because the legal pad trained with the main researchers wanted to see if reintroduction of narcotics was a viable option to save some of these population pretty good. techno on al-jazeera and. this is al jazeera a mile from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news grid what's hoped for her date of the cease fire and that important yemeni city is on the verge of collapse as the man who is monitoring the cease fire the u.n. puts the job they will look at what would happen if when this deal says three weeks . also on the grid the squeeze goes on venezuela and president nicolas maduro the united states buys and sanctions on the state oil company venezuela's economic

lifeline at a time when the economy is already teetering on collapse and it is the second semifinal in football's asian cup but this one's got added spice it's concept versus the u.a.e. the former on the block paid for eighteen months the master has made it illegal to support potter and we will have the final results in this newsgroup and gas shortages in syria causing outrage on line we have all the reaction to that story and hear about how to treat us through the chinese the hash tag eighteen is back. with a new spirit to live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live at al-jazeera dot com and it looks like the six week old brokered cease fire in the yemeni port city of data is on the brink of collapse findings flared again in her day there it's happening as well also on the outskirts of the capital sanaa and on top of that you have got the retired general who was in charge of the u.n.

broken troops has stepped down as well although he has now with hash. the ceasefire intraday there appears to be on the verge of falling apart fighting has intensified on the outskirts of yemen's main port city further north government troops backed by the saudi and emirate he led military coalition are on the move took up areas near the who think controlled capital sana'a u.n. envoy martin griffiths met who think him and to plead with them to maintain the whole day the cease fire which began six weeks ago the hand of the rebels political council told the u.n. envoy that saudi arabia is undermining the truce no economic now and our focus is to consolidate the front lines our success will depend on what we will achieve militarily. this is the retired dutch general who was given the job of

ensuring the delicate ceasefire doesn't fall apart patrick comer met leaders of the yemeni government in exile in the city of aden. and he's due in her day it may be his last official mission his being replaced by a danish general who led a peacekeeping mission in mali. the day the cease fire agreed during talks in sweden in december calls for her theory rebels to withdraw from the city and port it's the main gateway for much needed aid and food into the country the fighting around it has burned millions are threatened with famine. the truth is say they will pull out but won't hand over the area to the enemies and they say saudia marital led forces must stop attacking her data who i prefer able cabinet that we

need to fight against aggression and ten fighters to the battlefields that should be our answer to those who want to escalate yemen's government and president of the hardy reject the who are saying they must withdraw immediately and a lot of the yemeni army to take over. if the day the ceasefire collapses completely millions of suffering yemenis will be waiting even longer for the four year old war to and i smile but i'll just. let's talk to elizabeth kendall about this now senior research fellow at oxford university a specialist on the yemen war in london for us hi elizabeth is there anything salvageable here is it worth clinging on to a cease fire which actually we've said from the very start was fragile. definitely it's worth clinging on to this and that is exactly what the u.n. is doing it was always ambitious stockholm produced greater results than i think anyone hoped for and it was going to be difficult yes the timelines have slipped

yes it does look like it's not succeeding perhaps not exactly failing and yes there have been hundreds of violations of the who died a cease fire but nonetheless we're in a better position than we might have been the choice is really quite stark it's do we try to cling on to a cease fire that imperfect that has numerous violations or do we just drop it and allow all out war to take over in and around who died which would lead to the starvation of millions of people it has to be the former but what about the fact that the man that the u.n. put in charge of monitoring the ceasefire has left the position clearly i mean he was attacked himself in the past few days it was dangerous for him but is there anyone to step into that breach or does it fall to martin griffiths again the special envoy for yemen. well there is already someone put forward to step

into that breach but the united nations is of course putting a brave face on it and they're saying that it was always the generals plan to stay for a short amount of time to get things started and then someone else would come in take over and the seventy five monitors would come in and the cease fire would hopefully get into place so that trying to pursue a brave face on it but you're right it doesn't look good and it's one of many many challenges that the united nations has faced and will surely continue to face the sad thing is that actually directly off to the stockholm agreement things were looking pretty good and aid flows were improving now they look like this storming again and meanwhile we have twenty four million yemenis in need of assistance still ten million on the brink of starvation we have to hope that this ceasefire can go ahead and that the stockholm agreement can work so what can the what needs to be done now who steps in how do they step in to salvage as we say what is left to not

