egypt's human rights record is even worse now and under deposed president hosni mubarak as a reports from paris so far emanuel macros first trip to egypt is proving to be a delicate balancing act the french president wants to boost cooperation and trade with cairo while delivering a strong message on human rights and of what president says he came to paris in october twenty seventeen we had a long discussion about that and i think things have not gone in the right direction since then since that time there have been bloggers journalists and activists who've been imprisoned that is a reality and though i have respect for egypt i cannot ignore this president abdel fattah el-sisi suggested that egypt needed no lessons in human rights was a length of palm beach it will not advance by bloggers egypt will thrive and work on effort on its children's perseverance we are doing economic social political and religious reform for macro it was a change of tone from the twenty seventeen meeting with sisi at the time he'd said

it wasn't france's place to lecture egypt over civil liberties some campaign is and friends have been urging that cross it take a tougher stand on human rights and end arms sales to cairo these activists in paris say that they have proof that french weapons such as armored vehicles and surveillance systems have been used by storage fees to crush dissent. because it reparation that is made in france because some weapons and technology and sold by french companies as a larger oppression of the syrian book edition imagine. france is one of egypt's main arms supplies but no major weapons contracts was signed on this visit or those forty deals were made in other areas such as transportation. despite emmanuel marc ross criticism of cairo's human rights record there's no doubt that the french president sees egypt as a key ally in the region but some analysts say that the diplomatic importance of french presence have traditionally given to cairo could be misplaced. france is

always better on an alliance with egypt to solve regional issues but it's misguided efforts between france and egypt to find a solution for libya has been a total failure and on other issues egypt has lost much of its power and credibility. macross always said that he's a president who believes in talking frankly on this occasion it's an approach that may please campaigners but is less clear what impact it will have on future relations between paris and cairo natasha butler al jazeera paris al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara says president likewise ultimately focused on advancing his country's interests on this trip. he seeking to advance french interests in egypt in africa everything else is beside the point is specially his conversation about human rights meaning he needs to talk about human rights because france claims to be

a champion of human rights and has universal values so called the republican values but in effect what president mccourt tried to do is try to get a lot of business for french business try to expand the francophonie in egypt try to reach understandings with the egyptian president about the future of libya the chip the future of the especially the future of their own a good general have to in libya about the security on the libyan border there and various things that have to do with the arab israeli conflict so it is all in all an attempt by person micro to advance french economic and strategic interests. turkish government is saying it expects the four million syrian refugees living in turkey to return home after say signs have been established president said he had

discussed with his u.s. counterpart donald trump setting up a thirty kilometer wide safe zone in syria along the border it's also intended to protect turkey from kurdish armed groups which they call terrorists eighty three hundred thousand syrians have already returned to areas controlled by takesh back gravels some of inge of aid has more from gaza on the turkey syria or death. for the last few months turkey has been trying to close down refugee camps on its soil to try and give people an avenue to go back and rebuild their lives so far it is one and one in three they have a battery a shrine to word syria but now if they ever go on coming today turkish audience saying that he wants to create a safe zone along the border where people would be able to feel free and four million syrians the largest number of syrian refugees in another country can go back now before he gets to this he needs the guarantees from not just the united states but russia as event to try and build this so-called theists on the three hundred thousand people that he's talked about and gone back have gone boxes back

to areas which have been under the control of turkish backed forces for a number of years including the city of our freend and other areas surrounding on the western side of the euphrates river on the eastern side of the euphrates river it's a completely different situation where the area is under control of a goodish rebel backed by the united states with turkey as terrorists all of this is happening while the new u.n. envoy is in ankara he's meeting turkish officials this is part of his meet and greet campaign that he's he's been due to russia he's been to the arab league he's trying to talk to all of the stakeholders were involved in this complicated fight inside syria to try and bring them to words the u.n. brokered deal to you and brokered agreements off the situation in theater trying to find a solution which can be acceptable to all sides and to hear them away from what they have been meeting is especially these three major stakeholders iran turkey and

