bloodbath the united states are painting a picture. of a confrontation between the majority and the people of venezuela and this picture is far from reality when you know in spite of everything the leader of venezuela obviously has broad support among the people and by the way according to sociological surveys conducted in october of twenty teen by one of the structure one an organization close to the opposition the national assembly the leader which is currently being positioned in washington as almost a president is not supported by almost seventy percent of the people of venezuela and once again about the elections and about. being informed the distinguished representative of the united kingdom spoke about stuff ballot boxes in venezuela suggesting that the elections were rigged. well just for information there are no ballot boxes menace where they use an electronic system of voting. well you have no supporting venezuela we first and foremost are against the violation of international law in particular provisions of the un which cle

but the united states the united states is withdrawing forces from syria well they're going to try to. start a new war now latin american venezuela we're not going to give them that satisfaction. peace and stability and understanding will prevail in venezuela in spite of all the efforts of the countries present here who are trying to trigger. inside a war i also want to tell you. that this. deadline that europe tries tried to trying to give us we recall. back in eighteen eighteen the first time he had argument with the united states if you recall the united states did not support the the. fight for freedom of our countries. they had become independent by their own. strength by winning the war the revolutionary war against the british empire but when the colonies of south america confronted the spanish empire they declared that they were neutral interesting and then afterwards not only did they declare that they were neutral but they actually helped but clandestinely helped the royalists in. in. invent his way lead they they they they they they help they they. went against the presiden

the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the venezuelan opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pad of a so is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete and meaningful actions to combat corruption but the trumpet ministration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far is standing behind him the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us me subsidiary thumbelina. with this move that trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people to be on alert finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company citgo from venezuela and that is an illegal drug the aim of the sanctions is to direct oil revenues to the self declared interim president and opposition leader won by del rio who's calling for a day of protest on wednesday inte

what you finding was the existence of project raven which is a cyber mercenary unit in the united arab emirates that was largely staffed by former us intelligence operatives country hired these people over to a contractor to essentially run their own office of cyber program so this included surveillance of dissidents journalists rivals in the region and as we found out in our story it also eventually included the law americans karma was a was a cyber weapon that was used by project rave in to infiltrate and to hack into the i phones of opponents are enemies of the u.a.e. and what made it really unusual was that like with most of these types of exploits or hacking tools you know will send somebody an e-mail or send somebody a text message and they have to kind of trick them into clicking on that link right and that's usually the trick here what was really unusual is that all you needed was the person's phone number or email address and it would automatically send a text message to that person they'd have to click on that they need to interact with it all he would just automatically begi

to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will the american people with the truth and nothing else discover. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. just a quick look at the top stories now u.s. secretary of state my point barrow is arrived in saudi arabia after visiting castle where he said a rift between the gulf arab countries had gone on for too long. zimbabwe's more than double the price of fuel overnight as the country struggles with its worst petrol shortage in a decade and that the leader of venezuela's opposition has led a rally in the coastal town of qatar despite being intercepted briefly detained on his way to the event. now and other stories we're following the southern african regional body is calling for a recount in the democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election the opposition leader modify yunus says victory has been stolen from him by his rival felix to. catholic churches also question the result and call for an investigation . brings us more now

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the nine

given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leaves who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to to ankara today so will we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an

the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to leave office it's imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets it is the latest in a series of moves by the trumpet ministration to push would do without u.s. national security adviser john bolton has not ruled out a military option now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela. i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president go idaho and the violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response question salumi has more on this now from washington. oil is venezuela's largest source of revenue and the united states is venezuela's biggest customer forty one percent of their oil exports come to the united states and their biggest foreign asset is citgo the refining arm of their oil company and that's based here in the united states and crucial

