international filmmakers a world class journalists. program students spying. on al-jazeera. hello there i'm mr and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes russian warplanes strike at the heart of syria's adlib province despite a cease fire deal that was supposed to protect civilians. the e.u. pleads with iran's president to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal tehran says it's enriching more uranium than before the agreement. the u.s. senate prepares to swear in the judge and jury donald trump's impeachment trial.

and fears of all chemical toonami in the philippines sent thousands fleeing their homes and others defying evacuation notices. big changes for african football's biggest international tournament the 2021 after cup of nations in cameroon will start in january. now russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on the last rebel held province at least $21.00 civilians have been killed in recent days and that's despite a ceasefire that was supposed to have started on sunday the white house that's a rescue group has now reported more than a dozen violations of that cease fire has holding down reports. the damage caused by one of several air strikes in the northwest province of it but survivors trying to salvage what's left i emergency crews combed the rubble to

recover the body of a child was their civilians were among the casualties and it lips city i was i. did it it was your point that in the afternoon it lapses he was targeted by stroke or 23 jets they hit the industrial area and alcohol markets caution most of those hurt have serious injuries. in a nearby hospital france console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on a one step 6. i was in syrian and russian jets attack it that city as well as several rebel held town was the ceasefire was brokered by turkey which supports the rebels and russia which backed the syrian government's 9 month offensive thank fighters are going to al qaeda are the

strongest forces in these areas home to around 3000000 civilians according to the u.n. close 240-0000 syrians have been forced from their homes and it lives in the past 10 weeks no time no shelter no food people are starving to death in this governor and they're not being well they're dying because they're hungry the kremlin says it's targeted rebels who've attacked civilian government held areas and what's supposed to be a so-called deescalation zone i russia and turkey are reported to have been to go sheeting the establishment of a secure zone for the displaced during the winter and russia has announced humanitarian corridors have already been established to allow people in its lips to cross over into government held territory. it's unclear how many have chosen to go . beyond al-jazeera now more than 5000000 children have been displaced since the conflict began 9 years ago that's according to the u.n.

that says abuse is rife a report by the un commission of inquiry for syria says warring parties on both sides have killed maimed and subjected children to serious violations pro-government forces used custom munitions and chemical weapons sexual violence and torture were used against men women and children thousands of schools have been destroyed or used for military purposes and more than 2000000 boys and girls are not attending classes regularly well honey gallery is a member of that u.n. commission of inquiry on syria which released the report and he joins us now from geneva mr magali i want to ask you why did the commission want to focus particularly on children there have been multiple violations throughout the 9 years of this conflict why children. right because we we felt that for a long time we've been reporting on on the violations and children are mentioned. in passing whereas we're beginning to realize now that devastating impact of this

conflict on children going forward you know children some of them were born during the conflict and have had no schooling whatsoever some of them have been out of schools for the last 789 years. and that's just one aspect to you know the devastation on the occasion system for children primary education perhaps is a more stable but once you get to secondary education it's really been of the misstating for many of them and then what happens is boys end up either on the streets looking for work and being breadwinners or they end up being recruited by armed groups into the fighting and so the victims become perpetrators are often saying children should be viewed as as victims 1st on top of that you know we're seeing children who have been dying not just because of the bombings and the sieges

but today as we speak children are dying because of the lack of humanitarian access and the lack of medical care and poor conditions you look at the local barn in the in the southwest we have reports of children dying in that area because of lack of assistance there if you look at what's happening in italy but we're particularly concerned about the of the children among the 700000 the recently displaced who are now in an area where international assistance is being limited because of this stalemate at the security council and then you look at children in a whole camp you know the children of you know women. suited with islamic states and you've seen the awful reporting on the conditions in in those 3 refugee camps and again reports of children dying and these are children drawing. preventable deaths you know with

a bit more. prioritization over assistance and access to assistance we would be able to prevent this so i want to ask you because you went past me on this report yourself and and the list of violations some of which you've talked about now as is incredibly long but they include forced recruitment and sexual violence as well can i ask you what personally affected you the most while working on this. i mean the sexual violence we've seen a curve by all parties pretty much in this conflict all the just to clarify we haven't seen a systematic pattern by any one party. but we've seen it practice to to instill fear to to put pressure on parents or just to punish in some of the places and unfortunately it's not only on the part of the of the states but it's also on the part of of the armed groups but i guess for me what's

