the pacific explore untold. stories one on one east on al-jazeera. this is the opportunity to understand the very different were there before something happens and we don't leave. the ceasefire in the port city of data appears on the brink of collapse as fighting flares up and the man in charge of the un brokered truce steps down. hello welcome to the program you're watching al-jazeera live from london i'm maryanne demasi also coming up hitting venezuela where the u.s. imposes oil industry sanctions to pile the pressure on president nicolas maduro to

quit free to leave pakistan the supremes courts uphold the decision to a question a christian woman sentenced to death for insulting the prophet muhammad. and castle celebrates as he reaches an asian cup final off their win was dubbed the blockade dog. united nations is urging warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from a day immediately fighting has fled in the port city and some other areas risking the collapse of a six week old cease fire and there are fears the crisis will only get worse off to the retired dutch general in charge of the un brokered truce step down. has more. 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 certain 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 hands 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 cease fire doesn't fall apart patrick met leaders of the yemeni government in exile in the city of aden. and he's due in her day it's 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 who theory to withdraw from the city and poured its the main gateway for much needed aid and food into the country the fighting around it has burnt millions are threatened with famine. the truth these say they will pull out but won't hand over the area to the anime's and they say saudia marital led forces must stop attacking her data who are at the table cabinet that we need to fight against aggression and santa fighters to the battlefields that should be our answer to those who want to escalate yemen's government and president of the. 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 two and a small bottle al-jazeera around thirty thousand people in northeastern nigeria have fled into neighboring cameroon fearing an attack by boko haram fighters they left around town in borno state at the weekend following the departure of cameroonian forces forces had been securing the town after it was attacked by boko haram on january fourteenth locals say the group had promised to return an attack again ahmed address sent us this report from. 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 all military task force charged with fighting boko haram in that region on the move

and the thought maybe that is going to be a large scale military operation i don't 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 this underlines the. situation refugees and displaced persons are in northern nigeria and the rest of the neck chad region united nations officials are saying that in the last three months because of escalation in violence or fighting between security forces and one of the fighters i like 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 bhutto 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. sudan's intelligence and security chief has ordered the release of all people detained during anti-government protests that began last month that's according to the information ministry the protests across the country began over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies but have now grown into holes for an end to president bush's thirty year rule to venezuela where the opposition leader why doe's says he's confident he can oversee a peaceful transition of power from president nicolas maduro on monday the u.s. imposed its toughest ever sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company paid a vesa and froze seven billion dollars worth of of its assets the u.n.

is also warned that the government crackdown on adding the do a protest as as led to a record number of arrests just from twenty third of germany that if you recall the biggest wins here there were at least we now believe six hundred ninety six people determined. throughout the country as a whole law as a store receiving information. which they're verifying. this is the most the highest number of detentions recorded in a single day since that for at least twenty years kimberly i'll get as more on the story now from washington. as the united states continues to push for venezuela's opposition to gain control of the country's oil wealth new announcement coming from the u.s. state department deputy spokesperson robert palatino announcement that the secretary of state might pompei o has certified the authority of venezuela's interim

president to receiving control certain property in the accounts of the government of venezuela held by the federal reserve bank of new york now the reason the united states says is taking this action is in order to safeguard those assets for the benefit of the venezuelan people this certainly building on those sanctions that were announced on monday in the midst of all of this the united states continuing to say that it is not ruling out some sort of military intervention with regard to the ongoing instability in venezuela asked directly about this on monday the national security advisor would only say that in the eyes of the united states all options are still on the table however there was a lot of interest in a legal yellow no pad that bolton was holding and the words scrawled on it were five thousand troops colombia colombia does share a border with venezuela and this would certainly be a market escalation of u.s.

