and they'll show clearly look at your aunts and uncles look and talk to their mom. and we've spoken about your role in the reconstruction of n. is who am i an exercise in sovereignty. my brothers and sisters today let us celebrate the february fourth soldiers men and women we are continue to wait for you now is the time questions in this press conference now questions are inaudible. all right we have been listening there to one speaking outside of the national assembly in caracas venezuela as opposition leader addressing reporters and his supporters some of them gathered outside the national assembly there on the day

that several european countries including france the u.k. spain germany and other european officials recognized him as the interim president of venezuela he says that this a recognition that the world is not on the side of one and the national assembly but it's on the side of the venezuelan people by recognizing him he says the world is recognizing the sacrifice of the people of venezuela he also made a very emotional appeal to the armed forces of venezuela who are still backing his arrival nicolas maduro the embattled president. asking the armed forces of venezuela the army to allow humanitarian aid to come into the country he says we need for humanitarian aid to get into venezuela fifty three million dollars of aid have been requested by canada to be provided to venezuela i want to bring in now our latin america at its embassy in yemen in caracas who's been listening in new c.

clearly galvanized by this recognition from european countries the question now is so what is going to be his next move. exactly and his next move you just heard it this whole plan to bring in humanitarian aid to gather at the different borders venezuela's border with colombia venezuela's border with brazil also to bring it in by ship we're not sure if it will be from puerto rico from aruba or another caribbean island but to have that come into the country and basically trying to force the hand of the military to make them to find themselves and break with president nicole last my little defied him by allowing this into the country it puts the military in a very very delicate position and also president nicolas maduro who of course depends on the military's royalty to stay in office so this is a very critical time for both sides it's

a very high stakes bet the irony of this is that my buddha had all along refused to allow humanitarian aid into the into the country because they argued that if they said that or recognize that there was a humanitarian crisis in venezuela then that could lend itself to international intervention he did not heed refused and now the possibility of that is at the doorstep the recognition by european countries comes after nicolas maduro defiantly rejected the deadline that they had set for him to call for fresh elections what has been his reaction to to the support of these european countries for. very. yes for foley a very angry reaction as you would expect particularly against the spanish socialist prime minister he called the president sanchez a coward very very angry and is going to reconsider the relations with the european

countries that have carried out this measure but he also has appealed urgently to pope francis to intercede and to barter negotiations actually doesn't call the negotiations a dialogue with the opposition to try to diffuse this crisis we don't know yet however whether the vatican is going to agree to this but clearly he's feeling he's feeling very very pressured at this hour folie there's no doubt about it missy i know you've been speaking to venezuelans about what's happening in their country right now what do they make of all this what difference is this recognition by europe and other countries are going to make as far as the crisis right now and what people feel about it. the feeling is that more and more countries around the world are supporting them and that's what makes this episode in the twenty years since president chavez took office. from the time the president chavez took office in the last six years the president has been

year which as we've been reporting for years in years has been filled with protests with attempts to get the british government out and successful attempts but this time people feel that with the support of the united states and latin america and now europe things have changed that this may turn the tide in their favor obviously i'm talking about the people who oppose the government which is very difficult for me to tell you if they are the majority or not but from what least what we see on the streets they certainly appear to be that way and finally get more and more difficult to find anybody on the streets of caracas at least that still support president michel. one last question for you before we let you go in his speech there outside the national assembly one guy door mentioned discontent within the armed forces of venezuela is that the case obviously they are crucial to how this crisis ends what could tip the scale as far as the army. well you know the armed forces are always loyal and and behind the government until

the day that they are not this is something that's done absolutely it's very dangerous to to to show that you are against the government that's considered mutiny it could cut it can cost you your life we also know that there are at least between well actually there's a dispute about how many but between eighty and two hundred members of the military in prison for a queues of sedition we heard just a short while ago from the people for the head of that n.g.o.s telling us that at least a thousand political prisoners the largest number ever are are in different detention centers in venezuela and a lot of them members of the military it is a dangerous bet it's dangerous for the military to turn on the government but so it's impossible to say how close if at all that israel is to seeing that happen thank you for that lucien newman our latin america at its keeping a very close eye on all the developments in your venezuela thank you so much now i

