al-jazeera. and. go. russia china turkey reiterate their support for nicolas maduro after the u.s. and others declare he is no longer venezuela's president. when your child has ever lived headquarters hearing also coming up. as the democratic republic of congo's new president after election fraud with delays and. british politicians and lawyers for saudi arabia to respond to their requests to visit detained activists. the former governor of jakarta is

a free man after two years in prison for blasphemy why his supporters have been us to tone down the celebrations. welcome to the program geo political divisions a wide thing over the past rago in venezuela russia china and turkey are amongst the countries throwing their support behind president nicolas maduro after the u.s. and some latin american powers declared that he's no longer in charge. who heads the national assembly after he declared himself the legitimate president explains. thousands of people responded to the call by the opposition to take to the streets they're calling for freedom and they won venezuela's security forces to join their fight to end the presidency. we are using what they are throwing at us to continue with our protests we want an end to the usurper and demand freedom.

bill sloper they talk about is nicole a model who was sworn in for another six year term earlier this month. when what you will is the man that challenges his illegitimacy he's the president of the national assembly at powerless opposition controlled body that has proclaimed him the country's interim president karl rove i swear to assume the powers of the national executive as the interim president of venezuela to secure an end to the usurpation and treasonous government and to have free elections if it is to be let god and country reward us and if not let god and country demand. on wednesday why the last claim to office was recognized by u.s. president donald trump and several other leaders in the region who regard nichol as mother with a dictator he still controls the military and the country's main institutions. accuse the united states of promoting a coup to take control of venezuela's oil resources considered to be the largest in

the world and could be undone in his journey into feeling more jews used to rejoice war before the people to respect him be respected and be independent sovereignty and the peace of the republic are decided to break diplomatic and political relations with the imperialist government of the united states those on the street say they are tired of an economic crisis that has forced millions of people to flee their country venezuela's national guard used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse them. the united nations is asking both the government and the opposition to deescalate the situation and agree on a dialogue but those who oppose the government say the time for talk is. they want solutions for the problems millions of people in venezuela face every day and have stopped believing. has the answers to resolve them well truth about joins me now live from buenos aires and turns to rezone sure as the sun rose where you are.

everybody is wondering really what's in store politicians and public alike across venezuela. well that's the big question that everyone's asking after wednesday tension that we have seen n.g.o.s are reporting that at least fourteen people were killed over four hundred people detained by security forces massive protests all around the country most of them against the presidency off. where there were also fans of people supporting the president that took to the streets we also heard that for a third consecutive night there's been no telling at. protests in very poor neighborhoods in venezuela clashes between the police and those people internationally and all the other human rights organization that asking too many forces to protect the population and asking them to protect the people's rights to demonstrate that while all of this is all going in the country and even though.

that he was breaking diplomatic relations with the united states and also giving diplomatic personnel to leave the country is seventy two hours. why you go who called himself a name himself the interim president of venezuela he's also in hiding is asking the diplomatic missions to remain the united states has answered back saying that very diplomatic mission will remain in the country and is warning the government of venezuela that if anything happens to them there will be consequences of course we'll continue to follow with you treat through the day thanks very much. nervous waiver was once the richest country in south america let's take a closer look at it steep decline one little smoother as predecessor hugo chavez was sworn in as president in one thousand nine hundred nine his charismatic personality and populist message resonated with poor venezuelans in two thousand and four prices surged in venezuela's all dependent economy boomed sheva spent

billions of the profits on social welfare programs for the poor in march twenty thirty in his died at age fifty eight madeira his hand-picked successor was sworn in as president a month later in twenty fourteen oil prices plummeted venezuela's deficit increased and social programs for the paul had to be cut two years later madeira declared a state of emergency hiking petrol prices and devaluing the currency and in twenty eighteen major was reelected president with forty eight percent of voter turnout three months later he survived an assassination a tent and mass protests calling from a juror to resign continue paul dobson is a journalist to venezuela analysis dot com he says one of those attempts to take over power is unconstitutional. well there where those reading of the constitution is unique i would have to say i've studied the constitution very closely myself and no point does it allow for the president of the parliament or the national center

