yes the opposition leader has been rallying supporters in the town of outside caracas he says venezuela is still facing a humanitarian crisis and promised to keep up the pressure on mr allison has the latest now from bogota. thousands of innocent when it started lining up in the early hours of saturdays just hours after praise in the classroom i do know and now it's the reopening of the bridges the formal crossings between colombia and venezuela we've seen long lines especially in this city. main entry point into colombia where tens of thousands of innocents in a daily basis cross to try and find food medicine and access medical services that they have a hard time getting back at home thousands of venezuelans were lying on illegal crossings on dirt paths that are controlled by criminal gangs while the border was

closed so this is definitely. a very good this is definitely very good news for thousands of in use weapons that need to cross into colombia on a daily basis in the meantime inside the. political fight continues between the government and the opposition we've seen doing rallies in and around us and the leader of the opposition plan wedo though said that he's not interested in continuing and negotiations with the government that were attempted in oslo in europe as long as my daughter does not accept to put a date for early elections to try and solve the political crisis in venezuela. ok let's talk. a listen american affairs analyst and editor in chief of the news website news news dot com and tomorrow welcome back to the news so the border is now open why no. i think because of just the ongoing pressure in men as well as

system a pressure cooker ready to explode in madeira has started opening the borders to some of the other countries over the past couple of months the whole thing was just a charade theater because. it's a stop humanitarian aid from coming in because supposedly it was some sort of trojan horse that the americans were trying to bring into that as well it's absolutely ludicrous people are starving and that was just a legitimate aid that was trying to get into the country and the venezuelan government has for years refused to accept that there is a major humanitarian crisis going on and this is just one more political move on governments are has the opposition meanwhile simply given up. no i don't think they've given up i think they keep the pressure on but if this is been a cycle now that as you know that has been going on for years where the protests ramp up the the government gets negotiations going that they used to saw as

a stalling tactic they diffuse the crisis the the opposition gets tired of being out in the street and demonstrating against the government it's happened over and over again and i suspect it will happen again obviously this time with one way though of declaring himself president in more than 50 countries acknowledging that he's the legitimate president of united states and there seems to have finally have been some sort of fissures within the madrone regime there is a little bit more hope that something's going to happen but i have no illusions that all these talks in norway were going to go anywhere and i think i said it on al-jazeera error within the past couple of weeks so this is not surprising to me at all why there has been clear that the only negotiations should be about when with resigning and ok and is not on that question of his resignation witnessed him a dollar a rather have absolute control over what's his literally a depopulating country in real time 5000 people a day moving out of venezuela rather than just find

a fix for this and look easy the numbers from the united nations high commissioner for refugees 4000000 men and zones have left 3000000 since 2015 a 1000000 since november this is the equivalent of the whole state of california and relative terms leaving the united states that's what you know relative terms with that that's how big a part of the very small population has left the country it's a crazy situation it is a refugee crisis that this hemisphere has never seen before it is going to start rivaling the syria refugee crisis if this continues and this is a major international crisis that the international community has not taken seriously enough for years ok mike. pompei of the u.s. secretary of state signaling to the opposition not to mr why don't primarily but to the other people around him saying look get your act together what is the issue with them and why have they been fractured and why are they continuing not to be on

the same page you know again those of us who hope that something will happen that there will be a democratic transition in venezuela were quite hopeful with why though because it seemed like the opposition was coalescing around him as a leader but as things got complicated and mother a didn't leave the opposition has started its usual infighting again it's a been a vicious circle over the past few years this happened over and over and over again as pompei also said there are 40 different people and medicine all of it think they should be the next president of venezuela so it's really a you know a tragedy and and here the opposition deserves some serious blame because if they want their country to be democratic they really want them as wants such suffering they have to get their act together stop the babies and then doing our place it's time for the opposition to be united and to figure out a transition to the democracy and come back to a country that has so many riches and that should was once the envy of latin if the military tilted in a slightly different direction i'm not talking about

