in american politics to bring you more room we need documentaries and. on and on line. u.s. congressional negotiators say they've reached a deal on border security. and you watching all just line from our headquarters here in doha also coming up allies of the opposition leader piled into the border as the government launches a bid to seize his assets. i'm going to win in western venezuela where in the country with the world's largest oil reserves. but when you. aren't blocks long kilometers. home sweet home australia welcomes back

a refugee footballer after bahrain dropped its attempt to extradite him. welcome to the program congressional negotiators in the us have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline the agreement covers border security the president trumps addressing supporters at a rally in el paso in texas near the mexican border earlier and he was promoting his long promised wall but the deal doesn't appear to have met his demands as walking up to the stage they said that. progress is being made with this committee. just so you know we're building the wall anyway they say that. it was at the us now

yes now i was i said wait a minute i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go why don't you even want to hear about the brussels is live for us in el paso been following events that rob let's begin with the reception the president received and what he actually said in el paso. well inside the lusts paso county coliseum there were several thousand of threat president trump supporters so hale and they gave him the usual rapturous. reception that he gets when he goes on the road on these make america great again type of rallies he spoke about many subjects but smoking is speaking specifically about the wall in the border he repeated the rhetoric that he has often employed about a wave of crime drugs human trafficking and other ills pouring over the border from mexico and calling for the construction of

a significant border barrier which he said would prevent all of that from happening now. the president's visit to this particular border city was not without controversy this town did not support the president or then candidate donald trump back in two thousand and sixteen he had only about twenty five percent of the bulk of the vote in el paso county so this is not friendly territory for him and while he was speaking in the coliseum outside in the streets nearby a protest of his visit was being held also attended by thousands of people and led by former texas congressman and potential presidential candidate democratic presidential candidate betto orc we know that walls do not save lives walls and lives we stand

we stand for the constitution of the united states of america and against a merged sea national security declarations that allow the president. to subvert an equal branch of governments build a wall when we do not need it one of the pressing issue for the president rob is that we are hearing an agreement on border security has been reached i mean what sort of details are emerging about. well senators from both sides told the news media that it was a deal in principle but some deed details have now come out it appears that about one point three billion dollars in this deal has been allocated for ball construction that's enough to build we're told about eighty eight kilometers of wall far less than what president trump has been talking about and far less

money than he initially demanded you remember he wanted more than five billion dollars back in december and that demand and the democrats refusal to accede to it led to a thirty five day partial government shutdown that was politically very unpopular so now we heard those remarks earlier the president trump saying that he thought he'd been told he'd been told rather that progress was being made but he hadn't been briefed on the details he's presumably getting a briefing on that shortly now that he's left el paso and then the next step will will unfold whether the compromise really will stick if it doesn't stick the government is due to shut down again on the fifteenth of february assist a couple of days away so we'll see what the. visit and the aftermath on the border

will security in the hours ahead for the moment rob thank you. no more it is also on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to let it in brazil has agreed to set up an aids storage center on venezuela's southeastern border where tons of food and medicine are already stockpiled in neighboring colombia where dura has ordered soldiers to block the a describing it as a political show by countries trying to force him out of power is government is attempting to seize the opposition leader's assets saying one accepted money illegally other is the real the they don't go in the end 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 gerardo antonio where you don't mark is. your senator marco rubio has

suggested that as well as six top military leaders could be given immunity if they change sides he believes madeira stays on them but. material strategy is to. with a fake negotiation or whatever to a. 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 the model he's trying to follow it won't work this time this is we're on to the reversible now these countries are going to come back around there's no way you get fifty countries to really recognize you after what's happened so that's just the fact. has turned to sell oil producing nations for help as well the reuters news agency wrote to opec asking for its support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago and it's the world's largest oil reserves but filling up

a car with fuel is easy to see in human polls 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 made it look here we are suffering we haven't eaten 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 data 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. this bill is worthless. 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 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. freddie been whom the government has appointed as the de facto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border. because the prize difference 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. 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. bahraini football or hockey mother has

a landed in home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand another footballer was arrested in november last year while on honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to a ten year prison sentence for arson charges that he denies. just i would defend the law is there only on this amazing physiology of people here there they're all you'd be boiled the media is the world to me and i just know what they think they're really governments everybody i would think this and that is why i do much more money if you think i'm too much and i think that the media for the day would rise and thank you and there would be more there are going to scantily i was there was under thomas' at melbourne airport and says the football experience a very warm welcome home. i can already came out to huge cheers here real

