in fact i. was the op. this is zero. zero i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up the next sixty minutes and pressure on nicolas maduro one thousand european nations recognize his rival one point zero is in as well as interim president. a new u.n. report says north korea is moving ahead with its nuclear and ballistic missile program. this during the middle east pope francis urges religious leaders to stand together against the region's wars. and the u.s.

senate debate highlights deep divisions over the trump administration's troop withdrawal plans. and israel on president nicolas maduro is becoming increasingly isolated one thousand new you can trace have recognized opposition leader won by joe as an interim president warning much of latin america the united states and canada spain the u.k. france and germany all came out and support of course so after president maduro ignore their ultimatum to call new elections fifteen more european countries follow their lead russia those accusing the e.u.'s interfering in venezuela's internal affairs and the u.n. says it will remain neutral. been following with of course a lot of concern in the recent evolution of the situation in venezuela there's been a number of initiatives by several groups of countries i've been in contact with

the political news of all these initiatives but the u.n. secretary it is this idea it's not to be part of any of these groups in order to give credibility to war continued off of good offices to the parties. to be able with their requests to help find a political solution a defiant iran has written a letter to pope francis requesting a dialogue to help resolve the crisis i was calling on the military to step up against and thorough asking the army to allow humanitarian aid into the. what the self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president although chavez's nine hundred ninety two failed coup attempt to send an impassioned message to venezuela's armed forces he asked them to allow international humanitarian aid into the country in. 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. at this hour are desperately needed food and medicine is being gathered at the colombia venezuela border in defiance of president nicolas maduro the irony is lost on no one for years president my little has refused to recognize the existence of a humanitarian crisis arguing that it could serve as a pretext for intervention by foreign powers now his opponents in the form of an alternative government have taken the initiative a move that could tilt the scales by forcing them. between or allowing essential supplies to cross the border. got another boost when at least nineteen european nations joined the us canada and much of latin america in recognizing him as

interim president after my little rejected an ultimatum to hold new presidential elections. an angry mob accuse the spanish president of being a servant of u.s. interests the only one thing out of fairness i say to mr sanchez god forbid but if one day there is a coup if one day there is a military intervention your hands will have blood on them just like the hands of former spanish prime minister now in the war in iraq they will forever be stained with blood and history will remember you as the puppet who was at the service of the interventionist war mongering policy of donald trump. see little says he's asked pope francis to intercede and barter a dialogue with the opposition to resolve the conflict. this as human rights organizations are sounding the alarm. we are witnessing what is probably the largest number of political prisoners in venezuela history between january twenty first and thirty first there were nine hundred sixty six new arrests. the n.-g. o.

which tracks detentions says the majority are accused of instigating hatred and in many cases of terrorism using false evidence. this is opposition leaders prepared to test the loyalty of those who it's believed will ultimately determine the outcome of this power struggle to see in you an al-jazeera got access. mainly latin american nations. has called for the international community to further isolate president nicolas maduro. while the. press conference inaudible this briefly disrupted by a couple of protesters who oppose intervention in venezuela the fourteen member. in two thousand and seventeen to respond to the crisis wants to prevent them interim government from conducting financial and trade transactions of fraud. he said. what now is the time to act no more fruitless dialogue we support

a constitutional about which will promote a peaceful immediates democratic transition through free transparent elections in venezuela with the participation of all of venezuela's political actors we have also urged the national forces of venezuela to recognize the commander in chief. the president of venezuela elizondo has the latest from. after more than six hours of closed door meetings the diplomats and foreign ministers from more than fourteen different countries came out with a seventeen point declaration that mostly reaffirmed their backing the president won. and calling for the ouster of nicolas maduro who still claims that he's the president but there are two key points that came out of this meeting i think number one is the lima group said that they do not support any sort of foreign military intervention in venezuela but they are calling on the venezuelan military to rise

