in a mat risking it all down i. tell mark green and ask for a better future always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on hard. 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 raman in doha coming up in the next half hour a plea for venezuela's military to let aid in the call for president maduro to step down grows louder. and 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. welcome to the program we begin this bulletin with breaking news coming out of cairo within the last hour a committee in egypt's parliament has approved an initial proposal to extend the president's term to take effect the proposal will need to pass a vote in parliament within four months and if passed the constitutional amendment will allow the president of the c.c. to extend his term beyond twenty twenty two to the count us says a nonresident fellow at the institute for middle east policy he says the move may raise a few eyebrows but international criticism will largely be subdued. you know it's one that we've expected quite some time but it's it's one formal step that we

presidencies in power until twenty thirty four 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 if. certainly it's. it's there are opposition groups are going to be on there are a lot of pressure regarding whether or not they may publicly campaign against moves to amend the constitution although already a number of them have been voicing their opposition to doing so quite frankly this is more about the longevity of c.c.s. rule and 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 figure it's have either been imprisoned forced into exile had their assets frozen or been banned from fragile 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 products process it is likely that more repression will come in an effort to suppress any campaign to oppose extending cc's time in office i think that it's likely that there will be some spoken criticism of the steps when president i knew about romance and that was in cairo just recently he did raise concerns about the human rights situation and argue. that repression actually yamit is rather than hansa stability one of the key government points is that it justifies for pression 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 sisi expanding his power and pursuing as much as two decades in office. top story that we're following is in venezuela while

the self-proclaimed president is calling on the military to allow humanitarian aid into the country on going to receive more backing with many european countries recognizing him as the interim leader but russia is accusing them of interference president has asked pope francis to help resolve the crisis in america in human hands the latest from the capital caracas. the self-proclaimed interim president chose the day that commemorates former president. one nine hundred ninety 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 in. the moment is now patriotic soldier captain colonel navy officer general the moment is now if you have any doubts ask your families what is the right thing to do we have given you assurances of amnesty and we have also told you of 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 nicolas maduro 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 or allowing essential supplies to cross the border. got another boost when at least nineteen european nations joined the u.s. canada and much of latin america and recognizing him as interim president after my little rejected an ultimatum to hold new presidential elections. an angry mob accuse the spanish president of being a servant of u.s.

interests. so you only one thing out of fairness sanch i say to mr peter sanchez god forbid but if one day there is a coup if one day there is the military intervention your hands will have blood on them just like the hands of former spanish prime minister hoss m.i.t.'s now in the war in iraq they will forever be stained in blood and history will remember you as the puppet who was at the service of the interventionist war mongering policy of donald trump. saying that now little says he's asked pope francis to intercede and barter a dialogue with the opposition to resolve the conflict when this as a 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 new arrests . the ngo which tracks detentions says the majority are accused of instigating hatred and in many cases of terrorism using false evidence. this is

opposition leaders prepared to test the loyalty of those who it's believed will ultimately determine the outcome of this power struggle to see in you an al-jazeera that acts. filing gavin is a senior latin america analyst risk make she says venezuela's military is the deciding factor nicolas maduro to stay in power or not. at the moment there seems to be a division between the rank and file and the military high command i think you have to remember that maduro himself didn't tale from the military the one after he took office in april twenty third teen he went out of his way really to get to ingratiate himself with the military he has promoted about a thousand generals you know something like two thousand generals in the venezuelan military compared to say iran nine hundred in the u.s. so the military top brass is is very large it's very entrenched with the government they've been given a lot of power over food over the oil industry in particular over distribution

ports airports and there are also a lot of allegations that you know senior fox and of the military are involved in illicit activities including illegal gold mining and potentially even drug trafficking so to get those factions to move away from the current situation is very difficult for me and the offer of an amnesty isn't going to be enough for for potentially criminal factions to break away so i think from a juror looking at this as long for him. it's to try and stay in power for as long as we can and you know if he's looking abroad and looking at other situations in recent years in egypt or libya or syria he may just calculate that it's better to hunker down but again you know the question then comes back to whether the military seeing what's happening on the ground will will will stay loyal to him or will gradually start to peel away and that will be the deciding factor now the taliban as those in a time base in afghanistan it happened in the northern can do is province those

details are still coming in the most of those killed were soldiers and police but let's get the very latest by joining tony betty our correspondent in kabul and sketchy details tony what more do we know about this attack. also we know it was a coordinated attack by the taliban which was predawn it was aimed at police checkpoints and an army base on the outskirts of condors which is the provincial capital we have been told that the death toll now stands at twenty six killed eleven of them please officers and about twelve wounded the attackers being claimed by the taliban we understand from the afghan authorities that about twenty two taliban fighters were killed in the attack that has not been confirmed by the taliban but it was a concentrated attack and when you consider this comes relatively short time after the meaning for peace talks breakthrough between the taliban and the u.s. in doha it shows that peace may be one thing peace talks but when it comes to war it's still business as usual for the taliban so they're showing their straight

