see the emotion on the face of the situation and living in that. identify with the story. as well as opposition leader rallies his army of volunteers to distribute american aid. i'm richelle carey this is. also coming up. strong allies now in germany in the u.s. are divided over a key issue in a major conference on security. the vatican expels a former u.s. cardinal who's accused of sexual abuse. and a prototype for exit campaign bring social media to the streets to make their case to the people in the u.k. .

thousands of volunteers in venezuela have registered to travel to the columbia border to bring in aid food and medicine from the u.s. has become a key issue in the power struggle between president nicolas maduro an opposition leader was quite oh john hendren reports. massive us c. seventeen cargo planes bearing aid made the journey from florida's homestead air force base to colombia but the hardest part of the journey lies ahead the short trip over the border to venezuela venezuelan president nicolas maduro has ordered the army not to let it in he says the aid comes with strings from the us which he says plans to use it as a trojan horse to overthrow his regime. opposition leader won by dole who proclaimed himself interim president held a rally in caracas before supporters or today were here saying to the world dressed in white that our movement is profoundly peaceful but our movement is also

profoundly determined and it's not foolish for being peaceful nor is it going to stay stalled no sir it is profoundly determined that not only humanitarian aid enter but that the usurpation stops once and for all the u.s. military airlifted tons of aid hoping to undermine me in his struggle against who now has the backing of more than fifty nations including the u.s. says he has hundreds of thousands of volunteers ready to distribute the aid and urge the army to lead it in. los altos the message to the venezuelan armed forces seven days for humanitarian aid to enter a week for you to do the right thing to put yourselves not only on the side of the constitution we are authorizing the entrance of not only humanitarian aid but also humanity is no exaggeration to say the aid comes with strings the u.s. operation is designed to foment regime change and that's why much of the international aid community is not joining in the international committee for the

red cross and united nations relief agencies are refusing to coordinate with the u.s. they say aid should not come with strings that madeira retains the backing of russia and china and claims to have brought nine hundred thirty three tons of medical supplies from china cuba and russia. why do is calling for nationwide protests this week to support volunteers planning to travel to the border with colombia to bring the u.s. see john hendren. washington with the rebels in yemen say they have launched a major attack across the border with saudi arabia armed groups says has taken a number of saudi military positions south of the city of design and also injured saudi fighters and captured a large amount of arms near ron it's the most significant border fighting to take place since the stockholm agreement ended deescalating the fighting was signed in december the stockholm agreement was brokered by the un during talks and it ending

yemen's nearly four year war at the rebels and yemen saudi backed government agreed to a ceasefire in the search egypt port city of new data while the truce has largely held both sides were meant to have withdrawn their troops from the city by january seventh and that never happened the man the u.n. task with a are saying the ceasefire resigned after only one month on the job a prisoner swap was also agreed to during the talks in sweden that's also yet to take place the bill corey is a former u.s. diplomat who served in the yemen he says the stockholm agreement didn't take into account the realities on the ground. things have been deteriorating partly because of the inability to implement any of the provisions of the stockholm agreement the two sides have not been a bill to meet face to face on the ground because of mutual suspicion and i think to some extent this agreement was sort of done upside down by

focusing on today the. bourse is a major humanitarian axis and that's fine but if you say a ceasefire and her data and it's ok to have. ongoing war in the rest of the country that's not a good thing if you had done it the other way around with the generals he's fired first and then you start working on improving things in her day that i think this would have been a better way of go thing about it as it is there is major fighting in the north of the country along the saudi yemeni border and in fact there are yemeni troops supported by saudi arabia inside yemen in the north and the northwest specifically which means. they're trying to insert kill and further ham and the who the force is and that could lead to a major the escalation of the fighting there in russia say they're preparing to

