as well and so many people a few here this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel like you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of 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 trying to set some date to meet the needs of north korea in a statesman union address calling for unity. this is live from london also coming up u.s. secretary of state insists the united states will continue to lead the fight against deisel despite withdrawing from syria. have been wondering what the

special place. in the code looks like for those who promoted. harsh words on bricks it from the european council president as the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels plus. a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being a drivers witness are breach islands in moscow and keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. summit with north korea more promises to build a border war with mexico and a celebration of diversity in the u.s. congress has given his second state of the union address calling for more unity while at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration

mike hanna reports from washington. that the state. that the president of the united states. might just change in the stream since president trump a month 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 i 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 victims of crime by what he called and 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 and on foreign policy in defense of his unilateral decision to pull troops out of syria the claim that he is of the 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. was thank you with an example of issues that democrats contend are seized upon by the president with the intent of to be. 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 and so most diverse democratic party caucus in congress an old history and despite a writ of bipartisan moment it would appear this side of the house were a main intent on fighting the president every step of the way. my kind of i'll just share a washington. reynolds is live for us now in calexico in california on the us mexico border rob president trying to paint a dire picture of a border crisis what's the reality for people in the town where you are. well lauren you know we hear a lot about the border the from the president and the whole debate in washington across the country let's take a look right now at the reality at least right here on the border in calexico i'll just step out of the way and you can see there there is a fence topped with razor wire it's four point five meters

tall this is a bus stop. and the people here are less concerned and less. exercised about the president's dire depiction of the border than they are about the economic activity that goes on here this is not a very wealthy town but what little wealth it does have comes from of visitors from across that fence who enter legally about twenty thousand every day to go shopping here and to do other activities american citizens cross the border for cheap health care and for entertainment and for other purposes so for all intents and purposes this description of the border is an area of. extreme crime crisis sex trafficking in the like it does not resonate at

all with people here they say they are not in favor of open borders but they just don't recognize the picture of their area that is being painted by the president in washington and they say that if he were ever to come down here which is not they'd tell him how the reality actually works and other any signs of compromise between trump and congress have a bootable funding. well of course this is the big question lauren the president in his speech last night did not lay down any ultimatums he did not refer to the possibility that he would declare a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall however he did note that on the fifteenth of february the grace period funding the government runs out he's in the past recently disparaged the talks going on as a waste of time so with no signs really of compromise on the democratic side or the

republican side or the president's next move is is up in the air he's been warned by people in his own party not to declare a city state of emergency because that could create a difficult precedent in future administrations but what the president will do as we know he's very unpredictable or in rob reynolds thank you very much indeed. well as growing pressure on donald trump to escalate his response to the matter of saudi jenna's jamal khashoggi the 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 had given the president four months to make a decision on new sanctions against saudi arabia that deadline is set to expire tomorrow he was killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul last october but riyadh denies it ordered the matter yes actress tate says the permanent defeat of i still

will soon be a reality might compare has been speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to battle the armed group in iraq and syria also insisted the u.s. will play a leading role in the fight against hostile 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 permanent defeat of isis is a reality. jordan has nations from state department in washington. in the next hour some seventy nine foreign ministers and other dignitaries are going to hear from the u.s. president donald trump he's going to spell out his vision for the next phase of the

fight against i saw or isis as the trumpet ministration calls it as well as trying to find ways of renewing an effort to eradicate members of al qaeda and other groups that have been wreaking havoc in countries not just in the middle east but around the world there has been concern since the president announced in december that he wants to withdraw all forces not just from northeastern syria where isis had had a rather strong presence since mid september two thousand and fourteen but there's also concern about the president's decision to cut by half the number of u.s. troops standing behind afghan forces who are prevent taliban or taliban affiliated groups from regaining control in that country the argument that is being made by u.s. officials during this ministerial is that while the u.s. may be changing how many people it is physically committing to the fight against isis and against al qaida it's doesn't mean that the u.s.

