to sacrifice his freedom. for his beliefs. al-jazeera wild tells the extraordinary story of the archbishop and the piano. no way forward on the venezuela crisis rival resolutions fail at the u.n. security council. and wrote about this and this is all just here a live from doha also coming up after days of rising tension over kashmir both india and pakistan move to ease tensions. donald trump returns to the u.s. without a deal on north korea's nuclear program but differing explanations on what went wrong is there still

a way forward. as well as attorney general says he plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu. attempts to push for a resolution to the crisis in venezuela have ended with a standoff between world powers at the united nations a u.s. led vote seeking free and fair elections failed the security council with russia and china vetoing the move and russia had its own idea rejected as well because since it only has more from the united nations. venezuelan opposition leader traveled to brazil on thursday visiting president djerba. asad years of european union states it was part of a tour of several nations meant to ratchet up international pressure on president nicolas maduro to step down. at the united nations why doe's allies attempted to do the same united states introduced a resolution calling for

a free and fair elections in venezuela as well as humanitarian access but russia would not have it city was opposed we are seriously concerned by the fact that today's meeting may be exploited as a step for preparations for real not humanitarian intervention and as a pretext for external intervention they vetoed the draft which was supported by nine other council members the us a special representative for venezuela said the biggest threat to the venezuelan people came from their government regrettably by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people. more than three million people have fled the country seeking food and medicine while others have taken to the streets in protest after an election widely regarded as illegitimate supporters of the resolution pointed out that it contained no authorization for military force

but venezuela raised the specter of colonialism the power to this will has to do with having this white house over at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east i'm not saying these approach yourself recall and i say show love latino america russia introduced its own resolution reaffirming the territorial integrity and political independence of venezuela but it only got four votes european countries which have also recognized quite doe accused russia of misrepresenting the us draft and venezuela of working against the interests of its own people and i said that it is not true that the dilemma in venice well is between war and peace as they have said it is not true that a dilemma in one ideology or another in venezuela it is between democracy and dictatorship. so the international stalemate continues. nicolas maduro remains in power and one why dell wonders if he'll be allowed to go home christine salumi

al-jazeera the united nations and well robert a lengthy as a journalist who's covered latin america for newsweek magazine he says by preventing foreign aid getting to venezuelans the duo is actually gaining support venezuelan people are the ones who will be suffering from this stalemate both model especially from the moderate ministration what we're seeing is that humanitarian help for business really has become a proxy discussion or proxy war so to speak between model and one who i don't because my little knows that he needs more time for him to remain in power and he's succeeding so far remember a couple days ago we started out by february twenty third the military top brass will relinquish any kind of support to the mother ministration but that never occurred and by stopping humanitarian aid to venezuelans means that mother though

is gaining time that is that has been the sole purpose of this administration in order for him to remain in power pakistan's prime minister says his country will release a captured indian pilots on friday as a gesture of peace a day earlier india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region pakistan says it downed two indian planes and arrested the pilot india said it shot down one pakistani aircraft and lost one of its own well amid the fighting is kashmiris living a both sides of the disputed border who are suffering the most as imran khan has discovered. by car on foot the residents of to leave in haste this village on the disputed border area of kashmir known as the line of control is typical of many in the area. shelling from both sides is not uncommon but in recent days it's increased to levels not seen in two decades and people aren't taking any

chances are that the more the media but our way over there more years after us we keep saying here the government doesn't do anything we have to come be insulted we're now wandering there's no point in living. from the village alone some three hundred families have fled in surrounding villages artillery shells have damaged houses in this village the women and children have left but the men have stayed behind to defend. we stand with the army we stand here just a kilometer away from the border we won't leave how forces behind there are also similar scenes happening in indian administered kashmir is just part of that military checkpoint law is the line of control the affected border between pakistan and indian administered kashmir and it's not just on this side of the border that kashmiris are scared people are also fleeing from over there shows from the

