to survive twenty first century america. we cannot afford for one of us to lose a job. on our own. venezuela's nicolas maduro accuses donald trump of being part of a coup against him off the opposition a to one to kind of himself interim president. and i'm maryam namazie in london you know with al-jazeera also coming up on the program. felix tisha cadia sworn in as president of the democratic republic of congo off to basically disputed elections. as u.s. senators failed to pass rival bills to end the government shutdown trumps comus

chief angus paid workers. and police fired tear gas at protesters in greece ahead of a vote on a deal to change macedonia's name and normalize relations between the two countries . and as well as militaries pledged its allegiance to president nicolas maduro this a day off the country's opposition needed to play it himself the interim president and won the support of u.s. president donald trump who heads the national assembly for himself in as leader on wednesday twenty six people have been confirmed killed in days of protests but madeira insists he remains the only true president and accuse the opposition of launching a coup with trump's help raise a boat has been spending some time in venezuela recently she joins us live now from . and so. without the backing of the military where does this leave.

now in his attempt to challenge nicolas maduro this way. well that's the big question right now is how much power does a long way to really have it mean one thing is naming in self in three impression and it's not clear where he is right now in venezuela but what we do know is that he's already forming a cabinet he's always getting ready to names come back that is for example we know that he has officially requested the united states for humanitarian assistance there's a plan and who are some humanitarian aid to start a riot going into venezuela in the next few weeks it's not clear yet how it's going to get in its mostly going to come from the united states and the oppositions that it's going to get in but nobody really knows how the opposition is going to manage to get it into the country and also we do know that the united states diplomatic mission in that in venezuela has already presented it could ensure but that's the

power he has right now because as you just said most of the military continues to support it. what's interesting and what's happening in venezuela right now is that what we're seeing is a parallel government one upon one interim president that has a recognition of the united states and other countries in the region and also has the support of economic powers but on the other hand you have the rio power you have the armed forces that continue to support. and also continues to control institutions that of course natural resources. in a country where they were already suffering from an economic humanitarian crisis. what it will impact is this likely to have. lice of people in venezuela. when as you just said as venezuela is going through these economic crises when you are in the. in general part of that goes for example you meet people who are

desperate for some who are for medicines for example a teller that with their minimum wage very able who won't buy barely two or three packs of rice and that's why they have to line up for hours in order to be able to get some items with regulated prices and they're extremely difficult to get because the situation of the country is in right now just a week ago the government announced some economic measures in order to improve your situation they raise the minimum wage they also said that they're going to start giving away some food most every fifteen days instead of every month and different type of measures in order to a certain venezuelan in this crisis that they're going through the worst situation of be a hyper inflation what they pay is that they go to a market and the next minute the prices have gone out of enough course this current political crisis doesn't help the situation a whole lot only because it generates a lot of uncertainty for the government but also for the population that's not

forget that already around three million venezuelans have left the country coming to countries like argentina to rule brazil among others all right thank you very much to raise a boat in that going to zaire as well of course the international community has been reacting to all of this and is right much divided in which side is battling in venezuela along with russia along with russia turkey has also expressed support for the embattled leader calling him a brother this nicolas maduro china also standing behind the douro mexico that makes goals and says it still recognizes the door as president the now while bolivia and cuba say they remain would do as committed allies as well but you have a very different position being taken by canada which is join the united states in calling son nicholas madieu or to resign brazil is also back in one go along with argentina chile colombia and guatemala meanwhile in europe the united kingdom and space. endorsing but the european union has been

a bit more cautious they've stopped short of full fledged support according to new elections to take place instead well venezuela's president has now ordered the cocksure of its embassy and consulates in the united states now this came off to a situation in venezuela top the gender it's a meeting of the organization of american states in washington i am estabrook has more on that the meeting of the thirty five members of the oas was really an opportunity for all of these states to sort of weigh in vocally on what is going on right now in venezuela we heard from the u.s. we heard from canada we heard from brazil we heard from power of the way all of these countries throwing their support behind why why don't the most forceful was that of my palm peo who asked all of the member states to get behind why go and asked me to step aside. oh yes member states must align themselves with

