what's the number is going to be it's going to matter actually because they have the inside of the village they have an advantage over b.s. the air force is coming in they're able to funnel those as the air forces into a village the way they want to do and then try an ambush them but we are hearing as at least six hundred fighters within the village itself we can't confirm that but it's likely like i say given the types of battles that we've seen before that the way you use those fighting forces is to try and bring the s.d.f. through a very small corridor which will try to ambush the last year have experience in fighting i saw they have great success in forty or so so there is this battle that's raging within there so it's almost not about the number of isis fighters with the village but how heavily armed they are and how determined they are to stay put iran can live from gaza intact thank you. now israel's prime minister says he intends to introduce a controversial new law within the week is known as pay for

a sleigh this is how it works the palestinian government pays compensation to the families of people who've been arrested or killed carrying out attacks under this new law israel would deduct the same amount equal to that compensation from tax funds that it collects for the palestinians that's a law goes through it would effectively cut revenue to the palestinian authority by around three hundred thirty million dollars per year harri for said has more now from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu has long argued against and attacked the palestinian leadership over what it says is a system of welfare payments to palestinian prisoners and what the israeli government characterizes as a form of incitement to carry out attacks against israelis this is the week that he says that this law will come into effect and that next sunday in the next israeli security cabinet meeting is when the first calculation will be made in terms of

withholding some of the money that israel raises in taxes for the palestinian authority and pays to the palace in authority every month there has been some controversy over this even within israeli circles wide reports that israeli security establishment is worried about the withholding of the money about the effects on potential effects on security cooperation between israeli security services and the palestinian authority in the occupied west bank of course there's also been a reaction from the p.a. as well they say that this is nothing short of israeli piracy and is being done in concert with the americans to inflict further pressure on the palestinians ahead of the rollout of the trump peace plan nonetheless we are in election season at a time when benjamin netanyahu is trying to portray himself as the man of the right with a tough line against the palestinians in opposition to the way he's trying to characterize his main rival benny gantz the former israeli army chief who means trying to say is

of the weak left and as well is that there have been a series of attacks carried out in recent weeks and even over this weekend there's been an attack in which a palestinian or other an israeli nineteen year old woman was killed by a palestinian man in a forest southwest of jerusalem the suspect was after apprehended in ramallah in the occupied west bank on saturday according to israeli media he has reenacted the crime has admitted to a sexual assault and murder this is a crime which is really outraged a huge number of israelis the police are saying they are so. really examining a political motive no direct calling of this as a terror attack by the israeli prime minister just yet no comment either from hamas in gaza or from the palestinian authority in the west bank either nonetheless there has been a huge reaction to this and for netanyahu to have delayed the imposition of this law at this time would be politically very difficult for him still to come here at

al-jazeera for three years of hostility as iran mounts the anniversary of its revolution look at what's behind the south saint of relations with the u.s. . preserving the memory of a syrian boy whose death moved the wound. hello welcome to the look at the international forecast the weather remains set fair across southern parts of china largely clear skies if other north that's where we have the thick of cloud standing its way and we also have a bit of a wintry weather as well still a fair bit of snow here people on the move of course full the and of the lulu new year new year celebrations what some wintry weather will continue then as we go through tuesday night celsius in shanghai turns a little milder it turns

a lot wetter down into the southeast we'll see temperatures around twenty three celsius there for hong kong as a sunshine continues also sunshine to across a good part of india down to the south a few showers here and some really heavy rain recently into sri lanka hundred millimeters of rain there in twenty four hours the worst of that is in the process of easing away quietly and down more the west sunshine coming through a lot of sunshine further north as i said we have got some thickening cloud just spilling out of pakistan into the northwest of india could well see some flooding coming in here possibly some snow as well as that wintry mix musicals northern pakistan and makes its way into the north of india twenty one celsius again for new delhi further south is fun enjoy that pool at thirty one degrees. i mean every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and of course there's damage from the town through the

eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase joined the listening post as we turned the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most embarrassing a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. has taken over the main stories here it out there. u.s. and russia have come up with counterproposals at the u.n. to try to solve the crisis in venezuela washington wants fresh elections while

