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could go along. this season's premier league title. welcome to the program opposition efforts to take aid into venezuela have ended in scenes of violence death and destruction troops stopped trucks from crossing from colombia and security forces fired tear gas at protesters injuring almost three hundred people there also confrontations at the entry point with brazil in one border town at least two people were killed when all colombians defense minister says sixty members of the venezuelan armed forces have defected president maduro responded swiftly cutting off diplomatic ties with his neighbor. and humans in san antonio on the venezuelan side of the border. opponents of an battled president nicolas maduro 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 symbol 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 under than 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 before deserving into colombia dozens more followed throughout the day was supposed to look up. to the brits and it was

was was was was was i 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 public divorce or 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 pin 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 announced he was cutting diplomatic ties. i can't continue putting up with this we can continue putting up with colombia lending itself to an aggression against venezuela that is why i've decided to break the political diplomatic relations with the fascist government of colombia and all its investors in general consuls have to leave it as well within twenty four hours get out of here oligarchy. who 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. see in human san antonio actually have an israel. well the situation in venezuela has become a diplomatic one on a global scale here's

a quick reminder of who is supporting president maduro and who is against him russia says any moves to remove him from power illegal while turkey has called him brother china's also standing behind him mexico says it recognizes the authorities elected in accordance with the venezuelan constitution allies bolivia and cuba say they remain committed to moderate the united states and canada recognize the opposition leader one glider in latin america the recent rise of the writers wrote in support from a doer in brazil argentina chile and colombia among others several european nations including the united kingdom spain germany and france are also backing. let's bring in alfred maurice desire he's a former un special rapporteur and was the first to visit venezuela in twenty one years he joins us via skype from geneva how concerned are you by the events that unfolded yesterday on venezuela's borders maybe so violence in the deaths of protesters shot by security forces is a crisis spiraling out of control do you think. well the united states can spin

provoking and will continue to provoke frank says you know our country to the united nations charter and contrary to the charter all of the organization of american states tomorrow here in geneva the fortieth session of the human rights council will be beginning i addressed an open letter to our new high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet and to the secretary general of the united nations something it was that i was asking for their good offices and for mediation as far as international oil is concerned it is clear that venezuela as is sovereign country has iran to protect its front here as far as the humanitarian aid is concerned when i was in venezuela i spoke with all. minister including the minister of foreign affairs minister of agriculture and

cetera they were all welcome and actually requested united nations insistence and assistance from all neutral country. in good faith without ok patch. we have a year and situation of the weaponization of human rights and that weaponization of humanitarian aid let me now let me just jump in let me just jump in quickly mr desires because we're very limited for time let's stay with the international response because president maduro is now under growing pressure from outside the country but the regional leaders from countries like brazil chile paraguayan colombia old supporting the opposition is he becoming much more isolated diplomatically do you think it. has no legitimacy to tell you the truth i was literally getting to see you go him now what is important is that my little dots

accept humanitarian aid that nine hundred thirty three tons of humanitarian aid medical and medical supplies and medicines came in last week and that came from china from india from turkey and also a couple of days ago three hundred tons of medicine and medical supplies came in from russia now all of these are being distributed with the help of the united nations even the european union has recently agreed to make humanitarian aid available which will be distributed through the united states but let's let's just say let's just stick with the question of the aid for a second because madeira has refused to let a large amounts of aid into venezuela saying it will facilitate a us invasion of the country but the fact remains that under majeure a people are starving the economy has collapsed nearly three million people have fled the country. you know why has the economy collapse has collapsed because an

economic war against venezuela because the financial blockade has made it nearly impossible for venezuela to buy who and medicines outside because of sanctions which are illegal according to the united nations ruffled ter on. you know lateral course of measures and according to an old. from the year two thousand report of the united nations commission on human rights so here you have it trojan horse situation the u.s. aid program was used already ok count one that it is to bring in contraband to bring in weapons and you cannot be the tormentor and then mutate into a good ten american let me go to final justify what point to you mr chaos because you thought she went out of time a final quick point you did of such finding mission to venezuela in late twenty

seventeen things are pretty bad then so is there any sign now that under madeira things are going to get any better and is this crisis is this crisis lots of the result anytime soon a very brief answer from you if you could it can get very very soon very much better the moment that the sanctions are lifted the moment that the country is allowed to buy and sell like any other country the moment that their financial blockade is lifted it is the united states that it's costing the crisis that's why mother auto accept help from the european union accept help from. china etc well we will not accept it from the country that is causing the crisis ok the whole thing is a list that ultimately is desirous thank you very much indeed for your type.

