much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like they swan five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. planning pressure on nicolas maduro nineteen european nations recognize his rival one why do as venezuela's interim president. again 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 government promises to spend millions to

find out what happened to an estimated forty thousand people plus the warning that one third of glass is in the himalayas a doomed to melt even if carbon emissions of dramatically cost. as well as president nicolas maduro is becoming increasingly isolated nineteen countries have recognized opposition leader why though as interim president joining much of latin america the united states and canada are defiant but during his written a letter to pope francis requesting a dialogue to help resolve the crisis in america and it's a lucy and human reports from caracas. the self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president although chavez has 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 gen 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 desperately needed food and. medicine is being gathered at the colombia venezuela border in defiance of president. the irony is lost on no one for years president 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 the military to choose 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 rejected in ultimatum to hold a new presidential elections. an angry mother accused the spanish president of being a servant of u.s. interests. i say to mr. forbid but if one day that if one day there is the mention of your hands will have blood on them just like the hand of former spanish prime minister. the puppet who is the service of the interventionist war mongering policy of donald trump. 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 that access a block of mainly latin american nations that is the lima group has called for the international community to further isolate president the. press conference and also was briefly disrupted by a couple of protests as who opposed intervention in venezuela a fourteen member group which was set up in twenty seventeen to respond to the crisis wants to prevent the middle row government from conducting financial and trade transactions. he said. what now is the time to

act no more fruitless dialogue we support a constitutional about which will promote a peaceful immediate 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 their commander in chief. the president of venezuela. the u.s. special envoy to north korea will go to pyongyang away as they lay groundwork for a meeting between president trump rather and kim jong un in the summer a north korean leader that the north korean leader has pledged to work towards denuclearization but a new report by u.n. sanctions mona says accuses pyongyang of doing the opposite the three hundred page confidential document seen by the reuters news agency alleges that pyongyang is

taking steps to protect its nuclear ballistic missiles from military strikes they do so by storing weapons in civilian facilities such as airports and the government is using separate sites to assemble and test missiles so the hardest trace report goes on to say that north korea also violated sanctions by trading in coal and petroleum products circumventing efforts to block funding for its nuclear program gordon chang is an asia analyst who says the president trump should focus on sanctions against north korea instead of another summit with kim jong un. there is an escalation and the real story here is not that the north koreans are violating u.n. 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 kim jong un feels well why should i give up my missiles and my dukes you know one thing one people people can argue oh look you know we should meet with kendra moon 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 the group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in somalia in the capital mogadishu a car bomb killed at least twelve people and injured dozens outside a shopping mall i'm serious victoria been 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 the home of

a follow up car 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 it's fight is regularly hit targets like this in mogadishu in their fight against somalia's western backed central government that i got out 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 gunmen shot and killed a local head of a port operations company that's based in deep analysts say civility to carry out these attacks shows how weak the government is and i think we're on the moment is the only external is our fighting al shabaab in fact somali government is not able

to lead its own lot the design its own school at the policy and then in knocked on it simply because they don't have the kababs 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 and. pope francis has called on all religions to unites to end wars in the middle east including in yemen the head of the roman catholic church was speaking at an interfaith gathering in the united arab emirates it's one of the coalition partners backing yemen's government in its fight against hooty rebels pope francis is on a three day trip to the u.a.e. the first papal visit to the arabian peninsula. jordan is to host new talks on exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates and who the rebels will reconvene in a month from tuesday for a new round of talks on the swap the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand

detainees from each side it was agreed in principle as a confidence building measure ahead of peace talks in sweden in december who the rebels have been locked in a war with saudi an iraqi led coalition for four years well ahead of the prisoner exchange talks in amman our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the u.n. in new york. 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 to 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 a weather update next here on al-jazeera but then a u.s.