nations but as yet it has not made an official request to any of the united nations bodies. five teenage girls in northern poland have died after a fire broke out in a room where they were playing in a skate game the girls all aged fifteen were celebrating a birthday police don't yet know what started the blaze the government has ordered nationwide checks in places where skate games are held. so ahead on edge is it out when we come back human rights defenders under attack in colombia we look at the unintended consequences of a peace deal with rebels plus. i'm going to go pollen in hong kong reporting on how the rock and ship and the art work behind one of the city's traditional games if the pairing. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first smoke on the wind this day. hello again it's good to have you back well i do want to take you over here towards the western part of the levant we have been dealing with flooding as system after system has becoming in off the mediterranean a lot of refugee camps have been flooded because of the very heavy rain that we have

united the chances for the united states of america to tackle eisel in the middle east and war in yemen and contain what it considers to be iran's growing influence will be really slim. hashim the whole bara speaking to us there live from here in doha thanks hashan. well the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of men bitch syria's government has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the northwest suburbs of the city as u.s. forces prepare to leave turkish troops have carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of this expect this expected offensive and considers the kurdish y p g a terrorist group and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was hopeful of an agreement with turkey to protect its kurdish allies who fought the war against eisel the kurds are bracing for the imminent operation sin and cos the early reports from northern syria. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army as hamza brigade their allies of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offensive on th

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so the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to leave office it has imposed sanctions on venezuelan state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets madeira says the move is illegal and has vowed to take action it is the latest in a series of measures by the trumpet ministration to push out u.s. national security advisor john bolton has not ruled out the military option now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to any violence against the. groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response it'll be my turn this shows that their objective is to take care riches what is the objective of the government of the united states take the properties from venezuela the riches of venezuela venezuela's money and later on they aspire to take away our country well let's hear now from our correspondent

and in sport the latest from the asian cup in the united arab emirates japan i've been around to reach the finals where they're looking to become five times asian champions. we start this hour with some breaking news out of the united states where the national security adviser john bolton has just announced that america will impose sanctions on the venezuelan state oil company better vesa the move comes as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on them as well and president nicolas maduro. francis said he feared they could be a bloodbath in the country where i started a second presidential term earlier this month and is rejecting calls from nations to order new elections opposition to one is proclaimed himself interim president but says that is essentially part of a u.s. led. but we have continued to expose the corruption of madeira and his cronies and today's action ensures they can no longer loot the assets of the venezuelan people we expect and secretary minucci will go into this in more detail that today's measure totals seven billion dollars in assets block today plus over eleven billi

when there is a strong united front in the united states as long as this is not united the more the right is the united states will not be able to over the so there be a lot i think what's been built trying to do is convincing so does to show folks ability to do something so they can convince the congress they can reduce the concerns within the media in the united states sort of this sort of the credibility to the so it is saying that they are doing something on this matter i mean the killing of casualties so the can help the administration without this then decision cannot afford it so it is a lot actually and that that is what i think tries to do with the saudis when you speak about these divisions in the united states and the other place or quite a few of those divisions and when president clinton decided to pull his troops out of syria and we saw that within some of his own leadership and the defense department and what kind of a reaction has been getting to that troop withdrawal and what has he been saying to middle eastern countries i think the message was clear that americans

intervention by the united states so. this is a very delicate situation and the balance is. it's right now it's they can fall on any one of the other side at any moment but i think the position of other countries like those in the european union or canada or there are so far more moderate it would be very important in this moment to try to have a diplomatic solution and not a military one good to get your perspective on this. joining us there from los angeles thank you very much thank you. now the trumpet ministration is also keeping up pressure on chinese take a while way in the last hour the justice department fog a series of criminal charges against the company its top executives the accusations include fraud theft of trade secrets obstruction of justice and conspiracy thirteen charges are against the chief financial officer mangal wango she was arrested in canada last month of the request of the us for allegedly violating sanctions on iran these cases make clear that as a country we have to carefully consider the risks that companies like wall wave pose if we're going to

