to do. with them look at the steps to do the move forward by this way and trying to find them a crowd think by. either no may be may be the odd we'd be a solution but we don't know what will happen when they meet that is close to here if they see that they will be covert for the same misty low i have no doubt that they are going to leave the auto and their bus side too and then my little will be along because they are my joy to deal with this will lend support though in order for the international community center shot from washington in washington that thank you very much. germany france and britain of launched a new payment system with iran designed to bypass u.s. sanctions it's aimed at saving the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal which u.s. president donald trump pulled out of last year it's expected to be endorsed by old twenty eight you members but the u.s.

isn't happy natasha ports now from paris. it was on the sidelines of the european union foreign ministers meeting in bucharest that france britain and germany launched a new e.u. payment mechanism to allow european companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions ministers hope the initiative will safeguard the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal and help ensure regional stability and good example of that or at least we are making clear that we are not only talking about keeping the nuclear agreement live but we are now creating a possibility to do business transactions that is a prerequisite for us so we can deliver on our obligations and in return be able to ask you rather not to develop enrich uranium for military use the e.u.'s foreign policy chief who is one of the twenty fifteen deals may negotiators work on the trade system called instax establishment of special purpose vehicle is i believe the mechanism that would allow for legitimate trade without continue as for c.n.n.

in the interview of the missile for support from our side there you payment system will avoid transfers in dollars it will be based in paris overseen by a banking manager in germany and supervised by a board in the united kingdom in the beginning it will be for trade in things like medicine food and some humanitarian items but the idea is that it could be expanded to trade in other areas the mechanism will help mainly small and medium businesses but it may not be enough to persuade european multinationals such as french oil giant total german car maker dana to resume trade with iran and risk u.s. penalties but some analysts say its symbolism is important because it sends two clear messages one to tehran that the e.u. is serious about maintaining the nuclear deal and the other to washington washington is the method it sends about the future as well here and the europeans

that being a signaling that if the u.s. continues this already you and all. inch of that secondary sanctions policy that the europeans can really begin to build up something bigger in response to it and that this special purpose because just the first step donald trump says he hopes that u.s. sanctions will force tehran into a new deal so far you're a new leaders say they will dreamy go sheet but they will could the e.u. payment plan those here will hope that the mechanism will save the nuclear agreement because if it collapses it could deal a blow to europe's efforts and credibility the al-jazeera paris. i prefer mia is thought to be behind the deaths of at least twenty nine children and babies over the last two months in a refugee camp in northeastern syria around twenty three thousand people mostly women and children of arrived at the whole camp in the past eight weeks after fleeing fighting the world health organization says many families traveled there on foot in freezing weather children and babies are reported to have died either along

the way or soon after they arrived elizabeth hof is the world health organizations representative in damascus she says they need to be able to work freely in syria to prevent these types of deaths. because you have now at thirty how. do most. medical help it's going around the clock and we have a good number took me five thousand. but this is also due to what we are. looking to go through a good new board. in fact. there were only a model. so this is something that we've got that through today and it's very much but we can prove our under thirty. the force income to be a arms but we are not giving us a commission. so lead for you on this news out from london.

reunited with our honduran mother after a month long ordeal one of the youngest victims of an immigration policy donald trump was supposed to have ended brazil's indigenous communities lead protests against president is policies which they say could spark genocide. and they don't lose often but when they do it can be pretty devastating coming out in sport details on what was a bad day for team india in new zealand. now at least twelve people have been killed in the u.s. as temperatures drop to record lows across the midwest freezing weather has been caused by a stream of called the polar vortex that usually spins around the north pole but it's been pushed south causing the better cold the deep freeze has snapped rail lines canceled hundreds of flights strained utilities and closed schools freezing

weather isn't unusual in the region with temperatures dropping to minus twenty four and even minus forty in minnesota authorities and residents are worried. the weather is frigid bliss blizzard like. the wind is ridiculous doesn't stop you can't see anything i think the word cold is not. a proper way to define it it's just unbelievably cold and the wind chill is just super brutal and it's just a boy in a kind of a scared me so we just let me wake up naturally and then as soon as he woke up we got out of there. let's now speak to matt ginsburg jackal is a chicago resident and board member of southside together organizing for power thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us can you describe for us what it feels like to be in chicago right now. serbia many small schools are

canceled the entire district is canceled most businesses have shut down the temperatures are just brutally cold cold enough it's painful to be out for more than a couple of minutes in them and to have any exposed skin whatsoever and it's also surreal because they're still homeless people trying to survive in the streets never a growing problem in the city. and so you have homeless people on the streets and obviously conditions like will be putting people's lives at risk how are people that halak communities coping. so there are some emergency shelters in place and some outreach workers trying to encourage people to come out of the street the problem is that homelessness in the city is a chronic and structural problem produced by the ongoing policies of a mayor who's shut down social services and who's continued to promote gentrification and displacement of neighborhood is that pushes every day more people out onto the streets. and chalco has

