the pacific explore untold fascinating stories one on one east on al-jazeera. the. british lawmakers approved two amendments also rising prime minister to resign major return to brussels and try to renegotiate how breaks it deal. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up venezuela's attorney general called on the supreme court to bar self-proclaimed president on white dos from leaving the country and to freeze his assets.

the cease fire in the city of a data appears on the brink of collapse as fighting flares up and the man in charge of the u.s. brokered truce steps down. and sudan's intelligence and security chief orders the release of protesters detained during anti-government rallies last month. alone welcome to the program our top story u.k. m.p.'s of authorized a reason may to go back to brussels and try to renegotiate a break sit deal but one of the prime ministers most important tools was ripped from her hands as the house of commons also voted to block a no deal writes it again barbour explains what it means for the u.k. and how the e.u. has been reacting. oh she was. outside

the u.k. parliament the debate was fierce but this jesus bricks it is still as divisive as ever and as the prime minister opened the debate on plan b. she referenced the enormous defeat the commons gave her withdrawal agreement two weeks ago the vote was decisive and i listened so the world knows what this house does not want today we need to send an emphatic message about what we do want to hear the opposition labor party back to an amendment ensuring parliament would get time to vote on ways to prevent a no deal breaks it that plan was defeated but another simply rejecting no deal passed so these guys i mean the have it so did a government backed amendment calling for the so-called irish backstop to be replaced with unspecified alternative arrangements but the european union has consistently said the backstop must be in the deal as an insurance policy to prevent border checks returning between island as an e.u. member and northern ireland up to breaks it on tuesday the french president at

a summit in cyprus was unequivocal come to conceal your pin as the european council has clearly indicated this withdrawal agreement negotiated between the european union and the u.k. is the best deal possible and it is not to renegotiate. the e.u. second most senior brics it negotiator has said events here in westminster feel like groundhog day or an endless loop but amid daya warnings from businesses and the health sector about the impact of a no deal scenario time is certainly not standing still the tuesday was meant to be about parliament giving us an idea of what kind of a deal it would be prepared to back but now we know they'll be weeks more deliberations here and it's looking more and more likely that the u.k. will have to ask the you for an extension to article fifty buying itself some more time. oh oh the dean barber al-jazeera london.

live now to paul brennan who's outside westminster and the way the voting went tonight seemed almost contradictory can you break down what happened. i think the implications and the interpretation of how these amendments were voted are going to be pored over for many days as to exactly what kind of a mandate it's given the prime minister to resign may and exactly where it left parliamentary democracy you know the m.p.'s as you said. said in his report that they voted symbolically really against the principle of a no deal now it's not a binding vote and tied the hands of the prime minister it's an expression a parliament through sentiment but then the m.p.'s rejected other amendments which would have given a mechanism for the parliament to avoid a no bret's it so it's quite curious as to exactly why that situation transpired and the reaction of increases has been various you know some of the conservative

loyalists have said that it's true terrific that the prime minister has been given this mandates to go back to brussels boris johnson is one of those who says now that the e.u. has simply got to renegotiate the deal but there are many others who are really very upset and not happy at all that the way this is this is panning out and they believe that the the can is simply been kicked down the road and we're moving closer either to an extension of article fifty or the real risk of no deal brecht's it transpiring the pound is actually straight down as soon as one of the amendments and yvette cooper amendment fail tonight so it's clear that the markets are worried the markets are war at the pound as we can and added to all of that the european union is saying that this withdrawal agreement isn't up for a negotiation. indeed you know it's all very well for the prime minister to say well i've got a mandate now from the building behind me and they are not wanting to have the

brick sit back stop in the current format but the e.u. is shown no willingness whatsoever to renegotiate its and sounds that are coming out of the e.u. tonight confirm that i mean donald tusk on a reading i'm reading here withdrawal agreement is and remains the best and only way to ensure the orderly withdrawal of the u.k. and on the backs of was part of that withdrawal agreement is not a from renegotiation and france the french president's office tonight has issued a statement saying it's up to the u.k. to clarify its intentions with credible proposals that's crucial because the brady amendment this amendment that the government one which does the mandate for the recent need to go back to brussels talks about the backstop being replaced by what i quote alternative arrangements but there is no specific no specific to talk on what those alternative arrangements might be. the promises question about the several times to specify what all these are alternative arrangements so i think

