saying barry as he wouldn't be wise to rely on whatever support there may appear to be reg now i think that's right my other concern are the paramilitary organizations that are supported by the venezuelan government that have been going into communities and neighborhoods and have engaged in summary executions of protesters so one needs to look at the the formal military complex within venezuela but my other concern and the other areas that we need to focus on are the informal networks of paramilitary organizations that are also supported supporting the duro and on which he is also relying we've also heard from why don't have them we about the alleged all position. arrests is this something you think we might see more off. i think undoubtedly we will

this is not unprecedented in venezuela this is happened every time there have been protests that have arisen in the country over the past few years and obviously probably one of the poster child or main examples of this is leopoldo lopez who was arrested and placed in jail a major leader of the opposition and obviously this is an effort by the majority him to silence the opposition so this statistics that i've seen show that this is on the rise and i would expect. the interim president quite always embolden them to powered through support from other latin american countries the u.s. canada and europe that the this crackdown will advance and obviously maduro does have the support of countries like russia and china and and and cuba syria hezbollah so that that's a real concern as well but i think this is something that is likely to continue.

them and they're joining me live from washington d.c. thank you very much for sharing your point of view thank you. coming up on this news hour from london how the hunger for bread is shooting me on based in sudan over president obama shares thirty year. this is france sees more protests this time against again invest in demonstrations and not the government. an end to a dream final the world's two that seven teams clash in new zealand team so we'll have all the action coming up later in school. to the explosions in a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines that killed at least twenty people and injured many more i saw his claimed responsibility for the sunday mass attacks on the gentleman at the moose the my end of hotel well the past happened six days. it's a part of the mindanao region voted for autonomy in

a referendum genuine dogan reports. the first blast was inside the cathedral as worshipers celebrated sunday mass that was followed by a second explosion in the car park a security forces were arriving there trying to disrupt the peace process they're trying to destabilize it it's like like for men things of this time is asian and to show that the government will not be able to control the area that the the places that the various conflict the attack in the capital of sulu province comes six days after a referendum on them in the now region voters in the muslim dominated region overwhelmingly approved a deal for more self rule eighty five percent of voters backed an agreement between muslim fighters and government leaders in manila for a self administered area in mindanao which will be named bounce

a model there are attempts to stalk up of communal conflict but the thing is that so far none of these attacks on the churches have resulted in such type of hatred between muslims and christians. the predominantly catholic philippines has been plagued by decades of separatist conflict in mindanao more than one hundred thousand people have been killed and millions more in displaced in the decades long conflict in mindanao and despite the reconsideration process attacks like this show that armed groups still pose a threat to peace in the region dogon al jazeera manila. people have been back out protesting against the government in sudan they marched on the capital against rising prices and demanding an end to the thirty year rule president bashir at a press conference in cairo where he's been holding talks with his egyptian counterpart the shared knowledge the ongoing on west but accuse the media of exaggerating the

size of the protests will be daily you do. there is a problem in sudan we cannot claim that we don't have a problem but some media take it out of size and dimension what it is an attempt to close is being called the arab spring in sudan it has the same slogans programmes and requests but it also has the same use of social media however the sudanese people have learned the lesson they have seen what happened in some of the states that went through the so-called arab spring and its negative implications of god willing the sudanese people are very alert and will not fall into anyone's trying to destabilize sudan well it's bashir second trip abroad since the protests erupted almost six weeks ago they were triggered by bread shortages but the demands for economic reform and political change have grown ever since as mohamed fall reports now from khartoum. freedom peace justice and the overthrow of president bashir are the main slogans being chanted by

these so the knees protesters but at the root of the demonstrations are demands for basic life necessities but old stations ran out of fuel inflation rates soared bank coffers were empty people stopped deposing money with banks and those who did face limits on how much cash they could withdraw most dangerously bakeries ran out of floor of all the other needs bread can be seen as the main symbol of the crisis are burst the dimmer was a journalist during the one nine hundred seventy s. at the time of former president. his life now may symbolize the slow descent of sudan from relative ease to utter this to jewish and. everything was much better now mary was a strong leader we had culture to certainly span was equal to four dollars but now it's crisis everywhere and people have nothing to eat we don't want to know. the

origin of that crisis the sudanese government agrees was a shift the country made from agriculture to oil during the one nine hundred ninety s. the hostile and i mean some of the model who indeed it's called the dutch disease when easy only revenues shift attention away from traditional resources such as farming we've had it in sudan but now we are addressing the problem through new strategies and more focus on agriculture. in two thousand and ten sudan exported nearly half a million barrels of oil a day but a year later south sudan gained independence and took most of the oil fields with it by then the agricultural sector was already suffering from neglect and there was another shift happening. in the past sudanese households relied mainly on sorghum for food and those things changed when the british and i in our governments wrote wheat preparing sorghum is towards the mint takes time you know we have to take it to the mills to grind it then you need

