all. sound. this is your read. on al-jazeera. pakistan says india needs to produce evidence for its claim that islamabad was behind a car bomb in the disputed kashmir region. raman you watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up brazil is sending aid to venezuela at the request of opposition leader. also a u.s. congressional report raises concerns about the trumpet ministration sharing nuclear technology with saudi arabia. new york times reports suggest donald trump tried to

stop investigations into him and his allies. welcome to al-jazeera pakistan's prime minister has rejected india's accusations that his country was behind last thursday's car bombing in the disputed kashmir region that attack killed forty one indian soldiers in one car asked for evidence of pakistani involvement and promised retaliation if india attacks his country but he also offered to cooperate with his neighbor to investigate the blast india's foreign ministry expressed disappointment at the pakistani leaders remarks saying cards failed to denounce the armed group jaish e mohammed which has claimed responsibility for the attack we are not surprised. that the prime minister of pakistan refuses to acknowledge the attack on our security forces and. as an act of that as prime minister of pakistan has neither

chosen to condemn this act not. with the family's disclaiming any link between the attack and pakistan is an oft repeated excuse by pakistan it is a fact that. based in pakistan this should be sufficient proof for pakistan to take action first from new delhi. the funerals continue across india as the bodies of the security forces killed in recent attacks are returned to their homes as the country mourns pressures on the government and officials to show that action is being taken. down in. security officials in indian administered kashmir blame pakistan's spy agency the i.s.i. for the car bombing by the group jaish e mohammed or jem that was. brought

. reductive order by a site. while the investigations continue many in india are wondering how it was allowed to happen critics say that any major attack can be considered an intelligence failure but the scope and complexity of this one made it the worst attack on indian forces in the region in three decades it leaves the question what went wrong. indian agencies in kashmir rely on locals for intelligence but some analysts say the goodwill needed for that intelligence has dwindled the boss to have been off extremely disruptive. communal politics now that is undermining. the environment that is what is resulting in more and more frustration and more and more recruitment for the strength this analyst

says the current intelligence agencies are understaffed and resources are mr wrecked it it is involved in political intelligence it is involved in a whole range of other activities many of them under related to two core security as indian officials continue to blame pakistan for supporting armed groups prepared to launch attacks on indian troops critics say the government needs to take a look at its own security apparatus to prevent more deaths as jamil al jazeera new delhi. million low there is pakistan's ambassador to the united nations she says prime minister imran khan wants to improve relations with india let me repeat what the prime minister said this morning he said he is prepared for an investigation provided there is actionable intelligence credible evidence that is provided to pakistan i think his words are loud and clear there is no need for you to be either skeptical or doubtful about this but i think you should also examine india's north

talks posture they need to be talking to pakistan we are ready able and willing to have this conversation not just about the incident that occurred but about all the outstanding issues that divide our two countries we think the situation is a dangerous one we don't think this kind of escalation is in the interest of either pakistan or india or the entire region or indeed of the international community that you speak off it is irresponsible not to have a conversation the conversation cannot occur through the media it cannot occur through threatening statements it cannot occur through television interviews it has to occur directly between the governments of the two countries and for that my country is ready. well as well as military has reaffirmed its loyalty for embattled president nicolas maduro defense minister vladimir putin the says the armed forces will remain in position along the border to prevent potential threats speaking on

state television pandering to describe the u.s. president's recent speech about his country as arrogant and senseless the trump administration has been calling on murderers army to defect and support opposition leader one point. now brazil is creating tussles to deliver humanitarian aid to the venezuelan border it's working with the united states to send shipments by saturday brazil says that comes a request and that the opposition leader will be responsible for its distribution momentum june has more above the stuff in brazil. brazil is coordinating and cooperating with the united states to supply aid to venezuela and that supply of aid is set to begin on saturday february twenty third that's all according to brazilian presidential spokesman ottavio. he said all this during a news conference in brasilia it was stated that the request for this aid came from venezuelan opposition leader one and that it's one why doak who will be responsible

