being sent across the border to the u.s. as well no ambiguity there as there might hanna live in toronto thank you still have you on al-jazeera rocks thrown through a car windscreen this is in the occupied west bank how attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians are increasing. hurrican hometown in puerto rico our record breaking musical going back to its roots. how i think lebanon and iraq are probably syria had the worse for the time being the next massacre developing is clearly heading that way going for us aleppo but if i take you over the next twenty four hours or so with less than that you'll see the cloud itself is just cloud and sudden iraq that comes of against the higher ground in this is where rain starts to fall yes it will catch northern iraq the mountains

clearly of iraq against a substantial snow and saying was true briefly of turkey rains gathering for the lebanese coast quite possibly but i don't think it will make much progress inland and i jumped you had to monday here this is still the active area significant snow running into western south iran right at lower levels stretching down towards q eight possibly into saudi as well that most of this is a picture of clouds it has induced the different wind direction settle be probably quite a humid twenty seven in riyadh twenty four in die hard more clout than sunshine but a different feeling for sure still plenty of rain to come has been falling fairly heavily throughout madagascar sudden towns there as well running out through zimbabweans are being kept in science in with a bit of a weakness in the atmosphere allowing a few showers an eastern side of south africa but mostly if the weather than he is looking beautifully sunny.

rewind returns it can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries there has been a number of reforms put in place since the prime gram was filmed continues with darkness we were following orders we sing young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have them make life and death decisions rewind on al-jazeera. top stories for you this hour on the runner up in the presidential election in democratic republic of congo as challenge the results and caution call for

a recount. he won with more than sixty percent of the vote sizing election observers in the catholic church south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has launched its campaign this is general election with a message of unity being seen as a test of the group's popularity after years of scandal and division under former president jacob zuma. and the saudi teenager of a hostile kimonos landed in canada where she's been offered asylum quinones that she's fleeing an abusive family in saudi arabia after announcing it and fears she would be killed if she returns. syrian state media says israeli forces of find several missiles at targets in damascus including the airport syrian air defenses reported the intercepted some missiles but one of them damaged an airport. u.s. and kurdish forces meanwhile are attacking i fould last stronghold in syria air strikes have been stepped up on the town that hygiene where remnants of isilon

holed up and coalition offensive against them could take two to three months we're going to reports. heavy fighting in this town city. to the last leave overlong remaining within isis control is undoubtedly. the cut is led city and democratic forces as i in a final push to also i still fighters from their last remaining stronghold in the eastern city. as they have come on to say they're making some progress by u.s. airstrikes which have been stepped up since donald trump announced the withdrawal of american troops from cities this storage is full of weapons and ammunition we took from i saw fighters after days of fighting here this assault on my cell is the final chapter of a conflict that began more than four years ago when the group says parts of it out in cities and declared a hug. it out to government forces declare victory over i still in december two

thousand and seventeen. despite analysts say their ideology is also very much alive in the region. it was pushed back. each year largely they're the sunni complaints they have been totally run over and everybody. that ukraine should be still ready to lose and therefore radicalism over the i.s.i. already. has eat roots and. that's why it has been totally illegal the fighting between the as d.f. and i still is centered around the town of hygiene on the banks of the euphrates river close to the syrian border with iraq the hygiene area was once home to sixty thousand people most fled to live in mexico becomes for the displaced. renewed

fighting intensifies more people are joining than here dozens of the newly displaced wait for tents and blankets in the bitter cold and some say they fled on foot because they hoped the u.s. coalition warplanes bumping vehicles. back on the frontlines as their fighters are preparing for a long stay long they estimate the fighting hygiene will last two to three months not may seem like a surprisingly one time given the size all but any of them dealing with ice and how cities with populations three times greater fell within days the difference is that in both bottles ice and fighters that are typically retreat to troops and from one of them their positions in order to close for the day time recruit this time the truth is. one hundred on the wall just doesn't. french police of five tear gas and water cannon at the yellow vest protesters on the streets for

