and participate in this action on saturday morning we are expecting though that white though will speak through a rally the troops sort of speak for this action on saturday alexandra thank you very much indeed ok let's get more now on that situation at the border with brazil where venezuelan troops are following my daughter's order to block the front here despite this the opposition has said it will bring aid in any way the moves angered people trying to get into venezuela who accuse president maduro of ordering his troops to enact a heavy handed crack down. hard on everybody and we want him to open the border so that humanitarian aid can enter there killing people the order they have is to kill people look at them the order that the president the dictator gave is to kill people all over the u.s. venezuela's foreign minister is holding talks at the united nations george met the u.n. secretary general antonio goods here as who's pushing for negotiations to end the crisis here earlier held meetings with diplomats from countries which supports more

due to his government including russia and north korea let's go to washington d.c. now and manuel paulo what's being said in these meetings by the foreign minister. the foreign minister of jordan did call on this meeting he's been in new york city at u.n. headquarters since thursday he met today for a bilateral meeting with secretary general. spoke about the venezuela crisis very broadly but this meeting is taking place one day after the secretary general met with u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe according to the venezuelan foreign ministry this was a meeting a bilateral meeting aimed at deepening the cooperation between the government of nicolas modo and the united nations but it was also an opportunity for the venezuelan delegation to hold an informal meeting with those forty six countries you mentioned some of those including russia china iran north korea syria among

among other countries to sign to cosign a letter to the u.n. secretary general in sort of defense of the u.n. charter specifically the principles of not interventionism in a press conference that ended only moments ago the foreign minister of venezuela spoke about the next steps which include several meetings that are going to be taking place with different u.n. aid agencies in the coming days the foreign minister also blamed colombia of running a propaganda campaign against venezuela and accused colombia also of. allowing their territory to be used as a sort of military staging area for an offensive against against venezuela against the government of nicolas modo that were there were questions over the two civilians that were killed over the border there were questions over whether or not venezuela can guarantee the safety of civilians when that aid is scheduled to be delivered on saturday these meetings that are taking place at the united nations they do come at a critical time given that tensions are escalating in venezuela specifically over

the schedule delivery of this humanitarian aid. and washington d.c. we appreciate your time thank you. but more ahead on the news hour including getting deadlier by the day i mean break that's killing dozens of children in the philippines. price every time i see someone else striking and it's. credible the swedish schoolgirl takes her climate fight to france and finds andries of supporters. and india's cricket authorities try to get pakistan kicked out of this year's world cup has got the details in this sport. to syria now where kurdish forces are evacuating hundreds of civilians from isis last pocket of territory hours after airstrikes by the u.s.

led coalition of people have already been rescued from the eastern village. but the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say around seven thousand still trapped in the small besieged on klav it's feared many civilians are being used as human shields which is a slowed the advance among khan has more from istanbul. 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 alba whose village at the end of the day 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 surely 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. a been prepared for this battle for very long time and they've dug tunnels underneath the village where the last few hundred estimated 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. for u.s. born woman who travel to syria to join eisel in twenty four teams says she hopes to return to america even if it means being sent to jail. secretary of state my pump a.o. says harder more than a has no legal basis to claim citizenship but he hasn't explained why she isn't considered a u.s. citizen the twenty four year old was born in new jersey but then it says she made a mistake and wants to return with her eighteen month old son i'm sure there's no problem and i know. my lawyer. is working on it and he won't win the case do you think you'll be able to go back to the united states do you want to go to the united states i prefer to let other than anyone else what do you want to do if you went back to the states where you think will happen to you if you weren't around to go back. given jail time the u.n.

