least of our colleague mahmoud to say and old journalist detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. oh. and live from here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news aid with strings attached food and medicine destined for venezuela is talk at the border as nicolas maduro refuses to allow allow it into the country the u.s. donated aid was organized by the opposition and some see it as an effort to undermine the embattled president will have a live report from caracas also on the great what next in the murder investigation

of president donald trump as ignored a u.s. congressional deadline to respond to the journalist killing is refused to blame the saudi crown prince but his secretary of state says those responsible will be held to account and it's a summit meant to focus on the plight of refugees but a lot of the talk at this weekend's african union summit in addis ababa has been about egypt's president. about to take over the leadership of the organization nearly six years after the a you suspended type. of people in haiti are calling on the president to step down off the accusations of corruption will tell you about the social media company and in minding accounts of it it's an on site you can get in touch with me on twitter. here with a news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you very much for joining us trucks loaded with aid from

the united states have arrived at colombia's border with venezuela setting up a showdown between president nicolas maduro and u.s. backed opposition leader. missouri's refusing to allow the aid into the country says he is not ruling out authorizing us. yes intervention to force majeure a from power let's take a look at what exactly is in those eight tracks according to the u.s. agency there is enough food to feed five thousand venezuelans for ten days there are hygiene kits for seven thousand five hundred people including soap and toothbrushes they are nutritional supplements with six thousand seven hundred mom nourished children and also in the shipments high energy biscuits to feed ten thousand children for a month at speak to teresa bowles live for us in caracas bring us up to speed for us with the situation as far as this aid is concerned will it ever get into the country. well that's

a big question what we know right now is that some trucks with aid have started to arrive to the border between colombia and venezuela most specifically to the city of us who are saying it's mostly sold nutritional and energy by bars some medicines among other things this is expected to help between five thousand and ten thousand people obviously not enough to help most of the venezuelan people who are struggling we also know for example that at the border between brazil and venezuela there's no information whether the food has started to arrive over they are but the opposition is saying that that would be one of the entering point we know that the bali vireo national guard which other security forces here have set up a checkpoint there not to prevent any type of aid from riving there but a local indigenous community set up another roadblock in order to demand that aid from being allowed into the country so definitely the humanitarian aid the possibilities of it entering the country is definitely going to spark tension because the government says that it won't come into the country because it is as it

is expected and if they if they believe that it is a way that the united states has of intervening in venezuela and the other question of course terisa is whether this aids promise by the u.s. and canada will go enough will be enough to how the people in need in venezuela. well of the opposition is very sickly saying that this is a first ship and a first attempt to get that aid into the country of course the government says that it won't allow in what the opposition wants to do it for it to create a humanitarian corridor in order so that the aid reaches those who need it the most mostly three hundred thousand people whose lives are a desperate require we're just a few days ago we were in a hospital in the city of buffalo about three hours away from where we are right now where at least fourteen babies have died because of contaminated water this is according to doctors and nice have been treated treatable disease but the doctors

that the hospital say that they don't have the medicines that they don't have the syrians just among so many other things so of course this is the first step the government is saying that this is not of this is just a political operation a political show by the opposition in order to stop lies the country and how do venezuelans feel about that precisely to reset the fact that their livelihoods their lives are in a way being politicized here in this crisis. well there's lots of politics involved in this whole operation for one way the law is a way of showing that he can achieve something bring into the country some type of relieve without having any real power because the cut the government i think control is a government of. a little what's at stake is that they're saying that venezuela is not a beggar that they don't need anybody's help that they have enough resources in order to cope with the ongoing situation what we've been seeing for example on twitter our government supporters are basically laughing at what the united states aid is

going to look like saying that it's dehydrated beef among other things saying that in markets like this once there's food for everyone well in markets like this one there's lots of fruits lots of vegetables some eggs the big problem people tell us is that they cannot afford it because food has become too expensive because of hyperinflation without without a round look i minimum wage you can only buy four packs of eggs and that's why people are protesting and they have been protesting because they say that with their salaries they cannot feed themselves thank you for that to resupply reporting there live from venezuela's capital caracas to resubmit on twitter and if you've missed it on t.v. watch her excellent report on venezuela's health care crisis that she was just talking about there she visited as she mentioned a hospital in the city of boston on a three hundred kilometers east of caracas where fourteen children have died in the past week from contaminated food and water heartbreaking stories at al-jazeera dot