russia is ruling against using force to remove nicolas maduro a. kurdish forces backed by the united states are trying to push eisel out of its last pocket of territory in eastern syria the offensive by the syrian democratic forces the s.t.'s is focusing on the village of bargains near to the border with iraq. the u.n. secretary general antonio good traders just told african leaders they're setting an example to richer countries in their treatment of refugees he made the comments at the start of the african union summit in ethiopia where refugees are to be one of the main topics bill gates one of the world's richest men he was also there at the summit and he told leaders his foundation is ready to help the african union transform the continent my focus is on the opportunity. the human capital here in africa that if the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's

a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great exemplars here who've done an amazing job getting their primary health care system working and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries. more now from our correspondent who's covering it all in. the opening session was addressed by president of rwanda the outgoing african union and also the incoming. president. as well interestingly the second vice chair of the african union is felix just to carry the new president of the democratic republic of congo he spoke as well and this is of some significance it was announced over disputed election in congo. just a few weeks ago last month in january those results disputed initially the african union cast doubt on the credibility of that election congo refused to budge it

didn't agree to a recount and now just spoken to the opening session of african leaders that's widely going to be seen as an indorsement by many people as a failure of the african union to address the questions over congo's december election iran says it's going to expand its missile program in spite of warnings from the united states the announcement was timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution that toppled the shah and ushered in decades of all still it tween the two countries then the harder ripples from. it has been forty years since the revolution that changed the face of this nation iran's pro he policy was reversed little has changed since opposition to the u.s. and israel are still very much part of iran's foreign policy. we shouldn't have a relationship with the us and israel we have a problem with these two countries we are independent and that's why they are

putting pressure on us relations between washington and tehran are at an all time low since president donald trump took office and reimposed sanctions after were drawing from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal signed by world powers western. sanctions have been a fact of life for decades ever since the storming of the us embassy in tehran in one nine hundred seventy nine and the in suing hostage crisis but iranians are hurting. we need relations with other countries so that people are not unemployed when rouhani came to power he visited many countries if some allowed him to continue everything would be better the iranian leadership did back president hassan rouhani is engagement with the west that led to the nuclear deal it was supposed to usher in a new era in relations until the u.s. withdrew. for years all i told our officials in closed meetings and people publicly that we shouldn't trust american officials promises smiles and

signatures now about the europeans i'm not saying we should not have relations with them but we shouldn't trust. has been open. with the united states for many years and that's why you've got the nuclear equipment that's why towards the end of human speech talking about resolving issues if the first step worked out the problem is that the first. there seems to be little optimism about the future especially because of what iran's supreme leader considers a hostile us administration and its hostile policies towards this country the revolution is about ending western influence in iran its author is then wanted to explore those ideals to the world by doing that iran earns the enemies it is being he was meddling in the internal affairs of neighboring states and the united states uses iran i think the greatest threat in the middle east. iran is involved in

wars across the region where it backs mainly proxies to iran says it is about countering u.s. and israeli dominance some arab governments see it differently iran's regional ambitions transform the middle east in fact some iranian officials don't shy away from boasting about arab capitals now being part of the islamic revolution. the father of the three year old syrian refugee who is washed up on turkish in twenty fifteen is in majorca in spain. is there to rename a refugee rescue ship operating in the mediterranean sea after his song alan the photograph of the dead told to wave of outrage across europe david has the latest from my york. the naming ceremony of this ship behind me was

a very moving intimates almost informal occasion but for islands father. it real work all those very painful memories and we saw him sitting on the dock side his head in his hands going through all those emotions a very difficult time for him also because now so many ports in the mediterranean are closing to the refugees these rescue ships like the one named after alan behind me are now being challenge they can't even rescue people at sea anymore because there are so many legal challenges to their operations so a very hard time for a dollar for the so many other families who are desperate and trying to reach the safety of europe but to describe the situation i had with me. the spokesperson for the sea ice charity from germany which is allowing the ship to go out with

