a race of ethnic macedonians the agreement cuts through decades of greek foreign policy to recognize a macedonian language and nationality that is the nub of greeks disagreement with the deal many don't mind sharing macedonia as a political term but they see macedonian identity as derrius. because once it could relations in the balkans they should never have recognized the macedonian state in the macedonian identity to people it doesn't belong to or in macedonia language when you know there has never been one we know that what's being ratified today in the parliament will be scrutinised by greek and european courts the government admits the agreement is not perfect but it has at least got the other side to agree to stop claiming ancient greek history for its own come september images of alexander the great to disappear from north macedonian schoolbooks maps of a greater macedonia north macedonia is most illustrious history now perhaps lies in

its future. al-jazeera athens still ahead for you on the program. search for survivors after at danvers in southern brazil around two hundred. and why comments by. intervention in the backseat debate. thanks. hello again or welcome back we're here crustal story we have been talking about the heat and the wildfires across much of the south where we are going to see a break in some cities that's all due to a frontal boundary right here that is going to be pushing through and dropping those temperatures so we're going to some clouds and some weather and rain showers along with it as well so for adelaide you tempter coming down to twenty nine you did see into the mid forty's just a few days ago over here towards melbourne you're also hot would temperatures into

the mid forty's as well so we are going to be seeing a break there on saturday with melbourne seeing twenty five degrees as we go towards sunday we are going to sing that front lay out across the region so to the north of that we're still seeing those very warm conditions across much of the area with sydney at thirty one degrees there and now here towards the west well things are going to get hot for perth to a few of thirty four degrees well here across the north and south island of new zealand we're going to be seeing some clouds across much of the south island that's going to continue for christchurch over the next few days take a forecast map here on saturday we're going to be seeing some windy and cloudy conditions there at twenty three now looking too bad for auckland at twenty two and as we go towards sunday we could be seeing some better conditions across much of the area christ church you can be seeing attempt to rise to about twenty nine degrees and up here towards fiji we do expect to see more rain in your forecast with a touch of there of about thirty degrees. on

counting the cost plenty of no shows but lots of talk from leaders there about an economic slowdown what the chinese president said about gray rhinos and black swans boss at the cost of holding the u.s. budget to ransom. counting the cost on a visitor. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now u.s. congressional leaders and the president all from perth agree to

a stopgap funding plan to end the longest government shutdown in the country's history it's hoped the agreement will reopen federal agencies for at least three weeks roger stone a close ally of president trump has been arrested on charges brought by special counsel robert muller stone is accused of obstruction of justice witness tampering and making false statements and that as well as opposition leader and self declared interim president has called for new elections while addressing supporters in caracas but one rejected nicholas majoris offer of talks. on other stories we're covering iraq 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 they're embracing a movement that began in france as well matheson reports. yellow is no the color of protest in the southern iraqi city of basra angry crowds really of young people have adopted the brightly colored vests first seen demonstrations on the streets of

paris a few months ago. our universe movement symbolizes the rise against corruption by the people of basra and iraq we're wearing these isla vista 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 top water is on drink people because it's full of salt. and there's high unemployment care for adults last said and i tell her no 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 how can we 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 basra just recently to see the problems for themselves in october his predecessor i thought a lot body did the same thing but despite these high profile visits the people of basra say nothing has changed these latest protests are different this time they're organized as a yellow vest say they want to join forces with other protest groups and put even more pressure on the government to add the men at the bus ride is always going to be a boiling pot and the situation will go out of control of things aren't solved. because the rock protest in basra may have changed but the problems are still the same rob matheson al jazeera baghdad. all to sudan now where the leader of the largest

opposition party has called on the government to bow to mass protests and give up power saw that day addressed hundreds of supporters at a mosque in hard to human rights groups say more than forty protesters have been killed since demonstrations began last month the rally started out as protests against rising food prices that have gone into an uprising calling for the end of president tomorrow bashir is thirty year rule. why do you feel the seller mullard really show me. the demands of the government to step down and be replaced by a national interest government whose job is to achieve comprehensive peace freedom and human rights and implemented emergency economic program lift the suffering of the people that are more on the story now from head to logan is in heart in. following friday prayers dozens came out to protest against the government of president armitage bashir people have been doing straining for five weeks now demanding that the president and his thirty year rule and step down and dissolve the government they've been demanding for an interim independent government to be

