Word on commuters racist donald trump owns a stinging rebuke from the u. N. After being accused of a crude oval office outburst about migrants. Most violent protests in china zia over the governments austerity measures more than seven hundred people arrested. Firm progress in talks to form a new Coalition Government in germany after months of deadlock but total still remain. On Andrew Thomas floating through a jungle in. But ill be explaining how rainforests like this have been decimated i would just the last seven years on the profits. Have been somewhat liberals. And im far is smiling joe how with this sport tennis crane Billie Jean King is demanding a rethink at the Australian Open she wants a market court arena to be renamed due to courts opposition to gay marriage. The u. S. President has denied he used. To describe countries like haiti el salvador and parts of africa its alleged donald trump made the comments during a white house meeting on draft immigration legislation but the claims have already drawn outrage from around the world including from the United Nations kimberly house. Surrounded by members of the Africanamerican Community at a white house ceremony honoring the civil rights icon dr Martin Luther king donald trump made no apology for. His alleged racist comments a day earlier. Part of a series of Early Morning tweets donald trump denied media reports that he had called haiti el salvador and african countries shitholes during a meeting with senators on immigration but he did admit the language used was tough he also denied saying anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled country weve got time to do but democratic senator dick durbin present at the meeting says the president did say it i called trumps words vile and racist hate filled with it he said there were people in the statements made by the president have caused International Outrage prompting reaction from the spokesman of the high commissioner of the United Nations these shocking and shameful comments from the president United States. Im sorry but theres no other work around can use but racist the reaction from african countries was equally strong have you ever been to the site but. This is not unexpected from somebody over is neutral going to do for your skin or person back in the United States members of the president s own Republican Party are also distancing themselves from the statements it is incomprehensible that these words came out of the mouth of the president of the United States of america a country that was founded on. Being free from discrimination the calls for the president to apologize for his remarks are intensifying inside and outside the United States but for now it appears that apology is unlikely. Is in washington d. C. And can join us with the latest i suspect the apology will be a Long Time Coming kimberly the comments cut keep coming in the vatican apparently saying the comments were harsh an offensive on the u. S. House speaker imposed ryan has also spoken out it really just feel with all this fury that hes crossed a line. Well the president doesnt appear to see it that way he had the opportunity before the cameras to speak and was even asked directly as you heard in my report there whether or not he was a racist and he had the opportunity there to apologize there was not one hes tweeted in just the last few minutes or so once again sort of underscoring the importance of the holiday hes just proclaimed in the white house ceremony the irony in all of this given the fact that this is a holiday honoring the civil rights icon Martin Luther king in that tweet the president says hes encouraging all americans to observe an honor m. L. K. Is legacy in fact i had the opportunity to speak with the nephew of dr Martin Luther king to ask him what it meant to him to be standing next to the president as this controversy is swirling not just in the United States but around the world listen to what he had to say because i honestly dont think the President Trump is a racist i think hes racially uninformed. But i dont think that hes a racist you know in the traditional sense that we thought of that does not mean that i condone. You know his muslim. And his policies but i dont think that hes a racist i think truly hes either racially uninformed or racially ignorant racially uninformed is an interesting form of words is that the sort of thing that those supporting President Trump are coming out to saying i remember during the campaign he came out with some outlandish language and they just said thats just the president kind of using the was used in the locker room or in a bar. It seems that most in the United States including Martin Luther kings nephew i spoke to just a moment ago are trying to take the high road even if the president may be taking the low road at times trying to distance themselves from certain behaviors and characteristics that they find unsavory offensive and trying to focus on the work that is being done certainly the president has tried to highlight that but of course he continues to step on his own good headlines with some of these incendiary remarks and you have to remember when it comes to the issue of race there are deep divisions in the United States it really is quite remarkable to speak to Martin Luther kings nephew there and to see him trying to carry on the legacy that exists and his family trying to in fact highlight that is important to keep the dialogue and conversation going even when there are things that are offensive that are being said to try and use them as teaching and learning moments i found it remarkable to speak to him he in fact he said you know there are many that would say that my uncle would not in fact speak to donald trump he said i see it quite differently in fact i believe that he would speak to him head on to address some of these differences and try to move forward unfortunately his no longer around but the proclamation that the president made today certainly continues to honor his legacy and it appears that the president in the eyes of Martin Luther kings nephew has a little bit of work to do in terms of understanding what