just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable to see there's the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera. this is zero. hello i'm a star and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes . is essentially which there is no escape and now we turn to mexican drug lord el chapo is likely to see out his days in a u.s. prison after being found guilty of running a massive smuggling operation. venezuela's opposition leader tells cheering supporters when tons of u.s. aid will come into the country. it intensifies his showdown with the president who

has blocked the food and medicine from coming over the border. and we meet the afghan boys dreaming of cricketing glory as their team prepares to take on the best in the wild. venezuela's opposition leader says u.s. aid supplies will enter the country next week speaking before cheering supporters one glider who 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 and. that's why even he declared interim precedent called his followers to take to the streets once again. we are nonstate february

twenty third is the day for humanitarian aid into venezuela we stand by all sectors delivery drivers nurses medics to get ourselves organized dixie on silas came all the way from berlin sia her son was killed during the protests two years ago. 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 on the bubble. 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 medicines and that's why many in traditional neighborhoods have joined the protests one guy old one of the he the what we are protesting for the old people because their name madison's because we want

a free country freedom to do and what we will and the opposition is calling on the military to rise against people. and allow the following donated supplies in the scenario seriously believe that the level of military and civilian employees that of the border will aggressively allow the humanitarian aid without drama without confrontation and fulfill the role you're meant to have you need to allow the aid in to save the life of. the problems of the solution on life. but the military leadership remains by the widow and they played a role in his administration. the opposition says we will continue pushing to break that relationship. 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. let the drums of war stop but the approach of military invasion

recede and burns will say in a single chorus with one voice we want peace we want happiness along with the national union live peace to victory always thank you god bless you may god bless our beloved. latin america editor lucien newman is also in caracas the demonstrations organized by opponents of president nicole last mughal in the capital and indeed all over venice we were impressive here and got access tens of thousands of people turned up to show their support to self-proclaimed interim president why daughter and his call for aid of food and medicine that is being gathered now in neighboring colombia and neighboring brazil to be allowed to cross over here into the president nicolas maduro held a far far smaller gathering near the presidential palace he told his supporters there that while they may be quote invisible they were invincible so he tried to sound cheerful but at the same time he has reiterated that under no circumstances will he allow that aid to come into the country which is increasing the tensions

and the confrontation that is likely to occur if and when the opposition makes good on it of all now to try to move that aid into venezuela on the twenty third of february and opposition protests are still going on in the capital there holding a nice long vigil in caracas plaza honoring people killed and injured during weeks of unrest. mexican drug lord joaquin guzman is facing life in prison after being convicted by a us court of running a smuggling and the trial of el chapo as he's best known was packed with tales of grisly killings political payoffs and labrat trafficking schemes and i reports from new york. 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 sense 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 while good money made billions pouring poison 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 into will be a. guzman's highly paid defense attorneys said they would appeal and accuse the u.s. government of using guzman's conviction like it was a prize in the war on drugs who sees

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 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 feeling 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 well this is the last chapter of bill chapo guzman drug trafficking career it's by no means that in dipped a story for his soon a lower drug cartel back in mexico it continues to be the biggest drug trafficking

organization in mexico now run by two of bill chappell sons and it continues to traffic drugs throughout the world gabriel's on doe. brooklyn mike vigil was chief of international operations at the u.s. drug enforcement agency or da he also wrote the book narco queen and joins us now live from washington d.c. mike today is a day of celebration for the drug enforcement community when the thing is since a great victory for the rule of law for mexico the united states and other countries where the scene along cartel has been distributing tons of drugs so it's a great moral victory while many of described it as a trophy trial but what will it actually change things on the ground i'm sorry i couldn't hear you this was described by many as

a trophy trial but what will actually change on the ground. well the thing is that with chopra was mon being come back then and going to jail possibly for the rest of his life the scene on the record tell continues to be the most formidable cartel operating in mexico so efforts have to continue to dismantle that cartels from top to bottom mexico for a number of years has been pursuing a kingpin strategy where they go after the heads of these cartels but what we have found out is that when a court tell leader is killed or captured by cartel fragments into other cartels then that then battle each other for control of territory and drug routes that leads to horrific violence there's been talk that goes on and sons might take

