if he gets up there was a power vacuum off to the withdrawal of soviet forces and luke usually moves food to the territories in a for trusted simple. because only. in the north people gathered around the northern alliance and its leader ahmed shah massoud the so-called lion of publishers. in the south and east another movement began to assert itself in ethnic pashtun areas they called themselves the taliban and was supported militarily by pakistan then in conflict with india. the pakistanis were trying to impose their

will on the future of afghanistan and they wanted to ensure that afghanistan was not going to be a strong viable nation state that could in any way reconnect as they had in the past was india. taliban leader mullah mohammad omar was a war hero from the years of insurgency against the soviet union. pakistan decided it was going to assist all of mohammad omar in this group which had no name and what they provided was money weaponry. training ammunition trucks tactical advice and then eventually they provided they. the students religious students afghans and pakistanis in the name of what became to mean thirteen thousand. within the northwestern frontier province. joining go in and the fight.

before becoming an attorney julie soon worked as an intelligence analyst at the pentagon sources in afghanistan warned against you know karl's close relationship with the taliban. worldwide there was a very broad perception that unocal was wrecking with the us government to promote the taleban as the most likely source for a stable single group in trolling afghanistan. and there was so i think an effort or or hopefulness on the part of some that if this pipeline could be put through it could be a source of stability or development for afghanistan and i personally don't like

the idea that that stability would mean that the taliban would be in charge. with the civil war raging mahdi militia went on these first journey into afghanistan. at the time there were six or seven warlords that were feuding with each other and it was you know if afghanistan was not a real safe place to be. the first thing i noticed is the devastation. the counter reminded me of the pictures i had seen of. germany pows world war two. the taliban headquarters it was it was a house that was still all intact but there was a stick of furniture in the house and all that we we slept on the floor and i know . i had to use kind

a little traveling road show sort of thing course you know now slide projector yeah because there were named electricity in the building but i had some diagrams and charts in shoreham some things and some just basically to describe the project and and to tell them what the benefits would be and then they were very interested. they were measuring always if you guys will quit fighting with each other and form a government to get you in recognition that allows us to attract the world back to maybe be financial. that we may have to deal with. but the taliban were on the offensive and drove the northern alliance concept of the cities of mazar e sharif and kabul. they then controlled most of the country. mohammad's not too long president during the

soviet occupation had been spared by the northern alliance but the taliban showed no mercy not bhutto was first tortured cuss treated and then hind alongside his brother. the execution was a clear sign of what kind of regime had seized power in kabul. julie says travelled in secrecy took a bill in nine hundred ninety seven in order to learn more about the new regime. i had gone into kabul when i was held by the taleban secretly base they dressed as as an afghan woman in a burka us. they seemed very foreign to me.

certainly many conservative muslims but even among them they generally do not support the sort of extremism that the taliban stand for i see the taliban really is an alien force. their attitude toward women or a number of human rights issues i found disturbing but i think it was that larger political issue of them being back i had pakistanis that was most disturbing to me . not. when the tide went to me and called out did you kill your own good but you need to have a good experience with. the taleban man said bitterly just today it's. still

being learning insanities and their mother says they can call them dead it was not to kill her but to troop levels in twelve days to mash them tremendously that was the problem mark. america's concern about afghanistan had been minimal before the unocal pipeline project but autumn and gus negotiations spock's the clinton administration's interest in the country. i'd probably go to washington d c o once every six state weeks and i would typically meet with the state department the n.s.a. and cia. the cia was was very very well for you know they have this shadowy image i guess you call of that i found very straightforward and very professional and i think the clinton administration was really committed to helping you know american

business be successful. we enjoyed and really strong support from the. unit wasn't the only oil company that wanted to build. pipeline in afghanistan option time company breed us was also trying to do a deal with the taliban. oh but he does win this fight and the meal was over a little bit of news of the hands of. the news of the know is that this is a little head to the level. of a kid who will come to the can they all look the same as those of us. the taliban delegation arrived at unit house headquarters in december ninety ninety seven. martin came home one day and said that would you thank about having

a group of taliban and a delegation come to our home for dinner. didn't know what to say at the time i had to thank it trail and i was pretty naive maybe they come in and say how americans home and realize that we're an. average regular people maybe it would you know be good for them to to do this and agree to do it. on a multi million did the rightmost to avoid offending the taliban visitors and removed all the religious pictures and figures. but they did not remove the christmas trees the air that the taliban came to our house there was a charity fundraiser thing and we had seven christmas trees in our house and the talabani just absolute their mind they couldn't figure out what that was all about

and i think they were trying to. and then make a connection between a christmas tree and the birth of jesus christ and you know that new job trying to make a religious connection with what's his christmas tree all about. they never did understand that thing. as a whole there was free because it is too different from. eastern culture but in the phone to the nazis i would be i would focus society and the progress to. new outfit and custom that. dressed in their newly acquired jackets the afghans visited one of you know cows offshore platforms. and fresh and i got as they were amazed they were stunned to see these platforms in the gulf of mexico over seven and live three hundred feet of water i think just the

magnitude in the complexity of things and they were very well blown away by. the next leg of a journey to the visitors to omaha nebraska where they met one of america's foremost experts on afghanistan petroleum resources. the united states are trying their best to talk to the taliban who are obviously beginning to take over the whole of afghanistan the state department asked me to talk to the taliban's and they brought them in here. and so this room instead of having guys in suits and ties like they always had before these were talabani and you know was co-captain turbans and long beards and i would have to say they are afghans no problem and so i told him i showed him all this neat whiz bang satellite imagery and stuff and if

you're looking at our country we're looking at your country where you is and you can do this to show you how to do this all you need to do is come over here and get educated in this stuff. the taliban teams journey ended in washington d.c. where they met leading officials of the state department. the state department was still hopeful that this was going to be a part of the international combined effort that would be profitable for unocal profitable for the afghans commercially and financially profitable for the afghans in terms of development and education profitable for the region. the taliban were interest in the project they were keen on making it happen they never did sign a cooperation agreement or anything like that because they were afraid to sign anything without knowing specifically that mullah omar was was behind it.

there are hardly any pictures of the mysterious taliban leader. in these rare footage of him. tries to hide behind a blanket. and . i was in khandahar the first time he was there and they kept saying that they were going to go talk i basked if i could go seen and they said no no no. you're not seeing shots of to see them all over your. mind you know khalid was in dialogue with the taliban about the pipelines another actor began to assert himself in afghanistan. bin laden.

this son of a saudi construction millionaire was a local hero because he participated in the insurgency against the soviet union. in return to afghanistan in nine hundred ninety six after having be forced to leave the sudan. now he was preparing for a new war global jihad. wayne started on. the good hearted in consequence a country that called believe nation and see the phone it was sometimes not anybody's colleagues eager to sue the taliban moved in to kind of not to be protected. as a rival back in afghanistan coincided with my own to work with the un. never

met the salad at a lot and i saw him once in the bazaar then as convoy car passing by but i never you know we didn't labor anything we didn't know each other were looking at the other so. that first year that he was in the area was the time when he's solidified his relationship with mullah mohammad omar. natoma and rid of the. she wears it out when they said oh why did you teach of them was fed up of what i say you have to do with the job too but honey i'm going to miss you more when the interview took on a whole almost out of what. in afghanistan marty miller and you know col how did the cia did the training of local workers who would to be employed on the so-called peace pipeline. we'd like to hire

locally so we had employment opportunities for the afghans in fact one of the things we did in khandahar as we established a training center we found an old abandoned warehouse that we outfitted then we brought some equipment any a welding equipment. tools that were needed for the training. without being aware of it to me that had established his training center in the same street as a sawmill bin laden's house. and i never heard of the guy before i didn't know who it was and looking back on it. kind of gives me the creeps this is think about i was act most of that guy. was someone bin ladin was also busy building training facilities.

take the worst possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to flour and make a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live it is a cause something bad. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing we have fortunate to be able to continue to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the stories in a way that is important to worthless. everyone has a story worth hearing. and cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . with the low stakes billion people in the world production is under increasing

strain to keep the pace with the growing global population to serious environmental solutions programs discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable to see there's the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera. eleanor and taylor not in the top stories are now. brazil has agreed to store tons of humanitarian aid as a center near the border with venezuela the move follows talks between a new ambassador sent by venezuela's opposition leader. and brazilian authorities

were declared himself interim president last month and is now in a battle of wills with the government of president nicolas maduro which has blocked the aid from entering the country through isabeau has more from caracas there's going to be an enormous demonstration expected to take place in bennett's well at this coming tuesday and demanded by one way though and members of the opposition to allow be aided piling up at the border between venezuela and colombia to be allowed into the country the government would only thing that they won't let that aid into the country they say that venezuela has enough in order to supply that is anything but in spite of that what we have been able to freemount him out of there is many many people in this country and desperate need thailand's election commission is disqualified the king's older sister from running for prime minister in next month's election the thai rock so chart party shocked the country when it announced princess it will rot as its candidate on friday breaking the tradition of royalty

staying out of politics then back down a day later after the king said it was inappropriate because rule two should be above politics. refugee footballers on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand i came under a b. was arrested in bangkok in november while on honeymoon already in wanted him extradited to serve a ten year prison sentence for dependent ism but he said he would be tortured if he was sent back. u.s. acting defense secretary has met afghanistan's president on a surprise visit to kabul actually shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's drive to end the seventeen year war there you had discussions with ashraf ghani on national security issues and reiterated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban and iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy nine

islamic revolution he told the crowds in tehran that the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program those are headlines to stay with us television oil continues next news for our for you straight after that thanks. osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taleban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled been logging to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. was this your first post that idea that it is yes but what i think you know i think

that there are. there are safeguards that are left out of government on the level found that while they're going very well and their value and they know it you better be careful both of them off and on and. yet. on the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u.s. embassy in nairobi. simle tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring towns and in two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and building four thousand were injured. the i'll call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by suicide bombers. i don't think i was terribly surprised when i heard about what had happened because bin laden was there he was able to do it and man in

a standing he was being attempted by the taliban. the young spy wanted to learn more about bin ladin and visited his enemies the northern alliance it was a perilous journey on horseback. along by roads. my interest in what was going on in the n.t. taliban areas because that was the area where we did not have a lot of them from ation in my sense from back in washington is that a lot of officials and policy makers were just writing off the resistance to the taliban. she met northern alliance leader ahmad shah masood who asked for support from the west in the fight against the taliban and al qaida. during her visit says go to unique insight into what was to come.

northern alliance prisons were full of foreign fighters from several countries their goal was to participate in the global jihad. she was especially shocked by what the prisoners told her about the close relationship between pakistan the taliban and al qaida. most rude urgent he wanted to alert the west he wanted more people to know about the taliban and how they were interacting with bin ladin in to emphasize that if we were opposing bin laden that we should really realize that he and the taliban were sharing the same goals and resources in funding. but judy says report was not well received by her bosses at the pentagon. the state department was even more annoyed people were saying they were very upset about my trip and i was told i simply wasn't going to

be able to stay and they weren't going to give me my security clearance back so essentially they fired me. the clinton administration continued into efforts to influence the taliban regime. and we were in the middle of trying to. get them to modify their behavior and i'm a believer and you talk to your friends and your enemies talking is not acceptance of those practices. from day one the clinton administration was trying to push back in first you know control and then pressure the taliban regime into change and of course that escalated once bin ladin left sudan and went to afghanistan in one thousand nine hundred six the bombings of ninety eight were conducted from there so it was very much on the forefront. the problem of osama bin

laden stood in the way you have any agreement about future or of the pipelines. he had declared war on america and this on the bombings of our embassies and kenya really put us on a war footing with sound and then from that point on we were actually trying to kill him. on the twentieth of august nineteen ninety seven president clinton ordered the launch of cruise missiles against several bases and understand. four of the bases would destroyed you know twenty five. were killed but bin laden himself escaped i remember when president clinton sent cruise missiles and afghanistan. i just that's when i told. my. last in the morning directors it was time that this this one got to go anywhere any time soon.

at that point unocal withdrew from the pipeline project but the french intelligence analyst joins show but he saw it argues that the idea of an oil and gas pipeline lived on. the states where it was thinking there were pressuring the taliban to release bin laden. by negotiating about the pipeline of same's on the taliban were thinking they were calling united states of not in by discussing with them other items. a mile marker of five line issue was a leverage in preserving his country from u.s. strikes and avoiding to take a decision on midnight an. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide to mohammed

ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed that says it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american businesses over his project or u.s. diplomats. there's security a tighter security guarantee. that . the in. the terror attacks against east african embassies tested the relationship between the taliban and the al qaeda leader. his presence in

afghanistan. became a big part of the trip. in the early shift between a kind of sign and then from our stomachs. there are. a lot of. that would be part of the sea was a victim of thirty six or so you know sort of blood because you know sid valuable the low bass line near zero but the kind you oh and your way those shooter was on thursday. the g. it counted out as you know. and just sort of figured it was just as you would understand the saudis have. done and found the. school the for you from a hunger strike in front of another. for the. news that he. did

that is. towards the end of the ninety's the pipelines were no longer on the agenda during talks between the u.s. and the taliban. the u.s. aust thirty times for osama bin laden to be handed over but the taliban gave no clear answer that tyson last century now where the taliban the more we would close and the more they push back the more we push them on al-qaeda expelling us out of bin ladin the more they would fish back. they just got more decided. to keep. not follow the teach you talk to no man no of the honey you. tell your bottle. for them that you know that nobody. does a fish will reach one hundred not to do but do

a know or tell you one of the gods of the company. when george w. bush came to power in two thousand and one even you did tend to get bin ladin extradited and get started with the construction of the oil pipeline. by van unit. it was out of the picture but others tried to revive the plans. w. bush in this direct connection with the oil industry he was to try to be more services work that. i'll call you to made a special documentary about the prelude to september the eleventh. american born adam gadahn is the film's narrator an attack on afghanistan had been planned for

a long time the americans are boiling mad about a number of things the islamic emirates domination of strategic energy reserves as well as the route of a proposed gas pipeline from the caspian sea. and most of all its refusal to hand over osama. in berlin in july two thousand and one a final dramatic meeting about the taliban was arranged between representatives of the united states government and all the players in the region. to pongs during these talks there's a u.s. representatives that will make this ultimatum that will have entered the car because of holes in the carpet the bomb. the americans had informed their allies during a meeting in germany of their plan to invade afghanistan in the autumn

before the first snowfall which is what the eventually did so we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike. get my. eye . i was there in nine and they were in new york it has already said and i found it there what a tragic and kind of out of the people of the united states and innocent people was

wiping out. of those not all of it is but i need. not understand the above of the so i begin to tell you that the good study of i would be judged on zero or on but it would. by this time and i'm just reduce. the initial ones are there to tell you about us so to speak to. trust. the taliban offered to extradite osama bin laden to a third country but now the americans have decided to remove both him and the taliban the from the seventh of october america and britain attacked. the northern alliance exploited the resulting chaos and the taliban regime unraveled. on the twentieth of november two thousand and one the capital city of

kabul failed. with u.s. backing comic-con saw it was inaugurated as president his brother had been working for unocal and because i was well acquainted with the pipeline plan it was. soon after nine eleven in a couple of moms suddenly we feared that state governments from the region got together and basically decided to revive the project. that means that even without knowing the fate of guns that journalists ability all these countries at come to the same conclusion they had reached before nine eleven the spy plane was crucial that. the interests. after years of war there is still no pipeline the taliban is back in strength and

reluctant to negotiate about peace. they call off the kind of on a government brought to a new going into another title of democracy and they can mumble i just meant dave did not bring peace to afghanistan the insurgency against paygo had been installed by the international community is to integrate into. the war against the taliban has made the building of the pipeline impossible. the afghan north also has some oil after the pipeline was shelved john idol who had left unocal considered investing in an oil and gas project in mazar e sharif. look at afghanistan at the local risk is amazingly high.

but the reward is also moderate. opportunity for. the rich to argue that the country's petroleum. previously known. as the geology in that part of the world for both mineral resources and that's pretty spectacular. who are. those resources first. and then the past thirty years of war nobody's been able to do much. one afghan who tried to develop the country. stage was king mohammed zahir shah. after thirty years in exile he returned

a lot of afghanistan's history has been. when he was only nineteen years old nine hundred thirty seven he gave the u.s. firm inland exploration company exclusive rights to oil extraction in the northern areas of the country. they were also given the rights to build a sixteen hundred kilometer pipeline. but the second world put a stop to these plans. older afghans. a time of peace economic progress the introduction of democracy and education. they need any. major new attempts to restart oil and gas production in the fifty's and sixty's a series of test wells were drilled and. mapped the country's resources.

afghanistan at the end of the seventy's as part of the atlas afghanistan project. he got a unique insight into the maps of mineral resources. there was one american geologist me and two hundred fifty soviet russian geologist. so when i left afghanistan in late seventy eight i was actually be ported by the communists who had taken over the government i left having sent my maps out of the country in a diplomatic pouch came back to the united states and i worked on the mineral resources in afghanistan ever since. west of mazower other remains of a canister finally from the soviet era. the plant is stayed in operation but no longer produces as much as when the russians were there. mouthing about on the roof

on the at i don't understand kill zone not that hold only shasta million goes down as it has sold a thousand odds past flower johnny surely inside the sudden a mission that. could be quite sure that in asia. as the asia as it has sunk. in two thousand and seven and experienced oil geologist rediscovered this area. he'd previously worked for unocal but he now worked as head of the norwegian aid project oil for development he wanted to help afghanistan with a new oil will. it too long to his dissuaded from traveling to the north but with an armed escort he went anyway. at one gas plant

he discovered a brick don't room where documentation of soviet oil and gas production had been hidden. behind the secret wool lay old maps and seismic so these that showed afghanistan's oil and gas resources was significantly greater than the outside world was aware of and made his decision though there was so much all the time that all this is ultimately existed. on the message in that i was built although shitsville fourteen is a thirtieth in over the in the midst of a little slow deal with. the administration offices but oil and gas in mazar i sharif allocated in old soviet buildings. chief engineer mohammed to john attardi has made it his life's work to preserve the

dusty archives. several times he saved maps and documents from destruction. lavoy we can absolutely critical and i got on the ground and did at home i will not undergo no why would i not perfectly have it on my wall or younger ones stuff on my third cousin that i was young good our time in condition to go in yeah the world didn't shut down after about us you can it turns out i'm not here and she asked me how much of a mine he is he knows when the last two are you know that it would take me a lot of their guy a moment as he is american not let a young girl letter he called her knowledge no not me if you don't let me turn muslim now that's a woman i don't know why you don't know how. i felt i don't know a lot on the whole didn't already know me and.

despite too little money and poor health i toddy has systemized to finals and preserve the valuable data for the future i don't know one of the red legalities or going to church of are they not wanted or india could make about when they get a moment ago i thought that i'd buy the time but correct anyhow i mean a child marriage need not call my you know or don't follow the law for. you may have to hold off on the way mad mad cow but he'll be a good question for you more we will get those covering up the current comfortable eco award everything that. the united states once hoped the peace pipe line would unite the warring parties in afghanistan they still do amazingly enough they still want to build it. america's arch enemy iran also wants to build an oil and gas pipeline to india to

draw on is in a hurry the aim is that a new peace pipeline should be completed in twenty seventeen. but again it has to go through taliban controlled areas peace with the taliban is more important than ever. was at risk of deja vu all over again it's not impossible that the taliban would come back to power they are an element they're not going away and in order to have. i would say peace not necessarily have prosperity in afghanistan they're going to have to be a part of that fabric of society the more you can bring them into the tent and encourage moderate elements to emerge the more stable afghanistan will be. looking back i have to say i was terribly naive. henry kissinger's that this project is

a triumph of hope over experience and that hit me right between the eyes and through borders a lot of content and that gets a little common and i found it proved to be true. we've got temperatures taking something of a tumble into the southeast of australia over the next couple of days is a clear sky cloud harrowing through the bite will bring some outbreaks the fray and sioux tasmania into pictorials well it will gradually make its way through twenty celsius on cheese day there for

a melbourne twenty degrees as well for adelaide pushed further north is still plenty of warmth the route into the may thirtieth to sydney for bruce but had also for townsville fire concerns to remain here of course those bushfires will continue cosi eastern side of new south wales in particular twenty five celsius the perfect fine and try to change that going on into wednesday temperatures a pitot show winds forming light fitting quite pleasant but a southerly wind really pegan those temperatures back in adelaide and also in melbourne seventeen south is about ten degrees below the seasonal average notice it cools off for sydney will be dry and fine for the most part try and find same across a good part of new zealand some wet weather just making its way into the far west of south auckland will see in christchurch getting up to around twenty seven celsius therefore choose day as we go on and stay it does cool off a touch wetter weather started to push its way in but looking good in all clint with a high of twenty five. on

the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go from other potential of this and that this is something and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. as helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often have told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera the dissolute mother waits on the border between ukraine and russian occupied crimea for news of her missing son. numerous young three men who disappeared calling her arrest these disappeared other victims of a crackdown on the top population of crimea by russia since its occupation in two thousand and fourteen. before the invasion of two thousand and fourteen crimea was

a part of another country ukraine really formed when the soviet union broke up into separate states but many russians including the president vladimir putin were unhappy with this. russia is determined to keep its alleged abuse of human rights away from public scrutiny. as the only indigenous groups still continue opposing the. russia sees this muslim minority as a threat. and. this is al-jazeera. i don't know our intent of this is way out of their news out of life from london coming up. venezuelans queue for days for fuel in that oil rich country talk from

the us. giving immunity to six top military officials if they defect. a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain drops the extradition request that got him arrested in thailand. a new warning that a dramatic decline in insect numbers could cause a catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems. and i'm in doha with. you concerns for horseracing in britain as more cases over a crime influenza or detected details later this hour. we start with the crisis in venezuela where pressure keeps growing on president nicolas maduro or the u.s. politicians now suggesting is top military officials could be offered immunity if

they defect they bring brazil has also agreed to send humanitarian aid to the border under as rival declared himself interim president three weeks ago and sent an envoy to brazil who's been declared venezuela's official ambassador there soon after marriott or is a bit under a announced she had assurances from brazil that it would stop tons of food and medicine at venezuela's southeastern border a convoy of u.s. aid has been held up at venezuela's western border with colombia since thursday and europe continues to deny there's a humanitarian crisis in his country naming shortages on u.s. sanctions. from delegation representing wardour has also traveled to italy where they met deputy prime minister matteo seventy and spoke to senior catholic church officials at the vatican so far has been reluctant to take up pope francis offer to act as a mediator and i do a back to the idea. wonderous side has hit back with a bid to seize the assets of. the government's general auditor who's accused of

