and three. zero. hello and welcome to this news hour with mean how global headquarters in doha coming up. you could see how utterly and completely overwhelming the amount of evidence was the mexican drug lord el chapo is found guilty of running a massive smuggling operation after a sensational trial in new york. venezuela's opposition leader tells cheering supporters and when tons of u.s. aid will come into the country. it intensifies his showdown with the president

who's blocks the food and medicine from coming over the border. and as nigerians decide who will take care of africa's biggest economy we report from the remote corner is that by poverty and conflict. mexican drug lord man is facing life in prison after being convicted by a us court of running a smuggling empire the trial of el chapo as he's better known was packed with tales of grisly killings political payoffs and labrat trafficking schemes let's go live now to gabriel elizondo in new york gabe off to such a long trial what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read out. well it's really an electric atmosphere in a lot of ways very tense chapo guzman the man that is known as one of the big

world's biggest drug traffickers and who skate from prison twice in mexico and was one of the world's biggest fugitives stepped into the courtroom wearing a black suit and tie and a gray shirt and when the verdict was read and nischelle he looked shocked but that quickly gave way to him almost looking somewhat relieved as he stood up from the table he flashed two thumbs up signs to his beauty queen wife that was in the audience who had been there for their out the entire trial and then he was quickly ushered out of the courtroom by security personnel this will be the last time anyone ever sees el chapo in public or out in public in a courtroom anyway because he'll be going to jail for the rest of his life this was really a trial that ended the long saga of chapo guzman. after jury convicted joaquin el chapo guzman on all counts u.s. prosecutors made it clear the story of the man who was once the world's biggest

drug trafficker was finished this conviction we expect will bring a sentence of life without the possibility of parole is a sense from which there is no escape and no return. this conviction is a victory for the american people who is suffered so long and so much. money made billions poor poisoned over our southern border as the verdict was read in the packed courtroom under tight security guzman initially looked shocked but he then flashed a thumbs up as he was led away by security guards from the courtroom through a back door. moments later months wife who sat through every day of the long trial left the courthouse to a crush of reporters she didn't respond to questions as she got in the way to be a cool. guzman's highly paid defense attorneys said they would appeal and accused

the u.s. government of using guzman's conviction like it was a prize in the war on drugs course is a trophy for the government i mean that the cocaine flow doesn't stop with joaquin guzman being convicted only for god's sake does anybody think that does anybody think that if that suddenly anything's changed over the course of the trial jurors saw pictures of guzman's diamond encrusted pistol and heard stories about him ordering killings of rivals including one for the crime of failing to shake guzman's hand but it was guzman sinhala drug cartel that often took center stage several of his former top level associates testified against him lifting the lid on a multibillion dollar operation that utilized all the tools at their disposal to get their product across the mexican border. now they the prosecution had an overwhelming amount of evidence and that's what the defense

attorneys said after the verdict was read when they came out they just said there was so much evidence against guzman over fifty different cooperate in witnesses against him hundreds of records they actually during the court court proceedings actually. gave out evidence that they wire able to wiretap guzman so there was just too much for the defense to overcome the defense actually only put on a defense that was actually thirty minutes long and only called one witness to the stand like you heard there the defense say that they will appeal but it's probably going to be a high hill to climb for this to be overturned what happens to guzman next he'll be put into a high security prison somewhere in the united states in the coming hours or days never to be released how does their escape when i was on day there for us in new york thank you kate. well venezuela's opposition leader says u.s. aid supplies will enter the country next week speaking before cheering supporters

one go either said he was issuing a direct order to the military to let it in but the armed forces have so far remained loyal to president nicolas maduro who says the aid is a political ploy to reason by reports from caracas. he wants to keep up with the pressure on the government of the law that's why venezuela's self declared interim president called his followers to take to the streets once again. general we announce that february third is the day for humanitarian aid into venezuela we stand by all sectors delivery drivers nurses medics to get ourselves organized. all the way from her son was killed during the protests two years ago and all these i am demanding justice i am demanding freedom i am honoring all the children that have died i'm here for everything that is happening in this country people are dying of hunger and a lack of medicines. food and medical supplies mostly coming from the u.s.

