one hundred people watching you know he had to be fun to. see beyond the paradox of keep it up because if it if anybody wants al-jazeera selects. what is the. diplomatic and political crisis. that's diplomats from. headquarters in doha but the problem also ahead a u.n.

special. investigation into the. federal. funding crisis and tension and gas in the greek capital have a. name change agreement with macedonia. has been shunned by neighbors declared and legitimate by the u.s. and denounced and mass protests but venezuela's president. is hanging on to his position and he secured the backing of the powerful military the supreme court as well as russia and china is accusing the u.s. of trying to stage a coup after donald trump recognized opposition why though as an interim president washington has a solid as diplomats to leave venezuela for security reasons. the reports from cope

with the on venezuela's border with colombia. one after the other venezuelan regional military commanders took to the airwaves to the clearly l.t. to president nicolas maduro saying that the opposition efforts to replace him with the transitional government were an attempted coup was a position reiterated by the country's defense minister bloody me by but. i learned the people of venezuela that a coup is being carried out against our institutions against our democracy against our constitution against our president nicolas maduro the legitimate president of the bully varian republic of venezuela it was a show of unity and strength for the embattled government of unequal assman doodle and it came the day after the largest anti-government demonstrations in the country since two thousand and seventeen in after the younger position lead their one way door proclaim themselves illegitimate interim president. in this well

a number of countries including the united states have backed away those claim to legitimacy and on terror as the u.s. state secretary michael. time was up the time for debate is. the regime of former president nicolas maduro just illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt. economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt the president answered ordering all venezuelan diplomats home from the united states and giving us diplomats in venezuela seventy two hours to leave other world powers like russia and china came to my rescue warning the u.s. against external intervention in the country. just as. it is another flagrant interference into internal affairs of a sovereign state as you know there has been several attempts to oust from power including attempts on his life is just ridiculous. here in the border city of

thousands of venezuelans keep crossing into colombe on a daily basis in search of food medicine and basic health services they can't access is back home they say they've received the latest news from venezuela with a mix of hope and wariness i look at you know we needed this to happen to bring about change and fortunately it will take more. is not an option. local n.g.o.s say twenty six people have been killed since the latest wave of protests against my doodle began four days ago the president called for dialogue with the opposition but few see any alternatives to more turmoil in the coming days alison and. well the u.s. secretary of state has been leading the push to recognize venezuela this new data at a meeting of the organization of american states on estabrook was there she said this report 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 horrible way all of these countries throwing their support behind one why don't the most forceful was that of my palm peo who asked all of the member states to get behind and asked me to step aside. oas member states must align themselves with democracy and respect for the rule of law all member states who have committed in american democratic charter must not recognize the interim president the time for debate is time the regime former president nicolas maduro is illegitimate his regime is morally bankrupt. second obviously incompetent but it is profoundly

corrupt it is democratic to the. now other states like venezuela called. intervention or the proclamation of being the new president 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 com 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 let's move on to other news now the un special rapporteur will. travel to turkey next week to head an independent international inquiry into the mood of the germans

to kushal. had a modern evaluate the calls of the circumstances of the crime and to what extent states and individuals are responsible for the canning should report our findings and recommendations to the un human rights council and. this is a visit by a special aperture a day work independently of us and they can follow their own guidelines in terms of dealing with topics such as in this case the topic of extrajudicial executions you're aware of the position of the secretary general about the need for a full and transparent investigation and he continues to stand by that james bays explains how this investigation is different. let's put this into context there's been for many months a call from human rights groups for a panel of inquiry or a commission of inquiry set up by one of the main bodies of the un the general assembly the security council or the human rights council that is not what this is this is an initiative of dr agnes kalamata she holds an important un position as

the special rapporteur on judicial executions arbitrary killings and summary killings now under the existing remit she can visit anywhere she wants and that's what she's doing she's going to turkey she is independent she is international because she's a u.n. experts so this in those terms is an independent international inquiry it's also worth noting that any special rapporteurs when they go on a trip anywhere around the world at the end of it right so report to the human rights council she so she will be representing a report but this is not a formal commission of inquiry having said that saudi arabia should be worried about this because she has already said in fact in an interview with me in november that given the senior figures that were involved in the killing she believes on the information that's publicly available that saudi arabia is culpable for the death

to the u.s. now our attempts to end a partial shutdown of the government have failed in the past few hours and the senate one was a bill backed by the president are trying to end the empire's i funding the war on the us mexico border the other bill was supported by democrats to reopen the coast agencies without such funding made it got the votes required to advance and the one hundred member chamber. well i would be happy to have it i would be happy but we have a lot of alternatives honestly have everybody look for the most part people agree when i say everybody i would say almost everybody where we have to have border security we have to have a wall in order to have border security you cannot have border security without a wall and we can play games and we can talk about technology we can talk about drones flying around but the government has been impossible to shut down for thirty four days now from homeland security secretary jay johnson a soldier in the obama administration says it's putting savannah strain on security

