where were there before we don't believe. the venezuelan president warns of catastrophic consequences if the us blocks his country's oil exports. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. makes a new appeal to venezuela's military to allow american aid into the country from colombia. saudi arabia again denies responsibility for the death of jamal khashoggi as the clock ticks down for the white house to decide whether to sanction saudi officials. why the world's richest man is accusing the u.s. tabloid of blackmail and what does saudi arabia have to do with it.

the venezuelan president is warning of catastrophic consequences if all of the country's oil shipments a blocked by u.s. sanctions the trumpet ministration announced sweeping sanctions last week targeting ten billion dollars of assets and revenue at the same time nicolas maduro has spend u.s. aid which is currently waiting at the colombia venezuela border his troops are under orders not to let it through madeira has accused the opposition of weaponize in aid and using it as a provocation for us intervention the economic collapse of venezuela has left ninety percent of its population in poverty according to the u.n. millions of people have fled across the country's borders. on national sovereignty is made with a show called humanitarian aid and peace is threatened by the government of mr donald trump. who last sunday in a televised interview ratified his threat of

a military invasion against venezuela in venezuela they have driven us to the point that libya was taken or that syria was taken to the point of position they have attempted but we've not allowed them to and venezuela is at peace. latin america editor lucien newman has more from the venezuelan city of san cristobal on the country's border with colombia. food and medicine on display in colombia right on the border with neighboring venezuela tons of humanitarian aid donated by the united states and colombia for venezuela are part of a strategy not just to help the needy but to undermine him battled president. the u.s. ambassador made an appeal in spanish to venezuela's military to defy my little order not to let it pass. you will have to make a decision that will always be remembered by your parents your brother and sisters and your daughters they'll all remember your decision. just across the border the

military is so far following orders i'm just the one hundred meters from the entrance to. ordain your bridge which separates venezuela from colombia and from the humanitarian aid that's been collected on the other side of that bridge and for the first time and since dawn members of the national guard have been the boy here and have declared this area as national security zone. a handful of demonstrators waved flags and taunted the soldiers. but in the nearby city of sunken storm a far larger group has been demonstrating to date demanding that humanitarian aid to be allowed in i mean americans they took away my health benefits and i can't afford to go to colombia to buy the drugs for my cancer treatment my daughter is a diabetic and needs insulin injections daily and we can't get that aid. despite these stories. appears determined to keep the foreign aid out describing the offer

as a thinly disguised act of foreign intervention minister matt brown as well it will not allow the show of force humanitarian aid because we're not simply is that. on the other side self declared interim president why doest seems hopeful that he can provide what my little cannot while at the same time tempting the military to change sides and if they don't there's a plan b. you know me better get up we going to the net or i'm convinced that we will get the idea through with the bin as well people people and more people carrying the humanitarian aid people people and people making a humanitarian corridor or a reality. exactly how president my little plans to play his hand is still not so clear. as opposition supporters here at the border prepare for what is almost certain to be

a confrontation. you see in human. venezuela. saudi arabia has denied reports that crown prince mohammed bin south authorized the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi the kingdom's minister of state for foreign affairs a bear says it was a huge mistake and insists no order was given to conduct the operation talks held in washington the us congress to step back from imposing sanctions over what he called a rogue mission according to an emirate newspaper the national zoo they also declined to give the names of those standing trial in saudi over the killing but he did confirm a former aide to the crown prince sowed any has been dismissed in the article the minister also said he doesn't know the whereabouts of another my head retread adding he was unsure if he's alive or not it comes as

a new york times report says mohamed bin sound man threatened to use a bullet against jamal khashoggi and twenty seventeen if he didn't return home and end his criticism of the kingdom well u.s. president donald trump is due to tell congress by the end of friday if sanctions will be imposed on saudi arabia over the matter under legislation called magnitsky act the president must outline what action if any he intends to take both sides of congress triggered the act one hundred twenty days ago trump has previously said he doesn't want the crucial issue to jeopardize u.s. relations with saudi arabia. well the fiance of jamal khashoggi has called for more international support into the investigation into his matter t.j. changes were speaking a day after the special rapporteur agnes kalamata revealed the initial findings of her investigation kalamata heard what's being described as chilling and gruesome audio material given to have by turkish officials and she accused saudi arabia of

