unrest near the city of the saloniki i then travel to the area after rumors spread on social media that the border would be open catherine stansell has more details. police pushing back against migrants and refugees trying to reach northern europe they arrived in a camp in a greek town of g. of us on thursday after hearing that for the controls had been lifted and buses for compared to take people to macedonia but the reports were false rumors circulated on social media stoking the anger and frustration of the migrants many of who have been stranded in greece for a year greek security forces have been preventing them from breaking through a cordon near the border with north macedonia. far. in greece goes from. six. thousand already.

tear gas and stun grenades are regularly used to keep back the crowd but they aren't giving up some believe a more calm approach will get them through the border we will try peaceful end we will see you are too well to do you. will not throw anything in not doing anything just just go on friday thousands arrived at the cordon demanding to be let through setting small fires in the field and confronting police the unrest also sprach athens dozens of refugees blocked the main railway station demanding access to other e.u. countries but the greek government and the un say the borders remain closed that heard stories of people saying that from there and. there's going to be the european commission is going to come to to a sitting there briefing and discussion to try and figure out how they can open the borders with these people that. there's going to be money and buy. it isn't

everything to score damage to the system to get to the borders but the police here is going to be to protect them until they get to the i've heard numerous different stories all fake of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants are living in greece part of a wave of immigration from syria iraq and afghanistan which began in twenty fifteen it became stranded increase when balkan countries shut their borders three years ago cutting off the tough to northern europe catherine stansell al jazeera. protesters from the yellow vest movement have rallied across france in the twenty first consecutive weekend of demonstrations in riot police fired tear gas to break up the protests activists across the country are demanding social and economic reforms of the movement's prompted president emanuel mccrone to open a national debate in january and the measures are expected to be announced on monday in a bid to dampen their anger and tens of thousands of people have marched in germany

against rising rents and housing shortages activists say property developers have brought thousands of apartments driving up rents activists have started a petition for the government to take back properties from large scale and lords otherwise the cost of living in pakistan is putting pressure on poor communities inflation has reached its highest in five years pushing up the cost of fuel and electricity because for some farmers to take second jobs just to stay in the business oh harder has this report from the islam about countryside. it's morning in the religion of kerala and though we'd been stick around green this is reynolds god fair old dean takes his goats out to graze this place less than thirty kilometers from islamabad has been evolving for more than seventy years but he said his field is not big enough to sustain his family and a few years ago he turned to building stored walls and homes tools to make extra money but now he didn't electricity and fuel prices that has to change

there my paternal gum grabbed me and i used to be able to work but now i'm too old i've already trained my sons and now it's time for them to carry the burden as i take care of my goat and it's a problem being ferried around pakistan especially in poorer communities like these the government under prime minister imran khan say previous governments are to blame for all the boring and leaving the country in day but under an agreement with the i.m.f. for a bailout package easy agreed to devalue the rupee and that's led to rising inflation the effects of inflation are being fed even in rural areas cloistered capital islamabad although to be buried grow their own crop they don't have been out for land and said that despite a link cost of living means they have to find or turn a day of employment not far away his sons are busy on

a construction project to make extra money you do need what they yeah the new government promised to lower prices but instead they have increased we also have to pay more for harvesting our wheat because of rising i would trust in fuel prices we have to work extra hours to cope. this farmer says things that never been this bad your local super regulator puzzle me god has been kind in giving us land if it rains we get something but if it doesn't we get nothing the rising cost of essential commodities makes it even tougher we can only hope the government will do something more for the poor most people in this area war did for enron correspondence down terry can solve or justice party they say that's because their promise to bring people out of poetry and get pakistan's economy back on track now they say they can only wait to see if things will get better all go from bad to

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al-jazeera. read every your. the head of libya's. troops advance on the capital tripoli. welcome to our. headquarters and. also ahead demonstrations in

venezuela president and opposition leader they all support. or on the military to back their demands for change and on a visit to iraq's prime minister get american troops out of your country. ahead of u.n. libya's u.n. back toward. the trail of his military offensive on the capital. will confront tough troops with determination well the two sides have been locked in fierce battles about thirty kilometers from the center of tripoli. had reports. of gunfire on the outskirts of libya's capital. have to

trying to push the. city. they say they have seized some areas. these claims have been denied by the tripoli and the recognized government on saturday the prime minister. again. we research all libyans through. the country east to west north to south to the necessity of giving priority to the interests of the country unifying the ranks and working together to lift libya out of this crisis i say to the international community that it should not equate between the aggressor and those who defend themselves or between those who seek the militarization of the state and those committed to a democratic civilian country or for. the you and recognize the government troops are said to have been deployed from the city of misrata to the west and south to

fight have to his forces. therefore asked likes but we suffered no loss for dollars it's reported that one family area was hit believe that we held back on the use of our air force in order to protect civilians and public and private property any dead fighter flying or to police will not be allowed and will be targeted the airbase it came from in order to be targeted. u.n. secretary general and to new good turkish has been in tripoli area of talks on rebuilding libya's fractured political system has been forced to leave the un says the talks will still go ahead. we will not give up this work quickly i know very well that holding the national conference in the conditions of escalation by thing is difficult but we will insist on holding it on time unless other circumstances interfere. libya has been divided between two competing governments since twenty fourteen the un talks are seen as one of a few options for peace in libya the only explanation available to us that he

