Sixty minutes european powers urged the u. S. Not to abandon their Iran Nuclear Deal as washington considers re imposing sanctions against iran. The nation deploys the army to crack down on anti austerity unrest arresting more than three hundred protesters overnight. Outrage in pakistan over the rape and murder of a seven Year Old Girl her father accuses police of not doing enough to protect his daughter. And controversy in the white house Donald Trumps lawyer about emigrants causes quite a stir. Frances president Manuel Marquez has urged donald trump not to cancel the Iran Nuclear Deal u. S. President faces a friday deadline on whether to waive sanctions on tehran as part of the two thousand and fifteen agreement earlier in brussels the Foreign Ministers of france germany and britain reiterated their backing for the deal after meeting irans foreign minister again baba reports. A last minute attempt to keep the nuclear deal with iran on track the meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the three European Union nations which signed it and their rainy and counterpart comes ahead of a decision in washington on reapplying sanctions the deal is working it is the living on its main goal which remains keeping the Iranian Nuclear program in check and i want to close in the survey against the i. A. E. A. Has confirmed in nine hundred more to see that iran is fully complying with the commitments made under the agreement u. S. President donald trump has repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement which hes called the worst deal ever it was signed at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of irans neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. To irans made no secret of its arsenal of Ballistic Missiles but some countries including israel claimed it also had an active Nuclear Weapons program iran insisted its Nuclear Agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to Access GlobalFinancial Markets and crucially sell its oil. Last summer President Trump agreed to waive sanctions on irans oil industry but things could be about to change in october he announced a new iran policy iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of irans destructive actions tromps called for sanctions on irans revolutionary guard and he also wants to extend time limits on the countrys Nuclear Research and curtail its Missile Program hes refusing to recertify the deal unless Congress Passes legislation amending it but democrats say they wont back any changes not supported by european allies who insist any alterations would be in breach of the International Agreement it leaves donald trump with two choices rectify the deal and keep it alive or reject it and trigger an International Crisis we are discussing with the American American allies and friends that we should separate two things from each other first we want to preserve the jessop usa the nuclear deal with iran because its in our all in our interest not to develop to see that Nuclear Weapons are developed in the iran given the strength of feeling here in europe and warnings in the us itself its likely president trunk will in fact refrain from reapplying those Oil Sanctions on iran but that certainly doesnt mean hes going to give up trying to change the terms of the nuclear deal and so the uncertainty over the future of irans Nuclear Program goes on the team barbara aljazeera brussels alan fisher has been following developments in washington and sent this update. Well we know that donald trump has been meeting its National Security team and on dont at least the whole around deal is probably on the agenda we know that in the past Rex Tillerson who is the secretary of state h. R. Mcmaster whos the National Security advisor and jim mattis who is the defense secretary they have been suggesting that they dont want to step this deal they dont want to blow it up what the United States should do is look to ways to try and amend it while working with their International Partners but there is the possibility that will be no one Nuclear Related sanctions and thats certainly something that treasury sector steve minish and suggested when he made a surprise appearance in the White House Briefing room. I am expecting new sanctions on iran we continue to look at them weve rolled them out and i think. You can expect there will be more sanctions coming now we know that donald trump speaks to a lot of people before he makes these decisions he has had from president mark or friends who said the International Community doesnt want to see this deal being abandoned sources for them to the israelis and the saudis and we know that donald trump tends to see these things very much in binary terms that any win for iran and any sort of level is a defeat for the United States but what people will be saying to him particularly after the protests in iran over the last month is what we want to do is keep pressure on the iranian government and you do that with no one Nuclear Related sanctions rather than dismantling this whole deal if you do that and it keeps pressure on the iranian government and but if you blow up the deal then that gives them some sort of nationalistic totem to rally people around and the focus moves off them and more on the relationship with the United States and the International Community and that could strengthen their position so donald trump has a big decision to make in the next twenty four hours he will listen to all sides and then donald trump being donald trump will make the decision he wants to make when hes ready to make the decision thats one way the first time donald trump has fought out of an internationally agreed to deal since coming into office last jan he withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord arguing the u. S. Was being treated unfairly i spoke about this earlier with cena saying frenemy tremaine true and that is pardon me National Security project she says a failure to uphold the iran deal would have consequences for years to come. It really in the long term undermines american credibility that the United States president s arent necessarily going to honor International Agreements and if our credibility is undermined our influence will likely also