Hello im Maryam Namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up demands for the u. K. To withdraw its invitation to the Saudi Crown Prince of the countrys involvement in yemen. A new military front opened by turkey in syria threatens to complicate un backed peace talks in vienna. And a small step for man one giant leap for monkeys for such as around the world hell the cloning of the first primates in china. We begin in davos where after much anticipation u. S. President donald trump has finally arrived at the World Economic forum and already hes making waves over his threats to withhold aid from the palestinians if they dont pursue peace with israel our diplomatic editor james braze reports from davos. All right the u. S. President seemed in upbeat mood as he arrived here. And prosperity between israelis and palestinians that seems further away than ever you might think that when youve alienated one side in a negotiation in this case the palestinians you might reach out to the inc you very much flanked by us really Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu the author of the art of the deal showed that not his way when they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great Vice President to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in support tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and theyre going to have to want to make peace or were going to have nothing to do with it. Of course the reason the president pence on his visit was shunned by the palestinian president and heckled by palestinian members of the Israeli Parliament the knesset was the controversial u. S. Decision made last year to recognize jerusalem as israels capital something again praised of downforce by Prime Minister netanyahu. This is the story. That will be for the market for generations to come we took jerusalem off the table so we dont talk about it and they never got past seriously we took it off the table we dont have to talk about it anymore. If you want one for it and youll give up two points later on the negotiation if it ever takes place i dont know that it ever will take place that seems to be a complete misreading of the situation the president is suggesting that hes removing of the stumbling block of jerusalem from the negotiations in fact most believe hes making it an even more divisive issue. Previous u. S. Administrations knew the recognition card was one they needed to keep it not use to maintain leverage with the israelis a two state solution requires pressure on the israelis to give up illegal settlements they built a land that should form a palestinian nation great honor to be from the trumpet ministration israel seems to get only praise and never pressure james space aljazeera devils christian salumi has more now from the United Nations where trumps Ambassador Nikki Haley also had strong words for the palestinians during the Security Councils monthly meeting on the situation in the middle east the Palestinian Ambassador riyad months were spoke and said that the palestinians opposition to the United States moving its embassy to jerusalem was not a sign of disrespect to the americans on the contrary he described it as an ultimate sign of respect for International Law and before and will here at the United Nations which describe jerusalem as an issue to be relied on during final status negotiations he called on other countries to make up for the sixty five Million Dollars in the United States that was knighted states ambassador money come haley accuse the palestinians of walking away for his prospects in his speech president abbas declared the landmark oslo peace accords dead he rejected any american role in peace talks he insulted the american president he called for suspending recognition of israel. He invoked an ugly and fictional past reaching back to the seventeenth century to paint israel as a colonialist project engineer by european powers manage the uns middle east envoy nicholai monarch also spoke at a session been warned that aid to the palestinians could further destabilize the region and further undermine the peace process. Mansour is the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations he says nikki haleys attack on the palestinian leadership was uncalled for we totally reject this onslaught from members of the nikki haley against the Palestinian People and their leadership including president Mahmoud Abbas we havent done anything other than defending International Law defending Security Council resolution and defending our rights when it comes to the issue of jerusalem this is what we have done we are proud of what we did and we will continue to do so because there are specific resolutions in the Security Council that are totally against the illegal unilateral provocative new policy of the Us Administration and to come and to attack us as a result of that is uncalled for and there is no man that is committed to peace among the palestinians today than president Mahmoud Abbas and to defend our rights and to defend International Law and to be attacked as the way she did is a very. Ridiculous. But his Prime Minister to reason may is under pressure to withdraw an invitation to the Saudi Crown Prince of his countrys war on yemen crown Prince Mohammed bin selman is juice a visit london within weeks groups including stop the war in the Arab Organization for human rights in the u. K. Are asking me to cancel his visit a Saudi Led Coalition intervened in yemen civil war in twenty fifteen its now the worlds worst