and how can progress be made executive director of un women from zele am. talks to al-jazeera. almost twenty hours with no power transport chaos and schools and businesses shut as the blackout goes on across much of venezuela. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you know where the al-jazeera also coming up on the program. as algerians defy riot police to again march against that absent president reports nine politicians have quit the ruling

party and joined them. measles kills almost a thousand people in madagascar most of them children because of a vaccine shortage. and space x. capsule returns to after its test flight to the space station with a successful splashdown. welcome to the program our top story the massive blackout across much of venezuela is now into its second day electricity has been off for almost twenty hours now adding to tensions in the crisis hit nation the government has closed schools ordered working hours to be suspended and told businesses to stay shut as it tries to fix the problem the communications minister has blamed the right wing extremists he says of sabotage the country's biggest hydroelectric dam on the orders of u.s. senator marco rubio but critics say mismanagement has ruined the power grid but it

was a what. are you worried first for your own security because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function there are people in the streets your authority is on presence so you go around with caution trying to protect yourself and go home. you know look we don't know any news about anything supermarket when they told us we had to leave the country has proved. it's been difficult to get through to our correspondent raise a bow who is in the capital caracas but she did manage to send us this update a little bit earlier. a massive power cut is affecting at least fifteen states in venice will apparently be electricity one top around five o'clock on the first day and it still has not reached the turn this has generated chaos all around the city there is no metro there's no trains there's no water for example would be going around several hospitals in one of them is this one where the emergency room is

running with one power plant but we're told that the rest of the hospital is completely in the dark in the past in this hospital and because of a power cut at least four people lost their lives because of this problem with electricity in the country the government is saying that the power grid was generated by an attack an attack by the extreme right by the opposition by the united states and that's why they have suspended schools among other things until they're able to restart electricity in the country the opposition says however that this is an example of the problems that venezuela is facing today shortages of food of medicine and now electricity lack of investment corruption among other problems and that's why the opposition is calling for more protests in venezuela that are expected to happen this saturday all money is live for us in the city of kookery tall on the venezuela colombia border and joins us now so if you're hearing that

for a. day to all of the black out just what are you hearing where you are about how people are coping with this. it's very hard to independently verify anything from where we are on the colombia venezuela border communications between colombia and venezuela are shoddy at best what we're learning is that as you mentioned already it's nearing our twenty of this power outage that began at around five pm local time and get back as we know that president nicholas model has blamed the outage on an electrical attack directed by the united states against his government the electorate which is a sorry go to pull that trick this is the state owned power company says that that the reason for the power outage the source of the power outage was sabotage against the goody dam which is a hydroelectric plant responsible for bringing electricity to the entire country now again where we are it's very difficult to to independently verify any of these

claims and it's very difficult for us to verify what the exact source is we're working on getting this information to you so we don't actually know exactly how much of the power of the power much of the country is without power but local reports have been reporting that this is an almost entire blackout not of us but of the entire country in venezuela venezuela this is an uncommon power outages are not uncommon but this scale the scale of this power outage is unprecedented we did hear from opposition leader who took to twitter saying that twenty two of the twenty five states of venezuela were without power using the hash tag seen loose which means which means no power but again this is very and this is a very troubling development especially considering the increase of tensions in venezuela over the past couple of weeks over the over the past couple of days knowing that on on march ninth saturday both nikko last motherhood of the president

of venezuela and the opposition leader have both called for protests in the country one calling for an anti-imperialist march and the other calling for more protests against the government of motherhood so this is the. to stir up even more tension ahead of these planned demonstrations mario manny it appears to be the west power outage the country's ever experience is having paralyzing effect does the got any indication as to how long it might last or whether the government has the capacity to resolve this. many of the critics of the government have said that this is just another example of the crumbling infrastructure facing venezuela so even though the government is saying that they are working on restoring power they're working on and on isolating the problem and fixing what's going on we can't tell you how long this is going to happen how long this is going to last or or how widespread the problem is but there's also the claims that this is part of sabotage and again this is all very

