what's so what's the raising eyebrows and causing buzz here but there are a couple of things that are going on it's interesting this is the first time that the u.s. government shutdown has affected ts we've seen some of the speakers that were intended to come from the government including actually pio who's the chairman of the f.c.c. not come to the show because the shutdown has affected it it's also raise questions a lot of devices that we're seeing here wireless mobile devices require government approval and but the government shutdown will that hold up the release of some of these f.c.c. approved products and devices we don't know the answer to that but it is interesting is the first time the show has had that effect from the u.s. government shutdown and what's what are some of the products that are. creating buzz some of the products that are creating buzz our t.v.'s we're seeing l.g. has an all led t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from. you into a box that is the first roll bill flexible screen that we've seen produced parm a major television manufacturer who actually roll it up like a yoga mat it's a remote controlled and it absolutely just like or a yoga mat and fits into a small box disappears from your view it's going to be super expensive they are not telling us what it's going to cost but we have a match it is going to be very very pricey but what it represents is the future of flexible displays two thousand one thousand intact is the start of plex a bull smartphones foldable phones and we're going to see those in the next couple of months and that technology being adopted by t.v. manufacturers why beesley manufacturing produce at a high volume means that that is the technology that is coming to. locate now let's talk a little bit about the mood here you know it's been twelve years since the first smartphone the i phone spurred a real technological revolution there are those who argue that there's nothing on that scale that is happening that has happened yet a real game changer in addition we have the u.s. china trade dispute we have laws joe of wall way who's under house arrest wanted by the united states for trial things are not exactly. calm on that front very turbulent is that creating kind of a casting a shadow over all of the festivities here actually it's not because c.s. is always about possibilities you see a lot of products introduced at the show that never make it to market but what they show you is the potential of what's coming so we started to see robot technology we started to see where technology several years ago sensors in all sorts of devices and the big one is google and amazon in a war over a voice digital assistants and we're seeing those products we're seeing assistance for instance being imbedded in all sorts of crazy products that you would never imagine. from smart thermostats to. smoke detectors to light switches with a alexa assistant built in so you can talk to your light switch that is the precursor to us getting a lot of smart technology in our homes and us being comfortable talking to that attack asking questions asking it to do things companies collecting that data at how we want to use things in our lives and then iterating with new products so while i would say there's not one product that i would say oh my goodness that is going to change everything it's these incremental technologies that are being built into devices we can talk about health tech and what we're seeing there and smart watches have not really taken off but we're seeing a lot of technology being built in has after apple introduced the apple watch for series last year with an e.k.g. we're seeing a lot of smart monitors with e.k.g. p.k.g.s. in the monitors tony thank you very much going to have to leave it there appreciate your your overview of this fascinating display of technology that's it from here to ream back to you all right so reynolds thank you so had on the al-jazeera news hour who came out on top of the five goals between iraq and vietnam at the asian cup top stories coming up right after the break with peter. hello again tom for the sports news with peter thank you very much egypt is vowing it'll be ready to hold africa's biggest football tournament in just over five months its officials have been celebrating in senegal's capital dhaka offered was awarded hosting rights south africa was the only other country in the running for the twenty four team africa cup of nations egypt lost host the tournament thirteen years ago but struggled to put together organized football at a local level since the arab spring of twenty eleven cameroon was stripped of the competition two months ago because of infrastructure delays and security concerns i promise that you should do it when to do this to me i think it would have been. june and july we have a short video in egypt is that if you are such events it would be. five times the most of the order to. go and i said oh yeah i'm going to be friends with me a bit but someone would have been in our country. is an african football journalist he says egypt won the vote for political reasons than football. for a country does that concern think the arabs of straying and some of the concerns about staging look against the funds are really really asking questions now whether it did have the ability to stage a tournament of this magnitude remember they've always also said they fear is that the national team had big stadiums in cairo so they are relatively confident that they can bring the funds to come and watch the tournament so it's a big question that egypt will have to answer in the next five months they've been concerned about whether egypt with all the problems plaguing the countries in terms of security in the last five months will be able to actually pull this off i think for the government of south african actually came out as the it's more the political decision in you know not in india not getting the right to get it they believe it was more the political decisions the people that make those decisions by voting for egypt he believes that's the practical football federation president than if you're done he said it's more of a political decision and not familiar with this as mentioned south africa was the other country in contention to host the tournament from either miller reports from the. this is the most is my beat us stadium in durban which would have been one of the venue south africa would have used had it won the bid to host african twenty nineteen about now gone to egypt and the south african football association says it won't be issuing a statement or responding to that news from the confederation of african football but previously the president of south africa danny or dan in media reports had said that if the bird goes egypt's way it could be a political statement now south by hadn't necessarily received the financial backing or guarantees from the south african government to host afcon it would have cost in the region of ten to twelve million dollars an amount that many south africans argue the country could not afford given the sluggish economy and also that south africa is now heading to a election later this year so many south africans not necessarily heartbroken about losing out to egypt many of them in fact wishing egypt well for june one thousand nine hundred turning to the asian cup in the united arab emirates where iraq over become vietnam three two in group d. in the game that swung to and fro iraq equalized after conceding an own goal but the vietnamese restored the lead before half time thanks to you in kong form the second half iraq turned it around first to equalise and then free kick to ensure the two one victory. two time champion has won the opening stage of the dark already the qatari driver was fastest from peru's capital lima to go as the forty first race began in the south american country needs one minute and fifty nine seconds ahead of spain's carlos simon saul demises and competitors say this year's race will be grueling marianna sanchez looks at why. and there are the ten day dakar rally promises to be one of the toughest yet. through the desert. in the mountains of south and back five thousand kilometers of mostly sand dunes. who decide the route says it will be challenging but. the main difficulty is the sand the routes and the area where the race takes place is mainly in the jews of the peruvian deserts and that's why you'll be much more difficult. as the days go by it will get more difficult the dakar rally is an off roading insurance event that's open to professionals and amateurs alike because of the sound our experts say the race particularly. car. drivers will need to rely on their navigational instruments it may seem a race designed for titans but rookies like twenty four year olds they say they're not afraid she says she had to gain weight to be able to carry her motorcycle. jenna's used to challenges she survived cancer was she was fifteen and two months ago she broke her collarbone but it hasn't stopped her from participating but. i have a lot of expectations the girl who will come back after the race will be a different woman and that thrills me i'm going to go through so much now have to resolve every problem every step of the way this is incredible. jenna's been preparing for this race for a year she's become a role model for many peruvian women. i want the women watching the duck to feel what i felt when i decided to compete life can change from night to morning you don't know what can happen to you but you must go for what you want opportunities don't show up twice just like that. experts say this kind of determination must come with physical and psychological strength crucial to make it to the finish line . racing his fourth dakar. if you get anxious on the start. you make mistakes i'll go easy with a cold head because anxiety kills you you have to try to make it right. dakar rally used to happen from paris to senegal's capital dakar but since two thousand and nine it's been moved to south america over security concerns in north africa it may be one of the toughest competitions in the world but many participants here see more important than winning is to make it to the end innocent just like just. south carolina's clemson university have won the american college football playoff championship they went up against defending title holders alabama it's the fourth time the two teams have made in the playoffs and the second time in three seasons that clemson have beaten alabama for the national title travel lawrence passed for three hundred forty seven yards and three touchdowns as they crushed alabama forty four sixteen may finish the season with fifteen wins and losses. there's plenty more to celebrate for already excited fans a victory parade will take place in claims than on saturday and the coaches declare that the team and of the tigers are the best ever in college football. and that's why the sports arena peter thank you very much and thanks for watching the news hour more news on al jazeera coming up in just a long. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognize water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad this was a prophet as asian on anybody say anything. goes people who seem ever to have something to invest the profit of a one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera. al-jazeera . you read and for your. image year new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport three people in power travels to agadez to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pocket and the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they're from this would be a dismal he's got young one bottle of what i got why not build that yet. europe migration on a zero. well you know. some of. the turkish president attacks the trumpet ministration for what he sees as mixed messages on the u.s. troop pullout from syria. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program north korea's leader is back in beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. nationwide protests in nigeria's them in strangers' them and a rise in the minimum wage and we report on a controversial scheme to handle moscow's rubbish that is i'm good environmentalists. tell us thank you for joining us a strategic corner of syria that was once a battleground against isaw has again become the focus of tensions this time between turkey and the u.s. washington wants its kurdish allies protected at all costs once its troops leave northeastern syria and that has infuriated the turkish president who says the fighters are nothing but terrorists allied with kurdish separatists in his country . reports now from the turkish capital ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced from. syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when withdrawal will take place or do you earlier baltimore's unusual meeting pope. minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkey's presidents had this to say he said i don't bet bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p g the p.y.t. and i still we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria land very soon as far as turkey is concerned the y p g a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has arm didn't funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting i saw all critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were soon to be abandon its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization and more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas. but turkey says the fight against terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion. or syrian that must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria godless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a planned joint press conference was canceled in the eleventh hour is testament to the disagreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what to do in syria. well in syria itself there is being more fire between the two largest rebel alliances in the north killing more than eighty people including civilians the main turkish back to free syrian army has the point five. countryside to stop the rapid advance of the house. group mohamed odeh reports. across the border in turkey. the city and its own. russian air strikes up just hit the village of order. in the countryside. the russian military insists the strikes were launched to stop hated to fight is. close to a disk in it that came into force last september. civilians in western aleppo probably say to discriminate dozens of civilians have been killed in the past few days when it's really unofficial in my opinion the syrian regime and russians do not care who controls where they will attack anywhere where they do not control their excuse that they are targeting extremists is mere talk about. the fighting in the aleppo countryside after the head to. a group formally allied with al qaida which the tocs own free syrian army accusing it of killing for its why it is. so clear for anyone watching the situation before these clashes that the f.s.a. were doing horrible things that went on to challenge the f.s.a. has overwhelmed the country strangled and harassed other fighters they killed four of our fighters in cold blood. after days of. fighters seized more than twenty towns and villages from tribal rebels according to the city an observatory for human rights. in the north east of serious last major rebel stronghold which includes a large part of it. i just parts of aleppo province says the group is also said to be trying to cut off the f.s.a. fighters in the north from. free from both in the northwestern province of it lip supporters of city of rebel say the fighting between opposition groups needs to stop all efforts. directed to fighting the assad regime and its allies the thing is on the short of the ongoing fighting on the benefits of the assad regime what is needed is united opposition forces we cannot achieve anything if we are not united it's only a united tours that can protect and save this area. no amount of the fighting between rival position alliances in syria comes at a time turkey is threatening to launch an offensive against the syrian kurdish y p d fighters in the city of month beach. hundreds of on kind of bulk rebels position be among the public already deployed to areas in muslim aleppo on cell phone in the web bottles with the hyatt it. again in place. well meanwhile trying secretary of state says the planned withdrawal of troops from syria does not mark a general disengagement from the region speaking in jordan at the start of a middle east tour by cohen kayo said that the us intends to maintain its diplomatic pressure on iran chart presence to signal to withdraw our folks of syria in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only are diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may these are simple asks we ask of the islamic republic of iran to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday all our senior analyst joins us live now from doha marwan good to see you interesting watching the i guess some of the people sent by trying to the middle east both bolton and pump ale two men to two slightly different messages i guess how confusing is it to decipher what the u.s. is actually trying to achieve in the middle east. well we can start with john bolton he's certainly there on a mission of damage control because if you're sitting in ankara even tel aviv or to her on you would be confused by what the administration wants to do in the beginning a few days ago it sounded like they wanted to withdraw forces from syria. let the iranians do whatever they really is want to do in syria israel can defend itself it doesn't need the united states and that the turks can continue their job but after all isis has been defeated well several days later it seems like they're not exactly would drawing from syria any time soon they're going to remain engaged anyway israel cannot really defend itself without the united states iranians cannot do whatever they want in fact they have to get out before america does and the kurds cannot continue the job especially knowing the sensitivity of the kurdish question and well isis is not really defeated so here you have five issues concerning syria and its neighbors that you would hear flip flopping messages from washington about it and if john bolton came to conquer in order to clarify you know that well things are not exactly under control this evening they are out of control the turkish are incredibly upset and everyone else is confused because president or the one says i've agreed with the president trump and i'm not going to deal with what now is reported to be paper pushers coming from washington meaning john bolton who want or insist that turkey needs to coordinate if not get permission from washington for whatever it's going to do next in northern syria so all in all the question of syria has not been resolved anything or far from it but it's actually getting even more complicated with more people upset and confused so that's the situation when it comes to syria meanwhile we've also seen the secretary of state like he's touring the gulf an interesting ali at the same time that general anthony zinni. dana was in charge of trying to resolve the g.c.c. crisis between saudi arabia mainly again scattered now he has resigned so the timing of that is interesting as well what do you make of why propose mission and this is a resignation the timing is interesting to say the least i mean to quick to the first day that the secular set arrives in the region to do this mega middle east gulf visit is really telling in a number of ways we can only speculate that he's not happy in the job he cannot do the job as he as he said is not succeed and certainly he didn't get the leverage necessary from the american president in order to get the job done so it doesn't really set the tone well for secular state pompei you who's going to be making a speech out of cairo about getting everyone together in this middle east strategic alliance of sort against iran when the special envoy to the gulf basically admits failure and basically says that we cannot really sort out the differences in the gulf and hence we cannot get the alliance or the special so-called middle east nato together so any attempt by the term ministration to take control of the narrative if you will about american grand strategy in the middle east it doesn't seem to go where in the first couple of days and it doesn't seem to clarify what is that trump strategy if there is one in the first place because really the middle east and the middle east leaders are totally confused as of to what washington strategy is we had flip flopping from obama to trump and then from tom to trump and from trump to his lieutenants about what is that foreign policy maybe in the next few days until the fifteenth when secretary promptly you leaves we would have better clarity frankly i doubt it now will meszaros senior political analyst or one thank you. well as the politics gets of a more complicated the human misery of the victims of the war in syria continues a snow storm is now adding to the misery of the more than three million refugees who have fled the conflict in syria snow and ice are blanketing many of the tents and this camp in southern lebanon is bekaa valley for many it's their fourth winter living in makeshift camps with just the plastic sheeting for warmth the lebanese government doesn't allow permanent refugee settlements in this area well still ahead on al-jazeera. opposition m.p.'s and conservative rebels defeat the u.k. government on preparations for a no deal gregg said and the state of emergency in southern germany where heavy snow storms have left hundreds of people snowden. hello the snow is falling heavily it's still falling out it still will hold a warning out for southern germany the very now and austria and to friday the driving forces this low pressure area now some scandinavia a cold northerly wind adding to the chills already there on this one contains all the moisture so there's yet more to come now it's not just been germany and austria but it has prince really been those two countries all the north facing outs boxer fronts and some in italy would have had a meter and a half more to come and the whole cold air mass moves south spinning up a new little area of low pressure in the navy attic so that's going to bring more snow to greece boger nobody it rain for the south in greece and that rain moves across the g eight in towards turkey in the following to your four hours with snow for the other countries in southeastern europe there's some easing in the snow for poland in germany but look at this vienna still sitting in it so that's why the warning is there for austria and something jim. huge amount of snow already cause troubles more to come and of course the cold air spinning up in the central med means it remains fairly cold in tunis thirty degrees because of that wind speed and wind direction the whole lot moves eastward so there might be a few showers on the coast of libya but probably is dry. culturally i believe the muslims had a far greater effect on europe than europe the middle east. the crusaders fault ferociously because they failed to recognize the moment i don't know it was an imperialist campaign of colonization that exploited religion in the name of the cross the crusades an arab perspective the final episode liberation this time on a just. a comeback was a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the turkish president has accused donald trump's national security adviser of making a serious mistake after he demanded protection for the u.s. as credit in. a snow storm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's their apes winter of exile with just asked for one. north korean leader kim jong il or in china for his fourth visit in a year the trip came at the invitation of the president of china paying south korea hopes the meeting will help efforts for peace as the vehicle palin reports now from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary armored train to beijing this video was released by the north koreans to use agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meetings shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover is that as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to bring china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to be ignored so i think this is china's effort to try to be a part of this process and the key question of course is what is their message to the north koreans and for north korea having its biggest ally in benefactor by its side as kim jong un prepares for another summit with the u.s. president donald trump is expected to put young man in a stronger negotiating position kim jong un's previous three trips all occurred before are off to holding meetings with the u.s. or south korean presidents many see this trip as an opportunity to engage china as north korea sets out its diplomatic strategy for the coming year twenty eighteen was a momentous year for north korean diplomacy in june for the first time in its history its leader met with the u.s. president following that trump kim summit in singapore north and south korean relations improved with the two sides of the peninsula working to improve communication sent to sillett east soul has welcomed the latest meeting in beijing congealing you and we hope that conjunctions visit to china contributes to complete denuclearized sation and you stop and last in peace on the korean peninsula there has been little progress since the us north korea summit in june pyongyang says it has made concessions with regards to its nuclear program but washington says it needs to see more concrete action. many are now watching to see whether china will have any influence in pushing the diplomatic process forward if you go pollin our jazeera hong kong m.p.'s across all major parties in the u.k. have just demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliamentary vote they've passed an amendment to a finance bill that stops the government raising money to implement the new deal bret's it without the consent of parliament john howell is following events for us in westminster now bearing in mind that next week we're going to see another key vote for two reasons may's plan to actually leave the european union what does this vote mean for her and breaks of plans going forward. well let's look at what's actually being voted upon here an amendment to the finance bill currently going through parliament put forward by yvette cooper she's a labor the opposition party labor and the with wide cross party support among people opposed to the idea of a no deal outcome on march the twenty ninth the amendment now passed with a majority not a huge one seven a majority of seven but still a majority on the list which now ties the treasury's hands the government's hands in terms of being able to use public money to finance any form of no deal planning or implemented essentially the government would be able to raise taxes to manage a no deal outcome without going to parliament first it is significant some say hugely significant because the beginning perhaps of constitutional warfare in parliament with parliament itself asserting its power over the executive in trying to prevent a no deal outcome and this i think is likely to be it is looking as if it will be the first salvo in a pretty sustained campaign among the opponents of a no deal outcome to try and frustrate that outcome by putting amendments like this on every piece of legislation they can essentially searching for every spanner they can find to throw into the works and frustrate the machinery of government making no deal and workable what it all adds up to is pressure upon to resume a in the government to avoid a no deal outcome by either getting the deal they have with the e.u. through parliament in that vote next week and that we know is looking unlikely or failing which to find another deal which the e.u. has ruled out and failing that perhaps to do what more and more people and more and more impedes are talking about call a second referendum but the pressure all adding up to trying to ensure that the government isn't able to simply allow this country to stumble on into a default no deal outcome on march the twenty ninth. the sudanese president omar al bashir has can then don't go in demonstrations calling for his resignation protests in sudan of been going on for weeks fueled by anger over rising food prices and government corruption they want bashir to step down after nearly thirty years in power while speaking at a military parade or not but he said the protests have been destabilizing for the country and his promise soldiers a payroll. a national. unfortunately those who are conspiring against sudan have been able to plant some agents and some traitors in order meets. unfortunately they have been able to incite those with weak souls those who are burned in the meantime our people have been building and developing every day there are new projects but on the other side they want to destroy burn. my thanks to the military forces who have guarded the nation and protected it broke down all conspiracies by the colonisers their supporters and their agents. one of the main observers of the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is reporting irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that want to trade there's still no result nine days after the vote electoral officials say it's because the results are coming in slowly from regions opposition politicians say the government is trying to rig the election. nigerians have joined protests across the country to demand a higher minimum wage the federal government had agreed to increase the amount to eighty three dollars a month but some states said they couldn't afford to pay it back when interest has been out for testers in a porsche. after weekend for two and a half years i joined in workers say they've had enough of the they held a protest trying to shut down the government if it doesn't implement and you meet them or we agree with labor unions. they couldn't get into the minimum wage was a woman and to want to. influence. its members of the board says empower general workers had been about twenty eight audits and that's why this is what becomes very very potent because it affects the lives of eleven million dollars go because you know that obama dependence. the delay in bringing the new way just maybe part of the reason for the protests but workers might also be taking advantage of next month's general election to force through a deal niger central government may have agreed with labor unions on a new minimum wage but its biggest obstacle for implementation is the state government many had already workers' salaries for months until the central government in to be. nigeria has the largest economy in africa and it also the continent's biggest oil producer but not much of its wealth gets treats workers and citizens. for now parliamentarians who get paid more than politicians in developed economies like the united states say they're on the side of the workers. no reason that we cannot afford to be one hundred less than one hundred dollars for a minimum wage. the president should do do need for what the president should do is to immediately send the request to the national assembly and i can assure you as. the parliament is course we in sync with the demand of the nigerian will cause. a weak government response they're looking to see what traders and service providers should do. the past any wage increases created by higher prices of goods and services what to say the who what would not be the case this time. but increase al-jazeera. nigeria. large areas of europe are being hit by freezing cold weather and that's showing no sign of ending seven people died in the german out so over the weekend a state of emergency has been declared in southern germany where more than half a meter of snow caused the traffic and transport delays and the second highest avalanche warning level is now in force across the alps including germany austria and italy hundreds of people are trapped in their homes certainly hinge men have arrived in bangladesh after being the porter from saudi arabia believed to be part of a bigger group who appeared in a video posted online from at the tension center in jeddah they entered a saudi arabia on pilgrimage visas but overstayed to work the man had been protesting against their return to bangladesh because they're actually from neighboring which views they were him as illegal immigrants. russia's capital is grappling with a rubbish crisis moscow generates eight million tons of waste a year and for decades it's just been done around the city major protests forced the government to announce it would transport the city's trash to other regions hundreds of kilometers away stedfast some reports now from russia's region. the stench of garbage hangs in the air at this housing complex near moscow on many days the air is so polluted people living here fall ill the problem is this dump site eight kilometers away one of the largest in europe. if. my daughter and i were coughing all night and my daughter was vomiting just three years old i went to the doctors and they said close your windows when i asked if we should leave this area they said it was our decision but if you live in this area you better take care of yourself everyone has ability to lee. after protests earlier this year the government closed twenty five landfill sites but the garbage doesn't stop piling up and that puts extra pressure on