because of victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. the rahman this is the al-jazeera news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a plea for venezuela's military to let aid in as the call for as nicolas maduro to step down grows louder also giving peace another try the central african republic government and armed groups signed a deal to end years of violence. also attempting to bridge their differences the

greek prime minister lands in turkey with various disputes on the agenda. and. bringing in the pig chinese communities around the world celebrate the most important holiday of their calendar. welcome to the news of venezuela's self-proclaimed president is 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 nicolas maduro has asked pope francis to help resolve the crisis latin america editor lucien newman has the latest from the capital caracas. 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 gen the moment is now if you have any doubts ask your families what is the right thing to do we have given you assurances of amnesty and we have also told you 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. got 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 little rejected in ultimatum to hold a new presidential elections. an angry man accused 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. and has to intercede and barter

a dialogue with the opposition to resolve the conflict between israel and this as a human rights organizations are sounding the alarm so we're going to we're witnessing what is probably the largest number of political prisoners in venezuela history between january twenty first and thirty first there were nine hundred sixty six new arrests. the n.-g. o. which tracks detentions says the majority are accused of instigating hatred and in many cases of terrorism using false evidence. this is 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 access. block of many latin american nations is also pushing for majority to step down the lima group which met in canada's company monday has called on but as well as military to abandon military gabriel elizondo has more also what. 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 supposed. to promo duel protesters interrupted the closing huss conference shouting hands up as well 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 capital to try to find ways to dislodge mature over 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 venezuelans 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 gordo 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 my bureau and no amount of diplomacy has been able to

change that gabriel's andro al-jazeera auto rival factions from the central african republic of signed an initial deal to end six years of fighting an agreement between the cia our government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in sudan a more detailed agreement is due to be signed in sales couple of only on wednesday thousands have been killed and millions displaced since fighting broke out six years ago. well trouble began in twenty thirteen when an alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president francois busy zs government a few months later rebel leader. was sworn in as interim president now he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti black began the un sent in a peacekeeping force to support african union and french forces that were already there and since then cease fires have been signed and violated all sides have been

accused of war crimes one hundred well as our correspondent monitoring events for us from khartoum and these are small and steady steps from all sides to sort of find a long lasting peace but this is apparently sort of just the first stage mohammed. that's right so small steps but this one is described here today by the heads of state there so then is president and president to add that of the central african republic ours a huge step ahead they have called on the rebel leaders to this time around this peace agreement and make sure that it is implemented and that it holds the head of the chairman of the african union source spoke on the occasion and he said the challenge is not to sign a peace agreement many have been signed and violated in the past the challenge is to keep it going and to make it a lasting peace what is special about this peace agreement is that this is the

first time that it came as a fruit as a result of direct negotiations face to face negotiations between those who are believers and central african government of public government so there is a hope now that now that all those leaders the warlords and so on have to come to the table and talk to face to face they probably will honor their engagements and this could be the last time perhaps or the lasting peace that the central african republic people have been waiting for for a long time after as you mentioned years of bloodshed and about a million people who have been displaced or forced to go and leave the country for the moment we'll leave it there mohammed thanks for the update one developed in cartoon. no the taliban has launched an attack on an army base in afghanistan it happened in the northern conducive province most of the twenty six people killed are apparently soldiers and police but let's go to tony bertie our correspondent in kabul and sketchy details at the moment tony as to exactly what's happened in this

attack on security forces what of me what more do we know. well pretty much what you said i mean the taliban has claimed responsibility this was a three dollar attack on an army post police checkpoints around the outskirts of condors the provincial capital it was twenty six killed about eleven wounded on the afghan security side and we're told that twenty two taliban died in the attack but that is not being confirmed but it does show that you know we can't of these meaningful talks the breakthrough talks between the taliban and the u.s. that are on the peace front is working it seems but on the war front it's business as usual and the taliban is showing that it still means business and is still able to strike and indeed talking of those peace talks you just mentioned there elements of that group have gone to russia to talk to the russians with other stakeholders what's all that about are these also peace talks in another form. well they are

