our country while our national army doesn't have weapons and the rebels are arming themselves every day. yet. he needed to be made good to lady there is a lock that's needs to be opened what is that luck it's the one that's impacting our security forces. but the u.n. isn't convinced that more guns are a good idea russia received an exemption to the embargo and provided light arms to government forces and sent military trainers last year. a un panel found that russia's intervention created an arms race with the rebels pushing them to increase their own stockpiles. there were also peace talks rebel leaders met government representatives last week in sudan there's a lot to discuss fourteen different rebel groups fighting each other pitting muslim and christian communities against each other to control a country rich in minerals diamonds and gold a norwegian refugee council has warned of

a catastrophe if the talks fire oh i've got. a un peacekeeping force of nearly fifteen thousand is on the ground and the government wants to take charge and says it needs guns to do that challenge ballasts al jazeera. all right when we come back they don't lose often but when they do it can be pretty devastating coming up in sport details on a bad day for team india in new zealand.

and again in brazil hundreds of indigenous people have been demonstrating against

president jr bo'sun ato they say his government is taking control of their ancestral lands daniel shriner was at a protest in sao paolo. representatives from some of the nine hundred thousand or so indigenous people just across brazil have come to south paolo the biggest city in the country by this far away from those communities as they could possibly be but they're hoping they hear their voices will be heard anything from a sound we here to protest against the government that wants to remove some of the rights we have the queue to decrease on by the president on generally the first is kandahar and indigenous people names we want to get this document to know that he's while we are demonstrating in different parts 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 that it's never been given the policies of the recently installed president joy about sanaa paulson out

all during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land would be dumber demarcated as indigenous territory he also asked why the us the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. in that sum much of that land was host to mineral wealth. looking territory that land 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 so this is was really upset the indigenous community they fear a 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. resilience is possible to try to fight against what they feel. at least eight people have died in the us from a once in

a generation cold snap it's left thousands of people without power and many more stranded john hendren reports from chicago. the big chill that swept down from the arctic into the american midwest made chicago colder than the north pole and parts of mars this is not unusual situation it's unusual therefore we have to do things and remind people both for their personal well being the well being of their residents the well being of their home and their property what you have to do take the precautions so nothing bad happens more than eighty percent of americans have felt below zero temperatures i think they have six layers on hail froze over the town of hell michigan that is in chicago it was even colder with wind chills making it feel like minus forty five degrees celsius feels like your face is about the trust me you don't want to do that nearby rockville hit its lowest temperature ever at minus thirty for the polar vortex canceled thousands

of flights and trains i brought additional layers with me just in case it was called but there's not enough layers for this county called unless you're prepared to go to the arctic the us postal service has suspended deliveries in eleven states as the once in a generation freeze brought white out conditions in iowa and crashed cars across the midwestern u.s. thousands were left without power or heat hispania three thirty in the morning and it was a claim in the gas company just based thing that we have know how now midwest residents prepare for weather whiplash with weekend temperatures expected to climb as high as ten celsius from polar vortex to spring like fall john hendren al jazeera chicago. thanks very much cats are preparing to take on japan in the final of the asian cup the match kicks off on friday in the united arab emirates this is the first time the catteries are into the final and have a chance to win that trophy they've scored sixteen goals and conceded none so far

they've already beaten the likes of saudi arabia south korea and hosts. doesn't matter what happens tomorrow we are feeling very proud of all of them because the showing. barry high level in this competition playing against the shore we're going to try to to make the people in our country to moral happy again . to try to make the story the japanese have won the asian cup four times most recently in two thousand and eleven when they lifted the trophy in caps are having beaten the hosts on the way to find all but the catteries are a different prospect now in japan are very much on their guard a story they've won all their matches up until now i believe they're a strong team and have the ability to hold the ball but they also have good strikers and very fast play is will have to be very careful about this this is

already characters best ever performance at the tournaments but it's something the country has been planning for doha's aspire academy was founded in two thousand and four an ambitious project to identify and develop young athletes in numerous olympic sports including football. players at the asian cup of come through this system aspires deputy director general lisa ling a fifo believes the schooling they've received as prepare them for the challenges they faced in the u.a.e. he's been talking to a reporter david stokes. these boys have been competing since there were twelve we. exposed to the challenge. we try to make them mentally strong having a winning mentality is exposed to different spectator and different atmosphere and i think the loss of a you know how to get him to you know overcome the situation there stand without

fines get in. having no negative messages from the people of the team supporters and all i think about shaun and bloody bloody good to have you heard during last march against your will have a lot on talent you know if you see the. team here know that the presenting qatar contender for the boys from qatar and for them that i didn't have blessed the experience if you experience boys who've been in the national team before this team would be the quarter of the national team in the division to qatar and they have to cut the twenty twenty two and it's motivating the others here in the spa and now yesterday we we had a gathering with our students who were the old boys here and we we send a message they want to send a message to the team mates in the national team and i could we could see that one of motivated because they know they're gonna be in there and that was in one day so