be undermined and so it is important that these agreements are honored i think that there are some very legitimate concerns when it comes to iran so for example one of the things that critics of the deal dont like is that the country is still able to develop an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system as long as it is a conventional because iran deal really just focuses on. Weapons of mass destruction on Nuclear Weapons and not on conventional weapons i think thats a very legitimate concern however i dont think that this strategy is cracked i think what we could do is show the iranians that were honoring a deal in the Nuclear Space and then that would create an incentive for them to come to the table to potentially come up with a second deal to talk about the threat intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and i think thats really a broader regional concern and thats an opportunity thats potentially going to be passed by the nation demonstrators have burned down a security base near the algerian border this follows days of violent protests against planned price and tax hikes the government has deployed troops across the country more than three hundred twenty people have been arrested since the protests began on sunday a smell of our eyes in the capital tunis. The mountain continue we still see those confrontations with Security Forces across the country were no longer talking about the capital tunis were talking about the coastal areas the south and and there is some part of the country and all people angry a government decision to increase taxes and also wish created which led to prices of rise affecting basic commodities which left thousands of people to say that theres absolutely no way we can deal with that this is a country which has huge problems in terms of rising unemployment needs of a same time revenues now its Tourism Industry has been hit in the past by terrorist attacks had now the government is looking into different options to try to get more revenue as a particular of the taxes and this has created. A backlash egypts former military chief of staff sami anon will return will run in the president ial election in march his party made the announcement on thursday comes days after the former egyptian Prime Minister said he is no longer considering running for president in this years election the current president is expected to seek a second term benefit to officially announce his candidacy. Part has a taken place in pakistan for a second day over the rape and murder of a seven Year Old Girl sentiments are is killing has angered many who say authorities and Punjab Province of a little to keep children safe after a series of similar killings carol reports. That. Theyre calling for justice for zainab the girl whose body was found in a dump on tuesday four days after she went missing in a District South of the horn the. Protests have since broke out in several cities in pakistan some of them turning violent the they were funerals on thursday for two men killed in the city of pursuer an enraged crowd stormed a police station. Officers responded by firing live rounds on demonstrators Law Enforcement is being blamed here zain ups father says the police did not act fast enough when his daughter went missing last week the local police chief has been sacked for negligence related to the case. If the culprits and earlier medications had been caught and punished than this incident would never have happened if they had been given exemplary punishments peoples daughters would have been safe today eleven other child murders have been reported in the area in recent months and in two thousand and fifteen sewer district was at the center of a child Sexual Abuse Scandal a number of suspects were arrested accused of blackmailing scores of children into making sex videos the figure of child sexual abuse child rape sodomy. Has ford in the past three to four years in the district and it seems to me that there is an element of. Gangs and ring police say theyre still investigating leads in zena murder and have interrogated two hundred twenty seven people in connection with the case the number one suspect the man seen here on the Security Camera with zainab its the last time she was seen alive diana kerim aljazeera. The german chancellor and the Opposition Leader say there are major hurdles to overcome before a new Coalition Government can be formed after more than fifteen hours of talks there still no agreement between anglo Merkels Christian Democratic Union party and the opposition social democrats an agreement with break a political stalemate thats left germany without a full government since inconclusive elections in September David chaytor has more from her land. This has been an unprecedented political limbo for germany so its crucial these talks do reach some sort of result and remember that only talks about talks and now the main issues are the separating the parties are perhaps the refugees the crisis in two fifteen when one million refugees started coming into the country are they going to allow refugees to be reunited with their family also taxation taxations another real issue that separates the two sides but talking to political analysts here they say that this political limbo actually is is more skiing what is a lot of Common Ground between the parties in the grand coalition but the real problem is that theres no chemistry between the parties and as far as the social democrats are concerned no chemistry within the party itself now that means that theres no real vision if they do come to agreements on having Coalition Talks theres no real vision that the party can present to the country no real vision no well way of moving germany forward on major policies that are important to everybody. Plenty more ahead on the news hour families in sudan struggle to put food on the table as they try to cope with rising costs of basic Commodities Plus the british Prime Minister says its time to end the row way im gonna be printing a recycling center in the west of england looking at the size of the challenge. And in sport why Australian Open organizers are being criticised over reassure opponents appearance at the tournaments draw. As President