tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera February 8, 2019 7:00pm-7:32pm +03
7:00 pm
left of this coalition and the now it seems that morocco and saudi arabia have a. diplomatic problem in the sense that morocco has recalled its ambassador simply because recently the l.r.b. a has air or the program which is properly sario about the saga of the more arkansas and morocco considers that the conflict of the solder issue is a red line so that is why it is really recall in its ambassador and i think that the relations or in real crisis the other point is morocco has been extremely friendly with qatar and did not take sides with saudi arabia concerning the feud that other countries of the g.c.c. had with qatar and it seems that morricone has sided with qatar in many ways and it has tried at many moments to solve the problem with
7:01 pm
the rest of the g.c.c. countries but saudi arabia didn't like that and wanted more awkward to be on the side they think there are how how significant do you think the recalling of the ambassador is well it's very important it means that the relations or really bad there are tensions and that morocco is not going to accept the dictate of saudi arabia as what concerns the issue especially siding with the police are you know we know that in the past saudi arabia has always sided with morocco on this important issue so i think morocco is saying we are not going to accept that at all we are going to review these relations in the light of what's happened with the program by. as for the war and yemen and what implications might there be can you see other countries perhaps starting to pull back as well from this coalition.
7:02 pm
yes i think maybe other countries will do that because i think the whole war is a real disaster on the human level but also on the economy destroy the economy of yemen it destroyed the social cohesion of the country and it has reached no. level the non-solutions it has not achieved anything in terms of military victories for saudi arabia so i think many countries probably will review their sit with this situation and put out of this war on attach it thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it. a report from unicef is highlighting the dire situation for children and yemen found more than six thousand seven hundred children have been killed or injured since the war began in two thousand and fifteen then agency also found three hundred ninety four thousand children are suffering from acute malnutrition are also in the urgent treatment and nearly three thousand to many
7:03 pm
boys have been recruited by armed groups in a south adds the fighting has resulted in three quarters of the population needing humanitarian aid and staying in yemen the lives of cancer patients in the port city of her data are being made worse by the fighting the world health organization says thirty five thousand in many's have cancer and eleven thousand are diagnosed every year but increasingly cancer clinics are closing it abraham has more than this should be a weekly visit for who has jo cancer instead she comes for treatment once a month not only does she have difficulty speaking the drive to the hospital is made has a display of fighting her nephew explains. the distance from our village was sixty four kilometers but now it's one hundred seventy the previous road used to be easier it was paved but now it's completely destroyed. the road linking today that had been closed since last september now it's on the control of the saudi
7:04 pm
immorality led coalition which limits the difference of medical and food supplies to the city. man i mean in his law due to the complete siege on yemen and the siege and her data the patients situation is getting worse just the lack of medicine difficulty of transportation and the extreme poverty of these patients which eventually will lead to losing the progress we achieved in treating some of the cases. with increasing numbers of diagnosed patients in the tour you're eating security conditions. the only accounts a treatment center which is nearby for patients and for day the and the surrounding areas. it's only open two days a week and has one doctor to treat all these patients feel the doctor was forced to do you the city because of the war. we have five thousand six hundred patients who need serious care we might not be able to continue taking care of these people if there's no support we are exposed to the possibility of being shut down soon as we
7:05 pm
don't have the operational budget nor the cost of treatment. for now these yemenis can only wait with no idea where that this treatment center will be here next time they need it need that dream al-jazeera plenty more ahead in the news hour and clothing on the white house prepares to push its peace plan a question or tears or a tour of the middle east. and broken promises why some south africans are fed up with the policies of the government. and then support the l.a. lakers bounce back with the lucky winner of the boston celtics details coming up on the program. iran has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile in outs that was made in an underground facility as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the revolution as a show of military strength after the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and impose sanctions on tehran
7:06 pm
saying that's right he joins us now from iran's capital tehran so the same tell us more about this the significance and the timing of this. absolutely you know any time iran unveils a weapon of this magnitude it is significant in terms of iran expanding the military assets it has to at its disposal and really follows a speech by the supreme leader last year and in that speech he said the rhetoric coming from the white house of president donald trump is far too aggressive we don't want to be caught off guard get ready for a fight get your defenses ready and the timing of this unveiling on the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution that brought this islamic republic into existence it's really time for military leaders and the government in iran to showcase to its own people that it has done with the supreme leader ordered that it is advancing its weapons technology and that it will be ready for anything that is
7:07 pm
thrown at it now we've spoken to several commanders of the iranian military of the islamic revolutionary guard corps who have said that they insist that they will not fire the first shot but they will retaliate in kind to any threat that is posed against it so really this unveiling it's as significant what didn't happen this wasn't a launch test of any kind that would have been too far of an escalation but making public what is the generally a secretive military program sends a message it's all about messaging to its domestic audience that we are ready we are prepared that you are safe to its allies in the region that we can protect you and to its allies in europe who have been critical of its ballistic missile program don't waste your time we need to move forward with what we see as important developments for our own defense and to its enemies in the west israel in the middle east that we do have the capacity to defend ourselves and you should issue you should consider this as the issuing of a warning so tell us what the supreme leader has ak to say that as a consistent position.
7:08 pm
absolutely the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has been speaking again today the significance of his speech today is he speaking to air force commanders and they're really commemorating a day forty years ago when air force commanders at the time pledge their allegiance in the in the midst of a revolution that was happening in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine to the leader of the revolution ayatollah khomeini and it was really a seminal moment many say that it was one of those moments that turned the tide in khomeini's favor that the fight for control of iran would have gone on much longer had those air force commanders not pledge their allegiance to khomeini at the time and so his speech today is to mark that event and in his speech he said a few very interesting things you know it's all sounds very familiar these are sort of the greatest hits of the iranian government that they roll out on occasions like this but there was a couple of moments a couple of points that we should consider he made specific american leaders trump
7:09 pm
and his senior advisers his secretary of state as well his now as his national security or buys or and by naming these people he really drew sort of a line under the fact that iranians may chant death to america but they don't mean that focused on the country or the countries people they are focusing on the specific leaders the government he also said that america cannot be trusted but the optimist might see his words as we did negotiate with the united states and we may be open to negotiating in the future but the specific leaders that have very aggressive rhetoric towards iran those leaders of their statements we cannot abide so from a very pessimistic point of view it is the continuing tension between the united states and iran but on the optimistic side perhaps he was hinting at the fact that once these leaders in the united states are gone perhaps iran can once again leave the door open to some sort of negotiated easing of tensions are it's a mess probably live for us and tehran zain. senior white house advisor jerry
7:10 pm
questioner is expected to travel to the middle east later this month son in law wall. resent part of his peace plan for the region during this visit question or world brief diplomats on the economic situation section that is of a u.s. proposal for peace between israel and the palestinians his tour will take him to oman are a saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar mike hanna has more from washington d.c. administration officials say jared kush no will be accompanied by the special middle east envoy jason green blatt now he is going to be visiting a number of arab nations but interesting enough will not be visiting israel according to administration officials the reason for this it would appear because of the elections taking place in israel in early april now the official say as well that kush no will be discussing the economic portion of this middle east peace plan as it is put now the official adds that they are well aware that arab leaders will
7:11 pm
want to know the political component of this plan before making any economic commitment so certainly there will be some discussion of the political component to it but the greatest stumbling block still ahead in the face of any emergency peace plan is the fact that the palestinian leadership continue to boycott any trumpet ministration officials because of president trumps illegal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel south africa was hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on may eighth it was the first vote since the resignation of jacob zuma in february of last year presidents are all remote post said to liberate a state of the nation address on thursday and promised to fix the struggling economy in miller reports from cape town. khayelitsha is the largest township in cape town. so has lived here for twenty years in a tiny home with one of the two children the area has no todd roads is littered
7:12 pm
with refuse and there are no schools nearby there's no lies here. and then. when you walk around. into all the. think it's safe and secure what is a local activist she says she's fighting for a safer community with basic government services she supported ruling african national congress and watches the state of the nation address every year making notes she says to hold the government accountable for the promises it's made when sickies who voted in south africa's first democratic elections twenty five years ago she says she was excited at the prospect of a new and better south africa i was there inside the parliament. the police would be there most of the ground there is not what is there's a lot of crime because early we men's and children they're targets of that hurts.
7:13 pm
everybody this is civil remark was a second state of the nation address as president of the jacob zuma resigned amid allegations of corruption and a poorly performing government with many south africans becoming increasingly cynical what is the state of the nation needs. a lot of it don't all because they were promised. problem is promised they promised all of the time just three months ahead of elections the state of the nation address like others highlights the government's achievements and its plans for the future. much of the president's speech focuses on ending corruption stimulating the economy and creating jobs the theme of this year's state of the nation address is following up on our commitments but for many south africans especially in poor communities like this one the decades old promises made by the government have been derailed
7:14 pm
especially by corruption we will celebrate the triumph of freedom over subjugation the triumph of democracy over a show to the and the triumph of hope over despair. after twenty five years of democracy is a kiss one hopes that these words will finally bring change. of africa amazon chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail is the world's richest man in the owner of the washington post he says the tabloids threaten to publish intimate photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated and a blog post questions about american media inks relationship with saudi arabia am i the owner of the inquirer is a strong backer of president donald trump and my has denied its reporting was
7:15 pm
politically motivated. and a few moments we will have all the weather with steph also ahead on al-jazeera room . with a message in a song syrians who escaped the war using music to spread happiness and promote a message over the resistant. thanks a first for europe's largest major film festival or add to the problem for a lot al in germany and in sports going superstar lindsey vonn prepares for the final race of her career that's ahead in the program. thank. you. hello there we've got some pretty stormy weather across parts of europe at the
7:16 pm
moment we had this little system won't run its way across the northwestern parts of the past few hours and then there was a bit of a break but now we've got this huge blob of cloud here within that this very heavy rain and some very strong winds as well the winds are gusting up to one hundred kilometers per hour in places in the rain really is hammering down that what weather is gradually edging its way eastward the behind it there's this little hook where we're seeing plenty of more heavy showers and some more very strong winds in with that as well so gradually during the day then the whole system will run away towards the north that storm system has been called eric but it's up toward scandinavia by the time we get to saturday behind it those two plenty of brawler ferocious winds and still plenty of showers coming in on those winds as well as well but as well as being wet and windy it's also really quite moderate about ten degrees in london eleven in paris and even for the east we're seeing the temperatures quite high double figures there in berlin and even up at six in warsaw now if you're looking at a void of all that with windy weather there is some sunshine to be found across
7:17 pm
parts of europe southern parts of spain and portugal it should be fine madrid there about fourteen degrees and it should also be brightening up down towards the southeast as well the what weather here joining across towards the middle east things there returning to sunny is cool in athens. the weather sponsored by catherine was. february on al-jazeera we investigate the toxic legacy of south africa's mining industry and examine exactly what is hiding beneath the oldest toxic waste africa's largest democracy heads to the polls join us for live coverage nigeria books al-jazeera world showcase is the best of the networks documentaries with powerful untold stories from the middle east and north africa as cubans are set to vote on the possible changes to the constitution what impact will be outcome have on the country the world sunny day witness visits ghana and sweden where community polarized by mining towns questions their heritage february on
7:18 pm
al-jazeera. and they have it every week the news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then listening kindest as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that night and demands on al-jazeera. recap the top stories for you now on al jazeera on words of in his way law says the time for dialogue with president nicolas maduro is over washington wants him to leave trucks with aid and supplies from the u.s. have arrived at the border and colombia
7:19 pm
a report in the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after tomatoes in two thousand and seventeen and a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence muhammad bin solomon is heard saying that he would use a bullet against the show's scheme. iran has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of its revolution iran has dismissed the european union's criticism of its missile development program. an unexpected twist thailand's upcoming elections have become a battle between the country's royals and the military and power the sister of the king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister and the first vote since the military coup in two thousand and fourteen let's get more now from wayne hay who is in bangkok for us so what have we heard from the princess. rachelle no we haven't yet and we haven't either really heard from the party about the possibility of her hitting the campaign trail that would certainly be
7:20 pm
a fascinating side given the divisions that have existed in this country over the years she has made a statement on social media she's very active on social media and she says she has relinquished her royal titles and lives as a as a commoner that clearly is in response to some concerns that have already been expressed on friday that in fact this party tie rocks a chart is breaking the law by dragging the royal family into the political process into politics in general she says she has accepted the nomination for prime minister for this party to show her rights and freedom without any privileges above above are other fellow thai citizens under the constitution what remains to be seen during this campaign and indeed the election even after it if she is part of the government that is formed whether she will be treated as a normal thai citizen or indeed whether people will be able to treat her like this but certainly it was a momentous day in thailand on friday one that could have far reaching
7:21 pm
ramifications. politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape. today i with other time party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate a prime minister for the party who is princess. cityward in a. straight away it all to the dynamics of the election campaign in a country that's been politically divided for years that. is a big advantage over all the other parties and the other candidates who most likely would not want to be seen running down the. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as a princess and part of the royal family she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing
7:22 pm
is that the party she's joined is backed by free will prime minister attacks and she knew what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as anti establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy he and princess who are known to be close and the announcement may indicate that a deal was struck between texan and the palace this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy from criticism but the law is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against her could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as
7:23 pm
a setback for the man who led the two thousand. current prime minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for approved military policy that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princes may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics this is since the move by thai rocks a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarization wayne hay al jazeera bank called on us now from bangkok is southeast asia analyst engineman so thank you very much for joining us just how surprising is this move it's it's very surprising i mean for someone who has lived and worked in the country for sixteen years it's difficult to be surprise history tends to repeat itself in this country over and over again between coup and election and so on but
7:24 pm
the country has never really seen anything quite like this announcement today what do you make of why she's doing it. i'm sorry of why she's doing it yet. well it's difficult to to impute to sort of motive on her part but certainly it could potentially be a strong step toward reconciliation because what you're seeing is that a member of the royal family is effectively aligning herself with a side of thailand's political divide the very side that the current coup government was was put in place to to overthrow and so it paints the current government in a very unfavorable light when again that the institution that the coup government was was claims to be in power to protect is in fact siding with the with the side that is that was thrown out of power five years ago but in in potentially becoming prime minister then there's a there's a possibility that she will of herself sort of in the person of
7:25 pm
a single figure. serve toward record reconciling these two these two divides is our reporter wayne hayes said there that some people are questioning whether or not this is even legal i'm assuming that you're not a lawyer so i'm not going to ask you have but how might this affect how do people campaign against her. well she is not protected at least at the moment by the country's lez majesty laws laws i am a lawyer and in fact when you look at those laws and you interpret them strictly she isn't protected by those those laws in the core she's gone out of her way today to to to articulate the fact that she no longer enjoys most royal privileges and titles having said that i would expect the fact that she is if not of royal lineage at this stage certainly from royal lineage i expect that fact will play heavily in the minds of thailand's electorate and i would expect it to play very heavily in the minds of thai parliamentarians as well including those from the military when
7:26 pm
they're choosing the prime minister so is is this far from a den deal that she'll necessarily when. it's it's a it's far from a done deal but it increases the likelihood that taxon aligned parties in the lower house of parliament will receive the necessary number of votes namely three hundred seventy six votes in order to elect her as prime minister and even if they fail in getting that magic number of three seventy six again there are two hundred fifty seats in the upper house of parliament that we had assumed up until about twelve hours ago would go in favor of the military's party which i would expect would go at least in part in favor of the texan parties so it's not a done deal but i think when you when you just do the math it's more likely than not that she'll be in a position to accept the role as prime minister ok analyst and attorney benjamin so aki thank you so much for joining us from bangkok we appreciate it. at least two
7:27 pm
people have been killed and fourteen police officers injured during protests in the haitian capital thousands demonstrated in port of france against rampant inflation and for option calling on presidential banana moisey to step down after he was implicated in the scandal involving aid money from venezuela where say says he will not resign because we take to the streets to protest about inflation in health care we're here to fight corruption going to go back to life in prison today we're signing notes of corruption in impunity we want to know what happened with the money the situation is horrible. the president must go to his no place in our country we want him out of office as soon as possible a bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of killing forty three people is being demolished a partial demolition of them are on the bridge took place in december but now the
7:28 pm
entire structure is being brought down construction of a new bridge again and march undergo is live for us and so i would imagine it's very difficult for people who live there to still look at this bridge after what happened. indeed nearly six months on from one of the worst disasters in recent times here in italy and it's still very much a symbol of the tragedy that took place but what you have happening today is the dismantling of western portion of the bridge it's a very significant operation extremely delicate one as well they have been preparing for it for at least two days beforehand and this is a process which is going to take eight hours it's already a couple of hours already into that dismantling but it has been very slow and very detail orientated dismantling because of course there are still businesses which
7:29 pm
are located under that portion of the bridge. there is infrastructure so that cannot be any kind of rushed element as well. as setting off of the demolition of the. prime minister and the minister of infrastructure who stated that this. was a day where they could turn the page on this tragedy and the new bridge would be a symbol a symbol. in the face. by the residents. thank you. for football coach carlos. is that our will have all the details in sport.
7:31 pm
a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. the unconventionality of life. witnessed through the lens of the human eye. on al-jazeera. desperate for more weird news about your conspirators person you want to take a week or two officers i need to work i need the money part of it i think it's really a because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life in america risking it old fifty dollars. tome walgreens. for a better future are we saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on things. on al-jazeera. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other
7:32 pm
gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. after nearly eight years of war syrians living abroad are using their creativity to continue the message of change and resistance some are using music others have
7:33 pm
turned to performing arts as on the edge of a one such group near the syrian border with turkey. for centuries there would has been used to express joy or pain it's the instrument of choice for syrian artist or just jihad in yemen they used to design graphics and in tears in a leper and fled across the border to gaza. when the syrian revolution began you had started to sing tunes of resistance. remain at the heart of the uprising until it was seized by syrian government forces with the help of iranian troops and russian jets. he tries to immerse himself in writing songs and composing music but what he saw in aleppo never leaves his thoughts. we crossed the street where children were playing with a yellow football i heard the sound of a barrel bomb and we ducked we went to check on the kids and all of them were dead
7:34 pm
do you know how painful it is to see body parts of young children scattered in front of you i will never forget that. many syrians had no idea that their creativity would be. mean but now some can wear their message of change and resistance by using laughter and art. you had in yemen designed some tyrant comedy sketches to take a poke at groups the assad regime and fellow syrians they say laughter is the best medicine and that's why they have created a small studio with the help of a turkish friend. first it wasn't enough but now they make ends meet by selling their content to some online channels. says they don't know if their work makes people happy but it helps them forget their pain even if it is for a few minutes. we didn't leave aleppo we had to escape from aleppo from the regime the bloodbath and the destruction at the beginning we just
7:35 pm
wanted to deliver a message now that we have an audience people always ask us for more. the group says much of syria's creative talent is now scattered some of been killed some opted for living under the regime while others are living in other countries they still romanticize about the message of the revolution and see it was only about freedom they have hope they will return home some time. these days that's all they dream about. without is there a. time for sport with richelle thank you so much for starting with some breaking news in reuters news agency is reporting a fire at the training ground a brazilian football club flamengo the club is based in the city of rio firefighters say that ten people have been killed and at least three of been injured over a more details on that story as soon as we get them. all horseracing in
7:36 pm
britain has been postponed until at least the middle of next week because of an outbreak of equine influenza three resources tested positive at a yard in cheshire and now the lockdown has been extended far more than a thousand animals are being closely monitored early response to racing broadcast over bal he explained the financial implications of the outbreak and the potential threat to one of the u.k.'s most prestigious sporting events a child for them festival coming up next month racecourses will lose revenue of for instance new breed on saturday was going to hold it this is one of the most significant trials meeting that probably would have been a crowd of around about ten or twelve thousand such racecourses will be suffering as a result so we will have a significant impact even if it's just for a short period racing really doesn't want this to be happening because they need every pound they can get at the moment because this is a sport suffering economic issues not anything may be corrected related but just as
7:37 pm
the sport with the changes to the fencing they've either this or that being brought in revenues are going to be down this yet we've already seen some great schools make. it having an impact as far as employment is concerned and hopefully we will not miss the cheltenham festival that it happened last back in two thousand and one when we had a foot in modest outbreak in this country which had a huge impact on the agricultural industry and the racing industry for a period and the anyone's damaging that they missed the cheltenham festival so hopefully though it has come early and they know what's going on and they can deal with it but i have to say if it goes on for another two weeks then obviously chapman festival is by then in. so the world state championships in sweden where lindsey vonn is getting ready for her final ever race in the women's downhill on sunday a chronic knee injury is forcing her to retire after the championship she is eighty
7:38 pm
two world cup wins just short of the all time men's record held by in a marston mark fellow american and to time a limb pick champion ted ligety says it's heartbreaking right now i feel sad for everything you know and like i can't imagine being that close to breaking an all time record in there and having to give it away. and i understand you know that she had you know my own issues with health in the body and how you feel i can understand her that i know but that's that's heartbreaking for. a battle for gender equality is an ongoing struggle in many sports but thanks to the likes of vaughn the spotlight and prize money at these championships favor the women just as much as the men but the path to superstardom can be a slippery slope paul rees reports from suite. the stakes don't get much higher than this to sweden ski team the fastest women in scandinavia and some of them
7:39 pm
about to make their world championship debut on home snow the swedes are the big sisters of the nordic nations while in norway it's the men that rule this side of the border it's the women who have many more gold medals than the neighbors it's a habit they need to keep up both to retain local supremacies and challenge the dominance of the american alpine rivals. these training sessions of the final push towards one of the peaks of any career is the world championships but staying at the top can be easier than getting there reaching the level of double olympic champion mckay le chiffre in is a game changer last season the american and more than. considered the best male skier of all time taking home more than seven hundred thousand dollars. alpine skiing one of the sports that is closed the gender gap but things aren't so bright further down the pecking order the struggle for me has been the i've been gone
7:40 pm
wrong the whole world and the racing world cup but never qualifying it's hard to go wrong five years without any rest so i've been living with my fur and. i actually thought that i would do my last races this winter and that's when it all just started to work you know five races in a row and i do maybe. but i don't know i don't want to do anything other in my life. it's lindsey vonn that has played a big part in getting women skiing where it is partly by turning female skiers into very marketable personalities more importantly by pushing women's racing to rival the men's as a sporting spectacle it's been a lot of stars for sure that are actually super good and super big talents i think that things have on i mean she has she's superstar in
7:41 pm
a lot of ways and in some soaps i'm sure that she could have been. she would have been faster than. will be gone after these world championships the challenge for the women that come next may be great but so too are the rewards paul reese al-jazeera vem dahlan sweden all football matches and france's top two divisions will hold a minute's applause this weekend in memory of former non player a million police confirmed on thursday that the body recovered from the wreckage obvious plane was that of the striker the search is ongoing to find the pilot david . it was the only other person on board has just completed and moved to cardiff and was on route to wales when the plane came down in the english channel last month. well it didn't take long for carlos queiroz to find a new job the former around coach is the new boss of colombia the sixty five year old had been coach of iran since two thousand and eleven his last game in charge
7:42 pm
was the side's three no loss to japan and the semifinals of the cop from around the manager was officially confirmed as columbia's coach on thursday is tasked with taking colombia to the twenty twenty two world cup. a head coach is not with recognized that the toughest competition in the world is the south american world cup qualifiers tougher than europe than asia than africa the south american qualifiers if you qualify it's like halfway to winning the world cup there's no doubt about that le bron james and the l.a. lakers pulled off a big win in boston they beat celtics by just a point after coming off the worst loss of his career on choose day james led the way with a game high twenty eight points twelve rebounds and twelve a set the celtics who were leading in the dying seconds of the game looked like they were going to take the win regard rondo though his twenty foot foster beating shot lifted the lakers to one hundred twenty nine to one hundred twenty when the
7:43 pm
celtics of their five game winning streak it's now. frank robinson the first african-american manager in major league baseball has died at the age of eighty three as a player he was a fourteen time all star and won two world series titles with the baltimore orioles who then went on to manage the cleveland indians in the mid seventy's robinson was elected to the baseball hall of fame in one nine hundred eighty two. and that's all your support for the war coming up later back to you are thank you very much the berlin international film festival it is underway. screen during me now several of them vying for the top prize the golden bear and this share many are directed by women. at the festival. at berkeley named braces the film festival says outfeed is a into the man who's stepping down after eighteen years in charge to the stars were
7:44 pm
out for the opening movie the kindness of strangers which danish director lotus figure is one of seven women who have a film in competition with the famous golden bear and the actress heading the jury says that can only be a good thing that's nima shows and just cinema is changing and women are breaking through i hope there'll be more women from the whole world coming through from south america and africa and countries like china because we need the point of view of women from around the world. something else the berlin ali is synonymous with is political films like the brazilian fact space nine hundred sixty s. drama getting its world premiere here but it's not going to feel that well as he says goodbye to the berlin ali the man in the black cut de to kosilek nose he leaves behind an event that sends a unique place in the film world it's just a lot of fun and at the same time you can think about really serious sayings and it's a little bit like the opening night film because it's in a way
7:45 pm
a comedy and people will laugh but to see you see operated top six and that's again it's like a heavy because it's a kindness of strangers and this is what we all become doubles. legal avenue in india not really. the foundation in my own time another contender for the golden bear is the gold. glove by fatty he won billions top prize back in two thousand and four this german drama plunges you into another time and place it's based around a real life nine hundred seventy serial killer in the red light district of a king's native homburg. also in the running this drama set in mongolia. and revolves around a herd's woman who gets pregnant after spending one night with a young police officer chatting to. me each year you know i mean
7:46 pm
7:47 pm
one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. towards to al jazeera. an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of evacuees. but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems. smoke from the massive wildfires now blankets much of northern california leading to some of the worst air quality in the world but with more than twelve thousand structures lost in the wildfires concerns remain about long term accommodations jobs and medical care. local officials say there isn't enough housing stock available. desperate for more news about hilton's babies are so you want to take
7:48 pm
a week or two officers need to work i need the money part of it i think it's humiliating because i thought i'd be somewhere else in my life in a matter risking it old fifty dollars. khartoum all greens. for a better future always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on this. on al jazeera. this is the opportunity to understand the very the french were there before it happens and we don't leave our. desperate families in venezuela say they urgently need a that's been blocked at the border as the political crisis worsens.
