that he's been speaking on a range of issues from cry gun violence to immigration let's get to alan fischer because he is following events in oxon hill mary lang joins us now take us through what president has said so far. well if i'm honest it feels like twenty sixteen all over again that this is almost like a campaign rally that we saw in the run up to the elections donald trump again couldn't resist the point of you know that he won the election claiming that he did the difficult way by winning the electoral college suggesting that it's just been the popular vote he would have won that as well because that's what he would have concentrated on he's talked about immigration with a chance of build the wall he's talked about by the democrats he believes. picked a candidate think he said this group could play to china itself thank you once a bit for some positive though coming out some of the reference to the russia campaign the doctor said that the problem was the movement is of course all about the democrats refusing to move even though he is the man that says that he was ending that as wel

transition period but the date of his final day of the president's sight has not been decided alan fischer washington scientists have concluded that britain's oldest known resident looked rather different than average and he thought research is extracted d.n.a. from trip chatham and that's when these then as the ukase oldest complete skeleton which was discovered in an area called the cheddar goldfish in the southwest of england he lived ten thousand years ago and is now known to have had blue eyes dark curly hair and dark to black skin scientists say the evidence suggests that europeans pale with skin developed much later than previously thought. because it's very striking for ten thousand year old human or expectations a few years ago would have been this individual would have had maybe dog hair but fairly proud skin possibly blue eyes and what we've got is a corner unusual combination of this dog's curly hair really corn dog skin and quite striking blue eyes. these are the top stories here and there are almost three hundred people have been killed in the past three days alone in rebel h

the declaration clears the way for them to receive health care education and housing benefits alan fischer reports. this land occupied is where the white house is today they had a weird of their past proud of their history big keen to protect the future and those six native american tribes in the u.s. state of virginia have been granted federal recognition it's an important step in securing funding for schools housing and health care for two decades the chickahominy eastern chickahominy apartment a pony rappahannock known seem and the manakin campaigned and will be success was never again but was finally achieved i've cried. i am dead emotional talking about it because you know the song we fought so hard for i have always said in the thing that helps one track in this country will help them all eventually i don't know if it will make it easier for us but they can take what we do and look at it and you know the big thing i hope they'll learn from it if it takes persistence opponents told the tribes not to seek direct federal recognition but apply through the bureau of indian affairs but the

call for teachers to be armed and idea he proposed after last week's school shooting in florida alan fischer has more ah this was donald trump a homegrown surrounded by supporters people won over by his first year successes so relaxed he even made a real joke about his here i try like hell to hide their balls but folks i worked hard as he started talking there was one protester who produced a russian flag he was quickly show to down and escorted out. fifteen months on from the election donald trump began real live there when i and what it times felt will look a campaign rally of all he talked about the successes his administration had brought the lotus cheer for a decision in the middle east we officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel was the address the shooting in florida seeing he'd been deeply affected by the stories of survivors and their families there are not enough tears in the world to express our sadness and anguish and he pledged his administration would take steps pushing again the idea of arming teachers and more people that work in those buildings people that wer

alan fischer al jazeera washington. still ahead on al-jazeera including a family get news from dependence trying to get an election for hauled in mexico's politics thousands pay tribute to some of my opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who died last week will be laid to rest in a few hours. allan the water is draining away from baghdad for the wrestler valentine chilly as the clyde though still swirling disappears just across the rainy unboarded so we're left with sunshine for the time being and the forecast temp is going to be high eighteen in beirut for example about fifteen in jerusalem and what ramos gathering on the iranian border has also disappeared eastwards fold in the past and the sun should be out here to even the strong winds that have lifted the desert sand in iraq south iraq and kuwait and beyond that breeze is slowly dropping as well and to be honest most of the land was wet anyway however the picture on wednesday is a bit different the clouds formed again the breezes change directions a southerly twenty

agencies investigated alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election al-jazeera as alan fischer reports from washington. the memo has dominated talk in washington for days donald trump was even asked about it as he left his state of the union speech something like one hundred i know that the four page memo was written by republicans on the house intelligence committee it alleges a misuse of power by the f.b.i. and justice department under the obama administration while investigating the truck campaign during the u.s. election the f.b.i. issued a written statement arguing that there were important details left out which would fundamentally impact the memos accuracy and the justice department says releasing the document would be extraordinarily reckless it's the president who must make the ultimate decision to declassify and release but no after a national security review the white house is blanked out some parts of the document and sent it back to the committee it can no be published at any time at a gathering of republicans in west virginia the president made no fresh mention of

