resources. shot the war in the. zero. zero i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up fears of a bloodbath in venezuela as pressure grows on president nicolas maduro to call fresh elections and the u.s. announces sanctions. france's president of annual macron attacks egypt's human rights record as he meets his counterpart abdel fattah sisi in cairo. west african leaders discuss how to stop boko haram violent attacks around the lake chad pace.

and in sport the latest from the asian cup in the united arab emirates japan i've been around to reach the finals where they're looking to become five times asian champions. we start this hour with some breaking news out of the united states where the national security adviser john bolton has just announced that america will impose sanctions on the venezuelan state oil company better vesa the move comes as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on them as well and president nicolas maduro. francis said he feared they could be a bloodbath in the country where i started a second presidential term earlier this month and is rejecting calls from nations to order new elections opposition to one is proclaimed himself interim president but says that is essentially part of a u.s.

led. but we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people we expect and secretary minucci will go into this in more detail that today's measure totals seven billion dollars in assets block today plus over eleven billion dollars in lost export proceeds over the next year we also today call on the venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful democratic and constitutional transfer of power. of war on this i'm joined by political analyst demetrius bond to us he is speaking to us from the venezuelan capital caracas thank you very much for taking the time to join us on the news hour and i want to start by asking you about breaking news development the u.s. and out saying that it will sanction venezuela statehood oil fund part of

a sign of course this that this is a move that the u.s. has been reluctant to take because of the effect it can have on oil markets and so forth just put into context for us the significance of these sanctions. good evening from caracas actually this utterly shot of the usa cost they can argue against. maybe i should have been israel and government in peace is a better one but week or so. i guess their state organist will up as we know flows in the market on towards all best day and to give it with the artemy are clearly the president of by the us uk the oil. is at oppression coming from the army controlled it live in us and we are using it for a bit but this is such thing the government sold by the usual usa price would be the day to make more friends i require least in between but if it is them i would not and the army and brits in that out but support his government job think

it's a very bold move but it would have consequences or be asleep in the international markets but d'orsel it would have consequences for there not of ever more not more people ministry as we know been israel us they'd already import doesn't produce anything at all be ports coming from oil sales abroad especially in the us so this is a very bold move from the us and i think. it would have to take some decision to negotiate or to capitulate. so this i'm just looking at at some of the comments that u.s. national security advisor john bolton has been making he says that the u.s. believes that venezuela's military rank and file is looking for ways to support wider i mean just just the fact that this is being a company by the announcement of sanctions on paid of a so which is a key pillar of strength and the duo is this the beginning of the end can they do

us now survive this. it's very unlikely but my boots and their supply of these actually no one could. wish for me they have very little incomes and they have created it a little incentive to continue supporting the president especially in the last days but we have a big undertaking in the popular out there in that area of caracas and other cities where most of it and i'm going file members of the army coming from and it would have seen many of them refusing to suck but as ordered to go against their there are a lot in there in the areas and displayed areas schalke mother or whatever it not that i'm going up that would give a good unit he said if the corner supporting model but doesn't mean but would support a white door that would support the u.s. led the debate as many think most of it most likely means but that we're not support anyone and that will that if used their presence just waiting and see so

does this is this an enormous risk in some ways if the guy does foreign backers to be going all out and saying that they are taking extreme measures with regard to sanctioning venezuela and essentially encouraging the military to rise up against the door how much of could could this lead to more unrest more violence in the country yeah one thing i think as you said it is beginning of the end for president or what ex-president mahmoud about the for form but as we see it it will be a it will be one that will be take sometime and this time most likely it will be full of faith and i oh it's and the demonstrations and obviously the words that i had to clamp down any attempt to prompt him from by our show it will take some longer and the minister a lot we will face some bit tough and difficult moments. thank you very much for

now demetrius joining us there from the venezuelan capital caracas we appreciate your thoughts let's now speech you can believe how she joins us live from the white house and kimberly i understand that you were present at that press conference with john bolton what else did he have to say about this decision yeah it was national security advisor john bolton but also the treasury secretary steve munition announcing these sanctions that were put in place by the president through executive order the reason that the united states in their view and what they have told us was the reason this is happening is because they felt there was a further need for the united states to take action on two parts the first to sort of send a message that in the statement that the united states views that the people that us will have gone through significant hardship and oppression and enough is enough the second part is essentially there is this feeling that there needs to be sort of a leadership role of the part of the united states already of course the united

