so the public interest generated state you. know. i'm hearing free media towns really want need to leave it seems right. but she's kind of theory on the entire internet and so she would prefer not to question today so you can see the syrian free coming here and see if he'll going to. see. then run. back through the doors to begin the first phase of the new life her wish to go to college and study architecture the canadian decision to grandson jury is likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in august saudi arabia severed diplomatic ties following criticism of the kingdom's human rights policy then in october the murder of jamal khashoggi saw an upsurge in demands for canada to

counsel a multibillion deal with saudi arabia this deal is now being reviewed the foreign minister though insists that the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . to. replace. this time. we were involved in those conversations test. and tentative plan to bring people to . see my friend you seem pretty blessed here and offering two percent to sling. it was this message from a hotel room in thailand that. couldn't century the power of social media confirmed and an example perhaps of those seeking their freedom. mike hanna.

still ahead on al-jazeera report from end to waiting to happen the government was well aware of the risks of liquefaction here in this area but did nothing to inform the people i'm stepfather reporting from without and after a heavy earthquake in september. and paying to pray we ask of muslims and and germination. or ship tax. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. we have not got the crisp nights and the beautiful sunny but cold days certain central and southern charm of the you might expect so in the skies streaming out from the west now it doesn't usually represent very much but cloudy it is or was same so it disappoints by day and it much eventually turning to rain

we think it would rain will develop with this feed of moisture during monday might just catch the edge of it in hong kong the try the motion that is interesting humidity for the middle of winter should be a pretty dry period should feel dry as well as a lack of se asian are what they will bits of white to see this not much to be honest mark see big showers in southern philippines in borneo and down towards jakarta but this is a lot of green to look at are i suspect this could be more sunshine between than you see in the showers but the air admitted late is the wet season but they're mostly suppressed through singapore humani from think couple of dry days that would of course food humid. now we have got clouds streaming across the far north of india and pakistan and afghanistan that will bring a little bit as snow mostly is not to the south the kashmir valley then it goes eastwards temps in new delhi are approaching the norm but it's cold by night. the

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a democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official results martin pile appealed to the constitutional court describing the vote as fraudulent. u.s. government shutdown has become the longest in the country's history after reaching its twenty second day more than eight hundred thousand federal employees have not received their latest pay checks. a saudi teenager who fled her family over fears for her life has arrived in her new home country mohammad a new flu from thailand to canada after a decree to grant her asylum. and more violence in france during a ninth saturday of yellow vest protests with demonstrators and central paris tear gas and water cannons were used to push back protesters or through rocks and other objects at riot police said mr ations began in november over plans to increase taxes on fuel which were later shelved talk about laura's following the story for us and paris. thousands of protesters marched across paris and they've come today

to tear the altar trail 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 crowd so if you look behind me you can see the police that there are all 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 they have been peaceful most of the protesters are of course peaceful and that's why the police they had to try and control and manage the situation but it has been very difficult for them over the phone few months is these protests have been very unpredictable now the government response has been politically china. the protesters more concessions more financial concessions they don't think big national citizens paid to get people move a voice in politics next week the people here say that's not enough what they want

are more taxes to be scrapped they say they want rule to be done for poor people they say the president and he cares about the rich just three days before the british parliament votes on the next parks until the country remains deeply divided over leaving the european union or testers march there london demanding a general election and northern england a separate event call for a second referendum are brennan reports well. with just days to go and so teresa mayes breck's a deal is voted on the volume and the tension is cranking up. this demonstration in london attracted a wide array of left wing protesters with a wide range of political grievances this was anti austerity not a brics it rally at all but it's certainly bret's it which has brought matters to a head. on three years of ashes starting they want to push us over the

age to draw our cracks in foreign montijo pricing retro signage our economy and savard all public services so the solution is very straightforward on shoestring we want to treat maize. labor is not seeking to overturn bricks it's unfair to try to deliver a different rex's i what is clear effort size by all the different events taking place across the u.k. this weekend that there is still no single coherent principle everybody can unite behind. in the northern city of sheffield campaign as for another referendum have been pressing their case you have the right to be heard and they must listen to the voice of the people as people now look at rex's. sound what it means and realize that this great country in truth has made a terrible mistake and at the same time government minister chris grayling warned

that the biggest mistake would be not to go through with grex it we risk a break with the british tradition of moderate mainstream politics the goes back to the restoration in six hundred sixty he told the daily mail newspaper it will open the door to extremist populist political forces in this country of the kind we see in other countries in europe opposition figures quickly denounced screenings comments as gutter politics but the route illustrates the bitter divisiveness of the current political climate and the uncertainty of how this will be resolved. brennen al-jazeera central london protesters have marched in belgrade against serbian president aleksander her czech and his government it's a six hour day in a row that demonstrators have accused the check of stifling media freedoms and attacking opposition figures and journalists thirty opposition parties and organizations took part in the rally. turkey is carry out military exercises at the border with syria had been expected offensive on the urban city of man is currently

