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hello i'm so this is the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. when the people of iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship i did not stay silent donald trump uses his state of the union speech to lash out at iran to bring you the arabian response. also the humanitarian crisis in gaza and donor countries meeting in brussels. and some of these afghan refugees have lived in pakistan for generations but the deadline for them to leave is just hours away. also it just happens once every one hundred fifty years what's called the soup up blood blue moon eclipse will be as close as it gets to us in the next sixty minutes.

welcome to the news hour an appeal for unity at home and a message of strength and power abroad donald trump's delivers his first state of the union speech highlighting what he sees as the successes of his administration now he's outlined a plan for tougher immigration policies a powerful military and a strong nuclear terence program from washington d.c. alan fischer reports. oh. that's got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washington was marked by protests. i. got the president of the united states. inside a much warmer welcome for donald trump. the state of the union traditionally when a president leaves oak his vision for the future the state of our union is strong for donald trump a chance to look back at the tumultuous first year he boasted about his economic successes since the election we have created two point four million new jobs in the

morning to us including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone but he talked about cutting black unemployment is a story reaction from some democrats the row over immigration help close down the government earlier this month he appealed to democrats to what with him and republicans to finally sort the issue so let's come together. set politics aside and finally get the job done. and as he talked about chain migration there were audible boots under the current broken system a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives under our plan he talked about the battle against i'm still claiming huge success the pledging there was more to be done and of the need to invest more in america's

military in a line not trailed by the white house the president revealed a new policy on the detention camp a guantanamo being cuba overturning a decision by barack obama i just side prior to walking in an order directing secretary mabus to keep open the detention facilities in guantanamo bay alley and after a u.n. vote which criticized the u.s. decision to recognize to receive them as the capital of israel it was a clear threat to those who stood against his administration i am asking congress to pass legislation to help ensure american foreign assistance dollars always share american interests and only go to friends of amanda knox and allied there was no mention of the russian investigation but there was mention of iran and north korea but the president ended with a familiar message and it's the people who are making america great again

the democrats reply came from the son of a famous family congressman joe kennedy his great uncle was president john kennedy their record is your view to our highest american ideal. the belief that we are all worthy that we are all equal that we all count donald trump wanted to bring the country together and believes this speech will help democrats want to see if his actions match his intentions alan fischer al-jazeera washington. temples or used his state of the union speech to criticize the iranian government he's urging congress to address what he calls fundamental flaws in the iran nuclear deal when the people of iran rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship i did not stay silent america stands with the people of iran in their courageous struggle for freedom. the iranian foreign minister jobs of reeve responded on

twitter saying that trump again confirms his ignorance of iran and the region everyone knows where he stands and is certainly not with the iranians sarcastically added his virtuous democratically elected clients in our region we cheer but not those on the receiving. end of their tyranny and weapons including yemeni children let's bring in earlier for the job he's a visiting fellow brookings doha center joins me here in the period before we sort of detail on iran just your impression of his comments about guantanamo bay and the fact that he's going to keep it open of course that contradicts everything that obama had wanted to do in his presidency and of course i mean president obama did pledge that he wants to close down guantanamo but he ended up not doing so so mr trance state means on guantanamo to keep it open and in the kind of descriptions and words he uses to describe the detainees in guantanamo has been in line with his

you know other statements previously so it's not so not a surprise that he doesn't intend to close down guantanamo i mean iran figured high in his state of the union address along with north korea and cuba he has to deal with the e.u. and the u.n. in terms of this terrible nuclear deal that he keeps going on about. he has set his own course in terms of implementing his own form of sanctions unilaterally i mean what effect does this have diplomatically because it's a nonstarter in terms of both sides about how you negotiate this issue i mean basically we didn't hear much about iran and not much about iran policy there have been working groups between the united states and the european union going going on now for a few days to address the issues of concern for the tribe administration and so basically his statements on iran policy were not concrete. this is also strengthening the u.s.

