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cards or romney watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up blood amir putin lands in vietnam where he'll join donald trump and other world leaders for a major asia pacific trade meeting plus. cheers of spain's supreme court orders the release of the catalan speaker all bail. and a food revolution scientists say they're close to a breakthrough allowing crops to grow in deserts. welcome to al-jazeera t.v. company co weight has joined saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates and urging its citizens to leave law. but on now the country has been on the edge since

the sudden resignation of prime minister saad hariri while on a visit to saudi arabia hariri claims his life is under threat from his coalition partner the iranian backed group hezbollah a recent political party is demanding he returns to beirut five days after he announced in riyadh that he was stepping down well hariri is office says he's still in the saudi capital and denies reports that he's being held there against his will in now that you should look at any the return of prime minister saad hariri head of the future movement is necessary in order to restore the internal and external balance of lebanon with full respect to liberties legitimacy in accordance to the constitution and to the tire if accord and with respect to the arab and international legitimacy we confirm our support for prime minister saad hariri and for all the decisions he makes under any circumstances. and as owner called all reports now from beirut politicians there are worried about her earrings well being

. the political party of saddle how do you say that it is necessary that the prime minister immediately returns to lebanon saying that this is of course necessary to restore stability in the country the political party in that statement stopping short of actually saying that they believe the prime minister is detained that he is being held against his will in fact we called how do these office to ask them whether or not they believed this was the case and the response we got was we have no information so the political party saying he must return immediately there is throughout the day we have what we understand that even the president of the speaker of parliament they are concerned they are worried about the well being of saddle how d.d. and they've been in contact with foreign dignitaries to try to help them understand you know the fate of the he made a sudden announcement that he was resigning on saturday from riyadh and ever since

he's made no other statement we've seen him yes in abu dhabi holding talks with the rulers there in the day before we saw him sitting with with the saudi king but we haven't heard from the prime minister himself so a lot of concern about the fate of saddam how did he at the same time saudi arabia calling on its citizens to immediately leave lebanon on statements like this undoubtedly is just going to cause even more tension saudi arabia making it very clear that it intends to step up action against lebanon or against those who who support hezbollah in lebanon the saudi state minister for gulf affairs actually tweeting and saying that they expect escalatory measures but they're not saying what measures they're going to take against lebanon it has to be made clear that the saudi the resignation of saddam had it it was a saudi move against hezbollah and saudi officials have made it very clear to lebanese officials either you curb hezbollah's influence and you are on our side or you will be considered an enemy so very uncertain times in lebanon. well the french

president says he's been in contact with her and will discuss his case with the saudi crown prince during a visit to riyadh on thursday but my call is denying hariri has formally requested to go to france earlier hereis office said he'd met the french ambassador to saudi arabia in riyadh. the global leaks website has also released what appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destabilize qatar's economy and jeopardize its hosting of the twenty twenty two football world cup the plan was found in hacked e-mails belonging to the m.r. r.t. ambassador to the u.s. use of a neighbor alan fischer reports now from washington d.c. . you use colorful and controversial ambassador to the u.s. use of allah tiber has been at the center of leak controversies in the past in recent months it was claimed the u.a.e. paid influential think tanks to back their worldview in washington according to a series of leaked emails now it's alleged an elaborate overly ambitious plan to

wage financial an economic war in qatar through bond and debt manipulation has reportedly been found on his computer according to the website the intercept they would then take these these bonds according to the plan and swap them back and forth among parties who from the outside look like they're independent but are actually the same people as like me and you're trading a bond back and forth and that creates an illusion of volatility and with people aware that there is this political crisis going on then they plan as they see this enhanced volatility and traders start to panic and say oh my god something must be going on here we need to sell our own our own can tare debt which drives the price down further the outline for the plan was allegedly drawn up by the private bank havilland although it's based in luxembourg it's owned by a british banking family with close ties to the u.a.e. the ultimate goal create a crisis which would force the qataris to step in to support their currency

draining the country's cash reserves through these leaks the narrative in washington has changed from what was considered primarily to be. a response of qatari foreign policy to now a manufactured crisis by the other party to the conflict the u.a.e. and saudi arabia lead a group of mainly gulf nations which have imposed a partial blockade and cut off diplomatic relations to qatar international efforts to broker a settlement have come to nothing the scheme to interfere with the debt and bond market was always unlikely to succeed there are just too many variables to know it's been made public the financial markets will be watching more closely for any attempt at manipulation alan fischer washington. u.s. president donald trump is on his way to vietnam for meetings set to be dominated by trade in the asia pacific region more than half of a pick members are trying to sign the deal that trump has withdrawn from the u.s.

