and i for an hour. in iraq on al-jazeera. may not know where the opposition leader meets the national assembly he wants to bypass the president and bring in humanitarian aid. alarm sits us and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. to stay all night an egyptian parliamentary committee approves a proposal to extend the presidential term to six years prime minister may try to reassure business leaders in belfast that there will be no hard border across

ireland after breck's its. dance and. bringing in the glare of the big chinese communities around the world celebrate the most important holiday. weekend in venezuela where 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 delivering the aid would require the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to president nicolas maduro stories about bo has the latest from caracas. we're here outside of a national assembly where you are makers with hwang while you go inside are

discussing how to get humanitarian aid into the country we know that this week some medicines and food will start to arrive to the city of kabul that's right next to the border between colombia and venezuela what's not clear yet is how that aid is going to make it into the country the government of the kilometer widow said that that entering that aid would be illegal and that's why why there has been appealing to the troops to the military to allow that aid inside the country saying that it's not only for the population but also to their relative to the relatives of the many military her who are also suffering from the economic crisis that exists in this country today what we know is that the opposition is also hoping to create what they say is a humanitarian corridor that's going to be composed by members of religious groups n.g.o.s and doctors among others and to protect that aid so that it can reach those who needed them most there's lots of talks of dialogue countries like turkey like mexico like your wife say but the way out of the current crisis is that dialogue

even nicola mother would have said that he's willing to negotiate but the opposition is saying that this time they don't want to sit down and discuss anything at all that back in two thousand and seventeen after enormous protests the government used those talks in order to win time and in the end they ended up calling for a presidential election where the opposition was under represented that that election was filled with irregularities and that's why they're saying that they're not recognizing me. as president of venezuela and that's why they are demanding general elections as soon as possible. pope francis says the vatican is willing to mediate in venezuela if both some ways of asked speaking aboard his plane returning from a visit to abu dhabi the post pope also confirmed that nicolas maduro had sent him a letter. the will of both sides and is necessary both sides. it's have to walk forward that is what happened in the case of argentina and chile in the middle of

on there were small steps that are needed in diplomacy and the last one is mediation. negotiators they don't need to move closer together to begin the possibilities of dialogue to boil this is how diplomacy is carried out. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president well beyond the end of his term the move is raising fears that the country is slipping back into authoritarianism eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak and initial proposal to end cc's presidency by another six years after 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 sisi led the military overthrow of a muslim brotherhood government in twenty thirteen he sense presided over an

unprecedented crackdown on dissent and israel was reelected last year after all potential challengers were jailed or pressured to leave the race something called us is a known as it fellow at the taria institute for middle east policy he says that international criticism surrounding the move will largely be 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 forty 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 question 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 that 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 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. don't try to to deliver his second delayed state of the union address in a few hours time the us presidents was forced to postpone the event last month because of the longest government shutdown in american history let's go live to rosslyn jordan who's on the capitol hill in washington they spent it all for ana the state of the union but it is now happening what can we expect from the president this time. well what you can expect su is a laundry list as it were from the u.s. president on his hopes and agenda for the coming here things including spending

a trillion dollars on improving infrastructure trying to start a movement to eradicate the from the population globally by twenty thirty and then of course the discussion about trying to build a wall to prevent immigration from mexico and points south into the united states of course this is perhaps the most controversial part of donald trump's agenda the senate minority leader chuck schumer reacted to the president's insistence that a border wall is needed a short time ago. knowing this president and his penchant for hyperbole he'll probably say the state of our union is stronger than it's ever been before in our nation's long history thanks to him knowing this president he will rely on distortions and made up facts mislead the american people the only question about the president's state of the union how often will he distort how often will he make

up facts how often will resort to fear and divisiveness. rosie's facing a different kind of audience and his last state of the union our thinking nancy pelosi behind him and dozens of democratic women in front of him could it be hostile or will they stay above party politics. well it depends on where you sit but certainly the people who have been invited to be the guests of a number of members of congress on the democratic side are all coming to illustrate a political point that these members of congress want to make which is that they believe that there should not be. discriminatory restrictions on immigration that health care needs to be fully funded that there needs to be gun control and improved economic opportunities for all americans on the republican side you're going to see similar i guess being invited again to make political points namely to

try to stop immigration from central and south america but what you're also going to see is upper house a large number of democratic women wearing white not so much because they are opposed to donald trump being in office but because they want to advocate for all policies that better support women and children in the united states you're also of course going to have a number of members of the u.s. congress who are already running for president and depending on whether they think the cameras are on them they are might be some vocal reaction to what they have to say or if they think the cameras are on them they won't say anything because they're already running for president they don't want the campaign out so it's going to be a not quiet evening at the scene and i'm going to get you. speaking to us live from capitol hill. so the nice president omar al bashir is hosting