that legacy means many Thanks Community bringing us the latest from outside the white house. But meanwhile President Trump has canceled a visit to london to open the new u. S. Embassy he says its because he doesnt approve of barack obama selling off the own building even though the decision to move the embassy was announced on the george w. Bush from london to reports. The building at the center of a new trouble with the storm finishing touches it being made to the u. S. Embassy south of the river thames away from the heart of the city but the american president s not happy the reason i canceled my trip to london he wrote is that im not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in london for peanuts only to build a new one for one point two billion dollars deal the embassies now expected to be opened by u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson next month from the street like many other u. S. Embassies around the world its a giant forty five box this one happens to be surrounded by a moat theres also somewhat different is apparently very green topped with solar panels on the screens that designed to aid Climate Control is also taking shape in an area of urban regeneration but according to some is a little bit more evocative of the previous u. S. Administration than the present war and that could be the problem the bearer of london sadique khan drew his own conclusions from trumps decision many londoners have made it clear he tweeted that donald trump is not welcome here while he is pursuing such a divisive agenda it wasnt long before the u. K. Spahn secretary boys johnson intervened saying we will not allow u. S. U. K. Relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in city hall on a visit to washington last year Prime Minister to resume a invited trump on a separate state visit to the u. K. But no dates been sent the petition against the plan gained more than a million signatures following trumps crackdown on immigration from majority muslim countries as for the old embassy in Grosvenor Square one of the most expensive addresses in the world its been bought by qatar and the money used to build the new embassy Americas Association with the square goes back two hundred years is now destined to be turned into a luxury hotel but hang on a minute could it be is it. Well almost alone from london waxworks museum. Donald trump may be unwilling to come to the u. K. Himself but there is a rather suspicious look alike by any comment mr president. Still ahead on the aljazeera news our fans over syria from the United Nations ahead of the next round of syria talks they say this month. To paris president of catalonia is in brussels to meet his newly elected and pays and in sports a road trip to london doesnt throw bostons n. B. A. Championship pushed off course. The u. N. Says its concerned about the number of arrests during antigovernment protests in tunisia more than seven hundred seventy people have been detained in nearly a week of sometimes violent demonstrations over plans to raise taxes on the price of basic goods the government has deployed troops to help contain the unrest which some have to arrange and criminal elements. Is in tunis. The build up continues the protesters say that they will continue their movement for as long as it takes until the government scraps the austerity measure theres a sense of anger here and frustration at the Government People say that they were hoping that after the two thousand and eleven. Revolution Living Standards for tunisians would improve and they say that what happened was the totally the opposite of the blame the government for breaking the promises they made on cutting the poverty unemployment and improving the Living Standards for the years but the Government Faces a delicate task as we speak on one hand in needs sources of revenue this explains why he has implemented the poor and also installed the new tax system the problem with the taxes is that two to three small resentment among people on the other hand weve been asking International Institutions for loans but the International Monetary fund for example says that it cannot give money to the citizen government alas it starts reforming its. Public sector just to give you an idea about how delicate issue this situation there are about eight hundred thousand Government Employees waitstill bites into Something Like twelve percent of the g. D. P. Of tunis yet the government says it will slash that number by the number of employees by twenty thousand but you if you do that this is exactly what you get people to take into the stories and more process into the good just due to the instability turkeys Prime Minister is enjoying iran and russia to rein in the Syrian Governments offensive and in a province one of the rebels last strongholds may now only sas the Army Assaults could force even more people to be displaced one hundred twenty thousand people have fled in the past three weeks russia and iran back in the forces of syrian president Bashar Al Assad while turkey supports opposition fighters. And the United Nations has expressed its concern over the latest escalation in fighting with a warning that deliberate attacks on civilians could become said it was crimes was an eighty five people have been killed in the past twelve days and hoxton 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 suburb 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. The turkish president spoke to his russian counterpart putin on thursday stressing the 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. And the uns envoy voiced his concern over the level of violence and go to while things are now. Out of the country where many people is. Finding continues in other areas right now and she said about face of the siege. This was low cooks First Mission to syria since his appointment last year. The mob russia is due to host the Syrian NationalDialogue Congress in sochi at the end of january another attempt to start up some kind of meaningful dialogue to end the vicious civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people since two thousand and eleven. There. Demonstrations