is to take over power in this way there are certain clauses written into the constitution in the case of a absolute absence of power for example if a president dies or is seriously ill or abandons his role and disappeared from the country for example these are example written into the constitution then there are procedures in place as to who will take power whilst we hold new elections but none of these conditions have been met. we can consider one by those who attempt to manipulate the constitution to benefit as merely political and anyone with an understanding of the wording of the venezuelan lauren constitution realizes that he doesn't have a foot to stand on human rights watch and a group of british m.p.'s a saudi arabia has failed to respond to their request to visit saudi women activists in detention that had line of january the ninth for the response by the saudi embassy has not been met. we're not formally engaged to i say

we present to the panel and unless it's to the saudi ambassador on the second of january and then a couple of weeks later we didn't follow it up with a less. formally of congratulations to the new foreign minister in saudi arabia and also again in that. front door drawing attention to the the outstanding requests that there was to the saudi government to engage with us and oversee giving the reasons why we believe it would be a wise thing to do for saudi arabia to officially engage with us and enable us as a panel to be able to consider. that side of the. side of the story alongside the evidence that has come from your rights watch and amnesty international and other organizations including one might say the united states state department charlie rangel has more from london. what they're looking at in particular the treatment of the eight women and four men who were arrested between

may and june and the charges were not specified these are celebrities of the international women's movement academics who've been campaigning for the right to drive in saudi arabia and the engine made male guardianship rules. just about every day passes these the real icons of the women's week in saudi arabia and they say that. the allegations are that between may and who they think taken to an official detention center and the allegations have emerged of electric shock we think of water boarding sexual harassment and psychological torture now the human rights watch representative said what was difficult to understand about this is that normally saudi authorities. when they are treating detainees and i say i'm only trying to elicit some kind of action. names of other people that they would want to arrest this doesn't seem to be the case with these detainees seems that the sole

purpose is to humiliate so saudi arabia does say it has made its own inquiries into the treatment of these women but as the panel here said they are not independent of the saudi the. democratic republic of congo's new president. has called for reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leader's swearing in marks the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium. president calls on the public to support his successor following an election play by delays technical problems and allegations of vote rigging. and. we want to believe. in its cultural diversity we will promote its development in peace and security. for each and every one everybody will have his for her own place if this stage of this democracy is the end of the conflict we also have to think of the new era the new destiny the

beginning of our fight we want all the people to be involved. well staying on the continent security forces have fired student protesters in saddam's capital khartoum the university students were calling for president bashir to step down protests have broken out in several sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally there be daily demonstrations against bashir thirty year rule mohamed el has more from khartoum protests took place in several parts of khartoum today out of seventy locations that were programmed by the organizers at least ten have been confirmed to us so protesters came out in the streets larger than ever before in the couple of katu a month or so we have reports of protests taking place in at least three major cities in the interior these include port sudan and then he got out of an important development or so is that a larger than ever before we have reports of protests in smaller villages in the in the far flung parts of the country so by far we can say that this is the biggest

turnout of protesters across the country since the beginning of this movement that started more than a month ago still here. i think that's a great blotch on the incredible country that we all of you know donald trump is forced to wait until the partial government shutdown is over to deliver his state of the union address and the bricks that count says warning it may fly some of its operations out of britain. in a welcome back warehouse parts of china we're not seeing too much and terms of rain over the next few days we are going to be seeing some cooler temperatures though coming in from the north particular up here toward shanghai so today and going into

tomorrow we're going to be seeing a high time for here on friday at about twelve degrees but notice as we go towards saturday it does come down to about six you can see those northerly winds coming into play fuzhou at fourteen and hong kong is going to be a partly cloudy day with attempt a few of twenty one in taipei a little bit cooler at fifteen degrees there as you make your way over here towards parts of india will not looking too bad for much of the interior we do have some clouds making their way across much of the higher elevations down here towards the south sri lanka you're going to be seeing partly cloudy conditions but no rain in your forecast across much of the region temps are there of thirty degrees and then as we go towards saturday maybe dropping one degree there but still mostly to partly cloudy across much of the area hyderabad though could be picking up a rain shower too with a temperature of about twenty four degrees and then here across the gulf of the next few days temperatures are on the rise so here in doha twenty five degrees is expected high here on friday with abu dhabi see about twenty six clouds just up here towards the north but as we go towards saturday temperatures are on their way

up we are going to see a twenty six partly cloudy at twenty seven. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limit i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to pave the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera.

