offering an alternative well there are a number of names being bandied around but this is it's not so much a leaderless movement it's also a very popular movement and what we're hearing is that there needs to be a radical change now that's making the army very nervous because some point the army which is in charge of the security here worried that the protests will start asking for the resignation of senior generals although people are talking about different names different people who can take over the governments the actual institutions themselves are worried that they may well be next so it's all about a matter of negotiation let's see what the army says say the protesters and then the army make an announcement of the protests or will that's not enough we want more so it's a very step by step process but it is one that has has been peaceful so far because and i said this before the protestors know they have the numbers on their side they know that they have people in the streets all right with an update from tunis thank

you britain remains deadlocked over the future of their politicians voted against the prime minister's deal for the first time through is a may have promised to resign if it was pos so she now has just under two weeks to come up with a new plan and if not britain faces the prospect of crashing out of the european union with a deal more on this from her joining us from london so the pressure just seems to be growing and growing on the prime minister what are her options now gone. well basically the one option she doesn't have is having a sort of what she calls orderly exit. that would have happened if yesterday she had gotten enough votes for the withdrawal agreement so that's not going to happen the date of may twenty second is out of the window now she has a deadline april twelfth and with so in two weeks time basically.

try to come up with a nutter solution what's going to happen on monday that parliament is going to meet and vote on a series of indicative options basically indicative different options they were already put forward on wednesday none of them really emerged as a favorite as a favorite so they're going to do it again the reason is probably going to wait for that to see what the result of that even though she said she's not going to commit to indorse any of those results because if she said it yesterday very clearly because it meant to basically give a blank check. options i mean every options at the table at the table at the moment . is very much to the e.u. has said very clearly that it seems to become more and more reality she might have to go back and a longer extension to so that we're talking about at least into next year if not

longer and that would mean that the u.k. would have to prepare and take part in the european elections which are id end of may so it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen because every time we tried to predict understory at least for the past week since i've been here everything turned out the opposite so i think monday would be the next. indication of what parliament is thinking which we were hoping it would happen last week and it didn't and how likely then is the possibility of a general election as some are calling for. but certainly corben is calling for a general election there is a main herself yesterday said after the vote that she fears that the. political process has come to its limit within this house so that has opened also the way to open the door for many interpretations. this morning thinking that she may want to

also head to a general election at some point but she hasn't said that now what is sure is that she's an intense pressure to resign she had promised that she would resign if their withdrawal agreement today for example the daily telegraph which is a conservative newspaper has had a long tauriel saying it is time for you to resign this withdrawal agreement is going nowhere we need someone different with fresh ideas to take us ahead with this idea certainly she's also not a lot of pressure from the labor party to resign these calls are coming from everywhere really but at the moment she's not giving an indication that she will do that soon but everything can change at any time all right thank you. still ahead on al jazeera back in the dark widespread power outages hit venezuela's capital and other cities. ah.

kenyans mourn relatives killed in the ethiopian airlines crash as the identification process drags on. hello again and welcome back we are we are watching clouds and some rain here across parts of vietnam that's going to be the trend over the next few days but for huntsman city the temperature a few has come down slightly over the last day we were seeing about thirty five degrees as we were ending the week on friday about thirty three degrees there over towards middle of though it is going to be a partly cloudy day thirty four is your expected high getting a little bit better a little bit cooler by the time we go towards monday well here cross australia we are watching from about three and along that front we are watching severe weather now this has been a problem for the last couple of days we expect that as we go towards sunday

afternoon we could still see a little bit more severe weather up here towards brisbane maybe up here towards townsville but as we begin the week things are going to look a little bit better there on sunday here's that front about it making its way towards the tasman sea from melbourne still quite cool for you about seventy seven degrees there and as we go towards sunday we are going to see those temptress slightly come up for a forecast a high to about eighteen adelaide a nice day few at about twenty two degrees well it's a fall about it's going to cause a problem here across parts of new zealand for christ church you're going to see some active weather as we go from sunday to monday in auckland it is going to be a rainy day few with a temperature of twenty one. counter the course we look at what's holding indonesia for becoming a true trillion dollar economy as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote financing politics mexico's government is axing social programs for the country's

poorest which everyone. new yorkers are very receptive to. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera palestinians are gathering to mark the first anniversary of the great want to return protests at the fence that separates gaza from israel earlier a twenty one year old palestinian who was shot by israeli forces on friday. and millions of taking part in the largest nationwide anti-government protest so far