military involvement if the united states were to position troops along that border . she's been following events for us from neighboring colombia and joins us now from bogota this punitive action from the u.s. comes against the backdrop of a deepening political and economic crisis in venezuela what effect these sanctions likely to have. well marion there's no doubt that these are the strongest yet that the u.s. has taken against the venezuelan government and these sanctions are very different in nature to what has been done up to this point so far u.s. sanctions that were focused on individual officials of the venezuelan government starting with president nicolas maduro and its assets in the united states in this case that it goes through to the core of how the venezuelan government to operate that's because the united states accounts for roughly eighty percent of the

earnings of pay there is that the venezuelan nationals people will companies and pretty match all the hard currency that the u.s. dollars that's a business well and government needs to practically do everything in the country since nobody anymore is accepting the bully bar the venezuelan currency internationally so this means that they're going to put on governments who will even have have a very hard time distributing food in the country and this will make even worse the humanitarian crisis there the state department has said that they have given the opposition to the right to control asset how might this benefit one point. well i think the strategy there is for the opposition to access the money in the u.s. and be able to fund all you many theory and aid in venezuela and try to make up

for the consequences of these sanctions that it is that recently a proposal here on part of the u.s. but i guess that what the u.s. is betting on at that clinic where that had finally reached a tipping point where putting even more pressure on the government will essentially topple them or push my daughter to negotiate the with the opposition the risk here is that there could be on the intrenchments part of my good o. and my little well beyond thermo ground when he accused the united states which he called the evil empire of interfering into venice well ending condominium being responsible for the shortages in the country just too early to say who the venezuelan people will believe here and also remember that the opposition is also pushing for the military to accept an amnesty bill in which sides thank you very much alessandra speaking to us from bogota. with al jazeera live from london most

still ahead for you people are arrests of the brazil down collapse as authorities borne sal's of downs across the country are also high risk. and migrants and refugees facing an uncertain future on the mediterranean island of cyprus. hello again welcome back to here across parts of china we are seeing some rain as well as snow across much of western and central china over the next day you can see here on our forecast map expression the higher elevations we're talking about the snow but that's going to move quite quickly over here towards the east so for shanghai winds are going to be a problem as well as going to a rainy day few low clouds with the temperature there of about eleven degrees by the time we go towards friday that system will be pushing out and better conditions

for you but also cooler air as well down towards hong kong though we do expect to see a temper there on thursday of about twenty four degrees well here across india not looking too bad now but we do expect to see some clouds coming into play that's going to come in from the levant over the next day or so here we go on for new delhi here on wednesday with cloudy conditions there as we go towards thursday those clouds start to make their way towards the east a lot of snow in the higher elevations but down here towards the south really not looking too bad colombo it is going to be a little bit warm a few there at about thirty two degrees and then here across much of the middle east we are watching one weather system bring a lot of clouds across parts of northern and western saudi arabia even a shower too could be a problem but here in doha we do expect to see about twenty three degrees as the high on wednesday and as we go towards thursday it is going to be about twenty four miss got a nice day if you are temperatures of twenty four degrees. rewind

returns or care bring your people back to life from start with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries in live close to global flows. and the others through the rewind continues with mono and me going into a war zone he said the first thing to look for is the exit it's all how to get it it's all to get out that nobody sees your pictures there's no point going to these places rewind on al-jazeera. come back quick look at the top stories for you now the un is warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from data and mediately fighting has fled in the port city

and some of the areas risking the collapse of a six week old cease fire around thirty thousand people in northeast nigeria have fled into neighboring cameroon fairing an attack by boko haram they left they left round town in borno state that weekend after the departure of cameroonian forces and venezuela's opposition to one by joe says he's confident he can oversee a peaceful transition of power from president nicolas maduro this as the u.n. warns that a government crackdown on protests has led to a record number of detentions. at least eleven civilians have been killed in syrian army shelling in the rebel held area of this is the highest death toll in the region for months syria's state use agency claims the army responded to what it called terrorist violations of the russian turkish troops clashes of continued around since the truce was agreed in september in a separate attack at least one on. civilians killed in

a suicide bomb was detonated at a council meeting some advantage of aid has more now from gaza on technique techie southern border with syria. according to the details emerging from it lip city the capital of the problems this was a coordinated attack against the salvation government the civilian of the body which controls the province much of it is militarily controlled by yet there you are a group which is formally linked to al qaida and was known as a list or a front according to the details 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 it live 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 of it live and do sure that it is is not secure according to these forces is secure but according to russian foreign observers there has been

fighting that has been going on at the time 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. pakistan's top court has upheld a decision to acquit a christian woman who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. spent eight years on death row for insulting the prophet mohammed her acquittal last october spot death threats nationwide riots i religious party supporters and an appeal for a review of the decision come on high has more on this now from islamabad. police forces and the paramilitary forces and the rangers have been for don't read across pakistan and specially hair in that video with some about where the court has dismissed arab you petition from the daycare law back pakistan against the equator law b.b. and for maintaining the death sentence edwarda by

