their agreement i think when he came into office about six years ago his main goal in foreign policy was to improve relations with the west what trump did to him has caused him to speak in terms that you heard today expanding iran's missile program and threatening united states back given the fact that u.s. has certain to attack iran militarily so i think you see a shift not only in rowhani but people around him people that zarif foreign minister here and others and the whole generation of iranians that thought that maybe reducing tensions with the vest was something that could happen during their lifetime and i don't think they believe that anymore the europeans have done little things not not anything serious the terminology too little too late i think applies to europe and. rouhani is administration thought that europe would actually be able

to offset some of the negative effects of u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement in europe hasn't done that much so when we say that the rest lost an opportunity to improve relations with iran we include europe in that and i don't see anything serious coming up in the next few months so if europe continues to act the way they do i don't think you see any improvements that the u.s. is likely to start pulling its troops out of syria in a few weeks the trumpeter ministration has been sending mixed messages as to the specific timing but the president's top commander in the middle east says it depends on how things panned out on the ground. and a top u.s. official is in afghanistan in the latest step toward trying to end the seventeen year war the acting defense secretary patrick shanahan has made the unannounced visit to the capital kabul he's meeting u.s. military officials as well as the afghan president ashraf ghani to talk about

national security shanahan says it's crucial the government is part of peace talks with the taliban so far it's been sidelined because the taliban regards it as illegitimate to the berkeley has more from kabul. mr shanahan spent monday meeting u.s. and nato military leaders and members of the afghan government including president ashraf ghani it was a two fold mission for sess what is happening on the ground although the peace talks are being going on with the taliban they are still fighting and still carrying out missions and also to reassure the government i think that they have not been sidelined on these peace negotiations will number that the u.s. . excluded the afghan government this is something that the taliban have always insisted that they would never talk directly to the afghan government in fact they don't call them a government they call them and administration that is a stumbling block so mr shanahan was at pains to say that the afghan government should be part of the negotiations he also said that the overall peace solution

lies in the hands of the afghan people but he also said there were no instructions to withdraw any of the american forces this fourteen thousand on the ground at the moment the taliban was releasing information that seven thousand were going to be released by april the u.s. says that's not the case they will not be revealed but the afghan government is still concerned about the speed at which things are moving when you consider the eighteen years of conflict all the complications that has ensued because of that they're worried that the speed is going too fast and that they will not get a just peace mr the special envoy for the u.s. who's been leading the u.s. negotiating team with the taliban has been optimistic in his forecast he says he hopes there's going to be a peace deal by july at the time of the afghan presidential elections so there is some concern about what's happening and also who is representing the taliban do they speak for everybody there's concern that they may not represent all the factions that all the factions may not sign up to this peace deal and that includes

people like i still i saw are in place in eastern afghanistan they're growing in strength and there are fears that if the eisel fighters are pushed out of syria they may end up in afghanistan. in the wild and rugged areas of eastern afghanistan life is difficult at the best of times now it has become the main battleground against i saw a fight that i saw is not losing these militia know the capability of the men their fighting commander zeitoun knows better than most he was and i saw fighter this is video of him when he was with the armed group he joined for idealistic reasons he says he left when he witnessed the brutality that some of. them and then i saw was very cruel to everyone they killed people slaughtered them they used bombs they did whatever they could i had to leave his advice three assassination attempts the last a few days ago when a magnet bomb was attached to his car in

a crowded marketplace killing one of his men and badly injuring him people here are scarred and scared by eisel the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear to mohit goals nine sons were killed by eisel one was hacked to death with an axe or. i don't have power to take my revenge otherwise i would have hammered him all over his body from head to toe i would keep him for a week and then let him die slowly because that is what he deserves. with the afghan army overstretched in the fight against the taliban militias are the first line of defense in one the hard province one was so good as in i learned that they are tough and not far from here if we leave this area they will come back to destroy this place again but we will fight again until we die then they are back use these militias have only basic arms and equipment they say is insufficient to really fight i still they need more and us air power alone is not enough to destroy

eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans dropped their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s. paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel. local commanders say that eisel here has men from chechnya turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan. this was the foreign fighters a very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone the local i saw have at least some feeling for afghans but for an isolator crew are their hearts are made of stone on

the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out. but there's not people who want to use a university for political reasons against god and that idea is to work against interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to encounter the battle hardened men who will lose syria but not a cause tony berkeley al jazeera eastern afghanistan. including reports that seventeen we live in australia have disappeared whilst

visiting china back in australia many are asking whether the government is doing enough to find them. filling a gap why north macedonia is becoming popular with greeks in need of dental treatment. hello this cloud gathering again maybe along the winter front a line that's more or less stretching to shanghai back towards the high ground of you non this produces rain in the south and snow in the north where the cold is met and there's a little green patch inland from shanghai back towards will hand and stretch a little bit beyond but if you're in the south and hong kong is a case in point it's enjoyed glee warm and sunny is not particularly humid and the breeze in this specially strong just right really there we have seen some and

usually went weather in iran recently and equally in northern india northern pakistan across tibet because it turned into snows in a fairly active area over the next day or so not so much in india but certainly if you look up towards afghanistan that is the case we've seen occasional row thunderstorms a long way sas recently and still that breeze might bring a few showers and destroy lanka but this is obviously the area of concentration and is still quite cold for example in srinagar that same system links through iran so it will swing through most of the gulf states in the next twenty four hours and the following breeze it's a shame august in north westerly says a little bit cooler it will be dusty and you'll feel it in their heart twenty two and riyadh at a mere ninety is a maximum. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing off for power.

one of them self-proclaimed interim venezuelan leader. to al-jazeera. travis take a look at the top stories here at ows is there a better israel as president has rallied his troops and says they're ready to fight the u.s. and other enemies the opposition leader and self declared interim president why

don't meanwhile is warning president maduro against blocking aid saying that it's almost genocide the iranian president hassan rouhani is falling to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands in tehran on the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution. the acting u.s. defense secretary is on an unannounced visit to afghanistan patrick shanahan says government involvement in peace talks with the taliban is crucial to ending the seventeen year war the taliban regards the government is illegitimate. that the footballer hakim a righty is expected to get a hero's welcome when he goes back to his adopted home australia after rain dropped its extradition request the twenty five year old was freed from jail in thailand where the. government has faced a growing international outcry to free him al arabia was arrested there was of

honeymoon eleven weeks ago he was granted political asylum in australia five years ago the player of wanted be tortured if forced to return to his birthplace of bahrain saudi arabia says it doesn't know where the body of the murdered journalist jamal khashoggi is in an interview on us t.v. the minister of state of foreign affairs said the kingdom is still investigating a little algy a bear accuses turkey of not sharing intelligence jamal khashoggi was killed in october in the saudi consulate in istanbul where is jamal khashoggi body we don't know what do you mean you don't know we don't know they said that the the public prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact we have asked for evidence from turkey and he asked them several times formally through formal legal channels to provide evidence we are still waiting to receive any of them seem enough seventeen australian residents are believed to have been detained in china as part of

a crackdown on the muslim we are minority activists say the individuals who are visiting relatives when they were arrested about a million weed is a believed to be held in camps against their will china's government those is the camps a voluntary and designed to stamp out extremist tendencies the australian government says is not aware of any residents being held in china andrew thomas has more from sydney. there are about three thousand chinese people of the week at this is he here in australia and i spoke to the representative of that community on monday and she's told me that while she's very reluctant to go public with her concerns she feels she's getting nowhere behind closed doors with the australian government she's concerned about seventeen we get chinese people living in australia either on spouse visas or his permanent residence here in australia those are people who've returned to china for short holidays and then disappeared initially they had their