pakistani side has increased in recent days. how do you. remain safe may god protect everyone as well as hindus and six be the two powers to consign it so that peace prevails in the region and believe in. those prayers may well be in vain for now both pakistan and india are pushing each other diplomatically and militarily and so far neither shows any signs of backing down in the disputed region of kashmir is the people that are feeling the pain and once again they feel they're being used as pawns between the two nuclear powers. how does it. then i can choose a former secretary in india's foreign ministry he says pakistan handing over the indian pilot is not a goodwill gesture but an obligation under the geneva convention. pakistan in its present condition is in no position to carry out hostilities any further the

indian attack on a terrorist facility and. was entirely justified and the pakistani response was very weak today at the military press conference the military to presented it was displayed parts of a myside system which fell on the indian side which could only be mounted on an f. sixteen so this fall in the aerial operation which took place yesterday pakistan suffered a grievous loss of an f. sixteen fighter and all of this i think also despite all that was to imran khan's brave words having a sobering effect within pakistan to as far as india is concerned it made it very clear that it was not targeting the pakistan state or pakistan's military facilities it was only operating against. this dog and

that dog which has consistently launched terrorist attacks in india the jaish e mohammad indeed they bomba the suicide bomber who carried out the bull bomb attack on february fourteenth himself in a predicted radio said that he is a member of the jaish e mohammad. north korea is accusing us of wasting an opportunity to strike a nuclear deal president donald trump has walked away from the two day summit with kim jong il and vietnam with no agreement he says he couldn't meet the north korean leader's demands to lift sanctions. you into the if united states removes partial sanctions namely removes the articles of sanctions that hamper the civilian economy

and the livelihood of our people in particular we will permanently and completely dismantle all of the nuclear material production facilities in the yongbyon area including plutonium and uranium in the presence of us experts and by the joint work of technicians in both countries. told me this proposal was the biggest denuclearization vision that we could take in the present state in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states where he's got more what happened in one hour. before the summit u.s. president donald trump tried to lower expectations of a deal with north korean leader kim jong un but the expectation was at the very least that the pair would sign some form of agreement on denuclearization or make a joint statement instead the talks were cut short before lunch the table was set but the diners didn't show leaving donald trump to explain why raise your plea they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn't do that. they

were willing to denuclearize portion of the areas that we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for the the american said kim jong un was willing to dismantle his young beyond research facility regarded as the centerpiece of north korea's nuclear program in exchange he wanted all economic sanctions lifted which was a step too far for the us unfortunately we didn't get all the way we didn't get to something that that ultimately made sense for the united states of america i think chairman kim was hopeful that we would we asked him to do more he he was unprepared to do that but i'm still optimistic despite that optimism this was not how the summit was supposed to go earlier on thursday there was no sign of trouble ahead kim jong un the reclusive leader of a repressive state even answered questions from reporters perhaps for the first time. here if you already knew. he meant anything you know if.

you think. you'll know when you're done as you can in i'm now worried that i won't be here right. now i'm going to be the best dancer you've ever met but after two summits that have yielded very little there are more questions than answers donald trump warned about this possibility last year ahead of the first summit in singapore saying he was prepared to walk away if the talks weren't fruitful it seems he's now delivered on that threat but with such a sudden premature end to this summit there must be real concern about what happens next. at this stage there are no plans for a third summit donald trump says kim jong un assured him there would be no resumption of misato nuclear tests but what happened in vietnam has proved that this continues to be an unpredictable road to the stated goal of ridding north korea of nuclear weapons wayne hay al jazeera hanoi. scott snyder is a senior fellow for korea studies at the council on foreign relations he says no

deal still means there's room for talks between the u.s. and north korea well it's hard to say to we get a little bit more of a readout i think from the working level and try to make sure that we understand exactly but i do think the two sides have identified very clearly the gap that remains to be addressed and it involves the scope of denuclearization in return for the scope of sanctions lifting and so in that respect i think that we have a clear and relatively straightforward equation in terms of what would be necessary to move forward and then the question is whether or not the gaps can be bridge the working level talks have moved positively in the right direction but we don't yet have public evidence of a convergence of view on how to define complete denuclearization that's another good reason why the u.s.