a ceremony marking the end of peace talks between rival factions from central african republic a deal between the government and fourteen armed groups was reached on sunday in khartoum after two weeks of un led negotiations the formal agreements will be signed in bungay on wednesday hand represents a rare hope for one of the world's poorest nations thousands have been killed and millions displaced since fighting began in twenty thirteen vaal 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 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 when is the 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 the first time to have face to face negotiations between the rebel leaders and the government of the central african republic eet ees 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 ominous t. to that have been leaders that are misty to that i believe as 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 final peace to the people of the central african republic. doctors teachers and lawyers have joined anti-government protests in sudan after two men were killed in custody a sudanese professional association call for the demonstrations off the teacher. who was arrested in the eastern states of was pronounced dead on sunday is relative say his body showed signs of torture the unrest in sudan began in december with

protesters demanding president bashir step down and end his thirty year rule still to come a british crown is being held in the u.a.e. and could face one hundred thirty thousand dollars fine for wiring a cattle football shirts with temperatures plunging in iran there are urgent calls to protect the children living in displacement camps plus. see you after the break . however we've got something of a sun sign sandwich across central parts of europe at the moment clear skies here either side of that rather more the way of clouds where it's cloudy. with some decent temperatures coming in the area of a cloud amber a just pushing it across the northwestern corner of your salem celsius in london in

the cloud in the right not so great but at least it's going to be on the miles i ten celsius there for paris it's getting to the taskbar as well down into single figures falls and five hundred five degrees celsius and you two celsius there for walsall down to the southeast is looking pretty wet into grace western parts of turkey seeing some heavy rain temperatures here around thirteen degrees celsius you'll notice some bits and pieces of snow across those eastern and northern parts and that's going to the cases be gone into thursday more of the same minister moscow are still too bad not as mild as the ten eleven that we got data to the south a saturday up to the northwest but look at the arrows there it's going to be pretty windy for the south fifteen celsius imagery it fine and dry here fun to drive into morocco and algeria as we go through wednesday but some wet weather just to bring the far north of libya making its way further east fizzling out in the process seen very strong winds maybe lifted dust in the south are.

in the fire thailand's of whom in mesopotamia with the first settlements from the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. welcome back reminder the top stories say on al-jazeera venezuela's self declared

interim leader one guide to house call for the same passage of humanitarian aid during a meeting with the national assembly members in the capital caracas u.s. trucks carrying food and medical supplies have left bogota bound for the colombia venezuela border agents parliament is advancing plans to let abdel fattah el-sisi stay on as president well of beyond the end of his term the move is raising fears of increasing authoritarianism eight years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak a ceremony has been held in sudan to mark a peace deal between the government of central african republic and fourteen groups . the u.k.'s prime minister says she has an unshakable commitment to prevent a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland so is a may is visiting northern ireland when she's been trying to reassure residents about her breasts a plan but she says the controversial backstop mechanism which was meant to achieve a seamless border won't be accepted by the u.k.

parliament. i can only deliver on the commitments we have if i can get a deal through the u.k. parliament meetings with m.p.'s across the house shows 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 to do with m.p.'s from across the house of commons supported the amendment from sue graham brady last week it's reaffirms our desire to leave with a deal and our commitment to no hard border between northern ireland and all and. and as to 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 back stall to introduce a time limit or create an exit mechanism paul brennan has more 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 may be 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 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 backstop with the d u p this party from northern ireland upon which north of 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 john cole junky. france's yellow vests movement joined forces with a major union in a day of nation my protests over taxes and buying power tensions were lower than in previous protests there were scuffles with police firing rounds of tear gas previously the communist backed c.d.t. and other unions refused to cooperate with yellow vests but the c.g. chief secretary general said they now have the same to mom's. turkish president heard of one says he wants more cooperation from greece over the extradition of coup suspects earlier on was that has been holding talks with the greek prime minister alexis tsipras in ankara turkey has strongly criticised athens for granting asylum to turkish soldiers who fled after the twenty sixteen failed. says

the issue of the soldiers is a matter for greece's judiciary. the newly appointed head of the united nations mission to monitor a truce agreement and data has arrived in the port city like and kurt lochner go out of denmark to travel to be volatile city from the rebel held capital sana in places patrick kamat who resigned after here this team were shot by the rebels in january earlier on tuesday come a chaired his last meeting with representatives from yemen's two warring sides on a ship chartered by the un in the red sea. a british man has been arrested in the united arab emirates after he wore a cat's our national team to a football match twenty six year old ali travelled to the u.a.e. for a holiday in january also arkwright was that he went to watch a match between castle and iraq where he wore a cattle so the game is reported that he did not know he had committed an offense

which is punishable with a fine prison sentence rather sterling is the founder and c.e.o. of detained in dubai u.k. based organization the focus is on the detention of foreign nationals in the u.a.e. and other gulf states she spoke to us about what the u.s.d.a. may may have been trying to prove that once the rest. it seems that he was detained simply for wearing a. qatar football surface and this is now crime in the u.a.e. show 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 wouldn't 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 of these shorter he later then