operations we are in the midst of a security crisis and it is one of our own making frankly i used to say when i was the leader of homeland security that our most valuable security resource our own people the very people we depend upon to protect us or the people we are now inflicting a financial insecurity the very people we depend on for our security are made to suffer by this shutdown by inflicting stress hardship anxiety and anger into their personal lives and the lives of our family. a breaking point may come tomorrow when they miss a paycheck for the second time this year when around eight hundred thousand federal workers are about to miss their paycheck for the second month many have been told

to charities and donations to survive more now from. washington. more than a month into the partial government shutdown and the costs of daily life have become a struggle missouri hall is a federal probation officer she's among the eight hundred thousand government workers not receiving pay kids so. i can't break down in front of them so you just have to. keep question in washington just watch from the capitol building where competing plans to reopen the government were both voted down on thursday federal workers have been lining up for food to feed their families the charity that runs this says in one day alone they gave away eleven thousand meals inside workers who are furloughed or temporarily laid off are also receiving free groceries and diapers they should not be held hostage. they should

not be said we're not going to pay you unless we get our way on the wall across the country the shutdown has also impacted the greater public the government is not paying airport security screeners air marshals or air traffic controllers prompting aviation workers' unions to warn in our risk averse industry we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play nor predict the point at which the entire system will break it is unprecedented federal courts are slowing the wheels of justice the f.b.i. can't pay sources to maintain counterterrorism operations low income americans maybe even did without the government subsidizing their rent and poor school children who receive free government paid lunches will soon have to go without me while president trumps commerce secretary wilbur ross a billionaire says unpaid government workers should resolve their financial problems by taking out a loan through the people might have to have been true but the idea of the it's

or zero is a lot of really valid. there's no reason why the institution wouldn't be willing to loan. to get into more debt you know it's i think it's very insensitive a lot of the things that they're saying recent polling shows six in ten americans blame the president for the shutdown trump hunkered down in a white house protected by unpaid secret service agents is seeing his approval rating plummet hi joe castro al-jazeera washington still ahead on the bulletin felix ches a kerry takes over as congress president in the country's first democratic transfer of power and climate change campaigners appeal to business leaders at the world economic forum in davos.

from the clear blue sky of the doha moon. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city in the. once again the weather's set fair across the good parts of china now largely clear skies somewhat cloudy roberts was the western side of the country but you can say for the southeast there was some sunshine in hong kong twenty three celsius is what the temperature to four taipei twelve degrees the fall shanghai and the up into the teens as we go on through friday but those temperatures to fall away slightly as we go on into saturday for the south we hang on to the twenty two twenty three celsius there for hong kong wanted to show as make their way towards the philippines may want to see showers tear into central areas of vietnam but the real shabby rain for south east asia is continuing across indonesia that's where you get the thickest cloud is where i was saying the the recent flooding into the y.c. for example and i shall is very much in place as we go on through friday and on into

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it's the to have you with us our knowledge as they are these are our top stories venezuela's president as clinging on to power after securing the backing of the military the supreme court as well as russia and china is a chance the u.s. of trying to stage a quote after washington recognized opposition leader by poll as interim president washington has asked some of its diplomats to be venezuela for security reasons. the u.s. senate has failed in its latest attempt to agree on ending the partial government shutdown which is now in the thirty fourth day two viable bills to break the funding deadlock put forward by republicans and democrats but neither the nothing