passports confiscated and then they've just gone off the radar people in their families here just do not know what has happened to them and they say they've been asking a starting government to find out what's happened to them whether even they're alive or dead for some months and they're just not getting on says the lady i've spoken to says that if these were australian citizens rather than permanent residents then she thinks a lot more would be done she says she's spoken to people in the u.s. state department who say that if they were u.s. residents the u.s. state department would have done a lot more to find out what was going on but she doesn't think enough is being done by camera to find out what has happened to these people a fourth successive day of anticorruption protests have been held in haiti demonstrators are demanding the resignation of the president as priyanka gupta now reports. protesters in haiti's capital port au prince i'm not giving out but the fourth successive day they marched in the hundreds torching cars outside government

offices. and demanding the pressure to juvenile maurice to resign but that darwin juvenile really going to burn the country down if he does not step down . protest to say the government is corrupt and is ignoring the hardships of the twice by earthquakes hurricanes and a cholera epidemic haiti relies on imports for vital commodities such as oil rice and wheat the rate of inflation has risen fifteen percent over the past two years while the value of the currency the coward has fallen against the dollar people in one of the world's poorest countries simply can't afford what they need. yet we are tired of these killers down with juvenile we're tired of these drug dealers and all of the people in power. are appalled by haiti's auditors last week accuse several former government ministers and officials of a bestselling development venezuela over the past eleven years protests to say the

government isn't doing enough to mess to get a company headed by marie said the time after two years in power he's resisting demands to step down instead he's calling for national unity. we went to elections are 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 his critics say those are just empty promises this is why. the government makes the budget just for them this is not how you provide change the government took their money and spent it on themselves on people who don't deserve it. haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere protest to say their corrupt leaders must face justice until then they will not stay silent priyanka gupta out syria. for three decades nor the macedonia and greece and fought

over the name greece's neighbor would use but today the two countries are discovering that a close economic relationship could be the basis for a future friendship johns are up less ripples from. he has traveled two hundred sixty kilometers from her hometown in central greece to fix her teeth over the border in north macedonia she can no longer afford greek dentists who charge two to three times the prices here and the bus that brought her is free operated by the clinic. i'm very satisfied the surgery is amazing much better than what we have in greece they do x. rays and cat scans on one really increase they send you left and right and the infrastructure is not the same order in fact every client is greek victims of the economic crisis that has claimed a third of their living standards many come here to shop by cheaper petrol for their cars according to one study greek consumers spend half a billion dollars a year in north macedonia it's their business if this planet alone provides work

for a staff of fifty after taking a quick thinking is separating them this clinic started ten years ago with the idea that it would serve as patients from greece we started small with four people and we see more than thirty five thousand patients during that time some worry about this capital flight hundreds of greek companies have fled a corporate tax rate of twenty nine percent in favor of north macedonia's ten percent tax and they employ north macedonians for an average of four hundred fifty dollars a month two thirds of the greek minimum wage greek companies own the largest supermarket chain here the largest network of petrol stations and sole refinery and one of the largest high street banks greece was consistently the top foreign investor in northwest since the fall of communism and even after it fell to third place during its prolonged economic crisis it still manages to sink more than half a billion dollars a year into this economy accounting for ten percent of foreign investment there are

currently some four hundred greek companies here representing investments of two billion dollars this vision was impossible two decades ago when greece imposed a trade embargo on this country the economic and. political war over the country's name is now over leaving only cultural issues to be settled the first time in europe. this kind of problem which requires a war sounds what we know we managed to do it on the table even not to start the war that may be because people remember the last war who is himself creek the son of communists forced to flee behind the iron curtain into what was then yugoslavia after they lost the greek civil war in one nine hundred forty nine the improvement of relations with greece is encouraging both macedonians like him to apply for jewel citizenship and become european union subjects ahead of the rest of the country for some that even more the national autonomy is the

ultimate price jumps are open loss al-jazeera. covers a take of the top stories here it out to sara venezuela's president has rallied his troops and says they're ready to fight the u.s. and other enemies the opposition leader and self declared interim president meanwhile is warning the president against blocking aid saying that's almost genocidal. the iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program is addressed tens of thousands in tehran on the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution oh yes so today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anybody and we will not ask permission from anyone to build them our military power will continue and i would like to make it clear to you the iranian nation that our military power over

