remember mr president is how hard won these games have been. to this progress not be to put 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 along 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 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 how decline al-jazeera washington when as donald trump faces criticism for comforting his intelligence chiefs the president has been offered praise by his press secretary. says trump was chosen by god to win the twenty sixteen election i think either calls all of us to fill different roles at different times and i think that he wanted donald trump to become president and that's why he's there and i think he has done a tremendous job and is supporting a lot of the things that people of faith really care about at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the u.s. and some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze has plans to minus thirty degrees celsius the coldest for a generation john hendren has more now from willis in 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 and 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 which a god knows 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 a huge 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 michigan this time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back we look at how the afghan government's hold impala is slipping. and we'll tell you why thousands of retired indian soldiers took to the streets of new delhi are in that state the. rule. hello there is no shortage of cold weather across europe as well but it's. at this time of the effects on the mild side of its rules as eastern areas further west

coast enough air skies are going up quite nicely rattling of wintry showers coming through as we go on through the next twenty four thirty six hours or so we are going to see some of the wintry weather making its way in across the british isles now already showing it's had across stalin some very good weather coming down across wales the southwest approaches of england down into that western side of france indeed into northern areas of spain and portugal some very disturbed weather here london paris just four degrees celsius system ace's way further a switching see snow there for a good part of wales a good part of england pushing across into the low countries dry weather comes back in behind for friday but it's going to be bitterly cold lots of ice to watch out for as well as temperatures will stay down at least into the weekend cold enough to just around the outside to see some more snow coming through here some wet windy weather into the western side of the mediterranean further race there we go with moderate to celsius for kiev minus two there for moscow as for the temperatures just starting to fall away meanwhile temps just picking up across northern parts of

africa will see highs in algiers the eighteen celsius and rising. my main interest every weekly news cycle going to see only sept breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's channelise that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media after them focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the maddest in bad news a free palestine a listening paste on al-jazeera. welcome

back a quick reminder the top stories here at al-jazeera venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader won by door says he's held secret meetings with members of the country's security forces he wants military chiefs to withdraw support for president nicolas maduro more protests were held on wednesday from a tour of a step down. u.s. senators have launched a new bed to end washington support for the saudi u.a.e. in the coalition in yemen and politicians from across the political divide resubmit the draft resolution that passed the senate in december but was blocked in the house of representatives. of these nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us and some parts of the midwest and northeast and states that the prince is punished to minus thirty degrees celsius. now the taliban says it's not seeking a monopoly on power in a future administration in afghanistan the group says it's looking for ways to

co-exist with others earlier this week the u.s. envoy said they had been agreements in principle towards a framework for peace with the taliban but that framework was drawn up without input from the afghan government as the taliban regards as illegitimate but a report on u.s. operations in afghanistan shows the afghan government's hold over the population has declined it controls around sixty three percent that's down almost two percent from the previous quarter whereas the taliban has slightly increased its influence controlling nearly eleven percent the report also reveals the u.s. dropped five times more munitions in afghanistan last year compared to twenty sixteen drug trafficking remains a widespread problem report says senior afghan security forces often in control of narcotics rings in northern and western regions and last year more than seven hundred fifty thousand undocumented afghans returned from iran most of them are unskilled men number thirty and the report says vulnerable to recruitment into extremist groups or the illicit economy on top of that afghanistan is experiencing

a major crisis due to their part long drought more than ten million people face severe food shortages and around two hundred sixty thousand afghans have been displaced well into zakim is a political analyst and a lecturer at university he says the report highlights the need for the u.s. to change its tactics. it's not only one point three per same that the taliban or maybe that are in opposition in tutorial but some more certainly for me that why we're not winning this war why you are just stuck in the mud for the last fifteen years after eighteen years why the united states the international community and our stuff can go and are still claiming that they can fight but still we see the decrease in the control of the afghan government they died a state of america would like to play two techniques in the same time they would like to shake the right hands and they would like to hold iraq and the left both not work us so far because the special and why for donald trump meeting have been

meeting with the taliban for six days in qatar when he came to afghanistan i think that it was not very happy he shared his concerns in his briefings with person gani there was no good reaction that mean definitively that he is on the table but if we're not going to right direction i think that we're not in the succeeding position and we have to change that the geeks and a major taliban are still fight for the political power sharing what they means and how they can play their minds in afghanistan if they're not part of the political power they do not want the political power monopoly but they would like to be part of the political structure which is nice is that inuits is a logical position in the we have to understand that when we are dealing with taliban in terms of bringing peace that should be part of it and we have to be having flexibility to push the power when there is no point for taliban to just fight for the last fifteen years they will not say it but i think there is a head and latent idea that they will share the power. car makers in the u.k.