mentioned just a short while ago can of this prime minister just into two has reaffirmed his support for him for the venezuelan opposition leader and he also pledged aid to refugees fleeing the crisis canada is hosting an emergency summit of the so-called lima group leaders from fourteen american not american countries and canada who are discussing the situation in venezuela take a listen venezuela no has illegitimate interim president and the clear constitutional power forward to free and fair elections this meeting will give us a chance to discuss what steps can be taken to support the democratic process in the interim we know that the people of venezuela are facing tremendous hardship and they need our help as do the countries who have taken in those fleeing violence. today canada is stepping up and announcing fifty three million dollars to address

the most pressing needs of its wayland's on the ground including the almost three million refugees caravan is on joe is in for assad has been covering that meeting what else has come out of the discussions. while they're still in the middle of closed door meetings a sense that announcement there by justin trudeau but we just did hear the minutes ago from alan duncan the top u.k. diplomat that siri came out from the meeting for a few minutes to talk to some journalists and told us a couple interesting things i asked him about the humanitarian aid i said if the military have been a strong military blocks aid from getting him what's plan b. and he said sensually that that would be assigned to the world that maduro is not on the side of the venezuelan people we also asked the u.k. diplomat here if there was any discussions here at this meeting about military intervention his answer to that was flat out no summary here is what this meeting

is about is to get some sort of direction on where to move forward everybody here in this meeting in there over fifteen different countries represented here all have the same objective to try to help though and try to move president nicolas maduro out of office peacefully is the plan here now it's important to note that none of the countries that are supporting nicolas maduro are here this is a meeting that is all about the side that are supporting what though and we should find out later once they come out of these meetings what more they plan to do to help on that regard gabe canada taking a strong role in this venezuela crisis why is that all. yeah they have for a while this has been they they are the ones actually canada that started the lima group two thousand and seventeen it was the declaration signed of lima peru they've been strong behind this from the very beginning it's all part of prime minister

justin trudeau those foreign policy in the region they're very strongly from the beginning even long before the united states in many ways taking a strong stand not only on sanctions but also leading this really regional effort that now is turned into a global effort trying to pressure nicolas maduro that pressure is only increased now as canada's the one that called this urgent meeting here in ottawa summoning people together to try to to try to bring it into this crisis is going on there we heard from justin trudeau he made that announcement as you mentioned forty million dollars there of aid he goes that's just the first step but he also in this meeting did recognize what he says is. gordo's ambassador here to canada as well so canada taking a very strong leadership role so far on supporting what thank you for that gave for us in canada let's turn our attention now to other world news and fighters in

somalia have claimed responsibility for the latest bomb explosion in mogadishu the grass outside a shopping center killed at least twelve people in india injured dozens. regularly targets the somali capital in its continuing battle against the west and backs government and also carried out another attack in portland a semi autonomous region of somalia gunmen killed the head of a dubai based company operating the main contain a ports the group says the maltese executive was working illegally. is a professor of international relations at qatar university he says ability to carry out such attacks demonstrates the government's weakness. this has been going on for a while and in fact it's because more to the weakness of the state rather than the strength of shabab a show up can only be strong to the extent that the government is weak and this is i mean. year after year of building the same thing because we're basically depending on the same structures i'm some still the only or perhaps the minstrels

to provide it in we do. this for money us national army at least the way or the way to go about building the six dream the slow if you want to approach you have to combine it on the ground and also in the will change in what you whoever is far less about and i think words are being of the moment is the only external is are fighting a shabab in fact somali government is not able to lead its own with the design its own school with the policy and then knocked on it simply because they don't have the kababs the capability or the message just consider that we are still here and we are capable of cutting wherever we want to target that's exactly what they are sending and that is that nobody can just disprove that. an outbreak of swine flu is the latest emergency in yemen the virus fall as the world's worst cholera outbreak as millions of yemenis are weakened by starvation priyanka gupta has details.

