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refused to cave in despite a strong message from algeria as army chief to the people who want the president to quit. the potential sickness in the air why south korea is taking urgent steps to curb pollution and fighting for their teenage son who they say has been tortured and jailed on false accusations of joining eisel. hello a showdown shaping up between supporters of venezuela's political rivals nicolas maduro and why don't have both called for demonstrations in four days time and president maduro is vowing to defeat the opposition despite mounting pressure on him to step down below reports from near venezuela's border with. if one is going to become the interim president of venezuela he needs to win the backing of those who have up until now supported president. on tuesday he met the

leaders of one of the most significant power blocs and biggest. the public sector union. has you. know forty public workers are being kidnapped by the dictatorship it's being kidnapped by the regime today as a result of this meeting of this great event we will not continue collaborating with the dictatorship so public workers are no place to cooperate ever again no be forced to do anything. on monday why don't return to go back as after wrapping up a tour of some of the south american countries supporting his campaign he was greeted by thousands of people called on to the streets of caracas by the thirty five year old opposition leader. for his part president addressed military leaders on tuesday he acknowledged the demonstrations taking place on the streets of the capital but said the protesters should be ignored it annoys them out of so. this saturday we are going to the streets on march ninth and t.m.

paralysed march to commemorate the day of believe are in and t. imperialism the people take to the streets to fight this saturday people take to the streets president mahmoud abbas speaking during a ceremony to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the death of former venezuelan leader hugo chavez the glow of the bowl of varian revolution which brought who good job is to power twenty years ago has dimmed with venezuelans now face is the fallout of a power struggle between a determine the president and an equally unwavering opposition leader when it up and. hauled off as a journalist that venezuela analysis dot com he believes president maduro doesn't see why joe as a real threat it's. today president maduro said that he basically was not going to pay much attention to one right there belittling him if you like my reading of the events of yesterday when he went why the return to the country is that if he had

been a real political threat to the government if the government had seen him as a political threat they probably would have have taken measures to i rest him that definitely plenty of legal groundwork there and to justify that decision the fact that they allowed him into the country freely and and and and openly really indicate that he is not a political threat he is losing momentum very quickly and i think the government are happy to let him but about well this is something which the opposition leader has claimed time and time again that there is according to him a break in the chain of command and however the recent events here in venezuela would suggest that this is pure rhetoric and then from the chain of command it is entirely in fact we saw the events on february twenty third on venezuela border where the armed forces of a the order of nicholas miller are not the order of opposition leader why though and this would suggest that really the any expected uprising within the armed forces in is more a pipe dream of the opposition than any reality the clamor for change is getting

louder in algeria students have led more protest against the refusal of its eighty two year old president to stand down for next month's elections but algeria's army chief says valley he won't let the country go back to what he calls years of pain at the hayward reports. of allegiance to the one look through the country for twenty years. but there appears to be a groundswell like algiers abdel-aziz says to speak in the capital algea the message from thousands of demonstrating students it's clear they want to to leave off this now. we are against beautifully karnik gets a regime we have. twenty years are enough we want change mr millennium and i see this no matter what they've been in power for twenty years we've overlooked the situation for too long to process it's time now for people to wake up and not just

citizens. some students were forced to cover their faces suffering from the effects of take ass this outpouring of anger began when algeria's ailing leader announced he would run for with term as president the cry for boo to plea could to step aside has been growing louder every day spreading beyond the boundaries about ca's. the military which helped lead and shape the country during and after the bloody civil war in the one nine hundred ninety s. wields power here and its military chief says it wants to guarantee algeria security learn real bad attitude of some parties which feel annoyed to secure unstable do not like it do you want to take back to the years of pain during which people suffered all kinds of suffering and paid a heavy price the great people who lived through such difficult times were never