states has recognized the leadership of the interim president but they are calling on other nations to do the same so it appears the united states is taking this action in order to achieve that so not only have they announced this sanctions against the state owned oil company in venezuela but the reason they say they're doing this is to further prevent nicolas maduro the official venezuelan president from in the words of john bolton further looting the assets that belong to the venezuelan people. what do we know about possible talks the might take place if that's even a possibility obviously the u.s. is imposing these sanctions but only just speaking to one venezuelan just a little bit earlier and he was saying that there are two choices here this could be the end of the madeira government or he might have to get involved in some kind of dialogue and negotiation. i think that there certainly

is the hope that this can be peaceful that is why we saw the national security adviser john bolton strongly urging the members of the military to support a peaceful transition and to further move towards democratic elections and democracy but i think what was most striking about the comments from national security advisor john bolton is what came in a question and answer session with reporters beyond that there was this question about what action the united states might take if that peaceful transition does not occur or is there the possible military option on the table on the part of the united states and the answer was pretty striking john bolton saying all options are on the table particularly when it comes for texting the remaining u.s. personnel that currently remain in venezuela right now of course they're hoping

again that this could be peaceful that this can be something that nations will unite to kind of support and push forward but at the same time what was most notable is the fact that they were not ruling out a military option if that does not occur thank you very much at the white house we'll bring you more on that story a bit later on want to now move to our other top story in egypt where the country's human rights record has faced scrutiny again during the visit of the president of france and told us the gyptian count sisi that egypt's human rights record is even worse now than on the deposed president hosni mubarak reports from paris. so you thought emmanuel might cross 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 what president says he came to paris in october twenty seventeen we had a long discussion about that and i think things have not

a guard 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 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 dorothy's 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 the forty deals were made in other areas such as transportation. despite emmanuel marc ross criticism of cairo's human rights record there is no doubt that the french president sees egypt as a key ally in the region but some analysts say that the diplomatic importance that fridge presidents have traditionally given to cairo could be misplaced. france is always better on an alliance with egypt to solve regional issues but its misguided efforts between france and egypt to find a solution for libya have been a total failure and on other issues egypt has lost much of its power and credibility. micro has always said that he's a president who believes in talking frankly on this occasion it's an approach that may have police campaigners but it's less clear what impact it will have on future

relations between paris and cairo natasha butler al jazeera paris. well i'm joined now from new york by dalia family who's an assistant professor of political science at long island university thank you very much for speaking to us . president micron's criticism is unlikely to lead to any material change in the political and economic relationship between egypt and france but nonetheless how uncomfortable might have been when when listening to these remarks. i'm sure he was quite surprised because he just in his last visit with the u.s. secretary of state there was no mention of human rights and so for the french president to invoke human rights today in such a vigorous way probably was surprising but what the french president was actually address there were three sets of audiences the first is his domestic audience of what does it really mean for human rights he has tried several times to set himself

apart by reminding the world that france is the birthplace of human rights and so this language of human rights he's invoked in the past couple of months especially with his own domestic conditions and the second is the international community he's continued to try to set himself apart for example from president trump here in the united states where he has accused president trump of being really in compassing and welcoming of off area terry and leaders all over the world like president sisi and third his third primary audience was presidency see now while he did talk about human rights he didn't tie them to anything such as military aid or even economic aid but we need to signal to president sisi is that there is increasing instability with the encroachment on human rights for example today egypt has sixty thousand political prisoners it has twelve hundred fifty cases of disappeared persons in the past couple of years there and eight hundred forty cases of torture so the human rights record is so problematic that it can't be ignored especially since the end

of versity of the january twenty fifth revolution was just three days ago. but i suppose when weighed against the backdrop of the war in syria the conflicts in yemen in libya and egypt appears to be more stable in comparison to some of its neighbors and that's really the priority for western governments. so since two thousand and thirteen up until about two thousand and seventeen france surpassed the united states in military sales to egypt and upwards a fourteen billion dollars to four billion dollars and this includes the sale of jets naval vessels and this new satellite military satellite system and so in order to maintain that level of arms sales human rights cannot be tied to things like weapons sales to france france is also one of its national companies is building the metro in egypt and tonight there is