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 a saudi u.a.e. coolish has repeated targeting of hospitals means the flu which is best treated of detected early has been diagnosed late or. she suffered from coughing for about twenty days we have seen several doctors and 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 stalk 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 meds 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 listen huff 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 nineteen cases of swine flu this is the register but there

are dozens of patients that have not been registered because of the inability of those patients to access. due to the war the siege the death toll has so far reached. the u.n. is trying to rescue their cease fire agreement reached in sweden in december to stop fighting in the city of. renewed fighting around the port is making it almost impossible for critical to reach patients needing medicine for the x one n one flu virus. and again condemned the war in yemen saying the consequences of a country's civil war before our eyes the head of the roman catholic church speaking at a gathering of faith leaders in the united arab emirates one of the main coalition partners backing yemen's government in this fight against the rebels in yemen on sunday the pope appears for yemen's warring parties to observe a truce. to be delivered to millions of people this is a first visit by a catholic to the arabian peninsula the birthplace of islam.

it's before our eyes or the ugly consequences of war i am thinking in particular of yemen syria iraq and libya and i call upon all religions to stand together and oppose the logic of armed power we are against money driving international relations against the arming of boarders the raising of walls we propose the gentle strength of the prayer and the daily effort and dialogue. the european foreign policy chief has expressed urgency in preventing the collapse of the two state solution for israel and palestine guarini made the comments in brussels at a gathering of foreign ministers from the e.u. and their meeting comes ahead of a high level summit in egypt in two weeks time. senate and prosecutors say they're preparing to extradite one of india's most wanted fugitives ravi pujari was arrested in the country's capital jakarta last month after spending

more than fifteen years on the run he's wanted for murder kidnapping and blackmail nicholas hike has a story from the car. it's in this upscale neighborhood of the capital the car that a man described by the indian press as a dawn of the underworld pajaro was found in arrested just a few weeks ago he's been living here in hiding for a number of years he owns a strings of businesses a real estate agency a restaurant and a barber shop where he was arrested by the senegalese security forces just weeks ago through a tip off of the indian intelligence services that have been looking for him for the last fifteen years now he owns this restaurant the maharajah very popular among the ex-pat customers myself included i have eaten here and been served by this man who would come at the end of the meal distributing sweets with a smile a little did we know that he was in fact an indian gangster wanted for murder and

also wanted because he tried to extort money out of bollywood stars like con he's now in the custody of the senegalese authorities they tell me that in his possession was a passport from brick enough ah so he told them that he married someone from britain and france to some fifteen years ago he goes under the name of tony fernandez very popular among even the indian community here who didn't know that he was in fact an indian gangster he was last seen a back in january distributing prizes and presents cricket game the indians want him back if sentenced he could not only face a lifetime in prison but your risk facing the death penalty. well again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela's opposition leader has made an appeal to the armed forces to allow foreign aid succumb into the country right it

was speaking in caracas just a short time ago a day the day on the day that european countries including britain france and spain recognize him as the interim leader of the new swing. media. are you going to deny your family's aid or are you going to help open a humanitarian corridor the moment is now patriotic soldier captain colonel navy officer general the moment is now if you have any doubts ask your families what is the right thing to do we have given you assurances of amnesty and we have also told you of the role you will play in the reconstruction of this country meanwhile russia which backs rival nicolas maduro has criticized european leaders for supporting the opposition leader calling it foreign interference so far president maduro has rejected calls for him to resign or to hold a new presidential election which the e.u. had him to do and we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like if i told

a european union i'll give you seven days to recognize the republic of catalonia and if you don't we're going to take measures no international politics can't be based on ultimatums that was the era of empires and colonies and now the news fighters in somalia after responsibility for the latest com bomb explosion in mogadishu a shopping center killing at least twelve people and injured dozens of others and also carried out another attack in portland a semi-autonomous region of somalia gunmen killed the head of a dubai based company operating the main contain a horse the group says a maltese executive was working there illegally. troops are being sent in to help deal with catastrophic flooding in northeast australia thousands of homes queensland evacuation centers are open in the city of townsville floodgates have been opened to ease the pressure on overflowing reservoirs following record breaking rain and a court in hungary has sentenced to former executives to serve jail time in

connection with an environmental disaster in two thousand and ten more than a million cubic meters of toxic sludge burst from a reservoir on an aluminum plant killing ten people and destroying revis those are the headlines inside story starts now. will trial and deport a refugee footballer to drop grain his plight spanning three countries and spot an international campaign involving government activists and the football world or demanding his immediate release this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm martine dennis on the future of a refugee football player is hanging in the balance as his extradition case plays out between three countries how came he is crying for help to stop his deportation from thailand to bahrain because he fears he'll be taught at their bank all of the people think you're on the list certainly. the twenty five year old appeared in court in bangkok shackled in chains judges adjourned his case until april and denied bail despite international appeals for his freedom the former member of bahrain's national teen was arrested in november whilst on honeymoon in thailand be fled to australia from bahrain five years ago because he says