the remaining fourteen dumps residents say the smell and health concerns got even worse when it was decided to burn toxic gases which are released from the landfills the government is now planning to transport millions of tons of garbage to several regions one more than a thousand kilometers from moscow by train and by truck we are not allowed to go beyond this again but this is one of the destinations so moscow frash over eight hundred hectares of what used to be designated farm lands it will stay in retreat here a fellow gas will be turned into a so-called eco techno car or as local activists like to call it a huge garbage dump. your authority is told a local television station the park will contain a way sorting facility and will generate energy out of rubbish the report emphasises the economic benefits for region but boris li shoot-in who has investigated the plants as the proposed park will include a large landfill and doesn't expect to see great efforts made to limit the environmental impact period. with hundreds of force it on garbage trucks was moving here dust will cover kilometers of sorrel and not to mention the pollution that will come. from burning trash which will travel war than twenty kilometers docks exceptions will be everywhere. questions from al-jazeera to the moscow government about the project has remained an answer to. activists say the government is legally obliged to develop clean waste management law is falling. but the regional governments don't want to implement this law because they're in tight relations with businesses and all of this dumps and private hands the state doesn't have anything to do with them. that jana lapin access no sane person would have come up with a plan to move the trash from one area to another even those living in the region who were initially in favor of the plan have changed their minds but local authorities refused to let them hold a protest moskos waste is not only an environmental problem but a political one two step fasten al-jazeera kaluga region. more on that and all the other stories that we've been covering here on al-jazeera on our website there it is and the screens right now al jazeera dot com. now a reminder of the headlines on al-jazeera the turkish president has condemned donald trump's national security adviser after he demanded protection for the u.s. as kurdish allies in syria ratchet type added on says john bolton made a serious mistake after he said washington would only pull out its troops if the safety of kurdish fighters is guaranteed thousands of them have helped the u.s. push out of its eastern syrian stronghold but turkey views them as terrorists. he said bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and ice all at the same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as the p.y.t. and the y.p. she along with ice all will mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations and syrian land very soon. a snowstorm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's their eighth winter of exile with just plastic sheeting for warms at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered with the u.n. are particularly vulnerable because they live in informal shelters north korean leader kim jong un is in china his fourth visit in a year the trip which south korean officials say has coincided with his thirty fifth birthday came at the invitation of the chinese president the visit also follows reports of a future a second summit between president strong and kim and the denuclearizing the korean peninsula. there have been protests in nigeria after labor unions the man that all states must people must pay new higher minimum wage of eighty three u.s. dollars a month the federal government had previously agreed the amount but some states of claim that they just can't afford to pay it and m.p.'s across all major parties in the u.k. of just demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliamentary vote they passed an amendment to a fine and spill that stops the government raising money to implement a no deal breaks it without the consent of partner or news in half an hour the stream is next. is the biggest u.s. criminal justice reform package in years but is a step act really enough so they will look at what the new your means for u.s. prison inmates the kim kardashian effect i kid you not please send your thoughts and your twitter comments via you tube and online. thousands of inmates in u.s. federal prisons are hoping that the first step will charge change their lives and the new law has already brought some real results for one man matthew charles he walked free from a prison in kentucky on thursday he had been released once before after serving time as a model prisoner yet an appeals court ordered him back to prison last year and that's a decision widely criticised at the time republican senator mike lee is among those hailing charles's final release as a sign that the first step act is going to quote him here already working advocates for the new law say that it lives up to its name as a worthwhile first step but can criminal justice reform be further expanded and improved in the u.s. joining us to discuss this we have justin george he is a washington d.c. correspondent for the marshall project that's a nonprofit journalism organization that examines the criminal justice system. bozo co is a writer and former prisoner she is a syndicated columnist and creator of the award winning blog prison diaries she joins us from orange connecticut. lito california we have jessica jackson co-founder and national director of cut fifty a national initiative to reduce the u.s. prison population she was deeply involved in the effort to pass the first step act and from the we are joined by patrice colors she is a co-founder of black life smarter dignity and power now that's not going to is ation advocating for prisoners and their families hello everybody it's really good to have you here i guess i want you to look here my laptop trumps science sweeping criminal justice first intern law that was from the end of december there you see the president doing that jessica that moment where did that mean to you. well first day i got to say i was standing there in the oval office when he signed that bill and i was standing next to peek a sam and sean hopwood both of whom were incarcerated in federal prison and the moment that the president signed that bill shawn hopwood leaned over and he just gave us this big hug and i think we were all three crying because we were so relieved to see a start to federal criminal justice work being done so again it's a first step it's not enough it's not everything but this means that the ball has started rolling down the hill for the federal. children somebody who's experience of being in prison being incarcerated what do you feel that the impact of this first step at a point b. i think the initial impact right now for people inside is oh i know from reading various articles and talking to other people that many people were incarcerated inside are very excited even if they are included in some of the what i consider unfortunate carve outs in the bill people who are not eligible for eligible for the earned time credit provisions of the bill even if it doesn't apply to them and get them out earlier they were still very much in favor of passing this bill as it's aptly named a first step in the direction of smarty carcer a should. you try to unpack the criminal justice system and if as part of the marshall project headline for people trying to understand what he sees for us that what the headline and i think the headline is that politically you have the federal government that is actually looking towards moving towards reform and rehabilitation than just punitive punishment a lot of the states have already been taking this up but this is sort of the first time in at least you know maybe a decade you know certainly six or seven years that the federal government is actually looking at some of these things and moving toward that direction so name one. step at a think is radical while well a lot of the to worthwhile if you ask anybody who's affected by it clearly i mean there's a provision in there that actually makes the actually allows for people who were not given relief from a sort of crack disparity reduction act that was passed several years ago now that is retroactive and that applies to them and sensually can free many people. name one thing from the festival which you think is well file. the hygiene supplies for incarcerated women this is been an issue in every facility and every incarcerated woman and formerly incarcerated woman i've spoken with the access to maxi pads and tampons for menstruating women this is a first step in getting people the supplies that they need in the quantities that they need jessica. yeah getting rid of the third strike for folks who were in there for drug crimes it was that they had to spend the rest of their life in prison now it's twenty five years twenty five years it's still too long but with the time credits and good time credits we're hoping it's shorter and that we can make more progress in the future but you see i left you to last for this little section because do you represent dignity and power now for the families for prison is a while when you're representing them and you seeing this act what's your take on it. i want to. say hey betty who's on and thank you so much for hosting this conversation i think it's incredibly important to have a nuanced congress ation about legislation that passed the local level of the federal level especially around ration in our community we're living in a moment where the president has rounded up families mostly immigrant families. has completely criminalized these communities and i will be in a moment where anything around ending that incarceration is incredibly important i think the first step. is not the bill that we need at the moment there have been many groups who have spoken out against it i'm quitting our group locally national groups like jesse leadership usa and from other groups and this isn't a conversation for me about personalities or people this is actually a conversation about long term goals and effort and i think a few criticisms that i have is. that act. you know a relationship with a president i think in this moment when the president has. not just had parable humanizing things against you but has acted criminally against communities need to be very wary when he's willing to pass bills that in large part are going to benefit private prison companies i think in the first act while there have been many groups who worked on it and i think we can be both critical. while also acknowledging many black women who are behind this and that help. i think we're able to hold that nuance and we should i also think we need to look a little deeply at the first act and who does in fact get. benefit from it. and community people who are undocumented will not give him credit for i'm afraid with. legislation and particular way we got your room and i want her. me incredibly calm. this in many compromises that were made with this test that for it actually to be passed into law tracy on yang nacho is a judge as he put some of these up in calls that she's been writing and also in comments that she made to us a little early adolescent given that the first act is in major legislation for prison reform in over a decade it shows that doesn't have significant changes to how prisons are run and how they affect those who are placed in them and also shows that they're reinforcing prison policies that are already in place for example they list prison work as a we have bill is haitian program which is for the benefit of different prison companies such as core civic who are it's also indorsing the bill jessica. yeah sad like to respond because i think there's a couple and patrice brought this up and i love everything patrice does i love dignity and power now you know i'm really inspired by them but i do think we see things differently on this first the idea of just working with trump in general i am a blue democrat liberal from san francisco it was not easy for me to walk into the trump white house i do not agree with the majority of things that he has done i don't agree with the messages i was terrified when he ran this his campaign talking about american carnage and applauding himself for being tough on crime i was terrified that all the goodwill we had built up between republicans and democrats over the last few years on this issue was going to go to waste and when we were invited by jared cushion or whose own father went to prison to come to the white house i struggled a little bit with that decision but i did see it as an opportunity to get in there and trying to at least keep the conversation from becoming as toxic as the conversation around immigration had become and at least save some of the positive work that we had done what i found is that there was still room to actually be able to take this first step and to try and protect the narrative and i think that something really important that people don't acknowledge about the first step act through this experience donald trump again who campaigned on american carnage has now changed his messaging to being tough but fair and talk about sentencing in american justice system not being fair talked about how we treat people not being fair that is not a small accomplishment right this guy could have gotten in there in just said terrible terrible things about everybody who was imprisoned made them all into willie horton and instead we were able to preserve some of the good work that had happened in change that narrative and send a strong message to other conservatives that it's ok to engage in prison and sentencing reform even if you are conservative and want to be. tough on crime the second piece was around whether or not these were substantial enough reforms there's a lot in here but it's not enough we're the first ones to say that i'm already drafting the second step act we're already working on the next steps. and i think we're also seeing some real lead in the states as well we have state legislators calling us from across the country saying what can we do next the exclusions list because patrice brought it up you know that's a problem we fought hard against any exclusions the right time credits and wants to jump in here to have no i'm just going to say i think i think both you know have a really big point here is that you know how effective is the first step back to actually in the prisons versus the political sort of action that it took you know a lot of people asked me how effective is it does it mean a lot you know i've always said let's you know if you look at it politically it actually does and in that this is been at least you know a six seven year journey where both sides you know bipartisan groups have been trying to pass some sort of broad legislation like this for years they tried it even under president obama they couldn't do it it came up against the election this almost failed it went to a you know almost you know drop dead deadline right before christmas before something got passed so when you look at it that way of really is you have to treat it like it's a first step in and look at everything patrice is absolutely right you have to look at the basics of it also there's some some things in there that affect you know people adversely but is this a jumping off point or not i guess that's what we're going to have to find out at the next congress shall i think it's not necessarily whether it's a jumping off point i think there's potential and i agree with what everyone said so far but there is potential for trying to actually undo any good that is going to come and has come from this bill for one federal prisons have been severely understaffed for a while now with the government shutdown that those severely understaffed prisons that the workers inside are being hit. this is causing a lot of problems as it appeared in popular media in the past couple of days his use of and reliance on probably private prisons is also problematic as victories point out pointed out so this is a first step but it's way too easy when we're working with this administration to take a step back and do anything that is good so i think that that's why when we really need to emphasize the fact that this is a first step to be mindful moving forward not to let other policies on do what is good it almost feels like lawmakers gave this name because they knew there was going to be so much criticism about what this at actually meant to have this comment this tweet for you from baron matre concern regarding the first step act only people incarcerated for crimes classified as nonviolent eligible for time credits that means that if you well behaved during your each year you get a certain amount of days taken off your sentence i continue with the tweet or people who program hard work k.t. to study demonstrate good conduct we have bill a taishan low public safety risk should be eligible people can and do you change the choice and i absolutely agree and i think you know hard to be around solution remember. where you stand or what your. i would argue. you can get rid of policy there as policy but the culture that we live in is the place in which we really need to be challenging i think when we're developing policies we have to realize how those policies really cool tour and so there's a huge debate and the criminal justice reform community around nonviolent and violent offenders and who deserves to be released and who doesn't deserve to be released and what we seeing in the trend around let's play ssion as we harp on them aren't violent offenders and then people who caused by the crime sometimes they were young people. they were we look at some point brown right trying to save their i. and they don't seem as redeemable and so to me this conversation is about the legislation and policy and i want to remind the listeners what people no matter how melissa i believe in the station i'm not someone who doesn't but i'm very weary of legislation that is maybe should good for the short term for the people in this case less than the perfect of the federal prison population will be able to. utilize this legislation. i'm worried about what happens in the long term what happens one hundred years from now i hear that working on the second step after them hoping that you know many groups who are excluded can be argued about seeing the new legislation because i think we have to we have to look at what what our legislation that we create now will impact a hundred years from now that's the way i think and i and you know i'm wondering how people respond to slavery right if we if they knew that the thirteenth amendment would create a new prison system so we make these compromises now but what impact did they have one hundred years from now that to me is yes a populist offical but i think it's important that we have a little fun. and we doesn't assert that on the string before but i said keep. man many. palaces apart from if you're incarcerated just stay and then i go back to jessica jessica just in just very quickly just really quickly you know addressing obviously what patrice says you know point of this is that you know what is this you know violent crime there hasn't been this defined yet you have the federal prisons now everybody's talking about nonviolent drug offenders not drug offenders at certain points you have to start looking at you know a lot of a lot of nonviolent drug offenders and a lot of those cases are being addressed but you know what constitutes a violent crime what constitutes a second chance for those is it holding a gun is a possessing a gun what is it and in the first step back there was a lot of things sort of. concessions that were made that actually you know put more restrictions on people who you know may have been convicted of a crime of violence so that's a key thing to look forward to when you're addressing the federal prison system and mass incarceration is what point are you really going to look at what is violence. phemie so i just wanted to jump in here and say a couple of things one i come to this issue as somebody whose husband went to prison i care deeply about the people who were inside i also represented men and women who were on death row so i know a lot about the detriment of the distinction between nonviolent in violence but i want to make sure that i correct the record so that viewers know what this bill really is patrice you said only three percent of the federal prison population would benefit from this bill and that's just not true the truth is that one hundred percent of the people who are being sentenced under this safety valve are going to benefit one hundred percent of the people who are in there for the fair sentencing act are going to receive that retroactively it has the reduced mandatory minimums it's got the nine twenty fourth gun stacking changes it's got the good time credit fix which applies to everybody it benefits all the women inside it benefits people who are in there who are elderly and ill through the compassionate care program and then of the roommate of everybody who is eligible for time credits which is the time that people earn for doing programming not the good time credits which everybody is eligible for but the time credits there are one hundred eighty six thousand people who are in federal prison ninety six thousand seven hundred nine of them are eligible for the time credits of those who are eligible thirty seven point two percent of them are african-american thirty five point seven percent of them are hispanic twenty four point four just can't get done quickly because general his pain in prison also goes to this narrative that this doesn't actually help everybody and i think there are a lot of things in it that do. yes thanks to me i just wanted to say as the one person here who's actually been in prison that i think that this nonviolent violent distinction is largely largely mythological in the sense of i know these people i know women and live with women who are labeled as violent. and those were labeled as nonviolent and i can actually say this is it should be you know a banner statement but i would be more comfortable like letting the women who i know who have violent convictions on their record out then i would a number of the people who are in and out consistently for nonviolent crimes such as shoplifting or other crimes so this mascot of the criminal justice reform movement that this nonviolent drug offender which is actually a minority should not be leading us i mean there are people who have taken many bad steps made huge errors and committed sometimes unconscionable crimes but they have reform themselves often they were crimes of passion and they are perfectly safe to be let out and to interact with everyone in society it's the people who keep are you offended and again that's a small number but still in nonviolent ways that are the problem i have a very good friend who is labeled a violent offender who handed a note to a bank teller in a bank robbery that's all she reeled it was a piece of paper not a gun not a weapon nothing like that so we have to really be mindful of what this dichotomy of nonviolent and violent really means for policy making and really listen also to the people who are affected by these policies and know the men and women who are bearing these labels and what they're really about let me just bring in steve awesome and because you would be interested to hear what people who are tonys for people who are in the legal system think of this now law have a listen to steven the national since you should have sustained u.s. attorneys. has concerns about the first step back in that it's based on the conflation of federal and state prison systems. most notably the size of each of those systems we believe there are serious problems with the state prison recent anti recidivism programs upon which the first step back. is based and we believe ultimately that this legislation. will threaten public safety increase recidivism and not achieve the objectives. justin you must hear so many but but but about this first step act this idea that it's not going to help prisoners in the long run but you make that well i mean i just go back to what some legislators say that supported them all mike lee a republican republican senator from utah a former federal prosecutor said we can either have a society where you know you're going to be saved by incarcerating people forever you know if you commit a crime you encourage rate them the chances of them reoffending is zero but is that the kind of society you want your essentially throwing away a lot of people who deserve second chances who have a lot to offer the society and you know that's the steps that you know congress wants to take here but i never thought that i would be sharing t.m.c. headlines on the stream here we are i mention kim kardashian a lot of dubbed the princess of prison reform inmate sending her letters by the thousands i suspect even some of the families that you are representing this is not a real picture this is a mock up but what israel is standing here next to president trump and then another story about see tony a brown granting clemency kim kardashian involved in that and another one mission accomplished referee had that before allison johnson freed it do you feel that this is an age where we have more empathy for prison families and prisoners is that's what driving this idea that we need criminal justice reform even if people don't like the first step act that people are thinking about prisoners now. can cardassian has largely to do with the rise. mass incarceration being a popular conversation and that has so much to do with organizers on the ground organizing people. have been fighting to save the lives of the ones we've been fighting to get free out of cages i think in some ways and showed members the new jim crow popularized conversation more room to those of us who are already fighting for criminal justice reform and to have a conversation that wasn't in the shadows you know when i grew up my father was in prison in my brother was in prison we didn't talk about it it was awful consolation it was shameful and so we're now in a moment we're all are are out to have redemption and i think while it's incredibly important from mike from concrete action you know really i think we have in that i have how many people nationally black women have been on so many years by the program and i wonder if you're going to wrap it up just at that thank you very much getting me to share this tweet from ames call it she says that you can seem present trends only months he said be skeptical of reform but came to believe it was a hit and then lie from the chair on his crystal ball nonviolent offenders the center of a second chance at life thank you guests for joining us on today's episode of the strain you will find the strength always at a.j. strain on twitter take everybody cynics. to a. the earth. short 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repeat an attack on the u.s. regards the kurdish fighters as allies against eisel but turkey sees them as terrorists reports now from the turkish capital ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced from twitter the t.v. withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he said i bolten has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and i saw we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syrian land very soon as far as turkey is concerned the why p.g.d. a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has arm didn't funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting ice all critics of the withdrawal say washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoned its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a us ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side. a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and the syrian rebel allies in. other areas but turkey says the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion some of the syrian land must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria regardless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. describe tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a planned joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the disagreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what to do in syria. and. well a snow storm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's their. lives just plastic sheeting for warps at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one 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sure the. women got to be most solid and. feel of. war silly we. know very much. how it was doing it fairly. when the insulin. well i'm talking now couple demi moore hit us with the salami medina do nothing tell me the lesh. i'm in hand in no manner as an infant. in mangle up so if the qur'an one little embarrassed for. them i mean some you know sort of. a lot of the. lash and maze actual regular warning. that had it can feel normal to free. this sixth crusade led by frederick the second had managed to take jerusalem. but fifteen years later and twelve forty four. it was reconquered and thereafter would remain under muslim rule for the next seven centuries. lumper by other figure and the quite honestly he'll. say it how did bob as i licked . his eyes in figure little bubble where yet again i'll melich no worries at this hour many parents. know the ninth king of france was seriously ill he thinks he's going to die so he says if i survive i will take the cross and i will go say. and we said. let the left. look at it he. is the days that should be outcasts. well. you must. pick it up must have been upset. that they get ahead but. let me just stop it. i had this would have a solid real concept where men pick a goal to feel well i can. tell if i'm. gonna. warn. them. and women that's three hundred thirty today we are. live you know what i would think could ten a sunday be. and. that's the even. knew that the lobby of the. star. of the miss. at the media. retracing the path of the fifth crusade louis the ninth led the armies of the seventh crusade south from damietta towards cairo. but the trap had been laid by the mighty slaves on in a spot called a month's water meaning the victorious. through a solid being yet who were none mad enough to do. the sight of me and all of us and for the. moment he. thought among. them on many committees that as a bell and whistle as in the law about when a month in most here. the year twelve fifty not only martha you big victory over the seventh proceeds. but ironically the end of the whole day you've a dynasty. bolstered by their strength a number the member looks the slave warriors rose up to overthrow salaheddine successors. and take control of their masters state. will give you that when you die hopper on. has a couple up in my. head . and. in about the bed. i would think about. that. when i can and the body and the body and this is safe warn. off to destroying but. advanced westwards. two years later and with the help of the crusaders and the levant he captured aleppo and damascus. the only muslim power remaining in the region was the member looks into each of. those. the k. you have physically got. the. i. somehow seem. them from going to see what the mcconnell and school not engage unless you. can maybe get to the end of the song. and that. was the mean and. the whole motto known for us having him and. jani as possible isn't in disorder and. a sissy yes he. would and. has he had a modicum of. me and i was but that he. has in. those where. was probably a but not the better he being led. would be. and the listing brought a feeling. of how quickly a few and that's what has. come to be thus. mean. to god what a model. well you know. when the president. so much you know. the principle of. the second crusader entity in the east. for a hundred and seventy years this fortified city successfully resisted the muslim assaults . but now in twelve sixty eight the armies of. the city. falls to the monuments in the light thirteenth century frankly states are pretty weak and itself is not the great principality the great. during the twelfth century that really does spell the end for the crusaders. the crusaders were left with just a few tiny foothold including eight. and it was this city. form the stage for the final scene. of the crusades. the most memorable moment of al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square toolkit. if something happens anywhere in the world 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after he said washington would only pull out its troops if the safety of kurdish fighters was guaranteed thousands of them have helped the u.s. push out of its eastern syrian stronghold but turkey views them as terrorists. he says bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and ice all at the same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as the p.y.t. and the y.p. along with eisel we will mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations and syrian land very soon meanwhile a snowstorm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's their eighth winter of exile with just plastic sheeting for warmth at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered with the u.n. are particularly vulnerable because they live in informal shelters north korean leader kim jong un is in china his fourth visit in a year the trip which south korean officials say has coincided with his thirty fifth birthday came at the