but he was the biggest. the prisoner in the prison came together. and. thanks to for. a rebuke with no precedent the u.s. house votes to cancel president trump's declaration of a national emergency. hello i'm in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up supporters of nigeria's president celebrate but the country's electoral commission says the counting still has a way to go. we're just hours away from the vietnam summits between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un. and the un security

council meets on the venezuela crisis with well as divided again. we begin with breaking news from washington where the democratic led house of representatives has voted to block president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency along the us mexico border let's go straight to patty called pain in washington d.c. for us patty this was a bipartisan vote in the house. kind of bipartisan thirteen republicans broke from the president in voted that this was in fact not a national emergency let's just take a step back and remember what happened as u.s. president donald trump wanted a border wall congress wouldn't give him the money you shut down the government for the longest time in american history more than thirty days then he basically baulked and he said ok fine assign the bill but i'm going to declare a national emergency which allows him he believes to take money that congress has

designated for other military projects and move it to build the wall here's why that is a problem potential problem for the president national emergencies are meant and they've been used there are history of this country to basically target countries or epidemics or after the nine eleven it has never once been used by a president to circumvent congress which under the constitution has the sole power of the purse the only branch of government that is technically allowed to spend the government's money so what you're seeing is some republicans coming out and saying even if we agree that there is an emergency on the southern border and even the u.s. military says there is not in fact any kind of emergency on the southern border we don't agree with the precedent that this is set in so it is bipartisan kind of but the question was were any republicans going to risk the ire of the president in his twitter feed and vote against him in the end thirteen did and patty how likely is it now to pass in the senate. well that's going to be the big question mitch mcconnell usually when he has bills come up before him that maybe he doesn't like

or make the president angry he just tables and he doesn't let them come to the floor the way this vote was taken though he has to is eighteen days and he has to put it up for a vote now maal of the democrats are expected to vote against this national emergency they would need for republicans to join them so far three have said they will none of these senators wants to be the fourth person the person who again is going to get the direct fire of the u.s. president although many republicans behind the scene say they are incredibly concerned again about the precedent this sets they're worried a democrat will come in and say climate change is a national emergencies and shutting down all the coal fired power plants a lot of republicans though might not want to risk the anger of the president because many people believe that this when it gets to the courts and there's already been lawsuits filed that the courts are going to stop the president but that is some there were enough to wait and see if republicans decide that what matters is the constitution the precedent and that they're willing to stand up to the president that something most republicans in the u.s. senate have not been willing to do for the whole two years of the trumpet been

history and patty trump himself has said this where does that leave everyone that means and this is another thing that a lot of republicans are thinking about because let's forget the let's not forget president john trump is very unpopular with the vast majority of americans but he is incredibly popular with republicans and those are the ones who vote in the primaries so a lot of these senators might be thinking he's going to veto this we don't have the numbers to override a veto so what is the point of going against the president risk in that he comes against me and now you have a primary challenger and i lose my seat in the u.s. senate so that is part of the calculus that these senators are taking into account because they would need an incredible number of u.s. senators to defect from the president and again that's not something we've seen these republican senators be willing to do in the two years the trumps been in the white house is there is patty callahan there for us watching everything happening and washington d.c. thank you patty. mamadou bihari is heading for a second term as nigeria's president based on results so far from the electoral

commission a.p.c. party officials say they're preparing to celebrate as bihari leads by nearly two million votes but the electoral commission says it continence the final results yet the main opposition p.d.p. accuses the ruling party of trying to break the polls. this. is. the. this is the reason. the. this is that if. all this is the disease that is the you know who did it. has the latest from the capitol a bridge or. there has been no official announcement from the electoral commission

of who has won in fact election officials are still releasing the czar's from some of the remote parts of the country there's no indication now how long that process or take prison bihari supporters are very confident that he's the one who won this election the party officials are in the building behind me planning victory rally where they will plan to hold that in a couple of hours the main opposition party is unhappy with the results so far they allege and ford is saying that election officials have been working with prison by trying to steal this election but they haven't told what to do about it its full commission has told all politicians to not announce any results only. official results warn people not to try to incite violence or to spread fake news so all eyes now on the commission when will those results and then who would expect defeat . if this election is disputed they could be violence. the next test of relations