adam's name on it let's hear what she said about the situation now two thousand fifteen was a year where that a lot of arrival since then it's dropped but also there's really how do you say the number of cases which are not even known because most ships especially when rescue ships are blocked we don't even know how many ships leave libya and how many make it don't make it is really difficult to see you have an overview but i think that every family and every boy like alan krueger who lost his life is one too much and it's not even about how many it's there's even one person having to do this journey and counting and not getting help then that's already too much so the ports of europe are closing to the refugees the challenges are still ongoing about how to rescue those who are getting out of the north coast of libya who are trying to find freedom. but even in the european union there is no coherent policy no union

a talk about how they should deal with this problem a tragic time for the ship to be setting out with an engine in. the know from macedonia has not only changes name is undergoing a historical and of a whole within six months it miss rename satan situations rewrite school books and relabel public monuments critics say this will tamper with his identity and the government says it will help discover it john psaropoulos reports from the capital scoping out these students at large state school are learning about understand she was kind of a hero of the greek war of independence against the ottoman empire at least that's how he is taught in greek schools one hundred fifty kilometers south of here but here in scope here he is taught as a broken freedom fighter from the south macedonian region what is today greek macedonia that is one of many educational issues a joint commission of historians from greece and north macedonia how to resolve the

four this country's new school textbooks are printed in september the most controversial issue is how schools here will teach about alexander the great need them the disparities i believe that when we teach the era of alexander the great we must go out cosmopolitanism rather than teach in a way that provokes nationalism the main point is not to teach youngsters to hate each other but to communicate when politicians talk about history i'm not sure anything good will come of it the last time politicians here talked about history they claimed alexander as a macedonian but not a greek hero and spent a billion dollars on statues and public buildings befitting the pedigree they used the name macedonia which is the same as greece's northern region and raised fears of claims on its territory and its history two years ago that government led by the right wing via morrow party fell from power. social democrats who stepped in made

a deal with neighboring greece to rename the country north macedonia and drop the claim to enchant culture finally tang has got to we are out we are free of the cage that the previous government tried to install in our people's mind that we were some kind of agent mustard on us but we speak slavic language you know. the most important with this agreement we say if our and improve our identity our language and we should be proud of that the opposition via morrow still disagrees for me this is a republican i said only or maybe officially i will have some something else in the in the in the my papers for official papers from sudan and people know who are who they are in macedonia. where they belong and from where from when they belong north macedonia is a country in search of its past it is surrounded by the strong national identities

of the greeks albanians gary and serbs they have already claimed every balkan hero and woven their national narratives what is more important those narratives interlock the north macedonian narrative is still being written some raw material for that narrative is to be found in the national museum here accordance with the head of alexander minted in greece but excavated in north macedonia roman byzantine and also men are also here testifying that empires held sway over this land for twenty three centuries until nationalism was violently thrust upon it jumps at ople us al-jazeera scorpio. tavistock other top stories here it out as their ears and russia have come up with counterproposals at the un to try to solve the crisis in venezuela washington wants for. she lections while russia warns against using outside force to remove

president maduro kurdish led forces backed by the united states are trying to push eisel out of its last pocket of territory in eastern syria the offensive by the syrian democratic forces or s.d.s. is focused on the village of bar goose which is close to the border with iraq israel's prime minister says he intends to introduce a controversial new law within the week it's known as a pay first slave law and this is how it would work the palestinian government pays compensation to the families of people arrested or killed was carrying out attacks under this new law israel would then ducked an equivalent amount of that compensation from tax funds that it raises for the palestinians if the law is passed it would cut revenue to the palestinian authority by around three hundred thirty million dollars a year. u.n. secretary general has told african leaders they are setting an example to rich

countries in their treatment of refugees antonio turkish made the comments at the start of the eight summit in ethiopia where refugees will be one of the main issues bill gates the one of the world's richest men he was also there a need told leaders is foundation is ready to help the african union transform the continent. i'm my focus is on the opportunity. of the human capital here in africa that have the right things are done with the young people in terms of health and education that there's a very bright future for the continent there's a lot of great examples here who've done an amazing job getting their primary health care system working and you know no reason why that can't be done in in all fifty four countries the father of the three year old syrian refugee his body washed up on turkey's shore in twenty fifteen is in my york or in spain abdullah could he has renamed a rescue ship operating in the mediterranean after his son alan.