a track record we understand of closing social services for vulnerable populations how do those colleges affect now the situation for people who are homeless at a time like this yeah it's terrible so four years ago chicago's mayor rahm emanuel shut down ask about city's mental health clinics six out of its twelve many of those were places that not only served as emotional supports and psychiatric supports for people but also as warming centers as places we could come in from out of the cold on a cold day and also places that helps you to gain the kindest ability both socially and emotionally in order to be able to maintain a job and maintain housing it's really been a brutal period in chicago's history a period of abandonment of the most vulnerable and it makes conditions worse than ever for those who are living in the streets right now so clearly a cutback in social services and results says making things worse for

a lot of people that right now what about contingency plans is the local government doing anything to help people. yes so there are some initiatives out there there are certainly out richards workers there are buses that are trying to take people to warming centers in houma centers the problem is not so much during these two days of the polar vortex as we have an incredibly brutal winter that last for months upon and while you have it in the headlines for a few days there will be an increase in spaces within shelters and in outreach workers but when that disappears in the headlines those people are back to the streets some of them never managed to get off the streets and are forced to try to survive every year in chicago we have hundreds of deaths of people to hypothermia who are forced to live on the streets and that's a result as i mentioned of i'm going policies that have been the most vulnerable and you know as our government talks about you were talking earlier about the situation in venezuela where tension launching into more endeavors abroad that would waste money on whiteness militaristic adventures in the name of oil meanwhile

we're abandoning the most vulnerable here domestically well thank you for sharing your perspective with us community organizer makin's but jackal joining us there from chicago. well now in all the stories we're covering donald trump says there'll be no doubt on trade with china until he meets with president xi jinping u.s. and chinese officials been holding talks in washington to try and end the dispute that seen the wealthy largest economies impose try tariffs on each other there are reports of a possible summit now between trump and g next month i think is a one thousand a trace in december but if there's no deal to trace will end in march and the u.s. will increase taxes to an additional two hundred sixty seven billion dollars on chinese goods. if it does happen it will be by far the largest trade deal ever made and we essentially didn't have a trade deal with china we lost five hundred billion dollars with china for many years a year and it went from three hundred to five hundred five hundred five billion

dollars a year was lost in our dealing with china and i have a very good relationship with president xi and i think we'll sit down at the end at the end of the negotiation by our representatives and do something with respect to make a deal with china i think it has a very good chance of happening. and emotional video that's being shed on social media sparking debate about immigration in the united states it shows the moment a hunter and mother was reunited with a seventeen month old daughter after they were separated from more than a month but you know mohammed explains. 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 shed over 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 after u.s. immigration officers took her away from her father in december by this point cindy had made it to something sisko had wanted to reunite with their 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 paves calls while they wait it's organized by a public defender organization in brooklyn new york and very says

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. and resilient foresees a warning that water around a mining dam that collapsed on friday is contaminated and a risk to the public at least ninety nine people died in southeastern brazil when the dam holding. in a waste collapse or than two hundred fifty people are still missing prosecutors in brazil have frozen two hundred nineteen million dollars belonging to the country's largest iron ore mining company which is responsible for running the dam the money will be used to compensate the victims. in brazil hundreds of people have been out demonstrating against the anti indigenous policies of the far right president also nora daniel was at

a protest in sao paolo. representatives from some of the one hundred thousand or so indigenous people got to the coffers ill of come to sell the biggest city in the country about this far away from those communities if they could possibly be but they're hoping to hear their voices will be heard running from place three here to protest against the government that wants to remove some of the rights we have to make do with the decreased by the present and generally the first is going to harm the indigenous people comes we want to get this document and know what that is why we are demonstrating different parts of the country today. they are these are people who have been persecuted they say for more than five hundred years ever since the arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is that it's never been given the policies of the recently installed president john about so novels are now told during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land will be demolished demarcated of indigenous territory he also asked why the that's the one

percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. raging that some much of that land was host to mineral wealth. looking territory land that should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns so this is what is really upset the indigenous community they fear relaxation of the rules protecting the status within the constitution and any protection they once enjoyed under the law have been curtailed and they must now unify gather the support of as many non-indigenous brazilians as possible to try to fight against what they feel is a hostile government still ahead for you on the program it's taken them nine months of wrangling but lebanon finally reaches a deal to form a new government. by one of the largest and oldest rebel armies in myanmar is calling on rival groups to come together fight the government and it's ball we'll

