it's really spent for me come 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 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 in the region his voice has been in paris which was of course the host city all that climate warns numbers in the manual michael did try and stick to. modern climate change and he increased the price of diesel but of course we saw the elevation protests and then he was forced into an embarrassing huge turn on the line now greece's says it's exactly that sort of short termism in politics and that is creating a huge problem action is needed and it's stated now. all right still ahead on al-jazeera no if snow but stuck to tell parents to get their children vaccinated as a break in the philippines quickly grow.

hello the weather is slushy fighting dry now with crust the middle east though some basin pieces of cloud rain perhaps some snow just pulling away from the eastern side of the regions around afghanistan into this area cloud two that's also been making its way away from the central and southern parts of pakistan brightest guys 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 iran well so weather still a possibility around turkey northern parts of syria sixty says is 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 odd 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 q a city mostly temperatures not going up here cutter over the next twenty four celsius in doha possibility of your spot of rain all sas 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. only you and a few just for all practical purposes yes i support science and truth one of the figureheads to the new atheist movement if you believe something without evidence that justifies anything to do except that religion has done good things despite all of our modern beliefs and our miracles you believe that science holds all the answers in the world to be

a better place if religion disappeared tomorrow yes mehdi hasan goes head to head with. on al-jazeera. and again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour at least two venezuelans of been killed in clashes with security forces close to the border with brazil rival concerts are taking place on either side of the colombia border it is the latest stage of a showdown between president nicolas maduro and opposition leader one who i don't know. hundreds of palestinians across the west bank have rallied to mark the twenty

fifth anniversary of a massacre at a mosque in hebron twenty nine worshippers were killed when a far right american israeli settler opened fire in one thousand nine hundred. thousands of trucks are moving out men women and children from last enclave in syria about a thousand people have been rescued from the eastern village. but the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say thousands more are still trapped. day two of the first ever conference looking at sexual abuse by priests so more testimonies from victims some of them already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough the head of the roman catholic church has been hosting a four day conference to address the scandal. tim noah is a founding member of the advocacy group ending clergy abuse he too is disappointed with the pope's action plan we are outraged and feel

betrayed by these twenty one points back in august pope francis wrote a letter this was not comments on the bus or on the airplane as a norm that this was a letter to the people of god basically to the whole world. recognizing that zero tolerance was necessary for abuse and for the cover up of the abuse that there is no prime more no more time to delay we need to take action action is necessary then september the the month following he calls for the summit out of the blue a spectacular gesture and you tie the two together a zero tolerance summit and the expectations are reasonable and high that this summit will deal with zero tolerance so then comes this document and the word is not even mentioned there's nothing in this document that even comes through remotely close to zero tolerance. and so again it's an outrage and betrayal

to what he promised and in august what we know that two thirds of the bishops here are from the developing countries and that they are putting pressure we believe on francis to an act is zero tolerance policy as a universal law of the church and fred francis i think is inclined to do that but if he does that there could be a revolt we want to protect children children around the world and these bishops are protecting themselves first and. children second if at all. i want to go back to our top story now the situation in venezuela we now have all latin america and it's a new an incentive tonio for a song on the venezuelan side of the border with colombia so to see what can you tell us about the people who were killed in those clashes new brazil i'm sorry you are cutting out house but i think you're asking me what what is going on i am at

the binational bridge here this is where the concert but the government is hosting is due to take to begin it actually should have begun a couple of hours ago it has not very very few people in the tension see behind me there are a few hundred of them we talk to them and most of them are from the various ministries that were brought here by bus a short while ago we saw that they were passing attendance to make sure that those who said that they would be coming have indeed shown up they're having lunch but very very disappointing the turnout so far that what they're going to have is not local groups nobody particularly famous folk music leon and some some great at dawn but this is supposed to compete with what's going on on the other side of that bridge you see directly behind me in cool dark colombia and i'm afraid it is a competition isn't going very well because we've seen thousands of venezuelans from this side crossing over other bridges to my left and to my right to getting

