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. joining us now at last america to lucy in yemen who is live inside the venezuelan capital caracas first of all a second i ask you about these reports that u.s. military a craft are expected to transport more aids to the venezuelan border in colombia what more do you know about. hello marion what apparently these reports were leaked by the u.s. military from a base in germany they have not been denied by the u.s. state department in fact it's expected that it will be confirmed shortly and it's not too surprising this this this does tally with what we're hearing from the opposition it would be some two hundred tons of food and medicine in addition to what has already been accrued by the border in cool dark colombia and you know that

it's become now a kind of a game of who can bring in more supplies president nicolas maduro has been calling this attempt to bring it into the country by the opposition on for be the twenty third just a pretext was a day just an excuse to carry out a military intervention with crumbs he calls his crimes and so now the opposition is saying that it is not going to be twenty million dollars worth of food or medicine but that they expect to have a crude up to two hundred million dollars worth before february the twenty third this according to one why dog the opposition leader just how they're going to get it in though is going to be another question it is interesting though marian that this is the first time that a u.s. military aircraft has been used in the case of the venezuelan conflict it's normal for the u.s. military aircraft to be used to bring in humanitarian aid in the case for example of hurricanes or other sort of natural disasters but in this context this is rather unusual right and then in terms of the overall situation you have president

maduro and the opposition still at loggerheads each side has the support of different parts of the international community what does all this mean for the crisis is it can the deadlock be broken. nobody knows that are can't answer that question i don't think anybody can i was speaking to a top ranking diplomat here in that acts who is very close to the situation and he said that some people say there's a twenty percent chance that president nicolas maduro can survive this other believe it's more nobody can say exactly what is going to happen i can tell you that. said just a short while ago he made another appeal to venezuela's military which is crucial to the outcome of all this remember that the military continues to support president my little he made a final appeal telling them that they have eight more days to decide whether to side with the constitution or whether to quote continue to support

a dictator but as you've heard from president mubarak he seems to be very very confident that he can prevent those supplies from coming into the country and that he can remain in power all right thank you very much alas america editor lucy and human with all the latest from caracas thank you lou sia still ahead for you on this news hour from london an uneasy calm in haiti where the president is refusing to step down despite weeks of anti-government demonstrations. in spain the prime minister petra sanchez has called early elections for april after losing a key budget vote. and later as for the former world number one is reached her final of the. story later. india says it will completely isolate pakistan following thursday's suicide bombing

in indian administered kashmir at least forty four military officers were killed dozens wounded pakistan denies any involvement in the attack or bird unmanly as more. a solemn occasion in indignant minister to. the home minister singh helps to carry the coffin of a soldier killed in such attack one of dozens of security personnel targeted when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the convoy on the highway prime minister observed a moment of silence to remember the victims before he gave a warning. 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 pakistan base group jaish

e mohammad says it's responsible for the attack although islamabad denies any involvement india has accused of allowing armed groups to operate freely it's issued a diplomatic protest to pakistan's envoy in new delhi and withdrawn trade privileges to islamabad 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. has been divided between india and pakistan since one thousand nine hundred forty seven both countries claim the entire region where tens of thousands have been killed in the past three decades. the latest attack targeted a large military convoy investigates the still trying to piece together how the armed group was able to strike such a sensitive target what is the nature of explosion told doesn't happen what little just little subject of investigation. as india's national investigation

agency begins its work activist came out onto the streets of indian administered kashmir with many chanting anti pakistan slogans the government to shut down into this and some areas and the military has imposed a curfew in the attempt to restore calm laura bow to manly al jazeera turkey's president says the u.s. hasn't put its full weight behind the investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi president washington not to set the matter aside in favor of its ties to riyadh meanwhile a new report by turkish police suggest the shorties remains may have been destroyed journalist was killed and dismembered at the saudi consulate in istanbul in october seven castillo has mall. the residence of saudi arabia's consul general in istanbul is once again under the spotlight a recent report by police suggests saudi journalist

a man has shipped just remains were burned in a well used for cooking purposes inside the compound security camera footage leaked to the turkish media late last year appear to show his ship just remains being carried inside the consul general residence in bags and suitcases after being killed and dismembered at the consulate building just meters away. turkish persecutors have not said much on the case but information on evidence has been leaked to the media in bits since the beginning many wonder why it has not been revealed all its ones i think is a danger by you know leaking information to the media. can even lose its value as evidence so text partition share all this evidence with international investigators when the un has the authority to carry out the investigation in addition with the investigation going on in turkey. turkish authorities have

