continues to track young african men for john's family the journey is worth the risk. one area which desperately needs a venezuela's crumbling public health system in the coastal city of barcelona fourteen children have died this week alone from contaminated food or water hospital workers say there's a dime need for medicine throws a bo has this exclusive report. this is the pretty tricks emergency room at the last city hospital in the venezuelan city of venice alone at about three hundred kilometers east of us here dozens of children are in desperate need of proper treatment most of them have been diagnosed with a more b.s. is a form of dysentery transmitted by contaminated food or water lady check on starter is three months old she suffers while her mother says she has been abandoned the out of air my daughter has diarrhea she almost had

a heart attack we have nothing you arrive here and there is nothing i was in a crisis because i thought i was losing her children here have diarrhea with blood in it and they are vomiting but nobody is helping us i want this government out now it has destroyed us. we were allowed to film because staff here say they want the world to see that they are unequipped to save children's lives just this week fourteen children have died the figures could climb you can see how desperate the situation is here there's several children and each one of those very people are telling us that there's no medicine and there are not enough syringe is among other things many of the children that are arriving here are dying from one day to another madeline in my teen years baby boy was one of them he was two months old on tuesday night he died he's forty remains in the hospital because she hasn't been able to get together the money needed to buy a coffin i didn't but i don't i don't live there is nothing here they have no

medicines they don't have food and now my son as did. people who believe the outbreak was cost when a switch by broke and contaminated the local water supply there was no chlorine or other chemicals in supplied to treat the water parents with their children continue to line up for treatment staff at the hospital say they don't have the resources to help. with any of them here three years ago we stopped receiving goals and alcohol there are not enough syringes or serums to hydrate children. the government of president. denies there is a humanitarian crisis in venezuela however he recently announced he is reforming the country's health care system. this is a public company recovered by the revolution because while it is going to produce all the medicines made for its public health care system and social security we can

reach everyone like it should be and socialism. the situation in the us at the hospital is one of the reasons why the self declared entering president of venezuela one way though says humanitarian aid is urgently needed but some aid officials advice if it does a rival it needs to be carefully managed let humanitarian work on the market humanitarian aid is a mechanism that every country has it's a mistake to make politics out of this there are great needs in venezuela and it has to be controlled managed by the united nations and other agencies so it reaches those who need it. a crisis that has people at this hospital watching and hoping that their children will survive to raise about reporting there and those are the harrowing scenes across the country health service deprived of resources over the last five years now one of the main sources of money for venezuela

currently is an asset that lies outside of the country and is itself the center of an international tug of war but as well as cash cow which generates most of its foreign currency earnings is a refinery called citgo it's based in the u.s. and it's a big fight brewing over who controls it in the future russia's rosneft owns forty nine point nine percent of citgo through a one point five billion dollars collateralized loan the rest is owned by venezuela's state oil company say the cash it generates is crucial to maduro and the opposition leader one guy though who wants to replace the board. well the u.s. decision to sanction venezuelans oil assets two weeks ago was a move designed to keep citgo revenues out of president nicolas maduro as hands this was his response of the time. i see the transatlantic united states today decided to take the party to steal citgo from venezuela and that's an illegal path

i gave instructions to the president of. a owner of citgo to start with political and legal actions in the american courts and around the world to defend the property and the riches of said god well joining me now from london is dara mcdowell is the head of europe research and principal analyst on russia at the risk analysis company various maple crafts good to have you with us let's talk a little bit about citgo because that's a major earner of course for the country if the u.s. is successful in supporting those attempt to try and take over the management board of citgo what happens to the money does that mean that wedo will have the power to distribute the oil revenues to the people because he's in a bit of a bind isn't he him selfe one of the issues surrounding that is that we have had quite a bit of russian investment within venezuela. jury english. major presidencies and so there will be

a question as to what claims russia is making what role it's going to play and how receptive all the other players in venezuela are to to moscow's claims in that sense i'm glad you mention russia's investments in venezuela more broadly of course russia has an interest in p.d. vs say and in go through collateralized debt. how much of a card then does russia have to play in the struggle over the management board of sit naturally of course that you know if the there is a change of leadership in venezuela and white who takes over. there will be potentially some sort of claim to dismiss a lot of the obligations made under chavez image madeira as illegitimate or or this sort of thing russia will naturally fight that legally. again the question of which claim will actually add in the end is something that will take a long time to resolve through international institutions but this shows the kind