have arrived at the border between venezuela and colombia why though says more is on its way there are thousands and thousands of people in this part of the city that it's difficult to move the specific demand in this demonstration is that they want to force the government to allow aid into the country the other demand is that they would like for free and fair elections to take place in venezuela because they believe that last year's election process was filled with irregularities. towards the center of the capital government supporters were also on the streets to voice their opposition to any type of foreign intervention for the last four months. has been part of the government's militia he says he's ready to defend his country from foreign aggression. i cannot trust in humanitarian aid that has not been requested in venezuela we didn't have an earthquake or a war that justifies them forcing aid into the country we want to solve our problems if they want to help us they should give us back the money they are

withholding that's in the banks in europe in the u.s. . but support for the president does not appear to be as high as it once was the economic crisis has left millions of people struggling to buy basics and then medicines and that's why many in traditional neighborhoods have joined the protests one one of the he the work we are protesting for the old people because their name madison's because we want a free country freedom to do and what we want the opposition is calling on the military to rise against people. and now the following donated supplies in the senate are seriously. military and civilian employees that of the border will aggressively allow the humanitarian aid without drama without confrontation and fulfill the men do have you need to allow the aid in to save the lives of. either the problems of the solution and life. but the military leadership remains no you

my the widow and they play a pivotal role in his administration. the opposition says they will continue pushing to break that relationship. it is a war. well as to reason but i mentioned president nicolas maduro had his own rally in the capital here's some of what he had to say. yesterday that the drums of war stop that the threats of military invasion recede and there's way to say a single chorus with one voice we want peace we want happiness long live national union live peace to victory always thank you god bless you may god bless our beloved venezuela our lost in america to tell you see a new man is also in caracas you see a thousands out on the streets today what's been the impact of these two competing rallies. not very much impact yet but clearly a lot brought out far far more people out onto the street and in fact

a measure of support and clearly he is on the winning side at the rally that president my little held there were very very few people he said that they were in fact being treated as invisible by the media but that they were invincible and he seemed very cheerful as you just saw there but there is a lot of tension and though he's talking about peace and love he feels that he certainly at least says that there is a very very strong threat of overseas aggression from the united states and even from colombia and perhaps in neighboring brazil as well in fact the president of colombia will be meeting with president donald trump on tuesday is i'm not sure exactly what time he will be meeting in washington on tuesday and there's a lot of concern here in government circles that they could be discussing what to do next if that aid that we just heard is not allowed to go over the border and here into venezuela well as you said you see a various countries other countries like the u.s.

and russia have gotten involved how is all of that playing out amongst the public inside the country. venezuelans are watching very closely how this is were playing out clearly over the years just having demonstrations on the streets wasn't enough we saw that in two thousand and seventeen the opposition was on the streets for four months it led to more than one hundred deaths but it didn't make president nicolas maduro budge and now lot of the opposition people feel that this could do the trick but they had to really because of the support of the international community while supporters of the government feel very much like they're under siege we've seen that meeting that you just mentioned between the foreign minister of russia and my pompei of the united states his counterpart it's not very clear if they were able to reach any kind of an agreement or see eye to eye on any kind of a common agenda that my allow this crisis to end in a peaceful and negotiated manner as there is lucy and human there in caracas for us thank you thea. a politically charged trial has started in spain threatening to

inflame tensions between the central government and pro independence supporters in the catalan region twelve separatist politicians are accused of rebellion and other charges stemming from their roles in an independence declaration in twenty seventeen david kato reports from the trade. as the jailed catalan leaders arrived at the supreme court their supporters were calling it nothing but a political show trial the spanish authorities lifestream the pictures as the trial began claiming the proceedings were free and open meaning when ali but the former president of catalonia now in exile had words of support for his former colleague sitting in the dock. at the finish to d.v.c. an honorable and innocent people democrats people who have acted under parliamentary mandate sitting in the dock as if they were criminals but i hope the court case will bring about the opportunity that's been still has to impose a fast sentence that is acquittal. the rebellion charges facing some of the leaders

will only stick if it's proved they incited the violence seen when the referendum took place in twenty seventeen defense lawyers refute the charge the state's accusing the independent this movement to be violent but in the words knowing that the violence of in the process came from the states and came from the spanish police it's strange to see today that. hundreds of people hundreds of policemen will come to the court to testify and this is the same people who beat to voters the trial is set to last at least three months by then the government in spain may have changed the spanish prime minister sanchez needs the votes of the cattle and separatists m.p.'s to get his budget through parliament. a promotional video has been produced by the spanish government extolling the