have taken place in the palestinian territories off the groups including fatah and hamas called for a day of rage in response to the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it comes as Israeli Forces maintain roadblocks and conduct raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank looking for the killer of an israeli settler eighteen palestinians have been arrested so far on thursday two palestinian teenagers were killed during scuffles with israeli troops. A Charity Group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai bombing is holding a rally in the pakistani city of high school about a sponsor of a series of protests sponsored by the us decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital the demonstrators are also angry at ongoing violence in the disputed kashmir region. German chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with social democrats rivals to open Government Coalition talks it tends to try to revive the power sharing agreement thats been in power since two thousand and thirteen must be approved by s. P. D. Members next week david chase reports. The breakthrough came after an exhausting twenty four hours of negotiations between the parties concluding more than five days of talks the political limbo in germany seems finally to be over its it it was steve the c. D. U. Unanimously approved a paper or the results of the exploratory talks at which many participated and which was based on a broad funday sion and we will recommend our party begin talks on forming a stable government. S. The s. P. D. We have decided unanimously to give the Party Leadership a mandate to negotiate a coalition the biggest hurdle in the talks was to reach an agreement on refugees and migration the open door policy championed by Angela Merkel led to more than a million refugees being granted asylum in germany join the years twenty fifteen and sixteen the political price for that decision was the entry of the far right alternative for germany who gained more than one thousand seats in the parliament the border stuck by good numbers will now be kept to two hundred twenty thousand per year and agreement has been reached on even more controversial question of how many relatives will be allowed to be reunited with families already in germany one thousand cases will be considered per month with strict conditions attached fridays agreement though has one final hurdle to pass a special conference in bonn later this week of the social democrats will have to give their approval before the coalition tours can formally go ahead well these are the sort of democrats is one of the most vocal parts of the party calling for opposition they believe in s. P. D. Outside of government would have the opportunity to to reenergize truing really think its an agenda. In a radical shift on german objects ports apart he said they would end the plea supplying weapons to countries involved in the yemen conflict and tighten guidelines sales the talks also agreed Common Ground on strengthening the euro zone and Close Partnership with france and driving forward with reforms in the European Union they also promised to boost germanys contribution to the budget David Chaytor aljazeera berlin a Spanish Government has dismissed the possibility of former council only first among ruining the region from south and post in brussels earlier waste a moment members of his Pro Independence movement in the belgian capital ho independence together for catalonia coalition took thirty four scenes in last months election but still finished behind the Unionist Citizens Party on friday some of the new secessionist m. P. s said they hoped would be approved for another term as president of the castle and parliament when the madrid government says it will contest any attempts in the courts and has more from brussels. Well colors put them on seem to be in a jovial mood here in brussels as he took part in that meeting with people from his party who were elected to the Catalan Parliament last december and members of the other main probably Independence Party he didnt actually talk to the press himself it was left to spokespeople from his party who were adamant that he would very soon be sworn in as the cattle on president there are a number of obstacles that they face mr pushed him or wont go back to spain and neither will the deposed ministers that he came to brussels with last year when they were facing a european arrest arrest warrant thats gone away but they still refused to go back now mr push them all says that he might make his investiture speech which has to happen by the end of the month via video link some opinion say that would be unconstitutional the Spanish Government say it would be illegal so do the party which won the most votes in the Regional Elections sudha done us and were waiting to hear from the council on parliaments lawyers as to very advice but the message here really was that thats not going to sway things that if in fact the parliament does choose to relax mr pushed him out as well as regional president then it would be an affront to democracy if anybody tried to stop that you know entity from the rest of the of the empire in india and to this is whos going to be there in brazil who get them to give him confidence and then someone in spain is not named in each one of you know intimately plans. Well there is another problem for mr group among the several of their m. P. s were actually jailed in spain so there are many Unanswered Questions about exactly how. They can start jobs when they can take power. Facebook shares fell four percent on friday off to see zuckerberg announced major changes to the way the platforms newsfeeds is felt it is all part of a personal challenge set him self to fix facebook and it will see the news feed filter change to prioritise posts from family and friends said he wants to make the facebook i experience more meaningful for its more than two billion members by reducing the amount of content for media organizations businesses and browns he says explosion of branding content in recent years has crowded out personal moments that makes the changes