open humanitarian corridors to allow people in the rock on refugee camp to return home by camp on syria's border with jordan is home to more than forty thousand refugees russia says two corridors will be open along the border on tuesday ok people living in iraq on camp twenty four hours to lean on syria's eastern border with iraq kurdish led a syrian democratic forces are continuing their offensive against isis all of the area in the region of ours or is the last pocket of territory controlled by the armed groups. it will be a matter of days to finish their presence in the. east of the euphrates river near the iraqi border we destroyed their ability to return fire fighters are holding civilians as human shields in only six hundred to seven hundred square metres in. the egyptian army says at least seven rebel fighters have been killed after an attack on a checkpoint in the northern sinai region fifteen military personnel were also

injured or killed during the exchange of fire eisel has claimed responsibility on major conference two very different messages a meeting on global security and germany vice president mike pence gave european leaders a dressing down over their continued dealings with the ron errors they used to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal but. had a more positive tone reports from you nick. she is the face of the european union and the style of war to defend of multi-lateralism german chancellor and going to merkel is also a vocal critic of u.s. president donald trump foreign policy is on this is anybody's ballister so i get what i'm missing you know iran is developing a ballistic missile program in syria and has a hand in the yemen conflict but the question is do we abandon the twenty fifty neatly deal or use it as a lever like my. us vice president by turns addressing

a skeptical audience brushed aside accusations his country was pulling back from global obligations the vice president sharply criticized the e.u. for not falling in line with us to isolate iran the time has come for our european partners to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal and join us as we bring the economic and diplomatic pressure necessary. china is on a charm offensive sending its biggest delegation ever led by a political bureau member young. chinese officials are eager to ease growing fears among world leaders that beijing is using its telecom company while we just buy when other countries while way as a company is cooperating very closely with european countries in the fourth

industrial revolution we should all work together and chinese law doesn't require companies to install back doors or collect intelligence russian foreign minister sergei lavrov faced the daunting task of convincing world leaders his country is committed to global stability the e.u. and the us. have imposed a series of sanctions against russia following is an accession of crimea its role in the ukraine crisis and violating the one nine hundred eighty seven nuclear treaty. new cracks of forming in old ones a deepening we need to build a new pain european home no matter how strange that might seem now u.s. president donald trump took the world by surprise when he announced he would withdraw troops from syria a decision many were with drugs the country towards one certainty in afghanistan

the americans are in favor of peace talks with the taliban will have a bigger say but many doubt the shifting u.s. strategy will lead to a lasting peace. munich president donald trump's pick for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has withdrawn her nomination either now or it says it's in the best interest of her family and the state department spokeswoman and former fox news anchor described the past two months as grueling is expected to nominate another candidate for the positions. bad weather sabotage and one just tickle challenges are being blamed for nigeria selection being pushed back a last minute decision to postpone the ballot by one week everyone from voters to candidates after our commission says many states simply weren't ready to hold the election and more time was needed to ensure the elections were free fair and credible reports in the capital abuja of course. this is nigeria's my sport independent electoral commission chairman mahmood york who is facing

criticism for most of the last minute. he insists the decision was taken to address the many challenges the tump of repercussions for the elections. over. elections will. not. in the morning or. mission there. yet we had the time and the horse must horn at the same time i mean if we're part of the country in this way not elections we've just got back. this is very important public perception of elections we. created. the commission hopes the delay would mean that everything will all smoothly next week but not everyone is convinced we had reports in various places of compromises that have been done in can iran has

returned some members of the independent national electoral commission and because those. highly indeed they decided to act fast on post one of the election so dissolved the explosions giving up charlie troop are not actually ready to nigerians have been here before for the past two elections were postponed one of them for weeks but what nigeria's actually angry about this time around is the shop they were given before the postponement was announced the electoral commission made the announcement just three hours to the time the polling stations were expected to offer. voters reacted with a mixture of anger frustration and resignation with some describing the electoral body as a disgrace this is the height of incompetence the contrary has never experienced this that could be caught on the off election asax let's look look look why do you dr alicia was going to record of immediate need this money were finding out that

