we're entering a new. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha on the plot and welcome to the news good six years off the death of hugo chavez the revolutionary government he founded in venezuela is in for its survival as president faces a growing challenge from opposition leader on why the all. pakistan cracks down on armed groups some of the people arrested also suspected of involvement in the meta tag that session tomorrow should the latest in the tree confrontations with india

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and he returned home to charing supporters on monday calling for more protests to challenge models leadership why there was introduced to politics during major student protests against chavez road back in two thousand and seven and he says urgent change is needed to combat the legacy of chevys more that same hyper inflation widespread shortages of food and medicine and a crackdown on dissent. you believe god will only say no i want to ask people of venezuela is that a shred of fear they threatened all of us here they threatened me with jail death you saw it and well i'll tell you something it will not be through threats that they will hold us back we are here and we are strong united more than ever you know i'd like you we are here and we are stronger than ever i feel i was thinking how did i well there was of course

a lot that's changed in venezuela since the death of hugo chavez in twenty thirteen daniel schwann and looks at how much of his legacy for maine's. sherry's mo is dead the opposition in venezuela has been saying that since the president for whom the ideology was named died of cancer on the fifth of march two thousand and thirteen. chosen successor nicolas maduro continues to cling to power of the pressure from foreign governments and millions of his own people to step down. they blame him for rampant inflation high crime and chronic food and medicine shortages. blames foreign sabotage particularly from the united states so then assuage his problems but not as colorfully as chavez once did here criticizing former u.s. president george bush at the united nations in two thousand and six. the president of the united states the gentleman to whom i refer as at the devil marquis came

here. talking as if he owned the world i think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the united states but says that she is alive and well citing health and education programs and the continued redistribution of wealth begun by his predecessor but even his supporters admit that is no charge but he doesn't have the same charisma or political astuteness he continues to talk of the future well aware of the mounting risks to his government. but honestly i want peace for venezuela we all want peace for venezuela stop the drums of war stop the threats of invasion of lebanon surrealist say with one voice that we want peace we want to be how well the two men shared similar politics the world has changed or prices have slumped in venezuela as left wing allies in the region have largely disappeared with critics

say the only flawed elections and support from the military keep them in power the predictions of his imminent demise have been frequent these past six years as they were the charges before him now president maduro faces one of his toughest challenges yet with the world watching to see how he'll react to the returns have been a slayer of the self declared interim president. from a trip to neighboring colombia. well the us will a marks the sixth anniversary of the death of the charges the opposition is questioning his legacy nicolas maduro supporters are wondering how much longer it will keep the president in office i'm sure i know how this era or we're joined here in the studio now by the mccarthy of the managing director of a.j. plus and a former al-jazeera correspondent in venezuela great to have you with us on the news granted today you know so a lot of talk naturally today about chavez's legacy you actually knew him personally and many say that the problems facing venezuela today were perhaps even

set up by him and his economic mismanagement not planning for the future how much of today's crisis was is because of chavez and his policies. i think it is it would be very simplistic to make those kind of statements. travis definitely was not perfect and definitely made mistakes especially on economic policies however what i know for sure is that chavis made changes that were irreversible for venezuelans which is everybody taking becoming aware of what they are worth what their rights are what they're entitled to such as education such as health care such as dreaming of a decent life that's something that definitely building a dream for venezuelans of basically which i was achieved to do and started that now what i know is that my duro had enough time to catch up if really the economic

policies were so bad he had time to make economic reforms and he had time to maybe fix a lot of things that now he's running out of time for because of the of the sanctions from the u.s. so it's kind of catching up on my daughter i do believe that chavis is legacy it's it's the strength of my dearest also his curse because he cannot stand up to what travis was nobody would have been able to do that so he's not a charice that's for sure but he's got chavez's legacy and something that many people may not understand is that this is a very polarized country where many people who may be critical of manure will defend him just because the others are empty chair the other side are coming with the backing of the u.s. so many venezuelans who may not be happy with where do they be suffering in even starving you might see them today standing up and saying no to go i don't just

