title senator. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam he's a band this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes is this ceasefire in yemen's port city of data might be on the verge of collapse as aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe. trying to demands the u.s. stops cracking down on chinese companies after criminal charges are filed against huawei. it in venezuela where it hurts the u.s. goes after its oil sector to pressure the president to step down in sport qatar takes on the united arab emirates in the semifinals of the asian cup it's being

called the blockade darby the first sporting clash between the countries since the start of the gulf crisis. now less than two months after un brokered cease fire was reached for yemen's port city of the day that it appears to be on the brink of collapse who the fighters and saudi backed government forces agreed to the truce in december but the fighting has never fully stopped and there's been an upsurge in violence in recent days and monday the man tasked with monitoring that cease fire stepped down retired dutch general patrick come out and only been in the position for a month and humanitarian agencies are warning the countries that breaking point seventy percent of food aid comes through day this port the british red cross says fourteen million the severe risk of famine. for more on this we've got al jazeera

as correspondent has humanity he's here for us in the studio of course and you've covered this conflict many many times over the years hashim is this cease fire agreement the whole day the poor agreement is it breaking down now it is likely to fall apart for different reasons i mean why what happened i mean we were all optimistic not too long ago about the end of those talks in sweden exactly so i mean when they signed the deal in sweden in december the aim was basically to see the cease fire holds they. would be followed by putting from her data now the hope he said that they are only willing to do that if they can hand over control of the city to local authorities the government is saying you know we have the hope is to step aside and we're not we need our own forces to take over something which has been dismissed by the who is what we see there the same time is there is now a surge of violence on the outskirts of

a whole data on the outskirts of the capital. of in different parts of the country and this intensified fighting has created an intense environment in yemen the hope is now are saying that sounds arabia is under my of the chances for any possible split in the solution to the crisis in yemen and people are really concerned that the ceasefire could collapse well the un's line is that the timeline is just being pushed back but any indication of pushback to when do we have any new dates on the horizon i think the probably the u.n. faces even is that their expectations were really high in sweden when the said we have managed to clinch two significant dia's one above the president exchange of the one about the whole day the cease fire but as far as the president's changed it is concerned there were follow up talks in jordan and the talks failed because of huge differences between the earth these and the government about who should be released of the list of the people consider to be prisoners of war. as far as the

day that it's the focal point of the conflict in yemen is considered a vital strategic area for both the government of the hertha's and there's absolutely no way the hoa fees are going to give any concessions when it comes to data because they understand that if they lose who dated militarily it would pave the way for the government troops backed by saudi arabia the u.a.e. to move further towards the capital sana what does the departure of the head of the monitoring team there on the ground mean for this whole process he was tasked with the delicate mission of trying to ensure a cease fire holds without a comprehensive political agreement about the model it is of that. deal plus differences with the united nations envoy martin griffith about how to implement the model it is of the ceasefire we're going to start with the port city of her day extend the deal towards the whole province of her data where the host of

fighters should be redeployed who's going to take over what kind of say will the united nations have when it comes to running the port city which is vital lifeline for all the food imports come into yemen and i think now there realize that there will definitely have to go back start new political talks genuine political talks for them to be able to solve the problems the biggest concern voiced by many yemenis we've been reaching out to and officials is that their concern today is that if the ceasefire collapses in her data it would just lead to further clashes across the country and it would make it extremely difficult for the un in the near future to further extend that ceasefire nationwide or thanks so much. or one person has been reportedly killed in a suicide bomb attack in northwest syria the blast targeted a court building in rebel held in the rebel held city of lips a number of civilians have also been injured in this let's go over to some of the

age of eighty joins us live from gaza in tech near turkey's southern border with syria more can you tell us about this attack sama. seventy this happened at the headquarters of the salvation government the political which governs the city of the most of this province is under the control of a group called. it was formerly known as the list of front a group which is has linked to al qaida what we know is that there was an attack on this building where there was clashes between the attackers as well of the security forces in the beginning and then a female suicide bomber entered this building and blew herself up at the reception area you have been getting details from various sources inside that there have been a number of casualties but according to the government the salvation government which is in charge it denies that it is the political office high of thirty years

and says that this is. an attempt to try and deal the process off what has been happening in libya and there is been some sort of conclusion of no coups there without any forward into the interference if you take a step back you see that the situation that it has been escalating in the last few months but it is becoming the most dominant of the fighting on the ground a group which is considered a terrorist organization by the united nations and by the u.s. and other over the other world bodies and this is what has been the bone of contention between both. as well as moscow. the u.n. human rights investigator leading the international inquiry into the murder of saudi journalist amount g.'s meeting with the stumbles chief prosecutor special

