we will turn the boat back to. south korea's president has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including seoul have recorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause many illnesses measures include shutting down public parking lots and limiting the number of cars allowed on the roads. then as well as 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 tad out in large numbers to challenge protests planned by his rival joe this weekend al jazeera is not your apollo reports from calcutta near venezuela's 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 to on tuesday he met the leaders of one of the most significant power blocs in venezuela the public sector

union. as you. know. 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 applies to corporate 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 your noise so. this saturday we are going to the streets on march ninth and t.m. paralysed march to commemorate the day of believe. and the imperialism the people

take to the streets to fight this saturday people take to the streets president moodle was speaking during a ceremony to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the death of former been as well and leader hugo chavez the glow of the bowl of varian revolution which brought who good job is to power twenty years ago has dimmed would venezuelans they'll face is the fallout of a power struggle between a determined president and an equally unwavering opposition leader but up a little. evidence is alleging from iraq that juveniles are being tortured into confessing to crimes including being involved with eisel natasha going to in the northern iraq spoke exclusively to one teenager's family. 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 should you and your 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 . azzam 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 are some members on pietist i don't believe there's any need any sort of touch to take with couple of children and make sure they have to become first on the torture so this is very much you will reject 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 will be that a general hostage and yes the this isn't justice my son is stigmatized for the reste 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 al-jazeera. 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 after the justice minister resigned last month the scandal centers on a canadian company as attempts to avoid prosecution over claims that paid bribes to nabi as former government 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 fifty. four years on it's much less positive trudeau is lost two of his most high profile female ministers in a growing scandal over accusations of attempting to politically influence the justice system s.n.c. level 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 thoughts 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. hello i'm mr hall with the headlines on al-jazeera north korea is reportedly restoring facilities as a long range rocket they don't cite that it dismantled last year the reports in south korean media follow the failed summit last week between donald trump and kevin john from the bride has more from seoul. it's a site that's normally used for satellite launches but it has been used for the testing of engines for ballistic missiles so it is potentially significant to north

korea's missile development weapons program the. satellite images seem to show that some restoration work has taken place drawers replaced in a section of roofing replaced on one of the buildings at the site there are new satellite pictures appear to refute india's claim that it destroyed a religious school into the armed group jaish e mohammed in pakistan india had said its air strikes hit all intended targets and killed a large number of fighters algeria's army chief says he won't let the country go back to what he calls an era of bloodshed he was talking as students read more protests urging eighty two year old president bush a flicker to stand down many flights have been canceled from kenya's main airport following a strike by aviation workers riot police have been deployed to disperse protesters outside nairobi's jemma commuter airports the strike follows a labor dispute between a workers union and kenya airways at least sixteen people have been killed in

a suicide attack on construction workers in eastern afghanistan it happens near the airport in jalalabad and the four attackers were also killed. nissen's former boss carla scorn has been released after more than three months in jail or left the tokyo detention center wearing a mask and cap after posting almost nine million dollars bail he was arrested in november accused of falsifying financial documents which he denies. south korea's president in has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including seoul have recorded high concentrations of fine dust particles that can cause many illnesses those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story.

six years since the death of venezuela's president hugo chavez to man along a power struggle the country is dealing with a sparkling political and economic crisis so is there a way out and what's child this is a legacy this is inside story. hello that i'm james when venezuela's former president hugo chavez died on the fifth of march two thousand and thirteen it sparked a series of events that is still playing out today his hand-picked successor nicolas maduro continued the policy is that his critics say have led to

hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine opposition leader is demanding the dora's resignation but he's refusing to go. return to caracas on monday he defied a travel ban to drum up support for mass and american allies threatened to arrest quiet on his return but the u.s. warned that any action against him will have consequences is now calling for more protests on saturday against majority we'll bring in our guests in a moment to discuss all of this but first daniel schweitzer takes a look at the effect of hugo chavez's legacy on venezuela's crisis. jody's moore 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. google shoves his chosen successor nicolas maduro continues to cling to power and the pressure from foreign governments and millions of his own

people to step down was. they blame him for around things 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 charges once did here criticizing former u.s. president george bush at the united nations in two thousand and six. president of the united states the gentleman to whom i refer as at the devil 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 be done 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 of 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 leftwing allies in the region have largely disappeared the doors 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 before him now president maduro faces one of his toughest challenges yet. the sixth anniversary of the death of. the opposition is questioning his legacy nicolas maduro supporters are wondering how much longer it will keep the president in office.