held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters as secretary of state might pay zero says he is hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to protect curtis troops as american forces prepare to leave in casella reports. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army is homs a brigade their allies of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offensive on the kurdish out city of members in northern syria these fighters say they will not be left behind right a moment with or without the u.s. withdrawals we will complete this military offensive that we are ready for a leadership's order. mend it just controlled by the u.s. backed kurdish why p.g. turkey considers as the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it recognizes as a terrorist group. into ranks of this brigade are syrian kurds who say the white

cannot be of the kurds legitimate representative in the war in syria. most of the kids fled to germany iraqi kurdistan because of the y.p. g.'s oppression they force you even girls for military service on the front lines the charge on affordable taxis. many people in a way as liberated by the free syrian army support the military offensive surrounded by the p.k. cambridge reinforces and the populations living in fear of more places a liberated in the why pigeon is gone we can have a better business life this is a mountain the turkish military has been based there since bob was liberated in early two thousand and seventeen it is one of two military bases which will coordinate the expected upcoming offensive on the eastern side of the euphrates river and the city of members to. he stays kurdish civilians will not be targeted but some people in members are not convinced not funny. since we learned the u.s.

will withdraw many of our friends volunteered to join managed military council to defend our city will protect ourselves. of course we have for years now we live in peace with really perform our religion but when other groups there will be corrupt. day and night the turkish army continues to strengthen its forces inside syria sending a message that the offensive could start. al-jazeera northern syria thousands of people in indonesia will have to be relocated after their land turned into mud when a seven point five magnitude earthquake struck off the coast in september authorities were aware of the risk of look of occasion as it's called people living in high risk areas were not told reports. under this pile of mud are the remains of saw me as house it was buried on september twenty eighth after

a happy earthquake suddenly turned soil into liquid houses cars and people were sucked inside hundreds of people disappeared and the bodies of her three young matthews and nieces have yet to be found. though if i think about my nephews and nieces i come here i have no more hope that we will find them but it helps me to cope with my sadness just to be here so me aboard the land in the one nine hundred eighty s. by den many houses had been built she remembers that it was muddy but she says she didn't think anything of it in two thousand and twelve a team of geologists found that seventy percent of palo and its surroundings are at the high risk of liquefaction. meaning that if an earthquake happens water saturated soil can turn into lake with well. we had informed them about the risk but that was all we could do. because there are a lot of problems with that area in a difficult economic situation also the information had not been spread. who's the

movie star who was the pollo mayor at the time says he never received the information he says he only received a report about the high risks of earthquakes and tsunamis which you failed to pass on to his successor that is how you will monitor what i do feel guilty even though i passed it on to my deputy but i feel bad that i didn't warn anyone that this could happen i forgot about it because as a politician i'm a busy man. sources tell al jazeera that people in high risk areas were not warned about the dangers of liquid faction because the local authorities were concerned riots would break out while the government was well aware of the risks of liquefaction here in this area you know how this was still being built followers are growing and becoming more popular newcomers were moving into areas no danger zones while it's too late for many the government has now decided that those who have survived will have to be relocated. some survivors have moved to temporary shelters built by the government outside of the city others are reluctant to leave

their own neighborhoods those that are to tell you if they send us out of town it will be difficult to find work we can only be farmers there here we can earn money by selling things at the market whatever it is if people start building again i will do it too. just by government instructions not to build in the affected areas some construction has already started horse stables have now been built on the land where hundreds of bodies are buried some say that if the authorities are not firm new neighborhoods will be constructed and the tragedy that happened only recently will soon be forgotten step fasten al-jazeera. barlow. for decades germans officially registered as jews catholics or protestants have been required to pay what's called a church or worship tax the money is then given to the relevant faiths now one leading question democrat politicians says muslims should be included believing it will free them from the influence of foreign states when it came reports.

that. this is the go to mosque in berlin one of the newest and considered by some to be one of the most liberal in germany from the outset the emphasis here has been on inclusion driven by its founder syrian artist her decision to allow men and women to worship here together polarizes opinion now she says she wants the muslim community to help itself by agreeing to pay to finance itself. the time for a kind of mosque tax is long overdue the most communities in germany and in europe must become independent from the so called countries of origin and thinking about it gave me the idea of saying communities should finance themselves and that can be done through a kind of mosque attacks and in this way it makes me think of one of the five pillars of islam zakk at. but that view is not universally shared among muslims