a military coup but if they just signaled very clearly look we do not like the status quo would that be enough perhaps to embolden the opposition they could talk to people like pump aoe and then the country could move in a different direction yeah possibly peter but i think that in the end the only way this is going to really work is either if there is such a massive. popular rebellion against the government that forces him to leave or if there is a very significant split from of the military in the move the military told her you're gone we have to find a way of fixing this country and moving into a democracy and that has yet to happen we thought or at least the united states government thought that they had some deal with a couple of the top generals in venezuela and why though declared that you know in the months afterward to declare himself president when he had that many rebellion at the end of april but until the military really takes a strong move i have trouble seeing that anything's going to happen because the military really has a monopoly on power in that country and controls everything and tony

a great structure as ever thanks so much antonio to the course in miami on skype. lots more still to come for you here on the news including time is running out for a palestinian journalist facing deportation from israel and the sports news than the host nation england hit back with a big win at cricket's world cup. just a day after the deal between the u.s. and mexico on tariffs and immigration migrants continues to cross over into mexico from guatemala mexico has deployed 6000 members of its national guard to its border with guatemala and an effort to stem the flow of migrants to the u.s. washington yesterday spending plans to impose tariffs on all mexican goods as part of that deal many believe mexico's import dependent economy pushed president under as manuel lopez obrador to agree to the deal but the u.s.

relies on its neighbor for cost technology and fruit and vegetables american spent $378000000000.00 on mexican products in the last year as manuel raw power of ports now from water is in mexico an increase in terrorists would have also high gas prices for american consumers. one could argue sudan what is ground 0 for a trade war that's been brewing between the united states and mexico is just south of mexico's border with the u.s. and is one of mexico's most economically significant land ports what is also known for being the host city to hundreds of. factories that supply a wide range of manufactures in the united states. we are proud to say that anywhere in the world people own something manufacturing quality refrigerator cellphones golf clubs you name it. 27 year old. is getting ready to head to his factory job he says he makes just over $2.00 an

hour sometimes more if he works overtime it's this type of low cost labor that makes mexico so appealing to american companies when workers if buy them when i make it in the u.s. an american will be paid in dollars here in mexico that same dollar can pay $2.00 or 3 workers. ad there are an estimated 1000000 people employed by the thousands of mikey scattered in northern mexico u.s. president donald trump says mexico has taken away these jobs from americans suggesting the economic relationship between the 2 countries has become one sided many economists say this notion couldn't be farther from the truth so it's not a one sided economy mexico has become since march of this year the most important provider of inputs to the u.s. for every 100 jobs that the u.s. creates in mexico 250 jobs are created in the u.s. . based on on on on the technology and the value added that the u.s.

gives to what we produce in in in the region. an important footnote to this is that the united states also has an $81000000000.00 trade deficit with mexico this is perhaps one of the reasons why president trump has pursued such an aggressive and controversial trade policy still last year the u.s. imported $346000000000.00 worth of mexican goods despite continuous threats by president front to close the border or impose tariffs on mexican exports trade between the u.s. and mexico remains at an all time high and the evidence is here in the seemingly endless line of long haul trucks waiting to carry mexican exports into the united states. there's no expectation that the 1000000 manufacturing jobs like the 180 kelly handle has at the siemens factory are in danger of disappearing any time soon although there's also no guarantee they won't. see that white house.

u.s. congress members are asking the white house to clarify its position on libya they say confusion over the trumpet ministrations stance on the war stuff is being used by groups to justify the fighting just last month donald trump spoke to huffed on the telephone. and recognized him for fighting what he called terrorism patchy cool hain reports now from washington. as forces loyal to khalifa haftar moved on tripoli the u.s. secretary of state sounded the alarm this won't be resolved through force of arms or just a no way that's going to take place we there's a u.n. process we have been part of that and a half stars been part of that we urge them to have to stand down move back to the negotiating table so that we can get a political resolution libya but then soon after the president picked up the phone and in a readout of the call the white house said president donald trump recognized field marshal have to our significant role in fighting terrorism and security in libya's

oil resources and the 2 discussed a shared vision for libya's transition to a stable democratic political system that to many seemed like an endorsement including to the democratic members of the foreign affairs committee who have sent this letter to the secretary of state writing the call has led to uncertainty regarding the u.s. position and that libyan armed actors are using the confusion to continue the conflict they're urging him to clarify the country's position this is part of a broader fight for influence according to federal filings just last month after hours organization agreed to pay $2000000.00 to a u.s. lobbying firm to help improve his image in d.c. the white house says he has not been invited to meet with the president at the white house. but they've said very little about which side of the conflict the u.s. actually supports members of congress say that needs to change. political hay al-jazeera washington. because intelligence chief has left his post after an