yet the election as record of who does that is very disappointing very surprising no one really shone for him as an engineer i think so embarrassed. nigeria's two main political parties the ruling all progressives congress a.p.c. and the peoples democratic party p.d.p. swiftly condemned the delay and accused each other of trying to manipulate the. present moment to bahati i'd come and appeal to nigerians to refrain from civil disorder the presidential and parliamentary votes have been is scheduled for saturday twenty third february governorship state assembly and local government elections will now be held on saturday the ninth of march mohammed at the walters either your nigeria. still ahead on al-jazeera kastrup pakistan prepares to roll out the red carpet personalities crown prince mohammed bin sama. and india's government gets us backing as a hunt for those responsible for thursday's attack in indian administered kashmir.

the rain is finally beginning to easing california has been very very wet for many of us here and along other parts of the u.s. west coast and up into canada notes of heavy rain has been seen and we will say seen a fair few landslides as well all of that the easing and things will continue to dry up as we head through the next few days a few showers perhaps that nothing will match instead some more intense rain we working its way towards the east we see some in the southeast and further north we'll be seeing that system freshly turned wintery so loss of snow there as we head through the day on monday and heavy rain a bit further towards the south and behind that system the temperatures really are dropping away for the central americas we've seen one area of what weather over the

past couple of days but that is now easing so most of us will see dry weather on sunday should be some good spells of sunshine around and not really much in the way of showery whether it's. more showers that are a bit further south in fact for rio it's been incredibly wet over the last day or so that area of rain is still with us on sunday still giving us some heavy rain and showers to the south working their way into power and why as well and if we had our way into monday there's not really a great deal of change but the temperatures are on the rise for some of us one is ari's will be all the way up at thirty one by monday. when the news breaks a few minutes of. a huge explosion fifty people still missing when people to be heard and the story needs to be told we need to and. has. joined us for this historic shift in american politics to bring you more.

documentaries and. at the top stories right now thousands of volunteers in venezuela traveled to the border to bring in usa. for the opposition later on in the capital caracas with the rebels and yemen say they have launched a major attack across the border with saudi arabia it's the most significant border fighting to take place almost deescalating the fighting.

say they're preparing to open humanitarian corridors to allow people and the rock on refugee camps to return home more than forty thousand refugees in the camp on syria's border. security has been stepped up ahead of the saudi crown prince is today visiting asia. postponed his trip by a day and will arrive in pakistan on sunday reports. pakistan is planning a royal welcome for saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman pakistan and saudi arabia have long been allies but this is the first visit for the crown prince since he became heir to the throne gable might have put on a solid to put on a both back they are old friends and their policies are in favor of pakistan. they will increase their wealth by investing in pakistan this is useless for our people. prime minister imran khan wants to make a good impression by mr khan is looking to take. one is that middle

package one is called mint and the country konami quite second is foreign direct investment cons overture comes as much of the world has either shunned criticized or chosen to keep an arm's length from the crown prince both turkish and american security agencies have concluded that mohamed bin salmen ordered the murder of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi the veteran journalist was killed and dismembered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october cond just two months into his tenure never joined the global chorus of outrage against the kingdom and the prince. later that month he was one of a few leaders to attend a financial summit in saudi arabia a pet project of bin solomon intended to elevate the country's image and promote foreign investment there would be no political cost for him to muster could put him

at the moment it's not important what the world is thinking the crown prince plans to show his appreciation by injecting billions of dollars into pakistan's economy. since the nine eleven attacks pakistan has been viewed as a vital player in combat ing armed groups and maintaining regional security but overlooked when it comes to foreign investment prime minister khan is banking on the fact that were saudi money is invested other countries might follow natasha can aim al-jazeera. that will support any. self against across border attacks. threatened action against neighboring pakistan after a suicide bombing. or kashmir. or more. funerals across india the dozens of security forces killed in a suicide bomb attack in indian administered.

