it's. where every. this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the white house put sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company and reiterate the military option is still on the table. i think it's absolutely essential that we have a dialogue about human rights that is coherent with our own objectives as the french president slams egypt over its human rights record on a visit to cairo saying security and personal liberties are not separate issues.

turkey's one wants to create what he calls safe zones in syria a plan he says will help four million refugees return home. food shortages could be on the menu in britain as retailers warn of the consequences of the u.k. leaving the european union without a deal. or the united states is stepping up its pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to step down its imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets it is the latest in a series of moves by the trump administration to push the duo out of office u.s. national security adviser john bolton also did not rule out a military option. now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces

responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to do any violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response of course the salumi joins us live now from washington so could it chris and what's what's been the what's the thinking behind behind this decision that. well has an oil it is the biggest source of revenue for venezuela and the united states is its biggest customer forty one percent of venezuelan oil comes to the united states and one of its most important foreign assets is based right here in this country citgo which is the refining arm of the state owned oil company so the goal here is to transfer money from

the madeira government to opposition forces backing the opposition leader won and wide crucially the military is in charge of the state owned oil company and they are needed to keep madeira in power so steve menuhin the treasury secretary made it very clear that their goal is to transfer this bunny this funding to the opposition . the united states is holding accountable those responsible for venezuela's tragic decline we will continue to use all of our diplomatic and economic tools to support interim president quite oh the national assembly and the venezuelans people efforts to restore their democracy. and the national secretary. john bolton also said that the united states is now hearing from mid-level and low level military officials saying that

they are indeed behind the opposition leader won why joe of course we have no way to confirm that there was a defection here in washington d.c. of venezuela's defense attache declaring his support for glide though u.s. officials are being asked now by the media in this country how far they are willing to go in order to support. and they made very clear that all options are still on the table christine thank you krisna salumi in washington. zero is not been given permission to report from venezuela but today suburban covering the crisis there from argentina is capital. from where she joins us live now so. we understand the venezuelan president nicolas maduro is speaking right now . well that's correct he is right now on venezuelan state television he's appearing with the diplomatic personnel that

returned from the united states that it's not forget that last week nicolette mother would have broke relations with the united states while he's receiving the diplomats right now at the presidential palace the precedents of favorite press and very tool for venezuela state owned company is to the palace so what's been happening in venezuela very interesting because right after the united states announced that it was seizing the assets of venezuela's state owned company. there was a communique by one while you know where he was saying that he was starting a strategy to request control of all of venezuela's four ng assets in different countries around the world and that he was also naming new directors in venezuela seydel company favor and also which is of the subsidiary company of babysat in the united states where there has also been announcing the possibility that there would

be entering humanitarian aid into when it's well let's not clear yet how this is going to happen because he has already said that no humanitarian aid would be allowed into the country if it's not in collaboration with the united nations and also his have continued to call for protest against the government the next one should be on wednesday when people will take to this tweet to request and ask the bolivarian national guard the armed forces to rebel against the government of my little and the other one a big one is expected to take place the next saturday when it's the ultimatum that the european union has given the government of nicolas modeler to call for elections if not they will recognize one while you go as the interim president of venezuela so it's a race or how is all of this affecting venezuela's economy. well what we know is that since this crisis started already there were about devaluated around twenty four percent that's venezuela's currency and today the government

announced at parallel platform in order to control the exchange rate in the country with devaluated the currency of thirty another thirty four percent so of course this in venezuela generally has an impact an enormous impact on prices which is the biggest problem people are facing this days hyper inflation what around one million percent of an inflation rate in venezuela in two thousand and eighteen people with the basic salaries a minimum wage is not being able to afford three four packs of rights of flour among other basic staples so definitely this crisis is having a huge impact and the announcement of this new sanctions will definitely be terrorise the situation even further all right to base your traceable live for us in one of those things to us now is a political commentator and journalist specializing in venezuelan affairs she joins us via skype now from los angeles to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us so we'll talk about the bigger picture in venezuela in just