Donald Trump has caused quite a stir over offensive remarks hes reported to have made during an Oval Office Meeting youre speaking about protections for immigrants from specifically haiti el salvador and some african countries and this is what he said this is the quote why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here. Joins us live from new york youve been covering a lot of the fallout from this so as i said he was talking about protection for immigrants tell us more about the context of how this happened. Well michel he made the comments and a private but official meeting with members of the senate who were there to discuss a possible compromise deal on Immigration Reform two days after the president held a very public televised bipartisan meeting with members of Congress Calling on them to do just that come up with some proposals on Immigration Reform but not only did he make disparaging comments about those countries he went on to question why the United States couldnt get more people coming here from places like norway where he had been meeting with the Prime Minister of that country just one day prior to making those comments so he was responding to a proposal that was put forward by the senators in this group that would have restored some protections for immigrants from those countries haiti el salvador and certain african countries. Because they had recently taken away protections temporary protective status for these immigrants so as part of this compromise deal the senators were talking about giving some protections to those people and thats when he made those comments this deal is now being overshadowed by the comments the deal that would have. Offered some protection for immigrants who were brought to this country as children Border Security something the president asked for revisions to the visa process here in the United States the immigration process but this is clearly an indication that the president is not ready to sign on to the compromise that was reached by these senators. The christian the comments the quote that we actually use there the white house has not denied that he said this so he said this what actually are they saying about it. No they didnt deny it at all in fact a statement was put out by a Deputy Press Secretary raj shah that focused really on the president S Immigration priorities rather than the controversial comments it talks about the president s desire for a merit based immigration system one based on merit not family connections or a visa lottery and he said that certain washington politicians choose to fight for Foreign CountriesPresident Trump will always fight for the American People that was the white house response were getting response now from republican congresswoman who happens to be haitian american and she was very critical of the president s comments saying on twitter that the president comments are unkind divisive elitist and fly in the face of our nations values she went on to say that this behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation and so certainly creating quite a controversy and a lot of talk here in the United States today and tomorrow is the eighth anniversary of that horrible earthquake that took the lives of so many haitians well chris and so let me live in new york then secretarygeneral is calling for a worldwide agreement to protect refugees and Migrant Workers speaking at the launch of a new report intended to tara said u. N. Member states must appreciate the positive benefits of migration and take steps to safeguard foreign labor well thought it is that the direct measured obstacles to migration or play seaview restrictions on migrants were caught but you need to use in feet needless economic self harm is that you bulls barriers to having their labor needs met you know inordinately legal fashion. United nations have said that Syrian Forces have stepped up their fighting and rebel enclaves warning these deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered a war crime speaking on his first visit to syria the undersecretary for humanitarian affairs said he was deeply worried about civilians and it led and eastern over eighty five civilians have been killed in Syrian Government and allies attacks on the damascus suburb of eastern good a sense just the beginning of the year and a huckster has more. This has become the norm in eastern good. Day to civilian casualties as the Syrian Government steps up its attacks and flushing out rebels in the damascus. Was this is the last rebel held and clearly emerging forces backed by russian strikes have been intensifying attacks the and recent months russia has rejected accusations its been targeting civilians. Turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing strikes needed to stall for peace talks to succeed an unnamed talk his source said ankara had summoned iranian and Russian Ambassador syrian president assads back because to express its discomfort those asked strikes in what was meant to be a deescalation. And the uns envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence and go to. Where many. Find you can shoot you know. Right. You know. This was lloyd cooks First Mission to syria since is appointment last year. The most russia is due to host the Syrian National congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meeting. To end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. U. S. Retail giant walmart has announced its laying off thousands of workers just hours after giving staff a minimum wage increase worlds biggest retailer said it would start paying its u. S. Employees at least eleven dollars an hour from starting next month and would give some workers a one time cash bonus but it later said it will be closing dozens of its sams club wholesale stops with the loss of thousands of jobs now walmart is the largest private employer in the United States with more than one point five million workers across five thousand stores the majority of its employees get paid a minimum wage in the past hallmarks been criticized by workers and Rights Groups for being slow to implement higher salaries all right says this latest pay change is due to the recent tax changes by the Trump Administration but the