kinshasa. zimbabwe has more than doubled the price of fuel of the night an effort to ease the nationwide petrol and diesel shortage drivers have been queuing outside petrol stations in some cases for several days. if usually just began in october and a nation that suffered a severe economic downturn in recent years president made the announcement on saturday. we've heard from midnight tonight if you were possible price of crude oil was eleven since believe it or food is that. three dollars fifty one cents really for parole would come into effect because premise is preyed created on the ruling over who should have surgery or one to one between be born and not if you notice this. was in bobbins were

quick to condemn him for the fuel price increase opposition to the nelson chamisa wrote on twitter that zimbabwe is now facing a humanitarian crisis and said his m.d.c. party is ready to play a key role in finding a lost and solution form education minister jonathan morio tweeted that man could be impeached for effectively suspending the constitution and abdicating his juices by pronouncing cruel measures that improve people and condemn them to death deputy information minister energy had some tips for struggling motorists things like avoiding fuel guzzlers and biting bicycles where he's been criticized for warning people against protesting saying they risk losing a limb in skirmishes well joining us now on the phone from harare is nigel gamo he is the founder and c.e.o. of two six three chat and online platform for debate about issues facing zimbabwean thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us and so we have now a situation where fuel prices in the country have more than doubled among some of

the highest in the world can you help us understand what it's like a lot of zimbabweans right now. thank you very much for having me so look i was in a pickle queue yesterday so what's happened is every two weeks i mean official q so yesterday was my day and next weekend hopefully. i spent four and a half hours in a petrol queue i joined the queue. and i was told that he was doing we were going to sell the petrol in us dollars as opposed to bond mills and. the other sort of methods when i got to the petrol pumps we were able to swipe our normal bank card and pay for the petrol but it was limited to forty liters. what are the says done this increases almost double increase as effectively. and made it difficult for ordinary zimbabweans to get from from home to work so

a lot of cases. because of transport has more than that more than doubled to someone with was probably paying something in the region of fifty cents maybe three months ago and now they're paying five dollars so that's going up to the mark by ten yes. you know i was just going to say clearly from what you're saying people are struggling to get around he'll is much more expensive than it was they've been looking at pictures of people queuing and in some cases they've been coming for several days there must be a lot of anger and frustration about this presumably. basically i mean this wasn't . no one expected this i don't think. you know on the sitting on her yesterday. when we knew something had to give you know we thought we knew that you know if we go and we simply lose our cars to swipe. the government we're going to have to you

know buy you know get u.s. dollars to fund the purchase of fuel so we all we could sort of knew that something had to give but we didn't have prior warning of course and what this has done is when when when something as basic of fuel goes up it has an impact for the rest of the economy so it's a transfer for people getting to and from work obviously going to increase the cost of trade in business is going to increase and now we're hearing that they might be a massive stay away tomorrow and so you know my daughter she's she's a preschool base interest what something if it's saying please keep your kids at school let's let's other discussions more and we will see if wolf if they can come in on trees and so you know it's a horton a l. i thought you said there but the context of it that this actually perceive that this government because the crisis started in two thousand and nine when they made a decision to use all the current they'd like the u.s. dollar over the zimbabwe currency do you think they are likely to be protests are people directing their anger at the government now. i didn't really look people

angry i mean people have certainly been angry about this we just. had christmas last month it wasn't the normal kind of christmas and we have been out of the what kind of christmas for years but this particular christmas was bleak. in a lot of companies are been struggling to pay salaries or current. you know a novelist stuff of obviously gone all gone home on the christmas break without the salaries you know things things are different being. hired and of course it was on the street is is is bearing the brunt of this. hurdle a number of issues among the women just doctors the junior doctors who are on strike a little strike for forty days we had a cholera outbreak just league last year i mean two things haven't been great in this country for for a while and a there have been serious problems thank you so much for giving us