been shocking is to look at what hope there is for children in syria today going forward you know we're still as i said seeing preventable deaths education is now devastated and you know in what way will they be able to catch up who we're talking a generation that lost schooling you know 5000000 displaced internally and externally. you know we're trying to look at measures that could be taken for example the syrian states does not necessarily recognize that u.k. tional certificated issued were children have gone to schools. where the armed groups are in control so the children are left with either having to restart or be out on the streets and it's not about a linear thinking it's nice because i am all you yourself have worked extensively in the fields of transitional justice and conflict resolution and when our preaching 9 years of this conflict right so especially for children where do we go

from here what can be done at this stage. well right now obviously the 1st thing that could be done is everybody stops bombing schools and facilities that children need this prickly going forward turned and what we've said in the report is we need emergent lee to start rebuilding these places so children can be back at school rather than to be out about on the streets or involve them in the conflict etc if we need to be looking at the. medical facilities and the humanitarian assistance that children need desperately because they're dying you know which is quite remarkable that at this stage we're still reporting we were reporting on children dying when they were sieges when nobody could get in and out but you know why should children die in the ad lib region. when you know there's

nothing really that should be preventing international humanitarian assistance other than bureaucracies in un resolutions and lack of cooperation on the part of of states and they it has had the megali that a member of that u.n. commission of inquiry on syria that worked on that report thank you for joining us on al-jazeera now turkey's president says the deployment of turkish troops to libya has begun and fighting in tripoli has receded and following the failure of talks in moscow on monday took retrieved all of cliff after us forces have been trying to capture the capital and depose the internationally recognized government for the past 9 months sin and cos they are who is live for us now in istanbul some talk us through the scale and speed of this deployment that we are going to be seeing from taki. i will not say actually a turkish military presence in libya is there it has been there for a while and especially after the defense and security deal signed between the u.n.

recognize jna and turkey some troops have been deployed as well let me 1st say that the turkish military deployment to deter the turkish troops that are in libya and that are that will be in libya will not be combat forces they are there for military in advisory purpose military training and also turkey has been is selling some defense industrial products to the jna as it was stated by the president of turkey before so since so the it has been signed between jna and turkey we heard 35 troops were deployed there i spoke to the other 3 officials in ankara void giving end in numbers exact numbers about how many troops have been deployed there and how many will be there and they're just telling us that the number of troops over there changes depending on the day and

depending on the need and they are avoiding to say the target that number of troops to be deployed to evolve any in any speculation by the involved parties but yesterday took us defense minister had a statement about libya the defense minister said a change in number of our staff turkish most restaff is currently advising in libya defense security corp office established there so we know that d.n.a. and turkey establishments a coordination office to run out this defense and security deal between the 2 i have to remind that the their forces the troops turkish troops will not be combat they are training the genny forces over there which have at these 56 or 7 factions we don't know the exact number. and even for the future i'm told that there is no name for combat forces this is just this is just for training them but why the prisons aired on repeated the statement today as if it was something new is

important it seems that our don is also trying to give a message to general have to who has left the negotiation table in moscow who said that he won't be abiding with the ceasefire so the meaning of turkish military presence in libya is much more about the turns between jna and have their forces some cross earlier there live for us in istanbul thank you for that update. well there's plenty more ahead for you this news hour including the u.s. and china sign a deal to ease their trade what we'll look at the impact on the wild economy. foreign ministers are gathering to discuss their next steps after iran admitted to shooting down a ukrainian passenger jet live in london. and in sports the video assistant referee cut the celebrations short in the english f.a. cup and he will be here with that story.

now facing pressure at home and abroad iran's president says dialogue is still possible and a televised speech hassan rouhani insisted he wants to prevent war but he also said tehran has now suppost uranium enrichment limits says under the 2015 nuclear deal iran is accusing europe of yielding to u.s. bullying for triggering a dispute mechanism that could reimpose u.n. sanctions on tehran. when the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear deal we contacted the parties and expressed our preparedness to fulfill our obligations however today we incidence of the nuclear power we have no limit we are in a much better situation compared to before the deal rhenium enrichment today it's much higher than that stipulated in the deal we had signed we cannot see.

