so i think it's pretty clear that the government is far from my least being able to bring real stability back to both the power grid across the country and to most communications both in the capital caracas in the number of regions this despite the fact that president nicolas maduro on sunday said that his government was making great efforts to be able to solve this fast and also patching both the water and food to the people worst affected every day and plea they haven't been able to get even close to solve this and that's why they have decided now for the second time since the beginning of this crisis to shut to keep close to schools and all businesses on monday this in a situation where both in caracas in other cities across venezuela there's a lot of instability people are extremely worried of what they will do and they're

just trying to salvage the food at the food they have or or try to get perishable food when they can buy it because without electricity they can't use their debit cards for example which is what most people are using in venezuela to buy things since it's very difficult to find hard currency. so the government is still trying to tackle this problem but of course the blackout comes as the power struggle between the douro government and the opposition leader is continuing to unfold what has to say about this. well he spoke earlier on sunday in front of the national assembly essentially demanding real explanations from from the opposition point of view the government not only has done a very bad job in trying to solve this but also explaining exactly what happened how is it possible that it's an entire country almost went completely black and

without the possibility of the electricity returning. that they have been the victims of a sabotage directed by the united states and instigated by the opposition but he hasn't shown any proof of that so far although he said he will do that at the united nations at some point though also called for a special session of the opposition control national assembly on monday and asked the representatives to vote on a state of alert that pretty much similar to a state of emergency would call him in most countries it will be mostly a symbolic move though since my daughter does not recognize the national assembly what i think we can say here is that this blackout this latest crisis is deepening the struggle for power in venezuela deepening the political

instability and showing that the country is just a day after day becoming more difficult to govern thank you very much from the border town of. joining us with al-jazeera live from london more still ahead we're going to be speaking to one of the female protesters who has just been released from prison in sudan on the president's orders. and russians protest against government efforts to tackle to take control of the internet which some of branded online i incursion. hello there has definitely been a change in the feel of the weather in a good part of australia from adelaide eastwards this cold front makes it fairly obvious that we are changing season and the forecast temperatures are in the low

twenty's if that with a breeze coming off the water now it's warm in sydney there's still showers in new south wales and maybe bits of queens and certainly around darwin you could see a big downpour that is increasingly likely but in the west in perth it's a humid and warm thirty two she'll hang around i think for a day or so as choose days forecast for you by which time it's got even colder couldn't say colder in melbourne and hope we don't see teens now and yet cities warmed up to thirty one but was showers not far away now across the water it hasn't reached you with this decision has not come across the tasman sea if as things adrift are from the north which means fairly warm and maybe humid weather isn't that a cloud on the breeze but twenty twenty two is the consistency for the next couple of days both the north and the south it was some cloud little bit of rain maybe near the coast or the high ground in size rain is once again the story for japan it's a curling system which once it moves slowly northwards will draw in some snow for

al-qaeda. plastic is everywhere and it's choking our planet very toxic and very dangerous and we could spend years painting if i allowed but breakthroughs are being made showing that it is possible to change our relationship with this no major substance is simply running out i am going to get a map that we can come on let me try to move on plastic waste earthrise on al-jazeera how do you turn this into this.

the headlines this hour any therapy an airline's jet has crashed minutes after takeoff from addis ababa killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board it's the second boeing seven three seven max jet to crash in just five months the syrian democratic forces have launched a full on assault against i still in the village of the s.d.f. has been poised to advance into the enclave for weeks but has repeatedly held back to allow civilians to be evacuated and algeria is ailing president has returned to the capital algiers as anti-government demonstrations continue for a third week abdul aziz beautifully had been in switzerland receiving medical treatment. now the chair of the u.s. house intelligence committee adam schiff has accused the founder of blackwater of not telling a twenty seventeen aggression or hearing the full truth about the meeting at trump tower in twenty sixteen now it comes after erik prince admitted to the meeting in

an interview on al-jazeera. whether any communicate for communications or contact with the company news that apart from writing papers putting up yard signs no. what you said of the transcript of the conversation. sure i might have been i think it was a trumpet borders or the campaign headquarters. twenty sixteen usable an israeli dude about tunnels that admiralty the saudis. living milam were there to talk about iran policy little iran policy if you must something important to disclose to the house intelligence committee well you did you didn't we just went through the testimony there's no mention of the trump tower when the sixteen went on i don't know if they got the transcript wrong. well i don't shift rejected that claim while telling n.b.c. they questioned erik prince because of persistent questions about whether the u.a.e. was playing a back channel role to the russians jaring campaign. well he's certainly not telling the truth in that interview there's nothing wrong with our transcript there was nothing wrong with the reporter who transcribed his testimony he did not

