except it's also criticized european nations accusing them of 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 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 whether by sea or 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 an attempt to destabilize the country from the white house. well u.s. treasuries imposing sanctions on five officials close to nicolas maduro including the venezuelan oil minister it means that assets in the u.s. will be frozen that american citizens a ban from dealing with them washington has been targeting venezuela's oil sector to cut off a major source of revenue for material or latin america editor you see in yemen

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 an as well as oil production has been reduced to a trickle. last month the us blocked the transfer of dividends from citgo the state oil companies us subsidiary it's 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 a 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 lot shipment of medicines to last the country through in europe and

a large battle for all materials for food the count was frozen the contracts were cancelled and the money seized they suffocate us steal 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 my little issued a rapid response. to 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 to trumpet ministrations prepares to announce yes war sanctions aimed at further tightening the economic news on president of the sea and human got access india says it will completely isolate pakistan following thursday suicide bombing in indian administered kashmir at least forty four military officers were killed and dozens wounded pakistan has denied any role in the attack or person monthly reports the scenes of devastation body parts strewn across the highway in indian administered kashmir dozens were killed when a car packed with explosives rammed into a truck that was part of the security convoy india's prime minister narendra modi observed a moment of silence to remember the victims before he gave

a strong warning are produced and then i want to tell the terrorist groups and their patrons that they have committed a huge mistake and they will have to pay a big price for this. it's the worst attack to hit the disputed himalayan region in three decades the pack some based on group jaish e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although denies any involvement india has accused it of allowing armed groups to operate freely pakistan's foreign ministry issued a statement calling the attack a matter of grave concern saying they've always condemned heightened acts of violence in the valley india has taken diplomatic steps including shutting down trade between the neighboring nations. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claimed the area tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades this latest attack targeted

a large military convoy investigators are still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target. as india's national investigation agency begins its work activists are on the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting and he pakistan slogans and the government is shut down into that in some areas the military has imposed a curfew in parts of india in the midst of kashmir in attempt to restore calm or about a manly al-jazeera. a report released by save the children at the munich security conference shows the shocking extent to which children are affected by war the charity estimates more than five hundred fifty thousand babies have died she's a conflict of the ten worst hit countries in the last five years it includes children in syria yemen and iraq that estimate increases to eight hundred seventy

thousand if you include children under the age of five altogether four hundred twenty million children that's almost one in five live in war zones there is how is life for us at that conference in munich sasha was of reaction has there been at the conference to this report i say to children. it is definitely raising awareness about the need to come up with a strong actions to try to and the conflicts and the wars that we said different parts of the world this is the most important and i will gathering of security policy international security policy where world leaders debate of the political crises in different parts of the world but for many people like the many organizations like save the children by the end of the day this is about such old lives this is about the most one of them who bear the brunt of conflicts in

different parts of the world who are sometimes unfortunately not given credit by many many world leaders when they decide about the future of the globe joining me to talk more about that report is falling smit she is the c.e.o. of save the children. you were in yemen and you saw with. the massive impact of the war of the children of you know what was your reaction when you came out of the well first of all it is important to remember that yemen is perhaps the worst place to be a child right now i sat with a baby in my arms she was seven months old she had the weight of a newborn and if say the children had not turned up with help for that baby that day i'm not sure she would have survived the week out and this is a faith that surviving that happens to hundred thousand children every every year it happens as we speak and the report that save the children is launching at the

munich security conference today basically tells the world and tells these leaders gathered here today that never in the last two decades have we seen as many children as we do right now who live in conflict zones it is actually one in five children that live in a conflict zone and their experience and the name and nature of war which is which means that children are suffering born children and if in many years when you look at the map of the. middle east sub-saharan africa you have children affected in areas like syria like afghanistan sub-saharan africa half a million children died because of the conflicts over the last six years what do you think should be done. well first of all we have to understand the situation and the situation is that not only a more children living in a conflict zone the over the last two decades but also the violations against these children the grave violation that the children are suffering the numbers are going up and that means that more is getting more violent for children the reason for

that is that war the nature of war has changed it's moving closer to urban areas there are more attacks on schools and hospitals which should be safe places for children children are being used as its weapons of war either as a child soldiers as suicide bombers or sexual violence assault. the uses of weapons of war on top of that there's the denial of humanitarian access which issues as a weapons of war simply to starve our population and only when we realize that we realize that the nature of war today is actually a war on children and that's why we're calling on the global community to see that and act speak out about the global community and the fortunately. that shit this that the young that they have all of their tears the voices to express their frustration over death and destruction this is the most important gathering of world leaders decide the future of the policy and security architecture what is it