7:49 pm
hello i'm adrian forgetting this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new report says saudi arabia's crown prince threatened to kill jamal khashoggi a year before the journalist was murdered. breaking with tradition the world princess who could become thailand's next prime minister. and syrians who escaped the war are using music to spread happiness and promote a message of resistance. the u.s. says the time for dialogue with venezuela's president nicolas maduro is over washington wants him to leave the country and to hand over power to a transitional government trucks carrying food and aid from the u.s. have arrived in the colombian border city of kuta but it's not clear yet how that aid will enter venezuela without the support of the military which still backs
7:50 pm
president nicolas maduro one area which desperately needs aid is venezuela's crumbling public health system in the coastal city of buffalo fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food and water hospital workers say there's a dire need for medicine al-jazeera stories about has our exclusive report. this is a pretty eye tricks emergency room at the hospital in the venezuelan city. about three hundred kilometers east of. here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with. a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water. daughter is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned the out of air my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in
7:51 pm
a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they have vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us. we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week fourteen children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of those where people are telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough there and just among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madalena my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son as did. people who
7:52 pm
believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. with any of them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol through not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the revolution because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be in socialism the situation in the last city
7:53 pm
hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering precedent of venezuela. says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed. well you want to put in work on the work of humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. but of venezuela. more on that u.s. aid shipment that's waiting at the colombia venezuela border. reports. honking their horns two larger to. six mile or trucks arrived in the border
7:54 pm
city. carrying the aids relief elements same by the united states relief agency usa this is part of a larger plan by the opposition together with its international supporters to try and start a humanitarian corridor. but it will not be easy given the fact that president. remains steadfast and its refusal to aid in the bridge called the last. should become a humanitarian corridor is blocked. with barriers and large trucks the aid will be brought or is being brought in a a warehouse where it will be stored for the next few days we know that there is
7:55 pm
food and medical supplies much needed by the population and we'll get more details the morning of friday when the u.s. here together with the colombian government and four deputies from the national assembly will give a press conference and give us more details. and their plans on how to bring it inside. president maduro has launched a petition demanding that the u.s. . speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again deny the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of their oil rig. sources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition heated by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venezuela under the false excuse of
7:56 pm
a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling for being as well or to be respected demanding peace. the un human rights envoy investigating the murder of the journalist says that it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the finding by special reports. follows a week long missions to examine evidence turkey's accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation ankara says that the findings are in line its findings are in line with reports well this as a report in the new york times says that the saudi crown prince threatened to go after jamal in twenty seventeen according to the report mohammed been solman told
7:57 pm
an aide that he would use a bullet against the journalist if he didn't return home and end his criticism of the kingdom the conversation was intercepted by u.s. intelligence agencies to show she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year let's go live now to istanbul and serious stuff is there stephanie. any significance in the timing of all of this. i think yes i think it's just my opinion but i think it's not a coincidence that the new york times decided to issue this report on the day that u.s. president donald trump faces a deadline handed to him by congress by twenty two bipartisan senators in something called the magnitsky act basically he needs to look into the role of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin saddam and the killing of you know whether he's going to hear to that or not the we'll have to see throughout the course of this day but i think very interesting that the new york times has this article as you mentioned
7:58 pm
quoting an anonymous american officials citing back to intelligence reports of this interception as he said that the saudi crown prince said that you needed to return to saudi arabia and if he did do that voluntarily it needed to be by force you to stop criticizing the kingdom and if he didn't come back that he would be facing a bullet so certainly an extremely damning allegation from the new york times there are so whether that's going to put any more pressure on the u.s. president and whether he's going to say anything relevant throughout the course of the day we'll have to wait and see turkey accusing saudi arabia once again of not being transparent as far as the investigation is concerned saying its findings are are in line with a. report in which she said. it was a brutal premeditated killing perpetrated by saudi arabia. yes turkey is jumping on the bandwagon you know basically saying that what this
7:59 pm
preliminary statement from the u.n. special prosecutor and extrajudicial killings is found is something that turkey has done and they've done their job and they're very much you know doing the same thing that she has done of course turkey has political interests when it comes to the story all countries involved have political interests when it comes to this story a job which is why i think and this is so important because she is the only known political actor that is looking at this from a border point of view she also did say that turkey didn't give her for example access to scientific forensic and police reports and she wants this so i think important what her findings down the line are going to be she wants to also speak to the cia she wants to know what the american south of course the cia is the only one that has come out and said directly that they believe that mohamed bin sama and ordered the murder of turkey hasn't said that as directly other people haven't said it as directly because again they're walking this political line so i think this
8:00 pm
investigation that she's taken upon herself is significant we're only really going to know what the main findings are in a couple of months time and then of course what she's trying to do is get a proper international investigation open but at the moment many countries and even the u.n. secretary general seem reluctant to do so stuff many thanks i was there a stephanie deck of a live in istanbul morocco has suspended its participation in the saudi u.a.e. coalition's battle against two three rebels in yemen the moroccan government has also recalled its ambassador to saudi arabia precious been mounting on the coalition to end its assault on given the level of morocco's participation in the war hasn't been clear. as a political analyst specializing in the middle east and north africa he says that other countries may end up pulling out of the saudi you a coalition to. morocco considers that the war on yemen was useless was very bad it has created social problems in yemen it has destroyed the
8:01 pm
economy it has a high casualty among the population especially the children that's why it has left of these coalitions but i think that the whole war is a real disaster on the human level but also on the economy destroyed the economy of yemen it destroyed those social cohesion of the country and it has reached no. level the solutions it has not achieved anything in terms of military victories for saudi arabia so i think many countries probably will review their situ this situation and pull out of this war in an unexpected twist thailand's upcoming elections become a battle between the country's royals and the military and the sister of the king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the first vote since the military coup in twenty fourteen when a reports now from bangkok. politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable
8:02 pm
this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape. today i with other time party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate prime minister for the party who is princess. cityward and. straight away it altered the dynamics of the election campaign in a country that's been politically divided for years such a party was a big advantage over all the other parties and you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen running. princess relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as a princess and part of. the royal family she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing
8:03 pm
is that the party she's joined is backed by free will prime minister attacks and she knew what it was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as anti establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy he and princess known to be close and the announcement may indicate that a deal was struck between texan and the palace this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy from criticism but the law is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as a setback for the man who led the two thousand and fourteen coup current prime
8:04 pm
minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for approved military policy that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princess may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics there is a sense the move by thai rocks a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarized nation wayne hay al jazeera bangkok weather update next than the white house for past push its peace plan has jarrett gears up for a tour of the middle east. and a first for europe's largest major film festival one of the in germany.
8:05 pm
hello there there has been quite quiet over parts of japan recently and that's led to a problem with some foggy mornings this is what it looked like on thursday at around seven am local time you can just see the tops of the building there poking through that for certainly was quite a maci start that will burn through there when things were returned to the folk ignitions over the next few days because the weather is all turned a bit more mobile now but one area of cloud is making its way over us at the moment and that could well bring us some rain or even some snow tokyo's top temperature on saturday just expected to be one degree so we are likely to see a few flurries perhaps it during the day we've also got another little bit of cloud of rain working its way into the northern parts of honshu and the western part and that again could bring a mixture of rain and snow for some of us here towards the west so well saw an unsettled for so on saturday but by sunday we'll be watching more in the way of clouds thicken up and it will gradually be edging its way eastwards as we head through the next few days force in the southeastern parts of china
8:06 pm
a good deal of cloud with this but only a few outbreaks of rain and snow there for saturday sunday that's when that system begins to develop in the northern part of our map the further south still saying law actually drive a good deal of cloud around it time so just the chance of the old spot of rain hong kong up around twenty four. afghanistan has the geology of both mental resources and hydro birth why are they so poor emotional you guys when fighting with form a government. that toxic when essentially now is the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike tom bodett or on just. well
8:07 pm
again this is just iraq news this hour the u.s. envoy to venezuela says the time for dialogue with president dickless but is over washington wants him to leave the country trucks with aid and supplies from the u.s. of arrived. in colombia. reports in the new york times says that the saudi crown prince threatened to go off to jamal to show g twenty seventeen in a conversation that was intercepted by u.s. intelligence had been summoned as saying that he'd use a bullet against russia. and in an unexpected twist the sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the upcoming elections the army chief was the current prime minister but also. iran has unveiled
8:08 pm
a new long range ballistic missile the announcement was made in an underground facility as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the revolution it's a show of military strength after the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and imposed sanctions on tehran let's go live now to the iranian capital saints ravi is there can tell us more of the supreme leader has been talking about this missile and the anniversary was the safe side. well adrian any time iran unveil something like this it is a significant military step up this is all about messaging a message to iran's domestic audience and its allies in the region that we have the capability we are developing the necessary technology to defend ourselves and it is a message to iran's enemies that any aggression will be met with retaliation so certainly one about messaging a message on the anniversary of the for the fortieth anniversary of the islamic
8:09 pm
revolution that brought the current republic into power now this is also a nod by the military strategists and developers to a speech by the supreme leader last year in which he said american rhetoric is far too aggressive get ready to defend yourselves make the necessary preparations for a fight and this is a nod to the supreme leader saying that yes that is the direction we are going and on the occasion commemorating this event he was also speaking to army air force officers as part of the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary marking the day forty years ago when air force officers pledged allegiance to their leader of the revolution ayatollah khomeini now. i'm sorry now in his speech to the only company of the current supreme leader said that america cannot be trusted and specifically named u.s. president donald trump as well as secretary of state mike pompei oh and national security adviser john bolton but he drew a line under their names and said when we criticize the united states when we chant death to america we are talking about government officials who are aggressive
8:10 pm
towards iran not about the people of the country a pessimist might tell you that that is an indication of ongoing tensions that cannot be resolved in time soon but the optimist might say that that leaves a sliver of hope that once the u.s. administration currently in power moves on perhaps there can be ongoing negotiations with iran that say many thanks live in tehran a senior white house adviser jared cushman is expected to travel to the middle east later this month donald trump's son in law will present part of his peace plan to the region during his visit krishna will brief diplomats on the economic sanction of the u.s. proposal for peace between israel and the palestinians his tour will take him to among bahrain saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar mike hanna reports now from washington. administration officials say jared kush no will be accompanied by this special middle east envoy jason green blatt now he is going to be visiting a number of arab nations but interesting enough will not be visiting israel
8:11 pm
according to administration officials the reason for this it would appear because of the elections taking place in israel in early april now the official say as well that kush no will be discussing the economic portion of this middle east peace plan as it is put now the official adds that they are well aware that arab leaders will want to know the political component of this band before making any economic commitment so certainly there will be some discussion of the political component to it but the greatest stumbling block still ahead in the face of any emergency peace plan is the fact that the palestinian leadership continue to boycott any trump administration officials because of president trump's illegal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel after nearly eight years of war syrians living abroad are using their creativity to continue the message of change and resistance some are using music others have turned to the performing arts some of the joy of
8:12 pm
it met one such group near the syrian border with turkey. for centuries their route has been used to express joy or pain it's the instrument of choice for syrian artists such as jihad in yemen the used to design graphics and in tears in aleppo and fled across the border to gaza. when the syrian revolution began started to sing tunes of resistance. to aleppo remain at the heart of the uprising until it was seized by syrian government forces for the help of the remaining troops and russian jets. he tries to immerse himself in writing songs and composing music. but what he saw in aleppo never leaves his thoughts. we crossed the street where children were playing with a yellow football i heard the sound of a barrel bomb and we ducked we went to check on the kids and all of them were dead
8:13 pm
do you know how painful it is to see body parts of young children scattered in front of you i will never forget that. many syrians had no idea that their creativity would be. seen but now. their message of change and resistance are you an art. in yemen designed some tyrant comedy sketches to take a poke at armed groups the assad regime and fellow syrians they say laughter is the best medicine and that's why they have created a small studio with the help of a turkish friend. first it wasn't enough but now they make ends meet by selling their content to some online channels. says they don't know if their work makes people happy but it helps them forget their pain even if it is for a few minutes. we didn't leave aleppo we had to escape from aleppo from the regime the bloodbath and the destruction at the beginning we just wanted to deliver a message now that we have an audience people always ask us for more. the
8:14 pm
group says much of syria's creative talent is now scattered some of been killed some opted for living under the regime while others are living in other countries. they still romanticize about the message of the revolution and say it was only about freedom they have hope they will return home some time. these days that's all they dream about. without that there are. a bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa killing forty three people is being dismantled a partial demolition of the randy bridge took place in december but now the entire structure is being brought down out of serious sunnier guy ago is that. nearly six months on from one of the worst disasters in recent times here in italy and it's still very much a symbol of that tragedy that took place but what you have happening today is the
8:15 pm
dismantling of western portion of the bridge it's a very significant operation an extremely delicate one as well they have been preparing for at least two days beforehand and this is a process which is going to take eight hours it's already a couple of hours already into that dismantling but it has been very slow and very detail orientated dismantling because of course there are still businesses which are located under that portion of the bridge and there is infrastructure there so there cannot be any kind of rushed element towards this as well the setting off of the demolition of the dismantling was attended also by the italian prime minister and the minister of infrastructure who stated that this. was actually a day where they could turn the page on this tragedy and the new bridge would be
8:16 pm
a symbol a symbol of a renewed italy in the face of the disaster and all that's had to be felt here by the residents as well the bill in its national film festival is on the way dozens of films scream during the berlin ali several of them vying for the top prize the golden. ball but is that. a burly name braces the film festival says our feet is a into the man who's stepping down after eighteen years in charge to the stars were out for the opening movie the kindness of strangers it's danish director lola scare figures one of seven women who have a film in competition hoping to win the famous golden bear and the actress heading the jury says that can only be a good thing yes nima shows that and that is cinema is changing and women are breaking through i hope there'll be more women from the whole world coming through from south america and africa and countries like china because we need the point of
8:17 pm
view of women from around the world. something else the berlin ali is synonymous with is political films like the brazilian fact based nine hundred sixty s. drama getting its world premiere here but it's not that well as he says goodbye to the berlin ali the man in the black cut dieter kosik knows he leaves behind an event that's earned a unique place in the film world it's just a lot of fun and at the same time you can think about regis you say and it's a little bit like your body night because it's in a way a comedy and people will laugh but to see you see operated top six and that's again it's like a heavy because it's a kindness of strangers and this is what we all make in doubles. in india hope to not really. achieve. this foundation in mind i know another contender for the golden bear is the golden
8:18 pm
glove by fatty he won billions top prize back in two thousand and four and this german drama plunges you into another time and place it's based around a real life nine hundred seventy serial killer in the red light district of a king's native homburg. also in the running this drama set in. revolvers are around a herd's woman who gets pregnant after spending one night with a young police officer. clearly there's no shortage of variety here or of stardust. al-jazeera at the berlin film festival. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s.
8:19 pm
envoy to venezuela says that the time for dialogue with president nicolas maduro is over washington wants him to leave the country trucks with aid and supplies from the u.s. of arrived at the border in colombia president jurors launched a petition demanding that the u.s. stay out of that as well as affairs speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again tonight the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of their meats oil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition heated by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venezuela under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. we will go to the white house bringing in more than eighteen million signatures calling for being as well or to be respected demanding peace for being as while on the un human rights and boy investigating the murder of the journalist the marshal she says that it was
8:20 pm
a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the finding by the special repertoire follows a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence turkey is accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation ankara says its findings are in line with calum odds findings or list of comes as a report in the new york times says that the critique saudi crown prince threatened to go after jamal khashoggi in twenty seventeen in a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence and salman is saying that he used a bullet against a shoulder. morocco has suspended its participation in the saudi u.a.e. coalition's battle against toothy rebels in yemen the moroccan government has also recalled its ambassador to saudi arabia pressures been mounting on the coalition to end its assault on yemen the level of participation in the war has not been clear and a bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa killing forty three people is being dismantled
8:21 pm
a partial demolition of the well on the bridge took place in december but now the entire structure is being brought down those the headline stacks up here on out a series back to venezuela talked to al jazeera one quite oh. only. you can. see. in this way when populist president nicolas maduro is sworn in for a second consecutive term following elections deemed fraudulent by his opponents and much of the international community. under his presidency the country with the
8:22 pm
world's largest oil reserves has plunged into acute poverty hunger is widespread hospitals a crumbling the most basic medicine is impossible to find and children are dying from malnutrition and preventable diseases. this year inflation is expected to surpass three million percent at the current rate millions of desperate venezuelans flee to neighboring countries unleashing the biggest migration crisis in latin america. with the crucial support of the military to refuses to declare a humanitarian emergency or recognize the authority of the opposition controlled legislature the only institution he doesn't control the crisis is about to reach a tipping point. january twenty first nearly thirty sergeants call him but his wayland's to rebel against whom they call a dictator. unleashing a new wave of anti-government protests and repression it sets in motion
8:23 pm
a plan devised by opposition leaders at home and in exile with the tacit support of the united states canada and fourteen major latin american countries. two days later. and the. world by surprise the until now barely known president of the opposition controlled national assembly declares himself interim president justification is that my bhutto is not a legitimate leader but a usurper and a dictator. one country after the other recognizes the thirty five year old engineer as president as hundreds of thousands have been israelis take to the streets again to show their support now we have a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now. because
8:24 pm
president denounces a coup d'etat instigated by the united states which says it won't rule out military options to oust if necessary but mother who has powerful allies to russia and china one in the u.s. to stay out of an israel at. one point he maintains the loyalty of the military crucial to his prominence in power. venezuela now has two men claiming to be their leader one who holds power and control as the guns and another who is recognized by much of the world and who believes he has the support of the majority of his people the power struggle is intensifying as well and hundreds of thousands of his supporters appealed to the armed forces to desert. me in a baby on account of he remains firm that he will not step down or hold new internationally supervised elections this as washington tightens the noose imposing
8:25 pm
brutal economic sanctions on the impoverished nation meant to hasten the president's downfall it was the luck of the draw that put his today in january it was his conservative popular will. party's turn to name the president of the national assembly and with many of the party's better known deputies in exile or prison the junior parliamentarian was chosen for the job. al-jazeera sat down with the opposition leader. to hear how he believes this unfolding confrontation will play out. one way god thank you for talking to al-jazeera let me start by asking you how much more economic pressure against the administration can you ask for without hurting ordinary does whalen's who are already suffering. you know what your but i mean the owners of. one of the one that the office they're in this with and i mean there are those when you see them being only the one thing
8:26 pm
that i know we hope for the case you might there's always a movie in a door and yes. like a pastor. put in seattle explode last year in their place failed i mean. you know it but i mean this way it came out on the ice. people who the army unit. in i knew. when they got any not a set up with them i had on this. as you get to know my people and what i wanted to get out of his they said to sort of us you don't get all that but if you don't. know him or you saw. only minutes we don't know. who got us what. i. meant it would be decided on various.
8:27 pm
that and. they were all of us know what i mean what they saw it honestly and they said it. made me unit the lens wardle but i don't know one other thing i want to respect the way. rich and embrace i want a daughter. i mean they're going to be in. the boy has a good in my head and they love the america oil rich and they go up in us up in us . and they go tell me your name in dorset places you're not doing this with. me you know that it broke though there's a lot of it i don't i don't know the he in the. galut i walk by under his wing and blows your claim you notice in the mail made on this new movie in the uk but it. won't rain in a scene on the whole in a c is it didn't you know the that they took
8:28 pm
a simple way to look at this is it the enquirer mishap of that or are you dreaming . that i mean does he get annoyed or circumstance or. whatever but i mean don't you believe it isn't going to go but how long can people who are already suffering resist that nobody nobody. on the board as it went on to be homeowners ok me get an. order but who i want to replace one or both of them you know or simply mean that you hope they're not real and. you fronted on that one in them or they were it and we important just the images will and it appeals are the absolute. modal. but oh i didn't hear the difference with look there wasn't a sort of i guess it's all sort of but a little more fully studying it your money that you know than that of course i'm out there on the bill but on that and when i do in a month and approximately
8:29 pm
a minute. they can get it for him to buy the same copy that i'll be amenable to mess also a year. or over five days and i was you know what to him to let them out on that list in minutes but i still get. any impact of them being in. a good you lot of the nominees you wanted that you would distribute that. or you stick with that i would say what are but a modem. to get them all to the sun the. oil hit the onus legalistic at the league and they will do you know you never. get them on the bottom of the butt up where they threw it at what i mean. they were said to put it up us. you know they said oh. you're going to notice you and groan ego or more we. see in this or could only
8:30 pm
cause. that i mean i can use that in the. do you expect the military who supports president mother to allow that to happen you know better or that is. that i know of good reputation are going to do a lucky thing in support of the sea. and i see it as any mean going to see this at all mia russia why in mexico are offering to mediate in this conflict and the european union for example is proposing a ninety day period to bring both sides together in order to reach a peaceful settlement to this confrontation why is that acceptable to you but you know i think of it to a great job i could get a cumbia you know begin you know begin a little bit because you perceive them in a sort of heart of must say that a bully can be i mean i can stand there i mean i was out of market at the end yes you only i came home and there in this village and then when i went into the zone
8:31 pm
and we went into this room they were we had our own they make we do why we. didn't want to pray or see your mobile phone don't let almost any. that i. assume. i mean the you know i'm really no ok most law that i mean else as it was younger than exactly reporting all and they were very open i read about i know what i could there be over the next year leave it in venezuela is ok we import on the book about them being. going to get your legs if. they will not only that they will know opals you and they must you know i mean i don't know my jewellery you can go to put it on and we see in the good border. a lot of the op will need to go. in for call and in only go by do you say so you see absolutely no possibility of negotiations with nicolas muddle to reach an agreement. about what you say you want
8:32 pm
which is new elections and a transition to a democratic government and who most in going to your preferences and it was a human is what the rest. and i see in the. usa with the for who you are he's. there but i mean there is someone who you were at a galaxy that i thought they were and they will look at you at that arraignment so most are going to go or get a little you're going like you're in no no if i see no. brain if a man though i don't dig under your belt you're going to own a. they're about to make india lives on would it be sort of worth your time in the dark without. a position to tell you what they're going to all of you can eat more and more. in north of. the u.s. . you know. the l o l e. k i said that with the little that he was in the white get my
8:33 pm
head but i didn't. you know yes i would get a number of them and. they get it or not but it would i would employ them and. put them as it is the one way you know and i looked and it was you know and if you need the uniform i don't be in the way. i thought of and thought it would break his opponent a love that i wanted to know well actually i'm. a minister at the time that the better you move your cool but. i don't say much i look come out of it i'm not going to come in we've got another place but isn't there an enormous risk that if you don't try to negotiate that could be a bloodbath. i know it's a simple extreme i. mean i. look at the same i would want to
8:34 pm
know what. they're going to get at him i mean. you know it was a really nice. book yet this is a you know most likely he said i see no need use. me not at all in this ng go nino. if you come into it and i see no zero point five. zero poor quality one of my seed but i mean i said they seem to stick with that oh you know what i mean because i mean this is so mean or so yet the bus and the minister are now the so what i got a bottom out on at the moment the noise that. i mean is that what it was on the other hand i look at it with only me as you know that i'm blessed with not so much in if i mean a throw that says you know they're going to come in and notice you hadn't your make up and the dialogue where you sort of. it's after better. i mean it right after but it's a real. foot but it's a real. lucky or
8:35 pm
a better me time i want to know when to quit as you mature in venezuela porking nor reason let me hold up so young but i mean this with let me know that there might be one conflict to. get ok let me tell you in the end they're moving into. you and they need more. but they don't operate well intentioned logic in my little. i mean. apostle and we're going to see him again in a comprehensive by. way but you're agreeing with me there are risks the government has already shown on television just today the tanks the snipers they are prepared to confront demonstrators especially what they call civil . the rest. as you know i'm going to say but are we going to get into. if the number on the boat is they interrupt you i don't assume.