humanitarian crisis stephen bell is the spokesman for the campaign to block the saudi leaders visit and a member of the palestinian solidarity campaign. View it is not acceptable to learn to read go to someone who is responsible the u. N. Says is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world during the first most recent indicated up to live million human children or risk who cholera firman and the blockade of the country destruction or at least its not suitable to but someone who is prone responsibilities to us. The un has started another round of peace talks with the Syrian Government and the opposition in vienna stays before syrias close ally russia is due to host its own negotiations in sochi but turkeys latest military assault is expected to complement complicate the talks further for the past six days Turkish Forces have been attacking kurdish y. P. Jet fighters in the Northern Syrian region of a free kurdish authorities in the area have appealed to the Syrian Government for help turkey wants to push the white b. G. Out of a frame and create a buffer zone along its border with syria well as the diplomatic effort struggle to make any progress the Syrian Government forces backed by russia and iran have continued to gain ground for years recovering huge swathes of the country from rappel fight says for more now on who controls what is priyanka gupta. The bathtub map of the Syrian Civil War has changed dramatically over the past year seemingly shifting the balance of power this is what syria looked like a year ago fractured between various sides Syrian Government areas are marked in red their opposition areas in queens the kurds in yellow at the top and i saw in brum their thoughts forward to now and the Syrian Government has managed to expand its control over much of the country and i so it has been pushed out into these tiny pockets the rebels have been further squeezed into the west in a blip and some other parts like these pockets around cap of damascus in eastern guta and the Palestinian Refugee camp yarmouk which is split between various sides but whats of real concern is. With the Syrian Government along with this russian our eyes have intensified the airstrikes since november the regime has also titan is nearly five year long siege with devastating consequences for some four hundred thousand People Living there now the kurds theyre in control of these big chunks of territory in the north kodesh group the y. P. G. Is facing turkish air and ground offensive in northwest in offering ankara considers kurdish groups in syria terrorists turkey is also training its eyes now on monday in the east to push kurdish dominated Syrian Democratic forces east of the a free distributor in an attempt to further secure its borders and that might make the complex war of syria even more complicated because the s. D. F. Is backed by turkeys nato ally the u. S. In its fight against isis. Myanmar is accused of former u. S. Diplomat who quit an International Advisory panel on the range a crisis of pursuing his own agenda Bill Richardson a former close friend of mammals leader unsexy chief resigned from the group while it was making its first trip to russia and state he said c. G. Like more leadership and that he didnt want to be part of a whitewash tensions came to a head when richardson raised the case of two voices reporters who were on trial in myanmar i was very unhappy and distressed right downtown through the reaction to my point that this issue of the reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly. That brought almost an explosion on her part. Saying there were issues relating to be a peripheral secrecies act that this was not my charter as a member of the Advisory Board and was very heated that during that week i dont want to be part of a whitewash. And i felt as best good that i resign immediately well many of the six hundred eighty thousand ranger who fled for bangladesh have reported cases of extreme brutality military forces have been accused of using gang rape against women as part of their Ethnic Cleansing Campaign charles traffic reports now from could you pal a refugee camp in coxs bazaar bangladesh. The sisters fifteen and seventeen years old say me and my Army Soldiers tied them to trees and gang raped them the eldest says his sister lost consciousness with the second man began to brutalize her. Beyond he surrounded our house she says my sister and i were in the bathroom the soldiers burst in and drank this outside seven men raped me. She says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees. It was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh border. Rights groups say that the myanmar army used gang rape as part of its Ethnic Cleansing Campaign that killed thousands of people and destroyed their homes in Rakhine State they also say that myanmars Case Highlights massive fulls in the International CriminalJustice System and there are questions being asked as to whether the interests of powerful countries like china could jeopardize myanmar ever fully being called to account. Gathering evidence in myanmar is almost impossible at the moment the myanmar government has banned the uns top human rights investigator from entering the country me and my has made a very big mistake in banning myself and also a Fact Finding Mission and other investigative teams to going in because this is exactly what the world needs to to see and hear from. First hand reports from persons like myself and others Rights Groups say the un Security Council should