lose as you describe the progress that has been made. what needs to happen is that everyone must focus on the positives there is still a political will to make the stockholm agreement work to make the ceasefire work to redeploy troops the international will is that we saw that and the ninth of january united nations security council briefings we've seen it in the united states congress we've seen it in the year paying union meetings recently we've seen it it's a recent conference in germany specifically designed to look at yemen solutions so the international well is that the pressure has to be on keeping those in need to ship positions in the two main warring sides focused on coming together for a solution and not letting the spoilers those who are getting rich on the back of the war win through and allow the ceasefire to fail elizabeth cohen it's always

a pleasure talking to you even on such a a setup or to go through but thank you for your expertise we do appreciate it. yes so so much of the news that comes out of yemen is sad isn't it and it's and it's tough to look at but here's a story just posted al-jazeera common the last twenty four hours in wartime yemen children find solace in music just a bit of background about the children these are children in actually who are well it's the playing the keyboard of just finding a little bit of normalcy in their life i think you need to read these stories every now and then just to remember about the people who are really affected and how they try to make their life go on education is my weapon this is one of them have a look for that at al-jazeera dot com as i just posted in the last day if you look on that yemen children music. you can get in touch with us as well if you was on the contact details on screen now hash tag edge and use grid on everything as our online producer today who is looking for your responses it could be on twitter at

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a front according to the details and there was a clash outside the building then a female suicide bomber entered and blew herself up at the reception area this is the second attack this month in province according to the local government would you deny that it is the political. that this is an attempt to try and derail the local control often lip and sure that it is is not secure according to these forces and it is secure but according to russian foreign observers there has been fighting that has been going on if they are calm has been gaining control and pushing out other groups from the ground and this is a source of concern between the turks and the russians. really let's move to you know because social media talk of a serious often we see the aftermath of attacks that's how we get a lot of our video of what goes on on the ground but you found something a little different today that's right actually people in have been very vocal as well about the story there are shortages of basic goods in syria and the price of

a single gas cylinder has nearly doubled to fifteen dollars now r.p. while people have been reacting to this this one video that sparked a conversation on twitter. that you. know you know the. syrian activists possibly uk tour and these are up two hundred jar a standing in line to buy gas in damascus and they're also singing about it some online a criticizing the pair accusing them of joking around instead of not seriously addressing the poor living conditions that many syrians have to enjoy under the assad regime. and a lot of attention revolves around boston posing with a gasol and or this person accuses him of making fun of the regime's disability and here he is with some fans on facebook actually thanking him for raising awareness and other syrians have also been getting involved too in particular some celebrities who are known to be supporters of president assad like actress angie moore out here and also actor saudi aswad now we got in touch with

a member of the syrian opposition this is what he said about the photos i just want to tell them please stop pulling us we know your propaganda and your teacher is driven home the famous syrian actor who taught you over forty five years how to absorb the anger of the syrian people my message to all of you please stop fooling us even i said loyalists are fed up with you my message to you is is syrian revolution continues we will not be silent as it must go and we also spoke to the editor of a world view a website that specializes on syria and they explain the situation regarding the shortages that the assad regime says or well it's due to sanctions but that's not really yet but the matter is the country has lost four hundred billion dollars in damage and you're conflict was seventy five percent of its

g.d.p. on top of structural problems of a small elite controlling the economy the assad regime broke the country it owns this crisis even if it's the syrian people who are suffering. well we do and get your thoughts on the story especially if you are in syria use the hash tag aging is great or you can disappear tweet me directly and matter here mohammed come all thanks really very interesting stuff that now the u.s. government has imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company another move by washington to push president nicolas maduro out of office he says the sanctions are illegal and as violent to take action u.s. national security adviser john bolton is also appealing to the venezuelan military he wants them to back the self declared interim president on what ido. the he is in for us which is on the other side of the border tell us about the effect that sanctions can and will have on venezuela. well

