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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

secretary of state says the united states will continue to support its allies in the fight against i still despite its military withdrawal from syria mike pump aoe is in the united arab emirates on the latest leg of his tour of the middle east a saudi teenager who fled saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada half mohammed was granted asylum after gaining global attention when she barricaded herself in an airport hotel room in bangkok in order to avoid being sent back opponents of venezuela's president challenging his right to a second term protesters rallied at the office of the organization of american states in the capital caracas after nicolas maduro started another six year term on thursday countries throughout the americas are refusing to recognize as a tennessee to rule those are the headlines next up inside story. headlines warned the streets of melbourne australia are by next to its citizens under threat but after a good game. but how real it is clear. one east investigates. remembering jamal khashoggi a hundred days after his marriage to turkey wa

states as we've heard before there were talks between the you would begin to unite united states and some military officials but if didn't come to fruition i think there's a we do not need to have. a next x. or a vacation of a military crisis not dead already is about as well you know let's hope not robert valencia really interesting talking to you thank you for all your expertise there and thank you as well to just to have you as they're sending in questions directly isn't it great when you can get your questions answered directly from i guess not just relying on me and not the team here think we should be asking we want to hear from you and i j english on twitter replying to the thread there remains on duty looking forward to reading your tweets or facebook dot com slash on his ear if you are watching the live stream you can comment leave your questions there as well messages to write me as well plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine whatsapp and telegram. now one who brags that fifty eight days to go in the back and forth over break that shows no sign of actually a

do the last second that we're we're going to do everything we can for us and man united do as best as we can west ham will also be in action on wednesday when they host brighton hammers have just signed an experienced footballer who is back after completing a doping ban some in their three has been out of the game for eighteen months off he was banned for using an intravenous drip treatment when he was playing for severe in spain back in twenty sixteen the thirty one year old joins west ham until the end of the season ealing sump with manager manwell pellegrini who played for manchester city where he won two league titles before moving day the frenchman was at arsenal for three years. back in the days i wasn't. as professional as i am now i was young i was a mature. it was a big move for me i want to leagues. like haas and good morning i was not just focusing on my job i was doing all the things and i made some mistakes and today is a second chance for me so working with him is a. totally different. twenty eighteen was a golden year for france on the football field they won their seco

criminal charges against telecoms john way and reaches the final of the asian cup there thrashed the united arab arab emirates for nail in the so-called blockade. so the u.s. will allow the leader of venezuela's opposition to control some of his government's assets that are in u.s. banks however the country's attorney general has now frozen one gotos assets and barred him from leaving the country that's after the white house ordered sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company to block around seven billion dollars of assets president nicolas maduro is accusing washington of trying to steal then as well as oil reserves the latest with alessandro who is in bogota to bring us up to date with this decision from the attorney general sounds like a pretty serious development. absolutely come out of the power struggle continues in business well with the news turns every hour practically this latest one came from the country's attorney general projects i have been who just minutes ago went on television and responding to some interviews to some question said that he had asked the country's supre

troops there in syria would be returning to the united states it's his view that this has emboldened essentially pointing to attacks such as this saying that he has seen this before in iraq and now it appears in syria and that the president should look long and hard at what he is doing in syria now having said that the president certainly did surprise many with that announcement of the withdrawal one that did commence last week it rattled u.s. allies and certainly rattled many in the united states and of course led to the resignation of his secretary of defense james mattis and detailed information about that withdrawal kimberly has been hard to come by do we know any more on if and when it's going to happen. the white house for now is referring all of those questions to the department of defense but certainly in the last seventy two hours there has been an escalation of tensions between the united states and turkey over these discussions about the withdrawal we know that the secretary of state might pump aoe has been in consultations with his counterpart about a potential thirty two

states of america is responsible for this war this is not a message the united states should be sending to the world the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic saudi regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy lebanese leaders reached a deal on thursday to establish a new national unity government political sources say it's a step that will end nine months of political wrangling over how to share out cabinet portfolios the new government yet to be announced as you know however has more from vapors. the political deadlock is now over nine months of political wrangling lebanon has a now a government it's never an easy process in this country rival politicians agreeing on the distribution of seats simply because of lebanon sectarian based power sharing agreement so rival politicians agreeing on a new cabinet why now well many observers believe france played a role france a former colonial power a country which has influence here in lebanon their work consultations in recent weeks in the french capital a number of lebanese politicians visit

jordan have become the first team to qualify for the knockout stages at football's asian cup in the united arab emirates they followed up the defeat of defending champions australia with a two no winner of assyria to guarantee a place in the last sixteen. some are put them ahead and they doubled the advantage before half time with a powerful header from time back the top black said we're used to being under pressure the media have not given any attention to the jordanian team since the start of the competition but we proved that we are a tough team and we hope that we can go as far as possible in this competition the tournament hosts stole into the top of their group with sweeping moves for two sublime goals to defeat india the first for the u.a.e. came against the run of play fun mobarak slotting home in the fourth and first minutes. india were unlucky not equalized ten minutes after halftime when you dance or sing hit the crossbar. was it was a tight contest right until two minutes from the end when ali sealed a victory for the u.a.e. with his forty seventh gold in seventy five internati

