an intervention to bring about regime change are heard everywhere. but so many venezuelans the issue of sovereignty has become less important than the promise of better days to come. to see an human al-jazeera that acts. the armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for two attacks in somalia at least twelve people were killed and several more injured when a car bomb exploded near a shopping mall in the capital mogadishu a restaurant was destroyed in the blast or the armed group says its fighters also shot dead the head of a port operations company in the semi autonomous somali region of puntland paul anthony formosa who was a multis national ran operations there for the dubai owned company and al-shabaab spokesman says the group targeted for most of because he worked for a company that quote occupies the area ago has more from neighboring kenya. in

a statement on their website al shabab responsibility for the talk in the heart of mogadishu but it calls to a shopping mall. is a new addition to the skyline of mogadishu on an investment by people who tani in from exile after many years of war in their country oh shut up said in about statement that they had targeted senior government and ten years of fish bowls who were meeting nearby but it is civilians who hold the brunt of the tuc it's all civilians who while the casualties of those who died as well as those who were injured and these are toxic dust coming at a time when these an up tick in violence being waged by al shabaab targeting both government installations and also civilian targets just like the one we saw today a busy intersection in the heart of mogadishu of course al shabaab aims to prove

that they're still a force to be reckoned with even after losing most of their albums strongholds but experts say it's also points to the weakness of their opponents the government and the thousands of you doing peacekeepers who have not had an offensive against the group for a while now and i'll shut up us continued cutting out these attacks on saturday they targeted an ethiopian peacekeepers base in the town of bottom there in southern somalia and say for us thanks by u.s. forces the group has largely not been pursued by the security forces that are present in the somalia and those aspects by the u.s. forces have not been enough to stop them cutting out such attacks not only inside somalia but also outside the country or is still ahead on the program a course in hungary jails officials from the company behind toxic waste spilling twenty ten but contaminated knowledge areas of land. and

a stray. militaries deployed to help deal with devastating floods we should put crocodiles into the streets. the weather's looking awfully fun and dry across much of china for the chinese new year some think make out into those central areas that will produce some outbreaks of rain from time to time maybe on the heavy side up towards further east eleven celsius to shanghai twenty four for hong kong some a temperature in hong kong as we go on into wednesday warming up nicely in shanghai dry weather coming back into him by this stage. into taiwan dry weather there across all the parts of the philippines and they've of course a good part of indo china just south asia looking settled over the next day or so

we have got a few showers some one a lot of the ones too pushing into that eastern side of sri lankan further north a fair bit of cloud into the more west of indianola possible to stop spilling out of afghanistan wintry of course were the higher ground here but elsewhere as you can see it does look like you might just catch one or two showers into the far south of india over the next strontium will not be but the showers more so i suspect across a good parts of eastern and southern sri lanka but to many showers across potentially a little fresher than it has been recently here and getting up to twenty two celsius on shoes day a tad warmer by wednesday afternoon. 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 on the ground plus how predators are playing

a role and why the reports of the run for the long. term seem a cost on al-jazeera new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. our again undermine from the top stories here on al-jazeera venezuela's government says it will revive the lateral ties with several european nations who can dos the opposition leader won in one go i don't know as the country's interim president. or president nicolas maduro who's also lashed out at e.u. leaders in response saying the spanish prime minister petro sanchez will have blood

on his hands if there's an intervention. says it's behind a car bomb that has killed at least twelve people in somalia's capital mogadishu gunmen from the off reporting so shocked at a multi-state he worked from ever aussie old port operator in print land. bank francis is once again condemned the war in yemen saying the consequences of the country's devastating civil war are before our eyes the catholic media has been speaking at a gathering of faith leaders in the united arab emirates one of the main coalition partners backing yemen's government in its fight against rebels on sunday hip ill for yemen's warring parties to observe a truce and let essential aid be delivered to millions of people it is the first visit by a catholic pope to the arabian peninsula the birthplace of islam. well an outbreak of swine flu is the latest medical emergency to hit yemen the surging cases of the