positive sign. of the country this is the real spain but extreme right wing has managed to penetrate police lines guarding the courts precinct message outlawed those who want to destroy spain they will soon dispersed david chaytor al jazeera attrit. among the stories still ahead how fuel shortages in pakistan are leaving the economy running on empty. fantasy homes sitting empty it's become a stock symbol of money problems in turkey. and japan's in lympics running hope reveals she's been diagnosed with leukemia. u.s. backed forces trying to push their last remain in eastern syria say their biggest challenge ahead is getting civilians including the eisel fighters families to safety at least sixteen people including seven children said to have been killed by

u.s. airstrikes and run com reports from gaza on the turkey syria border with. coalition airstrikes it's hard getting i still fighters in eldar who's. the villages their last remaining stronghold in northeastern syria the safety of civilians caught up in the fighting is becoming a major concern. during a lull in fighting on the ground kurdish led syrian democratic forces and i still fighters are reportedly negotiating a monetary encouraged to let civilians out there is a way out if you know the right people and can afford it to wives of isis fighters both french paid smugglers to get them out of the village earlier 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. s.t.'s commanders say the majority of the estimated six hundred two thousand eisel fighters who remain are foreigners with plenty of combat experience like on the day

you are there are two factors that have a direct impact of this battle first of all the terrorists here are the base the terrorist group has from different nationalities including europeans afghans pakistanis and iraqis these are all professionals and have past experiences in other terrorist groups including al qaida and so on the second factor is that they are defending the last eight quarters and he is very concerned about the civilian population within the village and says the battle is being slowed down because of it it says that also forces are using the civilian population as human shields and that. will take longer than we originally estimated three days. al-jazeera doesn't have. elsewhere at least seven people including three policemen have been injured by a car bomb that exploded on the syrian side of the bab al salaam

a border border crossing with turkey four civilians were also were injured the area is controlled by turkey backed rebels who are fighting against eisel the acting u.s. defense secretary has reassured iraq's leaders about the presence of u.s. troops in the country patrick shanahan has been issuing a rocks prime minister. in baghdad last month president tom angered the government by saying he wanted to keep troops in the country to keep an eye on neighboring iran shanahan says he respects iraq's sovereignty donald trump says he's not happy with the deal on border security that's denied him funds for his long promised war but the president hasn't rejected the agreement out rights as political allies urged his support his white house correspondent. an agreement in principle which would avert yet another u.s. government shutdown but will the u.s. president veto the deal and my happy here first glance i just got to see it here

interest no i'm not i'm not happy on monday night democrats and republicans crafted an agreement giving donald trump just one point three billion for eighty eight kilometers of border fencing not a wall it's a small portion of the five point seven billion trump requested added see even less than what the democrats agreed to give him last december before the impasse for that reason there is doubt whether he'll approve the deal i strongly urge the president. to sign this agreement no one gets everything they want in these agreements the president must sign it and not not not cause another shutdown at a cabinet meeting on tuesday trump told reporters he's still considering his next move however it's clear he hasn't given up on his signature campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border of the united states and mexico i consider

everything i'm considering after the white house has said repeatedly it believes the president has the legal authority to declare a national emergency to build the wall that would allow trump to access already approved funds but democrats say the emergency is manufactured and have promised to challenge such a move in the courts lawmakers have until friday to get the agreement through both houses of congress and signed by the president but the u.s. president is under constant pressure from prominent conservatives not to sign the agreement and they were public in fact supports this corbridge compromise you all have to explain if the president chooses to veto the legislation some government agencies will begin shutting down and hundreds of thousands of government workers will once again be off the job for the second time this year kimberly health hit

al-jazeera the white house. the number of children being forced into combat has risen more than one hundred fifty percent in recent years the alarming numbers have been highlighted on the international day against the use of child soldiers and event involving the un and countries worldwide the rights group child soldiers international says that between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen there were twenty nine thousand cases of children being recruited that's based on u.n. data those cases were spread across seventeen nations in africa the middle east and southern asia the exploitation of goals has also increased many are forced to become sexual and household slaves. we know that over the last couple of years verification methods have improved but we also know that the number of conflict has increased and that access to reaching these children is incredibly difficult so even if we see this big increase which is very worrying we know that it's unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg children have for

a long period of time been used wherever there has been conflict are more and more involved and those children are closer to that to the front lines to being recruited and conflict is not only as you mentioned happening between two nations they're happening between communities between regions children have been recruited and used by our marketers in countries such as syria afghanistan but again the difficulty in verifying these cases is is is very large so we don't have the actual numbers we have a lot of unverified reports so we know that the problem is is much faster than than the verified cases actually will let us know these cases that we call verified they often are helped or released by by un in their partners but there's a large number of children who will never be identified by these actors and will escape on their own accord and for them it's it's much more difficult to access any type of assistance so what we need to do is work together and support the