com is where you can watch theresa bowles report let's now bring in our social media producer and a lot of the conversation online has also been about the fact that aid is being politicized in venezuela is crisis and there's a conversation every day coming out of venezuela and on is that one is right on the conversation on is mainly this time how the u.s. aid should be perceived as i said earlier volunteers in the coming border city of course have prepared a packets of venezuelans and they can see. flour lentils rice and cooking oil as well as personal hygiene items and that's despite president nicholas moves or raised refusal to accept that u.s. aid and in a tweet to madeira says the humanitarian aid is a show to humiliate us see says and pretend to justify a military aggression he says if you want help stop the blockade the persecution and the aggression towards venezuela also courting on the opposition to access sensibly and with common sense and all of that was in

a tweet but also the other person that has been tweeting is that aid was requested by him and he has begun going around municipalities in venezuela to gather support for the aids in fact he even funked us congress speaker nancy pelosi for her support of venezuela's opposition and the humanitarian assistance and he resorted to twitter to do that while the u.s. national security advisor john bolton he dismissed calls for negotiations with president to door and what he has called his cronies as wise as time timing that were damaged or shown he will never because they're in good faith he says today's the one year anniversary of the failed dialogue in minot can republic as an example but this person who has been tweeting he actually disagrees with a sentiment saying venezuela needs the lifting of sanctions the end of minutes to threats and the return of billions of dollars that actually belong ceases to the venezuelan people and another person here's another surveillance show you a says the media peddle stories about venezuela refusing us while ignoring facts

about a scene venezuelans national wealth and that just gives you an idea that there are people who are pro the u.s. interfering and those are our guests and we keep seeing that more and more and we want you to be in touch with us as well if you have any thoughts on this land a lot of people in touch with us about the situation in venezuela sarra a commentary on facebook from jennifer who says the situation in venezuela is the direct result of the legal sanctions all suffering has been created by. the oil hungry us another comment from yes seen also on facebook the people of venezuela capable of finding relevant solutions without any interference of external powers thank you very much for your comments you can keep them coming get in touch with us all the different ways to do that on the bottom right of your screen right now don't forget to use a hash tag a genius great. moving on to other world news not and it appears as if donald trump will not take any action against rabia for the murder of jamal khashoggi but one of his key advisers has suggested they will be consequences the deadline has passed

for the u.s. president to tell congress whether he will impose sanctions on saudi government officials under the legislation called the magnates act trump had one hundred twenty days to outline any action he's previously said he doesn't want the shoji issue to jeopardize u.s. relations with saudi arabia mike hanna has more now from washington. president trump departs for his annual medical exam declining to on such shouted questions on any subject all indications are there will be no response to the deadline set by the senate following the murder of jamal khashoggi the senate sent a letter to president trump invoking the global magnitsky act which gave president trump one hundred twenty days to investigate the murder and impose sanctions against those responsible in a follow up letter to the senate asa president to specifically investigate any role the crown prince mohammed bin solomon o.m.b.'s may have played in the murder in

b.s. the crown prince is a wrecking ball. they get complicit in the murder mystery shogi think he's crazy. i think he is dangerous and he has put the relationship at risk but president trump has steadfastly insisted the us solve the relationship is more important than establishing accountability for murder it's all about america first we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia china and everybody else have a it's all about for me very simple it's america first saudi arabia's senior diplomat continues to deny any involvement by the kingdom's leaders in the murder refusing to react to a new york times report that the crown prince is on record as saying he would use a bullet on jamal khashoggi the report dismissed as based on unknown sources and the following tweet posted on the saudi foreign ministry account we will hold who

are responsible for the death the push to account the question is what happens now the president has ignored the ultimatum the answer is simply nothing they are no punitive measures involved in this process which essentially relies on the good faith of all parties something the president's critics contend is absent in the white house but the stars not mean an end to the matter the question of accountability for jamal khashoggi is murder has rid bipartisan support in congress and the motion is agreed to and legislation seeking sanctions against saudi arabia and possibly the crown prince specifically is being widely discussed in both the house and senate mike hanna al-jazeera washington i live not to hide it here castro in washington for us heidi is a trumpet ministration doing anything to explain why they've missed istead line set by congress. fully the reason given by u.s.