a sense of what it's like there at the moment we got to get you back and talk about how things are going thanks very much nigel. well now mexican mattress also suffering from fuel shortages caused by the new president's crackdown on fuel fast there which is a bottleneck supports more than seven million barrels of imports if you are waiting to be offloaded from ships that's enough to keep mexico going for several days president and that is money lopez obrador is trying to cut theft of fuel from pipelines by switching distribution from the pipelines to trucks and now it's led to major shortages at the pumps and queues of lorries at ports. you know at the news hour live from london there is more ahead for you got the latest on a new report revealing how far president tom went to high details of his meetings with from his own officials. reeducating icily camp in northern syria that's trying to integrate former fighters back into society and then later in sport the big crash that calls alles the first major race of the cycling sees.

the leader of venezuela's opposition has led a rally in the coastal town of got a by a despite being intercepted and briefly detained on his way to this event this is the moment said to be the moment that juan guido the head of venezuela's opposition that congress was taken by officers on a busy highway on sunday he directly challenge the legitimacy of nicolas maduro after he was sworn in for a second term as president on day after his release. spoke to his supporters about his arrest and repeated calls for a change of government in the country. so you know they did was like do you know if i told them people of venezuela i told them i'm in the city i told them about forgiveness or talking about reconciliation i told them about the future and the peace we want for all countries to these officials here because only the president

of the national assembly who would take the interests of the people. well let's discuss this and more with eric fons worse who is vice president of the council of the americas he joins us via skype from the genya thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us how do you explain the rather strange events today why my twan wydow have been detained and then suddenly released. well i think we have a constitutional crisis right now in venezuela we have a president who reintegrated himself. on thursday on january tenth as a result of a fraudulent election that he conducted for himself last may and according to the venezuelan constitution if there is no legitimate president in the country then the head of the national legislature takes over as the legitimate leader of the country to organize new elections and that's one quite oh who was put into office as the leader. of the congress on january fifth so now you have competing visions of who

is the leader of the country event as well and i think that nicolas maduro and his senior officials are probably quite concerned because now there's a separate constitutionally legitimate leader of the country and they're probably trying to figure out what does that mean for them and how can they maintain their own control of the country what is the opposition's next move likely to be now well it's unclear i think that the white oh has said that he is ready to step in as leader of the country but he needs the support of the military he needs the support of the venezuelan people he needs the support of the international community that clearly is a call out to people to rise up and essentially install him in the presidential palace without that happening the reality is the government of nicolas maduro maintains a monopoly on force and control of the security forces and the intelligence services and so as a pragmatic issue he wouldn't be able to assume that position as leader of the

country so we don't know exactly what's going to happen over the next forty eight hours or week but we can say that there is a lot of uncertainty this isn't fun at tree rhetoric from the opposition isn't it to be calling on not just the people of venezuela because medea i does enjoy a great deal of support within the country but to also be calling on the minute train and foreign powers to topple madeira by force is that the most constructive approach to be taking right now well i think it's open question for sure does maintain some support of the event. well and people although opinion polls are repeatedly show that support is shrinking but having said that look if you believe that the venezuelan constitution mandates that the head of the national legislature take control in the absence of a legitimate legitimate president then in fact this is the most contras constructive approach to take because then it's to abide by the venezuelan constitution that was

a constitution that child is himself pushed through to support his rule so this is something that sure the government is going to say it's inflammatory they're going to say that and they are saying that it's against the democracy that they claim but that's my point it's a constitutional crisis we're not sure how it's going to how it's going to play out how it's always good to get your thoughts thank you very much from the genya eric funs with joining staff and i think i have the america well now to developments in washington u.s. president facing more allegations over his links to russia are reports in the washington post says trump made sure there was no written conscript of his official meetings with his russian counterpart that deem it to send an even warm the interpreter to keep quiet president joe biden has moved from washington. u.s. president donald trump has met five times with russian president vladimir putin according to the washington post there are almost no official notes of what the two