well votes are being counted in nigeria where president more moderate biharis hoping for a second there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election just before voting began a town in the northeast was attacked by suspected boko haram fighters. from lagos. many nigerians are watching election officials closely these voters in the commercial capital lagos say they want to make sure there's no rigging to play has cast doubts on the commission's credibility and competence. the race to govern the country with africa's biggest economy pits incumbent president. against main opposition candidates and former vice president. emotions are high the. result could lead to violence.

with the turnout have to wait to find out who has won and by what margin analysts say it's going to be. early on saturday there were attacks in the north east of the country. fighters but that didn't seem to deter the voters in rivers state in the south incidents of violence i mean some people went able to vote whoever wins in nigeria will have to deal with the precarious security situation and the challenge a turnaround in economy struggling to recover from the twenty sixteen recession. in lagos in a moment but we have multiple reporters covering this story in my degree that's in the northeast of the country but first let's go to john a whole who's in the capital city of. voting counting now underway just bring us up to date with what's been happening there where you are.

well look i think the overall picture daryn is pretty fluid at the moment and certainly there is not a definitive sense that this election is actually over we've not had a statement from the independent electoral commission saying that voting is finished this how it was alluding to there in a report there are reports of commissioners backed up by the suspicions of independent monitors that a number of polling stations were unable to open at all because of incidents of violence sabotage intimidation and so on others open so late that they weren't able to finish their voting process in line with procedure they may well still be voting today we don't have an idea of how much all of this affects the overall picture nor do we have a clear sense of quite how counting is going among the polling stations the did operate the vast majority of course that did operate correctly behind me is the independent the international conference center where the coalition will take place we think we are told there may be

a handful of results early on sunday evening but nothing indicative of the big picture that may yet be days away and all the while i think concerns will rise about the possibility of a disputed result president bush for instance said before the vote that he would accept the result as long as it was credible and credibility is the key thing here because with that week long delay to the process with all the incidents that took place on saturday violence intimidation irregularities and other malfunctions the ground is laid for a multitude of legal challenges to the result all of which will inflame opinion on the streets in turn particularly if as it is expected these results are very close all right to join a whole day in a journal thank you for that let's bring in our idris he joins us live now from my degree that's in the northeast of nigeria the big concern up there where you are of course is broken her arms threat to destruct the elections did the ballance affect voter turnout in any way. definitely not here in my

degree in the u.s. today just before holmes opened there was a loud explosion in the capital city here are the police said he was nothing to worry about and disobedience was a targeted but definitely residents say they suspect it's an attack carried out by boko haram in the bring your priest it was an attempt to influence spread the town of did not that stopped boarding taking place early in the morning at shadows but that was quickly contained by the security forces now overnight there were concerns that. but there could be violence when the results start coming out from the calling centers and it's at the time when the leading political parties in nigeria walk using each other planning to disrupt the proceedings all the proceedings of the nature of the results in areas like this this is one area in the in the states in the thirty's it's not going to states that. we expect results from now what they

can and these are areas that were particularly people are particularly worried about the types if any attacks are going to happen it could be one of the results i quoted to fortunately you know there were no major incidents across nigeria. in terms of attacks on these facilities because they were properly guarded you can see right behind me there are police people outside guarding the entrance and inside this particular building and there are army did i didn't i mean. try to stay away from the election process as much as much as they can waiting for when things get out of hand and beyond the control of civil authorities before they step in so far so the situation in terms of security in that all of these has calmed down and everything went on pretty much in the way the independent electoral commission wanted it to have a right to a committee just said thank you for that let's cross over now to talk to how.

