lives or our lives on a great risk or merely faculty members at the school say many of the children who arrive for class have been 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 switch. 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. still ahead on al-jazeera how one of the first muslim women in the u.s. congress is under fire for comments she made about american and israeli relations a warmer welcome than most we'll tell you why portugal can't get enough rest.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across united states particularly over here towards the west we have seen one big storm coming across and that brought a lot of rain to parts of central and southern parts of california now we're going to be seeing that turn to snow across much of the rockies but the next storm system going to watching is one here on friday making its way very quickly across the eastern seaboard but on saturday it is this area right here across central and southern united states that we could be seeing some severe storms coming out of it large hail as well as damaging winds could be a big problem there down towards miami though on saturday it is going to be twenty seven in atlanta a day for you of about twenty degrees there well here across the caribbean really

not looking too bad where to be seen partly cloudy conditions across much of the area it's going to be hard to find any rain in the forecast at all over the next few days of ana how about a temperature view of about twenty eight degrees there on saturday and then very quickly as we go down towards parts of south america it is going to continue to stay rainy across parts of southern brazil sell pollo montevideo we also she's in very heavy rain as well but we are going to see one is that is at about twenty four degrees over here towards a sense even though it is going to be partly cloudy those temperatures at about thirty six and salvador attempt a few partly cloudy conditions at thirty degrees for you there. judy. to protect civilians sometimes the population. peacekeeping force to.

international justice for the. peace. hello again the top stories on al jazeera donald trump's former campaign chairman has been sentenced to almost four years in prison for it was convicted in august on a charge of bank tax fraud. a major power cut in venezuela has plunged nearly all of the country into darkness president government is blaming the outage on sabotage hydroelectric power station.

over the killing of the main witness child rape case demonstrators say killed by fighters from a group backed by the united arab emirates. thirty six countries including all you member states have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights record it calls on the kingdom to cooperate with the un that investigation into the murder of saudi journalist. answer release detained activists. 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 jamal khashoggi 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 in 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 loan if no other language. has no idea how to help after the meeting the ministers insisted their stance wasn't him fluids by any third party 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 bottom up papers all the terrorist attacks. we had our a lot of big words about how we need to strengthen our fight against the things so i know 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 it's the 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 there have been calls for an investigation into how i saw 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 hazaar ethnic minority group politicians and western cowboy charlotte bellus reports in the capital i. from a city to a battlefield kabul becoming the frontline of a battle between i saw an afghan forces i saw 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. the c.e.o. of dollar bill or the former president hamid karzai listening to speeches then rockets were heard in the distance i make it on baghdad understand your places the incidents are far from here you're running creates

a lot of risk but the rockets got closer some politicians flared others tried to calm the crowds they see 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. but it was here that has our leader mohammed hockey sit on the microphones that they're targeting the gathering and told us to escape from there as i was feeling i was hit with shrapnel on my back. they were. confusion is hundreds of people trying to find safety. was soldiers and police unaware of who was attacking and from where. afghan special forces are going on a building began a clearance operation to stop the remaining attackers. ambulances ferry dozens of people to hospital most injured by rockets and mortars are few or very near term

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 u.n. 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 tsars 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 his barbarian attack and my condolences for all the families who lost their loved ones 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 is shia minority heavy price shot at palace al-jazeera. china says it supports telecom giants why weighs lawsuit against the us government's foreign minister wayne lees says beijing will protect the rights of its people and companies he's called the u.s. lawsuit against the company an act of deliberate political suppression washington weiwei rather is suing washington over a ban on federal agencies from using its technology the u.s. considers why waste products as security threatens as beijing can use its equipment for spying. in the u.s. politicians have passed a resolution condemning bigotry and discrimination the vote comes after a controversy over a comment made by democratic congresswoman and home are questions over whether it was anti sematic her comments have become a talking point for republicans and dividing the democratic party and house floor.

ilhan 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. we're allegiance to the country. i want. why is it ok. for me to. be harmless and not follow the law. that is. 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 attitudes 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 patty called al-jazeera washington so congresswoman omar released this statement along with two other muslim members of the house about the votes it's the first time we voted on a resolution condemning anti muslim bigotry in our nation's history anti muslim crimes have increased ninety nine percent from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen and are still on the rise we're 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 linda sarsour is the executive director of the arab american association of new york she says it's a collective fight to stand against all forms of bigotry. 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 weak 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 the common people will look back at this day and be very proud of muslim american leaders in the muslim american community and including it representative omar where he went on the record saying that we as a democratic party as a us congress a stand against all forms of bigotry including anti-semitism islamophobia and white supremacy for the rise of far right politics in parts of europe has been matched by a growing reluctance to accept refugees one country that's bucking the trend this portugal which is actively seeking new arrivals or insley this report from the. 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 taney asli 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 one 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 any of the

impact of 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. along a long time around and we should be prepared. portugal's problem is that it wasn't on the refugee roots it has no natural community from the middle east even though there's virtually no racism here it's called foreigners the country finds it hard to convince refugees to stay so they hope that more places like the restaurants 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 the refugees threats and the social fabric

of the continent portugal's voice is much quieter but it offers a friendship which doesn't exist elsewhere. lisbon. well russian politicians have approved a bill that could put anyone in jail for posting online criticism of the country the legislation which passed the lower house on thursday would impose fines for publishing materials that disrespect the state's repeat offenders could face fifteen days behind bars a second bill that was also approved could block anyone publishing so-called fake news online both are expected to pass the upper house next week. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump's former campaign chairman has been almost four years in prison. for was convicted in august on charges of bank on tax fraud mr mann afford finally got to speak for himself made

