We wish you well Trump Defends a former white house aide accused of Domestic Violence egypt launches a massive military operation that it says is targeting terrorists in sinai. And the space six rockets ahead of fears in russia that their legacy could be under threat. The u. S. Vice president mike pence turned a Cold Shoulder to the sister of the north Korean Leader as the Winter Olympics got on the way chang but as Nuclear Tensions simmered side koreas leader did break the diplomatic ice shaking hands with kim jong il tasha game reports now from south korea. A step towards reconciliation for the First Time Since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north koreas ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong un sr is fascinating Many South Koreans jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president moon j. In greeted her at the Opening Ceremony before she sat near u. S. Vice president mike pence the two didnt appear to Exchange Greetings then the moment many had been waiting for north and south korean athletes marched under a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism its the first time theyve done that at an International Sporting event in eleven years moon said the Winter Olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for a world divided by conflicts to unite critics say the north korean Charm Offensive is only intended to advance its agenda and mosconi us decided to look nice for a vial of this option if you could use chance chances that president krom via authorizing me to take their ration bot as a program of ease that made fundamentals have not changed. I determined to have an end of this i. C. B. M. Into continental body stick missiles capable of delivering a Nuclear Strike to the continuum for the United States in the runup to the games the North Koreans have absorbed much of the spotlight first by agreeing to participate and then by sending a high level delegation to the south this week american diplomat said they would soon unveil the toughest economic sanctions against north korea yet while also saying a diplomatic solution was the focus. For now this is a moment for South Koreans to show the world what it done. Damn a country they live in during the Opening Ceremony spectators were taken back in time to show the history of the Korean People and what organizers called their relentless pursuit of peace or in that picture what m. P. E. I hope that with north korea not pleats participation this could be peaceful and pigs and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the north that the good. Mood here is good to south koreas hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world Good Opportunity to promote south korea. And the hope is this will set the stage down only for a sporting spectacular but historic breakthrough with their northern neighbors natasha going to aim old zero south korea. U. S. President donald trump a signed off on the spending bill officially ending the Government Shutdown after just a few hours the stopgap measure will extend government funding until march twenty third the committee how could has more now from washington. With the stroke of a pen u. S. President donald trump and the Government Shutdown that lasted more than five hours while most americans were asleep everything about this stinks to tell you the truth most of the drama curd in the u. S. Senate as members of congress debated lifting strange limits on government is better to call the vote to keep the government running held up by a single seven republican rand paul who says Government Spending is out of control everybodys getting more spending. The military the rights getting more military spending the left is getting more well versed branding and youre getting stuck with the bill the late night debate played out for hours of revenge only passing in the Upper Chamber but still needing approval in the house of representatives the deal raises spending caps by roughly three hundred billion dollars over two years one hundred sixty five billion will go to the military one hundred thirty one billion going to domestic spending including does that aster relief programs but this also means the deal will send the deficit soaring to more than a trillion dollars by next year and it doesnt include a key democrat demand protection for Illegal Immigrants known as dreamers brought to the United States as children still without legal status and potentially facing deportation if congress doesnt act but the leading House Republican promised immigration can only be addressed once the government is fully funded im confident we can bring a bipartisan solution the floor that can get signed into law and solve this problem the program to protect dreamers was eliminated by President Donald Trump last year and congress has just reeks left to legalize their status or many could face deportation kimberly health kit aljazeera Washington WellPresident Trump has come to the defense of a white house aide whos quits after being accused of Domestic Violence rob poor so resigned earlier this week after a to his former wife made separate allegations of verbal and physical apiece. As you probably know he says hes innocent and i think you have to remember that he said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that but we absolutely wish him well did a very good job while he was at the white house lets go live to allan fisheye in the washington hi there allan just how controversial could trumps the fame of his former aide proves to be. Well we know that dont trump likes to stand by people that have been loyal to him so that is why is expressing his support for rob porter you remember he also did it with Michael Flynn after he resigned called him a good guy said that in public several times even going back to the Alabama Senate race roy moore who is accused of molesting young young women at that point some under the age of consent of course Donald Trump Backed him in that race and suggested that roy moore also said he was and innocent but heres the difficulty for him he has misjudging the moment here in the United States with all the questions being asked about women empowering themselves not being victims of this sort of assault it really does misjudge the moment and allows others to question whether or not donald trump who often said he was a good judge of character whether he actually is for rob porter theres a difficulty as well when you go into a job like the white house you fill out a federal form one of the ele questions is do are you currently under any restraining order no if by any chance he ticked no on that which would explain why the white house didnt know about this immediately if he to know then that is a federal offense he is in big trouble so that is something clearly that will be investigated over the next few weeks i suspect that those who want to donald trump will look at his comments in the last otoh are so and see more of the same remember this is a man whos been accused by numerous women of assaulting them and has always denied it and said every single one of the women was like and trump also said alan that the white house is sincere release a letter from the democrats some alleged f. B. I. Bias against trump and its rush approach. Whats interesting that hes releasing a letter rather than releasing the memo youll remember its just a week ago that we got the memo that came from the republicans which address the f. B. I. Investigation into the Donald Trumps alleged collusion with russia no we got that memo in its entirety because donald trump and the white house insisted that there had to be transparency the democrats written wrote a Ten Page Memo in response to that it went through the same process it was voted out of committee it was handed over to the white house for review by the f. B. I. And other security agencies and then we were expecting to see the memo so by seeing that theres a letter rather than the memo that would suggest that the democrat memo is still some we from final