from rich families if they don't give it to us even if they are muslims we kill them too. it's a rhetoric that shocks many here despite previous attacks on places of worship the mindanao region was never sharply divided by religion days after the cathedral bombs there was another attack in a place of worship this time a mosque in the city it happened at midnight eleven people were asleep here when a grenade was thrown inside it killed people instantly this is a second attack in a place of worship within just a matter of days and according to the philippine government it seems as though there are efforts to cause the divisions between the different religions but people here reject it they say they will never let that happen muslims here tell us they are hurt and differing with. christians and muslims are more than just neighbors

here we enter mary we all grew up together we all love one another. there is concern here that last week's bombings will be the last. but in a heavily guarded mosque preachers for some hope love they say is stronger than violence. al-jazeera holo salusa than philippines. they got the weather next and then with nothing new hospitals built and gas behind out why remain is health system is crumbling. and the pacific island nation that seeking legal action against big put in says thousands of kilometers away.

get a welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across europe we are looking at some very stormy conditions here across much of the central part of europe this is all due to one of our of low pressure that really has developed over the last twenty four hours a lot of rain is moving in from the south and over the next twenty four hours we do expect to see italy getting the brunt of that rain even localized flooding could be a problem across the region across the alps though it is going to be the snow and as we go from sunday to monday notice they snow start to dissipate but the rain does not dissipate at all and that is where the flooding is going to be a problem out here towards the west we do have another weather system coming in across the northwest and that is going to bring our mix of rain as well as snow but london your temperatures are going up we do think about nine degrees is going to be high as we begin the week across the northern part of africa we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain showers for algeria now the showers are going to be staying in the same location as we end the weekend and also go into monday so we are going to be seeing a problem on the roads there tunisia you'll see some heavy rain as well in tripoli

you'll start to get the rain and your forecast over here towards cairo it is going to be a partly cloudy day few but again he is going to be see some winds in your forecast with the temperature there of seventeen in partly cloudy conditions for you your forecast. counting the cost this week we're focusing on venezuela where people are scavenging for food as a political crisis unfolds how the game of oil is influencing events over grown plus how predators are playing a role and why the reports of the run for the. currency of the cost.

and again you're watching alex is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour as well as president nicolas maduro has offered to hold parliamentary elections as he fights demands to resign but his rival. and his supporters at home and them broads are demanding a presidential votes. the central government of the central african republic has reached a peace deal with fourteen armed groups to end a conflict that's been going on since two thousand and thirteen weeks the agreement after weeks of talks in sudan. and the last of four child refugees housing the strain in one detention center on the pacific island of now ruth being resettled in the u.s. with their families as early as government says it won't send any more children to now or. apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of killing eleven

people including four children the five story block was damaged during the years of war one child was pulled out alive by rescue teams many of the buildings around the city are also on the brink of falling apart. and southern syria tens of thousands of people are trapped at the ric by calling on the un to provide safe passage to rebel controlled areas in the north the campus is no man's land where the borders of syria jordan and iraq meet jordan has been as cool for it to be dismantled as then i heard a report 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 routes 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 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. promised 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. camp lies within us russian agreed the escalation zone all sides accusing each other of hindering the delivery of aid the syrian government's siege of rock band is a tactic that it 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 it. there

are reports the trumpet ministration plans to keep troops in kind of 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 front of. beirut people in el salvador will vote in the presidential election later on sunday the two parties that have ruled the country for decades could lose their grip if a young outsider from a small party observers from the european union are on hand to ensure all goes smoothly. the number of people killed after a collapse in southeastern brazil has risen to more than one hundred and twenty the disaster sent a wave of sludge through a mining area in the state of maine this area is a week on at least two hundred people still missing mining waste is down moving towards

a major river and may contaminate water supply. with the highest child mortality rates in europe no new hospitals built since the fall of communism romania admits its health care system is in crisis and its government says corruption is squarely to blame as the reports from book arrest. corruption kills people and in romania hospitals do not necessarily make people better bucharest children's hospital was built in one nine hundred eighty two and much of the equipment doctors and nurses have at their disposal looks like it hasn't changed in the thirty seven years since inside the hospital lies one year old iron valentino to mr diagnosed by a doctor he's now in a coma his young parents are living in the hospital as his body breaks down in front of them they look completely destroyed. if he's made no recovery since he came here his lungs are starting to collapse and his little heart is as well he's on life support they've killed my son images obtained by al-jazeera

