ministration but after repeated and failed attempts to the seventeen year old afghan war the peace process has a long way to go afghanistan's president has voiced his skepticism a soft money warning the terms of any agreement bus include approval from the afghan government so i'm sure ronny will basically be thinking ok my work starts now all this follows the appointment of one of the taliban's co-founders as leader of the group's political office based in the qatari capitol hill honey 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 so aaron al jazeera searching for his brother white concern is growing among the families of protesters detained in sudan. and facebook gives a thumbs up to merging its messenger services but is it just another way of making money by invading your privacy. hello there's a deep in stagnant pool of really cold air sitting here in the middle of canada's come down to the plain states and it's in the upper midwest the satellite because of his this white mess is not cloud that is low temperature on the ground so the high temperature on sunday in minneapolis can be minus fourteen in chicago modest

and we have had minus twenty of these are really quite low figures obviously below average but they are confined to you on the eighty's is still above zero in new york even auto as a minus six is not particularly cold and the rest of the u.s. is doing what you might expected to do that that cold pool will probably develop in the next few days for temporary being kirshner and therefore snowy weather coming from kandar cross the plains states across the midwest and into maybe the upper valley and this is sort of sunday into monday that'll leave a lot of snow on the ground which means when the cold back comes back to settle it will get even coat is still to the south of this then where we have seen for a while are wondering frontal system and here is another one a lot of rain on that if you're lucky in florida more like in the bahamas tsukuba and telling off through honduras and the breeze to the east standard breeze daily light showers maybe.

on counting the cost plenty as another shows in damage but lots of talk from leaders there about an economic slowdown what the chinese president said about gray rhinos and black swans the cost of holding the u.s. budget to ransom. counting the cost. i'm going to watch the odds are a reminder of our top stories this venezuela has rejected an ultimatum by spain

germany france and britain the nicolas maduro kohl elections within eight days old el recognize opposition leader. as president the u.s. has been urging world leaders to isolate the madeira government at a special session of the u.n. security council. thirty four people have now been confirmed dead in brazil after the collapse of a holding waste from an on all mine rescue workers is searching for hundreds still missing. and six days of talks between the united states and the afghan taliban have ended with a promise of further if to further discussions washington's envoy is now heading to afghanistan to meet the government in kabul. the u.n. human rights investigator looking into the matter of genest melkus has sort of access to the crime scene in the saudi consulate in istanbul i guess kalama has also asked to visit the kingdom but it's hasn't had a reply from saudi authorities tell about his the un special rapporteur on

executions is set to arrive in turkey on monday she says inquiry is a crucial step towards formal accountability for the one hundred had little josh on is the executive director at the arab center in washington d.c. he says there is growing pressure on the united nations to pursue its own investigation of the consortium. but there has been a lot of international pressure directed. particularly office of the secretary general of the un 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 again this column up 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 and stumbled 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. families of anti-government protesters arrested in demanding answers about their whereabouts hundreds of people have been detained in six weeks of demonstrations against rising prices and the rule of president. morgan. starts his day in the capital with phone calls and internet searches he's hoping to hear some news about his brother was the man who went missing on the twentieth of

january after protests in sudan 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. six weeks of anti-government protests started on the nineteenth of december over rising food costs the cries for change into calls for president bush here to end his thirty year rule. 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. this 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. 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 and it is their right and they shouldn't be arrested or listen to. the ruling national congress party it makes the rest of activist but if he says them of inciting violence and says they

will be charged and tried in court with a talking further. yes there are people who have been arrested they were calling for protests without getting legal permits they were trying to stabilize the situation and 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're in good health and 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 home yes protesters in france are keeping up the pressure on president manuel macro several rallies were held across the country marking the eleventh week of protests against macro demonstrators calling the president of the rich and say he's out of touch with ordinary citizens thousands of people have marched in serbia's capital belgrade for an eighth week to protest against president alexander futures government demonstrators want restrictions on media eased and are calling for more freedom of speach. a funeral

has been held for an eight year old guatemalan boy who died in u.s. custody after crossing the border with mexico philippe gomez loans or was the second child to die while being held by american authorities last month. after being detained with his father they traveled to the border from their remote village of yelling the u.s. president on a trump is being criticized by his own supporters off the retreat on his border wall demands to end the longest government shutdown in american history on day thirty five of the shutdown congress unanimously passed a temporary deal to fund the government until february fifteenth trump says he could still declare a national emergency to secure the five point seven billion dollars for the wall if no agreement is reached in the next three weeks facebook has announced plans to integrate three of the world's biggest messaging applications that's what's at instagram and facebook messenger and the company is working to get the three applications talking to each other while remaining separate services the plan is in

its early stages and could be completed by the end of this year old twenty twenty well facebook bought the photo sharing app instagram and twenty twelve for a billion dollars picked up whatsapp two years later for a whopping sixteen billion dollars in cash and stocks all three services a popular with an estimated two point six billion users between them you have to be in the same application to connect this merger project will change that but it's happening is facebook is already under pressure it uses privacy it's face repeated investigations of how it's handled data out all bulk and is a coder and developer who's created an online privacy tool 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 when let's get more on the edge to blouse that have happened in the southern island of genoa in the philippines we can talk to jamila haven't been on the phone from manila demand what more do we know. well what we know we make. early this morning we're going to. bomb exploded site the church another. we know is that there is a significant number of people including members of. their own. comes at the very. end of the.

