needs to be held accountable. and the crown prince i spoke about this with king some on as well. they both acknowledge that that accountability needed to take place he was killed in a toll inside the kingdom's consulate in istanbul or the findings of assad to prosecute what dismissed by the turkish government and would lead to insufficient. on sunday pompei was in qatar where he called on gulf countries to and that dispute the worst political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council america's top diplomat also visited jordan bahrain the u.a.e. egypt and a man after canceling a visit to kuwait to attend a family funeral coates' emir has played a crucial role in trying to mediate and to the blockade of qatar in june two thousand and seventeen saudi arabia u.a.e.

barrin and egypt cut off relations with doha accusing it of supporting armed groups a charge carter has strongly denied the u.s. is due to host a conference in poland next month to discuss ways to curb iran's activities in the region you have arabian backed who these iranian backed hezbollah are arabian backed shia militias in iraq iranian backed forces in syria each case the root of the challenge stems from the revolutionary nature of this law mcgreevey and their efforts abroad but many u.s. allies fear a u.s. iran confrontation could lead to further instability in the region marred by violence. is what's coming up for you on this news hour the french president sets the time for a national debate over his policies following the yellow vest protests also a symbol of transition is fewer car makers turn up at the detroit auto show as the

u.s. china trade war looms and in sports the host nation aims to stay on course for a place in the knockout rounds of football's asian cup. the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is expected to lay. his plans to turn around the oil rich nations struggling economy in a speech in caracas he is addressing members of the constituent assembly right now this is after thursday when madeira was sworn in for a second six year term under his leadership the economy has struggled with public infrastructure such as hospital suffering from a lack of basic funding and resources also the so-called lima group of latin america countries which includes brazil and argentina has urged maduro to step down his to raise a boat for us in caracas what is nicolas maduro expected to announce or is a. well there were lots of i would have started

speaking about forty minutes ago and what we have heard so far is him saying what the government has done in this country in the past year in spite of the economic crisis that exists here investment in health care investment into education among other things it is expected that he will announce what it's an economic recovery plan. that it's back to to a hike in salaries for example and more price controls in spite of this let's not forget about what's been happening in this country hyperinflation prices changing almost every day a person's salary a minimum wage people are able to buy only four packs of rice and if not in order to get it to regulated prices they have to line four hours in order to be able to get only one pack situations like the ones in the hospital where i'm standing that over the weekend there was a power cut for around five hours the generators were broken and official sources

say that two people died but the people from inside the hospital the workers are saying that at least nine people could have died over the weekend because of a failure such as this one the government says and insist that there are attempts to destabilize this country that there is an economic warfare being imposed on this country especially being led by the united states and that what happened in this hospital for example was a lot it was a terrorist task acted by the opposition is there actually any hope among spend its way thems tourism that the situation can improve. well i mean as you know venezuela has one of the underground largest oil reserves in the world years ago it used to pump three point five million barrels a day and that is down to around nine hundred thousand situation there's not the government cash strapped for example and that's why the crisis here is ongoing i

mean it's interesting to know that most economists say the. but the government needs to take radical measures in order to improve the situation here in venezuela but that's unlikely to happen because it would have a direct impact on the president's popularity that right now is around twenty percent of the situation also on the ground is a complicated one the government is becoming more isolated especially by the united states by countries in the region internazionale guy stations are also increase their pressure and what we have seen in the last few days is a government that is trying to open up is trying to up the knowledge of it of the problem it is facing today because for example a few days ago he met with a representative of the united nations and they discussed the possibility of humanitarian aid like medicines and food and clearing this country a country that is in a crises where millions of people have left in the past two years and when you talk to almost everyone here many have lost hope they have not only lost hope in the government but also in an opposition that they say has failed them and that's why

many of them decided to leave. in caracas thank you for that earlier i spoke to medina who is a former venezuelan diplomat who told us nicolas maduro needs to be held responsible for this crisis. it is a induced humanitarian apocalypse he has weaponized starvation and medicines car city to remain in control through an apartheid socialist card so who doesn't have this card and he plays by the government's rules they are ousted from any assistance not only that it is a self inflicted economic meltdown through grand corruption and bad governance as you see they have bled the treasury which has led to this economic meltdown and even the treasurer the treasurer of motherhood oh and chavez before him has confessed to take in more than one billion dollars in a us trial by the daughters bagmen green so i don't think he's going to make any