of the conditions inside some of romania's public hospitals are barely believable this is the pathology units where human tissue was stored inside the hospital in one of romania's biggest cities clues the european union offered one hundred seventy million dollars worth of funding for three new wall spittles a full five years ago but the work hasn't even started the crisis led carmen and on a former business woman to launch a crowdfunding campaign to build a new hospital in the capital stepping in where the government has failed they already raised nearly twenty million dollars there was a look back i don't know your first lap if there are many states in the face or showing them it's possible in a country where impossible is what you're always told regarding the first hospital in the country for children with cancer after thirty years of incompetence from the remaining state. so this is it's the first new hospital to be built in romania since the fall of communism paid for by the public it'll be finished years before

the government gets around to building them you may well ask yourself how it can be that so a group of business women with no healthcare background can build a hospital from scratch in romania while the government apparently colt's wall on so is that corrupt officials don't won't see news european funding because they have to account for it and can't simply stick the money in their pockets the other theory is that they're all just completely incompetent probably the truth is somewhere in the middle no doubt there are politicians who want to do something about all this but they're up against a huge wall of corruption the current health minister run a relatively successful hospital herself but she admitted to us the system is broken with officials stealing money from public funds you know. i had bought an m.r.i. scanner for five hundred thousand but here they bought one for two and a half million the exact same one this explains a lot it didn't need explaining someone stole two million euros on the pretense of

buying medical equipment we both understand the reasons you have to say it's hardly a great indorsements of the current president of the european union's who admits to thinks it won't be able to build a new hospital for another five years anyway it'll all be too late for florian and denise are they watching their baby son die in front of their eyes killed by corruption largely al-jazeera book or rest the governor of the us state of virginia who is embroiled in a racist photo scandal has suddenly changed his story ruffles then the democrats now says the picture taken in one thousand nine hundred four doesn't feature him after all twenty four hours earlier north would apologize for being in the photo that says a man in black face and another person cloaked in a clear cuts klan outfits. my belief that i did not wear that costume or attend that party stems in part from my clear memory of all the mistakes i made in

the same period of my life that same year i did participate in a dance. in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson. i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that it is because my memory of that episode is so vivid that i truly do not believe i am in the picture in my yearbook. used to do a war in trade in baghdad but years of conflict and threats of kidnapping a force that has to sell the shops and the markets and go online and met one trader who's determined to keep his stall and all the pieces of history at hull's. selling history in baghdad. has owned his little antique shop for twenty five years these to be dozens of stories like his crammed into baghdad's back streets in the mud the

. iraqis have their history and culture and twined people yearn for the past and they're still in the style of the golden era of baghdad. during years of conflict antique shops have been shutting down some owners don't to be rich have been threatened or blackmailed and tourists are rare. how a lot of visitors would come to the auctions in antique shops to recollect beautiful memories but the business is dwindling day by day we don't have any tourists because of the political turmoil and the unpredictable security in baghdad's few remaining until shops are mainly here in this little square in the center of the old part of the city most of the time they're closed but occasionally on sunny days like this one they will throw open the shutters some of the stuff maybe skimming the surface of being junk but inside the stores there are treasure troves for the avid buyers. many wealthy people who would have bought antiques of

art here have left iraq because of the conflicts but there are still those who hope to rediscover baghdad's past. these antique shops a part of baghdad's good old days some say young people don't pay attention anymore but that's not true i come here to collect vintage photos of old baghdad these places of bridges that connect the past to the present marquis my look at the. stories are also closing because their owners are starting to sell online but for reid says his doors will stay open because his shop is part of iraq's history matheson al-jazeera backdown. now they provide an aussie wising sea temperatures intense rains and erratic weather patterns are becoming a daily part of life they're being forced to spend more money not only on protecting themselves but also keeping their business as afloat and now the losses considering legal action against big bonuses thousands of kilometers away is under