8:36 pm
i don't then we get on the air by somebody that is one of the lower leg and it was young. but all he came with an. element of from them and that milo and i wanted to show. up for your bubble out of europe by the moon but this is a very unusual situation you have two men both claiming to be the president one week last little with the support of the military actually has the power in this country and another yourself who has the support of much of the international community and their people and their people. how is this all going to end i mean at the numbers i mean if the numbers are going to have to do. there again i would but i'm interested i do not believe in wound up going to. even. look at because if your movies if you know we will end and we don't want to see the horn most women
8:37 pm
dealing on become a little low because it was easier to have a half a wedding in february simplicity and the. whole you wore it better and i hope someone will call you when one took a saying can enable toy but i mean do. you want to. go to a he said without. any motors i know he won't. but i said of. a moment that i'm in there for saddam us. no i know where i am without a border and what i would want us in will not be any of us ever the head of the any of us or interim bottom. those us see where symbol current conflict as an organism we're going to monitor the political conflict and it out online for a while as i didn't read in a few. minutes and got it on about the import of. someone globalization can i do read it but i'll. be in the young players to get it done and you know.
8:38 pm
she's. not really deliberate and not helping with us but i mean this you know put an element on them i know that we all want to. get them off. my knee and i will. be going to let me thank us. and also when they did it went on us in a. better source. we pick a needle then the moto say to heal and said well what about if i look. it up on the minutes where you've been speaking in secret members of the military what have they told you when i thought. they know me that if he really knows he really thought of them or trying to get what i want to sell our going to do or even what. i go to.
8:39 pm
particularly when i want to see those who know me i meant open in your hand. that i want to know if you're not in the us and you thought i know the same collation that went into his i mean he thought it therefore saddam operatic express also the content don't include this i see and this is in the future this idea was that any of these are true and your daughter to dowse so for me to be had better say what they want of the content and i want us as implementable to see that. you're not there for us are you not know that. some of the but well that the neo. cons going on the see there were several. but i meant that your bias in the media role. is in the detail that all of it is going to tell you. many that include you washington says that all options are on the table would you support u.s.
8:40 pm
military intervention if all else fails. or going in or the mobile serious thing going to another course of c.l. again is that really that. better than the image of many that have been a lot out of. it about the approach the world based. on what you have them in this way but you're not ruling it out are you. that almost. all of them i said are going to sing gaudio look at the here and you know you go and i really. i may not go so she had to pull more than their limits and it will matter if you end up at the rodeo again and in play i'll bet as a resource you own people morning cause i was when i said i'm glad i say that because for many people watching this conflict unfold it certainly looks like the white house is dictating the terms of president nicolas mother just departure when . you. need to muster. enough you have showing through so but over here the. international. had
8:41 pm
a saying and i thought it was a. minute but i said i would open and i thought well young that i am not. going to . bomb a moderate course in which older boys are going to promote us europe in which any board seat in a one way also you know they are going to diminish learn that i would support a sessile let me guess you minister look. at this into the. movie important the record. that i am across and over here but without us support would you be sitting there that's what i mean i like to go to a party of them and i need a certain way and i don't want them a drum need given it at the moment the democrats are going to my leader at that we're going to get done the. moon he. knows i mean the four thousand or so because i'm going to. go you know because you know i mean as well as you do you know you're not you. quadruped was. selective selective sanctions not blanket sanctions
8:42 pm
that's the big that's the. point of disagreement right now between the e.u. and the white house but i knew what. he made of. us and you know if you're not use . us in then then as i'm at the bottom of the root as an inclusive but i look as if you. will pay dearly for this and then the ego to our implement them getting you into some sort of awareness you're. up to them in the same place as in the information received two billion that this in the bill what was in the media. so that was in the base and me. so you could get by who robo america. wanted to persuade or. get put in better present are going to separate in the me. to them and they might he not look at what i was invited to go to
8:43 pm
a better source. inclusive last year. that i would look at in a little bit with a way that i mean what he meant. in minnesota is what they're always and he may have said oh i don't know what there was a miracle to me on but he's. not in a place in the u.s. it's legal. let me say that there is and based on a set up with them and president my little says that there is a coup d'etat underway instigated by the united states and i think there is you would agree with me that there is an effort to bring about regime change there's no question about that but how do you feel about the united states again intervening here in latin america given its track record for decades in countries like chile and guatemala more recently in libya and in syria and why should the outcome be any different here in venezuela a process so it is unless you're going to put them in to put on as well as anybody really going to get
8:44 pm
a good. and the my dear. i don't know when they were going know it but i mean that in a data from the orbit of the lead to the u. s if there. were a republican or democrat for them to sign it up at the most a limited time one of the top article without. going to a to see took a look at you are you going to subordinate. in a way america you know why you seem to feel you can when. you know. you'll see any . good ok ok you know. i think what's your. and what i wanted to see either because i see you notice. it pulled out of. the rain then you had basically and there were a thousand. times and i was in the. boat up at their ataris
8:45 pm
yamamoto. but i don't have a thousand hours it's absolute. elicited good as the enemy was. when there's been a spike lee and. submitted by the you know when you go in there. and . it is in the phone shown us. but they come in said asahel caylus yes or better than when do. we buy it it's absolutely. in them i would look. at that was on the minister and you know it only throwing political. comments and it was i thought it was they get more of it are really in there when we come in to. the minister to do to us you're going to miss whether. they see him into your chain that goes into any mental saving important one of them or seen community. you know. noise going at the moment ok like i mean
8:46 pm
somebody like yeah they can be. you know he can move you know innocent muslim into place so why not order this elections right away. and you know there were in the internet. and they were said in the new year not of a media. but what is greed under all this pressure to hold elections but while still in office internationally supervised transparent under conditions that everyone could agree to would you allow that to happen would you agree since it was young as young. as you say monaco. plan will work with you very much looking to. talk to al-jazeera has requested an interview with president lee. we haven't heard back but our invitation remains open
8:47 pm
. went on line. to the leadership for them when the last of the or if you join us on the sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion based is a diana talking about a little friend you have seen what it can do to somebody people used in multiple drugs including a funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice and us your posse or twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on al-jazeera in the third thailand's of oman mesopotamia where the
8:48 pm
first settlements formed 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 womb and pollution outages or 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. i'm richelle carey in doha those are the top stories on al-jazeera a u.s. envoy to venezuela says the time for dialogue with president nicolas maduro is over austin wants him to leave the country tricks with trucks rather with aides and supplies from the u.s.
8:49 pm
have arrived at the border and colombia president maduro has launched a petition demanding the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of the i mean soil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing an international coalition he did by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venus while under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. doesn't mean we will go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling from phoenix while a to be respected demanding peace fully in is why law then human rights envoy investigating the murder of journalist says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetuated by saudi officials the finding a special repertory agnus calm are follows a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence turkey is accusing saudi arabia
8:50 pm
not being transparent when it comes to the investigation ankara says its findings are in line with cal mars report all this comes as a report in the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after tomorrow shows in two thousand and seventeen and a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence muhammad bin solomon is heard saying he'd use a bullet against. morocco has suspended its participation in the saudi coalition's battle against with the rebels in yemen the moroccan government has also recall that ambassador to saudi arabia pressure has been mounting on the coalition to end its assault on yemen a level of raucous participation in the war has not been clear. a bridge the partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa killing forty three people is being dismantled a partial demolition of the morandi bridge took place in december but now the entire structure is fame brought down construction of a new bridge will begin and march so to go has the latest from genoa. nearly six
8:51 pm
months on from one of the worst disasters in recent times here in italy and it's still very much a symbol of that tragedy that took place but what you have happening today is the dismantling western portion of the bridge it's a very significant operation an extremely delicate one as well they have been preparing for at least two days beforehand and this is a process which is going to take eight hours it's already a couple of hours already into that dismantling but it has to be very slow and very detail orientated dismantling because of course there are still businesses which are located under that portion of the bridge and there is infrastructure there so that cannot be any kind of rushed element tools this is well the setting off of the demolition of the dismantling was attended also by the italian prime minister does
8:52 pm
that because india and the minister of infrastructure stated that this. was actually a day where they could turn the page on this tragedy and the new bridge would be a symbol a symbol of a renewed its early in the face of the disaster and all that's had to be felt here by the residents as well and expect to twist the sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the upcoming elections the army chief who is the current prime minister was also run amazon chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion blackmail world's richest man and owner of the washington post says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated and a blog post basis raise questions about american media relationship with saudi arabia am i the owner of the enquirer is also
8:53 pm
8:54 pm
who started this thing i know who the taliban were and i didn't know how radical they were just what they were about. one of the things of the talabani is is they they didn't have a clue about oil and gas business the idea was was to bring him over and establish credibility with it with the taliban that we were a real company. mati millet secretly invited to a group of taliban leaders to unit cows headquarters in sugar land texas. no press covered the event. i have some the statues that i got in indonesia and their figures and the people carved out of ironwood and the people are naked. and i had one of these
8:55 pm
professors islamic professors check my house out when he saw these things he said i don't think that's going to work with the taliban. so why would this when you guys are black trash bags in the alleys and put workers on the spot that's what it is but burkas on the statue. marty miller was a vice president of oil company unocal. they wanted to build a huge oil and gas pipeline through taliban controlled areas of afghanistan. but how did these negotiations influence u.s. foreign policy towards the taliban.
8:56 pm
and. i am. lucky. enough can capital of kabul is preparing for a new iraq foreign forces mostly was drawn on afghan soldiers and police will now be responsible for security in the country. but in twenty fourteen five thousand of them were killed in battle is against the taliban. but the taliban hasn't always been an enemy of the west today their former foreign secretary lives in a heavily guarded house in one of couple's bettors suburbs. during the ninety's he was involved in discussions with the american oil company unocal.
8:57 pm
the i will take my advice you more cars in a lot of. the world out of need just for us and the. then one of the one jewish. but as if to say enough is something to the whole thought alluded to before political committed that is that the he was the if the above the lady of etiquette i took the lives of others that if he out of it by the home spoke to us and with us here out of place i think you. will accept it so there was that they think it will last. since the soviet invasion of afghanistan in one nine hundred seventy nine the country has been in a state of constant warfare.
8:58 pm
during the afghan insurgency the mujahideen received extensive weapons support from the united states and britain in their struggle against the russians. and. the soviet occupation ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. two years later the soviet union pulls some collapsed. you know cows c.e.o. joint imo saw an opportunity in the full of the iron curtain. at the time the soviet union broke up and china opened up which shop and more last same time read a version your guide. kind of cruising the former soviet union to look for opportunities. we realize that turkmenistan had a huge world's last gas reserves which were produced by the soviet union but
8:59 pm
after breaking up they were not produced any longer because russia had his own gas supplies to bring to market from siberia so ministry on the stock was reserves and no market. unocal wanted to build two pipelines one for oil and one for gas the pipelines would go from many stunned through afghanistan pakistan and india a distance of well over seventeen hundred kilometers construction costs would be close to ten billion dollars. of gun is done could earn four hundred million dollars per year in transportation costs which would more than double the afghan government's income at that time the whole area is just in turmoil you know the pakistanis don't like the afghans afghans don't like the fact stan is the turkmen are skeptical of both of them and then you've got india and pakistan all is just a mess in their.
9:00 pm
mind as he gets up there was a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and local jewel's foot of the territory in a for truxton civil war i. realize. it is only. in the north people gathered around the northern alliance and its leader ahmed shah massoud the so-called lion of publishers. in the south and east another movement began to assert itself in s. nic past june areas. they called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. the pakistanis were trying to impose their will on the future of afghanistan and they wanted to ensure
9:01 pm
that afghanistan was not going to be a strong viable nation state that could in any way reconnect as they had in the past was india. taliban leader mullah mohammad omar was a war hero from the years of insurgency against the soviet union. pakistan decided it was going to assist all of all how it all bar in this group which had no name and what they provided was money on that front very. training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided the tal obsessed the students religious students afghans and pakistanis thing what came to be in thirteen thousand bhadra saw us was in the northwestern frontier province . and joining going in the fight.
9:02 pm
before becoming an attorney julie soon as worked as an intelligence analyst at the pentagon who sources in afghanistan warned against you know counts close relationship with the taliban. worldwide there is a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the u.s. government to promote the taliban as the most likely source or as a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. and there was a safe think and after all. or hopefulness on the part of sound that if this pipeline could be put through it could be a source of stability or development for afghanistan and i personally don't like the idea that that stability would mean that the taliban would be in charge.
9:03 pm
with the civil war raging marty miller went on his first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven warlords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i notice is the devastation. you counter reminded me of the pictures i'd seen of. germany post world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there weren't a stick of furniture in the house and all the we we slept on the floor and i and i had a it was kind
9:04 pm
a little traveling road show sort of thing course you don't have slide projector yankers there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts and sean and some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. the message was always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government we're just doing recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be an answer. then we may have a view. but at the time the band were on the offensive i drove the northern alliance concept of the cities of my zone in shawnee farms go boom. they don't control most of the country. mohammad's not too long president during
9:05 pm
the soviet occupation had been spared by the northern alliance but the taleban showed no mercy not below was first tortured cuss treated and then harmed alongside his brother. the execution was a clear sign of what kind of regime had seized power in kabul. julie serves traveled in secrecy took a bill in one nine hundred ninety seven in order to learn more about the new regime . i had gone into kabul when i was held by the taleban secretly they dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka. they seemed very foreign to me
9:06 pm
certainly many asked answer conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stands for i see the taliban really is an alien force. their attitude toward women or a number of human rights issues i found disturbing but i think it was that larger political issue of them being back i had pakistanis that was most disturbing to me . not. when the tide went to me and called out did you kill your own go down but the indian have good experience with. the taleban man said bitterly just today it's.
9:07 pm
still being learning insanities and their mother says they couldn't did it was not to kill her but to truth that it was a twelve day tonight central ministry that was the problem mark. america's concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but on him and just negotiations spock's the clinton administration's interest in the country. i'd probably go to washington d c o once every six state weeks and i would typically meet with the state department the n.s.a. and cia. the cia was was very very well for you know they have this shadowy image i guess you call of that i found very straightforward and very professional and i think the clinton administration was really committed to helping you know american
9:08 pm
business and be successful. we enjoyed and really strong support from the. unit wasn't the only oil company that wanted to build. pipeline in afghanistan option time company breed us was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. oh but he does win this fight and the meal was over and does so little stove ins of the hands of. the is of no is this is the other one had to let a. kid you know come to the canoe deal with the results of that as. the taliban delegation arrived at unocal is headquarters in december of ninety ninety seven. marty came home one day and said that when g.
9:09 pm
thank about having a group of taliban and allegation come to our home for dinner. to know what to say at the time i had to thank it trail and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans home and realize that we're an. average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this and agree to do it. on a multi million did their utmost to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. but they did not remove the christmas trees the air that the taliban came to our house there was a charity fundraiser thing and we had seven christmas trees in our house and the tali bond just have blue their mind they can figure out what that was all about and
9:10 pm
i think they were trying to. make a connection between a christmas tree and the birth of jesus christ and you know that you just try to make a religious can. action with what's his christmas tree all about. they never did understand that thing. as a whole there was fruit because it is too different from. eastern culture but the phone to the nazis over the what it called us society and i'm proudest told me. knew of and custom that. dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of unocal z. offshore platforms. and fresh and i doubt as they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven and live three
9:11 pm
hundred feet of water i think just the magnitude in the complexity of things and they were very well blown away by. the next leg of their journey to the visitors to omaha nebraska where they met one of america's foremost experts on afghanistan petroleum resources. the united states are trying their best to talk to the taliban who are obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan the state department asked me to talk to the taliban's and they brought them in here. and so this room instead of having guys in suits and ties like they always had before these were talabani and you know skullcaps and turbans and long beards and i really had with their afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang satellite imagery
9:12 pm
and stuff and if you're looking at our country we're looking at your country where you is and you can do this to show you how to do this all you need do is come over here and get educated in this stuff. the taliban teams journey ended in washington d.c. where they met leading officials at the state department. the state department was still hopeful that this was going to be a part of the international combined effort that would be profitable for unocal profitable for the afghans commercially and financially profitable for the afghans in terms of development and education profitable for the region. the taliban were interest in the project they were keen on making it happen they never did sign a cooperation agreement or anything like that because they were afraid to sign anything without knowing specifically that mullah omar was was behind it.
9:13 pm
there are hardly any pictures of the mysterious taliban leader. in these rare footage of him. tries to hide behind a blanket. and . i was in khandahar the first time he was there and they kept saying that they were going to go talk i think they asked if i could go seen and they said no no no . you're not seeing shots of to see them all over your. mind you know khalid was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert himself in afghanistan will sum up bin laden.
9:14 pm
this son of a saudi construction millionaire was a local hero because he participated in the insurgency against the soviet union. in return to afghanistan in nine hundred ninety six after having be forced to leave the sudan. now he was preparing for a new war global jihad. wayne started on. the good hot in consequence they captured called billy's engine and see the fun it was sometimes not any nice colleagues eager to sue the tiny one movie and to condemn not to be protected. as a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. never
9:15 pm
met the salad at a lot and i saw him once in the bazaar then as convoy car passing by but i never you know we didn't labor anything we didn't know each other were looking at the other so. that first year that he was in the area was the time when he's solidified his relationship with mullah mohammad omar. natoma and rid of the. so there is a lot of work on those i don't know where did you reach of them which i don't want to say jeff gordon with a job to do but what i'm going to miss you more when the interview took on the whole i almost had a car. in afghanistan marty miller and unocal how did the cia did the training of local workers who would to be employed on the so-called peace pipeline. we'd like our locally so we had
9:16 pm
employment opportunities for the afghans in fact one of the things we did in khandahar as we established a training center we found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment any a welding equipment. tools that were needed for the training. without being aware of it to me that had established his training center in the same street as a sawmill bin laden's house. and i never heard of the guy before i didn't know who it was looking back on it. kind of gives me the creeps think about his act most of that. was some of bin laden was also busy building training facilities.
9:17 pm
in the next episode of techno team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business than unfortunate the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that office solution is it's very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. news is happening faster than ever before from different places from different people and you need to be backed you need to be able to reach people wherever they are and that means being of course in social media platforms this is where our minds as well as in front of a t.v. we're on the smartphone they're on the time they're on the computer. and that's the way al-jazeera is with all due to a true media network. take the worst possible
9:18 pm
material you radio grounded into dust comparable to make a reliable and put it into place where people live think is a close friend. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel like you feel like a movie we have created an enormous disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey in doha these are the top stories on al-jazeera this envoy to venezuela says the time for a dialogue with president nicolas maduro is over washington wants him to leave the country trucks with aid and supplies from the u.s. have arrived at the border in colombia president arroyo has launched
9:19 pm
a petition demanding the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. it through a little because of the i mean soil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing an international coalition heated by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily a texan is while under the folks excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. doesn't mean we will go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling from phoenix while a to be respected demanding peace fourteen is why law the un human rights on board investigating the murder of journalists says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned perpetuated by saudi officials the finding by special arbiter agnes column our follows a week long mission to turkey to examine the evidence turkey is accusing saudi
9:20 pm
arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation and all this comes as a report in the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after two thousand and seventeen and a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence live in solomon is heard saying he would use a bullet against shows he to developing story that we're following out of brazil where there's been a fire at the training ground a brazilian football club flamengo that is based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people have been killed this facility has accommodations for teenage players some of whom were sleeping when this fire broke out. and an unexpected twist the sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the upcoming elections the army chief who is the current prime minister will also run a bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of you know of killing forty three people is being dismantled a partial demolition of the marandi bridge happened in december but now the entire
9:21 pm
structure is being brought down. as are the headlines to. keep you posted on all the day's news returning now to taliban oil. we investigate the toxic legacy of south africa's mining industry and examine exactly what is hiding beneath his toxic waste africa's largest democracy heads to the polls join us live coverage nigeria al-jazeera well showcases the best of the networks documentaries with powerful untold stories from the middle east and north africa as cubans are set to vote on the possible changes to the constitution. the country. witness visits in sweden where a community polarized by mining towns questions their heritage february.
9:22 pm
osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled been logging to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. was this your first post that idea that is this no yes but my video could be that there are. no survivors that are left out of the one of the albums out there that what they're going by what and their value and they know you but you've got a load of bullshit on this and. yet.
9:23 pm
on the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u.s. embassy in nairobi. similar tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring tanzania two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and building four thousand were injured. the i'll call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by suicide bombers. i don't think i was terribly surprised when i heard about what had happened because bin laden was there he was able to do it and man in a standing he was being attempted by the taliban. the young spy wanted to learn more about bin ladin and visited his enemies the northern alliance it was a perilous journey on horseback. along by roads.
9:24 pm
my interest in what was going on in the n.t. taliban areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of them from ation in my sense from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policy makers were just writing off the resistance to the taliban. and. she met northern alliance leader ahmad shah masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. during her visit says go to unique insight into what was to come. northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. she was especially shocked by
9:25 pm
what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida most rude urgent he wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taleban and how they were interacting with bin ladin in to emphasize that if we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources and funding. but judy says report was not well received by her bosses at the pentagon. the state department was even more annoyed people were saying they were very upset about my trip and i was told i simply wasn't going to be able to stay and that they weren't going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. the clinton administration continued into efforts to influence the taliban regime.
9:26 pm
and we were in the middle of trying to. get them to modify their behavior and i'm a believer and you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. from day one the clinton administration was trying to push back in first you know control and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once a son of bin ladin left sudan and went to afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred six the bombings of ninety eight were conducted from there so it's very much on the forefront of. the problem of osama bin laden stood in the way of any agreement about future oil and gas pipelines. he had declared war on america and this on the taney is bombings of our embassies in tanzania and kenya really put us on a war footing with sound and then from that point on we were actually trying to
9:27 pm
kill him. on the twentieth of august nineteenth ninety seven president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several outcall you bases and i understand. four of the bases were destroyed you know twenty five. were killed but osama bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sense cruise missiles and afghanistan. i just as when i told. my boss in the board of directors that it was time that this this one got to go anywhere any time soon. about point you know withdrew from the part blind project but the french intelligence analyst. argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline leave don't.
9:28 pm
you know states what was fixing. they were pressuring the taliban to release bin laden. by negotiating about the pipeline at the same sign the taliban were thinking they were calling the united states is not in by discussing with them other python. or mile mark the pipeline issue was in leverage in preserving his country from u.s. strikes and avoiding to take a decision on bin laden. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide to mohammed ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed atta as it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with
9:29 pm
american business is over his project or u.s. diplomats. and their security otitis security guarantee. the little. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tasted the relationship between the taliban and the al qaida leader. because chris in afghanistan. became a big part of the trip. and they did in there in the early should between a kind of sign and the international community.
9:30 pm
there are. a lot of. it. would be part of those c. was a victim of thirty six or so you know sort of blood because you know it suited the low base line near zero but the kind you oh and your way those shooter was on thursday. the gee it kind of that is you know. just sort of figured it was just as you would understand the saudis have. done and found the jones all the for you from a hunger strike in front of another advantage for the. news that he. did that is. towards the end of the ninety's the pipelines were no longer on the agenda or in talks between the u.s. and the taliban. the u.s. aust thirty times for osama bin laden to be handed over but the taliban gave no
9:31 pm
clear answer the types when essentially now where the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we push them on al-qaeda expelling us out of bin laden the more they would fish back. they just got more into science. can keep. not follow and to teach you talk to no man no of the honey do. so you borrow it for them but you know that nobody. does a fish to each other not to do but do away nor does any one of the dogs come. when george w. bush came to power in two thousand and one here in new times to get bin ladin extradited and get started with the construction of the oil pipeline.
