media reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election the charges led by special counsel robert mueller said to be still sealed under orders from a federal judge it isn't yet known what the accusations are but any one charge could reportedly be taken into custody as soon as monday let's get more on this now with our correspondent alan fischer he's joining us live from washington d.c. how did the investigation get to this point allan. well you know the robin miller has been investigating alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia for about five months and no we're seeing we are told the first charges and that is pretty quick when it comes to grand jury simply because if you look at two big cases in the past bill clinton and his sexual shenanigans in the white house and all saw richard nixon and watergate it took a couple of years before we got to this point no if these reports are true the grand

writer now in washington d.c. he is out a serious political contributor and a public policy professor at george mason university bill always good to talk to you has has us president been actually clear about what it is he will wants reworked about nafta he said you know general things like protecting workers but has it really been clear beyond just talking about it on the campaign trail in generalities well a lot of people think a lot of business people think that this is all a pretext for getting out of the nafta deal i mean a relations between the united states and canada which are always assumed to be very close are probably at the poorest level they've been in our lifetime for many decades and it took donald trump to make that happen a lot of business leaders in the u.s. chamber of commerce normally a staunchly republican organization things that trump is trying to use these negotiations as a pretext to kill nuff to justin trudeau actually also met with the house ways and means committee you know trying to to

jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. and ross tell us more about how this announcement was made. well the announcement was first made in excuse me in riyadh by the u.s. treasury secretary steven minutiae and who was there to what talk about this new center called the terrorist financing targeting center this organization was stood up by the u.s. and gulf countries back in mid may it's not coincidental that this happened during the visit of the u.s. president donald trump to saudi arabia and then a few weeks later there was the of course the start of the embargo by some members of the g.c.c. against qatar now this organization is a group effort a multinational effort to basically identify those persons and organizations that are providing support for those carrying out terrorist attacks and so with the people who have been cited wednesday's sanctions list as well as the two organizations cited again on these sanctions list the hope is that the number of attacks particularly inside yemen and across the region will start to

a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has reportedly approved the first charges in the investigation into the alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election yes media says it's not yet known what the accusations are but anyone charged could be taken into custody as early as monday that charges will be led by a special prosecutor a special counsel robert muller. this vice president says the country will no longer fun what he says are an effect of u.n. relief efforts for persecuted minorities in the middle east mike pence says funds will instead be distributed to regulate through the u.s. agency for international development in jordan has more from washington d.c. . christian groups in the united states have long wanted their government to do something about what they see as the ongoing persecution of christians in the middle east especially in iraq are found christians and all who are persecuted in the middle east should not have to rely on multinational institutions when america can he

in washington d.c. tell us more than about the state the secretary of state had to say about the dispute. here martine so what we heard in that interview that rex tillerson gave to bloomberg news today was a remarkable change in tone gone with the optimism that we had previously heard from the secretary of state back in july that's when he made his last visit to the middle east at that time he had expressed that his diplomacy going back and forth between doha and riyadh would result in some sort of progress but now that's been three months with little to show by way of progress and what we heard in that interview from rex tillerson was his frustration as he placed the blame for this stagnation in talks at the feet of the four blockading nations martine this comes just days before the secretary of state heads to this region first stop i believe is riyadh then coming to doha. that's right and he is expected to push once again to renew this mediation effort but he was very clear today that he has low expec

and world bank are hosting a meeting in washington d.c. where finance ministers and central banker some around the world are gathered it say the latest biannual forecast i.m.f. warn about rising inequality within countries and says higher taxes on the rich will not hamper economic growth. reports the world bank president says governments around the world need to spend all countries need to invest more in their people it's been a rough few decades for the world bank and the i.m.f. reputation's most recently they failed to see the economic crash of two thousand and eight coming despite the millions of dollars they spent a moment of the world economy for just such crashes and since two thousand and eight as the sort of austerity programs long imposed on the developing nations have been forced on developed countries like greece awareness and discontent with the i.m.f. is growing finally last year things seem to change the i.m.f. published an analysis that admitted its new liberal policies caused economic damage and this week the fund declared

