lemon this will these children have problems in venezuela because there aren't enough schools because teachers don't make enough money and most have quit and left so children migrate to our country especially this school because it's the closest one to the border. and if you get outside the building parents are waiting to drop off more children once their lessons are over many of them will make the journey across the border back into venezuela i think when we cross back if there is any kind of conflict or gunfire out children's lives or our lives are in a great risk or nearly faculty members at the school say many of the children who arrive for class haven't eaten and it's become part of the institutions mandate to make sure that children are fed before they begin their lessons half of the students in this class did not show up to school today the director of the school says that a humanitarian corridor between been a swell and colombia is desperately needed to guarantee young venezuelan students access to a formal education. an estimated three thousand children are travelling to and from

venezuela across illicit routes every day humanitarian observers say the conditions these children face on the border is another example of human rights violations by the venezuelan government. disease. all those plenty more ahead this news hour including one of the first muslim women in the u.s. congress is under fire for comments she made about american and israeli relations. a nother show of defiance by antigovernment protesters in sudan of the government tries to maintain a state of emergency. and you wait for opens an investigation into manchester city over allegations of fraud spectacles show we'll have the details in sports. there been calls for an investigation into how our cell fighters were able to

launch an attack in afghanistan's capital that killed three people and injured dozens more the group attacked a gathering of the house are ethnic minority and politicians and western couple shelob ellis has this report. from a city to a battlefield kabul becoming the frontline of a battle between i saw an afghan forces so much an attack on senior politicians a more than one thousand whose hours gathering to commemorate his our leader abdul alim azhari. it began peacefully broadcast on national t.v. with c.e.o. of dollar bill or the former president hamid karzai listening to speeches then rockets were heard in the distance commented on by dr dunston your places the incident so far from here you're running creates a lot of risk but the rockets go closer some politicians flared others tried to calm the crowds though sure everybody telling them to leave quietly but.

then the first explosion and the elder followed witnesses reported rockets mortars landing in and around the gathering explosions and heavy gunfire. so it was the us that has. our leader mohammed hockey sit on the microphones a bit targeting the gathering and told us to escape from there as i was feeling i was hit with shrapnel on my back. there was confusion as hundreds of people try to find safety. was soldiers and police unaware of who was attacking and from where. afghan special forces or done on a building began a clearance operation to stop the remaining attackers. says ferry dozens of people to hospital most injured by rockets and mortars are cured from that one mortar hit in the back of the crowd and then another followed by the third one hit close to me

shrapnel hit me and also a soldier he was lying there and i was in a lot of time and i don't know what happened next. in a report last month the un security council is to made it up to four thousand in afghanistan many arriving after being pushed out of syria and iraq last year they carried out nearly forty attacks nationwide desires of a primary target as most a shia muslims as our leader mohammed who escapes took to national television after the attack and accuse president danny of being complicit it looks like there was a lot of weapons stoked up i felt like i was in a battlefield i strongly condemned this barbarian attack and my condolences for all the families who lost a loved one people are angry at such a serious security lapse in the aftermath there are questions as to how i saw in particular can continue to carry out such complex attacks in the heart of the city

which a shia minority price shot at dallas al-jazeera. hundreds of people have escaped the last remaining pockets of syrian territory held by still more than six thousand people have left the eastern village of bar goods in the past few days the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces are trying to push the armed group out hundreds of eyes of fighters have surrendered well in jordan some syrian refugees are taking president bashar assad's government to the international criminal court they accuse al assad's forces of crimes against humanity including torture rape murder and chemical attacks syria is not a member of the i.c.c. but jordan is and that may give the court jurisdiction to take the case that the u.s. has hundreds of people who fled the town of saran insidious hama province because of fighting are slowly rebuilding their lives they left in twenty sixteen when armed groups took over the town seeking refuge in lebanon turkey or other towns in syria but as they gradually make their way back they're now facing new challenges