seriously undermining the investigation a canadian man who shot and killed six members of a quebec city mosque in twenty seventeen has been sentenced to life in prison alexandra bissonnette pled guilty last year to six counts of fest agree matter and six counts of attempted murder for the attack one of canada's rare mass shootings bissonnette could be eligible for parole after serving thirty five years in prison the united states is hoping afghanistan can strike a peace agreement involving the taliban before elections shadowed for july u.s. special envoy zalmay khalilzad speaking at the institute of peace in washington d.c. expressed cautious optimism about the prospect of a deal held meetings with taliban officials here in doha to discuss an ongoing push for a political settlement to the seventeen year old conflict the u.s. diplomat says this still a long way to go the afghans must said cross the table with

each other and come to an agreement about the future of their country all size tell me the top two that there are lessons from the past the previous governments that were that it was the taliban government or others dominated afghanistan and imposed its unique vision by force on others have been a failure so that i must come they say for an inclusive dialogue leading to an inclusive peace. that will not be easy and we have offered to do what we can to be helpful if help is needed but it's for the afghans to decide palestinian officials will not attend next week's u.s. conference hosted by poland according to the chief palestinian negotiator white house senior adviser jared krishna will be discussing plans for peace between the palestinians and israelis at the meeting in warsaw krishna has been working on

a peace plan for more than a year at least forty countries are expected to attend the conference but cyber erekat declined the invitation via twitter he wrote our position remains clear we are not going to attend this conference and reiterate that we have not mandated anyone to talk on behalf of palestine thailand's king says it's inappropriate and unconstitutional for his sister to stand for prime minister in next month's elections her candidacy breaks a long standing tradition of tired royalty staying out of politics she'll be up against the current prime minister a former army general who led a military coup in twenty fourteen when he 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 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 down the. princes relinquished a royal title in one thousand nine hundred seventy 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 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 power. 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 well antony nelson is the director of the international strategic advisory firm albright stonebridge group he says the prospect of a princess as thailand's prime minister has introduced chaos to the election campaign. it's an absolutely stunning turn of events. most observers simply didn't expect this because it didn't seem it would be possible that the princess would make this decision without clearing it with the palace in advance particularly since there were rumors circulating all week that this might happen so either the palace attempted very quietly to make clear they didn't like this on the princess ignored it or the king an issue we approve this and then changed his mind or there simply was no communication whatsoever but either way it's a really shocking turn of events and it leaves one of these significant talks and

link parties likely with no prime minister candidate to nominate because the deadline has now passed and means the spotlight turns back to kuwait and some of these more traditional opposition leaders but there's no doubt this introduces a real element of chaos and uncertainty and a break they've been working towards these elections for quite some time current government has been absolutely adamant that they will take place this time there was already a kind of spanner thrown in the works by the king's announcement of this coronation but from what everyone understands the king really does want an election to take place before his coronation so i would expect it's fairly unlikely that this completely derailed. the elections once again but of course in thai politics you never know what's going to happen next. weather next but still ahead on al-jazeera digging deep the rescue attempts to reach people trapped after avalanches in the

himalayas. and experts carefully dismantled a bridge in general i would collapsed last year killing forty three people. were in the it. and i bet it's any increasingly wintery across parts of southeastern china there's a good deal of cloud with us at the moment on saturday we're going to see more in the way of showers just in the eastern parts but as we head into sunday it's really going to be in the north that we see the wet weather begin to pull itself together and that will give us a lot of snow as well so lots of wintry weather here in the south still a good deal of cloud maybe one or two showers for the southeastern parts of asia though not a great deal of sharri weather to the philippines is largely fine and dry as we are through many parts of vietnam all the way across into thailand is in the north

where we'll see the draw as conditions over the next few days as well and further south there will be a few showers through some archer through java and across parts of bali but even here in between those showers there should be good spells of sunshine to towards the west we've seen a lot of snow and a fair amount of rain for some of us in parts of india and nepal but this system is trying to pull away still with us for time though on saturday so still some rain to be found and some snow over the mountains for the south also expect quite a few showers every post to sri lanka but both of these areas the wet weather all clearing so by the time we get to sunday most of us should get away with a dry day we do have another weather system making its way across the northern parts of india which will make things well the great force it need to. sponsor. the old. why are they so poor emotion. when trying to form

a good one. of the toughest one of the century where the more we would push them the more they push back these come to question was do we sit and wait. to be surprised i'm with you. on the. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour venezuela's president nicolas maduro has warned of catastrophic consequences if all of the country's oil shipments are blocked by u.s. sanctions he's also called for u.s. aid stockpiled at the venezuelan border to be distributed to colombians. saudi