invitation of the chinese president the visit also follows reports of a future second summit between presidents trump and kim aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula. been protests in nigeria after labor unions the mandate that all states must pay people the new higher minimum wage of eighty three u.s. dollars a month the federal government had previously agreed the amount but some states have claimed that they can't afford it m.p.'s across all major parties in the u.k. have just demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliamentary vote they've passed an amendment to a finance bill that stops the government raising money to implement the new deal breaks it without the consent of parliament. and have more on all those stories on the al-jazeera news hour that's coming up in half an hour coming up next the crusades an arab perspective continues. the week began with views of a ninety day truce in the tips attack us china trade wall that was largest supply of liquefied natural gas is leaving the biggest oil content we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the year twelve sixty eight. the crusader principality of until. the fall of two the member so tom davis. the crusaders now found themselves in a critical situation facing a muslim power fully mobilized against them. hugh the third the king of jerusalem now displaced in the port city of acre made contact with the man who is. in the medical solar be a by the would a lot of be about. a new. one that you know about the article in my medical sun to be a more would. know will fall. just that he must be about as bad as it figured out why abbas 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minute's up on the bit more severe. weather for the on the. unpopular affiliate. sheet tongue as our members tend to be along rochelle of our world often means some of the memory courses common among cologne election a fairy. tale look. palawan the aspect monogamous yes they're not. and. islamiah a would feel that the show was the bobbin and you'll still. be missed. the moment. it is their own then the neighbors and the whole way you're the very who would surely be in there alone never have and the other of you familiar the matter was confident we're going to show you. there's a silence. of the roberts. good day and wind. and all. those posh attendant. men for a bit of tension which collateral has some as in the world to start. with enough to walk but not. a lot. alla the love you obey. and enter then the time when. then there is an acronym for to be a show for that with a higher than of official here that where the home of the show and i will and the robot which would have had well and to cut them a shot that the then some real and no good if you let. alone a no no you can. be the muscle for this one well developed by the you i dunno the way i should have put. them on a solid b. . aka. assembled the army and set out from his capital cairo. but as soon as he reached the outskirts of the city he felt. a muscle colonias that the human west that there is now a sort of county where gunman ito you see me. a new hero. gnome a level of. enough to walk yeah no. yeah look similar could have been the no one. yet i thought on the mold are called them. be enough in washington. for us of. i would. walk. and. then. business but it was to me what is the matter piazza now. and get me out yet the man the young man that's the young thank you for your effort when the sun give him an out of the let. alone with. a loss the loss of more. than one will solve the course a lot of up on the scene at that. mine . with the fall of acre. this unique chapter of history came to an end. after almost two centuries of bloodshed. but the word to have been coined that would enter both history and popular discourse crusade. as a let me and shut a billion have a lot of. room around. my militia smiling. and how to get a little belittlement on that i'm to stand in can it's a leap. intent of killing it so he could then be a whistle cardinal launcher lemnos out of. yanni main eleven men man and monkey. with i might win a few my bad for shaders who was had left. a man mostly in front of the clock on the head of the. tabby or haka to differing on at the border and the late friend i was in again as mournful on some home and as in a bed that meant home and home sunday. morning in mauritania mostly me be less christian that. let me start them a loveless. home and now has the laser power been missing hey well now the lays of how to money i love roman is the number right salute you have as and while you frank. will be out of commuter minutes hanes sharkey i filmed for home of around one hundred the high as a how to visit your home they be a little sleepy. however behind the brutal fighting. was a unique opportunity as western europeans came to know their opponents. away from the sights of sieges and. when my brother and how about a. woman a man. well i could. stand. and. easily could be the answer of the number or do takes a get a clear cut you're not hob i think you can learn to. be nico did. a did takes a good i have been let go. of something. must have had. a while and she megalithic to catch last carry on my gullet to sleep if you didn't mean. in what of her work in the. the limit and she means she has the potential. election. in a lot more natca case here minimal hosty let out of luck as you know has he shot. less than few look there were full steam ahead sooty was the head of the rockies hopes a car furnished them and the. yard for the super can tell you how long the blasted fuckin moves iraq the super into someone who toss it. and not. enough money being the go out to buy. or sign on the machine or whining for a. reason. for a girl in a obama why they're always laugh appear why would. a lot of the with their key bat when i shot at will but then i'm not. moral. that was up to some off a some off. shock. some kind of going to let cameron almost. normal. in the one moron but then out of it no more i'm on a ship in the hay again and that the sun idea. must go to them in a shot what i want to show. what they left in the middle east's is debatable. you already left a number of large castles and structures. which in their turn influenced the local architecture. culturally i believe that the muslims had a far greater effect on. europe than europe patent on the middle east. i mean they had me and there was. no mother and the dialect that i want to loosely mean length and found for part of her as i do for that main some at least a shock but without going to carry much any are awful to be willingness to. get me to do when i'm alone at home when not to feel separate i was to study in the roosevelt island alchemy as he says he left it will he can it be day. and then again oh you know they look funny but we don't have the hold what it is about a lot of it is. that her also missed a lot of it you know her child making. love and then just and feeling ill mussarat let you all file you know do and you know washington. that she does with somebody and stencil little for korean is that future to us carry at. the heart of the saline. and for good to know it's yes you know i say that in order to be your own fueled i thought you know how muscly be feel out of the lottery. five centuries after the fall of acre the last crusade a foothold in the muslim peace. the french general napoleon bonaparte. and his army dorion landed in egypt. now a province of the ottoman empire. after capturing cairo. he moved his army to the live. in an irony of history the polian dreams of establishing a french empire in the east. were to be destroyed before the fortified walls of eight. but despite the failure of the napoleonic campaign. it would turn out to be the opening scene of a second wave of european occupation. longer knocking out the i am not of the in that have an infinite number you are not an empty that for me. and i can add in finance and love to get there he at one time and i know i had a lot of money and fantasy about tomato mush wofully. by the eve of world war one in one nine hundred fourteen. most of the muslim lands on the shores of the mediterranean were under the occupation of european powers. in december one nine hundred seventeen. during the british war effort against the ottoman empire. general edmund allonby entered jerusalem. after the city surrendered to his forces. the film that recorded the fall of the holy city. was marked by the use of. oh. echoing down through the centuries. thirty years off the vis seen. and under the auspices of western powers. or you entity was declared in the reach of. the state of israel. and. let them and now a lot of modal bio if you have to have them into that if it is the way you might it might be to have shouted most of them are. the crusades and did more than seven centuries ago. but the impact of this chapter of history lives on very much alive in the modern world. the. much war going to be talking to kings head says have caught in a few lot of. the law. and f.c. how we know meanness l.s.a. will be a part of the lemons and that you gave me the learning to know if you have them without a lot of them a lot of them out of the you will jani and out of course seen. on the for profit. house how long. enough was the legitimate who was selling it and how did the. national of the shop. this crusade. this war on terrorism. is going to take a while. and the american people must be patient. i'm going to be patient. says some us gun that. sits on a corner. to me to these are strewn the symbol it is done the commander keep it on the leak. sit back they blow soon to concede to you kids to dizzee guns you temporal dispute between us is our state this is our do skeet that you want to sit down with your undies your media brand of that would be sure to take leaving. enough of a degree of city to be our strong belief. in love and it will hopefully be they have family or to whom want to bang through and feel out of the room with one or more stock of food and it will be harder than your house. me tabula home so we haven't found an oil at the border for only. half a constitutional can actually we're led to the i j know how would. the him good then feed them until we know. that she might have to be afraid for and so. she she had to get. the reaction after she my candidate. has a calamity i live in. a flame tsunami while clem. usa . will miss more well mcdougall what. will he. be. enough hanukkah star matty. style of the dean. for hundreds of years the struggle has continued in the very same lines. with jerusalem at its heart. as though this land regardless of its holiness. seems destined to live in eternal conflict between its inhabitants. and invaders. fighting behind the flag of religion. and marching under the banner of a crusade. hello there have recently been some tremendously big showers in new south wales and you just see the talent in here i think the concentration of the next couple days isn't going to be so much here as in queens and because coming up the coastal remains of tropical cyclone penny which is now i no longer discernible it's got plenty of moisture to feed into the flow so anyway at the quezon coast big shots seem likely otherwise it's largely dry picture in perth the twenty seven cools down to twenty two the wind changed during says day otherwise the picture remains the same it's still cool has become cool in melbourne down to twenty one degrees a huge change in recent days one thousand no bond and frontal system this comes to the tasman is giving rain to sayas on the new zealand it will creep up towards wellington which may well reach during thursday but the north island it looks like a pretty fine couple of days and woman's about twenty six in oakland you'll notice it's also not as cold up in japan and the korean peninsula the breeze into strong as it was is not much snow some of the mountains i think you'll see some from turkey but that dries up with some you get to says in temperatures above freezing for value awestruck young and indeed beijing even remember tiles are relatively warm on his eleven the real code is kept north near driving force enjoy the sun. in the next episode of science in a golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word. we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent falls to the speed of sound they gave us the final building block find they discovered it medieval taunts is a story so i am so not going to marriage with jim. on 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protests in nigeria as demonstrators the manda rise in the minimum wage . and. with all the base sports including egyptian excitement at hosting africa's biggest football tournament. but as official celebrate there are questions about how the country will handle the twenty four team event. turkish president who has criticized the u.s. national security advisor who said the u.s. would only pull troops out of syria if the safety of kurdish fighters is guaranteed john bolton held talks and i encourage senior officials but the not himself the u.s. regards the kurdish fighters as allies against thais so turkey however sees them as terrorists reports now from the turkish capital and. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump from. syria on tuesday his national security advisor john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when withdrawal will take place but are you earlier baltimore's in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negative. new on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkey's president's had this to say he said bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on that point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p g the p.y.t. and i still we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria land very soon as far as turkey is concerned the y p g a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has arm didn't funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting ice all critics of the withdrawal say washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which was lost territory to the turks and the syrian rebel allies in. and other areas. but turkey says the fight against terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw including all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion. or syrian must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria godless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a plan joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the this agreement that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what to do in syria. and. meanwhile in syria itself there's been more fighting between the two largest tribal alliances in the north killing more than eighty people including civilians the main turkish backed free syrian army has deployed fighters along the front lines in western aleppo countryside to stop the rapid advance of the. group mohamed and the reports. across the border in turkey. the city and. russia just hit the village of order. in the countryside. the russian military insists the strikes were launched to stop pay to fight is. close to. that came into force last september. civilians in western aleppo probably say to discriminate dozens of civilians have been killed in the past few days when it's really unofficial in my opinion the syrian regime and russians do not care who controls where they will attack anywhere where they do not control their excuse that they are targeting extremists talk about. the fighting in the aleppo countryside after the head to. a group with which the tocs own free syrian army accusing it of killing for its why it is. so clear for anyone watching the situation before these clashes that the f.s.a. were doing horrible things that went on to challenge the f.s.a. has overwhelmed the country strangled and harassed other fighters they killed four of our fighters in cold blood. of today's. more than twenty towns and villages. according to the city observatory for human rights. which includes a large part of. the group is also seemed to be trying to cut off to keep fighters in the most. free from in the north western province of it lip supporters of city rebels say the fighting between opposition groups needs to stop all efforts be directed to fighting the assad regime and its allies. the ongoing fighting only benefits the assad regime what is needed is united opposition forces we cannot achieve anything if we are not united it's only a united force that can protect and save this area because. the fighting between rival position alliances in syria comes at a time turkey is threatening to launch on the first of august the syrian kurdish y p d fighters in the city of month bitch. hundred rebels position be among the redeployed to aleppo. where bottles with the hyatt. again in place. and. joining us live now from washington air chapter was an analyst and author of the book the new sultan and the crisis of modern turkey sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now the supplier bolton trip was always meant to be a little bit of a damage limitation exercise and yet he leaves with the news conference cancelled he didn't get to meet the president to end the hand that we know of anyway a bit of a failure why do you think this was or was it just irreconcilable points of view. i think we're seeing divergent fuz of how turkey looks at the kurdish y p g the kurdish group that the united states has been allied with to fight isis and how washington looks at syria and the kurdish why p.g. in my view has thus far tolerated american alliance with the world kurdish y.p. to defeat isis but now turkey say now that you are withdrawing from syria united states why do you still need to be with the kurdish y.p.u. which i consider a terrorist group so i think concord is actually asking united states to update its policy and to move its policy regarding the kurdish y p g to the present circus sees this group as a terrorist entity turkey is telling the united states i was ok with you working with the with the y.p. to defeat isis i'm not ok with that anymore stop it but i guess the different opinions over the why p.g.a. and their allegiances what never a secret and yet when the announcement came a few weeks ago from president trump really shocked everyone both inside and outside washington about the troop withdrawal it does kind of show that doesn't seem like a lot of backroom thinking have gone into this because surely this issue cannot be a surprise. i think what's really shocked the turkish side is. you know u.s. official bolton bolton statements that turkey should not slaughter the kurds i think that what washington now needs to provide is more nuanced language regarding the situation in eastern syria if bolton had said that you know turkey should not target the kurds of course it should not but it has the right to defend itself against y p g which is after all an offshoot of another kurdish group called p k k which both the united states and turkey alike consider as terrorist that would have been acceptable in turkey i think what's really in my view the straw that broke the camel's back was the language as if the y.p.u. was equating than us thinking with all the kurds offis and syria and that i think aired on found unacceptable so you think it was more a failure of diplomacy rather than an intractable situation between the u.s. and turkey over this. i think that this is really not a crisis of rupture i think turkey will use this to get the most out of it perhaps concessions i also think that turkey is really worried that the united states will just leave in haste in my view the phone conversation a few weeks ago between turkish president on and u.s. president trump after which trump decided or announced that the u.s. with withdraw from syria in my view that caught turkey by surprise i think early on got a bigger bite than what he thought he was getting for he wanted to try to stop working with the kurdish why p.g. and trump said fine working with the white p.g. but almost getting out of syria that's not something turkey wants necessarily turkey doesn't have the strategic assets and proxies to occupy and hold on to large parts of eastern syria and i think it actually wants to coordinate u.s. withdrawal it also wants to make sure that the y.p. does not constitute a threat to turkey through this stablish of a state in eastern syria and just one final point to do you think that this is an issue that would always arise or do you think that for example if it was a more managed withdrawal or later who knows when but in a few months so or even years when perhaps the situation is more stable this could be avoided do you think it's a problem that's rising because of the timing. i think it was inevitable that we would have this problem there was no way you could put the square through the circle of the square being that turkey is a nato ally the circle being that the united states is working with a terrorist group that this ally has been fighting for decades turkey tolerated this in congo and see through the period of the fight against isis and i think now that the u.s. is withdrawing from syria turkey is saying you know basically square things out make sure that if we're friends you don't work with my enemies and i think this is going to be a tough decision that the united states is going to be forced to be making in the coming months whether it will continue to ally with its nato friend turkey or what kind of a decision it will make regarding its what should have been a tactical temporary transactional relationship with the kurdish why p.g. so there chaps i also have the new sultan and again in the crisis of modern turkey sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us thank you my pleasure now a snow storm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's ates winter of exile was often just plastic sheeting for warrants at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered with the u.n. are particularly vulnerable because they live in informal shelters in a holder has more now from one of the camps in the bekaa valley. the storm hit lebanon hard and it is not over syrian refugees are feeling the impact. their makeshift tents have been damaged because of the snow rain and strong winds plastic sheeting offers them little protection you are the garden no i the wind blew away the sheets what can i say just look around you where can we get new sheets we feel helpless. winter conditions are already bad in this region close to syria's border but storms make them even harder it was a difficult night for these people pools of sewage are posing health risks but oh well. it's very clear look at the reality can you believe that sewage water is everywhere we woke up to this where is the international community where is the united nations. the waste water even reached inside what these people call their homes for many of these syrians this is their eighth winter in exile the united nations says at least one hundred seventy thousand of the almost one million registered refugees live in makeshift shelters refugees cannot build better shelters no concrete construction is allowed in these informal camps the lebanese government does not permit the united nations or any other organization to set up permanent structures in these settlements. it's a policy here to discourage refugees to settle in lebanon permanently something has would kill it doesn't want to do but for now he says he doesn't count an option i mean. i lost my home in syria so we're living miserable lives here if you think we would stay here for an hour if we had another choice but. it's a sentiment shared by many who are bracing themselves for what is expected to be even harsher conditions as temperatures continue to drop. because eastern lebanon. meanwhile secretary of state says the planned withdrawal of troops from syria does not mark a general disengagement from the region speaking in jordan at the start of a middle east tour michael said that the u.s. intends to maintain its diplomatic pressure on iran stephanie decker has more now from amman so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not affect its fight to lessen to contain iran influence in the region there is a press conference between your state is your damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides wanted to see a political solution to it was so touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanians saying that they saw this as a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east now where the sect of state will be heading on to egypt where he's expected to give a keynote speech interestingly that will come ten years to the time when the former president barack obama gave his middle eastern speech also a development on the same day that he's actually of state was here in jordan that the former general anthony zinni who was tossed with trying to deal find a solution to the blockade the gulf blockade resigned saying that he was having difficulties in getting all sides getting the leaders of the countries to allow to any form of mediation so this is the context on which pair now embarks forward but the message from the americans is that despite this pullout in syria they remain steadfast ally and they will remain very much present in the region. still ahead on the news hour as president trump prepares to address the nation on border security where in quanah with the people he wants to keep out a state of emergency in southern germany where heavy snow storms have left hundreds of people snowed in and they it's a bumpy ride as a south african driver jumps to the lead in the dakar rally peter as the action later in school. north korean leader kim jong un is in china for his fourth visit in a year of the trip came at the invitation of the chinese president xi jinping south korea hopes the meeting will help efforts for peace as the vehicle pollen reports now from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary arm or trying to beijing this video was released by the north korean state news agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meeting shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover as the as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to bring china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to be ignored so i think this is china's effort to try to be a part of this process and the key question of course is what is their message to the north koreans and for north korea having its biggest ally in benefactor by its side as can john and prepares for another summit with the u.s. president donald trump is expected to put young man in a stronger negotiating position kim jong un's previous three trips all occurred before are off to holding meetings with the u.s. or south korean presidents many see this trip as an opportunity to engage china as north korea sets out its diplomatic strategy for the coming year twenty eighteen was a momentous year for north korean diplomacy in june for the first time in its history its leader met with the u.s. president following that trump kim summit in singapore north and south korean relations improved with the two sides of the peninsula working to improve communication sent to sillett east soul has welcomed the latest meeting in beijing congealing you and we hope that conjunctions visit to china contributes to complete denuclearized sation and you stop and last in peace on the korean peninsula there has been little progress since the us north korea summit in june pyongyang says it has made concessions with regards to its nuclear program but washington says it needs to see more concrete action many are now watching closely to see whether china will have any influence and pushing the diplomatic process forward to be the pollen ajah. zero home call before morning what all of this means let's speak to aiden foster carter he's a korean affairs analyst and the senior research fellow at leeds university where he specializes in regional affairs he joins us via skype from exeter in southern england sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so i mean we're just over a wall six months from the big north korea summit that big meeting we all followed in singapore between him and the president trump nothing much really has happened since then so in light of that why do you think we're seeing at this meeting in china now. well it i wouldn't quite say that nothing much has happened i think the key to all of their sister allows us more than one thing going on naturally where we focus on trump we focus on a u.s. north korea summit was indeed epoch goals for the first time that there's two other things going on there's the into korean relationship north and south korea a lot is going on with that it's quite good and as we are currently being reminded there is china for a visit in less than a year china accounts for ninety percent north korea's trade i think this is just a reminder when all the talk was and will go on being about you know will there be a second meeting with trump where when spectra who is actually in charge and who is actually calling the shots for them with all respect i don't think it's washington i didn't think it seoul either it's the two that we're seeing meeting right now ok so if china is calling the shots do you think that then we are going to see even if it's just a facade another meeting the can kim jong un and the donald trump and all to me do you think that that is going to lead to further denuclearization on behalf of north korea we will i'm sure see another meeting both sides have talked about it kim jong un hadn't mentioned it but he did in his new year address anywhere any time he said trump has talked about it to good deal so i think it will happen whether it will have any substance i don't know because they were it's been this curious disconnect as i'm sure most euros are aware by now do you care i say she has become almost like an american street motherhood and apple pie it's a kind of abstract thing the talk is that but that i think everyone agree is north korea has taken very little is done almost nothing basically towards that goal and somehow the u.s. has to work out how to live with that north korea has a very clear demand it will it's a step by step process anyway and it also want some sanctions relief along the way so i think the ball is now i'm china will support them and not i think the ball that for is now in america's court as to whether the u.s. and this administration feel able to make those sorts of concessions so if you don't think that the nuclear is ation is necessarily the core issue ultimately do you think that what we've seen happen over the past six months since the singapore meeting but even before that makes north korea less of a threat for the united states. it would be nice to think so actually what i think has happened is that north korea all along has had the goal to go the part of you could say in broad terms of india of pakistan of israel if you like countries which are not supposed to be nuclear powers and some of them used to deny it and haven't joined the nonproliferation treaty a local so it's great to join it and left it that was a unique thing but basically to be accepted de facto if there's a tacit understanding that they're not actually going to use that they were not going to have let alone a war but we're not going to have the fire and fury all the missile tests the nuclear tests that we saw in twenty seventeen grudgingly am because there's nothing else anyone can do about it basically they'll just get accepted if they stop behaving more like good citizens and i have to say i think there's a fair chance of that's what's going to happen because there really isn't much anyone can do it and plus the cars are always going to talk to you later foster cart a korean affairs analyst and senior research fellow at the university thank you. now one of the main observers of the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is reporting irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that it monitored there's still no result that's nine days after the vote electoral officials say it's because they're coming in slowly from remote regions opposition politicians claimants because the government is attempting to rig the election. legit ariens have joined protests across the country to demand the higher minimum wage the federal government had agreed to increase the amount to eighty three dollars a month but some states said that they just couldn't afford to pay that off in interests has been among the testers in a bill. after waiting for two and a half years i didn't work is saying they've had enough of the all they held a protest trying to shut down the government if it doesn't implement a new medium or we agreed with labor unions. they couldn't it's another minimum wage was a woman and to want it i'm going to die in twenty three days is meant as. much as empowering what general workers have been badly twenty rockets and that's why this is what becomes very very potent because it affects the lives of eleven million got to go because you know nobody. the delay in bringing the new way just maybe part of the reason for the protests workers might also be taking advantage of next month's general election to force through a deal nigeria's central government may have agreed with labor unions on the new minimum wage but its biggest obstacle for implementation is the state government many had already workers' salaries for months until the central government intervened. nigeria has the largest economy in africa and it also the continent's biggest oil producer but not much of its wealth gets treats workers and citizens. for now