disclose that meeting to our committee and in fact as you can see from the published transcript of his interview he was asked what kind of role he played if any in the campaign and he said he had no role well melanie sloan is a former federal prosecutor she says erik prince could now be prosecuted for lying under oath well the problem is not only was he misleading congress about his own use own role by that he was clearly trying to keep them off of a path he didn't want to admit to this meeting happening in august of two thousand and sixteen at trump tower at all he's also been very cagey and not very truthful about the meeting in the seychelles so i think there's a lot to i'm packing for the special counsel with what erik prince his role was after all we know there may well have been other meetings and other events other conversations he may have had he only admits to them when he's caught flat out so i think that the special counsel is likely to have looked at eric prince and it's

also possible that adam schiff in the house intelligence committee could refer this matter to d.o.j. for prosecution themselves when somebody lies to congress that is frequently something that congress itself looks askance on and asks the department of justice or makes your referral for prosecution there are reports that u.s. president donald trump is set to ask congress for an additional eight point six billion dollars to help pay for the wool he promised to build on the border with mexico trump will make the request when he delivers his first budget ride map on monday the demand is three billion more than he previously asked for and more than six times what congress allocated for the border projects in each of the past two fiscal year as it comes on the heels of a battle with congress over wolf funding which resulted in a five week partial government shutdown. well now to see don where the deputy head of the opposition party. has been sentenced to a week in prison over the ongoing demonstrations there but around forty jailed female protesters have been released on the president's orders. one of them in

a heart. just days ago fison a good a member of an opposition party in sudan was in hunger strike in a women's prison in the country's second largest city. she's been held in detention for six weeks accused of taking part in anti-government protests and. i was driving from our party's h.q. when cars came up behind me and in front of me and told me to get out of my car and to get into their spot i was taken to detention and then questioned and put in jail no charges were brought against me and the other women in jail with me. lies and at least thirty nine other woman arrested because of the protests have now been released from prison following orders time by president obama and the sheer demonstrations in sudan began in december over the rising costs of basic goods including bread and fuel the quickly turned into demands for the president and his own security forces used tear gas and live bullets on the protesters the government

says fifty two people have been killed rights groups say the figure is higher last month the president declared a year long state of emergency but the protests continue this year is refusing to step down and has called for dialogue. but the deal was couldn't. god willing we will get over all the problems and overcome the obstacles because we have decided to have a technocratic government without any regard to political affiliation or tribe we picked the military men to be governors because the whole country loves them. some political analysts the security forces appear to target women protesters more than men. it was surprising to see men arresting women they were touching the women inappropriately and beating them that's why there are female security agents and police the fact that they let men and not women deal with female protesters is a clear sign of a violation. of the state of emergency has and stop the demonstrations

and despite the threat of arrest many protesters the they'll settle for nothing less than bashir is resignation morgan al-jazeera. fighting has broken out between yemen's hussein rebels and government backed forces in the port city of danger it's the most significant violence to be reported there since a cease fire deal was agreed by the warring sides in december local residents say they heard gunfire around the city the yemeni government is accused who sees of breaking the cease fire and refusing to withdraw forces from the city. the trump administration is giving iraq a few months small to continue buying oil and interesting from neighboring iran before the us and forces sanctions against iran baghdad eyes heavily on iran for goods and services and the iranian president hassan rouhani is about to lose it iraq to cement ties and try to convince them to define the us president is not going to aim has more from baghdad. iran's influence in iraq can be found from the

detergent and hair dye on store shelves to the power that keeps the lights on in iraq e homes and businesses at this market in baghdad there are fears that the united states will eventually ban iraq from importing all iranian goods and this of the rocky market would be hugely affected and the price of other imported products will skyrocket this is not in our favor as business owners nor good for consumers in iraq and iran are bound together by centuries of economic religious and political ties this week iranian president hassan rouhani is traveling to baghdad to meet with iraqi president barham saleh to try to expand them the iraqi and iranian president's last met in november you weeks after the united states reimposed satans on iran they discussed establishing a free trade zone along its shared border and electricity and gas walk and building

a railway connecting the two hundred three iraq relies on its neighbor to help me its oil and electricity. last year protestors in iraq's oil rich southern region of basra torched the iranian consulate and the offices of iranian like militias and political parties more than two dozen people were killed. iraqis were fed up thirty thousand people became ill from drinking pollute. water a senate lecture a city and jobs were scarce and corruption rampant i think telephone book of a little bit high stabenow you iraqi people wake up you must take a stand against corruption they're all lying to us those rotten politicians the trumpet ministration has given iraq a waiver that allows it to continue buying electricity and gas from iran but it expires on may fifth. it's not in the best interest of iraq to comply with

