al-jazeera selects. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes venezuela's opposition leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aide sisi to stay on the an egyptian committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years giving peace another try

a government in the central african republic agrees a deal with fourteen armed groups to end years of violence. and oddly welling's with the school students including going going to bomb the incredible lindsey vonn crushes of the last of revelant who she isn't quite finished yet. we begin this hour in venezuela where the self declared interim leader has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas he's calling for the safe passage of humanitarian aid into the country u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border but it's not clear at this point how the aid will actually arrive without the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to the embattled president nicolas maduro and now joins us live from outside the national assembly

in caracas and trays of the opposition leader has convened the national assembly he is continuing his. to bring into the country despite the duras vow to block it how successful is likely to be. well that's hard work here right outside the national assembly where opposition lawmakers are meeting you're discussing how to actually get that humanitarian aid into the country the tension in venezuela is huge this days and on the other side of the building it's meeting the constituent assembly that's been created by the government and created as as a replacement of the legislative body so it's a very complex situation because on one side those who support president nicolas maduro who said that bringing any type of humanitarian aid into the country is completely illegal while right here right behind me is one way though and others lawmakers trying to see how they're going to get aid and what we know right now is that already medicines and for them and other things that are starting to arrive so

that's right on the border between venezuela and colombia it's not clear yet how it's going to get into the country and how it's going to make it because actually as the president is saying is that bringing it into the country is completely illegal so the big question is will the government will the military allow that aid to come in what we're being told by the opposition is mostly that they're hoping to create what is a humanitarian corridor or a quarter of this going to be created by n.g.o.s doctors religious organizations among others that will protect that eight slot but it can reach those who need it the most because the fear is at the moment that the delivery of aid could risk some sort of confrontation what about the possibility of dialogue then between the duros . well that's a big question right now because countries that like mexico you are quite perky are saying that the way out of the current crisis is a negotiation

a dialogue and that's what also the vatican has been saying in fact just now the vatican is announcing that. so willing to mediate between the opposition and the government and he. said he's also willing to negotiate with the opposition but in spite of this what we know is that conway though and others are saying that this time they won't sit down to talk back in two thousand and seventeen there were enormous protests but on an protests that happened in venezuela that led to a dialogue between a vote between the opposition and the government and it ended in failure and what the opposition is saying is that the government used it in order to take advantage and gain time in b.m.d. ended up calling for elections that those elections were filled with the regularities and that's why they're not recognizing that will last i would hope so for the opposition what we know right now is that there's no way that they're going to sit down and talk to the governmental. thank you very much for now our correspondent areas of our reporting there from inside venezuela in the capital

caracas well as tereza was mentioning now pope francis says the vatican is willing to mediate and if both sides aust speaking aboard his plane returning from a visit to abu dhabi the pope also confirmed that nicolas maduro had sent him a letter. the will of both sides it is necessary both sides have to walk forward and that is what happened in the case of argentina and chile. there were small steps that are needed in diplomacy in the last one is mediation. negotiators they need to move closer together to begin the possibilities of dialogue this is how diplomacy is carried out. now egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdul fatah sisi stay on as president well beyond the end of his term move is raising fears that the country is slipping back into authoritarianism eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak an initial proposal to extend cc's presidency

by another six is off to twenty twenty two has been approved by a committee of m.p.'s the proposal will need to pass a final vote in parliament as well as a national referendum before it becomes a constitutional amendment c.c. led the military overthrow of the muslim brotherhood government in two thousand and thirteen since presided over an unprecedented crackdown on dissent and was re-elected last year after all potential challenges were either jailed or pressured to leave the race timothy called us is a nonresident fellow at the top for a institute for middle east policy he says that international criticism surrounding the move will be largely subdued. you know it's one that we've expected points of time but it's it's one formal step that we presidents you see in power until twenty thirty four opposition groups largely already were dealing with the government with the expectation that this was coming it was really more a question of when rather than if. certainly it's. there are opposition groups are going to be on the a lot of pressure regarding whether or not

they publicly campaign against the move to amend the constitution although already got a number of them in voicing their opposition to doing so quite bravely this is more about the longevity of c.c.s. rule that no specific leaks are meeting 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 that brought us 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 that when president and i knew about problems and i was in cairo this recently he did raise concerns

