seafood and fish used to be a staple part of the diet hearing alysia today many of these products are fairly expensive meat bread or eggs often end up in people shopping carts instead. restauranteur diego platter says that doesn't need to be the case that he's making sardines today. they're currently in season and he says they're full of healthy fats and very affordable. ten restaurants in iran including diego's are participating in the health project. their mission is to return to atlantic cuisine with simple to prepare food that people can also cook for themselves. and the chefs are happy to tell customers how. this is not sorcery prepare good quality products well in enjoy them whether it takes three minutes or an hour but people don't take the time to cook these days but there must be a. medical and public health conference is delegates are being informed about this health project that draws on the expertise so chefs retirees and patients researches say what's happening in iran is trailblazing. their initiative really attempts to engage the full community they're talking about int

locked in a bitter standoff but maduro is resisting pressure to step down or latin america at its alysia newman has more from the program in caracas. this is expected to be mary mary demonstrate that indeed this is a show of strength on the part of the opposition and opposition to don't want why dog is calling on his supporters to prove that they are not afraid that they can go out on to the streets and continue to demand the resignation of president nicolas my little what they call here not allow the streets to get polls and that is very very important because at this at this moment there is increasing pressure from the government it's turning up the heat they are using armed groups on motorcycles heavily armed sometimes called public people still out on the streets and roads here gas to protest fire live rounds into the air in fact that happened here in this neighborhood last night we're told by the residents and in fact we can also report that very very large contingent of riot police have been deployed all around the areas where at this hour opposition supporters are gathering and th

the supporters of president nicolas maduro but first our latin america editor alysia newman has this report from the pro one quite the demonstration. this is what opponents of nicolas maduro call the first stage of what they've labeled operation liberty in actual fact it's an attempt to gauge just how successful they can continue to bring supporters out onto the streets not just here but throughout than israela. they want to show that they have not grown tired or afraid despite increased threats from armed paramilitary groups loyal to the government to fire tear gas and he didn't bullets at protesters but but this if it is says she's not afraid. but you know is incompetent he talks about socialism but he lives like a millionaire like an imperialist but we haven't had any water in my neighborhood for more than a year. and. opposition leader apologized for the improvised stage and the poor sound quality he said intelligence police operatives have confiscated for generators and two trucks for the rally and arrested the drivers are going to run in let me. tell you it's just not water and

for now, from me, alysia mccarthy, its bye for now. —— alicia mccarthy.t. first of all, how's thursday is shaping up and talking about cold weather, a widespread frost to begin the day but a fine day ahead for most places with some sunny spells. high pressure in control at the moment. that is blocking weather systems from coming away from the atlantic. also blocking milder air from coming our way as well because the flow of air around the high—pressure is bringing in this chilly breeze from the east and the chilly air with blue showing up as thursday begins, so widespread frost away from northern scotland and along north sea coasts. either the breeze or more cloud will hold temperatures just above freezing but there will be a good deal of sunshine in the day ahead. for some of us, not as much as we had on wednesday. parts of eastern england will see some more cloud around. the weak weather front close to northern scotland with cloud, a bit of patchy rain, maybe later in the day, the odd heavy shower is possible and plenty of cloud moving into northern ire

going to be playing it's going to become more and more tense as the hours and days go by all rights alysia will speak to a little later thank you for the time being now democrats in the u.s. congress are suing the trumpet administration over the president's emergency declaration to force funding for a wall along the mexican border donald trump visited the southern border on friday saying the country is full trump was there to inspect a small portion of a refurbished barrier fence california and nineteen other states are also taking legal action challenging the emergency declaration the system is can take. whether it's asylum whether it's. illegal immigration can't take anymore we can't take your country is full. our air is full the sectors full can't take any more i'm sorry but so turn around that's the way it is a strong visited the border there were protests on the other side in mexico when i was there. the reaction to president trump's visit to the u.s. southern border at least on the mexican side was one of a sort of collective i rule not a lot of people taking the president's threats