parliamentarians who get paid more than politicians in developed economies like the united states say they are on the side of the workers there is no reason that we cannot afford to pay one hundred less than hundred dollars for a minimum wage the president should do did need for what the president should do is to immediately send the request to the national assembly and i can assure you as far as the parliament is cause we are in sync with the demands of the nigerian workers. as the workers a weak government response then looking to see what traders and service providers will do. the past any wage increases created by higher prices of goods and services rucka say they hope that will not be the case this time. but if greece al-jazeera abuja nigeria. much more to follow on this hour of news from london including opposition m.p.'s and conservative rebels defeat the u.k. government on preparations for a no deal brett said we'll report on a controversial scheme to handle moscow's rubbish that has an anger at environmentalists and find out who came out on top in a five dollars thriller between iraq and vietnam. it's in a world of concert and school. hello the snow is falling heavily it's still falling and it still will hold a warning out for southern germany the very now and austria until friday the driving forces this low pressure area now some scandinavia a cold northerly wind adding to the chills already there on this white contains all the moisture so there's yet more to come that's not just been germany and austria but it has prince really been those two countries over the northern facing outs back through france and some in italy would have had a meter and a half more to come and the whole cold air mass moves south spinning up a new little area of low pressure in the navy attic so that's going to bring more snow to greece balgair in albania rain for the south in greece and that rain moves across the cheating towards turkey in the following twenty four hours with snow for the other countries in southeastern europe the some easing in the snow for poland and germany but look at this vienna still sitting in it so that's why the warning is there for austria and something germany huge amount of snow already cause troubles more to come and of course the kota spinning up in the central med means it remains fairly cold in tunis thirty degrees because of that wind speed and wind direction the whole lot moves eastward so there must be a few showers on the coast of libya but probably is dry. when a french soldier was murdered in the so-called terrorist attacks. his mother retaliated with love. speaking out against intolerance and alienation she travels the world with the resolve of a grieving mother who lost a son but it don't do the generation. latifa of fighting. a witless documentary on al-jazeera. and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the turkish president has accused donald trump's national security adviser of making a serious mistake after he demanded protection for the u.s. as kurdish allies in syria north korea leader kim jong un is in china has forced visit in the year it follows reports of a future second summit between u.s. president and kim aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula. and people in nigeria have held protests demanding a better minimum wage the federal government had a great amount but some states claim they just can't afford to pay it. now in just a few hours time u.s. president donald trump will address the nation about his plans for border security trumps them and for more than five billion dollars to build a wall along the border with mexico and schools that clash with democrats in congress resulting in the u.s. government being partially shut down for more than two weeks we'll tell holeman is in the mexican border city of t. why now with thousands of central american migrants had recently gathered in the hope of entering the u.s. john good to see you the u.s. president says that this is a national emergency for the united states what's the situation like where you. i think you can take that from a couple of points the president. has done well first of all about the caravans which seem to reignite this whole debate throughout last year you're now seeing behind me about seven hundred people here in tents. left of the caravan so i think you find it difficult. and gnashing of teeth now remember it was six thousand people at one point significantly gone down but there is another caravan of people . scheduled to leave honduras on the fifteenth of january so this could rise again now in terms of over room immigration into the united states and illegal immigration could you say this was a crisis well there's an uptick in numbers from last year in terms about prevention for the buddha but if you take that as the last decade the numbers are right down more than three quarters down from what they were in two thousand and seven more than ten years ago so you couldn't really say that this is reached a crisis if you look at the bigger picture and the other thing that the president has talked about is drugs he said that if you put up the will then it's going to stop or at least prevent a lot of drugs getting into the united states illegally what his own authorities and law enforcement agencies have said is that most drugs actually enter through points eventually not through areas that the poor will cover but from point. pedestrians are being smart to do that so necessary if eva. is a very put its message obviously from president but the facts on the ground here. it's the whether they really support the fact that this is a national emergency for the state child home of the latest from the mexican border city of jealous of the moment thank you. now m.p.'s cross all major parties in the u.k. have demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliamentary vote they've passed an amendment to a finance bill that stops the government raising money to implement an ill deal breck's said without the consent of parliament and as john holl now reports it's another major blow for prime minister to resign. the british government is preparing the country for life outside the european union in particular for the possibility of leaving without a deal over future relations it's not a pretty picture queues of trucks shortages of food and medicine it is for many in parliament a worst case scenario but one that grows more possible by the day. hardly surprising then that those opposed to a no deal breaks it are doing all they can to prevent it i believe the government should rule out no deal but i think if it went unpunished must make sure that it has the power was to do size if it comes to the crunch it is time for members of parliament on all sides start ruling out to be down to options to a country voting by a majority in favor of a measure that blocks public spending on a no deal outcome m.p.'s on both sides demonstrated their opposition to the government's current course. it's a significant defeat for the government here the successful amendment to the finance bill tabled by the opposition labor party with wide support is perhaps now the first salvo in a campaign aimed at forcing the government's hand it doesn't mean no deal planning will stop nor that no deal won't happen but it does put much more pressure on the prime minister to find a position that a majority in parliament can actually agree on. she wasn't in parliament but to resume a knows that if there is no appetite for no deal and her own plan gets voted down next week then her options are greatly limited either go cap in hand to e.u. leaders and plead for something better or consider doing what an increasing number of people and m.p.'s wanted to do which is hold another referendum there isn't a majority in support of any of the particular rights and outcomes and there definitely isn't a support for no deal so it is supported by around a quarter of the country around half those who voted leave in the e.u. referendum but it isn't as popular as remaining in the european union would be and when you ask the public which gripe are fast staying in the european union or leaving with no deal staying in the european union does come ahead eighty days to breaks it and counting it is still firm government policy to take britain now to the e.u. on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events joe al-jazeera. a prominent far right german m.p. has been seriously injured in what police are calling a politically motivated attack france magnates is the regional leader of the i'll turn it in for germany party or the a.f.p. the party published a graphic photo of language it's all a hospital bed it says three masked men attacked him as he left a new year's party at a newspaper office in the northern city of bremen came has more now from berlin. the political reaction to the incident that took place on monday evening has been swift and condemnation politicians from many of the mainstream parties have also said that notwithstanding a person's political perspective there is no justification for such acts of violence the fact that these that at twenty past five local time as the magnets was leaving the office of a newspaper in blame and he was set upon by three masked men he was left for dead and was discovered by two people who called emergency services who took him to hospital sources from his party then put an image of mr magnets on social media showing the starkness of his injuries with son saying that they believed him from his party's thing they believed he was half dead well he has been speaking is conscious now and has been speaking to the d.p.a. news agency here in germany saying that he doesn't recall much of what happened and still could not identify his attackers his party leader says that the sort of media coverage of his party might have created circumstances in which a person might feel that it was right to attack the f.t. from the official perspective police say they are investigating what took place large areas of europe are being hit by freezing cold weather that's showing no sign of ending seven people died in the alps mountain range over the weekend and the second highest avalanche warning is now in place. has more. this is the reason officials in southern germany have declared a state of emergency. a snowstorm has the positive more than half a meter of snow in parts of southern bavaria. the town of one guy on the northern edge of the alps in germany is now covered in almost a meter of snow and that's made life difficult for people in the region as a the lessons i haven't had the sense of stock in the past few days it snowed so heavily here in the district and that's had consequences for public life the most evident ones of the block roads or people who are no longer able to go to work or go shopping so between last night and this morning we pulled the emergency brake and cancelled school lessons for all the schools in the region. life has been put on hold for many here. this is good about the houses it's because it is nice when you consider tome and look out of the window but i work a lot on the road and now for instance i can't even get out of my driveway and my snow remover has broken and i have to shovel. the storm may be inconvenient but some seem to enjoy it. if they came it happened more often when we were young but now not for a long time i would say but it's ok it's winter you can't complain in the past years we haven't really had a real winter but now it's back it's ok this way. is certain areas the avalanche warning has been raised the level for meaning that large avalanches can occur because of the weight of the snow. over the weekend seven people were killed in austria switzerland and germany in ski related accidents caused by the heavy snowfall. this severe weather system is expected to bring more snow to central europe until friday door such a party al jazeera. the former chairman of car company miss and has the cleared his innocence in a court in tokyo saying he's been unfairly detained carlos is a. the bond of reporting his salary by millions of dollars he was fired by the board of misselling but kept on by rental bribe reports from tokyo. this was goans first chance to publicly answer allegations against him the presence of diplomats to hear it was evidence of the international nature of this case in court gone denied any financial wrongdoing saying he has always conducted business legally and fairly he said he dedicated the last twenty years of his life to the nissen company he chaired until recently engineering its alliance with french automaker renault his lawyers argued his continued detention is grossly unfair. to the session of the court today was held in order to request the court to make the clear reason for detaining mr gone under the suspicion you know you know that the reason we made such requests for procedures to take place today as mr ganns defense team is we believe there's no reason for him to be detained and this case is attracted intense media interest given goans international stature the man who turned around the fortunes of renault and then did the same with their son it's made his fourth from grace all the more dramatic. it remains to be seen what why duran packed the case will have on carmakers in france and japan and if they'll be any diplomatic fallout between the two governments. the personal impact don't go on is all too clear well the court considers the allegations the remains in detention robert roy go to zero to hear. the un envoy to yemen has held talks with the yemeni president martin griffiths and of the rebel months with the met in the saudi capital riyadh after earlier meeting who the rebels in sana griffiths is leading the un's negotiations with yemen's warring sides to prop up a shaky truce in the city of the data most of the country's food and medicine passed through the port city in the red sea thirteen or hinge on men have arrived in bangladesh after being deported from saudi arabia they are believed to be part of a bigger group who appeared in a video posted online from of the tension center in jeddah the men have been protesting against their return to bangladesh because they're actually from neighboring me and mark which views the ranger as illegal immigrants at a gas car stop courthouse for claim the country's former leader as the winner of last month's presidential election this missing accusations of fraud. andry rajoelina has been celebrating with his supporters the court said he won the with more than fifty five percent of the vote right remain as rival marc ravalomanana came second with forty four percent of filed hundreds of complaints against the result alleging massive fraud. now russia's capital is grappling with a rubbish crisis moscow generates eight million tons of waste every year and for decades it's just been dumped around the city major protests forced the government to announce that it would transport the city's trash to other regions hundreds of kilometers away so fast some reports now from russia's region. the stench of garbage hangs in the air at this housing complex near moscow on many days the air is so polluted people living here fall ill the problem is this dump site eight kilometers away one of the largest in europe. if. my daughter and i were coughing all night and my daughter was vomiting just three years old i went to the doctors and they said close your windows when i asked if we should leave this area they said it was our decision but if you live in this area you better take care of yourself everyone has ability to lee. after protests earlier this year the government closed twenty five landfill sites but the garbage doesn't stop piling up and that puts extra pressure on the remaining fourteen dumps residents say the smell and help concerns got even worse when it was decided to burn toxic gases which are released from the landfills the government is now planning to transport millions of tons of garbage to several regions one more than a thousand kilometers from moscow by train and by truck we are not allowed to go beyond this again but this is one of the destinations so moscow frash over eight hundred hectares of what used to be designated farm lands it was still in retreat here off will be turned into a so-called eco techno park for us local activists like to call it a huge garbage dump. your authority is told a local television station the park will contain a way sorting facility and will generate energy out of rubbish the report emphasizes the economic benefits for region but boris li shootin who has investigated the plants asked the proposed park will include a large landfill and doesn't expect to see great efforts made to limit the environmental impact period. with hundreds of forty two on garbage trucks was moving here dust will cover kilometers of sorrel and not to mention the pollution that will come from burning trash which will travel wardens when's your mother's toxic substances will be everywhere. questions from al-jazeera to the moscow government about the project has remained an answered. activists say the government is legally obliged to develop clean waste management law is false. but the regional governments don't want to implement this law because they're in tight relations with businesses and all of this dumps and private hands the state doesn't have anything to do with them. that jana lapin access no sane person would have come up with a plan to move the trash from one area to another even those living in the region who were initially in favor of the plan have changed their minds but local authorities refused to let them hold a protest moskos waste is not only an environmental problem but a political one two step fasten al-jazeera kaluga region. still ahead on. cracking down on the sale of skin lightening and the. way the action from the paolo slalom world cup. to a whole. business updates. going places together. business updates. going places together. skin whitening creams are being removed from the shelves in rwanda as the government enforces a ban on the products sales in african countries are worth billions every year but there are fears that the that the ban will actually encourage women to buy unregulated products which could put their health at risk laura bird and manley reports. agni our mama is preparing anoints print she says will make her more attractive to her husband who prefers light skinned women. but she's concerned that a government crackdown on the creams will impact both on her beauty routine and her identity you know you know if i don't have these products i'm afraid i'll become too dark like i used to be i still have a few products left but i hate the thought of becoming darker. the government introduce a ban on skin whitening products november and since then they've seized thousands of bottles from shop shelves you know i'm putting my chief was. getting people. in november president paul kagame i tweeted that the koreans were unhealthy and should be reined in quickly his concern is backed up by the world health organization which banned the creams active ingredients heidrick when in the mercury in two thousand and one it says the chemicals could lead to kidney or liver failure skin cancer and the formation of dark skin patches known as hyperpigmentation but many ignore the warnings across african nation skin whitening is a lucrative business worth billions and an estimated four in every ten african women bleach their skin and rwanda's capital there are mixed reactions. sometimes they have such a drastic effect on the skin that you can meet someone you know and not even recognize them it's a good development. that you have one of the team i'm very sad that these products have been banned we'll just have to use what is locally available but the people who made that decision need to know that these products make women feel beautiful. despite widespread popularity other african countries including kenya ghana and south africa have also banned the creams but unregulated versions are easily available to buy illegally on the internet this could become dangerous for people like our mana who are not ready to give up the notion that lighter skin is more beautiful nor about a manly al-jazeera. it's time now for the latest sports news let's go to peter in. barbara thank you very much egypt is vowing it will be ready to hold africa's biggest football tournament in just over five months its officials have been celebrating in senegal's capital dhaka after it was awarded hosting rights south africa was the only other country in the running for the twenty four team africa cup of nations egypt lost host the tournament thirteen years ago but its struggle to put together organized football at a local level since the arab spring of two thousand and eleven cameroon was stripped of the competition two months ago because of infrastructure delays and security concerns. i promise it. will do all of this to make a very good different news june and july we have a short period of easy feasibility of such events it would be. five times the force of the world cup. i. have an easy answer we feel very good support and we're very happy in our country. as an african football journalists he says egypt won the vote to host the tournament more for political reasons than football. for a country that is our concern since they are robbed of straying and some of the concerns about staging local games the funds are really really asking questions now whether indeed the ability to stage a tournament of this magnitude remember we've always. feels that the age of national teams are big stadiums in cairo so the relatively confident that they can bring the funds to come and watch the tournament so it's a big question that egypt will have to answer in the next five months they've been concerned about whether we all the problems plaguing the contras in terms of security in the last five months will be able to actually pull this off wiping for the government south african actually came out as the it's more of a political decision in you know we're not going in there not getting the rights for egypt to go to the believe it was more of a political decisions the people. by voting for egypt he believes that the pursuit african football federation association president danny jordaan he said it's more of a political decision and not for reasons as mentioned south africa was the other country in contention to host the tournament for me the miller reports from the. this is the most asthma beat us stadium in durban which would have been one of the venue's south africa would have used had it won the bid to host african twenty nineteen about as now gone to egypt and the south african football association says it won't be issuing a statement or responding to that news from the confederation of african football but previously the president of sapphire danny o'donoghue media reports had said that if the bird goes egypt's way it could be a political statement now south bad and necessary receive the financial backing or guarantees from the south african government to host afcon it would have cost in the region of ten to twelve million dollars an amount that men. south africans argue the country could not afford given the sluggish economy and also that south africa is now heading to a election later this year so many south africans not necessarily heartbroken about losing out to egypt many of them in fact wishing egypt well for june twenty one thousand. one other note qatar based be in has announced it will stop its t.v. service in egypt egypt's among four countries that imposed a blockade on the gulf states eighteen months ago last year being was in dispute with saudi arabia based beyond q which broadcast fee for world cup matches without having the rights egypt law will be the star attraction at the cup of nations he's just paired another double the forward been voted africa's best footballer of the second year running he is headed off a little pool teammate senegal's mana and arsenal striker paramedic obama young who captains. turning to football's asian cup have been plenty of goals on tuesday in the united arab emirates saudi arabia putting on a ruthless display in their opening group match in dubai they defeated north korea for no. opener was followed by goals from mohamad of the tilt. and for hard to move the north koreans not helped by red card as the saudis sent a strong message to group rivals lebannon and qatar. iraq overcame vietnam three two in group d. in a game that swung to and fro the equaliser to conceding a known goal but the vietnamese restored the lead before half time thanks to know him confound in the second half iraq turned it around first they equalised and then months late free kick ensure victory. sebastian loeb has been the big mover in winning the second stage of the back already in peru the nine time world champion surging to fit the overall of the starting the day in thirteenth place he is nearly two minutes behind the leader south africa's general de villiers two thousand and nine champion is ahead of toyota teammate ten brinker by twenty eight seconds in the motorbike race banished rider one by red board one the stage to lead by more than a minute and a half. europe will be caps and bipod red herrings are not goals ryder cup in two thousand and twenty harrington won the cup four times as a player and now he's trying to win it as a captain at the next edition in the us then it really came down to whether i wanted to be in the house and you know what is a successful career put on the line because you were put on the line when you become the ryder cup captain is a different. element to your career and you know we know a successful captain is gratian and losing captain you know it is false or st cloud and germany. secured parallel slalom slow boarding wins at the world cup event in austria on tuesday forty five year old negotiated tough snowy conditions that stein to defeat poland's alexander crawl by over half a second in the women's final as the bow meister this would be third korea world cup goalie was too good for switzerland's daddio covey's all in the mains final. and that's all the sport back to barbara in london thank you well that is it for this news hour where you can find out a lot more and everything that we've been covering on our website there it is on your screens right now our top story of course aside confusion perhaps from the turkish president trying to understand what the u.s. administration's policy is on troop withdrawal from syria and i have that and more in a few minutes. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow bhutan example but how do you measure it many brits unease happiness is what we ensure it's here that it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. in this year new immigration laws and projects funded by european governments have seen a rapid decline in the migrant transport trade people in power travels to our good days to explore the realities faced by the drivers left out of pocket and the migrants who are choosing to return home who would like to go back to the country where they are from. the more you're going back to why not why not go back to. europe migration on a zero. hour . the turkish president attacks the trumpet ministration for giving mixed messages on the u.s. troop pullout from syria. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up north korea's leader is back in beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. nationwide protests in nigeria's demonstrators them and a rise in the minimum wage and we report on a controversial scheme held on moscow's rubbish that is angered environmentalist's . turkish president. has criticized the u.s. national security advisor who said the u.s. would only pull troops out of syria if the safety of kurdish fighters is guaranteed john bolton held talks in ankara with senior officials but the self the u.s. for guards the kurdish fighters as allies against eisel turkey though sees them as terrorists reports now from ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced. joint american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place the day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president had this to say he signed bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point because we are part of the terror corridor and syria will receive the necessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and i saw we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria land very soon. as far as turkey is concerned the y. p.g.d. a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting ice all critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization and more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is vast territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas but turkey says the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw including all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion some of you mrs syrian that must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria regardless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a plan joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the this agreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what its wants to do in syria. and kyra. meanwhile a snow storm is adding to the misery of more than three million syrian refugees who have fled the conflict snow and ice are blanketing many of the tents of this camp in southern lebanon spic have valley for many it's their eighth winter of exile many just have a plastic sheet for you warm the lebanese government doesn't allow permanent refugee settlements in this area at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered with the u.n. are particularly vulnerable because they live in so-called informal shelters. a former u.s. military official tasked with resolving the gulf diplomatic crisis has resigned and sunnis it is the latest four star general to leave the trumpet ministration also in jordan has the story. for the last year and a half retired u.s. general anthony zinni has had two jobs negotiate an end to the g.c.c. crisis in which qatar has been isolated by its gulf neighbors since june twenty seventeen and help us stablish a nato like organization called the middle east strategic initiative army said no more zinni has submitted his resignation to anyways just. no point in. time because the situation in the middle east can always get more unstable unfortunately this extraordinary important trusted intermediary parties to ensure that the situation does not deteriorate further according to reports zinni said he's leaving because no country in the dispute is willing to negotiate in good faith what's more analysts eager neubauer says the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist up and it plans for a u.s. brokered discussion in washington in october former secretary of state rex tillerson had hired zinni a former military commander in the middle east after his own efforts at shuttle diplomacy failed to end the blockade zinni insists he had full support from officials at the white house which had recently asked him to add the regional military alliance to his to do list analysts say that without an end to the qatar blockade and no sign of the white house hosting a g.c.c. summit any time soon such an alliance has no chance of being stood up even though he were tasked to help resolve the gulf crisis once that was no longer tenable at least in the current environment he sought to appear to rest through integrated military cooperation and what emerged of data became an impossibility the state department thank is in for his work saying that quote his mission was to help introduce the. concept of the middle eastern teaching alliance and start a conversation with leaders in the region that is happening and well underway thanks to his efforts for now it falls to secretary of state mike pompei o to discuss the blockade and a possible military alliance during his first major trip to the middle east however pompei is top priority and that of the white house is the isolation of iran at any cost that means anthony zinni is work could end up being neglected for the foreseeable future rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington that's korean leader kim jong un is in china for his fourth visit in the last year the trip came at the invitation of the chinese president xi jinping south korea hopes the regime will help efforts for peace as the vehicle pollen reports now from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary armored train to beijing this video was released by the north korean state news agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meeting shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover as the as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to break china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to be ignored so i think this is china's effort to try to be a part of this process and the key question of course is what is their message to the north koreans and for north korea having its biggest ally in benefactor by its side as kim jong un prepares for another summit with the us president donald trump is expected to put young men in a stronger negotiating position kim jong un's previous three trips all occurred before are off to holding meetings with the us or south korean presidents many see this trip as an opportunity to engage china as north korea sets out its diplomatic strategy for the coming year twenty eighteen was a momentous year for north korean diplomacy in june for the first time in its history its leader met with the u.s. president following that trump kim summit in singapore north