arabia has denied reports that crown prince mohammed bin south authorized the killing of john the. u.s. president donald trump is due to tell congress by the end of friday if sanctions will be imposed on riyadh over the matter. thailand's king says it's inappropriate and unconstitutional for his sister to stand as a candidate for prime minister in next month's elections chil be up against the current prime minister who led a military coup in twenty fourteen. a senior saudi government minister has denied the kingdom was involved in leaking intimate photos of the wild to richest man it comes as amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos accuses a u.s. tabloid publisher with ties to saudi of extortion and blackmail her threatening to release the photos bezos has suggested his ownership of the washington post newspaper which has reported extensively on the killing of janice jamal khashoggi by saudi agents made him a target she had brutality has. far flung he's the world's richest man as the

founder of amazon and he's the owner of one of the world's best known newspapers the washington post but jeff bezos chose a no frills blogging site to tell his story following the announcement of his divorce in january a tabloid magazine the national enquirer best known for its coverage of movie and music stars published an eleven page spread detailing his extramarital affair complete with text messages sent by bezos to his lover bezos then used his own security team to investigate the source and motivation for the story which he alleges made the publisher of the national enquirer david pecker apoplectic that's also a speck of then threaten to release further texts and intimate photos of bezos and his lover unless he stated that the enquirer is exposé was not politically motivated but that's exactly what basil suggests was the case my ownership of the washington post is a complex for me he writes it's unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience washington post news coverage will wrongly conclude i am their enemy president trump is one of those people obvious by his many tweets also the posts

sent through an unrelenting coverage of the murder of its called mr malcolm chaudry is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles he concludes bezels refers to the saudi government several times in his post and points out that david packet was introduced to a figure with ties to the saudi royal family by president trump at a time when the publisher was looking for financing pekar is a long time friend of donald trump in march of last year a.m.r. the parent company of national enquirer published a glossy magazine promoting saudi arabia on crown prince mohammed bin solomon containing the adverts at the time the saudis denied any connection as far as i'm aware and i believe that would be when we have absolutely nothing to do with this. we maybe some of our citizens read the national enquirer when they're in the united states citizens watch the soap opera unfold on television but that's it jeff bezos right sort of someone like him the world's richest person is on able to stand up to such actions and who come there whether you has

a legal case may depend on jurisdiction in states that use blackmail and extortion combined together it will likely be a case because you're requesting that someone by way of threatening them if you don't do this then i'll do that and then it would come under that under one of those statutes however if it's in a state or jurisdiction that is only saying money has to be involved then it doesn't come under the statute because there's no request for you know and there's no requests for money complicating matters is practiced immunity deal with new york prosecutors in their case against michael cohen donald trump's former personal lawyer who is alleged to have helped arrange a deal whereby peca board exclusive rights to the story of an alleged lover of donald trump during the presidential campaign in order to bury it but as part of the immunity deal pekar was ordered not to commit any crimes american media which owns the national enquirer says it has launched an investigation into bezos is claims but quote believes fervently that it did lawfully she ever terms the older

zero the rocker has suspended its participation in the saudi u.a.e. coalition's battle against the rebels in yemen the moroccan government has also recall that some bastard a saudi arabia pressure 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. a report from unicef is highlighting the die a situation for children in yemen and found that more than six thousand seven hundred children have been killed or injured since the war began and twenty fifteen the un agency also found nearly four hundred thousand children suffering from acute malnutrition and are in need of urgent treatment and nearly three thousand yemeni boys have been recruited by armed groups you know said adds that the fighting has resulted in three quarters of the population needing humanitarian aid while 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 yemenis have

cancer and eleven thousand are diagnosed every year but increasingly cancer clinics are closing need abraham has more. this should be a weekly visit for how who has joe cancer instead she comes for treatment once a month not only does she have difficulty speaking the drive to the hospital is made hazardous by 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 her they had been closed since last september now it's on the control of the saudi immorality led coalition which limits the difference of medical and food supplies to the city. man i mean his are due to the complete siege on yemen and the siege and her data the patients situation is getting worse due to 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 and to your eating security conditions. the wounded cancer treatment center which is nearby for patients and for day there and the surrounding areas. it's only open two days a week and has one doctor to treat all these patients the other doctor was forced to leave 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 don't have the operational budget nor the cost of treatment. for now these yemenis can only wait with no idea whether this treatment center will be here next time they need it be that graham al-jazeera experts in is lee are working to

dismantle a bridge that partially collapsed in the city of genoa six months ago forty three people were killed in the disaster described as one of the worst tragedies and modern italian history from genoa reports the remains of what was once one of its least most important structures being pulled apart by slab and making way for a new bridge in genoa. the prime minister. along with 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 which 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 debate about what caused it. and businesses suffered when the neighborhoods were all of a sudden cutoff. after the bridge collapse we lost fifty percent of our business here it's been really bad. and those who live near the bridge are struggling to cope some are still in temporary accommodation. we suddenly found ourselves like victims of an earthquake but our houses are still there they're still standing it's 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 that is expected to last for fifteen months costing more than two hundred twenty five million dollars renowned architect renzo piano himself