up they're saying that the minutes terry savage switch alliances from madeira to weibo so for the military continues to back but this is really a. recognition by the lima group on how critical the venezuelan military is in the future of the country and the second key point i think they came out of this meeting as well is we they were also saying that they were calling on the venezuelan military not to impede any sort of foreign humanitarian aid coming in to venezuela a diplomat here said he expects that aid to try to reach venezuela in the next couple days but we got no further clarification on exactly when or exactly how they would try to get that aid into the country and also the key question if the military tries to block that aid what would happen next so while there was a lot of talk here and a lot of declarations and a lot of pointing to the military to choose sides there is also still

a lot of unanswered questions because kerner as a journalist said venezuela analysis dot com he says a civil war could break out in venezuela if this political standoff continues. i think this is a very dangerous situation because the time for measure has really gone all in on ousting mother and replacing him with a clue when we look at the situation with the secondary bond market which now is going to be spent a spending on training and then as well as state and oil company positive going to be a big blow to bondholders in the long term a little if not out come a magician is definitely doesn't down on attempting to out the bottom through a coup d'etat with the military or possibly through military intervention that already impose a and all of them and have a devastating consequences at least fifteen percent contraction on top of. an existing eleven percent contraction of that of autonomy this year with real serious humanitarian consequences and there's our there's a what all happened we can't say but that's me

a risk of potential civil war and that clearly by supporting this it and charm pressure is one of the so-called enterprise this stuff the question for president who is not in power and does not seem to have the capacity to take power on its own there's a read on conflict. a special envoy on north korea will go to pyongyang on wednesday to lay the groundwork for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong un stephen magoon was already expected to meet with his fourth korean counterpart but the location of their talks that wasn't confirmed until now donald trump and kim jong un last met and singapore in june when the north korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearization a new report a u.n. sanctions monitors accuses john yang of doing the opposite of three in a page confidential document same by the warders news agency alleges young is taking steps to protect its nuclear and ballistic missiles from military strikes they do so by storing weapons in civilian facilities such as airports the

government is using separate sites to assemble and test their missiles so they're harder to trace the report goes on to say north korea also violated syncs sanctions that is by importing five point seven million dollars worth of petroleum products and coal the ban was imposed more than a decade ago to block funding for its nuclear program gordon chang is an asia analyst and the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he joins us is guy friends have been star in new jersey so gordon are you surprised you can't be surprised by any of this news is that you're somewhat of last year retiring all these reports that north korea is upgrading its missile production facilities it's actually building facilities to launch missiles including don't is rehabilitating young nuclear complex you know it just is just one thing after another and of course the north koreans are ramping up their production of some material plutonium and uranium so this is not

a surprise so the it sounds like you're saying this isn't necessarily just a continuation of what they had been doing it seems to be an escalation. there is an escalation and the real story here is not that the north koreans are violating human sanctions or they're continuing their arsenal building up their arsenal the real surprise here is that the united states is not enforcing sanctions vigorously the u.s. since the middle of may of last year has basically allowed the north koreans and the russians and the chinese and the south koreans to violate sanctions and so of course can john good feel as well why should i give up my missiles my dukes so are you surprised that donald trump is is planning to go ahead with a meeting with north korea why i continue to meet with with somebody who is not showing any willingness to change their behavior that's a great question and question is am i surprised i'm not surprised by anything that

president trump does on north korea you know one thing one people people can argue oh look you know we should meet with kim jong un room to see if we can finally settle this but by meeting with him we legitimize him we give him a lot of benefits and so i don't think that is appropriate to meet with him i think it's appropriate to sanction him into the ground and we have the capability to do that so you know you americans should stop complaining about kim jong il and start thinking about why we are not using our power to cut off money to camp ok gordon chang thank you so much for your insight on this they really appreciate it well thank you i really appreciate it. they are has claimed responsibility for cho separate attacks and somalia and the capital mogadishu a car bomb killed at least twelve people and injured dozens outside a shopping mall try again the reports. rescue workers pull a body out of the rubble after a car bomb attack in the somali capital mogadishu the explosives were planted near

a shopping center in a busy market. i saw seven dead bodies in you all of them i mean owner of this shop and as you can see it was badly damaged by the car bombing. some victims were killed directly by the blast others died after a part of the shopping center collapsed al-shabaab has claimed responsibility its fight has regularly hit targets like this in mogadishu in their fight against somalia's western backed central government. i parked my car here and went into my office soon after i heard a loud explosion which demolished the whole area. also claimed responsibility for another attack on monday in the semi autonomous somali region of puntland gunman shot and killed a local head of a port operations company that's based in dubai analysts say civility to carry out these attacks shows how weak the government is and i think the moment is the only

