at this time on al jazeera. it was oriol upon which modern day venezuela was a stoppage. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people both less than those with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next

sixty minutes gossiping for breath new video emerges of the suspected use of chlorine gas on rebel held areas in syria's province plus. we simply cannot allow to stand idly by to see the total destruction of democracy in venezuela the u.s. secretary of state calls for argentina's support against nicolas maduro as he tries to rally regional leaders against the venezuelan president and. dozens of greeks protest over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring former yugoslav republic. and the countdown is on we're now just minutes away from the new england patriots taking on the philadelphia eagles in super bowl fifty two patriots quarterback tom brady is aiming for a six championship title will be live in minneapolis saturday.

at least nine people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria's northwestern province activists video shows people being treated in the town of sada cab that reported a foul smell following a raid by syrian government aircraft and follows another suspected chlorine attack by president assad's forces on duma in rebel held eastern guta that was the third reported chlorine attack there in fifteen days. and at least eleven people have been killed in russian and syrian government airstrikes in southern countryside the strikes targeted a hospital in the village of moderates on the line they also caused extensive damage to several buildings in the novel and. this all comes a day after a russian fighter jet was shot down above the town of sock'em three opposition factions in syria say they were behind the attack this video is from the bombing we

don't have those pictures we'll try and get them for you it's one of the groups that say they took down the fighter jet and here's the video you can see the fighting there the minister the defense ministry says the pilot ejected but was killed in a fight on the ground the syrian government backed by russian airpower launched a campaign to push the rebels from it live in december under a table as a syrian affairs analyst is also a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he's joining us via skype from washington d.c. under thanks very much for being with us do you think it's likely that there's any connection between this latest claudian attack inside a cab and the downing of that russian jet. be hard to say i don't think it. still is still sketchy it is part of the general escalation of that area but it will take some time to try and sort that out. the u.s.

has said that the world needs to try to find a way of stopping these attacks can that be done. certainly more to be done to punish the regime for the use of chemical weapons stopping them would require stopping all airstrikes or artillery strikes the ousted regime and that's it unlikely do you think russia is going to feel pressured to stop these attacks by the regime i think they feel some pressure but chlorine is not among the banned substances. series allowed to use chlorine as a weapon of course is a signatory to the chemical weapons convention. but russia is i think very concerned about us accusations of the use of sarah inside of syria which is a substance they should no longer have. but of course the pictures that we're seeing at the moment are very emotive and the russians must surely be aware of impact around the world of pictures like this. oftentimes and i can see in this

case but oftentimes russian sources are russian government will say that the reports are fabricated or that they were trained strike that was not carried out by the answer seems the trumpet ministration under has suggested it might take military action if these chlorine gas attacks continue how likely is that do you think and what kind of action could we see if it did happen i think it is possible they'd get repeated warnings or the last few weeks this goes back until last april zx strike by the united states. in response to the use of sarin inside of syria so i wouldn't rule it out finally and at some point this war is going to and how does the regime expect to stay in power if it at least is reported to have been bombing and gassing its own people. it's

a good question how can you have a credible government that's using strategic weapons on its own people it's a very good question and it's also an outlier i don't dreams of comparative cases rather world we have had rulers who stayed in power after that atrocities but this is far from over and see how it shakes out thanks for joining us good to get your views on this. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in argentina on the latest stop on his tour of latin america it's aimed at improving washington's relations in a region where they've often been strained tell us and has already spotted can talk or see on the eve of his alley a visit to mexico when he suggested the venice one as president nicolas maduro could be peacefully toppled by his own military both from the do it oh and his defense minister have condemned the comments on friday and even mexico which has been highly critical of the middle government has refused to support any known peaceful solution in venezuela despite the regional pushback against military

options tell us and is now seeking argentina's support against the venezuelan leader in the form of increased economic sanctions and father export restrictions argentina has reemerged as a strong advocate for democracy and the rule of law and we in particular welcome argentina's leadership to promote democracy including in particular in venezuela we must continue to work to fulfill the requirements of the if you're american democratic. we simply cannot allow in stand idly by to see a total destruction of democracy in venezuela the vittles one of the people deserve better. and tony a motos a latin america analyst and he's a journalist with the online publication news and news dot com he's joining us on skype from miami and thanks very much indeed for being with us antonio. do you think that tennyson is going to get any more and any better reception in haiti has