thomas reports. warming see this mean fewer fish in the waters around than a water so people are building fish farms in like the states in this very frustrating cost to build one fish farm is around fifteen thousand u.s. dollars there are other costs of climate change here more frequent cyclamens mean big repair bills with a geisha in preparation for disasters and rising sea levels also have big costs when it was his own contribution to global climate change is small even so it's doing all it can to reduce it further there are a solar farms and coconut plantations oil squeezed from coconuts can fuel generators as a clean way to make electricity one coconut will give you one liter of oil and with what we've got here it's fine now. or a for t.v. program for

a few coconut powered televisions will make little difference to the global climate but i want to use government believes the world's big polluters should compensate it for the damage that climate change does here and that if they won't voluntarily through treaties and agreements then they'll try to force them to through the threats of legal action the government is considering suing big polluting countries and fossil fuel companies we're working with a number of lawyers in different parts of the world we're also looking at our evidence base that we're going to need to prove in court that would be hard suing a company needs to happen in that company's national court giving them the home advantage taking legal action against a country means going to the international court of justice it only considers cases where the country being sued agrees to the case being heard but there is another avenue here that can take and that is to ask the i.c.j. for an advisory opinion and that isn't legally binding but it does set the

direction and it gives the world a sense of exactly how the. legal issues that i want to sleep is hope the possibility that countries or companies might have to pay compensation one day will increase their potential financial liabilities now scaring off investors unless they take action to minimize those risks so those legal action is the threats vanuatu would rather settle out of court andrew thomas al-jazeera. discovered more than forty mummies south of the capital cairo from aynesworth found in the desert province of minea twelve children and six animals were around the third century b.c. . now watching out zero these are our top stories as well as preselectors madura has

offered to hold early parliamentary elections as he refuses to moms to resign rival and his supporters are demanding a presidential vote. in the military which which remains loyal to but or it to switch sides siegelman extend the thought of those you know use a hand remained outstretched to all government workers like the air force general who today took advantage of the amnesty law and put it into effect but we don't expect the forces to just make statements we don't expect just that we expect that they will stand up forcefully and powerfully and most respecting the constitution and saying that they accept minute tarion aid and they are on the side of venezuela . peace deals being agreed aimed at ending six years of fighting between muslims and christians in central african republic government leaders struck the deal with fourteen groups after a week of talks in sudan backed by the united nations and the african union.

democratic republic of congo's opposition leader mohsin fire lewis urging supporters to start what he calls peaceful resistance play they lost the presidential election in december he says it was riggs. is to send as last remaining child refugees held in remote immigration comes to the united states four children will be resettled with their families under a deal struck with the obama administration the move will also end the government's widely condemned policy of detaining child asylum seekers fall from the australian mainland on monis island and now room. an apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children the five story broke was damaged during the years of war one child was pulled alive from the rubble. the governor of the u.s. state of virginia is embroiled in a racist photo scandal has suddenly changed his story from democrats now says the picture taken in one thousand nine hundred four doesn't actually feature him after all twenty four hours north of apologize for being in the photo which shows the man

in black face and another person folks in a clue klux klan outfits. state now with all the headlines we're back with more news on al-jazeera of the inside story. i mean the every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories to join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter amongst on al-jazeera. first the united states now russia both walk away from a treaty that's helped prevent nuclear war for more than thirty years what will this mean for the only three does it make the world a more dangerous place this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm martin dennis now a treaty that helped to keep the world safe from nuclear war appears to be falling apart the united states withdrew from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty all the i.n.f. on friday accusing russia of violating it moscow has now followed suit president putin denies breaking the deal says russia will start developing new missiles we'll introduce our guests in just a moment first let's hear from the two presidents. 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 wants deploying 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 first of all you have to add countries obviously it's old but very importantly one side has not been that hearing to it we have one side has it so a listing that it would hear we should be the only one i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful and do a new treaty that would be much better. well. what the withdrawals will mean. the world has changed dramatically since the signing of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty or i n f in one thousand nine hundred seven designed as a confidence building measure to reduce the possibility of nuclear war the treaty held guarantee peace between the two cold war rivals the van soviet union and the

united states but eighteen years after the cold war ended nuclear missile technology has spread far and wide so who has this technology china or north korea have demonstrated their ability to build increasingly sophisticated missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads further and further india and its rival pakistan have also been developing missiles that can strike their enemy with improved accuracy the u.s. and russia believe the i.n.f. treaty has held them back from developing increasingly potent weapons so by pulling out and with fewer constraints they could now be a new phase in the arms race and if the atmosphere of mistrust continues it could have a negative effect on other arms treaties or the new strategic arms reduction or start agreement the two for renewal in two thousand and twenty one. our lives are introduced guess now we start with power felgenhauer is in moscow is a defensive military analyst in washington d.c.