a ten year sentence for vandalism was politically motivated. this is a disgrace you want to discuss. and think big brother. to get. things going strong. for you and you believe this incredible athlete to do very money is a drug addict trying to make trouble you can't have a situation where exactly he's in the country and they have to take it and i think it's next has to be pretty close to its competition. and. intensive way to conduct themselves and it said this is me trying. to get. more now from scott hyde he was there at court. the extradition hearing at the criminal court here in bangkok on monday morning heard directly from

hakim 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'd face severe punishment we also found out out of this hearing that the legal team for hucking that 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 court house there were representatives from the story an embassy he has refugee status in the story 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 well his case is being compared to that of

a young saudi woman who faced a similar dilemma in thailand just last month. and fled the kingdom saying she was abused by her family for breaking social codes in saudi arabia the eighteen year old received a huge following on social media and made the headlines when she barricaded herself in her hotel room in bangkok up to stop her deportation the u.n. eventually stepped in and canada offered to take her as a refugee. i. all right let's introduce our guests now in bangkok we have phil robertson deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch also in bangkok via skype we have craig foster former captain of the australian football team who's been leading the campaign for hacking her niece and in copenhagen we have money. she's the acting president of the bahrain center for human rights welcome to you all but craig can i start with you you obviously feel very very strongly about hackings

case why firstly as a football player secondly he's a refugee who's under australia's protection and there's some question marks around the australian government's dysplasia in this around the it's probably red notice cross it should never have gone on anyway it's against their regulations but as a whole apply out we feel our client community in australia that if we don't stand up for him he's in very real trouble secondly because this is so much about football politics and the sorted politics of the guy particular around the i.o.c. president who was implicated back in two thousand and eleven twelve in the house aeration and torture all right let me let me stop you there craig so i think we need to unpack this just a little bit keep it as simple as possible when you're talking about the president of the asia football confederation we're talking about a bahraini who has since recused himself from this case because clearly there's a conflict of interest that's what you're referring to yes yes indeed and under the

new human rights policy all faith in every generation including the five bahraini and australian there are very strong obligations on the football officials to promote and protect the human rights of everyone in and through the game of course that includes the president did not do so for around sixty days after which he then tried to lose himself and played it lead to try and delegate responsibility to uphold the basic human rights of a play out someone else in the organization on the basis of a conflict of interest is simply not acceptable. all right let's go to merriam in copenhagen omarion what do you fear would happen to her keim should he be deported and repatch eighty to bahrain i think especially because we've seen hakim speak specifically about schiff's amman who we just mentioned in the interview i think that that puts him a great risk of being. of being subjected to torture again like he was back when he

was holding and this is something that is not it's not an exception for behind the prison systems unfortunately marriage my father has been in prison i have several family members in prison right but but mary i mean the bahraini government is saying that this is a man who's been tried in absentia admittedly but has been tried and found guilty of vandalism acts of vandalism particularly regarding a police station so this is a criminal act well generally speaking i think human rights watch said it best when they said that behind you don't have a dysfunctional justice system but rather are highly functional in just the system and i think case is pretty clear cut there was evidence that was submitted by his lawyers to a court where the presiding judge is a member of the ruling family and the video prove that he was playing a televised match in a different place at the time of the alleged crime that he was being accused of and the judge refused to take a look at the evidence he just dismissed it and so we're looking at

a situation where it's very clear cut that even with an buttons own system where justice has absolutely nothing to do with the judicial system that was a pretty clear cut case because there was very astounding evidence of how teams innocence and yet it was not considered by the judge all right phil also banco what is the situation of thailand thailand doesn't seem to be recognizing status as a refugee accepted by australia. yeah that's profoundly concerning there are many refugees or travel to thailand on refugee papers like hakim's from around the world and you know this is one of the reason i think that we saw so many diplomats at the court today over fifteen countries were represented there that this is now a matter of major international concern not only for hakim as a football player and a person as a refugee but also for the larger system of refugee protection which thailand is

threatening to violate in a very fundamental way but has time that time to have allowed time when he signed an option to that has such title and signed up to the relevant. aspects of humanitarian law of the convention for instance. well no but thailand is a rather has ratified the international convention against torture in an article three of the international convention against torture it states that no one can be sent back to a country to which they would be tortured came has already been tortured in jails and if you were sent back you'd be tortured again it would be a clear violation of thailand's obligations under the international convention against torture to send him back moreover it would be a clear violation of international customary law that no one who is a refugee shall be ready fooled to the train to any other country where they would be fleeing they fled from persecution you know it's not a deportation it's not an extra edition this is a reform and this is barred by international human rights law and

