he does like to be there to get them grab the big headlines and it seems that this is no exception can be the way donald trump talks about tariffs calls himself a tariff man and he said no hesitation putting these terms all. it's probably worth reminding our viewers that tariff not necessarily good for americans other you for certain parts of the economy right so in this is been a tit for tat trade war war that's been going on for months while the united states has slapped tariffs on chinese goods coming into the united states there was also retaliation that was expected and promised by china for the import of u.s. goods goods into china so there have been u.s. businesses and companies particularly farmers some of those that have been trying to supporters that have been hurt by this in some of the rural states for example pork farmer soybean farmers those are very big products and hot commodities in china that they get from the united states so many of these people have been very concerned the president saying that he is working all of this out he's mindful of

it does believe there is some reason for optimism given the fact that he believes that there have been some signs that there is good faith in the part of the chinese negotiators that they just before they came to washington d.c. for these talks introduced a new foreign investment law to address some of the trumpet ministrations concerns having said that the accusation from the u.s. side has always been that china often says these things says they will put these things into place and then never really follows through so this is the concern donald trump also saying on twitter finally that he will look out for these farmers and manufacturers and without these assurances he said a deal would be an acceptable so hard line by this u.s. president apparently taking that hard line to meet with president xi himself kimberly how could in washington d.c. thanks kimberly. former chairman has accused the japanese car maker of trying to

destroy his reputation. made those comments during an interview from his tokyo prison cell the first time he's spoken to foreign media since being detained in november on suspicion of financial misconduct described his arrest as a story of betrayal because of his resistance to integration with renault and nissan is what's coming up for you on this news hour why donald trump's battle over a border war could actually allow immigrants to stay in the u.s. a lot longer. thousands of come out to mark seventy years since a rebel group took up arms against the government a cease fire is in place but we'll tell you why a permanent peace seems to be drifting further away. and that's what we'll find out when basketball's biggest star will return to action after the longest injury layoff of his career. representatives of brazil's indigenous people are protesting against the policies

of the new far right president it's a narrow we've got daniel with us in one of those events daniel. yes i'm here in sao paolo the biggest city in the americas so full of concrete and tall buildings about as far away as you can get in many ways from the indigenous population of the zille they're scattered all over this country many different languages many different cultures but they do now find themselves united having heard these comments by president johnson also nado who only came to power on the first of january this year promising the first executive order he issued a list of five to put an end to the land being demarcated for further indigenous reservations he said throughout his campaign that they would not ascend to be needs more quickly than land will go towards indigenous communities he asked why it was

less than one percent of the brazilian population should have twelve percent of the land he also talked about the land just big right for development sitting on those sorts of mineral resources and questioning why these indigenous people should have better access to it in the rest of brazil it's a very strong comments let's not forget that he won those elections with a huge majority many brazilians support him but these people behind me indigenous people other brazilians supporting their rights feel now unified a very angry about those comments and filled they should now come together to fight some of these policies put forward by the noddle which they feel give developers give farmers a minus carte blanche to go out and do whatever they want with impunity. in the past it was their remoteness to protected them but once modern society reaches these isolated communities it often becomes a curse for patients farmers taking land and deforesting minus polluting. the

collude with or ignore the transgressions. brazil's indigenous people now say the president joe blow. hostile attitude to them make this situation worse. we indigenous people if we do not keep our guard up we will lose a lot so we do not accept anything less than what is guaranteed in our constitution if needed we will fight to defend our rights as post in our does not respect us. three main education health and territories we are putting the emphasis on territory because territory encompasses everything we don't have our territory we don't have health or education. the past four years have seen a fifteen percent rise in the murder of indigenous activists across brazil with the killers rarely brought to justice. vigilance communities have been long been struggling to protect their lands and to maintain their languages and culture in