we will reciprocate. well said bag has more from tehran. it was a very defiant message by president rouhani you know we know that iran has been phasing back it's cutting back its commitments in regards to that 2015 nuclear deal that started last year it's been in 5 phases the last phase was early january now according to that deal they're not allowed to enrich uranium past 3.67 percent we know that it's over 4.5 percent we know that they're not allowed to stockpile uranium more than 300 kilograms we know that they've exceeded that but iran has been very clear and transparent about this that they've said that the europeans are not sticking to their commitments as part of that deal so iran has slowly been reducing its commitments president rouhani spoke about the state of the economy he said that we accepted the risks when we started that reduction in commitments yes it has been difficult but the economy is working and again a very defiant message saying to the world that yes we we are reducing these commitments but iran is willing to talk at all these reductions are reversible if

the european countries come back to their obligations to that deal and also saying to the european countries that they need to stand up to the united states because the united states unilaterally pulled out of this deal under donald trump the swedish foreign minister. has been speaking and sorry has been speaking to british media this morning and she said that the e 3 countries are trying to force iran and the united states back to the negotiating table and back to the j.c. nuclear deal but she rejected the idea by u.k. prime minister barak says johnson iran should negotiate a new deal under donald trump well let's speak to him he said to syria to great see now she's a research fellow at the royal united services institute and she joins us via skype from london i say presumably presumably we're honeys announcement hasn't come as any kind of a surprise here. well i think what we have to consider rationing is that there is a lot of posturing some idea of science now obviously there is going to be

a lot of concern about the statement coming out. president but we have to keep in mind. that it's money will grow and oversight on the right you know there will be. anything that it's going on with the growth of the over. the air where it's going to buy right so far even you know we were. 'd right. here on earth. all other. so by my understanding i said this is quite a jump in the level of uranium enrichment sempron previously iran went from 3.67 percent as per the agreement to 4.5 percent so not a huge jump and now it's more than 20 percent have western countries made a miscalculation he could this push iran to even more aggressive behavior while it's it's really not clear whether we are right and i think it would be very

concerning whether it is actually the case when you know that. 20 percent of the if you are a. much closer to weapons grade the range that we were talking about. but i think what we heard. by the i.a.e.a. for an hour and a reason. they were going to occur programmers. who by never reached really wait for any i.e. . there have been reports as mr saying earlier that president trump was threatening these 3 countries with tariffs if they didn't try to resurrect the dispute resolution mechanism was this a a move that was driven by the united states. well the discussion about triggering the research is making me already sorry. that you ross signed. to back at school who i honestly didn't know and very serious out there for it's wrong so

to state benefits compliance back in the november i think. you are. fighting you are not how. you operate but i think reading it for your number if it was under. her program there and chance to sign it. and their way mean that were. not true as one some is about people who should who parties iran and the united season for her to come back and if you will be able to something along the lines of my home and back i answered but when it comes. to not someone calls last and i said this area to be it say they're from the royal knight united services institute thank you for joining us on out as they're. all moving over to united states and the presiding judge for donald trump and

pietschmann trial is due to be sworn in cheers day is the data that's been set for the start of those proceedings in the senate trump denounced the white house of fiction thread as a con job by his democratic rivals how does your caster has more from washington d.c. . inside the locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing president donald trump of abusing his power and obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office as president is not above the law he will be held accountable he has been held accountable he has been in huge the senate's reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of the crimes impeachment the $100.00 u.s. senators will soon be sworn in as jurors with arguments to begin next week republicans hold the majority in the senate and their leader mitch mcconnell has

voiced strong opposition to the impeachment if the senate blesses this unprecedented and diverse house process buggering complete case at a subject of basis or enough to impeach a president. we will almost guarantee the impeachment of every future president of either party. like that bird trump is only the 3rd president in u.s. history to be impeached he denies the allegations that he withheld u.s. security aid to ukraine in order to pressure ukraine's president volodymyr zelinsky to announce an investigation into joe biden new evidence continues to emerge in the case on tuesday impeachment investigators released text messages and notes from an associate of trump's private attorney rudy giuliani get the lewinsky to announce that the biden case will be investigated wrote the associate who had been dispatched to ukraine and in a letter addressed to the president of ukraine giuliani says he is acting with