a night successive weekend police for rock throwing demonstrators in central paris there were some of the hard to approach protests held in other cities and towns this is all against the policies of president. of the rising cost of living. we're following this one for us from paris. thousands of protesters marched across paris and they have congregated here the arc de triomphe just behind me which has become something of a symbol of this yellow face movement and police are at the moment firing tear gas they're trying to move people away from this area dispersed the crowds if you look behind me you can see the police there there are eighty thousand police deployed across the country security has been boosted as the government tries to crack down on what they say some of the most violent elements in the protests so far have been peaceful most of the protesters are of course peaceful and that's why the police saying it to try and control and manage the situation but it has been very

difficult for them over the past few months to think these protests have been very unpredictable now the government's response has been politically to try and offer protesters more concessions more financial concessions they don't think the big national citizens paid to get people move of course in politics next week but people here say that's not enough what they want are more taxes to be scrapped they say they want to move to be poor people they say the president only cares about the rich. now the u.s. surprise and donald trump has blasted a new york times report saying the f.b.i. opened an inquiry into him in may twenty seventeen it was to find out of trump was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests well in his response on twitter trump said wow just learned in the failing new york times that the corrupt former leaders of the f.b.i. almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons opened up an investigation on me for no reason and with no proof after i fired lie and james

komi a total sleaze well he was right and who is a former us associate to deputy attorney general constitutional lawyer as well he says president trump may be facing subpoenas for this is early as next week. and no other president has ever done anything that skates close to the line of acting on behalf of foreign intelligence service or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office

and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia and while all this goes on the u.s. government is now officially in its longest shuts down ever around eight hundred thousand federal employees have now been going without paid work for twenty two days that is a day longer than during the clinton administration back in ninety five and well ahead of anything else seen during other recent presidents the most recent shutdown of such a generation bill sixteen days under barack obama so. of course the shutdown persists because of an impulse of the president trumps border wall to mom's he wants five billion dollars for a wall between the u.s.

and mexico which the democrats want to agree to but rob reynolds has been finding out that the consumer electronics show in las vegas that and also to trump's worries could be virtually right in front of. the screen i'm standing in front of could someday be an alternative to a physical barrier at the us mexico border it's made by the company quander g.e. and basically uses laser technology that's the laser device up there to identify and track any people who are entering through a certain perimeter so in this display each one of these green trying goals or diamond shapes are an actual person who is moving through the exhibit area here now in practical application on a border this could allow officials from law enforcement to track individuals crossing the border and while each individual unit can only monitor an area of

about two hundred meters and a ray of them could go a long way and in fact. a bigger or a stretching the entire length of the u.s. border from the gulf of mexico to the pacific ocean according to the company quantity would cost only about one point five to two billion dollars considerably less than the physical border that's being discussed in washington and this would work night and day according to the company and be able to determine or distinguish rather between human beings and animals that are out there in the desert so it's possible some day that this could be an alternative in the company has been in touch in talks with politicians in washington and federal officials to make that someday a reality. four israeli soldiers are under house arrest in connection with the killing of a palestinian woman three months ago i should be died after rocks were thrown into

the windscreen of her car a fifth teenager is also in police custody numbers show that finding crimes by settlers against palestinians very steeply last year are full support so the occupied west bank. yes robbie is finding comfort where he can mainly it comes from his family he and his wife i raised eight children together he says they always planned once the kids have finished their schooling to devote more time to each other to travel together about future was shattered in october last year when driving home past an illegal settlement outposts in the occupied west bank their car came under a hail of rocks and stones enough so. there was a huge explosion in the car the glass fell in my wife and i have been talking in the rocket on the side of her had she fell on me blood came out from her ears and nose my daughter was screaming i didn't know what to do the car was swerving right and left it was the longest three seconds of my life three months on the israeli security services have arrested five students from a religious school at the outpost in connection with

a shower robbie's death saying that they collected evidence of extremist and anti zionist religious ideology consistent with what's referred to in the israeli media as jewish tara the suspects are reported to be from the illegal settlement of youths are near the palestinian city of nablus for all the attention is raised this attack is not an isolated one it's part of a patent a surge according to recently published figures of attacks by settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank in july twenty fifteen a husband wife and their toddler son were killed in the fire bombing of a palestinian home in the west bank village of duma a crackdown by israel's security services saw a reduction in settler violence but last year the numbers rose sharply again it's reported there were four hundred eighty two and palestinian crimes a three fold increase on the previous year the incidents include assaults vandalism of vehicles and property as well as threatening graffiti israeli human rights group ph d. and recorded twenty five such incidents in just one day last month after two israeli soldiers and one baby were killed in palestinian attacks it says too many settler

