i mean putin and basically moscow offer a lifeline to caracas with six billion dollars and they sign an a ray. of you know business dealings russia sent two nuclear bomb bers to caracas which actually rattled washington because this we haven't seen anything like this since the missile crisis now back in the one nine hundred sixty s. so certainly cuba and russia and turkey also has interests in venezuela there's no doubt about that it's not just the united states is not just and america there's a lot at stake here and in addition to the riches of an israel that we have a humanitarian crisis three million people left but israel seems twenty fifteen so there is a lot here too to this cuz there's a lot yes they get a mention so it's in everybody's interest to have a stable but israel one of our viewers watching on facebook live has skipped can russia and china challenge the u.s.

sanctions on the oil companies in venezuela now as far as i would know the u.s. sanctions is completely different from any relationship that china and russia have but maybe we could look at it through terms of can china and russia on one side balance out the equation when you've got sanctions coming in hard from the u.s. . they can absolutely they can absolutely they can purchase oil from from from venezuela obviously will be at a bargain price the sanctions that we've heard this week is that the united states will not purchase venezuelan oil we're talking about forty percent of oil exports to the united states so obviously you have other powers like china and russia willing to purchase this oil and not just these two countries we have india we have others we have turkey we have all these countries willing to go to purchase this this this oil now obviously the sanctions that the treasury has imposed on venezuela comes to the detriment of many people here in the united states we have a two percent increase in oil problem try search and then you have also. some

problems for people who live from you know live off of oil reserves in the gulf coast here united states they might compromise their job and at the same time to trumpet ministration may have to rely on oil reserves i mean all this with the idea of helping one guy you do it while you go you know clench power while he calls for new elections even as well just quickly what the your feelings about the potential for actual conflict in venezuela i mean there's been quite a lot of protesters again one of the facebook there was a baron as asking will saying i hope this political misunderstanding what cause i warn venezuela many times and i just wonder with all the different sides who are sort of showing their support on either side what risk is there. well i mean this is why this is a really interesting question and i think the sanctions sensually sanctions that we heard this week. is that the that the purpose of the sanctions is to void the

diverting money that normally the ministration of a nickel that's how they were received from selling oil because the claim is that these money diverse to the military or to pay off officials in venezuela by imposing sanctions like that it will mean that the military will break ranks with you not with with the majority this nation it will not support and instead they will support one while you don't now hopefully there will be civil unrest the idea is that there will not be more bloodshed that there already is i don't think it's going to be any military intervention from the united states as we've heard before there were talks between the you would begin to unite united states and some military officials but if didn't come to fruition i think there's a we do not need to have. a next x. or a vacation of a military crisis not dead already is about as well you know let's hope not robert valencia really interesting talking to you thank you for all your expertise there

and thank you as well to just to have you as they're sending in questions directly isn't it great when you can get your questions answered directly from i guess not just relying on me and not the team here think we should be asking we want to hear from you and i j english on twitter replying to the thread there remains on duty looking forward to reading your tweets or facebook dot com slash on his ear if you are watching the live stream you can comment leave your questions there as well messages to write me as well plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine whatsapp and telegram. now one who brags that fifty eight days to go in the back and forth over break that shows no sign of actually achieving any agreement and pays have given prime minister theresa may a two week deadline to try to breathe new life into a deal to leave the european union they've asked to go back to brussels to demand changes to what is known as the backstop the contentious issue of the border between arlen the northern ireland problem is a huge chiefs are already saying they will not budge on the deal so what next and

indeed how many times have we asked that in the past two years when it comes to break that will more broadly there are a few scenarios just have a look at this is in the accountancy firm process what housekeepers are not affiliated with any political side here other than the fact that it is from dutch division so they'll obviously be watching briggs it closely does go down here quickly the three scenarios they gave or the idea that the u.k. parliament does not approve an exit deal and that that would oversee create a whole lot of problems the so-called no deals in our you've also got the idea that the deal gets approved. eventually but again forging new trade relationships would take some time and then there's that last option which it still gets thrown around a bit doesn't it the idea of a new referendum a second vote a people's vote whatever you want to call it so there's a sort of the broad ideas but also m.p.'s have met in secret in the past week to create a specific plan that all wings of teresa mayes conservative party would support it's been dubbed the multitask compromise that is named after the housing minister