not. got a better reception in him in argentina the issue with all those who oppose the but as well in dictatorships i'm a human rights abuses and everything that's going on with the venezuelan government is that sellers that has taken this long to get engaged in the venezuela crisis you had an opportunity last year when the organization of american states tried to deal with the venezuela issue convening a couple of meetings of foreign ministers and sellers and didn't go even though one of them was in washington d.c. so i think now my guess is that what he's trying to do is is put the fear of god in matter of i raised the possibility of a military coup and sort of reaching out in this way to the venezuelan military because the reality is unless the venezuelan military does turn against murder or there is little chance that things are going to change in venezuela because people have suffered so much are struggling so much to survive on

a daily basis that the chance of any kind of real revolution seems very small but latin american countries like argentina certainly favor some change in the well when you said that they're favoring some sort of change what kind of action if anything are they likely to take how are venezuela's neighbors in latin america viewing the situation inside that country. all the major brennan and latin american countries brazil argentina chile peru even mexico for that matter are very much in boca li opposed to the murder of government they have excluded it from international organizations there's very much a consensus at least among the major countries that the leaders of most of the major countries the exceptions being ecuador libya and nicaragua which in cuba of course which are or socialist countries but generally the big latin american countries feel very strongly that something has to change in venezuela because this

is destabilizing the whole region given the fact that the us and has been using fairly strong language with regard to the macdougall government and also of course coming on the back of comments that donald trump the president of the u.s. has been making for several months now about the middle government do you think that doodle within venezuela is likely to be getting some sort of strengthening of support if his existing power base but all those also feel that he is under pressure. whatever holes exist in men as well i have shown that mode arrow has less than certainly less than thirty percent the machine less than twenty percent support it is the country is in such horrible the straits in the middle of horrible hyperinflation unbelievable crime people are starving children are dying of malnutrition people children are pictures today children sleeping in the in the streets people can't get medicines a major league baseball fiction pitcher who had

a former major league baseball pitcher thirty four years old died last week of pneumonia because he couldn't have access to you know the easily medicines that would easily treated the disease there is virtually no support for a moderate in venezuela except that he has managed to co-opt the military in the military a supporting him and that has has kept him in power and will continue to keep them power and what's happening is that people are just leaving the country in droves and that is destabilizing the region brazil is talking about closing off its border colombia there's talk of the u.n. having to establish refugee camps there because of how many venezuelans have gone the crime rates in colombia have gone up because of the men as well as the islands in the caribbean trinidad tobago caress our ruble are starting to get boat people there and there are economies are being strained by the refugees coming so this is a really dire situation that unfortunately very few media outlets in the world are paying enough attention to al jazeera being among the exceptions until you are going to get your views on this thanks very much indeed my pleasure i thank you.

the fallout over the controversial memo claiming the f.b.i. abused its power by spying on a trump aide continues washington is waiting to see if the democrats will respond with a reliable memo on monday the competing documents were written by republicans and democrats in the house intelligence committee the republicans made their is public on friday after the u.s. president declassified it donald trump seized on the documents saying it's totally vindicates him in the probe into alleged ties between his campaign and russia but the f.b.i. says it has grave concerns the document contains what it calls material omissions of fact the democrats could vote on monday to release their own memo the party's senate leader chuck schumer has urged trump to back its public release saying that refusing to do so would show the president's intent to undermine the russia investigation both parties have used the sunday talk shows to debate the relevance of the republican memos release you still have

a russian investigation even without it so. i don't know how many of the republican field i. am on record as saying i support bob muller one hundred percent i think you would have a russia and russia trying to interfere with our election in twenty sixteen with or without a dossier. sources are going to dry up because of what the republicans on this committee are doing now there's a compact between our committee in the intelligence community you give us your deepest held secrets we will hold them in good confidence we won't abuse them. they're going to share a lot less with us now and other sources of nation are going to decide not to share with the f.b.i. because they can't rely on our committee not to be partisan in the handling of that information and that's a deep disservice which ultimately makes the country less safe ok let's go live now to gallagher who's in washington d.c. for us and they were talking about there's this vote on monday but that's really just the stocks of the process as far as the democrat members concerned isn't it.

