al jazeera. and. they will have. one hundred percent of the caliphate u.s. president donald trump says the total defeat of i saw his imminent. alliance has him speak of this is as you see it on live from doha also coming up. the united nations says desperately needed aid is being used as a political pawn in venezuela. and i've been wondering what that

special place. in her looks like for those who promoted breaks it posh words on bragg's if a new european council president as the british prime minister prepares to visit brussels. in the shadow of a giant why indonesia's tower volcano still poses a threat to coastal communities. donald trump is predicting victory over i saw as early as next week the u.s. president says he expects a formal announcement to be made soon declaring alltel astri belonging to the armed group recaptured mike hanna reports from washington. smiles all round as members of the coalition gather for a group photograph much has happened since they last met most importantly president trump surprise decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria this led to the resignation of defense secretary james mattis

along with the u.s. envoy to the global coalition who has not been replaced the u.s. secretary of state offered words of reassurance the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based. it simply represents a new stage in an old fight president trump argued at the time that eisel had been defeated a position he continues to hold insisting a formal announcement to the subject will be made soon the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate many members of the coalition warned that this may not

mean an end to the fight and then he added well al i'm a dreamer and i call on all countries of the world to help iraq fight sleeper cells all over the country and to help iraq restore instability and return the liberated area to what they used to be in order for terrorism not to exist delegates at this conference taking note of the view of u.s. intelligence chiefs at odds with that of their president their opinion given to the senate intelligence committee last month i saw remains a formidable organization and is still capable of attacking the united states mike hanna al-jazeera washington iran has accused the us of supporting what it calls dictators butchers and extremists who have brought ruin to the middle east foreign minister mohammed jevons relief was responding to donald trump's criticism of iran during his state of the union address during that speech the us president promised

to contain iranian influence. my administration has acted decisively to confront the world's leading state sponsor of terror the radical regime in iran it is a radical regime they do bad bad things to ensure this corrupt. dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons i withdrew the united states from the disastrous iran nuclear deal. i for we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed by us on a country we will not overt our eyes from a regime that chants death to america and threatens genocide against the jewish people and united nations humanitarian aid convoy has arrived at

a red remote refugee camp on the border with jordan it is the largest ever to reach rock bottom refugee camp since the start of syria's war more than one hundred trucks brought food and medical supplies to thousands of syrians stranded in the camps aid workers will also provide an emergency vaccination campaign for ten thousand children there are the united nations as warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying supplies have arrived in colombia for delivery to venezuela it is at the request of one who i don't know who last month declared himself interim president but as well as opposition is accusing the military which backs president nicolas maduro of blocking a bridge on the border with colombia why there has appealed to venezuela's armed forces to allow deliveries of the much needed aid medicine and other essentials the u.s.

says it is considering lifting sanctions on venezuelan military officers who back wide. our correspondent alison there and get the reports now from kuta on the colombia venezuela border. the promised a doesn't even reach the venezuelan border but the government of nicolas maduro is already taking steps to stop it entering the country fences huge shipping containers and armed soldiers are blocking crossings into venice where. the united states and neighboring colombia are leading an effort to move tens of millions of dollars worth of aid into linux well it includes desperately needed medicines and food. president long denied this country faces any such crisis in regard to the aid offer as the first step towards ending beechen of the country in the eyes of venus well as opposition it's no more do an act of compassion. humanitarian aid is humanitarian aid is to take care of the emergency it doesn't

resolve the problem of food it's important to say that it's to attend to the most vulnerable that today are about to lose their lives. on wednesday the u.s. secretary of state in colombia's foreign ministers call them president maduro to change his mind in where we're going as we have been as well and people are calling for this humanitarian aid to arrive and what it needs to do is not impede our being as well and brothers from getting the humanitarian aid they need this is the entrance to that bridge the main entry point for the aid arriving from the capital but we're still days away from being ready to operate as a humanitarian corridor the building there you see behind me is being adapted to properly store food and medicine that will arrive the first trucks are still on their way from there are expected here at some point on thursday and local

authorities are telling us that even once all this will be ready they still don't have a clear plan and how to move this into venezuela. on the venezuela side of the border hungry families were anxiously waiting for news of the shipments. and even here in colombia venezuela and two fled their home country or hoping to receive some help not the at all none of these how they get here we were told we could receive some food and help here but no they're saying it needs to go into venezuela and material will not let us in let's hope he will put a hand on his heart and yield something that at least for now seems out of the question i listen to him just. arbitrates rango is a former venezuelan presidential chief of staff she says if president maduro stops aid from reaching the venezuelan people it could be seen as genocide there is