emergency meeting on friday the president metropolit said a santa said he sacked see a tremendous after he appeared before a parliamentary committee investigating the easter sunday attacks in april mendus says he resigned on stage he told the committee the attacks could have been prevented he said the president should have held more security meetings and often and as has more on those developments from colombia. present my policy recently livid at the proceedings at the special parliamentary select committee on the easter sunday bombings on the very 1st day he ordered a halt to the live feed from that parliamentary select committee and that is where his chief of national intelligence is a tremendous a give testimony we had him say that the national security council had met on a regular basis essentially revealing the kind of lackadaisical attitude to its intelligence to its intelligence sharing and things like that now he told his

senior police officers when he met them last evening that all those who had given evidence were those who had been removed and there he revealed that even his chief of the national intelligence had been removed or sacked now here's his reason why moammar marble i will not send anyone who is currently working for the defense ministry or police department before the select committee and i will take primary responsibility because revealing intelligence chiefs intelligence directors and criminal investigation chiefs through the media is not something that is done anywhere in the world. present my policy receive talking about the number of cases before the supreme court saying that his attorney general had pointed out that it's the same issues that the select committee is looking at so he says he has informed the speaker you know essentially implying that the select committee should defer to the supreme court however we are hearing that a special emergency cabinet meeting that the president called essentially on friday

evening to discuss these issues reached no sort of conclusive decision and that we are expecting that the select committee will resume sittings on tuesday. still to come for you here on the news we'll have more on the u.s. sanctions and the other black gold keeping the iranian economy afloat. in sports its ferrari who are on top in qualifying ahead of the canadian border 3. hello there we're still seeing some severe weather over parts of north america at the moment we're seeing some flooding in the southeast and we've also seen some very gusty winds those winds have been pulling down trees and power lines now this system is still with us it is going to stick around over the next few days so still

some more heavy downpours to be seen here and some strong winds so that could be a little bit more in the way of wind damage or some more localized flooding as well the next system is already crossing the northern parts that's edging its way eastwards and it will activate some weather i reports of texas there as we head through the day on monday so more cloud more wet weather is expected here and then this whole region for the fairly unsettled for the following few days towards the west it's getting hot now for some of us here san francisco should make it to around 29 degrees for the central americans plenty of showers here at the moment lots of them over cuba jamaica and into his banjara and plenty of them for the west as well and these ones really are quite active at times it will be banding together to give some more prolonged outbreaks of rain for the south and there's plenty of sunshine for many of us in south america at the moment look at that for rio where up at 25 level what is already where at about 18 or more cloud we're forming as we head through the next few days there's a few more outbreaks of rain a light came on monday and that really gets going as we head into tuesday.

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and tonight in movies on air and online. looking back you're watching the al-jazeera news live from these are your top stories protest leaders in sudan are accusing the ruling military jointer of using widespread intimidation to prevent a civil disobedience campaign due to begin on sunday at least 5 opposition leaders have been arrested with some of them saying they've been given death threats. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has reopened the border with colombia after 4 months closure it was shot to stop his political opponents bringing in u.s. backed aid thousands cute at the crossing to buy food and medicine because of

shortages at home. and a russian investigative journalist even got an office been placed under house arrest after being charged with dealing drugs well enough says he's been framed and that he was beaten in police custody he's exposed corruption among moscow's political elite in the past. let's get more on our top story the crisis in sudan we're going to talk now to jeff stacey jeff is a national security and development consultant and formerly a u.s. state department official he's in our bureau in washington jeff good to talk to you again as ever so as far as what we're talking about here. ahmed has left behind a team in khartoum who do they talk to and what can they achieve yes. well they're talking to the t.m.c. obviously and hopefully they're talking to general mehdi who was elevated from being basically ginger we leader thug to general himself to give him some alleged legitimacy but after they turn themselves into the rapid support forces one of the