democracy and respect for the rule of law all member states who have committed to uphold the in american democratic charter must now recognize the interim president the time for debate is done the regime of former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt. economically incompetent it is profoundly corrupt. it is democratic. now other states like venezuela called. intervention or the proclamation of being the new president of akin to a coup d'etat we heard the same thing from nicaragua we also heard from el salvador supporting duro other countries a little bit more muted saying that they saw a dangerous precedent with other nations getting involved in another country's affairs the united states according to my palm peo is going to be pledging twenty

million dollars in humanitarian aid to that country in the form of food and medication he also said that the united states would help. rebuild its country. now feelings to she katie has been sworn in as the new president of the democratic republic of congo he takes office off her basically just today lection december to see katy was integrated at the palace of the nation in kinshasa where the former president joseph kabila handed over power for me to mina was that. arriving at the palace of the nation to be sworn into office felix to secure the city to become the democratic republic of congo's fifth president since independence from belgium in the one nine hundred sixty s. . for many congolese the same really matters deeply in

a country having dealt with decades of conflict and violence it's the first peaceful handover of power since independence under symbol of change after eighteen years of rule under joseph could be the. last month's election was bitterly fought the country's new president came with a message of reconciliation. and. we want to build a strong congo in its cultural diversity we will promote its development in peace and security a conduit for each and every one where everybody will have his or her own place. the formal ceremony soon turned into a celebration there were loud cheers from the thousands of people would gathered on the lawns of the palace of the nation throughout the proceedings and continued people here are excited about the message coming from the new president felix just a katie one of unity for my remark i am very happy to hear myself the former and the new president calling for unity this will help us to live in

a very good society without discrimination directly on barbara that we are here to welcome our new president and we ask him to please address our problems from the street all the way up to help children get off the streets and find jobs is to make your demand as good as a feeling of joy because it's the first time for me to see a peaceful transition in my country and a significant first to see this example which will help in our future but not everything went according to plan it was confusion and panic as the president fell ill during his address we were told to stop filming. soon after the president resumed his speech no official explanation was given but the people we spoke to here said the president was simply overcome by the occasion just one african head of state was seen at the ceremony kenya's president of. the african and european union said expressed concern about the way the election was

conducted but did recognize the outcome. however little can take away from the optimism many feel with the new president now sworn in that mood will be tested in the months to come as felix security deals with the challenges facing the democratic republic of congo for me to mina kinshasa. are bringing you the latest developments from sudan now where is two protesters have been killed the deaths were announced hours after security forces fired tear gas at protesters in the capital hartin university students while president and lara bashir to step down protests have broken out in several sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally they have been daily demonstrations against the shares rule since last month the government says twenty nine people have been killed in the on rest but rights groups are saying that the death toll is much higher how many vote has more now from hartin protests took place in several parts of khartoum to the out of seventeen locations that were programmed by the organizers at least ten have been

confirmed to us so protesters came out in the streets vodou than ever before in the cup of coffee to a month or so we have reports of protests taking place in at least three major cities in the interior these include port sudan but 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. it was al jazeera live from london still ahead on the program the abba c.e.o. says the company might take flight if the u.k. government leaves the year without a deal and climate campaign is appeal to business leaders while the economic forum in davos as the u.n. chief warns we are losing the race against climate change.

