to investigate independents and iraqi kurds on al-jazeera. today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people the u.s. sanctions the venezuelan state owned oil company in a move to force president nicolas maduro to step down. this is. also coming up in the program fraud and theft the u.s. files criminal charges against the top chinese telecom company while way. i think it absolutely essential that we have a dialogue about human rights that is coherent with our own objectives the french president presses egyptian leader on human rights telling him the situation under

his rule. and the three billion dollar bill for the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. so the united states is ratcheting up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro the white house has imposed sanctions on the country's state owned oil company blocking around seven billion dollars in assets it is the latest in a series of measures by the trump ministration to try and push me out of office christine salumi has this report. the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the venezuelan opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pad of a so is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete

and meaningful actions to combat corruption but the trumpet ministration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far is standing behind him the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us me subsidiary thumbelina. with this move that trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people to be on alert finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company citgo from venezuela and that is an illegal drug the aim of the sanctions is to direct oil revenues to the self declared interim president and opposition leader won by del rio who's calling for a day of protest on wednesday international observers declared the last presidential election a fraud demonstrators have been taking to the streets over the country's dire economic situation facing violence and mass arrests 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 the trumpet ministration has been warning security officials to back off we want the venezuelan security forces to know how strongly we think that president lied oh the national assembly the opposition and most importantly american personnel are not harmed this is an unequivocal statement on our part of the race for. their forces were good but the president has made it very clear. on this on this matter that all options or on the table while the united states makes threats and withholds money the opposition is offering immunity to members of the military who joined them more than twenty countries have now recognize one guy joe as venezuela's legitimate leader and more are threatening to do so unless new elections are held kristen salumi al jazeera

washington. has been denied permission to report from venezuela through supposed be monitoring developments from argentina's capital partners or. shortly after the united states and now that people were seizing various way left assets to pay their respects assets in the united states one way to go and i thought it was starting a plan to take control of venezuela's four ng assets and also naming new directors of any state owned company mesa and also a sequel which is the subsidiary company in the united states of by the way so why go also announced that it was going to request twenty million dollars worth of for aid to enter into the country it's not here yet how he's going to do this because they were asked by the us said that humanitarian aid was not going to enter into the country and less its quality needed with the united nations and way that he's also calling for more protests the next one is expected to happen on wednesday and then later on on saturday venezuelan government is saying that they have tried to negotiate with the united states that they're trying that the united states respect

to venezuela and sovereignty some venezuelan officials are saying that the united states it's trying to overthrow directly the government doesn't equal i'm a little staged a coup and that it's trying to repeat in venezuela what happened in syria and in libya. administration is also to keep pressure on the chinese telecom giant huawei the justice department has called the series of criminal charges against the company and its chief financial officer among the accusations of fraud theft of trade secrets and conspiracy reynolds has. top level government officials lined up to announce the u.s. will prosecute huawei china's biggest most influential telecommunications company for a broader array of alleged crimes the criminal activity alleged in this indictment goes back at least ten years and goes all the way to the top of the company to

grand jury indictment charge while way with theft of corporate secrets evasion of u.s. sanctions on iran obstruction of justice and other offenses officials singled out joe while ways chief financial officer and daughter of the company's founder who has deep connections with the chinese government the u.s. says mung worked to evade u.s. sanctions on iran by selling while way products to tehran using a front corporation set up by wall way mung is under house arrest in canada the us plans to extradite her for prosecution the defendants are variously charged with conspiracy bank fraud wire fraud violations of the international emergency economic powers act when you on during an obstruction of justice the detention of mung has infuriated the chinese government which is pressuring canada to let her go

free beijing arrested two canadian former diplomats in what is widely seen as retaliation officials outlined a tale of auditions corporate espionage in which while way officials tried to steal secrets from t. mobile about a smartphone testing robot called tapi weiwei entities directed employees to take photographs take measurements and take other protected information without permission. and finally when all this still did not get them what they were looking for they tried to steal tapi s robotic arm in order for engineers in china to replicate it. the trumpet ministration has been sounding the alarm about china's efforts to achieve supremacy in high technology while way components are being used to create the new architecture of global super high speed five g.