hand because it's not showing to the europeans where he intends to go so everything that he also sat on iran has not been something new of course his pledges in support of the iranian people are somehow not really credible but in terms of that you know he says he stands with the iranian people we heard that just now it's a generic statement we've heard from successive presidents that's nothing new while the military conflict is out of the question in terms of tehran sanctions or not as we mentioned when he says the iranian all he stands with the iranian people do the iranian people stand solidified with the you're a new government against the u.s. i mean sometimes we don't really ask about the way the iranian people are thinking they might not like america all the time but do they do they agree with the way that the iranian position is i mean it's fair to say that most iranians do not have any illusions about mr trump's support for democracy and human rights and his pledges in support of the iranian citizens are also undermined by his the fact

a travel ban of iranians to the united states so basically trumps support for any kind of protests in iran plays into the hands of the hardliners in iran that can you know brand iranian protesters to be stooges of the u.s. government so trump support statements are counterproductive while european support statements for solidarity with the iranian people would have been important but they were indeed missing in terms of sanctions that could be applied. are sanctions in place by the u.s. are they hurting iran coming here to a will later on in the future i mean of course i mean there is still the u.s. extraterritorial sanctions that are in place that have not disappeared and which is a major bulk for example for foreign investment but when it comes to iran's economic problems you cannot only talk about those remaining u.s. sanctions there is a great part of responsibility with the iranian government and their kind of

economic policies as well we'll see what does happen certainly what the fallout from this state of the union address is for the moment ali thanks so much for joining us. just crossed over straits to brussels where. fredricka the e.u. policy chief is talking about the palestinian humanitarian crisis let's just listen to what she has to sign. the ministerial level which shows strong interest and a shared sense of purpose in the international community and also in the region it is also the first opportunity is for the parties and not only for the parties but also for the partners in the region and international community to sit together since the december announcement by president trump. it is an opportunity we all have to engage to have everybody around the same table and for us to use our convening power and the good it at the service of peace and security in the middle

east and beyond the base is an objective of our engagement is and remains the two state solution with terrorism a future capital of the states the state of israel and the state of palestine this is a position based on the oslo accords and on international law in particular the relevant u.n. security council resolutions the reason that one of the of dr years in committee is and remains the shared objective of two states solution we must always remind ourselves and we will do that today's a good moment for doing that again that the other key is one committee has never meant to substitute political progress by economic development it is always meant to accompany to facilitate to underpin political progress and the adult years on committee and the two state solution for us two sides of the same coin and today we will look together with our partners and ways to resume

a political process that would lead to distort state solution any framework for negotiations must be multilateral and must involve. of all players all partners that are essential to this process a process without one or the other would simply not work would simply not be realistic which is why we are happy to see that the quartet's is continuing to meet we had a court that meeting just a few weeks ago we are as the european union engaging within the quarter with united states the russian federation and the united nations and we are looking at ways to closely associated its work some of our partners namely jordan or egypt more weight cells in the past few weeks we have been as the european union extremely engaged with a part of this you know that had the pleasure to host the first prime minister netanyahu here in brussels and then president abbas we had as i said the quartet

and voice meeting in jerusalem a couple of weeks ago and we are in constant contact with our partners in the region and we are convening this meeting today with a regular one that will follow up in march we need to maintain the political horizon for the two state solution as we believe there is no outer negative that would be both politically viable and sustainable and that would fulfill the legitimate aspirations of both parties including the legitimate security concerns of israel in the meantime there are many practical steps that can advance on the ground and we will look at the steps also today continue our support for the palestinian authority continue our support for only one work for the security of all because we know the more we can achieve progress on the ground the more this can help prevent violence and the more this can help also receive a political process so in this context we believe it is important that the

palestinian authority is committed to unite the west bank and gaza on the one single and legitimate. it was already and in this regard we strongly support the indispensable egyptian role and engagement that we value as extremely positive the political situation in gaza is that actually linked to the security situation in the entire region and to our common fight against terrorism and we believe israel's legitimate security concerns must be met also in that context we are thinking first and foremost obviously to the population in the us the daily life of citizens has been very difficult for too long time and this despite the large international humanitarian help including by the european union the european union and its member states are collectively by far the largest donor including through on russia to the palestinians but also bilaterally and we are ready to increase our support