between the united states and north korea will happen in the coming hours donald trump and john are in vietnam for a second summer's almost a year after their historic meeting in singapore the big question is whether they can reach a concrete agreement on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula our diplomatic editor james bay is reports from hanoi. kim jong il arriving in hanoi after a long journey by train from north korea way across china he's here for the latest stage of one of the most unusual diplomatic process is ever into year range from the threat of imminent made in the u.n. general assembly we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea to ten months later a face to face summit the first time the leaders of these two countries technically still at war had ever met and there was an instant bomb. and then we fell in love

ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters and they're great let us out we fell in love even a former state department official from the obama administration was impressed i have a dozen criticisms of the trumpet ministration foreign policy from presidential impulsiveness to disrespect and misuse of dedicated public servants in the us government on this particular issue i am willing to give president trump credit for trying something new he's not correct when he says that diplomacy has never worked with north korea in fact it has produce positive results in the past but he is correct when he says it's never gotten us to the solution that we really want in the seven months since the singapore summit the diplomacy between the two sides has stalled they've now decided to get the two leaders back together to try and

reenergize things. president donald trump is believed to assess foreign affairs by how it will be viewed domestically for now north korea is seen as one of his few policy successes turning the threat of imminent war into a fragile peace it's unlikely he'll want to jeopardize that by pressing the north koreans too hard in case the whole process collapses james bays out zero hanoi the un security council has been discussing the venezuela crisis the u.s. special envoy to venezuela is calling for other members to sanction nicholas nigeria's government for destroying aid shipments at the border we ask that others join us in sanctioning those who've been involved in the violence over the last weekend and who are fattened by the spoils of the mura regimes corruption. we ask that member states contribute to addressing the humanitarian situation in

venezuela as dozens of nations already have generally have generously done and we ask you to recognize the nature of them endure a regime and question question the purpose and likely outcome of so-called dialogue with someone who would rather block and burn donated medicine and bread than see it in the hands of venezuelan children but russia's representative to the un has accused the us of trying to back illegal border crossings into venezuela a lot of waiting official routes for humanitarian support thanks to posse but he's the guy who wants to do if you will in the world on february twenty third we witnessed an attempt at legal state border crossing of unknown cargoes colleagues at the security council which of your countries would have acted any different one even wants to build a big wall at the border of another country to prevent illegal crossings how is this any different to nine hundred eighty six when humanitarian assistance to

nicaragua turned out to be an arms consignment to the contras the units let's call a spade a spade it's not humanitarian assistance if the u.s. wanted to help the venezuelan people they would have operated through any of the u.n. agencies are credited in that country as has been done by other countries let's go out of there as mike hanna who is at the u.n. mike the venezuelan ambassador also spoke recently and gave a rather impassioned statement i believe. indeed to have been as a low was represented by the foreign minister who spoke very strongly in defense of his country and of the majeure of government insisting that the united states was intent on a regime change in arguing to that what the united states called humanitarian aid was in fact a weaponized way in which to effect such regime change it's a month since the last urgent meeting on venezuela was held in the security council and it's very clear that the dynamic of the council has changed not at all it is

still divided deeply in terms of all issues pertaining to venezuela or sanctions the u.s. says you heard there supporting sanctions strongly russia and some of its partners at lee opposed to sanctions arguing that such sanctions are interference in the internal affairs office sovereign state so it does appear the security council as such and a number of other countries who spoke in the course of the afternoon still deeply divided no way that there is going to be any agreement in the council chamber and now both russia and the united states said in the course of this debate which is now drawing to a close that they are drawing up resolutions which they will formally introduce into the security council this could happen in coming days but very unlikely that you going to get such a resolution passed without russia or the u.s. vetoing the other resolution mike you talk about resolutions in the coming days

