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 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. 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 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 the. 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 taking a direct course at legal authority in american nations. over more than a week demonstrators have been taking to the streets protesting the dire economic situation in demanding president might do it as 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 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. well as we mentioned earlier russia is a close ally of nicolas maduro and says it's ready to help facilitate mediation in a briefing a short time ago foreign minister sergei lavrov said in order for negotiations to be successful and as well as opposition is to drop all preconditions related in the region that it will to mottled if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions dinette kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or

useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work together independently god is only by the interests of the venezuelan people and the joins us from moscow research various countries rally around maduro how is russia trying to play the situation. well i think we can certainly see similarities with what's going on here regarding venezuela and what was happening a few years ago in syria with that was russia say yes there should be talks yes of course there should be dialogue but the opposition cannot be demanding anything of what russia considers to be a legitimate government in syria without assad and now in venezuela with madieu row as well it's a very similar playbook i think basically saying we will mediate we will put

ourselves into this tense situation could be internationally volatile and we will get these two sides to talk but it's the talking i think that russia hopes will diffuse this for venezuela former bureau basically spinning this out buying him time and hoping that in the time that he now has they can strengthen his position he can strengthen his own and his or thaw at sea in that country can be preserved. in speaking to a russian news agency what morsi been saying rory. well he has been talking about the negotiations he's been saying yes he's willing to sit down with the opposition he wants various countries the have expressed an interest in dialogue and he seems let me see here mexico year

ago i believe you know russia the vatican and some european governments that he says they've all supported dialogue so he says he's going to send official letters to them and that this dialogue can happen where they want when they want and whatever form they want i think as we heard earlier on he said no to a new presidential vote the last ones that place less than a year ago he won it's therefore there's no need to revisit that he is saying perhaps yes to a new parliamentary of votes a vote in the national assembly remember of course that it's one guy who is the leader of the national assembly if there were to be a snap parliamentary election then perhaps that could be used so we can why don't my knees also you are asked about whether there are any russian mercenaries protecting him in the moments there's been reports both inside russia and news

agencies like reuters who say that the private military contracting group has sent mercenaries from russia to venezuela in recent weeks basically to protect maduro from anything physical that might happen to them the right to really challenge their moscow thank you now the british parliament has given the go ahead for the reason made to return to brussels and try to secure a better brags that deal but one of the u.k. prime ministers most important negotiating tools was watered down as m.p.'s voted to reject a no deal breakers it met in barbour 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. the i 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 island as an e.u. member a northern ireland up to breaks 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. they 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. zero. well m.p.'s have been meeting in secret server the past week to create a plan that both sides would support it's dubbed the malthouse compromise it would essentially see to reason may renegotiate the part of her break that agreement that deals with the irish border and replace it with a free trade accord but just how that will work is rather complicated but officials

hope a yet to be invented technology could be set up to avoid customs checks on the irish border well the malthouse compromise is named after a housing minister who came up with the idea but also extend the transition period for at least one more year to formalize a new trading relation with the e.u. joins us again from outside westminster in central london john up i mean even the head of the european parliament now says he can't see a situation where the breaks that deal could be renegotiated so where does tourism a go with that. yes well he used been pretty unambiguous about that all along there's going to be a phone call later today we understand between tourism and on the council president to talk about the way ahead the approach from the government i think will be simply this we have now in the house of commons found a majority for the sort of deal the british parliament can accept it involves

a version of the withdrawal agreement that's already been negotiated minus the backstop the northern ireland backstop in its current form that of course represents to many m.p.'s a grave risk or threat that the e.u. the u.k. may find to find itself trapped in an e.u. customs union indefinitely while the trade talks go on or indeed of trade talks future trade talks fail what might that change the backstop looked like well tourism is either going to try and get a fixed end date to the backstop to make it suitably temporary or she may look for some unilateral mechanism to bring britain out of it or that most house compromise as you outlined it technological solutions to avoid hard checks at a border on the island of ireland the problem is all of those solutions have previously been ruled out by the e.u. and of course the problem above all problems is the e.u.'s insistence that with all agreement and the backstop are simply not up for renegotiation and.

