zero. every year. a plea for venezuela's military to lead to a call for president but at least one door exists that down. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up ahead of a summit between the u.s. and north korea pyongyang is accused of moving forward with its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. tracing mexico's disappear the government unveils

a plan to find out what happened to an estimated forty thousand people. and the grim warning about last year's in the himalayas melting could have disastrous consequences. as well as self-proclaimed president his calling on the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country. has received more backing with many european countries recognizing him as the interim leader but russia is accusing them of interference present a close my door has also pope francis to help resolve the crisis. and you see a new man has the latest from the capital. 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 he asked 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 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 hand of former spanish prime minister. 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. 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 you were. 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 c n u n al-jazeera. a bloc of mainly last in american nations is also pushing for majority to step down imma group push back on monday has called on venezuela's no tree to defy the president's. press conference and also a briefing disrupted by a couple of protesters who opposed intervention in venezuela a fourteen member name a group was set up in twenty seventeen to respond to the crisis it wants to prevent the majority government from conducting financial and trade transactions abroad.

jordan will host the 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 a principle as a confidence building measure ahead of talks in sweden in december with the rebels have been fighting a saudi embassy led coalition in yemen for four years james base 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 thiis of presenting 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 a. it it's a 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 plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan senators voted seventy to twenty six in favor of the measure and warns that pulling out could allow eisel and al qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries it's a rare rebuke of trumps 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 eisel 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 its then got to go to the house where other aspects of the wider ball are likely to receive stern opposition from the democrat controlled body here especially envoy on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to prepare for a second summit between president of trump and kim jong un steven begun is expected to meet his north korean counterpart trampin 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 wanted to accuse pyongyang of doing the opposite three hundred page confidential document seen by the reuters news agency alleges pyongyang is taking steps to protect its nuclear and ballistic missiles from military strikes at

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 reporters is says that north korea violates the sanctions by trading in cold and petroleum products and thereby undermining efforts to block funding for its nuclear program. gordon chang is an asia analyst and he says president jobs 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 can join feel as well why should i give up my missiles my don't fix you know one point one people people can argue only 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 un and start thinking about why we are not using our power to cut off money to camp please in paris severus in the woman suspected of starting a fire was killed eight people were injured as residents clambered to safety from the eight story not shy apartment building a fence interior minister who visited the scenes as the woman under less has mental health problems. and a stray near two people have died in the flood stricken northeastern city of townsville that was swept away by floodwaters from as a scott morrison has visited the city where thousands of homes have been inundated and what's being described as a once in a sentry rain event but

a 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 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 rhine in less than seven dies. not exactly what we've claimed 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 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 this monsoonal trough just doesn't want to seem to move much at all there'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 has been described as once in a century floats some areas of queensland are 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. so i had hair on al-jazeera and wanted from the kidnap and blackmail the indian businessmen and alleged gangsta facing extradition from senegal. and chinese communities around the wild celebration and ice and most of the holiday on that calendar. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast for this hour we're

going to start here in australia because we have been talking over the last several weeks about the very heavy rain across queensland and we have been showing you the video i want to show you some new video here across parts of much of the area a lot of these areas are beginning to recede slightly but the rain is continue across much of the region so we're going to be watching this very carefully as terms of the flooding situation we're starting to see some very heavy rain particularly down here across the north as well as to the southwest of where that monsoonal low is i want to show you the forecast map right now in terms of the rain though julia creek in the last twenty four hours has seen about two hundred and thirty three millimeters of rain this is kind of normal of what we've seen the last couple of days there is that monsoonal trough right there pretty much in the same location it has been for the last week or so so these areas are continuing to see the heavy rain in terms of what we're going to be seeing of the next few days the rain is going to continue across much of the same area down here towards the south though temperatures are into the low thirty's across much of the region for

adelaide though you may see a rain shower passing through with the tempter there of about thirty one degrees up here towards brisbane about thirty one degrees as well and then over here towards perth it is going to be a hot day for you with a temperature of about thirty five degrees. and from many members. of. the wall it's possible. people in power are meets the woman heading an eighteen man militia. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand. and eye for an hour. in iraq on al-jazeera.

you're watching on syria as a reminder of our top stories this hour many e.u. nations and last an american bloc recognized venezuela's self declared interim president as the country's leader. has called on the military to define the door and allow in humanitarian aid to the country. has special envoy on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong. un kim last met in singapore in june where the north korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearizing. and greece in paris of arrests of the woman suspected of starting a fire which killed eight people president's plan but safety from the eight story apartment building the french interior minister says the women under arrest has

mental health problems. kashmir day is being observed in pakistan is meant to show support for the people in india the minutes of kashmir the region has been a flashpoints between the two south asian nations since one nine hundred forty seven while hyder joins us live now from islamabad tell us about events that day how is this day being recognized. it is a public holiday. just on. by ordinary citizens by. against the brutality meted out against innocent civilians. in india and administered kashmir gets on the president has been talking to the. legislative assembly in which he. was pushing it's not a day that it was killing. me although they were killing innocent civilians

they did that strong words here in pakistan and. across party lines when it comes to this. read the. liberation front chief had also spoken in a radio message which was. just on in which he said don't worry towards. criminal negligence on keeping on the approach of. a very close to god when it comes to pakistan which continues to maintain the relevant un resolutions have not been addressed and that the people of have a right to self-determination i think about how much of a provocation is this day then for india. well as for it india is concerned everybody knows that it has an excess million