we are very happy to see that in their faces thursday marked the final chance for english premier league clubs to strengthen their squads this season with the january transfer window closing one of the biggest deals of the day however sees the manchester united antony marcial stay put the french international who joined united in two thousand and fifteen for forty seven million dollars has extended his contract until two thousand and twenty four and will air nearly three hundred and thirty thousand dollars a week got one united legend in particular very excited he would like to see united complete another deal. yes and to be more sure i. just sort of i. do want to. do something million. next. time let's go. a fifteen day amnesty by the international cricket council to report

corrupt practices and sri lankan cricket and so on thursday authorities are waiting for the findings to decide what to do next reports from colombo. a new generation of cricketers training under one of sri lanka senior coaches nelson mendez has nurtured dozens of top players during his fifty eight years of coaching he's scathing about corruption in cricket it's nothing but money. money and the passion for and the passion and the power he reach which we cue the good through the game of cricket unfortunate previously it was no of that cricket around the world has been plagued by match fixing and corruption sri lanka is no exception allegations of corruption here appears so serious that the international governing body has sent a team to investigate it also launched a fifteen day amnesty for those who failed to report any approach to take part in

corrupt practices earlier this week the international cricket council said we have seen a positive response with several people providing new and important information this has assisted existing investigation and resulted in some new cases the man in charge of sri lankan cricket says authorities are waiting to see the i.c.c. as findings but stressed it will take more than rules we can impose a lot of thing and we can take legal action but i don't think that really be the that. will be the. only solution for this. the going to blow cricket on the spot ok and it should come from the bottom of the hot that's a view echoed by a former administrator who headed cricket during sri lanka's one nine hundred ninety six world cup victory has to be a lot of soul searching for me everyone. from all three of us in the management and of cricket not only go through the cricket board into the groove of what it is only

two sons also must look at it and thinking seriously and you know because i ran through all of them back at the grounds coach knows and continues his work with young players hoping none of them experience the negative side of the game in order to ensure that those in charge of the game here to cheer lanka cricket must take the lead in stamping out corruption at all levels even if an end as zero colombo. india's cricketer scored their lowest one day international total in nearly a decade in an eight wicket thrashing by new zealand the men in blue were dismissed for just ninety two which the block caps chase down in less than fifteen overs there wasn't much riding on the game since india had already won the series however this was their seventh worst total of all time and their poorest effort since getting bowled out for eighty eight in two thousand and ten incidentally by new

zealand again and that's all your sport for now more later. hundreds of millions of people have been on the move in china for the lunar new year later this week the week long holiday starting on friday around four hundred million people are expected to travel across china and all the seven million will go abroad making the world's biggest annual human migration that is it for. the believe the insult lands. a place like no once and.

for generations spawned by the sun later. but the discovery of precious lithium below the salt threatens to change the way of life for as a. witness sallade zero our knowledge as eva. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror . but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara on i'll just. leave this place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending

sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence ten year olds his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is the least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of twenty three thousand people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. venezuela's self-proclaimed leader says his family is under threat the government makes arrests overnight alleged plot to overthrow president maduro.

a lot has a stake in this is. also coming up. we have a tremendous progress u.s. president says he is hopeful of a deal with china to avoid a trade war. trumps efforts to pull troops from syria and afghanistan get a strong rebuke from the normally support. senate. plus keeping the nuclear deal alive the e.u. bypasses u.s. sanctions to keep trading with iran. hello it's been a day of arrests and accusations of intimidation in venezuela as the political crisis there deepens self declared interim president is accusing security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro of threatening his family.

so i say to the gentleman of the pious pollies here you are with my wife my daughter in my house and i will hold you responsible for anything whose only twenty months all it's what they do to this whole country and i say from here i leave my home and several former military officers were arrested accused of plotting to overthrow the president and reports say venezuela is trying to stay solvent by selling fifteen tons of gold to the united arab emirates and that's the spy warnings from the u.s. the country's buying it could face sanctions the see a new man has been following developments for us in caracas. another day of drama here in venice as the self proclaimed interim president was giving a speech at the central university of initially 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 had indeed been two motorcycles 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 why 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 had foiled 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 or mike hanna joins us live now from washington so my what more are we hearing on these reports the venezuela is planning to sell. fifteen tons of its gold reserves and how is the u.s. government reacting to that. well the reports are that it's already sent some gold to to the united arab emirates and more is to follow later on in the week there's been no formal response from the u.s. government to such but republican senator marco rubio has sent a tweet directly to the embassy of the united arab emirates here in washington saying that he has this information and he wants to remind all of those involved in trading gold from venezuela that they could be subject to u.s. treasury sanctions which have been put in place senator rubio also made mention of