because signs of a brief press fighting that heat across the southeastern corner of australia kids to see if this band of cloud which will make its way through just in that even those temperatures down as we go on through the next couple of days then further north we've got a disturbance around the gulf of carpentaria that may well develop into a tropical side and we have got typical side primarily just off the coast of the room just affecting the prober a coast and as we go on through the next couple of days wet weather right up in those northern parts of australia further south well there's that hate still in place from melbourne on friday forty degrees celsius thirty celsius there for adelaide after a record breaking heat so that represents something of a respite and that response will not its way into the southeast as we go on through saturday said twenty seven for melbourne by the state maybe about twenty three

twenty four for melted as we go on into sunday said looking better for the finals of the tennis taking place here this weekend at twenty seven left a perth as well forty one in alice the wet weather that will continue across northern parts of the country with the possibility the likelihood of some flooding here then may well basin pieces of rain like no way across new zealand but when you look in pretty good here over the next couple of days all come with a high of twenty three. in afghanistan billions of dollars of international aid have been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when he needs girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them on al-jazeera. saudi has never been a real easy sell for investment approach are the reserves drug rule are they understandably or overstated they own those shares in your company or the people

buy. them back to recap the top stories this hour venezuela's military has pledged its allegiance to president nicolas maduro a day after country's opposition leader declared himself the interim president. believes. he has been sworn in as the democratic republic of congo's new leader at a ceremony in the capital kinshasa and at least two more protesters have been killed in sudan earlier security forces fired tear gas of students rallying against president bashir in the capital khartoum. on out to the u.s.

where two rival proposals to end the partial shutdown have fallen short in the senate one was a bill backed by republican president donald trump to end the shutdown by funding the war on the us mexico border the other bill supported by democrats to reopen closed agencies without such funding nih the goal of it's required to advance in the hundred member chamber when mike hanna joins us live now from washington and there is now this new bipartisan amendment to temporarily reopen some agencies and that's going to be unveiled a bit late tonight but i suppose the question is whether the president trying would support such an initiative. well that is just one off the many things that are being discussed at the moment in the wake of the failure the expected failure of both those bills in the senate there are a number of discussions underway among them but tween the senate leaders democrats republican the president's office the white house has issued a statement from press secretary sorry sarah saunders saying that yes these

discussions are going on but repeating that even that short term funding three weeks to allow for discussions to take place must come along with a down payment as she put it for president trump's wall so very clearly this still very difficult discussions even if there is going to be some kind of compromise deal but what is significant in those votes in senate today is that only one democrat to cross the floor to support the trump vote however six republicans broke ranks and joined that democratic party vote that was drawn up by the democrats so certainly this is significant clear signs of a split within republicans over this whole issue remembering as well that before the shutdown the republicans in the senate voted unanimously on that to build very similar to this one introduced by the democrats they've only changed their minds because president changed his mind and repudiated that particular bull but the

shutdown continuing no sign of an end in sight mounting economic cost this being downplayed by the commerce secretary will russ. the. credit union should be making credit to them when you think about it these are basically government goons because the government has committed these folks will get their birth once this whole thing good search will go so the roof is no good excuse why the really should be required to be crisis through the people might have to have been through with the idea of the it's or zero is not a really valid. and democrats seized on those comments to say that trying to ministration officials are out of touch has there been much of a backlash against the trumpet ministration as

a result of this shutdown well in many ways it's been a very significant backlash indeed in fact president trump's approval ratings have dropped by ten percentage points since this shutdown began very clearly other polls indicate that the vast majority of americans hold president trump and his administration responsible for this ongoing shutdown many point to that point i made a little earlier before the shutdown all republicans in the senate supported the bill that was discussed today that has been passed repeatedly in the house yet because president trump suddenly changed his mind about it they will no longer supported the seen as deeply cynical and one of the many reasons why it does appear the majority of americans hold president trump and is that ministration directly responsible thank you very much mike mike hanna with the latest for us from washington. all now to greece there have been demonstrations in the capital ahead