crimes against palestinians go unpunished we've had about over twelve hundred investigation falsely documented and want to turds since two thousand. five in eight percent of those indictments were served and in a mere three percent were any convictions served we also noted that eighty two percent of investigation files are closed in circumstances that suggest police investigate a failure to israeli police called those figures misleading and incorrect your google robbie says he is finding some solace in the fact that suspects have been arrested in connection with his wife's killing he hopes that any eventual punishment will act as a deterrent to others but whether the freed or jailed for one hundred years he says nothing will bring back his wife hari force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank . it is true hundred sixty two. years and so hurrican devastated puerto rico forcing many to leave and that includes

a young man who went on to become one of america's founding fathers now you might know the story of alexander hamilton has become an acclaimed musical on broadway and it's moving from new york to go back to his roots. transported from broadway to a performing arts scene to in san fran and new audiences experiencing the pop culture phenomenon hamilton was moved a lot of that was. the spirit with the people tonight the response when you speak with the walk. the stories come full circle alexander hamilton left the caribbean after it was devastated by a hurricane in the eighteenth century he became an american founding father and the first treasury secretary in the musical has returned to support puerto rico still reeling from hurricane maria and twenty seventeen nearly three thousand people were killed and much of its infrastructure destroyed being how this island has come out

of devastation and come out of really just nothing and rebuilt and coming alive again i feel like seeing things that sound was so powerful i get emotional this thinking about it. hold your nose and close your eyes hamilton has taken politics from the stage to the president creation in man well miranda has used the success of the play winning a live in tony awards in the parlance a price for drama as a platform his the cast addressing vice president elect mike pence and twenty sixteen urging the administration to our poll americans values the diversity of. the r. and a should they do new administration to take a census broadway debut in twenty fifty. miranda a new york native of puerto rican descent has no beat for the u.s. territory he joined a chorus of criticism of president trump accused by many of not doing enough to

help the victims of hurricane maria and on friday reacted to trump suggestion to reallocate funds from hurricanes and floods to build the southern border wall. which i have lived in worse as you know british it sounds like they say the driver was slow going to. lead the rest of their way so you know i think that's absolutely monstrous it's an emotional homecoming for miranda who's bringing politics to life all raising money for puerto rican arts over the show's two week run i shall of his era . top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the runner up in the presidential election and democratic republic of congo has challenge the results in court and

call for a recount martin for eunice's he won with more than sixty percent citing election observers from the catholic church. i'm hoping that today the constitutional court we call the delectable commission to recount the ballot papers because that's what the law says we are totally disagree with that is that sydney has announced that if they are fabricated turned down nothing to do with the truth and that one day it's reached the truth as to come from the recount of the ballot people in other new south africa's ruling party has launched its campaign for this year's general election with a message of unity it's been seen as a test of the group's popularity after years of scandal and division and the former al. sted president jacob zuma. a teenager who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life as arrived in

a new home in toronto eighteen year old raf mohamed was granted asylum by canada on saturday she grabbed international attention after barricading herself in a bangkok airport hotel had refused to meet her father and brother who arrived in thailand trying to take her back to saudi arabia. syrian state media says israeli forces of fired several missiles at targets in damascus including the capital's airport syrian air defenses reportedly intercepted some of those missiles. have been scuffles in france during a ninth weekend of yellow vest protests police for demonstrators in central paris began in november over plans to increase taxes on fuel which were later a show. still in france and explosions killed two firefighters and a spanish woman a gas leak is suspected of causing that blast in a bakery in paris and u.s. president donald trump has criticized a new york times report that the f.b.i. opened in choir into him in twenty seventeen to find out if he was secretly working

on behalf of russia against u.s. interests headlines in that story is coming up next. isolated but defiant nicolas maduro begins a second disputed term as venezuela's president shunned by his neighbors and his country's economy and what material have to offer and will sink even further into chaos this is inside story.