secretary of state mike pump a.o. in a letter that he wrote to congress on friday was that this was the president's discretion not to act pompei zero cited the powers protected in the u.s. constitution guaranteeing this and also presidents set by previous administrations he also noted that the trump white house continues its investigation of the show she murder all of this created by the response from senators robert menendez the ranking democrat on the senate foreign affairs committee said he was very disappointed by the lack of action from the white house in not meeting this deadline and that it shows that the white house in his words wants the show she murder to be forgotten now these arguments though may soon be moot because on thursday the senate introduced yet another bill under the sea act that now gives the white house thirty days to impose sanctions on anyone that the white house or

term is to be responsible for ordering the events that led to the murder of jamal khashoggi this is yet another bipartisan bill with support from eleven senators from both parties including trump's biggest ally in the senate senator lindsey graham again it's a thirty day deadline from the time that this newly introduced bill will be passed if that indeed happens the u.s. intelligence services have concluded that the murder was premeditated and is highly certain that it was ordered by the crown prince which saudi arabia denies thanks for that. force in washington d.c. i want to bring in our senior political analyst to the news great for more on this story and i want to start off by reading to you a comment from one of our view is stuff on facebook who says the tragic story of the assassination of jamal high shoji is on its way to be forgotten do you go. with

that is all likely to be swept under the rug or can the u.s. congress still apply enough pressure on the administration to yield something well let me tell you what the new york times said this morning in its the tauriel about this very particular question as if most of the new york times the new york times give out the whole of the tauriel just answering his question so i would refer him to that because i think they may give some very good argument they say. this this case mustn't go away mustn't die out and we will make sure that it won't work all way in a sense there is enough public pressure now in the united states there is enough media pressure in the united states and congressional pressure in the united states in addition to turkish pressure and apparently perhaps as of next week international pressure investigation into the case over about how can donald trump's hand be. forced on punishing the saudis specifically on donald trump again

another comment here from from one of our viewers who says why is john putting saudi money above the matter of a u.s. president is this about money at the end of the day what of course i mean state interests and money is big and when you have a real estate mogul like president trump yes money is an issue and there's nothing to shout to shy away from it because president trump has boasted of the fact that he puts american economic interests first and the moral questions after but that doesn't mean that person from will get away with everything because i mean look what we're having here fully almost almost every day every day either the wall street journal the washington post the new york times or some other publication comes out with some scandal or some new angle into saudi arabia into its arrogance in its four leads into its misgivings misdoings into mohammed bin

solomon's excesses whether in the middle east or beyond the middle east so not a big goes by without this thing gathering gathering some movement of sort gathering steam of sorts i don't think it's going to go away it's not on think it's in a dial yet you say the the year not a day goes by without a new revelation and yet we still don't have a special request from. turkey to the united nations asking for an independent international investigation into the matter of jamal khashoggi what are the turks waiting for exactly according to the turkish foreign minister they were waiting for other countries to come through and that they will according to the foreign minister they will be asking for officially for an investigation by the united nations but just to put the you know sort of a in brackets i don't think and i think it's very important the united nations investigation it's very important to internationalize this issue but i think as you

were stated earlier i think the pressure needs to be on the top administration because in the end of the day who can move the so the saudis on this question who can put enough pressure on saudi arabia some people argue no one can control that the crown prince well if anyone can control the progress it can have to be international slash american pressure or mohamed than some all right thank you very much for that marlon very good to get your insight on this story as always marwan bashar is our senior political analyst you can find him on twitter at marwan bashar and don't forget we've got all the latest developments on the jamal khashoggi case on our special page at al-jazeera dot com all the latest news on then the news lines analysis and discussions al-jazeera dot com. president abdel fatah is about to take over the reins of the african union on sunday and amnesty international fears this could undermine the organization's commitment to human rights in a press release a wry scoop expressed concern over the potential impact is chairmanship could have

on the independence of regional human rights mechanism and the future engagement with civil society it goes on to list some of the violations carried out by the egyptian authorities including in forces appearances and mass killings during a wave of demonstrations in twenty thirteen samia the african union itself temporarily suspended egypt's membership when sisi led the military coup against the democratically elected president mohamed morsi let's speak to adam again about this he's a journalist and africa analyst he previously was the director of information at the economic community of west african states he is rise cut from the car very good to have you on the program so is this a diplomatic coup for abdel fatah sisi he's now going to be at the helm of the same organization that kicked him out gave him the cold shoulder are african media if at all disturbed by this. in this. changing. democracy itself if. so be.