stopped the murder was ordered by senior saudi officials and accused the salvaged issue of not cooperating with their investigation the process has stalled the turks have said it is time for an international investigation. this was followed by the un special report or agnes column our visit to turkey for a possible independent inquiry her initial statement back to turkish position but she says her request to get a copy of the crime scene investigation and an old your recording of the killing have not been met in our legal system recordings can be counted as evidence only if they are obtained by court order we don't know the source of the recordings though is it turkish intelligence or the police or some of the country's intelligence who posted on the turkey i believe the stumble chief prosecutor will soon present an indictment what's important is whether this indictment will mention the crown prince or not if yes this may be followed by issuing a warrant for the suspect's mom so now passed in the house shook to murder remains

almost sold despite the leaks of information and the efforts of legal and crime experts those seeking justice expected to move the case forward at stake is the country's judicial reputation seen em to solo else as zero a stumble to haiti now where president of an envoy is refusing to step down despite weeks of anti-government demonstrations at least eight people have died in the unrest which was falling to the rising prices and government corruption and as al-jazeera as manual reports from the capital post of france opposition it is a saying they will continue to call for more uses resignation. tensions on the streets of port au prince are back on the rise many fears of violence just 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 question was part of the oil assistance program called the. defense of time with. former president

hugo chavez who wanted to have self self. we've. but what happened. in spending that money and. all those project that they were supposed to realize they then realized evidence of mismanaged funds can be seen across the country in 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. an aide to the haitian president says the flames of the discontent

are being fanned by the president's political opponents. ation 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. what 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 an 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 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 and man he joins us live now from port au prince any sign of unrest today. well after a brief calm on thursday protesters once again took to the streets of port au prince near the presidential palace again today port au prince itself is practically on lockdown people are having a hard time finding access to food they're having a hard time finding access to water because supermarkets are still closed and we went out today to have a look for selves we saw several dozen people out marching near the presidential palace there were road blocks that had been set on fire once again today that was

in different parts of the city you can't see it so much anymore but earlier today there was still smoke billowing out from different parts of the city there also parts of the city where there's a sense of normalcy that's returning people are once again out on the streets there's vendors that are bringing out their products trying to sell on the streets so port au prince in part is starting to look like port au prince once again but there's still a lot of discontent on the streets people still calling for the president's resignation that speech that the president gave on thursday evening did not seem to convince people that a lasting resolution to this crisis is on its way right a sense of defiance from the from. in the face of these protests he is refusing to stand down what is the government doing in terms of reforms that one might satisfy protesters. the president vowed in the speech on thursday evening that the government would soon be announcing in the economic measures to find a resolution to the ongoing economic crisis unfortunately we haven't heard anything

from either the prime minister's office or from anyone in the government outlining what exactly those next steps are going to be the people in haiti are angry over corruption but they're also angry and anxious to find a solution to the ongoing economic crisis it's worth remembering that haiti is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere certainly the poorest nation in the americas even when things are calm here it's difficult for people to make a living it's difficult for people for people to know where where and when their next. will is going to is going to come not knowing all of that couple in all of that with with the declining economy over the last couple of years with skyrocketing inflation and not having any sort of guarantees that life is going to improve for the lives of most of most haitians living in the country it's not hard to see why people are taking in this taking to the streets to riot thank you very much money. from the haitian capital port au prince thank you. some news from spain where run prime minister better sanchez has called early elections for april

after losing a keep budget fight spending plans put forward by sanchez's minority socialist government were voted down by lawmakers earlier this week including members of the two main catalan probably dependents parties it's not poland april twenty eighth will be spain's third election in four years. they recounted what happened 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 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 spain's 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 was but still ahead for you on the program the economy and unemployment just some of the crucial issues in nigeria's elections but many voters security is also still the top priority. skipping school to fight for their future the pressure students who want to teach the politicians climate change . and in sports a less than glorious return to the world rally championship for minutes for the title when. we got some of the lovely weather across central and western parts of here big area of high pressure keeping it nice and settled clear skies. and some pleasant sunshine in the sun does have some mates about it at the moment so you get up to

thirteen celsius in london a passion about eight or nine degrees at this time of year so we are certainly on the mild side there's a fifth day in there for madrid again with some sunshine central areas might just see want to folk patches think a cloud over its will cease and sod if you must go to a degree celsius even that is on the mild side not just in town and right into the east the side of the med that will continue through sunday although it will brighten up for a good part of greece at that stay stay dry and fine across central and western parts of london and paris could touch forty degrees to move into the second half of the weekend but cloud on ryan will make its way across all and into wells that western side of scotland having that will be fine and dry forty celsius for london fourteen celsius for madrid as well come down into an all impossible because a fourth same for tripoli. but more clouds and bits and pieces of rain that just scraping the faunal of libya pushing over towards egypt little cloud also making its way across morocco that will sit across a good part of algeria algiers with