miles no doubt these are the strongest sanctions that the u.s. has put in place on venezuela and there are very disorienting nature so far this effect that sanctions have affected specific government officials boring starting with the president and the collapse of my daughter and their assets in the u.s. in this case instead they affect the state the venezuelan state oil company and they go to court the court of the house of interest when an economy operates roughly eighty percent of state is that of earnings earnings come from the united states and practically all the hard currency the u.s. dollars the venezuelan government needs to operate to distribute food for example in the country come from the money they make through the oil companies and already we're hearing from

a number of humanitarian and human rights organisation who are worried that the effects that the sanctions will have on the venezuelan people on the humanitarian and economic crisis in the country is a risky move on part of the united states but one that will push to even more pressure on president might do to step down or negotiate a transition with the opposition. or can any of this potentially help or assist the man who would be president one greater. this is definitely a cold calculation on part of the u.s. i think it's fair to say that the u.s. government believes that venezuela is at a tipping point that the pressure internally that the opposition is splitting putting down the government flies to international pressure with the number of countries that are recognizing great though as the logistically it's precedents

less all of these new economic issues and now the government will have to deal with the will finally push might do it to office we're going to have to see of course it could be also counterproductive if my bill becomes more in strange so you can now definitely blame us for a lot of the internal economic problems they will face from now on it depends on who the venezuelans will believe and why you chose a strategy to go out and try to convince the military to accept and amnesty deal if they switch sides will be successful we'll probably get an idea. that more tomorrow has been this what i'm going to see as business well and stake through the streets once again and then we'll have to see who they will blame on this and if they did leave dad for my children now it's finally time to go. to bogota thank you for

that. his julian lee now an oil strategist bloomberg is joining us from london maybe you can and just you know putting this into the simplest terms possible explain the effect of sanctions on venezuela in a trickle down effect if we start with the the state oil company at the top and the money that made there and how that could sort of dry up all the way down to the people of venezuela. well i think the sanctions themselves are designed to do two things first is to crimp exports of crude oil from venezuela so there is a ban that will come into effect on u.s. companies buying venezuelan oil but there's also a second buy on on u.s. financial institutions facilitating dollar transactions between petroleum to venezuela and non u.s. entities which is going to have a big impact i think on venezuelan oil sales four dollars to non u.s. companies there's

a second strand to the sanctions that will i think in time have a big impact on venezuela's oil production and that is a ban on the sale of of what are called diluents these are either very light crude oil or heavy not the from typically from u.s. gulf coast refineries that are blended with the very heavy venezuelan crude to allow it to flow there's a bind on those sales to venezuela that is going to severely limit the amount that they can produce from the heavy oil fields in the orinoco belt so you've got this these two pronged if you like. weapon hitting the venezuelan oil industry now that's going to have a big impact on the dollars coming into the country the venezuelan part owned refineries in the u.s. are prevented from transferring dollars back to the government their own ings are

going to have to go into an escrow accounts of that's going to cut off more money and this is going to. leave the venezuelan government not only struggling perhaps to pay the military on which it depends but also to to to undertake the vast social programs that the government has taken on and i think this is where it's going to do. circle down presumably one way though as i describe in the man who would be president the man who says he is president would face the same economic problems. that. nicolas maduro does i mean does he does he have any different way out of this sort of problem well i think he can expect much greater help from the united states i mean they have you know come out and openly supported him as have you know a number of other governments around the world and i think a you know if he were to assume power in venezuela there would be

a lot more support coming in from these countries and what i think he perhaps will need to do is is to reach out to both the russians and the chinese who have made very large investments into the venezuelan oil sector and convince them that a transition while hurt those investments and won't hurt the repayments of the loans that they have made to venezuela are over past years. ok thank you so much for that julian lee joining us from london talking us through the economic problems in venezuela there's a good article as well that al-jazeera dot com on this one if you want to have a look an explainer as it says on u.s. sanctions and how it actually works what sanctions were announced how dependent is the u.s. on venezuelan oil so. have a look at that and then if you want to get more broad venezuela in crisis how did the country get here the teams put a really good piece together here all the key players named there and just taking