about the human rights situation and argue. that repression actually damages rather than answer stability one of the key government points is that it justifies depression and 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 his power and pursuing as much as two decades in office. donald trump suit to deliver his second and delayed state of the union address u.s. president was forced to postpone the event last month because of the longest government shutdown in american history the best political battle over his five billion dollars a month for a border war with mexico has pushed his approval ratings to a new low a white house correspondent can really help it reports. 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 of the union i think you'll find it very exciting. with the war which is wasteful and doesn't solve the problem for 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 the state of the union. 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 discuss. 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 most 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. let's go live now to roslyn jordan who is on capitol hill and washington so trump is getting ready for his state of the union address but to be interesting to see of course it's a different audience as well that he will be delivering a speech to the house. that's right mari and the president is going to be

speaking to both republicans and democrats but the change from a year ago is that he's going to be addressing a chamber in which the democrats control the house of representatives and the republicans control the senate so he's got a lot of trying to reach out to do as it were the president's senior adviser who kellyanne conway has talked about an appeal to comedy an appeal to unity trying to get people to cross their political boundaries and work on issues such as trying to eradicate a child by the year twenty thirty trying to make up the cost of prescription drugs in the united states much more transparent and to sensibly much more affordable as a result trying to push for a trillion dollar infrastructure package something which has become a bit of a joke here in washington that the president is interested in repairing roads and

bridges and upgrading the electrical power grid in this country but of course the real focus mario is going to be on the president's distaste for immigration are particularly immigration from central and south america he is apparently going to try to argue why there should be a wall built between the united states and mexico as well as lay out the groundwork for why his potential declaration of a national emergency would be justified really in essence trying to respond the five hundred thirty five members of congress as well as other sitting in the chamber on tuesday evening to the american. public to try to build support for the president's wall. as you say this event is about cross policy cooperation it's about forging perhaps some sense of unity but how difficult is that going to be given the innocent division we've seen in washington politics. well let's put it

this way the senate minority leader chuck schumer criticized the president's state of the union address on twitter earlier on tuesday essentially saying that the trump white house is in chaos and that his policies have not done anything to in particular help middle class americans and the president quickly fired back you also have to take a look at the people who are being invited as guests to was sit in the chamber alongside members of congress and in particular to sit with the first lady molony a tromp all of the people who have been invited to come to the speech tonight are being picked for a political reason whether it's to highlight the dangers of people coming to see the united states without proper documentation or the lack of gun control or the president's policies at barring people from certain countries under the so-called muslim ban all of these issues have been political law hotspots in the past couple

of years and almost every guest who's being invited on tuesday evening is coming for a political point that needs to be proved thanks very much from capitol hill roslyn jordan. you at the news hour live from london more still ahead but first the deaths are reported in the australian city of townsville as authorities warn of further flash flooding in the hours ahead the temperatures plunging into iraq there urgent calls that to protect the children living in displacement camps. and later in sports skiing is a new frontier as a competitive line for a groundbreaking event in northern pakistan. sudanese president omar al bashir is hosting a ceremony marking the end of peace talks between rival factions from the central african republic a deal between the government and fourteen armed groups was reached on sunday hard

to march to two weeks of un led negotiations a formal agreement will be signed in bungie on wednesday and represents a rare hope for one of the world's poorest nations thousands have been killed and millions displaced since fighting began in two thousand and thirteen mohammad vall has more from khartoum. 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 this with a nice cup of coffee from the heads of state of sudan and the central african republic have attended the signing with the initials here today the final signing will be on when is the in the capital bangui the capital of the central african republic what distinguishes this agreement is but it is a it is the fruit of first time. 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 the country and also for an ominous t two that have been leaders that are misty to that of the leaders has been a sticking point in the negotiations so all the parties to the this conflict and the sponsors i hope that this time around this agreement would hold and it will bring fine of peace to the people of the central african republic. meanwhile doctors teachers and lawyers have joined anti-government protests in sudan off to two men were killed in custody the sudanese professional association called for the demonstrations off to teach ahmed a hare who was arrested in the eastern states of was later pronounced dead on sunday his relatives say his body showed signs of torture the unrest in sudan began in december with protesters demanding president tomorrow bashir step down and end his thirty year rule became a fast as military says it's killed one hundred forty six fighters in three

