cit dublin says some considerations trump economic interests we need a backstop or insurance mechanism based on legal certainty and not just wishful thinking for now we're left with mixed messages from the politicians here m.p.'s have said no to no deal without any clarity or consensus on how to stop it just a green light for to resume aid to try once again to tweak that deal that she reached with brussels well she's now said she realizes it won't be a breeze that could well be an understatement between barbara al jazeera london online holiday companies have been accused of supporting human rights violations against palestinians amnesty international says by including homes and activities in illegal settlements the firms are directly contributing to their expansion or about in money 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 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 november eddie and be said it would remove the listings in settlements in the occupied west bank but not occupied east jerusalem and the sea says many listings aren't honest about where the hotels are such as one who tell in the far atomium 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. thousands of forma service members have gathered in new delhi to demand money promised them through a scheme called one rank one pension it's the first of many planned rallies by various groups who are fed up with india's work wessling social economic conditions well how much on june has more on the story. demonstrators in new delhi former indian army officials gathered to express their mounting frustration ahead of elections in the coming months i mean men are very angry with.

men because they're not fulfilling the promise read them a letter the sole job whenever he makes a promise even if he has respected voices like he's ready to do that they don't thinking what would happen to his family what will happen bruised children and everyone to find out. that unfulfilled promise is a scheme known as the one ring one pension the program was supposed to provide an equal amount of attention paid to defense personnel retiring in the same room and with the same length of service regardless of their date of retirement over two million ex servicemen and hundreds of thousands of war widows stand to be the immediate beneficiaries. really not asking so drew is really not asking for the. it is a little late which this should not have been a does photo old easy is this gathering marks the beginning of nine days of planned protests near parliament to highlight what participants say is the worsening socio economic conditions under the government of prime minister narendra modi who came

to power in two thousand and fourteen at the time one of the main promises he made was to implement the equal pension plan demonstrators say it still hasn't happened . maybe he had promised the man one rank one pension in his twenty's the election rally if they supported him in the twenty fourteen elections the army men fulfilled their promise and supported ninety and helped him become the pm but he has forgotten. his promise government officials say they've begun implementing the policy but these demonstrators say that's not the case now in the run up to this year's general election many will continue to ask when or if this long standing demand of the indian armed forces and veterans will be met. as does either. on the program despite recent. story and a bit. of the. business

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business updates. it's going to get so. bored with. marion thank you football's governing body has launched an investigation into the crowd trouble that disrupted choose days asian cup semifinal the match dogcatcher thrash host nation the way for nail shoes and bottles were thrown. at the current players from the stands in abu dabi the match came at a time of serious political tensions between both countries the u.a.e. is one of four arab nations that have been staging a blockade on categorises two thousand and seventeen there see told out there that

once it completes its investigation the next steps will be decided earlier which vote to enter war shot inside world football that the kind of punishment the u.a.e. could be facing. it's inevitable that the asian football confederation has to take some sort of action and i suspect there will be wrestling with whether to take a sort of soft diplomatic stance because if you're a big host nation or whether they'll deliver a strong message in terms of either flying or playing behind closed doors well maybe even stronger but of it what's so ironic is that lead to a catch phrase of this tournament was a bringing asia together well this game show as hell did not do that at least not on the glitz good fun and you could if you could say not a little fun earlier given the displaced loosies we saw in some of shoes that a big baby pelted it at the ghetto he is not of the team and certainly in the stands same with bottles but one has to say that the football itself was it was

super old reports i've read suggest 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 up to scratch in terms of capacity but the football for the most part has been very engaging and very competitive liverpool are said to miss out on taking a seven point lead at the top of the english premier league they're currently drawing one all with leicester at home if it stays like this they'll have a five point advantage instead liverpool have not won england's top division since one nine hundred ninety. here's she's champions league chances have suffered a major blow it comes after their forward neymar was ruled out for ten weeks following an injury the brazilian as a fractured foot which means he'll misses sides last sixteen tighen smashes to united next month p.s.g. currently lead the french league table with fifty six points. the rugby league

season gets underway and it's european heartlands of england and france on thursday but elsewhere the sport is facing a crisis greece are on the verge of qualifying for their first ever world cup but foul play off the field could ruin their chances jones rop less reports from athens . these rugby league players are rebels grieco thirty's have tried to ban 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 we're quite confident that waiting all the way so we're so close to reaching the world cup and it's an ironic twist that greece itself the way things are going greece and so may prevent greece from playing in the greek rugby league association is a splinter group three years ago its players revolted against greece's official rugby league authority one of the teams was going to be expelled there is way game

