as well so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel like you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. german kim and i will meet again on february twenty seventh and twenty eighth in vietnam president trump sets a date to meet the leader of north korea in a state of the union address calling for unity. on our intake of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. your state insists the united states will continue to lead the fight against i still despite

withdrawing from syria. i've been wondering what the special place. in the code looks like for those who promoted st words on bret's it from the european council president as the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels . and blocked on the bridge venezuela's opposition accuses the military of preventing desperately needed aid from getting into the country. i know a summit with north korea promises to build a border war with mexico and a celebration of diversity in the u.s. congress donald trump has given his second state of the union address calling for more unity while same time warning democrats against investigating his administration mike hanna reports from washington. president of the united states. much has changed in the strangest 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 most 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

the 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 with 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 in 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 over. thank god thank you with an example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of division this appoint 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 abandoned not just our people but our values the one moment of real unity came when president trying to lift his head script we also have more women serving in congress then had any time to be with republicans and democrats alike burst into applause the boss majority of women 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 rib bipartisan moment it would appear this side of the house were main intent on fighting the president every step of the way. my kind of i'll just sarah washington . iran is pushing back against criticism from president trying to wring his address at the country's foreign minister says iran has enjoyed forty years of progress despite pressure from the u.s. under simmons has more from tehran. tom's remarks are being met by return verbal attacks in iran this is a time of revolutionary fervor the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution and a tweet from job ads a reef led the way soon after the president had been speaking he said that dictators butchers and extremists backed by the u.s. have been bringing in ruin to the middle east region really accusing the united

states of sponsoring terrorism and not iran now zarif had also made mention of the jewish compact true it's also celebrating and camera commemorating forty years of progress despite u.s. pressure the reason he mentioned the jewish community the numbers something like fifteen thousand compared with one hundred fifty thousand before the revolution is that there was a linkage he thinks and other iranians feel as well in the president's speech because he talked about the destruction the genocide against the jewish people being threatened by iran and then straight away went into attacks on jews in the united states a specifically the attack in pittsburgh a synagogue in which eleven people were killed by an american shooter and the implication that iran may have been involved now this is something that really led

to our whole follow up statement by the foreign ministry saying that there was a contented jewish community here that this that they had rights and there really was no real aim to destroy jews worldwide this is an issue about the israeli state although that wasn't said explicitly. yes after state says the permanent defeat of eisel will soon be a reality my palm fair has been speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to battle the group in iraq and syria he also insisted that the u.s. will play a leading role in the fight against us so despite the planned withdrawal of troops from syria just a few weeks ago in cairo i reiterated america's commitment to stamping out isis and other terrorist groups that's my message again here today in washington america will continue to lead in giving those who would destroy us no quarter we

ask each of your countries to stand with us and through our efforts and god's help the day will come when the permit the defeat of isis is a reality run and jordan has latest from the state department in washington d.c. roasted compare explain how the plan of drawdown of troops in syria works with their intention to keep fighting us on. well what the secretary said during his opening remarks earlier on wednesday is that the planned u.s. troop withdrawal from syria is simply a tactic it is not the u.s. strategy for continuing its fight against eisel or against isis as the trumpet ministration calls it of course this is something which has raised a considerable lot of concern among leaders in the region it's also called some confusion on capitol hill earlier this week the commander of u.s. central command general joseph otel at mid that he had not been consulted by the white house before the president made this announcement that the some two thousand

u.s. forces in northeastern syria would be pulled out because the fight against isis had actually been accomplished however the secretary was also at pains to try to justify the president's decision during an interview with fox business news in which the interviewer kept raising the point that there are concerns about the potential for example of syrian oilfields falling back into the control of isis partisans should u.s. forces pull out of that part of the country so this is a discussion that is happening behind closed doors not just on wednesday morning but also on wednesday afternoon to reassure the leaders in the region particularly the leaders of countries in the middle east that this is not going to be a situation where isis or al qaida or any other group for that matter could possibly find a way to regroup and to reassert their presence and their control of these areas

inside these countries was their general agreement there with compares a session that the pattern of defeat device will soon be a reality. well there hasn't been any official lot of commentary from of the delegations that are attending this session they're pretty much out of pocket until later on wednesday afternoon but there is a real concern and there has been a real concern as has been reported in recent months a belt of the scope and the aggressiveness of the u.s. presence across the middle east there is a recognition that tell us diplomatic and military strength is necessary to help stand up these forces in these various countries to prevent the resurgence of groups such as i saw the iraqi foreign minister mohammad al hakim alluded to that fact during his opening remarks at wednesday mornings plenary but we'll have to see what people have to say a belter the u.s.