given the bounty of security. president beautifully co suffered a stroke six years ago and has rarely been seen in public since that he's offered to shorten any new term in power but many here believe that doesn't go far enough. several days of protests against his room have led to more than two hundred people being injured. can say constitute the right to free expression is part of the algerian constitution we expect that those rights be respected where there is peaceful demonstrations under the rule of law. the military has warned that some people want to take algeria backwards protesters say they are looking ahead to trying to secure a better future and after twenty years it is time to. change i mean he would. south korea's president has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including the capital seoul have

recorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause a host of illnesses a number of cities and provinces have imposed them urgency measures for a sixth straight day robin wright has more from seoul. for the best part of a week the people of south korea have been breathing it's four times worse than what's considered healthy it's led to government holding emergency meetings trying to figure out what to do about it and introducing a number of measures such as controls on vehicles on the roads putting curbs on construction sites and power stations but there's only so much the government can do here to control homegrown pollution that can control the way the wind blows and much of this is thought to have come from neighboring china fine dust from its desert sucked up into the atmosphere mixed with pollutants from its factories and power stations and because of the prevailing winds finding its way to the korean

peninsula but not having enough wind to blow it any further and so it sacked over the peninsula in this toxic cloud with people here just waiting and hoping for a breath of air so they can breathe again i'm taking the time along it's like a funk we've got a mosque itar to preach because of us or to normally i wouldn't care that it pollution but the post few days have been so bad i need a mosque. president moon j.n. of south korea has called for greater collaboration with china to deal with the problem such as a cloud seeding over the yellow sea to create artificial rain for example to wash away some of the pollutants before they reach the korean peninsula but what seoul seems to be going through is further evidence of the world health organization findings that northeast asia as a whole as a result of its rapid development and growth suffers some of the worst air

pollution in the world. a top u.n. official is asking china for access to xinjiang region where we are muslims are being kept in what activists call the tension camps the un's religious freedom. road to beijing voicing concern at a program targeting so-called extremism rights activists say a million weaker as another muslim minorities and province are being deprived of legal rights and subjected to mistreatment china denies the accusations and defends what it calls re education and training centers human rights watch says more than a thousand children in iraq have been detained for alleged ties to ice so many of the youngsters say they've been subjected to torture from erbil the toss of a name has this exclusive report. passing through the checkpoint was supposed to bring the seventeen year old we're calling zara closer to a future with hope instead his family says kurdish security forces in northern iraq

snatched any chance of that he was arrested eight months ago as the family was trying to cross into erbil to escape a tribal feud back home in mosul. security forces blindfolded handcuffed and hit him when they slapped him he had to say he joined eisel for three days the interrogator said it's not enough if you don't confess to more we'll hand you over to other security forces my son was very young at the time and afraid as them is now serving a sentence for joining i saw here at the reformatory for females and juveniles. his family says they managed to keep him out of reach of the armed group during its control of mosul and he's an innocent boy tortured into making a false confession since twenty sixteen human rights watch says forty one juveniles

have reported being tied in stress positions given electric shocks and being beaten by kurdish security forces with electric cables plastic pipes and rods in order to extract confessions and the alleged torture continued here at this facility designed to rehabilitate juveniles. we have tolerance of those fighters who have confessed already there isolate members on fighters i don't believe there's any need any sort of advantage to take with couple of children and make sure they have to become first on the torture so this is very much more object according to human rights watch several juvenile inmates say some of the guards beat them for misbehaving subjected them to death threats and verbal abuse and kept them in their cells for long periods of time these are victims and as victims they should be given every opportunity to reintegrate rehabilitate and rejoin society although we

were given access to interview inmates there was no way to protect their identities from the staff. we work in a transparent way and don't intend to keep a lid on bad things if these things took place in our facility we would be preventing media and local and international organizations from visiting. as that is supposed to be released soon but his family worries if he returns to mosul which is under the jurisdiction of the federal government in baghdad he'll get arrested again this time by iraqi forces well known huffy that a general huffy genius of the this isn't justice my son is stigmatized for the rest of his life and he'll carry the fear of being arrested at any time as with many victims alleging torture the teenager may also face a life long struggle with the psychological trauma natasha going to aim al-jazeera . still has on al-jazeera the fighter jet at the center of germany's tug of war