website was announcing it's going to be legal. now it would have seven work for sure if you like things that are sucking up. about internet stores. worst couple weeks history they took. longer to give birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week the digital publishing industry takes

a big hit the future just a what it used to be israel's prime minister moves into what election load and it's clear that he plans to run against the israeli media latin american literature meets journalism in the work and legacy of gabrielle got to see a market and karl marx gets a mandarin make over. to leave you feeling comes courtesy of propagandists in beijing. it's been a tough couple of weeks for the digital news industry more than a thousand workers many of them reporters have lost their jobs at companies like buzz feed huff post and vice just five years ago these digital news outlets were seen as the future of journalism however the layoffs suggest that the business model the companies all rely on click based advertising revenue just doesn't add up to a profitable bottom line then there's the problematic reliance on facebook and google to distribute digital news content the two tech giants are eating up the bulk of

digital ad revenues leaving the buzz feed's of the world in roughly the same place as newspapers and other legacy news organizations before them trying to find new models to make their businesses work sound familiar that's because it is our starting point this week as buzz feed's headquarters in new york city. were customed i think the traditional media companies losing people were accustomed to newspapers laying people. but people expected. by another digital companies were the future of digital media there was a impression in some circles that these companies really figured out the future there was one million subscribers are right now i want to take you. on how we get this spate of. concern over the fact that while they are different from legacy publishers they're perhaps not so different as we had imagined a second all. right so now the question is how do we find

a way forward. the digital natives are growing restless the buzz feed layoffs amount to more than two hundred jobs the company's revenue formula using gossipy click bait and lightweight listicle to drive traffic to the news side was considered a model now its entire national security reporting team has been laid off as well as parts of the national news desk another two hundred fifty jobs will disappear advice a media company the traded on its understanding of the millennial market it's now leaning away from news and focusing on its more lucrative divisions such as film and television production it's an industry wide contraction that feels like a correction and amounts to an admission that for all their indie sas and swagger in this episode we go to liberia and hang out with cannibal warlord the buzz feed's and vices of the news world i was dependent on the tech giants as

a child is on its parents' hipster crowd will only get you so far they need facebook and google to survive that's about the role that google and facebook have played in delivering audiences to publishers they both have algorithms that they are constantly changing without warning and publishers air traffic tank overnight without any ability to respond to it the problem is that when you rely on facebook as your distribution mechanism when facebook can just you really are at their mercy the idea of it seems. sound at the time was let's maximize our strategies our editorial strategies and advertising strategies to appeal to younger viewers slash readers and do it primarily on facebook but as facebook decided to change how it operates it has a bad news in general and it has hurt these companies that had built up their business practices to pander to facebook. even when news

outlets clear the algorithm occurred and find there's the issue of how the tech giants the cash the ad revenue take facebook before getting to a news article you scroll through your news feed and the first wave of ads placed by facebook you'll eventually reach the article and the news outlets that but advertisers value that ad less than the ones facebook has posted because facebook ads are more effectively targeted the platform knows more about you your interests and buying habits in the news outlet everwood that's how more than eighty percent of news related ad revenues end up in the pockets of the gatekeepers facebook and google. are of millions of people out there if you can get x. number to click on something you can get advertisers to pay per click theoretically if you accumulate enough volume you can make money and we know that that's possible

because google makes money and facebook makes money the problem is there is no way for a media company to achieve that kind of scale google and facebook take up the vast majority of digital advertising and so there's very little left for media companies and the amount of money that they're making from it actually declining so you have to have to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place it's clear that the relies on advertising alone is a problem for the industry. so it's a question of whether the publishing industry as a whole can find other sources of revenue to make up for some of the advertising that is flowing away from news and increasingly going to companies like facebook and google. the other revenue source that will likely draw on these from mainstream media organizations that have invested in their younger digital competitors n.b.c. universal and comcast have injected more than four hundred million dollars into buzz fox disney and a and e.