they're calling for the resignation of president. overhaul of the entire political system. remains deadlocked over the future of brooks said after politicians voted against the prime minister's deal for a third time to resume a has just under two weeks to come up with a new plan or the u.k. faces crashing out of. the u.s. president donald trump has threatened to close the southern border next week unless mexico stops people from crossing over illegally trump insists he's quote not playing games and warned it could affect all trade between the two nations i reports from washington d.c. . in recent weeks port officials have been repeatedly arguing that they simply do not have the facilities to cope with the influx of immigrants across the border they say there are not enough officers there and they simply do not have enough accommodation for the numbers that are coming across this obviously playing on

president trump's mind eating to his angry outbursts in the course of the day. president trump arrives to view a rehabilitation project at a lake in florida but it's not the dwindling water level or this dam wall that's foremost on his mind rather his fury with what he describes as mexico's reluctance to prevent immigration across the southern border so mexico's tough they can stop them but they chose not to now they're going to stop them and if they don't stop them with closing the border they will close their work we'll keep a close for a long time i'm not playing games mexico has to stuff it this repeating what he said in earlier tweets if mexico doesn't immediately stop all illegal immigration coming into the united states through our southern border emitting the h. in his anger i will be closing the border or large sections of the border next week it's a threat the president made back in december but never carried it through however

his latest comments follow warnings from the department of homeland security that its resources have become strained and border officials say more people are expected to be apprehended at the border this march than in any month in more than a decade. the consequences of closure would be severe impacting on two way trade that is worth more than six hundred billion dollars a year and fueling president trumps fire his homeland secretary kirsten nielsen issued a press statement later on in the day saying that the situation at the border was in freefall very strong words from the homeland secretary and words that the president is likely to seize on in the days ahead and mexico's president has responded to transfer but was reluctant to get into a war of words. no well you're. so we're just i'm not going to start an argument over this i'm going to be very cautious due to

a series of circumstances along them because we want to lead a very good relationship with the government of the united states there's also been swift reaction from people on the mexican side of the border and. the queues are very long one has to cross to be able to work the migrants came to make things more difficult for us mexicans. that statement by trump is very elemental we are a binational region and we depend on friendship family ties i don't think it will affect us but it's lamentable for the president of the united states to make those statements. venezuela has been hit by another electricity blackout the third this week the power outage on friday night left the capital caracas in the dark as well as several other major cities many regions are barely recovering from earlier power cuts which forced the closure of schools businesses and the biggest airports so as

those power cuts are going on about as well as opposition leader says medical aid will arrive in a few days but one high dose has given no details about the shipment or whether he's reached an agreement with president nicolas maduro the red cross in caracas says it's ready to deliver aid there is about reports the venezuelan government may have barred opposition leader from holding office for fifteen years on thursday but . continues to challenge. me to. look every time i am here with you is a defeat for that regime do you know how long they have wanted to arrest me every day that i am in the street with you is a defeat and now i have them cornered because of the arrest me that will be the last defeat because the people will continue to be in the street because we would go to the streets with more strength to execute plan freedom to keep challenging until venezuela is free and fair. venezuelans have been struggling with a massive economic crisis constant power outages have become the norm in many

cities around the country mother would a who is backed by russia says he is the target of a u.s. led corporate lot and has accused a washington and why the will of sabotaging venice way less power grid donald trump said on wednesday that all options were open to make russia pull troops out of venezuela after two russian air force planes landed outside cut back on saturday carrying nearly one hundred russian troops now they also warned potential buyers of venezuelan oil. you should be supporting interim president why don't you should not be supporting this regime you should not be buying oil from this regime and giving them cash but the kremlin says the u.s. should not interfere in venezuelan affairs. as for the united states they are present all over the world and no one tells them where to be and where not to be that is why we would like to count on mutual respect humanitarian assistance has

become one of the ways the opposition has had to pressure. in january trucks loaded with aid try to enter into the country but failed. on friday a plane carrying medicines arrived from china and the international committee of the red cross said they're ready to bring some assistance if. i can announce that the international federation of the red cross and red crescent of which it's an honor to preside over will have the legal and technical conditions to work in the country so that much needed humanitarian aid can arrive obviously this doesn't resolve the problems in venezuela and no one should assume this is a complete solution. i political and economic crisis that has been exacerbated by the interference of russia and the united states in the middle are the millions who continue to struggle to survive every day. australia is

