♪ venezuela opposition defeats the socialist in parliamentary election for the first time in almost two decades. ♪ you are watching al jazeera i'm live from headquarters in doha and coming up, in the next half hour. >> the threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it. >> reporter: barack obama says that americans must not turn against each other in the face of adversity. the u.s. energy secretary tells al jazeera he is optimistic a meaningful climate change deal will be reached at talks in

paris. and tourist attractions begin to reopen in sierra leone after the country is declared ebola free. ♪ venezuela center right opposition has tried for socialist winning control over the national assembly and the landslide victory was confirmed when nicholas conceded the party defeat and he will be remaining in power and 74% turned out to cast their ballot and the highest since the voting ended in the 1990s and some seats are yet to be counted but so far the opposition has won 99 seats now that is more than double those of the ruling party which has 46 seats so far and there is still 22 seats to be declared and our

editor reports now from caracus. >> reporter: the expressions of venezuela headquarters confirm supporters' worst nightmare as the election results were announced. for the first time in nearly 17 years opponents of the nation's populus revolution won a majority in the national assembly. true to his word president maduro recognized his party's defeat. >> translator: we've lost a battle today and struggle to build new socialism and new society starts now. we should take this as a slap in the face to wake us up so we can work towards the future. >> reporter: the results should have come as no surprise, spiralling inflation, crime and chronic shortages of basic goods and services had become too much even for many die hard

supporters of the revolution. >> translator: it's a total change, that's what i want because what we are putting up with is unbearable, intelligible, cues here and there and crime everywhere, enough. >> reporter: with a legislative majority venezuela's p o -- opposition can up hold the budget and elect the president of national assembly and list public officials and in theory it would have the president to negotiate but only in theory. >> because the government still controls four of the five bran h branches of the government and more importantly control the supreme court and constitutional chamber of the supreme court can basically declare any of these laws unconstitutional. >> reporter: but an embolden composition has other options including a referendum against a president. >> translator: if the government does not change its attitude we will have to change

the government. >> reporter: another indication that more political confrontation lies ahead. in a normal democracy the division of powers is considered healthy but in a country as politically polarized as venezuela convincing them to build a consensus and work together for the common good does seem like a long shot, lucy newman, al jazeera, caracus. hand over of power in venezuela is a sign of a shift in the political landscape and last month the left-leaning president kich ner chosen successor was defeated at the poles after to terms in office kirchner will step down and venezuela and bolivia and ecuador will lose a powerful ally and who is replacing kirchner has a cabinet of

technocrat and will return to a political economy and they have moves to impeach the leftest president rouseff on corruption scandal and record low approval ratings and benedict is from the norwegian are ae search and says commodity prices and low inflation hit political ratings across the nation. >> reporter: there is definitely a shift in latin america but i think it's a bit early to say it's a shift from the left and have presidential ratings a plummeting in chile and peru and they have been associated with the left wave they have followed very different policies from say venezuela and argentina. i think a lot of this is related to economic problems because of plummeting and also commodity prices, oil, gas and metal that

have hurt perhaps particularly the left wing governments because they have been supported by the poor masses due to generous social schemes but for example like a country like brazil have generate add lot of economic growth and made it possible for the elites to gain and that is also narrowing with increasing economic problems and small growth. >> foreign minister accused the u.s. led coalition of conducting where four aircraft took part in a raid and risen to the u.s. security council condemning what it describes as aggression by the u.s. the united states says it did conduct air strikes against oil facilities on deir ezzor on sunday but did not target vehicles or personnel in the area.

