certainly to encourage the civil society of this country to go ahead and to start fighting the ruling to thora this instead of seeking political compromises this is what is has been done in many other situations like in libya in iraq in syria and now it does happen even again in israel society it does experience obvious problems but the position of the international community in this case should be should consist only in encouraging the political dialogue between the ruling authorities and the society in this country. ok let's get the thoughts now apparently learn he's an international and independent china specialist and very good evening thanks for coming on what are your thoughts say why do you think we're seeing such a divided. world when it comes to opinion about what's happening in venezuela why are some countries asking for clearly wanting some sort of political change and a change of leadership other countries are saying no no you know we need a more peaceful diplomatic solution to what's going on. why i think that what is important here is also much. the city but the internal situatio

well throughout the program putin is regularly described as being all thora tarion somebody who likes to oppress the opposition parties in russia somebody who likes to control the press in his country somebody who likes to control his own image well what evidence is given of that well there are a lot of pictures of blood made putin in different guises from writing with a naked torso horseback to fishing to appearing in military vehicles the evidence of course to show that vladimir putin is somebody who likes to control his image and there is only one image that's being broadcast then the program goes on to target us here at r.t. suggesting that the channel is nothing more than propaganda the evidence of that. well r.t. it says is funded by the russian state no secret there but pretty rich from a program that's being broadcast on a channel in france that's also being funded by the french state well it's pretty difficult to be a journalist here in france so let's talk about that since president matt coren has been elected r.t. journalists have been regularly denied access to events and

field fleeing abuses barricaded herself in a hotel room at a bangkok airport to avoid deportation tire thora he's a rock mohamed a canoe and will be sent back to kuwait today where her family is but how can she holds a visa for australia and plans to seek asylum there any teen year old claims her passport was seized by a saudi official during a layover in bangkok. ok let's get more on the story now from phil robertson from human rights watch he's been helping coordinate efforts to prevent the hoffs deportation phil thanks so much for being with us this morning why is human rights watch calling for rojas deportation to be halted well she has suffered psychological and physical abuse before she arrived in saudi arabia she is quite sure for for his life early if she is sent back we're calling for the thai government to permit u.n. refugee agency that u.n.h.c.r. to have access to earth and to allow them to do a status determination on her whether she needs to receive refugee protection and if she does she should receive that in thailand should abide by that ok you've personally been in touch wit

the title thora to seem to perform a dramatic about face ben promising not to deport a. lot i doubt. we will talk to her and do whatever she requests yes kate trouble to seek help and we are the land of smiles but we will not send anyone to that. we want to do that by we will adhere to human rights. principles and to the rules of law. by that need. thailand is not a signatory to the un refugee convention and provides no legal protection to asylum seekers but the united nations says it will do everything in its power to help can do. well for the latest let's talk now to a full robertson from human rights watch in bangkok who has been helping coordinate efforts to prevent deportation certainly to have you with us so immediate deportation has been averted but just to be clear is her house now under the care of the u.n. h.c.r. that's our understanding she has been registered as a refugee with them and they're going to continue doing interviews with her to fully assess her status issue is confirmed as a refugee then she will. presumably be assisted to seek safety in a third c

for thora he is in brazil have sent hundreds of military police to end a wave of gang violence in the northern city of forth. there have been dozens of attacks on banks shops and vehicles security chiefs say organized crime groups are trying to block government plans for a crackdown in prisons. in the united states the pentagon's chief of staff kevin sweeney has stepped down saying you plants returned to the private sector his resignation comes just weeks after defense secretary jim mattis denounced his departure both resignations following president donald trump's surprise move to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. talks aimed at ending the partial u.s. shutdown in a government shutdown in the u.s. are expected to resume later on sunday president donald trump says the standoff could go on for several months or even years if he doesn't get funding for a border war with mexico they feel very strongly scores when union leaders in hungary a calling for a national strike later this month stepping up the pressure on hardline prime minister viktor orban opponents have again taken to the stree

in bavaria to the or thora these have taken precautionary measures roads have been closed and there is also the threat of falling trees a number of schools in the snowbound areas are closed for the time being. for child safety is a priority i heard earlier that there were probably two bus accidents with school buses in bavaria and we definitely wanted to avoid that that snow could cause such accidents for the safety of the children is our priority and that's why we have made these decisions. some villages are almost completely cut off some can only be reached by special vehicles in the small variant area of the canal roads have been blocked by fall and trees after days of snow fall a forest road became the last rouge available the fire brigade used this emergency route to bring food to the village but if snow continues to fall forecasters expect about a metre in the coming days then the people there will have no way out. for the very latest let's go live now to our correspondent in s.f. he joins us from a hard hit area in the austrian province of parole see it snowing where you are i m