networks have hundreds of millions in. the rise and has long been vacuuming up media content providers such as yeah a.o.l. and by extension post multibillion dollar deals. there may have once been a rationale for such investments but those mainstream media companies are now counting their losses in some cases writing them off and looking to invest elsewhere all those investments that came from the big media companies who made most of their money in television and pay television was just going off a cliff by netflix they were seeing their most lucrative parts of their business declining so they were desperate to reach these hard to reach young people in their twenty's and early thirty's and i think buzz feed they offered a way to reach these young audiences and now it's unlikely that they're going to continue that investment just because of the difficulties in the online advertising market who exactly is going to be. provide the funding for these companies as they

go forward venture capital investors don't just give you hundreds of millions of dollars for nothing they're going to expect that money back it's going to have to come from somewhere because the revenue model is now in question not only are we questioning the growth rates of these companies we're questioning sort of whether they can even continue to be the same size so now you've got something that is not even growing it's probably shrinking that's not a business model that anybody is going to be interested in investing in. one model that is working in a limited way is the old fashioned subscription model that so many news organizations have abandoned the same week that buzz feed vice and huff post were shedding staff the new york times announced it now employs one thousand six hundred journalists the most in its history and that it ended two thousand and eighteen with a record three point three million digital subscribers

a twenty seven percent increase over the previous year having convinced many americans that their journalism is worth supporting papers like the times and the washington post are thriving the in direct beneficiaries of president trump's attacks on the us news media however very few news outlets have the name recognition the prestige of the times or the post and the digital newbies have gone all in on the digital advertising model for better or for worse for richer or for poorer you see from the amazing performance of the new york times company they've been able to create a great digital description model that is funding their new trend so there is help if you're a big brand and you can get people to pay for descriptions but if you're relying on advertising i'd be very very little and i don't think mark i don't think all hope is lost but it does mean that we must confront that to drag us facebook and google if we fail to confront facebook and google at their terrifying ability. to distort

journalism to corrupt journalism and to crush journalism. then we are in trouble we have to break up those large companies to make sure that they are not so powerful non-so dollar. those are fairly big tasks but they're not impossible. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers marcel a piece our marcel of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing an election in april what's the latest on the media side of this story when a few weeks ago there were those billboards paid for by netanya his likud party featuring four israeli journalists telling voters quote they will not decide you decide it looks like he's taking a page out of donald trump's media manual last sunday netanyahu launched a weekly webcast on social media that pledges to quote get rid of the fake from the

news netanyahu use the first show to celebrate his triumphs and to lambaste the media and to put out of the woods of hudson's terms of wills with. the media to go the vote he accuses them of teaming up with the police and the judiciary in three corruption cases he calls it a witch hunt designs of force him out of office troops got a similar show is called real news updates that was hosted by trump's daughter nor is really one is hosted by any arrests he's famous not so much for his journalism but for having appeared on a reality t.v. show which one irony of big brother you really could not make it up you've also been working on this week's feature story the second in a series that you've done about giants from the world of literature who often saw themselves as journalists not just authors yes the first story went out last year it was about american rights it's on wolf for the second installment i've been looking at the video you got to see

a marcus he wrote books like one hundred years of solitude love in the time of cholera chronicle of a death foretold we think of him as a fiction writer we think of magical realism but he saw himself first and foremost as a journalist one of the first things that jumped out at me on this was just to see a mark as was the son of a telegraph operator so he was born with colombian news and information in his blood clearly and he said of his first news paper when he was. just twelve years old he called it a company meal which is the colombian word for what students call a cheat sheet the paper lasted less than a week but he stayed with journalism as a reporter cinema critic foreign correspondent starting out in the one nine hundred fifty which is a key period in latin american history we're talking about the cold war we're talking a political upheaval across the continent and iraj of u.s. backed military coups which is why it's important to understand that political context the time of extreme oppression in fact a samedi case was thrown out of colombia for his outspokenness because ultimately

his form of journalism was unapologetically political what today we call advocacy journalism and what comes across when i speak to the journalists in this piece is studied under him or worked with him is this constant tug of war between the literary and the journalistic that wavering between fact and fiction or does that not make his journalism fundamentally problematic perhaps but the point is that people like us see americus make us think about journalism beyond debates on empiricism objectivity accuracy and how they literally can get us nearer to truth of experience. throughout this piece we've used accepts of going to the americas as was to take us through the story starts saying with something he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty one he.