a long process to cook it with bread on the other hand is handy all you need is to go and buy it ready from the bakery and then without more of the hard now then as i was a month. wheat bread now accounts for two thirds of regular meals and so that. just to give you an idea about how much bread an average family of five individuals in sudan need for the daily meals each individual they tell me here needs six pieces of bread if i try to put all the quantity they need in my hands. it's not possible this is just the shell of two people. the crisis got worse when sudan couldn't grow or buy enough wheat saudia and r.t. companies grow millions of tons of wheat here on least or purchased land but they send it out of the country now sudan with its over two million hectares of fertile soil that even oil and the gigantic underground lake the newbie in basin is begging

for outside help to satisfy its demand of wheat to feed the hungry population of nearly forty million. just to say it's too late to come these cards whole bread will overthrow this regime as it happened before here in sudan. i. see a sense of his words is a code by these protesters david champs. mohammed via. khartoum. thousands of people are once again protesting on the streets of the french capital but this time the demonstration is against the ghetto rest movement which has been rallying against president back home their opponents have joined together to call for an end to the violence threats and verbal abuse which they say characterized the recent protests attash about reports now from paris. a new citizens movement in france created online and now on the streets of paris they call themselves the red scarves and they say they're fighting back against months of finance and disruption

by yellow fest protesters thousands marched through the city to demand an end to the yellow vest blockades and demonstrations the aged unity and respect for fraudsters democracy and institutions calling up or drink alone i see we are here to so i know there are laws in france and in europe i should be respected and the violence must stop and this detestable image of front scrape or minority of people . of course demonstration is right i appreciate the right of the most special will demonstrate. it does not i would say justify violence some people here say they used to support the yellow vests and many share their concerns over the rising cost of living but they say the weekly scenes of unrest are too much on saturday police and yellow vests demonstrators clashed again in several cities across france since the movement began in november eleven people have been killed

dozens injured. as the red scarves reached by steal a symbol of the french revolution the divisions between the two movements was clear behind those results. larry gestures when they stopped here in the past and. not the on the steps of your house or yellow vests protestors and it's something of a standoff with both sides taking each of the see the right if the movement was really against violence than most yellow vests would have proved were not for violence obviously but listening to their slogans and when you look at them it seems more like a pro micromanaged to me emanuel mark karr has been promoting his national debate initiative aimed at quelling the yellow vests demonstrations by giving people more of a say in the way that france is run opinion polls suggest the french president is regaining some popularity of to months of low ratings micro hasn't commented on the red scarf

movement but he might hope it is a sign that the tide is turning in his favor. al-jazeera paris. a mirror by the british artist banksy on a door at the back to clown theatre in paris has been stolen ninety people were killed at the concert hall and an attack in twenty fifteen pay digs showed a young girl mourning the loss of life the battle plan has released a statement expressing deep indignation at the theft people in the northern irish city of london there have been marching to remember bloody sunday when british troops killed fourteen unarmed civilians it happened in one nine hundred seventy two at the height of the troubles a conflict between most catholics irish nationalists or republicans against poor mostly protestant unionists on the march comes a week after suspected dissident republicans detonated a bomb in london dairy catherine stansell reports. there was a shot fired and i heard it very clearly the acts of violence are seared and burned

into mccalla skewes memory one thousand nine hundred seventy two she was an m.p. addressing a crowd of more than ten thousand people in london derry during a civil rights march that was banned and it took a deadly turn i said don't panic they are firing over our heads. as the word truck coming out of my mouth because i'm standing looking here. i could hear all the shots and i could see a whole march of people whose b.s. is were looking at me beginning to get done like this so the words. of words were coming out of my wife in my brain and was telling me that's not right the killing of civilians by the british army led to a massive ira recruiting drive if you will to three decades of violence during the troubles with nationalist mostly catholic groups wanting an end to british rule against protestants who wanted northern ireland to remain in the u.k.

in twenty ten a british government inquiry into bloody sunday determined that the killings were unjustified an apology was issued but the inquiry never led to prosecutions something the victims and their families are still fighting for this year's march focuses on the role that was played by top british military officials who ordered soldiers to fire on that civil rights march here in one nine hundred seventy two and the people marching here today say they won't rest until those responsible face justice kate and linda nash are two of the organizers of the march their nineteen year old brother william was killed their father alex was injured trying to save him what i want as them to be prosecuted to know that their brat as murderers so that the war and their names are right but i also want the truth. the proper troth of bloody sunday others in derry don't believe

a march is necessary instead victims are quietly remembered at the bloody sunday memorial but the recent spate of dissident ira activity is casting a shadow over the santa verse serie a ghost of the past coming back to life people suffered a lot over those years and certainly i don't want to wait in the future like i have to have grandchildren and certainly i don't want my grandchildren to love to me what i went three. for kate and others they say they'll continue to make their voices heard and i will want that burden. you know laughed. at that gave me a great sense of pace and really what katherine stansell al-jazeera dairy northern ireland. less lots more still to come this hour. afro jazz legend and national hero of our what to curtsey in front of thousands of