showing their might and they're keeping pushing the situation so they know that they are in a very strong position i think this is just reinforcing to the americans and everyone else that they can still attack and inflict casualties and you talk and touched on the issue of talks that have been held certainly by. a particular group of the taliban along with various stakeholders in russia these are not sort of the same sort of peace talks as of the twin track talks on. i think these are specially selected the after month afghan government is not attending those talks they say that this these are not meaningful talks it cannot achieve peace and they don't want any part of it but it shows the taliban is willing to talk to everyone apart from the afghan government and they are i think seeking to secure support for their position when it comes to further peace talks which will probably be held at the end of this month or for the moment tony will leave it there of course to follow

bents with you from kabul in the coming days thank you. so to africa no rival factions from the central african republic have signed an initial deal to end six years of fighting an agreement between the c.a.r. government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in sudan more detailed agreement is due to be signed in ca os capital bondy on wednesday thousands have been killed and millions displaced in fighting between christian and muslim militia since twenty thirteen trouble began in twenty thirteen when the alliance of muslim rebels known as the seleka overthrew president françois busies government a few months later rebel leader michel joy to was sworn in as interim president and he was forced to resign after fighting between the seleka and christian fighters known as the anti black began the un sent in peacekeeping forces to support african union and french forces are already there since then cease fires have been signed and violated but all sides have been accused of war crimes mohamed el has more from

car too. the government of the central african republic and fourteen rebel leaders have signed a peace agreement that has been long in the making difficult negotiations for over a week here in the sudanese capital khartoum the heads of state of sudan and the central african republic have attended the signing with initials here today the final signing will be on wednesday in the capital bangui the capital of the central african republic what distinguishes this agreement is that it is a it is the fruit of first time head to head face to face negotiations between the rebel leaders and the government of the central african republic it is labeled an agreement of peace and reconciliation and it is going to open the door for a unity government in that country and also for an amnesty to that of bleeders that amnesty to that i believe as has been a sticking point in the negotiations so all the parties to the this conflict and

the sponsors hope that this time around this agreement will hold and it will bring final peace to the people of the central african republic jordan is hosting new talks on exchange of prisoners between yemen's warring sides government delegates and who the rebels are reconvened in a month after they last met in sweden in december the deal could involve up to fifteen thousand detainees it was agreed in principle as a confidence building measure ahead of the december talks hutu rebels have been fighting assertive in iraq he led coalition in yemen for four years our diplomatic editor james days a small. 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 theses have presented a list of eight thousand people each that they want to be released although i am 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 the 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 a 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 well still ahead here on al-jazeera donald trump finally gets a chance to deliver his second state of the union address we're live in washington d.c. on what to expect. hello again it's good to have you back where across the southeastern part of china over the next few days tempers. they're actually on their way up it's going to feel more like spring in some locations so starting here in hong kong twenty six degrees food show at twenty six degrees as well we are going to see actually thirty degrees in food show by the time we get towards thursday we're also going to see some rain up here towards the north so for shanghai you're going to start to get ready by the time we get to wednesday into thursday and those temperatures will be coming down

taipei a hot day for you at thirty degrees as well here across parts of india it is going to be up to the north in the higher elevations that we see the mix of rain and snow over the next you days the wind watch that very carefully on a forecast map you can see the snow and the rain right there as we go towards thursday we really start to see the increase of snow across much of the area for new delhi though rain is going to be passing through the good news with that is the air quality is going to be improving with that situation down here towards the south in sri lanka things are going to get better the rain is going to be ending most of the rain will be down along the southern coast and here across much of the middle east we're looking quite nice across much of the area riyadh is going to be a little bit cooler in one thousand degrees at twenty three and as we go towards thirty thursday dubey attempt a few about twenty three degrees as well. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is

a big business and for slate the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are landed together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that office solution is very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me sell robin a reminder of our top stories and egyptian 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 come into effect the taliban says it was

behind an attack on an army base in afghanistan it happened in northern conducive province at least twenty six people have been killed most of them soldiers and policeman also rival factions from the central african republic of signed an initial agreement to end six years of fighting the deal between the cia our government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in khartoum a more detailed agreement is due to be signed in on wednesday. doubleton street to deliver his second and delayed state of the union address the us president was forced to perspire in the event last month because of the longest government shutdown in u.s. history the bitter political battle over his demands of 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 get us more. for weeks donald trump has hinted that immigration will be a big part of this 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 of the year i think you'll find it very exciting or out of war 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 for. congress for border wall 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 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 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 goal is to bring the country together but after two years in office the country remains divided angry and opposed to many of policies polls show the president goes into his state of the union speech with just a forty percent approval rating can really help get al-jazeera washington. joins me now from capitol hill in washington d.c. as we sort of wait and wonder what the president will say we know he's going to talk about immigration we know he's going to talk about the border wall that's right so hell and in fact his senior adviser kellyanne conway told reporters in the last hour over at the white house that the president during his state of the