tell you about one of the biggest deals completed on transfer deadline day in english i mean any. get a welcome back here in the national weather forecast here across europe we are seeing plenty of messy weather a lot of unorganized systems but that's about to change because we're going to start to see one system really did need to do. elop here across the western part of europe as we go into friday notice this area of circulation that is coming in across parts of france as well as into spain very windy conditions very wet conditions for many people and you are from spain over here towards france into the alps down here towards italy as well we're going to be seeing plenty rain as we end the week up towards the north though really not looking as bad we're going to be seeing mostly cloudy conditions across most of central europe but then we're going

to start to see some snow coming into play as we go into the beginning of the weekend up here paul cross parts of scandinavia as well but down here towards the south it is still going to be quite wet rome it's going to be a rainy day for you with a temper there of about fourteen degrees as we make our way down here across parts of northern africa that same weather system causing problems across morocco into algeria as well notice the rain across a bug that's really going to continue as we go towards the next couple days and even algiers is going to be seeing a rainy day at about fourteen degrees there tunas we're going to see some rain as well as some clouds windy conditions for you at seventeen and tripoli a windy day for you with a temperature of twenty six. believe in the soul lands. a place like no. generation spawned by the sun later. but

the discovery of preciously below the salt threatens to change the way of life for as a. witness sallade zero are now just the raw. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara on culture.

or come back a look at the top stories now venezuela's opposition leader one guy joe is accused national security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro of intimidating his family while he was presenting his plan for the country hypothermia is thought to be behind the deaths of at least twenty nine children and babies over the past two months in a refugee camp in northeastern syria. and germany france and the u.k. of launched a new payment system allowing them to keep trading with iran by pos u.s. sanctions in order to save the two thousand and fifteen new deal. all friday marks the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine iranian revolution islamic republic of iran was created after ayatollah khomeini returned from exile in the weeks that followed khomeini's followers toppled the shah of iran's dynasty

from power in the capital to han same bus driver he looks now at the legacy of the revolution. by the time our to lure a home a new stepped off the plane into one the persian king here campaigned against for years from exile had left the country. the shah of iran was gone never to return and his government back home was about to collapse. over the course of the next ten days he supported overpowered the shah's loyalists but cementing their control of the country was bloody work to this day people stand accused of widespread brutality and extrajudicial killings carried out in the frenzy of revolution but for iranians who supported him it was a time of hope and change every year iranians remember khomeini's triumphant return by retracing his steps. motorcade took him past the monument built during his reign renamed freedom tower after the revolution fast forward forty years and the events of that time that reshaped the region in the world continue to shape iran today.

muscle car now a member of president hassan rouhani is government became a seminal figure in iranian politics after the revolution she rose to prominence as the public face of iran during the u.s. hostage crisis if the car said fears of an american plan to overthrow khamenei and reinstall the shah is why students raided the embassy and took fifty two people hostage the crisis lasted for more than a year in the days before the anniversary of the revolution she reminded people nine hundred seventy nine was a complicated time everything is there you see. the military the intelligence of this is shaky and all the signals coming indicate that there is something going on which might be included against this newly established and. for people in power the benefits of toppling a corrupt king remain obvious and revolutionaries now leaders continue to paint

pretty pictures of iran's future but for iranians now governed by them those pictures have begun to fade six years old when the revolution happened maria mahmoud honey attended khomeini's rallies with her mother even helped the activist of the time face off with police and soldiers. but she says for many iranians the revolution has come to mean little more than broken promises as a more i remember a young people building trenches making money out of cocktails and even though as a child i helped them or accompanied my mother to rallies at least back then things were cheap but now i feel pity for the current generation forty years after the revolution iran has become a country of sharp contrasts. iran today is more militarily capable but remains in a constant state of conflict with several countries politically more independent from outside influence iran is still often isolated on the world stage and despite

the fact that it is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world. for millions of iranians prosperity is still something that remains elusive. now lebanese leaders have reached a deal to establish a new national unity government between rival politicians will end nine months of political wrangling over how to share cabinet portfolios it will be the government led by the current prime minister saad hariri in a honda has more from beirut. the political deadlock is now over nine months of political wrangling lebannon has and now a government it's never an easy process in this country rival politicians agreeing on the distribution of seats simply because of lebannon 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 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's skirting u.s. sanctions so france does have leverage over you around 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 a shia party it's certainly ally be given a ministerial portfolio hezbollah more 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 out. lies control control the parliament they control political power in this country and by extension that means iran and its ally the syrian government are our rule really have influence over lebanon. to zimbabwe now a campaign is a calling on the government to take action against soldiers accused of rape during the government crackdown on protesters and opposition activists several people were shot dead this month dozens more injured during the demonstrations which were triggered by a massive fuel price hike one woman who says she was raped during the crackdown explained what happened to her. soldiers arrived at my house around midnight they knocked twice and i didn't answer then they violently banged the door i got out of bed open the door and saw the whole soldiers one of the mosque me to lie on the bed he raped me then the second one raped me the other two holding firearms just stood there in the second members