clear responsibility for his conduct. and i think most importantly what you saw today the same thing that we had said from day one there is absolutely no evidence that. he was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia a major power in venezuela has plunged nearly all the country into darkness president nicolas maduro government. hydroelectric power station the state provider said. was the cause power outages have become common in venezuela but officials say the blackout was one of the biggest yet protesters have rallied in southwest yemen for a fourth day over the killing of the main witness in an alleged child rape case demonstrators say. by fighters from a group backed by the united arab emirates thirty six countries have signed a statement criticizing saudi arabia's human rights records documents calls on the

kingdom to cooperate with the u.n. investigation into the murder of saudi journalists. at least three people have been killed dozens injured following an isolated western. the armed group attacked a gathering of the has our ethnic minority in western various politicians were at the events including presidential candidates for a coming election algerian state media has released a letter said to be from president. warning of chaos as mass protests continue against his leadership the letter warns of foreign groups infiltrating demonstrations protests have been taking place for the past two weeks against his bid for a fifth term. a french catholic cardinal has offered his resignation after being found guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse phillip barbara and five others stood trial it's years of doing nothing to protect children from

alleged crimes committed by a priest in the seventy's and eighty's those are the headlines people and power is coming up next. one hundred and sixty years ago a musician started a van and in an ati street in cairo. the brass band was so popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and a halt the sound still present mates with many egyptians today house of the people's music on al-jazeera. almost two decades ago when she every new year and was in the grip of civil war troops from nigeria which is to protect civilians but instead some of the

peacekeepers turned on those they were meant to save. and trust is captured on camera by journalists or some more now that the harrowing fruitage is central to an extraordinary legal campaign to get justice for the victims. sierra leone west africa. in one thousand nine hundred eight in one thousand nine hundred nine nigerian peacekeepers murdered raped and

tortured sierra leonean civilians. and got away with it. all. this footage of the nigerian peacekeepers that up but it was filmed by a local cameraman sorious samura unbroke cost around the world seventeen years ago in a documentary called cry freetown. there was a silent majority sophie. the nigerians have been invited to protect civilians by the sierra leonean government which was embroiled in a brutal civil war against rebel militia. but instead of being protectors many became butchers. after the end of the conflict in two thousand and two a united nations funded tribunals established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the civil war. but the nigerian crimes were ignored brushed under the carpet

of history. after eighteen years of silence a team of international lawyers is reopening the case. file a story of saddam i believe this case representing victims that have suffered so much the case is being conducted by myself dr sharp a lot of getting drug of malaysia out my brother abraham. from sierra leone where do you take a separate photo to do something for the victims. that came in to protect. i think you. one has seen in the united nations allegations of peacekeeping abuses. underline those little.

cases today. those cases. video evidence. we have. been. given the nineteen years no international mechanism has even attempted to secure a dress for the victims. today this morning a case it's a request for us to put in place proper investigation and accountability mechanisms we know there's a different government in the different nigeria is there a way. i have every confidence that. may be possible.

let me mansour a he was five years old when the nigerian peacekeepers otherwise known as echo came to his area and you will see there everybody. i mean for all the kids from the community in moore. or my studio. you don't leave me one and me to you my sister. will be dealing with my mind. soon one boy will be ninety minutes from. the city boy are you giving. me. any more need you will see this morning with me in. the morning early going to be then we wouldn't be on my sister's and. i'm not time or the motions me more me mommy daddy and it was your. sister as.

soon as she said no they said no to. me i mean open to. you skip it's me going out on mom so we. all need to india can move in she she gets you in with you all my system. obsoletes know. and it's a lot singled out it's a life. long anymore anybody alive was your mom got. on my sister. only she saw what us against you. in december one thousand nine hundred eight as the civil war raged in the provinces

there were rumors of an imminent rebel attack on the nation's capital freetown. sorious samura was a local cameraman living in the city for us we were living in the city we were just even in pump and in fear of the peacekeepers. the ones who were different in. that time. it was on the morning of those six stop general area nine hundred ninety nine a friend of mine called on the phone and said the rebels are here i took the camera and from the window i started fimian the rebels. i just thought what was happening in my country needed to be seen it needed to be framed so i made a decision to step out. those nine ten is what i feel what i saw what i witnessed. not body. nobody.

sees it in their own paltry. peacekeepers tindall's the book complete not long after i think about it it is these is meant to be. the supreme peacekeeping force. here i was now with the camera. theme. that martinez i was too confused i was just. lost. it would be all sixteen year. really. if i'm in a. sudden turn and do so bindi. make

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does eighty feet and even put his lips on. a c.m. . as this is. not new to me and i'm not in ca. and if you know. people to me so i thought the thing if you took this. an upbeat and begun to miss if. we aforesaid. straight away there were guys time be invited to willy barrel and with the boy still kicking took him into the wee peril. the boy begging for his back home and within minutes to be thrown here and a big must grieve a lot of family members will never ever. find out that some of their loved ones and

it all yeah he's in the same source he paid a death price at the hands of peacekeepers. the special court for sierra leone was established in two thousand and two to prosecute those most responsible for serious crimes committed during the war. sharma hendra was one of the prosecutors at the court and he is now the driving force behind the renewed effort to seek justice a special court didn't have to stick. nigerian troops we had video evidence. the whole world has seen what has happened.