internet technology officials say that threatens u.s. national security as americans we should all be concerned about the potential for any company beholden to a foreign government especially one that doesn't share our values to burrow into the american telecommunications market and the charges come against the backdrop of the damaging u.s. china trade war which has stretched on for months trade talks between the two countries will resume on wednesday rob reynolds al-jazeera what is here now from a jim brown who has more from beijing. or china will feel that these new charges against weiwei are all part of a concerted campaign by the trumpet ministration to tarnish the reputation of one of china's most successful and profitable companies they will feel these charges are without merit anticompetitive and in the case of one man joe the chief

financial officer of weiwei who is now being held in vancouver pending her extradition to the united states an abuse of her human rights there is also i think suspicion here in china about the timing of these charges because they come almost on the eve of the resumption of trade talks between china and the united states those talks are being held in washington there is a truce at the moment in the tariff war between the two sides but that truce is due to expire in just over a month's time so these talks may be the best and last chance to avert an escalation of the trade war and china will feel that perhaps these new charges against weiwei are aimed at trying to give them leverage in those talks there is also going to be concern that the united states has confirmed it will indeed press ahead with the extradition of mung and that could well escalate the current

diplomatic spat between china and canada because china is demanding the canada free her the man leading the un team tasked with overseeing the truce in the yemeni port city of her data is stepping down retired judge general patrick coming out is leaving his post just one month after his arrival the reasons are not clear it comes as a u.n. envoy for yemen martin gryphus confirmed the timeline for both warring parties to withdraw from her data but a prisoner swap deal has been perspire and for now. the french president has criticized egypt's human rights record during a visit to cairo metal macron says the situation has worsened during president. time in par with such a butler has this report from perth 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 iran while delivering a strong message on human rights 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 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 or those 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 of french presence have traditionally given psychiatrists could be misplaced. france is always best 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 please campaigners but is less clear what impact it will have on future relations between paris and cairo natasha butler al-jazeera paris well our desire is senior political analyst mark bashara says despite macro's comments on egypt's human rights record his focus on this trip has been on drumming up business he's seeking to advance french interests in egypt and in africa everything else is beside the point especially his conversation about human rights meaning he needs to talk about human rights because france claims to be a champion of human rights and has universal values so called the republican values but in effect what president mccourt tried to do is try to get a lot of business for french business try to expand the francophonie in egypt try to reach understanding as with the egyptian president about the future of libya the

chip the future of the especially the future of their own a good general after in libya about the security on the libyan chad border and various things that have to do with the arab israeli conflict so it is all in all an attempt by person micro to advance french economic and strategic interests. still ahead here in algeria the first funerals are held for victims of the brazilian time collapse as the search goes on for hundreds still missing. as it prepares to host a regional summit we'll tell you how cyprus escaping with an increase in the number of asylum seekers. from the french coast to greece. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and the rain is pouring across parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing all this cloud working up from poses saudi arabia through parts

of iraq and into iran and has already given us some very heavy downpours parts of saudi arabia reporting nearly one hundred millimeters of rain from this system and that's well now marching its way eastwards over the high ground it is turning to snow as you might expect the still a lot of rain to it as we had three tuesday is wednesday really as that system works its way eastwards that will see more wintery weather quite a bit of snow over parts of afghanistan as well as the temperatures drop in kabul so a maximum or wednesday just of three degrees that system is also bringing a change in the temperatures a bit for the south as well so twenty six will be our maximum perhaps on tuesday here in doha there is likely to be maybe more cloud perhaps the old spot of rain and a lot of dust at times too but as that system sweeps its way across us the temperatures will drop so a maximum temperature this time of twenty four and at night that we dropping down to around sixteen degrees so it will feel quite cool if you're out in that wind ever that it was a south of the southern parts of africa lots of showers here as you might expect stretching from angola all the way across towards madagascar well what weather is

expected here is we had to choose day and wednesday for the south largely fine and dry but they could be the old showers around job back. the weather sponsored by qatar and he's. on the line. for them. to join us on all of us have been calling in some form or some fashion diana talking about. you have seen what it can do to people using multiple drugs including and some people are seeking it out everyone has a. twitter and you could join the conversation on mountains iraq.

a reminder of our top stories the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company it is the latest move by washington aimed at pushing president nicolas maduro out of office he says the sanctions are illegal and has vowed to take action. the trumpet ministration is also keeping up pressure on the chinese telecom giant weiwei the justice department has filed a series of criminal charges against the company and its chief financial officer the accusations include fraud and theft of trade secrets. the french president has criticized egypt she writes recalled during a visit to the man says it appears even worse now than under the deposed president hosni mubarak. it was the first day back to work for hundreds of thousands of federal employees in the united states that's after friday suspension of the partial government shutdown at the longest in u.s.

