bombed libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilian candie's evers be corrected i think they made mistakes in their destructive policy approach in syria and i make more mistakes with venezuela. this does not happen and will not happen any material that comes from outside the country must be subject to certain conditions such as inspection and taxes as in all countries where the by sea on land and then there will be no problems there for the trickle presentation they're attempting on february twenty third will not happen. after conducting a dialogue with the opposition in the dominican republic we agreed to hold the yearly presidential election in the first four months of last year after which part of the opposition withdrew and did not sign the agreement and eventually was agreed on may twentieth these elections were conducted according to the law and the constitution and with international and local observers ten million voters participated in the elections and eighty six percent of the voters voted for me

therefore the interim legislative elections were done and anything else is just whims and attempts to destabilize the country from the white house. and venezuela's top court has ruled that opposition appointed oil executives must face criminal prosecution the opposition controlled congress has named a new board of directors for the state's well giant as well as its u.s. subsidiary a move welcomed by washington the decision by the supreme court controlled by president maduro is the latest move in a tussle for control of venezuela's oil revenues you see in human reports from caracas. in the capital of the country with the world's largest fossil fuel reserves practically everything you see was built with oil money and now that money along with that as well as oil production has been reduced to a trickle. last month the u.s. blocked the transfer of dividends from citgo the state oil company's u.s. subsidiary its crown jewel. citgo represents about seventy percent of him as well

as hard currency a government that is already experiencing an unmanageable fiscal deficit and is suddenly deprived of seventy percent of its income and a government when no one who lend it money is simply economically unviable. that's the point of the u.s. sanctions to strangle than israel economically to force president nicholas mother out. we had a large shipment of medicines to last the country. and a large battle for all materials for food the contras frozen the contracts are cancelled and the monies they suffocate us stede our money and then say hold on to the scrum and put on a show for the world venezuela with dignity since no to the global show. and now to add insult to injury the opposition controlled legislature has named a new board of directors to take over the u.s.

based company. citgo operates refineries and supplies some fifty five hundred petrol stations in twenty nine u.s. states. and israel a supreme court which is loyal to president nicolas maduro issued a rapid response. this is yet another assault by the national assembly which has been declared unlawful accused of it as well as most vital resource its decision regarding p.b.s. say a constitutionally protected company void and have no legal effect the judge also ordered the extradition of the board members named by the national assembly the trumpet ministrations prepares to announce yes war sanctions aimed at further tightening the economic news on president of the sea and human got access. where the next but still ahead on al-jazeera. so now.

british prime minister to resign may suffer as another setback in parliament as she tries to renegotiate her breaks a deal. and the film is telling the stories of unsung heroes who risked their lives to record crimes against humanity. we've got clear skies across a good pulse if you have a lovely spring sunshine spring like sunshine is localized bring yet but it does not feel like it but it is clear skies high pressure in shots suppressing the cloud keeping that to the way says some pleasant and some decent temperatures coming through thirteen celsius in london twelve in paris even attend the physio in fifteen that'll made it a little bit of clout there just around the outer fringes of our area of high pressure portugal a bit little on the great side for

a time some grey skies to into the far west yvonne and maybe the northern els western isles of scotland to send flowers if you find it like google just weather coming through here down to the southeast athens are going to get to nine celsius in the cloud on the right we're going up to around two in moscow that's not actually bad should be about minus four at this time of the s. so even here it is on the mild side little gray either out west or whether into the southeast and cold it will ease a little further south was push over towards cyprus as we go through sas day clear skies continue across central possibly getting up to forty degrees in london so some brilliant weather coming through over the next couple of days that cloud that we have just around the pole to go that will just to the coastal shuls of morocco as you go through the next day but for the most part it is dry. who was a sponsor. whether online. for them. or if you join us on the set all of us have been calling for some

this is a dialogue we are talking about illegal friend you have seen what it can do to somebody people you can make. and some people you know everyone has a voice from the twitter and you could be on the street join the global conversation on mountains iraq. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump says he will declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border war with mexico congress passed a spending bill without money for the border to avoid another government shutdown.