a chicken game going on between the call ition that support rerun in venice when that has become nice one way to go as president mr mobile or who is clinging to power without any. smear mr mo who is this big. coalition to blink first but i think he's playing a very dangerous gamble because this for shipment that is coming out of any earmark for three hundred fifty thousand people who are suffering from terminal or chronic this is and they desperately need these medicines so he might use a situation whereby their milk venice for the military at the end of the day decides to lead their aid in in a spike of if this drug could block it. should this happen then. he

could. be very strong popularity revolt inside of bennett well i'm. sure of here the thighs not to lend aid coming in there he's running on kinds of risk because air this is considered to be a genocidal public policy. reliable but in international court as the genocide an arab state because he's imposed by taking this time. the creation then there is centers on very many venezuelans amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen he says the u.a.e. diverts billions of dollars worth of arms off the buying them from the west many of the groups they supply have been accused of war crimes the u.n. says its efforts to forge an agreement between yemen's government and hooty rebels

are working or diplomats sound optimistic hundreds of thousands of yemeni civilians remain caught up in the fighting how many reports of with his arrival in yemen a renewed sense of cautious optimism michael lawless guard the newly appointed head of the united nations mission to monitor the temporary ceasefire and for data landed in the capital sanaa as the u.n. says its push for a permanent peace agreement between the warring sides is beginning to pay off. no matter what ultimately happens in her data which is vitally important for humanitarian aid imports the suffering being experienced by yemenis nationwide is not expected to abate anytime soon. take yemen second largest city of tire is for example besieged by hooty rebels for more than four years around two hundred thousand civilians are caught up in the fighting. is one of them after fleeing

fighting in her village made her way to terrorise with nowhere to live she and her husband took up residence on the side of a road and while this abandoned truck provides them a small semblance of shelter they feel far from safe that an end i am i was sleeping when a bullet came from this direction and hit me low on food they struggle to get by the u.n. says yemen is home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis which is no surprise to fuck a year like all yemenis she hopes for a better future that had a real image and many a man added i want the wall to stop and the situation to attend back to normal as it used to be we want peace and we do not want wool we want the situation to calm down an old people to attend to the towns and villages. for now however like so many other yemenis worries that won't happen any time soon. i just see it.

as still ahead on al-jazeera. the. why the reopening of a religious school could help and a bit to dispute between greece and turkey plus a danish man has just been sentenced to six years in a russian prison his crime being a jehovah's witness i'm richelle is in moscow and keep watching to find out more on the crackdown on a religious organization that in russia is classed as extremist. once again that disturbed wintry weather set to continue across the middle east a bit more cloud and rain rolling in the sort of the main pushing into the levant

syria lebanon jordan right down across israel saying some rather wet weather is a go on through the next couple of days that thickening cloud will bring some downpours and the possibility of some localized flooding in parts of the mountains says seeing some snow that's the on the cars could see some snow to some right over towards see the hindu kush sprite disguise coming back into kabul the day four degrees celsius and that states will miss you going into friday into the low twenty's for karate meanwhile by friday thickening cloud will make its way across iraq into iran and it's bringing some of that wet so windy at times when she weather see quite keen wind eroding very dust and such a possibility once you've got the rain sleet and the snow out of the way still looking very just that wet weather makes its way across northern parts of saudi arabia yeah you know how it looks to stay thickening cloud coming in that cloud thickening up but you. things about prices why as we go on into friday that right well if it pops of the sot up and it's the northern sections all the red sea here

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again you're watching and to see a reminder of our top stories. the u.s. president is predicting victory over what i saw as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaiming all the territory previously held by the group in. the united nations humanitarian aid convoy has arrived at a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan it is the largest ever to reach the refugee camp since the start of syria's war more than one hundred trucks for food and medical supplies to thousands of syrian stranded in the camp. the united nations has warned against using aid as a political pawn in venezuela u.s. officials say trucks carrying supplies bound for venezuela have arrived in colombia a position. requested the assistance he declared himself the interim president last month. democrats say they won't be intimidated by u.s.