a moment but i want to ask you first of all. about this latest decision by the united states to slap more sanctions on the country through its state owned oil company what effect do you think that that is going to have both on the leadership there on on venezuelan people. well the oil oil is the majority ninety six percent of an income of them an asylum of them in all the asylum so therefore these will have a tremendous impact we know that they are proposing to freeze about seven billion in assets and about eleven billion in sales. this could have a well it's a very delicate situation it could have all kinds of effects obviously on the leadership is it's meant to pressure the press and their regime of people who go to exit or to negotiate not so what what follow and what the next steps

the united states wants to take after this but obviously it can also mean more dramatic and tragic effects for regular and silence and you know when that when some of these sanctions are imposed sometimes if they got one of my bhutto and continues in power he can just. south even further and repress you know fall into more repression and and just. dire consequences to the people of an asylum but yes this is a major major step probably the biggest have the u.s. has ever taken against an asylum and if as far as the situation in the country right now we've heard. the president. i don't what he plans to do that i do know must go and talking about more protests but how how much support does nicolas maduro still have within the country not just from from the

military but from from ordinary venezuelan people. well from what i'm hearing from my sources there on the ground is that the recent protests where the five from previous protests because they included a lot they included a lot of the popular areas of the cd like that that i love ai and other places that are usually a problem a beautiful people are obviously hungry and tired and desperate the situation in venezuela it's very difficult and they don't see the possibility of change anytime soon so i think the opposition has increased to where in the past it was mostly the middle class and or the higher classes now this opposition has reached the limits on society to a large extent i believe and to what extent does does. present a. future depend on the military they're up to now they have been giving him.

they've been given been supporting him but it hasn't been this kind of steadfast support that i was hoping for has it. well di. most most of the top military people in venice while are still supporting publicly supporting other widow at least nine cabinet members are military people they had you know i would call chairman of. the interior ministry etc they have the most important. cabinet. positions and at the same time obviously the top military officer so far are staying with my sources are telling me that there are divisions there are uprising in or at least there is there's talk inside the military that the lower military officers and the soldiers are

rebelling and that had that have been some arrests inside the military and some people that hasn't really trust that yet but that you know could get worse now that the cash cow. which is. basically being control are being blocked by the actions of the u.s. government so he will not have the same ability to use that money to buy the support of military officers and others. take him to the brink of disaster for him and for the so how do you see this playing out over the next few. i i see a lot of my fellow been a swell and. they have a they have mixed feelings they are happy that something's happening and that the movement that appears to. come from in large part from

internal processes of that an assault on the position but they're also concerned about whether or not the united states is going to overstep its south and undertake some kind of military intervention the obviously we know what the histories of the united states in venezuela and the mistrust. among many of the trumpet ministration even the among my fellow in the sauce who are squarely against. many of them are not trying supporters are not really happy that trump is the one at the helm right now because these could mean that the legitimate process going on inside of an asylum by the minnesotan a position by having a solemn people which is the way it's supposed to be with the help with the plum a c. of the international community can be overstepped by some of the you know most aggressive . intervention by the united states so. this is

a very delicate situation and the balance is. it's right now it's they can fall on any one of the other side at any moment but i think the position of other countries like those in the european union or canada or there are so far more moderate it would be very important in this moment to try to have a diplomatic solution and not a military one good to get your perspective on this. joining us there from los angeles thank you very much thank you. now the trumpet ministration is also keeping up pressure on chinese take a while way in the last hour the justice department fog a series of criminal charges against the company its top executives the accusations include fraud theft of trade secrets obstruction of justice and conspiracy thirteen charges are against the chief financial officer mangal wango she was arrested in canada last month of the request of the us for allegedly violating sanctions on