worst euphemisms in the world today they've done some despicable things we've got over 100 dead we've got a rest we've got death threats so let's hope that the ethiopians are having some success they need strong support from the un but they're blocked in the security council it really is completely in the balance sadly it appears that the fix is in and it's a very violent fix at that but some of the people literally sitting around the table are simply surely an extension of what went before so they got rid of al bashir so the figurine has gone in but the back story is still there. very true and fact the back story is even worse and deeper and spread around the region to other plutocrats and dictators in the region we've got others who are strongly insisting that this not turn into a 2nd arab spring i'm afraid this bodes very ill for. me for algeria

let alone libya if they manage to push us forces you know back because we've got a situation where the leaders of the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt are strongly pushing. multiple regimes to stand their ground and that seems to be what is the case here driving the forces more than anything else i mean we think about it the protesters got very close they were there for a long time they had several things on the table already mutually agreed with the t.m.c. these are the military hunta top leaders. what they've decided based on this lobbying i'm afraid is that they are not going to give an inch and the less the international community against the odds could mount all this pressure and there is some sort of nationwide you know nonviolent protest probably we're going to go back to another dictatorship by another name these 3 seems designed

destination and is this part of the problem because until we know the answer to this question we don't know the direction of travel to the country is the regime's desired destination self preservation or democratic civilian government. well we thought that they were considering and they were apparently that's why it took so long in the protesters were so excited i mean they really thought they had the momentum it began to be reported along without geria as almost a 2nd arab spring in the making because the military junta considered it very seriously what seems to be the difference is that they were pushed by a very strong conservative movement from the crown prince of u.a.e. the crown prince of saudi arabia the military dictator who was a democrat and turned into an autocrat in egypt a few others that is proving to be the decisive cobol around the region when it

comes to these protest movements the legitimacy that they kind of builds up they thought they had and unfortunately we're looking at a kind of region wide that clamp down and we're going to see it soon in other countries as well i'm terribly afraid to say jeff thank you. iran says new sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the u.s. is not serious about its calls for dialogue now the sanctions target tehran's petrochemical industry including its biggest petrochemical group which the u.s. has funnels billions of dollars of its revenues to the islamic revolutionary guard corps washington's branded the elite military unit a terrorist organization becomes a week after the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o announced it was ready to sit down with iran and iran's oil ministers as iran is keeping up oil sales through quotes unconventional means to circumvent u.s. sanctions or such a body has more now from tehran. well this move is being called economic terrorism

according to the foreign ministry spokesman up us mousavi this is a continuation of the united states government's policy towards iran of putting pressure on the pressure on iran and the people of this country and that is the suggestion last week by officials in the united states that if they were willing to talk with the iranians is not really a true one it's not they does not what they actually mean they're not true to their words that they cannot be trusted the iranian oil minister has also been speaking on saturday saying that iran has absolutely no plans to leave opec and the gap that's been created in the oil markets by iran being not being able to sell all its oil on the international market can never actually be filled by any of the countries such as saudi arabia and the u.a.e. so he's also reiterating iran's position that all these sanctions they might put some pressure on the country but nobody can actually replace what they're trying to do well the pressure from u.s. sanctions is having an effect on the iranian economy with export margins tight

investors are turning to small and medium sized companies like coffee shops that can still turn a profit zain bus ravi has that story from tehran. in iran oil isn't the only source of energy suffering under american sanctions the threat of punishment has made doing any kind of trade with iran highly risky for foreign companies that even in a cup of coffee the plight of iran's small businesses can be found. shyly muscly is a trained lab scientist whose passion for the drink inspired her to become possibly iran's 1st and only female coffee bean roaster we have some trade there is business marketing and there is a kind of buy coffee. factories and you can be buy from them but because of the sanctions they don't want to get me wrong they send copies to the baha'i arctura and we get them from there and we buy them at the most precious time

of their life but we get them like 7 or 8 months later the work is delicate timing is everything a bad batch gets thrown out and sanctions have made these beans more precious than ever so people need a cup or 10 just to wake up in the morning for others it's a way that you come together for the people here who make the coffee they say it's the perfect marriage of art and sun a coffee roaster from germany is this cafes pride and joy a piece of precision equipment it needs regular maintenance and new parts but the manufacturers headquarters in germany and offices in istanbul and buy have all refused to service it in iran after months of emails cafe managers found a technician from friends who wanted to come on holiday and was willing to bring the parts and do the work but going through back channels is time consuming and expensive. but jumping hurdles is the part of running