rats the wrath of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates with the support of the united states is yemen so really a process has started in stockholm and think it can continue and i think the united states at this point in time need to be putting. sure on abu dhabi and riyadh to end the war in yemen a good point and well made i will go back to my third question and that was about qatar itself you know. it feels like what are we about eighteen months into this crisis here and certainly it just feels like this is the new normal here that the crisis could in tomorrow and yes they would be changes they would be easy to fly out of the region out of the country and around the region but otherwise. what changes well absolutely because originally the idea was is that saudi arabia and united arab emirates were going to basically take over qatar that failed and then as i said qatar broke out of isolation and at this point in time you could tell from every aspect of the relationship with the united states that both washington and doha have moved on they don't care at this point in time what i

cuban leader to the united nations no surprise going against the position of the united states which is recognizing the opposition leader who's a cleric himself president. so defying the united states you're looking at live pictures continuing live pictures from the u.n. security council meeting right now discussing the power struggle that is gripping venezuela and once again the u.s. which called for that meeting taking place right now is pushing the security council to back that opposition leader. who is the clear himself as interim president but we heard earlier on from china and russia they've both reiterated their support for president nicolas maduro so divisions clearly on display at that meeting right now let's bring in the sea a newsman she's joining us from. that is on the colombia venezuela border and we did hear from the colombian foreign minister in fact lucy at the u.n. security council but let's just move away from that for a second from the action going on there and tell us what you're seeing and what you're hearing from venezuelans who've had to flee their country.

also the taliban threatens to walk away from peace talks with the united states. and in the defending champions league later the asian cup as teams make their move for a place in the knockout rounds we'll have those details later in spores. a leading zimbabwean activist has been arrested in the capital by police after days of protests so for fuel prices even where the hell was taken away from his home in harare there have been demonstrations across several cities in zimbabwe since the government more than doubled the cost of petrol and diesel according to human rights watch security forces of shot dead at least five people and wounded others during a crackdown on protests. also the international criminal court says it will appeal the verdict handed down to former ivory coast to coast president laurent gbagbo he was acquitted of war crimes charges on choose state judges said the prosecution failed to show his involvement in violence that followed the disputed twenty ten presidential election the ball from. supporters of former ivory coast leader alone by both celeb

it's affiliate in a ram and one of its subsidiaries here in the united states. diane estabrook is following the story for us and joins us now from washington and diane if you could explain the significance of the charges that were announced today and how it might impact the relationship between the u.s. canada and of course in china fairly significant at this press conference that wrapped up just a little while ago you had members of the department of justice the f.b.i. homeland security and the commerce department and they said that while this wasn't this was a law enforcement action as wilbur ross the commerce secretary said he said it wasn't any way linked to any trade talks that are going on with china right now but you have to think that there is a connection attempt counted indictment that alleges that way stole. company secrets from t. mobile a major telecommunications company here in the united states in the development they were developing this robot they came over how a employees were taking pictures of this robot sending the information back to china

only going to soldier has made it five wins out of five as manchester united manager united's latest victory saw them progress into the round four of the english f.a. cup soldier has a job on a caretaker basis after replacing josie marino horn mad to open the scoring from the county spots against the affected tier team alexey sanchez was back in the starting line up and he set up romelu lukaku for united second finish to no tonight it. cup holders chelsea were taking on nottingham forest cess fabregas missed the chance to mark his final appearance for the club with a goal the spanish world cup winner is on his way to french club monaco but to second have goals from melbourne morato gave chelsea a two no when and a place in round four. thirteen time champions arsenal were easy winners against blackpool teenager joe wilcox scored twice in the first half and just before full time alex that will be wrapped up a three nil win. the golden state warriors and the sacramento kings set a new n.b.a. record for the most three pointers scored in one game there were a combined forty one three poin