if the political conditions are met for instance through the deployment of the border assistance mission of the european union or after all through immediate help with us and i'm glad today to announce that we have just adopted a new package of forty two point five million euros including activities in east jerusalem and support to the building of a democratic and accountable palestinian state through targeted policy reforms fiscal consolidation forcing businesses and small and medium enterprises strengthening the palestinian civil society in providing access to water and energy this comes on top of several other packages of support including one hundred seventy million euros provided to order this to show that together with a political purpose of this meeting there is also a lot of concrete projects and concrete support that is going on thanks to an excellent cooperation we have established on an international level and i would

like to thank to conclude norway for its leadership and. strength in. leading this work together with us and others and reassure once again the part is first of all the citizens on the ground the people of the region and our regional and all our international partners that they can count on the european union always and. i mean mr dixon said i don't think you very much and i would first and foremost like to thank that rica for hosting this meeting and i think it's very good that we can convene the parties at this juncture i could of course echo everything better because as and i will not repeat all of the points but i would like to make a couple of additional points one thing is that everyone knows that we are in a very difficult situation in the region then we had two choices we could either wait for the scheduled meeting in march which is primarily

a practical and technical meeting and then for the police or political meeting in september in h.l.c. or we could try to convene an early and extraordinary meeting even though it's the first time this has been tried the response from the parties in the region has been very positive and i think that we are entering into this meeting today on a realistic but even though positive note because it seems like everyone has the interests of trying to make the most out of a very difficult situation and just because the situation is so difficult that is also the reason why it is so important that we meet at this time around the table when we enter into the meeting room we will have all the key actors all the key players who are vital to contribute to restarting the peace process again and we have all the actors and all the players who can also make sure that there

are changes on the ground and improvements on the ground the reason for convening this meeting is as frederica has been pointing out to. there is a need for the international community to recommit to a common strategy of building the institutions that will ultimately lead to a negotiated two state solution and there is also a need for a comprehensive plan in supporting. the resumption of p.a. controls in gaza as fredricka also mentioned we will not achieve any lasting improvements unless we have negotiations and they conclude the outstanding issues that are related to territory to borders to security access is movements just status of jerusalem refugees and natural resources to names and also the need for that in the norwegian foreign minister.

eriksson. just really really forcing exactly the position and norway's of where they stand in terms of looking after moving forward with the peace process in the middle east of the a very contentious issue that they need to discuss and they will behind closed doors let's join christopher gunness spokesman for the un relief and works agency on raw joins me now via skype from east jerusalem fredricka maga really really really iterating where the e.u. stands mr got us also norway itself but the harsh realities of that at the a and the help and assistance that comes from the international community has to go physically through israel in some shape or form before it arrives at its intended destination. well that's only if you think that we only

work in the guards on the west bank and we also work in syria in jordan and in lebanon on and we have extremely expensive programs in education in health and of course our emergency services at places like syria where for the last seventy years of this conflict has extracted an extremely high price on the palestine refugees there were over half a million before the war these are already some of the most disadvantaged and fragile people in syria and it's central as far as we're concerned because that who did the cash they get in places like lebanon and in syria is absolutely essential and that's why we feel to the international community not just in gaza and west bank where our services are indeed critical vital and lives but also believe other areas in which we work jordan and syria foreign minister actually

reemphasize how important it was for the international community to reconnect with the issues the problems of the palestinian faces palestinians face and try and find a common strategy that would allow the area to normalize in the future with every think intact you know territorial borders. the status of jerusalem movement of people nationhood a peaceful nation of between israel of the palestinians how difficult is it on the ground to actually. as an aid worker to sort that. confusion mistrust when you're trying to get aid through certainly to the palestinians whether it is within the occupied territories or in the region. well to be very clear under is a humanitarian organization and you're talking about final status political issues that we don't have a seat at the table we don't get involved in that we actually paying the political

we pay the price of political failure so when you get political failure which i think we do all agree the war in syria the sense when you get a failure which i think the blockade of gaza represents when you get political failure in light of the failure of the parties to resolve the conflict and the occupation and we have to deal as best we can with the cards that we are dealt me in. going to work with the israeli authorities and by the way on the ground we actually have a very good relationship with the israeli or the it is even though further and above that of the strategic level we obviously have real problems with the blockade of gaar answer which the international community views as an illegal collective punishment but also the occupation of of the west bank and of course the position of the international community is quite clear and settlements are illegal how these issues are resolved is up to the party it's entirely up to them we pay the price for their political views and i say we the refugees we serve and let's not lose