they're not being recognized by the afghan government which is not taking part in this it's been there's a number of opposition afghan opposition members going to this some former security force chiefs going along to it and also the former president mohammed karzai there's a ten man taliban delegation being led by stanek desire he's opened that meeting by some very strong language he describes the americans as invaders he describes the afghan go government as administration and he said that if the foreign troops left there would be peace tomorrow but there has to be a change in the constitution to incorporate or an islamic framework so i think these meetings are designed to guarantee an garner support for their cause and and build up the momentum because of course you know there's a lot of. fear about the war nearly nineteen years of war bloodshed and people are very tired of it but also there's fear as well that what will happen after

a peace and after the foreign troops leave there is concern about that which is what does happen and keep an eye on that meeting and of course events within afghanistan too tony berthing couple things. security forces and. they have neutralized one hundred forty six fighters in retaliation for an attack in the north fourteen people were killed on sunday night in the town of kanan near the border with mali now the killings came on the eve of the g five sahil summit meeting in the capital of wagadu nicholas haq has more from dhaka. general movies when you go on national television late on monday night that this operation took place across hundreds of kilometers of border area the brick so shares with mali not only were there troops on the ground but it also involved planes and helicopters and the support of the french special forces that have

a base in ouagadougou it was in the region of cane in the province in bonn in the literal region and in in the cahsee province this all happened on monday and this is a region where there is no physical front chair it's a region used by it nomadic herders that come across mali into brick so in search of food and water now no one has been able to independently verify the circumstances of the death that occurred during this operation but it's certainly a small victory for the bikini army that have come under attack they say it's in response to an attack on villagers late on sunday night where armed men went house to house killing villagers and it comes just days before the start of the u.s. training operation flintlock that will take place. now what's clear is that this conflict that started in

a region of mali is spilling outside of its border across the region into neighboring countries and brick enough has suffered the most loss but this comes as a victory for the forces. who are facing what it seems an unending conflict. plenty more ahead on the news are including you. leave. your of the emerald isle why bret's it is sending many britons in search of their irish roots also a grim warning about places in the himalayas and what's being called disastrous consequences and in sports a setback for the most successful female skier of all time as she aims to end her career on a high. place in paris have arrested a woman suspected of starting a fire which killed eight people others were injured as residents clambered to

safety from the eight story apartment building the french interior minister who visited the scene says the woman under arrest has mental health problems. let's just bring you some breaking news coming out of egypt where a committee of parliament has approved an initial proposal to extend the president's term by another six years to take effect the proposal will need to pass a vote in parliament within four months if passed the constitutional amendment to allow president sisi to extend his term beyond twenty twenty two we'll bring you more on that as we get it moving on now to europe where the greek prime minister has arrived in ankara for what's likely to be a tense meeting with turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan and alexis tsipras they're at loggerheads over various issues including turkey's refusal to acknowledge the name change to north macedonia and other territorial disputes johnson has more from athens. the last time the two leaders met in athens fourteen

months ago their language was combative president. accusing the greek prime minister of sheltering turkish army officers suspected of plotting the failed coup against him three years ago alexis t. plus reminded that the island of cyprus is divided between greek and turkish cypriots because of turkey's invasion forty five years ago the stage is now set for a repeat performance in ankara turkey's powerful national security council last week renewed extradition demands for the eight army officers seeking asylum in greece despite greek supreme court judges forbidding extradition on humanitarian grounds the soldiers had commandeered a helicopter to escape 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 to

yield. to turkey's demands. if not to correct assessment when 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 greece then hesitated to commit to any deal and eighteen months ago