is argument especially once they have heard from the u.s. president donald trump president jordan thank you very much indeed as growing pressure on don't try to escalate his response to the murder of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi a leading democrat on the senate foreign relations committee says he plans to seek new legislation to impose a stronger response to the killing robert menendez and twenty one other senators and even the president for months to make a decision on new sanctions against saudi arabia but that deadline is set to expire jamal khashoggi was killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul last october but riyadh denies it over the matter. you claim council president has condemned british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without working out how to do it fast down because been speaking in brussels where

he also pledged to do his best to find a solution to the brics this crisis will read and has more now from belfast where promise to to resume is beating me meeting her northern irish allies. we're fifty one days away now from britain leaving the european union at least that's what the march twenty ninth deadline remains in place says three some may the u.k. prime minister has been here in belfast for the past two days meeting business leaders community leaders and today politicians to try to get a sense of what they will accept in relation to her plans to go back to brussels a renegotiate elements of the withdrawal agreement but in many ways the big action on wednesday has been in brussels where the irish to have a rocker has been meeting the president of the european council donald tusk such is the level of exasperate in brussels that less than two months from deadline day it seems the previous two years of negotiations have been in vain there was some extremely undiplomatic language from donald tusk which really belies the

frustration that he's feeling let's have a listen at the shock and i have spoken about the necessary actions in case of no deal. i know that you will also be discussing this shocking with the european commission. by the way and i've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted heat without even a catchall for plan how to carly it safely now those incendiary comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from bracks it's supporting m.p.'s and journalists in london but let's just have a little look at a video clip as they stood up to leave you can just about hear an exchange between layover i guess and donald tusk where they almost anticipate the reaction that's coming let's have a look at this. if you. know if. now

let's bring it back to where i'm standing in belfast which is where the prime minister has been she's going to brussels. thursday but the purpose of her visit here is a try to work out exactly what the parties will accept and it seems a very confused picture is emerging shin fein the republican party which has seven seats in the westminster parliament but doesn't actually sit and votes in london refuses to do so it has accused to recently of bad faith for trying to reopen the withdrawal agreement and change the backstop arrangement however the d u p which does sit in london and upon which to recently relies for her parliamentary majority has insisted that to tinker all try to reform the backstop but leave it in place is not enough they want the backstop totally replaced the not happy with it being in the or through all agreements at all so to recently is going to go to belfast claiming a mandate from parliament to renegotiate the bracks it deal but exactly what she's

going to birthplace it with what kind of alternative arrangements she might propose that is not clear at all. still ahead on al-jazeera israeli ministers push forward a plan to house two million settlers in the occupied west bank. and residents of the northeast australia return to a massive clean up after two weeks of deadly down polls. are going to welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across china it has been quite warm here across much of the southeast of the last few days we're talking temperatures into the mid to high twenty's for some locations and that's really going to continue as we go towards thursday so for four zero twenty eight degrees even over towards taipei twenty eight degrees as well that is going

to change as we go towards friday temperatures are on the way down as well as more rain is coming in from the north shanghai it is going to be a rainy day for you temperatures only into the single digits and food show dropping from about twenty degrees all the way down towards fifteen degrees there hong kong though not looking too bad for you with a temperature of about twenty four degrees we are going to be seeing a system passing over the northern part of india over the next day that's going to bring some rain to new delhi and the good news is that rain is actually going to help the air quality across much of the area so on thursday it is going to be a rainy day clouds in your forecast with a temperature of ninety as we go towards friday the rain begins to make its way over here towards the east still quite were fewer twenty degrees but we do expect to see some rain coming through as we go towards the weekend and then very quickly speaking of rain across the northern part of saudi arabia we are going to be seeing some rain across the area but here in doha things are looking quite nice we do expect to see a temperature of twenty three in abu dhabi twenty three as well. a

face can tell a story without uttering a single word. the unconventionality of life. witnessed through the lens of the human eye. on al-jazeera. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing off for power. one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. to al jazeera. in a lot of top stories here are syria u.s. president donald trump has made his second state of the union address calling for