for getting that aid from brazil into venezuela and then distributing that aid which is to be comprised of food and medical supplies once inside venezuela now this announcement was expected because there was this looming deadline we'd heard about of february twenty third and yet there was still confusion until the announcement was made as to exactly what was going to happen was brazil going to be taking aid into this whale was when this whale are going to be picking up aid from brazil the question now is where exactly will this aid be taken to along brazil's border with venezuela will it be and that is the most logical place as that is a border town right on the country's border with venezuela. it's also the main entry point for going as well and migrants when they leave in israel and come into northern brazil still many questions to come as exactly what is going to happen it was also stated that there is going to be an interim in this theory or caste force

that is going to be dealing with the logistics of this or we expect more details in the days to come. senior members of the trumpet ministration are being accused of pushing for nuclear cells to saudi arabia repeatedly legal objections democrats who have a majority in the u.s. house are launching an investigation after releasing a report based on testimony from anonymous whistleblowers former national security advisor michael flynn and the g secretary rick perry or amongst those named a strong advocates of the nuclear mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. i would say the dust has settled as this report has been issued and shown to the public but it certainly has a very alarming findings might well it does indeed it is absolutely breathtaking in its detail the detail that has been provided by what are called were sold blowers they provide names dates correspondence between the

interested parties and certainly what it does reveal is a breathtaking expanse of corruption within the administration and associates this is what the whistleblowers say that they were concerned about is the degree to which those within the administration were attempting to circumvent congress with the sole intention of personal profit this is absolutely huge in terms of the degree of corruption that the report indicates naming as well very recognizable names within us society and once again becoming another major problem for the trumpet ministration what sort of consequences can those that were named in the report expect if any at all mine. well first of all there's contravening the intent of congress said it's the atomic safety act in terms of trying to bypass congress in providing nuclear technology and information to saudi

arabia now the nature of that nuclear technology under question and certainly michael flynn who is named in the report the former national security adviser was speaking on a number of occasions about some forty power plants to be established within saudi arabia but congress is very very jealous of its right to oversee any nuclear deal that the u.s. might conduct to the foreign state and certainly the way that this operation has been going what it appeared to be in attempt to cut congress out of the loop then of course what do we do have as well is just unbridled corruption it would appear by some very senior administration of officials personal gain using their offices in a number of cases as the report would appear to indicate them it is alleged jared cushion of the son in law and close advisor of the president who sold bolding all refinanced a building to a company that just before had acquired

a nuclear works company this is just one example of numerous occasions where it does appear of more than a coincidence that the links with nuclear company by senior administration officials have led to love being by them on the nuclear company's behalf most recently it would appear just a week ago in june the twelfth the report says a group of nuclear company owners met at the white house with president trump among them was a company that employed as an advisor for a lengthy period of time that selfsame former national security advisor michael flynn for the moment we leave it there thanks mike still ahead here on al-jazeera. they may have the money and the power we have the people yes that is a bernie sanders delivers a familiar anti establishment campaign cry as the announces another white house bid . and karl lagerfeld who dominated fashion for half

a century dies at the age of eighty five those stories on the other side of the bridge. heller mackerras just had about a month's worth of rain in a day it's more unusual weather in fact for the whole of the winter china's had ready when it shouldn't have and it doesn't that much in these clouds but there is more to develop hong kong should be on the dry side dynamic are joining fairly soon i think but the rain inland is likely to develop fencing spread out towards shanghai and the northern edge is still cold enough for a bit of snow around one hand she recently as an example maybe the rains first back into sichuan which is also been dry recently but then it should be dry and that's true now this is this dry pattern exists all the way down towards the island of borneo we see is

a big showers recently and so the way i see as you season satellite picture covering java and to the east are running out sumatra even to k or singapore now they are still in the forecast for the them all rarities and you most likely have a dry time wherever you are in both malaysia and indonesia interestingly it is allowable we are developing significant rain now coming out of eastern iran and into was pakistan you see the cloud already now it's going to take a developmental form so it's like a pretty wet day from karachi northwards clearly the further north you are and in afghanistan it's not to be rain it's going to be snow. the weather sponsored by cattle. every duke is being analyzed it's being weakened measure for intelligence agencies are asked to do things in secret that are unlawful or politically embarrassing all of the colleagues that i knew