the last forty years and specifically over the past five has been shown to the whole world and how surprised them. the acting u.s. defense secretary is on an unannounced visit to wash canister patrick shanahan says government involvement in peace talks with the taliban is crucial to ending the seventeen year war the taliban regards the government as illegitimate footballer hakim al arabiya is on his way to his adopted home australia always expected to get a hero's welcome the twenty five year olds was freed from jail in thailand after bahrain dropped its extradition request the thai government had faced a growing international outcry since his arrest whilst on honeymoon eleven weeks ago australia had granted him political asylum five years ago in the player he'd been tortured or killed if forced to return to his birthplace of bahrain.

saudi arabia says it doesn't know where the body of murdered journalist jamal khashoggi is in an interview on u.s. television the minister of state for foreign affairs said the kingdom is still investigating addle al your bear accused turkey of not sharing intelligence jamal khashoggi was killed in october in the saudi consulate in istanbul. thailand's election commission is expected to rule on whether the king's older sister can run for prime minister and next month's election the tyrant's the chart party announced princess as a candidate on friday. you . see.

in this way when populist president. is sworn in for a second consecutive term following elections deemed fraudulent by his opponents and much of the international community. under his presidency the country with the world's largest oil reserves has plunged into acute poverty hunger is widespread hospitals are crumbling the most basic medicine is impossible to find and children are dying from malnutrition and preventable diseases. this year inflation is expected to surpass three million percent at the current rate millions of desperate venezuelans flee to neighboring countries unleashing the biggest migration crisis in latin america. with the crucial support of the military fuses to declare a humanitarian emergency or recognize the authority of the opposition controlled legislature the only institution he doesn't control the crisis is about to reach

a tipping point. january twenty first thirty sergeants call him but his wayland's to rebel against whom they call a dictator. and a new wave of anti-government protests and repression it sets in motion a plan devised by opposition leaders at home and in exile with the tacit support of the united states canada and fourteen major latin american countries. two days later. and the world by surprise the until now barely known president of the. opposition controlled national assembly declares himself interim president justification is that my bhutto is not a legitimate leader but a usurper and a dictator. one country after the other recognizes the thirty five year old engineer as president as hundreds of thousands of venezuelans take to the streets again to show their support now we have

a new leader. in venezuela who has promised to bring elections and constitutional order back to venezuela and security back to the region we cannot delay this critical conversation which has the world's attention for the sake of venezuela and the region we must support the venezuelan people and do so right now. because president denounces a coup d'etat instigated by the united states which says it won't rule out military options to oust if necessary but mother who has powerful allies to russia and china one in the u.s. to stay out of an israel at. one point he maintains the loyalty of the military crucial to his prominence and power. venezuela now has two men claiming to be their leader one who holds power and controls the guns and another who is recognized by much of the world and who believes he has the support of the majority of his people

the power struggle is intensifying as well and hundreds of thousands of his supporters appealed to the armed forces to desert. in a baby on account of he remains firm that he will not step down or hold new internationally supervised elections this as washington tightens the noose imposing brutal economic sanctions on the impoverished nation meant to hasten the president's downfall it was the luck of the draw that put his today in january it was his conservative popular will party's turn to the president of the national assembly and. with many of the party's better known deputies in exile or prison junior parliamentarian was chosen for the job. al-jazeera sat down with opposition leader one waythe all to hear how he believes this unfolding confrontation will play out. one way doors thank you for talking to al-jazeera let me

start by asking you how much more economic pressure against another two administration can you ask for without hurting ordinary voters wayland's who are already suffering. one of the of their initial and i mean there are those when you see them being only there were some that are but i mean you know we hope. there's a movie. explode this year on the base. but i mean this way it came out on the ice. people who. when they got in my head and this is. as you get to know my people and what i want to get out of. their. socio.

