still there was last night she whipped her own m.p.'s to vote essentially against her deal and she's now telling everyone else there is another deal to be had it's a bit of a turnaround isn't it is a huge turnaround and the logic that she used which was quite savvy that she was well the house of commons is rejects this i'm listening to the commons are listening to m.p.'s are listening to you guys and i guess if you will then single people want to hit with you believe it or not people start getting on your side a bit more and we saw that last night with the fact the tory m.p.'s who reject the do then came around back to outside well it was quite sad because like you said she could have been so averse to on that point quite a lot more and in terms of the question of how honest to she get the e.u. to negotiate she's pitching to them as she did in fear and queues a so-called stable and substantial majority the reality is the amendment that got through last night got through by just what he said seventy cents seventeen votes and he was she she can only lose nine m.p.'s before the whole whole thing falls flat why would the e.u. feel compelled to negotiate on that basis well there's two schools of thought here

isn't there the fact that she could say to the look by promising a little bit change the backstop of banks to get the party to come with me but with the e.u. might look at it and ses well actually these people don't want to change they want a substantial change you not just in the conference supply range in the d.p. use when it comes close range with the hard right bricks it's a wing of your party and whatever we give you is never going to be enough to satisfy them you will always come back office asking for more wealth and that takes years of course to whatever the supposed end of all of this might be the sort of five to midnight principle where in the big negotiation like this people are only going to blink at the very end are we anywhere near the real abyss point now i think is about quarter to midnight maybe a little bit time to go david davis or his practice actually made the exact point they state is going to be done in the final minute of the final day and i think we get in there was a report the count of the irish government yesterday saying that no deal would actually hit their economy by four percent so people now stand to look at the impact of no deal and perhaps their stance realized they need to vigilant as well.

thank you very much for your insights two weeks to come back on february thirteenth the very next day she says if she hasn't got a deal at all have to vote again we've been there before thanks so much journal how in the news ahead a campus crackdown in khartoum but it's not the students are being targeted. an all time low for the u.s. in calendar with record freezing temperatures and in sport the rugby league team that could miss out on the world cup due to interference from their own country. at least twenty eight people have been killed when two boats capsized off djibouti the boats were carrying at least one hundred thirty migrants and refugees when they tipped over shortly after departing many of the migrants are still missing thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea to find work in gulf

countries the united nations is warning refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean sea are losing their lives at an alarming rate new figures released by the un refugee agency shows six people died on average every day last year when it estimates more than two thousand two hundred migrants died or went missing while attempting the crossing the route was particularly deadly for boats leaving from libya where one person died at sea for every fourteen who arrived in europe despite a major drop in the number of refugees reaching europe one hundred thirty nine thousand arrive two thousand and eighteen that's the lowest number in five years for more on this that speak to charlie yaxley in geneva he's a spokesman for the un refugee agency good to have you with us so from those numbers there is looks like the journey to cross the mediterranean became a lot more dangerous or deadly in two thousand and eighteen is that the case.

who are report today shows the number of people arriving on european shores by mediterranean routes is down substantially compared to previous years we're back now to levels that we were typically seeing throughout the two thousand but what is the peak concerning is that for the fifth year in a row more than two thousand people lost their lives and this is happening particularly on the central mediterranean where on the route from libya to europe a combination of smugglers and traffickers attempting ever more dangerous journey right just go there so it's a jumpy road so externally university if the city if the number of people arriving in europe are going down but you've got the same number of deaths does that mean more people as a percentage are dying or does that just mean that we don't know how many more people are making the journey were only looking at how many people actually arrive

in europe because a lot of countries have cut down on their s.n.r. operations or their arrival figures where we're sure about because the passengers there they're disembarked and upon arrival in europe they're immediately registered their asylum claims documented for those seeking protection and for the others as well for the deaths figure that is likely a conservative estimate this figure of more than two thousand dead could in fact be quite far higher these are only the ones we know about. and there remains a lack of n.g.o.s operating search and rescue operations because of restrictions that have been imposed on them by states and we're seeing that deadly consequences of that now. we've seen authorities started to deny disembarkation rights to ships carrying refugees and migrants what sort of impact has that policy had. well this is another phenomenon that we really started to see emerge last year

particularly in the in the lots a half of the year where boats with rescued refugees are left stranded at sea for days on end and many of these people who are in need of humanitarian assistance many of these people are in need of international protection and this is having it the terran effect on the boats who may wish to conduct search and rescue operations one of the things you an h.r. is really concerned about is that if this situation continues we may have vessels particularly commercial ships waiver or even ignore distress signals for fear of being stranded at sea for days on end. and then another thing which is happened is we've got this policy now of detaining people increasingly in libya what sort of conditions these talk about the conditions that people are being held in right this is this is not an this is far from being an ideal situation in which to