rapporteur. on a weeklong visit to turkey with the forensic and legal team hi sean g was killed in october after going to the saudi consulate documents stephanie decker has more from istanbul. so the u.n. team led by. is just here outside the saudi consulate in istanbul it's part of her investigation into what happened to she has for access to the consulate also access to saudi arabia and this is what she had to say what is your impression of just really with the foreign minister nothing. are you related to the saudis and are you when. you have made a request to the saudi government for access to the consulate as well as meeting with saudis a year and in saudi arabia we're waiting for their response to be fair.

request to them come quite quite late so we need to give them a bit more time to. question are you thinking you know no no no not at all ok we just want to have a sense of it and we have respectfully calling on the authorities to give us access at some stage while we are here so the un will be meeting with the chief prosecutor these are of course the people who did leading turkey's investigation into what happened inside that building we also understand they'll be meeting with. his fiance and also certain journalists trying to piece together what exactly happened here she wants accountability and she wants to find out the details it will be difficult but what she says is something which has taken upon herself because it seems that the united nations and the member states are not pushing for an independent investigation. more ahead of the news including a cause of pakistan decides whether to uphold the controversial release of a christian woman who's jailed for blasphemy. after months of protests the

palestinian authority puts a hold on a planned social security. campaign. issues an extradition order for refugees. and they will have the latest. pakistan's top court has upheld a decision to acquit a christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy bibi spent eight years on death row for insulting the prophet muhammad her acquittal last october sparked death threats nationwide riots by religious party supporters and an appeal for a review of the decision. is outside the supreme court in islamabad so where does the legal process stand now given this latest decision.

bream cord had dismissed that review petition which warned the dead to be maintained that supremes cord was not going to rain by the argument of the petition and therefore decided to dismiss this case world already widely expected and that means that b.b. free however because of the tent door life she was brought in by. and event but of. she's being kept at an undisclosed location for our own safety our children. are already in canada her lawyer who had fled the country because of debt they. returned to pakistan yesterday for security to watch president. b. be a free woman they did indeed. there's a lot of tension because the think you're defaulted right anticipating writing and pro days because the religious party. predation said they were.

b.b. so take your devoted now. so far that an order ports of any violence why did indeed the. decision by the. court and headed by the new chief justice. hotel. well what reaction has there been some some of the full supposed that have been pushing so legal action against. well the government played of a care for the game what they did was to do it right which include following the supreme court were dig their own that thirty foot and great d.h. the government brain danger negotiation read the protesters because things were spinning out of control that bored the government time off to wait. thirty keithy

nearly dead of the day to get love back by get it on ridge road to the head of all those pro days they were today did and that's why a lot of the steam had been taken out from the pro days however there are still warnings because the religious party wanted out for the bed of the supreme court they also wanted religion. and judges from the court to be sitting on the bench something that supreme court did not enter day and so it did great to be important to see what kind of reaction unfold on the street i think there'd be forded out on red alert and the government is going for it because the leadership of the protests is behind bars all right we'll leave it there for now c'mon hind on dating us from islamabad and. concerned and disappointed that china's response to the u.s. justice department pouncing criminal charges against telecoms giant huawei and its

chief financial officer beijing is calling on washington to stop what it describes as unreasonable suppression of chinese the challenges filed on monday include fold theft of trade secrets and conspiracy reynolds reports. 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 audacious 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 tap these 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 robert oulds al-jazeera the chinese government says the indictments against unfair and immoral because now they will just as the foreign ministry said with no evidence they using the state power to discredit and attack does ignited companies the sort of behavior is unfair and immoral as a department responsible for the same destry we consistently encourage chinese companies to act in accordance with international rules and market principles and develop foreign economic cooperation on the basis of abiding by local laws dream brown has more now from beijing. well the response from china to the fact that there's a ray of charges being laid at weiwei has been one of mild indignation mixed with