returned to the play station to make a report about the mistreatment and was then apparently charged with slandering the u.a.l. thoughts he 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 coin to have disputes between the countries. the united nations children's agency says iraq's future could be at risk if more wasn't done to protect its children unicef says freezing winter weather could be fatal for some of the one hundred fifty thousand children in displacement camps is also calling for more money to be spent on education 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 harsh 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 but 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 are now happening 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 second only in areas which have been badly affected by college. according to unicef and 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 their massive challenges and i mean. if the situation continue. as it is today in iraq the children of the future will have very little future how are you going to play today so they have a future for tomorrow how you going to invest in them so they can aspire for a future a future that they are part of the government is over 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 al-jazeera back to. a taliban attack in northern afghanistan has killed at least twenty six members of the security forces the pre-dawn raid targeted an army base in conducive province hours later in a separate attack two journalists were killed when a gunman entered a radio station in the northern province of takar no group has claimed responsibility for that attack but one hundred incidents come as representatives from the taliban are holding talks in moscow with the former president hamid karzai and opposition leaders the head of the taliban's delegation says recent pace talks with the u.s. were successful. the bodies of two people have been pulled from a storm drain during catastrophic flooding in the australian state of queensland days a severe rainfall described by forecasters as a once in a century event has forced thousands of people to flee their homes andrew thomas reports from the city of townsville. from a safe distance song

a sight see 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 storm or to drain 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 phys there will be big shops for the community as we've seen this morning as they return to their homes not the whole city is flooded in places the way of life is normal and those whose homes have a state of the water coming to seek its power and much. is the biggest

thing. kind of freaky actually. with the dam dates of the reservoir upstream fully open the vents any risk of that dam bursting oil saying is well over a million liters of water a second pouring down. the river banks are high enough to cope with that but that's not the case further downstream in the suburbs on the hearts of townsville. well over a year's worth of rain fell in 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. andrew thomas out as their towns. it is a people around the world have been bringing in lunar new year and they are hoping for change and prosperity and the year of the paying and there's a lot a stake like the changes being between china and the u.s.

and its consequences for ordinary citizens brown has more. well this is the time 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 that my other son and i have a big mission to accomplish in my life for the new year i'm getting married i hope all my family will happily stay together for china's president meanwhile she

jinping has been touring a neighborhood here in beijing extending new year's greetings and also trying a bit of dumpling making eating dumplings at this time of year is of course very popular indeed even amongst chinese leaders. and on monday night some eight hundred million people tuned in to watch the annual chinese new year television dollars this is the most watched television program in the world even more people watch this than the super bowl which of course was shown in the united states less than twelve 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. now the other story of the day scientists researching leopard seals in new zealand are made an unusual

discovery they found a working u.s.b. stick in a sample of seal feces they were analyzing to study what seals were eating on the u.s.p. was this video footage of an unidentified person kayaking to see a lion playing in the water as searchers say they're concerned about how the animal swallowed the u.s.p. they release the fortune in the hope the sticks owner will come forward. escape the top stories now in al jazeera venezuela's self declared interim leader one guardo has been meeting national assembly members in the capital caracas is 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 uncertain how the aid where the raw if without the cooperation of the military which has remained loyal to him battle president

nicolas maduro tour is about has more from caracas it's not clear yet what and how and what's going to happen because mccollum who has already said that he won't allow that aid to come into the country and that's why in a way one way though has been appealing to the soldiers and troops in general saying that that aid is not only for the population in general but also for them and for their families because that's they opposition has been saying that appealing to the military in general is like the hold all of venezuela as i was suffering for been enormous economic crisis that exists in this country hyperinflation shortages of food and medicine among other things. egypt's parliament is advancing plans so that. president well beyond the end of his term the move is raising fears that the country is slipping back into office or a tear in a some eighty years after the overthrow of hosni mubarak an initial proposal to extend presidency by another six years after 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. so the president bashir is hosting a ceremony marking the end of peace talks between rival factions from central african republic a deal between the government and fourteen armed groups was reached on sunday in khartoum after two weeks of un led negotiations a formal agreement will be signed in bungie on wednesday doctors teachers and lawyers have joined anti-government protest protests and sit down after two men were killed in custody the sudanese professional association called the demonstrations after teacher care who was arrested in the east. pronounced dead on sunday his relatives say his body showed signs of torture there was a headline stay with us the streams next.

ok and here in the stream today we speak with native american activists to explore why must. the symbols persist at how anti racism activists are advocating for change the stream of course is driven by you our community today show was put us on twitter by john little who we'll be hearing from in just a moment but first check out the trailer for his twenty seven thousand documentary film more than a word narrated by native american musician and former stream cast.