a meeting between several french businessmen and egyptian businessmen about more projects yes contracts were not signed but there's still an ongoing economic and military aid contract between egypt and france that far surpasses the united states and so micron might have spoken the words of human rights but and by not tying them to military weapon sales and economic aid packages it's nothing more than lip service and this idea that the world must choose stability of oppression versus freedom of liberty of democracy is starting to be perceived not just in the united terms of egypt's relationship with the united states but also egypt's relationship with france and so i'm a cron begins the conversation with france being the beacon and birth place of human rights but then does not follow through it calls to question the commitment of france to things like human rights in egypt thank you for sharing your thoughts with us from new york me assistant professor of political science at long island university. it with the news hour live from london more still ahead the search

continues for hundreds of people still missing in brazil following friday's dam collapse that unleashed a massive mudslide. to tell you about the border fence that's dividing opinion not in the united states but along pakistan's front here with afghanistan and a sense of freedom on the blockade gaza find. more details on that and support. turkish government says it expects the four million syrian refugees living in turkey to return home after a safe zones have been set up president. said he had discussed with his u.s. counterpart donald trump setting up a thirty kilometer wide safe zone in syria running along the border but it's also intended to protect turkey from kurdish armed groups which they call terrorists nearly three hundred thousand syrians have already returned to areas controlled by

turkish backed rebels. on the turkey syria border. 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 there is it is one and one and three that have graduation to word syria but now there are 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 goodish rebels backed by the united states turkey as terrorist 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 the u.n. brokered agreements off the situation in syria to try and find a solution which will be acceptable to all sides and to hear them away from what they have been meeting with especially the three major stakeholders iran turkey and russia to take them away from the a sign a peace process and bring them back to the united nations for. well it's the first day back to work for hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states who were affected by the partial government shutdown which was suspended on

friday it lasted a wreck or thirty five days but they might only be working for three more weeks and as president trump manages to get funding for his proposed border war with mexico the opposition democrats are refusing to agree a federal budget that includes five point seven billion dollars for the war now funerals have started for those killed after a dam burst in southeastern brazil nearly three hundred people are still missing following the disastrous and iron ore mine most are presumed dead trapped in the town of burma deano that was swallowed up by the month that was unleashed after the dam collapsed daniel sheiner reports. the first funerals are some of the first victims to be recovered and identified the whole town the border geno is grieving their brothers and sisters sons and daughters were employees and subcontractors of valley the company that owns the mine where the first. thing we didn't hear anything from the company if we had looked for him his body

would most probably still be in the mud after the accident we wanted information. francis was thirty four years old married and with a four year old daughter. was missing you know how many people would ever be found how many fathers mothers and kids how we going to cope now i don't know how i would cope but my brother how would his daughter cope without her father how my father being about his son. dozens of bodies have been recovered but many hundreds more remain unaccounted for. we don't have space for more than three bodies in the funeral parlor so many people are gathering here they might end up doing a collective funeral in a sports center where i think. emergency teams the still involved in the rescue operation were most say there is little hope of finding more survivors. after the tragedy the morning this is a mining town but it's a small town where everybody knows everybody else and with many many more funerals

to come the anger people here feel is only going to grow there are already signs of it lessons not learned that insufficient investment in safety it's mostly directed at the mine known as the same part owners of a nearby mine were in two thousand and fifteen killing one thousand people and causing immense environmental damage. others in this profoundly religious country have their own way of showing their grief and support his local usage we came from a nearby city to give emotional and spiritual support to these people who are suffering so we brought donations to but we're mostly here to hug and console on neighbors mining is the region's major employer amidst the grief and the recriminations the brazilian government the mining industry and this devastated community must now tackle what is emerging as one of the biggest crises in the country's history. burma genial brazil well have been

more dial warnings about the growing refugee crisis in four african countries because of the war against boko haram its decade long campaign of bombings shootings and kidnapping was forced more than a third of a million africans from their homes in nigeria cameroon chad. regional leaders and aid organizations meeting in nigeria's capital have been discussing the plight of these refugees as adamant address reports from. its tour have years since the launch of a regional protection strategy for refugees in the lake chad region but life hasn't improved for many living in the area. 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. and if the war with isn't bad enough the meeting you know you heard of other threats to regional stability. for 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 broken fossil and beyond their fighters displeased hundreds of thousands of africans the united nations have warning of a crisis will worsen unless they are addressed quickly. the nigerian government says it's achieved success in combating book violence but has also admitted the continuing attacks particularly in remote regions is causing you know was he with

