another one in the argentinian embassy in spite of this why though is remaining continues to challenge the government of nicolas maduro asking people to take to the streets the big question is how many will actually respond to his call because people here are getting tired many are suffering from enormous for an enormous economic crisis and many have lost interest of actually taking to the streets because they're saying that change is not happening fast enough and some economists are blaming a fall in aid from venezuela for the start of food rationing in cuba shoppers looking for hours to buy chicken eggs rice and other centrals being rationed by the government communist leaders say rationing will prevent shortages and stop cubans halting goods so on the black market many cubans are sharing their frustrations with cuing by sharing their experiences online tweeting dissatisfaction under the hash tag the q. challenge she was minister of internal commerce says the government is looking at

other options to alleviate the crisis. product regulation involves selling limited quantities so that there is equity in distribution so more people can purchase and therefore access the product as well also avoid hoarding which is the scourge which we're now experiencing as there are limited quantities of product and we're depending on imports that come from the united states and that means that we have to look for alternatives to ensure that the product will arrive in the market. there is a former u.s. principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the western hemisphere he says cuba remains highly dependent on imports. ports 80 percent. this is an agricultural country which used to export now imports you can imagine import sugar. they can't support themselves. tourists come from abroad obvious they want to eat well so they're getting. food

and they're eating. cubans in order. the only thing economic terms tourism is ready. now the relatives of thousands of people who disappeared as a result of mexico's drug war took to the streets of mexico city on friday which was mother's day they're demanding information about the whereabouts of the left wants nearly $40000.00 people have gone missing since 2006 musgrave's can be found in mexico's countryside he would rains are not systematically identified leaving victims' families to wonder about their fate. staying in the americas democrats in the u.s. house of representatives so issued a legal demand for president trump's tax returns the ways and means committee which oversees taxes set a deadline for the internal revenue service to release the documents earlier this week the treasury rejected the demand saying it had no legitimate nor making

purpose. more than $190.00 countries have reached a deal traducing the amount of plastic that gets washed into the world's oceans during 11 days of talks in geneva it was revealed to dust realize countries shipped much of their waste to less developed countries who then often just dubbed it germany was identified as one of the worst offenders but along with japan and the united kingdom it ranked behind the world's biggest exporter of plastic waste the united states pay it is executive secretary of the basel rotterdam and stockholm conventions to the united nations a vironment program these says the deal has increased global awareness about plastic pollution. all that's been agreed here is actually quite historic in march that there are negotiations because one no we submitted the proposal to amend the convention and also to set up a partnership on on plastic waste and that was in september last year and i think

with the with the amount of interest both from governments and also from civil society and consumers to really deal with the problem of plastics which as you know was causing a lot of environmental issues around the world with birds ingesting plastics of animals in the recent research that we've seen that plastics is now found in our foods and is entering into our bodies i think countries where really this week committed to the tools to give you know the decisions for them to to address the issue of plastics not only at the country level also at the global level because as you can see that you saw plastics is not only one country but also countries of the world south korea is the place to be to see the future of electric cars 0 emission technologies being on show as a major exhibition issue proper pride report from the island aiming to become the 1st in the world to be carbon free by 2030. the show brings

together everything you need for an electric future. yes the cars both the sensible ones and the fun ones and all the other everyday variables to service in a world beyond fossil fuels all using the same advances in electric engine and battery technology but in all shapes and sizes even one made using a 3 d. laser printer. i think we have passed the inflection point and even these have become the norm the battery prices come down by more than a 3rd so vehicles cost less as well. for an expo promoting green transport jeju is the perfect stage. a large volcanic island off south korea's southern coast it's famous for its rugged good looks. a tourist destination that knows how valuable its beauty is and how vulnerable to climate change. because of that it's committed through renewable energy and electric vehicles to being

completely carbon free by 2030 and i mean the entire jeju island is a natural treasure we wondered how best to preserve it and when we came to transport we decided to go electric jeju seems perfectly placed for such an experiment an island with relatively short driving distances well suited to electric vehicles and with a semi autonomous government able to pursue bold policies when it comes to embracing the electric vehicle jeju is already way out in front of all the evey's in south korea right now a quarter of them all here on this one island but it's still got a long way to go to be 100 percent carbon free. the vast majority of vehicles still use fossil fuels but the government is quickly putting in place the resources needed to encourage people to go electric. there's

