on the crisis. mexico has a history that is very important in relation to foreign policy that is based on principle and that it will continue if every other strayed in the past from those principles we will not we will not act in violation of our constitution. it is not that we are in favor or against anyone we are for the defense of the constitutional principles of our foreign policy. president stands remains one of non interventionism his critics however say this lumps him in with supporters of venezuela's nicolas maduro. but some argue the geo political posturing from world leaders both for and against mother could end up having little effect. a latin america policy expert says the fate of the crisis could be in the hands of the venezuelan military. the most important coalition is that of the military so long as my girl counts on their support he can maintain the status quo

indefinitely no matter how many people die or how much international condemnation there is. for the moment the top brass of venezuela's armed forces have not indicated a change in where their loyalties lie. what is taking place it's a coup against institutional against democracy against our constitution and against our president. the legitimate president. more than twenty five people have been killed during the latest violence of venezuela in an effort to find a solution to the conflict mexico and uruguay have offered to host a peace summit in mexico finds itself in a unique position remaining neutral on the venezuela crisis provides an opportunity to play moderator between both sides of the conflict an opportunity the mexican president says he will only see. if both sides could agree to participate in

diplomatic talks madrid up a little al-jazeera mexico city. but let's get more on this knowledge oin by them or not much ocho he is the former mayor of the district that's an opposition stronghold in caracas and he's joining us live from miami in florida very good to have you with us on al-jazeera thank you for your time mexico offering to mediate so has russia either side open to mediation where they're both quoting themselves the legitimate leaders and the other and the gist of it. well i think that these point design is one in opposition it's very reluctant to rely on or mediation by russia or china or even mexico or spain. but these following that confrontation the united states and its goal remaining it's. already becoming the biggest player in the power struggle between merkel and one

where you go if. it's flying to new york to take part of the security council special meeting about when it's whether to morrow and they just appoint a new official to take care of the venezuelan issue it's. our hands and it was national security advisor of george w. bush it's a horror liar so the us explain and they are in even harder now. they are as you say a very big player they're also the biggest critic internationally of this venezuelan government so it's not going to cooperate in any way with the u.s. they've called for this meeting at the u.n. security council though do you think anything any thing can come out of that to calm tensions and venezuela. think so seems like it's building up to have even more pressure in venezuela i don't even

expect for a resolution one or two poor little immediately this council i would expect for the us to clearly state in the security council specially to russia and china both are permanent members of the council i think the us a little bit them know that it's decided to act to return them ocracy to british weather and i think we will see a lot of things happening during the next few days down in venezuela and all of those things are happening and to nationally though whereas in venezuela itself well what's happening you know at the u.n. security council at the u.s. or what the presidents of russia or mexico saying matter at all when you know those who hold the guns the military continue to support the little. well that's a key point there when you're mean that that's the main issue in venice way that

there's still an international game going on developing but that it's that inside of venezuela the only thing that man teams that keeps mother on power are the armed forces mother to have been using arms against its own people and there's no way to take mobile out of power without breaking the military are of course just loyalty to mobile we need to put even more pressure on mothers regime and over the military to be able to break that and to have. that rule my expectation is that we will still need huge amounts of pressure from the international community and the way that venezuelan people protesting actively in this street to be able to get that change was too much atia thank you very much for your time on the set that is hard live in miami thank you thank you.

but plenty more ahead on the news hour including. self-proclaimed dirty tricks and long time ally of donald trump is charged with lying we talked to the maker of a documentary on. a call for compromise while queen elizabeth is being seen as a veiled reference to the bickering over breakfast and the defending champions and down to the asia cup future we'll tell you what went wrong for straight. news agency is reporting that the european commission has added saudi arabia to a draft list of countries that pose a threat to the blog the list includes countries seen as having lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering saudi arabia has been facing international pressure of the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi at the saudi

