spread fear anyone who witnessed the brutal killings will not think of returning there. this growing frustration about what some say is that ability of the military and police to stop the heavily armed gunman roaming the expansive forest but the security forces say the forest is vast and difficult to navigate they say totec them time to completely clear it of al shabaab fighters how would i do well just born in forest. lawyers in zimbabwe are demanding free and fair trials for hundreds of anti-government protesters who've been detained of a fear the ruling party and security forces could interfere in the court process has more from. the. lawyers in zimbabwe say they know they're taking a risk protesting two weeks ago security forces are fighting to disperse demonstrators in syria to by rising fuel prices some lawyers representing zimbabweans arrested cheering him after the protests are demanding security forces

and politicians don't interfere with the judiciary believe that the question is supreme not the military therefore we will fight for the rights of accused persons no matter what the cost is to ourselves. the lawyers also want the government to respect the rights of the more than one thousand people arrested in the past two weeks the events that if taken place in our country in the past two weeks have been quite disturbing in terms of the risk that turpin done must iris the must 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 rulings on of torching the h.q. cheering 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 is it from a lot of the men they are not just targeting people for the circuit they want to cripple their. the government blames the opposition for the unrest and police deny targeting opposition supporters i think of sin. activists who also been to us in the we arrested. in the same vein those from the m.d.c. also. participated when we were there and that they were also aristide so i don't think it's fair to say police are targeting police we only look at it what somebody did during this into an arrest then we do we're going to investigate into 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 the demands for an independent legal system will be heard but something i deem a job is going to become even more difficult. algis there had

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 are blanketed in heavy snow while minneapolis recorded its coldest temperature minus twenty nine degrees celsius thousands of flights have been canceled and schools are closed in the calendar a storm dumped more than twenty five centimeters of snow in toronto the heaviest snow fall in a decade well have all the weather with kevin to tell us about the big freeze but still ahead an al-jazeera. struggle in venezuela examined why china is standing by nicolas maduro. south korea's former olympic speed skating coach gets more jail time after allegations he beat and raped female athletes.

was. well as semi said we have seen some of the coldest air that we have seen in decades coming down across parts of canada as well as into the northern part of united states let's take a look what's happening right now with the with the system that's coming in we have a lot of storm snow pushing out here towards the east what you see here in the white that area of white right there is not snow that is actually the cold air being picked up by the satellite that is how cold it is across that area and that is the polar vortex now we do have one frontal boundary that is designating where some warmer air is but that's still quite cold down here toward the south i want to show you some of the coldest wind chills that we have seen in the last six to twelve hours across this area of course wind chill is a combination of the air temperature with the winds and that's what you get we have

minus fifty two is what it felt like in winnipeg minus forty six in minneapolis minus forty four is what it felt like in chicago the high temperatures today well they're not looking too much better than that we're looking at about minus thirty in winnipeg about minus twenty six there in minneapolis minus thirteen and toronto overnight lows are going to be another very very very bad evening into the morning and how those temperatures feel will be down to about minus thirty nine in winnipeg and that cold air is going to move over here towards east high's tomorrow look like this a little bit better out here towards the west but much worse oh here to the west to the east where new york is going to be about minus eight in ottawa minus fourteen. the weather sponsored. if you were looking at this from the outside you would really wonder what was going on what is this gross is a religion that they have an in-depth exploration of global capitalism and our obsession with economic growth this is still the center of capitalism there is no

limits i view myself as a capital artist we are trying to because the world smaller and smaller we don't want to base a realistic in the world we would rather have a fantasy growing pains on al-jazeera. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. other kingdom in the company inseparable here the world's largest oil producer and you don't list in the world's largest stock exchange that definitely felt something al-jazeera investigates the politics of oil the middle east's most potent economic weapon. saudi arab code the company and the state on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching out zero time to recap the headlines now but as well as president nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to opposition rival one who's declared himself interim leader my daughter made the offer during an interview with russian television. the push parliament has given to resume a the go ahead to return to brussels and renegotiate her brags that deal of the e.u. is ruled out any significant changes to be breathed. the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen says it will release seven houthi prisoners after the who thieves released the saudi prisoner on tuesday he was transferred back to riyadh where he will be treated for advanced hepatitis c. . u.s. intelligence chiefs have contradicted some of donald trump's foreign policy positions speaking at a senate hearing on global threats they took issue with the president's assertion

isis been defeated that north korea can be convinced to give up its nuclear weapons mike halloran forte's from washington. president trample 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. made a lot of progress that has not been reported by them 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 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 new clue. the 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 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 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. the longtime adviser and confident of president dog trump has appeared in court to washington d.c. . pleaded not guilty on tuesday to several charges against him as part of the investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump's two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign. is the sixth trump associate to be indicted by special counsel on those t.v. . reports from washington d.c. . longtime personal friend and adviser to u.s. president donald trump roger stone came to this courthouse to have his lawyer plead

