on counting the cost digital divisions why half the world's population 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 currency control to see counting the cost. ready to go humanitarian aid from the us arrives in colombia waiting for delivery to the venezuelan people. to maria and this is the world news from al-jazeera it is decision day the white house must respond to congress by the end of friday. and saudi officials at the motor show. also a fire went to brazil's most successful football clubs killed ten people this is

a training facility in rio de janeiro. and breaking with tradition the sister of thailand's king will stand as a candidate for prime minister. so it's a tough choice for venezuela's military with the millions of dollars of desperately needed to aid from the u.s. now stuck at the border with colombia if the troops that it go through they will be defying the orders of the venezuelan president nicolas maduro says the opposition is weaponized in aden using it as a provocation but help is desperately needed for those millions of people living in poverty the health systems collapsed as well madeira blames u.s. sanctions his opponents over accuse him of mismanagement well in the last hour the u.s. ambassador to colombia spoke to reporters about the a delivery. the international community and the united states are trying to.

beat be a part of this and to be there in a very effective manner from the very beginning. united states has dedicated about one hundred forty million dollars to this crisis already ninety three million dollars of which has been disbursed here in colombia and as i say we expect more to come this is a down payment this is just the beginning. it's important it's significant it will be distributed to venezuelans in venezuela. but it is an effort to respond to twenty years of mismanagement of corruption. that news conference happening on a bridge actually near the colombian border we've got i listened on the line with us he was bad for that what more do you know about. what will happen with these aid trucks for. some bass or they're here in colombia have been expected to be the first shipment of

a four venezuelan. hopes this will turn into a flood of humanitarian aid that would allow arrive here on the border and border but also in another two friends country is probably an island in the caribbean. who is the representative of the leader of the opposition replied. spoke and he essentially said that what they hope to do the way they hope to bring a view to the senate which is expecting that everybody here has essentially to create what he calls a river people. need to reach include the border and essentially just with their president and with their sheer numbers to

overwhelm the even if when i'm police there and bring aid into the country. to give any more details but what we understood from. presentation that they've done other things that he said is the beginning and the national coalition which they're calling the help him see them coalition for venezuela that again they hope will bring. thousands and thousands of tons into the country. oh let's see with that update from thank you. we have many correspondents looking at this story teresa bode. an extraordinary report actually where she gained exclusive access to a hospital or at least fourteen children have died from contaminated water in just the past week have a look. this is a pretty atrix emergency room at the hospital in the venezuelan city of. 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 stall to reality 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 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 and 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 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. 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 that three years ago we stopped receiving goals and

alcohol the remoted of syringes all 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 the self declared entering president of venezuela one way the law says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed. that you want to put america 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 the subtle but of venezuela. to the voice in the jamal khashoggi murder investigation and in washington a deadline for the u.s. president to announce his next move in the case is almost up the magnitsky act required to him by law to tell congress if sanctions against saudi arabia just fine let's check in with kimberly how could at the white house for us hi kimberly deadline coming. is there any way of knowing what's expected here from the white house. well we may get some insight if the president chooses to talk to reporters

he set to do that in the next half hour or so he has a scheduled physical at walter reed medical center and there is a chance that he could answer reporters' questions on that but earlier we did attempt to try and get some clarification from the principal deputy press secretary hogan gidley when asked whether or not the president would respect the deadline he said simply i don't know so where things stand is the only thing we can determine is that it appears for now at least that the white house is not going to respect this deadline that one hundred twenty day deadline put in place by congress of the global magnitsky act in order to try and take further action we do and you can hear the president's helicopter marine one there behind me if you hear some worrying about it but what we are expecting. the state department at least is that there will be nothing more done by the trump administration we did have some statements from the deputy spokesperson at the state department thursday where he said that

the trouble to spray sion is expressing deep concern outrage that it has consulted with congress but beyond that it is just really look referring reporters to the action taken in november of twenty eighty where in fact there were seventeen individuals sanctioned under the global make that ski act. but can the white house ignores legally i guess is what i'm saying if this is something which congress has put in place it is an act and can it just be ignored. it can because under the constitution the white house and congress are co-equal branches of government but congress has just as much power as the white house and can take action if the white house doesn't and that's what we've seen come out on thursday we had a bipartisan group of senators democrats and republicans introducing legislation that had been introduced in twenty eighteen now getting

