al-jazeera where ever you. nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power the us vice president throws his weight behind attempts to get rid of venezuela's leader. ironically this is al jazeera life and also coming up. i'm always concerned about his safety a call for help we hear from the wife of a sudanese antigovernment protesters who's been missing for nearly a week. in short treated to. a fear of speaking

in bob ways president vows to investigate accusations of assaulting torture. we damaged enough to hold. a warning on climate change at a meeting with leaders from some of the world's worst polluters. so threats between venezuela and the united states are going to another level president nicolas maduro says he's ordered a quote revision of diplomatic relations with the u.s. and he says he'll be making decisions in the next few hours that's in response to u.s. vice president mike pence the clearing support for protesters and opposition leaders throws about as more. bottom pans being used to send a message of protest to the government of president the little meeting. the video was shot by protesters on monday night hours after twenty seven soldiers rebelled

against the government they were later detained by security forces. people around the area took to the streets of the capital in protest they were repelled by the volley of area national guard. on tuesday u.s. vice president mike pence center video message of encouragement to the protesters and condemnation of nicola my little. i'm mike pence the vice president of the united states and on behalf of president donald trump and all the american people let me express the unwavering support of the united states is you the people of venezuela raise your voices in a call for freedom nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose his. pen statement comes as venezuela's supreme court

this vowed one why though as the precedent of the powerless opposition controlled congress he's become the latest face of the venice would end up a station. the venezuelan government says the united states is promoting instability to force my ludo out of all face. simply because mr pence doesn't have a job now he wants to come and run venezuela handing out instructions on what should happen in venezuela openly calling for a coup d'etat in venezuela i will say it like the venezuelan people would say to you yankee go home we're not going to allow you to intrude on issues of the country and all of our and the country of hugo chavez. on wednesday the opposition plans to hold marches nationwide as part of an annual event that marks the fall of a military government in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they say this time my rule is the dictator that needs to go. but there was months

is a form. for the matter of districts in caracas and he says that would there is being isolated by the venezuelan on forces. i think we're very close to restore democracy in venezuela and i think we're very close to recover our freedom to have people going back to my homeland. because my little boy is completely isolated by venezuelan some bind international community on something that he says started to happen he's getting isolated by the armed forces which is the only piece of the puzzle that we need to start a transition in that is whether there are so many soldiers are already expressed their disagreement with the regime because they are suffering from from the same problems as any venezuelans. with shortages of food medicine hyperinflation in one on forces to become institutional the armed forces kind of be from any political

party the armed forces are the ones according to a constitution. called to protect our nation on the standing nation by our territory. a and i were people so i think your yard are getting this message very clear many soldiers have been torture recently there almost two hundred soldiers who are illegally in jail and we need to understand them of the regime is not only affecting venezuela a lot of regime has become a threat to the region because this is a regime that is involved in criminal economy such as drug trafficking and illegal mining that is a fact in. which our our our neighbor countries but also in other countries in the region. the wife of the government activist arrested in sudan has told out zero she's had no word on her husband's whereabouts sudanese american red one dog was

detained by security agents six days ago the couple called to his wife nancy nancy says he was preparing to take part in a demonstration the next day and students have been protesting since last month calling for the resignation of president turmel bushehr demonstrations began after the guy who raised the price of bread on monday that would says her husband is a peaceful activist and she's urging the united states to help free and i do hope that they will put pressure on the sudanese government to be able to assist in his release definitely counting on them with any leverage we have with the sudanese government to make sure that that happens as quickly as possible along with the release of all of the other political detainees he's always been a peaceful protest or he is. has been concerned for many years about the state of sudan and he has been trying to bring change. the voice of all the

sudanese are really crying for freedom for peace and for justice. no ruler should be in control for thirty years so i'm really calling now for omar al bashir to step down. as a dictator that has been exploiting and oppressing the people for for many years. zimbabwe's president is running to investigate accusations of assault and torture by his security forces. is calling for a national inquiry following the violence during protests against keeping prices increases in fuel prices but rights groups fear nothing will change reports now from harare. says he doesn't want to spare me to visit him in hospital he's afraid that could be victimized for associating with someone police suspect participated in anti-government protests a short trip to damascus. is.