consulate in istanbul last october other countries on the list include iran iraq syria given and north korea well giorgio coffee is the chief executive of gulf state analytics and he says that although it is only a draft list it's damaging for ya. of course important to keep in mind that this is merely a draft it's subject to change but of course the fact that we're even talking about this in the first place bodes poorly for riyadh let's keep in mind that in september the f.a. t.f. decided not to give saudi arabia full membership for many of the reasons which are obviously in play here saudi arabia is going to need to make some changes in order to convince its allies in the west that its leadership is very sincere with all of this talk about countering extremism returning to so-called moderate is

a lot there is definitely a war of narratives in which saudi arabia is facing some major problems saudi arabia is trying to convince western governments and societies that the kingdom now with mohamed bin some man at the helm is truly committed to this campaign against radicalism and violent extremism it really undermines their argument that the problems are coming exclusively you know from the usual characters in iran the cuts are turkey the muslim brotherhood it's adding momentum to the arguments that saudi arabia has also been a root cause of terrorism from at least certainly a financing standpoint. yes politicians have unanimously passed a bill to end the longest shutdown and history from now congressional leaders signed a deal to reopen the government for three weeks sending it to president donald trump for has said he is expected to sign the fandom ban and to know on friday it

does not include money for has bought a war with mexico which was the issue that led to the shutdown alan fischer has lost. thank you very much my fellow american it's over for know i am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government after the longest shutdown in american history thirty five days steps of moving taken to get it hundred thousand federal stuff back to work but the funding deal is just for three weeks in that time republicans and democrats will discuss a long term plan here's the problem the president still wants his border wall the democrats don't want to agree to that but from the white house a warning that if he doesn't get what he wants i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the constitution of the united states to address this emergency pressure had been building on the president to end the

stalemate his approval rating was dropping senior republicans were leaking support and workers were warning of genuine security risks in the senate republican leader called on democrats to negotiate a longer funding deal that would include a significant investment in urgently needed border security measures including physical barriers in his rose garden address the president insisted democrats no back the idea of a border wall that was disputed by their leader we don't agree on some of the specifics of border security democrats are against the war but we agree on many things. such is the need for new technology and the need to strengthen security in our ports of entry a funding bill was agreed by the senate in december but attacked by right wing commentators donald trump blocked it because it had no money for a border wall his decision to reopen the government has led to new attacks from his own supporters but one former trump administration official says he no gets to make

a state of the union address to prove his case to save the union as we all know is a prime time address not just to congress to brief congress but also to brief the american people and i think i expect that the president will use that time to try to address the american people and discuss the significant issue that he has before them in the sport of offering donald trump said he was willing to keep the government shutdown for months to get the money for a wall he promised on the campaign trail mexico would pay for thousands of federal workers will no go back to work after the president was judged the situation the consequences and the result is thank you very much alan fischer al-jazeera washington. for reopening federal agencies it won't be a slow process and many government workers a winery that the temporary. reports from kansas city. has a federal employee who hasn't been paid for over a month to beat a hanson had a lot at stake when donald trump spoke after the president announced the government

would reopen for three weeks there was no celebrating angry and disappointed. three weeks to get nothing in long enough to just give us a check to pacify us for a little while to get us to the next step and then once we get back in there if they shut down again we won't be able to leave. so they're building a wall around us as employees marland wilson another federal employee also felt the announcement left more uncertainty on the. brink of happening in the government might be reopening but across america like here in kansas city where there are nine thousand federal government employees it will take time to get things back up and running again outside this federal government office here in this city there are still no cars in the parking lot and the doors remain shut and locked many people worry that after the three week deadline the government could

shut down once again that's why at this office of kansas city they are still handing out food to those who need it we've got chicken rice peanut butter we have some things a tire people who are over for a little wow you know maybe two or three weeks you know so i like. with the president his words we will be right back get it as for defeat ahead soon she is keeping her resumes out for other than three weeks i'm going to get laid off again then i said probably rethink my career for federal employees may be sued back to work but asking her how. kansas city now and another big development in the us a long time ally of donald trump has been charged with seven crimes as part of the investigation into russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election watch a stolen is accused of being a conduit between trump's campaign and wiki leaks and lying about it. reports from