could actually use engagement with facebook or to talk more about this lets speak to Jacob Silverman is a journalist and author of terms of Service Social Media the price of constant connection and joins me now live from new york he says he wants to fix facebook is this really to do with the advent of fake news on facebook especially during the u. S. Election and how much damage that really kind of did the brand. Well its hard to say its certainly did a lot of damage and contributed to think whats a growing mistrust of facebook and what one finds on there but its hard to say whether this new change to the news feed algorithm will really do much to Curb Fake News i think it will cause people to see less news in general of the real and fake friday because there is going to be this promotion of material from your friends and family then that number is two billion as i just said who is still on facebook there is a perception sending money younger generations that its kind of Old Fashioned and old hat which they now do completely and theyre on different social platforms again is this do you think something that when the pale to the slightly greyer if you like news or a facebook then the youngster is it could very well and i think that facebook wouldnt be making these changes without having done some pretty thorough studying and testing of the issue so when says that engagement may decrease slightly i think he knows what hes talking about but i think hes also thinking long term about improving the public reputation of facebook and what that means and many of facebooks users are as you say not young people anymore theyre people who are in their twentys thirtys middle age and even older and i think there is this expectation that encouraging this more communal environment encouraging the interactions between friends and family will help secure facebooks reputation in the long term i think selfish question how might this affect news outlets because many of them do really do rely on being part of facebook nowadays and in some ways of change that content because of it. Yeah im afraid its not going to help news outlets in any particular way over the last year weve seen facebook incursion news outlets sometimes pay them to produce video which can be consumed very readily in the news feed and now thats probably all going away any publication thats done a socalled pivot to video is probably face and subtribe will i think where this is also disturbing is that zuckerberg seems a signature between what he calls passive content and content thats more engaging that involves your friends and family talking now does that mean that he thinks that news is sort of passive content and not worth engaging with it certainly seems so and that in general news is going to discount in peoples feeds because its not seen as the kind of dynamic thing that people want to gather around but just honestly does this not really feel more of a payoff by. The c. F. O. Then a real change of content timelines well i think there is a change of content but with with all things facebook we dont really know the rhythm is closed off to us we hear a little bit about what signals are information or data is used to filter the algorithm and the news that we see but we really dont know whats happening so we have to take zuckerberg word for it so many ways this is a publicity stunt designed to say we know that there are some problems here both in how people feel using facebook and with fake news and too much branding and were going to do something about it now whether it actually works thats something that we cant really know unless facebook becomes more open and transparent in its algorithm and its in its data that it collects jacob sullum and thank you very much for joining us on down to sarah from new york thank you. So i had on the news. That it will bring you president bush on this decision on whether or not to extend sanctions relief to the round. We report on how south africa is still struggling with the issue of land redistribution twenty five years sounds to be end of apartheid plus. One final word here think of the blanco when the roll call is getting ready to host one of the biggest competition in the continent the african nations championship. Hello weve got some rain and some snow in the full cost of course Northern Areas of the middle east at the moment weve got a fabulous of cloud moving through the black sea the caspian sea. Levels is because down towards kazakhstan so there will be some heavy snowfall some heavy spells of rain coming through some of those snowy areas could see as much as twenty five centimeters of snow as we go on through the next couple days a fair bit of snow that just around the turkish mountains and this we go on through sunday will see somewhat of weather just making its way towards that eastern side of the med towards syria lebanon jordan beirut around sixty degrees celsius but for many it will be five and dry as is the case across the arabian peninsula. Around twenty five celsius with a bit of a doubt weather down towards the southern end of the red sea into the gulf of aden but for most it will be settled at it will be sunny again because here in doha around twenty five celsius with some pleasant sunshine is the winds fullbacks and then lifted dust and sand to worry about fathers rights to across a good part of Southern Africa into mozambique into a good part of zimbabwe northern possum mozambique along with Northern Areas of madagascar could see some very heavy right as we go on through the next couple days he joins up with us flooding rains that we have still continuing across the congo. News has never been more available its a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is a simplistic you have been trained good logical rational person crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not hold well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint to challenging Mainstream Media narratives at this time on aljazeera. Will just about reporting about telling those who would restore it its about breaking down the information breaking it down a good military theyre still streaming