into that so that they can attend that call center and also so that they can in many cases spend the night and come back into venezuela hour at least that is their plan on saturday carrying food and medicine and as we know is being stored stockpiled on that side and what are we hearing about the aid situation. the aid situation is from what we understand is said there is more and more coming from colombia going to the border rather with colombia and that there are very very large numbers of the news whalen's who are both now in kolkata and also on this side of the border who are planning to put to create some kind of a human chain to try to pass it over but that bridge you see behind me that i national bridges the main one on the other side of that is of course where most of that aid is being stockpiled and the government here has already welded literally welded containers that have been put at the end of the bridge to stop these people

from passing to the to both sides i have been not been told by some of the opposition leaders that they had planned to push these containers out of the way but that clearly is going to be a lot more difficult a short while ago one white dog tweeted we understand that he is somewhere at the border we don't know if on the lumbee inside a lot of venezuelans but he is somewhere nearby allegedly and that he is going to try to leave this aid into venezuela appealing yet again to the armed forces to let it pass them all as you knew in san antonio venezuela force thanks very much. candidates in senegal's presidential elections are staging their final rallies more than six million of them are registered to vote when polls open on sunday in the country's first election since two thousand and twelve president macky sall is looking for a second term would be used vote expected to be crucial. i'm easels outbreak in the philippines is quickly getting worse close to eleven and

a half thousand people of contracted the highly contagious virus since january at least one hundred eighty nine people mostly children have died. on reports from manila. well health officials have announced that there is a sharp increase of measles related cases just over the last few days from a few days ago eight thousand children being afflicted of measles just today more than eleven thousand cases have already been reported more than one hundred eighty children have died and this is from just the start of january alone this is something that could have been prevented according to health officials because as early as two thousand and seventeen they have been warning that an investigation that started then a very public investigation involving a research related vaccine was going to create a vaccine scare in different parts of the country that did happen with joint health officials a few weeks ago when they conducted the what you call a back to vaccine program encouraging mothers to have their children vaccinated

they hope that some that something that government agencies will help them to do so even though many lies not the only city or area here in the country affected by this measles outbreak the tendency for the city to actually have a sharp increase of measles related cases is expected to get even worse that is because of a very dense population here at the capital the health officials are calling on different government agencies to get involved to actually encourage. filipino mothers across the country to have their children vaccinated hoping this will be the start of an important lesson that the country and government officials can learn a world food supplies are being threatened by a decline in biodiversity that's the warning from the united nations new report says food production is getting more susceptible to shocks pests disease and weather events that's because only nine of plant species make up most of the

world's crop production out of a possible six thousand when a cancer is from the u.s. food and agricultural organization who commissioned the report explain more about the study's findings. we're losing plants and crops and livestock i mean i shall leave for for natural response and climate change but also they were stationed in the consumer's use of the bio they went to people who are going to cause are we are forgetting what our grandparents ate and now all more than sixty six percent of the relation where all eat in from nine crops and from ten fishes species why over grandparents you know they knew all about six thousand different bands and more than five hundred different fish and this locally we have been you know industrialised sun and and commercializing only this us species and

over that diet is been with us we think this is one of the problems for the population increase in their way to becoming overweight and obese and also is put in a risk. long term sustainable use of the buy in a bit biodiversity in general meaning by the life talk plants. fish only by ignoring and neglecting what we called the fork for forgotten food that our grandparents use a japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid traveling three hundred forty million kilometers from earth it's expected to return next year with samples of the rock which could unlock the mysteries of how our sun a system began shallop else reports. in a control room just outside tokyo scientists celebrate as a spacecraft touches down on an asteroid hundreds of millions of kilometers from