a very clear way in thailand is basically saying that they're going to tear up the human rights the un refugee convention and their obligations as a. country that has ratified various different human rights treaties by sending him back and that's just simply unacceptable you know right and craig mentioned the role of the australian government the foreign minister has been in touch we understand with the relevant authorities in bangkok and in fact the acting ambassador of australia has been cool as phil was mentioning do you think that the australian government should be doing mall. well just last week the australian prime minister scott morrison elevated railroad directly to a general royal hearing bank all or so to date but most of europe for all for of course it's all us by our president of oil city and none of those let me say responds so clearly this this relationship between charlie. but all

this government and australia whether that's through trade or otherwise let's talk now to maryam in copenhagen and given your knowledge of the situation in bahrain explain for us why kean is appealing specifically to fellowship here to try and help him out of this situation that he finds himself in now well i'm not sure why that's specifically i think generally in behind there has been a feeling by the population that they have been forgotten by the world and generally the kind of support that has been received has been by other shia populations around the world and so i think that that's probably where the appeal comes from as from that feeling of being forgotten for the behind the population was now for eight years continued to protests continue to criticize the government and have been slammed down and unfortunately now especially now with the trumpet

ministration the behind of government has been a bold and and so the situation has actually gone much worse all right and phil coming back to you in bangkok now without wanting to get too technical isn't it. a matter of the charges being leveled having been leveled against him are of a criminal nature and that is what the thai government says is what allows it to pursue you with the legal process is not political charges these are criminal charges against him or a criminal conviction i should say. these charges are bogus the conviction was politically manufactured the courts are kangaroo courts this is a joke let's be clear about what's going on here hakim was playing a football match the red notice said that there was a conspiratorial meeting at six in the after six in the evening that was at the time he was actually with his team mates there is a videotape of him playing football there is statements by his teammates saying

that he was with them there are statements by the team itself saying he was with them. the amount between the time that the football match ended and when the attack was alleged to have taken place in the red according to the red notice there simply was not enough time to actually go there these these charges are garbage so this is this is a joke all right of the iranian government is trying to perpetrate on the international community so why is the thai government why the time is then prepared to take this case and put it through its legal system that is an excellent question that we have not been able to discover the answer to my view is that the thai government is now only now starting to see the global opposition to this move i think they were stunned to see so many diplomats i think they were surprised to see the fee for represent a fly in from switzerland they're starting to realize that they're on the short end

of a much larger campaign that is going to continue to grow from this point forward and thailand should simply cut its losses it should state that ok sorry we're going to send it back to australia we respect refugee status and it right now the prime minister has the authority to do so that has been confirmed by the attorney general's office let's stop playing games with this travesty of justice let's send hakeem home right now all right craik we've been talking quite a lot here an inside story about to. the combination of sport and politics again we seem to have another case to win and as phil was saying fever has got involved at quite a high level as well as the regional footballing bodies yes and this is a seminal test for this new policy of play for i.o.c. do have one it's not quite as strong as that of the far and it must be up pilled and hockey games well where immediate and medium term is the greatest test that it

spikes then and currently it's failing miserably people weren't doing enough just as of a week ago we rushed over to see the flop and urge them to escalate to emergency status which they gave they wanted to see progress last week and i think even beat but have been surprised as says the australian government are not those at the lack of response from the thai government and prime minister so they need to do more with calling now for sporting sanctions what that means is plaited leave within thailand and we'd say bahrain they are a key stakeholders well. certainly ricky jay players and we don't know other types of players around site and they cannot guarantee the safety of players coming into play in thailand they have or people should step up now and bar violent from playing any international games meretz national team or the clubs in the asian champions league within thailand and make them play in a neutral country it's a that's the the next stand by in order to impress on the thai government that membership of the international sport carries up with the oceans right