operations near the border with mali the army's operation was in response to monday's attack on kayan when armed men stormed the village killing fourteen people because haq is following this story for us from senegal as capital to calm. general movies when you go confirmed on national television late on monday night that this operation took place across hundreds of kilometers of border area the brickie 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. 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 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 the 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. a taliban attack in northern afghanistan has killed at least twenty six

members of the security forces a pre-dawn raid targeted an army base in kunduz province hours later in a separate attack two journalists were killed when a gunman entered a radio station in the northern province of tech car no group has claimed responsibility for the attack the latest incidents come as representatives from the taliban holding talks in moscow with the former president hamad karzai and opposition leaders head of the taliban's delegation says recent peace talks with the u.s. were successful tony but he has more from kabul on the latest attack we are told this was a predawn attack on police checkpoints at an army base on the outskirts of condors which is the provincial capital that six hundred fifty kilometers north of kabul a group a large group of taliban fighters attacked three police checkpoints on the base we're told that twenty six personnel were killed eleven of them were police officers and the taliban have claimed responsibility for this the afghan authorities say that at least twenty two taliban fighters were killed and about

twelve were wounded but this is not be confirmed by the taliban who i say confirmed the attack now it shows that even though the taliban had meaningful breakthrough so-called breakthrough talks with the u.s. just a little over a week ago the peace talks may be one thing but when it comes to war it's business as usual i think they're underlining their strength they've been gaining territory in the last three months and they want to push this to the wire and show that they can strike when they want and inflict casualties. yemen's warring sides have been meeting in the jordanian capital amman to discuss the implementation of a deal that would see an exchange of prison is the deal which was agreed upon in sweden at the end of last year would see an exchange of up to fifteen thousand prisoners of war in yemen the u.n. envoy martin griffith says the prisoner swap would help advance efforts at a political settlement to end the foil will the list of prisoners is to be handed over to the un and the international committee of the red cross. meanwhile the

united nations children's agency says iraq's future could be at risk if more isn't done to protect its children in a freezing winter weather could be fatal for some of the hundred fifty thousand children in displacement camps it's also calling for more money to be spent on education while matheson reports from baghdad. some of these children may not live through the plunging temperatures of iraq's winter. the un's children's agency is warning that those already weakened by hypothermia and disease after severe flooding in november might not survive the horrors cold down here. we need a lot to be done health is the lifeline of our society but we're not seeing much happening people organize rallies but our calls are falling on deaf ears unicef says iraq spends just under six percent of its annual budget on education even though many young children are determined to go to school. schools open across the

city of mosul our school is one of several which have more than six hundred students we can barely cope with unicef says there have been big improvements when it comes to health care for children it says that less than one percent of children die in childbirth and that's because eighty five percent of births now happen in hospitals it also says that ninety two friends of the iraqi children like these children at this kindergarten in baghdad are likely to go into primary school but he says that number drops significantly when they get to secondary school the state particularly in areas which have been badly affected by college. according to unicef in areas such as the northern province of nineveh province to the south only one child in every form goes to secondary school instead many have to work to help support their families there must've challenges i mean. if the situation continues as it is today. iraq the children of the future will have very little future how

are you going to provide today so they have a future for tomorrow how are you going to invest in them so they can aspire for a future a future that they are part of the government has set up a three hundred million dollars fund to help the poorest people in areas hardest hit by conflict but unicef insists more needs to be done to stop children like these becoming iraq's last generation rob matheson me odyssey of baghdad. a british man has been arrested in the united arab emirates after he wore a cast on national team shirt to a football match twenty six year old ali issa and i travel to the u.a.e. for a holiday in january whilst i'm at was that he went to watch a match between cattle and iraq where he wore a cattle shirt to the game its claim that he did not know that in doing so he had committed an offense that is punishable with a fine and prison sentence of more on this story i'm joined now by

a ride her sterling via skype from she is the founder and c.e.o. of detained in dubai a u.k. based organization that focuses on the detention of foreign nationals in the u.a.e. and other gulf states thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us could you start by explaining more about why ali is so ahmed was detained in the first place it seems that he was detained simply for wearing a. football surface and this is now crime in the u.a.e. any sort of sympathy towards qatar and this has been a major and ongoing issue that has disrupted the lives of many in the u.a.e. but i think in elise case of course he would be aware having attended a football match where qatar is actually playing that it would be wrong to show support for the team that you are. obviously supporting so he was arrested and he claims that he was mistreated by the author it's shorter he later then returned

