parliament has passed a preliminary motion to dissolve itself less than 2 months after elections which same to offer prime minister benjamin netanyahu a new mandates that you know who has 48 hours left to form a coalition that can govern the country is facing resistance from the party of the former defense minister avigdor lieberman lieberman wants and exemptions the orthodox jewish men being drafted into the military or netanyahu is religious allies insists that the law remains in place. still ahead sol in the program donald trump says he doesn t want regime change in iran despite ordering a military build up around the country plus. we follow afghanistan s ambulance drivers in their race to save lives. hello there there s a big swirling mass of cloud over europe at the moment the satellite picture shows that center of circulation and all of this cloud marching up through the southeastern parts of europe at the moment that s giving some of us some very heavy rain and actuall
danger there is a risk of clashes between the syrian forces and the turkish forces if the turks if the syrians really arrive to the beach but i think russia and damascus are ready to accept a buffer zone along the border with turkey ok because now is the legitimate concerns of the turkish government. and so i think that s what we ll see in the near future nic and i let me just jump in here for his own money which my yes let me let me just jump in here nick and i because we know the turkish delegation is meeting with the russians in moscow tomorrow is this a sign that all key strategic decisions on the ground are being won across president putin s desk. well yes it is now russia is acting as a mediator between the government in turkey and between the government in damascus so yes the russians know my is a very important broker power but even prouder broker in syria it is true and i think the cautions will be about actually the size of the buffer zone that i have mentioned befo
debut in one of the world s largest stock offerings. and we need the musicians and stand holding on to their musical roots as they try to keep a thousand years of tradition alive. after days of impasse u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars to build a border war he wants to avoid a partial government shutdown funding for several agencies expires on friday failure to agree on a budget could see more than eight hundred thousand government workers sent home without pay just before christmas mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shutdown the government should he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position in the case in saw that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say religion every avenue available to us
billion dollars by listing its mobile telecoms unit. for the share price fell fourteen percent on its first day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange the company wants to become a major investor in technology startups some analysts blame a recent nationwide service outage and softbank ties to chinese telecom company while away for the disappointing start. is a professor at the school of management and information at the university of shoes zocor he believes investors are questioning soft banks growth strategy. i would be a little sympathetic considering the fact the market is self environment have been very bad as you seen in the united states in japan following that i mean nikkei has reached his nine month low and december alone the market has dropped by six percent and that sense it was a very very weak environment to start out with i think one real big worry amongst the larger investors are that this musical chair game that you know softbank i m playing on a growth after
the best of your time and football factory on al-jazeera. i haven t the ok i really could be here in the stream today was the indian independence i called mcgahee a racist we explore his legacy as a statue of him is torn down in ghana this story was pitchy us on twitter by community member deejays but you too can be part of this conversation tweet us your thoughts or leave in our live queue to chat. with. you in the spirit. of gandy is famous worldwide for his nonviolent resistance to put in colonial rule but last week university of ghana officials removed his statue from the campus citing complaints from faculty and students that he was racist towards black africans donated to the university in two thousand and sixteen by the indian government the statue drew criticism almost immediately with critics using the hash tag gandhi a month fall to draw attention to derogatory statements the young and the made while living in south africa he with us to discuss this in a crawl of a