to be on. the mass walk out from the other players and there was no chance of compromise once we realize that we all just. went off and the fans. the official hellenic rugby league federation still has four teams and practices regularly but it is no longer recognised by rugby league's european and international governing bodies in twenty sixteen they expelled it for poor governance and instead recognised its rebel offshoot so greek law recognizes the federation and international rugby recognizes the rebels and the federation is using the power of greek law to pursue its rival last year it filed a complaint that resulted in police interrupting an association match with serbia since then the association has played its international matches at secret locations safe and i'm a moment because if there is only one national team which is one that we organize it's wonderfully spontaneously foreman play. but such teams cannot claim to be

legal entities they cannot create national tournaments and they cannot play overseas teams in international tournaments and claim to represent greece but the rebels are generating new teams and claim to be luring players away from the federation rugby isn't a professional sport in greece it isn't even an amateur sport it's a volunteer sport these people who 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 may take theories to the twenty twenty one world cup the association is playing norway if they win they'll play scotland here in athens in november to qualify for the world cup and the federation vows to stop that from happening jobs are open lots of al-jazeera. the former national coach in south

korea's skating team has been hit with more jail time cho has been convicted of assaulting a two time olympic champion the case has prompted the country's biggest ever investigation into physical and sexual abuse in sport robin wright reports from seoul. beyond was originally sentenced last september to ten months in prison for assaulting four athletes one of them being shem suki he arrived in court in a prison van to hear the verdict of his appeal against that decision only to be told that his original sentence of ten months is now to be extended to eighteen months shem had told his appeal hearing last december how she had been kicked and punched repeatedly during her training for the chiang winter olympics so much so she said she felt like she was going to die but earlier this month as she made the bombshell allegation that cho had also raped her on a number of occasions it is an allegation that cho through his lawyers has denied

nevertheless this case has sent shock waves through the whole sporting community of south korea in particular in short track speed skating it's sporting with south korea has a particular prowess winning twenty four olympic gold medals since the early ninety's she is a double a lympics gold medalist but it does seem to indicate that a culture of abuse has been tolerated in the pursuit of a limb pick excellence as the country's president in her said of this case it does seem to show the humiliating underside of the country's a glorious facade as a sporting powerhouse and seeking superstar lindsey vonn has been named in the usa squad for the world championships in sweden her selection comes despite concerns over the attorney for four year olds how severe need pain solving olympic gold medalist pull out of an event in italy earlier this month after that vonn admitted

she could bring her retirement plans forward she had planned to step away from the sport at the end of twenty nine thousand in the world championships begin next week . and that's all your sport for now it's now back to marion and london thank you very much well that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes time with much more of the news for you see very shortly. the world's largest oil company fails to become public water tap and. all the

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but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara on. the right that as well as opposition march through caracas calling on the military to defect while the man in washington plans with the us how to take over the military governments assets.

i know i'm. watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up a saudi like coalition in yemen bombs who see training camps around the data and says it's ready to use calibrated force to make them comply with the cease fire president tells his own intelligence chiefs to go back to school. after that threat assessments contradict hits. and eight dead as a polar vortex brings a record low temperatures to a vast swathes of the u.s. and canada. welcome to the program our top story this hour venezuela's self declared interim president has joined thousands of opposition supporters rallying in the capital caracas they were calling for the military to stop supporting the elected leader

president nicolas maduro meanwhile madeira signaled he is willing to negotiate with the opposition leader after more than twenty nations recognized guy go as the country's representative at the door as financial backers china and russia a staying loyal to him. he reports now from neighboring colombia. as the sweeping u.s. sanctions on venezuela's oil assets come into effect president nicolas maduro says he's ready to negotiate with his opposition rival y.y. dog who's the cleared him self interest leader negotiations maduro told russian media that he hoped would be mediated by its most vocal ally. we have russia's full support at every level and we welcome it gladly and very gratefully what did president putin to stay in permanent contact from moscow russia's foreign minister invited the venezuelan opposition to accept my daughter's offer without any preconditions. useless if this mediation sees to your term to include any kind

of preconditions and that kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it's unlikely to be supported we will call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work together independently guarded only by the interests of the venezuelan people. but has been as well as political crisis keeps escalating the opposition is unlikely to hear. call i. asked more demonstrations on wednesday and again on saturday to match the large rallies in the capital a week ago but ahead of wins these demonstrations are due to once again lead military exercises insisting he has the full backing of the armed forces and accuse the number of desert there's of plotting a coup from colombia with the help of the united states. a group of military have become mercenaries of the colombian oligarchy and conspire from colombia to

divide the bolivarian national forces military support is important for political survival and many are starting to ask will remain steadfast as the new sanctions. further reduce the government's capacity to among other things distribute food in military bases and despite calls for negotiations the opposition continues to intensify the pressure to step down. that's america editor lucien human brings us the latest now from inside venezuela she has been in the capital caracas venezuela as embattled president is really digging in his heels telling a russian news agency in an interview that under no circumstances will he cave in to international pressure particularly from the united states to hold presidential elections immediately and fact to step down and allow a transition government to oversee them he says that's absolutely out of the