and china is also pushing for reform to compete in that trading bloc in the region a contrast to trump's own pursuit of bilateral deals where they do it from denying in vietnam of course he's pulled out of the trans-pacific partnership he wants sees bilateral trade agreements if possible is it likely that he'll get what he wants well i think it's going to be a very interesting dynamic over the next couple of days to see how in fact the u.s. president handles the meetings given as you say he has pulled out of the trans-pacific partnership he clearly is in favor of bilateral deals rather than multilateral ones and it seems that that is in stark contrast to what most of the other apec member nations are trying to achieve including the host vietnam. more than fifty years ago united states marines came ashore in dun neighing and

waded into the vietnam war it was a disastrous failed campaign in the name of defeating communism today the red flag still flies in vietnam but the government embraces capitalism. among the reforms that have taken place is the privatization of many bloated state owned companies this shrimp processing factory was sold to private owners in one thousand nine hundred seventy and now employs three thousand people and sends its products around the world in running a lot other countries. when other countries. so that they can. force. us trade with one of the world's fastest growing economies vietnam is being held up as an example of what open trade can do . but as host of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit is at the center of a new struggle between the united states and china which are both vying for

influence in asia the respective presidents coming to apec have a contrast in views on the best way for countries to do business with one another. she jinping is a globalist and is backing the proposed trade deal known as the regional comprehensive economic partnership involving sixteen countries donald trump is seen as a protectionist and prefers bilateral deals instead of multilateral ones like the trans-pacific partnership that he withdrew from the remaining eleven countries including vietnam are forging ahead when the d.p.p. was signed last year vietnam was touted as one of the big winners from the deal because of its strong export led economy even though the united states has pulled out the vietnamese government still wanted to go ahead and is pushing for a new agreement to be reached this week some experts believe the summit will provide an opportunity for a pic members to try to convince donald trump. to think differently about trade you look at it would be. not just merchandise. things around the world i phone i

pads and all this sort of thing that us is losing out and cannot be brought back to us anymore but us can go into this so-called. digital economy vietnam has been transformed since the war ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty five the u.s. trade embargo was withdrawn the free market fire has been lit there's no sign of it being extinguished or try to one side away in another issue that certainly on the agenda be it on the sidelines of this meeting is me in mind its treatment of the or its leader is actually in denying. yes that's right. the state council of me in my arrived in the city of downing on thursday myanmar is not a member of a peg but of course she will be involved in many meetings on the sidelines and the issue of human rights the issue of the plight of the remaining in rakhine state in

myanmar will be brought up in particular in a meeting that she is expected to have with the canadian prime minister justin trudeau who arrived in downing about thirty minutes ago and he has been a very vocal critic of what is happening in myanmar what is happening to the reading yet and the air he has in the last few weeks called on aung san suu kyi to publicly condemn what is going on in those villages in rakhine state something of course she has not done so far but as far as any significant public statements apart from those sideline meetings behind closed doors i think there's unlikely to be any significant announcement regarding human human rights in general it will be discussed of course but the main priority as you mentioned is on business is on trade and there is the possibility that despite the united states withdrawing from the transpacific partnership that those remaining eleven nations will come to some sort of agreement over the next two days indeed and we are looking forward to some

of those statements coming out hopefully in the coming hours as leaders meet and of course we'll follow vents with you wayne throughout the day thank you well doll trump is due in the philippines on thursday but his visit isn't being welcomed by everyone. hundreds are protesting on the streets of the capital manila accusing drug of promoting imperialism and destabilizing the region the u.s. president has sent to attend the passing on summit and hold meetings with the philippine president rodriguez to turn. still ahead here on al-jazeera accusations of sexual abuse dominate a key election in the u.s. it's a vote that could also make a statement about donald trump's slipping approval ratings. we've seen tremendous few buddhists and shortages in yemen we've talked about how this is really a man made a good situation there the pressure intensifies for saudi arabia to lift the blockade preventing humanitarian aid from reaching yemen where twenty million