union speech will make the case for why there should be a national emergency declared along the border between the united states and mexico calmly was clear to say that this does not mean that the president is actually going to declare a national emergency in order to try to build a wall as he says is necessary to deal with immigration from a point south of the us mexico border but that he is going to try to make the logical argument so that the public would understand why he believes it's necessary of course we also expect the president to talk about the need to deal with infrastructure he may outline the specifics of a one trillion dollar infrastructure program to bring the country it really into the twenty first century but really the focus is going to be on dealing with immigration and dealing with the u.s. his neighbors in this regard and of course so we're also hearing news about

prosecutors wanting to see documents from trump's inaugural committee is that unusual. well it's not that it's a new usual but it is the second such criminal investigation that's being undertaken by a u.s. attorney's office this one for the southern district of new york or rather the office in lower manhattan this is the second investigation one's already been underway by the u.s. attorney's office in neighboring brooklyn since last fall but basically both investigations are trying to determine whether foreign persons gave money to the trump inaugural committee which raised a record one hundred seven million dollars for the balls and the dinners and the events surrounding donald trump's inauguration in january two thousand and seventeen it's illegal for persons who are not u.s. citizens or illegal brothers events to give money to presidential campaigns and

certainly not to an incoming president's inauguration festivities and so lawyers in both of these federal prosecutors offices want to find out what the scope of the donations were as well as find out what if anything any person who was affiliated with the inaugural committee might have made it possible for illegal funds to come in to the treasury for the inaugural committee for the moment rolls believe it i think you. the greek prime minister is in ankara thoughts likely to be a tense meeting with turkey's president present that the one and alexis tsipras are at loggerheads over various issues including techie's refusal to acknowledge the name change for north macedonia and other territorial disputes johnson lockless has the latest 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 to decide he's treating the visit not does an opportunity point to. to reaffirm the state of relationship he's such an increase his norm to yield. to turkey's demands. if that's

a correct assessment then the results would be. a trauma if anything the stakes are now higher last october turkey sent a drilling ship to explore the seabed near cyprus for oil and gas in response to similar exploration by cypriots cyprus says it has the right to exploit undersea resources the turkish government disputes that in another spat greece's foreign minister announced that he was preparing to extend greek territorial waters turkey's response was to threaten war twenty years ago greece lifted its veto on turkish membership talks with the european union and the two countries started exploratory talks that came close to resolving their territorial differences in the aegean but 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 last al-jazeera athens. police 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 he visited the scene says the woman under arrest has mental health problems. floodwaters in australia swept two men to their deaths many homes in townsville in queensland are submerged prime minister scott morrison has does it to the city to comfort victims of floods follow what weather forecasters are describing as a once in a century rain under thomas has the latest from townsville. until a 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 gears with a variety of 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 water for townsville but because of the risk of the down rules breaking if the volume of water in that reservoir got to why they've opened the gates and that it's become a tourist attraction be here volume of water for and out of that reservoir is quite incredible what it is over a million leaks is of water a second down the roughs river now here the river banks are 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 roofs 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 and in a place of about six over the last few days and certainly on tuesday there were more rescues like they. given the scale of the 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 flooded. now 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 the study by the international center for integrated mount. and development was that two thirds of the ice sheets will be gone by the end of the century and less carbon emissions are drastically cut the places are a critical source of water for two hundred fifty million people living in the hindu kush himalayan region another one and a half billion rely on rivers flowing from the mountains these studies says the impact on agriculture and energy supplies could be felt well before the turn of the century with india pakistan and china worst affected. kashmir day is being observed in pakistan the annual event is meant to show support for the people in india 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 one nine hundred forty seven . and of course we'll follow all of those stories on our website down to seven dot com. and us updated through the day. you're watching others there are still running a reminder of our top stories and the gyptian parliamentary committee has approved extending the term of the president to take effect the proposal will need to pass a vote in parliament within four months if passed the constitutional amendment to allow president of the c.c. to extend his term beyond twenty twenty two venezuela's self-proclaimed president is calling on the armed forces to allow an aide to ease chronic food and medicine

shortages. has received more backing with many european and latin american countries recognizing him as the interim leader of the taliban says it was behind an attack on an army base in the country it happened in northern province at least twenty six people have been killed most of them soldiers and policeman. rival factions from central african republic have signed an initial agreement to end six years of fighting the deal between the c.r. government and fourteen rebel groups was reached on sunday after two weeks of un led negotiations in khartoum and more details agreement is due to be signed in bungie on wednesday jordan is hosting new talks on a possible deal to exchange up to fifteen thousand prisoners of war in yemen government delegates and who the rebel leaders have reconvened in after their last meeting in sweden in december who the rebels have been fighting a saudi a morality led coalition in yemen for four years. police in paris have arrested

a woman suspected of starting a fire which killed ten 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 floods have swept two men to their deaths and submerged many homes in eastern australia prime minister scott morrison has visited townsville in queensland to comfort food gyms the floods follow what weather forecasters are describing as a once in a century rain. the new report says the himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change the study warns that two thirds will be gone by the end of the century unless carbon emissions are drastically cut more than one and a half billion people rely on rivers flowing from the mountains. of course you can follow all of those stories by logging onto our web site at zero dot com we'll have the al-jazeera news group of half an hour to stay with us the stream is next. talk to al-jazeera. we ask you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the

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