troops in may which is probably one of the most militarized regions there are. guns being fired against civilians blinding many many have been killed tens of thousands of people have been so august on one. dog even the leader of the. liberation. said that the world was not really doing except that there was any other solution to understand but now talking and he said that the only way to reach it didn't. solve this problem is to talk so far to india . from dad it wants to keep this up by letter an issue august on the other hand wants to internationalize the issue the foreign ministry and also said that. millions of protesters in other countries and a broad will be protesting to show their soul or doubt it gave for the plight of

those. they say are suffering under indian rule. from kashmir day it is not about thanks very much while. of the roman catholic church has wrapped up a historic trip to the united arab emirates just a few hours ago pope francis held mass in abu dhabi it was the first ever popular visit to the arabian peninsula earlier on monday the pope 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 the rebels. jurors in new york to resume their deliberations for a second day in the trial of mexico's most notorious drug gang boss walk in el chapo guzman let the cartel before he was extradited the sixty one year old denies smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other narcotics into the u.s. his eleven weeks trial has had gruesome details of murders torture prison escape

and massive corruption in mexico's government. well my government says it will dag dedicate more than twenty million dollars to help fund those who've gone missing during a campaign against drugs cartels organized crime and security forces have been blamed for some forty thousand disappearances gentleman 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 to much it's estimated there are currently forty thousand missing

people more than one thousand one hundred clandestine graves around twenty six thousand are identified bodies in morgues and this is the proof of the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis and human rights violation 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 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 food three 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 fountains of others there was a profound lack of political will to actually change things. a new governments make the right noises now comes the hard part trying to shake up authorities which out of fear or complicity have failed to help those looking for their loved ones john home and. screw city. brazil's new government has unveiled an anti crime bill aimed at getting tough on organized crime corruption and violence justice minister who previously led a major corruption investigation presented the proposals include making convicts stop their sentences after their first appeal is denied congress is set to vote on the bill which will be seen as a test for president. an attack in november so on monday is killed at least fourteen people it happened in the town of came in the get ten to province in

the border with mali the killings came on the eve of the g five some health summit in the capital ouagadougou she says and neutralized one hundred and forty six fighters in retaliation no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. prosecutors in senegal are preparing to extradite one of india's most wanted fugitives pujari 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 has more. 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 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 khan she is 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 and france the some 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. of course in hungary has jailed the bosses of alimony and plant 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 asked nick mercury and 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 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 spent on depleting 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 there. and they help to sustain life across the asian continent but a new report says that last year's of the himalayas are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change

a study by the international center for integrative mountain development warns that two thirds of them will be gone by the end of the century and less carbon emissions are drastically cut. 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 report says the impact on agriculture and supplies could be felt well before the turn of the century of people in india pakistan and china worst affected. research the 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 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 action 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 at the glaciers in the region double or so with something bad is going to happen that we can take steps to limit it from being much worse at the same time we can't cool ourselves and think that nothing is going to happen we're already seeing the impacts of climate change today so we need to tense 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 have been ringing in the lunar new year many are hoping for fortune and prosperity and the year of the paid him brown has more from beijing. well this is

the 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 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 that we have i have one. mission to accomplish in my life for the new year i'm very wary i hope all my family will happily stay together for china's president meanwhile she jinping has been touring the 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 children to watch the annual chinese new year television dollars this is the most watched television program in the world even more people what they've been 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 detroit 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. an oracle these are the headlines on al-jazeera venezuela's self-proclaimed president on a quiet day has called on the military to define nicolas maduro and in humanitarian

aid many you nations and alas an american bloc of recognized as the country's interim leader jordan will host new talks on an exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates and who think rebels will reconvene in a man on tuesday the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees so politically done as a confidence building measure out of talks in sweden in december eighth the rebels have been fighting a saudi m.r.c. led coalition any yemen for four years. he was pressed on north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to prepare for a second summit between president donald trump and kim jong il trump and kim that met last mess in singapore in june where the north korean leader pledged to work towards denuclearization though a new u.n. report says is trying to protect its nuclear arsenal from military strikes. police in the french capital filed the fire that killed eight people may have been set

deliberately. to safety from the eight story apartment building in paris one woman has been arrested a french interior minister says she has mental health problems. floodwaters in australia have swept two men to their deaths many homes in townsville in queensland submerged prime minister scott morrison has visited the city to comfort victims the floods follow what weather forecast says and scribing as a once in a century rain. has more. jurors in new york to resume their deliberations for a second day in the trial of mexico's most notorious drug boss chapo guzman but the cartel before he was extradited sixty one year old denies smuggling billions of dollars worth of cocaine and other narcotics into the u.s. . those are your headlines more news on al-jazeera after a.j. selects. from sunrise to sunset cross

asia. pacific explorer. fascinating story one on one on al-jazeera. michael. you can. see. in this whalen populist president nicolas maduro is sworn in for a second consecutive term following elections deemed fraudulent by his opponents and much of the international community. under his presidency the country with the world's largest oil reserves has plunged into acute poverty hunger is widespread hospitals a crumbling the most basic medicine is impossible to find and children are dying from malnutrition and preventable diseases. this year inflation is expected to surpass three million percent at the current rate millions of desperate venezuelans flee.