what they can that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred. spain's parliament rejects the government's budget proposal paving the way for a possible early election. alarm hasn't seeker this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the tile position party that wanted a princess to run for prime minister faces being banned from the election next month. president trump embraces a new anti socialism message but are voters embrace seeing the ideology. we're in iraq where the campaign is on to save its cultural heritage and treasures after

years of war. more no stories in a moment but first some breaking news out of iran a suicide bomb attack there has killed twenty members of the elite revolutionary guards another ten were wounded near zahid down close to the pakistan border the city is the capital of sistan baluchistan province where security forces repeatedly battle with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in predominantly shia iran will have more on that developing story as and when we get it. but first the voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election within four years after members of parliament defeated the budget plans of the ruling socialist government one hundred ninety one of the three hundred fifty m.p.'s voted against prime

minister pedro sanchez including parties from the catalonia region their support had been conditional on getting direct talks with leaders in madrid about independence for catalonia or you or so as of. today in parliament we have witnessed a watershed in this late useless year or more precisely it marks the end of petro time chances the government leader. or sanchez is expected to make an election announcement after a cabinet meeting on friday david chaytor has more from madrid. it was an emphatic defeat for the socialist prime minister pedro sanchez out of the three hundred fifty m.p.'s in the parliament one hundred ninety one voted against his budget and the crucial factor was that the two parties of made up of catalan separatists who want independence would drew their support that was what actually killed the budget and now he's got to decide the prime minister exactly when he will call an

early election it seems inevitable he will have to but at the moment they're saying they're going to wait until the cabinet meeting on friday to make that decision but i've been speaking to one of his cabinet ministers and they painted a pretty. unclear picture about what was lying ahead but they are fearful most of all about the rise of the extreme right let's hear what you have to say that i feel. the only that today has proven that the right wing in this country is trying to stop the social progress presented in the budget they're trying to stop the country from moving forward and their place in all kinds of obstacles to prevent economic recovery from reaching families and becoming a reality for people so it could appear that the catalan separatists m.p.'s have made it almost certain if this early election goes ahead of that when the trial of

their separatist leaders ends they'll be a very different shape of government in power in madrid and a government that doesn't want to have any dealings with them a tall and it could make it very much harder for the catalonian issue to be solved and resolved in some way that is most likely to mean it will remain an open wound in spanish politics a constitutional court judges in thailand have been asked to ban a political party linked to deposed prime minister attacks in. the party nominated the king sr as candidate for prime minister but the royal family has stopped her bid for power in next month's general election when a has more from bangkok. two weeks ago the thai rak said chart party entered the political spotlight as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate. but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved

to be an innovation in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics. princess who was ruled ineligible after the palace in her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup. taksin chyna what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday ties thought he had staged a major coup himself by having a member of the royal family fronting the campaign for one of his parties but it appears to have been a major miscalculation dissolution would also mean the members of the party's executive committee would be banned from politics for

a minimum of ten years. last week the party's advisor and a long time tax an ally told al-jazeera about his concerns that the campaign and next month's election won't be free and fair it is designed in the first players so that he. will be able to extend its power and thailand's military leaders have formed the government since the latest coup in two thousand and fourteen removed texan's main party per tie it still able to take part in next month's vote. the decision by the election commission to ban the thai rocks a chant party came the day after a t.v. station owned by the chena watts was ordered off the air for fifteen days the government's national broadcasting body said voice t.v. was showing provocative content that caused confusion and social division and the fact that the punishment is dealt out at this time. right about when we were

heading towards a potential return to democracy. is highly inappropriate. there are few guarantees in thai politics but it's likely there will be more volatility before the election due on march the twenty fourth wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. the european commission has added seven more countries including saudi arabia to a blacklist of governments that fail to fight money laundering regulators have also added panama to the list of twenty three countries which include to iran syria and north korea the revised list still has to be approved by the european parliament britain and france are opposed to saudi arabia's inclusion while spain wants panama off the list of the countries face closer scrutiny of their institutions and transactions when dealing with european banks i would allie is economics editor he says the u.s. could intervene to attempt to get saudi arabia removed from the list there will be