india's government is promising a strong response against pakistan which it blames for the west attack an indian administered kashmir for decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed by a car bomb in the territory on thursday. venezuela's president has accused the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country in an interview with al-jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations for supporting the u.s. military intervention. chinese president xi jinping is expected to meet members of a u.s. trade delegation as part of efforts to end a trade war between the world's two largest economies u.s. treasury secretary and stephen a new chain is in beijing to work out an agreement on tariffs the two sides are trying to reach a deal before march the first when the u.s. plans to increase levies on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports brown has more from beijing well this trade dispute has now been rumbling on for

more than seven months there have been five rounds of talks but in the words of one a president from so advisors the vibe this time is good we will know just how good later on friday before the u.s. team returns to washington they have been meeting president xi jinping that in itself is a hopeful sign i think what we're likely to have is perhaps at best a partial agreement on the issue of tariffs to perhaps bring a temporary halt to the tariff war or perhaps an extension of the negotiating period remember the deadline for negotiations to end and for more terrorists to be slapped on chinese goods is early march so that deadline is getting closer and closer there are though many areas where china's leaders have refused to budge especially over u.s. demands for structural reforms in china's economy essentially the united states

wants china's economy to be a market economy to become a market economy like the united states but under president xi jinping that is unlikely to happen especially in the year when china is commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china when the communists came to power. british m.p.'s have rejected a motion to support the government's brecht's it strategy hardliners in the prime minister's own policy throughout the plan because it appeared to rule out the u.k. crashing out of the european union without a deal they want to raise amazes seek changes to head deal with the e.u. and brussels. a week after demonstrations began demanding haiti's president step down a defiant. is refusing to quit at least eight people have died in violent protests haitians are angry at rising prices and government corruption and as al-jazeera as manual repeller reports from the capital port au prince opposition leaders say they will continue to call for more ways to resign. the streets of

port au prince were quiet. but many fear the violence which has gripped the country for more than a week could begin again at any moment the anger here stems from a government audit which discovered more than two billion dollars in development funds are unaccounted for the money in question was part of an oil assistance program called bit look at it. defense of time of. former president hugo chavez he wanted. we've. but what happened. in spending that money and. all those projects that they were supposed to realize they didn't realize the evidence of mismanaged funds can be seen across the country in an unfinished infrastructure projects like this half built overpass even renovation the national parliament building a multi-million dollar effort financed in part with bit to get even money is still

far from completed more than seven years since construction began. making his first public appearance since the protests started on february seventh president condemned the violence on the streets but didn't outline any steps toward finding a resolution. and aid it to the haitian president says the flames of the discontent are being fanned by the president's political opponents. and politicians always want to get rid of the president after a year or two that's why we have this chronic instability the president wants and he's open to have a frank dialogue. while the latest protests in haiti are linked to the bad look at even scandal discontent with the government has been mounting since the aftermath of the two thousand and ten earthquake where more than one hundred thousand people were killed with widespread poverty a declining economy and new evidence of systemic corruption and you're finally

reached a boiling point on the streets of the haitian capital. we're in downtown port au prince where there is in on easy calm as people pick up the pieces after more than a week of protests there are still roadblocks set up that are preventing the free flow of traffic and the tension that seems to suggest that the unrest may not be over just yet anti-government demonstrators have renewed calls for more protests continuing to demand the resignation of the president a condition that moyes has made no indication of accepting the more moderate figures of the opposition are calling for a national dialogue one that includes voices from all sectors of haitian society however remains to be seen both sides will be able to find a lasting resolution to the ongoing political crisis went up a little dizzy to port au prince. survivors of one of the west us high school shootings have held a vigil in florida one year on from the massacre students and families held in minute silence at monterey steinman douglas high school in parkland where fourteen

