dozens of bison fighters have surrendered some civilian say they had stopped them from leaving and the mostly kurdish forces are concerned but i still fighters and their families have fled among the civilians. seventy five percent of them were working with seventy five percent iraqis twenty percent syrians and five percent foreign those from central asia europe america germany and other parts of the world in addition to isis atrocities in the area coalition attacks have also reportedly killed civilians the u.s. led coalition always said that their air strike targeting positions yes in some cases the surely but these positions were in heavily populated residential areas this is why dozens of innocent civilians were being killed. unicef says that these thirty two children have been killed because of violence displacement and harsh conditions in northern and eastern syria the world health organization says it's extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation as more families

arrive in already crowded camps aid agencies are demanding unhindered access to people in need it's clear that isis no longer controls territory but what comes next is also a cause for concern for rights groups and aid workers tens of thousands of people in their rehabilitation and they say lasting peace will only come if the marginalized people are given hope and opportunity. we'll have more on syria shortly and their plea for help from fifty thousand people trapped in a remote and unlivable camp near the jordanian border also ahead the so-called golden passports that have prompted a warning for cyprus from day here opinion. hello

again to welcome back to where cross china we are seeing fairly nice conditions across much of the area over the next few days take a look at your forecast map as we go towards sunday a few showers up here towards the north of shanghai you'll see some mostly cloudy conditions but for taipei twenty nine degrees is going to be a high here on sunday the winds are coming out of the south that's going to change as we go towards a monday coming down about nine degrees and a frontal boundary is going to be pushing through and with that we do expect to see some rain in your forecast hong kong twenty five degrees by the time we end here on monday well across parts of southern india we do expect to see an increase of clouds of the next few days as well as in sri lanka that could mean rain in your forecast so you can see here thirty one degrees across much of colombo and as we go towards monday rain is going to be increasing across much of the area to the north though not looking too bad for new delhi with the temperature few of about twenty three degrees and then very quickly over here across the gulf well we do expect to

see some rain coming into play by the time we end here on sunday with some showers that could be heavy at times so for doha thunderstorms passing through at twenty two degrees abu dhabi you may see pretty much the same situation but for monday things look better with cooler temperatures in the temperature of twenty two degrees. we're heading to the place some deep in the true remember zone it's taken us two days this boat just to get there from the search current dangerous. look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures cars are disappearing because the legal pad trade with booming researchers wanted to see if reintroduction of narcotics was a viable option to save some of these population pretty good young techno on al-jazeera.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera a high ranking venezuelan air force general has broken ranks of president nicolas maduro he says he now recognizes opposition leader fido is interim head of say it's russia's president has pulled out of a decade's old nuclear missile following the u.s. this isn't to do the same lottery putin says moscow will no longer initiate disarmament talks with washington and will start working on numerous solves there are warnings of a humanitarian crisis in northeastern syria activists say more than two hundred civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by the battle for parts of datas or. elsewhere in a remote part of syria nearly fifty thousand people are trapped at the bond count

they're calling on the u.n. to provide a safe passage to rebel controlled areas in the north where the campus essentially in a no man's land where the borders of syria jordan and iraq meets jordan has called for it to be dismantled samaha reports from beirut. almost fifty thousand syrians among them some rebel fighters have been trapped in this makeshift camp for years. there is nothing to sustain normal life in this remote desert area where the syrian iraqi and jordanian borders meet they're also besieged by syrian government forces but now they have another worry they fear for their safety. the u.s. decision to pull out of syria is causing concern because there are no safe roads for us to leave to the north where the opposition is in control there if you will don't want to return to government controlled territory because they fear a rest and fourscore scription in the army. the campus within an area that's

nominally under some u.s. control american troops are in the nearby town if base they are there to block a land bridge connecting to her on through iraq into syria and lebanon it's not clear if washington will give up the base once it would draws its troops from northeast syria. but jordan's call for the camps closure and the return of the displaced syrians to their villages is causing concern. we ask whoever can help us to open safe routes for people to leave either to government controlled territories or rebel held areas in northern syria or let people go wherever they choose what we need to get out of here. conditions in the camp make it unlivable at least eight children have died in december because of a lack of food and medicine the united nations says this is a manmade tragedy. that. the last time relief aid reached us was two months ago and the u.n. promise that they would return in less than