difficult to independently verify what we do know is that it's very difficult to establish any sort of communications with people on the ground in venezuela we know that it's difficult for us in the network to get ahold of our correspondent teresa bo who's in caracas right now so this is just another one of these examples of this this continuing crisis in venezuela all surrounding this power struggle between these two men one by bill and nicolas modo but we are working on getting more information to try to find out exactly what is the cause of this and to try to find out what this means for for the days ahead with these planned demonstrations mario thank you very much for now money it out by joining us there from the border town of cocoa. there are reports from algeria that nine politicians from the ruling party of

resigned and join the ongoing anti-government protests tens of thousands are protesting in the capital again calling for president abdul aziz beautifully to step down that's despite riot police being deployed and metro train services halted by the government in an effort to stem the protests demonstrations began when the eighty two year old president announced that he would be seeking a fifth term in power beautifully has ruled algeria for twenty years but is ready been seen in public since he had a stroke in two thousand and thirteen or protesters on the streets of algiers have been voicing that demands. to the regime we need a better future for our children we haven't lived a good lawyer but we want our children to a little better word. we want to condemn the regime the problem is the regime. well enough is an activist involved in the protest movement and it is actually one of the protests now let's beat him on the phone from algiers thank you

for taking the time to speak to us we are now seeing a third of demonstrations there in algeria can you describe for us that the scale and the strength of protests today. hello everyone today is very special so today is the eighth of march so it's the international day of rides so there are . thousands and thousands of women who are going out on the streets and you know people. you know got confidence since the last time so that's the first fire they got there and tens of thousands of people this pick and try to gather and i just saw thousands of people but we are talking right now millions during a scale of the scale of the contrary so it's a huge celebration began the protests all the day and it's a lot of celebrating it is this is a democratic city celebration people are now finally expressing themselves and

express themselves against the government that has been you know that reducing their rights for four years or for the aids so it is it is huge it is pathetic that i have been no reported confrontation with the with the. police officers or with the intervention. groups so it is going very very nice to be actually blocked the block the ways to the must try to speak but he says the response to not do so people cannot go to the government policy or to the president but people are marching into the streets to being in the streets of distributing grows the distributing in these it is that it is nice to see. you saying that a great deal of women have timed out in the crowds today because of international women's day can you give us a sense of the numbers on these the biggest is this the biggest protest that you have seen and do you anticipate that people will continue to turn out in these

numbers. i think are the largest protests that we have seen so far. in the last week or so are you convinced we don't have any operational it's different we're going to fish is the bit of the of the people who went to a number of the people who went into the streets but it is the largest ones as i told you earlier that there have been many calls on social grants words for women to go out today and to express their. opinions on how what you know what disturbs them the most in this regime or. this regime practices all right well thanks for sharing your. thoughts with us now seems a political activist joining us from algiers he is actually at one of the protests now thank you turkey says it will join forces with russia to patrol a buffer zone around syria's lost rebel stronghold takis defense minister says the

cooperation will help maintain a ceasefire an adlib pralines arraf is the syrian government is planning an offensive to retake the region which is home to two and a half million people and as strikes have struck targets inside the province in recent weeks. and today the patrols of the russian troops just outside it live border and inside it live weaponized areas the patrols of the turkish army forces are starting to there were some restrictions over using the airspace over it live in africa which also lifted today in this respect our cooperation with russia has improved we see this as a significant step for the continuation of the cease fire and ensuring stability. still ahead for you on the program time is running out for children in yemen as a shaky cease fire fails to bring in more humanitarian aid. women go on strike across spain is the news international women's day to demand an

end to widespread inequality. what if any miserable and raining in hong kong the last day or so there's more to come it's not just hong kong the feed of moisture comes up from the warm waters of the south china sea but will the rains has fallen also as well hons far west as chung do with snow in the higher ground pretty widespread the tents for drifting this way again so as for taiwan some parts of ground are where the heavy boots seem likely hong kong's included shanghai is back in the sunshine the least sunday there's a bit more rain developing at the moment in iran this is the last what's going on through northern part of pakistan far north of india so that's almost out of play unusual showers maybe showing up not far away from chennai but the next event is