and north korea should resume working level talks in order to and do it in a situation where they're not preparing for a high level meeting in order to try to grapple with the substantial differences that remain between the two sides i believe that there are benefits to president trumps to having no deal summits and probably the biggest one is that if he had made a deal at this time i think he would have been and especially if it were a bad deal he would have gotten a lot of domestic criticism that would have actually piled onto some of the other domestic challenges that he faces. still ahead on al-jazeera voting to deliver the murky investigation into the bombing of a jewish center in argentina twenty five years ago. and the music world mourns the death of oscar winning composer and conductor andre previn.

hello again and welcome back we are crystal avant we are watching the threat of flooding across parts of iran over the next few days now the big weather system it's making its way down here towards the south and what we are going to be seeing is rain very heavy rain across parts of iran pakistan as well as afghanistan snow is going to be in the higher elevations so this is an area we are going to be watching as we go towards the weekend conditions start to improve across the run but that big weather system makes its way towards the east as well as into parts of northern india down here towards the south quite city well winds coming out of the north and windy conditions few with attempted there of nineteen degrees here in doha twenty six degrees as we start the weekend on friday but that is soon going to change will temperatures are going to be coming down we do expect to see a high there of about twenty one degrees also over here towards the winds are going

to be a big problem we could even see some lower visibility across much of the area over here towards and scott it is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty five and then very quickly as a bigger way down across parts of southern africa not too bad for cape town twenty two degrees for you up here towards johannesburg though it is going to be a rainy day at thirty one but most a medic asker is going to be seeing some very heavy rain in your forecast we do expect to see a temperature there of about twenty eight degrees. that was sponsored by tony. we want to return it can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates and the best of al-jazeera is documentaries the struggle continues. to. use these things continuing with australia's most generation ever covering from colonize citation is a really important issue suicide writes do

a mind very high still twice the national average rewind on al-jazeera. georgiades in a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.n. security council has rejected rival resolutions on the crisis in venezuela a us led vote seeking free and fair elections failed the security council with russia and china vetoing the move and russia has had its own idea rejected as well pakistan's prime minister says a captured indian pilot will be released on friday as a peace gesture a pilot was caught after india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region. donald trump has returned to the u.s.

after talks with north korea ended without a deal in vietnam tom says talks were productive but the u.s. cannot agree to lift all sanctions young accuses washington where he sting an opportunity by rejecting its realistic proposal. israel's attorney general says he plans to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases who has dismissed the allegations as the result of a politically motivated witchhunt the announcement comes ahead of elections in april and it's with reports from west to islam. he is the first sitting israeli prime minister to be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust benjamin netanyahu says he's innocent and will stay in his post. i am telling you citizens of israel this house of cards will collapse i'm certain about this i

am four thousand percent certain about this i plan to keep serving you and the state as the prime minister for many years to come don't believe all the spin this depends on you it's not dependent on the officials or the analyst. there's no legal requirement for him to step down the. parties will appeal to the supreme court say look at slow it's not logical the job of the prime minister is a very complicated job because those specific security issues insist at the core nomic issues you cannot below serve spend days in in the court netanyahu is in the middle of an election campaign which if you wins puts him on course to be israel's longest serving prime minister but investigators say netanyahu made decisions to benefit a friend who is the main shareholder in israel's biggest internet infrastructure provider in return you get positive coverage from this friends popular news website

prowess. netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust because he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts and there are allegations of a deal that would guarantee favorable coverage from a popular newspaper says of. the corruption investigation has been going on for years and doesn't seem to have dented netanyahu is popularity on the list is that guy only bibi he's innocent these supporters are saying play the role of the underdog most of the media. the left wing. andy has been using this to sway the voters of the likud that is. haunting him and they want to. redeem him they want to do vigil him benjamin netanyahu will now have an opportunity to argue his case before the attorney general who will then make a final decision on whether to go ahead with the indictment and that is months away

