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 follow us on the twenty seventh of february for special coverage on al-jazeera. a violent showdown in a diplomatic standoff over foreign aid the crisis deepens further and venezuela. and we shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. business first widespread poverty and unemployment rival narratives on tests as senegal votes to elect a new leader. and north korea's leader heads for a second summon with u.s.

president donald trump. and after years of violence we visit iraq's ancient sites which are in urgent need of restoration. opposition efforts to bring aid into venezuela have ended in scenes of violence death and destruction stopped trucks from crossing from colombia and security forces fired tear gas at protesters and during almost three hundred people there were also confrontations as the entry point with brazil and one border town at least two people were killed on me as defense minister says sixty members of the venezuelan armed forces have defected and crossed over president responded swiftly cutting off diplomatic ties with his neighbor a latin american to go see a numinous in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the border. opponents of an battled president. had vowed nothing would stop them from bringing tons of food and

medical donations into venezuela. on the colombian side of the border four truckloads of supplies tried to breach the heavily fortified seen one body of an international bridge into venezuela but they never made it across the national guard was waiting at least two trucks was set on fire. was on the in israel inside opposition supporters prepared to continue trying to open the car door it was the dark i mean they must have that when we planned to walk to the bridge where the humanitarian aid will into and then form an extraordinary human chain to bring it into venezuela. they remained confident earlier three soldiers had commandeered armored vehicles and ran them through the bridge barricades for deserving into columbia dozens more followed throughout the day. because it wasn't going to go that. was the brits it. was

was was was was not it was. they nearly made it to the customs building despite the rubber bullets and the tear gas fired by the national guard. that's when the so called quality levels are heavily armed pro-government gangs were brought in shooting live ammunition at will. the day ended with hundreds of unarmed protesters injured by the colombian border on venezuela's border with brazil the violence turned deadly as indigenous been one tribesmen tried to get aid in and despite the defections opposition leader flung wide those pleas to the military to defect on mass were not heard lippy more someone being done i'm asking the international community to keep

all cards on the table i'll be meeting on monday with the lima group and u.s. vice president mike pence. sounded triumphant president nicolas maduro announced he was cutting diplomatic ties with neighboring colombia. support done though i can't continue putting up with this we can continue putting up with colombia lending itself to an aggression against bin as well and that is why i have decided to break all political and diplomatic relations with the freshest government of colombia and all its ambassadors and general consuls have to leave venezuela within twenty four hours get out of here oligarchy but my voter will unlikely be savoring his victory for very long economic and political pressure from the international community will surely increase as his countrymen watch the images of the food and medicine so many desperately need go up in smoke. you see in human san antonio that should have been his way. tons of aid are stopped piled on who gets on the colombian side of

the border from there yet he has more. it's been a long day of fighting here on the seam on believer bridge as the volunteers the supporters of the venezuelan opposition try to move the aid sent by the united states inside the venezuelan but there were confronted by rubber bullets by tear gas thrown by the troops still loyal to president he called last month and by he was the paramilitaries that are defending the government the president of venezuela the protesters were full of optimistic energy in the morning as the four trucks loaded with arrived but the mood changed it became increasingly more sour as the fighting continued and people here truly became. even angry as their leadership decided to send the trucks back to the warehouse where the a

they had been stored for many days even so people told us they want to continue fighting if we have to die of hunger in the square look it's better to die fighting we can't stop we need to continue for our families despite the disappointment there also have been a number of factions some parts of the venezuelan the military but it wasn't enough to open this bridge or the other ones along the colombian vinous well on the border and the question here on everybody's mind though is what will be the next move for now that this plan of the opposition has failed. president is banking on a building economy to sleep back into office for another term also discipline in the west african nation opposition candidates are focusing on poverty and unemployment which they say are pushing people to seek a better life for pride. in the capital dhaka. senegal rising prosperous educated and with

