need to invest in development and you can best in making sure the people are not left behind al jazeera has teams on the ground join us for this historic step in american politics to bring you more award winning documentary and light needs on air and online. victory is not winning for our party. victory is winning for our country. president calls for unity across party lines as he outlines his priorities in his state of the union address. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up it's

a date the u.s. and north korean leaders will meet again as part of a push to get pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons program. as the tug of war continues in venezuela health workers are pleading for the government to allow aid in. also ahead residents of the australian city worst affected by days of flooding start to return home. our top story the u.s. president from calling for unity in his first state of the union address to a divided congress donald trump outlined his political priorities but provided few details his speech which was postponed last month because of the government shutdown touched on several topics including the economy foreign policy immigration and the controversial border wall with mexico mike hanna reports from washington that the state. that the president of the united states.

might just change in the stranger since president trump last spoke here sitting next to the vice president a new speaker nancy pelosi has been locked in a power struggle with the president since the democratic party took over the house and acknowledging this the president called for political. together we can break decades of political stalemate we can bridge all divisions. heal old wounds build new coalitions but on the issue that led to the partial shutdown no sign of any compromise the president adamant that his demand for a barrier remains unchanged congress has ten days left to pass a bill that will fund our government protect our homeland and secure our very dangerous southern border if you can understand your pain calling on

victims of crime by what he called an illegal alien to back his argument. simply put walls work and walls save lives so let's work together compromise and reach a deal that will truly make america safe. a standing ovation from the republican side while democrats wearing white in honor of women's rights stayed in this seats it is time to give our brave warriors in syria a warm welcome home on foreign policy a defense of his unilateral decisions to pull troops out of syria the claim that he's averted a major war with north korea announcing another summit with the north korean leader will take place in vietnam at the end of this month and despite calling for unity from picking on an issue that is highly divisive to defend the dignity of every person i am asking congress to pass legislation to prohibit the

late term abortion. of the thanks. and example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of division. this is a point brought up in the opposition response given by the democratic party's rising star stacey abrahams the shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the united states one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandon not just our people but our values the one moment of real unity came when president trump left his prepared script we also have more women serving in congress then at any time to do with republicans and democrats alike burst into applause but the vast majority of women

are on the democratic side in terms of gender and race it's the most diverse democratic party caucus in congress tional history and despite a real bipartisan moment it would appear this side of the house will remain intent on fighting the president every step of the way i can i'll just hear a washington. well mr from the also spoke about trade with china in the state of the union address he warned that the fairford of u.s. jobs and wealth must come to an end the world's two biggest economies to be out of over trade imposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of each other's products live now to beijing and our correspondent tracking that angle of the story there is a trade delegation jus where you are this time next week adrian is that focusing minds now. yes it was interesting in his address president referred to his demand once more that china made structural changes to its industrial policy now in the light of robert

lighthouse and steve mentioned the u.s. chief trade representative and the treasury secretary respectively now saying they're returning to beijing next week because according to an administration official china has agreed to discuss issues that so far it wasn't prepared to discuss and that is thought to be its industrial policy this is a policy whereby china has been giving huge subsidies to state owned companies that are involved in what you might call technologies of the future artificial intelligence robotics and five g. up until now china has said that is off limits that's that's not going to change because that's at the core of the way we want to model our economy but now it seems that china is perhaps going to touch on this issue after all the other big issue of course is is intellectual property rights intellectual property theft another area that so far has not really been the focus of the negotiations but way what might

now well be very much back on the agenda i think this was a speech from china's perspective when it came to trump's comments about china is something that the leadership here has heard time and time again i think they will see it for what it was which was a speech about american greatness targeted and very much at a domestic u.s. audience nothing has changed in that regard to the chinese feel perhaps adrian that they maybe have added leverage here because everyone knows they know clearly the u.s. economy is predicted to slow in the coming twelve months and slow more than the chinese economy will slow. well actually i think you could perhaps flip it the other way around i think that president xi jinping does want to do a deal as you point out china's economy is continuing to slow it's now down to growth of six point six percent that's you know more than half what it was you know twelve years ago for instance to give us an indication of just how much china's