the victims before paying its respects to the families on social media. the cop packed with explosives into a security convoy on the highway the worst attack in the himalayan region in three decades he was a member of the pakistan jaish e mohammad which has claimed responsibility modi says he will give the military freedom to respond in any way it sees fit. so the exchange of arguments across the line of control for instance by using artillery guns and targeting the infrastructure on the stand of camps is one option the other is to use a prancer border capability and now here we are talking about where we are why the targets across the border and is there a need to use air power. the move this increased tension between india and pakistan

which both claim the entire region the national security advisors of the united states in india john bolton and i. have spoken by phone they say they work together to prevent pakistan from being what they call a safe haven for armed groups. mrs held an all party meeting in new delhi where they passed a resolution condemning the attack and calling for action this is. the country right now is fighting a decisive war and it will reach its final conclusion the sacrifice of our soldiers were not going vain and we are determined to eradicate militancy. pakistan has denied any involvement in the bombing. incident is very sad and we condemn it we are never in favor of killing the are never in favor of violence really never on our side to be used for terrorism. as an investigation into in the midst of

kashmir into how such a large security convoy was attacked. long. investigation is concluded. only more deals going bigger as the families come to terms with their loss many of where the further escalation could lead to violence. thousands of people have gathered in iran to mourn the deaths of twenty seven revolutionary guard soldiers the men were killed in a suicide car bombing and iran sistan him only to stand province this week the head of iran's revolutionary guard has threatened retaliation over that attack. with a blow to. him and his government we ask the president hassan rouhani on the head of national security council to keep. coming out.

the vatican has expelled a former archbishop of washington d.c. from the priesthood after an internal investigation and i'm guilty of sexual abuse it ormoc eric was accused of abusing three miners and harassing other clergy oldest thought to be the first cardinal or bishop in the us to lose his rights to the priesthood for sexual abuse ten lennon as the president of the survivors network of those abused by priests snap that is and he says the vatican hasn't done enough to hold perpetrators to account. the church needs to continue from there and to canoe to continue to remove those that sexually abused children and minors and those that are covered up for instance we have a cardinal pal in austria who is recently convicted of child sex abuse he's still a cardinal we have bishop the wilson for from a story a convicted of sexual abuse we have cardinal denard o. the head of all the catholic. bishops here in the united states was recently

accused of covering up and withholding information from the person or is about three abusers so the cover up continues we've seen that the practice and ideology of the church hierarchy has been to protect the prestige and reputation of the church at the expense of the safety of the children minors and oppression or what we've seen up until this moment and again up until this moment first time in centuries of the pope has done nothing we've heard the thoughts and prayers we've had the penance we've had the apologies we had the washing of feet of survivors we've had all of that all symbolic kind of acts so this may be the first action of removing some of these that are complicit in covering up sexual abuse there's an uneasy calm in the haitian capital after days of violent protests thousands of

demonstrators have been demanding president john elway's resign he's been accused of failing to address soaring inflation and alleged mistress of funds in iraq has more from autocrats. we're in port au prince where there is a sense of calm that's returning to different parts of the city as you can see people are out and about there's vendors out on the streets selling different products this doesn't mean that tensions are gone this doesn't mean that the discontent is over there are still pockets of unrest in the city where demonstrators continue to call on the resignation of the haitian president for those who have the means some have begun leaving the country for those who don't the discontent continues they continue to voice their concerns their anger over widespread poverty over worsening living conditions and over the issue of corruption the united states there are reports that the united states is planning to send food aid to help prevent a humanitarian crisis here in the country given that many people are having

a hard time finding access to food finding access to clean water but in the meantime as you can see things are sort of returning back to normal port-au prince once again looking like border prince but the unrest remains pockets of tension remain and it's unclear still what exactly is going to happen in the coming days firefighters in chile are battling to put out wildfires spreading across southern parts of the country and strong winds are making it harder to contain the fires that were sparked by record high temperatures people have been forced to leave their homes in sun city. thousands of people have marched through montenegro's capital demanding the resignation of president. djukanovic is government and the protests was organized after a former ally of his accuse the ruling party of high level corruption disco chaz fled the country after authorities then accused then accused tem of money laundering and fraud. and britain campaigners on both sides of the proxy debate are exploring new ways of getting their messages across social media platform but