9:32 pm
by van unit. it was out of the picture but others tried to revive the plans. w. bush in this direct connection with the oil industry and he was to try to be more pissed resist word that i. made a special documentary about the prelude to september the eleventh. american born adam gadahn is the film's narrator an attack on afghanistan had been planned for a long time the americans are boiling mad about a number of things the islamic emirates domination of strategic energy reserves as
9:33 pm
well as the root of the proposed gas pipeline from the caspian sea. and most of all its refusal to hand over osama. in berlin in july two thousand and one a final dramatic meeting about the taliban was arranged between representatives of the united states government and all the players in the region. to pongs during these talks there's a u.s. representatives that will make this ultimatum that will have entered the car because of holes in the carpet the bomb. the americans and insan their allies during a meeting in germany as their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn before the first snow fall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprised them
9:34 pm
9:35 pm
you the study of i would be judged on zero or on videotape. by this time. jews. bush michio was there to tell you about us or the speaker because you don't trust. the taliban offered to extradite osama bin laden to a third country but now the americans have decided to remove both him and fatah about the phone the seventh of october america and britain attacked. the northern alliance exploited the resulting calles and the taliban regime unravel . on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of kabul failed. with us backing canid karzai was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plan it was. soon after nine eleven
9:36 pm
a couple of moms suddenly we feared that state governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of guns that journalists ability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and reluctant to negotiate about peace. they call off the kind of on government brought to a new going to mean that the title of democracy in the himalayas meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo have been installed by the
9:37 pm
international community is still going. to. lose the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also how some oil after the pipeline was shelved john i vote who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. look at afghanistan the political risk is amazingly high. but the reward is also moderate.
9:38 pm
opportunity for. the rich to argue that the country's petroleum. previously known. as the geology in that part of the world for both mineral resources and hydrocarbons that's pretty spectacular. poor they've not. those resources first. and then the past thirty years of war nobody's been able to do much. one afghan who tried to develop the country's oil resources and an early stage was king mohammed zahir shah. after thirty years in exile he returned a lot of afghanistan's history has been. when he was only nineteen years old nine hundred thirty seven when he gave the u.s. firm inland exploration company exclusive rights to oil extraction in the northern
9:39 pm
areas of the country. they were also given the rights to build a sixteen hundred kilometer pipeline. but the second world put a stop to these plans. older afghans. a time of peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education. they need many nanny. made new attempts to restart oil and gas production in the fifty's and sixty's a series of test wells were drilled and. mapped the country's resources. afghanistan at the end of the seventy's as part of the atlas afghanistan project. he got a unique insight into the maps of mineral resources. there was
9:40 pm
one american geologist me and two hundred fifty soviet russian geologist. so when i left afghanistan in late seventy eight i was actually in de ported by the communists who had taken over the government i left having sent my maps out of the country in a diplomatic pouch came back to the united states and i worked on the mineral resources in afghanistan ever since. west of mazower other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. the plant is still in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. mouthing it out on the roof on the at i don't understand kills are not that hold only shasta million goes down as it passed saw a sign on its past flower johnny sure that inside that saddam mission out one.
9:41 pm
could be quite sure that in asia. in two thousand and seven an experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. he'd previously worked for unocal but he now worked as head of the norwegian aid project oil for development he wanted to help afghanistan with a new oil will. it too long to his dissuaded from traveling to the north but with an armed escort he went anyway. at one gas plant he discovered a brick don't room where documentation of soviet oil and gas production had been hidden. behind the secret wool lay old maps and seismic sylvie's that showed afghanistan's oil and gas resources was significantly greater
9:42 pm
than the outside world was aware of made history in those areas so although the all that's on the air this is not all that it existed. well the message in that i was told all shitsville fourteen is thirtieth in the world and in the midst of a legal slow deal to. the administration offices for oil and gas in mazar e sharif allocated in old soviet buildings. chief engineer mohammed to john off toddy has made it his life's work to preserve the dusty archives. several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. the boy we can absolutely critical cannot get on the ground and good at home i will
9:43 pm
not undergo no why would i not perfectly get it on my wall or younger ones stuff on my third cousin that i was young good a lot of time i'm going to he couldn't do it oh yeah the world didn't shut down after much you can if you know how i'm not he ended she asked me how much i love a mind he has he not been the last cali my last night not on their own i have a moment as he is american not let a young girl letter he called her knowledge no not me if you don't have any girl most i am not a woman i don't know why you don't know how. i felt i got a lot on the whole didn't already know leave and. despite too little money and poor health i toddy has systemized to finals and preserve the valuable data for the future i don't know one of the at least i want to talk of the job of are they not wanted or india could make about when they get
9:44 pm
a moment ago i thought that i'd buy the time but correct anyhow i mean there's just not a need at all i know or don't know or don't offer. you may have to hold off on the way mad mad cow but he'll be a good question for you more we will get those coverage all he could come forth a little our war everything that. the united states once hoped the peace pipeline would unite the warring parties in afghanistan they still do amazingly enough they still want to build it. america's arch enemy iran also wants to build an oil and gas pipeline to india to draw on is in a hurry the aim is that the new peace pipeline should be completed in twenty seventeen. but again it has to go through taliban controlled areas
9:45 pm
peace with the taliban is more important than ever. was at risk of deja vu all over again it's not impossible that the taliban would come back to power they are an element they're not going away and in order to have. i would say peace not necessarily have prosperity in afghanistan they're going to have to be a part of that fabric of society the more you can bring them into the tent and encourage moderate elements to emerge the more stable afghanistan will be. looking back i have to say i was terribly naive. henry kissinger said this project is or triumph of hope over experience that hit me right between the eyes and through borders lot of content and that getting a little common and i found it proved to be true.
9:46 pm
as we're seeing some new video ads of rio de janeiro this shows the clear up operation after those violent thunderstorms that hit the city they brought a lot of strong winds with the winds gusting up to one hundred fifty kilometers per hour and a lot of heavy rain as well and that rain in turn triggered some mudslides as we head through the next few days there are going to be more showers but i think the worst of them has actually now moved away up the north along the coastline so that's where we see the heaviest of the showers i think there still could be one or
9:47 pm
two more around rio de janeiro there was we had three friday and into saturday the northeast and possibly still is also seeing some heavy showers and they stretch their way across towards the west further south is just very very hot at the moment the center of forty five degrees on friday down to forty two but still incredibly hot there it's we head into saturday for the central americas lots of dry weather hey currently although i think there will be more showers as we head through the day and also into saturday say some showers through mexico and dipping down into parts of nicaragua i think that's where we'll see the majority of the shows as we head through saturday and same into sunday to a bit further towards the north and here we've had lots of violent thunderstorms in the states also a lot of snow and ice as well the whole system there is clearing. the way to sponsor tony. desperate for more we've heard news about who can speeders person you want to take a week or two will use it for you to work i need the money part of it i think it's
9:48 pm
really because i thought i'd be some worlds in my life and i'm not risking it. down . or two more games. for a better future always saying yes to the house do you want to sleep on its. own just zero. zero. every. zero. but i'm richelle carey this is the news hour my friend coming up in the next sixty
9:49 pm
minutes. venezuela's crumbling health system but a block at the border children are dying as hospitals run short on medicine. a fire at one of brazil's most successful football clubs kills ten people at a training facility rio de janeiro. a new york times article sheds light on the lengths the saudi crown prince was willing to go to to silence jamal khashoggi. breaking with tradition the sister of thailand's king will stand as a candidate for prime minister. and the racing has been plunged into crisis point outbreak of flu all right. and now major national be affected. a shipment of food aid from the u.s. is still waiting on the colombia venezuela border but it cannot go on without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro one area which
9:50 pm
desperately needs help has been his wales crumbling public health system and the coastal city of barcelona fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food and water hospital workers say there is a dire need for medicine the u.s. wants but the road to leave the country and hand over power to a transitional government. let's go now to theresa may partly theresa bow who has more on this. this is the producer tricks emergency room at the louis b. hospital in the venezuelan city of. about three hundred kilometers east of us here are dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water lady check on starter is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned the out of air my daughter has diarrhea she almost had
9:51 pm
a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they are vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us. we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week fourteen children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of those very people are telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough there and just among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madeline in my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy
9:52 pm
a coffin i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son has date. people who believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. with any of them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol thrown out of syringes all serums to hydrate children. the government of president . denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he's reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the revolution because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can
9:53 pm
reach everyone like it should be in socialism the situation in the last city hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering precedent of venezuela. says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed. well you want to put him on the market humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive alive now to who is in our so one of the talking to the medical professionals professionals and the people who will need assistance. while that
9:54 pm
correct we're still here where people continue to line up parents with children desperate in order to get some type of medical help before already fourteen children have died and what angers many is that this should be an equally treatable defeat and doctors here are saying that they do not have the instrument in order to attend people in need here joining me is here dr oscar now us he's a third. so how did we get to this stage i mean why is the situation so dire in this hospital this has been progressive. lose in of our possibilities we have seen how with the time we have been every day having less and less tools and supplies to attend our patients this is not in your situation we have a list the last three years brought us to and taken the streets the nurses on the
9:55 pm
way the doctors the national venezuelan medical federation have been protesting on the streets and in. our hospitals all around the country. begin the world to stand with the venezuelan people and trying to make our government to open all its eyes and prioritize the the public funding to the things that we believe and we sure that they must like is the public health care system what is that the situation i mean that the government says that there is no humanitarian crisis and they're saying that they do not need any type of humanitarian assistance what is your response to that well actually i'm sure that we need more than humanitarian aid but the humanitarian and it's a good point just talks we need to rethink our entire public health system we need to build new hospitals we need to change the current house but those build
9:56 pm
hospitals that helps the current system to attend all of our people we are in a deep deep deep crisis so deep that our children dying from from the idea really and the complications of that because we have to be hydrated kids because we have dino treated kids and and then suddenly in any other place of the world would be easily treatable disease but we see. our people die of those easily treatable diseases the government has also that this should be this is humanitarian aid an excuse for intervention do you think this is a risk that venezuela that something like this could happen right now well we can use politics to just the five pretty much everything and the well. we can on. high what's happening in our house we don't care if they're held cams from russia
9:57 pm
from china from iraq from wherever they want to send us help but we need the oh and the countries of the world that had offered their help we should take care but we're not told so talking about the objectives. of the individuals what does the u.s. government want ones to protect venezuela's president a wants to protect venezuelans people what derision government wants to protect bennis well and presidents a ones whose hands side of benazir once people we believe that people need help we are better with thankful with you for being here we have barry thank you for helping us ray say now boys this. yearly into the war for hill. describes this destructive tragedy that we see every day thank you very much so as you see most people here the main priority for them is humanitarian aid but there are thing
9:58 pm
that it's necessary to leave politics aside that humanitarian aid here is a necessary as soon as possible and there are no that it's not going to sell venezuela's structural problems but it will certainly bring some relief cards for us though live for us there and barcelona is in his way less thank you. it is at the border town were aid trucks have been waiting he joins us now from kuta so under what is the latest on those trucks sitting right there with the aid that people needs. well richelle there's one question on everybody's mind here now that a that arrive the first truckloads arrived on the n.a.s. will it be able to cross into venezuela we don't have an answer and i don't think that the people behind this international effort have an answer yet to that question the main bridge. is expected to be used to move the ada inside venezuela
9:59 pm
has been blocked for days now it's not the only way and the president nicolas maduro has promised to defend every port of entry into the country to stop this aid from being moved to. venezuela people are also. questioning here asking for just how long will. these be able to store the aid at the border had has been moved inside a warehouse that we understand is not properly equipped to store for a long time medicine in particularly very delicate products such as back scenes for example we don't have an answer to all of that we are hoping to get more information in a press conference that the u.s. so it is together with the colombian authorities and. this one opposition figures here are expected to be given
10:00 pm
a couple of hours also to find out exactly what kind of aid has arrived another question of course years though he is how much of a difference could this aid make as we know that so far it's just a small amount of what is needed all right around to get a live and thank you. to developing story out of brazil where there's been a fire at the training ground of one of the country's most famous football clubs flamengo and is based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people had been killed the passivity has accommodations for teenage players some of whom were sleeping when that fire broke out the state of the art training center was only recently expanded and opened just two months ago for more on this we're joined by a.f.p. journalist john as my bird from sao paulo thank you so much for joining us so. i guess the first question is what else do you know about. the number of injured and killed when the last we had was ten do you have an update the number is
10:01 pm
still. three injured it would seem that pain casualties will teenage is to truly information that be and then there are three injured and those are also teenagers one of them just two year old with forty to saints. on his body i realize it's extremely early but has there been any indication yet of what investigators think happened fish it is no information to fish information is very sketchy we must remember it is happened just a few hours ago one neighbor did tell local television time he heard an explosion shortly after five am local time this morning. the fire they followed this explosion what else was we just reported this facility at least that the expansion
10:02 pm
of it was fairly new tell us more about this club in this facility. it's flamingo as you said it is the most popular football club here in brazil. they are based in rio de janeiro this senate was in the west of the city and this is where the main team was was has its practices and then also this you know children and younger players that they are developing the facilities were never hated from what we understand. the building that was affected by a fire was an older building and that the people would have been moved next week to a new u.s. facility oh my goodness what kind of empacher will this have on the community people. of devastated you have families rushing
10:03 pm
to the area a lot of them live outside of the city rushing to a waiting outside for him summation we must remember that they've been quite a few tragedies that have hit the country recently you know a massive mining disaster just a few weeks ago i over one hundred fifty people killed and that does affect the psyche of the people. they do become critical they do ask questions about things like safety regulations and so on. really is and the tragedy you had as my birth ank you for for giving us some insight into this we appreciate it and these are pictures as you had to said that there were people rushing to the facility trying to figure out what happened trying to say if it's their loved ones that are affected and this is going to have a huge impact on the community ten teenagers killed in this fire others injured as
10:04 pm
well ok. doctors treating brazil's president say he has developed pneumonia long recovering from abdominal surgery. spent the past ten days in a south paulo hospital on thursday social media day followers about his condition saying he was getting better every day and was able to walk the sixty three year old had surgery after he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year. in the news hour including a white house prepares to push its plan. for a tour of the middle east. and broken promises why some south africans are fed up with the policies of the government. and support the l.a. lakers leave it at the boston celtics and he will have that story.
10:05 pm
in human rights envoy investigating the murder of journalist says it was a brutal premeditated murder planned perpetuated by saudi officials the finding my special repertory agnes calmar follows a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence turkey is accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation ankara says its findings are in line with colum ours report seventy dekker joins us live from istanbul tell us more about what. support says. she pointed the finger of blame in the sense of what was planned premeditated and and executed by senior officials of the saudi government she went on to give some detail that they had been given access by turkish intelligence to parts of that would you recording that the turks have of inside the consulate when the murder took place she said that we're able to independently verify because i don't really between the lines it doesn't seem that the turks gave them a copy she mentioned that also the saudis had delayed access for the turkish
10:06 pm
investigators to go into the consulate to get forensic evidence and interesting the actually also traveling with a team of a british lawyer and a portuguese forensic medical expert and the british lawyers been talking to b.b.c. radio four were she also said that this was planned at the highest levels of government criticizing that the saudis allowed the turks into that consulate almost two weeks after the fact the fact that the room was painted inside where that murder took place the fact that the saudis had sent experts forensic experts that would in her words. be able to identify luminol oh this is a product that you could spray on the walls to find blood traces so all these details coming out to show you that this u.n. inquiry which of course is an independent inquiry undertaken by agnes is going to be quite damning and the ultimate report we will be hearing in a couple of months from now and of may to june to the human rights council and what
10:07 pm
it wants is for an independent investigation that is sanctioned by the u.n. security council but of course we know how complicated how politically charged this story is and there are many countries will probably use their veto in order to stop such an investigation and accountability taking place. on say is speaking out as well stephanie what is she saying. that's right well she's published a book today we went to that press conference is the first time really that had teacher was in a room full of journalists mostly turkish journalists we were there also a couple of other international media she was saying basically she dictated this to two editors who wrote the book for her she said it was more a book about their relationship wasn't really focusing that much on the murder it was also more about his politics his story but she did talk a little bit about politics she was looking she mentioned the americans she mentioned the american administration she mentioned congress of course today
10:08 pm
richelle is the day that the magnitsky act deadline that u.s. president donald trump faces he had one hundred twenty days to look into whether mohamed bin solomon the saudi crown prince was responsible how to roll in this killing so she said that she'd been invited to the u.s. that she may go in march she may go but she that she would welcome a different position from the americans i'll see if she thought there ever would be any accountability because of such a politically charged story in the sense that all countries involved want to get something out of this politically and she said she'd actually was shocked at how dirty the world was she mentioned also of course the fact that his body still hasn't been found and how much she really wanted to put him to rest and give a place for his family and his loved ones to pray over and pay his respects so this is the message from her again the investigation she said here in turkey remains open but i think let's wait and see what happens in the united states today if there is any movement of trumpet here to this deadline that congress presented him
10:09 pm
and if you could put any accountability on the senior levels of the saudi government aren't separate acar live for us in istanbul thank you. and all this comes as a report of the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after democracy in two thousand and seventeen according to the report mohamed bin zalman told in a that he would use a bullet against the journalist if he did not return home and and his criticism of the kingdom the conversation was intercepted by u.s. intelligence agencies shows he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october of last year and on friday president trump is expected to tell congress of sanctions will be imposed as a result of the murder of jamal khashoggi stephanie reference the deadline is part of the so-called magnitsky act it gives the us president one hundred twenty days to investigate and determine if foreign government officials committed human rights violations as part of the inquiry trump is expected to send a report to a group of senators outlining whether sanctions are justified despite the cia
10:10 pm
assessment linking the saudi crown prince to murder trial past supported hama been sama whatever the president's response it will likely be seen as an indication of whether his administration is willing to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable can really help it joins us from washington d.c. so kindly what is the likelihood that the white house will actually impose tough sanctions on saudi arabia. it's not looking very likely if you look at the statements coming out of the state department on thursday when reporters pressed the spokesperson there specifically on whether or not the trumpet administration would comply with the law the magnets get that was triggered that one hundred twenty day window the statements were not that encouraging the spokesperson saying that the trumpet ministration sharers deep concern and outrage but beyond that provided no specifics of any further action only saying that it would continue to consult with congress then pointed to the action that was taken in twenty eighteen
10:11 pm
november in fact when seventeen individuals were sanctioned under the magnitsky act of blocking the assets essentially of you within u.s. jurisdictions but again beyond that no action to except to consult with congress and so perhaps that's why we've seen action taken in congress the very same day because there seems to be very little faith that the trumpet ministration is going to do much more we saw bipartisan legislation that is both republicans and democrats behind this effort to revive something that was introduced in twenty eighteen essentially this is legislation called the saudi arabia accountability and yemen act of twenty nineteen what it would do is it would prohibit arms sales to saudi arabia was stopped the u.s. from anyway participating in the saudi led conflict in yemen because what the feeling is that the senator sort of see this as the top administration has in their
10:12 pm
words no intention of holding the highest levels of the saudi government responsible for the killing. and so they've taken matters into their own hands we expect that we should see this legislation start to work its way through congress because there is this feeling that the troubled history is not going to respect the deadline that comes down today with the global magnitsky act that was triggered one hundred twenty days ago when more can you tell us about this new york times article . yeah this is certainly a revelation that while not expected is not surprising in terms of the fact that we know the u.s. intelligence agencies are combing through years of intercepts and conversations in order to try and find conclusive proof that mohamed bin solomon was the one that ordered the killing. now look at already that is the conclusion of congress they've said so through legislation as a result of intelligence briefings that they've had but again there is this effort
10:13 pm
to kind of comb through these conversations that are routinely recorded by high level officials heads of state when they visit the united states and so that's how this information came to light that essentially mohamed bin solomon was heard saying that he would quote use a bullet to either get to saudi arabia or to stop him from criticizing the kingdom is just further evidence that just as to what congress has already concluded that the highest levels of the saudi government despite their denials were not only aware of the ordering of this killing but were certainly complicit so once again when it comes to all of this the united states continuing to build evidence even as the trumpet ministration is effort to sweep this under the rug all right kimberly how to lie for us in washington kimberly thank you amazon chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail roles richest man and owner of the washington post says the tab or threaten to
10:14 pm
publish and to mint photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated and a blog post raised questions about american media relationship with saudi arabia am i the owner of the enquirer or is a strong backer of president donald trump and i has denied it supported was politically motivated. an unexpected twist thailand's upcoming elections have become a battle between the country's wells in the military and power the sister of the king is spending clear the leading candidate for prime minister in the first vote since the military coup in two thousand and fourteen wayne hay reports from bangkok . the politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape. today i with other time party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate a prime minister for the party who is princess. cityward in a. straight away it all to the dynamics of the election campaign in
10:15 pm
a country that's been politically divided for years but that's not a party that has a big advantage over all the other parties and you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen running down the. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as a princess and part of the royal family she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing is that the party she's joined is backed by film a prime minister tax and she knew what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as anti establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy he and princess who are known to be close and the announcement may indicate that
10:16 pm
a deal was struck between taxon and the palace this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy from criticism but the law is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as a setback for the man who led the two thousand and. fourteen coup current prime minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for a perm military party that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princess may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics there's a sense the move by thai rocks
10:17 pm
a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarization wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. all right time for weather with jeff our shell this time looking at north america where it's all very cold and we've had all sorts of different types of weather we've had tornadoes we've had rain we've had snow and we've also had a lot of freezing rain this is rain that comes out of the sky is liquid rain but as it hits the ground it freezes instantly and it's quite dangerous because it can add a great deal of weight in a short amount of time to trees and power lines and can cause all sorts of problems and make the roads very very slippery so those pictures were from missouri but you can see this whole system covered many of us in the eastern part of the u.s. and canada now in the south of course it's too warm to see too much in the way of ice there that's where we saw the tornadoes the tornadoes were through tennessee and into arkansas and then further north with all the snow and we saw the freezing rain but all of this is now working its way eastwards and behind it there's
10:18 pm
a real drop in the temperatures so for us in new york them you see the temperatures really drop away so by the time we get to midday on saturday the temperatures there will be around freezing on washington d.c. will see a maximum just of two degrees so suddenly really cold for us and also a minus ten that's the best we can hope for but if that system moves its way away another one is working in from the pacific this one is going to give us quite a lot of snow including to us in seattle and then gradually work its way across the rockies and then it'll emerge the other side and be joined by yet more rain in the south will have a very similar scenario as we head through the next few days richelle staff thank you still ahead on al jazeera forty years after the islamic revolution in iran we'll look at the challenges facing you and then sport superstar lindsey vonn prepares for the fireworks of her career that's in just a bit ahead on the program. a
10:19 pm
serial killer and the family members and. the war. it's possible the people in power i mean it's the women heading an eighteen man militia. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand in the union and i friend of mine in iraq on al-jazeera. when the news breaks a few minutes ago we were able to hear a huge explosion fifty people are still missing when people who need to be hurt and the story needs to be told we need to invest in development group and best making sure the people of the three hundred al-jazeera has teams on the ground join us for this historic step in american politics to bring you more award winning documentaries and life moves on air and online.