men discussed at least on the american side that's because trump reportedly didn't want anything written down in one case the post says trump took his interpreters notes and warned her not to repeat anything she heard the u.s. president fox news on saturday night to respond why not release that conversation that you had with president putin in helsinki along with some other stuff that might involve the broom sore and the whole lot of them well janine i would i don't care i mean i had a conversation like every president does you sit with the president to various countries i do it with all countries we had a great conversation we were talking about israel and securing israel and on lots of other things and it was a great conversation i'm not keeping anything under wraps i couldn't care less congressional democrats say not heaping records violates federal law and they want an investigation and when he takes the interpreter's notes and wants to destroy

them so no one can see what was said and written transcript you know it raises serious questions about the relationship between this president putin the post story comes a day after the new york times reported the f.b.i. has been investigating trump's ties to the kremlin since may twenty seventeen agents reportedly were suspicious during the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign but they didn't investigate until trump fired the f.b.i. director james comey and then seemingly bragged about it again mr trump speaking on fox news as you are you now or have you ever worked for russia mr president i think is the most insulting thing i have ever been asked i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written and if you read the article you'd see that they found absolutely nothing a top republic. leader just this is goes reports i'd like to present to be able to build these relationships i know this administration and i know this congress is very tough on russia and we will continue to be so but i want this president be

able to build a relationship even on a personal level the president's engagement with russia once again under scrutiny as he and congress struggles in the government shut down. al-jazeera washington. well this comes as the u.s. government shutdown enters its twenty third day with still no end in sight miami international airport has started closing one of its terminals early to avoid a shortage of security agents this after a spike in the number calling in sick on friday eight hundred thousand federal workers didn't receive them monthly salary that's prompted food banks to set up shop distribution centers and communities to organize free dinners for those affected. castro joins us now from washington so heidi the shutdown is now the longest ever in american history clearly hundreds of thousands of people are being affected but president trump as you're hearing

early appears to be more preoccupied with the latest allegations against him involving russia. that's right and it's those allegations and the investigations into trump and his relationship with russia that is really the long term political battle that trump is focused on as acutely painful and historic as the current shutdown is many are saying that is only the opening salvo of these next two years of divided government in washington and some would argue that trump is even relishing this shutdown as a form of distraction from his greater legal troubles in part he would rather be talking about the so-called crisis on the border rather than what was said between him and putin in hamburg germany so as far as how those two are related how might this trouble with russia impact the negotiations on the shutdown it really doesn't change the dynamic much because democrats are already under the belief that trump has the weaker hand here as far as the shutdown ago she go they cite recent polling

that shows americans blame trump for initiating the shutdown and are against the majority of americans are against building the border wall however democrats certainly will be using the russia troubles as ammunition to further try to sell the public on the idea that trump's presidency has a moral policies including the attempt to build this border wall but again the bigger picture here is that the russia headlines are only the beginning of years of troubles that are ahead for donald trump and the shutdown though catastrophic for the people the federal workers not earning a paycheck that are caught in the middle and the services that will soon be denied to americans is only perhaps a speed bump on the way but i guess it is the immediate problem in negotiations so far have failed to yield any progress congress resumes tomorrow will need genda.

that's right democrats have said that they will continue with these attempts to reopen agency by agency on these bills these have been dead upon arrival bills once or they reach the republican controlled senate but also on the docket for next week are the confirmation hearings of william barr who was the former u.s. attorney general that donald trump has now nominated to return to that position to replace jeff sessions who he has fired and this is where russia comes into the game into the picture again because one of the critical questions that democrats are zoning in on regarding barr is a private memo that he wrote last year that criticizes the independent so the special counsel that is leading the russian investigation and trump's possible role with russian. meddling so the question that democrats will certainly be willing bar on is whether he would let that special investigation proceed very i'm heidi thank