ellen fisher joins us now from washington d.c. what style chant back to here what does he want allen he's appealing to his base there's no doubt that he said throughout the election campaign that the deal with iran was a bad deal and that he was going to walk away from it he said to fight it twice before this time he says he's walking away here's the problem is got the deal was agreed between the p five plus one the negotiators that did the deal with iran and it concentrated solely on the nuclear program that is because the p five plus one realized that if they expanded into other issues they could be split there would be difficulties particular if it came to talking about things like syria or hezbollah and so that is why it concentrated sawley on the nuclear deal what donald trump is trying to do is to expand that and one of the reasons is because iran israel has said we need to expand the what's going on in this deal it doesn't cover hezbollah it doesn't cover financing for so-called terrorist organizations it also doesn't cover

year due to addiction and overdose white house correspondent kimberly hunka has more from washington d.c. . speaking of the white house president said that the opioid epidemic in the united states is the worst drug crisis in american history with the signing of this presidential memorandum the president says this is a critical first step in addressing the epidemic for too long we have allowed drugs to ravage american home cities and we owe it to our children and to our country to do everything in our power to address this national shame and this human tragedy we must stop the flow of types of illegal drugs into our communities thanks many people are disappointed the president has stopped short of declaring this a national emergency had that occurred this would have provided the necessary federal funding that states say they need in order to address this crisis instead by calling this a public health emergency what this will do is in essence redirect existing funds something that many critics say stopped short of the president's promise not only on the campaign trail but also as president

joint commitment to combat terrorism and tariff financing well as jordan has more now from washington d.c. . a number of yemeni citizens and two yemeni organizations are now in the sights of the us government and of several governments in the gulf that's because they've been accused of providing financial support to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based inside yemen as well as to i sold in yemen these two groups have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on yemeni citizens and institutions for several years now and as the u.s. treasury secretary steven nugent said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through something called the terrorist financing targeting center this is an organization that was set up by the u.s. and by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that cou

well for more on this i'm joined from washington d.c. by durward zulkey who's the president of the institute for governance and sustainable development a very warm welcome to the program adore would just explain for us a bit more about why it is that we are seeing this rise in c o two. well we have more people on the planet we have more cutting of our forest that otherwise absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and we have more dirty energy that is propelling our society so we're seeing a continuing build up of these carbon dioxide climate pollutants we're also seeing the build up of non carbon dioxide climate pollutants like the black carbon tropospheric ozone methane and h f c's we're also seeing the oceans absorbing last c o two we're seeing droughts that are propelled by el nino that are also slowing down the absorption of c o two by our forest and other vegetation so we're now extremely dangerous moment with the climate system and what about the effects for you know different people around the world what kinds of sin if significa

other ok thank you so much for speaking to us derek banks security expert joining us from washington d.c. thank you for your time we appreciate it. now to africa and protests against kenya's electoral system have spread across the country in the capital nairobi police riot demonstrators who are calling for electoral officials to be sacked protesters accuse them of reading august's presidential election in favor of president or a kenyatta the opposition is demanding major changes before a repeat votes later this month the supreme court had cancelled the initial vote result catherine so he has more from nairobi. the country wide protests called by the opposition have been luke you're right outside. commission. will be a few protesters were dispatched gassed by police we've seen the state in the sunni western kenya these bits of peaceful protests as well what the opposition wants is some electoral reform to hand of the election and to safety also want a deal that was stapled in parliament last week and election amendments below most it will do parliament the head of anything else they say t

a senior campaigner for advice it's a global civic advocacy and he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time what do you make of the fact that it seems to be the scale of the problem that is in dispute rather than the fact that it's happening at all. well i think the context here is critical over the last two and a half years we've seen the worst humanitarian crisis since the second world war evolves and we've seen the world largely ignore that crisis and i think the fact that in that saudi arabia has been listed on the blacklist yesterday is a critical step in bringing accountability in ending the impunity we've seen in the crisis if you look closely the report details six hundred eighty three cases of children being killed or injured the targeting of schools the targeting of hospitals and it lists all parties to the conflict is accountable and put on the blacklist more generally in the conflict we see hundreds of thousands of people who are suffering from cholera millions displaced from their homes and as many as seventeen million who do not know w

ambassador to kenya joining us live from washington d.c. mr bellamy it's great to have you with us on. if can you how does one this does when this election what they have legitimacy do you think given opposition supporters boycotting the voyage saying that they don't recognize him as their leader. well i think it's going to be difficult to establish the credibility. of this round of elections giving everything that is occurred in the run up to today's vote you saw the reports there of some violence some scattered violence and protests. but you know i think by and large the stay away that rylan the opposition leader called for it's probably been successful today and the turnout has been light in many areas of kenya. but even even if this was a more peaceful day perhaps than many many feared it might be. i think it's going to be hard to hard if who are rooting out comes out ahead is of course he will to make the case that this was a credible election and that he has been reelected at the head of a government with full of shit i'm missing and