following new zealand's lee who have plans to crack down on violent content on social media sites after the christ church mosque acts a new law proposed by the government would see social media bosses fined or even handed prison terms for failing to quickly remove violent material from their sites the jury will decide whether content was removed fast enough from platforms including facebook and youtube the government plans to present the bill to parliament next week i have a responsibility when i put these platforms in the public use to make sure this site and that they cannot be weaponized by terrorists. similarly they shouldn't be weaponized for other forms of how they can affect the youngest of those around to see to die through to the most serious of criminal offenses and i have the technology to do this and i have the opportunity to do it and we're going to insist that i do it the families of kenyan passengers killed when and if your plane airlines plane crash last month have begun holding special funeral services without

their relatives remains they were told by airline officials that it could take months for the remains to be identified catherine sawyer has more from the crew. a funeral service like no. one can use for. eight people from this area. airlines crash that killed a hundred and fifty seven people last month most of them came. here family friends come to say goodbye to a wife. and three grandchildren it is a different location for all of us. it is not normal it is different but today we are doing these. immemorial. without. our family's story. there have been

several such services in different parts of the country investigators in ethiopia are working to find out exactly what caused the crash boeing has grounded the seven three seven mox eight aircraft after a similar crash in indonesia five months the company is also updating its safety beaches. back you know the pain of relatives struggling to come to terms with the deaths is an imaginable i'm away had gone to kind of a to visit and grandchildren they were travelling to kenya on holiday together when the plane fell off the sky if european airline officials say it may take up to six months to identify their remains. husband john cwindows tells us soil from the crash site given to them in ethiopia to represent his family gives him no peace.

and those who came to moan with him are still holding onto hope that one day they may be able to hold a proper funeral for their relatives catherine zero kenya. all eyes were on the louvre museum in paris as the city marked thirty years since it was built for and street artist jr created the optical illusion for the anniversary big loss structure of design by the architects i am hey we're surrounded by a giant collage for the installation it's the second time he's worked with the monuments in twenty six then he made it disappear using another optical illusion. the headlines on al-jazeera this hour palestinians are gathering to mark the first anniversary of the great march of return protests at the fence that separates gaza from israel earlier a twenty one year old palestinian who was shot by israeli forces on friday died

very faucet has more from the gaza israel from there is a difference that we're seeing here from previous protests we're seeing a mass military intelligence in uniform with their red caps patrolling around here trying to keep people in order we've seen hamas security plainclothes officers taking tires back from the border fence one of the instructions that has been issued to protesters here is not to make any moves that could be deemed as aggressive not to burn tires and there is a wide scale effort to try and while ensuring large numbers ensure that the intensity of these protests are somewhat scaled down millions of algerians have taken part in the largest nationwide anti-government protest so far they're calling for the resignation of president thought that ozzy's beautifully an overhaul of the entire political system. britain remains deadlocked over the future of brecht's said after politicians voted against the prime minister's deal for him third time

to resume has just under two weeks to come up with a new plan or the u.k. faces crashing out of the e.u. without a deal. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to close the country's southern border next week unless mexico stops people from crossing over illegally and it could affect all trade between the two nations. venezuela has been hit by another electricity blackout the third this week the power outage on friday night left the capital caracas in the dark as well as several other major cities many regions are barely recovering from earlier blackouts which forced the closure of schools businesses and the biggest airports australia is following new zealand's lead with plans to crack down on violent content on social media sites following the christ church mosque attacks a new law proposed by the government would see social media bosses fined or even handed prison terms for failing to quickly remove violent material from their sites juries would decide whether content was removed fast enough from platforms such as

facebook and youtube those are the headlines on counting the costs is coming up next. and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week indonesia's on the road to becoming one of the world's biggest economies we find out what's holding it back and how that could damage the president's hopes for reelection. also this week as the world's biggest democracy gets ready to vote who's financing political parties

there. and mexico's leftist president swept to power on a promise to help the country's poorest but now he's axing social programs will look at why. into the economy isn't growing as fast as the president promised when he was elected five years ago joko widodo is spending huge sums to try to get reelected for a second term he's giving regional governments billions in giving handouts to the country's poorest while indonesia as well on its way to becoming a two trillion dollar economy in the next five years a population of more than two hundred fifty million people strong across more than seventeen thousand islands is being held back by among other things poor infrastructure. economic growth on the main island of java expanded at five point seven percent last year bali than nusa tenggara grew just two point seven percent unemployment in jakarta is running at around five point three percent but its more