to her side got for has more. attempting to restore life as they once knew it residents of soran have begun the slow tosk of rebuilding amongst the rubble suran is on a highway that connects the provincial capitals of hama and aleppo which made it a strategic target for armed groups it was an area syrian government troops and opposition forces for two of or for much of the seven years of conflict. the hama province experienced some of the largest protests against syrian president bashar al assad and some of the bloodiest crackdowns last year the syrian army's capture of soran meant it reversed most of the territorial gains i saw had made in the major offensive. so he took her children and left at the height of the fighting now she's returned owen was. there was

a lot of destruction and chaos little by little we've made things better i hope to stay and watch my children grow and become successful as many of them the u.n. says those like are among around one point four million people who've returned to their homes in syria last year u.n. high commissioner for refugees filippo grandi visited to see the work being done to help them like setting up this bakery for those who make that decision and voluntarily come back here we must provide them with have at least for their basic needs and their initial right integration in their community but for those returning to their neighborhoods there's still a long journey ahead to restore the towns they are once again calling home she her food al-jazeera. the u.s. house of representatives has passed a resolution condemning anti semitism and other forms of bigotry now this follows

the controversy over comments made by the democratic congresswoman which divided her party and provided ammunition for republicans to call has more from washington . omar is one of the two first muslim women elected to congress and she has become a lightning rod on the issue of israel and u.s. support after she said this about an israeli lobbying group. in this country that says. more allegiance to the country. i want. why is it ok. for me to. be karma and not talk about. that is if you will see. her critics say that is anti-semitic and accuse her of implying jews can't be loyal americans representative omar embodies

a vile i hate filled anti-semitic anti israel bigotry and this is not a time for politics this is a time for the democratic leaders in this institution to do the right thing they should remove her from the house foreign affairs committee they should stand up to her they should stop empowering her disgusting hatred before it turns in to horror republicans are demanding action even though they were mostly silent when it was discovered that one of their congressional leaders attended a white supremacist convention another congressman defended white nationalism and the u.s. president said this about neo nazis. very fine people on both sides but it's not just republicans this is shown there is a big divide in the democratic party why are we on able to singularly condemn antisemitism why can't we call it a semitism and show that we've learned the lessons of history but younger and more progressive politicians came to her defense leaving the democratic leader nancy

pelosi to try and find some way to unite the party i feel confident that her words were not based on any anti-semitic and a tude but that she didn't have a full appreciation of how they landed on other people with that the house voted on a resolution condemning anti-semitism islamophobia and white supremacy and now they hope to move on but being one of the first muslims in congress it is likely omar will continue to be focused on by the right recently republicans in west virginia briefly put this poster in their state house there wasn't a resolution later condemning it petticoating al-jazeera washington congresswoman omar released this statement along with two other muslim members of the house about the vote she said it's the first time we have voted on a resolution condemning anti muslim bigotry in our nation's history and the muslim crimes have increased ninety nine percent from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen

and are still on the rise we are tremendously proud to be part of a body that has put forth a condemnation of all forms of bigotry including anti semitism racism and white supremacy and this our store is the executive director of and power change that's a muslim grassroots movement and joins us now via skype from new york good to have you on linda sarsour now how a comment about support for israel from home are snowballed into a resolution on bigotry and should it have gotten to this point. i think it's important to understand that. omar is one of the two muslim women in congress that was sent there to be a progressive to stand up for all communities and in to shake up the status quo that has told us for a very long time that we are not able to criticize the state of israel on the policies of the israeli government against the palestinian people so we are very

proud of ilana omar and unequivocally stand with her and so the democratic leadership wanted to actually put forth the resolution to rebuke urquhart and to and to review current comments on what they believe to be anti-semitism we absolutely reject that and we do not believe that congresswoman at ohana mark was engaging in any anti-semitic behavior so we called on the democratic leadership to put forth a resolution that expanded the language to include islamophobia and white supremacy and to focus on the real threats to all americans which is the rise of white nationalism and eight hundred community leaders and progressive leaders across the country wrote to nancy pelosi we did a press conference in support of representative ileana lamar and call on the expansion of the language we went to washington d.c. and the vote was actually postponed for a day and today we saw the fruits of our labor in the fruits of the labor of the progressive woman who has standing more boldly on the issue of palestine so i'm very proud today to see this when and for us to be

