Is a very difficult journey for those who are trying to. Yes tens of thousands of people on the run in the philippines fearing a volcanic eruption. And without a functioning parliaments haitis president is set to rule on his own despite corruption scandals and protests. So then talks on a permanent cease fire in libya ended on monday without a decisive breakthrough for russias foreign minister says Good Progress is being made warlord highly for have to as asked for time until Tuesday Morning in fact to consider signing a formal deal hes in moscow for negotiations along with the head of libyas u. N. To recognize government following a fragile truce brokered by russia and turkey of the weekend steverson reports now from moscow. The aim of mondays meeting in moscow less to formalize to cease fire that started in libya on sunday 24 hours earlier russia and turkey invited fired outside hatch Prime Minister of the un backed government and war lot to sign a more permanent truth thats aimed at paving the way to whats formal negotiations to end the b. S. 9. Year long civil war but after 7 hours of talks one signature remains missing 2 word emotion today we can report that a certain progress has been achieved and the chairman of the government of national of libya mr starch and the chairman of have consul of state mr methley has just signed it after heart of the comment of Libyan National army and the president of libya house of representatives and mr i see this document positively and have asked for some extra time till to morrow morning to decide on where they were to sign it i hope their decision will be positive the ceasefire was brokered by the president of turkey and russia in istanbul last week following a meeting with italys Prime Minister is epicanthic ratchet Tayyip Erdogan announced he will be in berlin on january did 19th for an International Conference aimed at ending the libyan conflict. Even if it is only in one day i believe a strong result from these dogs dogs which take place in moscow to lay the foundation for the process turkish troops were recently sent to libya to help slow half past 9 month advance on the capital tripoli in the complicated proxy war russian mercenaries together with the United Arab Emirates and egypt are aiding have to are both russia and turkey say they are hopeful that half the will sign the truth agreement on Tuesday Morning long and complicated negotiations here in moscow show how complicated the conflict in libya is with the International Conference due in berlin its crucial that the truth away month will be signed and sealed here in moscow 1st step fasten aljazeera moscow. Well libya has been torn apart by conflict since long time ruler Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown back in 2011 and its divided between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the u. N. Recognize administration led by the Prime Minister. Is based in tripoli its supported by turkey and most western nations including italy which is worried the fine team in tripoli will force more people to cross the mediterranean in the east then the tobruk base governments the center of power for warlord belief have to hes backed by egypts by saudi arabia by russia and by the United Arab Emirates france is also accused of providing military support to his forces well the upcoming summit on the libyan crisis is expected to be led by the United Nations diplomatic editor james bays has more from u. N. Headquarters in new york. Diplomats have remarked to me what this shows about power and influence among external actors in the middle east and they say that there are parallels with the situation in syria clearly they are different conflicts but in syria you had a un led process and yet most of the developments of come as a result of the russians and the turks along with the iranians the socalled a starner process in syria now what one diplomat described as the astonish the cation over libya again you have russia and turkey which are on different sides of the argument which support different groups coming together to try and come up with an outcome that suits their interests and pushing out of the way the United Nations the e. U. And the United States i got this comment on this from the u. N. Secretary general spokesman the u. N. Cannot operate in a vacuum right what is always important whether its in syria or libya and those are Different Cases right i mean. Whether its in syria or libya. A political process cannot move forward without the will of the people. Being represented but also we need to be realistic without involvement of not only of the parties who are fighting on the ground but of the parties outside of the country who have an influence what is important is that what is happening in moscow feeds into berlin and if general have to signs the cease fire agreement that remains a big if that is the next stage a summit in berlin at leader level but that summit now will effectively be a rubber stamp of the diplomacy crafted by russia and turkey. Now that the United States has lifted its the nation of china as a currency manipulator and thats just days before the 2 countries are expected to sign a trade deal the u. S. Treasury says that china has made commitments not to keep its currency the yuan artificially low the worlds 2 largest economies are set to sign a preliminary agreement on wednesday and in a bid to end an 18 month trade war or i will speak to katrina in beijing in just a moment 1st lets go to alan fischer whos in washington d. C. Allan tell us more about the concessions are to be made here or you have to remember donald trump said that trade wars can be quick and easy to win and here we are 18 months later with the 2 countries looking to sign the 1st part of a trade agreement go back 4 years donald trump when he was campaigning to become president said that in his 1st day in the white house he would clear china to be a currency manipulator well you eventually got round to just 5 months ago now it really was a symbolic gesture it didnt really have much impact it could have opened china up to greater scrutiny from the International Monetary fund. But it didnt really happen this was at the height of Donald Trumps trade war youll remember he import tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese goods he said that china was pouring billions of dollars in fees into the u. S. Treasury in fact if you look at a report that came out just last week it said that 100 percent of the cost of tat of swiss being borne by American Families 1. 