says it's concerned about executions in egypt after fifteen people were sentenced to death this month alone nine of them were executed on wednesday for killing a top prosecutor in two thousand and fifteen he was attacked a day before the second anniversary of mass protests which prompted the military to oust the former president mohamed morsy six other people have had their death sentences lifted but will serve life in prison with very concerned by the news from egypt that a turtle of fifteen people have been executed so far in the month of february alone and we're not through the month yet these include nine people were executed on wednesday and six others who are subjected to the death penalty earlier in the month the u.s. president says he'll veto a measure to block the national emergency declaration he issued to build a border wall earlier on friday house democrats introduced a resolution aimed at stopping the declaration with plans to vote on it until

tuesday donald trump announced the order last week to free up of billions to pay for his wall in the border with mexico democrats say it's an overreach of presidential power. donald trump says he could extend the deadline to resolve the u.s. trade dispute with china that have been two days of talks in washington d.c. aimed at ending a standoff over tariffs trump's administration says the chinese delegation will now stay on to continue negotiations the u.s. president initially set a deadline of march the first and says he hopes to finalize an agreement next month with china's leaders he jinping should have a chance he's got more from washington d.c. . cautious optimism being expressed by both the u.s. and china following these two days of negotiations don't trump saying that the fact that the chinese delegation is going for another two days shows a deal is possible he said a deal had been already made on current see on the manipulation of currency is the

u.s. sees it and on other issues too they've been negotiating on a memorandum of understanding on their outstanding issues the u.s. and chinese but then suddenly donald trump sounds during a meeting a during a press conference but he doesn't really care about the memorandum understanding he only cares about a final deal and that led to this rather extraordinary exchange green him and his own trade negotiator the real question is so we do it memorandum of understanding which frankly you could do or not do i don't care if you do it or not to me it doesn't mean very much but if you do remember and of how long will it take to put that into a final binding what for now all right this is where we have for years. right no never history good document is good because we never really use it will you are they going to put that into another again what will happen will be in trade if we we have major very i don't want to work assuming you start we will be signed up to

be a trade. good good i like that much better i like that term what's right with. from the briefings we're getting on for more don't trump himself said the goal is to have some sort of meeting with president xi perhaps at trump's florida resort mar and largo sometime in late march to finalize the details. don't mess with pakistan that's the warning by the pakistani army to india as tensions mount between the nuclear armed neighbors india is militaries says pakistani intelligence was involved in an attack in indian administered kashmir last week at least forty one indian troops were killed in the assault which was claimed by a pakistan based group the pakistani government has denied any involvement and the military there says it will respond to any attack by india with full force we're going to be any determination we have to gays and leans to the desired end

state we're going to spawn two full spectrum can. and i hope you get dismisses and don't miss. the reports from pakistani administered kashmir. the capital of. the not that busy day and bieber like going about their daily. however they are. about what happened within the next week through. separating indian administered kashmir from the. prime minister has already there. and dialogue and everything including. the future of the disputed

territory of me. any military spokesman has been speaking on national television. indian media on the. war mongering and building. one. for the security of the whole region. prepared for wall and he also warned that if the indian the planning of. any be ready for the. whole nation together and did not want india to get the message that the message will be. a message of weakness so says the world as an indian opposition m.p. from the congress party he says the indian government's pandering to pakistan prevents it from what he things should be a tougher response to last week's attack. well 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 to 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 still ahead on al-jazeera a stark warning about the supply of our food as the global population grows. and with the build up plagued by control procedures why sunday's oscars couldn't come sooner for the organizers of hollywood's big night. and in sports the owner of super bowl champions the new england patriots it's charged with solicitation of

prostitution details coming up later in the program. we've got some really wet weather across the deep south of the u.s. could see this area of cloud here say anywhere around the eastern side of texas into mississippi pushing up towards kentucky tennessee seeing some really heavy bursts of rain into the north of that up towards the midwest well winter still very much on the cards here fabulous no there pushing across the region some snow to coming into colorado's clearing outs of the desert southwest where it will be lousy dry over the next day or two just notice a few snow flurries there on saturday turning right up a system or widespread as we go on through sunday right across the pacific northwest and push a little further race around the midwest into central canada quite

a bit of snow coming in here this days really heavy rain coming into the northeast and cold in new york seeing some heavy downpours possibility of some localized flooding and that pushes its way up towards a good part of new england may well not see many shall as the longest spells of rain across the caribbean is largely set fair here present sunshine coming through thirty one celsius in kingston over the next basin places a fair weather cloud for many we have got a few showers into central america or especially across southern parts of mexico over the next couple of days. if you want to learn above the world might look like very serious regard hundred and hungry is in the extreme example of the predicament the whole world is going through. scenes mass immigration story we had paunch questions before we caught yours and the problem is that the culture of that is you

