as well and so many people after this are the silent. but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. we will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate us president donald trump says the total defeat of i saw his game in an. alliance has him speak of this is and you see it on live from davos a coming up united nations says desperately needed aid is being used as a political pawn in venezuela. scientists sound the alarm on climate change after

recording one of the warmest years on record plus i've been wondering what the special place. in the fold looks like for those who promoted. posh words on bragg's it from the european council president as the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels. president donald trump u.s. president donald trump is predicting victory over i saw as early as next week he says he expects a formal announcement to be made soon declaring all territory belonging to the group recaptured my canon reports from washington. smiles all round as members of the coalition gather for a group photograph much has happened since they last met most importantly president trump surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis

along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based. it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that eisel had been defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate many members of the coalition warned that this may not

mean an end to the fight and then he added well al i'm a dreamer and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country and to help iraq restore instability and return the liberated area to what they used to be in order for terrorism not to exist delegates at this conference taking note of the view of u.s. intelligence chiefs at dogs with that of their president their opinion given to the senate intelligence committee last month i still remains a formidable organization and is still capable of attacking the united states mike hanna al-jazeera washington. iran has accused the us of supporting what he calls dictators butchers and extremists who have brought rw into the middle east foreign minister mohammed jevons any made the comments after donald trump criticized iran during his state of the union address during that speech the us president again

called iran the world's leading state sponsor a state sponsor of terror. my administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror the radical regime in iran it is a radical. regime they do bad bad things to ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i withdrew the united states from the disastrous iran nuclear deal i was told we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country we will not overt our eyes from a regime that chants death to america and threatens genocide

against the jewish people united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying supplies have arrived in colombia for delivery to venezuela it's at the request of quantum why don't you last month declared himself interim president but as well as opposition is accusing the military which backs president nicolas maduro of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia why don't his appeal to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of much needed food medicine and other essentials the u.s. says it is considering lifting sanctions on venezuelan military officers who back a correspondent allison their m.p. a team of force now from kuta on the colombia venezuela border. the promised a doesn't even reach the venezuelan border but the government of nicolas maduro is already taking steps to stop it entering the country fences huge shipping containers and armed soldiers are blocking crossings into venice where. the united

states and neighboring colombe are leading an effort to move tens of millions of dollars worth of aid into linux well it includes desperately needed medicines and food. president has long denied this country faces any such crisis in regard to the aid offer as the first step towards ending beechen of the country in the eyes of venus well as opposition it's no more don't act of compassion. humanitarian aid is humanitarian aid is to take care of the emergency it doesn't resolve the problem of food it's important to say that it's to attend to the most vulnerable that today are about to lose their lives. on wednesday the u.s. secretary of state in colombia's foreign ministers call them president maduro to change his mind and. where we're going to have been as well and people are calling for this humanitarian aid to arrive and what it needs to do is not impede our being

as well and brothers from getting the humanitarian aid they need this is the entrance to that bridge the main entry point for the aid arriving from the capital but we're still days away from being ready to operate as a humanitarian corridor the building there you see behind me is being adapted to properly store food and medicine that will arrive the first trucks are still on their way from of overtime they are expected here at some point on thursday and local authorities are telling us that even once all this will be ready they still don't have a clear plan and how to move this into venezuela. on the venezuela side of the border hungry families were anxiously waiting for news of the shipments. and even here in colombia business will ensue fled their home country or hoping to receive

some help not the i don't know not be said they get here we were told we could receive some food and help here but no they're saying it needs to go into venezuela and material not let it in let's hope he will put a hand on his heart and yield something that at least for now seems out of the question to listen to him. the results former president luis in the silver has been given another thirteen years of jail time for corruption and money laundering is already serving twelve years for another corruption conviction court found him guilty of allowing construction companies to renovate a farmhouse in exchange for contracts with state oil company petrobras he denies the charges saying they're politically motivated. scientists in the us a sounding the alarm on climate change after recording one of the warmest years on record if joint report by researches from two government agency in its ranks twenty eighteen as the fourth warmest year so far it says this is leading to rising sea levels