changes that matter to the people things getting worse since i'm barbary with police firing live bullets at protesters angry about high fuel prices at least ten people were reportedly shot in the capital harare demonstrators barricaded roads and set tires on fire after the cost of petrol and diesel more than doubled on sunday government is dealing with shortages sort of see motorists resorting to sleeping in fuel. zero producer privilege was found he is in harare following the story for us and says the situation just isn't getting any better the country is not generating enough foreign currency because there is a low production in the country exports the it's zimbabwe's exports. so they ease into enough foreign currency in the country to import to the commodity because we do not. so therefore. we we have to

import at their product so there isn't enough foreign currency in the country to protect lates now because of the drying off us. probably crazed queuing for days. to get fuel even now when the president announced a new price you find. and if you're stations are right people are just. anticipating that we could be delivering but they are not deliveries that a. lot of reaction online to the anger in zimbabwe right you know mom it's been looking of. it looks like many in zimbabwe have heeded the calls by trade unions and protesters for a three day strike some online are using the hash tag zimm shut down and sharing their videos from the two main cities the capital harare and pull away oh this is second a road leading into harare is the central business district it has some of the

city's largest townships and as you can see here hardly a car in sight even commuter on the buses also known as comedies have been parked refusing to carry passengers and others have been protesting in the streets they're saying no to massive fuel price hikes no to fail no to the two percent tax and no to corruption in some cases the protests have turned violent including looting police have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the demonstrators. now according to feel provider dan the price hike is because of what it calls a massive tax increase on fuel this comes in the wake of the huge tax increase caused by the two percent tariff on electronic transfers and that's what's making many zimbabweans angry in fact zimbabweans have been lining up for fuel for weeks some queues are as long as two kilometers some of also lost patience fights have broken out at petrol stations they accuse the president emerson one and gaga of not focusing on domestic issues as he travels to moscow and then switzerland for the

world economic forum next week where people have also been sharing their thoughts and concerns with us here's what some had to say. it is dishonest in that the president maintains that the notice one is to one against the us this despite giving us two different prices a us dollar price and for not price the other dishonesty is that he is saying they're going to offer a rebate to manufacture as so that prices don't go they don't say what kind of freebie that is and then the last thing is that they have increased the price of fuel by two hundred fifty percent but they only offering a salary incremental civil servants of ten percent this is it's creamy and feet the burden has just been increased and it is just a lot of despair a lot of frustration and there's a lot of frustration on the faces of men and women in the streets there's a lot of frustration that i'm seeing on the faces of men who are in the in these fuel queues and everyone is just disgruntled and disappointed by the lack of

clear policy structures and the lack of clear money terry policy. taking a break here on al-jazeera when we come back we'll tell you how can your is a time when the threat from al shabaab along its border with somalia. for the first time in thirty years teaches the most senseless and yet out of their concern to be looking at the latest strike. and sport four teams left in contention for the super bowl in the n.f.l. and he's here with that in the distance for some of the lighter. hello there we've got another storm system that's making its way towards turkey we look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud nudging its way in at the moment that's going to give some of us some rain and then we'll see that turn increasingly heavy as we head through the day on tuesday so some very strong winds as well as

some heavy rain and they could well be some blizzards as round as well a system will gradually track its way a bit for the south which as we head through tuesday and into wednesday making its way down towards lebanon to the east we've got this whole area of cloud that's making its way up towards the northeast say fallacy will see a fair amount of wintry weather that shouldn't stick around too long it looks like it should be dry up by wednesday before the day was the south them is what's of that cloud over the arabian peninsula stretching across many parts of saudi arabia and over into iran in the north that we're seeing the wet weather that should eventually begin to break up as we head through the day on wednesday but still lots of cloud rates to cross us and that could just be the old fourth of rain perhaps down towards the southern parts of africa this certainly been a lot of wet weather here particularly in the northeastern parts of madagascar this area of cloud here gave some of us over one hundred millimeters of rain more weather is expected here as we head through the day on tuesday the showers in the northeast though breaking up instead we've got wetter weather stretching its way