students and three staff members were killed last year the shooting was carried out by a form of people. u.s. tech giant amazon is ditching a billion dollar plan to build its headquarters in new york the development deal announced in november was set to bring twenty five thousand jobs to the city but political opposition and a backlash from taxpayers has forced the online retailer to abandon the project christensen nummi reports. the announcement that amazon was canceling plans to move to this new york neighborhood brought cheers from city council member jimmy bramer and a grassroots coalition of opponents amazon chose to walk away rather than fight for what it believed in. but not everyone was celebrating. oh some local residents came out to heckle the politician a minute jamie upset over the loss of jobs amazon had promised to bring twenty five

thousand of them and local investment these guys didn't act on the behest of the community act in the behest of their own political careers period new york's mayor and governor were among dozens around the country that fought to woo amazon offering nearly three billion dollars in tax incentives and construction grants to bring the company right to this neighborhood in new york city but almost as soon as the deal was announced there was opposition and backlash. local legislators who weren't consulted on the deal held hearings and citizens paraded amazon representatives concerned about increasing congestion as well as the cost of living in their neighborhood. while property owners and some trade unions favored the deal and the revenue it would bring other unions complained about the company's labor practices and you know there's no reason that we should have ever been giving or even considering giving three billion dollars to the richest corporation in the entire world and to the richest man in the entire world amazon said in

a statement that it was clear they didn't have the necessary support of local politicians the polls show the move was supported by seventy percent of new yorkers the governor called it a loss but i've never seen a more absurd situation where political pandering and obvious pandering so defeat it's a bona fide economic development project amazon says it will not look for a replacement site at this time instead focusing on its existing offices and expansion plans elsewhere in the country kristen salumi al jazeera new york well the u.s. has a new attorney general the senate confirmed william bob bringing the lawyer about to a child he held more than twenty five years ago will head the u.s. justice department over saying special counsel robert muller as an inquiry into possible russian interference and the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. two films telling the little known stories of people who

risked their lives to record crimes against humanity being shown at the balland film festival one deals with the nazi occupation of poland the other with a manmade famine in the soviet union under joseph stalin and the reports. were twenty third. the left the street looks like. everywhere you go you see. an entry from emmanuel ringle bloom's diary he was instrumental in jews hiding a huge cache of documentation in the warsaw ghetto during the nazi occupation. right. largely young told story forms the basis of who will write our history showing at the berlin film festival. this documentary mixes contemporary interviews with

dramatize ations to make the individual characters more vivid. the germans are sending. to. german succeeded in not only wiping out the jewish people but wiping out their memory and. to bury the truth so that one day the story of what really happened told from our own point of moscow one another genocide story which had its world premiere in berlin is mr jones it stars james norton as well as journalist garrett jones. proud again this time arranging an interview with style in the one nine hundred thirty s. the reports of battle to reveal what's known as the whole lot of the man made famine on the soviet leader joseph stalin killed millions of ukrainians. from.

the director says just as jones felt compelled to get the story out she felt compelled to tell his tale and she sees clear parallels with current events you know one thing it. does of the politicians the corruption of media and the indifference of the general public of the society is it is something quick opens the door for the disaster as we can see on the screen and where it's happened to twenty percent nowadays there's no shortage of reminders of the crimes of the nazis like this memorial to europe's murdered jews but the message from the filmmakers is that people remembering what happened shouldn't be taken for granted. and that's why they're hoping works like this get seen by as big an audience as possible. al-jazeera building.

i'm a star and these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump says he will declare a national emergency to secure funding for a border war with mexico congress passed a spending bill to avoid another government shutdown which denies trunk the money he needs to build the barrier democrats say they may file a legal challenge against the move. india's government is promising a strong response against pakistan but it blames for the west attack an indian administered kashmir for decades at least forty four indian soldiers were killed by a car bomb in the territory on thursday india has vowed to isolate as i'm a bad and remove its trade privileges venezuela's embattled president has accused the u.s. of trying to destabilize his country in an interview with al-jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations for supporting u.s. military intervention. i think that some

europeans made a mistake when they supported the american war in iraq can you ask any of the coalition countries was it necessary to intervene militarily in iraq and divide it and kill millions of its people i think they also made a mistake when they bombed libya and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians can these errors be corrected i think they made mistakes in their destructive policy approach in syria and are making more mistakes with venezuela haiti's president says he will not step down a week after violent protests or the deaths of at least eight people have an al noise has called for dialogue demonstrators are angry over rising prices and corruption chinese president xi jinping is expected to meet key members of the u.s. trade delegation as part of efforts to end a trade war between the world's two largest economies u.s. treasury secretary steven the new chin is in beijing to work out an agreement on tariffs survivors of one of the worst u.s.