legace of course is not as commercial capital so nigeria's most populous city how rude to people that think this election will make any difference their lives particularly people in the very poor neighborhoods of lagos. some people people down to the pains he can when you think people who are really struggling family who live in this neighborhood every election politicians come to make the big promise they favor going to improve infrastructure make sure that they have good roads make sure people have access to electricity and clean running water make to be children have a good education. well the poor haven't happened over the people. with. people destroyed and burned. in a way the oil is. a

point that happened. maybe too late. here on the news hour including the. president as he. would choose the next leader the president is banking on a booming economy to stay in office for another opposition candidates on a platform that focuses on poverty and unemployment pushing people to leave the country joins us live now from the capital dhaka president is widely expected to

win this contest so what sort of turnout are we likely to see today. well if you go by the polling officer in charge here the turnout at least in this polling station is overwhelming much more than the last presidential campaign or last presidential election in this despite the fact that up until friday night people were trying to pick up their voter i.d. cards because a large number of people that are coming out to vote are first time voters and also the fact that the former president of senegal abdulai watch just in the middle of the campaign called on people to boycott this election and so for the last two weeks has been traveling throughout the country promoting his achievements the two hundred twenty kilometers of highway he built the big infrastructure project he's been promoting this this senegal rising while the other candidates show

a bleaker picture take a look at this report. then they go rising prosperous educated and with a booming economy it's this vision that president is promoting to get reelected i first 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 but 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 in entrepreneurship there are a lot of things that are here and now they're not here before one inauguration after the other some is changing the capital's landscape promoting and narrative of rising senegal. just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a two billion dollar construction site it's called junkyard you president. wants to

turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and building sites there's another senate 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 a 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 we have only one a moment sinegal sinking in debt riddled with corruption and unemployment this is the narrative shared by the four opposition candidates among them political newcomer anti establishment. you can win your.

politicians understand nothing because this country's huge decided to take responsibility and to take their destiny into their own hands fifty nine years of lies and betrayal. 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. nicholas as we're talking to you we're seeing live pictures on our t.v. screens of president. just sticking. his ballots into the ballot boxes just voted in fatigue which i believe is his hometown so we're seeing live pictures of the president voting there let me just come back to you and ask you i mean young people may very well decide the outcome of this election will their voices be heard in this vote do you think. i can hear that question there in. the i was i was just asking house and young people may

very well decide the outcome of this election will their voices be heard in this vote do you think. i mean this is the key demographic young voters most of the people in senegal are born after two thousand their million ills they've only lived under two presidency. aged ninety two and much aged fifty seven and many people we've spoken to want to see change in this is what the other candidates are trying to offer an alternative for for young people who feel like their voices are not being heard i'll just give you one example on social media a lot of people called for a open to public presidential debate but that didn't take place well there is a tradition of open public discussion there isn't one of public debate and especially for young people you don't question the elders in public but though that

those attitudes are changing and many young people called for they hadn't said a public forum where some of the candidates went on stage and were taking in questions from young people and they were asking tough questions to these candidates like questions on women's rights was one of the issues where are they going to do with crimes of sexual abuse for instance that go unpunished climate change pollution and jobs offering more employment opportunities for young people because despite this record or this promise made by mikey's cell of offering four hundred thousand new jobs many young people here are unemployed despite having diplomas in degrees in these are the themes that will influence this election there in the right time nicholas. nicholas thank you. saudi arabia house repairing states ambassador to the u.s. with its first female envoy princess rima been bombed out take some of the king's

son prince hardly been solomon who's been appointed vice defense minister a princess the daughter of a former ambassador to the u.s. and previously worked. for saudi arabia's general sports authority promoting women's participation in the olympics let's bring in rami curry he's a senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut he joins us live now from the lebanese capital rami good to have you back i mean this is the first time that saudi arabia has chosen a woman in an ambassador roles so how significant is the appointment is this all about riyadh trying to improve its battered image abroad it's certainly a public relations attempt to improve relations with washington which are quite dismal now except between some of the. questioner and donald trump virtually all of the levels of government there is serious tension between rio and washington the problem that the saudis have is that they don't have much credibility because

of their policies not because of the people they appoint and princes rima is probably a very qualified intelligent amiable and articulate woman but she will have no chance to do anything if the policies of the saudi government in yemen internally in saudi arabia dealing with the killing aftermath if those policies don't change then she will just find herself in the same situation as adults bear before her former ambassador from former foreign minister whose reputation was really tarnished very badly because he was caught up in the web of lies that came up after the her shoji killing so this is what we have to wait and see we wish her well and we hope that her appointment actually represents maybe ok the beginning of some kind of change but there's no sign of that rally so just talk us through briefly what sort of challenges is the princess likely to face i mean as you say congress is on the warpath over u.s. involvement in the war in yemen they want to see

