all dillahunt a brother who was jailed for eight years in pakistan has a history of supporting peace talks. the pakistani government which has been accused of providing a safe haven for taliban fighters also had a seat at the negotiating table in qatar the draft agreement is reportedly conditional an opportunity perhaps to test the waters and see if it eventually and the longest running u.s. war has a lot easier a funeral is being held for an eight year old guatemalan boy who died and u.s. custody after crossing the border with mexico philippe gomez alonzo was the second child to die while being held by america of washings last month. after being detained what has father they traveled to the border from their remote village of yala. still ahead on the bulletin searching for his brother what concern is growing among families of protesters detained and sudan and. the hard won peace agreement

in northern ireland under threat from dissident republicans and the uncertainty of rex it. binny's pink sky by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello it remains quiet and still with some persistent fog in a good part of central and southern china at the moment nice weather in hong kong with a breeze coming out the northeast is typically low twenty's and that's the case here on sunday and shanghai has come back up to about ten degrees everywheres apparently perfectly does go below freezing at night of course particularly in the land otherwise it's just a steady quiet picture which is what you might expect of winter unlike the last couple of weeks south of this in the heaviest rain has been showing itself obviously in sulawesi where there is still flooding in the science but through

jobbers well a good part of indonesia still got a risk of fairly frequent and heavy showers with that's true of some possibilities year as well and increasingly of the southern philippines the thought of cloud you know it is coming towards sudden vietnam maybe no more than just a bit of cloud generating one or two shows it shouldn't be wet at this time of the year in thailand laos cambodia or vietnam and it isn't really for again that's different the last couple of weeks and he's all the difference nor should it be raining in this part of india in the middle of winter the middle of the northeast monsoon but it is the showers are falling they've already fallen and jessica when we began to under protest for both sunday i'm indeed for monday. the weather sponsored by cats own race. the battle over the minimum wage heated up across the country today thousands of fast food workers walked off the job desperate for a better way to choose if you give your average worker a little more money they're probably going to be able to pay bills maybe to spend

a little bit more on me to fifty right now so fifty k. pay no bill to survive in twenty first century america i'm nervous we cannot afford for one of us alone as a job. on al-jazeera. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories spain germany france and britain have delivered an ultimatum to venezuelan leader. they say he must hold elections with an eight day recognize opposition leader door as interim president thirty four people have now been confirmed dead in brazil after the collapse of

a dam holding the waste from an iron ore mine rescue workers is searching for hundreds of people who are still missing and six days of talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. have ended up there with the promise of further discussions washington's on boys now heading to afghanistan to meet the government in kabul. the un's human rights investigator looking into the murder of sol the journalist jamal khashoggi has sought access to the crime scene and the saudi consulate in istanbul agnus kalamata has also asked to visit the kingdom hasn't had a reply from saudi authorities kalamata who's the un special rapporteur on executions is set to arrive in turkey on monday she says the inquiry is a crucial step towards formal accountability for the murder of. the executive director at the arab sent to washington d.c. and he says there was a growing pressure on the united nations to pursue its own investigation of. there has been a lot of international pressure directed at the particularly office of the secretary

general at the u.n. to initiate some response if you will some initiate some investigation on behalf of the international community with regards to the murders so recently the secretary general has appointed a group of three representatives to kind of represent him and the united nations are showing this inventive investigation the group is headed by agnes calamari as you just stated in addition to helena kennedy a member of parliament and wanted to know if the portuguese investigator and saw these people have requested if you will that group has requested access to the saudi consulate the site of the scene of the crime in istanbul so that they can begin their investigation an admission to a visit to the kingdom of saudi arabia to be briefed about the investigation in

terms of the saudi investigation in this regard and they have been turned down to saddam now with the families of anti-government protesters who've been arrested a demanding answers on their whereabouts hundreds of people have been detained during the six weeks of demonstrations against president almost all the she is twenty nine years old have a more than reports from costume. starts his day in the capital with phone calls and internet searches he's hoping to hear some news about his brother muslim men who went missing on the twentieth of january after protests in sudan's second largest city on demand. we don't know where he is we checked hospitals but he wasn't among those injured those who were with him during the protests said that he was arrested by armed masked men and trying to pick up we haven't seen or heard from him since. thanks six