than eight percent in the neighboring state of west java the world bank estimates that indonesia has an infrastructure gap of one point five trillion dollars compared to other emerging markets president joko widodo is halfway through a ten year three hundred twenty seven billion dollar program to construct new airports highways and ports congestion in the capital jakarta costs the country billions in lost revenue al-jazeera florence louis reports now on how the city's newly opened mass rapid transport system is proving to be highly popular. jakarta's long awaited mass rapid train system is finally here was and it's proving a hit more than ten million people work and live in the indonesian capital and the m r t goes a long way in easing the city's notorious traffic congestion. this is a massive in the nation finally has

a name marty just like other country that has been having it for years it is also i am very proud moment i usually take an old bus to office but now i'm provided with these very comfortable public transportation i hope people who take karsh to office will use this facility. there's only one line at the moment running from south jakarta to the city center covering a distance of sixteen kilometers the plan is to expand this to eventually cover one hundred twelve kilometers with more than sixty stations by twenty twenty five since coming to power in two thousand and fourteen president joe kudo's administration has prioritized infrastructure development like this one as one of the ways to unlock the country's economic potential other projects include the construction of ports roads power plants and oil refineries since the country is moving from the commodity base to the manufacturing base to producing more high. products it

needs quite complete the. system exporting goods from any genre or just sending them around the country is expensive logistics costs make up around twenty four percent of g.d.p. much higher than the regional average but the infrastructure projects also come at a price they're estimated to cost four hundred billion dollars over five years adding to government debt levels but the government says that the debt is manageable by law we are allowed to go to sixty percent but remember percent. g.d.p. number all the loan that we got to be a look at the productive projects or they can be from the project alone so i don't see that much problem but the economic growth that was supposed to happen on the back of infrastructure development hasn't yet materialized g.d.p.

growth has hovered around five percent in the last five years while that can be considered a pretty solid number for some countries it's below the government's target of seven per cent and it's not enough for indonesia's development needs and ambition. condiments generally agree indonesia has to keep spending and not just on building roads railways and other facilities but we also need the soft infrastructure what i mean about this stuff in faceted is for instance capital human capital the flock one which i think. one of the top buy at the of the government education in health care for instance has been given bigger allocations in the state budget physical infrastructure but jakarta's newly opened m.r.i. is only part of what indonesia needs to boost its economy. joining us now from london. is emerging markets columnist at capital economics good to have you with us gareth joko widodo that forecast seven percent growth at the time of his election

the economy has been delivering what around five percent that's not too bad when you look around but what's holding the economy back. i think there's a number of factors that certainly commodity prices haven't helped they've been quite subdued for most of chicory. i think also more fundamentally it's just been a failure to revitalize the manufacturing sector which when he set out five years ago was one of his key aims now there's a number of reasons why he's failed to do that he has admitted that he's done some kind of useful tinkering around the edges so he's made it more easy for foreign manufacturers to set up in he's pushed ahead with some improvements to the infrastructure but the one thing that he's really failed to do is to press ahead and make any progress with them with labor market reform so in indonesia it's incredibly expensive to hire and fire workers and what that means is that people are reluctant to share set up manufacturing facilities in indonesia when they could do so much more cheaply in neighboring say vietnam for example and i think that's

been the key reason why growth is to fail to come really anywhere near the government's target so what needs to be done what does he need to do i mean people are arguing that the kind of infrastructure investment that we're seeing get into these here at the moment isn't creating the right kind of work and i think he's made some reasonable progress in infrastructure spending so over the past five years he's increased an annual average about twenty percent which is pretty decent and given the constraints of the fiscal position and so on it's unlikely he could have done much more but i think as i mentioned the key thing that he really needs to do is press ahead with these labor market reforms and i think without that then that indonesia is really going to struggle to attract the kind of manufacturing sector that it needs to really kind of raise growth above the five percent that we with that we seem to be stuck at the moment now this is something that we were talking about growth on last week's program china became indonesia's second biggest source of foreign direct investment in twenty seventeen jakarta says it expects

chinese inflows will only continue to swell should. be concerned about failing to keep up with repayments to china. i think it's a very difficult position that it's a problem facing not just indonesia but other countries in asia as well it's that china has clearly got a lot of money to spend as part of its belt and wrote in shit if given the infrastructure deficit that indonesia has at the moment there's a clear role for chinese investment to pay i think the concern that indonesia has but also places such as pakistan and malaysia where there's been quite a big push back on chinese investment recently is that that these investments come with say that you hear stories about interest rates and double digits in his stories that china wants to control the asset even after it's been built and i think that's the reason why indonesia is going to tread very carefully with this over the next few years and why you're already seeing some pushback at the election over the prospect of a big increase in chinese investment growth like many developing nations you look

