across iraq jordan lebanon should be too bad some weather too into iran still a few showers that touch warmer there for couple it around five degrees celsius the wintry mix making its way from the east i would say to them whether to across northern parts of saudi arabia a few spots of rain here in doha on shoes day wednesday should be far to dry little cola and has been recently but picking up to around twenty six celsius as we go through thursday afternoon possibly see what it was towards the red sea but much of the region will stay settled and sunny settle in studies here across a good part of southern africa but showers further north. i know. about you. some of the like. faced with growing financial burdens have separate money for student loan pay this

chase credit card leaves me twenty nine dollars twenty one since. i don't have a husband left me a pension my future scares me because i don't want to struggle as the dream of retirement fades away and we're clear you gotta do something you know try to keep it above water. on al-jazeera. is different from other channels because we're not just there when something happens we are there before it happens there while it happens and we say we have a permit for this and a lot of places are not. in the back ground being in love is very it's about syria it's about lebanon it's about the power struggle between iran and saudi arabia it's all there and that's the challenge.

britain's prime minister gets parliament's approval to renegotiate her brags that deal now she has to convince the e.u. . daryn jordan this is live from doha also coming up venezuela's struggle intensifies as the self declared president has bank accounts frozen and is blocked from leaving the country. online booking giants are accused of profiting from war crimes by doing business with israelis in occupied palestinian territories. qatar is celebrated just outside thrushes. asian cup host the u.s. in a politically charged. the

british parliament has given the go ahead for terrorism aid to return to brussels and try to secure a better breaks that deal but one of the u.k. prime minister's most important negotiating tools was watered down as m.p.'s voted to reject a no deal bragg's it then in barber explains what it means for the u.k. and how the e.u. has reacted. outside the u.k. parliament the debate was fierce histories of 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 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 that. the eyes have it so did a government backed amendment calling for the so-called irish backstop to be replaced with unspecified alternative arrangements with 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 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 renegotiate is. 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. oh no team barber al-jazeera london journal is outside westminster in central london jonah such a reason may now faces a huge challenge to convince in your leaders to reopen negotiations but they've already said there's been no revisions to the deal. yes absolutely they have it isn't easy immediately to see how that's going to go i think the strategy is likely to be for tourism a to go to brussels and say to you leaders look the british parliament has finally reached a majority for a scenario that it will accept that it wants to see which in essence means

accepting most of the provisions of the existing agreement the divorce bill thirty nine billion pounds respecting citizens' rights in hans now with workers' rights protections and environmental protections but short of or at least substantially tweaked the northern ireland backstop that mechanism that guarantees no quarter of the island of ireland that many m.p.'s fear could trap this country in an e.u. customs union indefinitely if future trade talks which a fail and the thinking will be if you recall in december the last time she went to the leaders looking for guarantees for assurances the thinking will be that at that point talks faulted because they weren't convinced she had such a majority we'll hear she will say is a majority give me what i want and it will work the problem is as nadine was pointing out is that the e.u. has been steadfast all along reiterated in the last twelve hours or so the withdrawal agreement cannot be reopened furthermore the backstop has to be there

because it protects the interests of all the new you member the republic of ireland in the report of pub republican arlen said he hasn't changed its view there is conceivably scope to put something in the political declaration longside it which is of course not legally binding or to have some sort of legal code is still attached to the withdrawal agreement that specifies intentions we've sort of been there before and the real problem for tourism a is that she won that vote by just sixty votes it has to be said and narrow margin having promised that she would go and renegotiate the deal and renegotiate a backstop and the e.u. have simply said there's no scope for that a tool yeah jonah just us a bit more about this proposed alternative to the irish backstop because nobody quite knows the detail on this do they. well this is one possible basis upon which negotiations might run if negotiations happen at all she may be looking for an end date to the backstop she may be looking

for a unilateral a sovereign exit mechanism or there is this third way which is opened up came about on tuesday morning revealed by a cross party group of senior and b.'s who'd been negotiating it amongst themselves in secret in essence what it would say is look we'll take again most of the withdrawal agreement we'll extend the transition period to the end of twenty twenty one nearly three years at that point if a trade deal a future trial hasn't been struck at the back stop will become a sort of loose free trade arrangement based on rules with technological solutions in place to avoid hardboard a check cities in effect the no deal scenario that so many people fear now but with three years to prepare for it it's got a lot of support here it means that it is will have the ability to make their free trade deals outside of the e.u. it gives britain itself back from the e use point of view though they've already rejected this idea of technological solutions they say they're on workable that don't even exist again it's not clear to see where that line in negotiation would lead thank you. now yemen's who the

