risking it to. be out. on al-jazeera. libya's warring sides get closer to solidifying their ceasefire during talks in moscow brokered by russia and turkey. hello again i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. drops china from its currency backless days before they're set to sign the 1st stage of a trade deal. joining forces france and 5 west african states say they'll better coordinate their fight against increasingly dangerous armed groups in the sahara region. of fear and panic in the philippines where tens of thousands of people flee

an erupting volcano. well as a fragile temporary ceasefire largely holds in libya the warring natives have moved closer to making it permanent the head of the un recognized government award khalifa haftar a both in moscow for negotiations brokered by russia and turkey from their step 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 all starch 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 vs 9 year long civil war but after 7 hours of talks one signature

remains missing to an emotion of the day we can report that a certain progress has been achieved and determined to the government of national. mr starch and the chairman of host consul of state mr methley has just signed. the common libyan national army and the president of libya house of representatives and mr see these documents positively. have asked for some extra time till to morrow morning to decide on what they were to sign it i hope their decision will be positive the ceasefire was brokered by the president of turkey and russia in istanbul last week following a meeting with italy's prime minister putin 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 dogs dogs which they must go to lay the foundation for

the process turkish troops were recently sent to libya to help slow half past 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 the 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 agreement will be signed and sealed here in moscow 1st step fasten al-jazeera moscow now the u.s. is removing china from the list of countries it accuses of manipulating their currency is it's happening just days before they're expected to sign the fast age of a trade deal u.s. president donald trump has long accused china of keeping the u.n. at the lower levels to get an unfair trade advantage alan fischer is in washington

d.c. and tells us what this could mean for the trade war. go back 4 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 talents or in billions of dollars worth of chinese goods he said that china was poor in 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 i spoke to dan wang his an analyst with the economist intelligence unit and speaking to us from beijing she said any trade deal between the u.s. and china will probably fail. it does look like that china has a bit of the upper hand but overall i do think this removal of china from being a person manipulator is mostly just a show of the a bit of a goodwill from the u.s.

side but over time there are studio the old saying problem over industrial policy is over technology transfer so those problems are all solved problem remains the practical impact on the market is very limited because to be fair for china to be labeled as a commodity currency manipulator is unjustified there are 3 criteria is and china only fits one and if you look at china's currency policy it has always been the guiding principle has always been lowered of all the to that city china doesn't want to revaluate already about it its currency also just want to stabilize the chinese yuan if we look out of the dio some of the terms of the geo it's almost impossible for china to. fools who is commitment without violating the. nondiscrimination and china also has a strong relation trigger relations with australia canada for a 0 by importing so much from the other relations will be jeopardized and over time

especially after 202-120-2122 there are specific policy goals that make china. actually to rely on imports from the u.s. so i just don't see this trade one do you know can be enforced properly and some at some point along the way i have to say that. they steal my broke and face 2 and phase 3 are there are likely to happen. now fronts and its partner nations in africa's the whole region have agreed to unite their troops under one command structure to better fight against armed groups at a summit in southwest france the leaders of mali bikini fessor mauritania and chad also wants the u.s. not to pull troops out of the region france for its part will send $220.00 more soldiers the tosh about to has more. 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 presence 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 style 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 fermat omar 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. now it has his government in disarray a president says he may have to rule by decree to break the deadlock but even the suggestion of such a move has people worried about what it will mean for haiti's brittle democracy traceable reports from the capital port au prince. he's impressed and.

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 legitimate government. under snow 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 have 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 is lots of fear that this could lead to abuse of power 0 6. 2 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. so 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 an economic conditions. including low growth high inflation and an increase in the cost of basic food items have had a negative impact on the humanitarian situation millions are going hungry if you're not in a mustn't get so bored again that even though there is no investment in the public sector there's no of this not of the private sector so we are in

a situation of total fracture of the economy and this effect is situational for actioning we need to work on a national reorganization and this cannot be done with juvenile moisi because he has shown his incapacity to rule. out. the organization of american states and members of the international community saying they're negotiating with all political parties to prevent chaos in the country was 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. i'll just have port au prince. in the news ahead paying with their lives to the growing cries for refugees trying to make a desperate journey into europe. also give us our money frustrations build over 11 of those banking restrictions.