and i welcome to the program i'm nick clegg hyperinflation power cuts and shortages of food and medicine the economic crisis has driven millions of venezuelans out of the country nicolas maduro his critics blame him for the does situation and yet he's sworn in for a second six year term as president the poll was marred by allegations of vote rigging his opponents a challenging his right to lead the country and calling for new elections to i suppose has more now from caracas. i was. was sworn in for his second term in office and members of the opposition controlled national assembly took to the streets to denounce him as a super of the executive office of the scene and that his daughter is one of the millions that have left venice when in the past year she says families shouldn't be forced to live apart and so we don't have our polly trail five there is a polo guy in them because we don't have one made it safe for food to go out we

don't have secret in the streets the demonstration was small compared to the massive ones that happened in two thousand and seventeen one thousand stuck to the streets to protest against muddled us attempts to disregard the national assembly for most of the people here and this is a first step towards opposing what they call it the dictatorship of precedent we call out model but they're also calling on the armed forces to rebel against the government even though the military has played a crucial role in a war child the socialist revolution i was the precedent of a national assembly is one why though he was elected last week and now says he's ready to become the interim president and called for new elections he told al-jazeera he first needs the support of the armed forces and the venezuelan people to hand them the guy the strength of the people is crucial in this process when as we have people that were forced to leave the country and others to teams murdered and even tortured nothing to stop us it has not been easy for us we are survivors

and we are in resistance to what was it before your position has called for a demonstration on january twenty third and promises a national assembly who is considered to be in contempt by the administration will be in charge of defending democracy in this country international pressure may also help but analysts say it is not enough then the most assume politico coolant kosik . the need to force the government to negotiate the international community plays an important role but it's not enough there has to be a true leader that can connect to the masses to force majeure to negotiate you need a population ready to defend their rights. says this is another attempt orchestrated by the united states to generate chaos if. this is a show to try to destabilize the country they are a group of kids who control the opposition and want to play to create chaos it's the same group that carried out the street protests and every day they will have

a new show. but many of those opposing the government are desperately looking for someone that would show them a way out of the crisis that has forced millions of venezuelans to emigrate in search of a better life. will back us. i'll tell you what there's plenty of potential venezuela was once one of latin america's wealthiest countries with the largest oil reserves in the world of three hundred billion barrels they account for more than ninety five percent of his export revenues some estimates put oil sales at about seven hundred fifty billion dollars between two thousand and four and two thousand and fifty but this did drop dramatically after the collapse in oil prices and then a lack of investment in the state owned oil company has seen production plunged to below one point six nine million barrels a day and that is less than half the amount when hugo chavez took power in one thousand nine hundred ninety. their peak in two thousand and nine it forty three

billion dollars and now at less than nine billion. all right let's bring in our guests i'm pleased to say from caracas by skype phil gunson who's a senior analyst covering the andes region at the international crisis group then we have in washington d.c. sonia shot specialist on latin american relations with a special focus on venezuela and then from merida also venezuela by skype is paul dobson a journalist from venezuela and malice this dot com thank you all for joining us this important discussion pulled off and if i could start with you let's let's begin with the election itself those who believe that nicolas maduro was free and fairly elected are in the minority to say the least. is that what you think is that what you say. well i think it's important to remember that the international press doesn't necessarily represent the views of the governments of

the world the peoples of the world and be elections here in venice weta were overseen by independent electoral experts observe this election at present as he nominates he declared that election for free fair and transparent the this included members from the african union from the ceiling which is a councilor electoral experts or latin america and from a whole range of other countries and continents from across the globe and now these electoral upset as it were witness to the editor process the day itself the order it before and after the horror into other elements of the electoral process i don't quoting to them. we have my reasons doubt that the elections were a true reflection of the will of the venezuelan people on may may twentieth ok let's bring in sonia as long as short free and transparent is that how you view it ok i would like to highlight songs. i would like to her like their position off the

ople see shown that despite all all its there is steve there that fight all the efforts off the government their mother what a lot of them and they'll keep as the opposition telling priests and then he enters the cult all day they don't have any rule like protest ourselves and they had to stay there out of fighting for to change the go back to their milk at the. immensely ok but as far as the elections concerned w. except that they were conducted in a reasonable way and so therefore it was mature as the rightful president. no no this is what i am trying to say that i have not transpired and free elections because the opposition never thought part of all of this election it was actually elections are more know are people who were supporting motherhood all so actually it was something that it was not free and as fighting see it less of but also as it

