husband left me a pension my future scares me because i don't want to struggle as the dream of retirement fades away and. you gotta do something try to keep it a water holiday and al-jazeera. this is. a law and has i'm sick of this is the news hour live from dod coming up in the next sixty minutes. we will now take this mandate forward to british prime minister gets the backing of parliament to go back to brussels and renegotiate her deal to leave the e.u. . venezuela's supremes court bars the self-proclaimed president from leaving the

country. but the yang again sudan's president refuses to die away despite an order to release hundreds of protesters. and in sports qatar is going to the asian cup final after crushing the united arab emirates for nearly in what was dubbed the blockade darby. a lot of the british parliament has given the go ahead for theresa may to return to brussels and try to secure a better brakes a deal but one of the u.k. prime ministers most important ago she eighteen tools was ripped from her hands as m.p.'s also voted to block a no deal brags that the dean barbara 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 a 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 islands as an e.u. member a northern island off to 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 that 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 team barber al-jazeera london. or jonathan less is a deputy director of the pro here opinion union think tank british influence he says theresa may will struggle to reopen any negotiations in brussels. this takes us back to square one because parliament has rejected an amendment which would have prevented snow deal by forcing an extension of article fifty and icing doest proposal which simply won't get through the door in brussels which is to scrap the backstop of the e.u. is insistent for the last year and a half the banks so what is the price of any deal theresa may his image is this much has sells for the last two months and now she's attacked the undermines that deal and given ourselves no leverage whatsoever policy has power even in britain it has no power in brussels whatsoever parliament can can give may

a mandate to colonize mars but will just make everyone look absurd and it means up see nothing so really it's just setting the stage for a massive climb down there only there are only a couple of things that make can do she can renegotiate the political declaration that is the normal legally binding parts of the withdrawal agreement to make it softer to make bricks it softer so there is more integration of the e.u. not less that's a customs union which is outside the labor party who a single market and customs union the so-called no way possible option which delivers knocks them economic integration but removes all democratic oversights in our relation with the e.u. so willing to accept would remains oliva's but there is only options the only other thing she can do is grab her exit all together after a second referendum or you know after revocation she is absolutely running down the talk she is holding the nation to ransom and she has had every opportunity to reach out across party lines but what theresa may always does is she talks to the extreme

wing of her own party she's appeased the hard right wing of the tory party since the beginning of negotiations and that's what she's done now instead of meeting parliament halfway. venezuela's supreme court has barred the country's self declared interim president leaving the country coulter's also frozen her. assets by the u.s. to give him control of the venezuelan government assets in the us. reports. it took the venezuelan government less than twenty four hours to attempt to strike back against the latest round of you saying. the country's attorney general announced that the leader of the opposition and self-proclaimed interim president will be banned from leaving the country and his bank accounts will be frozen. we have opened a preliminary investigation we have come to the supreme court to request cautionary

measures cautionary measures as we carry out the investigation against the citizen a travel ban to avoid his departure from the country and to the band's income property and real estate three the freezing of accounts. shrugged off the announcement as more of the same. i'm not downplaying the threat of being imprisoned i don't want you to see it that way but frankly i see nothing new under the sun unfortunately this is a regime that offers no answers to the venezuelan people the only response is persecution and repression. the freezing of those accounts appears to be an effort to complicate a u.s. plan to direct oil revenues to the opposition as they try to win support from military officials still loyal to president nicolas maduro more than twenty countries have now recognized way door as being this well as illegitimate leader yet my daughter still has some international support mainly from china and russia

who once again said that the u.s. sanctions are illegal and. what the united states and their closest allies are doing with regards to finish is of course very worrying crudely violating all norms of international law essentially taking a direct course at the legal authority in this latin american nation. over more than a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation in demanding president steps down. we've been met with force and the threat of imprisonment so in total i think we have some just over forty people believed to have been killed in different manners so far this includes at least twenty six people reported to have died after allegedly being shot by security forces or members of pro-government groups this by the violence the opposition is calling for another massive demonstration wednesday and another one on saturday as

been a power struggle continues with no end in sight both inside and outside of the country alison. diego area is a former venezuelan ambassador to the u.n. as well as former president of the u.n. security council he joins us now via skype from new york thanks for being with us so i want to i want to ask you first of all about this decision by the u.s. to try to confer more legitimacy on. with by giving him access to the venezuelan state funds in in the u.s. what effect do you think that's going to have in venezuela and then duros hold on power there. ok first of all the ones given legitimacy to one weibo is not the states it's our own constitution provides i'm going there is an ism is