illegally receiving funding from overseas. are is the real the they don't but we begin he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification of the on the constitutional and legal powers could have been established as the trimble auditor of the ball evolving republic of venezuela i have started an assets order and citizen one gerardo antonio marquez. will be our school are now to terrorism in caracas just to go back to the aid that's being stockpiled brazil atari's a how would that work and what's what's part of the strategy here. well it is part of the strategy that you go and members of the opposition have been telling about and talking about for the past few weeks i mean what we know is that aid is going to be stockpiled at the border between venezuela and colombia they're also hoping to open by thursday or friday and other place right at the border

between brazil and venezuela and then we've also heard of a third a caribbean country with the help of the neverland where they're supposed to again start gathering some food and medicine of course this is going to court and spark tensions between probably the village as well and military who is basically saying and responding to the government that they won't allow that aid in and that's why the opposition has changed their strategy and for the past weeks we have heard a direct call from the opposition to rebel against the government of any other we were talking every day to the soldiers it's a constant message that we're hearing on lines on social media among other things telling the soldiers telling the generals here in venezuela to rebel against the presidency of nikola by the little earlier today we were able to hear the minister of defense who was making it very clear that so far the military stands with nicole left by the order that they won't be influenced by any type of pressure from the

united states or by the opposite from the opposition itself so on that front the minute she appears to be still behind him what about ordinary people do they know which way this is going to play out and do they have any inkling of what they were doing such a loser there's been sort of the know what that we've got you back just just wanted to ask you what people think of this whole crisis and do they think the military might crack and abandon moderate any point. well for now it seems very difficult we know that the military leadership stands by the precedent and in order to understand what's happening here you have to go back to the relationship that exists between the government of nicolas maduro and the military in venezuela and it back fully goes back to what chavez i mean he completely transformed the way the armed forces are perceived in venezuela making it a priority what he used to call the civilian military alliance they play

a strategic role in this country's government they play a crucial role in the cabinets not only in the ministry of defense but also in the economy among other things some others say that they also remain loyal to the government especially the opposition because of corruption and kickbacks from different types of contracts so most definitely it seems for now that there's not going to be any type of rebellion or massive rebellion against president obama even though we're seeing increased pressure especially from the united states we've been seeing from tweets from u.s. senator marco rubio where he's directly appealing to very important men within the venezuelan military telling them to turn around that this is their time to stand by democracy in venezuela but there's not going to be a purge that could happen in other countries if the widow is removed from office and basically telling them that they should rebel against the president of all of my daughter as i said before for now the minister of defense and the most important

military men within the country are saying that they remain loyal to the president even though we have seen some very small rebellions that were quickly controlled by the government terms of oh thank you very much indeed. it was revealed that president who has turned to fellow oil producing nations for help the reuters news agency says many were right to opec asking for support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago and serena has the world's cheapest few but filling up is far from easy as you see in human reports from the border city of san cristobal. the seemingly endless petrol queue in sangli stall one of dozens that goes on and on more than two hundred cars until we lose count all waiting and praying that they'll be able to fill up before the pump runs dry. earl example people sleep in their vehicles like luis hevia who's been in the queue for three days it may be look here we are

suffering we have a need we smell like monkeys and all these people jumping the queue how do they expect this country to function we need support. in the country with the world's largest oil reserves scarcity of petrol isn't you especially here in patchy down which shares a border with neighboring colombia. this has been happening for at least three years but every day it's worse. the list of reasons is long with hyperinflation surpassing one million percent petrol is practically free with. this bill it's worthless and if people don't have change they don't have to pay at all. and this has been feeding a widespread smuggling racket vehicles like this one have not one but two fuel tanks that can hold more than two hundred meters of the world's cheapest petrol much of which makes its way across the border into colombia it is a black market

a lucrative business that's controlled by colombian paramilitary and leftwing guerrilla groups but it's an open secret that it would be impossible without the participation of venezuela's armed forces and police who are supposed to patrol the border. the government has appointed as the defacto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border. because the pres the prince between. two large. twenty leaders. the border and that seem container costs one million the profit is extraordinary unimaginable for these mafia. he says authorities are cracking down on corrupt officials although locals insisted hasn't made a dent six months ago president. had promised to raise prices to make smuggling less attractive but still hasn't done so and there's another problem in israel

a state oil company is producing only a fraction of what it used to and must import petrol that's now even harder. because of new u.s. economic sanctions. meantime ever resourceful residents of patchy to have introduced a new service to those who can afford it paying for someone to take your place to spend the night in the queue. you see in human sankey stall out of venezuela. crucially nicolas maduro still has the backing of the military as we've said but u.s. senator marco rubio says the six main generals and admirals in the venezuelan middle military could be given immunity if they change sides he believes it's not just a matter of time for men who are no matter what tactics he adopts to stay in power and the dual strategy is to buy time with a fake negotiation or whatever to a get the opposition to divide and

b. get the rest of us to sort of move on and pay attention to some other crisis and forget about venezuela and forget about what's happening about his plan but that's the model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this process we're on into reversible now these countries are going to come back around there's no way you get fifty countries to re recognize you after what's happened so that's of the frog let's get more now from the new apollo in that washington d.c. is so is senator marco rubio appears to be suggesting the u.s. would be willing to negotiate a way out for venezuela's top military brass. it is what it sounds like but this is not the first time that we've heard this sort of rhetoric either from u.s. officials or from officials in venezuela the national assembly in venezuela has said this is something that they'd be willing to offer as part of that that drumbeat that we hear in venezuela to try to convince the top brass of the military to sort of switch sides and support the. government senator marco rubio said that the future of venezuela really does depend on these five or six individuals that

are the top brass of the military he even said in a tweet earlier today he said there won't be a purge of the military after mother would go because venezuela will need them for security and stability during their transition into democracy but there's also talk today about venezuela reaching a tipping point reaching a moment where these top military leaders will have to decide what their next step will do as you heard in that sound bite from senator rubio the fifty plus countries now that recognize the government these are countries that are going to quickly re recognize the government so senator rubio saying that there is that there is no plan b. not for the united states not for the lima group and not for these fifty plus countries that now recognized by doe as the interim president of venezuela the only plan that they see is one that that has motherhood or stepping down and was there any talk about any more talk about sanctions all of the military option which president trump said was not off the table. unfortunately no it was more of

a reiteration a reaffirmation of the sort of. position that the united states has already taken over the course of the last few weeks we do know that there were already sanctions in place against certain individuals within the inner circle of the widow's government but those sanctions have since expanded since the end of january they broaden to now target venezuela as well as well as oil sector the i think one of the unintended consequences is now that potentially millions of barrels of oil that are sitting on in tanker ships in the ocean that's a story in itself but these are saying that are that are targeted specifically on the oil sector that we're now starting to see the effect in that i think that's a story in itself and i refer to thank you very much indeed. we as president don't trump an address a rally in the texan border city of el paso nature on monday where he's expected to speak about his proposed war with mexico it comes as california as democratic governor says he's ready to withdraw all three hundred sixty of his state troops

from the southern border last week the democratic governor of new mexico ordered most national guard troops to withdraw from her state border with mexico u.s. president says that it's up to the democrats to come up with a way of avoiding what would be the second government shutdown so far this year don't trump demand last month for money to be set aside to build a southern border will lead to the longest closure of federal agencies in history a white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. another u.s. government shutdown now potentially just days away members of congress meeting on monday in an attempt to revive funding talks that broke down over the weekend at issue the number of beds used to house those that entered the u.s. illegally democrats want to cap in number at sixteen thousand five hundred publicans disagree times taken away but we've got some problems with the democrats dealing with ice that is detaining criminals that come into the u.s.

and and they want a cap on and we don't want to count on that there's also disagreement on how much to spend on u.s. president trying to plan border wall where barriers should go trumps demand last month for five point seven billion to build a wall along the southern u.s. border led to an historic thirty five day shutdown monday trump lashed out blaming democrats for the breakdown in negotiations and demand for a cap on detention beds calling it crazy the stalin talks raises the possibility trump will declare a national emergency to access already approved funding to build his wall you cannot take a shutdown off the table you cannot take five point seven off the table but if you end up someplace in the middle yeah then what you'll probably see is a president say yeah ok and then i'll go find the money someplace else over the weekend dozens of trump supporters formed a human wall across

a small part of the southern border in new mexico where there is no fencing demonstration comes this trump will visit another border town in el paso texas on monday for a rally in support of his tough immigration stance for now democrats have offered just one point three billion in funding for other border security measures but no money for president trying to border wall and the less the two sides can find compromise the current fighting to keep the government open will run out on friday can really help at al-jazeera the white house. coming up our knowledge there in this news hour two films from two different genres highlighting the cost of thailand's fishing industry at the berlin film festival. the acting u.s. defense secretary makes an unannounced trip to afghanistan to reassure the government over its talks with the taliban. and phil mickelson has won the pebble beach program title for a fifth time

a victory on monday in california pito will have more in sport. thailand's election commission has disqualified the king's older sister from running for prime minister in next month's election time rocks a chart party shocked the country when it announced princess as its candidate on friday breaking the tradition of royalty stay out of politics then back down a day later after the king said it was inappropriate because rules he should be above politics a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand arkema raby who fled to australia in twenty fourteen was arrested in bangkok in november while on honeymoon bahrain wanted him extradited to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism but he said he'd be tortured if he was sent back when he reports from bangkok. after being in thailand for his honeymoon

eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concern grew that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status as prime minister or employees or creams coming home. or be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of an interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain

but given that hakim a lot ab had asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was granted on the same day that he received a thai visa raising suspicions about the thai government's involvement the foreign ministry in bangkok said it didn't notify bahrain about the footballers' plans but as the case dragged on the pressure on the thai government grew after a trip to bahrain by the thai foreign minister hakim was freed bringing an end to an ordeal that shouldn't have been allowed to happen wayne hay al jazeera bangkok the number of people who died after drinking contaminated alcohol in northern india last week has risen to ninety nine three separate cases of poisoning have led to a crackdown on so-called bootleggers who make and sell the toxic drink they suspect it was made with methanol thefts from illegally made alcohol a common in india because the poor can't afford licensed brands. a new global scientific review has

revealed that the world's insect a disappearing into dramatic rate and could soon vanish altogether that would trigger the collapse of natural ecosystems and threaten our very survival and haunt us more. they're beautiful sometimes bothersome but withouten six scientists say life on earth is under three a global review of studies into one sick population shows they're declining eight times faster than mammals birds and reptiles at that rate the wilts in six could disappear completely within one hundred years. maize. is built in six and nine six these appear in the hole. if the insects disappear we're going to disappear to the whole agricultural system the pens among other things on the insects that are most vulnerable to extinction to control the other insects which

compete with us for our crops so this is a a brilliant paper but at the same time one that scares the pants off of any biologist who understands how the world works it's not just the place of in six in the food chain that has scientists worried that poland that plants purify the soil and waterways recycle waste and have an important role in paste control and their numbers are declining by two and a half the st every year while climate change and been a zation are affected as scientists point to the intensification of agriculture as the main culprit the report's authors say in sick decide to have little real bearing on food production part of the solution is the art of all of how the willed grows its food to be more environmentally friendly it's an overly optimistic paper because it mentions the things that we should be doing in order to avoid the extinction of the insects the point is we're not doing any of them. this isn't the

first time scientists from around the world have issued a warning about three pts to humanity the first was back in one nine hundred ninety three the second was just last year the problem is they say too few are paying attention. and al-jazeera. they've gotten is a professor of biology at the university of sussex in southern england he joins us now via skype thanks for being with us or is rather terrifying this report but tell us which types of insects a decline in the fastest. well they're all broadly declining in mediterranean dung beetles for some reason come out top of the list fastest declining insects. closely followed by the butterflies and dragonflies and stone flies and why are these ones in particular important. many of them are pollinators so without them we wouldn't have flowers we wouldn't have

a third of the food that we are the crops that dependent on pollinators and their food for teen other organisms many of the pretty birds that we like to see things like frogs fish lizards bats and so on eat insects so if we lose the insects we'll lose those as well and they do a whole bunch of other important jobs keeping the soil healthy recycling mitterrand's and so on so you think in general we underestimate the importance of insects because we kind of see it as as a bit of a pest. but yeah absolutely i mean i think most people forget insects exist really they most of us live in cities don't have much day to day interaction with them and because of that a lot of people just tend to be kind of frightened of insects they think they birds they sting may bite they spread disease they don't realize that the beautiful and that they're really important that what i was once just reading that they could end up with some of the the kind of an event and the nice inverted commas insects

disappearing and then some of the less appealing ones like cockroaches and flies getting stronger as a result is that right well so in some insects seem to be really kind of robust adaptable creatures houseflies and cockroaches are pretty good examples some of our fallen pests like a fence as well and i think probably there's nothing we could do that will get rid of them but unfortunately the ones that we we don't want to lose the beautiful butterflies and dragonflies and the bulk of insect species other ones that are disappearing so you know we might well end up with just a few rather unwelcome insects in large numbers and i mean that in terms of what can be done about it now one of the causes that was mentioned that put reporters in intensive agriculture other any success stories that in reverse any kind of declines in insect that can be done from was all doom and gloom on this front. it's mostly do. but but it's not too late we could turn it

around. and people can get involved in that making their gardens. wildlife friendly insect friendly not using pesticides growing some of the right kinds of flowers to encourage them putting a big hotels and so on and perhaps if we could get councils to manage parks and road verges and roundabouts differently then we could make space for insects and towns and villages into a network of insect reserves professor calls and thank you very much indeed time to address it it was a. thailand is one of the world's largest exporters a fish but it's industry has faced accusations of human trafficking and abuse two very different movies at berlin film festival highlighting the problems tend to make us think more about the food we eat and even barber has the story mark. hamdania along with only one chakra is a teenager who leaves home in rural cambodia for a job in thailand at least that's what he thinks he's doing. soon he's in the hands

of people smugglers and forced to work without pay on a tiny fishing boat his story forms the backbone of buoyancy getting its world premiere at the berlin ali and the fifteen year old playing him says filming gave him a small insight into how much suffering is involved they and. how hard. on a false. one. so. so any cannot and. i find. the direct to base the film on interviews with survivors of human trafficking in cambodia he's now planning to show the finished product that. made me a little the i would love for the film to work back in cambodia on a kind of educational level for those guys are thinking about going to thailand and

i understand there's some risk but don't fully know what's at stake if if they get trafficked tricked on and on one of its trolls. i meet again all of them tackling the issue from another angle the documentary ghost fleet follows thai activists committed to freeing in slave fisherman and getting justice for them. by mixing first person testimony with a reenactment that shows how an industry exporting fish around the world sometimes deals in misery to. food is an essential part of this film first of all from street stalls like this to soirees with the stars and it even gets its own film strands called color in recent m.r. . a dog and i says hope by showing films such as ghost fleets they can help people think about the origin of what they report has a story the fish has a story vegetable has read has a story and the filmmakers are much more diligent and more aware

of telling these stories. however they're told at these tales or aims less at making the audience feel that the not getting them to make a change. the debugger al-jazeera billion. more to much to come this hour including a massive crowds on the streets of tehran as iran marks the fortieth anniversary of its islamic revolution. putting decades of dispute behind them but a closer economic relationship like head of grace and north macedonia. and the champions league returns on tuesday and rejuvenated manchester united will play p.s.g. it'll have that story. we've

got some quater weather coming into western parts of europe over the next couple of days further east we will see things getting a little more unsettled also piling over towards hungary or mania pushing up into ukraine will be some rain that we saw state that we some snow as well down to the southeast and cold some wet weather pushing back towards city parts of grace western areas of key still wanted to flare is there over that never counts but for the the main alpine region in looks like dry over the next seven there's a set of weather over towards the west nine celsius in paris could get up to twelve degrees in london feeling pretty good as well with a gentle south westerly wind similar picture as we go into wednesday into wells into northern parts of england darlin that indeed into scotland the winds to pick up but for a good part of england itself it doesn't see bad some pleasant sunshine also coming through that twelve will be the eight that we have in athens right sleet possibly

some snow coming in here as we go through wednesday very wet weather pushing its way over towards turkey that could lead to some localized flooding i want to see we're showers a possibility across the north of libya maybe into egypt as we go on through the next couple of days but for the northwest is fine and sunny. africa's largest democracy goes to the polls to elect a president parliament and governors corruption insecurity and economic uncertainty that dominate nigerian politics remain widespread al-jazeera brings you coverage of the issues the candidates and voters nigeria hopes. recruited to feel exploited to on the battlefield the call the new regime placed a different value on our food from where if you give them the opium then abandoned for

a lifetime we should be ashamed. for all concrete all the rage over three people in power investigates the plight of imperial britons african troops begin to leave the forgotten heroes of empire. are one of the top stories. brazil has agreed to stockpile tongue so humanitarian aid has a center near the border with venezuela after welcoming a new ambassador sent by venezuela's self declared interim president. u.s.

president donald trump says the democrats will be to blame if the government shuts down again on a temporary funding bill expires on friday comes demanding money be set aside to build a wall on the border with mexico. and a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand. who fled to australia and twenty fourteen was arrested in november while on honeymoon. has been intense fighting in eastern syria where u.s. backed forces are trying to recapture arsenal's last remaining foothold the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing fierce resistance. the armed group which has used suicide car bombs snipers and baby traps to repel the offensive civilians living near the village of buggers have been fleeing to avoid being caught in the fighting captured forty one isaw positions on sunday. i saw has been

making inroads in afghanistan as it attracts fighters pushed out of syria and iraq there are also concerns that universities are being used to recruit for the group in the mountainous border regions near pakistan tony betty reports. 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 of it the humble person them in the eye so was very cruel to everyone they killed people slaughtered them they used bombs they did whatever they could i had to leave here survive 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 ice all the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear to goals nine sons were killed by eisel one was hacked to death with an axe. 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 where some good as and 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 church in your turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan but the. trouble is that 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. of this. but there's not people who want to use the university for political reasons the give the guard and no one can bring that ideas to work again the 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 u.s. acting defense secretary has met the afghan president during a surprise visit to kabul after shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's

efforts to end the seventeen year war there during discussions with ashraf ghani he reiterated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban the group is so far resisted the government's involvement regarding it as a us puppet shanahan also met u.s. troops stationed there. united nations special envoy to yemen says they urgently need access to grain stores in the port city of her data were desperately needed food is at risk of rotting martin griffiths says the world food program stores in the city have enough supplies to feed three point seven million people for a month but the building has been inaccessible for more than five months because of fighting. iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy

nine islamic revolution he told the crowd in tehran that the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program so i know how to report. it's an adult world rally held since the one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central tehran to celebrate independence from us dominance islamic republic is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states and the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the us withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue

treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it will able to pass this crisis the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolutions ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop

supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is barack obama the main part of the official discourse until the united states changes what he calls its evil ways and find that relations will improve any time so. says. the pressure what trouble calls the radical regime in iran. some american officials. rejected that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what rouhani has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters no matter who we are here to prove to divorce their support or leave their common name no matter their heart

the situation the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies so for their own wrong. eastern libyan military forces have taken over the country's biggest oil field the forces known as the libyan national army took as sharara peacefully after was overrun by a group of state guards who demanded payment before leaving the l n a is under the command of renegade general hurley for have to last month his fighters launched an offensive into southern libya to expel a string of armed groups well the african union has called for a global conference in july to try to resolve the conflict in libya with the aim of holding elections in october the a u has been holding its annual summit in ethiopia's capital and is out about malcolm webb thoughts on what came out of it. thirty one of africa's fifty five leaders made it to the summit of the african union's headquarters capital addis ababa president abdel fattah el-sisi of egypt

began his tenure is chair. we need to lend more importance to post conflict reconstruction and development plans and programs in order for us to push for peace and security in our continent and to prepare a conducive environment for the return of our displaced people as early as possible displaced people and refugees was the theme for the summit and the year ahead through more than twenty million in africa but there was no binding agreement or concrete action planned to help them the organizations peace and security commission announced a plan with the un to try and hold reconciliation talks in libya ahead of its election later this year they think we need also the same instancing from the international community that we speak the same language and all and necessary interferences should stop immediately however no action was planned to address the

conflict in cameroon several steps forward have been taken towards the african union's goal of the coming self funding it's always depended on funding from countries outside of this continent several european countries fund its programs and its headquarters paid for and built by china but ultimately in the years ahead this excess of its plan to become self financing will depend on whether or not member states actually pay up there's been some progress on creating a free trade area fifty one countries signed it nineteen of turned it into law back home it needs three more to actually take a fact and that analysts say with all a you treaties and policies is often a problem for the extent to which members they actually walk the talk of it were. of the council for his work that they highlight when they are speaking here of african union that in the doctrine of whether or not what they are saying indeed is

something that they follow up when they go back to their respective couple. that is where the major limitation in and problem is president paul kagame everyone there was chair for the last year he tried to push through reforms less of that is expected from c.c. he's expected to focus more on security in the year ahead malcolm webb al-jazeera at the african union in addis ababa protest against economic mismanagement a continuing haiti for a fifth consecutive day a petrol station has been looted and makeshift barricades of burning tires set up at demonstrators rally against spiraling inflation they're also angry at the failure to deal with corruption within which will carry bit of venezuelan government scheme that sent discounted oil to haiti. three decades greece and north macedonia have argued over which name the latter would adopt despite the dispute economic ties between the two countries quietly grew during that time now that's

been settled an ever closer economic relationship could be the basis for a future friendship between the old foes jump through press reports from scott here in north us attorney. she 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 that. they are getting 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 or buy 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 clinic alone provides work

for a staff of fifty after 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've seen 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 great 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 will. 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 sleep on the hill to is himself greek 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 thousand nine hundred nine the improvement of relations with greece is encouraging north 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. the russian. people. have more that in sport. for her. business.