of america of watching officer to remind us of our top stories rights groups say as many as thirteen people have been killed in the past couple of days in venezuela opposition leader has declared himself interim president challenging nicholas duros grip. human rights watch and a group of british m.p.'s say saudi arabia has failed to respond to their request to visit tamed saudi female activists the deadline for january the ninth for a response by the saudi embassy has not been met. the democratic republic of congo's new president. has called for reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leader swearing in was the first peaceful transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium let's stay with the story and join for me to meet our correspondent who's following events force in kinshasa joins me now on the phone and it hasn't quite gone according to plan for me to. no i

have just brought up a lot of confusion in the last few minutes with the president next to the table with just for me in that class bunker call them was addressed to thousands of. people are going to able to pull. family watched over and. then she has no good. she. gets all sorts. of units in the congo with no reports to face. election. it's a lot of emphasis on how the democratic congo is experiencing this first of all times over and i think this is the least that's a new president i want to put the cost to the people in some.

form of this isn't just a good deal of talk about how this is something that's really should keep. president. is continuing for the moment i think we'll leave it there are some meta scenes of the phone line is not so great but we'll watching those live pictures coming out of can show us where the new presidency is just kita is actually continuing his acceptance speech as the president calls the coast guard. u.s. president donald trump person has phoned his state of the union address after the partial government shutdown ends nancy pelosi the speaker of the democratic majority house of representatives had already disinvited trump from delivering the speech tweeting earlier president trump said i will do the address when the shutdown is over i am not looking for alternative venue for the state of the union address because there is no venue that can compete with the history tradition and importance of the house chamber i will look forward to giving

a great state of the union address in the near future cross over to complete health at our correspondent in washington who's following events for us and of course it really is all about this stalemate that seems no closer to a resolution. and there had been some hope that there is a vote taking place in the u.s. senate thursday to try and reopen the government but it really is largely political posturing there is no expectation that this will pass either of the measures that are being voted on the first is a republican proposal it gives donald trump the five point seven billion that he's looking for and allows the government reopen but there is a need for democratic support on this is well and there are simply not enough democrats willing to support this republican measure so it's expected to fail the other measure that has already been passed by the house that is controlled by democrats is not expected to pass in the senate because what it does in the senate

is controlled by republicans what this bill does is it gives donald trump the money that he is partially looking for in terms of border security but not for the wall and that is the sticking point in all of this donald trump has been insistent so this effort to open the government health every eight under the democratic proposal is also expected to fail what we see here again is both sides continuing to dig in as we're now into day thirty four of the shutdown because you see day thirty full complete in the ramifications of that. government. yeah there is a ripple effect and starting to take place and what we're seeing is warnings from the federal court system that after january thirty first they're going to have to prioritize cases that means that only criminal cases will be looked at the civil cases that are before federal judges will be put on hold we're also seeing warnings from cyber security experts that feel that there is an increased risk of american

infrastructure being affected in terms of cyber security that there's a crease risk to attack the f.b.i. says that they will potentially not be able to do criminal charges that could put public safety at risk and when it comes to those airport screeners those t.s.a. agents many are now saying they can't afford the gas to get to work in fact it's now one in ten that appears to be calling in sick this is significantly up from the same time last year school lunch programs national parks piling up with trash what we're seeing is this ripple effect as we see lawmakers really kind of turning a blind eye to the effects this is having and the impact is having on ordinary americans choosing divergent paths instead of compromise if one will even be completely whole still over this with you through that i think you would least israel has approved a payment transfer to gaza so withholding is maybe three weeks the fifteen million dollars comes from the tones possible program to from the wages of civil servants

