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the emerald isle why brack says is sending many britons in search of their irish roots. and chinese communities around the world celebrating the most important holiday on my calendar. venezuela's self-proclaimed president is calling on the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country has received war backing with many european countries recognizing him as interim leader but russia is accusing them of interference president nicolas maduro has also pope francis to help was all for crisis in america as uneasy and human has the latest from the capital caracas. the self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president . one thousand nine hundred two failed 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 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 across 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 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 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 end cio which tracks detentions says the majority are accused of instigating hatred and in many cases of terrorism using false evidence. this is as opposition leaders prepare 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. on a block of mainly latin american nations is also pushing for majority to step down the lima group which bus encounters monday has called on venezuela's military to abandon the door on their reports from also. 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 armed

forces of venezuela to recognize that commander in chief one's wedo the acting president of venezuela is of us here. 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 do. our 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's andro. auto the pope is in the united arab emirates on a historic trip he's just been holding mass in abu dhabi vent wraps up the first

ever papal visit to the arabian peninsula on monday the head of the roman catholic church called on all religions to unite to end wars in the middle east including in yemen. as one of the coalition partners backing yemen's government in its fight against rebels jordan will host new talks on the exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates the rebels will work reconvene and on tuesday the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees from each side so it's great in principle as a confidence building measure ahead of talks in sweden in december that the rebels have been fighting assad led coalition in yemen for four years. james bays has more. 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 theories are 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 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 very emotional issue for the families involved and i think it's a it's see 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. the u.s. senate has backed an amendment that opposes president donald trump's plans to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan senators voted seventy eight to twenty six in favor of the measure and warns that pulling out could allow i saw an al qaeda to recruit and destabilize both countries it's a rare rebuke a chance foreign policy by the senate which is controlled by his own party mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . 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 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 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. yes special envoy on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to prepare for a second summit president donald trump and kim jong un so even begun as expected to meet his north korean counterpart trump and kim 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 voices news agency alleges pyongyang is taking steps to protect its nuclear ballistic missiles from military strikes they're doing so by storing weapons in civilian facilities such as airports and the government is using separate sites to assemble and test their missiles so they're harder to trace the report also says that north korea violated sanctions by trading in colon petroleum products and thereby undermining efforts to block funding for its nuclear program gordon chang is an analyst he says president trump should focus on sanctions against north korea instead of another summit. 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 might do you know one thing one people people can argue only look you know we should meet with kim jong un 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. still ahead on al-jazeera tracing mexico has disappeared the government on val's a plan to find out what happened but estimated forty thousand people. and wanted for murder kidnapping blackmail the indian businessman and alleged banks are facing

extradition from senegal. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast or so i do want to start here and bosnia over the last few days we see the very heavy rain as well as the snow is beginning to melt because temperatures are into the mid teens here across the region you can see in the video how that water is rising a few bridges bridges have collapsed and we are now seeing some of those cities and towns seeing the water rise in their area so we're going to be watching this very very carefully over the next few days the good news is the rain looks like it has ended across the region but the temperatures are still into the mid teens and that means any snow in the higher elevations is still melting and that's going to keep those rebels quite high well here's our forecast map today no rain in the forecast

there but you can see the temperatures are anywhere between thirteen to fifteen degrees across much of that area well here in the northwest we are watching a from a bounty making its way across parts of london tomorrow and that means rainy conditions few so today not looking too bad but tomorrow we are going to see that rain come into play here across much of central europe though it is going to be quite nice where temperatures in the single digits here across the northern part of africa though we are watching one weather system and this is going to bring quite a bit of rain towards parts of tunisia as well as into libya we do expect to see some flooding here across much of the area and then as we go towards wednesday that is going to continue to make its way east. the weather sponsored by town and. went on line. when you didn't you put them. there or if you join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about a legal friend to me you have seen what it can do to somebody to people you can

make. and some people. everyone has a voice from the twitter and you could be on the street and join the global conversation on mt is iraq. again you're watching and is there as a reminder of our top stories this hour many e.u. nations and the last bloc of recognized venezuela's self declared interim president asked the country's leader. has called on the military to defy amador and allow humanitarian aid into the country. the head of the roman catholic church has just finished holding mass in the united arab emirates the event in abu dhabi wraps up

the first ever papal visit to the arabian peninsula and france's called on all religions to unites to end wars in the middle east. and the u.s. special envoy on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to have for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong. un kim last met in singapore in june by the north korean need a pledge to work towards denuclearization. but he said in france believe a fire that killed eight people in the capsule was set deliberately the blaze broke out in an eight story residential building in an upscale part of paris one woman is in custody nearly thirty people injured. and as training people have died in the flood stricken northeastern city of townsville prime minister scott morrison has visits the city where thousands of homes have been inundated in what's being described as a once in the century rain event more rain is hampering recovery efforts and