kit house this is basically it would see theresa may renegotiate that part of the break that agreement which deals with the irish border the backstop as they call it replace it with a free trade agreement just how that would work is rather complicated but it relies on the hopes really of yet to be invented technology believe it or not to avoid customs checks at the irish border the most us compromise would also extend the transition period with the e.u. for at least one more year to formalize a new trading relationship so let's go to nadine barber to talk a little bit more about this hina dame. all those things are potentially outlined there that's all well and good but it's all happening on the british side isn't it nothing to do with europe it's about getting sort of that side of the house in order first. absolutely if you like people in the european union are regarding what's been going on in the last twenty four hours here in london as chaotic to say the least there are mixed messages really

from the vote happened on tuesday night the the house of commons did vote simply to state that they rejected a no deal breck's it but they re you voted down an amendment to to resume a's withdrawal agreement which would have given parliament guaranteed time to debate options on how to avoid a no deal bracks it right now to resume a is meeting the leader of the opposition labor party jeremy corbyn and his inner circle at her office earlier on the prime minister's questions there were quite testy exchanges jeremy corbyn defied her to come up with specify specific suggestions of alternative arrangements to that backstop solution for the irish border she couldn't really do that but she fired back saying that the leader of the opposition must accept that you can't take no deal off the table if you don't vote for a deal read you should vote for my deal now that i've been mandated to go back to

brussels and get some tweaks to it that still her position but of course he he's been saying that all along the e.u. is clear that it's not going to work and that perhaps you'll read lines of the problem he said the the real solution lies somewhere in getting in accepting that the e.u. must be in a customs union that's what the labor party's position has been up to now while not ruling out one of those options or a people's vote a referendum and in a future no meeting of minds but at least now they're talking in a day what i'm struggling with than here is that it's all sort of happening in the open here all this talk about going back to brussels and renegotiating or finding a new deal it's all happening in the knowledge that europe doesn't want to do that and yet they still plough on it's like you know driving into a tunnel without the headlights on or something. well that's how some people here

view it's people who support the government line will tell you that the european union always blinks at the last moment but if you if you at least if you accept at face value what e.u. leaders have been saying in the last two hours that is very very unlikely we've heard from the likes of kiva hush that the european parliament negotiators saying that the withdrawal agreement is not up for negotiation to resume a will be holding a phone call shortly with donald tusk the head of the european council in the last twenty four hours he said the same we're not that's that's not going to happen reopening that withdrawal agreement and touching the backstop what we can discuss the messages is the future relationship the so-called political declaration to see whether there can be some kind of movement there but this is a legally binding text they are really not in the mood to revisit it on wednesday morning the irish foreign minister simon cove me said that negotiators on either

side it spent two years looking at so-called alternative arrangements for the irish border and found nothing that worked and here to us that point what somebody blinks soon he says there are more important issues at stake here than economic interests in other words this the sacredness of the good friday agreement which came out of the peace process in northern ireland to stoop to end those decades of violence that is sacrosanct to dublin also to people in northern ireland it should be remembered who voted by majority to remain and to the european union and anything that seemed to undermine that just isn't going to wash them out yet so much more play isn't there thank you note in london. going to take what we've talked to nadeem about and put it to steven erlanger who's the chief diplomatic correspondent for the new york times based in brussels stephen. can i get your thoughts on this

idea that the u.k. is trying to do something i.e. renegotiating with europe and they know europe doesn't want to do that is it just sort of other closing their eyes and going well it might work if we really really hard it just it's things foolhardy. well it doesn't foolhardy there may be a strategy somewhere in there is a may or strategy has been to hold her party together and to reduce our lament in the end to a binary choice which is her deal or no deal we know there's a majority in parliament to prevent no deal so she's hoping to get to the very end and you know way almost force them to vote for her deal for two reasons one it does create a way out that's managed but also she can say to the breakfasters you know if you vote this down since our limit doesn't want no deal you might risk

a second referendum and losing bricks it all together so it's a dangerous strategy. no deal looks possible because frankly it is what will happen if nobody gets anything else done it's the default position but for the moment brussels is certainly playing along with treason now you know very clear that you know reopening of the withdrawal agreement they can fiddle at the edges on the political deal i mean frankly the weird thing to me is that under the transition. it would be true if not three years where nothing changes where the e.u. and britain couldn't make an effort probably successful. to go see a a new deal that would make the backstop unnecessary backstabbing is a guarantee that sits in the background it's not it's not present yeah if is europe