into the city goes behind the big headlines to go behind government lines and told the stories of the people who actually affected by these events standing up for their rights of workers and as sisters what aljazeera kind of. The journalism the cover story best. Welcome back reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has been criticized for we pull to the using offensive language to describe haiti el salvador and african nations he has issued a denial saying he used tough language but not the words which are being reported. On the u. N. Has expressed concern over the arrest of more than seven hundred seventy people during anti austerity protests in china is a. Class german chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative party have struck a deal with the social democrat rivals to open Government Coalition talks. U. S. President donald trump has decided to waive sanctions against iran the waiver is part of the twenty fifteen Iran Nuclear Deal it was brokered by world powers but the u. S. Congress requires the president to reaffirm the agreements every ninety days during the last deadline in october declined to certify irans compliance but congress didnt tax to reimpose sanctions and while the president is expected to sign off on the nuclear deal on friday his treasury secretary says new u. S. Sanctions are being considered well from there on this more on this lets now cross live to alan fischer in washington d. C. Allan were hearing this is only just been made public that he is not going to impose sanctions but how much of a threat is this now to iran. Well hes not going to cause sanctions this time around but he says this is the last time he will issue a waiver and he says that in the next ninety days he expects there to be talks with his european allies to discuss an additional deal with theory means now according to Senior Administration official these talks are quite far advanced with the europeans but what he says is they have outlined what the americans would like to see and where they would like these discussions to go the difficulty theyve got of course is that the europeans said just twenty four hours ago that they think the existing deal is walking that iran is being held to its commitments and the inspections continue to be carried out to the satisfaction of the i. E. E. E. Donald trump also wants to see among the changes in the any deal with the europeans is that there would be no sunset clause so this isnt an agreement just for ten years that this is an ongoing operation and so there is the possibility that in ninety days there will not be a deal with the europeans donald trump and a Senior Administration official has said just in the last fifteen minutes or so there will be no direct discussions with the iranians so he will be in a position in one thousand days where he could collapse as far as the United States is concerned the Iran Nuclear Deal now he also says that in the next ninety days he would like to see some movement from congress we know that hes already said to them he wants to see the whole deal renegotiated the difficulty hes got of course is that it wasnt congress that negotiated the deal so this would be how the deal is implemented but just to clarify donald trump has decided that hes going to issue a waiver on the sanctions but this is the last time hes going to do it so in ninety days he will not do this again and he wants the europeans and america to come up with a new deal that they will present to the iranians even though the europeans have said they think the cundall is working well and i were just seeing pictures of the Foreign Ministers lining up with their Iranian Foreign minister than that is sounds like the white house was not impressed even with those pictures maybe sending out the wrong message but its impossible to overestimate how much of an impact if they sanctions were to be reintroduced that would have on iran. While it would be interesting to see how others react to the call for multilateral sanctions certainly the United States is going to issue new sanctions that are nonnuclear related in fact fourteen individuals and entities are being sanctioned by the u. S. Government including sidique lot of johnny who is the head of the iranian judiciary and also the brother of johnny whos the speaker of the house and therefore they think the americans are seeing the strikes to the very top of the Iranian Regime and they will continue with the nonnuclear sanctions meanwhile having discussions with the european allies about how they can amend this deal which donald trump has always said is the war still hes ever seen although there is speculation in washington that hes never actually read it many thanks helen fisher there with that breaking news coming out of washington lets go across to tear around where same besar all day has been speaking to people on the streets of the capital about their view on the success or otherwise of the Iranian Nuclear deal. Every few months the Iranian Nuclear deal was thrown into chaos and managing the political turmoil takes up so much of the iranian governments time that there isnt a lot of room left for Public Discourse about much else when president Hassan Rouhani negotiated but you know he really sold it to the iranian people as a cure all for the countrys economic problems and an opportunity to an isolation that the country was experiencing on the International Stage so with everything thats going on how do iranians feel about the nuclear deal now. Under the punchy given mobile thank you based on what we were told blocked money was supposed to be sent back to iran and sections were meant to be lifted but we havent seen any of that the u. S. Hasnt kept its promise up to changing that president not even to hold talks for the husky i think the nuclear deal was a hundred percent successful but some foreign wisting countries want to terminate it of course there have been some positive aspects for us as a president since it has been a deal to benefit all nations with. Liza mundy doesnt have much in my own personal life there has been no impact its as if there has been no deal at the