guys or expel u.s. embassy personnel the u.s. secretary of state mike pump il has called an emergency un security council meeting for saturday. russia is now putting its full weight behind mughal warning washington against intervention in mn israela while offering to barter negotiations to end the conflict. but the opposition says the time for talking is over. on the colombian side of the border venezuelans returned home with supplies nervous about what lies ahead because venezuelans know that the crisis in their country is entering into unchartered waters a confrontation between president maduro and his opponents between mughal and the united states and between the united states and russia and the only thing at this hour that they seem to be certain of is that there is total uncertainty about how all this will unfold. the u.n. high commissioner for human rights warns that the situation could quickly spiral

out of control with catastrophic consequences you see in human al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera one of donald trump's closest advisers is the latest to be indicted in connection with alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election plus a car for compromise why queen elizabeth stated speech is being seen as a veiled reference to the bickering over breaks it. again while this hour we're going to start here across parts of north america we did see one major storm make its way off the eastern seaboard that brought a lot of rain brought some damaging winds and also a reported tornado down here in florida we're going to see some better weather but in terms of the temperatures those are coming down from many locations take a look at a lot of minus thirteen. york at zero toronto

a minus nine and you factor in the winds with that and it's going to feel much colder in minneapolis minus fourteen but your wind chill is going to feel more like minus twenty degrees there down towards dallas it will be chilly for you as well we expect to see about sixteen degrees in your forecast well that same fellow boundary is causing some problems down here across parts of the caribbean you can see the rain showers across parts of havana up here towards nasa and that is going to continue because that front is going to go stationary bring some very heavy rain showers across much of that area over the next few days out here towards the west where you can see in the gulf heavy rain showers associate this area circulation is going to be some coastal rain across parts of mexico down towards got amala it is going to be twenty four degrees and a partly cloudy day for you there well across parts one is not as we are going to sing a few showers in your forecast heavy rain to the north across parts of rio a sense attempt a few at thirty eight and better conditions as we go towards parts of sunday.

in afghanistan billions of dollars in international aid has been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when east meets girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them and how does era. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world sentiment or how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current events that match at. al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera the governor of the priscilla in state

of maine as sherry asked says the chances of finding survivors of a damper a star slim at least seven bodies have been recovered so far but hundreds of missing a down collapse at an iron ore mine near the tunnel. donald trump has signed a bill to end the longest government shutdown in u.s. history he has agreed to reopen the federal government for three weeks but the u.s. president has warned democrats that if negotiations over the funding of a border war with mexico hit another day he is ready to declare a national emergency and venezuela a self-proclaimed leader has found to need street protests against president nicolas maduro in a speech in the capital caracas. to russia and china who have backed. all the crisis in venezuela has divided latin american countries mexico is staying neutral its president even offering to host talks. for some mexico city. business with his political crisis continues to reach new depths of massive

demonstrations have rattled the country this latest unrest arrives on the heels of thirty five year old one going to the leader of venezuela's national assembly declaring himself the country's interim president before going to. the nations of the so-called lima group including argentina brazil chile and others were quick to announce their support for. mexico however is not among the countries taking sides during an early morning press conference we asked the mexican president to clarify his position on the crisis. mexico has a history there is very important in relation to foreign policy that is based on principles and that it will continue if every other street 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 stance remains one of

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 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 could 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. against democracy against our constitution and

against our president. the legitimate president. more than twenty five people have been killed during the latest violence in 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. mexico city and reuters news agency is reporting that the european commission has. countries that a threat to the bra. they singles countries seen as having lax controls against terrorism financing and money laundering saudi arabia has been facing international pressure over the matter of janet's shoji inside the saudi consulate in istanbul

last october out of countries on the list include iran iraq syria yemen and north korea jo-jo got hero is the chief executive of gulf state analytics he says although it's only a draft it's damaging for riyadh so 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 riad 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 is 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 so i'm on 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 iran the courts 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 the certainly a financing standpoint. in sudan the leader of the largest opposition party has called on the government to bow to mass protests send give up power city comedy addressed hundreds of supporters at a mosque in khartoum human rights groups say more than forty protestors have been killed since demonstrations began last month the rallies started out as protests

against rising food prices but have grown into an uprising calling for the end of president omar bashir nearly thirty year rule. the commands of the government is to be replaced by a national in cream coconut whose job is to achieve comprehensive peace freedom and human rights and implement an emergency economic program to lift the suffering of the people. in the united states a longtime ally of president donald trump has been charged with seven crimes as part of the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election roger stone is accused of being a conduit between times campaign and wiki leaks and lying about it political gain has a story from washington. 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 false witness against the president nor will i make that rise to ease the pressure on myself i look forward to baylor to call me. indicated special counsel robert muller 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 huge national 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 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 trump 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 you so that's certainly a possibility roger stone. 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 him i revel in you're