a top temperature of eighteen degrees. a story of revolution defiance and mud on top of. a major figure against the french occupation. from the recent break even in prestige and. to inspire others in the fight for independence. is that a good leader to deny you allow to be ben mcgeady the algerian revolutionary on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much employed in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know it's thirty channels they believe but the deal because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are with the people

we live to tell the real story i'll just mended used to do the work individualism we don't feel included work. across the globe. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency to access funds for a border war with mexico the president made the announcement after approving a spending bill to avert a government shutdown. 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 accusing them of supporting u.s.

military intervention. and memorials have been held for at least forty four indian security forces who were killed in an attack in indian controlled kashmir a prime minister narendra modi has blamed pakistan for backing the assault vowing a crushing response. well now to nigeria where authorities in the northern part of the country are reporting at least sixty six deaths in a wave of violence this comes just before a crucial election on saturday police discovered the bodies in eight villages in kaduna state twenty two of them reportedly children state government. says arrests have been made and is called on the public to avoid revenge attacks well security is one of the main deciding factors for voters on saturday along with youth unemployment and rising inflation more than three hundred thousand security stuff have been deployed to keep the public safe amid interest reports now from the northeastern city of my degree.

after a long heated campaign season nigerians are set to vote election materials have reached one hundred twenty thousand polling stations where eighty four million bridges to voters will elect a president from a list of seventy three candidates we have already received all the logistic items we have received all the nicest sensitive items we have received the sensitive items the ballot boxes the. papers and the rest of them and we have already identified. the vote comes as the country struggles with the same issues that have dominated its politics for years decades of mismanagement and large scale looting of the treasury forced the economy into its worst recession in two thousand and sixteen it has since emerged from the

slump but growth is sluggish there is the need to encourage the growth of the economy to expand you know the capacity of the economy to absorb the excess you know labor force that we have so all that is a key challenge. the country's largest voting bloc is the one worst hit by the lack of jobs on most one in four of the country's youth is unemployed that of employment it's all about the want to. exaggerate the. traits of the on the flow chart of the same song even exist but in being in mugshots it's a benefit everybody the culture of the e.q. was empty promises all be you know all the times all this time around i want them to be accountable for whatever the cd. but the biggest threat to the country is security for. the armed group to communal violence and clashes between farmers and

herders tens of thousands of nigerians have been killed in the last decade. the long queues at petrol stations that nigeria became renowned for in previous years they have largely disappeared but africa's largest organ producer is still not refining enough for domestic consumption nigeria's the kitchen sector has not fared any better over the last few years while basic education is neglected by most state government university education continue to suffer from lack of adequate funding this university one of the largest in nigeria is yet to receive michael dimock activities after three months nationwide strike. we have three majors us president in this election will be dealing with these and many other challenges that some nigerians say previous leaders of either deliberately field or lack the capacity to tackle. greece al-jazeera. nigeria. but joining me now in the studio is david autor who is

a counterterrorism security organized crime analyst consultant that joins us in studio thank you very much i mean to speak to us that was always the risk of violence in the run up to this election what is your assessment of the latest developments and do you know a state authorities there saying that sixty six bodies have been found women and children are fought to be among the dead which is very shocking just before the presidential elections were taken place to morrow you know to see that the security system which you know they've actually the nigerian security has actually put in a situation room and what you would have expected is for these kind of tensions to be picked up you know very early before even the happen i mean been one of those states where communal violence you know it's been very a current and one would have expected that in the height of political tensions that are going on you know the security services would have been or should have been on the ground sixty six is a hollow death toll is extremely high it includes innocent civilians what went

wrong of course you know you can imagine that you know killing sixty six people and wounded many of those you know takes a whole lot of time what about the response from the military but the problem with nigeria it's not just you know the security situation in nigeria is really but you've got boom in the north you've got the niger do it diminishes you've got the port so there are several areas of vulnerabilities that the nigerian security has to be very much looked look look into but they're overstretched you know have to say you know considering that you know they don't have enough resources i guess they don't really have enough men you know to to to actually stop some of these situations without really terrible how is all this going to play into the election we don't just want to talk about seriously but it is it is such an important issue in nigeria because as you say there are a number of security challenges we were just hearing an ominous report there about . into communal violence that might have been what led to this death toll in kaduna

