remember mr president is how hard was these gains have been our response to this progress must not be to take our foot off the gas pedal but rather to keep up those strategies that are clearly at work this followed another highly unusual move the president's own intelligence chiefs telling congress tuesday that their boss the president of the united states is wrong in a long and north korea not going to give up nuclear weapons on iran not actually violating its nuclear agreement i still 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 intelligence 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 how decline al-jazeera washington. i thought i had on more on the power struggle in venezuela i will examine why china is standing by nicolas maduro. and the big brains parts of the us suffering in arctic freeze would wreck or low temperatures. welcome to another look at the international full cost of the right will see some dry a clear weather coming into china as we go through the next few days still fight to drive down towards the south a little bit of central areas but i suspect we'll see too much rain coming out of that as we go on through thursday the wetter weather will be over towards the eastern side of the country it's not

a pretty day there for shanghai twelve celsius friday it clear story because down nine celsius there in shanghai all the time getting up to around twenty degrees or so for hong kong so not doing too badly here that's a bad too as well into southeast asia the heaviest showers continue to roll away across malaysia into indonesia the heat of the day downpours but changing conditions to go on through the coming days and you see some pretty wet weather there just around borneo pushing over towards the montra more the same as we go on into friday have some little further north but it's for the showers starting to work. dry banco case up to around thirty three celsius india stays dry as well along with us for lanka being c. up towards the north has had some rather wet weather some while the wintry weather to into northern parts of pakistan recently they will struggle away around the foothills of the himalayas but elsewhere is generally fair. whether sponsored by

catalona. high in the atlas mountains. village women are fending for themselves as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. patrolling home farm and family is tough with no outside support comet's longer is this way of life sustainable al-jazeera world meets moroccan religious superwomen. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has promised support to the self-proclaimed leader venezuela

one wideout two men spoke on the phone join thousands of people on the streets of caracas for another day of protests. the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten hooty training camps outside the key port city of data on wednesday more fighting there is threatening a cease fire deal struck in sweden last month. donald trump has lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs calling them naive and wrong all over the threat posed by iran the u.s. president suggesting they go back to school after officials contradicted his claims on national security issues. are more on our top story the political turmoil in venezuela china's leaders are concerned about the growing anger against long ruling leader nicolas maduro beijing is regarded as china's staunchest ally in south america

a friendship that has been underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons sales china correspondent adrian brown reports. 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 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 a duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. since china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance 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 it's no venezuela's biggest provider of arms including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective

during the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing in the us the youngest member involved in the one nine hundred sixty nine killing spree led by criminal and cult leader charles manson has been recommended for release from prison leslie van houten who was nineteen at the time has been serving a life sentence for her role in the murders sixty nine year old has sought parole nearly two dozen times but always been denied a group led by manson was held responsible for seven murders. let's go live now to rob reynolds in los angeles so rob just just fill on philis in on this. if you can this was a notorious. crime of the time it was it was one of the most notorious crime sprees of the twentieth century what was leslie van houten as role. well it was just fifty years ago fifty long years ago that this city was thrown into

a state of fear bordering on panic and the united states as a whole was horrified by this series of grisly murders perpetrated by the manson family charles manson a life time petty criminal would be musician who had a strange ability to bend people to his will he assembled a group of young people many of them runaways or people dabbling in drugs and having psychological problems one of them was leslie van hooten. and on a series of august nights in one nine hundred sixty nine the manson family carried out the killings of sharon tate and five other people at that actress's home and then leslie van hooten. was convicted for the killing the following night of leon la bianca and his wife rosemary la bianca in their home the.

