these details now from washington for the past two years u.s. president donald trump has really been able to go along without having any sort of rebuke from congress that seems to be changing now when it comes to one issue in foreign policy the senate has voted to proceed with an amendment which would basically say the senate doesn't agree with the president's plan to pull u.s. troops out of syria or afghanistan the vote was sixty eight to twenty three to proceed to talking about it now this doesn't carry the force of law the president sets troop numbers as commander in chief but it is a rare rebuke it's not clear that it's actually going to pass because it's attached to a more controversial bill but in this vote the overwhelming majority of the senators saying to the president when it comes to point troops out of afghanistan or syria that he's wrong. still ahead for you on the program after nine months of wrangling lebanon finally reaches a deal to form a new government. i'm daniel shrine there in the brazilian amazon where indigenous

communities are organizing after president bush sonora suggested they no longer have a place in modern society. hello again to welcome back we're here cross the northern part of australia we're totally talking about the northern territory and queensland we're talking about a lot of rain that's been happening over the last couple of days and in townsville we're talking about a disaster being declared because of the very heavy rain that they have seen unfortunately over the next few days as you can see here in the forecast map the rain is going to continue across much of that area there of low pressure that is turning is really not moving too much so that means more rain is going to fall in the same locations from friday as well as into saturday took over the forecast map there will be seeing some flooding going on across much of that area down towards the south though the temperatures are on their way back melbourne thirty three

degrees few adelaide at thirty seven and over here towards city well it's going to be a nice day at about twenty six degrees there well for the north and south island of new zealand we are going to see a change we have a front that's making its way across the tasman sea that is first going to be bringing some clouds and rain here for christ church as we end the week right there with some rainy conditions attempted there of about twenty six degrees but that's going to be the warmest you see because as we go toward saturday that front moves up to the north you are cooling down to about twenty and auckland is going to be about twenty six up towards fiji though we're going to be seeing some mostly cloudy conditions few with maybe a rain shower passing through an interpreter there of about thirty. tortured entertained in their home where chinese readers are free but is there a safe place to go one of many as far as their perilous journey to an uncertain future. but how does iraq.

where every. quick recap the top stories this hour in venezuela the opposition to one is accused national security forces loyal to the president nicolas maduro of threatening his family. germany france and the u.k. have launched any payment system allowing them to keep trading with iran and to bypass u.s. sanctions in an attempt to save the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal and

hypothermia is thought to be responsible for the deaths of at least twenty nine children and babies over the past two months in a refugee camp in northeastern syria. more our top story now the power struggle currently unfolding in venezuela latin america newman has more now on today's developments in caracas. another day of drama here in venice as the self proclaimed interim president was giving a speech at the central university of in his way laying out his recovery plan for the nation he received a note which said that police agents were at his house looking for his wife his wife was actually sitting next to him he said that if any danger came to his twenty month old daughter or any member of his family he would hold president nicolas maduro directly responsible and then he rushed home to his apartment accompanied by members of the diplomatic corps and the media we were told by neighbors that there have indeed been two motorcycles that with police agents and that they had gone

upstairs to why those apartment even though the government has denied that this has taken place afterwards where those spoke to the media and he said that this was an attempt to intimidate him and the opposition at the same time the interior minister was holding a news conference he announced that the government had it had a plot to assassinate selective politicians and members of the military that they had teligent agents have found a cell of mercenaries so-called mercenaries and terrorists crossed over from colombia he said to carry this out in order to concretes the upheaval in this country and there's all this happens there is no there is no sign in sight that this crisis is drawing to an end to brazil where authorities are warning that water around a mining dam that collapsed on friday is contaminated and a risk to the public at least two hundred ten people are now known to have died in southeastern brazil when the dam holding iron ore waste collapsed two hundred

thirty eight people is still missing prosecutors in brazil are frozen two hundred nineteen million dollars belonging to the country's largest iron ore mining company which is meant to be responsible for running the dam the money will be used to compensate victims. omanis from brazil and hundreds of people have been out demonstrating against the anti indigenous policies of the far right president jr paul sonera daniel was at one protest in sao paolo. representatives and some of the nine hundred thousand or so indigenous people got to the coffers ill of come to sell the biggest city in the country by this far away from those communities if they could possibly be but they're hoping to hear their voices will be heard running from place we hear to protest against the government that wants to remove some of the rights we have to look to the decreased by the present and generally the first is going to harm the indigenous people comes we want to get this document and know what that is why we are demonstrating in different parts of the country today. they are these are people who have been persecuted they say for

