this country faces any such crisis and regards the aid offer as the first step towards an invasion of the country in the eyes of venus well as opposition it's no more dinner 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. where we're going to 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 of over time they 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 on how to move this aid into venezuela under venezuela side of the border hungry families were anxiously waiting for news of the shipments. when you've been hearing. fled their home country or hoping to receive some help. we were told we could. help but know. something that at least for now seems out of the question.

brazil's former president. of the silver has been convicted in a second corruption case he's been given another thirteen years jail time for a case involving a farm house in state a court found him guilty of a lying construction firms to renovate the property in exchange for contracts with state oil company petrobras is already serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption. uncovering the truth mexico. by some families. after years of searching. for him. as prime minister.

hello we've got high pressure keeping things nice and quiet across central parts of europe is down to the southeast no area of cloud in the rain some pretty strong winds to that eastern side of the mediterranean lots of disturbed weather coming through here as we go through the next couple of days and it's a similar picture into the northwest see this next weather system pushing in across the british isles across could pass of france as well ten celsius there for london in paris malta spilling in from the atlantic you have a similar temperature in athens as well down in the southeast and going between this something in between that six celsius for vienna and dry by this is sparkling sunshine for one celsius in kiev forty back to minus one as we go through friday by friday vienna warms up the clouds up as well staying cloudy damp ab pretty windy up towards the northwest but fred what we find in dry temperatures here at around fifteen degrees celsius not bad across the fall northwest of africa getting up to

eighteen for pat and for algiers but no the parts of libya still seeing some other windy weather cohens blasting through fourteen celsius for tripoli mostly that just for the just nothing it's way a little a swiss temperatures not too bad in cairo highs here of twenty degrees. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing off for power. one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader one why don't. stew al-jazeera. well you know. some of it i like.

well again this is al-jazeera a reminder of the main news this hour the u.s. president is predicting victory of i saw as early as next week donald trump says the coalition is close to reclaim all the territory previously held by the group in syria and iraq in the u.s. democrats have voted to provide special counsel robert mueller with confidential testimonies related to his investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election they say they won't be intimidated by president trump's warning against ridiculous partisan investigations at the u.n. his warning against using humanitarian aid as a political tool in venezuela the u.s. says the trucks carrying supplies have arrived in neighboring colombia they were

sent there after a request by venezuela's self declared interim president. britain's prime minister to resign may is traveling to brussels later on thursday to urge e.u. leaders to accept changes to the briggs's agreement or face the prospect of the u.k. leaving the block without a deal on wednesday the european council president said there was a special place in hell for british politicians who pushed for the u.k. to leave without a plan in place now he's been campaigning for the deal in northern ireland from where paul brennan reports that the shock and i have spoken about the necessary actions in case of float. i know that you will also be discussing. with the european commission. by the way i've been wondering what that special place. in her looks like for those who promoted great

results even if kitchell for plan how to carry it safely now those incendiary comments have quite predictably caused a reaction certainly from breakfast 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 again 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 for 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 vote in london refuses to do so it is accused to recently 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 agreement the top rescue teams have been working through the night in turkey searching for survivors after a building collapsed in istanbul these are live pictures that happened on wednesday evening at least two people were killed several others have been pulled out alive it's believed the people are still trapped under the rubble of the eight story apartment block. rival factions from the central african republic have signed a peace deal to end six years of conflicts a formal ceremony has taken place in the capital won't be the agreement between the government and fourteen rebel groups was reached in sudan after two weeks of un led

negotiations that thousands have been killed millions displaced in fighting between christian and muslim militia since twenty team. benjamin netanyahu could become israel's longest sitting prime minister if he wins the upcoming parliamentary election but he's facing increasing challenges from within his own party he still has to battle courts over three corruption cases in this area force of reports from western. there's a new political contender to google me to do. the real benjamin netanyahu tells the media magnate i just want real coverage of the israeli prime minister's public battle with the media he says of peddling fake news and cheerleading a witch hunt has led here to the launch of likud t.v. a campaign tool of his political party dressed up as a news channel nine yos relationship with the media is at the heart of two the three corruption cases dogging his election campaign allegations he traded illicit