we think. i think look at it in the ongoing search for a sort of parliamentary consensus beyond this very thin majority the reason they won last night to renegotiate it can't be a bad thing for the prime minister in the head of the opposition to be meeting as far as present a united front unlikely the only thing they really agree on is that breaks it should go ahead they see it in very different ways mr coburn i think is likely to push again to legislate against a no deal breaks and he will push her again to start thinking about a softer form of bricks it staying in the customs union should only go she ations with the e.u. failed it's all likely to be a sort of threat to what happens after february thirteenth when she's now mandated to come back and tell parliament whether she's got this new deal or not she says

the very next day valentine's day they can amend her motion and vote on all sorts of options once again much as we saw on tuesday night i think you could see again on valentine's day a vote to cancel no deal a vote on a customs union a vote even on a second referendum that's all start to turn up thank you now it's a he says five european nations are offering to take in some of the rescued migrants on board a humanitarian ship off the coast of sicily the sea watch three has been stranded since friday with forty seven people on board internees pop and its government has been stopping humanitarian ships from docking and its poor its it wants other countries to share the burden a new u.n. report says six people die each day crossing the mediterranean sea to seek refuge. time for a short break here down to zero when we come back america's top intelligence chiefs contradict some of donald trump's foreign policy positions during a hearing in congress are not stay with us.

hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where here across parts of western europe we have been watching one weather system coming in from the atlantic bring some very windy conditions across the region i want to show you what it did look here like here in paris where they did see some snow with this what winter system we had some rain along the coast we had some gusty winds as well but here in paris it was the snow from tuesday to tuesday night blanketing the city of course was quite nice but it did cause some problems along the streets and on the roads there we are going to seeing that snow continue to make its way over here towards the east of the next few days here's that air of low pressure it's going to hit of course the alps and we are going to see some extended areas of snow anywhere across the north and then down here across the south and parts of italy though it is going to be rain and also across parts of greece and into turkey we are still it has a very heavy rain across much of that area up here towards the north though berlin

not looking too bad for you with a high temperature few just above freezing at three degrees there well across into the coast of africa we are looking clouds as well as some windy conditions as well here across parts of algeria tunisia we are going to be seeing some more windy conditions maybe some rain in your forecast algiers a high temperature few of about fifteen degrees tunis at thirteen and cairo it is going to be a partly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about twenty degrees there. high in the atlas mountains. village women are fending for themselves. as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. but training home farm and family is tough with no outside supports comet's longer is this way of life sustainable al-jazeera world meets morocco village superwomen.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to oppose a strike one ply don't detect himself interim leader but during made the offer during an interview with russian t.v. . the british parliament has given juries a may the go ahead to return to brussels and renegotiate how briggs it deals with the us ruled out three significant changes to the agreement. the saudi u.a.e. coalition and yemen says it will release seven who the prisoners after the who these released a saudi prisoner on tuesday the international committee of the red cross

facilitated the transfer of the prisoner up but to riyadh he's suffering from advanced hepatitis c. the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffith says he wants to make prisoner swaps more common in the attempt to preserve a shaky cease fire. this is a very positive step today and. we really hope that more of that would be done to alleviate. the suffering and bring comfort to. many many families who have been affected by the conflict in yemen. in terms this is not related to today's. release based on purely humanitarian and medical basis. we didi hope also that in the future the operation to transfer. detainees will materialize while fighting has again flared up across yemen including near the

key port city of her data reports. the ceasefire in her data 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 led military coalition are on the move took up. near the who think controlled capital sana un envoy martin griffiths met who think amanda 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 oh actor nominee 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 its 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 who theoretical 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 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 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 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 to and i smile but i'll just. police and so than the rest a senior member of the opposition or maher party which says security forces surrounded the home of money i'm sorry. i'm detained along with others. on tuesday so.