going to be in iran and then takes rain through some parts of pakistan and afghanistan it will fall a snow of course on the high ground whereas india looks of pretty dry place and the only slowly rising temperatures the wind is currently faily light encounter but as you can see saturday an increasingly on sunday will be a fairly strong normally a shamali if you like which tends to not temperatures back again can sometimes be dusty so in the low twenty's really for riyadh and die hard to amazing thirty six in mecca. the world's pollinators are in decline. in this episode. we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insights of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how old industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to

reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour a mass blackout across most of venezuela is into its second day government has ordered that schools and businesses stay shut as they try to restore power there are reports from algeria that nine politicians from the ruling party have resigned to join continuing protests against the president. and turkey and russia will join forces to patrol a buffer zone around serious last rebel stronghold and into a province and it fears of

a government offensive. meanwhile in eastern syria the united nations says more than sixty thousand people are now crammed into account after evacuating from my soul's last shrinking pocket of territory the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say i still defeat in the village of imminent the s.d.f. has been trying to crush eisel fighters to surrender causing the fighting to allow the fighters wives and children as well as on the civilians to escape. well over the border in iraq people are living with fare because of that links to i still fight us from child brides to the children a fight has many a stigma sometimes even resulting in the denial of food donations and fashion going to him has more now from a camp east of mosul. thousands of iraqi children are paying for the sins of their eisel fathers many have never met or can't remember. miriam was a child bride she says her son was born after his turkish father died fighting for

i saw the three year old boy is essentially stateless unrecognized by the government as an iraqi citizen she says she doesn't want her son to make the same mistakes as his father and receiving an education will help guarantee that annie may seem. i have no soul just a body i can barely breathe i can barely move i only intend to live for my son i wish i had died in a strike families with links to i saw a fight it difficult to obtain identity cards this restricts their ability to move freely work with their children in school and apply for welfare benefits human rights groups say these families are even denied food donations by tribal leaders a humanitarian group called the public aid organization says relatives with ties to i saw are victims facing collective punishment the geneva conventions classify that as a war crime. or. do

believe that we need more coups when the good of the students when its legal solution this country cannot be overwhelming. jehad is raising six children under the age of nine in the past three years they've moved from one displacement camp to another unable to find refuge from being shunned she's warned her eldest children never to mention that their father was an eyesore fighter she says she begged him not to join and urged him to abandon the armed group until he was arrested and it's in the end i'm a human being he's treated me as one i understand people lost loved ones but i am not accountable for my husband's actions. after years of war in iraq including the recent battle to defeat eisel a way forward maybe changes to the justice system to include prosecutions truth

commissions reconciliation and reparations that could be a long process. what is now a private shame for these families may one day become a national reckoning for all iraqis natasha going to name al-jazeera east of mosul. when yemen's warring sides agree to stop fighting and withdraw their troops from a crucial port city there was hope food and medicine would soon flow in a pot with sporadic fighting still going on there is growing despair and nine hundred million yemenis suffering malnutrition and illness aid agencies say time is especially short of children a warning that you might find some of these images in the sullivan report distressing. even the screens have become mute. to give any toddler hasn't had enough to eat for most of her life.

but i heard that about fear. and i was now twenty four months old she suffering from acute mine argument as a result of a war it's very difficult to get the required food supplements we're doing all we can to save her life her condition has become acute and will probably become another statistic without proper treatment yemeni said they're tired of burying their children doctors say they're helpless to cope with a rare form of malnutrition. the child is suffering from acute malnourishment which is normally found in skin and bone or course you core know was cases a combination of the two types which is very rare it started with skin bone then developed into course core and both her feet about two weeks ago. the world's not the only victim the un's children agency says one hundred thirty five thousand children remain in the besieged port city of today the thirty fifth the highest level of malnutrition and cholera in yemen oh oh oh unicef says their living