meanwhile hundreds of syrian rebels are preparing to pull out of the city of homs as part of a ceasefire deal and buses arrived in the suburb to take the first group of fighters out of the area and it's the last rebel stronghold in the city which has been under siege by government forces for over two years. aid agencies have now been allowed in. a u.s. president barack obama has vowed to defeat terrorism and destroy i.s.i.l. and rare televised address came in the wake of wednesday's mass shooting in california which 14 people died and a white house correspondent patty reports. >> on wednesday 14 americans. >> reporter: the back drop the oval office and only the third time barack obama used this as address and meants to send a message of seriousness after attacks in california left 14 dead and wondering the they were

inspired by i.s.i.l. and levante and says he has a strategy to defeat the group. >> the threat of terrorism is real but we will overcome it. >> reporter: tough time convincing majority of americans according to resent polls and 57 disapprove how he is handling the fight against i.s.i.l., 72% say the effort is going badly and 60% say it's time to send more troops into iraq and syria, his strategy is also facing serious criticism from republican presidential candidates. >> so for god's sakes mr. president change your strategy and come up with a ground force to go in and destroy the kalifate before we get hit here at home. >> reporter: president had his own criticism for the u.s. congress saying it's time for new gun control legislation, that is unlikely. just last week the senate voted down a bill to keep people on the no fly list from buying weapons. president obama also urged americans not to frame this as a war against islam. >> that too is what groups like

i.s.i.l. want. i.s.i.l. does not speak for islam. they are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death and they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. >> reporter: before the speech hundreds of advocates rallied outside the white house to send a similar message. >> basic thing is to make the world realize that the terrorism they are seeing not only domestically but internationally is not representative of islam. >> the president using the speech from the oval office to calm fears to ensure americans he has the strategy to defeat i.s.i.l. because it was clear after the speech he has no plans to change it, patty with al jazeera in washington. the final week of talks to reach a global deal to tackle climate change has begin in paris and facing days of tough negotiations with a draft agreement approved over the weekend and aiming to reduce

global warning with greenhouse gasses and early i spoke to u.s. energy secretary earnest and says he is optimistic that a meaningful agreement will be reached. >> first of all we should recognize having 184 countries come in with targets is really a tremendous platform for the final discussions that will address important issues, differentiation and transparency and reporting on progress, of course finance, these are all critical issues but i think there is a strong will to converge and to have a strong agreement coming out of paris. >> having a strong will and pledges is one thing and it's another to connect these pledges and these promises and we know that president obama's clean energy plan is facing hostile opposition in congress as well as in the senate, how seriously

then can the international community take america's climate change pledges? >> first of all i want to emphasize the president's climate action plan which he issued in 2013 is being followed. it is based upon executive authorities and we are executing the plan. we have strong provisions for vehicle efficiencies to lower emissions, we have a very strong clean power plan for our electricity plants so i really want to emphasize this is going forward. >> what about the other super powers and let's just say china, india and also known to be some of the bigger emitters of unclean gasses, now what about them, they have made pledges as well, the question is how will they be held responsible for their actions and will there be any inmplications for those tha

do not? >> the major theme emphasized here in paris on the very first day by the leaders of 20 countries including the united states and china and india and france our host and obviously 16 others is a commitment to drive innovation, to drive investments. in fact, an international coalition of investors was put together so all of these countries are committed to that. secondly, we do have a strong commitment and let's take china, china not only announced together with the united states its commitment over one year ago but even in september they announced a new cap and trade system going forward so they are taking steps with strong regulations. now clearly we are hoping that the agreement here in paris will also include required verification measures able to require we hope a regular review of our commitment so that we can

make them even more ambitious, that is still to be determined this week but over all i believe that the united states, china certainly have shown very strong commitments to reaching their nationally-determined targets. still to come here on al jazeera the far right french national front makes big gains in its first electoral test since the paris attacks and bureaucracy stands in the way of rebuilding nepal months of april's earthquake. ♪

a quick recap of the stories on al jazeera and celebrations on the streets of venezuela after a landslide victory for the opposition. and beat the ruling socialists to win control of the national assembly for the first time in almost 17 years. sierra has written to the u.s. security council condemning what it calls aggression and the u.s. denies any involvement. u.s. energy secretary has told al jazeera he is optimistic a meaningful climate change deal will be reached in paris and governments under pressure to reach agreement as negotiations enter their final week. france far right achieved record vote in elections and early results say la-penn received 27%