a group of activists that wants the u.k. to remain in the european union is using more traditional techniques to gain online attention nick parker reports. some political activism begins before dawn billboards have been springing up across the country giant tweaks highlighting some of the predictions contradictions and hypocrisy ease of britain's lead is it started as an idea or months friends it's now an anonymous guerrilla ad campaign under the house led by don't case before we knew it would put all kids the bad and going out well most every night putting out new posters and now here we all one month lie so we've got ninety thousand pounds in the bank from a crowd fund and the going up around the country because of the nature of digital news where we forget so quickly what was said there's a real appetite for something in the real world the breaks a referendum rewrote the rules of political campaigning for the first time and

service for and against breaks it realize the full unregulated power of social media to include both is clearly social media still is a massively important vehicle for activists and political campaign is all this group is doing is using and a long time takes to get its unique message across. this is what happened when the group turned their attention to the opposition labor leader jeremy cool been installing a blank billboard in the politicians home and tea breaks a campaign has turned up and filled in the gaps with their own slogans but i think the main prominent pro breck's an activist so also attempting to reach new audiences. the multimillionaire owner of one of britain's biggest pop change has come under fire for sending copies of this probe themed magazine to potentially thousands of homes come on. guys let's get real we're talking about saving thirty nine billion pounds eliminating loss of power regaining control of pushing

increasing democracy i mean what's not for long i. mean while in central london a restauranteur who put an empty prexy slogan at the bottom of customer receipts has faced violent threats and then one case is they say we must burn the place down one meaning the restaurant to be burned and then in another one they put an image of her gallows the same traitorous i you know it breaks it's created a war of words facts figures and promises repeated on buses boats and bridges some entirely false the official vote leave campaign spent three and a half million dollars on targeting ads at specific groups of people on facebook help you get to win the twenty sixteen referendum. says the votes more or more people have started to question the authenticity of messages in social media and the power of political advertising it's led to a political climate where everything and nothing seems true where some feel

motivated to promote or challenge brand breaks it in new ways leave. london. to keep up to date on the day's news there's a website right there very easy to find it's al-jazeera dot com keep it here for your headlines. let's recap the headlines now on al-jazeera thousands of volunteers in venezuela have registered to travel to the colombian border to bring in usa to take an oath before the opposition leader in the capital caracas more than two hundred tons of aid has arrived at the colombian border food and medicine from the u.s. has become a key issue in the power struggle between president nicolas maduro and john hendren has more from washington d.c. . these planes came massive c. seventeen cargo planes from homestead air force base all the way from florida landing in nearby colombia but the longest or the most difficult part of that trip

is getting across the border into venezuela because that is where president nicolas maduro has asked the army to block aid coming in from the u.s. who feed rebels in yemen say they have launched a major attack across the border with saudi arabia the armed group says it has taken a number of saudi military positions south of the city of tucson it's the most significant border fighting to take place since the stockholm agreement aimed at the escalating the fighting was signed in december syrian russia say they're preparing to open humanitarian corridors to allow people in the rock bottom refugee camp to return home more than forty thousand refugees live in the camp on syria's border with jordan u.s. vice president mike pence has called on the e.u. to pull out of the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal at a security conference in munich speech highlighted the divide between the u.s. and its allies over iran chancellor angela merkel defended germany's position to

stand by the deal and called for a dialogue. president donald trump's pick for the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has withdrawn her nomination and there now it says it is in the best interests of her family the state department spokesperson and former fox news anchor described the past two months as grueling trump is expected to nominate another candidate for the position soon. thousands of people have gathered in iran to mourn the deaths of twenty seven revolutionary guard soldiers the men were killed in a suicide car bombing in iran's sistan and baluchistan province this week the head of iran's revolutionary guard has threatened retaliation over that attack. those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news ahead earthrise is next. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world

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