you know. various. i mean they're all of this. said. wardle but. you know. all the rich and embrace i want to. i mean they're going to be in. the lead america oil rich and they go up in us up in us. and they go tell me your name in those are places you're not doing as well and as you don't you know that it broke there's

a lot of it i don't i don't know the he in the. galut i walk by and on his way down blows your claim you notice in the middle meat on this movie in the uk but it. won't rain in a scene and the whole in a c. is a dent in the meat that they took a simple way to look at this is it the enquirer separate or are you dreaming they separate all can not be. there and thus you get annoyed. what about let me talk you believe it isn't going to go but how long can people who are already suffering resist that nobody nobody. on the boards when then it would be a homeowner's ok me get an. order but all i want to replace. or simply mean that you know what they mean not real madrid you fronted on that one in the album it hit and we were done to. him in israel and the troubles

are the absolute. modal. but oh and the needle doing this with a look that was in a sort of i guess it's all sort of put in but a little more fully studying it i still get your money that you don't that of course i'm out there but on that end when i've been in months and approximately a minute. they can get as it were to him by the same copy that it will be amenable to mess also a year. or over five days and i was going to him to let them out on the list in minutes but i say get. more he said that any impact of them being in. a good you lot of women is your money that you would distribute that. or you're sick with that i would say what are but a modem. to get them under the sun the. oil has formed the onus.

and they all do you know you never. get them on the bottom of the butt up where they threw it at what i mean. they were said to put it up us. you know they said oh. groan ego or more we. see in this or chronicles or that i mean i can. you expect the military who supports president mother to allow that to happen. you know better or that is. that i know of good reputation of when you do see i'm a lucky thing in support of the sea. and i see it as any mean going to see this at all mia russia why in mexico are offering to mediate in this conflict and the european union for example is proposing a ninety day period to bring both sides together in order to reach a peaceful settlement to this confrontation why is that acceptable to you but you

know i think of it ok don't play could get a cumbia you know began you know because you proceeded to. in a sort of heart of must say there are a bully good yeah i mean i can stand there i mean i was out of market at the end yes you only i came home and there in this village and then when i went into the zone and we went into this room they were we had our own they make we do why we. didn't want to pray or see on my phone don't let almost any. that i. assume. i mean the you know i'm really neo ok most of all that i mean alice as it was young going to lose you exactly to put in all of their own video but i had to but i know what i could there be over the next year leave it in venezuela is ok we import on the book at them being. going to get your legs if. they will not only that they will no posters you don't say must you know i mean i don't know my jewellery you

can go to put it on we see and they can go to. a lot of the op will need to go. in for call and in only go by do you say so you see absolutely no possibility of negotiations with nicolas muddle to reach an agreement. about what you say you want which is new elections and a transition to a democratic government and the most in going to your preferences and it was a few minutes with rice and madison who really see it. as us and we differ who you are his. yeah but i mean there is someone who you were at a galaxy that i thought they were and they will look at us that way to me so much that are going to go or that will never going like you're in no no if i see no. rain if a man though i don't dig under your belt you're going to own a. they're about to make india he lives on would it be sort of worth your time in the door to go. and you also see him a lot. but i'm going to make an even more remote. north of me

more of what i hope that the u.s. . you know. the l o l e. k by doing that with the little that he was in the white get my head but i didn't. you know yes i would get on a bit of them and they say is it possible. they get it or not but it would up would employ them into the. production as it is the one way you know and i look and it was you know and if you need even a sort of i don't be in the way i look. at a thought it would break his opponent they love it i know will it. took him a spoiler i mean that the better you move your cool but. i don't say much i look come out of it i'm not like i mean we broaden the base but isn't there an enormous

risk that if you don't try to negotiate that could be a bloodbath. i know it's a simple extreme i. mean that's a bit of a look at the same i would want to know what. they're going to get at him i mean. you know it was a really nice. book oh not yet this was a unanimous i agree he said i see no need use. me not at all in this ng go niño us. if you come into it and i see no opening fire. or poor quality one of my seed but i mean i said they seem to stick with that oh you know what i mean because i mean this is so mean or so you have to pass on the minister now the so i got a bottom out on at the moment the noise that i'm a little bit of what it was on the road they had to. look at what i don't know me