a traitor because if i were ineffective you would need me he's about to find out if he's crossed the line from controversial to criminal. behavior al-jazeera washington. greece's forum and has now only voted to ratify a landmark agreement with its northern neighbor to change its name to north macedonia greek politicians voted one hundred fifty three to one hundred forty six for the un broken deal signed last june it was approved following days of heated debates protesters have been braving the rain outside our manchester hours after they were dispersed by riot police with sixty three days left until the u.k. leaves the european union and politicians aren't able to agree on any plan queen elizabeth has appealed for common ground and respect for different point of views the queen's commons said not directly refer to bracks said but are being widely interpreted as a rare oil intervention into the political debates paul brennan has for she may be head of state and leader of

a global commonwealth but under the you case 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 of 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 with former prime minister james callaghan had an anecdote about an occasion he asked the queen for her opinion on a subject that he couldn't make his mind upon she looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes and then she told me that's what you get paid for paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. rescue is in southern spain have found the body of a two year old boy who fell into a well nearly two weeks ago minus worked around the clock for thirteen days to find the toddler who was trapped in a narrow bore hole seventy meters below ground. and the pride of refugees has been

high on the agenda at the world economic forum in davos one aid group is highlighting the issue with an interactive simulation which is giving delegates a very different perspective john holley for some. it's a long way from the champagne and kind of plays 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 human why are we here at the world economic forum it's that same goal to improve it's committed to improving the state of this world and our world and he's 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 has a son muhammad here with the world economic forum's young global leaders program muhammad 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 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. may's not dealing 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 there are big businesses here. and then the us will work with ordinary people i hear we're here to talk to each other and give each other from this it 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 limited in the dark journal how al-jazeera davos switzerland. thank you thank you. hello again i'm

fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera the governor of the brazilian state of maine as sheria says the chances of finding survivors of a downburst are slim at least seven bodies have bring recovered so far but hundreds of still missing the dam collapsed at an iron ore mine near the town of rock. n e i spoke to. a reporter for the a.f.p. news agency and is close to the site of the damper as he says the rescue operation is going to resume on saturday morning but the hopes of finding survivors are very slim but it's not much of that they can do in terms of searching it is pitch dark now as if it didn't belong to the update with stephen did that is because they found food and body. most likely of the three hundred mill of missing most of them will be will be dead body most of those about one hundred fifty other mines operators who were on site having lunch when he's on that happen and

most of the mafia did. their government at the press conference shortly ago and each week chant there's a million more of finding a need supply of a good to be part of the diet thing to be saying this is really all for the example. the u.n. security council is expected to meet on saturday for a special session called by the u.s. on venezuela's political crisis washington says it's ready to step up economic and diplomatic pressure to force president nicolas maduro out of power donald trump along with a number of regional leaders have recognized opposition leader one guy joe as the interim president. and donald trump has signed a bill to end the longest government shutdown in u.s. history has agreed to reopen the federal government for three weeks but has warned democrats that if negotiations over the funding of a border war with mexico hit another deadlock he is ready to declare a national emergency and find me a close confident of the us presidents want to stone has been charged with seven

crimes as part of the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen election are just stone is accused of being a conduit between trump's campaign and wiki leaks and lying about it and those are the headlines one a one east is next on she's here. on counting the cost plenty of no shows damn lost a lot of talk from leaders there about an economic slowdown what the chinese president said about gray rhinos and black swans boss at the cost of holding the u.s. budget to ransom. counting the cost on a visitor. in war torn afghanistan or simply going to school can be a privilege. especially if you're

a girl. and. two 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 on this episode of what i want to use to reinvestigate why so many of afghanistan's girls are kept outside of the classroom. into the dawn of a new school day across afghanistan and girls from the dashed district or neighborhood in west kabul begin making their way to class. pursed a trickle. and soon a steady stream out. by six am the outpouring from the gates. there steve from norwich ready to learn.

it's six am seems truly first and it is and. that's because this is the first of three ships here. it's the only way to accommodate the more than fourteen thousand students from the screen. split almost evenly between schools and board over the next week we've been given extremely rare access inside the cia the shahadah school to try to understand what life is like for a girl for him to school in afghanistan. because the car isn't a sore heart for girls in their account for a. problem. sixteen year old man. has been a student at seattle shahada since grade one over that time she in principal akila tasha cooley have seen the numbers of girls at your school more than ok melissa yes

and show a stroll and though we have. a few buildings here and there. how does a student here they get this seven thousand just was just curious i wonder how long . the huge increase in the numbers of feel studying it. is a welcome sign of progress compared to the days when the taliban were in power and girls were forbidden from going to school. but the school's enormous growth has a major consequence too many students and not enough classrooms so we have a few buildings here yeah which ones are for girls one is simple this. time of movement is saying that that building is from the beis building room for the from the five buildings from the buys a lot of them are seeing the buildings these are all the by all the building all of