portraying itself as the victim it does believe in this case that war way is the victim of a smear campaign of slander and in fact a statement was released by the foreign ministry here in beijing on choose the afternoon in which it said the u.s. is using its state power to blacken the name and attack certain chinese companies now we have to remember that while away is not just any company it's now the world's second largest maker of smartphones it's overtaken apple and that's part of the problem while away has been challenging the big telecom companies and china believes that the united states is jealous of that it resents that and now it's going out of its way to try to contain china's rise in any way it can and one of the ways it's doing that is to try to slow while ways progress in the united states and indeed other markets now this tension of course is feeding into the talks that are due to take place between china and the united states in washington these are

trade talks aimed at a vertically more terrorists being placed on each other's goods at the moment a truce is in place but that truce is due to expire in just over a month's time and so this may be the best and last chance of averting the tariff war starting all over again also featuring large on choose day was the name of main one joe she is of course the chief financial officer of huawei once more china is appealing directly to the united states to drop its extradition case against her she's currently under house arrest in vancouver china is also demanding that canada release but it seems as has been confirmed that the extradition process likely to be a very long one is now going to proceed and that is likely to mean that the diplomatic spat between china and canada is certainly going to worsen. for more on this let's

bring in mark einstein now he's the chief analyst for digital service at the technology advisory firm on japan joins us from tokyo via skype good to have you with us so first of all is there a sanction against well way do you see it as simply a case of breaking the law or is it a little bit about limiting the competition to. so i think the big question here is really around security because if we talk about the upcoming five g. network roll out you know five g. networks are not just going to be about phones they're going to be about cars they're going to be about factories they're going to be about everything and the prospect of a chinese vendor deploying this in the u.s. or japan or the u.k. is somewhat unsettling for local governments and i think that's really what's driving this one my ask why is the us in the situation where it's having to look at while away as a provider for five g. how just how advanced has china become when it comes to antique technology compared

to the rest of the world so actually in the last five to ten years china has really really evolved and mature and i was in beijing last week and they were showing their five g. networks they could do three gigabits per second to four g. networks can only do fifty megabits per second so there has been quite a substantial improvement in the technology on the chinese side but the u.s. has to rely on a foreign vendor anyways because there's only really three major players in this market who are nokia ericsson and while way so in a sense in the u.s. if it's about national security i mean does the u.s. really have. local domestic alternatives to walk away. no they don't on the wireless side they do not on the wireline side they have cisco but they're going to have to work with the chinese a finnish or or a swedish company they could also work with samsung or any c. who are korean and japanese so no they do not have

a domestic alternative and i think that is what is underpinning a lot of the news that we're reading about now what would locking while way out of the u.s. market what would that mean not only for china but for the whole i.t. world it's a big company or so i think yeah i mean i think for the telecom providers not only in the u.s. but globally it means that they're really going to have two major options for five g. you know for four g. there are you know more than ten companies so there's going to be less competition are and i think that that is something that could end up hurting you know some of the margins going forward and when we talk about five. all right thanks so much for your analysis on that mark and stan nicolas maduro is accusing the u.s. of trying to steal venezuela's oil reserves which is some of the world's largest the white house has ordered sanctions on the country's state owned oil company to

block around seven billion dollars of assets well as pressure is increased to replace the socialist leader russia says the sanctions are illegal christine salumi reports from washington. the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the bench as well in opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pet of ace 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 they're trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people beyond all that finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company said go 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 glyde oh the national assembly the

opposition and most importantly american personnel are not harmed this is an unequivocal statement on our part in the race for. their forces we're getting all but the president has made it very clear. on this on this matter that all options are on the table while the united states makes the rats and withholds money the opposition is offering immunity to members of the military who joined them more than twenty countries have now recognize one why don't know as venezuela's legitimate leader and more are threatening to do so unless new elections are held christian salome al-jazeera washington and a few moments we'll have all the weather with kevin still ahead and al jazeera cyprus prepares to host a regional summit we'll tell you how it's coping with an increase in the number of asylum seekers retailers warn of food shortages as new tape prepares to vote on stories amaze latest plan to leave the. sport a different challenge for the n.f.l.'s biggest stars ahead of sunday's super bowl.

