the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u.s. military in a speech on national security in washington d.c. the president also neglected to describe climate change as a threat to the u.s. breaking with former president barack obama said the u.s. was facing new competition on the international stage from china and russia but would cooperate where possible we also face rival powers russia and china that seek to challenge american influence values and world. we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries but in a manner that always protects our national interest but while we seek such opportunities of cooperation we will stand up for ourselves and we will stand up for our country like we have never stood up before the palestinian government has slammed as unacceptable the u.s. decision to veto a u.n. draft resolution that would have required president donald trump to rescind his recognition of jerusalem as the israeli c
america is in the game and america is going to win. president trump outlines his new national security strategy ambrose china and russia the primary threats to u.s. economic dominance. l m three charts and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. those against. the u.s. veto of the u.n. security council resolution which rejects any change to the status of jerusalem sero around the pozo is elected as the new leader of south africa s ruling a.n.c. party and likely successor to president zuma. and train carriages fall onto a motorway in washington state police say there have been multiple to. us president donald trump says he will assert american dominance abroad by boosting the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u.s. military in a wide ranging speech on national security trump also warned the u.s. was facing new competition on the international stage from china and russia but will cooperate where possible a white house correspondent
the tax system in thirty years. for them to limits on all this is sound as they were live from london also coming up alison ensconced with israeli security forces the u.s. warns fellow u.n. members that financial aid will be caught if they vote against tom s two was simply . poland s president signed into law controversial judicial reforms despite a threat from the e.u. to suspend this country s posting like it s. angry scenes in uganda spot of and opposition members suspended as the vote goes to to scrap the presidential age limit. we begin in the united states where president almost trungpa celebrating his lead just it s a victory which will allow for the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system in thirty years earlier the u.s. house of representatives gave the one point five trillion dollars tax reform bill its final approval will now pass to president to be signed into law all republicans have praised the bill which will repeal parts of obamacare but at least in polls sugg
i am suits has been in london with the top stories here on al-jazeera aid workers have started evacuating critically ill patients from eastern guta in syria s capital damascus at least eighteen people have died while waiting is to go to is one of the last remaining rebel strongholds it s been under a tight government siege twenty thirteen and the target of hundreds of asterix and artillery attacks that s caused severe food and medical shortages for about four hundred thousand syrians trapped last month the u.n. called for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave but it was only after long negotiations that twenty nine critical cases were approved for medical evacuation i ll just say no harder has the latest and a warning some of the following images may be disturbing. it s a start but it s not enough only a handful of east critically ill are being allowed to leave to hospitals in damascus which is less than an hour s drive away twenty nine pat
i still says a carried out an attack on a shia cultural center in kabul which has killed at least forty people. targeted in their homes their schools and even playgrounds unicef warns that attacks on children have reached shocking levels. the palestinian girl who went viral after being filmed slapping israeli soldiers appears in military courts. former football superstar george greer is set to become liberia s president provisional results have been released from tuesday s presidential runoff with more than ninety eight percent of the vote counted electoral commission says with secured sixty one point five percent of the vote he will succeed ellen johnson sirleaf when he becomes president next month it will be the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation in seventy three years while going to doe has more from the capital monrovia. supporters of georgia where good to the news of his victory with celebrations song and dance on the streets of monrovia he h