latest rise amounts to just a dollar more than the current minimum of ten dollars per hour that they pay their staff my click says director of the center for business and Economic Research at Ball State University is also the author of the local Economic Impact of walmart so hes the perfect person to talk to about this he joins us from indianapolis thank you very much for your time so as we said walmart being the biggest employer. In the u. S. Making this this one dollar increase what kind of difference will it make. Well will surely make a difference in a number of individual households ten percent pay increase for you know probably half a million workers across the country is important but it wont be noticed regionally its not going to be the sort of thing that makes a significant difference in a city or a county and i think really walmarts doing this because of the the need to attract workers in water very tight labor markets across the United States and in fact one of the critiques of walmart from some of their critics and there are many is that with it being the largest employer in the country they dont a lot of their employers dont employees either dont get benefits and dont make a living wage and therefore have to depend on a lot of help from the government so might there still be pressure for them to go a little bit further well i think there will be theyve responded in recent years with adding a voluntary Health Care Benefit but many of the workers are are casual employees theyre not that interested in in the benefits theyre working part time theyre students and so i think the real issue here is cash in the ability to bring people right to the workplace that is is such a difficult issue for walmart right now the poor as across the country are complaining about the ability to hire entry level workers and so i think this may be actually a cost cutting move for walmart in the long run. And the enter duction to you so this is happening this and obviously no ones going to be upset about getting a raise but the bad news also coming out of walmart the larger corporation is the sams club stores are closing and retail has been having a very difficult time for quite a few years and it seems to be getting worse are these two things connected. I think only ten gently i think the sams club problem is is a combination of competition with costco which is another big warehouse store the overbuilding of these in the late ninetys in the early part of the last decade and really the shift to ecommerce i think walmarts preparing itself to invest money in ecommerce and try to be competitor with amazon here in the United States and always construct to amazon lately its what it seems like so and. So while mart has said that the reason this is happening they said that it was because of the tax cuts that are coming to businesses and you said that you think its a little bit more than that theyre just trying to be competitive but having said that. Will what will we really be able to see what these tax cuts are actually going to mean for the economy in the u. S. You know thats a great question weve had a number of announcements like this of companies boosting wages or providing bonuses year in bonuses after the tax cut was passed i think its going to take a year or more to have really strong evidence of this well see maybe signs anecdotal signs of this right away but it takes well over a year eighteen months sometimes three years for investment to actually turn into brick and Mortar Stores to you know see new products on the store or to see paychecks actually increased in a way that the changes the way households consume goods or services so you know its a nice shot in the arm right now but i think only time will tell if its really is important as the that supporter suggested as at this point Michael Hicks thank you very much for joining us from indianapolis we appreciate it. Still ahead on aljazeera. Oh my god. Captured on video the terrifying moment a lot of temporary rushing down a street in california. 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Out also into singapore there was circulation here continues to drive those heavy showers is a quarter of them but could easily see some flooding as we go on through the next day out to rather lively showers too into java indonesia we are looking list over the next little bit of this third weather into the far south of india maybe interest frank over the next few days you can see how the showers a drifting from aced to west so the possibility of that a bit that weather coming through here but for many it does stay dry and saffold winds picking up a little bit of help to shift the fog and smoke the jelly with a top temperature of twenty one degrees celsius. There with sponsored by the time piece. This is a tactic by. The self appointed time. To create sustainable for the rule. To bring in. To vietnams space. To convince developments that his dreams are retaining that changing mind. Altering space. To continue with greening the city at this time dizzy. With bureaus spawning sixty. Continence across the. Top. News. Youre watching aljazeera lets recap the top stories this hour. Is urged not to cancel the Iran Nuclear Deal ahead of fridays deadline and whether to reimpose sanctions against tehran the Foreign Ministers of france germany and britain also reiterated their backing for the two thousand and fifteen well after meeting irans foreign minister and brussels. Demonstrators in tunisia have burned down a security pace near the algerian border this follows days of violent protest against planned price and tax hikes more than three hundred twenty people of been arrested since the protests began on sunday. And theres been a second day of protests in pakistan after the rape and murder of a young girl the family is accusing the police of not doing enough to investigate and the local police chief has been fired for negligence. A mass burial has taken place in nigeria for seventy three People Killed in fighting between funny herdsman and farmers their communities have been locked in conflict for decades over the use of land to graze cattle. Supports from mccurdy and you know a state. Any day. Now. For some sort of many victims of recent