definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab. the company and the state on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. a lot of have some say get this is the news hour live from dog coming up in the next sixty minutes rejected the british parliament votes down a no deal bragg's it but theresa may gets a thumbs up to go back to brussels for more negotiations. belong to venezuela self-proclaimed president is bob from leaving the country by the attorney general.

fears the cease fire in yemen is for the city of the data is on the verge of collapse aid agencies warn of the worsening humanitarian crisis. and in sport qatar is going to the asian cup final after pressuring the united arab emirates for nails in what was dubbed the blockade dog the. whole of the british parliament has also rawest prime minister to resign may it to go back to brussels and try to change how bragg's it deal but one of the prime ministers most important ago she eighteen tools was ripped from her hands as m.p.'s also voted to block a no deal bragg's it but then bob explains what it means for the u.k. and how the e.u. has reacted. oh.

outside the u.k. parliament the debate was fierce that is 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 and no deal breaks it that plan was defeated but another simply rejecting no deal passed so the. key is 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 a northern island off the brics it on tuesday the french president at

a summit in cyprus was unequivocal come to europe and 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 pull in. 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 for 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. the follow the team barbara al-jazeera london

or jonathan less is deputy director of the pro european union think tank british influence he joins us via skype now from london so the government finally gets a win in parliament it seems but teresa mayes in effect in effect back where she started this is a she. absolutely this takes us back to square one the carriers parliament has rejected an amendment which would have prevented no deal by forcing an extension of article fifty and it's indorsed a proposal which simply won't get through the door in brussels which is to scrap the backstop of the e.u. is insistent of the last year and a half the banks or is the price of any deal to reach them a has admitted this much ourselves the last two months and now she's the that's the undermined that deal and given herself no leverage whatsoever and french president emmanuel mccraw the irish

government and the european commission leader donald tusk of all essentially said that there is no room for negotiation on this deal that was already agreed so what realistically can the u.k. prime minister get from from the e.u. twenty seven this time around. in short absolutely nothing but politics has power in britain it has no power in brussels whatsoever parliament can give may a mandate to colonize mars but will just make everyone look absurd and it means up see nothing so it really gets just setting the stage for a massive crime down there only there are only a couple of things that make can do she can renegotiate the political declaration the answer is the normal legally binding policy of the we do agreements to make it softer to make bricks it softer so there is more integration with the e.u. not less since the customs union which is outside the labor party who

a single molecule and customs union the so-called knowing possible option which delivers knocks them economic integration for me all democratic oversight in our relation with the e.u. so when big sets would remain is oliva's but there is a her only option the only other thing she can do is grab her exit all together after a second referendum what iraq's revocation where you mention is no way stahl agreement b. is is there enough support in in the british parliament for that i mean the critics are saying she is in effect trying to run down the clock to present n.p.'s with with two bad options her plan or no deal and it's actually that the least bad of the two is is that fan. cheers absolutely running down the top she is holding the nations around seven and she has hot every opportunity to reach out across party lines but what theresa may always dollars is she tucks to the extreme wing of her own party she's appeased the hard right wing and the tory party since the beginning

of negotiations and that's what she's done now instead of meeting harman halfway by suggesting maybe it cost him dino singer markets which are bruce and remain as in she simply trying to win over the hardliners but in doing so she's completely so the console had left marriage because she's probably something that she knows can't be delivered and that's history mckay she does that stop so of course it's there it's that she's trying to force people to pull her initial deal by giving them an option of an idea but really should have to do that against both of those options are going to not acceptable in all circumstances and as we get closer to that march twenty ninth date for brains it is it is it still anyone's guess which is now less than sixty days away that is still anyone's guess where this will end. well the only thing that we can be sure about some facts that i have always said that we will not leave without a deal on the one positive thing that happened tonight was parliament indorsed