a law court the supreme court throwing that british an out and order is considered to be a landmark judgment for the pakistani authorities that has been a big challenge they have already arrested the senior leadership of the dirty galabank pakistan that of god's will minimize the protests against the word to go to the supreme court bibi was thrown under special aircraft islamabad under protective custody our daughters we are told according to reports have already moved to canada and it is then database did their baby to release pakistan in pakistan the blasphemy laws have become controversial because of the misuse of the laws and by certain religious parties which brought this country to a word to understand standard every time the court has ruled in favor of people who have been accused wrongfully of blasphemy they said indeed our desk is for pakistan

the government is calling for during their day will be able to deal read the all star facts of the judgement and i did also because the senior leadership of the day to get back pakistan including card in military raids we have been arrested by dear authorities several months ago. listen prime minister romney and his unity government have resigned. had been leading reconciliation efforts between the west bank based fatah and gaza's hamas leadership two groups signed a reconciliation deal two years ago but this buttes over power sharing and disagreements over policy towards israel but the deals implementation. brazilian authorities are saying eighty four thousand dams in the country are classified as having high damage potential or being at high risk and hundreds of those contain mining wice capable of contaminating surrounding areas it follows the collapse of a damaged an iron ore mining complex in southern brazil on friday

a disaster which came more than three hundred lives five people have been arrested in connection with that collapse in bernardino three of the detained people are employed by the mining company valet the remaining two were subcontracted engineers who worked on the dam safety daniel shina has more on the story. the search continues around the town the broome would genial but now they're looking for bodies rather than survivors in the meantime the legal case against the company valley which owns the mine is great is gaining pace arrests have been made further investigations are taking place with the vice president of brazil. saying that a full investigation will be carried out into the structure of the company the company executives said this sorry for the disaster but have so far accepted no responsibility saying that a full investigation was carried out into the safety of the in both june and september of last year but now anger amounting against the executive board of that

company many are now beginning to assess the environmental damage with something like twelve million cubic metres of waste from the iron ore mine being spewed out into the surrounding countryside people posting on social media videos of fish in the river or dying dying in the round up the river in the meantime shaping up to be one of the worst disasters in brazilian history. china has accused the united states of an unreasonable and unfair crackdown on chinese businesses at solving the u.s. prosecutors announced a slew of criminal charges against chinese telecoms china while away including fraud and conspiracy adrian brown has more now from beijing. while away is a company that has come a long way very quickly not just china's largest telecommunications company but also now the world's second largest maker of smartphones bigger even than apple

sales worldwide are doing well in spite of allegations its products contain technology that can be used for spying china's government says the trumpet ministration is envious of weiwei success and is trying to halt its progress by tarnishing its reputation you don't see daylight me for some time the us has made in suppressed the chinese enterprises and tempted to suppress the enterprises normal operations there is strong political motivation a maneuver in behind they still need. fun choose day while ways executives also rejected the wide ranging criminal charges filed against the company by u.s. prosecutors including bank fraud obstruction of justice and theft of technology. they also dismissed criminal claims against its chief financial officer main one joe who was arrested in canada last month and faces extradition to the united

states that case is now feeding into the existing tensions between beijing and washington. china's leaders wilber have speech suspicious about the timing of these charges coming just as officials from the united states and china are due to resume crucial talks in washington the aim of those negotiations to try to reach a settlement in the two countries long running trade dispute but the chances of that happening now would appear to be in serious doubt adrian brown al-jazeera beijing the leader of the opposition in the u.k. says his party would back a three month delay to breaks it if the government can't get an exit deal approved by parliament before february twenty sixth jeremy corbyn made the comments in the u.k. parliament where m.p.'s are hearing amendments to the u.k. prime ministers breaks it withdraw bill to resume a told m.p.'s there would have to be significant change to the deal to when parliament supports the u.k. is due to leave the e.u.