government in washington d.c. is being criticized for its slow response to the crisis alan fischer has more from the puerto rican capital san juan. this is normally the convention center in san juan the capital of puerto rico but for the last month this has been the coordinating hub of all the rescue efforts across the island the federal emergency management agency the department of defense a number of local agencies and a number of charities are all based here trying to coordinate relief efforts but one month or one after the hurricane many people are saying they're seeing nothing nothing from any of these agencies coming into their communities to help them there are many people here still without food still without electricity still without drinking water there are real health concerns as well because people are turning to polluted water just to try and sleep their thirst or even doing simple things like washing their clothes in water that is highly contaminated so there's a real risk that there's going to be an

with the accord in effect putting the green mint in limbo can really how could reports from washington d.c. he's often threatened to tear up the landmark deal with iran but in the end u.s. president donald trump stopped short of pulling out of the two thousand and fifteen agreement to limit its nuclear program for now and even though his own administration has twice certified that iran is complying with the deal he now says he won't do it again i am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification. we will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence more terror and the very real threat of iran's nuclear breakout that is why i am directing my administration to work closely with congress for months trump has accused his predecessor barack obama of being myopic in negotiations with iran focusing only on iran's nuclear program but not the financing of groups trump says are causing instability in the region the president has directed the u.s. congress to potentially revamp u.s. law to set up tough new standards. if iran by a late arbitrary trigger

service personnel were killed and really how come that's more from washington d.c. . the trump administration is ramping up the rhetoric when it comes to iran it is signaling that it will begin to crack down on the armed wing of hezbollah which the united states says is backed by iran now the u.s. state department declared hezbollah a terrorist group in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but now the trumpet ministration is launching a new campaign to undermine the group's political legitimacy it's important to recall that hezbollah hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global threat it is today for one reason tehran's deep and abiding assistance the iranian regime has built and bankrolled has the lot to film of instability throughout the region and across the world now this is all part of a wider u.s. strategy on iran the president has until the end of the week to recertify iran's compliance under the terms of the twenty fifteen agreement to limit iran's nuclear program it is widely believed that the president will anno

blames golan for last year's failed coup ok for more we can speak to diane estabrook in washington d.c. diane give us some of the background to what's been happening. well as you mentioned that this has been going on it's really been escalating over the past few days this started as you mentioned after this employee who worked for the consulate was arrested supposedly for having ties to this cleric who's been living here in the united states for about twenty years and there's been pressure on the u.s. to extradite google and the problem is that it's not all that simple if the u.s. were to extradite him he could potentially challenge this in court now this u.s. consulate employee isn't the only person who's been arrested and detained in turkey there are about a dozen other americans who have been arrested as well one include is a nasa scientist another is a christian missionary vice president mike pence and secretary of state rex tillerson have been trying to negotiate the release of the the missionaries but have not been successful to date so now we've seen this is a consulate employer

or can now go to washington d.c. and speak to rosalynn jordan who is at the state department rosalind obviously very busy few days in the region not only have we see now the liberation of iraq but also the taking over of kirkuk from the kurds by the iraqi army in the past few days so what reaction have we heard from the trumpet ministration. well obviously the u.s. government is very pleased that is essentially under the control of the s.d.f. the syrian defense forces but they also stress that a lot of work remains in order to make the city safe again for people to return and to try to reestablish their lives the first thing that they noted barbara is that there have been a lot of mines left behind by eisel fighters and that the dea mining has to get under way very quickly otherwise there really is no point in trying to establish electricity or trying to restore clean water and sanitation because it won't be safe for people to move around the city of raka but beyond that they are not looking to be engaged in any long

