and president. of. the european union say they've given us eight days to call for elections. when israelis don't take orders from anybody. a quick reminder now of who's backing home in this political crisis russia says any moves to remove nicolas maduro from power are illegal while turkey and china are also standing by him mexico with a newly elected leftist president is recognizing the door as leadership for now but door bolivia cuba and nicaragua say they remain committed to him canada meanwhile has joined the u.s. in backing opposition leader one and a host of latin american countries are also supporting him as the interim leader and as we mentioned the united kingdom spain germany and france say if madura doesn't call elections they swing the behind quite oh my can i reports now on how these divisions played out at the united nations. a highly unusual weekend session and at the outset russia made very clear its opposition to the proceeding arguing

that any u.n. involvement in venezuela constituted a violation of that country's sovereignty particularly when you're still who rules we don't see any external threats coming from what is taking place in venice well or venezuela does not represent a threat to peace and security if anything does represent a threat to peace it is a shameless and aggressive actions of the united states and their allies aimed at the ouster of the legitimately elected president of venezuela russia demanded a procedural vote to continue the requisite mine members voted to do so but the four votes against a signal that yet again the security council would not be speaking with a unified voice now it's time for every other nation to pick a side no more delays no more games if you stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with merger and his mayhem that's a sentiment echoed by u.s. allies the united kingdom making

a clear ultimatum we believe that one why don't you is the right man to take venezuela forward and we will recognize him as constitutional interim president if new elections are not announced within eight days the venezuelan foreign minister was allowed to put his country's point of view and seize the opportunity for a show and tell of what he called illegitimate u.s. intervention in latin america the united states is withdrawing forces from syria well they are going to try to start a new war now in latin america venezuela we're not going to give them that satisfaction peace stability and understanding will prevail in venezuela in spite of all the efforts of the countries present here who are trying to trigger a war the u.s. secretary of state was not there to listen holding a brief news conference before walking away and leaving the council still in session behind. my kind of united nations singer had on al-jazeera the u.s.

and the taliban make what says pride does significant progress have the latest round of talks plus a pursuit with the potential to become even more popular i stopped korea's relationship with an old song to song. hello there was in quite a few embrace of snow over a positive pan the latest system was moving away towards the east for the next ones galloping towards us that will reach us as we head into monday and so here will see a fair amount of rain and over the high ground and in the north a fair amount of snow towards the west it's not too cold for many of us at the moment beijing up at around seven degrees and. minus nine will be our maximum until we head into tuesday then it's ok hold on maximum this time will just be minus twenty one

a bit further towards the south and generally the weather is quite quiet force in the southeastern parts of china shanghai at eleven hong kong at twenty two but over there who've a province i think here will see the clouds begin to thicken jur in the day we see quite a bit of rain and towards the north it's likely that that will be tending wintery a bit further towards the south and it's mindanao where we watching at the moment though is that the rains here will really intensify as we head through the day on choose day some very sharp showers in the south meanwhile elsewhere just the usual mixture of sunshine is showers but there was surprise if you see quite a few showers if you're in singapore here it does look rather wet over towards the west and for some of us here we've got quite a few showers particularly in the east we'll see more of those as we head through the day on monday but by cheese day it should be dry. russian filmmaker andre microsoft explores how putin's russia impacts the very values of the nation russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can

tradition and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian why wasn't the u.c. raided by the police to the shoes ukraine six homosexuality the significance of the russian elite is that he's like a feature who controls the cold room in search of putin's russia on al-jazeera. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera two bomb explosions in a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines that killed at least twenty five people and injured many more there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for the sunday mass at tut's on the dominantly muslim island of. rescuers in southern