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the pushup shia fair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which would. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean sense. since maybe the ninety seven

but you finding was the existence of project raven which is a cyber mercenary unit in the united arab emirates that was largely staffed by former us intelligence operatives country hired these people over to a contractor to essentially run their own office of cyber program so this included surveillance of dissidents journalists rivals in the region and as we found out in our story it also eventually included the law americans karma was a was a cyber weapon that was used by project rave in to infiltrate and to hack into the i phones of opponents are enemies of the u.a.e. and what made it really unusual was that like with most of these types of exploits or hacking tools you know will send somebody an e-mail or send somebody a text message and they have to. kind of tricked him into clicking on that link and that's usually the trick here what was really unusual is that all you needed was the person's phone number or email address and it would automatically send a text message to that person then have to click on it they need to interact with it all he would just automatically begin to inf

i and yours right united nations if it were diplomats who didn't know who. well you can imagine you and i or as arms were intended to go to the news or comedy spillage and say oh we know what's going on and we're going to solution your problem that it would be incomplete it didn't work since your great united nations work. usually a great work is done relying on the edges in people from foreign countries in the pacific the later on is it closure rate and do we how does additions to your problem and then tell you what we're going to do you resolve your problem and we of course read a lot of resentment among local people and also at the need to know do we resolve our conflict within those everybody's i think the whole thing do you think that more local hires you think more local hires what would make a difference not necessary yes yes local hires would be good this was really important in the number of people it is the responsibility given because you do have a lot of local people who work within the united nations peacekeeping mission and they work and why pr

there is whalers oil supplies the united states is in instance for terms less important as united states is producing more and more i don't think that's really the issue what are the. i can't we bolton's mind i don't. we read behind his words. but u.s. companies and the united states itself were standing ready to help rebuild in israel your question earlier about the military and they have to be taken twice now when it's not united states along the charge of every major latin american country under the european union collectively u.k. germany france spain individual e. australia i morgan i don't i can't list. said it of elections our call this week they will withdraw our recognition. from the door i mean so these people have to be really concerned on the one hand about what's going on internationally and on the other hand by the economic crisis in the country and we all that it what point will that create the kind of chaos which is not necessarily going to the generals but where the power of the junior officers and enlisted troops take action taken against the germans. hiero do you think

saudi consulates in october in istanbul a seven day middle east tour will also include visits to the united arab emirates egypt and kasa president jordan has more now from washington. it's going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues while he is in kuwait and qatar he's going to be talking about security issues namely syria iraq the situation regarding iran and the ongoing efforts to try to broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians and he is going to be looking at more local issues and as well areas where are the u.s. like able to weaponize some help we know for example that he will be raising the question of the ongoing rift within the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. while he is meeting with officials in qatar during his trip eight days eight countries a lot of work is facing the secretary of state on this his first full fledged trip to the middle east or has visited saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan before in his first year but this is first full trip to the region certainly the secretary is going to find himself answering a lot of questions about wha

the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exile provided information packets was accurate and the answer was zero. the exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. the collective effort by all those groups involved became a fabrication that became the policy of the united states and it was used to justify a war. further information was provided by friendly nations. in rome a dossier from the italian military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. it eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by may share. the german secret service offers its support as well. it's provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile aboard its risks. ship date as. the war to liberate iraq went for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the country into a war. in a

says this is another attempt orchestrated by the united states to generate chaos. this is a show to try to destabilize the country they are a group of kids who control the opposition and want to play to create chaos it's the same group that carried out the street protests and every day they will have a new show. but many of those opposing the government are desperately looking for someone that would show them a way out of the crisis that has forced millions of venezuelans to emigrate in search of a better life. will back us. i'll tell you what there's plenty of potential venezuela was once one of latin america's wealthiest countries with the largest oil reserves in the world of three hundred billion barrels they account for more than ninety five percent of his export revenues some estimates put oil sales at about seven hundred fifty billion dollars between two thousand and four and two thousand and fifteen but this did drop dramatically after the collapse in oil prices and then a lack of investment in the state owned oil company has seen production plunged to below