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welcome back you're watching our just let's recap our headlines now less than two months after a u.n. brokered cease fire was reached for yemen's port city of a day that has to be on the brink of collapse now on monday the man tasked with monitoring the cease fire down time general pantra command but only been in the position for a month. one person has been reportedly killed in a suicide bomb attack in northwest syria last targeted a court building in rebel held city of number of civilians have also been injured pakistan's top court is up held the decision to acquit a christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy bibi spent eight years on death row for insulting the prophet muhammad. death threats nationwide riots by religious party supporters and an appeal for

a view of the decision. the philippine president has ordered security forces to crush fighters linked to isolate and bomb the roman catholic cathedral claimed responsibility for the twin explosions which killed at least twenty seven worshippers and injured dozens during sunday mass the attacks were in harlow the capital of sort of province in the far south of the philippines dog and news there . when the tragedy strikes there's always that period where people expect that life will go back to normal well here in the law that sense of normalcy is a relative it is the most militarized area in the southern philippines and it has been that way since the philippine military established a permanent presence here decades ago the soldiers are still here because it is still home to several armed groups yesterday the secretary of national defense told us that the obviously op is

a bill to operate because of its continued support from communities the secretary of national defense and that is an even harder battle by winning hearts and minds. i feel really sorry for the victims it wasn't there. we couldn't do anything now except listen to these stories. we are all friends we are humans they are humans to christians and muslims we are all deceived it happened early sunday morning the first bomb exploded while mass was ongoing then panicked churchgoers and survivors rushed out where they were met just outside by soldiers responding to the scene and that's when the second bomb was detonated there have been efforts across mindanao to resolve the leg decades long conflict in the region a referendum last year was met by jubilation but not here in the law what happened

here is proof that a lot remains to be the region's powder keg. supermarkets in britain are warning of possible food shortages if the u.k. crashes out of the e.u. with out of brags that deal with sixty days to go before brings its juice to happen and doesn't major shop chains of written a joint letter letter warning m.p.'s almost a third of britain's food is imported from the e.u. shops say they'll be severe disruptions in the suit supply chain if there's no deal british m.p.'s judes of those in a few hours time or what happens next it will be the first chance of repose their own solutions to break the break that deadlock after they overwhelmingly rejected the prime minister's draft agreement earlier this month and holly's live outside the british parliament joins us there from london so journalists start with the first issue it's another big day in parliament again take us through that.

it's another big day of voting sammy it's certainly not the end of the matter as far as bracks it is concerned it may not even prove to be decisive apart from showing once again and that there may be no majority for a firm way ahead albeit that we may see votes producing majorities for things that parliament doesn't want it in northern ireland backstop or the dreaded for some no deal let me bring in my guest mohamed hussein he's a former special advisor to the rudd when she was home secretary you also worked behind the scenes in number ten under david cameron and to resume a so you've a pretty good idea of the workings of government. let's get it straight now the vote tonight the principle vote of course on the government's motion could produce a plan b. that sees to resume a heading off to brussels to renegotiate the backs up only to come back and put her

deal back to parliament for another vote towards the end of february that likely to work so that is the choreography and i think the vote tonight actually could open up a whole other set of options because effectively it's a peg for m.p.'s to continue their only direct to travel on the brakes a process a lot of this obviously depends on the speaker bercow and the amendments that he chooses to be voted on to be heard but effectively the plan yes the plan b. does sound a lot like clammy there have been some changes in terms of the commitment the prime minister's made to workers rights environmental standards and the kind of never ending issue around the backstop. and the ongoing concerns the m.p.'s of course the house have on that and so what we will see i think is efforts to try and. reassure m.p.'s that they are being listened to you hence that in the current brady

amendment so that's the key and tonight if john bercow accepted because theresa may i was told her that only by the m.p.'s to vote for that amendment that is the amendment that would give her a mandate to go back to brussels and say look get rid of this backstop or change it and you may have a deal what the e.u. delighted to say about that what i mean i think this is the this is the gold question the e.u. has said consistently that the withdrawal agreement cannot and will not be reopened and the backstop is here to stay in the e.u. i think we'll act very much together and in accordance with dublin's wishes on this their view i think is that you know we the u.k. have voted to leave so they obviously will be looking out for the interests of the remaining members and all said the northern border is the e.u. border as well. but i think it is interesting because effectively the prime minister for weeks has been say. that this deal cannot be changed. and now now

she's saying that is go dangerously potentially could be so is there something behind the scenes that all of which we don't know yet that gives her pause to think maybe the will move but all of which really only adds to the concerns that so many people have as the clock ticks down now of britain to the stumbling off into off the cliff as it were into a no deal breaker which brings up the other key amendment likely to be voted on tonight the idea of subverting the business of the house so that backbench m.p.'s can table an amendment that becomes legislation yet ruling out a no deal breaks it is that likely to happen i think that has a good chance of success i think we still need to see what the labor front bench will do if labor do go full throttle behind it then i think that will get the numbers there are still people on the conservative side there are people within the government who have concerns about avoiding a deal so this could present the way to do that but we need to remember that this doesn't this buys more time it still puts things getting a deal first on the table the best way of avoiding a deal is to have