to the police station to make a report about the mistreatment and was in apparently charged with slandering the usa your thoughts is in making such a report so i think you know problem here is obviously the u.a.e. is using. the dispute between qatar and the u.a.e. and other gulf nations as a way to. perhaps show qatar that the upcoming twenty twenty two match is going to be a point of dispute between the countries and we've seen with football as well. tyree people have not been able to attend various matches and it has been a point of contention the fact that he is a british national is certainly going to raise the attention of the foreign office in the u.k. and foreign nationals are getting caught up in what is this gulf disputes that comes with it in some way i suppose i suppose the counter-argument is that the u.a.e. have made it very clear for a while now that it is an offense to show sympathy to cattle and that it is

something that is wrists punishment by a fine or imprisonment but in terms of the law being enforced what are your thoughts on that i mean the thing is with the u.a.e. is that it's highly contradictory and arbitrary in the way that laws are enforced for example it is wholly illegal to drink alcohol as a tourist because they don't have a license however that lorries only enforced arbitrarily on some occasions and therefore one would be forgiven for thinking that certain acts are illegal whether legal whether that's drinking alcohol or holding hands showing affection publicly sharing a hotel room with someone you're not married or i mean there's even going in dubai that are frequent it so one would be forgiven for thinking that they are not going to get arrested for such offenses. or how i mean given that obviously a country is free to formulate and to enforce these laws that that is within that

their power to do and that perhaps a question of sovereignty mean what is the appropriate response and from the international community. i mean the international community i think one of the major problems of the u.a.e. is that they are not clear about where they stand regarding to or so not clear with their laws many of the laws need to be clarified in the media because it's simply not written in a way that anyone can actually understand or appreciate and i think the u.a.e. is promoting itself as a particular kind of tourist destination that where people can go and drink and have a good time and where sex outside marriage is not going to going to be a problem and the average tourist who visits to buy is not going to think that what they are doing is illegal because it is done all of the time and i think that the international community needs to force the u.n. he's make a decision one way or the other if they want to encourage that kind of tourism they need to reflect that in their legislation and there in force meant all right well

thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us rod has sterling founder and c.e.o. of detained in dubai thank you. still ahead for you on the program a third of the class is in the himalayas are under threat from global warming posing serious consequences for almost two billion people. the u.k. prime minister tries to reassure business leaders and ballot because of that will be no hard order across the island off the practice and in sports why manchester united for a manager is skating on thin ice in more ways than one lee wellings will be here with the day's headlines. hello again it's good to have you back this hour want to take you over here towards the mediterranean because we're watching one particular system that's actually out here across the west should notice a turning right there there is a funnel bounty not looking too bad here right now across the eastern mediterranean

but as we go towards the next couple days we'll be watching that very carefully here's a cold front making its way towards the east and with that we could be seen an increase of rain as well as some clouds in the forecast so jerusalem beirut you can be seeing the rain here on wednesday as we go towards thursday we are going to see that system slip even more inland and so for aleppo in the higher elevations also of turkey that is going to be some messy weather few baghdad clouds will start to roll in as well here on thursday evening in court city high temps a few of twenty degrees well here across much of the gulf not looking too bad here across doha at twenty three we are going to be watching out here towards the northwest though that same weather system is going to bring some rain and clouds across much of northwestern saudi arabia over the next day and into medina we could be even see some clouds coming into play there and then very quickly across parts of south africa we are going to see a mix of clouds here across much of durban as well as your head is for up here towards madagascar it is going to be rain if you temptress across the area are

going to be in the high twenty's the next day. went online. to the wouldn't you for them. to join us on the set all of us have been calling in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about illegal friend you have seen what it can do to somebody just people using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people or secret out everyone has a voice from the boss here twitter and you could be on the street and join the global conversation on mt is iraq or afghanistan has the else geology of both resources and. why are they so poor emotion. we're trying to form a government. of the toxin with essentially nowhere the more we would push them the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit and wait or do