washington d.c. . walking out of the federal courthouse in florida roger stone seems to be channeling his first political boss former president richard nixon the gesture of a disgraced man who when faced with impeachment was forced to resign the presidency for stone his legal challenges are just beginning but he's vowing he won't testify against his longtime friend us president donald trump as i have said previously there is no circumstances whatsoever under which i will bear witness against the president nor will i make that rise to ease the pressure on myself i look forward to being fully intending to indicate special counsel robert mueller says stone was talking to both the trump campaign and julian assange founder of wiki leaks about hacked e-mails from hillary clinton's campaign when asked about it by a congressional committee still allegedly lie we had

a very frank exchange and then when a person promised to tell the committee the truth the indictment says stone sent an e-mail to him saying he should prepare to die and his dog would be killed as well it's very interesting to see the kinds of people that the president of united states have surrounded himself with in this connection to the integrity of our elections. it is obviously something we have to get the truth about wiki leaks has denied doing anything wrong and the president reacted in a tweet again calling it a witch hunt and that there was no collusion but this is the first indictment to clearly link the hacked e-mails with the trunk campaign and bruce fein says more charges are still possible you can issue what's called superseding indictment and add counts that aren't there necessarily in the first grand jury allegations so you can say you hold it to ratchet it up say all right if you don't cooperate we're going to bring in more indictments against your so that's certainly

a possibility roger stone has been known for decades as a man who revels in police dirty political tricks who doesn't back down sending that message by tattooing nixon's face on his back netflix even made a documentary about it i revel in you're a trader because if i were ineffective you would make me he's about to find out if he's crossed the line from controversial to criminal. behavior al jazeera washington. still ahead on the news hour. before. we ask people about their hopes to change under the new call the latest president. how a policy change in china has helped create a plastic waste problem for another asian country and. how to make the semifinals aspect. of the action.

from dusky sunsets if you spring savannah. to summarize the top and metropolis. hello get a welcome back to your international weather forecasts where across china we are looking at basically partly cloudy to clear conditions across much of the area now we do have a few clouds across parts of the interior but in terms of rain really not seen too much over the next few days winds coming from the north for shanghai so lucky for you a little bit cooler at six degrees there on kong looking at a nice day few at twenty two but as we go towards a sunday we are going to be seeing much of the same over the next few days maybe a few more clouds over towards taipei but attempt a few of twenty degrees there as are make our way down here towards the south of course we've been seeing some very heavy rain across much of indonesia we did see some flooding as well as a landslides in south sulawesi over the last few days and over here toward chicago

it is going to be a rainy day as well heavy rain is going to continue across to carter at thirty degrees there up towards manila it is going to be partly cloudy as we go towards sunday maybe a few more showers in your forecast with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees and then here across india we do have expect to see some clouds and some rain over the next few days you can see anywhere from katmandu all the way down towards kolkata the rain showers will continue in your forecast here on saturday but down towards hyderabad we do expect to see the rate actually increase intensity temp has come down to twenty two but colombo a nice day at twenty nine. the weather sponsored by cattle and raise. in the next episode of techno the team travels to the part of the amazon. where we are now should be a rain forest to investigate illegal gold mining mercury has a very unique characteristic of finding the gold for a miner it's almost like magic and the technology being used to expose its devastating impact and so what we end up doing is imaging the worst in very high

fidelity degree. techno on al-jazeera. rewind returns bring your people back to life. with new updates on the best of. the. rewind continues with me going into a war zone he said the first thing i look for is the exit. to get it it's all to get out. your pictures there's no point going to these places.