adoring fans plus. i'm rich allen's vincent petersburg russia formally lending grad and it was seventy five years ago today that one of the most brutal episodes of the second world war came to an end the nazi siege of the city lost it nearly nine hundred days and my only osaka shows office trailing an open show in melbourne peter we'll have that story a bit later in sports. get a welcome back to your national weather forecast well here across parts of north western russia we have seen some very heavy snow i want to show you some video that has come out of moscow they have actually seen the greatest amount of snow that they have seen in seventy years and it actually brought some white out conditions to the city along with the winds across the area of course it had to bring it to

a standstill but it did cause some problems in the area and unfortunately over the next several days we do expect to see more snow coming into play not as heavy as what we have seen but still causing a problem to what we have already on the ground there so from moscow your high temperature here on monday minus three degrees and as we go towards tuesday we expect to get maybe up to about minus one over here towards the west we are watching well weather system just to the west of france that is going to bring some very windy and wet weather there down towards the south though a little bit of a break from all of the activity that we have seen over the last few days well here across the northern part of africa of course we had be a big problem here with the snow across parts of tunisia we're still looking at some cloudy conditions across much of that area down towards bogosity though it is a partly cloudy day for you but we do expect to see by the time we get towards tuesday the possibly some more rain coming into play there as well as some gusty winds over here towards cairo though it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty one.

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and life moves on and online. a quick reminder of our top stories here on al-jazeera the search for around two hundred fifty people still missing after a dam collapse in brazil has resumed after a second that nearby was ruled safe but hopes of finding anyone alive is fast turning to despair venezuelan opposition supporters have been taking amnesty papers to military bases in a bid to get troops to switch sides but president the duel has been visiting his soldiers arjen them to stay loyal. to bomb explosions at a catholic cathedral in the southern philippines have killed at least twenty people

and injured many more. long time trauma just still who was arrested on friday says he will not cooperating with special cancer investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election still in is accused of trying to obtain still in emails from wiki leaks in coordination with campaign officials if there is wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that i know about which i know of no one but if there is i would certainly testify honestly i'd also testify honestly about any other matter including any communications with the president it's true that we spoke on the phone but those communications are political in nature there but now i and there is there is certainly no conspiracy with russia or diane estabrook has more now from washington well roger stone does seem to be hedging a bit on friday when he was indicted he said that he would not bear witness against

president trump now today as he made the rounds on the sunday talk show he said that he may consult with his attorneys and he may have a conversation with the special prosecutor what we don't know is what else robert muller may have up his sleeve he may have additional charges that he could bring against roger stone that what might compel him to turn evidence against the president we just don't know at this point we've kind of seen this thing play out over and over again where people close to the president like his attorney michael cohen and his former campaign manager paul man a fourth say that they would not talk and then ended up flipping against the president and we could see that again play out with roger stone. the next round of talks between the u.s. and the taliban have been tentatively set for the twenty fifth of february the u.s. envoy to afghanistan is in the capital kabul briefing the government on progress made in his latest talks to end the seventeen year old war this after the taliban

said it had agreed a draft agreement which would see foreign forces leave the country in eighteen months time. reports. afghans eager to learn more about the peace talks between the u.s. and the taliban but government leaders in kabul are not commenting they have complained about not being involved in the latest round of talks in qatar's capital . afghans we spoke to hope the talks in doha will help the war while others are skeptical for example made what has been that we are very hopeful all the afghans are tired of for explosion in suicide attack in this country they are hoping for a brighter future and i am very hopeful that these talks will bring a bright future for us and for the future of afghanistan. we afghans don't trust groups affiliated with foreign intelligence agencies the u.s. must talk with the afghan people because we are the ones who suffer this is not

peace what kind of peace is this the u.s. ovoid to afghanistan is in kabul to brief president assad funny on his meeting with the taliban. and reported that there had been significant progress the taliban though being cautious saying talks with continue to overcome obstacles one of them is agreeing on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops initially the taliban dismissed any overtures towards the u.s. as long as american forces are enough to understand. the taliban has rejected direct talks with the afghan government which it considers an american puppet but beast in afghanistan goes beyond internal disputes the u.s. hopes neighboring pakistan can play a crucial role in the talks the afghan government and the white house have often

accused the pakistani government of providing weapons and shelter for taliban fighters accusations denied by leaders in islamabad we would like to see us getting from a funny stand as friend of the region so that having exited there must not abandon afghanistan in terms of their social economic development restoration of. the development process the u.s. hopes the doha talks will lead to a cease fire and polish airing agreements that would pave the way for tens of thousands of us a day to troops to pull out of afghanistan. in yemen dozens of mothers have been protesting in the southern port city of aides and calling on the government to give them information about their missing sons the women who have been demonstrating almost daily rallied outside the home of the interior minister refuting claims that gannon has no secret jails is thought most