business updates. for her. in northern russia. which is home to around three

thousand people. is located within the arctic ocean dozens of pony bez have been roaming the area even going into residential buildings and offices. are increasingly coming into contact with humans as melting ice reduces the habitat and food stocks eric read here from the university of washington's polar science center as they usually approach towns because they hungry and looking for an easy source of food the number one driver of human polar conflicts the number one thing that brings polar bears around to people is generally attractant there is something in a community that smells good that brings polar bears in their smart curious animals they want to find out what smells good or what smells bad because they're always looking for something to eat so that's the number one cause of most conflicts between humans and polar bears there's a long history for both polar bears other various species of bears come into

garbage dumps they get conditioned to human food they become a safety hazard for people in this community it's a very dangerous situation so the number one thing it's often easier said than done but it needs to be done is to reduce these attractants these good smells and whatever food reward the animals might be getting from the dump it's not uncommon for bears to become habituated to humans and the more have been way to they are the closer they are in proximity to humans the more sick dangerous the situation is for everybody unfortunately as peto of the sport. thank you very much the champions league returns on tuesday and the rejuvenated manchester united will host paris angelman in the last sixteen first leg when the draw was made many would have favored p.s.g. to win this tie but united have since sacked they marino and the new man in charge are going to. is on an eleven game hot streak with ten wins and a draw. we given us the best possible opportunity on the way we've gone into this

game now because we're confident we've found. what kind of i found out what team we have we look at looking like a team playing style and he was talking about that we. are agreeing on how we should approach games so if there was ever a chance or any time to go into big games like this it's now for us to compare it with one hundred eighty minutes and we have a second leg to paris and feel very strong and comfortable in part of the process you know i would say it's a fifty fifty game but on this kind of level it's one of these games where the details like you get a decision from the referee against or for you you get a yellow or red the red like anything can make the difference you get the leader you get big like it's it's not tight but it's so close game also on tuesday roma or at home so if the porter the action continues on wednesday three time

defending champions real madrid are in the middle and to take on i.x. amsterdam and tottenham host but it's your dortmund's. quine flu has put horseracing on hold in the u.k. all race meetings in britain have been canceled until wednesday as for more cases of equine flu confirmed over the weekend our correspondent he williams has more. on the british horseracing authority as akin understandably cautious approach to this although they have plenty to be optimistic about because over two thousand tests have come back negative trying to test one hundred seventy four stables and that's a lot of tests that have come back with no problem this is how much importance they are placing on the tests have come back from simon chris for it's stable in new market of course a really important center of british racing so being really careful about that and about the possibility of of the positive cases coming through the

temptation is there of course to resume racing on wednesday every day that passes every meeting that's cancelled racing loses money and amounts to millions of dollars in the end so they really do want to get racing as quickly as possible but they're also aware that if i rush back into it or there's a bigger picture and i start looking there at the potential of there being weeks of inactivity that would be crippling to british racing and also coming up in a month's time the famous and prestigious cheltenham festival so right now i just want to absolutely make sure i get this decision right. for back to back ski gold medalists for the main in the world championships in order sweden alexis atkinson clinched the men's combine the gold in a record combine time of one minute forty seven point six one seconds he started off in twenty fourth place off the wind and laid the downhill event slovenia's

stefan had four thoughts of coming second with eight in these dominic paris. sometimes these races are hard to watch chillin skier henrik vaughan oppen never finished the race after crashing in the downhill portion of the alpine combined he then started screaming at twenty four year old skidded on an icy section about a third of the way down the course and landed on his left side on top of the skis before sliding down into the safety nets but he's ok he's brother said doctors do not think he has any broken bones phil mickelson has won the pebble beach program title for a fifth time with victory on monday in california mickelson called of the bogey free round of seven hundred sixty five to top the leaderboard ahead of england's paul casey english men laid off but instead it was the forty eight year old american left and who showed all these experience to seize the crown. it was it's been a very special week this is a special place for me my grandfather in one thousand nine hundred was one of the

first caddies here pebble beach and every time i get here i have such feelings of a gratitude for all that this places has done for my family starting with my grandfather and to you to have my pro career start here and to have this victory means a lot. the twenty nine hundred formula one season rivers into action in just over one month from now now is the time teams are fine tuning their new cars ahead of the first race in australia the teams are also unveiling the cars that will be on display during the races williams will no longer have a navy and white color scheme instead they'll be sporting a sky blue and white looking twenty nineteen they're fairly took a lot of time effort and energy dedication. i think it will be to log that will be studying. what happened but definitely virus different stages of of the last eight years. i had good days bad days like everybody can imagine

but what is most important is that here i will be back in f one car in australia for green waiting for a start so yeah looking forward to a very exciting. italy based toro rosso also used monday to review a big car for twenty nine thousand these are the images of what is being called be a city or fourteen they were marginally better than williams are still finishing just one place ahead of british team in mind place overall experienced russian. and british born thai alexander elbow on or before ross's drivers in twenty nine c. . if you lift a door opening surely over the weekend you may have had an unexpected visitor ride in this is the urban downhill bike race in the port city of race so competitors don't just ride it they also have to pull stunts on the way down they went down steps over roofs of houses and even straight into some people's homes they did all

that while hitting speeds of around sixty kilometers an hour it took the winner less than three minutes to complete the two killing to track not surprisingly the winner paper for a row is from this town. and that's what the sport better learn in london. thanks very much indeed to and that's it for me. i'll be back in a moment with a powerful round of the day's news thanks for watching in a bit. the two thousand mile trip across europe seems impossible. as the boat comes root

begins to close for refugees it has become a race against time for one syrian family. it's a perilous journey from greece to germany but there's no turning back to the ravages of war left at home. sky and ground a witness documentary on al-jazeera. driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was palpable if you don't like was so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow they'll send back ten and the day after tomorrow they'll send back twenty idea if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the

rancho among the most persecuted minorities in the world. everything dude is being an alarmist it's being late and it's being measured that's what intelligence agencies are tossed to do things in secret that are a lawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from the n.s.a. big could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera. well venezuelans queue for days for fuel in that oil rich country six top military officials are told they could get immunity if they defect.

or intended this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. as another u.s. shutdown looms the u.s. president donald trump says it's up to the democrats to find a way out of the crisis. a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain drops the extradition request that got him arrested in thailand. and massive crowds on the streets of tehran as iran marks the fortieth anniversary of its islamic revolution. we start with a crisis in venezuela where pressure keeps growing on president nicolas maduro opposition and now u.s. politicians are reaching out to his six top military officials saying they could be offered immunity if they defect and venezuelan opposition envoy what he attended is a bill andrea as received as her country's official ambassador in brazil she says

she's had assurances from brazil that will stockpile tons of food and medicine at venezuela's southeastern border a convoy of u.s. aid has been held up as well as western border with colombia since thursday madeira continues to deny there's a humanitarian crisis in his country blaming shortages on u.s. sanctions let's go live now to terry's a bow in caracas which or is it is there any likelihood of and u.s. aid getting in from brazil anytime soon given that the other aid. has been stopped for all this time. well from what we know it's exactly the same situation in every part of venezuela as a border we know that the situation in brazil is just like the situation in kuwait that right at the border between venezuela and colombia it's not being allowed in because of the military presence there which is a baying to the orders of president equal out mother widow who has insistently said that aid is being used as a political weapon that it's

a political show from the opposition among other things the situation in brazil is quite similar we're hearing from. people that they're planning to start gathering food and medicines among other things in the state of rhode island that's not far away that's very very close by to the border between brazil and venezuela that's close a city right there is something that they white and it's an area that's deep you populated by indigenous communities and we know for example that the armed forces did at checkpoint in order to prevent some type of aid from entering the country but indigenous groups implemented some type of measure and roadblocks to protest their military presence there and they had to remove it still we know that it's not going to be easy for the for the opposition and one way to go to enter any type of aid into the country because of any orders we know however that they're planning to ask of volunteers and people to go close to the borders doctors n.g.o.s religious

groups and all of those who want to help because they would like to create a humanitarian corridor in order to help the aid to enter the country and reach those who needed the most personal mentor remains defiant because he still has the military leadership on his side is that likely to change anytime soon. well for now it seems unlikely we've been seeing a very strong presence of a military especially in venezuela state television v t.v. that's been showing the military exercises that have been ongoing this week we've been seeing the motor showing off some new weapons purchased from russia among other things saying that they're ready to defend their country that any type of aid entering the country is going to be considered an aggression among other things that let's not forget that even though we have seen some more rebellions among different army units so police units among other things people criticizing motherhood or the government has been able to controlled serious dissent and the

leadership remains very very close to modal because it basically goes back to history to the history and relationship between over chavez and the military and the important role that it gave when he took office this what's known here as the civilian military alliance that has been strategic and that's one of the main reasons why the military remains very very close and very very loyal to nicola motherhood of tourism both thank you very much indeed. military as we were just hearing in misrata central to mature as grip on power the u.s. robin senator marco rubio has suggested the country's six top military leaders could be immune from prosecution if they help quote restore democracy he believes it's not just a matter of time majoris leadership material strategy is to buy time with a fake negotiation or whatever to. get the opposition to divide and b. get the rest of us to sort of move on and pay attention to some other crisis and forget

about them as we were and forget about what's happening that's his plan that's the model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this process we're on of the reversible none of these countries are going to come back around there's no where you get fifty countries to re recognize you or what happens with lots of. let's get more from money or apollo who's in washington d.c. is senator marco rubio suggesting the u.s. would be willing to negotiate a way out for venezuela's top mr brown's. this isn't the first time that we've heard the sort of proposal of an amnesty sort of condition for top military leaders in but as well of it as well as national assembly has hinted at this in the past saying that this is one potential way of avoiding a bloody conflict in the country senator marco rubio's comments today were were indicative of the united states falling in line with that policy that's been set out by venezuela saying that they would respect whatever whatever the national assembly decides in venezuela senator rubio also commented that the future of the

country depends on the decisions made by five or six key players within the top brass of venezuela's military all ridgewood tweet that the senator published earlier today he said there won't be a purge of the military after mother would go because venezuela will need them for security and stability during transition to democracy who then outlines he lists those five or six key individuals but those also talk about venezuela reaching a sort of tipping point a point of of no return at the moment which he points to fifty plus countries that have now recognized by though the president of the national assembly as the interim president of venezuela these are fifty countries more than fifty countries that will not really recognize motherhood and these are not countries that are going to change their mind on this position and this represents something that's that's changed in the in the conflict something that's new and first senator rubio sort of outlining the policy of the united states right now it's one that has no plan b. the only scenario that the united states sees at this point is one that involves

mother will stepping down lastly what senator marco rubio warned against to the military is that preventing access to aid is a violation of international law so he warned military leaders not to make the mistake of preventing people who need humanitarian aid from accessing it i wrap it up thank you very much. has he revealed that at present or has turned to fellow oil producing nations for help the reuters news agency says moore wrote to opec asking for its support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago and is where it has the world's cheapest fuel but filling up is far from easy as you see in human reports from the border city of san cristobal. the seemingly endless petrol queue in sangli stall one of dozens that goes on and on more than two hundred cars until we lose count all waiting and praying that they'll be able to fill up before

the pump runs dry girl example people sleep in their vehicles like luis hevia who's been in the queue for three days maybe look here we are suffering we have a need we smell like monkeys and all these people jumping the queue how do they expect this country to function we need support. in the country with the largest oil reserves scarcity of petrol isn't new especially here in patchy down which shares a border with neighboring colombia. this has been happening for at least three years but every day it's worse. the list of reasons is long with hyperinflation surpassing one million percent petrol is practically free with. this bill it's worthless and if people don't have change they don't have to pay at all. and this has been feeding a widespread smuggling racket vehicles like this one have not one but two fuel

tanks that can hold more than two hundred of the world's cheapest much of which makes its way across the border into colombia it is a black market a lucrative business that's controlled by colombian paramilitary groups but it's an open secret that it would be impossible without the participation of venezuela's armed forces and police who are supposed to patrol the border. the government has appointed as the defacto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border. because a. large. twenty leaders. across the border and that seem container costs one million the profit is extraordinary unimaginable for these mafia. like. he says authorities are cracking down on corrupt officials although locals insisted

hasn't made a dent six months ago president nicolas maduro had promised to raise prices to make smuggling less attractive but still hasn't done so and there's another problem in israel a state oil company is producing only a fraction of what it used to and must import petrol that's now even harder because of new u.s. economic sanctions. meantime ever resourceful residents of touchy to have introduced a new service to those who can afford it paying for someone to take your place to spend the night in the queue. you see in humans. in israel. president trump says it's up to the democrats to come up with a way of avoiding a second government shutdown on friday on trump's demand last month for money to be set aside to build a southern border wall led to an almost closure of federal agencies in history our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. another u.s.

government shutdown now potentially just days away members of congress meeting on monday in an attempt to revive funding talks that broke down over the weekend at issue the number of beds used to house those that enter the u.s. illegally democrats want to cap in number at sixteen thousand five hundred publicans disagree times taken away but we've got some problems with the democrats dealing with ice that is detaining criminals that come into the u.s. and and they want a cap on and we don't want to count on that there's also disagreement on how much to spend on u.s. president trying to plan border wall where barriers should go trump's demand last month for five point seven billion to build a wall along the southern u.s. border led to an historic thirty five day shutdown monday trump lashed out blaming democrats for the breakdown a negotiation and demand for

a cap on detention beds calling it crazy the stalin talks raises the possibility trump will declare a national emergency to access already approved funding to build his wall you cannot take a shutdown off the table you cannot take five point seven off the table but if you end up someplace in the middle yeah then what you'll probably see is a president say yeah ok and then i'll go find the money someplace else over the weekend dozens of trump supporters formed a human wall across a small part of the southern border in new mexico where there is no fencing demonstration comes this trump will visit another border town in el paso texas on monday for a rally in support of his tough immigration stance for now democrats have offered just one point three billion in funding for other border security measures but no money for president trying to border wall and the less the two sides can find compromise the current fighting to keep the government open will run out on friday

can really help at al-jazeera the white house. still ahead on al-jazeera. u.s. defense secretary makes an unannounced trip to afghanistan to reassure the government talks with the taliban. catch him on separatists for trial on rebellion and accuse the government of acting against democracy. we got temperatures taking something of a tumble into the southeast of australia over the next couple of days clear skies this area cloud harrowing through the bite will bring some outbreaks the fray to tasmania into victoria as well it will gradually make its way through twenty celsius on shoes day for a melbourne twenty degrees as well for adelaide pushed further north is still

plenty of warmth the route into the may thirtieth to sydney for brits but i'd also for townsville five concerns to remain here of course those bushfires will continue to see eastern side of new south wales in particular twenty five. to choose that going on into wednesday temperatures edge appetite show winds forming light so feeling quite pleasant but a southerly wind really pegan those temperatures back in adelaide and also in melbourne seventeen south is about ten degrees below the seasonal average notice it cools off for sydney will be dry and fine for the most part try and find same across a good part of new zealand some wet weather just making its way into the far west of south auckland will see in christchurch getting up to around twenty seven celsius there for choose day as we go on and stay it does cool off a touch wetter weather started to push its way in but looking good in all clint with a high of twenty five. on

the streets of greece violence is on the rise you have to go for. something and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. and they're going to one of the top stories on our syria brazil has agreed to store tons of humanitarian aid just sent in near the border with venezuela after

welcoming a new ambassador sent by venezuela's self declared interim president. the u.s. senator marco rubio has suggested that venezuela's six top military leaders could be immune from prosecution if they help quote restore democracy he believes it's now just a matter of time majority leadership. and u.s. president donald trump says the democrats will be to blame if the government shuts down again on a temporary funding bill expires on friday trump is demanding money be set aside to build a wall on the border with mexico. refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand raby who fled to australia and twenty fourteen was arrested in bangkok in november while on honeymoon a reign wanted him extradited to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism and he said he'd be tortured if he was sent back when hay reports from bangkok. after being in thailand for his honeymoon

eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concern grew that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status as prime minister or employees or commits coming home. or be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of the interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain

but given that hakim a lot ab had asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was granted on the same day that had received a thai visa raising suspicions about the thai government's involvement the foreign ministry in bangkok said it didn't notify bahrain about the footballers' plans but as the case dragged on the pressure on the thai government grew after a trip to bahrain by the thai foreign minister hakim was freed bringing in end to an ordeal that shouldn't have been allowed to happen wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. there's been intense fighting in eastern syria where u.s. backed forces are trying to recapture eyesores last remaining foothold the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing fierce resistance and the armed group which has used so side car bombs snipers and baby traps to repel the offensive civilians living near the village of buy goods have been fleeing to avoid being caught up in the fighting the s.d.f.

captured forty one isaw positions on sunday i saw be making inroads in afghanistan as it attracts fighters pushed out of syria and iraq there are also concerns that universities are being used to recruit for the group from the mountainous border regions near pakistan tony betty reports. 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 they're 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 of little bit numb 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 here survive three assassination

attempts the last a few days ago when the 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 ice all the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear to mohit goals nine sons were killed by i saw one was hacked to death with an axe. 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 where some get theirs and 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 church in your turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan the. trouble is that this was the foreign fighters are 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. of this. but there's not people who are using alissa dia for political reasons they give the guard and no one can bring that ideas to work again the 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 the u.s. acting defense secretary has met the afghan president during

a surprise visit to kabul patrick shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's efforts to end the seventeen year war there during discussions with ashraf ghani he reiterated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban thailand's election commission as disqualified the king's older sister from running for prime minister in next month's election. the tire rocks the chart party shocked the country when it announced princess rot as its candidate on friday breaking the tradition of royalty staying out of politics and then back down a day later after the king said it was inappropriate because royalty should be above politics twelve catalan separatists are due to go on trial in the dritte on tuesday for their role in catalonia unsanctioned independence referendum in twenty seventeen the public prosecutor is seeking prison terms of up to twenty five years

or charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds david schaper reports from madrid. the message was clear a united spain and elections now. forty five thousand demonstrators from the center and far right gathered in madrid call on the square this weekend on the eve of the trial they accuse the socialist that minority government of treason for offering to hold roundtable talks with separatists to diffuse the cattle and crisis amid the growing tensions lawyers defending the catalan leaders who face charges of rebellion and a maximum prison sentence of twenty five years condemned the whole process is better for them and then in the book is this one with the trial is taking place in madrid spain's capital a supposedly democratic country a member of the european union but for us this is a trial against the ballot box

a trial against democracy. not been why are they being accused of rebellion in order to mung other things to suspend their political rights which is the only way to stop them standing in elections. the key issue in the trial will be the violence of broke out during the catalan referendum in twenty seventeen to make the charge of rebellion stick the court will have to prove it was deliberately provoked by the defendants their lawyers will argue it was provoked by the police. all eyes in spain will be on this building the supreme court in madrid for the start of the trial or eyes that is apart from the socialist prime minister pedro sanchez who's more worried about trying to get his budget through the building just around the corner from here the parliament. to do that you'll need to support of catalan separatist m.p.'s the state news agency has already put out reports that he'll call a snap election for april if he doesn't get that backing chaytor al jazeera but

dree. iran's president has on rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution he told the crowds in tehran that the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program so i know how to report the it's an underworld rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on a saturday or freedom square in central tehran to celebrate independence from u.s. dominance this neighborhood public is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states and the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the u.s. withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they

impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the forty years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it able to pass this crisis the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that

the revolution's ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is. part of the official discourse until the united states changes what he calls its evil ways. any time soon. says. to pressure what trouble calls the radical regime in iran. some american officials. rejected that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what will honey has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites

core supporters oh my god we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leave their common name no matter their heart the situation the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies that are for their wrong a state of emergency has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by polar bears you know by at salmaniya archipelago which is home to around three thousand people is located within the arctic ocean dozens of polar bears i mean roaming the area even going into residential buildings and offices. of the top stories brazil has agreed to store tons of humanitarian aid at a center near the border with venezuela the move follows talks between

a new ambassador sent by venezuela's opposition leader anwar joe and brazilian authorities ordered to cut himself interim president last month and is now in a battle of wills with the government of president nicolas maduro which has blocked the age from entering the country to use a bow has more from caracas there's going to be an enormous demonstration expected to take place in venezuela this coming tuesday demanded by one way though and members of the opposition to allow be aid that piling up at the border between venezuela and colombia to be allowed into the country the government would only fank that they won't let that aid into the country they say that they have enough to supply it that is anything but in spite of that what we have been able to see around him now that there is many many people in this country and desperate need. u.s. president don't trump says the democrats will be to blame if the government shuts down again when a temporary funding bill expires on friday trump is demanding money be set aside to

build a wall on the border with mexico. a refugee footballer is on his way home to australia after bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand and oraibi was arrested in bangkok in november while on honeymoon bahrain wanted to max darted to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism but he said he'd be tortured if he was sent back. the u.s. acting defense secretary has met afghanistan's president on a surprise visit to kabul after shanahan's trip is the latest step in washington's drive to end the seventeen year war that he held discussions with ashraf ghani on national security issues and reiterated america's insistence that the afghan government be included in any peace talks with the taliban and iran's president hassan rouhani has addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the final day of celebrations to mark forty years since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution it told crowds in tehran that the country will continue to expand its

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allies of venezuela's opposition leader pottermore aid on the border as the government launches a bid to seize his assets. as prime minister blair used to determine who a stranger protests to welcome back a refugee footballer plane dropped its attempt to extradite him. donald trump heads to the mexican border to rally supporters and pressure political rivals to approve funding for his wall. and climate change is blamed as hungry polar bears invade remote arctic settlements. more aid is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to lecithin brazil which like the u.s. backs mature as rival one glider has agreed to set up an aid storage center on venezuela's southeastern border tons of food and medicine already stockpiled in neighboring

colombia maduro has ordered soldiers to block the aid describing it as a political show by countries that are trying to force him from power says he plans to send a message to the military on tuesday with a rally as he tries to get the armed forces on his side a u.s. politician is suggesting commanders could be offered immunity if they defect the venezuelan government meanwhile has hit back with a bid to seize one by those assets it accuses the self dickhead president of making shady funding deal. are as we will be they don't but we begin he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification on the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the general auditor of the ball evolving republic of venezuela i have started an assets order on cities in one of our doe antonio domonic a. series about joins us now from caracas syriza with more aid piling up at various borders what are the chances of any of it getting across.