economy has begun to slow also you know consumer spending is beginning to flat line and industrial output is starting to contract so he doesn't need another economic worry wants now he needs to have a deal and i think he wants there to be a deal and certainly the optics appear to be in place for that to happen if china as seems possible as seems likely is now prepared to discuss subjects that until now have been strictly to boo adrian thanks very much well mr trump also confirmed a second summit with the north korean leader at the end of this month this time in vietnam the two day meeting with kim jong il and digging them up february twenty seventh aims to build on d. uclear a zation talks started in singapore last june progress of stalled since then the latest from the south korean capital seoul. confirmation of this second summit taking place in viet nam ends weeks of speculation it is seen as neutral ground

that's acceptable both to north korea and also the united states and is symbolically significant to this is of course a form of photo of the united states that now enjoys normalized relations with the united states and the outside world of which it is a big trading partner its economy has expanded and yet the communist party of vietnam is still very much in control following if you like the state controlled capitalist model of china which is seen as possibly a way forward for north korea and in logistical terms it also makes sense to hold this summit in viet nam north korea has an embassy in hanoi and also given the logistics of the thousands of people who will be descending upon viet nam for this second summit there is of course intense interest from the world's media viet-nam does have the kind of state control and also law enforcement in place to

section off a large cities large blocks to allow this whole process to take place as all of the world's media and indeed the contingents from the united states and north korea now prepare for this all important second summit. venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on its border with colombia the president. has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials and tourism has the latest now from the capital city caracas. employee said this maternity hospital in the capital caracas say they are in desperate need of aid they say their hospital urgently needs basic medicines and medical equipment they say the venezuelan government shouldn't get in the way of international aid entering the country. only. this hospital had the best doctors the base nurses the

best of everything and now we are seeing a complete deterioration with shortages of medicine food for patients and cleaning products the self declared interim president why though says the presidency of nicola is illegitimate he's pushing for legislation in the opposition controlled national assembly to be passed to remove the roadblocks on humanitarian aid members of the national assembly say that they would like to create a humanitarian corridor composed of n.g.o.s religious groups and doctors that will allow the aid to reach those who need it the most but it won't be easy because the government says that the humanitarian aid is a political show by the opposition that will allow the united states to intervene in the country where. he is in charge of coordinating the push for aid in the national assembly he says is wrong. though it is not only the united states that is an evolved it is the leymah group that meeting canada nobody

can say justin trudeau is the extreme right or pedro cinches and spain i want to see the message to the world venus why this constitutional order is broken we won legislative elections and i took our wife from us we asked for a referendum and they did not want it they do not want to get out of power what we are offering is not a liberal. russian army just the ability to choose their future and a new election in the same building but in another room met the rival constituent assembly the legislative body created by the government to years ago to redraft the constitution now it is proposing to call for legislative elections to replace the opposition controlled by a man whose mandate expires next year. the opposition wants elections so we could call for a legislative elections because parliament is controlled by the extreme right at that stage in a coup by the only power that has not been revalidated recently. and that sentiment

was shared by supporters of nicola who surrounded the national assembly building during the session but. if one way the wants the chair then he can buy it at the store because here no one will allow him to sit on the presidential seat a political crisis where nobody really knows how or when it is going to end. a former foreign minister says the crisis in venezuela is dividing world powers and the outcome could be dangerous hundreds of thousands of of that peru and travel through to get there. as this is happening domestically similarly internationally you have very polarized positions on the one hand united states clearly backing away though on the other hand you have other countries that is russia and china still supporting the motherhood of government the europeans are sort of siding more with the united states which i think is a big mistake i think the europeans really have a chance to try and push for negotiations for dialogue for peace but even within