turkey pulled out of the talks altogether the two sides now have no forum to discuss differences. setting up a bilateral forum would make the visit a success from the greek point of view but expectations are low jumps are open loss al-jazeera athens. said in casillas our correspondent in anchorage joins me now cinema mean are turkey and greece expected really to overcome these unresolved issues like cyprus and the eastern mediterranean in the time that they have. well so fair when you look at the latest statements by the greek and turkish side it seems to leaders are. going to have a promising meeting today yesterday alexis she pressed the leverage an interview to semi state news agency and of the latency he he mentioned that turkey should be supported in its efforts to access in the e.u. and turkey should be supported while hosting four four million syrian refugees in

its territory his statements were full of support messages actually he said that also the muslim minorities issues are going to be taking care of inside greece on the other hand when you look at the turkish side a statement by depressed president says that by literally relations will be totally reviewed in today's meetings we see that two leaders are going to discuss everything but of course the problems that are mentioned in our report by john from greece at these are fundamental issues turkey has a firm stance on some of the issues like cyprus issue like mediterranean also the extradition request over to coop plotters who have who have fled to greece and greece has a firm stance against these all two so we we see that two leaders are also running for elections alexis tsipras is running for a general election series there is kind of weak in

a way and again it supports also added on air dance parties running for the local elections so no matter what whether they agree on many issues will they be able to realize the solution this is the most important question asked by everyone here to see what comes out of that meeting for the moment thank you. jordan is hosting mutual exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates and who travels have reconvened in after they last met ensue. in december the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees it was agreed as a confidence building measure ahead of the december talks the rebels have been fighting a saudi a morality led coalition in yemen for four years our diplomatic editor 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 thiis of brazil entered a list of eight thousand people each that they want to be released although i'm told that some names on the list may be incorrect some others may be dead the un has said that this is an important measure that could rebuild trust between the two sides if you 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 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. special envoy for north korea will travel to pyongyang on wednesday to prepare for a second summit between president trump and kim jong un steven buying and is 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 documents seen by the reuters news agency alleges that pyongyang is taking steps to protect its nuclear and ballistic missiles from military strikes they are 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 coal and petroleum products and thereby undermining efforts to block funding for its nuclear program gordon chang is an asia and that is t. 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 and my dukes you know one point one people people can argue oh 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 it's 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. floodwaters in australia have swept two men to death snow many homes in townsville in queensland all submerged prime minister scott morrison has visited the city to comfort victims of floods follow the water weather forecasters are describing as a once in a century rain under thomas hearns the latest from townsville. i know i look pretty wet but this rain is actually some of the likes it's that it's been a day that's been the problem in townsville well over a year's worth of writing that poland in a week and that has led to this there is a reservoir further upstream about ten kilometers that way it's normally used to

consign drinking rule to townsville but because of the risk of the down rule breaking if the volume of water in that reservoir got to why they've opened the gates and it's become a tourist attraction the volume of water pouring out of that reservoir is quite incredible what it is over a million liters of water a second for him down the roughs river now here the river banks a high enough to cope with that but that's not the case further down straight in the suburbs in the heart of townsville and that's where we're seeing thousands and thousands of problems that have been flooded and streets completely on the rule of the last forty eight hours have been well over a thousand calls to the imagines that it is a many many people have been rescued in in the place of about six over the last few days and certainly on tuesday there were more rescues like they say given the scale of this flood it's incredible but so far very few people have died but this is not the end of it there is more rainfall cost as this week goes on the volume of water

in this river could go up and as it floods downstream warble people are going to find their homes but it's time for the weather appears kevin and of course it doesn't really seem to be letting up a tool across north america you know we have a different scenario now we had the winter we had the polar vortex we had a little bit of warm up now we have another pacific storm that is coming in. parts of california want to show you what's been going on here here's the storm system right here i want to show you as it moves inland because a lot of problem now for seattle for vancouver for those areas normally we would see rain but it was actually cold enough that we actually saw ice in seattle the streets were frozen seattle is one of those cities where we do have some up hills and down hills which made it very difficult for people to get around in the city there's a lot of lot of accidents in seattle over the last day they are looking at a lot of that snow now making its way towards the east of course some took advantage of the snow day there we're going to be seeing over the next few days is still more of the same here across parts of the west you can see that area of low

