affecting their families but branson is involvement his efforts have critics chief among them on twitter at least as musician roger waters from the band pink floyd water says that this concert has nothing to do with humanitarian aid at all it has to do with richard branson and i'm not surprised by this having bought the u.s. saying we have decided to take over. for whatever our reasons for may be that it has nothing to do with the needs of the venezuelan people it has nothing to do with democracy it has nothing to do with region and it has nothing to do with age so we just need to battle to chile richard branson now that clip has far more views when you compare it to richard branson's and look on twitter and you tube and the majority government has pretty much been saying the same thing about that event it's organized arrival concert just

a few hundred meters away on the other side of the border with you organizers call it concert for peace and one for life they say it is to denounce aggression of the venezuelan people and i must say on venezuela trends this concert is one of the top trends so a big deal there let us know what you think about this battle of the bands and what it says about the ongoing crisis in venezuela get in touch with us on twitter using the hash tag it's in it's good thanks andrew we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms we're on twitter use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine. now about a thousand men women and children have been rescued from last pocket of territory in syria the evacuation from but who is comes as thousands more remain trapped in

the eastern village it is believed they're being used as human shields the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces hoping to carry out a full evacuation on friday for launching a final assault on the ice will fight as scott live now to imran khan who is in again on turkey's side of the border with syria iran reports that the evacuations of civilians from but whose is now resumed what more do you know on the . well i'm actually coming to you live from istanbul and what i can tell you is that there was a very confident statement from mr bali the s t f spokesman who said on friday morning that the last of the civilians would be evacuated in buses and trucks from alba whose village in syria that didn't happen we heard that there were a least a thousand civilians that did manage to get out however we're hearing that there are still about three thousand civilians in the village itself the numbers are actually all over the place the estefan really sure it seems the they know the

exact number of civilians within the village at the very beginning the operation two weeks ago they actually said there were six thousand civilians that they if the numbers are to be believed they've actually evacuated six thousand civilians and now we're hearing that there may still be three thousand civilians left within the village the s.d.f. actually won't go into the village for the final push until all of the civilians have been evacuated and we're talking a very tiny sliver of territory now about a square kilometers worth of territory so it's a very difficult operation for the s.d.f. and they are waiting for all of those civilians to be able to be get to get on buses to get on trucks and to get out i want is the latest we're hearing him on on the fighting on the ground as they try to flush out those last remaining eisel fighters. was going to be a very very tough fight you got the s.t.'s forces on the outskirts of the village sending in those buses as i said those trucks to get people out but they haven't

gone into the village since the early days of the operation there at the outskirts of the village the village is actually completely destroyed but eisel have been prepared for this battle for a very long time and they've managed to dig tunnels underneath the village itself which is where their hardcore fighters are now in terms of actual eisel fights in numbers we don't know how many there are we're hearing there might be hundreds of fighters but these guys are very well prepared they know the territory they've managed to slow the offensive down by using booby traps booby trap houses and by actually trying to tunnel b.s.d.'s fighters into a little pathway into the village so they know what they're doing so it will be a very tough fight despite the fact that they're only actually fighting over square kilometer all right as imran khan live from live from istanbul there for us now a teenager climate activist from sweden who inspired students around the world to

come across as has brought her campaign to paris sixteen year old and gratitude once more french students to join the demonstrations calling on politicians to tackle global warming protests again little traction so far in france where the landmark cop twenty one international accord on cutting emissions was signed in two thousand and fifteen david was at the rally in paris. it is remarkable how the voice of just one swedish sixteen year old student has changed the whole atmosphere of climate change activism she started off protest september one day september now she's been for united nations been to davos and here she is an heiress mishear what she's having to say when i first started striking i didn't really expect anything i just thought that i will just have to see what happens and . but then i would never have imagined that it was going to be this big. and i

think it's incredible it's just it's a surprise every time i see someone else striking and it's it feels incredible. creatures says that action must be taken now they don't have time for her generation to take power and they must see it different now and that is a view that's being supported by many many people here in the past a republican she respects the poor because of what you would i hope the politicians will listen to them look how much press came here to listen to these kids more than to listen to us who are always giving interviews i think people trust them they believe they are free insincere concerning their future not only for decades but for generations to come this is the first time the reader's voice has been in paris which was of course the host city on the climate records present emanuel michael try and stick to his ambitions in modern climate change and increase the price of diesel but of course we saw the elevation protests and then he was forced into an