at the statistics and wonder what on earth the problem is but i mean you have this massive what sixty percent informal economy what least of them to be done to make that more inclusive. i think the key point that i've mentioned is that if you look at the most successful asian economies since the second world war countries such as taiwan hong kong korea what they all had in common was a very competitive export orientated manufacturing sector now this is something that the indonesians really struggle to create and generate and i think if it's if it's going to meet its potential and raise growth to the seven percent or so that you kerry's been targeting it really needs to do something about that now he has made some useful progress on infrastructure so there are improvements in place there but i think until you see the big changes in the labor market also land reform is another area that hasn't really to show until you see changes that and i

think indonesia is really going to struggle for it so whoever wins the election what should the main priorities be as they take office and looking ahead to the next five years i think if you look at the economic proposals of both candidates neither of them really have the economic policies if you look at pro bono of of all he's got a very kind of population nationalist agenda he wants to cut taxes which may provide a short boost the economy but would also raise borrowing and probably borrowing costs as well he's also been very circumspect about chinese investment and also very nationalistic about kind of promoting a more a more self-sufficient economy and i think investors are very wary of a prayer when but he's still a long way behind in the opinion polls that doesn't go very likely on jacoby i think you get more of the same so you get kind of tinkering around the edges you get some further improvements to the business environment you probably get more spending on infrastructure but he doesn't look as if he's going to be this kind of second transformative figure he's not going to push ahead with these big changes to

infrastructure i mean changes to the labor market the indonesian needs now a lot of the put the problem with that with indonesia the problem with the policy mindset is if you think back kind of twenty years or so where indonesia was hit very. by the asian financial crisis and all that is pretty is a deep distrust of foreign markets and also open markets and so they're likely to be very cautious in their approach to policy making regard to torture gareth many thanks indeed for being with us ok thank you now around one in five of the philippines one hundred six million people live in extreme poverty getting by on less than two dollars a day many including children were blown out as a street vendors or laborers to make enough to feed themselves hunger occurs most in the agriculture and fishing sectors where seventy percent of workers a pool of zeros gentle and dog and meet some of those struggling to earn a living in the capital manila when war broke out in malawi in the southern

philippines almost two years ago. and her children fled the violence they made their way here to downtown manila since then her eldest son up to her man has been providing for the family but life in manila is also violence and like many others they are harassed because they are homeless and they're classified as illegal vendors later it is hard when you see them hauled away and tired what is even more difficult is when the children are sick but what can i do. experts say iran to have a filipino children go to bed hungry and the young are most at risk of money meant more than twenty percent of them are under with the philippines ranks ninth in the world among countries with the highest number of children with stunted growth. how occurs the most in agriculture and fishing sectors where more than seventy percent

of workers are impoverished displacements brought about by natural disasters and continuing on conflict contributes to communities food insecurity the autonomy as a region in muslim mindanao has one of the highest tendency for underweight children and it may be attributed to the history of conflict in the region. aid groups have been feeding children in many public schools for years and the government to promise to expand that program nationwide and include kindergartens and elementary schools. it hopes to eradicate hunger and reduced on to the growth in children by twenty thirty on their it's sustainable development goal it's not being highlighted because. this is very abstract we only noticed politician if the child is skin and bones sometimes we call it behave that hunger even recall it like . that starvation of the soul because when we talk about malnutrition

that it doesn't only affect the body with it affects the whole being of the child shane is twelve years old and for four years she's been helping her mother feed her other seven siblings they sell flowers outside churches and together make less than six u.s. dollars a day shane sleeps here on the pavement with her mother she says she dreams should become a doctor one day but for now she sells her flowers with hunger her constant companion . still to come on counting the cost community farms are springing up in venezuela as u.s. sanctions kick in. but first india's prime minister narendra modi declared the country a space power after the successful test of an empty satellite missile but opposition leaders complained that the prime minister used the test to score political points the election commission said if you'll pardon the pun that it

would launch a probe of its own this one into the prime minister's announcement which comes ahead of elections more than nine hundred million indians will go to the polls in the world's biggest democratic process beginning april eleventh political parties are expected to spend seven billion dollars over the election cycle that ends on may twenty third but there are concerns new campaign laws introduced by modi are making it more difficult to find out who's financing the parties and their candidates anyone can walk into a bank and buy electoral bombs anonymously for the party of their choice. joining us now from new delhi is charlie a professor and dean at the gentle school of international affairs good to have you with us professor the government has defended these new campaign financing rules why is that if you don't know. before the finance. it is what passed and you once