on march twenty ninth and i want. what i'm talking about is not a further exchange of letters but a significant and legally binding change to the withdrawal agreed. negotiating negotiating such a change will not be easy it will involve reopening the withdrawal agreement a move for which i know there is limited appetite among our european partners. but i believe that with a mandate from this house and supported by the attorney general the chance of the dutch of lancaster and the secretary of state for accepting the european union i can secure such a change in advance of our departure from the e.u. . or migration is top of a generous or summit under way on the mediterranean island of cyprus a divided island has become a target for traffickers attempting to smuggle migrants into mainland europe cypriot government says it's been overwhelmed by requests for asylum david chase reports now from the capital nicosia. the buffers in 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 beached by the police but will that to find themselves closer to baghdad in the catholic charity characterized does what it can to help most of them are too afraid to show their faces and i don't mind to what what they will just say is the case. so. this man told us he was forced to provide sexual favors to him who eventually smuggled him across the buffer zone 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 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 the cart afford to look after them the numbers are quite staggering i mean there were over a thousand one hundred. with very limited capacity for. immigration to catch up so this is a challenge. because when you go home. to cook. 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 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 david chaytor al-jazeera nicosia. now castle has reached the asian cup final overcoming the united arab emirates for nailing what was dubbed the blockade dopy dosage of bari joins us live from the fan zone endo heart incredible win for the cats what is the atmosphere like for people there the fans i'm going on. and. will marry him as soon as the game ended in the final few minutes it was jubilation a second imagine they were very very proud of their national team and they did not expect for the qatari structures more than four goals against the u.a.e.

they were very very happy with the outcome they were hoping from the get go that this would be a celebration and it was now qatar is the first time they've reached the stage of the semifinals and also now they're going to be facing japan in the finals on friday many of the locals i spoke to here say this is much more than just about football right now given the current political climate because her finds itself and in this region tell us a bit more about that in the context given the political situation in the region right now there was more to this than just football was and. yes absolutely most of the locals i spoke to here said that it's not important what happens past this point because qatar has been under a blockade by the u.a.e. saudi egypt i'm afraid since. june of two thousand and seventeen the

lucky that's been imposed on them is something that was very unexpected and many of the locals i spoke to here said this is about much more than just the football game it's about showing that they can strive under the most extreme pressures in the region now qatar will play japan on friday as i said but this is the first time to even reach this state. for many of the people this was just about showing that the country is ready for what's coming about is of course the world cup in twenty twenty two the qataris been spending a lot of money and a lot of effort into getting the country ready for that despite this blog page that's being imposed on it it's also going to be facing argentina in the summer in the gulf america in brazil that's another event that they've been invited to play and this was seen for the national team as a practice good practice for them to prepare themselves for more of an international scene so the players actually spoke before the game started about how

difficult it's been for them to play in the u.a.e. given that not many fans were in the stadium in abu dhabi a forty three thousand forty two thousand people fill the stadium very few fans were allowed in but the spike that they said they were mentally prepared this was their six game in the asia cup and they did not concede a single goal in march dosage of bari. a quick look at the top stories this hour the u.n. is a jew warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from the data immediately fighting has fled in the port city and some of the areas risking the collapse of the six week old cease fire are fears the crisis could get worse still off the tide dutch general in charge of the un brokered truce stepped down. around thirty thousand people in nigeria fled into neighboring cameroon ferrying an attack by boko haram

fighters they left around town in borno state at the weekend after the departure of cameroonian forces the force has been securing the town offer it was attacked by boko haram on january fourteenth. and saddam the intelligence and security chief has ordered the release of all those detained during anti-government protests that started last month this is according to the information ministry the protests began over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies to hold for an end to president bashir has thirty year rule. venezuela's opposition leader says he's confident he can oversee a peaceful transition of power from president nicolas maduro on monday the u.s. imposed its toughest of a sanctions on venezuela state owned oil company at a vesa the u.n. has also been warning that the government crackdown on anti may do a protest as has led to a record number of arrests just from twenty third of january that if you are caused the biggest wins here there were at least we now believe six hundred ninety six

people detained. throughout the country as a whole lawyers are still receiving information. which they are verifying. this is the most the highest number of detentions recorded in a single day since that for at least twenty years. and at least eleven civilians have been killed in syrian army shelling in the rebel held area of lip syria state use agency claims the army responded to what it called terrorist violations of the russian turkish troops clashes have continued around it lip synced a truce was acquitted in september at least one of the civilian was killed in a bomb attack on a council building. you're up to date with all of our top stories this hour and will be more news from doha a bit later on in twenty five minutes time now it's time for rewind mo and me.

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