funny cide these videos are consistent with the one country two systems deal agreed when britain handed over the phone to china in nineteen ninety seven the that dealing thirty five degree of autonomy and freedom of speech not enjoyed on the mind and critics say this bill undermines that in forcing china's north and attempt to silence those we support in the past. two years ago six lawmakers were disqualified accused of insulting the ifp when sworn in since then civil democracy advocates have been blocked from seeking office and pro independence parties have also been banned. or he's going to go to you to understand it doesn't go in tensions between hong kong and then you can correlate localism or whatever term you want but the tension is there the new anthem bill will become law the pro beijing parties had the majority in hong kong's parliament with the legislation expected to come into effect before july sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong the united states

senate will vote on thursday competing bills two in the month long partial government shutdown it's the longest in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of workers going without a paycheck mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the clerk will read a communication to the senate in this largely potus and battle the faint flicker of a compromise senate leaders agree to put two competing bills to the vote on thursday on saturday broken trop rolled out a bold comprehensive offer one drawn up by republicans mirrors the suggestion made by president trump this weekend the plan includes five point seven billion dollars providing funding for the beria along with temporary protection for those in the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. and a three year extension of temporary protected status a proposal at present trump that will consider here in the. is the only proposal the only one currently before us that can be signed by the president and

immediately reopen the government but the proposal has been rejected by the democratic party leadership the president and his team have tried to spin this proposal as a reasonable compromise with concessions to democrats that defies credulity the second bill is similar to those passed by the democrat controlled house. which provides short term funding for the departments now shut down but excludes any provision for the wall this would require the backing up at least thirteen republican senators to meet the sixty vote threshold ny the bill is likely to pass the senate despite another plea by the leader of the house open government open the government let's talk cannot have the president and the time he has. an objection to say i'll shut down the government until you come to my way of thinking and as the shutdown drags on a public plea by the f.b.i.

agents association the f.b.i. needs to be fully funded so that we can do our jobs. stop the terrorist attacks prevent criminal activity arrest bad guys that's what we do. we need to do that to keep this country safe we want a paycheck at the end of the week but yet again whole indications are that hold on eight hundred thousand government employees once again not receive them. al-jazeera washington.

welcome back its time sport that here's andy thank you so i will serino williams's bits equal a record of twenty four grand slam singles titles has come to the unlikeliest of ends at the australian open in the deciding set of a quarter final against carolina plus given the american lets a five one lead and fought match point slipped before crashing out of the talent pool race triples serena williams was looking formidable even in the pre-match pleasantries but this would prove one of the few times in her career when the air of invincibility left in spectacular fashion hints of it came as carly in the post cover won the first set and battle for control of the second but serina swiftly levelled the match at one set all i before taking what looked to be an

unassailable five one lead in the decider i q match point. q the turnaround. for much points in total would go begging and perhaps crucially a roll of the ankle as things swung back in place given his favor. incredibly from five one down the czech battled back to six five and her own much point. one which she wasn't allowing to get away from her. i am likely six four four six seven five victory for the number seven c i but i literally did everything i heard on those measurements not like. yeah i can't say that i choked on those match point she literally played her best tennis ever on those shots alina sweats alina wasn't given anything like the same chance against miami

osaka the woman serena had been hoping to meet in the semi's to avenge a us open final defeat i the japanese player won the first set and won five love up in the second one point being upset more by an insect than her ukrainian opponent. osaka creating a buzz at these finals a six four six one win putting her through to a semi against place i. call reese al-jazeera. or men's world number one of a joke which had an easy passage into the semifinals with the six time champion already a sets up his opponent khan isha currie was forced to retire i hope with an injury every time djokovic has reached the semi this events he has gone on to win the title. a joke which will be nice and fresh faced match with a point the frenchman reaching his first grand slam semifinal of the four sets win

here over canada's mayors ryan each we had lost in the first round at this event in the previous five years. now the premier league footballer who's missing after a plane crash sent automatic is to friends admitting he was getting scared shortly before the aircraft disappeared from radar a million isola was one of two people on board a small private plane that was travelling from france to the united kingdom on monday. for fans of his former club non-home been gathering to pay very specs on saturday the argentine striker had signed for cardiff city in a twenty million dollars deal is plane lost contact over the english channel and police say the chances of survival are slim if it landed in boards. twenty twentieth's a work of house cats are of sale the final spot in the asian cup quarter finals they did it with a one zero win over two thousand and seven champions iraq us tomorrow we sealed the win for the countries with the second half free kick their ass and i have the

chance to reach the semi's for the very first time not to take on south korea in the last states. well iraq will have to focus their efforts on trying to qualify for that twenty twenty two world cup that campaign begins lights are on this year the country however faces major obstacles a lack of funding and facilities makes it hard for iraq's young footballers to achieve their dreams rob matheson reports from baghdad joe project the family of eighteen year old mohammad ali sometimes have to turn on the television if they want to know what he's doing you. know to football fans as meal is already a star player with iraq's national team and. mamie's performance is outstanding so far he's the pride of the iraqi national football team iraqi football has constantly had brilliant stars in the past as well as in the present and it will in the future. this is the football school training camps like this are hoping to