through parts of zimbabwe. we're talking about ivory poachers who have decimated populations of elephants in africa they almost always ship the ivory out of a different country from where it was poached because that's where you start your search to look in the wrong place this radiocarbon dating method tell us their trade ivory is legal or not then we have a place we can focus law enforcement on to take those out and perhaps the source of the id from entering the network take no one else is now. the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think it will do a great or a good job with details coverage is the second time to see a doctor has walked out on strike the government is funded by issuing suspension. from the around the world increased warning level colleagues as

a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. here on the news on here at al-jazeera these are all top stories british prime minister theresa may is urged m.p.'s to take a second look at how it deals with leave the european union she has warned voting it down could open the way for the breakup of the united kingdom on a mental vote on the deal on tuesday. the presidents of the united states and turkey have discussed the situation in northern syria by phone earlier turkey's foreign minister hit back at president donald trump for threatening on current

economic devastation if it attacks kurdish fighters in syria. and the u.s. secular state might bump ayos in amman off to meet. sali leaders in riyadh while in saudi arabia him at the crown prince mohammed bin salman and the two men agreed to continue the deescalation of fighting in yemen. a french president among your micron's launched a nationwide debate aimed at tackling the yellow vest protests in an open letter micron's said he was open to ideas but warned he will not back down from his twenty seventeen election promises course france has been rocked by more than two months of demonstrations which began over a fuel price hike natasha butler reports from paris. for more than two months france's yellow vest protesters have been on the streets angry over the cost of living and a political system and president they say ignores the poorest kid movie vertical news you could discuss us is that no one listens we accept paying taxes but why

don't the richest pay the government has tried and failed to stop the demonstrations by offering some financial concessions now in a letter to the nation emanuel mccall says he hopes that a new national citizens debate will transform people's anger into solutions we won't agree on everything that's normal that's democracy but at least will show that we are a people who are not afraid to speak to exchange views and debate and perhaps will discover that we might even agree despite our different persuasions often more than we think the protestors we spoke to in paris all saturday will take some convincing . this debate is the creation of an oligarchy that controls everything that imposes the themes to be discussed yes they will let us talk but they won't listen to the national debate or be divided into things such as social services taxes and citizenship people will be able to take polls or knowing or in person at meetings

organized by mezz villages and towns across the country and while some people welcome the initiative others say it's nothing more the political marketing. this deputy mayor from normandy is in paris along with other regional leaders to discuss the debate with ministers. the real you are you are you're in a prison i think people are tired and fed up they expect nothing from this debate they want actions i actions speak louder than wards people on the president to come up with concrete measures that respond to their needs some analysts say the two months debate is a gamble for macro awfully sweet of him either he succeeds in unifying some moderate voters mostly in the political center and he shows that he can continue to reform the country all the debate comes to nothing and he will no longer be able to pass his major reforms. when micron came to power in twenty seventeen he promised to reform france two years on and he's battling his worst political crisis the

question now is whether he can calm tensions and stop protestors like these who say they have no intention of backing down natasha butler al jazeera paris a constitutional court and senegal has barred two main opposition candidates from contesting next month's presidential elections only approved five of the twenty seven candidates including the incumbent president who is seeking a second term nicolas hark reports from abidjan. the announcement made by the constitutional court stun many and came early it came in the form of an a four piece of paper plastered outside the courts listing those illegible to run for the upcoming presidential election missing on that list are the popular mayor dick park police and the opposition figure karim wadded from your wallet is currently in exile in qatar he served a prison sentence on corruption charges but then was pardoned by the president now the reason given for him being dismissed from this list by the constitutional court is that he is not

a registered voter and as such cannot be registered someone wanting to run as well is her. he is not a listed because he is serving time in prison on corruption charges now that paves the way for present myself to run a second term with no real opposition figure except one sound go an outsider was popular in social media amnesty international has criticized this government in the ruling party clamping down on the opposition but certain with this list out now it sets the tone for this upcoming election that will take place in a month's time kenya's army has been heavily monitoring its four with somalia in recent years after attacks by al shabaab it's an effort that's greatly reduced the armed groups capacity to operation kenya though does remain a threat elsewhere in east africa the same bus driver has that story from nairobi. president who can you began the new year by thanking kenya soldiers for their

service and telling civilians they too have a role to play in the country's security i further every kenyan in twenty nineteen and beyond to continue to remain vigilant let the authorities know if you see a suspicious person in your village or neighborhood. be aware is around you and do not allow terrorists or criminals to hide amongst us attacks by the armed groups at a shopping mall and a university in kenya in two thousand and thirteen and twenty fifteen killed more than two hundred people and change the way the government deploys its security forces the army took over from the police to launch a multi agency operation around boni forest on the somali border once a safe haven for al shabaab kenyan security forces have taken back territory destroyed temporary training camps and stop the free movement of armed fighters