iran these cases make clear that as a country we have to carefully consider the risks that companies like wall wave pose if we're going to allow them into our telecommunications infrastructure today's charges serve as a warning that the f.b.i. does not and will not tolerate businesses that violate our laws of struct our justice and jeopardize our national security a dinosaur book has more on this from washington. when the u.s. government made this announcement today it made it bringing together members of the department of justice the f.b.i. the federal bureau of investigation homeland security and commerce department the a ten count indictment claims that hallway stole company secrets from the u.s. telecommunications firm t. mobile claim that it stole the information about a robot a phone robot that to mill bull was developing taking pictures of this robot and

then sending that information back to china so that to how way could develop a similar robot that ten count indictment also alleges that the company offered bonuses to employees for stealing this information the director of homeland security kristen nielsen said that this was a major security violation national security violation for the united states wilbur ross the commerce secretary said that this was a law enforcement action and had nothing to do with trade negotiations going on between now between the u.s. and china but you have to wonder if this might not play a role in those negotiations or are we got plenty more ahead on this news down a proposed fence along one of the world's most dangerous border areas is causing friction between asian neighbors. the huge devastation in this region a swathe of destruction that swept through this area destroying homes killing

possibly hundreds of people anger and despair in brazil as people wait for news of those missing after a dam collapse. and later in sports japan have reached the finals of the asian cup where they're looking to become a five time asian champion. well that's that ahead but first the french president. criticized egypt's human rights record on a visit to cairo emanuel macross says it appears even worse now than under the deposed president hosni mubarak the tasha butler reports from powers. so far emanuel macro's 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 of what president since 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 is a 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.

russian 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 with over 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 that french 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. mike ross always said that he's a president who believes in talking frankly on this occasion it's an approach that

may please campaigners but it's less clear what impact it will have on future relations between paris and cairo natascha butler al-jazeera paris. turkey's president is looking at establishing safe zones which could make it easier for refugees to return to syria about four million syrian refugees are living in turkey about three hundred thousand have already returned to syria some of in jav it has more from gaza on the turkish syrian border. in the last few months turkish government has closed down a number of refugee camps inside turkish territory perhaps making way for these refugees to go back to syria president to ever go on saying that three hundred thousand people have returned to syria but these people have gone back to areas which had been under turkish back to rebel fighters for a number of years and the area of gerard blows and bob which came under rebel control under the administrative control of turkish government in twenty sixteen

and twenty seventeen respectively so people here are reluctant to go back until they find and they make sure that the security situation allows them to go back and rebuild their lives and you have to remember that the the people who are into are not just from these northern parts they're from all over syria who fled the violence and the fighting and you take a step back you see that this statement from their bargain saying that four million refugees need to to go back to turkey to go back to syria and turkey is in this war on humanitarian grounds only and does not want any territorial gains from this is coming on the backdrop of a number of statements that have come from not just the syrian government but the russian government as well turkey and russia held a meeting between the two presidents quite recently perhaps not achieving the core sort of results that they wanted and the book in the point of conventional means the northern part of syria which will be which the u.s. forces say that they will be withdrawing sometime soon which is under good control of kurdish fighters as well as the problems of the being the last rebel stronghold

where turkey says that it is under the control of mostly local arab fighters but russia disagrees and says that it is the under the control of here perry or from a group that it sees as terrorists. pakistan is building a security barrier along its northwestern border with afghanistan a third of the two thousand six hundred kilometer fence has already been completed pakistan says it's also install surveillance technology aimed at monitoring cross border movement and thwarting future attacks from afghanistan. it's one of the most poorest and dangerous border areas in the world the front here 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 hug network its fighters are 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 in our military record not to the mere fact that the media here to interact with the local people for themselves and they will come to my god were to come to north as them this is a place where we would discourage the forces wouldn't have moved so freely but the fans is further straining ties between the neighbors it's being built along the joran 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 dealt with afghan soil this beg i think this is designed to sort of create a separation between the people of the same with necessities who yet again lives on this side of this border. but the pakistani government says it's determined to complete the vans 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 very soon will be having a new was. 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. the palestinian authority has put its planned social security tax on hold after months of protests the answer was made by president mahmoud that bass is prime minister though has offered to resign perry for said reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. for months now palestinians in the occupied west bank have been protesting with the frequency and in numbers that haven't been seen in years not against the israelis but against the palestinian authority over its plans to impose a social security law involving a new compulsory contribution from workers many of whom don't trust to get the money back in the future now president abbas's fatah party has announced consultations on forming a new mode of government consisting of factional members of the palestine liberation organization and in doing so has frozen the implementation of the social security act pending cabinet confirmation what clearly we have today is giving the

