And jane dutton this is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up funny some progress in germanys political deadlock so candidly to a new government months after knife edge elections. In is in protest leaders call for people to get back out onto the streets after days of demonstrations plus. An Andrew Thomas floating through a jungle in Papua New Guinea but ill be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated over just the last seven years and the profits would have been softened abroad. U. S. President donald trump is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief to iran late on friday under the new kid deal with world powers the agreement that trumps described as the worst ever was the result of more than a decade of diplomatic efforts to curtail Irans Nuclear ambitions in two thousand and two a secret uranium enrichment facility was discovered in eastern iran prompting britain france and germany to begin talks with iranian negotiators a year later in two thousand and six the us russia and china joined the talks forming the socalled p five plus one group things took a bad turn six years later when it was revealed that iran was enriching uranium close to weapons grade levels the e. U. Imposed asset freezes on iran central. Bank and stopped importing the countrys oil then asked irani defeated conservative opponents to become irans president he declared his country was ready for Serious Nuclear talks and after years of negotiations a long term Nuclear Agreement was reached in june of twenty fifteen but the u. S. Congress stipulates it needs to be reaffirmed every ninety days so while trump is expected to sign off on the sanction waivers under that deal he may impose separates us sanctions ellen fish explains from washington d. C. Well we know the donald trump has been meeting is National Security team and dont leave the hall 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 to matters who is the fence 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 to with to try and the men that were working with the International Partners but there is the possibility that will be no one Nuclear Related sanctions and thats certainly something that treasury sector steve 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 through the release of the saudis and we know that donald trump tends to see these things very much in binary terms that any win for a run in any sort of level is a defeat for the United States but what people will be saying to 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 non 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 i mean president tom has confirmed that hes cancelled his state visit to london there were calls from some politicians for his invitation to be withdrawn and opponents are planning protests if the visit went ahead but on twitter chum put it down to his objections to americas new embassy in london reason i canceled my trip to london is that im not a big fan of the a bomb administration having sold perhaps the best located in finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one in an off location for one point two billion dollars bad deal wanted me to cut ribbon no. Theres been significant progress in talks between german chancellor Angela Merkels party and its main rivals politicians say they have agreed on a blueprint which paves the way for the next stage of talks on forming a grand coalition Merkels Christian Democratic Union party and the center left social democrats as spend five days finding Common Ground germany has been without a full government since septembers elections David Chaytor is in berlin david what do we know about this progress. Jane the political limbo does appear to be over for the moment there is an agreement that formal Coalition Talks will now take place and there is of course the problem of exactly what the comprehensive statement will see today does contain because there are crucial issues hurdles as called by anger merkel that they were discussing and those discussions went on throughout the night so clearly theyve got to form some sort of statement which will allow the social democrats leader Martin Schulz to try and sell this deal at a special delegates conference on january twenty first and that itself could be a problem thats the final hurdle so yes this is as you said some form of a breakthrough but martin children the socialists have yet to decide and put it to their delegates and only then after they get agreement on january twenty first if they do get agreement will be the formal talks take place which means that any coalition grand Coalition Government will not actually be in office probably until april but it does appear from whats coming out and theyre only dribs and drabs coming out on the wires at the moment that there is a grand coalition perhaps but with no grand visual ideas for the future of germany no real policies as yet that we can talk to about the the future direction that germany is taking so it just appears that theyre coming to some face saving formula and that that is the way they hope to get through to forming a government sometime in april jane and what sort of impact is this likely to have on refugees obviously refute the very fiji numbers has been a large part of this they are reports now of a new cap on numbers has that going to work. Jane yes this is in fact one of the most crucial divides between the socialist democrats and anger merkels parties and her sister party in the various be moving very much towards the rights moving away from the center on this particular issue now what they want to do was look at the issue of the one point two million refugees who came here in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen are they going to be allowed Family Reunions now this is being very much opposed by the the center parties they feel that this really needs to be looked at very carefully so theyve decided that that issue of Family