what are they likely to include what's likely to come out of this meeting at all. well this particular meeting very little is going to come out of basically it's the various parties airing their positions once again all of them agreed that date has to be an end to violence all of them agreed that there has to be some way of alleviating the humanitarian crisis but the division comes in how you're going to do that russia and others insisting that the could best step the international community can do is offer what help is needed but at the same time insisting that it's up to venezuelans themselves to make whatever changes they need to do the u.s. calling for recognition of the regime which has claimed power there the former chairman of the national assembly russia seeing that as an illegal polygraph so the differences are immense there will be no resolution at the end of this particular discussion the resolution if one does come will be one drawn up by russia another

one drawn up by the united states which may be debated in the ways it'd out of there is mike hanna there for us at the u.n. thank you mike iran's president hassan rouhani has held back from accepting the surprise resignation of his foreign minister ahmed other zarif announced he was quitting on instagram apologizing for any shortcomings during his seven s. and ally has suggested his decision was motivated by criticism of the nuclear deal he helped to negotiate and twenty fifteen which the u.s. withdrew from last year many hardliners in iran were opposed to the deal out as there is dosage of ari has more on what this means is everything future. well as far as we understand mamma will be returning to his position as foreign minister tomorrow morning there is nothing to indicate otherwise we've heard from various officials both within the president's office as well as the foreign ministry saying

that this resignation is not acceptable the president has not accepted this attempt by the foreign minister to leave his position and that the instagram post is not an official way for a minister to ask the government to leave office so of course has an iranian has not accepted this as an official resignation attempt by the foreign minister and of course this is not the first time we're hearing that the foreign minister has tried to leave his job he said that in the past he's come under very very heavy criticism about the nuclear agreement iran signed with the p five plus one in two thousand and fifteen a lot of the conservative voices in the islamic republic were very much opposed to this agreement saying that iran did not get everything it could have and that somehow zarif and the rouhani government were tricked into signing this agreement that is not the best deal for iran but of course the foreign minister being adamant that he did the best that he could and this deal was better than no

with the deal at all under the circumstances that they were working in. weather is next but still ahead on al jazeera and indian bombing raid into pakistan dramatically increases tension between the new neighbors. leave with a deal leave with no deal or no bricks. and maybe maybe not britain's prime minister outlines the state of play on. helena it's not really a wet time of the year but once again we've got cloud emanating somewhere around the bay of bengal disappearing up into the high ground of you now which may well generate yet more rain or snow and the picture looks wet east towards shanghai and

then back along the yangtze towards her hand which is a fairly familiar picture sasa this mr for jan and then to hong kong it's warmer and quieter now hong kong up to twenty five as you can see hanoi looks potentially cloudy but probably dry the next couple of days whereas the rain sits where it is a bit early for spring rains this but nevertheless there's clearly rain and to the west of that just over the border thing from johnny you see rain of course now depend blatting sasseville still quiet for the philippines most of southeast asia very few showers around it or even in borneo you don't see much generated sort of way sea remarkably dry not so if you go towards west papua a scattering of showers here the concentration is a bit further west a bit further south sumatra maybe and occasionally singapore you'll see the wettest weather but this is the anomaly to note at the moment through the northeast of india and bangladesh we've seen rain the last two days and sheryl's are still generated they could well be there again on wednesday. the weather sponsored by cat

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hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour the democratic led house of representatives has fired its a black president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency along the us mexico border trump used the power as earlier this month to get funding to build a wall on the frontier. he is heading for a second term as nigeria's president the electoral commission has yet to confirm the results about biharis a.p.c. policy is preparing to celebrate victory. the u.s. has used a u.n. security council meeting to call for further sanctions on venezuelan president nicolas maduro for destroying aid supplies to the country the u.s. special envoy for venezuela says washington will impose its own sanctions on caracas later this week. there have been more casualties in cross border fighting between indian and pakistani troops in kashmir pakistan says four of its civilians including two children were killed and another ten injured india's state media says

five of its soldiers were injured the fighting follows indian air strikes near the border with pakistan administered kashmir says tamil reports from new delhi. these pictures released by the pakistani military show the damage it says was done by the indian air force near the town of balakot inside pakistan on a hillside in a four sted uninhabited area a spokesman said there were no casualties but india says the airstrike hit a training camp of jaish e mohammad the armed group that claimed responsibility for this month's suicide bombing that killed forty indian troops indeed it minister to. indian officials say they chose to attack after pakistan failed to take action. action to dismantle the infrastructure on its soil. it was perceived that the gesture of moment was attempting other suicide at attacks in various parts of the country india has not provided any proof it hit its intended target and