a booming economy it's this vision that president like you said he's promoting to get reelected i was right i am the candidate of continuity and progress the one that will bring prosperity to all senegalese during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact a car an incubator for startups i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very little things like this in my field and entrepreneurship there are a lot of things that are here and now going to appear before one inauguration after the other cell is changing the capitals landscape promoting and narrative of a rising senegal just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a two billion dollar construction site it's called genuine to present my case i want to turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and

building sites there is another senegal with a different narrative this is. two hundred kilometers from the car and there are villages with no running water electricity or hospitals children suffer from malnutrition. you sick out walked away from this life traveling across the mediterranean into europe with the hope to find better opportunities but he's come back empty handed there are no jobs here no opportunities at least not for us it's as if we don't exist we don't count unless it's election time and was one of the most senegalese sinking in debt riddled with corruption and unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among them political newcomer and anti establishment huisman song. you can win your. politicians understand nothing because this country's huge have decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of

lies and betrayal we have enough. with conflicting narratives to choose from it's now up to the six million voters to decide which one rings true and which senegal to vote for and joins us live now from dakar so the turnout what hasn't been like or you are. well richelle i'm in medina we're in downtown deckard just a strong stone throws away from the presidential palace and this is a stronghold of the opposition especially a stronghold for the former mayor of the car khalifa saul who wanted to run in this election but he's in prison right now sentenced to corruption charges just a few weeks ago the former president of senegal july wide came back to this country at the age of ninety to receive the popstars welcome and he called for this

election to be boycotted why because the popular mayor of the car and his son karim wod who was also a candidate for this election are not taking part in this election despite all of this we've noticed that this since this morning because hundreds of people who have lined up to be able to vote in the polls have just opened minutes ago we've seen young and old coming in to try to. vote for the candidate that they wish to see in power for the next seven years so it seems like lack of solace in a good position to win so they other candidates tell us more about how they're challenging him. well he still has been really running a strong campaign for the last two weeks really celebrating his achievements and you know one of his campaign slogan was i built two hundred twenty one kilometers of roads he's been opening up the infrastructure project a stage him

a new airport and you trainline now the challenge for him is to translate that into votes because despite this economic record many people in civil society including human rights groups like amnesty international has criticized him for shrinking the political space especially for the opposition and so the opposition candidates the four other candidates have really tapped into that feeling one of the challengers is edriss second he has run for the presidency the last three times and he's campaigning on this idea of good governance there's also the outsider the establishment candidate a whistleblower a former tax man and the youngest candidate newsman some co who's been really verily and against mikey cell accusing him personally from profiting from this recent oil and gas discovery an estimated fifty billion dollars worth of oil and gas was discovered off the coast of senegal so there's been

a lot of attacks on good governance corruption shrinking of the political space and it's up to the six million senegalese voters to to decide which there are enough to choose from as i explained in this story in which senegal they want to see forward now all the candidates interesting they will be going out to vote in their respective region mikey's that will be in fact cheek where he'll vote there's a segue that will be in the region of chess which is also a strong area where we expect a lot of people to come out and vote. who is from the south of the country will go to vote in in his region and so you know for the moment everything's going. well the religious leaders and observers from the catholic church and the muslim clerics have called for a peaceful election in so far so good michelle nichols talk last press and thanking both are being counted in nigeria where president mohammed bihari is hoping for

a second term there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delay election just before voting began a town in the north east was attacked by suspected boko haram fighters has more from northeastern nigeria there were fears of overnight violence in many parts of nigeria after the two leading political parties in the country accused each other of planning to disrupt the electoral process the two accused each other of planning to attack coalition centers where results are being tallied and therefore disrupt the process of counting the votes before they are announced now in many parts of nigeria there were incidents of violence but the biggest scene was in rivers state in some of the nigeria why the army has confirmed that six people have been killed and one of the officers was also killed in the process the army said it's a cruel convoy run into a roadblock and as they were trying to dismantle that roadblock they were fired on and they responded in the north east of the country things are quiet after yes.

