that may not be mainstream have but the fires are still going to. be by. the way did you tell that story he's going to make a difference. the the in. libya's warring sides get closer to us than edifying a cease fire during talks in moscow brokered by russia intact and. they are watching al-jazeera with meanest audio tape and are also coming up the u.s. drops china from its currency back as days before they are set to sign the 1st stage of a trade deal. joining forces france and 5 west african states as a better coordinate their fight against increasingly dangerous armed groups in the

whole region. and fear and panic in the philippines where tens of thousands of people are on the run from an erupting volcano. as a fragile temporary ceasefire largely holds in libya the warring leaders have moved closer to making it more permanent the head of the un recognized government. and warlord khalifa haftar a both in moscow for negotiations brokered by russia and turkey from lestat fasten reports the aim of monday's meeting in moscow was to formalize to cease fire that started in libya on sunday 24 hours earlier russia and turkey invited fired outside ash prime minister of the un backed government and warlord to sign a more permanent truth that's aimed at paving the way towards formal negotiations to end the b.s. 9 year long so. war but after 7 hours of talks one signature remains missing 2 word

emotion today we can report that a certain progress has been achieved and the chairman of the government of national of libya mr starch and the chairman of have consul of state mr methley has just signed it after heart of the comment of libyan national army and the president of libya house of representatives and mr i see this document positively and have asked for some extra time till to morrow morning to decide on where they were to sign it i hope their decision will be positive the ceasefire was brokered by the presidents of turkey and russia in istanbul last week following a meeting with italy's prime minister is epicanthic red chip tayyip erdogan announced he will be in berlin on january did 19th for an international conference aimed at ending the libyan conflict. even if it is only in one day i believe a strong result from these talks. must go to lay the foundation for the

process turkish troops were recently sent to libya to help slow after us 9 months advance on the capital tripoli in the complicated proxy war russian mercenaries together with the united arab emirates and egypt are aiding have to are both russia and turkey say they are hopeful that half the will signed a truth agreement on tuesday morning long and complicated negotiations here in moscow show how complicated the conflict in libya is with the international conference due in berlin it's crucial that the truth away month will be signed and sealed here in moscow 1st step fasten al-jazeera moscow. now the u.s. says we're moving china from the list of countries it accuses of manipulating their currencies and that's happening just days before they're expected to sign a fast stage of the trade deal u.s. president our child has long accused china of keeping the yen at low levels to get

an unfair trade advantage but our correspondent allan fisher is in washington d.c. and tells us what this could mean for the trade will go back for years donald trump when he was campaigning to become president said that in this 1st year in the white house he would clear china to be a currency manipulator well eventually got round to just 5 months ago no it really was a symbolic gesture it didn't really have much impact it could have opened china up to greater scrutiny from the international monetary fund but it didn't really happen this was at the height of donald trump's trade war you remember he imposed tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese goods he said that china was poor and billions of dollars in fees into the u.s. treasury in fact if you look at a report that came out just last week it said that 100 percent of the cost of tad of swizz being borne by american families $1.00 survey said american families were about $800.00

a year was soft so this sure is that things between china and the united states are getting better in the markets have responded well to that it's up again in the united states at the close of business on monday so it seems as if things are improving but there is criticism of donald trump not surprisingly it comes from the democrats chuck schumer is the leader of the democrats in the senate he said look china is still a currency manipulator the united states shouldn't be taking that tab away and it says we're giving away a lot and not getting a lot in return calling into question whether or not donald trump really is the great negotiator that he says he is. well let's also get the view from beijing katrina you're is there for us katrina presumably this is being portrayed as a win for china what sort of reaction are you seeing. so far no government reaction but we've seen plenty of responses on state media

saying that this is the right thing to do that you know expect to leave the same tone it was never a currency manipulator in the 1st place and this really shows that the u.s. is ready to come back to the table and really sincerely make a go of of working on this trade deal and at least working on the relationship together so it's not quite a celebration i mean for china we saw that this this phase one deal was announced in december during a press conference just before midnight and since then we've heard very little from the chinese government which is indicating to us that president xi jinping possibly might have had to compromise a lot more than he wanted to in this space deal that he wants to really to go on about to the chinese public for example china did say at some point last year that they wanted to see a rolling back of all the additional tariffs that the u.s. had imposed on china since the beginning of the trade war that has not been the case so china is really taking this currency manipulator announcement as as a good thing but no big celebrations ahead around this announcement yet or katrina despite this one concession there are as you say still plenty of outstanding and