Reunion so vital for those refugees who found asylum in germany they need to see their loved ones in need to see husbands and wives together Children Reunited with their parents its a very crucial issue theyll be examining one thousand cases. Each each month to look at that saw we dont quite have the details but one thousand cases per month to see if there are going to be allowed to be reunited as for migration thats a separate issue of course theres going to be a cap on that between one hundred eighty thousand to two hundred twenty thousand cases will be looked at joining the course of a year so that is the bare bones of the agreement as i say at the moment this is still got to be put to Martin Schultz says delegate conference and the the young socialists are very much against this whole idea of entering government very vocal in their protests against whats being done they believe they should get new leadership in the party they believe also that new ideals should be put to germany a new vision to reinvigorate the socialist cause there are still problems ahead thank you david chester. Demonstrators in tunisia burned on a security base near the algerian border it follows days of violent protests against planned price and tax hikes the government has deployed troops across the country more than seven hundred seventy people have been arrested since the unrest began on sunday the protests have now are spread to several cities joins us now from tunis does this mean that the protests are gaining momentum hashan indeed jane although we dont we dont see the use rallies that weve been seeing in the past particular thousand and twelve thirteen and fourteen and fifteen but at least with seeing now this momentum which is building up across the country people saying they are fed up with corruption and impunity in the country and that therefore there needs to be action so they want to maintain the momentum and put more pressure on the government in few hours from now what are we waiting for which is one of those buys in movements now in tunisia is trying to gather support for a rally in the capital tunis have they say that they will continue to go on through the coming days particularly sunday which commemorates the seventh anniversary of the two thousand and eleven revolution they would like to take the opportunity to continue to call for this government to scrap the austerity measures but also to hold accountable everyone responsible for embezzling public funds this is where the biggest problem it is here is not that it is a poor country but the biggest problem is the need to tackle corruption and what can the government do now to ease tension. I have to say very few choices here jane for the government the three main sectors that generate revenue for the tunisian government are mining ugly culture and tourism and these three sectors have been hit hard over the last few years because of instability terrorist attacks and also decline in International Markets so therefore the government is desperate for cash they go to International Donors like the International Monetary fund and they tell them if you want us to give you money you have to tackle the problem of the bloated Public Sector just to give you an idea jane the Public Sector in tinnies the walk force in tunisia consumes Something Like twelve percent of the g. D. P. And the government to tackle the bloated Public Sector they say that they would like to slash the workforce by twenty thousand and increase taxes if you do that people would get upset and they will go on the streets so the government now walks a very tight political tightrope they would like to cut the Public Sector increase taxes to be able to generate cash for the coming months without upsetting the people their trade unions the opposition say that the austerity measures are a red line and therefore they say that they will continue the pressure there will continue the rallies across the country until the government scraps this the problem in a country like tim is yes if instability continues of people take to the streets if we see acts of violence like what weve seen over the last few days this is just something which is going to further destabilize a country that has been hit by many years of instability and growing influence of armed groups across the country are tashan thank you. Still ahead on aljazeera donald trump lashes out over Immigration Reform making vulgar remarks about some u. S. Neighbors and countries in africa. Fears of worsening hunger in sit down with the rising cost of food has caused violent protests. Weather remains very disturbed across Southeast Asia still seeing some very lively shall as in sioux indonesia two hundred twelve millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours just across that western side of borneo and a little further over towards the west twelve showers the longest continue to plague the malaysian peninsula its been rather cold here and its certainly been very wet and once again we see some very heavy downpours to around one hundred two hundred millimeters of rain coming down here in just twenty four hour periods as well with the thick cloud remains in place because of circulation now developing and that may well develop into a tropical siphon over the next few days and becoming more organized as some really big downpours remaining there around the kuala lumpur singapore continue to see some very heavy rain temperatures i was just getting up to around twenty six or twenty seven degrees and circulation to effect in the far northwest of our stride and this is tropical cycling joyce which is just making its way across the came billy to be so what pushing very close to broome and you see the position of the storm at the moment so some very wet and very windy weather coming through winds could well touch but one hundred fifty kilometers an hour over the next couple of days that weather will continue here through saturday and