And again im citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the standoff between the Maldives Supreme Court and the president deepens as he refuses to release opposition leaders the u. S. Secretary of state increases the pressure on president maduro threatening to restrict the sale of oil from venezuela. And two people die and dozens are injured in a train crash in the u. S. State of South Carolina. But first we bring you some breaking news out of syria eleven people have been killed in russian and Syrian Government asterix in the Northwestern Province of layup the strikes caused extensive damage to buildings including a hospital Syrian Government and russian jets have been targeting since late december as they pushed to regain one of the last rebel held strongholds activists in the area also say. Five of the people have been treated for what appears to be a gas attack the person based syrian observatory for human rights says civilians and medical sources in the town of sark reported smelling a. Tens of thousands of greek said staged a mass rally in the capital athens surging the government not to compromise in a festering name route with neighboring macedonia gray says blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato and the European Union saying its name implies a claim over a greek province or so cold macedonia John Psaropoulos reports from. Her the message was clear macedonians are greeks and no one other than the greeks should be allowed to use the name macedonia greeks refer to their neighbor by the name of its capital city skopje their opinion is important because they hold a power of veto over its entry to nato and the European Union he might get a new enemy again as only one macedonian and its greek greek people will not accept the fact of the name we determine to show that we went out to history under the terms that can be no european prospects copia this was greeces official position until about a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as more than all slavs macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a compromise in theory exists the question is can the two societies accept it the greeks have been through an eight Year Economic depression they have lost the sovereignty over the National Finances and projects that humiliation has been compounded by the fact that many europeans have denied even that ancient provenance they have now said with one voice that their identity and history not up for negotiation most greeks agreed that the use of the name by known greeks employs a fictitious ethnicity and the first as part of their own ancient history the body like the only person in. This know message army and nation alexander the great was educated doing great by aristotle whenever he won a battle he put up a monument saying this big tree was won by all the craig. He didnt differentiate between matter and the thing breaks a generation of kids in skopje has grown up with it but thats their problem. Some observers say inflated expectations are a greek problem as well many people in greece felt that at some point there would be some kind of ideal solution without the the word macedonia and everything would be solved that way the fact that diplomacy means eventually some painful decisions. The methods that message was not passed through Greek Society by the government in athens is to send its proposals to scope here in the next two weeks the crowds here warn against diplomacy without the people. Athens. Says a journalist based in nothingness he says most of those protesting where angry i went domestic. There were a lot of older people and older crowd than you usually get in a demonstration there whether children there obviously there were Young Children but it wasnt the sort of twentys thirtys crowd you would get in a demonstration usually and if there seems to be a divide in how much people not people people dont care but i dont think people young younger generations who have been of bro who have a much more International Perspective of things feel threatened by macedonia which anyway is the name that is now widely accepted across the World Everybody calls them macedonia except greeks and its i think people realized its much more dangerous to allow macedonia to spin out of this family that has been out of nato out of the you when its perspective when it when the thing that should happen is for them to be welcomed into this community and i think young people understand that its much more dangerous to have a country thats being destabilized because of the mystic politics in greece. A sound off between the Maldives Supreme Court and the leader is deepening president abdullah i mean is refusing to comply with last weeks court order to release Political Prisoners and reinstate twelve dissident lawmakers and on sunday he received crucial backing from the attorney general he says any attempt to unseat him is unconstitutional shelob ellis reports. Opposition politicians use their phones to record troops massing around parliamentary grounds in the moldavian capital mali. The opposition met at parliament and decided to file impeachment motions against the defense minister home minister attorney general and secretary general they blame the government officials for failing to recognize a Supreme Court ruling that called for the retrial of nine opposition politicians including exiled former president mohammed machine we will look by hundreds of military and Police Officers in riot gear but some only managed to warn you some of the sweet load. Of those two Supreme Court judges also reinstated twelve pace who were expelled for siding with the opposition opposition politicians say once parliament returns they will have the majority and can legally impeach president you mean abdul gayoom police raided the house of the administrative head of the Supreme Court on sunday they say they want him for corruption if that is an indication of how things will proceed for example the phone president returns i think that means that he will be arrested and taken back to prison as well. What was the celebration for the release of Political Prisoners has morphed into protests the chief of police. Said he would implement the states Court Decision the government fired him on saturday his replacement was also fired the opposition says it will continue protests as long as politicians remain in prison or in excess of. A spokesman for the president has told they have nothing to fear and the president has every intention of releasing and retrying the nine Political Prisoners as mandated but it cannot happen immediately because of what the government calls procedural issues. To come protest as president in maine says he is willing to hold early elections his rival former president as she called it ludicrous tweeting from exile president you mean must relate and leave now but politics in the tourism hot spot is at a standstill parliament has recess and was scheduled to reconvene on monday that has been postponed indefinitely. Shallop ballasts. And the United States the fallout over a controversial memo claiming the f. B. I. Abused his power and spying on an aide to President Trump is continuing and democrats on the House Intelligence Committee says hes worried that donald trump could send the democratic rebuttal to the republican memo however the republicans say the inquiry into the possible links between the campaign and russia would continue in spite of the madness release and gallagher is live for us in washington d. C. The decision on whether the democrats in rebuttal is to be cleared for release is going to mean a monday and day who is now pushing for it to be released. Well in fact obviously the democrats are pushing for this rebuttal but some republicans are to of course the democrats big problem with a four page memo is that they say the republicans cherry picked the information they need theyre also worried that president may use it as a pretext to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller whos in charge of the Russian Investigation they say that would lead to a constitutional crisis but there is