the fact that a company known as nur which is based in abu dhabi is the company that is conducting this exchange now we do know that last year venezuela exported a great deal of gold to turkey and there have been reports that there might be more to follow u.s. officials will be consulting with their turkish counterparts the u.s. making very clear that it will not accept any trade in gold or any other form of economic trade with that as well given the sanctions that have been imposed by the trumpet ministration indeed in there this these reports come in in the same week that the u.s. has been making these moves to try to squeeze venezuela economically with the seizure of. the freezing of the state oil company's assets so i suppose you could look at it that this is this is evidence that venezuela is is really feeling the

pressure here. indeed yes but one must remember that venezuela start to selling gold before the current crisis they did so during the whole of last year because of falling oil. so certainly this has been going on but it would appear now that the kind of numbers that are being mentioned is that it is intensifying its export of gold in return for cash now this is a clear indication as you say that the sanctions imposed by the u.s. and others are beginning to bite and that venezuela now being taken away its oil exports through those sanctions is now having to fall back to hard currency to support the country said very clearly this is one aspect of u.s. sanctions that appear to be taking a grip in venezuela all right my thanks for that mike hanna in washington tonio mora is editor in chief of news in news dot com he says the government is trying to

avoid losing control of the country's oil assets. they're clearly looking for foreign currency reuters is reporting that they're doing it to try to remain solvent with some of their foreign debt obligations which might be what they are doing because they have tried to stay as solvent as possible trying to forego the possibility that their tankers and their oil and other assets will be embargoed and so they may be trying to do that marco rubio on the other hand to say that this is just another example of venezuelan government theft which it also may be very well very well be the case where it could be somewhere in between because the reality is the all major transactions over the past twenty years with venezuela there's been giving off the top either but it's on government is the corruption there has been of you know just a believable or he could survive this one the reality is look at cuba cuba has

survived of the communist government ninety miles off the coast of florida for sixty years despite u.s. sanctions so there's no question that he can survive the difference with cuba however is that this is a country that now had a real a long tradition of democracy and so chop as became kind of the others aren't either so this is a country that nurse democracy is a country that still connected the rest of the world with the internet and despite the fact that the bettors own government sometimes cuts off internet access so there is a it's a very different situation than what hugo was sixty years ago the u.s. senate has backed an amendment opposing president trump's plan to withdraw all troops from syria and afghanistan the senate voted sixty eight to twenty three on the measure put forward by majority leader mitch mcconnell it says pulling out could allow eisel and al qaeda to regroup and the stabilize both countries and it is a rare rebuke of tom's foreign policy by the republican controlled senate that

a call has more 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 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 the u.s. president says he is optimistic he can reach a new a comprehensive trade deal with china but donald trump says no deal will be finalized until he meets chinese president xi jinping the two countries have

slapped billions of dollars worth of tariffs on each other on each other's goods since the trade war began last year alan fischer reports from washington. we have made tremendous progress we both want to deal but there's still a lot of ground to cover u.s. president donald trump has been meeting china's vice premier in the oval office he delivered a letter from his boss chinese president xi jinping the topic the ongoing trade war between the two hanging over both the corner meets the hold it would make if you have been sitting round the table in washington this week trying to thrash out an agreement that after days of talks donald trump is in second there's a deal to be done this is a small deal with china this is going to be a very big deal or it's going to be a deal that will just postpone for a little while but we've been dealing with china and we've had a great relationship i have a great relationship with president cheney. the u.s. wants china to buy more american goods and to change the rules of doing business in china where american companies have to peer with local companies and hand over to

treat secrets and intellectual property and good at a growing trade deficit the trumpet ministration introduced ten percent targets on billions of dollars of chinese goods coming into the u.s. that will kick up to twenty five percent if there's no deal by march but he the chinese have retaliated with kind of serve their own the president says any final agreement will be hammered out with him and his chinese counterpart it's a lot of work because this is a very comprehensive deal this is what we're talking about you know they're going to buy some corn and that's going to be at no they're going to buy corn hopefully they get a lot of corn and lots of wheat and lots of everything else that we have but they're also talking heavy technology heavy manufacturing financial services and everything in the united states and china of the world's two biggest economies there's pressure on both to reach a deal share because of the impact it's having on their own countries and the international monetary fund says an extended trade war will be bad for global

economies alan fischer al-jazeera washington. germany france and britain have launched a new payment system with iran which bypasses u.s. sanctions the move is aimed at saving the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal that u.s. president donald trump pulled out of last year that a butler has war powers it was on the sidelines of the european union foreign ministers meeting in bucharest that france britain and germany launched a new e.u. payment mechanism to allow european companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions ministers hope the initiative will safeguard the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal and help ensure regional stability is an example of that or at least we are making clear that we are not only talking about keeping the nuclear agreement alive but we are now creating a possibility to do business transactions that is a prerequisite for us so we can deliver on our obligations and in return be able to ask iran not to develop.