what matters now in an election campaign has become quite tight is whether any new details emerge about the nature of the charges netanyahu faces whether the unsavory new details there are enough to put off currently loyal supporters burnitz men al-jazeera west jerusalem at least ten people have been killed in an attack a partly targeting the home of a judge in somalia's capital police say a car bomb was detonated in a plot to assassinate bashir all more the chief judge of somalia's appeals court after the blast there is house among additional security forces fought off gunman who tried to force their way inside al-shabaab says it was behind the attack thirteen protesters in sudan are to go to jail for between six months and five years they've been sentenced by a court established under the country's within the imposed state of emergency law. the demonstrators are part of growing protests against president omar al bashir

earlier this week but here outlawed public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations. a fed of things journalist has been back in court to try to get a libel case thrown out the case against rappler new side fund a money of ressa has been brought by a private citizen she was arrested two weeks ago after investigators served papers that are office is the latest in an ongoing battle over media freedom in the philippines president are devoted to his government has also filed charges against droplet but he says journalists in the philippines are being pressured to abide by whatever narrative the government provides its part of its series of harassment i mean if you take a look in the last year or so rappler has been slammed with ten live court cases that are taking up my mind taking up our resources the second thing that really stands out for me is that this is the sixth time sixth that i posted bail in two

months this case cyber libel is a case that i was arrested and detained in a thread on my rights i think as a citizen we were violated because i should have been granted bail immediately. i guess the end point is this these are just legal acrobatics to try to get journalists to toe the line. i think we're sandwiched between the propaganda machine and social media ninety seven percent of filipinos are on facebook facebook is our internet and both on facebook twitter you tube wherever you go and you'll see this also al-jazeera is a victim of this when you do a story that sets out the facts to challenge us for example the number of people killed in a brutal drug war that began in july plans seem if it isn't the government narrative you are pounded with thousands and millions of attack messages in month one case for me and told me twenty sixteen i actually counted and i was getting ninety nine

zero messages per hour that's bottom up top down the government then uses its vast powers to pressure you into. following its narrative and in our case you can see at ten cases and six times posting bail six times in two months. the nineteen ninety four bombing of a jewish community center and want to say it is the worst attack of its kind in argentina eighty five people were killed a former judge who led an investigation into the attack as being sentenced to six years in jail for his role in covering up evidence but the court has acquitted former president carlos menem on charges he conspired to derail the inquiry that is about reports from. twenty five years they demanded justice they accuse the argentine state of failing them the prison sentence issued on thursday gave them something they had so long been after. said hugh will stains

wife was killed in the attack on the jewish community center in argentina. i have a bit more peace now because we knew we were being lied to they always ignored the victims for them it was all about politics and trying to hide what really happened but destroyed all the evidence so we still don't know whether anything they say is true. one thousand nine hundred ninety four attack against the army i was argentina's worst terrorist attack eighty five people were killed and more than three hundred injured. argentine judges had always claimed iran was behind the attack a charge it long denied. but the coverup operation carried out by the administration of then president menem has prompted even more questions about what really happened . during the trial prosecutors attempted to prove that a four hundred thousand dollars bribe was paid to a police informant witnesses work and there was

a failure to investigate what is known as the syrian lead that lead involved a close friend of former president cattlemen m. who was originally from syria men him was acquitted in the trial. last month son was also one of the victims in the attack. i'm no. not happy with the result the sentences were too short and menem was acquitted i was hoping for a lot more because they harmed the investigation every day that passes our chances of seeing justice become small this sentence confirms that not only members of the administration of the catalogue man i'm back in the one thousand nine hundred but also prosecutors and a judge were involved in misdirecting the investigation into the attack some of the relatives are saying that they're hoping that a new investigation will begin now that will help them shed light into what happened twenty five years ago. has been filled with irregularities a prosecutor investigating the case with

a shot in the head four years ago. lawyers say the trial sends a strong message to the argentine judiciary who has been accused of being driven by political motives in the past. this is a message to the justice system that everything that has gone wrong with the army cannot happen again you cannot invent false cases you cannot coerce witnesses intelligence officers cannot be involved and it continues to happen all the time. thursday sentence does not help those who lost their loved ones find closure. but it certainly shows the failure of the argentine state in finding the truth. when a site is what's being called the most significant u.s. gun control measure in more than two decades has been approved in the house of representatives but the bill is expected to fail in the republican controlled senate and it faces even more hurdles after the us reports from washington d.c.