we have mark fitzpatrick is director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies and m. brussels we have leo hoffman from the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can welcome to your let's start with the powerful the russians have been accused by president trump by the united states for breaching this agreement what have they done. russia has being basically adopting the cruise missiles it has developed for ships and submarines to be watched from land war enters from a modified disc on there were unsure which basically to begin with was capable of using as both mistake and cruise missiles that makes a lot of military and economic sense because the poor in the same r. o. s. cruise wall range cruise missile on the land warrants are basically

a truck it's tanta twenty times cheaper than on building a frigate and deploying on a frigate ryann trucks are actually easier to hide and that's also likely what the russian military were doing and though the deployment actually was not very large in numbers and could have been. officiated by the russian authorities as a response to the us deploying missile defense systems in romania and poland which russia believes are actually also first attack weapon or. war range american crew all the american denied that you give me a long list of russian activity what was in contravention then of the i think he could be priests. so it was like the american say is that these missiles were tested for a war for a range of more over five hundred q.

arbiters which they should not russia says that they did test for more than five hundred kilometers but that was for naval missiles not for a land based but for wind based we yes we say we have them but they are for a shorter range but the problem with cruise missiles is that their range that burns and how much fuel you have onboard that's very hard to verify all right let's go to mark in washington who is agreeing with you on that lonely and then tree of russian hold where and activity mark it seems like a situation of quid pro quo there doesn't it the the americans have been quibbling over this i.n.f. treaty haven't they for what five years if not more finally something maceration pulls out or announces that it's pulling out suspending its membership and then the russians follow suit so who's at fault here so i think you've characterized it very well russia is at fault initially for testing

a ground launched cruise missile that exceeded the i n f limits of the at the lower end it was over five hundred kilometers i think publix planed a well the differences among the systems and united states has been trying for five years to persuade russia to come back into compliance now the trumpet ministration i think made a huge mistake in pulling out of the treaty altogether they didn't need to do that they could have kept up pressure on russia apart applied penalties in other ways and stayed in the treaty and now russia pulling out all together it's a breakdown of arms control it's a breakdown of trust between united states and russia the united states will have problems with its european allies and it will engage in a new arms race with china as well. so there's nothing good comes out of the united states withdraw or i did leo in brussels i mean this is a rather whiskery agreement wasn't it over thirty years old as alex correspondent pointed out i mean the military global military landscape is

dramatically altered say perhaps it itself it's time it's needed a complete rebuild to anyway. well clearly we're not in a situation where we can say oh well we can do away with. your might and actual design and an arms control treaties clearly we're in a situation especially here in europe that has been felt in the last years where there's more confrontation and especially an uptick in military. nuclear weapons and the more you threaten nuclear weapons the higher the likelihood of course that that becomes a reality a nuclear weapons will once again be used so as as has been said there's nothing positive that comes from this development and i think the important part is not so much to you know point fingers figure out who is to blame who cheated on the treaty first i think there's claims and counterclaims both trump and putin have very low credibility on these issues they have both not made public their. detailed allegations and the detail defenses on whether on the today breach this treaty and

some from the perspective of all the other states in the world so taking a step back from just russia and just united states weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons are something that is extremely important for all states in the world everybody stands to suffer the catastrophic consequences from any use of these weapons of mass destruction and therefore the important question is what can the rest of the world do in order to reduce the likelihood that nuclear weapons will be used again and so of course luckily we haven't been i'd also the majority of nations in the world has and twenty seventeen come together to adopt a new treaty in the united nations called the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons that of course makes nuclear weapons illegal and i was days should as fast as possible sign and ratify this treaty in order to send a clear message to the handful of nuclear weapons states that we can no longer tolerate that they are putting our lives at risk with. their pursuit of nuclear weapons and you do the terror all right let's go back to mark with that because one