weeks of anti-government protests started on the nineteenth of december over rising food costs the cries were changed to calls for president bush here to end his. shoes refusing to hand over power security forces have been criticized for firing bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters. the government says twenty nine have been killed since protests began rights groups say at least fifty have died widespread arrests have also been reported with activists and opposition figures targeted sometimes in their homes. there's growing concerns for their safety the government's long been criticized for torturing dissidents and activists sometimes resulting in death the number of activists who have been arrested since anti-government protests began in december is not known many remain in detention with no access to their families or their lawyers with reports of torture from those who have been released many families say they're concerned about the safety and health of their relatives and that they want to know who is holding them and

where. political parties including members of the ruling coalition such as the popular congress party are adding to calls by rights groups for the release of protesters imprisoned. who'd have thought we want the government to let us know who is killing the protesters who's arresting them and where they are being held they should be released or charged if they committed a crime or peaceful protesting is in the constitution hard and it is their right and they shouldn't be arrested before him of. the ruling national congress party admits the arrest of activists but if he says them of inciting violence and says they will be charged and tried in court a top you've heard. yes there are people who have been arrested they were calling for protests without getting legal permits they were trying to stabilize the situation they will be charged but that those who are arrested are in touch with their lawyers because it's in the right we make sure they are in good health and i feel that he. has and doesn't mind if his brother appears in court as long as he turns up alive and well he will morgan al-jazeera sort of. nigeria's main

opposition party has halted election campaigning for three days at some protest and president mohamed the would be suspending the chief justice all to all the guns accused of failing to declare assets the opposition people's democratic party says the allegations are politically motivated the chief justice won't roll on any disputed results of next month's general election if he is reinstated. the u.n. is warning that refugees and cannot be sent back to myanmar because it is not safe the special rapporteur on human rights who has been visiting there says the crisis could have global consequences natasha going to reports from the. these rohingya experienced the evils of humanity in me and mark yet the lure of home is like a magnet and they long to return as citizens with equal rights the refugees reject any repatriation plan that can't guarantee that.

the video recently came here is seek justice. and. the un special rapporteur on human rights in me and maher yankee lease says can't return home for the foreseeable future and bangladesh must begin planning for hosting them long term around three quarters of a million refugees have streamed over the border since the me and our military crackdown began in august twenty seventh teen u.n. investigators call it a genocide against this predominantly muslim minority the refugee relief and repatriation commissioner says more people are arriving at a rate of about forty thousand a year. the camps in cox's bizarre have become the largest refugee settlement in the world there congested they sit on an elephant migration route and the jungle is heavily forested the bangladeshi government says they can improve the situation by

transferring about one hundred thousand road he does to a remote uninhabited island. this is boston shark or floating island the bangladeshi government says refugees would be able to fish and farm and have access to education and health care but lisa says she's concerned about the isolation of the flood prone island and the safety of refugees she says not one should be forced to move there and atlanta to the planet we may die there we came here to save our lives who will not go there to die. refugees say they're still struggling to survive many people are dying here to break los is another infectious diseases are spreading we're given rations but they are not adequate enough we stay mostly hungry with dim prospects of going home in the near future refugees hope the bangladeshi government will improve camp conditions and their lives will become

more tolerable natasha going to al-jazeera dhaka yellow vests protesters in france are keeping up pressure on president emanuel background several rallies were held across the country marking the eleventh week of protests against him demonstrators calling the president of the virtue and say he's out of touch with ordinary citizens thousands of people are marching serbia's capital belgrade for an eight week to protest against president aleksander virtues as government demonstrations want restrictions on media calling for more freedom of speech now a recent bombing and several hijackings in northern ireland second largest city have raised fears of a new paramilitary threat police are looking at the suspected involvement of dissident republican group the new ira which wants to end bush's control of the province a report from london derry breck's it may destabilize things even more for the michael county is

a catholic priest in northern ireland second city during decades of upheaval community leaders played a vital role in easing tensions many hope violence was a thing of the past but after saturday's car bombing some fear it could be a sign of things to come it was a horrible time a horrendous time and they were absolutely better notice. under people families pitted against families because some people supported the struggle other people opposed the struggle for families were torn apart because the personal view that while there is a british presence in ireland i think there were always be people who were. resist that and people will try to have the british out of ireland i force the bomb was crude and highly unstable a delivery vehicle was hijacked and left outside london dairies courthouse this is the moment it went off there was no loss of life and little damage but the bombs reopened old wounds two more days of security alerts followed including two further