senate debate highlights deep divisions over the trumpet ministrations troop withdrawal plans. that are there without some wet and windy weather moving its way into parts of north america we take a. at the satellite picture we can see the cloud carol piling its way into parts of california we're seeing strong winds heavy rain and some snow as well that system is working its way eastward so plenty of wintry weather there as we head through the day on tuesday elsewhere across north america when the temperatures really have shot up look at that washington d.c. up a seventeen degrees and for toronto we're up at six the woman spell doesn't last though when the temperatures drop with a bump as we head through into wednesday minus three will just be a maximum in toronto so the weather is really keeping us on our toes here is the leading edge of the system though with the rain and the snow in the north sweeping

its way eastwards as we head through the day for the central parts of america are plenty of sunshine here not really much in the way of what whether it's whole i think for some of us in nicaragua we're likely to see one or two showers and some of them could turn out to be pretty lively on wednesday but there will also be some sunshine in between if we had down towards south america a lot of what weather here recently in the northeast impose a pretty awful to laze it's had quite a few showers more showers are expected as we head through wednesday and actually the showers begin to pick up a bit further south as well all the way down through rio they could be a few rather heavy showers to the south of that there was falling for someone is always twenty degrees on maximum that's eighty two in fact. a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. and knowing. can guide us. a simple touch inform us. the unconventionality of life

witness through the lens of the human eye. is what inspires us i witness documentaries on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera this reminds you of the main news this hour venezuelan opposition leader up on weibo 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 who now recognize him as the interim leader. the u.s. special envoy in north korea is set to visit pyongyang on wednesday to lay the groundwork

for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong un a new u.n. report says that both korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes this contradicts its pledge to work towards nuclearization. fighters in somalia say that they bombed a shopping center in mogadishu the blast killed at least twelve people and wounded dozens of others in the somali capital. they helped to sustain life across the asian continent but a new report says the ice fields of the himalayas a melting a little grave stupid climate change the study by the international sense of integrated mountain development warns that two thirds of the ice cap will be gone by the end of the century unless carbon emissions a drastic lee cut the glass is a critical water store for some two hundred fifty million people living in the hindu kush himalaya region another one point six five billion people rely on rivers

flowing from the mountains the report says the impact on agriculture and energy supplies could be felt well before the turn of the century with people in india pakistan and china worst affected how to suffer as a researcher at u.c. davis policy institute for energy environment and the economy she joins us now via skype from davis california what do you make of this report. well that's very much in line with recent news that we've seen showing that the pace and magnitude of climate change is even greater than scientists and said even as recently as in the past five or ten years in october there was a big report from the united nations international governmental panel on climate change that showed that greenhouse gas emissions are warming much faster than we expect we've also seen a recent report showing that sea level rises and accelerating so again very much in line with recent reports showing that actually is needed and needed now so even if . looking at this report even if. we manage to limit global warming to one point

five celsius thirty six percent of the glasses along the hindu kush in himalaya range will have gone by the twenty one hundred. and if we don't do it anything about climate change of emissions on cuts than that last source to some two thirds of it is the no hope for these classes well i'm going to think of only think about climate change as two sides of the same coin on one side you have medication on the other side you have adaptation which this report shows is that it's critical to take action because if we don't take action and then we could see the last of the glaciers in the region double so if something bad is going to happen but we can take steps to limit it from being much worse at the same time we can't fool ourselves and think that nothing is going to happen we're already seeing the impacts of climate change today so we need to tents take steps now to protect those will be affected for instance by thinking about how to reuse water when you won't

have as reliable water supplies you know how will the the two billion people who are going to be affected by this and that and the effects will be felt long before the end of the century how will they be affected what sort of changes will will they see what sort of dangers will they face. so one major change that we're going to see is when you have snow packs and glaciers what they do is they provide a very reliable source of water throughout the year and when you can't rely as much on those glaciers and snowpacks you see much more erratic rainfall patterns so you see in the winter you tend to have wet seasons getting wetter and in the summer it dries seasons getting drier that means that you see increased risks of ran slides and bloodying in the winter and increased risks of drought and water scarcity in the summer. that gets too much too many thanks and they're going to suffer there in davis california. mexico's government says that it will dedicate more than twenty million dollars to help find around forty thousand missing people often referred to