hello the most severe conditions now across much of the arabian peninsula the heavy rain of the last couple days kidwell out of the picture but to the north we have seen some snow in some areas particularly into pakistan now this is question and quite a house received over a meter of snow in just 24 hours it has proved deadly these weather conditions and temperatures about 6 degrees below the average it is set to clear as we go through the next couple of days still a few snow flurries are. around but sunny into southern pakistan it is warm and sunny 22 the high temperature in karachi now want to wash out as could develop through the gulf as we go through to say later in the day and this rain line is a pop up again by wednesday so taking a few showers across into dubai on into muscat and in fact images in muscat about 7

degrees below the average for this time of year meanwhile and doha it will feel cool about 20 celsius the winds picking up as we go through the middle of the week so be typing the top off that high of 20 that we had down into southern africa now being very warm certainly into the 7 point of south africa cape town was in a bit more activity 3 more eastern sections this is where we've been seeing wanted to shots and thunderstorms some a story on shoes day widely unsubtle across much of madagascar some heavy rains and warming up standing capes on wednesday a 35. counting the cost why the u.s. spends billions on pools maintaining military bases across the world plus that we say think of the meat industry as african swine flu decimate china's pork industry on the for instance a tax that could escalate to try to counter the cost i'll just say or.

die from strains of stories from across the continent from the perspective of a gnat what's journalists on al-jazeera. hello again i'm the stars here today and a reminder of our top stories this hour talks on a permanent ceasefire in libya failed to reach a breakthrough on monday libya's prime minister fires also russian war ordinarily if i have to attended the talks in moscow but didn't meet face to face. 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 and the american treasury says china has made commitments not to keep

its currency they get an artificially low. in france and its partner nations in africa to help region have agreed to unite their troops under one command structure they hope it will boost their fight against armed groups linked to al qaeda and i still. 21 saudi cadets who've been training with the u.s. military are being sent home it follows an investigation into a saudi officers fatal shooting of 3 americans at a naval base late last year mike hanna reports the shooting shocked the tightly knit community pencil koehler and raised questions about the training programs that allowed hundreds of international good deaths 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 mohammed are from 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 kibitz 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 office is independently reviewed each of the 21 cases involving derogatory information in determine 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 bisan to the $911.00 memorial in new york city as well as posting a number of anti us and anti israeli comments on the social media p s the

conclusion that the killings were an act of terrorism is motivated by a violent ideology mike hanna al-jazeera washington now the threat of what experts call a volcanic tsunami is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the philippines tel volcanoes in the middle of the lake and it's fear that an underwater eruption will cause destructive waves jamila island oregon reports from the tangas 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. 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 projects of the day but even in the capital manila where many people

also woke up to a city covered in ash. driving to but down the us 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 really becoming real being asked to leave and we had nowhere to go to look for places 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 are 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 unsure when they will be able to return home. you know the situation here is difficult there is no electricity and water the roads are muddy making it difficult to back with 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 raised to love not one they thought they would be here one day

jim duggan al-jazeera but then guess the northern philippines. nasa says the smoke from a strain is bushfires will stretch around the earth having bellowed into the lower stratosphere these satellite images there from a week ago they show the haze drifting over chile and argentina about 11000 kilometers from a strain is east coast the smoke is expected to eventually approach western australia at least 28 people have been killed in fires that have destroyed 2000 homes and burned more than 11000000 hectares rain and cooler weather easing conditions. now frustration is building in lebanon among people who can't get their money out of the bank restrictions are in place as the country grapples with a political and economic crisis center what has the story from beirut. the demonstrators have been venting their anger inside banks across lebanon they want access to their money banking restrictions were imposed when anti-government

protests began in mid october banks are limiting access to good roles of dollars and imposed caps on the lebanese pound to. the informal controls on capital are affecting many some customers have resorted to violence i was obliged to use the course of the minimum move. my office working from from home because i cannot anymore expenses extended. so now. let's say having 5000000 each week i have to divide it to. include my personal my personal expenses but bankers say they had little choice to manage the lack of cash between september and november during those 3 bombs. deposits in the banking

sectors because by $10000000000.00. which is about 50 percent to 55 percent of the . withdrawals by citizens and companies. but many lebanese are accusing banks of robbing them from their savings because they are now forced to deal with lebanese pounds the flow of money out of lebanon and the lack of foreign currency deposits created a shortage of dollars that's affected the lebanese crowd which lost that these 50 percent of its value on the black market over the past 3 months and the crisis of confidence in the banking sector is not the only problem lebanon has been without a government since prime minister saddle had he resigned in october during widespread protests against the political elite over corruption and the cost of living to have. a clear demand by the banking sector form a government that will bring back trust and to the country into the political class and can actually implement some of the reforms need to do and walk. and