hijackings of vehicles by masked men five people were arrested and later released no groups claimed responsibility but police suspect a hard line republican group the new are a. very sore some of the worst fighting during thirty years of sectarian violence it was a conflict between nationalists mostly catholics who favor a united ireland a unionists mainly protestants who want northern ireland to remain british twenty years ago opposing sides signed the good friday agreement bringing an end to the fighting but this isn't where the story ends some rejected the peace deal and in the past twenty years distant republican groups of periodic lee resurfaced in an attempt to reignite violence which is what police suspect may have happened here outside dairies courthouse these are not new and aims but they do have a new political context. northern ireland's devolved power sharing government collapsed two years ago leaving

a political vacuum in the province and breaks it happened opening up a fierce debate over the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland to the member the good friday agreement guaranteed an open border ending military checkpoints and customs posts a no deal breaks it could be the return of hard infrastructure the new ira views any border as a target should frame was once the political wing of the provisional ira they signed up for the good friday peace deal renounce violence and are now at the center of northern irish politics we believe that the road map to an agreed area and a story they express wishes of the people of ireland and the democratic nature the bombings being condemned across northern ireland's entire political spectrum peace here was hard won but it remains fragile leave barca out zero terry. facebook has announced plans to integrate three of the world's biggest messaging applications whatsapp instagram and facebook messenger the company's working to get

the three applications talking to each other while remaining separate services the plan is in its early stages but could be completed by the end of the cea or early twenty twenty four facebook bought the photo sharing app and twenty twelve for a billion dollars it picked up what sept two years later for one thing sixteen billion dollars in cash and stocks all three services are popular with an estimated two point six billion users between them but you have to be in the same application to connect this merger project will change that but it is happening as facebook is already under pressure other users privacy it's faced repeated investigations over how it's handled data well i'll balkan is a code and developer who has created an online privacy talk and he says users need ethical alternatives to facebook's messaging apps. this is facebook's business model this is how they make money by gathering data on you by add a lie is in yet to profile you and then using this intimate insight to manipulate

your behavior for profit that's how they make their billions we have to stop being surprised when surveillance capitalists like facebook act like surveillance capitalists they are factory farms for human beings they farm us for our data that's their job that's how they make money so let's not be surprised when they act exactly as their business model demands facebook incorporated by its very existence exists to erode our privacy so nothing that they do protects our privacy they make money by eroding our privacy so there's really no fix for this as long as we have facebook and instagram and they have this business model what we can do is we can fund ethical alternatives to these businesses silicon valley is not going to fund them it's not going to come out of venture capital because they fund facebook and google and they're very lucrative you know this this business model is very financially lucrative but we can fund it from the commons so why don't we use money

from the commons to create ethical technologies that belongs to the commons we need to start thinking differently in europe especially. and outside of the us outside of silicon valley if we're going to solve this problem we can't solve it within a the bounds of the same system that created the problem itself. and you can find more on that story and the rest of the day's news on our web site that is that al-jazeera dot com. no again is a bit broader than doha but the headlines on al-jazeera spain germany france and britain have delivered an ultimatum to venezuelan leader in the class of the little they say he must call elections within eight days or then recognize opposition leader bill as interim president while millions of venezuelans have fled to neighboring countries to escape the economic hardship the editor lucien newman has

been speaking to people living in on the venezuela colombia border. many of them say they are hopeful that some kind of change is going to take place in their country that there will be regime change they don't really care very much what kind of change. of regime change they just say that their country needs a change that they want to be able to go home feed their country their their children their families again and get a job but there are others who are far more skeptical they believe that president nicolas maduro will not cave in to international pressure and certainly not to proclaim president who does not control the military thirty four people have now been confirmed dead in brazil after the collapse of a dam holding waste from an iron ore mine rescue workers is searching for hundreds of people who are still missing. six days of talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. have ended and cut through with a promise of further discussions washington's on boys now heading to afghanistan to meet the government in kabul the withdrawal of foreign forces the role of the

afghan government and the ceasefire agreement are just some of the sticking points that remain the un human rights investigator looking into the murder of sal the journalist jamal khashoggi has sought access to the crime scene and the salbi consulate in istanbul miss kalamata has asked to visit the kingdom too but hasn't had a reply from saudi authorities nigeria's main opposition party has halted election campaigning for three days it's in protest at president mohammed the suspending the chief justice water on against accused of failing to declare assets the opposition people's democratic party says the allegations are politically motivated. yellow vest protesters in france are keeping up pressure on president emanuel several across the country marking the eleventh week of protests against him demonstrators call him the president of the village and say he is out of touch with ordinary citizens well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us

inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching. the record breaking us government shutdown is over for now but what's coming next donald trump hasn't got the billions of dollars needed to build the border with mexico but federal workers will finally get paid how will the president's supporters respond this is inside story.