the earth. i would like to confirm. his touchdown or asteroid re you could. hire a japanese asteroid hunter it's target the asteroid name or you thought to be as old as the solar system itself it took more than four years traveling through space to retrieve. the plan was after touchdown it would extend a pipe and choose a pinball like bullet into the space rock to collect samples just so that is sure jackson made the first touchdown on the asteroid by higher bruce or two after they confirm the data they found the steps to collect the sample from the asteroid was done successfully where we don't yet know the details until it returns i hope the asteroid sample will lead to providing a clue to the evolution of the solar system. high abuse or to also deployed tiny rovers and a european built lander to survey a surface it was

a challenge because asteroid was not what they expected it was covered in boulders the spacecraft had a landing zone of just six meters on the nearly kilometer wide rock. i'm crazy about hope was there too because he's a very ambitious mission like japanese like to do and it has many firsts so it made the frosted feel that you made of a potentially carbon rich asteroid it made the first deployment of menu over us and french german lander on the surface of such a small body and he's going to be the first sampling on an asteroid. there are thought to be billions of asteroids revolving around the sun rocks left over after our solar system was formed more than four billion years ago only once before has a spacecraft landed on one of them is carbon rich the type of best roy that could unlock mysteries around the origins of our solar system and life on earth but first

. must get back to earth with its samples intact shallop ballasts out his era. now the oscars are supposed to be about handing out awards but in the run up to this year's ceremony on sunday the organizers have been busy putting out fires rob reynolds has more on the controversies that have plagued hollywood's biggest night . oscar night is hollywood's annual celebration of itself but this year the academy of motion pictures the people who decide the winners is already a big loser they seem to be just scrambling they seem to be making it up as they go along i think it makes them look very bad because there's more focus now on the cademy than on the films that are being nominated i mean i think people are going to tune in just to see is this going to be a train wreck and almost as a matter who wins first the six thousand member academy's board voted to add

a new category best popular film many saw that as condescending and after an outcry it was dropped then the academy decided that all wards for essential movie making crafts like cinematography editing hair and makeup would be given out in commercial breaks not during the main broadcast again an uproar and sued from those artists and their supporters the academy back down and now all awards will be given out in the live broadcast why is the academy tinkering with the show i mean everything in hollywood is about money and ego and the cademy gets most of its money from selling the show to a.b.c. television network and the academy really depends on that money but the ratings have been going down the oscars first started airing on t.v. in one thousand fifty three. and it's basically the same format now as one was then and now in the twenty first century the audience

tastes have changed. there's also a significant sex scandal involving bohemian rhapsody the film is up for best picture and star rami maalik is a best male actor nominee but director bryan singer is being sued by several men who say he sexually molested them as bull. ois rumors about his alleged activities have circulated in hollywood for years singer was fired but his name is still on the picture in another embarrassment for the academy the oscars are going to host a list this year actor and comedian kevin hart originally had that role but he dropped out after a series of his blatantly homophobic tweets from years past surface and apparently no one else wants the job robert oulds al-jazeera hollywood.

says edge is the let's get a roundup of the top stories venezuela's power struggle has become a battle of the bands with dueling concerts the latest stage of a showdown between president nicolas maduro and opposition leader juan. the events taking place just a few hundred meters apart on one side of the bridge madieu those government is holding a three day festival called hands off venezuela while on the other end leading to the colombian border city of kuta british billionaire richard branson is sponsoring a concert with more than a dozen musicians tens of thousands across the every day trying to leave venezuela so we need to do something about it and we need to try to help those who are not getting medical help help those who are hungry and today hopefully in the back of this comes that we can start maybe getting supplies into that display that so that people are not suffering so much. palestinians across the west bank are gathering

to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the brahimi mosque massacre in hebron twenty nine people were killed when a far right israeli settlers opened fire inside the mosque palestinians in hebron say strict israeli rules imposed after the massacre kept them from their homes and businesses. dozens of trucks are moving out men women and children from isis last enclave in syria about a thousand people have been rescued from the eastern village of bug whose but the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say thousands more remain trapped it's believed they're being used as human shields a sixty year and sixteen year old swedish environmental activist has taken a campaign to paris gretta to join the protest in the french capital spearheading a movement of school strikes to highlight the inaction by governments on global warming a day two of the first conference looking at sexual abuse by priests so more testimonies