a much tougher line taken against the saudis over the. issue up to the job do you think. we don't know we have to wait and see she's never been tested in this way she's had some positions in saudi arabia that sounded quite fascinating but nothing compared to the political challenges she's going to face in washington the congress is particularly hostile including senior republican members of congress who in the congress sent a reform a request to the presidency to deal with the holding accountable so the officials after the killing of the trump white house ignored as a deadline to respond to that and there are now congressional committees investigating various dimensions of us so do relations including the latest as the attempt apparently to sow nuclear plants to saudi arabia without going to congress as the law requires in the us so there are several areas and that war and the

amount of course on the internal. arrest of particularly woman dissidents so there are quite a few serious issues that have to be dealt with at once and they're all related to ok i see none of them are related to personality robert just a final a final quick thought from you i mean what does this appointment mean for the crown prince his younger brother khalid bin solemn i mean he's been moved to the defense ministry but he'd been facing mounting criticism hadn't he since the murder of jamal khashoggi. well he's been implicated also and accused in terms of lying to the public in the united states and around the world in his public statements and there are some like his ations that he was complicit in the cover up as well those are all accusations they remain to be verified if they're true or not but he also has been tarnished quite a bit the deputy defense minister job is quite an important one and saudi arabia but the problem the saudis are facing and the crown prince and his family is that

you cannot run a country by drawing on your family trump is learning this most arab governments have learned this and the so these are learning that now the defense ministry is a particularly important one because of the war in yemen which has been a catastrophe and the saudis don't seem to know how to wage war they don't seem to know how to end the war and this is another problem that he's going to have to face with so he's been pushed sideways he hasn't really been demoted that much this is a very important position that he holds so we'll see how he responds rami khouri thank you very much indeed for your time. now in a few moments we'll have the weather with rob mccallum but still ahead here on al-jazeera what's got religious groups up in arms at a vote on cuba as new constitution. saving the planet for setting a price on climate change being used to divide us democrats and support them a messy rescues barcelona mooches and occur in the process.

yesterday was not a good day down domination coast particularly for croatia where those seasonal winds the burra was closer to the interiors and northerly and can easily regulate gusts over one hundred ks made a record as you can see the damage is quite extensive considering this is a wind out of the interior you don't normally think of them as particularly strong but as i said this was very damaging chordal structure dollars brought to electricity pylons or the sea it brought down trees and things are a little bit better now the strength the winds actually were a record breaking in the town of splits we had one hundred seventy seven kilometers per hour from that direction highest ever recorded interesting that as i say things have slowly improved but given such a strong wind it recognizes the difference in temperature between this side and

that side it's cold air it will snow dad and all in greece once canano is still favoring but we've been used to rather milder conditions recently so this maybe a little bit of a shock to the system at the moment there's still a potential for more snow athens max is only six degrees today should be thirty it's not surprising that istanbul's at five you had snow here as well and the whole stormy systems are slowly disappearing and the violent weather is down towards the libyan coast and will be for a day or. the weather sponsored by cats are always. macho on al-jazeera maggi has done debates discusses and dissects the big issues of our times in head to head spy thailand votes on march the twenty fourth and its first general election since the twenty four team military coup join us for special coverage in a powerful new film residents of occupy jerusalem share their thoughts on its past

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welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera venezuelans trying to take him to cross the border from colombia and faced volunteer position from security forces at least two people were killed in fighting along the border with brazil as police try to block the. being counted in nigeria where president mamata bihari hoping for a second there were some reports of irregularities during saturday's delayed election just before voting began a town in the north east of the time by suspected boko haram fighters. voting is underway in senegal as people choose their next president the incumbent leave his campaign on a booming economy because opponents say corruption unemployment and a still major problems. but more now on our top story the crisis in venezuela let's take a closer look at where the aid is trying to get in prison because material has closed for crossings along the border with colombia the main entry point is that

international bridge that connects the city of kuta with san antonio in venezuela but to has also shut the border with brazil there was violence on saturday at the gateway in part imo that's on the brazilian side as trucks carrying aid try to cross into venezuela. has more now from the colombian side of the border. it's been a long day of fighting here on the steam on believer bridge as the volunteers the supporters of the venezuelan opposition try to move the eight cents by the united states inside the venezuela but there were confronted by rubber bullets by tear gas thrown by the troops still loyal to president he called last month and by the he was the paramilitaries that are defending the government of the president venezuela the protesters were full of optimistic energy in the morning as the four trucks loaded with they arrived but the mood changed it became increasingly more sour as

the fighting continued and people here really became. even angry as their leadership decided to send the truck back to the warehouse where the that 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. parts of the venezuelan the military but it wasn't enough to open this bridge or the other ones along the colombian venezuelan border and the question here on everybody's mind though is what will be the next move now that this plan of the opposition has failed. when it wasn't just a border with colombia that was a flashpoint on saturday. on brazil's border with venezuela.