and welcome to the program i'm norah kyle donald trump had warned the longest u.s. government shutdown in history could go on for years unless congress gave him money to build a border war with mexico but after thirty five days the president signed a bill to end the standoff for now he's agreed with congressional leaders to reopen government departments for three weeks while they try to hammer out reforms to border security they were rational deal doesn't include the five point seven billion dollars trump wants for the wall but trump insists he hasn't caved in to the democrats eight hundred thousand federal workers who've missed two paychecks are expected to get paid at last we'll bring in our guests in just a moment. has this report from washington thank you very much my fellow american it's over for now i am very proud to announce today that we have reached

a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government. after the longest shutdown in american history thirty five days steps of moving taken to get it hundred thousand federal stuff back to work but the funding deal is just for three weeks in that time republicans and democrats will discuss a long term plan here's the problem the president still wants is border wall the democrats don't want to agree to that from the white house a warning that if he doesn't get what he wants i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the constitution of the united states to address this emergency pressure had been building on the president to end the stalemate his approval rating was dropping senior republicans were leaking support and workers were warning of genuine security risks in the senate republican leader called on democrats to negotiate a longer funding deal that would include a significant investment in urgently needed border security measures including

physical barriers in his rose garden address the president insisted democrats know backed the idea of a border wall that was disputed by their leader we don't agree on some of the specifics of border security democrats are against the war but we agree on many things. such is the need for new technology and the need to strengthen security in our ports of entry a funding bill was agreed by the senate in december but attacked by right wing commentators donald trump blocked it because it had no money for a border wall his decision to reopen the government has led to new attacks from his own supporters but one former trumpet ministration official says he no gets to make a state of the union address to put his case to save the union as we all know is a prime time address not just to congress to brief congress but also to brief the american people and i think i expect that the president will use that time to try to address the american people and discuss the significant issue that he has before them in the sport of offering donald trump said he was willing to keep the

government shutdown for months to get the money for a wall he promised on the campaign trail mexico would pay for thousands of federal workers will no go back to work after the president was judged the situation the consequences and the result is thank you very much allan fisher al-jazeera washington. ok let's bring in our panel of guests and from washington d.c. leon fresco former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration the u.s. department of justice in philadelphia joe watkins a republican political strategist and former white house aide to president george h. w. bush and from birmingham in the u.k. scott lucas founder and editor of a world for you and co-founder of the trump project thank you all very much for joining us joe on thursday donald trump tweeted we will not cave exclamation mark

one day later he caved what happened. well i saw the effect that the shutdown was having me not only on the eight hundred thousand workers federal workers who are not getting paid and who are about to miss a second paycheck but also for the thirteen million americans that are also impacted by the shutdown and then by friday of course airports are being impacted by it and it was getting to be the ripple effect was going to be significant around the country and so i think the president had no choice but to end the shutdown he was taking all the blame for it all of his poll all the polling data that i've seen shows that his. support even among his base was beginning to shrink in light of the shutdown so the president really had no choice but to give in to democrats into and to sign the bill that could have been signed back in december to keep the government open should have taken all the blame for it he should have taken all the blame for it because. he said he said as much when he said with senator schumer and

speaker nancy pelosi back in december he said he was willing to shut the government down that he would take take the blame for it and and for the most part with the american public he has taken most of the blame for the government shutdown the congress hasn't been beaten up as much as the president has been beaten up for having for allowing the government to be shut down for over thirty days the longest in u.s. history so americans are relieved that it's over but they're concerned about what may happen again in mid february absolutely earlier let's look at what does have to happen in the next three weeks in order to keep the government type and. well over the next three weeks now the senate in the house have appointed conference committees to try to come together to hammer out what a border security proposal can look like that macwrite have shown a willingness to provide more money than they were going to provide in december which of trump wants to use that as a victory he certainly can use that i had his this ball bill to say look i got

democrats to give me more money than i was going to get before i'm border security but democrats have not shown any reason as to why they need to acquiesce to the demands of an actual border wall given that it was going to happen it was going to happen during the shutdown now that the shutdown is over it seems very unlikely that democrats will now with this three weekend are in their regnum bierria actually given to a border wall the man scott do you think that trump still believes that he can get the democrats to cave on this point and that he will still get his will. yeah i mean fun times it's hard to get inside donald trump's head but the starting point is he's so committed to this vanity project this thirty foot high steel or concrete wall even though it has very little to do with effective border security that it has become like this holy grail he has to have and he matches that up to