refer to the International Criminal court in the hague. But the i. C. C. Only has jurisdiction over crimes committed by states that have signed its founding treaty the rome statute and is not a signatory getting myanmar an i. C. C. Referral in the un Security Council would likely fail because of chinas power of veto. Chinas interests in myanmar a growing these include Oil Pipelines across rakhine and the construction of a deep water port the girls now live with the woman that found them in the camp four months ago they say they heard gunshots inside their house as they were dragged the way they say their mother father and three siblings were inside as the soldiers lock the front door behind them and set their home on file. Aljazeera to follow refugee camp on with their. And without is there much want to tell you about the program were looking at a scale of homelessness in britain. On a thought about life in paris where the city is on flood alerts as the river thing continues to rise. And i was getting hotter and hotter in the bottom right hand corner of australia but actually its getting wetter and wetter in the north as well both sort of extremes without three hundred sixty millimeters or write in three days now this is a large amount right even for the wet season but as yet there is no confirmed circulation anywhere it Northern Australia but it certainly wants to become one so expect more wet weather that doesnt look as so hot for the south as it thirty to thirty two but a little bit inland and over the next two days these temperatures will rise of course fridays Australia Day in the long weekend means hell feel it any hotter and hotter as well not necessarily in perth too in perth middle twentys and absolute best in the next day or so in new zealand sorry found at least facing west well get this persistent cloud north on this fire in the suns out for you temperature wise or twenty seven in oakland but its got colder in christchurch twenty at best the next day or so may be creeping its likely by saturday thats new zealand lets go directly north and see if winter is still behaving itself in japan it is in that its winter theres two warnings out the amount of snow likely in northern honshu and al qada thats really cold behind. As witchcraft and sorcery curing spreads across papa new guinea one used to expose shocking human rights abuses. Of the specific missions darkstar to one when used at this time i notice iraq this is really an attack on a group itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back thats up to you on the stories making headlines u. S. President donald trump has arrived in switzerland for the World Economic forum is already sparked controversy by threatening to withhold aid from the palestinians if they dont engage in peace talks with israel. Un broken negotiations between the Syrian Government and the opposition of started in vienna just days before russia hosts its own negotiations in sochi but the talks have been complicated by turkeys incursion into Northern Syria painted driving out of kurdish fighters. And myanmars army has been accused of using gang rape as a weapon of war in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against range of muslims it comes as a former u. S. Diplomat quits an International Advisory panel tackling the range of crisis calling it a whitewash. Now there are reports that u. S. President donald trump will support a path to citizenship for young immigrants who were brought to the states illegally by their parents it means about one point eight million socalled dreamers in the u. S. Will be protected from being deported back to their homelands the white house says the plan could attract enough votes to pass the senate. Weeks of heavy rainfall in france of cause widespread flooding in the countrys north and east rescue workers have evacuated residents from their homes paris is on flood alert as the river sand is rising fast the citys mayor is blaming Climate Change for recent spells of extreme weather as natasha reports. Stranded restaurants and submerged bridges as the river seine in paris continues to rise its pedestrian eyes banks have disappeared usually bustling with cyclists and now a no go zone and the city is on flood alert no see you get within we have overcome for some hate waves into floods going over six majors one in spring and the other in winter it is clearly a question of paris adapting to Climate Change you from. The city council has put in place special measures river traffic has been stopped only emergency boats are allowed and ten preflood barriers are being installed pariss world famous museums are also playing safe the louve has closed a wing and is moving some outworks to Higher Ground for some people here the swollen river has become something of a tourist attraction for more than one hundred fifty years parisians have used this statue as a gauge now normally the water level is around two meters and the fields of the statue are visible but as the water rises the whole body disappears now city officials here in paris say that they expect the water level to be above six meters in the next few days come a visit almost every year every other year and weve never seen the river y. P. S. And we live right down there and weve heard about the statue most of. My work in offices nearby weve taken precautions in case theres a flood and power cuts over the past century the same has risen in paris several times but its not safe to float since one thousand nine hundred ten when flooding turned the city