pressure right there spinning but we are looking at a very dangerous situation with another storm system this one down here across the southwest it's going to be moving up towards the northeast very quickly and for chicago they do have ice warnings that are in effect right now for the overnight hours that's only going to affect what's going to happen at the airports so if you're flying into o'hare over the next day we could be seen significant delays because of that ice storm so to get your forecast map we are looking at some very heavy rain down here across much of the south dallas it is going to be rainy but look at that temperature twenty three degrees in your forecast up towards new york you're going to be seen the rain as well as the snow as we go towards the end of the day thanks kevin well chinese people around the world have been ringing in the lunar new year many hoping for fortune and prosperity in the year of the pig a dream brown has more from beijing. well this is a park or 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 than they have 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 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. still ahead here on the al-jazeera news tracing mexico's disappears the government unveils a plan to find out what happened to an estimated forty thousand people also installed more back in. news for manchester united's former manager this time in a spanish courtroom. we'll have that story on the other side of the break to stay with us here on al-jazeera.

take the worst possible material you radio ground into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live think is a colossal event. as well for many people at home. but doesn't make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera the latest news as it breaks the difference is that in both bottles i still fly this that authentic in the ritz with the this time both with fifty's. with detailed coverage has already said that he's ready to take over at intel in precedents and calls for you elections. from around the world volunteers are doing what they can that's not the

point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred. you're watching the al-jazeera news hour with me it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories venezuela's self-proclaimed president is calling on the armed forces to allow in aid to ease chronic food and medicine shortages and has received more backing with many european and latin american countries recognizing him as interim. also rival factions from the central african republic have signed an initial deal to end six years of fighting the agreement between the

cia and government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in sudan. and within the last hour and egyptian a parliamentary committee has approved extending the term of the president by another six years the proposal will need to pass a vote in parliament within four months to become effective timothy count us as a nonresident fellow at the institute for middle east policy joins me now on skype from kyra good to have you with us this is a huge step on the way to consolidating long term power is it not absolutely i mean it's one that we've expected quite some time but it's it's one formal step that we presence in power until twenty thirty four i mean this is going this is going to worry opposition groups surely well i think that opposition groups largely already were dealing with the government with the expectation that this was coming was

really more a question of when rather than ever. certainly it's. it's their opposition groups are going to be under a lot of pressure regarding whether or not they publicly campaign against the move to amend the constitution although already a number of them have been voicing their opposition to doing so quite greatly how much of this is about the long jever t. of a c.c. rule to implement the policies that he wants and how much of it is it a chance really to curb opposition voices or dissent. i think this is more about the longevity of c.c.s. rule than specifically targeting the opposition reality is unfortunately that there's already a number of measures in place to repress opposition in egypt and a number of leading opposition figures have either been imprisoned forced into exile had their assets frozen or been banned from travel there's already

extraordinary pressure on anybody critical of the government publicly. this amendment process isn't really primarily focused on that i don't think although as a byproduct of the brightest process it is likely that more requests will come in an effort to suppress any campaign to oppose extending cc's time in office various human rights groups have been speaking to al-jazeera in the past few weeks talking about the fact that. there has been a large number of political prisoners. detained under cc's roland than any other egyptian government in the past and yet we don't really see the international community. playing into cairo in any shape or form over this with this news now coming out of cairo in terms of the longevity that sisi has in terms of being president do you think there is anyone out there in any of the international capitals that's going to criticize what's going on in egypt. i mean i think that it's likely that there will be some spoken criticism of the steps when president i

knew about problems and i was in a car just recently he did raise concerns about the human rights situation and argue that. that repression actually yamit it rather than answers the ability one of the key governments talking points is that it justifies its repression as for preserving stability. that said it did not appear to affect any of the material elements of the relationship whether it be the sale of arms or large trade deals and i don't anticipate frankly that many governments if any are going to take a material stand against expanding its power and pursuing as much as two decades in office if this is fast and continues to run and win elections that are frankly largely fraudulent so this point the i think a lot of world leaders have chosen to deal with c.c.