sight of the fact that these are individual human beings each with dignity and a destiny that must be respected and ultimately we must not lose sight of the human cost of this funding crisis that is being put through it is individual lives the dying the sick the elderly the vulnerable children and the women whose rights we're trying to move that is what is at stake when they get all this highly indeed mr going to say you know you talk about the financial cost certainly to palestinians we've heard in recent days obviously president trump saying that he's going to cut funds to a we've just heard now from fredricka mockery me that they are increasing their donations or their contribution to forty. two point five million euro is what how much does it actually cost on an annual basis can you give us some sort of figures of whether what the e.u. have just announced actually helps or you still need more from us from the

international community and our humanitarian footprint is vast and our budget is over and really our overall budget is over a billion with a b dollars so it's huge i didn't actually hear the announcement that the morgan really made is announcing increased money for of course we are very pleased but let's be clear about the scale of the problem under a shares from united states our largest single state donor sixty million we were expecting about all the three hundred fifty million that leaves a hole in our budget of two hundred ninety billion dollars and that's just over the imperator contribution the overall deficit is just so of course very pleased that donors are stepping forward and are coming forward in light of his isis global fundraising campaign that's good but let's not make any mistakes or a little slower let's not have any illusions about this task ahead it's very very

we are deeply in debt it's an unprecedented financial crisis and we're really going to the international donor community step up because what's at stake is nothing less than stability in at least having five hundred thousand children on the streets of the middle east not in u.n. schools at a time when it's too much groups are in full crew mode i think we can all agree that that is not a good thing that it's not contribute to a sense of stability and dignity in this region or for them will have to leave it there chris for going to the spokesman for the un relief and works agency and robert thanks so much for joining us. now more than one point four million afghans are expected to lose the right to stay in pakistan after the government said it will no longer extend their refugee status now their legal status officially sponsor on december thirty first but the pakistani cabinet extended the stay by one month some have spent the last thirty five years living in pakistan as

a correspondent. but one refugee camp in the shower aid agencies have got a huge task ahead of them have they not come all if they have to try and move nearly one and a half million people out of the region and across the border. absolutely and on that particular you should remember that the u.n. operation. during the winter months from there. so therefore there will be an already bad creation during that period but once the government decides that these people have to go back it has. farms and i you know that is donor fred dig the god of the. then. there. is going to be difficult to be able to come up with that kind of money doing neighborhood one point four million registered and almost an equal amount of.

refugees to be able to go back to their country when you've been speaking to refugees that come for us how does this announcement come as a surprise or do they see themselves as poles in a political argument that seems to be ensuing between kabul and islamabad over security issues and accusations of terrorism. well these people are certainly affected because as you can see and you've been to pakistan you've covered the refugee stories in various locations these people are living in very miserable conditions i mean these are not the kind of people who always said good and then all of these deadlines that keep coming and going make a david more uncertain for them so ideally they want more time so that they can make preparations to go back but they also complain that the government of

afghanistan has done nothing and is not interested in very bad creation of these refugees pakistan has been host to one of the largest afghan refugee population almost three million despite the fact that hundreds of thousands have already left large under the wall and very un program so there are of course concerns also because of the fact that understand has seen an intensification of the conflict and doesn't have that he saw shed all the priorities are not and place to be able to welcome these people back on a terribly a what happens for the moment and for the moment to come up with the certainly what happens and we'll leave it there thanks very much clodagh in northern pakistan. no new report says refugees are struggling to integrate in the u.k. because of difficulties reuniting with their families now the study by all the refugee council says restrictions forced many refugees into poverty the u.k. parliament will consider law changes in march and the refugee council suggests that