10:20 pm
watching al-jazeera and these are the top stories right now a shipment of food aid from the us is still waiting on the colombia venezuela border but it can't go in without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro the u.s. wants middle road to leave the country. in a fire at a training ground of one of brazil's most famous football clubs on mango it is based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people have been killed the sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the upcoming elections the army chief who is the current prime minister was also rod. serling president has declared sexual
10:21 pm
violence a national emergency and follows outrage over the rape of a five year old girl who was paralyzed from the waist down residential as wanna be zero also announced increase of the maximum sentence for sexually motivated crimes from fifteen years to life in prison. these. are each other who. are going. to get out as the africa court later for the global advocacy group equality now she joins us via skype from nairobi thank you very much
10:22 pm
for your time and the president seemed very upset there how prevalent as sexual violence in syria. sexual violence is highly prevalent in sierra leone. hundreds of thousands of american girls things are need to men because of be existing legal system for example just last year alone that had more than eight thousand cases and they were in a given region having been been recorded with the fed of this cases being against minors against children as the president has already highlighted in his speech so increasing the punishment is is that enough certainly not but it's a start it's an acknowledgement from a piece of political authority that sexual violence needs to be an issue that is properly addressed by the government but this needs to move beyond
10:23 pm
a political declaration to ensure that the legal framework also moves the penalty from the minimum fifteen years to higher as the president has highlighted this also needs to enforce the legislation because as as you may know sexual violence or sex as a topic is a tough topic and many african countries and so very many victims hardly record this violations of the police offices and so there's need to actually move and ensure that the units of the family support units in the new units that have just been declared actually make the environment friendly not for people to be able to treat this crimes and for the police to be able to follow up to investigate and prosecute so that the state is seen not just to have to rhetoric and make statements of this new chip and to move it beyond here and push a political will and when forced into law says they're creating an environment
10:24 pm
where this is taken as seriously and and victims can come forward what can or should be done on the front and when it's about prevention. well this needs to be the government it's to have in an active program watch what's collaborative be with civil society organizations so that there's a move to embrace the communities to have community died in discussions to challenge the values and practices that have been strongly held with regards to women discriminating and believing women the lesser human beings so that environment and against a woman is a violation against a human being and then the whole gamut needs to be addressed so that one the communities attitudes and practice does change but then the laws also enforce a change in attitudes and practices and so we have laws that then in their lies practices to to to the contrary and so investigations been properly done and fulfillment of laws and distinctions coming out of the judiciary that's
10:25 pm
a hard on puppetry to is so that the media and the general community within syria you can put that out to the public domain and then sure as. women and girls i held in improper in the country to get out with a equality now thank you very much. thank you very much ron has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile that was made at an underground facility as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the revolution it's a show of military strength after the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and impose sanctions on tehran. living today have never known anything. but they came into existence forty years ago so when they say their government as letting them down has more from tehran.
10:26 pm
corners of young men and women play the blues stealing moments of freedom in private studios might be the closest they get to the big. gigs and small cafes he says her band gets two songs in before security shows up to shut them down. for a female vocalist interview it's not just that a woman singing in public is illegal society doesn't recognize. higher life i wanted to sing for me it's like breathing i can't do anything else but there's no professional recognition as an artist. everyone in this room was born after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution the islamic republic is the they've ever known but many young people like them say they are liberal time before revolution in iran they've never seen. the clerical system of government that's been in place for forty years also has its unflinching supporters. ronnie was born in one thousand
10:27 pm
nine hundred nine the first generation of iranians born under the flag of a new republic in many ways she is its poster child a devout muslim from humble beginnings highly educated and her father died fighting in the iraq war. in any country some are in favor of the establishment and some argue it's the same in iraq but must accept that we are a country with a rich culture rooted in the purity of islam and we should consider ourselves an islamic country we may not allow some freedoms that are allowed in other countries . the most important concern she says should be to employ people and keep them from leaving the country but for young people who don't necessarily want to live by established norms or subscribe to the way things are done if you're cut from a different cloth then it can be a challenge to find a place in iranian society some leaders are sympathetic and acknowledge the need for dialogue to address the concerns of an entire generation but people say they
10:28 pm
don't openly express themselves for fear of government retaliation. we hear the time before the revolution was economically better but i can't talk about this transparently in fact i don't dare to yes i can say a lot but i don't dare to i prefer to say nothing to keep my head on my neck. from the perspective of security the revolution is very good but from the perspective of a commie it's bad we have the burn generation for us it hasn't been good. economic conditions make living in iran challenging for anyone but for iranian artists says doing so is even more difficult if you're living here. don't be sad because being sad is the least return to troy your heart be strong and bring peace and happiness try to make things that they are not they don't exist. modern jazz may not fit the public image of the islamic republic but the sound of music from small corners of the capital is
10:29 pm
a reminder that iranians come from all walks of life in all shapes and sizes. are at the. senior white house adviser expected to travel to the middle east later this month. part of his peace plan for the region during his visit will brief diplomats on the economic section u.s. proposal for peace between israel and the palestinians will take him to amman saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . administration officials say jared kush no will be accompanied by the special middle east envoy jason green blatt now he is going to be visiting a number of arab nations but interesting the will not be visiting israel according to administration officials the reason for this it would appear because of the elections taking place in israel in early april now the official say as well that
10:30 pm
kush no will be discussing the economic portion of the middle east peace plan as it is put now the official adds that they are well aware that arab leaders will want to know the political component of this plan before making any economic commitment so certainly there will be some discussion of the political component to it but the greatest stumbling block still ahead in the face of any emergency peace plan is the fact that the palestinian leadership continue to boycott any trumpet ministration officials because of president trumps illegal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel morocco has suspended its participation in the saudi coalition's battle against the rebels and yemen the moroccan government has also recalled that's ambassador to saudi arabia pressures from mounting on the coalition to end its assault on yemen lever level america's participation in the war has not been clear in turkey fourteen people are now confirmed dead after wednesday's building
10:31 pm
collapse and istanbul where thirty residents inside many apartment block came down thirteen people have so far been pulled from the rubble eleven are still missing crews are continuing their search after hearing voices from people trapped beneath it's not yet know what caused that building to collapse. at a bridge the partially collapsed in the italian city of to no us six months ago killed forty three people while it is now being dismantled a partial demolition of the brandy bridge took place in the summer but now the entire structure is being taken down construction of a new bridge will break and march on a go has the latest. maybe six months ome from one of the worst disasters in modern times here in italy and the dismantling of the western remaining portion of the marandi bridge begins it's a very delicate operation that will take some eight hours the beginning of that was attended by the italian prime minister. and the infrastructure minister who hailed
10:32 pm
that the new bridge that will be built alongside the remainder of this will would be a symbol of a renewed it's really. the new bridges south will be constructed alongside it will cost some two hundred twenty million dollars and there are two companies that have been put in charge of that but the design of it is by the renowned architect piano himself a native of the city of genoa and he in effect made the design for three alongside this they will also be forty three lamps commemorating the victims of the tragedy meanwhile on the other side on the eastern side there are plans to perhaps keep that section of the bridge as it is as they will look to some kind of regeneration project involving that section that part is over a mainly residential area there are
10:33 pm
a lot of people who still live around but area outside about red zone immediately underneath it and there is a plan in place to try and use this opportunity the disaster to recreate an area regenerate it and to try and preserve that memory but also to use it as an opportunity to reclaim genoa. still ahead. on a new. former football coach. south
10:35 pm
africa will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on may eighth the first votes as the resignation of jacob zuma and february of last year president seldom opposed to deliver his state of the nation address on thursday and promised to fix the struggling economy a minimum of course from cape town. is the largest township in cape town sickies or so has lived here for twenty years in a tiny home with one of the two children the area has no todd roads is littered with refuse and there are no schools nearby there's no lazier. and then when you look around. to all the. current. one is a local activist she says she's fighting for a safer community with basic government services she supported ruling african national congress and watches the state of the nation address every year making
10:36 pm
notes she says to hold the government accountable for the promises it's made wins accused were voted in south africa's first democratic elections twenty five years ago she says she was excited at the prospect of a new and better south africa. in the parliament. because. the police would be there most of the group there's not what is there's a lot of kind of puzzled remains and children. of that hurts. everybody this is civil remark was a second state of the nation address as president of the jacob zuma resigned amid allegations of corruption and a poorly performing government with many south africans becoming increasingly cynical what is the stick to the nation meet. him. because they will promise. promise promise they promised all of the time
10:37 pm
just three months ahead of elections the state of the nation address like others highlights the government's achievements and its plans for the future much of the president's speech focuses on ending corruption stimulating the economy and creating jobs the theme of this year's state of the nation address is following up on our commitments but for many south africans especially in poor communities like this one the decades old promises made by the government have been derailed especially by corruption we will celebrate the triumph of freedom over subjugation the triumph of democracy over a show. and the triumph of hope over despair. after twenty five years of democracy as a kiss to our hopes that these words will finally bring change from al-jazeera khayelitsha south africa. and our time for sport with ending
10:38 pm
a thank you so much for show an outbreak of echoing flu is forced the cancellation of all horseracing in britain and so at least the middle of next week prestigious events like the upcoming chelton festival and grand national could be affected three race horses tested positive at a yard in cheshire and now the lockdown has been extended while more than a thousand animals are monitored the shutdown costing the industry tens of millions of dollars let's go to our reporter emma hayward who's live for us subtle race course in nottinghamshire one of the venues where racing has been called off emma is there a sense of the outbreak is being contained. well i think people are hoping that it will be contained but where insult and in ten minutes time that's when the race should be getting underway but look at it we're right on the track we're allowed to be here we shouldn't normally be and that is because this is one of the twenty three fixtures which has been canceled between yesterday and wednesday but there is a real effort to try to contain the outbreak you are saying about the bets going
10:39 pm
into the yard to take the nasal swabs they will all be tested to see whether any of the any of the horses that have been tested have picked up this acquired flu it is very very easy to get it can be and it can travel over several kilometers so real effort to try to contain it and that is why the horse racing in the u.k. has essentially been put on a stop until at least wednesday just give us an idea as to how financially damaging the shutdown is. well over the next few days they cited the industry is expected to lose about four million dollars and that's just over a six day period and i think a horse racing is such a valuable asset to the u.k. you've got to think it's not just the trainers it's the wealth the horses it's the jockeys it's the t.v. rights all those things are wrapped up in this huge multi billion pound multi-billion dollar industry that's very important in the think many people here
10:40 pm
usually the be about five hundred spectators on a day like this many people here in this area are keen to get back on the track size and also watch on the television screens as well and when will we know if racing is likely to restarts. and the earliest we're going to find out if we were to go. and they were very very keen to find out what the whole thing is we'll be back racing again next week they displace through racing here today but it was interesting going there because yachts are essentially on lockdown people very very committed to trying to contain this outbreak and the u.k. and all eyes really on those big. festival and the grand national which are happening really in just a few weeks time to try to contain it ahead of those two big events and i would civil rights course in the u.k. thanks so much for that. lindsey vonn is getting ready for the final race of her
10:41 pm
career actual race in the women's downhill at the world championships in sweden on sunday a chronic an injury is forcing her to retire after this event she has eighty two world cup wins which is just four short of the all time men's recall that's held by . mark right now i feel sad for actually you know. i can't imagine being that close to breaking an all time record and you know having to give it away. and i understand you know this you have you know my own issues that have been in the body and how you feel i completely understand her dilemma but. that's very very. well the battle for gender equality is an ongoing struggle in many sports but thanks to the launch of the spotlight and prize money at these championships favor the women just as much as the men pull race reports from. the stakes don't get much higher than this for sweden ski team the fastest women in scandinavia and some of them about to make their world championship debut on home
10:42 pm
snow the swedes are the big sisters of the nordic nations while in norway it's the men that rule this side of the border it's the women who have many more gold medals than the neighbors. it's a habit they need to keep up both to retain local supremacies and challenge the dominance of the american and alpine rivals. these training sessions of the final push towards one of the peaks of any career is the world championships but staying at the top can be easier than getting there reaching the level of double olympic champion mckayla schifrin is a game changer last season the american and more than marcel her considered the best male skier of all time taking home more than seven hundred thousand dollars alpine skiing one of the sports that has closed the gender gap but things aren't so bright further down the pecking order the struggle for me has been the i've been
10:43 pm
going around the world and the racing world cup but never qualifying it's hard to go wrong five years without any rest so i've been living with my fur and. i actually thought that i would do my last race this winter and that's when it all just started to work you know five races in a row and i do. this but i don't know i don't want to do anything other in my life. it's lindsey vonn that has played a big part in getting women skiing where it is partly by turning female skiers into very marketable personalities more importantly by pushing women's right to rival the men's as a sporting spectacle it's been a lot of stars for sure that are actually super good super big talent i think i think they've all i mean she has she's superstar in
10:44 pm
a lot of ways and in some soaps i'm sure that she could have been. she would have been faster than. will be gone after these world championships the challenge for the women that come next may be great but so too are the rewards. paul reese al-jazeera van daal and sweden where french football team known so announced they'll be retiring their number nine shirts in memory of the club's form a striker million isola police confirmed on thursday that sellers body had been recovered from the wreckage of his plane and just completed a move to a premier league team cardiff city was on root's wales when the light aircraft he was travelling in came down in the english channel or last month the search is still ongoing to find the pilot david of course and was the only other person on board. last and take along for cause chaos to find a new job the former iran coach is the new boss of colombia the sixty five year old had been in charge of iran since twenty eleven his last game charge was the size
10:45 pm
three no loss to japan in the semifinals of the asian cup the former around madrid manager sas now with taking colombia to the twenty twenty two world cup draw there's no sort of slowly emerge all head coaches know it recognized that the toughest competition in the world is the south american world cup qualifiers tougher than europe as an asia than africa so the south american qualifiers if you qualify is like halfway to winning the world cup there's no doubt about that my scioto argentina martina also on the move he's officially taken over as the new head coach of mexico the fifty six year old recently completed a two year stint with the current major league soccer champions at l'anse f.c. . bron james in the l.a. lakers pull off a big win in boston they beat the celtics by just a points this after coming off the worst loss of his career on shoes day the from leading the way with a game high twenty eight points twelve rebounds and twelve assists the celtics are
10:46 pm
world leading in the dying seconds of the game so rajan wrong but in surveying is facing shop lifting the lakers to a once once you know it's a once once you win that ended the celtics five game winning streak. ok that is how you sports is looking for an hour and a thank you very much thank you for joining me for the news hour keep it here back on the other side of the break with more on the day's news. cancer ways to experience the world it's like never before cats are always going to
10:47 pm
places together online. when you're for them. or if you join us on saturday all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue talking about a legal friend you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice box here twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on al-jazeera right out of. examining the headline with with the fractious issue of palestine and israel in the u.s. news media setting the discussions what makes them different as far as. because sharing costs in all stories with a global audience nobody feels safe explore an abundance of world class pride grabbing design to inform motivate and inspire. the well
10:48 pm
is what changed on al-jazeera in the first thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the first settlements formed 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 outages or 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. and there are times article sheds light on the wings a saudi crown prince was willing to go to.
10:49 pm
i'm richelle carey this is out there on live from doha also coming up. inside venezuela's crumbling health system but they blocked at the border children are dying as hospitals run short of medicines. to brazil's most successful football clubs kills ten teenagers at a training facility in rio de janeiro. breaking with tradition the sister of thailand's king will stand as candidate for prime minister. and human rights envoy investigating the murder of journalist says it was a brutal premeditated murder planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the finding my special repertoire agnes more follows a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence or he's accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the and best acacia. joins us live now from istanbul so stephanie what more do we know about what agnes calmar said in her
10:50 pm
court. well it's a preliminary statement following that weeklong trip that she had here to turkey as you mentioned there pointing the finger firmly at saudi officials being behind the planning and the perpetration of his murder inside the saudi consulate she mentioned that turkish intelligence had given access to a part of those older recordings in the sense that they were allowed to listen to it she did mention that they couldn't. investigate it further couldn't verify its authenticity because they haven't been given a copy the saudis of delaying the entry of the turkish investigators into that country to carry out their forensic tests of course because that's where the murder took place so interesting we've also heard from baroness helena kennedy this is the british lawyer accompanying on her trip she's been talking to b.b.c. radio four today saying that this seemed to be organized at the highest levels of
10:51 pm
the saudi government and she went on to say that you know that it took them two weeks to allow the turks into that consulate that they had sent in their various times experts forensics experts to clean up the scene of the cry and mentioning that the walls have been painted over anyway i think all in all that looks that there will probably be a very damning report that we will be hearing in a couple of months from now. will be presenting her findings to human rights council in june of course her point is that an independent investigation must be carried out that however needs u.n. security council vote and as we know this is such a politically loaded story that there is some back drag on the certain a lot of people will tell you that that kind of investigation will never be approved because certain countries would use their veto all right stephanie his fiance is also speaking out what is she saying. yes well she's published a book four months after the killing of her fiance we went to that press conference
10:52 pm
is the first time really that she faced a room full of process she took questions but she basically said that this was in a book about the murder because she didn't really know what happened inside that consulate but it was a story of his life of their relationship of the man. she did touch on various political points she said she hoped that this congress would do more to hold saudi arabia accountable she mentioned donald trump and said that if you change his style and that would be something that she would welcome this of course referring to the fact that donald trump has that deadline today in the magnitsky act whether he's going to respect it or not and this is basically looking into the role of saudi's crown prince and what she's got to do with this murder but she said that there was no accountability yet his body had been found she said that really she wanted to be able to bury him so that his loved ones could have a place to pay their respects in prayer and it was you know she painted quite a sad picture but she's surrounded really by editors who wrote the book she's
10:53 pm
surrounded by security guards at the turkish government has issued to her but again the message from her was that she was shocked i asked her briefly if she thought there'd be any accountability because of the political nature of this story and how will the country's really want some kind of political stake in it and she said she didn't realize how dirty the world was so i think we're going to have to wait and see what kind of accountability will come out at the moment certainly still no answers on who ordered the killing even though the u.n. is saying highest levels of the saudi government and his body still has not been found aren't dekker live for us in istanbul stephanie thank you. all of this comes as a report in the new york times says a saudi crown prince threatened to go after those he in two thousand and seventeen according to the report muhammad when someone told an a that he would use a bullet against the journalist if he did not return home in his criticism of the kingdom conversation was intercepted by u.s.
10:54 pm
intelligence agencies shows he was murdered inside saudi consulate in istanbul october of last year now on friday president onil trump is expected to tell congress of sanctions will be imposed as a result of the murder of jamal khashoggi the deadline as part of the so-called magnitsky act it gives the u.s. president one hundred twenty days to investigate and determine a foreign government officials committed human rights violations as part of the inquiry ciampa is expected to send a report to a group of senators outlining whether sanctions are justified despite a cia assessment linking the saudi crown prince to show murder trump supported muhammad bin solomon whatever the president's response it will likely be seen as an indication of whether the ministration is willing to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable or will help it joins us now from washington d.c. so about that accountability what is the likelihood that the white house will actually impose sanctions on saudi arabia. we're watching this very carefully but
10:55 pm
it's not looking positive in terms of the white house taking any further action for those that were hoping so we can only look to the statements made out of the state department by the traveling ministration spokesperson there on thursday where they said that in fact there is a sharing of deep concern an outrage over the murder of. but beyond that no specifics in terms of what action might be taken under the global magnitsky act instead just saying that the trumpet ministration continues to quote consult with congress but there was really just a pointing to the action that's already been taken but nothing new that action in november of twenty. he eighteen where in fact seventeen individuals were sanctioned under the act their assets essentially blocked in u.s. jurisdiction but there really is no action or indication from the trumpet ministration that it will go any further and that is what is frustrating members of congress that's what we saw on thursday bipartisan legislation being introduced
10:56 pm
once again that means democrats and republicans behind this in a divided congress that's pretty rare and essentially what this would be is it's called the act that is introduce the saudi arabia accountability act and you have an act of twenty nineteen this would make it if passed into law prohibit the united states from refueling efforts in terms of the saudi led coalition in yemen any sort of responsibility or sort of contribution by the u.s. military in that regard and also would hold saudi arabia at the highest levels accountable for the murder of her show she was so far the trumpet ministration has failed to do what else can you tell us about this new york times article. yeah so lynyrd times article is sort of a. continuation of a process that's underway right now what the intelligence agencies have been doing and we know that they have briefed the lawmakers on capitol hill they say look at
10:57 pm
there is no question in terms of conclusive eighty that the the belief is that we haven't been solved and the saudi crown prince ordered the killing to hush as you know despite the saudi denials the intelligence agencies have been continuing to comb through intercepts looking for proof and this new york times article is a product of that the intercept that they believe in fact that they have this sort of conclusive evidence that in these intercepts you can hear the saudi crown prince discussing that he would use a quote bullet to get. back to the kingdom and also to stop him from criticizing the saudi government now again the saudi government has denied that mohammed bin summit had any role in this killing that he had any knowledge of it but again the members of congress do not believe this and they're working with the intelligence agencies to provide further proof in order to try and hold the saudi government accountable all right kimberly how good life for us in washington kimberly thank you rocco has suspended its participation in the saudi coalition's battle against
10:58 pm
who the rebels in yemen the moroccan government is also recalled its ambassador to saudi arabia has been mounting on the coalition to end its assault on yemen the level of morocco's participation in the war has not been clear. amazon chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail the world's richest man an owner of the washington post says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated and a blog post praises raise questions about american media relationship with saudi arabia am i the owner of the inquirer is a strong backer of president donald trump and i has denied its reporting was politically motivated steve clemons is the washington editor at large for the atlantic he joins us live now so steve. has questions about the relationship between saudi arabia and the national enquirer american media corporation what
10:59 pm
kinds of questions do you have about the relationship between saudi and and the in am i. well you know the whole ecosystem around saudi arabia and it's interesting controlling the media that report about it is very profound the coordination with vice media as as told in the wall street journal today is an extraordinary deep dive into at least one effort with vice two for the saudis to get what they want the other dimension with am i which is very much in the news for this back and forth extortion attempt with with jeff bezos is that the saudis have been considering an investment and am i which i am i have been pursuing so it's both the fact that you know the washington post owner jeff bezos has been putting pressure on donald trump in the white house in their investigation but also the washington post columnist death jamal khashoggi and these things both converge and the kind of nefarious players if you will on the other side of this with am i with vice are are
11:00 pm
the saudi efforts to basically control what we do what we talk about in the news about them and in fact the national enquirer actually put at it one hundred pages one hundred this is a tabloid that it a hundred pages the so called reform efforts of the saudi crown prince so their money seems to be getting them somewhere. you know absolutely i mean i think we've we've known for some time that mohammed bin salma in particular when he was in the united states went on a charm offensive through many cities in the united states and it was during that time in fact that the national enquirer kept running you know these charmed pieces on just how deep and hope profound it was it was a seduction campaign if you will of americans and then global citizens as well to basically not look to the dark side of saudi arabia but to look at this is an inflection point where they were moving in reforming but that meant no criticism and jamal khashoggi and the washington post were standouts basically blowing the
11:01 pm
whistle and saying no this is a very very dark regime that continues to keep women languishing in jail who had agitated for the right to drive who kept other activists. out trying to speak their minds in jail and it was because shoji who gave eloquent voice to this and was eventually of course murdered in a in a on saudi soil if you will in turkey and so i think it's been that and the deeper investigation about who is liable for that and a lot of fingers point to mohamed bin psalm on that may have been we need to say we're speculating here may have been part of this weird mix of compromising jeff bezos his messages which bases think it has been saying is probably a government entity that could have been a u.s. government entity to divulge us it also could have been a saudi government entity because we know the saudis tracked jamal khashoggi s friends using new technology and their messaging on on smartphones and we we know
11:02 pm
about this because one of the most powerful people in the world the richest person in the world went public with this with something that's very embarrassing for him he's still he decided to go back and he's decided to go public about this so we know about this what does that mean about the things that we don't know about us. well i mean i think it's extraordinary that we're being given a journey in real time through an act of extortion and blackmail that rarely rarely happens usually read about these things way after the fact and bezos who owns a paper whose you know byline is democracy dies in darkness the transparency matters more than anything else is standing by those norms and values an extraordinary time and of course they had this extraordinary commercial on t.v. during our national you know during our super bowl game a football game and it was a ten million dollar reminder to americans about how important it is to stand by
11:03 pm
high quality journalism of high quality reporting and truth telling so it's an extraordinary moment that we're being taken into this scandal in real time and it's also extraordinary that i am i put it's extortion threats in black and white and and emailed and said to him well and if it were a negotiated legal document so it's incredible about that the fact that this it could potentially be a crime that they put on paper the publisher a.m.-i has a deal with the federal government that they're not supposed to commit crimes for another three years and that's a deal stemming from the fact that they are basically they gave me legal aid to the to the trump campaign so it piers if there's an investigation into this that they may still potentially be committing crimes do you anticipate the government looking into this. well this is a very weird ironic twist in this story because jeff bezos is transparency could
11:04 pm
backfire in a way that hurts the motor investigation because david becker pekar the c.e.o. of am i has agreed to fully cooperate with the muller investigation and it has received an immunity deal in testifying on that but part of that of course is not engaging in further malfeasance and knocked acting as an agent of the white house that's under investigation if you will this this seemingly shows behavior of alleged behavior that's very much out of line with the deal that pecker made with the mother team and so it raises questions about whether the cooperation agreement is still solvent whether it's real and i you know we don't know what will happen now on with that arrangement with packer because. you know essentially all of this happened with jeff bezos happened recently and so clearly after the arrangements with packer had happened so it does throw in a really interesting wrench into the motor investigation and the cooperation of
11:05 pm
david pecker on things like shutting down folks like stormy daniels and other stories of donald trump's alleged sexual affairs in the past so we don't know where that will go but i mean it's right at the nexus of so many fascinating stories and we just need to see how it plays out quite a convergence of stories and events for sure and st clement's of the atlantic thank you so much. iran has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile the announcement was made in an underground facility as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the revolution it's a show of military strength that the u.s. withdrew from iran nuclear agreement last year and impose sanctions on tehran and her has more from iran. messages of defiance coming out of iran at a time when the country marks the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution the unveiling of a new miss out just the week after another missile was tested is being seen as
11:06 pm
a message to the west and the message is we are not ready to negotiate over our ballistic missile program a missile program really which has stirred a lot of controversy iran says this program is for defensive purposes in fact leaders today were saying that these missiles will be used against our enemies if they do something wrong to us so stressing that these missiles are for defensive purposes but europe the united states expressing concern the supreme leader himself ayatollah how many waiting in telling the government do not trust the europeans. the europeans and iran and now have a testy relationship europe did not pull out of the nuclear deal but it hasn't really fallen through with its promises that this country is going to see economic benefits if you grant stays in the nuclear deal it is difficult times for this country how many reiterating the relationship really with the united states is not
11:07 pm
go away and well he did single out to donald trump the u.s. president the secretary of state the u.s. national security adviser saying iran's problem is with this administration and not with the people in one way or another he is saying that do not expect any improvement in the relationship in the upcoming period is not just a message to the international community it is also a message to the people of iran. on who really have been hurt by the reimposition of u.s. sanctions so critical times difficult times in this country as it celebrates forty years of clerical rule a shipment of food aid from the us is still waiting on the colombia venezuela border but it can't go in without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro an area which desperately needs help is venezuela's crumbling public health system in the coastal city of barcelona fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food and water ospital workers say
11:08 pm
there is a dire need for medicine traceable has this exclusive report. this is the producer tricks emergency room at the louis b. hospital in the venezuelan city. about three hundred kilometers east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water. is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned yeah to bear my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they have vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us. we were allowed to film because staff here say they want
11:09 pm
the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week fourteen children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children and each one of the very people are telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough syringe is among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madeline in my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin and i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son has date there are over one hundred people who believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water parents with their children continue
11:10 pm
to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. with any of them here that three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol there are not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the revolution because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be and socialism. the situation in the last city hospital is one of the reasons why this self declared entering precedent of venezuela. says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice
11:11 pm
if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed well you want to put in work on the market humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. but of venezuela the developing story out of brazil where there's been a fire at the training ground of one of the country's most famous football clubs flamengo it's based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say that at least ten people have been killed the facility has accommodations for teenage players some of your sleeping in that fire broke out so that our training center was only recently expanded and opened just two months ago. as an a.f.p. journalist in sao paulo he says there may have been an explosion at the training
11:12 pm
center. one neighbor did tell local television time he heard an explosion shortly after five am local time this morning and the fire they followed this explosion people out of devastated you have families rushing to the area a lot of them left outside of the city rushing to a waiting outside for him summation we must remember that they have been quite a few tragedies that have hit the country recently you know a massive mining disaster just a few weeks ago over one hundred fifty people killed and that does affect the psyche of the people. they do become critical they do ask questions about things like safety regulations and so on and unexpected twist thailand's upcoming elections have become a battle between the country's royals and the military and power the sister of the
11:13 pm
king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister and the first vote since the military coup and two thousand and fourteen when he reports in bangkok. politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape money one can not today i with other time iraq such a party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate a prime minister for the party who is princess who will rot. cityward and run away and i went up straightaway it all to the dynamics of the election campaign in a country that's been politically divided for years the parasites our party was a big advantage. on the other parties and you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen as running against. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as
11:14 pm
a princess and part of the royal family. she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing is that the party she's joined is backed by free will prime minister attacks and she knew what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as anti establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy he and princess known to be close and the announcement may indicate that a deal was struck between taxon and the palace this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy
11:15 pm
from criticism but the law is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as a setback for the man who led the two thousand and fourteen coup current prime minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for approved military party that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princes may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics there's a sense the move by thai rocks a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarized nation wayne hay al jazeera bangkok i mean sol's outbreak and the philippines capital manila is spreading the help department reports a five hundred fifty percent increase in cases nationwide with fifty five deaths since january well alan they're going to ports from manila. this is an lazarus
11:16 pm
hospital in manila one of the biggest and oldest in the philippines the secretary of health wants to show us how the hospital is handling in measles outbreak their children ages five and below brought here by parents who are different answers when asked why their children were not that's needed many of these children are in critical condition at least sixty children have already died of measles in this hospital alone over the last month and the situation is getting worse we. just care very all this drama that you know they were doing. really cost. babbage to the bank with the. effectiveness of the way for months the public attorney's office has been conducting televised inquiries into a vaccine corruption scandal involving health officials the investigation found
11:17 pm
that more than seven hundred thousand children may have been given an unsafe vaccine called the vaccine the chief thank you fever the public attorney's office says over one hundred children have died because of denver action. but independent autopsies have disputed that health officials say these accusations are baseless and their impact is devastating this one to her she has. made. in iraq and. the joy. confidence unboxing the philippines has been at the forefront of vaccination efforts since the early one nine hundred ninety s. back then there was almost one hundred percent vaccine coverage for measles now the public's confidence in vaccines is at thirty two percent. we are any health center in bicycle one of the most impoverished communities in manila that seems
11:18 pm
i've always been made available here for free but this find that health officials say vaccination rates here have dropped significantly. in another hospital three year old is in the isolation room doctors here tell us they were worried because johan almost lost his sight because of a measles infection. i was scared because of the stories of being back that's why i didn't go to the center as early as last year health officials say they had been warned that the scandal could discourage parents from vaccinating their children but they felt their voices were john doubt by the political noise. dog and al jazeera minima. recap the headlines for you now on al-jazeera and human rights envoy investigating
11:19 pm
the murder of journalist she says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetuated by saudi officials the findings by a special operator agnes calmar follows a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence turkey's accusing saudi arabia of not being transparent when it comes to the investigation. a report in the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after jamal khashoggi in two thousand and seventeen and a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence been solomon is heard saying that he would use a bullet against. iran has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile is part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of its revolution tehran has dismissed the european union's criticism of its missile development program a shipment of food and aid from the us is still waiting on the colombia venezuela border but it can't go in without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro the u.s.