a trait in the players well maryam what do we know then about the relationship between thailand on the thai government and the but when the government well i know that there are i'm pretty sure that there are strong economic relations between the gulf you have to remember when we talk about behind we're not we can talk about behind the vigilant because the thai government knows that their relationship with one hand also as influenced by their relationship with the gulf as a whole of course excluding katana plus points. but that means that's when the thai government is not on the on the good side of the behind the government can also influence their economic deals and their economic relations with the rest of the gulf and so i think that's a big part of it because if you look back a few years ago another behind it was extradited from thailand he was also someone who was a torture survivor and he was extradited forcefully from thailand back to unfortunately that case of not get international attention i think the only reason that hakim has not been extradited already back to hand as because his case has gotten

international attention and because people like craig and others have done such a great job of highlighting his case in the international media to the international community and to craig how is this issue of hockey being played out in australia because from a distance it seems very much to many of us that australians don't have a huge amount of sympathy for those who are displaced by conflict by by other conditions i mean how do ordinary australians feel about you know it's a really good point you make in many of made it through out that look you know we're fighting so hard we just won a play on one football when you know we have our own issues we people arriving and seeking asylum in australia and that's something that we certainly be taking up you know following this case but as we keep saying this you save one person and once we can save like again we can turn our mind to two other issues that we have with the nation there's immense support here australia of course is a big sporting nation and i think that also helps the football community is coming

out very strongly and we've also words this whole concept of not just ricky jay safety through travel but also that this is a seminal case for sport and for sport governance you know we've talked before about shaped salmond and also prince nasa who was also we played along with some and back in twenty eleven twelve in this committee that they put together that has been on record in the guardian in other articles about identifying and pass or writing around one hundred fifty athletes and these two members of the royal family have now gravitated to in minutes. of influence with anybody you know in football movement right and he says that you just all right believes it but these are. allegations of course that we at al-jazeera we come very far i don't want to dwell on those two months but coming to phil do you think that the pressure that is being exerted by the sporting both is by the diplomatic community do you think that they will yield what many people seem to want and that is how king to be returned to

australia in order to receive his football career i do but i think it's going to require a lot of work and unfortunately i think that thailand is going to have to recognise that if they send hakim back to pa crane if they refer him back there as a refugee and violate his rights in that way that they're going to face a major impact on thailand's football future thailand wants to be the joint host with indonesia and asciano of the twenty thirty four world cup if they do this they may have to consider that again for also has the authority to decide who place in the world cup so bok reign in thailand if they send hakim back you know may be at risk of getting you know basically a red card to sit down and sit out the tournament you know the many different clubs in europe may decide that because i came has been sent back it's not safe for their players to come here so clubs like manchester united liverpool arsenal the major

clubs that are strongly supported in the premier league by thai fans may have to start deciding that hey we're going to play or exhibition matches somewhere else thailand's government is going to have to answer to the football fans of thailand arrive any of these scenarios come to pass and do you have much hope then that this pressure primarily then coming from far as his of sports in particular football do you are you optimistic that that will yield the results that you want. let. him go back to australia well i think right now with the kind of pressure we're seeing there is some optimism especially because as i mentioned if it hadn't been for this pressure that we're already seeing i have no doubt in my mind i could have been sent back already i think the fact that he's still in thailand has not already been extradited is because of the international pressure that's happening and because of the international attention the hakim's case has gone and i think one of the things that's really important for us to remember is that when he was being tortured and

behind one of the things that the torturers sets of him when they focused on beating him on his legs was that they were going to make sure that he will never play football again and that he will and that he will that they will destroy his dreams and so i think this is something that is important for us to remember when thinking about what faces should he be extradited back and do you think that perhaps too much fuss is being made about one individual bahraini who has been through an awful lot it must be said but do you think too much fuss is being made about how keen when there is so there are so many others in need perhaps of world attention i think that every individual matters i think that is six really problematic when we start talking numbers are not people and so i think that every case deserves the attention the hakim's case is getting and so i'm glad the hakim's case is getting the so tension i hope the hacking case help shed light on the thousands of other prisoners that we have in behind many of whom are still being subjected to mistreatment and torture and i hope that you know things turn out well

for hakim even if they haven't for so many others in my country and behind and phil and we started the program and we made mention of our canoe nichols the saudi young woman the eighteen year old who had a fairly. traumatic experience in thailand before she was eventually accepted by canada and the trial for she said i think i'm right in saying that she said that they wouldn't be prepared to send people unwillingly in voluntarily. to the countries of origin i think that that was the head of the immigration service saying that after the case of brushoff what's gone wrong well it was sort of on the head of the immigration service who said that he said that the foreign corresponds club of thailand and now we're expecting him to fulfill those words fulfill that promise that refugees will not be sent back into harm's way they'll not be sent back to authoritarian governments like bahrain to be imprisoned and tortured like a king would face and that we expect thailand to you know do the right thing here