child so. most of this we want areas access to interventions sometimes very. difficult with. some of the types from some of the communities life is compact let us also hope that people that claim. number in countries of. china we'll also have an influx of refugees. from cameroon ages is one more than two million of the eleven million population in the lake chad region i didn't need help. united nations says the demand for help will probably increase if the number of book or no more tax is introduced a desperate situation now which the u.n. says could become even worse in the next ten years. al-jazeera. pakistan is building

a wall to secure its border with afghanistan and prevent cross border attacks if it is being led by the military and about a third of the war has now been completed afghanistan opposes the fence though saying it divides families along the passion tribal belt. has mall. it's one of the most poorest and dangerous border areas in the world the front between afghanistan and pakistan often the scene of cross border attacks the american and afghan governments consider the border to be the focal point of the honey network its fighters affiliated to the taliban they are accused of orchestrating some of the deadliest attacks against u.s. soldiers over the last seventy two years of war in afghanistan. facing mounting international pressure and u.s. financial sanctions the pakistanis are sealing the border building

a steel fans designed to stop the flow of weapons and fighters. from a great deal to bring the normal theoretical not to the mere fact that the media here do interact with the local people for themselves and they will come to an ordered country not as them this is the place where we would discourage the forces couldn't have moved so freely of the fans is further straining ties between the neighbors it's being built along the juror and line the border demarkation drawn by the british in eighty ninety three which afghanistan does not recognise. leaders in kabul say parts of the fans are being built on afghan soil this basic i think this is designed to sort of create a separation between the people of the same ethnicity as who yet again lives on this side of this border. but the pakistani government says it's determined to

complete the fans as well as with bill destroyed villages to encourage people displaced by the conflict to return home. slowly gradually everything is coming back to normal earlier schools hospitals and infrastructure were destroyed but now it's been reconstructed after the military operation and the restoration of peace shops and markets are open terry soon will be having a new was era stella. about nine hundred of almost two thousand six hundred kilometers on the border has already been fans the army commanders say the rest will be completed by next year. still ahead for you on the program iraq's new front line by drug crime and addiction a growing problems in parts of the country. the thai fishing industry is accused of using slave labor despite in of all of the sector following pressure from the e.u.

. and why the spanish striker has a fresh challenge to rejuvenating his career fireable with the details in sport. there is a very messy picture across europe at the moment the satellite picture is showing plenty of clouds or 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 some 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 alpha 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's 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 a fine and drawing the clouds are likely to be gathering around parts of dying geria 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 a got born we do expect it to be really quite wet and there will also be a few well the previous forces it's well. in the next episode of science in the golden age i'll be exploring the contributions made by scholars during the medieval islamic period in the field of

medicine. science turned to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together with all to such a good natural good the more i learn about the more i respect science in a golden age with professor jim miller. and monday put it on. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories now as pressure grows on venezuelan president nicolas maduro the u.s. has an out sanctions and pope francis says he fears they could be a bloodbath in the country on a visit to cairo the french president emmanuel macron has told his egyptian counterpart abdel fattah sisi that stability and security cannot be separated from human rights and it's 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. now increasing number of illegal drug factories being discovered in iraq high

levels of unemployment and poverty in the country and leading to an alarming rise in heroin use rates of addiction a particularly high in the south of the country as well matheson now reports this is one of the front lines in iraq's latest battle the fight against illegal drugs such as how to win and crystal meth. it's a makeshift treatment center run by police in the southern city of basra trying to help addicts such as his son. i have been an addict for more than seventeen months then i got arrested by police while i was buying large quantities of drugs to use every day my entire family has disowned me. drug smugglers have been crossing parts of the border with iran which were left with little protection joining the four year war against isis importing mainly count of this and methamphetamines drugs factories have also been discovered on the iraqi side of the border. rightly