well that's the big question we know that some aid has arrived to the border between go along in venezuela to the city of there's also being a stock center right on the border of the state of rhode island in brazil that supposedly going to enter towards the city of a white and what's interesting about there is that an area that is filled with indigenous communities we know that a few days ago the military tried to set up a checkpoint and that. indigenous communities repel did and we have heard also that the opposition is hoping to get some medicines and food in some caribbean nation that we still don't know of and with the help of the netherlands and they're hoping it to make it to another side of it it's a little the idea is to enter through venezuela to different parts it's not clear yet how they're going to do this we know that he said that he won't allow aid in the one way though they're hoping to create a humanitarian called corridor and that's why they are creating and coping to raid

what's called a humanitarian corridor with help of n.g.o.s doctors nurses among among others and we heard it today during a press conference by that they're already managed to distribute some small aid for around eighty five thousand tons of aid it's mostly prenatal vitamins and some food it's a very very small type of aid that i was already here since we were told since december but that they were able to take it to a piling center here in cairo i guess this is just the beginning this is what he's saying and that they're hoping to get much more the big question is how they're going to be able to pass it through the military that continues to support the order here and to reserve the government's been investigating finances how's that all going over. well that's correct the general auditor or has announced that they're investigating why you go in or

totally because of providing a false statement in his sworn declaration that's done here every year for taxes but also for receiving from funds from overseas and quite honestly this is not the first time that that something like this or such like you say sions happens against a member of the opposition we know that something similar happened with her former presidential candidate and to give up any less and then he was in a way taken away and banned from running for office for fifteen years so it wouldn't be surprising that some type of measures like this one will be taken towards why the law and till now and because of international pressure what we're seeing is that the government has been extremely curfuffle in dealing not only with demonstrations on the streets but also with white dog they detained him briefly about a month ago but he was let go he was not detain or anything like that and this is in a way an exception i mean what we have seen especially since the national assembly was elected. in two thousand and fifty that was won by

a majority of the opposition we have seen opposition members persecuted detained or many of them who were forced to leave the country. by watching developments for us in caracas thank you treason well u.s. senator marco rubio has suggested venezuela six top military leaders could be given immunity if they change sides he believes missouri's days are numbered. but their strategy is to buy time with a fake negotiation or whatever to a get the opposition to divide and b. get the rest of us to sort of move on and pay attention to some other crisis and forget about venezuela and forget about what's happening that's his plan that's that's the model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this process we're on is irreversible now these countries are going to come back around there's no way you get fifty countries to re recognize you after what's happened so that's just a fact let's get more from money in washington d.c. my role is marco rubio is suggesting the u.s.

would be willing to negotiate a way out said venezuela's top brass. this isn't the first time that we've heard this sort of rhetoric in recent weeks we did hear of that as well as national assembly hint at a sort of amnesty for top military brass in venezuela to avoid a larger more violent conflict in the rhetoric that we're hearing from senator marco rubio is more or less falling in line with his position that as well as been taken in recent weeks senator rubio says that democracy the future of democracy in venezuela sort of falls on the decisions made by these five or six individuals key players within the top brass of venezuela's military i'll read you a quote from a statement that he published earlier today he this was from a tweet he said there won't be a purge of military after mother little because venezuela will need them for security and stability during transition to democracy then list the names of those those five or six individuals that we were mentioning that was talk today about venezuela reaching a tipping point

a sort of no return we heard that sound bite from said a rubio referring to it as an as as irreversible more than fifty countries that now recognize the president of the venezuela's national assembly one where you go as the interim president of the country this is not something that these fifty plus countries are going to change their minds on the position the position of the united states is that there is no plan b. the only scenario for the united states is one that involves mother who is stepping down and i know is there any talk about sanctions or the military option president tom said that was an off the table. correct unfortunately we have not heard anyone elaborating on the sanctions aspect there were already sanctions in place against key individuals within the inner circle of president nicolas maduro those sanctions have since been broadened out to now target venezuela's oil sector i think one and an unintended consequence of these sanctions has been the potentially millions of barrels of oil that are now sitting on oil tankers in the ocean with no

destination at least no destination that doesn't potentially violate these international sanctions but there hasn't been anyone elaborating either the trumpet ministration or or or u.s. officials on whether or not that so-called military option is off the table that remains on the table and one last thing that senator marco rubio did warn about today is that preventing access to international aid is a violation of international law so he warned the top military brass in minnesota and not to prevent people from accessing for the military not to prevent access to that so that foreign aid al-jazeera in washington d.c. thank you amanda. well president bush has turned to fellow oil producing nations for help the reuters news agency says i wrote to opec asking for its support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were in paris two weeks ago venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves but filling up a car with fuel is far from easy as lucien human reports from san cristobal.

the seemingly endless petrol queue in sangli stall one of dozens that goes on and on more than two hundred cars until we lose count all waiting and praying that they'll be able to fill up before the pump runs dry. and. people sleep in their vehicles like lisa who's been in the queue for three days maybe look here we are suffering we have a need we smell like monkeys and all these people jumping the queue how do they expect this country to function we need support. in the country with the world's largest oil reserves scarcity of petrol isn't you especially here in patchy down which shares a border with neighboring colombia. this has been happening for at least three years but every day it's worse. the list of reasons is long with hyperinflation surpassing one million percent petrol is practically free oh my

god this bill is worthless and if people don't have change they don't have to pay it all. and this has been feeding a widespread smuggling racket vehicles like this one have not one but two fuel tanks that can hold more than two hundred liters of the world's cheapest much of which makes its way across the border into colombia it is a black market a lucrative business that's controlled by colombian paramilitary and leftwing guerrilla groups but it's an open secret that it would be impossible without the participation of venezuela's armed forces and police who was. supposed to patrol the border. freddy banal whom the government has appointed as the defacto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border. because the prez the prince between. two large. twenty leaders. of the

border and that seem container costs one million the profit is extraordinary unimaginable for these mafias. he says authorities are cracking down on corrupt officials although locals insisted hasn't made a dent six months ago president nicolas maduro had promised to raise prices to make smuggling less attractive but still hasn't done so and there's another problem in israel a state oil company is producing only a fraction of what it used to and must import petrol that's now even harder because of new u.s. economic sanctions. in the meantime ever resourceful residents of touchy to have introduced a new service to those who can afford it paying for someone to take your place to spend the night in the queue. you see in human. venezuela the rest of the day's news is still ahead defiance and determination around marks forty

years since the islamic revolution showing no sign of blinking and at standoff with the u.s. a look at what came out of the african union summit in ethiopia. and the champions league returns on tuesday a rejuvenated manchester united will play p s g p so we'll have that story in sport . in eastern syria at least sixteen people including seven children have died in air strikes as the u.s. and its rebel allies tries to push i saw out of its last scrap of territory hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the besieged enclave as fighting gets worse the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing resistance from myself isis have used suicide car bombs slices and traps to repel the offensive and two french women who managed to get out of bug who is say many more foreigners including fighters who joined i so still trapped inside with no food they said they paid

smugglers to get them out of the enclave after witnessing massacres there. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are allowed to have food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked inside i just hope to keep my children alive because my husband died in an airstrike the house next door was hit the roof collapsed over us of course we regret it we lost everything by coming here what are we supposed to do we got stuck because trapped by their propaganda america's top diplomat has denied his country is attempting a cover up in the murder of saudi journalist america shakti secretary of state might compare has been speaking in hungary at the start of his european tour he says the trumpet ministration will work harder to ensure those responsible for the killing punished just days ago the white house missed a deadline to report to congress on whether it believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered the murder operation. americans are covering up for america's taken

more action in response to the tragic murder of jamal khashoggi i will continue to take more actually continue our investigation we're working diligently and we will president's been very clear couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information we'll continue to hold all of those responsible accountable and you got a guy has more from washington d.c. well that response from mike pompei or the secretary of state came after some heavy criticism from senior democrats accusing the trumpet ministration of turning a blind eye and in essence trying to cover up the murder of jamal khashoggi the democrats were saying that because this past friday a deadline under human rights law has passed in which trump ministration was supposed to answer the simple question did mohammed bin some on the crown prince of saudi arabia order the murder of jamal khashoggi that deadline has passed which is led to this kind of criticism from the democrats who are trying to seek the truth akash obvious murderer who was murdered in october of last year in the saudi

consulate in istanbul here's what tom malinowski from the house foreign affairs committee had to say we are actually affirming their life. and allowing m.d.'s who was almost certainly the author of this crime to conclude that in fact he can get away with such things because of his importance because of his position then there are thousands of other jamal khashoggi s. in the united states in europe who are at risk if we allow that message to be sent so what does that leave the investigation into jamal khashoggi is death while there is still a lot of pressure in u.s. politics to get to the truth especially from the democratic side but there is also a lot of global pressure remember the un special rapporteur started her investigation just a few weeks ago the results of which should be available in the summer so the pressure still remains interestingly enough a saudi official appeared on the american news networks this past weekend and said

look we don't need the u.n. we can deal with this ourselves although the trials will not be public eleven people have been indicted five of them face the death penalty but interesting in that same saudi officials said that they do not know where the remains of the body of jamal khashoggi is. iran's president has vowed to expand his ballistic missile program in a speech marking forty years since the islamic revolution addressing tens of thousands of people on the final day of celebrations hassan rouhani also dismissed american efforts to isolate them sent us a lot of reports from tehran. it's an audible rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on a saudi or freedom square in central tehran to celebrate independence from us dominance this islamic republic is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states and the message remains the same one of

defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the u.s. withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might display. to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program

the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it able to pass this crisis the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolution's ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is. part of the official discourse until the united states changes its evil ways. any time soon. says its pressure what trouble calls. some american

officials. predicted that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what we're harney has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters oh my god we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leader common name no matter their heart the situation the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies. and the revolutionary guards also threatened to demolish israeli cities if the us ever attacks iran here's how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reacted and let me tell him i am not ignoring the threats of the iranian regime but nor my impressed by them or this regime to make the terrible mistake of trying to destroy tel aviv in haifa it would not succeed but it would

mean that they had celebrated their last revolution day they would do well to take that into account of us malani is the director of iranian studies at stanford university and the u.s. state of california and he joins us now live from there how would you characterize the last forty years in iran i think it's forty years of lost opportunity historic opportunity iran had in seventy nine to become rapid the. country on par with south korea today for example they have lost that opportunity with the rhetoric that they have been deployed. towards the iranian society and with squandering of social capital natural resources in normal mentions in your mind what sort of regional implications has the writ revolution had on the region. well i think initially the

implication was that iran was beginning to emerge as possibly a model for a kind of a smaller mic resurgence but the insistence of the regime on a shiite rhetoric rather than a slam mccririck and then even more the failure of the regime in achieving almost any of its goal its increasing and a mastery towards everyone other than the few allies has made it less and less of a model but because they have engaged in all of these proxy wars because they have supported the hezbollah there are regime the shiites in even some of the sunnis in iraq who threes in yemen the taliban today in afghanistan they have these proxy servers is spoken about more animosity and president rouhani said in a speech today that iran will continue to pursue its missile program where do you see relations with the west going from here what i think the.

indication that you had in your program were some one of the commanders of the top commander of the g.c. threaten the destruction of two israeli towns is that going to sit well with the europeans who the regime desperately needs if it's going to solve its economic problems i think there is no doubt in my mind that the regime faces the most serious economic and social and political and cultural challenge that it has faced in forty years rhetoric and bombast is not going to do away with those problems and if they're going to survive those problems they need the help of the europeans and europeans are not going to like this kind of rhetoric how does terror on to the rest of the world there are we seeing the formation of a new global alliance. well i think the regime is in a sense in my view more isolated than there's ever been in the region literally only

has allies in syria some of the shiites in iraq and it is clearly some of the shiites some of the most important shiite leaders are back like i two losses tony do not favor iran's into the interference in the domestic affairs there are clear indications that there is some tension the regime has the support of hezbollah but it is because hezbollah has been receiving the largess of the iranian regime. internationally i think their only. remained russia who supports iran and is interested in increasing its foot all the iran then china i think is waiting to see how the situation will unfold and whether they will have to commit and rescue the regime financially other than the regime i think is fairly isolated internationally and even more importantly i think they're isolated domestically that's why they went out of their way to make this they appear like

a day of national consensus for the regime but i think they know and the people of iran know best. malani from stanford university thank you for joining us on al-jazeera a refugee football is heading home to australia after his native bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand came al-arabiya here fled to australia and twenty fourteen was arrested in november while on his honeymoon when he reports from bangkok. after riding in thailand for his honeymoon eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concern grew that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use

of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status as prime minister or employees claim is coming home and will be pleased to see him at home when that occurs despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of an interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain but given that hakim allowed a beachhead asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was granted on the same day that he received a thai visa raising suspicions about the thai government's involvement the foreign ministry in bangkok said it didn't notify bahrain about the footballers' plans but as the case dragged on the pressure on the thai government grew after a trip to bahrain by the thai foreign minister hakim was freed bringing in end to an ordeal that shouldn't have been allowed to happen wayne hay al jazeera bangkok.

well thailand's election commission has ruled the king's older sister cannot run for prime minister in next month's election and it says royal family members should be above politics the announcement of princess says the thai rak such shots party's candidate on friday stunned the nation and later withdrew her candidacy after the king described it as unconstitutional and inappropriate. ahead in the next half of this news hour filling a gap greeks are heading over to their northern neighbor for dental treatment. and phil mickelson has won the pebble beach program title for a fifth time with victory on monday in california he said we'll have more in sports in about twenty minutes.

we got plenty of wintry weather making its way across north america at the moment big massive cloud is rain pushing in from the south turning to snow across the plains pushing up towards the midwest heading date to that northeastern corner and then we're still seeing some wintry weather making its way over towards a good part of the pacific northwest seattle has seen some record breaking snow snowiest february around seventy years more snow as we go through tuesday wet weather coming into oregon into were washington state not too clever either of a lot of good parts of the west coast of california seeing some play out there will be some rain here as well as that snow that we have moving across the plains into the upper midwest into that northeastern corner new york temperature at around two degrees celsius heavy rain are around the appalachians for tuesday pushes further research on wednesday that northeastern quarter right into new england eastern parts of canada seeing plenty of snow this will cause some chaos the snow meanwhile will continue around the pacific northwest yet again come down into the caribbean

fied interact at say wetter whether that makes his way across southern parts of the states will also push across the gulf of mexico into a good part of cuba but for much of the caribbean it's fine and dry. all dizzy are explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how why bill rees influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights america. hundreds of miles over. to oppress people look at me and continue to give the negroes to be different that what you mean by that about malcolm x. and martin luther king face to face on zero zero. right out of a mosque or examining the headline we begin with the fractious issue of palestine and israel in the u.s.

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government is attempting to seize the opposition leaders assets saying he's accepted money illegally. iranian president hassan rouhani is of value to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the islamic revolutions fortieth anniversary. bahraini footballer came al-arabiya is on his way home to australia after spending two months in a bangkok prison he was arrested in november at bahrain's request which has now dropped its extradition order. the u.s. president is heading to the mexican border to promote his long promised war in a bid to pressure political rivals to approve its funding stalled negotiations have restarted in washington and donald trump says it's up to the democrats to find a way to avoid a second government shutdown our white house correspondent kimberly how it has all . another u.s. government shutdown now potentially just days away we need

a wall members of congress meeting on monday in an attempt to revive funding talks that broke down over the weekend at issue the number of beds used to house those that enter the u.s. illegally democrats want to cap in number at sixteen thousand five hundred republicans disagree these are the people coming into our country that we are holding and we don't want in our country and the democrats want them to go into our country that's why they don't want to give us what we call the beds there's also disagreement on how much to spend on us president trumps planned border wall where barriers should go trump's demand last month for five point seven billion to build a wall along the southern u.s. border led to an historic thirty five day shutdown the stollen tox raises the possibility trump will declare a national emergency to access already approved funding to build his wall you cannot take a shutdown off the table you cannot take five point seven off the table but if you

end up someplace in the middle yeah the what you'll probably see is a president say yeah ok and then i'll go find the money someplace else over the weekend dozens of trump supporters form a human wall across a small part of the southern border in new mexico where there is no fencing the demonstration comes as trump will visit another border town in a paso texas on monday for a rally in support of his tough immigration stance for now democrats have offered just one point three billion in funding for other border security measures but no money for president trying to border wall and unless the two sides can find compromise the current fighting to keep the government open will run out on friday can really help at al-jazeera the white house. the u.s. acting defense secretary says he's received no orders to withdraw american troops from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out hoff of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks after meeting

president ashraf ghani during his brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban the group has so far resisted that idea as they regard the government as in a just a moment tony betty 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 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 election 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 still are in place in eastern afghanistan they're growing in strength and there are fears that if the ice all fighters are pushed out of syria they may end up in afghanistan. a state of a magic at sea has been declared on a remote script of islands and northern russia after an invasion by poena baz the novi as emea archipelago which is home to around three thousand people is ok said within the optic arson dozens of proto baz had been wandering around the area even going into homes and offices. coming into comes to contact with humans as melting ice reduces their habitats and food stocks the number one driver of human political conflicts the number one thing that brings polar bears around to people is generally attractant there is something in a community this smells good that brings polar bears in they're smart curious

animals they want to find out what smells good or what smells bad because they're always looking for something to eat so that's the number one cause of most conflicts between humans and polar bears there's a long history for both polar bears other various species of bears coming to garbage dumps they get conditioned to human food they become a safety hazard for people in this community it's a very dangerous situation so the number one thing it's often easier said than done but it needs to be done is to reduce these attractants these good smells and whatever food reward they and most might be getting from the dump it's not uncommon for bears to become habituated to humans and the more habituated they are the closer they are in proximity to humans the more sick dangerous the situation is for everybody unfortunately. now a wild without creepy crawlies may sound tempting but scientists are warning that no one would be alive to enjoy it a study has found that insects are hurting towards extinction with bees and butterflies dying out the fastest many on

a honda explains the catastrophe this could lead to. their beautiful sometimes bothersome but without in six scientists say life on earth is under three a global review of studies in two and six population shows they're declining eight times faster than mammals birds and reptiles at that rate the wilts in six could disappear completely within one hundred years. maize. is built in six and nine six these appear in the hole it receives and if the insects disappear we're going to disappear to the whole agricultural system depends among other things on the insects that are most vulnerable to extinction to control the other insects which compete with us for our crops so this is a a brilliant paper but at the same time one that scares the pants off of any biologist who understands how the world works it's not just the place of in six in

the food chain that has scientists worried that poland that plants purify the soil and waterways recycle waste and have an important role in paste control and their numbers are declining by two and a half the same to every year while climate change and been a zation our fact is scientists point to the intensification of agriculture as the main culprit the report's authors say in sick decide to have little real bearing on food production part of the solution is the art of all of how the willed grows its food to be more environmentally friendly it's an overly optimistic paper because it mentions the things that we should be doing in order to avoid the extinction of the insects the point is we're not doing any of them. this isn't the first time scientists from around the world have issued a warning about three to humanity the first was back in one nine hundred ninety three the second was just last year the problem is they say too few are paying

attention. and al-jazeera. france is pushing for dialogue to solve the ongoing gulf crisis between qatar and for arab nations french and cattery foreign ministers discuss the issue in doha along with other regional conflicts including libya yemen and palestine the two countries have agreed to open talks for a strategic partnership on defense economy and counterterrorism saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt cut ties with qatar and twenty seventeen claiming it supports terrorism a charge with which it denies grain that could feed more than three million people in yemen is at risk of rotting the united nations special envoy to yemen says the supplies have been in accessible for more than five months that's because the world food program grain stores are located in the port city of her data a frontline position the un's martin griffith says it could provide relief for up

to a month the african union has called for a global conference to try to resolve the conflict in libya it wants to see elections held there in october the group has been holding its annual summit in ethiopia's capital addis ababa al-jazeera malcolm webb has more on the day's events . thirty one of the africa's fifty five leaders made it to the summit of the african union's headquarters i mean he appears carol to out of the baba president our bill for throws the sea of egypt beyond his tenure is chair. it is demand we need to lend more importance to post conflict reconstruction and development plans and programs in order for us to push for peace and security in our continent and to prepare a conducive environment for the return of our displaced people as early as possible . displaced people and refugees was the theme for the summit and the year ahead through more than twenty million in africa but there was no binding agreement or concrete action planned to help them the organizations peace and security

commission announced a plan with the un to try and hold reconciliation talks in libya ahead of its election later this year they think we need also the same instancing from the international community that we speak the same language and all and necessary interferences should stop immediately however no action was planned to address the conflict in cameroon several steps forward have been taken towards the african union's goal of the coming self funding always depended on funding from countries outside of this continent several european countries fund its programs and its headquarters paid for and built by china but ultimately in the years ahead the success of its plan to become self financing will depend on whether or not member states actually pay up there's been some progress on creating a free trade area fifty one countries signed it nineteen of turned it into law back

home in need three more to actually take a fact and that analysts say with a huge treaties and policies is often a problem the extent to which member states actually walk the talk of it were. of the council for his work that they highlight when they are speaking here of the african union the hadley the doctrine of whether or not what they are saying indeed is something that they follow up when they go back to their respective couplet that is where the major limitation in and problem is president paul kagame everyone there was chair for the last year he tried to push through reforms lester's that is expected from sisi he's expected to focus more on security in the year ahead. malcolm webb al-jazeera at the african union in addis ababa the number of deaths in northern india from contaminated alcohol has risen to nine hundred nine three separate incidents of poisoning have prompted

a crackdown on so-called bootleggers who make and sell the toxic for the police have seized hundreds of leases of tainted liquor and raids suspected of containing methanol deaths from illegally made alcohol are common in india because the poor can't afford licensed brands. twelve catalan separatists are due to go on trial in spain's capital on tuesday the legal action stems from a crisis that unfolded in twenty seventeen when the suspects held an illegal referendum on whether catalonia should become an independent country david taito reports from madrid. the message was clear a united spain and elections now. forty five thousand demonstrators from the center and far right gathered in the drifts call on square this weekend on the eve of the trial to accuse the socialist a minority government of treason for offering to hold roundtable talks with separatists to diffuse the cattle and crisis amid the growing tensions lawyers

defending the catalan leaders who face charges of rebellion and a maximum prison sentence of twenty five years condemned the whole process but a full name in them in the book is this the trial is taking place in madrid is spain's capital a supposedly democratic country a member of the european union but for us this is a trial against the ballot box a trial against democracy. no spin why are they being accused of rebellion in order to mung other things to suspend their political rights which is the only way to stop them standing in elections. the key issue in the trial will be the final and sobre coude joining the catalan referendum in twenty seventeen to make the charge of rebellion stick the court will have to prove it was deliberately provoked by the defendants their lawyers will argue it was provoked by the police. or allies in spain will be on this building the supreme court in madrid for the

start of the trial or eyes that is apart from the socialist prime minister pedro sanchez who's more worried about trying to get his budget through the building just around the corner from here the parliament. to do that he'll need to support of catalan separatist m.p.'s the state news agency has already put out reports that he'll call a snap election for april if he doesn't get that backing. to al-jazeera but dree. macedonian officials have started removing signs from government buildings to prepare for a new name north macedonia now that its dispute with greece has been settled the neighboring states are looking ahead to close the diplomatic and economic ties johnson reports from school. 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.