formed until elections which this if they want to make sure are credible free and fair are held and that a new government is formed now president obama bashir has been defiant he said he's not going to step down until elections are held next year and there is a possibility that the constitution may be amended for him to run again the government says at least twenty nine people have been killed but activists have been tracking the death toll since the protests started in december nineteenth say that that number is not the reflexive it's not reflective of the reality that at least fifty one people have been killed since protests began sudan's government have been also criticized for using what some foreign governments like the e.u. the u.n. and the u.s. have termed as brutal excessive force they say that the protesters who've been protesting peacefully and an armed have been met with tear gas and live ammunition resulting in deaths now today the opposition leader assad the go ahead he has also joined the coalition of our opposition groups and civil societies that have been calling for the government to step down he said he and other his party and other

parties will sign a document that will create a better future that would reflect a better future for sudan and that they will implement it as soon as the government steps down now this has been going on for five weeks the president has been very defiant he said he's not going to step down and he said he's going to try to introduce economic reforms but let's remember sudan's economy is not what it was two thousand and eleven when south sudan seceded with the country's oil fields so at the moment the country does not have much of economic support to be able to try to make reforms or introduce reforms and people think to know that better is why a lot of people who have been demonstrating say that these are promises that will not be fulfilled and that the only thing that will stop them from continuing their demonstrations is for the government to step down more protests are called for in the coming days and it's not clear how long this would go for but both sides seem to be very good. and and to each side if you would be want now the stories we're following european commission has added saudi arabia to a draft list of countries that pose what it describes as a terror threat the list drafted by the e.u.

includes countries that have lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering. saudi arabia has been facing international pressure over the murder of journalist ramapo shoji at the saudi consulate in istanbul last year other countries on the list include iran iraq syria and yemen one palestinian has been killed after protests along gaza's frontier with israel the man was shot by the israeli army as thousands gathered at the perimeter fence a mass vowed to intensify the protests after israel delayed money sent to the strip by kasa it was intended to fund salaries for cars and civil servants who haven't been paid properly for months after weeks of despondent and mass has now turned the money down castro says it'll be redirected to the u.n. . that hamas after we were informed by the leadership of hamas that they will not accept the ground as an attempt to alleviate pressures on them it was decided to channel the money to other humanitarian projects in cooperation with the un and the

systems to poor families or the improvement of electricity and sewage facilities charles trafford was at because of border cheering the protest. this the forty fourth week of friday protests along gaza's border this one of five locations across the border along the border where protests happening. we've seen a lot of tear gas for the ministry of health already saying that a number of people have been treated for what they described was injuries received from live ammunition being shot by the israeli army now these protests happen already happening only a few hours after an announcement by casas envoy to gaza saying that the money that was due to be delivered here is part of an aid package that comes with an agreement that was set in november. money at least fifty million dollars that hammers refused to accept yesterday because what it described is conditions that were being put upon it by israel cut as anyone else saying that that money will be directed to aid

projects here in gaza with the coordination of the u.n. we understand that the first signing of those kind of coordination agreements with the u.n. will happen on monday meanwhile commerce says that with or without this cash these protests that we've seen here every week since march will continue until israel lift the siege. and special appetizer on myanmar has just completed a ten day fact finding mission in thailand and bangladesh although the government of myanmar refuses to cooperate she says it's clear the country isn't interested in allowing their hang the refugees to return as attention and reports now from dhaka she also urging the bangladeshi government to accept the fact that it will need to host the refugees for the forseeable future. the ruling the refugee crisis has become a fast growing regional problem with global repercussions that's the latest assessment of the un special rapporteur on human rights in me and mark young he cited the

recent deportations of rohingya refugees by saudi arabia and india to me and mar a violation of international law in his memoir is not working to me and conditions returned with a renewed yeah i mean as a stain came. into meditation as its neighbor bangladesh has been struggling to accommodate this predominantly muslim minority since august twenty seventh more than seven hundred thousand have sought refuge here it is clear it really into refugees in bangladesh can not return to me in the near future i encourage the government to begin to gauge a longer term plan. for this you know that bangladesh wants to transfer about one hundred thousand refugees to the remote flood prone island of bashar in the bay of bengal lisa says despite the government's quote tremendous efforts to prepare the island she's concerned about the security of refugees and

isolation does. especially in the event of. natural disasters. fully informed that. the bangladeshi government says the refugees who moved to boston shar would have access to health care and education be able to fish and farm and visit their families in the camps in cox's bazaar despite the challenges of living in the world's largest refugee settlement none of the refugees we spoke to want to move to a place they fear is dangerous natasha in a zero dhaka. now brazil's fire brigade is saying that some two hundred people missing after a dam collapse near the city of belo horizonte southeast seven people are confirmed dead after this disaster. helicopter rescue teams are searching for survivors the