virus follows the world's worst cholera outbreak there and of course that war which is left millions of yemenis weakened by starvation and vulnerable to disease brinker gupta reports. another arrival in this hospital in the capital sanaa another victim of the consequences of the war in yemen fatima is suffering from each one n one influenza also known as swine flu it's known to break down the immune system and cause lung problems among other complaints but the saudi u.a.e. coalition's repeated targeting of hospitals means the flu which is best treated of detected early has been diagnosed late or can a phantom and. she suffered from coughing for about twenty days we have seen several doctors in several hospitals but it is here where she has finally been properly diagnosed the virus is spreading graphically mostly in the hooty controlled areas of sanaa souther and abe for hundreds of cases reported so far

there's only one type of medicine available most hospitals are running out and pharmacies that do stock the medicine are charging forty dollars for it the lifesaving drugs are simply out of reach for the families of the patients because they live out of who are now looking for the medicine that deals with such a virus we were shocked to know that the hospital only gave us some of the needed tablets and not all of them because of the medicine shortage. that we and other patients need more medicine us so we urge the united nations and the ministry of health to do whatever it takes to make this medicine available. that's a tall order where more than fifty percent of the people don't have access to regular health care less than half of hospitals are working at the risk of an edge one and one epidemic is increased in crowded cities and towns teeming with yemenis displaced by war when. we are talking about

a massive spread of disease the ministry of health has registered in its latest statistics four hundred one thousand cases of swine flu this is the number we've managed to register but there are dozens of patients that have not been registered because of the inability of those patients to access health centers due to the war and the siege the death toll has so far reached eighty six the un is trying to rescue their cease fire agreement reached in sweden in december to stop fighting in the city of hadera. renewed fighting around the port is making it almost impossible for critical a to reach patients needing medicine for the x. one n one flu virus. al-jazeera a footballer fighting extradition from thailand has pleaded with judges not to send him back to bahrain where he says he fears he'll be tortured. a rep here in court in bangkok shackled in chains judges adjourned his case until april and denied bail despite international appeals for his freedom

a former member of bahrain's national team was arrested while on honeymoon in thailand arrive be led to australia five years ago because he says a ten year sentence for vandalism was politically motivated. there has to be consequences for what's going on today there is no legal case and the thai prime minister continues to. transfer responsibility for this case through the judicial system of thailand when in actual fact he has executive discretion himself . has more from bangkok. the extradition hearing at the criminal court here in bangkok on monday morning heard directly from how kim the judge asked him specifically directly do you want to be sent back to bahrain he said no because if he goes back he said he faced severe punishment we also found out out of this hearing that the legal team for hakim will have sixty days to get together documents and evidence fighting this extradition the next session will be on april

twenty second out front of the courthouse there were representatives from the story an embassy he has refugee status in the he was given that in two thousand and seventeen human rights groups were out front as well as a sporting groups in particular football associations out front of this courthouse here in bangkok on monday now they have all been gathered and pushing forward a global initiative to free hakim now this is something that's been going on for weeks because he's been here held here in thailand for seventy days now obviously that international effort really hasn't had much impact on tight officials because they're pushing forward with this process and again the next hearing will be on april twenty second for the millions of syrians displaced by winter is the most difficult time those in the unregistered camps all the worst affected aid agencies working there are appealing for donors as resources run short of a dismal from this it. on turkey's border with syria. to dangerous

still visit the only source of warmth in the flimsy tent the fumes make it's hard to breathe the sheets on the floor and mattresses are always down. is little choice but to burn what they can. plastic waste becomes fuel to stay warm children sift through what others throw out the danger the risk of disease and the stench sometimes they're injured when the garbage bags contain broken glass for sharp objects and his family moved to this refugee camp a year ago his father was killed in the city of hama and his brother was wounded in an airstrike now may he takes care of the family with his mother he goes out with other children to collect plastic he sells some of it and burns the rest to stay warm. i work in the learn until sunset i make around fifty dollars a month the camps around ours have schools but we don't have anything. i don't know why there's nothing else for me to do except collecting my lawn tin and copper from

the garbage dump. nearly a hundred families live in the camp near hama and it led many are too poor to try to move elsewhere far from a sheer knows the risks of inhaling toxic fumes but says it's better than freezing to death. god knows our situation the smoke is very bad from the nylon bags we use it for the heating we burn cans shoes no one is looking after us. aid workers say they are aware of such clusters of families but with limited resources being spent in official camps there's not much they can do. we call these unofficial or organized camps they come about because of lisette city and they are nothing like the organized ones here the situation is much worse they are at risk from extreme weather more than fifty percent of the camps in northern syria are on organized and they are in this situation the un's children agency says nearly six million children in and outside syria have been affected by war for nearly eight years the