not a prison in charge not because it goes on by the oak also the consumer is legitimate the international community depressive and of the national assembly take its place and i was going to is not one way though. so i want to be very clear the mess the originated in our own constitution now they are more than fifty countries that can see them who is an illegitimate a ruler burke and the way even though it is a sort of american states last week it considered him a legitimate length guess that they have done the united states and canada i mean you know who comes in your now which of the consequences they're going to go and says are done if the united states act and yes the u.s. treasury department can sue the wind or is it legitimate precedent in order to

preserve the venison and assets in the united states established that the only right owner. why do all government and not do that of course has very serious consequence and probably most already jeanne though it's got nothing because ninety five percent of the buttons didn't think of going through the united states because of the oil incentives. are you concerned at the precedent that this might set that the did that this sort of international. pressure could could bring about regime change in in a country like venezuela all right and as you can see it looks like we've lost our connection to our guest there in new york apologies for that. nothing more we can do this for except move on the un special envoy for yemen is trying to preserve the ceasefire deal in the key port city of

a day that martin griffiths met with the hootie and saudi led coalition delegations in the city and urged both sides to withdraw a new outbreak of fighting between the two sides is threatening to unravel the deal struck in sweden last month or somehow bought a reports of the cease fire in 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 economic 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 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 at the fabled 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 and i smile but i'll just. a plenty more ahead on new news hour after more than two decades documenting displacement and violence in the city of hebron an international observer mission comes to an abrupt end. believed by the constitution the supreme law of the military zimbabwe's lawyers rally behind hundreds of arrested anti-government protesters. and in sport campaigners demand

urgent action after bahrain issues an extradition order for refugee footballer hakim a lot i. saw that's still ahead but first sudan security chief all of the release of people detained during weeks of protests but that's failed to calm down the anger against president bashir the protests are continuing in several cities demanding an end to bush years thirty year rule demonstrations started over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies in december dozens have died in clashes with police so far. has more from the capital hard to. 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 about 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 as political activists or as journalists or just protesters might be prosecuted on accusation by the up 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. at least eleven civilians have been killed in shelling by the syrian army on the rebel held area of it is the highest death toll in the region for months serious state news agency says the army responded to what it calls terrorist violations of a truce a brokered by russia and turkey fighting has continued to run it since the deal was agreed in september a summer when germany has more from gaziantep near turkey's southern border with syria. according to the details emerging from the 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 hyatt there either 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 to shore that it is not secure according to these courses is secure but according to russian foreign observers there has been fighting that has been going on tom 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. an attempt at suicide attack targeted of police station in iran state media there says g people tried to blow themselves up in front of the building in the south eastern city of dan at least four people were wounded zeidan is the capital of sistan baluchistan province where iranian security forces often clash with on drug smugglers and armed groups.

the un special rapporteur on executions has met its down balls chief prosecutor agnes and a forensic and legal team are on a weeklong visit to turkey to investigate the murder of saudi journalist. stephanie decker has more from istanbul so the u.n. team led by. is just here outside the saudi consulate in istanbul it's part of her investigation into what happened to. has also for access to the consulate also access to saudi arabia and this is what she had to say what is your impression after really with the foreign minister nothing. are you related to the saudis and are you when. you have made

a request to the saudi government for access to the consulate as well as meeting with saudis a year and in saudi arabia we're waiting for their response to be fair. request to them must come quite quite late so we need to give them a bit more time to. question or you think you know no no no not at all ok just we just want to have a sense of it and we are respectfully calling on the authorities to give us access at some stage while we are here so the un will be meeting with the chief prosecutor these are of course the people who did lead in turkey's investigation into what happened inside that building we also understand they'll be meeting with. his fiance and also certain journalists trying to piece together what exactly happened here she wants accountability and she wants to find out the details it will be difficult but what she says is something which is taken upon herself because it

seems that the united nations and the member states are not pushing for an independent investigation. palestinian prime minister rami and his unity government have resigned he stepped down after growing anger over a proposed social security tax and led the west bank based fatah group's reconciliation efforts with their hamas rivals in gaza international observers who documented division displacement and violence in the city of hebron in the opcw by the 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 for some reports benjamin netanyahu his critics say he's just 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. he says he was expecting the end of the