a transition period but the date of his final day at the president's site has not been decided alan fischer washington well scientists have concluded that britain's oldest known resident looked rather different than originally thought research has extracted d.n.a. from chatham and the u.k. as old as complete skeleton which was discovered in cheddar gorge in southwest england in nineteen zero three nine he lived ten thousand years ago and is not a name to have had blue eyes dark curly have and dark to black skin scientists say the evidence suggests that europeans pale skin tones develop much later than previously thought. because it's very striking for a ten thousand year old human error expectations a few years ago would have been this individual would have had a maybe dark hair but fairly power skin possibly blue eyes and what we've got is a quite unusual combination of this dark slightly curly hair really quite dark skin and quite striking blue eyes. you're watching out as their arms are whole romney's right top stories almost two hundred people are being killed in the past three days in

transition period but the date of his final day of the president's sight has not been decided alan fischer al-jazeera washington. let's have a look at the top stories here it out as there are only two hundred people have been killed in the path three days in rebel held parts of syria after an intense air and ground offensive by government forces and the russian allies thirty four people died in the most recent attack on wednesday in these and that's near damascus four others died in live province. and then the c. international report says the ethnic cleansing campaign against the rangers continues unabated in me m r refugees who have recently arrived in bangladesh are describing a systemic campaign of force starvation kidnapping and sexual violence israeli media has reported that police will recommend benjamin netanyahu be indicted on corruption charges the prime minister and his wife a suspected of receiving illicit gifts from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer mr netanyahu denies the allegations and says he's confident the attorney general won't pursue the case.

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. lots more still to come here on out is there including twenty eight russian athletes have their live tunneling pick bans for doping lifted but can they compete in the upcoming winter games. and we'll tell you was the push to bring home the body of a veteran democratic republic of congo opposition leader a year after his death for the state. how the weather's looking lousy for an intro i across parts of the middle east over the next couple of i still a little bit of cloud between the black sea and the caspian sea always a chance of want to see showers and they could well be wintry in nature but by and large it does look settled seven ice celsius for many hit tehran baku seeing seven or eight well getting up to around nineteen there in beirut fine interact he has to go on through friday i think we should hang on to the decent sunshine as we go through sas date with the possibility of one of two showers just creeping towards cyprus possible if they want to see show

anyone from north korea was she's there at the closing ceremony all right well thanks very much alan fischer of all the latest from oxford in maryland a speech by president trunk lawrence rozental is the executor and a right wing. university of california he joins me now from but k. and i know that you have been watching that speech very closely how would you describe president trump's reception at the summit this year compared to the way he was regarded by these right wing politicians of an activist in two thousand and sixteen he began his speech by saying i guess i've now proved i'm a conservative and that was very well received in effect what he was saying is people who doubted me people who doubted my conservative bona feed days should now be convinced given the actions of my administration that i am a genuine conservative. conservative and i was just not just going to ask you why it has trump standing within the movement changed to has he shaped the movement somewhat or as he adapted to become a part of it. i believe both are true. that is the say that both the left let's call it the re

those wanting to buy a weapon this comes as activists staged a protest outside the white house alan fischer has more it started as a social media conversation on friday afternoon it became a mass protest in front of the white house dozens of students from around the washington area backed by the families gathered to mark this piece of school shootings in america and demanded argent action to stop them i don't see this as a republican or democrat issue it's more life or death really shootings happen every day and weapons don't belong on the streets they don't belong in school or as they belong in war after the current seven. we read out the names of the victims of school shootings in america since one thousand nine hundred ninety and as they listened and you were caught up in their own thoughts who says in their own emotions. shootings in america in the past there have been protests in the past with this type of the people think something is different but this time change can be achieved. then came the mass die and students live in the growing sending a message that the politicians in action