embarrassing on that matter now he just says exactly that sort of short termism in politics and that is creating a huge problem action is needed and it's needed now. the world's ability to produce enough food is under severe threat that's according to the food and agriculture organization the un body warning the variety. plant and animal life crucial for crops and the amount of usable land is on the decline it says climate change is behind a drop in the number of insects needed to pollinate wild food sources while pests and diseases of thrive changes in land use pollution and over harvesting is driving the decline in traditional food sources the f.a.r.'s says there is hope if nations educate communities on the importance of diverse animal and plant life are coming up for those of you watching online we meet the woman dubbed the chimpanzee

mother looking after all fund apes in sierra leone that's from our colleagues at a.j. plus also this weekend the envelopes will be opened and the oscars will go home with the winners but this year's ceremony is already being called a loser we'll tell you why. hello the weather is slushy fighting dry now we're cross the middle east though some business pieces of plant perhaps some snow just pulling away from the eastern side of the region just around afghanistan is this area cloud too that's also been making its way away from central and southern parts of pakistan brought the skies do come back in behind them in the sunshine stretches across iran into much of iraq you could just catch them to the western side of iraq what's a weather still a possibility around thirty northern parts of syria sixty says it's a little disappointing there for beirut but the temperatures starting to lift as we

go on into sunday and by sunday rain and snow once again a possibility. florrie should we say the old shower that the western parts of iran just pushing out of iraq south of that will temperatures starting tonight up twenty three south is there for kuwait city mostly temperatures not going up here cutter over the next twenty four celsius in doha possibility of your sport of vital signs day brighter skies warm sunshine as we go on into sunday but the winds to pick up so the possibility of some nifty dust and sand meanwhile we've got the winds picking up to just around the mozambique channel for a time blustery showers a possibility into northern parts of mozambique and also the eastern cape of south africa. oh you and a fixed for all practical purposes yes i support science and truth one of the figureheads for the new atheist movement if you believe something without evidence

then that justifies anything to do except that religion has done good things despite all of our mad beliefs and americans who believe that science holds all the answers in the world be a better place if religion disappeared tomorrow yes mehdi has done guys head to head with richard dawkins on al-jazeera. donald trump has talked of a special bowl with kim jong on. now the us president a north korean leader ought to meet again this time in vietnam were both very honored to eight months after making history in singapore when they strike a deal on nuclear weapons. and finally end the korean war followers on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera.

within. the top stories that are trending on our web site beyond going tensions between pakistan and india obviously. a very popular story with people logging on we're going to tell you a little bit about that later in the program and do it a shot to venezuela's border with brazil and number two i was up top story

a little earlier on the news grid it's all trending stories on our web site coffee . all right some of the other stories making news around the world then the head of the roman catholic church has put out guidelines on how to address the issue of sexual abuse it's day two of the talks at the vatican aimed at dealing with the scandal pope francis and his most senior leaders have been hearing victim testimony about the scale of the crisis and the suffering it has caused the church has long been accused of covering up abuse it has paid out billions of dollars to thousands of victims around the world. palestinians across the west bank are marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the ibrahimi mosque massacre that took place in hebron twenty nine people were killed when a far right israeli settler opened fire inside the mosque palestinians say strict israeli rules imposed after the massacre kept them from their homes and businesses

harry forsett reports from hebron. at a gate barring access to the israeli controlled part of hebron israeli soldiers prepare for the protests they fan out on rooftops and check buildings before long a group of about thirty demonstrators from the youth against settlements movement heads towards a location these protests have ended in clashes in previous years but this time they're allowed to approach the gate as settlers look on. the open. markets and. the protests twenty five years since an american israeli settler goldstein entered ibrahimi mosque during prayers and shot dead twenty nine people who was praying that day in the front when the shooting started. i think about it all the time i was tripping over people lying on the floor the wounded calling for help it's an unforgettable