united states is not be. the. it is it is in advance it's in the vanguard that could detect venezuela slams the u.s. for interfering in its internal affairs during a un security council meeting. stand with the forces of freedom or you're in league with the general and his mail. while the u.s. urges the u.n. security council to rally behind venezuelan opposition leader found by doe. another down collapse disaster in brazil at torrents of slides kills at least ten people around three hundred are missing. a potential deal to end the war in afghanistan taliban sources say a draft agreement has been reached to withdraw u.s. forces within eighteen months and i'm peter simmons with all the day's sports soccer makes a two grand slam titles in the bud we need it straight you know better it's in the program. hello thanks for joining us venezuela has backed russia in accusing the united states of meddling in its affairs during a highly charged meeting of the un security council well the u.s. secretary of state michael impale

so that the united states is a ratcheting up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro the white house has imposed sanctions on the country state owned oil company blocking around seven billion dollars in assets the latest in a series of measures by the trump of ministration to try and push me out of office chris and sue me as this report. says the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the venezuelan opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company paid a vespa the path to sanctions relief for pad of ace is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete and meaningful actions to combat corruption the trump administration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far. art is standing behind him the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us based subsidiary thumbelina. with this move that trying to steal six promised the v

a slowdown in global demand and the continuing trade dispute with the united states are being blamed for the current predicament china finds itself in china and the us are midway through a ninety day truce in the tit for tat trade both which started last april a delegation from washington was invading last week to continue negotiations but very few details from the meeting have so far been released with just over forty days left of the trade truce this seems to be still no solution in sight analysts say china's shrinking trade figures could be used by washington to increase pressure on beijing i think beijing clearly has the pressure there on your grocery store. the best of your shirts and restoring bastard concepts such as. national so i think a.j. clearly does that and i think you asked the. agent. here and they will put pressure because despite the lower figures china posted a record surplus in its trade with the united states last year with more than three hundred twenty billion dollars the largest in more than a decade that's a sore point for the u.s. and according to the trumpe

in venezuela he said that the united states was not the devil and he also asked the u.s. to stop interfering in venice well as affairs he announced that there were talks with the united states representative and got back us that they would create an interest section however this one it's not confirmed by the united states and in fact over the weekend mike bumbry of the united states secretary of state recognized the op pointed representative by why you go also there recognizing the possible ambassador that the self elected into room precedents and death maybe if you can see how complex the situation is on the other hand the consul the venezuelan consulate in miami has recognized though as their precedent saying that she was awaiting orders for the new interim president and this is all that the u.s. relationship with venezuela but on the other front is also the european union on saturday it expires the ultimatum that the european union gave the venezuelan government to call for elections saying that if not they would recognize also why though as their president them venezu

for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands when the us was ready to clean up and leave at least nine hundred seventy s. picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of who tony and other radioactive waste into the pit the bottom of the dome it's permeable soil there was nowhere for to line it and therefore the seawater is inside the dome when this dome was built there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out radioactive isotopes from underneath the door and roll out with it if it really were not told in just the marshall islands we're talking before. they're challenging the duro alex venezuela's president remains defiant. hello i'm a saudi attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i'm always concerned about his safety a call for help we hear from the wife of a student he's anti-government protest he's been missing for nearly a week. we damage the actual damage also a warning on climate

given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leave who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to to ankara today so will we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an

to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will ask the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. sat here has never been a real easy sell for investment how much are the reserves up are they understated or overstated they own those shares and you're a company for the people baas. as it takes a tougher line on migrants organized crime is making fast profits from their misery . people and power investigates the state funded reception centers where the helpless are reduced to commodities ripe for exploitation. and the migrants on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. and they're on a clock this is it live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes recip time birder when discusses in syria troop withdrawal with donald trump says turkey is ready to take over security in the kurdish town of manby. somalia says it's plan b. a major offensive against al shabaab after u.s. airstrikes killed fifty two of the group's fighters. pitch battle