detain and process people's applications for example. were you in a size repeatedly called for no rescue of refugees and migrants to be returned to libya in its current context what we're seeing in live years an incredibly volatile security situation just a couple of weeks ago fighting once again berkow in tripoli the refugees and migrants once they're returns to libya they're routinely held in appalling conditions in detention centers where they suffer from lack of food lack of access to adequate health care and a range of human rights abuses that have been reported and this current situation we're calling for a regional approach for rescue for rescued refugees and migrants they should be taken to the nearest port of safety in this current context libya has no ports of safety that suitable thank you very much for your analysis of the situation there

charlie actually police in sudan have arrested a senior member of the opposition or more party which says security forces surrounded the home of madam saw the film at the end detained her along with others on tuesday sudan security chief ordered the release of protesters who were previously detained protests are continuing in several cities demanding an end to bush's thirty year old rule ahmed vile is live for us in the cartoons of mohammed yesterday they announced that they were freeing prisoners today reports that ever arrested more protests is is the repression ramping up or winding down then. exactly sami that's a that's it's like a contradictory message or two contradictory messages to the sudanese people and particularly to those who have been participating and supporting fitting in and supporting these protests release of some prisoners is that they were actually it

did not happen and now only a few have been released over the night but let's talk first about the arrest today of. a sudden she's the daughter of the chairman of the all more parties one of the biggest if not the biggest opposition party ultralente deep rooted in sufism and also it has a wide following inside the country one of the oldest parties in the country so it has a big sway here and you know the rest of the of the of money m. is a very significant here inside the country so it's a very strong message not of appeasement as many have been expected expecting but of escalation also the business who will announce this to the. today we learned that it is only a number of one hundred and eighty six that will be finally released a few of them have been released the polity and they made they were made to give statements to the national t.v. they said basically we have been treated well we are in we have

a discussion of how to discussion with the head of intelligence is a very significant discussion and very positive and he asked us to form a kind of council a coalition of you know protestors to submit demands so that we go ahead to solutions and not to what escalation and so on but later on one of them issued another video on social media in which he basically apologized to what he said in the previous statement and that shows that they were made to give those statements we also have some information that they were forced to sign pledges that they will not go back to the tests and they will only ask for you know solution and peaceful solutions and so on so two contradictory messages there and people are waiting for sort two for more clarity from the government because the number of detained according to the government sources themselves statements talked to weeks ago about more than one more than eight hundred people now they're talking about one hundred eighty six n.g.o.s and protesters talk about up to two

thousand detainees that's also a very confusing picture there are some. there's also reports of restrictions now being placed on universities what's going on there. universities have been closed very early on during these six weeks of protests and two weeks ago there was an announcement by the government allowing any university that sees fit and possible to reopen again some of them very few of them have actually reopened however in khartoum university today and this is significant for the last several weeks were happy to have seen me mainly students protesting and students were cutting study and so on but now we have teachers joining professors of universities today five hundred of them are going to use the sit in inside the university of khartoum and they were actually treated roughly by the security forces and the fostering to go to leave the university they were demanding importantly they were demanding that

president bashir should step down and he just came out finally you know support fully supporting the protesters case so that's another significant development because we have been all seeing how many cross sections of the society the professional organizations particularly the unions and so on joining this protest and also that leadership role being played by particularly the doctors associations now half professors and these are not very positive signs for the government i guess all right cool stuff thanks so much for hamad valve. tanzania's government is giving itself more powers over political parties a new law will allow government run register to blacklist the exam potentially jail their members president john major foodies government has already banned some newspapers and restricted opposition rallies his rivals say the changes will effectively turn tanzania into

a one party state. several states across the u.s. midwest are bracing for extruding weather that could be colder than some parts of antarctica at least three governors have issued a state of emergency. as more. the midwest is accustomed to freezing cold temperatures but nothing like this the u.s. national weather service says record low temperatures could drop to minus forty degrees celsius in some areas that's about forty degrees colder than usual schools have been cancelled companies have closed their doors even a few minutes outside could lead to frostbite so millions of americans have been warned to stay home local governments are taking measures so people can stay warm indoors landlords face fines of up to five hundred dollars per day per violation while the town it is without heat from south or north dakota to the states of

michigan and ohio eleven states spending nearly two thousand kilometers are bracing for the coldest weather in at least a generation the polar vortex as it's known is moving across midwest states bringing a dangerous wind chills with it that's also reaching parts of canada and chicago the famous river that runs through its downtown is covered with blocks of ice in some areas temperatures could be colder than parts of antarctica. getting a car out of the driveway in this weather is challenging even for those who are used to these temperatures maybe an hour or. so mike that. i don't know if it's going out. it's a layer of ice underneath is. going to be really lucky if i get out today the subzero temperatures have caused problems on several airports with more than a thousand flights cancelled. with extreme weather making life difficult for millions of americans many have no option but to wait and hope for warmer days