the face of encroaching on my industrialized society but now they're fighting for their very survival. only about half the three hundred fifty seven indigenous territories in amazonas state have been fully registered the president has said repeatedly that not one centimeter more will be demarcated as indigenous land why he should one percent of the population have twelve percent of the land campaign this year that will only open the way for further conflict shared assume. there's a feeling that indigenous rights have been abolished with no punishment for those invading indigenous land or making death threats well was already a bad situation will now be worse i mean yes the new government has placed indigenous issues with the agriculture ministry which has promised to promote agri business it's not what eight year old wants to see for future generations. i was born here my father my mother my grandparents were all from here and they died here

and the new generation has come along to take care of us they will not allow the non-indigenous people to take away our land this latest battle in a conflict that's been raging for more than five hundred years there's a new just began. daniel there is as i understand it an indian affairs ministry there which is supposed to protect and promote indigenous culture given everything you just outlined in your report where does that actually figure now in a bowl sonora world. it still exists is known as for nigh it's been here for some time as you say to promote and protect indigenous rights the difficulty again as i mentioned in the package is often the remote snow. some of these indian these indigenous reservations very difficult to protect very difficult to often know what's going on in some of these communities which are hundreds of kilometers from the nearest police station from the nearest or thorough it is that institution of food i always found life very difficult

always found their funds being caught but now they've been incorporated in a new minister in this ministry created by also now those documents along with women's and women's rights a whole mission human rights a whole mishmash of things pretty much thrown together making an already relatively weak organization pretty much to say they still exist is still out there fighting for those indigenous rights the situation has been complicated somewhat by the new head of this willing compassing ministry this evangelical christian has talked about indigenous rights indigenous rights in the past she is now being investigated of the some years ago allegedly having stolen a baby from an indigenous community and brought that on her self so that's really adding complications people seeing the irony in that particular situation as i said before the indigenous community very worried very frightened by the current political situation and really that is something that is bringing them to together

from around this country to try and find a common policy and to stand together they've been defending themselves they say for more than five hundred years ever since the settlement of the first europeans that fight's has now taken on a whole new whole new face a whole new many more complications than your reporting live from sao paulo thank you. at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in northeastern syria in the past two months and hypothermia is being blamed for most of the deaths or the twenty three thousand people mostly women and children escaping fighting in neighboring areas have arrived at. the end of november the world health organization says many families made the journey on foot in freezing conditions and the number of migrants who died when two boats capsized off the coast of djibouti on tuesday has risen to fifty two many others mostly ethiopians are still missing the boats were carrying

a total of about one hundred thirty people thousands of people from the one of africa often its dangerous journey across the red sea to find work in the gulf. immigration courts in the u.s. are struggling to catch up after the longest government shutdown in history a backlog of more than eight hundred thousand cases means for some asylum seekers won't be known for years as the story from los angeles. early morning downtown l.a. the u.s. immigration court building a long line of people waiting to attend a hearing on their cases victor purpose was one of them his hearing was canceled because of the government shutdown his case was scaled for generally twenty four hours because of the chant down the court didn't happen so now we have to wait that a new day would be scary you know right now we don't know if that would be within the next year or two years three years a father of four progress has already been waiting for three years to see whether he can stay in the u.s. or if he will be deported to mexico and it's chaos now have to wait two three four

years more i think it's too much my children are suffering with an overburdened system it's common for cases to drag on for years judge ashley tab a door is president of the national association of immigration judges it's pretty much broken it's been broken for some time but it's become unacceptable at this point and we now have well over eight hundred thousand cases that are pending on our calendars for just about four hundred judges it's not unusual for judges to have four thousand or five thousand cases on their docket she says a fundamental problem is that immigration judges are not truly independent or part of the prosecutorial system of the u.s. justice department which is geared toward removing undocumented immigrants i am constantly being pushed to hear more cases faster and that conflict that tension

has made it impossible for god to be able to do this job and that active and efficient manner to the contrary it has created these delays in. created additional backlog and it has made it very very difficult for the judges to really do their job correctly without undue pressure it's ironic that president trump's shutdown which he started to force congress to allocate money for a border wall has resulted in more undocumented migrants remaining in the u.s. longer immigration judges and attorneys say the only way to fix this broken system is by a sweeping overhaul of the immigration courts and by allocating more money to hire hundreds more immigration judges rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles and on this topic an emotional video that's been shared on social media spot plenty of discussion on immigration in the u.s. regina mahomet's the king at that. last year president trump signed an executive