and south korean relations improved with the two sides of the peninsula working to improve communication sent to sillett east soul has welcomed the latest meeting in beijing congealing you and we hope that conjunctions visit to china contributes to complete denuclearized sation and you stop and last in peace on the korean peninsula there has been little progress since the us north korea summit in june pyongyang says it has made concessions with regards to its nuclear program but washington says it needs to see more concrete action. many are now watching closely to see whether china will have any influence in pushing the diplomatic process forward if you go palin ajah sarah hong kong and gerry and have joined protests across the country to demand the higher minimum wage the federal government had agreed to increase the amount eighty three dollars a month some states said they just couldn't afford to pay that often address has been among the protesters in ambrosia. after waiting for two and a half years i joined in workers saying they've had enough of the they held a protest trying to shut down the government if it doesn't implement and you minimum wage agreed with labor unions. they couldn't get into the minimum wage was a woman and wanted i'm going to influence. its members of the branches empower them what they're not general workers have been about twenty yards and that's why this is what becomes very very potent because it affects the lives of eleven million dollars or because you know that obama dependence the delay in bringing in the new wages maybe part of the reason for the protests but workers might also be taking advantage of next month's general election to force through a deal nigeria's central government may have agreed with labor unions on a new minimum wage but its biggest obstacle for implementation is the state government many had already workers' salaries for months until the central government in to be. nigeria has the largest economy in africa and it's also the continent's biggest oil producer but not much of its wealth gets treats workers and citizens for now parliamentarians who get paid more than politicians in developed economies like the united states say they are on the side of the workers. no reason that we cannot afford to pay one hundred less than one hundred dollars for a minimum wage the president. schill do did need for what the president should do is to immediately send the request to the national assembly and i can i show you as far as the parliament is cause we are not in sync with the demands of the nigerian workers. as the workers await government response they're looking to see what traders and service providers will do. in the past any wage increases created by higher prices of goods and services rucka say they hope that will not be the case this time. but increase al-jazeera applejack nigeria. it watching al-jazeera still to come on the program opposition m.p.'s and conservative rebels defeat the u.k. government on preparations for a no deal bret's plus teachers joins in by was dr as our strike can demand the governmental must do more to help people make ends meet. hello they have recently been some tremendously big shot in new south wales and you just see the talent in here i think the concentration of the next couple days is going to be so much here as in queens and because coming up the coast remains a tropical cyclone penny which is now i no longer discernible it's got plenty of moisture to feed into the flow so anyway at the queensland coast big showers seem likely otherwise it's largely dry picture in perth the twenty seven cools down to twenty two the wind changed during thursday's otherwise the picture remains the same it's still cool has become cool in melbourne that's twenty one degrees a huge change in recent days in one thousand. and on frontal system this comes to the tasman is giving rain to sayas on the new zealand it will creep up towards wellington which may well reach during thursday but most north on. and it looks like a pretty fine couple of days and warmonger that twenty six in oakland you'll notice it's also not as cold up in japan and the korean peninsula the breeze into strong as it was has not much snow some of the mountains i think you see some from tokyo but that dries up the time you get to says in temperatures above freezing for value awestruck and pyongyang and indeed beijing even remember tiles are relatively warm august eleventh the real cold is kept nortons no driving force enjoy the sun. in the next episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of mathematics. the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word old job or we're going to the limits of modern technology forty percent falls to the speed of sound they gave us the final building block to finally discover that many little taunts is still. going to marriage with jim. welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the turkish president has accused donald trump's national security adviser of making a serious mistake after he the man that action the u.s. has credit shall lies and soon the north korean leader kim jong il is in china his fourth visit in a year it follows reports of a future second summit between u.s. president donald trump and kim aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula and people in nigeria have held protests demanding a better minimum wage the federal government had agreed to an amount but some states claim they can't afford to pay. m.p.'s across all major parties in the u.k. have demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliamentary vote they passed an amendment to a finance bill that stops the government raising money to implement the no deal breck said without the consent of parliament and as john howell reports it's another major blow for prime minister to resign. the british government is preparing the country for life outside the european union in particular for the possibility of leaving without a deal over future relations it's not a pretty picture queues of trucks shortages of food and medicine it is for many in parliament a worst case scenario but one that grows more possible by the day hardly surprising then that those opposed to a no deal breaks it are doing all they can to prevent it i believe the government should rule out no deal but i think if it won't tim palmer it must make sure that it has the power was to do size if it comes to the crunch it is time for members of parliament on all sides start ruling out deeply damage options to a country voting by a majority in favor of a measure that blocks public spending on a no deal outcome m.p.'s on both sides demonstrated their opposition to the government's current course. it's a significant defeat for the government here the successful amendment to the finance bill tabled by the opposition labor party with wide support is perhaps now the first salvo in a campaign aimed at forcing the government's hand it doesn't mean no deal planning will stop all that no deal won't happen but it does put much more pressure on the prime minister to find a position that a majority in parliament can actually agree on she wasn't in parliament but to resume a knows that if there is no appetite for no deal and her own plan gets voted down next week then her options are greatly limited either go cap in hand to e.u. leaders and plead for something better or consider doing what an increasing number of people and m.p.'s wanted to do which is hold another referendum there isn't a majority in support of any of the particular rights and outcomes and that definitely isn't a support for no deal so it is supported by around a quarter of the country around half those who voted leave in the e.u. referendum but it isn't as popular as remaining in the european union would be and when you ask the public which would prefer staying in the european union or leaving with no deal staying in the european union does come ahead eighty days to breaks it and counting it is still firm government policy to take britain out of the e.u. on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events jonah how al-jazeera london in just a few hours time the us president will address the nation about his plans for border security on from the land for more than five billion dollars to build a wall along the border with mexico has caused a huge divide with democrats in congress resulting in the us government being partially shut down for more than two weeks john homeland is in the mexican border city as to why now or a caravan of thousands of central americans has gathered. first rule about the caravans which seem to reignite this whole debate throughout last year you now see behind me about seven hundred people here in tents that's all that's left of the caravan so i think you find it difficult to argue that the national team now remember it was about six thousand people at one point so significantly going down there is another caravan of people. scheduled to leave from douras on the fifteenth of january so this could rise again now in terms of overall immigration into the united states an illegal immigration could you say this was a crisis well there's an uptick in numbers from last year in terms about prevention so the buddha but if you take that as the last decade the numbers are right down more than three quarters down from what they were in two thousand and seven more than ten years ago so you couldn't really say that this is reached a crisis if you look at the bigger picture the u.n. envoy to yemen has held talks with the yemeni president watching griffiths red rubber months who had the capital riyadh after earlier meeting who the rebels and salam quiff eighth's is leading the un's negotiations with yemen's warring sides to try to prop up a shaky truce in the city of data most of the country's food and medicine passes through the port city and the red sea. one of the main observers of the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is reporting irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that monitored there's still no result nine days after the vote. has the latest now from the capital kinshasa. shopkeeper blank. the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history coote several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on. people are nervous the political situation right now is affecting business very few people are spending money the whole. thing. election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causing delays now they're expected to be announced later this week this could be the first democratic transfer of power in the us since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty that's if everybody here except the un many people hoping to help in decades of probably everything on its head make. opposition leaders say they fear the vote will be manipulated to favor president joseph kabila as preferred successor emanuel should diary result. there is sort of the result that what you cited. is not negotiable and then we are calling. for to be vigilant. all the rules. nor. was deported from the ruling party have already started celebrating and not allegations of fraud they insist only the electoral commission known here as see me know the outcome. we have to study the results all. we make of these are waking. week hall. i was in your position i should ask you how little. you know when. the government has cut internet and islamist services to prevent speculation on social media about who has won some people fear they could be violence if the final results are rejected by the liz's. concetta lot of gas cars top court has proclaimed the country's former leader as the winner of last month's presidential election dismissing accusations of for old. andry rajoelina has been celebrating with his supporters the court said he won with more than fifty five percent of the vote rather than his rival marc ravalomanana came second with forty four percent but filed hundreds of complaints against the result alleging massive fraud somebody was going through its worst economic crisis in a decade hundreds of doctors have been on strike for weeks and now teachers are joining forces demanding the government do more to help people make ends meet priyanka gupta reports. a new year a new term but an actual start for the students of zimbabwe oh i was there instead of notebooks inside classrooms some teachers are outside holding placards they say they can only hold classes for two days a week and a threatening to go on strike in the coming days they want their salaries to be paid and u.s. dollars to shield them from a spiraling currency crisis this was at leeds was a negotiated and agreed into and it will be the standing up in the early i'll go does the violated. one feel of a practice for the second month in a row hundreds of doctors are staying at home they too want their salaries in dollars and a demanding better working conditions we wanted dad be mitigation the offenders to be dangerous people too was a wonder that would diminish in terms of salaries good salaries in those so in terms of the vehicles as a kid something turns good news. was made public hospitals are running out of medicines and pharmacies are turning away people unless they're paying in dollars. there's not enough resources in the hospitals areas dialysis patients are even being told to buy out any syringes. but the government says it doesn't have enough foreign currency to meet the protesters demands zimbabwe depends heavily on imports and uses bone notes and electronic currency that speck to the dollar a shortage of dollars means those bones are losing their value they should now with a immediately now or tomorrow go into negotiations where government will offer in terms of a million or aiding the plight of the civil service in the areas that they might get on the streets of the capital harare lines like these are all too common a price. as of basic goods have more than tripled and there is a fuel shortage this crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing president emerson and who promised economic growth and for investments to bring zimbabwe out of two decades of financial disarray and risk predecessor robert mugabe the with these teachers say the government needs to do more to help those who are struggling . to zero. russia's capital is grappling with a rubbish crisis generates eight million tonnes of waste a year and for decades it's been dumped around the city as are protests of force the government to announce a would transport the city's trash to other regions hundreds of kilometers away sebastian reports now from russia's congo region the stench of garbage hangs in the air at this housing complex near moscow on many days the air is so polluted people living here fall ill the problem is this damn sight eight kilometers away one of the largest in europe. you soon my daughter and i were all night and my daughter was vomiting just three years old i went to the doctors and they said close your windows when i asked if we should leave this area they said it was our decision but if you live in this area you better take care of yourself everyone has the ability to leave. after protests earlier this year the government closed twenty five landfill sites but the garbage doesn't stop piling up and that puts extra pressure on the remaining fourteen dumps residents say the smell and health concerns got even worse when it was decided to burn toxic gases which are released from the landfills the government is now planning to transport millions of tons of garbage to several regions one more than a thousand kilometers from moscow by train and by truck we're not allowed to go beyond this gate but this is one of the destinations so moscow frash over eight hundred hectares of what used to be designated farmland it was still reaching here off will be turned into a so-called eco techno park or as local activists like to call it a huge garbage dump. your authorities told a local television station the park will contain a way sorting facility and will generate energy out of rubbish the report emphasises the economic benefits for region but boris li shoot-in who has investigated the plants as the proposed park will include a large landfill and doesn't expect to see great efforts made to limit the environmental impact. when hundreds or forty ton garbage trucks was moving here just will cover kilometers of sorrel and not to mention the pollution that will come from burning trash which will travel wardens when's it your mother's toxic substances will be everywhere. questions from al-jazeera to the moscow government about the project has remained and answered. activists say the government is legally obliged to develop clean waste management law is falling. but the regional governments don't want to implement this law because they're in tight relations with businesses and all of this dumps and private hands the state doesn't have anything to do with them. that jana lapin access no sane person would have come up with a plan to move the trash from one area to another even those living in the region who were initially in favor of the plan have changed their mind but local authorities refused to let them hold a protest moskos waste is not only an environmental problem but a political one two step fastened al-jazeera kaluga region. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the turkish president has condemned donald trump's national security adviser after he demanded protection for the u.s. as kurdish allies in syria ratchet type of don says john bolton made a serious mistake after he said washington would only pull out its troops if the safety of kurdish fighters was guaranteed thousands of them have helped the u.s. push eisel out of its eastern syrian stronghold turkey views them as terrorists. he said bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and i saw it at the same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as the p y d and the y. p.g. along with ice all we will mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations in syria and land very soon. a snow storm meanwhile is adding to the misery of syrian refugees who are living in temporary camps in southern lebanon for many it's their apes winter of exile with just plastic sheeting for warmth at least one hundred seventy thousand of the one million refugees registered with the u.n. a particularly vulnerable because they live in so-called informal shell holes north korean leader kim jong un is in china his fourth visit in a year the trip which south korean officials say has coincided with his thirty fifth birthday came at the invitation of the chinese president the visit also follows reports of a future second summit between presidents trump and kim aimed at denuclearizing the korean peninsula. being protests in nigeria after labor unions the man that that all states must pay people the new higher minimum wage of eighty three u.s. dollars a month the federal government had previously agreed the amount but some states have claimed they can't afford it. empties across all major parties in the u.k. you have just demonstrated their opposition to leaving the european union with no deal in a parliament to vote if passed an amendment to a finance bill that stops the government raising money to implement the new deal breaks it without the consent of parliament they without zero science in a golden age is next. headlines warned the streets of melbourne australia are by. its citizens under threat by african gangs. but how real the planes. one east investigates. they've been so many great advances in science over the past hundred years everything from relativity and quantum mechanics to electronics computing and space travel but none of this progress would have been possible without the mathematics zation of songs and the development of algebra the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word. which has its roots in the title of a manuscript written around eight twenty during the time i refer to as the golden age of sawyer this was the period between the ninth from fourteenth centuries when scholars in the islamic world first applied the principles of mathematics to science and jamal could be a british professor of theoretical physics but born in baghdad i'm going to look at how the mathematical underpinnings of science apply today and trace their roots back to this golden age. aviation is one of the most remarkable achievements of modern science and in order to be sure that the planes we've built stay in the sky we've needed to master the mathematics of flying. this is we come on the and the green who's a jet pilot and a mathematician. we are straight. and you have the mathematics background so you understand more the most the mathematics involved in aviation and flying absolutely it's it is a great way to be able to understand how to fly an airplane to understand the dynamics of what's actually going on in the aircraft because i can actually dig into the equations and understand the science behind it. the mathematics that i'm interested in is something called a quadratic equation a square equation the unknown quantity x. times itself that square lower equation cleek the essential basic core drastic is fundamental to how much lift an airplane can generate how fast it needs to fly it is the basis of all aviation it's actually not as complicated as many people might think if we think about lifts and there was some various constants and then there's haul off road to be squared so it looks complicated with lots of symbols but if you bracket all this all it's saying is lifts is some number it's hard to square of the velocity very simply if you go twice as fast as they squared you will get four times as much lift. which is why aerobatic airplanes are powerful they need to fly fast to do those very crisp very precise movements. if you want to roll the airplane and if you double the speed it will roll four times as fast so it's better. when andy increases his speed to twice as fast because the lift depends on v. squared this times as much lift so he can roll the plane four times as far as. our modern methods for solving mathematical problems like these involving quadratic equations go all the way back to the golden age in fact to the wonderfully titled book and keep our. wish translate says the compendious book on calculation by completion and balancing it was written by the nineteenth century persian mathematician hard as me now he wasn't the first man to solve quadratic equations they go all the way back to antiquity but he was certainly the first mathematician to provide the general method the technique the recipe for solving them what we would today call the algorithm a word derived from alcoholism is a latinized name algorithm this he is also right now regarded as being the father of the field of algebra even the term algebra comes from the word job or in the title of his book what's most remarkable about this mathematical textbook though is not that it has any equations in it because it is me wrote his whole book in words alone. i'll call his muse book contains many practical everyday problems of the time such as dividing up land paying laborers or splitting up inheritance businessmen and traders would have found the equations particularly helpful that's a very business man a result on a high tree grew up in the desert right. camels and still keeps a herd today. so i mean these are beautiful camels here how important are camels in arabian and bedouin culture well come of a very important and bad when culture for transportation or milking for meat it's very important here and if i wanted to buy a camel i mean what sort of price would they fetch that expensive you know. fifty thousand to seven hundred million euros wow yes that beauty of the expansive talking about. millions you know it's not it's a there's a jealous again it's both jealous yes there will be attention it's very very important i mean very expensive twenty million maybe more simpler one is maybe five thousand two thousand i ask you this because i want to use the value of a camel to carry out a particular mathematical calculation while. i want to give you a problem and show you the sort of thing that horace me wrote about in his book of algebra going to use the example of a man who dies owning just one camel which of course has to be sold now what if that camel fetched eighty durham's the man has a friend to me because we've a quarter of his money he leaves the widow to me because we've won eight and he has three sons how much does each son get he would set up the algebraic equation where the unknown quantity the thing and shape is part of the equation this is what we call x. in algebra today so the way i would write it is eighty equals eighty divided by four plus eighty divided by eight plus three x. three sums each receiving x. that's what we have to work out as we work through the algorithm the recipe to work this out so if a simplify this eighty equals twenty. plus ten plus three x. so eighties thirty plus three x. i take the thirty to the other side eighty man is thirty three x. fifty equals three x. and so x. is fifty over three which of i'm correct is sixteen and two third's there are times this sort of algebraic equation is something very complicated to people at the time of horror as me showed the recipe for carrying out very important calculations that would have been used in everyday life. that's right isn't it. andy green isn't just a pilot he's also a world record holder in one thousand nine hundred seven he became the first and only driver to officially travel on land faster than the speed of sound. is the longest standing record in history and up till this point nobody has broken it that's about to change we're building a new car to go a lot faster. than we are now building a bloodhound supersonic car it is going to be a car like no other. bloodhound has been designed using the latest engineering techniques and complex computer modeling to create such an advanced vehicle the bloodhound engineers have solved thousands of equations we're going to put the limits of modern technology one thousand six hundred kilometers an hour one thousand miles an hour forty percent faster than the speed of sound and when traveling that fast some of the most important equations deal with drag the force of resistance that the car needs to overcome to reach a thousand six hundred kilometers an hour. in exactly the same way that lift will increase by a factor of four when you double the speed the drag on the vehicle will also increase how much drag you will experience is again a square law and it's even more extreme in the land speed record context because of course we're going so much false about the square to this so enormous we're looking at sixteen hundred kilometers an hour square that it becomes a very big number and the amount of drag is immense to call. eight such an advanced high speed vehicle as one is quadratics the bloodhound engineers have also needed to solve many other types of equations press it is the car is nice work on quadratic equations then inspired other later mathematicians to solve even more complicated equations and another great high on who is regarded as one of the greatest medieval poets in my view was an even better mathematician he was solving cubic equations involving a quantity times itself heart itself again and this is also important for bloodhound because the amount of power that's needed from the engines is a cubic equation it's extraordinary that they make that step to the cubic equation that gives the final building block because it's not only when we double the speed we have four times the drag but it takes eight times the power is that she added so you're trying to say not to do and it becomes a very very large number it's that the cube which produces such a huge part of the fun they discovered it might able to answer his question. it was just one of the many scholars who flourished in the ninth century although he was persian he spent his academic life in the city of baghdad which had become a renowned center of learning. during the first century after the birth of islam muslim armies conquered vast swathes of the old world they defeated the persians and entered iraq in seven sixty two the a basset caves established their capital in the newly founded city of baghdad from which they room over their great empire for the next five centuries and it was in baghdad the established the famous battle hekmat the house of wisdom now it's not known exactly where this was or even if it was a single academy but we do know that baghdad quickly became the greatest center of knowledge of the medieval world. they are bastard rulers with generous patrons promoting knowledge and scholarship at the silly money a library to stumble i'm meeting professor. he studied the origins of the house of wisdom there are three. hundred to. fill. me. through. the middle of the lake that. cost her letter but i can be a. breakthrough. he has a method that. there was a rational they were christians they were jewish scholars or there was under the auspices of the islamic empire being translated into arabic many of these scholars came from all sorts of religions all working together in this one big movement. translation was central to the early work of the house of wisdom dr peter starr has studied this translation movements extensively. i think the translations are very central to the flourishing of sciences in islam one finds that the entire corpus of scientific literature finds its way into arabic so they were translating essentially from greek mainly from greek but also the languages are important as well from persian. from some script when did this start so at the end of the eighth century we find the translations really picking up but this is the bastid yes here above all be about the period the earliest translations tend to be in those subjects which will serve the empire most medicine astronomy philosophy mathematics so without this remarkable translation movement that went on for two centuries there wouldn't have been a goal. an agent all. very well. the health of wisdom was much more than just a library or translation house this was the high point of islamic civilization an unrivaled center of scholarship and learning drawing on greek persian and indian texts the scholars there amassed a collection of world knowledge and then built on it through their own discoveries . the significance example of this use and development of knowledge from other civilizations was in geometry. decoration is famous for its intricate patterns and geometric designs developed over the centuries very often these were derived from earlier cultures greek roman by her asian and central asia they took that knowledge and created from it these beautiful patterns. geometry wasn't just about beauty of heart as me and other scholars from the house of wisdom translated books about mathematics and geometry in order to apply that knowledge to their world to the river in practical reasons for studying geometry. the arabs have now an enormous empire need to measure it into taxing the book of elements of euclid euclid elements with your suzumiya barriers some closed your. building on the translations they studied the scholars of battle heckman improved upon the measurements of the greeks enabling them to create more accurate maps of the world . their mastery of geometry also allowed the scholars to make astronomical calculations and describe the movements of the moon planets and stars. as a merchant one of the most fundamental aspects of mathematics was simply how to write numbers down in the golden age there were several systems in use including using arabic letters for numbers similar to roman numerals but advocated a different number system. the number system we use today the decimal system is called the hindu arabic numeral system called hindu because it comes recently from india arabic because it came by the islamic world and scholars in baghdad like me transmitted it first. and then to the rest of the world everywhere today we use this decimal system and the zero and we forget how difficult it was before it existed. so imagine if i wanted to add up my bill but not using the decimal system using roman numerals instead let's see how awkward that would be if i first write these numbers down using hindu arabic numerals forty two sixteen and fourteen now i can add these up very easily the sixteen and fourteen makes thirty plus the forty to seventy two. in roman numerals forty two would be x l r. sixteen is x v. fourteen is x i v right i have to break this down now how many x. is forty so that actually four x. . and then. and then i have another. i don't have an office and four. ok so now i have six x.'s x x x. x and then i have a v. and then i have one two three four seven so that's another v. . they give me another x. so finally one two three four five six seven that. x x. which is seventy two so i've got the right number but it took a lot longer to calculate. in the late twelfth century the italian mathematician fibonacci travelled the world and came across these numbers in the islamic empire in twelve zero two he wrote his book lieber abaci the book of calculation in which he promoted the use of hindu arabic numeral system over the roman numerals describing its many benefits for both merchants and mathematicians alike. uptake of the system was slow both in the islamic world and in europe in florence in twelve ninety nine they banned these numerals on the pretext that they were easier to falsify than roman numerals however common sense eventually prevailed and the numeral system was adopted throughout europe in the fifteenth