we surprise them with a preemptive strike tom bodett one just. look at top stories this hour venezuela's self declared interim leader was called for the safe passage of humanitarian aid in a meeting with national assembly members in the capital caracas u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left. for the colombia venezuela border. egypt's parliament has a. sisi stay on as president well beyond the end of his tongue move is raising

fears of increasing authoritarianism eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak. to ceremony has been held in sudan to mock a peace deal between the government of the central african republic and fourteen armed groups. the bodies of two people have been pulled from a storm drain during a catastrophic during catastrophic flooding in the australian state of queensland days of severe rainfall described by four costs as a once in a century event as forced thousands of people to flee their homes andrew thomas reports from the city of townsville. from a safe distance some are sightseeing the gates of the ross river down been fully open since sunday the river downstream though can only take some of the overflow away much of the rest is here surrounding and submerging people's homes tens of thousands of them emergency services and the military have rescued hundreds here but not all could be saved the bodies of two men were found inside

a store bought to dry they were suspected of looting a shop nearby the prime minister visited townsville on tuesday to offer comfort and consolation as the waters recede recede here. and we start to move from the response phase to the recovery five's there will be big shops for the community as we saw in this morning as they return to their homes not the whole city is flooded in places the way it's life is normal and those whose home so the state of the water coming to see its power. structure. is the biggest. kind of freaky actually. with the dam dates of the reservoir upstream fully open the vents any risk of dam busting oil saying is well over a million liters of water a second pouring down right here the river banks are high enough to cope with that

but that's not the case further downstream in the suburbs on the heart of townsville. well over a year's worth of rain fell on townsville in less than a week and the forecast is for more downpours although not with the intensity of the last forty eight hours so the worst should be over and you toss al-jazeera down to. the u.k. as prime minister says she has an unshakable commitment to prevent a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland to resume a's visiting northern ireland where she's been trying to reassure residents about her breaks that plan but she says the controversial backstop mechanism which was meant to achieve a seamless order won't be accepted by the u.k. parliament i can only deliver on the commitments we have made if i can get a deal through the u.k. parliament and meetings with m.p.'s across the house show that i can only get a deal through parliament if legal changes are made to the backstop and that is why

the u.k. government and the majority of m.p.'s from across the house of commons supported the amendment from brady last week it reaffirms our desire to leave with a deal and our commitment to no hard border between northern ireland and arland and us are graham himself set out it would mean replacing the backstop with another arrangement which avoids a hard border or making legally binding changes to the backstop to introduce the timing of it or create an exit mechanism out is there as paul brennan has more now from belfast. anyone expecting substantially of details of what teresa mayes going to take to brussels later this week have been disappointed from the speech that she gave here in belfast on choose day it was big on reassurance but little specific was put forward in relation to the northern ireland backstop this crucial sticking point which has proved such a thorn in the agreement between the u.k. and the european union this is made expressed her determination her unshakable in

her words determination to uphold the good friday agreement but the reality is that the european union remains oblivious to what the u.k. actually wants so being way on to the deputy chief negotiator for the european union has said that the negotiators during the past two years looked at every single border on earth every border of the european union and found no better solution than the one that has been put forward in the back stop with the d u p this party from northern ireland upon which north three so made to put a majority in parliament depends is absolutely adamant that the backstop is toxic in their words and so the prime minister if she's to get her deal or a deal through parliament needs to find some sort of solution she's got two days here in northern ireland to speak to business leaders to speak to community leaders to speak to political leaders before the she then takes her quest for a solution to brussels and the european commission president junko chunka. well confusion over leaving

a record numbers of british citizens applying for irish passports people with at least one irish grandparent are eligible for irish citizenship and last year twenty percent of the applications came from the u.k. barker reports. traditional island in a london pub. of course anglo-irish ties go well beyond an affection for each other's cultural stereotypes people have moved across the irish sea for centuries almost nine hundred thousand people born in ireland live and work in the u.k. now breaks it sounded a new dimension to the bond. richard with students applying for an irish passport anyone with at least warm irish grandparents eligible for irish citizenship this is my grandfather's birth certificate this is my connection with ireland for richard it's a way of holding on to his european identity after breaks it felt i had part of my identity stripped away. perhaps by