was not free and transparency that's why or people in the international community probably not the whole international community but the western world they they consider that the mother has said the state of it's ill just to say that the opposition to really take their short field guns and it's fair to say that the opposition mostly did not take part in this but maybe that was a mistake. well there are some people who think it was but the problem is really that the government gave them very little time to get organized they brought the election forward by six or seven months it was supposed to be held in december and the opposition was divided over whether it was wise to take part in an election in which the conditions were clearly rigged against them a small part of the opposition did participate but eventually repudiated the results on the grounds that my daughter had violated electoral law now because

we're in a situation where domestic heavy opposition doesn't recognize my daughter internationally several dozen countries including some of the most important countries in the world say now dollars a day facto leader and the issue really is how do we move on from here i will be and we bring. peace and stability prosperity back to them as well not to mention democracy in the bulldogs and so that is the case that venezuela is enormously isolated now isn't it. well it is it is it the fact the united states and colombia and brazil and maybe great britain have not recognize a government that four or five countries and whole range of countries across the globe have recognized the new government i mean there was an organization so i mean there are nearly a hundred hundred governments represented when its regional blocs like the african union the arab league the opec the world peace council it's a lack from the caribbean and a whole range of other organizations united nations was there as well and so i think it's very important we break down this euro centric or north american centric

view of the world and then the fact that washington doesn't recognize a government doesn't mean the world doesn't recognize it there's no surprise that they're not just because they're not really need to recognize on countries like china that are not only not recognizing i think it's also a case of they've explicitly today saturday call for a new government saying it's stood behind venezuela's opposition run congress and then you have candidates foreign minister saying having seized power through fraudulent and democratic elections that the madeira regime is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship but this isn't surprising this isn't the brightest lights in. the country fact is that we've only seen one government to us the world break diplomatic relations with venezuela and this is paranoid not even washington has broken relationship venezuela and are seen some major world powers back the current government china russia and lot of the countries in the middle east and asia and africa even european countries and so on and the hope nearly the entire caribbean i

moved to south america and they may not like the fact that a majority won the elections a matter of the new president but this is a different question this is a political issue but the fact that the government people are saying to isolate it i think is completely wrong sonia. no i actually did a european union doesn't recognize their mother or a g.m. right now they consider this government illegitimate and on the other hand why when mother would why is this so the fickle do have to change it political change in venice way when we see that crisis and it's not the us to blame for all what's happened in rwanda so when it is the motherlode are e.g. because he was responsible he is leaving his role in the call on duty so he is the person to blame for what this happening why so many people are why so many realists whelan's are leaving the cong to be looking for

a new place to start the new life. so they let me let me find out any of you at the top of a letter that. is true to say his name he has been reelected having presided over over violence over hunger over off the scale inflation shelves millions of people have left the country it's a shambles would you say that he's done a good job in his first ten years. i met a lot of problems there's a lot of areas you made during your first tenure without a doubt jeff aaron back to one thing with your previous speaker sonny you mentioned if any change political change is to come to venezuela which in fact most venezuelans want and this has to come through democratic means can't be imposed from the international community has to come through elections and we have election fat twenty five elections in the last twenty years in fact five elections in the last year and a half and that the fact that the right wing vote felt slighted not to vote or

haven't registered to vote is that their issue the election the friend of the majority the venice wave and two of the eighty people who are able to choose the country's course the majority decide to participate in elections want to carry on with the current government be this the right decision on the right or wrong decision this is a sovereign decision and have to be respected and told the full gunson that what chance of the opposition sorting this out because there's no question that they are they all splintered and they can't present themselves as a cohesive force is there a chance that they can produce a viable opposition. well i think there is a but it's tricky it's an uphill struggle they just as was mentioned in the introduction it just elected a new leadership of the national assembly the parliament which they dominate but which the government has has. prevented from fulfilling its functions by using the courts against it to say that the parliament is supposedly in contempt of court basically shipping it all its powers so that he to ship is is in place in

parliament but it's very difficult for them to actually act their laws have no effect there they are not able to example to call ministers to hearings the government basically doesn't recognise them so i think the first thing that needs to happen is that the opposition needs to really constitute itself it needs to it needs to you really unite and it needs to reunite around. a coherent and credible plan to bring back democracy in in coordination with those countries internationally that are concerned that that is why the now no longer is a democracy. that is not going to be helped if we have seems like we had yesterday in caracas it's necessary for the opposition to to reunite around a coherence of incredible policy for restoring democracy is necessary for them to reconstitute their leadership and it's not going to be helped by incidents like we