washington d.c. said this conversation diane between tillerson and turkey's foreign minister what else do we know about it. not to watch beyond what you just mentioned that they had a conversation today the secretary of state expressed his concerns of wanting to know why two employees in the last year have been arrested and detained in turkey the last one being just less than a week ago this one employee was arrested and detained and accused of spying the turkish government said that he was linked to a u.s. base turkish businessman who attacked turkish government said was behind this failed coup a year ago so this is b.s. a war has been continuing and it's been a real concern both to people some people here in the u.s. and obviously to those in turkey they want to get this resolved fairly quickly ok and along that those lines the deputy foreign minister for turkey is in washington he seems to be trying to tamp things down right absolutely he says the relationship between the u.s. and turkey is a long

weiss wardak he's the managing director of the peace training and research organization in washington d.c. we have david said he's a senior associate at the think tank c.s.i.s. and a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for afghanistan pakistan and central asia and in dublin we have michael semple he is the former deputy european union special representative for afghanistan and he's now a visiting research professor at queens university in belfast let's start with you mayor was or dark in kabul you're there on the ground a very violent week for afghanistan how bad are things. michael and i think to me it was quite bad to. just type and form and have homes in kabul particularly hearing what happened and back here and then i was in kandahar. which gives a kind of i mean does the purpose of afghans that the afghan security forces or losing their man and their or maybe and frustration of the opposition groups and their their circus skills and that much access to bridge. and side and side of their bases. darst kind of losing support or hope for the future negotiation to i think an hour

as trump is trying to push forward his legislative agenda can really hawk it reports from washington d.c. . his promise to repeal obamacare has failed money to build a border wall with mexico remains in question so hoping for a legislative victory donald trump on tuesday went to capitol hill seeking support from fellow republicans for some of the steepest tax cuts in a generation this will be the lowest rate in more than eighty years so this would be just before leaving the white house he spoke to reporters to explain how his tax reform plan will ensure his keeping a campaign promise to get americans back to work our plan can be summarized in three simple words jobs jobs jobs but what was supposed to be a serious day of policy discussion quickly devolved into a bitter fight with the governing republican party itself for months trump's been alienating some of the most senior members of his own party on tuesday it got even more personal for two centers. senator bob corker will leave the senate next year went on a blistering attack against trump before the president arrived on capitol hill

but we thank you very much for your time and your analysis on this joining us live from washington d.c. thank you very much. there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including the u.n. chief visits one of the regions worst affected by violence in the public and the. genocide looking for a solution and yemen why it's being called a humanitarian situation and how a book by one of the holocaust victims is helping italian football semitism peta has more on that story and. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has been evacuated from the u.n. camp for displaced people in south sudan after security guards fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against president salva kiir nikki haley had earlier met the president to discuss ways to end the four year civil war that's displaced millions of people have a morgan reports from juba. the united states backed south sudan when it became independent after a friend of mine twenty eleven but for more than three years now south sudan has been locked in a civil war the us ambassador to the un nikki haley hopes to convince president salva kiir

thank you very much can use thank you into us from d.c. the palestinian farmer so i've been injured as they tried to harvest all of us when they were confronted by israeli settlers it's the latest incident in a harvest season beset by harassment around illegal settlements palestinian farmers need special military commission to reach them and how useful is it spent the day with one group in the village of self it in the occupied west bank in the predawn light a handful of farmers gather for the chance to get to their land for a few minutes israeli soldiers openly gates. id papers are taken. and they go from being locked out to locked in they were cast fitting the branch isn't good for the trees but it's quick which helps when you have a six week old baby to tend to as well. each family has just a few days not only to harvest their lives but to carry out maintenance work that would normally be done throughout the year. the trees don't get the trimming or fertilizing they need the land doesn't get plowed or maintained so the production goes.

i'm afraid we haven't got the sound quite sorted out yet with our guests in washington d.c. we'll work on that hopefully get back to him but in the meantime about one hundred thousand kurds have now fled the area since it was retaken by iraqi forces on monday the u.n. says it's worried by reports that civilians are being forced out of their houses and their businesses are being looted and destroyed from the kurdish regional capital bill seventy decca records. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of erbil these are unexpected occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul karim says she laughed because she was scared of shia militia fighters called hostile shabby who arrived alongside the iraqi army they weren't good we'd kurds they didn't treat us well they used to take em and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my four children and run away we came to a build it is ours to get he the road was like routed iraqi prime