us right through because this is a deep deep crisis that goes much further than obviously just sanctions and oil and unrest this has been going on for a long time if you need the background that's where you'll find it how did venezuela get here then is whether in crisis at al jazeera dot com. now cutter taking on the asian cup hosts the united arab emirates right now doing battle for a place in the final but this is more than just a game this is been dubbed a blockade w. with plenty of politics on the sidelines it is right now two nil i believe two nil to counter i think we're just into the second half now so we'll be getting a final score before the end of this newsgroup hopefully right now though we're going to check in with lee wellings our sports correspondent highly. more than just a game i know it's a cliche but it really is. it absolutely is and this is something that is intriguing to me as to how it's being received pfieffer

headquarters and where the journey of and say no is watching this march because of course mr in france a no is insisting that there can be an expanded world cup beyond qatar and the nations in the region can come together and that they're looking into a phase ability study well if you're looking at the pitches of fans in the stadium in the united arab emirates throwing shoes at the qatari players who just scored the second goal there aren't any qatari supporters or reporters that be someone from al-jazeera there usually where not welcome into cover this tournament and you can see the tensions there the stadium is full of supporters nearly all from the u.a.e. some from a man some of the movie are cheering on qatar but this is not a friendly match that is being played in a good spirit between the players i have to say and that's been consistent throughout the tournament in the matches as well between qatar and saudi arabia but

there are real issues surrounding. mr inventing knows idea for what could happen in the expansion in twenty twenty two it seems extremely on real estate like i was asked by a viewer about how this is managed to happen let me put it this way this is an official football tournament asian football cup under faith and yet you have the government of the u.a.e. as the host making decisions like it is a legal to support cutter now that is their decision and that is the lore of their land but does do the organizing committee speak up about this at all do they are they in any position to stop such things because it's their tournament as well. yes a really good point. it's not the first time that this this kind of thing has come into effect where you wonder where the boundaries are how much power does faith actually have while sometimes faith claims it has less power than it does in this

instance of course we're talking about the asian football confederation for this tournament they for instance accredited to cover the tournament it's actually the u.a.e. that wouldn't allow journalists in from qatar so sanctions always a possibility for faith they won't be comfortable with this situation it hasn't gone entirely smoothly for the u.a.e. although there's there's actually been a very good football played on the pitch there has been a success of course you have this wonderful story of qatar making their way through before they host a tournament in twenty twenty two big doesn't sit right does it come out it doesn't sit right there actually were in a situation the people couldn't conceive how well sports and politics don't mix actually these are the rules of the u.e.a. the tournament can just go ahead we're seeing increasingly we're seeing issues at the moment about where the golfers were going play in saudi arabia this wake actually sport and politics are mixing and then needs to be more sensible decision

making one of the people turning the other why they are asking this final question as someone who's obviously lived in this country for many years and has been here during the blockade but i start to wonder if qatar reaches the final result of the final i wonder how much it even matters to have a base in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to have gone through this far to have made it this far in the u.a.e. that's a pretty big victory in itself. i see what you're saying but actually we're already at this stage haven't got farther than cars have ever got in the asian cup before and obviously showing the progress that's been made towards twenty twenty two so that's already been achieved i think if i go on and complete a victory of the u.a.e. and then play japan in the final on fire day then there will be that thing that any football fan anywhere in the globe. and the public of any nation then they dissipate comes in the expectancy and people will be desperate for qatar to go in

and lift the trophy but the achievement i think has already been made in how they've performed throughout the tournament ok les thank you for that more firmly later and more from here in doha later as well we'll be taking you out live to one of the fans owns here as fans are gathering to watch this final match question from holy man facebook who said will the blockade be over by the time of the world cup don't know quite frankly it's been in place for eighteen months now and no one even sort coming in the first place i think the hope is very much that it would be gone by that time if not sooner because as they might have mentioned there is this idea of the twenty twenty two world cup being co-hosted around the region and obviously that could not happen with the blockade in place if you've got me thoughts on that story or any of our stories please do send them in hashtag a j news group twitter facebook whatsapp and telegram. this is the newsgroup had a few with us on facebook live likely know what you're about to find out why an american journalist was recently detained in america that is from our friends with