inside the european union its member states there are different positions as we just saw so i think this is exactly when you need negotiation when you need dialogue when the positions are so entrenched on either side in this case both inside venezuela but also at the global scale we have this story sort of stalemate which is potentially very dangerous and could lead to more violence. hundreds of argentinians have been showing support for the embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro protesters blocked fortunes of two big avenues in burma server is leading to the american embassy they say they oppose u.s. intervention president trump is leading the charge against matilda's leadership and has support from canada latin american nations and key e.u. states russia china turkey and a few other countries continue to back mr woodward. still to come here on al-jazeera with temperatures plunging in iraq there are urgent calls to protect

children living in displacement camps. and we'll tell you why the philippines the muslim majority autonomous region is getting a chance to expand. hello again to welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across europe we do have some good news that is what's happening here across central europe high pressure is dominating and it is keeping most of the area clear to partly cloudy you can see anywhere from poland all the way down here towards abir peninsula and that is going to be the rest the trend today but where we are seeing the weather is up here towards the northwest we do have a system that is coming in across parts of the u.k. and that's going to bring some windy weather as well as some rain in the forecast for the next few days so london ten degrees few paris at nine and as we go towards

thursday we are going to see more of the same as another system comes in and that could bring some snow and more towards the north maybe to parts of scotland where we are going to be seeing some windy conditions as well london at ten degrees here on thursday but down towards the south we are watching a system down here across parts of the mediterranean and that is going to continue to bring very heavy rain as well as winds across much of the area you can see here a line of storms is moving across parts of egypt and that is going to bring some rain across parts of sinai as well cairo a mostly cloudy day for us one thousand griese and as we go towards thursday we're going to see that start to move away but the winds are still going to be a big problem for because it is going to be a mostly cloudy day for you with a temperature of sixteen in tripoli fourteen for you. the weather sponsored by qatar and. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping

association of islam with violence leaves erupt in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and on al-jazeera. welcome back you're with al-jazeera my name's peter dhabi these are your headlines the u.s. president donald trump has called for political unity in his annual state of the union in a wide ranging speech he sold republicans and democrats they must join forces to confront what he's calling a security crisis on the border with mexico mr trump also confirmed

a second summit with the north korean leader at the end of this month this time in vietnam a two day meeting with kim jong il and beginning on february twenty seventh aims to build on denuclearization talks started in singapore last june. venezuela's opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia itself the president on bordeaux has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials. some residents in australia's north eastern city of townsville are returning home to assess the damage of the recent record breaking floods much of it is still under water and the weather bureau there is warning the monsoon is hanging around and more rain could be on the way thomas has been speaking to flood victims. this is what you see in front of houses all over townsville now the floodwaters have largely gone down but anything that people weren't able to get out of their house in time things like fridge freezer well they're really in there that

waiting to be picked up as rubbish well this house belongs to kevin martin. you've been clearing up your place all day kevin help it so i can see everything on the ground was really how high was the water in here probably are from iran met when i you know i came up pretty quick and it didn't come up with out things that there was. spiders you know i meant it came with it you saw us night i did i was eight o'clock at night it was fact i had a small lot and a different relation when it disappeared so as you're clearing out if you were watching which cabins you i was fairly left and. what i read there is always a man or a python and i know you were able to get sentimental items and electronics you know it's a very nice rifle it's just finely anything to it was only grain yeah probably trade and a whole idea is just you know what you are. really struggling off and just gaining and i think the clearing bedrooms that you have to carry mattresses you ripping up

the carpets i guess you need to dry out everything before you can even start thinking about replacing but you aren't sure yes or yeah well good luck good luck with the cleanup this is a situation being repeated all over townsville on the wednesday the worst of the rain the monsoon has moved south but still waits and there's a lot of cleaning up today. prime minister says she has an unshakable commitment to preventing a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland theresa may is visiting northern ireland where she's been trying to reassure residents about her bricks a plan may is to use travel to brussels on thursday to try to renegotiate the conditions of the irish bank stop paul brennan reports from belfast. northern ireland has the u.k.'s only land border with the european union and the businesses of this province a feeling the uncertainty of a more acute the most threesome a promise an unshakable commitment to avoiding a hard border northern ireland does not have to rely on the irish government or the