with european allies over sending arms to saudi arabia a call for a drastic action on plastic as polls open oceans around the world. hello there we've been watching the showers trundle their way across the mediterranean towards us you can see there on the satellite picture these speckled areas of cloud stretching from egypt all the way up into syria and turkey but all of that is breaking up so this should be dry a brighter weather force as we head into wednesday instead on wednesday there's more wet weather making its way into the northern parts of turkey and that will stretch southwards also affecting us in georgia and turning very wintery as it hits the higher ground as well further east will be seeing a few bits and pieces of cloud or maybe one or two showers here but nothing too significant i mean for the south and here in doha the winds will be coming in from

the east on wednesday that will bring a fair amount of cloud is at the outside risk of a shower but then on thursday they'll swing round again and they'll be working down from the north so it will feel a lot fresher and those winds will be pretty strong as well so a quarter blustery day here in doha on thursday even further towards the south and we'll be watching a rather animated area of cloud to the spin in the mozambique channel that's working its way towards the west you can see the dark blue colors here indicating that we're expecting some pretty heavy rain as we head through wednesday and thursday says in very wet weather is expected here away from that there's generally lots of dry weather to be found for jo'burg which should be up at twenty eight of the cape town will be at twenty one. i mean every. piece of breaking story and then of course. it's a well it's generally that's right out of the script that calls for the and i really

should let us know what that phrase. as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they view the stories that matter the most embed a free palestine listening post on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has vowed to defeat the opposition accusing leader of one why do and his supporters of destabilizing the country whether it's calling for an imperialist demonstrations on saturday to coincide with an opposition march algeria's army chief has promised

he won't let the country go back to what he calls years of pain that he was talking as students led more protests urging. them. to stand down for next month's election . south korea's president has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including the capital seoul have recorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause illnesses. germany is expected to decide in the coming hours if it will extend a ban on arms exports to saudi arabia it's under pressure from powerful european allies france and britain so lift the ban imposed after the murder of saudi journalist. paul brennan reports. huh there had already been enormous international concern over the tens of thousands of civilian deaths caused by saudi led coalition air strikes in yemen since twenty fifteen. and when

saudi agents murdered the journalist in istanbul last october germany finally cried halt temporarily freezing existing arms deals and banning any new weapons contracts with the kingdom yet it offers actors were fired it's often said that it is a dilemma between morals and rail politic i think that's wrong the german government has had political principle since the year two thousand which say that we did not exporting countries in gauged in war zones. germany was not alone in its concerns last september spain counsel the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia but unlike germany spain reinstated its deal a week later fearing the saudis might counsel a two billion dollar order for spanish build corvet's. germany's and has even bigger implications. the typhoon eurofighter the saudi air force has more than fifty already and uses them in yemen the cockpit from fuselage spine fin and part

of the refuse a large a made by b.a. systems in the u.k. the right wing and left leading wing edge made by spain allana and its only make the left wing and part of the refusal but the central fuselage is manufactured by germany and germany's export ban means britain can't deliver on a thirteen billion dollars deal to sell the next forty eight typhoon aircraft to saudi arabia airbus is chief executive vented his frustration at the recent munich security conference that was. did you come to the conclusion to the germans are of the opinion that only day out of responsible arms export policies and others don't . analysts warn that the dispute is damaging strategic alliances all the claim of defense cooperation in europe. is it's fairly brenda disowned by the idea that there is no real cooperation on and on and on the level of defense but.