analysts say the reason for that may partly be not to further antagonize pakistan but on the streets of new delhi use of the strike was welcome. india has given a perfect reply to pakistan and this reply was a much needed one. and vs countrymen are extremely happy and we want to tank in the forces. that make it one finished istead it isn't right to give them an answer if they keep it to be able to finish them. but the government is trying to keep the situation because indian officials are calling the air strike preemptive because their intelligence showed jaish e mohammad was planning another suicide attack there also describing it as nonmilitary because no pakistani military was targeted their explanation is being seen as a way to deescalate tensions between the countries but since then there have been raids and clashes in indian administered kashmir. indian security forces conducted

morning raids against separatist leaders in srinagar imposing a curfew on the city and shutting off the internet. but a number of protesters defied the curfew and clashed with security forces. people living here say they've been on edge since the suicide bombing the deployment of ten thousand paramilitary troops at the weekend sparked rumors a major incident was going to take place and locals tell us they feel caught in the middle. of the box that is i don't know what will happen. to the both of the countries and all the neighboring countries to do shooters on a discussion moot issue to the rebels but resolution seems a long way off baucus on asserts its right to retaliate and india put its forces on the border on high alert that leaves the people have indeed and minister to me are fearing that whatever happens they will be caught in the middle as al jazeera you doug. well al jazeera cannot hide

a has more from the capital of pakistan administered kashmir and after mad dogs in india and i tag inside buggers i need to get it anyways buggers done said they did not kill anybody on the ground and that the indians had to drop their payload after day card so i challenge my buggers on the interceptors and the indians of course saying that they have killed hundred of paper that the military spokesman on the other hand saying that they have died was true there would be funerals bollock ordered a populated area and people would come out and body their dead if their dead indians had already tried to spring a surprise and he said earlier that he did not expect the indians to get away with that separate saying that pakistan right now bring their sobriety of its own the bugger to any prime minister had already called a national security committee of the cabinet he's met the military leadership and also are the people of pakistan should be ready for any eventuality the bugs on the

foreign minister also ahead a merging he meeting and forming their own roy who would then islamabad about what had happened buggers down rubbishing their claim and ignored the buggers any foreign minister had to say either pakistan could should and if there is aggression against pakistan we have the right to defend our country and this situation is unfolding at a political level a diplomatic level and at a military level that just is planning and pakistan will respond. the taliban and the u.s. special envoy are close to reaching an agreement on american troop withdrawal from afghanistan taliban spokesman said the deal will include guarantees that pakistan will not be used again as a staging area for anti-american attacks senior taliban leaders are holding talks with u.s. special envoy. in qatar stephanie deca has more. it is the second day of talks between the high level delegation of the taleban and the americans trying to

find some kind of solution to the seventeen year war between them and also the larger forty year conflict inside that country now we mentioned tracked down the taliban spokesperson here in doha i was at the hotel where the talks are taking place he said that basically there were two main issues being discussed one the u.s. troop withdrawal from the country the occupation is he called it a timetable for that and also what the americans really wanted was to have the taliban ensure that groups like al qaida and i still would not use the country to stage further attacks now there is of course an important issue that the afghan people want to know about which is security and that is something i pushed him on and one guarantees you giving if you do find an agreement that the military aspect of your group will cease to operate. yes food drop water groups once thought. of funny consistently good name the country i think there is no new order. to.

sort of sustainable peace in the country and all the. people they will be included in the national party i also mother or the taliban would be talking to the afghan government he said that that was an internal issue and that would only be addressed once the external ones like the troop withdrawal would have been confirmed certainly they are complicated issues being discussed the timetable again we're going to have to wait and see what is achieved here over the next coming days we were all skiing him whether he's optimistic he said well if we don't achieve something this round of talks there will be more. the u.s. president's former personal lawyer is testifying to congress about donald trump's contacts with russia and his alleged criminal conduct michael cohen met the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors he said to serve time in prison for