a lot of effort from the u.s. as well included in this process to make sure that said rabia is removed from the list now what this actually technically means for the banks is that they have to increase their vetting so they have to ask who is this money for where is it going and it is the final beneficial greely of the person who's going to end up with this this money so that's what the e.u. banks will now have to do and a lot of e.u. banks have been punished in the in the united states because they have failed to to make sure that money intended for certain purposes is actually there hate his p.c. is one example which was queues of money laundering for mexican cartels. of on his way to venezuela an opposition leader who and why dole has demanded the armed forces allow the delivery of aid sent by the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who still has military backing says threats of invasion

must stop both pro and anti government protesters have held mass marches in the capital for a sub zero reports from caracas. he wants to keep up with the pressure on the government of nikolai my little that's why venezuela self declared interim president called his followers to take to the streets once again. we are nonstate 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. 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 medicines and that's why many in traditional. have joined the protests on one of the he'd 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. and allow the following donated supplies in the scenario seriously the. 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 loyal to the widow and they played a role in his administration. and the opposition says they will continue pushing to

break that relationship. status i will back us. that's a race a mention maduro had his own a rally in the capital is what he had say. although not to. let the drums of war stop but the principal tree in beijing received and burns will say in a single chorus with one voice we want peace we want happiness long live the national union live peace to victory always thank you god bless you may god bless our beloved as well. i work as in south africa have marched in cities nationwide to demand an end to all job cuts they were wearing red shirts to show their loyalty to the trades union movement thousands of them protesting against what their leaders call the jobs bloodbath especially in state run industries the allies of the ruling a.n.c. accuse leaders of condoning corruption poverty and creating near record unemployment

with the threat of more job losses to come before the general election in may malcolm webb is in johannesburg. members of the congress the south african trade unions demanding an end job cuts in the public and private sectors is also calling for the fish shoes and businesspeople to be prosecuted one of the key demands that the opposition reform plan reforms the south africa's state owned electricity company called the blue is about fifty of the baby governments and the divided on these people say that's going to mean privatization and jump cuts that are now coming to this particular system the bones of south africa's elections of the ruling a.n.c. expected to get less votes than they ever have before. now the support of the trade unions for them is going to be crucial cyril ramaphosa the president needs the

backing of trade unions and other organizations to be able to maintain the majority of the a.n.c. in parliament on the other hand please. business leaders in front of us does he want the state owned enterprises to be slimmed made more efficient you want to see a smaller public sector to believe the opposite of what these people are doing the mother had around us is going to have no. interest in the both of these groups all right still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. faces a struggle to unite the world against the wrong. and there was in quite a bit of wet weather across the middle east at the moment here's the latest area of cloud working its way over parts of iran working its way into afghanistan as well

and that will give us a fair amount of rain and snow in afghanistan which is very welcome because we are in quite an extreme drought at the moment that snow said extends further north all the way up into monte behind it it's a lot quieter and till the next system that's already making its way and so over parts of turkey and down through parts of syria and into lebanon lots of what weather here and then that system gradually edges its way eastwards as we head into friday so another system bringing us yet more rain and some rather strong winds as well that system will be affecting us for the south to say a bit of cloud for the day that's making its way across parts of saudi arabia but as that sinks its way southwards it could also bring a few showers even for bahrain or maybe here in doha as well and that cloud will be affecting us over the u.a.e. to save still the risk of seeing a few showers here as well down towards the southern parts of africa there's plenty more in the way of plants of wet weather here all centered over the central belt here but then it does bend backgrounds was the eastern parts of south africa and

this is the region again we're expecting the wettest of the weather as we head through the day on thursday. orgon.