potentially even more controversial issues to negotiate so does this take us actually any closer to an end of hostilities in the trade war. well one way to describe it is that china and the u.s. have a rocky you stormy relationship and this this currency manipulator announcement this phase one trade deal is one bright spot it's a break in the rain it's a break in the lightning in the storm but this is not the short answer is no this is not the end to the trade on here the state media and what we're reading analysts here also believe that this trade war is going to last for months if not years because we've seen that you know these trade talks have been going on you had more than a dozen talks between chinese and u.s. negotiators and they almost collapsed last year so we do get the sense that phase one was really the lower hanging fruit the things that the u.s. and china were able to agree on and that china was able to happily agree on everything that they weren't so sure they basically just pushed that to phase 2 but

phase 2 they're going to have to discuss the real things that are really at the heart of this trade war that you'd better get into the u.s. the the technology race for example some structural changes that china has pretty much we have said no or very been very reluctant to change so there is quite a lot of pessimism as to whether we will even get to a phase 2 let alone a phase 3 but for now i think china at least the state media here are focusing on the fact that look this is not the end but we're still working on it and that's the good things are so far that's a that's what we've seen from beijing continue there for us in the chinese capital thank you katrina now france and its partner nations in africa held region have agreed to unite their troops under one command structure to better fight against armed groups there at a summit in southwest france the leaders of mali begin a fast and mauritania and chad also wants the u.s. not to pull its troops out of the region

a move the pentagon is considering france for its part will send 220 more soldiers and talked about has been following events at that summit. at the end of the summits between the french president and the presidents of. chad mali and mauritania the so-called g. 5 nations all the leaders agreed to cooperate more closely militarily and politically to fight what they said was growing terrorism in the region the president of the king of facets a 2019 have been a very difficult year with an increasing number of attacks against the military and civilians. today more than ever we can say that the results that we are accumulating for the moment despite our combined efforts are below the expectations of the people. have decided to engage additional combat capacities $220.00 soldiers to initiate the style will be added to the troops already present on the ground operation the leaders said the forces underfunded it is struggling because

it is ill equipped in the face of the threat from armed groups so they called on the international community for more support financially and militarily well the french president had initially convened this summit because he wanted the g. 5 leaders to clarify whether or not they wanted french troops in the sile whether or not they will welcome and that is because the man omar kroll says that there has been growing anti french sentiment in the region or we spoke to some protesters in paul who gathered just before the summit began and they said that they believed the french troops should withdraw. france is there to protect french interests not to protect africans or their interests and this was also firm a lot about responding to french public pressure because more people in france have been questioning exactly why france is involved in a region that is so dangerous. ahead of that meeting and from its nature as

president replaced as army chief following an attack that killed 89 soldiers near the border with a man to dress reports from. the mood across in asia is somebody as a country mourns the string of losses recently suffered by the army has shaken many here and raised concerns about the future secu many that the good logic with the attackers are trying to conquer territory i think once they are done with this country they will move on to another they have a global agenda. after the devastating loss the government of missouri struggling to deal with the fallout from the attack. all you need to know is the whole of the so hell is unstable leaders in the region the collaborating our soldiers are doing their best and the support of everyone it's not easy but we hope things will improve we hope the hardship we're going through will pass soon president mohamed is of joint leaders of the bali charged and working

a fossil for summit with french president. paul. but not before making changes in the just military leadership a move to scribe just too little too late for victims of these attacks. before fortunately burrs the brunt of the attacks the new appointments are coming after much of. the problem is structural families who lost members are mourning and will continue to do so what the government needs to do is to take measures to prevent this from happening. like most countries of the said hell is facing an uncertain future in less than 2 months 160 of its soldiers have been killed by groups this monument was built in the center of the city in honor of the $71.00 killed in the last month another $89.00 soldiers what killed in another attack last

week the threat from groups is a major concern for people especially those living in areas close to the border with mali and nigeria. 3 days of national mourning is underway people in the several countries who are now becoming more custom to these attacks and wonder why the i'm groups will strike next. time it degrees al-jazeera yami. all coming up after the. this was an act of terrorism. 21 saudis at x. ballot for military training in the u.s. after the shooting at a naval base beset by corruption scandals and a government in disarray haiti's president suggests he may rule without parliament .