it isn't it very much depends on president trump if they do vote to release their own ten page memo to the republicans was a four page memo it's then up to president trump whether he releases it and approves it the fear that the democrats have is that the republicans will redirect or they will censor certain parts of the memo of course the democrats a big problem with the republicans releasing their member is they say that they hand picked certain facts to back up the fact that the russian investigation is flawed and the f.b.i. and the justice department are also flawed and of course they are also very worried that president trump will use this as a pretext to fire special counsel robert muller who is in charge of the russian investigation and you've got president trump on saturday morning tweeting out that this whole thing is a hoax once again it's not the first time he's done that but things aren't strictly along party lines so you do have some republicans you saw one there talking about

the fact that this dossier some republicans have such a problem with because it was paid for by the democrats has no bearing on the overall big picture of the investigation we know that the russians interfered in the election we know that they're probably going to do the same thing again in the midterm elections and they're looking at the bigger picture saying any blocks to obstruct this could cause a constitutional crisis president trump of course it's widely been reported that he wanted to fire about mahler back in july that didn't happen because senior members of his staff threatened to resign and the whole thing keeps rumbling on but the thing to watch for is monday evening and that vote whether that goes ahead then is entirely up to the president himself and if the president as we were talking about before has said that the memo that has been released totally vindicates him when it comes to any links between his presidential campaign and russia is there a sense now that that means that the miller investigation is going to be left to get on with it because he's confident in the outcome. i mean this is the kind of

talk that you hear from president trump has been talking about this being a witch hunt for a long time he says this has been going on for a year there's no proof of any collusion but typically these kinds of investigations as especially at this scale and the potential outcome of it take a lot longer than one year it could go on for a lot longer than it already has up to this point this is all part of his bravado but the key point here is it is at war with his own intelligence community he's saying negative things about the f.b.i. and the justice department who are led by people that he put in positions of power in that in those very organizations and it worries a lot of people here that he's not letting due process take course the president shouldn't really interfere and should release ryan second guess investigations like this or claim is own isn't innocence until it's run its natural course that's what concerns so many people in this country and we've even got people like paul ryan the speaker of the house saying look we are talking

a lot about transparency let's get the democrats memo out there as well but then you've also got people like adam schiff saying we're breaking down the very trust between the government and in the intelligence community by releasing memos that shouldn't be released in the first place because anyone that comes forward to those organizations in the future may not completely trust them anymore if this kind of information is released this whole thing is bound to go on for days if not weeks and months but at the moment robert miller's investigation is carrying on at full steam thanks andy. plenty more ahead on the news hour including more than four months after the election and germany's political parties are still struggling to form a government. the army seals off parliament in the moldings as the government cracks down on the opposition. and skiing superstar lindsey vonn will head to the winter olympics on a winning note follows them all the details coming up in this poll. tens

of thousands of greeks have rallied in the capital athens out in the government's not to compromise in a long running name with neighboring macedonia greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the e.u. saying its name implies a claim over the greek province also called macedonia john psaropoulos reports from athens. the message was clear macedonians are greeks and no one other than the greeks should be allowed to use the name macedonia greeks refer to the neighborhood by the name of its capital city skopje their opinion is important because they him to power a veto over its entry to nato and the european union he might give the union to me again as anyone macedonian is greek greek people will not accept the fact of a name we determine to show that we went without a history under the terms that can be no european prospects copia this was greece's

official position until about a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as mold and also love macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a compromise in theory exists the question is can the two societies accept it the greeks have been through an eight year you cannot make depression they have lost children national finances and budget vacuum alienation has been compounded by the fact. many european media have denied even that ancient provenance they have now said with one voice that their identity and history are not up for negotiation most greeks agree that the use of the name by known greeks implies a fictitious ethnicity and a first as part of their own ancient history but it might be the only person in. this new message or any a nation alexander the great was educated to great by aristotle whenever he won

a battle he put up a monument saying this big tree was won by all the greats he didn't differentiate between methadone and sing greats a generation of kids in skopje has grown up with this myth but that's their problem some observers say inflated expectations are a greek problem as well many people in greece felt that at some point there would be some kind of ideal solution without the the word macedonia and everything would be solved that way and the fact that diplomacy means eventually some painful decisions. in the methods that message was not passed through greek society by other leads the government in athens is to send its proposals to scope here in the next two weeks the crowds here warn against diplomacy without the people jump several close al-jazeera athens i got as close as a lecturer in european politics at king's college london he says the dispute is down to ownership of national identity. i think there are two parameters two