. democrats who now have a majority in the u.s. house of representatives are pushing on with gun control the first step a major piece of legislation which passed easily the yes our two forty and the nay the one nine. hundred isn't background check act expands background checks for gun sales and closes the loophole which allows people to buy guns at gun shows and over the internet without those checks back you see there's widespread support for increased checks has been one of the calls from the students from parkland in florida where a mass shooting at a high school last february claimed seventeen lives and sparked a nationwide campaign public sentiment it's clear i think the public is tired of moments of silence but opponents see the legislation would not stop mass shootings and would not make americans safer according to one wants dogs that have already been more than fifty mass shootings in the u.s. and twenty nine hundred almost one a day more than one thousand people have been killed more than one hundred sixty

wounded at the conservative political action conference in maryland the president of the national rifle association insisted gun rights advocates wouldn't stop the background checks and should be a pull out of the disarmament movement six years into taking over our government every one of those god given individual rights liberties and freedoms guaranteed by our constitution will be up for grabs that means in america we know now will be you know augur it will cease to exist the house of representatives is also voted to increase the time for background checks to ten days making it harder just to pick up a weapon legally it too is expected to be defeated in the senate donald trump who at one point said he was in favor of tougher gun laws says he will veto anything that makes owning a gun harder alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the world of classical music has lost one of its leading figures.

conductor and composer only previn died on thursday. in a career spanning seven decades he enjoyed long ten years leading the london symphony orchestra and the los angeles phenomenon and also worked in hollywood when he for all schools for his work on films including i feel lady and podium because. this is all jazeera these are the top stories the un security council has rejected rival resolutions on the crisis in venezuela or u.s. led vote seeking free and fair elections failed at the security council with russia and china vetoing the move and russia had its own idea rejected as well pakistan's

prime minister says a captured indian pilot will be released on friday as a peace gesture that was caught after india and pakistan said they shot down each other's fighter jets in the disputed kashmir region. donald trump has returned to the u.s. after talks with north korea have ended without a deal in vietnam trump says the discussions were productive but the u.s. cannot agree to lift all sanctions long accuses washington of wasting an opportunity by rejecting its realistic proposal. if united states removes partial sanctions namely removes the articles of sanctions that hamper the civilian economy and the livelihood of our people in particular we will permanently and completely dismantle all of the nuclear material production facilities in the yongbyon area including plutonium and uranium in the presence of u.s. experts and by the joint work of technicians in both countries. told me this proposal was the biggest denuclearization vision that we could take in the present

state in relation to the current level of confidence between the d.p. r. k. and the united states and these ten people have been killed in an attack upon targeting the home of a judge in somalia's capital police say a car bomb was detonated in a plot to assassinate. the chief judge of somalia's appeals court says it was behind the attack thirteen protesters in sudan are to go to jail for between six months and five years they've been sentenced by a court established under the country's recently imposed state of emergency law. the demonstrators are part of growing protests against president omar al bashir earlier this week bashir outlawed public gatherings in a bid to stop the demonstrations those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream by for that. with a new leader in brazil changes to how it deals with and the u.s.

brazil's vice president is playing an active role and president asked you not to talk to the press but you're still talking the president just told me to be careful the vice president of brazil talks to al-jazeera. we are all in this together so let's do this to be. president of the united states by today i announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america. we need to create a wave in the rest of the country and bring that we've crashing down on their heads and i'm here tonight to ask you will you with me. my daddy and enough it's a janitor but his little girl got the chance to be a public school teacher a college professor. state senator and a candidate for president of the.