a month but they haven't come yet. it was in the member when aid reached for the first time in almost a year the united nations says it has verbal approval from damascus and moscow for a new aid convoy they're hoping to reach those in need in the next few days. the camp lies within a us russian agreed the escalation zone all sides accusing each other of hindering the delivery of aid the syrian government siege of rock band is a tactic that has used in the past and rebel controlled areas to bring about a surrender this time however the united states is accusing damascus and its russian and iranian allies of using aid to pressure washington to leave. there are reports the trumpet ministration plans to keep troops in ten a base to counter iranian activity despite its planned withdrawal from the north east regardless the syrians and rock band will remain pawns as rival powers vie for spears of control that is why they say they want to un guaranteed safe passage to the opposition controlled nourse senate had their beirut the taliban says president

donald trump appears to be serious about pulling troops out of afghanistan a spokesman for the armed groups says such a withdrawal is the first goal of ending the war and forming what he calls an islamic system but it reports. it's been described by the u.s. and the taliban as a draft agreement but for many it's a significant step forward. the u.s. is ready to pull out from afghanistan in exchange for the taliban joining a unity government and ensuring the country won't be used by groups like al qaida and i sell us on voice. says the deal isn't finalized yet but seems confident the taliban is willing to make concessions the armed group that was pushed from power in two thousand and one has yet to commit to

a new. cease fire or agree to hold direct talks with the afghan government as the best chance for peace in the almost twenty years that this war's been going on and actually the over forty years that afghanistan has been at war with various forces but this is not going to be a quick and easy process. the taliban has repeatedly refused to talk to the afghan government which it considers an american puppet officials in kabul dismiss any suggestion for a bigger taliban role in the country if the deal happens taliban has to come to the negotiating table with the afghan government if you want to see a peace deal because previous experiences in afghanistan unfortunately have shown that excluding the afghan government from the process has had bad repercussions and consequences a taliban spokesman says it wants a different type of government operating under islam nick principles and not the

current democratic system that was imposed in two thousand and one. but peace in afghanistan goes beyond internal politics pakistan has an important role and will because she will in shaping any future peace deal but afghan president assad funny who has not been involved in the u.s. taliban talks question pakistan's commitment to the war carney has repeatedly accused islamabad of providing sanctuaries to taliban fighters. the key to peace in kabul requires that we have a practical and principled inclusive plan for it but the keys to war are in islamabad roll pindi and question. a peace deal could change everything in a understand if possible ceasefire will be followed by a power sharing settlement a new constitution and then elections a process that might create

a new political reality in a country that's been at war for decades. the taliban won't target a new vaccination campaign in afghanistan according to tribal chiefs and clerics but as al jazeera discovered many parents are still suspicious tony berkeley reports from kabul. this is all it takes just a couple of drops of vaccine and this baby has protection from polio the highly contagious virus attacks the nervous system and can lead to paralysis mainly in children under the age of five. daughters all vaccination program in the capital kabul is relatively straightforward but in rural afghanistan threats against medical staff and deep rooted suspicions about vaccines have led to outbreaks of the virus more than i mean one formulae mama after in the main are not willing to have their kids vaccinated but a lot of effort to be usually convince them to allow it thirty years ago polio was

rife in one hundred twenty five countries affecting three hundred fifty thousand youngsters annually today only three countries still suffer from the virus but i was twenty seven cases last year twenty one of them were in afghanistan a lack of access for vaccine teams because of the continuing conflict is a major reason of course we are worried about the. security. threats the order freeze because during the companies doing these they have to move from security to. yours to immunize our children. tribal leaders in clerics have told the government taliban fighters won't target medical teams and the families will allow their children to be immunised unless it's controlled and eradicated the world health organization estimates that up to two hundred thousand children a year could be affected by the polio virus but despite this people here especially

in rural areas are still deeply suspicious manner but no we are not vaccinating our kids because these vaccines are coming from the infidels and west to us. it has bad effects on our kids and most of all people are against it. so we are not happy with these vaccinations because we heard stories that the polio vaccination is not good and it's used for spying and that the ingredients used are also not allow. these you started spreading eight years ago after a fake polio vaccination program was used as cover in neighboring pakistan to find some of bin laden now as a consequence of that in parts of south and east afghanistan medical teams are not allowed to go door to door only mosques to mosques and that's another reason why afghanistan's battle against polio may take some time to win tony berkeley out zero carbon. south african opposition party the economic freedom fighters is holding a political rally in pretoria it's launching its manifesto ahead of elections later