released it was completely in the dark. so you know anybody could meet donations and it was not a quarter for a lot of it was after the books and after our saw the guard studies that you know by introducing these farms and others it seems a lot of people who could be the bad religion or to be you know available for school to me and we can actually tell who was receiving how much and before last we couldn't even guess who was this. we finally receiving one amount of money and some tools so i don't we the factory still easily cut into law which means that a lot of those knowing what i can do not want to be feeling it in the box we will accompany black boxes so the people next to me are really hot but i believe from the heart of the laughter your appetite ration it does seem like it is also lost on the situation by two new feeling of the ruling party and in the voting and the

interest of the opposition and therefore there is a lot of concern about whether it will do the balance in favor of the what the donors expect for their money in india can elections in the country be bored and politicians perhaps more concerned about their sponsors than that constituents well you know capitalism is a problem with most democracies there are influential gatlin who are trying to curry favor with the government and to get policies enacted in their favor i'm not so sure the current situation means that a lot of. big businesses will want to jewelers because one of the interesting aspects of this law is that even foreign companies not just in newcastle aspiring ones with indian brands can also need parties i'm honestly so often mean is that

you know it's leveling the playing field but i want to get i mean this is about loan on cash for ok people seriously kind of are getting really bad only if it was obvious changed the popular betting on wins so it's about exchange you know it is our last all that solutions to our sessions for investments and also the possibly could be a fortune that would be stacked in this fashion oh you know your company or the market or see at the end of the day and elections cannot be bought fixed i mean that i think is outlandish because you really like the middle east and. army gets most of the funding that doesn't gabby even of a tree you normally and he lections and we have seen a part of it in the lesson on how to go on because there are legions governance of the guard and i didn't get the claims and you know cappy started the whole county what's now because of the leaderless caste and religion are going to think it's ok

so who are the big done as and what about foreign political donors there's concern all over the world that mouse foreign political funding what about in india well least of these the most interesting to ask if you don't mean i'll always in your business houses the big family owned business houses. and the cars you know the beloved and so on have been in martin county financing into the open secret for marlowe opening the door of the indian subsidy of the foreign companies and i mean it's an interesting because you know over the last few years e.d.s. well one of the. and you're one of them was a crack in this nation's foreign investment so i do use of threat of a new law international multinational corporations now looking for market access and a better government. actually joining india and dealing nearly killed him probably

made a mark in this election unlike in the last minute fighting to sheikh mohammed so they started you know unless this election law our interests are all going to be it doesn't look like foreign companies you know yes professor really good to talk to you and counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us now getting enough food just to survive continues to be a big problem in venezuela the oil rich nation produces only twenty percent of its own food and with the latest us oil sanctions now beginning to bite some hope the community thumbs will get them through tough times and to zero stories about reports from caracas. difficulties are everywhere in venezuela these days the economy crisis as millions struggling but people say they're ready to fight back by producing their own food they have turned this small farming back us into an agricole logical project where they can grow fruits vegetables and even fish. he says the situation will likely deteriorate

in the country when the new us sanctions take effect. there is an economic war against us and we try to supply our families in the hospital in the area with this place we can feed seventy people every day. there are three families living here and with what they produce they're helping a local hospital people here say that they need to be ready for what's coming. on the people say that in this place almost everything to survive. on a linux is there over twenty thousand projects like this one in venezuela but that they need more government support. we need to teach people that they need to learn how to produce their own food this needs to be public policy we need to tell the government the budget that is invested in food production must be the same as the

one invested in the armed forces. venezuela imports most of the food it consumes the us has impose new sanctions that will make it tougher for the government to sell oil and get much needed cash. and we send the says there are real sanctions begin now. the same things we saw by the united states in the past were affecting individuals but they were not against the state against p.d.s.a. it was against people related to the government the sanctions were light we're going to see now is an embargo and this is going to be tough demolishing. the n.b.s. has been breeding rabbits in the farm he says people see them as pets but they could be a crucial source of protein. there also needs to be self-criticism the government doesn't know how to plan how to get organized the enormous corruption because the state continues to operate like all agog what we want to eradicate is still and

it's up to our social movements to make change in this production as a way to protest. most analysts say the situation will deteriorate in the next few months becoming self-sufficient is the only way many venezuelans will have to deal with their every day life mexico's leftist president under as manuel lopez obrador swept to power promising more help for the country's poorest now though soup kitchens that feed the hungry a shutting down as he takes the axe to government social programs john holdren explains why from mexico city. mix can community kitchens where some of the country's most vulnerable you get a cheap meal there were never notices here because lou pape there were a lifesaver in feeding her family of six with his gaze wally i know it's really helped with our finances even with the gas for the stove and now i go to work rather than just worrying about cooking and until now we've never gotten. that