blessings of such accommodations regarding form anything in your government yet we would wait for the cabinet to morrow and the announcement of the cabinet for an insight into just how unpopular the measure has become just talk to people like muhammad omar and his wife mara mohammed works for the national insurance company morris a psychologist they started out married life in a small rented apartment and with loans that need service are. one hundred to two hundred dollars less every month after we have paid everything else when the social security law the ducks seven point two percent of my salary that's more than one hundred fifty dollars so it takes away from my daily life my kids any extras the basic things they need to live with dignity. the idea of a safety net for palestinian workers in training sick pay redundancy protection and pensions is not in itself unpopular but people here have become ever more suspicious of the authorities ability to deliver and not to use their future pensions to cover current budget shortfalls. the palestinian authority has been

trying to implement the system it's. security since two thousand and three but yet again even after expressing its determination to get it through this time it is that fact there was significant opposition against some of the elements of the policy for example its discriminate three aspects against women but above all else there's been a widening deficit in one vital commodity trust. political analyst says there's no reason to expect that to change in the immediate future with the very system of governance up for grabs so how can you talk about this month but at the authority and in the same time you would try to convince the people in that they that savings will be enough that to take it for instance they will get it back mohammed says he doesn't even trust that this latest freeze on the scheme is real until he sees an official proclamation from the president himself he intends to keep protesting

harry force at al-jazeera ramallah all right still ahead when we come back open for business but for how long the longest government shutdown in the u.s. is over but the source of the problem hasn't been resolved. and this spanish striker has a fresh chance to rejuvenating career far details in sport. and i know that it's going to get very cold in north america over the next few days but not before we see an awful lot of snow this is the system that's going to bring us all our wintery weather is bringing some very heavy snow around the great lakes but as it works its way southwards it's going to bring snow along way south those well for some of us in georgia we can expect to see some of that wintery weather two to the tail end of that that turn to rain and some of that rain will be quite

ferocious as that system works its way away that the temperatures will be dropping behind it so atlanta four degrees will be our maximum for the north is for cold in chicago our maximum just minus twenty five a minus thirty in winnipeg for some areas around here they could even be low temperatures that break records a bit further towards the south and this means a very active weather over parts of cuba recently the system responsible is easing a little bit now as it works its way southward but still expect one or two rather lively downpours for parts of southern cuba that will ease further as we head into wednesday want to showers will still be affecting us in cuba there and they'll be a couple around jamaica to be felt towards the south and now for many of us here in argentina as should be fine and dry hot in one is always of the moment of it thirty one degrees the showers of the north and some of these are really quite heavy.

the plundering of armenia's natural riches has uprooted residence and desecrated the habitat of some of europe's most endangered species. but the remarkable campaign by local residents is challenging the miked of the country's investors and pinning high hopes on its newly elected prime minister people in power investigates armenia mining out the left. on a. hello

again you're watching and just a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company it is the latest move to pressure president nicolas maduro u.s. national security advisor john boehner also appealed to the country's military to back self declared the interim president. the french president has criticized egypt's human rights record during a visit to caro emanuel mcchrystal says it appears even worse now to the deposed president hosni mubarak. turkey's president is looking at establishing what he