they have i'm very satisfied the surgery is amazing much better than what we have in greece they do x. rays and cat scans on the one reef in greece they send you left and right an infrastructure is not the same order in fact every client is greek victims of the economic crisis that is claimed a third of their living standards many come here to shop by cheaper petrol for their cause according to one study greek consumers spend half a billion dollars a year in north macedonia their business at this clinic alone provides work for a staff of fifty after taking a quick thinking is separating the 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 greek 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 as 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 seoul refinery and one of the largest high street bank. greece was consistently the top foreign investor in north macedonia 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 great 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 a war that may be because people remember the last war who sleep on the hill to 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 thousand nine hundred nine the improvement of relations with greece is encouraging north 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. sports is coming up next he so will tell us how extreme bike is of taking my breast to cheat in chile that's just over a minute away. while

france's fencing federation has officially recognized lightsaber fighting as a real sport the fictional weapons have been made famous by the style was movies the federation teamed up with the french lightsaber academies to host a tournament on sunday and hope the sport will one day be seen in the olympics speaking of sports his pizza. thank you very much the champions league returns on tuesday and a rejuvenated manchester united will host paris center men in the last sixteen first leg when the draw was made many would have favored p.s.g. to win this tie but united have since sacked joe they marino and the new man in charge are going to solve is on an eleven game hot streak with ten wins and

a draw were given us the best possible opportunity on the way we've gone into this game because we're confident we've found. what kind of i found out what team we have we look at looking like a team playing style anthony was talking about where we were. agreeing on how we should approach games so if there was ever a chance or any time to to go into big games like this it's now for us to compare it with one hundred eighty minutes and we have a second leg to paris and feel very strong and comfortable in part of the process you know i would say it's a fifty fifty game but on this kind of level it's one of these games where the details like you get a decision from the referee against or for you you get a yellow or red the red like anything can make the difference you get the leader you get big like it's it's not tight but it's so close game also on tuesday

roma are at home so if seed porter the action continues on wednesday three time defending champions real madrid are in the middle and to take on i.x. amsterdam and tottenham host but it's your dortmund's. france back to back ski gold medalists for the men in the world championships in order sweden alexis pinto clinched the men's combine gold in a record combine time of one minute forty seven point six one seconds he started off in twenty fourth place after will delayed the downhill event slovenia's stefan had planned for her to come in second with italy's dominic paris in third act sometimes these races are hard to watch chillin skier henrik van oppen never finished the race after crashing in the downhill potion of the alpine combined he then started screaming the twenty four year old skidded on an icy section about a third of the way down the course and landed on his left side on top of the skis before sliding down into the safety nets but he's ok he's brother said doctors do

not think he has any broken bones. the l.a. lakers have suffered another loss this time at the hands of the new look philadelphia seventy six the lakers looked like they got themselves together after a split in the team at the trade deadline last week they beat the boston celtics just days ago but they couldn't find form against the seventy six is joel embiid school thirty seven points and fourteen rebounds to lead the hosts to a one hundred forty three one hundred twenty win. made thirty nine while the bron james contrary to eighteen points ten rebounds and nine assists james was facing the sixers for the first time since they tried to sign him as a free agent last year so i mean this is a different this is a different season is different circumstance because we've been injured i was injured we thank god you know the lineup throughout the whole season and you know we have really given the guys how mansoul the season is going to totally different

from us and so you know how how fast or how quickly we can drive fast track to so we can get back to you know plan on top of us we're planning for my. son as one the pebble beach program title for a first time with victory on monday in california the final round was completed on monday because of a two hour delay on sunday due to a hail storm mickelson called it a bogey for you around the seven hundred sixty five to top the leaderboard ahead of england's paul casey in addition and laid off the third round but instead it was the forty eight year old american left and he showed only his experience to seize the crown. it was a it's been a very special week this is a special place for me my grandfather in one thousand nine hundred was one of the first caddies here pebble beach and every time i get here i have such feelings of a gratitude for all that this places has done for my family starting with my grandfather and to to have my pro career start here to have this victory means a lot of the twenty nine hundred formula one season ribs into action in just over

one month from now now is the time the teams are fine tuning the new cause ahead of the first race in australia the teams are also unveiling because that will be on display during the races williams will no longer have a navy and white color scheme but instead sport a sky blue and white looking twenty nineteen drivers jules russell and robert could well be hoping the change in color can bring about a change in fortune williams of one sixteen driver and team titles but haven't won a grand prix since two thousand and twelve and finished stone last in the constructors' championship in twenty eighteen there fairly a lot of time effort and energy dedication. i think it would be to look to the story to go with. what happened but definitely values different stages of the last eight years. i had good days but days like everybody can imagine

but what is most important is sad to hear i will be back in f one car in the f. one hundred three waiting for a start so yeah looking forward i'm very excited. italy based toro rosso also used monday to reveal their call for twenty nineteen these are the images of what is being called the ace t. all fourteen they were marginally better than williams last year finishing just one place ahead of the british team in life place overall experienced russian daniel kiviat and british born thai alexander album will be touring ross's drivers in twenty nine t. . if you lift your door opening over the weekend you may have had an unexpected visitor ride in this is the urban downhill bike race in the port city of a so called places don't just ride it they also have to pull stunts on the way down they went down steps over roofs of houses and even straight into some people's homes they did all that while hitting speeds of around sixty kilometers an hour it

took the winner less than three minutes to complete the two killing to track not surprisingly the winner paper for a is from this town. and that is all the support we have for you from our state scene from oregon later you can find much more now websites including comprehensive coverage of iran's islamic revolution anniversary celebrations the address out is there a dot com. that's it for me at this news hour but i'll be back in just a moment.

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a whole lot of it and put it into a place where people live there is a cause colossal event. as well and so many people are thinking this is the silent heat. but does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. allies of venezuela's opposition leader piled more aid on the border as the government launches a bid to seize his assets. hello

i'm just saying this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up as prime minister on pleased her queen is coming home a stranger prepares to welcome back a refugee footballer after bahrain dropped its attempt to extradite him. donald trump heads to the mexican border to rally supporters and pressure political rivals to approve funding for his war. and climate change is blamed as hungry polar bears invade remote arctic settlements. well more aid is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressured president nicolas maduro to let it in brazil which like the u.s. backs murderous rival one quieter has agreed to set up an aid storage center on venezuela's southeastern border tons of food and medicine already stockpiled in neighboring colombia the juror has ordered soldiers to block the aid describing it

as a political show by countries that are trying to force him from power says he plans to send a message to the military on tuesday with a rally as he tries to get the armed forces on his side a u.s. senator is suggesting commanders could be offered immunity if they defect the venezuelan government has hit back with a bid to see is why those assets it accuses the self declared president of making shady funding deals we will be there. he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification or the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the candle of the ball evolve in the republic of venezuela i have started a search order on cities and one job although antonio go you don't want. to reason has more from caracas. well everything is ready here in caracas for the massive demonstrations expected to take place not only here in the capital inc us but also

around the country mostly demanding the government of an equal out mother would have to allow the entrance of aid from different parts of the country between the border of it between venezuela and colombia between the border of brazil and venezuela and probably a caribbean nation that we still don't know which one it is because the opposition is saying that they're trying to gather some food and medicines from there this demonstrations are expected to be massive and this is happening just as. venezuela self declared interim president announced that some type of aid has already been distributed here in the capital caracas around eighty five thousand a small envelopes of vitamins and other things for children and pregnant women this apparently had been in the city since december still we don't know how the opposition and conway though are going to manage to allow the aid that's and at the border with colombia to enter the country because as we know the government of unequal of motherhood has repeatedly said that they won't allow that aid into the

country that's a type of intervention that they won't allow while this is happening we also know about why those being investigated by the government for receiving forming the funds but this is something that is not the first time that happens to a member of the opposition and why you go is denying it and what he's basically saying is that they won't be intimidated by it and that's who asking people to turn to the streets massively on tuesday because they say that this is a persecution by the government u.s. senator marco rubio has suggested venezuela six top military leaders could be given immunity if they change sides he believes majorities days are numbered. material strategy is to buy time with a fake negotiation or whatever to a get the opposition to divide and be get the rest of us to sort of move on and pay attention to some other crisis and forget about venezuela and forget about what's happening that's his plan that's the

model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this process we're on and the reversible none of these countries are going to come back around there's no way you get fifty countries to re recognize you after what's happened so that's just the fact that now has more from washington d.c. the issue of amnesty for top military brass in venezuela this isn't the first time that we've heard of that sort of thing venezuela's national assembly has hinted in the past about a sort of amnesty as a way of avoiding a violent conflict in the future and the rhetoric from senator marco rubio today is more of the united states falling in line with that position that venezuela has already stated senator marco rubio says that the future of venezuelan democracy depends on the decisions made by these five or six key figures within the top brass of the venice at the venezuelan military but there was also talk about venezuela reaching a tipping point a sort of point of no return outlining that there is more than fifty countries now that recognize one the president of the national assembly as the interim president

of venezuela and these are fifty plus countries that will not change their mind will not really recognize nicolas modo as president of the country and for the united states at least according to senator marco rubio the policy and position the united states is taking is that there is no plan b. there is only one scenario and that means a scenario where president is stepping down and one last thing that senator marco rubio did warn about today he said that preventing access to international aid is a violation of international law so he warned venezuela's top military brass not to make the mistake of denying access to that aid. the u.s. is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to crown prince mohammed bin solomon to account over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi that's according to the wall street journal it says saudi tunney who was dismissed just days after the killing continues to serve as an informal royal adviser let's go live now to mike hanna in washington d.c.

mike with trump already signaling his belief that the match is closed is there anything congress can do. well on the case of sagal qahtani that's a wall street journal report quoting anonymous figures in state department who expressed deep concern about subtle khatami's ongoing relationship with the crown prince mohammed bin salman now subtle qahtani was a close associate of the crown prince however he was fired by king solomon following the murder of jamal khashoggi something that sources in state department are quoted as saying angered the crown prince and sidle qahtani according to these sources is continuing to work for the crown prince in an unofficial capacity at this particular time now it's a particular concern to state department because sidle could tani is one of those who were sanctioned under the global magnitsky act which accounts for human rights

atrocities by people around the globe so strictly speaking it is illegal in terms of u.s. law for anybody to have dealings with this particular figure now he is not one of those who eleven who the saudi authorities are reportedly trying for the murder of jamal khashoggi it is known that turkey is seeking his extradition from saudi arabia but certainly there is deep concern in state department according to the wall street journal president trump appears to indicate that this whole affair is over congress insists that it is going to continue to discuss legislation as a way of holding saudi arabia and leaders who may have responsibility for the murder accountable and is there as mike hanna there for us in washington d.c. thank you. while america's top diplomat has denied his country is attempting a cover up in the matter of jamal khashoggi secretary of state mike compare has been speaking in hungary at the start of his european toll he says the trumpet

ministration will work harder to ensure those responsible for the killing punished just days ago the white house missed a deadline to report to congress on whether it believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin ordered the matter operation americans are covering up for america's taken more action in response to the tragic murder of jamal khashoggi i will continue to take more action continue our investigation we're working diligently and that we will president made it very clear couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information we'll continue to hold all of those responsible accountable. iran's president has vowed to expand his ballistic missile program and a speech marking forty is since the islamic revolution addressing tens of thousands of people on the final day of celebrations hasan rouhani also dismissed american efforts to isolate them say mahato reports from tehran the it's an audible rally

held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central to run to celebrate independence from u.s. dominance this radical public is barking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states in the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the u.s. withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary

guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it able to pass this crisis says the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolution's ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four

decades iran's supreme leader says this is. part of the official discourse until the united states changes what he calls its evil ways. any time soon. says. pressure what trouble calls the radical regime in iran. some american officials. predicted that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what one honey has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters oh my god we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leader common name no matter how hard the situation and the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies jennifer. and the revolutionary guards also threatened to demolish

israeli cities if the u.s. ever attacks iran here's how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reacted and . i am not ignoring the threats of the iranian regime but nor my impressed by them or this regime to make the terrible mistake of trying to destroy tel aviv in haifa it would not succeed but it would mean that they had celebrated their last revolution day they would do well to take that into account. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera why a policy that dominated israeli politics for decades is struggling to set stay relevant ahead of the upcoming elections. and extreme bikers take over a city in chile even biking through people's homes.

how the weather is set fair across southern parts of china those central areas have seen some rather lively showers longer spells of rain and some snow recently more that is because for the next couple days not quite as wise but as it has been recently celsius there for shanghai on tuesday fall into line to the mid twenty's down into the southeastern corner is that what's the weather a little further north it will not just way back towards we'll hand pushing into central parts as we go on into the middle part of the way but for many it will stay settled with some decent spells of sunshine and that sunshine stretches is why right down across in the charter lovely weather here looking good for the philippines as well leave. into malaysia hevia showers across the region are going to be across a good part of indonesia java seeing more heavy downpours once again in those shots as you can see edging up toward singapore you might catch the odd shower here kuala lumpur on the other hand will stay fine and dry and stays dry too across much of india still a chance of want to showers into the southeastern corner into lanka with

a little further north some really thick cloud just spilling out of northern parts of pakistan northern areas of india will see some wet weather possibly was some snow as we go through tuesday and on into wednesday temperatures in new delhi at around twenty four degrees. who want to sponsor tony. take to wu's possible material eurabia grounded into dust comparable to our make up . and put it into a place where people think the cost. is growing so many people are thinking this is the poland. we're going to make you feel like a movie we have created an enormous and little mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al jazeera.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories more aid from the u.s. and its allies is on its way towards venezuela's borders but president nicolas maduro is blocking its entry his government is attempting to seize the opposition leader's assets saying accepted money illegally. the u.s. is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to the crown prince to account over the murder of journalist. that's according to the wall street journal which says south alcatel any who is dismissed just days after the killing continues to serve as an informal royal advise that. iranian president hassan rouhani is about to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands of people in

tehran on the islamic revolutions fortieth anniversary. a refugee footballer is heading home to australia after his native bahrain dropped its request to extradite him from thailand came out araby who fled to a stranger and twenty fourteen. he was arrested in november while on his honeymoon when haye reports from bangkok. after arriving in thailand for his honeymoon eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to australia his adopted home the longer he spent in prison in bangkok the more concerned group that he could be sent back to bahrain instead the footballer said he'd be tortured or killed if that happens after an international outcry bahrain dropped its extradition request hakim fled bahrain for australia in two thousand and fourteen avoiding a ten year jail sentence for vandalism which he says is politically motivated use of his release was welcomed in australia where he has asylum status as prime

minister or employees claim is coming home and will be pleased to see him at home when that or koos despite having travel documents and a thai visa he was arrested when he and his wife landed in bangkok in november there are several unanswered questions about this case particularly surrounding the issuing of an interpol red notice against his name which was requested by bahrain but given that hakim allowed a beachhead asylum status in australia that notice should never have been granted the red notice was granted on the same day that he received a thai visa raising suspicions about the thai government's involvement the foreign ministry in bangkok said it didn't notify bahrain about the footballers' plans but as the case dragged on the pressure on the thai government grew after a trip to bahrain by the thai foreign minister hakim was freed bringing an end to an ordeal that shouldn't have been allowed to happen wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. the us acting defense secretary says he's received no orders to withdraw american

troops from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out huff of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks after meeting president ashraf ghani during his brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban the armed group has so far resisted that idea as they regard the government as in adjustments. the u.s. president is heading to the mexican border to promote his long promised wall in a bid to pressure political rivals to approve its funding stalled negotiations have restarted in washington and donald trump says it's up to the democrats to try to find a way to avoid a second government shutdown white house correspondent kimberly how kits has more. another u.s. government shutdown now potentially just days away we need a wall members of congress meeting on monday in an attempt to revive funding talks broke down over the weekend at issue the number of beds used to house those that

enter the u.s. illegally democrats want to cap in number at sixteen thousand five hundred republicans disagree these are the people coming into our country that we are holding and we don't want in our country and the democrats want them to go into our country that's why they don't want to give us what we call the beds there's also disagreement on how much to spend on us president trumps planned border wall where barriers should go trump's demand last month for five point seven billion to build a wall along the southern u.s. border led to an historic thirty five day shutdown the stollen tox raises the possibility trump will declare a national emergency to access already approved funding to build his wall you cannot take a shutdown off the table you cannot take five point seven off the table but if you end up someplace in the middle yeah the what you'll probably see is a president say yeah ok and then i'll go find the money someplace else over the

weekend dozens of trump supporters form a human wall across a small part of the southern border in new mexico where there is no fencing demonstration comes this trump will visit another border town in a paso texas on monday for a rally in support of his tough immigration stance for now democrats have offered just one point three billion in funding for other border security measures but no money for president trumps border wall and unless the two sides can find compromise the current fighting to keep the government open will run out on friday kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house israel's labor party is holding its primaries ahead of parliamentary elections on april ninth the. party which governed israel for its first three decades has fallen steadily in polls this century and is now fighting to hold on to just a handful of seats for such reports from leicester isam. in the jerusalem side

street labor activists gather for the party's primaries the atmosphere is hardly high energy with polls suggesting the majority of candidates being selected are all but guaranteed to lose enables election i really hope that things will change because here in israel things can change in a week you know something going to happen and so i'm trying to be optimistic because you know otherwise it doesn't really help it's very difficult it's hard time but we will. hopefully maybe traces its roots to the map a movement of david ben-gurion israel's first prime minister but left wing labor hasn't won an election since barak's victory in one thousand nine hundred nine israeli politics has moved to the right ever since. poll suggests they will win as few as five seats in the next parliament or knesset until recently labor was part of the zionist union alliance which has twenty four members one israeli newspaper on monday depicted the late labor leaders you've been and shimon peres urging ben-gurion not to look at what had become of his movement for the last twenty years

labor party members have had to adapt to a steady decline in their electoral fortunes but this year it does seem different rather than fighting for power this party is battling for political relevance or slim celestial that's one reason the emergence of benny gantz to offer an alternative to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and attract support from labor voters the security of their accounts labor's leader of a go by has advocated a mix of traditional left wing politics with right wing tinge is for example on illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank which he says should stay put . he's been clear that labor would not serve in the netanyahu led coalition government but voters who want netanyahu out above all else see more prepared to bet on for. what's happened to labor is that they've had some bad leadership. had a leader who is in the wrong place at the wrong time but it's not an indication that the party will indication. and it's not an indication that the israeli left.

it is though. if you would predict a comeback in time for election day when you are a full suit west jerusalem in eastern syria at least sixteen people including seven children have died in airstrikes as the u.s. and its local allies try to push eisel out of its last scrap of territory hundreds of civilians have begun fleeing the besieged enclave as fighting gets worse the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing resistance from eisel feiss who've used suicide car bombs snipers and booby traps to repel the offensive and two french women who managed to flee bugger was say many more foreigners including fighters who joined eisel still trapped inside with no food they said they paid smugglers to get them out after witnessing massacres that. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are allowed her food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked

inside i just have to keep my children alive because my husband died in an airstrike the house next door was hit the roof collapsed over us of course we regret it we lost everything by coming here what are we supposed to do we got stuck because chopped by the propaganda in eastern libya forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have taken over the country's biggest oil fields known as the libyan the libyan national army the group took peacefully after it was overrun by a group of state guards and tribesmen demanding payment last month elam a fight has launched an offensive in the south to expel a string of armed groups. the african union has called for a global conference to try to resolve the conflict in libya it wants to see elections held there in october the group has been holding its annual summerson ethiopia's capital addis ababa al-jazeera and webb has more on the day's events. thirty one of africa's fifty five leaders made it to the summit of the african union's headquarters i mean he appears careful to advice about the president. of

egypt began his tenure is chair. we need to lend more importance to post conflict reconstruction and development plans and programs in order for us to push for peace and security in our continent and to prepare conducive environment for the return of our displaced people as early as possible. displaced people and refugees was the theme for the summit and the year ahead through more than twenty million in africa but there was no binding agreement or concrete action planned to help them the organizations peace and security commission announced a plan with the un to try and hold reconciliation talks in libya ahead of its election later this year they think we need also the same instancing from the international community that we speak the same language and all and necessary interferences should stop immediately however no action was planned to address the conflict in cameroon several steps forward have been taken towards the african

union's goal of the coming self funding always depended on funding from countries outside of this continent several european countries fund its programs and its headquarters paid for and built by china but ultimately in the years ahead the success of its plan to become self financing will depend on whether or not member states actually pay up there's been some progress on creating a free trade area fifty one countries signed it nineteen of turned it into law back home it needs three more to actually take a fact and that analysts say with a huge treaties and policies is often a problem the extent to which members they actually walk the talk of it were. of the council for his work that they highlight when they are speaking here of the african union the hadley the doctrine of whether or not what they're saying indeed is something that they follow up when they go back to their respective cup and that

is where the major limitation in and problem is president paul kagame everyone there was chair for the last year he tried to push through reforms lester's that is expected from sisi he's expected to focus more on security in the year ahead. malcolm webb al-jazeera at the african union in addis ababa food that can feed more than three million people in yemen is at risk of rushing the u.n. special envoy to yemen says the supplies have been inaccessible for more than five months that's because the world food program's grain stores are located in the port city of had data a front line position a state of imagines he has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by proto baz than a via a capella which is home to around three thousand people is located within the arctic ocean dozens of polar bears have been wandering around the area even going into

homes and offices holub as a coming into closer contact with humans as melting ice reduces their habitats and food stocks the number one driver of human political conflicts the number one thing that brings polar bears around people is generally attractant there is something in a community this smells good that brings polar bears in their smart curious animals they want to find out what smells good or what's mel's bad because they're always looking for something to eat so that's the number one cause of most conflicts between humans and polar bears there's a long history for both polar bears other various species of bears come into garbage dumps they get conditioned to human food they become a safety hazard for people in this community it's a very dangerous situation so the number one thing it's often easier said than done but it needs to be done is to reduce these attractants these good smells and whatever food reward they in most might be getting from the dump it's not uncommon

for bears to become habituated to humans and the more habituated they are the closer they are in proximity to humans the more sick dangerous the situation is for everybody unfortunately. well if you left your door open and so over the weekend you may have had an unexpected visitor ride in this is the been downhill bike race in the port city competitors don't just ride it they also get to pull off stunts on the way down they went down steps over roofs of houses and even straight into some people's homes and they did all that while hitting speeds of around sixty kilometers an hour it took the wind at less than three minutes to complete the two kilometer track and not surprisingly the winner is from this town. i'm a star and these are the top stories more aid from the u.s. and its allies it's on its way towards venezuela's borders but president nicolas

maduro is blocking its entry his government is attempting to seize the opposition leader's assets saying one gliders accepted money illegally the u.s. is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to the crown prince to account over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi that's according to the wall street journal which says saudi tani who was dismissed just days after the killing continues to say as an informal loyal advisor iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the islamic revolutions fortieth anniversary bahraini footballer hakim arabia is on who is on his way home to australia after spending two months in a bangkok prison the sportsman was arrested in november whilst on his honeymoon in thailand he fled his native bahrain and twenty fifteen and received refugee status