european union to prevent a return to borders of the past the u.k. government will not let that happen i will not let that happen to receive a speech offered reassurances that the business leaders here found it less than reassuring and there were no new specifics about what alternative arrangements might be found to the northern ireland backstop. the biggest fear is a no deal that we cannot sleep walk and situation so in our best this is across the u.k. are not prepared for a new deal situation so i don't think anyone can really prepare it's very difficult to prepare for what would a new deal look like if it doesn't work then we have to go back and i'm willing to students to you know what what is going to work and what is a compromise solution and they've all committed and everybody doesn't want to see a border back in northern ireland so they have to come up with that solution if if her efforts in europe don't succeed this week if there is a hard border we're talking about at the systematic dust and aggression of

a supply that has been built up not over twenty years of pace but over forty years of membership of the year. to say will go to brussels later this week determined to avoid a hard border the e.u. has the same determination but each has very different ideas on how to guarantee that i'll come over in an al-jazeera belfast. the u.n. says his push for an agreement between yemen's government who is the rebels is quote beginning to pay off and says days of talks between the warring sides are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the port city of data the port is crucial to getting food and aid into the country the newly appointed head of the un's mission to monitor a truce agreement michael lowell's guard has arrived in yemen he is facilitating more negotiations from on board a ship in the red sea. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president after the end of his term in twenty twenty two the proposal still has to pass several legislative hurdles before it becomes

a constitutional amendment opposition figures fear this may be a sign of the country slipping back into author of terrorism eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak during the arab spring of army is associate professor of political science at the long island university she says the president could even be in power right up until twenty thirty four. it's not a surprise and remember this is a president i came into power through a coup following one of the bloodiest massacres in egypt's history she has systematically consolidated power around himself virtually decapitating the judiciary the security services have really purchased most of the media outlets there is no independent journalism in egypt and we're seeing right now is that the parliament has become a rubber stamp on his authority and so it's not a surprise that he would be extending term limits or that there would be an extension of his term but that the only question was when it was going to happen

and so now we have this proposal that was already approved by one fifth of the parliament which is all it needed and so we have this proposal that will go to some sort of vote in the coming months in the summer time probably and all it needs is two thirds approval and that they've already secured according to many parliamentarians and so this will pass and so the terms of will from four to six hears and virtually meaning that there will be some kind of special accommodation made for president sisi so that he remains president until twenty thirty four ironically enough in twenty thirty four if he will be eighty years old very similar to the age that mubarak was when he was removed from office the at eight and a verse which is just next week and so are having this display of a show of extreme executive power coming upon this moment when the ears ago

egyptians were actually celebrating change yes what we're seeing today is not only has egypt regressed to pre-revolutionary moments but it's actually consolidating through this constitutional amendment if it indeed goes to a referendum and votes and i voted in in the summer that we are way worse than we were under mubarak. the un has one of dire consequences of more isn't done to protect children in iraq unicef says the harsh winter could be fatal for some of the one hundred fifty thousand children in displacement camps there is also calling for more money to be spent on education. from baghdad. some of these children may not live through the plunging temperatures of iraq's winter. the un's children's agency is warning that those already weakened by hypothermia and disease after severe flooding in november might not survive the harsh cold. we need a lot to be done health is the lifeline of our society but we're not seeing much

happening people organize rallies but our calls are falling on deaf ears unicef says iraq spends just under six percent of its annual budget on education even though many young children are determined to go to school. or lose cool's open across the city of mosul our school is one of several which have more than six hundred students we can barely cope unicef says there have been big improvements when it comes to health care for children it says that less than one percent of children die in childbirth and that's because eighty five percent are now in hospitals it also says ninety two friends of the rockies children like these children at this kindergarten in baghdad are likely to go into primary school but he says that number drops significantly when they get to secondary school a particularly in areas which are being badly affected by college. according to unicef in areas such as the northern province of nineveh province to the south only