and these are our top stories rescue workers and. two hundred people still missing after the collapse of the dam at. least seven. protests against president. in the capital. backed. and. the us president has been charged with seven crimes of the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the sixteen election. being a conduit between campaign and wiki leaks and lying about it. well let's get more on this more than pick me is the co-director and producer of the netflix documentary get me just start on which looks at stars long and controversial career and he's joining us live from new york great to have you with us on al-jazeera you

had a lot of access to stalin to make the movie what are your impressions of him. well roger is a brilliant and an eccentric figure he is one of the most influential people in shaping american politics over the last four decades but he's also a bodybuilding pot smoking dandy swinger with a giant tattoo of richard nixon's face between his shoulder blades so he is a singular individual by any definition you say he's brilliant in what way. roger is one of the most accomplished dirty tricks in american politics one of the reasons we wanted to make a film about him is that there are many people who engage in unscrupulous tactics in politics around the world but roger is the rare figure who revels in his dirty tricks and his malevolence and his dastardly reputation and roger has

been in trouble in electing president reagan president george w. bush and he was the very first person to suggest to donald trump that he run for the presidency back in the eighty's and then he spent the next twenty nine years bringing that unlikely dream to fruition so how would you say he's been and the election of donald trump and do you think he is reveling tonight as he faces these very serious charges that and possible jail time like others who've been indicted and while this investigation. well i would say that after trump stone deserves the most credit for making the president so he's enormously influential and in being the cause of the presidency i would say that nobody likes to be indicted roger suggests lee avoided indictment

throughout his long storied career but at the same time he seem to revel in the press conference that he had today in the wake of the indictment and he he looked unflappable even though i am sure that be high in that brave face there is certainly some concern about what may be the outcome of these charges he has publicly said you know the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about he's also said that he wal-mart to testify against donald trump from what you know of him and the situation do you think he'll stay true to that. i believe that he will roger has a very long and genuine friendship with the president he i think that it is something that even borders on on love he's expressed this to us both on and off

camera so i think that roger would have to be hit with much more serious charges to even consider it and even then given the closeness of his relationship to trump he has to be thinking in the back of his mind that he would be perhaps the best candidate we have seen to date for a presidential pardon part of that to be convicted this defect may it is really fascinating to get your insights on this we do appreciate your time that's morgan peck may live in new york thank you. thank you elizabeth. now where sixty three days left until the u.k. leaves the european union and politicians are able to agree on a plan or when elizabeth has appealed for common ground and respect for different points of view the queen's comments didn't directly refer to brett's that's about having widely interpreted as a rare royal intervention into the political debate paul brennan has more she

may be head of state and leader of a global commonwealth but under the u.k.'s constitutional monarchy queen elizabeth remains firmly a political so her comments during this visit to something in women's institute have sparked keen analysis particularly as britain's politicians are currently in deadlock over breakfast as we look for nuances in the modern age she told her audience i for one prefer the tried and tested recipes like speaking well of each other and respecting different points of view coming together to seek out the common ground and never losing sight of the bigger picture to me these approaches are timeless and i commend them to everyone. in a regular encounters with the prime minister and heads of state the queen is firmly neutral and doesn't express political views this latest speech made no direct reference to the bricks at deadlock or even to politics but the interpretation has been unanimous what the queen has said is what we're all thinking that there has to

be a compromise here that we have to find some common ground not keep advocating for positions that people have been staking out for years but recognizing that the clock is ticking the sounding of speech echoes the queen's annual christmas message perhaps indicating a regal concern about levels of intolerance and animosity in much modern discourse the politicians hoping for explicit world guidance that are destined to be royally disappointed former prime minister james. about an occasion he asked the queen for her opinion on the subject but he couldn't make his mind a point she looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes he said and then she told me that's what you get paid for. al-jazeera westminster. of course as parliament has an hourly voice had to ratify a landmark agreement with its northern neighbor to change its name to north macedonia politicians voted one hundred fifty three to one hundred forty six for

the un for a day and which was signed last year that was approved following days of hated debate but there was still opposition protesters have been braving the rain outside parliament just hours after they were dispersed by riot police. the rescuers in southern spain have found the body of a two year old boy who fell into a well nearly two weeks ago minus had worked around the clock for thirteen days to find the toddler who was trapped in a narrow bore hole seventeen nations below ground the boy had been on alison with his parents when he fell and. the plight of refugees is high on the agenda at the world economic forum in davos one corp has come to this west town with an interactive exhibition to understand the daily struggles refugees face to survive as the farm draws to a close they hope politicians and c.e.o.'s who take part when leave moved by what they experienced joined a whole reports. it's