and see him as a devil that they can deal with as the devil they know rather than that to try to rock the boat much in terms of their relationship with the egyptian government or to see him how the international community reacts to this news coming out of egypt in the coming days at the moment to many count us thanks so much for joining us from cairo. now donald trump is due to deliver his second term delayed state of the union address the u.s. president was forced to perspire in the event last month because of the longest government shutdown in u.s. history a bitter political battle over his demands for a six billion dollar border war with mexico has helped his approval rating sink to an all time low from washington can really help it has more. for weeks donald trump has hinted immigration will be a big part of his tuesday state of the union address the white house says trump will try to unify a country divided over the issue listen closely to the state. i think you'll find it very. well which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem the u.s.

president has been in a political standoff with his democratic opposition over his request for five point seven billion from congress for a border wall he hopes to build along the u.s. border with mexico his speech was scheduled for last tuesday but was postponed by house speaker nancy pelosi during a congressional government funding battle that shut down parts of the government for thirty five days. the short term funding approved by congress to reopen the government will soon run out many will be watching to see if trump declares a national emergency to bypass congress and get the money he wants for his wall you'll hear the state of the union and then you'll see what happens right after. investing in infrastructure is another topic the white house says trump will cover as he did last year and calling on congress to produce

a bill that generates at least one point five trillion dollars for the new infrastructure investment but other trump controversies overshadowed that effort on tuesday trump's expected to try again he's also reportedly planning to promise and end to the hiv epidemic in america discussed the trade war with china. and the political turmoil in venezuela. overall the tone of trump speech is expected to be conventional sticking to the teleprompter as he did last year as long as we are proud of who we are. and what we are fighting for there is nothing. we cannot achieve in his last two speeches to congress trump appeared willing to reach out to his political opponents to achieve shared legislative goals but within days of each address trunk quickly returned to attacking democrats on his twitter feed a sharp contrast to his appeal for unity still the white house says president trump's

goal is to bring the country together but after two years in office the country remains divided angry and opposed to many of trump's policies most polls show the president goes into his state of the union speech with just a forty percent approval rating can really help at al-jazeera washington. joins me now from capitol hill in washington d.c. and rose regardless there will still be a great deal of anticipation in terms of what president trump will or will not say to congress in a few hours time. well of course there is going to be that in his patients so health and certainly in light of the fact that his senior advisor kellyanne conway has just told reporters over at the white house that the president is going to make the argument for why and national emergency should be declared along the border

between the united states and mexico that certainly is going to amp up the interest in the president's remarks we should note that calm way also told reporters just in the last fifteen minutes or so that the president is not going to declare a national emergency during tuesday evening speech but that he certainly believes that there is the legal footing in order to move ahead certainly that's going to. get very much animate members of congress who have been locked in their own very heated arguments over whether such a measure would be useful in trying to deal with the country's immigration situation but of course was a developing story also coming out so we're hearing about prosecutors seeking documents from president inaugural committee meanwhile soul thoughts about what's the significance of that request. well there are

a couple of things to up point also health first this isn't the first time that federal prosecutors have demanded records from the trump inaugural committee which raised one hundred seven million dollars a record in u.s. political history the brooklyn u.s. attorney's office has already been investigating whether there have been illegal contributions made to the committee by persons who are not either u.s. citizens or u.s. legal residents it's illegal for people who are now either citizens or legal residents to provide any money to federal campaigns or to inaugural committees or to other radical. collectivities here in the united states the other fact that is significant is that it is a very wide reaching. subpoena according to numerous news reports it's not just trying to find out whether people who were not u.s. citizens or u.s. legal residents were giving money to the trump inaugural committee but they want to