over his cartel what's likely to happen off that after that. the sons are not going to take over the court tell they may work within the court tell but chopper was mine sons have never gotten their hands dirty they don't and can't handle the scene on the one cartel the cartel is being run by is my in my own some one of the old capos still remaining in mexico he has been running the cartel during chopper was mines incarceration and subsequent extradition to the united states he's very capable very respected by the rank and file of the scene along cartel is it likely that the senate itself could be strengthened by this as you know one force might look south where in terms of their attention. well the scene a lot of court tell is the primary focus right now back to go the united states and

efforts will continue to dismantle that organization right now in mexico there's only two powerful drug trafficking cartels that's lease go and then also the hollies going new generation cartel and the see the lower court that all is definitely the target both the united states and mexico that was mike vigil from the former chief of international operations at the dea thank you so much for your time mike donald trump says he is not happy with a deal on border security that's denied him funds for his long promised war but the u.s. president hasn't rejected the agreement out rights as political allies to support his our white house correspondent can really help it an agreement in principle which would avert yet another u.s. government shutdown but will the u.s.

president veto the deal am i happy here first glance i just got to see it here interest no i'm not i'm not happy and 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 to 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 anywhere public and that supports this corbridge compromise you all have to explain if president trump 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. there's plenty more ahead on this news hour exhausted family is the last pockets of land in eastern syria as kurdish led forces move in on the ground and u.s. jets fire from above. unchartered waters how businesses and france are trying to prepare for breakfast. and meet the new face of u.s. skiing is the twenty three year old up to the challenge peter will have more coming up in the. u.s. backed forces trying to push their last remaining on klavan east in 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 call in reports from gaza on the turkey syria border. coalition airstrikes are targeting eisel 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 monetary 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. we have nothing to eat only iraqis are locked have food they're allowed to go outside while we're locked inside i just hope 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 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 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. well deserved dozens of. elsewhere at least seven people including three policemen have been injured by a car bomb that exploded on the syrian side of the border crossing with turkey four civilians were also wounded 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 meeting iraq's prime minister. in baghdad last month president trump angered the government by saying he wanted troops to stick around and keep an eye on neighboring iran shanahan says he respects iraq's sovereignty. a u.s. senator has joined calls for apple and google to stop offering an app which helps men in saudi arabia to track and restrict the movement of women called absa the app is an eeg of mint portal that processes applications for things like paul sports and vehicle registration inside the kingdom it can be downloaded from the apple store and google play critics say it facilitates saudi arabia's guardianship system which bans women from traveling and accessing services without a male relatives permission here's what u.s.

senator ron wyden tweeted it is unconscionable that google and apple are making it easier to track women and control when and how they travel these companies shouldn't enable these abusive practices against women in saudi arabia joining us is best moment who's a professor of political science at the university of waterloo and canada bismuth tell us a little more about what an app like this is supposed to do. well i mean it's a sort of government type. act that's really supposed to facilitate paperwork i mean rather than having to go to your local ministry and file in the serri paperwork he can do it all online and it's really trying to convention the fact that much of the middle east is very much hyper connected of course the app is in general at least the feature of the app that sort of is meant to allow a guardian to give authority to allow a woman to travel is of course very offensive i think for a lot of women not just at the basis you know sort such a such

a travesty in many ways but i think in many ways you might also see that there will be saudis who will argue that in fact this may allow more women to travel that are backgrounded than having a male guardian go to that local ministry to file the necessary paperwork can all be done online and therefore facilitate women's travel outside the country again because the default is that women can't go outside the country without their male guardians permission that doesn't take away from the fact that obviously the very basis of the guardianship laws are offensive in nature but it's not the out that's the problem it's the law how is the guardianship you know regarded in saudi arabia these days. well you know increasingly there's getting a lot of momentum from young people from couples from professional women i mean increasingly saudi arabia is educated its young people have been and you know the government has invested in them and having them educated abroad and come back these are women who are coming back with professional degrees and unable to basically

practice their you know basic independent type decision making despite their you know in many ways ability to be the head potentially active members of society they're being limited to me ways by these laws so they're fundamentally i think a problem here but it's not just the at the it's a really bigger structural problem that eventually has to go away and encourage recently there is i think you know some resistance to these laws but it's going to take to my thing for eventually the government to finally do away with it that's why we saw a teenager rough mohamed fayed saudi arabia she's now been granted asylum in your country in canada do you think an app like this will encourage more women to do the same well i mean i think that you know russia's case is certainly encouraging more women rob was not the first and she definitely be the last in terms of women trying to leave and again iran has case it's not just you know doubly offensive because of course having a male guardian over an adult is offensive on its own but this is