mentions one is diplomatic and geopolitical one which says that a lot of greece see it is a matter of national interest to have a strong position on the so-called macedonian name issue on the other hand of course it's of issue of motional popular national identity so a lot of people consider the ancient legacy of the ancients donia is part of greek identity and part of the greek narrative of continuous greek nationalism so it's a matter of both of geopolitical disagreement the question of national interest in the question of very much no national identity or when the two gets together it's actually very difficult to conduct diplomacy isolated from the sentiment on the street cyprus president has won a runoff election with fifty six percent of the vote was honest as the others comfortably beat his challenger started a small us vote could determine the resumption of peace talks in the divided island

a un administered demilitarized zone running through the capital nicosia has divided turkish controlled north and greek dominated south side press since nine hundred seventy four talks about forming a government in germany are expected to continue into monday chancellor angela merkel's conservatives are in negotiations with the opposition social democrats knuckles been unable to form a coalition since an election in september when both the main parties lost seats to the far right but the two sides remain optimistic about a deal. i talked as a consequence constructive talks today we've reached a lot of agreements we managed to reach consensus on the important issues of habitation and renting we managed to finish the issue of digitalisation and we could reach an agreement on art and culture but we've just joined in the high level meeting that there are issues ahead of us with a party still definite about which we still have to talk which we want to debate thoroughly and with focus. al-jazeera is paul brennan has more from berlin

given the differences between these two sides censor writes i'm glad michael c.d.u. and center left martin shields this p.d.s. perhaps not surprising that they're finding it quite difficult to tie down the final details of this coalition treaty it looks like they've agreed things like energy and agriculture policy but in the matter of labor reform health policy and housing policy still some distance apart from each other and we heard it when the two leaders went in that they sounded sort of they were making the right noises but preparing people for a long night ahead no surprises realistically there and the reason really is because the s.p.d. the center left need to have a deal on the table that they can actually sell to them membership because it's the membership of the s.p.d. who will have effectively a veto on this if they come out with an agreement the comp be sold so the center left voters and frankly it's dead in the water the fifty second super bowl is about

to get underway in the us city of minneapolis. subzero temperatures didn't stop the post much party atmosphere at the stadium reigning champions the new england patriots are aiming for their six super bowl title against the philadelphia eagles top superstar justin timberlake is performing in the much anticipated super bowl halftime show j. gray's joining us live from minneapolis it does look bitterly cold there jr the fans are bearing up. yeah it is bitterly cold inside though perfect conditions for a football game and as you talk about now just minutes away from kick off your the patriots they are the undeniable favorites here with their all time leading quarterback here who is coming off a regular season where he of course won the most valuable player under tom brady

who will be the only quarterback of forty years or older to win if he wins the championship tonight fans on both sides have been flooding to this city over the last week most inside the stadium now behind me let's give a listen to what they said just before kickoff pads are going to win their six super bowl ring they're going to win it going away. no question about it they're going to win it going away this time everybody doubts us afloat off the eagles and everybody has to has like his native impact but you know when we've come over come so many different steps and we're proving the road each and every step so i don't think that it's just going to be a close game i think it's going to be definitely in double digits and the eagles are taking it. yeah and one of the things the eagles have overcome is losing their old store quarterback but now coming through the playoffs with the backup nick foles who has performed very well and they expect

him to do so today for the eagles to win this game they will tell you the defense has to do it that they've got to get to tom brady early and often in this contest as well as hold down the running game here and if they do that they should have a chance we'll find out it's getting ready to kick off from jay thanks very much indeed of course fall is going to be here with more on the super bowl in a bout half an hour's time. still ahead on al-jazeera two people are killed after a passenger train collides with a freight train in the u.s. could signal systems being to blame and then the sport to return to winning ways but this tennis star fall is going to have the details on that as well later on.

we've had some really heavy rain moving away from the eastern seaboard of the united states you can see the cloud just making its way across the middle of the states drifting out into the atlantic and it's allowing that bitterly cold air to just dig its way in behind minus seventeen the top temperature in winnipeg minus seven cold enough in chicago more bits and pieces the snow there around the northern plains pushing down into the midwest south of that mills at dallas at around thirteen degrees celsius which was west slushy fun to trial a still pretty warm temperatures here twenty five degrees celsius further north of the snow does remain across the rockies pushing up towards that western side of canada well too bad as we go on through tuesday lotty fine and flood watches day we will see some snow just coming in across colorado pushing a little further south which at ace was still some basic pieces of snow just about upstate new york three pennsylvania three celsius the top temperature in new york at this stage still at minus seventeen for what it takes them on