what has to be done well for more on this let's speak to mike hanna who is live for us in washington d.c. hi there mike so just yesterday we spoke about the u.s. actively using these back channel communications to negotiate with north korea and now this tweet. well it's an astonishing act by the president of the united states changing foreign policy with a few some strokes in the public tweet to the course of the morning and repudiating contradicting his secretary of state who as you said has been holding two days of talks with senior chinese leaders ricks to listen said yesterday that the u.s. was exploring back channels of communication with the pure nyang administration saying that these were unilateral forms of communication not going through the chinese this was an important step forward the first public confirmation that back channels with north korea did exist however that has now been contradicted by donald trump who says that negotiation is worthwhile is worthless apparently taking the whole concept of dialogue off the table the very concept that his secretary of state assured h

abdullah he's also a former afghan ambassador to france and canada he joins us live now from washington d.c. and it's a terrible terrible week for the civilians of your country isn't it what is behind what what is the rationale would you say behind this this spike in attacks in your country. well it's been awful we've not only for civilian use but also who are security forces as you mentioned in the news item. this spike that we see happening right now at the hands of what we consider as being either taliban or this talk of islamic state that has certain cells in the afghanistan pakistan central asian region which is called a risky peak. acronyms these people are seen to be behind this now i think on one hand you have a seasonal issue coming up because as we move towards winter usually it's tradition for predators in afghanistan to increase their attacks on one hand but these types of attacks where they are using suicide attackers they are very brazen . go deep inside live military installations or inside mosques that are somewhat protected in symbolised or in the provinces sure that the ta

jordan is following developments from washington d.c. . the interview with the u.s. produced program sixty minutes took place in doha at the beginning of october just after the emir shake down mean bin hammad danny visited the united states to take part in the opening of the seventy second un general assembly during that trip the emir met with the u.s. president donald trump where mr trump talked about the fact that he and the emir were longtime friends and that the u.s. had a vested interest in seeing the dispute between qatar and its neighbors and it sooner rather than later in the sixty minutes interview the emir told the interviewer charlie rose that the president had offered to mediate the dispute with a meeting of the regional leaders at camp david the emir said that so far he has not gotten a response on when this meeting is supposed to take place but he notes during the interview that he is very much concerned about his country's ongoing security and that he really would very much like to extend a hand to negotiate with the other countries notably with saudi

loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. to get to on jurists in the rest of central america about the same time but more importantly is where those two cultures north and south america. it's a very important place for all to the roots of. this is al-jazeera. this is the new live from coming up in the program the fall of ice shelves declared capitol rucka is near fighters are expected to leave overnight. at least twenty people are killed in a truck bomb explosion in somalia's capital mogadishu. final rallies ahead of sunday's vote in australia could see the country turn to the right and the world's youngest leader. hollywood producer harvey weinstein is expelled from the oscars a cademy after allegations he raped and sexually harassed women for decades. i say is on the verge of being pushed out of its self-proclaimed capital in syria rucka officials say the remaining members of the armed group are expected to leave the city as part of a deal brokered by tribal leader. yes but the fighters are taking civilians with them as h

its territory cuba says there's no evidence attacks took place mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . relations between the u.s. and cuba continue to deteriorate in the wake of what u.s. officials described as a covert a sonic attack last month the u.s. withdrew all non-essential personnel from the embassy in havana following what they said was a series of staff falling ill because of some kind of sonic attack now the u.s. did not provide any evidence and said that it could not establish exactly what the so-called attack was but now cuba is fighting back the foreign minister is visiting d.c. at the moment and this is what he had to say. your money is showing the so-called attacks are on just whatever the type of attack whatever the incident it is completely false the foreign minister also described the whole incident as and i quote political manipulation aimed at damaging bilateral relations now important to note that the u.s. has never directly accused cuba of being responsible for the illness of its diplomats however it did say that cuba has not done enough to investigate the cau

suspect that president phone nothing they will be allowed to run for office twice more mohammed el d.c. reports. swivel can danny is a hairdresser in togo's capital. he says police often crackdown on opposition supporters in bay neighborhood where he lives breaking into their homes and beating them and gunny along with hundreds of other told police have been calling for the removal of president for now they don't want to leave power and we are starving in the country now we are told and will move forward despite the fact that we are most of the time beaten by policeman. the protest ordered in august as togolese took to the streets to demand presidential term limits be reinstated at least two people were killed in september opposition in parliament protested a bill that would have limited presidential terms but would exempt the current president who was already on his third term the bill failed and the government called for a constitutional referendum protests erupted again leaving several dead. to reign in the spiraling crisis the internet was cut. the united nations has called on togo