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 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 well she served as prime minister of bangladesh for three terms and now opposition leader. has also served one year behind bars has supporters say she was jailed on trumped up charges to prevent her from standing in elections and they want the sentence of a chair and chattery spoke to some of them in dhaka. it is exactly one year since the opposition leader and former prime minister has been jailed after the

election this is one of the main protest rally organized by the main opposition bangladesh nationalist party inside the engineering institute thousands of people are gathered here to protest and demand the release off its leader i spoke to one of the senior leader of the opposition party this is what he have to say this. big . government should resign and this would be fresh election the only option only option release. from the jail there is a major challenge for the opposition ahead of time despite facing intimidation and limited ground for three straight talking to some of the people in the street we got this reaction the people actually want development and for the country to continue to develop it's essential to have a continuation of a government for a long period. my only thought is this want to live in peace and have the ability to express ourselves freely and remain happy. despite all the challenges

opposition seems to be to organize itself as a major formidable force and demand the government to hold another election under a neutral caretaker government and to demand really is off its main leader. two days of heavy snow have caused avalanches in the himalayan region of indian administered kashmir killing at least nine people rescuers are trying to reach ten people trapped in a fire station. police and fire crew would usually carry out rescue missions in these mountains but they've become the victims of an avalanche twenty people were sheltering in this tunnel and coke and district of india administered kashmir when it was buried by snow ten thousand live now rescue workers are digging through the snow with spades and even the hands to find the rest morning at six o'clock we have started the operation and people have

been able to get and one person. unfortunately died and we are searching for to move some of the some still being pulled out injured but alive all the bodies retrieved lay covered on the snow two days of heavy snow has cut off this region many towns electricity supplies have been cut flights have been cancelled and officials have closed the srinagar jehmu the national highway to the many people have made it the highway has been closed for a few days and we are facing a shortage of food items if it snows again kashmir will collapse. people have resorted to clearing the roads themselves afraid if this goes on for any longer they will go hungry you know my suspicion we are clearing it so that al vehicle can pass we have a patient at home who has to be taken to hospital. from the last three days we are stranded here we are running short of food and water. authorities have issued more

avalanche warnings and dozens of families have be moved to a safer place teens of volunteers are helping stranded drivers they are but i'm glad. we collected russians and food from our village and are now distributing it among the stranded people and they've been stuck for a few days it's our duty to help them. and with more snow in the forecast they have little option but to survive with the few resources available to the lure of the manly al-jazeera. i'm a star and these are the top stories venezuela's president nicolas maduro has warned of catastrophic consequences if all of the country's oil shipments are blocked by u.s. sanctions he's also called for usaid stockpiles at the venezuelan border to be distributed

to colombians. on national sovereignty is made vulnerable with a show called humanitarian aid and peace is threatened by the government of mr donald trump who last sunday in a televised interview ratified his threat of a military invasion against venezuela in venezuela they have driven us to the point that libya has taken or that syria was taken to the point of unarmed opposition they have attempted out who have not allowed them to venezuela is it peace saudi arabia has denied reports that crown prince mohammed bin salah authorized the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi the deadline has now passed for u.s. president donald trump to tell congress if sanctions will be imposed on riyadh over the matter a canadian man who shot and killed six members of a quebec city mosque and twenty seventeen has been sentenced to life in prison alexandra based on at pled guilty last year to six counts of first degree murder and six counts of attempted murder for the attack one of canada's rare mass

shootings. the united states is hoping afghanistan can strike a peace agreement involving the taliban before elections the july u.s. special envoy. speaking at the institute of peace in washington d.c. expressed cautious optimism about the prospect of a deal. held the meetings with taliban officials here in doha to discuss an ongoing push for a political settlement to the seventeen year old conflict thailand's king says it's inappropriate and unconstitutional for his sister to stand as a candidate for prime minister in next month's elections those are the headlines join me for more news here after inside story do stay with us.

pressure is growing on the venezuelan president nicolas maduro but can the international community convince him to resign and how much difference with a 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 nicol.