explore in abundance a world class program designed to inform motivate and inspire. the world is watching on al-jazeera. piling pressure on the close madeira nineteen european nations recognize his rival one guy though as venezuela's interim president. major ian from 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. visiting the middle east pope francis urges religious leaders to stand

together against the region's wars. plus the warning that one third of glasses in the himalayas a doom's to melt even if carbon emissions addressed a clique of us. venezuela's president nicolas maduro is becoming increasingly isolated nineteen e.u. countries have recognized opposition leader one guy do as interim president joining much of last america the united states and canada a defiant the doura has written a letter the pope francis requesting a dialogue to help resolve the crisis alas in america as a loose in human reports now from caracas. self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president although chavez has nine hundred ninety two thrilled coup attempt to send an impassioned message to venezuela's armed forces. ask them to allow international humanitarian aid into the country.

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 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. essential supplies to cross the border. another boost when at least nineteen

european nations joined the us canada and much of latin america and recognizing him as interim president after my rejected in ultimatum to hold new presidential elections. and angry accuse the spanish president of being a servant of u.s. interests he wants. i say to mr. forbid but if one day the. day that. your hands will have blood on them just like the hands of former spanish prime minister. in history will remember you as a puppet who is at 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. as human rights organizations are sounding the alarm. we are witnessing what is probably the.

hardest 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.s 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 nicolas maduro a press conference and also was briefly disrupted by protest as opposed intervention in venezuela as gabler's on the reports. after more than six hours behind closed door meetings a group of countries that support one weibo said they do not support military intervention to rid the country of nicolas maduro but they are calling for

a military intervention by venezuela. we are strongly urging the national forces of venezuela to recognize that commander in chief one's wedo the acting president of venezuela he said it's here. to promo duel protesters interrupt the closing huss conference shouting hands off and it's well a and no to a coup to which the canadian foreign minister responded that in supporting one. recognizing him as interim president of venezuela we are recognizing and supporting the right of the people of venezuela to enjoy democracy the kind of democracy which political protesters in canada do enjoy and i'm sad to say political protesters in venezuela do not. foreign ministers from more than twelve countries in the americas plus top diplomats from the u.s. germany france spain and the united kingdom held an emergency meeting in the canadian cap. to try to find ways to dislodge madeira from power canadian prime

minister justin trudeau opened the meeting by not only urging countries to continue to support but take steps to make the transition of power possible 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 diplomats here say one of the main objectives of this meeting was to show a united front backing and looked at that way perhaps this meeting met one of its key objectives but so much of venezuela's future rests in the hands of the military that still supports. and no amount of diplomacy has been able to change that gabriel's andro. auto. because cona is a journalist a venezuelan and i'm a systems come he says that a civil war could break out of the 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 clear when we look at the situation with the secondary bond market which now is going to be spent 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 it's not out of the measures definitely doesn't down on attempting to out the government is through a coup d'etat with the military or possibly through military intervention that already impose a. and have a devastating consequences at least fifteen percent contraction on top of. an existing eleven percent contraction of that of the autonomy this year with real serious humanitarian consequences is there there's a what will happen we can't. risk of potential civil war and that clearly by supporting this is interim president on a so-called enterprises of the country 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. the u.s. special envoy in north korea will go to pyongyang on wednesdays lay the ground for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong il and stephen begun was already expected to meet with his north korean counterpart but the location of the talks wasn't confirmed until now donald trump and kim jong un last met in singapore in june when the north korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearization but a new report by u.n. sanctions monitors 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 the missiles so they're harder to trace the report goes on to say that the 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 and says that president trump should focus on sanctions against north korea instead of another summit with kim jong il. there is an escalation and the real story here is not that the north koreans are violating u.n. sanctions or they are 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 i don't you know one pick 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 pope francis is to just celebrate mass at the stadium in the united arab emirates to see concludes the first of a papal visit to the arabian peninsula on monday he called on all religions to unite to end wars in the middle east including in yemen the head of the roman catholic church was speaking at an interface gathering in the u.a.e. it's one of the coalition partners backing yemen's government in its fight against hooty rebels winter is the most difficult season for millions of syrian war refugees especially those in the poorest camps as i was there as a sullivan job reports now from the border region between turkey and syria aid workers are appealing for doonas 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 if the choice but to burn what they can. plastic waste becomes fuel to stay warm children sift through throughout the danger disease and the stench sometimes. moved to this refugee camp. his father was killed in the city of hama and his brother was wounded in an airstrike. now matey 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 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 of the sheet camp near hama and it led many are too poor to try to move elsewhere fatima elbagir 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. or get a weather update next to zero then tracing mexico's disappear the government promises to spend millions to find out what happened to an estimated forty thousand people. wanted to kidnap a black male the indian business alleged gangster facing extradition from senegal.

hello there we've got lots of snow in afghanistan that's good news because we are in a drought at the moment so we could do with some wet weather and snow is perfect you can see it working its way across us that's giving us lots of snow at the moment plenty more during the day on choose day and on wednesday it will begin to move away towards the east to the just a low though so we're still looking at around four in kabul to iran will just be struggling to double figures for the west we've got the next system making its way in here so some heavy rain around the coast of turkey some of that what weather really quite ferocious and for the south is turning increasingly grey a bit further southwards and here in doha is following the damages of cools off again so twenty two will be our maximum on chews day on wednesday and at night we're dropping down to around fourteen so it really is feeling quite fresh if i must got isn't all that warm at the moment alltop temperature around twenty one degrees down towards the southern parts of africa lots of what weather here particularly in the northern parts of i'm up sit here over angola stretching all the way down into madagascar and to some of us in madagascar looks particularly wet

all men's day the eastern parts really do look roll the so be elsewhere see the showers here over the southern bots of africa for the southeast fine and dry so twenty five should be the maximum temperature they been on in capetown will be at twenty six and here that should be a good deal of sunshine during the day as well. sponsored. in the atlas mountains. which women are doing for themselves meaning as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. but trailing home farm and family is tough with no outside support how much longer is this way of life sustainable algy zero world meets my rock village superwomen.

oh yes this is al jazeera a reminder of the main news this hour venezuelan opposition leader. is asking the military to defy president nicolas maduro his orders and open a humanitarian corridor or into the country earlier he thinks european countries including britain france and spain who now recognize him as interim leader. a new u.n. report says that north korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes this contradicts its pledge to work towards denuclearization the u.s. special envoy north korea is set to visit pyongyang on wednesday 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 speaking at an interface gathering in

the united arab emirates. the u.s. senate has backed an amendment that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan centers as voted seventy to twenty six in favor of the measure it says pulling else 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 why cannot reports 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 sir 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 little the 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. 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 allies and arab allies decades later iranian speak of the revolution and the war in the same breath two major up evils that transformed the country and remain an extra completely linked in their minds at the time post-revolutionary run was still finding its face and was militarily unprepared for its first conflict the eighty a war ended in stalemate with the deaths of around

a million iranians along with hundreds of thousands of iraqis of zero sameness ravi reports from tehran. hamid silly 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 frontline 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 who need. care though the 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 in 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 your 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 or 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 south 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. 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 of them are young people who fall in victim to organized crime and drugs cartels john heilemann reports 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 mexico's 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 he might mean it's estimated there are currently forty thousand missing people more than one thousand one hundred graves around twenty six thousand unidentified bodies in morgues and this is the proof of the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and human rights violation as well facing and that we must overcome in our countries he's promised a well funded and staffed national commission and a better coordinated database to identify the missing languishing in moods 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 a gang but they were never found and the key ingredient was missing both in the search for them. and the wider effort 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 homan. mates who city brazil's new government has unveiled an anti crime bill aimed at getting tough on organized crime corruption and violence justice minister minister sergio moro who previously led a major corruption investigation presented the proposals think clued making convicts start their sentences after the first appeal is denied the former judge also wants to tighten rules on illegal campaign financing congress is set to vote on the bill which was seen as

a test for president jaya balsa nano. what's being described as a once in a century rain is causing severe flooding in northeastern australia two men are reported missing in queensland and thousands of homes are submerged in the city of townsville crocodiles adding to the danger as parents smith reports. opening the floodgates of the ross river dam in queensland created what australia's weather bureau called dangerous and high velocity flows with a dominant three hundred percent capacity engineers said they had no option downstream homes in the coastal city of townsville a flooded more than a thousand people have been moved to safety we've never seen a year's worth of rain in less than seven dies in a day it's not exactly what we've cleaned and it really is the new parameters that we are moving into northern australia is tropical and typically experiences heavy monsoon rains but recent downpours

a far in excess of the norm in some parts of townsville salt water crocodiles displaced by the flood waters up unspotted and there's more heavy rain on the way this monsoonal trough just doesn't want to seem to make much at all it's going to be heavy rainfall over the next couple of days there will also be damaging wind gusts and intense rainfall with significant flash flooding australia's armed forces have been called in to help with what have been described as once in a century flouts some areas of queensland expected to get a year's worth of rain in just a week and twenty thousand homes risk of being submerged if the heavy rains continue bernard smith al-jazeera. they helped to sustain life across the asian continent but a new report says the ice fields of the himalayas a melting alarming rate stu's a climate change study by the international center for integrated mountain development warns the two thirds of the ice cap will be gone by the end of the

century unless carbon emissions address to cause the glasses are a critical water store for two hundred fifty million people living in the hindu kush himalaya region another one point six five million billion people rely on rivers that flow 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 have suffered as a researcher at u.c. davis policy institute the energy environment of the economy she says the report highlights the need to take urgent action on climate change. that's very much in line with recent news that we've seen showing that the peace and magnitude of climate change is even greater than scientists said even as recently as in the past five or ten years in october there was a big report from the united nations international government our 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 similar rises accelerating so again very much in line with recent reports showing that actually is needed and needed now with this report shows is that it's critical to take action because if we don't take action and then we could see if the last of the glaciers in the region double so we 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 take stakes steps now to protect those will be affected for instance by thinking about how to reuse wider when you won't have as reliable water supplies prosecutors in senegal are preparing to extradite one of india's most wanted fugitives people johnny was arrested in the capital dhaka last month after spending more than fifteen years on the run he's wanted for murder kidnapping and blackmail us nicholas hock reports.

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 project 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 statically security forces just weeks ago through a tip off of the indian intelligence services that been looking for him for the last fifty years now he owns this restaurant the maharajah very popular among the ex-pat customers myself included i've eaten here and been served by. this man who would come at the end of the meal distributing sweets with this smile 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 life time in prison but your risk facing the death penalty. it is good to have you with us hello adrian from going to hear. the headlines and i was here a venezuelan opposition leader one point zero is asking the military to defy president nicolas maduro is orders of open humanitarian corridor or into the country quite frank to european countries including britain france and spain who

now recognize him as interim leader. and he got out of the media. 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. a new u.n. report says that north korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes this contradicts its pledge to work towards denuclearization the u.s. special envoy in north korea is set to visit pyongyang on when the states lay the groundwork for a second summit between president of the trump and kim jong un pope francis has called on all religions t. and nights to end wars in the middle east including the conflict in yemen the head of the roman catholic church was speaking at an interfaith gathering in the united

arab emirates pope francis is on a three day trip to the u.a.e. the first papal visits to the arabian peninsula the u.s. senate suspects an amendment that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says pulling out i saw an al qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries it's being seen as a rebuke of trumps foreign policy by the republican controlled senate troops are being destroyed deployed in northeastern australia to help deal with severe flooding parts of queensland under water of the days of record breaking rainfall floodgates in the city of townsville opened to prevent the river breaking its banks thousands of homes have been submerged forcing mass evacuations and those are the headlines are we back with more news here on al-jazeera after the stream next. talk to.

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