collapse of the down which is part of an iron ore mine complex unleashed a torrent of lod on nearby villages president diable sonars says he will fly over the area on saturday to assess what measures need to be taken. in indonesia the number of people known to have died in floods and landslides also the way sea island has risen to fifty nine many villages living near an overflowing dam had to be evacuated thousands more have been forced to leave their homes and choose day after to rancho rain triggered severe flooding across the region earlier this month another landslide in java killed thirty two people around the world health organization says the democratic republic of congo's worst ebola outbreak has spread to an area battling extreme violence at least five cases have been reported in kane a city of more than a million people which lies between the main outbreak zone and goma close to the rwandan border war than half of the seven hundred thirteen people believed to have

caught a viral disease have died more than sixty thousand people have been vaccinated in congo experts are saying the fight against it depends on tracing people who might have had contact with the disease israel says it summoned islands ambassador in tel aviv for a formal reprimand it's in response to the irish parliament putting forward legislation which aims to criminalize any business with the deals with israeli settlements in the occupied west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu is called the prime law a disgrace. with sixty three days left until the united kingdom leaves the e.u. and politicians on able to agree on any plan queen elizabeth has appealed for common ground and respect for different points of view the queen's comment didn't directly refer to bracks it of course but they are widely being interpreted as a rare while intervention into the political debate as paul brennan explains she may be head of state and leader of the global commonwealth but under the u.k.'s constitutional monarchy queen elizabeth remains firmly

a political so her comments during this visit to something in women's institute have sparked keen analysis particularly as britain's politicians are currently in deadlock over breakfast. as we look for nuances in the modern age she told her audience i for one prefer the tried and tested recipes like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view coming together to seek out the common ground and never losing sight of the bigger picture to me these approaches are timeless and i commend them to everyone in a regular encounters with the prime minister and heads of state the queen is firmly neutral and doesn't express political views this latest speech made no direct reference to the bricks at deadlock or even to politics but the interpretation has been unanimous what the queen has said is what we're all thinking that there has to be a compromise here that we have to find some common ground not keep advocating for positions

that people have been staking out for years but recognizing that the clock is ticking the sounding of speech echoes the queen's annual christmas message perhaps indicating a regal concern about levels of intolerance and animosity in much modern discourse the politicians hoping for explicit world guidance on brecht that are destined to be royally disappointed before a prime minister james callaghan had an anecdote about an occasion he asked the queen for her opinion on a subject that he couldn't make his mind up on she looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes he said and then she told me that's what you get paid for paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. was more in everything we're covering right here the latest on top stories but there are also features that and comment and analysis al-jazeera dot com is the address. a quick recap of the top stories this hour u.s.

congressional leaders and president onil trump of agree to a stopgap spending plan to end the longest government shutdown in the country's history the agreement will reopen federal agencies for at least three weeks announcing the plan trump said he expected democrats and republicans to use the time to work towards providing funding for his proposed wall along the mexican border they have said they are for complete border security and they have finally and fully acknowledged that having barriers or walls or whatever you want to call it will be an important part of the solution meanwhile roger stone a close ally of donald trump has been arrested on charges brought by special counsel robert muller stone who is one of trumps advisors in the twenty six thousand election campaign is accused of obstruction of justice witness tampering and making false statements miller is investigating alleged collusion between trump's presidential campaign and russia oh in britain in

venezuela opposition leader has called for new elections in the country to rally in the capital caracas his claim to the country's presidency has produced an international standoff between countries back in yemen those that stand against the decision meanwhile the u.n. has called for an investigation into the excessive use of force against anti-government protesters some twenty were killed during clashes. brazil's five brigade is saying two hundred people are missing off to a dam collapse in the city of belo horizonte in the country's southeast several people are confirmed dead after the disaster helicopter rescue teams are searching for survivors of the collapse of the dam part of an eye and all mine complex on leached a torrent of lod on nearby villages. and one palestinian has been killed off to protest along gaza's front here with israel man was shot by the israeli army as thousands gathered at the perimeter fence