a sixth for chicago a chance of some heavy showers there into texas and maybe also into louisiana also wanted to showers too into the western side of the caribbean with a many it's going to be fine and dry pleasant sunshine coming through kingston with a top temperature of thirty one degrees celsius. the palestine national locust was first founded in the one nine hundred thirty s. but has had to be revived in two thousand and ten all was very important for me to sing in palestine and now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied territories simple philistine like never published in the a 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 one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to

a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people believed to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour at least nine people have been injured in a suspected chlorine gas attack in syria's northwestern ellipse province activists video shows people being treated in the town of saka reported

a foul smell following a raid by syrian government aircraft. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been meeting his argentinean counterpart in. the senate seeking argentina's support against the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro in the form of increased economic sanctions and further export restrictions. on hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating in. athens against the use of the name of macedonia but a small balkan state the borders greece the two countries agreed to step up negotiations this year. troops in the maldives are surrounded parliament following days of unrest opposition m.p.'s have filed a motion to impeach for senior government figures including the defense minister and the attorney general this is connected to a supreme court ruling over the release and retrial of political prisoners charlotte ballasts explains. the. opposition politicians use their phones to record troops messing around parliamentary grounds in the moldavian capital mali.

the opposition met at parliament and decided to file impeachment motions against the defense minister home minister attorney general and secretary general they blame the government officials for failing to recognize a supreme court ruling that called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed machine we will look by hundreds of military and police officers in riot gear but a movie managed to warn you some of us we'd like to go with. those two supreme court judges also reinstated twelve pace who were expelled for siding with the opposition opposition politicians say once parliament returns they will have the majority and can legally impeach president you mean abdul gayoom police raided the house of the administrative head of the supreme court on sunday they say they want him for corruption if that is an indication of how things will proceed if for

example the phone president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken back to prison as well. what was a celebration for the release of political prisoners has morphed into protests the chief of police said he would implement this tax court decision the government file . on saturday his replacement was also fired the opposition says it will continue protests as long as politicians remain in prison or in excel. a spokesman for the president has told al jazeera they have nothing to fear and the president has every intention of releasing and retrying the nine political prisoners as mandated but it cannot happen immediately because of what the

government calls procedural issues. to come protest as president in maine says he is willing to hold early elections his rival former president as she called it ludicrous tweeting for makes president you mean a must release and leave now the politics in the tourism hot spot is at a standstill parliament is in recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. shallop ballasts. one i'm sure in is executive director of transparency more days she says it's important tensions subside before presidential elections planned for november. it looks like it was all in the past three years down the political situation. in the country has been. quite well in thailand and i'm certain the times but i think it is a heading to x. between eighteen presidential election it is quite important

for the political environment to be queen to use it for a free and. free and fair elections but at looking at the current crisis i think even that the government down seems to be at loggerheads with the supreme court. facing a question on. the floor and reconstruction in this country. but she wanted to give things that we have been high they have is that. the opposition of potential president presidential candidate candidates either in prison or. in exile one of the key fundamentals of a free and fair elections do that every party should be able to put forward the candidate of their choice but that is that that condition has not been met but this has been a ruling on first degree and if it is implemented full bacillus sheets conditional on the status which means effectively he should be able to text twenty eight

hundred presidential election but also note that as the supreme court ruling which states that the ninth well into the business should be read write. man again be convicted and according to law in debian law if a sentence is longer than one year he will not be eligible to contest the presidential elections. the bodies of sixteen migrants have been recovered off the coast of morocco on sunday it's the latest in a number of deadly crossings being made by people trying to reach europe so far this year according to the international organization for migration more than two hundred forty people have died or gone missing in the mediterranean since the new year catherine stansell has more this is becoming the new routes to europe for would be migrants more than a dozen bodies were pulled out of these waters near malea a spanish enclave bordering morocco most of them were from north africa trying to get cheer up fire the so-called western mediterranean route as opposed to arriving

in greece or italy twenty eighteen may have only just begun but it's already proving to be a deadly year for those trying to seek a better life in europe on wednesday more than one hundred migrants were rescued from rubber boats off the coast of tripoli. and on friday it's believed ninety people were on a boat that sank off the coast of libya the sole survivor told authorities that many were from pakistan he along with thirty two other pakistanis were brought to the world that will be in the deep sea off the coast of. these people were being illegally transported to shore up in that ridge was in a bad shape this was being done by human smugglers. the international organization for migration has issued another warning about the dangers of trying to reach europe we think is about two hundred sixty have died so far this year alone so here