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

then israel is oil supplies the united states is in instance for terms less important as united states is producing more oil i don't think that's really the issue what i think. and i can we both and mine i don't want to. 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 when they have to be thinking twice now being it's not united states along the charles every major latin american country. the european union collectively u.k. germany france spain individual e. australia i more than three i don't get i can't list. who is said if the lectures are called 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 against the git go. hie

united nations. america editor lucien un is live for us in the venezuelan colombian border lucio good to see you venezuela very much at the center of a lot of diplomacy going on at the united nations security council kind of reaction is all of that though where you are with the people many of whom are obviously leaving as we speak. actually barbara we were you see behind me are people going back into the town of san antonio and sanctity stovall that is in venezuela which is just on up in front of me this is the bridge that separates colombia from venezuela but these people as you can see are carrying everything they can with those who can afford it because they've had to come to colombia to buy food medicine nappies all the basics are people need to survive which they cannot get back home but there are thousands tens of thousands more who actually live here there are refugees and we spent the morning and most of the afternoon actually at a soup kitchen that feeds four thousand when israel and every s

but i know if there's an opportunity to enter the united states i will enter and i will look for work because the truth is my family needs the money to make a better life for ourselves we really are we need but if we can attend to that's ok too i want to honor is an excellent place to live. two thousand and eighteen has come to an end and many people here say they weren't expecting to be waiting this long at the border they want to is hosting somewhere around five thousand central american migrants that began arriving in november the mexican government along with u.n. agencies and local donors have set up tent communities all around the city but many people here tell us they're tired of waiting and have chosen to cross over to the united states illegally. also from hundreds sell cigarettes at the shelter he says he plans to join dozens of others in the coming days and jump the border fence a moment on the payroll i don't have a number i didn't ask for one i'm waiting i've been waiting a long time what i want is to cross let it be god's will my dream is to find work and provide for my

take the team to newcastle and there's no bigger name at manchester united than alex ferguson now he's mentoring caretaker manager one of those in the crowd when a new standards unveiled in ferguson is on in twenty twelve. one three from three since taking charge after the second of jos a merino and that's obviously boosting the spirits of seventy seven year old ferguson he's been at united's training ground for the first time since a brain hemorrhage eight months ago. and had him for fifteen years so obviously he's influenced me more in the fifteen years before than these don't last week obviously i do keep him informed and. he did pay a visit yesterday and i think he enjoyed his time at the training ground and we had a nice future stuff and encourages he says he knows that we are you know the stuff this is an united through and through and he knows that we we're going to do whatever we can to get to the last second that we're we're going to do everything we can for us and man united do his best return free of the english premier league in form stars have been shortlisted for the calf

nations but as yet it has not made an official request to any of the united nations bodies. hundreds of police have been deployed in melbourne australia a far right groups are rallying against crime they blame on people of african descent the activists a meeting at the popular st kilda beach for what they call a discussion of melbourne's used crime problem counter-demonstration is being held by a group supporting multiculturalism caffyn of it has more from the rally in melbourne . well demonstrators here in melbourne are on the move in the beachside suburb of st kilda police have been trying to keep the two sides apart far right nationalist on one side and pro multiculturalism groups on the other the far right groups said they came out to protest what they said is a spike in african crime on the beaches there have been more reports of violent crime here in melbourne and there's been a lot of focus in the media on african australian groups call the other side say it's not fair to paint the entire community with the same brush and they say they have come out here in support of

states in syria and more broadly in the middle east that the united states may have wanted to work more closely with russia when trump was first elected but the u.s. policy toward russia has all but collapsed under the weight of the domestic investigations here and that cannot work with with iran because he's boxed himself in so much with iran the other key player in syria and so really turkey is the only player in turkey i think under present president want is trying to present itself as credible as a player that the united states can work with as a major nato ally as an important country and a country that trump can work with so i think this this op ed was directed toward trying to but also provides a bit of what we might call window dressing to dress it up for for the congress here and for others who might question trump's reliance on turkey and ability to work with turkey so you know what would those questions be are the what are the what are the risks to that to that type of relationship. well there are there are certainly questions and concerns here in washington and especially in

