting room at one of the biggest teaching hospitals in new delhi when he has been sleeping here for six weeks while she waits for treatment for a heart condition labor a husband sends money to cover her costs. that there's something wrong with the valve and my heart i get palpitations is worse since i've been here now i have trouble walking a few weaker because i don't have proper food here my chest hurts and so does my back. a government funded health care scheme launched last september was meant to improve things for half a billion indians like money it offers free health insurance to the country's poorest citizens but for months on many still don't have it critics say the scheme was rushed out for political gain and the money isn't there to support it india spends just one percent of its g.d.p. on health care compared to

a global average of six percent the solidities and staffing levels in the health sector are poor oxfam says every year sixty three million indians are pushed into poverty forced to pay for even the most basic care this is a very serious problem in india and this is something we have been raising for the past decade or so it pleased that india's public spending is very low or where it is even sub-saharan african countries and. levels of government spending on health that much kyra. the indian government admits there is much more to date there are obvious gaps ok and i have a book that's going to ring on it if that's what. people have been going on and get in the pockets and if you're going to have a stroke that kind of gets me. there now a hundred ninety.