they need more and u.s. air power alone is not enough to destroy eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans drop their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s. paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel local commanders say that eisel here has men from chechnya turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan that he. has written this was the foreign fighters are very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone the local i saw have at least some feeling for afghans but foreign isolator cruel or their hearts are made of

stone on the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out. of this. but there's not people who are using illicit deal for political lethal together gargling no one can bring that ideas to work again the interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to encounter the battle hardened men who will lose syria but not a cause tony berkeley al-jazeera eastern afghanistan. plenty more ahead on this news hour including well look there's a new door known as pay fists play that set to cost palestinians millions of

dollars. plus the bus to fly effect why the falling number of insect species is threatening the collapse of nature's ecosystems. and ski legend lindsey vonn has raced for the last time at the world championships in sweden lia will have more on that career in sports. talks to about another government shutdown in the u.s. have stalled just days before a deadline over funding is due to expire there's a dispute between republicans and democrats over the immigrant attentions president donald trump agreed last month to end the thirty five day possible sucked out with a three week spending deal the political deadlock is i have a funding for trump's proposed border war with mexico the us president has been quick to attack the democrats over the breakdown of talks. it was

a very bad week for the democrats with the great economic numbers the disaster and the state of the union address now with the terrible office being made to them made them made by them to the border committee i actually believe they want a shutdown they want a new subject caster has more from washington d.c. . talks breaking down over this acute hurdle of detention space with republicans wanting more detention space to accelerate deportations and democrats wanting less is only the smaller of the bigger problems the major hurdle is still trump's demand for border wall funding he has asked for five billion dollars for construction while democrats in this negotiating committee have offered at most two billion for some sort of border barrier and it remains to be seen whether the president would be receptive of that offer the last government shutdown lasted thirty five days and

was painful for the federal workers who did not receive a paycheck and at the very least inconvenient for the americans who had flights grounded or welfare payments delayed however trump still has one last option in his back pocket and that would be to declare a national emergency in essence to commandeer those funds that he's seeking to build the border wall but even members of his own party and members of his own closest advisers have cautioned the president against declaring a national emergency saying that doing so may be seen as a power grab and be detrimental to his efforts to seek reelection. or i spoke to evan siegfried a republican strategist and he says washington looks set for a second shutdown. there are two types of chances here they're the chances that senate report or the house and senate republicans will agree with house and senate democrats and they will come up with a deal whether or not the white house is up there is even more remote the white

house has to agree to whatever comes out there at the congress because if the congress passes that and the white house doesn't agree the president will likely veto it or he just won't even sign it and then we'll have a government shutdown and the president has stated emphatically he wants a wall he wants serious border security and right now democrats do not seem to be willing to give it to the democrats and republicans are completely divided on beds they're divided on the border protection itself whether or not we should be increasing the number of customs and border protection agency whether or not we should be adding more immigration judges there's a lot that there is not being agreed on and that's probably the only thing people agree on right after however i think that at the end of the day they need to have a deal done by tuesday at the latest in order to have the government not shutdown because even if they have a perfect deal that everybody agrees to you still have to voted in and that takes time that would take about three legislative days while saying we're all tired of

the shutdowns the latest democratic presidential contender. has launched a campaign for twenty twenty the u.s. senate and made the announcement in her home state of minnesota a former prosecutor was fast elected to the senate in two thousand and six the fast woman to do so for has stays last year she made headlines for grilling president tom supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. we are tired of the shutdowns in the showdowns of the gridlock and the grandstanding. today as this no a day on this island we say and now it is. our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity not by wallowing over what's wrong but by marching inexorably toward what's right

closer shot joins an increasingly crowded field of democrats vying for the chance to challenge president on will trump nine candidates have now throwing their hats in the ring they include massachusetts senator elizabeth warren new jersey senator cory booker longtime prosecutor and california senator come a harris and barack obama's former housing secretary julian castro or several others have also signaled their interest in entering the race twenty sixteen democratic candidate and vermont senator bernie sanders is expected to run again and former vice president joe biden said in december he is the most qualified person for the job and he gallagher has more from washington d.c. . well let me close with shar is the first female senator in the state of minnesota is history she's a former prosecutor somebody who incidentally got involved in politics after the birth of her first child she campaigned for the right of women to stay in hospital for forty eight hours that later became law but what she might struggle with in this crowded field is name recognition not many people in this country know who she

