and has frozen his assets. 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 but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of minutes well especially when it's well in government to uphold national sovereignty independence and threatening military interference and continued to support efforts made by the stability. the growing political economic and humanitarian crisis in venezuela has attracted global headlines and concern the main evening news on state controlled television has shown pictures of the protests but so far made no mention of the violence or suffering of the people as in africa chinese influence in south america is expanding fast especially in venezuela. besides money china has also been helping

the majeure regime in another important way it's now venezuela's biggest provider of arms including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective during the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing now online vacation companies are being accused of supporting human rights violations against palestinians imust international says israeli listings of homes and activities is directly contributing to the expansion of illegal settlements or bad money explains on the c international is accusing some of the world's best known hotel booking travel companies of supporting illegal settlement expansion in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem it says air b.n. b. booking dot com expedient and trip advisor a few link human rights violations against palestinians by listing hotels and activities in israeli settlements air b.n. b. had three hundred listings trip advisor seventy booking dot com forty five and

expedient nine after an investigation by al-jazeera and human rights watch in november at the m.b. said it would remove the listings in settlements in the occupied west bank but not occupied east jerusalem and the city says many other things aren't honest about whether hotels are such as one hotel in the far adam incessant booking dot com says it's twenty five kilometers from the dead sea with panoramic views of the youth who deserts but the website doesn't say it's in an illegal israeli settlement where the bedroom village of qana is less than two kilometers away israel supreme court gave the green light for the eviction of all villages in september israel has offered them two places to move to one beside a former rubbish dump near abu dis and the other an open sewage plant near jericho . well i'm feeling for national said it's time for these companies to stand up for

human rights by withdrawing all of their listings in illegal settlements let's bring in mark damage in london he coauthored that report as the research on business and human rights at amnesty international at the general premise of your report is that booking companies like air b.n. b. are driving illegal israeli settlement expansion violating international law and profiting from war crimes that tell us very briefly how this was discovered and how big the problem is what we think of these tourism companies is is fairly innocuous fairly harmless tourism itself to be a fairly harmless activity but you know we have seen how a wide range of companies international companies doing business with these illegal settlements have have boosted them have help sustain them and help their expansion and this includes these tourism companies there's a growing tourism industry in the israeli settlements both israeli and

for interests and these companies are helping to drive this tourism and therefore helping to sustain what is an illegal situation under international law and mark to what extent are these companies misleading tourist by failing to show that listings are actually located within israeli settlements in occupied land. the labeling of these properties they store attractions is part of the issue as you mentioned there as your reporter mentioned there in some cases these companies don't clearly label the the settlements or these properties or attractions are in the settlements which as i said are illegal under international law but that's really only part of the problem the fact is they're there in the first place and they shouldn't be there not only is this an illegal situation but also these companies are contributing to the human rights violations that the

settlements are the root cause of and these companies have responsibilities which have been articulated by the the un guiding principles on business and human rights not to contribute or cause human rights violations and that's why we're saying that these companies these well known companies trip advisor booking dot com expedia and air b.n. b. should withdraw from these settlements all right so i was going to ask you i mean what is amnesty then actually calling for and just to broaden that out can governments also put regulator pressure on these booking companies to force them to operate within the law. yeah absolutely and we've seen in ireland recently with the passing of a bill through the lower house of parliament the irish boil just in the last few days that. you know this can be done that the law or an island calls for the banning of companies based in ireland to do any business in or with settlements and honestly international is calling on other countries around the world to do the

same you know that can be the import of goods that are manufactured in settlements or produce that is grown in settlements but also these services such as these tourism services we're calling on states to to regulate companies and ban. doing business with with these settlements and and i want to be clear we're not calling for a boycott of israel this isn't against israel it's against very specifically israeli settlements in the occupied palestinian territories in the west bank and east jerusalem which are as i say again illegal under international law not dumber thank you very much for talking to us. now u.s. intelligence chiefs have contradicted some of donald trump's fundamental foreign policy views beaking at a senate hearing on global threats they took issue with the president's assertion that i saw has been defeated and that north korea can be convinced to give up its nuclear weapons by counter reports from washington. president trump or traces

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 kim jong un is looking very forward to it so much. made a lot of progress that has not been reported by the media but we have made 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 wm d. capabilities in is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view 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 failed to realize the economic benefits they hoped for from the deal president trump claimed to have defeated eisele was used as a 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 at 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. big taishan that it will do so again in twenty twenty. potentially most galling to the president there is 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. five people have been arrested in connection with friday's dam collapse in southeast brazil the number of dead does risen to eighty four twenty three hundred people are still missing three of those detained work for the mining companies owners the other two engineers who are responsible for the dam safety. fell qatar's reached the final of the asian cup for the very first time beating host the united arab emirates for mail in a semifinal grudge match khattala now face four time champs japan on friday so how manic reports. it was dubbed the blockade darby qatar taking on asian cup hosts the u.a.e. 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 could once the action started though it didn't take long for things to

heat up that the michigan or the dear little so we were told to qatar despite playing in the stadium with little support would be the ones to go ahead. 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 nil with his eighth goal of the campaign for the same of 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 scan of the days 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 past the now deuce making it three nil that. 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 men. 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. they now move on to friday final against japan when folk atar will see them stage the first world cup in the middle east in twenty twenty two as asian champions so he'll mallett al-jazeera. were banned from going to the game qatar is watched on chair at home in sun zone set up in the capital doha dorset job i went along to one of them. 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 and 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 was. about all of these things for them given that. the reason 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. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the british parliament is authorized prime minister to resign may to go back to brussels to try to secure a better deal politicians also voted to make it harder for the prime minister to take britain out of the e.u. without a deal on a whole give us the latest on the p.m.'s next move with brussels. the strategy is

likely to be victories in may to go to brussels and say to e.u. 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 harms now with workers' rights protections and environmental protection yemen's who the rebels have released a saudi prisoner suffering from poor health the international committee of the red cross facilitate the transfer of the prisoners from yemen sanna airport yes hepatitis c. the u.n. 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. venezuela's supreme court has declared interim leader one guide dog from leaving the country and sets on monday the u.s.

imposed sanctions on the state or giant part of efforts to drive president maduro from power. companies have been accused of supporting human rights violations against palestinians amnesty international says israeli listings of homes and activities is directly contributing to the expansion of illegal settlements. the head of u.s. intelligence says north korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons down codes told the u.s. senate the regime sees the arsenal as crucial to its survival. is an odds with president donald trump who is planning a second summit was north korean leader. five people have been arrested in connection with friday's dam collapse at a mine in southeast brazil eighty four people are confirmed dead nearly three hundred still missing three of those detained work for the mining company the other two engineers who worked on the down safety well those well the headlines continues here on al-jazeera after inside story thanks so much. talk to.

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