tragedy. in the years since hadrons old city has become starkly divided around eight hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians living in close proximity and under the control of the israeli army. but the demonstrators are also drawing attention to more recent events the israeli expulsion last month of the international observer mission. set up in the aftermath of the massacre and this week's decision by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to try to shore up his chances of reelection in april by embracing a far right party that had been taboo for the israeli mainstream. back at the protest site a second group of demonstrators arrives members of major political factions in the occupied west bank. more noise more of a face off with soldiers major confrontation this is an end to what was a road simply peaceful commemoration of a terrible day of violence but it still goes to highlight just how divided how

tense how militarized the city is twenty five years later that al-jazeera hebron in the occupied west bank. and i hear ian's are preparing for saturday's presidential election it was supposed to happen last week but was perspiring only just five hours before polls were going to open there are concerns about another delay there and fears ethnic violence could hurt voter turnout john how has more from a belgian. the latest stars of nigeria's film and dance world in a video promoting a peaceful election yes and it's a condition. there are concerns about the country's ability to hold a successful presidential poll this weekend after last saturday's surprise delay and some fear a return of ethnic violence triggered in the past by disputed results with the background that we already have in which we have so much lost be shown on misgivings and so on i about i'm about security agencies about the government

itself and so on and so forth bets a high risk that results will be disputed people would reduce the protests the results in some places under the high risk of of power. in a crowded field of candidates to stand out president obama do bihari his critics say he's failed on the economy fighting corruption and insecurity and one time vice president atiku abubakar accused of corruption but promising business friendly policies and jobs despite reassurances by the government and the independent election commission i nick that the poll will happen this time and be free and fair trust in the process has been dented not the public trust in government was all that high to begin with if money is not the only reason i ever have either of these things. if i see one after spending so many years with you this is why we've come out to one hundred forty five who are without jobs and why do you think that is

the company's part and who do you blame for that you know tell me you know. you know what's up with the people in the nigerians have reason to be hopeful and reason to worry two thousand and fifteen was the first election won by an opposition candidate since democracy was restored after military rule in nineteen ninety nine made people feel that their votes. but you see. this election it's. the successor to. the right. step in the election observers foreign and local trying to ensure doesn't happen. is a leading civil society groups sending more than three thousand observers to polling stations and conducting a parallel vote count on election night. we believe that as an institution that.

we have in the observers in the field as independent of the sides system would help with votes and save it in the process because we want to actually count nigeria is africa's most populous country the continent's biggest economy it's wrong for oil wealth means who runs it matters to epic levels of poverty and unemployment suggest that the job could be done better jonah how al-jazeera. a senegal voters will head to the polls on sunday for their presidential election while there was no televised debate some candidates agreed to participate in a public forum hoping to attract younger voters with the average age in senegal just eighteen securing the youth vote could be key to victory nicolas hogg reports from the capital. ordinary people got a rare chance to hold a three candidates to account during an election forum. among them eighteen year old. so when you say you are the candidate of the people but what would you do

about women's rights because i can't see it in your manifesto another takes the mike. what will you do for people with disabilities or we need jobs what about foreign fishing vessels asks another or local fisherman can't compete against them how many of our men have to die at sea before the government does something about it was visibly taken aback by some of the questions each candidate have a few minutes to answer. i wanted to look at him straight in the eyes and see if i can really trust him with my future and the future of our country. on stage is former tax man he's the youngest candidate in the race he just grabs him self as the anti establishment candidate but for connected john his policies appear conservative and you have young people who think like old people who think like young ones so really i don't think it's about the age i think it's about the vision and i think that nowadays. we have less and less people who we present

with a mission. to identify. most. born after two thousand and have lived under only two presidents during the campaign many took to social media calling for televised debates but with incumbent president and opposition rival refusing to take part in such an event the broadcast regulator announced it cannot take place on television. even people no longer vote for candidates based on religion or ethnicity they vote for ideas that's why we need a forum like this where the senegalese are better informed and can make the right choice since independence there have been eleven presidential elections all of them resulting in peaceful transitions of power senegal may have a long tradition of democracy and open discussion but not of public debate organizers of this event say attitudes are changing because the many who are

attending this event are first time voters and they are no longer afraid of confronting powerful politicians in public and asking them tough questions. climate change pollution unemployment or minority rights seems important to young cynical while politicians make promises many say they are still undecided on how to vote. nicolas hawke al-jazeera the car. a public hearing has begun in bangladesh over the result of december's disputed election the opposition party says prime minister she has in his landslide win was rigged and is calling for a new vote under a neutral government has moved. several hundred people gathered here at the bangladesh supreme court auditorium for a public hearing on the controversial december thirty election this was called opposition l.-i the national unity front the candidate shared their experience what