more than five hundred years ever since the arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is as bad as it's ever been given the policies of the recently installed president job all the novels are now told during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land would be dumber demarcated as to his territory he was also why the best the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. no way to get some much of that land was host to the new wealth to looking territory land that should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns this is what is really upset the indigenous community they fear relaxation of the rules protecting their status within the constitution and any protections they once enjoyed under the law have been curtailed and they must now unify gather the

support of as many non-indigenous brazilians as possible to try to fight against what they feel is a hostile government now to lebanon where leaders have reached a deal to establish a new national unity government he agreement between rival politicians will end nine months of political wrangling of how to share out cabinet portfolios it will be the third government led by the current prime minister saad hariri saying hot air has more now from beirut. the political deadlock is now over nine months of political wrangling lebanon has a now a government it's never an easy process in this country rival politicians agreeing on the distribution of seats simply because of lebanon sectarian based power sharing agreement so rival politicians agreeing on a new cabinet why now well many observers believe france played a role france a former colonial power a country which has influence here in lebanon their work consultations in recent

weeks in the french capital a number of lebanese politicians visiting paris and paris of course having some sort of leverage over iran we have to remember the united the european union is agreeing to a business dealings with iran skirting u.s. sanctions so transfers have leverage over you run and iran of course its allies hezbollah they hold political power in this country all sides made concessions but it was a demand by hezbollah that it's suddenly ally hezbollah being of course a shia party it's sunday ally be given a ministerial portfolio hezbollah more has had a more conciliatory. attitude in the past a few days so a new government parliament is going to me to give it a vote of confidence that is expected to happen but the political power of the balance of power does not changed hezbollah and its allies control or control the

parliament they control political power in this country and by extension that means iran and its ally the syrian government are who really have influence over lebanon . also news from sudan where president bashir has announced the reopening of the border with eritrea it was closed a year ago following accusations by our team that the eritrean government was supporting rudd. since it down if countries deployed troops in the eastern border town of disputes would lead to this degree of passing on this day we salute our fellow brothers in eritrea the president government and the people from this spot in crystal i announce that our border with eritrea is now open eritreans are our fellow brothers and we are on the same boat it is true that politics can tear us apart we have lived in politics that brings us together our historical relations territorial proximity and blood but. mom and val has more on the story now from our

ten president obama bashir seems to be sending two messages one of them is to the region that he has been in egypt for the last few days and immediately after that visit we see him open the border with it we are one of the countries that have sided with egypt saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind in the blockade against qatar internally we see that this is a very important message for the people of on the border with eritrea last year in june when the border was closed after reports that it and egypt were organizing the military exercises their populations on both sides of the board to have tremendously suffered because their livelihood depended on exchange of commerce and also on movement between the two sides between the two countries now omar bashir has been touring in term of the regions in sudan after this wave of protests trying to send messages from the government that the government is trying to help people

the government is going to ease the economy of the population and this decision today comes in that context as well. the great defense minister has called on the british government to apologize to former fighters in cyprus it fought to end colonial rule in the one nine hundred fifty s. the u.k.'s agreed to pay compensation to the victims but still refuses to accept liability that's despite claims by the former feiss they are now in their seventy's and eighty's that they were tortured by the british they've a child to has a special report arriving from athens the defense minister of greece came to pay tribute to their sacrifice this week. after his tour of the prison we asked the minister if it was now time the british government apologized for what happened here but this is a terribly the answer is not simple you understand. they have to have to

but so many years have passed since then this matter has almost been exhausted but not for this also was tortured for eighteen days he said the psychological abuse was the worst a british interrogator told him you die every day in here like a pig in your own blood and. they put a wet blanket on my face to make it difficult to breathe and place the bucket over my head my hands were tied the british soldiers started hitting me and quipping my back and feet using turn terms on my knees they would do it in shifts. evangelist's public car this was the last of the freedom fighters to fall to his death from this new sin the prison and also the youngest just nineteen years old his family stood outside the prison gates as he was executed the following year i felt so much pain

also the whole family the first years so much anger rage it gets softer over the years but it has never gone away. the scene is just outside nicosia and these pictures underline the fact that with the recent flare up america activated the security forces can take no chances. every bridge is a potential danger and a likely place for a bomb to have been planted controls on the side for hidden arms or suspects may themselves run into trouble they must always be on the lookout for a minute bomb on ambush the ukase minister of state for europe's alan duncan said after the out of court settlement was announced we must not forget the past indeed we must learn from it but the most important thing is to look to the future the settlement does not constitute any admission of liability and is not