communities of return to which the children come back home to so that they are able to cope and take care of their children. it's also interesting it's also important to remember that if a child even having lived through these traumatic experiences receives proper support from the family from the community and an opportunity to to go back to normal lives so an opportunity to go back to school for example they will recover and they will be able to to go on living their lives as their peers. the people of africa's most populous nation and its biggest economy fires on saturday for a new government nigerian president. one in twenty fifteen with the promise of fighting corruption and defeating boko haram four years on and people in borno state are losing hope of ever feeling safe from the armed groups attacks that

interest reports from borno state's capital might agree. despite stitches from mrs here and say jury is out what kind of truck for two days with a triplets to escape at the end of last year the children were barely two weeks old when the family fled back in for the second time she arrived my degree a city the family left six months yet to rebuild their lives. by the recent attack was more ferocious i came face to face with boko haram i saw them i was very frightened. because that is one of several thousand people displaced by the renewed fighting. the nigerian army has recovered at the areas briefly occupied by the fighters and says it's consolidating its gains by motivating and rearming its troops. from issues new formations to come for the new challenges that.

this. is indeed across the country but despite recent successes by the army displaced people like zara and considering the return to baghdad i was not going back we went back and nearly lost our lives will stay in my degree. launched a new so you're seeing all these tiger in two thousand and nine aiming to establish a caliphate. the violence in the decades old conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than two million people for a fraction of here it did when i saw has claimed responsibility for most of their thoughts in a region where targeted from a musical articles is a government agency but there were two experts say the government of family tried lisander nigeria need to improve order to deliver the product. some falling it was in nigeria including the united states had earlier want of possible attacks my book ahead of the elections and with a few days to the vote that is in sight in some remote communities in nigeria as

all the east. might agree nigeria pakistan's fuel shortages are cutting into every part of the economy major industries and consumers alike are finding themselves in a desperate situation because of an increasingly high bills come all high the reports from islamabad. it's another quarter in the morning and in. the d. how did you cross are doing brisk business because of the cord red. cross the country including businesses such as bakeries are complaining that their three northern gas pipeline system is not able to give them the gas necessary to keep their businesses running the country is seeing a shortfall of all more than fifty percent. when it comes to gas delivery pipelines . because. they're shipping and and that all the so-called viral thread

consumers. are already complaining that their. marks for their gas bases. are previous bills was sixty to sixty five thousand but from last month it increased incredibly a winter gas office they said gas is going to be expensive and you have to pay it we have this small business and we have to pay sellers and other expenses we all think you to shut down our business. we have fed up of paying bills we're not able to give education twa children pain electricity bills gas this is just tom and tonight's beef come here at the gas office but no one's listening to us they can indeed a serious crisis for a country with a lot of ready cash strapped a budget going to. rattle you and it seems that people across the country are now also losing their patients much more coming out. president trump and braces

a new anti socialism message as our votes is embracing the ideology. japan's tennis well is number one has split with head coach more on that with pisa nature and sports. to. how i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast we have around one hundred million americans under some sort of winter storm alert because see these massive areas of cloud there's lots of rain down towards the south this no further north than plenty of snow is in places of right along the west coast as well hopefully little dry there for seattle is because through where to stay already having its snowiest february on a record very heavy rain though it's a good part of california thirteen celsius for san francisco and also for los

angeles some wet weather too that's making its way away from the southeast and cold of florida will see some of that cloud and right maine who seeing some rain and some snow the snow pushes up into the canadian maritimes in between it's not too bad it's lousy dry and five minus two in chicago turns into a plus for thursday dry weather on that eastern side of the u.s. eastern parts of canada take a look at the west coast though still raining in california that is likely to lead to some flooding some mudslides as well snow pushing in over the rockies meanwhile some very heavy rain the same band of rain coming out of florida running down into the yucatan peninsula western parts side of the caribbean could see some lively showers but for the most part it's fine dry and sunny. afghanistan has the best geology of all both mentally resources and hydrocarbon why are they so poor emotional you guys would finally form

a government that. the toxin went essentially nowhere the more we let close down the more they pushed back we knew it was coming the question was do we sit back and wait or do we surprise them with a preemptive strike tonopah or on just zero. zero explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how libraries influenced the course of history beginning with the giants of the struggle for civil rights america. just eight miles over the veil of those who oppress people look at me and continue to keep the negroes to be defense that what you mean by thought about x. and martin luther king face to face well known jazzy of.