a woman who frankly is being abused by her family and that's a very very delicate situation a vulnerable group where frankly there is no real recourse despite perhaps all of the so-called legal measures that may be in place and saudi arabia practically they are impossible for women to get away from abusive relationships because of the guardianship laws so it's a double whammy for women like rudolph best how in your mind what can or what should google apple do about an app like this. well look i just don't think that there is much bandwidth for google or apple to do much about this they're not willing to take on governments like saudi arabia it's a lucrative market that has been the essence of so much difficulty for so many companies to really take on the giants like saudi arabia it's not china where frankly china has frankly the ability and bargaining power to make apple and google basically concede to them but certainly i think it's important to continue the

international pressure to use their organizations like the at night midnight of nations human rights watch amnesty international those are civil society organizations of course to really put pressure on the saudi government because it's frankly just unacceptable in twenty one thousand to have these laws in place best nominee from the university of waterloo and canada thank you for your time. thank you unemployment and economic inequality were among the biggest factors behind rounds as amik revolution and one nine hundred seventy nine when millions of people brought down a corrupt monarchy forty as they said though many say they're still yet to see the prosperity they were promised a reports from tehran the power of protest and armed rebellion ayatollah ruhollah khomeini was able to call upon helped him take control of iran in eleven days but consolidating the gains of the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution would take years the new government struggle to suppress insurrections of its own and the economy all but collapsed revolutionaries have been jockeying for political

position ever since and iranian people say their leaders have forgotten khomeini's revolution was actually about them. at a museum dedicated to iran's first national bank there is more wealth in a single display than many iranians may see in a lifetime. a literal treasure trove filled with the precious things of past kings . within these stately halls there is great optimism about iran's future. you don't notice that most of the. problems are being imposed on iran such as sanctions or war but the islamic republic with its rich resources of suitable geography can handle that well i predict the economic future of the country will be positive. one of the reasons iranian supported khomeini was because the majority of the country's wealth was in the hands of the few something that seems to be happening again the revolution played out on streets all over the country and once monuments to the strength of empire buildings city square statues have since come

to symbolize the power of the religious movement that saw them torn down but as the years have gone by many iranians say the promises of prosperity that same movement made have not been kept. as often happens when there is economic decline many say things were better in the past in the time of kings. the problems we have had in the last two or three months are unprecedented were at war with iraq for eight years and we didn't have this level of inflation and poverty president rouhani promised a lot but he lived not the people who handled the war why did they do nothing for the people. there must be with them once i was a religious person i hated the shah but we tried to logan's to say silencing muslims was betraying the koran we believed in the koran but now i'm sixty five years old i don't believe in the koran or mosques i believe nothing he must have been betrayed they broke my heart government leaders say they're doing their best

and blame american sanctions as well as pointing to macro economic indicators that seem to show iran is on track to be classified a highly developed country it's a sign they say that things aren't as bad as they may seem. but the high cost of living means problems that are playing out inside is where iranian leaders seem to be losing. a strangely as government says it will reopen an immigration detention center on christmas island it's in response to new legislation passed by parliament that allows asylum seekers on existing offshore senses easy access to mainland hospitals prime minister scott morrison says reopening the christmas island prison camp office trade is west coast will deter more asylum seekers from risking their lives at sea still ahead in this news hour fuel shortages and pakistan are leaving the economy running on empty. president

trump embraces a new anti socialism message votes is embracing the ideology. and japan's and then picks from her reveals she has been diagnosed with leukemia and we'll have that in sports coming up. we've had some rather active when she weather across central parts of china more rain and snow into those central parts as we go through the next comes as they carry a cloud here there will be some places of disturbed weather soko through wednesday push out into thursday that rain pushing up towards shanghai eight degrees celsius five and right into the southeast and cold hong kong at around twenty three twenty four degrees over the next couple of days for a drive for the philippines but in lovely hair over the next few days plenty of

tropical sunshine but the shot was that it will be on the way much of malaysia into indonesia more big downpours coming through across java easing up towards some outre and up towards the mill a potential a little change for thursday by thursday you might just catch one or two showers into central parts of the philippines plenty as showers meanwhile some long spells of writing to the northwest of in the just spilling out of northern pakistan out of afghanistan how wintry mix will continue to dis ease is where a little further east was slightly warmer new delhi at around twenty five celsius for a time temperatures fall back on thursday as the cloud just rolls through some wet weather such a possibility too over the northern plains of india for southern parts of india it should be fine and dry but the shaft return for good parts of eastern sri lanka. good weather sponsored by countdown anyways. everything we do is being analyzed it's being weighed and it's been measured the support intelligence