such a day morning's attacks in your state and the explosions in my degree now voting. is underway in many parts of nigeria and it could probably take days before we know who wins the nigerian presidential elections the announcement will be made by the independent national electoral commission and a buddha in the case of the presidential vote and then the states will be announced in probably the results of the parliamentary elections and the state capitals as they happen. plenty more ahead on al-jazeera but scott religious groups up in arms ahead of a vote on cuba's new constitution. and taking care of people's hair we'll look at a move to stamp out racial discrimination in new york.

hello there's been some damaging weather in the southeast of europe this massive cat it was a cold front doesn't look much but what came down and what drove it was a strong wind that came out of the interior and caused damage on the cape coast of croatia now brought with it cold wind so you can see the marks from tension bucharest any two and athens only six and we've seen snow in both istanbul and the north of greece as well so that's all the active weather in europe has cooled down a bit in many eastern countries vienna is maxie's in the five and give a zero that's not true to the west it's still in the teens from spain up through france to the british isles and despite the morning fog if the sun comes out it's nice and warm and it's down with the weather seester the cold is still there but even that has been slowly warmed up by the sunshine the wind isn't as cold but there is significant rain problem for greece probably for crete sudden turkey and

the circulation here off the foot of sicily means that if you are in libya your weather is not current to you a toll on shore breeze through tripoli westwards and offshore is all part of this. see the ways being whipped up on the coast well they're coming at you and that low is only drifting slowly east was taking it stormy weather with it. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. he was sent to jail but under two different prime minister as. now he is set to become the next prime minister of malaysia. and why abraham and discusses what direction his country will take on talk to our jazeera.

you're watching. the top stories right now venezuelans trying to bring aid across the border from colombia had face by a line opposition from security forces at least two people were killed in fighting along the border with brazil as police try to block the. voting is underway in senegal as people choose their next president and come out later macky sall has campaigned on improving economy but his opponents say corruption unemployment and debt are still major problems. votes are being counted in nigeria where president mohamed you bihari is open for a second term there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election and just before voting began a town in the north east was attacked by suspected vocal pirates. saudi arabia has

replaced its ambassador to the us with its first female envoy as a stream and then takes over from the king's son prince khalid bin salma who's now been appointed vice defense minister the prince is the daughter of a former ambassador to the united states and previously worked for saudi arabia's general sports authority for modi women's participation in the olympics. as a professor of political science at the university of waterloo in canada she says the appointment is about improving riyadh's image after the global outrage over the killing of journalist. well i think the message they want to send is that there are serious about making as much advancement as they can for women that they're committed to the progress of women and bit by bit things are going to get better and that it's very i think prominent individuals who knows the united states very well who is well spoken and can do probably good for her country but of course the

way it's received this probably one of a p.r. exercise an attempt to deflect attention away from a very tumultuous year after the murder of her monica showed she and certainly a lot of continued criticism of the saudis in their war in yemen and other policies within washington and of course beyond really she's very eloquent she certainly understands the united states very well she's lived there for a very long time of course her father was the ambassador prior and so she very much americanize for lack of a better term probably understand the culture knows how to be a valuable interlocutor all the think you want and a good diplomat particularly in a post like the united states but of course i think there are many people who will see this totally for a p.r. exercise i have no doubt that the saudis want this to be a p.r. exercise they need good p.r. frankly but make no mistake she is very successful eloquent and is deserving of the job. there's a conflict have often made it too dangerous for international teens to help in the

conservation of archaeological sites in iraq but that is not the only thing holding back restoration efforts to port. erbil citadel in the kurdish region of northern iraq towers above the old city it was built by the ultimate in the nineteenth century but archaeological remains show civilization is dating back to the same marion's built fortifications here around five thousand years ago. from a distance the walls look strong and well preserved inside moisture has been seeping up into the brickwork for centuries. much of this fortress popular with locals and visitors alike has either already collapsed will could do so soon. as our college ists we are facing many obstacles and preserving iraq's last citadels we lack funding there is government neglect there is no master plan with