geisha headed by the united nations but as yet has not made an official request to any of the united nations bodies pakistan's prime minister has told the president of turkey he wants to strengthen the relationship between both countries ahead of his two day visit to ankara imran khan agreed to transfer schools set up by u.s. based turkish business when the two laguna into a turkish charity were turkey blames goons followers for a failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen then cosell reports turkish president rejects a part john and pakistan's prime minister eman harner arrive at the presidential complex in ankara after friday prayers this is harvest first visit to turkey since taking office and there were many issues to discuss the law of the connection between turkey and pakistan has always been the. i want to stress that we want to dig this relationship to a much higher level. a level that so far has not been reached trade relations between turkey and pakistan have gained for mentum in recent years with agreements reached on the weapon sales worth billions of dollars this meeting betw

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

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

there have been reports that this united states of. emergency officials in their embassies to go back in the u.s. after might do it all gave them seventy two hours to get to dick country and i do also called for. diplomats to go back to doing this well on the songs that you very much for that for now and that is on the sounds around with all the very latest joining us live from on the venezuelan economy the envoy the thank you. the u.s. has for a u.n. security council meeting on saturday the political crisis that has more nations side what one. reporter and gallagher explains the difficulties confronting the way . over the decades the united nations has tackled some of the world's biggest humanitarian crises and many say the situation in venezuela is no different millions of fled into neighboring countries as venezuela's economy continues to crumble colombia alone is taken in over a million refugees placing a strain on its economy speaking at the united nations colombia's foreign minister made it clear his nation is no friend of venezu

united nation. there is a latin american history to see him in his life for us in that's on the venezuelan columbian border lucy as you've been hearing obviously been as well at the center of international diplomacy tell us how much the people behind you there either heard and what they think about everything that's going on. hello barbara i'm on the international bridge that goes over the river it's a fairly small bridge but it's absolutely jammed as you can see with venezuelans in this case that have come into colombia which is behind me and going back most of them now into venezuela by after having bought those who can afford anything that they can medicine full of diapers desperately needed items that they cannot get in their own country but there are others thousands of them who actually live here now they are refugees and i was speaking to them earlier they are the ones who have cell phones or access to television have been following with keen interest not only the debate that just transpired

within three one thanks to the shots and then three marcial follow up united going through to the for three. i mean everybody everybody manager has his way of working memory you have it we have work try to improve social club sort of do the same and you know right now everything is going well if you go you know i had rivals manchester city have taken over the neighbors crowns as the kings of english football of eight but they haven't done so well in the f.a. cup losing to lowly wigan last year city played burnley on saturday. of course if it is a prestigious cup a prestigious title not just in this country so. they're one of those who would like to you know two for zero in some finals international we could not reach the final and. in this last season was a week and australia's defense of the asian cup title has been ended by the tournament hosts the united arab emirates it was a tight quarter final match in our lane the emirates got a lucky break in the second half. terrible back toss from the last stage iniquitous picked up by early at the edge of the box easily went around keeper m

to united. cup holders chelsea were taking on nottingham forest says fabregas missed the chance to mark his final appearance for the club with a go to spanish woke up when a is on his way to a french club monaco but two second half goals from alvar marotta gave telsey it to know when and a place in round four. or thirty in time a winner's arsenal were easy winners against blackpool teenagers joe woke up scored twice in the first half and just before full time alex wrapped up a three nil when. there's been more controversy at the asian cup which has just started in the united arab emirates qatar has accused the host nation's security services of denying accredited journalists from qatar and three into the country all tournaments organizers say they did offer the return of the group to the u.a.e. but that proposal was declined this week cutter's a.f.c. vice presidents hannity had his arrival into the emirates delayed by twenty four hours cut a still under blockade imposed by the u.a.e. saudi arabi