violence between herdsman and farmers. As a dead brought in coffins and open trucks emotions run high. Survivors say the attacks were carried out by herdsman stevens i am a member of a local militia formed to confront the nomad says it was left for dead when the camp was rated blue in a town in the promise we were in a camp around five am without warning without information we started to hear gunshots they were shooting we didnt have any rifle ammunition mary is a mother of two shes alive but suffered a deep machete cut to the phrase attacks and counterattacks between farmers and cattle herders have grown worse in nigeria over the past five years last year alone at least one thousand five hundred have died and more than one hundred thousand displaced as the seventy three victims of the recent violence are buried here the Nigerian Government is sending soldiers to stop the killings and the problem is access to land a changing climate is forcing the migration of moment from the north to the south side of boston existing lands reserved for grazing have been overtaken by family and some from possible relations groups and this is created conflicts between families and credit cards. Security forces have announced arrests on both sides and some states have enforced a ban on open grazing i know. The size of my state. Is where. There is no. Two helped us of land. That you can put as brazil is that so it cannot work here nuland is occupied. But the herdsman say the law was in bad faith meant just to english their way of life i dont get is it is their grazing is the following is legal right is nigerians thats the way they were brought up when they insist on ranching they should be provided with wrenches if there is no provision for ranches how do you want them to live efforts by the Central Government to demarcate areas exclusively for grazing is being resisted some state. This conflict has been going on for half a century or the rising casualties on the scramble for land and water many nigerians say they believe the violence will get worse before it gets better i mean to greece aljazeera mccourty nigeria and sudan three people have died as a protest over the rising cost of basic commodities turned violet the governments left in subsidies on weight imports leading to an increase in the cost of s. And goods here morgan reports from khartoum. Preparing a meal for her family is nothing new. But the portions have changed over the past few days the reason higher prices in the markets. Is an increase in the prices of basic commodities what i could buy for eighty five dollars in the pasta now cost one hundred seventy dollars even the cost of bread its gone up and it affects my spending on other things so dense economy has been weakening since the United States imposed economic sanctions in my nine hundred ninety seven which were lifted in october last year but there hasnt been much of an improvement since then the governments ten to eighteen fiscal budget has a deficit which has forced it to eliminate some subsidies one of them was for a reason as to why governing reveals that we used to get a sack of flour for twenty two or twenty four dollars but it was hard to find now the prices are higher is fifty seven dollars and you can find it but there is a very noticeable increase in the cost i lifting meat subsidies as high prices of bread which led to protests in many parts of the country three people were killed and more than a dozen members of one of the main opposition parties which called for peaceful protests arrested. Protesters the Police Used Tear Gas to stop them and the government shut down newspaper publications and confiscated copies that were already in distribution but the price of bread is not the only reason behind the protests Sudan Currency has been weakening against the dollar for many years in two thousand and five you needed to put me down to get one dollar in two thousand and twelve you needed me now which is a record thirty for just one dollar on the black market with prices of some commodities more than doubling in many find life and affordable. Sudans government lowered the official rate of the currency against the dollar from six point seven to eighteen pounds in january as part of reforms recounted by the International Monetary fund but it says the reforms have nothing to do with the hikes in prices and as you know that in libya there have been government efforts to reduce the prices stable consumer goods the rise in prices is not related to the devaluation of efficient Exchange Rate rather is the result of black market manipulation of that right and the ministry and central bank are working to shut it down but some analysts say the worsening economy is because of Government Policies and the budget proposed for this year. The twenty eighteen budget presented to parliament was unrealistic it was beyond sudans economic capacity without a vision or identification of the results is to cover the budget the budget may collapse if not in two months then three because the ministry of finance doesnt have the resources for the revenue to cover it to see who doesnt know what the governments next steps will be but she hopes it wont result in more hikes in prices which could force her family to go without some meals he will morgan on to their hearts home. Environmental groups say the government of happen again is failing to start the mass destruction of its rain forests the country has just taken over taken malaysia that is to become the worlds biggest exporter of tropical hardly enter thomas supports from an app on the county. The extreme li remote location of this rainforest used to offer its protection but recently that changed. The forests around palmy zero are disappearing fast as they have been right around Papua New Guinea we have lost. Everything. We have been here two years ago we would just a new year and a new go to be tree or maybe looking at the birds flowing out all the troops but now look at this so we would have the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of the forest. Papua new guinea has more of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases or a. B. L. Threatened them they were supposed to be issued to Agricultural Companies to clear