chinese president xi jinping has expressed support for a second summit between north korea and the united states north korean leader kim jong il an ended visit to beijing on tuesday neither side provided much detail about his shadow or what they thought about the president she has since told local media that he hopes kim. when they meet again. venezuela's president said to be sworn in to office for a second term say. he could take diplomatic measures against american nation that doesn't recognize his leadership. group including brazil argentina in colombia declared his second term illegitimate coming up next story. president donald trump calls on the american people to support his wall on the southern border democrats accuse him of stalking fear of immigrants is there a security and humanitarian crisis at the us mexico border this is in sight still. my. flow and welcome to the program fully backed u.s. president donald trump is refusing to give up his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the border with mexico democrats won't give him the more than five billion dollars he w

regime and stored by the united states and that david. to the us last time after their dogs and dog be on december the seventeenth and which they. were also present the government delegation was sitting in abu dhabi however the taliban refused to meet them so it is going to be a different going to toss august on also saying that the stakeholders in the region should also share that it sponsibility for trying to find a reconciliation and of honest on august on it already the prime minister. saying that it is a key priority for pakistan and the regional countries do establish the war torn country the u.s. envoy working to resolve the blockade of qatar has resigned general anthony zinni was determined ministrations point man on the g.c.c. crisis also in jordan has more now on his resignation and the stakes of us to put him in the region. for the last year and a half retired u.s. general anthony zinni has had two jobs negotiate an end to the g.c.c. crisis in which qatar has been isolated by its gulf neighbors since june twenty seventh team an

seabed and subsoil belong to the united states of america. in convincing the world that the american president not only had no will but also the right to incorporate undersea territory truman used an argument that built on the recent discovery some areas of the seabed oceanic of the continental. the us had to have this kind of basis of a jew logical link between its land mass and the land mass submerge and lead to its territory and be an idea of the geological continental shelf is the basis which the us saw as. a legal basis as well. they had to finally and the bases that they found most convincing was of course science. but the. odds of being at c.n.n. not so cursed by ever do you think was there should be there mirror she again let the entry if in yet was like this name here. in this ng that's me i'll bite again. the argument that the continent continues on made up the core of truman's justification this was more convincing because the historical events that legitimized this theory which by far into history. simply fall. in entire do if kee

the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exiles provided information packets was accurate and the answer was zero. the exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. the collective effort by all those groups involved became a fabrication that became the policy of the united states and it was used to justify a war. further information was provided by friendly nations. in rome a dossier from the italian military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. it eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by may share. the german secret service offers its support as well. it's provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile laboratories. up to date as. the war to liberate iraq went for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the country into a war. in aug

has not felt confident enough to name a date james out is there at the united nations palestinians in the occupied west bank have protested against a controversial social security law which came into effect late last year harry force it has been among protesters in ramallah. over into the third month of these protests now against the social security law and although the numbers are somewhat down today and what you've seen of the thousands of people in recent protests there are several hundred here today the numbers called largely by what has been a very rainy cold day here in ramallah the issue at hand here is this social security law which is. requiring a would require a seven point five percent contribution from employees in the private sector and more than ten percent from employers what people are concerned about isn't just the financial goodna that would impose on them and on the economy here but also on what would happen to that money can they trust that it would really would be used for pensions and other benefits in the future there really is an issue of trust against the poli

he says this is another attempt orchestrated by the united states to generate chaos if. this is a show to try to destabilize the country they are a group of kids who control the opposition and want to play to create chaos it's the same group that carried out the street protests and every day they will have a new show that's what many of those opposing the government are desperately looking for someone that would show them a way out of the. crisis that has forced millions of venezuelans to emigrate in search of a better life. he said will. a saudi teenager who fled saying that saying that she feared the fate of the family would kill her is on her way to canada roughly hammad all clune was granted asylum after gaining global attention when she barricaded herself in an airport hotel room and called in order to avoid being sent back john had reports in a desperate plea from a barricaded hotel room. urged the world to come to her rescue i'm still and. i have no choice. they said i have to go to model and. no one can help man right now on friday she got her wish and we have ac