residents are being warned to stay out of the water after sightings of crocodiles and snakes but especially from ports. opening the floodgates of the ross river dam in queensland created what australia's weather bureau called dangerous and high velocity flows with the damage 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 rhein in less than seven dies you know that's not exactly what we've kind and it really is new parameters that we're moving into northern australia is tropical and typically experiences heavy monsoon rains but recent downpours are far in excess of the norm in some parts of townsville salt water crocodiles displaced by the flood waters have been spotted and there's more heavy rain on the way it's monsoonal trough just doesn't want to seem to move 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 floats 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. the british prime minister is due to visit northern ireland lazy to talk about the so-called irish backstop which is a key sticking point in bricks and negotiations the confusion over leaving the record numbers of supply for british irish passports last year twenty percent of ours possible applications came from the u.k. has more 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 did new died mention to the. richard with students applying for an irish passport anyone with at least warm 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. stripped away. perhaps by a majority they 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 and who favor all 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 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 the were of pains to insist on really be affected by

the same things but on a more psychological level i think people do feel slightly less welcome and even know their pains to say oh you know you're like good immigrants these are taste i think. it's forcing people to question their sense of identity. for a large number of british people encouraging them to seek out a new one. juror as a new yorker and that's liberations for a second day in the trial of mexico's most notorious drug gang boss. man let the similar cartel before he was actually died at sixty one year old denies smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine. into the u.s. eleven weeks trial has gruesome details of torture prison escape a massive corruption in mexico's government. government says it will dedicate more

than twenty million dollars to help find those who've gone missing joining a campaign against drugs cartels organized crime and security forces have been blamed for some forty thousand as a parent says john holmes reports from mexico. 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 plant to search for the missing it's a huge task he might make it's estimated there are currently forty thousand missing people more than one thousand one hundred clandestine 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 who face the consequences he says. we're going to look to prosecute authorities whether he's guilty they'll be punished 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 her.

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 al jazeera makes crew city. prosecutors in senegal on preparing to extradite one of india's most wanted fugitives robbing pujari was arrested in the capital dhaka last month after spending more than fifteen years on the run he's wanted for kidnapping and blackmail nicholas hot has. it 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 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 she is now in the custody of the senegalese authorities they tell me that in his possession was a passport from brick enough 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 your risk facing the death penalty. help to sustain life across the asian continent boss a new report says glass is of the himalayas a melting at an alarming rate climate change a study by the end. national center for integrated mountain development warns that two thirds of them will be gone by the end of the century unless carbon emissions drastically cut. a critical water store for two hundred fifty million people living in the hindu kush himalayan region another one point six five billion people rely on rivers flowing from the mountains report says the impact on agriculture in n.g.'s supplies could be felt well before the turn of the century india pakistan and china the worst affected of course in hungary has jailed the bosses of an alum many implant after one of the country's worst environmental disasters ten

people were killed and rivers destroyed when more than a million cubic meters of toxic sludge escaped from a reservoir in twenty ten charlie and 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 it put arsenic 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. 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 and local residents but despite vast sums spent on depleting the region hundreds of hectares of land remain sealed off unfit for farming it will their traces of the tragedy for years to come. out as their. chinese people around the world have been weighing in the unit knew yeah many are things of fortune and prosperity and the year of the pig asian brown has more from beijing. this is. a park in the heart of beijing and 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 you 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 differences 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 one 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 jinping 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 dollars 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. many of the people you see here in detroit 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. and nor cal these are the headlines on al-jazeera that's why the self-proclaimed president has called on the military to defy the close my door and allow in humanitarian aid many you nations and alas an american blogger recognized as the country's interim. the head of the roman catholic church pope francis has held mass

in the united arab emirates the event and abu dhabi will wrap up the first ever papal visit to the arabian peninsula called on all religions to unite to end wars in the middle east including in yemen by the way is part of a coalition fighting alongside the government against who's the rebels jordan will host new talks on an exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates and who the rebels will reconvene in amman on tuesday the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees from each side it was agreed in principle as a confidence building measure and of talks in sweden in december the u.s. special envoy on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to prepare for a second summit between president old trump and kim jong un and kim last met in singapore in june and the north korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearization through a new u.n. though a new u.n.

report says pyongyang is trying to protect its nuclear arsenal from military strikes at least eight people have died in a fire in the french capital the blaze broke out in an eight story residential building in an upscale part of paris investigators believe the fire was set deliberately one person is in custody. jurors in new york are due to resume the liberations for a second day in the trial of mexico's most notorious drug. cartel before he was extradited sixty one year old denies being billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other local six in the u.s. . and in the strain it two people have died in the city of townsville prime minister scott morrison has visited the city where thousands of homes have been inundated in what's being described as a once in a century rain event. headlines more news after the street. the week began with use of ninety days in the to protect us china trade. the

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