would imagine that the trumpet ministration is going to pay very little heed to what's come out of the u.n. general assembly no matter how many countries have had signed up to something. just quite taken by the words donald trump uttered when he was talking about suspending u.s. participation in this treaty he talked about assembling again in ibiza for room with many more participants i mean does it mean that he is in visiting a replacement treaty for intermediate nuclear weapons that would encompass a many more of the of the nations around the world are in possession of them well that's that's the dream and it certainly is only a dream and i'd has no nothing that backs it up it would be an impossible really to get all the nations that have these missile systems including north korea india pakistan and china to agree to a multilateral treaty it's just an excuse really by president trump for abandoning

this treaty you know he's being advised by national security advisor john bolton to withdraw from the treaty bolton doesn't like arms control so he's not trying to build up some new treaty he's just trying to to tear down the old treaty i just have to say one thing though in response to the the good intervention by your guest in brussels it's not just president trump who has made the allegation of russian violation this started under president obama so and president obama had a great deal more credibility so i think we're on pretty solid grounds about the nature of the violation but i do agree that the way forward is to find ways to build a dialogue and arms control not to tear down agreements that have worked for so long right ok the powerful the most school what happens what happens in the next six months because there's a six month suspension period now before the treaty officially at becomes nolen void does moscow go on a development a deployment spree of

a certain kinds of missiles and other technology. whoa with the deployment of. longer range crews that was developed for ships putting them on ground launchers well that's technically and financially not that much of a problem something will be done i'm don't think that russia is going to rush and deploy a large numbers right now but some numbers apparently have been deported allegedly and six months they'll be we go also president putin talked about developing a new medium range ballistic missile that may be also equipped with that so-called guiding warhead or as he called it hyper sound warhead to avoid a missile defense system say deployed in europe or in the middle east that's a bit of a new development and that brings actually the situation even into

a more dangerous. higher tire because we're kind of moving into what we were in the eighty's when there were land based cruise missiles american deployed in europe and ballistic missiles pershing ones and pershing to use and a lot of russian twenties pioneer deployed in russia and these all these missiles were destroyed under i.n.f. treaty because the russians were very afraid of the american pershing two because they were very. innovative they were had maneuverable warheads a very accurate and the russian we don't ship and generals are afraid that they won't be have time to get airborne and will be killed in the beginning of the first blow and now most likely will and that's why russia agreed to destroy all those missiles to get the pershing right so now we're moving again it's not only cruise because cruise was of course deployed on other carriers but it's also ballistic

missiles with a very short time hitting target and that is bringing nuclear war much much. served and given all of this coming back to you in brussels and interested in the european angle the secretary general of nato against altenburg basically welcomed the trumpet ministrations action walking away from the treaty he cited significant risks to euro atlantic security i'm wondering how do europeans feel because when it comes to any kind of possible confrontation with russia they really are on the front line yet and they sing the european perspective as really key on this issue because as you already say. the medium range missiles will only be used in europe given that the united states has the pacific ocean on one side the atlantic ocean on the other side so there's really a problem that concerns europe being stuck in a way between russia and united states and of course the nato secretary general stuart and rick has been trying to put a brave face on it and trying to portray

a picture of nato unity and in the face of this action by the united states but actually what happened here is that once again and after a lot of warnings from european states that they wouldn't be in favor of this at the united states has unilaterally was drawn from a control treaty and has in that sense joppa deiced european security it's exactly the same thing that happened was that you know on the year where the europeans have made it abundantly clear that we want these deals to be preserved and even if russia violating the deal that we want to pursue ways was in the deal of trying to get all states to comply with the deal and instead the united states was drastic and really this is an affront to the hardcore security interests of european states and european states will have to ask themselves if was in nato they are still able to influence nuclear weapons policy of the united states of the united states is just unilaterally setting nuclear weapons policy in the way that flies in the face