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welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour infamous mexican cartel boss joaquin guzman has been convicted of all charges after 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 is blocking it because he regards it as a political tool to remove him from power. donald trump says he is not happy with a deal on border security that's denied him funds for his promised war but the u.s. president hasn't rejected the agreement rice as fellow republicans continue to his

supporters. a politically charged trial has started in spain threatening to inflame tensions between the central government and pro independence supporters in the castle and region twelve separatist politicians are accused of rebellion and other charges stemming from their roles in an independence declaration and twenty seventeen david chase reports from madrid. as a 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 for 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. 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 fair sentence that is acquittal. the rebellion charges facing some of the leaders will only stick if it's proved they incited the violent scene where the referendum took place in twenty seventeen their defense lawyers refute the charge the state is 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

positives. right of the country this is the real spain but extreme right wing has managed to penetrate police lines guarding the courts precinct their message out those who want to destroy spain they will soon dispersed david chaytor al jazeera the treat. the number of children being all 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 the rights group child soldiers international says that between twenty twelve and twenty seventeen there were twenty nine thousand cases of children being recruited those cases were spread across seventeen nations in africa the middle east and southern asia the exploitation of girls 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 in 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 votes on

saturday for a new government nigerian president rouhani one in twenty fifteen promising to fight corruption and defeat to boko haram four years on and people in borno state are losing hope of ever feeling safe from the armed groups attacks on that interest reports from borna state's capital. despite stitches from mrs here and say jury is out what kind of trip for two days with a trip let's just get a book while 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 by degree a city the family left six months yet to rebuild their lives. finally the recent attack was more ferocious i came face to face with boko haram i saw them i was very frightened that he's 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 the. yes richard 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 an insurgency in northeast nigeria in two thousand and nine aiming to establish a caliphate the violence in the decade old conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced more than two million people for a fraction affiliated with high self-esteem for spontaneity most of your thoughts in a region where targeted me music or people's is a government agency if you want to export favor governments have trouble trying to generate nigeria need to order to deliver the product. some falling it was in

nigeria including the united states said earlier we 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. al-jazeera might agree nigeria pakistan's feel shortages are cutting into every process the economy major industries and consumers alike are finding themselves in a desperate situation kemal hyder reports from islamabad. it's another cold windy morning in an odd and that the how did you cross are doing brisk business because of the cord read by gordon is across 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 the more than fifty percent and above 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 there's. no market for their gas bases. our previous bills were 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 a fed up of paying bills we're not able to give education twa children we have pain electricity gas this is just tormenting us if come here at the gas office but no one's listening to us they said indeed a serious crisis for a country would you already cash strapped a bug is going to ruby is losing its value and it seems that people across the

country are now also losing their patients the region of normandy and northern france relies heavily on cross-channel trade with the u.k. and as a person prepares to depart the e.u. there is concern but also hope the talks about the reports from the port city of we struck. with his rolling hills and quaint cottages normandy charm is distinct for more than a thousand years this french regional the english channel has had links to britain william the conqueror was born in this castle in ten six six invaded england and became king. today it's trade that's the main bond the u.k. is an important export market for this cheese factory but with britain set to leave the european union managers are worried feel regular it works. rex it scares us because when i meet our british clients they aren't sure what's happening we don't know if they'll keep buying because maybe costs will change so we are closely

following what's happening with bricks it normally these ports rely on cross-channel trade is the biggest one million passengers and three million tons of goods pass through each year ferries are turned around as fast as possible to save time and money port officials say breaks it would slow down the process records all that income open up your there'd be more controls passenger goods will need to go through customs they'll be extra checks for lorries as the u.k. will be out of the customs union animal and plant checks will have to be done in another zone near the border there's little doubt that if when britain leaves the european union the impact will be felt across this region while windies leaders are of course concerned some are also trying to regs it into an opportunity. in the we have many industrial links to the u.k. pharmaceutical aircraft in company factory and many of them will need to be aware their business is in that is europe so if they want to be in europe but the other