is withdrawing its diplomatic economic and other tools of influence from these countries that have been at really. suffering at the heart of these groups activities in recent years what is going to be key is whether or not the united states as well as its allies in western europe can put forward enough funding and enough ways of actually standing up local law security forces so that they can better prevent these sorts of resurgence is from occurring this is a highly anticipated speech from the president who really has not had much in the way a face to face contact with his counterparts from other countries since he made this announcement in mid december. the european council president has condemned british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without working out how to do it first on to us as we speak in brussels where he

also pledged to do his best to find a solution to the brics it crisis are puerto poor and listen to those comments from belfast where promised such a reason may be made to northern ireland's political leaders we'll hear from him in a minute but first let's listen to what to had to say. that the second 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 i've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted seat result even a catchall for plan how to carry its safely now those incendiary comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from brits it 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 me over i care and donald tusk where they almost anticipate the reaction that's coming let's have a look at this. if you. know. 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 on 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 chin fane 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 sits in london and upon which to resubmit 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 they're not happy with it being in the ritual agreements it's all. so head on out as they are. not on the bridge when israel is opposition accuses the ministry of preventing desperately needed aid from getting into the country. and benjamin netanyahu don't use a slick election campaign that would be enough to win another ten as israel's prime minister. how low we've got high pressure keeping things nice and quiet across central parts of europe is down to the southeast not the area of cloud and right some pretty strong winds to that eastern side of the mediterranean lots of disturbed weather coming through here as we go through the next couple of days and then it's a similar picture into the northwest see this next weather system pushing in across

the british isles across could pass of france as well ten celsius there for london in paris. spilling in from the atlantic we have a similar temperature in athens as well down in the southeast and going between this something in between that six celsius full vienna dry weather some sparkling sunshine for one celsius in kiev forty back to minus one as we go through friday by friday vienna warms up the clouds up as well staying cloudy damp ab pretty windy up towards the northwest but fred what we find in dry temperatures here at around fifteen degrees celsius not bad across the northwest of africa getting up to eighteen for pat and for algiers but no the pulse of libya still seeing some raw the windy weather cohens blasting through fourteen celsius for tripoli mostly that just for the just nothing it's way a little a swiss temp just not too bad in cairo. of twenty degrees.

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or money now the top stories. u.s. president donald trump has made his second state of the union address calling for more unity on at the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration. in the next half hour trunkful outlined his policy at a summit of the global coalition against. your secretary of state my pompei has already said that permanent defeat will soon be a reality. and european council president donald trump says there's a special place in hell for politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without working out how to do it fast. venezuela's opposition has accused the country's military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia used for desperately needed humanitarian aid united states is sending food to the border but it's still unclear how the supplies or get in without the agreement of the military and president nicolas maduro to risible joins us live from caracas surtur is a what's the latest on efforts to get aid into venezuela.

well. what we know right now is that one of the rico is sending a plane that expected to land in colombia and then from there shipment is going to go to the border right at the border between venezuela and up to the city of kuta also some trucks from colombia are also making it to the border and the idea is for it to start getting into the country the big question is how that is going to happen what's the opposition as expecting to happen is that aid they're going to create a humanitarian corridor with doctors n.g.o.s religious groups that will protect the aid so that it can reach those who needed the most the opposition is saying that it's mostly three hundred thousand people that are in desperate need of aid but it won't be easy the government is saying that that intervention in the country that they won't allow it into the country we know that this wednesday the bridge that's

connecting venezuela and colombia appeared with oil tankers and containers blocking that breach and that's where that aid is supposed to be coming into the country of the government is saying as i said before that that aid will be allowed in that venezuela doesn't need any type of humanitarian assistance that they have enough in order to deal with the current situation and in a way what this shows is a government that's becoming more and more disconnected with what's happening to people on the ground because wherever you go there is desperate of people desperate people asking for humanitarian aid tears of both thank you very much indeed. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing increased pressure ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections or only does he have to get his favorite candidates on his likud party list before the primaries but he's also battling to save his public image against a series of corruption cases are a force that has more from west jerusalem. let me do. the real benjamin netanyahu