favors for better coverage the third surrounds expensive gifts from wealthy friends he denies the charges but an indictment decision is expected this month we're going to blockbuster decision from the attorney general is going to going to be announcement of an intention to indictment and yahoo that's not a final indictment which could come six to twelve months later but it basically says that's where he's going in the meantime the campaign and the primaries for netanyahu likud party are being conducted in what's become the mainstream of israeli politics the right the night before likud members cast their votes a series of senior party figures including the intelligence public security and culture ministers signed onto a charter promoting a radical expansion of illegal settlements it calls for the adoption of a plan to settle two million jews in the occupied west bank signing up to it cements a politician's right wing credentials and also allows the party to define itself more clearly against a new arrival on the political scene could voters benjamin netanyahu legal troubles

have done little to diminish either his power or his popularity there is a substantial and constituency among jewish israelis and for years they've been looking for a viable also. hopes. and israel's former army chief benny gantz looking to occupy the role of centrist he's talked of strengthening settlements but also says lessons should be learned from the way israel removed settlers from gaza in the face of being called a weak leftist he's also released a campaign video claiming credit for the killing of one thousand three hundred sixty four palestinians calling them terrorists in the twenty fourteen gaza war in order for him to get really the votes you know to really challenge it and you know he's got to get some of those votes from the right so he comes as a leftist dressed in rightists clothing ok a liberal israeli dressed as a conservative hard core pro settlement israeli. polling just behind and you know

who is preferred prime minister but his path to victory is narrow given the numerical advantage of netanyahu existing coalition of right wing parties netanyahu continues to fight on multiple fronts knowing that even if he wins power once more in this election he'll have to battle on in the media and potentially in the courts to hold on to it harry force it out zero west jerusalem. the border the hindu temple that supported a centuries old ban on women's entry has reversed its stance and now says the women of menstruating age are welcome inside the temple and have been earlier and earlier rather refused to abide by a supreme court order in september that rule be lifted following the ruling thousands of devotees blocked attempts by women to visit the site violence between rival criminal groups and security forces in mexico is being blamed for the disappearance of around forty thousand people more than a thousand graves have been discovered mexico's new government has pledged twenty million dollars to find out what happened to those who went missing but as john

holmes reports now from the capital families of the victims have already been searching themselves for years. mario had a bar and a comfortable life once now he's heading romex crew city selling mesko to fund the desperate quest his brother's one of the country's more than forty thousand disappeared for the last four years money has been looking to him across hills and forests he still remembers the day he's searching. for when the last or he will care we started digging and it was the worst day of our lives because we weren't prepared for what we'd find me knew we were looking for dead people but the moment we saw the bones many families broke down crying and destroyed thinking that our relatives could be there. years of fighting between organized crime and the government has left the country poked by clan the starring graves many believe authorities have shown little interest in finding. any cause the detectives went to

look for relatives in an office they just want to fall away their cases but our relatives didn't disappear in their offices in response people have organized themselves in groups to spread the word pressure officials and dig its course mario dearly he's apart from his wife and two year old daughter most of the time they had to move from his village to a rented room in mexico city for their sakes the. criminal groups of three because i've gone to places where they're operating if there was a cave when i went to look for people the guy said to me the boss says to i don't stir things up don't go in there we'll kill you but it's not just organized crime the police and armed forces have also disappeared people. i'm more scared of the government than the gangs when i'm digging in to find a disappeared person that's a problem for them and i'm worried that they'll get rid of me. he writes official.

was promised a fresh start the new government is pumping twenty million dollars into a plan to find the missing. and maybe this will be the start of a change but it's going to take many years of history and seen as with withers that he dug into a mass grave we made him do it to see what it's like digging to find your relatives maybe for him that was a big lesson with. whatever happens mario's plan remain simple and he must be a man or. we keep looking for my brother because he's my brother a lot of people say get over it he's dead but we want the truth if you find him dead at least we'll know they killed him at least our family will at peace with you john hoeven how does either. scientists are warning of rising sea levels more droughts more destructive hurrican researchers from two u.s.

government agencies found the twenty eight team was the fourth warmest year on record castro reports. twenty eighteen was marked by natural disasters that ravaged the u.s. from coast to coast in california the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history killed more than eighty people in the carolinas hurricane florence shattered rainfall and flood records and now scientists point to hard evidence that as the disasters intensified the earth's surface warmed the average global temperature last year was fourteen point six nine degrees celsius that's point seven one degrees above the average for the twentieth century since the eight hundred eighty s. the global temperature has increased by.