more unity while at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration. to some of the global coalition against i saw your secular state might pompei it says that permanent defeat will soon be a reality. that's growing pressure on president trying to escalate his response to the murder of saudi journalists. with leading democrats fighting to seek fresh legislation designed to impose stronger action. let's get more on that story particle he joins us live from washington tell us more about who's behind this pressure on drug. well this is senator robert menendez he's the top ranking democrat on the senate foreign affairs committee basically what the underlying story is we really haven't heard many people talk about the death of jamal khashoggi the murder of jamal khashoggi since the holidays since before the new year the shutdown of the government partial shutdown of the government really sucked up all the oxygen in washington but it's coming back into the headlines now

because of something called the magnitsky act there were twenty one senators who sent a letter to the president invoking the magnitsky act and basically it says you need to tell us who is responsible for this murder of these human rights abuses and then you need to sanction that so that it starts one hundred twenty and twenty day deadline that deadline is this coming friday on the eighth so senator menendez is sending the message to the white house before they release that report that basically if they don't act he will he is saying he's going to introduce legislation to stop military sales to saudi arabia to make it official that u.s. military planes cannot refuel saudi fighters in the war in yemen and mandatory sanctions for those involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi he also says that he is going to include language indicating that they believe that the crown prince of saudi arabia muhammad been solomon is responsible no he's not going as far as saying he wants to sanction the crown prince or any of his assets in the united states but that he would be included in the legislation so and then does sending

the message to the white house you do something or we will and how successful is this pressure on you to be. well you know the senate took this up before the break before a new congress was sworn in and that vote was fifty six to forty one that was to end the support for the military support for the war in yemen it was almost unanimous when they said that the crown prince was possible for the murder they had much more support but the vote to stop these military sales that was fifty six to forty one that's a pretty resoundingly vote but it's not enough to overcome a presidential veto and as we know u.s. president donald trump has been very hesitant to do anything that he sees could put the relationship with the crown prince in jeopardy so the president if they do take this vote it would likely pass the senate again the reason they didn't go to the house last time is because the republicans were in charge and said they were going to take it up democrats are now in charge of the house of representatives so much more likely that the bill would go to both chambers and then possibly to the president and then he'd have to decide how important relationship was with the

crown prince or congress and whether or not he vetoes the bill. thank you very much indeed and as well as opposition has accused the country's military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia which is used for desperately needed humanitarian aid united states is sending food to the border but it's still unclear how the supplies will get in without the agreement of the military and president nicolas maduro hundred mph he is in kuta on colombia's border with venezuela and some to any sign yet that the aid might be able to get through. well lauren my daughter was a mini stray ssion remains steadfast in its refusal of letting any aid into the country my daughter says that venezuela is not a country of beggars however many of its citizens would beg to differ in this case because there is a desperate need for food and medicine we've spoken to many venezuelans who are

crossing into colombia who are hoping to get their hands on that aid inside colombia however the colombian authorities have insisted that this food this food and medicine will be distributed inside venezuela and will not be given on the colombian side to the venezuelans who are here asking for it but the truth is that we are many days away from being able for the aid to be able to be delivered that's because the convoy of trucks with the aid in this case the food and i jean supplies. that arrived in the capital bogota sent by the united states relief agency usa id has not left bogota yet now the government authorities are telling us that the first three or

four trucks should leave at some point today and these packages sure that arrived here at the border on thursday but she needs. more days for the medicines to arrive to colombia and then be brought to the border before they can even think to cross into venezuela and as you can see is you have said in your introduction at the beginning eleven different governments has already taken some concrete steps blocking the entrance at fifteen the border it's unclear how. they're going to get that aid in venezuela there is a change of mind on part of my duty of government or the military we've also seen some pictures people in that town just on the other side of the border confronting the military an athlon them to. come base for the state to cross in there it will take days before the operations will perish and will start. thank you very

much indeed. several israeli ministers have signed a declaration that supports the settlement of two million israelis and on the occupied west bank the declaration was signed ahead of elections in april could be a bid by the ruling that could party to increase support from right wing voters are a force that has the details. well this pledge coming in the form of a sort of personal loyalty pledge signed by extremely senior figures within the ruling the good party signifies a couple of things that signifies a right would move within mainstream likud opinion wear what would have been seen as a pretty radical plan for expanding israeli settlements in the occupied west bank the illegal settlements that are there now have a few hundred thousand jewish settlers in the maybe four hundred thousand in the occupied west bank another three hundred fifty thousand in east jerusalem it shows how far right has moved under benjamin netanyahu and indeed how far right the