tells the media magnate i just want real coverage of the israeli prime minister's public battle with the media he says a peddling fake news and cheerleading a witch hunt has led here to the launch of likud t.v. a campaign tool of his political party dressed up as a news channel nine yos relationship with the media is at the heart of two of the three corruption cases dogging his election campaign allegations he traded illicit favors for better coverage a third surrounds expensive gifts from wealthy friends he denies the charges but an indictment decision is expected this month we're going to blockbuster decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu likud party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes

a series of senior party figures including intelligence public security and culture ministers all signed on to a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene and while it could voters benjamin netanyahu has legal troubles have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity here there is though a substantial anti netanyahu constituency among jewish israelis and fears they've been looking for a viable alternative. hopes. and israel's former army chief benny gantz looking to occupy the role of centrist he's talked of strengthening settlements but also says lessons should be learned from the way israel removed settlers from gaza in the face of being called a weak leftist he's also released a campaign video claiming credit for the killing of one thousand three hundred

sixty four palestinians calling them terrorists in the twenty fourteen gaza war in order for him to get really the votes you know to really challenge it and you know he's got to get some of those votes from the right so he comes as a leftist dressed in rightists clothing ok as a liberal israeli dressed as a conservative hard core pro settlement israeli guns his polling just behind and you know who is preferred prime minister but his path to victory is narrow given the numerical advantage of netanyahu who's existing coalition of right wing parties netanyahu continues to fight on multiple fronts knowing that even if he wins power once more in this election he'll have to battle on in the media and potentially in the courts to hold onto it perry force it out zero west jerusalem. amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups and yemen rights group says the u.a.e. siphons off billions of dollars worth of weaponry after buying it from the west

many of the armed groups they supply have been accused of war crimes accusations follicles in the u.s. one investigation into weapons getting into yemen has been alleged that american arms have also made their way into the hands of groups operating in the country as it only has come a step closer to joining nato the world's biggest military alliance. i'm vite the present the deal of the liquid public to sign the system probable. increases signed a protocol giving its approval to macedonia's 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 is named to north macedonia wednesday's nato accession protocol must now be ratified by other governments in the alliance a russian court has sentenced a danish man to six years in jail for being

a jehovah's witness russia declared the christian sect an extremist organization in twenty seventeen of the many other jehovah's witnesses awaiting in pretrial detention in russia this christensen is the first person to be given a prison sentence critics a concern for religious freedom as were trans reports moscow. dennis christensen who arrived in good spirits to hear the verdict on wednesday thank you for coming by i want to know how do you how do you know. that it was but after cameras and supporters were told to leave the court the judge in the town of oriel sentenced the dane to six years for extremism is a conviction he intends to appeal to. the state i thank you everybody for coming i'm very happy that you're here thank you. dennis christensen may be the first jehovah's witness to be given jail time in russia but he's certainly not the only one in trouble we filmed worship at their main moscow meeting hall in two thousand

and seventeen just before russia's supreme court outlawed the jihad as witnesses as an extremist organization before we were banned this building was used very intensively but as you can see. since then the doors have been shot to them they have about twenty two people in prison. hundred rates. many of their whole men under investigation why russia's or thirty c. the country's one hundred seventy five thousand jobs as witnesses as a threat is something of a mystery it's been suggested that they're under suspicion because perhaps they're seen as a western influence maybe that they're too independent from the russian government and the russian orthodox church and these are the age putin was asked in december why the state was cracking down on them although he said classifying jehovah's witnesses as extremist was completely absurd arrests have continued as this human