international observer mission here but it's no less worrying for being predictable they were doing 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. it if mission was set up in the aftermath of the one nine hundred ninety four massacre of twenty nine muslim worshippers that 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 mordechai 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 the 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 ari force at al-jazeera hebron five people have been arrested in connection with friday's dam collapse at a mine in south east brazil eighty four people are confirmed dead nearly three hundred are still missing three of those detained work for the mining companies are honest the other two engineers who worked on the dam safety daniel has the latest

from the capital of minas get a state where the disaster happened. the search continues around the town the brownwood 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 it's 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. 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 mounting 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 around in and around the river in the meantime shaping up to be one of the worst disasters in brazilian history. still ahead on al-jazeera divisions on europe's migrant crisis are laid bare at a summit of mediterranean leaders. the horn former boss of starbucks is trying to heat up the twenty twenty u.s. presidential race. and we'll tell you about the lengthy bans these boxes got for an ugly post match brawl details coming up later in sport.

as we head towards the chinese new year we've got some wet weather into central parts of china still some of the thick cloud down into the south it does stay five and dry will stay settled as well so temperatures in hong kong getting up to around twenty three degrees that is how disturbed weather further north for wednesday and will make its way over towards shanghai as we go on into thursday system heavy burst of right northern flank of that could see somewhat but snow for a time something to watch out for here with all those people traveling around and into the southeast visto getting up to around twenty three or twenty four degrees the fair amounts of sunshine for about a sunshine two into the philippines so the boss will still see some majority of the showers into malaysia more so in indonesia very just taking the heat of the day of course the seasonal rains will continue to rumble on unabated further north you will see temperatures in minot around thirty three degrees with a fair amount of sunshine and that sunshine stretches across a good part of the been goal to south asia watch sea want to show is still just

around the eastern side of india but the the think of cloud the heavier rain will be up towards the northwest some snow spilling out of northern pakistan afghanistan into the far northwest of india will see temperatures new delhi twenty one. the weather sponsored by cats are employees. high in the atlas mountains. village women are fending for themselves as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. but turning home farm and family is tough with no outside supports comet's longer is this way of life sustainable al-jazeera world meets my rockers diligence superwomen. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. all the

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unwilling to rule out. venezuela's supreme court has barred self declared interim president wanted from leaving the country and has frozen his assets the softer requests from the attorney general washington gave why don't control of venezuelan state assets in the u.s. . the u.n. special envoy for yemen is in her day trying to preserve a ceasefire deal there martin griffis met with sound he led coalition delegations urging both sides to withdraw from the strategic port city. of the head of u.s. intelligence says north korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons part of a new report presented to the senate on global threats the assessment is an odds with president trump who is planning a second summit with north korean leader kim jong un mike hanna reports. president trump all traces the negotiations with north korea's leader as one of the major

successes of his presidency he claims to have made the world a safer place and recently announced that a second summit will be held next month john burns is looking very forward good job . made a lot of progress that has not been reported by the feet but we have a lot of progress not so say intelligence chiefs their conclusion that north korea remains a major threat we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its w m d capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capability. yes because its leaders alternately view the nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival and the intelligence report says the president's decision to tear up a nuclear deal with iran is also based on false premises the cia director saying iran was in compliance with the deal but that may not change so at the moment technically they're in compliance but we do see them debating amongst themselves as

they fail to realize the economic benefits they hoped for from the deal president trumps claim to have defeated eisele was used to justification to withdraw u.s. troops from syria but this is also contested in the report the intelligence chiefs insisting that i still is intent on researching and will continue to pursue attacks against regional and western and bursaries and unlike the president the intelligence community is adamant that russia interfered in the twenty sixteen us elections and importantly says there's a strong expectation that it will do so again in twenty twenty potentially most galling to the president there's no mention whatsoever of any crisis on the u.s. southern border with mexico thank you ultimately the intelligence report represents a stunning repudiation of president trump's repeated claims concerning threats to

the united states mike hanna al-jazeera washington a canada has and till march the first to make a decision on whether to extradite the chief financial officer of chinese tech giant huawei mang one jew has appeared in court in vancouver she's been under house arrest there since last month the united states is seeking her extradition for allegedly violating sanctions on iran monday the u.s. filed a host of criminal charges against weiwei through doing theft fraud and conspiracy . an hour to us politics and the twenty twenty presidential race howard schultz the man who is responsible for turning starbucks into a global brand it 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 his potential candidacy has already alarmed some democrats who