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we'll focus on way better they don't we'll get a phone call on the. last in the study out of this out of the gate in his time in that local mall. might feel a little bit all expect that they'll be gone. but in this event that they any say about that band. play it or not that i say mediated you know that alan one thing they must hide out and that's on the kids and say a that's going to say i'm not ok they will not know my name name them all the evidence they would. and finally karl marx is getting a make over more than a century after his death courtesy of beijing the propaganda department of the communist youth league has a job to do to make communism more appealing to the younger generation so it's produced an animated series celebrating the life of the author of the communist

manifesto now you might not recognize this version of marx gone is the thick beard the gray hair the german accent all replaced by a dashing tall blue eyed love struck philosopher whose fluent in mandarin it's a seven part series called the leader it's been released on china's biggest video streaming site billy billy is a joke in there somewhere about the means of production but we can't come up with it so we'll just leave you now with the trailer and we'll see you next time here at the list. with some of the so we're. going to succumb to teach. to shoot the sheets to leave. come. cheap. to me.

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and guy from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha. welcome to the news moral concerns over. crisis the u.s. is pushing the u.n. security council to call for new presidential elections prompting russia to propose a rival resolution this standoff over aid entering the country continues we'll have

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facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you very much for joining us the u.s. and russia have come up with counter proposals to end the political crisis in venezuela washington is calling for new elections russia's counter plan expresses concern at any attempts to use force to topple president nicolas maduro and put opposition leader one in power now the u.s. is seeking to force the issue of aid delivery to venezuela using a u.n. security council resolution there is deadlock over a consignment of aid that remains stuck at the border with colombia president nicolas maduro has accused the u.s. of using aid as a political tool to d'sevyn eyes his government let's get the latest with al-jazeera cerise a boy who joins us from caracas theresa what are currently the aid needs in venezuela and is whatever that is stranded at the border right now enough to help the people. well most

definitely the biggest issue right now in venezuela in fact we're right here in front of a church or worse self declared interim president long while you will he's there now preparing for what's going to be a very intense week in venice well i mean not only because they're calling for an enormous protest expected to happen this tuesday but also because it is expected that the first aid enters the country and when we talk about need i can tell you that what we have seen is that there is desperate need in many many parts of this country mostly of medicines not just a few days ago we were in a hospital in. barcelona a city about four hours away from here where fourteen babies died because of a descent tree just now the government is acknowledging that at least fourteen thought that we have four thousand people have been affected because of this and most of the doctors you talk to are desperate they say they trying to save lives with whatever they have that they don't have goals they don't have they don't have

almost anything in order to do their job there's also shortages of food of basic template flour among other things the problem is if you have u.s. dollars people can't go and buy them but most of the population do not have access it's too expensive for them so they also cannot afford the basic a meal a day because of hyper inflation the prices of food are changing from one minute to have other and people just simply cannot make ends meet the government is saying that venezuela has what its needs that they don't need to be begging. for anyone that they don't need help from the united states or from anyone i mean saying that it is a political show but in spite of that when you go around venezuela there is need for help if that aid that is currently at the border with colombia gets through what impact will it have on the political situation will it achieve its objective of weakening nicolas maduro. well this state is clearly has a political objective i find of

a need that exists in the country for the opposition it clearly of way that one way though as of showing that he can bring some type of relief of change to the party relation and his fight of not having any rio power for the government is the example if the evidence that the government is under attack that the united states it's trying to interfere in venezuela as a fair and the big question is what's going to happen what's going to be the impact if that's eight starts getting into the country what the opposition have been trying to do is question the military force the military to take sides they want both soldiers for the border to make the decision and allow aid to come into the country and that's why one way there have been talking clearly to the military telling them that that aid is not only for the population in general but also for their families because all the venezuelan people are suffering from the scars cities from the shortages from the economic crisis that exists in this country right now but in spite of this what's very very very clear and still now is that