hello there still a few storms lingering through southern regions of the united states but the severity of the storms really has come down in the last 24 hours now there's a real mix of weather conditions this is up in illinois looking across that lake michigan we've got the cold air in place the ice meanwhile across into massachusetts this is boston so very very mild for this time of year so we have still got that mild air in place as we go through tuesday and still this line of showers and thunderstorms and it could still leave some localized flooding and we could have the old strong thunderstorm but for the most part as a say nothing like we've seen over the weekend so if you shells lingering on wednesday and warm ahead of that system 22 celsius in atlanta 15 degrees in d.c. and then we watching this as we go through the mid week days we've got this new storm really beginning or trying to push into the pacific northwest so plenty of snow coming in with that as well as the rain showers but when it comes to temperatures it has been way above the average in new york city but look at this by friday we go from 10 to 12 degrees on wednesday down to 2 celsius on friday so drop

of 10 degrees and much closer to the average band of showers across much of the caribbean as some fairly brisk winds at the same time becoming more widespread as we go through wednesday but fine and dry on the palmers 28 in one. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. of the stories. provided the tips into someone else's well out dated was there to day or. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. like the witness on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour the talks on a permanent cease fire in libya ended on monday without a breakthrough libya's prime minister. attending those talks in moscow have to has also to have until tuesday morning to consider whether or not to sign a formal deal. the u.s. has lifted its designation of china as a currency manipulator just days before the 2 countries are expected to sign a trade deal the american treasury says china has made commitments to keep its currency the yen artificially low. and france and its part of the nations in africa the whole region have agreed to unite troops under one command structure it's aimed

at pushing back on troops linked to al-qaeda and i sort of stepped up attacks on security forces that in recent months. now iranian protesters have defied a heavy police presence in tehran for a 3rd day they are angry about the killing of 176 people on board a ukrainian airliner iran's military shot down by mistake while targeting u.s. forces in iraq in retaliation for the assassination of iranian general custom salomone 21 saudi cadets who've been training with the u.s. army being sent home and follows an investigation into a saudi officers fatal shooting of 3 americans at a naval base the u.s. attorney general has described it as an act of terrorism mike hanna reports. the shooting shocked the tightly knit community at pensacola and raised questions about the training programs that allowed hundreds of international could debts to attend courses at u.s. bases the f.b.i. interviewed some 500 people in its investigation in which it found that the shooter

mohamed rami acted alone and that none of his fellow saudi officers had any for knowledge of the attack but the social media accounts of $21.00 of the cadets contained what the u.s. attorney general called derogatory material most cases ranging from what is described as terrorist related content to child pornography the relevant u.s. attorney's offices independently reviewed each of the $21.00 cases involving derogatory information and determined that none of them would in the normal course result in federal prosecution. however the kingdom of saudi arabia determined the disk material demonstrated conduct unbecoming an officer in the royal saudi air force and in the royal navy and the 21 cadets have been disenrolled from their training curriculum in the u.s. military and will be returned returning to saudi arabia the f.b.i.