thora to say they'll work with they allow counterparts to investigate the murders but given who they were and the nature of their disappearance and death the families may be waiting a long time for justice wayne hey al jazeera bangkok. a car bomb has exploded in the northern syrian city of a freend it happened near a base for a rebel group that's backed by turkey. is allied with the free syrian army of history of its fighters were killed some of them give a that's more now from the turkey syria border. this is a group called. associated with the free syrian army backed by the forces these are the forces who have been carrying out the operation east of euphrates predominantly against kurdish fighters the city of a free produce is now more or less controlled by these fighters and they have been in charge for a number of months now this is not just the only attack that has happened in the last couple of days there's been an uptick of violence inside syria yesterday we saw a car bombing in. a government held area and it did a before we saw an attack on us in that kurdish forces in the pr

or thora to use to keep it from spiraling into bankruptcy. the european commission european central bank and the international monetary fund have provided greece with bailout loans totaling two hundred eighty nine billion euros. in return for massive public spending cuts. national debt remains high. twice the country's annual economic output. poverty and unemployment haven't disappeared either athens still has to maintain public spending restrictions as a condition for delaying repayment deadlines. economic growth is slow so there still aren't enough jobs. young people are leaving a country in which they see no real future for up to five great university graduates move abroad and not only graduates since the crisis began almost eight hundred thousand greeks have left roughly a tenth of the population. are leaving because problems such as ingrained corruption which helped spark the crisis are not being tackled effectively if at all. greece's being paralyzed by the rigid austerity measures a state analysts fear that could last decades until gre

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women is suing a city just east of tel aviv that's known as an ultra orthodox municipality thora has been i bought a banned advertisement is promoting early screening for breast cancer and it's not heard the first time ads featuring women have been removed from public display in the city for the liberal opposition party's female leader zippy livni shown in yellow was erased from the billboard leaving only her male colleagues a live neighbor sponsored with a video of herself standing in front of the billboard and voicing her concern but some of you they would like to think surely i'm not but that's not my face they're asking to bring those or you'll think this is places i was rarely women over fifty percent of the population that's your voice men and women who want israel to be a liberal state join the fight against this. that's it that's all that's how it should be. i think it's it's wrong to blur the face of a woman can't you control yourself even a little bit i mean you can't see a woman's face anywhere without getting aroused what's wrong with you it's very plain with you this is

they won't all be approved i can't say which makes will or won't but i hope your thora to use well established quality and safety standards for products that come to market here so you know if they approve any old rubbish we'll have to respond. in many countries east hooters are all the rage a range of manufacturers have their eye on the future german market there's no guarantee metz will prevail its brand identity focuses on high quality goods and they come at a price but man could go about for one is pretty optimistic. mets was always a nice player and always aim to offer something special that has always been and continues to be the source of its success. with its move in the mobility mets mecca tech maybe writing the right way young people in europe are buying fewer corps and many evidently find it cool to zip around town with style breeze through traffic jams and all without emissions. with our program today we've taken a very hopeful approach to the theme of second chances as bob dylan saying there's no success like failure but then of course he added failure is no success at all for som

call fresh elections the current government is clearly hugely unpopular becoming increasingly off thora terry and your views on vent. well i don't think either of those things are true. they just had a dream of the elections in a dramatic cardinal once while it was the best of luck drill system of the whole world. really is no way to cheat with the oil electoral system and you know that it had how many elections twenty some of the actions since since travis was elected in one nine hundred ninety eight but most wireless of my church democracy and it's not a dictatorship but it's corruption and mismanagement not part of the issue here. corruption has been and for as long as. been. moved to exist under an us loyal and soil. been a slew of you for before travis was a clip. and unfortunately one of those habits contained here and corruption really was some progress. or mcgirr i know you've no crystal ball in front of you there how do you expect this situation to in full just briefly. well the military is support of the constitutional government of most loyal and i know that part of the reaso

under national chinese control in september mainland police carry out possible checks in full single thora tarion chinese rule in supposedly autonomous hong kong and beijing's influence is growing on the surface everything looks the same but many are worried that beijing wants to turn the troublesome territory of freewheeling hong kong into just another chinese city. part of the job is playing out at the courthouse in west county loon where leaders of the twenty fourteen umbrella protests are on trial. a few protesters gather outside human rights groups including amnesty international claim the trial is having a negative impact on social freedoms in hong kong. the umbrella protests four years ago saw tens of thousands take to the streets for weeks on end demanding free elections beijing was outraged the organizers have been charged with disruption public order. chand kin man is among the accused he takes a gloomy view of the outlook for hong kong. this evening is the president of the country and here. no pushing the country to a more of or a tear in our directions or naturally hong kong wi