land they intended to farm on but most s. A. B. Else which now cover more than ten percent of Papua New Guineas in thailand mass were issued often corruptly to logging companies the timber is processed in china and sold on around the world as kitchen flooring Palm Oil Plantations are eventually planted but their reports substitute. Is supposed to avoid emotion and reports like this but this scene is just profoundly depressing when i first took my breath away i mean just look at it this is a landscape this being scarred. Logging Companies Say they brought Jobs Services and roads to poor parts of Papua New Guinea and paid landowners but this satellite imagery with pictures taken in twenty thirteen and again this year shows in just one area the extent of whats been lost john powell rear helped a Malaysian Company to negotiate its access but he quickly felt locals were being pressured into sunny onesided agreements i feel embarrassed i say i must tell you we were looking for. This is why without considering all the simplifications we offered to bring him and we were in in places looking companies have subsidised the local police those trying to stop the locusts say theyve been beaten by them held in shipping containers and threatened with arrest hours given. Some on my farm and by a policeman in uniform carrying a gun and in the night. In Papua New Guineas capital two politicians and officials have been accused of being too close to the logging companies and of taking bribes to help deals go through the countrys new lands minister doesnt deny that but says he is part of the solution its a deals is a disaster its a disgrace theres definitely some that are legal theres no question about it and they will be cancelled they will be cancelled and all logging will stop but its not stopping were just painting these new britain the logging is devastating youre right it is not stopping because of the fact that we still have to go for the process theres a Legal Process lot of the east but its going to stop it will stop in many places logging companies are appealing the cancellation of their licenses but while court cases drag on the trees keep falling under thomas aljazeera pommy oh papa new guinea. Its a custom is the International Forest policy unit works for them at Global Witness who joins us live from washington d. C. Thank you very much for your time so how how alarmed are you it how bad this its gotten and how much land has been destroy her. Were very frustrated because weve been raising these issues for years since as far back as twenty fourteen and the government has often responded to our geisha ends with claims that its going to address the Issue Council leases give the land back to the communities and stop the logging but what were seeing instead is that even as the government makes this kind of statement in public behind the scenes it secretly allocating even more. Permits so far from the issue being addressed unfortunately it seems like its here to stay so when youre talking about this much money because obviously thats what drives Something Like this how do you make it impact to our what is in a position to actually make an impact to to slow this down when when theres this much money at stake. Well its a very good question and we think first of all this is the responsibility of the p. G. Government under p. And g. s laws those communities actually own the land and yet the government isnt asking them before they give it away to the logging companies so i think just by respecting the communitys legal rights to the land and making sure that they have a say in you know what decisions will best benefit them would be a good start but given that the government hasnt done so well so far in that regard we are also calling on International Companies who may be dealing in the wood thats coming out of p. And g. Which is a billion dollar annual industry to take a close look at where its coming from and make sure that what theyre buying isnt actually driving these kinds of abuses on the ground and how how do you how do you pinpoint when this started to escalate to this point when what was it when was it well weve done quite a bit of research into that and it looks like by around two thousand and eleven an area the size of switzerland had already been given out an area of rain forest and since that has happened since that happened. This is come to account for about a third of all the logs coming out of p. And g. Being exported mostly to china so its escalated in the years since two thousand and eleven and really hasnt shown much sign of abating. This pictures are well all right jacobson joining us from washington d. C. Thank you rick and California Workers are cleaning up millions of tons of debris from mudslides seventeen people are known to have died since tuesday and eight people are missing robin also has the latest from los angeles. Deliverance from above a coast guard helicopter hovered low to rescue a man a child and their dog from the roof of a house surrounded by mud roads in the area have been washed out or are impassable because of mud and debris another coast guard crew landed on a golf course and shepherded eight people and five dogs aboard their jayhawk helicopter Officials Say five hundred rescuers are combing the hills and canyons using search dogs and thermal Imaging Equipment crews have to work their way through waist deep mud fallen trees and boulders oh my god mark marco farrel was recording at the moment a torrent of mud and debris came rushing down the street where his parents live where wildfires last month stripped the hillsides of vegetation that usually holds back soil and rock making the mudslides more powerful ive been a firefighter for twenty six years and for most people that are here on this incident weve never seen an event like this work crews are struggling to clear roads and restore Services Like electricity telephone gas and water some residents shoveled out their own houses and driveway about one hundred houses were destroyed in tuesdays mudslides its just my everywhere and completely across six lanes of freeway. And to peoples homes down their driveways grateful for the nonstop efforts of rescuers and work crews residents of the area face