these deceptions in his head which misrepresent migrants which misrepresent what's happening on the border and of course the idea that the democrats are the enemy within so i still think that that that phrase at the end of his speech yesterday after he had caved after he had given way but he sort of said like the want to be tough guy who gets knocked down but says i'll show you i'll show you and he says i can shut this government down again or i can even declare a national a national emergency i don't think you can get away with it but that's different from donald trump realizing that he can't get away with it and who else are they have to convince joe i mean it's not just the democrats is it i mean how much support does he still have to call back for within the republicans of this for this . well republicans. he lost some support during the course of the shutdown from republicans and there are republicans who have to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty

a number of u.s. senators have to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty and of course every member of every republican in the house will have to run again in two thousand and twenty but he did lose some some support among republicans during the course of the of the shutdown and but the president will remain adamant about the about this wall he's not going to get it from democrats that the house is controlled by democrats he is not going to get the funding that he wants for four for a border wall specifically democrats or republicans who are happy to talk about border security and how that can be reasonably accomplished and what it will take to do that but democrats certainly will not want to talk about entertain the possibility of any money at all for border wall which means that the only option the president will likely have is to call a national emergency which also in turn will be challenge in the courts i'm sure absolutely i want a explore that a little bit male can convince the courts that this is an emergency that needs addressing when it's been dragging on for weeks already and indeed will take months

to build the will. well so there are two separate issues the first issue is can he declare a national emergency that allows him to engage in construction projects i think for sure if you look at nine judges on the supreme court four of them he already has i think in his pocket that will say yes the question is justice roberts justice roberts sometimes is ruled for a drum sometimes as a rule for people suing trump i think in this case probably justice roberts would allow it but even if he had the authority to build the wall he still needs the money to build the wall and that's the problem the reason he hasn't really declared this emergency is even if he has the authority he would need to reprogram money that the defense department is using for a very vital the fence projects in order to actually start building border wall and nobody's going to allow him to do that and so for that reason that's why he hasn't

actually declared this emergency and hasn't been some act of benevolence it's that even if he has this authority to declare the emergency there's no actual money behind that to build the wall and he's talking about five point seven billion dollars to build just two hundred thirty miles of wall which i've even that is optimistic of the time what you could build but the point is. with reprogramming money you wouldn't even be able to get a billion dollars so you wouldn't you wouldn't if you looked at a radar of the wall or a picture from a from a satellite sorry you would see no difference two years from now or now of what wall was on the border if you tried to use this national emergency provision so essentially what i'm hearing here is that he can't win he can't get this wall built and trump doesn't like to not win does he scott what do you think his reaction is going to be how is he going to handle this he's probably going to keep screaming i want i want i want like my five year old used to do you say no no no but the

difference this time is that don. trump is in a quorum because on past occasions across a whole range of issues we could talk about congressional republicans gave him cover in a sense you know that they were sort of codependent and that is even if they didn't think trump's projects were really that sensible they wanted to get a tax cut they wanted to get a change in regulations what you've seen especially in the last forty eight hours of the first signs that congressional republicans especially in the senate are no longer willing to provide him with that cover and i think that's going to be a very fundamental split across a range of issues the problem is that if it was just donald trump holding out i think maybe even he would have to back away but he has a hard line advisor named steven miller fiercely anti immigration and miller keeps whispering in his ears all those words that those conservative commentators like ann coulter say which is you don't want to be weak you don't want to give way to these waves of migrants invading the u.s.

and the problem occurs when donald trump hears that all political sense tends to go out the window yeah i wanted to raise that point as well joe because this criticism by the right wing media i mean it's what trump really responds to is this it essentially pushed him or helped push him towards a government shutdown in the first place and now is saying the same commentators calling him the women calling him a broken president so given that he has been backed into a corner what's his next move likely to be well he doesn't like it when when the key conservative commentators attack him and he usually doesn't react to that in this case his back is up against the wall because he doesn't have a lot of options with regards to getting funding for border walls so whatever he does he's got to make it look like a victory and the president's been very skillful in the past in doing that. i'm guessing that that's what he'll do here so the national emergency looks like at