they face before during and on the day off the election i spoke to an independent analyst as to what they want to achieve through this kind of public airing this is what professor there are children had to say this is. all the information to give. and make them. think about the election. and. so this is part of that. to make people aware of the opposition members say they're still continue to face harassment intimidation and. charge by the authorities and most cases they're not allowed to speak in public rallies they're not granted permission what's important is we were told. what problems we faced. the current government is an illegal is not elected i think that's very important

despite facing many different obstacles the opposition feel it is very important to bring the issue of the december thirty election to the public sphere and it wants to continue its movement. now the u.s. president has pulled back from plans for a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops in syria two hundred soldiers will remain on the ground forming what the white house called a peace keeping force donald trump has been under pressure from advisers and allies since the surprise announcement last year gary alexander has more from washington. it's been over two months since donald trump made the surprise announcement that he was going to be pulling out all two thousand u.s. troops from syria that's an announcement that came as a surprise and also went against the advice of many of his top advisers at the time well now we're getting indications that trump is backtracking from that a little bit with this announcement that the u.s.

will keep two hundred troops within syria for an undetermined amount of time. the readout that came from the white house indicated that the phone conversation with trump and aired on the both sides indicated that they wanted to do what was right for both of the country's interests within syria and that really comes down to what they're calling this potential safe zone there in northern syria now the turkish air go on he wants this safe zone area stablished and in that part of syria in order to clear the kurdish militia forces out of there considers them to be terrorist organization but the kurdish fighters were very much allied with the americans and helped very much lead the fight really in many ways the fight of clearing syria from eisel fighters and so the americans standpoint is they still

want to protect the kurdish fighters in a lot of ways too so there's still a lot of unanswered questions on how this is all going to be coming about but clearly we're getting indications that trump indicates that these two two hundred troops remaining in syria will be good for the united states and it appears in some ways at least that this potentially is agreeable with erda one as well now the turkish minister of defense will be in washington on friday meeting with his american counterpart the interim secretary of defense for the united states will be continuing these to these discussions what is also unclear is well is how this decision will affect european. allies particularly the u.k. and france they announced that they would also pull out of syria if the u.s. did that as well but now with these two hundred u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k. and france remain in syria as well. judge in the u.s.

has tightened the gag order against president former political advisor roger stone and threatened jail time if he violates it was in court after posting a picture on social media which appeared to show the judge in his case in the crosshairs of a gun case is connected to the investigation into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election. and has more from washington. longtime associate close confident visor to u.s. president roger stone was back before a federal judge here in washington and the reason why is the seven ballot he's facing seven very serious charges he was told he could still talk about the case but just not in front of this courthouse but then a few days ago he posted to instagram it was a picture of the judge overseeing his case it said she was an obama appointee said it was a sham court sham trial but the controversial part was it seemed that there was a gun crosshair from a gun site right above her head well the judge said ok come back let's talk about

whether or not you get out on bail and he someone usually took the stand in this story seemed to really change quite a bit at first it seemed to say and someone else posted it and he said he posted it didn't really look at it and looked at it a couple of options to choose from and that he continued to talk about make those allegations on several media interviews after that so the judge not abused she came back and said basically change your story on the stand so here's the deal from now on you can't talk about the case to anyone in the public not to radio not to print newspapers not to anyone she said i'm not going to send you to jail she could have but she said if you violate the terms of this you likely will. pakistan's army is promising a fitting response if attacked by india top general made a remark a week after a pakistan based armed group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack that killed forty in the indian paramilitary policeman india has accused pakistan's main intelligence agency of being behind the attack

which it has denied come on to has more from pakistani administered kashmir. capital. and bieber like going about their daily. however they are. about what may happen within the next week to. that of india and pakistan. separating indian administered kashmir from the. prime minister has already responded. by saying that. an dialogue and want everything including. and the future of the disputed territory of me. any military spokesman. on national television.