presidents warning against what he calls a ridiculous partisan investigations the party now in control of the house of representatives is pushing on regardless patrick o'brian has more. by the close of wednesday special counsel robert muller had a lot more information for his investigation into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign fifty transcripts of people who testified in front of a house committee some of those closest to the us president his son son in law and his most trusted advisers with the democrats in charge now they voted to send all of the transcripts to muller and now if any of those people lied under oath they can be charged with a crime. president close friend roger stone has already been charged with lying to congress and his former lawyer is going to prison for doing that this comes on the heels of a warning from the president during his state of the union speech tuesday and

economic miracle is taking place in the united states and the only thing that could stop it are foolish wars politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. if there is going to be peace and legislation there cannot be war and investigation it just doesn't work that way. the democratic response it actually does that's a nonstarter in fact the committee says they will look into more than what muller is casting a broad net looking into the possibility that the president or those close to him are compromised the american people have a right to know indeed have a need to know that their president is acting on their behalf and not for some peculiarity or other reason that pertains to any credible allegations of

leverage by the russians or the saudis or anyone else the u.s. president was not happy and what basis would he do that he has no basis to do that he actually does he's in charge now and he has the power to make people show up before his committee thank you very much thank the president and his closest advisors are about to find out what that looks like. al-jazeera washington. firefighters in the u.s. state of california have spent more than two hours tackling a major blaze after a gas explosion in san francisco huge plumes of fire and smoke prompted evacuations of nearby buildings on wednesday it's believed a gas line was cut during the installation of fiber optic wires. scientists are warning of the volcano that caused a tsunami in indonesia six weeks ago still poses an imminent threat while the four hundred people died in the disaster on the islands of java and sumatra steverson has more from anya in west java. this is what's left of the.

after part of it collapsed on this number twenty two was in waves to crash into the islands of java and sumatra now it's less than one third of its original size but scientists say it's still as dangerous series just weeks after the disaster. caught on camera and try most i have regularly recorded despite that order to stay more than five hundred meters away from to see if now been lifted that if we can't work here how do i get a new account my children need to go to school and they need to eat i just hope it won't happen again it's tsunami hit the tourist heart of west java badly and visitors have yet to return the rubble of on apocalypto up continue while so vibrant of last month. we build a life despite warnings of more eruptions and possible more tsunamis people are now

allowed to stay on the beach again but they're also warned to stay there are scientists say it's hard to predict the behavior of the so-called child of the notorious cock up the level that erupted so violently in eight hundred eighty three that its ashes course extraordinary sunsets worldwide inspiring move to paint its famous work to screen. for another option like the one in eight hundred eighty three to happen again at the volcano needs a much larger volume but there is a high probability that an eruption and tsunami like on december twenty second will happen again harvey says the government should have been more alert after scientists had predicted a tsunami a few months earlier research dating back to two thousand and twelve the victim. the collapse of the volcano flanks was also ignored so vives are planning to sue the government for negligence. that happened in this industry could have been predicted because of the earthquake dangers in the area and there are options of

and. so the government should have taken preventative measures to there wouldn't be so many victims in there while the case will be taken to court in the next few weeks and is rapidly recovering only a few weeks after its collapse the volcano emerged above sea level again making it clear that time is running out for the government to repair install warning systems and take protective measures to prevent another disaster from happening again step fasten al-jazeera i knew west java. well the european council president has condemned british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to lead the new without working out how to do it first donald tusk was speaking in brussels where he also pledged to do his best to find a solution to the brains of crisis paul brennan listening to those comments from belfast where the u.k. prime minister has been meeting in northern ireland's leaders. at the second i have spoken about the necessary actions in case of the. i know that you will also be

discussing this shocking with the european commission. by the way we've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted state without even a catch of a plan how to carry it safely now those incendiary comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from bracks it supporting m.p.'s and journalists in london but let's just have a little look at a video clip as they stood up to leave you can just about hear an exchange between me over i guess and donald tusk where they almost anticipate the reaction that's coming let's have a look at this. now let's bring it back to where i'm standing in belfast which is where the prime

minister has been she's going to brussels on thursday with the purpose of her visit here is a try to work out exactly what the parties will accept and it seems a very confused picture is emerging shin fein the republican party which has seven seats in the westminster parliament but doesn't actually sit and votes in london refuses to do so it is accused to resubmit of bad faith for trying to reopen the withdrawal agreements and change the backstop arrangement however the d u p which does sit in london and upon which to resubmit relies for her parliamentary majority has insisted that to tinker or try to reform the backstop but leave it in place is not enough they want the backstop totally replaced they're not happy with it being in the ritual agreements at all. other country now known as north macedonia is a step closer to joining nato and vide to present the deal of the only public to sign the existing protocol greece has given its approval for the former yugoslav

republic to join the military alliance for years athens had blocked the country's membership over its previous name a russian court has sentenced a danish jovis witness to six years in jail the group was banned in two thousand and seventeen and classified as an extremist organization the cases are raising concern among human rights groups about religious freedom in russia or a chance has more from moscow. dennis christensen who arrived in good spirits to hear the verdict on wednesday night i knew i wanted to do you. think that was but after cameras and supporters were told to leave the court a judge in the town of oriel sentenced the dane to six years for extremism is a conviction he intends to appeal. i thank you everybody for coming i'm very happy that you're here thank you. dennis christensen may be the first jehovah's