a bunch of war torn as i took up toward the provincial government is providing enough support in terms of regulation and funding transport companies are also replacing their vehicles so i'm sure we can achieve that goal to the local game as the quest continues others in asia and beyond watch with interest what jade you can do maybe they can do also. rob mcbride al-jazeera jade to south korea. so happens for the warriors fight on as they try to defend there will be a from 2 other we'll have the details in sports coming up next.

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welcome back it's time for sports history thank you the golden state warriors have found a way to win in the playoffs without kevin durant the defending n.b.a. champions a 3rd of the conference finals off to sealing this series against the houston rockets he said with 32 down going into game 6 but they lead in the final quarter thanks to 35 points from last year's m.v.p. james harden won't get a chance to add a championship his on the list though the warriors steph curry made up for the injured durant with 23 points in the 4th quarter alone all while dealing with his own injury problems and golden state showed exactly why the champions as they close it out 118203 the 2nd straight season they want to playoff series on houston's court portland or denver or up next for them. that's not good not going to say here sure. i got no use to this i you know we're used to winning but this one felt amazing i was so obviously

a great team we just played in a calm on the road just losing cabin staff with 0 points and 1st half. and to get his way you know the amazing you know step down stretch was incredible rafael nadal's preparations for the defense of his french open title are gathering momentum the spaniard reached the semifinals of the madrid open with victory of a stand for franco that al is still without a title this season even on his favorite clay surface he was in good form against the swiss winning the 1st set 61 and the 20 time grand slam when it wasn't about show any muscle in the 2nd del going on to take it 62 1st straight sets win a final suspects he has never taken to settle for the down reprieve you speak to. fans of the 4 english teams playing in europe's major football finals are facing huge prices the tickets and travel and only a small percentage of them will even be allowed in the stadium liverpool and

tottenham fans have been allocated only $16000.00 tickets each for the champions league final at the $68000.00 seater wanda metro metropolitan or in madrid with a similar story for all snow and chelsea supporters who have to travel to back ticket prices are already exceeding $600.00 with flights and hotels spiraling to 10 times the normal costs supporters groups want to wait for to say who are tens of thousands of extra tickets are going to. it's a disgrace that ticket prices are at the level they are 80 percent of the tickets through available through the clubs even if you can get a price more than $150.00 pounds some of them 500 pounds i think this probably is the worst we've known internally for the you're right fine fine i simply cannot get my head round the fact that in the ground of 68000 in back to only 12 think it should being allocated to the front of the can piece in clubs it's unbelievable

i'd love to see a breakdown of where the other 56000 tickets are actually going to. it was hamilton and voltaire bought us will be looking for another almost ladies' front row for the spanish crown prix they dominated friday practice at the castle and the circuit got us here's the championship leaders set the fastest lap time just ahead of his teammate and reigning champion hamilton now if they go quickest in qualifying later on saturday the savings will take in the front row for 4 of the 5 races so far this season. the president graham praised big move to rio in 2020 is a fantasy according to the governor of south paolo shroud doria says that south paolo's into local circuit has a contract to stage the race and a go she ations of continuing with the owners of f one to extend that deal he added that rio isn't ready to stage anything with the size of the new circuit still a wasteland you know just sort of we. i flew over the dia

daughter site there is nothing there absolutely nothing how can someone imagine an investment that doesn't exist can even be considered for the 2020 percent. something is not right with what rio de janeiro has proposed course we do not give up on holding the formula one race in sao paolo it's a tradition it's part of our history. now fleda may appear to and is known for his strong man persona and that certainly came through on the ice in an exhibition game in sochi the russian president led the legends team made up of former players politicians and billionaires and he was a goal scoring machine that was met with little resistance by the opposition netting at least 8 goals although an official kremlin released said he'd scored 10 but the 66 year old leader proved he's only human when on a victory lap. he skated over col pitt and fell face 1st while waving to the crowd