of the vote and president sarcozy is in second place and francois hollande is trailing in third place with 22% of the vote and al jazeera contact jackie roland has the latest now in paris. >> reporter: the outcome of the first round of the elections has been a shock for many people although in a way they should have been prepared for it when you bear in mind that in recent elections slowly but surely the national front has been increasing its share of the vote, in fact, one newspaper on monday morning said that it was quite clear now that france was moving from a two-party to a three-party system. la-penn speaking monday morning at a news conference and looked like she had been up most of the night and jubilant and confident and hinting towards the

presidential elections of 2017 when she said that people should be preparing themselves psychologically and clearly a very ambitious la penn looking beyond elections to more important elections in about a year and a half's time. one of the interesting results has been the collapse more or less of the socialist party so much so that in three regions of france the socialists have said they won't even bother to contest the second round. la-penn spoke of the collective suicide of a socialist party but could be an under lying motive and talk about the question of tactical voting comes into play in the second round with the socialist dropping out in the regions and could be socialist voters will decide to vote for the right wing candidates of the republican party in order to try to block a victory by the far right national front.

now, the number of people around the world needing humanitarian assistance has more than doubled in the last ten years, the scale of need is out pacing the money available to address it all according to the u.n. humanitarian agency which launched a new global appeal for 2016 and has not received what it asked for this year, the agency appealed for almost $20 billion in 2015 and that is to help 82 million people across 38 countries but by november only half of that funding had been delivered leaving a shortfall of around $10 billion and most people are effected by violence and lack of security in their country and millions have been displaced and many more have been left homeless by natural disasters like earthquakes and aftershocks in nepal back in april and may and we report from

kathmandu. >> reporter: on the edge of kathmandu he and his wife make a small amount of money for preparing wool for knitting and lost six members during the quake when his house fell and seven months after the quake he is angry and rejected. >> translator: those who died have died, how are we going to survive? we have no hope from the government. they only take care of themselves but this government and the one before, there is no reconstruction. before we got some relief that too has stopped. >> reporter: more than 70 people died in this village and 800 houses were damaged and now people have been told they are no longer allowed to take refuge on government land and people like him face additional expense of land to build a temporary structure. >> the reconstruction was supposed to fast track rebuilding and $4 billion set by

the international community cannot be spent but has allocated more than $700 million reconstruction this year but that hasn't been spent either and now the cabinet is saying that the national planning commission will be responsible for spending that money. the head of the existing planning commission says it will play a temporary role to get reconstruction moving. >> it is simply for the existing programs and budgets put in the current years by the government. since there is no authority at the moment and the 91 billion repairs which was ear marked could not be materialized so our job has been to get those programs approved by the ministries and ask the ministries to implement them by themselves. >> reporter: those working with quake victims are getting concerned and bureaucratic delays within the ministries and some say even corruption mean there is little transparency of when the project will finally receive the funding and has been

raising funds from friends and families and distributing relief since the quake. >> translator: i've not seen reconstruction work any where. in the mountains people are suffering from the cold. they need food, clothes and blankets. children are getting sick let alone reconstruction some have received no relief. >> reporter: some donor agencies we talked to said they already started spending their money without the government and while the government has been focusing on political deadlocks quake victims who lost everything they owned are beginning to lose hope as well. al jazeera, katmandu. business is booming for security firms employed to protect cargo from pirates in southeast asia and hijacking and sea robberies are widespread in the strait after a period of relative calm and in the second part of the series on piracy we report now from singapore. >> reporter: armed guards to protect ships against pirates

and security companies are flushishing because of the number of hijacks at sea and the weapons have to be locked away when vessels are in territorial waters and singapore based security company says it regularly provides armed guards to shipping companies. >> easily about 55-60% in this vicinity where they are traveling south of singapore towards the virgin islands or away from the singapore islands to south china sea. >> reporter: ship owner knows the threat very well, his oil tankers have been hijacked by armed pirate three times in resent years. >> happening every two weeks and of course we are very concerned and now we have started our own what do you call it sop and how to do this. >> reporter: the ship owner is reluctant to carry armed guards and relies on the malaysia navy to protect his ships and crews but navy commanders says ship