of a delayed vote on a landmark agreement with macedonia parliament will now decide on friday whether to buy plans for greece's neighbor to change its name to north macedonia protesters gathered outside the parliament building as the debate took place inside polls show at least two thirds of greek suppose the deal which will normalize relations between the two countries after decades of disagreement. has more from athens. a few thousand protesters gathered outside parliament on thursday evening to tell the government that they do not want the precipice agreements the macedonian name change deal to be decided in parliament they wanted to go to referendum two thirds of greeks agree with them in a new poll out today they also tried to keep this protest peaceful however they were not ultimately successful hundreds of young hooded coated youth were gathered outside parliament alongside them they were. evidently looking to make

trouble or at least some of them were eventually they succeeded firing flares and fireworks at the police who were guarding the parliament compound and those police responded with tear gas and there ensued a small pitched battle on the avenue outside the parliament compound eventually that peaceful protest and a violent protest were. ended by the police action the police have now taken control of the area in front of parliament again around the same time as that happened the debate inside the chamber ended with the leader of the opposition and the prime minister they have been locked in mutual recrimination about whether cities has respected greek red lines and foreign policy tradition on the macedonian issue the opposition conservatives have said the government has crossed red lines by recognizing macedonian ethnicity and language of nationality and this they say

will create problems in the future rather than solve this problem the government says it's kept absolutely to those red lines that the former yugoslav macedonian side has made far more concessions in the greek side and that in fact the agreement. will definitively defend those greek red lines. a former governor of the indonesian capital jakarta has been released after serving two years in prison for blasphemy a secret to higher pronominal more commonly known by his nickname was the first ethnic chinese and christian governor of the capital from jakarta step fast and sent us this report. a handful of supporters celebrating the former governor's release in the latter hire poor mamma had asked people not to come to the prison to greet him instead to quietly laugh together with his son who posted this on his account. i have no words to describe how

happy i am two years he was here in prison two years for something you strongly believe who was falsely accused. to know 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 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. urged to tone down celebrations for his release just three months to go to the elections the campaign team rather than jokingly dodo is concerned that remarks by the outspoken former governor could endanger the platinum

reelection. so instead of attending welcome parties i 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. although he got a prison sentence we respect the fact that he went through the legal process. he starts doing the same thing again if he becomes noisy again will leave it up to the people. sat he doesn't want to be called by his chinese nickname a hawk any longer a sign you want to make a clean start in the lottery also societies thankful for his time in prison because otherwise he would have become more arrogant the main question now is when the controversial former governor who breaks his silence and return to politics stopped last an al-jazeera chatter and now british politicians and international lawyers

are demanding the right to visit female activists and their male supporters detained in saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations they are being tortured and detained and denied legal representation charlie angela explains. on camera these are some of the saudi activists the british politicians and international law is a demanding access to they want to investigate allegations that the women are being illegally detained and tortured the women some of them academics were campaigning for the right to drive in the relaxing of male guardianship rules they say they've been given electric shocks whipped water boarded and sexually harassed in unofficial detention centers inside the kingdom are two sides to this story and what i want us to be able to do is to be able to fairly report. on both and come to a judgment about. the progress of human rights in saudi arabia the request comes as the saudi government struggles with the international fallout from the killing of

jamal khashoggi the journalist was killed by a saudi hit team in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul in october. britain is saudi second most important partner for arms sales and security but the murder of khashoggi has put the human rights record under scrutiny it seems as though the torture took place merely to humiliate the women merely to teach them a lesson. to perhaps make them afraid to talk and say anything once they once they leave detention saudi arabia denies the allegations of mistreatment but this panel are insisting on visiting the women themselves that is being sent that saudi arabia is not responding to the requests the campaign to say they will publish a report on january twenty ninth detailing the evidence collected by human rights watch and amnesty international if saddam refuses to comply charlie rangel al-jazeera london. and while in developments here the chief executive of abbas has