00 survey said American Families were about 800. 00 a year was soft because of Donald Trumps trade what well there has been negotiation and just 2 days ahead of donald trump sitting down with the chinese vice premier hes lifted the come see manipulation tab or in china he said the reason for doing it was that there were no enforceable measures that would stop china from competitively devaluing their currency so this sure is that things between china and the United States are Getting Better in the markets have responded well to that its up again in the United States at the close of business on monday something donald trump was keen to point out he left for a sporting event a few hours ago and one of the things he talked about one of the 2 things he talked about was the fact that the stock market was doing so well so it seems as if things are improving but there is criticism of donald trump not surprisingly it comes from the democrats Chuck Schumer is the leader of the democrats in the senate he said look china is still a currency manipulator the United States shouldnt be taking that tab away and it says were giving away a lot and not getting a lot in return calling into question whether or not donald trump really is the great negotiator that he says he is or alan thanks very much thats the picture in washington lets the whip across the world to beijing where we find katrina you standing by katrina tell us whats been the reaction there. So far weve had no official government response to the u. S. Seizing to label time as a currency manipulator but weve seen a lot of editorials from state media saying that look china was never state a currency manipulator to begin with and this is the right thing to do that curiously surrounding this phase one deal weve heard very little from beijing since this press conference in december which was held close to midnight and that really seems to indicate that she could be really giving more and compromising more than he may have 1st been comfortable with when they 1st started these talks as theyve been very little from beijing as to what beijing has promised to commit itself to commit itself to so this currency manipulator flip is really going to be seen as as a win i guess for china as as the u. S. Really starting to come to the table with china but i think very much so china would have liked to see more given in this phase one deal for example china really wanted to see the rollback of all of those tariffs which had been imposed by the u. S. Since the beginning of the trade war and thats hasnt been the case there are still many of those tariffs are still in place. But at the same time you know for china china sees its relationship with the u. S. Its not its not in a good place its a very stormy very rainy relationship and this phase one deal is we can sort of see it as a 20 minutes of sunshine its one bright spot but Going Forward there is no sense here in china that the end that this is the end of the trade war. In contrast in newspapers on t. V. This is still very much this this trade war still very much on there are a lot of things to discuss and we get the sense that these trade war talks almost collapsed in april and may and we get the sense that maybe ok weve taken what weve agreed on and with put that all into phase one some going to sign something but everything we have agreed on thats pushed back to phase 2 so although there is optimism today theres still very much a lot of pessimism as to whether there will be a phase 2 deal because those are the things. That try to really just want to back down on structural changes those are things that us really is demanding and whether were going to say about it all that that really remains to be saying all right katrina thanks very much thats a picture from beijing and lets take this on further we can speak to robert scott whos a Senior International economist at the Economic Policy institute joins us live on skype from portsmouth in mary land mr scott though what are your thoughts this currency flip could be seen as a win for china. I think its a win for china i think its a win for wall street well street likes to have peace with china its going to encourage more Florida Investment in china and that unfortunately is a bad thing for workers in america and for main street companies this deal is not going to resolve the underlying causes of these tensions as weve heard so far in the program tonight those buzzers include massive currency misalignment. The with the dollar heavily overvalued as well as the huge chinese subsidies to everything from steel and aluminum to high tech solar cells so those are the issues that havent been addressed yet so what the u. S. President say that this is all part of a great deal that hes long been telling or is it just in fact the best deal available. I think that their sins are simply settling here for as one analyst put it perhaps as a hill a story means while china has done here is agreed to by a few products but weve seen this kind of behavior before china agreed in 2001 when it joined the w t o that was going to open its markets to all kinds of imports in fact in the last 20 years always seen is that china is buying Raw Materials and the rest of the world like oil plastics run plastics and turning them into finer products like toys and machinery and shipping those city United States and the rest of the world but china is going to has it has agreed to take up 200000000000. 