from victims some of them have already dismissed an action plan presented by pope francis on thursday is not going far enough the head of the roman catholic church has been hosting a four day conference to address the scandal those are the headlines when this is next. digital media and maria ressa is the founder of all one sided. records he is

fake news it is whatever power doesn't like the president of the philippines abroad rico deter day says he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs doesn't possible and lists his critics as a public and a. graphic learn an online news site and known to be critical of the government had its license revoked and he weeks ago the end goal is to silence dissent when people don't know what is real and what is fake when facts don't matter then the voice with the loudest megaphone gains more power and actually have i'm facing seven cases some of which can put him in jail up to fifteen years. now rock blues boss says a war of attrition is on the way when she and her colleagues are determined to we guess what we know we know that the rest aren't finished obviously. it makes you feel bad but if it's right right now this is the time to fight this is the time to

tell people here here's the mind and you have to make sure that our government doesn't cross it because when it does we're no longer in the. i am a pretend millennial but i'm turning fifty five fifty five years old wow i've been a journalist for. more than thirty years. alexa play best play list resuming spanish. when our president or a good detective was elected the campaign machinery that helped elect him was weaponized and went after anyone who was critical of the drug war and also journalists in particular were targeted. this is

a war for troops and the biggest casualty in the world is how many people have been killed in the drug war i'm at the front lines i feel it i know it i have the data to prove it. here's what happened in the philippines when facebook became too toxic i watch alexa ranking every day which is a website ranking of all the weird computer the peano school and before. it's alexy. it doesn't really want to us who buy all this information and the use of. and you have a. ok new plan for the future of what we can become a few don't try it part of the problem with the old power right now is they don't understand new technology and part of the problem with the people who build the new technology is they don't understand old power that's what needs to merge.

facebook changed. and in the philippines it really is thing internet. the journalists will escape the first that's dead. beat and it comes down to the tech forums social media in particular will determine what gets delivered to people. in january twenty eighth the government of the philippines tried to shut down we're being investigated and that we're facing legal cases one on ownership that could land me in prison for anywhere from five to fifteen years. the court of appeals came out with a decision after midnight that night our appeal to harassment it is to distract

us it is to stop us from reporting it's to timothy so we don't. so we don't charlie. i think that the biggest wake up call for the government was the day after they they tried to shut down rappler. there was a global reaction to it so i don't think they counted on that. they also didn't count that raptor would fight. rappler was a dream. in twenty eleven group of friends and i kind of that there's this new technology that is that we can't completely try out in traditional networks because everything that made traditional media successful will go against what we wanted to do. was. going to connect two weeks

on. the trip folks. let's post that story that's the best statement glenn. yeah we started with twelve people four or five of us were about forty at that point. and and then we hired the smartest twenty somethings we could find. is a good look at that with the most yeah. i would do it how do i fit with that i think it's largely of fixable i mean i've been trying to fix of it for forty years and it's why don't i start because you're here from the london school of economics i will introduce you to palmer answers that a lot of the groundbreaking work on looking at russia this information.

peter pomeranz of welcome to manila let me just figure out we're being manipulated their dissent from asian and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests what do we do about it there's a much deeper question is that social media has kind of few a new type of what i might term populism is much more emotional. and with an enemy very abstract one who is blockading your very private grievances the stuff. the elite foreigners doesn't matter so you you actually wrote a lot about russian this information how would you define think about it from the point of view of a leader with author a tarion tendencies so back in the twentieth century you could you could shut off your population. with censorship you could just block off t.v. channels you can't do that anymore so instead of trying to censor things you spread as much cynicism as possible you on the mind the idea of trust you say yeah maybe