us and then later lives in limbo we are in cyprus where asylum seekers are going hungry and going nowhere in a country struggling to offer any help. hello again well here across the levant things are not. in to bat for much of the area we do have one weather system that's making its way towards the east and behind that we're going to be seeing a lot of clear skies cooler conditions as well here in aleppo fifteen degrees with some clear skies we do have some rain though it's going to be mostly on the southern coast of turkey over the next few days so from wednesday of thursday that is going to continue to be a problem across much of that area more across parts of iraq we're going to be seeing temperatures few rising and so on thursday how about a high for you of about twenty degrees there well across much of saudi arabia a lot of clouds particular over here towards the west as well as north and in those

clouds we could be seeing a passing shower or two particular over here towards medina with the tempter there here on wednesday of about twenty four degrees but by the time you get thursday that really goes up to about thirty one riyadh is going to be quite nice at about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly across parts of madagascar it has been raining very very heavily across the central in the northern part of the island and we do think that is going to continue over the next few days over here towards mozambique not really looking too bad but we do expect to see an increase of rain over the next day particular down here towards the south derbent really not looking too bad with attempt a few of about twenty nine degrees and here on thursday for cape town we do expect to see some clouds in the forecast with a temperature of twenty four. high in the atlas mountains. village women are fending for themselves being as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. but training

home farm and family is tough with no outside supports how much longer is this way of life sustainable al-jazeera world meets my rock village superwoman. the world's largest oil company fails to become public tap. of the kingdom of the company inseparable where the world's largest oil producer and don't list in the world's largest definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab code the company and the state on al-jazeera.

headlines at al-jazeera dot com and what's trending as well a developments in that story involving the chinese telecoms company while way with the u.s. has charged executive who was arrested in canada more on venezuela. that plenty on venezuela there was a lot of really good content to down to zero comments when have

a look and story number six the most important game of our lives taking on the u.a.e. right now and it is still there now. but russia is the focus of a meeting of mediterranean leaders in the next few hours there in cyprus a divided i'm on that's become the main target for smugglers trafficking refugees into europe the government says it's simply been swamped with requests for asylum well from david chase in nicosia the buffer zone that divides the island between the turkish controlled moles 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 beached by the police. but we'll do it 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. just. so. this man told us he was forced to provide sexual favors to him who eventually smuggled him across the prophecy. of this man said he had 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 services to catch up so this is. a. place 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 is better than living in the street. we're going to speak to david chase live in a casino and before we do i just want to put all of this on the map and i'd usually use google maps i'm using something a little different today it is called marine traffic dot com just to put a little bit of context into the area this cypress right in the middle all the green icons you're seeing are. cargo ships i should say the red ones are oil

tankers the blue ones are passenger ships but just to illustrate this is a busy part of the world there is a lot of sea traffic going through here and cyprus with its position there with. vessels heading from further south in africa through israel lebanon there is just it's it's a meeting point it's a jumping off point it's right in the middle there and that is why as we hear there is such a demand for people to go there it's an easy spot to hit on the way through to europe so as promised david chase there in nicosia with all that in mind david and the government saying they are saturated i believe the word was with asylum seeking requests what could be done to ease the problems in cyprus. well in cyprus it's a very particular case as i was saying is the heaviest burden per capita of asylum seekers of any european union country and they need a solution and they needed fos now it's been mentioned that there are six thousand

applications for asylum but that's very much underestimating the sheer number of people who are coming through to seek some sort of way of getting to the european union now the problem is of course that many of them despite that map you showed don't even know where cyprus is they didn't even know that cyprus existed and they as i said before realize suddenly that there are back dad and they are berlin which is many of the targets to get to so what is needed by the e.u. and especially the mediterranean bordering e.u. countries is some sort of coherent cohesive and uniting policy to deal with the problem which is simply overwhelming. the island of cyprus and that means that they must try and pull together migration policy for asylum seekers that every country agrees with and there are huge divisions between the countries

inside d.e.u. and a lot of bad tempered rhetoric developing at the moment between two particular members which of course is france and italy yeah i was going to ask you about that if those i mean those are two very big players obviously in europe is there any sign that they're actually any closer to making up over that. none whatsoever i mean it's been extraordinary the deterioration in the relationship between present emanuel mccraw and particularly to deputy prime ministers of italy they have been accusing him of causing. the crisis by essentially impoverishing a lot of african countries in the form sort of french colonies that and he is trying not to rise to the bait he's trying to keep his presidential status and not not really trying get annoyed by these populists fall against him but is absolutely