politicians change the laws that child refugees can sponsor their parents and siblings under twenty five they also say that refugees should be provided with legal aid to help facilitate family reunions the study of forty four families suggested that refugees struggle to pay the legal costs of applying to bring their families to the u.k. and about burden can cause mental health issues or even lead to suicidal thoughts. this is the head of government relations at oxfam the u.k. joins me now from the british capital good to have you with us on the program i mean your findings don't really make for pleasant reading but how did you set about researching this subject with the notion that refugees you know are already quite vulnerable psychologically about the situation they're in a very strange land. absolutely say this new research from oxfam and the refugee council really highlights the reality of refugees lives living in the fact that

they worry excessively about their families who are still in conflict and disaster situations that they want them to say and one of the things that really stood out to us was that when we did this research and talked to those families what they told us most often was that they were worried about their family they found guilty that they were safe and that their family members were and they were trying to find the funds to bring them to join them in a. g.t. well are incredibly restrictive rules about the family members you can apply to join you in the u.k. they were unable to bring their loved ones stories that are really heartbreaking. one mother who came through from eritrea eight years ago fleeing for her life and has three children applying to have joined having it to him have turned. his show i mean sorry to interrupt tony because i mean the cynical viewer who

perhaps even lives in the u.k. was watching this program will say why do we have to continue to either fund to look after or even spend taxpayers' money on appeals court cases to trying get family members of refugees into the u.k. when the u.k. it sells finds it very difficult to look after its own nationals if they're on welfare and such i mean there's that but the whole argument that has been underpinned exacerbated and abused you might say over the last few years which has really riled up the national public in britain. yeah i mean that there's definitely people here that make the argument why i would say is that more than eighty percent of the world's refugees live in developing countries the poorest countries in the world and less than one percent of refugees live here in the few refugees live here in the most of the european big european countries so you know i think that we're not talking about huge numbers of people this is about how something that is quite

simple that would have a really extraordinary impact on the lives of refugees living here and i think one of the other things that british people say about refugees is that they want them to integrate into sucked into society they want to be able to learn english to get a job and to go to school and and integrate properly and that's what refugees want what this research shows is the thing that's really stopping them doing that is that they can't be reunited with their families indeed and one understands if you can't be reunited with your family be worried about especially if there is a conflict but again another sort it might turn around and say you're lucky to be in the u.k. and start working build a life gets a larger place and then apply to the authorities to try and get reunited with your family or call your family over to the u.k. is is that too harsh a statement for those people who might be thinking that. i think that you know those refugees are incredibly grateful to have been given

a safe haven here in the u.k. that's what refugees that we speak to say all the time i think they that if you put yourself in the she so a mother he's children who were under eighteen when she fled for her life and have now turned eighteen in the time that she's been hitting in the u.k. she's now no longer legally entitled to ask for them to join say you know children who are eighteen living in conflict zones who are incredibly vulnerable i can absolutely understand that if it was my family living in a conflict zone or continuing to live on the right i would wear. a simple change that would. help. it's a difficult subject obviously to broach the one that you've clarified for us. from the u.k. but so much for joining us on to sarah. now in a few moments we'll have the weather with rich dying when but still ahead here on

the al-jazeera news hour. courting china britain's prime minister heads east in the hope of securing a free trade deal with beijing. and install the houston rockets jayne's hard to make n.b.a. history tatyana will have a story. through tranquil rave you. can free routines and if. there are some changes afoot in europe's weather i'm afraid not all of them are welcome changes having said that the levels of the river say in paris are on the way down they seem to have passed their peak following heavy rain and we should see things continue to improve for a time but we are looking at more rain pushing in but there is another general change taking place across europe and that's behind this frontal system which is

pushing down from the northwest and that is going to turn considerably cooler so if you look at lease or a temperature map through wednesday double figures across the london through into paris there's a move by a couple days you see the blues beginning to stop them selves as temperatures drop quite significantly across many western and central areas so let's come back to the here and now we've got to rain pushing in across southern parts u.k. in towards france the low countries and germany some snow up over scandinavia but elsewhere things looking pretty good southern parts of the mediterranean pretty sunshine fourteen degrees in rome seventeen in a. looks pretty decent but that is a move the system on the cold air starts to take them behind coming through for power some more significant snowfall over the alps i really have had quite enough thank you very much but does look this is going to live in accumulations increase avalanche risk once again so for many western parts of europe the next few days look at saint sidedly called. the weather sponsored by qatar base.