the us economic sanctions on iran at the same time you can't side with iran and risk losing a strong ally like the united states therefore we should see the iraqi government holding the stick from the middle when it comes to policy with both iran and the us . the iraqi president has called the relationship between iraq and iran a quote fixed principle no matter what the trumpet ministration does in the next two months it's clear both countries are hoping the united states gets the message natasha going to al-jazeera. sunday marks the sixtieth anniversary of the tibetan uprising against chinese rule rallies have been held outside tibet in countries like taiwan and india china has put restrictions on terrorists and journalists who want to visit the country though critics say it's another sign that china is repressing the rights of tibetans. thousands have been demonstrating in russia to vent their anger at plans to introduce tighter restrictions on the internet the

government will says that the bill will improve cyber security but campaign is a saying it's an attempt to increase censorship and stifle dissent step mawson reports from moscow. another attempt to isolate russia from the outside world this is how these protesters see the latest bill to control the internet with most of russia's media under tight government control the internet and social media are considered the last remaining sources for independent information i don't want to leave i can churn though with the use of fire war i want internet to be free and. i want to think free years ago it was a joke about that day we'll watch behavior to internet and art today we. see that actually it's not a joke to suffer an internet bill proposes to reroute. all russian internet traffic

through a central point controlled by the state internet providers will have to install specialized equipment the government says it's needed because the country has become more vulnerable to cyber attacks from other countries. u.s. media recently reported that the american cyber command apparently managed to cut off the so-called st petersburg troll factory from the internet during last year's u.s. midterm elections staff at the building in russia second largest city had allegedly tried to influence the two thousand and sixteen campaign which was run by donald trump a charge rejected by moscow. i won't comment on that particular episode as it was a report by western mass media but to free assume that such an event took place this is in fact why we are trying to protect our internet from the possibility of switching off internet from an outside american source but internet access but say it will take years and billions of dollars to gain full control of the internet

china's. something north of twenty billion dollars and. that big one million people work project. yes china internet is way bigger it's ten times bigger than russia. but even today's bigger we don't have couple because in the us for these or something quite gone are the thousand engineers the bill which is on its way through the russian parliament is the latest effort by the government to control the internet since two thousand and twelve the government has imposed many restrictions including blocking more than one hundred fifty thousand websites arresting people for political center to online polls and officially banning the popular messaging service telegram while many agree death threats of cyber attacks are real experts say that this bill could actually in danger internet traffic in russia even more recent bills to control the internet have been called

clumsy and rushed but this latest bill is seen as a series attempt to control what is considered one of the last sources for independent information in russia dozens of people were detained during sunday's protest which was officially sanctioned by the government the reasons for the arrest have yet to be given the controversial bill will most likely be approved and become law later this year step fasten al-jazeera moscow. just a quick look at the top stories this hour now an ethiopian airlines jet has crashed minutes after takeoff killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board the boeing seven three seven max jet was traveling from addus ababa to nairobi in kenya it went down near to southeast of the ethiopian capital. the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have launched a full scale assault against i.c.l. and the last syrian enclave the village of but who is the s.d.f.

has been poised to advance into the area for weeks now but has repeatedly stalled to to allow civilians to leave the area what abdul hamid has more from. there is a hope that it could be the laws about though. to retake. but everyone is also cautioning because that allows battle was predicted to ready in the past and then you did see these columns of earth of billions leaving that area you also saw hundreds and hundreds of fighters surrendering sort of as the fighting had to stop. the military experts would tell you that actually i think it is controlling the advance of the kurdish forces by allowing these groups of the billions to leave gus' in that tie while there is a lull in the fighting as the does have the time to regroup organize.

and president bush if he has returned to the capital algiers according to the president's office he had been in switzerland receiving medical treatment is a rival coincides with anti-government demonstrations which are now in their third week tensions are rising in venezuela where large parts of the country are into their fourth day without electricity power has been restored in some areas but schools and businesses have been ordered to suspend activities from monday. and the daughter of an opposition leader in sudan has been sentenced to one week in prison over protests against president tomorrow bashir an emergency court is also waive the twenty lashes nine female protesters were sentenced to on saturday and despite the state of emergency students have been out protesting against bashir universities on sunday. clothes the top stories coming up next on al-jazeera it's witness.

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