a fresh new name it's the saudi arabia accountability in yemen act of twenty nineteen what this would do would hold saudi arabia accountable for the murder to about how should she for its role in the saudi led conflict in yemen which the of course the united nations has called a humanitarian disaster and what it would also do is restrict the united states in terms of that u.s. sadly relationship change it in a profound way block arms sales and also the refueling of aircraft that the u.s. military has been involved in in that conflict in yemen essentially is the view of congress the troubled ministration is not and has no intention of holding the saudi crown prince accountable for the murder of a high show she is the view of congress that he is responsible and as a result we see congress now trying to step in to impose real consequences given the fact there is the belief that the white house will not ok then waiting to hear perhaps from the president a little bit later we'll check in with you again later kimberly. all of this is the

new york times says the saudi crown prince actually threatened to go off to jamal khashoggi back in twenty seventeen according to the report mohammed bin solomon told an aide he would quote use of bullets against the journalist if he did not return home and his criticism of the kingdom that conversation intercepted by a u.s. intelligence agencies we spoke to are not that hashmi about this the middle east analyst at the university of denver who told us the crown prince has a tendency to display erratic behavior. 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 a think a 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 the u.n. special investigator sort of is 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 was one reason that explains the ongoing recklessness of which the murder of jamal khashoggi was just the last in a series of disastrous policies with it was his firm belief that to the south by crown prince had donald trump in his corner in fact there was a report where he bragged about having jared 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 was clearly the most brutal the fiance of jamal khashoggi has called for more international support and the investigation into his murder of these changes was making it day after the special rapporteur agnes catamount revealed the initial findings of her investigation catamount what's been described as chilling and gruesome material given to her by turkish officials and she accused

saudi arabia of seriously undermining the investigation more on this with stephanie deca in istanbul. that initial statement from the united nations special rapper ter 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 ms 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

bring jamal back jamal was slaughtered 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 on the 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 zuma has still not been found is what's ahead for your knowledge is zero will the world's richest man is accusing us

tabloids of blackmail. hello there we've got plenty of wet weather across the middle east at the moment the latest area of cloud makes its way up from pass' saudi arabia and up through parts of iraq and iran and we're seeing some rain and some snow out of that system and it's still going to be with us as we head through saturday and into sunday as that works its way eastwards and sort of fizzled out we're still going to see a residual area of cloud and rain across the eastern coastline of the mediterranean so here they could be quite a lot of rain particularly over the western coast of syria i think that's where we'll see some of the heaviest of the falls over the next couple of days a bit further towards the south and that system is also affecting us here in doha so lots of cloud saudi arabia the chance of seeing

a few showers there over parts of iran and also q.h. as we head through saturday but on sunday that system just slips a little bit further towards the south as it does say we've got the chance of hearing the old rumble of thunder in riyadh and also here in doha and it does look like it's going to stay rather unsettled as we head through monday and had to choose day as well and we are looking at some wet weather towards the south we've got lots of weather here in the northern part so i'm up stretching all the way across into the northern parts of madagascar we do also have this role the distinctive swell head that is a tropical cycle but it's moving away towards the southeast and taking its violent weather with it.

top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera a shipment of food aid from the united states still waiting on the colombia venezuela border to congo and without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro the u.s. wants him to simply leave the country the un human rights envoy investigating the murder of jamal khashoggi says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the funding from special rapporteur acts kind of follows

a week long mission to turkey to examine evidence and a report in the new york times says the saudi crown prince threatened to go off the back and twenty seventeen and a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence i haven't been some on this heard saying he would use a bullet again special. iran. has unveiled a long range ballistic missile an announcement made in an underground facility part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution it's a show of military strength off to the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and imposed more sanctions. 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 test that is being seen as 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 from in a way young 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 iran stays in the nuclear deal it is difficult times for this country how many reiterating the relationship really with the united states is not going