it was upon which modern day venezuela was established. for over a century this lucrative resource has divided the people less than cursed with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles the flick to venezuela today . the big picture the battle for venezuela coming soon on a. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in twenty ten always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories. it's like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the first time they perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as

a force for unity the diaspora orchestra at this time. welcome back to the al-jazeera news are on the whole robin a reminder of our top stories the european union says increasing its financial support to the palestinian territories following the u.s. decision to withhold funding earlier this month international donors to palestine are meeting in brussels to discuss the funding crisis with the u.n. warning that gas is economy is now on the verge of collapse. this in fact is our new american mom. u.s. president donald trump has given his first state of the union address urging

republicans and democrats to unite to implement his tough immigration policies he's also promising to strengthen the military and to keep the god ton of obaid open indefinitely. and more than one point four million afghans are expected to lose the right to stay in pakistan after the government said longer extend their refugee status that legal status officially expired on december thirty first but the pakistani cabinet had extended their stay by one. in kenya government leaders have declared the opposition movement a criminal group hours after a mocking. gratian ceremony supporters of violating a who was beaten by president community in two presidential elections last year says he's a legitimate leader catherine sawyer reports now from nairobi was right loading that taking an oath of office that is not officially recognized he swears to serve and protect the country as what he calls himself the people's

president he's basing his oath of the august eighth general election that he says he won the election was invalidated by the supreme court which ordered a new one to be held in october last year. and his opposition national coalition quartet that. was tuesday's rally in nairobi was largely peaceful and there was no police presence despite the government declaring the gathering and full and shutting down live signals of the country's main television stations for most of the day. the ceremony itself took less than fifteen minutes and left mixed feelings on what today was sort of anticlimactic for the many many supporters of the opposition i saw when lisa new came to witness the symbolic swearing in of riley and his deputy. and the reason why people went home so disappointed is because the other three main leaders including. this deputy did not

show up to this event was they later issued a statement saying the absence was beyond their control but supporters here say does not look good for opposition unity or. other leaders will be here to support it would have shown us how strong the opposition is what. other people we talked to told us of the important thing is that a dingo himself showed up. that's what the that's. the extent of. the state of mind of this country this is. some of the muscle to her. face he is a so-called people's assembly

a forum established by the opposition to operate to the county government to push for electoral forms and other issues last year the opposition also introduced the national resistance movement the government has just declared that an organized criminal group. supporters say it does not matter if all their hopes on him to deliver electoral justice even as they understand that the oath is largely ceremonial and. catherine sorry al-jazeera arabic. british companies are having to do business in china quite young and welcome the prime minister to resign may of the fifty strong trade delegation the three day visit is aimed as a curious free trade agreement before when britain leaves the european union. and shoppers in china for a growing taste for everything from food to clothes. on the into weaving cultures. they've been making woollen cloth since seventeen eighty three and the expertise

built up over centuries by this very british company in its yorkshire factory is now highly valued by the chinese today much of the focus is on markets in the far east and it exports more textiles and fabrics to china than to any other country. probably nowhere else mike tyner in the atlantic i think sanctions in. fact the relationship next thing and to john chinks and its name you can't you can see things they can't see anything in a case this company's business is into woven with china but the wider british and chinese economies are not so tightly bound trade house grown sharply in recent is that it's still relatively small the united states is the largest destination for british exports china is only eight exports to china are worth about one

fourteenth of those to the e.u. which britain will soon be leaving but china's growing strength is felt in britain as elsewhere the arrival of the first train from china in london last year a symbol of china's desire to reach across the world to trade more with britain. tourism a has visited china before and met president g g p at the g. twenty summit back in twenty sixty but now with the prime minister weak at home and with new government documents saying that breaks it will damage the economy is there a danger the chinese will consider her a little desperate they clearly have the upper hand in many ways because they're bigger economy three times bigger i mean they're important to us in ways that probably weren't before brics it started to happen and so the best outcome really will be that she looks confident she's aware of the strategic importance of this visit as many many things that china just want from the u.k.