brazil have so far recovered thirty four bodies and they're losing hope for hundreds still missing after a dam next to a mine collapsed state prosecutors have frozen assets belonging to the mining company valley to pay for damages and venezuela's president nicolas maduro is denouncing an ultimatum by some e.u. countries to hold new elections within the next week as a plot to topple him and hated a merge and see debate at the u.n. security council the u.s. backed opposition leader. has declared himself interim president. now to bomb attacks in northern iraq have killed four police officers the police chief in the town of chicago says two died when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus carrying them to work two others were killed in a second explosion as reinforcements arrived there's been no immediate claim of responsibility. iraq says it will summon the turkish ambassador over the death of a kurdish protester after turkish troops opened fire on demonstrators in the north

west on saturday night kurdish protesters stormed a turkish base inside iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region they said four civilians were killed in a turkish raid last week turkey often carries out raids and air strikes in iraq targeting the kurdistan workers party which it considers a terrorist school meanwhile uncertainty is growing between turkey and the u.s. over a proposed safe zone in northern syria turkish president bashar type airline says he'll go it alone if he doesn't get logistical support from the trump administration wishes removing its troops osama bin job it has more on the political situation from search near the turkey syria border a lot's been said about the so-called safe zone between turkey and syria if and when u.s. forces start to leave this area durkee wants everywhere east of the euphrates river to be clear of not just eisel but kurdish fighters as well the proposed thirty two

kilometers would reach the edge of the contested city of my big inside syria is the last go to stronghold on the western side of the river walk to school material didn't meet thirty kilometers is something i think everyone can discuss positively we can even extend morris the u.s. coalition gives us economic and logistic support we can make the safe zone real right across. in two thousand and fifteen this was a flash point in the fight against eisel this is the first major town that we come across as you move east along the border the proposal also includes the towns of the lobby and russell lane commissioner will be the biggest border city hold nearly half a million people some parts are also under the control of syrian government forces turkey would like to administer control of the sabin all the way to moloch year on the iraqi border. he's going to be talking to turkey about assuring turkey that they'll have a buffer zone that they need given their concerns about the why b.g.

kurds with the last thing in the world we want is a war between turkey and the kurds and a lot still remains to be settled between turkey the united states and russia the un human rights investigator into the murder of journalist wants access to the crime scene in the saudi consulate in istanbul agnes kalam are has also asked to visit the kingdom but hasn't had a reply the un special rapporteur on executions is due in turkey on monday she says inquiry is a crucial step towards full accountability for the killing of the critic of the saudi crown prince. america's top diplomat has described the latest round of talks between the u.s. and the afghan taliban as encouraging my pump air says his government is serious about pursuing peace in afghanistan and bringing u.s. forces home but there's still a lot of work left to do as reports. an apparent breakthrough in negotiations taliban sources say their leaders are paving the way for around

fourteen thousand american troops in afghanistan to leave within eighteen months if we turn groups such as and i still will not be allowed to use afghanistan as a base to target u.s. forces that will only actually be implemented if the other items are also agreed and which are for the taliban much more difficult including direct negotiations with the afghan government reaching agreement with the afghan government and moving into some kind of interim or transitional ministration but after repeated and failed attempts to the seventeen year old afghan war the peace process has a long way to go afghanistan's president has voiced his skepticism a soft money warning the terms of any agreement bus include approval from the afghan government so i surely will basically be thinking ok my work starts now all

this follows the appointment of one of the taliban's co-founders as leader of the group's political office based in the qatari capital hill had a brother who was jailed for eight years in pakistan has a history of supporting peace talks. the pakistani government which has been accused of providing a safe haven for taliban fighters also had a seat at the negotiating table in qatar. the draft agreement is reportedly conditional a little chilly to perhaps to test the water and see if it eventually the longest running us war. another round of protests is expected in paris to demand the french government immediately act against climate change demonstrators plan to gather on sunday just a day after the yellow vests movement eleven weeks of demonstrations the yellow vests started rallying in november against