and generate power charles trumpet has been in gaza. she's gaza's only power station it has an operation in full capacity for many years now a lot of the money that he's being donated by qatar will go towards fueling the station so vital for the two million people living here in gaza that suffer blackouts sometimes up to twelve hours a day now hamas is saying the main reason why we've seen this delay in the transferring of this contact cash is all to do with politics during election season inside israel is a tried to do to blood militia the policy is said this is part of the understanding or dead agreement and now they are in the middle of the election competition so they tried to use it you know no gaza is no and indeed center of the. election time being in israel if you don't try to use it either way to still deliver this

need to me at all been a liberal in all of them defocus in gaza did. distribute that position here and there so i think this is the money off the or cut that it initially as part of the would be political competition between daisy parties israel says one of the reasons why there has been a delay in getting the qatar cash here into gaza was because an israeli soldier was injured by palestinian gunfire close to the border earlier this week now hamas says all the main political factions here are committee to to this cease fire agreement but they also say that with or without conscious money the weekly protests along the border against israel's more than ten year land and sea blockade will continue child stoppard al-jazeera gaza. north korea's leader kim jong un says he trusts u.s. president donald trump's approach as officials from both countries prepare for another

summit north korean state media say kim is satisfied after receiving a letter from trapeze ordered preparations for a second meeting a trump saying he'll wait for patience and in good faith now this follows weeks of warnings that kim could seek a new path if the u.s. did not lift its sanctions or mcbride has update from. south korea near the demilitarized zone. this latest statement from north korea follows a visit last week by north korea's chief negotiator kim yong child to washington during which he hand delivered a letter from kim jong un to president trump of the u.s. well now it appears the president has sent a letter in return that's been hand delivered to kim of north korea the statement from the official north korean news agency says that chairman kim has welcomed this letter as being a sign of positive thinking on the part of the u.s. president and saying that the two countries are still very much working towards their shared goals in this forth coming summit between the two leaders exactly what

those goals are though remain unspecified that according to critics of this whole process has been the problem all along lacking substance nonetheless here in south korea these positive signs are largely welcomed by most people as being a building on the reconciliation of the past year especially in places like here very close to the d.m.z. the militarized border separating the two careers where people do report a change in the level of tension. in the community ordinary people don't know but it's quite stressful for the soldiers at the border and even a minor all to cation cause a lot of tension. but the peace process we should approach it more thoughtfully and gradually the more level headed. people in south korea are hoping that a successful second summit between trump and kim especially if it leads to exemptions in some of the sanctions on north korea could pave the way for

a long anticipated visit to south korea by kim jong un but kim has warned in a new year statement that unless sanctions are ease that north korea he says may be forced to follow a different path or form a scottish for. minister alex salmond has been arrested and charged with an unspecified offense and he's due to appear in court on thursday some of the scottish government for seven years until twenty fourteen and was the leader of the failed attempt to gain independence from the united kingdom while staying in the u.k. airbus is warning it could shift its winged building operations out of britain if the country crashes out of the e.u. without a deal the company has appealed to u.k. parliament to avoid such a no deal scenario employs fourteen thousand people throughout the united kingdom that c.e.o. says there are many other countries which would be happy to house its operations the u.k.'s errors basic to now stands at the precipice brics it is threatening to

destroy a century of development based on education research and human capital it was a no deal breaker we are there both will have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the u.k. french carmaker rana has the interior boller as its new c john dominique is center as its chairman after the resignation of goon and has been detained in japan since his arrest on suspicion of financial misconduct in november the sixty four year old was removed from missiles board almost immediately but there are still questions over the future of the rent only son and it's a big alliance denies the allegations natasha butler has more than paris. well this is a new chapter in rene's history of the forty years as it's chair called those go now has resigned he remains in detention in japan now the board of french carmaker have appointed a new chairman it's