government that is planned by the philippine government. but even if it had. not going to. technicalities. in the constitution anything. related to that as you know the law is already right. on. actually. there for. a time being more from you. breaking news on this thanks very much indeed for time being nigeria's main opposition politician hold to the election campaigning for three days it's in protest against president. suspending the chief justice the opposition people's democratic policies. against will to own a gun politically motivated chief justice would likely rule any disputes or results and next month's general election if he's reinstated.

has started dispersing fifteen million dollars of aid from qatar off to the money was redirected to the united nations israel had the donation meant to help run civil services in the besieged the money was authorized to be released on friday but with conditions hamas refused to accept fishel say they will work on new ways to distribute what remains of the one hundred million dollars. tension was very hard. on hamas to accept cash for a calm and terminally and on earth friendly government the tension also was very high from the opposition. saw war side all relief not totally or lived under so much but. this way to do it and then you'll ice fishing events in south korea is expected to break attendance records this year with nearly two million visitors it's the last weekend of the three week festival in the county

watch on close to the border with north korea and its rough ride reports it's political for on the peninsula or maybe even bigger crowds in the future. it's everything you can think of doing with ice and then some. sliding down it rolling over it just staying up on it most especially fishing through it. county trades on the tourism potential of being one of the coldest places in south korea in winter by the end of the festival some twenty thousand fishing holes have been drilled so you'll has just caught her first fish it takes a long time she says at the next hole parks junos it. has to freezing aside one's boyfriend has brought her here for a special treat this is my first time. but i can't one pull on the line is

a good feeling. and for those who dare there's the chance to strip off those restricting layers and brave the near freezing water to catch them and hold on to them any way you can it's. simply don't want to wait for a while to get in there with their. parents. probably. for sixteen years has been building its brand helped by the humble mountain trout by the truckload their farm and released cotton then along the frozen river if ice is what you've got ice is what you do look says the county chief it's forty centimeters thick you could drive a tank across it but that's just what this town doesn't want less than thirty kilometers from the developed rhizome frontier with north korea the current peace moves are good for business. like to be able to farm in the child free use in the

festival in the north and see north koreans come here to take part to see an era of peace has always been my hope for south koreans the intriguing possibility of going north beyond the wire i'd like to maybe even visit north korea winters there are colder still but even the prospect of a warm north korean welcome until recently was unthinkable rob mcbride al-jazeera county south korea. more not all the stories we're covering right there on our website so al-jazeera dot com is the address. so this is out there these are the top stories at least eight people have been killed in two explosions in the southern philippines the blast happened in front of a catholic church just after mass in jolo that's about a thousand kilometers south of manila all reports of

a number of injuries venezuela has rejected an ultimatum by spain germany france and britain that nicolas maduro call elections within eight days old they'll recognize opposition leader. as president of the united states has been urging world leaders to isolate the madeira government and a special session of the u.n. security council five venezuela's president maduro is claiming a diplomatic victory at the u.n. security council meeting in new york. today at the same time our foreign minister was speaking at the united nations security council to venezuela i want you to applaud the foreign minister and. the u.n. made a great victory at the u.n. today a victory for venezuela a victory of truth a big victory at the united nations with his support of most of the countries in the u.n. security council to reflect victory. left the meeting for the death toll from a dam burst in southeastern brazil has risen to thirty four hundreds more still

missing or dead under a sea of mind waves state prosecutors have frozen one point three billion dollars worth of assets belonging to the mining company to pay for the damages countries environmental agency has already find the company sixty six million dollars. six days of talks between the afghan taliban in the united states have ended in qatar with the promise of further discussions talks have been focused on the withdrawal of foreign forces the role of the afghan government and the ceasefire agreement washington's and boys now heading to afghanistan to meet the government in kabul the un human rights investigator is looking into the murder of a saudi journalist. she has sought access to the crime scene in the saudi consulate in istanbul i can this kind of i was asked to visit the kingdom but has not yet had a reply from the saudi authorities nigeria's main opposition party has halted election campaigning for three days in protest against president mohamed bihari

suspending the chief justice the opposition people's democratic party says the allegations against a wall to oregon politically motivated alright you're up to date with the headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up right off the country the cost. if you were looking at this from the outside it would really wonder what was going on but what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pave the road smaller and smaller we don't want to be so realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera.

has 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 all 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. 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 bill that. we intend to reduce the size of the residence state the parties and carry out to reform such as the social security reform the 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 global this is perfectly willing to flirt with the 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 suddenly 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 by 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 brics it as well in the just the rise of protectionism that we all seeing in some of our 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 solid 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 an 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 to emphasize to both international investors and to 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 is 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 year 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. think juries to other parts 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 turn to the packet packets and things like this it is possible both of 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 custom 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 to sort out what to 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 on rotting in lorries before it can reach

supermarkets several have already said they too are stockpiling tins or nonperishable foods though they 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 sort 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 brics 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 outs 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 turn.