bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hocket in washington county what more can you tell us about this. well there's very little information about this what we do know is that he has been charged rested we understand in fort lauderdale charged with seven counts including obstruction of justice and women witness tampering and of course this is a person who has long been the focus of media speculation and attention that he could face indictment by the special prosecutor robert muller he even it knowledge that he feels he's been under surveillance since twenty sixteen and was expecting to be indicted now it appears that he has been charged where this heads so far it has not been clear we have not seen any statement from the f.b.i. but certainly we do know that he has been the focus of attention dating back to two thousand and sixteen with the presidential campaign in the united states that he is accused of collaborating with wiki leaks to release and shine

a light on those hacked e-mails belonging to hillary clinton the democratic presidential nominee her campaign's e-mails and this is certainly something that harmed hillary clinton in the presidential election campaign certainly this was an effort to discredit her campaign that's why he has been the focus of so much speculation and now we have this understanding that he's been arrested it can be just tell us a bit more for those of us who are not familiar with ron just on who he is and how close easy to the u.s. president. well you know we know that he was a longtime political operative a conservative member of the campaign that worked very closely not only with the campaign but also the campaign chair paul man of fort ok keep it in washington d.c. thank you very much for bringing us that breaking news story out of the united states where again president trump's campaign associate roger soane has been

arrested or bring you more on this as in when we have more information now the afghan taliban has named one of its co-founders to lead its political office in qatar. is expected to join negotiations with the u.s. which looked to be gaining momentum victoria gate and the reports. abdul ghani baradar was the former right hand man of taliban founder. he spent eight years in a pakistani prison before he was released last october analysts say his appointment as political leader of the taliban's of his thing cattle shows the armed groups commitment to the afghan peace process he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore the pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this anti pakistan narrative and at the

same time favoring preez and a strong supporter of the peace process the taliban was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one discussions between taliban leaders and u.s. diplomats started last summer in an effort to end the seventeen year long war and establish a unity government the u.s. envoy recently toured the region seeking help from allies including pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven to the taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government so this is a major major change for the power back on and one of that bodes very well for peace or has been on the side of peace for over a decade and this is a sign that there is great hope many things could go wrong but there has been no such hope for peace in afghanistan for the last twenty years almost that peace

won't be easy the taliban doesn't recognize the government in kabul and is demanding foreign troops leave afghanistan it's unclear if the parties are willing to make any concessions and agree on a unity government victoria gayton be algis they are all returning now to bangladesh capital dhaka where the un special rapporteur on myanmar has been giving a news conference after visiting an island off bangladesh. on thursday where the bangladeshi government plans to resettle refugees from myanmar some seven hundred fifty thousand ruhi get fled to bangladesh in twenty seventeen a military crackdown in myanmar's rakhine state let's bring in a name who is in dhaka for is a time to talk us through what we heard from the un special rapporteur on myanmar. holy the headline is really this she's saying that this is a regional problem that is fast becoming one with global implications she cited the

deportations by saudi arabia and india of rohingya refugee she said she was dismayed and of course has mentioned this is a violation of international law and she said that because me and maher is has not made the democratic reforms as stated that violence continues in the country people continue to be intimidated and sort of coaxed into fleeing over the border into bangladesh people's homes continue to be burned and more than one hundred sixty two thousand people are internally displaced in myanmar she said something that probably is not what they would have wanted to hear that the idea of these people being allowed to go back to me and mar under these conditions is simply unrealistic right now bangladesh is hosting almost a million rohingya refugees the un special rapporteur or acknowledge that there is a burden on the country but she asked the government to proceed with patience and caution then she started talking about the island of basilan shar it had been

trotted in secrecy up until fairly recently no one allowed to visit since the rohingya crisis had begun the un special rapporteur had been pushing the bangladeshi government to allow our access to this island and it's controversial yesterday she thursday she was allowed to take her very first tour and these were her conclusions she feels that she needs assurances still from the bangladeshi government that this will be a safe place for raising or refugees an estimated one hundred thousand people it's hoped by the bangladeshi government would be transferred to this island depending on what kind of boat it's about forty six hours from the mainland it's uninhabited but the vegan actually government has been building. after row of barracks and says that people there would be allowed access to primary school education health care