trump's knowledge and consent witnesses may tell the truth and witnesses may not tell the truth documents joe generally like whether the new documents or potential new witnesses will play a role in trump's trial is an open question the president's defenders say no the polling shows the majority of americans think the senators should hear new evidence in order to have a fair trial the senate is on trial as well as the president does the senate conduct the trial according to the constitution to vindicate the republic. or does the senate participate in the president's crimes by covering them up at least 4 republican senators would need to agree to open the trial to new witnesses that's possible but the odds for conviction and removal are much steeper support from 20 senate republicans would be required to make that happen but it historic trial of

a president is now guaranteed heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. while our white house correspondent can be how trains us now live from washington d.c. kimberly so we're expecting this judge to be sworn in today talk us through what happens next. yes let me give you an idea of the timeline 2 hours from now we're expecting those house managers that you saw operating across the capitol and how did your caster's package there they will be going to the senate to read the articles of impeachment 6 hours after that as you mentioned we do expect that the chief justice of the supreme court will be sworn in he in turn will then swear in the senators in they will be acting as the jurors in this trial that trial expected to begin on tuesday kimberly everyone's painfully aware that this is very much an election year how long could this trial drag on for. yeah well it won't go till election day thank goodness because if any one of us could could handle that but it

does expect to go at least 2 weeks this is what the white house is saying we had an opportunity to be briefed by senior administration officials yesterday and what they said essentially is that they're looking for a swift trial likely about 2 weeks they're hoping to block witnesses much like we saw that obstruction effort in the house of representatives and really try to cast doubt on charges now democrats have a different idea they want to hear more of this evidence they also want to hear from witnesses but that could blow back on them so it remains to be seen whether or not that will happen or not if it does if those witnesses are called expect that republicans will try to leverage it to their advantage as well even trying to call in the whistleblower who 1st flagged this saying that the president allegedly had abused his presidential powers for political purposes candy how it got there for us in washington d.c. thank you ken. i spoke to robert coochie who is an associate professor at lancaster

university in the u.k. he says what the democrats can hope for is the trial to reveal damaging information about trump in the run up to this year's election. republicans are going to fall in line and they're going to follow mitch mcconnell and they're going to follow the other leaders and how they vote quite frankly these are not autonomy this senators as it were they're they're part of a larger political bloc and they're going to follow the guidance of the other leaders so the best the democrats can can probably hope for is some sort of smoking gun though it does look like if they had a smoking gun it would have come out when the house was was debating this and if they do slip it would be with the approval of the leaders it would just make that decision in their own offices that would be something that would be coordinated among the republicans as a whole so if that if that were approved the leaders would be pretty confident that that evidence and those witnesses wouldn't be too too damaging to donald trump

who certainly is going to be using this trial in the actions of the democrats against them in this 2020 election. staying in the united states kevin's going to tell us about the weather that's right we have a lot of wintry weather to talk about 1st of all going to start over here towards the western seaboard not only fact the parts in 8 states but also affecting canada notice a big area of low pressure right there moving into parts of in coover that's the one that's bringing the big storm all the way down the coast there we're talking about very strong winds we're talking about a lot of snow across much of this area the storm has already come onshore but we're only halfway through with the effects of the storm we do expect to see over the next day or so very heavy snow expression the higher elevations we're also going to be very damaging winds up to about 100 kilometers per hour in some of those locations and the down here towards the south is going to be the rain so localized flooding could be a big problem but notice out here towards the west there's another storm coming in

the next $2.00 to $3.00 days the other big part of the system is what we're seeing here in the central plains very very cold air now in place. this is the current temperatures of what's going on across parts of 9 states as well as into canada where the picture right now is that minus $32.00 minneapolis is at minus $21.00 we also have the wind chill to talk about that as the winds and the temperatures about 16000000 people are experiencing wind chills lower than minus 30 right now and for parts of winnipeg in calgary well it's going to be quite chilly over the next few days we expect to see temperatures really not get above minus 10 but all the way down to about minus 23 so very chilly across many parts of states and thank you violence well still ahead on al-jazeera we look at the economic cost of a strain is unprecedented. poland pyrite why the arts are become a battleground for the country's political divisions. and support a rare setback james and the l.a.