indian media on the. war mongering and building. one. for the security of the whole region. is prepared for war and he also warned that if the planning or. anything be ready for the pakistani. whole nation together and did not want india to get the message that the message of the world also a message of weakness all right well she totally is an indian opposition m.p. from the congress party previously served as the un's undersecretary general for communications and public information he joins me now on sets talk more about this . thanks for being with us so i want to ask you this been obviously a lot of the heated rhetoric between india and pakistan over the last few days

since that attack on the fourteenth the prime minister modi has promised a tough approach to. as pakistan what would you like your government to be doing at this point where i'd like them to be doing things we can talk about frankly i'd like them to be exacting a certain amount of retribution we know who the culprits are they've been running around on the loose in pakistan for some years and we seem to be unfortunately confined to sort of fulminating about them the sad thing is they enjoy the patronage and the protection and apparently the arms and the training of the pakistani military and that's something that really gets the goat of many many indians so these are things that worry us very seriously it's a it's a dangerous and irresponsible thing to do and obviously the country to that degree is pretty united on this there are other aspects on which we will have political differences but what is one of those then talk about some well i mean everything about for example why this was actually allowed to happen in the first place

whether our security preparations were adequate why there was such a large convoy of able public access to it why it was possible for someone to smuggle in three hundred fifty kilograms of r.d.x. across the border and bring them into into into indian territory so all of these questions are legitimate and have been asked by my party but these are issues of detail on the fundamental question of responsibility for the section we know that lashkar e toiba did the twenty six eleven the murder of one hundred sixty six indians and others in mumbai in two thousand and eight we know jesse muhammad there's laid claim to this particular atrocity this year and there have been a number of smaller attacks that have taken a more modest number of victims of victims none the less in the years in between i mean frankly a lot of people in india have said we've had enough and the problem is the straw that breaks the camel's back is this one it's we all hope not but there is

a level of tolerance beyond which we we cannot go and of course. indian elections are coming up later this year obviously you're hoping that your party will will get back into government if you were in a position of power the congress party what would you be doing then well again we wouldn't be talking about it in any great detail in public you've got to understand that these are very very serious matters what we're going through at the moment is something which has caused a great deal of pain and anguish across the country these forty coffins have gone through various corners of the country are a paramilitary are recruited from everywhere they represent people of every faith every background every religion and and and therefore it's united india in a very very painful way so some sort of action some sort of reciprocation is absolutely essential but of the same time i think responsible heads wanted to be measured toward full and proportionate to the atrocity i don't think there's any

serious clamor for all out war or the prime minister's. hardline policy of not holding a dialogue with with kashmiri separatists has come under certain some criticism do you do you share that criticism has that backfired yes i think i think frankly these five years represent a missed opportunity these people came to power when there was a lull in kashmir they have been no violence for some years and they came to power with a coalition government in kashmir with a party from the valley that had pretty strong support for its for its line and i think with the two of them together something could have been done to engage all sections of kashmir opinion including separatist opinion in order to see what exactly we could work out by way of an accommodation instead they simply sat back and let the place drift for five years and the result is mounting tension inside the state increasing militancy large numbers of young people taking up arms more

casualties amongst both the militants and the security forces it's been a completely lose lose situation on the b j p s. sponsible for it something else has been in the news a bit this the binny's calls for a complete boycott of all things pakistani by by some in india they they want they even want india's cricket team to forfeit its match against pakistan in the world cup this summer now notwithstanding the fact that cricket is obviously a massive game in india and pakistan is that is that not a bit over the top i think it is a bit over the top and i have opposed it publicly in india one of the few to do so in the from the political world because no one wants to brook the public sentiment just think it's it's unnecessary and certainly at a time when the government hasn't even been cleared a period of national mourning to be busy distracting the public by want to cancel a match that is three months or almost four months away the sixteenth of june is when it's supposed to happen i think is a bit fatuous i think we really ought to be focusing on more essential effective

action i think all this talk about canceling cricket matches in june is an exercise in diverting the attention of the public and i have no time for it so do you think all of this ramping up of rhetoric from from prime minister modi has has contributed to the tensions we have now well look you can't entirely blame and i believe he has certainly gone pretty far in his rhetoric and so also a few weeks to go for the national elections and he has an image that he sort to project last time around which is haunting him no in fact many whatsapp video extracts of his previous questions to the previous government are being played back to him people are basically saying here all the things you are asked how come you have no answers with another job prime minister and the problem therefore is that his belief is rhetorical belligerence is partly because he has a credibility problem for the things he said before but it's also true that he's tapping into a national mood of outrage and anger and there is