produce that next generation of iraqi stars but many came here when he was only six years old he said to have been so good they didn't even bother giving him a trial. for some of these teenagers the goal is simply to be the next me. every one of us dreams about honoring iraq by playing football we think of mimi and the others as role models. years of fighting against the u.s. led invasion joining the regime of saddam hussein and the recent battles against eisold destroyed a lot of iraq's public spaces including sports grounds much of the government's money is geared towards large scale rebuilding projects football is low on the list of priorities training camps like don't have their own pitches teenagers have to travel around the city to wherever the school's been able to rent a space. we have a lot of problems we don't have enough places to train and we don't get funding or

support from the government the authorities should help us out because it's a matter of national pride. turned. towards me and the rest of the team take on. there's no question. the successes but some are also saying that iraq has to invest more in football to build on the achievements of players like we. are asking the government for more money into iraq it would boost our national pride even more and create more players like me iraqi football deserves more because it brings people together and unites. meanwhile iraq's next generation of football stars train where and when they can dreaming that one day excited fans could be watching them playing football on t.v. just like maybe rob matheson al-jazeera back to. well six time champion south korea

progressed at the tournament after a really close call against bahrain south korea doesn't want to start now since one thousand nine hundred sixty when he gave them the lead just before half time and late in the second half buying school the equaliser sent the game into extra time south korea did survive though came to see you getting the win at final score so you want. an eight summer olympics champion saying bolt has announced his retirement from what was a pretty short lived football career the jamaican went on trial with several clubs including russia dortmund boat turned down a contract with central coast mariners in the australian elite and with a letter in. ok that is a sports looking fan house thanks very much and the you've been watching the observer news on with me so rahman and the richardson there in jordan is up next with another full half hour but you'll join him until it ends your time and your company.

in september twenty seventh team the people of the kurdish region of northern iraq voted in favor of independence from baghdad. but joy was short lived as the iraqi government reacted forcefully against any idea of separation. al-jazeera world travels to the kurdish regional capital of overbuild to investigate independence and the iraqi kurds on al-jazeera one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story a feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's

very challenging liberally but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what is this gross is that a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to because the world smaller and smaller we don't want to base that realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist was just getting to the truth as i would guess that's what this job.

sudan's president is in qatar for meetings with the mayor as protests continue in his country. along down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after several postponements thailand announces it will hold its first election since the twenty fourteen coup. despite condemnation from human rights groups india's government continues to deport rangar muslims plus. comes and goes and sometimes when i used to be in school and i come here to get water for my family instead of concentrating on my school a water shortage in yemen so severe children at the drop out of school to provide for their families.

sudan's president omar al bashir has held a meeting with the main been hammered out fanny in doha his visit to the gulf state comes during the longest anti-government protests of his time in office he's facing nearly daily demonstrations calling for an end to his thirty year rule. of a minister says the government's working to start a dialogue with the demonstrators who my friends and we are required to exert more if it's in the coming days and this should include a teams to find common ground with the youths protesting it is now and they took to the streets as a spontaneous response to the government's failure as they have no clear cut political affiliations it is the four add g.t. as a state authority to find channels of communication with them to find common solutions . has more from the office of here in doha. this is the first foreign

trip to be made by president obama bashir since those protests that have erupted in his country escalated over the past few weeks the fact that he chose to visit qatar is telling and heart to him have a strong history between them. sponsored and host of the darfur peace talks for example is invested or made billions of dollars worth of investments over the years and often there has been an alignment between qataris vision for the region when it comes to significant issues like for example palestine and that of sudan as well speaking to our jazeera the sudanese foreign minister said that this was or he described the meeting between president bashir and sure i mean from a as a brotherly meeting he said that they would discuss regional issues and that the protests in sudan were too small of a topic to be the focus of these bilateral discussions having said that however they are significance protests they are the longest protests sort of taken place

since she came to power roughly thirty years ago we are talking about more than forty people killed widespread condemnation from around the world as to how the security services and the sudanese governments have treated those protesters but information as far as a mother but she was concerned he wants to show that he is still very much a statesman still very much in control he has no issue leaving the country to visit other world leaders assured he believes to come back with still in power so a significant trip in the sense that there is a lot to discuss between these two governments but i clipped both sides have been with regards to revealing as to what's they've agreed on if there's been any deals and how to move forward people hogan has more now from the capital khartoum. people incident have been demonstrating for five weeks now and they say they want the president to step down and hand over parts an interim independent council now it all started with the economy but people are saying now that the reason why they

call them is in a downward spiral is because of president bashir and his thirty year rule they say that the government has ruled with widespread corruption and that there was no improvement during his time in office and that the only thing that could improve the situation now despite his promises to try to introduce economic reforms and raise salaries for civil workers is not the incentives that he's offering or the promises that he's making but to rather see him step down now people are saying that his promises are something they've heard over and over again and they don't believe that he can really produce concrete change and let's remember he doesn't have the same economic incentives or the economic power that he had back in two thousand and eleven when.