you're adding another ninety to that so it's a really significant episode at a time when people continue to try to get to europe they're lured there by social media they get onto a phone they promised eldorado they think life is going to be great and before they know it they're getting into the hands of awful criminal extorting people the migrants that do survive usually end up in detention centers many of which are already filled to capacity protests were held last week by hundreds of north african migrants at this facility in libya many of them saying they've been held for months in living conditions which are quickly deteriorating caton stansell al jazeera israel's cabinet has voted to begin the process of making the harvard gilad outpost in the occupied west bank an official settlement politicians have been calling for the outpost to be legalized in a response to an attack last month where the rabbi was killed in

a drive by shooting since then israeli forces have conducted raids in search of a killer they described as a palestinian all israeli settlements are illegal under international law meanwhile a funeral is being held for the teenager killed in one of those raids carried out by israeli forces the nineteen year old was shot by police in geneva on saturday another palestinian man was shot dead and several others have been injured in other raids last month. israeli planes have been carrying out air strikes in northern sinai and with the approval of egyptian president sisi that's according to the new york times it says unmarked israeli war planes and helicopters have conducted dozens of raids in egypt over the past two years egyptian forces have been fighting isolate armed groups which have launched attacks in the region that have been reports in the cooperation between egypt and israel before but it's always been denied by both governments and one can has the latest from west jerusalem. so his

the original reports in sunday's new york times they'll have to say the reporting is all from british and american former security officials who spoke to the new york times none of it's actually come from either israel or egypt and we reached out to the israeli army for comment they say they weren't going to comment on this case but clearly it's a very big story both in the hebrew language and the english language post now take a look at this this horace they're reporting fairly similar things israel conducted over one hundred s. strikes on isis in egypt using the new york times as a base the jerusalem post here as well just take a look at this israel struck over one hundred targets in sinai with caro's ok now this is going to be controversial for both countries there's a hard right here in israel that says it doesn't want any cooperation with its arab neighbors to ticket when it comes to military that the israeli army should be completely independent also in egypt it's going to be controversial as well

particular within the t.v. stations are very critical of any cooperation with israel when it comes to military matters now i did speak to a former israeli military official and i asked him why this cooperation might be taking place he says simply they're very worried about groups like isis and massing on their borders so it makes sense for something like this to take place and a roadside bomb in the sinai has killed to egypt and soldiers a pickup truck was carrying them just south of the coastal city of when the explosion happened six people were also injured in the attack there's been no claim of responsibility human rights watch has criticized bahrain for deporting eight nationals who were stripped of their citizenship at the end of january videos posted online show them saying goodbye to their families for all of the deportees have been sent to no job in iraq the removal follows an appeals court decision to uphold a ruling that ordered their deportation for damaging state security. china is accusing

the u.s. of having a cold war mentality in response to washington's plans to diversify its nuclear weapons policy the pentagon says its current nuclear bombs are too big and wants to develop smaller nuclear weapons the u.s. says the nuclear weapons revamp is largely in response to russian actions in recent years that amount is director of the defense posture project at the federation of american scientists he says washington's approach has been disappointing. this is standard chinese propaganda to try to paint their nuclear nuclear policies as fully responsible and the united states as being wildly irresponsible that having been said the trumpet ministrations nuclear posture review does smell of the cold war it revitalizes certain cold war theories so for example it proposes two new nuclear weapons. one is a lower yield option for

a launched ballistic missile the other is a new cruise missile the case for both of these requires that you believe that a low yield weapon could be used in a limited conflict so a small war. that the united states is not planning you know immediately to use one of the weapons but it's alarming thinking i'm disappointed in in the american administrations. approach to this rather than charting a new course and working to reduce russian and chinese reliance on nuclear weapons they've simply accepted the same kind of logic that they've criticized so they're really buying into this arms race and embracing it the better way forward would be to insist that the united states its nuclear arsenal has all the capabilities that we need to deter aggression something u.s. leaders have said consistently and instead place more emphasis on our conventional forces and place our scarce money there that would help not escalate this arms race faster than it needs to nigerian community leader in italy says he fears they'll be

further attacks after a series of drive by shootings on saturday left six west african migrants injured five men and one woman were wounded in the town of much in the east of the country we do shop reports. the lone gunman took us to target his victims in an attack that police said was racially motivated firing from the front seat of his car he shot six people as he drove through the streets all of them were black and thought to be asylum seekers is now an immigrant as said he was shot without warning if. it's enormous. so i don't know who hates me and it's what the other i want to go so immediately i hear this term i hear it. right you know so they saw for the head surgeon it much at a hospital said they'd all been very lucky. at twenty eight year old italian name