a precedent in respect to any potential future claims against the government standing in the mountains far above nicosia the statue of one of the freedom fighters whose nom de guerre was the eagle of the cross he fought to the death against british soldiers who surrounded his hideout in this cave they poured petrol into it and burned him alive but the land his gaze is forever fixed on is now free david chaytor al-jazeera the true dos mountains. one of the oldest and largest rebel armies in myanmar wants to unite with neighboring groups to fight the government the qur'an national liberation army has been marking seventy years since its fight for greater autonomy began but attempts to reach a peaceful solution have failed from qur'an stay in man mark twain hay reports throughout decades of civil war korean refugees have poured across the river from me and ma seeking shelter in thailand this journey was in the other direction but

still in the name of the fight. this is my first time and i am very happy to come and my revolution the east light the current new year. i'm not sure what the future holds but we hope that we will get freedom and happiness. they came to the jungle headquarters in eastern me and ma of the qur'an national liberation army to mark seventy years since it took up arms against the government they call it revolution day but the revolution still hasn't been realised. the fight will go on because the government won't give us freedom isn't to say we have to fight for that. the mainly christian organization is one of many armed ethnic groups that are fighting for greater rights and self-determination a cease fire is in place but it's broken regularly. and peace talks have made little progress one of the main problems is that the armed in the group say when the negotiating with me and civilian government they don't get anywhere because don not the ones who are really in control it's me and miles military that ran the

country for almost fifty years that still has ultimate power and they say when they do talk to the me and my military there's a lack of trust. in our korean leaders have now suspended involvement in the peace process choosing instead to hold informal talks on their own terms those involved say it's a temporary setback to does the nature of the peace process not only in our country some other gun treat so does sometimes. sometimes the magnet. over the decades the fight in korean state has splintered but this was the first time in fifteen years that all korean groups came together to mark the anniversary they now hope to reunite and join forces in battle. i want to see all commend groups fighting together for the same victory target we're trying and we hope it will happen in the future. the me and my military says the rebel groups must give up ideas of separation from the state and surrender their weapons but the spiders

say it's never really been about independence it's about having control over their distantly and written into their mission statement surrender is out of the question wayne hay al jazeera korean state media mob. and hundreds of millions of people are on the move in china in preparation for the lunar new year a week long holiday starts on the first of february travel agents estimate some four hundred million people will travel across china and another seven million to go abroad making it the world's biggest annual human migration the new year itself falls on february fifth. just a quick look at the top stories this hour now venezuela's opposition leader one accuse national security forces loyal to the president nicolas maduro of threatening his

family he says agents from a special police unit went to his home while he was an event in the capital caracas outlining his plan for the country the agents reportedly asked to see his wife is twenty month old baby was also inside the apartment. a citizen you're inside so i say to the gentleman of the pirates pollies here you are with my wife my daughter in my house are they will hold you responsible for any flipped my baby and was only twenty months all it's what they do to this whole country and i say from here leave my home. meanwhile oil workers in venezuela have been rallying in the capital caracas in support of nicolas maduro are also protesting against u.s. president donald trump sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil found at a vesa. in all the headlines i put them here is thought to be behind the deaths of at least twenty nine children and babies in a refugee camp in northeastern syria around twenty three thousand people mostly

women and children have a arrived at the camp in the past eight weeks after fleeing fighting many on foot. lebanese leaders have reached a deal to establish a new national unity government equipment between rival politicians well and nine months of political wrangling over how to share out cabinet portfolios it'll be the third government led by the current prime minister saad hariri. at least twelve people have been killed in the u.s. as temperatures dropped a record lows across the midwest the freezing weather has been caused by a stream of cold the polar vortex it snapped rail lines and calls the cancellation of hundreds of flights temperatures are now dropping to minus twenty four. and donald trump says they'll be no deal on trade with china until he has a sit down meeting with president xi jinping u.s. and chinese officials have been holding talks in washington to try to end a dispute that seen the walls to largest economies impose trade tariffs on each

other there are reports of a possible summit between trump and next month erupted a lot of our top stories are one o one east follows the journey now all of a repressed minority in china. as politicians and washington fights ruled rule we talk to the people at the center of the story many of them just know it's very dangerous because of the many guns are there and it's not it's a very safe place migrants smugglers and people who live along the border talk to all just zero. in china's western border region of xing junk the government has launched a widespread crackdown on its muslim population. an estimated one million readers have reportedly been forced into detention camps

for so-called reeducation. the chinese government says it's to prevent religious extremism shinji i'm cool we will change you really good i'm sure. who are the shoe for. those who can are leaving the country but are finding china's growing international reach hard to escape. i'm steve on this episode a one on one east we followed the weavers fleeing repression and ask can we find a safe refuge. is stand by for centuries the turkish city was a key trading post along the ancient so growth running from china to europe. today