a non-binding amendment to the deal it has no legal weight a parliament has expressed its will repeatedly that it will not support mary deal so they're saying now it's incumbent on parliament to express what it will support it's all very well to say they will support getting rid of the backstop but that's not a expects out from brussels so really it will come down to may steal a softer than just of maize deal with cinemark and customs union or no bricks to sue and it's time for parliament to make its mind up good to speak with you jonathan lease joining us from london. now the united states is once again giving legitimacy to venezuela's self declared interim president one glider on tuesday secretary u.s. sectors they might pump aoe gave him control of government assets based in the u.s. earlier venezuela's attorney general asked the supremes court there to investigate the opposition leader he also wants the court to freeze his assets and bar him from

leaving the country president nicolas maduro is accusing washington of trying to steal its all the reserves maybe the courtier mediocre economy grow the coercive and economic blocking measures announced by foreign countries harm not only the economy of the nation but also homma laws the queen as well as of foreigners living in this pen as well a nation because of that there's a citizen that is particularly lead and organize all this action that is causing pain as well as detriment its citizens one quite over i mean. also in washington one of those representatives mets with the u.s. vice president mike pence at the white house after the meeting he spoke to reporters this fight is not about ideology this is a fight between the marker a c. and dictatorship this is a fight between a dictatorship which is start early controlled by the cuban regime against

the free world we cannot do this alone we have the main responsibility as the venezuelans but we are asking for the free world to liberate in a certain way venice where i would which has being colonized by the cuban region. there has been prevented from reporting in venezuela but i listen to n.p.r. he is following developments for us in a colombia's capital bogota so to sunder how did respond to the attorney general's move. one guy those folks just minutes after the announcement from the attorney general or any spoken front of the national assembly and he said that while he wasn't downplaying the threat i think the president meant to say he also said that this announcement was just more of the same thing that it was part of a chain of attacks against its person against the other leaders of the opposition

and the national assembly as a whole now the attorney general didn't specify exactly what he was going to be investigated or but he did mention. this to the unrest that followed his decision to swear him self in as interim president of venezuela and also the fact that he is a clue dealing with the united states that has been imposing sanctions against venezuela and in particular the once again state oriel company that were imposed on monday and. as far as tomorrow's protests which why don't call for what are they likely to achieve. well the opposition is hoping for another massive demonstration of strength just like a week ago and remember this comes after many days and many nights now of

clashes between business well and people and security forces according to their un human rights or at least forty people have been killed there already are died during these clashes then an unprecedented they say a number of people have been arrested yet despite the. violence the opposition thinks that the ability for and government this close to that tipping point and so they are calling for another massive demonstration the one from our own brains they in particularly is being called for the people to try and convince the military and the police to switch sides then join them and they are fine to topple president nicolas maduro and then again they're expecting a major one next saturday so the opposition continues pressuring the government the inside venezuela as much as a number of countries in particular the u.s. the u.s.

is trying to do internationally outside of the country right. to us there from bogota beaches rangle is a form of venezuelan presidential chief of staff she is currently managing director of consulting group and joins us via skype now from bogota as well thanks so much for being with us so let me ask you first of all what if. u.s. attempts to try to conserve more legitimacy on. what are they going to have in in venezuela and on hold on power there. well the problem is that the crisis in venice a life quite complex we have placed three elements that make it very different for another crisis we had lived in the western hemisphere the first element here is that we haven't but it's well the rise of a mafia state which is the result of an alliance meet by president.