drought and more destructive hurricane castro reports. twenty eighteen was marked by natural disasters that ravaged the u.s. from coast to coast in california the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history killed more than eighty people in the carolinas hurricane florence shattered rainfall and flood records and now scientists point to hard evidence that as the disasters intensified the earth's surface more md the average global temperature last year was fourteen point six nine degrees celsius that's point seven one degrees above the average for the twentieth century since the eighteen eighties the global temperature has increased by one degree celsius with scientists blaming increased emissions of greenhouse gases caused by human activity it is alarming it's not surprising because we've been the stick predicting this for thirty years and finally it's actually happening but it is alarming because the

things that are driving this the increases in greenhouse gases we're still increasing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere year on year a un climate change panel has warned the world has only twelve years to rein in global warming before hundreds of millions of people across the planet will suffer from extreme heat and poverty you're seeing very direct impacts in waves more intense rainfall events coastal flooding because of increased sea level rise we're seeing melting ice in the arctic in greenland and in antarctica melting glaciers all around the world and that's having effects on our water resources will. seeing increase drying in the summers that's impacting droughts it's impacting forest fires it's impacting ecosystems the most ambitious goal of the paris climate accord limits global warming to one point five degree celsius by the centuries and but

even then more than a third of himalayan glaciers will have melted scientists say still much more should be done to move away from fossil fuels and minimize humans carbon footprint . castro al-jazeera. and united nations humanitarian aid convoy has arrived at a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan is the largest ever to reach well upon refugee camps since the start of syria's war more than one hundred trucks for food and medical supplies to thousands of syrian stranded in the camp aid workers will also provide an emergency vaccination campaign for ten thousand children there . all right still ahead when we come back we'll tell you why the philippines new autonomous region is getting a chance to explain. uncovering the truth behind mexico's missing why some families are hoping to find on says off the years of search.

welcomes another look at the international focus because severe storms moving across central parts of the u.s. at the moment anywhere from the lakes upper midwest right down into the southwest and calling to see that they sting this band of plant now ahead of it it's miles decent temperatures twenty five celsius for atlanta and from miami getting up to twenty one in dallas remember that twenty one in doubt assessment for the north minus twenty two that for winnipeg so quite a big contrast temperature contrast across the country and this is where we got the most severe storms and around the up midwest pushing into the appalachians over the next couple of days icing problems around the midwest further north well still a fair bit of snow that will drive its way further east was twenty one in dallas we're looking at six for friday so quite a child to least it will be dry by this stage that disturbed weather makes its way

eastwards in some new york through new jersey pushing wrought up across new england eastern sort of kind of this things and rather disturbed weather we hang on to that modest twenty two in winnipeg temperatures not changing too quickly killed enough over towards the western side of the country fifteen in l.a. that's around five or six degrees below the seasonal average so it is a little chilly here much of the sunshine for the caribbean it's fine dry warm and sunny thanks to a high of twenty nine. rewind returns a can bring your people back to life from start with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in the liberal i was the first of no like and the other student rewind continues with joseph's journey this is a. struggle continues book. from back. to now.

of course used to students rewind on al-jazeera. again you're watching and you see it a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president is predicting victory of what i saw as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territory previously held by the group in syria. the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying aid and bound for venezuela have arrived in colombia opposition leader one requested the aid he declared himself interim president last month. scientists in the u.s.

say last year was the fourth warmest on record report by two government agencies warns the trend is leading to flooding heat waves and more destructive power. of violence between rival criminal groups and security forces in mexico has been blamed for some forty thousand missing people over a thousand graves already been discovered mexico's new government is launching a new effort to find the disappeared but as john hall one reports from the capital families of the victims have been searching for years. mario had a bar and a comfortable life once now he's heading romex crew city selling mesko to fund the desperate quest his brothers one of the country's more than forty thousand disappeared for the last four years money has been looking for him across hills and forests he still remembers the day he searched. when the. care we started digging and it was the worst day of our lives because we weren't prepared for what