a real sense that you know the pakistani government may well have had the best intention. certainly in run condamine know well somebody who spoke with some sincerity about peace with india but the inability or unwillingness of the civilian government to control the root elements in the sawyer who then unleashed these terrorists upon india in the form of gum sonnen even accompt upon your own this is becoming unacceptable and it's becoming extremely difficult for the neighbors of pakistan to live with and just quickly coming back to the elections in india i'm sure you have political ambitions if if your party wins what hope what role do you hope to be playing in a in a congress government whatever who the government gives you for when my own seat for sale preferences though i dive i've always i've never asked for a job all my life for the un or an indian politics so what comes my way i'll do but let me stress it's a tough election and you know the b.g.p. is the incumbent government in delhi in my state the communists are the incumbent

government and so i don't actually have a party in power in either my state or in the center of a tough race ahead i intend to fight a good fight but i've got to win mon seed before i can have larger ambitions or i could to speak with you. wrote joining us here thanks so much for being with us but to be with you now for those of you watching us on facebook find out how one illustrator frustrated by the lack of black representation in disney movies took matters into his own hands also straight ahead sent us here with a look at the rivalry between english football's two most successful to.

all right let's find out what people talking about a sport today has sent out thank you very much a has and was a local dobby that's watched by fans around the world liverpool's us is not just a united brings together the two most successful teams in english football liverpool have the chance to go three points clear at the top of the table or when the teams that meets on sunday it will be united in the season a result of problems of the firing. since then united to have been revived on the

leadership of form the play already going to salsa and the club's fans that have already all of him with his own song. phone with all the at the wheel united have lost just once in the last thirteen games and he now has the chance to stand on the to his biggest win yet. for them it's a big game for us is a big game because we we want to be going to talk for so and we're playing liverpool we know how big the game is for money united we know how big that game is for the stuff here and how it is for the supporters so. we're just looking forward to another challenge for this team because we want to build a base team into that were it's worthy of. mine united's history all my united are out of contention for this year's title but they

do have the chance to undermine liverpool's hopes of ending a three decade wait to win the trophy in the nineteen seventies and eighties liverpool dominated the english football in nineteen ninety they won the last of their eighteen league titles when alex ferguson took over as united manager he said that his ambition was to knock liverpool off their perch he did just that he won the league thirteen times and took the club's overall total to twenty two more than liverpool while on your going club but liverpool are finally inside of title number nineteen they have lost just once all season and a when on sunday will move them three points clear of matches to city i cannot write your stories gentlemen are you have to write it by yourself and be be only prepared for a football game will be a preview of what would be a game against a really good opponent and that it cannot do more i cannot go into beating with the

players and tell them all about the history of the game and you know what. of course i'm a human being of course i know and i'm a put interest in football so i knew it before i came here so that's there's no doubt about it all it's all good like it is but it's we cannot make the game bigger only because of the decisive moment we have to do anything anyway the best we can do and if possible a little bit more has our correspondent with his take on the game the world will be watching well whenever manchester united player liverpool it's always a big game not just for english football but one of the biggest games in world football but this one has the delicate position for both clubs at an important part of the season for manchester united they are revived on the ole gunnar social of course a temporary manager will see if he can get the job full time but they have won

eleven of the thirteen games under him and it's not just the fact they've been winning it's the football they've been playing the football that manchester united fans so i want to say the football that they weren't getting on the defensive job is a marina and it's taken them so forth in the premier league the chance the expectation that they might actually qualify for the champions league next season which is always side pour into them arsenal and chelsea are challenging for that fourth place so i could really do with a win whoever the fact it's against liverpool has that extra spice always deliver paul vi note this part of being out of fantastic season i can't slip up because manchester city are playing so well at the moment and ready to pounce so manchester city fans will be watching this with huge interest before their play in the league cup final against chelsea at wembley an unusual position for manchester city fans by of course only their great rivals manchester united to win.