order to end a policy that allowed for migrant children to be taken from their parents if they crossed the u.s. border illegally but since then there are reports of families who are still being separated. all this video of a mother from honduras named cindy flores reunited with a seventeen month old baby on tuesday has been said of eighteen thousand times on twitter they were separated for over a month well cindy and her family fed honduras fearing gang violence last october but they got separated during the journey her daughter was sent to a children's shelter in texas the u.s. immigration offices took her away from her father in december by this point cindy had made it to san francisco and wanted to reunite with her daughter but was told it would cost her four thousand dollars cindy set up a fund raising page online which raised over ten thousand dollars but her case

talked so much outrage that officials decided to send her daughter immediately and the story has sparked a conversation on twitter people are sharing similar stories and also ways to help scott says there are three hundred thousand other asylum seekers struggling to survive in the u.s. and he's promoting this fund raising page calls while they wait it's organized by a public defender organization in brooklyn new york and graces a texas based nonprofit that provides legal services to immigrant children and refugees they recently shared a story of milda another one juror and woman who like cindy came to the u.s. with little money and no guarantees of a lawyer she's now one of thousands who face legal and financial difficulties while they wait to be granted asylum. leaders reached a deal on thursday to establish a new national unity government which will be the third government led by the western backed. you know what has more from beirut. the political deadlock is now

over nine months of political wrangling lebanon has a now a government it's never an easy process in this country rival politicians agreeing on the distribution of seats simply because of lebanon sectarian based power sharing agreement so rival politicians agreeing on a new cabinet why now well many observers believe france played a role france a former colonial power a country which has influence here in lebanon their work consultations in recent weeks in the french capital a number of lebanese politicians are visiting paris and paris of course having some sort of leverage over iran we have to remember the united the european union is agreeing to business dealings with iran skirting u.s. sanctions so transfers have leverage over you run and iran of course its allies hezbollah they hold political power in this country all sides made concessions

but it was a demand by hezbollah that it's suddenly ally hezbollah being of course the shia party it's certainly ally be given a ministerial portfolio hezbollah has had a more conciliatory. attitude in the past a few days so a new government parliament is going to me to give it a vote of confidence that is expected to happen but the political power the balance of power does not changed hezbollah and its allies control control the parliament they control political power in this country and by extension that means iran and its ally the syrian government are who really have influence over lebanon. greece's defense minister has called on the british government to apologize to the victims of the so-called cyprus emergency this was an armed campaign in the one nine hundred fifty s. to end british colonial rule on the island it's going to depend it's nine hundred

sixteen and while the u.k. has already agreed to pay compensation it still refuses to accept liability or change or special report. arriving from athens the defense minister of greece came to pay tribute to their sacrifice this week. after his tour of the prison we asked the minister if it was now time the british government apologized for what happened here by this it happily the answer is not simple you understand. they have to have to but so many years have passed since then this matter has almost been exhausted but not for this man who was tortured for eighteen days he said the psychological abuse was the worst a british interrogator told him you'll die every day in here like a pig in your own blood and mud. they put

a wet blanket on my face to make it difficult to breathe and place the bucket over my head my hands were tied the british soldiers started hitting me quipping my back and feet using turn terms on my knees they would do it in shifts. car this was the last of the freedom fighters to fall to his death from this noose and the prison and also the youngest just nineteen years old his family stood outside the prison gates as he was executed. i felt so much pain also the whole family the first year is so much anger right it gets softer over the years but it has never gone away. the scene is just outside nicosia and these pictures underline the fact that with the recent flare up i'm a ok activity of the security forces can take no chances. every