thora to use or turning to drones as their latest weapon in the fight against mold in bangkok. of the miniature aircraft will be spraying treated water in a bid to help clear the air capital has been shrouded in a dense haze for weeks storing widespread fears about public health. and the u.s. federal reserve has warned that america would suffer disruptions from a disorderly brags it. says he is watching britain's divorce from the e.u. very carefully as british prime minister theresa may tries to reopen. with. the. now to the united states where as many as twelve people have died as a result of the deep freeze that's gripping the american midwest weather colder than ant arctic has grounded flights crippled infrastructure and brought life to a standstill for tens of millions of people the polar vortex is a mass of freezing air that normally spins around the north pole in winter but has slipped southwards into the u.s. . chicago the windy city no stranger to wicked winter weather but this week's lows haven't been this brutal in decades breathing can be painful even dangerous and t

of the primroses well throughout the program president putin is described many times as being all thora tarion he's described as being somebody that suppresses any opposition in russia somebody who controls the media and somebody who controls his image what evidence is presented for that well there are lots of lovely images of president putin riding horseback with a naked torso out fishing and also being in military vehicles such as a helicopter showing they say that this is how he controls his image and fine tunes what he wants people to see about him then the program moves on to our t.v. and it targets the channel by suggesting it's proper. ganda and the evidence again that it provides for that is saying that r.t. is financed by the russian state well there's no secret about that but it's pretty rich given that escape news is broadcast on france four which is a channel funded by the french state well it says that their press freedom in russia is difficult well let me tell you i'm a journalist in france and it is very difficult here to be a journalist particularly if you're a journalis

this week to impose sanctions on the venezuela's state run oil company and then granting quite a or thora t. to take control of the venezuelan government assets held in us insured banks is that is that going to make any difference in in squeezing much further or just like most of the government because government it's a big web of court absent without money this court up to him or not what if he sent many more but the most important and this is what they think the usa course is that if the economy gold or people would start protesting more and maybe the out of me will take a stance against or it would be indifferent or not follow my orders he says i think that they're there but the us and that is that without law if that's the lies are making the hard line.

but as well as embattled president is facing fresh challenges to his own thora tay as he begins his second term in office on wednesday a group of exiled military officers called for nicolas maduro overthrow saying the army must reject his leadership in the wake of last may's disputed election they voiced their support for the opposition leader one kwaito he also has more shinton sperm backing and says his party is ready to form a government with more on the growing crisis his kellett more pay. one boy who has declared himself to be the interim president of venezuela he's choosing not to recognize the inauguration of nicolas maduro the president who was just sworn in no election took place to select one who was the head of the national assembly at this point he is granting no legitimacy to the venezuelan state and it's worth noting that the us government loves him this is what was said by us vice president mike pence. is a dictator with no legitimate claim to power who is the precise the venezuelan people who for. the united states strongly supports the courageous decision by. the president

anti government during demonstrations fear that maduro is turning his government into a similar or thora tarion regime. there is a booze line for us in that one as our is so what does this really give. well let me tell you that until earlier this month many people in venezuela did not know who won why you go was he was elected as president of the national assembly in venezuela back then an assembly that has no power in the country because it's not recognized by the administration that says and considers to be in contempt why they got why though is an engineer who's been in a way defining the government since my little west worn into office on january tenth how much authority he has well that of the people people have responded to him thought thousands of people as we're seeing him got access right now and all around the country have responded to his call to take to the streets to call. a dictator to call. and per so right now what the situation we're seeing in venezuela is an unprecedented situation a place where it has an interim president calling himself an interim precedent that it's

false hoods about the causes of the overcrowding the behavior of the fans and the response of the all thora t s. in two thousand and sixteen an official inquiry established the innocence of the supporters and the culpability of the police that development came largely thanks to a tireless campaign by fans to determine the truth and fight the official cover up . for many years the police commander for the match maintained by law if that liverpool supporters had stormed an exit gate and thus contributed to the crush in truth he himself had issued the order to open the gate now almost thirty years after the event the jury will decide whether or not he bears criminal responsibility for the resulting deaths. david duncan field has pleaded not guilty to charges of gross negligence of manslaughter. if convicted he could face life in prison. he watching the news coming to you live in fresh economic figures from china are out this morning and the markets are not happy about. what they've seen afterwards. has that story that's putting it mildly every hong kong's hang seng index was down today offer t