owners should be more alert. >> zero policy therefore i request all marines out there please observe the good practic practices. should any suspicious contact approaching you at any time day or night we must be alerted. >> reporter: the armed guard security firms offering equipment to scare off pirates with sound or water. patrols have been stepped up but they are not allowed to enter each other's territory. and joint patrols are seen as an important solution to combat piracy in southeast asia they say the biggest problem is in the land in malaysia and singapore where pirate

syndicrates are able to escape arrest. they detained a suspect after a malaysia ship was hijacked but sources in indonesia says the hijacking a singapore business man has yet to be arrested and f navy and policemen in singapore have not responded to questions from al jazeera. >> perhaps singapore wants to deny that its citizens or its residents may necessarily not be involved in piracy activity. the financial sector in singapore is very strong and quite influential and it's always been slightly autonomous of the singapore government and perhaps a degree of reluctance to really open up that pandora's box. >> lack of law enforcement and reluctance to share information among singapore, may -- malaysia and singapore regarding those who pass by every day, al

jazeera, singapore. competition to choose the official logo for the 2020 tokyo olympics closes on monday and likely to end at least one of the many embarrassing chapters to the committee as harry faucet explains. >> since the victory in the biddle process viewed as a way of showing japan could rebound from the triple disaster of tsunami and earthquake and there was a logo ban a graphic artist in belgium that sued the tokyo logo for similarities to his design for a belgium theatre and that is why that design was scrapped and open to everyone in japan over the age of 18 to submit an alternative and there have been thousands of submissions and among the favorites people have seen is the low go of cherry blossoms and one done by a graphic artist

of an opening fan and not clear if they are open for competitions but it will be evaluated in early january and narrowed down and the selection will be made but a bigger problem surrounding the site itself and the design by the british architect was spectacular but the construction budget swells to double the original estimate and scrapped earlier this year but the japanese prime minister and still don't have a final decision and it's expected that will be decided on by the end of this year and ground broken on construction of the stadium by early 2017 but already an important deadline has been missed and the rugby cup scheduled in 2019 now won't have a center piece stadium as a result. one bit a good news is the tokyo government has a quarter of the funding necessary to build this stadium totaling its estimated

$1.3 billion. now sierra leone has been declared ebola free businesses which rely on tourism are hoping they will get busy again and we report from an animal sanctuary in the capitol free town. >> reporter: they are intelligent, playful and don't mind posing for the camera. locals and tourists from around the world have visited for chimps which closed down for safety reasons during ebola crisis and looking for a fine line of survival after losing $100,000 and since opening the visitor numbers have fall end behalf and they were starting to develop a strong tourism with the sanctuary. >> and governments through taxes it generates revenue there. >> reporter: the esbowl and

fallen tourism cost the government $11 million and visitors are slowly starting to return. >> think we can learn from them and genetically close to us obviously and they are very endangered and it's important that there are sanctuaries in places like this where people can come and learn about them. announcer: that is the goal of the sanctuary educating people about conserving chimps. during the 1970s it was estimated there were about 20,000 chimps in sierra leone, that number has drastically declined and it's estimated there are 5 1/2 thousand and often kept illegally as pets or hunted from food and said do not eat bush meat since the crisis and creative ways for visitors are being discussed and optimism that everything will eventually bounce back. free town, sierra leone.

he certainly looks delighted at the good news in sierra leone quick reminder too you can keep up to date with the latest news and analysis all on our website, the address is on your screen at al jazeera.com. i'm ali velshi. on toroth tonight something fishy in the food supply. genetically altered salmon is fit for consumption says the government. u of the s food and drug administration has sparked a new debate about genetically modified food. in particular frankenfish that salmon produced by a company is asst as safe for humans to eat