you very much heidi joe castro there in washington. so i have for you on the program september's a quake instead of wasting still entire village just swallowed up as the land became but why when people have warned of the risk a snow storm sweep across europe how hungry is homeless a bearing now that sleeping on the street is a criminal offense and install here from logic that right he says his own test taken a hit at its best years fast and grandstand on that. elevator welcome back to international weather forecast here across europe we're still dealing with the snow you can see right here on the satellite pushing across central parts of europe now the next couple days we're still going to be seeing some very heavy snow here across parts of austria into switzerland into southern

parts of germany as well behind the system we are dealing with some very very gusty winds anywhere across parts of northern germany denmark as well as into the but alex region now that is going to continue as we go from monday as well as into tuesday the snow is going to continue and we are going to see still very heavy winds across much of the region actually pushing more into parts of poland as well take a look what's happening down here towards the southeast this new storm system is promising to brings a very very heavy snow across parts of turkey we could even see some very gusty winds and white out conditions over the next few days from tuesday into wednesday there well here across the eastern part of the med we are dealing with that same weather system and lots of winds here across much of the northern part of africa now can be seen some showers here on monday but as we go towards tuesday those showers are going to start to move towards the north so better conditions in terms of rain but we're still going to be seeing some very gusty winds along the coastal regions so from gazi it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with winds in your forecast temperature sixteen in for

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white house unfair game on al jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now the u.s. secretary of state might pay zero has arrived in saudi arabia after visiting counter way he said a rift between the gulf arab countries had gone on for too long an influential group of sixteen african nations is calling for a recount in the d.r. sees disputed presidential election also recommended forming a national unity government and zimbabwe has more than doubled the price of fuel overnight as the country struggles with its was petrol shortage in

a decade. from now to sudan where police have fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protests in the capital hard to them calling for president tomorrow bashir to step down protests broke out last month over rising food prices and cashel teaches international rights group amnesty says at least forty people have been killed since the unrest began the government says the death toll is twenty four the head of yemeni intelligence has died of his wounds two days after hoofy drone strike in the south of the country brigadier general mark was among at least five people killed by the strike on a military parade at an air base near aden. the almost four year long civil war in yemen is between hoofy fighters and yemeni government forces backed by the saudi emirates he led coalition. the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of man beach syria's government has

deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the suburbs of the city as u.s. forces get ready to leave ankara considers the kurdish y.p. gene which is backed by the u.s. a terrorist group. well as i still continues to be pushed back in syria some of the armed groups former fighters who escaped the front lines are being given a chance to return to normal life but isn't and consumer reports from northern syria everyone supports efforts to rehabilitate them colleague is a former i saw fighter. now he helps his father in the shop in mario when he's not at school. he joined i saw three years ago when he was thirteen his two elder brothers were also i saw members they were both killed in the fighting says he is lucky to have survived shy and reserved he tells us it was ice is reveals that persuaded him to join the group. and there was everything in those

videos to attract me fighting shooting there were calling god's name but i didn't expect they could ever be so unjust which i saw them slaughtering others using children as in their battle many innocent died because of them. after escaping from i so holly spent a year in prison he was that allowed to join this rehabilitation center along with twenty five other former members of the group some of the foreign fighters. there were classes in religious beliefs and psychological counseling was mandatory. twelve months later he was given the chance to go back to school and be with his family but he'll be kept under surveillance. we continue to check on these who complete the rehab we insist they continue their studies the best way to fight terrorism goes through fighting extremism product as the head of a city council supports the rehabilitation project but when it comes to foreign

fighters he thinks they should be treated differently. they are not like the sons of syria they came here to kill our people should be judged by international courts we have already taken off responsibility for their crimes. for the back at his father's shop helly is like many other teenage boys he likes playing football watching t.v. shows and planning his speech or one of my dreams is to be arabic teacher and build the house and with. habitation all former ice the fighters in syria has not been without controversy while the process has seen success to really integrate some into society and many others most of the foreign fighters have been rejected by their countries must remain in prison in syria soon and close all of else to syria north and syria. at least sixteen people have been injured in the disputed region of kashmir after anti india protests broke out at

