i don't really still liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i was that's what his job. it was upon which modern day venezuela was to stop that. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the. coast with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its common with leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time. trump accuses the f.b.i. and the justice department of bias and of the expected release of a secret republican memo missing and i.

know i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera and so coming up a saudi led coalition is accused of the highest number of child deaths in yemen and . french police send in reinforcements after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants and kalai. the father of three of the. victims tries to attack the former usa gymnastics doctor as he appears in court. the u.s. president has attacked the leadership of the f.b.i. accusing the agency of being biased against him while investigating his alleged links to russia donald trump tweeted the top leadership and investigators of the f.b.i. and the justice department of politicizing. the sacred investigation probe process

in favor of democrats and against republicans something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago rank and file are great. when it comes as the white house is expected to authorize the release of a controversial memo alleging f.b.i. bias towards president trump the document was commissioned by republican devan una's who heads the house intelligence committee and was part of the trunk campaign it reportedly accuses the f.b.i. and the justice department of misleading a judge while seeking to extend a surveillance warrant against former trump a carter page last march democrats say the memo is an attempt to derail special counsel robert miller's investigation into the trunk campaign's links to russia well our white house correspondent kimberly how it joins me now and some more developments just in the past ten minutes also that president trump has approved this classified memo for release now it goes to congress.

right that's the news that the president has just signed off on this in just the last few moments effectively what he's done is to he's declassified this rush probe memo that was written exclusively by republicans and democrats accuse republicans of cherry picking in terms of intelligence and even it has been redacted sections we know by the white house lawyer said essentially what this does now is it clears the way for the house intelligence committee to in fact release this memo that's where this memo originated and that's now who's going to release it the president has been pushing all along for this to be released because he believes that this effectively will show conclusively what he has said for many many months now and that is that he believes that the under the obama administration during the twenty six thousand u.s. election campaign that in fact the top levels of the f.b.i.

the top levels of the department of justice were politicized and weaponized even against him now democrats have long said this is ridiculous this is just an orchestrated attempt by republicans to undermine the outcome of that probe that is looking into whether or not there was russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election of whether or not there was even collusion between the trump presidential campaign and russia president repeatedly saying it's a hoax it's a witch hunt there is no collusion still there is now this push by the white house even going against the chief of staff john kelly who says that this may not have the explosive impact the president's hoping for but the president in just the last few moments has signed off on it and now it is set for imminent release by the house intelligence committee it's not the first time we've heard these types of accusations from president trump but we're talking here about the f.b.i. and the justice department institutions that are very much a pillar of the of the state what does it mean fam to be accusing these two

pillars of the establishment if you like. it's certainly extraordinary because you have to remember that currently both of these bodies are run by people put in place by donald trump and he is going in direct defiance of their guidance to christopher ray who heads up the f.b.i. put in place last june has cautioned the president against the saying in fact that he has raised concerns about this because of national security this is something that has reservations have been expressed by the department of justice as well but the president has read through this three and a half page memo and believes that it deserves to be given public scrutiny there may be another facet to this story that may certainly put in place some of the spotlight the whole sort of process of obtaining surveillance and that may

be one of the reasons that it's being speculated why the department of justice and the f.b.i. do not want this to come into public view it's really unclear but what we are getting more clarity on is when this memo will be brule east and it does appear that it could come in the next few hours thank you very much committed to the white house. al jazeera has obtained a u.n. report which says the saudi led coalition has the greatest responsibility for the deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says coalition as strikes were responsible for the killing of sixty eight children on the wounding of six others from july to september the report found that would twenty to thirty coalition raids every day some targeting schools and homes and also points the finger to see rebels but aiming them for the deaths of eighteen children and for the wounding of twenty