because a guy though comes on an american horse but how much longer do you think whether we can survive on chavez's legacy how long can that keep him alive and is that why the military is still standing by his side like the military also has a lot of interest. and yes the military's what's keeping the country. maduro's hand but it's also constitutional for my daughter to be where he is because he was elected and if the elections were rigged during my dura then how come the parliament parliamentary elections were not rigged i don't understand this double standard that makes a lot of people doubt the argument of the opposition not running for elections when it's the president and running for elections or inspire lament and accepting the results and based on those results why don't becoming at the speaker of the parliament declaring himself president so this is this is a very it's very murky and it's full of double standards now how long can we do alas that's a very good question i think they can amik sanctions will make it almost impossible

for madrid to catch up with the economy but what is there for sure to stay is a chav a space that's not going to go away chevy's no it's not going away where they're going to do it takes power in a few months or a few years whenever chevy's noise always going to stay and what i fear for venezuela is that venezuelans go down to the street and start facing other venezuelans and that might get very bloody and that would be the worst scenario or how do you avoid that and what are your hopes for venezuela you know you cover the country the entire continent in new charges what will himself yeah how does the country paul itself out of this crisis i do hope the venezuelans sort out their problems internally and not with the hand of outsiders that's something that i think venezuelans will accept and will want even venezuelans i talked to who are with a greater today they don't want him to come on an american horse they want him to earn what would you know where he is now and i think the best thing would be that

a third maybe a third option would surge and i do believe there are third options there are lots of chubby stars who may turn up a lots of other opposition figures who turn up and who could maybe. be so polarizing to venezuelans and there are lots of people caught in the middle and i don't say there's an island majority because you know you're talking about this very polarized venezuela and of course we know about the charges that are staying true to where there will be a house of chavez's legacy and the opposition and the international backers we don't hear of the show called the ninnies you know need cherry stanley anti cherry stand neither this nor that they've always existed the ninnies and the nice could be like left leaning but not and right leaning but not opposition figures now how many are there out there today it's very difficult to find out because i think a lot of people are rallying up to one side or the other and the military knows it's not this is not a clear cut line if the military knew that most venezuelans were anti manual i

think they would think about it twice they would not say where they are but they know this is a tough battle this is not going to go away so i think we're up for a very long a long fight and what about why those fired does do him and the opposition have a plan or we seeing what we've seen among other opposition politicians in venezuela before where they do challenge with the widow and chavez before him they don't actually get anywhere right well again my daughter is not chavez i think if chavis were alive we would not be where we are today that's for sure with the economic crisis and with the way that even the whole continent has has shifted to the right chavez had a hand in the continent turning left with the kind of power and charisma and money that he had from the oil but today. though is somebody we don't know much about he seems very energetic i saw his pictures arriving caracas i thought it was

incredible that he walked into the airport when he is a travel ban against him and he got his first fourth stand and this is venezuela you know chavez made it cool in two thousand and one thousand nine hundred ninety two and he got out of jail out of that so this is kind of venezuela. doesn't surprise me but i saw him going up on the car on top of a car and people cheering him he's kind of playing a chav is in the way he's dealing with people which is candid close to the people and that's very venezuelan this or caribbean now what about his his policies his future plans all we know is that he's got money from the u.s. that the u.s. will lift the sanctions if you takes power how qualified he is that's another story miska they were it is great to pick your brain about this we really appreciate your time thank you very much for coming in thank you and our colleagues at a.j. plus have been covering the crisis in venezuela over the past few years and they're made videos like this one about a woman who fled from venezuela to colombia to find

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the fourth pakistan announced its national action plan to take a crackdown on these armed groups has arrested forty one people so far and he says that more arrests to come now what we're hearing is that among those forty one people that been arrested include the brother and the brother in law of masood azhar who is the leader of jaish e mohammad that's the group responsible for the february fourteenth attack that's led to this latest standoff between pakistan and india but that doesn't mean the groups are out of action they still present a big problem for both india and pakistan let's take a look at the issues facing both of those countries. they challenge all kish meet will be free this group called themselves dean the budget holy warriors their leader mohammed haroun he's a firebrand cleric who supports armed groups across kashmir including jaish

e mohammed that's the group that claimed responsibility for the february fourteenth attack on indian troops that sparked this latest crisis between pakistan and india . god willing the fighters of al bad are already across the country and are ready to pounce on their targets and are waiting for the right time and god willing this year will be the liberation of the whole of kashmir. the anti indian pro united kashmiri ideology is fundamental to all of the groups in the region india has long maintained that these groups are directly funded and directed by pakistan's intelligence service the i.s.i. it's a charge pakistan the noise however the question remains what is pakistan doing about groups like al but their magazine and jaish e mohammad. after two thousand and fourteen we have game hard on these groups. now it's a stupid policy in pakistan that monopoly. remains with the state and norgrove will

