to abide by its obligations under the j c p way and under security council resolution twenty two thirty one yesterday right here in munich mr pence repeated this course then he added again he demanded that europe must join the united states in undermining its own security and breaking its obligations one of the main discussions at the conference was about the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal and even though the us on the president donald trump has withdrawn from its senior american politicians continue to stand by the agreement as when he was a strong supporter of the. nuclear agreement with iran and have we want to stick with supporting them to their rainy and foreign minister however fail to address to her policies in syria and its support for president bashar assad both are accused of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and now that iran and said seem to

have won the war it seems that syria is being welcomed back into the international fold but not everyone is happy about that we are seeing countries are running back to normalize with the syrian regime inviting the sierra jim to come back to the arab league and we raise the question what of. what the syrian regime has done in order to be rewarded by normalization rewarded by coming back to the legal fight of cis another edition of the munich security conference has concluded yet many of the reasons for insecurity are on the wall remain critics say those include some of the leaders who themselves were present at this conference now mutual interest were also discussed such as cyber security but it is new solutions to old problems that many are looking to world leaders for. you nick. no iran as of a new submarine which it says is capable of firing cruise missiles president hassan

rouhani introduced the latest addition to its naval fleet in the port city of one that i've asked dubbed the conqueror iranian media says it's the country's first semi heavy submarine rouhani says the domestically produced a vessel is state of the art now mohammad marandi is an iranian affairs analyst and a professor at the university of tehran he says developments in iran's defense systems will deter the u.s. from taking any military action. i think the iranians feel that it would be silly and foolish if they did not have a robust defense capability and the iranians believe that it is because of it defense capabilities and its defense industry and its high tech capabilities that the united states has refrained from any aircraft aggressive act towards iran well one of the things that the iranians have done is that they've developed a very. capable missile defense capability and both surface to surface surface to sea surface to air and sea to sea and

therefore it's made it much more different many of iran's defense and so they sions are deep underground this is the experience of the two thousand and six war between the israeli regime and hezbollah when the israelis invaded southern lebanon and were soundly defeated i think that experience really is part of iran's defense strategy in other words taking all of your sense of it installations underground so that the potential enemy cannot strike them and would not know exactly where your facilities are so you run has extensive underground facilities and of course a submarine would be a part of that israel has implemented a new law that will take millions of dollars away tax revenues from the palestinian authority now the move penalizes the authority for supporting the families of journal of palestinian prisoners are a force of tons more from west to recently. benjamin netanyahu began his weekly

cabinet meeting insisting that he would follow through on the course he said we could do to start with holding money for the palestinian authority for you moving usual today i will submit to the cabinet for approval the deduction of the salaries of terrorists from the palestinian authority money the cabinet will hear a detailed report regarding the money from security officials this is important legislation that we've got punched and today we're going to implement it. as i promised the money in question is taxes raised by israel on behalf of the palestinians and sent to them every month for years netanyahu and his allies have attacked the palestinian policy of paying prisoners families calling it incitement to terror pointing to the fact that the longer the sentence the more serious the conviction the higher the payment last july those criticisms were translated into israeli legislation now in the midst of an election campaign in which the right wing vote could prove crucial netanyahu is implementing the law withholding one hundred thirty eight million dollars in palestinian taxes in the face of widely

reported warnings from his own security establishment suggesting such a move could in fact increase instability and violence. the palestinian prisoners club says about ten percent of the nearly six thousand inmates in israeli jails have been involved in deadly attacks the rest jailed for lesser offenses their families all deserving of support its president says the israeli move won't change a necessary policy. that that aid money that we give to the palestinian families is not for the prisoner or for the martyr who is dead we give the money to the family israel wants to practice collective punishment for most palestinians the system is a consequence of life under occupation abandoning it under israeli pressure is politically all but unthinkable the palestinian authority has condemned the israeli decision as piracy saying it's part of an effort to increase the pressure on the head of the publication of the trumpet ministrations peace plan expected some time after israel's april election ari force at al-jazeera west jerusalem. israeli

security forces have affected a palestinian family from a home in jerusalem's old city now the family's lived there since the one nine hundred fifty s. but israel supreme court ruled a jewish family who fled the home during the one nine hundred forty eight hour a busy war was entitled to reclaim it the families say they were forced to leave behind their belongings when the eviction took place. this a curious he beat me and my children they broke my belongings and they kicked us out by force the settlers were laughing on the roof and i'm here and there they are in my house. saudi arabia has invested twenty billion dollars in pakistan on the first day of crown prince mohammed bin sylmar three country asia visit now the deals were signed shortly after he arrived in the capital islamabad on sunday pakistan is facing a major debt crisis the crown prince outlined the deals at a press conference with prime minister iran card. we believe that pakistan going to