here many believe the suggestion is counterproductive by induction financing in germany the mosques already finance themselves there are a few that used foreign money to build and finance the purchase but that's a handful ninety nine percent are funded by membership fees and donations so if you bring the model of the mosque tax then you once again take the tax from muslims themselves. the idea of taxing religious worship is not new in germany for many years the jewish catholic and protestant faiths have accepted some form of levy or tax the person a dental pfizer as a christian and once their income tax bill has been worked out a further proportion is deducted and given to their chosen faith to disperse as it sees fit in the political sphere the idea of a mosque tax appeals to many christian democrats for two reasons sealant in talk or didn't just in court on the one hand it's so the growing muslim community in germany gets a stronger domestic connection aligns itself with german society i makes

a contribution to integration and on the other hand it's so the influence of foreign donors can be resisted mosques funded by foreign states or individuals have been growing in number in recent years many conservative politicians here have raised concerns over the role of the turkish government and of some of the gulf states. the idea of a mosque attacks has been raised here in germany the fourth but nothing substantial has really come of it the question now is how much support amongst muslims there would be for such a plan and what would why does society make of it dominant kain al-jazeera at the go to mosque in berlin. take out the headlines for you now on al-jazeera or rather are from the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official results are

in file an appeal to the constitutional court describing the vote as fraudulent. i'm hoping that the court we called the electoral commission to. help us because that's what. we do tell you disagree you did is not to see me as a nosed. kid did nothing to do with the truth and that one gets from the truth i was to come from the. developing a saudi teenager who fled her family or fears for her life has arrived in her new home country. and flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum eighteen year old international attention when she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help. u.s. government shutdown has become the longest in the country's history after reaching

its twenty second day more than eight hundred thousand federal employees haven't received their latest paychecks turkey has carried out military exercises at the border with syria head of an expected offensive on the northern city of. that's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters are. peo says he's hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to protect kurdish troops as american forces prepare to leave syria there has been more violence in france during a nine saturday protests and water cannons were used to push back protesters who threw rocks and other objects at riot police demonstrations began in november over plans to increase taxes on fuel which are later shelved. protesters have marched through london calling for a general election it comes three days ahead of a key vote in parliament on the prime minister's bricks and deal in the northern city of sheffield a separate event urge the government to hold a second referendum. so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to

come on the other side of the break inside story is 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 does madeira have to offer and will invent his way to 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 has critics blame him for the does situation and yet he's sworn in for a second six year term as president the poll was mauled by a legations of vote rigging his opponents a challenging his right to leave the country and calling for new elections to raise a boat has more now from caracas. warn him from his second term in office remembers the opposition controlled national assembly took to the streets to denounce him as a super a feat of off face and i've seen it. is one of the millions that have left been in the past here she says families shouldn't be forced to leave apartheid so we don't have a poly trail try and there is the polish guy in them because we don't have a plan maybe a chance or food to what we don't have security in the streets the demonstration

was small compared to the massive ones that happened in two thousand seventy. in one thousand still to the streets to protest against muddled us attempts to disregard the national assembly for most of the people here this is the first step towards opposing what they call the dictatorship of precedent because a lot muddled up there 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. the president of the 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 then what is the strength of the people is crucial in this process we have people that were forced to leave the country others detained murdered and even tortured i think nothing to

stop us it has not been easy for us we are survivors and we are in resistance what is it. your position has called for a demonstration on january twenty third and promises the national assembly please consider 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 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. i 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 were 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 that. but many of those opposing the government are desperately some looking for. one that would show them a way out of the crisis that has forced millions of venice women's to emigrate in search of a better life. and. 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 fifteen 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 well as foreign exchange reserves were at their peak

in two thousand and nine that 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 the alice's dot com thank you all for joining us this important discussion pulled off and if i can 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 weyler were overseen by independent electoral experts observe this election at present as he nominates he declared that elections are free fair and transparent be this included members from the african union from the ceiling which is the council are literally experts or latin america and from a whole range of other countries and continents from across the globe and now these electoral says were witness to the inappropriateness the day itself the order for and after the horror of other elements of the electoral process i don't cotton 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's by all the air force off the government their mother what a lot of them and they'll creep as the opposition blame priests and then he errs the cult all day they don't have any rule will express themselves and they had a steel day out of fighting for to change the go back to their muck 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 with. the rightful president. no no this is what i am trying to say that i have not transpired in and three elections because the opposition never thought part of the selections it was actually elections are more know are people who were supporting my the model so i 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 broadly 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 of course 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 my daughter's a day facto leader and the issue really is how do we move on from here are we and we bring. peace and stability and 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 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 it a factor that washington doesn't recognize the government doesn't mean that the world doesn't recognize it there's no surprise that they're not just because they're not really need to be awful recognized and countries like china that are not only not regulated 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 at the regime is now fully entrenched as a dictatorship but this isn't surprising this isn't right. the concrete 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 with venezuela and are seen as all 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 whole nearly the entire