and to return him to his family returned him to pascoe vale football club in melbourne where he plays and return him to the community in australia who have advocated so strongly for his release i think that thailand is really sort of at the on the on the precipice here they could go in a very wrong way down a road which would bring ruin to thai football and to tie human rights or they could do the right thing agree with the international community that it came as a refugee and send them back home and we hope that sort of change then we hope that probably you join a child the prime minister of thailand will recognise that this is a clear choice and make the right choice and send hakim home and craig we've already outlined some of the things that the australian government is doing what exactly the australian government to do now to perhaps try and ensure that have

keim is released from prison in thailand. well it's imperative that they now communicate even more strongly to the prime minister of thailand the importance that they place on this you know he was given protection by australian response at so many times and so this is really a test of australia's strength. and you know the protection that they want to provide not just for hockey game but for everyone else would like to see the prime minister escalate the issue again whether that means it's very abusive to see the prime minister in the next few weeks he certainly needs to step up the advocacy people in australia are talking about to resume boycotts and all all sorts of things this is this is a cause that so many strains in much of the country has really taken to heart you know and fallen need to really understand that he sees affecting negatively air quality of the relationship and that our government is taking this extremely seriously all right thank you very much indeed thank you to our

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a message from venezuela's opposition leader. to his country's military galvanized by the support of several european leaders who are backing him as the interim president go i do is now extending a hand to the military's asking the army to allow humanitarian supplies into venezuela for the millions of people in need of aid. are you going to deny your family's aid are you going to help open a humanitarian corridor or the moment is now patriotic soldier captain colonel navy officer general the moment is now if you have any doubts ask your families what is the right thing to do we have given you assurances of amnesty and we have also told you of the role you will play in the reconstruction of this country but so far defiance nicolas maduro has rejected calls for his ouster and international aid to come into the country his government says it will revise relations with the european leaders who have challenges leadership joining us in europe. i say to mr

peterson has got forbid but if one day there is a coup if one day there is a green glow military intervention your hands will have blood on them just like the hands of former spanish prime minister jose maria aznar in the war in iraq who forever be stained with blood and history will remember you as a puppet who is at the service of the interventionist war mongering policy of donald trump. well spain the u.k. france and germany are among the first countries in what appeared to be a coordinated move to come out in support of. the diplomatic escalation came after the embattled leader nicolas maduro rejected they're out to meet him to call snap elections which will be as they could spend today february fourth it is eight days since been along with other european partners urged matures regime to call free democratic and transparent elections this day has come a new steps have been taken in any such direction by mid-year is regime there for the government of spain and now owns it officially recognizes the president of the

venezuelan assembly mr quite a as acting president of venezuela. live to our latin america to see a new man who's following all these developments for us from venezuela's capital caracas lucy a quite a lot happening in these last few hours let's start with one appeal to the military how are they likely to respond. and that is the fifty billion dollar question foley nobody knows at this hour but it is certainly a rather as stupid move to say the least this is of course much more than just about bringing in desperately needed food and medicine into venezuela it's about forcing the military to define itself to decide whether or not it's can break or not with president muddle and dangling this humanitarian aid as the sort of the bargaining chip for it to we have no idea yet what is going to happen he did say however that he had heard that he had information that perhaps the military would

actually sequester or steal the aid that was when it comes over the border from neighboring colombia and and brazil and distributed itself but this has not this even mr white dog could not confirm himself so a lot of moving parts at this hour we haven't heard back from president mughal or at least a direct response from him to want to just said but he has been very loose by the support from european countries and my gran's the u.k. to one. if that's the understatement particularly angry at spain as you just heard here he hasn't named the leaders of being lead or the scandinavian countries or anyone else but he continued lee hammers on president sanchez of spain and i think that that's because he is a socialist is from the left as he considers that a particularly stinging

