Hello im sam is a than this is the news hour live from dell coming up in the next sixty minutes. What weve just witnessed on the floor was the son of god im sure a lot of democrats this will be called the trump shutdown the u. S. Government runs out of money but that may affect day to day lives less than you think. President claims its nerves reaction in Northern Syria is on the way signs of the ground a far from clear. Concern is rising over a plan to repair the tray hundreds of thousands of the hanger refugees to me and ma. And in sport the International Olympic committee confirms north koreas participation at next months olympics and chang twenty two north korean athletes will compete in three sports in the two koreas will march behind one flag at the Opening Ceremony. Obstructionist losers thats what the trumpet ministration is calling us democrats after the senate rejected a last minute vote to avoid a federal Government Shutdown its now in effect across the country with only essential offices and services staying open negotiations broke down over a deadlock on the status of young undocumented immigrants known as the dreamers particle hain reports from washington. This is not the end of verse three any leader wants to have it was exactly one year ago when donald trump made this promise and became president we will face challenges we will confront hardships but we will get the job done he vowed government would work again its clear with this. It isnt republicans who control the congress and the white house lost four of their own members but picked up five democrats still not enough to pass the bill that means many nonessential Government Employees wont be coming to work on monday without a deal although most essential federal services will continue the employees just wont get paid until its over it came down to this a program that was in place to protect children brought into this country without documentation President Trump threw it out and said congress should fix it he promised to help if we do this properly docket you know its so far away from comprehensive Immigration Reform and if you want to take that further step ill take the heat i dont care i dont care ill take all the heat you want to get. They brought him a bipartisan deal and he refused to sign it so democrats refused to help pass the budget now the white house is saying they still have the weekend to work out a deal i think it will be taken care of the money i can thats why i just said i think i really think theres a really difficult to. Fix the problem for the office of the future for now it is a standoff a functioning government held hostage while two parties wait to see which side the public will blame for the very dysfunction that trump promised to end exactly one year ago what weve just witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by Senate Democrats or a shovel. Millions of americans for the sake of irresponsible political gash a Government Shutdown was one hundred percent avoidable this will be called the trump shutdown because there is no one no one. Who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in more than President Trump. Aljazeera washington or heres what happens now the Earth Government has officially shut down hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be affected by that impact will vary across the parliaments more than ninety five percent of employees at the Environmental Protection agency and Housing Department will be out of work only about fifty percent of workers at the treasury face that fate the u. S. Defense secretary says training maintenance and intelligence operations will be impacted about half of the Defense Department seven hundred forty thousand civilian workers will have to take a leave of absence if youre planning on visiting the u. S. Landmark tourist sites like washingtons famous smithsonian museums and the national zoo will be closed but Services Like border and Airport Security as well as air Traffic Control will continue the state Department Also says Visa Services at u. S. Embassies will remain as long as funding remains our White House CorrespondentKimberly Howard joins us live now from washington d. C. Its always a quiet day on a saturday in washington d. C. How much confidence is there they can make sure it doesnt become a quiet monday to. Well there is very little confidence right now it seems as patty reported there the both sides are in a standoff and that is certainly frustrating President Donald Trump who is in the white house behind me he had been scheduled to go celebrate the anniversary of his first year in office down at mar a lago in florida he canceled that trip its not clear at this time when he will be departing but what i can tell you is that he is taking his frustrations out on social media as he often does when he is angry at developments that he is watching in the news the latest tweets not just as you said at the top of the show from Sarah Sanders calling those legislators obstructionist losers but the president squarely blaming the democrats saying on the one Year Anniversary of my presidency democrats wanted to give me a nice president rather president hes also because this is an Election Year sammy in the United StatesCongressional Elections in november he is making the case that there need to be more republican wins so that he can govern particularly in the u. S. Senate where this shutdown really fell apart in terms of trying to prevent it there are now just fifty one republicans a majority but in one hundred seats senate thats not enough you need sixty votes to be confident that he can get some of his agenda through and so he is also making that case on social media and how is the blame game go blame game going down rather with the American Public. Well its really deteriorating as both the finger pointing from democrats republicans democrats calling this a trump shutdown republicans calling this a schumer shutdown because they say that the Senate Majority leader rather the Senate Democratic leader just was not willing to yield the bottom line is that i think this is a calculated gamble on both sides because the American Public did not want to see the Government Shutdown well majority of americans certainly support the immigration efforts of democrats they didnt want to see the government shut down as a result of it so the hardball that democrats have been playing right now is certainly a difficult calculation its going to come down to the American People who right now did not want to see this happen and may be blaming both sides for the im going to say function weve seen in congress now for almost a decade on good stuff there from kimberly how could washington d. C. Scott lucas is a professor of american and International Studies at the university of wyoming and he says continued budget uncertainty will have an effect well beyond the shutdown in this position because the trumpet ministration has not passed the federal government budget after one year in office it doesnt even have one ready to present so thats the core issue where its had to go again and again back to congress on this occasion for a fourth time to get supplemental funding how one can a federal government go without setting out its revenue and Spending Plans how long can it go without explaining how its going to pay for that one point five trillion dollar tax cut that it pushed through in december and the longer you have that uncertainty about the fundamentals of the government rather than the immediate shutdown then thats really whats going to shake International Investment plans decisions. The u. S. Defense secretary says the focus for his Nations National security has moved away from terrorism on to the competition between the great powers james mattis said the focus would be on countering chinas expanding military and an increasingly aggressive russia its the latest sign of shifting priorities in americas Defense Strategy jabbered townsend has more from washington d. C. General motors warned that washington was in danger of losing what he called its qualitative