the military leadership is until now loyal to. they have key positions in his government they hold and control the kaname of defense among other things and that's why why there has been appealing to them in order to try to achieve some type of change here thank you for that to reasonable reporting there live from venezuela's capital caracas and venezuela has been making moves also to protect its oil resources and minimize the fake death tough u.s. sanctions the state run oil companies asking foreign partners to put their money into russia based bank accounts russia's gas from banks is bitterly allister venezuela had opened the account several years ago which. is also asking another joint venture company to cut back on its oil output meanwhile a ship and congo trucking company says upon. the loaded oil tanker from saudi arabia is you to arrive in venezuela in the next twenty four hours and it can carry

up to two million barrels of oil now oil an energy consultant man who share tackiness earlier told us what the tanker could be carrying they have their own light oil fields but maybe not enough to provide the mixture to for the little area or for the all you know call built so these are the provinces with in. heavy oil and extra heavy oil and their operations are very again i repeat that the fact that the it would get used to get light oil from the united states now they could get it from somewhere else my guess at the beginning was that maybe it is saudi the carrier is bringing extra light oil from saudi arabia in anticipation of the u.s. sanctions that had its transition to wide from the. divisions in the international community over venezuela and there's also a media divided by two to wash is excellent episode of the listening post if you

get a chance on how the media has been telling the venezuela story how domestic and international media has been covering the political crisis in the u.s. a focus has been on the di economic situation and the legitimacy of nicolas maduro watch the episode by clicking on the show stab at al-jazeera dot com and then click on the listening post and as always would love to hear from you on this story and other stories that we're covering on the news great you can send in your comments and question to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news great handle is at a.j. english we're also on facebook of course facebook dot com for slash there or you can also send us a message on whatsapp plus nine seven four five or one triple one four nine. moving on to other world news any age of sprezzatura. is taking the reins of the african union as a regional bodies summit in the capital addis ababa gets under way this marks the

end of winders president paul kagame is reformist tenure at the helm of the organization the ceremonial role of chairperson of the african union rotates annually between the five regions of the continent where bests covering this summit for us he joins us now live from at is so malcolm what is going to change under presidency what direction are we expecting him to take the organization we're doing his opening speech he gave just a short while ago said african union should continue to forge peace and security and he said that he did focus on fighting terrorism this. president of rwanda he just mentioned trying to push through some of those reforms he wanted to make the african union more effective and more lean try make itself funding expecting to see less of that on the president sisi and egypt being the third largest economy in africa i mean traditionally the biggest powers in africa are less interested when

they chair the a a you in making a powerful a you because those countries tend to have enough clout by themselves so probably going to see less reforms more of a focus on security the international have raised concerns they said because president cc's president says his government's human rights record is accused of killing dozens even hundreds of protesters and similar numbers of political prisoners detained there saying that that's going to tarnish the image of the african union be counted against its stated interest in trying to preserve human rights throughout member states ok the summit begins today and expected to last two days what are they going to be talking about malcolm and what are they not going to be talking about. one key topic that is not on the agenda is a sex for jobs scandal that first came up in may of last year more than three dozen women wrote anonymously to the african union commission saying that they were

victims of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation here at the african union and they said it's widespread an investigation followed and when it summary was published in november the commission said that it did find forty four cases of sexual abuse that didn't name any perpetrators and it said a committee should be formed to look into it so according to rights activists women's rights activists and other commentators here that's not enough certainly not expecting the heads of state to talk or even acknowledge that here so sex for jobs the scandal is very much seen as being on acted on that no action is really being taken to address that problem a problem that many people here have told us off record is widespread marcum one interesting question from one of our viewers here on facebook elizabeth who asks whether the african union has a system of checks and balances. with president sisi taking over the presidency now is there a system of checks and balances to make sure that the organizations rules are

respected. the president of the chairmanship is. position and ultimately the african union commission is only really is powerful as member states want it to be and often that's not very powerful without consensus or without the heavy weight countries on board can't act it can't do a lot i mean we saw an example of of one of the weaker moments just a few weeks ago in the democratic republic of congo the elections in december results announced in january felix just a carry was announced the winner but that's widely disputed in the african union time cast doubt on those election results congo refuted any calls for a recount in phoenix just to carry.