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 u.s. of trying to back illegal border crossings into venezuela while avoiding official routes for humanitarian supplies but he's the guy who wants to be on feb 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 even wants to build a big wall of 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 accredited in that country as has been done by other countries has al jazeera as mike hanna now with more from the united nations. the last emergency meeting on

venezuela was held in the security council exactly a month ago and it's very clear that the dynamic within the changer has not changed at all basic differences among security council members on the one side a group led by the united states who are insistent that the claims off. to the leadership often as well or should be recognized on the other side a group of nations led by russia who insists that any such recognition would amount to an interference in the internal affairs of a member state there was a lengthy address to the council from the venezuelan foreign minister using the word regime change with regard to u.s. actions in the region also a great discussion about the issue of humanitarian aid as members put it some of arguing very strongly that this was in a way weaponized aid in

a bid to change the government within venezuela but russia and the united states also both said that they have resolution said they are drawing up they will introduce them in the next few days in a bid to get some form of agreement in a council that remains deeply divided meanwhile opposition leader one guy joe is expected to return to venezuela this weekend as a latin america get it into c.n.n. reports they are questions about what will happen day and once he is back in caracas. there is certainly a degree of demoralization among opponents of president nicolas and i would allow at this moment following the failed attempt to bring in food and medical supplies into venezuela from colombia and brazil over the weekend now opposition leaders are arguing that in any battle in any political conflict you never win in the first battle they say that supporters have to keep up the momentum of the last six weeks that they should maintain their optimism but there is a key element missing in that is their leader of one wide off. he violated

a supreme court order that banned him from leaving the country and now president nicolas my little says that he will face justice if he returns to the country however political analyst lisa the center alone told al jazeera that there is no question that why dog has to return to venezuela. one thing is clear if it is in return words your strength will vanish he is strong because he is fighting because he represents the hope of to people because you feel the vacuum of your position which had become weak if you stays approach that vacuum will return in fact one of why those closest aides tells al-jazeera that his return to the country is imminent although he would not say exactly how or from where he would return to venezuela now it is a high stakes bet to say the very very least but if he is arrested that would unleash a whole new series of problems for the embattled president if he decides to go through with it. more than sixty people are feared buried after the collapse of an

illegal gold mine in indonesia rescuers searching the site in north soon always see at least one person has been found dead while fourteen others have been rescued the national disaster agency says the mine collapse because of unstable soil and the launch number of mining holes the taliban and the u.s. special envoy are close to reaching an agreement on american troop withdrawal from afghanistan taliban spokesman so hale shaheen says the deal will include guarantees that afghanistan will not be used again as a staging arena for on time merican attacks senior taliban leaders are holding talks with the u.s. special envoys here in qatar stephanie decker 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 as he called it a time table 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 that if you do find an agreement that the military aspect of your group will cease to operate with. us from the drop quarter groups come on strong. on of one inclusiveness then you could have been in the country i think there is no new order. to. sort of very sustainable peace in the country you know all. four

minutes including a lot of people who will be included in the national guard 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 skin 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 sesa firing to congress about donald trump's contacts with russia and his alleged criminal conduct. the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors is 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. survivors of the september eleventh

attacks in new york have taken saudi arabia to court along with the families of victims excuse a saudi government of helping the hijackers launch the two thousand and one attacks christenson know me as more. they came to court to demand the saudi government cough up more information specific documents that survivors of the attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one believe will shed new light on the hijackers responsible for the deaths of nearly three thousand people fifteen of the nineteen were saudi citizens filed a lawsuit because beyond wanting justice for the murder of our loved ones who want the truth that we want the truth to be told to the world we want everyone to understand the role that the saudis played in financing in aiding abetting the nineteen hijackers and their attorneys presented new evidence suggesting that the saudis have not shared all pertinent information about these two men the mary and omar al by you me saudis on their government's payroll who were living in southern

california and helped two of the hijackers find a place to stay there the plaintiffs have long argued the hijackers would not have been successful in their mission without government assistance they can explain to true nature of the work of to merion by you me in the united states during that time period they don't want to talk about it and so when we ask questions well what they're really doing here they don't have an explanation it still hasn't been really explained and certainly has been documented lawyers for the saudis say they've turned over all the documents they could find and the allegations against the kingdom are baseless today's court proceedings were to convince the judge to compel the kingdom of saudi arabia to produce more documentary evidence more information. about its two employees in the united states and to whom they were answering back hold a written decision is expected from the judge in the coming days kristensen in the al-jazeera new york.

hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera nigeria's president mahmoud abbas has won a second four year term the results so saturday's delayed election were announced a short while ago giving bahrain more than fifteen million votes has more from that which are. not written body when he beats will be disappointed. to try it appealed or nigerian that despite those who didn't vote for it he will need to be appeased with everyone that would be crucial what he. wanted in terms of security on the ground it is going to be climbing and here we have a lot to be made. but yet you know a lot of people happy that this was. just in case they are. all eyes on the main opposition ali they're going to react. what to do if they don't have. to. live pictures from hanoi where u.s.