you king nobody's perfect norman d's council has been campaigning to attract british entrepreneurs richard baker says the uncertainty surrounding brags it persuaded him to move his firefighting business from the u.k. to france last year even though he still feels very attached to england very much a royalist in. the also the but i've also been a european because that's when you're talking about a block of trading nations that seems to day in the global world you have to be so abates of to make make that survival many people in normandy feel close to their neighbors across the sea and for great britain's decision to leave the e.u. some say that is the u.k. is sailing into uncharted waters the best they can do is be prepared and make sure that they don't miss the boat natasha butler al-jazeera reece tom frogs. socialism has long been a hated wedge in american politics and lately don't trump has been embracing it as

he is up for elections in two thousand and twenty he says as rivals the democrats want to turn the us into a left wing state but as she had to tend the reports ideas that republicans deride as socialism are becoming popular among viruses we're signing up for all americans and i'm very it was again in the speech of the texas board 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 state 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 is 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 as a human right or good jobs and a livable wage as a human right. 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 and maybe 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 americans are emerging like a bear for my bread nation 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 are 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 he's 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 induced class war or a little premature travel time c l jazeera washington. forces next. number one. has split from a coach. cricket

team is preparing to take part in its second wild cup a remarkable achievement many young afghans learned how to play in refugee camps

tony bad reports from jalalabad. no matter whether it's a cold winter when embury be hot summer in afghanistan is always the season for cricket even with no more than a piece of wood for a bat a rocky piece of ground for a pitch and a stone for the wickets most young boys or many men have been hooked by the phenomenon of cricket which has swept the country. these boys shout out the names of their cricketing heroes. years ago they would have been of pakistani players today they're all afghan it's a remarkable story that has taken afghanistan from the rocky outcrops to the best cricket grounds in the world in less than twenty years afghanistan has gone from nothing to being the latest member of the international cricket council the i.c.c. and the elite group of twelve top cricketing nations where there are some countries but in twenty eight thousand we beat bangladesh and sri lanka we drew with india and we got a full membership of the i.c.c. these are amazing achievements for the afghan nation we are playing now on grounds

where they had never heard of afghanistan before. the afghan cricket board now has five stadia in the country and a flourishing youth policy minus cricket we are nothing because when we were young we played on the cricket. we don't have any good opportunity for the education. kind of thing but the cricket was free for us so. i think a lot helped us then but now we are here. afghans started playing cricket in the refugee camps of pakistan and since then it's become more than just a sport it transcends political cultural and religious divides and if anything it's become the one unifying factor in forty years of conflict could support cricket is the ambassador of peace the afghan cricket team has always given the message of unity and brotherhood to the entire nation and brought us together the afghan cricket team is the source of unity among afghans. we started to get in. there love

cricket and. good support for cricket all of us in their time so that's why we are here cricket has its own followers and its own language and it doesn't involve wall cricket is it. true meaning for us for other people for us for one is what it is i mean happiness if. it's happening. and in a country where so many of been traumatized by years of conflict cricket is providing therapeutic qualities that are helping relieve stress. if afghans didn't have cricket they would take drugs or take part in war other miserable things psychologically cricket takes their mind away from bad things people will participate in elections but they will in cricket has become essential to the afghan people. afghanistan can't entertain foreign teams on home soil because of the war that's another goal but for these boys the hope is one day they can emulate

their heroes and play for the national team and in some of the biggest cricket leads in the world for one of those few afghan success stories how's that tony berkeley al-jazeera jalalabad. now with the rest of the day's. 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 alleged to think that

mr ali government would be but i would think this is that is why so much my mind is . going to touch on i think to be closer to you because i think you and i would be most around this country yes i would be strong yes just want to stand out here i just i just my candidacy just didn't i didn't didn't hit yet but. if i can put it to start again i would be done instead idea i don't strongly thank you but it was of the care i already was wearing the football shirt of pascoe vale the semi pro team we play so in australia a 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 on at the club for another year at least you might think i'm a couple years now we want to stay where you are being like being the great foster

he said that he wasn't good you know and it was really struggling and lost a lot of white and i came to a very solid end. in pretty good shape and you look very fragile and imagine what is mental state it's like being held in jail probably thinking that you know he's lost we. can start climbing again getting back to daily routine and going 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 leg ties 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 their return and 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 rail madrid but that's 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 they 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 in good 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's 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 saying as 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. skill 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 the training trip to australia. well the international olympic committee or into killing specked in the progress of the venues for the twenty twenty lympics with five hundred twenty seven days to go some of the facilities on 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 us 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 veteran rick committee they 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 a novel coming up again later and that's it for me in a start the attain family they damn well be here in

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