external is fighting in fact somali government is not able to lead it's almost the design its own school policy. in knocked on it simply because we don't have the the capability of all. was forced out of mogadishu in twenty eleven after an offensive by african union troops but attacks like this show its armed fighters are intent on causing chaos in the heart of the capital victoria gates and be out there are. plenty more out in the news hour and gloating braving the cold syrian refugees struggle against the elements especially in makeshift shelters. why they continued uncertainty over backs it is in record numbers of brits applying for passports from the emerald isle. and it's a record equalling super bowl championship for the new england patriots al all the action and reaction in sports.

the u.s. senate has backed an amendment that opposes president on a plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan senators voted seventy to twenty six in favor of the measure that says pulling out could allow isolate al qaeda to recruit and stabilize countries it's being seen as a rebuke trumps foreign policy by the republican controlled senate mike hanna has the latest from washington d.c. well this constitutes a shop of bipartisan rebuke from the senate of president trump in december president trump had announced the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria he did so unilaterally and argued that i saw a longer constitutes a threat the senators now siding with the intelligence community which has been arguing that i saw al qaeda still constitute a threat and the precipitous withdrawal as the bill puts it from syria and

afghanistan would allow them to regroup and once again become a major threat to the united states and destabilize critical regions in the middle east so this is a very very strong rebuke from the senate it is part of a wider bull of little east security which will be voted on later in the week and importantly to its then got to go to the house where other aspects of the wider bull are likely to receive stern opposition from the democrat controlled body. john french excellence is live from washington d.c. has the trump campaign chair in virginia and on the advisory board of president trump twenty twenty campaign and thank you for joining us are you surprised that president trump is getting pushback from members of his own party no rachele absolutely not because they represent the status quo in washington dominated by the neo cons in the military industrial complex president trump got elected in

a two year campaign he went directly to the american people and one of the staples of that campaign was to withdraw our troops from the middle east and get out of these endless wars specifically he cited syria and afghanistan you know we're sure when we went into syria let's start with that obama got us in there we were supposed to be there for four months four years later thousands of troops hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and we're still there it makes no sense now for us to stay there we can't be the guardians and it was the republicans ok it was the republican party it was a republican party that got us into afghanistan which is an extremely long war so fair enough you're saying that donald trump is making good on this a campaign promises exactly you're saying that he's making good on his campaign promises what about the critique that that it's fine to want to withdraw but there is a way to go about it that involves taking in advice from from from very advisors.

well i think president trump has done that we have been withdrawn anybody right now from have to get a stand the president is reviewing rachele the various plans that are there but this president is different he's not going to sit there and have the intel officers of the united states tell him what to do they didn't get elected president as far as the republicans this president even this aerated the entire republican establishment in the primaries so he is doing this in a different way he's getting the advice i've been in the white house he's getting the advice of his intel advisors he gets a briefing every day but at the end of the situation with all the recommendations president trump is going to is going to make his own informed decision based on the facts that he has that have ok simply say well we're just going to do whatever the

intel agency says that's not who we elected president ok john fredericks thank you so much joining us from washington we appreciate it when he has the most difficult season for millions of syrian war refugees especially those in the poorest camps as on the verge of a to ports on the border region between turkey and syria workers are appealing for donors to care for them. the dangerous still has the only source of warmth in the flimsy tent the fumes make it hard to breathe the sheets on the floor and mattresses are always damp is the choice but to burn with. plastic waste becomes fuel to stay warm children sift through what is throughout the morning the danger the risk of disease and the stench sometimes they're injured in the garbage bags contain broken glass for sharp objects maybe in his family moved to this refugee camp over a year ago his father was killed in the city of hama and his brother was wounded in

an airstrike. now me 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 landfill 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 nylon 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 nile and 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