well you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour a suicide bomb attack in iran has killed twenty members of the elite revolutionary guards another ten were wounded knee is ahead on close to the pakistan border city is the capital of sistan baluchistan where security forces repeatedly. battle repeatedly with drug smugglers and sunni fighters in predominantly shia iran. voters in spain are facing the prospect of their third general election within four years after members of parliament defeated the budget plans of the ruling a socialist government. venezuelan opposition leader one. who has ordered the armed forces to allow the delivery of aid sent by the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who continues to have the backing

of the military says threats of invasion must stop. the united states is leading a conference in poland on the security situation in the middle east and the threat posed by iran more than sixty countries represented earlier dozens of protesters rallied in warsaw for a change in the leadership in iraq spite the presence of the u.s. secretary of state and the vice president at the talks some key players snubbed at the meeting russia is not attending and the european union has only sent low level delegates. in warsaw what's been happening there. well how some we're coming close to the convening of this much and to separate and summits yes we're still not very clear as to what exactly the united states is leading this push is trying to achieve for me it's what started off initially is meant to be a gathering to come back to washington described as the iranian threats was then

renamed as a summit for peace and stability and security in the middle east you probably couldn't get a more vague title for a gathering of nations yet still as you mentioned there it seems that. many countries weren't really convinced with the agenda or the motives of washington and therefore decided that they were either not going to attend or were going to send low level delegations in fact probably the most senior people attending there is the israeli prime minister together with the u.s. vice president mike pence what sorts of that you've got a few foreign ministers from some countries and then the rest are either ambassadors or system ministers there. what's interesting when you talk about the rain in protests or the protests about iran that took place earlier today they were very clearly well funded in terms of how it was done it was addressed by the arguably one of the most pro israeli politicians in the united states former new

york mayor rudy giuliani and therefore it would appear at least on the face of it that the iran elements to this summit is not being hidden from the forefront even though the name of the gathering has been changed with about so another significance and immense in terms of the middle east obviously the palestinian question the palestinian authority said that they weren't attending because they perceive the u.s. his role with regards to illegally occupied lands there is being one that sides with israel rather than a neutral one and they've called an arab also to downgrade the representation so very controversial still lack of clarity as to what exactly will be achieved from this gathering all right jim and thanks for that jim in also. a jury in the second world war hundreds of thousands of african men joined the british army many injured prejudice during the war and neglect afterwards with much lower pay and pensions catchier lopez whole diane reports. justin koz survived the horrors of war at

ninety four he is one of nearly six hundred thousand african soldiers recruited from british colonies who fought for the british army in the second world war he's been visited by prince harry who wasn't sabia to pay his respects to the african veterans just in hopes the prince would take a message home. who wouldn't porton dooku call mark. hughes rouses or good. readers and oh i thought. you thought for example given. out there when we come back i will not go forward to anyone you never mean because we thought we have. had a war grave cemetery near mount kenya veterans like you say and gershon honor their colleagues who died they survived but weren't properly compensated for their service. no where did when i got out they gave me nothing they should have known how much we'd help them they would have given something but that was not the case

we were abandoned just like that. this document in britain's war archives reveals that african personnel could be paid three times less than their white counterparts and some soldiers weren't paid at all they give me an average they gave me. i says will go on as. the colonial regime placed a different value on african life and you know when your parents memories of war are at times overshadowed by the life of poverty we should be ashamed the prince who fought for our country all living in poverty we have an opportunity in that twilight to get it right and it's not too late we could still make a beds after being overlooked for years there are signs the u.k. government is now recognizing their service of supporting the british empire in two thousand and eighteen britain announced a package of about fifteen million dollars to help impoverished veterans and widows

from commonwealth countries senior officials stress the money is eight not compensation it's not designed to attain what it is designed to do is provide some very practical support what my department does our core mission is to alleviate extreme poverty about hall of a couple of friends out there we're living in what we consider to be extreme poverty. war has taken its toll on these veterans a painful journey magnified by discrimination during the war and a sense of abandonment in the years that followed yet there is still optimism that their service will be compensated even if it's in the last years of their lives a hope that when they die this time in history will not die with them. llopis of the young al jazeera. or you can see the full program people and power the