this year polls show support for the populist party and its land redistribution agenda is growing. well the next day or so is critical for an australian city a waltz with flooding tellings ville has already been inundated with rain for five days but there are warnings that could get worse kevin calvert reports. it's a dog's life saved candy cattle to safety from the floodwaters surrounding the owner's home. but for them this could be just the tip of the troubles when we use the words and pray sidenote and uncharted we use these for razan we have not been in this scenario before we know we've been having this monsoonal trough in the north of our state however over the townsville catchment the monsoon has settled in the next twenty four to forty eight hours are crucial let me say that again the

next twenty four to forty eight hours crucial. missile that's being reinforced by me just the trough is slow moving and that's why wakey getting such big accumulations of of rainfall. so the risk is high for the next couple of days people in the city of townsville in northern queensland with a population of one hundred eighty five thousand have already been battling the deluge for days sometimes almost up to the puts it more place here come up to majors. and that was on the way and we had another russian or o'clock yesterday morning and that came up about one late is emergency workers are going door to door urging people to move to higher ground especially in the city's western suburbs and northern beaches one thing look susan that we must bring up for some time to come kevin calvert zira cyprus is being warned by the units

to stop selling passports and visas to wealthy applicants the block refers to the practice as giving away gold. david chaytor reports from the muscle the hills above limits all out failed not for the sound of music. but the sound of construction the building boom is being fuelled by russians and the sea front of cyprus is second biggest city is being transformed with luxury high rise flats. it's not just the sunshine that's drawing them here the government has earned more than five billion dollars from selling cypriot passports so far and with them comes entry into the european union. the russian community is now estimated as eighty thousand strong and even has its own radio station the russian wave it was formed by a businessman from the urals but he's not impressed with the new wave of the guards

young. about seventy percent of these people who get the gold in fast boards don't live in cyprus commitment to community here a single day can change everything another russian businessman set up this computer wargaming company it has millions of users worldwide the russians already have their own super markets here now he's about to lead their own political party so most people just buy. real estate for. your assumption loosens it cleans a passport so. i do not support. the marina in limits so is filling fast with the luxury yachts of the oligarchs but there will always be room for more definitely yes i would say that i'm. always welcome to cyprus. for some time what is that activity diction for our passports but. i believe.

we can see the cyprus once again the e.u. commission is warning that such golden passports will allow organized crime gangs to infiltrate the block and that could cause problems with tax evasion money laundering and corruption and russian businessman already well established in cyprus see it as a threat to their own interests you know mostly people living in these floats it's going to be we could go stone towards. the sun may be coming down though in the days of the gold impossible because of pressure from both the e.u. commission and the united states that threatened catastrophic sanctions on any bank involved in money laundering david chase to al-jazeera the missile. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera a high ranking venezuelan air force general has broken ranks for the president they

call us maduro he says he now recognizes opposition leader on fido as interim head of state russia's president has pulled out of a decade's old nuclear missile parts following the u.s. decision to do the same lattimer person says moscow will start working on new missiles. that's the solution. we will do it this way our response will be symmetrical our american partners stated they will stop their participation in the treaty so we will also stop they stated that they will do research and development of arms so we will also do the same russia won't deployed a new land based short range and intermediate range weapons neither in europe nor in other regions of the world unless similar american made weapons appear in those regions all our proposals in this sphere remain on the table as before doors for talks are open at the same time i am asking the foreign ministry and defense ministry not to initiate any talks on this issue let's wait until our partners open

a dialogue with us there are warnings of a humanitarian crisis in north eastern syria activists say more than two hundred civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the battle for parts of that as order the taliban says it would like to form an islamic system made up of all afghans now that the u.s. appears to be serious about pulling troops out of afghanistan but the afghan president has no agreement can happen without the government's involvement south african opposition party the economic freedom fighters is holding a political rally in parts for you know it's launching its manifesto ahead if elections later this year polls show support is growing for the populous parties land redistribution and. people in the australian city of townsville have been urged to move to higher ground as monsoon rains reach record levels floodwaters have destroyed thousands of homes and reached unprecedented levels the city has been declared a disaster zone those are the headlines on al jazeera techno is coming up next stay