caribbean i moved to south america and they may not like the fact of the matter of won the elections a majority president but this is a different question this is a political issue but the fact that the government people are saying that isolated i think it's 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 if 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 whalen'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. is true to say 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 just for ferry back to one thing with your previous speaker sonny i mentioned it 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 had an action fat twenty five elections in the last twenty years in fact five elections in the last year and a half that the fact that the right wing voters have sided not to vote or have to

register to vote is that their issue the election the gender the majority the venice wave and who are the any 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 has to be respected and told that full guns and 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 to all its powers so that the key 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 reunite around a coherence of incredible policy for restoring democracy it's 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 seem to declare himself of. constitution the circumstances to take over the executive editor that should be subsequent be denied the d.p. 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 lee and take serious and logical steps to produce a negotiated solution to this there isn't a serious danger that ballance 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.v. the best solution despite if you mention their war legacy is shown in minutes where i'm on venice soil and is not really a very popular but this is the only way to find a solution to there when 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 and that to lead to democratic elections to with a new only the us but there i think in this negotiation but this not very popular in minnesota a lot to talk about that so they're 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 fleeing the contrie and everybody's talking about they need thirty and they say that the situation of mother orus really very difficult in venezuela and he said there are just only because of the support of the military though when they meet that need to take a step ahead and try to go on the side of democracy 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 basted up against the democratic democratically elected president and they have it through 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 an illegal this is against the venezuelan constitution at my against democracy the any way for a change of government in venezuela is through 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 they don't 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 and and of the venezuelan constitution the rule of law remain a spray let their high commander in chief the president and yesterday and the day before yesterday we've seen important statements coming out from the military and reflecting this again or letting the fact that they are remaining loyal to their to their legal 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 my 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 to settle the negotiations are unpopular with a part of that but look better 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 but they they they 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 discretely 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 any short term cure a band-aid let's call them really won't be so in the inherent structural problems which the economy suffers from. and so any sort of solution be it from a who're from the right wing candidate the international community or anyone if we're actually start having a positive impact let's say or turn the economy around for in the medium term and

here i'm talking about change in 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 from the other three candidates who competed against him in may's elections 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 brinson you not just to respond to that and what your position on others. ok sadly i think that crisis a menace soloway half the last war in the or not of pressing though the way that crisis and overcome the crisis well their mind how long mother would

always remain in power whether 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 on your short and pulled 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. it's

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new friends would hope is that a company. how much more of you going to invest in the elusive notion that militaries guarantee on national security and poverty destitution and the sense of unfairness of actually be at the heart of virtually every civil conflict in the last twenty years of him steiner head of the u.n. development program talks to al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey and the top stories on al-jazeera the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official result has appealed to the constitutional court and called for a recount commission gave his rival felix thirty eight percent of the vote four percent ahead of. us were from the capital contrasts. martin five

evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run up is challenging the result in the constitutional court bring it down to the court we call it dealings royal commission. because that's what. we have to politicise agree with that is that as announced. they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix just a kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the votes his supporters if she accept the result. guys stop with we won it we don't she didn't she did we didn't make an arrangement. this is just

the result. and we make sure what. we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges are due to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin finally says is evidence which proves he won last month's election if the judges say he has no case in feeling that katie will be sworn in as president the influential catholic church is rejecting the official results so too is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. a saudi teenager who fled from her family over fears for her life has arrived in her new home country. flew from thailand to

canada after an offer of asylum the eighteen year old won international attention when she launched ace social media campaign from her hotel room in bangkok pleading for help this government shutdown has become the longest and the country's history after reaching its twenty second day more than eight hundred thousand federal employees have not received their latest paychecks turkey has carried out military exercises at the border with syria head of an expected offensive on the northern city of mamby it's currently held by u.s. backed kurdish fighters there secretary of state might pompei o says he's hopeful an agreement can be reached with ankara to your protect kurdish troops as american forces prepare to leave syria there's been more violence in france during a ninth saturday advil of us protests police fought with demonstrators and central paris tear gas and water cannons were used to push back protesters who threw rocks and other objects at riot police as instructions began in november over plans to

increase taxes on fuel and those plans for later shell protesters have marched through london calling for a general election with just three days before the british parliament votes on a minister teresa mayes breaks a deal country remains deeply divided over leaving the european union in the northern city of sheffield another event called for a second referendum. south africa's ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may president cyril ramaphosa promised to create more jobs than address racial inequality at the launch into urban that coming vote is seen as a test of whether i am opposed to house reverse to decline in the a.n.c. popularity. and thousands have been celebrating in bulgaria's oldest city after it was named this year's european capital of culture city prides itself on its ethnic diversity and also claims to be the oldest inhabited city in europe that sharing

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