the memo that he wrote one of the quality which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington the us defense to pop in this year to release its nuclear weapons or if you president donald trump has repeatedly said that he wants to overhaul the country's aging. but as a serious political hate explains that is easier said than done. on friday the u.s. will release its nuclear posture review like most modern presidents donald trump ordered the review when he first took office he tweeted in august that his first order was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal saying it's far stronger and more powerful than ever before that's just is not true he ordered a review not a renovation and it isn't actually possible to strengthen the arsenal in such a short period of time the pentagon was already looking to modernize the country's nuclear weapons president barack obama wanted to spend between one to one point two trillion dollars over the next thirty years to do just that it's likely the new review will once again call for modernizing the one thousand three hu

all right allan thank you very much for that now that's alan fischer joining us live from maryland thank you we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including a forgotten crisis five years into the conflict in the central african republic half the population on needs urgent humanitarian aid. some high profile but controversial officials from north korea and the u.s. to attend the closing ceremony of the winter olympics games in south korea and a fifteen year old ones the first gold medal of the games for the olympic athletes from russia joe will have the details and scored. international donors have managed to raise more than five hundred million dollars in pledges for an african military alliance aimed at combating armed groups across the sahara region where leaders of five african countries sort of funding at a gathering in brussels the so-called g. five so how joint military force works alongside french and u.s. troops and is made up of soldiers from mauritania mali. and chad correspondent joining us live from that conference in brussels so they raise the money natasha that's neede

but the insist their voices will be headed and they will not be ignored alan fischer c.n.n. washington. according who has ordered former leader alberto fujimori to stand trial of a mass killings in one thousand nine hundred two despite a recent presidential pardon he was freed on health grounds last month after serving less than half of the twenty five year sentence for human rights abuses during his rule but the court found that the pardon doesn't apply to the new case the seventy nine year olds accused of ordering the torture torture and murder of six farmers by paramilitary troops. major parties have declared their candidates for july's elections with leftist interests and lopez obrador as the front runner and dependent candidates will be allowed to run for the first time john home and us more from mexico city. to some mexican is this is the sound of long overdue change it's the complain music for an independent candidate for the first time in history link twenty political party have been allowed to run in the upcoming presidential race the electoral authorities have made

election year the iran deal immigration health care and the growing call for gun reform in america alan fischer al jazeera at the conference in maryland at least twenty seven people are being killed and twenty injured in twin car bombings in the somali capital mogadishu the first blast was near the presidential palace with the second beside a popular hotel group al-shabaab has taken responsibility to africa now and i gerry as president is promising more troops to join the search for dozens of patchy schoolgirls kidnapped on monday now the armed group boko haram is suspected al jazeera is evidence wrists was the first international journalist on the ground and has this report from the area disappointment induction i was after parents were told that daughters have been rescued the state government apologized saying the information was not true for the relatives of more than one thousand students the wait has just begun some say it's all over again these sisters have not only escaped the kidnappers but they're older sister wasn't as lucky the incident leaves them devastated. well i'm wondering as

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well still ahead on al-jazeera. the polls will be. a diplomatic corral between powell and then israel over one happened during the holocaust. last hong kong faces an environmental disaster because of its appetite for the tastiest fish. by the springtime flowering of a mounting lead. to the final snowfall on a winter's day. how low we've got some very cold wet digging in macross western parts of europe at the moment you can see have a cloud is diving down across the north sea it's a northerly wind is filtering some wintry showers into england down across the low countries was about this big bad a cloud which stretches all the way from that western side of the mediterranean through the alps pushes right up into the baltic states they'll be some wet weather could be some wintry weather on this as well some snow there just around the swiss and austrian alps some very heavy rain into northern parts of italy into the balkans and a lot of the showers continuing just ar

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington at least five previously unreported math graves have been uncovered in miramar by the associated press news agency the un special rapporteur turkey has called for a fact finding mission to be given access to the site and the u.s. is fake and out the state department says it's deeply troubled by the news scott highly reports now from young gun. the associated press news agency has released a video it says confirms reports of a massacre of revenge of muslims in myanmar last year a.p. says the pictures of here to show the bodies are buried may. its investigation suggest at least five previously reported mass graves have been found the news agency spoke to villagers who say the number of dead could be as high as four hundred. wherever was injured but still life after the attack was thrown into flames young men like myself managed to escape the attack but others like small children and women couldn't run away in time they were either killed or tied up and thrown insid