russia to take them away from the asthana peace process and bring them back to the united nations for. well pope francis says he fears there could be a bloodbath in venezuela as pressure grows on nicolas maduro the jury started a second presidential term earlier this month is rejecting calls from nations to order new elections with juries critics are hoping the country's armed forces will turn against him opposition to one quite joe has proclaimed himself interim president but madeira says he's part of a u.s. like who. is live for us now and what is dire is so powerful remarks there from pope francis meanwhile the foreign minister has been speaking out one of the latest diplomatic developments there. well that's correct the foreign minister he said that there were talks with the united states' representative in venezuela he said that the united states was not the devil and he also asked the u.s. to stop interfering in venice well as affairs he announced that there were talks

with the united states representative and got back us that they would create an interest section however this one it's not confirmed by the united states and in fact over the weekend mike bumbry of the united states secretary of state recognized the op pointed representative by why you go also there recognizing the possible ambassador that the self elected into room precedents and death maybe if you can see how complex the situation is on the other hand the consul the venezuelan consulate in miami has recognized though as their precedent saying that she was awaiting orders for the new interim president and this is all that the u.s. relationship with venezuela but on the other front is also the european union on saturday it expires the ultimatum that the european union gave the venezuelan government to call for elections saying that if not they would recognize also why though as their president them venezuelans are getting ready to start protesting

they're going to carry out some protest on wednesday and on saturday saying that they're thankful for the european union's pressure on the government. but how is the political turmoil impacting an economy that was already breaking down. well that's where it seemed fifth whole crisis started the currency already devaluated over twenty percent but today the government created a new platform to deal with the us dollar and this apparently devaluated the currency another thirty percent there are several ways that the government have ways to regulate the u.s. dollar and the economy price controls and the regulation over who come by and who cannot buy the u.s. dollar what happened today is a big move for the socialist country but it's likely to increase prices in the last few weeks we have seen desperate measures by the government of nicola to address the hyperinflation that exists in venezuela to date how prices continue to go up

even though he announced for example an increase in the minimum wage prices already doubled since he made those announcements will people feel cannot afford to buy many of their basic staples so that's why many have been turning to the streets many have been protesting because they're hoping that there's going to be an end to the enormous economic crisis that exists in the country today thank you from one desirous to raise of both thank you theresa. funerals have begun for the victims of friday's downburst in southeastern brazil nearly three hundred people a still missing after the disaster at an iron ore mine most of those people are presumed dead trapped in the town of burma dean hole that was swallowed up by mud unleashed after the dam collapsed the dam had recently been inspected and the cause of this collapse is still not clear well don't you sean that has more now on the funerals that are being else. this is just the first of some of the many funerals

to take place here in the town in the next few days weeks. as i speak something like fifty eight bodies have been recovered this is a small town of about seventy thousand people everybody knows everybody else people here obviously morning at this stage but asking the questions of the company the mining company valley as to why it was that the the warnings were not heeded from previous accidents in the states of mean they shut her eyes a mining state where less than four years ago. banks in the town of the town of money on a killing nineteen people something like three hundred or more people missing from this latest disaster which happened just a few days ago so a town in mourning but the town also asking questions about how this was allowed to happen whether in this mining community more of these cases where the dams which are inadequate a ready been identified. it's been months three months in fact in saudi john as you

showed you walked into his consulate in istanbul never to be seen again and now the u.n. human rights investigator looking into his murder is meeting with turkey's foreign minister agnes callum od will have a what we'll have week long talks in turkey a special rapporteur says it's a crucial step towards formal accountability for the killing of the saudi journalist and critic of the saudi crown prince stephanie decker has more on this now from istanbul. the un special rapporteur on this column out has made it clear that she has undertaken this investigation upon herself because in her words she says it doesn't seem like the united nations or any member states seem to be pushing for an independent investigation and she's met with turkey's foreign minister she's meeting with the justice minister and she will be coming to istanbul where she'll be meeting also with the chief prosecutor people that have been involved in the investigation here trying to decipher what exactly happened in the building behind me in the saudi consulate now she has requested access from the saudis it's not clear whether she will be given that she's also been requested