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the sense of fighting the fire we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it the unique way. this is a show about science low turnout by scientists. tonight saving the macof i'm in the proving amazon that we're on the search for endangered mccall now techno is on the one of a kind mission to look at those words from a car graceful elegant and in some parts of the world in danger it's a race against time to the climber up top just yell down saying that she saw in lightning strike to save his species time to hurry up until two or is fundamental momentous do much of my research in this jungle or i'll share my findings with merida davison she's an environmental biologist and dr chrystal deal with a muscular neuroscientist that's our team now let's do some science.

they guys welcome to techno i'm phil tours joined by dr chrystal the earth and marie davis sent a guest picture this you were deep in the rainforest of peru when suddenly a flock of red and blue bag missing creatures takes off in front of you they are beautiful but let me tell you they don't start out so pretty you have to be talking about my cause i'm a bird biologist so in my day i've seen a lot of baby birds and i have to admit i mean they are bald and. can be pretty ugly but i mean it's also ugly that they're cute because they're still associated with the rain forest kind of like every mascot but they're not so ubiquitous and aren't there any major species and they're at risk because of habitat a lot of solution because when the habitat is in trouble these birds are in trouble and we join a team of scientists down there that are working hard to make sure it doesn't happen let's take a look. elusive

charismatic cause or undeniably stars of the rain forest and there's a special place in peru where it's still possible to see macaws and all their wild glory that is if you don't mind a little travel. and we're heading to the tumble parts a research center a place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there. there are sixteen species of macaws left in the wild down from more than twenty the populations of all of the species remaining are on the decline seven such as the blue throated macaw in danger of becoming extinct why. because of deforestation close to three hundred thousand square miles of the amazon

rain forest gone since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight. timber and record your in mining. then there's the illegal pet trade it's not easy being one of the world's most beautiful birds pack these these juvenile cars and to bang to smuggle then and more than half of the an individual dying during this process. any hawkinson is the fuel leader for the macall project at the tumbled pata national reserve she's one of a team of researchers who are use. science to save the macaws. because our very special animal. intelligent. and they face a lot of threats and their habitats today's mission takes is deep into the reserves for those threads are constantly mad play where in the middle of the breeding season tumble part is essentially a giant laboratory in the wild six species of macaws inhabit this thousand plus

where miles of rain forest rain is a constant in winter but too much rain can be a problem. today we're going to see how a pair of two week old macaw chicks are fairing the odds are against both of them survived examining the chicks is a delicate dairy operation. one lead veterinarian elizabeth pore through gives lou yo preps for the chick exams on the ground any hawkinson gets ready to climb to their nest above i don't like heights but with nest close to one hundred feet up the team has no choice but to cause i'm. macaws like deep cavities high up in old growth trees those spots are hard to come by even in a protective force like. this scarcity of mess leads to deadly fights between nesting macaw parents and other macaws looking for a home they will kill chicks say well harm the parents and they may cause such

a disruption that the parents might be unwilling to return to the nest that's why the macabre project is researching man made miss like this one called mandy lou once any reaches the nest she opens a special door to access the chicks separate from the opening the adult macaws used to get in an element inside our first peek at the hope for the next generation of macaws. the frail pale chick is not what you'd expect but it is a live in and he needs to get it down to the ground quickly safety is paramount for these but will ball chicks any uses sanitizer on her hands to protect them from germs the bucket that will take them down is warmed with a hot water bottle because these chicks have no protection against the cold.

dr pore through gizmo your first way is the chick and then photographs it and yes this is what i'm a car looks like in the first weeks of his life no hint of the jungle beauty it will become this chick is the first of the two to hatch like it's sibling it's named after its nest mandy lu and then you know not in it that i see the other that a man needs to the earth again then those are the other thought i meant to say young but on the wood nest like mending glue have been a big success story a tumble part of research here has shown that more cars can raise chicks in vs just as well as they do in natural nests. the veterinarian takes a detailed body measurements to determine how the chick is doing at this stage of development. in the flying through. then men dilute to is taken out and photographed next to its order sibling. is normal and there are.