beginning it seemed good but then there were more sanctions the price of the dollar has gone up and the value of the reale has dropped. Task of them was the nuclear deal has had some positive impacts on society considering the breach of the u. S. Promises especially from trump himself for not letting the deal be implemented in a way that will be in the European Countries want the deal has had some success iran has been able to sell oil again freely on the International Market in exports have gone up but in the grand scheme of things for a country the size of iran with eighty Million People the oil revenues really arent enough to put money in peoples pockets and even though these kinds of things take time iranian people had hoped that the deal would allow them to travel the world more freely to move their money around more freely and really engage with the. With a more meaningful and positive way there are virtually happening a lot of it is down to policies by the white house President Donald Trump but have rooted iran in peoples abilities to do those kinds of things so there really is a growing sense of frustration in iran among iranian people not just with aggressive u. S. Foreign policies but also with their own leaders who very soon have promised more than they could deliver. More than four hundred travelers in western japan were trapped on a crowded commuter train overnight when it became stuck in a heavy snowfall the train left the city of new on thursday nights but had to stop when its wills were blocked by snow well workers decided it was too risky to evacuate because the train was in a remote area they eventually got it moving again after fifteen hours some passengers were forced to stand on the entire time and one man was taken to hospital twenty five years after the end of apartheid land remains one of the most divisive issues in south africa the vast majority of the best land is still owned by wife ominous now as the governing and seen me to celebrate its one hundred six anniversary it wants to make manger changes to the constitution so it can appropriate land without paying from penn station tanya page report. These men are serving a site they manage they think of themselves as Property Developers of sorts this is what they call phase one of a land invasion more than ten thousand shacks they say theyre tired of waiting for the and see to give them land there was a pause when taking over from the government to support the center has a solution but they never done it. But there we are keeping on promising promising promising but not now we are saying enough is enough. One of the main reasons the n c was formed in one thousand nine hundred twelve was because black africans were losing their land often being forcibly removed from it more than a century later most of the best land in south africa remains in the hands of a few thousand mostly white commercial farmers. After twenty three years and hardy and caesar only managed to return a fraction of the land to black people the latest Research Suggests about twenty percent that makes land a defining issue and one the n. C. Things that may be able to solve it changes the constitution allowing it to take land without giving compensation to the n. C. Says it wont go ahead with the change if it will hurt the food supply dan craig cant see how thats possible hes been representing farmers and talks with the n. C. And says many people like him are committed to returning land to black people and we want to work with government and we have funding models and we extend Property Rights to new farmers we can actually make much much faster progress if we work together. Ive not lost hope in terms of land reform in any way but from an economic point of view there are concerns over how changes to the constitution will impact farmers if you compensation they would not be able to get all that practically all the detroit at least seventy five percent of their through the value of the land so that they would default on those. Loans that they have with the banks but these men believe the date owed to them and their people is far more important the a. N. C. Government may have been too slow to help them but if it speeds up the transfer of land into the hands of black people it could dramatically change the face of Land Ownership in south africa tinier page aljazeera johannesburg. Now would you have a chance to read a story to your children and evening but find you never have the time well the answer can be found at the annual C S Technology show in las vegas of a gal lookalike robot named luca can do exactly that read a bedtime story luke is among a small sound to fish and intelligence devices being exhibited the event. Is live for us right there and last vegas rob so whats hot whats trending this year at the. Well one of the trends might seem a little counterintuitive sue but its the Auto Industry and the enormous efforts that the automakers are making to incorporate highly Sophisticated Technology into their vehicles were at the toyota booth im going to step aside here so you can see this Pretty Amazing concept car called one of the ice series that toyota has its goal wings and another smaller vehicle there thats intended for use by handicap people but if we swing around a little bit youll see its not just toyota here thats all kinds of car makers who are at c. S. And theyre all. Working towards incorporating High Technology into the vehicles to improving the driver experience with Artificial Intelligence and all of that ultimately is moving towards the goal of autonomous driverless vehicles or at least driverless as far as the as the driver wants it to be autonomous now im joined by ron williams ron come on over here thank you very much for joining us ron is a product specialist here at toyota and your company has made some news this week here at c e s with a big deal that youve signed with amazon for alexy in your cars tell us about that really exciting announcement for us was a partnership with with amazon and alexa and of course also with amazon in the palette series about to with the Autonomous Vehicles its really great to have this