does look at try any was arrested by military police draped in an italian flag he reportedly wore during the shootings but he was escorted to prison early on sunday morning cerrone had no previous criminal record overnight italian police sealed off his apartment and later released video of the inside of his home it showed a copy of al of hitler's mind comfort and other right wing flags and symbols johnny stood as a far right candidate for the northern league and recent local elections but was said to receive no votes in the count. the italian prime minister was quick to condemn the shootings i meant to could mean only known for some of it i'll call not what you want soon a criminal behavior cannot have ideological motivation criminals are criminals the state will be particularly severe against whoever things have nourishing to spiral violence let's stop this let's stop this right now with the arrival of more than

six hundred thousand migrants over the past four years the events of the last few days come amid a he says election campaign in italy where anti foreign a sentiment has become a key theme pizza shop al-jazeera id's two people have been killed and more than one hundred have been injured in a train crash in the us state of south carolina and i'm trying to train collided with a freight train late on saturday on trucks president is blaming the freight company saying its signal systems were done to them and reports the train bound from new york and headed to miami carried one hundred forty eight passengers and crew it collided in the middle of the night with a freight train derailing its locomotive and the first car the two dead were crew members it's a horrible thing to see to understand the forces involved in the engine of the the first engine of the freight train of course was torn up and the single engine of the passenger train the amtrak train conceded south was barely recognizable first

reports indicated the freight train was parked on a side rail off the main trunk line this was the third fatal crash in two months involving amtrak america's only national passenger rail service last week an amtrak train carrying republican members of congress hit a trash truck killing a passenger in the vehicle and in december a train in washington state hit a curve at more than one hundred kilometers per hour twice the permitted speed that train was not equipped with an automatic braking system which might have prevented the accident that killed three and then just about one hundred others. the government subsidized dam track system has been heavily criticized by president donald trump he's pointed to its accident record as reason to push for more spending to refit the network of roads rails and airports night i'm calling on congress to produce a bill that generates at least one point five trillion dollars for the new

infrastructure investment that our country so desperately needs but trump's budget proposal to congress to be submitted this week calls for slashing and drags operating budget and rail investment grants by almost half tom ackerman al-jazeera washington and then bush's plan is being drawn up to connect east and west africa by rail senegal's president maki cell has pushed for the project that's being paid for by the chinese government and supported by the african union those behind it hope it's going to increase trade on the continent the railway line will run through ten countries as it makes its way from senegal in west africa to djibouti all the way in the east of the country takes at least five days to travel by road between the two nations flights between east and west africa are opening up but the fares aren't cheap and the final part of our series looking at global trade routes nicholas hawk reports from thais in senegal. on board the five fifteen train from

jakarta chess most passengers are on their way home after a long day of work in the city. the fifteen minutes journey home always seems a bit longer than the morning commute. after years writing this train was fun so has learned to enjoy this moment free from distractions. for me but i'm lucky to have a good time for myself here if i drive to work it would take me at least four hours and i'd be stuck in traffic trains are still the quickest safest and cheapest way to travel. they call it the little blue train the locomotive was bought from pakistan the wagons from india. the parts were brought to senegal and refurbished in the one nine hundred seventy s. it's the only passenger train left in senegal all the other lines including the historic train to mali were bad and because they were too costly to run much to the frustration of commuters and railway unions alike. unfeeling. privatizing the railway lines was a clear mistake

a country cannot grow without developing its roadway system but now we are excited with the steps in to go and other sites are taking the african union has an ambitious plan to connect the port of the car in the west to the port of djibouti in eastern africa linking ten countries many of them landlocked it's called the trams african railway project. there are seven thousand eight hundred kilometers of unfinished railway tracks alone will cost thirteen billion dollars to build it's an enormous amount each country is tasked with finding its own financing for their part of the railway chinese companies have signed deals to rebuild the former colonial rail lines that were bounded by the french both in the car and in djibouti it's the start of an epic engineering project that will take years to build and promises thousands of jobs across the continent. there are no roads or highways connecting the west of africa to the east nor is there a direct flight between the car and djibouti in fact no one has ever tried to

connect both coasts of africa neither the french nor the british the former colonial powers. construction hasn't started yet but the prospect of reopening the century old tracks has got many excited and hopeful abound in train station may get a new lease on life and for the many passengers like so who use this every day. it may not be the end of the line for the five fifteen train from the car nicholas hawk al-jazeera yes senegal. now that was the last in our series on global trade routes in the past four days we've also visited north america thailand and laos you can watch those reports on global trade routes on you tube channel that's you tube dot com forward slash al-jazeera english still ahead on al-jazeera snowboarding action. for the winter olympics. just ahead.