people are at risk of starvation. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. however we've got a little bit a right in the forecast for the middle east over the next couple of days has still got a very a cloud just spilling out to turkey making its way from the black sea towards the caspian sea and it seems that will be thick enough to produce some lively was just around armenia pushing down towards northern parts of iran twenty one celsius in toronto and as we go on through friday the similar value for sas they find a dry further reasonable at around eighteen celsius and further west will be getting up into the low twenty's once again for by route and also for jerusalem but we're getting into the low thirty's across a very good potential here in doha highs of around thirty three cells just notice

a little bit of cloud just around the gulf the emir of course has called for prayers through the course of today and we might just squeeze a few spots of right now that we go through the next day or so but nothing too much he has to be said but a chance of rain just around the gulf of aden and so you know problems with the rain around eastern parts of south africa over the next day or so just around the eastern cape some heavy downpours coming in here mozambique very heavy rain and that rains pushes its way up into was in bob way out also into zambia sunshine and showers as per usual they are sliding their way further south which across central parts of africa with some heavy showers for the gulf of guinea. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. by provocative or is it a lesson whether online we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new u.k. has to address or if you join us on sat i'm a member of a complex one but we struck up a relationship based is

a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make the next show join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching i was there i'm still robin a reminder of our top stories kuwait has joined saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. in ordering its citizens to leave lebanon the country has been on the edge since saturday after the sudden resignation of prime minister saad hariri while on a visit to saudi arabia claims his life is under threat from his coalition partner the iranian backed group hezbollah. russian president vladimir putin is among many

world leaders arriving in vietnam for the annual a pick leaders' meeting traders set to dominate the agenda more than half of the apec members are trying to sign a major multilateral trade deal that the u.s. has withdrawn from. and in manila hundreds are protesting donald trump's planned visit to the philippines on thursday they're accusing the u.s. president of promoting imperialism and destabilizing the region he said to attend the asean summit and told meetings with the philippine president. the us has joined the un more than twenty other aid groups to issue an appeal to saudi arabia to end their blockade on aid getting into yemen humanitarian groups of war that the country is staring at one of the worst famines in decades as food and fuel prices skyrocket and

a hoax to how small. it's difficult to understand that this is what humans can do to each other and millions of people face famine and are in desperate need of urgent humanitarian assistance. now the u.s. has backed aid agencies in calling for more to be done to alleviate the situation we've seen tremendous few food shortages in yemen we've talked about how this is really a manmade situation there the announcement that the ports were being closed down or limited in terms of some of the supplies is an area that's of concern to us because the yemeni people are not the ones at fault for their situation we would like to see food aid medical equipment and all of that be able to brought be brought in to the ports saudi arabia has stepped up a land and sea blockade on yemen after ballistic missile was hard towards the capital riyadh on saturday. before the blockade more than twenty million people at

that site the two thirds of the population needed humanitarian assistance now many hoffer like completely on food aid to survive. the country is experiencing a cholera epidemic which is expected to affect one million people by the end of the year aid agencies say they're struggling to work inside the country it takes from from one town to another we have to almost go through one hundred checkpoints and this is a man made disaster and there is no humanitarian solution to this we're asking for parties to come together and to find a solution desperately which is desperately needed for the people of yemen it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to get their hands on vital commodities with prices of petrol and cooking oil rising by as much as fifty percent in a week. and so far as closing down the ports and borders these are war crimes in the first degree the longer yemen's air and sea ports sit empty the longer the suffering will continue. as there spain's supreme court has ordered the release of