access to saudi arabia she's also mentioned that she wants to get information from bodies like particularly intelligence agencies in the united states as she tries to piece together the mystery of what surrounds the murder of something that she calls a gruesome murder now her findings will only be made public in a couple of months from now particularly in june where she'll be for a reading a report to the human rights council but certainly it comes at a time when international pressure seems to be easing on saudi arabia particularly looking at the recent economic forum in davos with senior saudi delegates meeting senior government officials of various different countries and international organizations making multibillion dollar deals and really seemingly continuing business as usual whereas the body of jamal khashoggi almost four months on remains missing. still ahead for you on the program we are live in the u.s. where federal employees are back at work off the partial government shutdown lips for how long and west african leaders discuss how to stop violent attacks around

the lake chad basin. hello there is a very messy picture across europe at the moment the satellite picture is showing plenty of clouds who are edging its way eastwards that's giving us a fair amount of snow but actually the most active weather as we head through the next day also is going to be in the west this is a very intense area of low pressure is going to give us a very very strong winds particularly to the northwestern parts of frauds it is likely to cause a fair amount of damage here if that system is working its way eastwards it's easing as it does so but it's still going to give us a fair amount of snow as that system hits the cold air that's in place across europe for the other side of the mediterranean for some of us in libya it's looking pretty wet lots of cloud lots of rain here that will gradually break up as we head

through into wednesday so wednesday we just have a few more isolated showers around those will also be grazing the northern parts of china zero as well and the clouds may be thick enough in parts about syria and morocco to give us one or two showers here as well even further towards the south of the many of us here it is fine enjoy the clouds are likely to be gathering around parts of nigeria that will give us one or two showers and that's also going to be some more active weather a bit further towards the south those wells have got born we do expect it to be really quite wet and there will also be if you roll the professional force in you can well. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going old what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no

limits i view myself as a capital orders we are trying to break through the world smaller and smaller we don't want to be set realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing on al jazeera. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories this hour on a visit to cairo the french president emanuel has told his gyptian counterpart abdel fatah sisi that stability and security cannot be separated from human rights the turkish president says he's discussed with donald trump setting up a thirty kilometer wide safe zone in syria so four million syrian refugees can

return. and as pressure grows on venezuelan president nicolas maduro pope francis says he fears it could be a bloodbath the country. is the first day back on hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states affected by the partial government shutdown parts of the government closed on december twenty second after a political deadlock over funding for donald trump's controversial border with mexico the opposition democrats refused to agree to the federal budget because it included five point seven billion dollars for the wall this led to an unprecedented thirty five day shutdown on friday trying to find the balance of pressure and signed legislation to reopen the government but it's only a three week rip. previews threaten the shutdown could happen again if funding for the war is not seen place by february fifteenth well diane estabrook joins us live now from washington that must be some sense of relief that people are able to go back to work today there was relief in fact we talked to some people heading into

their federal jobs this morning and they said they were really happy to be going back to work even happier to be getting the back pay that the government owes them for those five weeks that they were off and they should be getting that money towards the end of the week but a lot of these people that were off for five weeks face a back load of work when they go back and then the prospect of being off again in three weeks you've got today is the first day of the income tax season and the internal revenue service was not able to train a number of people during the time that the government workers were off and so that may tie up processing those tax returns and getting refund checks in the mail and then the court system too you've got going into this shutdown there was a backlog of about eight hundred thousand immigration cases that were before the federal courts and about eighty six thousand of those cases weren't able to be heard over the past five weeks so that's going to put them behind as well and then

again you have the prospect of these people potentially being off again in three weeks right so you have trump threatening now the shutdown or emergency action in the event that congressional leaders don't come up with a deal what is happening behind the scenes to reach an agreement. well we really don't know i mean this is the first day back we don't know i don't know if that there's any movement going on at this particular moment the the president said he gives about a fifty fifty chance of there being a deal by february fifteenth he's standing firm on wanting that five point seven billion dollars congress of the democrats say they are not going to move on that that they don't want to give him money for a wall although there may be some will go room with potentially giving him some money for technology so there might be some room for negotiation there but the