of the men are being held in detention captured since the outbreak of their own growing civil war agents under the control of the un recognized government led by president man so hadi russia's been marking seventy five years since the world war two siege of leningrad was spoken for nearly nine hundred days the former russian capital was cut off by nutsy troops hundreds of thousands of people starved to death is the german army pounded the city which is now known ascent petersburg where we shall us reports. natalee every attention is ninety seven years old but both she and her memories of the siege of leningrad remain shop a former tennis star she says dreams of competing again kept her alive but natalia's father and four other relatives starve to death. at the. in january we had our last decent meal real well made

a soup from furniture glue that my father had of course the smell was awful to disguise it we use black and. since then of the war no matter what i cook i've never used either black papa or bailey. from september nine hundred forty one to january nine hundred forty four german forces and their finnish allies surrounded leningrad the u.s.s.r. second city had to fend for itself by the time soviet troops broke the nazi siege seventy five years ago on sunday hunger disease bombs and shells that killed more than half a million civilians. most of buried here in one hundred eighty six mass graves of their piscatorial sky memorial cemetery flowers bred in toys with some of the gifts left there by mourners on saturday russian president vladimir putin paid his own respects there on sunday his older brother died in the siege.

another event schools brought students to light candles forming nine hundred on the isis impeaches birds waterfront the blockade last did nearly that number of terrible days. when the sage was a great case of heroism we should remember until our children about it so that. my younger daughter learned in school and was amazed that we had such heroes in our country who went through such hardships we should hold events like this to remember . soldiers and modern weapons paraded through the center of the city now calls in petersburg on sunday in today's russia world war two anniversaries are frequently used to display current military might. know why write all business into the summer but by the way. they retain the right way. to get one of the big. bang.

i bought the russian state things differently it won't citizens and the world to believe that such a thing would never be allowed to happen again rory schilens al-jazeera sin petersburg the landing right. survivors of the auschwitz death camp of gathered at the sign to mark holocaust remembrance day it comes after a year which has seen a spike in attacks against jews including the fatal stabbing of an eighty five year old hole call survivor in france in october last year the gunman killed eleven jews at a synagogue in pittsburgh the deadliest anti semitic attack in u.s. history. the afro jazz legend known as the son of africa has been laid to rest at a state funeral in zimbabwe all of our own to could say died on wednesday at the age of sixty six from complications resulting from diabetes from his home time when syria has the story.

saying goodbye to zimbabwe's and one of africa's iconic musicians the base way they know how to solve and dance. all of them with who could see officially known as to who died on wednesday after a four decades long career doing what he loved one of my favorite things that he said was that he wants to tell stories and he's a poet is telling those stories and the music is just an accompaniment to telling those stories was. to get he started performing in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven singing protest music during the war to end a white minority rule more than forty years and sixty seven albums later his knees it inspired generations around the world.

in as much as it's a sad turn that he's done what he leaves us as a legacy of his music so in wellington than in the message of the music there's a lot of proverb there's a lot of in. looking at african cultural beats here really new in many many different beats within zimbabwe and further afield and those he tapped into so his music is authentic and substantive and it. was the move. was was. there. with the songs largely stayed clear of politics he chose to mainly. think about people's struggles and hopes in zimbabwe with its huge economic and political challenges he was seen as an entertainer teacher and unifying issues certainly the rest of us and that is about winston we have lost a really unifying spirit but i think that we should take advantage of every year.

to build it up. which took as he was given a state funeral by zimbabwe's government which has declared him a national hero as a u.n. goodwill ambassador he said he wanted to spread hope through his music his fans say they'll remember him for his inspirational songs that try to make some bubbly africa and beyond a better place al-jazeera zimbabwe still ahead this news hour we meet the trailblazing tribal chef chief is transforming her village invalid too by putting the environment at the heart of her decision making. why they're welcoming the political fall with north korea at this ice fishing festival and the sights. and two scandinavian nations meet for the title of world's best pizza will have all the action from the world ample championships later and sports.

in september twenty seventh team 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 force 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. this is a really fabulous news from one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in. that's something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working round the clock to make sure that we bring in friends and i through the it's possible to get through you and that's what people expect of us that's what i

think we really do well. the pacific island nation of ghana watts who has a long history of community mounts as being settled by tribal village chiefs who are usually men but the first time a woman's been appointed chairperson of a tribal council on the island of mosul as part of her plans to transform village life she's applying a strict environment environmentalist agenda which includes a marine park and cracking down on illegal logging my name is les marlene is the person and i'm a first. lady of a tribe concent in vanuatu.