vinter is always being the most difficult period and with the prolonged conflict and support for people each year keeps getting worse. as many children continue to inhale toxic fumes and suffer health education hygiene problems many don't have high hopes for the future some a big job without a zero. at the border between turkey and syria. now what's being described as once in a century rain is causing catastrophic flooding in northeast australia thousands of homes of submerged in the queensland city of townsville where two men have been reported missing and crocodiles are adding to the danger spotted smith reports. opening the floodgates of the ross river dam in queensland created what australia's weather bureau called dangerous and high velocity flows with the damage three hundred percent capacity engine. they have no option downstream homes in the

coastal city of townsville a flooded more than a thousand people have been moved to safety we've never seen a year's worth of rain in less than seven dies you know that's not exactly what we've planned for and it really is the new parameters that we're moving into northern australia is tropical and typically experiences heavy monsoon rains but recent downpours are far in excess of the norm in some parts of townsville salt water crocodiles displaced by the flood waters have been spotted and there's more heavy rain on the way this monsoonal trough just doesn't want to seem to move much at all there's going to be heavy rainfall and over the next couple of days there will also be damaging wind gusts and intense rainfall with significant flash flooding australia's armed forces have been called in to help with what have been described as once in a century floods some areas of queensland are expected to get a year's worth of rain in just a week and twenty thousand homes risk of being submerged if the heavy rains

continue bernard smith al-jazeera hungary in court has handed down jail sentences to the heads of a company responsible for one of the words the country's worst environmental disaster is ten people were killed and rivers were destroyed when more than a million cubic meters of toxic sludge burst from a reservoir as an army mini and planted twenty ten tony angela reports. this was the toxic tide that swept through three villages in hungary in two thousand and ten when sludge containing hazardous waste burst through the banks of a storage reservoir they put arsenic mercury and untold damage to the region the country's worst environmental disaster responsible for killing ten people and injuring two hundred more. but in twenty sixteen courts cleared the managers of the aluminum plant mile of negligence with the judge ruling that the cause of the reservoir collapse was the unstable soil beneath the storage pond at the time there

were protests in court when. that verdict has now been reversed with two directors of the plot being found guilty of endangering the public by criminal negligence and sentenced to two and a half years in prison i these pictures taken by environmental organization w w f a for the four months before the disaster they say they showed clear signs of weakness in the reservoir structure suggesting it was already leaking the evidence being the channel of red liquid seen on the left the new verdict is a win for environmentalists and local residents but despite vast sums spent on the region hundreds of hectares of land remain sealed off unfit for farming it will bear traces of the tragedy for years to come. out of their. jurors in the trial of joaquin el chapo guzman alleged to be the world's most notorious drug lord begin

deliberations on monday the sixty one year old is accused of leading the sin of lower drug cartel in mexico and importing large quantities of cocaine heroin marijuana and methamphetamine into the united states his eleven week trial has opened up the workings of the cartel to public view prosecutors say grossman consolidated his path through a string of murders and wars with rival drug cartels. millions of hindu pilgrims have taken the plunge into sacred rivers at the could mylar the world's largest religious gathering andrews' believe bathing in the confluence of three rivers in northern india cleanses them of their sins and ends their process of reincarnation around thirty million people are expected to take part in the ritual over the duration of the forty eight day festival tens of thousands of police have been deployed to manage the huge crowds.

reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera venezuela's government says it will revise fi lateral ties with several european nations who endorse the opposition leader one goh i don't know as the country's interim president the new had given president nicolas maduro a sunday deadline to call a presidential election before they endorsed. the differ but the diplomatic shift in europe is a major boost the white oh it also has the support of the u.s. canada and ten latin american countries but europe has lashed out at e.u. leaders in response saying the spanish prime minister petro sanchez will have blood on his hands if there is an intervention you really want for not a panacea i say to mr sanchez god forbid but if one day there is a coup d'etat out of your hands you have blood on them just like the hands of person maria aznar in the war in iraq that they will forever be stained with blood and history will remember you as a puppet who was put at the service of the interventionist warmongering policy of donald trump the group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for two attacks in