a job done now that he was in charge of the mission group to make tires another huge french industrial giant and also now says that he has two main priorities going forward one is to restore calm to renault a company that's been shaken over the past two months by the go in case he also says that he wants to try and secure renault's a lion's with mitsubishi motors and this and the two japanese carmakers that make this a trio of auto makers along with but it will be a challenging task because up until now it was callers go there was in charge of all three of those companies and he was the one that kept that alliance together for magickal as a governor. also known as a whole being released after serving two years in prison on blasphemy charges in twenty sixteen the first ethnic chinese and christian governor of the capital made comments about a verse in the koran which led to massive protests in reports. handful of

supporters celebrating the former governor's release in a latin higher poor mamma had asked people not to come to look prison to greet him instead he quietly left together with his son who posted this on this account that . means that the number i have no words to describe how happy i am two years he was here in prison two years for something you strongly believe he was falsely accused. the noma better known as a hawk was a popular governor because of his efforts to clean up just kept us corrupt bureaucracy and improve infrastructure but after of video went viral in which he questioned the use of a qur'anic verse all went rapidly downhill for him that the mass rallies by conservative groups left to his arrest and he lost his reelection bid his case was widely seen as a sign of increasing intolerance against minorities in indonesia supporters of

former governor. bush to tone down celebrations for his release just three months to go to the election is the campaign team rather than job three dodo is concerned that remarks by the outspoken former governor could endanger the platinum reelection. so instead of attending welcome parties bernama will go on vacation and accept speaking engagements abroad there are reports he wants to start his own television show that's likely to worry the government because opponents are watching while all the money and. all thought he got a lenient prison sentence we respect the fact that he went through the legal process but if he starts doing the same thing again if he becomes noisy again i will leave it up to the people. has sat he doesn't want to be called by his chinese nickname a hawk any longer a sign you wants to make a clean start in the latter he also satie's thankful for his time in prison because

otherwise he would have become more arrogant the main question now is when the controversial former governor break his silence and return to politics step last an al-jazeera check after. their own so wrong a reminder of all top stories rights groups say as many as thirteen people are being killed in the past couple of days in venezuela opposition leaders. why there are has declared himself interim president challenging nicolas maduro his grip on power human rights watch and the group of british m.p.'s say saudi arabia has failed to respond to their requests to visit detained female activists the deadline of january the ninth for a response by the saudi embassy has not been that the democratic republic of congo's new president phyllis chesler kadir has called for reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leaders swearing in march the first peaceful

transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium on going all outgoing in fact president joseph kabila called on the public to support his successor following the next election plagued by delays technical problems and allegations of vote rigging. we want to build a strong congo in its cultural diversity we will promote its development in peace and security a congo for each and every one everybody will have his or her own place if this stage of this democracy is the end of the conflict we also have to think of the new era the new destiny the beginning of our fight we want all the people to be involved in security forces of fired teargas of student protesters in sudan's capital khartoum the university students were calling for president omar al bashir to step down protests have broken out in several sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally have been daily demonstrations against bush is the rules rights groups

accuse the government of violently cracking down on the protesters. u.s. president trump has postponed his state of the union address until after the partial government shutdown ends the move was welcomed by house speaker nancy pelosi. to accept a funding proposal to end the shutdown now and its thirty fourth day. refused to receive a donation under the current israeli conditions describing it as blackmail. arrived in gaza after. fifteen million dollars guitar a donation from the civil service fuel shipments it's part of a wider aid program initiated by. was blocked by the israeli government those are the headlines here on news and. it's the stream to stay with us. every week brings a series of breaking stories. as we turn the cameras on the media

focus on how they report on the stories that matter. on al-jazeera. and here in the. security crackdown on anti-government protests we explore where the country is headed as it navigates an economic crisis but first have a look at this report by al-jazeera correspondent. last week demonstrated against the fuel price hike which had more than doubled overnight the government responded with force more than six hundred people were arrested. zimbabwe's human rights commission says more people died in last week's protests and during post-election violence president.