taking to the u.s. now where the justice department is set to make an announcement with regards to china chinese telecommunications giant huawei let's listen then houseman's i want to remind everyone that the defendants in these cases as in every case are innocent until proven guilty and they deserve the due process of law first i am announcing that a grand jury in seattle has returned an indictment that alleges ten federal crimes by two affiliates of telecommunications corporation weiwei technologies according to the indictment in two thousand and twelve while we began a concerted effort to steal information about a robot that t. mobile used to test mobile phones. in an effort to build their own robot wall ways engineers allegedly violated confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements with t. mobile by secretly taking photos of the robot measuring it and even stealing it stealing a piece of it i'm also announcing today

a grand jury in new york has returning indictment alleging thirteen additional crimes committed by wall way its c.f.o. its affiliate in iran and one of its subsidiaries here in the united states the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company as early as two thousand and seven while way employees allegedly began to misrepresent the company's relationship with its a rainy and affiliate which is called sky com while way employees allegedly told banking partners that while we had sold its ownership interest in sky com but these out claims were false in reality while we had sold sky com to itself by claiming that sky com was a separate company and not an affiliate of wall way. which it actually controlled while way allegedly asserted that all of its a rainy and business was in

compliance with the american sanctions these alleged false claims led banks to do business with the company and therefore to unknowingly violate our laws one bank facilitated more than one hundred million dollars worth of sky com transactions through the united states in just four years while way allegedly lied about other relationships as well in twenty seventeen when one bank decided to terminate its global banking relationship with wall way over a concern about risk the company allegedly told other banks that wall way was dissing state distancing itself from the bank not the other way around wall way allegedly did this an attempt to among other things manipulate those other banks into expanding and maintaining their banking relationships with wall way. there are additional troubling allegations in the indictment as well including that while we lied to the federal government and attempted to obstruct justice by concealing and

destroying evidence and by moving potential government witnesses back to china as has been widely reported in december twenty eight hundred canadian authorities arrested while way c.f.o. in vancouver in compliance with our request for her provisional arrest pursuant to our extradition treaty with canada the united states is currently seeking her extradition we are deeply grateful to the government of canada first assistance and it steadfast commitment to the rule of law i would repeat that these charges in today's indictments are only allegations and the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty and i want to thank everyone who made these indictments possible especially the agencies represented behind me and to all of the new york dallas and seattle law enforcement agents who investigated these cases. they are

continuing their word so he's been listening here to an announcement from the u.s. justice department criminal charges against the chinese telecommunications giant why we two key aspects of these charges he has been accused of stealing state state secrets from t.-mo bol that is one indictment and then a second set of charges relating to who are way misleading the u.s. government and operating businesses in gauging in business that essentially violated sanctions that have been imposed against iran now this of course comes off while he's chief financial officer may when joe was arrested in december in canada at the request of the united states she is currently in vancouver and awaiting a decision from the canadian court about whether or not she will be extradited. now in two other news that we're covering this hour

a politician in bahrain has lost his appeal against a life sentence for spying the leader of the opposition shaikh and two of his aides were convicted of spying for cattle in november salmond's party are with fox has called this latest ruling political revenge. with qatar's part of a saudi that blockade that began in june twenty seventeen doha has repeatedly denied accusations of conspiring against with someone a palestinian family living in occupied east jerusalem fear they will soon be forcibly evicted from the home they've lived in since the one nine hundred fifty s. campaigners say it's part of a wider a systematic process by jewish settlers to take over the city and as harry force it reports from occupied east jerusalem hundreds of others face a similar fate. 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 now 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 the 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 so for campaigners on the issue these are not isolated legal battles but part of a systematic process certain organizations aiming to increase the jewish presence in east jerusalem have long targeted the shaikh 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 their area from the palestinian residents and to be. a settlement instead of going to just about 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 al-jazeera occupied east

jerusalem the president of the philippines has vowed to catch and punish those responsible for sunday's bomb attack on a catholic church or visited the scene and in the southern mindanao province where at least twenty people were killed in an attack claimed by eisel security forces a blaming a local eisel affiliate called us. going to has more now from. hello sulu has a rich history chinese arab and spanish traders have all made it home in centuries past but now it is rife with armed groups holo is one of the most militarized places in the philippines the philippine military established a permanent presence here techies ago but armed groups continue to have bases here including abu sayyaf known for its widespread criminal activities.