century six hundred years after it was introduced to the islamic world. one of the most important fields of modern mathematics is computer encryption from email confidentiality to government security encryption plays a big role in an increasingly online digital world. and the study of encryption goes all the way back to the ninth century and the work of another famous mathematician from beta hickman. this is a very interesting book i'm trying to figure out exactly what it's telling us is a book by l. kin the philosophy of the arabs now kindi was a great polymath he was a philosopher he was a mathematician he was a musician and i think the part here he talks about he's got a disk with the arabic alphabet and he talks about town seeing the number a particular symbol appears kindi figures or the idea of frequency analysis that when a letter appears a certain number of times if it's more common than other letters you can work out what it is can these texts is the earliest known description of frequency analysis but that text was only discovered in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven before that we had no idea that the supposedly modern technique for studying cryptic messages was in use over a thousand years ago now one of the oldest and most simplest ways to encrypt a message to make it secret is simply by substituting each letter by a different one let me show you. imagine we have a simple sentence al-kindi was a famous scholar now provided we have the key. key which is also called the cipher which by the way comes from the arabic words which means zero with i represent each letter with a different one so by looking at the table i would see that a corresponds to l. and l. corresponds to k. . kafer kindi k. corresponds to v. and so on in this way i can turn this sentence into something that's not readable and less you have the cipher. what if we have a paragraph like this which looks completely but. without the key without the cipher i can't work it out now if you don't have the cipher you can use frequency analysis to try and figure out the meaning i know that the five most common letters in english language are e c i o n r i so far i replace these into that text i can start to see patterns emerging for instance if i look at the most frequently occurring letter in the text is w. so i'm guessing w. is most likely. and i carry on like this until i start to recognise individual words so for instance a three letter word that begins with t. in with is most likely that gives me the code for the letter h. and so on. if. the. developments in mathematics were the only legacy of the golden age the translation movement had introduced scholars to a wide range of subjects and they made advances in fields as diverse as astronomy and medicine they took the mathematics they developed and applied it to things chemistry and engineering science was now no longer just a philosophical pursuit the math matteis zation of science paved the way to a multitude of scientific advances. next time we look at state of the art robotic engineering you can see a movie is not like a robot for a very human flu but discovered that the idea of automatic machines goes back over a thousand years. that's what test it in a sense this is an early programmable. we find out about complex mechanisms such as clocks musical instruments and more to pumps as the more to lose the water wheel 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speech to the nation as the partial shutdown of government goes into his eighteenth day. an opposition leader in the democratic republic of congo didn't mon's the presidential election results be published after another delay in. egyptian excitement but there are concerns about how the country will cope with africa's biggest football tournament. but the trumpet ministration secretary of state and its national security advisor are both on the mission to try to offer assurances to allies about the plan to withdraw u.s. troops from syria but john bolton the national security advisor has insisted that turkey does not target kurdish armed groups in syria and that's angered the turkish president better one he's criticized what he calls mixed messages from washington. from the turkish capital ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced on twitter the t.v. withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he's done that bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on that point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p g the p.y.t. and i still we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria land very soon as far as turkey is concerned the y p g a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting eisel critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and their syrian rebel allies. and other areas. but turkey sees the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating eisel include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion in some of the random a syrian one must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria godless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a planned joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the disagreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what it's wants to do in syria. and. well the u.s. actually has saved my pompei and he's also in the region and he's been reassuring our allies that withdrawing troops from syria will not jeopardize efforts to put pressure on the wrong. president to signal to withdraw our folks from syria in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that and you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only our diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may and these are simple asks we ask of the islamic republic of iraq to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday. stephanie decker has more now from the jordanian capital amman. so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not affect its fight to lessen to contain iran and its influence in the region there is a press conference between your state is your damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides want to see a political solution to it was in touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanian saying that they saw this as a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east where the sect of state will be heading on to egypt where he's expected to give a keynote speech interestingly that will come ten years to the time when the former president barack obama gave his middle eastern speech also a development on the same day that state was here in jordan that the former general anthony zinni who was tossed with trying to deal find a solution to the blockade the gulf blockade resigned saying that he was having difficulties in getting all sides getting the leaders of the countries to allow to any form of mediation so this is the context on which pair now embarks forward but the message from the americans is that despite this pullout in syria they remain steadfast ally and they will remain very much present in the region well as you just heard from stephanie retired u.s. general anthony zinni he has resigned he had served as the trumpet administrations and voice to try to resolve the dispute between kasa and its neighbors the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt imposed a land sea and blockade all in twenty seventeen also in jordan has more on his resignation and the state of u.s. diplomacy in the region. for the last year and a half retired u.s. general anthony zinni has had two jobs negotiate an end to the g.c.c. crisis in which qatar has been isolated by its gulf neighbors since june twenty seventh team and help us stablish a nato like organization called the middle east strategic initiative army said no more zinni has submitted his resignation to any waste discharge. he did not waste his time because the situation in the middle east can always get more unstable unfortunately it is extraordinary important to have trusted intermediary parties to ensure that the situation does not deteriorate further according to reports zinni said he's leaving because no country in the dispute is willing to negotiate in good faith what's more analysts eager neubauer says the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist up and it plans for a u.s. brokered discussion in washington in october former secretary of state rex tillerson had hired zinni a former military commander in the middle east after his own efforts at shuttle diplomacy failed to end the blockade zinni insists he had full support from officials at the white house which had recently asked him to add the regional military alliance to his to do list analysts say that without an end to the qatar blockade and no sign of the white house hosting a g.c.c. summit any time soon such an alliance has no chance of being stood up even though he were tasked to help resolve the gulf crisis once that was no longer tenable at least in the current environment he sought to appear to rest through integrated military cooperation and what to murder. became an impossibility the state department thank is in for his work saying that quote his mission was to help introduce the. concept of the middle east reteaching alliance and start a conversation with leaders in the region that is happening and well underway thanks to his efforts for now it falls to secretary of state mike pompei o to discuss the blockade and a possible military alliance during his first major trip to the middle east however pompei is top priority and that of the white house is the isolation of iran at any cost that means anthony zinni his work could end up being neglected for the foreseeable future rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington now the u.n. envoy for yemen has met the yemeni president added rebel months of a holiday griffith spoke to mr hardy on tuesday in the saudi capital riyadh before that he'd met hoofy rebels in the yemeni capital sanaa mr griffiths is calling on both sides of the civil war to follow the fragile truce that they agreed to last month in sweden there have been reports of violations especially in the port city of her data where most of the country's food or medicine must pass through before distribution. well mr griffiths is expected to brief the u.n. security council on wednesday about that status of the cease fire. let's talk now to middle east analysts knew about who's joining us live from washington d.c. studio thank you very much indeed said. seems to be making some headway insofar as he's having meetings with all the right people what's your assessment of how this yemen deal which is specifically applicable to her day there in the first since is what's your assessment of how it's working. thank you very much for having me on let me just begin by saying that it's very positive that positive statements are coming out of both riyadh and saw not before he is going to brief the u.n. security council tomorrow in new york so. the process is continuing and fact it we're even discussing the prospects of a second round of peace talks underscores that the political will that is this is serious to advance any peace talks between the parties is still there and that the u.s. diplomatic pressure on riyadh in abu dhabi firm because we know that secretary of state mike compare will be in the region this week and he will be discussing specifically the peace process once he visits abu dhabi and riyadh right now as i mentioned earlier i mean this is a deal the deal that was struck in sweden was specifically quite narrow in terms of its terms of reference it was political to the porch of his data in order to allow for these vitally needed humanitarian supplies to get into the country and prevent the the starvation of millions of people is that actually happening is aid coming in and all the people of yemen being supplied finally. the aid house been coming in through yemen and throughout the war from who date of the problem is that it is not enough for you can't just have one entry point of humanitarian supplies into a country of tens of millions of people so that to ensure a transition continues is obviously vital i think what is important to understand is that it did deal over who died it was a was a test if you will for the parties to see if they can agree on this they might be able to agree on other issues that are more complex and difficult including potential power sharing your arrangements and so forth so i think that the political talks will will be in the next face of these talks but for now the fact that there are u.n. monitors on the ground in who data to ensure that the ceasefire is holding is in itself a success and do you feel that given the limited success i suppose is the word we could use with regard to the sweden deal do you think that that is presenting the building blocks a poem which a greater more comprehensive deal can be reached. potentially yes and so far we're seeing to mix are working because if we are to see for instance later this month a second round of peace talks not in sweden but in kuwait which is in the region and kuwait has already. a history of engaging in in yemen peace talks whether it was helping to broker the two thousand and eleven g.c.c. agreement that helped transition then president ali abdullah saleh away from power or if it was in two thousand and fifteen two to shepherd through to first sets of talks peace talks that at the time did not succeed to defected kuwait is now on the agenda again or i should i should say potentially on the agenda again shows that the ownership for the peace process needs to be into region and that the international community will close circle around the u.n. peace process and to push forward so i think that all the positive signs are there whether or not there will be last minute spoilers we don't quite know as of yet all right know about thank you very much indeed for that sega talking to us live there from washington d.c. . the president is due to address the american people in just a couple of hours from now on what he calls the security crisis along the us mexico border vice president mike pence says mr trump plans to build his case for the wall that he's demanding in order to end the partial government shutdown. he'll talk about the seventeen thousand people with criminal records that we've apprehended at our border who explain the need not just to build a wall which he is determined to do but also to provide our border patrol with additional resources humanitarian and medical assistance new technology but the democrats need to come to the table and start negotiating but tonight the president will take their case to the american people. all right let's go now to our correspondent john home and now he's in that on the mexican side of the border with california and this of course john is where the vast numbers of people who've been crossing from central america hoping to get asylum or at least to have a hearing in the united states this is where they're gathering what is the status of the caravan. well the caravans really a lot less people than they were just a couple of months ago there was around six thousand people here or if not more now there's about seven hundred people a lot of people have asked for humanitarian visas in mexico even going back home or have money to do what you just talked about actually one of our team saw not too long ago people actually crossing the border getting over the wall and then as you said handing themselves in to american law enforcement officials to ask for asylum they were crossing the wall not to try and disappear but actually to do that and trying to get into the united states system and donald trump is we expect anyway in his address to the nation is painting a fairly bleak picture as to the nature of say many of these people he's trying to suggest that a lot of them are criminals with criminal on the ferris intent once they get to the united states is that is that the kind of person that you recognize you have it you having spent so much time with these people as they've walked for the most part thousands and thousands of miles. exactly that i think one of the tweets that he sent as the caravan was going up three minutes can he said that there were middle easterners involved in the curve and obviously i suppose the subtext of that saying that there might be terrorists involved in the curve and i and my colleagues we've been covering it as you know for months now haven't seen one person from the middle east in the caravan there was a lot of talk as well about people in the caravan that might be criminals that might come from gangs i think when you're talking about more than seven thousand people there's no doubt that mixed in with those people they're all going to be a few people who have committed crimes in their places back in their home country but the majority of the people that we talked to said that they were fleeing at. from gangs from threats like that in their home country and this was many of them but they were seen as they were seeking a better life from the united states because there was so much poverty back home especially in honduras where the economic situations got a lot worse recently. i suppose a few aspects to this the president saying that this might be a national emergency for which he needs to bring about his will i mean you can see next to me the us mexico border is actually covered by a fence there's about two thirds of the border that's covered by a fence but actually most of the drugs and this was another point that the president has made in the past. to stop drugs a lot of those drugs the majority of them actually go through points of entry points where vehicles and pedestrians are going through and they're smuggled through that way so the wouldn't make a lot of difference to them. all right for now john thank you very much indeed john holmes our correspondent there at the mexico u.s. border. we've got a lot more to come on this news hour including north korean leader kim jong travels to beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. and another blow to theresa may his opposition m.p.'s and her own conservative defeat the u.k. government on preparations for a new deal brett said. and it's a bumpy ride as a south african driver jumped into the lead in the rally will have the action in school. the sudanese president has dismissed calls to step down and instead has praised the army's response to antigovernment protests omar al bashir made the comments at a military parade in at that's a city where the demonstrations that she began three we. now these demonstrations calling for the president to step down has since spread across the country the authorities say at least nineteen people have been killed that i am the c international puts the death toll more like thirty seven morgan is our correspondent in the sudanese capital khartoum anti-government protests are now in its third week people have been demonstrating demanding that president obama and his twenty nine year rule and step down now would all start over the economy over the rise in bread prices and inflation of seventy percent one of the highest in the world and the protests spread nationwide schools and universities had to be shut down social media platforms such as twitter what's up and facebook were blocked by the government now today president obama will travel to original state and went with the military and spoke about the situation that the country is going through but. unfortunately those who are conspiring against sudan have been able to plant some agents and some trenches in our midst unfortunately that meld inside those with weak souls those who vandalize and in the meantime our people have been building and developing every day there are new projects but on the other side they want to destroy in boone my greetings to the military forces which have guarded the nation and protected it and broke down all conspiracies by the colonizes disappearances and their agents now this is not the first time that the president has spoken he has spoken on the eve of the country's sixty third independence anniversary and he said that he was going to increase the living wage and he was going to try to improve the economic situation but that did this did not stop the protests forces have been going on going including today and more are planned in the coming days now the government has been criticized for using what has been termed as excessive brutal force they just haven't have been killed in the process according to intent to the human rights group amnesty international but the government is saying that mine thousand people have been killed and over eight hundred have been arrested. now the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed winner of last month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress says its candidate felix she said kerry has won the vote is calling for a transition meeting with the outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results of the election meanwhile one of the main observers of the presidential election india is reporting irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that monitored. the latest from the capital kinshasa. shopkeeper blank. the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history coote several civil wars and contested elections he won election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can invite. people never the political situation right now is affecting business very few people are spending money the whole. thing. election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causing delays now they're expected to be announced later this week this could be the first democratic transfer of power in the us since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty that's if everybody here except for the other many people hoping to help in decades of everything on it and make. opposition leaders say they fear the vote will be manipulated to favor president joseph kabila as preferred successor emanuel should dari told me. the result. is not negotiable. we are calling. for. to be vigilant. all the rules. supporters from the ruling party have already started celebrating and not allegations of fraud they insist only the electoral commission known here as see me know the outcome. while we have to study the results of. this we make of these who are working. how can. you say i was in your position i should ask you how will. this result you know when. the government has cut internet and islamist services to prevent speculation on social media about who has won some people fear they could be violence if the final results are rejected by the liz's. concetta now the north korean leader kim jong un is on the second day of a visit to china which could help lay the ground for a second summit with u.s. president donald trump south korea is also hoping that this will help boost efforts to build peace it's cames for physics within the last year at the invitation of the chinese president give a gopalan report from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary armored train to beijing this video was released by the north korean state news agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meeting shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover is that as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to bring china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to be ignored so i think this is china's effort to try to be a part of this process and the key question of course is what is their message to the north koreans and for north korea having its biggest ally in benefactor by its side as can john and prepares for another summit with the u.s. president donald trump is expected to put young men in a stronger negotiating position kim jong un's previous three trips all occurred before are off to holding meetings with the u.s. or south korean presidents many see this trip as an opportunity to engage china as north korea sets out its diplomatic strategy for the coming year twenty eighteen was a momentous year for north korean diplomacy in june for the first time in its history its leader met with the u.s. president following that trump kim summit in singapore north and south korean relations improved with the two sides of the peninsula working to improve communication sent to sillett east soul has welcomed the latest meeting in beijing congealing you and we hope that conjunctions visit to china contributes to complete denuclearized sation and you stop and last in peace on the korean peninsula there has been little progress since the us north korea summit in june pyongyang says it has made concessions with regards to its nuclear program but washington says it needs to see more concrete action. many are now watching closely to see whether china will have any influence and pushing the diplomatic process forward to be gopalan auxerre hong kong still to come here on the. car. purchase in nigeria as demonstrators demand a rise in the minimum wage. and find out who came out on top in a five don't drill a between iraq and vietnam the border of up into have the details in school. out of there up to active storm systems and i was in the us you can see this one here it goes up into canada and ground coming to the pacific coast again where it's been very wet recently but maybe the most notes will aspect of the current winter is detentions now they are coming down again is a cult has reappeared in central counters coming back down to the great lakes but even now we're talking about above freezing in toronto new york and washington and it takes another day for the cold starts to show itself and it feels more like it should do in new york his operatives are on time by which time the rain would have gone from the pacific coast in the sun should be out once again in san francisco they're not in b.c. now sort of through the gulf of mexico on the caribbean this massive cloud has recently remains in a front given some rain to honduras and delays nothing some more to come a serious significant but notable or noticeable was an occasional shark cuba in the bahamas or once again maybe the version i was in fact the showers are more or less run to these votes are we get to the end of the week. in south america the concentration of wet weather has recently been iran to your to north and probably still will be but an interesting hint of showers moving west was towards lima normally a dry city maybe you know. it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations lay claim to territories under the ocean twenty one geologists are secret could block the borders. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on a. russian filmmaker andre necklace all travels across his homeland to discover what life is like under putin the russian economy is in crisis sanctions unstable oil prices fluctuating cards off of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge now economists calculate everything we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes away our flats. in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. most of the top stories here in the hour jazeera news a top u.s. envoy working to resolve the dispute between katherine this neighbors has resigned according to reports retired general anthony zinni said he's leaving because no country was willing to negotiate in good faith. president trump is preparing to address the nation about his promise to build a wall along the us mexico border. signed off with congress over funding of the wall has resulted in the shutdown of the government for more than two weeks. the turkish president. says the u.s. demand for protection of its kurdish allies in syria is a grave mistake the comments come as u.s. national security advisor john bolton is in ankara holding talks about the withdrawal of troops from syria. now a snowstorm is adding to the misery of syrian refugees living in camps in southern lebanon many of them are enduring that eight winter with only plastic sheeting as protection there among the most vulnerable of the one million registered syrian refugees still living in lebanon than to hold a report from the bekaa valley. the storm hit lebanon hard and it is not over syrian refugees are feeling the impact. their makeshift tents have been damaged because of the snow rain and strong winds plastic sheeting offers them a little protection to others but i do know the winds blew away the sheep so what can i say just look around you can we get you sheets we feel helpless. winter conditions are already bad in this region close to syria's border but storms make them even harder it was a difficult night for these people pools of sewage are posing health risks for the well but. still look at the reality can you believe that sewage water is everywhere up to this where is the international community where is the united nations. the waste water even reached inside what these people call their homes for many of these syrians this is their winter in exile the united nations says at least one hundred seventy thousand of the almost one million registered refugees live in makeshift shelters refugees cannot build better shelters no concrete construction is allowed in these informal camps the lebanese government does not permit the united nations or any other organization to set up permanent structures in these settlements. it's a policy here to discourage refugees to settle in lebanon permanently something kalisch doesn't want to do but for now he says he doesn't have an option. i lost my home in syria and we're living miserable lives here do you think i would stay here for an hour if it's another choice. it's a sentiment shared by many who are bracing themselves for what is expected to be even harsher conditions as temperatures continue to drop. because eastern lebanon. are let's go back to another of main stories and that of course is the widely anticipated address from president trump he's you to talk to the nation in a couple of hours from now about basically that wall that he wants in the southern border with mexico we can now speak to charles moran he's joining us live from los angeles he is a republican political strategist and to form a delegate for trump in twenty sixteen thanks for talking to us what do you expect him to say. thank you for having me on i think tonight's conversation is going to be much more than just the actual wall or the fence that he wants to build i think he's going to truly talk about the humanitarian crisis in the national security crisis it's not just about that fence that he wants to build but talking about increased border security using a lot of different tactics but also the humanitarian side talking about the book the plight that exists among these migrants who need to be processed to need to be screened who are currently being detained at the border that's not talking about the situation into unitarians i'm sorry to jump in there but that's not an angle that president normally spends any time on the humanitarian side i mean he's likely isn't he more likely to be spending time vilifying the people that are trying to apply for asylum in the united states isn't that what do you usually does. well in advance of this speech the white house is already putting out talking points and memo items talking about the additional border patrol agents the amount of law enforcement and also the number of detention beds and the enhanced medical support that's going to be needed and i think this is why president trump is giving the address tonight is to really discuss the humanitarian aspect because republicans typically get blamed for a governmental shutdown and since we've touched the president has tied the government shutdown to dealing with the situation in the border wall to really get the american people to understand the importance of this issue he's got to broaden it out it just can't be the wall he's also got to in order to to persuade the american people at large of the significance of this this wall of this fence deny what you want to call it is also going to create the sense of being a national emergency a crisis of national proportions hasn't it. absolutely and you've you've really spoken to that point because we have such a large group of people who have come to our borders seeking asylum trying to come into the united states it's created an unprecedented strain on our border security between the officials that we have the police officers border security but also the detention centers we don't have enough beds there aren't enough medical super medical personnel to adequately screen all of these people and to take care of them as they sit and wait to be with us at schools i mean. that's a real human tragedy story but there are so many people and so many of the pointed out that the statistics that president trump is basing his analysis own out of date and most definitely flawed without any veracity whatsoever so creating a system or a sense of panic if you like when none should really exist he's creating this so-called emergency isn't me. well we've had a we've had a crisis in our immigration process for a number of the last few decades while border attempts at border crossings have decreased while president trump has been president this is a problem that every every president for the last thirty years has just not addressed and it's been both republicans and democrats so both sides get some of the blame president trump is finally putting his foot down and saying i'm going to do something and one of the things that has not existed in previous years has been this migrant caravan that has come up through central america gone