no nos not of mine now moment in which only one there on the turn as. i say you know it out of the earth. if you are in the car its best to be a first hatched because i'm a car mom typically neglects those that hatch later so the first chick that hatch says will receive all of her care and then the second tick that hatch as if she has enough resources so care for that check text number three and four will usually die . from starvation. even chick number two has at best a fifty fifty chance of survival is to open your own somebody call most on the story and nothing. on this one isn't said that it appears. today both men delude

chicks had a good check oh. there's a new kind of nest being tested out at tumble part it's made of cement soaked burlap researchers want to see if it's more durable than wooden nests which only last a couple of years in the jungle. sixty five. but today things don't seem to be going well for these two chicks from the experimental nest neither shows signs of being fed by their parents and researcher liz pipe is concerned i mean these because it's just a beginner who they and they will come back from the clay and they're going to see them later no. time to get these chicks back home. research after sundown at the center can be challenging a generator provides electricity only seven hours a day. a good head lamp is your best friend

along with your mosquito net to keep unwanted guests out of bed. and during meal time you have to keep an eye out for the occasional thief. this one targeted our techno crew. pretty good idea. this macaw is in a sense you. ness near the center with his mate. they're both scarlett macaws a species that can live to the ripe old age of fifty in the wild scarlet macaws are doing well here but endangered in other regions in mexico less than two hundred fifty survived in the wild as of twenty thirteen the result of illegal pet trade and habitat loss. you know since you will has little to fear

of humans that's because a little over twenty years ago in one thousand nine hundred. six were chosen to be raised by hand at the center then released into the wild the macaws participating in the study known as the chicos. the ones that these researchers were going to die they remove them from the nests and raise them here what is the purpose cause were disappearing because the illegal pet trade was looming cars were at a really high demand in north america and in europe so they wanted to see if reintroduction of the cars was a viable option to save some of these populations the study was a success more than half of the scotoma cause releases survived at least seven years in the wild some of these new cars still stick around the area and those in the cars and the most aggressive with us because they have no fear that humans.

this morning the team is doing a check up on you know since you and your choice two chicks but unlike the wild macaws these parents don't leave when any climbs to the nest. getting chicks out when mom and dad are home and home is more than ninety feet up his challenges. if. any uses these paddles to gently push the adults out of the way. then she places the chicks in the bucket and sends them down to researcher liz pipe below. could have been a. she goes can breed out of season because they have a ready supply of food year round they steal it or charm it out of humans at the center of the. race and bred into it is. if

the extra food source also means chico's or more likely to raise more than one chick to adulthood. his proposal. it was time for these little guys to go back to their parents and any to come down. after seeing the researchers reach heights and views normally only the macaws get to see her figure it out for me to give it a shot. who . is much harder than the researchers make

a walk through for. more hands a time a length of time out of breath will be sweaty. with the view. over his ears. there are two more chicks the need their checkups today from the nest called hugo. huge. only. a problem of the known dead from the learn as. you go one is a little over a month away from being ready to fledge or take its first flight more than a teacup is needed to hold this bird as its weight. by this age

the wings in the feet are almost the size of an adult and. so the climber up top just yell down saying that she saw a lightning strike and she thinks there's a storm by ten or fifteen minutes away obviously not good to be at the top of the tall tree during a lightning storm and these are cars don't do well in the rain so it's time to hurry up right here. a few more photos and it's time to bring out hugo to nest with two healthy chicks is rare i was lucky enough to see several including these two guys look so different three days. that the system is in. use a precise veterinarian elizabeth for through good is also going to take

a crop sample from this bird to get an idea of its diet the crop is this board where they store food before digesting she's put some lubricant on the tube so they can pass through the throat of the macaw comfortably. hopes that because they're. basically in the first fifteen thirty days of its life this will be quite red from of the clay that it eats but once it's this age their diet varies a lot more so this is all good stuff research on a macaws diet helps scientists see how the rain forest is critical to their survival a quick swab to make sure the macaws mouth is clean and a good check up for this mccall is done that is amazing look at. what cars are known as umbrella species making the right conservation decisions to protect them means protecting the countless other species and this special habitat

they call home. and right now this habitat here in the tumble part the national reserve is thriving. researchers reported that all of the chicks we saw have now fledged even the two in the experimental cements nest in each success here offers hope for struggling macaw populations throughout the tropics. overlooking there is absolutely nothing sacred he wonders for now. and. when it comes to studying creatures living inside the amazon rain forest. is about as good as it gets. this gorgeous creature is