putin appeared on hurts after the tumble. that is always full and i'll have more feel of a night yes thanks very much jerrold back with more news on the other side of the break and solo and jamie on the news our team thanks very much for your time. once welcomed now fear. dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more judgment on syria and the future of

much money it does or if it should get those people and put the i think it's been do it one german and i'm rocking the new germans on al-jazeera. examining the headlines a collapsed economy babies that many people are struggling to survive setting the discussions people have looked away i don't think it can look that way anymore sharing personal stories with a global audience explore an abundance of world class programming designed to inform of the media's motivate and inspire. the world is watching on al-jazeera people have to weigh your own record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all feel are

you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling the world isn't watching why there's lots to graze in here join me mad the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive to al-jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. reports from yemen say who the rebels have begun redeploying forces from keyboards around the city of the data. so when you what you want is their life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes in a show of force the u.s. sends another warship and their planes to the gulf region. trade talks without

a deal but beijing keeps the door open to further negotiations with washington d.c. . the venice biennale. every find out how artists around the globe are responding to the world crisis. bottom to the program we begin in yemen where we're getting reports of who the rebels have become redeploying fighters from 3 key ports under u.n. supervision and they include her data which imports all student aid for millions of starving yemenis the ports have long been attacked by saudi and amorality coalition forces supporting the army yemeni government leaders are dismissing the latest toothy offer after 2 previous withdrawals failed as inaccurate and misleading in. reports. the battle for the port of her data has been at the heart of the

humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencies have pleaded with the warring factions to withdraw from the strategic port a gateway for desperately needed food and medicines. millions of facing famine after more than 4 years of fighting between the who thiis and coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and now who thieves rebels will withdrawal fighters from her data according to the united nations. over 4 days the group says it will also be deployed forces in the court system being used for grain and mass is an entry point for oil. of course this near is a very welcome from the standpoint of humanitarian interests but again you know we have a huge problem terms of the lack of trust between the saudi led coalition on one

side who the rebels on the other worse very good but develops a little bit of trust that could potentially pave the way to eventually solving this conflict is going to really require some actions the yemeni government backed by the coalition has expressed skepticism over the withdrawal agreement the minister of information mohammed ariadne tweeted on friday any unilateral deployment that does not allow for the principle of joint monitoring and verification of the terms of the suisun agreement is a noose if and on except to pull the yemeni government did not state whether their side would make a reciprocal move with dural plans were brokered by a un led committee under the stockholm agreement a pax ixtapa between the rival combatants last december but soon after a ceasefire was agreed on the 18th of december fighting. with steve in her data and

since then repeated attempts to enforce the truce have veiled the un is expected to monitor the redeployment of fighters from the ports yes it is still unclear how far forces will withdraw and who will eventually control the people. but if the withdrawal happens it could be the 1st major breakthrough in peace efforts in more than 4 years. each armor dougray algis there. a u.s. warship designed to land the u.s. marines is on its way to reinforce naval forces in the gulf iran is dismissing the deployment as psychological warfare aimed at intimidation is joining the abraham lincoln aircraft carrier strike group which sailed through the suez canal on thursday commanders say the department's response to possible operations by iran against u.s. forces. while america's recent deployments of warships and bombers near iran and to its already significant military presence of the gulf the data base in qatar is the

forward headquarters of u.s. central command it's the largest u.s. military base in the middle east but not the only one the u.s. navy's 5th fleet has its headquarters in bahrain there's been an american military presence in kuwait since the $1991.00 gulf war and u.s. forces make regular use of its facilities in amman and the u. . for more than 15 years there's been no formal u.s. military presence in saudi arabia u.s. operations at the air base just south of riyadh and in 2003 but ties between the 2 countries militaries are strong and the kingdom has long been the major buyer of u.s. weaponry america's support for the saudi u.a.e. campaign in yemen has also become a significant political issue in the u.s. . rodger shanahan is a research fellow at the lowy institute for international policy of the form australian army officer he says the narrative surrounding the u.s.