the recently told is that germany imposed a moratorium not because of yemen but because of the amount of jamal khashoggi and saudi arabia's ongoing failure to adequately explain the circumstances of the killing in the absence of a full explanation riyadh how so far given no reason at all to reverse its original decision. al jazeera top u.s. senators are pushing for a new sanctions against those behind the murder of. bob menendez on the senate foreign relations committee is among many politicians who say they're frustrated with the lack of progress made by trump the trumpet ministration on an investigation into the killing in october the senator has gave the president one hundred twenty days to determine and investigate the perpetrators and other global magnitsky acts but the white house failed to meet that deadline more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kids. well i think we can take what a couple of senators who have

a lot of power in the senate are saying collectively not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine both democrats but it is important to note that there is unity rare unity on this issue in the u.s. congress with respect to the notion that the administration has essentially flouted the law when it comes to the trigger of the global magnitsky act you remember that that was triggered in twenty eighteen the administration was required to come up with a report to congress a few weeks ago with regard to who it believed was responsible for the killing you have to remember this ministration said very specifically that it would pursue this to the highest echelons of the saudi government so many months in congress are very unhappy when the state department simply sanctioned just seventeen individuals but did not point to the saudi crown prince a conclusion that the u.s.

senate certainly has come to after it was briefed by the cia director gina housefull there was another briefing that took place on monday where senators had hoped they would finally get the information that they were looking for as a result of the trigger of the magnets kay act but they were in a word disgusted with what they were told according to not just bob menendez but also senator tim kaine essentially the senators knew more about this case than those that were put forward by the administration in european countries are expected to ask saudi arabia to cooperate with the u.n. probe into special juice murder the joint statement is scheduled to be released on thursday it will also demand that riyadh freeze detained activists well an intelligence officer from saudi arabia has tried to hold an anti qatar lecture in switzerland. claimed four of the speakers at the event in geneva were qatari is deprived of their citizenship when journalists asked how they were allowed to

travel without how sports it emerged they were actually saudis saudi arabia the u.a.e. in egypt of impose a blockade on kat's arsons twenty seven. listens former boss carlos ghosn is expected to be released from prison in japan shortly after paying bail of nearly nine million dollars was arrested in november accused of financial misconduct which he denies the conditions of his release are strict communications will be monitored and there'll be video surveillance of where he lives he's also banned from leaving the country federal prosecutors in the u.s. will open a civil rights investigation into the shooting of an unarmed black man california's attorney general says two policeman won't be charged over the death in sacramento state clerk was shot in his grandmother's backyard officers say he ignored their commands and approached them with a gun but investigators found the twenty two year old was holding a mobile phone the decision follows

a year long investigation again nothing can bring back stefan clark and nothing helps and the pain his family carries i do i know that this is not how to quit clark and stefan clark's loved ones. his story to end i know actually i saw how hard this has been first the tragedy. then the weight she and her family have been patient throughout through the grief through the anger through the uncertainty the white house has rejected a request by democratic leaders for documents related to security clearance of the president's son in law jared crysler. counsel has called house the house democrats request unprecedented and interests of there were questions raised about how. senior advisor got a high level security clearance a new york times reporter suggested that trump went against recommendations by

security officials and ordered his former chief of staff to clear a question or shihab rattansi has more from washington. following the reports in the new york times washington post that john kelly the then chief of staff of the white house felt ordered to give jarrad cushnie that security clearance despite the reservations of security officials the house oversight committee aust for more information from the white house notably what reservations did security officials have a cushion and why did donald trump have to lie or felt he had to lie about his role in giving direct question of that security clearance if john kelly is to be believed but we have the response from the white house and that is look we'll give you general information a general briefing about how security clearances are given out but we're not going to get any information on individual cases because that would violate the privacy of those individuals the house committee now saying they will think about what their next step will be it's not clear yet whether subpoenas will be following