a deal if that is not reached by the end of february then article fifty could be extended so it just delays a decision at potentially going think we're this is a pretty tame you know you know a room correct exactly ma'am and we're going to have to leave it there thanks so much for your insight so among a raft of legislation of votes rather being tabled this evening it's between a no deal and a no backstop there may indeed be no majority for any of them and we may be none the wiser come wednesday morning all right john hall there let's wait and see what happens. the brags that referendum three years ago fifty two percent of british forces supported leaving the bloc but in some areas it was much higher one of those places was the northern fishing town of grimsby and the hayward has been finding out how voters feel now. it was the world's biggest fishing port with a fleet of hundreds of boats and thousands employed to sort. of

man. is still synonymous with grimsby in britain very little is core belief that. 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 that in some cases it may have been misguided but 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 imposed from eastern europe about eight hundred fifty thousand new cars coming from europe i handled that it's

riveted attempts though reinvention haven't stopped shops from shutting and high levels of deprivation because it can win a case of people jobs. so. it seems to be getting worse so we need to take control make our own decisions rather than you. a ten minute drive from grimsby and you're at 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 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 is often forgotten and the politics of westminster trying to shape it and the rest of the u.k. speech are still a long way away and the heywood al-jazeera in north east lincolnshire. five police officers have been injured during a raid on a suspected drug house in the us state of texas two of the officers were shot in the neck when they opened the front door of the property in houston both of undergone surgery and are in a critical but stable condition two suspects were killed at the scene hundreds of italians have rallied outside parliament demanding the release of dozens of migrants stranded at sea. forty seven people have been stuck

on a rescue ship off the coast of sicily for nearly two weeks they were picked up in waters off libya but italy's government has refused to let them in. migration will be the focus of a summit of mediterranean leaders in cyprus on tuesday the divided island has become the main target for smugglers trafficking migrants into europe the government says it's been swamped with requests for asylum david chaytor reports from nicosia. the buffer zone the device 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 the 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 they call just the same is the case. so. this man told us he was forced to provide sexual favors to him who eventually smuggled him across the prophecy is very typical of 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 in because 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 services for immigration to catch up so this is. home. to cook. to keep everything falls apart leaders from

seven e.u. countries bordering the mediterranean are beating 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 it's better than living in the street people chaytor al jazeera because here. the main opposition leader in cameroon has been arrested following weekend protests about the disputed presidential election result. was election not president paul bia the government describes cantor as an outlaw for

not accepting the results five year old president has been in power for more than thirty years he denies fraud and his reelection. the palestinian authority has put its plan social security tax on hold after months of protests the announcement was made at the same time president mahmoud abbas revealed he's forming a new government our aforesaid reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. for months now palestinians in new york apart 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 is 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 or 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 doc seven point two percent of my salary that's more than one hundred fifty dollars so 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 enshrining 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 a system of social security since two thousand and three but yet again even after expressing its determination to get it through this time it is that back there was significant opposition against some of the elements of the policy for example it's discriminatory 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 man think but it's an authority and in the same time you would try to convince the people in that they will be enough that to take it for instance of the of and they will get it back mohammed omran 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. still ahead on al jazeera. closing in on a fifth asian cup. for

a football fans it's time to catch up on all the action in asia right it is indeed thank you so much summing all lights of this tuesday cats outside can host the knights of the arab emirates in the semifinals of the asian cup a game being called the blockade darby since june twenty seventh seen the u.a.e.

saudi arabia and bahrain of imposed a land air and sea blockade on cats are africa husing into supporting terrorism katsa has denied the allegations but the effects of the disputes have been felt to this event. the hannity vice president says the asian football confederation had his arrival delayed by u.a.e. officials and a group of journalists were refused entry into the country and very few fans have been able to support cats are during the tournament it's now a criminal offense to show public sympathy for cats are in the u.a.e. our reporter david stocks a small. talk about maximizing home advantage the united arab emirates has bought all the remaining tickets for the semifinal get scatter and handed them out for free but crucially only to their fans effectively blocking away support so not for the first time this tournament catalyst players will largely be alone when they take to the pitch in abu dhabi but despite the prospect of