hugo chavez dentis is separate the pieces are to rest their mode up with cuba and q.o.s. is sponsoring. the revolutionary liberation army of colombia these guerrilla groups engage in this a drug traffic for the last two decades when president chavez agreed to bring them and gave give them safe haven in venezuela he brought the guerrilla movement but he also brought their illicit drug traffic trade. as a result with the evolution of time. drug trafficking and this is activities have penetrated every single aspect of government to come to the second element is the change in the world energy magic's as oil looses significance and all their

sources of energy rise in importance in in conformant there were energy supply. reduction or for the political the reduction of the supply of oil accountable to a political conflict is on plucked from an energy crisis and therefore it gives more leverage to countries to face crisis in producing countries such as benefits when and then the third element is the rise of in new generation appears reaping benefits way less so far their opposition camp has been led by. people who had either been killed or arrested or could have collaborated with the government but this new generation had not into the war. with the lyrics in the sense that they were not part of

the mormon this is the generation representable way though the ones that took it to the streets were the ones i have been with what all it's with all of the international pressure that is being applied on on venezuela right now and then the worsening economic situation there how much support does president maduro still enjoy inside the country but with them alone has no support from the people the people have rejected his man he's the rule for a long time in two thousand and sixteen there was a political moily said are into late two thousand and sixteen there was a political decision where like eighty percent of the going to swell and rejected her he's got em and they were involved in this one as rejected elections they could in the whole legitimate and actions last may and now that they have taken me to the

streets on the twenty third of january scores of people are in jail as quarter people have been killed so he has not popular live legitimacy at all but here here is neither he has constitutional legitimacy therefore he only has the support of the military and the military is part and parcel of the mafia state and this is why it is resistant. to speak when you have beatrice wrangler joining us there from bogota. thank you. and we've got plenty more ahead on this news out believe that the constitution is supreme law the military. zimbabwe's lawyers rally behind hundreds of arrested anti-government protesters. divisions on europe's migrant crisis are laid bare at a summit of mediterranean leaders. and later in sport campaigners demand urgent

action after bahrain issues an extradition order for refugee football i. saw are still ahead but first the u.n. special envoy for yemen is trying to preserve the cease fire deal in the key port city of data martin griffiths met with the hootie and saudi led coalition delegations in the city and urged both sides to withdraw outbreak of fighting between the two sides is threatening to unravel the deal struck in sweden last month but it reports 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 saudi and 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 command to plead with them to maintain the whole day the ceasefire which began six weeks ago the hands of the rebels political council told the u.n. envoy that saudi arabia is undermining the truce oh actor nominee now our 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 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 a book about the we need to fight against aggression and santa fighters are the battlefields that should be our answer to those who want to ask only 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. lizabeth kendall is

a senior research fellow at oxford university and specialist on the yemen war she says there is still a political will to make the ceasefire deal work. things were looking pretty good and aid flows were improving now they look like they're 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 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 there we saw that in the ninth of january united nations security council briefings we've seen it in the united states congress we've seen it in the european union meetings recently we've seen it at

a recent conference in germany specifically designed to look at yemen solutions so the international will is there the pressure has to be on keeping those in leadership 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 winds through and allow the ceasefire to fail. at least eleven civilians have been killed in shelling by the syrian army on the rebel held area it's the highest death toll in the region for months syria's state news agency says the army responded to what it called terrorist violations of a truce brokered by russia and turkey fighting has continued to round it limp since the deal was agreed in september or some of in germany it has more from gaziantep near turkey's southern border with syria. according to the details emerging from adlib city the capital of the province this was

a coordinated attack against the salvation government the civilian arm of the body which controls the province much of it is militarily controlled by how yet there you are from 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 province according to the local government but to deny that it is the political arm of. 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 they are calm have been gaining control and pushing out other groups from the ground and this is a source of concern between the turks and the russians. and attempted suicide attack targeted a police station in iran state media there says two people tried to blow themselves

up in front of the building in the south eastern city of ziad on at least four people wounded zeidan is the capital of sistan baluchistan province iran iranian security forces often fight with on and drug smugglers and armed groups there. a palestinian prime minister army in hundreds and his unity government have resigned he stepped down after growing anger over a proposed social security tax on the west bank based fatah group's reconciliation reconciliation efforts with their hamas rivals in gaza international observers who documented division displacement and violence in the city of hebron in the occupied west bank are going home israel's prime minister has refused to extend the mandate of the monitoring mission calling it an international force acting against israel but as harry force or reports now benjamin netanyahu is critics say he is getting