nine of us mohammed has this report. i think the u.n. report obtained by a disease at a says the saudi led coalition was responsible for killing sixty eight children and wounding thirty six others from july to september and found there were at least thirty coalition air raids every day some targeting schools and homes as well as the saudis the u.n. blames truthy rebels for the deaths of eighteen children and wounding twenty nine others the u.n. describes what's going on in yemen as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in the world and the conflict is making an already dire situation even worse it's not just affecting to modernise affecting our everyone in and then it's making seventy five percent of the population center our concern is that as long as it continues we are going to see more and more. secure we're also going to see more and more nigeria needs a crisis while. the united nations children's fund also known as unicef says more

than five thousand children have been killed or injured in the war an average of five children a day since the conflict escalated in march two thousand and fifteen unicef also says that more than eleven million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and nearly two million children are suffering from acute malnutrition. recent outbreaks of deeply following the world's worst cholera epidemic have further threatened more young lives aid workers say the international community must do more to stop the conflict it is astounding to me that we have a united nations security council that has not commented on yemen in now more than seven months. that the scale of suffering in yemen is incomparable that we have twenty two million people in need a west beaking to families who are fleeing their homes because of violence in constructing houses out of plastic bags with a political solution looking likely any time soon many worry that already suffering children will be exposed to even more violence and trauma. the

u.s. defense secretary says the syrian government would be ill advised to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention a trumpet ministration is not ruling out military action to deter president assad's forces after a third suspected korean attack in fifteen days on duma in eastern guta stephanie decker has more from antakya in southern turkey near the border with syria. eastern water is one of the so-called deescalation zones but it doesn't feel like it on the ground this is the last rebel held area close to the capital damascus the siege by government forces for years now allegations of another chlorine gas attack doctors say patients showed symptoms in lied with inhalation of the gas. this is renewed aggression by the regime using chlorine gas against a place where people live and duma this is the third chemical attack in fifteen days the u.s. has reacted concerned about the syrian government's chemical weapons program and

capabilities its chemical weapons should have been destroyed after a decommissioning deal brokered by russia five years ago that followed what the obama administration said was a red line chemical attack in the same rebel controlled area which killed at least one thousand three hundred people. the trumpet ministration has taken a more active approach in reaction to an alleged chemical weapons attack in north eastern syria in april last year the u.s. fired fifty nine tomahawk missiles at a syrian airfield where they believe the attack originated and now the americans are hinting they suspect the syrian government still has chemical weapons. the un estimates eastern is home to around four hundred thousand syrians starving and malnourished getting aid to these people is fraught with challenges the u.n. special envoy to syria egeland says that there is a desperate need for a humanitarian pause in eastern guta he added that both the syrian government and the armed opposition are failing hundreds of thousands of civilians who are stuck

in these besieged areas it seems almost seven years into this war and despite the political meetings taking place many thousands of kilometers away it is the military option that remains the priority for all sides stephanie decker or jazeera . well bringing up to stop the speed with other developments in syria local media are saying that the latest are in artillery strikes in eastern go to have killed five people including a child further north and as strike has hit a vehicle carrying a family trying to escape the fighting in aleppo southeastern countryside it's believed seven people were killed some of them also children dozens of pakistani refugees a fit of a drowned off the coast of libya they were among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off a city of zora pakistan's foreign ministry says it's confirmed the deaths of eleven of its citizens only three people are known to have survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean to italy. the french government is sending more riot police

to the northern port of kalai after a violent gun battle between rival groups of migrants five people were hospitalized with serious gunshot wounds. after eritreans and afghans fought for more than two hours over food handouts the government says it's now going to take control of food distribution from aid groups hundreds of migrants are gathered near kalai which is the closest town on the european mainland to the united kingdom tasha butler has this update from cali. well the french interior minister was talking about organized gangs. gangs were behind some of the violence that we thought here in cali on thursday and what he's talking about is what many people here have been talking about for many months now and that is the fact that people smugglers and traffickers are increasingly operating in this area targeting the refugees who want to try and reach the u.k. the security is extremely high here in cali you can pay

a looking towards people smugglers and we spoke to refugees who said that they had experienced people smugglers they had met they knew they were operating now the thing is very alarming to people here is the fact that we are now talking about all and weapons being used on thursday shots were fired by the eritrean refugees were heard and that means. that. the french interior minister that is a great concern for everybody here and watching al-jazeera still ahead protests. arrest. the opposition.