the business. was in. civilian clothes. very close range from. last week suburbans demonstrated against the fuel price hike which had more than doubled overnight the government responded with force more than six hundred people were arrested in the east zimbabwe's human rights commission says more people died in last week's protest injuring orcus post-election violence the use of excessive force specially the use of life i mean it's not called for when dealing with civilians they should be other methods of controlling crowds and we believe that recorded very well trained police force in the country julius shorter says his son's death was senseless he was shot outside a police station calvin was twenty two years old and loved playing football in zimbabwe humanity has lost. life he's

being safe. is being wasted. he's listening. in the same government that it's a new dispensation dispensation we're going to do lip licking whatever people amused was. running the dustbin. they are now using bush tactics president took power for robert mugabe just over a year ago he promised to promote democracy and freedom of speech some zimbabweans are disillusioned. he didn't do that. was just saying we. you see not kill them. so we are. revolted the president has cut short a foreign trip and promised to investigate the crackdown by security forces

zimbabweans are watching him after last week's violence some said atheist speaking out against the government that could come after them had mythos al-jazeera had. talks between the taliban and u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad will continue into a third day happening is details emerge about one of the worst attacks against the n.d.s. afghans intelligence service in the seventeen year war the taliban attacked a training base in miten shah in wardak province on monday india says thirty six people died and fifty eight wounded in the attack. as more. it's one of the worst attacks by the taliban says the group was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one a suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a military compound what followed was carnage officials and witnesses say several dozens of people have been killed. it was

a very dangerous incident and the sound of the explosion was very loud the windows of our house and other houses close to the area were broken and the wounded ones were taken to different hospitals here and leak out of. the facility is a brand by an elite intelligence unit in charge of training tribesman to fight the taliban. the attack is another indication of the armed groups growing influence last year taliban fighters launched a series of attacks across the country including a suicide bomb attack in the capital kabul in january at least one hundred people were killed mostly civilians analysts believe the taliban is increasing its attacks to gain more leverage in crucial talks with u.s. diplomats in qatar what we heard today in my don't shot was

a kid. united states in the afghan government is doing to the taliban so the taliban i think they're coming out of that hibernation pretty. they are trying to carry on the same policy where do going to inflict damage to the african government and its international counterparts and talks are underway in doha where the taliban has a political office u.s. special representative for afghan peace zalmai is beating senior taliban members here. the talks a way to find and to the war in afghanistan and establish a unity government the u.s. envoy recently told the region seeking help from allies including pakistan and in many ways the role of pakistan is key the u.s. negotiator ambassador zalmay khalilzad was just in pakistan for several days before he went to doha and the pakistani prime minister imran khan is visiting doha as

well it's not clear exactly what role pakistan is playing but they may be playing a newly positive role but peace won't be easy the taliban does not recognize the government in kabul and insists peace talks will only start when foreign troops leave afghanistan how does iraq. still ahead here a non-zero mexico's president announces help for the poor after dozens of people died trying to steal fuel from and leaking top pipelines. and the race is on find out who's in the running for the cia is cut i mean words. from long flowing on in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. and either the weather is oh quite quiet for the southeastern parts of china at the