make it. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we didn't have immigrants at 0 immigration but this is the one political topic. and everybody's discussing the far right is preparing for battle and their opponents or anyone who is different. prejudice some pride in hungary on al-jazeera. frank assessments the one thing about these bars is that it's really the. climate she informed opinion the economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate goes to school lawyers all 'd of this argument is astonishingly partridge times an in-depth analysis of

the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of the new conscious and aware. against an ethnic sectarian cult or inside story on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour atrocities against children in syria continue to be committed by warring sides the u.n. commission of inquiry released the report as the violence intensifies in that province russian and syrian jets have killed at least 21 people in recent days. turkey's president says the deployment of troops to libya has begun turkish soldiers are being sent to support the internationally recognized government of tripoli heads

fighting forces loyal to war khalifa haftar. and the wrongs president says the rain even richmond limit sections of the 2015 u.k. deal has now been exceeded the 3 european signatories to the deal launched a dispute earlier this week accusing the iranians of violating the deal the dispute may lead to more sanctions. international pressure on iran has also been focused on the downing of the ukrainian passenger plane in tehran last week foreign ministers from 5 countries whose citizens were killed have held a memorial service in london a meeting for the 1st time since the disaster and will hold talks to press tehran to cooperate with foreign investigate says ukraine and canada demanding compensation for families or 176 people on board died after an initial denial iran's military admitted it shot down the jet by mistake while our correspondent joins us now live from london neve want to we actually expect to emerge from this

meeting. well the hope is that at the end of all of this when the investigation finally wraps up that there will be on susan that there will be justice as well ministers from the 5 nations that lost nationals in the downing a fight p.s. 752 began this be seeing with a moment of reflection a moment of silence they they lit candles are now locked in talks behind closed doors canada has been very much in the forefront in calling for accountability and for justice and eventually closure when it comes to the victims ever since ron surprise admission that it had shot down this civilian aircraft last week it's enabled investigators from different countries to access the crash site we know that ukrainian officials are now on possession of the black box flight recorder but very very little is currently known about the aircraft's last moments possibly because the

a lot of the information may be sensitive to iran may be classified but we do know increasingly more and more about some of the passengers on board including an entire family that was killed and also a leading several leading scientists from canada as well it's justice for these people that the canadian leadership are pushing for. fountains comes at a time of growing tensions. that's absolutely right so what these ministers are hoping for 'd the end of all of this is a degree of cooperation but let's not forget the regional backdrop of what's going on at the moment we've heard from the u.k. france and germany that they may well be considering restoring sanctions against iran over its controversial nuclear program the deal of course was signed in 2015 the u.s. pulled out of it and $28.00 teen ever since iran's commitments to the deal have been sliding and now we've heard from the iranian leadership

a warning for european soldiers based in the middle east it's in this feeble atmosphere that investigators now have to hunt for and says. that for us live in london thank you all. thousands more people in the philippines have abandoned their homes because of the threat of a major volcanic eruption buildings in towns near towell kaner have collapsed under the weight of falling ash evacuation centers all over batangas province are also always to fall one of the busiest centers for the homeless as any university reported to maryland has the story. we've spoken to the site manager earlier who told us that there around 3000 evacuees here already and that there are many more supposed to be arriving but they are moving them in different sites it's important to know there are that there are at least $100.00 over $100.00 evacuation sites

across the provinces of but angus and give it well now the situation here although it's getting crowded old a little difficult is manageable we're seeing a lot of aid coming in from different organizations different groups bringing in much needed food blankets clothes and medicine there is also a daily supply of water beyond the physical discomfort here we've spoken to civilians who say it is the agony of waiting that makes it difficult that is because alert level is still at the alert level for which means the hazard just eruption is imminent so they're not exactly sure when they can go home because they had to leave everything that they worked hard for behind their children are unable to go to school so now this is exactly what the national government is asking everyone to be patient because what they need to do is to ensure that when that mazur disruption actually strikes almost everyone is ready out of the 14 kilometer danger zone well scientists studying that rumbling volcano around the clock rob

ryan has been to see them walk. it looks deceptively small and right now deceptively benign. but it's in a lake formed in the crater of a much larger ancient volcano. the combination of molten rock and water is explosive and threatening what experts call a volcanic tsunami are missing we just need the ingredients for us and water. up there since sunday's 1st eruption after being dormant for 40 years scientists from the philippines volcanic agency 5th arcs are working overtime to try and predict what the hull might do next. in. the next few days we're in we are trying to if this right now are going to intensify. researchers are tracking the number and intensity of