defense ministry has officially opened an office in washington d.c. the move comes at a tense time with qatar's neighbors which cut ties with the gulf state in june government is hoping to up its game in washington to counter the influence of other countries in the region muslim jordan was there. cutaway officials say that the opening of their new defense attache office here in washington is a sign of their country's deepening military commitment with the united states members of the pentagon the academic community and the defense industry joined qatari diplomats and military leaders at the official opening on monday the purpose of the facility is for more space and opportunity for us. to discuss military strategy not just in the middle east but to work on an economic concerns as well this is the for the qatari military. they just signed. between the united states. and qatar for the f. fifteen q eight and the apache helicopters the already in use javelin shoulder fired missiles and the hopefully. soon to be received patriot missile system which has al

center for strategic and international studies as you can see he's with us now live from washington d.c. thanks for being with us on the program how concerned are you by the increase in the number of afghans who are now living in an area that's either controlled by all influenced by the taliban. well unfortunately i think the cigar figures that you mentioned are not really quite accurate it's not really possible to estimate with the kind of precision that they attempt to use what percentage of people are living under taliban control what's really important is that the taliban at the beginning of this fighting season in their operational plan called operation months or after their recently deceased leader their goal was to take a provincial capital and hold it this year they failed in that goal they also wanted to control several provinces by the end of the year they've also failed in that so whatever little marginal gains they've made have actually come while they failed in their major strategic goals at the same time a sharp increase in u.s. and coalition air activity has prevented the

d.c. is a victim you took all the because that's how we consider it. and also this is the place in. which to me and do you have the light and all the iraqis. and also the kurdish citizen should celebrate in order to built. should city by disna you lation we are building between us when we do not have minorities small minorities here and there. we are committed for the rights of the citizens. and the citizens specked it and we do not division to divide these cities and based on different criteria. so a listing to an address by the iraqi prime minister hyder. speaking about events in cook cook and in northern iraq he says we want to ensure the security of kirkuk and we have to preserve and protect all the people there you also reiterated there should be a government a federal team in every region of iraq and he said the peshmerga the kurdish peshmerga have indeed cooperated and force alongside us they are part of the iraqi forces we do know of course though that some peshmerga did not cooperate when the iraqi forces went in to kick call this is happening of course as iraqi government

media reporting that a federal grand jury in washington d.c. has approved the first charges in the investigation over russian meddling and the two thousand and sixteen presidential election the charges are said to still be under seal under orders from a federal judge a special counsel robert muller a former f.b.i. director is leading this investigation and isn't yet know what the accusations are but any one charged could be taken into custody as soon as monday. a few moments we will have the weather with but her still ahead on al-jazeera the general calls for calm to allow access to humanitarian aid and central african republic. despite a clamp down on illegal weapons a report on how violence still plagues the southern philippines. and in sport from the clubhouse to the courthouse we'll tell you what punishment tiger woods is facing after driving under the influence charge. by the springtime flower of a mountain. hello there we've been seeing some severe weather over tanzania recently all out of that little area of cloud there doesn't look too

cities like los angeles chicago and washington d.c. are raising their minimum wage. but here in st louis the lowest paid workers are actually seeing their paychecks get smaller st louis voted to increase the minimum wage from seven dollars and seventy cents an hour to ten dollars but missouri state legislature voted to override that blocking cities like st louis from setting a higher wage. so as fast food workers across the country fight for better wages here they protest the dollars they've lost two to be exact plus thirty cents every hour. and when the police shut them down they take it outside and i want to cancel that that cost the living is going up every day st louis restaurant a watchman says that's not the american way like the idea of government getting involved in telling me how much to pay my people earn it work hard the american dream i didn't but but to determine how much my employee makes well why don't you build my business then for me and get me out of the mess betty douglas has now returned to her old pay and all as i keep getting up in the morning b

is unlikely to answer mr tavist prayers for a new country called embassy mohammed omar d.c. al jazeera. turkey has opened a military training camp in somalia and just days after thirty people were killed when for instance stoned another base in the country al qaeda linked is attempting to overthrow somalia central government fifty million dollar count will train local forces trying to block the group's efforts. reports. this is turkey's largest overseas military training camp it is in the somali capital mogadishu thousands of somalis soldiers and others will be trained here the campus part of turkey's efforts to help the government tackle armed groups like. you know somalia has strategic importance in combating terrorism and the security of sea lions in africa it is a great potential to contribute peace and stability in the continent and the muslim world a strong somali army will surely take on the task of fighting terror groups nested within africa. two hundred turkish officers have been deployed to the base which houses three military schools and other facilities. for the