not guilty to the charges he's facing now stone as someone who likes to be provocative he likes to make a scene and the scene outside the courthouse was befitting that there was a giant inflatable rat with the cell phone with donald trump spare protesters supporters and a whole lot of cameras so basically what's happening is stone has been charged with impeding the investigation into tension solution between russia and the trump campaign the allegation is he acted as a kind of go between between wiki leaks which published hacked democratic e-mails and the trunk campaign then congress was investigating that he allegedly didn't tell them the truth so he's facing charges of obstructing that investigation lying to congress and also threatening another witness he has been set free on bail he'll be back in the courthouse at the end of this week to a very similar scene likely will the lawyers for the government and his defense team will map out the way forward in front of a judge. 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 friendship that's been backed by huge loans investments and weapons sales is

a china correspondent a dream 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's 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 mature 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

joining the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing. well china is not the only key ally of venezuela and speak now to mr cool to see in the moscow he's a partner at bruce energy an oil and gas consulting firm based in russia good to have you with us what's at stake for russia or in venezuela particularly maduro survival yes i think mainly this is the gas that russia has invested in ministerial or it is an estimated two top all over seventeen billion dollars and i believe this some might be even higher and the problem is is that with the change in the regime and even if my dearest stays in power there is very little hold over recovery in that money back. how far do you think russia would be willing to go you know to to ensure that we're doing a stays in power keeping in mind that the there has been speculation in the us about

possible military intervention by washington yes there are all kinds of speculations even know there were reports that some sort of a group over russian mercenaries have already reached video soil or air but i dollar to that such allegations are true because any russian military forces that would the desire to come to caracas would have to compete with the men to slauson the cuban morris' and there is that are already there protecting my duro and i do not believe there would be any sort of serious they are a confrontation between the russian army a russian military force and the for example u.s. military force in latin america can russia offset the u.s. pressure particularly sanctions u.s.

sanctions on venezuela given that russia itself is suffering from sanctions. yes i think it is of the problem with the russians first of all while companies look or all of the largest private oil company in the russia has suspended all operations in the region cereal and suspended all contracts because because it was earlier receive in some oil from that country and the rosner this state company of russia which has a lot invested over seven billion dollars in that country is already a stand in its personnel back from venezuela. they have invested money but i do not think we do searle is prepared to be bills along his own credits with actual deliveries of physical amounts of oil or thanks so much could have been there. the u.s.

has started returning asylum seekers to mexico's part of a new policy aimed at curbing illegal immigration man from honduras was the first to be sent back on tuesday under president donald trump so-called remain in mexico policy it requires some asylum seekers to return to mexico instead of waiting in the u.s. one of those cases play out in court italy says five european 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 people on board italy's oculus government has been stopping humanitarian ships from docking at its ports it wants other e.u. countries to share the burden and new u.n. report says six people die each day crossing the mediterranean sea to sea refuge at least two people have been killed and four others injured in a grenade attack on a mosque in the southern philippines region of mindanao it happened in the city of

them by anger the area is home to a substantial muslim population a largely catholic country. bad attack follows a bombing at a cathedral on the southern philippines island of jolo. going to do what he calls an all out war against those responsible for the swine the violence them and christian leaders say they remain united i rode side bombings abductions and people displaced from their homes it's part of daily life in hollow 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 bravery is says growing up in his hometown always meant living in fear but as a christian who along with the majority of the population is muslim he always kept his feet until now his spirits romy and leo were killed when two bombs exploded at

the cathedral where they had gone to pray. a place of worship now was seen and destruction we strongly believe that. whatever religion you're in specially if you're living in hollow people living in all or knows what kind of bond and friendship we have between christians muslims. we don't discriminate regardless their religion. responsibility the government says the group was behind the bombings. that's really they keep inserting the matter of the way the cathedral and the neighbor says we have never been the by the christians and muslims it is shocking what they saw it was the strongest 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 these role 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 few duels from bombings like this there is an expectation that life can slowly return to normal but here in 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 al jazeera salusa the philippines. still ahead of al jazeera gets ready for the

biggest match in its history off to. the asian cup semi final hole will be.

welcome back it's time to catch up with all the sports and polls here something thank you very much cattle will play the biggest match in their football history when they take on continental giants japan in friday's asian cup final they got there thanks to a foreigner when over the tournament hosts united arab emirates was a game which regional politics also played a major part so helmet reports that it was dubbed the blockade dobby qatar taking

on asian cup hosts the u.a.e. which one of the four arab nations imposing a blockade on them since two thousand and seventeen but despite the political tension there was plenty of goodwill on show before kick off. good at thirty oh i did once the action started though it didn't take long for things to heat up. that will do it a little so we were good to qatar despite playing in the stadium with little support it would be the ones to go ahead. while in kuki gave them believe just twenty two minutes in. 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. the home crowd however didn't take what they were seeing very well bottles and shoes were among the things targeted to tarrie team from the stands had

a scan of days after the break the referee's patience was really tested as on field tensions continue to grow church. v.m. rockies 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. her deuce making it to remail it. was. the score line going out of the tournament and the disappointment of their founds all seem to be getting too much for the u.a.e. players if my lad 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. but they now move on to friday final against japan when folk at our we see them stage the first world cup in the middle east in twenty twenty two but as aging champions so he'll mallett al-jazeera manchester