of spoiler role that russia can play in the country at the moment it certainly doesn't really have the hath or the resources to save major at the moment or to to really stabilize the situation in venezuela but it has enough of an interest that it can make any sort of transition difficult and that's the card that moscow is probably looking to play over the coming weeks and i guess who plays the spoiler role is a matter of perspective on depending on whose side you're on and seeing which administration right now is the gist of it but could the ownership of citgo ultimately turn into a legal tussle specially if russia feels hey our debts are not being paid back properly of course and you know that something about what why or why we see the limited russian presence in caracas at the moment why we've seen things like wagner's private military contractors on the ground why we're seeing this rhetoric

from the kremlin about. the sovereignty of venezuela and not wanting to back any sort of regime change and part of that is you do traditional russian foreign policy goals anyway they don't necessarily like to see autocratic countries coming under threat from below but secondly it's a signal to the u.s. into the e.u. and to to other powers that you know that russia does have interest. in venezuela they should be respected or at least compensated for somehow or otherwise moscow can look at these legal options these are their mechanisms for ensuring that even if there is a transition that it's an extremely difficult one and that they begin presenting obstacles to caracas rather then you know while coming any sort of new administration why does russia loan money to what some regard as risky bets well there's two factors to this part of this is due to the internal politics of the

kremlin and the various players within there some of whom might believe that there is some sort of genuine advantage to this but generally speaking it's a way for for russia to present itself as a superpower on the cheap. you know while these loans aren't insignificant in the grand scheme of things they aren't going to buy bankrupt russia if there is some sort of default however by making them and by you know positioning itself as an ally to this country on the other side of the world they can you know keep on some of the superpower trappings of the old soviet days pretend you know it's still a global power rather than a regional one. and to do so without without risking too much do you read into some of the recent statements by some russian officials about how the two sides in venezuela really have to talk to each other and the signal to all the perhaps rusher is kind of reviewing its stance to make sure it's not putting all of its weight behind one side that might ultimately lose and this goes back to you know

there are investments there russia does have interests in venezuela. you know after an initial you know strong backing of madeira or at least. making the rhetorical noises that the russian foreign ministry felt that it had to make now there's a point of like well you know there's no point in sending additional good money. after bad there is no way that we can really save this regime at a cost acceptable to ourselves so it's time to to start getting ourselves. to start making ourselves a part of the dialogue to make sure that if we see some sort of transition in venezuela that russia has a seat at the table and that's what these investments are about at the present using that leverage to make sure that the kremlin has if not a decisive say then at least some input into what happens next in caracas all right thanks for your analysis there thank you and finally for the people of ghana want

to rising sea temperatures intensifying clones and erratic weather patterns are becoming a part of daily life where they're being forced to spend more money not only on protecting themselves but also on keeping their businesses afloat and now when i too was considering legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away as andrew thomas reports. warming see these mean fewer fish in the waters around than a water so people are building fish farms in line instead it is very frustrating cost to build one fish farm is around fifteen thousand u.s. dollars there are other costs of climate change here more frequent cyclamens mean big repair bills mitigation in preparation for disasters and rising sea levels also have big costs but it was his own contribution to global climate change is small

even so it's doing all it can to reduce it further there are a solar farms and coconut plantations oil squeezed from coconuts can fuel generators as a clean way to make electricity one coconut will give you one liter of oil. with what we've got the year it's often now where a for t.v. program for a few coconut powered televisions will make little difference to the global climate vanuatu's government believes the world's big polluters should compensate it for the damage that climate change does here and that if they won't voluntarily through treaties and agreements and they'll try to force them to through the threats of legal action the government is considering suing big polluting countries and fossil fuel companies we're working with a number of lawyers in different parts of the world who are also looking at our evidence base that we're going to need to prove in court that would be hard suing

a company needs to happen in that company's national court giving them the home advantage taking legal action against the country means going to the international court of justice it only considers cases where the country being sued agrees to the case being heard but there is another avenue here that can take and that is to ask for an advisory opinion. and that isn't legally binding but it does set the direction and it gives the world a sense of exactly how the i.c.j. sees the legal issues than i want to sleep there's hope the possibility that country's oil companies might have to pay compensation one day will increase their potential financial liabilities now scaring off investors unless they take action to minimize those risks so those legal action is the threats to would rather settle out of court and that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch

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is all right when you're watching i was there along with my headquarters here in doha also coming up venezuelan stream across the colombian border while foreign aid remains stuck in a standoff between president maduro the u.s. . anger in haiti over inflation and corruption in the president's home a stone during a third day of protests. turkey condemns trying as must attention of week as it comes calling it an embarrassment for humanity. welcome to the program the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they're trying to pull out of the last piece of territory atolls the fighting is going on the iraq's border and twenty thousand civilians including the families of. the stage is set for what's being called the ground battle against ice all the

kurdish led syrian democratic forces work has the backing of american air power and i saw it's surrounded. already been exchanges of fire commanders are confident that this will be i sold last. this battle will be sealed in the next coming days. most of the terrorist in. the last two months most two hundred arrested they were foreign. there are varying numbers of videos who are leaving maybe about a thousand civilians in between five hundred and six hundred terrorists so that means that maybe close to two thousand or three thousand civilians. eisel once controlled large parts of iraq in syria but a concerted campaign by regional and international forces has forced them back to a small area around the village of bugaboos. well s.d.f. military commanders are promoting this as the end of eisel many experts believe the

group will continue to pose a threat president trump has been very clear to say that this is to kill off it that is being destroyed not isis the terrorist group which will continue to survive and as we know isis members have fled to yemen to libya nigeria they're there they're scattered about the middle east but of course this is the we believe there are several thousand left scattered around iraq in syria and many of them are foreign fighters the coming battle will be a milestone in syria's war but humanitarian challenges will continue long after the fighting ends around twenty thousand people have been forced from their homes ahead of the assault on both groups including the families of eisel fighters. will join thousands more in refugee camps where conditions are dire due to chronic shortages of food and medicines much of the country's infrastructure is in ruins these people won't know when they'll be able to return home into modern al-jazeera.

has the u.s. perspective from washington d.c. . well in essence don't trump already has declared victory against isolette look at the timeline from december when he first made that announcement and that i saw had been defeated and in fact he was going to bring the two thousand or so u.s. troops back from syria and that's really the key question here is the fate of those u.s. boots on the ground in syria donald trump has made it fairly clear that he wants to bring them back but that has had consequences he's gone against advice from his own generals in fact his secretary of defense at the time jim matters resigned over that and other global policy issues his own generals are still saying it's not a good idea let's not take any rash action here and then within the last couple of weeks his own party the republican party served him up a pretty harsh rebuke when they disagreed with his wish to bring those two thousand

troops back from syria so what we've had since december since i made that surprise announcement that he was going to withdraw those troops is the president swinging backwards and forwards saying he may bring them back immediately he may bring the back in the next few months we can get back there if we need to or we're just going to keep them there for now so it's a very confusing situation the overall sense is that as commander in chief he does want to withdraw those forces the political crisis gripping venezuela has turned into a standoff over a consignment of u.s. aid which is sitting on the colombian side of the border the opposition is trying to work out how to get it into the country it was blocked by the venezuelan military trees about reports of caracas. yankees go home is the message at this gathering employer family wedding. besides supporters of president nicolas maduro who want to reassure the world that their precedent won't be leaving office any time soon and i thought i would use your our evolution is here to stay

twenty years of unique price if in latin america we are going to be again the ladies of a movement that will take free. m. to other countries in the world the rally is happening as the united states and canada are getting wedded to sending humanitarian aid in cooperation with a self declared president one. aide is perceived here as a form of intervention people here say that the confrontation is not with the opposition but with a united states who is trying to take control of the country's natural resources and that's why they have come here to this to sign a document that requests the united states to respect venezuela sovereignty but one of the largest barriers in latin america but totally said says people need almost everything all her family has already left the country she says hyperinflation makes it difficult for her to eat every day the resoled so no water gas or health clinic where she lives an example of the enormous detail ration that has taken over