it was a wildly that's also playing out on social media united's official account contributing this nothing to see here just two united legend who both scored a famous win is of against liverpool of course you have real ferdinand there with such a gun on were watching while he was with the with the manager at the club's training ground this week and liverpool fan of football writer garrett watts underlining how important this game has become this is what he had to say this fixture or minds were referred to as two bald men fighting over a common not this year this year it's a big man united fans believe a win for their team will guarantee soldiers future this fan he says all are going to so she has to be given the job but he understands the culture and d.n.a. of this club as good as anyone and has the potential to lead us for the coming

years why spend fifty million bringing an outsider you're not going to find a better fit for this job than all the while both teams can expect a passionate reception from the fans at old trafford on sunday but there is unlikely to be anything that matches this fiery arrival here as senate to stand petersburg fans a greeting their team bus ahead of your play league game against fenerbahce on thursday the flares and fireworks seem to have the desired effect on the play is the russian team won the tie and will now face villareal in the last sixteen. what you think you can get in touch with me on twitter oh use the hash tag a.j. in use of course you can tell us who's going to when the e.p.l. the biggest game which is happening sunday of course the manchester united.

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finally has a government but its economy is screaming for attention. to. africa's largest democracy. and governance. politics remain widespread. coverage of the issues the candidates and voters. as venezuelans pour into one of two rival concerts on the colombian reports of two people killed in clashes here because. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you know with al-jazeera also coming up on the

program kurdish led forces try to evacuate thousands of civilians from i still have territory in syria palestinians mount the twenty fifth anniversary of the current hebron which led to the segregation from israeli settlers. and the united nations is saying we need to change the way we eat as it warns that the future of food is on a threat. we begin in venezuela this hour where is two people have been killed in clashes with security forces close to the border with brazil several of those close to the town of. have suffered from gunshot wounds all of them are reported to be indigenous venezuelans now on thursday nicolas maduro president nicolas maduro announced that he was closing venezuela's vast border with brazil.

well all this is venezuela's power struggle is becoming a battle of the bands with dueling concerts the latest stage of the showdown between nicholas madeira an opposition leader one the events are taking place just a few hundred meters apart on one end of a bridge leading to the colombian border city of. british billionaire richard branson is sponsoring a concert with more than a dozen musicians meanwhile on the other side of the duros government is holding a three day festival called hands off venezuela well thousands of people have poured into the pro opposition concert in colombia called venezuela a lie that aims to raise one hundred million dollars for venezuelans so far few people are reported to have turned up in the duo's concert both events are due to kick off around now. well our last america editor you see and human is live for us now by the by the rain

a bridge on the venezuelan side of the border with colombia and can i ask you first of all lucy if these reports of two people being killed in a shooting on the border with brazil what are you hearing about this yes. yes marian we've heard that ad least fifteen people were injured by gunfire these were indigenous venezuelans from a community a very very poor community that is very combative they had already said that they were not going to allow that israel is ministry the military rather to try to block or or or close the border with brazil where the food and medicine that has been accumulated there is supposed to be brought into the country on saturday apparently the army arrived the national guard they had two armored trucks there was a clash with that between them and the armed forces we understand began firing at least two people were killed there are three others we understand that are very seriously wounded they were initially taken to

a health center nearby but then have been crossed we're now told into brazil because they were not enough supplies in the venezuelan health center to try to help them so that is the situation at this hour merriam. right bill this taking place against a backdrop of two rival concerts one initiated by one why do the all the by president nicolas maduro tell us about turnout events. well that's right the one here on this side of the of the bridge is there's nobody there practically not yet it hasn't started they were meant to start at the very very same time but very few people have turned up in fact i'm at the wooden your bridge which is just ten minutes away from where the little concert is supposed to begin and that we can still see people crossing into venezuela into very anxious to see the concert on the colombian side there are a lot of big name stars there it's absolutely packed we understand but on this side

almost no one there fact at this hour there probably more policeman waiting we understand for crowds to show up marian all right thank you very much our latin america to you see in yemen there in. thank you very much new c.l. let's head to alexandra yet. on the colombian side of the border where as you were saying richard branson a cons that is on the way tell us a bit about the atmosphere where you are sandra. but marian this concert is just kicking off and as lucio were saying thousands of venezuelans have been crossing into columbia to come to this concert there are more than thirty five artist expected to play today many of them are extremely famous across latin america so it's normal to expect such a big crowd about it we've spoken to at least half a dozen of groups especially young people that were coming here and they are saying