calls safe zones which would make it easier for refugees to return to syria about four million syrian refugees are living in turkey an estimated three hundred thousand have already returned to syria. and funerals have been held for some of the victims of a dam collapse in south eastern brazil the number of dead has now risen to sixty five nearly three hundred million people are still missing after the disaster at an iron ore mine in the town of bronzino on friday most of them are presumed dead the damage recently been inspected the cause of the collapse remains unclear. as daniel has more from. 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 warnings were not heeded from previous accidents in the states of mean the shuttle i saw a mining state where just in four years ago. its banks in the town in the town of marianna 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 and whether in this mining community more of these cases where. dams which are inadequate ready to be identified. it was the first day back to work for hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states that's up to friday's suspension of the partial government shutdown the longest in u.s. history but as a white house correspondent kimberly how can now reports there's still no long term

solution. back on the job. after more than a month without pay at the end of the week most of the eight hundred thousand federal workers some who relied on charity handouts during the shutdown will have received the money owed to them feel relieved to be back and looking forward to get back to work i am very proud to announce today on friday u.s. president donald trump agreed to democratic demands to reopen the government while both sides continue to debate trump's push for five point seven billion to build a border wall along the us mexico border it's a debate that led to the thirty five day us government shutdown and could shut it down all over again the president doesn't want to go through another shutdown the best fix is to be able to do it legislatively but if congress particularly democrats in congress would rather play political games than actually do their jobs and fix the problem in the present will be forced to take a different path trungpa is not ruled out declaring

a national emergency to force through the building of this border wall as little time for congress to reach a deal government funding runs out february fifteenth leaving federal workers to wonder what's next people buckle down and just try to get back to work and and see about going about the business of their day the congressional budget office estimates the shutdown the longest in u.s. history cost the country at least three billion that won't be recovered the impacts aren't just economic immigrants awaiting hearings before federal judges are facing months of delays and already backlog states like california new york and texas cross the country three quarters. of immigration judges were off the job during the shutdown and could be again if there is not a funding deal some scientific research has also been hurt after the shutdown caused grant applications for medical and scientific research to be put on hold at

the environmental protection agency and the national science foundation absences of large numbers of workers processing tax returns of the i arrest america's tax agency means many expecting refunds will now wait weeks or even longer as a level of continuity that's required for what they do and now you're asking them to operate on a temporary or three week basis in terms of how they work and i think that only makes their job that much more difficult it's a future filled with uncertainty adding to workers concerns a projection from president donald trump he's skeptical congressional republicans and democrats can reach a deal in a recent interview he put negotiations at a less than fifty percent chance of success kimberly helped get al-jazeera the white house i would just sixty days left now until brags that british retailers a warning about possible food shortages if the u.k. crashes out of the european union with no agreement

a joint letter to parliament from a dozen major chains is warning that leaving the e.u. without a deal could threaten food security it says the fresh supply chain from europe will be severely disrupted reducing availability and shelf life for many products britain imports nearly a fifth of its food from the e.u. . on tuesday parliament will vote on amendments to prime minister teresa mayes deal for leaving the new u.k. remains split on one of its most divisive issues in its history fifty two percent voted to leave in the twenty sixteen referendum and the haywards visited one region when filmi vote was far higher. it was the world's biggest fishing port with the fleet of hundreds of boats and thousands employed to sort. of man. is still synonymous with grimsby in britain very little this court made this about.

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 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 but nevertheless a lot of people thought well the fishermen deserve better opportunities a 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 imposed 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 too many followers can win

a case of people jobs. vote out. of a ship 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. it's way through here where wide range of goods are transported to and from the e.u. . it is a quick turn around to get the ship ready to go back to where it started its journey in the netherlands and although 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 brix 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 bring the 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 is often forgotten and the politics of westminster trying to shape it and the rest of the u.k. speech are still feel a long way away emma heywood al-jazeera in north east lincolnshire. the president of the philippines has promised that those responsible for the bombing of a catholic church will face justice. visited the scene in the south of the country where least twenty people were killed in the attack later claimed by eisel from the island of giallo jamila reports. 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 decades ago but armed groups continue to have bases here including abu sayyaf known for its widespread criminal activities. factions pledged allegiance to a few years ago but the government claimed it was winning the fight against the group sunday's 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. is that they have always been protected by local communities were they get support of the shows 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 was seen 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 it 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 to the three go to church iraq to see for himself the aftermath of the attacks his splurging those responsible will be caught and punished just two weeks 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 tight peace efforts while law still remains in the now is a powder keg jamila dogon al jazeera holo salusa of the philippines human rights groups say the jailing of a prominent lawyer in china is an attack on the rule of law after his trial in a closed court in changing last month one quote was sentenced to four and a half years for quote subversion of state power disappeared during a widespread crackdown on activists and opposition lawyers four years ago amnesty international is calling bahrain's justice system