into a french venice flood prevention has improved since then but experts say its not enough a major flood in paris could hit the whole country it could go between a three to saute billion euros in terms of the direct advantages but also discord have consequences of the macroeconomic level because the paris region represents one sort of the National League so it can have impact on growth under the drug market on on Public Finance to. The rising water is the result of weeks of heavy rain in france through costas say drier weather is on the way people here hope it will be just in time to prevent parses Historic Center from becoming swamped with buckler aljazeera paris. Now the number of Homeless People sleeping on english streets has reached record levels according to a new report released by the British Government an estimated four and a half thousand people are now sleeping rough but Charities Say the true scale of homelessness is much greater these barker reports from london. Cost has been sleeping on the streets of london for more than a year its a bleak existence its noisy is really. Is huge because you got to deal with people you know. On nice sometimes you know he lost his job as a carpenter and couldnt afford to pay for housing hes now worried about his Mental Health just walk Home Invasion a roof over my head and maybe get it you know she she she she adopted to get my head back together and go back to work. One of the wealthiest countries in the world war more people are now living on the street many are struggling with addiction mental physical illness others are escaping violence and abuse but an increasing number here simply because they cant afford to live anywhere the situation is made worse by a critical shortage of Affordable Housing and cuts to social Welfare Benefits according to the governments latest figures there are more than four and a half thousand people sleeping rough on a limb streets but the scourge of homelessness doesnt end here hidden away in bedsits and temporary emergency accommodation and thousands more Homeless People of all ages the entire population of of Great Britain is around about two hundred fifty thousand people roughly think this is the most visible and and i have to say the most outrageous form of homelessness in terms of you know it being absolutely unacceptable the average age of death is just forty seven years old youre seventeen times more likely to be attacked on the street than anybody else the government says is committed to having rough sleeping in for years and eliminating it all together in a decade. But this is not an isolated story homelessness is on the rise in every european country except finland in the greek capital athens as many as one in seventy residents are homeless and in paris the number of people sleeping rough has reached critical levels. In finland what a person becomes homeless theyve given stable accommodation first rather than slowly progressing through levels of temporary housing the British Government is planning to trial a similar scheme in the u. K. But those forced to sleep rough need real change now. London. Millions of australians will celebrate a national day on friday with the Public Holiday parties and fireworks but many others will boycott the festivities because of its links to colonialism the day actually marks the anniversary of pressure settlement and its seen as an insult to indigenous australians Andrew Thomas has more from sydney. Australia day january the twenty six marks the dates when the first british settlers arrived in seven hundred eighty eight to set up a colony and what would become sydney every year millions come out to celebrate life in whats often called the lucky Country Survey suggests most dont know why their national day when it is last year one local council in Western Australia moved its events to a different date it did so because many Aboriginal People say the twenty sixth of january is the anniversary of an invasion which is led to the massacres of indigenous australians and injustice that continues today the twenty sixth of january represents the dire morning and the death of the misery in the suffering of Aboriginal People the mayor of Fremantle Council who initiated the move of events to january twenty eighth was painted in traditional colors as a sign of appreciation not that you cant think of a better day than general twenty six so hard to think of a worse one what we want to do is offer people a choice another alternative that we hope was more inclusive and actually more unifying around what it really means the biggest rally in fremantle it turns out was the start of a trend since last year four more councils in australia have said that this year cancel Australia Day events or move their dates and actually to the debate has grown a statue of captain cook the explorer who found australia for the british was recently defaced with change the date graffiti some prominent australians are calling for change including a former tennis star you know why the twenty six when they stay is so painful for these people having seen that i just have to i just have to support them but in sydney on wednesday at a debate about changing the most argued against the twenty sixth of january. It is a significant time in our history most of those people like myself are of mixed heritage and those who claim to be offended would not even exist if it wasnt for that particular day others say that marking Australia Day on a controversial date is good because it means as an annual