be able to use that big improvement will be allowed to have that ability to use one for the groups so i think we are taking steps we have taken steps in the past since two thousand and fourteen we have stepped i think we are on the right direction the groups are active today on both sides of the disputed border in indian administered kashmir has both mojahedin regularly now attacks on indian troops yet india insists it's a domestic issue and says there's no comparison between groups on either side of the disputed border so all the suggestion that there is some kind of week where millions between the kind of terror challenge that india is facing and what pakistan is either dealing with internally on n.p.r. or internal security issues which are related to the northeast have completely i would say different contours and it's a different profile so this is a case of apples and oranges in

a very negative sense because these groups have been assisted by the pakistani state on a neighbor and so where there's your mama. you cannot compare them with what is happening with groups in india because they are being sustained and they are the strategic assets of the party. there are many in kashmir who say that the indian army is occupying kashmir and that the groups are a direct consequence of that india says it's there for security reasons meanwhile its armed groups in pakistan that seem to be garnering the most attention. real issue of armed groups and who supports them is a phony one in pakistan that attacks on your thoughts you say they are cracking down on these armed groups but it's clear that they are in the spotlight right now . the arrest though may not be enough to satisfy india i'm a lucky enough to reduce tensions between the two nuclear neighbors iran carved out as there was a for about. now pakistan says it stopped an indian submarine close to its waters

which turned away after being warned the navy released this video which it says shows the indian sub approaching pakistani territory says no action was taken in order to help reduce tension between the two countries india is accused pakistan spreading misinformation adding that it would deploy its naval vessels when necessary. well let's get more on this now we're joined by with a bosco retired indian navy commodore director of the society for policy studies you did see him a moment ago and ron's report is joining us live now from the indian capital new delhi mr bosco always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so how is the pakistani government's latest action against these armed groups being viewed and india this is something that india has asked for for a very long time is it a step in the right direction you know as the information minister told al jazeera i would characterize this as a step in the right direction by prime minister imran khan but it is not enough i

think just to be this first step because for india or pakistan and previous prime ministers have made the same kind of step going back to december two thousand and one when the indian parliament was attacked by the same group the gesture mama in two thousand and eight when mumbai was attacked. lost going to die over claimed responsibility the pakistani leadership made the same amount meant there would crack down on the groups islamist about scully as more of what more should the pakistani government be doing that it hasn't since those attacks in two thousand and one and two thousand and eight. elizabeth i would say that the pakistani government should be encouraged. and the global community to come up with our. action plan about how they will proceed after having begun these four people as people into detention they have do not walk the words the

investigative and that your vision of process being the evidence india has presented a good part is thought and let the lot big its course in the speediest possible manner i think that is the way to crack down on these groups and pakistan knows it and this is about as we have a nation you know a lot of these groups say that one of the reasons for existing if not carrying out these attacks is what they say is the indian occupation of made you know the indian government's actions and made for its part what is india willing to do to address the root cause of militancy against the indian government and kashmir and both sides of the line of control. what india has said consistently elizabeth is that if the violence stops and the gun is put down and parties start stops supporting these donor groups who are exporting war arms and ideology then the democratic process in

india could i think make some kind of progress but for its own reasons since january of one nine hundred ninety i'm afraid the party stymied deep state has not given up its investment in these terror groups so my very earnest recommendation is let the international community also encourage parties to come up with a time bound action plan that they will deal with a gesture mama you know very far manner and then being with the other group that's the logic of it by over these are groups that attack india yet then pakistan as to be with groups that attack afghanistan so i think the pakistani government has a very i would say large agenda in cleaning up its own domestic ghar there are support infrastructure but prime minister imran khan is a new prime minister he's talked about a new party star and i think we should encourage him to take the right step which means his army has to really how we have changed our mindset and that's