a funeral government forces fired bullets shotgun pellets and take gas at mourners thousands of people wanted to pay their respects to senior rebel commander the nat'l son who was killed on saturday in a gun battle with indian military forces though such a bari has more now on why his death matters to so many cash marys. was. paying their respects thousands defied barriers and roadblocks to gather in the hometown of rebel commanders in a tall islam he was one of the two men killed in a gun battle with government troops late on saturday that there. was a. zenith all islam was a pious muslim and one of the greatest fighters what compulsion made zenit to pick up arms these young men are taking up arms because of the ongoing oppression from india on the state of jungle in kashmir from one nine hundred forty seven till now it is this oppression that is compelling people to take up arms.

but a police spokesman described the rebel leader as a terrorist who carried out attacks against security and civil and targets thousands of people marched in his village to offer a few prayers as the government suspend the train services and reportedly blocked internet access in the region. kashmir and muslim majority himalayan region is controlled by india and pakistan in parts and claimed by both inform some kashmiri groups have been fighting for independence from india or for unification with neighboring pakistan dorsetshire pari al jazeera. at least twenty one people have died after a coal mine collapsed in northwestern china more than sixty others were rescued after the accident in jungian province the heart of the country's coal mining belt china has suffered a series of mining accidents despite efforts to improve conditions because of this collapse is now under investigation. more than two thousand people were killed when

an earthquake and tsunami struck indonesia's soloway sea island in september the quake shook the soil so hard that entire villages were swallowed by the turning the land into liquid it's a deadly phenomenon known as liquefaction and parts of soloway sea are prone to it but a step vasa reports from the government knew about this risk for years and failed to warn villages. 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 nephews and nieces have yet to be found and. 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 its surroundings are either high risk of liquefaction. meaning that if an earthquake happens water saturated soil can turn into liquid. we had informed them about the risk but that was all we could do because there are a lot of problems in that area in a difficult economic situation also the information had not been spread. who's the movie star who was the paolo 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 valuable minister but 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. 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 you teddy 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. despite 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. a left wing activist convicted of murder is on a plane back to italy after thirty seven years on the run results of cooperation between new right wing administrations and presumably italy says ari but to stay was arrested on saturday night in bolivia he escaped from an italian prison in one thousand nine hundred eighty one he was awaiting trial for four murders committed as a member of the communist armed group until last month a to see was living in brazil where he successfully resisted previous attempts at extradition l.f. oblivion after the election of jabil sonora who promised to return him to italy. sonora treated at last while his son described the extradition as

a little gift facing east far right interior minister met to sell vini has expressed his gratitude that you got some who want to thank the man who made this change possible the new president of the brazilian republic. who took away his protection. now heavy snow has been causing chaos across europe and more is for cost particularly vulnerable of the homeless especially in hungary where sleeping on the street is now a criminal offense from the capital budapest jonah hall reports. the sleek clean boulevards of budapest this is how an increasingly or thorough tyrian government wants them to look no refugees or illegal immigrants and no no homeless people either we are just trying to enable our author of his to step up against something which we believe is against human nature and human dignity and we would like public spaces to get their meaning back and operate as they were intended it's

not a decision the government took lightly a previous attempt was ruled a violation of human dignity by the constitutional court so the government changed the constitution itself all of which is heartbreaking to people like young. youngish lives in a caravan after he lost his home his job even his family when a house fire and no insurance left him with crippling debt. i'm afraid of it i can't say better i'm afraid it could happen any time i wake up every morning scared that someone may not call my door and say we can take your stuff away go elsewhere the government did sists it's looking after the people being swept off the streets but we take care of them we provide shelter provisions and all the support that is required not a social workers believe that their system is not this problem heather and the government.