assistant on board and i think what youre seeing especially with our concept i series here not only are you able to speak with the vehicle but moving towards it actually becoming a body or a partner in the vehicle and you mentioned earlier that the that alexa will get to know all the family members so if you have a a car full of kids or teens itll itll actually get to know whos driving and whos the passenger but these. Distant in the content i series right now is called u. E. And well that become a lex and a future with its potential is its a possibility i suppose with this new partnership but yes it will get to know you it maps emotions it can react to your voice and your hobbies and give you suggestions even on navigation directions giving you more enjoyment along the way and there will be more a lot more voice commands rather than pushing buttons right you know it actually recognizes completely natural conversation so just having a nice conversation with your body in the car it gets to know you and not only does it learn from you can actually grow with you along the way which is very unique and is this a step along the road towards fully Autonomous Vehicles at some stage in the in the fairly near future sure i mean one of the things were talking about with concept i series in the Artificial Intelligence is that by emotional mapping and sensing more stress the car can actually then offer to take over more control of the vehicle and become fully autonomous but you still would retain the the potential to drive the car manually if its sensing more fun it can suggest a fun route for you and even turn over more control back to you. Yes fascinating thank you so much for speaking with us about that and just sue to give you an idea of how quickly the Autonomous Movement the car movement is is going lifted the go ride sharing app hopes to have the majority of all of its rides in driving vehicles by the year twenty twenty one three years from now so. How bad thing will look a bit crazy talk and talk cars by understand the concept thanks very much speaking to us still ahead on the aljazeera news hour well show you the impact of logging in Papua New Guinea. They seem to have just profoundly depressing when i took my breath away i mean just look at it they say is a landscape. This. And then school the teenage tennis player hitting form ahead of me graeme strong told. Now happening again is the logging industry is booming its just overtaken malaysia as the worlds biggest exporter of tropical hardwood but it could be coming at a cost environment. The pacific nations government of sitting back and doing nothing while its rain forests are systematically destroyed Andrew Thomas has been to one of the main logging areas to have a look at the impacts first hand. The extreme lee remote location of this rain forest used to offer its protection but recently that changed. The forests around palmer was disappearing fast as they have been right around Papua New Guinea we have lost everything. Weve been here two years ago we were just a new younger new going to be tree or maybe looking at the birds flying 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 course. Papua new guinea has more of asia pacific remaining rainforest than any other country but special agricultural business leases or. Threaten 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 looking 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 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 saudi onesided agreements i feel embarrassed i say i must tell you we were looking for press this is why without considering all the simplifications we offered to bring him and we were even 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. Summoned my family. 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 theres definitely some that are illegal theres no question about it and they will be cancelled they will be cancelled and all logging will stop but its not stopping weve just been in this 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 love 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 palmeiro proper new guinea now lets go on the latest sports news with fire in doha. So thank you so much more rocco is getting ready to host the fifth edition of the african nations championship the countrys football fortunes are on the rise after their qualification for this years world cup and as someone who is sure ports rocco has a mission to one day stage footballs biggest of act. This is where many moroccan youngsters learn their football the beach doubles as an improvised Training Ground fans here i have a lot to look forward to oracle has qualified for the world cup for the first time in twenty years and the country is about to welcome many of africas best players the city of gaza blunk is due to host the african nations championship the country hasnt hosted a senior Continental Competition since the africa cup of nations in the nineteen eighty eight moral codes due to stage the twenty fifteen cup of nations but pulled out due to concerns about the spread of the ebola virus the african nations championship set has been around for a decade but is still trying to establish itself the sixteen team event is solely for players based in their Domestic League but with the decision to expand the flagship a cup of nations to twenty four teams and extra world cup places awarded to the african continent from twenty to twenty six some are questioning its value the man in charge of african football is this its future is secure. With regards to the position the competition takes at a continental level its very important because if we look at the number of participants in qualifying matches increases day by day it means that the federations and the players develop a taste for it and profited little from this opportunity morrocco is hoping that by successfully stage in this tournament they could be given another chance to host the cup of nations. But there on bishes dont stop there with the country challenging a joint bid from the us canada and mexico to host the twenty twenty six fifa world cup which we have historically events for for us