finished and they all left. now to sudan where the president tomorrow bashir is announced the reopening of the border with eritrea it was closed a year ago following accusations by her tomb that the eritrean government was supporting rebel groups in sudan both countries deployed troops to the eastern border town of because of the dispute. that it is very hard on this day we salute our fellow brothers in eritrea the president government and the people from misrata includes all i announce that our border with eritrea is now open trains are our fellow brothers and we are on the same boat it is true that politics can tear us apart we have lured in politics that brings us together or historical relations territorial proximity and blood by. russia says it will host talks between the taliban and afghan politicians opposed to president ashraf ghani next tuesday one u.s. official is labeled the move an attempt to muddle the u.s. backed peace process meanwhile the taliban is saying it's not seeking

a monopoly on power in a future administration in afghanistan this week the u.s. envoy said that bin agreements in principle towards a framework for peace with the taliban but that framework was drawn up without input from the afghan government meanwhile a report on u.s. operations in afghanistan shows the government's influence has declined kabul controls around sixty three percent of the country that's down almost two percent from the previous quarter as the taliban is slightly increased its influence controlling nearly eleven percent reports also reveals the u.s. dropped five times more munitions in afghanistan last year compared to two thousand and sixteen it accuses senior afghan security forces of involvement in narcotic rings in the northern and western regions on top of that afghanistan is also suffering a prolonged drought more than ten million afghans face severe food shortages and around two hundred sixty thousand people have been displaced. a political analyst enters our team says the report highlights the need for the u.s.

to change its tactics. it's not only one point three per same that the taliban or maybe that are in opposition in tutorial but some more certainly for me that why we're not winning this war why we're just stuck in the mud for the last fifteen years after eighteen years why the united states the international community and our stuff going government are still claiming that they can fight but still we see that in the control of the afghan government they died a state of america would like to play to tactics in the same time they would like to shake the right hands and they would like to hold iraq and the left both tactics did not work us so far because the special and why for donald trump meeting have been meeting with the taliban for six days in qatar when he came to afghanistan i think that it was not very happy he shared his concerns in his briefings with person gani there was no good reaction that the oldest and one of the largest rebel armies in myanmar wants to unite with neighboring groups to fight the

government the qur'an national liberation army has been marking seventy years since its fight for greater autonomy began but attempts to reach a peaceful solution have failed when he reports now from current 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 the east light the car a 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 to the groups say when the negotiating with me and civilian government they don't get anywhere because dan not the ones who are really in control it's me and miles military that ran 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 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 korean groups fighting together for the same victory target we're trying and we hope it will happen in the future. the me and my military says the rebel groups must give up ideas of separation from the state and surrender their weapons but these fighters say it's never really been about independence it's about having control over their destiny and written into their mission statement surrender is out of the question wayne hey al jazeera korean state me and ma. to. executives from japanese and french auto giants nisson and rhino have met for the first time since the arrest of colace gun the architect of that two decade partnership going is accused of financial misconducts and has been removed as chairman of. the meeting in amsterdam follows accusations by guns lawyer the innocent and run over involved in a plot to remove him because they opposed his plans for

a full mucha. well uncertainty over breaks it is having a damaging impact on the u.k. car industry according to new figures published by the society of most of manufacturers and traders investment in u.k. car plants by manufacturers almost hard in two thousand and eighteen to five hundred eighty eight million dollars as firms hold off on making decisions until the trading arrangements become kara car production in the u.k. also fell by just over nine percent to one and a half million cars the lowest figure since the recession ten years ago it's not totally breaks it related to because a crackdown on diesel emissions and falling demand from china haven't helped either but the s.m. empty is warning that things could be much worse if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with no deal whatever the arrangements that will be agreed for the long term and that is still unclear what we need most urgently is a deal. the prospect of low deal would be incredibly damaging for this sector to

leave without a deal would be quite frankly catastrophic for the industry. to polish food companies at the heart of a food safety scandal have sold nearly ten tonnes of meat from sick cows colons chief editor an aryan says that police have launched a criminal investigation into the firms to undercover filming showed them sending sick cows to be salted or than two and a half thousand kilos of meat from these firms went to e.u. countries including sweden france and spain poland produces five hundred sixty thousand tonnes of beef or year eighty five percent of which is exported. still ahead for you on the program for time champions japan prepares to face the tournament's top scorers cats are in the asian cup final be here with more in sports. business updates brought to you by qatar oh we're going to.