welcome back. a reminder of our top stories this hour infamous mexican cartel boss joaquin guzman has been convicted of all charges at his drug trafficking trial in the u.s. el chapo as he's better known is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. venezuela's opposition leader says humanitarian aid will be allowed into the country next week president nicolas maduro though insists it will be blocked because he sees it as a political tool to remove him from power. twelve separatist politicians have appeared in a spanish court accused of sedition rebellion and misuse of public funds they're facing up to twenty five years in prison for their role in declaring the independence of the catalonia region and twenty seventeen. more now on our top

story and the el chapo trial cast a spotlight on the corruption that allowed his cartel to flourish john holeman tells us more from mexico city. to the trial we throughly of corking good man who has been quite muted to the point when. the head of press for the government for any sort of cullman a little bit earlier he actually helped was the verdict was so it tells you something about where it is on this current government's list of priorities and where it is on the radar and generally in the media here in the sort of the minds of people hasn't really been front page news all the way through and that's quite surprising in the way because this was a man that became the sort of shadowy. crime in the country he was someone. with to the authorities a couple of times in escaping for jail and not to some people made him

a sort of antihero against what they saw the sort of inefficient and corrupt governments butt. even when we went to the heartland of his cartel the cinna lower cartel even there it seemed more or less business as usual in that people were telling us that the cartels continue to move fast amounts of drugs but they were still doing business and it really spoke to the fact but despite what he became known as public enemy number one he wasn't the only leader of that cartel. is a journalist who covers mexico's drug crime and corruption he also write the book gangster warlords and joins us via skype from mexico city he won so today's verdict was no surprise no nor to all i mean as soon as he was extradited united states to stand trial everyone expected it to be found guilty there was a bit of suspense because the jury sat on this the six days. deliberating but the

fact he is guilty on all counts is what everyone expected at the beginning of this trial in november lots of revelations cheering the trial also allegations of one hundred million dollars bribe paid to former mexican president. yeah that was for the biggest shocker of a daily news although not proscribed maybe mexico most people here if you are to me is the government corrupt is involved with drug traffickers they would say yes you know that itself the government is it is not enough proof to actually go after the former president and then yet go and myself analyze it so that maybe the person who said that could be making up that number it might be that they were paying a bribe but it might not be one hundred million but i've been saying that or recently said that to try and get more credence when he made his deal with the us government as a big part of this trial and that these people called cooperating witnesses who

were former cohorts of chapel was man drug traffickers murderers themselves who make deals if exchange for testimony or given that someone has an associates testified against and what's been the impact of the trials and today's conviction on the actual functioning of the cartel. so there was some fact exactly the trial there was the son of the brother of one major drug trafficker miles and his son a brother testified against japanese man chapo guzman fifty pence said the bombers are bought it was really a big chief who should be there facing these charges so it may have bad luck that that could translate in the mountains of say the lower in the street or still allow it into violence there's also pressure on this law cut off rival cartels including one especially called the alice go new generation cartel another major trafficking caught in mexico and they can see this weakness to move it but overall you know you

have many drug traffickers in mexico you have in the united states americans spending one hundred billion dollars a year according to the u.s. government one hundred billion dollars a year buying heroin maulana crystal meth or cocaine and so you can still have people moving at the drug trade who keep a gun on and has taken over that the head of the senate a drug cartel now that he's gone where there's always been no discussion about this from outside the cult so we don't really know but some of the power brokers are there this guy baez and bob is well miles i'm bothered also traficant from the mountains of c. the law has kept a very low profile but some believe it's really been proven number one there's also the sons of el chapo known as the chappie boss and there's various other players lecturing one trafficker who escaped from prison with a bribe bribing the charge i was actually convicted of being guilty of murdering it

deviated back in one thousand and five the various warlords and has a cow there in dispute with the cartel and you know on how much intelligence gathering do you think there was from el chapo himself as the fight continues against the drug trade. so refused to make a deal and refused to cooperate and give anything away according to his lawyer i spoke to a lot about i saw he said that the government will introduce offered him any kind of deal they wanted to go to trial or they wanted to find him guilty they didn't want to be shown to be giving anything away to such a high profile criminal so so far he's already given nothing away no names no money no drug trafficking routes now will see when they take him to the supermax prison he'll be probably in solitary confinement twenty three hours a day at that point with they want to try an offer they also give you a bit better conditions if you give us something where right now apparently he's