high school shootings have held a vigil in florida one year on from the massacre students and families held a minute's silence at marjorie's steinman douglas high school where fourteen students and three staff members were killed last year the shooting was carried out by a former pupil those are the headlines next stop the stream. personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen you want to be a solution but in new york that's not exactly my point we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just zero. i really give you here in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today our second extended episode on nigeria why aren't more women in politics the strain speaks of women about their political aspirations and their thoughts on the

country's upcoming election you can join us with your questions and your comments what more can be done to improve political representation for nigerian women let us know via our you tube chat or on twitter. nigeria is africa's largest democracy but it has one of the lowest percentage is a female political representation on the continent women make up only six percent of the country's national assembly and no nigerian woman has ever been elected president vice president or governor so what should be done to increase women's participation in government well joining us to discuss that in. june i see it she's a politician and gender activists and what do you nigeria kristie know day she is a social democratic party candidate running for a seat in the house of representatives also and. she founded an organization

whose objective is to promote female politicians in africa and in lagos isabella i can say she is the host of the nigerian politics program political political. chatty hand ladies and christina do you remember that moment where you feel i am going to run i am a politician when did you know. you know this and many years ago. i wanted to make i knew i wanted to sing make a difference in the world i knew that i want to see stressing but i just didn't know how and when or if it was going to be on the governmental level or on the non-governmental level but. what i didn't know. what i didn't really think about was what i was what i have experienced as a female politician join to give us one story the twenty five eight that explains that experience was. my story have many staffers but i

got up to one when i came out to run for office i first i worked at national somebody for two years and i worked very closely with the raiders and while i was there i had developed a strong interest in becoming a lead grader because most of the legislative work there are either incompetent or not really sure what they're they're really not sure what they're doing some of they're not there for the right reasons. when i decided to run i join the. political party in office if he sees. what i joined. the governor of the state how to mark primaries and he told me that he will me what do you think he would give me. what do you think and what did he say how did he tell you to step down. were there was

a mockery there were three one primary but the first two went well he was very happy with my background and the way i introduced myself and what i said i wanted to do for the people why i was running for office but this didn't go down well with me. called all the candidates in the state and when i got my card he called me up i stood up he called me by my name and i stood up and he said to me i scored seven percent and he looked at another guy and said you've got ninety percent and i was standing there wondering how the court what if you put us on to court and you've got to be are you going to accept the decision i'm about to make christina let's kind of shanghai because he said you know you'll say he had many chances why do you think he still can't quite be candid. because i think i think you have to be honest i think monday i thought ok i feel like to cover the felt

that the other guy had more money than myself all right good story bad story. abdul. are you getting into politics when you told you will strengthen your family that this is what you were going to do was a reaction. i was crazy to going to politics or the young woman who has young keep the thought i was in wasn't she was what i was doing. the folks i was crazy so why do you want to go into. it don't need one man who has a kind heart like you important politics has a lot of people but actor won't question if we don't want politics as good people then how can we change the game of the politics how can we bring to our people to deep end up democrats so that was a major reason when they when they thought their hearts the question said they were

going to support me the have a good heart i have the mind of the people at heart. so i wanted to share one of the perspectives from our community and it kind of echoes what you were saying there about what people first told you when we asked our community why do you think there are more women in nigeria in politics slow or any is one of the people that responded and he said women are meant to bear children not to injure themselves in politics so bad said we got lots of people who disagree with him and i wanted to play a video comment from one of those people she sent us this is the executive director of step one theory and she's also an author and a job. and she explains some of these thinkings that lead to women not wanting to go into politics have a listen do with the way we're now and don't presume to do and politics lies in our culture. for example i have a friend who is with a for the house of representatives and she was asked if she had to keep permission