intervention may be needed if sanctions fail to force president nicolas maduro from power a lot america alysia newman has more from porto and northern peninsula. what does the sinister star wars character darth vader and u.s. economic sanctions against venezuela have in common. everything according to u.s. national security advisor john bolton he likens the sanctions to darth vader choking his enemy's throat that he says is what we're going to do to the regime economically the electricity's economic on this one and the economic crisis already existed long before the sanctions but the u.s. strategy is designed to provoke the total collapse of what it sees as the enemy. the u.s. treasury department has designated not. just in this whale is vital oil industry but its entire banking sector as a target of u.s. sanctions and that makes venezuela almost untouchable for companies and banks the do business with the united states this is one of venezuela's main ports for bringing in everything from food to fertilizer to manufactured goods but as you can see there is very little activity here according t

with violating the constitution after declaring himself interim president our latin america and its alysia newman has more from caracas. venezuela one country with two rival assemblies delegates to the controversial constituent assembly which is loyal to president nicolas maduro needed no convincing voted overwhelmingly to strip opposition leader of his legislative immunity. that the next step is for the supreme court to begin a trial that can be accompanied by an arrest warrant or other precautionary measures is accused of public office the trial of the nation's taking money that belongs to the venezuelan state and much more the constitutional lawyer says the trial will likely start immediately but clearing the way for why those arrest is a risky proposition the white house has wanted more than once that is why the president or harmed in any way there would be a quote significant response from the united states. just hours earlier in the same legislative palace why they all had overseen a session of the opposition controlled national assembly which in january proclaimed him interim presid

co-host of "amanpour and company" on pbs, alysia.history at rice university and contributing editor at "vanity fair," douglas brinkley is with us. author of "american moonshot." we'll get to that. >> thank you. >> reverend al, i was at an event last night, going through the candidates. when buttigieg came up, someone made a loud, like, yeah. new york city, they knew who he was. he had an excitement. >> he does. it is, to me, very surprising. >> yeah. >> coming from south bend, which is a relatively small city, no national explosion. he's raised $7 million. he's resonating. >> he's resonating. >> the action convention, he is coming in, and we're getting as much response from our delegates wanting to hear what he has to say as anyone else. he is really resonating. a lot of it, i think, happened on this show, because the more he talks, the more it seems that his authenticity comes out. i think that people miss that people can feel you before they hear you or believe you. he is very impressive. >> it is interesting, this time right now,

people's party of the center right party they won the first few seats in parliament and under lucy and alysia in december last year and today actually there are the elections taking place in violence in eastern spain where they also set to win seats in parliament now their supporters are saying what we really like about them is that they speak their mind you know they openly say we against abortion be against a feminist ideas against gender ideology and we should go back to traditional values is obviously everybody's really watching how much support they're going to get because it's kind of difficult to predict how many people will vote for the votes party given that they haven't really creamed off a lot of votes in any earlier national elections so it's going to be a very game probably going down to the wire and it's going to be a very tense election campaign people will be watching the results all right a big day there in spain lisa louis thank you very much. thank you police are investigating a deadly shooting at a california synagogue that killed one person and wounded three others offici

people's party of the center right party they won the first few seats in parliament and under lucia and alysia in december last year and today actually there are other elections taking place in violence in eastern spain where they're also set to win seats in parliament now their supporters are saying what we really like about them is that they speak their mind you know they openly say we against abortion be against feminist ideas against gender ideology and we should go back to traditional values is obviously everybody's really watching how much support they're going to get because it's kind of difficult to predict how many people will vote for the votes party given that they haven't really creamed off a lot of votes in any earlier national elections so it's going to be a very game probably going down to the wire and it's going to be a very tense election campaign people will be watching the results all right a big day there in spain lisa louis thank you very much. thank you police are investigating a deadly shooting at a california synagogue that killed one person and wounded three others off