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