lying to the committee and twenty seventeen on wednesday he'll be giving public testimony on sensitive and potentially explosive topics britain's prime minister has offered part of the chance to decide whether to delay brix it or go for a potentially disastrous no deal departure from the european union his how her latest plan is expected to pay out to reason may will push the existing e.u. withdrawal agreement to a second parliamentary vote by march twelfth m.p.'s decisively rejected it and january if it's vetoed again then parliament will be asked if the u.k. should depart with no deal and if they turn that option down then a vote will be held on march fourteenth on delaying the departure date which is currently march twenty ninth. ultimately the choices we face would remain changed leave with a deal leave with no deal or have no bricks it so when it comes to that

motion tomorrow the house needs to come together as we did on the twenty ninth of january and send a clear message that there is a stable majority in favor of leaving the e.u. with the deal. we believe in getting the terms of our right that's why we believe in our alternative plan the prime minister's botched deal provides no certainty or guarantees for the future and was comprehensively rejected by this house we cannot risk our country's industry and people's livelihoods and so if somehow if it somehow does pass in some form at a later stage we believe there must be a consummate republican vote deceive people feel that's what they voted for. as there is lawrence lee has more from london. three's a may was reminded parliament that she had promised m.p.'s no fewer than one

hundred and eight times over the course of the last few months that the u.k. would be leaving the european union on march twenty ninth and so you can imagine the feeling from those who do want to label not dates when she's now acknowledged that there is so much concern about the u.k. leaving without any sort of trade deal plan and the economic catastrophe that people fear that that would lead to that she's not offering the chance to extend equally her opponents even sure that she's going to be true to her word because she keeps going back on promises and has done over and over again but if you assume for a second that she is true then the logic almost certainly now will be that on march the twelfth m.p.'s will yet again vote down her plan on march the thirteenth they will vote down no deal because there's so little appetite for that amongst the fourteen they will vote for an extension potentially for a couple of months and no more than that to give her vast amounts of time to try to

come to an arrangement but the big question is what happens after that because of that period if there's no arrangements that is the prime minister pointed out no deal will still happen and the only alternative to that is revoking article fifty and not leaving the european union at all unless the your opinion grants yet another extension and so that's that many m.p.'s to accuse they say she's running out of roads and they're now saying she's trying to build more roads all the time and it's very very uncertain still what's going to happen but the chance i think they have an extension is almost inevitable. but i missed on the attained with the headlines on al-jazeera the democratic led house of representatives has voted to block president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency along the us mexico border trump used the palace earlier this month to get funding to build the war on the frontier housing callahan has more

from washington. kind of bipartisan thirteen republicans broke from the president voted that this was in fact not a national emergency let's just take a step back and remember what happened as u.s. president donald trump wanted a border wall congress wouldn't give him the money you shut down the government for the longest time in american history more than thirty days then he basically ball did he said ok fine assign the bill but i'm going to declare a national emergency which allows him he believes to take money that congress is designated for other military projects and move it to build the wall muhammadu buhari is heading for a second term as nigeria's president the electoral commission is yet to confirm the results but who has a p.c. posse is preparing to celebrate victory the u.s. has used a u.n. security council meeting to call for fed the sanctions on venezuelan president nicolas maduro for destroying aid supplies to the country the u.s. special envoy for venezuela says washington will impose its own sanctions on

caracas later this week russia has denounced the measure as interference in venezuela's internal affairs iran's president hassan rouhani has held back from accepting the surprise resignation of his foreign minister mohammad just refused instagram to say he's stepping down apologizing for any shortcomings during his seven and ally has suggested his decision was motivated by criticism of the nuclear deal he helped to negotiate in twenty fifteen which the u.s. withdrew from last year and pakistan says it has the right to defend itself after india's air force fired on areas close to the border between pakistan and pakistani administered kashmir the target was an armed group responsible for a suicide attack which killed more than forty indian paramilitary soldiers those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here to inside story do stay with us .

pressure grows on venezuela's president the u.s. amount says more sanctions to force nicolas maduro from office but he is standing refusing to let a day in and closing borders russia is warning against u.s. military intervention so what happens next this is an inside story. there and welcome to the program i'm laura kajal we'll stand by you and to liberty is restored.