series of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stark reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life towards 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 maryam namazie 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 cairo. and federal employees are back at work in the united states on the government shutdown lefse. we begin this hour in venezuela the u.s. has just announced major sanctions against the country's state oil company had a vesa it's the latest attempt by the u.s. to ratchet up pressure on the government of president nicolas maduro now the opposition leader one proclaimed himself interim president last week and has the backing of the united states national security advisor john bolton made the sanctions announcement at the white house. 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 the today's measure total 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 ok money allocated joins us live now from the white house and we're hearing that from u.s. national security adviser john bolton calling for a peaceful transfer of power but at the same time saying that all options are on the table is it clear how far the united states is prepared to go. well the national security advisor and i was in that briefing as the questions were being sort of peppered by reporters on that point he did not expressly state that

the u.s. would take military intervention but you're right he left that option on the table and while reporters continued to press he certainly would not come out and definitively say that but what he did say in fact is that there is a feeling that this is in the u.s. national security interests in order to keep an eye and make sure there is this peaceful transfer of power there are free and fair elections moving forward because they're concerned in the eyes of the united states about in penetration by cuba by iran the national security adviser believes that just having those actors involved and within and working within venezuela is counter to u.s. national security interests will that is why they're leaving the options on the table according to the national security adviser we know can believe that the international community is not completely united on what happens next in venezuela is it clear if the opposition or the foreign backers have any kind of

plan b. if there are new elections and if the duros refuses to relinquish power. the sense that i got from being in that briefing that was not only the national security advisor but also the treasury secretary steve minissha is that the conversations with regard to that are still ongoing what we are told is that the vice president mike pence here in the united states has had ongoing conversations with key partners the part of the interim government inside venezuela that those conversations are continuing it seems there are two points the united states is trying to stress with these sanctions number one there is the feeling in the united states that the people of venezuela have suffered for too long and there was a need to take that step even further beyond just the recognition of the interim president through these sanctions number two is that leadership role that you're talking about the united states feeling it's incumbent upon the united states to

press other nations that have not yet recognized the interim government and the interim president to do so so this is the reason that these were announced it was announced through executive order and again this is in the words of the treasury secretary and the national security adviser an effort to not only protect the assets of the venezuelan people but to make sure in their words that nicolas maduro the official venezuelan president can no longer continue to loot the assets of the people for which they rightfully belong thank you very much can really help you with the latest from the white house now let's get the view from inside venezuela with political honesty to respond to last he joins us now from the capital caracas how might these sanctions on the state owned oil company potentially impact the support of the military for the government of madeira. given. the diverse sat in there or a little bit it's of a thought the. backing of the what is it then motherhood or it's

a business where like the pence must have really been on their sailing or even to the us and all of a revenue coming through to the car that it is course through to the government and . it's a share that was a people inside the government schalke i think this is a. s.s. escalating that that is what the mother who took the counter would be left there without any significant oving which in the following months there are many people warning about that we will not have a part in the in the few days and that the economy will collapse absolutely so i think the army will have to take a big decision very shortly to support the mother until the end or otherwise not to support him or to back him and stay on this side and the way it can now say larry can i just ask you very briefly we've had this announcement from the u.s.

they are throwing the whole hearted support behind the opposition at a job but is there a chance that if this is perceived as outside intervention that in fact it could in fact rally support for the government. it is very unlikely but going around the support for the government it is eighty percent that's what the national doesn't believe in this government anymore if it is not eighty maybe seventy best said that's about it with this economic crisis and the goal not the collapse of the last month it is very unlikely but not least the instincts will but if it is. as i say it without people to believe but there is a very legitimate but is the. more likely you are to heading towards. that i would say all of us want well go ahead so you have a good think it will unlock that it thought in a this moment nobody knows exactly what would come next people are really wanted or people invest that's what would suffer through all the sox and gold to support

their situation thank you very much dimitris punter les appreciate your thoughts from caracas. to our other top story now this hour the u.s. justice department announced two indictments against chinese telecoms company huawei the charges include lying to authorities violating u.s. sanctions against iran and stealing technology from a rival fan acting attorney general matthew whittaker says the charges implicate the company's chief financial officer he's been detained in canada according to the indictment in twenty twelve wall 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 was always engine years 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 walk away it's c.f.o. it's affiliate in a ram and one of its subsidiaries here in the united states. diane estabrook is following the story for us and joins us now from washington and diane if you could explain the significance of the charges that were announced today and how it might impact the relationship between the u.s. canada and of course in china fairly significant at this press conference that wrapped up just a little while ago you had members of the department of justice the f.b.i. homeland security and the commerce department and they said that while this wasn't this was a law enforcement action as wilbur ross the commerce secretary said he said it wasn't any way linked to any trade talks that are going on with china right now but you have to think that there is a connection attempt counted indictment that alleges that way stole. company secrets from t. mobile a major telecommunications company here in the united states in the development