a little more just drifting its way into the. fifth. was. it. a top. seven celsius but i supply seven their full cup to rattle that are abouts further west still a fair amount of cloud maybe for cyprus for good parts of turkey but for syria lebanon jordan the sun will be out by rights twenty celsius as is the case to into jerusalem and such a woman than that since we were down ha with a high of twenty two degrees but that came from our way and said to continue over the next few days certainly something of a chill in the air for us here across the reagan peninsula meanwhile the state's

draw on a friday for the good parts of the western cape into south africa little cloud just sliding its way in here but no significant write in the fall calls for cape town i'm afraid the wet weather is over towards eastern side of the country we've seen heavy showers to the zimbabwe. ard.

i'm back with al jazeera a recap of the top story this hour the u.s. president says he has approved the release of a memo which he says implicates the f.b.i. of bias against him. i think the more i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and so many other things what's going on. lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that so i sent it over to congress they will do what they're going to do whatever they do is find it was declassified. and let's see

what happens. in all the headlines al jazeera has obtained a u.n. report which says saudi led coalition as strikes were behind the deaths of sixty eight children from july to september it also blames the who the rebels for killing eighteen children on the u.s. defense secretary says the syrian government would be in advise to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention he gave the warning after a third suspected korean attack and do in fifteen days. now they have been protests in kenya after the government arrested a second lawyer involved in choose days mock inauguration of the opposition leader . protesters clashed with police in the capital nairobi a lawyer with the intimate dinner was taken from his home in a dorm raid it comes after the government defied a court order to reopen the three television stations taken off the air for broadcasting the unofficial swearing in ceremony catherine soy has more from nairobi. it's four days and there's three television stations a steal off despite

a court order for resumption of services until a case that has been filed by a human rights activist is hired and determined in the next two weeks we also know that three journalists went to court to block police from arresting them they've gotten some reprieve the court has ordered that they should not be arrested until their case is determined and very early this morning police raided and arrested one of the opposition politicians has called me very fiery he says the self declared leader of this national resistance movement which is a movement that was started by the opposition coalition by adding those opposition coalition a last year to push for lead to reforms through a peaceful resistance that movement has now been declared by the government as an organized criminal group i'm not a lawyer t.j.

drunk who administered this oath who presided over this more inauguration of ryan load on tuesday and was arrested by police and wednesday has been released he set to appear in court next week and will be charged with administering an unlawful oath so all these creating a lot of consigned here in kenya who saw also since statements from the african union we've seen statements from the european union and the u.s. condemning both loading does the swearing in and this media shut down. more than nine hundred miners trapped underground for more than a day in south africa and now back on the surface the lefts at the coal mine in freestate with disabled for thirty two hours after a storm caused a power outage the savannah stillwater mine company says the miners were given food and water supplies and will receive medical aid and counseling but mine unions are not happy that there was no backup evacuation plan i'm going to leave because. for

about two hours of being on the ground without the defense so if the thing was not picking. brees saw i think. the management of peter the x. my. daughter must make sure that for the next time something like this must not have been. france and senegal and joining forces to get more children into school around the world but aiming to secure three point one billion dollars at a global partnership for education conference and to help the global push to have every child in school by twenty thirty while banks has more than two hundred sixteen million children don't go to school around the wild in south sudan seventy percent of children out of school choose the conflict that more than any other country morgan reports from juba. it's not class time but building says he wishes he could go to school his school however is not