chose to retire from the n.s.a. big could not stand by and see all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance digital dissidents on al-jazeera. of the market watching all deserved with the reminder of our top stories pakistani prime minister iran card is denying indian allegations that his country was involved in last week's bombing in the disputed kashmir region forty one indian soldiers were killed in the suicide blast india has dismissed carnes offer to cooperate in an investigation brazil is creating a task force to deliver humanitarian aid to the venezuelan border it's working with

the united states to send shipments by saturday at the request of the opposition leader. and senior members of the trumpet ministration are being accused of pushing for nuclear technology sells to saudi arabia repeatedly legal objections democrats are launching an investigation after releasing a report based on testimony from anonymous whistleblowers. a veteran new york times correspondent has been denied entry into egypt david kirkpatrick was detained without explanation after he arrived at cairo port on monday the former cairo bureau chief was on a scored on to a flight back to london the following day the new york times says co patrick's denial of entry is part of a broader press crackdown under president of the fattah sisi so hard is a professor of law rutgers university and director of the center on security race and rights joins me now via skype from newark new jersey good to have you with us

is sort of another worrying development really isn't it in the relationship between journalists and the state of egypt yes and it's in bold and by the trumpet ministration pompei oh it's just there in january in egypt and claim that america was doing good in the middle east and last july of two thousand and eighteen the white house and congress released two hundred ninety five million dollars that had been withheld from military aid to egypt on account of their human rights violations so clearly what's happened is that the u.s. has caved on its commitments to human rights which is consistent with the trumpet ministration and that's emboldened president sisi of egypt to do things that had never been done in the past and it's one thing to oppress your own journalists which unfortunately has been the case in egypt over multiple decades but it's very unusual for the egyptian regime to exclude journalists of the stature of david kirkpatrick from an international mainstream newspaper based on no grounds

whatsoever so clearly the egyptian regime feels very emboldened to essentially refuse journalists from covering their country at all and you think this is just a targeted approach to the new york times because david was in fact the bureau chief of the newspaper when egypt went through its arab awakening between sort of two thousand and eleven on words. well absolutely david kirkpatrick is known for being quite independent particularly insofar as his willingness to critique the egyptian regime and even the sisi regime when he recently published a book called into the hands of the soldiers which was at least viewed by many in the egyptian government to be critical and to identify what happened in two thousand and thirteen as a coup which is and that them her to the current sisi regime so it's actually no coincidence but still even previous journalists were critical even david kirkpatrick when he was in cairo after two thousand fifteen he didn't experience expulsion so what we're seeing is

a ratcheting up of press repression that is both within the country of twenty five journalists in egypt at least twenty five that are imprisoned in egypt trading as one hundred sixty one out of one hundred eighty at the world press freedom index so egypt is not even in a good situation with regards to its press freedom and that really undermines the government it's easier eams efforts to. increase investment and to improve its economy and indeed one of our own journalist mahmud hussein is has been incarcerated in gyptian jeff one of the two years and indeed that was highlighted it in many reports from human rights groups that have said the sort of egypt as you say remains one of the most dangerous countries to be a reporter in what happened today because patrick perhaps it is an experience that only underlines that but it's sort of giving off perhaps a warning to international news agencies and journalists from the from cairo that

if you come to egypt and you want to report here you're going to do under our rules and regulations and with our very close eye on you. yes and that doesn't put egypt in a category of nations that are respected in the international community you know this is essentially what the most extreme authoritarian regimes do and it completely can it's contrary to cc's agenda vision twenty thirty and here is to bring egypt standing back up so that it's a source for tourism and then it becomes a place that at least western tourists and tourists from the far east who have the funds to come and travel look at it as a liberal modern state so it's quite confounding why this issue regime would do something like this it's because now you see stories in the wall street journal the new york times the washington post and it's going to be across the world where egypt reputation is going to be tainted and all because they wouldn't let

a very well known and familiar and professional journalists enter the country or see what the fallout of that is in the coming days of the moment zahar as he's done so joining us from new york thank you well as i mentioned al jazeera has journalist mahmoud is saying has been in an egyptian prison for more than two years he's been held without charge trial or conviction saying was detained on december the twenty of twenty sixteen by egyptian authorities upon his arrival in cairo for an annual vacation to visit his family egypt has accused the qatar based news producer of broadcasting false news. denies these charges and calls for his aim to be released immediately. now the fiance of saudi journalist mark showed she is going to join world leaders to take action against his killers at the. press to human rights panel the e.u. parliament in brussels shoji was murdered inside the saudi consular office in istanbul last year. the moment has come for all international organizations to move