rebels have released a saudi prisoner suffering from poor health international committee of the red cross facilitated the transfer of the prisoner from yemen sanna airport he has hepatitis c. the united nations special envoy to yemen martin griffiths says he wants to strike a deal to make similar prisoner swaps more common as he tries to preserve a shaky cease fire have bar reports. the cease fire intraday there appears to be on the verge of falling apart fighting has intensified on the outskirts of yemen's main port city further north government troops backed by the sergeant emirate he led military coalition are on the move took up certain areas near the who think controlled capital sana'a u.n. envoy martin griffiths met who think amanda's to plead with them to maintain the whole day the cease fire which began six weeks ago the hands of the rebels

political council told the u.n. envoy that saudi arabia is undermining the truce no economic 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's may be his last official mission his being replaced by a danish general who led a peacekeeping mission in mali. the day the cease fire agreed during talks in sweden in december calls for 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 burnt millions are threatened with famine. the these say they will

pull out but won't hand over the area to their anime's and they say saudia marital led forces must stop attacking her data who are able cabinet that we need to fight against aggression and send fighters to the battlefields that should be our answer to those who want to ask only yemen's government and president of the. reject the who are saying they must withdraw immediately and a lot of the yemeni army to take over. if the day the ceasefire collapses completely millions of suffering yemenis will be waiting even longer for the four year old war and i smile but i'll just. venezuelan supreme court has banned the self declared interim president from leaving the country the court has also frozen one of those assets it's in response to the trump ministrations moves to have them control of venezuela's u.s.

bank accounts. reports from neighboring colombia. it took the venezuelan government less than twenty four hours to attempt to strike back against the latest round of you saying soon the country's attorney general announced. 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 income 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 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 as being this well as legitimate leader. still has some international support mainly from china and russia who once again said that the u.s. sanctions are illegal. what the united states and their closest allies are doing. is of course very worrying crudely violating all norms of international law essentially taking a direct course at legal authority in this latin american nation. over more than a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation and demanding president steps down. they've been met with force and the

threat of imprisonment so in total i think we have some. just over forty people are believed to being 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 armed groups this by the violence the opposition is calling for another massive demonstration wednesday and another one on saturday as beneath power struggle continues with no end in sight both inside and outside of the country alison there are. a blast of arctic air from what's being described as a polar vortex is bringing dangerously cold weather to parts of the u.s. and canada the u.s. midwest region is particularly hard hit chicago and michigan a blanket in heavy snow while minneapolis recorded the coldest temperature minus

twenty nine degrees celsius thousands of flights have been canceled and schools are closed in canada a storm dumped more than twenty five centimeters of snow in toronto the heaviest snowfall in a decade. well more on that coming up in the weather later and then on the power struggle in venezuela we'll examine wipe china is standing by in the can is about to run. and america's top spies find holes in donald trump's foreign policy claims during a checking q. and a on capitol hill or not stay with us. we got some really still weather now pushing into western parts of europe and see this latest weather system rolling in across the press potentially western parts of france at the parallel pressure that would also affect a good part all of the shells over the next twenty four hours will see that's going

to bring a fair bit of windy weather wintry weather and snow that snow will pile it's way down across the low countries as we go on into where does that rank in the back you behind the west front added to the iberian peninsula some heavy rain see just around the age the attic pushing across into the balkans i looking well the wet and windy for a good part of greece athens at around fourteen degrees celsius further north this is. a war moscow getting up to around freezing on wednesday to get above freezing for cheese day some wet windy weather continuing their. the central areas not so bad a little fluttering of snow fall some ticks down towards northern parts of the balkans but you see more rain most snow hold the cards for holland. and wells as we go one day that wet weather that when she weather just this way down across western parts of france into spain and portugal for northern parts of africa still a few showers affecting the foggles all the algeria for a time looking fine and dry for the east.

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here this hour the british parliament has given to reason by the go ahead to return to brussels to try to renegotiate her brags that deal now she has to convince the end which ruled that out significant changes to the agreement. the u.n. special envoy to yemen is in the data trying to preserve the fragile cease fire. delegations and both sides to withdraw port city. and as well as supreme court has barred self declared interim president one door from leaving the country and has frozen his assets. not china's leaders have reason to be especially concerned about the turmoil in venezuela it's regarded as china's staunchest ally in south america a friendship that's been underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons china correspondent adrian brown. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited

about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power.