a big question mark and then ask a thank you as always for your time and your expertise on this that is common to all of the basket live in new delhi thank you. and we have extensive content on this ongoing story on al-jazeera dot com at these high times of heightened tensions inside story took an in-depth look at how real the threat of another war is you'll find that by going into the inside story page under the show's banner on our website. now bags bottles straws plates about how awful the plastic we use every day is used only once and then thrown away and that's causing widespread damage to our oceans habitats and food chains and environmental organizations say that needs to stop now a new report from the world world wide fund for nature documents a dramatic rise in the production of single use plastics since the year two thousand views will plastics than an all the years before when are producing nearly

three hundred million tonnes of plastic every year and most of it is not being recycled to tackle the problem the groups calling for an international agreement banning single use plastics they say companies produce in the waste should be responsible for cleaning up the mess while consumers are becoming increasingly aware of how making small changes can help protect the environment and is here to talk us through that sarah well there are plenty of ways but first of all the world wide fund from nature has tweeted a petition that it urgently is calling on global leaders to make a legally blinding agreement that forces every country to end this environmental crisis it says within the next ten years that takes all of fifteen seconds to science it's quite easy to do in the hash tag stop plastic pollution is being widely used to raise awareness in fact this picture here was tweeted you can see a plastic straw on its own and it's a reminder of how detrimental it is to see the life we use an incredible five

hundred million plastic straws every single day which of then thrown out and that's why bans on single use plastic shores are already in effect in several countries and companies even like starbucks and that donal's of phasing them out in the next few years the group of beach goes in australia who are known as the straw clothes are part of a popular conservation effort called operation struggle to collect plastic from beaches and also from the waters. we actually once found an octopus so there's lots of octopussy in this beautiful marine life and we found an octopus holding plastic straws in its tentacles and we actually had to pull them out so that was a bit of a depressing tug of war and the good news is there are alternatives all of them bamboo and paper straws edible ones are also an option in france you can actually use this straw to slurp up your favorite drink and then eat the store itself in fact it's flavored and made out of seaweed and the plastic strong ban is part of a wider global campaign to ditch plastic in fact the world's first plastic free

shopping our has been opened in amsterdam as part of a plastic panic campaign group that wants to bring it to the u.k. as well and if you go to their website you can see all sorts of options there with plastic or plastic free packaging now kenya is thought to have the world's harshest plastic bag ban since twenty seven scene where anyone found using producing or even selling a plastic bag faces up to four years in prison or a thirty eight thousand dollars fine but that's led to some very creative solutions there like this one here by one school girl that's her school bag and speaking of solutions this island in the philippines ruined by tourism was shut down last year for being as the country's president described it assessed pool a major cleanup operation was carried out over six months and was back in business in october while it has left the beaches immaculate in the water is crystal clear before we have the attention of the islands that will have attack and actually take

years. and meet the marine robot that could help clean out seize the waste and data collected for sixteen hours cleans urban waters with no carbon footprint whatsoever and in fact the w.w. of has actually launched the you case first waste shark on monday less than twenty four hours ago or even a spot of its efforts to tackle water pollution they want people to remember if it can't be your reuse again then just don't use it. now we want to thank you very much we want to get and want you to get in touch with us on all of the stories that we're covering send our comments to any of our online platforms and we've already been hearing from people on our top stories on venezuela and on made on venezuela more manila says chavez more must remain in venezuela for many more years to come the vote chavez that is of course the sixth death anniversary of former president hugo chavez. wrote in to us talking about

kashmir saying due to all these different opinions i'm afraid that they may never be peace and crush me so sad again do get in touch with those we want to hear from you. if you're watching us on facebook live got a bonus story for you coming up on the koreans in seoul who shared their thoughts about last week's hanoi summit that's from our friends at a.j. plus and still ahead the u.s. senate joins the ante and vaccine spent where we live in washington where hearings on the way to explore ways to get more parents to get their children the shots they . are going to welcome back to in a national weather forecast we're really not looking too bad across a lot right now we're going to be seeing probably some clouds and some rain across parts of turkey over the next few days that's going to be on the increase here not

really seeing it on wednesday but by the time we get to thursday there it is across parts of syria as well let's go attempt to view of seventeen but looking quite nice as you make your way down here to the south with beirut at seventeen degrees as well passing showers through parts of afghanistan as well as pakistan but down towards crotchety average temperature if you have this time of year twenty seven degrees there and look quite nice across much of the gulf maybe a passing cloud for here in doha but twenty four degrees and it's going to stay twenty four degrees by the time we get towards thursday down across muscat though temperatures are into the low thirty's we are watching what is happening here across the mozambique channel very carefully because a system is potentially building in with that system we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain over here not just from madagascar but also for parts of mozambique over the next few days heavy rain could lead to flooding in that area as we go towards thursday we will be watching that very carefully but down here towards the south we're looking much drier durban is going to be a warm day for you at thirty degrees to head a spirit of twenty seven and plenty of sun in the forecast cape town with