twenty years of china's transformation. through one young girl's journey. from birth to adult. two decades following the development of life and nation. five years on rewind returns to the story of k.k. the girl. at this time on al-jazeera. culture. that this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have. a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to. deploy anti-riot. challenging the challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is

going. it is time for sports here is far rob thank you so much it's one of the most anticipated events in the sporting world super bowl fifty two has just kicked off in minneapolis tom brady's defending champions the new england patriots are taking on the philadelphia eagles while the patriots are going for their six championship title the eagles have never won it and just a few minutes into the game now and the score is there is three nothing to the eagles but still a long way to go we'll have more updates for you a bit later an english premier league liverpool and tottenham played out i

thrilling two two draw at anfield earlier liverpool led through most until the eightieth minutes when they are way yamaha made it one one cell added a second in injury time but it wasn't enough to seal the win after harry came missed one penalty he scored another for his one hundred primarily goal the draw means liverpool say third in the table but top them are just two points behind them and fit. to live on dusty. begin a team the decide if you can win the title. in the school. and i seen the rules with some ace in the boot from those on the scene and i think the feeling know in the changing room from the team is still we do boots. sometimes and if you need don't get that it's difficult it's always said they were really good but we were good as well and because of the game developed because if you have

the circumstances they barely have a more dominant the second half in spain barcelona remain unbeaten so far in the league this season but only just a late equaliser from juror piquet rescued them a draw at espanyol espanyol had taken the lead through gerrard morano midway through the second half p.k. level things up with just eight minutes of the match remaining barcelona are now on a club record twenty two match unbeaten streak in the league. and barcelona remain in control of the table a little madrid are nine points behind after they beat a third place valencia one nil earlier round madrid we know are still down in fourth from one thousand points off the lead after only managing to draw against live on take on saturday. and rugby six nations tournament england got their title defense off to a winning start against italy on sunday they ran in seven tries in

a forty six fifteen victory in rome it's a thirteenth consecutive defeat in the tournaments for the italians it wasn't our bidding war and a historic third consecutive championship. to time wimbledon champion patrick of it ever has won her twenty first tour title at the st petersburg ladies' trophy the czech produced a dominant display to defeat fending champion christina donna vetch six one six two in sunday's final it's just give it a was second tournaments win since returning to the tour last june following a knife attack at her home at the end of twenty six game show moves back up to twenty one in the rankings on monday with no points of fans until the french open in may the president of the international olympic committee says the decision by the court of arbitration for sport to overturn the lifespans of twenty eight russian athletes is extremely disappointing thomas bach was speaking i'm kyung chang ahead of the winter olympics which start there on friday

a decision on whether the athletes involved can now take part in the games will be taken this week the r.u.c. executive board. not satisfied is all with the approach or the bike us. we have discussed this situation at length. yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows the urgent need. for reform. in the internal structural failure because a more optimistic story surrounding these games involves the combined north and south korean women's hockey team south korea have the stronger squad but at least three players from north korea will participate in each match in the olympics they

played their first warm up game against sweden earlier finished we want to see. what we've been able to practice as a team for over a week so we've been and we're viewing all of our systems it's been great for our players as well. and the north korean players learn quickly they've been great to work with they work really hard so we've just been reviewing our systems and we'll keep teaching and keep getting better. skiing superstar lindsey vonn will head to the olympics on a winning no tech to claiming victory in the final downhill event before chong chang on sunday the american completed this course in germany and one minute thirty seven point nine thousand seconds for her third consecutive triumph in the discipline won now has eighty one world cup race wins to her name and she's just five short of the all time best mark set in the one nine hundred eighty s. in a time downhill world cup champion the thirty three year old is bidding for just a second olympic title. elsewhere in germany there was a second world cup when of the season for the reigning snowboard cross a limb pick

a champion here voltaire twenty two year old like a lot more only at italy won the women's race underlining her status as a gold medal favorite and her second the lifter. and that's all you sport for now more later back to you for now rob thanks very much indeed that's it for me wrote about this it for this news hour i'm going to be back in a moment with more of the day's news old stacy that but we're.

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