of europeans who could security interests and the obvious thing that european states now have to do in order to assert their own security interests. is one to declare that they will in those circumstances host any such missiles and secondly to of course ban than relying on the united states and you got up and i'm so excited let me just need to let me just jump in there not to get up and ask you a second question so you're saying that it is incumbent upon the european countries within nato then to oppose a tivoli resist any attempts to have new deployments of technology on their soil but what about those that are more enthusiastic there are countries within nato that are much more enthusiastic about having missile defense technology on their sets i'm thinking of poland for instance when you get that when you get that kind of consensus from european countries oh no that's absolutely out of the question and you would get a consensus on blowing such missiles in europe i agree was you that there's a few states was

a nato that would be more enthusiastic about this because of the historic experience as was russia but again it's completely the wrong approach to take to yourself as a tease and make yourself a target for nuclear weapons in europe all right and of course russia would attack those sites first and germany italy and as a lens would also suffer the right targets in poland or romania are being attacked all right there's an elephant in the room isn't there mark and that is china because china has significantly developed its stockpile of serious missiles and all the associated technology that goes with it and that is alarming to some in particular of kools us strong us allies in the region namely japan and south korea. where you put your finger on the issue here that china has build up of intermediate range missiles is the real reason why president trump has withdrawn from the i n f rushes by elations where the proximate cause but it's china's

missiles and when tom talks about getting everybody in the room what he's really talking about is that china should. be involved in any multilateral limits and you're right that japan in particular is worried about it but japan is not ready to host any similar kind of missiles that the united states might think about deploying know that it is free from i.n.f. constraints the japanese people don't want to be a target of chinese missiles any more than the europeans want to be a target of russian missiles as your guest in brussels said south korea certainly doesn't want to either so there's no place in europe or the united states to even deployed land based missiles that it might develop at a big cost so you know the isis is pulling out of a deal without any real strategic benefit it's sending a signal concern about china but without any real plan to put in place any response

and that's i think a big danger to this decision yesterday right impossible the level of mistrust between moscow and washington on this administration level is pretty low this isn't it we've already suggested in this program that if it continues at this level that there is a real danger that the new start treaty negotiations which are due to be resumed in twenty twenty one could be badly affected and we do face the prospect of having no control treaties in place a toll do you think this is a reality a real possibility or yes it is a possibility and actually negotiations should have been happening now in february twenty one the treaty goes the funked i mean you cannot begin then go shish and just a couple of days or a couple weeks before it goes defunct and there's no negotiations nothing's

happening it doesn't seem possible right now there will of course it depends on who wins the november. twenty american presidential elections and who's going to be there trump or someone else maybe a last ditch attempt to keep start three operational is going to happen because of all the pentagon wants that the russians actually want don't want to start to go the russians were the majority opinion and moscow was always clear other cool about the eating i n f and it was officially said by putin that this is a one sided and unjust treaty about start it's different russia does not want start to go so it better but right now it seems that it could go and we would be in a free for all new career arms race before seventy two or something like that which is the very very dangerous absolutely and mark we may be extrapolating

a little bit too far down the line but twenty twenty one is not too far away is it we know that this hundred minutes of the president himself is not too keen on multilateral arrangements can we expect can we expect that the pentagon may hold sway over the white house and get something in place so that we don't have this very precarious situation that's been described by powerful. you know in a way we're grasping at straws here looking for some silver lining in this dark cloud there is exactly the potential you in public have suggested that the pentagon could exert some influence but not under the current lineup of personalities in the administration. you know national security advisor john bolton has great sway in the white house he's very much behind this withdrawal from the i.m.f. he doesn't like arms control secretary of state pump goes along with him i think that at some point john bolton will wear out his welcome at the white house

national security advisors don't last very long in the white house under trump nobody last very long frankly and if trump if a bolton were to be replaced by by somebody more traditional seeing the kind of values of having an arms control agreement in place with with russia as most of the u.s. security establishment does then it's conceivable that trump could extend it he could tweak it a little bit he could call it his deal and as long as he can put his name on it and claim that that is a possibility although as i say i think we're grasping at straws all right and coming to you in brussels the welds today and in six months time is this definitely a mood a mood dangerous place that it was a year ago. oh yes definitely i mean what we're witnessing and i can only agree it was the previous speakers and washington and moscow is of course a dismantling of the miter letter order be that on trade to be that on

