thank you. but as you make you feel like you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al-jazeera. u.s. congressional negotiators say they've reached a funding deal on border security. a whole rahman you're watching on just over a line from our headquarters here in doha also coming up allies of venezuela's opposition leader more aid on the border as the government launches a bid to seize his assets home sweet home australia welcomes back a refugee footballer after bahrain drops its attempt to extradite him. also twelve catalan separatists jew on trial for rebellion the lawyers accuse the government in

madrid of subverting democracy. welcome to the program congressional negotiators in the u.s. have reached a funding deal just days away from the latest government shutdown deadline now the agreement covers border security president donald trump has been addressing supporters at a rally in el paso texas near the mexican border he's 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. to say you know we're building the wall anyway they say that. all or. now just now i am i said wait a minute i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go i don't even want

to hear about. how small from el paso in texas president trump ventured here to el paso a city on the us mexico border to call again for building a substantial border barrier or wall along the u.s. mexico front cheer the presses folks for several thousand supporters who gave him a warm welcome in a coliseum here in el paso but outside a protest of president trump's visit was organized and underway led by the former congressman from el paso and potential democratic presidential contender for two thousand and twenty. we know that walls do not saved lives. wos lives in a remarkable piece of timing the president's trip to el paso coincided with an

agreement being reached in washington by negotiators who say they have a deal in principle that would fund some of what trump asked for in terms of oh border war this would avoid another disastrous government shutdown like the one that occurred in december in january but the amount of money that is being discussed here is hardly what president trump had asked for he originally wanted more than five billion dollars the deal would give him one point three billion dollars that's enough to build about eighty eight kilometers of border wall. is on its way to venezuela's borders and as the u.s. and its allies pressure president nicolas maduro to let it in brazil has agreed to set up an aid storage center on venezuela's southeastern border tons of food medicine already stockpiled in neighboring colombia which iraq has ordered soldiers to block the a describing it as a political show by countries trying to force him from power his government is

attempting to seize the opposition leaders and set saying one accepted money illegally obviously really they don't really mean 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 asset saw on cities in one tonio case. u.s. senator marco rubio has suggested venezuela's six top military leaders could be given immunity if they change sides he believes materials days are numbered. 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 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 just the fact president maduro has turned to sell the oil producing nations to help the reuters news agency says. its support against u.s. sanctions shortly after they were imposed two weeks ago and it's the world's largest known oil reserves something of a car with far from easy to see in newman reports from san cristobal. the seemingly endless petrol queue in sangli stall the 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 luis hevia 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 potential isn't new 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 and if people don't have chain. 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 defacto state governor concedes that a parallel economy has been created along the border. because the prize difference between. two large. twenty leaders. of the border and that same 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 patchi 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. london home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand the footballer was arrested in november while honeymoon in thailand he fled his native country in twenty fourteen and received refugee status in australia but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for also charges that he's annoying. just i would defend the oyster already on business amazing to see all the people here their audience be bored all day media is devoted to me and i just know what they think today but i

don't mean to have people i would think of this and then his wife who much more money i would think up too much and i think the media would say i would write and thank you one day i would be more don't want to spend thirty. thomas is a port and says the football experience to a very warm welcome home. i came out already came out to huge cheers real delight from people in the iranian community here in australia that i've been campaigning to get him through from the book to 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 and he should have been amused from that sort of action while on honeymoon in thailand but the light of course but he's back home now not his original one of course bahrain the country he played on the country here but his

adopted home in the one way he'll say now twelve catalan separatists will go on trial in madrid on cheese day the legal action stems from a crisis that unfolded in twenty seventeen to the group held in un sanctions referendum on catalonia as independence the case comes as the government continues to face challenges over talks with produce the session as activists david chaytor has more from madrid. the message was clear a united spain and elections now. i. forty five thousand demonstrators from the center right gathered in the driscol on square this weekend on the eve of the tri state queues the socialists that minority government of trees are offering to hold roundtable talks with separatists to diffuse the cattle 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 better for them and then in the book is this when the trial is taking place in madrid spain is competent 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 finance 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. 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 he'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 will still on al-jazeera hunted by the taliban and we hear from afghan interpreters who live in fear because they worked for british soldiers also why a party that dominated israeli politics for decades is struggling to stay relevant ahead of the upcoming elections to stay with us here on issues of. 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 bright skies combat for tuesday but about 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 our wind will freshen things up there temperatures 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 or the west sunshine twenty three celsius

the top temperature then in doha meanwhile across southern africa we've seen some lovely showers continue for the eastern cape with more on tuesday. on counting the cost digital divisions why half the world's population risks missing out on the next evolution of the internet from russia with interest kremlin backed investments in venezuela are all about plus a report from the current sea control sea counting the cost on the. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective to see our lives.