rid of the observers to try to win votes to enter the israeli military controlled zone of hebron is to enter into a parallel world of division and displacement this is you heard a street home to palestinian activist. who says he was expecting the end of the international observer mission here but it's no less worrying for being predictable they were doing their reasoning in neutral documentation here which can be used by the palestinians to make is that accountable in the international criminal court. the temporary international presence in hebron tiff has been in place here since one thousand nine hundred seven its term renewed every six months on a palestinian market street protected by canopies from settler buildings above traders say that if reports have done nothing to prevent the steady worsening of the situation. kicking out is the first step towards even wars for hebron because netanyahu is planning to expand the settlements here. but if mission was set up in

the aftermath of the one nine hundred ninety four massacre of twenty nine muslim worshippers it had runs ibrahimi mosque by an american israeli settler the city was formally divided in one thousand nine hundred eighty percent under palestinian authority control twenty percent including the old city and the site of the mosque and jewish temple under the control of the israeli military those years have also seen an expansion of the presence of jewish settlers here around eight hundred registered as living in the israeli controlled area alongside forty thousand palestinians. they represent some of the most ideologically radical settlers in the occupied west bank drawn here by the city's religious significance as well as the idea of a return to a place deserted by jews after sixty seven were killed in a massacre in one thousand twenty nine. if you are willing to talk on camera until we meet mordecai professors himself only too happy to see the back of the tiff observers but time is up and time for them to get a real job and once the time is up what do you foresee happening i don't i don't

see any real change on the ground except for that the i.d.f. will be able to do their job a bit better in stopping terror attacks in various forms one question is why the israeli governors waited until now twenty years on to end it if presence here well there are two places to look one is into the most recent to freeport in december which according to an israeli media leak was an extremely critical summation of twenty years worth of israeli violations of palestinian rights the other place to look is in israeli domestic politics israel's prime minister indicated in november that he was considering ending the presence since then he's called elections for the ninth of april there's plenty of political motivation for him to call votes on the israeli right above the deserted shahada street behind a cage protecting her from rock throwing attacks only iran has only curses for netanyahu and fears for increased violence wants to fix gone hadrons bitter division has set fire to outlast the international mission whose job it's been to monitor it harry force at al-jazeera hebron. no i stayed ahead when we come back

investigators in brazil arrest five people in connection with a devastating dam collapse and the former boss of starbucks is trying to heat up to twenty twenty u.s. presidential race. but i tell you about the lengthy bans these boxes got for an ugly house match poll tells coming up later in school. we've got more rack old breaking cold weather across central parts of kind of that that into the northern plains of the u.s. sad across the upper midwest all tucked in behind this cold front and that it's really cold air there i suppose pretty tightly packed so a real wind chill but take a look at the wrong numbers on that run minus twenty four the top temperature in chicago on wednesday should be about phrases around twenty five degrees below the

average we go on into thursday warms up to around minus eighty eight if you can call that warming up co-direct coming into the old by this stage of top temps of that of around minus eighty celsius by this stage it should be largely dry sensuous could say some wintry flourescent placing focus on the possibility and notice some welcome rainfall down towards the southwest california could see some other heavy rain from time to time help me out seriously it will cause a few mudslides but it will bring some useful rain in with say some very heavy rain some live you still mst tornadoes calls moving on this weather system across northern parts of cuba that's sinking down towards the south it will drift a little further east which as we go through. twenty five celsius the temperatures there for have that are still getting up into the high twenty's in kingston glorious sunshine here and it's set that east.

if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going all what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to bring to the world smaller and smaller but we don't want to be so realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera al-jazeera as their want us to embrace the book schools today to see what happens next actuation i'm sure on the book fired by the barriers for a model barricade of all seven streets that we need to hear the movies now is what about change people have gone to hospital here beriah the mission of the national army is to fix the entire one complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture.