mainstream of israeli politics has moved but it also signifies the period that we are in at the moment two months out from an election on the ninth of april there is a lot of effort being made to try to court right wing votes which might otherwise go to the smaller more extreme parties and also an opportunity to define the could against the man who has come to challenge benjamin netanyahu in perhaps a stronger way than many expected the former israeli army chief benny gantz who has set up a new party is occupying the center ground while trying to make his right wing credentials also as obvious as possible this is a way for could mainstream politicians to say that he's actually too soft on the issue of settlements that he may well try to engineer some kind of withdrawal despite his talk about strengthening settlements at least in the blocks around jerusalem this is also a question as to whether it will ever become israeli government policy well one

thing that isn't on this list is that of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu if he were to make it israeli policy are to the election given that he wins that election then that would be something which could derail the already very tenuous u.s. peace plan he's made a great deal of his friendship with donald trump jury in the course of this campaign already presumably he one would want to undermine his plan in that way but the why the question is whether this does signal a direction of travel for israeli politics and a potential policy for a future israeli government. macedonia has come a step closer to joining nato the world's biggest military alliance and by ten percent a deal of the lake public to sign the existing protocol greece has signed a protocol giving its approval to macedonia as membership after blocking it succession for a decade over a name dispute many greeks see the former yugoslav republic as a threat to its own region which is also called macedonia but just last month

parliaments in both countries approved a deal to change macedonia's name to north macedonia wednesday's nato accession particle must now be ratified by other governments in the alliance refugee football or hockey mallory b. is being warned he faces six months longer in a bangkok prison while he fights extradition to behind a bahrain is requested his arrest while he was on his honeymoon in thailand and everybody says he'll be tortured if he sent back to serve a ten year prison sentence behind international footballer fled to australia in twenty fourteen by now plays for a club in melbourne. one i've also stressed is that it's driving people in the type of people who have a wonderful people the people relationship and i've stressed just how strongly as dragons' feel about this and i would i would be very disappointed. if you as

a result of how these matters handle that relationship between the time to strike and people were affected i would be very disappointed about that some other people to the prime minister to take that into account but i do have the authority to use those executive controls for him to come out and so we're going to continue to work patiently and respectfully to secure that after homeowners in the flooded city of townsville in australia hoping the worst is over weather forecasters say more monsoon rain could be on the way to queens and but nothing like the record breaking deluge a few days ago. local people returning to their ruined homes have been speaking to our reporter andrew thomas. 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 ruined that waiting to be picked up as rubbish well this house belongs to kevin. 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 and probably are from right around that one i you know i came up pretty quick and it didn't come up with out things that there was. spiders you know i mean that 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 reason when it disappeared so as you're clearing out you are watching which cabins you were i was very much to now you know what i read there is a forest around or a well i think and i know you were able to get sentimental items and electronics you know it was very nice rifle it's just finely anything to it was only grain yeah probably right trade and a whole idea is just that you are. everything swelling up in this game and i think the clearing bedrooms that you've had 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. has moved south but it's still wet and there's a lot of cleaning up today. and a good reminder you can always catch up with all the news on our web site address that is out there dot com and you also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon al-jazeera dot com. top stories are now because there is president donald trump has given his second state of the union address called for more unity while at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration he also announced details of a new summit with north korean leader kim jong il and reiterated his plans for a border war with mexico. yes extra state might pompei or says the permanent defeat

of ice so will soon be a reality he also insisted that the u.s. or play a leading role in the fight against eisel despite the planned withdrawal of troops from syria just a few weeks ago in cairo i reiterated america's commitment to stamping out isis and other terrorist groups that's my message again here today in washington america will continue to lead in giving those who would destroy us no quarter we ask each of your countries to stand with us and through our efforts and god's help the day will come when the permit the defeat of isis is a reality is growing pressure on donald trump to escalate his response to the murder of saudi journalist. the leading democrat on the senate foreign relations committee says he plans to seek new legislation designed to impose stronger action european council president donald tusk has condemned british politicians who

support frex it in joint press conference with our leader leo veronica he said there's a special place in hell for those who pushed for the united kingdom to leave the european union without working out how to do it first and israel is opposition is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia that's vital for food supplies a self declared president who has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much needed food medicine and other essentials several israeli ministers have signed a declaration that supports the settlement of two million israelis along the occupied west bank their correction was signed ahead of elections in april those are the headlines more news coming up in just under half an hour if you stay tuned for witness with the story of the dutch teenager behind a glass wall that's for much watching as u.s. run by foot.

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