our media isn't perfect the b.b.c. c.n.n. . they're all bought i want to undermine the idea that there is any kind of truth out there that all this kind of leftism ocean only the most emotional. and viscerally emotional be the weapons it seem like in the short term only the tech giants have the ability to quickly fix certain things if we start uniting. the forces of good. now that's when we could be tomorrow it is true. now who not only is it started it started and we need a little bit of maybe some resources to help. so we start acting sort of strategically. facebook has admitted that the philippines is patient zero in the war against this information twenty sixteen the campaign machinery of now president detective used facebook and social media to win an election but they didn't stop there he began to see these vicious attacks on facebook against anyone

who questioned the killings in the drug war and in october i wrote this three part series on the propaganda war when we released it i was attacked the propaganda machine came after us with our gang in then it was immediate you know i've been called every animal you can think of my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i faced it like a traditional journalist where you try to fight it and you realize no you can't it's not built that you can you don't fight this by looking at content you fight this by looking at networks and looking at algorithms that's when i realized something new was going on and we began gathering data. so we call it the shark tank but what it is is it's truly being. treated even the social networks that spread this information that have been used in attacks so we have

more than three hundred fifty million comments more than fifty million accounts. so it's a big data set is probably the largest outside of facebook. the key thing here is to go back to the way the new tactic campaign ran the social media campaigns is so organized that they have a content creator for the elite then there's a content creator a blogger for the middle class and then the blogger for the mass base is now the head of the social media for the presidential palace looking at that database you can pull out keywords you can pull out attacks and you can get to exactly how the attempt began and the velocity spread. took the shark tank we connected it to a slack channel if something is friending beyond a certain frequency it will send us all a number once we fact check it we can send it to facebook and facebook of the president. in august of two thousand and sixteen i gave facebook the data that we

had and i said you really have to look at this because you know you have u.s. elections coming up and this is so alarming that trump could win. and we all laughed we laughed. and then when trump won in november they asked me for the dog. in the french elections that helped pull down thirty thousand feet of comics. this database this big data is is the story of how the mockers. became a dictatorship and that's certainly what we seem to have so we can still fight it and we're using to beat it to death. i'm going to do is a color is going to raise. very little when you have these legal processes are

being used against us that does have impact on the business because the minute an advertiser now signs a contract with rappler there's a risk involved for them so what we did is very quickly when we saw the trend and that that advertisers were scared we then came up with a whole slew of different products that we could offer so this comforting the propaganda machine led us to our new business model if you think about. it's a specific thing we're selling your good it is what we did building community for what we did for rappler is what we were offering to do for them but it is data driven social media narrative strategy and distribution strategy. what can settle that it could be and how you know political parties use social media. and the messaging. that's

a lot of this is that i'm just wondering if there's. so i can talk and then carlo can also talk so for me because the cynical view is this is psychological manipulation you see people that are very right like marketing in general. which is actually. there you go remember what was wrong. it was a psychological analysis it was the way they got their data breach the breach of the. senses it's ok to. influence your psychological outlook but it's not ok to steal data is that really what. companies don't know how to use social well except to put ads on facebook and they're realizing that that's not a good.

thing is it you think mom and dad are we should it's a anniversary or a yes i'm on i was going to send you the photo from florida you got to see talk to talk to mom and dad i'm going to show you the front of. the. having dinner the kids are here nino see here. really briefly my guys love you love me martin dad a. large thank you for this meal these but ahead of protection around on the bus and those that we had. other than those that we care for so that we can walk in here and i imagine. one is mine alone don't anyone touch it you see the case. yes yes appeals whatever action to get i'm very all of this really. i'm not going to get emotional when i stop although you guys do you guys worry about teacher mary and. don't worry about