no doubt that italy and france both have to come to much better diplomatic terms before they can even begin to look into each other about a policy that any other country can accept inside the e.u. and of course it's not just italy it's also the case that the physical countries poland and hungary and and even remain all determined to keep their borders closed and they will not follow the orders from brussels so this is a huge problem and meanwhile as you said the asylum seekers keep arriving from all across this area a lot from libya a lot from the rest of africa and of course the usual ones that we see from afghanistan and indeed syria. nicosia thank you so much for that very strong edition of people in power here for you to watch if you get the chance rescue at sea migrants in the mediterranean on board some of the n.g.o.s vessels

the nongovernmental organization vessels who go out on what are known as essay our mission search and rescue missions they are the ones who pick up so many of these refugees in these countries like italy and libya are actually trying to stop them from doing that we were out while on the front line there as you can see with those activists and rescuers there for a firsthand look have a look for yourself people in power rescue at sea it is in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com we're taking a look at some other news making headlines around the world now and at least thirty thousand people have fled a town in nigeria because they feared book around fighters were about to attack the u.n. says people panicked when security forces protecting the town of ron moved out one hundred years with more now from the jury's capital approach. office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees says several thousands of nigerians on the move because of panic reports suggest that they saw a large scale movement of multinational joint task force the regional task force on

military task force challenge with fighting boko haram in that region on the move and the vote may be least going to be large scale military operation around the areas oh the forces may be pulling out there is no definite statement from the military authorities either from the region or from nigeria about what exactly is happening there but these underlines the. situation refugees and displaced persons are in northern nigeria and the rest of the lectured region united nations officials are saying that in the last three months because of escalation in violence or fighting between security forces and fighters alike to islamic state in west africa three hundred and twenty thousand people have been newly displaced some have crossed over into neighboring countries some to safer areas within nigeria and other states in the region so the situation is coming at

a time when regional leaders are meeting and their representatives met in a bigger to discuss the way forward now they have launched a plan to support these refugees and displaced persons over the next three years and that according to some experts that requirement or need need may be eventually reviewed because of the current situation the escalation of fighting and the movement of thousands of people from their homes because of the fighting or to escape the fighting. britain's prime minister says she plans to ask the european union to reopen bragg's that talks despite the e.u. saying the divorce deal she agreed in the vendor is non-negotiable as you see em pays in london are busy debating alternative plans right now to leaving which is due to happen in sixty days that's the westminster leader of the scottish national party speaking at the moment the first time that he and the other m.p.'s have had their chance to propose their own solutions to the deadlock after overwhelmingly rejecting teresa mayes deal with the e.u. earlier this month. just so you know later on tonight there will be mrs sure speech

and theresa may around eighteen thirty g.m.t. a vote after that nine hundred in the meantime you can read up on everything you need to know five points about these latest debates and amendments what is expected what influence do the amendments have might be handy to keep this beside you as the debate carries on al-jazeera dot com m.p.'s vote on break that amendments the palestinian prime minister and his unity government have resigned and that will lead the west bank based fatah's reconciliation efforts with gaza's hamas leadership ahead of the unity government since it was formed back in twenty four teams are a force that has more from ramallah. a sizable crowd here in menorahs square in central ramallah celebrating one of the big decisions to come out of palestinian politics this week the decision to freeze the implementation of the highly unpopular social security will that many people here felt would have taken money out of their salaries without guaranteeing that money back in the future in terms of pensions the other big decision of course is that which was confirmed today in

the cabinet meeting the does dissolution of the current palestinian government the prime minister i mean one dollar tending his resignation to the palestinian president mahmoud abbas however things won't change immediately that government will continue to carry on administering affairs here in the occupied west bank while mahmoud abbas tries to implement the plan that was announced at the weekend that plan being to try to get more power away from the existing institutions of the palestinian authority but the feeling is that he may well try to move to dissolve the palestinian authority altogether in the near future and towards the palestine liberation organization. mahmoud abbas's party its executive committee or central committee rather at the weekend saying that it wanted to reform the government using the factions the existing factions of the p.l.o. to occupy important positions within that government this that will be an extremely difficult task trying to get all those factions on board especially the left wing