group was sentenced to death in some cases long prison terms in other cases and as you noted. then hooton is now sixty nine years old and today a parole board here said that she would be suitable for release she is currently being held in a women's correctional institution east of los angeles so what happens next then he is she going to go free as a result of this parole board decision. not necessarily this is something that's happened before or. twice the parole board has recommended that she's suitable for release but that then governor of california jerry brown twice vetoed her parole we have a new governor in this state now gavin newsome and the final decision rests with

governor newsome as to whether the parole will be granted to. she the governor that is has a several months to make a decision on this if the past is any guide and none of the. bands and family members have been paroled that were involved in the in the bianca killing so we will just have to see if governor newsom has a different opinion of this matter than governor than his predecessor did all right rob thanks for that rob rob reynolds live in los angeles for us and the united nations is warning to refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean sea a losing their lives at an alarming rate new figures from the un's refugee agency show six people died on average every day last year it estimates more than two thousand two hundred migrants died a went missing while attempting the crossing the route was particularly dangerous

for boats leaving from libya where one person died at sea for every fourteen who arrived in europe and that's despite a major drop in the number of refugees reaching europe one hundred thirty nine thousand arrived in twenty eighteen that's the lowest number in five years. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees is blaming politicians for the crisis it's a race between countries not to pick the people so that it's a negative race it's an anti soli darity race but the governments for political reasons are performing pushing the responsibility of this rather simple gesture to pick a few. miserable people. in their country a charlie actually is a spokesman for the un refugee agency here says the number of migrant deaths in twenty eighteen was deeply concerning. 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 thousands but what is deeply 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 journeys figure of more than two thousand dead could in fact because 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 the deadly consequences of that now 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

a deterrent effect on the boats who may wish to conduct search and rescue operations one of the things you in a.c.r. is really concerned about is that if this situation continues we may have vessels particularly commercial ships waver or even ignore distress signals for fear of being stranded at sea for days on end and two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of djibouti at least fifty two people are confirmed dead and many more missing they were carrying about one hundred thirty people thousands from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea in the hopes of finding work in gulf countries. in tel aviv scuffles are broken out between officers and thousands of israeli ethiopians protesting against police brutality but. they're angry over the killing of a mentally ill ethiopian man allegedly shot dead by police two we scoped community

accuses the israeli government of discriminating against them for years. car makers in britain a blaming brags it calles for a slowdown in business production fell by nine percent in twenty eighteen with the jaguar land rover group taking a big hit prime minister theresa may has met opposition leader jeremy corbyn to try to find common ground on a deal for leaving the e.u. and the report's. westminster one day closer to break sit down and whisper it's signs of cross party efforts to find a way forward jeremy corbett leader of the opposition labor party finally held direct talks with prime minister to resume a he previously refused until she ruled out a no deal bricks it was very pleased that the house voted yesterday to take no deal off the table for promise assurance that we were not back into the territory or threatening no deal as a way of getting support failed deal which is obviously got very limited support in

parliament the prime minister the parliament also voted to pass to reserve base bricks that deal if she can negotiate changes to the so-called irish backstop the house did vote to reject no deal but that cannot be the end of the story the only way the rights of the general said. i think i think that's the first trying is actually accepted that you can't just vote to reject no deal you have to vote for a deal was. well that prospect may be looming large or at least that's what the head of the european commission told the parliament in brussels from time to time i have to push. some hope that the twenty six other countries. at the last minute but this is not a game the e.u.'s chief negotiator was also resolute calling the withdrawal agreements the best and only means of avoiding

a hard irish border that could threaten the historic good friday agreement. to dogmatists. the backstop is not being dogmatic it is a realistic solution throughout the negotiations under your control since we sought solutions to the problems created by brics itself in particular but not only in ireland and while islands clearly worried about a low deal brics it 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 barbara al-jazeera london the world's

number one smartphone maker and mouse the thirty one percent slump in profits in the last quarter of twenty eighteen it is the first drop in two years and one of the worst performance posted by samsung south korean tech giant blaming the slump on growing competition from chinese smartphone makers and a cut in orders for their memory chips at least seven people have died in the deadly cold snap in the u.s. in some parts of the midwest the northeast temperatures are lower than in antarctica john hendren has more now from willis michigan. in arctic freezing envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius it goes o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel

like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across issues swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they can freeze closed it's that kind of cold. the frigid air that forms the polar vortex once spun around the stratosphere over the north pole but its current now disrupted is pushing down into the u.s. the arctic blast leaves a mess of crash cars and broken pipes with days to go before the cleanup begins john hendren al-jazeera willis's michigan.