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this is the fencing that covers about a third of the border between mexico and the united states which president trump says isn't enough he wants a woman to cover this border the reasons he's given for it of various he says that it will help to stop drugs that doesn't quite stack up actually the vast majority of drugs go through ports of entry they smuggled through that way rather than over the fence saying he's also said that it will help with terrorism actually most terrorists go through airports rather than trying to get over this fence but he's also obviously given the reason of migration there has been a big uptick in migration over the past year but again if you take the bigger picture over the cut last couple of decades or so it's actually gone down quite a lot now what has changed is the number of women and children who were trying to get across to the united states that has gone up quite a lot now there is analysts would say the aren't too resulting in the ending with that problem is more immigration judges and a more efficient system to work out which of those people deserve

iran russia the united states is trying to arrange all that in a we that on one hand it doesn't look very much like it's abandon its allies in this case the kurds and on the other hand they can actually make it to be without allowing the iranians to deal control of this but this is very complicated actually equation for almost everybody and we'll see how things are going to evolve over the next few days and weeks thank you very much for breaking that down for us we appreciate your time thank you it's a lot. now we have a special syria page on our website and there you can find this really helpful info graphic it breaks down who controls what in the complicated picture that is the syrian conflict. now we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use.

in the next few weeks it's not clear yet how it's going to get in its mostly going to come from the united states and the oppositions that it's going to get in but nobody really knows how the opposition is going to manage to get it into the country and also we do know that the united states diplomatic mission in that in venezuela has already presented it could ensure but that's the power he has right now because as you just said most of the military continues to support it. what's interesting and what's happening in venezuela right now is that what we're seeing is a parallel government one upon one interim president that has a recognition of the united states and other countries in the region and also has the support of economic powers but on the other hand you have the rio power you have the armed forces that continue to support. and also continues to control institutions that of course natural resources. in a country where they were already suffering from an economic humanitarian crisis. what it will impact is this likely to have. lice of people in venezuela. when as you just said as ven

practices as it has promised but also in terms of halting the intellectual property theft that the united states says has been hurting u.s. businesses and companies for years. let's get down to the security of talks what are they tunneling this time round. well i'm going to just put my phone here i don't know why so serious seem to be talking it's interesting timing is we talk about this. what we're talking about terms of what the talks will be about is that we have to remember there's a very big deadline looming in all of this you have to remember where we are we've already got significant tariffs on goods being launched at either side in the united states case they've put more than two hundred fifty billion worth of chinese goods subject to tariffs as they come into the united states and retaliated by china that has slapped tariffs on u.s. goods going to china some one hundred ten billion in this deadline that's looming is march second where in fact the united states is threatening that there could be an escalation of those tariffs on at least two hundred billion of goods from ten perce

along the us mexico border and painting illegal immigration as an almost existential threat to the united states democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis and they have refused to provide our brave border agents with the tools they desperately need to protect our families and our nation. the federal government remains shut down for one reason and one reason only because democrats will not fund border security my administration is doing everything in our power to help those impacted by the situation but the only solution is for democrats to pass a spending bill that defends our borders and we opens the government this situation could be solved in a forty five minute meeting i have invited congressional leadership to the white house tomorrow to get this done while in the democratic rebuttal house speaker nancy pelosi said what about and heard interim speech was misinformation the fact is on the very first day of this congress house democrats passed senate republican legislation to reopen government and find smart effective border security solutions that the president is r

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

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

kind and to jump in here for just a second john what we're starting to see in the media in the united states right now is the fact that people are noting when the same argument was made by barack obama twenty fourteen he didn't get the same kind of pushback that we're seeing from donald trump now one thing though that donald trump is getting some pushback on is whether or not to declare this and national emergency which would then allow him to access funds that normally would be appropriated for bigger crises in order to win this battle with within congress and get the border wall built so you both inspired similar. comment kelly kelly says needs more security when he's already existing possibly and then maybe need of repairs but definitely much more security at border for trucks and vehicles to scan for drug smuggling going to put you both from the small here just in the last three seconds of the segment person trying to visit just like his address on tuesday political stunt kimberly. oh boy. i think that sure there are some political theater involved in all of this i don't i think t

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 us secretary of state was not there to listen holding a brief news conference before walking away and leaving the council still in session behind mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. when venezuela's president is claiming a diplomatic victory at that meeting you or your market hollow today at the same time our foreign minister was spea

united nations humanitarian chief is also warning of a crisis on the syrian jordan order. as an aid convoy able to part next week for the makeshift rock band refugee camp just inside jordan after security guarantees from russia and the international coalition in syria some forty two thousand people remain stranded in rock band along the syria jordan border conditions in the informal settlement have continued to deteriorate since the last humanitarian convoy to the area from three to eight november eight infants have reportedly died since last month again the cold is making the situation even worse so it's critical that the parties support a second convoy to rick graham. republican republicans and democrats have launched a fresh attempt to end u.s. support that sounded like coalition in yemen politicians from both parties and now it's the resubmission of a draft resolution that was passed by the senate in december but blocked in the house of representatives urging congress to put a stop to this war and they told me very clearly when yemenis see made in usa on the bombs that