a mass vowed to intensify the protests off to israel delayed money sent to the strip by cattle it was intended to fund salaries for civil servants that you haven't been properly paid for months. as your top stories this hour that's it for myself and the team here in london there will be more news coming up from doha of the counting the cost which starts each year childhood ends for an estimated fifteen million girls globally who marry before the age of eighteen. young girls compelled to marry after fleeing the war in syria share their stories and talk to him just zero. alarm housing seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week on a slippery slope no shows and gloomy predictions set the tone for this year's world

economic forum in davos. why the chinese president is talking about black swans and grey rhinos the world's number two economy slows. us who's paying the price for the longest government shutdown in american history. by every year the world economic forum in davos is a chance for leaders from across the globe to talk about the biggest challenges facing the planet but this gathering was notable for those who didn't make it to the swiss alps u.s. president donald trump shine is paying and the u.k.'s to recent may were among them pressing problems back home care many of them away but for those who came there was plenty to talk about the international monetary fund cut its global growth forecast china's economy grew at the slowest pace in twenty eight years and according to oxfam the world's twenty six richest people are worth as much as the poorest half

of humanity or some question the way it arrived at those numbers more people fear that a widening wealth gap is ripping apart the social contract on which the world economy is built john howell has more from davos. a chill has settled over down ass and that's not just the weather leaders of some of the world's biggest economies china the united states france and the u.k. have stayed away to find crises at home crises fueled by nationalism populism and those left behind by globalization it is everything the world economic forum is supposed to stand against and yet this year's big ticket visitor is brazil's new president far right nationalist valsin r.-o. here to launch what he calls a new brazil then there was a big. we intend to reduce the size of the residence state apparatus and carry out a form such as the social security reform tax reform we wish to relieve those who

produce and undertake business and projects from the weight of a heavy state that's good news for business less so for those who depend on state aid it's an odd look for an annual gathering traditionally built on bridging divides it does say that there's a bit of a shift and that those major leading democracies in the world are exhausted tied in knots have problems but it also says this community here of globalists is perfectly willing to flirt with their liberal leaders in the world. compensation came in the heavyweight fight against climate change identified as a major world threat having heard both scenarios call for economic development in the amazon delegates listened to royalty interviewing a british knight of the realm what advice do you have all my generation and what's what can we build on that you have started we have to recognize that every breath of air we take every mouthful of food that we take comes from the natural

and that if we damage the natural world we damage ourselves it's what the forum aims to do best global box office in the name of a better world the theme of this year's world economic forum here in davos is the fourth wave of globalization the digital revolution it predicts a world in which technology competes with workers of all stripes blue collar and white in which the winners of globalization get ever richer but fewer in number it is a world in which inequality deepens and political leaders no longer have all the answers . well joining me now from london is jeremy cooke chief economist then head of currency strategy at money transfer provider world first thanks very much for being with us so lots to talk about for those who were gathered in davos this week not the least of which is this international monetary fund outlook for the global

economy warning of a global economic slowdown how likely is that in your view will start to two thousand and nineteen and markets has been particularly rocky in the data that we've been getting from the two largest economies in the world the u.s. and china has been poor so certainly we haven't started out on a on a strong footing and the i.m.f. is warning about scenarios and also the results of economic pressures that we've seen throughout the course of two thousand and eight which will likely be cruel to vary the course of the next twelve months or so a lot of it is focused on politics a lot of it is focused on the trade fallout between the u.s. and china and how that ripples around the global economy obviously there's a focus on breaks it as well in the just the rise of protectionism that we all seeing in some of the dialogue around global trade so the i.m.f. is warning that if this is not a rested suiting than the global economy which is just in two thousand and

seventeen two thousand and eighteen was starting to build starting to become a little bit more salt it is already a risk we got some disappointing numbers on the chinese economy this week the biggest slowdown in the second biggest economy in the world in nearly thirty years and we have chinese president xi jinping warning in a speech of what he calls black swans and gray rhinoceroses what does he mean by that it simply put a warning that things can come out of the ether very very quickly even for something even for a colony of the size of the size of china's and obviously the economy that has been running at such huge amounts of growth for such a long long time now i don't think there's anyone really are. who is naturally predicting a recession in china you know most economies would still kill for a growth rates of six percent so the slowing is the story more than the sudden stop and a sudden stop and a reversal but this is a continual poll by the chinese government so emphasised both international