it's the end point in the long journey for we escape in what they say is china's harsh rule we do well we are you and i am in. i feel thankful that i can see this. because i haven't seen sunshine for a long time so for me sunshine is freedom. i'd do well he is from the city of cashcard inching john it's there he devoted his life to teaching young children the weaker language. i love my language it's. beautiful we're going to is my mother language it's more than one thousand five hundred years written history and birth to literature. but add to world he says one day chinese authorities suddenly banned students from learning weaker and he was thrown in jail . and wanted

to see if you can one of them now having fled to turkey or do well he is speaking out about china's secret detention centers where he says we are being beaten and tortured it haunts him to this day it's always on your mind. there's no escaping it no because our fall. our heart is still there in puerto rico our piers acutely here my body is here but my. you. for years the chinese government denied the existence of these facilities but with satellite imagery we were able to locate where our do while he was jailed over a period of fifteen months he says he was moved between these three centers in the city of the room. other muslims have also reported being held in these locations.

a human rights group secretly recorded footage inside this center. chinese officials say they are for voluntary job training but the individual cells with bars locks and surveillance cameras suggest something much different. experts say china has build more than one hundred two in prison we. do well he likens them to concentration. they are in faith told officials in st what do you think there and goal is they want to. delete waiver they want them. to believe the chinese communist party as a god this is what hitler done poor israel people jewish people you just said that you see the chinese government acting like hitler do you believe that's true yeah it's true because you put more

than one million in concentration camp what one can describe it. abdul well his account of his treatment within the walls of the facilities is horrific. press day is very bad. the first thing they ask me to. look at my clothes. my clothes and they slit my step my buttock they have used me more than twenty chinese guy. used here. that any man can except that you're saying he raped you. so i

cannot again forget that i didn't tell anybody until now i have talent. because i'm if you show me in the morning three police ask me one day if you guys in power what you will what you will do to us as look i'm human be and the animals like you. what followed he says was more violence this time at the hands of inmates they put me in the hell with the drug addicts and with the killers. and they beat me. twenty four hours and where were the

guards were. the guards. don't care they want to. be quarterly yes. if you torture a lot it means that you cooperate with them during the interrogation. and do well he believes the rapes and beatings were orchestrated to force him into admitting he was a terrorist i am a scholar i am a writer and i have never thought about that i am not a terrorist i am not the separatists and what they come fast. one on one east interviewed more than a dozen other former detainees all share similar stories of abuse. and do well he says even outside the facilities almost every aspect of daily life are we is controlled. there are reports more than a million chinese officials have moved into weaker homes to monitor families up

close. the authorities justify their actions saying violent riots in attacks by weaker separatists over the past decade have killed hundreds of people. the government says they are trying to stamp out extremism extremism what kind of extremism for example my younger sister she's teaching job at the high school and. is she extremists. do well he says several of his family members have been sent to detention centers as punishment because he fled china. the fate of his younger sister the geography teacher worries him most. we can all tell you had. two kids one this six year is not. going to know what the top.

the next day i do while he takes us to meet another former detainee. who are we going to see her and she is because like us and he's from kazakhstan and she recently came over here yeah earth two months ago. to well years documenting the abuse detainees say they suffered hoping the world will take note and hold china to account for. most of us kate the camps are too fearful to talk worried china will target their families but global hard to lower is angry and wants to share her story. yes this is. how long were you held for. which one can you count every single day calamitous the numbers parklands on your

plans on what a sub. will look at the bus stop. google says she and other inmates faced constant humiliation. this can move their kid to check them as the ship. at night the cells brought more misery for become an image of the position of the me up and said them must have had to be low cut out of the atoms wonder what comes . of them will know them yet want to get them to spend the times had was almost a little skit see tools the men the little in school and you may get the a plus for the hospital mr the mayor. says the police had no reason to arrest her she'd been visiting to buy clothes to take back and sell in kazakhstan. she isn't

even chinese but is a card like citizen something she says police changed on her records. mean of her million the marketers get the memo six hundred number the bigger picture. of wonder woman was cause of. me in a bit of it is this because this is my main problems from the. day what did they say to you when you told them that you are citizens. of this something also dr phil sutton seem to construct a bilodeau. must have that moment in his bed that was most memorable some business that's kind of just a gamble saucer jungle no women couldn't have the numbers. during her time in detention. as she was never charged with

a crime and never appeared before a court. instead she was subjected to terrifying interrogations that sometimes lasted twenty four hours and to michigan appeared with them giving a most mission call particular questions all the. time would show. the place was a look at some. could mean a third of what our body. started in detention. last thirty kilograms and as consternation mare's. local didn't the men look. good doing it although the superman. china defends their training centers releasing this fifteen minute video on state television and we girls are shown eagerly learning chinese.

getting job training and dancing and singing songs praising the communist party.