00 worth of u. S. Cuts including 40000000000. 00 worth of us Farm Products and thats got to be good for the economy isnt. It would be if china actually comes through on those agreements but it has not demonstrated that passage just because it agreed to buy something that it actually will but of products that are committed to im sure that they will buy some soybeans they need them for their economy beyond that im not at all certain already hope that thanks very much robert scott from the economy Economic Policy institute. About france and its partner nations in africa as a whole region have agreed to unite their troops under one command structure to step up the fight against groups in a summit in southwest france the leaders of. Chad also also us not to pull troops out of the reach of a move which the pentagon is apparently considering parents will send 220. 00 more troops to support the fight despite growing and the french sentiment in recent months armed rebels linked to al qaida and strengthen their positions across the. Butler has been following events at that summit in france at the end of the summit between the french president and the president s. Chad mali and mauritania the socalled g 5 nations all the leaders agree to cooperate more closely militarily and politically to fight what they said was growing terrorism in this oil region the present of begin a fast so its a 2019 had been a very difficult with an increasing number of attacks against the military and civilians. Today more than ever we can say that the results that were accumulating for the moment despite our combined efforts are below the expectations of the people. Have decided to engage additional combat capacities 220. 00 soldiers to initiate the steiner mick will be added to the troops already present on the ground about cain operation the leaders said the g. 5 forces underfunded it is struggling because it is ill equipped in the face of the threat from armed groups so they called on the International Community for more support financially and militarily while the french president had initially convening this summit because he wanted the g 5 leaders to clarify whether or not they wanted french troops in the style whether or not they will welcome and that is because it also says that there has been growing anti french sentiment in the. Well we spoke to some protesters in poll who gathered just before the summit began and they said that they believed the french troops should withdraw and france is there to protect french interests not to protect africans or their interests and this was also for model marco a note about responding to French Public pressure because more people in france have been questioning exactly why france is involved in a region that is so dangerous well ahead of a summit in france the president of the fire to replace the countrys army chief shakeup comes days after an attack that killed 89. 00 soldiers near the border with mali interest reports now from near me the mood across in asia is somebody as a country mourns the string of losses recently suffered by the army has shaken many here and raised concerns about the future secure men is that the good logic with the attackers are trying to conquer territory i think once they are done with this country they will move on to another they have a global agenda. After the devastating loss the government of missouri struggling to deal with the fallout from the attack. All you need to know is the whole of the so hell is unstable leaders in the region are collaborating our soldiers are doing their best and the support of everyone its not easy but we hope things will improve we hope the hardship were going through will pass soon president mohamed is of joint leaders of the mali charge and working a fossil for summit with the french president. But not before making changes in the just military leadership moved described just too little too late for victims of these attacks. Before fortunately burrs the brunt of the attacks the new appointments are coming after much of. The problem is structural families who lost members are mourning and will continue to do so what the government needs to do is to take measures to prevent this from happening. Like most countries of the say hell is facing an uncertain future in less than 2 months 160 of its soldiers have been killed by groups this monument was built in the center of the city in honor of the 71. 00 just killed in the last month another 89. 00 soldiers were killed in another attack last week the threat from groups is a major concern for people especially those living in areas close to the border with mali and nigeria. 3 days of National Mourning is underway people in the several countries who are now becoming more custom to these attacks and wonder why the im groups will strike next. Degrees aljazeera yeah me you shall. Have plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including 21. 00 sided military students are told to leave the United States a month after fellow cadets shot dead 3 american. Protests raging in guinea and if it is the president will try to hang on to power. And the corruption trial of former world athletics chief let me know if he is delayed or is it going to parents peter its been. Raining protesters have defied a heavy Police Presence in the capital tehran for a 3rd day theyre angry over the killing of 176 people on board a ukrainian airliner irans military shut it down by mistake and has fired tear gas at