congressional budget office came out this morning saying that this last shutdown cost the u.s. about eleven billion dollars it shaved about eleven billion dollars off the gross domestic product that does not look good for the president the vast majority of americans polled are laying this last shutdown at his feet and when those numbers came out this morning from the congressional budget office both nancy pelosi the house speaker and chuck schumer the senate minority leader use that and mocked the president so they're going to be using that as leverage to try to extract some sort of a deal out of president trump done as to brooke in washington thank you. more dial warnings being issued about the growing refugee crisis in four african countries because of the war against booker its decade long campaign of bombings shooting and kidnapping as for smaller than a third of a million africans from their homes in nigeria cameroon chad and regional leaders

and aid organizations meeting in nigeria's capital of been discussing the plight of these refugees as a common interest reports from. stuart have years since the launch of a regional protection strategy for refugees reaching midlife present to living in their. but what i'm attacks have escalated in the past three months despite the nigerian government declaring victory over the two years ago one year conflict has recently forced additional three hundred and twenty thousand people in four countries from their homes and the crisis is getting worse this situation is dire we don't want to alarm anybody but will call attention of all the governments including the international community that this situation is not improving we have a situation that is. desperate if i would say so. i think the war with

isn't bad enough the meeting you know you heard of other threats to regional stability. the united nations says in addition to come back to the foreign countries in the next chapter reads in part facing growing humanitarian challenges they include separatist fighting in cameroon and farmers competing for land with cattle herders in nigeria as well as work in a fossil and beyond their fighters displeased hundreds of thousands of africans the united nations is warning of the crisis will worsen unless they are addressed quickly. the nigerian government says it's achieved successes in combating book violence but has also admitted the continuing attacks particularly in remote regions is coarse and it was he with a child. most of this we want area has access to interventions sometimes very fairly to she calls with. some other types from some of the communities it's come part to that also have that if without

flaming. number in countries of. china we have also one hundred influx of questions. from cameroon it ages is one more than two million of the eleven million population in the lake chad region i didn't help. the united nations says the demand for help will probably increase if the number of book or overtax isn't produced a desperate situation now which the u.n. says could become even worse in the next ten years one hundred degrees are people just well some news from spain now where taxi drivers have been blocking the streets of the capital madrid this to protest against a wide hailing apps like they say the new companies enjoy unfair advantages by avoiding the same regulations and cost taxis cut off a section of one of the trades main avenue is possibly open ended strike

a position in bahrain is lost his appeal against a life sentence for spying the leader of the opposition share selman and two of his aides were convicted of spying for the castle in november summons party our father has called this latest ruling political revenge bahrain castle ties with cats are as part of a saudi that blockade that began in june two thousand and seventeen doha's repeatedly denied accusations of conspiring against bahrain with solomon now a palestinian family living in the occupied in occupied east jerusalem fear that they will soon be forcibly evicted from the home they've lived in since the nine hundred fifty s. campaigners say it's all part of a wider a systematic process by jewish settlers to take over the city and as high force it now reports hundreds of others are facing a similar face. it's been the backdrop to their lives for more than ten years but now there's little else to think of or talk about the suboxone family face eviction

within weeks from the place they've called home for decades and it's not that all extended family is under the threat of eviction we don't sleep anymore we're always crying this is my house how come they tell me to leave it i've been living here for forty years the sebas were awarded the property as refugees and then jordanian controlled east jerusalem in the one nine hundred fifty s. as such they've long rejected any israeli claim of ownership as the family has grown so they've added more buildings in two thousand and three however a settler activist group bought the plot from the registered israeli owners and since two thousand and eight has been trying to force the family out through the courts after years of fighting this about a family now appears to be running out of options in november last year the israeli supreme court dismissed their appeal based on newly discovered documents in which they tried to challenge the claim of jewish ownership and earlier this month the court ruled again saying it would not be hearing any more appeals in this case is