state department correspondent of course in washington d.c. so a clip there from president john saying that he's upset and disappointed but what can we expect in terms of u.s. pressure in the coming days and weeks. well as of right this moment i can't tell you that because this is a federal holiday in the united states so there's literally no officials around to ask but these are two leaders president donald trump and president or one of their likely to back down they don't like to be seen as anything less than tough and but at the same time it's important remember that these are two very important allies especially as you just mentioned in the fight against the islamic state of iraq in the levant in iraq and syria but this is been a relationship that has continued to sour over the last couple of years really started under president barack obama upset didn't think he was doing enough to target the assad regime and upset about the kurds being armed and it really has continued to spiral from there we saw when erdogan came here to meet with presi

more on this story let's go to state farm correspondent patty culhane who is of course in washington d.c. for us what do we know about president trump's potential plans for the deal. well i should point out this is coming from two very senior respected journalists in washington both at the washington post and at reuters they say that next week sometime next week they expect to get its not hard and fast confirmed but that they are being told to expect president donald trump to in his words d. certify that iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal so does that mean it's dead no it does not this is a one hundred percent internal u.s. mechanism set up by members of congress the deal between the u.s. five other countries and iran is still going to be in place what decertifying does is it sets a clock it gives the u.s. congress sixty days to reimpose sanctions on iran that were lifted as part of this deal mostly those are financial sanctions so are they going to do that well there's probably going to be some pretty intense lobbying and going into all of this and i think it's important rememb

reports from washington d.c. . after the arrest of a worker at the u.s. embassy in ankara and a warrant issued for another the us took the unusual step of saying they would stop issuing visas for some turkish nationals traveling to america the first explanation was posted by the u.s. ambassador to turkey on twitter we don't know if these arrests are singular events or if we should expect other turkish staff members to be arrested turkey quickly followed suit with similar measures but president rich a type one said he did it reluctantly and on kind of this is a very sad decision and the ambassador has taken a decision and started implementing it so it's a source of sadness. this is just the latest in a growing list of diplomatic back and forth the relationship between these two nato allies started souring during the syrian civil war turkey upset the u.s. didn't do enough against the assad government even angrier when the u.s. backed kurdish fighters and later armed them. then last year's coup attempt and it got worse erdogan blamed to clerics for two of th

election to continue on committee joins us live now from washington d.c. kimberly i know the white house press secretary has just been speaking at her daily briefing i guess she was also plenty of questions about these developments. it really dominated the briefing felicity and the white house i think would be fair to say is trying to distance itself from the indictments that have come forward today on monday that repeatedly sara sanders was asked questions about these indictments she seemed to repeatedly characterize that all of these activities involving paul matter fort took place prior to him joining the presidential campaign of donald trump that does seem to contradict some of what was in part in the indictment in fact that says that included activities up to twenty sixteen so there is a bit of overlap an inconsistency there however the overall feeling of the white house is essentially that this is just proof positive of this indictment that there is no evidence of russian collusion something the president echoed on twitter and this indictment proves

the referendum that's correct in the backlash and anger from baghdad and run were also in washington d.c. so baghdad in particular is not willing to negotiate and maybe he is giving room for other actors in the on the kurdish side so negotiations could move forward and the current cease fire between kurdish and iraqi forces to carry on and result in peaceful settlement right so how much room for maneuver is there now that is stepping aside how light politicians who could replace him approach talks with baghdad. he has devolved much of his authority to the cabinet and particularly the prime minister led by the prime minister who mr zani who is also his son in law and nephew so his legacy and his powers so to speak are in good hands and therefore the next phase of kurdish leadership will be led by not only his party the democratic party which mr resign the remains its leader but also by the trust the prime minister the. and you are saying that person remains in the leader of the k d p he may be stepping aside but it doesn't mean he has lost all power does that mean that he could. prove an