is but she is saying that geographically being in the midwest will give her the advantage over the other candidates she's talking about heartland economics and it's important to remember these are states these midwestern states that donald trump one quite easily in the last presidential election but she's also seen as someone in this crowded field as being more of a moderate someone who could potentially be a bridge builder she's not for instance for medicare for all but she says she will take on the gun lobby and she will take on climate change there are some persistent stories that she may be a difficult boss with a high staff turnover in her office something that people say simply sexist but she's entering a now crowded field and of course has a long way to go before the twenty twenty election with a couple of big names still having not thrown their hat in the ring the embattled democratic governor of the u.s. state of virginia has declared he is not going anywhere as he resists demands to resign speaking to the c.b.s. t.v.

network ralph nor them says it's been a difficult week since a decade's old photo imagine showing a person in blackface and another wearing a coup klux klan hood nor them initially apologized for being one of the men pictured then later denied he was in it but admitted he darkened his face as another of that region in need someone that can heal there's no better person to do that than a doctor or genuine also need someone who is strong who has empathy who has courage and who has a moral compass and that's why i'm not going anywhere i have learned from this i have a lot more to learn. thailand's election commission is expected to rule on the eligibility on the eligibility of princess to run for prime minister in march as elections on friday the thai rocks a chart party announced that the king's older sister would be its candidate the palace has since issued a statement calling the move unconstitutional and inappropriate her candidacy

breaks a long standing tradition of tire royalty staying out of politics al-jazeera is when he is live from bangkok when is there any hope that the election commission will rule in favor of the party and the princess i think that is highly unlikely as you said on friday night really just hours after the party had made that shock announcement that the princess would be its prime ministerial candidate the palace issued what was a fairly strongly worded statement saying that it was unconstitutional or inappropriate even though she doesn't have a royal title that she gave that up back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two because she married a foreigner also a commoner but the statement really said that regardless solve that she still part of the royal family and therefore has to adhere to the customs the traditions the rules surrounding the monarchy and really in thailand what the palace says goes so would be unimaginable really that the election commission would go against that

statement from the palace that was issued late on friday night the party could also be dissolved because of this that's the other important factor we want to know about that on monday because that will have to go through the constitutional court but there is a real possibility now that the punishment could go much further than simply ruling the princes in eligible and weigh in what implications does this have for taksin shinawatra who backs this party. yes well he was the one that tours ousted in the coup when he was prime minister back in two thousand and six sorry still very much influential in thai politics backing this party as you mentioned also a much larger party time which was ousted in the most recent coup in two thousand and fourteen and the reason he set up this tie rocks a chart party which nominated the princess as its candidate to become prime

minister was really a case of hedging his bets because his main party per thai is also facing the prospect of dissolution because some of its key leadership are also facing legal challenges if they're found guilty of some of those charges the party could also be dissolved so the chart was a bit of a back up also a way of spreading support around to try to win as many seats in the election on march twenty fourth both in constituency seats and also on the party list so if this party is dissolved of course of her thai is dissolved as a huge sit back for the shinawatra and their quest really to return to thailand remembering that his sister another former prime minister yingluck shinawatra who's government was in charge in two thousand and fourteen when the most recent coup happened is also living in exile avoiding jail term because of charge similar to her brother so this would be a big setback certainly for the chena what's in their desire to get back involved

directly in thai politics out of there as well and hey watching developments for us and bangkok thank you wayne. i'm a stanton national is accusing me and me of shelling villages detaining civilians and blocking aid as part of a new crackdown on ethnic but ists in northern rakhine state fighting has intensified since early january when a buddhist rebel group the me attacked four police posts and killed that teen offices villages and local activists say artillery and mortar shells are being fired into residential areas one woman told the rights group security forces have restricted the amount of rice allowed into her village westing a supply shortage more than five thousand people have been displaced since december many had fled to neighboring bangladesh to stay in makeshift camps amnesty says the army units involved are the same ones accused of carrying out atrocities against the regime and twenty seventeen nearly one hundred children in the democratic