juvenile red tailed and it looks so fresh because it just. brimming with forest in life there are likely thousands of species yet to be discovered and that's where i commit techno first visited here in two thousand and thirteen to look at this spider i helped discover it's a family's fighter disguised as a bigfoot show. that was the first animal record to actually build a fake animal from scratch we also went to solve what was making this mysterious structure we call so can't judge. these discoveries were talked about around the world lake huron lynette read it even on m.s.n. b.c. which compared my discovery to the hairstyle of a new york city celebrity or perhaps the inspiration for donald trump's hair back in tumble ponta it was time to check in on the spiders and more. first up

the decoys. after searching the forest the night we came upon one just meters away from the research center and were able to document it for the first time ever in the act of actually building the fake spider and catching prey consider this a success in my book. but not all of field work is guaranteed success some. times the forest has its own plan. a moonlit boat ride to a nearby island to take a crack at solving another amazon mystery last year i led an expedition to this island to solve the mystery of so can. and despite a few hours search in the area in which i had previously found many turned completely empty frustrating but all part of the process. but not all was

lost on this island visit i encountered one of the few species out there that even scares me and had to document it for a colleague's research project to meet the wandering spine the deadliest spider in south america one of the ways you can tell it's a wandering spiders by the color underneath the its front legs so i'm going to tap it a little bit see if it gets depends if it should lift them up to take a shot i get at it. the next day tracking down a recent discovery that really has me excited and never before seen butterfly interactions i had been able to solve despite several attempts. coming back to peru i had no idea if i would ever see this butterfly again but i just spent three hours observing it and already learned so many amazing new things the scientist in me

couldn't be happier. here's how it works it all starts on young bamboo plants first the butterfly lays the eggs then the skin involved the caterpillar stages a butterfly actually feeds the ants out of a specialized gland and in return the ants protect it even from us but what's new here and what happens nowhere else in the world occurs once that caterpillar develops into the butterfly stage the. butterflies actually trick the air and steal their liquid food coming out of the bamboo ants normally eat butterflies not share a meal with them. these butterflies likely trip them by smelling like air but even more unique they look like them to. the wings of the butterfly have a pattern of an ant hidden within only revealed when we saw them in the wild.

to top it off we caught a butterfly actually taking food right out of the mouth of an ant something also never documented before. with this behavior recorded a new i wasn't coming home empty handed science like this helps us understand the wild world around us and the importance of protecting individual species which may influence another. after one last jungle stroll into the night i had all but forgotten about not finding so kynge the night before when miles from where it should be this happened well this is completely unexpected end of my trip through the proving amazon heading back to base to pack my bags and i turn to my rights and look what i finally found. this is the rain forest wild unexpected always

a challenge to understand and though my time here is over the mccall researchers and others will keep on hiking climbing and documenting their way through tumble part of. it because as a group some species are extremely into injured others not so much the ones that you guys were looking at were they fall so they fall kind of somewhere in the middle basically a lot of their population is fairly well protected and that's why this is such an amazing study site because you see them as they should be however if you step outside of that in places like central america the same species is in a lot of trouble because they're regionally endangered things like the illegal pet trade is given to them have a tad lost is given to them so by understanding what is going on there we can see what should be going on in other places that for me it was so exciting because you know i'm a chemist and a biologist i work in a lab indoor is a very sterile environment so this is a really great reminder for me that science really happens anywhere and i mean you

guys have the entire rain forest is your laboratory it's pretty cool i must tell you sometimes i'm out there and i envy the life in the lab because you guys can do repeated experiments they are controlled out there in the rain forest it's pretty hard to control snow out in the old environs row. from climbing up to the canopy to look inside a macaw nest watching butterflies an ant hanging out in a way that has never been documented before we hear a techno have the privilege of access to these types of stories from scientists all over the world will bring you more next on will see that. dive deep into these stories and go behind the scenes at al-jazeera dot com slash techno follow our expert contributors on twitter facebook instagram google plus and more. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste

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and live from studio here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news grid breaking ranks of venezuela an air force general. the opposition leader. and calls on all of his colleagues to do the same this us pressure grows on embattled president nicolas maduro to step down will be live in caracas rush hour