stephen perhaps on and on simplifying here but is your perhaps being a bit inflexible here knowing what is at stake knowing that it's taken two years to get this far and that the made to much twenty not deadline is really coming up quick maybe some flexibility is in order here well that's certainly the view of parliament and that's the view of many breakfasters i mean the brussels view which has been as smug. is that you know they've been flexible they've gone as far as they could go the backstop was not their idea of british. the idea of including all of the u.k. was a british. given all that there isn't much more to go because the e.u. has to protect two things has to protect the integrity of the single market and it has to protect its member ireland and it's going to do more for its member than it

is to show flexibility to someone who's decided to leave everyone so you always moves at the end but it moves at the end to keep countries inside the e.u. not to make it easier for them to leave of course you know that's a risky game if nothing else isn't it steven erlanger thank you so much for your time to appreciate it thank you kamil guess what we've got to let us up that page on briggs that it's reached that point where developments coming in taken fall so the online team is on top of all of that for you just search for breaks at latest updates the keeping it up that it will takes there's also video and social media thrown in as well. now online booking companies like air b.n. b. and booking dot com sites you may well have used yourself to nail down a holiday are being 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 laura birdman lee

explains and 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 ning 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.p. said it would remove the listings in settlements in the occupied west bank but not occupied east jerusalem and the sea says many other things aren't honest about where the hotels are such as one who tell in the far enemy and settlements booking dot com says it's twenty five kilometers from the dead sea with panoramic views of

the you who deserts but the website doesn't say it's in an illegal israeli settlement where the bedroom village of qana lama 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 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. or birdman me there and here i'm sure this one five people up on a definite come all well honestly international reporters spots plenty of conversation online the rights group recently launched a petition that was said on twitter where he singled out some companies including trip advisor its chief executive to address the problem of doing business in the

occupied territory after proviso was one of the companies that amnesty accused of supporting human rights violations and we're still waiting to hear from them to see what they have to say but we did take a look at the website and notice that the company has added the label palestinian territories to some office hotels in the occupied west bank and as laura mentioned earlier back in november air b.n. b. decided to remove its listings in the occupied west bank but this will be opposition to this from supporters of illegal settlements in the us for example the governor of florida welcomed the unanimous state vote condemning air b.n. b. . this.

year. and air b.n. b. is facing a lawsuit that began in november the company is accused of outrageous discrimination for withdrawing assisting in the occupied west bank while kenneth roth from human rights watch has responded to the lawsuit by calling it ridiculous these are the claims we also heard from a mock dummett at amnesty international the situation in the occupied west bank. we have visited communities in the west bank in east jerusalem palestinian communities and israeli settlements to understand how important the reason is to the to the economy of these settlements and the fact that what people might assume to be a fairly harmless activity you know the renting out of a b. and b. in in a home in a settlement is in fact not at all harmless that in fact these companies in in providing these listings and profiting from these listings are in fact contributing

to the to sustaining the settlements and thereby contributing to the human rights violations that are caused by the settlements and the sea has organized a protest you know wednesday outside supervisor's office in london so if you were there have any pictures to share with us tweet us is the hash tag that thank you or he'll of this is the news good if you're with some facebook live about a story for you now it's looking back at the nairobi hotel attacks that happened earlier this month that's from magic bus and then later should he be minding his language the problem with the president in the white house really has let's say i somewhat colorful way with words that more to come. along and welcome back to where cross all of our we are seeing some better weather

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what's trending on the story i showed you earlier what russia stands to lose in venezuela very good bank honest why not important and russia are supporting nicolas maduro in venezuela from his way to also be a second story there on the third story disgusting fans slam crowd violence in the u.a.e. tied up in the football and in fact we're going to be talking about that with her here in a moment but what is trending this al-jazeera dot com. it was around the time twenty four hours ago things were getting pretty exciting here in doha as it became obvious qatar was heading to the final of football's cup in the end it was a four nil thrashing of the hosts united arab emirates whose fans have come in for a lot of criticism yes that's right chua well this is a case of what happens when there's an uneasy mix of politics and sports as in the

background to this match united arab emirates is one of the four countries that has imposed a blockade on qatar since june twenty seventh and it's these images that have been attracting attention online home fans throwing shoes and bottles of cotton. as it became clear. that the u.a.e. were heading for a humiliating defeat even before kickoff there were there was an angry atmosphere with fans booing during qatar's national anthem and also remain a harmony a country journalist shared these pictures saying the u.a.e. didn't only you'd lose the game to qatar they also lost ethics this is the country that wanted to co-host carter's world cup twenty twenty two hence the g.c.c. refs and they are celebrating twenty nine hundred as the year of tolerance on a lighter note i wonder how it feels to go home barefoot. while some online are calling for action from football's governing body levy his says fee for and the asian football confederation should reconsider allowing the u.a.e.