the united nations envoy to yemen has met the yemeni president. hadi mohsin griffiths spoke to president hadi on tuesday in the saudi capital riyadh before that he'd had meetings with the rebels in the yemeni capital sanaa this is calling on both sides of the civil war to follow the fragile truce they agreed to last month in sweden have been reports of violations especially in the port city of where most of the country's food and medicine must paul through before distribution. sigurd knew a bar is a middle east analyst he thinks the fact that negotiations are ongoing is a positive sign. the aid house been coming in through yemen and throughout the war from who date of the problem is that it is not enough for you can't just have one entry point of humanitarian supplies into a country of tens of millions of people so that to ensure a transition continues obviously whitehall i think what is important to understand is that the deal over who died i was a. test if you will for the parties to see if they can agree on this they might be able to agree on o

military involvement if the united states were to position troops along that border . she's been following events for us from neighboring colombia and joins us now from bogota this punitive action from the u.s. comes against the backdrop of a deepening political and economic crisis in venezuela what effect these sanctions likely to have. well marion there's no doubt that these are the strongest yet that the u.s. has taken against the venezuelan government and these sanctions are very different in nature to what has been done up to this point so far u.s. sanctions that were focused on individual officials of the venezuelan government starting with president nicolas maduro and its assets in the united states in this case that it goes through to the core of how the venezuelan government to operate that's because the united states accounts for roughly eighty percent of the earnings of pay there is that the venezuelan nationals people will companies and pretty match all the hard currency that the u.s. dollars that's a business well and government needs to practically do eve

nations so the united nations doing its best but it doesn't have enough for it enough funds to provide the assistance needed a lot of people here say that they were not given any money to buy fuel for heating so they're bracing for even more harsher conditions in the days to come according to their knighted nation seventy thousand people are at risk because of the weather conditions forty thousand of them are children and that is because they live in shelters and sites that are prone to flooding and in sites that are in danger of collapse because of heavy snowfall well we. look at what's in store for the region with it's not looking good as it's not looking good particular for the next twenty four to thirty hours because of the storm that's behind me which we're going to detail is still going to be a problem as well as temperatures are going to be dropping across this region over the next few days so let's go into right now here's the storm system and you can see all the clouds making their way across the eastern part of the mediterranean now we have been seeing these storms go through

overwhelmingly if not totally positive this morning we remember his life and his tremendous legacy when the unit the address bush's record they offered a somewhat starry eyed view of his time in the white house what a great man george h.w. bush was and how he guided america in the world through the ending of the cold war how he unified chairman and the president more controversial aspects of bush's legacy were given short shrift his two years as director of the cia were crossed over as with the invasions he launched as commander in chief against saddam hussein's iraq in one nine hundred ninety one just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and in panama to overthrow manuel noriega at the taito who had previously been on the cia's payroll when the agency was led by bush his history as the head of the cia in cultivating dictatorships in south and central america and his history in the illegal war against panama should very well have been part of the obituaries the other bush going to be just told the only going to be a little bit of the tone when you

landed in qatar from the united arab emirates after visiting egyptian and behave in his flying to sandy arabia which have all imposed their eighteen month long land and sea blockade on qatar the accused the title funding extremism allegations strongly dismissed by a qatari leader as america's top diplomat has also visited jordan and is due in a man and kuwait on his middle east tour it's being seen as an attempt to rally support among key players in the region to counterbalance the growing influence of iran and i don't think that the administration plans for dealing with iran by virtue of trying to organize a larger coalition are going to work simply because most states do not agree with us in our policy. canceling the joint comprehensive plan of action that would have prevented iran if implemented from ever attending a nuclear weapon the us is due to host a conference in poland next month to discuss ways to curb iran's activities in the region and ensure middle east stability the us is keen on building a regional alliance to counter what it considers to be a growing iranian influence i