many earthquakes coming from the volcano as well as testing for gases it emits. although the plumes of volcanic dust and ash have declined the amount of invisible sulfur dioxide gas is a good indicator of how much molten rock is moving towards or reaching the surface . very tricky so whatever it's not always you get a lot so there are a lot of things happening underneath and in that one we know actually what the volcano is doing right now and there need if we monitored. these tests are proving to hard poses a potential danger and provoking warnings of an imminent fall can make explosion forcing $40000.00 filipinos to seek safety. there's been criticism of the philippines vulcanologists that they weren't able to give more of a warning about this eruption especially as increased activity was detected months

ago but in spite of their experience active volcanoes such as this one are notoriously unpredictable and no one can predict what will do next rob mcbride al-jazeera batangas province northern philippines. now russia's parliament has approved the president's choice for prime minister mikhail mr chen is the former head of the federal tax service and he will replace dmitri medvedev who quit on wednesday along with the entire government the resignations came after president vladimir prison proposed a series of sweeping constitutional changes. while the wilds 2 biggest economies have signed a deal to ease their trade war china has promised to increase u.s. imports and to strengthen intellectual property rules and in exchange the u.s. will remove some tariffs on chinese goods katrina new reports from measuring. it with and i love it ceremony some $200.00 cabinet members will make its executive

surrounding us president donald trump as he described a trade deal with china as historic. today we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fair and reciprocal trade as we signed phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families . the sentiment shared by china's chief trade negotiator. for. china and the united states with the larger picture in mind have taken a serious approach to our differences and work to manage them are properly reaching the phase one try to agreement it is good for china for the united states and the world yo heard his u.s. purchases be made according to chinese market demand and. trade with other

countries but some believe beijing has promised that it's able to deliver those looks to me a very big concession on china's side and i genuinely don't see how china can fall for his commitment of 2 $100000000000.00 more dollars a purchase when the us will without increasing its fiscal subsidies to domestic producers manufacturers dramatically and if china along the way of those 2 years. actually cannot fulfill some of the commitment and then we're expecting to see a collapse of the 1st one to many problems in the u.s. china relationship remains unresolved i don't think that it achieves the fundamental structural changes that are going to need to happen for us. u.s. tech sector in particular to really feel comfortable in the white house both sides celebrated the signing of an easy truce rather than an end to the trade. al-jazeera . earlier i spoke to an italian here's an advisor to the chinese government and he

also says the trade deal is a fragile truce. it seems that donald trump has traded big numbers which will help him he hopes in the election and also some slogans you know this idea of the snapback that if something they don't like isn't resolved that somehow that they can. take measures against china without china doing anything unfortunately the truth is that if china doesn't like what the u.s. is doing they can just simply leave the agreement so i think there's a truce but it's certainly not a phenomenal final step i think you're going to see an impasse towards the end of the year and then it comes down to who is going to blink i mean donald trump has his name his fingerprints all 'd over this deal his going to be trumpeting it on the campaign trail as one of the promises kept and the fact is that if he if he pushes too hard and china doesn't follow through. and they leave the deal it makes

donald trump look less effective less the deal maker less the strong man that he likes to portray himself out so it's a very very difficult chemistry at this point remember that the election will be in november and there will still be time in between when they're in theoretically could be orders made so at this point people are kind of watching and seeing. now in venezuela a gunman. ambushed opposition politicians to again stop them from taking a seat so parliament that they included one who declared himself interim president last year and since then he has failed to overthrow president nicolas maduro despite widespread backing from neighboring countries and the united states here's our latin america editor in caracas. for the 2nd time this month's than israel's opposition majority leader. was obliged to improvise a parliamentary chamber in

a remote auditorium hours earlier armed groups of oil to the government had prevented opposition lawmakers from approaching the national assembly and firing weapons in the losing of the crowbar to attack one of their vehicles. some depict is managed to press police barriers and were brutally ambushed they have taken over the palace moved from a mental group by the dictatorship. of heavily armed security forces had already surrounded the legislators palace where why the law had planned to convene parliament meanwhile government strongman. arrived chair the constituent assembly a rival legislative super body created by president nicholas that operates from the same building he told al-jazeera the opposition didn't have anything more to do in parliament in fact it's not clear whether the mainstream opposition will ever be able to hold another session here in the legislative palace again the government's