conditions are so dire no one should ever suffer them. the fight between the saudi embassy led coalition and who has destroyed yemen's health care system. the siege and bombardment of the port city over they that has wrecked hospitals ambulances even medical stores doctors say they're missing ninety percent of medical supplies and equipment one. of. specifically targeted the health sector and intentionally aimed at destroying its facilities more than fifty percent of all the medical facilities have been totally or partially destroyed including the main hospitals and maternal clinics and half of the emblems fleet has been destroyed to the province is freezing a catastrophic humanitarian situation it is beyond words but the seizure of the board over the past four years ago because malnourishment among more than three hundred thousand children below the age of five in alone. it may be too late

for thousands of starving children. but has a few days of hope left. its only if those in power care and help arrives in time some of the job there palestinians who are banned from entering mosque in occupied east jerusalem have held outside the compound israel recently have been around one hundred forty people from the holy site including some of those in charge of running it's the ban was in response to palestinians reopening a section of the site to muslim was shipped in defiance of an israeli closure dating back to two thousand and three thousands of palestinians protested as the present was taking place mexican authorities have confirmed at least twenty five central american migrants have died after the truck they were traveling in of a turned the crash happened in the southern mexican state of chiapas a widely used entry point for migrants arriving from guatemala state authorities say at least twenty nine more were injured in the accident but he says still

investigating but local media are citing a technical fault in the overloaded vehicle as the cause of the tragedy. now tribes people living in the amazon rainforest of brazil are waiting to hear if they'll be compensated for what they say was genocide committed decades ago army commanders deny the massacre of up to three thousand people to make way for a new road. explains deep in the world's largest rain forest a hearings been held witnesses accused the army of trying to wipe out the tribe during the military dictatorship in brazil between one thousand nine hundred sixty four and nine hundred eighty five. i lost my father my mother my sister and my brother i'm the only survivor in my family federal prosecutors say thousands of indigenous people died to make way for a new road through the forest. i saw a group of soldiers arrive overland into another by helicopter they dropped bombs

on our hearts military commanders deny attacking the tribe decades ago. the main thing why does this to me is where these bodies where is the residue material from the alleged bomb let's really look for the truth it's not the instinct of the brazilian army to attack indigenous people it never has and never will be what. indigenous groups is speaking out a time of heightened tension they say newly elected president jaya both sonora has stripped them of their rights and dismantled environmental protections opening the amazones mineral riches for more commercial exploitation construction on an energy pipeline through the amazon is due to begin in june both sonora says he doesn't have to consult indigenous people because the pipelines the matter of national security the herring will decide on the tribes demand that the brazilian government pays its thirty million dollars in compensation and issues an official apology

victoria gates and be al jazeera. the case a give give jailed british iranian aid work a diplomatic protection in an attempt to put pressure on iran to release the foreign minister jeremy hunt says the move will change the political context of the case in nazneen zardari radcliff but iran's ambassador in london said the move contravenes international law is a guy radcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting against iran's character stablish meant well with just three weeks to go until the united kingdom is scheduled to exit the european union prime minister trees of mayors want to m.p.'s rex it might not happen if a deal is rejected in a parliamentary vote next week next week members of parliament in westminster face a crucial choice whether to back the bricks that deal or to reject it back it in the u.k. will leave the european union reject it and no one knows what will happen we

may not leave the e.u. for many months we may leave without the protections that the deal provides we may never leave out all the only certainty would be ongoing certainty and indeed barbara has more from london. one of the groups that theresa may was really speaking to with this speech in grimsby which are voted strongly to leave the e.u. in twenty sixteen was wavering m.p.'s from the opposition labor party she urged basically and the rest of parliament to get behind her deal done during the threat of either leaving the e.u. with the without the protections of a deal or of possibly not having bricks it a toll but also she directed some of her comments towards brussels she said that it was in the european interests as well that britain leaves with