but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan fischer al jazeera washington. there are reports that yet another member of traumas campaign team is likely to plead guilty as part of the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election u.s. media is reporting that wrecking gates will plead guilty to fraud related charges within the next few days and october gates have pleaded not guilty he is also expected to testify against donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manifold who's facing charges from the investigation if the reports are true and gates would become the third person from donald trump's campaign to plead guilty. thousands of people in zimbabwe have paid tribute to morgan tsvangirai at a rally in the capital city of former opposition leader died from cancer last week and will be laid to rest on tuesday opposition members say they'll try to keep the party united despite divisions over the leadership. has more from harare. when morgan tsvangirai body arrived at the place opposition parties called freedom

one of several top aides under scrutiny on the level of information they've been allowed to see alan fischer reports. well the white house will never confirm who has security clearance and it was level well it's confidential secret or top secret but this whole row blew up a couple of weeks ago over there or porter incident no you remember he was an executive secretary to donald trump which essentially meant that every piece of paper that the president saw went across his desk and it was revealed he only had interim security clearance when he faced allegations of supposed to leave us he then resigned and john kelly who is the chief of staff said that he would start a fool skill review of who had full security clearance and interim security clearance it was revealed that in november forty seven people who were very closely with the president only had that interim security clearance and they included don't mcgann white house chief counsel and also say the huckabee saunders who of course is the white house press secretary just in the last we've heard from a spokesman for jerry said he has cooper

deal major problem is the status of young immigrants who are protected under an obama era program alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. and so allan this is so many different things at play here but definitely tensions continue over immigration all this when congress is getting ready to vote on this budget deal where might it run into the obstacles. well the next seven hours here in washington are going to be very interesting dhaka as it's known which is the deferred action for childhood admissions children that were brought here as very young children don't know any police other than the united states that this is what this is all about that the integration of them into the country and finding a deal for them that's essentially been set aside and that is upset a number of democrats including nancy pelosi who is the leading democrat in the house of representatives and she says she will fought against the bill now there are those on the right hand side the the far right of the republican party the right of the republican party who say look if we agree this new budget deal which ha

are too young to vote but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan fischer al jazeera washington oxfam's apologized to haiti's government over allegations of sexual misconduct by some. that stuff during a neighbor mission its former director for haiti has admitted to using prostitutes during wee building efforts after the twenty ten earthquake charities also released an internal were poor true healing three of its workers threatened witnesses during an investigation into sexual misconduct or published a report after being criticised for a lack of transparency over allegations one of the ships reports might say the haitian embassy in london. the report has been presented to the haitian embassy here in london and to the haitian government with apologies from all for what it says are its mistakes it's a revealing insight into a pretty dysfunctional operation of oxfam's in haiti in the immediate aftermath of the terrible twenty ten quake bullying intimidation downloading of pornography it says it can't rule out the possibility of sex with under age girls it says

absolutely wish him well did a very good job while he was at the white house let's go live as alan fischer who's in washington hi there allison just how controversial is trump's decision to defend this former aide. well it's not playing oh well for him but then if it sent a pattern from donald trump we know that when michael flynn his national security advisor resigned in the weeks afterwards donald trump was still calling him a very good man and didn't need to resign he stood by roy moore who you remember was running in the alabama senate race he was accused of having inappropriate relations with young women particularly a couple who were under age again donald trump didn't with joy support for roy moore and college people to vote for him if you think even farther back there were incidents where two senior people at fox news were fired because of sexual harassment he gave him their support so this is donald trump sticking by people that he thinks are loyal to him the big difficulty with his statement is that many people said there was no words of comfort for his victims that you remember

movement no really is the movement of trump all right allan thank you very much for that for now that alan fischer joining us live from out in thank you. and still ahead on the bulletin a forgotten crisis find years into the conflict in the central african republic half the population now needs urgent humanitarian aid and one look at why china's government has taken control of a major insurance for. what it is and it's a bad across southern parts of china over the next few days a little bit of cloud just sticking its way into hong kong for example so some record of watery sunshine further north a classic enough to produce some outbreaks of rain for a time that will slide back down towards the southwest sunday of pride today hong kong getting up to twenty five degrees celsius with a good deal of pleasant sunshine double figures there for shanghai getting up to about eleven degrees celsius so warming up quite nicely hey want. up too across much of south asia largely clear skies just notice this huge massive cloud that's spilling out of afghanistan across a good part of pakistan and bring some rather

