israeli military on the orders of president nicolas maduro the opposition leader one why dose challenging the doura for control of the country is urging the army to let it through but madeira and his allies according the aid of political spectacle staged by the u.s. to increase the pressure on him your money go to part of the growth of the humanitarian aid is a trojan horse that is trying to court to invade venezuela. constitution the rights of the duty to defend our borders peacefully of course which is being done by the bolivarian truces. to raise a boat has more now from the venezuelan capital caracas well humanitarian aid is supposed to be started arriving to the border between venezuela and colombia also it is expected to start arriving two other entering points for example between the border between venezuela and brazil what we know that happened there for example is that the body of aryan national guard tried to carry out a checkpoint in order to prevent at some point that aid from coming in and indigenous communities from that area carried out another checkpoint in order for

them to counter the army's presence there and allow aid into the country and this is a ball of tireless look to asian in venezuela a country that desperately need when you talk to some people they say that they need almost everything a few days ago we were able to go inside a hospital where fourteen babies died because of contaminated water and the doctors were telling us that they don't have anything in order to treat those children they don't have anything to treat those families no goals or syringe or medicines in order to help them and that's how desperate the situation is but we're also talking to other precedents of the red cross and he was warning about the use of humanitarian aid politically he was saying that humanitarian aid should be neutral and not used for political purposes purposes and that's why he was asking the opposition and the government of nicola motor to sit down and discuss in order to produce proceed obviously humanitarian aid in this case is being used by the opposition to. pressure the government of me into calling general elections

presidential elections because they say that he was reluctant last year in a proof of that was filled with irregularities but so far the president nicolas modo if thing that elections presidential elections won't be happening in venezuela anytime soon well moving to our other top stories the u.s. bank syrian democratic forces are saying they've launched their final battle to push ice loss of its last remaining pockets of land in syria the kurdish fighters say the offensive is focused on the village of bugaboos in eastern province backed by us as strikes they've cornered i still in a small area consisting of just two villages in recent weeks more than twenty thousand civilians have been evacuated from the area including the families of myself fighters. a funeral has been held in gaza for a fourteen year old palestinian boy who was killed by israeli forces. to be was shot on friday during protests at the border between gaza and israel palestinians

have been staging weekly demonstrations at the border for almost a year dozens of people have died in northern india after drinking contaminated alcohol at least twenty seven others are ill after consuming the drink which contain toxic methanol the majority of the dead were from the village of poor an atomic and government's order to crack down after three separate incidents in just the past few days. a title position party has bowed to pressure from the king to reverse its nomination of his sister the prime minister in a palace statement king the juror long corn described princess obama writes bid for office is inappropriate and unconstitutional. and u.s. senator elizabeth warren is officially launched the twenty twenty presidential bed massachusetts democrat made the announcement in the lawrence northwest of boston for heading off on a seven state organizing till i campaign is centered on workers' rights fair wages and access to health care. iraq the right with all of our top stories coming up

next in al jazeera world iraq's dying rivers that will be more news after that you stay with us by for now. the. down on the banks of the river tigris in the iraqi capital but.

the river source is in turkey and it flows southeast through the capital until it eventually meets the euphrates. for centuries since the first urban settlements grew up in ancient mesopotamia thousands of years before the common arrow fishing has been a lifeline running in families for generations. this is the story of the fishermen and women living now in the land often known as the cradle of civilization. college lives and works on the river in baghdad. already until their uncle i mean while you were trying. i didn't hear so i hope.

there's ways where i don't have to limit. the euphrates flows from turkey through syria and iraq and is the longest and one of the most historically significant rivers in asia. the vast ancient mesopotamia and marsh lands sit where the tigris and euphrates meet in southern iraq. tens of thousands of iraqis live in marshes like these in. like a bull hide and his wife who rely almost entirely on fishing to make their meager living. alleys carlos and. i don't live as i must on the. why there are no why that why.

the tigris and euphrates meet in basra province in the south of iraq where they form the shuttle waterway where camels live fishes on one of the trawlers. and i was validate that wave with the defender. said i would tell. you about it when i don't want to fit in god you had a real good novel about that about how to get out of a fight. with. this bass channel flowing into the arabian gulf is iraq's only source of marine fish on which the country's once thriving fishing industry was built. near here and it is i found an iraqi port on the borders with kuwait and iran and

the center for landing and auctioning marine fish for many decades. this is a region steeped in ancient history and its relationship with water the rivers and the scene goes back thousands of years. the tigris and the euphrates made ancient mesopotamia part of what was called the fertile crescent where agriculture and. earliest human settlements grew up. fishing continued to develop in mesopotamia while it was part of the ottoman empire

and then under british rule in the twentieth century. the country became one kingdom under king faisal of iraq in one nine hundred twenty two then gained independence ten years later. fishermen sold their catch in the baghdad fish market to merchants from other iraqi provinces as well as to the citizens of but. now when baghdad and in the marshes of the south and on the shuttle a lot of waterway whole ways of life are under threat as outside forces and manmade pollution are damaging the tigris and euphrates in reversible ways for all his commitment to a life on the tigris. days as a fisherman may be numbered all the others. are on hand.