partnership intellectual property liberal investment environment and so the best outcome will be one where everyone comes away thinking markets when we're in the yorkshire factory they make products the chinese want there's now a lucrative trade in cloth to snooker tables the challenge for tourism a on this visit to convince china and other countries that the brand of global britain still counts for something in a post it world barnaby phillips al-jazeera yorkshire venezuela's economic and social crisis is fuelling a major increase in crime not just at home but also in neighboring colombia the collapse in venezuela's currency has made cross border smuggling a lucrative business for criminal gangs. he went on night patrol with colombian special forces on the hunt for the smugglers. shots ring out over the cmon believer bridge dividing colombia and venezuela as people died and run for cover. in the

last four months at least fourteen gun fights have erupted in the border town of. the gun battles have left forty people dead as colombian in venezuela and crime groups fight for control of the lucrative contraband of goods on this poorest lawless border the mayor says people are terrified. we need the national government to wake up about the venezuela's crisis we are being told we need to prepare for what will come what is not what is already here. since been. shut down the border last year to all but foot traffic violence has increased tenfold. inflationists to profit the temptation for the gangs. in two years the colombian has increased forty times. across borders once limited to petrol now extends to scrap metal fruits meat or anything

that can fetch three times its price in. response has been increasing police presence on the ground. we're going to look for trucks full of contraband serious probably informants already warned the smugglers of our presence to the trucks hidden in one of the trails. in pitch darkness in complete silence the officers patrolled true a maze like collection of ever expanding trails but it's like finding a needle in a haystack i mean this in. colombia special forces are on the lookout here on the river which divides bin it's from colombia this is just one of over one hundred forty known crossings that smugglers use to move goods into colombe of course it's practically impossible to control all of them despite the police best efforts but experts say the fight is also undermined by the lack of collaboration between the

two countries and exacerbated by persistent corruption there's no doubt that the border is being sold to the highest bidder this area is in the hands of criminal enterprises dedicated to drug trafficking large scale smuggling extortion kidnapping human trafficking and it has been activated by the closure of the border the rising crime is just another side of be increasing economic and social crisis have been a swathe that has no end in sight alison that i'm just. sky watchers will be able to with the start of a three part lunar phenomena and soon what is known as the super blood blue moon has not been seen for more than one hundred fifty years it will appear much bigger brighter and red than usual north americans set their alarms to catch a glimpse of the total lunar eclipse it will also be seen in many asian and pacific rim countries well richard angry as we now in the suited to discuss this with our

props i've been looking forward to this one for most of the day blue blue blood moon is it unique is it rare it must be i've been raving about it they are it's quite a combination you have to say here let me show the moon and the show this is taking thirty look at all sides to wrap in the soil. yet the the the point about it is tonight we have a lunar eclipse that's what actually what is worth looking at all eclipse of fantastic obviously the the big one is solar eclipse is this isn't a solar but a lunar eclipse a function of a lunar eclipse is there was a solar eclipse is over in about two minutes this thing can go on for several hours so it's great for photography that's the first thing which has to be said so we do the should do them it goes around the world as it goes through mother to join their satellite but yes i can make it a satellite yeah that's right so what we've got in this particular situation is we have the sun over there we have the earth of course and we are in the there we go

we are in the shadow cast by the earth or of the moon is in the shadow cast by the earth and that is what we're looking at in terms of this eclipse why do we call it a blue super moon right behavior here we go to goes around the earth usually goes around once a month and a half days but every two and a half years during the calendar month twice. in places it is gone twice therefore it makes a blue. very rare events. let's not forget that people cause i hate the term superman that. is what we call parity closest approach. and they called it superman but all full moons are superman if you ask me which parts. of the planet people see this better than others eastern parts of asia. and also western canada alaska those places

but. thing and. that makes. no you know because if you go into the wide shot we're going to see the refraction of light coming from the earth to the moon or the blue light gets reflected into space. as it rises so i think people can see it themselves with their own eyes and . that's going to the very best place between fifty one and fourteen we look forward to it. coming up in sports new england patriots'. injury concerns just a few days out from the super bowl. welcome