is a poll of thora days asked lower saxony environment ministry to examine the location of the monitoring station again the outcome the monitoring stations air pumps were to love the city also took its own set of readings with passive samplers small plastic tubes that were mounted across oldenburg they showed that levels in oldham bog are much lower than previously thought. of all that's going on than book we have one station that records levels above the legal limits under that limit at almost any other spot the situation is almost comic but we have to work with these ratings yet by operating on the basis of one reference point in the city that exceeds the limit we sense we're not exactly promoting public acceptance for what we're doing. that's the mention of our city and most. of the diesel summoned in berlin last december local authorities were hoping for help from the top faced with the specter of driving bans across germany and a loss of faith in her government the chancellor declared the problem a personal priority until america wasn't. minister when the current legal limit for n o

anymore the canadian child services or thora he claims that the right decision was made despite the fact around eleven thousand children are currently in care in manitoba province where the incident occurred in the ninety percent of them are indigenous and indigenous activist laura williams thinks this practice is due to the residential school system. prematch this is every weekend and it's going to have been a q. and a in the very beginning when they got her rank made it a lot to take a shower and they were in a residential well how are. you know when you have the police who are taking you know each other and throwing them in his residential well rather church where they didn't report to. use for child labor you know you have all the help back. you know but rather have the workers there already are that will to try to get children back that they are no where to children are taken and that. kind of housing so that howard has you know no other children and then i still move there in you know if you know. there should basically down to two hundred dollars they're writing or two hundred dol

be involved in in forging and paving the way for their future and then you had authoritarian riches thoratarion regimes in the region that funded the military coming back in the political space and completely hijacking the political space and suffocating and completely boxing everybody out of that space including you know civil society and other political actors you mentioned your experience in jail and i know that when you were in jail you wrote a very emotional letter to president obama to reach you. essentially blamed here for inspiring your hope for that better world and down abandoning that help i'm not a fan of president obama no the anymore at least. de think that it was it was fair to late that he's feet i mean i definitely think so i think that according to the american law it is the right of the responsibility of the president of the united states to a protect its own citizens when they're on justly detained by law and i was reminding him of that but then i was also reminding him that i that he did his his two thousand and nine cairo speech inspired the arab world in. the place

welcome back all thora he's in japan say a minivan was deliberately driven at revelers in central tokyo just minutes into the new year the attack left eight people injured one of them in a critical condition it happened in a tourist hot spot known for its fashion and pop culture people reportedly arrested a man in his twenty's local media say the driver told police that he intended it to be a terror attack. and in the u.k. counterterrorism police have launched an investigation after amongst up to three people including a police officer in manchester in northwest england. the suspect was heard shouting allahu akbar while police arrested him officers used a taser and pepper spray to subdue the man or thirty's have not confirmed whether the incident is connected to terrorism the three wounded people are now receiving treatment for a long life threatening is it injuries. or percs that hangs in the balance those are the words of the u.k.'s international trade secretary programs that minister liam fox is urging buttons to get behind prime minister to raise and may face the unknown reality of

to safeguard freedom of expression was a matter of increasing concern that was in april serbian or thora he said the commission need to provide active support to independent bodies human rights defenders and independent journalists and promptly react to and publicly condemn the threats. against them so why don't you do what the commission asked you to of done exactly the thing that the commission asked me to do and they say you have and thank you so you never know so let's see let's see the upcoming report thank you for that question actually in fact as the prime minister i served on with all the media representatives talk to them about how what we can do to come up with a credible media strategy they've asked me for me personally to run this the working group are actually in my cabinet in my team and not under the ministry of culture and information that we have the working group. to work on the media strategy this is exactly what we're doing right now with the support of the european commission that is the european delegation in serbia. the calling of god in our stiff tongue the oil se

for russian sporting or thora to take us through what happened let me take it through exactly how the story unraveled so on september twenty eighth last year after three years in the wilderness for the russian anti-doping agency the world anti-doping a. he decided to reinstate rosado the decision which was criticized by many athletes worldwide nevertheless there were two conditions imposed one of them very important that what the experts get access to the most called the board story the old anti-doping laboratory where the doping samples were kept the deadline was set to be thirty first of december on december thirty first the delegation of water reported that they came back from moscow empty handed it was a lot of outcry both on the critic side and some on the russian side saying that this access must be provided immediately so right after new year this access was indeed provided the delegation of water came to moscow up to all the samples came back and now we have the decision not to reimpose the reinstatement to the russian and i don't mean agency and water has a very thorough expl