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al-jazeera dot com number one story u.s. president donald trump now targeting india and taking it with new trade restrictions. i sold fighters surrender in large numbers and final syrian on clay and we've got a very good article on the web site on india pakistan tensions and who won the video of perceptions that and much more will at al-jazeera dot com. now a study of one of the half a million children in denmark has become the latest research to show that there is no link between autism and the maize alarms and rubella vaccine known as an a mom and yet people continue to resist the inoculation in part because anti backs groups are becoming even more vocal the world health organization has even called the refusal to accept vaccinations one of the biggest threats to global health this year will shortly will cross to washington d.c. where u.s. senate committee is meeting to talk about how to combat

a spike in preventable diseases but first is many on the hog with more on the vaccination debate twenty five at least that's the number of studies that conclude there is no link between autism and the m.m.r. vaccine to protect against measles mumps and rubella and we can now take that up to twenty six the latest study this one out of date mark of more than half a million children born over eleven years is establishing once again there is no link you might think that well and truly puts them into the n.t. vaccine movement truth says it's not likely. super charged by the internet and social media anti vaccination views no matter how bogus or ill informed have flourished. and coincided with the growing and his deposition and backlash new research out of the queen mary university of london this month shows people who

vote for populist parties across europe a more likely to mistrust vaccines and the experts who promote them some of the madrone instead to people like andrew wakefield the man behind the now debunked nine hundred ninety eight study that first made the claims of an autism vaccine link he's being thoroughly discredited but is enjoying something of a real nice aunts among right wing groups and conspiracy theorists even politicians without changing the system that has led to the political disenfranchisement of a large portion of the population without changing the system that's led to the economic marginalization of large proportion of the population it's hard to see how we can rebuild this this general trust between the population between accepts me but peel away the n.t. vaccine messaging in many cases you simply lift the hearing and just want what's best for the kids who were worried and unsure and seeing anti-vaccination lissajous

like this one on twitter last month from dallas shine the wife of the white house communications chief advocate a natural immunity over vaccinations thing is for natural immunity to kick in you need to get the disease first if that's measles you face a one in five hundred chance of dying from it the chances of an adverse reaction to the him a mob vaccine are less than one in a million the world health organization says vaccines safe two to three million lives every year but they're also victims of their own success type a man so. motion. to make people realize how banks exam because that's what. history's anything. while the n.t. vaccine movement are a minority communities rely on high vaccination rates to keep disease at bay but

dismissing those who don't want to vaccinate as a rational isn't helpful either cleaning up social media is and there has begun but restoring face and established systems and people who champion vaccines now that is the real challenge let's go to our correspondent costs are now she's joining us live from washington d.c. she's monitoring that senate committee hearing for as many on outlining some of the main challenges you know to fight the sort of anti vaccine movement and sentiment heidi but what the senate committee hearing today. well they're having this meeting today because the consequences of this growing anti vaccine movement is finally catching up there is a growing outbreaks of measles around the u.s. and it is shot up in numbers from previous years with two hundred six confirmed cases of measles according to the c.d.c. this year alone and nearly half of those cases occurred in the pacific northwest

which has been a hub for this anti-vaccination movement and the fear that the measles vaccination will lead to autism remains strong despite all the evidence that we just saw cited including the study out yesterday that more than a million danish children were followed over multiple years and the researchers concluded that there was absolutely no link between the vaccination and autism so today the members of the senate committee will be trying to answer two main questions and that is why does this fear persist among assumably rational parents who just want their children to be safe why are they choosing to forgo these vaccinations and what kind of messaging does public health officials need to shift to to convince them that vaccines are safe after all and the committee members will be hearing from one young man who is eighteen years old and he says he was not