a long road to full recovery rob reynolds aljazeera los angeles and peru thousands are rallying against the pardon of former president. It is the latest in a wave of time and strange things since he was released on Health Grounds and. Twelve years of a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for corruption and human rights in pieces. Including mass killings and kidnappings. Ecuador has granted citizenship to wiki leaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up in at london in the sea since two thousand and twelve. Born activists has been avoiding extradition to sweden he was wanted there for questioning over a rape investigation which was dropped last chair at the moment asylum says he fears extradition to the u. S. Where he could face charges over wiki leaks release of thousands of classified military documents. Japan has summoned the Chinese Ambassador in tokyo to protest the presence of one of its warships sailing your disputed islands in the South China Sea two countries lay claim to the islands known in japan as the syn cuckoo and devalue and china. Has more but once more china and japan the pointing fingers at one another over these disputed islands in the East China Sea they are tiny clusters of rock claimed by china but administered by japan on thursday japan said the china sent a warship and a submarine very close to these islands china says what was happening was this it was tracking a japanese warship and submarine it is a reminder that this area remains a flashpoint another flashpoint of course is the South China Sea and the philippines says its going to be protesting to china over what it says is clear evidence of the continued military buildup in this area in particularly on an island called Fiery Cross Reef now china is making no secret of the fact that its been building up these islands but it says what its doing here is simply really Environmental Protection measures they are not aimed at any particular country the problem is that chinas neighbors simply arent buying that argument and actually these disputes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea of two disputes this region doesnt really need right now as if its begin to try to reduce tensions on the korean peninsula. A fugitive a gangster has been arrested in thailand after pictures of his tattoos and missing Little Finger went viral on social media picture of a sitting at a checkers table was shared more than ten thousand times when some social media users identified him by his gang tattoos the police say sugar has been on the run for fourteen years confessed to being part of the. Gang the seventy four girls accused of being involved in the murder of a rival leader in japan in two thousand and three over a billion dollars has been wiped off the Global Cryptocurrency market after south korea announced it may ban trading of digital coins seoul is trying to clamp down on trading because of the huge influx of people investing in it crypto currency in south korea are often traded at a higher price compared to other exchanges in the u. S. Or europe place also rated several Digital Currency exchanges on suspicion of tax evasion british Prime Minister theresa may has announced plans to eliminate avoidable Plastic Waste in the u. K. Within twenty five years billions of tons of plastics enter the oceans every year and some take hundreds of years to biodegrade correspondent Margaret Philip supports from the Waste Collection center in the west of england this is the cost of consumer culture we dont like to think about the waste we make but we are responsible for it this blog to the west of england process is hundreds of tonnes every day the paper the gloss above all the plastic we throw away and as the british Prime Minister says its the planet that pays in years to come i think people will be shocked at how today we allow so much plastic to be produced needlessly this plastic is ingested by dozens of species of marine animals and over one hundred species of sea birds causing immense suffering to individual creatures and degrading vital habitats. The Prime Minister says she wants to eliminate all of voidable Plastic Waste by twenty forty two but thats a long way off and anyway what does that even mean environmental groups say we need liberals suna to tackle of waste at this said they say give the Prime Minister a charm twenty five a long time im going to be saying we want action now weve got more rain later weve got weve got a planet to protect transition like we quote from the government in recent weeks and months that look at it because it rich they want to incentivize or so i think they want to make a quality all of those things without reducing plastic impact on the planet changing our throw away culture show wont be easy gales of the problem can be daunting but countries like these are part of the problem thats part of the for new version until very recently oversold this material all the way and i found myself recently dumped in a landfill now with new technology in it finding you again and again and again. But how far and how fast are we the consumers prepared to go. In britain as in so many other countries the public use millions of disposable throwaway coffee cups some companies now off a cheaper coffee if you bring your ode be usable cup so londons commuters need to change their habits. Back at the recycling center another concern until recently britain sent huge amounts of recycled material to china now china says it has too much and wont take more so the odorous is on british industry to start reducing more of the waste it creates talking green may be good politics for the Prime Minister changing the ways economy and society work not so easy to be phillips aljazeera brisket. To be worth more than five Million Dollars on wednesday. After hitting a. Six. Time for sport with tara. Thanks very much Australian Open organizers have defended their decision to invite maria hsia republic to appear at the dross ceremony for the years first grand slam share public miss the event last year because she was serving a fifteen month suspension having failed a drug test in malbon two years ago the tournament directors said as a former champion the thirty year old russian