edge in weaponry against china and russia thats despite to the estimates that say that washington spends more than the next eight to ten countries combined on weaponry including russia and china this was the pentagons interpretation of the white house National Security strategy released last december and it reiterated the same points the change in emphasis to Great Power Competition from terrorism was the first point he made. We face growing threats from revisionist powers as different as china and russia or from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models pursuing Veto Authority over and other nations economic diplomatic and security decision rogue regimes like north korea and iran persist in take an action that threaten regional and even global stability biol and extremist organizations like this or Lebanese Hezbollah or al qaeda continue to show hatred destroying peace and murdering innocents across the globe whats particularly striking about the pentagons Defense Strategy and the white house is National Security strategy is they completely contradict what donald trump said on the campaign trail that he would be putting America First that he would withdraw from international entanglements that the u. S. Would no longer be the worlds policeman its clear from these two strategy papers that both his defense secretary and National Security advisor dont agree turkish president i jumped out of the wireless told supporters as a party rally that a ground operation to take a kurdish controlled area of Northern Syria has quote de facto begun Turkish Forces have been amassing on the border near the syrian district of a free its held by the kurdish y p g which ankara considers a terrorist Group Artillery units have been shelling the area for several days while groups loyal to ankara have also been mobilizing in Eastern Syria near the town of Azaz Stephanie decade now joins us live from the turkey syria border so the turkish president says the ground operation has de facto begun how does de facto ground ops look like where you are. But weve just been moved away from from a location where were at about ten minutes from here you can see the Syrian Border still behind us you probably see a white wall thats the wall that turkey built so that syria the mountains but what we saw today sporadic shellys salming i wouldnt say a real intense hours of shelling tank fire two or three locations that were targeted that we saw there was sort of a build up of what looked like defensive. Barricades blocks concrete blocks bulldozers and gravel being brought into that wall where they were working before the military move us all in so you know when you talk about a ground operation you do think of troops moving towards a target what we are seeing of course is a buildup along the border and also a buildup inside syria with the Free Syrian Army this is the rebels that turkey backs that anger has made clear will be part of this operation but were not seeing at the moment. A move towards a freend so even though weve heard this word the practicality of it as of yet hasnt really changed what weve seen in the last couple of days i think the big question marks i mean still remains the russian factor we know talks are still ongoing with senior. Turkish and russian officials in sochi so i think the question mark still remains has russian given the go ahead because airspace again will be key to turkey wanting to use aircraft sort of start this operation to minimize casualties on their end if and when the ground operation does get into full swing how the talks made it clear what the goal what the scope of a ground offensive would be. Well yes weve heard it again today from the president from others officials throughout this week and since last year really that they want to clear the border of what they call terrorists as you mentioned that is they see that is the wipe they do hold often enough is pretty much surrounded sami turkey to the west and north rebels supported by turkey to the east and also to the south and you had president. Is a town still west of the euphrates now for a long time turkey has wanted the y. P. G. To move out of there just to briefly remind you last year there was a tense situation between Turkish Forces and the white b. G. Image and the americans sent in troops and vehicles to calm the situation so you can see the sort of spillover effect that that might have in the future and the president also mention that he was going to go and clear the wipe all the way to the border with iraq well that area is where the s. D. F. Operates this is where the americans say theyre going to set up this socalled border force even then they said its not a border force its internal security but anyway you can imagine its a very complicated situation with Different International players backing different sides allies backing you know sides that offend each other its very complicated so the implications of that i think its a message practically can the turks move to membered and further to iraq will be very very difficult all right stephanie becca. Russia has accused the us of trying to undermine efforts to end the war in syria washington has denied setting up of force along the turkey syria border made up of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces but turkey is not satisfied by the assurances and warned it could cause irreversible damage to relations now so has weighed in on the start of so using your moves for you is still trying to alternative bodies of authority on the force parts of the syrian territories that is a fact and that does contradict their own obligations now they have even more far reaching plans and will have to keep that in mind and try to find ways that would prevent them from undercutting the sovereignty of the syrian state plenty more still to come on the news hour pope francis makes a play to protect the amazon and its people during a trip to peru. And well look at this years sundance festival the service shadowed by discussion of sex scandals in hollywood and in sports Roger Roger Federer is a step closer to defending is this training an open title details. Indonesia is deploying military paramedics to carry food and vaccines to a remote part of its Eastern Province of papua least sixty one infants have died there in the past four months from lack of health care our correspondent stepped vasant travel to the area reports from the hospital and i got some pop up province. Here the extent of the Health Crisis in part one becomes painfully clear undernourished and very seriously ill children are still being rushed to this hospital and this is the only hospital for around one hundred thousand people here in the us my district and conditions are very very basic maria has just traveled for around five hours by speedboat to bring her little daughter to paula she says shes one years old and look shes extremely undernourished not only undernourished because of a lack of food but the are smart people in contact with the outside world are rapidly losing their traditions and also their knowledge on how to give nutrition to their children the indonesian government is pouring money into this region but many Building Infrastructure and Living Conditions the basic Health Conditions of these people are seriously deteriorating. Police in nigeria say for north american citizens kidnapped earlier this week have been found abandoned by their captors with two americans and two canadians were abducted by armed men and could do in the state on wednesday police say their captors abandon them after signing citing rather a police chopper. Its been a year since adam a barrow was sworn in as president of gambia ending two decades of repressive and economically damaging rule by germany the swearing in took place in neighboring so the guard troops were deployed to gambia to persuade germany to accept barrows victory in the election and step down but two days later german left gambia and is now in the equitorial guinea in the past year the treasury has seized about fifty Million Dollars of assets and