a brutal betrayal although his revolution but right now he is being rather cornered in fact in an interview with another spanish language television network president to my bhutto conceded that he is in what he called a very very difficult boxing ring right now although he says he is not against the ropes he he says he still is defending themselves so he is on the defensive and very clearly flung wide all is on the offensive and this is growing by the day and lucy a what do venezuelans make of all this of you know the interference from these countries whether on white or side or on my dural side i asked several people about that ag a year or two years ago they would have said that this was a problem for the venezuelan people to resolve but more and more you're hearing that this is a desperate situation which calls for desperate measures and that sometimes you have to decide between perfect sovereignty or survival that's how it was described to me so surprisingly or not but it's wayland's who had one sided with mud

a little with his predecessor although chavis are now welcoming this foreign pressure which they believe could tilt the scales to change in this country which they believe they desperately need thank you for that lucien newman latin america editor reporting there live from caracas meanwhile a major block of forty nine american countries and canada are meeting in ottawa to discuss ways to keep the pressure on president maduro gavan elizondo is at that meeting forests just outside of it in fact tell us about what's come out so far of this lima group meeting as it's known. well there are representatives from more than a dozen countries here in the foreign ministry building in our weather still meeting behind closed doors it's been several hours now where they were told us they were planning to discuss all sorts of things but primarily how to get venezuela out of the political economic and humanitarian crisis that it's facing right now all of the countries that are represented here are all countries that

support one why do and we're waiting to further diplomats to come out give us some information on what they are concluded are their next steps in pursuing the efforts to help the auto but before this meeting started at the initial session canadian prime minister justin trudeau the host of the meeting gave very little doubt about where he and members of the lima group stood on the issue listen to what he had to say here venezuela you know has a legitimate interim president and a clear constitutional path forward to free and fair elections this meeting will give us a chance to discuss what steps can be taken to support the democratic process in the meantime we know that the people of venezuela are facing tremendous hardship and they need our help as do the countries who have taken in those fleeing violence

. today canada is stepping up and announcing fifty three million dollars to address the most pressing needs of venezuelans only ground including the almost three million refugees now alan don't go in a top diplomat from the u.k. who's attending this meeting came out from the meeting and address the media briefly said a couple things he said that there is no discussion here within these meetings of any sort of military intervention within a venezuela he also said that when asked what is the timeline that the group wants out of office he said it's very hard to give a timeline and we just want to as soon as possible and as peaceful as possible i also asked him what if the military does not allow humanitarian aid into the country what is their plan b. he didn't really answer that other than to say that if the military does not allow the humanitarian aid independence wella he said it will just be another sign that

the material government is not on the side of the people so again we expect to hear more from the diplomats from this meeting as soon as they wrap up in the next couple hours thank you very much for that cable elizondo live for us in ottawa are let's not further discuss this with gyro lugo kondo who is the director of executive education and graduate studies at northwestern university here in qatar he is here with us in this area thank you so much for coming in and quite a lot of interesting developments happening in these last few hours in this venezuela crisis. really galvanized by the support from european countries like the u.k. germany canada. but he still doesn't have the army on his side he's made an appeal to them just a short while ago asking for them to allow humanitarian aid in they the army are in a very difficult position right now and they say yes well but i don't think it's

all the army i think it's basically the generals and the high official rank a. officials who have been benefiting from the government i mean for example one of the things that it's not mention is that the army controls the extraction of all of coal mining in the in the east of the country in the believer state and that's a huge environmental disaster but they're taking a lot of coal there and shipping that or they just sold. many many parts of calls to the united emirates for example and there are many there are small elite of military who control that so are they divisions then within the army within the military as far as who to back well i think that the problem for the military is that a lot of the low ranking officials and soldiers they're going through whatever they are body else goes like my sister she's earning ten dollars a month there in minnesota as a business i can tell you it's critical i was there last year you can see the queues for people to buy for basic food so for the soldier for the simple simple

soldier it's the same and they're confronting the same for so that i don't think that they have all the army with them but at the moment all the high ranking army is is behind the door and the country is divided between the the country tell for the civil society which is obviously what we're well many i guess mulgrew and then a very tiny minority who controls the arms this is not this is not a country let's say like other countries which both sides are arming there's going to be a civil war there's not going to be any civil war if there is anything there's going to be a massacre against people and i have to be very clear about this without the threat of intervention which i despise as of venezuela but without the threat of intervention the government would have already committed a massacre that's no doubt about that they did in two thousand and seventeen when they kill one hundred fifty students industry chart there in plain sight and they will do it again then don't you think this threat of intervention by the us is widespread keeping them found for.