me. i worry about you i also i think you just tell me what you think i need to know which is probably ok too. but the end goal of all of this is to actually take up space so the less space it takes up the better right yes for me i think that with a lot of prayer what you have to do after hearing what i really have no worries maybe i could finish but. when the case came and they were threatening to shut us down we were like we're not going a doctor that's like an old way. enterprise. i'm connecting was connecting really. i don't mean. we are looking for new products that rappler can build. obviously we're working on it but we'd like to

work with you because every person in this room has not just displayed great talent at what they do but is also committed in a different way so that's our end goal this is my really gets me so i don't have kids really i realized my my longest relationship was with journalism guys and you will get i will send an e-mail of all of the awards that you got there because they even incredible it's been good to hear that even if it's been a bad difficult start to the year ok. but i think the energy of the folks are one of the reasons we survived and we continue battling through that there's nothing it feels like when we act like a team nothing will get in our day we can barrel through it. people are throwing their lives into it right people it's not just me it's our it's wrapped look at their face that's. like saying they should be emotional. they

believe so i but. you know but you know with. enemy stuff. actually the easy part is the rational is for taking to the. you gotta look for. in collaboration it's hope in solidarity.

i came to paris to join this commission but it's an inaugural meeting of about twenty people who are working on this information in different parts of the world president kron will meet with us and it's something that is it's really an initiative by the reporters are s.f. what are some twenty years. i think the technology platforms to social media platforms are forced to confront what they've created that what they've done now is allowed. evil networks to take over and that has actually had an impact on democracies around the world. sold. it's going to interest. them.

is a nice the scene get a question i'm going to have wife i think it's ok i will i will set up as i'll try to live stream for that event. if if if true one seven thank you. yes for some. the details from just a little odd let me tell you the palace of vision on did this when you put it sure you were trying. to do. you know it's horrible when that it will be contra life you know plus you see the walks needed to see if you just got to put on this one just young you need to. go over. the system to get the speed limit was most put to the limit at our ball our how many choices. in the business is infamous too little money from the government you don't

get civil. that's perfect. so i'm honored to be able to share momentum in this condition she received the only things arise she did that well and she is one of the chairs of this commission with us thank you because. this is the. wrong table about situations the world of the pressure. to. join that is. you know almost ninety seven percent of filipinos who are on the internet are on facebook for rappler social media is both a positive and a negative it is both good and evil depending on how it's used but free speech is being used to stifle free speech hate is used to pound you into silence and for all of our countries how do you give free speech with out the

excesses of people who want to manipulate this new technology that they live in the philippines is offering a capsule into the future what we see to the event of. this is and tonic. maurice up here in a bad mood the nobel laureate and a moscow want to manage the dual roles of british subjects it's painful i love stuff like stuff it's good stuff but do you think the french understand it facebook has taken down the thirty thousand take up what's the math on may not be present. or they don't really think that that's that the price of spectacles the second order and. it's an interesting question of whether it is or is shoulder to shoulder all that center stage show that in fact based on actual

behavior yes french out feel very very poorly studied and often you know how to use them to come to our countries. how would you describe journalism in turkey today. is risky and dangerous profession would. imagine a country you come from a chance to reach the spike groove removes. some heat from find solutions to these movements this might be. losing value to you so it's a. given our president front i want to understand how one head of state who's holding the line in the way he looks at it and what he thinks is even possible i want to ask him what can be done what are other leaders in democracies talking. you think we.

will be live in london live in manila yeah i had been among the many many years ago . please if you ever come and love to show you the city how long have you been in exile says. and your family has been the aggressor in its. forms. i hope i don't have to go into exile. so if you did i know that even if you do. i will salute it. and. i mean. look at just take what you think if anything. i'm sufficiently simple that many

more will expectation for of the feeling we have a head of state is. what will be approved but essentially it will be a performance for so political but it was a remarkable assumes that you were to say she was somebody who cheered. to influence her political relations so we'll see what actually comes of it. it was an off the record discussion with him not chronos one of the leaders that was targeted by these bad actors on social media is he leader with liberal values that he stand for things that the geopolitical actors did not want who was behind those thirty thousand fake accounts that's interesting to me he probably knows he certainly did say anything about. the constitution of the philippines gives me certain rights that protect my ability to do my job all of that was stripped away by the social media platforms there is