like it used to be it's now in a u.n. camp for displaced people where his been since he fled fighting in his hometown in the north of the country but. when the fighting took place our schools were destroyed and my brother and i were afraid would be recruited by groups so we ran to the un camps for safety now i miss my own school and friends. bolding is one of more than sixty thousand children receiving education in u.n. camps around south sudan the civil war now in its fifth year has seen thousands of people killed and millions displaced it's also had a major impact on education with one point eight million or seventy percent of school aged children not getting any the united nations children's agency unicef says one in every three schools have been destroyed or damaged occupied or close at least once during the war and even in those areas where there was no fighting there are still challenges to be faced getting access to education south sudan's constitution provides free education but students have to pay schools for

registration and for uniforms and exam fees with the were weakening big kaname many families struggle to find the money and pull their children out of school most of those forced to leave are girls. as one of them i can no more. i used to go to school but my father passed away and my mother couldn't afford to pay the registration fees for me and my siblings so no i don't attend classes i don't feel good about that the rest of the kids get to go to school and i can't go the u.n. says south sudan has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world about three out of every four people and their concerns the world will ensure that create goes even higher risk for unicef is very concerned that. almost a whole generation thirty percent is just about one third of the. population are not going to school and how adverse will that impact the future of this country and for the entire almost entire generation will grow up not having gone to school. for

men to building they know what it is like to sit in a classroom they hope the situation in the country changes and changes soon so they can continue with their education and be part of a brighter future he will morgan al-jazeera juba. the sentencing of the disgraced american gymnastics doctor larry nassau was suspended after the father of three of his victims try to attack him now so is the usa gymnastics national team doctor this is his third and final sentencing hearing where he pleaded guilty to molesting three girls randall margrave's asked to speak after his daughter's gave statements . so over the years you you were just suffering. through a great revival in the water do you believe. i have a. i that is now what are we to do.

you know that i can't do that that's now. it's a. mockery of then decided to take matters into his own hands trying to lunge at nassau before being tackled by bailiffs barry nasa has already been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison after nearly one hundred sixty women testified that he had molested them mockeries has just apologized to the court. a geo political crisis is building over who controls the world's longest river the nile on monday egypt sudan and ethiopia's presidents met in addis ababa to resolve a dispute of a building a dam on the river in ethiopia a show of unity has been contradicted as pictures emerged of sudanese troops. which is just by the border with eritrea charlotte ballasts explains. oh.

sudanese troops massed on the border with a retrial they responding to reports that eritrean any gyptian soldiers are on the other side. sudan believes egypt sent troops to earth try a month ago a move sparked by a land dispute of what's called the triangle and warming relations between sudan and turkey. we are now confirming that we are ready here in this place and that our forces are ready to do what is asked of them at any time the border closed last month sudan's ambassador in cairo was recalled and now this sudanese troops seem to the border. but the tensions between egypt and sudan didn't stop here. in turkey ethiopia what is planned to be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam is sixty percent complete and designed to revolutionize ethiopia's economy turning it

into the continent's largest power generator an exporter the five billion dollars dam is being built on the blue nile river fifteen kilometers from sudan's border sudan supports the dam because it will regulate floods provide electricity and irrigation but egypt's president sissy who seeks reelection next month says the dam would disrupt the flow of the nile to almost one hundred million egyptians and potentially cripple the farming industry ethiopia accuses the egyptian ally eritrea of sending rebels to sabotage the dam eritrea denies it. c.c. says he doesn't want to witness a war with his neighbors the three presidents made on monday an address op of or in a show of unity. we can all be completely assured in ethiopia in sedona i mean egypt is responsible leaders we met we spoke and we agreed and there will be no damages on anyone or what's in the interest of ethiopia is in the interest of egypt