in australia. the u.s. acting defense secretary secretary says he's received no orders to withdraw american troops from from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out hoff of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks after meeting president ashraf ghani during his brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban the armed group has so far resisted that idea as they regard the government as illegitimate and eastern libya forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have taken over the country's biggest oil fields known as the libyan national army the group took peacefully after it was overrun by a group of state gods and tribesmen demanding payment a state of emergency has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by polar bears the new vias emelia archipelago which is home to around three thousand people is

located within the arctic ocean polar bears are coming into closer contact with humans as melting ice reduces their habitat and food stocks those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here off the inside story. is the world failing yemen it's eighty years since and revolutions are targets for change instead years of war and the humanitarian crisis so what hopes of if. this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. millions of yemenis saw an opportunity for change and twenty eleven protest is inspired by the arab spring demond and the resignation of president ali abdullah saleh he eventually relinquish power off to three decades bought hopes of democracy soon faded four years of civil war have led to what the united nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis with famine disease and suffering widespread and on the eighth anniversary of yemen's revolution there are reports. these graves of protesters killed and thais are reminded of a time when yemen got to prefer glimpse of hope. said three twenty eleven the city's freedom square the birthplace of the evidence arab spring. it was an important moment for the people of yemen from the streets of aden to the

squares of sanaa thousands of men and women rose up against a thirty three year rule of precedent ali abdullah saleh a call for political and economic reforms morphed into a rage against his government after peaceful protests faced a violent crackdown in the end sally was forced to resign and ties protesters have gathered again in freedom square to mark the eighth anniversary of the uprising activists like twenty eight year old dubai jaffa are hoping to keep the revolution to life. to him like the revolution is like a flame once parked in a man's heart cannot be smothered hour of illusion has not been perverted rather came to a standstill half way through have been here many revolution completed its course would have achieved what we aspire to. instead yemen is now in the middle of a war and tires is under assault from different armed groups after salis

resignation up their will months are hardy took over a process of reconciliation began but that was short lived. in twenty fourteen who the rebels stormed into sanaa from the stronghold in the north assad the u.a.e. coalition began a military campaign in support of the yemeni government led by harvey. the man protest as deposed first aligned with the who these and then was killed by them in twenty seventeen thousands of yemenis have been killed in the war many of them children the conflict has pushed the region's poorest country to the brink of famine twenty million people don't have enough food to eat but some activists say the revolution gave yemenis something bigger the idea of to more crecy. we'll uproot all the corrupt or those plotting to undermine the achievements we made we believe the revolution is still moving forward we believe in its principles and the family succession the rule toppling the corrupt traitor ship of three

decades. a political and diplomatic solution to the war in yemen seems on certain a un brokered cease fire agreement has not brought peace to her there the port city is a crucial gateway for much needed humanitarian aid priyanka gupta for inside story . well let's bring in our panel now joining as on the phone from santa is hakimullah mehsud mahdi he's a political and military mediator in amman we have college schembri he's a regional media adviser in the middle east at the no wage and refugee council and in washington d.c. is summer hamdani a visiting fellow at georgetown university very warm welcome to all of you mr must money we've spoken so many times over the past eight here is what happened to the yemeni revolution ali abdullah saleh was removed but why wasn't he replaced by democracy that was a plan democracy was a plan even the revolution was called. a peaceful resolution

a place where hundreds of thousands of protesters were gathered in what was culturally where they were teaching democracy there was. not the case to thirty. hour he started. ensuring that. it didn't get personal by court opened the lion. by that time we controlled. our government. other military. war because of that. revolution.

and it is because of those thousands and fact millions of yemenis who are suffering and the various ways that yemen is of course called the world's worst humanitarian crisis mr schembri i know that you've been in and out of yemen of the past few years we call it the world's worst humanitarian crisis but what does that look like when you're in yemen what is life like for people there. well it's massive i've just returned from the it affects yemen across the board all sectors from professionals who haven't received salaries for the last almost two years now to people who are extremely mild knowledge children on the brink of death to displaced families who have been hit more than once and then go up in the line of

fire their houses destroyed they move they flee and they get in the line of fire again the fighting reaches them and they're forced to be displaced again absolute poverty that is now reigning supreme across across the country i've seen doctors who haven't been paid their salaries and they still go on with their jobs they're saving lives teachers professionals the yemeni economy has been brought down to its knees it's not that food isn't available but it's that it is so expensive it isn't accessible for the ordinary yemenis out there that they can't afford to to eat it i've met a little girl. who has been displaced four times over the last four years and was telling me last week how they go at night hungry not not having eaten at all. like every other day they have to eat their meals every other day because they

can't afford any more than that so it's it's really hard to give the full picture accept that this is just deteriorating it's a country that has been through color are. on the brink of famine most of poverty and the most displacement of people all the time and despite that scale of suffering it's also called you know one of the world's forgotten crises how the valley why is that. why is that one of the most forgotten crises in the world. well for many reasons first of all there is no international interest to kind of listen to the voices of the yemenis on the ground just because of how powerful they are again like they mentioned before yemenis are not wealthy they're not powerful and then on top of it the yemeni political elite at the moment are taking one side or the other in this conflict which is making things difficult for the average yemeni on the ground who's paying the price for this you know the average person is

starving while the political parties are competing for power on the top levels and of course this this war is is you know some people would say it's not the forgotten war some would say that it's the unknown war of course the shoji assassination has changed all of that and brought a lot of media attention on yemen however we have to remember that powerful countries that could stop this conflict will are in fact the country supplying the weapons to this war and are part of the you know there are other countries that are now taking sides in the iranian saudi proxy war and it's not becoming about yemenis it's becoming about regional head to moni while the average yemeni citizen who's poor who's starving is the one paying the price and ultimately we have to remember that we're not getting a lot of footage from the ground and it's been really difficult to cover this war in a regular way with competing crises happening across the middle east and so it makes it very difficult for the average any citizen to have a voice or

a say in what's happening the semester my as miss somebody you know should yemen is of course one of the poorest countries in the region and it is being bombed by some of the richest you know the saudi and mirage the coalition and again as pointed out by ms hamdani they are being by you know six apollo's the united states the u.k. from but what impact would you say that the cell the and the russian coalition entering the war on the side of the yemeni government has had all my. forget about the saudi and probably the about the changes that happened i wasn't sleeping in december the peace talks i just arrived and i couple days ago in the last two months the difference that i saw in poverty. and. eight i find. ordinary and it's not only hundreds of thousands there are millions of families and as your guest said it's not the

problem of having a no money has not been paid for over two years now. inflation prices have increased three hundred percent over last year and a half the clinton has collapsed over two hundred percent in the last. right now i'm alone and to what extent has that suffering being exacerbated by the fact that this is not a war that involves only yemenis we have the and russia coalition supporting the many government we have supporting the whole thing so how much has that international events really made things so much worse and probably long to the war . possible but we're only. almost close to signing a bill. that

are gaining. financial and. possible. war and it's not on one side that you. have one leadership. well despite all of those divisions and so much to say we did have some good news as you're mentioning there was that cease fire agreement for the crucial city of hyundai that was signed in sweden. is that agreement holding. well we as

a humanitarian agency we don't monitor the actual fighting what i what we can say is that the there is artillery fire going on almost on a daily basis and one day that i could hear it last week at night the air raids seem to have stopped inside who they does city but there is fighting that is raging on and people are still being displaced and they are still coming. in the line of fire so. it's a very specific agreement that has so far stalled it seems to have stalled the frontlines from developing further inside who they don't but the areas around today that city outside the port the port area are extremely fragile and there is there is extremely active war zone that parts of them are inaccessible to my colleagues who need to get aid to the people and i would add another point. to the

pertinent point made before earlier about the coalition countries that are have an influence on this war. as humanitarian agency we call on the top donors actually they happen to be the top donors of the yemen response that is the united states saudi arabia the united arab emirates and further down the united kingdom we want to see an end of the play city of the hypocrisy of with one hand feeding keeping keeping the yemenis live and at the same time destroying their country it is yemenis need much more than aid they need an end to this day and they need the lifting of the blockade and they need all ports and ports open so that they can resume with their lives and that takes us to the point that mess and that he was making earlier which is that these super powers that are giving aid to yemen yes but they're also arming. you know the saudi and the rotty coalition who are

complicit in the killing of civilians so you know you have various countries saying that they want the water end but you have many of the same countries continuing to arm the warring parties so. can any u.n. efforts to end the war be successful while superpowers continue to the warring parties i believe that that is very possible because yemenis are armed to the teeth and not just the saudi and the tea coalition have also have had all the weapons and all the support that they can get and it feels that all the sides are exhausted from fighting and of course that's not to say that one side is more dangerous than the other of course when we saw what's happening in yemen we see that they're all exercising some form of criminality and to touch base on what the previous speakers said before yemeni's don't just deserve the end of the war they deserve much more than that if we are going to talk about the arab spring and the

uprisings in yemen what the people of yemen had demanded was you know it looks such a such a high bar compared to what is what their demands are today for instance then they want to dignity and they wanted freedom and they wanted a democratic practice and that was quickly hijacked by political parties but today the demands of the emmy people is to have access to food electricity and the demands of change drastically and to kind of touch note on the arab spring anniversary it's important to note that who started the revolution were the youth and independent woman and of course the youth today are the weakest faction that you barely hear voices coming out from the youth they've been a lot of them have been absorbed by political parties or feel like they have to ally themselves with some political entity in order to have a say of some sort and that's really tragic and when it comes to women of course woman were such an important component of the arab spring they took to the streets

they were alongside men and then today when you look at the yemeni government there's barely any female representation in the government and of course the role of women on the ground. has become very militant which is very unfortunate and then all peace efforts that have to do with woman are organized independently and so that's very tragic when it comes to that and then of course both sides on the ground are dictating independent voices whether they're use and women and just most recently we have missed. me and missed my hand or may see have been detained by the who these we don't know why and how long they will be today and we know that it was sentenced to death and of course on the other side similar practices are happening and it's it's all not building towards confidence in the peace process it's just showing that yemen is sinking further and further into a darker place you know miss hamdani is making some very good points talking about

the people of yemen the juice the women which we don't actually talk about enough because we constantly talking about the whole things in the south of the iraqi coalition in the yemeni government and when we when it comes to the yemeni government and the people do the people of yemen see president had the as then he's the internationally recognized leader but if we get to the point where you know the fighting comes down and we can have negotiations about peace is he the person to represent the youth the women the people of yemen. over the last four years the majority a president. has been in a real. question people are president. he cannot come to an end because. the security apparatus. we had no. control. only those who are. the ones president.

but the tens of millions in yemen. not seen anything and do not consider him as a man that because. they don't care about the president or not right now they want to die from hunger they want to entertain and if they want medical attention they want to come and they want to live and survive. no one cares the president is alive or not because their life is on the line on the line right now the worse it has ever been when it comes to freedom a bright democracy tens of thousands of prisoners are in prison all of the. newspapers have been closed and have been blocking the takeover by those who are in control. what's happening right now. is not an issue. you can add and the sangram show you agree with what mr messner i was saying that

the president had is not the issue here and that is the situation for many. absolutely i mean the. practically every yemeni i talked to over the last two weeks was telling me that they all want to get back to their normal lives they want to love their country they want to get back to their jobs they just they they want not to need to to beg for aid they've been reduced to a dependency from the ambitions of the arab spring to to this to starvation and being on the brink of famine for for so long so of course they are pleading for the world's leaders and the sides to the conflict to take a step back a loud them to go back to their normal lives they've lost so much relatives friends houses as it's drops. it's now how long can how long can they go on with this

we keep saying and the humanitarian world yemen is on the brink of yemen is is just on the brink and we think it can't get worse and it does and it does and it's this is what is now a really prolonged crisis that needs immediate immediate ending and miss hamdani why do you think it won't take everyone involved to actually hear the pleas of the yemeni people that mr schembri is talking about i mean you speak of a fatigue by all sides but the war continues. the work continues simply because there is a war economy and so the coal is the easiest way to dismantle this war is to stop the flow of income that goes to benefit this war whether it's through smuggling or financing political parties from outside parties or whether it is you know the weapons economy of itself and so the minute you dismantle that and you start

funding the processes of peace the business is going to shift from somehow so how do you dismantle that it's going to how do you just mental that and who does it. unfortunately while we talk about this war being a yemen yemen conflict in origin it's now become a regional conflict and nothing can happen without the say or will of international actors and so once they put their foot down very seriously on this war then we'll see a difference so the say has to kind of come from a top down approach from the regional actors saying this is enough this is what we would like to see and we're just going to begin face to of course we've seen a lot of times that when the regional actors are prepared for this we have to hope is on the ground who would go ahead and ruin the peace process these but that's just the way that it's going to have to pay you know you're going to have to sign a peace treaty and you're going to have to make you know you're going to have to sacrifice the fact that political parties are not getting exactly what they want

because there are always going to be spoilers but you have to just go ahead and do it because yemenis are suffering and of course we've talked about the looming humanitarian crisis for many many years and everything that we've predicted to happen has happened and you still see very little reaction to that and almost like it's a political strategy to to kind of just make yemenis suffer towards the end you know and to assume that that some sort of victory would be incorrect and so like i said earlier it takes international actors to kind of put their foot down. say hey we're not going to support different parties in this conflict just because we have interests at the stake we're just going to support peace from now on and we're going to make friends with everyone missed a mess my way at that point yet where international actors are going to say ben no longer supposed supporting this will. never happen again yemen was already at work. just last year imagine how it is right now i mean. more

probably. added to that list the poverty. we have hope yes the u.n. is moving up but the baby steps they have the complication and that's why we're trying to pull it apart and really a core you have a group. with you all to be involved talk to try to solve. a national figure vessel and try to solve this problem at a regional it's not such a drunkard with problems obviously you haven't solved with congressional support it will be a positive result it's not support either. side's water influential in the peace talks. and helping or i. missed the mass and i thank you as always for your time we do appreciate it i want to thank all of our guests that was talking must money joining us on the phone from sana we also have col schembri he's an hour mon and

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opposition leaders assets saying quote unquote quieter is accepted money illegally others we will be no go but we begin he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification on the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the kimble auditor of the ball evolving republic of venezuela i have started a search order on citizen one gerardo antonio. to reason has more from caracas. well everything is ready here in caracas for the massive demonstrations expected to take place not only here in the capital inc us but also around the country mostly demanding the government of nikolaus mother would have to allow the entrance of aid from different parts of the country between the border of it between venezuela and colombia between the border of brazil and venezuela and probably a caribbean nation that we still don't know which one it is because the opposition

is saying that they're trying to gather some food and medicines from there this demonstrations are expected to be massive and this is happening just as. venezuela fell to carry the interim president announce that some type of aid has already been distributed here in the capital caracas around eighty five thousand a small envelopes of vitamins and other things for children and pregnant women this apparently had been in the city since december still we don't know how the opposition and conway though are going to manage to allow the aid that in at the border with colombia to enter the country because as we know the government of unequal of motherhood has repeatedly said that they won't allow that aid into the country that that's the type of intervention that they won't allow while this is happening we also know about why those being investigated by the government for receiving forming funds but this is something that is not the first time that happens to a member of the opposition and why you go is denying it and what he's basically

saying is that they won't be intimidated by it and that's so asking people to turn to the streets massively on tuesday because they say that this is a persecution by the government the u.s. is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to the crown prince to account over the matter of journalists. that's according to the wall street journal which says south alcatel any who is dismissed just days after the killing continues to serve as an informal royal advisor. iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he's addressed tens of thousands of people in tehran on the islamic revolutions fortieth anniversary bahraini footballer came our a b is on his way home to a stray leah after spending two months in the bangkok prison the sportsman was arrested in november whilst on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native bahrain in twenty fifteen and received refugee status in

a straight. the us acting defense secretary says he has received no orders to withdraw american troops from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out hard of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks after meeting president ashraf ghani during his brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban. and eastern libya forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have taken over the country's biggest oil fields known as the libyan national army the group took up peacefully after it was overrun by a group of state gods and tribesmen demanding payment last month and then a fight has launched an offensive in the south to expel a string of groups a state of emergency has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by polar bears than a virus emelia archipelago which is home to around three thousand people is located

within the arctic ocean dozens of polar bears have been wandering around the area even going into homes and offices polar bears are coming into closer contact with humans as melting ice reduces their habitat those are the headlines join me for more news here. at first glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. or an eye catching natural phenomenon. these strange hills surround johanna's by. the largest city in south africa. but their beauty is deceptive and toxic. in fact the dunes are made up of mining weeds. the leftovers of south africans the

midst of people in the sun. and within the law some disturbing secrets. hunger. now in the next one french journalist must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly what's in the mind temps and just how deadly. they may be. sunrise america river basin. one of south africa's largest freshwater reserves.

bridget corrigan is a botanist. and a specialist in the region's biodiversity. this is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if it's a unique part of earth to from not just the tourist trail but also the first one of our diversity is very special it's got about fourteen species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the soup of this river system. there about two hundred trees species in america. that seventeen of them all. and about four hundred in the bed spaces. it is a national treasure and the north west doesn't have a lot of these river systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. the crown jewel of this is not true treasure lies just a few puddles strokes upstream. a sanctuary hidden at the heart of the reserve.

this is america i we're at the sort of america river. and the water levels up from big underground what happens at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conduct city which means there's no salt there's no pollutants in this in the system it's really very very pure. the water is crystal clear but it might not stay that way. recently the mining industry has become interested in the area's subsoil which is full of precious minerals regarded as a ten mining payments for things like. cup a silver or gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is different at risk and it's you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this

this underground aquifer. you can't just get that back it's not going to come back . so could the america river basin one day resemble the of a desolate landscapes left behind by the south african mining industry. like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. or these mined tailings in the midst of south africa's forestalling and. some of them date back to eight hundred eighty six when gold was first discovered and under a small town called johannes but. from that point on the mining industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city and more and more waste piles of head. often only a few dozen meters from residents homes. some of the may look as innocent to sandy use but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging

for gold i don't go there to scare. away. the day it comes or is here a whole year it's a run is born the day i. suppose i will doubtlessly will appreciate what will. appreciate it preformed for several i don't even first question just. sort of at the plutocrats you onto the thread is bogus. the course still to discuss and to tell you it is. so what does it mean for those living next to these dunes. like yeah that's me. so does the wind come from the mine thirty's it flows this side of the rose this side or this side from just a tiny dylan mimi is a mother of five she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining

dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. john the neighborhood has become one huge psalm. twenty thousand to you a quote from the. sun times yes you i've become ok this is not if you go to the to new game this choice has some it some chemical in the act so i'm advising you to take not to go to mine because it's very dangerous to it's unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. leave it you go to. a few months ago tiny dylan mean he wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a thousand residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every duel this house had as keith. this house here the model the owner of this house every chest full of

this when you come here often here isn't every man or women or child around here is coughing has appropriate of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them up only to. the man who. says. he them i want to test in your question i want to. question that needs. over one and a half million south africans live in townships like this. at the foot of mine tailings mountains. that's the south of it gets into our food week this past week drink this that so that is why so many people here this is the silent killer this dust doesn't just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe neurological disorders. i believe you know for

years you know if you. believe. that if. you returned this six years old. she suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time and the dust from the mine peeps gotten this dust you pull your kid in the piece. before you sleep you must face. that and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the first signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. communicate with her. when she she was to be changed. yeah and then she she kicks it is ok you know maybe when she wants you

to go i said richie she kisses him and she screams you know. they you know she has to go say you want to. poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mine dust but they are no doubt if there are other girls like them though a room was the same symptoms same health issues yet i do know and there's a pinch out there it's going to be the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here and i don't want anybody knowing of my day kids in this situation there's two of them open houses in the in the same street you're going to have them there many of them you know personally personally strange is something that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel to them out today telling them to do to dig a little bit so bad if you go of any distance from here believe you me you never

find this key. to find out whether the just from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illness's. must climb snake park hill. it has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. access is supposedly forbidden there's nobody guarding the site which extends over four square kilometers while the motive for about six is being run from as was rivers each. day since then didn't need to turn the dishes on it. was a major. must take five hundred grams of the sand. the dust that's blowing over the village but

no. on the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. it's used mostly to area gate adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their lifestyle sometimes their children even bay the net this was all. ok or if i could put in will do. for the. paws of the news media have put it. frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at northwestern university in south africa can see me. linda is also an expert on mining at least for the government the world health organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so i'm at the bottom of the mine turnings there's some water all around i was wondering which parameters fish do you

think i should analyze first in the water. elevate itself to try to translate to. elevate. ok. i. thought it would seem recently gone by. so. many done but in point of missouri. so there's a through it has a seed. and you can also take we just call it. and . all you people connect. us. so i think it's likely. vegas sun comedic on bali doesn't it just you know it was

our example of whatever this is all vigorous zero zero zero maximum in order to claim it as for then. it's impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. but the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. after some convincing one of the country's top three gold produces agrees to a meeting. with the rest of the. goldfields eight thousand seven hundred fifty kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. the team can't go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. but i know you will see on the front end there's somebody. coming to. us to try to include we are doing

a plus minus five thousand five hundred times. a day i mean we have reaching out on three hundred tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many grams of coal is there. so there or that you see on the still fall is i mean at the plus minus five times but done that's always currently. only five grams of gold for each ton of all mind that's a remarkable ratio. and it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. the precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. the. public to make goes there we used to i'm i said sign on that feel free. to make those you know pricing in the quarter mega nice instead they got. the concession

that c.p.r. so you add all of these together with these with the ball. the last stage is the cost at eight hundred degrees celsius for forty minutes. the end result gold bars. at eighty four percent purity each weighs in at just over sixteen kilograms and is worth around five hundred thirty eight thousand dollars. goldfields makes five of these gold balls a week. producing sixteen thousand two hundred tonnes of residue you equivalent to the weight of two of france's eiffel towers. the company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly twenty four hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. within

a few years this hill will become another steep mountain of debris reaching up to seventy meters high. andrew passons and stephen joseph are it's grand architects. what's in there. what is it's. well it's it's what's left over from there from the extraction process it's the rock that. held the gold. and what's left behind off the gold has been removed so it's silica and other materials it's the sand. and other metals but many silica is there any other metals for example there. it be trace amounts but but very small concentrations some olds and some of the gold ores there is your random sauce deep has very little uranium minutes or so. there's very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. can really.