right ability to travel freedom of movement and the ability to travel to cox's bazar see their loved ones and of course have the ability to farm and fish but natasha the rohingya refugees really need to be relocated to this island because of course i mean when there was the deal between bangladesh and myanmar's government to resettle them to send them back to myanmar a lot of been refused they more willing now to go to this island to be resettled. they having also bouts about this. based on the people that we spoke to in the camps fully no one is excited about going to this uninhabited island it's prone to flooding it's often in the past of psychos and typhoons but again the un special rapporteur is saying we need more information from the bangladeshi government if the security of these people can be guaranteed and more importantly if these rohingya refugees volunteer to go to the island then and only

then will that be a viable option for the remainder refugees here in bangladesh ok thank you for that natasha good name live for us in bangladesh capital dhaka. in other world news greece's parliament is due to vote on a landmark agreement with neighboring macedonia as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters some chanted traitors on thursday as politicians inside the building debated the contentious issue for a fourth day there arguing whether to ratify the un brokered agreement under which macedonia will change its name to north macedonia. this must in thirty years if you talk racine this loose and must be tied up the reserves of hatred and division that were sown by nationalism on both sides must expire colleagues i believe that with this agreement greece gains back the most important thing what belongs to it its history its symbols its traditions the heritage of ancient greek macedonia further our neighbors north must donia

a country that we have turned our backs on and have kept pushing away to seek out others becomes a country that is a friend and ally a supporter of greece for cooperation peace and security in the region. the u.s. senate has again failed to end of a partial government shutdown the republican and democratic parties tried to pass competing bills but neither had enough votes present donald trump is refusing to fund the government departments until he gets billions of dollars for a wall along the mexican border mike hanna has more from washington. well as expected neither bill in the senate to receive the necessary sixty votes however it was significant that the bull drawn up by the democratic party was supported by six republican senators who crossed the floor there's a sign perhaps of a splintering within the republican party however there is discussion continuing the senate leaders meeting for

a number of hours to try and find some form of compromise however president trump remains adamant that he will not accept any funding legislation that does not include money for his wall and said he would be extremely unhappy if government reopened without such funds being provided well in reality were that i would really happy but we have a lot of alternatives artist that we have everybody look for the most part people agree with i say everybody i would say almost everybody we have to have border security we have to have a wall of border there border security you cannot have border security with all and we can play games and we can talk about technology we can talk about drones flying are very difficult to see what happens next the senate leader mitch mcconnell says discussions are ongoing there is as well increasing speculation again about the possibility of president trump declaring a national state of emergency however the senate has finished proceedings it will

reconvene again friday but no end in sight to this ongoing partial shutdown while about eight hundred thousand government workers are about to mr second monthly paycheck because of the shutdown and many say they're drowning in barrels gave rarely found and spoke to one such woman in kansas city. for defeat or hanson the bills just keep piling up that's because she was sent home without pay a month ago for her customer service job at the u.s. tax agency field office in kansas city the longer the shutdown lasts the more pressure she feels like b.-o. is. two hundred thousand dollars a month. so with to pay half the light b.-o. and half my heating bill because it's cold. medicine chiquita goldsby has worked for the taxi for twenty five years and without

pay since december even before the shutdown bunny was tight now even paying for the basics is a challenge is hard. it is i'm just like everybody else you know paycheck to paycheck and i have to figure out where my gas water's going to come from. where my next meal's and rent rates do every month but it's worse chiquita has severe asthma and can't afford the sixty dollars for her prescription it says at forty six. and. that will only last till the end of the month i ask her what will happen when it's gone then i'm out. i'm out. just here in kansas city there are seven different federal government agencies that have offices here including the department of commerce the internal revenue service and