moment it looks like it should be fine and dry first again for wednesday and thursday am for shanghai it should be fairly mild the temperatures around thirteen degrees and they should be near at seven or eight at this time of the. further south should be all goes well for us in hong kong with all macs and overing at around twenty one a bit further towards the south and we've been watching a system that's been disintegrating over the philippines that's given us a lot of heavy rain you can still see some cloud on the satellite picture and this region may well catch one of two rather shop showers again as we head through wednesday or thursday the charts they were showing some heavy downpours towards the south over pozen job and into bollywood things of darker blue is indicating some heavier rain and some more prolonged outbreaks of rain as well those are going to stick around as we had three thursday to be a while to watch the west and that singapore in k.l. there's about a chance of some long dry spells during the day if we head over towards parts of india and pakistan you can see the cloud with that with us that's given a some very heavy rain and some flooding and also a lot of heavy snow as well that system is only slowly edging its way eastward so

see more of it affecting parts of nepal as we head through the day on wednesday heavy snow still to be seen out of this and only eventually on thursday where things begin to dry up here and then things will be a lot brighter. there with sponsored by qatar and race. you know that corruption has reached a level like ever before in our country. count saeeda. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera.

or do you want yards or a reminder. top stories just venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ordered every version of diplomatic relations with the united states that's in response to vice president mike pence declaring support for opposition leader point tried to do is calling on venezuelans to protest on wednesday. the wife of an anti-government activists arrested in sudan has told al-jazeera she's had no word on her husband's whereabouts sudanese american one was detained six days ago nancy down with the united states to help from him. now to the war in syria where a car bombing has killed at least one person and injured fourteen others in the city of latakia authorities found a second device at the scene and defused it just before the church blow up the attack comes only a few days after another explosion hit damascus apparently targeting security

officials so now has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. two bomb attacks in the past three days the bombings in government controlled territories tuesday's bombing in la to kill. in damascus south of the syrian capital that attack was believed to have been a targeted assassination a security personality it is still not clear whether or not he was injured or killed it is very hard to get information out of government controlled territories but the bombings are really an indication that the situation is still not stable but the question is how is this happening after the government managed to push the opposition push away from areas under their control last year they've they managed to regain a lot of territory pushing the rebels up to the north so how can the opposition operate behind rebel lines so it calls really into question the ability of the government to maintain security in sixty percent of the territories it controls but

if you watch the area and state television analysts immediately predicted that this there's a new phase in the conflict they're talking about the possibility of more bombings and and that the situation is going to destabilize further now many in the opposition will say this is the government's way of keeping people on their side to scare them and to tell them that your best option is to continue to support us because public discontent discontent really is growing inside government controlled territories because the government has been unable to provide them with fuel prices are rising and there are no jobs so it's a really a very very difficult situation for the government and yes they control sixty percent of the country but they still do not have the legitimacy from the outside world and clearly from these attacks not all is well. the u.s. senate is likely to vote this week on bills that if paul screwed in the month long partial government shutdown the competing proposals by republicans and democrats would see several federal agencies reopen it is the longest government shutdown in

u.s. history and hundreds of thousands of workers going without a paycheck but it's called the gun over funding for president trying to pose along the border with mexico with more money kind of standing by in washington d.c. what's the breakthrough. well some compromise but there are two competing bills that will come before the senate the one drawn up by republicans mirrors the suggestions made by president trump over the weekend which includes funding for the wall on the southern border the other bull drawn up by democratic party leaders does not provide any funding for the wall but does provide funding for those government departments that are shut until february eighth now the issue is that the republicans in the senate refused to allow the democratic party bill to be brought in the past so that is a sign of compromise that at least the bull will be voted on but the democrats

would need to thirteen republican senators to vote in favor of their particular bill highly unlikely meanwhile democratic party leaders have made very clear that they will not vote for the republican bill that provides funding for the wall so little sign of any step forward the house has passed funding bills but they have simply not been taken up in the senate and the speaker of the house once again called for government to open. the be peer group in government open government let's talk cannot have the president and the time he has an objection to say i'll shut down the government until you come to my way of thinking understand that is part of the point of this this is we hold these please hostage now they're hostage forever and by the way with the president proposed this granting what he had already taken away the pres in the dark of recipients and their protection. and safety that temporary protected status t.p.s.