a majority that didn't relate to you know because i couldn't really understand why people would want to vote out of. an inclusive europe a big part of me wants to stay connected to europe you know i want to feel like europe is my home. outside britain's parliament in london protesters opposed to a new favor all the breaks it all he wanted daily basis this is identity politics in action as many as six million people that's almost ten percent of the entire population could be eligible for irish citizenship or more of these and irish european union passport ever since the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. hundreds of thousands of british people have applied for them many see them as almost an insurance policy against all of the ups certainties of bricks it. unlike other e.u. citizens only rich people can automatically work study access public services and

vote in the u.k. it's the government's promise to protect the brics 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 the were a pains to sort of insist people need to be affected by the same things but on a more sort of emotional and psychological level i think our people do feel slightly less welcome and even though there are pains to say oh you know you're like you're good immigrants these are taste i think. it's forcing people to question their sense of identity. for a large number of british people encouraging them to seek out a new one. at least ten people have died in paris is the deadliest fire in more than a decade another thirty were injured in the overnight. that police are treating as

possible and foreseeable woman has been arrested in offices and opened a criminal investigation. mexico's government says zero percent more than twenty million dollars to help find those who have gone missing injury a campaign against drug cartels organized crime and security forces have been blamed for some forty thousand disappearances john holland 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 to government help is minimal now mexico's top human rights official says that's going to change the new government's promise twenty million dollars for a new plan to search for the missing it's

a huge task you might get told me it's estimated there are currently forty thousand missing people more than one thousand one hundred plunder stand grass around twenty six thousand are identified bodies in morgues and this is the proof of the magnitude of the many crises and human rights violations we are facing is that we must overcome in our country he's promised a well funded and staffed national commission and a better coordinated database to identify the missing languishing in moods jails officials involved in disappearances who face the consequences he says. we're going to look to prosecute authorities 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 forty 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. on the wider effort to help fountains of others there was a profound lack of political will to actually change things. the new governments make the right noises now comes the whole trying to shake up of thirty's which out of fear or complicity have failed to help those looking for their loved ones john home and. screw city. well now to pakistan where kashmir day is being observed every february since one thousand nine hundred years the data shows support for people in indian administered kashmir rallies have been held in the pakistani controlled part of kashmir while the nation's prime minister imran khan has condemned india for what he says the violations of human rights the has the latest now from islamabad. across pakistan there are rallies to show solidarity

with the kashmir people who have been suffering for all what seven decades the pakistani president speaking at the jumbo interest me legislative assembly said that india was pushing a false narrative that it was killing militants in kashmir however he said the real situation was that it was the innocent people of kashmir that were paying the price targets dan had been highlighting the issue of kashmir for several years but this particularly and of great importance because pakistan has extended an olive branch to new delhi to talk about all outstanding issues however the indians have remained adamant that this is a bilateral issue august on ones the international community to realize that this is a flashpoint between two nuclear powers and a settlement of the kashmir issue is pivoted to pakistan's foreign policy the pakistani president the prime minister the foreign minister and all the opposition

leaders i've spoken with one war if there is a consensus on a particular issue then it is the issue of crush me on which everybody hair is unite. such as say it's the climate crisis you've never heard of but the environmental disaster looming in the world's tallest peaks will affect an entire continent more than one third of classes in the himalayas in the hindu kush will melt by the end of this century even if current efforts to combat climate change succeed that's according to a new study and if the world fails to stop temperatures rising by more than one and a half degrees celsius the loss of ice sheets will be doubled one point nine billion people in south asia it's a quarter of the world's population depend on the glasses for water a rise of even two degrees celsius bill to reverse from india to china reducing icy peaks to bad rock and possibly devastating crops had assaf it as an environment

researcher at the university of california she says we need to take steps now to protect those who will be affected by climate change that's very much in line with recent news that we've seen showing that the peers and magnitude of climate change is even greater than scientists 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 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 sea level rises accelerating so again very much in line with recent reports showing that actually is needed and needed now with this report shows is that it's critical to take action because if we don't take action and then we could see 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 reduce wider when you won't have as reliable water supplies so ahead for you on the program. yes. the ringing in the air of the chinese community around the world right in the most important holiday thanks allan. a major shake up in the running of the twenty twenty two world cup will have all the details.