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. palestinian president mahmoud abbas is set to deliver a rare address at the u.n. security council later this month israel's u.n. ambassador says such a move will put an end to any possibility of future peace talks diplomatic editor james bays has more. with relations between the u.s. and the palestinians already at their lowest point for years the palestinian leader is taking the dramatic step of flying to the united nations this month it means a showdown with the americans and the israelis on the floor of the u.n. security council every month for council meets to discuss the conflict normally ambassadors of israel and of palestine attend but in a deeply unusual move mahmoud abbas will himself be there he's angered by the trumpet ministrations decision to formally recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and to cut a large chunk of its funding to an ra the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians the last straw was president trump's attack on hi

transition period but the date of his final day of the president's sight has not been decided alan fischer washington. protests have again broken out on the mall days after the newly appointed police chief accused to detain judges of taking bribes but he say he took they took the money and potential water in the release of jailed opposition leaders the president i mean of them go you ordered the arrest of the judges on monday he also declared a state of emergency accusing the court of supporting a coach. the leader of south africa's governing party says he is in direct discussions with president jacob zuma of a possible transition of the presidency while several run oppose a has felt for a speedy resolution and says the talks will be concluded in the coming days zuma has been under pressure to resign over corruption allegations. germany's two main parties are working out how they'll work together after a deal to form a coalition more than four months after the election the social democrats originally said they would not prop up another government on chancellor angela merkel but they're now

release the memo that he wrote one of inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington still to come on the program polish lawmakers blamed israel by approving a bill to find no jail anyone who suggest poland was complicit in the holocaust and wine agreement on reuniting refugee families could also bring us into germany's political process. how i was still got some rather lively showers across northern parts of australia the moment you can see the thunderhead still showing up quite nicely little about a cloud just around south australia over towards new south wales towards southern parts of queensland a possibility of squeezing out. a bit damp weather here as we go through the next few days present twenty two celsius some of that e two for sydney had also for melbourne we're getting up to the mid twenty's there in perth on friday largely five and dry a touch warmer sicko wanted to sas day the wind starting to come in from a general north lee direction what so into the southeastern corner so adelaide of twenty seven twenty six for melbourne but stil

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington the u.s. defense department is due to release its nuclear weapons review president dan trump has repeatedly said he wants to overhaul the country's aging nuclear arsenal but despite the culhane explains that's easier said than done. on friday the u.s. will release its nuclear posture review like most modern presidents donald trump ordered the review when he first took office he tweeted in august that his first order was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal saying it's far stronger and more powerful than ever before that's just is not true he ordered a review not a renovation and it isn't actually possible to strengthen the arsenal in such a short period of time the pentagon was already looking to modernize the country's nuclear weapons president barack obama wanted to spend between one to one point two trillion dollars over the next thirty years to do just that it's likely the new review will once again call for modernizing the one thousand three hundred

are too young to vote but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan fischer. washington. rescue workers say they are unsure how many people are buried under a mountain of rubbish in mozambique's capital the seventeen people being killed in approach after a rubbish dump collapsed on a number of houses on monday bennis reports. this is what hundreds of people i'm up to two are have built their lives at home to rachel ray moved the mountain of waste until it collapsed on top of homes the rubbish buried residents as they slipped and there was a survivor but his wife and son died and also this lady from this house and these one two three and four houses the gold the area that collapsed early monday morning was three stories high risk it was unsure how many people of barry's. i could only hear screaming from my neighbors there was no way to help even if i was close by there was no way to help there was so much water running down the trash pile was collapsing it took down the houses family as the children died. the landfill has been for closure but remains are growi

transition period but the date of his final day of the president's sight has not been decided alan fischer washington to taiwan now a rescue crews are hoping to find whole earth quake survivors there braving powerful aftershocks to end to buildings on the brink of collapse in the port city of holly and dozens remain missing out of the magnitude six point four trauma killed mine people on tuesday from a bra it has more. this rescue team from tight chong in central taiwan is preparing to go into the building for the first time. chung and his men are used to dealing with earthquakes but this building is in a particularly perilous position. as you can see it's very slanted so we have to take precautions and special gear to ensure our safety other emergency crews from across the island have also joined this operation and local media are camped around the building anxiously following progress along with many others you know easily put to our knowledge we are struggling against aftershocks and bad weather but we will continue to search but we won't give up. aftershocks have become less frequent b