given nothing away china still on going over there speaking to us from mexico city of thank you feel inside so on thank you. bahraini footballer who came out arabia's back in his adopted home of the stray leah after spending two months behind bars and bangkok the refugee was arrested in november while on honeymoon in thailand after his native country ordered he be extradited andrew thomas was there when al-arabiya touched down. i in a bangkok prison for more than two months i. dreamed of this moment but until monday it looked less and less likely that it would happen then suddenly he was released and soon on a plane to australia i would defend. his music to see how good people. would be for everybody yes this is what to me. to think that a little. bit. more than a hundred people waiting for al-arabiya at melbourne airport. even twenty four

hours they'd be here now without a good word last night because it is very frightening that practice practice from. these safe. ellerey far right for australia in twenty four to after being accused of vandalism during pro-democracy protests australia recognised him as a refugee by last year he was playing professional football in melbourne but in the event got married and flew to thailand for his honeymoon as a refugee with residency rights in australia that shouldn't have been a problem but somehow an alert was issued and when he landed type police arrested him bahrain began extradition proceedings and despite international condemnation thai courts seem to be pushing them through the thai government said it wasn't its right to stop them on monday though a sudden change to thailand's border minister made a trip to bahrain thailand's government announced the extradition request has been

dropped. was for him to leave a little more than twenty four hours ago this seemed a very very long way away from blix campaign to get the malady. three didn't seem to be going anywhere we now know the pressure to find the seeds was a story of diplomatic activity there is still unanswered questions about the process that led to a rabies arrest and afterwards the lack of support from organizations like the asian football confederation the campaign is say a rabies case has had one positive effect it's shown a spotlight on bahrain's human rights record the world now understands the absence of rule of law we've all from thirty learn that there's over five thousand political prisoners in bahrain jails. doesn't yet have an australian passport but this he says is hard not the country he played and the it but the one that's given him shelter under thomas al-jazeera melbourne. seventeen people have died in

a hotel fire in india's capital new delhi a large group of wedding guests were staying at the hotel in a district known for budget accommodation thirty five people were rescued most of the deaths were due to suffocation investigators are trying to find out just what caused the blaze. mt high rises and homes fit for royalty have become symbols of turkey's struggling economy construction has been at the heart of the country's growth but inflation and the devalued currency are threatening to take the industry from boom to bust stephanie decker reports. a little fantasy some gothic a bit of disney and a touch of turkish history that's how this rather unique thermal spire housing development has been described to us by its creator but this mountain castle kingdom has been less fairy tale and more nightmare for its developers they filed for bankruptcy protection because they couldn't afford their payments to the bank in essence gaining time the project will go ahead they tell us the economy is

struggling largely because of the devalued turkish lira and high inflation work here is now on hold i'm talking on the sort of muscle we made some mistakes and we had conducted the project in phases and not all at once we would have opened the site long ago but there was high demand so we thought we could easily sell them all this is why we are facing problems now around three hundred of these castles have been sold we're told and there are around seven hundred thirty in total now one of these units have still not been finished in this project in particular is aimed at buyers from gulf countries but what is happening here is indicative of a wider trend of the struggling construction industry across the country in istanbul turkey is economic capital partially finished building stand idle there are no workers in the cranes to move the construction sector used to be the driving force behind turkey's economy a policy adopted by president wants a party jobs mean votes now we're told people are losing their jobs or haven't been

paid in months. biggie building houses mega projects and now they're not being sold so the government introduced measures like lowering mortgage interest rates be looked at the arab states to sell but it only goes so far worst days are ahead of economists we spoke to are just as pessimistic. as they've got the fastest job losses are happening in the construction sector and also the fastest bankruptcies but the real collapse will take place after the local elections on march the. first for both the government and the banks of fearing the big collapse the government has introduced several measures to ease the crisis cutting real estate taxes ordering state banks to lower interest mortgages and offering foreign buyers citizenship but so far nothing seems to work this mosque is the proud project the president aired on the company behind it now bankrupt it