forgotten heroes of empire twenty two thirty g.m.t. and again on thursday at nine thirty g.m.t. here on. our social socialism has long been a dirty word in american politics and lately president donald trump has been embracing that sentiment as he gears up for reelection in twenty twenty he says his rivals the democrats want to turn the u.s. into a left wing state but as she turned see reports many ideas which republicans see a socialist are growing in popularity who are fighting for all americans i am very it was a game in a speech of the texas border all sensibly about immigration doubled from boom to go to 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

mobilize 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 any more 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 sixteen national membership has soared from seven to fifty five thousand don't trump presidency has been good for socialism in america it's unfettered 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 on then i can go on merging like a bear for my pet 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 capitalism 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. washington. how many of iraq's most important archaeological sites lie in ruins after the battle against isis conservation groups and the european union are now helping iraqis protect what's left of their heritage charles traffic reports from baghdad this is all that's left of nimrod the ancient assyrian city founded three thousand years ago i saw fighters seized large areas of territory in north and western iraq five years ago.

destroying historical sites and artifacts they regarded as on islamic. this was nimrod before eisel arrived considered one of the world's great archaeological treasures once home to an assyrian king guarded by giant stone carvings a winged beasts known as la masia. of the smashing many of the artifacts using sledgehammers and power tools i saw and detonated barrel bombs to blow up the city . the explosion felt like an earthquake according to people and store it. two years ago precisely i was in the middle of it was just ten days after the site was a great it so i discovered what it means a site which has just been taken back from isis so we have course discovered the magnitude of their the midges but we saw also the diversity of what we can define as a crime scene. the conservationist says it's been

a challenge for the iraqi army to clear mines and improvised explosive devices from the area without causing even more destruction you had a lot of people accessing the sites which was not found so you have a individuals who are in military policemen that everybody and moving out effect it's difficult to fathom the shocking level of destruction committed by i saw not only on iraq soccer logical heritage but on archaeological sites across the region now in recent years a lot of artefacts have been stolen and it's believed many of them about themselves in the private collections intelligence services here are now saying that they believe a lot of the money is going towards funding terrorism. security experts from the european union advisory mission and iraq want to build a database to help track missing artifacts and return them to iraq when we arrived

here into his house and seventeen i've already got the task from europe from brussels to do something on the protection of cultural heritage because the culture of this country is also the culture of europe it's the start of the civilization so we are very keen to help the iraqis protect after decades of war thousands of years of iraqi history lies in ruins in a region often called the cradle of civilization the challenge now is to save what's left to chance trumpet al jazeera baghdad. this is al jazeera let's get a roundup of the top stories a suicide bomb attack in iran has killed twenty members of the elite revolutionary guards another ten were wounded near done close to the pakistan border iranian state media are blaming an al-qaeda linked sunni group for the attack voters in

spain are facing the prospect of a third general election in four years members of parliament defeated the budget plans of the ruling socialist government they included parties from the catalonia region their support had been conditional on having talks with leaders in madrid about independence for catalonia david chaytor has more from madrid any normal person in these circumstances would of course realize that he has lost control of the parliament and no longer has the majority to govern i've been talking to one of his ministers and cabinet ministers and she's the labor minister. and she said to me that essentially they're going to continue their work going to hold a special cabinet meeting they'll hold a cabinet meeting as usual on friday and that's when they'll come to a decision of venezuelan opposition leader one goh i don't know has all of the

armed forces to allow the delivery of aid sent by the united states within the next ten days president nicolas maduro who continues to have the backing of the military says threats of invasion must stop. workers in south africa have marched in cities nationwide to demand an end to all job cuts they're wearing red shirts to show their loyalty to the trades union movement thousands of them protesting against what their leaders call the jobs bloodbath especially in state run industries the allies of the ruling a.n.c. accuse leaders of condoning corruption poverty and creating in near record unemployment those are the headlines so we're back in half an hour right now on al-jazeera it's inside story.

the thai opposition party is facing the act of backing the botched election bid by a princess what does it mean for democracy as thailand prepares for its first vote since the military took power five years ago this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program dennis thailand's election commission has recommended the dissolution of the party that chose the princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general let.