somalia at least twelve people were killed and several more injured when a car bomb exploded near a shopping mall in the capital mogadishu well the armed group says its fight is also shocked at the head of a port operations company in the semi autonomous somali region of puntland fall ansley for most so he was a multi national run operations there for the dubai owned own ports company. pope francis is once again condemned the war in yemen saying the consequences of the country's devastating civil war are before our eyes that he to has been speaking at a gathering of faith leaders in the united arab emirates one of the main coalition partners backing yemen's government in its fight against heated rebels on sunday he appealed for yemen's warring parties to observe a truce and let essential aid be delivered to millions of people. an outbreak of swine flu is spreading rapidly in yemen mostly in areas controlled by hoofy rebels hundreds of cases have been reported but most families can only can't afford the

only medicine available in the country which is also in short supply yemen's medical infrastructure has been devastated by the civil war and hospitals have been teeny targeted by the saudi and iraqi coalition and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera more news in twenty five minutes counting the cost now looks at what regime change in venezuela could mean for its people. hello i'm avery and sort of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we're focusing on

venezuela hungry without access to medicine venezuelans are suffering as a political crisis unfolds we'll look at what it's like to live inside the world's worst economy where hyperinflation is a reality of one tenth of the population has left. ninety nine billion dollars in debt and much of it in default that as well is a country with many creditors but where did all the money go. plus confusion reigns in energy markets as the u.s. slap sanctions on venezuela where it hurts how the game of oil is playing out. in venezuela people don't have enough to eat at least one tenth of the population of economic refugees according to one official data is available infant mortality is soaring at a faster rate than in syria this economic crisis is a humanitarian crisis and we're in a new chapter on january twenty third the leader of the legislature one guy doe

began a push to remove current president nicolas maduro the united states has imposed an embargo on venezuela's state oil company b p d a the sanctions aimed to transfer control of venezuela's oil wealth to those that oppose madieu rope but oil is a good place to start how did a country with the world's biggest oil reserves end up so impoverished and bankrupt the orinoco belt holds one of the world's largest reserves of heavy crude oil the problem is though oil accounts for ninety eight percent of venezuela's foreign earnings there's a lack of other sectors but worst of all no sovereign wealth fund to invest all the money the government controls everything and it's been spending more than it's been earning venezuela's issued billions in sovereign bonds and borrowed heavily using the country's natural resources as collateral now though it's in default strict control of foreign currency exchanges restricted people's ability to access foreign

produced goods this imbalance has led to hyper inflation that means inflation running at a million percent and it's rendered the ball of our worthless latin america editor lucien newman is on the ground in paternity correctness talking to people. about what it's like to fight for survival in venezuela right now i'm standing in a line in pit that a that is one of the largest slums in all of venezuela and these people have been waiting so that they can buy a treat it's called sardines one of the very few things that they can actually afford these days well they must sell to too expensive we can't afford anything they raise the minimum wage to eighteen thousand last month but we can't buy anything at all a kilo of cheese costs fifteen thousand voters and there goes practically you entire salary i mean everybody here is holding loads of bills in their hands but they're actually they're almost worth nothing what you see here are fifteen

thousand believe it is this is an august well worth two hundred fifty dollars a dollar was sixty body about is now they're worth less than five this is almost a full month's salary but you can hardly buy much more than these soundings with it yet though and i love when they don't go to the office to keep this is one of the ways we have surviving because that is what we're doing barely surviving we see the saliva. of people here telling me they actually don't like sardines but it's the only thing they can afford at this point what can you buy with the minimum wage get with it compare that going to how demeaning. mayo got on their way to. your local just a carton of eggs he says that's all he can buy a new yorker going there where one half a car you know i mean. i'm going to show you how long this line is and it formed in just a few minutes word of mouth as people heard that something was being sold in fact they usually line up without even knowing which at the other end because whatever

it is they say they're going to need it and in this country where hyper inflation has surpassed one million percent and expected to go up even further this year people are telling me that prices in the last two weeks alone have more than quadrupled especially since the political crisis got worse. want to get back and listen this is nothing left in this country everyone here knows it there's no money no food here we're all starving to death the problem is people don't want to say it either because they're embarrassed or because they may be beaten up but you can't be afraid to tell the truth in front of them in theda you know given so these sardines are being sold at a discount by the government but directly in front of me you can see a whole row of shops they're all closed one of them was a butcher shop the other used to sell cheese ham salami things like that but now they've all gone out of business. so people here are beginning to get rather