not offhand i think the numbers around about forty to fifty grams of time. annually south african mining companies extract ten times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is the daily basis the gold from both of them. but the radiation fifth of may be. ok or. over time the waste produced by south africa's gold industry has formed increasingly larger radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. according to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding six hundred thousand tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as nuclear

installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least five hundred meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over twenty thousand residents. of . oil bruno sherry ron is an engineer in nuclear physics and an expert from korea ratched a research association in radioactivity when i was i was going to move on they. are going to think that they area. who. knows when i visit us. let me just quote she can do what she was going to seduce the would be logical to also paul not just on the are you office all the moves you want a focal to do sorry yeah i'm a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. i know my point of

view the scene i just shot there young men get much it even to be able. to do is it to that you're an evil doer risk or deployed in your she told us of a young mom and me. in a large wanting to join an. i don't is wrong but you don't want to do this with this poetry tall building you would lose it will feel good because you know oh and you cannot sell gounder ticket for three years. in a cell with a contract on let's work on the us because you will stay for. dinner joined by just one. and only because you want to force the daughter to try. and they said no. to you to find us. do you think it was only one tree for. her and.

how did we did to close on a letter that. master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the one nine hundred eighty six nuclear disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. era keeps around forty goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long linen above all if they last week that's which buys you a one month eleven months of all yeah yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your. writings show then said as for success this is a. eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. they want to. know who's behind. them but

a muslim know what they must go to. the next is the fungible what is. it in. the mind so all you. want to learn and it passed. on and i met. so when you see these every day what do you think. was the motion and . i would go on down about twenty but it's just the bins. it seems as though eric's goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. because we are close to the mind savings farm that money will look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should just have some bowl of the animals.

just like you. have to take five samples from two goats intended to be used for meat consumption including one who is blind he was supposed to be. i come up with the result of the trauma factor or the instructor thanks for you but i. must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africa's council the scientific and industrial research. here used the water from the sailings just across the. it is used as a rigorous no water jesus immigration and also for almost a drink we also live in some more full samples train job is done with

a store was considered low made competitors and so what can you what can you look for years almost all of their dead and the man goes by did they then go to them and those like oh you know now i'm your lead you know why as soon as we shop there in trucks and can busy gluey. we need an expert to get them in order once we get them then that's reason on our going right. as he waits for the analysis time returns to the investigation in part two. as the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an industry insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live pity is a colossal bad idea.

whether online. went to the answer for them not to do just that or if you join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue brainiac talking about a little friend you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone off and some people are secular well everyone has a boss. yes send us your thoughts your twitter and you could be on the story and join the conversation on mt is iraq the latest news as it breaks the different news about the blues paul tells us and floyd says that authentic in the roots with the this time goes with truth is. with detailed coverage why though has already said that he's ready to take over as interim president and pose for you elections. from around the world volunteers are doing what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness in hungary.

ghana has their own studio if you will both resources and. why are they so poor the measuring lawyers you guys were trying to form a government. that toxin when essentially you know where the more we would close down the more they push back we knew it was coming to question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprised them with a preemptive strike. until. hello i'm a saudi attainder how with the top stories on al jazeera more aid from the united states and its allies is on its way towards venezuela's borders but president nicolas maduro is blocking its entry his government is attempting to feed the opposition leader's assets saying accepted money illegally. we will be little.

he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification to constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the kimble of the bull evolving republican venezuela i have started. one gerardo antonio going to. the us is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to the crown prince to account over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi that's according to the wall street journal which says saudi tani who was dismissed just days after the killing continues to serve as an informal loyal advisor iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program his address tens of thousands of people in tehran on the islamic revolution fortieth anniversary bahraini

footballer hakim araby is on his way home to australia after spending two months in a bangkok prison the sportsman was arrested in november while still on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native bahrain in twenty fifteen and received refugee status in a stroller the u.s. acting defense secretary says he has received no orders to withdraw american troops from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out huff of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks of to meeting president ashraf ghani during his brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban the armed group has so far resisted that idea as they regard the government as illegitimate. and eastern libya forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have taken over the country's biggest oil fields known as the libyan national army the group took peacefully after it was overrun by

a group of state gods and tribesmen demanding payment last month. in offensive in the south to expel a string of groups those are the headlines now back to south africa.

hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around johannesburg south africa's most populous city but they aren't a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings ways teats left over from south africa's hugely profitable gold industry. many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. with expert help the french journalist must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. but one night while he waits for the

results he gets a mysterious voicemail message along i heard that you are your. money where your. hundred in a month well i worked at an environmental challenges for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know you're going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. the message is from a geologist eagle club chick after a twenty year career in the mining industry has now left it disgusted by the industry's failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste i'll tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is your radio grind into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said when were you doing reports where you listened at that time i have written lots of reports i must have some

sort of a record in emails probably over over one hundred so after a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean first of all you have to because the contaminate. it's the land that is number one number two you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from greeks than with up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a reason to put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their health problem what doesn't make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. what we have done like i said we have created an enormous and we're mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and went to mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok we are feeding the nation why did gold mining industry do it in reached

a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made him probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. so yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing ricing head master heads back to sea from everett from goma. his current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered in person by frank bender. the johanna's but professor studies also one of the vote we're joined by name is frank frank and. the professor has come to see eric's livestock for himself. you see here. is. the test results

a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated erik's foam and uranium isn't the only problem. for example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your and you'll want to sample over two cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to solace in times of authentic this elevated fifty times as it will solve the five hundred ok to most let's say indicative mental form binding impact and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about ten times what you would see in a natural environment ten times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did about one hundred times more than one would find it on polluted actual pristine water source of. the farm surrounded by pollution which just. it's animals badly contaminated and.

it's disturbing news. the health of your goat yeah shows the highest levels of or songbook overall and unless. you see uranium is sixty times for elevated but over lead is it elevated to eighty times meaning almost one hundred times above what's normal that's the same was cobalt that's the same was also nick and at six hundred times one nickel but maybe you didn't know if you notice on just ok right i can have all of the yes you can have it's all yours but soldiers. my dad was out of four now living in doubt right for you fly me. a farm when livestock die prematurely townships which children have neurological disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. but all the medical links between poor health and mining pollution so clear cut. stoff at this radio call health clinic might

have some odd sense. among their patients is. it's the third time this month that my youngest son has ten and l. . ok. alright that's yes. please i let him use. too much of this stuff was it isn't doesn't like it not to go to the stylist physically because of them don't know whose it was. so he's going to yours. their baby has called brocade she's. of ours and just in to

squint bull's eyes sometimes we see worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. she was having chest in drawings of the little dust because of the dust this is something that you will see on the leverage yes you have been here you big number of clues is not really there should be a study like you're mentioning is that everybody who only lived through their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. astonishingly the south african state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. but can. he catches up with too lazy to work and back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out collecting with child.

care is go oh it's. very heavy so you have to do this every day. this is your house ok tunisia's the small child with her four children. is ignorant as saying oh i like. to play lenses. is it a corner quinola feel good telepictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. and her children live only a few doesn't need to is from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels twenty eight times higher than the norm. she agrees to provide has samples to test what level. contamination but the response to. get through that it knew all along song pinay director of the

institute for research and scientific expertise and comes online if you will i mean you know. because of all going there you come and that is commotion to pull. it in yeah if you blow or security and you gale norton i'm just you know me. i'm still me i don't. know she. is one of the sort. of want to put it maybe it will go. see what i'm going to do yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of love. you put in culture get your lucky breaks yourself. national sure. you want. to write you can turn.

it all right that should be more than enough. for us and then. the more i mean you would put it. we got to the mosque itself did you like this i want to. go next. or a perfect. master has also taken to has songs from the time to whom we matched only a little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. this is one of a lot of thinking so done as it. is to look beautiful. ah. and then more ten in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor penny in france.

once again they'll be a few days of waiting for the results. in the meantime goes looking for gold. some of south africa's most profitable export is used in the electronics industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the world's major luxury brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. on the boat you know jennifer was full of those that are. nor are any of them keen to respond to questions to show their love for theirs under control just how to yell matilda clearly because you don't know how good the flow of their lives in for the joy of business comes from them on this one is of utmost importance of sort of going to communicate but leaving don't you know for whom i was going to have them visit you more because the mongia federal police each of them to come from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes

from. medicare and then who can you compose one question the reason long italian brand is the third largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. it's time to go shopping. to greece headquarters in. johannesburg i located in sand and city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious shopping mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost seventy eight thousand seven hundred dollars. but again no one hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether it was here in the national gallery you knew whether gold comes from if you can talk about it it's a call to gold yes the gold you use in your jewelry. hey you know i you know the

ones here that are ok don't you think it is kind of a surprising to us you don't know where to go comes from the directly from the your readers here tell you you know ok i've heard of the. of the consequences of my name a gold mine says i forgot that for example the mind savings uses would you burn injuries better environment for her to go but. that's just the reason i just applied for her of the worse and worse. for her thank you very much more you will come. back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africa's a vast gold mining industry. people are gathering in a church hall. tiny the activist has come to see are you doing it as an

ally their drugs on people with you. so to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. what has spread and even the national media present. everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. or think you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that you've come a long way to be here must our runs through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then he cools off on some inane and straws planted them in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal scroungers in the human hands it's been gathered for rufus i want only we don't know what it was before the huge tree of

a go to. shoot. was a very good as your dodo. oh it was a. yes you will. always lose all your work. you all do it don't do. it all those who. don't. set seven just don't do this for so forth when you would expose your pose and go this was on when you were exposed to it with people who are sure that god loves you then don't go and no one is exempt as an opinion i don't think it is the least was your rule yet it really all was vague ya know these findings could help south african doctors give me a tandem better diagnosis for her disease. on down the. charts i'll be able to

question. that people which. i don't. and all those who are you with of course fill your ass if you don't yes you're more hot again it was a job and you don't need ok taken together the result a deeply disturbing. the soil gathered by much from the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is three hundred thirty times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium one hundred times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains eighty three times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show sixty four times more exposure to lead five times more exposure to your ania and four times more exposure to us nick than the average french person be adjacent to easy to mean we eat is dangerous for you.

and can cause. what can we do. it. looks to give us. a lot but usually we don't. even know she'd miss you know you can focus. on them and. you know. i think you know it. is this one moment and this is not all those people that are really. miles apart still the scientists who can be sending us think we've had enough of this man's

exposing us all so we are appealing to everybody once again from a shortage of saying to be sure there was a book is you know we've lost because of insufficient evidence but now we're dead documented and the like do we know it louise the universe. will know what they've been. doing very much once again. as residents begin planning their next move. including a possible legal claim against the mining companies. obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. the industry's association for some of south africa's most powerful mining concerns. and here some pretty pretty don't

seem to see if what they mean look at them in an effort just to someone just can't . soumitra am an ex trying to put on through some twenty. almost one hundred twenty years later stiff. runs that were going to his asians anti-pollution department on string for those issues because the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the environmental impact of the mining industry. do you think it's it's going in the right truck on the goodwill yes there is significant good progress achieved this far in terms of my mean companies dealing effectively with environmental impediments how's the chamber of mine ever conducted human health impact assessment regarding the tailings the mine tunings is not it's not that i'm well ok so we don't some

some some small then shows her letters the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i don't know ok. what does that make you think now it's quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the mining industry that you represent have a responsibility in these numbers. i think in areas where our member company is mindless we do have the responsibility do you leave close to the mind. why not even me. i'm in most of the it's i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow the table as not the other way around they choose to go and stay there thing the people that live around the two these two things this huge paintings are on drugs producing they're saying they're not safe. at all there's

a lot of. environmental risks as well a safety of risks and why do you think you've been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own members when it when you say something do you think it's something where when what is it about eating the media and the we have built in of those should get rid of the yes i think we need in all that all management strategy is the industry and obviously in putting up with government. so what does the government have to say. south africa's environment minister declines to be interviewed. and his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. the ministry of health on the other hand

is very interested. can't. believe a book. is director of the national institute for occupational health one thousand six. hundred mentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much higher and that there would be negative health effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies that the study said and why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces don't continue to contaminate the living environment for communities and so on. would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we don't have this we don't have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have

a sample of those who have got higher levels. of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor their. the south african government will soon begin a major study on the health impacts of mining pollution. but time is of the essence in two thousand and seventeen mining companies extracted one hundred thirty tons of gold from south african soil. producing twenty seven million six hundred thousand tons of supplementary waste. more ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. there are still thirty five years remaining of exportable gold reserves in south africa. how many move it dims will have to be in that time

before people realize that life is more precious than gold. we've got plenty of wintry weather making its way across north america at miami big massive cloud is right pushing in from the south and it's a snow across the plains pushing up towards the midwest and in date to that northeastern corner and then we're still seeing some wintry weather making its way

over towards a good part of the pacific northwest seattle has seen some record breaking snow snowiest february around seventy years more snow as we go through choose de wet weather coming into oregon and washington state not too clever either of a lot of good parts of the west coast of california seeing some clouds there will be some rain here as well as that snow that we have moving across the plains into the upper midwest into the northeast and cold in new york temperature at around two degrees celsius heavy rain or around the appalachians to choose day pushes further research on wednesday that northeastern quarter right into new england eastern fossa kind of the seeing plenty of snow this will cause some chaos the snow meanwhile will continue around the pacific northwest yet again come down into the caribbean fied interact at say wetter weather that makes its way across southern parts of the states will also push across the gulf of mexico into a good part of cuba but for much of the caribbean it's fine and dry.

everything you do is being and it's being leaked and you measure to support intelligence agencies all the time to do things in secret that are of little or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew chose to retire from say we could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera. this is zero. hello and welcome to this news hour with mina stasi a tale of how global headquarters in doha coming up. allies of venezuela's

opposition need to pile more aid on the border as the government launches a bid to feed his assets. i'm going to see a new man in western venezuela where in the country with the world's largest oil reserves the petrol chews like the one you see behind me are the blocks long kilometers long. also ahead of a deal on border security to avoid another u.s. government shutdown plus. as prime minister pleased the troops coming home a stranger welcomes back a refugee footballer after bahrain dropped its attempt to extradite him. well more aid is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to net it in brazil which like the us back from the door as rival has agreed to set up an aid storage center on

venezuela southeastern border tons of food and. and already stockpiled in neighboring colombia the duro has ordered soldiers to block the aid describing it as a political show by countries that are trying to force him from power says he plans to send a message to the military on tuesday with a rally as he tries to get the armed forces on his side a u.s. politician is suggesting commanders could be offered immunity if they defect the venezuelan government meanwhile has hit back with a bid to seize one quaters assets it accuses the self declared president of making shady funding deals. he has received money from both international and national sources without any justification on the constitutional and legal powers that have been established as the kimble auditor of the ball evolving republic of venezuela i have started a six order cities in one gerardo antonio going to denmark is to reason has

more from caracas. well everything is ready here in caracas for the massive demonstrations expected to take place not only here in the capital inc us but also around the country mostly demanding the government of an equal out mother would have to allow the entrance of aid from different parts of the country between the border of it between venezuela and colombia between the border of brazil and venezuela and probably a caribbean nation that we still don't know which one it is because the opposition is saying that they're trying to gather some food and medicines from there this demonstrations are expected to be massive and this is happening just as. venezuela self declared interim president announced that some type of aid has already been distributed here in the capital caracas around eighty five thousand a small envelopes of vitamins and other things for children and pregnant women this apparently had been in the city since december still we don't know how the

opposition and conway though are going to manage to allow the aid that's in at the border with colombia to enter the country because as we know the government of any mother would has repeatedly said that they won't allow that aid into the country that that's the type of intervention that they won't allow was this is happening we also know about why that he's being investigated by the government for receiving forming funds but this is something that is not the first time that happens to a member of the opposition why you go is denying it and what he's basically saying is that they won't be intimidated by it and that's asking people to turn to the streets massively on tuesday because they say that this is a persecution by the government well u.s. senator marco rubio has suggested venezuela six top military leaders could be given immunity if they change sides he believes in the duras days are numbered. madeira strategy is to buy time with a fake negotiation or whatever to a get the opposition to divide and

be give the rest of us to sort of move on and pay attention to some other crisis and forget about venezuela and forget about what's happening that's his plan that's that's the model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this process we're on is irreversible now these countries are going to come back around there's no way you get fifty countries to read recognise you after what's happened so that's just a fact manolo palo is covering that side of the story from washington d.c. . the issue of amnesty for top military brass in venezuela this isn't the first time that we've heard of that sort of thing but as well as national assembly has hinted in the past about a sort of amnesty as a way of avoiding a violent conflict in the future and the rhetoric from senator marco rubio today is more of the united states falling in line with that position that venezuela has already stated senator marco rubio says that the future of venezuelan democracy depends on the decisions made by these five or six key figures within the top brass

of the venice at the venezuelan military but there was also talk about venezuela reaching a tipping point a sort of point of no return outlining that there is more than fifty countries now that recognize one the president of the national assembly as the interim president of venezuela and these are fifty plus countries that will not change their mind will not really recognize nicolas modo as president of the country and for the united states at least according to senator marco rubio the policy and position the united states is taking is that there is no plan b. there is only one scenario and that means a scenario where president is stepping down and one last thing that senator marco rubio did warn about today he said that preventing access to international aid is a violation of international law so he warned venezuela's top military brass not to make the mistake of denying access to that eight. and president maduro has turned to fellow oil producing nations for help the reuters news agency says madeira rode

to opec asking for its support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves but filling up the car with fuel is far from easy as you see a new man reports from san cristobal. the seemingly endless petrol queue in sangli stall one of dozens that goes on and on more than two hundred cars until we lose count all waiting and praying that they'll be able to fill up before the pump runs dry. people sleep in their vehicles like lisa who's been in the queue for three days it may be look here we are suffering we have a need we smell like monkeys and all these people jumping the queue how do they expect this country to function we need support. in the country with the world's largest oil reserves scarcity of petrol isn't you especially here in which

shares a border with neighboring colombia. this has been happening for at least three years but every day it's worse. the list of reasons is long with hyperinflation surpassing one million percent petrol is practically free oh my god this bill is worthless and if people don't have change they don't have to pay at all. and this has been feeding a widespread smuggling racket vehicles like this one have not one but two fuel tanks that can hold more than two hundred liters of the world's cheapest petrol much of which makes its way across the border into colombia it is a black market for lucrative business that's controlled by colombian paramilitary and left wing guerrilla groups but it's an open secret that it would be impossible without the participation of venezuela's armed forces. and police who are supposed to patrol the border. freddy but not whom the government has appointed as the de

facto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border before the feds come here and we go on because the prize the prince between. two large. twenty leaders. of the border and that seem container costs one million the profit is extraordinary unimaginable for these mafia. he says authorities are cracking down on corrupt officials although locals insisted hasn't made a dent six months ago president nicolas maduro had promised to raise prices to make smuggling less attractive but still hasn't done so and there's another problem in israel a state oil company is producing only a fraction of what it used to and must import petrol that's now even harder because of new u.s. economic sanctions. in the meantime ever resourceful residents of touchy to have introduced

a new service to those who can afford it paying for someone to take your place to spend the night in the queue. you see in human. venezuela to the u.s. now where there's been a breakthrough in talks aimed at avoiding a second government shutdown if confirmed it's happened just in time for president donald trump's rally in el paso texas which is very close to the border he'll shortly address supporters about the border war he wants and this is what he said just before leaving washington d.c. we can have technology we can are beautiful drones flying all over the place but it doesn't work without the wall. we need a wall we can call it anything we'll call it barriers will go whatever they want but now it turns out not only don't they want to give us the money for the wall they don't want to give us the space to detain murderers criminals drug dealers human smugglers. how bad is that human smuggling. people think of that as an

ancient art and there are more human smugglers right now traffickers they call than any time in the history of the world because of the internet unfortunately live now to rob reynolds he's in el paso for a runway hearing in agreement on border security has been reached does that mean they won't be another shutdown. well this is as you described it earlier a breakthrough we don't have the deals but the details rather but both republican and democratic senators who have been trying to hash this arrangement out over the past couple of weeks say they have reached a deal in principle that would both satisfy president trump's demand for more money for the border wall and rip democrats demand for a limitation on the number of places where the immigrations and customs enforcement

agency can detain. migrants who enter the united states without the authorization again no details agreement in principle but it was just a couple of days ago that the as you described it earlier a breakthrough we don't have the deals but the details rather but both republican and democratic senators who have been trying to hash this arrangement out over the past couple of weeks say they have reached a deal in principle that would both satisfy president trump's demand for more money for the border wall and rip democrats demand for a limitation on the number of places where the immigrations and customs enforcement agency can detain. migrants who've entered the united states without authorization again no details agreement in principle but it was just

a cup. of days ago that the as you described it earlier missed us yeah a breakthrough we don't have the deals but the details rather but both republican and democratic senators who've been trying to hash this arrangement out over the past couple of weeks say they have reached a deal in principle that would both satisfy president trump's demand for more money for the border wall and rip democrats' demand for a limitation on the number of places where the immigrations and customs enforcement agency can detain. migrants who have entered the united states without the authorization again no details agreement in principle but it was just a couple of days ago that the that's presumably from now rob as you say president trump is going to give a speech to that rally in el paso what can we expect and what kind of reception can

me expect. well people here in el paso are not very happy with president shrimp's visit many of them just a little background this is a heavily democratic party area it's about eighty percent latino people of ethnic origin. only about twenty five percent of the voters in this county voted for president trump back in two thousand and sixteen so he's pretty unpopular here and when he made some remarks last week in his state of the union message he really angered a lot of paso residents he said that this was a city completely embroiled in crime drug trafficking in a terrible. sort of hellhole and then up. after a wall was built everything became very calm and it became a very safe city so the mayor of el paso the city leadership the

member of congress who represents this area in washington all say that that's completely false that the el paso has been one of the safest cities of its size in the nation for many years through a wall was built during the george w. bush administration but they said that the city was safe for decades before that so leaving all that aside there are dueling rallies the president's going to have his make america great rally in a big coliseum and outside perhaps less than a kilometer away a prominent. democratic politician named beto or roark who ran unsuccessfully for the senate here in texas in the midterm elections in november but may challenge president trump for the white house in twenty twentieth's leading a rally of people who are opposed to the border wall people here say that. they want to have less. and more. bridges and so forth

across to the mexican border which by the ways it's about eight hundred meters beyond here in the in the darkness behind me is the border with mexico so we're standing right there and when the president comes syria he's going to probably get a chance to at least in the darkness several look at it as well rob reynolds in el paso watching happenings there for us thank you rob well it is about the anchor is an associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university and she joins us now live from the u.s. capitol and there's a bit there's a sense of the been a deal reached but president trump has to agree to it as well in your mind is he likely to i think it depends on what's in the agreement trump is not a very flexible negotiator even though he likes to act as if he is but he really has his heart set on a border wall and i believe and the money that he wants for i am quite sure that

whatever this deal is he will not be getting all of the money and probably not a vast majority of what he desires so there's a way in which he's going to have to be willing to give and be willing to compromise in order for this deal to be done to avert the shutdown we haven't seen him be able to do that quite well yet but you know he might be trying to in this situation elizabeth we're about to hear from trump at the border at a rally there is this an attempt to rally support for his wall. it is certainly an attempt to rally support for his wall you know this is doing a lot for trump right now it's to rally support for the wall it's to rally support for the money that he wants it's a campaign rally for him and it's also something that he desires he enjoys being in front of an audience and in front of the you know the crowds who support him so he is trying to get that money but in many ways in america right now at the wall has become a symbol of what type of country people want is this going to be

a country with open borders that is welcoming is this going to be a country that it with closed borders that is inward facing that is ethnocentric so the wall means a lot to him both materially and also symbolically so we'll see. he's trying to rally support for it in both ways tonight how united is the republican party around his border security plan. in the majority of americans do not want a wall and there are people also in the republican party who don't think that the wall is the right solution to border security mainly because walls often don't do what they intend to do a lot of the drugs that people don't want coming into the united states come in through legal ports of entry people who are coming in the walls don't stop people from coming they just make their trek more dangerous and desperate so a lot of people are invested in border security but that doesn't have to take the shape of a wall and i think the republicans are united around border security but there's

many forms that it can take in terms of technology and checking that might not have to be a concrete wall how much has the potential government shutdown a second one potentially force trumps hand in this. trump lost a lot of popular support with the last shutdown his approval rating really went lower and so many americans suffered from it not just the eight hundred thousand workers who went without a paycheck but also all the people whose livelihoods support you are draw from those federal workers so trump lost a lot of support and the impending shutdown means that he most likely does not want to have to go through that again and it didn't work out well for him the first time and i think the republicans feel that way as well because the negative approval ratings also redounded on their party so they i think everybody is looking for a way to avoid the shutdown and there's a bit from george washington university speaking to us from d.c.