question although he says he is willing to dialogue to talk to the opposition including self-proclaimed interim president. that in itself is not new the question is what will they talk about if they can't agree on this most important part this key point which the opposition says is no longer negotiable at the last moment and mexico have stepped in saying they want to hold an international conference on february the seventh to bring together all the countries who are neutral in this crisis so in their view which does not include many of the european countries that have given president my little a deadline until saturday to agree to to hold these elections or they will recognize weibo as the interim president if these neutral countries can get together and somehow get the momentum going there could be possibly a negotiated settlement out of this a way out of this crisis but right now it doesn't seem very likely and all the

developments the u.s. has been stepping up the pressure on the duo with national security adviser john bolton because brokers and trade is not to deal in commodities like gold in oil which he said was stolen from the venezuelan people also carlos vecchio the u.s. representative appointed by one point zero has been meeting with officials in washington in the past hour they've been discussing how to take over assets belonging to the government. will also meet with the u.s. treasury department on thursday. we need the support of the u.s. congress in order to recover our democracy mayle we said that we need support. in order to end the usurpation of power of mother we need to finish that dictatorship in minutes well a second we need to. establish a transitional government in order to recover our democracy and there we need to call for a free and transparent election as soon as possible. to elect a new president of venezuela.

the saudi led coalition in yemen says its attack ten who see rebel training camps outside the port city of her data the u.a.e. foreign minister said the coalition is ready to use calibrated force to push the heavies out of her data as part of a u.n. sponsored cease fire deal the coalition has been trying to retake the city and they've been trying to do that since june well earlier i spoke to peter solsbury a senior analyst on yemen with the international crisis group he says a deal done to withdraw from her data isn't working because both sides of the conflict of interpreted it differently the deal that was made in stockholm last summer between these reserves to the internationally recognized yemen so the redeploying their forces from inside the date of july the ports the north and that

they would be replaced by quote unquote local forces the government interpreted that to mean one thing which was in effect their guys would come in and who these in terms of the other way which was that they were going to take their frontline fighting forces out and replace them with police forces. loyal to them and that's been a real bone of contention and the issue is really bad they can't come soon agreement over what those local forces look like and it's all they can do but it's really difficult to see how this moves forward. well republicans and democrats have launched a fresh attempt to end u.s. support for the saudi led coalition in yemen politicians from both parties announced that we submission of a draft resolution that was passed by the senate in december that was ten blocks and house of representatives urging congress to put a stop to this war and they told me very clearly when yemenis see made in us a on the bombs that are killing them it tells them that the united states of

america is responsible for this war this is not a message the united states should be sending to the world the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by our despotic saudi regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy all in our stories are following the u.n. humanitarian chief is warning of a crisis on the syrian jordan border. a saying that an aid convoy will depart next week for the makeshift refugee camp just inside jordan after security guarantees from russia and the international coalition in syria some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian

convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse so it's critical that the parties support a second convoy to rick graham. u.n. human rights experts are calling for an impartial investigation into friday's dam disaster in southeastern brazil at least eighty four people were killed when a dam holding mine waste collapsed and caused a sea of mud to engulf parts of the town of burma deano around two hundred seventy six others a still missing brazil's valet the world's largest iron ore mining company has vowed to cut or duction to avoid another dam failure now the bodies of at least fifty two migrants and refugees have been found after two boats capsized off the boats were carrying at least one hundred thirty people sixteen were rescued but many others are still missing thousands of migrants from the horn of africa try to cross the bubble monday straight from djibouti to the arabian peninsula where they

hope to find work in the gulf countries u.s. president donald trump is increasingly finding himself a challenge by his own staff and political party most recent disagreement centers on some of trump's policies on foreign affairs has more on this now from washington but american leadership is absolutely essential this doesn't usually happen the republican leader of the senate introducing an amendment urging the president a member of his own party to change his policy and not change the level of u.s. troops in syria or afghanistan so what we must remember mr president is how hard won these again bill. this progress must not be to take off put off the gas pedal but rather to keep up those strategies that are clearly working. this followed another highly unusual move the president's own intelligence chiefs telling congress tuesday that their boss for the president of the united states is

wrong along and north korea not going to give up nuclear weapons on iran not actually violating its nuclear agreement and eisel isis will continue to be a threat not really defeated and the southern border not mentioned not a crisis the president was not happy and he took to twitter to call his own officials extremely passive and naive and in another tweet suggested perhaps intelligent should go back to school the president of the united states for two years this is a president who has mostly gone unchallenged by his cabinet by his party in congress but that seems to be changing now particularly in al-jazeera washington meanwhile u.s. and chinese officials have kicked off a pivotal round of trade talks in washington it's hoped the two day meeting will produce a way out of a months long trade war president dump and chinese president xi jinping equate a ninety day truce and to say.