well what about. on a so. you only want to sign a soft soft. as i will have on the on. for the better. the better machine on the own model and. she. does have a she was just. on a fit and she had a launch into to go. dolly the. midst fishing is very small scale especially compared with.

there are fewer boots on the tigris compared with when he started out with his father. making a living here is tougher now than after. both died has been through appalling of people in the past three decades and that has affected the river environment as much as. a layer. of whatever. i'm going. to lodge with one essential at. all out of hand and with. you know what i know. i like i want be here when i'm strong. as the capital baghdad has been the focus of the outside attacks and internal turmoil that have hit iraq in recent years.

but for. the people of the marshlands in the south disruption to their way of life goes back further to the one nine hundred fifty s. am in some ways little has changed here for the past hundred years. are still produced and hung just as they've been. the long fishing boats are still builds to the same design as they were in the one thousand. between the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. large areas of the wetlands in the tigris euphrates river system where people like

his wife live were trained. the reasons were political to force people. out of the area. and to punish them for their part in an uprising against the government in one thousand nine hundred one. saddam reduced the nine thousand square kilometers of wetlands in the one nine hundred seventy s. to just seven hundred and sixty square kilometers when his government fell in two thousand and three. the displacement of in the first two hundred thousand marsh arabs and the campaign of violence against them let the international community to condemn it as ethnic cleansing. the united nations has described the draining of the marshes

as a tragic human and environmental catastrophe on a par with the deforestation of the amazon rain forest. but the marshes were lead to be flooded and the high dead and his wife returned to the water. on a local affair and i've got around. to here. are the heart of the middle very. very well you know home without you know i feel overwhelmed below if you go right now long one god now on our homicide i didn't mark. well. i don't know if i hadn't been a little hallway on a fatalist in atlanta why did we hate him. and why that a nation of laws are taking a whole. long list of what a divisive acquited wise policy but i don't even if it and laugh it would have been

why had i didn't go through that fight me out of out of and. now i'd let us know finale never had a love a sly look at involved with another seven and no one has an oddly other to live on . or what are the hell out of heaven she was and over six of the men of the love of god and those in the house i got honest and she with a wide well thought of and listen to your heart one of the why they have this admission that. now. here if you don't want. the little article you.

have no one. will for one. you know. love it. and want that article out. of champaign is now recovering thanks to the reflooding following the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three. large areas of the marsh

and three ancient cities have now been included in us schools list of world heritage sites but the reflooding has not restored the wetlands to their pre-drawn . the damage to the iraqi environment has also not been limited to the marshlands. iraq as a whole has suffered massive turmoil in the past thirty years. saddam's invasion of kuwait in august one nine hundred ninety led to the first gulf war and defeat by a coalition led by the united states the effect on the country was described as near apocalyptic taking iraq back to the pre-industrial age. then the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion of iraq and fall of saddam hussein's government the occupation and violent insurgency caused further widespread destruction the armed group i saw

was a major part of the post-war insurgency its military activity in iraq and the campaign against it by the iraqi government and western forces have led to huge damage to infrastructure and the environment. the tigris in baghdad where ahmed khalid ekes out a living has been badly affected by this prolonged period of violence and instability . if i'm with a. lot of fun a social. i don't have the belief. that she was one of the best so much usual that. if. she doesn't.

all above and no one. had the c.r. would not have. been a had on the other not of any in the head and fear not. the instability and tighten security guards have led to an increased police presence on the river. how have you. said i want to. know something with a morsel of god when we. just it is about the fellow with one of those or innocent they could do with them i mean i really don't know me at the. right.

in the way. i believe i got. my lodge and they did. not want to. know. that i was on the want to fuck with them because i want to. its problems on the tigris are to do with restrictions on his movement but on the euphrates in the south the issue is with water quality. salt levels have risen because of dams higher up the river in syria and turkey

there is waste from agriculture. and sewage from cities all if. used. was. bad. and the good bishop of seeding.

or when. they. did there was one end of. the war. kadeem cousin lives in a city a city where people cannot drink the water from the euphrates because of the drop in water level increasing its salinity. furthermore in late twenty

a teen tens of thousands of freshwater fish died in the euphrates south of baghdad and soaring pollution is believed to be a major factor behind the sudden death of the fish i mean i think you know i mean how early how. monopolists. we're doing on a song that's a lot of. you really honest. i don't. i mean it's not so much and if you watch all shop so much as it was. a. model muscle me this is the world i still.