something that hasnt really been spoken about in all this bipartisan arguing and that is National Security but the ranking democrat on the National Security committee is adam schiff and he says of the repercussions of releasing this full page memo for republicans have real issues and real ramifications for National Security lets listen to what he has to say sources are going to dry up because of what the republicans on this committee are doing now theres a compact between our committee and the Intelligence Community you give us your deepest held secrets we will hold them in good confidence we want to use them. Theyre going to share a lot less with us now and other sources of nation are going to decide not to share with the f. B. I. Because they cant rely on our committee not to be partisan in the handling of that information and thats a deep disservice which ultimately makes the country less safe and i was even alluded its not necessarily running through party lines here of course the president already said hes been vindicated but some republicans are backing the Intelligence Community and indeed the russia investigation. Im in the archive most notably perhaps paul ryan the speaker of the house he is for transparency something you hear republicans talking a lot about while blocking the democrat memo youve also got people like arizonas senator talking about the same thing but trey gowdy who is somewhat of a darling of the right after he grilled Hillary Clinton for eleven hours says this dossier that republicans have such a problem with it was partially paid for by the Democratic National committee has nothing to do with rush or investigation he says hes looking at the Bigger Picture lets take a listen to what he has to say you still have a russia investigation even without it so. I dont know how many of the republican field. And on record of saying i support bob muller one hundred percent i think you would have a russia invert russia trying to interfere with our election in twenty sixteen with or without of dosh here so all of this is happening of course on super bowl sunday when most americans are tuning into that big american Football Game not paying much attention to this bipartisan politics its really making a lot of people angry but this will be a big subject over the coming days in the coming months monday evening is the time to watch for thats when the National Committee decides whether to release the memo from the democrats the president and house five days to clear it or to not clear it at all and they update and get their way at the latest from washington d. C. Still to come on the program more than four months off the election germanys Political Parties are still struggling to form a government and we take a ride on senegal the only passenger train has plans i made friends new line running right across africa. Where we got a welcome return to summer across much of australia still some very lively showers across northern pos anywhere from around the Cape York Peninsula through the top ten through the kimberley but found a head still in place a bit clearer skies there for much of victoria New South Wales and so adelaide temperatures getting up to thirty celsius in advices i reply pressure so thats squeezing those showers out of the way townsville and pushing up across northern parts well still see some lively showers maybe want to see shells just creeping into the southwest as we go on through choose the southern parts of the way could see a little bit of wet weather but not too much thirty one celsius empath thirty four celsius there for adelaide in the warm summer sunshine continue across the southeast and cool as a melbourne getting up so very pleasant twenty seven degrees celsius meanwhile we are going to stay on the coolest side there across new zealand bits and pieces of cloud of rain coming in here over the next day twenty three celsius in christchurch thats not too bad but you go on into choose to struggle to get to seven degrees celsius but at least it will be lost the fine andros upon the blue skies and sunshine coming through sunshine a wintry shallows meanwhile across japan over the next couple of days theres really three showers making that way for the east. Our. Own the benefit of people. Who witnessed documentaries not open your eyes. At this time on aljazeera. Welcome back a reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera eleven people have been killed in russian and syrian asked in the rebel held province of activists in the area also say five other people have been treated for to appears to be a gas attack. Tens of thousands of greeks have rallied in athens over the use of the name macedonia by the neighboring format you the son of the public. And president abdoulaye i mean of the multiverse is refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to release Political Prisoners and reinstate dissident lawmakers. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the United States is considering restricting the sale of oil from venezuela to listen made the comments in argentina and chile is visiting. An america tour and is improving u. S. Ties with the region to listen said u. S. Officials are analyzing the impact of potential Oil Sanctions on business interests he also called in argentina to play a stronger role in promoting democracy in venezuela. U. S. Arjen time relationship is is really growing stronger every day as we Work Together to build a more secure more prosperous him a secure argentina has a extremely Important Role to play and i dont know the leadership of president mockery argentina has reemerged as a strong advocate for democracy and the rule of law and we have particular welcome argentinas leadership to promote democracy including in particular in venezuela we must continue to work to fulfill the requirements of the interim merican democratic charter we simply cannot allow and stand idly by to see a total destruction of a democracy in venezuela the venezuelan people deserve better. Over in venezuela that have been. That have been celebrations to mark the anniversary of a failed minute ship rising by phone the president hugo chavez. Has been evading the celebrations which are taking place a day off the whole confound the date for a selection. Has the latest for us from what is. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson here in argentina rest part of a regional tour really to show latin america the United States is interested and cares about the region that it wants to invest here before he left the United States he did warn that it was not in the regions long term interests to have big chinese or russian investment here that the long term future lay with the United States thats not always a view that has been shared here in latin america in the past few years we had many left of Center Governments which did not see eye to eye with previous u. S. Administrations there have been elections its been a peach moment in brazil which means that there are more governments certainly in line with the u. S. Ideological and economic thinking Rex Tillerson here to try to find unity in how the region how the United States will deal with the Current Crisis in venezuela the socialist president Nicolas Maduro has called for elections before the end of april theres been general criticism most notably from the argentine president maurice your mackley saying that that is on constitutional that the opposition is not being allowed to take part thoroughly in those elections also there are regional worries that the situation in venezuela gets worse more and more venezuelans are going to cross the border into neighboring countries. Latin america with the help of a can of the United States very keen to deal with that problem. China has criticized the u. S. Off the washington announced its plans to diversify its Nuclear Weapons policy the u. S. Military says it wants to develop a smaller atomic bombs as its concerned moscow sees its current Nuclear Weapons as too big to be used china russia and iran have condemned the program will add amount is the director of the defense posture project at th