be very very important country in the coming future and you want to be sure that we are part of that so we are waiting for that kind of leadership to partner with and to build a lot of things together today we signed him or use we believe it's the amount of that kind of investment is twenty billion dollars it's big for phase one. and definitely. every month to be in a bigger numbers and it would be beneficial for both countries something hamdi is said to tour in chief of current affairs magazine international interest he says the crown prince's visit is a desperate desperate attempt to gain some political leverage over u.s. president donald trump. donald trump deeply resents the opec institution which is technically run by the saudis and in part by the russians and indeed there is a law being passed now by congress that is being that is going to allow the us to

prosecute opec states if they try to play with the price this is a big thing for saudi arabia which its whole foreign policy is built on oil it's built on iran co it's built on this ability to manhandle countries through its oil mohammed bisan man once essentially to rebuke trump to essentially say trump you can't do this to us i have other allies i can go to china i can go to india i can go to pakistan the reason why i believe that this visit is a reaction and it's not something that mohamed bin sentiment is proactively seeking other investors is because mohamed bin said man the affair is still rife everybody is still talking about it it's still affecting his image if you notice the india indonesia and malaysia visits have been postponed because he's worried about this backlash that might take place so why risk this p.r. only if you are desperate that's why you would do it saudi arabia is in desperate need of diversification it continues to rely on oil it is looking for political leverage from pakistan it is looking to india in order india one billion big economy it is looking to encourage the indians to come and invest in saudi arabia

i'm not sure china will take too kindly to saudi arabia neither will the indians but this is a desperate plan by mohammed bin cement to save salvage whatever he has. more plenty ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including battles along the saudi yemen border up putting at risk a deal aimed at deescalating the violence. also the high price of high fashion on the environment we meet the activist trying to change the trend and in sport the austrian ski king wins a record equalling seven gold medal at the world championships peter but here with that story coming up. russian learned gazprom bank has frozen the bank accounts of the venezuelan state oil firm transactions between the bank and the oil company have also been stopped reuters news agency says a gas from bank is trying to reduce the risk of falling on the u.s.

sanctions and the sanctions imposed. aimed at blocking president nicolas maduro as access to the country's oil revenues. well u.s. senator marco rubio has a delegation to the city of cooter in the border on the border between colombia and venezuela the visit comes twenty four hours after two u.s. military planes arrived in colombia with a destined for venezuela now the aid is being blocked by president to row rubio described the duo as an illegitimate and unconstitutional leader. what is happening here today what is happening in venezuela is a man me right. now power find out for the south by a manmade a criminal regime that's wanting to start killing some people before it gets a power we are inspired by the way they remind us how valuable the very young men. they remind us our part is always the result. of why we are willing to fight for

dark matter how hard. the delivery of aid to venezuela has added a geo political element to the country's political crisis president maduro is blocking food and medical supplies from the united states but allowing aid in from cuba and china while the shipment from america remains stranded in colombia truckloads of goods it's all crossing the border daily as allison that i'm p.f.c. reports now from kuta the image of oil tankers in shipping containers blocking this bridge on the colombian border has become the symbol of the standoff for control of venezuela. president nicolas maduro remains firm in his opposition to allowing the food and medical supplies from the united states into his country but the reality of the border is more complex than the blocking of a single bridge almost every night at eight o'clock the last venezuelans hastily make their way home over two other bridges in the city of. their open to foot

traffic during the day and as they shut down at night trucks filled with projects appear what do you carry i think that sugar is the answer. last september venezuela halted experts to colombia they kept importing much needed goods shipping agents say they've been a swale and government uses corporate thieves to buy food from colombia and then distribute it in food boxes for the four. weeks count to ten trucks lining up on this bridge they carry food medicine and so chemicals among other things and exporters tell us that i have been here to venezuela as a being locked hearing cope with that. and some of the products being brought are being used in the same way that aid might be used at this warehouse we found food kits being prepared to be shipped to an independent organization quietly providing