venezuela's capital the earth of them with you since died the situation got worse and worse now it's horrible i cannot say i'm going to buy chicken because i can't afford it i live on pension of six dollars a month and that's why people like i waiting for any assistance they may get not caring where it comes from the u.s. is already sending food and medicines to the border but how it makes it into the country remains to be seen international organizations fear the consequences of using humanitarian aid politically confronting situation on the humanitarian aid and this is the reason why i have decided to come as soon as possible just to the right of the here in trying to fix and to ask to both sides to clean the table from these useless discussion. because. greece got in politicizing the humanitarian aid we want to use our you money. without any involvement in the.

eight because they said we should call a political a duck. they are not to you money that any money damages new drug by definition. in a country as polarized as venezuela neutrality is difficult to find. and that's why assistance from abroad is being used by both sides for the government it's the evidence it's under attack for the opposition the possibility of showing it can bring some type of relief to people's lives. and. protesters in haiti have thrown rocks at the president's home involved with police during a third day of anti-government demonstrations at least three people have died since the rally started in the time to port au prince on thursday traitors are calling for haitian president having a war z to resign they're angry over economic mismanagement allegations of corruption more protests are expected on sunday when one of the. president and all

of his cabinet must resign he's not thinking or acting in the interest of the people going one way or another we want him gone. donald trump will not take any action against saudi officials for the murder of john mark but one of his key advisers has suggested there will be consequences the deadlines passed for the u.s. president to tell congress whether he'll impose sanctions on the saudi government officials michael mccall the top republican in the house foreign affairs committee has joined democrats in criticizing trump saying who's deeply troubled over the failure to send a report on casualties killings and the legislation called the bags act trump one hundred twenty days to outline any action. turkey has condemned china's treatment of its most and weak of minorities saying it's a great cause of shame for humanity about its many weekends are believed to be held in camps against their will the turkish foreign ministry wants beijing to respect the human rights and shut down what it calls concentration camps beijing says the

camps are voluntary designed to stamp out extremist tendencies that weakens our ethnically to kick muslims and the language is related to turkish quick barking is a professor of global islamic politics at australia's deakin university he says turkey should improve its own human rights record before criticizing others. particularly the turkic speaking people and we grew up in part of that larger turkic world its belief that came out of central asia including from shin junge so there's a broad connection both those muslims and the people so there's no doubt a lot of genuine send of them to eat of course turkey is guilty of much the same sin that it's accusing the regime of she didn't think of the you know when the regime is doing the same thing on the same scale china being twenty on the scale of the size of the similar proportion of people are in in prison for similar reasons

into turkey is suffering itself from a great economic downturn depends very much upon trade with china like many countries so that relationship with china is vital so he is involved in a lot of manufacture into into europe which competes with china so it's a complex story but there's no question this is this is a move which threatens to put the chinee tookey relationship at risk but turkey's relationship with europe and with the western hemisphere is already so fraught that perhaps there's a hope they can balance that somehow. dozens of people have died in northern india drinking contaminated alcohol police have been ordered to war to catch the so-called bootleggers who make and sell the poisonous brew print gupta has more. people in the northern indian city of so hard core are in shock families of those killed by contaminated alcohol are trying to piece together what happened to cities and a town in the same region coping with the same crisis. he complained

of severe stomach ache so i took him to get an injection he was better then slept after coming back home the pain came back so we took him to the hospital again a steady stream of patients are being wheeled into nearby hospitals time is of essence. those who couldn't be saved are piled into trucks but these are just the cases that have come to light and we know that we are trying to find out if anyone else has consumed their liquor has been kept in any other homes we are investigating the state governments of all through our kind. have promised to crack down on illegally brewed alcohol charm are important and good we have suspended six foreign portman officials including the inspector the sub inspector among others who are responsible for curbing these kind of illegal trade according to a latest government report at least fifty one.