factions pledged allegiance to eisele a few years ago but the government claimed it was winning the fight against the group sundays attack suggests that may not be the case at least twenty people were killed in twin bombings inside the cathedral and in the car park outside in the center of the law i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack. but the. problem with is that they have always been protected by local communities where they get support including local politicians. we made our way to the cathedral where the devastation is beyond human comprehension body parts remains scattered on the ground a place of worship now a scene of death and destruction now we're right inside the church where the first bomb exploded it happened as mass was ongoing the country's top security

officials are here inspecting it for the first time and where they were standing as you can see is where the bomb was placed and the civilians and survivors rushed out where they were met by responding soldiers in an army truck and that's when the second bomb was detonated president of the thirty arrived to see for himself the aftermath of the attacks his splurging those responsible will be caught and punished just a week ago a referendum vote was overwhelmingly in favor of a new autonomous region with its own government in mindanao it came after years of negotiations between the philippine government and southeast asia's biggest armed group the more islamic liberation front it will provide greater powers for filipino

muslims in the south many people hoped it meant a lasting peace was finally a real possibility but not here in the law the cathedral bombing is a reminder that this spite peace efforts whole law still remains in the now is a powder keg. dogon al jazeera holo salusa philippines. thailand's lucrative seafood industry is hoping for more growth off to the withdrawal of a warning from the european union in two thousand and fifteen the threaten the total ban on imports unless thailand dealt with overfishing and slave labor well those reforms have now been put in place but as scott hide a report from bangkok the industry is still facing challenges thailand's fishing and seafood industry is big business it's the third largest export are in the world and they don't want done so in two thousand and fifteen when the european commission issued a so-called yellow card warning over unsustainable fishing practices the threat of

a ban on exports to the european union was a major blow anough to cause the military government to launch a major overhaul of the industry and a crackdown on illegal fishing implementing everything from vessel monitoring systems to tougher laws against the ill treatment of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers mainly from myanmar even sinking confiscated boats to create artificial coral reefs when the yellow card warning was withdrawn earlier this month it was a major relief for the seafood export industry but activists say there is still work to be done. good night as an observer i'm working on this issue the human slavery situation in thailand and seems to be well improved but we are not one hundred percent free from it yet we still have a lot to solve especially when restoration of the nation has not shown resources. thailand is due to have a general election soon the first since the military backed government took over in

the coup five years ago some are concerned that the progress on industry reform and workers' rights could be undone the government here says that the success of shutting the yellow card took some tough decisions new fishing laws and a new legal framework were not easy but they're confident these changes will stick even if there's a change of leadership we have the corporation work together that we do a fisherman and all the private sector and n.g.o.s for the good of the country for sustainable fishery so just why we think they start to change in the future we can be more sustainable to achieve that goal model and go back to what we have before but those who run smaller fishing operations say the changes cut too deep and not to the point. yellowcard is only for fishing businesses which many source a food from abroad and mainly explore to other countries for us we have so little

for export almost nine alec catches for canned fish poultry food she hopes that if a new government comes into power there will be changes not undoing all the new laws but those that hurt smaller businesses will be revised so her workers still have a reason to keep their nets in good shape it's got either al-jazeera bangkok. business updates.

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thank you so much to pan a book their place in the finals of the asian cup they did it by knocking out the tournaments top ranked team around the samurai billy ran out three male winners in all the goals coming in the second have. put it a match winning performance the vertebra and forward getting on the scoresheet twice. gucci then sealed the win in injury time he should have now had the chance to be asian champions for a fifth time. or after that defeat carlos carroll sept down as boss of the round the portuguese hard coach the team for eight years he took around to two world cups and help them become the highest placed agent team in the fever rankings. japan's about it's an asia cup final will be decided on choose say they are up against catherine what's being dubbed the blockade darby cats are unbeaten in the

tournaments but as david stokes explains all have pretty much no supports in the stadium talk about maximising home advantage the united arab emirates has bought the remaining tickets for the semifinal against cancer and handed them out for free but crucially only to their phones effectively blocking away support so not for the first time this tournament catalyst players will largely be alone when they take to the pitch in abu dhabi but despite the prospect of a hostile crowd of forty two thousand they fancy their chances they are the form team after all with five wins from five and no goals conceded so far. they think they deal very good with it and of course all of us we know that that is the pressure riggers is a semifinal but they think we are more confident under pressure to play this game cats are entitled to eight percent of the match tickets but next to no fans have risked traveling that's because since two thousand and seventeen cats are has been