it physical difficulties we have seen it see it in many places including. florida elections as a loop we saw the first account of the syrian people be better than believe it to or those that go today. so how does. whether you call me or sissy forms of or defragment the leaders did not cause the the others of course the time when democracy was really a right thing is that you got in that you. also from two thousand can do does the. arabs think that you that somehow seems to be receding well i don't believe that mr president is it comes into the other can you that under the work of the all important it is that all the other sources of the vision were good it is not just

a mystery another international force is the root of over and yet you were in egypt recently adam om what does handing over the presidency of the organization to a controversial man like abdel fatah see say about the african union as an organization and where do you see him taking the african union during this next year as is leading the organization. i have visited egypt recently as you sit for me. i went to cairo i went to the shuttle mission i think the summit said that and to be honest i was impressed by the money to the of changes to the want economy clee of the economy investment if rest of just the country is the number one ford and better investment destination today. so do you see something that important and many different companies mcdonough afternoons then three full of attack going to

africa to be investment that i know is what is something that will be grid from leadership but as you see because this is a different companies with the best billions of dollars at present what does it what what does legal front bring those sorry to interrupt you because i know that egypt along with you know other heavyweights of the african union south africa and nigeria have no not to want a powerful african union so what can we really expect of cairo's tenure to fall could to focus on and now we're going to see a shift in the a use priorities in twenty one thousand. some of the characters we've always given them peace and second it would be that they didn't really meant that diplomacy that's the effect the twentieth but the african you want to focus on they want to find money to raise their capacity to fund the budget of the organization it's almost eight hundred million dollars that is eighty percent funded by outside sources they want to fund it from external sources live it drew with the rest of

the words you were taught us a lot of the trade they have taken from the international community partners and also their fortune to believe this. trade. these all across africa that distributing food limited that the bottom line when it comes to democracy and good governance those are very important priorities but i do believe that they will be addressed at the top and that are african devant we didn't place it like sell it out or money or could do far or names of. death another is to look for something that would be addressed you don't expect the african union to be given free rein to others those issues it has never been the case they have never been able to accept from developing a military coup makers now have done the african union summit or events do pretty good but i think that is all that that we have to fight anybody that is playing against the rule of law and democracy including in egypt and you can see they have

to define what is their problem to not expect the african union to put it under i do believe that i.c.c. would be a detriment and be that trying to be very pragmatic instead of trying to play really the revolution the person who would bring democrats into governance across africa thank you for sharing your views with us adam again live with us from the car in senegal thank you very much now if you get a chance read this accuracy and piece by toughie maka on al-jazeera dot com he calls the african union an exclusive club for brutish task wants he believes that while africa should resist. political machinations it should still stand up to despotic african leaders a very interesting piece it's on al-jazeera dot com now this year's african union summit in ethiopia will largely focus on refugees and internally displaced people this report from. i share a sunni was thirteen years old when she says government forces attacked her village in sudan seven years on things have picked up she plays volleyball every week at

this center for refugees in ethiopia capital addis ababa that's where she fled with her family we have almost three months since. i was only just working on leaks and. people. even more true to my aunt. and uncle. who were refugees here from nearly twenty countries the center also provides them with child care and language classes. the people here are among more than twenty million who fled oppression and conflicts but they are luckier than most they've made it to the city they can benefit from the facilities here at this center than in a stocking camps. conditions are usually poor the south sudanese refugees in uganda say humanitarian aid is not enough africa has more refugees and internally

displaced people than any other continent african leaders say they're going to do something about it as they meet for the african union's annual summit in addis ababa refugees and displaced people is the theme for the year ahead. the a u.s. political affairs commissioner says it'll work to prevent the causes of displacement. people. to use it what do. leaders also expected to talk about efforts to reform the african union but observers are wondering if other pressing issues will be addressed such as the recent protests and government crackdowns in sudan and zimbabwe. talking about. without discussing why. it's there responsible for the conflict.

at the center for refugees these men from eritrea sing songs from home. many more who are displaced across the continent. will take more than a new theme the african union to change that. ethiopia . live coming up a look at how art has helped transform. into a tourist destination. and the revolution in france. the relationship between two countries.