well we have the chance today to discuss the current crisis in the context of venezuela's recent history and we have our panel for us joining us from caracas on skype is tamar poor us he's a former chief of staff for president nicolas maduro and a foreign policy advisor of late president hugo chavez in weren't sure in the u.k. tom long a professor at the university of warrick that's in the british midlands and in richmond in virginia in the us also on skype but normally based in venezuela we have roderick navarro a coordinator for the venezuelan opposition party. welcome to you all can i start with you term or let's look back at where we are now and the recent history nine hundred ninety eight was when charges came into power he was replaced by the door oh you work for both of them you're not got us into this mess didn't know how i

thank you for having me and no not at all absolutely not the reading of the recent venezuelan history is from one thousand nine hundred nine on was a very difficult process led by a president hours of building venezuela democracy we need to understand why president ellis was elected in the first place that there was a huge debate in the country to create a new constitution that was indoors that was championed bent at baghdad as there was indorsed by a large part of the other population and that back then was rejected maybe opposition the very same people who today are backing one way door and these are the very same constitution that. congressman graybill is defending today so one of the legacies of you would have is was in the first place giving as and institutional framework for renewing medicine and democracy and the second thing now that we're commemorating six years of peace passing the president has was

a much more pragmatic. then then mr my little one of the reasons by the way way left mr miller's government and some others administration is because two things one he wasn't able and willing to transform to work to were reformed as well as economy which has led us to this terrible situation right now and i don't agree with the idea with those who say that maduro is pursuing terrorists as policies that are very wrong the reason again why we can see a sharp contrast between the legacy of chavez during his term where been is and has enjoyed their highest standards of living ever ever when been as it is referred to as a country that was once a rich country we're talking about them as one of two thousand and thirteen we're not talking about the minister of twenty thirty years ago when as well as enjoying their higher leave it was than it ever under towers and this has simply be derated since his passing and for

a diversity of reasons but among others because. as modern as leadership was extremely ineffective with the in dealing with the challenges of an as an economy ok let's bring in roderick you are an opposition politician do you share that view it was great on the charges and the duro dropped the ball well we believe their model is a continued of the chavis legacy came because this is the same project is socialism ok and right now we're living in a country where we have three million people feeding from garbage and three thousand children at least have died for starvation so they're leaving in a silent genocide where the numbers of theirs are being heard in any war occurring right now in the world so right now chavez legacy is destruction is death is now a quote is islamic terrorism is castries. i'm in the region so i don't think that

a chavez legacy is a good theme in fact if you check the polls in venezuela and this opinion studies in you can see that the people who is doesn't like anymore is chevy's the project and the people is seek of socialism in the large way in the light weight and also in the hard way so right now we have this a my daughter it will serve her in the power and they doesn't want to leave our it not only in the rest of the chevy's them in power because they just want to be there for ever and defy the people he's doing for freedom and democracy right now inside when his when and abroad when his well is for having a republican system where everyone can go back to the country and rebuild

a future and the country's well ok well we had two different us perspectives there tom long you're a professor who studies venezuela they both have different views one blaming the doura one saying the problem goes all the way back to charges what's your view from your detailed study on venezuela. well i think it's helpful to put this actually in an even slightly longer context and we can think of three different layers here that have played out over different time spans in the longest lair there are long standing issues of the venezuelan economy is reliance on oil venezuela has long been an oil economy its government has long been heavily dependent on on rents from oil to fund itself and that creates a whole host of long standing economic problems during oil booms it tends to undermine other sectors of the venice whalen economy it also creates

a pattern where because the government is largely funded through oil royalties and oil sales people are less demanding of accountability from their government so we have that long underline where we then have the political economy that child is built on top of that layer which incorporated many facets of the preexisting venezuelan oil economy but also changed the other aspects of the economic structure that scaled back private enterprise or increased the role of the state and later the role of the military in different aspects of the venezuelan economy. and that tended to create a conflict between productive sectors of the venezuelan economy and the state a conflict that was certainly active on both sides and so that is this the second layer that comes from the legacy of charice and then finally under mother would

what we have seen is economic policy that is incompetent at best. so all of these negative trends which are exacerbated in two thousand and thirteen around the same time as childless death by the fall. all of the price of oil. are handled very poorly under the the mode of administration there is an attempt to scale up some of the programs that political scientists would think of as cliental istic programs that is an exchange of goods for political loyalty and to further push out private sector actors or to weaken the rule of private sector actors in key areas of the economy through measure such as price fixing through nationalizations and again through increasing the military's control of crucial sectors like like food distribution

i'd like to keep the wider context in this discussion but also bring in the most recent events in venezuela but keep telling us all of you about the child as a legacy in this discussion but i think it is important to look at where we are now six weeks i think since we've had two rival leaders in venezuela one returned to venezuela in the last few hours tema. said or threatened that he might arrest him and he decided not to why do you think. it is not exactly accurate.