as you know that i'm blessed with some of the nikken for many throw their toys you know they're going to come in and out if you hadn't you'll make it on the dial of where you sort of they go if it's after but. i mean it right after but so you might get off. for. a little lucky or a better me time i will know when to go but as soon as you're in venezuela porking nor reason let me hold up as your own but i'm in this with that that might be one conflict or you miss with it ok let me tell you in the end moving in to support you on the need more. people are not willing to answer i'm glad i came out of the i mean. i would apostle i'm going to insist you don't. buy. it idea. what you're agreeing with me there are risks the government has already shown on television just today the tanks the snipers they are prepared to confront

demonstrators especially what they call civil. rest your head is a tricky as you know i'm going to say but i'm going to. do your. number on the maoists are they in iraq to you i don't assume. i don't then we get on the air by somebody that is one of the lower leg and it was young. but all he came with an. yeah i mean the from the men that if i'm alone are going to show. up or your pulled out of europe by the moon but this is a very unusual situation you have two men both claiming to be the president won it last little with the support of the military actually has the power in this country and another yourself who has the support of much of the international community and their people. how is this all going to end i mean at the numbers or if the numbers

are going to have to do. there again i would but i'm in the us and i do not believe it and you have been wound up going to. even. look at because it is your movies and if you know we will end and we don't want to see the horn most women dealing on back and we'll pull the rope if it was used that they have a wedding in february simplicity and the. who wore it better but also manuel when he went one took a saying to people died but i mean to get it in as often as you want to. go to a he said without. any motors i know he won't do it but i said it and it could mean and it was a moment that i mean that for saddam us to. no i know where i am without a border and what i would want us. not the any of us ever at the head of the any of us are interim bottom. that those us see where symbol current conflict

as an organism we're going to monitor the political conflict and it out and for a while as i didn't read in this young. minister and he got it on about the import of. someone globalization can i do relate but i'll. be in the young players to get it done and you know. she's. not really deliberate and not helping with us but i mean this you know put an element on them i know that we all want to. get them off. my knee and i will. be going to let me thank us. and also when they did it went on us in a. better source. we pick a need to do in the mode of say to heal instead well what about. you

know what about on the minutes where you've been speaking in secret members of the military what have they told you when i thought i mean. they know me that it's really you know he really thought of them or try and take what i want to sell our going to do or even what. i go to. you know what is written in. particularly what i want to see that i don't normally open in the whole area and. those that i want us are not in the us. the same collation they wanted his immediate out there for saddam operatic express also their content don't include this i see and this is in the future this idea was that any of these are true and your daughter to douse so for me to be had better say what they want of the content and i want us as implementable to see that. you're not there for you not know that. but well that the

neo. cons going on the see there were several. but i meant that your bias in the media role. in that all that all of it is going to tell. me that include you washington says that all options are on the table would you support u.s. military intervention if all else fails. or going in or the mobile serious thing going out of. canada really that. put it in the image of many that have been a lot out of. it about the approach you were based. on what you got them in this way but you're not ruling it out are you. that almost. all of them i said are going to sing gaudio look at the here and you know you go and i really. i may not go so she had to pull him up in the limousine when it will matter if you end up at the rodeo again and in play i'll bet as a resource you own people morning cause i was what i said i'm a guy i say that because for many people watching this conflict unfold it certainly

looks like the white house is dictating the terms of president nicolas mothers departure when. you. need to muster. enough we have showing do so but only hear the. international. thousand people as i said a minute but i said i would open. a moderate course in which older place you can approach more desirable as any vote you see it in a one way also you know they are going to diminish learn that a little bit to say say let me give us your minutes we'll look. at this in the middle east. movie important record. and over here but without us support would you be sitting there that's right i mean i like to go to a bunch of them and i need a certain way and i don't want them