the boys are the mice yes. where are the girls that's the eyes of the yes. we don't have classroom trees we don't have buildings and that's just for our parents and all of the buildings are going to buy if we don't have any building. how many classes in three times we are more than four feet what it costs us to collaborate times a day yes she. i'm with a. spelling guess ok guess the girls are to be on the bus along with. your drunk. sometimes. there is only one high school in this neighborhood which is why the girls come

prong far away from all the population is growing and day by day the girls come knocking on our door to be enrolled and we cannot tell them no joint. we have to accept them but we don't have enough space that's why we have problems. the. lack of infrastructure is only one of many reasons why so many afghan girls are out of school. in fact no one actually knows how many girls are in school not even the afghan government the ministry of education is not sure how many students are there is it eleven million or is it seven point two million is it eight million nobody knows exactly how many students are there. that's just one of several findings of

a recent independent review on corruption within the ministry of education released late last year the results made headlines across the country it found widespread corruption throughout the education system ministry. of bashar is the former director of afghanistan's anti corruption watchdog and author of the report after spending billions and billions of taught in the last sixteen years. we have not been able actually to have any kind of building for most of the schools our finding shows that. the treaty money was taken in cash to remote parts of afghanistan by the trustees and we had information that the money did not make the right people. had siad all shahada there aren't even enough classrooms for the boys. many classes are held in the hallways or in stairwells wherever

a teacher came from space. the only place you won't find boys attending classes is in a tent or out in the open with the girls in the past living area where together by some girls we didn't first through lack of that class is ok we had enough classes here but right now we have too much people we have too much a student here because of this there is no play is. recognizing the desperate need at the school japanese donors built to need buildings five years ago so girls would have their own classrooms. at the school shura the community leaders decided to give those buildings to the people. in this school is that blanche to ask the girls because when for an answer coming we were under the sun we were under the rain bad therefore and i was next one did the school's frazz but right now is this by says i

don't know why you feel angry about. the angry yes because in the past the freer when they are coming so they will think about us as about about the gears but right now it's the my school i don't know why and it's right makes me really angry that's why i always the right of the girls are like. improving education especially for girls is a well known objective for international donors principal akila says the local community gave the buildings to the boys thinking. that donors would come back to build more classrooms for the girls. but honey. what if. people think n.g.o.s come here to work only for girls so the community decided the bolling's should be for the boys. i don't know if the school's management or others interview these issues are always decided by the males and the school management.

did the donors ever come back after they built the building. they came once to visit then went back to the raffle. the security situation continues to deteriorate in afghanistan as a result there we feel international donors are able to visit the projects they support so many rely on third party monitors to do that work which according to the anti corruption committee opens yet another avenue for corruption we've found that the school monitors and instead of doing proper monitoring off the quality of education. they have been working for themselves you know to go to some of the school to kind of harass the teachers in this great inspiration get money from them and then do their evaluation once they were happy we had an example. our school

that we're working with them but actually on which has a thousand kids on the register actually when we went in there there were twelve kids coming to school. in kaplan is a researcher who contributed to the anticorruption report as an education specialist he works with the norwegian and geo providing support for schools throughout afghanistan including this school for the deaf and car. sign language which. kaplan says he's fortunate to be able to visit the projects and geo supports it's often kind of difficult for donors to be able to do that because of security concerns but also sometimes it's not always the interest to go out and follow up on these things and to go out and visit so it doesn't happen very often i think i mean you get a feeling for something in a way that you don't if you're sitting behind a desk and you see people and you see them engaging in learning and i mean for me that's the reason to be here but without that i would just lose the feeling for it

i think altogether but he says lack of donor access and oversight is only one of the issues affecting girls' education in afghanistan while girls of lacking so much more than boys when it comes to education well i think you know at least in the past there'd been just much more of a focus on just getting anyone in the school first and then it was easier to get boys into school and. you know and also just because of gender you know that the more attention has been focused on boys than girls generally see india is a country that's leaving all this like saying that they are not that there's not that there's all this thing that they're. as the top. levels of the afghan government and the international community deal with the findings of the anti corruption report the staff and the girls that say it will shahada face more immediate issues. the first shift of the school day from six am to ten am

is almost over and while four hours might seem a little light on school times it may be a blessing in disguise because any longer on the girls may happen is to play with. the trash talk a new car bomb we have seven thousand go but both male and female students have to use the same time i'm sorry. we tell them during assembly do it before coming to school. have you ever gone to the toilet in your school yes i was seven years old that i went to call and. it's a will but situation here. the biggest car would you. go to the bar. so.

impolitely with this. poor working conditions in most schools make it more difficult to attract female teachers yet there.