republic of congo have died from the ebola virus since an outbreak last year most of them were under five years old the charity's save the children warns the death toll could rise as the number of new cases jumped from twenty a week to more than forty a week last month the d.l.c. is battling the second largest outbreak in history over the last six months at least five hundred people have died israel's prime minister says he intends to implement a controversial new law within a week it's known as pay fists lay and this is how it will work the palestinian government pays compensation to the families of people convicted by israel on charges of carrying out attacks under the proposed law israel would deduct an amount equal to that compensation from tax funds it raises on behalf of the palestinian authority if the law is passed it would cut revenue to the or thirty by about three hundred thirty million dollars

a year. still ahead on al-jazeera. not playing fair over the next wild card more on the accusations about a campaign against qatar. and it's six of the best in the english premier league for manchester city nia will explain in sports. hello there we've got some rain and snow working its way across the southeast in parts of china at the moment you see here on the satellite picture making its way steadily up towards the northeast and still with us as we head through the next couple of days so a fair amount of cloud there are courses central belt as we head through the day on monday a few outbreaks of snow a likely and then if that sweeps its way eastwards it's going to begin to intensify as we head into choose day so expect some more in the way of wet weather and

a few patches of snow around to to the south about there should be fine for us in hong kong with a maximum temperature of twenty three degrees for the southeastern parts of asia plenty of fine settled weather to be found here at the moment to this just a handful of showers really most of there is in the southern parts of borneo down through job and it's a sim out and that's really where most of the showers are going to be over the next few days further north plenty of dry weather for many of us across thailand through cambodia into vietnam and across towards the philippines as well it should be fine unsettled for us as we head through tuesday to now across towards sri lanka hey we've had some very wet weather over the last day or so you can see the showers on the satellite picture they've been very very active they gradually easing should be less of them as we head through monday and tuesday and further north there should also be some quieter weather for us as well not poor there getting to around twenty nine degrees on monday. who would sponsor down. on the streets of greece onto migrant violence is on the riots. you have to go for

. the sun that prove this is all fun fusses something and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the globe. al-jazeera as correspondents live and bring the stories they tell of this. but these. letters. were at the mercy of the russian camp for palestinian direct al-jazeera fluent in world news.

welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. is seeking to force the issue of aid delivery to venezuela using a u.n. security council resolution president maduro has accused the u.s. of using aid as a political tool to destabilize his government. talks to about another u.s. government shutdown have stalled disputes between democrats and republicans over immigrant detentions have led to the current impasse. thailand's election commission is expected to decide soon if the princess is eligible to run for prime minister and marches elections the party had wanted the king sister to be its

counter to the palace has called the move unconstitutional and inappropriate. oh thailand is one of the world's largest export as a fish but its industry has faced accusations of human trafficking and abuse two very different movies at butlins film festival highlighting the problem in an attempt to make us think more about the food we eat the d.m. baba has the story. mark. in your lawn i saw when chakra is a teenager who leaves home in rural cambodia for a job in thailand at least that's what he thinks he's doing. soon he's in the hands of people smugglers and forced to work without pay on a tiny fishing boat his story forms the backbone of buoyancy getting its world premiere at the berlin ali and the fifteen year old playing him says filming gave him a small insight into how much suffering is involved there and aside and how hard.