that their plan is not only to stay for the concert but also to spend the night here and the organizers set up a sort of tent city for hundreds if not a few thousand people there might decide to stay on this side of the border they will be provided with food and be ready for saturday morning to participate in this in action to try and move a. venezuela this will happen on all the four bridges connecting colombia to venezuela here in the border city of kuta and the idea so it will be to have a massive amount of people dressed in white on both sides trying to reach the bridges and across the eight on some trucks that we've seen are already lined up to try and move this eight tomorrow morning saturday into of in this weather but one last thing we've also heard from the colombian government to say that last night

and we've reported many times that on this bridge on the venezuelan sizes blocked by containers that the national guard the minister national guard last night that well did these containers to the structure of the bridge making it supposedly more difficult tomorrow to try and move them thank you very much for. bringing us the scene in. colombia side of that with venezuela. to syrian. territory hundreds of people have already been rescued from the eastern village of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say around seven thousand. in the besieged. which. is hoping to carry out

a full evacuation on friday before launching their final push to defeat. this report. friday began with a very confident statement from the spokesman of the s.d.f. most of the bali he said that he was hopeful that all of the civilians would manage to be trucked out of the village at the end of the day and they only managed to get one thousand of those civilians out and we don't we're not sure whether there were any eisel fighters who had surrendered within that number now it's a very big problem for the s.d.f. they're not going to go into the village itself and complete the final battle until all of those civilians have been evacuated and the numbers have varied wildly throughout the last two weeks and they had the least six thousand civilians in the village but over the last two weeks they've actually managed to take out six thousand civilians and now the s.d.f. is saying there may well be three thousand more villages still on the outskirts of

that village actually the village is completely destroyed and these people are living in tents just outside of the village and we're also hearing that the fight is going to be incredibly tough for the s.t.'s because i still fight has been prepared for this battle for very long time and they've dug tunnels underneath the village where the last few hundred estimated are still fighters hiding out and they're waiting for the s.d.f. to come in now it's in isolation interest to keep the civilians there for as long as possible they are in effect using them as human shields and that's something that really concerns both the syrian democratic forces and the united nations so it's a it's a wait and see game right now this operation was supposed to come to an end within a few days it's taken nearly two weeks and they're only fighting over a square kilometer of territory now think that i saw in two thousand and fourteen my advice to take a huge swathes syria a nearly a third of iraqi territory that out down to just one square kilometer and that

square kilometer is proving very tough. palestinian protesters have clash with israeli troops at a demonstration marking the twenty fifth anniversary of the abraham the mosque massacre in hebron twenty nine palestinian worshippers were shot dead by far american israeli settlers in one thousand nine hundred four. main street was closed to palestinians by the israeli army soon after the massacre palestinians have called for the street to be reopened saying its closure is disruptive and helps to cement israeli control of the area force it has moved from the occupied west bank. at a gate barring access to the israeli controlled part of hebron israeli soldiers prepare for the protests they found out on rooftops and check buildings before long a group of about thirty demonstrators from the youth against settlements movement heads towards a location these protests have ended in clashes in previous years but this time they're allowed to approach the gate as settlers look on. peaceful that is nobody.

but we are asking to close to the open. markets and. the protests to twenty five years since an american israeli settler goldstein entered hadrons ibrahimi mosque during prayers and shot dead twenty nine people whose neeraj was praying that day near the front when the shooting started. i think about it all the time i was tripping over people lying on the floor the wounded calling for help it's an unforgettable tragedy. in the years since hebron is old city has become starkly divided around eight hundred israeli settlers and forty thousand palestinians living in close proximity and under the control of the israeli army. the demonstrators are also drawing attention to more recent events the israeli expulsion last month of the international observer mission. set up in the aftermath of the massacre and this week's decision by the israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu to try to shore up his chances of reelection in april by embracing a far right party that had been taboo for the israeli mainstream. back of the protests scientist second group of demonstrators arrives members of major political factions in the occupied west. i think. more noise more of a face off with soldiers but no major confrontation this is an end to what was a relatively peaceful commemoration of a terrible day of violence but it still goes to highlight just how divided how tense how militarized the city is twenty five years later how a force that al-jazeera hebron in the occupied west bank. for the first time in sixteen years palestinian russia president of the. golden gate as it's also known in the al aqsa mosque complex.