allies the united kingdom making a clear ultimatum we believe that one why don't you is the right man to take venezuela forward and we will recognize him as constitutional interim president if new elections are not announced within eight days the venezuelan foreign minister was allowed to put his country's point of view and seize the opportunity for a show and tell of what he called illegitimate u.s. intervention in latin america the united states is withdrawing forces from syria well they are going to try to start a new war now in latin america venezuela we're not going to give them that satisfaction peace stability and understanding will prevail in venezuela in spite of all the efforts of the countries present here who are trying to trigger a war the u.s. secretary of state was not there to listen holding a brief news conference before walking away and leaving the council still in session behind. my kind of united nations now the venezuelan defense attache to washington says he's broken ties with government and recognizes why though as the interim president let's go to our correspon

egypt and the united states are also working together to solidify the middle east alliance as a means for advancing regional peace security and prosperity we hope all nations involved will take the next step forward on that important issue to if we had the chance to today and to discuss egypt's continued support for the u.n. facilitated a political process in libya and we discussed the need to counter the greatest threat of all in the middle east the iranian regime and its campaigns of terrorism and destruction. on the economic front egypt has made very good progress you should all be very proud of that we encourage the continued opening of the economy to create greater opportunities for the private sector certainly american companies but companies from all around the world under present cc's leadership egypt is undertaking the reforms necessary to achieve that and the economic and energy sectors in particular these are important steps the president sees he has taken along the road to greater economic prosperity for the egyptian people and america stands ready to support that. we also

this weekend that there is still no single coherent principle everybody can unite behind. in the northern city of sheffield campaigners for another referendum have been pressing their case you have the right to be heard and they must listen to the voice of the people as people now look at the exit understand what it means and realize that this great country in truth has made a terrible mistake and at the same time government minister chris grayling warned that the biggest mistake would be not to go through with grex it we risk a break with the british tradition of moderate mainstream politics that goes back to the restoration in six hundred sixty he told the daily mail newspaper it will open the door to extremist populist political forces in this country of the kind we see in other countries in europe. opposition figures quickly denounced gratings comments as gutter politics but the row illustrates the bitter divisiveness of the current political climate and the uncertainty of how this will be resolved brennan al-jazeera central london. france's interior ministry says that

and iran staunchest enemy the united states if that were to happen many experts warn the conflict could become global there is perhaps no clearer sign of the distrust between iran and israel than this monument to their mutual animosity in a speech a few years ago iran's supreme leader. predicted the end of israel giving the country twenty five years until it destroyed itself. his supporters did the math and put a clock in palestine square in downtown to iran for those who take the word of the supreme leader as literal and divine this countdown clock is more than just a publicity stunt for many iranians it is a real time countdown to the end of israel as we know it. but iranians still bear the scars of the eight year war with neighboring iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. and even with israel a rush to war seems unwanted. news well first of all war is not a good thing because all countries involved take a loss if there is a war we won't stop it but we will fight until our last drop of blood to defend our country even when we read in iran won't go for one around is just defending itse

mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. rescue teams are continuing to search for more than three hundred people missing in brazil after a dam holding waste from an iron mine burst it happened on friday in the town of bernardino in the u.s. state at least thirty four people have been confirmed dead after more bodies were recovered from the mud brazil's national mining agency's as ordered valley a mining company to suspend operations and the country's environmental agency has already find the company sixty six million dollars the cause of the disaster isn't yet known daniel shiloh has more now from read the new. this is the main relief center on the outskirts of the town of gino though the closest town to the first. at the mine people have come here to get food to get medicine to get relief surprise but also to look for to look for answers to the whereabouts of some of the three hundred or so people who are unaccounted for many of them almost certainly buried under tons of sludge and much of that contaminated which escaped f