are blaming brags that for a slowdown in business foreign investment in the british car sector almost hard last year. saw its biggest drop in almost ten years it emerged after britain's prime minister to resign may opposition leader jeremy corbyn held talks in an attempt to find common ground on a break that deal that in barber reports. westminster one day closer to break sit down and whisper its 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 breaks it was very pleased that the house voted yesterday to take no deal off the table when asked for a promise assurance that we were not back into the territory or threatening no deal as a way of getting support for her failed deal which is obviously got very limited support in parliament the prime minister the parliament also voted to pass to reserve base bricks a 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 we're going to say. i think i think that's the first time is actually that you can't just vote to reject no deal you have to vote for the 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 had to push . some hope that the twenty six other countries should be burned. at the last minute but this is not a game you use 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 dignity. the backstop is not being dogmatic it is

a realistic solution throughout the negotiations under your controls just resort solutions to the problems created by breck's 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. malaysia has crowned a new king nearly a month after his predecessor abruptly abdicated sultana becomes the sixteenth

malaysian king and the first amends stalled after a resignation no reason was given for the abdication of sultan mahmoud the fifth but it came after he reportedly now twenty five year old former russian queen november. two boats carrying migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of djibouti at least fifteen people are confirmed dead and many more are missing the boats are caring about one hundred thirty people thousands of people from east africa often attempt to cross the red sea in the hope of finding work involved states. you and human rights experts are calling for an investigation into friday's dam disaster in southeast brazil that these ninety nine people have been confirmed dead after the dam holding an iron ore waste collapsed it caused a sea of mud to engulf parts of the town of ramadi. over two hundred fifty people still missing. thousands of former soldiers are gathering in india's capital demanding money on most of them through a scheme called one rank one pension it's the second day of nine planned rallies

calling for equal benefits for retired officers of the same rank. as more. 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. because they're not fulfilling the promise read them a letter the sole job whenever he makes a promise even if he has to sacrifice is like he's ready to do that we 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. we're not asking so drew is really not asking for the. it is a little late which this should not have been a does foothold 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 amen fulfilled their promise and supported ninety and helped him become the pm but he has forgotten his promise government officials say they've begun in. 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. and. in tel aviv thousands of israeli ethiopians protested against racism and police brutality. they're angry over the killing of a mentally ill ethiopian man who was shot dead by police two weeks ago organizers say the case is the final straw in what they describe as years of discrimination by the israeli government. a prominent human rights activist in zimbabwe has been released on bail after his arrest during recent protests pastor evan morrow he could face twenty years in jail if convicted on subversion charges he was not spoken critic of robert mugabe and says nothing has changed and. it is a very sad day for me even though i am i must be joyful that i'm being released it's a very sad day that i have to be in this situation again we went through this

with the mugabe regime and here we are again. going through the exact same thing and it's it breaks my heart more than anything else. it's a loss to the young people of our nation it's a loss to the old people of our nation. and one hopes that. since then justice somehow prevails now a california parole board has recommended the release of the youngest member involved in the one nine hundred sixty nine killing spree led by the notorious criminal cult leader charles manson leslie van houten who was nineteen at the time has been serving a life sentence for her role in the murders the group killed seven people the sixty nine year old is applied for parole nearly twenty four times but it was always denied the decision now lies with governor gavin newsome has more from los angeles . it was fifty years ago that this city los angeles was thrown into

a state of fear bordering on panic and the united states as a whole was horrified by a series of gruesome murders they became known as the tate la bianca killings and as the investigation under folded it became known that they were the work of what was then called the manson family after charles manson a life time petty criminal who developed an incredible ability charismatic ability to get people to follow him he assembled a small group of so-called family members mostly young drifters or runaways and they committed these horrific acts killing sharon tate and several of her houseguests and leon and rosemary la bianca over two nights in august of one nine hundred sixty nine now a parole board here in california has recommended that the youngest member of the

manson family leslie van hooten is now eligible or suitable for parole then hooton was nineteen at the time of the killing she was convicted of murdering leon and rosemary la bianca and she is now sixty nine years old charles manson himself died in twenty seventeen well into his eighty's some song has announced a thirty one percent slump in profits during the last quarter of twenty one thousand is the first cool to me profit drop in two years and one of the worst performances posted by the south korean tech giant samsung blames the slump on growing competition from chinese smartphone makers custom orders for their memory chips.