bridge is a potential danger and a likely place for a bomb to have been planned on travels on the side for hidden arms or suspects may themselves run into trouble they must always be on the lookout for a mine bomb on ambush the u.k.'s minister of state for europe's alan duncan said after the out of court settlement was announced we must not forget the past indeed we must learn from it but the most important thing is to look to the future the settlement does not constitute any admission of liability and is not a precedent in respect to any potential future claims against the government standing in the mountains far above nicosia the statue of one of the freedom fighters whose nom de guerre was the eagle of the cross he fought to the death against british soldiers who surrounded his hideout in this cave they poured petrol into it and burned him alive but the land his gaze is forever fixed on is now

free david chaytor al jazeera the true dos mountains still have you on this news are they want weapons by protesters in central african republic or demanding the lifting of an embargo and support for time champions japan prepared to face the tone of the top scorers qatar and the asian cup final far away be here with that and. however the weather is now largely set fair across the middle east's normal service pretty much has been resumed still a few wins for showers over towards afghanistan that when they stop towards is back to stand but nothing much to speak of as we go through the next few days still it's also want to see wintry flurries just spilling out he might just catch the odd one

moving across northern syria as we go on into sas day basis out of the med fine and dry now seventeen eighteen celsius there for a beirut seven celsius for kabul fun to drive pakistan crouchie around twenty three degrees followed right to across much of the arabian peninsula possibility of a little more cloud just developing as we go through the weekend twenty seven forty back to around twenty five here in doha so freshening up a touch but it should stay last you try not a dry weather to wade through our southern africa or south africa see some useful right over the next day or so suited to see a little bit of wet weather that eastern cape saying some sharp showers from time to time and welcome rainfall making its way into cape town as we go on into saturday so the chances of me useful showers pushing in at this date mozambique is largely dry wanted to showers into the north some showers there into tanzania and showers also right into angola.

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you're on the news i hear at al-jazeera and these are the top stories the venezuelan opposition leader says the state is using terror and fear to control the population he says security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro have been threatening his family but are making these comments at a university in caracas laying out his plan for how he can take the country forward . a your country's plan to launch a new payment system with iran which bypasses u.s. sanctions and allow e.u. companies to do business with teheran using a european payment channel supporting u.s. penalties but the u.s.

says it won't affect the economic pressure that it. and representatives of brazil's indigenous people are protesting against the new president's policies. taking over control of their ancestral lands. activists in egypt are worried there's a plot to silence them after a lawyer filed a complaint against for human rights groups who met the french president in his visit to egypt last week the complaint accuses the rights groups of offending the egyptian state and harming the interests of the country and says the group discussed death sentences prison conditions with mccrone the complaint also says groups discuss proposed constitutional changes with the french president and that includes extending presidential terms which would allow abdel fattah el-sisi to stay in power until twenty twenty six we have got. with us now researcher at the middle east north africa division of human rights watch he's on skype from berlin

first of all is it unusual at all do you think for. human rights groups to be meeting with a visiting president in this in another country. i don't think it's unusual for her in. her shows visiting countries. that say at least facing trouble when it comes to human rights situation to try to meet with human rights activists and nationals groups local groups to hear from them because. they will definitely meet with officials government officials and hear from that type two. and i think it's important to meet with human rights activists and hear from them about their opinion when it comes to what's happening on the ground i think also

president mcu felt under pressure increasing pressure in. recent months because of his country his country's close ties with president c.c. and what many human rights groups including human rights watch amnesty and the international federation for human rights have documented. the use of french weapons in a precinct and crushing egyptian protesters protests in egypt and also the transfer of spying technology from france to egypt that has been used to spy on egyptian people so french but is not my call and i think felt under pressure to show more support to the egyptian rights group. saying how grangemouth sorry to interrupt you how seriously do you take this sort of legal action i'm sure you and the other rights groups would think it's all you know completely unwarranted but

the system in egypt doesn't walk around with this sort of thing either. we we take it very seriously are the we have seen these kinds of companies filed by lawyers who are very hyper nationalist and pro-government and egyptian law unfortunately permits this kind of lawsuits filled by hand by lawyers who have nothing at stake at actually but they just lie these. over pro that kids ations actually laughable of harming national to get the and spreading false news yeah and others could be the gyptian authorities to strip. activists from the egyptian nationality or to actually imprison them and we have seen the risk users acting in many cases upon these complaints and they're creating activists to court such events. to make a new mood because if you're saying you think the noise and not really nothing to