state but on top of that you have problems in the niger delta you also have the book around insurgency which is which is proving very resilient in the northeast of the country how how is the government likely to be judged in this election on the way they've handled these multiple security challenges i think is one of the biggest series where we you know we would have expected you know the candidates who are putting themselves you know to to become priests in the more than seventy of them to really put forward you know kind of a concrete solution to the security problem but i don't think they have what it really takes you know from some of the accompanying strategies that they've put in place so i think it's important for the nigerian government and the candidates indeed to be able to come up and say exactly how they would be able to do with the security settings refly how important is corruption corruption is a huge a. conker war in even within the security architecture and that has been the

problem in actually leading to some of the insecurity issues because there's a lot of people that are given the responsibility to carry out some of the security measures but they don't really have the capacity to do it the ones don't have the capacity to do it are not given a platform to do it so i think this is a real situation for the nigerian government to look at that they have to understand some of these. difficult situations that they're frank you very much david otto appreciate your analysis on this thank you. are now more than five hundred leaders from around the world are meeting in germany for an annual conference and addressing international security issues including how to contain the i self right eye level delegates from russia iran the e.u. and the u.s. are attending with their views on how best to combat security challenges likely to be very different barra has more. the world's top annual gathering on international security is in full swing leaders debating the biggest challenges facing

a world one of those challenges described by the conference as the biggest buyer to western democracies is washers and china's growing military ambitions. u.s. president donald trump is waging a trade war against china and has given notice of his intention to withdraw from a decades long arms control treaty with russia then he wary of the world's biggest visit powers could be on a collision course it's a mess to speak very honestly about it it's a mess and i'm very much concerned bards a world on fire that. i don't think a new world war is straining but instability may be there ryszard of all this and the reason is that we have seen a withdrawal of the us from global affairs. the us is

sending its largest congressional delegation to the conference the trump administration has run its rhetoric against iran and wants the e.u. to withdrawal from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. the move dismissed by the e.u. russia china and many countries concerned citing fears that withdrawing could lead to more violence in the middle east iran has other resources yes it has friends in europe and it also has friends in the neighboring region and has friends in russia and china and it seems pretty unlikely that this kind of u.s. pressure can itself crush iraq wars in the middle east and the fight against eyes are on the agenda here in munich many countries in the region are some of the biggest arms buyers raising concerns about further instability. there is about ink

pressure to the war in yemen the four year conflict has created the worst humanitarian crisis in recent years yemen is perhaps the worst place to be a child right now and that that is why we need the peace talks to continue we need unimpeded access for humanitarian help and of course we need the warring parties to stop bombing each other indian since it was launched in one nine hundred sixty three the munich security conference has been promoting the ideals of the international liberal order that has prevailed since the end of the second world war but the international liberal system faces its biggest crisis briggs's continues to send shock waves across europe populism is on the rise and autocratic powers are determined to defend their interests a new political reality creating more uncertainty and anxiety in the world.

munich. it's a showcase for the best in british fashion started with big names like burberry victoria bakken and erdem but this season's fashion week is happening just weeks before the u.k. is due to leave the european union a british fashion council which organizes the event has backed calls for a second referendum is and i would. there's no room for error every garment has to be perfect before it leaves the spot. about eighty percent of staff are from eastern europe and that's what fashion and to the years creating clothes but big brands the u.k.'s plan to end when to people the goods postbox it is causing uncertainty. people have to ask why is the end of the day of real industry it's not the kind of that they go on that you say on the what we've got here is people's lives it's real jobs it's the scales and that's what we've got to

continue what we fought to remember made in britain has got huge potential but we need the workforce to be able to. fashion always tries to be one step ahead at london fashion week by looking to next season only this year that will be well beyond britain's planned exit from the e.u. . and passion is big business the industry adds nearly forty two billion dollars to the u.k. economy every year and employs eight hundred ninety thousand people. creativity and diversity have always been the driving force behind the global success of the u.k. action industry being able to access the right kind of talent from both here and abroad is vital to experience fashion industry leaders want the u.k. to be able to continue to recruit and trade freely with europe in the same way they

have dumped the use of. katharine ham no two is one of the country's best known designers an autumn blends passion and politics her message is unequivocal. it's going to try. a complete mystery. it's serious saw it i mean it kind of breaks itself but no deal is going to be serious thought. you know urgency of the twenty ninth march means it's a completely arbitrary date it's got nothing to do with in. the made in britain label it's a growing tool in the fashion world the industry is hoping politicians will eventually deliver something to allow the u.k. to still be at the cutting edge of the global industry emma haywood al-jazeera in london. still ahead this hour i'm live welling's at the ground mind me pride in south where i was home of new polk county for.