all right time for a quick check of the headlines here not just iraq venezuela's self-proclaimed interim leader one guy door says he's held secret meetings with members of the country's security forces he wants military chiefs to redraw their support for president nicolas maduro the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen struck ten who need training camps outside her data on wednesday has been more fighting around the port city of the past few days threatening a cease fire deal reached last month in the us republican and democratic senators have launched a new bid to end washington's support for the saudi u.a.e. that coalition in yemen 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 our despotic saudi regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy donald trump has lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs calling them naive and wrong over the threat posed by iran and u.s. president suggested they go back to school after officials contradicted his claims on keen national security issues. the taliban says it's not seeking a monopoly on power in a future administration in afghanistan the group says it's looking for ways to co-exist with others earlier this week the u.s. envoy said it had been agreements in principle towards a framework for peace with the taliban but that framework was drawn up without input from the afghan government as the taliban regards as illegitimate. at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the us in some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze is plunged to minus thirty degrees

celsius. and malaysia has crowned the new king the only a month after his predecessor abruptly abdicated seldom dollar becomes the sixteenth malaysian king and the first to be installed after a resignation the reason was given for the abdication of sultan mom of the fifth but it came after he reportedly married a former russian beauty queen last november all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story that's a water bottle. we're entering your. question mr and russell became leader has the backing of been these two really cool she ate for breakfast a deal with the e.u. says there's nothing to negotiate so what is the recent days next move could

britain crash out of the e.u. with no deal this is inside story. welcome 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 have given theresa may the go ahead to renegotiate parts of her bricks that agreement but they rejected the possibility of leaving the e.u. without any deal in place meanwhile the u.s. 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 but 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 their photo 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 withdrawal agreement 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 is 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 does not 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 for 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 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 is touch to the right and induce an amendment 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 want to remove the buck stop is the only way they can get the deal through 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 has a nice 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 that oversee dot's 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 than europe on the remarkable amount of micron they have said over and over and over again that this is that you need to make this work do as 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 even 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 bats fetes there are a big ations for to you to do their best to gets 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 to a 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 have to 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 product for the impossible redlines the government has put up so it is simply a 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 a bit catherine how does it strike you that there wasn't more discussion about the border and all of the bracks it negotiations and what take them at the campaigning 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 you know amazon can tell me where my pastoral 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 boat 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 your rich or original question was about the campaign i think now we have had the problem where quite a lot of bricks it 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 two weeks all right let me hold out 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 reason 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 callouses that fundamentally this is about where the piracies 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 case 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 and 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 exempts 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. sacred 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 do you 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 an 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 a 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 schengen 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 border and i do 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 break the 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 who 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 in the 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 a single market or the customs in it 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 price 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 well 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 pick and 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 a new deal with the chaotic absolutely

a bad idea. a lot of the trade between britain and u twenty seven would become illegal there's 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 now on hold on just a second it seems that you think that you have it and 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 come. 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 europe has some wonderful figures on this one food 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 or latvia 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 to start lots and just on the points just to have to address this point catherine a 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 you're checking the gates they will be and that's what's going to cause congestion and that is another reason why a second referendum will be likely because if we do look like we're going into a new deal scenario 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 brags that 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 there's at 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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protesters in venezuela phila streets to call for president but to road to step down and to show their support for the self-proclaimed leader. well one down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up politicians in the u.s. renew their push to end support for the salbi u.a.e. in that war in yemen. president trump it sounded is intelligent cheeks calling them naive and says they should go back to school. and a brutal chilled sweep through parts of the u.s. midwest and what's being called the region's worst freeze in a generation. venezuela sort of proclaimed leader says he's had secret meetings with members of the military and security forces in an opinion piece one guy said he knew he needs the