saw yesterday where the newly elected president of the national assembly. of declare himself of. constitution the circumstances to take over the executive leisure that should be subsequent be denied is that he didn't do that people internationally the secretary general it was asian american states was recognizing him as the president this kind of confusion really doesn't help that we need to think clearly and take serious and logical steps to produce a negotiated solution to this there isn't a serious danger that violence might erupt if that's not the case it's on your is that your fear to the if there is a gathering on the streets that it's going to lead to some of the scenes that we saw in two thousand and seventeen when what more than one hundred twenty people were killed unfortunately this is not going to lead to any

solution i i as the the best solution despite if you mention their war legacy a shown in minutes where i'm on venice island is not really very popular but this is the only way to find a solution to the of an asylum crisis why because why mr moto we leave the power why. since he knows that they are us and other continents are behind him out of chasing him it has to be in there was a negotiated solution in order that the find the best way for the transitional government that to lead to democratic elections with the newly theirs but i think at this negotiation but this not very popular in minnesota a lot to talk about that just very briefly tell us about the military and what role they play in all this self-serving support as madeira could change. well

actually if you see what this happening right now i'm in a swell with the economy crisis social crisis i was last week and you see the people who are coming to pay though they are not the wealthy people or not even middle class they are poor people who are free in the contrie and everybody's talking about they need thirty and they say that their situation of my daughter is really very difficult in venezuela and he said they are just only because of the support of the military the one they meet that need to take a step ahead and try to go on this side of the market a c i am not quite sure the us that will be a solution i don't know i am not sure about that but everybody seems to will go to to the we leave that that will be their best solution in order to find

a way out to their political crisis paul what do you think. is your sense that the military will always stay loyal why and why do they remain loyal. well i think when we address a question of the military we can't really look at it without remember what happened in two thousand and two in two thousand and two in a military defeat exactly what washington is currently calling on them to do again they stood up against the democratic democratically elected president and they even threw him for a short period of nearly forty eight hours and this is called a coup d'etat not. if they would do this again as mr trump has run low and a few and not a spokespersons according for them to do this would again be a coup de don this is illegal this is against the venezuelan constitution at my against democracy the any way for a change of government in venezuela is to the electoral ballot box right. so i

think i mean what are some of the same but it is one of like question is is it possible that the military could change sides if the situation in venezuela gets worse still worse and then they start being affected themselves by the situation could they flip sides. i think it's important to remember that the vast majority of the soldiers that the lower rank soldiers and not talk about the generals in the majors and i never the average soldiers that people from from from the poor parts of the country people who who talk to their families who hear that the plight of their families and their friend to nonmilitary civilians and they hear about the issues of going on in a country that are not oblivious to these issues then and of course they see the prices of the goods in the shops and they see the problems with the transport and orange or other issues they're not they're not cut off from these issues in any way shape or form or not but they are nonetheless loyal to to their leadership

structure and annan of the venezuelan constitution the rule of law remain a spray let their high commander in chief if the president and yesterday and the day before yesterday was an important statements coming out from military and reflecting this again or letting the fact that they are remaining loyal to their leader of commander in chief which is the president again was so filled out so we have because we're there he is the president he's running his second term he does have some big name supporters behind him the shape of russia china turkey there's plenty of money billions of dollars have been pledged by russia and china could it be that he could just turn things around. i don't think he can turn things around economically he's had six years to do that he's repeatedly said he's going to now so they can buy a package that will solve the problems he's failed to do that situations got steadily worse and now goes under international sanctions i don't think even the

chinese who have the money to bail him out particularly keen to go on doing that indefinitely the russians might be more inclined but they don't have the money and i think unless there's a political solution there's no way that the economic financial and social crisis humanitarian crisis can be a result all all of this has to start with a political solution or a slightly settle the negotiations are unpopular with a part of that but look at a slower lectured at least it really is the only the only way forward the problem is that the government has never put on a been standing on the table the government has engaged in what it calls dialogue on several occasions but this is always ended. with the opposition retiring hurt if you like though they they've never succeeded in getting the government to budge jonna on the fundamental issues that has to happen otherwise the hyper inflationary spiral is going to continue the hunger is going to continue that the