a party that coles and stands up against all forms of bigotry not just one form of bigotry ok so we've also heard no more praise this new resolution but is there any danger of this impending on the freedom of speach. absolutely not if you look at the actual resolution even when they define for example anti-semitism one of the things you will not find in there is that in the department of state definition they actually say some critiques of the state of israel can be deemed anti-semitic that is actually in fact not in this resolution so for us week we will continue to fight for our right as palestinian americans as muslim americans as all americans to be able to criticize whether it be the saudi arabian government or the israeli government or any government that engages in human rights abuses this resolution does not specifically have any binding effect it does not talk about you know any

any tangible you know whether it be enforcement this is just words that are going to be on the record for centuries because the common people will look back at this day and be very proud of muslim american leaders in the muslim american community and including a representative omar where we went on the record saying that we as a democratic party as a u.s. congress a stand against all forms of bigotry including anti-semitism islamophobia and white supremacy linda sarsour from the arab american association of new york thank you very much for your time. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has admitted to what he calls an erosion of trust between himself and his ministers that this follows a corruption scandal that shaken his government just months away from election to a cabinet members have quit in recent weeks they're accusing trudeau of trying to influence a criminal inquiry into a canadian multinational there in giants s.n.c. level is accused of giving bribes to senior libyan officials under the former leader moammar gadhafi to maintains that he was looking out for canadian jobs since

the love alone is a company that employs nine thousand canadians across this company country. they create many thousand spin off jobs in peripheral industries they directly or indirectly put food on the table for countless families as one of canada's major employers but they are also a company facing serious criminal charges. the context is a tough one with potential job losses in the thousands these are the types of situations that make governing a challenge and still had a knowledge is there one of france's top catholic clerics is found guilty of covering up child sex trial of abuse. i want to welcome the most the european country that just can't get enough refugees. and sets and saints informally

discounts x. handing the twenty twenty two world cup in qatar to fourteen teams joe will have more in sport for us. hello again and welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across southern china we have seen quite a bit of clouds as well as rain over the last couple of days and unfortunate that is going to continue as we go into the weekend taiwan has seen some very heavy rain some localized flooding has been a problem there and you can see here on friday the rain is going to continue with taipei see about seventeen degrees now as we go towards saturday that rain begins to lift for most of taiwan but for taipei you will still stay rainy as well across much of china the rain is going to continue hong kong we are going to sing so probably close conditions few and rain in your forecast in the afternoon with the

temperature there of about twenty five degrees well towards the philippines over here toward vietnam looking quite clear most of the clouds and rain down here towards the south sulawesi has seen some very heavy rain over the last couple days and we do expect that to stay into the forecasts for thailand though really quite clear few attempt as into the low for low to mid thirty's about thirty four degrees there kuala lumpur about thirty three degrees into your forecast as we go through the weekend and here across much of india temperatures are going to remain into the mid thirty's not a lot of clouds here on the satellite image but we could see some clouds coming across parts of sri lanka over the next few days temps are there for colombo about thirty one degrees tonight at thirty four and neck per about attempt a few of thirty four degrees there. the weather sponsored by qatar is. in germany's capital there's a barber like no other sort of put it to. go strong cross with us. but as he said he changes he's moving with the time. and going on the road.

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again you're watching out. for top stories donald trump's former campaign chairman has been sentenced to almost four years in prison. was convicted in august on the eight charges of bank and tax fraud. a power cut in venezuela has plunged nearly all of the country into darkness president nicolas maduro government is blaming the outage on sabotage of the hydroelectric power station. and protesters have rallied in southwest yemen for all sorts day over the killing of the main witness in the alleged child rape case. was killed by fighters from a group backed by the united arab emirates. thirty six countries including all the e.u. member states of scientists statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights records

it calls of the kingdom to cooperate with the un led investigation into the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and to release detained activists that he has more from brussels. at the united nations in geneva a rare rebuke to saudi arabia it came in the form of a statement backed by all twenty eight european union countries as well as canada and australia and called on the saudi government to release prominent women's rights activists from jail and cooperate with the u.n. investigation into the murder of journalist. at the saudi consulate in istanbul at almost the same time each justice and interior ministers meeting in brussels formally rejected a new blacklist of states not doing enough to stop money laundering and terrorism financing that list compiled by the european commission last month included new names not least of which several u.s. territories and saudi arabia germany has taken a tough stance against saudi arabia since the killing of jamal khashoggi and has just extended its freeze on arms sales to the country but when asked by al-jazeera