the environmental protection agency just to name a few and just here in this city there are nine thousand federal government employees that are currently not receiving a paycheck for what you say about the parlow employees as the two women try to map out a strategy to financially survive the shutdown the challenges mount as defeated thinks about the deadlock over the funding for donald trump's border wall she's increasingly fed up they're supposed to hear our voices into things like nobody's listening so my message to washington is and i've said this before we are not we should not be used as your collateral damage in a political game in washington with workers in america losing out gabriels on to al-jazeera kansas city a prominent gay congressman in brazil has stepped down and fled the country saying he is too many he's getting too many death threats jane willis has been an

outspoken critic of president cheney is also narrow who has a history of making homophobic comments one another time but told the media he has no plans to return to brazil is said to be replaced by another openly gay politician who's currently serving on rio de janeiro's city council. israel says it summoned islands ambassador and plans to reprimand her it's in response to the irish parliament advancing legislation which if approved aims to criminalize any business that deals with israeli settlements in the occupied west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called the plan law a disgrace. more than one hundred people were detained in egypt last year for criticizing the government that's according to a report by amnesty international which says at least one hundred thirteen people were jailed for peacefully expressing their views that critics are often sent to solitary confinement all face forces appearances as he warns is not the most

dangerous time in egypt's recent history to speak out against the government has been no immediate response from the egyptian government. now saying about me is amnesty international's egypt researcher he says a huge variety of people have been targeted by the egyptian authorities suse's comes from people who support or is it for supporting football teams people are arrested for coming out against sexual harassment people who are arrested for doing so journalistic or so people who. whose voice an opinion on the elections last year people who were arrested for simply for posting sarcastic tweets or for posting memes on social media and in people who were not who were arrested simply for being in the wrong place at certain times so they sort of surface don't usually respond to criticism from human rights organizations and when z. to z. mostly do not deny all the occasions instead of actually engaging with human rights

organizations i don't think that at this level i don't think that sort of his denial does carry a lot of weight simply because the reality of situation i'm in now for the first time since eight years as there aren't even calls on social media for going out to the streets simply because there is no space for protesting now at all. children in zimbabwe have described to al jazeera how they were beaten after being arrested during protests the army denies abusing detainees and says anyone guilty of such behavior isn't a real soldier reports from harare. these children say they spent two nights in a police cell they are out on bail and have been charged with public violence for participating in last week's protests they are all and eighteen police also accused of looting. this sixteen year old says he told the men who came to his house he's innocent but they beat him anyway. it was sore when they beat me. in

pain and all find it hard to create one and sometimes it's. their lawyer says exists a force should not be used on minus we don't really know whether they really are all soldiers or police officers but the children were assaulted for using buttons digs using chains and i think you saw that one of them is a go she was alleging that one of the male soldiers actually had to assault here by talks and to actually think that was improper conduct on the child when the price of fuel more than doubled overnight in zimbabwe last week people demonstrated activists say a dozen died and scores were injured more than a thousand people have been arrested lawyers say some of those detained with children. if then detained these children should be separated from adults so that at least those we are children but this is really as our lawyers with. into the blue cells the children together with it is its own.

implications and maybe in that so some children will be mixed with head core criminals zimbabwe's army says soldiers accused of beating people are imposters who are time missing the military's image the government says it will investigate cases of child abuse. there were some kids were being used as human shields by the people that we're attacking the police station there were ten kids in front and they suspicion that they had been given kind of biscuits some of them because the us appeared to be high on something that regardless the law in zimbabwe is such that when they go and i was arrested they are released into the custody of their parents. these three insist they had nothing to do with last week's protests it's now up to a court to decide how to al-jazeera. the iraqi city of basra has faced months