we'd find me knew we were looking for dead people but the moment we saw the bones many families broke down crying and destroyed thinking that our relatives could be there. years of fighting between organized crime and the government has left the country poked by clan the starting graves many believe authorities have shown little interest in finding them we think just bully cause the detectives went to look for our relatives in an office they just want to file away their cases but our relatives didn't disappear in their offices in response people have organized themselves in groups to spread the word pressure officials and dig its course mario dearly he's apart from his wife and two year old daughter most of the time they had to move from his village to a rented room in mexico city for their safety and those loopholes in the criminal groups have threatened me because i've gone to places where they're operating if there was a cave when i went to look for people and the guy said to me the boss says to you

don't stir things up don't go in there we'll kill you but it's not just organized crime the police and armed forces have also disappeared people actually think almost mirror will be able i am more scared of the government than the gangs when i'm digging in to find it disappeared person that's a problem for them and i worry that they'll get rid of me. he writes official one hundred seamers was promised a fresh start the new government pumping twenty million dollars into a. to find the missing. maybe this would be the start of a change but it's going to take many years of history and seen as with withers that he dug into a mass grave we made him do it to see what it's like digging to find our relatives light up maybe for him that was a big lesson with. whatever happens mario's plan remain simple and you muslims cannot be a man or party we keep looking for my brother because he's my brother

a lot of people say get over it he's dead but we want the truth if you find him dead at least we'll know they killed him least our family will have peace with you john hoeven now does either. a u.s. president donald trump used his state of the union speech to push for funding for his proposed border wall he spoke of a dangerous southern border and called illegal immigration an urgent national crisis rob reynolds reports from the us mexico border in california. this is calexico it's a small town of about forty thousand people it's not very much different from the other towns in imperial county which has a stubbornly high unemployment rate of sixteen percent but what sets this town apart is this a four point five meter tall metal wall that runs parallel to the main shopping street right on the other side that is mexico cali a city of one million people now people in calexico civic leaders and merchants

will tell you that they're almost entirely dependent upon the visitors from mexico for their economy people come here to shop to work to go to school and to work in the farms and fields of imperial county so when president trump talks about declaring a state of emergency shutting down the order entirely that really strikes fear into the hearts of many people in this community now what will the president do next it's really unknown he called for compromise in his state of the union speech he seems determined to build the wall but the democratic party seems equally determined to prevent him from doing so by not allocating any money could he declare a state of emergency could he even initiate another government shutdown all of these are good questions but the president has proved himself to be unpredictable in the past and there are at the moment no good answers amnesty international has

accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen. it says the u.a.e. diverts millions of dollars worth of arms off to buying them from the west many of the groups they supply a been accused of war crimes the rest military as expressed concerns over allegations american weapons have fallen into the hands of yemeni armed groups. but divestment is a senior research at the stockholm international peace research institute he says the report's findings are worrying but nothing new the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have been supplying weapons to different militias in yemen after for that matter also in syria and in libya so that we now find very clear evidence that weapons also and in the hands of all or more extreme militias including those related to al-qaeda is not surprising at all surprising thing is

more that the united states department of defense only now seems to make an issue of that i think if you supply weapons to militia groups you should assume that they go to loose somebody even many of them and these militia groups are more want organized and trained in the same way as the more professional armies of the united states itself and of course we have to remember that also the united states at times has lost weapons itself already so if you if you go further down that kind kind of the hierarchy you could say you are the risk but you're actually going to lose dose weapons to to your real opponents and it's very significant i don't think that the united states is going to punish the us or saudi arabia by significantly restricting arms sales to these two major we sip units of the united states when weapons i mean saudi arabia accounts for a very significant share of u.s.