leaning is hand now with felt that it is sports news including the story of an extraordinary woman who has been keeps bouncing back she's been brilliant for many years yet the most successful woke up skier of all time says she will complete him one more rice despite crushing you know last of a championship lindsey vonn had a bad fall during the super g. at the world championships in sweden but she says she'll still be able to compete in the downhill. at. the beginning of the end wasn't meant to be like this. but seconds into final will championships lindsey vonn super g. race followed the script of the rest of her farewell season the american crashing out with barely a glimpse of the talent and power that has made the most dominant skia of the modern age yeah i've got a bit of a shiner. and i'm feel like i've been hit by an eighteen wheeler

but other than that i'm great now aged thirty four valma has brought forward her retirement to make these world championships in sweden have final flourish a training run on monday so have finished eleventh but the missing college in had a moment choose days or weeks merely underlined that it was nearly time to say goodbye it is what it is i can't change it i done my best my entire career i've worked as hard as humanly possible i've come back from way too many injuries and i'm not able to do it and that's just life you know it's not quite time to go yet still isn't ruling out with another world championship gold and some days downhill . she already has two and may regrets only have a taking home warm olympic when his medal. but its high performance in the season long growing of the world cup that will be remembered eighty two wins putting how within four of the all time record set by sweden's in the last stand mark thirty

years ago. von celebrity has transcended skiing in the sport will be relieved to have what seems to be a tailor made replacement in the kayla schiffer and the twenty three year old winning the super g. at the world just perceive it as brash i heard disappointment should be free in the context of a career that has right women skiing it's a new heights mckayla schifrin is victory here completes her coronation as the new queen of alpine skiing but her roots the top has been carved out by lindsey vonn her crush hit may be one of her last memories of the sport but it's not what she'll be remembered for pole race al-jazeera or to sweden. well it be difficult for anybody to surpass the achievements of lindsey vonn but might we one day see a world cup skier from pakistan the country's winter sports federation a military all combining forces to help boost skins popularity in the country that

supports. 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 an inspiration for five years stunning message to all of the world. is there for the rest of nature. these very. beautiful things. for all. north has an enthusiasm for the interest for free and reach through this venue and enjoy these facilities in five years from these mountains have been plagued by tribal violence for centuries and reminders and 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 the snow condition month is everything is perfect feel like people so much because they're so kindly to us very very happy to be. told this is kids are going to do a lot more than they can organize. even bigger is this late one 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. so far it has been a great experience to me and my team mates who are ready. you know just looking forward. as well as skiing snowboarding ice skating and ice

hockey competitions were held for the first 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 or have any incoming international competitions and specially in beijing if any for any group we should have focused on you getting the national flags and giving crowd a major five hosting the olympics may still be some way off but the more pakistan puts on events like this the show not only to produce sport and tourism but also project a more positive image of the country all around the world david stokes al-jazeera. thirty four has announced how the organization of the next world cup in twenty twenty two will be governed in the one up to the tournament in cata football's world governing body says it sets up a joint venture with qatar to streamline the organization in a statement face the said they'll hold

a fifty one percent share of the venture with the cats are organizing committee the remaining forty nine percent. josie marino has become the latest high profile individual the world of football to be found guilty of sex forward in spying the former manchester united manager has been given a one year prison sentence but won't serve any jail time reno has instead agreed to pay a fine of more than two million dollars your fence is related to under crowd income when he was managing very rigid seven years ago last month because john of an old i was far more than twenty million dollars by the spanish tax authorities. and it's been an eventful week for marino the portuguese was in russia and divisive to drop the ceremonial pocket of guy but he suffered an embarrassing for on the ice cart cheered on video by the crowd and posted all over social media. and used to be the special one yeah look painful to thank you ily all now millions

of people around the world will have been ringing in the lunar new year many hoping for fortune and prosperity in the year of the pig and there's a lot at stake like a trade dispute between china and the u.s. and its consequences for ordinary people adrian brown has more on this now from beijing. well this is the town park or earth 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 so i have one big mission to

accomplish in my life for the new year i'm getting married i hope all my family will happily stay together for china's president meanwhile she jinping has been touring a neighborhood here in beijing extending new year's greetings and also trying a bit of dumpling making eating dumplings at this time of year is of course very popular indeed even amongst chinese leaders. and on monday night some eight hundred million people tuned in to watch the annual chinese new year television goller 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. that wraps up the

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