to host some of the matches and our says that we demand is for disrespectful and also uncivilized action from the u.a.e. fans towards the country team what happened to our team is not acceptable and there were some reports of some of the fans not being able to buy tickets at the stadium those that were actually supporting qatar the abu dhabi sports council tweeted that all the remaining tickets for the semifinal would. be given to what they called a loyal audience and tarik says after barring country fans from supporting their team at every stage of this tournament the u.a.e. now buys up all tickets to qatar next match to prevent a mani and international fans from cheering the team well we are also seeing some praise for the country team on twitter but so far there has been no response from fefe or the asian confederation but it is clear that the fifa president did witness

what went on in abu dhabi because he was seen at the match what you think of the story to tweet us is the hash tag in his grid or you can just simply message me directly and matter him home it will literally while you were talking there i had an email from our sports department we've actually just had some reaction from the asian football confederation in a statement sent to al-jazeera they say quote we are conducting a thorough investigation into events at the asian cup twenty nine hundred seventy final between the u.a.e. and qatar once that investigation has been completed the a.f.c. will decide on the appropriate next step so let's talk about that with our guest joining us on skype from london it's andrew warshaw he is the chief correspondent for inside world football that's a predictable sort of statement from the asian football confederation they i think any confederation would have to investigate things that happened like this but really you could have seen this one coming didn't you everything was building to a pretty ugly atmosphere. well you know that's right kamau particularly with the geopolitical situation that's going on in the area and located all your viewers

will obviously know about you know like it's inevitable that the asian football confederation has to take some sort of action i suspect there will be wrestling with whether to take a sort of soft diplomatic stance because a you're a big host nation or whether they'll deliver a strong message in terms of either hide or playing behind closed doors well maybe even stronger but what's ironic is that need to catch phrase of this tournament was a bringing asia together while this game show is held in not doing that at least not on the political front and you could have you could say not a little fun either given the just special series we saw in terms of shoes a big big pelted at the guitar a if not the team and certainly in the stands the same with bottles but one has to say that the football itself was was super order course i've read suggests this was a highly competitive match and you know just like the rest of the tournament the

football on the pitch the crowds may not have been up to up to scratch in terms of capacity but the football for the most part has been very engaging and very competitive and that the fact that in the first place you had a government the u.s. government the host government if you like buying up tickets to stop qatari fans buying their own tickets that it was made a criminal offense to support out of that all these things were done as the law of the land in the u.a.e. is that something that they say or fee for should have intervened in earlier or is it actually something that it is what can it do that. i think it probably actually can i mean the very fact that it's it's pretty you know it's a disappointing state of affairs that not a single charge and from what i understand at least we watch the games in the stadiums themselves and i guess you know that what's the next best thing the next best thing is is giving is giving or selling as many chips as possible to make sure

the crowds are up to scratch but but you are right that this will leave a sour taste in the mouth particularly what happened in the semifinal chart to their credit played i mean they were the players and the stars were extremely commendable given the intimidation that it was facing and the results speak for themselves of a first ever asian cup victory so good talent like goodness doesn't that will go well for the workshop for us to get the world cup i'm just thinking about friday what it's going to be like here in doha round here it's going to be extraordinary and we'll hear from inside world football thank you ok welcome there is i think something in the human psyche which seems to enjoy talking about the weather it just we just like to especially maybe a bit more but the actually when it gets extreme and we really do have extreme opposites right now strayer sweltering in what scientists say is the hottest january on record temperatures up as high as forty seven degrees celsius that's

what we get here in atlanta a middle east summer. not much fun in tasmania as you can see where the conditions are making it difficult for firefighters to battle wildfires there so hot in fact there have been math mass deaths of fish in major astray and rivers and then we have the exact opposite in the united states several states across the midwest with the kind of weather that could be cold or wet for this in some parts of antarctica cut the lepers or the on has more on that. 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 els side 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 in 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 it. going to be real lucky if i get out today the subzero