this is a roundup of all top stories u.s. president donald trump has promised support for the self-proclaimed leader of venezuela. two men spoke on the phone joined thousands of people on the streets of venezuela for another day of protests there calling for the military to stop supporting president nicolas maduro but both men of signal bay may be willing to talk to each other and. are you willing to sit down with us then if. i'm willing to do what is necessary so that humanitarian aid begins to enter immediately that there is active protection that the use of passion of executive power ends and that we have a transitional government. the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten hooty training camps outside the key port city of the data

more fighting there threatening and unbacked threatening un backed cease fire deal struck in sweden last month some republicans and democratic politicians are trying once again to stop the trumpet ministration from supporting the saudi led coalition fighting there late last year i had the opportunity to meet with several very brave human rights activists from yemen urging congress to put a stop to this war and they told me very clearly when yemenis see made in usa 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 a despotic saudi regime with

a dangerous and irresponsible military policy those are the headlines you're up to date right now on nigeria it's inside story. caught between west minster and brussels became leader has the backing of been these two really go she ate for breakfast a deal with the e.u. says there's nothing to negotiate so what is teresa mayes next move could britain crash out of the e.u. with no deal this is inside story. come

to the program i'm richelle carey and less than two months the u.k. will leave the european union what's less certain now is how that is going to happen british m.p.'s are given theresa may the go ahead to renegotiate parts of her brics that agreement but they have rejected the possibility of leaving the e.u. without any deal in place meanwhile the us opposing any reopening of the current agreement which was signed in november after eighteen months of negotiations between the u.k. and e.u. leaders they agreed on the terms of the u.k.'s departure from the twenty eight member bloc of british m.p.'s rejected it earlier this month which forced me to come up with the plan b. but they special focus on the controversial issue of the irish border here's what theresa may had to say after parliament voted on tuesday. the vote was decisive and i listened so the world knows what this house does not want today we need to send

an emphatic message about what we do want it is now clear that there is a route that can secure a substantial and so. substantial and sustainable majority in this house for leaving the e.u. with a deal we will now take this mandate forward and seek to obtain legally binding changes to with truly green opposition labor party leader attorney korman says he's willing to meet the prime minister to discuss the next steps since we've had this debate in the house as emphatically voted to reject the no deal option the prime minister was supporting code i say that we are prepared to commit major to put forward. to put forward the points of view from the labor party all of the kind of agreement we want with the european union to protect jobs to protect living standards and reject

rights and conditions in this country france's president manuel knock on has stressed the e.u. stance that teresa mayes breaks a deal is not up for discussion and nickel so you open as the european council has clearly indicated this withdrawal agreement negotiated between the european union and the u.k. is the best deal possible and it is not to renegotiate. let's bring in our guests now in london catherine mcbride senior economist in the international trade and competition unit at the institute of economic affairs and brussels peter club head of the brussels office or the think tank open europe and also in london john the list at the director for british influence a pro e.u. think tank and was also a former senior assistant to charles tannock a member of the european parliament thank you all for joining us i appreciate it. jonathan i put the first question to you the e.u. has been very very clear that we do not want to renegotiate what are

british m.p.'s thinking telling theresa may to go back. well they are out of ideas and treason may have the option to reach out to the opposition to labor m.p.'s maybe to try and renegotiate the political declaration to have a customs union for example but instead she has touched the right and induce an amendment on which choice studion possible choice to renegotiate the buck stop which the e.u.'s insisted cannot be amended now parliament is stuck and they won't say remove the backstop is the only way they can get the deal three but they do not control this process a negotiation takes two parties and they simply don't have the power to force it it's like giving may a mandate to colonize mars it means nothing and it makes everyone involved and what about hassling these these non-binding amendments to that concern you even