of protests against corruption and poor services demonstrators now say they want to get more organized and unite with other groups and embracing a movement that began in france rob matheson has a story. yellow is no the color of protest in the southern iraqi city of basra angry crowds mainly of young people have adopted the brightly colored vests first seen in demonstrations on the streets of paris a few months ago for her if the ally our universe movement symbolizes the rise against corruption by the people of basra and iraq we're wearing these yellow vests to deliver a message to politicians that even simple oppressed protesters can make a change about seventy percent of iraq's oil sits beneath the land around basra. yet people who live here say little of the money comes to them. the city's electricity supply barely works the tap water is on drink up all because it's full

of salt. and there's high unemployment care. i said i tell if you know enough is enough the iraqi people have been suffering we need to wake up these politicians are making a joke out of us they can't even resolve their differences in parliament and how can they manage a country street protests began in the summer of twenty eight when barely functioning air conditioners couldn't stave off the burning heat the protesters in basra blamed the problems in their city mainly on corruption in corporations but also in parts of the government which is based here in baghdad iraqi prime minister the marquis went to visit just recently to see the problems for themselves in october his predecessor. did the same thing but despite these high profile visits the people of basra say nothing has changed these latest protests a different this time they're organized by his rosy yellow vest say they want to join forces with other protest groups and put even more pressure on the government

and to add the. they must rise always going to be a bowling pot and the situation will go out of control of things aren't solved. the color of protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. in indonesia the number of people killed by floods and landslides has risen to fifty nine many villages living near an overflowing dam in the south sulawesi province had to be evacuated thousands more were forced to leave their homes since tuesday after tarantula rain triggered severe flooding across the region earlier this month another landslide in java kent thirty two people. meanwhile soaring temperatures in australia have spock's more than fifty bushfires across the southern island state of tasmania hundreds of firefighters have been brought in from other parts of the country to help contain them he ways from today emergency warnings in other cities separate as

a forecast to reach forty four degrees celsius in melbourne the hottest in a decade and it's a very different story on the other side of the world where parts of niagara falls have froze them in basically cold winter conditions visitors have been coming from iran the world to get a look along the border between canada and the united states a particularly cold weather is expected to last for at least another two weeks. while the u.n. secretary general antonio terris has warned the world is running out of time to contain climate change and says more political will is desperately needed his spoken of the world economic forum in davos switzerland john hall reports. on the world economic forum agenda this year is climate change recognise know by many decision makers here is both a threat to the planet and in the business of mitigating its effects and opportunity so high above devils climate scientists have made camp to explain how

fast melting arctic ice affects weather patterns and rising sea levels so we think about these extreme weather events that we're starting to see more happening more frequent and more persistent around the globe a lot of this is tied to what's happening in the arctic today sixteen year old griffith has joined the young swedish activist spent a day a week throughout two thousand did. eighteen protesting for government action against climate change we are facing the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced and what we do now what we do or don't do right now we were faked my entire life and the lives of my children and grandchildren the point about an event like this isn't just to show off a bunch of scientists and activists braving subzero temperatures they do that sort of thing all the time it's a way of bringing home to the davos elite the reality and urgency of climate change among them of course the sort of people who can make real change happen leading climate change negotiated christiana figueres was

a key figure in bringing about the recent paris agreement she believes big business is finally listening i were beginning to understand that climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces but it is also at the same time pressing climate change decarbonising investing in public infrastructure putting in now the renewal energy that is actually the original and if they are listening it's despite the trumpet ministration pulling out of the paris accord. speired i think it gave an opportunity for businesses to go faster i think cities are also growing faster we have to act and business can act much faster than government reason perhaps for optimism that out of crisis comes opportunity and in opportunity there is hope join all al-jazeera at davos switzerland all right that's it for this hour of news on al-jazeera of course al-jazeera dot com i'll be back with