also released details about the shooter's activities in the days leading to the attack which included a visit to the $911.00 memorial in new york city as well as posting a number of anti us and anti israeli comments on his social media feeds the conclusion that the killings were an act of terrorism is motivated by a violent ideology mike hanna al-jazeera washington. an american man who'd been held in a gyptian jail for 6 years has died the u.s. government says mustafa custom's death was needless and avoidable the 54 year old gyptian u.s. citizen was arrested in cairo in 2013 during a crackdown on protests against president. custom and long insisted he was falsely charged and had no links to any opposition groups. haiti's president john elway's concern rule by decree after being left with no government and no parliament

because elections to choose new representatives were never held its further upset an already delicate democracy after months of anti-government protests stories about reports from port au prince. precedential will be facing some tough questions in the next few days maurice could be running the country on his own from now on after the mandate of congress and 2 thirds of the senate expired on monday maurice blamed congress man for the current situation that has left the country without a legit inward government. in 2018 are called on palm and to an extraordinary session to vote on the electoral law this did not happen and again in november and 2018 we seem to budget to the parliament there were millions of dollars for elections in january the budget was sent back to the executive they were supposed to vote for the electoral law and the prime minister and they never did the president didn't say when elections will take place and announced he will

use the money spent on congressman salaries to build schools the failure to hold elections as a left haiti in a constitutional back when the president says that this is a unique opportunity to push for structural reforms that would help this country move forward but there are lots of fears that this could lead to abuse of power oh . these people say they want more yeas and the congress men out they blame them for the current economic situation that millions of haitians face every day was told the mismanagement of the fund which is the program of subsidized always from venezuela angered many here. we asked for a clean slate because we want everybody to go they stole money from petrograd e bay and built themselves next to the beach but nothing else the un says that the terror rate in your going on. conditions including low growth high inflation and

then increase in the cost of basic food items have had a negative impact on the humanitarian situation millions are going hungry because. there is no adverse move to the public sector there is no of this move to the private sector so we are in a situation of total fracture of the economy and this effect is situational for action and we need to work on a national reorganization and this can not be done with juvenile moisi because he has shown his incapacity to rule. the organization of american states and members of the international community say they're negotiating with all political parties to prevent chaos in the country. but there are many who claim the international community has prevented real political change because it has supported a political class that has been unable to resolve the serious conditions haitians face every day. port au prince china's ministry of foreign

affairs has defended its decision to bar the head of human rights watch from entering hong kong beijing accuses the international rights group of instigating unrest in the city as mass protests there and to the 7th month ken roth was planning to launch the human rights watch his latest report on china it accuses the chinese government of an intensifying assault on human rights person this statement on twitter soon after he was blocked from getting in. i'm standing here in hong kong international airport i had flown in from new york with the hope of holding a press conference on wednesday to release human rights watch is the annual growth report and the focus of the report this year was going to be how the chinese government is. deliberately undermine international human rights not simply suppress the rights of people at home but also undermines the ability of anybody else to try to hold china to human rights standards sadly as i arrived here

the chinese government decided it didn't want to let me and so even though i've been able to enter hong kong freely before this time for the 1st time they blocked me now the threat of what experts call a volcanic tsunami as following is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. in the middle of the night and it's fear that an underwater eruption will cause destructive waves john allen reports from the town his province. there is fear and anxiety here thousands of people are fleeing their homes and looking for a safe place to go everything happened in an instant isle volcano in the northern philippines spewed ashes steam and lava on sunday a violent activity not seen for decades and raising the threat not just to those living in the provinces of but on the us and compete there but even in the capital manila where many people also woke up to

a city covered in ash driving to but on gus was a difficult journey we came across people desperate to flee gathering their families together and not bringing anything else except the clothes on their backs the only real being asked to leave and we have no word google. and there are still people we left behind it isn't easy the roads are bad and we are constantly reminded that we are in a danger zone while speaking to some of the residents we felt another earthquake ok we're feeling. there is an earthquake mild we were told this is because of the volcanoes constant activity basically which is trying to say is that they're trying to make their way out of here so they can go to the next possible town hoping to be able to commute and get to the nearest relative in the next

province. the philippine government says it is doing the best it can but admits resources are already stretched thousands of people have already been moved to different evacuation sites aren't sure when they will be able to return home. you know the situation here is difficult there's no electricity and water the roads are muddy making it difficult to people here even our trucks are struggling powerless one of the world's smallest active volcanoes it sits in the middle of a lake just a few hours from manila a popular tourist destination known for its unique landscape for people who have lived around the lake all the lives i was a volcano they were reduced to love not one they thought they would be here one day . jim duggan al-jazeera us northern philippines.