hello we have yet another spell of unsettled weather making its way across parts of the middle east at the moment big area cloud sliding out so very rock into iran pushing over towards afghanistan it's making way for the next weather system actually cloud hit just around turkey cyprus looks pretty wet we go through sunday some heavy stuff right here and that rain making its way into the events a beirut with temperatures struggling to get to around fifteen celsius just want to show i was into western parts of iran will see temperatures falling away quite sharply as we go on into monday to rather around nine celsius noticed some snow around the southern areas of the caspian sea but lots of cloud and rain piling its way out of iraq i'm pushing across kuwait kuwait city could see some rather weather watches guys to come back in behind by right hanging on to temperatures of around fifteen celsius but at least the sun should burst back through that

a bit of sunshine continue across southern parts of the arabian peninsula but there's that thickening cloud northern parts of saudi arabia pushing towards pushing towards us here in cots and we go on into monday looks like it could be a rather wet day big mass of cloud and right just around the gulf actually western parts of iran perhaps in the worst of that with lots of downed poles q eight. billions of dollars have been stolen from malaysia meet the whistleblower who exposed big deals and criminal cover ups. when east investigates the world's biggest heist. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where everything. on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go for

. the sun that this is all fun plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera.

headlines on al-jazeera and the top trending stories at al jazeera dot com at number one the. murder case and president trump missing a senate deadline to report on a journalist scaling also trending tensions between china and india with beijing condemning prime minister modi's visit to a disputed region at number three an excellent investigation by a team at one o one east malaysia the world's biggest heist watch it if you've missed it on t.v. at al-jazeera dot com. now they see at least two people have been killed and fourteen police officers injured during protests in the capital port au prince thousands of people have been demanding the president step down accusing him of

inaction against corruption but as kevin cabot reports it is refusing to go. they marched chanted and demonstrated of the thousands demanding the resignation of haiti's president juvenile modi's parts of the protests turned violent as some forward police used tear gas and fahd simple bullets into the air to disperse the crowd. across the capital port au prince purchased to sit father vehicles and the gas station the backdrop to the unrest as a stagnation economy finally. currency and soaring inflation issues that president weighs had promised to fight when he was inaugurated in february twenty seventh. we went to elections a part of the population voted i am president i am ready to speak to all my

brothers and sisters over the difficulties the country is facing to my brothers and sisters in the opposition the doors open so as to reach a solution but haitians have been demanding change for a while now protests over corruption began last year after a ports of money disappearing from a venezuelan aid program then came a controversial fuel price increase proposal in july that sent thousands on to the streets. the government suspended the decision and prime minister jack. resigned after four people were killed during protests against the price hike the massive population that you can hear in your story like this it's impossible that's one of the main reasons that we decided to stand up with the greek people know that people with the hope. the lightest protests follow another report on corruption by the superior court of order says this has further angered the opposition.

we will not stop we will continue on the eighth and ninth of february to finish with president bowie's if he does not want to step down from we are going to name an interim president in the coming days. he has had a difficult few years battling a cholera epidemic the aftermath of the twenty thousand earthquake and political turmoil but corruption is a big problem and many haitians want it to change given calvert's al-jazeera as to a male is an economist and professor at the university in port au prince he says changing leaders will not improve the economic situation in haiti. the government actually facing a very very bad economic situation and a lot of call for the president resubmission it's very difficult i know people has to stay home and the government can't even ensure security for the

people i think it's going to be easy for even another government closed the situation is very difficult going out and i'll talk about a country with a lack of resources because we don't know how to do carry be any more to support from the resilient about government the head from the international community is is even like a smaller than ever and it become more difficult for the government now to keep up with the budget. and soul into the give response to the people so i think it is we need like maybe smaller government with very intelligent and very hard choices to be made and to ensure like the confidence and so why now we don't have confidence the government have been giving promises all broken promises for for two years now and the population is

tired of work and promises and what action. now haitians have long taken to the streets to protest against corruption and a struggling economy but this time social media is playing an important role. that's right many haitians are using twitter and what some may need to demand one thing accountability but there's a question at the center of their campaign where is the picture kyra the money and we'll explain what that's referring to in a moment but that's the hash tag that's being used in a social media movement called the picture of power a challenge with haitians in and out of the country joining in and people have been putting up posters and banners across the capsule asking whether one point seven billion dollars from the pecha carve a money has gone now the message was first posted actually on switzer by filmmaker and writes a number who puts it out he said in frustration that was back in august but it soon snowballed because famous it's. a picture of himself calling on others he said to