which might then really lead to court action which might mean that this is all just caught up for months and months and months and bureaucracy but certainly this debate is beginning now in. canada's prime minister is facing a deepening crisis over his government's handling of a corruption inquiry a second senior minister has quit his cabinet and the scandal sensors on a canadian companies attempts to avoid prosecution over claims it paid bribes to libya's former government's daniel like reports from toronto. justin trudeau promised a new kind of politics when he became canada's prime minister in two thousand and fifteen open government progressive policies it earned him plaudits at home and abroad as did his first cabinet with equal numbers of men and women ministers because it's twenty. four years on it's much less positive as last two of his most high profile female ministers in a growing scandal over accusations of attempting to politically influence the

justice system. and one of canada's largest engineering companies is charged with paying bribes worth tens of millions of dollars to the government of the late libyan dictator moammar gadhafi if found guilty the company faces being blocked from bidding for lucrative canadian government contracts in extraordinary testimony to a parliamentary committee the attorney general said trudeau and his advisors tried to make or accept a plea deal to avoid a trial. for a period of approximately four months between september and december of two thousand and eighteen i experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the attorney general of canada trudeau in his inside circle have said they did nothing wrong they were acting to save a company employing nearly ten thousand canadians opinion polls indicate the scandal is hurting the prime minister's popularity with an election later this year

his party will have to take urgent steps to save itself from defeat lessening the power of the prime minister and lessening the power of political staff lessening the degree of centralization within the political and the administer of its of government both the cabinet ministers who resigned say they still support the government possible hint they'd serve another leader someone other than justin trudeau the promise of a few years ago has long gone as canada's prime minister attempts to weather the worst political crisis he's ever faced daniel lak al-jazeera toronto. bags bottles straws and plates about how off of the pos that we use every day is used only once and then thrown away it'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 wide fund for nature documents a dramatic rise in the production of single use plastics since the year two

thousand we've used more plastics than in all the years before and we're now producing nearly three hundred million tons of plastic every here and most if it isn't being recycled so to tackle the problem the groups calling for an international agreement banning single use posix they say companies producing the waste should be responsible for cleaning up the mess here in davos as head of programmes a plastic soup foundation that's an advocacy group tackling pos the solution he says countries need to come together for a common solution to the problem. one of the most critical points that is in the report is that actually states that we need a global stand therefore blessedly get into the environments that's the basic ingredient us actually missing and if you don't have a standard if you don't have a goal what do we need to reach in a certain period of time yeah you don't consider it as a as a problem but what's going on right now is the government of norway and they

actually are pushing for global standards on plastics and that's a big step forward that needs a lot of support i think there is there are some setbacks to hear from countries like the united states jonah they're reluctant and strong language in regulating the bless the emissions. although and i'm convinced that the pressure especially about this whole topic of plastic to look at it will actually create a momentum to yet waits yeah taking responsibility and yeah cleaning up the mess and finding the solutions because their solutions are there every weekend do it. hello again this is al jazeera these are the headlines the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has vowed to defeat the opposition accusing leader why don't his supporters of destabilizing the country calling for an imperialist demonstrations

on saturday to coincide with an opposition march. while a crazy minority continues with their hatred with their bitterness it's their problem we will not pay attention to them. we are going to stop them in their tracks their work the national you know let the crazy minority continue with their bitterness we will defeat them have a security for chavez we will do it for the great history of the country we will do it algeria as army chief has promised he won't let the country go back to what he calls years of pain he was talking a student protest urging eighty two year old president. to stand down from next month's elections south korea's president has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including the capital seoul have reported high concentrations of fine dust particles that can

cause illnesses human rights watch says more than a thousand children in iraq are in detention facilities for alleged ties to ice so al-jazeera obtained exclusive access to a center holding juveniles and. many youngsters say they've been tortured. countries are expected to cooperate with a u.n. investigation into. its u.s. senators push for new sanctions on those behind the saudi journalists killing. it is expected to be released from a japanese prison shortly after paying bail for nearly nine million dollars was arrested in november accused the financial misconduct which he denies and the white house has rejected a request by democratic leaders for documents related to security clearance of the president's son in law jared. donald trump's counsel has called they request unprecedented and intrusive there were questions raised about how you got high

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