bring in fresh u.s. dollars into the country in recent weeks protests against lebanon's leaders have become smaller in size when compared to the early days of the uprising but demonstrators are promising to return as warnings of a financial collapse grow louder so to. beirut refugees and migrants trying to reach europe facing an increasingly hostile reception forcing them to take even bigger risks in the fast of a series of reports on the main overland route from greece to croatia now aren't they found that refugees are becoming more reliant on people smugglers. midwinter in the furthest reaches of northeastern greece gale force winds and bitter cold in this vast barely inhabited wilderness there are plenty of places to hide but break cover and you risk everything. or the hospital mortuary is evidence of the

risk sisters from somalia who froze to death in each other's arms 2 among dozens who recently perished many more though have been killed in car accidents as the police have tried to chase down the smugglers. saving the people in wildcard. got our. 7 or gram and then who were how do they hides 17 people in a car i don't know the more hostile europe becomes the better business gets for the smugglers on the of ross river the border between turkey and greece they're using the same big rubber boats that take people over the sea on land fleets severe cols seized by the police tell a story of the increasing industrialization of illegal migration into the european union where they have on our part or seriously asked us out on the training

migrants to be guides they leave cars on the hills for them and tell one of the migrants to be the driver some of them are children and don't even know how to drive properly. refugees are guided to deserted buildings sleeping in the rat droppings with the windows open to escape if the army arrives locals filmed them as they pass in small groups but barely a word is spoken. europe has become a hostile environments for asylum seekers and these are the consequences if the bed of this farm there's a lot it means that dogs the greek police the military and follow the smugglers instructions stayed off the roads stayed on the tracks but it's at least another 100 kilometers from here to any form of civilization several 100 more until they get to the border with north macedonia nazia who come all the way from afghanistan made it through the wilderness did anybody help you know nobody can help us when we

have fall down when we have injuries in our body not and nobody can help us we just help ourselves that's it thousands are still coming across the success of the smugglers and difficulty for the police in covering vast areas means far more people get through than die there out there some with lawrence lee al jazeera ne in greece. the vatican has tried to downplay especially at the top of the roman catholic church over whether priests should be allowed to marry him francis is considering easing some restrictions on celibacy and that prompted an intervention from his predecessor as new parker reports. that is the 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. pope benedict the 16th who pledged to remain

hidden from the world when he retired in 2013 has broken his silence to passionately defend celibacy and only 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 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 benny think believes about priestly celibacy is exactly the same as what pope francis believes centered on the amazon asked him look at their 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 as an exception and i'm sure that if he says yes. benedict will 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. because his becoming pope francis has emerged as 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. as queen elizabeth has agreed to allow her grandson and his wife to step away from their roles as 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. now again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines talks on a permanent ceasefire in libya failed to reach a breakthrough on monday libya's prime minister fires also raj and moral khalifa haftar attended the talks in moscow but haven't met face to face a fragile truce brokered by russia and turkey came into force on sunday that there have been reports of fighting. the u.s. is removing china from the list of countries it accuses of manipulating their currencies and happening just days before they're expected to sign the fast stage

of the trade deal u.s. president donald trump has long accused china of keeping the gun at low levels to get an unfair trade advantage. and france and its partner nations in africa as the whole region have agreed to unite their troops under one command structure to step up the fight against armed groups there at a summit in southwest france the leaders of mali became a faster nisha in mauritania and chad also wants the u.s. not to pull their troops out of the region paris will send $220.00 more soldiers to support the fight despite growing anti french sentiment 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 they're the most dangerous as we have seen to reach the subject of we are changing methods by implementing a joint military coalition between the joint forces of the g 5 and concentrating our efforts in the stone. despite calls for his resignation haiti's president could

soon have full control of the country's government 2 thirds of politicians in parliament have reached the ends of their towns as a result of elections being postponed indefinitely in october that allows president john elway's to rule by decree with no parliament haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and there have been violent protests there in recent months and the threat of what experts call a volcanic tsunami has forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes near the philippine capital manila tell the can i was in the middle of a lake and it's fear that the underwater eruption will create destructive waves there have been no immediate reports of any deaths or major damage so far. well those are the headlines the news continues here after counting the cost stay with us. the story of the british italian experiencing life close up in a palestinian refugee camp. coming face to face with the daily

lives of its residents some of whom have lived there for 70 years but is there a few jomo soldier's life it's not on the show 7 days in beirut. on al-jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. we are now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. we are independent and we do not need middle east oil president trump wants u.s.

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