forward as quickly as possible the perpetrators of this particular doc crime have to be prosecuted and justice has to prevail one might think this is a very exceptional of it but they just contemplate that this may not be as exceptional as one thinks this type of crime maybe something very frequent but we simply don't hear about it. russia says it's open to humanitarian corridors in syria to allow people in the barn a refugee camp to return home the u.n. says most of the forty thousand people are women and children who've been stranded in extremely harsh conditions for years the camp lies in the remote syrian desert near the border with jordan and iraq and one car has more russian military patrols secure all what are described as two humanitarian corridors which moscow says will allow people mainly women and children living in the elric by a refugee camp to leave the russians in coordination with the syrian government say a fifty five kilometer area has been secured for twenty four hours the clock

started ticking at nine o'clock tuesday morning. so far no one from the camp has used the corridor and the russians blame the free syrian army which are backed by the united states and which has controlled the camp. to be. under the circumstances the syrian government with assistance from russia made the unprecedented decision to open to humanitarian corridors to ensure the exit of internally displaced people from this camp to chosen places of residence it's unclear whether the russians and the syrians set up their humanitarian corridors after negotiations with the free syrian army tell our people from out of the camp walking the few kilometers to where the humanitarian corridors actually start or they simply just set up the humanitarian corridors on their own now the situation within the camp itself is incredibly die they were only able to get a first shipment the first of a couple in a few months of aid to the camp

a few days ago and many women and children who are the main residents of that camp absolutely desperate. meanwhile in southeastern syria fighting continues in the last i saw held village of alba who was the syrian democratic forces the kurdish troops backed by the u.s. have surrounded the village most of which has been reduced to rubble inside around two hundred villages are being held hostage by eisel intense many of them apparently being actively prevented from leaving by high school and continued to be subjected to a tense a fight aaron granbury strikes by the u.s. led coalition forces and their s.t.'s allies on the ground. so high commissioner puts it when i quote civilians continue to be used as pawns by the various parties and she calls on them to provide safe passage to those who wish to flee while those who wish to remain must also be protected as much as possible. i suffices according to the s.p.f. i've dug tunnels beneath the village and are hiding there slowing the fight down

and stopping the s.d.f. from declaring the end of isis enclave in syria imran khan al-jazeera. a report in the new york times is raising questions about whether the us president went further than reporting to try and stop investigations into him and his close allies article him as the latest washington d.c. . as federal investigators are closing in on the president's former fixer and lawyer michael cohen the new york times says u.s. president donald trump called his acting attorney general matthew whittaker and asked that a trump loyalist be put in charge of the investigation whittaker didn't make that move and cohen went on to plead guilty to coordinating with the president to make payments to keep news of two affairs out of the headlines before the election along with other crimes the call could possibly be seen as the president trying to obstruct justice he's denied it and gave you that just more fake tears a lot of there's a lot of fake there's a lot of fake news out there no i did the new york times is not known for producing

fake news and if true it could spell trouble for whitaker who said this to congress under oath at no time has the white house asked to work nor have i provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel's investigation or any other investigation. line to congress is a crime the justice department is denying the new york times story but the paper is also reporting the lawyers for the president reached out to lawyers for two of his former top aides to talk about potential pardons his former national security advisor michael flynn who has pled guilty to light the f.b.i. and his former campaign chairman paul metaphor who has been convicted of a litany of other crimes this is a story of a president already under investigation for obstructing justice potentially making it much worse for himself at the very least giving special counsel robert mueller even more to look into. al jazeera washington. now u.s.