they were developing this robot they came over how a employees were taking pictures of this robot sending the information back to china way the a dime but also alleges that they offered bonuses to how a employers for stealing some of this information so. again you've got the homeland security secretary saying that this was a major national security breach so you wonder how this is going to set up any kind of tensions between the u.s. and china as they continue with these trade talks so very serious allegations made here this afternoon thank you very much don as to book in washington now egypt's human rights record has faced scrutiny during the visit of the president of france and then you might call him told his egyptian counterpart to fatah sisi that egypt's human rights are even now in on the deposed president hosni mubarak 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 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. and 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 fridge presidencies egypt as a key ally in the region but some analysts say that the diplomatic importance of fridge presidents have traditionally given to cairo could be misplaced. france is always best 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 have please campaigners but it's less clear what impact it will have on future relations between paris and cairo natasha butler al jazeera paris you have al-jazeera live from london more on the program a search continues for hundreds of people still missing in brazil after friday's down collapse that unleashed a massive mudslide also a sense of freedom under blockade gaza's you'd find purpose through the urban sport of park or.

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quiet weather wise but all that warm force in maximum would just be minus twenty degrees it will be a lot milder force in beijing here are temperature is up at seven degrees that should be a fair amount of hazy sunshine coming through at times as well. and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the. al-jazeera selects.

welcome back just a quick look at the top stories this hour now the united states has announced sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company. in the latest attempt to ratchet up the pressure on the government of president nicolas maduro. the u.s. justice department says it's issue two indictments against chinese telecoms company huawei these charges include lying to the authorities violating u.s. sanctions against iran and stealing technology from a rival fund. and on a visit to cairo the french president has told his egyptian counterpart abdel fatah sisi that stability and security can't be separated from human rights. when all the

stories we're following closely funerals have now started for those killed off to a downburst in southeastern brazil three hundred people are still missing following the disastrous and i know mine most of presumed dead trapped in the town of burma deano that was swallowed up by the month that was unleashed after the dam collapsed . reports. the first funerals are some of the first victims to be recovered and identified the whole town of bora genial is grieving their brothers and sisters sons and daughters were employees and subcontractors of valley the company that owns the iron ore mine where the dam burst. we didn't hear anything from the company and 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. what is this is 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 will cope but my brother how will 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 and with a far 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 the sports center where i think. emergency teams are still involved in the rescue operation although 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 at lessons not learned at 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. of those in this profoundly religious country have their own way of showing their grief and support as locals 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 then there are roma genial brazil the turkish government is saying it expects the four million syrian refugees living in turkey to return home after a safe signs have been set out 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 it's also

intended to protect turkey from kurdish armed groups which they call terrorists any three hundred thousand syrians have already returned to areas controlled by turkish backed rebels it's the first day back to work hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states affected by the partial government shutdown which was suspended on friday it lasted a record thirty five days that my only be working for three more weeks and as president trump gets funding for his proposed border war with mexico the opposition democrats have refused to agree a federal budget that includes some five point seven billion dollars for the war. have been more dire warnings about the growing refugee crisis in four african countries because of the war against boko haram its decade long campaign of bombings shooting and kidnapping is forced more than a third of a million africans from their homes in nigeria cameroon chad an asia where regional leaders and aid organizations meeting in nigeria's capital of been discussing the plight of these refugees as an address reports from. its tour and have

years since the launch of a regional protection strategy for refugees in the lake chad region but lives present and perhaps for many 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. and hit the wall 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 a growing humanitarian challenge 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 is warning of the crisis will worsen unless they are addressed quickly. the nigerian government says it's achieved success is incompetent book war and 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 areas access to interventions sometimes very fairly to she called with. some attacks from some of the communities life is compact that you have also have that if without blaming it on the number of countries of. china

we also have an influx of refugees. from cameroon it ages is one more than two million of the eleven million population in the lake chad region i didn't help that out. mischa's says the demand for help will probably increase if the number of book or overtax is introduced a desperate situation now which the u.n. says could become even worse in the next ten years i am with you greece al-jazeera doublecheck now to the philippines where the president has vowed to catch and punish those behind sunday's bomb attack on a catholic church order to get to territory visited the scene in whole or soon 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 abu sayyaf it's been three months in saudi genista mark ashaji walked into his consulate in istanbul never to be seen again

