because of the rene songs who in turn laid the foundations for our modern world. this impressive building is the weill cornell medical college an offshoot of cornell university in new york based here in qatar of come to find out more about their genetic research how they're mapping the human genome to find out more about genetic and hereditary diseases pertaining to people in this part of the world. the genome is the complex genetic code contained in every cell in our bodies determines all our inherited features such as what we look like in heritage diseases we might be vulnerable to it's unique for every person so this is a microscope that allows you to look in different depth inside the cell. professor harvard med chakka has great expectations of what sequencing genomes will reveal the program is about six years old now the focus is on problems that are of

the importance in the region particularly into other or there are is a lot of families that have inherited diseases and diabetes is a critical importance there in your genetic disorders or critically important so we've chosen to take those families and sequence both affected unaffected members and that will help us been pointed gene that causes a disease. the key to understanding these diseases is to analyze people's genomes to look for differences and to do this they use a d.n.a. sequence or connected to a supercomputer all living organisms and made up of cells each cell has a nucleus and within the new this is the genetic material that defines the features that make us here. this genetic material is a comb made up of over three billion components called bases. is too long to be analyzed in one piece so first they need to split it into smaller sections these machines is does a process. sequence so essentially here what we do is take that genetic material

chop it up into small pieces and load it into the instrument it was interpreted that information and put these pieces back together so rather than trying to follow the full string awful but the billions of bases on one d.n.a. molecule is chopping it up looking at different bits and then putting it back piecing it back together genetic technology is evolving rapidly the lab has recently installed their most advanced piece of equipment for d.n.a. sequencing is the first of its kind to be used in the middle east this is the third generation sequencer and what it does is it sequences longer fragments of the genetic code this one can give us as you see here the tail goes all the way to put a thousand or two thousand as a model to one hand about that one so that will give you more structure information

on the chromosome this equipment makes it possible for the lab to sequence the genomes of large numbers of people is a huge advance since one nine hundred ninety when the first projects to sequence the human genome officially began their original human genome reference was sequenced in ten years it was a huge international feeling it was a big accomplishment and now we can sequence the human genome within six to ten days with this technology so that advances are huge within ten years. going on here puts the university at the forefront of modern research building on the scholarly spirits of the golden were over a thousand years ago the flow was from the worst of the world where people were coming to. understand. centers of learning and learning about delayed stick knowledge and what's going on and then taken a back hoe. home and improving their own health care or mathematics or

understanding offer astronomy or whatever of this do you feel personally a sense of pride that now in the arab world in the muslim world there is this cutting edge research going on again after so many centuries of decline where it was once the center of knowledge and research not very much so very much so i think that's a huge incentive for a lot of scientists who are originally from the region to come back and contribute back but i also see it as a bridge to you know science tend to be a good subject to bring different. people from all over the world together because everybody is seeking new knowledge so it's a great platform to kind of build connectivity and build a multicultural environment where everybody can discuss and talk about these things .

while my head is spinning not only other laboratories here the most advanced and well equipped that i've probably seen anywhere in the world but they've brought together researches from around the world different cultures different backgrounds to work together collaboratively in a way that's so reminiscent of what happened in the house of wisdom in baghdad during the height of the golden age. from astronomy and. to chemistry. and medicine. we've traced the journey of scientific discovery that links the scholars of the golden age to the cutting edge science of our modern world. that you have here is a handheld model of the sky their achievements book groundbreaking this is a particular favorite of mine it's beautiful and their discoveries still resonate today almost a thousand. it is off to the golden age of song it's. the