a business the cafe owner most in mudgee the hall likes the best out. of anybody it's become very difficult but it is interesting for us because we have to innovate it's a challenge in a. like chodas when i compare myself to people who have businesses abroad i feel i'm doing better here because they can do whatever they want but we mustn't be in things here. still sanctions are hurting bottom lines many cafes have already closed their doors. and iran's old coffeehouses or cowboy economy are also under threat losing money could make it harder to preserve the roots of persian cafe culture you know i think about my grandparents my great great grandparents who were hanging out in these kind of places back in the old days a serious concern for employers is also young people heading abroad to find work i mean that sucks i mean that's that's horrible we're losing a lot of these talented. folks just because of that because.

they see the future of. coffee business as somehow limited for them in the wrong. muscly says she wants to enroll in a new coffee program at the university of california in the united states but a ban on visas for iranians makes that dream seem impossible cuffy even darker dream but the create some like to hear that thanks to you all someday i will. let you know that they don't want to see you as a self described coffee lover cup it seems is oh how awful i sent part. of the same bus ride the ultra 0 to her. let's go back to another of our headlining stories the arrest and detention of a russian journalist even golan off even a cult because it's at the same in chief. he joins us on skype from moscow even

called welcome to al-jazeera so golan off is either a drug dealer who got beaten up a little bit perhaps as a consequence of being arrested and detained or he's a truth seeking journalist which is it. well percival i'm sorry i'm north korea must go i'm paranoid the i mean your ego because. is that in a to russian speaking media outlet but our headquarters. really is there going to be there or will there be an letty's republic it was the use of the soviet part of it so it union in late thanked the eighty's but now it's an independent country so 5 years ago we have established i mean it was like here in reagan but we have a lot of journalists based in moscow and we monitor motor is one of. being one of the most and prominent journalists is that hidden in the drug addict or in europe

you drug user he's he's super famous freshener investigator and he's probably right he's the most famous russian nyssa gated gurneys in the room it's. ok what happens to him next. well you know we are exhausted but we are more or less being because it was that thing 3 days ago. and we've been waiting for the official arrests and the way in the trial of the official arrests it's just the were empty they have decided not to put him in prison which was you know resupplies that they going to imprison him but they have decided to put him on their house arrest which is like a small beat or the whole journeys journeys community in russia.

we have seen the primogen of protests today several journalists were detained by the authorities they have subsequently been released why do the authorities in your mind handle this kind of individual and this kind of situation in this way. well you know in st it is a risk heart suit to guess why. you're never going to get in the way or or ways developing their way what i mean also who are we know that that. actually the prosecution or lower journalists started it goes a is there's a war there's an easy mistake ations we even you know we have a normal there are action and who are going to be responsible for that. but the economy discuss it right now because we just don't have enough proof for that but

of course those people are connected to the issue of the authorities but you know in the as we as we used to say here in a restaurant or in russia criminal has a lot of hours you know absolute one time or decide to cross you. ok even though missing that i'm going to be greeted there on that skype line it's degrading as skype sometimes does so we'll wrap up our conversation but thank you so much for joining us from riga we do appreciate your time. and if. a palestinian photojournalist arrested by israeli police is duty whether he'll be deported it's human rights groups say most stuff i'll come through for is being punished for his work but officials argue he's in occupied east jerusalem illegally here's how to force it. if 6 years ago. appeared in the documentary describing the difficulties of living stateless and under occupation in east jerusalem doesn't for us if you have no idea the union o.b.d.

. now is families in east jerusalem have been celebrating the muslim festival of ied. over. his wife to mom and their daughter without him as they have been since january when he was arrested and threatened with deportation. or. his psychological situation is really bad he's refusing to communicate with anyone he's allowed to use the telephone but he's refusing to talk to his friends his family colleagues and even his mother he just calls make sure a see as ok. arrest followed a long battle over the legality of his status in occupied east jerusalem our host palestinian father brought him here from algeria when he was 12 years old but delays in applying for and processing family reunification papers meant that his case wasn't considered until he was an adult he's been living here on humanitarian visas since but in late 2015 he was informed the interior ministry was considering rejecting his latest role.