well now the un human rights investigator looking into his murder is meeting with turkey's foreign minister. as is about to have weeklong talks in turkey the special rapporteur says it's a crucial step towards formal accountability for the killing of the saudi journalist and critic of the crown prince on tuesday the united kingdom parliament will vote on amendments to prime minister to resign may's deal for leaving the european union the nation remains split on one of the most divisive issues in its history overall fifty two percent voted to leave in the twenty sixteen referendum but am heywood's visited one region wet believe vote was far higher. it was woman still world's biggest fish in port with a fleet of hundreds of boats and thousands employed to sort and some to start any. minute now. i won't say she's still synonymous with grimsby in britain very little is court made by the. seventy percent of people who live in

this area voted to leave the european union some blame the e.u. for the decline of the industry here when you look at it emotionally throughout the u.k. it's a massively important because a lot of people would've thought about the fisherman when they were voting a bit of no doubt about it in some cases it may have been misguided will nevertheless a lot of people thought well the fishermen deserve better opportunities and better chance and that's the basis on which some people voted. nearly all the fish brittany is imported but most of it is processed in grimsby and about a third of the five thousand strong workforce involved from eastern europe about eight hundred fifty thousand new cars coming from europe i handled it it's river terminal attempts though reinvention haven't stopped shops from shutting and high levels of deprivation because the. case of people jobs.

there is so pervasive it seems to be getting worse so we need to take control or make our own decisions rather than. a ten minute drive from grimsby and britain's largest port some of the fish sold ingram's be makes its way through here where wide range of goods the transported to and from the e.u. . it is a quick turnaround to get the ship ready to go back to where it started its journey in the netherlands in all it takes less than twenty four hours and millions of dollars are being invested in the poor to ensure it's ready to cope in a changing landscape post bracks it we're already seeing some growth as people concerned about the potential impact on some of the southern ports such as dover have made a conscious choice to come into the humber because they see that as a viable alternative to bringing trade in and that obviously will have a boost on the local and regional economy grimsby has been living on promises of

a brighter and better future for years it has often felt forgotten and the politics of westminster trying to shape it and the rest of the u.k.'s future still feel a long way away emma haywood al-jazeera in north east lincolnshire. israel says it's suspending the operations of an international observer force in the occupied west bank city of hebron off the more than twenty is from mr benjamin netanyahu has announced he will also extend the mandate of the temper international presence and is the ph since ninety nine seven civilian observers from norway is li sweden switzerland and turkey have been deployed in hebron they report on violations of international human rights laws but now who is accuse them of bias. israel's tovey a blockade 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 the palestinian youth but in the town of qana yunus

a group of young men and now performing a sport that stale a made for an urban landscape scarred by war child strafford reports now from southern gaza. you have that he spreads do their warm up exercises in this cemetery in the khan yunus in the southern gaza strip. they all call in fusion asked the discipline developed from french military or political calls training. we've all seeing your environment in negotiating its obstacles in a freer 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. for the fun this gives me a different feeling from other sports sparkle 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 hardcore gaza

many of the walls and buildings they used to practice on scarred by bullets and partially destroyed. it 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 is always like a month to fly you know so we're flying going to do this we are boxing things we are a puzzle we a lot of things a ball of war so as we saw a lot of things in life let's say because we have a lot of obstacles in life so. we are the walls and if and if easily without you know 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 the love of this physically demanding and risky pastime gives them a sense at least that there is no barrier they cannot overcome. but i'll just era on eunice gaza morning all of our stories right here including analysis that takes you behind the headlines the address al jazeera dot com. quick recap of the top stories this hour now the united states has announced major sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company it's the latest attempt to ratchet up the pressure on that is why the president nicolas maduro the opposition leader proclaimed himself interim president last week and he has the backing of the u.s. . 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 total seven billion dollars in assets walk 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 in all the developments the u.s. justice department says it's issued two indictments against chinese telecoms company huawei the charges include lying to authorities violating u.s. sanctions against iran and stealing technology from a rival firm acting attorney general matthew what because as the charges implicate the company c.f.o. who's been detained in canada now separately what's also announced that special counsel robert lewis investigation into possible russian collusion is close to

being completed its first day back to what hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states affected by the partial government shutdown which was suspended on friday but they might only be working for three more weeks unless donald trump gets funding his proposed border wall with mexico the turkish government says it expects the four million syrian refugees living in turkey to return home off to safe signs of been set up president said he had discussed this with his u.s. counterpart donald trump setting up a thirty kilometer wide safe zone in syria and a funerals of started for the victims of friday's down bust in southeastern brazil nearly three hundred people are still missing after the disaster and i in all mine most of those people ah presumed dead you know up to date with one of our top stories this hour coming up next a j selects with three short films about drugs stay with out there.

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