sunday. China has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. One on one east meets those desperately seeking any way they can at this time on aljazeera. Zero. Where ever you. Begin your challenges there are a mine of our top stories this hour donald trump is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief to iran late on friday under the nuclear deal with world powers then u. S. Needs to reaffirm the agreement every ninety days but the president may impose separate u. S. Sanctions. Has been significant progress in Coalition Talks between german chancellor Angela Merkels party and its main rivals key sticking points have been refugees and immigration theyve agreed to limit the number of people arriving each year including for Family Reunions. More than seven hundred seventy people have been arrested across tennessee are falling five days of antigovernment protests demonstrators burned on a security base near the algerian border theyre angry about plans for tax rises and higher food prices. A small group of u. S. Senators say theyve reached a compromise on Immigration Reform but theyve yet to win the support of donald trump according to several reports the president made vulgar remarks about haiti el salvador and african countries during the discussions christian salumi has more. Days after President Trump called on lawmakers to find a compromise on Immigration Reforms a Small Bipartisan Group of six senators say theyve done just that the agreement was expected to include funding for Border Security protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the u. S. As children and changes to the way the state Department Approves visas but in a private meeting a proposal to restore protections to immigrants from haiti el salvador and certain african countries who were until recently protected from deportation reportedly prompted the president to question why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like norway whose Prime Minister he met on wednesday thats the racist element norwegians are white theyre northern europeans he was referring earlier in his vulgar comment to africans and haitians who are mostly of african descent this is these are racist comments he said things like this before when he talked about nigerians who wont go back to live in huts and he talk about the haitians who bring aids to the United States these are all confirmations of what a lot of people have long suspected that he harbors racism republican representative mia love a haitian american responded on twitter saying the president s comments are unkind divisive elitist and fly in the face of our nations values this behavior is unacceptable from the leader of our nation they are bringing drugs theyre bringing crime theyre rapists its not the first time the president has spoken disparagingly of immigrants and his spokesperson didnt deny the comments certain washington politicians choose to fight for Foreign CountriesPresident Trump will always fight for the American People he said President Trump is fighting for Permanent Solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation the president says he wants a merit based immigration system not one based on family connections or a lottery and his comments suggest hes not yet ready to accept the compromise reached by senators kristen salumi al jazeera new york. Just syria now with the un says Government Forces have stepped up fighting in rebel enclaves warning deliberate attacks on civilians could be considered war crimes speaking on his first visit to syria the uns humanitarian chief says hes deeply worried about civilians in it live and easton more than eighty five people have been killed in the past twelve days and a huckster reports. 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 clay and Regime Forces backed by russian strikes have been intensifying attacks in recent months russia has rejected accusations its been targeting civilians. With turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing strikes needed to stop the peace talks to succeed an unnamed turkish source said ankara had summoned iranian and russian ambassadors syrian president assads backers to express its discomfort those airstrikes are in what was meant to be a deescalation. From the uns envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence and go to. A country where many people they. Find you cant use in already. Right now as you know. This was his First Mission to syria since his appointment last year. The more russia is due to host the Syrian National congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of lead. And the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. Turkeys Foreign Ministry has warned its citizens against traveling to the u. S. Risking reigniting a months long diplomatic spat visa restrictions from both countries were lifted at the end of december that had been in place after the u. S. Accused turkey of detaining two of its consulate staff for suspected ties to the failed twenty sixteen cooper turkey now says its citizens should revise travel plans to the years after a jury there found a turkish blanket guilty of helping iran get round us sanctions also in turkey the government has dismissed another two hundred sixty Civil Servants and military personnel under its latest state of emergency decree president reject tire better one extended the state of emergency earlier this week was imposed after the failed coup in twenty sixteen thousands of people suspected of involvement have been arrested and tens of thousands sacked more than eight hundred people dismissed in previous purges have been reinstated under the new decrease after having their names cleared. Three people have been killed in sudan while protesting against a recent hike in food prices the government stopped subsidies on some items sparking anger have been morgan reports from the capital 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. Theres 