katia lupus will yawn. all right it's time to catch up on all that weather looks freezing what on earth is going on that's right well we're going to take you all the way back to the beginning i'm going to show where the system came from and give you a little bit of an explanation on what we're dealing with right now first of all we're going to have to go to the north pole that's where the polar vortex is all of the time actually i want to show the temperatures that are normally across this area so we have the satellite you can see the circulation around the north pole and then temperature wise it is very cold in the the polar vortex as i said where you see these lobes is where we tend to see areas of low pressure well in this situation one of these areas of low pressure where you see these lobes actually broke off and came down across parts of canada as well as into the northern part of the united states and that is why the polar vortex is affecting us right now as you can see it's we're crossing great lakes as well as into central canada and these are the temperatures that we're dealing with just today now we have seen some cold

temperatures in the last twenty four to thirty six hours some of the coldest wind chills and records have been broken across this area so today minus thirty in winnipeg from minneapolis minus twenty six chicago minus twenty three as a high not factoring in the windchill when you factor in the windchill it feels more like minus thirty five to minus forty five in some locations overnight those temperatures going to drop back down tomorrow a lot of that cold air begins to go more towards the east we're going to sing auto in minus fourteen as well as trying to minus fourteen in new york it's going to be cold as well and not getting warmer until we get to friday. are much more still ahead for you including saving face time all tries to fix a glitch that allowed eavesdropping through its devices. lebanon's current c.t. it is on the edge of collapse and so does faith in the economy and south korea's former lympics speed skating coach gets more jail time after being found guilty of abusing athletes.

every attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves erupt in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and on al-jazeera. when the news breaks a few minutes ago we were able to hear a huge explosion fifty people are still missing when people who need to be heard and the story needs to be told we need to invest in development and we can best in making sure the people are not left behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground join us for this historic step in american politics to bring you more rewards winning

documentaries and life moves on and online. welcome back you're watching i'll just remind the now of our top stories this hour . president nicolas maduro says he's ready to talk to opposition rival. declared himself interim leader did have made the offer during an interview with russian television. british parliament has authorized prime minister it's reason may go back to brussels politicians also voted to make it harder for britain to leave the e.u. without the deal head of the european parliament says it will be very difficult to renegotiate police have arrested

a senior member of the opposition party with security forces surrounding the home of matter. along with others security forces of also poured in to the university buildings where professors held a sit in against the government. more about his way there now and china is also standing by nicolas maduro he's regarded as beijing's staunchest ally in south america a friendship underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons sales is china correspondent andrew brown now. 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 is trying. 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. seen china opposes for interference in the internal affair of planets well or especially well as 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 its no 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 china's vice premier league here is in washington for trade talks with a trumpet ministration trying to resolve a dispute that seen the two countries imposed trade tariffs on each other relations soured further on monday when u.s. prosecutors filed new criminal charges against tech chinese tech company while away and its chief financial officer. one joe is appeared in court in the canadian city of vancouver where she's been under house arrest since last month the u.s.

is seeking to extradition to extradite her for allegedly violating sanctions on iran as well as accusations of theft food and conspiracy. complaining how joins us now live from washington d.c. and kimberly regardless of what u.s. officials say one imagines this whole while weigh in so that must be costing a shadow over the whole mood of the talks if there's no question sami that that is the case at least that is the concern as they head into two days of high level talks designed to end this month long trade war but the differences between the two sides are vast and as you point out being complicated by that announcement on monday by the department of justice choosing to charge or indict while way officials with respect to concerns that the allegations of theft of trade secrets as well as violating iran sanctions in the eyes of the united states it

seems to have thrown a curve ball into the process even as a u.s. officials insist that these two situations with regard to the charges in the talks are entirely separate most people here in washington seem to believe that is not the case at all that in fact this was very deliberate in terms of the timing and the effort to send a signal to china that the united states is serious about its insistence that it must be compliant not only in terms of its trade practices and reforming those trade practices as it has promised but also in terms of halting the intellectual property theft that the united states says has been hurting u.s. businesses and companies for years. let's get down to the security of talks what are they tunneling this time round. well i'm going to just put my phone here i don't know why so serious seem to be talking it's interesting timing is we talk about this. what we're talking about terms of what the talks will be

about is that we have to remember there's a very big deadline looming in all of this you have to remember where we are we've already got significant tariffs on goods being launched at either side in the united states case they've put more than two hundred fifty billion worth of chinese goods subject to tariffs as they come into the united states and retaliated by china that has slapped tariffs on u.s. goods going to china some one hundred ten billion in this deadline that's looming is march second where in fact the united states is threatening that there could be an escalation of those tariffs on at least two hundred billion of goods from ten percent to twenty five percent that is really making a lot of american companies and investors very worried this is causing instability in the financial markets concern among american businesses but at the same time the united states pressing ahead on these talks with the insistence and those tariffs will go into place if the and if china does not curb its trading practices and even