join the campaign i'll just show you that photo of that and he's got that poster that he's asking people and asking that same question asking people to join to get the government to become accountable not pressurise an oil alliance between venezuela and several caribbean countries where men as well it gives him the huge discount on petrol up front and twenty five years to pay back the rest with interest and i eighty signed up to this but the money is saved as a result of the program was embezzled and money that should have been used to rebuild the country as well as its economy especially after the devastating earthquake in twenty twelve no one knows what's happened petrak of a campaign moved from twitter to the streets and what started with just a few tweets and photos a few months ago that's the first sitting in front of the supreme court as well as an online petition that was launched as well online and that's with thousands of signatures there and that number is was increasing with people demanding to know where that money has gone and people on social media have also been carrying out

their own investigations in fact popular blogger now. demo bush encouraging citizens here to report back and look at areas that they said were meant to be updated with projects that should've come out of that money now comedia social commentator guy out in maine points it out some of these issues in her political comedy show millions of dollars were allocated from the picture of a fund well meant to be used to build a football stadium once other projects but the grounds there as you can see are still unseen she compares it to other countries that people are still continuing with those protests and it will be an ongoing story if you're in haiti or maybe you're one of the diaspora is outside of they get in touch with us if you've got any comments or any pictures to share with us let us know the hash tag is aging is great thank you very much for that sour now on monday iran will mark the fortieth anniversary of a revolution in the lead up to the anniversary with been reporting on the changes iranians have seen in that time when ayatollah ruhollah khomeini returned from

exile in one thousand nine hundred nine he had been living in france and since then the french government has had a complex relationship with iran that takes a look back. it was a turning point in the iranian revolution ayatollah khomeini arriving in tehran in february nine hundred seventy nine after fourteen years in exile in iraq and france with commonly on the flight from paris was apple has son bunny saga who later became the islamic republic's first president today benny cited lives in exile in france he fled iran in one thousand eighty one but his memories of that flight forty years ago vivid. to some fit the plane would be shot down naturally we were scared but the excitement was stronger after thirty years of exile to see iran in the people it was more than we could imagine the enthusiasm the joy and. bunny sighed helped commenee during his exile in france in one thousand nine

hundred eighty eight he says france was chosen because iranians didn't need visas at the time and there was freedom. of expression the french government was an ally of iran sharper didn't prevent common his arrival saying he was free to visit for nearly five months the ayatollah lived in the countryside near paris it was in this quiet village on this street that ayatollah khomeini planned the iranian revolution and each day dozens of his followers from across europe would come here so what to pray and listen to him preach the french government had hoped that khomeini would bring iran democracy but if you changed after nine hundred seventy nine can for once france realized this wasn't just a transitory state and harmonies role wasn't only symbolic the french began to rethink then events such as the u.s. embassy hostage crisis meant france really changed its mind in the one nine hundred eighty s. france backed baghdad in the iran iraq war and relations with tehran broke down they continued to be strained for decades relations improved in twenty fifteen when

france signed the iran nuclear deal they're far from warm today but presidency matter will not cost supports dialogue with tehran. paris's iran as the only stable poland's middle east a ship that disappeared iraq and syria over so dear it isn't just a great power to prison on track or like obama believes iraq is a region's only country of the future. last year the french government accused iranian security forces of plotting to kill iranian and ek opposition activists on french soil it was the latest sign for france the forty is off to the revolution iran is some way from being the reliable ally the paris has long wished for. al-jazeera enough to shuttle cross well joining us now on the news great is early fatone i mean john who is a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center and he's here with us in the news great studio thank you so much for coming in and just picking up on natasha's

report that the relationship between iran and europe in general has been a constructive one recently evidence being the iranian nuclear deal that was agreed between europe and at the time the obama administration and iran but how do you see it evolving now this relationship with europe especially with the tensions with the trumpet ministration in the u.s. i mean the europeans are likely to be continuing trying to continue this process of a push mo that they've started after the conclusion of the iran nuclear deal and for europe to have good relations with iran is based on business interests but also street just pretty sick interests so europe doesn't want iran to be destabilized because also from if occasions on the international oil prices and the situation in the gulf so and this has driven european policies vis a vis this long republic although there have been some disruptions in the nine hundred ninety s. for example in france after the assassination of some regime dissidents but more or