president donald trump is meeting vietnam's leader nguyen trauma ahead of his much anticipated second summit with north korea's leader kim jong il later on when see again live pictures from vietnam's capital where donald trump has been holding talks with vietnamese leaders in the united states meanwhile the democratic led house of representatives has voted to brawl president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency along the us mexico border use executive powers earlier this month to get funding to build a wall on the frontier. the united states has used a un 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 slater this week russia has denounced the measures as interference in venezuela's internal affairs. more than sixty people are feared buried after the collapse of an illegal

gold mine in indonesia rescue is a searching the size in north. at least one person has been found dead while fourteen others have been rescued the national disaster agency says the mine collapsed because of unstable soil and the large number of mining holes those are the headlines on al jazeera coming up next year it's a stream to stay with us. talk to. you personally one of the main beneficiaries is that the case listen. that's not exactly a point we meet with global newsmakers about the stories that matter. ok and i really could be here in the street today mass starvation in yemen be

treated as a war cry where here the latest on what the u.n. calls the largest food security crisis in the world what can be done to end yemen suffering we want to hear your thoughts on this story you can send them to us live via our you tube channel or on twitter. extreme malnutrition and starvation those are the conditions faced by many people living in yemen where for you or has left families impoverished and in desperate need of aid according to the un around ten million yemenis are on the edge of famine but images like those of twelve year old fatima suggest otherwise when this video was filed two weeks ago for tomorrow weighed only ten kilograms since fighting between who the rebels and a saudi led coalition started in twenty fifteen an estimated eighty five thousand children under the age of five may have starved to death according to the charity you see the children so who should be held responsible for the thousands of yemenis

who have died from starvation joining us to talk about this in gothenburg sweden our friend nasser a journalist and founding editor in chief of the sun our review in paris. is a humanitarian worker and yemen project coordinator for m.s.f. and in oxford in the united kingdom david king he studies the politics of famine and is a professor of conflict studies at the london school of economics it's good to have you here guess i wish it was under better circumstances so the u.n. describing what's happening in yemen as the worst manmade humanitarian crises of our time let me show our audience some of the statistics so they can kind of get it into their head what this actually looks like so. twenty million people don't have access to food or have difficult access to food ten million people suffering from extreme hunger food prices up as much as hundred sixty two percent after and that is even hard to imagine for your family for your friends who are in yemen can you

explain to us what that actually means what are they having to deal with on a day to day basis. on a day to day basis. every time i call my mom and son out and we exchange information about the prices of poor here and sweden where i'm based and from are pretty much the same prices and for millions about two million people in the yemen they have. their salaries wrong the civilian sector. that means that millions of people don't want war buying food so these numbers really reflect same ability financial ability to get access to food and warry food so it's how life is pretty much

very very difficult it's unbearable how the skyrocketing. prices. in yemen so they're just people are eager to buy the poor from what you're saying there is completely going what we're seeing online here this is a group that call themselves the yemen polling center and they surveyed yemenis this is status from twenty seventeen but they write in that the people that they talk to believe that access to food was getting worse thirty three percent of the people said that high prices were responsible for making that access to food so difficult others said that it was the salary crisis as you mentioned that was responsible for the lack of access to food or speeding markets but people don't have the money to buy it they go on to say that half of those yemenis that they talked to who had a paying job lost their income due to the war the state's inability to pay salaries affects roughly a third of the yemeni population and this in turn

a chinaman to join battlefronts to feed family many households are now women lead altering gender roles a friend or you want to jump in there on the open. they're saying that this is shifted things in families this is very important because a today it was a big day with her back and that you know the international. you know during the conference but it's not really the direct mylan in the conflict that is creating the humanitarian crisis because it is the contra quinces of the conflict the economy aspect of the conflict it is what it have what it has and the beating and back on the people who know them divided i came i see not in go ahead. yeah. that's. brought an economic crisis. as a resource on embargo since two thousand and sixteen imposed by the so do not question when posed. that secure reception brittany's

a trade and the economy going to extend. was there was also. the recession also human needs who don't have enough resources to buy food but at the opposite there is food on the market when you book a son are and even to a day that city for example there is food on the market there is a risk that the venice is a problem for the people how to access. this food as a consequence of this economic crisis it's that the people don't talk enough financial resources but at the same time. as a result. the arts program was bringing food to. the amount so. people cannot buy food but at the same time as a result of humanitarian assistance was bringing food to the country david i'm just thinking because you study famine and. politics and conflict all mixed up together

and we're not saying that this is a famine because there are particular circumstances under which a famine is actually declared but when you see what is unfolding in yemen is that a blueprint for what has happened in other places and is it done on purpose to basically terrorize civilians. well i think it is something that we've seen many times is the intentional creation of famine whether that's for economic or political or military purposes certainly something that's very very common in in sudan and we've seen it in many other countries as well like ethiopia. some time ago so i think if we look at yemen you know you can look at it as an economic crisis and it clearly is an economic crisis and this is part of what happens in a famine you have gotten food in the markets but people who are particularly poor

or can't afford to buy what there is so that's typical really over land and i think on top of the economic crisis you know we have to take you account of the ways in which the saudi led coalition in particular has been waging in effect a kind of economic warfare you know a systematic blockades with the destruction of water processing facilities construction markets destruction of courts i mean this is a massive. this is a massive series of blows against a society that was already.