through mexico where now we actually have a large group of people more than is ever going to existed before sitting in our southern border waiting to be processed so the term crisis is something that can be used because nothing like this effort has ever been in existence before and we need to address that responsibly charles moran thank you so much for joining us live from l.a. . well britain's parliament has approved financial measures making it more difficult for the country to leave the european union without a deal as another major blow for the prime minister to resign may and have brecht's its strategy in a hollow reports. the british government is preparing the country for life outside the european union in particular for the possibility of leaving without a deal over future relations it's not a pretty picture queues of trucks shortages of food and medicine it is for many in parliament a worst case scenario but one that grows more possible by the day. hardly surprising then that those opposed to a no deal breaks it are doing all they can to prevent it i believe the government should rule out no deal but i think if it won't tim palmer must make sure that it has the palace to do science if it comes to the crunch it is time for members of parliament and also i start ruling out to be down to options to our country voting by a majority in favor of a measure that blocks public spending on a no deal outcome m.p.'s on both sides demonstrated their opposition to the government's current course. it's a significant defeat for the government here the successful amendment to the finance bill tabled by the opposition labor party with wide support is perhaps not the first salvo in a campaign aimed at forcing the government's hand it doesn't mean no deal planning will stop nor that no deal won't happen but it does put much more pressure on the prime minister to find a position that a majority in parliament can actually agree on she wasn't in parliament but to resume a knows that if there is no appetite for no deal and her own plan gets voted down next week then her options are greatly limited either go cap in hand to the e.u. leaders and plead for something better or consider doing what an increasing number of people and m.p.'s wanted to do which is hold another referendum there isn't a majority in support of any of the particular rights and outcomes and there definitely isn't a support for no deal so it is supported by around a quarter of the country around half those who voted leave in the e.u. referendum but it isn't as popular as remaining in the european union would be and when you ask the public which would prefer staying in your opinion or leaving with no deal staying in the european union does come ahead eighty days to breaks it and counting it is still firm government policy to take britain out of the e.u. on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events jonah how al-jazeera london. afarid politician in germany has suffered serious head injuries in what police describe as a politically made if i may to baited attack frank magnet's who leads a local branch of the alternative for germany party was attacked by a group of men as he was leaving the office of a local newspaper the f.t. a graphic photo of his injuries on social media. the latest round of peace also in afghanistan is being called off after the taliban refused to meet u.s. representatives in qatar bar reports taliban leaders canceled a meeting with the u.s. officials only a few hours after telling the media they were willing to hold face to face talks in qatar in the coming days and the reason is differences over inviting the afghan government delegation to join the talks a few days ago the taliban rejected an offer to meet afghan government representatives in saudi arabia preferring instead to hold talks with the u.s. special envoy. at the united states in taleban both have some cards taliban also try to play chess board in politics they don't want to open up very soon they want to give in take a lot. the afghan government says it's ready to me the taliban any time anywhere but for the talks to succeed afghanistan needs help from neighboring pakistan the u.s. has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing safe haven for taliban leaders accusations dismissed by the pakistani government pakistan being the immediate neighborhood on a star is interested in any development in afghanistan leads to peace and stability of the region gotten the efforts underway to words a political settlement in a fantasy and the drawl of u.s. troops should be part of a peace process we did to ensure that it is nor bar vacuum in afghanistan. despite huge international aid and a military campaign led by the us war is far from over and the taliban is far from defeated reports of the trump administration might be withdrawing troops in the coming months triggered panic among afghan officials but the u.s. isn't the sole player in the region the russians invited the taliban and members of the kabul based afghan peace council for talks last year saudi arabia and the u.a.e. took part in the last round of talks in december. iran has also been active over the last two years building bridges with the taliban and the government iran says its goal is to ensure an afghan led peace deal. the talks gained momentum last year but it's unclear if all the parties are willing to make concessions and agree on a unity government. thirteen ranger men of arrived in bangladesh after being deported from saudi arabia they entered saudi arabia on pilgrimage visas but they overstayed in order to work there believed to be part of a bigger group who appeared in a video posted online from a detention center in jeddah the men who've been protesting their return to bangladesh because they originally come for me and maher but the government of myanmar views them as illegal immigrants. rights campaigners a criticizing india for deporting reinjure asylum seekers back to me i'm out where the muslim minority is been persecuted amnesty international cuties india of disregarding international law arrange a family of five was expelled last week the second deportation in recent months back to ny is a legal and policy advisor for amnesty international in india she says the government is blocking access to asylum seekers. this particular family that was returned last week was in fact i just stood with the u.n. at the un refugee agency in india and they repeatedly asked to be able to meet the family and speak with them but the indian government chose to ignore the un at c.r.s. request so this is in addition to the fact that the indian government has dubbed asylum seekers and refugees a good migrants and i sending them back to myanmar that in fact even stopping us at the are from speaking to people who are registered as asylum seekers with the organization so and that india is quite concerned about this and we have been campaigning for people who are in india for a while but unfortunately the government seems to be going ahead with this policy of forcibly returning knowing that it seekers and refugees to be on my way they are at risk of serious human rights violations they know that men stated that about an estimated forty thousand get people in india the un at the asking at the data six eighteen thousand of them actually they just started with the un at the our office in india either as asylum seekers or that huge ease and they sped up over the country in that a state now in august of two thousand and seventeen the ministry of home affairs kind of declared this policy that they will be forcibly to donate. all these so-called illegal immigrants they are refused to acknowledge that they are designed seekers and refugees and instead calling them illegal immigrants and saying that therefore they need to be sent back to myanmar. pages have been taking place in nigeria with workers demanding a higher minimum wage. has more from the capital abuja. after waiting for two and half years i joined in workers saying they've had enough of the they held a protest trying to shut down the government if it doesn't implement and you minimum wage agreed with labor unions. they prevent its entire the minimum wage was a woman and two hundred forty dollars in france. is members of the protests empowered general workers have been battered twenty yards and that's why this is what becomes very very potent because it affects the lives of eleven million got to go because you know that obama dependence the delay in bringing the new wages maybe part of the reason for the protests but workers might also be taking advantage of next month's general election to force through a deal nigeria's central government may have agreed with labor unions on a new minimum wage but its biggest obstacle for implementation is the state government many at all would work a summer is for months until the central government in to be. nigeria has the largest economy in africa and it's also the continent's biggest oil producer but not much of its wealth gets treats workers and citizens. for now parliamentarians who get paid more than politicians in developed economies like the united states say they are on the side of the workers. no reason that we cannot afford to pay one hundred less than hundred dollar for a minimum wage. the president should do do you need for what the president should do is to immediately send the request to the national assembly and i can assure you as far as the parliament is cause we are in sync with the demand of the nigerian workers. as the workers await government response then looking to see what traders and service providers will do. the past any wage increases created by higher prices of goods and services what to say they hope that will not be the case this time. but increase al-jazeera. still to come in this fall see is find out his struggle is for the first time ever while perhaps labeling event will have all the action. it's time for this. thank you very much egypt is valid it'll be ready to hold africa's biggest football tournament in just over five months its officials have been celebrating in senegal's capital dhaka was awarded hosting rights so that it was the only other country in the running for the twenty four team africa cup of nations egypt last host the tournament thirteen years ago but its struggle to put together organized football at a local level since the arab spring of two thousand and eleven cameroon was stripped of the competition two months ago because of infrastructure delays and security concerns. promise that. will do the best to me very good given the news june and july we have a show to build that is a pretty good soldier given to reveals. his values and those of the world. leaders. that all of the missions will be available to the world and it will have been in our country. as an african football journalists he says egypt won the vote to host the tournament more for political reasons than football for a country that concerns things they are robbed of straying and some of the concerns about staging local games the fans are really really asking questions now whether it did have the ability to stage a tournament of this magnitude remember they've always said they feel as though they did national team at big stadiums in cairo so the relatively confident that it can bring the funds to come and watch the tournament so it's a big question that egypt will have to answer in the next five months they've been concerned about whether we all the problems plaguing the contras in terms of security in the last five months will be able to actually pull this off wiping for the government south african actually came out as the it's more of a political decision in you know not in in their not getting the right for egypt to get it they believe it was more of a political decision the people that make those decisions by voting for egypt he believes that the present african football federation association president danny jordaan he said it was a political decision and not for reasons as mentioned south africa was the other country in contention to host the tournament for me the miller reports from this is the most is my beat us stadium in durban which would have been one of the venue's south africa would have used had it won the bid to host afghan twenty nine. team about now gone to egypt and the south african football association says it won't be issuing a statement or responding to that news from the configuration of african football but previously the president of sapphire danny or dan in media reports had said that if the bird goes egypt's way it could be a political statement now south by hadn't necessarily received the financial backing or guarantees from the south african government to host afcon it would have cost in the region of ten to twelve million dollars an amount that many south africans argue the country could not afford given the sluggish economy and also that south africa is now heading to a election later this year so many south africans not necessarily heartbroken about losing out to egypt many of them in fact wishing egypt well for june one thousand nine hundred one other note qatar based in has announced it will stop its t.v. service in egypt egypt's among four countries that imposed a blockade on the gulf states eighteen months ago last year being was in dispute with saudi arabia based beyond q which broadcast fee for world cup matches without having the rights egypt law will be the star attraction at the cup of nations he's just remember double the forwards been voted africa's best footballer of the second year running he is headed off little paul teammates in a goals and also a strike appear in america obama young who kept turning to football's asian cup been plenty of goals on tuesday in the united arab emirates saudi arabia putting on a ruthless display in their opening group merchant dubai they defeated north korea for no art and opener was followed by those from the home of the two. and four hard move wallowed the north koreans not helped by red card as the saudis sent a strong message to group rivals lebannon and qatar. iraq overcame vietnam three two in group d. in a game that swung to and fro the equalizer to conceding a known goal but the vietnamese restored the lead before half time thanks to form in the second half iraq turned it around first they equalised and then months late free kick ensure victory. sebastian loeb has been the big mover in winning the second stage of the dhaka rally in peru the nine time world champion surging to fit the overall of the starting the day in thirteenth place he is nearly two minutes behind the leader south africa's general de villiers two thousand and nine champion is the head of toyota teammates a bairn ten brinker by twenty eight seconds in the motorbike race banished rider one by the board one the stage to lead by more than a minute and a half. europe will be captain by partnering harrington at gold's ryder cup in twenty twenty harrington won the cup four times as a player and now he's trying to win it as a captain at the next edition in the us then it really came down to. where i wanted to be in the hash and you know what is a successful career put on the line because you were put under an eye when you become the ryder cup captain is a different. element here career and you know we know a successful captain is gratian and losing count and you know it is false or st cloud and germany stefan but secured parallel slalom snowboarding wins at the world cup event in austria on tuesday forty five year old riddler negotiated tough snowy conditions that stein to defeat poland's alexander crawl by over half a second in the women's final as a baumeister this would be the third career world cup goalie was too good for switzerland's daddio cover these are all in the mains final. and that's all the sport we have it for now we'll have more again later. peter thank you very much indeed do stay with us here at the very latest from washington coming up in the next half hour so stay with us here at. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very good that was a prophet isaiah should anybody see any field. goals people who seem ever to do something to invest a profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of the faithful says that they think it will do a great or a good job with details coverage is the second time this year doctors walked out on strike the governor's find about a single suspension. from the around the well to the increased warning level collins is a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. short films of hope and inspiration. small stories of three young women challenging the world around them. al-jazeera selects. turkey's president rejects the u.s. call for his country to protect kurdish fighters he says the white house has made a serious mistake. again. in life and also coming out president prepares to make his case for a border wall in a speech to the nation. the north korean leader kim jong un travel so beijing ahead of a possible second summit with president trump. and another blow to to resume a house of commons vote makes a new deal bret's it even more complicated. to top u.s. officials are in the middle east seeking to reassure washington's allies about the trumpet ministrations plan to withdraw its troops from syria national security advisor john bolton says turkey miss not kurdish groups that the u.s. has been arming and training after the americans leave well that demand angered the turkish president. reports from the turkish capital ankara. over two weeks ago u.s. president donald trump announced on twitter the t.v. withdrawing american troops from syria on tuesday his national security adviser john bolton arrived in ankara for meetings with senior turkish officials about how and when that withdrawal will take place a day earlier bolton was in israel meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu where he assured him that the withdrawal would not impact negatively on kurdish groups inside syria to that turkish president's had this to say he said i am done but bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make a compromise on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria will receive the necessary lesson there is no difference between the p k k the y p g the p.y.t. and i still we are determined to take steps against these terrorist organizations we will mobilize to neutralize them in syria land very soon as far as turkey is concerned the why p.g.d. a kurdish militia inside syria is an extension of the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist group for its attacks inside turkey and the killing of its citizens the us however has armed and funded the y.p. jian recent years under the pretext of fighting eisel critics of the withdrawal saying washington would look bad if it were seen to be abandoning its partners but turkey points to the fact that it is a nato member and a u.s. ally and insists america must decide whether it wants to stand by its allies or side with a terrorist organization more than two years of turkish military intervention inside syria has resulted in huge setbacks for i saw which is lost territory to the turks and the syrian rebel allies in and out of mosul and other areas. but turkey sais the fight against so-called terrorism should not be exclusive to combating i saw include all groups regardless of their ethnicity or religion in some little missa syrian one must be cleared of all terrorists including the border area regardless of what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria are godless of the ethnic origins must be protected and made safe from terrorist persecution and attacks. john bolton's team described tuesday's meetings as constructive however the reality is that there is still a lot of work that needs to be done before a deal can be reached the fact that a planned joint press conference was cancelled in the eleventh hour is testament to the this agreements that remain but before a deal can be reached between the united states and turkey it would seem that the american government needs to agree amongst the self about what it wants to do in syria. and kyra. and the u.s. secretary of state might pompei or he's in jordan it's his first stop on an eight day middle east tour is also set to go to egypt saudi arabia kuwait and stephanie decker has more from the jordanian capital amman. so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not affect its fight to lessen to contain iran and its influence in the region there is a press conference between your state is your damian counterpart touching on the issue of syria that both sides want to see a political solution to it was in touching on the issue of iran and also briefly mentioning the israel palestinian conflict and certainly the jordanian saying that they saw this as a key issue that needed to be resolved when it came to conflict in the middle east where the sect of state will be heading on to egypt where he's expected to give a keynote speech interestingly that will come ten years to the time when the former president barack obama gave his middle eastern speech also a development on the same day that he said the of state was here in jordan that the former general anthony zinni who was tossed with trying to deal find a solution to the blockade the gulf blockade resigned saying that he was having difficulties in getting all sides getting the leaders of the countries to allow to any form of mediation so this is the context on which pump air now embarks forward but the message from the americans is that despite this pullout in syria they remain steadfast ally and they will remain very much present in the region. the united nations envoy to yemen has met the country's president. robert. a hearty only choose day in the saudi capital riyadh before that he had been meeting hoofy rebels in the yemeni capital sanaa is calling on both sides of the civil war. to follow the fragile truce they agreed to last month in sweden have been reports of violations especially in the port city of today which is the entry point for much of the country's food and medicine well i've been speaking to say good knowing who is a middle east analyst he thinks the fact that negotiations are ongoing is a positive sign the aid house been coming in through yemen throughout the war from who day to the problem is that it is not enough for you can't just have one entry point of humanitarian supplies into a country of tens of millions of people so that to ensure a transition continues is obviously vital i think what is important to understand is that deal over who died i would say was a test if you will for the parties to see if they can agree on this they might be able to agree on other issues that are more complex and difficult including potential power sharing your arrangements and so forth so i think that the political talks will and will be in the next phase of these talks but for now the fact that there are u.n. monitors on the ground in who they doubt to ensure that the cease fire is holding is in itself a success the president is due to address the american people in a short while from now on what he calls a security crisis along the us mexico border the vice president my pens he says that mr trump plans to build his case for the war and that he's the he's demanding in order to end the partial government shutdown. he'll talk about the seventeen thousand people with criminal records that we've apprehended at our border will explain the need not just to build a wall which he is determined to do but also to provide our border patrol with additional resources humanitarian and medical assistance new technology but the democrats need to come to the table and start negotiating but tonight the president will take that case to the american people are this go live now to our white house correspondent kimberly how she's in washington d.c. and kimberly seems very much is the president trump is likely to try to portray the situation at this southern border with mexico as one of crisis. that's certainly what we expect the president to say and convey to the american people persuade the american people we should point out there are millions in the united states that agree with the president particularly some that live along the southern border have been dealing with the issue of illegal immigration and perhaps those people running into their farms hiding in their barns those sorts of things certainly some people have lived what they perceive to be a crisis but that is certainly a political debate in the united states right now as the government is being held hostage over whether or not to build the border paul wall so certainly the president is going to try and make the case persuade the american public including his political opponents and critics we understand the speech will be about seven to ten minutes what is not clear right now and we were just in the white house speaking to ministration officials is whether or not the president will declare this a national emergency and that is certainly something people be looking for very closely if the president does do that and this is something that is relatively unusual one of the last times i remember it being used was following the september eleventh attacks and certainly would be open to debate whether this constitutes an emergency but this would open up the possibility for the president to get funding for the wall that he's not been able to secure from congress from the department of defense but that would also open up the president almost immediately to serious court challenges about his decision so watching very closely when this speech commences in just a few hours time whether or not the president will declare this a national emergency in order to deliver on a campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border with the united states and mexico and kimberly if he doesn't go that route i mean declare a national emergency is he any more likely having having addressed the american people with. a lower house of congress dominated by the democrats is he any more likely to get what he wants for five billion also funding for the. right now it does not look good for the president in terms of trying to get that the democrats have been very clear they continue to send out statements and following the president's address we will hear directly from the top democrats in the senate as well as the house of representatives chuck schumer and nancy pelosi respectively they will be making their case about why they believe a wall along the southern border a contiguous wall because there are some sections where there already is a wall in place why they believe this is a moral why this is unnecessary and why they believe that the president is overstating the crisis with regard to caravans human trafficking and all the rest so this is certainly what this wall has become is a political symbol in a larger fight over immigration over the funding of a government eight hundred thousand federal workers being held hostage in the midst of all of this essentially what we're down to is a massive staring contest between the democrats and the republicans that both sides will make their case in primetime addresses from the president as well as from the respective democratic leaders and then of course the president himself will be heading up to capitol hill where he will be speaking with republican members tomorrow and then we know the following day he will be headed to macallan texas where he will be continuing to make his case to the american people about why this is necessary or i can belief anon thanks very much indeed and of course we'll be talking with kimberly later on as soon as president trump makes his address. well the focus of this wall of course is the southern border of the united states with mexico john homer is our correspondent there he reports from tijuana. president trump has said that he could declare a national emergency to push through the building of his rude that he's been speaking about since he was on comes paying to become president now the big question here is is there a national emergency on the border that would justify building that will remember that two thirds of the border is already covered by some sort of fencing or structure well let's take it from the first point the caravan seem to reignite the debate over migration to the united states now you're seeing the remnants of it behind me from the thousands that were heading through mexico on their way to united states there's now only about seven hundred people left now in tents here in quanah that might not be the end of it there's another caravan planned to leave from honduras in mid january although there's doubts over with whether that's actually intended to come all the way to the us mexico border or not in terms of immigration and illegal immigration into the united states in general when you take the figures from last year to this year there is a big uptick in the numbers but when you take the figure as of the last decade that it's gone down really considerably less than a quarter of those people being apprehended on the us mexico border were being apprehended ten years ago so in terms of drugs now something else of the president's talked a lot about he said that the will would really deter and prevent a lot of illegal drugs coming into the states well his own lure in food authorities say that most drugs don't actually come around that you go through poor servant tree where pedestrians and vehicles go through and they smuggled into the united states in that way. so obviously a war wouldn't do a lot to prevent those drugs from getting through so a lot of the baseball points around this as to whether this is a national emergency here on the border that would justify president trump keeping his campaign promise and building that will. and i've been speaking to charles moran who's a republican political strategist we've had a crisis in our immigration process for a number of the last few decades while border attempts at border crossings have decreased while president trump has been president this is a problem that every poll every president for the last thirty years has just not addressed and it's been both republicans and democrats so both sides get some of the blame president trump is finally putting his foot down and saying i'm going to do something and one of the things that has not existed in previous years has been this migrant caravan that has come up through central america gone through mexico where now we actually have a large group of people more than has ever existed before sitting in our southern border waiting to be processed so the term crisis is something that can be used because nothing like this effort has ever been in existence before and we need to address that responsibly. still to come here if there is still no official election results in the democratic republic of congo over the country's biggest opposition party says its candidate has won. by the springtime flowering of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on the interstate. hello january in southeast asia should be bone dry so this is a very unusual sight they are a cycling public that went through southern thailand that should have been there in january were it remains of caused all this and that significant rain all the way from in ma up towards you none in china it is moving eastward so it goes beyond you know and it will produce snow in the higher ground in the colder and middle of china a run out towards shanghai where it may well rain come thursday not a total there could be over a hundred millimeters in places that normally get four or five on thinking particularly of northern laos northern thailand min and you are not so say an unusual event hong kong misses that you should have a fine couple of days now that has moved further south where equally it's different no this is a dry spell very few showers if any in the philippines not that many men lazy or indeed in indonesia that there are going to start to grow again i think not concentrate further west of singapore kayo and sumatra seem like they had a few and that we want to say of course in borneo in some ways a bit it looks like job or in bali for example rain dry showers will come into the philippines they will reappear nevertheless this is been a couple of dry days relatively speaking there's a couple more to come for most. the weather sponsored by cats are always. water an essential resource for all humankind across europe pressure to recognise water as a human right and put its management back into public hands is increasing i think that the european commission would be very very glad she was proud of those asian on anybody as the only field. goals people who seem ever to have something to invest the profit of the one dollar up to the last drop on al-jazeera. time to take a look at the top stories here about the turkish president roger try a better one says the u.s. demand for protection for its kurdish allies in syria is a grave mistake the comments come as u.s. national security advisor john bolton is in ankara holding talks about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria. and a top u.s. envoy working to resolve the dispute between katter and his neighbors has resigned according to reports retired general anthony zinni said he is leaving because no country was willing to negotiate in good faith. president trump is due to address the nation his standoff with congress over funding for a wall along the us mexico border has shut down large parts of the government for nearly three weeks his speech takes place in just under two hours you'll be able to see it live here at