less as you said correctly european relations with iran have been constructive and do europeans are going to continue to try to salvage the nuclear deal after their imposition of u.s. sanctions sanctions and whether they're going to succeed or not with this special purpose vehicle this financial mechanism that they have set up remains to be seen that. the question isn't it just looking at the revolution now forty years on you know what we're marking this anniversary have the promises of the revolution been fulfilled well the promises of the revolution have been threefold one a call for social justice to a call for more political liberties and three independence probably the third part has been the promise that has been more fulfilled than the former two once and i mean and you know the depiction looks quite bleak actually and terms of social

justice there is still a high you know division between the rich and the poor in iran we have around half of the iranian population living around the poverty line and there is a new ruling class basically running the country not with the crown but with a turban and when it comes to more political liberties also the picture looks quite bleak there is still a lot of human rights violations political repression there is a there is a debate in iran a political debate that is vibrant this is true so this is quite an improvement viz a viz the error of the shah but nevertheless the entire political system remains restricted to a variety of different islamist forces and other forces that say the nationalists or social democratic forces are quite excluded from political participation as we've seen from from the reports by various teams on the ground a lot of economic dissatisfaction. there's

a lot of hardships who do iranians today blame for the situation that they find themselves in i think we have a different picture than during the bush administration the years where we've seen a rallying around the flag in fact in iran where the iranians have basically blamed u.s. sanctions and u.s. policies for their economic situation but now i have the feeling and you can also see that from various protest slogans that the iranians have started to really blame their own government overwhelmingly for the economic situation and what do they make briefly of that country's involvement outside of iran in conflicts like syria yemen what do what do we rein in is make of that country's position positioning externally in this office that this again can be i can refer to the protests logans again so there have been a lot of proto slogans leave syria leave you know other places in the region and cope with us so there is growing realisation about what is in what iran is doing in

the region and there is the sense that you know the regime is basically spending the money that is should be for the people inside but for outside adventures and ambitions very good to talk to you about this thank you so much for coming into the news great a toll on a shot from the brookings doha center here with us to talk about the fortieth anniversary of iran's islamic revolution and there's an excellent film on al-jazeera dot com looking at the events that triggered the homan a movement then led to iran's islamic revolution in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine watch iran one nine hundred seventy nine and not to me of a revolution by clicking on the special series tab on our website at al-jazeera dot com. i let's not take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world this hour and a thai opposition party has bowed to pressure from the king to reverse its nomination of his sister her prime minister in a palace statement king corn described princes as bad for office as in appropriate

and unconstitutional the time rock side chaat party wanted her to run against a prime minister a former army general who led a military coup in twenty fourteen election commission will now have to have the final say on her candidacy scott has more from bangkok the princess and her party on saturday making statements about what has transpired over friday and in to saturday particularly what happened late friday night with that king's statement saying that was unconstitutional for her to be on the ballot for prime minister now she said in an instagram posting she thanked her supporters and sent a message of love her party said that they have spent it all campaigning for the time being they said that they will abide by the king's statements on friday night now what how and where things go from here we know that the election commission will be meeting on monday morning yes to discuss what has happened over the last couple of days we knew that they were going to have to meet anyway because some of the other parties particular the pro-military party had raised question about the

princess being on the ticket for prime minister that was even before the king statement so we know we'll get some possible clarity maybe some answers on monday morning when the election commission meets but we're also hearing because the king had mentioned that this is unconstitutional and other parties saying it was illegal the constitutional court might also become involved on monday so these meetings happening monday morning will hopefully give some clarity as to what's going to happen moving forward. in other news syrian kurdish forces say they will begin their final battle to push out of the last remaining pockets in the country's north more than twenty thousand people have been evacuated elsewhere according to local media a u.s. led coalition air strike on iso controlled areas has killed three civilians in the east this happened after the armed group launch an attack near a u.s. military base kurdish lead as the air force is supported by the u.s. then fought back near the country's largest oil field in derry's sore a canadian man who killed six people and injured five others at

a mosque in quebec city has been sentenced to life in prison prime minister justin trudeau called it a terrorist attack on the bissonnette told a prison social worker he regretted not shooting more and he gallagher has more. presently islamic cultural center in quebec were coming to an end when alexandria bissonnette stormed the building armed with a rifle pistol and more than one hundred rounds he shot into the crowded prayer room killing six worshipers and critically injuring five others the judge said bissonnette was motivated by race and a visceral hatred toward muslim immigrants the twenty nine year old was sentenced to life in prison but will be eligible for parole in forty years while reading out the sentence the judge said punishment should not be vengeance noting that bissonnette has mental health issues survivors and family members say the jail term isn't harsh enough in an attack that shocked canada and the muslim community in the valley was left paralyzed following the shooting all of us we were astonished we