witness to be given jail time in russia but he's certainly not the only one in trouble we filmed worship at their main moscow meeting hall in two thousand and seventeen just before russia's supreme court outlawed the jihad as witnesses as an extremist organization before we were banned this building. very intensively but as you can see. since then the doors have been shot to them they have about twenty two people in prison. hundred rates. many under whole many under investigation why russia's or thirty c. the country's one hundred seventy five thousand jobs as witnesses as a threat is something of a mystery it's been suggested that they're under suspicion because perhaps a western influence maybe that they're too independent from the russian government and the russian orthodox church and these are the edge but he was asked in december

why the state was cracking down on them although he said classifying jehovah's witnesses as extremist was completely absurd arrests have continued this human rights advocate doesn't want history to repeat itself he says soviets and nazis both trials religious persecution with attacks on the jehovah's witnesses. why have the authorities started with them it's likely to be a test case. to see how society will react i don't have any illusions about the future of other religious confessions i think it's only beginning and it will depend on how much sense people actually have. under russia's constitution the freedom of religion is guaranteed by the countries or has when this is discovered that guarantee means little will reach alan's now to zero mosque or. rescue teams in turkey are searching for survivors of a building collapse in istanbul at least three people were killed several others are thought to be trapped beneath the rubble of the eight story apartment block.

the greek prime minister has posted a long running campaign to reopen a christian theological school in mainly muslim turkey seminary in istanbul was the main school of theology for the eastern orthodox church in the country until the turkish government shut it down in one thousand nine hundred seventy one sunoco sala reports from istanbul. is an orthodox community it celebrates the peace day of stand for two hours the patent saint of the seminary. founded an eight hundred forty four on her belly of the island it served as the main school of theology of the eastern orthodox church ecumenical patriarch eight until one thousand nine hundred seventy one the seminary was closed when the turkish parliament in after the no banning primates higher education patrick bartha limo is the spiritual leader for the estimated three hundred million orthodox church worshippers

worldwide. when the school reopens it will be a big and happy day not only for the patriarch it's all the orthodox christian world but also for the civilisation culture and our country. there are many alexis she presents the first greek prime minister to form of them is that the school since one thousand nine hundred thirty three it's seen to be a potential step to persuading to rethink on its closure he hopes his next visit will be with turkey's president to believe in the film and the message we want to show today here from this historic place is that the reopening of the healthy school will not constitute an object of discord or division but a message of friendship understanding and brotherhood between our peoples. a possible solution is the turkish that just seems to link the school with one of the national universities that with every day amending the constitution but the church

doesn't agree. since hulky orthodox christian theological school was shut down by the turkish government forty eight years ago there has been an international campaign to reopen it during his visit to turkey in two thousand nine hundred former us president barack obama made a call for the school to reopen to ensure religious freedom to sleepers including president says under positive then what the school for means closed some tricks say turkey's leaders should allow more religious pretty dim is leave when i come here often with my kid we live in a secular country i believe it would be right to have such a seminary in a country where religion is free but that's opposed by turkish nationalists who have leverage on the ruling government they are against the idea of reopening whether degree can turkish leadership can find common ground remains open to question see now because although el to syria has been out island a stumble. over

let's get a roundup of our top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. president is predicting victory over i saw as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to recall claiming all the territory previously held by the group in syria the united states military our coalition partners and the syrian democratic forces have liberated virtually all of the territory previously held by isis and syria and iraq it should be formally announced sometime probably next week that we will have one hundred percent of the caliphate and united nations humanitarian aid convoy as arrived at a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan it is the largest ever to reach the camp since the start of syria's war. amnesty international has accused the united arab emirates of supplying weapons to armed groups in yemen diverts billions of

dollars worth of weapons after buying them from the west many of the groups they supply or been accused of war crimes. briggs's supporters have reacted angrily to remarks by one of the top politicians european council president donald tusk said there's a special place in hell for british politicians who supported leaving the e.u. without a concrete plan the country now known as north macedonia is a step closer to joining nato greece's given its approval for the former yugoslav republic to join the military alliance firefighters in california been tackling a major blaze after a gas explosion in san francisco huge plumes of fire and smoke prompted evacuations of nearby buildings those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's the stream. as venezuela is on the brink.

with two men facing off for power. one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. to al-jazeera. i have a ok and here in the stream today a political promise made a good but does arming resilience make the country safer in december her the president. took to twitter today his commitment to keep brazilians greater access to guns and then on january sixteenth just weeks after taking office he make good on that promise by signing a decree relaxing gun ownership laws and response resilience of taking to twitter to share both their opposition to and support of the change to he asked that it's emerged.