many of mitts because almost six thousand federal food kitchens have already shut as part of budget cuts to social services it's not just the soup kitchens closing their doors funds have also been slashed for child daycare centers and the government plan to shut down shelters for women fleeing domestic violence and give the money instead until a backlash made it change its mind and this is all come from a president who's long championed the poor and vulnerable at school some surprise and indignation. he says the measures necessary to stamp out corruption sit didn't mean it's finished around thirty years of these programs which were just used to win elections and get media attention. programs which encourage corruption using the name of the humble the poor to do it that's all finished the c.f.l. on the base something in the government social ministry was recently implicated in

a monumental corruption scandal but civil society groups say the wholesale scrapping of programs for the pool is not the answer and some worry there are other motivations well my concern is that is really an attempt to to concentrate power to have all the social programs in their hands to be a political platform and in that says if you really committed to transparency and avoid the corruption will be transparent spread in the sense of of the oven you carry of the of the new of the new programs and you're putting together none of that so far east in place the new programs he's talking about include expanded help for students the old and those with disabilities the president it seems those will social programs just ones do so his own design. and that's for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen get in touch with us you can tweet me a finnigan on twitter use the hash tag c.t.c. when true or drop us

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a return protests. millions of algerian stand firm and they demand that the country's leaders must go. this government will continue to press the case for the exit that the result of the referendum. is rejected again as pressure grows on the u.k. government. i'm joanna sport roger federer has his eyes on a fourth miami open title. serving rival in the final. alison ians have started gathering at the fence that separates gaza from israel they are marking the first anniversary of the weekly protest known as the great march return and saturday is also the lands day that is the annual commemoration of the mine nine hundred seventy six. death of six palestinians protesting the

confiscation of their land to build jewish settlements now on friday twenty one year old palestinian mohammad sabha shot in the head by israeli forces while protesting near the border fence and he died on saturday morning over the past year two hundred sixty six palestinians including fifty children have been killed in the protests more than thirty thousand have been wounded or palestinians are demanding the right to return to lands from which their families were violently expelled during the founding of israel in one nine hundred forty eight they are also calling for an end to israel's twelve year blockade of gaza will go to stephanie deca shortly she's on that is right israeli side of the fence close to the military but first let's go to harry for said he is on the gaza side so how talk us through what's happening there harry especially as you know officials there really try to make sure that protesters today don't do anything that could be seen as provocative

by the israelis on the other side. oh yes just as you're asking that question in fact you might have heard in the background some more tear gas maybe my colleagues some you can just zoom in and show you where it's just landed so this is the scene really we are at the main protest site i there has been a group of protesters who have broken off so that main area behind us and every now and again a few a handful of them will run towards this newly reinforced border fence much stronger and higher than it was throughout most of these protests and some of them are getting right up against the fence now as you said there have been significant efforts on the palestinian side on the hamas side essentially to try and rein in today's protests we've seen red capped military intelligence uniformed people here on the ground we've seen people wearing kind of orange almost marshals vests we've seen plainclothes on our security to. making tires back from the border area

because one of the instructions has been not to burn tires not to do anything that could be viewed as aggressive even if it is peaceful however we spoke to one of the organizers a member of the organizing committee just a few minutes ago and he was pessimistic about the ability of of those members of the hamas security services to really control what he does expect to be a very large group of people so far we're hearing from the gaza health ministry that at this location two people have been shot and injured by israeli sniper fire the israeli army is saying that it shot one person in the head who had been trying to throw an explosive so that's that the situation so far here hi thank you very much for that we will come back to you in. but let's go now to stephanie decker who is as we mentioned any on the israeli side what are you saying from way you lost any. well we are literally on the other side of where harry is i'll get.

