and bringing that story to the forefront. venezuela shuts its embassy in the u.s. amid a growing diplomatic and political crisis the u.s. will call some of its diplomats. i'm sam is a this is a live from doha also coming up the afghan taliban appoints one of its founders to join the go with the u.s. since talks when the conflict gained momentum un specialist on executions is headed to turkey to launch an investigation into the murder of a saudi journalist plus. i'm in phnom penh where opposition members

could be about to attempt a comeback something that may result in their arrest. bonus while a self-proclaimed leader. says he would consider granting amnesty to president nicolas maduro and his allies if they help restore democracy the u.s. canada and several latin american countries have in. the interim president but backed by the military has accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup washington has asked the u.s. citizens and solve its diplomats to leave as well for security reasons. the reports from venezuela's border with colombia. one after the other venezuelan regional military commanders took to the airwaves today clearly l.-t.

to president nicolas maduro saying that your position efforts to replace him with the transitional government were an attempted coup. a position reiterated by the country's defense minister by being. alert the people of venezuela that a coup is being carried out against our institutions against our democracy against our constitute. 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 nicolas maduro and it came the day after the largest anti-government demonstrations in the country since two thousand and seventeen in after the younger position leader why don't proclaim themselves illegitimate interim president outside business well a number of countries including the united states have backed away those claim to legitimacy and in tears the u.s. 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 in giving us diplomats in business where last seventy two hours to leave other world powers like russia and china came to my rescue warning the us there are only intervention in the country. is the truth it is another flagrant interference into internal affairs of a sovereign state as you know that has been several attempts to oust from power including attempts on his life just. here on the border city of the thousands of venezuelans keep crossing into columbia on a daily basis in search of food medicine and basic health services they can't access back home they say they receive the latest news from venezuela with

a mix of hope and wariness i look at we needed this to happen to bring about change and unfortunately it will take more. country. 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 coming days alison and. china turkey and russia are supporting maduro's government moscow is warning the u.s. against intervening all the challenge reports. well russia is pointing the finger firmly at the united states at the moment we've heard both from sergey lavrov the foreign minister and also the kremlin lavrov says that once again we are convinced that the united states which is paranoid that someone was interfering in their

elections without any evidence is itself trying to decide on the fates of other nations and simply interferes in their internal affairs venezuela is not the first case it's just that venezuela in there in that country the interference was especially flagrant he also said that we call on the venezuelan opposition not to become poor ones in someone else's very dirty criminal game earlier the kremlin spoke and said that madeira has not as yet asked russia for any particular assistance asked whether moscow might grants nicolas maduro political asylum if it came to that well the kremlin said that mr madeira is the legitimate president of venezuela and therefore we consider that question to be inappropriate well there is a legitimate question though which is what might russia do there are strong ties between russia and venezuela russia considers whether as well or an ally it lends it billions and billions of dollars as has china there also military ties between

the two countries only recently russia sent two long range strategic bombers to venezuela as support basically in a show of force against western countries the united states could russia intervene militarily while it's too soon to tell that i think it certainly will try and defend mr maduro in the united nations as to whether there might be any. overt military action militarily overtly i think that's perhaps at the moment unlikely but covertly there are things that russia could do it has private military contracts is a group called particularly which is used in ukraine and syria and at the moment is active in places like the central african republic so there is a possibility that it could be considering using that outfit to help out nicolas maduro in venezuela. the afghan taliban is named one of its co-founders is the

leader of its political office in qatar and deliberately but are those expected to join negotiations with the us would gain momentum the talks in doha were originally scheduled for two days but have now been continuing for for the group has also announced a reshuffle in the team and put senior leaders in key positions u.s. special peace envoy. been meeting taliban representatives for the past four days and. hubby water back is a national security analyst and a founding member of transparency afghanistan joining us live from kabul good to have you with us so how do you read the appointment of broader to head the office in qatar is that a sign of how well things are going in talks. i think a lot but are there is a senior. taliban official who was serving and pakistani president for the past so many years he was a close confidante to late more omar served as

a deputy to morrow maher he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore the pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this anti pakistan narrative and at the same time favoring peace and in a strong supporter of the peace process i think this is an excellent move by the taliban this shows their commitment that they are committed to this whole notion of peace. along with them they have appointed marlovian would tell a kid who used to be deformed former foreign minister of the taliban government who was living in kabul after serving and the us background prison this is all together this move or together shows that the taliban all committed to depress prices on the

other side we don't know what is the fate of the african government what happens to the in traffic and talks one thing is for sure the united states how to talk to the taliban after seventeen years did the allies that the local partner do you have in the form of the african government it has got activists stick of deterrence not absorption it failed to absolve the general african public and does it in massive corruption lacking good governance and this caused a whole set of problems for the united states president of afghanistan on the other side but if i can jump in here the intelligence services the fact that he's been appointed maybe opposed to sign what about the stumbling block that has long sort of played talks the fate of u.s.