11:20 pm
wants them to leave the country president arroyo has launched a petition demanding the u.s. stay out of venezuela's affairs speaking at a rally in the capital caracas he once again denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis. because of that i mean soil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing an international coalition he did by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily attack venus while under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. that doesn't mean we will go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling for peanuts while a to be respected demanding peace fourteen is why law. there has been a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's most famous football clubs flamengo it's based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people have been killed the syllabi had accommodations for teenage players some of
11:21 pm
whom were sleeping on their fire broke out as are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come this stream as that next. it's forty years since the return from exile to lead a historic revolution. the transfer the country shapes of. the world to this day join us for a special coverage. welcome to the stream i'm femi oke and i'm really could be today we look at a topic chosen by you out online community ever on forty is since the revolution now as events held to mark the anniversary we'll look at what the future holds for the country send us your comments and your questions via twitter and our you tube live chat.
11:22 pm
thanks to all who took part in this week's online poll to choose a topic for today's show iran forty years after the revolution was the top choice there will be other opportunities to choose a show in the future poll but remember we are always happy to get your ideas reports coming shows just send them to stream on twitter joining us for today's discussion. and assistant professor of middle east studies at johns hopkins university. so you just said he is a journalist said al monitor who has reported extensively on iran he joins us from seattle at early since audacity he is a ph d. candidate at the university of to her on she joins us from the iranian capital i feel i'm saddam we have jeffrey he is an historian focusing on iran however what is good to have you here let's start with some history it's forty years since the islamic revolution swept
11:23 pm
11:24 pm
at that speech that we knew what minus six. and there's still a good parents i. had a picture with us which is about ten years to the iranian revolution when to show everybody your little brother your. what with the stories that they would tell you escape it's about that time. many of us started were stories of hope of the first few years first few months after the triumph of the revolution there were people were very excited there was a them and vibrancy and society that they hadn't experienced before and more than anything i hope for things being different but then another story that they would tell me and sort of immediately after those stories of hope were when my mother was pregnant with me and this was about two years after the revolution. and my father was a part of the leftist groups and then they were at my grandmother's funeral and during
11:25 pm
the funeral someone had tipped off the security and intelligence apparatus in their city and they started my grandmother's funeral looking for my dad and my uncle and they had to run away and go underground for a few months so it's really those two stories for me kind of sum up in many ways different parts of the the revolutionary moments in which there was hope and then later this fierce repression i want to share on the back of another story from a member of our community on her family's experiences like you she was not born at the time of the revolution but she talks about what she learned about that time from her family this is samir and this is what she told the stream. there's a lot of cultural trauma that exists around the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution many families were forced into exile and their security was at risk my family along with countless others had a different experience and they came to the us to pursue their education they actually wanted to return back to iran after graduating and unfortunately they were
11:26 pm
not able to as a child i always knew that my parents had immigrated between iran and it was something that i was curious about i remember in school we had school projects about where your family's from and what your background is and that i had a different experience than some of my classmates at that time in high school i became involved with an iranian organization in the diaspora and this ultimately led me to becoming more interested in learning about my history and led me to pursue studying middle eastern studies in university. says that they could hear what it's like room someone a member of the diaspora learning about her parents' homeland what was it like for you as someone who grew up in iran. well the stories that i hear from my parents obviously because i was not born during the revolution. are just full of hope and aspirations for a better iran and iran would enjoy equality and social justice in also the rule of religion because the majority of the people at that
11:27 pm
time were really just so they're what they were all i hear from my parents and my family members is about those aspirations. and also about a unity among people coming from. different and you know social backgrounds even religious ideas they were all united in their aspiration for. and the to radical regime that was really involved every run. how the country remembers its milestones and so important to sort of national identity this moment is a moment that was set global they are many countries have a view of what the iranian revolution meant but for iranians not thinking of them but from a historian's perspective what did this moment mean. well it was really a rupture it was a continuation of
11:28 pm
a development that started in the early twentieth century of iranians aspiring for democracy and fighting for it wanting to gain national independence because the u.s. had always tried to interfere in iran there had been the one nine hundred fifty three could it so this was really a rupture and as the others were telling this was a moment of aspiration and high hopes so for everyone and it also inspired lots of people around the world everybody was looking to iran. the iranian revolution to achieve a better iran. from that historians point of view i want to share with you two perspectives that we're seeing online and these are from people who are not in iran anymore this is daniel who says as you may know after khomeini hijacked the iranian people's revolution for freedom its forces began to crack down heavily on society my family had no option but to leave iran in the one nine hundred eighty s.
11:29 pm
and become refugees due to christian persecution they haven't returned back so there is antagonism there for the islamic revolution but here on the other side is a view that several people in the us share but perhaps not so in iran this problem please mention in your program that everything the revolutionaries and global media said about the shah was pure propaganda against him iranian people have a strong sense of respect for the policies and the salad for ron under them and i was going to give this you pay money but as i was reading i can see that it's not as base their kind of smile ironically what are you thinking as i read this well the first thing that i have to tell you is. this twitter account how it's used is the name of. would you say like relaying t.v. series. in iran right.
11:30 pm
that's word really really. really coming from a person. i mean it was funny how the words were put together. well i definitely do not agree with the. person and. character in the series. if you. cannot do that. i think you know one thing to remember is that. they run a revolution was a mass revolution so it was and relatively during the time of the revolution itself not extremely bloody and so this was a massive revolution against the shah and you know i understand people have different views but that's one thing we can't forget that no matter what ended up happening after the revolutionary period itself and how people feel about the outcome of the revolution the revolution itself was
11:31 pm
a massive movement against the shah before we just move on to it so what's happening right now i just i want to show one some of the picture from nine hundred seventy nine your family now some of the earliest memories that kids have a when the about three years old you would about see. what do you remember. well i do remember the first years where i was participating with my mother into the most gracious. on a very early stage but i particularly remember devoir period of course that the war started in september one nine hundred eighty between iraq and iran and it had a massive impact actually on the course of the revolution because like other revolutions russian revolution of war broke out and it's the consequence of actually. making the state stronger in consolidating its power and repressing the oppositional forces so i think the war really dramatically
11:32 pm
changed the course of the revolution and i hear they're not and i want to take that point to push on a little further let's move on to life in iran now while the a some of her public has stood firm in the face of continuous opposition from countries including the united states many iranians have expressed discontent at how the country is run people who remember the days of the revolution are split on how things have gone sense how to look at this. of us sure we didn't achieve what we want it things have changed and revolutionary values have now worn out today unfortunately we still suffer from discrimination favoritism corruption and lying even more than it's any time under the shah movie has more which i know. i am not dissatisfied with my current situation or my job and income it is true that some people are complaining about high prices but they should put things in perspective and be more tone. saying i want to bring you in here as we talk about what life is like now with this tweet from iraq she says i thirty one am very proud of our great one nine
11:33 pm
hundred seventy nine revolution that brought down a dictatorship and fought for freedom and equality the corrupt dictatorship ruling iran today has no right to claim the legacy of the great event since it has betrayed its ideals brazenly in your view saeed to the ideals and ideas of the revolution still hold. well i think we still have we still have some kind of some crimes of faith that people are still follow for example people forty years ago went to the streets were for asking to freedom for asking their independence they were there they were against the big ship they were asking for democracy the situation now i think in some extent this change. but these concepts are not that there are not absolute we still have to work we have to continue to trying to
11:34 pm
achieve to our goals if we can stay in some kind in some cases we can. be very successful but in some extent no we have to continue to overcoming obstacles in already. yes but i'm going to add something to that yes is doing well as a historian again i'm always very interested in both change and continued to be as i was telling the iranian revolution really brought massive change to iran if you think of the expansion of political participation now i guess was already saying that it was a massive revolution so millions of people participated in that river lucian and also demanded the political say so we in content free run we see people actually engaging in political debates participating in many simple councils. neighborhood organizations etc on the other hand on fortunately there is also continue with the with the previous regime they came to ship up the shot was toppled but power has
11:35 pm
been now consent treated equally among the elite or on the supreme leader so a participatory population is actually now clashing with those political limitations so this these are really the contradictory outcomes of that revolution so it's not black and white we have to see both the changes and the continuities so that i have that. this time unlike time you are actually moving in have on do you concur wow i think it's the first part i would agree with both. analyst on the show that. iran. iranian revolution the islamic revolution of iran was a massive movement and. types of people took part in the movement and. although i'm on khomeini the one. car is magic leader that.
11:36 pm
managed to unite all the people everyone how to share on it and one of the greatest aspirations of the iranian people was to have a share in the decision making of the country and i think to agree to stand out has been achieved nothing is perfect like many other countries have dynamic democratic system which has its own faults and needs to be like updated and reformed every every few years so i'm not one hundred percent happy with everything that happens around our political decision making but i am very happy in the progress that i see making is being made and i'm very hopeful about a future of the country because as i see people of my generation my age who did not witness the years of the revolution but who. you know and hear it to
11:37 pm
those ideals are coming into the scene they are taking to the. political iran and having a greater share so. one thing that i feel needs more improvement on is having even a greater share for the young people in who who live in iran i'm glad you mentioned the young people there nervous i want to go to you with this this anecdote here from i mean who says when i visited iran in one thousand nine. thousand them more adapt to the new normal than the older generation who were found lamenting in the constricted environment and cherish the past and they go on to write when the revolution came the pendulum swung. from one extreme to the other and is now settling in the middle iran needs no intervention and is capable of sorting its own issues the settling in the middle is the part of hoping you can pick up on what's your thought on the yeah i mean i think you know. one of the things is. that
11:38 pm
we're saying there is this incredible you know in any society that has a revolution and it's a massive revolution people are involved in the political process i mean it's very involvement that brings an old regime down and brings a new regime in and so that did not go anywhere even though there was repression people were finding different ways to make their political voices heard and mobilizing from the bottom and they would mobilize from the bottom of things that they didn't like and it would force the system to compromise so that is definitely there and i think as you know the person on twitter mentioned it really is the generations that came after the revolution the ones who were born in the eighty's and the ones who were born you know in the ninety's and early two thousand that i think are beginning to make significant changes in iran on a cultural and social level and those are things that are constantly being given take with the government but one of the things i would say that the values of the
11:39 pm
revolution some of them i think are gone but i think one of the ones that has them that hasn't been a race is this clear. desire for independence and i think that is something that in the generations that have come after the revolution even if they no longer agree with the government or even if they are extremely frustrated by the government they do embrace this identity that iran needs to be an independent nation free from sort of the neo colonial and colonials environments in which the revolution came out of that's just just one more time because i want to look at the holds for iran the vast majority of the population the only no post with additionally rule but what will the country look like in a few years time and will its outlook on the world change some people want to stop by abandoning the phrase that's also ruddy's over many he is death to america.
11:40 pm
the slogan death to america is wrong we shouldn't want death for any country when we want death for someone they want the same for us. as our officials say death to america but some of their children now live and study there. for the slogan is not a good thing because it explicitly calls the other side hostility thanks it's nothing that i never said it i never will not all people in iran say it. can see the western journalists really seem to cause anything that looks like the iranians are challenging that aside and their emotions shared with iran have you seen that change over the us and do you think that will change in the future. well i think we still have some some cliche that didn't change during the during the years for example some slogans that you showed in your in your review of some people. comment about the best america this is maybe it's some of the some of the
11:41 pm
cliche that we have to maybe during the week in the years we have to change it. i think in arthur to your question yeah i think you change the situation is changed. by ideology in our. government our political system is going to be creased their radical radical attitude. for example you cannot compare the situation now days me what happened in the first first monson first years of the revolution for example we didn't have any good relationship with the world with the european countries maybe even that. our neighbors so all you can see you can see these. change land aren't yes and i get. about the slogan that a part of the video was i mean covering that in iran i should mention that there
11:42 pm
are a lot of people who still chant that slogan and the farsi words that we use for it does not really mean. that's for a nation it's directly. i mean addressing the american government and we have a lot of reasons to chant that slogan against the american regime because. they they support the shah they were one of the ones who gave for a future to shah after he plundered iranian nation's wealth and ran away from the country they are the one who are trained and armed a lot of terrorist groups against iran there are the one who are in the brutal regime against iran they are the ones who are still sanctioning iranian people and blocking. you know like draw exe and medicine on in iran so iranian people
11:43 pm
have a lot of reasons to hate the u.s. regime and you can ask american people who have traveled to iran how welcome they have felt were were i cannot even say hatred where reason to feel that the us is our enemy is based on reason based on statistics that can and based on history so it's very important to make a distinguish between the two that the people the people who are chanting that a slogan. actually do or not getting that from the from the only from the iranian government and yes that's true that there are you know governmental officials who may chant the same slogan because the people the majority of the people are. those slogans while their own children are living in those countries and that these are the grievances that exist among the iranian people and actually
11:44 pm
in the lake recent monsters as that have been their pro-government or anti-government they all have i hear you there and i think it's interesting because despite all of those facts in the u.s. particularly you still have viewpoints like that this is ali he says iran has been a pain in the neck for the u.s. so i hear those points in those historical facts and yet you still see this discourse but i want to push on just a little bit because i wanted to get the view from someone who's looking at this from a historic perspective this is shervin associate professor assistant professor here in the u.s. and this is what he told the stream we underestimate how deeply dislike republicans compromise by its own etiology should be unsurprising that a state ostensibly committed to the mobilization of self-reliance and righteous men and women forever vigilant in the struggle against injustice around the world should find its own citizens demanding the same commitment to the injustices thank you placed in their own backyard that the system continues to come up short in this
11:45 pm
regard guarantees that we will continue to see protests and mass mobilization in iran not to overthrow the regime but to press it to do its job to live up to its promise payment and at about a couple of sentences your take on that video. totally agree i agree with that and i want to add to the fact that you know independence is still very important for iranians but i think they do have a problem with a perversion of independence into something of continuous animosity and creating you know fortress relationships with other countries in the world because there is a long tradition in iran in history that goes really to the twentieth century that is fighting against domestic dictatorship and fighting against foreign imperialism as well ok and i think what iranians really want is coupling both having both of the night evidence and democracy at home i guess thank you so much
11:46 pm
for your thoughts on the iranian revolution the anniversary forty years after it occurred we really appreciate your time and then forget to send your comments or so i just have to tell you to add is a dot com forward slash the stream and also have a look at eight eyestrain twitter because they can pick different shows to vote for and then if the highest vote wins we will do the show like we took today and so what scenics. on counting the cost digital divisions. and risks missing out on the next evolution of the internet from russia with interest kremlin backed investments in venezuela are all about plus a report from senegal's cards who control the city counting the cost on. the rez there want us to always breaks but what's close to that to see what happens next to asia unpredictable fired by the barriers for
11:47 pm
a mobile barricade of the old seventy three that we need to hear the movies now is what about change people have gone to hospital here barry the mission of the national army is to fix the entire point complex and i'm just your stories about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their country. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business for them for the smelly business to the complexities of recycling with different plastics and blending together the recycling becomes difficult to impossible on the science that offers solutions it's very easy for us to have a hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera.
11:48 pm
11:49 pm
the political. president. not. the murder of journalist. the deadline set by congress. as the father of the. woman who wants to be prime minister by the way she. could change the face of a military. and i'm tracking the on mine reaction to the crisis in venezuela had all the other stories to share your questions and comments with us throughout the show on twitter using the hash tag hinted.