least calling a national emergency. to build a wall looks like. he's moving ahead and he's not caving in so that the base will say well you're doing what it is we want you to do but on the other hand the courts are going to challenge him and even the courts given his way he's going to have a very very hard time finding the dollars the funds necessary to actually construct the wall so it's going to be difficult for him one way or the other and also is it not going to be a difficult one to get past the republicans who may well be legitimately concerned that if he sets this precedent of calling a national emergency when he can't get something through congress it's something that the democrats could then do down the line in the future when it comes to responding to something like climate change or some sort of mass shooting event. clearly the president be mindful of other issues where he's going to need republicans to support him and my guess is that the president will will will listen to republicans who may persuade him that border security and and technology can

be substituted for. a physical barrier that if he can persuade his base that that border security and and use of technology is a way to create some kind of a. technology barrier to keep people who from coming into the country illegally if they can if he can convince his base of that he'll try to make a wind out of that he'll say well we got money for border security that's still a primary issue and we did build a wall maybe not a physical wall but we built some kind of a barrier that keeps people from coming to the country illegally and you'll count that as a win and that we republicans got to say face as well and he gets to get their support on matters that he needs if you want to do infrastructure and other get a couple other things done before two thousand and twenty he's going to need the support of republicans in the senate in the house absolutely well it says remind us of this is about more than politics is actually about people's lives and let's have

it from some of the government workers who haven't been paid for five weeks and might not all be feeling some relief but all fairing but another shutdown could still happen if talks fail angry disappointed. three weeks if get nothing long enough to just get us a check to pacify a for a little while to get us to the next step and then once we get back in there if they shut down again we won't be able to leave. how i feel like they're building a wall around us as employees if i'm going to get laid off again then i should probably be think my career for me it wasn't so bad because i did have some savings ready but you know like they said that it would continue it would be harder because you know landlords and cities and you have any they're not really that willing to make concessions maybe for a little while one or two weeks but very not much more than that really so i think it's a big help especially to get back pay get those paychecks and then you know look for the next paycheck hopefully for consumers to be open and hopefully they can

make a deal before it shuts down with. so leon it seems extraordinary to me to someone who is outside of america the system allows the shutdown to happen in the first place i mean this was the longest in history thirty five days but. the shutdowns in the past because haven't got paid how can or how should the system change so this can start happening well there's lots of different proposals on the table there is the democratic proposal which is that if there is not a funding bill that the government just simply automatically funds at its prior years level speaker pelosi has talked about preventing the bringing that for of all the republicans have a proposal where that happened but after a few days the numbers go down in terms of funding and the democrats may have some concern about that because it would allow the republicans to essentially shrink government funding by doing nothing and so i think some proposal like the automatic

funding at the prior year level proposal could end up working as that as that solution i think about other solution that i've been proposing is this concept that if you actually have a shutdown it's an actual shutdown not a shutdown where people still have to go to work and not get paid but it would actually be a shutdown where people are not permitted to go to work and then you'd never have a shutdown because then the airports would be closed automatically and there would be no food inspectors and there'd be nothing you know none of these things would actually be open and you couldn't survive one or two days without an actual government functioning and so that would be my solution but there's many solutions on the table and i do think at some point if you are a congress person who cares about america and doesn't want us to be the laughing stock of america one of the of the world one of the solutions is going to have to be implemented and he's got it does sound like a good solution of a sensible one as well do you think it would have been well i think there's

a. frustration from people using shutdowns to get something that they can't get ordinarily through the democratic process that people i think are realizing that the shutdown is like using nuclear weapons in them in a conventional war environment you just shouldn't ever resort to that and the fact that people think it's so simple to just say all we're going to shut down the government that better end because we don't live in a world where the rest of the world shuts down when we shut down and we continue to create our own self-inflicted them e.g. or in the united states that is completely unnecessary. as promised that the government will never hold american workers hostage again is going to be fully tested on that point in promise in three weeks time do you think you can keep it well i think that's why the talks between the democrats and republicans are so important because i mean the language is absolutely right let's be very clear

donald trump has held millions of americans hostage for the sake of the wall but as joe said the solution is right there on the table and that is to present a package of border security measures which take advantage of technology which take advantage of increased personnel including increase judges to hear migration cases which take advantage of really a sensible joined up process for those immigrants inside the u.s. like the dreamers now all of that could be presented to trump as here's your border security which is just as good as the wall when it's a wall not a wall though however as long as he still has this idea of his mind this is what sort strawberry that he has to have this physical monument to him self. then those democrats or republicans are going to increasingly frustrated but at the same time i think if those talks are progressing on a sensible practical level they're going to start to contain trouble they're going to start to to fence them in with the in the idea that in three weeks time he's got nowhere to go because if if he then comes back and says i want to shut down the