temperatures have caused problems on several airports with more than a thousand flights canceled. with extreme weather making life difficult for millions of americans many have no option but to wait and hope for warmer days cuts here lopez al-jazeera. and yet somehow the big freeze in north america has been slightly politicized last week president obama trump tweeted his concerns about the tremendous amounts of snow and record setting cold but he also threw in as we've highlighted would it be bad to have a lid of the good old fashioned global warming right now here's one of our in-house meteorologists kevin corriveau to explain why kevin it's just not as simple as that is as simple as that how is it every night a meteorologist is the. thing is the polar vortex is something that's with us all the time but it's actually this cap across the north pole and it spins around and sometimes when a weakens one of those lobes begins to fall down south across canada it can also go

across europe as well as into siberia but in this case we're talking down through canada and then down into the northern part of me and say if we if we just come back to the studio shot here i've got it on wendy dot com which is this lovely website there is i mean but is that common for it to go so deep into the united states and those purple areas i mean i think that sort of minus twenty's and stuff minus twenty minus it's actually going to be one is thirty five in the morning that's how cold it's going to get in that scenario is a common well this is the first one we've had this winter in two thousand and fourteen as is just saying during the break that was a year that we saw several occurrences when the polar vortex actually broke off came down retreated came back down so this is this scenario is. just so far just one time this year and then if we go further south of this in the red stuff coming in and if we look at australia again as i pointed out at the start the show you get it's summer in australia and it gets like this but again even first radio this is particularly off in australia we have seen while for so as we start the season we

talk about around sydney a lot of while far as in that area if you look into the outback of course that is where we see normally temperatures into the high thirty's low forty's we're not so much concerned about the wildfires there but it is ted's mania of course that we are now looking at the wildfires now we have one from a bounty if you notice all come along the bite. where that green area is a frontal boundary is pushing through here that's kind of bring those temperatures down a little bit so weather versus climate let's let's get rid of the word global warming as president term was saying that say whether this is climate which is that one contributes to the other surely that's right climate is the bigger picture and it is when you look at what is normal situation for the summer time of australia that is it's climate and now the weather right now of course we have up and down swings of the you know the temperature as well as how dry it has been. so when we talk about whether we talk about the short term we talk about climate we talk about its norm for that for that particular area you're forecaster and i know

that's a fool's errand sometimes how long are you expecting this one to last particularly the cold weather in the u.s. not too long we're actually looking at temperatures to come back tomorrow morning is going to be a very bad day across parts of the united states where we're going to be seeing the swing back up is going to be as we go towards friday saturday so it's going to end but we're talking millions to hundreds of millions of people being affected right now in australia we're going to get a break tomorrow some rains coming through that could cause some lightning but we are going to see those temperatures pop back up as we go towards the weekend ok kevin corriveau our meteorologist here at al-jazeera thank you so much for that and i'm just going to bring up if i can and on my i pad here this for going to your local weather which is available that out is there it on the geotagging will automatically give you the lowdown on what's happening in your city a lovely twenty four degrees and hot today articles blogs and picture galleries

there of course from all the weather and climate related news if you go to the more many without zero dot com weather at the bottom of that list. we just take a quick look at some other news making story making some of the stories making news around the world indeed and people from across india are protesting in the capital daily against worsening living conditions former army officers ethnic minorities women and farmers they are among those taking part in the first of a nine day demonstration against the national democratic alliance government retired officers are demanding a single pension scheme which prime minister narendra modi promised during his election campaign but has failed to deliver china's vice premier is in washington for trade talks with the trumpet ministration trying to resolve a dispute that has seen the two countries impose trade tariffs on each other relations soured further on monday when u.s. prosecutors filed new criminal charges against the chinese company huawei and its chief financial officer and we were talking about donald trump just before and even

before he moved into the white house we knew he was using the kind of language you wouldn't necessarily call presidential and hasn't changed his ways either he has accused his rival democrats of wanting to let murderers flood into the country so when that is creating concern that he has permanently our pending american politics and even inciting violence and fishes been looking at that. 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 congress and the bureaucracy and reporters and their news organizations other presidents have not tried to deal agenda minus 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 their she 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 its black people and jews in oval office recordings released after his death and how to 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. congresswoman use trump like language to describe the president bully don't play and maybe because we're going to go in there were only. 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 the boat to get underway the same post to where we're headed alan fischer i'll just you know washington and apple has disabled a group chat function on its face time out because of a bug that allowed eavesdropping the problem allowed callers to activate in other