al-jazeera. that kim jong un is on the second day of a visit to china which could help lay the ground for a second summit between the north korean leader and u.s. president donald trump south korea is hoping it'll also boost efforts to build peace with pyongyang is kims for visit in the past year at the invitation of the chinese president xi jinping to vehicle pollen ripples from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary armor trying to beijing this video was released by the north koreans to use agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meeting shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover is that as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to bring china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to be ignored so i think this is china's effort to try to be a part of this process and the key question of course is what is their message to the north koreans and for north korea having its biggest ally in benefactor by its side as kim jong un prepares for another summit with the u.s. president donald trump is expected to put young man in a stronger negotiating position kim jong un's previous three trips all occurred before are off to holding meetings with the u.s. or south korean presidents many see this trip as an opportunity to engage china as north korea sets out its diplomatic strategy for the coming year twenty eighteen was a momentous year for north korean diplomacy in june for the first time in its history its leader met with the u.s. president following that trump kim summit in singapore north and south korean relations improved with the two sides of the peninsula working to improve communication sent facilities soul has welcomed the latest meeting in beijing congealing you and we hope that conjunctions visit to china contributes to complete denuclearized sation and you stop and last in peace on the korean peninsula there has been little progress since the us north korea summit in june pyongyang says it has made concessions with regards to its nuclear program but washington says it needs to see more concrete action many are now watching closely to see whether china will have any influence and pushing the diplomatic process forward to be gopalan auxerre hong kong. the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed winner of last month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress says its candidate felix just a caring has won the vote and is calling for a transition meeting with the outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results of the vote. meanwhile one of the main local observer groups so far to election india c is reporting serious irregularities in more than half of the counting centers that it monitored. from the capital kinshasa shopkeeper blanche knows the democratic republic of congo has had a difficult history several civil wars and contested elections he wants election results released as soon as possible to ease tensions so the country can move on. oh. the political situation right now is affecting business very few people spending money the whole. election officials were supposed to release provisional results on january sixth but it's a logistical challenges are causing delays now they're expected to be announced later this week this could be the first democratic transfer of power in the us since independence from belgium and nine hundred sixty that's it everybody here except for the un many people hoping to help in decades of other i mean honestly. opposition leaders say they fear the vote will be manipulated to favor president joseph kabila as preferred successor emanuel should dari told. the result that. is not negotiable. we are calling. for. to be vigilant. all the rules. to porters from the ruling party have already started celebrating and not allegations of fraud they insist only the electoral commission known here as see me know the outcome. while we have to study the results of. this we make of these. how. i was in your position i should ask you how will. you know when. the government has cut internet and islamist services to prevent speculation on social media about who has won some people fear they could be violence if the final results are rejected by the losers. there. rights campaigners are criticizing india for deporting ranger asylum seekers back to miramar where the muslim minority has been persecuted and this international accuses india of disregarding international law arrange a family of five was expelled last week the second deportation in recent months india's hindu nationalists government regards the ranger as illegal migrants and a security risk but tonight here is a legal and policy advisor for amnesty in india she says the government is blocking access to ranger asylum seekers. this particular family that was returned last week was in fact i just stood with the u.n. at the un refugee agency in india and they repeatedly asked to be able to meet the family and speak with them but the indian government chose to ignore the un at c.r.s. request so this is in addition to the fact that the indian government has dubbed asylum seekers and refugees a good migrants and i sending them back to myanmar that in fact even stopping us at the are from speaking to people who are registered as asylum seekers with the organization so and that india is quite concerned about this and we have been campaigning for people who are in india for a while but unfortunately the government seems to be going ahead with this policy of forcibly returning knowing that it seekers and refugees to be on my way they are at risk of serious human rights violations they know that men stated that about an estimated forty thousand get people in india the un at the asking at the data six eighteen thousand of them actually they just stood with the un at the office in india either as asylum seekers ordered to g.'s and they sped out over the country in that estate now in august of two thousand and seventeen the ministry of home affairs kind of declared this policy that they will be forcibly to doany. all these so-called illegal immigrants they are refused to acknowledge that they are designed seekers and refugees and instead calling them illegal immigrants and saying that therefore they need to be sent back to myanmar. britain's parliament has approved financial measures making it more difficult for the country to leave the european union without a deal as another major blow for prime minister to resign may and her bret's its strategy as jonah how now reports. the british government is preparing the country for life outside the european union in particular for the possibility of leaving without a deal over future relations it's not a pretty picture queues of trucks shortages of food and medicine it is for many in parliament a worst case scenario but one that grows more possible by the day. hardly surprising then that those opposed to a no deal breaks it are doing all they can to prevent it i believe the government should rule out no deal but i think if it won't impala it must make sure that it has the powers to do say if it comes to the crunch it is time for members of parliament are also i start ruling out the damage options to our country voting by a majority in favor of a measure that blocks public spending on a no deal outcome m.p.'s on both sides demonstrated their opposition to the government's current course. it's a significant defeat for the government here the successful amendment to the finance bill tabled by the opposition labor party with wide support is perhaps not the first salvo in a campaign aimed at forcing the government's hand it doesn't mean no deal planning will stop nor that no deal won't happen but it does put much more pressure on the prime minister to find a position that a majority in parliament can actually agree on she wasn't in parliament but to resume a knows that if there is no appetite for no deal and her own plan gets voted down next week then her options are greatly limited either go cap in hand to the e.u. leaders and plead for something better or consider doing what an increasing number of people and m.p.'s wanted to do which is hold another referendum there isn't a majority in support of any of the particular rights and outcomes and that definitely isn't a support for no deal so it is supported by around a quarter of the country around half those who voted leave in the e.u. referendum but it isn't as popular as remaining in the european union and when you ask the public which would prefer staying in your opinion or leaving with no deal staying in the european union does come ahead eighty days to breaks it and counting it is still firm government policy to take britain out of the e.u. on march the twenty ninth but the government is not necessarily in firm charge of events jonah how al-jazeera london. and don't forget al jazeera dot com is where you can find a lot more information. cover secular the top stories here it out is there the turkish president roger tie a better one says the u.s. demand for protection of its kurdish allies in syria is a grave mistake the comments came as u.s. national security advisor john bolton was in ankara holding talks about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria and a top u.s. envoy working to resolve the dispute between catarrh and its neighbors has resigned according to reports retired general anthony zinni said he is leaving because no country was willing to negotiate in good faith president trump is preparing to address the nation this is a standoff with congress over funding for a wall along the us mexico border has shut down large parts of the government for almost three weeks vice president mike pence says mr trump plans to build his case for the war. he'll talk about the seventeen thousand people with criminal records that we've apprehended at our border will explain the need not just to build a war which he is determined to do but also to provide our border patrol with additional resources humanitarian and medical assistance new technology but the democrats need to come to the table and start negotiating but tonight the president will take their case to the american people the largest opposition party in the democratic republic of congo has declared its leader the presumed winner of last month's presidential election the union for democracy and social progress says it's candidate felix just a cavy one vote and it's calling for a transition meeting with the outgoing president joseph kabila the country's electoral commission is yet to release the results. the north korean leader kim jong il is on the second day of a visit to china which could lay the groundwork for another meeting with the u.s. president donald trump this is kim's fourth trip to china in the past year. the british prime minister to resign may have suffered another blow to her breasts and that softer. approach financial measures making it more difficult to leave the e.u. without a deal across party group approved an amendment to a bill requiring pollin meant to approve spending on no deal preparations. there is the very latest headlines from there i'll be back in about thirty minutes after an inside story. the turkey's president criticizes the conflicting messages coming from the trump administration over its runs to pull out troops from syria national security advisor john bolton has been seeking reassurance on terror but turkey warns it game to compromise this is inside story the i. know and welcome to the program i'm fully back people many were caught off guard last month when u.s. president donald trump announced he would pull american troops out of syria immediately but since then his administration has sent conflicting messages about how and when that withdrawal will take bass is national security advisor john bolton has been in turkey to seek protection for u.s. banks kurdish fighters in syria have been a major part of the battle against eisel but turkey sees them as terrorists and president. has warned he would compromise on the kurdish issue will bring in our guests in just a moment but first here's more of what the president had to say. this. bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this has also made a mistake it's not possible for us to make compromises those who are in halls of the terra corridor or in syria who face the necessary lesson there is no single difference between the p.k. k y p g p y d and i saw this same tone to spice reaching a clear understanding with mr trump different voices of started to emerge from different sections of the administration but chumps views on syria and his decision to withdraw remains a point of reference ordo on was addressing members of his ruling party there earlier in an opinion piece for the new york times his tone was more measured he praised donald trump's decision to pull troops out of syria but added that the united states withdrawal must be planned carefully and performed in cooperation with the right partners to protect the interests of the united states the international community and the syrian people turkey he said which as nato second largest standing army is the only country with the power and commitment to perform that task the first step is to create establish haitian force only a diverse body can serve all syrian citizens and he adds in this sense i would like to point out that we have no argument with the syrian kurds his and his there is jamaal out child with more now from ankara. this by the public statements made by both the american side and the turkish side that bolton's discussions with president senior advisor abram callen here in ankara were productive it would seem in reality they weren't as productive as they would like people to believe prior to this much anticipated meeting it was announced that there would be a joint press conference held by both the turkish and the american side the eleventh hour that's press conference was canceled when i asked the advisor to president of iran dr cullen why that was he said it was at the request of bolton who said that he needed to get back to washington quickly to deal with the border security issue the war with mexico in the standoff taking place in d.c. not necessarily the most convincing of arguments when you think of what's at stake here american military presence inside syria as well as the greater issue of what to do with syria moving forward now what is the main point of contention as far as the turks are concerned they want to continue what they say cleansing out eastern side of syria from what they describe as terrorist organizations have already had quite significant success in the push against i saw for example the. other surrounding areas from that's group however they say i saw is not only is not the only terrorist organization that there are there is the y.p. gee that's the kurdish militia group affiliated with the p k k that's been attacking turkish turkish cities security forces police officers inside turkey for the best part of several decades the americans however do not consider the y p g a service they consider them as partners they've been funding them arming them in the fight against ice on that's why after president trump had initially said that there would be a full quick swift withdrawal of american troops from syria suddenly the pentagon and other security establishments in the u.s. said well hold on maybe that's not the wisest thing the turks say that they're not going to talk get a kurdish civilians that in fact in previous years and throughout history did actually welcome kurdish refugees they've cited for example already one did this and parliament earlier when they brought in kurdish refugees after supper. soon have used chemical weapons against them in northern iraq among their fighters only against what they describe as terrorist organizations the americans because of obviously all the regional implications and impacts on the view that they need some sort of go into with regards to what turkey will do. for inside story. well let's bring in our guests now any thumble off man searched research director at the institute and a former advisor to turkish prime minister. in washington d.c. nicholas danforth a fellow for the bipartisan policy center is national security program and here in doha we have marwan director of policy analysis at the absentia for research and policy studies thank you all for joining us on inside story also months earth in istanbul if i can start with you the turkish president criticizing the conflicting messages coming from the trump administration as far as its plan to withdraw u.s. troops from syria edouard says preparations are almost done for an operation against what he called terrorist groups in syria will he proceed with coordinating with the americans will turkey go it alone. just put it during the press conference very clearly that you will. inform. the weather what we'll be doing but they want quest for permission from the americans if turkey can do something but of course till the last moment. we'll be trying to seek the corporation of the americans but only to put it very civilly clearly and border that the id is a terrorist organization is a try at threat for it and it can proceed unilaterally but of course it would call donation and at least just notifying the americans what it will be doing there's a lot of frustration from the turks osman i seems to warsi united states and its plan to withdraw its troops from syria what precisely is turkey and the one looking for from the trump administration at this moment. the disappointments has to force one there is always some shaky and conflicting messages from the washington d.c. ok first a president trump was telling that he is to be trolling the american troops immediately and then there are so conflicting messages the american troops should be stay there mr bolton was telling that you know speaking about weeks months maybe years and that's why the turkey first of all want to understand what really the american administration wants this is important this is creating a disappointment and secondly americans are putting sunni and kurds but it is peabody indeed not the sunni and kurds generally did proposed and don't put in new york times article as well in front of which is a nato ally which is so many strategy called a partnership with the americans and it is telling that giving the pro the perception that id is more important than the relation with anchor and this is creating a frustration nicholas dance for in washington d.c. osman after a very important question that what does the american administration want. well if people in turkey are frustrated by the incoherent and mixed messages coming from this administration people in washington are even more frustrated you see no end of lawmakers both in the democratic and republican party not to mention other people in the city enormously frustrated with the way this decision has been managed and rolled out whether you think the united states should stay in syria or the united states should leave syria the incredibly chaotic irresponsible way that this decision has been handled is almost guaranteed to secure the worst possible outcome president ardo one nicholas has come out pretty strongly against john bolton who was visiting ankara on tuesday but reading his zero padding in the new york times it feels like he thinks he can still appeal directly to donald trump and bypass the rest of his administration officials like john bolton can he do that do you think you can get trump back on to his bait. well and this is what's so confusing i mean initially it seemed like he'd had a remarkable success in doing just that in bypassing u.s. administration officials who wanted a long term presence in syria in convincing president trump there the easiest solution would simply be to withdraw u.s. forces now part of the complication is that in order to convince trump of that aired on seems to have promised as he suggested in his op ed that turkey would be able to stabilize the region and would continue the fight against isis subsequently i suspect trump has been informed by many people in washington many people in his own administration and in the military that this will not be possible that turkey will not be able to live up to the promises that everyone made him how trump responds to this that remains a mystery right. let's bring into the conversation your thoughts on the developments in these last few hours john bolton had been seeking reassurances that turkey will not target the kurds wants us to explode out of northern syria. he was this is a doomed mission from the outset for john bolton absolutely i think the turks will not accept it because this is bellhops that major concern for the government that they want actually to get in syria in order to eliminate their why be because they're concerned that the wife. of the which is considered by the thought of this organization this is the whole issue that is really concerned about in syria so when mr bolton actually comes and say that we want to a key to protect the very enemy that is trying to destroy this is a very i mean it seems they seem to be the very strange argument about that so now the issue is in fact if the united states is really going to withdraw and this is something and this is a very big if i was as you would. have just said just. we don't really know what the real policy of the administration they don't speak with one voice i mean so but if they decide actually to withdraw we need to nor in fact that to when and how and who's going to replace the united states because there is going to be a vacuum in syria if the united states withdraw and actually we don't know which party the united states would want to replace it with that but if if if the kid's going to replace it then can the united states get guarantees from turkey that there will not be trying to eliminate the if it's not a key iran and russia allow other parties because we hear now that the americans are trying actually to have some sort of arrangement right what that a placement of its forces in syria and that might include. military force we don't know if that's going to be possible a possibility actually within this within this context i see you wanted to jump in there when. when my one thing about you know mr mr problems it's very in the legitimate question of what will happen to p. why do you force or sold it but we have offering our hand as a case he was controlling the region and turkish forces into the fight with p.g. and with the f.s.a. free syrian army and the local forces and now they left the region and then with. participation in local authorities about one million living there and that's why we have already a model how to govern this region if you would you forces just just withdrawn from there ok they are not to leave a little i was talking about and i wasn't talking about the kurds i was talking about the militia. because i was saying that they're actually considered as a terrorist organization so i hands on the right because i'm contributing what you are telling but also a little just. let me ask you about a point the president made in the new york times opinion piece president said that part of his try to gie would be to create a stabilization force that would include fighters from all parts of syrian society that would mean also the courage then in that case when it yes of course of course the kurds should be there as well just i may contribute to have done thoughts comments about the article in new york times the new york times articles targets from my point of view is the army can public mr president is on is trying to keep the american public in the game first just supporting trump a decision for the trouble second he is telling that we have the common enemy common thread which is isis which is important for the you know the you know the military the army can public and that's where you want to to put the. actors to the game and secondly you don't have any problem with the syrian troops will define who is syrian codes in the region it's too important at this point if i just may remind our viewers of what the issue we're talking about is precisely the kurds of syria we've heard a lot about the kurds so let's take a closer look at this group they're the largest ethnic minority in syria making up between seven and ten percent of the population they control almost thirty percent of the country but mainly in the northeast and near the turkish border kurdish fighters have been integrity in the fight against i saw in twenty fifteen there were by a u.s. led coalition to fight the armed groups but turkey as we've heard sees them as a threat it has fought kurdish separatists for forty years and wants to prevent them forming an autonomy region on its border with syria while al jazeera simcoe has more on that now from that that in northern syria. we're a few hundred meters away from that close the member city which is under control of the syrian democratic forces that is dominated by the syrian kurdish fighters why p.g. and where we stand is actually like a buffer zone between the f.s.a. controlled area and the few idea controlled area it is just maybe fifty meters of this is and the u.s. military bases close to here the turkish military base is also very close to here it is at the same time where the tension is but also it is a safe place because the f.s.a. and the few i do try not to interfere to each other because the road behind me is the decayed to to the humanitarian aid transportation according to both sides but of course there is tension some of the our ops accuse the. kurdish fighters the war the wife e.g. for killing their families out there and on the other hand some of the kurds say that they are very afraid because turkey is planning a military offensive to the region for the only other hand there are some kurds who say that for you idea of why fiji is not a group that could resemble that could represent their rights because they the wide fijian few idea are so pressing their kurdish people in the areas that is under their control but of course as the political uncertain it's a continues the uncertainty in the field continues as well are as you heard there nicholas uncertainty on the ground as well in northern syria how vulnerable do you think the kurds will be warned fee u.s. withdrawal if the u.s. what was to withdraw and can they count from support elsewhere from damascus or from moscow even. exactly and that you know as much as i think people on the ground the kurds on the ground were shocked by the speed and the suddenness of the u.s. announcement there was you know given the kurds previous experience with the united states a certain suspicion about the united states is a long term intentions and a certain recognition that eventually the united states would leave and because of that the y.p. g. has stayed on good terms with the assad government and there was an expectation that if the united states were to leave they would prefer to have the assad government come back then to face a turkish invasion and so. given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leave who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to uncut r two d so we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an agreement with turkey that will put turkey in a very difficult position because of the russians the iranians and the syrian regime so i think these parties also are watching closely. the negotiations between the united states and turkey so if these negotiations fail to produce the desired end they will take advantage most probably of this confusion of this because we have seen as nicola said that she is trying actually to bring in the syrian regime we have seen that in members last week when the invited the syrian regime forces forces to to enter the city so that will make in my opinion the scene even much more complicated and much more dangerous for everybody so we still need to see actually how the americans are going to handle this mess is tuition ok in istanbul marwan says we're back to square one your thoughts on this you think an agreement with turkey is still possible between the united states and turkey is possible can trump and i don't want to come up with an agreement a new agreement a long term plan for the stabilization of syria. yes i truly believe that there is still some common ground between the americans and the turks because if regime comes to the region it means that iran will be dominating the region i don't think that washington and it especially if they did the previews they're already just. strategies on syria but the started it was containing iran and if they let people i didn't get would regime it to mean that iran will be coming to the region and it will have the upper hand that's why i think still tookie and americans will have a congress i want to do one more thing. you know i understand what nicholas have said regarding some coach concerns about the turkish penetration to the region but if you look at what the regime is doing over there with barrel bombs with chemical weapons and it is being called as the regime's control but when turkey is entering into the region it is bringing you know the hospitals and the social. services old then and it is being labeled as invasion i don't. articulate your response to that you know i don't look i mean i'm clearly not here to defend the assad regime and i think people in turkey should ask why it is that so many kurds living in syria would prefer the regime to return their turkish forces that seems like a damning indictment of turkey's behavior in how it's administered regions like afrin after it's taken them over yeah coming back to the issue of iran because it's interesting i mean key figures within the trump administration including my compare the secretary of state and john bolton have argued that u.s. involvement in syria is not just aimed at defeating eisel but countering iran's influence that does donald trump nicholas he and i understand that message. again as i said is the big mystery i mean it did the united states had a strategy supposedly for containing iran in the region people like bolton were saying that the us presence in syria was going to be a centerpiece of that strategy many of us didn't entirely understand how that was going to work how two thousand u.s. forces in syria were going to singlehandedly contain iran but we're even more confused how would the united states withdrawing from syria we're going to continue to contain iran i do think you see a split now in the u.s. government between people who think they're at turkey taking over the region would be better than assad taking over the region to contain iran but you also see people who think that if the united states is going to leave and the white b.g. wants assad back that is what we should do. here in doha they're trying to find a solution of course for one part of syria right now that takes in the americans but what about the rest of syria the conflicts in the rest of syria exactly i mean the question of the withdrawal of the absence of the or the presence of the u.s. forces in syria is not only about isis it's not only about iran although i mean these two key factors are very important for for u.s. policy and u.s. thought that he and the region but it's also about finding a political solution to the conflict in syria. got a son a former secretary of state he put to what's most people actually believe as the most comprehensive clear us syria policy. last year in january last year during his famous speech before at the hoover institution in stanford university when he when he actually identified the key objectives of u.s. policy actually in syria and why the united states should actually stay in syria with its military presence number one is but a venting. from coming back number two is what event take iran from having a land door from iraq through syria to lebanon. iranian influence in the region and number three. he's using the u.s. military presence in syria as a bargaining chip in order to force him to accept the sort of political solution that would end the eight years conflict now in syria right with the withdrawal of the u.s. forces now with the decision of the what the role of the u.s. forces now we really have key. questions about whether the united states is really about any of these objectives usman i'll give you the last word in istanbul the conflict in the rest of syria is undecided of course in terms of the political outcome obviously militarily the assad regime has the momentum right now how do you see the situation evolving and what role for turkey in this post conflict syria. generally discussion is just rolling around who have lost in syria it is obvious nobody won in syria neither of the assad regime neither you know nor directions nor do run ins even to an extent nor do talks exactly because a source is a tilde a serious thing as they see as long as it's only the syrians who are lost in suggests exactly or right exactly or right exactly syrians lost their they are you know did very very sad thing and everybody is sitting and talking about the future of syria results children's this is this is so sad about it so pity for the syrians but for the future the american administrations be troubled decision is making the shoe much more complex big before before this decision. rather to live there will be a stable situation assad was just secure the region security zone consumers and russia will clear iran was that the american was sitting there and that there may be a solution but allow a new you know also starting or no solution in at immediate future thank you very much 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