france and the rest of the e.u. is going to turn around and say well if you want these terms of arrangement what specifically is your proposal and i don't think that the prime minister has been thank you very much for now paul brennan at westminster. venezuela's attorney general has asked the supreme court to open a plenary investigation into south african president on quite a is also called on the court to freeze the opposition leaders bank accounts and impose a travel ban on him on monday the u.s. imposed its toughest of a sanctions on ban is white a state owned oil company at investor and for a seven billion dollars worth of its assets and earlier the u.n. warned that a government crackdown on anti may do i protest as has led to a record number of detentions just on the twenty third of january that if you recall the biggest lost wins here there were at least we now believe six hundred

ninety six people determined on mt. throughout the country as a whole long as a store receiving information. which verifying. this is the most the highest number of detentions recorded in a single day since that for at least twenty years in one thousand nations is urging warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from the data immediately fighting has fled in the port city and some other areas risking the collapse of a six week old cease fire. has long the ceasefire in the data 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 sergeant emirate he led military coalition are on the move took up certain areas near the who think controlled capital sanaa un envoy martin griffiths met who think

a man has 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 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 houthi 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 these 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 are able cabinet that we need to fight against aggression and send 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. united nations says more than thirty

thousand villages in northern nigeria fled their homes in the last few days in fear of boko haram attacks that's as regional officials conclude their meeting in the nigerian capital to find solutions to the crying humanitarian crisis in the lake chad region address reports now from. starting from the nigerian government development partners and the united nations who this document will address the needs of more than a million and how the displaced people now are using a desperate situation. there are reports that hundreds of thousands in remote areas could be even worse off we estimated eight hundred thousand people still remain out of reach of humanitarian assistance in northeast nigeria many of those people are living desperate lives in a hugely vulnerable to exploitation by armed groups for. the nigerian government says it is achieved some successes in combating. yet more remains to be done to

deal with ongoing security threats distorting. the security challenges of the job is in school so. in spite of the huge breakthrough achieved in the fight against insurgents by the certification therefore it's all for joint military forces security in the city. while safety and security of the vulnerable is still a problem in the us of all the east the united nations says the situation there has improved two years ago five million people without risk of starvation that number has plummeted to one point seven million humanitarian agencies say eight hundred forty eight million dollars is required in nigeria alone over the next three years to take care of the needs of internally displaced persons another one hundred thirty five million dollars is needed for refugees in neighboring countries but as fighting escalates that one billion dollars or so you know. this can lead to

violence has put more people at frisk the united nations once regional governments to do more to protect civilians it's very clear the insecurity in certain parts especially of borno state a wiring and we absolutely need to make sure that people who seek safety can't get it and we have just heard about these thirty thousand people who are just into it or are on their way to come here on in order to find safety there but with cameroon or thought of just turning back thousands of nigerian refugees in the past that was a little girl in t. that this new wave of refugees arriving or find shelter there have a degrees al jazeera which are. saddam's intelligence and security chief has ordered the release of all people detained during anti-government protests that began last month protests across the country began over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies that have grown now into calls for president bashir to step down. how

many miles and is this update from the sudanese capital khartoum. this announcement it came as a news line on social media sent by the ministry of information and it followed a visit to one of the prisons in khartoum today by the head of intelligence after that he was quoted as saying that all those detained during the current wave of protests that has been going on for six weeks now will be released however we don't know exactly how many are detained by the government the government. two weeks ago gave a figure of eight hundred plus but social media sources protesters sources and jos talk about between one thousand and two thousand detained also some fears have been expressed by protesters that this could actually be a propaganda loose by the government to try to break the momentum of the protests or create divisions among the testers and also the expressed fear that. probably some of those detained are political activists or journalists or just for just as

might be prosecuted on accusation whether they are there actually criminals because they have destroyed public property or committed other crimes during those protests so i mean it's not like an immediate breakthrough according to protesters and the government still has to come out with more details. noise in zimbabwe demanding justice for jailed anti-government protesters more than a thousand people were arrested after violent rallies earlier this month led to a brutal security crackdown on the task there reports from the capital harare. no. lawyers in zimbabwe say they know they're taking a risk protesting two weeks ago security forces fired it he dispersed demonstrators in syria to buy rising fuel prices some lawyers representing zimbabweans arrested cheering and after the protests are demanding security forces and politicians don't interfere with the judiciary believe that the question is supreme not the military