an organized camps they come about because of the 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 venta 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. her francis has called on all regions to religions that is to unite to end the wars in the middle east including in yemen at the roman catholic church was speaking at an interfaith gathering in

the united arab emirates that's one of the coalition partners back in yemen's government and its fight against the rebels francis is on a three day trip to the u.a.e. the first papal visit to the arabian peninsula thirty three years. before the ugly consequences of what i'm thinking in particular of yemen syria iraq and libya us a call upon all religions to stand together and know posed a logic over. against money driving international relations against the arming of the border the raising of walls we proposed the gentle strength of the prayer and the daily effort in the dialogue but i also called for religious freedom and the region. in the entire region of the middle east look forward to a time where people with different believes have the same rights and live peacefully without violence jordan is to host new talks on an exchange of prisoners

which when yemen's warring sides and many government delegates and hit the rebels will reconvene in amman from tuesday for a new round of talks on the swap now this deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees from each side it was a great term principle as a confidence building measure ahead of peace talks in sweden in december that the rebels have been locked in a war and yemen with a saudi led military coalition for four years james face brings us the latest from the united nations ahead of the prisoner exchange talks in amman. these talks on a possible prisoner exchange are being facilitated by the un and by the international committee of the red cross the numbers potentially are huge each side the coalition and the who thiis have presented a list of eight thousand people each that they want to be released although i'm told that some names on the list may be incorrect some others may be dead the un

has said that this is an important measure that could rebuild trust between the two sides if the exchange of prisoners in any conflict is highly symbolic. it shows a commitment of both parties to start trusting each other. and i think it's also obviously a very emotional issue for the families involved and i think it's a it's a. it it's a confidence building measure by any measure and it's a very important one and i think it as i said it really underscores the issue of trust which is something that has been lacking in this particular conflict the u.n. security council's urged both sides to engage with the talks on the prisoner exchange and on the wider political solution to the problems of yemen the security council was encouraged by that agreement in stockholm on yemen at the end of last year it saw that as

a breakthrough but it's worried now that there's been very little progress since x. president says donald trying to not ask permission for u.s. troops stationed there to watch iran that's an response to the comments u.s. president made who said it's important to keep an american military presence in iraq to keep a close eye on tehran matheson has more from baghdad. iraq's president bottom salah says the iraqi constitution is very clear and that the land of iraq cannot be used by foreign governments to threaten its neighboring countries but this reaction in many ways is no surprise for two reasons first of all the leader of any country in the world does not want to be seen to simply accept a decision made upon the arbitrarily about his or her country by the leader of another country but secondly and perhaps more importantly within the iraqi parliament there is a very significant opposition shia blog much of that is allied to iran iran

does not want to see foreign troops on the soil of iraq right on its doorstep that view is reflected within the parliamentary blocs the shia blocs within the iraqi parliament they're even putting together a bill to present to parliament which says that the american troops should be out of iraq within a year of the bill being passed so the president obviously has to reflect the views held by a large part of the parliament nevertheless this is a difficult situation for the iraqi government on the one hand it does not want to upset its biggest neighbor iran on its eastern border but at the same time it does know that it needs those five thousand two hundred u.s. troops which are based in iraq at the moment for two significant reasons one to help them deal with the remnants of i saw and to carry on training iraqi troops in iraq does not want to see another afghanistan in iraq when american troops were

pulled out of afghanistan under the obama regime and there was a resulting upsurge in violence there iraqis determined that its own troops should be trained well enough and properly so that when american and foreign troops eventually do leave iraq their own troops will be able to control the security in iraq. still ahead on al-jazeera. cooperation we examine why the leaders of greece and turkey how far to go in improving their frosty relationship. because disappear the new government promises to spend millions to find out what happened to an estimated forty thousand people. and their freedom in sight for the bahraini footballer who's fighting extradition from thailand will have all the news from his latest court appearance coming up in sport but peter.