welcome back you're watching it all just there with me said holroyd with a reminder of our top news 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 donald trump has been addressing supporters at a rally near the mexican border but the many allocated for border fence appears to be far short of his demands. more aid from the u.s. and its allies is on its way towards but as well as borders supplies are being stockpiled in neighboring colombia president maduro is blocking it and the government is attempting to seize the opposition leader's assets saying he's accepted money illegally. for any footballer who. arrived 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. now 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 reports that sound like a tiny who was dismissed just days after the killing continues to serve as an informal royal advisor well early america's top diplomat denied his country is attempting a cover up in the case secretary of state might pompei it has been speaking of hungry at the start of his european tour he says the trumpet ministration will work harder to ensure those responsible for the killing of published just days ago the white house missed a deadline to report to congress on whether it believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon ordered the murder americans are covering up for america's taken more action in response to the tragic murder of democracy i will continue to take

more actually continue our investigation we're working diligently and that we will president's been very clear it couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information we'll continue to hold responsible accountable and gallacher has more 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 administration 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 ally. and allowing him the screw 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 demarco show gays 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 well there is still a lot of pressure in us 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 that 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 democracy is. 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 half of the fourteen thousand soldiers that took shanahan made the remarks of the meeting president should go only during a brief visit to kabul the pentagon chief also says 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 illegitimate. or staying in the country afghan interpreters who've 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 burke three hundred more in kabul have intimated that we were on the frontlines 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 kids me they will kill me because the have you have evidence of them when interpreters. like i don't of there has been kids so that is no different for them for the taliban they're 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 do people have been abandoned by the british government what is there for where the human rights where that a high ranking officer they don't care about us or way the british parliament they don't care about us way they have turned on their plan blind eye i honest they have certificates of commendation 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 said they would not talk to us anymore so they were still there they would kill us not only me everyone because they did four 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 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 turkey as gave it gave a lot of their lives to the people being injured have been killed without we could not have done our work in afghanistan and so for them i think i believe they were genuine a debt of honor to them. abdul served the british for four years three of them in helmand he had to escape from his home in logar province because of taliban death threats he now lives in hiding with his wife and seven children it was in that a falcon the one 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 and we always worry about what will happen

when we leave home because there are many taliban's buys around. 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. president assad 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. from the it's an adult world rally held since one nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on our freedom square in central tehran to celebrate independence from u.s. 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. 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. relations will improve any time soon. says. the pressure calls. on. 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. we are here to prove to divorce that even support our leave their common name no matter how hard 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 guard also threatened to demolish israeli cities if the u.s. . 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 of even 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. well israel's opposition labor party is choosing its candidates to stand in a fals parliamentary elections it was once a political force governing the country for its first three decades or a force that looks at why it's now struggling to stay relevant. in a 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 were. hopeful 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 ehud barak's victory in one thousand nine hundred nine

israeli politics has moved to the right ever since. polls suggest label winners 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 swim 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 has advocated a mix of traditional left wing politics with right wing tinges 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 of. else seymour prepared to bet on former army chief ganci what's happened to laver is that they've had some bad leadership they've had a leader who is in the wrong place at the wrong time but it's not an indication that the party will die it's an indication that peace. and it's not an indication that the israeli left will die it is though if you would predict a comeback in time for election day when you pull a night. out west jerusalem to government protesters in haiti have been fighting with police for a fifth day they want president general noisey to resign and they're angry about rising inflation and the government's failure to recover billions of embezzled funds if you left your door open in chile. over the weekend you may have had an unexpected visitor right in that this is the urban downhill bike race in the port city competitors don't just write in 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 that had all the speeds of around sixty kilometers an hour it took the less than three minutes to complete the two kilometer track but surprisingly the winner there is from the town. you're watching al-jazeera with the reminder of our top news 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 donald 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 as 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 say aware of manager i got to take care of my people from texas i got to go . with or more it is 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 aid storage center on venezuela's southeastern border tons of food and medicine are already stockpiled in neighboring colombia madeira has ordered soldiers to block the aid coming in describing it as a political show by countries trying to force him from power his government is attempting to seize the opposition leaders and said say one why do except of money illegally otherwise 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 bali foreign republic of venezuela i have started an assets order on cities in one of our doe antonio go away don't mark is more in the football or hockey well of a.b. has just landed home in australia after spending two months locked up in thailand a footballer 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 but bahrain wanted him to return to serve a ten year prison sentence for vandalism he said he'd be tortured if he went back to bahrain which eventually dropped his extradition order you can follow all of those stories of course on our website to tell jazeera dot com more news in half an hour here on ars their next it's counting the cost to stay with us. in the first thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the first settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people have depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries

can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week digital divisions world wide web foundation president and c.e.o. adrian lovett explains why the internet and the danger of splitting also this way venezuela's health system remains starved of money and international tug of war gets underway for control of a key asset. plus senegal's money matters

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