troops in afghanistan are the two sides finding common ground on that issue. i think we have agreed in principle that the united states would draw from the afghanistan not all together at once but. under casual from what i have heard in the information that we have got is that the thing that they cannot agree on is the duration of the taliban or pushing for the u.s. withdrawal within the six months and the united states is perhaps saying eighteen months the taliban on the other hand is saying that they would need to have affirmations and security from the reason countries like russia china qatar and perhaps saudi arabia and the united states on the other hand is saying that we were draw conditionally and we will draw in bits and parts after we get to reach an agreement and employment part of the. the resolution that we are going to come up

with so every time we employment a step of the resolution we're going to have a step or for dollars well and within eighteen months we will withdraw the taliban or pushing for six months thank you very much for them going out in principle that the united states will withdraw or i will leave with a heavy body that thanks so much now the un special rapporteur all farben for killing says should travel to turkey next week to head an independent international inquiry into the murder of saudi journalist jamal. will evaluate the circumstances of the crime and to what extent states and individuals are responsible for the killing sure reported findings and recommendations to the un human rights council in june. this is a visit by a special aperture a day work independently of us and they can follow their own guidelines in terms of their 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 maines who explains how this investigation his 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 boarders of the un the general assembly the security council all the human rights council that is not what this is this is an initiative of dr agnes keller mamma 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 writes the report to the human rights council she so she will be presenting 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 the 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. also the head of al-jazeera. antigovernment protests continue over night in sudan plus. i think it's very insensitive a lot of the things that they're saying federal workers in the u.s. struggle to feed their families as politicians file to resolve

a funding crisis. however the weather's fair across much of the middle east little bit some pieces of cloud rolling in from the mediterranean he could see some wet weather just pushing out of the black sea heading towards the caspian sea as we go on through the next day or so someone think a clout there just around armenia georgia pushing it was a by john twelve just for bucky he says that sunshine kabul gets up to around three degrees celsius over the next couple of days they want to see wintry flower is pulling into afghanistan as we go on into sas they say that cloud continuing as you can see just over towards cape perhaps seeing want to see showers creeping into cyprus by race they find and try twenty two degrees celsius but as you can see some

pieces of plants in your possibility and some of that cloud also affecting the far north of saudi arabia then here in cattle it looks good twenty five degrees celsius twenty seven in riyadh represent something of a heat wave is the only warm side at the moment and if anything those temperatures not going up as we go on through sas day so the temperature expect to say around late february into march actually may well be getting up to about twenty nine celsius in harare as well fly in five for a good part of south africa but the showers continue for mozambique and also madagascar. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short hustle stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. i prepared for the four hundred people it was you know he had to be on time to save

me on the bed akagi fed up because he felt everybody was al-jazeera selects. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines now the afghan taliban is damed out of its co-founders as leader of its political office in qatar the family but all those expected to join negotiations with the u.s. which have gained momentum talks in doha were originally scheduled for two days but have been continuing for four days the un special rapporteur on executions is set to launch an independent investigation into the killing of saudi journalist jamal

social g. s kalamata will begin the inquiry in turkey next week and expects to present her reports in june but as well a self-proclaimed leader says he would consider granting amnesty to president nicolas maduro if he helped restore democracy. is backed by the powerful military it's accused the u.s. of trying to stage a coup after donald trump declared the country's interim president. mohammed jam june takes a look at how those risen from obscurity in just a few weeks. as soon as he was sworn in to lead venezuela's opposition controlled congress earlier this month one of my dope made his intentions clear promising to take up the battle against president nicolas maduro who is increasingly viewed both inside and outside the country as a dictator. let be among the many media we proposed to reaffirm the illegitimacy of nicolas maduro for not holding elections on may twentieth starting january tenth he

would be usurping the presidency from the republic as a result this national assembly is the only legitimate power elected by the venezuelan people should assume the representation of the people. if you've been as wayland had even heard of an industrial engineer and former student leader before he was named president of the largely powerless national assembly and. as a member of congress why go serve as the head of a commission that investigates government corruption and earned a reputation as a consensus builder. government has already detained and put on trial dozens of political opponents and accused them of plotting against him in mid january why do it was briefly detained after being released he told supporters at a rally he would not be deterred by wednesday as large anti-government protests were taking place in venezuela's capital caracas why go to clear himself the country's interim president. why do was quick to receive support from u.s.