constitutionally speaking does that concern you. no it's not really because if something is non-binding then than obviously dots it doesn't sort of affect the constitution the only problem would be is if the parliament changed the law to cancel the box stop and that wasn't approved by the e.u. because then the person would be in breach of its international obligations and that would precipitate a new deal crush out which would be an economic and social catastrophe and peter as i said and as the e.u. as a whole and is certain later thing euro on the market on they have said over and over and over again that this is that you need to make this work do is the e.u. would mean that do you think they could be nudged well of course it's not because the european union say something that they will stick to it. or politicians or you officials change that opinion and that seems to be lost in the debate i mean

the british politicians do the same thing of course. the guardian reported yesterday that behind the scenes some diplomats have been looking at ways to limits the backstop to provide an exit mechanisms. for out of it for you k. and even if you look into the text of the withdrawal agreement there are already ways for the united kingdom to unilaterally abandon its obligations but only in case the e.u. acts in bat fetes there are obligations for you to do their best to get to a trade deal now you may ask yourself what does that even mean legally but one way out of this would be to sort of clarify. the rights that the u.k. has under this to abandon the backstop also. if you really

care to have a sustainable deal i think it's the responsible thing to try to make sure that britain will not forever be stuck under the customs regime of the european union i don't think anyone can imagine the world's fifth biggest economy would forever follow the e.u. trade regime and as hard as it may be to reconcile that not only with avoiding border checks in order not in but also with protecting the supply chains of companies between main and europe and britain away haast will have to be found to enable do a two one day recover trade powers and catherine i will get to you in a moment but i want to go back to jonathan just because i could tell by the way he was them shaking his head he perhaps wanted to respond to what peter was saying.

the point is that it's if you have differential tariffs between northern ireland which is in the u.k. and ireland then you will have to have a hard border no one has come up with any. agreeable way of resolving that conundrum and for that reason the backstop will be permanent in the sense that we'll always be in the same customs territories the e.u. that is a products for the impossible redlines for the government has put up so it is simply fantasy to say that we can you know that she withdrew from the box top alternative arrangements can be found because peace in northern ireland is the overriding priority of all the parties it's more important than the rights of the u.k. to have its own tariff raising powers only taught obviously there's so much attention being focused on the backstop understandably but catherine how does it strike you that there wasn't more discussion about the border and all of the bracks that

negotiations and what take them back the campaign in rather up to the vote this is such a big deal now do you think there was enough discussion about it before we even got this. well i think that the people involved probably didn't discuss it enough because unlike what jonathan has just said right now there are different v.a. t. and different excise rules on either side of the irish border and they seem to be able to cope with that quite well and most of those payments are done electronically and most of the people that are taking trade across the border and doing it on a regular basis and so it is in fact quite easy for the authorities to catch up with people and make sure that they have paid the excise duty for instance on petrol fuel days all which are quite different on our the sides of the border so i don't take that you need borders to do that. and i do believe that if.

amazon can tell me where my parcel is at any one time i think that we will have the ability to check the border i don't think that that is insurmountable but i also think that the the whole referendum campaign was not so much about practicalities it was about the the bigger picture of where the u.k. wants to be and i think europe is becoming more and more a single entity and i think in a way that's very good for continental europe to do that especially the euro zone i just want to touch on something you just said the u.k. was always going to be opposed to that so it was time that the u.k. lift but how how could you have such a vote of such consequence and not have discussed it and really dealt with some of the practicalities well the people the people running the vote leave campaign were not the government so they weren't actually in a position to do so but there is well there have been quite a few publications written independently going through all of the ways you can do

this but they are not even now they're written by professors or they're written by . interested parties a couple of m.v.p.'s have written interesting books and so they are still not the government so they're not in a position to make those things happen but there are in who who supported the exit who were in a position to push for some real digging in some real information and a better broader discussion to make voters more informed well that's that's happening now but that wasn't happening in the campaign sorry you're rich or original question was about the campaign i think now we have had the problem where quite a lot of bricks at supporting ministers who were in positions of power in the cabinet have had to resign because they disagree with the way the government is handling things unfortunately a lot of the people in the cabinet who disagree with the way the government is