from my husband before money for this this is the situation we find here. and i think improved this we need to. begin to get rid of my digital political parties to ensure the world has additional women in key political positions as well as the continuing goes on the full terms of teaching the leadership positions and the rule to come. so in do you are working to tell the stories of women in politics and of course you also ran in your primary to talk to us about that the things that you face and link it to that first tweet that i read there because there's a lot of people that feel the same way if you did. well i mean the conversation when you're running for office my family where i come from. my family my mom supports my brother did not and then back home if you're not married i'm not married it's a problem or you're not married yet you're still young why you're doing this and

then if you're married as a nigerian woman and your husband does not come from where you come from are trying to run for office in the like or your husband is not from here it means you or your loyalty to your husband's people and then if you're married to you know your husband is not from there you are running your husband the husband's place so no issue to oh you don't come from here so we just do not have a place this so much does the talk of your lose your prostitutes there's the whole mansplaining every time you're trying to get something done someone who is not really as intelligent as you are trying to tell you this is how to go about it your meeting would be i would mean obviously i know audience would love to hear a little bit of the mansplaining you've experienced can you remember i like my signing or if things were here in the shadow you know you know you come i came from the national. i walked at the head office of our party of course after present of my party in the media have done a lot of work like that you go to the village and you go oh and

a young man's he's young minute and he goes you know this politics thing ha let me tell you what you tease about and you might know i've been here for a while i've done this have done that yes but you know you're a woman let me teach you and it's very condescending there's a nature to it and when you try to tell them look i know what i'm doing you are you're taught to be rude of course they're terms for women who are strong you know there's the b. word that i can't mention here you'll be called rude you're trying to be a man you're. a lot of people also tell you belong in the kitchen what i mean is because you're not married that's why you have the time for all of this when you marry us about and then there's the f. word where they think that. and it's about being on the sea or you know one of those families yes i am one of those feminists exactly why i'm here is an itinerary going and you are saying is very true because cultural conditioning and the media that's the space i play in is also complicit import train women in

politics so even things like movies things like soap operas there's a particular one i watched and a woman was running for office and the men around her in her party told her she needed to get married just so she could have a better chance at running so i think the media had also always portraying women who are in politics give them enough space give them enough mileage but that being said some of these women also have the restaurants ability to push themselves forward so i host a political program called political politica and i made it a conscious decision to be to as many women as possible but i have had instances where our reach out to a woman and she will tell me that her husband said she has to be back at home at a session time and he doesn't want to on the roads another woman has told me she was doing a photo shoot and i said this is only going to take thirty minutes of your time i'm coming with my crew to record you to give you an opportunity to speak about what

you're offering people but yet you're finding excuses so i will tell you about the nine you saw tell you about child so i think the media can do all knots more by given ample opportunities for these kind of conversations to happen if you don't only be a special edition for women in politics with men in politics should become the norm and i think women themselves need to put themselves for what they can't always blame anybody and the other thing is that some of the other women don't believe in supporting women they put a glass ceiling and that's ceiling and at senate i've had people tell me that look if you're going to wrong for him. the best you get deputy governor all outlook for you going to senate but presidency forgets about governorship forget about a woman can only do well at standing a woman can do lots of people who have started. isabella it's interesting yeah because i just saw a tweet that said the same thing this is al has done this is

a man saying it says women in a jury are the enemy of themselves they don't vote a woman candidate we saw in the past when a woman president got only one vote during party primaries while many women were among the delegates so that's one person echoing that intimate that there is not i don't port i just want to give you one more for just one second there wanted to give one more prison active because i want to share this this is from. ingrained prejudice against women is deep rooted in one theory or no matter how subtle you find even happens in some first world countries that are guilty of this she belongs either in bed or in the kitchen and not in an office and it will take a long time to get over this so i bring this one up gas and audience because we know that this same type of thinking has been seen even in the highest levels of nigerian politics. over to you in the indian avenue and i know you want to get in here but let me just play this because then you can bounce on the back of this this

is your president president bihari back in twenty sixteen talking about where women should be where their place should be have a less.