investors and the businesses who are there are the chinese or have operations within china the government support will be that to allow further stimulus to continue the growth picture that they have been sick that may be a cause and interest rates by the people's bank of china or maybe allowing banks to simply lend more money it may be a devaluation of the currency although i don't think that would then think that would happen but i think it's more a domestic and international message to make sure that no one feels that the chinese authorities are in any way asleep at the wheel at the moment and this whole issue of global inequality is an ongoing concern and oxfam put out its annual report but there are questions about the methodology used to compile those figures what's your view on that. it's always difficult when looking at these brig macro big macro as to wealth predominantly either away from developing nations or how much of a developing nation or a consonance wealth can be seen against the stock portfolio of someone who happens

to own a very very valuable e-commerce business and there's always a difference between stocks and flows and growth and growth there off over say there is no doubt that there are very very poor people and a lot of the world and there is no doubt that there are people out there who have a huge almost insurmountable amount of wealth that could be spent better as opposed to sitting on a on a business is balance sheet we heard out of davos over the course of the wake that a lot of people are starting to talk about well taxes whether this is an increase in taxes to seventy percent as the democratic congresswoman alexandra cortez has been talking about what likely impact that would have on wealth creation in some of the richest economies out there davos isn't going to solve inequality over the course of a four day period in a very very exclusive in a very very secluded ski resorts the rich will continue to rich will continue to get richer hopefully government government moves over the course of progressive tax

regimes well allow the poor however to be able to catch up a little bit good to speak of thanks for being with us thank you now warning from air bus over the risks of a no deal brags it employs more than fourteen thousand people at twenty five sites across the u.k. please don't listen to the brakes it is made in as which is thirds of it because we have huge plants here we will not move and we will always be here they are wrong of course it is not possible to pick up and move all large u.k. factories to of a part of the world immediately. however aerospace a long term business that we could be forced to redirect future investments in the event of a no deal breaks it and make no mistakes there are plenty of countries or very who would love to build the wings for airbus aircraft and with all the uncertainty over break that some people in the u.k.

are beginning to stockpile basic necessities including food and medicine a company in leeds has been selling a brags it box billed as a thirty day survival kit lauren sleep reports recently that linda is taking no chances she bought her bricks at box a few weeks ago inside isn't a freeze dried food to last a month she isn't rich because of three hundred pounds nearly four hundred dollars but she has no regrets she supports leaving the european union as soon as possible remain supporters would say you've you're a bit crazy you know what if you stay in the european union and then you go on to the packers and things like this it is possible paid us i can think what they say and i can understand why we may have want to remand. but i'm looking more long term i want democracy back for my children and grandchildren i don't want to go down the route that we it looks like where we're being dictated to how things need today.

james supplies the bricks and boxes. he's traditionally done business with aid agencies dealing in disaster relief in recent weeks he's seen a big uptick in sales inside the u.k. a year's supply for a family costs more than twenty thousand dollars if we're going to know their scenario which is possibly going to cause a hiccup in in in the customs system at the moment nobody knows what to get ready for life in the customs guys so the company plans put into place properly and so there is always going to be a disruption for the least the first three to four weeks for us to try and sort out what they do in possibly longer if they need to or further infrastructure the inexorable logic of a no deal bricks its means fresh food which would normally come from places like the dutch port of rotterdam getting stuck and rotting in lorries before it can reach supermarkets several have already said they too are stockpiling tins or nonperishable foods that acknowledge they could run out in little over

a week empty shelves and panic buying seem inevitable it's become common for politicians who support hard bricks it to say well so what if we can't have bananas and so mottos for a while the country's been through much worse what for some seems entirely pointless exercise a source of self-imposed blockade is for many others a small price to pay for getting rid of the malign influence of the european union yorkshire voted leaving the bricks at referendum by a small margin this part of the country is known for its grit and determination if no deal is as bad as many fear if medicines do start to run out they may very well need it's all right still to come on counting the cost how building a boat clad in flip flops is raising awareness of a serious issue. for first

a week of term or venezuela some world leaders are saying they'll recognize one. the head of the national assembly as the interim president opposition efforts to replace nicolas maduro with the transitional government have been having an impact on the bond market nearly all of venezuela sixty billion dollars worth of international bonds are in default but this week venezuelan government and state oil company p.d. vs abrams posted their biggest gains in a year investors are betting a change of government will help fix the world's worst performing economy but any new government will want to review deals made by its predecessor with russia and china will be looking at that next week in our special focus on venezuela who are its biggest creditors and what does the future hold for people there and here in the middle east qatar is buying up five hundred million dollars worth of lebanese government bonds qatar which remains under a saudi arabian led land sea and air blockade sees it as

a good investment which will help stabilize the economy lebanon has the third highest debt to g.d.p. in the world and eight months on from an election.