handling things but from a a remain in europe perspective ready to seem to feel any obligation to resign unless they are doing it as one of the. one of the business mrs recently threatened to resign in two weeks if he doesn't get his own way and quite frankly i think it's time that the prime minister. sort up to these guys and said ok the door is there a few go now ok wait for the two weeks all right let me hold that you know it's a good way to start saying that let me bring jonathan in because yes there has been a lot of talk about theresa may and is she the person to make this happen. and do you think these problems will still exist even if that were to rescind a. i think we have a double whammy because britain itself finds itself in extremely weak position and it's led by an extremely weak prime minister the may has compounded our worries by insisting on impossible red lines there is being leaving the single market leaving

the customs union but also having no border between great britain and northern ireland and of course having no hard border on the island divide and now it's simply a fact that if you leave a tariff regime and if you lead a single markets they'll be different regulations on two sides the border and different tariff regimes those have to be in force with physical infrastructure as they are everywhere in the world now to come but see an original point the backstop is partly legal but more importantly perhaps it's political so we can argue about economics and the legal parts cosies that fundamentally this is about where the priorities lie arland is a member state of the european union britain or they break a is leaving the european union so the u.k. for the first time in its history finds itself less powerful than ireland and can quite understand it but the e.u. will always have solidarity with our island over the cape and that is why the

backstop will never be amended so peter what of that who has the leverage here it certainly doesn't seem like the u.k. does well there's not a country that is not in the e.u. that has possibly even more traits it used in britain the us that is not in the e.u. single market and that is also outside of the u.s. customs union and that is switzerland the head of the swiss customs has been speaking to the northern ireland committee in westminster and he has said that it should be possible to have an invisible border in order not and no i don't want to dismiss the the hurdles to achieve debts. actually there has been some discussions on that particular point between the e.u. and the u.k. already were by the united kingdom has proposed to exempt small businesses from customs checks which the e.u.

has refused so i think the solution will have to lie in. flexibility and we need some flexibility we need some acceptance that there may be a little customs hole in ordinance and i don't think that is so unreasonable why because there are already two giant customs holes into the e.u. secrets customs border and those are the ports of antwerp and rotterdam where many goods are entering europe and only a tiny fraction is being checked and. full of patients in my own country belgium from hunter of have been saying that there are many problems with that so it would be completely irrational knots to allow a little bit of flexibility. at the very unimportant part of the u.s. customs border in northern ireland catherine is a no deal breck that still

a possibility think that could happen. i think it's very definitely still a possibility and was delighted to see that the two amendments that were most likely to stop it were both rejected last night i don't believe you can go into any kind of negotiation and not have the ability to walk away at the end. and i think that it is with that in mind that there you were talking at the beginning about the e.u. opening up the negotiations again and i think one of the reasons they could consider doing that is because if they don't the obvious solution is we walk away and that does hurt them though of course it doesn't hurt them uniformly i would take issue with jonathan saying that the if we leave will have different regulations on either side of the border right now we have the same and i don't see any massive rush to deregulate on either side of that border right now i think people are panicking

about something that doesn't exist again without trade with europe we predominantly trade with nine european countries in fact we do ninety percent of our trade with nine european countries so those countries will be very determined that we should do some kind of deal if we are living on w t o terms but of course the other eighteen countries in europe who will get a vote they probably couldn't care less so that is the problem with europe is it people like to look at it as and homogenous group but it's not a few countries will be very severely affected and one of them is island now with the irish question there has always been the special rules between the u.k. and ireland it has always been treated differently from the rest of the e.u. we have always had for instance a common travel area with ireland which we don't have we're not in shang and we don't have any common travel area with the rest of the e.u.