probably wanted to shift the. balance or. to his favor just days before the reconsideration conference so he can get advance as demands during this conference because. they are reflections of. you know on the ground in france foreign ministers of the g. seven group of countries have been voicing their concerns. several foreign governments have been warning forces not to attack tripoli they say that support the talks which is still expected to start on the fourteenth of april with the hope of using elections as a way of libya's a two year conflict g. seven foreign ministers attending a meeting in france also issued a statement saying that libya's oil facilities must not be used by any faction for political gain if libya's opposing forces continue this latest battle for control

the route to a political solution will become more difficult for the. tripoli well it has been a lot of international reaction to the unrest the united nations says it's still planning to hold talks on a road map for the b. elections despite the fighting g. seven foreign ministers who've been gathering in france pledged to use all diplomatic channels to push for deescalation russia's foreign minister has warned against attempts to blame either side for the fighting sergei lavrov says it's up to libyans to determine their fate their own fate through talks and neighboring egypt also expressed concern saying the crisis cannot be settled by military means now to meet in is a research fellow with chatham house and he says it's difficult for half the to back down from the offensive. i think we're entering a more and more dangerous phase in the last twenty four hours i think what we're seeing is an escalation. after us forces seeking to support the offensive and in

response further forces being sent from misrata to the capital to oppose that offensive so unfortunately it looks like momentum is gathering and that major clashes could be could be witnessed i think it's interesting to understand the motivations for this offensive because in some ways it seems quite a surprising move in fact a lot of the discussion was how a political settlement might be coming in the near term and that it might heavily favor half there and actually what we've heard in recent weeks is a lot of criticism from have to opponents saying that after was effectively being given too much so in that context and only ten days out from the national conference that have to launch an offensive was the u.n. secretary general is in tripoli certainly has caught people by surprise i think at the same time it seems likely that if that was the play and controlling that tripoli was the goal then the hope would have been that it would have happened quick and now that this is set in and forces are being mobilized it looks set to be

a much more sustained campaign certainly following the speech that have to made on thursday announcing the advance on tripoli it's very hard for him to back down and see how he gets out of this position i think it's difficult to make too many predictions on the ground at the moment because we see that in libya often alliances can be quite fleeting and shifting but you would certainly say that at this present time it's unlikely that have to forces are going to prevail in tripoli and that raises a whole host of questions. let's move on to other news now there have been mass protests for and against that as well as president rallies followed days of power failure as which across the board all claims on his political rivals or shortly we'll hear from jamal and childhoods what whether what are supporters of first to latin america and it's a live report from a rally led by opposition leader one why though. this is what opponents of nicolas maduro call the first stage of what they've labeled operation liberty in actual

fact it's an attempt to gauge just how successful they can continue to bring supporters out onto the streets not just here but throughout the israela. they want to show that they have not grown tired or afraid despite increased threats from armed paramilitary groups loyal to the government to fire tear gas and he didn't bullets at protesters but but this if it is says she's not afraid. but you know is incompetent he talks about socialism but he lives like a millionaire like an imperialist but we haven't had any water in my neighborhood for more than a year. opposition leader apologized for the improvised stage and the poor sound quality he said intelligence police operatives have confiscated for generators and two trucks for the rally and arrested the drivers are going to run in let me. tell you it's just not water and electricity that we are demanding no we're here to demand freedom and democracy

food education and a future and nothing will stop us until we achieve it. but nearly three months into the standoff is on the offensive tuesday the supreme court which is loyal to the government stripped of his legislative immunity which means he can be arrested at any moment despite warnings of retaliation from the united states the sign reads the next. exit is meet a flautist meet a fellow this is the presidential palace but it is wishful thinking if these people believe that president nicolas maduro is going anywhere any time soon and so the real task of the opposition leaders now is to try to keep these people out on the streets for the long haul. the large demonstration in caracas was peaceful but in the northern city of daraa kibo riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters why though admitted that more sacrifices are needed. but his most

sobering message was directed at those who are calling for u.s. military intervention why those says it's up to the news wayland's to lead the charge for regime change a clear reference to the trumpet ministrations recent admission that military action is not in the car enough room seeing human i've just seen a. president nicolas maduro put out the call to supporters and they heeded that's cool thousands of them taking to the streets of central correctness to show that them back to president still enjoys a lot of support amongst the people men and women young and old with gathered here to show that not only they supports president nicolas maduro but they are them and three opposed to the u.s. sanctions imposed again on his way to let's speak to a couple of the house the first one why are you here today but am i capable of must be wary of the hour we need to stand with president nicolas motherhood and the

socialist i want to show until the very end we want to may they will grow a lot of their duplass and move. well that's one of the obviously one of the things that the u.s. has been banking on is not the continuous power shortages and water cuts would make people turn against the president's car or to ask this gentleman here with these we're told shortages i'm an electricity cuts doesn't know made you lose faith in the government. celing not we know destructive acts are meant to break us but we will resist we need achieve southam powermat we know the peril is a reality so we must resist it. thank you now aside from showing their support to nicolas maduro the subtle message that is also expressed by the people gathered these large crowds in caracas is that they want to support their revolution they believe that the foreign intervention as they've described the particular from the

united states is an attempt to defeat the socialist revolution here and they say that they are against any foreign intervention that they are in support of the president and that they are here to defend the revolution. one civilians being killed in protests against saddam's president the country's news agency says civilians and police were also injured and the demonstrations and on the main lot of the capital khartoum protesters marched on president almost all the shias residence and the new headquarters. has more. the day of cooling for revolution these protesters headed for the army headquarters in khartoum the latest in a way for protests that began in december that the price.