back to the news outside the sport what is up to thank you so much the hell is the day that a lot of football fans of right across the world particularly europe have been counting down to his deadline day which means the one month window to sign and transfer players from clubs across europe well close the focus for a lot of supporters is america bamiyan the footballer has been linked from a move from bursley a dortmund in germany to austin ill but a deal is not yet finalized also could do with him off to a three one loss to relegation threatens to one zero on tuesday in the english premier league what a new spending record for the january period was officially set in the e.p.l. on tuesday top of the table man just

a city added athletic bilbao defender port to the roster taking the spending total to up to three hundred fifty six million dollars to fifty million higher than the previous mogs that in two thousand and eleven twenty three year old report doing thirty for a top record fee of eighty million dollars of course goes to the. program to get special in many senses but. i think he's intelligent he will be. he would have recorded the situation but he has to leave the individually you know for the english players the young players when they come in the premier league always a little bit you know tough. will be patient because he doesn't come for three months he got four or five years so that is where it is we're in morocco the semifinals of the african nations championship are coming up on wednesday this is the bi annual twenty fifth footballers that are based in africa the unlikely story is libya who will take on the host in the first game in casablanca despite the time

all in the contrary actually won this tournament in two thousand and fourteen the second semifinal will see saddam take on nigeria in america. we're just four days away from super bowl fifty two when the new england patriots will face the philadelphia eagles and patriots tall quarterback tom brady has still trying to brush concerns over an injured throwing hand the forty year old who with a pair in his eighth the super bowl has given little away about the injury bought and f l media reports say he's had twelve stitches removed. my hand it's getting better i mean it's not quite where i want to be. so i'm just trying to protect it the best way i can i was obviously very important. part of my body for a quarterback so i just wanted to be as healthy as possible for the game on sunday so. it's an arm or just made of for me. it's a great glove it's got a lot of recovery in it and that's what i need this time ok well despite brady's

injury status the philadelphia eagles head coach is still very wary of the competition as their first ever super bowl title our guys just go about their business every single day we know we know what we're faced against we know the opponent we're going against a lot of respect for them obviously and what they've done and what they've accomplished and. you know it's about what we do. you know how our players handle this week and eliminate distractions and eliminate the noise and. how will they prepare and get themselves ready to go well ahead of that game u.s. president donald trump has finley reiterated his criticism of n.f.l. players who chiefs in mill during the national anthem to protest racial inequalities he sparked a political and social debate at the start of the season with those of us trump was making his first state of the union address in washington d.c. on tuesday he was praising a twelve year old who places flags on the graves of u.s.

veterans when he added these common. things reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance and why we proudly stand for the national anthem. for me usa gymnastics team doctor laurie nasir will be heading back to court in michigan on wednesday with fifty seven more victims to confront him the disgraced doctor who with been found guilty of sexually abusing young gymnasts will be sentenced in a trial his third trial this one reiterates the molestation of three miners while he was working at a friend's kim latham was given up to one hundred seventy five years in jail last week on seven separate accounts of sexual assault. while there are nine dates to go until the winter olympics begin in china an event that will see north and south

korean athletes walk together at the opening ceremony as a further sign of unity on wednesday a group of south korean skiers who didn't make the cut for trying departed for a ski resort in the north they were holding a joint one day training session between the two countries. and number two the militants were in a momentous period now in terms of the into korean relations during this period the south the north should still what was agreed with mutual respect we will go ahead with the event by taking into consideration our people's concerns and expectations . the houston rockets jane harden has become the first ever pi in the n.b.a. history to post a sixty point triple double that means sixty points ten rebounds and eleven is this this achievement while taking on the orlando magic eclipse calvin murphy's fifty seven on the franchise is all time list or record murphy posted back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight and hardin did so i would have three points in

the final minute of the game houston winning one hundred fourteen to one hundred seven meanwhile the washington wizards beat the oklahoma city thunder knocking that eight game winning streak off a ported genia twenty five point one hundred two to ninety six the school. photo this poll from later filed thanks very much touch the other and that was the al jazeera news hour show kerry we've been given a few moments for the full half hour to live from will resume thanks so much for your time and your company.

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