had that protection president took it away and now he's saying i want to get this back temporarily if you give me a a war permanently open government. has been going on for some time now which side is it. well that's a very difficult question but certainly opinion polls indicate that the majority of americans blame president trump for this ongoing shutdown he publicly said before it started that he would be proud to early in the shutdown and i quote him since then though he's been attempting to shift blame onto the democrats calling them obdurate and unwilling to compromise democrats say that what president trump suggests is no compromise whatsoever but one must remember that before this whole shutdown began the senate did indeed possible which was very similar to that that that's been passed in the democratic controlled house however at that stage republicans controlled the house and the bull was never taken up in the house at

that particular point but now republicans say they will not vote for a bull which they had in fact passed before the shutdown began so signs of cynicism from a republican senate that continue to maintain that they will not pass any bill that has not been pre-approved by the president this of course evoking massive criticism from democrats who are insisting that the president simply should not dictate to the senate but that all should be mike thanks very much indeed mike and reporting from washington d.c. brazil's new president is laid out the welcome mat for big business and major investors on day one of the world economic forum in davos climate change in the digital revolution are among some of the major issues on the table the focus is also being on some of the big names missing this year and a whole reports from davos. a chill has settled over down ass and that's not just the weather leaders of some of the world's biggest economies china the united

states france and the u.k. have stayed away to find crises at home crises fueled by nationalism populism and those left behind by globalization it is everything the world economic forum is supposed to stand against and yet this year's big ticket visitor is brazil's new president far right nationalist ball son r.-o. here to launch what he calls a new brazil then there was a big. we intend to reduce the size of the resin state apparatus and carry out a form such as the social security reform the tax reform we wish to relieve those who produce and undertake business and projects from the weight of a heavy state that's good news for business less so for those who depend on state aid it's an odd look for an annual gathering traditionally built on bridging divides it does say that there's a bit of a shift and that those major leading democracies in the world are exhausted tied in

knots have problems but it also says this community here of globalists is perfectly willing to flirt with their liberal leaders in the world. compensation came in the heavyweight fight against climate change identified as a major world threat having heard both scenarios call for economic development in the amazon delegates listened to royalty interviewing a british knight of the realm what advice do you have all my generation and what's what can we build on that you have started we have to recognize that every breath of air we take every mouthful of food that we take comes from the natural and that if we damage the natural world we damage ourselves it's what the forum aims to do best global box office in the name of a better world the theme of this year's world economic forum here in davos is the fourth wave of globalization the digital revolution it predicts

a world in which technology competes with workers of all stripes blue collar and white in which the winners of globalization get ever richer but fewer in number it is a world in which inequality deepens and political leaders no longer have all the answers jonah how al-jazeera davus switzerland mexico's president has responded to last week's pipeline blast with measures to improve living conditions the reforms are aimed at regions where fuel theft is more likely to take place ninety three people were killed when a fire broke out from a pipeline north of mexico when repeller reports now from i can buy in central mexico. president lopez over those visits by mexico was very well received several thousand people came to see him speech of course he spoke in the wake of that large explosion that took place just last week that left more than ninety people dead now the president spoke about the need for creating jobs creating opportunities and

investing in education to lessen the dependency that many communities have on still and feel that to give you some context of where we are we're near a pipeline that's become very popular among the oil oil thieves so popular that military personnel are keeping a constant presence here to make sure that people don't come out here to tap more more fuel pipelines and that's part of the problem if you will is transported from one end of the country to another via fuel pipelines that are easily tap they're very susceptible to oil thieves how susceptible in two thousand and eighteen the government reported more than fourteen thousand illicit taps on fuel pipelines and again this is not a new problem but this is a problem that the new mexican president is being forced to tackle is being forced to find a solution to on december first of last year the president announced the deployment of somewhere around thirty two thousand military personnel to guard sections of pipeline and guard refineries that are considered as being vulnerable to thieves