nasa says the smoke from a stray as bush fires will do a full wrap of the earth take a look at the satellite images there from a week ago and they show the haze drifting over chile and argentina about 11000 kilometers from australia's east coast it's expected to carry on and eventually approach western australia rain and cooler weather are helping fire crews get on top of the month long imagine for now. now the vatican has tried to downplay a splash at the top of the roman catholic church over whether or not priests should be allowed to marry hype francis says considering easing some restrictions on celibacy to address a shortage of clergymen that prompted an extraordinary intervention from his predecessor as named barker reports. it is a central question in the roman catholic church should priests maintain the centuries old stance on celibacy. now 2 popes past and present could find themselves on different sides of the debate.

benedict the 16th who pledged to remain hidden from the world when he retired in 2013 has broken his silence to passionately defend celibacy in a new book benedict who became the 1st pope in more than 600 years to resign because of ill health so the traditional hours priests to focus on the judy's. comments come at a time when pope francis is considering easing a ban on married men serving as priests south american bishops have called for a change to help end a shortage of priests particularly in indigenous communities in the amazon. pope francis the 1st latin american pope is said to have an instinctive understanding of the region's challenges. it is pope francis' who will make any final decision but the surprise intervention from pope benedict underscores fundamental divisions of the 1300000000 member church many catholics who ever deny francis and benedict have

different views on married priests what benedict believes about priestly celibacy is exactly the same as what pope francis believes the senate on the amazon asked him look at there are communities who don't get a priest even once a year could we consider ordaining some deacons who are there who are married with families and this is something the pope is considering and that's an exception and i'm sure that he. he says yes benedict would be happy with that he says no the same some married anglican priests who converted to catholicism are allowed to carry only in their ministries but some traditionalists within the roman catholic church see that pope francis is leading them in a direction they don't want to follow. his becoming pope francis has a bush is a reformer tackling sexual abuse and corruption within the church you would say seems willing to consider loosening a grip on conservative values so important to his predecessors the fall couches era

london the u.k. is queen elizabeth has allowed her grandson and his wife to step away from their role as a senior royals prince harry and meghan the duke and duchess of sussex will begin a transition period during which they'll split their time between britain and canada they announce their decision last week without consulting the queen. hello again this is out of there and these are the headlines talks on a permanent ceasefire in libya ended on monday without a breakthrough libya's prime minister fayyad is also raj and warlord khalifa haftar attending the talks in moscow have to has asked to have until choose day morning to consider whether to sign a formal deal the u.s. is removing china from the list of countries that accuses of manipulation their currencies it's happening just days before they're expected to sign the 1st stage

of a trade deal u.s. president donald trump has long accused china of keeping the yen at the lower levels to get an unfair trade advantage. france and its partner nations in africa as a whole region have now agreed to unite their troops under one command structure to step up the fight against armed groups that at a summit in southwest france the leaders of mali became a fuss only share mauritania and chad also asked the u.s. not to pull its troops out of the region a move which the pentagon is considering paris for its part will send $220.00 more soldiers to support the fight the priority. the priority is the islamic state of the greatest so her which doesn't prevent us from fighting against all terrorist groups but this is the main enemy because the most dangerous as we have seen to reach the subject of we are changing methods by implementing a joint military coalition between both and the joint forces of the g 5 and concentrating you know if it's in the stone iranian protesters have defied

a heavy police presence in tehran for a 3rd day they are angry about the killing of 176 people on board a ukrainian airliner iran's military shot down by mistake targeting u.s. forces in iraq and retaliation for the assassination of iranian general custom sort of. an american man who'd been held in an egyptian jail for 6 years has died the u.s. government says mustapha cousin's death was needless and avoidable the 54 year old dual egyptian u.s. citizen was arrested in cairo and 2013 during a crackdown on protests against president. because some had long insisted he was falsely charged and had no links to any opposition groups well those are the headlines join me for more news here on al-jazeera after witness stay with us. counting the cost while the u.s. spends billions on pools i'm intending when a tree bases across the world plus the reshaping of the meat industry as africans

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