deployment of warships is more dangerous than the deployment itself. so i think we have to separate the actual deployments in terms of the carry better program to probe planned and perhaps the patriot missile batteries which are something that is new york separate those from the language so it's emanating from washington so the narrative in washington is only hardening of the approach to iran and choosing days normally sequenced military deployments to back that up so i don't think we should be overly concerned at the moment the possibility of people or decision makers making the wrong decision based on that is fighting so i think the language surrounding these 2 points is probably more dangerous than the deployments and so and the u.s. is certainly sitting there talking about ramping up the pressure and it's not only . the military pressure from announcing needs to on its being something more than

they probably are but the thing that has been ramped up has brain the economic pressure so we've seen not very coming out of the j.c. you know i bet also more recently. the waving orders sation of the way it is for iranian oil exports through now sensation in the entire the iranian revolutionary guard corps and very recently we've seen our sanctions against the iranians still now from a new major she so. i think people probably paid too much attention to this military aspect and not attention to the economic aspect which is probably where the where the herder's main kill my steamy full thing in the region more than 100 people have been killed in the last week has syrian government forces continue their push into rebel held areas and hama province says some u.n. security council members are concerned that a full scale military operation it cliff may lead to a humanitarian catastrophe or diplomatic editor james bays has more from the united

nations. there have long been fears of a final offensive in it it is one of the last strongholds of the opposition to a sat aid workers have been concerned about an all out attack the population of the province has swelled to more than 3000000 people after many fled here from other parts of syria. russia is strongly suspected of carrying out some of the recent bombing the targets of included medical facilities attacks that some experts believe could amount to war crimes as the security council gathered european ambassadors expressed deep alarming we are extremely concerned about the violent escalation in the you'd live region a new alipore must at all cost be prevented in need live there is

only a political solution and the military solution that apparently has been sought now is not a it's not a viable one the meeting didn't take place in the main chamber of the council where open sessions are held but instead in the smaller room near it where meetings are conducted away from the cameras there was deep division and it was on display at the end of the meeting when 11 of the 15 members made a joint statement 4 countries south africa indonesia china and russia did not sign up to these words we express or deep concern. of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the event of a full scale military operation in italy so on the statement did not mention the assad government or russia can you be clear which countries are carrying out the bombing thank you for now even some of russia's harshest critics on syria were not

prepared to condemn the country in public medical facilities have been attacked in it who do you think is responsible. will make medical facilities appear to have been targeted from the air. there aren't very many options for who can target from the air in this part of syria many security council members want to stop the bombardment but they're also aware of russia's record of intransigents on syria it's used its veto 12 times in the security council that's why they're doing things behind closed doors at the moment their next step of course is likely to be an open meeting calling russia out in public james out his era at the united nations. there's a communications officer the world food program and she says syrians are facing a new enemy and it's poverty. after 8 years of crisis in syria.

needs are strikes staggeringly high is specifically in it live because of the latest escalation we know that there is from 150-002-1800 extension 00 people who have been displaced from north and. southern parts of it live to the northern camps where we've been receiving them and providing food assistance and humanitarian aid however more needs to be done since 2014 the world food program and the entire u.n. body has been able to reach the north west of syria through our cross border operations via turkey. alone is able to reach just a bit over half a 1000000 people on a routinely and regular basis however we have had to stop some of our assistance to parts in southern italy due to the fighting we've spoken through our partners to some of these families they happened to be the families who were unable to provide

transportation for themselves it's a long road from the southern parts of it lip to the northern camps and so they've ended up being stranded we're doing our best to reach them and in fact our partners tell us that as of last evening we've managed to reach all of them with food assistance and shelter it's also important to recognize that after 8 years of crisis a lot of people are tired it's not just the folks in it live who are now under fire but also the 75 percent of syrians who are living in areas that have been settled but they are facing a new enemy that of poverty. live agreed to continue trade talks even after president trump threatened to impose tariffs on all chinese imports the latest round of negotiations and in washington with no breakthrough china's top trade negotiator says the meeting was constructive. and beijing well the question now of course is the proportionality of china's response china has.