hello again you're watching i just need a reminder of our top stories this hour the british parliament has authorized prime minister to resign may to go back to brussels to try and change her breaks it deal but m.p.'s also voted to block a no deal break that something may was unwilling to rule out. venezuela's supreme court has barred self declared interim president one by dough from leaving the country and frozen his assets that's after a quest from the country's attorney general earlier the u.s. government gave him control of venezuelan state assets based in the u.s. . the u.n.

special envoy for yemen is in her day there trying to preserve a fragile cease fire deal martin gryphus met with both hootie and saudi led coalition delegations and urged both sides to withdraw from the strategic port city clashes erupted between the warring sides threatening to unravel the deal struck last month. the head of u.s. intelligence says north korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons even if the trumpet ministration strikes a disarmament deal with pyongyang then codes told the u.s. senate the north korean regime sees the weapons as crucial to its survival comes ahead of a second planned summit between president trump and north korean leader kim jong il and alan fischer has more from washington. well if he was watching this would have been uncomfortable listening for donald trump essentially a briefing to the senate intelligence committee undermines a lot of what he's been seeing in foreign policy over the last two years the

briefing was given by dan coats who's the director of national intelligence the head of the cia agent has been also the head of the f.b.i. now when it comes to north korea danko said that there is no evidence that north korea is preparing to get rid of its nuclear stockpiles and you remember the donald trump said that the threat from north korea has gone the intention is that he'll meet with kim jong un at some point in the next month on the agenda is going to be the complete denuclearization of north korea which donald trump says is achievable here is dan coats is director of national intelligence saying that might not be the case can quote also says there is no evidence that iran is preparing to build a nuclear weapon you remember that the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear deal last year it still can only in place mainly with the support of european capitals but this undermines what donald trump has been seeing in certainly undermines what the israeli prime minister has been seeing as well then there is the matter of ice all done quote said it has not been

defeated they still have those of soldiers in iraq and syria and many branches worldwide you'll remember it was just at the end of last year donald trump announced that he was pulling all u.s. troops out of syria because it has words i saw had been defeated in fact as that announcement was being made his vice president went to a conference in washington and said that i saw had been defeated he is the director of national intelligence saying that simply not the case the one thing that's missing from this report any suggestion that there is an emergency on the southern border with mexico which of course is what donald trump has been using to justify the closure of the government for thirty five days and says he may well still announce an emergency on the southern border to build the border wall which was at the center of the long government shutdown. canada has until the first of march to make a decision on whether to extradite the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant who are way to the u.s.

main one joe has appeared in court in vancouver she has been under house arrest there since last month on monday the u.s. fall of criminal charges against her while way including accusations of theft fraud and conspiracy now to u.s. politics and the twenty twenty presidential race howard schultz the man who was responsible for turning starbucks into a global brand says he is seriously considering a bid for the white house former starbucks c.e.o. said he would run as a third party candidate despite being a lifelong democrat its potential candidacy has already alarmed some democrats who believe he would take votes away from the twenty twenty nominee at a book signing event in new york on monday a protest there heckled schultz accusing him of helping to elect donald trump to a second term even trump has told his supporters that are run by the former c.e.o. would put him to help put him back in the oval office shorts disagrees i recognize

the right of consumers and perhaps misunderstanding and i hope that this conversation. be kwaito reading and people will understand why i feel so strongly about the direction of the country and are profoundly concerned about the australian. well richard goodstein is a democratic political consultant he served as an advisor to bill clinton and al gore he joins us live now from washington to talk more about this thanks for being with us sir as we said there is this if you're here that howard schultz with this possible independent run for president is is going to siphon off votes from liberals who might otherwise vote for the democratic nominee and give trump another four years in the white house but on the other side and i know the two thousand and twenty election is still a long way off we have president trump dealing with the worst approval numbers of his presidency so far the more investigation rumbles on in staring more of his