do with it and nothing to gain do you think there is pressure on the bam from the government to actually bring this sort of action. it's not pressure from the government it's a favor the are doing for the government and security agencies these lawyers have strong ties with the security agencies and we have seen this pattern also under president mubarak when lawyers who have ties with the government and security agencies find complains again a strength or them activist but under president sisi. put every precinct hugely and the numbers of cases of such cases are i think. incredibly and it's really laughable in egypt criminal particularly low a person who witnesses exert traditional execution or torture cannot actually file a complaint about what he witnessed but people who are opposed to activists or writers can laughable complaints about harming the national security or spreading

false news and then we see these activists very fair to court on trumped up charges . from human rights watch joining us thank you for that thank you so much. the u.n. security council is expected to decide whether to lift an arms embargo on the central african republic was imposed five years ago after the president was overthrown the government says it needs arms so its military can fight rebel groups that control eighty percent of the country reports was government supporters marched through benghazi hoping to pressure diplomats in new york central african republic is under an international embargo to stop it from buying some ammunition for its military and police just oh. i am angry for my country we want the immediate lift to the arms embargo to give power to our armed forces to start working on bringing peace to our country was imposed by the un five years ago

after a coup that led to months of violence was meant to bring stability to a country that seen years of fighting now the government says it needs the weapons to fight rebels who control nearly eighty percent of the nation the. question was how can we say that the embargo is a good thing for our country while our national army doesn't have a weapons and the rebels are arming themselves every day. yet if. he needed it they may get there came a day there is a lot that's needs to be opened what is that luck it's the one that in fact in our security forces. but the u.n. isn't convinced that more guns are a good idea russia received an exemption to the embargo and provided light arms to government forces and sent military trainers last year. a un panel found that russia's intervention created an arms race with the rebels pushing them to increase

their own stockpiles. there were also peace talks rebel leaders met government representatives last week in sudan there's a lot to discuss fourteen different rebel groups fighting each other pitting muslim and christian communities against each other to control a country rich in minerals diamonds and gold a norwegian refugee council has warned of a catastrophe if the talks spiral. a un peacekeeping force of nearly fifteen thousand is on the ground and the government wants to take charge and says it needs guns to do that challenge ballast al-jazeera . the oldest some one of the largest rebel armies in me and maher wants to unite with neighbor groups to fight the government the idea came as the qur'an national liberation army marked seventy years since its fight for greater autonomy began trying to reach a peaceful solution that's failed when he reports from her own state throughout

decades of civil war korean refugees have poured across the river from me and ma seeking shelter in thailand this journey was in the other direction but still in the name of the fight. this is my first time and very happy to come and my revolution is like the current new year. i'm not sure what the future holds but we hope that we will get freedom and happiness. they came to the jungle headquarters in eastern me and ma of the qur'an national liberation army to mark seventy years since it took up arms against the government they call it revolution day but the revolution still hasn't been realized. the fight will go on because the government won't give us freedom easily so we have to fight for that the mainly christian organization is one of many armed ethnic groups that are fighting for greater rights and self-determination a cease fire is in place but it's broken regularly. and peace talks have made little progress one of the main problems is that the armed in the group say when

the negotiating with me and must civilian government they don't get anywhere because don not the ones who are really in control it's me and miles military that run the country for almost fifty years that still has ultimate power and they say when they do talk to the me and my military there's a lack of trust and. the korean leaders have now suspended involvement in the peace process choosing instead to hold informal talks on their own terms those involved say it's a temporary setback to does the nature of the peace process not only in our country some other gun treat so peace brother does sometimes still mean sometimes the magnet. over the decades the fight in korean state has splintered but this was the first time in fifteen years that all korean groups came together to mark the anniversary they now hope to reunite and join forces in battle. i want to see all command groups fighting together for the same victory target.