more importantly reform its trade policies. kimberly couldn't have had a better segue from your live now into the next tory talking about phones that do things you don't want them to do let's get back to believe what apple is disable the group chat function in its face time fixes a software bug that allows eavesdropping now face time users have been able to activate the microphone another person's apple device and secretly listen to their conversations the family of yes a fourteen year old boy discovered the glitch they say they tried to tell apple about it for a week before it became widely known to the public it's an embarrassment of course for the tech giant which is trying to distinguish itself from competitors by stressing a commitment to users privacy max i's a joins us now from the university of central lancashire where he's a lecturer in computer and network security this is pretty embarrassing for apple.

well it is because like you just said the book was reported eight days ago and then they didn't really pick up on that now from one point of view you can argue that the company wouldn't react riddick quickly to this kind of report because they will be afraid of malicious attempt or a hoax however that didn't doesn't really justify a day's delay to respond to this book. now why was apple then so reluctant to use you said they've got to be careful but i think it was something like a week or maybe eight days before they managed to get around into taking this you know realizing there was a problem here that normal. well it is not really normal to take that long it is normal to be cautious it is normal to make sure that when

before you announce a bug like this for a company on the big scale and how to view taishan like apple especially when it comes to privacy and the trust issues they have to be careful they need to do a thorough investigation to make sure the book exist and it has if you know harmful effect now having said that that again doesn't really just defy the eight days and i think when they come about to talk about this and explain why did it take them eight days to respond officially to this book. is the reality of things that other apps can be used to spy on us through our phones we're just not aware of it this is this is unfortunately the risk we accept every day when we install a new or using new technology that has access to our microphones or cameras on our

phones so every time install and we use and we accept this risk however it's also the developers responsibility to make sure these bugs free that these will not drop on us without our consent or without us being aware of that happening but like i said unfortunately this is one of the risks we are accepting when we are using these technologies all right thank you very much for your thoughts on that max now online vacation companies have been accused of supporting human rights violations against palestinians amidst international says israel listings of homes and activities is directly contributing to the expansion of illegal settlements more about manly explains. and the sea 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 end 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 where the hotels are such as one hotel in the far enemy and settlements 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's 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 old sewage plant near jericho well armed see international says it's time for these companies to stand up for human rights by withdrawing all of their listings in illegal settlements even before he moved into the white house don trump was known for using language against opponents that no president had ever uttered these publicly before and he hasn't changed his ways he's currently accusing rival democrats of wanting to let murderers flood into the country this is creating concern he's permanently of ending american politics provoking violence and fisher reports. and the radical democrats president donald trump thinks nothing of attacking opponents using claims and nicknames to win political advantage as angry as presidents get to congress and the bureaucracy and reporters and their news organizations

other presidents have not tried to deal edge atomized them and so i think that's an important difference because he wants to degrade them as institutions in october last year a number of pipe bombs were sent to a points of president trump a florida man a trump supporter has been charged with sending thirteen devices one target says the president isn't blameless in all of this his rhetoric too frequently i think fuels these feelings and sentiments that well or bleeding over into potentially acts of violence though trumps most recent target speaker of the house democrat nancy pelosi it's too bad with your policy which is that it's radical democrats they've become a radical as part of they really have they've become a radicalized party. i actually think they've become a very dangerous party for this country but he's not the first president to speak

frankly or attack opponents lyndon b. johnson frequently used profanity to push politicians to support him richard nixon despite his black people and jews in oval office recordings released after his death and how do you truman called a political opponent the equivalent of hitler the difference no according to one political expert is modern media creates a stronger connection with the audience what makes it so extraordinary is not really the language but the presentation of the language the fact that we see it in real time the fact that we are all able to hear about it through social media or the mainstream media that is really what's new there was a social media storm after a new democratic. women use trump like language to describe the president bully don't play them. because we're going to go in there really. was the strong language on both sides highlights the polarization of american politics

makes it harder to reach a middle ground it's perhaps reflective of where society is and with the presidential election season about to get underway the same post to where we're headed alan fischer washington lebanon's currency the leader is under pressure there are fears that without much needed reforms it could lose its value even more worsening an already bad economic situation the central bank has dismissed those fears for the first time is taking measures to safeguard the lira so holder has more from beirut the lebanese leader has been pegged at one thousand five hundred to the dollar since one nine hundred ninety eight there have been concerns over the years about its value especially during times of political and economic instability which are all too common here but now some lebanese fear a currency collapse the central bank says that won't happen but is preventing exchange dealers from making statements so as not to cause panic despite the assurances people.