countries but we do with island so we've been able to manage that sort of area which is slightly different from the wrist i think the. we can definitely have some arrangement that works for the board and i do you definitely think that no deal is is an option and has to be an option john and i can tell that you don't agree what do you see as and some of the most severe consequences of a no breaks a deal some of them obviously are a no win because this is not happened before but what do you see as the no attention consequences of a no break that deal will oversee when you walk away from forty five years of of economic integration you know what you're going to lose so catherine can talk about having a deal even though we have no deal but of course it's about recognition of those standards so if there is no deal underpinning our relationship with the e.u. then france and belgium will be required to check gates for taxes and standards so

they currently do not check that is a legal consequence of leaving without a deal and for that reason because we import so much of our food for example and our medicines through the channel ports and that will lead to massive congestion just as it is the most visible a consequence so the you know the people he run those ports the food sector the the retail sector is. tearing their hair out about the possibility that they won't be able to get gates in the supermarkets medicines and hospitals and the businesses will be shattered by the death of supply chains now just come back to just briefly support the pizza made about switzerland of course switzerland is not in the single market or the customs union and has many bilateral agreements with a single market for the u.k. would not be able to replicate because the e.u. doesn't like them but the fundamental point his there when you go to switzerland there are physical borders with the e.u. you have to go through customs place every time you go between switzerland and

france for example so the idea that switzerland is some kind of example for us to follow is nonsense peter did you want to reply. yeah i mean we always come back to the same argument the arguing this to you doesn't like it sure but you like zero axis. for goods and services even less because the disrupt trade even more so checkers or the swiss model or they can choose to play is the only model that can safeguard its degree of british sovereignty and intense traits between the u.k. and mainland europe and that's why this model will be chosen and i very much agreed that no deal would be chaotic absolutely but id a lot of the trade between britain and the u. twenty seven with become illegal there is no even. deal

to to to prevent chaos and of the ation at the moment in a number of things have been catered for but. in teary no flights between the u.k. and mainland europe or possible anymore many of the flights inside of spain may even be illegal because they are. they are done by a company that could be considered on their some interpretation as a non e.u. as a british company so could perfectly be sort it but it can be sorted in such a short period of time catherine i can tell that you know i'm standing now on hold on just a second and it seems that you think that you have a day i said to flags that jonathan and peter are raising you seem to think are i don't know overblown i want to put words in your mouth but go ahead come become please blend in back to the basic macro micro-economics the customer is always

right jonathan seems to have forgotten when he's talking about food coming in from europe where the customer. and we will be the ones who apply tariffs should we want to apply them and we will be the ones checking that the food coming in is what we want our standards so it would be unlikely that we would slow things down at the border they are coming to us we want to buy them same with the pharmaceutical industry in terms of the aviation industry you're a stat has some wonderful figures on this one third of all intra e.u. passengers on planes come from the u.k. so they may not be u.k. passport holders but they start their journey in the u.k. whether they're flying to cyprus for a holiday or going back to poland all that fear or whether they live in spain these days one third of your customers now there is not one airline in the e.u.

who will survive that if they lose one third of their customer base they lose everything you know they're out of business alitalia is out of business now you know that they are all running at very very low profit profitability if the airline industry wants to be decimated in the e.u. should block flights going to the u.k. very clever or not so clever at the same with the food i mean why wouldn't we stop importing why would we block our own food ok that is completely twisting this ok we're about out of time and i put the last question to you jonathan pretty quickly bottom line do you think there will be a second referendum. i think that it's the likeliest of a series of unlikely options because there may be nothing else to do but about the people in parliament is that lots and just on the points just i have to address this point the catheter may very quickly about coming in the questions not the we would check the kids coming in although we would be required see is that the

french and belgians will do so because we're depending on roll on roll of traffic it doesn't matter when or checking the gates they will be and that's what's going to cause congestion and that is another reason why second referendum will be likely because if we do look like we're going to a new deal snorri which will be such a an economic car crash it could be the only way to save us all right i have a feeling we'll be continuing to discuss wrecks and for quite some time to come thank you all i'm sure we will have you back again appreciate it very much thank you catherine pride peter clapp and jonathan listen thank you for watching if you join the program again any time visit our website al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. entire story and me i shall carry on the entire team here until i find out.