for of american football. Because last last year. Our first team qualified for the world cup and we warn the. Champions league of and we. We want inside lets continue with this. Good moment and then. Weve been preparing for this competition for some time i think we have good players that can make our country proud morrocco kick off this event against mauritania close to forty five thousand spectators will be at the renovated muhamad the fifth stadium home fans hoping theyll be back at the same stadium in early february to see their team play in the final fun of aljazeera has a blanka morrocco. Told time grand slam champion Billie Jean King believes the Australian Opens Margaret Court arena should be renamed court is a vocal opponent of gay marriage the seventy five year old australian won a record breaking twenty four grand slam tournaments during her career and the venue at Melbourne Park was named after her in two thousand and three king says that while she refused to play in the arena as she was appearing at this years tournament she wouldnt be encouraging other players to boycott it. I dislike shes got the rug. But you talk about children of transgenders being from the doubled up at me over the edge i must say because were all gods children and were all be the best we can be i think its really important to be your authentic self it took me a long time with my own sexuality took me until i was fifty one to feel comfortable my own skin. Shame based things were very difficult so thats the last thing we need this years Australian Open starts on monday with Angele Kerber heading form at just the right time the two thousand and sixteen champion has picked up her eighth straight when of twenty eight in the german beating and Camilla Grigori in straight sets to reach the final of the sydney international. The german will play ashley barty in the final barty became the First Australian finalist at the event since two thousand and five compassionate daria gavrilo over in three sets in their semifinal the world number nineteen now is inside just her second title. Another australian is enjoying a stellar start to the year in the mens draw of the city event eighteen year old alex dimon are his moved within sight of his first title he beat frances ben war pair in their semifinal dimon are has won eleven of his last twelve matches including victories over the likes of middlesbrough niche Fernando Verdasco and felicity antelope as helped by russias Danielle Medvedev in saturdays fight. The Boston Celtics to allow a road trip to throw their championship push off course the celtics are leading the way in the n. B. A. Eastern conference and they beat the philadelphia seventy six ers at a game played in london so home reports. Seeing the stars of the n. B. A. And everything that comes with that has become a regular treat for fans of the u. K. The Boston Celtics facing the seventy six is in london the eighth regular season game in the country since twenty eleven. And there could be many more coming up in the future. The demand is there and the interest is there its really more a question of our schedule and whether we can make it work it looked early on that those on hand in london were in for a shock result right across the crowds does it matter to see who wants to be the sixers seventy six has dominated the eastern conference leading celtic so much of the first half of the building a lead in excess of twenty points but boston showed just why this serious championship material. Their star player kyrie irving who scored twenty points on the night not sit down i helping get him to come back moving here midway into the Third Quarter the celtics finally seizing the lead for for. To try to tie us air force to the six over and they didnt give it up the way any hopes of an upset in london were over boston going on to seal it comfortably one fourteen two one zero three for a seventh win in a row in the sixtys were playing pretty hard to execute. Some shot. Got off to a good start start something in the decency to more. Probably just warners willing to help in the beginning you know its natural british fans will have to wait a year to see the n. B. A. At home again its possible theyve already seen this seasons champions in action so well malick. Some problems for Le Bron James then Cleveland Cavaliers cleveland losing one hundred thirty three to ninety nine against to try to raptors that six losses in eight games for the defending eastern conference champions. When the folks most of you know about to begin to see them. Really go all the way to get out of. It is going to slow slow buggy for boats were drawn were going to go bald book so fragile the model no where in the kind of world war what happened to the switch when back book we got top of the burger were fun. And thats all youre sport for now its now back to sue in london thank you farai and dont forget you can get much more on the web site al jazeera dot com for planning on news content video features and is it from a certain unfold this news outlet Julie Mcdonnell will behave with you in just a moment with much more on the days news and so what you. Travel off to. Buy tranquil books movies and purple forests may provide little. Ochs of owning. My icons landmark valleys and scotlands. Live for adventure. Discover new jobs because far away places consider. Going its just to get these cats are always. In two thousand and eight aljazeera documented a groundbreaking school. Preparing some of indias poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. Ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. Super thirty at this time on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Swear every. Man. As thousands of rodin just seek refuge in bangladesh a new armed group is taking shape fighting the government and me and mark only because they refuse to give us our basic rights as citizens for the first time a member of the ira can ruin just Salvation Army talks to aljazeera at this time. President trump says hell approve the Iran Nuclear Deal one last time but the u. S. Will withdraw if it isnt strengthened in the next one hundred and twenty days