disease the people fleeing the country in their millions and there could as i say be a violent outcome they're going to pour just a last question but one to you i just want to just quickly ask you about that so what is your sense that there with the backing of russia and china is it possible that has the ability to turn venezuela around to get all those people who fled the country to come back. well this is a this is a key question i think yes and i think what what is worth pointing out is that any solutions that are in its way an economic problems are not for term any short term cure a band-aid let's call them. really won't be so on the inherent structural problems which the economy suffers from. and so any sort of solution be it from a who are it from the right wing candidate the international community or anyone if we're actually starting a positive impact let's say or turn the economy around for in the medium term and

here i'm talking about change and diversifying the economy changing the productive base of the economy and a whole range of other issues so i think it's unrealistic to expect a short term solution. his supporters are giving him more time very clearly. and we have to see a serious economic plan from the opposition from the the other three candidates who competed against him in may's lecture and there were four candidates and maybe there were three more none of them presented a serious and economic solution which one is that for the people ok let me just and britain so you arizona over the loss of enough which is about whatever type of brilliance on you not just to respond to that and what your position on us. ok sadly i think that crisis a menace soloway half the last war in the order not of pressing though the way that crisis and overcome the crisis well their mind how long mother would

always remain in power or not i think that would be we have to focus and monitoring how that could isis in venice where it's going and what bad way the ban on how that political solution will arrive in minutes for it well one way or another there's still plenty to play out in venezuela we appreciate your time phil gunson sonia short and paul dobson thank you very much indeed for joining us on this important story and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story you kind of course also join the conversation on twitter handle is a.j. inside story from eight o'clock and the whole team here it's goodbye from. i

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mount a legal challenge to the results of democratic republic of congo's presidential election. also south africa's president with promises of jobs and land reforms to stem the ruling party's forming popularity and the teenager who fled saudi arabia fearing her family would kill her touches down in canada after inspiring other saudi women. and. iran into the knockout rounds of the asian cup. top ranked team securing their place with a two no win over vietnam. there was always concern the presidential election in democratic republic of congo wouldn't be clear cut but there'd be claims of irregularities of worse violence well now the result is in court runner up vote counting by catholic church election

observers actually show he won sixty one percent of the vote and is therefore the. with his rival opposition candidate but the declared winner felix she secured a good in just eighteen percent but the congolese catholic church and the french government dispute the official results showing it doesn't match what election observers saw. i'm hoping that the constitutional court we called the electoral commission to recount the ballot papers because that's what the law said we are totally disagree we did result that say ne has announced that reforms they have fabricated nothing to do with the truth and i want the truth the truth has to come from the recount of the ballot people following events for us from kinshasa army to us. botching tell you he says he really hopes that the courts

will be independent it was a day that was full of drama he was meant to be the course at nine in the morning but he only saw that. because some of his supporters were dealing with police issues some of them wanted to come with him to court but the police told them they cannot go with him to court because they were concerned about the size of the crowd that would be able to control it some of them who did try to come to court then dispersed by the police some of them we told were beaten up the police in close roads leading up to the course they went before you lose house and they say if we have we're not going to stop you from going to court because it is your right but you cannot bring your supporters he wasn't happy about that he didn't break with not to go to court and say his lawyers eventually showed up and he told her that he really believes that this election was stolen and the judges will meet on monday and tuesday go through this evidence that for you he says prove that he won the election if they decide that there's no case in this throw the max out of the kids will be officially declared president elect and he'll be sworn in on january eighteenth so what do you lead to that is

a concern he could tell the supporters to block the street and protest if that happens the right police could be deployed they could be violence not just instance but elsewhere across the country i've just spoken to the katy spokesman and his mission to fight you is listen we comrades we've been through elections this fall. how can you say we cheated we won genuinely come to work with us we both this country built a bit of congo where the for you to listen to that we don't know right now all eyes are on the course and i'm dependent others are just going to be. in other news the saudi teenager who fled her family this week saying she feared for her life as a arrived in her new home of toronto eighteen year old rough mohamed el clune was granted asylum by count of her own son today she grabbed international attention off to barricading himself in a bangkok airport hotel couldn't had refused to meet her father and brother who arrived in thailand trying to take her back to saudi arabia where counted as foreign minister met the tina turner on to airport where she explained why her