11:50 pm
at the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live at al-jazeera dot com it is a tough choice for venezuela's military millions of dollars worth of desperately needed aid from the united states it is now sitting there at the border with colombia and if the troops let it through they will be defying the orders of the venezuelan president nicolas maduro says the opposition is quote weaponize in aid using it as a provocation but help is needed for millions of people who are living in poverty the health systems collapsed as well and there are blames u.s. sanctions his opponents though accuse him of mismanagement let's start with this from. the he's in. that is on the colombian side of the venezuelan border. there's one question on everybody's mind here now that a that arrived the first truckloads arrived on the n.a.s. will it be able to cross into venezuela we don't have an answer and i don't think that the people behind this international effort have an answer yet to that
11:51 pm
question the main bridge. is expected to be used to move the a the inside of venezuela has been blocked for days now it's not the only way but president nicolas maduro has promised to defend every port of entry into the country to stop this aid from being moved and venezuela people are also. questioning here asking for just how long will. these be able to store the aid at the border had has been moved inside a warehouse that we understand is not properly equipped to start for a long time medicine in particular very delicate projects such scenes for example. we don't have an answer to all of that we are hoping to get
11:52 pm
more information in a press conference that the u.s. authorities together with the colombian authorities and venezuelan opposition figures here is also to find out exactly what kind of aid has arrived another question of course year though is how much of a difference could this aid make as we know that so far it's just a small amount of what is needed and we're hoping to hear something from that news conference there at that news conference a little bit so he's in colombia and you know the number of people who have actually fled venezuela into colombia and other countries is three million for those who remained during some desperate conditions we have quite an extraordinary report from. exclusive access to a hospital where at least fourteen children have died just from contaminated water in the past week i this is a pretty atrix emergency room at the hospital in the venezuelan city. about three
11:53 pm
hundred kilometers east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water lady check on stall to reality is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned yeah where my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they are vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week four thousand children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of those where people are
11:54 pm
telling us that there's no medicine there are not enough there and just among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madeline in my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin and i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son as did the work of people in barcelona believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water. parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol
11:55 pm
there are not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the river lotion because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be in socialism the situation in the last city hospital is one of the reasons why this self declared entering president of venezuela why the law says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed. the work of humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches
11:56 pm
those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. but venezuela. such a powerful report isn't it i'll post a link to it as well later on twitter and then you've got this type of thing the impact in other countries this is a great feature paste from dylan the door about what's happening in colombia for example the social activist who's opened her home to migrants leaving venezuela she has fifty sleeping in her dining room forty in her living room this is become a latin american crisis as it says there no one expected this is really worth reading the crisis pushes deeper into colombia it is that al jazeera dot com and you should palace back to take us through how this is all playing out online schapelle including a bit of a battle between the trumpet ministration in the madeira government where else on twitter has right come all the trouble ministration has been using
11:57 pm
a hash tag needles the e.u. or we are united with venezuela to pressure maduro to step down and you can see in this post here that the secretary of state might pump a zero use that hash tag to call out the duro and his military for blocking those shipments of humanitarian aid so venezuelans who need them but if you go into this there's plenty of critics out there who question the purpose of this aid the purpose of sending it in the first place and overall u.s. policy that relates to venezuela now the most popular post here is from a new york based journalist named ed norton who replied to pompei oh calling this trojan horse of fake this is what ben norton told al-jazeera. ministration is clearly using humanitarian aid not as a form support but actually as a weapon there's actually a long history during the dirty wars in central america the one nine hundred eighty s. in which the u.s. actually smuggled weapons to the contras in nicaragua and other countries through supposedly mandatory and aid the german ministration is waging an economic war in
11:58 pm
venezuela with crippling sanctions and other forms of economic punishment and they're actually trying to force a military coup by blackmailing members including officers in the military telling them they can only lift sanctions if they overthrow their democratically elected government so this is not about humanitarian aid it's not about democracy it's a form of economic warfare and humanitarian aid is not actually motivated by a serious sense of humanitarian support but rather it's a political weapon it's a trojan horse now the spanish language twitter account of the white house meanwhile released a video on thursday that compares majority to a cast of some of history's worst dictators at least from the u.s. perspective you've got stalin you have miscellany and saddam hussein and the end of this video says we've seen this before and also that madeira should leave well the president launched his own open letter to the white house asking it to stop this campaign and this is what he told his supporters. who want to remain sort of bit
11:59 pm
through a little because of their meat spoil resources minerals and other great wealth critics are pushing and to national coalition he did by the united states so that they can commit an act of insanity and militarily a take venezuela under the false excuse of a humanitarian crisis that does not exist. you don't think i'm going to go we will go to the white house bring in more than eighteen million signatures calling for peanuts while it to be respected demanding takes fifteen is why the woman has also been providing updates on his facebook page about this hands off venezuela campaign thanking his supporters who quote reject the interference of the american empire. now another has said has popped up on twitter which has been trending throughout the day saying i signed for peace in venezuela like i said that's trending we'll see if it gets to the ten million signatures that he says he wants and indeed if he'll hand the letter over to the white house now it's interesting to watch all of this conversation play out in spanish and in english there's a lot of people who are engaged in this conversation who aren't exactly fans of
12:00 am
madeira but are against us interventions across latin america and elsewhere in the world adam here posted this the other day wondering why this white house in particular in his words finally found a dictator they didn't instantly fall in love with a leave it at that but you can share your thoughts with us on this topic get in touch with us using the hash tag agent if thank you andrew deftly edited they're right so we've got a bigger picture question to answer now and that is what has given rise to all of this the simple argument is the opposition will of course say this mismanagement of the economy but there is no escaping the fact venezuela has been on the economic sanctions to we wonder how big an impact have these been diego moya combo's who is the principal latin america political risk analyst markets in london diego i have had without running on facebook at the moment a slew of comments of people talking about sanctions and saying if they want to make a real difference in venezuela bents what needs to be lifted for example. is that
12:01 am
the us should stop the sanctions someone else has talked about illegal sanctions suffering created by the oil rich united states or oil hungry united states tell us your views on how much of an impact sanctions have had over the us. well the first thing we have to remember is that sanctions on venezuela's whole sector has just been imposed just now in february beddes where there was already an economic contraction five years ago or production which stood at three point four million barrels per day when charles came to power in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine to one point two million barrels for two thirds or production how declining minutes with shaurya so food and basic goods including making supplies where already a significant problem for business well is when chavez was in power so all these crises was way before the u.s.
12:02 am
imposed sanctions on the venezuela so sector and all these dire state of the economy may i say all these what started a sudden economic political and social crisis has turned into a full blown humanitarian and migration crisis and the response so far these has not been the u.s. has not been us just has been a big mismanagement and widespread corruption third which now with mother and daddy's really was going on ok can you give me some specifics of that sorry i'm going to jump in can you give me some specifics because you talked about oil production which is obviously some porton you talked about a decline in oil production over the last few years why why when oil is your who is your life blood is your cash cow would you not manage that properly. that's exactly what the question that is had the moment been a great oppression modo and that's exactly the main reason why bennett's whelan's did no book that formal ludo in the name of the main two thousand nine hundred
12:03 am
eleven that's why mother was forced to commit an electoral fraud in order to try to be reelected nobody in their right mind would have voted for mobile in a country where the editorial dined with children out of the ten percent of the population eighty three million people have left venezuela a full blown humanitarian crisis a contre of people die every day as a result of the lapse of the health system that will make us supplies a country where electricity blackouts are very frequent in a country which has the largest proven all reserves in the world and all these i repeat has been that direct result or widespread corruption just quickly dig out of any other company from the old sector in social inclusion policies don't go over an official javine well you must have evidence of corruption and you can see this come up in the legal sense of which have been imposed if you see they get the jobs their real state property which had been see from these top socialist leaders you can
12:04 am
definitely see where the money from the old sector have gone very quickly if we were to take power. next month in the near future do you hear anything in his economic ideas which would turn all of this around. well the simple fact that he has popular support i think will make a difference this simple fact the people why i'm not directly involved in drug trafficking fuel smuggling illegal mining dope ears here goal of the current administration of motor symbol i think it will make a big difference there is a specific plan called the plan by which basically seeks to attract foreign investment restudy the rule of law and conduct. in decrease taxes increase royalties which could make more feasible. for a direct investment towards the all sectors and also they showed that if the more kristie is restoring business where the potential sanctions to be lifted for venezuela to restructure is they have to go to international markets to
12:05 am
international great we're able to borrow again i think will make up significant difference but we have to clarify that one way though he's a means to an end right he's an enduring prescient who has been forced to step in because he was the head of the national assembly he's going to have to call for elections free and fair elections i wonder when you press c.n.n. does where we're going to be able to measure whether these you know ministration will definitely provide the right darren to for investors to come back to the country and for venezuelans to go out for these dramatic you money tearing crises of these government has put them through. a long time to go on the say it would seem as a company really good talking to you thank you to all of you who sent questions and then there were a lot and they're all sort of variations on a theme about sanctions i hope you got a an idea from there that maybe it's not that much of an effect because they haven't been in place for so long this is a long long running decline for venezuela a lot of those comments to us coming through on the facebook live stream that is
12:06 am
that facebook become such as era twitter at i.j.a. english and plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine what's that and telegram we move on to the latest in the jamal khashoggi case the journalist of course murdered by saudi agents in the country's. in istanbul back in october now in washington a deadline for the u.s. president to announce his next move in the case is always up the magnitsky act requires him by law to tell congress if sanctions against saudi arabia are going to be forthcoming we've got kimberly how quick watching this from the white house in washington d.c. what happens now kimberly. oh a fresh reaction from this white house and for those looking for some sort of response from the trumpet administration with this imminent deadline there doesn't appear to be any encouraging signs when al-jazeera asked the deputy press secretary whether or not there would be any further action by the trumpet ministration hogan gidley the spokesperson said simply i don't know so all we can do is look at the
12:07 am
statements coming out of the state department on thursday where this question was also asked what would the trumpet ministration be doing with regard to the fact of the deadline if the global magnitsky act is imminent instead what the reporters were told was that the trumpet ministration shares the deep concerns of congress there in terms of outrage they have consulted with congress but beyond the actions that were taken in of amber of twenty eighteen the sanctioning of seventeen individuals under the magnitsky act it doesn't appear that there is going to be any further action by this administration so well the administration says it is engaging with congress congress is taking its own action we saw on thursday the introduction of bipartisan legislation that means republicans and democrats pretty rare in a divided congress to put forward is some legislation that was a initially introduced in twenty eighteen what it is is the saudi arabia
12:08 am
accountability and yemen act of twenty nineteen what it would do compel hold saudi arabia accountable for the murder of. and also for the humanitarian crisis in terms of the saudi led conflict in yemen it would also prohibited arms sales from the united states to saudi arabia and the refueling aircraft in the saudi led conflict is the view of congress that it doesn't appear this administration is going to insist on full accountability for murder and that's why it appears that congress is taking action mind you it will take a while to work its way through congress and then the question becomes whether the president would sign it into law ok thank you for the update there kimberly how could it the white house. meanwhile the fiance of jamal khashoggi has called for more international support in the investigation into his murder was speaking a day after the special rapporteur on this kind of margaret revealed the initial findings of her investigation chilling gruesome audioboo tiriel given to her by
12:09 am
turkish officials and she accused saudi arabia of seriously undermining the investigation stephanie decker with more now from istanbul. that initial statement from the united nations special rapper turner is a damning while i think it indicates that what we're going to hear in june or the end of may when she presents her findings to the human rights council could be very significant because of course she is the only one who is not politically motivated in this it is such a politically loaded story miss cullum have is the only real independent voice looking at the bigger picture now we've also heard from mr fiance she's published a book or she's dictated the story to two editors we attended a press conference that she was at this is the first time really that she faces the media and takes questions since the murder of her fiance four months ago and this is what she had to say. no announcement no sanction nothing that is imposed will
12:10 am
bring back jamal was saluted but in a way it's important in terms of relief even a little bit for those who loved and supported him those who committed this magic get punished and for those responsible to be trite this is what we request she also highlights that perhaps this congress could perhaps take more accountability as to what happened to her fiance but really the bigger picture is that she still really stressed that she wanted to be able to find the body to be able to bury him and to be able to allow his loved ones to have a place to pray for him i think it highlights again for months all of them with all the political back and forth of this loaded story is that there was still no answer as to who ordered the killing even though the u.n. has been pretty clear that this was or that the highest levels of the saudi government and of course his body the body of mr. has still not been found now more developments the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go off to
12:11 am
jamal khashoggi back in twenty seventeen according to the report mohamed bin salmon told an eight he would quote use a bullet against the journalist if he did not. and home and his criticism of the kingdom that conversation apparently intercepted by u.s. intelligence agencies the bullet is an interesting reference when you consider some previous stories about mohammed bin salman's methods last april the new yorker published a feature called a saudi princes quest to remake the middle east and in it it recounted a story that circulates in riyadh where when some men apparently demanded that a saudi land registry official help him appropriate a property after the official refused he received an envelope with a single bullet inside the episode earned him the street name. or father of the bullets let's talk a little born about mohammed bin someone with no other hashimi as the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he's in beirut for us today thank you for your time the father of the bullet pretty serious sort of
12:12 am
name to have and it sort of makes me think about this dual personality which we seem to see with mohammed bin someone we see the statesman the man who goes to conferences and high fives flatter me a person and then we hear these stories as well. well i think that psychiatry just would have a field day interviewing the saudi crown prince he clearly has a fondness for bullets he clearly has think they are psychopathic personality and these are very bad days for the saudi crown prince within twenty four hours there has been two damning sort of developments at the u.n. special investigator so it was pointing the finger to the saudi crown prince but of course the new york times report that you mentioned suggests that according to american intercepts a year before jamal khashoggi was murdered he was talking about putting a bullet in his head and so these are difficult days for the saudi crown prince what do you know about how he is really viewed back home in saudi arabia given he
12:13 am
was given the sort of person or of being the great reform of vision twenty thirty and the like is their knowledge really of how he's viewed and how he's how saudi people feel i know it's a very broad question but. well see the official narrative is that when he came onto the scene that he was widely admired particularly by young saudis because he was offering change and there was a narrative that he had a popular base of support but i think it's important to understand that in an absolute monarchy in a regime that is clearly totalitarian it's impossible to know how much support it leader has these recent developments that have completely tarnished saudi arabia's reputation completely reveals the policies of the crown prince has been pursuing has to have undermined whatever support he previously. might have had saudi arabia's under a global scrutiny and billions of dollars have been invested in trying to elevate
12:14 am
the image of the saudi crown prince all of that has been flushed down the toilet because of these revelations related to jamal khashoggi so i suspect if there was a free and fair vote in saudi arabia today he would have a very difficult time you know winning majority support what small consider just what we're looking at some pictures of him sitting in the oval office with donald trump and i wonder what you think is more important from the have been some of the acceptance of people at home where as you say it's an absolute monarchy and he can essentially do what he wants or is it the acceptance of donald trump and other world leaders which is more important more value to him. well it's clearly the latter and it's not really world leaders it's more donald trump i think one reason that explains the ongoing recklessness of which the murder of jamal khashoggi is just the last in a series of disastrous policies which it was his firm belief if that to the south by crown prince had donald trump in his corner in fact there was
12:15 am
a report where he bragged about having gerrity cushion or the close advisor son in law to the president in his back pocket so i think that what what has emboldened the saudi crown prince to pursue these you know reckless policies at which the murder of jamal khashoggi is clearly the most brutal in other hashmi really interesting talking to you thanks for taking the time for us thank you so funny just what we're talking saudi arabia there's a series here on al-jazeera i've been wanting to tell you about for a while it's on the channel. presently it's on line too it's called saudi aramco the company and the state and it's been put together by a correspondent on a binge of aid about the saudi state oil company which has been planning to list on the stock exchange the film it's a fascinating look at the reasons for that r.p.i. the politics of saudi oil the strategic importance of aramco and then why don't went wrong and why it actually didn't list publicly very interesting watch well
12:16 am
with your time saudi aramco to search for that at al-jazeera dot com now the story of the princess versus the general an unexpected twist that has turned thailand's upcoming elections into a battle between the royals and the military in power up princess raja kohn yes it is not bad enough the has been nominated as a prime ministerial candidate for next month's vote which is of course been delayed since the military coup back in twenty fourteen when he has a report from bangkok. the politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape. today i with other time party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate prime minister for the party who is princess. straightaway it altered the dynamics of the election campaign in a country that's been politically divided for years that. is
12:17 am
a big advantage over all the other parties and you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen running down the. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as a princess and part of the royal family she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing is that the party she's joined is backed by free will prime minister attacks and she knew what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as anti establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy he and princess known to be close and the announcement may indicate that a deal was struck between texan and the palace this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just
12:18 am
before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy from criticism but the law is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as a setback for the man who led the two thousand and. fourteen coup current prime minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for approved military party that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princess may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics there's a sense the move by thai rocks a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarized nation wayne hay al jazeera bangkok with us from washington now anthony zinni is
12:19 am
the director of the east asian pacific practice at albright stone ridge group an international strategic advisory firm what a story this is an aid to the different narratives that come through the king's system allied to the chena what's up against the military i mean did you see anything like this coming in these elections we were all worried if they'd be free and fair on off i think there was a rumor floating around that something like this might happen for about a week but it's an incredibly striking move type politics is certainly never boring it's very hard to predict what's going to happen from one moment to the next but this really bends all of the assumptions that everyone had about how this election was going to flow so how worried does the incumbent government need to be about here because. elections are often popularity contests and if you're a singer and a performer and you've got a popular popular support like band i can be very helpful. well it
12:20 am
introduces a huge element of uncertainty into the campaign the current constitution was written in order to give a real advantage to the current prime minister and his party there are two hundred fifty appointed senators who will play in a normas role in appointing in deciding who the next prime minister is. the way the voting has been set up it's been designed to try to keep any one party from winning a dominant role in in the new legislature so even if the chart has an incredibly strong showing in the election under the princess it will still be hard for them to outright control who becomes the next prime minister the question for those elites that have been linked to pry it is how they handle this and whether they try to to forge a new real grand bargain that can bring everybody together into the coalition or if they're going to continue to set themselves up in opposition to the shinawatra
12:21 am
parties that now it seems like do have some kind of link to the monarchy yeah well this is what i want to know from you how much of a quote unquote issue there is with her being linked to the moniker that is and that she sort of as strange to prince has put it that way but the the reverence which is given to them on a tape in thailand is enormous and i just wonder about how will this comes together how it how it meshes together. well this is unprecedented so nobody really knows how this is going to play out in her first public statement today she did make clear that she has relinquished her royal bibles and she's running as a commoner she's taking the opportunity that she has to exercise her political freedoms but she considers herself a commoner so it's unclear whether the lays majesté laws will apply to her and if people will feel obligated to treat her the way they would treat someone who is officially a member of the royal family or if they will actively consider
12:22 am
a commoner i imagine a lot of people are going to come to different decisions on that anthony nelson is such an interesting story to talk about it was really great to have you with us thank you anders back back again tell us more i want to know more about the background of this prince is just fascinating well as we heard there there were some rumors circulating on the internet that this might happen but we didn't get the confirmation until friday and now she's quite big on social media certainly an active personality and many of her past posts have gone viral she's used instagram as one of the ways to confirm to her fans that she has given consent to be nominated for the role of prime minister and this isn't the first time that the princess has broken the mold of thailand's royal family but her entry into politics is definitely her boldest move yet she's previously been an actor and singer starring in several movies and series most recently in the thai soap opera sky last star silver mountain in which she plays a queen of
12:23 am
a fictional country and according to a party statement the princess first became interested in politics when she led an anti-drug campaign which was targeting young people in the country as part of that campaign you can see her here performing a song for the anti-drug foundation that she founded in two thousand and two she then expanded to other issues through pop music including tackling pollution in the capital bangkok with a pop song last year. and as soon as that nomination was announced on friday people online started responding to her candidacy with a mix of surprise support as well as some confusion some of her fans use the one hash tag in particular which is long live slender so that's a reference to a comment that she made during a television interview in which she explains that she would prefer to hear long live slender a reference to her appearance rather than long live your highness which she says feel stiff and puts a distance between her and the people now some online commentators are comparing
12:24 am
her to some historical and fictional big female character strong female characters adding to her reputation as a royal of the people and others are praising her for wearing a casual clothing when she goes out to places like markets but you do have those who are sharing their concerns as we heard that other politicians will feel discouraged feel like they can't legally criticize her because of the country's deep reverence for the monarchy and as we heard those strict laws preventing criticism of the royal family in any case and all wrap up here as you can see in this mean many people think that she will be a big big problem for the current prime minister who now has to run against this very very popular woman as always we would like to hear from you so make sure you send us your thoughts on twitter using the hash tag a.j. news grid and you enjoy it would you believe i just google the she's sixty seven as well older than mccain doesn't look at this not that severely any relevance but we
12:25 am
were just looking at some information on her before the inside story team actually looked at thailand's elections as a whole recently has some good background for you here on whether an election organized by me that she's going to could be free or fair some reason not showing up at al jazeera dot com but if you had to use your paid you tube dot com slash al-jazeera english you can search for it there it's cold will thailand's election be free and fail to recall hosting that one as you so. now the boss of amazon jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail the world's richest man an owner of the washington post says the u.s. tabloid threaten to publish intimate photographs of him so then in a blog post bezos raised questions about american media and corporations relationship with saudi arabia i am i the owner of the inquirer is a strong backer of president donald trump and it says it will investigate she has her tansey in washington d.c. looking at this one for sure this is another story with kind of everything isn't it a powerful newspaper owner a russia saudi arabia links to the president all of this. yeah perhaps the easiest
12:26 am
way to tell the story is to go chronologically last month jeff bezos announced he was getting a divorce from his his wife then shortly afterwards the national enquirer published an eleven page spreads about jeff bezos his affair with pictures and text messages best also sent to his lover so bezos began an inquiry into how the national enquirer got those text messages and the other information and into the motivation of the national enquirer for publishing publishing the story and that's apparently what bezos of that just got a publisher david peck of the national enquirer apoplectic especially any suggestion that this might be all politically motivated and shortly afterwards bezos received e-mails from the general counsel and representatives of american media saying look a mess you make a statement that categorically says that we publish that story out of journalistic
12:27 am
motives not political motivations we will publish more intimate text messages with your lover more intimate photographs that jeff bezos and his lover exchanged bezos has gone public instead of capitulating to what he says is extortion and block but he says if i couldn't do this then you know who care and who isn't a position to challenge the national enquirer and he says throughout that even though the enquirer is trying to say look this wasn't politically motivated bezos is suggesting throughout his blog post that's exactly what it is now here's a key a key power graph from his from his post my ownership of the washington post is a complex for me it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experienced washington post used coverage will wrongly conclude i am the enemy president trump is one of those people of us by his many tweets also the posts essential unrelenting coverage of the murder of its columnist jamal khashoggi is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles president trump a long time friend of david pecker the publisher of national enquirer although the
12:28 am
relationship is a bit frayed perhaps right. well for reasons i probably would have a moment to explain but constantly throughout this post he mentions the saudis and we do know that pekka has published a glossy magazine about how great moment been silent on the saudis were that. points out that trump introduced ppaca to representatives of saudi government while packer was looking for looking for find them saying so there's a great deal of intrigue suggested by better sources post that there is some huge political politically motivated conspiracy against them. and exhausted hearing all of that just from us she had thank you for bringing us up to date britain's the in washington d.c. goodness me now let's have a look at some other stories making news around the world and a fourteen year old palestinian has died after being shot by israeli gunfire medical staff in gaza trying to save the life of his son cheveley after he was reportedly shot in the abdomen eunice. morocco has suspended its participation in
12:29 am
the saudi coalition's battle against the rebels in yemen american governments also recalled its ambassador to saudi arabia pressure has been mounting on the coalition to end its war on yemen or oppose the level of participation in the conflict there hasn't been clear to this point mohammed is a political analyst who specializes in the middle east and north africa and told us other countries may end up pulling out of the saudi you're a coalition to. morocco considers that the war on yemen was used this was very bad it has created social problems in yemen it has destroyed the economy it has high casualties among the population especially the children that's why it has left of these coalition i think of the whole war is real disaster on the human level but also on the economy destroyed the economy of yemen
12:30 am
it destroyed the social cohesion of the country and it has reached no. level the most solutions it has not achieved anything in terms of military victories for saudi arabia so i think many countries probably will review their situ this situation and put out of this war. or pro from unicef is also highlighting the die situation for children in yemen it found more than six thousand seven hundred children have been killed or injured since the war began in two thousand and fifteen the u.n. agency says three hundred ninety four thousand children have acute malnutrition and need urgent treatment and nearly three thousand yemeni boys have been recruited by armed groups unicef adds the fighting has resulted in three quarters of the population leaving humanitarian aid. so there are now which is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution many young people were taking the opportunity to express frustration fact with the iran that
12:31 am
they know today let's talk the same bus in tehran has been talking to some of those young people people who will only know life after the revolution. that's true really everyone we've been speaking to over the last several days and weeks of people of all ages say the same thing that the economy is in trouble but the government acknowledges that one of the main problems they need to fix is the high and increasing rate of youth unemployment and less to it has led to a kind of a brain drain highly educated young people who cannot find work either at all or enough work are unemployed or underemployed here in iran leaving the country to try to find a more prosperous future elsewhere we've also spoken to a number of young people that support the clerical system of government and say that the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution was a kind of referendum of sorts that decided that iran be governed as an islamic country with islamic ideals but we also met people who say that the way the
12:32 am
government interprets and enforces those islamic ideals does not necessarily define them we met some of those people and here's their story. in dimly lit corners of to han young men and women playing the blues stealing moments of freedom in private studios might be the closest they get to the big stanch. even to damage your gigs in small cafes as in a lot he says her band gets two songs in before security shows up to shut them down . for a female vocalist in iran it's not just that a woman singing in public is illegal society doesn't recognize my entire life i wanted to send for me it's like breathing i can't do anything else but there's no professional recognition as an artist. everyone in this room was born after the one nine hundred seventy nine revolution the islamic republic is the only iran they've ever known but many young people like them say they long for
12:33 am
a more liberal time before revolution in iran they've never seen. the clerical system of government that's been in place for forty years also has its unflinching supporters. ronnie was born in one thousand nine hundred nine the first generation of iranians born under the flag of a new republic in many ways she is its poster child a devout muslim from humble beginnings highly educated and her father died fighting in the iraq war. in any country some are in favor of the establishment and some argue it's the same in iraq but must accept that we are a country with a rich culture rooted in the purity of islam and we should consider ourselves an islamic country we may not allow some freedoms that are allowed in other countries . the most important concern she says should be to employ people and keep them from leaving the country but for young people who don't necessarily want to live by established norms or subscribe to the way things are done if you're cut from
12:34 am
a different cloth then it can be a challenge to find a place in iranian society some leaders are sympathetic and acknowledge the need for dialogue to address the concerns of an entire generation but people say they don't openly express themselves for fear of government retaliation. we hear the time before the revolution was economically better but i can't talk about this transparently in fact i don't dare to yes i can say a lot but i don't dare to i prefer to say nothing to keep my head on my neck. from the perspective of security the revolution is very good but from the perspective of a commie it's bad we have the burned generation for us it hasn't been good. economic conditions make living in iran challenging for anyone but for iranian artists are husseini says doing so is even more difficult if you're living here. don't be sad because being sad is the least thing we can do choi your heart be
12:35 am
strong and bring peace and happiness try to make things that they are not they don't exist. modern jazz may not fit the public image of the islamic republic but the sound of music from small corners of the capitol is a reminder that iranians come from all walks of life in all shapes and sizes. still with iran at some veiled a new long range ballistic missile announcement made in an underground facility as once again part of the celebrations for this fortieth anniversary it is a show of military strength after the u.s. draw from the iran nuclear agreement last year and re imposed sanctions on iran. with more. messages of defiance coming out of iran at a time when the country marks the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution the unveiling of a new miss out just a week after another missile was tested is being seen as
12:36 am
a message to the west and the message is we are not ready to negotiate over our ballistic missile program a missile program really which has stirred a lot of controversy iran says this program is for defensive purposes in fact leaders today were saying that these missiles will be used against our enemies if they do something wrong to us so stressing that these missiles are for defensive purposes but europe the united states expressing concern the supreme leader himself ayatollah how many waiting in telling the government do not trust the europeans. the europeans and iran and now have a testy relationship europe did not pull out of the nuclear deal but it hasn't really fallen through with its promises that this country is going to see economic benefits if you grant stays in the nuclear deal it is difficult times for this country how many reiterating the relationship really with the united states is not
12:37 am
going well he did single out to donald trump the u.s. president the secretary of state the u.s. national security advisor pfizer saying iran's problem is with this administration and not with the people in one way or another he is saying that do not expect any improvement in the relationship in the upcoming period it's not just a message to to the international community it is also a message to the people of iran who really have been hurt by the reimposition of u.s. sanctions so critical times difficult times in this country as it celebrates forty years of clerical rule. just before we hit the brakes a couple more things on the. and print prime minister a story we brought you earlier had a comment on facebook saying how did you learn by heart the type. i didn't learn it by heart because the words are on the order queue right in front of me with you can't see but as far as pronunciation goes in my experience you take a deep breath and say it with confidence because pronunciation is very important
12:38 am
and more importantly i'm just saying this on the newswires thailand this is a statement coming from the thai king's palace the king's candidacy for prime minister in march elections is quote inappropriate now as i guess was telling us it's priest and what we are saying here and now the king himself is calling it inappropriate to have his old assistant running for prime minister in a country where the monarchy is very important this is going to be a really interesting story to see how it plays out over the next few days and leading up to that election remember your thoughts your comments the question the questions the hash tag is. now the facebook live you about to see the story about how india camels have been on a steady decline in camel milk products change that. is here with your sport it was a reaction to a training ground tragedy at a brazilian football club. far
12:40 am
as you talk sports tragedy in the world recently of the plane crash and. about this it's absolutely devastating come all the tragedy that some folding at one of brazil's top football clubs is grabbing the attention of people around the world at least ten people have been killed in a fire at the club's training ground including members of the youth team and fire occurred at night at the new training complex where many teenage players were sleeping in accommodation there it's not known how many youngsters are among the dead but at least three fourteen to fifteen year olds were taken to hospital with injuries one serious one victim has already been identified as christian as maria
12:41 am
zero a fifteen year old goalkeeper the tragedy comes a day before the club were due to play rivals fluminense a at the american stadium the darby match is expected to be postponed the training center known as the vultures nass was written recently expanded and opened only two months ago after flamenco spent six point two million dollars on it big players like zico junior and leonardo all played at some mango and most recently been a junior the teenager who grew up at the training ground and recently joined around the direct. it is a proposition we were all in shock this is without doubt the biggest tragedy in the club's one hundred twenty three year history with the loss of these ten people i think the most important thing right now as a club is to help minimize the suffering for the families. and the horseracing ban in britain has been extended until at least wednesday because of the outbreak of equine influenza our reporter emma hayward spoke to us from one of the racecourses
12:42 am
that's been affected. this is the racecourse and as you can see it's pretty quiet this is where bracing should be getting underway about now but no horses here this along with twenty two other fixtures being canceled up until wednesday there is literally no horse racing in the u.k. to try to contain this outbreak of flu it is very very easy horses to be able to catch it so this is being seen as the best way to try to contain it many yards up and down the country essentially on lockdown people being allowed in or out to try to keep the horses protected from this this this type of. the horse racing in the u.k. is very very valuable to the economy so there's a real impetus to try to keep this outbreak contained in of course through a big horse racing taking place in the next few weeks those being the child the
12:43 am
festival and of course the grand national post racing starts again on wednesday as many people hope this will be the first meeting where it will take place. and finally the world of skiing will say good bye to lindsey vonn at the world championships on sunday shelby thanks largely to her the spotlight and prize money for the women just as much as the man but the path to superstardom is a steep one reports from sweden. the stakes don't get much higher than this for sweden ski team the fastest women in scandinavia and some of them about to make their world championship debut on home snow the swedes are the big sisters of the nordic nations while in norway it's the men that rule this side of the border it's the women who have many more gold medals than the neighbors it's a habit they need to keep both to retain local supremacies and challenge the dominance of the american rivals. these training sessions of the final push
12:44 am
towards the peaks of. careers the world championships but staying at the top can be easier than getting there. reaching the level of double olympic champion mckayla schifrin is a game changer last season the american and more than marcel her considered the best male skier of all time taking home more than seven hundred thousand dollars alpine skiing one of the sports that has closed the gender gap but things aren't so bright further down the pecking order the struggle for me has been the i've been going around the whole world and racing world cup but never qualifying it's hard to go wrong five years without any rest so i've been living with my parents. i actually thought that i would do my last recess this winter and that's when it all just started to work now five races in
12:45 am
a row and i do maybe. i says but i don't know i don't want to do anything other in my life. it's lindsey vonn that has played a big part in getting women skiing where it is partly by turning female skiers into very marketable personalities more importantly by pushing women's racing to rival the men's as a sporting spectacle it's been a lot of stars for sure that are actually super good and super big talent i think i think they've all i mean she has she's super smart a lot of ways and in some soaps i'm sure that she could have been. she would have been faster than. will be gone after these world championships the challenge for the women that come next may be great but so too are the rewards. paul reese al-jazeera van daal and sweden ok that's it for me will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now back to thank you farai and if you do want to keep in touch with all
12:46 am
the news great again thank you for your questions today particularly on venezuela hash tag grid on twitter on facebook directly to us on whatsapp and subscribe to our telegram channel on that number there as well i. offer a couple of weights but of course the newsgroup continues every day here in studio fourteen about to see are the tame is back tomorrow or saturday but for to accompany them. in the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste
12:47 am
management trash is a big business and unfortunately the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the science that office solution is very easy for us to have one hundred percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. it's a daunting climb to one of the holiest sites in bhutan tiger's nest ball astri seems to defy gravity every beauty's is expected to complete the pilgrimage to ensure peace and happiness when it became a democracy in two thousand and eight the town put happiness at the center of all political policy inspiring the un to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow betimes example but how do you measure it many brittany's happiness is what we ensure it if it is quantifiable but by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has.