deserve the opportunity. When i was younger and i was a teenager i had never thought that i would play past thirty years old it was just. You know i maybe from like a family perspective my mother was an only child my mother had me when she was very young and so i just had a family vision in my mind that i would maybe one day when a few tournaments and then have a family and raise children a normal atmosphere globe trotting around the world and here i am and i feel like i still have so much to give to the sport because its given me so much so i dont know i hope to continue to do it five time champion Roger Federer was a less controversial figure out the draw hell start his Australian Open title defense against alley as a better nay of slovenia though this is not usually go into draws because they freak me out that i want to know who i play just seeing the sheet at the end of my first round opponent is but what a pleasure it is to be back to reno actually its the second quote i came to after winning last year and showed the trophy to the people who actually watched the big screens and here it was. An amazing final amazing moment for me in my life and its great to be back here federer is in the tougher half of the draw alongside now about java virtual face americas donald young in the opening draw top man seed rafa nadal begins his campaign against victor a stellar from the Dominican Republic simona halep is the top womens. Twenty sixteen Australian Open champion actually kerber has continued her strong start to the season the german advancing to the City International semifinals with a straight sets win over Dominika Kerber has been drawn to play compassionate and spin in melbourne. The same event has seen one of the rising stars of the mens game continue with his flying start pointing to an australian teenager alex the men are beat. In straight sets to reach the semifinals in sydney the eighteen year old world number one hundred sixty seven has also been. Around over to this year playing nineteen seed thomas in the first round of the Australian Open. Carlos sainz has won stage six of the dakar rally as the race crossed borders on thursday the persian driver navigated the race with ease as the route entered into bolivia defending champion Stefan Petter hensel who was chasing a record fourteen title finished second in the stage but remains the overall race leader while qatar was third the race will conclude in argentina on january twentieth Kevin Durants has become the second youngest player to reach twenty thousand points in the n. B. A. The twenty nine year old effort only bettered by Le Bron James who did it at twenty eight it was cool there is where you know. Everybody stand up for me as a team game so many players are of course but for the most part you know its been fun you know get to this point in my career im looking forward to keep pushing and thanks to all of the support. Twenty thousand series of n. F. L. Games in london will talk kick off the top names new stadium the Oakland Raiders will face the Seattle Seahawks at the new sixty one thousand seater stadium which is still under construction near the site White Hart Lane the club have a ten year deal with the n. F. L. To stage two games the season games have been playing regular season games and london since two thousand and seven. That most golfers would settle for one a go on any given day Brendan Grace scored three touring the opening round of the south africa open on thursday made for a pretty impressive score for card for the world number thirty he also carded three birdies in a seven under par round of sixty five and shares a lead with american chase called. Going to the last or if. In a round but it was fun it was a little bit rusty with some of the weight shots and things like that but all in all very pleased with with him and i think you know pretty much got the most out of the ground so what a great start groups thought to do thousand and eighteen and then obviously you know three days of. Its just twenty seven days until the start of the Winter Olympics in pyongyang chang but the worlds best mogul skier has already made history canadian mccollough kingsbury posted his forty seven career victory in the most ever by mobiles world cup competitor the when india value child was his twelfth in a row. And thats all your sport for now more later and thats also all of this news hour thanks for joining me Richelle Carey keep it here much more on the other side of the break with my colleague here in charge. You are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u. S. Response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on sex no you will first just wakes up of it in the morning and say i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they dont actually know whats going on join the colobus conversation at this time on aljazeera when the news breaks members of the knesset Israels Parliament setting a higher threshold for any future attempt to give up any parts of truce and the story builds. Up and i did just what president say you know country that is not the other way and when people need to be heard china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of lonely men aljazeera has teams on the ground to bring the Award Winning documentaries and live news on air and online there were over forty charges as i recall but primarily it was Material Support for terrorism the Holy Land Foundation was the biggest Muslim Charity in the u. S. Definitely said that this was a political trial and that these were Political Prisoners because we were able to see the secret over if we were unable to tell it in a two part series aljazeera world examines one of the most Controversial Court cases of the socalled war on terror the holy land falling at this time on Al Jazeera World when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists weve proven the barriers are built to impose division and its not to sixtys instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series aljazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on aljazeera. European powers urged the u. S. Not to abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal as washington considers free imposing sanctions against iran