rights advocate doesn't want history to repeat itself he says soviets and nazis both trials religious persecution with attacks on the jehovah's witnesses. why have the authorities started with them it's likely to be a test case. to see how society will react i don't have any illusions about the future of other religious confessions i think it's only beginning and it will depend on how much sense people actually have. under russia's constitution the freedom of religion is guaranteed by the countries i was witness is discovered that guarantee means little will reach alan's how to zero mosque or refugee football or hockey maybe his being wanted faces six months longer in a bangkok prison while he fights extradition to bahrain barneys requested his arrest while he was on his honeymoon in thailand and i rebase says he'll be tortured if he sent back to serve a ten year prison sentence the bahrain international fled to australia in twenty

fourteen by now plays for a club in melbourne. what i've also distressed is that it's dragging people in the top people 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 it is a result of how these matters handle that relationship between the time 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. teachers striking of the pay in zimbabwe say they're being intimidated by security forces a strike comes after a violent crackdown on protests last month in a country where inflation is at its highest in a decade union leaders say around two thirds of teachers estated home but security

agents monitoring them are in which us are reports from harare. blessing my parts i didn't go to work today. neither did some of the primus called teachers colleagues because they aren't strike public school teachers one better working conditions and to be paid in u.s. dollars instead of local bond nuts which constantly leisurely it's a pain for you know i'm in a classroom teaching children and i cannot afford to have my child in that classroom it's all set it up said it's painful you cannot live with that you cannot come to terms with it so this is where we are saying it's better that i stay at home because i'm not saying that isn't why i'm going to work . and that means some children aren't learning teachers say they earn about six hundred a month roughly one hundred fifty dollars other teachers on

a go slow they come to work but do very little union leaders say after a security crackdown on demonstrators last month some teachers believe staying at home makes them government targets there is some indication that some teachers are now we're feeling for the security since there is visible as it was an agency said when they did look normal what we intended to do with the information about the structure. why they'll be picking up the moves and tomorrow is the different day for our. government leaders deny the allegations and say teachers are being offered more pay these no need to intimidate them how many times is government put of us on the table and we have put all of us on the tables on the table we have given. the questioning allowances we have negotiated and where we're free of we have put in a lot of other packages for teachers teachers say government interventions aren't helping when the price of fuel more than doubled last month prices a basic goods increased but not teachers diaries. placing apart to see if he is

tied to being constantly in debt and always borrowing money to cover the cost of living staying at home is his way of protesting. al-jazeera had at it and the money has catch up with all the stories we're covering on our website the rest about there dot com and watch us live by clicking on my bike on. top stories on our zero u.s. president donald trump has given his second state of the union address trump called for more unity while the same time warning democrats against investigating his administration he also announced details of a new summit with north korean leader kim jong un and reiterated his plans for a border war with mexico is growing pressure on donald trump to escalate his response to the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi the leading democrat on

the senate foreign relations committee says he plans to seek new legislation designed to impose a stronger response to the killing yes president donald trump is to address a summit of the global coalition against arsenal in the next half an hour your soldiers take my pompei was already said the permanent defeat of us all will soon be a reality just a few weeks ago in cairo i reiterated america's commitment to stepping 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 probably the defeat of isis is a reality. european council president donald two a scourge strongly condemned british politicians who support breck's it in

a joint news conference with irish need to live our atika he said there's a special place in hell for those who pushed for the dotted kingdom to leave the european union without working out how to do it first. and since nationals accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen and rights group says the u.a.e. siphons off billions of dollars worth of weaponry after buying it from the west the accusations for a cause in the u.s. for an investigation but israel as a physician is accusing the military of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia that's vital for food supplies self declared president one as appealed to venezuela's armed forces to a larger liberties of much needed food medicine and other centrals there's bad lines to stay with us the stream is up next at discussing brazil's changing gun laws by philip.

ok and here in the stream today a political promise made a good but does arming resilience make the country safer in december then present. an otto took to twitter to declare his commitment to give brazilians go way to access to guns then on generated sixteenth just weeks after taking office he made good on that probably a spy citing a decree relaxing gun ownership laws in response resilience of taking to twitter to share both their opposition to and support of the change to key house that.