us and international bodies we face losing our heritage and with it part of our identity. war and political instability have often made it too dangerous for international conservation teams to come to iraq for the security situation isn't the only thing affecting the preservation and restoration of archaeological sites. throughout the long history of civilization in this region various ethnic and religious groups of often violently for control of iraq's three citadels now experts here say that conservation efforts are often held back by what they describe as the politicize ation of iraq's heritage. this is the citadel in kill cook also built by the also means on a site the dates to the assyrian empire three thousand years ago the intricately decorated walls on which cling the last remnants of once stunning mosaics

a crumbling. sunni and shia arabs turquand and kurds have fought over the city the centuries kidney sadly the preservation of the country's three said styles is at risk no one can agree how to manage them people think if you claim a stark all sight it gives you an economic advantage he has a like most recently killed cook was on the front line during the war against isis . which is of great strategic importance because iraq's second largest oil fields are close by. and this is all that remains of the citadel and heat in western province built on archaeological site also dating back five thousand years the town on the banks of the euphrates river was occupied by iso until two thousand and fifteen but i still sleeper cells still operate in the surrounding desert the security situation has been so bad for so long that conservation efforts stopped

years ago revenue from visiting tourists as is the case in kirkuk is also a thing of the past and this means thousands of years of iraq's history could soon be beyond repair. zero at a bill. with the u.s. president as a wave comes along will travel most of the way to hanoi by train. there on wednesday talks are expected to focus on the nuclear ization efforts on the korean peninsula pride has more from south korea's capital. confirmation that this epic journey is now underway has come from the north koreans themselves the state run news agency releasing photographs and also video of kim jong un inspecting a guard of honor in pyongyang before departing on his especially armored train with his delegation which includes can young child his chief negotiator interestingly

this is the first indication that anyone in north korea has that there is a summit in the offing we have known of course for the past couple of weeks that it would be neuer the dates of this a trump summit there has been no such indication until now for north koreans interestingly it is also being reported as he leaves north korea in the past given the obsession with secrecy and security north korean leaders might have been expected to conduct a foreign trip return to pyongyang safely before even letting go of koreans know a trip like this has taken place so it does seem to indicate a growing confidence by kim jong un as he starts his latest diplomatic farai we know from restrictions put in place on rail networks in the south of china that his train will likely go all the way to the border with viet nam and then road

restrictions in viet nam that have been put in place seem to confirm that he will then take a motorcade from the border to hanoi itself to begin this trip. cubans will have their say on a new constitution for the first time in decades and baseball marks a storage day for the communist country and an unprecedented two million people are expected to vote their opposite voice their opposition that is to the government are an essential reports i have anna. protestant of cuba pray for divine guidance. and for cubans to vote no on sundays constitutional referendum. don't stay home don't leave your vote blank you know what you have to put on the ballot. religious groups say the new constitution may eventually allow same sex marriage. with the proposed constitution has not respected the people's opinion on the issue of marriage and family. this sort of dissent is

unprecedented in cuba and it's not restricted to moral values the draft constitution brings in more freedoms to trade buy property and attract foreign investment it even sets presidential term limits but communism remains and try and as cuba's guiding force many here say that changes are the most significant since the cold war era the critics say what defined the proposal will only serve to perpetuate the communist one party system for those pushing for a no vote the shadow of fetal castro remains in these pages is that i missed my things by qualifying it as the stage in society's guiding force it puts the party above the rest of the institutions recognized by the constitution and that's a threat against any democratic process. the no campaign complains it hasn't been given enough time compared to its government financed opponents. i am voting

yes cuba is voting yes we are voting yes. this would be the best constitution cubans ever had. the foundations for socialism have to be there we fought for that many years and now there are new things like private property it's the best in every way. it's close to twenty five percent of cubans are likely to vote against the draft but win or lose sunday will be a historic day it will be the first time cubans can say no to a government proposal out in the open and just see to have been a cuba. it is the fourth and final day of the first ever conference on ending sexual abuse in the catholic church on saturday pope francis lot of prayer for the victims of abuse. we asked each other how we can act responsibly which steps we should take to face the future with a renewed courage should we say as the prodigal son did father i have sinned we need to examine where necessary concrete actions for local churches for the members