a drum need given it at the moment the democrats are going to my leader at that we're going to get done the. moon he didn't know some of the four thousand or so because we're going to. go you know because you know i mean as well as you do you know you're not you. quadruped was. selective selective sanctions not blanket sanctions that's the big that's the. point of disagreement right now between the e.u. and the white house but i knew what. he made of. us and you know if you're not use . us in then some of the manager who doesn't include or but look as if you. will pay dearly for this and then the ego to our implement them getting into some. of them in the same place and the information i received to him it wasn't the end of this in the bill it was in the media. so it was in the basin to me you'll see

you'll get america. wanted to persuade. people in database and they're going to separate in the me. to them and they might he now look at what i was invited to go to bed as truth. inclusive last year. that i would look at in a little bit with the way that i mean i know. a minister is what they're always say may have said oh i don't know what there was a miracle to me and but if. it's not in a place in the us it's legal. let me say that there is and based on a set up at my hand then when president model says that there's a coup d'etat underway instigated by the united states and i think there is you would agree with me that there is an effort to bring about regime change there's no question about that but how do you feel about the united states again intervening

here in latin america given its track record for decades in countries like chile and guatemala more recently in libya and in syria and why should the outcome be any different here in venezuela a process so it is a journalist you're going to put them in to put on as well as i'm going to get a good. and the my dear. i don't know when they were going know it but i mean the national data from the orbit of the leading steele. says. there. is a lot. more to sign up and the more a minute i want to topical bit out of him ok if you're going to pick a guy to see took a look at you are you going to subordinate. in a way say america you know why you seem to feel you can win. and i don't. see any.

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is al-jazeera and live from studio fourteen here at headquarters in doha for the back to go welcome to the new straits what's expected to be a tense week begins in venezuela with major protests and military drills the political standoff between president nicolas maduro and opposition leader shows no sign of ending and neither do the divisions within the international community also on the grid as the battle rages to seize. and played in eastern syria the global fight against the on two group is taking sent to stay. the u.n. security council this hour we'll have a live report from new york and from the take the syria border and celebration and defiant iran mocks the fortieth anniversary of its islamic revolution eisenhower found rowhani vos to expand his country's ballistic missile program and says

iranians will defeat u.s. sanctions but will the younger generation be onboard honoring a legacy or were buys in the past we'll look at why a new statue of ethiopia's former emperor haile selassie has created some controversy online amanda chappelle connect with me throughout the show on twitter using the hash tag it's a newsgroup. with a news great live on air and certainly online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you very much for joining us the political crisis in venezuela shows no sign of ending as i knew week of opposition protests begins against the leadership of president nicolas maduro trade unions are taking to the streets in caracas this monday there also separate protests planned by teaches and hospital workers opposition leader has called for a major rally on tuesday he wants to pressure the military to defy president my

doors orders and allow an aid convoy to cross the colombian border into venezuela that says a large scale military drills are expected to continue throughout the week the government is describing them as preparations to repel a possible u.s. invasion. today the most important military exercises that our republican history recalls have been successfully initiated throughout the national territory the most important because of the situation we are living in a real threat from the imperialist government of donald trump against the peace of venezuela the head of the empire has threatened us and that is generated indignation rejection by all the people of venezuela and of the world's public opinion. arlette speak to al-jazeera serious a bull in caracas for as soteris an opposition demonstrations expected this week including this monday how are things shaping up tell us where you are and what's

been happening. well most definitely is going to be an intense week here in venezuela as the opposition member self declared interim president won y.o.i. calling for people to take to the streets we know that some protests have started this monday small protests in hospitals and labor unions who are among other things but the major demonstration is expected to take place this tuesday the big demand is to force the government to allow aid into the country and also to continue putting pressure on the military in order to take sites to rebel against the government of nicolas maduro let's not forget what's going on going up the borders of venezuela especially on the border between colombia and venezuela where aid mostly from the united states but also canada have started to arrive some food some medicine that the opposition is hoping will make it into the country the government is saying about aid won't make it in there basically saying that about it's not