about family fled the home town of just as part of the mass displacement of palestinians during the creation of the israeli state for them and their neighbors the law that could displace them again is discriminatory as it denies them any claim on their former homes. it's unfair unfair unfair i had a house in west jerusalem in one nine hundred forty eight it's my house but this land here isn't there for campaigners on the issue these are not isolated legal battles but part of a systematic process settler organizations aiming to increase the jewish presence in east jerusalem have long targeted the sheikh gerar neighborhood we are talking about groups of settlers who has no connection to their original owners from the four forty eight that are claiming and by systematically those properties in order to clear the area from the palestinian residents and to be. a settlement instead he just doesn't just worry about the practicalities of how and where to start again

she also fears the effect on her children of having to go through the same experience as their grandparents are aforesaid how does era occupied east jerusalem well israel of gaza has left two million people in the strip struggling with unemployment power blackouts and crumbling housing it's a place offering little hope to palestinian youth but in the town of communists a group of young men and now performing a sport that's tailor made for an urban landscape scarred by war john strafford reports from southern gaza. you have his friends do their warm up exercises in this cemetery in kommunist in the southern gaza strip. they are infusing asked a discipline developed from french military calls training. evolve seeing your environment in negotiating its obstacles in a free often dangerously acrobatic way the boys don't deny the

irony of practicing among the graves many of the people buried here were killed in wars with israel. so. this gives me a different feeling from other sports parker takes us away from israel see all the suffering we experience when we practice with you emotionally and mentally away from the refugee camp here we are free. the group calls itself the hard core gaza many of the walls and buildings they used to practice on scarred by bullets and partially destroyed. garza was set up in two thousand and five the guys here say they practice bush lee every day they say that despite the difficulties they face here israel's air land and sea blockade only motivates them more. what i feel in life is fear free this it always like among. you know so well flying going to do this we are bossing things we buzz away

a lot of things a ball of war so as we little things in life let's say because we have a lot of ups to gild and in life so. this statement we are passing the walls and if and if us easily without you know i difficult. they say they dream of being able to do park or outside gaza but israel has always refused them permits to leave despite the challenges they face their love of this physically demanding and risky past time gives them a sense at least that there is no barrier they cannot overcome stop an al-jazeera on eunice gaza well there is more on everything we're covering the latest on our top stories but remember you can also watch us live on the web site out there to calm the address.

just a very quick recap of the top stories for you now in chips human rights record has again come under scrutiny jaring the visit of the president of france and his egyptian counterpart abdel fattah sisi that the country's human rights record is even worse now compared to what it was under deposed president hosni mubarak. on the certains of a moon president sisi came to paris in october twenty seven thousand we had a long discussion about that and i think things have not gone in the right direction since then since that time there has been bloggers journalists and activists who've been imprisoned that is a reality and though i have respect for egypt i cannot ignore this in this context i think it absolutely essential that we have a dialogue about human rights that is coherent with our own objectives and friendly dialogue. the turkish government says it expects the four million syrian refugees living in turkey to return home off to safe zones have been established president.

said he had discussed with his u.s. counterpart donald trump setting up the thirty kilometer wide safe zone in syria running along the border but francis says he fears there could be a bloodbath in venezuela as pressure grows on president nicolas maduro but there is critics are hoping the country's armed forces will turn against him opposition leader one guy doper claims himself interim president also weak funerals have started for the victims of friday's downburst in southeastern brazil nearly three hundred people are still missing after the disastrous in iron ore mine most of those people are presumed dead trapped under the mud this won't the town of burma dina. and the united nations human rights investigator looking into the murder of saudi judges jamal khashoggi has been missing with techies foreign minister agnes callum odds is in turkey for a week of talks because he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul three months ago it is the first day back to work for hundreds of thousands of federal

employees in the united states affected by the partial government shutdown which was suspended on friday but i only be working for three more weeks unless donald trump gets funding for mexico orderable well do stay with us because the stream now looks at what could be next for venezuela and the do you will for the presidency. millions of venezuelans are wondering what lies in store a made a jewel for the presidency that is divided into actual support i have your cake and

i'm all they could be as an interim president maintains his push for power we want to hear from you and your thoughts to be a twitter and a you tube like job. president nicolas maduro is facing and president to challenge his leadership by the head of the country's national assembly wango hijo declared himself interim president and wednesday and made anti-government protests in the capital caracas us press than donald trump support squad.