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reinforcing white house support for him earlier why don't join thousands of supporters rally in the capital caracas to protest against president nicolas maduro they want the military to shift its support away from the dura a both men have signaled they may be willing to talk to each other. as if you've got a little boat or are you willing to sit down with manure over the surface and is that over the i'm willing to do what is necessary so that humanitarian aid begins to enter immediately that there is active protection that the usurpation of executive power ends and that we have a transitional government well as donald trump raised one quite oh president nicolas maduro is making an appeal directly to the american people in a clip posted on social media he asked for their help to prevent what he called a vietnam in latin america. our country has the largest oil reserves in the entire world certified and the eyes of those that govern the

imperialism in the united states want to get their hands on our oil as they did in iraq as they did in libya no our oil belongs to us we are certifying the first gold reserves in the world we have certified the fourth largest gas reserve in the world we are a nation of great energy of great natural resources that's the real truth of why the incessant attacks against venezuela are occurring. and has more for caracas. venezuela's 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's willing to dialogue to talk to the opposition including self-proclaimed interim president why though that in itself is not new

the question is what will they talk about if they can't agree on this most important part of 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 maduro a deadline until saturday to agree to him to hold these elections or they will recognize wide 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 the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten hooty training camps outside the keep for safety of data more fighting is threatening a u.n. back struck in sweden last month the u.n.

special envoy is in the data to try to preserve the delicate truce. donald trump has lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs calling them naive been wrong over the threat posed by iran u.s. president suggested they go back to school after officials contradicted his claims on national security issues. british prime minister it's recently has met the opposition leader jeremy coleman trying to find common ground on a deal for leaving the european union parliament has given me a two week deadline to renegotiate an agreement with the e.u. m.p.'s have asked her to go back to brussels to demand changes to what's known as the backstop contentious issue of the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of djibouti at least fifty two people are confirmed dead and many more missing one

hundred thirty people were on board the boats thousands of people from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea in the hope of finding work in the gulf countries those are the headlines at zero world is next.

to some. people here speak emma zeal and i for asiatic language going back several thousand. the arabic language only came to north africa in the seventh and eighth centuries. it's in one of the mountain villages here and sings in about the harshness of her life. it's more women here than men.

were no one can see them. and that's what the story is about. the villages near the source of the river are poor and geography plays a major. poverty. of the four million people living in poverty in morocco. in rural areas. this is a mom who's bringing up her three boys. virtually on her own. that's a. lot of their so what if. you were to get one then explain that. this law that says yes. condoms again. you knew. that.

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and say i'll order there then they. say if they're still servants i'm not going to go. then that. there are no real jobs here for many of working age so most of them have to leave for bigger farms or cities to find jobs leaving their families for long periods at a time. so the women have to do pretty much everything. operates a small cafe for tourists and passers by but you could hardly call it a real business. like many here she lives more or less on the poverty line. can you or didn't say and all of them and so i'm not. one to go on said. then. i don't want to. but once of investments. could have done some that i then that's in the sales laden

sales i don't want. in two thousand and five morocco began its national human development initiative support project with a million dollar budgets aimed at improving people's living conditions and reducing poverty by twenty fourteen the overall poverty had been cut by about half but there's still a yarning gap between urban and rural poverty. official figures suggest that over eighteen percent of the rural population still lives in poverty or are considered. the way. they're still function so how much they have. thank you can tell a lot about

a society from its cultural expression including its music and songs and in december speaking community separation is a recurring theme. was that it. was. there. was.

not only a war in general that had a lot of other to do it was yellow. and unlock it. this is a very little fear for many if not a lot of it's i'm a big a fox handle kind of what some ordered or so we. thought oh yeah that's really good if i often enough and after. that for haven't ridden a horse. in some the can a one of them. even though it's i meant it has to get a laugh and. if fine if that's enough i have often. heard this. and one of the scenes. over all life expectancy in morocco is only a few years lower than in europe and the united states but the harsh living conditions in remote rural areas and poor access to health care affect long.

literacy is. especially among girls whose education can be limited for a number of different reasons.