that which is lacking here do you think that we need to have stronger enforcement of laws to punish those who kill the children worldwide yes the situation is now that war crimes are committed with impunity here and we are simply ochs often turning a blind eye not to not helping the children enough with the support that they need so that means that the global community half has to wake up to the stark reality that these things are happening right in front of us and we are not living up to our responsibility when we turn our back to it and do not react so i'm asking of the global community to see these children to act on their behalf and to end this lack of this impunity that we are seeing right now in the global world thank you thank you very much indeed so felicity this is quite a remarkable moment this gathering is going to debate across the coming days issues of geopolitical significance the growing tension between the u.s. and russia or between the u.s.

and china the fight against isis what enough go in afghanistan peace talks with the taliban the conflict in yemen the g.c.c. crisis and the general sentiment among the decision makers here it's a bell tomtom in tehran the spirit of the international liberal order hasn't voted for decades. otherwise the concerned we could move into uncharted territory with certainty and more violence in munich with the latest thank you. spain's prime minister petra sanchez has called early elections for april after losing a key budget vote the spending plans put forward by sanchez's minority socialist government were voted down by lawmakers earlier this week including members of the two main castle and pro independence parties the snap poll on april twenty eighth will be spain's third election in four years responding. from spain must continue to advance and progress from a point of tolerance and respect from moderation and common sense excluding

politics from frustration growing and creating quality employment to redistributing wealth consolidating and recognizing not just the rights and liberties we gained in the last forty years but also expanding the perimeter of those rights and liberties strengthening social cohesion and territorial cohesion as the only guarantee to preserve spains unity for this i announced to you with the powers given to me as prime minister of spain and after consultation with the council of ministers what i proposed dissolving the chamber of parliament and the complication of general elections for twenty eighth of april. falsus europe minister says britain needs to decide as soon as possible how it wants to leave the european union with just forty two days to go before the u.k. leaves the bloc british parliament has not yet approved a withdrawal deal the say so was another major defeat for prime minister is a may when no make is those is not to support her strategy for negotiating with the

e.u. not only was oh says the failure to sign off on a deal is having a negative impact on business is it it was an. ad like to tell operatives friends it's time to decide if they want to live in friendly terms or leave a probably it's that choice the answer. interest reinforce yesterday but another difficult search in the commons for mrs may and it was hanging over the business community for the man two men have been sentenced to death in may and mall for the murder of a prominent lawyer and close advisor to the head of government on sons who cheat the man a found guilty of killing kone young gong airports in twenty seventeen two other men received prison sentences kone was working on reforms aimed at challenging the military's grip on power his death was a setback for city's government which has promised changes after decades of military rule flight so one of the world's busiest travel hubs were temporarily

grounded after a suspected drone activity near a runway traffic was suspended out by international airport for around thirty minutes airport authorities investigating the source of the drawing major airports have been on alert for drones since hundreds of flights were canceled at gatwick airport in london just days before christmas. now thousands of u.k. children have skipped school to teach the politicians a lesson on climate change they're urging the government to take urgent measures to address the crisis by declaring a climate emergency well this follows similar strikes in australia and several other countries in europe seriously paca has this report. the next generation is finding its voice. some polices are smaller than others. but together they form a chorus what you are. demanding urgent action

on climate change. it's a day of coordinated strikes by children across the u.k. . people skipping school to protest are you worried about the state of the climate realities i am in i'm sorry but this if these keep trying to link up with and we love having let's apply a sense we live without the light on many things we need and so i think that somewhere else i'm witnessing the school think about you know being in school i don't. i think. there's anything that i was saying was that it's. the demonstration is part of a much wider global movement schools for climate action is growing quickly on social media. in the past few months tens of thousands of children in belgium germany scandinavia and australia have taken to the streets. it began with

a fifteen year old swede gretta tom burke who skipped class to protest outside government buildings in september accusing her country of not following the powers climate agreement she even took a protest to the world economic forum in davos. according to the un into. governmental panel on climate change there are only twelve years left to bring global warming under control before the damage is irreversible. unprecedented systemic change is needed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least fifty percent. by the perceived lack of action when it comes to government dealing with climate change i don't relate to this i threw up going gets me but the steak if you check into it down to the people who try to size what we're doing it today i want to say how else are we meant to participate we don't have the food none of us have a voice other than making a hot outside parliament here if we want to actually be able to survive rather than

