people are already suffering life is getting worse when you look at the figures quite amazingly three point four million people according to the u.n. a fled that's well over the population size of the capital city. yeah there's no question and i think the depth of the humanitarian crisis that's happening in venezuela now and certainly of the of the refugee crisis that that has generated as you mentioned what we've seen is stalemate i think the opposition strategy as well as the strategy of the countries the united states the lima group and others who have backed. was that there would be rather quick movement by those that is much publicly and that hasn't happened in large part because there was a miscalculation about the role of the military and i think it's important actually when we talk about the military in venezuela that we actually recognize that this

is not a monolithic bloc and indeed when we talk about armed actors within venezuela we're not talking about a single group so there is a professional military made up of career officers. that has to some extent been brought into the child least the project over twenty years through promotions and some purges that were meant to increase loyalty but this is a professional military there are also groups informal armed groups known as quote in the us that are much more ideologically beholden to the governments and that have appeared as repressive forces around opposition protests and then you have special forces that again have shown a much higher degree of loyalty to the mode of government ok so i would like to bring in i would like to bring in the question of trick again as we come towards

the end of our discussion you are on different sides and have been clearly for some time in venezuela. politics do either of you see a room for compromise a room where two men like you from different places could come to some sort of negotiated settlement maybe a government of national unity very quickly each of you tell me first. yes. i will tell you that i have been a longtime advocate for dialogue and i stated here again that there is no way out of this crisis out of a negotiation i mean there's no way out of this crisis that doesn't go through and you go to ration here in venezuela where i am in going to get i have met with leaders of the opposition i have met me the leaders of terri's more there is lots of reasonable people you know that understand that at this point the country needs

to move on and we need to engineer we need to build a venezuelan solution ok the problem i want to watch road is really up to the girl i was roderick the same question i wrote when you see the room when you see room roderick for compromise with someone like term or even even if you don't agree with do you think there are people in the old charges camp that you can do a deal with to create some sort of national unity government yeah ok i can i cannot be agree with some people but i know one thing criminal must go in jail so to die cripple to bully violent revolution cannot be invited to join a democratic movement to screw possibly neutralize some have right now because those people the skill and then assure us and they protect money learn tree that the traffic islamic terrorism and the darkest program project it's called for the south pole in their region so it's not this projects not only disturbing and

destroying my country it's own it's also destroy in order societies and it region so in a new venezuela we are going to be very struck everywhere every person who make crying who made crime in the chevy state revolution must go into the jail ok just rhetoric i have to stop you there. and i have to thank all of our guests we have tried to look into all of this issue and the historical context and try to look for some compromise so to our guests poor us tom long and roderick navarro thank you stay tuned to out zira we have correspondents inside venezuela and across the region for extensive coverage of this story if you have views on the crisis or if you want to watch this program again go to our website al-jazeera dot com or one of our witches or apps what should we discuss next time on the show go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j.

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restorations and when they began. yes this as these details of been emerging from a briefing that was given by south korea's by agency the national intelligence service to lawmakers here in seoul about developments at tongue chang reno this is as you mentioned there a site for the launch of satellites into space but also has been used for the testing of engines for ballistic missiles and there was a verbal agreement an undertaking a verbal undertaking last year from the north koreans that they would at least dismantle parts of this site well the intelligence briefing which seems to be corroborated now by sources in the u.s. based on satellite photos seems to indicate that they are in fact has been building going on at the site specifically the restoration of a door and part of the roof on one of the buildings one of the facilities there which seems to has led people to wonder what north korea is up to whether there

might be any resumption of testing but there is a very large question mark over just when this work was carried out was it after the summit took place the failed summit last week in hanoi or was it jordan or even before the summit so there is a very big question mark over whether this is any kind of negative reaction to the diplomatic process not working i don't think we are at that stage yet. well rob how is this being interpreted in the context of that sadness and hannah is this a negotiation tactic. i don't think it does north korea any harm from their position just to let the world know that it does indeed have still a very vibrant very well developed weapons development system but you'll remember of course that even after the single pour summit which was seen as a landmark a diplomatic success a massive breakthrough that intelligence satellite photographs emerging from the us