the actual the issue of fuel theft as it's believed to have been contributing to as much as seven point four billion dollars in revenue losses over the last three years so this is quite a big problem and it is at the moment quite a hot topic the nominations for the one film up for a top prize at the kind of rewards could test with the hollywood is ready to accept film streaming services and when i was on day has all the details. the impact of netflix on the film industry has been debated for years but two thousand and nineteen could be a watershed moment for the online streaming giant as it receives its first ever best picture oscar nomination for roma. the story of director alfonzo quiet on this childhood in mexico city which is also earned him a nomination for best director but perhaps most remarkably among its ten nominations is won for best actress for its star. a first time

actress of indigenous descent who intended to become a preschool teacher before being chosen for the lead role. also getting ten nominations including best picture is a british period drama the favorite bringing some mainstream recognition for its ave guard director your ghost left the most after much critical acclaim for his previous films let me tell you it's star a libya coleman also gets a nod for best actress for those who think hollywood is a hotbed for liberalism are likely to be further persuaded by the eight award nomination for vice i believe. we can make this work. how do they have the heavily critical biographical comedy drama about the former u.s. vice president dick cheney out of the people of iraq after years of being criticized for his lack of diversity the academy continued to address that this year with the

best picture nomination for black klansman why are you acting like you've got skin in the game gets better and director spike lee who's been a strong critic of the awards in the past is also on the short list for best director if those choices reflect the academy's trend in recent years of focusing on more art house movies this time the blockbusters also featured heavily. by. a star is born received eight nominations including best actor and best actress for bradley cooper and lady gaga. box office smash hit of two thousand and eighteen black panther made history by gaining a first best picture nomination for a superhero movie. and the rock biographical romp bohemian rhapsody about the life of queens freddie mercury is also in the running for the top prize it's positive

news for some of the most popular movies of the year and perhaps an attempt to address a rating slump which last year fell to its lowest level for an oscar ceremony ever gabriels on dough how does it. or at its have a recap of the headlines here announced there and venezuela's president nicolas maduro as ordered the revision of diplomatic relations with the united states that's in response to vice president might penn's declaring support for opposition leader one who is calling on venezuelans to protest on wednesday. nicolas maduro is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power he's never won the presidency in a free and fair election and he's maintained his grip of power by imprisoning anyone who dares to oppose him the united states joins with all freedom loving nations in recognizing the national assembly as the last vestige of democracy in

your country for it's the only body elected by you the people as such the united states supports the courageous decision by one. the president of your national assembly to assert that bodies constitutional powers declare madeira your serp or and call for the establishment of a transitional government. a car bomb has hit the syrian government stronghold of latakia a second device was defused one civilian was killed and fourteen were injured it is a rare attack in an area seen as the traditional home of the assad family a few days earlier another bomb hits another government stronghold in damascus the wife of an anti government activists arrested in sudan has told out zero she's had no word on husband's whereabouts sudanese american would one day i would was detained six days ago nancy wood was in the u.s. to help free him zimbabwe's human rights commission is accusing security forces of

systematic torture off the recent protests turned violent president. used twitter to condemn demonstrations the u.s. senate is likely to vote this week on bills that if passed could end the month long partial government shutdown the competing proposals by republicans and democrats would see several federal agencies really the longest government shutdown in u.s. history with hundreds of thousands of workers going without a paycheck. mexico's president has responded to last week's pipeline blast with measures to improve living conditions reforms are aimed at regions where fuel theft is more likely to take place the program focuses on jobs pensions and credit problems. all you have to date with headlines here or not is there more news coming up right after inside story.

a taliban attack in afghanistan killed dozens of security personnel on monday at the same time members of the armed group are holding talks with u.s. diplomat from qatar so is the taliban using a strategy of attacks and talks this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey afghanistan has been at war for much of the past forty years and late two thousand one hundred ited states sent troops in response to the nine eleven attacks and the withdrawal of those troops has been one of the sticking points as talks going under.