strategy seems to be to occupy this area permanently. the next step will likely be to allow the supreme court controlled by model loyalists to appoint a new electoral council. but it's not possible to reach an agreement in parliament stipulated in the constitution the supreme court has the right to the clear a legislative mission and proceed to make the appointments. last. and you are if united states and more than 50 other countries recognized why they all the president of parliament as the country's interim president as well. they argued that macdougall had rigged his 2018 reelection but a year later harsh economic and diplomatic sanctions to try to force a whole new national elections have failed. and it's now why dog was on the defensive as the military backed government uses all the means at its disposal to isolate

a defiant but increasingly powerless opposition you see in human. caracas now thousands of people across france are again marching against the government's plans for pension reforms these latest demonstrations come as a national strike now enters its 7th week the government has made some concessions over the retirement age and other sticking points but unions are promising to continue their campaign they're calling for another mass rally next week. now the economic cost of the bushfire emergency in australia is soaring $3.00 and a half $1000000000.00 is the latest estimate as jessica washington reports from new south wales fruit farmers are among the many devastation by the disaster. it's summer in a stray and this orchard would usually draw hundreds of visit has become to pick their own fruit this is just one of many small businesses devastated by the bush is almost old apple trees were destroyed by flames the trees were uninsured and it

cost the family about $1000000.00 to replant them and repair the damage my parents had in the business for $35.00 yes and. it takes a bit of a tall. much. the for. many farms around australia had already been suffering through the relentless drought and this bushfire season has just made this situation so much worse but the financial impact of this natural disaster won't just be felt on farms it will be felt around the country this is a. bushfire emergency began months. and. the most severely affected areas only account for about one percent of the economy but the disaster is having a global impact. tourism coming to this country people are already canceling.

costs associated with the. analysts have downgraded forecasts one of australia's biggest banks westpac estimates it could slash half a percent from economic growth already there are around $1000000000.00 worth of insurance claims and the government has committed around one and a half $1000000000.00 to rebuilding infrastructure but it says they could be more money if it's needed. scientists say the bushfire season has been exacerbated by climate change and that's put a strain as leaders under more pressure to raise targets to reduce carbon emissions but coal is one of his biggest exports and prime minister scott morrison has said although policies could be involved he won't engage in what he called reckless job destroying targets the government has indicated there may be a formal inquiry into the fires including any role climate change may have had in

sparking one of australia's most expensive natural disasters ever just in washington built in australia now people in southern africa facing a hunger crisis on an unprecedented scale they went wild food program says 45000000 people are in urgent need of food aid drought flooding and economic hardship blame our firm zimbabwe's 15000000 people face chronic food shortages zambia. and several other countries are also hard hit women and children of the west affected. how the political divide between the rising left wing and poland is narrowed and the all those wild lots has changed since the end of communism on my staff years ago and conservative. often as always with more liberal thinking not just in politics but on stage too from the baltic ports of. reports. to

the contrary a cold night in good dance can thousands of people pay tribute to their former man pavel a damn of it should campaign for the rights of migrants was murdered on stage at this very events a year ago. this year's fundraiser here part of a national charity drive raising money for hospital equipment was dedicated to. it used to be shown live on public television since 2017 it's only been carried by a private channel. this event's been going for nearly 3 decades but in recent years it's become controversial for some people here and now that it's just one example of the culture wars being waged between liberals and conservatives. the head of one regional councils actually refused to take part in this year's fundraiser claiming the event had become political decision was supposed to be in on our 2 monolith house ballot who was murdered i asked pawel adama vich his widow now a center left member of the european parliament and campaigner against hate speech

what she made of that maybe they are not aware bad in day or sell of there is a lot of hate there is a lot of maybe disappointment in daily life and a half. bad ideas but as we see in the arab i hear we have a new law in the. records we gather more and more so the phone to some poll sympathetic to the ruling lower and justice party see the charities found yet as a left wing of his politics are at odds with traditional values. it's a view shared by today's people who hosts a current affairs show on television. his liberal attitude is expressed in his motto do whatever you want at the same time he supports very problematic issues like abortion and euthanasia which are contrary to the current government's vision and that struggle for control over poland's cultural space is

now moved here in this city between art and society the. center for contemporary art in warsaw the new director here who was appointed by poland's culture minister has spoken of the art world being dominated by a neo marxist ideology saying he wants to promote artists with other views conservative patriotic pro-family this nomination is. for extremely conservative views and. he doesn't have the art community which will make this mission extremely difficult political landscape is perhaps more polarized than it's ever been with little appetite for compromise that's only likely to make it harder to see the world through someone else's eyes and the al-jazeera. well still ahead in the sports boat here from the former ultimate fighting championship title holder aiming to restore his reputation.