seem to indicate that north korea was indeed still working on missile development it was still producing fissile material and of course its missile a nuclear projects are underpinned by a massive industrial complex that doesn't just get to be turned off or switched off especially as observers will tell you there is no specific agreements to stop any specific parts of its nuclear or missile program there is only a very loosely worded agreement from last june in singapore that commits north korea to denuclearize a sure way out except saying exactly how that's going to be brought about people here do taking courage but from the fact that north korea has not returned to the warlike rhetoric of the past that does seem to be still invested in the diplomatic way forward and also of course that kim jong un seems to be good to his word that he has not resumed nuclear testing or indeed miss out the starting out as there is

a problem right there live press and tell thank you rob. well meanwhile north korea is facing most severe food shortages after what's being called its west harvest in more than a decade u.n. figures show that the production of staple crops like soy beans and potatoes down by more than a third last month north korea's government warned it's facing a shortfall of one point four million tons of food this year the country has a long struggle to feed itself nearly half the population is in need of humanitarian assistance for more on this threat speak to benjamin silverstein who's a templeton fellow at the foreign policy research institute and the editor of the north korean economy watch he joins us now via skype from seoul and jim and pyongyang is saying it's short of one point four million tons of food just how bad is it well i'm not sure that it's the u.n. and the north and government i've been saying and the reason is that it's very difficult to calculate the north korean food situation most people get their

sustenance from markets in the country and the circulation on these markets while it does depend to a great extent on domestic production we don't know exactly how supply will change on these markets so i suspect but thanks to the markets things won't be as bad as some people fear that benjamin that the u.n. is also warning that staple crop production is down what's causing this shortage in north korea's and surprisingly by any sanctions so i think a much more important sanctions is it was the bad weather of last year the summer and fall last year sanctions have a relatively minor impact on the production of course with less fuel imports it's more difficult to to power up the machines and whatnot but use for agriculture but at the same time north korean i recall true as mechanized as such a low degree anyway sanctions are probably not the main culprit here how might all of this have affected the discussions and handily. probably not that much

i suspect it's. because the regime prioritizes weapons production over food production to such a large extent whether or not the harvest is sufficient probably doesn't impact discussions and oil much well in terms of sanctions and not wanting to have an impact on civilian populations would that not have played into some of the politics . probably not from the north korean side i don't think that the leadership if the leadership had been primarily concerned about people's access to food they could have upped imports a long time ago they could have prioritized reforms and agriculture and while they have done some of that they just haven't done enough of it and overall right now how would you describe the economic situation in north korea. i would say it's poor but stable so there are no signs of immediate crisis but at the same time with the

the sanctions banning work korea's most essential exports. of course things things are in d.c. right that spend time until the sun at the foreign policy research institute thank you for your insights engine and thank you at least sixteen people have been killed in a suicide attack on construction work as an eastern afghanistan it happens near the airport in jalalabad the four attackers were also killed and no group has yet claimed responsibility venezuela's president is vowing to crush what he's described as the crazed minority that wants to remove him from power nicolas maduro is also urging his supporters to turn out in large numbers to challenge protests planned by his rival this weekend al jazeera is not your apollo reports from the event as well as border with colombia. 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 nicolas maduro on tuesday he met the leaders of one of the most significant power blocs in venezuela the public sector union. as you know in the embryo of 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. and 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 they're

going to this saturday we are going to the streets on march ninth and t.m. paralysed march to commemorate the day of boulevard in anti imperialism the people take to the streets to fight this saturday people take to the street president mahmoud abbas speaking during a ceremony to commemorate the six anniversary of the death of former venezuelan leader hugo chavez the glow of the bola 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 determined president and an equally unwavering opposition leader when it up and. and the u.s. representative for than israel has contradicted hints from the white house about a military intervention donald trump has said that all options are on the table to remove maturer elliott abrams insists things haven't reached that point we have

lots of steps that we can take that will affect for example the economy. the financial system that will affect members of the regime. steps along the lines that we have taken in the past but tougher nobody's talking about american military steps except the regime and the russians actually. i made it clear repeatedly our policy is as i just stated diplomatic political economic financial pressure moving toward a peaceful democratic transition in venezuela the white house has rejected a request by democratic party leaders for documents related to the security clearance of the president's son in law jared kushner donald trump's counsel has called the house democrats request unprecedented and intrusive there were questions raised about how question a who's trying to senior adviser was granted the high

level clearance she had returned he has moved from washington d.c. . following the reports in the new york times and washington post that john kelly the then chief of staff of the white house felt ordered to give jarrad cushioning 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 how to lie or felt he had to lie about his role in the giving card question of that security clearance if john kelly is to be believed when 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.