government senate republicans will say no we're going to approve continued funding if you close a national emergency as your previous guest of pointed out there will be objections in the courts and also objections of those who say you can't raid money for disaster relief from the military just because of your own personal ones i guess the problem is joe he has promised a wall of physical wall and he feels to his supporters and to the right wing commentators that he listens to say closely he has got to deliver that physical barrier and nothing else will do. well for right now i mean in the world of politics and certainly. for the for president trump it's the answers for right now that could always change and i think as he sees his options narrowing he may be inclined to figure out a different way to describe what a wall is and if he can come to terms with. what will likely pass muster

with democrats republicans for border security and then claim victory and say that that's basically a wall it's a technology wall not a physical wall he'll claim victory and his base will be mollified but the president has demonstrated the ability in the past to change on a dime so yeah this is been his signature campaign promise but i don't see any way that he gets a physical wall done easily he's i don't see any way he gets a fiscal wall done there's not going to the funding for it is going to challenge in the courts of you to close a national emergency and there's no appetite in congress for it so i think he's going to have to change the definition of what a wall is and then in order in order for him to claim victory with his base. sorry scott did he think that his the jobs base will be modified i know you told us that you know mum is a chump supports and when she for example forgave him if he went back on this campaign promise. she would be happy but the question is whether she would blame

the democrats and left chop off the hook but i think that raises a very interesting point and that is that joe's absolutely right and i think he's coming in with respect to him he's coming from sort of a you know mainstream republican perspective on this a sensible perspective but this just illustrates the divide and that is when you get commentators on fox t.v. when you get certain commentators at the heritage foundation when you get an anti culture eating up air time to simply say we cannot give an inch we have to have this physical wall or the migrants when we are defeated is america it's the polarized environment which is beyond trump which in a sense traps even him and the problem as we know and joe's absolutely sensible of the way forward leonsis was away for what's the first thing that donald trump watches in the morning when he flips on his television it's not us here at al-jazeera it's those folks on fox t.v. and that undoes all the practical work that other people are trying to do to get him to say maybe a wall could be a very different kind of wall absolutely that they don't just minutes thirty

seconds we've got how weakened has trump been by him this whole episode i think it's a tremendously devastating three weeks for him or thirty days he needs to come to grips with the fact that at the end of the day he shut down the government for thirty five days for ten percent of all wall you know ten percent of what the actual border is and so that wouldn't stop people from coming to claim asylum and the other eight hundred miles anyway so this entire enterprise was completely fruitless from the start even if he got everything he wanted and he didn't even get one foot of wall and so from that standpoint i mean people just throw their hands up and say what are we doing to ourselves the right at us that is going to be a tough three weeks ahead as well many things will i guess for a great discussion today thanks very much they on frescoed joe watkins and scott lucas. and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website is there

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security council bob russia china and mexico backing the embattled president mike hanna reports now from the united nations. a highly unusual weekend session and at the outset russia made very clear its opposition to the proceeding arguing that any u.n. involvement in venezuela constituted a violation of that country's sovereignty particularly when you're still who rules we don't see any external threats coming from what is taking place in venice well or venezuela does not represent a threat to peace and security if anything does represent a threat to peace it is a shameless and aggressive actions of the united states and their allies aimed at the ouster of the legitimately elected president of venezuela russia demanded a procedural vote to continue the requisite mine members voted to do so but the four votes against a signal that yet again the security council would not be speaking with a unified voice now it's time for every other nation to pick

a side no more delays no more games either you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with merger and his mayhem that's a sentiment echoed by u.s. allies the united kingdom making a clear ultimatum we believe that one why don't you is the right man to take venezuela forward and we will recognize him as constitutional interim president if new elections are not announced within eight days the venezuelan foreign minister was allowed to put his country's point of view and seize the opportunity for a show and tell of what he called illegitimate u.s. intervention in latin america the united states is withdrawing forces from syria well they are going to try to start a new war now in latin america venezuela we're not going to give them that satisfaction peace stability and understanding will prevail in venezuela in spite of all the efforts of the countries present here who are trying to trigger a war the u.s.