about the blacklist its interior minister refused to engage in english or in german saudi arabia be on this money laundering no as a language and has no idea how to get out of after the meeting the ministers insisted their stance wasn't influenced by any third party in office that my the drafting of the list has not been procedurally transparent therefore the twenty eight member states had this point of view so any action taken needs to be based on dialogue from now on but for some intense lobbying clearly led to the list being blocked is going to put a considerable pressure from both the saudi and u.s. governments have been very vocal about their criticisms the u.s. even said that it will ask u.s. banks to ignore the back to back list so the pressure has been intense but this is a sad day because what we're seeing is diplomatic interests of member states winning out over the fight against argument in europe meanwhile the european commission's promising to keep pushing for tougher action. each scandal on

a more papers all the terrorist attacks. we had a lot of big words about how we need to strengthen our fight against these things so now it's time to do it the european commission is sticking to its message if the e.u. wants to be serious about fighting money laundering and the financing of terrorism it has to be ready to displease governments including saudi arabia's oil ministers meeting over the road here have given a clear red light to the commission's plans where this goes next could depend on how quickly the saudis respond to growing criticism. al-jazeera brussels. protesters and saddam had defying a government imposed state of emergency political parties say they're committed to starting talks in that ending almost four months of demonstrations but it's unclear who the government can talk to because the protest movement doesn't have an obvious leader here but morgan reports are hard but. i don't have

a drawn out from university campuses to districts of how to thousands continue to demand the resignation of president obama you protests calling for the end of his thirty year rule are now almost four months old their ability and shows no sign of abating despite promises from the government to improve the economy and the declaration of a year long state of emergency that bans public gatherings and protests. the government is corrupt there's oppression may enter into people's houses and beat them now all our brothers are heading to the street and they're beating men with sticks of really firing tear gas as a violation of rights all the promises are lies they don't represent the sudanese people even the state of emergency is a lie because there are no soldiers on the streets. the protests which started in mid december in the northeastern city of algebra were sparked by a rise in the costs of basic goods some opposition groups say protesters have legitimate reason to take to the streets demonstrators say they want to voice their

demands peacefully but have been met with tear gas and bullets fired rights groups say security forces have killed at least fifty people since demonstrations began the government puts the figure at thirty two the un human rights council has criticised the government response and its use of force president bashir met the committee formed to resolve the crisis and repeated his call for dialogue as well as announcing the state of emergency bashir has stepped down as head of the ruling national congress party with talked about preparing the environment for. political prisoners. so we can create an environment for a national dialogue because every side sticking to their positions will not help the country but it's unclear who to talk to most of the protests have been called for by opposition groups and an unofficial body known as the sudanese professional association but some say while they participate in the protests neither the opposition nor the association represent them so nearly four months on

anti-government protest remain largely leaderless making it difficult to start talks to settle the crisis. ahmed bashir has presided over sudan for three decades coming to power in a bloodless military coup in one nine hundred eighty nine to overthrow the democratically elected government of the current wave of anti-government protest is in the first day of the most serious and persistent his remaining defiant and so are the protesters leaving no solution in sight to end the deadlock. algerian state media have released a letter said to be from president abilities with the flick a warning of chaos as protests continue against his leadership none want to form groups infiltrating demonstrations have been protests for the past two weeks against his bid for a fifth term eighty two year old beautifully because in switzerland for what the government describes as a routine medical tests lawyers and journalists have been protesting in downtown algiers demanding good to flee because resignation journalists held

a sit in demonstration at the press freedom square they're accusing the government of pressuring them over their coverage of the demonstrations. new fatherhood is the executive director for the nordics center for conflict transformation and he says the protesters aren't just contending with the president but also larger forces within the government. there are several moving pieces in the crisis in algeria and what we get from this are two main messages that we get from these two letters first of all this is the first time in the country in which the young women and men and young men in the streets the people of algeria have one clear message which is they are against the fifth term they are not against a bit of liquor they haven't said much about the regime or the deep state the second point does. i would like to make is that high on the deep state and the regime in algeria are dealing approaching the crisis in niger it has been decades in which the use of blackness and obscurity in dealing with this kind of crisis