uses microphone remotely they could even see the video of the person they were calling before that person picked up apple says it will fix it with a software update later in the week sooner rather than later just a couple of quick comments we've had three one on the asian cup situation where they has asked is there any provision involving punishment for the fans and there on the ethical acts well as we've heard the a.f.c. will be at that station for book of confederation will be investigating it'll be up to them the usual type of thing and we might go to tell me later it's about banning fans from attending further matches and elizabeth on the weather well how can people still deny climate change can we call out the corporations who are contributing it not just the politicians your comments your questions hash tag a.j. news grit poll rates rugby league as one of my favorite sports i'm thrilled to see it on the news grid today yes good it's one of my favorites what's not played actually but it's funny we're talking about banning fans there's a country that's actually banning its own players and might be stopping them from reaching the rugby league world cup the season gets under way in its european

hotlines of england and france on thursday but elsewhere there's a real crisis in rugby league greece on the verge of qualifying for their first ever world cup but foul play off the field could be about to ruin their chances junk plus reports for us 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 was 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 is 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. 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 addressing the question i want because if there is only one national team which is the one that we organize it's wonderfully spontaneously form in 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. a professional sports in greece 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 this is they who very take greece to the twenty twenty one world cup the association is playing norway to move if they win they'll play scotland here no friends in november to qualify for the world cup and the federation vows to stop that from happening jumps are open also for the. i earlier we spoke to dani cousin

john of the rugby league international federation he said that the original greek league was no longer legitimate and that the authorities had to stop siding with them that organization was suspended in april twenty sixth and then expelled in the summer of twenty six staying since that time mr pence's a.d.'s has had no involvement in rugby league whatsoever and has no authority in rugby league whatsoever the great rugby league association applied constitutionally to join the rugby league european federation and is now recognised as the legitimate rugby league governing body in greece it's incredibly frustrating grassroots sports person should have to face these challenges the rugby league community are forced to face these men and women just want to play rugby league and unfortunately

have to face some of the tactics that are employed by mr pence's eighty's and his colleagues. now twenty four hours ago cattles national football team was in the process of completing the biggest win in its history beating hosts the united arab emirates for nell in the asian cup semifinal. of the blockade imposed on katsav by some nearby countries including the e.u. funds weren't able to travel to the game instead qatar supporters were watching the match on big screens around the capital doha never before has a team from qatar reached the final of asia's biggest international football tournament. this is the traditional mode of celebration in qatar adding to doha's seafront corniche with a flag and a four wheel drive something to factor into your daily travel plans if you're thinking of coming to qatar for the world cup in twenty twenty two the players kept

their celebrations a little more private as a criminal offense in the emirates to show public sympathy towards cats are we back in action on friday and the final against japan or at far is going to be here with more sports a bit later on but back to thank you paul big coming up on friday isn't it and i've got a little bit of this news group have started a joint news with twitter facebook what's that we see you right back here in studio fourteen about three or fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow. what birthday.

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out of our own for the state bar and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up he's no plans of rights it's not a good plan for our economy and for our country britain's prime minister and opposition leader clash in parliament ahead of a long awaited meeting to seek common ground on brics at. the un warns that refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean are dying at an alarming rate and americans advised to stay indoors in many states as a polar vortex brings a once in a generation deep cruise to the u.s. . alone thousands of venezuelan opposition supporters are expected to return to the streets this hour they've been asked to urge the military to stop supporting president nicolas maduro as pressure grows the him to step down. paid another visit

to troops this time military base in the capital caracas he signaled that he's willing to negotiate with the opposition leader why don't know who declared himself the country's interim president last week or the twenty nations have recognized kwaito as the country's leader during his reelection in may was in a just a mets duros financial backers china and russia staying loyal to him well russia says it wants to help open talks with the opposition but foreign minister sergei lavrov will that all conditions must be set aside for those negotiations to be successful. if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of precondition. the kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is likely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work independently god is only by the interests of the scene as

well and people. well i was on that m.p.'s he joins us live from bogota in neighboring colombia and. saying he wants to talk to them the russians saying they want to help those talks to happen i'll see a position expected to respond to that all such negotiations. well we don't expect the opposition to. call for negotiations unless those three conditions are in place that the opposition says that my daughter needs to step down and transition government needs to be put in place and to go through free elections as soon as possible there hasn't been any indication part of the leader of the opposition self-proclaimed interim president of any sort or that he would accept and talk in any way unless. the.