we can expect to see a fair amount of rain over parts of china over the next day i will say is that wet weather as it begins to pull itself together and choose day and then it gradually moves away as we head into wednesday so most of us should see more in the way of sunshine i think the cavs will be bubbling up later on during the day they said they still just the outside chance of one or two showers barnardo should be fine for us hong kong up at around twenty three i mean further towards the south plenty of sunshine across the philippines but it's only really the southern half of borneo where we've got the showers there and down through java and into somalia and this is the region where expecting the showers to stay as we head through cheese day and into wednesday further north they could be just one or two showers around the southern parts of thailand but away from the it should be drawn i as we head across towards the northwest here we've got plenty of cloud is making its way across parts of iran at the moment into pakistan giving us

a lot of rain and snow as well behind it's really dragging down the temperatures see the winds here feeding down from the north bringing in that cooler air that means for us in the north we'll see a fair amount of snow that for afghanistan through parts of pakistan and into the northern parts of india that's where the wintery weather is gradually clearing its way eastwards as we head into wednesday but further south largely fine and dry for is a few showers perhaps if you're in sri lanka about thirty degrees will. with the maximum temperature in colombo. the weather sponsored by qatar is. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short personal stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects. stamkos the geology of

both mentally resources and. why are they so poor emotion. when trying to form a government. of the toxin when essentially you know where the more we would push them the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit and wait or do we surprised them with a preemptive strike. on just. watching out is there a let's break out the top stories right now in israel an opposition leader who is asking the military to defy president nicolas maduro his orders and open

a humanitarian corridor into the country earlier he thanked european countries including britain france and spain would all recognize them as the interim leader. a new u.n. report says north korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes this is in contradiction to its pledge to work towards denuclearization a special envoy on north korea said to visit to pyongyang on wednesday. about five percent somalia say they bombed a shopping center in mogadishu the blast killed it is twelve people and wounding dozens of others and the somali capital. prosecutors in senegal are preparing to extradite one of india's most wanted fugitives jari was arrested in the capital to car last month after spending more than fifteen years on the run he's wanted for murder kidnapping and blackmail and has more. rights in this upscale neighborhood of the capital the car that a man described by the indian press. the dawn of the underworld 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 shah rukh khan 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 emphasis on 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 you risk facing the death penalty. because government says it will dedicate more than twenty million dollars to help find around forty thousand missing people often referred to as the disappeared many are young people who've fallen victim to organized crime and drug cartels child homeowner ports from mexico city. the cruelest part of the violent to mexico thousands of the disappeared many taken by organized crime others by security forces themselves it means no closure for the families who spend years searching for loved ones dead or alive. do so on their own digging in mass graves we've rudimentary tools

government help is minimal now miscues top human rights official says that's going to change the new government's promised twenty million dollars for a new plan to search for the missing it's a huge task. it's estimated there are currently forty thousand missing people more than one thousand one hundred clandestine graves around twenty six thousand are identified bodies in morgues and this is the proof of the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and human rights violations we are facing and that we must overcome in our country he's promised a well funded and staffed national commission and a better coordinated database to identify the missing languishing in morgues jails officials involved in disappearances will face the consequences he says. we're going to look to prosecute authorities where he's guilty they'll be clannish

the united nations and european union will be involved in paper it looks impressive but the previous government also passed legislation to find the disappeared spurred on particularly by an emblematic case more than forty students taken by police in league with the gang but they were never found and the key ingredient was missing both in the search for them and the wider effort to help files and survivors there was a profound lack of political will to actually change things so all the new governments made the right noises now comes the hard part trying to shake up of thirty's which out of fear or complicity of fail to help those looking for their loved ones john home and out to see it or screw city. they continue. applying for irish passports twenty percent of irish passport applications came from the u.k. last year that's almost two hundred thousand applications for has more from london