one day here is really there and. so. really had come out and when. i find. the director based the film on interviews with survivors of human trafficking in cambodia he's now planning to show the finished product that. i mean it will be i would love for the film to work back in cambodia on a kind of educational level for those guys are thinking about going to thailand and i understand there's some risk but don't fully know what's at stake if if they get trafficked tricked on the ground one of its troubles is how will i meet again i'm tackling the issue from another angle the documentary ghost fleet follows thai activists committed to freeing in slave fisherman and getting justice for them. by mixing first person testimony with

a reenactment that shows how an industry exporting fish around the world sometimes deals in misery to. food is an essential part of this film first of all from street stalls like this to soirees with the stars and it even gets its own film strands called cullen reese in amar. and organizers hope by showing films such as ghost fleets they can help people think about the origin of what they do every food has a story the fish has a story vegetable has has a story and the filmmakers are much more diligent and more aware of telling these stories. however they're told these tales are raves less it making the audience feel bad at the net getting them to make a change. but al-jazeera the lead in. the birth of iran's revolution came through the anger of millions of

people rising up against the shah andrew symonds went to visit one of the revolutionaries and to assess the mood of the nation as it marks forty years since the islamic revolution. mohammed rays attack sheikh is one of iran's many revolutionaries he reflects on life changing events forty years ago with the starter and pride. well before. khomeini took power some of the razor defected from the shah's army during the revolution. he went on to fight in the iran iraq war of the nineteen eighties hundreds of thousands were killed and maimed among them mohammed raises a younger brother hammy the razor. as well as you know our belief in personal sacrifice for the revolution is our spiritual leader says we are the victorious ones because our enemies cannot put pressure on us militarily they are doing it

economically and culturally. mohammad reza says he's against moderates in government and believes foreign influence is to blame for economic problems outside of a city festooned with the colors of the islamic republic of iran many people now say . openly about economic hardship. but forty taxi driver a nola reza is as old as the revolution he says he can't pay his bills i mean what a man no matter how much he cut back on my spending i can make both ends meet i'm distraught i've got two children aged eight and thirteen for decades since the revolution of a population of more than eighty million and there's a big gap than ever between the rich and the poor the economic situation getting worse and made much more critical by the u.s. sanctions has led to high youth unemployment and inflation increasing by the day

that's leading to subdued anger in many parts of iran. it's likely to get worse for the people before it gets better reimposed u.s. sanctions are now forcing more countries to stop importing oil from iran its main driver for growth we spoke to some iranians who say people have to show resilience . that the issue has to be so we should all have the same goal we should protect our revolution from being. before he finishes speaking a bystander interrupts with her view of the revolution i don't know about but here it has driven us to dismiss very and poverty people are poor and they have nothing left. young people in this crowded setting talk of leaving iran once they've graduated from university this twenty year old plans to move to canada to work as a nurse i don't see my future here i don't think i can find

a good job most of a reining in line to. integrate. the divide between often stoic older generation and younger people has undoubtedly grown since mama razor and others brought down a monarchy but he insists nothing can break the spirit of iran's revolution. andrew simmons. to. the world's insects are on the path to extinction posing a catastrophic threat to our ecosystems the global scientific review is published by a leading journal called biological conservation the report says that more than forty percent of insect species are in decline while a third are endangered this means the race of their extinction is eight times faster than mammals and reptiles overall the mass of insects is falling by two point five percent every year meaning they could vanish within

a century scientists say this could destroy the way all ecosystems function affecting all forms of life on the planet well francisco sanchez bio is a researcher at the university of sydney and one of the authors of the study and he joins us now on skype francisco paint a picture for us of a wild without insects. you know in so we roll do review you know our paper has every view of ford it never says there has been down in the last that the ears by a number of experts in seconds. coming in from butterflies to be used to beetles when and where they can see it as well so the we intended to raise awareness now to there is a big problem that we have come certainly in phonic what systems most people only focus on charismatic animals what we call

a callous mother getting on satellite births and mom was banned as an elephant states and that bentley for get it down at the base of the atlas system is built up and in six months that is better but it's you know you need to feed one in six and if you mean six these appear in the hole because they've since will collapse so to make people aware of that reality we put in a comprehensive way to think all these reports and a loser set it has been done over the years and the last that the u.s. was basically going to show that there really we have to be up for it and as you said forty percent forty one percent sakhi of the world in six declining and thirty percent of them that really searching with extinction francisco what would be the impact of that and how would people be feeling that an every day lives in terms of food chains or agriculture right now is that we do will change.