a proposal increase in fuel taxes that was later scrapped it since grown into an anti-government movement that says president emanuel mudhole is out of touch with ordinary citizens. cameras and bosler to china has been fired after his comments about the chinese technology giant huawei john mccallum said it would be great for canada if the u.s. dropped its extradition requests for while executive main ones or she was arrested in vancouver last month accused of evading american sanctions on iran canada's prime minister justin trudeau didn't give a reason for why he sucks the ambassador. a funeral has been held in the united states for an eight year old boy from guatemala who died after being detained by border agents philippe gomez alone so fell ill on christmas day while in custody with his father they had walked from guatemala with a caravan of thousands of migrants an asylum seekers he was a second young migrant to die last month while in detention. russian tanks and

troops have commemorated the seventy fifth anniversary of the ending of the leningrad siege eight hundred thousand lives were lost during the second world war battle with hitler's troops the kremlin says the occasion is important for all russians to remember. nearly two million south koreans have gone fishing and they've had to wrap up warm to make a catch the annual ice fishing festival in how china is close to the border with north korea as a ride reports it's hoped the political fall on the peninsula would have tracked even larger crowds in the future. it's everything you can think of doing with the. sliding down it rolling over it just staying up all it most especially fishing through it. on county trades on the tourism potential of being one of the coldest places in south korea in winter by the end of the festival some twenty thousand

fishing holes have been drilled so you'll has just caught her first fish it takes a long time she says at the next hole parks and juno's it. has to freezing aside one's boyfriend has brought her here for a special treat this is my first time and it's fun i can't one pull on the line is a great feeling. and for those who dare there's the chance to strip off those restricting layers and brave the near freezing water to catch them and hold on to them any way you can it's definitely for the adventurous for those who simply don't want to wait for a face but once you get in there with that. idea. to take. probably. for sixteen years what john has been building its brand helped by the humble mountain trout by the truckload their farm released cotton then along

the frozen river if ice is what you've got ice is what you do look says the county chief it's forty centimeters thick you could drive a tank across it but that's just what this town doesn't want less than thirty kilometers from the developed rhizome frontier with north korea the current peace moves are good for business. i like to be able to farm in the child free use in the festival in the north and see north koreans come here to take part to see an era of peace has always been my hope for south koreans the intriguing possibility of going north beyond the wire i'd like to maybe even visit north korea one day winters there are colder still but even the prospect of a warm north korean welcome until recently was unthinkable rob mcbride al-jazeera county south korea. the pacific island nation of anwar too has a long history of community matters being settled by tribal village chiefs usually

men but for the first time a woman has been anointed chairperson of a village tribal council on the island of mosul a sponsor of her plan to transform village life she is applying a strict environmentalist agenda which includes a marine park and cracking down on illegal logging. my name is lay my leanest up i see and i first saw a chair lady of a tribal council in vanuatu it's always been i'm in the position my husband sound she filed for we are about sheila childless who gives me the right to ponting beasts in the uk i come from totally different islands and tribe and different. just farm and culture somewhere happy somewhere not happy idea of the day that she has. has the lessee my husband and i

go to capitol hill every day to bring kids to school but those cell phone work and for shopping i am cory for enough in hospitality institution in order that when i look around me i see the destruction of forest and marine life after the saigon everybody relies on government handouts so the council decides that we can't wait we have to do something sure start rebuilding so in our community we put all these bylaws in place the first thing is the shelter that can shelter the families that don't have psycho on parole or most . fear is also dotting tides see what rises just keep coming in we introduce nearby lowes or to stop people making guidance around riva to protect

them with a source. we have a problem with people chopping down trees for chuckle and files to say so we introduced the by laws to protect the forests we also introduce a by losed for people to have their own gardens through an eye on the process food one of the things we decided to do is through introduce the moment but they did we care about the lives of. the turtle as the sea cucumber has but also the dew glance we took it for granted but now in this generation we come to realize that the future for the environment is important for us and the future generation everything that lives around us is important it's.