to show you the position here there has been a reinforcement of israeli infantry troops also tanks because of the sensitivity of this day elizabeth yes there is this so-called agreement in place between the two sides but anyone will tell you that the situation when it comes to this story can change at any point so what's different this time you can probably see some of the israeli military vehicle very you see some tear gas being fired from this and they've reinforced it with the concrete walls there is a lot of pressure on the israeli prime minister. at a time when that were two weeks away from hotly contested israeli elections to do more when it comes to have mass in the gaza strip just yesterday when the news came out of this cease fire a lot of criticism on social media of the prime minister of having seemingly agreed to try and temper those protests with hamas but really from what we understand that the israeli military agreeing in these negotiations to use no life fire but you

heard harry there say they have already so we'll have to wait and see really how the day unfolds stephanie thank you very much for that for now that stephanie decker she is on the israeli side of the border fence let's go back to the gazan side and harry is still with us on how you would you know i was talking just moments ago about the efforts being taken by hamas officials and others to make sure that that nothing seen as being provocative happens today on the one year anniversary because there is a lot at stake here as stephanie mentioned there is now there are reports of that deal between hamas and israel which if true would really alleviate the conditions a lot of suffering for people in gaza. indeed that is the report that we got last night friday night. between the gyptian delegation that had been inside israel that had come back to go as a preview. this day that at one stage after some of those talks that was when we

got word of these instructions from the from from the organizing committee about how they wanted people to behave at these protests and then the newspaper that is linked to hamas the al reseller newspaper reported some of the concessions that it said hamas had or was about to win from the israelis including an increase of the qatari funding from fifty million dollars a month to forty million dollars a month extending throughout the rest of the year and increased to electricity supplies coming from israel is really approval of a desalination plant and other key things like that i mean it's not what is male honey i was talking about the leader of political leader of hamas earlier in the day saying that hamas was demanding an end to the blockade in its entirety but talking to some of the organizers talking to very clued in journalists here the sense is that should those concessions come through then people will feel relatively satisfied that this year of protests has at least one them something on

the israeli side we understand that they've been looking for an end to rocket fire obviously they've been looking for an end to the nightly confusion raids as they called when palace in protest has set off improvised explosive devices along the fence and generally more calm here at the fence but a lot does rest on how today plays out as stephanie was just showing you there is a major reinforced israeli army presence on the other side of the fence and that we are expecting many many thousands of people to come to sites like this up and down the border today how this plays out will have a great deal to say about the success or otherwise of these troops talks harry thank you very much for that for now that's how our forces live at gaza as well for defense monitoring those protests we have been looking at some tear gas being fired at protesters we will be going back to harry for any developments in the story.

now let's move on to other news for now and millions of algerians have taken part in the largest nationwide anti-government protests are far the demanding an overhaul of the entire political system but torah gayton be reports the for the past six weeks they've been demanding changes every level of the political establishment. and they're determined to keep up the pressure on president abdelaziz bouteflika and his back is. one of the routes for actually driven because those who govern us have dropped us off everything we are tired and fed up with them they have to leave. while the protests have been almost entirely peaceful in at least one location police used water cannon to break up the crowd. the. earlier this week the army backed protest as calls for beautifully care to step down the ruling party its coalition partner and algeria its biggest union have

also joined the cools the him to go the national louis union reemphasized is demand that the eighty two year old president must leave office. we reiterate our support for the peaceful popular movement which calls for a change in the system of governance the creation of a new republic that respects the southern tier of the people and the principle of the law of the union calls for a positive response to the demands of the people within whom sovereign power resides. local media reported millions of people came out to demonstrate in towns and cities across the country this is the town of g. jail in the east it was a similar scene in his ghonim in the west. we want to move to a real democratic country for a transitional period and to set a new government which will be elected by the people and not by. this government we

are against this government's the but even if beautifully does go that will be enough for the protesters they want the resignation of the ruling elite that is that a long side beautifully clear for twenty years to anything like that to happen the powerful military would have to agree and it's very sensitive to signs of instability and then. everyone is waiting for the constitutional council to rule beautifully because fitness for office based on health reasons it's given no indication when it will make a decision if it rules the president unfit for office parliament must induced the decision by a two thirds majority even if that happens it will only just begin to fulfill the demands of hundreds of thousands of algerians who've spoken out in protest victoria gay to be easier. let's take a look now at algeria is ruling elite and their connection to president bush is a flake a first the military which does hold

a lot of power behind the scenes and the past top officers were replaced if they posed any challenge to both a flicker of protest as also not in favor of the opposition because they're seen to be part of the same system that's helped with a fake a stay in power for twenty years business leaders a closely aligned to the people in power to many of the t.v. awarded large contracts government loans for public and private projects that in return the government gets campaign donations and favorable media coverage let's get more on this now we're joined by correspondent emraan khan he's monitoring events from neighboring to news here he's live for us in the capital tunis it is the day in iran after the biggest crowds we've seen in these six weeks of protests which will be given those not just those around with a flick of the constitutional council a lot to think about that's absolutely right and although we're not expecting the kind of numbers we saw on friday hitting the.