a better arms control agreements and john bolton certainly has never seen a treaty that couldn't be improved by a shredder so i think there's very little point in hoping that they will come together with change because of course you want a new start treaty to be extended as well but the realisation here and the says been clear even before these treaties have been tried is that of course nuclear weapons because i mean this much too important to just leave it to the big guys to just sit back and hope that the nuclear weapon states would sort it out between themselves it would be naive to believe that the nuclear weapon states will themselves come up with concrete plans or even commitments to get rid of their weapons and this is something where all of the as a states of the world have to exert much much more pressure especially the nato allies who of course have a much better connection to the united states they have to be much more forceful and in asserting their security interests and again luckily we have not just the

treaties being torn apart we also have the vast majority of states in the world that have really made very courageous efforts to make it clear to the nuclear states that we can no longer accept nuclear weapons we have the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons country and i have to sign and ratify it this is going to change the framework and the conversation in which nuclear weapons are being looked at so that they are no longer a status symbol but something to be ashamed of so i think this is the way forward nato here brussels is a mighty lateral capsule we should really europeans mean it when they talk about might i let you listen to tearing apart the military order the same logic should apply also to security oh right thank you very much indeed possible thousand most gay not fitzpatrick in washington and lee hoffman in brussels thank you all very much indeed. takling that's a very complex and slightly depressing subject now if you want to see the program again as i'm sure you will if you go to our website al-jazeera dot com if you want

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and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. as mass protests once again filled venezuela's capsule embattled president nicolas maduro makes and the election.

and this is a live from doha also coming up a call for resistance from the man who says he is the democratic republic of congo's white for president. the last child refugees held in the stray and run prison camp are finally flown out to begin new lives. and a window of opportunity the story of one woman who wants to turn washington's cool boxes into streets. as well and president nicolas maduro has proposed early parliamentary elections as pressure grows at home and abroad for him to resign opposition leader who's declared himself the country's interim leader is demanding presidential elections in america as to see a new man reports from. it looked and sounded like

a carnival. for as far as the eye could see answer an opposition leader. to increase pressure to force president nicolas maduro out. anyone else any other alternative is better than this government they've been in power for twenty years and done nothing but starve us. after years of frustrated attempts they feel changes in the air. this time is different because we have to help before the country's carnage. the last march we have to go to was. just hours earlier an air force general defected the first top ranking officer to do so since why the offered them an amnesty a stinging blow. that the military's loyalty is crucial to his political survival.

this is. getting to be. on the other side of president gathered his supporters he's vowed to never give in to pressure from the servants of the u.s. empire as he calls the opposition but one of the rejects demands for a new presidential elections he's offering an alternative. i agree but the legislature should be religious by by the country and that we hold free elections with guarantees and may the people the thought of the national assembly. would opponents want is for my brutal to go self proclaimed interim president announced his next move the imminent arrival to the border of humanitarian aid of an israeli . most needy i say that earlier al jazeera asked him if he thought the army would

defy mother and allow the aid to cross into venezuela from neighboring colombia and brazil. i hope that the patriot takes over in soldiers who respect the constitution will withdraw the support of majority and give it to the people of venezuela who need food. as the power struggle continues all eyes will soon be on the border see how this latest challenge to the embattled government plays out to sea and human al-jazeera. oh venezuela's who fled has held the door of protests in several countries including spain chile and neighboring colombia one million but. over the last few years i was under the reports from bogota i far from home but close to the fight against president nicolas maduro thousands of in his winnings abroad joining their fellow countrymen protesting inside

venezuela in countries across the americas in europe this was the scene in madrid central seoul square they chanted we want freedom but i the signs read no more my daughter and peace justice and democracy in venezuela. capital santiago the demonstration was led by. the woman chosen to represent parallel government there but the leader of the opposition and so for a claimed interim president one. of the you know all of us whalen's are dreaming of a return to venezuela we are very grateful to chile which has welcomed us in a very nice way of returning to finish way law is archery a dream that those protesting in santiago say requires an end to my due to its government. we ask this government to leave today we want support so humanly parian aid can come and we can return to our country. more than three million venezuelans