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 here 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 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. chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail the world's richest man is also the owner of the washington post says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photographs of him unless he dropped his actions and some of its reporting was politically motivated in a blog post bezos raised questions about the american media and corporations relationship with saudi arabia am i the owner of the inquirer is

a strong backer of president trump and has denied its reporting was politically motivated it says it will investigate the allegations we heard from steve clemons about this the washington at large for the atlantic who says this which jeff bezos has with the enquirer may have repercussions even on the investigation. usually read about these things way after the fact and bezos who owns a paper whose you know byline is democracy dies in darkness that transparency matters more than anything else is standing by those norms and values an extraordinary time and of course base had this extraordinary commercial on t.v. during our national you know our 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 high quality journalism of high quality reporting and truth telling so it's an extraordinary moment that were being taken into this scandal in real time and it's also extraordinary that i am i put its extortion threats in black and white and

email and send it to him as if it were negotiated legal documents so it's incredible just days of transparency could backfire in a way that hurts the motor investigation because david bakker packer the c.e.o. of am i has agreed to fully cooperate with the motor 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 a ledge behavior that's very much out of line with the deal that packer made with the muller team there has been a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's most famous football clubs flamengo it's based in rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people have been killed the facility has accommodation for teenage players some of whom was

sleeping when the blaze broke out and said to the training center was only recently expanded and opened two months ago you had to smile because an honest and says there may have been an explosion actually at the training center. one neighbor did tell local television that he heard an explosion shortly after five am local time this morning and the fire and followed this explosion people. are devastated you have families rushing to the area a lot of them left outside of the city rushing to a waiting outside for him from a nation we must remember that they have been quite a few tragedies that have hit the country recently you know and 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 a lot in turkey fourteen people are now confirmed dead after wednesday's building collapse and in stone bill there were thirty residents inside when the apartment block came down thirteen people have so far been pulled from the rubble eleven those still missing rescue crews are continuing their search after hearing voices of people trapped beneath it is not yet known what caused the building to collapse and the bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa six months ago killing forty three people is now being dismantled a partial demolition of them around the bridge took place in december but now the entire structure has been brought down construction of a new bridge begins in march sunny guy a go is there for us. maybe six months almost from one of the worst disasters in modern times here in italy and the dismantling of the west and the 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 just epic there and the infrastructure minister who hailed that the new bridge that will be built alongside the remainder of this world would be a symbol of a renewed it's silly. 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 free alongside this there 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 a lot of people who still live around but area outside of that 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. thailand's king says it is inappropriate and unconstitutional for his sister to stand as a candidate for prime minister next month's elections the surprise announcement that princes. of body is running came earlier despite the royal family traditionally staying out of politics she was. be up against the current prime minister for a little military coup in twenty four timor from when he in bangkok. 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. 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 you know the other candidates most likely would not want to be seen running. 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 former prime minister taksin it's you know 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 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 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 pry. 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. and take it to the headlines on al-jazeera and a shipment of food aid from the united states has arrived at the border of colombia and venezuela the u.s. has sent millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to ease the crisis but it can't go in without the support of the military which still backs president nicolas maduro. un human rights envoy investigating the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi says it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials the findings by the special rapporteur agnes kalimat follows a week long mission to turkey to examine the evidence

a report in the new york times also says the saudi crown prince threatened to go after jamal khashoggi back in twenty seventeen in a conversation intercepted by u.s. intelligence mohammed bin simon is heard saying that he would use a bullet against russia. the amazon chief jeff bezos is accusing the publisher of the national enquirer of extortion and blackmail bezos says the tabloid threatened to publish intimate photos of him unless he dropped accusations that some of its reporting was politically motivated in a blog post a business that raised questions about american media incorporated incorporated relationship with saudi arabia i am i the owner of the inquirer is a strong backer of president donald trump it has denied its reporting was politically motivated but says it will investigate the allegations. it's been a fire at the training ground of one of brazil's most famous football clubs flamengo based in the city of rio de janeiro firefighters say at least ten people have been killed the facility had accommodation for teenage players some of whom

were sleeping when the fire broke out. a bridge that partially collapsed in the italian city of genoa six months ago killing forty three people is now being dismantled was a partial demolition of the marandi bridge which happened in december but now the whole structure is being brought down and construction of a new bridge will begin in much and iran has unveiled a new long range ballistic missile as part of celebrations marking the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution it is a show of military strength off to the united states withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement last year and re imposed sanctions on iran teheran has dismissed the european union's criticism of its missile development program you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera news our fear in twenty five minutes time right now the inside story.

pressure is growing on the venezuelan president. community convinced him to resign and how much difference will the new round of sanctions make to an economy that was already a collapse before this crisis began this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program my name is peter dhabi internationally isolated and with the economy near collapse pressure has been growing on the venezuelan president nicolas.