thank you very much and as both while you're watching the you're looking at the hole where president trump is usual arrive within the next half hour or so to give a rally about his wall and as soon as he starts speaking we will bring you that live. also ahead on this news hour. the african union puts forward ideas to end the conflict in libya. hunted by the taliban we hear from afghan interpreters who live in fear because they work with british soldiers. and extreme bikers take over a city in chile even riding through people's homes. while the u.s. is pressing saudi arabia behind the scenes to hold a former top aide to the crown prince to account over the murder of jon of jamal

khashoggi that's according to the wall street journal it reports that saudi who was dismissed just days off to the killing continues to serve as an informal loyal advisor and america's top diplomat denied his country is attempting a cover up in the case secretary of state mike pump aoe has been speaking in hungary at the start of his european toll he says the trump administration will work harder to ensure those responsible for the killing of punished just days ago the white house missed a deadline to report to congress on whether to leave saudi crown prince mohammed bin saleh ordered the murder operation murders that covered over americans taking more action in response to the tragic murder of gitmo should be and will continue to take more action to your investigators were killed in that we will present it's been very clear it couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information will continue to lose focus on the accountable. and gallagher has more from

washington d.c. well that response from mike pompeo the secretary of state came after some heavy criticism from senior democrats accusing the trumpet ministration of turning a blind eye and in essence trying to cover up the murder of jamal khashoggi the democrats were saying that because this past friday a deadline under human rights law has passed in which the term of ministration was supposed to answer the simple question did mohammed bin some on the crown prince of saudi arabia order the murder of jamal khashoggi that deadline has passed which is led to this kind of criticism from the democrats who are trying to seek the truth akash obvious murderer who was murdered in october of last year in the saudi consulate in istanbul here's what tom malinowski from the house foreign affairs committee had to say we are actually affirming their life. and allowing m.b.a.'s who was almost certainly the author of the scribe him to conclude that in fact he

can get away with such things because of his importance because of his position and there are thousands of other jamal khashoggi s. in the united states in europe who are at risk if we allow that message to be sent so where does that leave the investigation into jamal khashoggi is death while there is still a lot of pressure in u.s. politics to get to the truth especially from the democratic side but there is also a lot of global pressure remember the un special rapporteur started her investigation just a few weeks ago the results of which should be available in the summer so the pressure still remains interestingly enough a saudi official appeared on the american news networks this past weekend and said look we don't need the u.n. we can deal with this ourselves although the trials will not be public eleven people have been indicted five of them face the death penalty but interesting in that same saudi official said that they do not know where the remains or the body of jamal khashoggi is. that have a listen now to the u.s.

president here speaking to supporters in el paso texas about his broader war as reports a match of the day on border security was right in the next of the legendary rio grande where by the way i don't know you heard right today we started a big beautiful war all right thank you god with we was back on the radio. was this. and i love the people of this state we've had a great romance together you know over the oath of the and we're only getting stronger together with top of the was look at all the press that you believe that a what this is like the academy awards used to be used

to have they've gone down a long way since they started hitting us a little bit right they've gone down and i was along i was along for all but there they are. last week i was honored to stand in the house chamber to deliver the state of the union with us and i answered both parties to come together to choose great ideas for america have the since taking office two years ago. our economy is now the hottest economy anywhere on earth the bit of a valid have our military which desperately needed funding we went seven hundred billion and seven hundred and

sixteen. is more powerful than the best ever before the a board that was not a good situation it was tired and depleted our great warriors were not taken care of now they're taken care of again the way they did for the was worse and america is winning again isn't that nice with of habit. who are fighting for all americans from all backgrounds of every age race religion birthplace color creed we're fighting for ourselves we're fighting for all americans and what is it the america first remember it's the

to him back our agenda is not a partisan agenda although some people say it is. every once in a while it does become that way right it's a mainstream commonsense agenda of the american people it's where we want to be and where we want to go all of the to it and despite the fact that the media refuses to acknowledge what we've done and how well we're doing to own to a new poll just came out. as i was coming on and it shows i don't know how you can

do this i don't think i've had a good story in years i don't get good cry used to get great press until i decided to run for office the it we have done together an incredible job but a new poll just came out today rasmussen one of the most respected polls one of the polls that got the election right. so i have to remember that you know what the number is fifty two percent with the was the why india and the how do you get that when you don't get good press i guess ninety three percent of the stories are negative no matter what we do they figure out a way to make it the old i can give you

a quick example of. when i came in north korea was it was looks like it was going to war you know that the arrow is going to happen bad things now you have no missile launches you have no rocket test again no do clear testing i have a good relationship maybe even a great relationship that we have tremendous sanctions on north korea the but we have our hostages back we have remains your company the in the when the air when our presidents have been dealing with north korea for many many decades many many decades and in a nuclear way over the last twenty thirty years and all i hear is can't you move faster you know when i left singapore fifteen months ago they've been negotiating for eighty five years or something to do and so now their complaint is what's taken

him so long i heard one of our great geniuses. from a previous administration telling me how to negotiate with north korea when they got taken advantage of like don't bloody have ever seen before the old some day with all of us is all of us and those hats are beautiful by the way the some of the was. i want the sun to own they're going to appreciate us all and i'm going to vietnam. noise. in the near future twenty seventh and twenty eighth of that we're to have another summit and hope we hopefully we do as well with the second summit as we did with the first i hope of the now old we're delighted i'm delighted

to be joined this evening by the texas leadership great leaders great people great help to me the by the better are at the forefront of this incredible american revolution you know there's never been anything like this in the history of our country we have to understand the there's never been a her own if you would say as an example that tonight sixty nine thousand people signed up to be here now the arena hose eight thousand. and thank you fire department they got in about ten thank you fire department the will in the air but if you want to really see something go outside the tens of thousands of people are watching the screens out of the was will and we were all challenged to it by

a young man who lost an election to ted cruz the old then they said to him know what the hay is supposed to win in order to run by the way we are we i'm one and one i'm one for one think of it well we had one of election we won now we're going to be two for all and everything is going to be probably were ok young man who owes got very little going for himself except he's got a great first day on the o.t. here is the only challenge to us the old so we have let's say thirty five thousand people tonight and he has two hundred people three hundred people not too good will get back to what i do

own what i would do is i would say that may be the end of his presidential bid but he did child was the i want to introduce some great people your governor greg abbott was let's go back to rob reynolds he's in alcohol rob we're hearing that this agreement has been reached and there's one point three seven five billion dollars for a. board of fannie how's that likely to go down at the rally. i think that at the president trump's rallies definitely going to. portray that as a positive step and it will probably be very popular with the attendees of the rally there you hear that they're applauding for him very lustily

he has not mentioned this yet in his introductory remarks you heard him talking about is upcoming trip to north korea you heard him sort of mocking beto or the. young former member of congress who led a. counter demonstration here to the rally but he has not talked yet about this deal in principle but we have heard from washington d.c. that senators on both sides the republicans and the democrats have been working on this for a number of days since the government got back up and running that they have reached a deal in principle and now as you said this us is some of the details starting to come out whether president trump is going to like this or not we don't know one hundred percent but it is probably i would venture to say something that he will prefer to accept rather than risk another government shutdown that was lit

equally quite damaging for him and i think that the people in the white house and surrounding him realize that so i don't want to speculate on how president trump will. deal with or accept or not accept this agreement in principle that's being struck in washington but i think that the general. sentiment in the white house and elsewhere has been that another government shutdown would not be a good thing politically rob talk us through one of the on the issues that i believe was the sticking point the democrats wanted to cap the number of immigrants detention beds and that was a real sticking point in the negotiations as well. that's right you know the the what's called ice that's the acronym for the immigrations and customs enforcement agency has become a symbol in the democratic party and for many people on the left wing of the

democratic party of abusive government they say that ice agents have tracked down law abiding non-citizens migrants who lived in the united states for in some cases many years even decades raised families here started businesses here have done nothing wrong and they and they and while president trump likes to characterize migrants coming across the border as. criminals human traffickers drug dealers etc they say that in general the people are being rounded up by ice art do not fit that profile so the democrats wanted to put a cap on the number of spaces available at around sixteen thousand five hundred they say that would accommodate the truly violent bad people who. should go after and should detain who do not belong in the united states and you

know i have been. committing crimes they say that would be more than sufficient to accommodate those bad actors but it would put a a limit on the number of people who are picked up and are not accused of any violence or are completely law abiding so apparently there's been some some very effective negotiating in washington between parties which i must say necessity is something we have not seen a whole lot of in recent months and years but apparently these negotiators have been able to find some common ground. balance will continue monitoring events and i'll pass a fourth thank you very much rob. bahraini footballer who came al-arabiya has just landed home in a strange idea after spending two months locked up in thailand these are the latest pictures from melbourne airport the footballer was arrested in november last year

while on honeymoon in thailand and he fled his native bahrain in twenty fifteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to set a ten year prison sentence have vandalism he said he'd be tortured if he went back to bahrain which eventually dropped its extradition order while al-jazeera is andrew thomas is at melbourne airport for us andrew it's taken a huge amount of pressure and diplomacy to get he came home. he was in a bangkok prison cell for more than seventy days and even twenty four hours ago it looked very very unlikely that he not already would be arriving back in australia today suddenly everything changed the lights on monday and those pictures you've just seen was him arriving just five minutes ago while president was speaking on the other side of the world he was emerging with those behind me he spoke for about two minutes to like to the o.b. asli to be back on home soil obviously this isn't his home country by rights but

this is the state home and the right was the country he played and he feared he didn't want to be returned there has now been with them here its will stray off the wall it's now clear with a flurry of diplomatic activity behind the scenes we now know that silence for a minister went to bahrain presumably so you can try for a solution to this problem to allow these extradition proceedings from tolerance of a right to be trial and allow him already so right back you know straight in which he has a site in the last half hour he's landed in the last few minutes he's one of these there was these now he would stay away in a car what we're saying now is that we were months ago the chairman of the but will probably play school here in melbourne again i talked to him earlier on is absolutely didn't like to do what is right and andrew. do we know exactly why bahrain dropped a text edition request in and has a strain of paid a big passion message told. a story recently taking credit for its a study as prime minister scott morrison got

a press conference lights on monday when he said there had been huge pressure put on thailand by australia and indeed on bahrain by australia but no one's quite sure what cools the shift it was suggested lights on monday that paul ryan had dropped its extradition request to thailand entirely seem to be the fact settling on that lights out on monday a suggestion that actually it was thailand who decided the far right and perhaps to take this in requests not quite sure where the truth lies in that but it was clearly a three way diplomatic swallowing though going on within the ranks violent. australia putting the pressure on thailand in time putting the pressure on by right thought and government consistently saying they couldn't interfere with the additional process that was under way they couldn't interfere with a pool system and yet it's been suggested now that it was some kind of request the finance government through the judiciary that did see a team out right the we're not quite sure of the details yet on the style of the incoming things will become player but the him for the player he's back on

australian soil where he wants to be wet twenty four hours ago it looked like he was a long long way away from coming out as there is andrew thomas at melbourne airport thank you for that update andre. in eastern syria at least sixteen people including seven children have died in airstrikes as the u.s. and its local allies try to push eisel out of its last scrap of territory hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the besieged enclave as fighting gets worse the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing resistance from eiffel fighters who have used suicide car bombs snipers and booby traps to repel the offensive while two french women who managed to flee baghdad is say many more foreigners including fighters who joined by still still trapped inside with no food they said they paid smugglers to get them out one of them revealed how she was new york to syria by propaganda but still doesn't want to go home to france because she can't practice

her religion properly that. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are allowed to have food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked inside i just have to keep my children alive because my husband died in an airstrike the house next door was hit the roof collapsed over us of course we regret it we lost everything by coming here what are we supposed to do we got stuck because chopped by the propaganda the u.s. acting defense secretary says he has received no orders to withdraw american troops from afghanistan contradicting reports donald trump plans to pull out hof of the fourteen thousand soldiers there patrick shanahan made the remarks after meeting president ashraf ghani during a brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also said the afghan government should be included in peace talks with the taliban the armed group has so far resisted that idea because they regard the government as in a just a minute. well afghan interpreters who worked with british soldiers are pleading with the u.k. government to grant them asylum many are in hiding after getting death threats from

the taliban which sees them as traitors tony back to reports from kabul intimated that they were on the front lines with nato forces in afghanistan but now they and their families hide in the shadows hunted by the taliban which calls them traitors i'm scared of that and i'm sure if the teach me they will kill me because the have you have evidence of them when interpreters lead. like i don't of there has been kids so did is no different for them for the taliban we are too scared to show their faces too terrified to give their real names these men serve british forces as interpreters often in the most dangerous provinces but the u.k. government has refused to give them asylum even though their lives are in danger why did people have been abandoned by the british government what is their fault where are the human rights where that a high ranking officer they don't care about us or way the british parliament don't

care about us why the have turned on their plan blind eye i honest they have certificates of commendation or medals awarded to them they were the eyes and ears of british units in the frontlines and their work was essential to operational safety but it made them hated by the taliban and i saw definitely they will not talk to us anymore so they were still there they would kill us not only me everyone because they did fall in the past we saw time and saw this the biggest they were not leave us alone they've been refused sanctuary in the u.k. and denied protection by the afghan government they have reason to be afraid. sec'y dad afghan was an interpreter for the americans he was abducted tortured and killed by the taliban and his body left on a kabul street as a warning he is one of many afghan interpreters who be murdered the interpreters who work for the british victims of a hardline immigration policy introduced by prime minister to resign may when she

was home secretary troll afghan interpreters are only allowed to settle in the u.k. if they served in helmand province for one year between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve most of these men serve for up to six years but before that period the united states and other nato countries have be more sympathetic to afghans who work for them in afghanistan the us for example granted asylum to nine thousand former employees and seventeen thousand dependents britain by contrast has given sanctuary to just over a thousand and their position has been widely condemned by many including ex-military i think were treated very badly in tatters gave it gave a lot of their lives to the people injured have been killed and without it we could not have done our work in afghanistan and so for them i think i believe they were genuine it. to them. abdul served the british for four years three of them in helmand to escape from his home in logar province because of taliban death threats

he now lives in hiding with his wife and seven children was in that of how could the when we have a lot of enemies we are hiding and we are moving from one place to another we are all in danger including the children we always worry about what will happen when we leave home because there are many taliban's buys around that's abdul says he's not resentful towards the british government but he wonders how it can abandon those who loyally served with little thought for the consequences tony berkeley al-jazeera kabul. still ahead.

iran's president has vowed to expand his ballistic missile program in a speech marking forty years since the islamic revolution addressing tens of thousands of people on the final day of celebrations hasan rouhani also dismissed american efforts to isolate them sent a hot i reports from tehran the it's an honor will rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central tehran to celebrate independence from us dominance this neighborhood public is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states and the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for

engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the us withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions him out of the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their ominous goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the forty years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it will able to pass

this crisis says the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolution's ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing iran to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is to barack obama be a part of the official discourse until the united states changes what he calls its evil ways and there's no sign that relations will improve anytime soon the u.s. administration says it will continue to pressure what trouble calls the radical regime in iran. some american officials. predicted that the islamic republic would

collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians are facing what will honey has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters monads we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leave their common name no matter their situation the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies so that if they're. wrong and the revolutionary guards also threaten to demolish israeli cities if the u.s. ever attacks iran here's how israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reacted and let me tell him i am not ignoring the threats of the remaining regime but nor my impressed by them or this regime to make the terrible mistake of trying to destroy tel aviv in haifa it would not succeed but it would mean that they had celebrated their last revolution day they would do well to take that into account and eastern

libya forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar have taken over the biggest oil field known as the libyan national army the group says it seized peacefully after it was overrun by a group of state guards and tribesmen demanding payment the un backed government in tripoli previously failed to secure the field while the african union has called for a global conference to try to resolve the conflict in libya it wants to see elections held there in october the a u has been holding its annual summit in ethiopia's capital at us about malcolm webb reports. thirty one of africa's fifty five leaders made it to the summit of the african union's headquarters capital addis ababa president abdel fattah el-sisi of egypt began his tenure is chair though that. we need to lend more importance to post conflict reconstruction and development plans and programs in order for us to push for peace and security in our continent and to

prepare a conducive environment for the return of our displaced people as early as possible . displaced people and refugees was the theme for the summit and the year ahead than twenty million in africa but there was no binding agreement or concrete action plan to help them the organizations peace and security commission announced the plan with the un to try and hold reconciliation talks in libya ahead of its election to you later this year they think we need also the same instancing from the international community that we speak the same language and all and necessary interferences should stop immediately. however no action was planned to address the conflict in cameroon several steps forward has been taken towards the african union's goal of the coming cell funding always depended on funding from countries outside of this continent several european countries fund its programs and its headquarters paid for and built by china but ultimately in the years ahead the

success of its plan to become self financing will depend on whether or not member states actually pay out there's been some progress on creating a free trade area fifty one countries signed it nineteen of turned it into law back home it needs three more to actually take effect and that analysts say with a huge treaties and policies is often a problem the extent to which members of this actually walk the talk of it were. of the council for his work that they highlighted when they are speaking here of the african union that in the pay structure of whether or not what they're saying indeed is something that they follow up when they go back to their respective companies that is where the major limitation in and problem is president paul kagame everyone there was chair for the last year he trying to push through reforms there's less of that is expected from c.c.

he's expected to focus more on security in the year ahead malcolm webb al-jazeera at the african union in advice about. a state of emergency has been declared on a remote group of islands in northern russia after an invasion by polar bears than a virus emily archipelago which is home to around three thousand people is located within the arctic ocean dozens of polar bears have been wondering around the area even going into homes and offices. the number one driver of human pole it conflicts the number one thing that brings polar bears around to people is generally attractants there is something in a community this smells good that brings polar bears in they're smart curious animals they want to find out what smells good or what smells bad because they're always looking for something to eat so that's the number one cause of most conflicts between humans and polar bears there's a long history for both polar bears other various species of bears come into

garbage dumps they get conditioned to human food they become a safety hazard for people in this community it's a very dangerous situation so the number one thing it's often easier said than done but it needs to be done is to reduce these attractants these good smells and whatever food reward animals might be getting from the dump it's not uncommon for bears to become habituated to humans and the more habituated they are the closer they are in proximity to humans the more sick dangerous the situation is for everybody unfortunately decades ago a group of young idealistic sudanese filmmakers who don't their careers that the industry has all but dissipated their story is told in one of two new documentary is at the bat in festival offering a glimpse of cut to beyond the headlines from the reports. for. picking up relics of a bygone era three sudanese filmmakers started out in the one nine hundred sixty s.

and seventy's now they're determined to revive interest in their country's neglected cinema or industry. as easier said than done as the film talking about trees makes clear. it follows their efforts to screen forgotten classics and cartoon something that riles plenty of curiosity. this very old women with brain tissue and they would look and see us regularly here in the real camera stand and see. the main suns they're doing on the moon in the cinema again. and when or when they're in winter's you know that of the daily question as well as bringing their story to berlin so hey guys mulberry has helped them restore some of their groundbreaking films made decades ago and they're also showing in the festival. i tried to settle the question of hope hope you can regenerate. like this and i learned that on them

the value of friendship real friendship and the value of sometimes taking that you choose. to take the difficult. for my eyes you saw i do my syllabi have a listen yeah it might be ok. if i did take out the other might be a different generation a different struggle in how to morph side by mar was a rather mysterious and i think it follows a group of women who find solidarity through playing football despite skepticism from some quarters of them rather. than the latter at least. the difficulties they face from family traditions to politics to religion are echoed in the way the director had to operate. the lobby if you would go on to the streets with a handheld camera completely by himself no crew not to be seen as conspicuous quite a small camera and was just filming and observing society of saving football games and so you see that in the documentary you know it's very shaky scenes and

hand-held scene but it's rufo to just the sense of being that. audiences here have been treated to films from across the middle east and africa for many years now but these sudanese filmmakers hope that soon people will be talking about their country for more than just political unrest and conflicts that involve al-jazeera. well that's it for me and the attack a and the news our team so raman is in the chair shortly with more.

on the order. i remember the first time i walked into the newsroom and it felt like being in the general assembly of the united nations was that the so many nationalities. just that we all come from different places but it's one that gives us thank you that's the ability to identify the way or the other side of the world but we can understand what it's like to have a different perspective and i think that is a strength for al-jazeera. battling against addiction then very thing that brought her down now she can teach people how to come back up. it's hard for me to believe that he's going to get a full time job in radio but i have to be supportive family after learning put my pride aside and just say ok dan we have our issues but we have to leave speech and

health i'm going to keep on working part time this moment that feel good holiday. on al-jazeera. al jazeera. you ever your. u.s. congressional negotiators say they've reached a funding deal on border security.

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