president donald trump canada and numerous latin american countries but with a defiant saying he's still the legitimate president and the economic crisis only deepening it's not clear what white goes next move will be damaging to him and. intends to end the partial government shutdown of failed in the u.s. senate both republicans and democrats tried to pass different bills the republican bill is aimed to end the impulse by funding the war on the us mexico border democrats wanted to reopen closed a series without funding the wall well neither got the votes required to advance in the one hundred members chamber. well i would be happy were that 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 of border 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. eight hundred thousand federal workers thereabouts missed another paycheck because of the shutdown many have been turning to charities and donations to survive more now from hijo castro in washington. more than a month into the partial government shutdown and the costs of daily life have become a struggle misuari hall is a federal probation officer she's among the eight hundred thousand government workers not receiving pay i have kids so you know i keep. i can't break down in front of them so you just have this maliki question in washington just watts from the capitol building where competing plans to reopen the government were both voted down on thursday federal workers had 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 over ross

a billionaire says unpaid government workers should resolve their financial problems by taking out a loan through the people might have to pay a little bit of interest but the idea of it's or zero is not a really valid idea there's no reason why some 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. castro al-jazeera washington activists in sudan say at least two more protesters have been killed during anti government demonstrations. in rallies across

several cities on thursday that continued well into the night demonstrators are calling for the resignation of president i want to hear the government says twenty nine people have been killed in the unrest that began last month with rights groups say the death toll is much higher while model has more from khartoum. protests took place in several parts of khartoum to the 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 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 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 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 protesters have fought with 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 are being through on whether to ratify last year's u.n. brokered deal that would allow greece's neighbor to change its name to north macedonia vote is scheduled for friday polls show at least two thirds of greeks oppose the deal. exiled members of cambodia's band opposition party. they're planning to return within the next few months more than one hundred members of the cambodian national rescue party were barred from politics for five years when their party was dissolved ahead of last year's general election. has more from. highlighting the political divide the ruling cambodian people's party is having new headquarters built by the chinese just down the road the offices of the band

opposition cambodian national rescue party or abandoned many of its key members left the country but a valid one to return even if it means they'll be arrested a price that we had to pay. a price that. the opposition was accused of conspiring with foreign countries to overthrow the government and was dissolved by the course that led to the party of prime minister who owns in winning all seats in last year's election his spokesman says those who have committed crimes must face justice. for them to them we have overcome them to come back but they have a biggish and i mean to respond to the core. one opposition member who didn't have a chance to flee was party leader kim who is under house arrest in phnom penh awaiting trial for treason plain clothes police keep a close watch outside in response to the turmoil cambodia's largest export market

the european union has started a six month investigation that could see phnom penh lose tariff free access for its goods remove all of that would. impact one that can be awarded to two about quicker the e.u.'s move came after intense lobbying by example politicians and activists the government has made some concessions like amending a law to allow banned opposition members to re enter politics but they have to apply to the prime minister or interior minister and they have to accept that the original court decision to ban them was correct so they basically have to ask for a pardon something most of them aren't prepared to do they believe the threat of economic punishment could provide an opportunity for negotiation and reconciliation we will. know by. the more. convinced that our people want us back. determined.

to. know who has been in power for thirty four years and is in charge of a defacto one party state is unlikely to back down completely and reinstate an opposition that could be a threat to his rule wane hey al jazeera phnom penh. buses warning it could shift its wing building operations out of britain if the country crashes out of the e.u. without a deal a french company has appealed to the u.k. parliament to avoid a no deal scenario and poise fourteen thousand people throughout the u.k. but its c.e.o. says there are many other countries which would be happy to house its operations u.n. secretary general antonio with tears as warm 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 jonah visited a climate science camp above the devil's slopes and talk to some people who remain

optimistic. high 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 gretta thurman 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 was beginning to understand that climate change is the biggest threat facing. the same time climate change. investing in public infrastructure. and if they are listening it's despite the trumpet ministration pulling out of the paris accord. speired i think it gave an opportunity to go faster i think

cities are also going faster we have to act. government reason perhaps for optimism out of crisis comes opportunity and opportunity there is hope join all al-jazeera at davos switzerland. and let's take you through some of the stories we're following here on al-jazeera now self-proclaimed leader says he will consider granting amnesty to present. helps restore democracy but is backed by the powerful military he accuses the u.s. of trying to stage a coup. the president's interim president washington has asked u.s. citizens and some of its diplomats to leave venezuela. i want to minister i know that you know. 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 they've chosen to do that is to impose a puppet president who self proclaimed defacto unconstitutional the afghan taliban has named one of its co-founders as the leader of its political office in qatar only but are those expected to join negotiations with the us which of gain momentum the group has also announced a reshuffle in their team and put senior leaders in key positions the un special rapporteur on exit q sions is set to launch an independent investigation into the killing of sally journalist. agnes will begin the inquiry in turkey next week and expects to present a report in june activists in sudan say at least two more protesters have been killed during anti-government demonstrations. the. the there have

been rallies across several cities on thursday that continued well into the night demonstrators are calling for the resignation of president bashir the government says twenty nine people have been killed in the on the us that began last month but rights groups say the death toll is much higher. protesters have fought with 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 greece's neighbor to change its name to north macedonia a vote is scheduled for friday those are your headlines the news continues here nonzero after a.j. select stay with us. in september twenty seventh the people of the kurdish region of northern iraq voted in favor of independence

from baghdad. but joy was short lived as the iraqi government reacted forced me against any idea of separation. al-jazeera world travels to the kurdish regional capital of overbuild to investigate independence and the iraqi kurds on al-jazeera. just wasn't they know they were more in office i learned that most sure than you.