. should say some grading the us is or is not comfortable with european culture this is not like the good fascist. triumphal march. dreams of conquest and of global try. this is very very uneventful glide towards the precipice without resistance we are past the danger has already happened. it was then just ten years ago. now this is it.

you're watching out as if i'm on a mind of our top stories this hour sudan's president omar al bashir has declared a state of emergency across the country and dissolved the government that's in response to months of anti-government protests demanding his resignation. that is what his opposition leader one quiet zero has turned up at a benefit concert in colombia in support of getting aid across the border a rival concert was held on the other side of the border all denies by president and nicholas model who's trying to stop aid from the u.s. entering this country. at least two people were killed after venezuelan security forces opened fire on people trying to get into brazil several others were injured during the scramble to bring foreign aid into venezuela after president model closed the border on thursday francisco marquez is a political advisor to the venezuelan embassy in washington d.c.

he says the opposition leader on quite though is not in this for personal political gain. every single venice wall is fighting for one thing only for freedom that the right to be able to have food on the table to have access to medicine we ask of nothing more than any other citizen would ask in their country what's at stake here is not an exchange of power president i don't have asked one mandate besides focusing on humanitarian assistance to have free and fair elections as soon as possible but the seizing of the usurpation must take place because we can't forget who's in power right now the regime financed by drug trafficking and oil money is oppressing its people and so yes the risk is a lot but not for a while though but for the venezuelan people and that's why you see millions of in a swelling on the streets six hundred thousand volunteers have been organized by the interim government to help distribute this humanitarian assistance so we're on the side of the people and the mass majority of the latin american countries are with us. mexico's senate has approved

a national guard which the president says is needed to reduce record levels of violence but the new security force has been controversial from the start but little opposition and civil rights groups say it will mean more militarization of the country on home and has more from mexico city. its president lopez obrador is big plan to beat the record levels of violence in mexico the fifty thousand strong national guard made up of military personnel and federal police and they cleared a big hurdle when the senate approved unanimously on thursday provided ok here you go to court out of your position and then goes have demanded that the fools be headed by civilian rather than a military officer before they go after months of negotiations when the bill was passed and gone to but on friday morning the president pulled them up sure. it's the faculty for naming the head of the national guard is with the president

and it could be a civilian or military officer retired or active it's important to clear that up. if he does name a military head of the pools it would be an added concern to those already worried that the bill in shrines the permanent presence of the military on the streets over the next five years gives them increased powers. the public does trust the armed forces more than the police they seemed less corrupt but they've also run a particularly of human rights abuses since the start of the drug war the military have been in many instances acting as sources of violence in their own right and they have been massacred and it's just the way they operate to have been trained to do things is to destroy the enemy as they would say themselves are necessary to construe so you introduce another violent act or in an already violent context there's also been criticism that this is all been tried before and failed. the last

administration also kept the military on the country's streets it also mooted and the elite force that was in the end scaled back and said that it would concentrate on homicides rather than going after kingpins exactly the same tactics the president lopez obrador has announced at the start of his term the end result for the last administration the worst murder rate on record. security experts have long advocated to better training and conditions for local police forces but that takes time and political will the president included some of that he's been but it's clear that his priority is his new militarized police force john home in. mexico city the philippines president has sworn in several rebel commanders as leaders of a new muslim autonomous region in the south of the country or do you go to tell us he named motto islamic liberation front leader abraham and his top commanders as administrators of the bangsamoro area in mindanao the move follows

a peace deal brokered by malaysia giving the rebels more autonomy in a bid to stop them fighting for a separate state i mean breaking the philippines is getting worse at least one hundred eighty nine people mostly children have died since last month's german onondaga and 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 is 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 capitol 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 you know as president donald trump's former campaign chairman will face criminal charges in new york state prosecutors say they'll charge coleman