senior advisers not much to celebrate on the economic front so i mean how how warranted is this fear from democrats. democrats are still experiencing a sense of post-traumatic stress by virtue of from having won two years ago they they look with horror at what's happened to us politics what's happened to the u.s. standing in the world and the notion that somehow or other we could have four additional years of this is just too much for most democrats to bear so i look hillary clinton got three million more votes than donald trump but because there were not just one but two third party candidates that siphoned off votes in two thousand and sixteen dollars from one so the prospect that that could happen again has people really unable to contain themselves when they hear howard schultz say you don't understand they understand exactly what the implications of his candidacy would be and my prediction is that as he goes out to the public he is going to be

heckled mercilessly and frankly deservedly by people who say you have and donald trump last night actually at the trumpet telling washington it behind closed doors bragged about the fact that he had lord schultz into the campaign by making fun of him thinking that filter was going to say oh i don't not going to you know kind of take your. badmouthing me donald trump you just watch because trump knows the only way with his bad approval ratings that you cited has them the only way he wins is by having a third or fourth party to siphon votes from the democrat that's the only way he could win and right now if it's a two party person race he loses decidedly. and starbucks of course is as is this huge global brand which he is has helped to build up over the years but how much do we actually know about how how it chills the man himself and what he stands for aside from the fact that east of on starbucks. well that's an excellent

question and i think a lot of people in the news business are asking themselves that exact question for the reason that other than saying well i think the democrats are going too far left the republicans to do far right what if michael bloomberg was the democratic nominee would have joe biden barack obama's vice president was the democratic nominee would he still be saying that because what he's saying is i believe in fiscal austerity and kind of a new it's just a bunch of gobbledygook frankly is what chauffeur saying so far he's got a book that he's rolling out he claims that in three months he'll have engaged in his listening tour and decide whether it's really going to run or not i hope that he hears how much dissatisfaction there is among his former party mates in the democratic party that it would just be unwise and he would be a pariah in political and i think business circles for the rest of his life if he

ran and gave rise to a second donald trump presidency and i just want to come back to the point did earlier point that you made janet in the beginning is discussion about siphoning off votes and talking about what happened in two thousand and sixteen but at that point trump was was kind of an unknown quantity now we've had two years of his presidency and his detractors have seen. have seen what he's done so given that and if there is if there is a strong democratic nominee why can't the democrats have confidence in who they're putting up regardless of any independent candidate. well there's two answers that the first answer is. the prospect of again donald trump no matter what the possibilities are however remote look we didn't think donald trump was going to win in two thousand and sixteen which is why jill stein you know that nobody took these these third party candidates these seriously because it looked like hillary clinton

was going to win and win relatively handily so the prospect of that happening again just has people unable to to see straight and yes. donald trump's vision for getting reelected is he's going to pick on people of color terrorists immigrants people in venezuela wherever he's going to find somebody that he can get his base to kind of get riled up in opposing and he has to pray that there's going to be again a third and a fourth and maybe if it's party to siphon off votes so no matter how strong a democrat the democratic nominee is that somehow or other maybe forty two percent whatever he could get might be a winning hand look the democrats should by rights in the congressional elections that we just saw they beat the republicans by eight or nine percent. you know by rights that should be enough but again the concern is the the horror of donald trump getting reelected is so much that democrats just don't want to take any

chances yeah to be fascinating to see how this play out and get to speak with you richard goodstein joining us the most thank you as a christian. lawyers in zimbabwe are demanding free and fair trials for hundreds of anti-government protesters but they fear the ruling party and security forces could interfere in the court process how much hassle has more from harare. the. lawyers in zimbabwe say they know they're taking a risk protesting two weeks ago security forces fight it dispersed demonstrators inferiority by 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 to ourselves. the lawyers also want the government to respect the rights of the