remains unfinished many business men say they're waiting for the local elections to be over then hopefully things will improve banking on a young population that will push domestic demand but that has to be in the right economic climate most of the economic predictions indicate that things could get worse stephanie decker turkey. socialism has long been a hay said wed in american politics and lately donald trump has been embracing it as he gears up for elections in twenty twenty he says his rivals the democrats want to turn the united states into an f. to wayne state but as she had to tansey reports many ideas that republicans derive as socialism becoming more popular among voters were signing up for all americans and i'm very it was again in a speech at the texas border all sensibly about immigration donald trump whom to the vote for democrats is a vote for socialism they're becoming the party of socialism late term abortion

open borders and crime it was a theme interim stage of the union speech a week earlier america will never be a socialist country the president clearly feels this is an effective message to move allies his base heading into the elections of twenty twenty and if trump truly believes socialism is a threat he has reason to worry several recent polls show socialism's growing popularity particularly among the young gallup has found fifty one percent of americans between the age of eighteen and twenty nine view socialism favorably by comparison just forty five percent viewed capitalism favorably socialist principles just don't seem that controversial anymore health care is a human right or housing is a human right or good jobs and a livable wage as a human right stuart craft is with the democratic socialists of america since twenty six the national membership has soared from seven to fifty five thousand don't trump presidency has been good for socialism in america it's only affected

capitalism that's increasingly seen as antithetical to the american dream as almost eighty percent of workers say they live from paycheck to paycheck with little hope of social mobility with this sort of resurgence of socialism we have new topics coming in into play that talk about how things could be your should be any how. they are in other countries around the world some polls indicate socialist bernie sanders would easily beat donald trump in a presidential election meanwhile openly socialist candidates have been voted to congress running on a platform of increasing taxes on the rich free health care and education but these are mainstream social democratic ideas and hardly radical the united states is coming out of a half a century of demonizing socialism so on then i can see our emerging like a bear for my permission finally able to talk about it and the first kind of socialism they're going to talk about is the mildest most moderate form to make basically account the lism that has

a more human face and that's the irony the democrats all some way from calling for the overthrow of capitalism it was notable the democratic leader nancy pelosi also joined in the applause for donald trump's attack against socialism and just last week it was revealed that police top aide on health care has been reassuring health insurance executives but the democratic leadership is opposed to universal free health care no matter what the base wants the workers of the u.s. may well be uniting the president trumps warnings about the specter of democratic party and use class war or a little premature. washington. thank

you very much bahrain's refugee footballer hakimullah baby is back in his adoptive home of australia of the being detained for nearly three months in thailand. i. twenty five year old arrived in melbourne just hours after being released from jail in bangkok following the thai attorney general's decision to drop bahrain's extradition request has refugee status in australia he said bahrain twenty forty after being accused of crimes during the arab spring which he denies being sentenced to ten years in absentia and claims he faces torture or even death if he

returns craig foster the former australian football captain spearheaded the campaign to get him released. the i just think that there are a lot of money many people i would to take this is that it was too much my mind is . going to touch on i think the media player would rise and thank you and there would be more there on the stand today yes i would be strong again just want to stand out here on the set i just my candidacy just didn't i didn't didn't see it yet but. if i can put it just an idea i would be done it is that idea and i don't stand on it thank you but it comes out of the chair i already was wearing the football shirt of pascoe vale the semi pro team we play so in australia the club told us they're not expecting him back on the pitch in the near future. we saw and heard him so i'd be a great feeling to obviously spy out of the crowd for another year at least you

might have to give him a couple years now we want to say where you are being a lawyer being the great force that he said that he wasn't good you know and it was really struggling and he lost a lot of white when i came to a very solid fender. and pretty good and you look very fragile and imagine what these mental state it's like being held in jail probably thinking that you know he's lost we. can start climbing again and get back to that and we train and go on our honeymoon but maybe. england's world cup winning goalkeeper gordon banks has died at the age of eighty one he's former club stoke city and now it's these deaths saying banks passed away peacefully overnight the club say they are devastated but couldn't be more proud of him banks one seventy three caps for england then was part of the famous team that won the one nine hundred sixty six world cup on home soil beating west germany in the final he's also famous for one

of the greatest saves in the history of football denying pele in the one nine hundred seventy world cup. tuesday saw the return of the champions league on the last sixteen first legs eyes all eyes were on old trafford where paris st germain secured a two no victory away from home against manchester united they take two goals with them to paris for that return leg that's crucial well if the porter will take one go with them for a return leg against a s. roma however it was roma who won that one by two goals to one meanwhile four time champions league winners i accepted them are preparing for the daunting prospect of hosting the three time defending champions rael madrid the dutch club have fallen behind europe's best since they last won the continent's top club competition in one thousand nine hundred five and after a difficult start to the season rael have improved their form quite substantially real madrid. we see real madrid is a very good team with good ideas and tactics last week we saw that they are