on brazil's border with venezuela desperation turned to reach and the fuse was finally lit as rocks were hurled were accusations. some alleged venezuelan migrants started it all by setting this vehicle ablaze while others claimed venezuelan security forces were really to blame. for the outcome of the to let their throwing tear gas grenades into brazilian territory said this man who appeared both angry and panicked. eventually the injured were carried away and brazil's army stepped in that nobody talked about until ordering these men first to put down their rocks then to move away from one of brazil's army has cleared its border with venezuela all the people that were up there are now here in the center of the town a pocket i'm a for now the mood has returned to calm the question is will it stay

that way many were still on edge a little bit down the report i saw that i think there was one infiltrator who threw iraq first so that the venezuelan security forces would be obliged to react against us they threw rocks and other objects at us in brazil then we started throwing things toward them in venezuela. hours earlier though it was a very different atmosphere on this border cheers greeted trucks with venezuelan license plates as they carried aid supplies a few feet into the venezuelan side. this humanitarian volunteer told me driving the vehicle had filled him with pride and concern and you know you know here we don't have guns we just have medicine for our children and loads of goods for pregnant women in business shipment of peace in order to bring peace. to the trucks unable to cross further into going as wayland stayed put but many migrants despite the difficulties reaching brazil continued their journey i mean

i'm a declared little as we walked for three or four hours from venezuela because there are no buses or cars to transport us there are burning buzzes things are very terrible. on a day when more questions emerged about how when and if aid will actually get in to finish. it's clear these been his will and will continue to seek it right here in brazil. in part on brazil's border. more civilians were killed in afghanistan last year than any of the previous nine months figures from the un show almost four thousand civilians were killed during twenty eighteen including almost one thousand children it blames the spike in deaths on both an increase in attacks by eisel an air strikes by the us led coalition the report comes as talks between the u.s. and the taliban to end the country's seventeen year war appear to be accelerating. head of the roman catholic church just cool front or not battle against the abuse

of minors francis has been speaking to in the fourth and final day of an unprecedented conference on sex abuse within the church the pope call it an abominable crime which must be erased will reach alan's joins us live now from vatican city roy so this is the last day of the pope's four day summit on sexual abuse do you think the pope got what he wanted out of this conference rory. i think there were two things the the pope was trying to achieve with this conference one was to impress on clergy from around the world that they see these global issues and the other was aware that it is their shared responsibilities do something about it now certainly there has been much talk about. this being a c. used by some within the church as a as a first world issue a developed world issue that the scandals that have come out of being in the united states they've been in western europe they've been in australia etc. and i think

that the various commentators have said the pope's clergy from the developed world africa asia etc have been thinking well we don't have cases like this so therefore it's your issue to sort out well i think the pope has been trying to say to them that no just because you don't have these cases reported in your countries for various reason it doesn't mean they're not existing and therefore these guidelines that we're going to be coming out with are going to be universe of in a pickle as much to you as they are to european clergy and north america be clergy and rory you've been speaking to many of the survivors and victims of priest sex abuse they say this conference doesn't go far enough so what more do they want to see done. well their suspicion about this event is that it is essentially a talking shop that nothing much concrete will come out of it the pope has talked

about how yes we do have to have active measures we do have to have concrete action coming out of this but i have just been speaking to a survivor who i told about what the pope had said and he said well this is just more yapping essentially this is just more talk something to the pope could have done it would have satisfied me as a survivor he said was too far from the priesthood bishops in a mention five of them that we know who have covered up sexual abuse in the past some of them are in that meeting with over the last few days so just survivors that have been gathering here in rome to kind of keep an eye on what's been happening here certainly not satisfied yet with what this meeting is achieve having said that the pope has always said this is a stage in the process don't expect too much from this four day summit essentially