take a look at the bank accounts they want to look at the vendors who were supporting the inaugural committee's work when the president came into office just about two years ago it's a very sweeping probe it's considered a criminal investigation and it's the kind of thing that could very much outlast the so called moeller investigation the special counsel robert muller's look into a russian interference or involvement in the two thousand and sixteen presidential campaign for them and we'll leave that follow events with you in the coming hours thanks was. said to south asia no day is being observed in pakistan the annual event is meant to show support for the people in indian administered kashmir in the pakistani city of karachi thousands gathered to denounce a crackdown by indian security forces on activists and opposition leaders the region has been a flashpoint between the two south asian nations since independence in one nine

hundred forty seven. has the latest from the pakistani capital islamabad. february fifth the day to day with the people of crush me. have been suffering for always have been. because of their demand for self-determination approached by gift on their gun same thing among the political party which i don't why they did be there why did on several issues that when it comes to that question me because the opposition and the ruling party really speak with one voice help i get on the president was speaking to the august on the administered kashmir legislative assembly where he said that india. pushing a false narrative of killing militants and a rally how every third it was innocent people that were being hailed as the international community to send human rights to the rally to find out what was really happening across the line of control from pakistani administered kashmir.

we demand from the international community thought they force india to follow the un resolution on kashmir and go for a referendum and let kashmiris live according to their own wishes there is a strong support for the kashmir recorders and the foreign office is now saying that this year there will be millions of people protesting not just in pakistan but in brussels aid and other capitals and well the pakistani foreign minister has taken a delegation of opposition member and well to make case case before the british parliamentary budget don juans the international community to come out in support of the pending un resolution on this core issue. so to europe now where britain's prime minister is heading to northern ireland to talk about the main obstacle to solving the brics it calles the so-called backstop on the border between the north and the irish republic the confusion over leaving the e.u.

. as a british citizens applying for irish passports parker 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. . 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. stripped away. perhaps by a majority that 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 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 i'm all 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 it unlike other e.u. citizens irish people can automatically work study access public services and vote in the u.k. writes the government's promise to protect after breaks it as more and more britons

delve into their family history in search of irish connections i wish people in britain are considering the impact bricks it's having on them a lot of people are advocating they were a 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 you're a good immigrants in the 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. in the park or al-jazeera london. to the americas now where mexico's government sagittal dedicate more than twenty million dollars to help fund find an estimated forty thousand missing people often refer to the disappeared many are young people who've fallen victim to organized crime and drug

cartels around a tenth of them. it's estimated that there are. proof of the magnitude of the.

welcome back they help to sustain life across the asian continent but scientists are warning himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change a study by the international center for integrated mountain development walls that two thirds of the ice sheets we gone by the end of the century and that's carbon emissions a drastically cut the glaciers are a critical source of water for two hundred fifty million people living in the hindu kush that's the himalayan region another one and a half billion rely on rivers flowing from the mountains the study says the impact on agriculture and energy supplies could be felt well before the turn of the century affecting india pakistan and china have 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 piers in magnitude of

climate change is even greater than scientists have said even as recently as in the past five or ten years in october there was a big report from the united nations international governmental panel on climate change that showed that greenhouse gas emissions are warming much faster than we expected we've also seen a recent report showing that steam level 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 the last of the glaciers in the region double so if something bad is going to happen but we can take steps to limit it from being much worse at the same time we can't fool ourselves and think that nothing is going to happen we're already seeing the impacts of climate change today so we need to take steps now to protect those will be affected for instance by thinking about how to reuse water when you won't have as reliable water supplies all keeping all that sort of

feel it's time to spoil sort of wintery stuff going on yes that's right so healthy most successful world cup scare of all time has suffered a setback at our final major of that lindsey vonn has crashed in the super g. at the world championships in sweden this is vonn pictured just before the incident the thirty four year old was able to get up after the fall on the course and aura last week the all time leader in women's world cup wins announced that she'd be retiring after racing the super g. and downhill at these championships the two thousand and ten olympic gold medal winner has been struggling with long term knee injury. so might we one day see the world ski championships held in pakistan the country's winter sports federation and method military are joining forces to help boost skiing's popularity in the country david stokes has more. the mountains of northern pakistan spectacular but traditionally considered a dangerous no go area military operations aren't out of the ordinary here but not