clear again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera to bomb explosions in a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines have killed at least twenty five people and injured many more there's been no immediate claim of responsibility for the sunday mass attacks on the predominantly muslim island of hollow brazilian firefighters are warning that a second mining dam is at risk of rupturing close to where a dam collapsed on friday in burma danial thirty four bodies have been found but hundreds are still missing the state prosecutors a frozen assets belonging to the mining company valley to pay for damages venezuela's president nicolas maduro is denouncing an ultimatum by some e.u. countries to hold new elections within the next week it says it's one of a prop to topple him the u.s. is backing opposition leader one glide over stick at him self interim president in a heated emergency debate at the u.n. security council russia china and turkey rejected what they called illegal moves to remove my dura from power. the european union say they've given us eight

days to call for elections. when israel and don't make any public. two bomb attacks in northern iraq have killed four police officers the police chief in the town of sheer card says two died when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus carrying them to work two others were killed in a second explosion as reinforcements arrives there's been no immediate claim of responsibility iraq says it will summon the turkish ambassador over the death of a kurdish protesters after turkish troops opened fire on demonstrators in the north west on saturday night kurdish protesters stormed a turkish base inside iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region they said four civilians were killed in a turkish raid last week turkey often carries out raids in airstrikes in iraq targeting the kurdistan workers' party which it considers a terrorist group and the un human rights investigator into the murder of journalist wants access to the crime scene in the saudi consulate in istanbul miss

column or has also asked to visit the kingdom but hasn't had a reply she says the inquiry is a crucial step towards full accountability for the killing of the critique of the saudi crown prince. those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story starts now. the record breaking us government shutdown is over for now but what's next donald trump hasn't got the billions of dollars needed to build the border with mexico but federal workers will finally get paid how will the president's supporters respond this is inside story.

and welcome to the program i'm nora kyle. had warned the longest government shutdown in history could go on for years unless congress gave him money to build a border war with mexico but after thirty five days the president signed a bill to end the standoff for now he's agreed with congressional leaders to reopen government departments for three weeks while they try to hammer out reforms to border security they were rational deal doesn't include the five point seven billion dollars trump wants for the wall but trump insists he hasn't caved in to the democrats eight hundred thousand federal workers who've missed two paychecks are expected to get paid at last we'll bring in our guests in just

a moment. has this report from washington thank you very much my fellow american it's over for now 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 staff 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 is border wall the democrats don't want to agree to that 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 know 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 wall 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 you know gets to make a state of the union address to put 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 allan fisher al-jazeera washington. ok let's bring in our panel of guests and from washington d.c. leon fresco former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration the u.s. department of justice in philadelphia joe watkins a republican political strategist and former white house aide to president george h. w. bush and from birmingham in the u.k. scott lucas founder and c.e.o.

of a world for you and co-founder of the trump project thank you all very much for joining us joe on thursday donald trump tweeted we will not cave exclamation mark one day later he caved what happened. well i saw the effect that the shutdown was having me not only on the eight hundred thousand workers federal workers who are not getting paid and who are about to miss a second paycheck but also for the thirteen million americans that are also impacted by the shutdown and then by friday of course airports are being impacted by it and it was getting to be the ripple effect was going to be significant around the country and so i think the president had no choice but to end the shutdown he was taking all the blame for it all of his poll all the polling data that i've seen shows that his. support even among his base was beginning to shrink in light of the shutdown so the president really had no choice but to give in to democrats and to

and to sign the bill that could have been signed back and december to keep the government open should have taken all the blame for it he should have taken all the blame for it because. he said he said as much when he said with senator schumer and speaker nancy pelosi back in december he said he was willing to shut the government down that he would take take the blame for it and and for the most part with the american public he has taken most of the blame for the government shutdown the congress hasn't been beaten up as much as the president has been beaten up for having for allowing the government to be shut down for over thirty days the longest and u.s. history so americans are relieved that it's over but they're concerned about what may happen again in mid february absolutely earlier let's look at what does have to happen in the next three weeks in order to keep the government type and. well over the next three weeks now the senate and the house have appointed conference committees to try to come together to hammer out what