were very upset after this sentence we don't know how he. gave this sentence. forty years. it would be conditional recent figures released by the canadian government in two thousand and seventeen show a forty seven percent increase in hate crimes in a nation that prides itself on multiculturalism the court heard that bissonnette was a marginalized young man who was obsessed by serial killers and president donald trump's tweets the muslim community in quebec is still in mourning the prosecution had asked for a total of one hundred fifty years behind bars which would have been the harshest sentence ever handed down in canada and a gallica al-jazeera. r five us on facebook coming up a video about iraq's first female weightlifting team and then we head to the world ski championships to hear from fans in sheep's clothing as to what

a whilst top competitors for advertised children here with that story but first a check of the wildfire. take the worst possible material eurabia grinded into dust comparable to flour and make a meal out of it and put it into place where people live it is a cause colossal event. as well and in so many people

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i'm. an i type us horse and joe is here to ski legends a set to retire this weekend joe yeah that's right and it's all downhill really we're focusing on staying on the end of an era we've seen one of the sport's biggest stars take to the slopes for the final time to waste excellence bendel for hard to the very end he narrowly missed out of winning a raechel third world downhill title at the championships in sweden even if second by two hundreds of a second behind his fellow countryman kittle yan three citadel still goes home with silva tico waved to a limp and five golds across disciplines will former olympic skier graeme bell commentating on swindles final race and he'll be doing the same on sunday when the phone calls time on her career graham first as talk about spindle he finished in

styled n e he certainly did i think if you was to play second place and second base goodfriend teammates often roommates when there are only two traveling around julian's route it was a brilliant my fridge or it's hot and it was actually. going reversals what happened in the games john chimes a year ago when the standouts at the golden younes were just was and so if i just if you don't it's second and it's a big affair well coming up tomorrow because lindsey vonn seems a little frustrated at having to retire than axel and stendhal is the how you see it. why yeah methink both of them are being forced out through injury and it's it's pretty difficult but when you see a sportsman who wants to go on a but basically their bodies to say no and both lindsay and x.l. both have problems with their knees and you know axel just can't race anymore and i

think that's the same with with lindsay i think she she said that you know she's got to start listening to her body and she can't keep beating it up the way that she's doing and she has to crash in the super g. which should be up in ultimate race a couple of days ago and she spoke bolting a black guy and yes i'll be racing with the bruises of a crash in super easy but and knowing lindsey vonn she will attack it one hundred percent and she'll be going really really hard of the doubt it'll work tomorrow are yes she's been enjoying that black ice and pasting all of a session media and see if the team think they can pass a manatee on ons on the social media side of things has got the personality to replace someone like van about that there is an expression that you know the queen is dead long live the quake in and mccain a shifrin is the one that's going to come through and place lindsay but it don't become

a ship and will never be able to get to the stage that she is it hadn't been for and insist on being that inspirational force and she's not just for the us the team it's for all of the women's skiing she's really lifted the sport over the years that she's compete it in it and she's become bigger than the sport she's won perhaps the most famous winter sports athletes ahead of you know ahead of shaun white and of you know a lot of everyone really and the fact that she can have these crashes and and pick yourself back up. and it's really inspirational to a lot of people out there as well all right graham bell former lympics thank you very much for joining us from aura in sweden now ski fans are dedicated bunch she could say some odd dyed in the wool like these six men have been creating joy and laughter in the stands as well championships

a week that dressed as two and a half minutes it's all mystical beasts from savina cold couldn't the outfits are made of sheep's wool and cow bells and protected by unesco because of their cultural importance. this is court and that the visual must go through from secure story. to the turtle kind of animal is it would suit you can to keep that you know that's one ship that's nine ships run down there or not he has the whole cost come in third it's going ships you know it's not real cheap or save ships however they called i warm really do you get to haul in this yeah it's very hard to see the humor here is like forty degrees celsius or complete without the girls who are yes . all right well don't we sheepish tweet me at with your comments or use the hash tag a.j. nice great leah will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now i'll hand you back to folly. thank you very much oh that will do it for

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