absolutely no accountability for the platforms to spread lies exponentially and should not allow it to spread that's what i'm looking for that's in it for the . yeah. glowing green bacteria in a laboratory and super heated gas escaping from volcanic rock in iceland this is

really the heart and innovation in the for what happened to experiments both exploring and klinefelter by day because how counter the impacts of climate change the science of capturing caught them using a name sac am a thigh and the collar back in time attained the lie does happen tend to hold. on or to zero. monch on al-jazeera maggi has debates discusses and dissects the big issues of our times in head to head votes on march the twenty fourth and its first general election since the twenty fourteen military coup join us for special coverage in a powerful new film residents of occupied jerusalem share their thoughts on its past present and future deal or no deal what does the future hold for it we'll bring you the latest as the march the twenty ninth deadline for the u.k.

to meet the edges nira and we examine the development of an unusual alliance between radical buddhist monks and the military in million mom march on al-jazeera . on counting the cost this week and cambodia it's the southeast asian economy that's most exposed to the u.k.'s e.u. divorce. finally has a government but its economy is screaming for attention. charging the cost. of. this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes.

pour into one of two rival concerts on the colombia border reports of two people killed in clashes near the close to venezuela border with brazil. more u.s. aid is bound for colombia but will it ever reach venezuela. another group of civilians evacuated from lost and. slave in syria concerns remain over thousands more still trapped there. and with a buildup plagued by controversies why sunday's oscars couldn't come sooner for the organizers of hollywood's big night. we begin this news hour in venezuela where at least two people have been killed in clashes with security forces close to the border with brazil several others near

the town of kumar a couple i have suffered gunshot wounds all of them are reported to be indigenous venezuelans and the tussle over aid for venezuela goes on more u.s. aid has been loaded on to cargo planes at an air base in miami bound for colombia president nicolas maduro shut the border with brazil in a move to stop foreign aid from coming in from there and he says he may do the same with colombia on the border town of cuckoo talk colombia a concert is being held to help raise support venezuela's opposition movement led by one goh i don't understand the ramp yet he has more from on the colombian side of the border. there's a lot of excitement here for this concert something that a city like never seen before and thousands of venezuelans have crossed into colombia to participate in this concert but this is as much entertainment as it is

political we spoke to half a dozen groups of young people who told us they are planning to sleep on the colombian side to participate to early on saturday in an operation to try and move the aid that the medical and food supplies that have been sent mostly by the u.s. and are stored here try to move all that inside when it's well and what it's shaping up to be as the biggest showdown so far between the position and the head the government with president nicolas maduro remaining steadfast in this season and is this is and i'm not letting that. the president is also here we're also expecting the arrival of the president of chile the president and other two planes filled with arriving from the u.s. and chile so more pressure put on my doodle but for the time being the concert continues and people are very excited to be able to listen to some of their favorite artists. jhoom has more from both on the brazilian side of the

border with venezuela. so the situation has gotten as expected more tense here on brazil's border with venezuela behind me you will see military men those are members of brazil's army but beyond that you will see a line of venezuelan migrants who crossed into brazil in the past few hours and even beyond that which you can see right now from our vantage point a line of venezuelan security forces they are there to enforce the border closure policy that was enacted by venezuelan president nicolas maduro yesterday when he shut his country's border with brazil now some of the scenes we've seen so far today have been chaotic i just want to point over here you'll see of course this is right at the border crossing there's a flag of brazil and a flag of it as well the venezuelan flag has been lowered to half mast that was done by some of the venezuelan migrants who crossed over earlier in the day several of them were up there about an hour ago and they were singing the venezuelan