and the un special rapporteur on executions are set to launch an independent investigation into the killing of sal the journalist jamal khashoggi agnes catamount will begin the inquiry and turkey next week expects to present have a court. british politicians and international lawyers to demand of the vote to visit female activists and their rail supporters detained and sell the arabia they want to investigate allegations they've been tortured and denied legal representation charlie engineer reports. these are some of the saudi activists the british politicians and international lawyers are demanding access to they want to investigate allegations that the women 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 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. al-jazeera london. activists in sudan say at least two more protesters have been killed in anti-government demonstrations there have been rallies across several cities including the capital today calling for the resignation of president bashir the government says twenty nine people have been killed in the unrest that began last month but rights groups that the death toll is much higher. has more from. 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 varda than ever before in the cups 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 or staying in saddam where peace talks aimed at ending years of violence in central african republic were held in full government representatives and fourteen armed groups at the meeting backed by the african union the country has been in crisis since rebel fighters took over the capital bangui in two thousand and fourteen they were pushed back after french and u.n. intervention but say our has remained on the brink of civil war since. phyllis chesler kerry has been sworn in as the new president the democratic republic of congo takes office after a bitterly disputed election in december father met reports from kinshasa. 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. but for many congolese the ceremony matters deeply in a country having down to decades of conflict and violence it's the first peaceful handover of power since independence and a symbol of change after eighteen years of rule under joseph kabila. 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 congress for each and every one 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 it 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. that we are here to welcome our new president and we ask him to please address our problems from the street all the way out to help our children get off the streets and find jobs. 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. i 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 al-jazeera kinshasa. the afghan taliban have named one of its co-founders as a later of its political office and cutter of the county but al has a point and comes at a time with words and gauge and talks with the u.s. to end the seventeen year war the group also announced. reshuffle in their team and put senior leaders in key positions u.s. special envoy is on may have been meeting with the taliban representatives for the past four days in doha. protest as a force of police in the greek capital ahead of

a vote on a landmark agreement with macedonia officers fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a group outside parliament inside politicians debated on whether to ratify last year's un brokered deal that would allow his neighbor to change its name to north macedonia. friday and polls show that at least two thirds of greeks oppose the deal . in thirty years of the park received this truce and must be tired of the reserves of hatred and division that were sown by nationalism on both sides must expire colleagues i believe that with this agreement greece gains back the most important thing what belongs to it its history symbols its traditions the heritage of ancient greek macedonia for there are neighbors north macedonia a country that we have turned our backs on and have kept pushing away to seek out others becomes a country that is a friend and ally

a supporter of greece for cooperation peace and security in the region. 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 youths 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. their boss is one who could shift it when building operations out of britain if the country crashes after the e.u. without a deal a french company has appealed to the u.k. parliament to avoid and no deal scenario ever asked employees fourteen thousand people throughout the u.k. the u.k. is aerospace sector no stands at the precipice bricks it is frightening to destroy a century of development based on education research and human capital if there's no deal breaks that we are there because we'll have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the u.k. u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has warned that the world is losing the race against climate change speaking at the world economic forum in davos he also said the political will to change course is fading but john howard visited a climate science camp above the davos slopes and he spoke to some people who

remain optimistic. 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 an 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 griffith earn burke has joined the 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 climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces. at the same time wrestling climate change to harmonize it investing into public infrastructure putting in. actually. and if they are listening it's despite the trumpet ministration pulling out of the paris accord. speired 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

faster than government reason perhaps for optimism that out of crisis comes opportunity and opportunity there is hope jonah all al-jazeera at davos switzerland . well finally this bulletin extreme weather temperatures have turned niagara falls into a winter wonderland the landmark on canada's border with the u.s. has been covered in ice and snow creating some rare science i see splendor is attracting thousands of travelers from around the world. again of a prominent harbor the headlines on al-jazeera but as well as president nicolas maduro has ordered the closure of its embassy in the u.s. and asked his diplomats to return he's accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup after donald trump recognized opposition leader why though as an interim

president washington too has asked some of its diplomats to leave venezuela for security reasons i want to know that. now in venezuela henceforth the president is to be elected in washington and whoever wants to be president can take the oath in the street they want to dismember the republic they want to dismember the nation and the very conception of the democratic state they want to intervene in venezuela the way the chosen to do that is to impose a puppet president climbed defacto unconstitutional the un special rapporteur for arbitrary killing special travel to turkey next week to head an independent international inquiry into the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi agnus kalama will evaluate the circumstances of the crime and to what extent states and individuals are responsible for the killing should report her findings and recommendations to the un human rights council in june. the afghan taliban have banned one of its co-founders as the leader of its political office and cutter but

our disappointment comes at a time when the armed group is engaged in talks with the u.s. to end the seventeen year war activists in sudan say at least two more protesters have been killed in anti-government demonstrations there have been rallies across several cities including the capital khartoum on thursday calling for the resignation of president omar al bashir the democratic republic of congo's new president felix chester kerry has called for national reconciliation during his inaugural speech the opposition leader swearing in marks the first democratic transfer of power since the country gained independence from belgium in nine hundred sixty the u.s. senate has failed in its latest attempt to agree on ending the partial government shutdown which is now in its thirty fourth day to rival bills to break the deadlock were put forward by republicans and democrats neither got enough votes those are the headlines on al-jazeera the do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching.

but as late as political and economic crisis turns into a power struggle to u.s. and regional countries put the support behind a man who's declared himself but where does this leave president. this is inside story. welcome to the program. years of time.