country stepped in so quickly to help the saudi nationals and it was glad that we were able to leave and offer refuge scene of refugees at the last names and often refuge she took her son is late one danger as the prime minister said yesterday in canada believes very strongly in standing up for human brain around. and people need very strong that women's rights are seen. that something people need and kept on hearing and that's something we believe in acting on the rails the world as. mike hanna wrote following events for us from toronto airport those comments from the foreign minister mike a not so subtle dig shall we say directly at saudi arabia. indeed yes the foreign minister meeting the teenagers seeking sanctuary here making some

very very strong comments as well about saudi arabia's human rights policies indicating as well that she did believe and canada did believe that the teenager's life was in very real danger once she had fled from saudi arabia so now she's here in sanctuary met by a massive media contingent who have now gone but which is reflective of the immense public interest there has been in the story we understand though that though she is now in freedom the canadian foreign minister saying that she is now safe it will be a while it could be weeks even months for the normal processes of immigration to be completed although she was granted and merge and see state of sanctuary the normal process is still has to be followed so this could be weeks or months but as a foreign minister said she will be in safety while the process goes forward she is just one woman might but she is indicative of well indicative as well isn't she of

a wider policy in canada and sort of reaffirming its its worldview is very as a welcoming country. very much so we heard from the canadian prime minister yesterday saying exactly that that canada is here to provide sanctuary for those around the world who need it we also had very pointed comments from the foreign minister making very very clear that human rights are most important that basically the fact that diplomatic relations with saudi arabia may well be impacted by the decision to grant sanctuary relations that for already fractured because of an ongoing dispute about saudi arabia in human rights and also of course the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi you've got a situation where a multi-billion dollars arms deal was concluded by the previous canadian government that is now under review following this tearing apart of relations with saudi

arabia and the murder of jamal khashoggi in particular but the foreign minister emphasizing that the protection of human rights is far more important than diplomatic ties or any form of trade certainly and not so subtle message across the border to the united states in amman ok mike hanna in toronto thank you. here's what we've got coming up for you on this news hour rock star and through a car windscreen in the occupied west bank attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians are increasing. also the technology that could be bulldozed donald trump's proposed wall along the mexico border and sport proof that even the world's best ski jumper can occasionally struggle to stay on. as president donald trump has blasted the new york times reports which said the

f.b.i. opened an inquiry into him and may twenty seventeen was apparently to find out of trump was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests this was donald trump's reply in a tweet wow just learned in the failing new york times that the corrupt former leaders of the f.b.i. almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons opened up an investigation on me for no reason and with no proof after i fired lion james komi a total sleaze he was about to burst finally who is a former us associate deputy attorney general and a constitutional lawyer he says president trump could be even expect subpoenas on this as early as next week. no other president has ever done anything that skates close to the line of acting on behalf of foreign intelligence service or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires

a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia structuralism jordan in washington d.c. about this and i know it's still early shona fast a roads but how big is this

playing in the united states it just feels like this should be a massive story i keep seeing the word unprecedented used. well kemal it is a nasty of story it's being discussed on all of the television news channels it's getting up prominent play in social media it's being discussed in the major newspapers and the framing of this investigation is what really has people intrigued as we heard bruce fein allude to there it's this idea that the f.b.i. had suspicions or had questions about what donald trump was doing in terms of his relationship with russian officials while he was running for president but they were also very mindful at the f.b.i. that if they started looking into their suspicions and they do have the legal right to do that the fear was that somehow the investigation would be leaked and then the

f.b.i. would be accused of playing politics of interfering with the two thousand and sixteen presidential election now what the f.b.i. could do in the meantime would be to keep an eye on russia under the rubric of dealing with counterintelligence matters and certainly being concerned about what a country such as russia or such as china such as iran would want to have in terms of influence on the u.s. political process those are areas where they could go ahead and look but it was when jim combing the f.b.i. director was fired in may two thousand and seventeen and when the president seemingly bragged about getting rid of jim comey in of telling russian officials at the white house that he had relieved a lot of pressure when it came to russia by getting rid of cali well that gave the f.b.i. the permission it need it really to just go ahead and start looking into this investigation .