arms exports and it will say to you u.a.e. they are they belong to the most important is that. recipients of u.s. arms and there are significant sums of money involved and of course both are also very important and i switch to united states does not want want to lose. european council president has condemned the british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave the e.u. without working out how to do it first donald tusk was speaking in brussels where he also pledged to do his best to find a solution to the brakes a crisis for brennan listening to those comments from belfast where the u.k. prime minister has been meeting in northern ireland's leaders that the second i have spoken about the necessary actions in case of no deal. i know that you will also be discussing this so again with the european commission. by the way i've been wondering chris what that special place. in her looks

like for those who promoted works it. result even a catchall for plan how to carry it safely now those in century comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from breakfast 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. 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 for the purpose of her visit here because of trying 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 vote in london refuses to do so it is 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 research may realize for her parliamentary majority has insisted that to tinker or 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 of top of the u.s. says it is cutting some military aid to cameroon because of allegations of human rights violations comes after video circulated online thought to show security forces shooting and killing civilians cameron has cooperated closely with the united states in the fight against armed. our rival factions from the central african republic have signed a peace deal in the capital to end six years of conflict the agreement between the

government and fourteen rebel groups was reached in sudan on tuesday after two weeks of un led negotiations thousands of them killed and millions displaced in fighting between christian and muslim militia since twenty thirteen a teacher striking over pay in zimbabwe say they're being intimidated by security forces 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 have stayed home to protest their wages but security agencies are monitoring them. reports from harare . blessing my parts i didn't go to work today. neither did some of the prime isco teachers colleagues because they aren't strike public school teachers one bit a working conditions and to be paid in u.s. dollars instead of local bonds knots which constantly leisurely is so painful you know i am in

a classroom teaching children and i cannot afford to have my child in that classroom it's all set. it's absurd it's painful you cannot live with that you cannot come to terms with it so. this is where we are. it's better that i stay at home because i'm not saying that isn't why i'm going to war. that means some children aren't learning teachers say they earn about six hundred knots 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 is some indication that some teachers are not were feeling for security since there is visible as it was just when they didn't know what they intended to do with the information about the structure of the.

building picking up the moves and to model it for a different day to our. government leaders deny the allegations and say teachers are being offered more pay there is no need to intimidate them how many times this government put of us on the table and we have put all of us on the tables on the table we have given. the christening allowances we have negotiated and variable failed 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 teaches diaries placing a potus is he's tired of being constantly in debt and always borrowing money to cover the cost of living staying at home is his way of protesting. had. a new autonomous region in the southern philippines could be expanded further when an indigenous tribe votes on whether to join the terry to ride tribes say they want to make sure the leaders of the muslim majority territory return their ancestral

lands to them jimmy dogon reports. get the money bush. called him and 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 an 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 our

people especially those who are most affected by what is going to be the chains of us from our people we feel that yes this is the right paul said this is the right form. of what we have fought for and that this is the ground from which to begin a new future yes 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 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 hold 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 the 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 do right 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 might in down the province southern philippines. this is age zero it's going to round up of our top stories the u.s. president is predicting victory over i saw as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territories previously held by the group in syria the united states military our coalition partners and the

syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced some time probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying aid bound for the country have arrived in colombia opposition leader who requested the aid he declared himself interim president last month scientists in the us say last year was the fourth warmest on record a report by two government agencies warns the trend is leading to flooding heat waves and more destructive hurricanes amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen as the u.a.e. diverts billions of dollars worth of arms off to buying them from the west many of

the groups they supply have been accused of war crimes. supporters of bragg's that have reacted angrily to remarks by one of the hughes top politicians european council president donald said there is a special place in hell for british politicians who supported leaving the european union without a concrete plan brazil's former president luis inacio lula da silva has been given another thirteen years of jail time for corruption and money laundering he's already serving a twelve year prison sentence for another corruption conviction the u.s. says it's cutting some military aid to cameroon over allegations of human rights violations it comes after a video circulated online thought to show security forces shooting and killing civilians cameroon has cooperated closely with the u.s. in the fight against the book or haraam those are the headlines earthrise is next. the week began with the use of ninety day truce in the to protect us china trade.

the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the conditions for existence on a sustained by complex web of climatic processes. i mean all rains predictable seasons and consistent temperatures all allow life to flourish.

but the overreliance on fossil fuels is causing the delicate balance of our planet to shift. instances of extreme weather you speak of rat but now.