therefore we will fight for the rights of accused persons no matter what the cost is toss else. the lawyers also want the government to respect the rights of the more than one thousand people arrested in the past two weeks the events that have taken place in our country in the past two weeks have been quite disturbing in terms of the risk that turpin and don must arias the must the fast tracking of trials and how the trials have generally been been handled. the main opposition leader nelson chamisa chose to address the media in the reception area of the fire damaged party headquarters in harare he accuses people from the readings on the p.f. of torching the h.q. jaring protests he says opposition supporters are being systematically targeted and some have been forced into hiding that is a lot of some situation and you can see that is reform

a lot of them and they are not just targeting people with a certain they want to cripple their. the government blames the opposition for the unrest and police deny targeting opposition supporters i think of sin. also been to us in the we are esteemed. in the same vein those from the m.d.c. were also. participated one way or the other they were also arrested so i don't think it's fair to say police are targeting police we only look at it what somebody did during this it were an arrest and then we do conduct investigations in the areas the security forces remain on the streets right police have blocked the entrance of the constitutional court stopping lawyers from entering they say they hope the demands for an independent legal system will be heard but some fear doing their job is going to become even more difficult. al-jazeera had addie.

coming out. migrants and refugees facing an uncertain future on the mediterranean island of cyprus and bound from talent to capitaine attack are scientists hoping to learn more about climate change and the future of the planet. we've got more flooding rains into northeastern parts of australia and all the areas of queensland still struggling with the heavy downpours now the weather system bringing some rain down towards the south while the more welcome here ahead of this weather system it stays very hot adelaide and melbourne still getting well up into the thirty's and in tasmania we are still having some problems with major wildfire still burning away at least ten of those five still well out of control

said the battle does continue but we should see somewhat cooler weather grassy pushing in as we head towards the weekend for wednesday temperature is thirty six thirty seven for adelaide and also for melbourne they're just further north if you downpours continuing more flooding rains coming back towards townsville can still doing too badly by the state still very much in evidence that was a southwestern to the thirty's here as well posted around thirty one celsius or systems because through thursday thirty six the by thursday that is for the southeast the heat breaks twenty one sells his for melbourne and a welcome twenty five for adelaide hopefully simply out and right also making its way into tasmania at this time that cloud all right most racist white out towards southern policy they say that and will gradually move north. the bolivian salt flats. a place like no other.

for generations formed by the sun labels. but the discovery of precious lithium below the salt threatens to change their way of life forever. witness. an al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories so the bodies are they are used. u.k. m p's of authorized to reason made to go back to brussels and try to renegotiate

a bracks it deals with one of the prime ministers negotiating weapons it was right from hans night his house of commons also voted to block a no deal breaks it and as white as tony general is called on the supremes to bust self-proclaimed president. from leaving the country and to freeze his assets. and the un is warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from a day to immediately fighting has fled in the boy's mother areas at risk in the collapse of a six week old cease fire. one of us president donald trump's close advisors has appeared in court in washington roger stone pleaded not guilty to several charges against him sponsor of the investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign that he call a now small. longtime personal friend and adviser to u.s. president donald trump roger stone came to this courthouse to have his lawyer plead not guilty to charges he's basically no stone as someone who likes to be

provocative he likes to make a scene and the scene outside the courthouse was befitting that there was a giant inflatable rat with the cell phone with donald trump spare protesters supporters and a whole lot of cameras so basically what's happening is stone has been charged with impeding the investigation and solution between russia and the trump campaign the allegation is he acted as a kind of go between between wiki leaks which published tack. democratic e-mails and the trump campaign then congress was investigating that he allegedly didn't tell them the truth so he's facing charges of obstructing that investigation lying to congress and also threatening another witness has been set free and bell will be back in the court house at the end of this week to a very similar scene likely will the lawyers for the government and his defense team will map out the way forward in front of a judge. mediterranean leaders are trying to find a resolution to the hundreds of migrants who make the sometimes deadly chinee from north africa to europe is almost has been taking place in cyprus on the issue divided island has become the main target for smugglers trafficking migrants

they've achieved the reports from nicosia. it's hard to disguise the deep divisions the migrant crisis has caused inside the european union but leaders arriving for the summit in the can see it tried their best the french president emmanuel mackerel talked about cooperating to find a solution that also for you took on that day we have had the opportunity to discuss migration in the to defend the coordinates in an integrated european vision and this is how we managed to agree in june last year within the framework of the council of europe but the italian prime minister to separate content dispose of the usual diplomatic niceties of such summits saying the crisis group called the implosion of europe. in a studio crucially below. this is an issue that presents a major challenge for europe which might lead europe to implode because europe hardly able to coordinate a unified vision. there's no disguising though the impact of the thousands of