as i said the city in six out and the days of the persistence both in depressed your local systems or this forest or grasslands or even in the attic reduce now in six that live there as well when you do tropics of course number four it's also in the what we call of course systems. and in particular if the systems are even more upset in bending and the rest no one's. hold it behooved hands that we have been thrown into the reverse for many years and some of this is something gone and cut gone extinct or gravy now done it means that there's less food for some. fish but mainly now we are losing a very important if you're system service which is the unification of the want us so we were many of these know a lot of the of what they can six and have food and very important role in recycling new things that come from automatic might that they sit on the rivers and

thereby they are all welsh and that we can sort of say things all. or does not fall into the water some different ways and so we had to give you that it was more contaminated than all dirty and but he's throwing day. the elements that are really fine. we are making it a real harm to our water quality so you not wait we have to be very very concerned now can't. fund just yet many on the scale so about what's caused all of this and we've we've had about issues around climate change what else has contributed to this the stick line. of our climate is this is this as we see is another very important driver he says he said dr reddy and so then the us for example what become of the young so it's a very important. that you can do it in but it is in the us which is where most of

the studies come from it's from north america. the main driver he said of the culture intensification. not political terasa but and folks are in consider the case and that we need big comes down use of certain eyes and it's the size of the synthetic one of them we had some of them help increase the production or the cross. half much in fact for example it's been. demonstrated recent condition studies in france that you simply science have no bearing whatsoever in missile production and heavy science will help you lose the d.v.d. or the crops planted in six percent not. particularly the sign to clean six so that we keep growing and we can see incest we do now we must give up the case of one hundred sixty sites yet again. we will eliminate all day in six days we we have

seem right now so does that mean you're close and it doesn't do your cause as pointed out but each one of their own thoughts or their studies no we have reviewed . climate changes in mind of. there other than to us in between. or they mention the pollution which works together we know that it costs are you can see the creation christian science on that i suppose and also there are some people who says species but no one got a fact with up against them may have a man on the consider think francisco you are describing a wild way there will be for shortages of food and clean water for human consumption is there any way to come back from this what can we do now. we had two chains out of which as we know they don't tell you have to come back to more environmentally friendly and close systems mean only organic food from the action which is dutch fine that they won't be able to feed the world i mean assistant in

which nature is taken into account right now do we have seen it couldn't feel it is just yet piece of land which works like a factory where we produce what a pose for kong or just one item when one for product and eliminate it is the next round do we do the trees around to feel and they in six that we depend on most one does it was the sound so that's not their way to keep their systems healthy that's a very active she's young and natural way and of course i can snatch her so it would give the secondly that uses will disappear within a century that's not what the number subtly maybe there will be some a species now it will increase people have to walk tall it out there. more are simply and with the bottom of the chains and they will dominate that they're riced with this at the end because the biomass a so hopefully in six is the increasing very rapidly two point five percent

a year that means twenty five percent that they get that means in a century there will be ninety six very little of us as food items for in you know that i have. that's when it is so and come back with you know so it way to solve these problems changed our way of you know the culture and we know the way this what we call into great is this management it it's management we can create as we only simply size it will be at be that when greece now goes off the. you know prague i think even time it's not something that happens. every year in nobody crop was not right if that happens only from time to time in this specific rocks under certain conditions and only then we can use several hours which. is which are effective but also their environment really friend francisco china has had io there speaking to us from sydney thank you very much francisco and congratulations on the

report thank you very much. hungary's prime minister has called on voters to defend christian nations against immigration fix or ban has launched a rightwing campaign to get more and he immigration legislators into the european parliament elections are due in may outside the presidential palace on hundreds held anti government demonstrations they say the country is sliding away from democracy or ban announced tax breaks and generous subsidies to encourage families to raise more children well two very different movies have won big at the british academy film and television awards in london from the red carpet charlie angelo reports walking the red carpet for the path through the woods the british academy of film and television arts celebrities old and new hoping to see their work on it at the end of it and for the man who wrote directed shot and edited his own story.