it's time for sports and he's going to tell us about some big changes in african football is a lot going on the stars will set for a big huge surge in the next edition of the consonance premier international competition that's the africa cup of nations will stall saying january rather than june cameron is the host nation and its football federation asked for the switch so as to avoid the country's rainy season apparently. those backtracks not 27 same decision to shift the torments so the northern hemisphere summer or last year's

events in egypt is the 1st nations cup to take place in june and july moving next year's edition means it won't clash with thief is revamped club world cup that will debut in china in june 2021 fe for interesting they are temporarily in charge of african football or fals governing body took over the confederation of african football last year in the wake of a corruption scandal many european clubs will be unhappy with the changed time slot it means they'll lose their african stars in the middle of the league season when iran we spoke to nigeria football writes cullen you don't he doubts the decisions made the events has much to do with the weather as far as we're concerned here in africa. so there's no you're sort of songs do a favor of going to anybody who knows anything about how these things were we know that this was all about the money it's less about the weather and more about the money and i think that's a shame really because. for years. everybody else wanted the african nations got to move from january february to july to summer and

the want in africa kept saying that no the weather conditions here do not fit with the move and eventually it was that was made for the 1st time. of the last tournament and now we're about to square one now from apostle on a star shot he says he turned down the chance to be the new coach as he knew it wasn't the right time for him to accept the job he's currently in charge of cuts for a club alsop i'm very grateful of. for this proposal but this is not the right time for me of course is my dream to go. but it's not the right time and of course because it be a nice he said ready to go to barcelona i love him as a god and i wish him all the best of course and i heard this before about a loner and now is for it because at the end i wish him all of the best. manchester united are through to the 4th round of the english f.a. cup they beat fellow premier league team was one no doubt this early goal video

system referee sporting humble in the build up on matter then schooled the decisive goal for united in the 2nd half next up for united it's a league game against liverpool sound. of thunder storms of help clear the air in melbourne ahead of tennis's 1st grand slam of the year that starts on monday smoke from bushfires had badly affected some players taking part in the australian open qualifiers earlier on this week defending men's champion of a joke of it has been drawn in round one against germany's young and strong and is the reigning women's champion the 22 year old admitting she still gets nervous at the miss sights of serena williams. if i were to talk to syria where she talks to me and i get surprised that she talks to me and that i don't talk that closer than 3 and. no i just say hi how are you. and then she says i don't know i don't know i have like plank out when she talks to.

the draw also delivered another opening round match up between 15 year old coco golf and venus williams the teenager records a sensation by knocking the 7 some grand slam champion out of wimbledon last year while the more nasty possible face lisa surrounds her of ukraine in her 1st match finding form as well on thursday she eased into the semifinals of the adelaide international beating marchesa wonderous over in straight sets in the n.b.a. the l.a. lakers 9 game winning streak is over they were beaten by the orlando magic by just a single point of bron james at this 3 point attempt to tie the game. to be a rare miss despite the defeat the lakers will remain top of the western conference . the u.s. sees biggest commercial draw getting ready for his 1st fight since october 28th seen ireland's khana mcgregor will take on an answer only in las vegas on saturday outside of the arts again mcgregor is facing sexual assault allegations he denies

the claims and hasn't been charged in 2016 mcgregor became the 1st fighter to hold belts in 2 you have seen white categories it's now more than 3 years since he last one of fights i'm coming in we pulled preparation full commitment and full confidence in my in my study abilities and my shots and who knows maybe a solution but i'm going to go put in marco and islands t 20 cricket same of pulled off a big shot beating world champions the west indies opening batsman poll stirling the star of the show. he smashed a 95 runs of just 47 balls and kevin i brought it seen. in the 1st 6 overs breaking the rules are cool school in one powerplay the west indies made it so 109 so when they can't just show it's all and winning by 4 runs dismissed that is how you sports is looking for now stars thanks so much sally while that said for me the

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