asylum seekers now arriving in cyprus the buffer zone that divides the island between the turkish controlled north and the internationally recognized republic to the south stretches for more than one hundred miles it's easy for the human traffickers to find a way through these are some of the boats they use now impounded and beached by the police. but will the to find themselves closer to baghdad that. the catholic charity care at times does what it can to help most of them are too afraid to show their faces and i don't mind what police just say is the case. so. told us he was forced ever vied sexual favors to who eventually smuggled him across this buffer zone it's very difficult this man said

he now lost all his job is lived on the streets and was always hungry there are hundreds more like him because here they come across africa the middle east and asia seeking safety and a better life but finding themselves in a limbo country the car to look after the numbers are quite staggering i mean there were over a thousand one hundred i understand asylum seekers just in the month of october with very limited capacity for asylum services and for immigration to catch up 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 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 maybe to al-jazeera

because here. well 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 a sleaze government has refused to let them in china has accused the u.s. of an unfair crackdown on chinese businesses this after u.s. prosecutors announced a slew of criminal charges against chinese telecoms giant huawei including fraud and conspiracy al-jazeera as adrian brown has the story now from beijing. well 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 know me for some time the u.s. has smitten suppressed the chinese enterprises and tempted to suppress the enterprise is normal operation is there is strong political motivation maneuvering behind they still need. fun chews 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 on china's leaders wilber have speech suspicious about the timing of these charges coming just as officials from the united states and china a jew 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. it team of turkish scientists is bound for antarctica they'll spend thirty days there studying climate change and the world's future officials hope the expedition will pave the way for a permanent turkish presence on the continent some custody who spoke to the scientists before they settle from a sample. turkey has been conducting an ambitious for impulse in international

arena this time to become a major player in the scientific field these group of turkey's scientists are having to untie arctic up to establish a temporary base a station which is called to this national scientific base as part of a national call of program this is the third expedition scientific expedition to the coldest continent on earth and these scientists are going to be studying on climate change which is a major global problem and they will be collecting data on the dynamics of this global problem we have about nine national projects scientific projects mainly about the marine life sciences and for international projects coming from poland bulgaria ukraine and chile right what's in talk to provide for us that's the information from past and we know all our presence in the scientists are trying to model the future of this surface scientists tell us that they all of this started

working on the bridge fabric base in two thousand and eighteen they are very excited about going there because this is going to be the first time that they have their own base and on track to go out without granting from any other country and they say by this space they will gain the chance to become a consul to a permanent member and on target to come on the continent where they believe the future is hidden on. the top stories this hour u.k. m.p.'s have authorized a reason made to go back to brussels and try to renegotiate how brics it deal but one of the prime ministers negotiating weapons was ripped from her hands as the house of commons also voted to block a no deal or exit so the zero is having the news how the. m.p.'s approved just two amendments including replacing the so-called facts are meant to avoid a hard order in ireland all the other amendments were defeated the u.k.

has until march twenty ninth to agree on a withdrawal deal or risk crashing out of the e.u. . we will now take this mandate forward and seek to obtain legally binding changes to withdrew agreement to deal with concerns on the backstop waqar intriguing no hard no return to hard core between northern ireland don and my colleagues and i will talk to the you about how we address the houses we use as i said this afternoon there is limited appetite for such a change in the negotiating it will not be. pushing contrast to a fortnight ago this house has made it clear what it needs to approve the withdrawal agreement. venezuela's attorney general has asked the supremes court to open a polemic investigation into self-proclaimed president on why dos is called on the court to freeze the opposition in his bank accounts and impose a travel ban on him on monday the u.s.

imposed its toughest ever sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company but of eisa and earlier the un warned that a government crackdown on and protest has as led to a record number of detentions. the united nations is urging warring parties in yemen to withdraw troops from her data immediately fighting has fled in the port city and some other areas risking the collapse of a six week old cease fire there are fears the crisis will get worse after the retired dutch general in charge of the un brokered truce step down. and around thirty thousand people in northeast nigeria have fled into neighboring cameroon ferrying an attack by poke around fighters they left ran town in borno state at the weekend following the departure of cameroonian forces those are the top stories this hour that's it from myself and the teen here in london science in a golden age is next. the week began with

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