a border security proposal can look like democrats have shown a willingness to provide more money than they were going to provide in the summer which of trump wants to use that as a victory he certainly can use that to his this boles all to say look i got democrats to give me more money than i was going to get before on border security but democrats have not shown any reason as to why they need to acquiesce to the demands of an actual border wall given that it was going to happen it was going to happen during the shutdown now that the shutdown is over it seems very unlikely that democrats will now with this three week in their in their regnum bierria have actually given to a border wall demand scott do you think that trump still believes that he can get the democrats to cave on this point and that he will still get his will. yeah i mean a phenomena it's hard to get inside knowledge trumps head but the starting point is he's so committed to this vanity project this thirty foot high steel or concrete

wall even though it has very little to do with effective border security that it has become like this holy grail he has to have and he matches that up to these deceptions in his head which misrepresent migrants which misrepresent what's happening on the border and of course the idea that the democrats are the enemy within so i still think that that that phrase at the end of his speech yesterday after he had caved after he had given way but he sort of said like the want to be tough guy who gets knocked down but says i'll show you i'll show you and he says i can shut this government down again or i can even declare a national a national emergency i don't think you can get away with it but that's different from donald trump realizing that he can't get away with it and who else are they have to convince joe i mean it's not just the democrats is it i mean how much support does he still have to call back for within the republicans of this for this . well republicans. he lost

some support during the course of the shutdown from republicans and there are republicans who have to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty a number of u.s. senators have to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty and of course every member of every republican in the house will have to run again in two thousand and twenty but he did lose some some support among republicans during the course of the of the shutdown and but the president will remain adamant about the about this wall he's not going to get it from democrats that the house is controlled by democrats he is not going to get the funding that he wants for four for a border wall specifically democrats or republicans who are happy to talk about border security and how that can be reasonably accomplished and what it will take to do that but democrats certainly will not want to talk about or entertain the possibility of any money at all for border wall which means that the only option the president will likely have is to call a national emergency which also in turn will be challenge in the courts i'm sure

absolutely i want to explore that a little bit male can convince the courts that this is an emergency that needs addressing when it's been dragging on for weeks already and indeed will take months to build the will. well so there are two separate issues the first issue is can he declare a national emergency that allows him to engage in construction projects i think for sure if you look at nine judges on the supreme court four of them he already has i think in his pocket that will say yes the question is justice roberts justice roberts sometimes is ruled for a drum sometimes as a rule for people suing trump i think in this case probably justice roberts would allow it but even if he had the authority to build the wall he still needs the money to build the wall and that's the problem the reason he hasn't really declared this emergency is even if he has the authority he would need to reprogram money

that the defense department is using for a very vital defense projects in order to actually start building border wall and nobody's going to allow him to do that and so for that reason that's why he hasn't actually declared this emergency and hasn't been some act of benevolence it's that even if he has this authority to declare the emergency there's no actual money behind that to build the wall and he's talking about five point seven billion dollars to build just two hundred thirty miles of wall which i've even that is optimistic of the time what you could build but the point is. with reprogramming money you wouldn't even be able to get a billion dollars so you wouldn't you wouldn't if you looked at a radar of the wall or a picture from a from a satellite sorry you would see no difference two years from now or now of what wall was on the border if you tried to use this national emergency provision so essentially what i'm hearing here is that he can't win he can't get this wall built

and trump doesn't like to not win does he scott what do you think his reaction is going to be how is he going to handle this he's probably going to keep screaming i want i want i want like my five year old used to do you say no no no but the difference this time is that don. trump is in a corner because on past occasions across a whole range of issues we could talk about congressional republicans gave him cover in a sense you know that they were sort of codependent and that is even if they didn't think trump's projects were really that sensible they wanted to get a tax cut they wanted to get a change in regulations what you've seen especially in the last forty eight hours of the first signs that congressional republicans especially in the senate are no longer willing to provide him with that cover and i think that's going to be a very fundamental split across a range of issues the problem is is that if it was just donald trump holding out i think maybe even he would have to back away but he has a hard line advisor named steven miller fiercely anti immigration and miller keeps

whispering in his ears all those words that those conservative commentators like ann coulter say which is you don't want to be weak you don't want to give way to these waves of migrants invading the u.s. .