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 god reveals he used to get a sack of flour for twenty two or twenty four dollars but it was hard to find him to know 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 has 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 sudans 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 many fine 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 frequented by the International Monetary fund but it says the reforms have nothing to do with the hikes in prices now that the libya has 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 rate and the ministry and central bank are working to shut down but some analysts say the worsening economy is because of Government Policies and the budget proposed for this year. The twenty eight thousand budget presented to parliament was unrealistic as 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 his ear. Custom offices in thailand of intercepted four hundred seventy thousand dollars worth of illegal ivory from nigeria one hundred fifty kilogram haul arrived in bangkok on a flight from lagos last month but there been no arrests made so far because no one claimed the baggage thailand is one of the worlds biggest hubs for the illegal wildlife trade my distant ocean is a third country route is via laos and vietnam to china we believe that this is the same gang who is behind the illegal trade and the ivory tusks like these are hard to find in thailand environmental groups are accusing pup went to guineas government of sitting back while the countrys rain forests are destroyed the pacific nation has just overtaken malaysia to become the worlds biggest exporter of tropical hardwood Andrew Thomas went to pommy or to see the impact. The extremely remote location of this rain forest used to operates protection but recently thats changed. The forests around palmy over disappearing fast as they have been right around Papua New Guinea we have lost. Everything. Weve been here two years ago we would just a new year and a new go to. A movie looking at the birds flown out all the troops but no look at this so we would have been in the middle of the forest yes we would be in the middle of forest. School. 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 there are reports substitute. This supposed to avoid a motion in 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 thats 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. Reasons why without wanted there in order to see implications we offered to bring him and we were in in places looking companies have subsidized the local police those trying to stop the loggers 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 annoy that but says he is part of the solution is deals is a disaster its a disgrace this differently some that are illegal theres no question about it and they will be cancel they will be cancelled and all logging will stall but its not stopping weve just been in these new britain the logging is devastating youre right it is not stopping because of the fact that we still have to go through the process theres a Legal Process a 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 or proper new guinea saudi arabia has held its first ever car exhibition aimed at women it is the only country in the world that bans women from driving though they are expected to get behind the wheel in june the ban was lifted by a decree issued by kings last year the local Auto Industry is banking on selling to more customers. Take a quick look at the top stories donald trump is expected to reluctantly extend sanctions relief to iran late on friday under the nuclear deal with world powers the us needs to reaffirm the agreement every ninety days but the president may impose separate u. S. Sanctions has been significant progress in Coalition Talks between german chancellor Angela Merkels party and its main rivals key sticking points have been refugees and immigration they have agreed to limit the number of people arriving each year including for Family Reunions David Chaytor has more from berlin. The political limbo does appear to be over for the moment there is an agreement that formal Coalition Talks will now take place and there is of course the problem of exactly what the comprehensive statement will see today does contain because there are crucial issues hurdles as are called by merkel that they were discussing and those discussions went on throughout the night more than seven hundred seventy people have been arrested across two nazir following five days of antigovernment protests demonstrators burned on a security base near the algerian border theyre angry about plans for tax rises and higher food prices here is president has caused a stir over comments hes reported to have made during an Oval Office Meeting speaking about proposed protections for immigrants donald trump use a swear word while referring to haiti el salvador and some african nations United Nations humanitarian chief says hes deeply worried about civilians caught up in violence in syria fighting as wasnt around rebel held areas near damascus and in the province turkeys foreign minister has warned its citizens against traveling to the u. S. Risking reigniting a months long diplomatic spat visa restrictions from both countries were lifted at the end of december theyve been in place after the u. S. Accused turkey of detaining two of its consulate staff for suspected ties to the failed twenty sixteen coup but turkey now says its citizens should revise travel plans to the u. S. After jury there found a turkish banker guilty of helping iran get around u. S. Sanctions. Those are the headlines one o one east is next and finally about to fall well have the news ahead of the september twenty Fourth NationalElection Survey showed germans a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily estonias biggest tech Success Story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time