allowed to be vaccinated by his parents until he turned eighteen and the minute he did so he went and got those shots himself and he is expected to shed some light on the the mentality of what led his parents to not vaccinate him and he's expected to tell committee members that he's worried now for the health of his younger siblings who also have gone unvaccinated and heidi beyond you know understanding why parents don't have their children vaccinated and changing their minds will the committee actually be looking at things like nationwide regular regulation which doesn't allow for states you know like the ones in the pacific northwest that you mention to have new polls to get around vaccinations. that's right at the moment there is no nationwide mandate about vaccinations congress has left that up to the states and now there are eighteen states across the country that allow for moral or philosophical exemptions that parents can choose to not vaccinate their children

and that's a growing number eighteen states arizona one of the latest to add to that number which coincides with the rise of donald trump and it's interesting because trump has a history of making these unsubstantiated claims questioning the safety of vaccinations and what's more now is quite an orthodox coalition of these parents who many consider themselves liberals and highly educated who have decided not to vaccinate their children who are now supportive of trump and his anti-vaccination stance so will a nationwide mandate ever come into fruition that may be the goal of public health experts but politically at the moment that would be quite a challenge elizabeth heidi thank you very much for that for now that's cost or with the latest live in washington d.c. thank you. now it's being hailed as a potential breakthrough in the fight against hiv a man in london appears to have

become only the second person in the long to long to remission of the virus the patient was seeking treatment for cancer when he received a stem cell transplant three years ago as he was also be positive doctors decided to give him bone marrow from of rare hiv resistance donor three is later he stopped taking drugs to control the infection and to show that he is still in dream mission it's only the second such case timothy brown was the first he had similar treatment in germany twelve years ago and is still living h.i.v. free now to moscow works at u.n. aids and he says that while such scientific research should be encouraged governments should also throw their support behind treatments that are more readily available. this functional cure as we as we are calling it is obviously a significant step forwards we're not clear there's obviously a lot of a lot of further work that needs to be done in terms of the past ways and what's

what it what is behind that cure and i was it is further work before we can definitely say there is a full you know. we really want to recognize that there is a lot of the work that is needed to be done to develop a cure over systemd south transplants that are highly complex that significant interventions and not something we can use for the twenty seven million people living with hiv so there's a lot more work we need to do to to make this a bannable more generally as as a successful. solution for the problems at the moment we have highly effective antiretroviral medicines that. are very very effective if they have low levels of resistance they have low levels a toxicity and they are a key key aspect of what we would encourage countries to continue to invest in but i do want to stress we also say this is a great step forward and it is really important that we continue to invest in and

scientific innovation such as this the latest news is given to governments charities and communities the child's to once again raise a child the awareness on social media and sars back with more on this our yeah and if you look i mean obviously this is great news but as the british charity national aids trust points out it can't be widely replicated for all the patients it also says that it might makes it even more critical to scientists find a viable cure and focus on hiv patients having access to life saving drugs now according to the united nations there are more than thirty nine million people worldwide who actually age i.v. and also have a zone twenty five percent of them are unaware they even have the virus and also. so one point eight million of them are actually children mostly infected through their mothers during pregnancy childbirth and even breastfeeding now h.i.v.'s of course the virus that causes aids which has killed more than thirty five million

people since the pandemic salted back in the eighty's over the years scientific research has led to the development of several drug combinations to keep the virus at spay for most patients but that's only dependent on accessibility because millions of people still have no or little access to prevention and even treatment now the most common way of hiv transmission is through unprotected sex sharing contaminated needles or through unclean blood transfusions and with the rise of social media and even this news story even today people with hiv are increasingly becoming more open about it after decades of people living with the virus have faced a huge stigma within their community and as patrick pointed out for some it's even been a death sentence but with awareness campaigns in the use of social media people are also able to share their personal stories like a loner who lost her mother she says to hiv she treats as a thread of tweets about having an unexpected conversation with her father about

how scared she felt as a child when she found out what it was that she too rather was hiv positive and people who have tested hiv positive have been using the hashtag no shame about being hiv positive and you'll see on instagram there are plenty of pictures there even some people wearing a t. shirt say no shame about being hiv positive and it's a lot of communities to come together to find the hiv statement now there are more than two million people in india who are living with hiv and so a local charity with the help of usaid has set up an interactive chat bots but rather in response to the stigma surrounding h.i.v. ira is a call the say tional platform where p. . can find answers to their pressing hiv aids questions from the privacy of their own phone or even computer and the united nations reports that despite all of that the spread of hiv has been declining in recent years and it's planning to pursue an