believe he would take votes away from the twenty twenty nominee and a book signing event in new york on monday a protest to heckle 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 help put him back in the oval office schultz disagrees i recognize the why of concern and perhaps misunderstanding and i hope that this conversation. the quote reading and people will understand why it feels so strongly about the direction of the country and how profoundly concerned about where we all stand. for bill schneider is a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university and he joins us live now from washington to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us now given the current political climate right now the democrats should be confident confident about their prospects for twenty twenty should and

they of the fact that they won they took back the house of representatives in these midterm elections in twenty eighteen and the very low approval numbers that president trump is dealing with right now so why are they so anxious about the prospect of. howard schultz and his independent candidacy. simply because howard schultz would split the eighty trump vote and given the way american politics works the rules of our system it's called first past the post whichever candidate gets the largest number of votes wins all of the state's electoral votes so if the anti trump vote is divided between the democratic candidate and the independent howard schultz trump will win and democrats are enraged that someone like howard schultz is thinking of running because he's supposed to be a critic of donald trump he would virtually ensure trump's reelection is it also because the democrats are still traumatized by donald trump's election in two

thousand and sixteen is it is it is that what's behind their reaction to this as well you know they ran away because schultz will be a spoiler in this race if he were ones with an independent voting for schultz will be helping to elect the candidate you like least if you're if schultz is your first choice and the democrat is your second choice and you really don't want donald trump to be reelected you are helping to reelect donald trump if you vote for schultz because you're dividing the vote that's what's really behind this and it's got democrats enraged and republicans are encouraging schultz to run knowing that it would very likely ensure a second term for donald trump how much do we actually know about how it's the man and what he actually stands for i mean obviously. starbucks is is very well known global brand beyond the u.s. but what would he actually bring in terms of policies that we do we know about

right. he describes himself as socially fairly liberal and economically conservative and that's an interesting formula it's the opposite of donald trump of course who is socially conservative and economically something of a populist but the fact is that that his position on those issues doesn't have a lot of appeal those are elitist positions they're very popular in davos and at meetings of business executives like mr schultz that's what most business executives want economic conservatism but social liberalism they don't have anything against minorities or gays and they favor immigration so that his is a very elitist position but not one that's likely to find a lot of residents among american voters and we played that clip of him getting heckled at the events in new york and that speaks to what you were saying earlier about is how democrats are democrats and liberals are very angry about this

prospect so the longer this goes on and he continues to go on the road pushing his credentials as a potential candidate you think he's get it we're going to see more of that yes you will see protests every step of the way if he becomes an active independent candidate or he will be heckled there will be efforts to try to keep him off the ballot in state after state it will be a very very difficult campaign for him and democrats hope he realizes that and sees that there is no way he's likely to win unless the democrats nominate a total loser someone who's completely incredible to be president and even then. the trump vote will probably be divided and that would reelect president trump those are the rules i think what schultz is what democrats are concerned about is schultz is auditioning to become the new ralph nader ralph nader was an independent in two thousand he took enough votes from al gore the democrat it to to elect george w.

bush president of the united states who didn't even carry the popular vote that could happen again. good to speak with you as always bill schneider joining us there from washington thanks very much. at least two people have been killed and four others injured in an attack on a mosque in the southern philippines mindanao region the area is home to a substantial muslim population in a majority catholic nation it happened in zamboanga city and comes just days after muslims in a part of mindanao got more control over their affairs in a landmark deal with the government and that attack follows a bombing at a cathedral on the southern philippines learned of holo president rodriguez deterred today has ordered an all what he calls an all out war against those responsible but despite the violence muslim and christian leaders say they remain united from the hollow al-jazeera jamila in dog report.

roadside bombings abductions and people displaced from their homes it's all part of daily life it will it is one of the poorest provinces in the philippines and has long been held back by fighting between government forces and the various armed groups briery is says growing up in his home town always meant living in fear but as a christian in the law where the majority of the population is muslim she always kept her faith until now her parents around me and later were killed when two bombs exploded at the cathedral where they had gone to pre a place of worship now with scene of death and destruction we strongly believe that . whatever religion you're in specially if you're living in a lot of people living in a law knows what kind of bond and friendship we have between christians muslims.