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broken ranks with president nicolas maduro general francisco younis posted this video on twitter calling on members of the military to follow his lead it comes on the day opposition leader and south proclaimed interim president called for what he says would be the biggest march in the history of venezuela and the continent general younis is the first seven air force general to defect. or the local mom addressing you to say that i deserve all the authority of the dictator nicolas maduro and i recognize one guy who is the president in charge of it is the law ninety percent of the armed forces do not side with the president maduro we side with the people over in israel and. we want to show you some live pictures now from venezuela capital caracas here they are major demonstrations underway there this saturday demonstrations called by the opposition and its leader. declared himself

president as you know let's speak to our latin america and it's a lucien newman in caracas for us to see a let's start with this important development the defection of this general how significant is it and will add as follows. cody this is a very very significant blow to president nicholas model whose fate was of support is precisely until now the loyalty of forces he has been going out of his way to try to show that there is unity and that they support him wholeheartedly so so again this will be a very very strong drop in the fallout of those who support the government but what's very important to remember is that generals are not the ones who are really in charge of the troops is the lieutenant colonels and they are the ones that i just point the opposition's hoping will also break ranks with president with the president and side with the self-proclaimed interim president one who i saw in

order for the government to force the government to resign that is hold elections that is the key step right now but the fact that this general has actually gone public is again very very significant that had happened now as we speak lucio we're watching live pictures from caracas all of these demonstrations this saturday demonstrations that were called by the opposition one guy deal how much momentum right now is there on the opposition side it's already we are here now in the thick of things that's why we haven't been able to get up our signal and just to be on the phone and there are just thousands and thousands of people marching at this moment to the headquarters of the european union halls of like one wide all to show us a show of strength you know that carries the flag sign down by the little we want to try to government things you could have expected i think it's affected the major demonstrations in less than two weeks by the opposition. and we had seen no signs

of security forces at this hour as was the case in previous from they seemed to be very involved and very confident why so long had i had that happening for the european union who side with this government until now europe countries like mexico and ergo i have been asked to sit down and hold negotiations for a transition with president last month but when i spoke to him just a few hours ago he explained that he does not want to do that and he also explained why. ok they're not to conflict inside but all we have he said entire country to the wants change and a very tiny group that sustains itself with weapons stolen from the republic of union and with constant threats against the same army the sustains the rule and a citizenship that he's massacred i understand the very good intentions of mexico

and europe and i understand the ultimatum the european union has given him at the room where the opposition has been willing to negotiate we tried everything would have voted we have abstained we gun hunger strikes we have a protestant and they have killed so. is against outside mediation in this crisis a question that not of all of us are asking right now to see a is how long can nicolas maduro hold on to power. that's a question that nobody can accurately flower it all hinges on the support of the armed forces that's something that there's a problem with those who has to constantly be appearing at military fire and military exercises like you said that they have. called for the largest military exercises of the history of in israel are starting on the tenth of that great the question is will we remain in office until that law if more generals colonels another members of the armed forces begin to turn on them that may not be the case

and that is certainly one one why i thought i was members of the opposition and the united states to support and rejecting the call for any kind of mediation to go to our country thank you very much for that lucy in new men our latin america editor on the line there from caracas at lucien newman on twitter if you want to keep up to date with all the latest developments in this venezuelan crisis and an interesting opinion piece about the rise of one go idle as opposition figure in a german is morale is believes that why don't the only focus should be on building alliances in public consensus she says venezuela does not need another carrier. strong men it needs strong institutions and the rule of law and interesting perspective readers on our website at zero dot com and quite a few comments on this top story on the news grades right now and one here from bryan on facebook who says they don't realize what will happen to them when the u.s. takes control talking about the opposition and its backing from washington keep those

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stated that they will do research and development of arms so we will also do the same russia won't deploy a new land based short range and intermediate range weapons neither in europe nor in other regions of the world unless similar american made weapons appear in those regions all our proposals in this sphere remain on the table as before doors for talks are open at the same time i am asking the foreign ministry and defense ministry not to initiate any talks on this issue let's wait until our partners open a dialogue with us. let's bring in rory chalons in moscow for us rory talk us through this russian message what are they saying what are they going to do. well i think one of the things.