owe. just. well just. the dams built up river on the euphrates in syria turkey and iran are also having an effect on the marshlands in southern iraq. this is impeding conservation and restoration efforts in the wetlands the dams have reduced the flow of water

reaching iraq since one nine hundred seventy by as much as the hof. hundreds of people have been forced to migrate from iraq's once fertile central marshes because of the lower water levels still at night and all i've not had anyone i've known of and all the have a live in their feet well quite not at all and i've never seen or made it hard to have a record of living well. now than we are now he'll be ok i know he's a flea i hope. of lego star i do not hear any woman who have. a little one within their war room so i didn't want to do it it all on my. world on monday you know did i get that i'm going under the law i would argue. the.

punch out of my walking and i know hitting out. of one might mean i didn't. know what i will yell and why did you in any of them have i. know we had it in. my head right now is there one lot of knowledge that you. i don't know. but the problems of the marshes and the upper rivers extend on a larger scale beyond the points where the two ancient rivers the tigris and the euphrates merge at basra. from here the vast channel of the shuttle a lot of waterway runs through basra province into the gulf. coming up the shuttle a lot of waterway faces an environmental catastrophe it's taking with it livestock

and fisheries and i really the point though is that walking and that you know what . the animal from what i say and as this year is now in majority malaysia but i start here. and iraqi fishermen say they often fall foul of the kuwaiti and if we need these patrolling maritime borders on the frontline of a dispute that once led to out an outdoor others out all the yes the output and anywhere. near or abdullah. then they are you know out of them in. public work but not me about monogamy and me and other in the rubble out of. many. of us are ya. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing off for power.

one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. talks to al jazeera. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in that something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us and that's what i think we really do well. take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to our make up. and put it into place where people think is a cause that. is going on for many people out here this is the silent heat.

but does it make you feel nice you feel like a burden we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. hello i'm in london just a quick look at the top stories now a political crisis that's rocking venezuela has turned into a standoff over a consignment of u.s. aid sitting on the colombian side of the border the opposition is trying to work out how to get it into the country after the aid was blocked by the venezuelan military on the orders of president nicolas maduro the opposition leader why doe's

challenging the door for control of the country is urging the army to let it through but we do it was called the aid a political spectacle staged by the u.s. to increase the pressure on him that he was echoed by the official in charge of the state on the venezuelan side of the border a. horse that is trying to court venezuela. constitution the rights of a duty to defend our borders peaceful and we're going to course you know it is being done by the. work of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they've launched their final battle to push ice loss of its last remaining pockets of land in syria kurdish led force. the offensive is focused on the village of who's in east and there is or province backed by strike save cornett i still in a small area consisting of two villages in recent weeks more than twenty thousand civilians have been evacuated including the families of i so fighters. a tile

position party has bowed to pressure from the king to reverse its nomination of his sister for prime minister in a palace statement king that year alone called described princess good rights bid for office as inappropriate and unconstitutional the thai rocks the chart party wanted to run against the prime minister a former army general who led a military coup in two thousand and fourteen. dozens of people have died in northern india after drinking contaminated alcohol at least twenty seven of his ale after consuming the drink which contain toxic methanol majority of the dead from the village of poor in the tower cound government ordered a crackdown off to three separate incidents in the past few days. u.s. senator elizabeth warren has officially launched a twenty twenty presidential bid massachusetts democrat made the announcement in lawrence northwest of olsen before heading off on a seven say organizing tool a campaign is centered on workers' rights that wages and access to health care.

you're up to date with all of our top stories that will be more in everything we're covering in the news hour that's at the top of the next hour in twenty five minutes time i'll see you then one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story as feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's that eternity the body but the good because you have a lot of people but the boy did political issues we are we the people believed to tell the real story so i'll just mended used to do the work individualism we don't do in cuba good audiences across the globe. for thousands of years two famous rivers the tigris and euphrates media iraq one of the most fertile regions in the middle east. the first urban settlements grew up on

the lines between them the cradle of civilization. but today things are dramatically different for the rivers and the people who depended on them decades of war sanctions upstream dams pollution and a phone in water levels have seriously damaged iraq's engines rivers and water resources. the sutta lot of waterway runs one hundred eighty four kilometers south from the confluence of the tigris and the euphrates in basra province and forms the border with iran. it provides access to the arabian gulf iraq's vital source of commercial sea fishing. either the society and how i just tell us they are zero out of the literal and i was resolved so i. counted down

a little. dollars on the. top they commit a lot of work as a. dozen and at the most part at the down and already. some out of saudi are going to slap a marble off the how will. and etc. as they are i have been out. here than mark allen and the dollar. has done as i thought i was there a thousand dollars dollar. became a. dollar of now there are not as i shall out alive. i have a collective human ego and. i believe jonathan mr howard to our car lot on a tandem with the saudi and i know what house for love but give me a message to mr g. to be how hard to serve on your machine doesn't matter how small the hero of the

current augustus dollar but first i'm a far more wild card to our love with our words and the shirt under a magnificent house is not only an amazing girl to be a lock on until it was marginal terkel my little foot she is only on some sort of. down market in new brunswick because. well it is so i've been diverted to those who.