history but as our white house correspondent can be reports there's still no long term solution. back on the. 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 and actually do their jobs

and fix the problem than 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 his 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 could be again if there's 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 iraq 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 four police officers have been shot in the u.s. state of texas two are in a critical condition police was serving in

a rest warrant in a residential area of houston when they were attacked two suspects were killed at the sea. but just sixty days left until bricks it spritz retail as 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 warns that leaving the e.u. without a deal could threaten food security it says the fresh supply from europe would be severely disrupted written imports almost a third of its food from the european union well on tuesday parliament will vote on amendments to prime minister it's reason may's deal for leaving the e.u. the u.k. remains split on one of the most divisive issues in its history overall fifty two percent voted to leave in the two thousand and sixteen referendum and i'm a haywood has visited one region where the levy is far higher. it was world's biggest species with the fleet of hundreds of boats and thousands

employed to sort of start anything. i won't say she's still synonymous with grimsby and britain very little is courtenay. seventy percent of people who live in this area voted to leave the european union some blame 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 of thoughts about the fisherman when there were votes in a sea of no doubt about that 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 britain eats 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 shouting and high levels of deprivation because too many followers can win a case of people jobs. that's why vote out. of a shoe 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 in grimsby makes its way through here where wide range of goods are 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 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 breck's 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 case future still feel a long way away and the heywood al-jazeera in north east lincolnshire. cameron's main opposition leader has been arrested worries come to his party has held sporadic protests since he lost the disputed presidential election in october captain says he defeated president paul bia he's been in power for more than thirty years. funerals have been held for some of the victims of a dam collapse in southeastern brazil the number of dead has risen to sixty five merely three hundred people are still missing after the disaster at an iron ore mine on friday. now reports from. 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 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 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. we don't have space for more than three bodies in the

funeral parlor so many people are gathering here i might end up doing a collect your funeral in the sports center i think. emergency teams the 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 and 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. others in his profoundly religious country have their own way of showing their grief and support was local usage year we came from a nearby city to give emotional and spiritual support to these people who are suffering

so we brought donations too but we are mostly here to hug and console along nevus 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 the. roma genial brazil hundreds of italians have rallied outside parliament demanding the release of dozens of migrants stranded at sea but the. forty seven people have been stuck on a rescue ship off the coast of sicily for nearly two weeks they were picked up in the waters off libya but italy's government has refused to let the man migration will be the focus of a summit on mediterranean lead is due to be held in cyprus later on tuesday the divided island has become the main target for smugglers trafficking migrants into europe the government says it's been swamped with a request for asylum david has this report not from nicosia the buffer zone that

divides the island between the turkish controlled north and the internationally recognized republic to the south stretches for more than one hundred miles it's easy for the human traffickers to find a way through these are some of the boats they use now impounded and breached by the police. but will that to find themselves closer to baghdad in the catholic charity keratitis does what it can to help most of them are too afraid to show their faces and i don't mind what. just. is the case. so. this man told us he was forced to provide sexual favors to him who have smuggled him across the buffer zone it's very difficult this man said he'd now lost all hope he had a new job lived on the streets and was always hungry there are hundreds more like

him indicus here they've come from across africa the middle east and asia seeking safety and a better life but finding themselves in a limbo in a country that can't afford to look after them the numbers are quite staggering i mean there were over a thousand one hundred. with very limited capacity for. to catch up so this is. home. to keep everything falls apart leaders from seven e.u. countries bordering the mediterranean r.b.t. here for a summit to see if they could reach an agreement on how to tackle the problem the cyprus government say the only solution to the crisis is for an automatic relocation mechanism to be put in place which would allow the distribution of asylum seekers throughout the european union. but

borders are closing all over europe. abdul has been living in a mosque since he arrived from syria eighteen months ago it's no life for his three year old son. at least is better than living in the street maybe to al-jazeera because here. this is out there these are the top stories the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company it is the latest move by washington aimed at pushing president nicolas maduro out of office he says the sanctions are legal and has vowed to take action u.s. national security adviser john bolton is appealing to the venezuelan military to back self declared interim president drawn by to. 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 go i go any violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response during my time this shows that their objective is to take our riches what is the objective of the government of the united states take the properties from venezuela the riches of venezuela finished but as money and life run by a spy to take away our country the trumpet administration is also keeping up pressure on the chinese telecom giant while away the justice department has filed a series of criminal charges against the company and its chief financial officer the accusations include fraud and theft of trade secrets the french president has criticised egypt's human rights record during a visit to kyra and mineral macro says the situation has worsened during president . time in power cameron's main opposition leader has been arrested what has come to

his party has held a sporadic protest since he lost an election in october which he says was fraudulent. funerals have been held for some of the victims of a dam collapse in southeast brazil the number of dead has risen to sixty five maybe three hundred people are still missing after the disaster at an on or mine in the time to go on friday british return is a warning of possible for children is if the u.k. crashes out of the european union with no agreement joint letter to parliament from a dozen major chains says a new deal breaks it could severely disrupt the fresh food supply but the headlines got more news coming up right after the stream.

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