syrians have been displaced since the conflict began in two thousand and ten more on this from alan fischer in washington d.c. . so back in two thousand and twelve because of the fighting in syria the u.s. government awarded temporary protective status to syrians living here in the united states what does that mean well it means if you meet certain criteria and repeat certain fees then you could live here without the threat of being deported back to syria now that program has been under review and the department of homeland security has unknowns because it's going to extend it for a further eighteen months and it also says that's because the situation in the on the ground in syria hasn't changed dramatically from six years ago now that means about seven thousand syrians will continue to be covered by the program but if you're arrived after late twenty sixteen you will not be covered by the program and that covers about two thousand people who've arrived here since then from syria no the trumpet ministration has removed temporary protective status from a number of countries recently includin

alan fischer. washington. the un children agency says the world is failing newborn babies for seven thousand dying every day most from preventable causes a report by unicef has found infants born in the poorest countries are fifty times more likely to die than those in rich ones newborns in pakistan have the least chance of survival with one in twenty two dying within their first month of life while in central african republic somalia the suture in afghanistan twenty seven babies die out of every a thousand the agency blames poverty conflict and the weak institutions babies with the best chance of survival are born in japan iceland and singapore a doctors in central african republic say they are facing a crisis conflict that has led to shortages of medical staff and equipment that's putting babies in danger as catherine sawyer reports on briere. new life in the second worst country in the world for a child to be born in the only pediatric hospital in central african republic nasa's and sure that babies little

question of his last access to top secret security briefings for more on this let's go straight to alan fischer he's joining us from washington d.c. alan. these reports as far as i'm aware have not yet been confirmed by the white house but this isn't the first time we've heard about access to classified material is it. you know exactly right and the white house won't confirm this their policy is that they don't talk about who has and who does not have security clearance this all goes back to the reporter incident was just a few weeks ago now if you remember he was a staff secretary which meant he worked very closely with donald trump essentially so everything that went across his desk and it was revealed after allegations of spouse still abuse that he only had interim security clearance that cause a huge for rory and that forced john kelly the chief of staff to say right we're reviewing all the security clearances and anyone who still has interim security clearance wall lose that clearance by a certain date no it appears that that has happened and a number of people have lost their clearances w

are too young to vote but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan fischer al-jazeera washington. there are reports that yet another member of trump's campaign team is likely to plead guilty as part of the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election u.s. media is reporting the rick gates will plead guilty to fraud related charges within the next few days and at the top of gates had pleaded not guilty is also expected to testify against trump's former campaign chairman paul manifold if the reports are true gates would become the third person from trump's campaign to plead guilty iranian state television is reporting three police officers have been killed in clashes with protesters in northern tehran the demonstrators were from a sufi religious order that gathered in front of a police station to demand the release of some of their members and number of them were reports to been injured and arrested during the fighting iranian state media say rescue teams have found the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed

more in the fight could be difficult something they've experienced before in their long history alan fischer al-jazeera virginia well of course in london has rejected an appeal by two nigerian communities who want to sue royal dutch shell oil spills in the niger delta of holes a ruling last year that the company can't be held responsible in english courts for the actions of its nigerian subsidiary police in iran have arrested dozens of unlicensed money traders as growing concern about the falling value of the iranian radio continues the president is under pressure to stop the currency slide against the dollar which business to say is harming the economy the same basra he has moved into. every morning iranians wake up to find the money in their pockets is worth less than when they went to bed that's because the iranian ryall has been on a downward spiral for years. iranian see the u.s. exchange rate as an indicator of the country's economic climate. for many small businesses the forecast is not good. the price of the dollar directly impacts our business it's been thirty percent more expensive