in the interest of saddam is in the interest of egypt and what's in egypt's interest is also in that of ethiopia we are speaking as one nation not three nations with one voice. that image however contradicted by these latest pictures from the sudanese border the question of who controls the nile the world's longest river and the region's most valuable resource is threatening military confrontation bellus al jazeera digital currency bit corn has fallen thirty percent this week sliding below eight thousand dollars for the first time since november a virtual currency has lost more than forty percent of its value since the start of two thousand and eighteen other cryptocurrency have also dropped significantly as regulators voiced concern about them india has banned all crypto currency trading and facebook said it would no longer allow adverts for digital currencies on friday japan's financial regulator raided the offices of major japanese exchange point check which last week was subject to

a security hack now the shoeshine boys of bolivia's capital the pats are a feature of the city almost as iconic as its steep mountain streets and indigenous culture but it hasn't been a feature the city embraced or as proud of its mass street work as lived in the shadows the victims of stigma and discrimination but as daniel reports from the paths that is changing. they wear mosques to hide their identity no one wants to admit to being a shoeshine boy part of an army of men boys and sometimes girls doing a job which here carries a badge of shame for the men and it's all there is. it's getting us. it was because of discrimination i was in college and my friend would say hey he's a shoeshine boy but now with the newspaper the mask is a way of identifying myself of saying who we are close ignacio is one of the many to enter the order me going to model project writing producing and selling their

own newspaper it provides a financial boost gives them a voice and helps them to inform the residents of the pass. on the street you don't know much so i said maybe i should study so into this organization and they spoke to me help build up my self-esteem. and since few know the stories in hidden corners of the past as well as boys like fernando they now also give tourists guided tours of the city. it's helped me a lot i was very shy i didn't speak but now i can talk to people interact and banks of the actual rearing here i'm about to finish college industrial mechanics and hopefully in one maybe two years i'll be able to stop polishing shoes. for nando's started shining shoes when he was eleven he's now twenty and he's looking forward to the day when he can take off his mosque. boustany borders or shoeshine boys are an intrinsic part of life here in la so who could be better qualified to tell the

city's many fascinating stories while bringing their own problems and challenges out of the shadows. founded the project eleven years ago when he was twenty. the haters those who are with us but because of that we have to protect these youngsters and show that their work is dignified and not a negative impact because we have to protect them not just the obvious your health the police violence but also from the aggression shown by society is the stigma the newspaper for believe yarnell is about fifty seven cents profits don't just pay for health coverage and scholarships they provide hope and an alternative to life on the street. quick look at the top stories for you now the u.s. president says he's approved the release of a memo which is thought to detail alleged bias against him by the f.b.i.

and the justice department during our investigations of his alleged links to russia in the last half an hour donald trump said the republican memo tells a disgraceful story and a lot of people should be ashamed the document has been referred back to congress which is set to be released later on tuesday the f.b.i. issued a warning saying it had grave concerns about material omissions a fact that would affect the memos accuracy. i think they're men i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and some of the other things what's going on. a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that so i sent it over to god they will do what they're going to do whatever they do is find it was declassified and let's

see what happens and there are other headlines al jazeera has obtained a u.n. report which says the saudi led coalition is responsible for the deaths of dozens of children in yemen last summer it says coalition as strikes were sponsible for the killing of sixty eight children from july to september the report also points the finger at who the rebels blaming them for killing eighteen children it also found that there were at least thirty coalition raids every day some targeting schools and homes the u.s. defense secretary says the syrian government would be in advice to go back to violating the chemical weapons convention the trump administration is not ruling out military action to deter president assad's forces after a third suspected korean attack in duma in fifteen days dozens of pakistani refugees a fit of drowned off the coast of libya they were among more than ninety people on a boat which capsized off the city of the wara pakistan's foreign ministry says it's confirm the deaths of eleven of its citizens international can eyes asian for

migration says three people survived they were trying to cross the mediterranean to italy you're up to date with all of our top stories to join me for the news hour in twenty five minutes time off to inside story which starts now. they say knowledge is power but education funding is declining worldwide and no way is that more parents then in sub-saharan africa in the region strained by poverty security issues and child marriages can international organizations come together to close the chapter on the literacy.