catalyst for debate each year the high profile controversy means more people learn about their countrys history that leads to a third option keep the date but change the nature and name of the day use the morning of january the twenty sixth for commemoration to reflect on the suffering colonialization meant for indigenous australians then only in the afternoon change the mood to celebrate what australia has become Andrew Thomas al jazeera sydney. Researches around the world hailing it as a breakthrough scientists in china have managed to climb in the first monkeys of the cat babies who were born six and eight weeks ago it comes twenty years after the successful cloning of mammals which began with dolly the sheep and a huckster has more. Meet joan was wrong and why are these twin long tailed crab eating macaques a being hailed as a scientific breakthrough this the bar tray in china has succeeded where other researches have failed scientists at the institute of nereus science and sang hi created the first cloned monkeys hes new technique called sematic cell Nuclear Transfer the claiming process began with a monkey egg and a monkey fetus sell it genetically modified process and then a bar tree then develops into an embryo which was then implanted in a monkey eventually the babies were born whats novel about this process is the nuclei were transferred from fetal cells rather than adult ones thats different from the worlds first cloned animal dolly the sheep which was created from only adult cells china is the first to successfully clone primates using this method however scientists a criticized for pushing ethical boundaries the chinese process took one hundred twenty seven eggs to produce two monkeys Animal Rights activists oppose medical research on monkeys and i should point out that people argue that is not ethical to use multi Parkinson Disease model. In monkey which has been use of quite a factor but initial news a large number of monkeys in your largest states a lot of value importing thirty forty thousand monkeys each year but dr tarpley other research has a celebration how claiming primates could help preserve species on the brink of extinction the other use is you know many primates are on the border of extinction rewords chimpanzees many other primates species are under pressure closely may give you a way to maintain the species given the progress in claiming primates will people be next we will never try we have no i dont think theres anybody willing to do human cloning and the society would not permit it. But they can only do technology once its appeal theres always a possibility of misuse for now china is celebrating the breakthrough the newborns a just six and eight weeks old its hope that they will lead long and healthy lives. There. Its update you on the top stories now u. S. President donald trump has arrived in switzerland for the World Economic forum and hes already sparked controversy by threatening to withhold aid from the palestinians if they dont think gage and peace talks with israel is also accuse the palestinian leadership of snubbing Vice President mike pence during his trip to the middle east last week where and they disrespected us a week ago by not allowing our great Vice President to see them and we give them hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for tremendous numbers numbers that nobody understands that money is on the table that moneys not going to that unless they sit down and negotiate peace because i can tell you that israel does want to make peace and theyre going to have to want to make peace to or were going to have nothing to do with it and. Now there are reports that President Donald Trump is prepared to support a path to citizenship for young immigrants who were brought to the states illegally by their parents this means about one point eight million socalled dreamers in the United States would be protected from being deported back to that homelands the equipment would include creating a twenty five billion dollar trust fund to finance a wall along americas southern border with mexico the white house says the plan could attract enough votes to pass the senate. In our other top stories un brokered peace talks between the Syrian Government and the opposition of started in vienna just days before russia hosts its own negotiations in sochi but the latest military front opened up by turkey could further complicate the talks takesh forces of crossed into the Northern Syrian region of frayne to drive out kurdish white fighters but if Prime Minister trees amaze on the pressure to withdraw an invitation to the Saudi Crown Prince of his countrys war on yemen crown Prince Mohammed bin salomon is jus to visit london within weeks myanmars army has been accused of using gang rape has a weapon of war in their campaign of ethnic cleansing against range of muslims it comes as a former u. S. Diplomat quite an International Advisory panel tackling the range of crisis calling it a whitewash Bill Richardson a former close friend of myanmar leader unsung suchi resigned from the group as it was making its first trip to the countries back on state youre up to date with all our top stories that set for myself in the team here in london one are one east is next. We understand the different cities. And the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it aljazeera will bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you aljazeera. Or. In public a growing wave of witch hunts is sweeping across the country women accused of causing