factions which are deeply suspicious of the current regime it is also an attempt many feel here to try to get a more political politicized government to try to stand up to what has been happening in terms of other policies being implemented here both by the israelis and by the trumpet ministration it also leaves open the question of exactly how mahmoud abbas is trying to secure his own succession whether he wants to try to map out a plan or leave it to his rivals to argue through for now though the same situation prevails the same government will stay in office. despite having resigned as the parsonage a ship tries to assess and move forward with these consultations and these negotiations now a christian woman who spent eight years on death row is free to leave pakistan after the supreme court judge's uphill the decision to acquit her baby was sentenced to death for insulting the prophet muhammad her acquittal last october triggered

a nationwide riots by religious party supporters who demanded an appeal against the supreme court's decision come on hide as more on that from islam about. police forces andy paramilitary forces or rangers have been for don't read alert across pakistan and specially here in the city of islamabad where the court has dismissed a view protection from the day to kill a back pakistan against the equator lafarge or b.b. and for maintaining the death sentence awarded to her by a law court the supremes court throwing that protection out and orders concluded to be a landmark judgment for the progress on your daughter did they tell you being a big challenge they have already arrested the senior leadership of the daily gallop backpacker down that of god's will minimise the protests against the word victory of the supreme court are here baby wards broner not special aircraft or islamabad under protective custody her daughters we're told according to reports

have already moved to canada and it isn't there to bury their dead baby to relieve pakistan in pakistan the blasphemy laws have become controversial because of the misuse of the law and by certain religious parties rejects brought this country through our work you will stand still every time the court has ruled in favor of people who have been accused wrongfully of blasphemy this is indeed a test case for progress on the government is confident that they will be able to deal with the aftereffects of their judgement and that is also because the senior leadership of the dead eagle a backpacker done including carter merchant ridgway have been arrested by the authorities several months ago and china says it is concerned and disappointed after the u.s. justice department announced criminal charges against the telecoms giant huawei and

its chief financial officer adrian brown has that story 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 vertical 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 weiwei 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. now the u.a.e. has been at the end of some sharp criticism on social media over some awards given out for gender equality in the workplace remember that gender equality rayleigh take us through this one welcome all it's part of a drive in the u.a.e. intended to promote gender equality in the workplace the united arab emirates gender balance index awards were handed out by shaikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum the ruler of dubai to various government bodies but there was ridicule on social media offers emerged that all the women is one men now while there was some praise for the initiative the tweets actually focused mainly on the total absence of women from the awards nicolas mcginn a human rights researcher called this the best gender balance awards ever and the

middle east erect campaigns aniston's national asked if this is a joke meanwhile dot's jonas rand may is says i'm sorry to have to tell you but you have forgotten to invite women now it's important to point out though that the u.a.e. gender balance council was set up four years ago to promote the role of erotic women as part of the u.a.e. vision twenty twenty one and according to a twenty seven thousand u.n. development program study the u.a.e. was listed as the gulf country that ranked highest for gender equality in the world sitting at number thirty four just behind poland now have a activists such as human rights watch have argued that the country has not implemented legislation that would stop discrimination against women for example the current will permits domestic violence by a husband against his wife what you think of the story to let us know expression if you are currently in the u.a.e. tweet us use the hash tag aging is great. ok thank you for that we'll get an update

on sport in just a moment just want to check in with some of your comments a few of you asking about the migrant situation in cyprus and why we're only hearing about it just now with stephanie been around for a while as david chaytor was explaining if you know this is a sport where refugees end up lining up and it's overwhelmed cyprus mariyam is asked if this is going to stop human trafficking no i think you heard from david that it's not that this is such a huge problem that it requires consensus particularly from a lot of european countries to actually figure out how to deal with this and this goes back well how many years now we've been talking about the migrant crisis in europe so it's a long and complicated things but these sorts of conferences they have a certainly are important to try to find some sort of consensus your questions your comments the hash tag is a.j. nice crit here is andy. there's a football match going on there is it's the only sport story the people talking about in this part of the world the asian cup semifinal between gulf rivals the