warned it could move its u.k. operations out of the country if there is a no deal departure from the e.u. tom enders says brights it is threatening to destroy a century of development in the u.k. which has been a global leader in aviation. these don't listen to the brakes it is madness which asserts that because we have huge plants year we will not move and we will always be here they are wrong of course it is not possible to pick up and move our large u.k. factories to other parts of the world immediately however aerospace is a long term business and we could be forced to redirect future investments in the event of a no deal breaks it and make no mistakes there are plenty of countries over who would love to build the wings for airbus aircraft now u.n. chief antonio the terrorist has warned the world is losing the race against climate change and the world economic forum in davos he said the political will to enact change was slowing but at

a climate science camp on the slopes at davos jeddah how found the world's decision makers might finally be listening to the warnings. hi on the world economic forum agenda this year is climate change recognized by many decision makers here is both a threat to the planet and in the business of mitigating its effects and opportunity so high above davos climate scientists have made camp to explain how fast melting arctic ice affects weather patterns and rising sea levels so we think about these extreme weather events that we're starting to see more happening more frequent and more persistent around the globe a lot of this is tied to what's happening in the arctic today sixteen year old sister thurman burke was joined by a young swedish activist spent a day a week throughout two thousand and eighteen protesting for government action against climate change we are facing the biggest crisis humanity has faced and what we do now what we do or don't do right now we reflect my entire life and the lives

of my children and grandchildren the point about an event like this isn't just to show off a bunch of scientists and activists braving subzero temperatures they do that sort of thing all the time it's a way of bringing home to the davos elite the reality and urgency of climate change among them of course the sort of people who can make real change happen leading climate change negotiator christiana figueres was a key figure in bringing about the recent paris agreement she believes big business is finally listening i were beginning to understand that if you ask climate change this is the biggest problem that humanity faces. at the same time wrestling climate change to harmonize it investing into public infrastructure. is actually missing. and if they are listening it's despite the trumpet ministration pulling out of the paris accord. spired i think it gave an opportunity for businesses to go faster i

think cities are also growing faster we have to act and business can act much. government reason perhaps for optimism that out of crisis comes opportunity and opportunity there is hope john i'll just here at davos switzerland. time for another quick look at the top stories this hour venezuela's president nicolas maduro is criticized his u.s. counterpart donald trump accusing him of being part of a coup in his country this is a day on the opposition to one declared himself the interim president and one trunk support in a speech when tourists said he will close or venezuelan embassies and consulates in the united states i want him to know that you know henceforth the president is to be elected in washington the whoever wants to be president can take the old in the

street they want to this member the republic they want to this member of the nation under very conception of the democratic state they want to intervene in venezuela and the way they've chosen to do that is impose a puppet president who is self-proclaimed defrocked or situational. and all the top stories this hour felix u.k. has been sworn in as the democratic republic of congo's new president after disputed elections. seeking to believe. it's the first peaceful transfer of power since independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty the central african nation has experienced two years of turmoil this was sparked by outgoing president joseph kabila as refusal to step down. now to sudan where at least two more protesters have been killed these deaths were announced just hours after security forces fired tear gas at students who were

protesting against president tomorrow bashir in the capital far too protests have broken out in several sudanese cities following a call by trade unions for a mass rally have been daily demonstrations against bashir is the rule since last month. and to measures to end the partial u.s. shutdown fallen short in the senate one was a bill backed by republican president donald trump to end the shutdown by funding the war on the us mexico border the other a bill supported by the democrats to reopen closed agencies without such funding so the deadlock over that shutdown continues you are up to date with our top stories this hour coming up next one zero one east investigates the scandal in afghanistan schools that's it for myself in the team here in london more news from doha later. the week began with views of ninety days truce in the to perturb u.s. china trade war the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving

the biggest oil cartel we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost although it is zero. in war torn afghanistan simply going to school can be a privilege. especially if you're a girl. and i'm going. to out of three girls don't attend school despite billions of dollars in aid spent on education over the last two decades. i'm steve chat on this episode of one of what he used to be investigate why so many of afghanistan's girls are kept outside of the classroom.