a fourth regardless of whether or not he receives a presidential pardon in a federal case out of it was convicted last august a bank and tax fraud and pleaded guilty in a parallel criminal case in washington is going to be sentenced next month and he could be sent to prison for more than ten years. your singer r. kelly has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse the singer whose real name is robert sylvester kelly has faced accusations of sexual misconduct against a woman for decades on thursday two women came forward alleging the singer assaulted them at a party in baltimore in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's never been convicted and he denies all of the allegations a public hearings began in bangladesh over the disputed december election the opposition says prime minister has seen his landslide win was rigged it's calling for the new vote under a neutral government that would charge reports from dhaka. 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 analysts as to what they want to achieve through this kind of public airing this is what professor there are children had to say. to all the information together and make them. think about the election. and. this is part of that. to make people the opposition members say is that 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. from. the current government is an illegal government 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. dozens of nigerians are getting ready to travel across the country for the second time in a week to take part in saturday's delayed presidential election the vote was originally scheduled for last saturday but that was postponed just five hours before polls were due to open there are concerns the delay and fears of ethnic violence could

affect voter turnout jonah has got more from a boucher. the main thing stars of nigeria's film and dance world in a video promoting a peaceful election yes and the commission. 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 and would have so much lost be shown on misgivings and so on i about are about security agencies about the government itself and so on and so forth bets that high risk that results will be disputed people would reduce the protests the results in some places under the high risk of power. in a crowded field of candidates to stand out president mahmoud who bihari whose 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 one has gone through the roof is over what do you think. you want after spending from so many years with you this is why we've come out betting on one thing for john to fell through without john and why do you think that is if anybody's votes and who do you blame for that you know. coming in you know. you know what was it 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. and. they may see. this in mexico and it's. great because again it's a. step in the election observers foreign and local trying to ensure that 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. had been the observer. system would help with votes and say. because we want to actually count nigeria is africa's most populous country the continent's biggest economy. means who runs it matters but epic levels of poverty and unemployment suggest that the job could be done better if you know how

al-jazeera. campaigning is drawing to a close in senegal ahead of its presidential vote on sunday president macky sall is widely expected to win a second after two opposition figures were barred from running because of corruption allegations has more from dakar. this is the square of the nation and just after the election this is where people will be out there to celebrate with a good president something that the cynically people have elected their political means from here are some foreigners. the candidate who could resist next piece one of the me. and he believes he can impose a seat for the president not just some who himself is running for a second term in office he's been traveling around the country through this a few weeks campaign for the promoting his achievements during his seven year mandate opening one infrastructure project after the other but for this last day

the focus has been in trying to convince young voters to come out and vote and try to persuade them to vote for them why well because in this country the majority of the people born after two thousand there millenium many of them have only experienced two presidencies under a bill i want to have a monkey cell in their calling for change and this is something that each candidate is promising change and in just a few days scientists think these will go to vote and make that decision and who can bring the changes that many cities are hoping for. a swedish schoolgirl has taken her environmental fight to fran's sixteen year old gray to tone bug spearheading student strikes against inaction on global warming she's joined hundreds of others at a protest in paris they would change or was there. skip class and helped save the world's climate the message of a sixteen year old swedish student spreading through the streets. campaign

is gaining traction cross the world she still can't quite believe what happened when she first started striking last september 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. says that action must be taken now you don't have time for her generation to take their differences now that is a view that's being supported by many many people here in the plaster republic which really spend the political move where you. will and i hope the politicians will listen to the little money press and people came here to listen to these kids more than they listen to us because we are always getting into. it we think that it's our our age our generation that we it's only good to get it's no duty our

generation to change this world and let the matter of studying if we don't have any future and what is the matter of being here and yet if we don't have any future any outlet it will not survive what's the point. it was paris that was the host city for the signing the climate in which the present emanuel besieged by yellow vest protesters dropped his plans to raise the price of fuel to combat greenhouse emissions of this unseasonably warm day in february you can see the pollution hanging over the city to change to al-jazeera paris the un says tens of thousands of people in south sudan are facing starvation as fighting continues despite a peace deal signed to six months ago to end the civil war nearly seven million people more than half the population face extreme hunger the u.n. says more people need food aid to survive.