it's now speak to castro in washington d.c. what more do we know about to listens comments. hey mary i'm so rex tillerson had a distinct change in tone today in an interview he had with bloomberg news gone was that sense of optimism we heard back in july when the secretary of state made his last visit to the region instead after these three months of relative in action little progress to show tillerson expressed his frustration telling bloomberg that there seems to be a real unwillingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage it's up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with qatar because qatar has been very clear they're ready to engage the words of tillerson there the emir of qatar yesterday called this blockade and on it just to see and he did indicate that his country is open to dialogue now to end this dispute mariyam and isn't the first time we've heard rex listen expressing his frustration on the foreign policy issues or the prospects for his upcoming trip to the region. well he is heading to riyadh tomorrow and then after that it's

saying the right thing thousands of americans have joined on the march for racial justice in washington d.c. relatives of people shot dead by police were among the protesters. at least fifty people have been arrested at a far right rally in the city of gotham bugg members of the nordic resistance movement have been fighting with counter demonstrators the group promotes anti semitic ideas it's said to have timed the march to coincide with the jewish holiday of young kapoor a police officer was among several people injured. the u.s. state department says north korea has shown no signs of interest already in this for talks about its nuclear program secretary of state rex tillerson has revealed washington has been in direct communication with pyongyang he's in beijing for high level talks on the crisis the u.s. has been looking for china's help to toughen an economic squeeze on north korea the leader of colombia's last rebel group has ordered his fighters to stand down and ahead of a historic cease fire. posted a video online committing the national liberation army or l n to honoring the deal t

out of this and i think riyadh saudi arabia will be with that also sending a message to washington d.c. . is that there is an alternative if the u.s. doesn't support the way it's expected to support some of the positions and i think for that this is so that it will be very careful to make progress on the business relations as well yeah lawrence korb if there is a not so subtle message here being sent to to to washington how should or should the u.s. respond to this going forward. well there's no doubt about the fact that the saudis are sending a message to washington as we've discussed before you have been the standard some of the trump people on the whole question g.c.c. question saudis never did like the. the iranian deal so the question becomes then what happens and i think this is going to be a key week because a president trump should decertified the deal then obviously the saudis would like that they did not like the deal in the first place i don't think a lot of other countries in the region would like it the united states would wipe to you know get out of the out of syria they

we provide to you when we provide it is factual well our correspondent was jordan is in washington d.c. he joins us live here there was this story just refuses to go away doesn't it. it isn't going away and it's noteworthy that general joe dunford addressed reporters late on monday afternoon to try to put an end to some of the controversy surrounding the ambush that happened in northeastern new share back on october fourth as you noted in the sound bite that you just played to our viewers general dunford told reporters that there is still a lot of information that is still not yet known about what happened while these u.s. forces were on a joint foot patrol along with a number of new cherian of soldiers on that day and they're trying to investigate as much as they can and as quickly as they can this is of course complicated by the fact that there are only about eight hundred to a thousand u.s. forces inside the share and it was not a full full full fledged military deployment and so investigators basically have to come in from other countries and that of course with the passage of time

you're trying to take care of the health care facilities for the population of the city of washington d.c. that is about the size of a population of refugees who crossed over to bangladesh in recent days from me on my plus those who arrived there in recent years that would make up close to one million the size of the population we're living in squarely refugee camps all across there just isn't and off hospital beds in this part of cox about there's one government on hospital with about two hundred bats and now they're in ok i bought about sixty bags and a field hospital recently opened by red cross and red cross together which has a sixty bad hospital there needs to be a lot of in-house patients sent to where patients would be actually admitted most of the clinics we see our mobile clinics now here we can see woman friendly space which supports gender based violence as well as maternity issues health related problem for woman lactating problem mothers how to take care of their children etc in the long run the government needs to find a solution to provide hospital care facilities for a lo

embassy in ankara and the turkish one in washington d.c. probably for now in order to avoid from the escalating detention they're keeping the diplomatic role low on them this level now we've. in recent months turkey. reaching out to other countries turkey starvation relations with other countries notably russia and more recently with iran over the kurdish referendum independence we've seen tighter our relations between turkey and iran it seems how important is the us still today to turkey turkey and united states have been nato allies and allies for a long time maybe more than sixty years but ankara has three concerns actually three fears folley one is it feels they have been actually cheated by the united states over all this for to lock your land u.s. base cleric's extradition issue second and actually the most important the u.s. support for the wide p.g. . in northern syria and thirdly in direct support for the kurdish secession referendum in northern iraq turkey believes that united states actually in direct the support that but even th