publication and this rather just keeps going on on fish of their life washington d. C. Alan thank you at least one person has been killed and at least one hundred twenty two injured after two bombs were detonated during friday prayers at a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi Officials Say both devices were planted in separate rooms inside or two weeks ago around thirty five people were killed by a twin bombing at a mosque in the very same city the Egyptian Army has launched what its calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist criminal groups in the Sinai Peninsula making the announcement in a televised statement an Army Spokesman says it will land sea and air forces covering central sinai and areas in egypts nile delta and Western Desert hospitals have been put on high alert and ordered to prepare extra beds and staff to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations well earlier we spoke to omar ashore whos a professor of Security Studies at Doha Institute he says theres a political dimension to the new offensive. If you saw the pattern from twenty thirteen on words youll find happening with one Major Political events are coming up so when the coup happened in july twenty third dean you had an escalation following in september and the whole idea part of the coup and that is all that of the new regime coming is that security and counterterrorism needs to be implemented partly in sinai but also elsewhere the interesting part about the communique of the armed forces is that theyre not talking just about sinai they saying that theres an escalation in tensions delta and there is in this creation in the Western Deserts which are the two other areas that you saw some kind of Political Violence happening in the i think it has to do a lot with the forthcoming president ial elections i think these escalations and the level of. Men and arms you know the ship the sinai is not new cutting the you know suspending the Internet Communications blocking roads this is all not new to has been happening since twenty fifteen and probably before twenty thirteen as well so im not sure if theres something new or theres a measured saying that you know the strongman is back hes trying to secure the region and therefore mobilize for him in the next president ial elections which is happening next month. Still to come here on our mexico the price of extra police to combat. Patrol with some of them on the beaches of can cook. On friday prayers as protests continue over the jailing of a former Prime Minister. That more when we come back. We got some really wet weather moving across the mediterranean that the moment that. Has been developing bring up and bring you some big downpours towards the far south italy integration little just not just where little further east was and more with as we go through the next few days some of the weather to up towards and. Both western states of snow on the leading edge of this weather system here thats now making its way through for saturday should be dry across much of france the low countries western parts of germany but the really heavy rain thats going to make its way in across holland pushing into weils western part of it and also into scholars and nine celsius in london temperatures started to pick up nine degrees to form attrit we got that wet weather down into the southeastern corner which will make its way further northeast was pushing up towards the black sea bulgaria roumania easing up towards crime seeing some disturbed weather right sleet and some snow the way some snow say into scandinavia sliding down into a chair many for sunday night celsius in london by sunday afternoon and to some wintry weather still in the mix as we go on through the latter part of the weekend some heavy rain that moderate pushing up into the northwest of spain by the stay say fourteen celsius the snow will be gone some outerwear making its way to the northwest of africa to the bat the sixteen. In twenty twelve aljazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera theyre saying that if they talk to us they think theyll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under Us Occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed its one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq could turn into a battleground between the mighty army the merican six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time oh no does either. Welcome back amanda our top stories here on aljazeera the Winter Olympics have opened with a historic show of unity between north and south korea athletes from the two countries marched together and the south korean president shook hands with kim jong the sister of the north Korean Leader kim jong il. U. S. President bill ciampa signed off on a spending bill ending the second gulf chunk time this year after a deal to extend from there was agreed by congress this President Donald Trump has come to the defense of the white house aide whos quit after being accused of Domestic Violence porter resigned earlier this week our two former wives made separate allegations of verbal and physical abuse. The Mexican Government is deploying thousands of federal Police Officers across the country to combat a huge surge in the number of murders well than twenty five thousand people were murdered in mexico last year thats the highest number in decades in january five thousand additional Police Officers were sent to several to assist us where violence thing to drug cartels and organized crime has been high but most of them have been deployed to two one of which borders san diego in california the rest are in Baja California so are along the tourist areas of la paz and los cabos cancun chill punching go on the state of chiles school as well as the states. Well man well the apollo is in cancun mexico and heres his package. Police and military forces are holding a routine checkpoint in cancun in response to a homicide rate that has risen three hundred percent in the last fourteen months this driver was detained after officers found a half dozen mobile phones and a handgun in his vehicle but even with the cooperation of military state and local Police Law Enforcement agencies are struggling to fight crime. Related to organized crime committed by criminal groups competing for control over all other criminal groups all of it is related to the sale of drugs. We rode along with a division of federal Police Officers patrolling a popular beach mexicos peak tourism season is fast approaching and the government is dispatching some five thousand federal agents across the country for tourists looking for white sand in turquoise waters however the violence seems far away the soda i feel very safe i walked around late yesterday and it was very calm and i havent noticed a lot of bad things happening or anything. Can cool draws in billions of dollars from tourism every year once the sun sets bars and nightclubs are packed with party goers but just a short drive away there is another more dangerous side to the city. Were in a residential neighborhood near the center of town and police have blocked off this road behind me after the shooting took place only about one hour ago police tell us that two people were shot in the gunmen fled sadly this is a scene that plays out on a near daily basis here in cannes koon. The District Attorney says there are one to two murders on average every day Civil Society groups or youth that the recent increase in police hasnt served everyone equally. For their government protests. But what about the ones that work in that industry and then return to the areas where crime. Prevails walking along tell district the two sides of the city become apparent a nightly patrol by federal police makes Foreign Tourists fuel safe but it also keeps the nearby violence out of sight and out of mind when reading up on the ill just see to cancun mexico well in part to bounce a Serious Investigation into violence on the streets of mexico will travel to acapulco on the countrys Pacific Coast