one child in every form goes to secondary school instead many have to work to help support their families there must've challenges i mean. if the situation continues as it is today in iraq the children of the future will. have very little future how are you going to prepare today so they have a future for tomorrow how you going to invest in them so they can aspire for a future a future that they are part of the government is set over three hundred million dollars fund to help the poorest people in areas hardest hit by conflict but unicef insists more needs to be done to stop children like these becoming iraq's last generation rob matheson al-jazeera baghdad and a new autonomous region in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribe votes on whether to join it but they want to make sure the rulers of the muslim majority territory returned their ancestral lands to them.

explains. get the money bush can. call them invoking the spirits of their ancestors the tedder i say they are grateful the hope peace has come to their land to us more than a hundred thousand of them voted to accept and autonomy discover meant designed to provide greater powers for muslims in mindanao. christian and indigenous communities like the to dry are also included in the new self rule region after decades of fighting leaders of the separatist rebel group the more islamic liberation front negotiated for almost twenty years with several administrations in the capital manila yet. more than a hundred thousand filipinos have been killed and millions more displaced since the rebellion for mushroom rule began in the one nine hundred sixty s. it's very important that the it relates to be sistering that when the law. people

especially those who are most affected by what is going to be the chance of us and more people will feel that yes this is the right paul said this is the right. of what we have fought for and that this is the ground from which to begin a new future some of the to the rise and special lands are occupied by the more islamic liberation front and the philippine military they say they are prepared to fight for their rights despite it being one of the most in battle tribes in the country. we have a saying just like a crab it is being pursued inside its whole we may feel powerless sometimes but the crab has claws you see and even with small claws we can fight back. like so many indigenous tribes in mindanao that said to rice have been fighting for their ancestral land for decades this is why they say they are always been supportive of

this peace process and. their expectations are high that under this new political autonomy they will finally be properly represented some refer to the to darius as a minority among minorities. they are counting on the government's promise that under this new autonomy the land of their ancestors will be returned to them. dugan al-jazeera mugging down the province southern philippines. this is al jazeera i'm peter they'll be here in doha these are your headlines the u.s. president donald trump has called for political unity in his state of the union address to congress he touched on the economy trade immigration and calls for cooperation from both posses to confront what he called a security crisis on the border with mexico i stand here ready to work with you to

achieve historic breakthroughs for all americans millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now gathered in this great chamber hoping that we will govern not as two parties but as one nation. mr trump also confirmed a second summit with the north korean leader at the end of this month this time in vietnam the two day meeting with kim jong un beginning on february twenty seventh aims to build on denuclearization talks started in singapore then as well as opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia the self declared president. has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much required food medicine and other essentials. the u.n. says his push for an agreement between yemen's government and hoofy rebels is

beginning to pay off it says days of talks between the warring sides are bringing them closer to a deal to pull back their forces from the city of who data the port is crucial for getting food and aid into the country. egyptian parliament is advancing plans to. stay on as president well beyond the end of his term in twenty twenty two years raising fears of increasing authoritarianism eighty years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak a rival factions from the central african republic are due to formally sign a peace deal to end six years of fighting an agreement between the cia our government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un talks in sudan the cia are descended into turmoil when fighting broke out between muslim and christian militias in twenty thirteen thousands of people have been killed millions have been displaced those are your headlines up next it's the stream i'll see you very soon. as venezuela is on the brink.

with two men facing off for power. one of the self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. talks to al jazeera. and here in the stream today we speak with native american activist to explore why must. the symbols. at how racism activists are advocating for change the stream of course is driven by you our community and today show was put to us on twitter by john little who we'll be hearing from in just a moment but first check out the trailer for his twenty seven thousand documentary film more than a word narrated by native american musician and former stream gusts. one word.