end to the aids epidemic by the year twenty thirty we love to hear your thoughts and then on the story of any other stories that we are covering or you think that we should cover and you can always tweet me or the rest of the team the hash tag a.j. news grid south thank you very much for that now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world floods in pakistan and afghanistan have killed at least fifty people heavy rain over the past ten days has cut off tens of thousands of residents and destroyed hundreds of homes the afghan government says flooding in kandahar province is the worst in at least seven years charlie bell is in kandahar one of the hardest hit provinces. now this is the main point in kandahar city where people are coming to get help behind me there was crowds of people out here this morning here the guards making sure that only the people in the u.n. had actually been to the homes and sure that they were actually damaged put them on a list chick's their safety and they brought them here because this is not

a secure area over here is where the food is being handed out so you've got so you've got lentils you've got high energy biscuits with children you've got ted here that you're fired the water un's migration agency handing out blankets. for children to keep them warm because of course it is winter here so there's a lot of work being done to try to help these people who have lost so much the you and yours not the only ones helping you've got the military have done a lot of work in austin twelve hundred people from from flood stricken areas whether it's river beds what have you to try to get them to safety and love the stories coming out as well about what the military and police are doing. in far if if they don't make a lot of money but they donated one day of their pay to try to help these flood victims get back on their feet. libya's national oil corporation is restarting and limited production at its shut out are sealed in the southwest and has been shut down for the past three months by gunmen who took over the solidity fighters who

are loyal to. those gunmen out has now ordered his men to leave after talks with members of libya's unity government that there has more from tripoli. libya's national oil corporation or in new c that is the state oil says that the force majeure a status has been lifted on i'll share our oil field around seven hundred fifty kilometers to the south from the capital tripoli assure our oil field the biggest oil producing field in libya was shot down on december ninth by armored groups and also a local militias and the sow's who wanted to put more pressure on the government of national accord to provide more services and to improve security to their areas and now three months of shutdown of production has cost the libyan treasury around one

point eight billion dollars that is according to the national oil corporation during january forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar managed to get into the oil field by field there was a hand over a peaceful handover of oil field to have to forces now the general prosecutor of libya says the armored groups responsible for shutting down and shut our oil fields are wanted now the n.o.c. says that the oil production operation for much of our oil field is coming back to normal now refugees who escaped violence in mali said there are still much safer neighboring booking a fast they weren't they could be attacked or arrested if they leave their camp in the town of gori thousands cross the border when armed groups started fighting pro-government forces from matheson reports. for the families of these million woman this refugee camp in the town of gori in

neighboring book enough fasten is no longer a sanctuary they say it now feels like a prison. but the problem or you face is the arbitrary arrest by either of the two armies of mali and pricking. diarists whoever comes their way even without a question. many people began fleeing from mali when armed groups demanding independence for the north of the country started attacking mali and government forces in two thousand and twelve mali's military force back supported by troops from other african nations and france the money and separatist fighters started carrying out raids across the southern border in book enough people in camps like this one say they're being blamed. our problem is that we were forced to leave our homeland as refugees we were welcome to burkina faso and they used to be enough relief aid now there's a big shortage of aid we can't move because of confrontations between the army and

terrorist groups and now we fear the reaction of the people not the government and . since twenty eighteen there's also been a rise in the number of attacks and begin a fast so itself they said to be carried out by several armed groups with different goals the u.n. says at least one hundred thousand people have been forced from their homes in the last two months we. would have security is totally absent we asked them to remain in the areas which the makino faster or thorniest can control we complain of sure divide and we believe it is insufficient international agencies must do more to help them. while they wait for more help these mali and refugees say they are trapped in camps where aid is dwindling and the dangers are growing rob matheson al-jazeera. now if you're watching on facebook we have got another bias. for you know former u.s. president barack obama sharing his thoughts on what it means to be

a man that's right friends at age a plus and ahead in sport the disabled racing team and to compete in the world's toughest. race first though let's take a look at the weather. it