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are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. i'm fully back to go with a look at our main stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. president's kills on iraq just own has been arrested a sponsor special counsel investigation into possible russian collusion in the twenty sixteen election stone was arrested in florida following a grand jury indictment has been charged with obstructing official proceedings making false statements and witness tampering. you know the news the united nations special rapporteur on myanmar young he is calling on bangladesh to allow the un to make an assessment before when your refugees are moved to a remote island this week leave a big bash on china

a low lying island in the bay of bengal on the alley five hundred kilometers from conses bazaar about one hundred thousand new hampshire are to be moved to live in newly built barracks human rights groups have criticized upon saying living there will be like living in a prison that speaking in bangladesh is capital for us so what does the un special rapporteur tour make of these plans to relocate the refugees to the sign and tosh. fully she did commend the bangladeshi government for the construction of the buildings and the ongoing development of the infrastructure on this uninhabited island but she didn't say that she wants to see more needs to be more information from the bangladeshi government and wants to be assured that any refugees who live on this remote island would be secure she says that any transfer to the island needs to be done in consultation with refugees they need to be allowed to have

a tour and they couldn't vision for themselves and of course this must be voluntary but then i see government has offered the option char as an option for about one hundred thousand refugees because of what is described as extreme congestion in the mega camps of these are about almost actually this point a million people are living there the bangladeshi government says that people if they go to washington are would have primary education access to health care the ability to farm and fish and that it would be much better than the conditions they're facing in the caucasus are thank you for that my caution go name my forest in dhaka bangladesh. venezuela's military has reiterated support for president nicolas maduro saying attempts to remove him amounted to a coup un human rights chief is warning the situation may rapidly spiral out of control with catastrophic consequences the afghan taliban has named one of its

co-founders as a leader of his political office in qatar abdul ghani baradar is expected to join negotiations with the us which appear to be gaining momentum greece's parliament is due to vote on a landmark agreement with neighboring macedonia as police fired tear gas to disperse protesters some chanted traitors on thursday as politicians inside the building debated the contentious issue for a fourth day there arguing whether to ratify the u.n. brokered agreement under which macedonia will change its name to north macedonia. the u.s. senate has again failed to end the partial government shutdown the republican and democratic parties tried to pass competing bills but neither had enough votes present donald trump is refusing to fund government departments and tell he gets billions of dollars for a wall along the border with mexico. and israel says it's summoned island's ambassador and plans to reprimand her it's in response to the irish parliament advancing legislation which if approved aims to criminalize any business that deals

with israeli settlements in the occupied west bank from in seventy minutes now has called the planned law a disgrace in indonesia the number of people killed by floods and landslides has risen to fifty nine many villages living near an overflowing dam in the south sulawesi province had to be evacuated thousands more were forced to leave their homes since tuesday after wrench will rain triggered severe flooding across the region earlier this month another man slide in java killed thirty two people finally soaring temperatures in australia has faults more than fifty bushfires across a southern island state of tasmania hundreds of firefighters have been brought in from other parts of the country to help contain them there upstate with the headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next it's a documentary growing pains. you're

. the view growth of something positive. it's great watching our kids grow up or seeing a tree grow. it we always aware that all growth must come to an end. there's a limit nature knows no such thing as infinite growth this rule seems to apply to every kind of growth but one economic growth is somehow supposed to continue indefinitely. we believed them and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams and we were right . if that growth fades to materialize we panic but why.

does one person recognize the hundred fifty years ago growth is the fundamental principle of our economic system capitalism only works when the economy grows but karl marx recognize something else as well it is this growth that will eventually destroy the system itself. and today every reach that point is the system about to collapse. at infinite growth actually be possible. the governments don't want us to even question the g. word they don't even want to put a discussion around growth if you're looking at this from the outside it an alien arriving from outer space and you're looking at the society. you would really wonder what was going all what are they doing what what is this gross that has to appear in every political sense on some is the basis of every economics textbook what is it all about is it or is it a religion that they have is the god that they're chasing is the virus that's taken

over them. what is this visceral fear that emerges as soon as growth starts to go away. and he sells off to one of vox storm kindness garnished gave a whale to be defined as a dimension the labels could even talk back storm in us. all to go back soon style gets built out sucks them into finding and semen is the

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