fled the economic and political crisis in their country since two thousand and fifteen in search of food work and medicine venezuelans protesting in colombia the country that has received most refugees said it was their duty to continue putting pressure internationally convinced that challenge too much and the latest sanctions imposed by the united states will force them to step down i think this is the only way and finally we found a way to get rid of my daughter. we speak take the ship ok there's a renewed sense of optimism and hope among the venezuelan diaspora the ceiling base say that for the first time regina change in venezuela is truly within reach i listen that i just you know. the government of the central african republic has struck a peace deal with fourteen armed groups that was agreed and sudan's council costume after a week of talks backed by the united nations and the african union thousands of

people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. then across the republic of congo's main opposition leader must. supporters to embrace what he calls peaceful resistance he believes a rival committed with the former president to still december's an election a reports. show of support for martin for you live by those who believe he is the democratic republic of congo's legitimate president his message is a rally in the capital kinshasa was uncompromising and. nothing can work when they've tried to steal victory from us we will peacefully continue with our resistance without end you voted for me and this is your victory. last month the highest court in the democratic republic of congo dismissed in a pill by for you live he said the december thirtieth presidential election was rigged for you argued that felix chase a key day had made

a power sharing deal with outgoing president joseph kabila a charge both men deny. the message of martin fire president his very clear we must resist peacefully and till we get back out victory our country must be controlled by someone who is voted in by a nomination. the lead up to the pulse of violence and controversy over the decision to delay voting in some areas for health and security reasons which in effect meant that more than one and a quarter million people from an electorate of almost forty million were excluded the african union as well as the french and german governments raised doubts about the outcome of the election. is over the people around the country voted for for you the result is clear he is the winner people who have rigged this election will be responsible for what happens next we will not accept a victory that is stolen from us. he was sworn in as president last month called

for peace and security but the you lou and his supporters say. they are determined to fight for what they believe is justice victoria gate and be al-jazeera. the last for child refugees held in and the stray and run detention center on the pacific island of now roo are being resettled in the u.s. they'll go with their families under a deal struck with the administration of the former president barack obama as early as government says it won't send any more children to now lou. over the past five months we have been working quietly and methodically determined children from the room today there are only four children on the roof and i will shortly resettle permanently in the united states our government has got the children off route. well as that will closely at how a surplus offshore processing policy works asylum seekers sailing towards

a stray or intercepted at sea by navy vessels instead of having their refugee status assessed within a strangely other detained for processing on nauru they were also sent to man as islands and papa new guinea but that center has now been closed the policy is designed says future asylum seekers for making the dangerous journey once is known they won't be allowed into a stray. david manne is executive director of the refugee and immigration legal center and he joins us via skype from melbourne thanks for being with us i mean this is undoubtedly good news for these children and their families but what happens now to other children who are trying to enter australia illegally by sea. well it is very good news because after years and years that is over five years of of around two hundred children banks sent from a stranger an exultant or a bank held there in cruel and inhuman and degrading conditions finally the last of those children abang resettled to society as refugees i can rebuild their lives

after the devastating harm that been caused to them by any future arrivals under strain in policy under the hardline policies of the astronomy government any future arrivals of children. under those policies would result you know that you are. being told in the same kind of in you my condition so it's very difficult to understand at the moment what you my alternative the government pursued because the state of course is saying that it won't send any more children to these offshore detention centers but it's not since saying what it will do. well and under the current policy straight as other mine strategy is to turn boats back so that any future rattles or attempts to arrive in a strong barbarity would be likely to be met with the same policy and strategy of turning boats back to places like in the nature of the buses we're able of fled from on route to australia so really what we don't have is any data how about

a significant and fundamental shift in the strength policy such that if some savings were served in iraq that is children families men and women were to assert their fundamental human rights under the refugees convention other human rights treaties triggered sega's solomon a strata eppy be granted refugees but we don't it is not turn our policy to make good vote rights and obligations that are stronger signed up to and of course there are still more than one hundred thousand asylum seekers in these detention centers do we know anything about what their fates going to be. well i think first point is very important to point out here that sound bite they were asylum status until they're a system that any of those in fact the vast majority of those thousand still on the property guinea having been sent by strata it sure does islands. majority of those people have been.