is time to find out what people are talking about in sport today thank you liz well a group of former british soldiers are aiming to become the first all this able team to compete at the moment twenty four hour motor race they're called team brit and that's because it stands for british racing injured troops the cars are specially adapted with hand controls so that the drivers it can compete paul van are worth reports on. the road to recovery is brought a group of former soldiers to give them looking to compete in the world's toughest sports car race. national was working as a bomb disposal expert in afghanistan where he lost both leagues and in the explosion a job was to go out there for ivy's. on the ninth of july two thousand and

found one slightly old white enough to stand on that resulted in losing by four legs. and fingers from the left. fractured pelvis broken partially collapsed long such as this goes on and on. his teammate masson compton is also lucky to be alive he suffered burns to seventy five percent of his body when his tank was blown up in afghanistan as i was going to the british i said then waited and said and i do was ready as we drove in and that pretty well i got and how. fortunate going to go isn't it. because it out eventually recognized me. and. somehow managed to climb out of all of that with the rubble alive in me and see the north on fire. and get into cover shutoffs so it's not just the team took part in the forty five minute race at lemoore last year in a support category both drivers are convinced they can be on the start line for the

twenty four hour race within two years a step of me. the team has come on leaps and bounds from its inception the logic of the fifteen we start off with one call garridge two people the teams growing to race truck the b.m.w. you see behind me the pirate and the flagship of the team yes i'm on g t four so i get into them on it's not a question of a face the question of one. having already overcome so much in their lives the members of the team also mental ring the next generation of drivers the newly launched academy for disabled drivers allowing people to access most border intrigue and use it as a tool for rehab and recovery and with. there's been lots of support for team break even coming from top five time paralympic champion hannah cockroft who tried out one of their seats tweeted this picture saying thank you team brit the racing

driver nicholas hamilton who has cerebral palsy was also there to help raise the team's profile he's the brother of five time formula one champion lewis hamilton and races in the british touring car championship. as a disabled individual you never really know your limitations you look at riding a bike for example and think i have no core stability i can't pedal that's impossible to do you know you look at a race car and it's got to be super you've got to be very precise with your inputs whether it's control steering control whatever and you look at it and you think and nothing about to do that and i see exactly what i felt and when i was in a passion joyride with the driver once you know i was like how the hell am i ever going to do that. but you really don't know until you put yourself in that situation. founder and c.e.o. of team brett dave player told us that racing has quite an impact on his drivers.

it's amazing. if some guys with mental health issues with depression and. p.t.s.d. . results way or don't have the motivation to face the world in more soon as they get a taste of racing it's almost like a drug they'll do no do anything just to go racing allows us to teach. them all the skills they need the business side the motor sport public speaking to hold on and you know that there's no such thing as releasing these guys. a living and working for the races we're going to charity is really important and it was first i would just like any other race team and we decided that right from the beginning because just because they've got a disability doesn't mean the tragic case these guys are accidents of going through the medical treatment they have another rebuilding their lives and the new identities and one of sport is the only sport a world where brothers olden times of different disabilities can compete on

a level playing field full time for me with technology we've been able to introduce a team of drugs racing to labs with all also has a disability and they've used this as a focus as a drive this is part of the determination something to get out of bed in the morning to. push themselves and that's just rubbed off on the personal lives moving on to turkey a footballer has been released on bail after being accused of wounding opposition players with a razor blade it happened before kick off in the third division game for its accuracy for players claim that ahmed spar midfielder months or color targeted them with a sharp object on the pitch his club denied the allegations but a police investigation is underway he's not allowed to leave turkey. i'll be back actually i won't be back with more joel at eight hundred g.m.t. but i had you back to live joe thank you very much for that and that does it for this newsgroup remember to keep in touch with us on social media the hash tag as

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when the news breaks and the story below six million children in and outside syria have been affected by war when people need to be heard. and the story needs to be told people are telling us that there's no medicine or no enough syringe and al jazeera has teens on the ground u.s. air power alone is not enough to bring in more looting documentaries and live news on air and online. this is a boon for point people right now and technology there is so much going to help people it's from thanks for calling i read this is there and what are you looking for today we get to the blind with their day to day tasks and give them more independence and this was our goal to little sure is the tomato exploration process . we have outside knowledge available to us no.

less. pakistan arrests members of an armed group blamed for last month's attack on indian troops in kashmir. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program where in kandahar to see how they're coping after a flood kills at least fifty people in afghanistan and pakistan six years after. his chosen successor is clinging to power in venezuela.