. traditional island in a london pub. of course. affection for each of those cultural stereotypes people have moved across the irish sea for centuries hundred thousand people born in island work in the u.k. . new dimension to the. richard with students applying for an irish passport anyone with at least grandparents eligible for citizenship this is my grandfather's birth certificate this is my connection with for richard it's a way of holding on to his european identity. stripped away. perhaps by a majority though i didn't relate to. because i couldn't. i wouldn't really understand

why people would want to vote out of. an inclusive europe a big part of me wants to stay connected to europe you know i want to feel like europe is my home. outside britain's parliament in london protesters opposed to a new favor over breaks it on the near daily basis this is identity politics in action as many as six million people that's almost ten percent of the entire population could be eligible for irish citizenship or more of these and irish european union passport ever since the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. hundreds of thousands of british people have applied for them many see them as almost an insurance policy against all of the ups certainties of bricks. unlike other e.u. citizens irish people can automatically work study public services and vote in the u.k. it's the government's promise to protect after breaks it as more and more britons delve into their family history in search of irish connections i wish people in

britain are considering the impact breaks it's having on them a lot of people are advocating they were a pains to insist people need to be affected by the same things but on a more psychological level i think people do feel slightly less welcome and even though there are pains to say you know you're like here it's good immigrants in the taste i think. it's forcing people to question their sense of identity. and for a large number of british people encouraging them to seek out a new one. zero. very prime minister is due to had to turkey for a two day visit territorial disputes over oil and gas up the coast of cyprus are expected to be on the agenda as is the issue of grace providing sanctuary to turkish army officers are flat after the chance. let's ask more from athens.

the last time the two leaders met in athens fourteen months ago their language was combative president. accusing the greek prime minister of sheltering turkish army officers suspected of plotting the failed coup against him three years ago alexis t. plus reminded that the island of cyprus is divided between greek and turkish cypriots because of turkey's invasion forty five years ago the stage is now set for a repeat performance in ankara turkey's powerful national security council last week renewed extradition demands for the eight army officers seeking asylum in greece despite greek supreme court judges forbidding extradition on humanitarian grounds the soldiers had commandeered a helicopter to escape and landed in greece decides he's treating the visit not does an opportunity point to. to reaffirm the state of relationship. such greece has nor to.

yield to turkey's demands. if that's a correct assessment when the results will be. the trauma if anything the stakes are higher last october turkey sent a drilling ship to explore the seabed near cyprus for oil and gas in response to similar exploration by cypriots cyprus says it has the right to exploit undersea resources the turkish government disputes that in another spot greece's foreign minister announced that he was preparing to extend greek territorial waters turkey's response was to threaten war twenty years ago greece lifted its veto on turkish membership talks with the european union and the two countries started exploratory talks that came close to resolving that territorial differences in the aegean but greece then hesitated to commit to any deal and eighteen months ago

turkey pulled out of the talks altogether the two sides now have no forum to discuss differences. setting up a bilateral full room would make the visit a success from the greek point of view but expectations of the. al-jazeera athens. troops are being deployed in northeast australia to help deal with severe flooding parts of queensland are under water after days of record breaking rainfall gates in the city of townsville were opened to prevent a river from breaking its banks thousands of homes have been submerged forcing mass evacuations the flooding has caused landslides power cuts and even brought crocodiles on to the streets more rain is forecast for the coming days a court in hungary has handed out jail sentences for one of the country's worst environmental disasters ten people were killed reverse destroyed when more than a million cubic meters of toxic sludge escaped from a reservoir at an aluminum plant in two thousand and ten 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. nick create an 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 coots commits that manages of the 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 they would protest in court. 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 because of. these pitches 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 environmentalist am local residents but despite. the region hundreds of hectares of land remain sealed unfit for farming it will be traces of the tragedy for years to come. out as their. one hundred thirty mainly indian students have been detained by u.s. immigration officers for and rolling and a fake university was created by the department of homeland security to identify students planning to overstay their visas he says the student detained students rather enter the country illegally obtained fraudulent documents through a fake university to extend their stay as one of the largest immigration slaves involving indians in recent years. iran is marking the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution within

a year the country would be at war with iraq which was backed by western and arab allies decades later iranian speak the revolution and the war in the same breath two major upheavals that transformed the country and remained an extra linked in their minds at the time post revolution iran was still finding its feet and was militarily unprepared for its first conflict the eight year war ended in a stalemate with the deaths of about a million iranians along with hundreds of thousands of iraqis same as tehran and sent us this report. he was just a teenager when iraq invaded iran in one thousand nine hundred he joined the army at just fourteen years old and spent five years as a front line soldier injured multiple times he would recover and had once more into the fray. but his war ended when a gas attack destroyed seventy percent of his lungs and impaired his vision. of the with him immediately after the revolution when our army wasn't well prepared we