more than one thousand people arrested in the past two weeks then thought of taking place in our country in the past two weeks have been quite disturbing in terms of the risk that turpin and done must arias the must the fast tracking of trials and how the trials of genetically 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. cheering protests he says opposition supporters are being systematically targeted and some have been forced into hiding that is what is on situation and you can see that is it from a lot of them and they are not just targeting people they want to cripple their. the government blames the opposition for the unrest and police deny targeting opposition supporters i think of sin. activists who

also been to us in the we arrested. in the same vein those from the m.d.c. also. participated when we were there and that they were also aristide so i don't think it's fair to see police there targeting its police we only look at it what somebody did during this it were an arrest and then we do that in this in this in in the end of the day it is 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 demands for an independent legal system will be heard but some fear doing their job is going to become even more difficult how do al-jazeera had any of sudan's intelligence chief has ordered all those detained in anti-government protests last week be released rights groups say more than a thousand protesters opposition leaders activists and journalists were detained

they were calling for president are monitored bashir to step down new protests are broke out in several cities after a call by trade unions for a mass rally demonstrations first began in december after the government raised the price of bread of five people have been arrested in connection with friday's dam collapse in south eastern brazil at least eighty four people are confirmed dead after a torrent of iron ore waste swept away villages nearly three hundred people are still missing three of those detained work for the mining companies owners the other two are engineers who worked on the dams safety italy says five european countries are offering to take in some of the rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship off the coast of sicily the sea watch three has been stranded since friday with forty seven migrants on board italy's populus government has been stopping humanitarian ships from docking at its force to force other e.u.

countries to share the burden. well that happened against the backdrop of a summit in cyprus where mediterranean leaders are trying to find a solution to the flow of migrants making the dangerous journey from north africa to europe david reports from nicosia it's hard to disguise the deep divisions the migrant crisis has cause inside the european union but leaders arriving for the summit in nicosia tried their best the french president emmanuel macra talked about cooperating to find a solution to that also as well you took us on that we have had the opportunity to discuss migration in detail to the fender coordinate in an integrated european version and this is how we managed to agree into 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 calls the

implosion of europe. this is an issue that presents a major challenge for europe which might lead europe to implode because europe able to coordinate a unified vision there is no disguising though the impact of the thousands of asylum seekers now arriving in cyprus the buffer zone the device the island between the turkish controlled north and the internationally recognized republic to the south stretches for more than one hundred miles it's easy for the human traffickers to find a way through these are some of the boats they use now impounded and breached by the police. but will did 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 what police just.

told us he was forced into fide sexual favors to who eventually smuggled him across this buffer zone it's very difficult this man said he now lost all hope he has a new job he's lived on the streets and was always hungry there are hundreds more like him because here they've come from across africa the middle east and asia seeking safety and a better life but finding themselves in a limbo country the car to look after them 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 their 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 chaytor al jazeera because here. a ton of us for his far. thanks very much against all odds katter have reached the final of the asian cup for the first time maybe host the united arab emirates for a nail in a thrilling semi final but now face four time champions japan on friday style malick reports. it was dubbed the blockade darby qatar taking on asian cup hosts the u.a.e. which one of the four arab nations imposing a blockade on them since two thousand and seventeen but despite the political tension there was plenty of goodwill on show before kick off good at the thirty year old i did once the action started though it didn't take long for things to

heat up the had the regime of the go do it in there so we wanted to qatar despite playing in the stadium with little support would be the ones to go ahead that's. my swollen cookie gave them the lead just twenty two minutes in but it got better for the qataris before the break. to their standout player of the tournament early making it to nils with his eighth goal of the campaign zero zero three seven the home crowd however didn't take what they were seeing very well the bottles and shoes were among the things targeting the qatari team from the stands had a spin to do so after the break the referee's patience was really tested as on field tensions continue to grow kurdish. pm iraqis tried their best to get back into the game but had little success. and on eighteen minutes they were finally put out of their misery hospital her deuce making it three nil that. was. the score line going