a deal and she said the way that the e.u. responds in the next few days would have a big impact on the outcome of the vote in parliament next tuesday on her deal she still hoping against hope that there will be significant changes to the irish backstop solution something that her attorney general geoffrey cox has clearly failed to obtain over the past week so this this fear of continued uncertainty is what she hopes will push will concentrate minds but it's not looking great for the year deputy head of the e.r. g. hardline brick city group within her own party says there are likely to back the deal next week in the days after that there are votes to take no deal off the table with them to possibly seek an extension to the article fifty process but i think a recent events have taught us that nothing should be taken for granted doctors in madagascar are blaming a shortage of vaccines for their struggle to contain a west measles outbreak

a decades earlier thousand people have died in the outbreak in the last five months most of them children and experts fear the disease will spread further the highly contagious virus is on the rise throughout africa as well as western nations some parents are refusing vaccines study linking the champ to autism. in the philippines protesters of marks international women's day with a march through the capital manila they are calling for the ousting of president. who they accuse of making sexist jokes and comments as well as undermining philippine democracy generally the protesters who are mostly female carried saying low to fascism and sunshiny and to martial law. the new guinea says it's considering reserving parliamentary seats for women no one hundred eleven seats in the country's parliament a carny held by men prime minister peter neale introduced the proposal saying it was only fair that the country's law makers had more debates about the role of women when rights watch has called papa new guinea one of the most dangerous places

in the world to be a woman two thirds are estimated to have experienced domestic violence. and women of all ages of walked out of work and taken to the streets of madrid in a bike protests in aid of international women's day as well they say that they are taking a stand against patriarchy and gender violence is the first in a series of events planned across the country part of spain's second feminist strike by the participants will purple a symbolic color used by women's rights activists. is going to do that it will we want to highlight around the city the women strike and the fact that without us the world stops and that there were other ways to do things. from reactionary forces to certain political speeches many people are trying to demonize federalism well it's always been a fight for equality. america's newest space shuttle has returned from orbit

the unmanned dragon capsule splash down off florida after carrying cargo to the international space station but it was also a crucial test flight paving the way for the first manned mission by a private space company space x. hopes to blast astronauts into orbit for the first time in a few months. well there's more on that story and everything else we're covering right here al-jazeera dot com. just a quick look at stories making headlines for you now the mass blackout across most of venezuela is into its second day with electricity still off in much of the country the government has closed schools ordered working hours to be suspended until businesses to stay shut it's blaming sabotage of the country's biggest hydroelectric dam critics though say mismanagement has ruined the power grid but it was already out to give us some water you worried first for your own security

because when the lights go out the criminals take advantage of the public streets to function there are people in the streets your thirty's are present so you go around with caution trying to protect yourself and get home. we don't know any news about anything supermarket when they told us we had to leave the country has practically become a disaster there are reports in algeria that nine politicians from the ruling party of resigned to join continuing anti-government protests tens of thousands are again protesting in the capital and around the country calling for president abdul aziz bitter feet except down after twenty years in power right police have been deployed on the metros close by the government an effort to stem the process. turkey and russia will join forces to patrol a buffer zone around syria's lost rebel stronghold turkey's defense minister says the joint effort will help to maintain a cease fire an adlib province there are fears the syrian government is planning an offensive to retake the region home to two and

a half million people meanwhile in eastern syria the united nations says more than sixty thousand people are now crammed into a camp after evacuating from my sil's last shrinking pocket of territory the us backed syrian democratic forces say isolate defeat in the village of but whose is imminent and is trying to pressure i self i says to surrender. mexican police are investigating a truck crash in which at least twenty five central american migrants died and many more were injured the truck overturned in the southern mexican state of shop us a widely used entry point for migrants arriving from guatemala. you're up to date with the top stories this hour more news coming up in about twenty five minutes time after earth rise which looks at the scientists that are trying to stop the collapse of the world's insect populations that is coming up in just a couple of minutes time say without his era.

or you are. insects make up eighty percent of the species on earth through over two hundred million of them for every human being and they play a critical role in pollinating crops decomposing waste and supporting food chain but there was a german study from twenty seventeen his coolest.