national anthem they were chanting for the downfall of nicolas maduro and many of them spoke to us and told us about some terrible things that they are seeing in venezuela as they make their way we are told that there was one group that was in a town and they went to the hospital and saw the body of an indigenous tribe member a tribe that they were told was working with venezuela's opposition to try to get aid into the country and that there was a confrontation with the military so they heard that many tribe members had been injured and that at least one had been killed so there's a lot of worry from the venezuelans we've been speaking with the fact of the matter is though even though this is the official border and it's close on the venezuelan side this is also a very porous border and so it's very easy for venezuelans to just walk beyond where the border line is come over these hills and come into brazil which is something we're still seeing even at this hour. palestinians across the west bank are gathering to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the evil here me mosque massacre in hebron twenty nine people were killed one of far right israeli settlers

opened fire inside the mosque palestinians in hebron say strict israeli rules imposed since the massacre kept them from their homes and businesses the palestinian worshippers of entered the bab. rama. the bear. crossing on the. fourth poljice for that. they entered the bear but one or golden gate as it's called so i would get a few technical technical problems here bernard smith joins us now from occupied east jerusalem in damascus gate. that has been tension in the al aqsa mosque compound over the last few days because of a dispute over access to a building a meeting hole that sixteen years ago was chained closed following the court order the said there was a group using that room to meet and they were sympathetic or working with how much

now the what which manages the al aqsa mosque compound on behalf of the jordanian monarchy on the palestinians says about groups as long despondent since those sixty years have passed and it wants access back into that building so it allowed the chains to be removed the israeli authorities be changed back and then got moved again by the watch and that has been going on over the last few days that has created tension and it is essentially a form of resistance by the palestinians to israeli attempts to control access to the al aksa compound the palestinians have continued to pray that the israelis on friday did not change again the gate because this is the main day of prayer but it's an indication of how the palestinians try and stop israeli control what they see as an israeli control to the places they want to pray and their free access to those prices places that they want to pray. israeli forces have shot dead

a palestinian teenager protests on the gaza border at least thirty others were injured in the weekly march of return demonstration demanding an end to the gaza blockade and the right to return to historical palestine israeli forces have killed more than two hundred fifty palestinians of the protests in the last year. dozens of trucks are moving men women and children from isis last enclave in syria about a thousand people have been rescued from the eastern village of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say thousands more remain trapped it's believed they have been used as human shields the s.d.f. is hoping to carry out a full evacuation later on friday for launching their final push to defeat the eyesore fighters imran khan has more from istanbul. friday began with a very confident statement from the spokesman of the s.d.f. most of a bali he said that he was hopeful that all of the civilians would manage to be

trucked out of the alba who's 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 on the numbers have varied wildly throughout the last two weeks and they certainly we 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. are 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 bottle of a very long time and they've dug tunnels underneath the village where the last few

hundred estimated eisel fighters are hiding out and they're waiting for the s.d.f. to come in now it's in 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 to take a huge swathes syria and nearly a third of iraqi territory that out down to just one square kilometer and that square kilometer is proving very tough. well plenty more ahead on the news hour no interest no bus stop to tell parents to get their children vaccinated as a measles outbreak in the philippines quickly grows a dire warning from the united nations saw food supply facing a serious threat from declining plant and animal life. and find out who's facing

who in the europa league last sixteen the likes of chelsea arsenal and napoli are still in its. later and. pakistan's army is promising a fitting response if attacked by india top general made the remark a week after pakistan based group claimed responsibility for suicide car bomb attack that killed forty indian paramilitary troops india accuses pakistan's intelligence agency of being behind the attack charging its denied kimo hiding reports from pakistani administered kashmir. and bieber like going about their day. however they are.

read. through. their white separating indian administered. by. dialogue and everything including. the future of the disputed territory of me. on national television. media and the others. war mongering and building. he said that pakistan wanted peace for the security of the whole region but their doctrine tree is prepared for war and he also warned that if the indians are planning a surprise against pakistan then he said then you should be ready for the pakistani

surprise israel said the whole nation stood together.