delight from people in the iranian community here in australia that i've been campaigning to get him through from the book will community in australia as well a real sense of delight and indeed surprise lots of anger that we got to the situation in the first place of course many people very very cross that he was able to be arrested in thailand that bahrain was able to issue this extradition order on him even though he's a refugee he should have been a mute from that sort of action while on honeymoon in thailand but the light of course but he's back home now most of his original on the course bahrain the country he played in the country here but his adopted home in the one side the least in syria at least sixteen people including seven children have died in straw and sons the u.s. and its local allies trying to push eisel out of its last scrap of territory hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the besieged enclaves fighting gets worse the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing resistance from a cell phone to seaview suicide car bombs snipers and booby traps to repel the

offensive. two french women who managed to flee but who say many more foreigners including fighters who join deisel are still trapped inside with no food they said they paid smugglers to get them out one of them revealed how she was lured to syria by propaganda but still doesn't feel that she wants to go back home to france because she can't practice her religion properly there. in the morning so we have nothing to eat only iraqis are locked have food they're allowed to go outside while they'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 trapped by the propaganda well still ahead here on al-jazeera defiance and determination iran marks forty years since its revolution and its standoff with the united states continues and we look at the challenges facing nigeria as africa's

most populous nation prepares for general elections on saturday stay with us here. hello once again welcome to the look at the international forecast we will see the weather improving across the middle east over the next couple days after a rather wet sad at times wintry weather but a cloud still in place across central and eastern areas of iran that's all pushing of the east which as we go through the next day or so you may have seen that snow in tehran recently ten celsius there brought to skies combat for tuesday but of that wet weather lots of it that could well be some flooding that will push its way to that western side of pakistan as we go through chews day snow there for afghanistan and more so as you go on into what is a bit brighter skies by that time for

a good part of iran the dry weather stretches across iraq a little bit of cloud just making its way into syria lebanon warming up in beirut to around nineteen degrees celsius nineteen there for baghdad and also for kuwait city we're a touch warmer than that here in doha wind will freshen things up there temperatures at around twenty two degrees some wet weather there just around the straits of hormuz just pushing over towards that western side of iran then choose to going on into wednesday brightens up when the west sunshine twenty three celsius the top temperature then in doha meanwhile across southern africa we've seen some lava showers continue for the eastern cape with more of that on tuesday. the weather sponsored by countdown to. the weather on line. with the difference here for them not to do right there or if you join us on sat all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is the diana react talking about a legal front and you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using

multiple drugs including a funnel and some people are seeking it out everyone has a voice from that here garcia twitter and you could see on the screen join that follow the conversation on how to zero. welcome back you're watching our reserve with me said holroyd with a reminder of our top stories congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal covering border security just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline president trump has been addressing supporters at a rally near the mexican border but the money allocated for a border fence appears to be far short of his demands. more aid from the u.s.

and its allies is on its way to venezuela supplies are being stockpiled in neighboring colombia president nicolas maduro is blocking it and the government is attempting to seize the opposition leaders assets saying he's accepted money illegally and bahraini footballer has arrived home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand he fled his native bahrain in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to serve a prison sentence. america's top diplomat has denied his country is covering tempting to cover attempting a cover up in the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi secretary of state might pompei or has been speaking and hungry at the start of his european toll he says the trumpet ministration will work harder to ensure those responsible for the killing of punished just days ago the white house mr deadline to report to congress on whether it believes crown prince mohammed bin sole man ordered the murder.

america's not covering 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 that we will present as many very clear couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information will continue to hold all of those responsible accountable. and iran's president 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 are some rouhani also dismissed american efforts to isolate them then to hold a report stuff into iran. it's an adult world rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central to her and to celebrate independence from u.s.

dominance this radical 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 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 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. will improve anytime soon.

says. pressure what trump 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 who are facing what were 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. we are here to prove to the board that even support our leader i look on my 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 they're. wrong. in the city of mashad which is considered to be your own spiritual capital. here in motion the iranians have braved a cold windy day to attend one of the most hotly anticipated events of the calendar

year it was on this day forty years ago that the beginnings of change the upheaval that ayatollah ruhollah khomeini had envisioned for iran had taken hold and towns and cities across the country began to shift into the hands control of those towns and cities began to shift into the hands of khomeini supporters while the event is to mark a serious historical moment victory day is a public holiday in iran and here in much of the rally is a family affair and has the feeling of a fairground complete with balloons live performances and carnival games you could only find in iran here is it is in cities across the country the act of remembering the events of forty years ago is about more than just an excavation of history it's an annual opportunity to live in fortune actualize slummy ideals answering question sentiment of that time connecting the past to the present as