out of this impending sense of doom that global warming brings. a larger global mobilization of children is planned for next month many of these demonstrators know it isn't enough to be young articulate and informed there's a sense of urgency a feeling that if they don't do something who will. lead to. find out much more about climate change or many of the other stories we're covering by visiting all web site the address is of an al-jazeera dot com al-jazeera called . undermines the at the top stories on our u.s. president donald trump says he will declare a national emergency to access funds for a border war with mexico the president made the statement off to approving a spending bill to avert another government shutdown by using emergency powers

trump will bypass congress which has refused to approve nearly six billion dollars needed for the war we're going to be signing today and registering a national emergency and it's a great thing to do. because we have an invasion of drugs invasion of gangs invasion of people and it's not acceptable that is whalers president has accused the united states of trying to destabilize his country in an interview with al-jazeera nicolas maduro also criticized european nations accusing them of supporting u.s. military intervention meanwhile washington has imposed financial sanctions of five officials close to madeira including the oil minister. morals have been held for at least forty four indian security forces who were killed in an attack in indian

controlled kashmir prime minister renzi modi has blamed pakistan for backing the assault vowing a crushing response pakistan has summoned a senior indian diplomat saying the allegations are baseless the pentagon chief says he expects a bigger and stronger american led coalition against eisel even as u.s. troops pull out of syria the acting u.s. defense secretary patch on one hand has been speaking at the munich security conference after holding talks with countries who provide troops for a coalition or president donald trump's decision in december withdraw troops from northeast syria angered some allies and prompted the then defense secretary jim mattis to resign. spain's prime minister petro sanchez has called early elections that april after losing a key budget vote spending plans put forward by sanchez's minority socialist government were voted down by lawmakers earlier this week and those the latest

headlines here on al-jazeera more news in twenty five minutes time stay with us though it's. there are seven and a half billion people on earth and they all need to be bad. but producing food requires huge amounts of land and water and is one of the major contributors to

pollution and climate change. half the planet's habitable surface is cultivated for crops well forests are being cleared for industrial animal farming and commercial fishing is emptying our thieves of marine life. with the worldwide population predicted to grow to ten billion by twenty fifty it's clear our planet kaante part of the pace something has to change. our muscle build on the east coast of the us where a community of scientists fishermen and foodies of redefining our relationship with . and i'm going to robbie and khalid are scientists are wasting to futureproof our planet against our love of wheat. for centuries we've been harvesting the oceans without much thought of

sustainability and today we poison is more to this as we did fifty years ago the result is that the oceans have been depleted to cuts. strong physically unsustainable levels ninety percent of the fish stocks we rely on being fully fished overfished. to make matters worse the use of a group chemical schools in the sea and on the learned is creating soon areas of high acidity and lou or exigent which one of the biggest global threats to marine life there are already around five hundred of them were weighed the biggest in the gulf of mexico covering twenty three thousand square kilometers. for the seas to thrive far into the future we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the oceans and here on the coast of connecticut to do just that. fishing is always been big business on the long island sound in recent decades industrial and agricultural pollutants kill the fish stocks have come here to meet some of the

locals tackling the problem. right yeah great to egypt thanks so much for having us thanks for coming in smith is an ocean farmer who's made its mission to reconfigure how we harvest the sea ok welcome aboard. the good thing about ocean farming is we don't need to chase fish right just a quick run out right. usually efficient yeah yeah i was in the bering sea fishing cod and crab just at the height of industrialized fishing and most the fish i was catching was going to mcdonald's for the fish sandwich that is the quintessential the epitome of the industrial fashion exactly so then you know i was on the bering sea in the cod stocks rasta knew from land back was from so i went to become a farmer on the salmon farms as i was was that he answered overfishing but it was just as bad you know using pesticides and thereby audix polluting you know we were

essentially running pig farms at sea so i ended up down here to make remade myself . what were called the three the oceans are what is the what is a three d. ocean farm thirteen by imagine an underwater garden where you're using the entire water column means we have a very small footprint vertical right. the entire farm is cultivated officers to move lines and boys which act like scaffolding crews from the horizontal lines closest to the surface then vertically downwards their muscles and then below that oyster clamps on the ocean floor. and that. brain has a twenty acre farm which produces fifty three thousand killed every year alone with two hundred those shellfish today i'm going to help check the lines. in the great work of james hill's going to come aboard and. learn how to do some