came under attack from iraq the islamic revolutionary guard corps was too busy with internal conflicts so as it happens in any other country people volunteered to defend their nation against the aggressors. it was a conflict that shattered the lives of millions of iranians iran and iraq are now the closest of allies but the war taught iranian leaders important lessons in national security that have influenced policy decisions ever since the post revolution government was shaky and caught off guard. forty years later military leaders want everyone to know it won't happen again. the anniversary of the islamic revolution kicked off with another display of military strength unveiled at an arms expo at the hands made mosque to have a z. is reported to be iran's latest surface to surface cruise missile iranian commander see it has a range of more than thirteen hundred kilometers and is named after the city famous for resisting iraqi forces during the war that dog days and

a unicorn named we live in a time when certain rulers who have no regard for the rights of nations ignore their commitment to treaties and international laws and walk all over them in such a world it is wise that we defend our national security by every means possible despite all sanctions. iranians appear keen to boost public confidence in the military civilians here get a rare peek at iran's arsenal and enemies a warning to keep their distance. in the forty years since revolution iran has faced ongoing tensions with the united states israel and several arab neighbors as well as taking on illegal drug cartels and armed groups on its eastern borders eisel and iranian dissidents have also carried out attacks on iranian soil and the ballistic missiles program better iran says is for self-defense has been widely condemned even by its european allies have on it therefore usually a strong you know the level of iran's defense capability has become a stabilizing factor in the region in many sectors we rank in the top five ten in

the world and what is important is that all these programs create stability and security in the region. iranian military might help drive eisel out of iraq. keep allies in power in syria and support the fighters against the coalition in yemen key military victories that appear to have taught iran's leaders the best way to deal with friends and enemies is from a position of strength. wrote to her on a painting by the street artist banksy that became famous after partially shredding itself at an auction has gone on display and germany the painting was known as girl with the loot but when a device hidden in the frame shredded the work during a said the base auction in october it was renamed as in the ban it's now hanging in the museum in boston boston museum's director says they've made sure the frame is completely deactivated otherwise they fear banks they may try to finish what he

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thank you very much a body has been found among the wreckage of the plane that was carrying cardiff city footballer emily on the play was found on the seabed of the english channel

and footage shows one body is visible it's not known yet whether it is that of the pilot david it but it was the only two people on board so i had just completed a nine hundred million dollar move the cart of and was on route to wales from france when the plane crashed last month david mearns the man during the time that search on behalf of solace family says it should be no criticism of the original search effort they were doing search and rescue for survivors so they'll come for objects that are floating in the water. we're looking search and recovery for a plane that has crashed that's on the seabed that's not moving so there are two different things we have the same piece of information but they're dealing with a changing dynamic environment whereas we're dealing with a static environment and that's the reason why we could find it so quickly footballer raby faces another sixty days in a tie prison as he fights bahrain's attempts to extradite him a b.

who is a refugee in australia has appeared at a hearing in bangkok to formally law g.'s refusal to be sent back to the country he fled he was arrested in thailand in november while on holiday bahrain's government wants him to serve a ten year prison sentence of vandalism human rights groups say he could be tortured if he sent back the case has been adjourned until april the former australian captain craig foster has been spearheading the campaign to get be freed and was outside the court in bangkok he says hawkins continued detention is politically motivated. foreign minister has executive discretion in this matter that's the most important thing right now the talk government has been knowing that consistently for the past two months just last week the attorney general's department again as the deputy attorney general stated publicly here at needed that in actual fact the top foreign minister expelled the sky speech is

pretty politically motivated at any point right throughout that that makes today throughout the next sixty days or a day further to that so we're going to continue to push for that and we know that the top foreign minister hasn't responded to any that is that way that scott morrison is or fatima simmers or thomas box so they have had no response to to anyone around the world they expect already in this case which is their biggest worry just a few days off to come to a victory at the asian cup the country's. been how mud funny has presented the emir of kuwait with the gifts on monday shakes mud. receives a special cut on national team jersey from council of state many who were in the stands at the asian cup in the united arab emirates to support carter that he had very little support as a result of an ongoing blockade by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt one of the ambassadors for the cause