enough in order to solve venezuela's problems if a government is not recognizing that there is a need of almost anything here already in a society in spite of the enormous economic crisis that we're witnessing here and that's why of the government is saying that they won't allow any type of aid in an interesting question teresa from one of our viewers here on facebook gaga who asks why does the opposition not make their point by calling for elections which i think they have but i'm curious to know what the opposition strategy is right now as we seem to be in a stalemate in this crisis. while most definitely the big demand the opposition has right now is a call for general elections what they're saying is that they're being forced to take desperate measures what we've been told is that they won the majority of the national assembly and then the government consider that national assembly to be in contempt then they asked the government to make a recall referendum the government deny them that chance and demonstrations

happened the government is completely ignoring the officer. controlled national assembly they created a parallel legislative body and that's why they're saying that there is no democracy in venezuela but there is no division of powers and that's why they are demanding presidential elections because they believe that the elections that happened last years were filled with fraud and irregularities and that's why in a way we're seeing international pressure mostly from the european union the united states countries in the region who are basically demanding and trying to force the government of. presidential elections once again the government is saying that those elections are not necessary and not already won last year and that you know they will continue i'm that they want to continue to oppose any type of aid from entering the country and despite this pressure to research whether it's internal with the demonstrations or external with the pressure by the united states and other countries who are backing the opposition despite this pressure nicolas maduro

remains defiant as we heard him on sunday because he still has the military on his side is that likely to change though any time soon. well for now it seems like likely we're seeing through the smelliest military exercises that the government continues in a way to make a lot of investments towards the military here let's not forget of the history of the support that former president chavez gave to the military they called it here the civilian military union which is basically in power in venezuela today a government of over china is gave a strategic role to the military in venezuela government and most of the military remain loyal to the president to the president of venezuela. spite of this we know that there are sometimes sectors from the middle and lower ranks who are affected by the economic crisis that have tried to rebel but immediately the type of

rebellions where were controlled many of those were detained and also what's important to know is that the leadership of the military leadership remains loyal to the president of the a lot of the president but i'm a little because they hold key positions in his government. terry civil life forests in caracas thank you very much for that very civil keeping an eye for us on the situation in venezuela spota sorry expected this monday there and as is the case with these prices it's always the people who are suffering venezuela's economic hardship is hurting its most vulnerable people a lot america is in to see a new man went to a care home to see how residents there are coping. this is hill of hope in western venezuela in old age home where destitute or abandon senior citizens are meant to live out their last years with dignity. but as always in times of acute economic hardship it's the youngest and the oldest who suffer

most in the absence of full time staff seventy nine year old. keeps the gate locked and helps those who can't walk because he still can. we help each other out amongst ourselves michael most everyone he suffers from hypertension but there's no medicine here. and solace could walk and see when he came here three years ago now he's blind from untreated cataracts can't walk and his tormented by a hernia i think. last night i was in terrible pain. i cry from the pain. i am very sad. only god knows how long i'll remain. sometimes there's nothing to eat we have no help from the government there is no one to help us. the home is

a foundation that runs on donations but they've dried up so there are no nurses or doctors and very very little food. the cook says it wasn't always that way. they used to throw weight food once there was abandoned. until the crisis came the crisis began six years ago she says most of the donors have left the country hyperinflation has led to widespread poverty and scarcity of everything. it's time for dinner and so until you have a c.e.o. who's confined to a wheelchair helps guide for the beneath this who's blind to the dining room and this is the dinner for the i will eat also grandfathers as they're called it's cornflower oiled water because we're told it's been more than a year since they received any donations of milk and this will be the last thing

they're going to eat until tomorrow. the cook and the cleaner will be leaving soon and they'll be left alone to put themselves to bed no later than six so they won't feel so hungry until breakfast. they are resigned they say to being forgotten in a country with so many other desperate need. to see in human i'll just. copy. and worth reminding you again that we have a special page up at al jazeera dot com with our latest updates on the venezuela crisis a crisis that continues to divide the international community you have on their list of countries that support president maduro which include china cuba russia and just recently sadek the southern african development community and also the countries if you scroll down that support opposition. they include of course the united states canada brazil france germany spain among others some very useful information on there at dot com and as always with venezuela we're getting.