agitated and upset the queue is still extremely long but they can see up there that the sardines are going to be running out pretty soon and if they don't make it to the top of the queue before that happens many people are telling me they'll have nothing to feed their families tonight for counting the cost to see in human al-jazeera got access. joining us now is a condo hiero is the director of executive education and graduate studies at northwestern university here in canada but is originally from venezuela welcome counting the cost what are you hearing from friends and family in venezuela about what life is like right now well it's very difficult of the moment my own sister is living with a salary of ten dollars a month as a teacher they struggle i was there last year when through the border had to go out through the border with colombia and i could see you know fall thousands of people crossing the border you can see that they were moving because you could see the type of thing they were caught carrying out people on

a basic salary cannot buy the basics of food they depend on the staples provided by their own which are below not reach the majority of the population so there's a dramatic situation in hospitals are collapse over twenty two thousand doctors have left the country since two thousand and fifteen. there's a cancer mortality rate which is of fifteen percent because there's no treatment for chemotherapy and radiotherapy available and a lot of the situation goes down to basically the mismanagement of corn and me and and the political turmoil so how do people feel about the dura and about his is previous as a shove is now yeah i think chavez was very popular party because he represented a. hope for the whole process of of confronting corruption in decline in the economy of the previous years and for a while the popularity went up with also with the rise of the oil prices but also because the present form of present job it was very you know charismatic and i had

a very strong connection with people that's not the case of my mother oh my god or not only doesn't have that connection with people doesn't have that charisma that united because our connection with the people but he doesn't have the money the oil . a price has gone down from one hundred twelve dollars per barrel to just over sixty for the venezuelan t one which is the average type of oil there in a similar uses and that represents a huge dramatic drop in the coffers of the government on top of that the government in that itself massively doing the chinese period we were in for the international debt of thirty four billion dollars which was our international there by ninety ninety eight to one that is over two hundred billion at the moment so the government is basically servants in the debt now instead painted that and that's the origins of the current collapse i want to clarify the last been said about us sanctions well the collapse of the economy started way before any sanctions were

even announced for the first time the government the mother had decided that they had to honor the debt that they will not go to the international monetary fund and because of that they give preference to the payment of that that meant a reduction of eighty percent of the money that it was dedicated to imports of food this is in a country in which ninety eight percent of the income of the country depends on oil basically we produce oil and nothing else and once you do that reduction in imports you create this situation of massive hunger and mass exodus from the people is there anyone in venezuela society who is weathering the storm here or is affecting everyone it is affecting every single one of them i know people. in the you know in the middle class poor people obviously the poor people are the most affected by this crisis because they are the ones who cannot reach the basics depends the middle class normally would have in some cases or in many cases have people abroad

who send money back home but even that has been. limited for example if you want to send medicines to venezuela or to a family member of the government just conflict in the airport they alledge that because they have to do that to prevent you know conflict confit medicine to whenever the truth is that the patients have. you don't have any access to local medicines how to it's really good to talk to many thanks indeed thank you now both china and russia standing by nicolas maduro he's regarded as beijing's store just ally in latin america a friendship underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons sales his own china correspondent adrian brown they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president

maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of minutes well especially when it's well in government to uphold national sovereignty independence and threatening military interference and continued to support efforts made by the stability. the growing political economic and humanitarian crisis in venezuela has attracted global

headlines and concern the main evening news on state controlled television has shown pictures of the protests but so far made no mention of the violence or suffering of the people. as in africa chinese influence in south america is expanding fast especially in venezuela besides money china has also been helping the mature regime in another important way it's now venezuela's biggest provider of arms including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective joining the current unrest still to come on counting the cost of a wake up call for the mining industry in brazil one of the worst disasters in the nation's history puts the spotlight on the world's biggest producer of iron ore. but first more of our top story venezuela there things like rice cooking oil and other basics are in short supply people have to scavenge for food according to reports parts of the coastline have become havens for ex fisherman turned pirates

there as well and smugglers in twenty nine thousand are exchanging drugs.