a long way from the champagne and canopies that define the divorce. but even some of the world's most powerful people have been humbled by this experience of life as a refugee. when a soldier is yelling at you and there's no one else around you you become like everyone else you're just you why are we here at the world economic forum it's that same goal to improve its committed to improving the state of this world and our world in each changing sixty eight million displaced people. who sits in this forum they are the people who can shape this world now living a very different experience of reality is real life refugee muhammad her son muhammad here with the world economic forum's young global leaders program mohammed is a citizen of nowhere having spent twenty years living in kakuma camp outside nairobi the plectrum of the world economic forum and provides i mean i it's tremendous and

it has the potential to solve these problems and send you a flavor to the camp and i don't know how things will be from there on but i hope that i'm a minister who has inspired enough people to act in bring tangible results to the coming we don't want to be that forgotten people forever so for all the talk about davos damp squib this year with headlining world leaders largely absent this is still a place with three thousand of the world's most powerful most influential people meet each year most are not here to make headlines they're here to make deals and while it may be true as some critics of the world economic forum suggest that the global elite gathered here in davos has had a hand in breaking the global system that doesn't mean that they can't be involved in fixing it oxfam's executive director believes dabbles has an important role to play trump is no it. is not. a maze nor to do with public i'm going to be our country's they've got to sort out the issues why

didn't the other countries but this is a place for influence and there are big businesses here. and you are the media and then the us will work with ordinary people i hear we're here to talk to each other in the front listed and find solutions. in the basement beneath her feet the refugee experience moved some to tears there's nothing like a screaming soldier to make one seek and unlimited in the dark journal how al-jazeera davos switzerland. the u.n. special. repertory for human rights in myanmar says the head of the military should be prosecuted for genocide again he leaves investigating image crimes against the behind the minority that are forced hundreds of thousands to flee the country. the independent mechanism that i recommend to be established last year has been formally established and funded and recruitment has started justice for victims

isn't. really the question about visions of crimes committed in the creation of the case files to be against religion protectors these cases will be ready for prosecution you know credible international or international court the leader of sudan's largest opposition party has called on the government to give in to mass protests and step down so they can be addressed hundreds of supporters at a mosque in a car full of human rights groups say more than forty protestors have been killed since demonstrations began last month people are calling for the end of president omar al bashir is twenty nine year of war. now there's a wave of optimism across the democratic republic of congo this people welcome the new leader the public is eager to see how felix chester kerry will do with high unemployment corruption and providing basic services for me the men of reports from kinshasa it was just as former president joseph kabila took office eighteen years

ago that abraham limber opened this roadside printing shop he says he started the business after he couldn't find a job in a country hit by high unemployment now that new president felix security has been sworn in abraham says things may be different. i think with the new elected president things may change especially in the economy so that my business can grow but we will have the same individual sharing the wealth of the country i will be very disappointed. she said katie controversially won the election in december with the result still disputed by rival martin for you two people here have long accused the government and elite of benefiting from the country's wealth with little trickling down this market is popular with students it's when many take a break between classes most is now which is about to complete a degree in communication he says he wants more opportunities for new graduates our country we are so rich because we are a very lot of girls are dying mons and so on yes so we did but people are so poor

you see and we don't understand what's there is a for white people must stay in the poverty the dears he has an estimated twenty four trillion dollars worth of natural resources including iron ore natural gas gold and cobalt according to the u.s. geological survey the d r c produces more than a half of the world's cobalt and more than twenty percent of global diamonds yet it remains one of the poorest countries in the world many have come to the capital kinshasa to find work with more than ten percent of the eighty five million population living here the city's overcrowded housing is expensive and hard to come by especially for the poor developments like this one when meant to provide homes for them but instead it was rented out all boarded up by the wealthy many people here say the government hasn't followed through on its promises to help the poor. corruption along with insecurity and conflict continues to.