coming over the border from somalia people who had moved from their farms to. temporarily some of these prisons because comps i.d.p.'s have gone back to their friends and neighbors buck to normal. kenyans living near the front line are grateful for the heightened security but those displaced by the fighting say they still can't sleep at night your money or coalition. with you we have issues with water we use water from boreholes and a hospital a small we need more facilities to check our health to treat even basic health needs. pushing back into somalia has also given way to unforeseen threats closer to home the farmers who fled the fighting and are still living in camps say while the police and army were focused on external threats armed kenyan herders took their fields to graze animals and now that's the reason they're too afraid to go home. we left our farms and came have we have no security it will now the security has

really improved but we can't go back because the security operations are still ongoing was the border with somalia is secure for now experts say the fight is far from over at this point in time when it's hoped that it is the terrorists who have initiative because they are now able to pick the place the time type of target that they will go for preventing al shabaab from operating and recruiting in kenya has made it a blueprint for east africa but with security operations likely to continue for the foreseeable future people displaced by years of fighting wanting to go home may have to wait a little longer zain bus robbi old zero nairobi china's trade dispute with the united states is taking a toll on its economy exports of fallen to their lowest point in two years and imports are down to the two countries are of course midway through a ninety day truce to find a solution to their trade war katrina you reports from beijing. the world's largest

trading country has been trading a little less. according to china's customs administration exports fell by four point four percent in december while imports were at their lowest levels in twenty sixteen concerns for the year ahead underlined at a news conference in beijing early in two thousand and nine the biggest the worry for china's foreign trade is through the complex and grim external environment uncertain and stable factors a stew numerous protectionism. from certain countries are raring their heads from a slowdown in global demand and the continuing trade dispute with the united states are being blamed for the current predicament china find itself in china and the us are midway through a ninety day truce in the tit for tat trade which started last april a delegation from washington was invading last week to continue negotiations but very few details from the missing have so far been released with just over forty

days left of the trade truce the seems to be still no solution in sight analysts say china's shrinking trade figures could be used by washington to increase pressure on beijing i think beijing clearly has the pressure they're under to go to the store. the best of their leadership and it to restore bester confidence such as. nationally so i think a.j. clearly does that and i think the u.s. . agent. here and they will put pressure because despite the lower figures china posted a record surplus in its trade with the united states last year with more than three hundred twenty billion dollars the largest in more than a decade that's a sore point for the u.s. and according to the trumpet ministration a major justification for its trade with china but the apparent good news there's

little to distract from china's cooling economy december's low trade. a disappointing november when consumer spending also fell contributing to a gloomy economic start to twenty nineteen. al-jazeera. thirty two thousand teachers in america's second largest school district of walked out of class on strike weeks of heated negotiations over pay and the size of classes of gone nowhere leading to the city's first teacher's protest in thirty years schools in the l.a. district have managed to stay open however with hundreds of substitute teachers brought in to look after students let's get the latest with. middle school in los angeles how are things going there rob. well right now about twenty five percent of the kids who normally attend school here and all serene you have actually arrived for classes you can see the class

behind me is going quite well the children are all very quiet and well behaved some of the kids here are hearing impaired others are you know mainstream students this is a mixture of say eleven to thirteen year olds. the schools remain open and they're staffed by administrators parent volunteers substitute teachers but the thirty one thousand. plus its regular teachers who are out are demanding not only a increase in pay but they're also saying that they need more money spent on things like librarians school nurses. counselors for students all of these things they say are have been cut back in recent years and it's important for them to be able to do their jobs to have those kinds of support staff another big sticking point is class size i talked to some teachers who said there are forty

five kids in my class and there's really no way that i can do individual instruction so. there's an impasse here over money the school district says that it does not have sufficient funds to meet all of the teachers demands the teachers union says that it does that there is in fact a surplus but over the years so much as been allocated to teachers pensions retiring teachers health care that the school district says if they spend all that money they're going to go broke literally go bankrupt over the next couple of years so that's the situation right now we don't know how long the strike is going to last there's no negotiations underway today and naturally it's causing a lot of concern among parents not only because they. i have to arrange for child care if they're not going to send their kids into school but if they are going to send their children to classes they're worried about their children's safety and about the quality of instruction that they're getting so this is