12:48 am
on sound kiltartan from many members and. the warning is passed on the people in power meets the women heading in the militia. and dispensing justice with an unforgiving hand. and eye for an eye. in iraq on al-jazeera. vital aid for venezuela remain stuck at the colombian border. while inside the country children die from cannot thomas contaminated food and water.
12:49 am
out of their own from a staple and this is al jazeera life from london also coming up a fire in a dorm at the training complex of one of brazil's top football clubs kills ten all of them reportedly teenagers. the sister of thailand's king enters the race to be prime minister at the palace is granted a shock move in appropriate. amazon c.e.o. with washington post and jeff bezos takes on the pro trump national enquirer accusing it of blackmail. and i we begin with the crisis in venezuela trucks carrying usa just stuck at the colombian border prevented from entering venezuela for a second day they arrived there on thursday but venezuelan president nicolas maduro
12:50 am
ordered the military to block the bridge they were meant to cross he's called it a political show and an attempt by the u.s. to stage a coup in his country or the colombian government opposition politicians from venezuela and the u.s. embassy in colombia are due to give a press conference say any time now expects to appeal the desperately needed aid to be allowed into the country. let's take you live now to raise a bow and bucket in the venezuelan state of. just explain to us to raise the how desperate the situation is and whether or not nicolas maduro is likely to listen to the pleas of the colombians to allow that eighty and. well that's a big questions and let me tell you that wherever you go there's lots and lots of complains about not only the economic situation but also the health situation and you go to hospitals where doctors in order to help people deal with their daily
12:51 am
struggles with their illnesses you talk to people selling right here on the streets and they say that they cannot find bills in order to be able to buy something or and those who are selling say there's no cash on the streets all of this is but because of the enormous hyperinflation. that we were. entering a hospital not far away from where we are where at least fourteen children have died because of contaminated water and this is what we were able to find out. i this is the producer at rick's emergency room at the hospital in the venezuelan city. about three hundred kilometers east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water lady check on store
12:52 am
to reality is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned yeah yeah my daughter has diarrhea she almost had a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they are vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week four thousand children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children on each one of those where people are telling us that there's no medicine but there are not enough syrian just among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madalena my teen years baby boy was one of them she was two months old on
12:53 am
tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin and i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no medicines they don't have food and now my son has did he said i was people who believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water. parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol through not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is
12:54 am
a public company recovered by the river lotion because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can reach everyone like it should be in socialism the situation in the last city hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering precedent of venezuela. says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed well you want to put america on the mark of humanitarian aid as a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive. is there any word from president
12:55 am
maduro about what he intends to do next. well right now there is a press conference by president nicolas maduro were once again here and that the united states is behind an attempt to cool that there's an attempt to disrupt what he that is the more kristie in venezuela he also has said that he's willing to initiate any type of conversation in order to find peace that he supports measures like they want that we saw in monday where they are by countries who are trying to find. having a few problems there with all to today is about she's actually let's see if we can still write what she said from. a poem is that i said you carry on your lying just break up a little bit but. it's. so well preston and mother would it was saying that there is going to attempt
12:56 am
a school but he's also said that he's willing to sit down and negotiate with the opposition for the precedent the united states is the one that's behind what's happening in the country and not only the opposition but when you talk to people they say that the government is only focusing on the big picture of this conflict a conflict that is between the united states i'm going into but that nobody is looking at what is happening to them every day that the government is not looking to what they need every day we just saw what is happening in one of the most important hospitals in when it will our people do not have basic medicines where babies are dying because those many things do not arrive and that's what people would like for the president to start dealing with and not putting the blame outside their own country the opposition that that that they're not interested in negotiating that the point right now is for humanitarian aid to enter the country so i believe. providing some relief to those who needed the most i suppose without update from book day i appreciate it.
12:57 am
at least ten people have been killed in a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's biggest football clubs flamengo the victims are thought to include several youth team members as the fire broke out around five am local time at the facility on the edge of red to generic which includes accommodation for teenage footballers one player who escapes that the fire was caused by faulty achan dition ignace in his room the facility recently reopened after a six million dollar refurbishment got his mother is an a.f.p. journalist in sao paolo he says there may have been an explosion at the training ground one day but the local television time he heard an explosion shortly after five am local time this morning. the fire they followed this
12:58 am
explosion people are of devastated you have families. rushing to the area a lot of them live outside of the city rushing to a waiting outside for him summation we must remember that they have been quite a few tragedies that have hit the country recently united a massive mining disaster just a few weeks ago over one hundred fifty people killed there and it does. affect the psyche of the people. they do become critical they do ask questions about things like safety regulations and so on. a report from unicef is highlighting the dire situation for children in yemen the u.n. agency says more than six thousand seven hundred children have been killed or injured since the war began in twenty fifteen and more than two thousand seven hundred yemeni boys have been recruited by armed groups it's also found that three
12:59 am
hundred ninety four thousand children a suffering from acute malnutrition and are in need of urgent treatment the fighting has resulted in three quarters of yemenis needing humanitarian aid. america has suspended its participation in the saudi led coalition which is fighting in yemen rocco has been one of several coalition partners fighting for you who fees if you haven't although the level of its actually involvement is that the make clear relations with saudi arabia have deteriorated in recent weeks and government has also recalled its ambassador in riyadh. saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon threatened to go after jamal in twenty seventeen more than a year before he was murdered that's according to the new york times newspaper the report says spend salman told an aide he would in his words use a bullets against the journalist if he did not return home and end his criticism of
1:00 am
saudi arabia the conversation was intercepted by u.s. intelligence the shot he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in october in istanbul last year. turkey's foreign minister says the u.n. must launch a full investigation into the murder this a day after the u.n. human rights envoy said looking into it said it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the finding by the special rapporteur agnes follows her weeklong mission to turkey to examine evidence. well u.s. president donald trump is expected to tell congress if sanctions will be imposed on saudi arabia. on the metro station called the magnitsky act the president must outline what action if any intends to take great song to congress to get the x. one hundred twenty days ago strong how i first saw in twenty eighteen now this legislation called the saudi arabia accountability and yemen act of twenty nine
1:01 am
thousand what this would do if passed into law it would hold saudi arabia accountable for the murder of show she at the highest levels it would also take into account its role in yemen and what this would do was essentially block arms sales from the united states to saudi arabia and it would also limit the refueling of aircraft in a permanent way that the u.s. military had previously been doing with regard to the conflict in yemen that we should point out the united nations has called a humanitarian disaster so this is not sitting well with members of congress in the sort of appearance of a lack of inaction by this white house congress is taking action the question becomes whether or not the white house would sign this eventually into law but certainly there is a push on capitol hill to shift the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia moving forward in light of this murder or it could be how could life there with the latest at the white house thank you. still ahead on the program as
1:02 am
thousands of children go on boxing day to a missile is outbreak spreads across the philippines. experts carefully dismantle the bridge in general which collapsed last year killing forty three people. and there there it's turning quite wintery over parts of china over the next few days for look at the chart the sun today we can see a good deal of cloud with us and a few pockets of rain and snow but things change as we head into sunday in the southeast of a good deal of cloud just the chance of one or two showers of rain but further north that's where we've got fickle clouds i'm quite a bit of snow as well and it looks like that snow will gradually move northeast winds as we head through the next few days if we head out towards the west we've also had a lot of snow here recently as well particularly for parts of nepal for the south
1:03 am
we all seeing that as rain rather than snow but all of this is moving away towards the northeast so on saturday some of us in nepal will still see that wet weather but elsewhere in the west it should be a good deal dry up also on saturday will have a few showers across the passes for logic or as well and some of those a lot need to be heavy but by and large as we head into sunday most places look a good deal dry especially lanka should be dry a not many showers here at all and also the wet weather pulse in the pool should be clearing away as well so sunday looking like the dry a day and we had across towards the arabian peninsula as an area of cloud not too far away from doha at the moment so that's going to be with us as we head through the next few days i think on sunday it's the beginning of the chance of seeing a few thunderstorms here in doha and that chance continues for monday and tuesday to. in the first thailand's of whom a mesopotamian with the first settlements food and the cradle of civilization iraqi
1:04 am
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. now again i'd remind of the top stories on al-jazeera trucks carrying usas to venezuela still stuck at the colombian border prevented from crossing for a second day that is when a president nicolas maduro has ordered the military to block the bridge they were meant to cross. at least ten people are being killed in
1:05 am
a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's biggest football clubs. they reportedly several youth team players. and saudi crown prince mohammed bin samana threatened to use a bullet against a polish in twenty seventeen more than a year before he was a bird it was according to the new york times newspaper. now american media inc which owns the national enquirer says it will investigate accusations of extortion a blackmail made against the paper by jeff bezos the world's richest man bezos who's the chief executive of amazon and owner of the washington post says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos all for him unless he drops accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated the choir is a strong backer of is a strong backer of donald trump while the washington post frequently criticizes the president out there she has a chance he's following the story for us in washington d.c.
1:06 am
and she had to think about to give us more in the background of this story which i have no doubt is gripping the united states. and rather involved so hopefully you're sitting comfortably last month jeff bezos announced he was getting divorced shortly afterwards the national enquirer published an eleven page spread with photographs and text messages involving bezos and his extramarital love up bears also then began an investigation how did the enquirer get those text messages and what was their motivation in publishing these text messages on this exposé and apparently according to bezos and this is all from bezos is accounts the publisher of the national enquirer david packard was apoplectic by this investigation under suggestion that this might all be politically motivated and shortly afterwards bezos received e-mails from american media inc threatening to release further text messages and intimate photographs of both bezos and his lover unless bezos stated
1:07 am
categorically that the inquirer's exposé was not politically motivated but that's exactly what bezos alleges it was and is a key is a key couple of paragraphs in his blog post where he says my ownership of the washington post is a complex for me it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience washington post news coverage will wrongly conclude i am the enemy president trump is one of those people by his many tweets also the posts central an unrelenting coverage of the murder of it's called a mistress malca shoji is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles we know david pecker who was a long time friend of donald trump we also know. bezos points out this blog post that donald trump introduced to representatives of the saudi government shortly after his inauguration at a time when pac according to bezos was looking for financing. the enquirer the american me during company have published
1:08 am
a very glossy magazine talking about how great mom had been on the saudis the saudis always denied any involvement in that but it always looked a bit odd given that had no advertising money. a potential form of revenue so clearly is alleging some sort of political political conspiracy against him when he says look if i was the richest man in the world or the richest person in the world can't stand up to a terms of extortion of blackmail and who care or rights as you have written say with more not extraordinary story inveigle explain why actually help thailand's king says it is inappropriate for his sister to stand as an opposition party candidate for prime minister up in next month's election the surprise announcement that she's running came earlier despite the royal family traditionally staying out of politics while sixty seven year old princess rass the elder sister of the king she lost her royal titles and was virtually disowned by her father in one thousand nine hundred seventy two when she married peter jensen a u.s. student who she met while studying in boston she brought up with three children in
1:09 am
california where she adopted the name julie jensen the couple later divorced and the princess moved back to thailand in two thousand and one where she threw herself into charity work as well as acting in films at a soap opera and hosting a child show she also still takes pass in royal events in two thousand and four her son bumi was among the two hundred thousand people killed by the indian ocean tsunami when he reports now on his surprise entry into thai politics. politics in thailand can be volatile and unpredictable this revelation took it to another level changing the political landscape. on today i with other time party leaders have submitted the name of a nominate a prime minister for the party who is princess. cityward in a. straight away it all to the dynamics of the election campaign in a country that's been politically divided for years but that's not a party that has
1:10 am
a big advantage over all the other parties and you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen running down the. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred ninety two after she married a foreigner but is still regarded as a princess and part of the royal family she's now divorced features regularly in royal ceremonies and is also a singer and actor appearing in two movies making this move particularly intriguing is that the party she's joined is backed by film a prime minister tax and she knew what it was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile he's always been seen as empty establishment and has been accused of wanting to change the political structure of thailand by reducing the power and influence of the monarchy this is the official launch of the election campaign which was completely overshadowed really by the announcement just before it began from the thai rocks a chant party it's an announcement that has big implications on the campaign the
1:11 am
election and potentially the formation of the next government technically the princess is not covered by thailand's strict laws designed to protect the monarchy from criticism but the lore is broad and open to interpretation and abuse campaigning against could lead to a jail term the announcement is being seen as a setback for the man who led the two thousand and fourteen coup current prime minister. also on friday he became the prime ministerial candidate for approved military party. he that means he now has to run against a member of a royal family he's sworn to serve and protect as an army general his party says the nomination of the princess may violate the election law because it brings the royal family into politics there's a sense the move by thai rocks a charge could go either way towards political reconciliation or more polarized nation wayne hay al jazeera bangkok dozens of people have died in an outbreak of measles which is spreading across the philippines more than one thousand five hundred cases of the disease happy reported in recent weeks jamila undergoing
1:12 am
reports from manila. this is an lazaroff hospital in manila one of the biggest and oldest in the philippines the secretary of health wants to show us how the hospital is handling in missiles out bring their children ages five and below brought here by parents who are different answers when asked why their children were not that's needed many of these children are in critical condition at least sixty children have already died of measles in this hospital alone over the last month and the situation is getting worse. scare the all the drama you know they were doing. really cost. to the. effectiveness of the way for months the public attorney's office has been conducting televised inquiries
1:13 am
into a vaccine corruption scandal involving health officials the investigation found that more than seven hundred thousand children may have been given an unsafe vaccine called the vaccine the chief thank you fever the public attorney's office says over one hundred children have died because of the vaccine. but independent autopsies have disputed that health officials say these accusations are baseless and their impact is devastating this thing that you want to oversee has really made a tremendous in iraq and. the joy public confidence unboxing the philippines has been at the forefront of vaccination efforts since the early one nine hundred ninety s. back then there was almost one hundred percent vaccine coverage for measles now the public's confidence in vaccines is at thirty two percent. we are any health
1:14 am
center in bicycle one of the most impoverished communities in manila that since i've always been made available here for free but this fight that health officials say vaccination rates here have dropped significantly. in another hospital three year old johann is in the isolation room doctors here tell us they were worried because johan almost lost his sight because of a measles infection. i was scared because of the stories of being back that's why i didn't go to the center as early as last year health officials say they had been warned that the scandal could discourage parents from vaccinating their children but they felt their voices were john doubt by the political noise. dog and al-jazeera manila. experts in italy are working to dismantle a bridge that partially collapsed in the city of genoa six months ago forty three
1:15 am
people were killed in the disaster described as one of the worst tragedies in multan italian history from genoa sanyo gager reports the remains of what was once one of its least most important structures being pulled apart slab by slab and making way for a new bridge in genoa. the prime minister. along with the infrastructure minister and general was mayor arrived in the morning to witness the beginning of what he said was a defining moment for the city. this is an important symbolic day for the start of the demolition of the bridge this marks the relaunch of genoa the region of liguria and italy. last august the marandi bridge collapsed during heavy rain killing forty three people as dozens of cars plunged into the riverbed below it had widespread impact on the city and its surrounding areas and led to
1:16 am
debate about what caused it when the census business suffered when the neighborhoods were all of a sudden cut off from the. bridge collapse we lost nearly fifty percent of our business it's been really bad. and those who live near the bridge are struggling to cope some are still in temporary accommodation. suddenly found ourselves like victims of an earthquake but our houses are still there they're still standing but also a very strange situation for us. as the memory of the bridge collapse continues to overshadow genoa there is hope that the building of a new bridge can able the city to move on from the disaster and also rejuvenate the immediate area. construction on the new bridge begins next month and is expected to last for fifteen months costing more than two hundred twenty five million dollars when ound architect renzo piano himself
1:17 am
a native of the city designed it for free. and with the bridge a vision to restore the surrounding neighborhoods as well as honor the memory of those who died. from tragedy you can create opportunity workshop looks at how the new project goes hand in hand with renovating the neighborhood. for the people of genoa the dismantling of what's left of the miranda bridge brings closure and hope that they won't see a repeat of what happened last august. al-jazeera jennifer. and her mind at the main stories on al-jazeera trucks carrying usa to venezuela still stuck at the colombian border prevented from crossing for a second day they arrived there on thursday but venezuelan president nicolas maduro ordered the military to block the bridge they were meant to cross speaking a short time ago a representative of the self declared president why don't appeal to the venezuela
1:18 am
military to let the aid in. this aid is for you it is here for your children this is to provide aid to soldiers of the fatherland it is time to be on the people side i assure you you will be the guarantors that these tons of humanitarian aid go to where they have to go out at least ten people have been killed in a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's biggest football clubs flamengo they reportedly several youth team players a fire broke out at around five am local time at the facility on the edge of rio de janeiro which includes accommodation for teenage footballers the facility recently reopened after a six million dollars for the patient. thailand's princess has to stand for election as prime minister as the candidate for a party close to the ousted former prime minister taksin should know what but her brother the king says it is inappropriate and violates the intent of the
1:19 am
constitution while family traditionally stays out of the ticks american media in question owns the national enquirer says it will investigate accusations of extortion a blackmail made against the paper by jeff bezos the world's richest man bezos who's the owner of amazon and the washington post says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of the enquirer supporting was politically motivated all right those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera there's more news from us coming up in about twenty five minutes time stay with us though up next it's a price. the
1:20 am
100 Views
Uploaded by TV Archive on