secretary of state was not there to listen holding a brief news conference before walking away and leaving the council still in session behind. mike and united nations well that ultimatum by the western countries has prompted an angry reaction from the president of the problem of the constituent assembly. the european union say they've given is eight days to call for elections. when israelis don't recorders for anybody thirty four people are now confirmed dead in brazil after the collapse of a dam hold of waste from an iron ore mine rescue workers are searching for hundreds of people who are still missing state prosecutors have frozen one point three billion dollars worth of assets belonging to the mining company valet to pay for damages and the country's environmental agency has already fined valley sixty six million dollars six days of talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. have ended and cut over the promise of further discussions talks have been focused on the withdrawal of foreign forces the role of the afghan government and

a ceasefire agreement washington's on what is now heading to afghanistan to meet the government of kabul the un human rights investigator looking into the murder of saw the journalist jamal khashoggi as sort access to the crime scene in the saudi consulate in istanbul agnes kalamata has also asked to visit the kingdom but hasn't received a reply from saudi authorities nigeria's main opposition party has halted election campaigning for three days and some protests that president mohamed the would be suspending the chief justice all to all the guns accused of failing to declare acid's the opposition people's democratic party says the allegations are politically motivated the chief justice won't likely rule on any disputed results in next month's general election if he's reinstated galavis protesters in france are keeping up pressure on president emanuel i'm at home demonstrators call him the president of the rich and say he is out of touch with ordinary citizens well those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have a full news bulletin for you

a news hour in just. an hour coming up next though it's harder and. previously on hard earned i didn't. do this at all and i think it affected the next twenty years of my life i was sad we didn't get along we even put on our little picture of the house today was another terrible day just having to get home and get some little i always wanted. when i just came here for times. on the. tunnel into one of those for some i'm.

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oh. i'm tired of waking up early that i could tell you. so i'm on the hunt i decided this week i'm going to look for the rich guy so i don't have to. i don't mind if i still have to work i just don't want to work early. with her current income averaging just three hundred dollars a week emilia stand he has applied for jobs all over the city yesterday she interviewed at a new sports bar they interview what really well and then the guy says in the uniform a short set it to serve as that and i do want to and they said you could work shorts you've got to figure for it's a set and i weren't shorts and fifty years old. you know i mean i'm not going to like i'm trying to compete with twenty and thirty year olds so i laugh.

i said or short like that they're. just that's not my style after the whole in a release and maybe we should have told you a tad thanks for getting a coffee. it's about time you did something. and if you know it's ok and jeremy. i mean has been a waitress for most of her life she worked for a few years in construction but the two thousand and eight recession put an end to that. cycle insurance by car payment sprinkler fedders i still pay dues even though i don't work a construction company but you know i live off my credit cards when i don't make enough money so the last couple months it's been minimum balances the longer it goes without finding a better job the further she slips into credit card debt and on the more she risks losing her house under water on the smart. that's my fear not make it enough to be

able to keep you know the things that i have. she works full time at the breakfast place including all weekends and holidays like today thanksgiving. i went to work at six fifteen manager didn't show up for four to seven. there was no business. we had for cooks time servers three busboys. you know if you cut some of your staff you would be already saving money if you trusted your staff enough to cut the floor a manly disappear for you have a great day and have a happy thanksgiving thank you and then he started cutting the floor right around eleven thirty four to twelve. and they sent me home early. and then went home when i was thirty eight but i rode in there and it was thirty eight or thirty five for

a warrant. the owner said to me last week the guy that owns a restaurant that he hopes that this new law doesn't go into effect. and i said what no lice is the minimum wage. and he says it would destroy businesses and i said really. going my take on that is completely different because if you give your average worker a little more money they're probably going to be able to pay bills maybe an extra bill or two or maybe they'll spend a little bit more you know that's what keeps the economy going. i under the impression that it would help businesses if everybody made a little bit more or maybe took a while to eat at a restaurant. the battle over the minimum wage heated up across the country today the workers are demanding minimum pay of fifteen dollars an hour thousands of fast food workers walked off the job at a time when forty four percent of the jobs created in last four years are low wage

jobs there's been a call to double the wage in at least thirty cities it is expected to be the largest strike. i made to fifty right now so fifty k. pay no. d.j. jackson's concern about wages and working conditions has led him to get more involved in the fight for fifteen campaign even as he tries to hang on to his job at walgreens. well we're back to work it was exactly what i expect. a lot of attention a lot of people not talking to you. i hate walking into the job. because i know there's something to be said i know there's something going to be done. i know that i watched. i know they're looking for anything i know i have to show up on time can be immediately. but it's. higher because i can't be perfect.

he believes in a five hundred sixty. but i'm nervous you know we cannot afford four one of us symbols a job. that's going to make you miserable so you want to quit. you don't want to go to work every day like my boss is going to mess with me i can't see my family because now they have me closing all these nights he comes home with a headache or you know he just don't want to talk like this we got to watch house i baby i made employee of the month you know.