government accepts the idea. starting in the interim process and bringing the country to elections actually has called again as you were saying in your introduction for demonstrations today in caracas and other cities across the country there are expected to start and again on saturday when the opposition is expecting to hold another massive demonstration just like the one they were able to come in last week in on a sound like quite a getting a lot of international support gather president trump as the new phone call touch with him how did that conversation. yes they spoke of we understood we understand that from the white house and president trump reinforced the united states' support for guido's and the opposition efforts to bring back

a democracy he said that in venezuela and he also congratulated him for what he described as the historic assumption of the presidency of the united states was the first country to recognize why dole as the legitimate the leader of venezuela now together with at least another twenty countries mostly latin america and in europe and also remember this week and will and the deadline that the european countries has put in place asking my tutor to set a date for early elections but we don't see that happening so most likely they will also recognize why don't i think that one very important thing to look at here is the fact that the latest sanctions on the venezuelan oil company are starting to take effect in this because that it's really undermined the capacity of the

venezuelan government to find function and the united states believes that that could truly push i do would have to accept the opposition requests for the election on a sound good bottle thank you china has joined russia in backing nicolas maduro under posing any international interest here and in venezuela well it's not exactly a surprise is china is an ally whose influence in venezuela is growing and the alliance is backed by huge loans investments and weapons sales actually brown has more beijing. 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. since china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially when israel and 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 a 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. british prime minister tourism a has just met the opposition leader jeremy corbin to try to find common ground on a deal for leaving the european union parliament has given may a two week deadline to try to renegotiate an agreements with the e.u.

and peace of also to go back to brussels to demand changes to what is known as the backstop that's the contentious issue of the border between ireland and northern ireland the european union leaders have consistently said they will not renegotiate a position european commission president. reiterated in the last hour the reeve dollar agreement remains the best and only course. do people said so in november. we said so in december research so after the first medieval new full vote in the commons in germany. the debate unfolds in the house of commons yesterday do not change dept phil we've thought it meant to be not be read differently i mean it was . allowed as there is correspondent ali baba has been following events for us and he's with me in the studio right now sometimes quite fast moving events all nation of bricks that. so he's a mayor the opposition leader jeremy corbett at long last in the last hour i think

of having that meeting that has all been talked about do we know anything first of all about what's happened in that meeting well we're hearing from from people who followed it that it was called deal lasted we think about forty five minutes and the fact that it's happened is a breakthrough because up until now jeremy corbin's been saying to theresa may not going to discuss what plan b. with you until you take no deal off the table while she hasn't specifically or outright said parliament did send a message yesterday that it is against no deal and he's saying well ok now the topics been opened up apparently we're hearing reports that they discussed the customs union and single market so really getting down to nitty gritty issues of course this is all against the backdrop of two reason main cysteine that she now has a mandate from parliament to go back to brussels and think with the withdrawal agreement

and to get some kind of alternative arrangements for the irish border the take of the backstop which the the right wing of her party so against to take that out of the agreements if you like jeremy corbin put her on the spot at prime minister's questions earlier on saying what are these alternative arrangements she couldn't really give any concrete steps but she threw the ball back at him and said that you're not doing much good because you don't actually have a deal to offer the public whereas i do. we won a majority of brett what did he manage his breakthrough plan was voted down he opposed ending free movement and he won't rule out a second referendum he's no plan to breaks it no good plan for our economy and no plan for our country. so that's what was said in parliament earlier what happens now because as you say parliament has said basically instructed the prime minister to go back to brussels to try to renegotiate all the noises coming out of brussels

say we told you before we're not going to do that those noises the messaging has been consistent and unified from brussels and it's continuing right now i should just say that apparently tourism a has responded in the last hour or so from from comments in brussels saying that she knows reopening the withdrawal agreement will not be an easy process and that there will be reluctance on the use side that's possibly the biggest understatement of the year in the last hour or so both junk john claude younker head of the european commission and michel barnier the chief brits negotiator have stood up in front of the european parliament and said basically we're sticking by what we've always said which is that the withdrawal agreement is the best and only possible deal which avoids a hard border between north.