politician bernie sanders and of the twenty twenty white house rice is the independent senators second to tend the last the democratic party's twenty sixteen nomination to hillary clinton who was defeated by donald trump and seventy seven year old it will come pain on many of the same promises sons last time including universal health care minimum wage and free public college tuition. bernie sanders i'm running for president and i'm asking you today to be part of an unprecedented grassroots campaign of one million active volunteers in every state in our country our campaign is not only about the feeding donald trump the most dangerous president in modern american history it is not only about winning the democratic nomination and the general election our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic social racial and environmental

justice and indian military pilot has been killed after two planes collided while training for an air show dramatic video of the incident shows the plane spiraling out of control over the state of conduct two pilots managed to object and parachute safely to the ground with minor injuries. now one of the world's most famous fashion designers karl lagerfeld has died he was the creative director of chanel and an icon of the global fashion industry for more than half a century was instantly recognizable for his white ponytail high starched collars and dark glasses friends say his humor wit and passion for fashion will live on forever now a painting believed to be by leonardo da vinci is at the center of a mystery the salvatore lindy's sold for a record breaking four hundred fifty million dollars in twenty seventeen but it hasn't been seen since now some critics are questioning its authenticity gabriel is

on the has more from new york. it's named salvador moody a painting by leonardo da vinci depicting jesus christ thought to be five hundred years old it's said to be one of the world's last long lost davinci original sydney one for that's why when it was auction in two thousand and seventeen the bidding was unlike anything ever seen before in the art world so at the minute the real don . three hundred million at three hundred and seventy million dollars that is four hundred million dollars is the bit so. including the buyer's premium salvatore moonbase sold for a record breaking four hundred fifty million dollars that's more than four times what anybody in the art world predicted the identity of the buyer an issue he shrouded in secrecy was eventually revealed to be a wealthy saudi working on behalf of crown prince mohammed bin salomon who then

gave the painting to the move out to dhabi museum as a gift but the announced unveiling of the artwork was abruptly canceled without explanation salvatore moody has not been seen since leaving pulitzer prize winning art critic jerry soltz to say it was all a fraud if you bought the most famous painting in the entire world by the most famous artist who ever lived at the highest price ever paid why are you hiding it might the painting be a fake you don't have the confidence to show the most famous new painting in the world something's fishy here. but oxford professor martin kemp one of the world's remount experts on davinci thinks the painting is authentic but with every day it's kept hidden with no information he worries to somewhat disconcerting to

find that it's not appearing i presume the ownership is secure but even that wouldn't be entirely confident about nobody who might know the status of the painting is talking request for information to the museum to abu dhabi department of culture and tourism and the saudi embassy in washington were all not returned by one of the great mysteries of the or world likely only to be solved when and if the world's most expensive painting reappears gabriels andro al-jazeera new york. your children there with me cell rom the reminder of our top stories pakistani prime minister imran khan is denying india allegations that his country was involved in last week's bombing in the disputed kashmir region forty one indian soldiers were killed in the suicide blast and he has dismissed khan's offer to

cooperate in the investigation we are not surprised that the prime minister of pakistan refuses to acknowledge that attack on our security forces and lama as an act of that as a prime minister of pakistan has neither chosen to condemn this highness act not. with the beaded families disclaiming any link between the terrorist attack and pakistan is an oft repeated excuse by pakistan it is a very long fact that gesture moment and its leader muscle doesn't are based in pakistan this would be sufficient proof for pakistan to take action. brazil is creating a task force to deliver humanitarian aid to the venezuelan border it's working with the united states to send ships and by saturday at the request of opposition leader one. senior members of the trumpet ministration are being accused of pushing for nuclear technology cells designed to arabia repeatedly ignoring legal objections

democrats are launching an investigation after releasing a report based on testimony from anonymous whistleblowers a veteran new york times correspondent has been denied entry into egypt david kirkpatrick was detained without explanation after he arrived at cairo airport on monday the former cairo bureau chief was then a scored on to a flight back to london the following day u.s. politician bernie sanders and of the twenty twenty white house race is the independent senators second attempt he lost the democratic party twenty sixteen nomination to hillary clinton who was defeated by donald trump. five civilians including two young brothers have been killed during mortar shelling by the rebels in yemen it hacked happened in their data province at least fifteen people were injured those are the headlines and back with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera inside story is next to stay with us.

big brother is watching in china millions of people are being punished for what's considered bad behavior under a government monitoring scheme is this ethical and could it be taken surveillance too this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. whether we like it or not we are constantly being watched security cameras and smartphones making it easier to monitor our lives

china's government wants to take face further by eventually writing everyone on their conduct.