improving a lot we have to do something about it and come up with solutions we don't just have to look we also to focus on our game and that's very important. regarding our champions league match real madrid is always a favorite because of our track record in the competition and we are going shape right now so we are happy about that of course that gives us confidence but we were favorites this whole year and have been doing well. u.s. ski champion mckenna shifrin makes headlines when she races a end when she chooses not to the twenty three year old won last week super g. at the ski championships in order sweden and then set out several events this week she is now preparing to get gold in the upcoming giant slalom and slalom but after ski legend lindsey vonn retired on sunday schifrin things she has a lot to learn before stepping into a new role as the next face of sport. i would like to believe that just being a really like kind person and a good athlete and having success in the store is enough to really promote it but

it's not really i mean there needs to be some some drama some excitement some some really big personalities and for me maybe i'm growing into that and right now i'm just trying as hard as i can to balance my own schedule and. ski as well as i can because i'm a big goal is is not to be dramatic it's to be. in the start gate ready to win she was the star of the pool at last year's asian games in jakarta but now a japanese swimmer recalled koichi has announced she's been diagnosed with leukemia the eighteen year old won six gold medals in indonesia and was took to be one of the faces of the tokyo lympics in her home country next year he posted the news to her twitter account saying her diagnosis came after she returned feeling unwell off to a training trip to australia. well the international olympic committee or into killing spect in the progress of the venues for the twenty twenty lympics with five hundred twenty seven days to go some of the facilities are nearing completion the canoe

arena is eighty percent finished with the volleyball arena about halfway done the gymnastics and aquatic centers among others have yet to be built and japan's tennis world number one soccer has split with her coach sasha buy in the pair had worked together since twenty seventeen and since then osaka has enjoyed an incredible rise to the top of the world rankings she won the u.s. open in september and made it back to back grand slams winning the australian open last month horseracing in britain will resume on wednesday after nearly a week of cancellations because of influenza the sport's governing body had months there is still some risk but says the decision was unanimously approved by the industry veterinary committee that will restrict biosecurity control measures in place that race meetings and horses that have not been vaccinated in the last six months will not be able to race this is good news for horse racing with the cheltenham festival just a month away ok that's all the sport we have if another war coming up again later.

the story of a group of young surgeon is movie makers who struggled in a country where their industry is badly neglected has been shown at the ballin film festival and as the dame barbara reports from berlin it's one of two new documentary is that give a rare glimpse of khartoum behind the headlines. picking up relics of a bygone era the 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 industry. as easier said than done as the film talking about trees makes clear. it follows their efforts to screen forgotten classics a cartoon something that riles plenty of curiosity about this very old. and they would look and see else we had seen or when the real can really stand and

see. the real. winner when they're in moving to the scene with the daily question as well as bringing their story to palin said barry has helped them restore some of their groundbreaking films made decades ago and they're also showing in the festival. answer the question of hope hope you can regenerate. like this and i learned that and then the value of friendship real friendship the value of sometimes taking the you choose. the difficult things you know not to compromise you so i do my syllabi other than this 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 that they will add.

the difficulties they face from family traditions to politics to religion or echoed in the way the director had to operate. 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 observing football games and so you see that in the documentary you know it's very shaky scenes and hand-held scene but it's a roof that is just a sense of being there. 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 conflict the thing about al-jazeera. and that's it for me in a start the tape for this news hour but i'll be back in just a couple of minutes with another roundup of the day's.

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the latest news as it breaks the difference is about to blast bottles awesome floyd was about to stick in the ritz with the this time both with truth as. with details coverage has already said that he's ready to take over as interim president and 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 eight hundred. nine main street every news cycle brings a series of breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump told through the eyes of the world's journalists that's right out of a hamas group that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they recruit on the stories that matter the most him better use a free palestine a listening post on al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera

because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. you could see how utterly and completely overwhelming the amount of evidence was a mexican drug lord el chapo is found guilty of running a massive smuggling operation after a sensational trial in new york. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up venezuela's opposition leader tells cheering supporters that u.s. aid well into the country next week despite president maduro has plans to block it . i have to study it not to.