the subject of a land sea and air blockade by the u.a.e. bahrain and saudi arabia who they beat earlier in the tournament the qatari players themselves had to make a five hour journey via kuwait just to compete instead of what ordinarily would be a forty minute flight. they have had some support both more than one thousand oman fans turned up to cheer them on in their quarter final win over south korea to toss progression has certainly caught the eye coming into this tournament very different to how they came in two thousand and sixteen two thousand and fifteen are expected to do really well potentially even win a day and a very good group of players a golden generation so to speak even this time around it's been completely different in terms of the expectations on the national team and they've done absolutely fantastic when perhaps the success shouldn't come as a surprise head coach felix sanchez has worked with these players for years many of them were part of the team he led to the under nineteen asian cup title four years

ago and most of them will have a bigger stage to perform on when they host the world cup in two thousand and twenty two being the a.f.c. right now and having a group of young players playing with such passion playing such skill and as well getting the results on the ground is fantastic and no doubt they will be the they will form the core of the team that will represent us in twenty twenty two and i'm absolutely confident it will do us proud there again world cup organizers no doubt hoping that it's the players rather than the off field politics that take center stage david stokes al-jazeera. athletico madrid have completed the signing of spain international marotta on loan from chelsea the twenty six year old joins the league aside until the end of the season follows a difficult spell for more senses a big money move to chelsea the blues signed him for nearly eighty million dollars in two thousand and seventeen bodies only manage sixteen goals in forty seven appearances his move follows gonzalo wayans arrival at chelsea on loan that his

role number one novak djokovic says he won't spend long enjoying his when of the australian open the serb won his final against rafa nadal on sunday adding the trophy to the u.s. open and wimbledon titles he already has he now wants to hold all four grand slams at once for the second time in his career with mains of french open crown already in his sights i don't want this to sound arrogant but i've done it once why not do it again and then just one slam away from that i'm not the only one that. has been in this situation before and dahlan said there have been holding three or four . you know many times throughout their careers and. you know everything is possible in life so it's kind of feel as if you don't have israel's blockade of gaza has left two million people struggling with unemployment power blackouts and crumbling

housing but in the town of communists a group of young men are finding new purpose through a sport tailor made for an urban landscape scarred by ward charles strafford reports from southern gaza. you have these bridges do their warm up exercises in the symmetry in the home units in the southern gaza strip. they all call cool infusion asked the discipline developed through the french military office to cool straining. people seeing your environment in negotiating it's almost the cools 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. this gives me a different feeling from other sports park called it 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. the group calls itself the heart of core gaza many of the walls and buildings they used to practice on scarred by bullets and partially destroyed. was set up in two thousand and five the guys who say they practice bush league every day they say that despite the difficulties they face here israel's and land and sea blockade only motivates them more. what i feel in life is free of this it always like among its kind of fly you know so well flying going to do this we are things we are by the way a little things that was so as we think of the life let's say because we have a lot of in life so. this same and we are the walls i need and if 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. ok and that's all yours for now much more coming up later but for now it's back to you mary i'm great thanks very much far as much more in everything we're covering on our website right here the address is al-jazeera dot com going to bring you more on that story. page but also a breaking news story this hour from venezuela the u.s. ramping up the pressure announcing that sanctions will be imposed on the state to oil company so we heard from national security adviser john bolton he has said that all options are on the table the u.s. has called for a peaceful transition of power more on that in

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school in mosul icily is this school is a military base firing rocket propelled grenades on multiple nearby and out at falsus. most helpful gluten what it is like to be in school up to three years whole war. six year old sala that has house of survived an ass like he's home and almost wiped out his entire family he now lives in the popular destroyed house with his father and grandfather. solace for the past his son for the first day in school he is hopeful making new friends would hope is that a company. every attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens. stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the

tragic loss of life twice a victim on al-jazeera. the u.s. ramps up pressure on venezuela imposing sanctions on the state owned oil company amid a power struggle for the country's leadership. hello i'm in london here with al jazeera also coming up on the program the us government charges china's biggest tech giant with fraud and stealing state secrets france's president emanuel macron attacks egypt's human rights record as he meets his counterpart abdel fatah sisi in kyra. and.