military support to bring about a change of government president nicolas maduro is under pressure to step down more protests well on wednesday the aim of forcing him out a lot in america edison. reports from venezuela's capital. thousands of in israel and some to the call to hold a midday protest carrying signs that read we all have reasons. they are demanding the president need to resign a transition government and you elections. we cannot stand it anymore can't stand it anymore to have gone from being a rich country to one where people starving and a fleeing. opposition leaders say five thousand similar protests took place simultaneously nationwide these gentlemen came from which is venezuela's largest slum to take part in the demonstration with their own reason and the reason is in

their hand it's this money they say it's absolutely worthless this is a weak salary but only by a half a carton of eggs with it. one week ago the opposition controlled national assembly proclaimed deputy why they all but miss weyland interim president in close consultation with the trumpet ministration. since then the u.s. and most of latin america have joined forces to try to push mother out. wednesday while those appointed chargé d'affaires in washington met with u.s. officials to iron out details of confiscating venezuelan oil and gold assets to cut off all income to the government. but at a military base battled president's response was that he won't cave in to pressure ultimatums or blackmail. in the face of these circumstances. threats of acting like. we need nerves of steel and sanity and to mobilize your

conscience with much military mobilization repeated he's willing to dialogue with the goal but says the opposition's non-negotiable demand early. elections is out of the question we're in ok to most this is mexico and your ally attempt to put together a coalition of neutral countries and organizations including the un to attempt and to go shaded settlement to the crisis but it's an option that the opposition seems unwilling to entertain as they with the help of the united states push to precipitate looters downfall. you see in human al-jazeera that access but i was asked by the as a former venezuelan diplomat who served at the u.n. security council he says it's hard to believe president maduro was offered to enter mediation is genuine i must say that president why go has been very consistent in his message he has actually build and try to build a very important peace offering through i misty that has been approved by the

national assembly also he's always been open to negotiate in mediating favor of a humanitarian varia that has been pushed by his criminal regime certainly what i believe she's looking for a peaceful way out nonetheless when you hear the double speak and very violent anti western rhetoric and as well when you see them a duo armed forces shooting protesters in the phrase any in their genitals more than five least forty protesters have been killed and you seem almost approximately a thousand people have been detained including teenagers as young as eleven years old is very difficult to believe in run through rose interest in mediation the united arab emirates says the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen struck ten who think training camps outside her data on

wednesday as a more fighting around the port city of the past few days threatening a cease fire deal reached last month the u.n. special envoys in her data to help preserve the delicate truths. politicians in the u.s. are not giving up on their attempts to end support for the saudi u.a.e. war in yemen sorry the bipartisan group announced plans to resubmit have dropped resolution that was passed by the senate last december but was blocked in the house of representatives 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 don estabrook has more now from washington d.c. . well this resolution has a much better chance of passing than it would have a couple of months ago when a similar resolution was introduced in the senate back in december a bipartisan group of senators led by bernie sanders introduced a resolution to end u.s. involvement in yemen it passed but it didn't even make it to the house of representatives for a vote because the house at that time was controlled by the republicans well since that time the democrats have taken control of the house so this measure would have a much better chance of passing now the sixty thousand dollars question is whether or not the president would veto any kind of resolution that would come to his desk there's a chance that he might but there's also

a chance that congress would override that veto right now there is distaste in the u.s. senate and in congress over u.s. involvement in the atrocities that are going on in yemen and additionally there's been outrage over saudi arabia's involvement in the murder of journalist jamil shogi so those those two things could provide impetus to get this resolution passed in both houses and could put pressure on president trump to sign it the u.n. humanitarian chief has repeated his warning of a crisis on the border between syria and jordan if there's a military operation in libya while the local to schooling of all parties to let aid into the makeshift refugee camp just inside jordan an aid convoy is expected to arrive next week to 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 informal settlements 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 rock band the u.s. president has called his own intelligence chiefs passive and naive and suggested they should go back to school donald trump was reacting to officials who contradicted his positions on foreign policy and national security article he knows more now from washington d.c. 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 gains have been. for this progress of us not be to take our foot 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 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 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 not president of the united states for two

years this is a president who is mostly gone unchallenged by his cabinet by his party in congress but that seems to be changing now how decline al-jazeera washington. at least nine people have died in extreme cold weather in the u.s. and some parts of the midwest and northeast and states the deep freeze is punished at minus thirty degrees celsius as the coldest my generation was john hendren has more often when it's in the state of 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 in chicago's o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight.