on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. fighting pressure on nicolas maduro nineteen european nations recognize his rival one colorado as that as well as interim president. may be in for the good of 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 drastically cut. venezuela's president nicolas maduro is becoming increasingly isolated nineteen e.u. countries have recognized the opposition leader one point zero as interim president joining much of last in america the united states and canada of the five but dura has written a letter to pope francis requesting a dialogue to help to resolve the crisis in america and it's a new see a new many reports from caracas. the self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president although chavez says nine hundred ninety two failed coup attempt to send an impassioned message to venezuela's armed

forces he asked them to. 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 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 rejected in ultimatum to hold a new presidential elections. an angry accuse the spanish president of being a servant of u.s. interests. i say to mr. forbid but if one day that. your hands will have blood on them just like the hands of former spanish prime minister. the puppet who was at the service of the interventionist war mongering policy of donald trump. says he's asked pope francis to intercede for a dialogue with the opposition to resolve the conflict. as a human rights organizations are sounding the alarm. we are witnessing what is

probably the largest number. political prisoners in venezuela history between january twenty first and thirty first there were nine hundred sixty six and you are . 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 acts a bloc of many latin american nations known as the lima group has called for the international community to further isolate president nicolas maduro a press conference and also what was briefly disrupted by protests as opposed to intervention in venezuela a real elizondo 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 been a swale and. 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 this is. to promo duel protesters interrupted the closing huss conference shouting hands off and it's well a and no to a coup to which the canadian foreign minister responded 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 capital to try to find ways to dislodge material from power canadian prime minister justin trudeau opened the meeting by not only urging countries to continue to support but also 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 is on doe. auto. the u.s. special envoy on north korea will go to pyongyang on weapon states to lay ground

for a second summit between president on the trump and kim jong il and stephen begun was already expected to meet with his north korean counterpart at the location of that 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 promises accuses pyongyang of doing the opposite the three hundred page confidential documents seen by the reuters news agency alleges that pyongyang 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 and the government is using separate sites to assemble and test missiles harder to trace the report goes on to say the korea also violated sanctions by trading coal and petroleum circumventing efforts to block funding for its nuclear program. the

armed group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility of the two separate attacks in somalia in the capital mogadishu a car bomb killed at least twelve people and injured dozens on side a shopping mall victoria gate in 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 is 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 deep i 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 al shabaab in fact somali government is not able to lead its own or to 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. but francis is due to celebrate mass of the stadium in the united arab emirates as he concludes the first ever papal visits to the arabian peninsula on monday he called on 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 these are live pictures of the pope arriving at st josephs cathedral in kentucky right now the pope also called for religious freedom in the region. could it before our eyes the ugly consequences of war i'm thinking in particular of yemen syria iraq and libya i call upon all religions to stand together and know posed the logic of. we are 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 jordan is to host new talks on an

exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides yemeni government delegates and 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 sweet. tooth the rebels have been locked in a war in yemen with a saudi led military coalition for four years a court in hungary has handed jail sentences one of the country's worst environmental disasters ten people were killed a river is destroyed when more than a million cubic meters of toxic sludge escaped from a reservoir at an early minium in twenty ten charlie angela reports. this was the toxic tide that swept through three villages in hungary in two thousand and ten when sludge containing hazardous waste burst through the banks of a storage reservoir asked 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 courts cleared the managers of the aluminum plant mile of negligence with the judge ruling that the cause of the reservoir collapse was the unstable soil beneath the storage pond at the time there were protests in court when. that verdict has now been reversed with two directors of the plant being found guilty of endangering the public by criminal negligence and sentenced to two and a half years in prison i these pictures taken by environmental organization w w f a from 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 and local residents but despite vast sums spent on deep

polluting the region hundreds of hectares of land remain sealed off unfit for farming it will bear traces of the tragedy for years to come. out of their. we're going to weather update thanks to one zero zero zero then. be. the bearer of the oil while briggs it is said that many britons and such of the irish roots of chinese communities around the world bring in the new. 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 it's turning increasingly gray a bit further southwards and here in doha is following the damage as of cools off again so twenty two will be all maximum on cheese day on wednesday and at night we're dropping down to around fourteen so it really is feeling quite fresh if i must that isn't all that warm at the moment all top temperature around twenty one degrees down towards the southern parts of africa lots of what weather here particularly in the northern parts of on up sit here over angola stretching all the way down into madagascar and to some of us the madagascar looks particularly wet on wednesday the eastern parts really do look roll the saudi 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. high in the atlas mountains. village women are fending for themselves being as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. patrolling coom farm and family is tough with no out sights a poor it's comet's longer is this way of life sustainable algy zero world meets my rock village superwomen.

again this is al jazeera a reminder of the bad news the south as well as opposition leader one point zero is asking the military to defy president because with the result borders open a humanitarian corridor or into the country earlier he thinks european countries including britain france and spain you know recognize him as interim leader. a new u.n. report says the 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 wednesday and el shabaab fighters in somalia say that they bombed a shopping center in mogadishu that last killed at least twelve people and wounded dozens of others in the somali capital. the u.s. senate has back to the amendment that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan such as voted seventeen to twenty six in

favor of the measure it says the 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 trolled republican controlled senate mike hanna 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 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 a little the 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. 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 are young people who've fallen victim to organized crime and drug cartels stronghold and 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 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 to much 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 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 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 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. mexico city greece's prime minister is due to head to turkey for a two day visit territorial disputes and that tussle of 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 in fled after the failed coup reports now 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 tsipras 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 doesn't opportunity point to. to reaffirm

the state of relationship he's such an increase his nor two year old. to turkey's demands. if that's a correct assessment then the results would be. a trauma if anything the stakes are now 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 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 al-jazeera athens. the continuing confusion of 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 parker 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 i 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 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 and who favor all the breaks it argue on a 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 uncertainties of bricks it. unlike other e.u. citizens 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 brakes it's having on them a lot of people are advocating they were a pains to sort of insist that irish people wouldn't be affected by the same things but on a more sort of emotional and psychological level i think people do feel slightly less welcome and even know their pains to say you know you're like here to get immigrants 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. india has made a diplomatic process the usaaf one hundred thirty mainly indian students were detained by u.s. immigration officers for enrolling in a fake university it was created by the department of homeland security to identify students who were planning to overstay their visas the detained students entered the country legally but obtained forty one documents through the fake university to extend the stay it's one of the largest immigration sweeps involving indians in recent years. they helped to sustain life across the asian continent but a new report says that the ice fields of the himalayas are melting at an alarming rate stu's a climate change the study by the international center for integrated minds and development warns that two thirds of the ice cap will be gone by the end of the

century unless carbon emissions addressed. but glass is a critical water store for 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 kind of suffered is a researcher at u.c. davis policy institute for energy environment and 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 peers 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 it last that 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 wider when you won't have as reliable water supplies chinese people around the world are ringing in the lunar new year many are hoping for prosperity in the year of the pig adrian brown reports from beijing. well this is the town park or earth park in the heart of beijing a very popular place to come on the first day of chinese new year now traditionally

the year of the pig is a year in which to make friends and make money so that possibly bodes well for the current talks between china and the united states to try to diffuse their trade. francis the outgoing year the year of the dog was not such a good one for chinese people the economy here continued to slow and many people lost their jobs so what do ordinary people want in the year ahead. i wish all my family members will have good health and a much better life in the new year. i have a big mission to accomplish in my life for the new year i'm getting married i hope all my family will happily stay together for china's president meanwhile she jingping has been touring a neighborhood here in beijing extending new year's greetings and also trying a bit of dumpling making eating dumplings at this time of year is of course very

popular indeed even amongst chinese leaders. and on monday night some eight hundred million people tuned in to watch the annual chinese new year television this is the most watched television program in the world even more people watch this than the super bowl which of course was shown in the united states less than twelve hours earlier many of the people you see here in the town park are domestic tourists they've come from other parts of china to feast and to celebrate and it's a celebration that for many people will last until the weekend. it is good to be with us hello everyone sitting in here in the headlines announces here at venezuela's opposition leader quite zero is asking the military to defy president nicolas maduro his orders dope on

a humanitarian corridor corridor or into the country earlier european countries including britain france and spain who now recognize him as interim leader. for media. are you going to deny your family's aid or you go. 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 a new u.n. report says that north korea is trying to protect its missiles from military strikes that contradicts its pledge to work towards nuclear ization the u.s. special envoy in north korea is set to visit pyongyang on wednesday. fighters in somalia say they bombed a shopping center in mogadishu the blast killed at least twelve people who did

dozens of others in the somali capital the u.s. has backed that opposes president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says pulling out could allow iceland al qaida to regroup and destabilize both countries it's being seen as a rare rebuke of tribes foreign policy by the republican controlled senate a new report says the ice fields of the himalayas are melting a little lower rates due to climate change the study warns that two thirds will be gone by the end of the century unless carbon emissions of drastically cut and chinese communities around the world have been ringing in the lunar new year in china millions to did to watch a lavish gullah as they welcome the year of the pig spectacular fireworks lit up the skies in some of china's biggest cities. those they had less money is fair here on out of here a lot of counting the cost one major thanks to. i mean every week a new sankoh brings

a silly simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's janet that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means i joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focused on how they were brought on the stories that matter the most in battery is a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. hello i'm a very unforgiving this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we're focusing on venezuela hungry without access to medicine venezuelans are suffering as a political crisis unfolds we'll look at what it's like to live inside the world's worst economy where hyperinflation is a reality of one ten.