a way to new force the shoshu and political status quo in iran today we met one woman who said she loved the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini more than her own husband who was standing right next to her at the time perhaps a testament to the supreme leader's charisma but more likely an example of how people in this part of the country subscribe wholeheartedly to the idea of an unquestionable supreme islamic leader overseeing the affairs of the whole country people here revere a common a as a kind of sajjan of a family of revolutionary elites often downplaying the significance of iran's elected political leaders and if anyone has any doubt about the level of support for a slow mix system of government here in iran they need only one. for jackie the revolution at public shows a word like this you know. where. the food that can 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 inaccessible for more than five months now that's because the world food program grain stores are located in the port city of the data a frontline position u.n. envoy martin griffin says the food there can provide relief for up to a month. the united nations has condemned nigeria's president mohammed who bihari for suspending the country's top judge ahead of saturday's general elections judge or walter nagin would have been the main arbiter in any dispute over the result and religious reports are from a guru on preparations a polling day. nigeria's president. in a final push for votes ahead of the country's presidential election. it's been a long tough campaign season. his main challenger is businessman and former vice president. who votes to deny him a second term. as a complaint to

a close attention shifts to the election commission which has come under close scrutiny and attacks. will we go to the left the party accuses us of pandering to the opposition party will we go to the right do position by the accused is also under into the weeds like up his use of the of the of the of the ruling party but as the commission we have. to do what is right to look at the justice of the it is also to make sure that our primary constituency remains the nigerian people and the voting public. voting machines have been delivered across the country ballot papers will follow. last minute tests are underway the election commission has registered ninety one political parties some one to three of these are vying for the post office president election officials say they are ready to fight the logistical challenges now waters on the other hand face some difficulties of well they have to go through a list of ninety one political parties on the ballot to choose their county. some

three hundred thousand policemen will provide security during the vote along with thousands of other security personnel. the army is also ready to help but he is warning its soldiers to stick clear of politics. troops. out of conduct. no provisions the biggest task goes to the voters more than eighty four million people are registered their job is to elect the president one hundred nine senators and three hundred sixty members of house of representatives two weeks later voters will be asked to come out again to choose governors and members of state brother but our victories are just made our way to go to the northeast nigeria. government

protesters in haiti have been fighting with police for a fifth day in the company port au prince but many want to present governor was say to resign angry about rising inflation and the government's failure to recover billions of embattled funds. macedonian officials have started removing signs from government buildings to prepare for a new name north macedonia. reports. he has traveled two hundred sixty kilometers from her hometown in central greece to fix her teeth over the border in north macedonia she can no longer afford greek dentists who charge two to three times the prices here and the bus that brought her is free operated by the clinic. i'm very satisfied the surgery is amazing much better than what we have increased they do x. rays and cat scans on one really increase they send you left and right and the infrastructure is not the same order in fact every client is greek victims of the

economic crisis that has claimed a third of their living standards many come here to shop by cheaper petrol for their cars according to one study greek consumers spend half a billion dollars a year in north macedonia it's their business if this clinic alone provides work for a staff of fifty after taking a quick thinking is separating them this clinic started ten years ago with the idea that it would serve as patients from greece we started small with four people and we see more than thirty five thousand patients during that time some worry about this capital flight hundreds of greek companies have fled a corporate tax rate of twenty nine percent in favor of north macedonia's ten percent tax and they employ north macedonians for an average of four hundred fifty dollars a month two thirds of the greek minimum wage greek companies own the largest supermarket chain here the largest network of petrol stations and sole refinery and one of the largest high street banks greece was consistently the top foreign investor in northwest since the fall of communism and even after it fell to third place during

its prolonged economic crisis it still manages to sink more than half a billion dollars a year into this economy accounting for ten percent of foreign investment there are currently some four hundred 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. tree's name is now over leaving only cultural issues to be settled the first time in europe. this kind of problem which requires a war sounds what we know we managed to do it on the table even not to start the war that may be because people remember the last war who is himself half 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 nine

hundred forty 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. they're watching al-jazeera with me so romney a reminder of our top stories congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal covering border security just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline president trump has been addressing supporters at a rally near the mexican border but the money allocated for a border fence appears to be far short of his demands. walking up to the stage they said that. progress is being made with this committee were to say you know we're building the wall anyway they said there.

were. i see where i'm headed i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go. far more aid is on its way to venezuela's borders as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to let it in brazil is agreed to set up an aid storage center of venezuela's southeastern border tons of food and medicine already stockpiled in neighboring colombia madeira has ordered soldiers to block the a describing it as a political show our country is trying to force him from power is government is attempting to seize the opposition leaders asset saying one why those accepted money illegally. bahrain football or hockey maybe has just landed home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand the footballer it was arrested in november last year while on honeymoon in

thailand he fled his native bahrain in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism and said he'd be tortured if he went back to bahrain which eventually dropped is extradition order 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 i saw to its last scrap of territory where hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the besieged enclave as fighting gets worse the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are facing resistance from arsal fighters who have used suicide car bombs and booby traps to repel the offensive those are the headlines i'll be back with more news in half an hour the stream is next to stay with us here on alt.

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