to announce new sanctions we are told against north korea over its missile and nuclear program alan fischer is live for us in oxon hill in the u.s. state of maryland where that conference of conservative leaders is taking place allan what are we expecting to hear from the president. while on stage at the moment as much as the chairman of the secret would suggest the donald trump is maybe just a few moments away we know he's certainly in the building there in one landed in a car park not far from the building and he was able to get it over here probably about thirty minutes ago we're expecting to hear that he's going to announce new sanctions on north korea now we're told that that will involve twenty seven shipping companies twenty vessels and one named individual the intention is that that is going to make it much more difficult for north korea to skirt the sanctions that are in place and try in the american administration's view to force them to the negotiating table to talk about ballistic missiles. ballistic missiles and also their nuclear program we're also expecting he's going to talk

are too young to vote but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan fischer al jazeera washington. the government in tokyo says that it's releasing forty five political prisoners ahead of the next round of peace talks with the opposition the west african nation is seen months of protests demanding that the president step down or bring in changes to the constitution a new round of negotiations have been suspended until friday al-jazeera have it out over reports after months of a tense standoff that took ali's government and opposition parties are finally agreed to hold talks broke up by gun us president not a coup for i do my task is there. to help assist in the dialogue between the various political life. of this country the talks are expected to last ten days and discuss a range of issues including the reintroduction of the one thousand nine hundred two constitution that placed a limit on the number of times a president could serve two to a popular vote was approved by ninety nine percent of voters in a referendum. a coalition of fourteen parties and preside

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington. poland has sparked a diplomatic row with israel after its senate approved a bill making it illegal to suggest it was complicit in the holocaust the upper house backed the draft legislation despite objections from israel and the us are a force it has more now on how the development is perceived in israel in the early hours of thursday morning polish senators voted to pass a bill that israel says is designed to hide the truth about poland's role in the holocaust nazi occupied poland was the second world war site of some of the worst horrors of the holocaust the concentration camp at auschwitz birkenau has become its most potent symbol but poland objects to terms such as polish death camps instead of nazi ones pointing out poles were victims of invasion then occupation is what. we are very sad and surprised our fight for the truth for the dignity of poles is perceived and interpreted in this way. the bill would punish without the three years' imprisonment anyone ac

election year the iran deal immigration health care and the growing call for gun reform in america alan fischer al-jazeera at the conference in maryland. the special counsel leading the investigation into alleged russian interference in the us election has unsealed the latest charges against former a man of force and accuses metaphor to secretly paying former senior european politicians to lobby on behalf of ukraine in two thousand and twelve and thirteen court papers say he was more than two million euro's to the unnamed politicians. well it comes as another former aide to trump's presidential campaign has changed his plea to guilty on charges of conspiracy and lying to investigators and the inquiry into alleged russian meddling and u.s. politics as mission and a case he's willing to cooperate and provide testimony of the top aides reports. thank you it's happened again another member of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign walks into the courthouse and pleads guilty to a serious felony conspiring against the united states and line to investigators gates isn't a household name but it's belie

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington of course in the old days has ordered the release of former president mohamed nasheed the order comes as the supreme court dismissed a terrorism conviction against him saying he was jailed following what it called flawed trials the courts also called for the release of several other politicians including the former vice president. twenty eight russian athletes have had their lifetime bans from olympic sport overturned for lack of evidence eight days before the winter games in pyung chang president putin says he's pleased with the decision that leaves the international olympic committee's campaign against doping in disarray voice challenge reports now from law school such a gold medalist alexander led cough silver medalist olga. gold medalist alexander tretiak of just three of the twenty eight russian athletes who have their limping doping bans overturned their results at the last winter olympics in russia four years ago reinstated after their appeals were upheld

release the memo that he wrote on an inquiry which continues to divide washington and the country alan fischer al-jazeera washington let's face it as white house correspondent kimberly how could he joins us now live from washington so the president's been tweeting this morning accusing the leadership of the f.b.i. of being biased against him can believe what are we to make of that well i think what we're to make of it is that this is a highly politicized process that is existing right now in washington you heard there in allan's report and you read the tweets at the start of the show the president very much trying to implicate top leadership at the f.b.i. and the justice department of having politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of democrats essentially what he's saying there is that he believes senior law enforcement has abused surveillance laws to essentially eavesdrop on members of his presidential campaign by the side from the political fallout from all of this what are the civil liberties implications here. right well what you heard there from the speaker paul ryan when he