dangerous people we don't discriminate regardless their religion this claim of responsibility the government says the local armed group was behind the bombings but. that's really they keep inserting the matter of the way the cathedral and the neighbor since we have never been debated as christians and muslims it is shocking what they saw it was the strongest bomb we've ever seen. the philippine military says the attacks are designed to cause deep splits between the different religions in one nine hundred ninety seven a bishop was shot right here in front of the cathedral he was assassinated by gunmen back then communities promised never to let this happen again well what happened last sunday is proof that communities failed to protect the cathedral and that the vicious cycle of violence continues here after the cleanup and the

funerals from bombings like this there is an expectation that life can slowly return to normal but here in the law the most militarized place in the philippines it's a case of a short period of relative calm. a respite from the violence. until the next conflict. until the next attack. dog and i'll just zero salusa the philippines lawyers in zimbabwe are demanding free and fair trials for hundreds of anti-government protests but they fear the ruling party and security forces could interfere in the court process. lawyers in. zimbabwe say they know they're taking a risk protesting two weeks ago security forces fighting 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 like 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 if taken place in our country in the past two weeks have been quite disturbing in terms of the risk that been done 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 this reform is up to them and they are not just targeting people with a circle 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 are esteemed. in the same vein those from the m.d.c. also. participated when we were there that 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 into an arrest and then we do we're going to investigate 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 that amounts to an independent legal system will be heard but something i

deem a job is going to become even more difficult. algis there. are i one we come back in spore will have more on qatar's big when in the united arab emirates. al-jazeera where every.

well again it's a he says five year pm nations are offering to take in some of the rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship off the coast of sicily sea watch three has been stranded since friday with forty seven migrants on board the mediterranean leaders have been meeting in cyprus to try to find a solution to the flow of migrants making the journey from north africa to europe they would take their reports from nicosia it's hard to disguise the deep divisions the migrant crisis is cause inside the european union but leaders arriving for the summit in the can see it tried their best the french president emmanuel macron talked about cooperating to find a solution is that. we have had the opportunity to discuss migration in detail to defend the coordinates in an integrated european version and this is how we managed to agree in june last year within the framework of the council of europe

but it talian prime minister to separate contagious s'posed of the usual diplomatic niceties of such summits saying the crisis could cause the implosion of europe. this is an issue that presents a major challenge for europe which might lead europe to implode because europe hotaling 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 the to find themselves closer to baghdad the berlin the catholic charity characters 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 to provide sexual favors to all who eventually smuggled him across this buffer zone it's very difficult this man said he now lost all hope he has no 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 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. 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 chaytor al jazeera because here. 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 the now face for 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 go to thirty zero zero

zero i did once the action started though it didn't take long for things to heat up the height of the regime of the do it a little so we were told to qatar despite playing in the stadium with little support would be the ones to go ahead. to my left while in kuki 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 to save 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. v.m. 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 this. was. the scoreline 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 we're not finished though ha made a smile making it four nil to see arguably the biggest win in the history of qatari football. this year. the family they now move on to friday final against japan when we see them stage the first world cup in the middle east in twenty twenty two as the asian champions so we'll mallett al-jazeera. al-jazeera is dorset just bari was watching that match from a fan zone in doha 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 katter does have a football culture. this was a remarkable result for qatar spain a remarkable tournament for them remember qatar still hasn't conceded a single goal throughout the tournament having never ever reached the semifinals of an asian cup before now the winter final against japan and yes of course i don't

know want to win the trophy but i think the achievement has already been there in the way that the players as well have conducted themselves on the fairly common easy for them to be in a stadium with no qatari support that hasn't been allowed a hostile atmosphere against the united arab emirates but they have managed to keep their cool and show yes their quality and their quality under felix sanchez they've been with him for a few years and he took them to an asian cup success in twenty fourteen for under nineteen's and the nucleus of that side has gone on is now playing football to show that qatar can actually have a very good world cup eventually in twenty twenty two on the pitch and take that spotlight that's always on matters off the pitch on to the fact that there is a very good football pride in this nation in this region 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 there seems very little possibility that any of the matches can be played outside of qatar that doesn't stop is true friends say no speculating that it might be if i am faithful look at the pictures of shoes being by the crowd in the united arab emirates qatar replies no qatari journalists or fish shows and certainly no funds in the stadium he was saying the problems that they were all in the region that for them to be resolved is going into an area that is way beyond fee for and i think a reality check will be needed when they look back at this tournament. 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 manes hakim the right be being released and we're going to work continue to work with thirty 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 in 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 so 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 argentinian 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 los 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

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