united arab emirates and qatar coming up to full time in abu dhabi the build up focus on the front of the emirates is one of the country's blockading cut so at the moment on the pitch are they actually lived up to the hype cutter's opener owing a lots of goalkeeper era i'm always ollie's strike coming up here a thing of beauty see there it goes his aids goal of the tournament making things rather bleak for founders of the hosts. well some of them were throwing shoes at qatar's plays after the second goal when it happened again after the third goal the hosts pressed in the second half it was cut saw a look at all they've made sure of it three no more missiles coming down on the pitch there and the u.a.e. have just how to play a sense off as well. or as so now to our correspondent dosage of our who's a fan zone in die hard lot of noise down there of course to also just give us an idea as to what the atmosphere has been like down there this afternoon and how important this game was for the people of.

carolina. in the final moments of this game the crowd is going for a little wild and crazy they're very very happy at the outcome of today's game this is very important for qatar they will be going through the finals on friday against japan after earth time ever for the team now the local series say this is regardless of what happens on friday in the finals this game was actually more important for them given the current climate that they find their country and in their region. and was there more focus on qatar seem at this tournament considering they're hosting the world cup in twenty twenty two. yeah absolutely the team which has now scored fifteen goals in this tournament has been saved a lot of people saying this is very good practice for them and what's the con they were playing argentina. was here and

rightfully so but. again the people hearing on whether or not this is a very significant when you know your house harry had a three zero against the u.a.e. . the city of our joining us there from fans our entire hall full time just happening now in the united arab emirates it has finished nail to cutoff let's talk now to our sports correspondent welling's this is a pretty big step in in changing global perceptions that cats are those who actually have a football culture. well this was a remarkable result for cattle it's been a remarkable tournament for them remember qatar still hasn't conceded a single goal throughout the tournament having never ever reached the semifinals of an asian cup before now the winter final against japan and yes of course i don't know want to win the trophy but i think the achievement has already been there in

the way that the players as well have conducted themselves on the field it can be easy for them to be in a stadium with no qatari support that hasn't been allowed a hostile atmosphere against the united arab emirates but they have managed to keep their cool and show yes their quality and their quality under felix sanchez they've been with him for a few years and he took them to an asian cup success in twenty fourteen for under nineteen's and the nucleus of that side has gone on is now playing football to show that qatar can actually have a very good world cup eventually in twenty twenty two on the pitch and take that spotlight that's always on matters off the pitch on to the fact that there is a very good football pride in this nation in this region and the kids extremely important whatever achieved here lee oversee this there's been some incidents throughout this tournament which of reflected the blockade we saw in the semifinal here missiles being thrown at some of the cuts or players water bottles and shoes being thrown on to the pitch do you think what's happened in this asian cup has

made the likelihood of an expanded world cup in twenty twenty two more or less likely. what's happened at the asian cup should make a difference but i'm not sure that it will because jonny in front so you know the face of president is absolutely insistent that he wants to continue looking at an expanded world cup in twenty twenty two to forty eight teams just as there will be in the twenty twenty six tournament in america but of course in qatar in twenty twenty two it has to be in within that calendar month and there seems very little possibility that any of the matches can be played outside of qatar that doesn't stop mr in front so you know speculating that it might be if him for the full look at the pictures of shoes being frozen by the crowd in the united arab emirates qatar replies no qatari journalists or phish shows and certainly no fines in the stadium he was see the problems that they were all in the region that for them to

be resolved is going into an area that is way beyond fee for and i think a reality check will be needed when they look back at this tournament. thanks joining us from london cats are winning the semifinal of the asian cup against the united arab emirates for milk now campaigners fighting for the release of our only refugee football hockey team al-arabiya say that his situation has become an emergency that's after bahrain issued an extradition order to flying back to the gulf kingdom from thailand al arabia 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 at fifa headquarters to press the world governing body to take action or report away and he is in bangkok where al-arabiya has been in detention since flying to thailand 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.f.c. president shake selman been. who happens to be a member of bahrain's royal family. of course to get in touch with us at sports us you can tweet me directly on the school sport more in the eight hundred gnc news hour but for now let's get back to come thank you andy and good luck getting home

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