aid inside venezuela exporter just seats at me and says that the u.s. aid could also be imported legally just like any imports but there's a reason it isn't being allowed in but i know it sounds paradoxical to talk about a blockade and the media shows that bridge but on the other two bridges merchandise goes through the issue with the political we could find a foundation willing to import it and we could do it legally if they force it in the venezuelan government could argue that it's contraband and confiscate that colombia's foreign ministry says trade with been this way last fall in more than one. percent in a decade and that's the age should simply be let in for years working at this border i've seen the tragedy of thousands and thousands of kids and sick people in terrible conditions i'm convinced that there is no other option but helping the people in need humanity should be above any political and diplomatic tensions but with neither side in business well appearing willing to negotiate the aid shipment

on the border will remain the flashpoint of the growing political struggle alison. well it is also being delivered to neighboring brazil bahama judge judy reports now from a package near the venezuelan border. while brazil's government continues to indicate that they will soon begin attempting to deliver aid from brazil into neighboring venezuela it's still unclear exactly when that is going to start meanwhile migrants who cross the border from going as whaler into brazil well they come to this facility this isn't pocket i'm out in the northern state of i'm a right on the border with venezuela the migrants that are here many of them are applying for asylum many of the children are getting vaccinated and an ocular lated and there are many pregnant women that are here that are trying to get medical care before they are taken to a city about two hundred kilometers to the south where they will be able to be

housed in a maternity ward and get better care i guess the thing that impacted me the most that i heard today was from a twenty three year old this venezuelan migrant he said to me that if he continued to stay in venezuela he had two choices one was either to continue studying to was to be able to eat really showcasing the depth of the humanitarian crisis there at a time when venezuelans continue to come into brazil and at a time when it looks like that will not stop anytime soon. now the head of the united nations mission cease fire in yemen city all the data has been meeting with the huge and yemeni government representatives tentative agreements have reportedly been reached between the two sides over the pulling out of troops from the port city but both parties perspire discussing a withdrawal date fighting is still taking place elsewhere across the country. saudi state media says that yemen's who the rebels have killed at least line soldiers in the renewed military offensive the attacks happened in the southern

assadi provinces of syria and. it's the worst spate of violence since the un brokered peace deal was signed in december priyanka gupta reports. fierce fighting in the northern front lines of yemen who the rebels say they have launched major attacks on saw the u.a.e. backed forces across the border in saudi arabia over the past three days a number of saudis soldiers were killed and the military positions captured according to who the media sources saudi media is also reporting the deaths of soldiers who they say the attacks will not stop and yet mr miller are watching our operations will continue and in the coming days the lot of violence further as the war on yemen continues and the coalition continues to violate their obligations and promises under the hood data agreement the army and resistance fighters have no alternative but to continue to fight and intensify their tactical operations. this

is the first significant escalation in violence since the u.n. brokered cease fire deal was signed in sweden last december the head of the u.n. mission tasked with implementing that deal in the port city of who they are trying to stop the conflict from getting any worse but the realities on the ground are a sobering reminder of the challenges this agreement was sort of blown upside down by focusing on sunday the. bourses a major humanitarian access and that's fine but if you say a ceasefire in her day and it's ok to have. ongoing war and the rest of the country that's not a good thing and this is the consequence of the fighting for millions of yemenis go back and her family. or forced to live under a tree after escaping bombardment of the saudi border starvation has weakened her

so much that this twelve year old now weighs just ten kilos for twenty two million yemenis who desperately need aid to survive while fighting means even more suffering it looks like both sides are not very serious about ending the war and it seems that the yemen the un envoy to yemen mr martin griffiths is going to have to pull a lot more weight on putting pressure on to these parties meaning that he's going to have to rely on the british government and the american government at the saying that hey the international community here wants peace and therefore that's what's going to happen politicians in the u.k. and the u.s. are stepping up pressure to stop exporting arms to saudi arabia with the hope of preventing the world's worst humanitarian crisis from getting even worse priyanka gupta is here. also anti-government demonstrations have been taking place in sanaa these have been protest against what they believe is the normalization of relations

between yemen's government and israel and it's in response to yemen's foreign minister your money sitting next to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu during the war source of it the u.s. special envoy for syria has reassured allies that the withdrawal of american troops from the country will not be abrupt speaking from the munich security conference james jeffrey insists it will be a step by step process imran khan reports and dancing on top of the turkey syria border very soon words designed to reassure european allies the u.s. special envoy for syria said this.