a world cup is born militant of which he's coached five different countries that will gaps most notably taking mexico to the quarter finals as host speck in one nine hundred eighty six after that asian cup victory he believes qatar now have a great chance to impress on home soil. was lucky to be the world cup at the mexico . six of the world cup american recovery for you you have already people behind you really normal but people like to see the reader but now to be real you need to prepare you need to know. you need to have a big picture two three years or. so many small the to have to have a good. sure cut a little purple ribbon to be really everybody like to be maybe nor how to be champion bird to go next round with. fresh from winning

a record equalling sixth super bowl title the new england patriots have landed back in boston to show off the vince lombardi trophy to their fans the combination of coach bill belichick and quarterback tom brady once again coming out on top for new england this is also the sixth super bowl triumph the pats are now tied with the pittsburgh steelers for most super bowl victories just in case you missed it in a low scoring affair the patriots put on a defensive masterclass to suffocate the los angeles rams thirteen three in atlanta the rams actually had the n.f.l.'s highest scoring off into the season forty one year old brady further enhancing his reputation as one of if not the greatest quarterback of them all. and the award for super bowl most valuable player has gone to a patriots wide receiver julian edelman a thirty two year old was deemed to be one fence of player that did make a difference on the night he had ten receptions and one hundred forty one yards to take that m.v.p. edelman also has one hundred fifteen postseason receptions placing him second in

n.f.l. history. see how this team grind didn't work each week. when things were at its best. to consciously try to go out and improve. just shows what kind of a group of guys it was this year two thousand and eighteen patriots resilient group and you're never going to forget so you know it was unbelievable. now another cookie tradition of the super bowl is that the m.v.p. is invited to disneyworld to enjoy the rides eagleman duty on of the invitation to spend time with mickey mouse and the gang and he brought a certain forty something year old along for the experience. of the alpine world ski championships sort of officially underway in sweden as two of the biggest names in the sport's history get ready to hang up their boots. from the opening ceremony in the host city of order plenty of flags and music and entertainment but it was

also a bit of a retirement party for the most successful female racer of all time lindsey vonn and norway's top men's racer. who are both calling it a day off to these championships yeah i think they did my last three seasons will be here in sweden i'm actually norwegian heritage so i feel at home here so it's nice to end my career yeah i don't know but. yeah. it's over you make it sound so sad like you're done like. i am i yeah. i mean i'm just wrapping up this stage so this you know whatever it is also my life has to offer and then i'll do something else so this is my last. race at this level . the man known as the flying fern ski jumping legend matter the new can in has died at the age of fifty five no cause of death has been given he was diagnosed

with diabetes last year and struggled with alcohol addiction even during his remarkable career during which he claimed four olympic golds including three at the nine hundred eighty eight calgary games new can in trying to his hand as a singer and even a stripper and also served two terms in jail once for a stabbing and then another for attacking his ex-wife one of the men who once fought mohammed ali for the heavyweight title has fallen on hard times dutch boxer really looked as before to early more than forty years ago in jakarta now finds himself on the streets of bulgaria but help is on the way for the seventy three year old and his wife folks in the netherlands have raised more than fourteen thousand dollars since finding out about this to try and help the couple out. and that's all the support we have here for now more coming up again later that's all for me on the news hour keep it here on the other side of the break for the day's news.

i'm a fish every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means at all he joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media and focused on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embed is a free palestine are they listening post on al-jazeera. al-jazeera

. where every. ten family members. mean. the war is possible. people in power i mean it's the women heading an eighteen man militia. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand. and eye for an eye. in iraq on al-jazeera. is no one way of telling the story keeping is telling right and to be respectful best al-jazeera is great we have to get to know the person full details. and monday pointed world on fire. jay z. u.s. 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 from dr evil day it's like they swung five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. putting pressure on nicolas maduro nineteen european nations recognize his rival juan as venezuela's interim president. but i dream for them this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new u.n. report says that north korea is moving ahead with its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. tracing mexico's disappear the governor.