a complete farce after an opposition leader lost his appeal against a life sentence she highly sell men and to colleagues from his party work convicted in november of spying for carter both salmen and the qatari government denied the charge amnesty says the court's decision is yet another nail in the coffin for the right to freedom of expression in bahrain. rivals. all right still ahead on.

we know the culture we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and we point on a story that it might take an international network for months to be able to do in united nations the people there really anti-riot you know. we are challenging the voices were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is going.

again the plaintive foreigners from thailand makes a tasty meal sun has all sorts of other thai seafood but allegations of fishing boats using slave labor and over fishing didn't go down well in brussels european union threatened a ban on seafood imports scott hi-lo reports from bangkok thailand fishing and seafood industry is big business it's the third largest export or in the world. 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 and work on this issue the human slavery situation in thailand seems to be well improved but we are not one hundred percent free from it yet we still have a lot to solve especially on restoration of not show 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 we do fisherman and all the private sector and n.g.o.s for the good of the country for sustainable

fishery so just why are we doing this 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 at the point. yellowcard is only for fishing businesses which many source a food from abroad and merely explore to other countries for us we have so little for export almost nine alec catches for canned fish of 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 all right skittles born. thanks very much japan 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. a match winning performance the vertebra and forward getting on the scoresheet twice and 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's sept down as boss of the round the portuguese had coach the team for eight years he took around to two world cups and help them become the highest placed asian team in the fever rankings japan's about it's an asia cup final will be decided on choose day they are up against catherine what's being done the blockade darby cats are unbeaten in the tournament but as david stokes explains so have pretty much no supports in the stadium. talk about maximising home advantage the united arab emirates has bought all 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 cathodes 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. very good with it. of course all of us we know that that is the pressure riggers is a semifinal but i think we are more costly than 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 by 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 quarterfinal whenever south korea 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 when 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 you know 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. i'd let it go 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 morata senses 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 arsenal boss and i am he says his team's home match against cardiff on tuesday will be played in remembrance of a million no solid argentinian had signed for cardiff from french club but the

plane taking him to wales went missing all over the english channel last monday emery himself came up against salah while managing p.s.g. illegal all fault. to do. not to go out of the. play you don't buy a lot family friends. do all that we are going to remember then but after i think we are going to play one match we have a member in the situation that is 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 maze of french open crown already in his sights i don't want this to sound arrogant but done it once why not do it

again just one slam away from that i'm not the only one that. has been in this situation before and there have been holding three out of 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 can you notice a group of young men are finding new purpose through a sport tailor made for an urban landscape scarred by war charles strafford reports from southern gaza. you have his friends do their warm up exercises in the cemetery in holland eunice in the southern gaza strip. they'll pull infusion lasts a discipline developed from french military calls training. of all seeing your

environment in negotiating its obstacles in the 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 pocket 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 offer. the group calls itself. 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 to say they practice bush lee every day they say that despite the difficulties they face israel's and land in seabrook only motivates them or.

what i feel in life is free of this it always like among. you know so well flying going to do this without bossing things without buzz away a little things up on the walls so as we posit a lot of things in life let's say because we have a lot of obstacles and in life so. this we. the walls and if one of us easily without you know how to difficult. they say they dreamed of being able to do paul cole outside gaza but israel has always refused implements to leave despite the challenges they face the love of this physically demanding and risky place time gives them a sense at least that there is no barrier they cannot overcome stop an al-jazeera on eunice gaza and that's all your support for now more later and that's it for this news hour but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news. and

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