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this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a dan this is the news live from coming up in the next sixty minutes opening up to the opposition venezuela's president says he's willing to talk to the man the supreme court barred from leading the country. back to the e.u. the u.k.'s prime minister gets the go ahead from to renegotiate the break the deal . and america's top intelligence chiefs contradict transformed policy positions during a hearing in congress. with all the sports on the job still isn't done for qatar after their four nil win over the u.a.e. with japan waiting for them in the asian cup final. begin this hour with venezuela as the united states puts further pressure on

president nicolas maduro to resign through a seizure of oil assets during himself is changing his tune in now says he's ready to negotiate with his opposition rival one why though who's declared himself interim leader durham made the offer during an interview on russian television the kremlin it's one of his most important allies but he's rejected calls for a snap presidential election insisting the next one won't be held until two thousand and twenty five opposition leader gray those called for continued demonstrations against madieu. meanwhile venezuela's supreme court has bowed the self declared interim president from leaving the country the court also frozen has also frozen quietly why those assets that's on the run p.s.u. reports from neighboring colombia. it took to venezuela and government less than twenty four hours to attempt to stay. back against the latest round of sanctions

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 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 legitimate leader yet my daughter still has some international support meanly 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 and essentially taking a direct course at the legal authority in this latin american nations. over more than a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation in demanding president by do those 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 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 been a power struggle continues with no end in sight both inside and outside of the country alison. chalons joins us live in moscow now understand my daughter's been talking on russian television what sort of message is the sending to the russians. it was me speaking to the russian news agency ria novosti and see it's a fairly far ranging interview covering various different things centrally i think what he would like to get from russia the short answer is help and support.

there are various like credible reasons to believe that recent weeks russia has dispatched mercenaries private military contractors from the ragnor group. to go in safeguard maturer himself where madeira was asked about this in the interview with the enormous city he said that he wasn't going to comments mysterious flights have been going between russia and venezuela over recent days and weeks. is also talking about russian involvement in mediation between. the venezuelan government. madeira himself and the opposition now or this could be interpreted as perhaps an olive branch to the opposition but it also could be interpreted as a way to play for time basically if russia and other countries can be drawn into

a long protracted mediation process well perhaps mature as crisis will pass and the sting could be taken out of one got pushed take over the presidency and could perhaps vives you know to to live another day essentially that's the kind of thing the madeira might be asked or the russians are saying the kremlin is saying that it hasn't received any specific requests from caracas yet to be involved in that. it is certainly something that russia might consider all right roy challenge from moscow. the british parliament has given the go ahead for its reason may to return to brussels and try to secure a better deal. one of the u.k. prime ministers most importantly go sheeting tools was watered down those m.p.'s voted to reject and no deal brings it that they involve explains what it means for the u.k. how the e.u.

is reacting. oh. i saw in 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 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. the 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 island as an e.u. member and northern ireland up 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 this withdrawal agreement negotiated between the european union and the u.k. is the best deal possible and it is not renegotiate 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 around 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. with the team barbara al-jazeera london. well m.p.'s have been meeting in secret over the past week to create a plan that both sides would support dubbed the morehouse compromise it was essentially cedes reason may renegotiate the part of the briggs's agreement that deals with the irish border and replace it with a free trade accord just how that will work though is rather complicated officials hope a yet to be invented technology could be set up to avoid customs checks on the irish border the malthouse compromise would also extend the transition period for at least one more year to formalize a new trading relationship with the e.u. in turn a whole is outside westminster in central london and jonas after everything that's been happening in the last twenty four hours i guess the big question is. tourism at this point convincing leaders to reopen any negotiations.

look the first touch contact as it were between the government and the e.u. will take place this afternoon we understand in a phone call said you'll between to resume and on to the you act council president and i think they strategy that is opening up that the british government will take will be simply to say to your leaders look we now finally have a situation in which the house of commons has come up with a majority vote for what he's willing to accept which is a version of the existing arrangement with dual agreement but not the existing backstop the backs of course that many people fear could trap this country in an e.u. customs union indefinitely if future trade relationship talks fail. the problem with this of course is that the e.u.

has repeatedly said yesterday said this morning will say again this afternoon that there is no scope for reopening the withdrawal agreement and no scope for fundamentally altering the backstopped reason may says she will look for things like a fixed end date for the backstop she would look like look for a unilateral mechanism by which britain can we drop the backs of it wants to there is the multitasks suggestion outlined there of technical solutions that would negate the need for hard border checks on the island of ireland during that period when trade talks go on again problems problems problems all of those issues have in the past been rejected by the e.u. and it's.