city have lost ground in the race to win the english premier league title they suffered a surprise to faint away at newcastle goals from someone run down and richie gave newcastle a two hour when liverpool of four points clear of city at the top and play leicester later this wednesday we are in general a moment of time but of course when you are behind the leader. you have to you don't have to drop points because you held them in of course every game is one less but we are in generally so we have a lot of titles in games two are still to be. the rugby league season gets underway in its european heartlands of england and france on thursday but elsewhere the sport is facing a crisis greece are on the verge of qualifying for their first ever world cup play off the failed could ruin their chances for a plus reports from athens. these rugby league players are rebels greek authorities have tried to burn some of them from the sport altogether but not only

do they refused to stop their winning international matches and hope to qualify for the world cup where quite confident that waiting all the way so well so close there into the world cup and it's an ironic twist that greece itself the way things are going greece itself may prevent greece from playing in a world cup the greek rugby league association is a splinter group three years ago its players revolted against greece's official rugby league authority one of the teams was going to be expelled for reasons were deemed to be on. the mass walkout from the other players and there was no chance of compromise once we realize that we all just. went off and the fans essentially started the official hellenic rugby league federation still has four teams and practices regularly but it is no longer recognised by rugby league's european and international governing bodies in twenty sixteen they expelled it for

poor governance and instead recognised its rebel offshoot so greek law recognizes the federation and international rugby recognizes the rebels and the federation is using the power of greek law to pursue its rival last year it filed a complaint that resulted in police interrupting an association match with serbia since then the association has played its international matches at secret locations safe and i'm a moment because if there is only one national team which is the one that we organize it's wonderfully spontaneously form and play. but such teams cannot claim to be legal entities they cannot create national tournaments and they cannot play overseas teams in international tournaments and claim to represent greece but the rebels are generating new teams and claim to be luring players away from the federation rugby isn't a professional sport in greece it isn't even an amateur sport it's a volunteer sport these people have come here from all walks of life as shop

attendants security guards military men and women and students to practice in below freezing temperatures on the outskirts of athens driven only by their enthusiasm and it is they who very take varies to the twenty twenty one world cup the association is playing norway if they win they'll play scotland here in their friends in november to qualify for the world cup and the federation has to stop that from happening jobs are open also al-jazeera. the former national coach of south korea's speed skating team has been hit with more jail time cho j.p.l. has been convicted of assaulting a two time olympic champion bride reports from salt. beyond was originally sentenced last september to ten months in prison for assaulting four athletes one of them being shem suki he arrived in court in a prison van to hear the verdict of his appeal against that decision only to be told that his original sentence of ten months is now to be extended to eighteen

months shem had told his appeal hearing last december how she had been kicked and punched repeatedly during her training for the young chang winter olympics so much so she said she felt like she was going to die but earlier this month as she made the bombshell allegation that cho had also raped her on a number of occasions it is an allegation that cho threw his lawyers has denied nevertheless this case has sent shock waves through the whole sporting community of south korea in particular in short track speed skating it's a sport in which south korea has a particular prowess winning twenty four olympic gold medals since the early ninety's she herself is a double a lympics gold medalist but it does seem to indicate that a culture of abuse has been tolerated in the pursuit of

a limb pick excellence as the country's president in her said of this case it does seem to show the humiliating underside of the country's a glorious facade as a sporting powerhouse now a football team in ecuador has found an interesting way of introducing their team at of the new season fans of independent adele valure got an early look at their squad a virtual stick up with the players expected to show off some form from the dance for for the benefit of the watching world. only time i've ever been placed on the football ok well we're back later on some of. that so for this news hour we're back in a moment with more of the day's news that's coming up with our in jordan in just a couple minutes so stay with us.

short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short personal stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in. the street seems to defy gravity every few cities is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and

happiness but it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the time put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow petang example but how do you measure it. it's a nice happiness but when sure it if it is. simply turning its pursuit into policy. what no other country has. faced with growing financial burdens that separate money for student loans this chase credit card leads me twenty nine dollars and thirty one cents. 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. to something you know try to keep it above water. on al-jazeera.

opening up to the opposition venezuela's president says he's willing to talk to the man supreme courts barred from leaving the country. hello i'm don jordan this is. also coming up to the e.u. u.k. prime minister to resign may get the go ahead from parliament to renegotiate. we'll look at whether a small prisoner exchange in yemen will help a shaky cease fire. qatari celebrates their side thrushes asian cup.

further pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to resign through a seizure of oil assets maturer himself is changing his tune in now says he's ready to negotiate with his opposition rival. has declared himself interim leader well. view on russian television the kremlin is one of his most important allies but he's rejected calls for a presidential election insisting the next one won't be held until twenty twenty five opposition leader has called for continued demonstrations. meanwhile venezuela's supreme court has banned the president from leaving the country quarters also frozen assets. to reports from neighboring colombia. it took the government less than twenty four hours to attempt to strike 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 supreme court to request cautionary measures measures as we carry out the investigation against. a travel ban to avoid his departure from the country and.