as the disappeared many young people who form victim to organized crime and drug cartels holden reports now from mexico city. the cruelest part of the violence in mexico thousands of the disappeared many taken by organized crime others by security forces themselves it means no closure for families who spend years searching for loved ones dead or alive all too often they 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 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 violation we're 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 punished the united nations and european union will be involved on 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 efforts to help thousands of others there was a profound lack of political will to actually change things. the new government's

made the right noises now comes the hard part trying to shake up of thirty's which out of fear or complicity have failed to help those looking for their loved ones john home and al jazeera mexico city. the u.s. senate suspects an amendment that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan senators voted seventy eight twenty six in favor of the measure it says that pulling out could allow i saw an al qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries it's being seen as a rare rebuke of trumps foreign policy by the republican controlled senate mike hanna reports now from washington. well this constitutes a sharp 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 no longer constitutes a threat the senators now are siding with the intelligence community which has been

arguing that isolate 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 middle east security which will be voted on later in the week and importantly to it's 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 it's a different story in iraq however where president trump says an american military presence is important to keep a close eye on iraq's president is pushing back saying that donald trump didn't ask permission for that's right matheson reports 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 tribally 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 and 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. the prime minister of greece is due to head to turkey for

a two day visit territorial disputes and a tussle over or oil and gas off the coast of cyprus are expected to be on the agenda so is the issue of greece providing sanctuary to turkish army officers who fled after the failed coup johnson reports 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 to and land in greece decides he's treating the visit not doesn't opportunity point to. to reaffirm the state of relationship he's such a crease his nor passion bad too. yeah. two turkeys the months. if that's a correct assessment then the results will be. a 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 spat 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 their 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 forum would make the visit a success from the greek point of view but expectations are low jumps are open loss al-jazeera athens the continuing uncertainty of a briggs it is seeing record numbers of british citizens applying for irish passports twenty percent of irish passport applications came from the u.k. last year that's almost two hundred thousand applications barker reports from london. traditional island in a london pub. of course anglo-irish ties go well beyond an affection for

each other's cultural stereotypes people have moved across the irish sea for centuries almost nine hundred thousand people born in ireland live and work in the u.k. now breaks it sounded a new dimension to the bond. richard with students applying for an irish passport anyone with at least one irish grandparents eligible for irish citizenship. this is my grandfather's birth certificate this is my connection with ireland for richard it's a way of holding on to his european identity after breaks it felt i had part of my identity stripped away. perhaps by a majority that i didn't relate to you know 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 favorite all the bronx it all he wanted 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 i'm one of these an 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 it unlike other e.u. citizens irish people can automatically work study access public services and vote in the u.k. writes 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 sort of incest irish people need to be affected by the same things but

on a more sort of ocean and psychological level i think our people do feel slightly less welcome and even know their pains to say oh you know you're like here to get immigrants in these are 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. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition leader one why go is asking the military to defy. president nicolas maduro told us that open a humanitarian corridor corridor or into the country quite of thanks european countries including britain france and spain who now recognize him as interim leader. 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 and that's the and we have also told you of the role you will play in the reconstruction of this country the u.s. special envoy on north korea said to visit pyongyang on wednesday this week to lay the groundwork for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong il and a new u.n. report says that north korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes that contradicts its pledge to work toward still utilization. fighters in somalia say that they bombed a shopping center in mogadishu the blast killed at least twelve people and wounded dozens of others in somali capital pope francis has called on all religions to unite to end wars in the middle east including the conflict in yemen the head of

the roman catholic church was speaking at an interface gathering in the united arab emirates pope francis is on a three day trip to the u.a.e. the first papal visit to the arabian peninsula the u.s. senate has backed an amendment that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says that pulling out could allow i saw an al qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries it's being seen as a rare rebuke of trumps foreign policy by the republican controlled senate. a new report says the ice fields of the himalayas a melting at alarming rates due to climate change the study warns that two thirds of the will be gone by the end of the century unless carbon emissions addressed a cli cause more than one of the half billion people rely on rivers flowing from the molten. those that lies more useful here on us here after witness next. from sunrise to sunset across asia. and the pacific

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