of the episcopal conferences for our selves and this requires to look sincerely at our own actions and it situations which have taken place in our countries and started her styles whether and the workplace or at school is now considered a form of racial discrimination in new york city guidelines were introduced to protect the rights of african-americans christensen the reports. in new york's harlem neighborhood so-called natural hair styles are worn with pride. but what is common to african-americans from braves to afros to twist. often comes at a price because we've been so indoctrinated to thinking that straight hair is better and has more appropriate and more professional looking it makes it difficult for people to wear their hair naturally and to be seen as being professional i think that's changing roberta alloway used to straighten her hair when she worked

in a corporate environment. the women. in the supervisor would walk down women in the one changing history but stylists a natural hair is healthier a lot of work and it's a lot of money it's not. a transformation appears to be taking place at least a new york. legal recourse to any individual who's been harassed punished or fired because of their hairstyle in york the city's human rights commission considers such acts racial discrimination the commission released the guidelines after this video went viral of a student getting his braids cut off in order to compete in a school wrestling match at the insistence of the referee who said his hair covering did not meet competition guidelines commissioner carmel in malawi says her office is currently investigating seven cases of hair discrimination again i think

this speaks to the every day indignities that black people have to suffer not just in new york city but nationally and i'm going to guess probably worldwide my hope is that by the city by new york city making this clear unequivocal statement that this is a form of race discrimination that other jurisdictions follow. violators can be fined up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars still corey taylor isn't convinced the new guidelines will change things it can make a difference if you can prove it so the problem is going to be being able to prove it but many here in harlem see the change as a victory nonetheless christian salumi al jazeera new york. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera venezuela is trying to bring aid across the border from colombia violent opposition from security forces at least two people were killed in fighting along the border with

brazil as police tried to block the and the opposition leader will meet with u.s. vice president mike pence on monday in colombia foreign ministers from the lima group of latin american countries will be holding an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis you can place a wooden you and his supporters a celebrating the massacre of a people you celebrate that today even a swearing in hospitals do not receive humanitarian aid you celebrate the death of more venezuelans that is why the entire country has risen up i think is under way in senegal as people choose their next president and come back later macky sall has campaigned on a booming economy but his opponents say corruption unemployment and debt are still major problems but serving counter to die jerry our president mohamed bari is hoping for a second term there are some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election and just before voting began a town in the north east was attacked by suspected okocha rob fighters. saudi

arabia has replaced its ambassador to the us with its first ever female envoy francis rima been bandar takes over from the king's son prince caliban solomon who's been appointed vice defense minister the prince is the daughter of a former ambassador to the united states and previously worked for saudi arabia's general sports authority or korea's leader is on his way to vietnam for a second summit with the u.s. president it's believed kim jong un will travel most of the way to hanoi by train is due to meet donald trump there on wednesday the talks are expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula at least one hundred thirty three people have died after drinking contaminated alcohol and ne india's awesome state most of them were tea plantation workers this alcohol was laced with a chemical which attacks the body's central nervous system so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera much more to come talk to al-jazeera is next between

two thousand and two thousand and seven the one million racist murders in different parts of germany but the police were painfully slow to track down the killer. al jazeera will reveal the truth about the deaths linked by a single weapon the involvement of the far right and the serious political to see the cheska murderous case solved on al-jazeera. he was a student leader in malaysia and the one nine hundred seventy s. then and were abraham became the right hand man of mahathir mohamad during his first time as prime minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. but they ended their alliance due to differences caused by the growing financial crisis in southeast asia in one thousand nine hundred seven and off to abraham accuse the prime minister of corruption ever ham was sacked from the government the

following year but he didn't go quietly and lead a series of protests against a high.