a hostile crowd of forty two thousand they fancy their chances they are the form team after all with five wins from five and no goals conceded so far they think they deal very good with it. of course all of us we know that that is the pressure readers is a semifinal but they think we are more costly than them under pressure to play this game cats are entitled to eight percent of the match tickets but next to no fans have risk 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 five years ago and most of them will have a bigger stage to perform on when cats are host the world cup in two thousand and twenty two being in the a.f.c. right now and having a group of young players in all 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. force correspondent lee wellings faith the president gianni and francine are still talking about expanding that's one hundred twenty two world cup and possibly staging games in the u.a.e. and saudi arabia just how realistic is that. or faith in john in france you know are well aware of what's been going on for the past few weeks in the united arab emirates they are aware of the fact that even though it's our officials and journalists are entitled to tickets they're entitled to accreditation fines are entitled to go on watch it that of course they haven't been able to go in and watch it and the qatar team has been pie without any support whatsoever so in that environment for mr infante no to still have not come out and said actually we can't have a. cop in the region it's just not going to really stick we happen that can be questioned

and we've tried to question mr in france they don't want to od would personally like to hear him explain his vision for how this can happen which nations could actually stage games because you cannot play all of the games in qatar for sure they are the tournament has to fit in so a calendar month so which nations could be part of this and he's talking about a peace process that is extremely unlikely to happen with the blockade so i think it really should be a spotlight after this tournament finishes that switches back on fee for moonlight sure it does so they can explain exactly what they mean by this and not just have a feasibility study that actually isn't really achieving anything and they just from a footballing perspective how important was it the cats are to do well at this tournament . it's extremely important for count on inch extremely important i think for football around in the twenty twenty two tournament because the world cups of covered it's always been a big thing and often an underrated thing that the host nation has

a competitive team sometimes such a good governor win the thing famously like the market in france in ninety ninety eight i think it was a big factor in the world cup we saw last year in russia that the russians saying that was completely underwriting not expected to do anything actually did well so to have a qatar taint that is actually doing so well as good as it's ever done of course this is as as far as kind of ever got in the asian cup with a nucleus of this team that felix sanchez had in twenty fourteen when the under nineteen tall women for qatar to be doing are actually is going to be very encouraging for for again the spotlight i mentioned to actually be on the team when the tournament starts because we've had nearly a decade of talk about what's happening off the page label is joining us there from london les thanks for that plenty more from late throughout the day. care a step down as iran's head coach after eight years in the job it followed his team's defeat in monday's semifinal against japan japan winning this one three nil

in allying with all the goals coming in the second half asako scored twice as iran's hopes of winning the start of the first time since one thousand nine hundred seventy six one ended at the heritage she then sealed the win in injury time japan now have the chance to be asian champions for a fifth time thank you very much to my players for over three they did during. all the sea years taking courses elation the difficulties the diversity of. the limits limitations conditions that. they want to be in my heart went through the worst and the rest of my life. a companion is fighting for the release of bahraini refugee footballer hakim his situation has become an emergency and he's after bahrain issued an extradition order to find back to the gulf kingdom from thailand or a he has a refugee status in australia where he's been living since fleeing his home country

after being arrested in twenty fourteen campaigners have been a fee for headquarters suppress the world governing body to take some action or force away and he is in bangkok where al-arabiya has been in detention since flying so the country for his honeymoon in november bahrain had until february the eighth to file an extradition request with thailand and that is exactly what they have now done saying that he needs to return to bahrain to serve his sentence clearly that prospect is very concerning for the footballer himself he says that if he is made to go back there he faces torture possibly even being given the death sentence and making his situation even more precarious while he is here is the fact that thailand doesn't recognize the rights of refugees the asian football confederation the governing body in this region has been criticized a lot for its apparent inaction over this case hakim himself has been

a vocal critic of the a of c. president shake selman been. who happens to be a member of bahrain's royal family or for the players involved in super bowl fifty three one major obstacle has already been negotiated egg related games with friends just one of the challenges on super bowl media night for the stars of the l.a. rams and the new england patriots hundreds of journalists with one last chance to ask a question ahead of sunday's title decider in atlanta. i'm always nervous before games yeah i have nerves a little anxiousness and. it's a it's a you know we don't get me do overs in sports so you work hard for that one game and then you've got to be able to get it done and the biggest moment ok that is i suppose looking for now simon thanks so much well that's it from me for this news out darrin joel news up next with another full bulles and so do stay with us here now.

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