out of the tournament and the disappointment of their founds all seem to be getting too much for the u.a.e. players if my last meant taking out his frustration with an elbow in injury time it was scored by v.a.r. . and meant he had to be sent off to qatar were not finished though ha made a smile making it four nil to see an arguably the biggest win in the history of qatari football. this year. they now move on to friday final against japan a win for qatar will see them stage the first world cup in the middle east in twenty twenty two as asian champions so we'll mallett al-jazeera. al-jazeera is dorset just bari was watching that match from a fan zone and. well the feeling here is of jubilation and proud moments for the locals and all the ex-pats that have been watching this game it was a very exciting game for them to watch they said that they felt very proud of the outcome of today's game was actually more important for the fans here then the

final coming up on friday qatar went on to beat the u.a.e. for nothing it was one of the most important games they will ever play now many people i spoke to here said that it's just so much. about this case for them given that. the region that qatar finds itself in many fans here said they can't wait to see how their team does on friday but regardless of that outcome it is a very proud day for qatari fans. our sports correspondent leigh welling says the asian cup is a big step in changing global perceptions that cats are does have a football culture. this was a remarkable result for cattle and it's been a remarkable tournament for them remember qatar still hasn't conceded a single goal throughout the tournament having never 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 fairly common easy for them to be in a stadium with no qatari support that hasn't been allowed hostile atmosphere against 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 i think it's extremely important whatever achieved here gianni in front of 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 states just as there will be in the twenty twenty

six children in america but of course in qatar in twenty twenty two it has to be in within that calendar month and this seems very little possibility that any of the matches can be played outside of qatar that doesn't stop these two friends say no speculating that it might be if i am faithful look at the pictures of shoes being fried by the crowd in the united arab emirates qatar replies no qatari journalists or officials and certainly no fans in the stadium he was saying the problems that they are all in the region that for them to be resolved is going into an area that is way beyond pfieffer and i think a reality check will be needed when they look back at this tournament. campaigners fighting for the release of bahraini refugee footballer hakim says that his situation has become an emergency. after bahrain issued an extradition order to fly him back to the gulf kingdom from thailand. has refugee status in australia where

he's been living since flaying his home country after being arrested in two thousand and fourteen campaigners were at fever headquarters on monday to press the world governing body for action the next five days we want to say absolute progress and that means hakeem of the right be being released and we're going to work continue to work with the five to ensure that that occurs on behalf of the football community in australia particularly all of the our former players and all of the citizens of their country who continue to say that hakeem should simply come home to his wife immediately our reporter wayne hay is in bangkok where l.r.b. has been in detention since flying to thailand for his honeymoon in november. bahrain head 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 the situation even more precarious while he is here is the fact that thailand doesn't recognize the rights of refugees the asian football confederation the governing body in this region has been criticized a lot for its apparent inaction over this case hakim himself has been a vocal critic of the a of c. president shake selman been. who happens to be a member of bahrain's royal family manchester city have suffered a major blow in the defense of their e.p.l. title in the champions were upset by newcastle united two one away it means they stay four points behind liverpool having played a game more all the gunners still sure avoided his first losses manchester united boss his side coming back from two no down to draw with burnley however they fall

two points behind fifth place arsenal beat cardiff city to whine i had a bad match there was a minute's silence for a million it was cardiff first game since the disappearance of the plane carrying the argentinean to wales last week so i had just signed for the welsh club from not the official search was called off on thursday but celis family have raised funds for it to resume. conor mcgregor and can be but near my gold medals have been suspended and fined for the brawl that followed their u.f.c. title fight in october after the russian won the highly anticipated bout in las vegas m l a broke out between both corners and even spilled into the crowd mcgregor has been fined fifty thousand dollars and banned for six months while can be received a five hundred thousand dollars fine and suspended for nine months and that's all you sport for now more later and that's it for this news hour but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news and as always there is lots more on our

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