after it finishes there are going to be further meetings follow ups concrete action will be taken at some point out of this was not the plan from the what's just been going on over the last few days in the vatican rory thank you a scene in the go shater appointed by donald trump is on his way to the middle east to promote a future peace plan for israel and palestine president trump suddenly. was expected to accompany jason green blatt on a weeklong tour of gulf states the u.s. delegation will outline the economic elements of a proposal and of ending the decades old conflict a lot of miners killed in these twenty four people in syria's central helmand province it exploded as a van patten the work has passed by syrian state t.v. says the explosive device is one of the many left in the area like his. iranian state media is reporting the country's first successful launch of a cruise missile from

a submarine that happened during naval exercises near the strait of hormuz iran's military says other submarines in the fleet have similar capabilities the test comes amid rising tensions with the u.s. and saudi arabia shops and businesses in indian administered kashmir have shut down in protest against a crackdown on separatist leaders police and paramilitary soldiers are patrolling the streets in the main city of chicago and anticipation of possible street protests more than one hundred separatists were arrested during raids on saturday tension in the region is already high after a suicide bomb killed at least forty security personnel last week a pakistan based group has claimed responsibility for the attack government of killed at least eight chaldean un peacekeepers in a military base in northern mali it happened early sunday morning near the border without geria the un has condemned the attack and is calling for a response and assault at the same base last april killed two peacekeepers and left several others wounded north korea's leader is on his way to vietnam for

a second summit with the u.s. president believe kim jong un will travel most of the way to hanoi by train is due to meet donald trump there wednesday talks expected to focus on denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula. cubans are getting the opportunity to vote on a new constitution for the first time in decades sunday's poll marks and historic day for the communist country an unprecedented two million people are expected to voice their opposition to the government money are sanchez reports from the capital about a. product into cuba pray for divine guidance. and for cubans to vote no on sunday's 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. but 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 the changes are the most significant since the cold war era the critics say ratifying the proposal will serve to perpetuate the communist one party system for those pushing for a no vote the shadow of female castro remains in these pages is my things by qualifying it as the state 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 air time compared to its government financed opponents. i am voting yes cuba is voting yes we are voting yes for their own labor 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 thought 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 a scientist and just see the have an a cuba the new democrats in the us congress are pushing forward with plans to try to save the environment they launched an initiative a green new deal to tackle climate change and boost renewable energy the republicans have been quick to call for it to be voted for in congress but it should have

a chance to reports that might be for a different reason. as speaker pelosi and i have have spoken at the green new deal has been a priority for progressive left wing democrats elected last november it's based on the principle that a system that's produced unprecedented inequality is also hastening global environmental catastrophe i don't think that we selected by addressing climate change and what i see in some portions of the treaty is that people grow frustrated because they don't feel like this is. the key goals of the green new deal to meet all of the u.s. is power to moms through renewable zero emission energy during a ten year national mobilization while ensuring communities and workers don't suffer during the transition the need for action has been echoed by a republican leadership that usually expresses little appetite for debate on the environment or economic inequality i've noted with great interest the green new deal. and we're going to be voting on that in the senate to give everybody an op

generated go on record. the republicans see an opportunity in the deals emphasis on reducing greenhouse gases while creating an equitable society but no patootie to fracture the democratic party and not to save the planet the era of big government is over bill clinton shifted the democrats from left to right away from the social safety net to the primacy of market forces and big business now almost thirty years later the left is fighting back on the democratic leadership is the republicans will present them as socialist extremists even as opinion polls show broad support for higher taxes on the rich to fund government spending on education health and averting climate change house majority leader nancy pelosi is dismissive comments when asked what she thought about the green new deal where revealing the green dream or whatever they call it she replied nobody knows what it is but they're all for it right it's the grassroots calling for action on climate change and economic

equality the sunrise movement is a nationwide group of. young people that's helped place the green new deal on the political agenda it says the leadership of both parties have a lot to lose if they underestimate support for the green new deal and the electorate frustration for how things are this is a crucial juncture for leadership for a long time we've seen the democrats favorite people leave the science but fail to take decisive action what mitch mcconnell doesn't seem to understand is that he doesn't even have the support of his own voting base sixty four percent of republicans support what's laid out in the resolution mcconnell's bria the prospect of presenting the democrats as too divided even to challenge an popular president may be well founded then if the democratic leadership continues to resist policies that may lead to the change voters say they actually want. washington. another short break here not just here i want to come back with my school student should have been one of the things most closely contested rivalries.