there are still moving pieces of it out there and we have to wait for the next days to see how it's going to go they want to keep is actually a state of power that they have until today some kind of start to go that benefit a certain hidden networks of power within the algerian regime they know that but at the good luck i will be going but perhaps they don't see yet a leader that can replace him and they can actually function in the same way beautifully i would function in. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and bandits leaders from politics for ten years high rock star chart was found guilty of violating election laws for nominating a member of the royal family as a candidate for prime minister actions are due later this month when they asked more from bangkok. there was a somber mood among the leaders of the thai rocks a charred party as they arrived at the constitutional court in bangkok they knew

these would probably be the final moments of the party's existence. they didn't have to wait long for confirmation the nine judges took less than forty minutes to deliver a unanimous verdict. we considered the act of the party as until towards the constitutional monarchy the court has ordered that the party be dissolved the fourteen members of the party's executive committee were also banned from politics for ten years. to party executive members and i are deeply sad about that the solving of our party it is sure to have an impact on basic political rights the verdict came a month after thai rocks a chart announced that princess would be its candidate to become prime minister in the election hours later the palace said the move was inappropriate and unconstitutional from that moment it seemed unlikely the party would survive in a country where the monarchy is seen as untouchable. still the campaign continued

until a week ago when it held what would become its farewell rally in bangkok this is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a potential coalition. no for his main part time which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we design of the constitution all the development that have happened in the past five years was designed to keep turks in the dissolution of tire rexx

a charge made galvanize support for this you know what will deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is it for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok now germany says it doesn't want to ban chinese telecoms giant away from building its five g. networks but it says it will tighten security criteria for companies offering the new services earlier hallway announced it's taking the u.s. to courts over a ban on government agencies using its technology washington considers wild ways products a security threat and as beijing can use its equipment for spying. the rise of far right politics and parts of europe has been matched by a growing reluctance to accept refugees one country that's bucking the trend is portugal which is actively seeking new arrivals for its lee has the story from lisbon. six years ago raf fats was a student in damascus since then his dad's been killed he's travelled to jordan and

egypt before finding himself of all places in lisbon now he runs a restaurant stops by other refugees it's quite a story but he's happy. i really like being here for different reasons i like the country the people the climates like home and the way they treat us i don't feel like a stranger here i can speak portuguese now and to make things much simpler. there's been has become similar tenuously the most welcoming and yet least well known potential destination for refugees everything happening here is the opposite to the rest of the european union portugal finds itself in a minority of war on the inside the european union the only country actively trying to encourage refugees to come and settle here the problem is trying to get them to do it and then trying to get them to stay portugal has reached out to greece and

italy and is in advance talks with germany about relocating fountains of people the country has accepted many more from turkey and egypt portugal's interior minister makes the case for doing this in a way you almost never hear anymore inside the european union that it isn't only morally right to accept refugees as an economic and social opportunity anything picked off refugees. know what countries is globally positive we should be prepared be prepared for there is not a crisis the situation that we should see. a long a long time around and we should be prepared. portugal's problem is that it wasn't on the refugee route it has no natural community from the middle east even though there is virtually no racism here towards foreigners the country finds it hard to convince refugees to stay so they hope that more places like the restaurant

building a community will change things. like anywhere else the refugees are looking for opportunities but our experience is that when they feel welcome and integrated they don't want to leave. over the last five years the countries in europe with the loudest voices have been those claiming that refugees threaten the social fabric of the continent portugal's voice is much quieter but it offers a friendship which doesn't exist elsewhere. al-jazeera lisbon. disgraced french cardinal has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to report child sex abuse by want to his priests the case has highlighted the catholic church's declining influence and friends. from his diocese in the city of french cardinal philip announced his resignation this you do . i have decided to go and see the holy father to tender my resignation he will

receive me in a few days. it was an unexpected twist to all.