help farming a high. alright help. there's the vegetable of the sea right there let's attack some awesome song that you. and i call out of town and. unlike conventional aquaculture britain's ocean farming has no need for group chemicals in fact to be even seems to clean the water of pollution and sequesters carbon thereby helping to tackle climate change. is there a reason why you you've chosen muscles so they're really lean proteins packed full of going to make it serious but also so nitrogen they filter and they use nitrogen to grow filtered out of the water column sandusky you know this farm filters to millions of gallons of water we can waste your filters up to fifty gallons

a day we just want to eastern you can if you were to take a number of these farms totaling five percent of u.s. waters you could remove the equivalent carbon output of over a million cars what the kelp does is it reduces the acidification rate it pulls so much carbon nitrogen out it changes the water called the so we've done studies and it's called the halo effect of the kelp actually working together with the oyster companion companion species exactly exactly you know they're meant to be together but. not a little taller. so a certainly intriguing but can the system really help coop did soon once those seeds. of the seaweed marine biotechnology love at the university of connecticut stem food stood just the school district. this is proper science what's going on in here so we have

a lot of the caliph might not be any really right here to. talk to simona it's leading research in some call still estuaries like long island sound we have a lot of nutrient runoff so from fertilizer or from wastewater treatment plants a lot of those nutrients get concentrated into the water and then they can cause problems like harmful algal blooms or you know hypoxic conditions and so by growing seaweed us in addition to shellfish we can take some of those nutrients and clean up the waters and the hypoxic that's like. so right yes exactly which is not good right for for for for exactly. simone is going to show me how the use killed both monitor and clean the waters in the sand during the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take some of those harvested cows that we pulled off

the long lines that we're going to grind it up in the in this little machine. once cobra is simona can calculate that little nitrogen in the kilt which in turn helps it learn how much needs to be grown to clean the waters of pollutants. based on that then we can say you know based on that percentage if we grow this much seaweed on this long of a line then we're taking up that much nitrogen from the water. information like this is vital for brenda who uses it to determine how much cope you have to cultivate in order to improve the water in his patch of the sun. three d. farming proposes a close collaboration between fishermen and scientists but that's not all yet another important partnership is happening on dry land to be fisher is a farmer who recently started working with brant used to use conventional

fertilizer until six months ago when he switched to kill. the. fertilizer have a nice nice smell to it is very real and that's all you know it's the good stuff so was actually going on here they quite a why do you not just put it straight on the fields the nutrients from the kelp. will transfer over to the water and you see the kelp just turns into. like oh. yeah and so all the nutrients reaches out into the liquid and then we can have a way to fertilize not going to get like some crab jumping. you never know. tobie's farm grows over twenty five different kinds of fruit and vege supplying the local community and it's this organic plant based fertilizer that you know uses on all these crops. this is killed later today look we're going to ruin

kale through your never to scale attacks are going to. do you feel a kind of connection to the sea because of this operation most land based farmers don't think about their actions and how they affect the sea the nature of runoff from the land they got into the ocean the kalpa uses it to grow and then it comes back here to really close a sea seed away and loop. closing this land to see loop is a huge part of three d. farming's appeal but in the center of new haven there's another collaboration which is putting sustainability on the menu. i'm off to meet the shapiro head chef at royal to find out more. brand came to me with the help and it's like here it is news that once he started telling me the story once we started dialogue benefit more than anything sustainability perspective i started playing around and starting

using a number idea of different ways that i can feel like man is has like and so i just go ahead and yeah go ahead and and as you would regular pasta he smells fantastic right you go. there's very good we're going to actually see this kind of ocean farming have a significant impact on ocean cleanup on climate change you need we need our we need to eat most of the stuff we need to get you know what i mean you've got to sometimes the customer if i suppose across the river way that people start asking for it then let brand figure out. how to mask. those of us around my arms around my department my role is if they like it. i've done my bit. for changes of food here in new haven and three d. farming is that hard. i mean we're going to tell

a story you know hopeful story about the future right you know it's all bad news about climate change and foods again security stuff like that but i think out here we can say arrow things are a blank slate in the search chance to really build something new and build some from the bottom up that is sustainable restorative and doesn't make all the mistakes of industrial agriculture and thus industrial articles. it's estimated that each week we lose an area the size of manhattan as a result of intensive over farming. nearly one third of the planet's land is severely degraded and agriculture is largely to blame. if we don't act fast the un projects the world has only sixty years of harvests left but there are.