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this historic shift in american politics to bring you more room moods we need documentaries and life on and on line. welcome back i'm busy thank you so much turmoil it's a local da we watched our fans around the world liverpool versus manchester united brings together the two most successful teams in english football history liverpool have a chance to go three points clear at the top of the table when that saves me later on live a paul did you know it's three one earlier in the season a result that prompted the foreign of jerry's a marine yeah well since then united have been revived in the leadership of former apply only going to social clubs fans of already on

a team with his own song i. think. well with the only way out the way all united have won eleven of the last thirteen games social now has the chance to drive them to his biggest victory yet. i've played a few of these myself and i know how the mighty magnitude of it for the fans for everyone who works here. at the start you know there has been many comments about this is the big one on to the on to this one we would looking forward to this one then it's our job to be focusing in channeling all lots and edgy into performance mode when we start the game on sunday we're nights that are out of consentual for this year's title but they do have a big chance to undermine liverpool's hopes of ending a three decade whites a win the trophy in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's liverpool dominated english football ninety nine zero they won the

last of their eighteen league titles when alex ferguson soko ridge united manager he said his ambition was to knock liverpool off their perch and he did just that he won the league thirteen times and took the club's overall total to twenty c. were head of liverpool and the european court liverpool are finally insights of title number nineteen they have lost just once all season and a win in this game will move them three points clear of manchester city we will go there and we will be as good as possible prepared and try everything. through to get a result to plan and. it's you never know. with two strong teams lose each other and it's open until the final whistle in that we try to use the time of manchester city sits atop of the premier league table ahead of liverpool on goal difference their focus is elsewhere this sunday city will take on chelsea in the league cup final at wembley

a chance to win the first of four possible trophies this season. this is still something that isn't true you know with after that before they fail much as she did fail because they're all for a title that all mean three titles when the country club and one's in the only way that is not for us so try to win the next one enough to enable me we'll see who is our core position a little messi has scored the fiftieth hat trick of his career his effort lifting barcelona so hard for victory whites is severe in the spanish league messi goals barsa level twice to go into the latter stages so all in this one he gave them the lead with five minutes left to complete his hat trick barcelona winning it for two they're now ten points clear at the top of the table. they're going to go down with it was really important to win here today because of what it means because of the opponents because of how the league is we wanted to maintain the advantage we had over the chasing team and take on what's coming. is like his teammates may lack the

experience needed to reach the n.b.a. playoffs le bron has reached the n.b.a. finals for the past eight years but this is his first season with the l.a. franchise he scored twenty seven points but couldn't prevent a one twenty eight to one fifteen loss to the new orleans pelicans the lakers are now three and a half games behind the l.a. clippers and san antonio spurs in the final two playoff spots in the western conference. now it's known as the land of a thousand hills and over the next few days some of cycling's biggest names will be taking on the mountains of rwanda that's order a wonder has been upgraded by the sport's governing body so that it can now include world told same's and one of the race in africa is in this category that takes place and go beyond bar one this week long event is now the toughest state rice on the continent. even bigger rivals are calming hopefully well i'm sure there will be some riders through right going to france are going to come more global media just

going to. this is right this is the race of the future some people have already been told here by having the championships in a little while but. i think it's only a matter of time it's going to come we. will run the cycling really accelerates it just over a decade ago when format sort of fronts right a joke boy settled in the country and helped establish a national team he says this year's race is a huge step forward for cycling in the country biking is in their culture but the real racing cycling was not in the culture and after a couple years of being there and starting up a real national team we started the tour of rwanda alongside it and that's grown significantly. the the people are just amazing the spectators are peer to non. in africa and comparable to you know the stages in the tour de france i mean we have millions of spectators every year which is quite beside

quite exhilarating experience for any rider specially the foreign european riders that an experience. gulfs world number three dustin johnson has taken a four shot lead at the w g c mexico championship his closest rival is really macrorie here who's on twelve under par to three shots johnson carded around of sixty six to take control of the events heading into sunday's final round. and a flying furball somewhat stole the show at the latest game in the n.h.l. stadium series the philadelphia flyers mascot gritty took full advantage of a rare outdoor game and zip line into the city's lincoln financial field stadium the seventy thousand fans were even happier with the performance of the same the flyers beating fish rivals the pittsburgh penguins for three it's. a television sport thank you very much that does it for me daryn jordan which is up next with more news that you've done so much about.

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