like this one pakistan's air force flying in competitors from around the world to take part in an international ski tournament ten thousand five hundred feet above sea level the military opening its doors to its own personal ski resort and now tar determined to change perceptions. this is inspiration for five years stunning message the world. is there for the rest of nature. these very. beautiful things. there's an enthusiasm for the interest. and reach through this venue and enjoy these facilities in five years from these mountains have been plagued by tribal violence for centuries and remind is never far away but ski races from nearly forty countries still made the journey to get a feel for pakistan slopes and the feedback was positive. real like it's no

condition well there's everything is perfect and real like people so much because they're so kindly to us very very happy to be. this kids are going to do a lot more and. more basis even bigger is this lego world championship even as winter olympics here it wasn't all about the international visitors pakistan's top national skiers were there too with the perfect opportunity to showcase their talent and learn from some of the world's best. me and my teammates. just. as well as skiing snowboarding ice skating and ice hockey competitions were held for the. time in the country pakistan's winter sports federation in collaboration with the air force is determined to inspire youngsters not only to get involved but

maybe one day even bring home gold medals we have incoming international competitions and special olympics in beijing if we're. getting the national flags giving rodimus and for hosting the olympics may still be some way off but the more pakistan puts on events like this the sure not only to boost sport and terrorism but also project a more positive image of the country around the world david stokes al-jazeera. josie marino has become the latest high profile individual from the world of football to be found guilty of tax fraud in spain a former manchester united manager has been given a one year prison sentence but won't serve any jail time radio has instead agreed to pay all of the fine and more than two million dollars the offenses related to undeclared income while he was managing around madrid seven years ago last month chris johnson were naldo was fined more than twenty million dollars by the spanish

tax authorities. it's been a rough twenty four hours for marino the fifty six year old was in russia on monday and was invited to drop the ceremonial pot at a k h l game after he did the portuguese suffered an embarrassing fall that was captured on video by the crowd boasted all over social media. english premier league leaders liverpool have faltered again they were held to a one one draw at west ham on monday's savvy a modest goal in the twenty second minute but the visitors had just minutes later macau antonio equalized for west ham your club side still lead the table but are only just three points ahead of second place manchester city. we have to fight we have to fight that's all it's not about pressure it's about enjoying the situation you're in we have sixty two points lost one game in a full season so far which is very positive but i see new faces already you know you feel you feel a bit sorry with us you don't have to and we are fine so we are fine and

everything's good and but of course tonight was just a tough game but if you have a day like that with the things happened yesterday and then you get a pointed question for me that's ok that's absolutely fine now the team with the best record in the n.b.a. the malaki box had a good night against the brooklyn nets the bucs janice and tito compose start on the night leading with a game high thirty points and fifteen rebounds injury depleted bats were unable to mount a comeback in new york milwaukee winning one hundred thirteen to ninety four brooklyn lost for the third straight time over in sacramento california the gangs beat the visiting san antonio spurs rocky ford marvin bagley had a career high twenty four points and twelve rebounds to lead sacramento to a one hundred twenty seven to one hundred twelve when it's their seventh straight home victory the kings are now within half a game of the l.a. clippers for the eighth playoff spot in the western conference. and that's all your

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al-jazeera selects. and mundy pointed on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. desperate for more weird news about hilton's babies present you want to take a week or two off he said i need to work i need the money part of it i think it's humiliating because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life and i'm not risking

it all down. the tone was going on. for a better future always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on things. on al-jazeera. egyptian president of the c c gets a boost as a parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential terms to six years. watching i was there i was the whole robin in doha coming up in the next half hour a play for venezuela's military to let aid in the calls for president maduro to step down press louder. and giving p. .