a very significant thing and it's also important to point out that this is one in a series of teacher strikes that have taken place all across the country in the past year or so with teachers demanding a better learning conditions for their pupils by and large we're getting a lot of support we're seeing a lot of support from the parents in los angeles but as this goes on it's not known how long that level of support will last rob reynolds with that update from a school in los angeles as teachers go on strike today thank you we'll talk about that trade will between china and washington a little bit earlier and you know it's made its way to the city of detroit to see as auto show ford motor corporation wants the trumpet ministration to urgently resolve trade issues between the two nations so called for a finalized revision of the north american trade agreement the comic is showcasing its vehicles that to try to show auto show bought some big names the likes of b.m.w. mercedes are skipping the events we're going to talk to john hendren who is there

for us i mean i'm guessing there's a different sort of vibe in this say when you talk about big names like that and also tending. that's right it's usually here you've got the european players here sixty cars that everybody is looking at and those players are not here and so that has given the opportunity for other lights to shine but this year has been a really good year for korean cars. hyundai kona was the utility of the year and then another car by genesis the g seventy that was the car of the year but what's happening in the market is that sedans particularly here in the united states sales of sedans are going down and what's going up utilities and trucks this is the truck of the year the ram fifteen hundred and i've got someone with you can tell me a little about it this is nick kappa of ram and let me just ask you first of all you were awarded the truck of the year award for this truck today what does it mean

to you when the company was actually three awards that we were set out to get with the two thousand one hundred fifteen hundred the north american truck of the year we got today the other one was the motor to i'm going to here and then of course the truck of texas because twenty percent of the truck market is in texas and that motor trend trophy is that enormous thing sitting in the bed that's exactly right we overwhelmed on that one but if you think of pickup truck sales the united states they own the top three spots on volume of sales so it's very important to our audience somebody rolls into a dealership and they know that have that third party endorsement it really helps us move that metal because trucks are big here in the united states well a since we're talking about big trucks let's look at one i'm going to open the door here and just ask you to tell me what makes this one so special so some of the features on the ramp fifteen hundred in particular force the other two in the doubles the way the way they want to hear them is that you know we actually want to work with the size pickup truck we want to ward with a full sized pickup truck away from luxury sedans even take

a look at that twelve inch screen you can run two applications on it i have a lot of different features on it that really come together because a person who spends this much money on a pickup truck needs to be reminded every day why he did that and how much is he spending on it as well as about a sixty five. thousand dollars for a pickup truck all right in my car nobody wants to sit in the back they're making trucks a little bit differently nowadays and what's what's so special about this one nobody's calling shotgun in the room fifteen hundred when you take them out. so some of the features of the make it really special is i have a slide recline feature on this truck i have my own center console i have a port where i have type c. and regular u.s.b. where i can communicate with that giant twelve inch screen you connect system i even have an outlet here in a place to put my u.s.b. plugs i have storage inside here as well and i even have flat floor so i can. and have a full floor i can put the biggest t.v. say you can buy back there to ship so the idea is that pickup trucks can actually be crushed up for s.u.v.s or even sedans because you have all the space all the

storage and then a pickup truck bed as it is additional utility so the idea is by adding all this stuff you when these awards those awards help you get higher sales presumably absolutely the triple crown that we won with fifteen hundred absolutely helps to have that third party recognition. that is just a slice of one of the vehicles here at the auto show there are of course hundreds by many makers and everybody is a little concerned about what's going to happen in twenty one thousand is the last several years have been pretty good for the industry and next year not so sure john hendren. in detroit thank you. now a left wing italian activist convicted of murder and wanted for nearly forty years as landed in rome says that about toothy was arrested in bolivia on saturday his extradition the results of corporation between right wing political leaders in brazil and italy. thousands of asylum seekers from haiti who were denied entry to

the united states two years ago stablished a community along mexico's northwestern border many have been granted work visas and are now helping new migrants to adjust to life in mexico and reports and. just over the u.s. border. this restaurant is serving a patient style fried chicken hearted. so why get. a little onion garlic peppa always delicious. this popular food stamp however isn't in haiti it's in downtown d one in mexico play many mexicans come here every day and also many americans come to buy food as well.