catalonia is former speaker on bail called me for that. has been taken from the court to a nearby prison where she'll be held in custody until a one hundred seventy five thousand dollars bail is posted earlier five other such cattle and politicians were released after appearing before judge they to face charges of rebellion and sedition eight other four were members of the government and two pro independence leaders remain in custody awaiting trial jonah hill has the latest from barcelona. well after a mattress and day of hearings in the supreme court in madrid with the prosecution ardently arguing for karma for cordell the speaker of the now dissolved parliament in catalonia and five of its and p's to be jailed pending trial on charges of rebellion sedition and the misuse of public funds the judge in the supreme court decided instead to grant and mrs ford codell her freedom conditional release on

bail of a hundred seventy five thousand dollars when she's able to pay or four of the other m.p.'s out on twenty five thousand each and the fifth on conditional release they all have to pay regular visits to the court pending trial which could be a process some years in length in the meantime momentum for good ellen she is a significant figure in the independence movement here gets to return to barcelona and campaign freely towards the election do you understand but the twenty first an election that will be quite possibly be do or die for the independence movement here the independence movement deeply demoralized by the jailing of eight of its ministers in madrid it's a party split unable to reach a coalition agreement to campaign together to try and regain their parliamentary majority perhaps the only rallying point they now have are these eight prisoners widely now being described as political prisoners and the hope that with these

prisoners come more support to the goal. well refugees have been protesting in greece over the time it's taking to reunite them with their families fifteen thousand of them want to reconnect with family members many of them are in germany they were separated on their journey to europe over the past few years. methods. yet. these refugees protesting outside the german embassy in athens are the lucky ones many have been approved to rejoin their loved ones in germany but today they can't even get as far as the and the sea for fourteen are on hunger strike among them. the syrian with an eleven year old daughter in germany she was separated from her parents and three siblings when both kerry and police caught them crossing from turkey more than two years ago she got through the net and is now in a camp in germany. i asked about family reunification at the german embassy and

they rejected me after i spent seven thousand euro to make passports and other papers they said i couldn't do it because my daughter had ninety valid for only one year instead of three the three mama children who are here aren't being allowed to go to school because greek authorities believe the family is relocating and their daughter in germany isn't allowed to return to them because she's too young to travel alone the family say they feel caught in a european bureaucratic nightmare thora things are sending refugees to be reunified with family members in europe as a rate of about three hundred a month but there is a backlog of about four thousand approved cases many of whom have been waiting for more than six months if anything the process is likely to become slower because the german government has now decided to cap inbound immigration at about two hundred thousand people a year the mom is a living in scott among gas camp a disused shipyard they say it's damp and rife with rats there's little security

and residents report that drugs are sold here the greek god. says it's trying to move people out as quickly as possible yet you're not alone what i think of the european union has provided us with twenty thousand places in apartments greece should have another ten thousand places we asked for the apartment places we didn't get to be temporarily provided in hotels until march but the mom is a mentally exhausted and so is their daughter. every time we speak with her we lie we say we're coming soon in a few more days just to make her relax but she's tired of hearing that and we no longer know what to say to her the mamas have to speak to their daughter through an interpreter because she's forgotten her kurdish and now speaks german europe has pulled their family apart in a way even the syrian war did not jump that awful us al jazeera athens the british government is setting march the twenty ninth twenty nineteen as the official date to exit the european union prime minister to resign main plans to use legislation

to thinks the date negotiations are currently stalled in the e.u. insisting on progress on the irish border u.k. financial obligations and the rights of e.u. citizens in britain in the u.s. state of alabama the senate race is underway that could make a statement about the popularity of the trumpet ministration it comes right after major wins for the democrats on choose days elections with maternal votes just around the corner the alabama race has got pretty nasty kimberly healthcare reports . it's a race with national implications the special election for the senate seat in alabama is a test of donald trump's populism i believe in the. pitting ultra conservative republican roy moore against democrat doug jones but new explosive allegations against moore could jeopardize his chances. according to the washington

post leak or famine now in her fifty's says back in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine when she was just fourteen years old more approached her he was thirty two years old at the time more was reportedly working at the local district court in court fence mother had gone inside the court room to attend a hearing courtman tells the post more approached her two more times driving her into the woods to allegedly kiss her and remove her clothing more claims the story is nothing more than a smear campaign in a statement he said these allegations are completely false and are desperate political attack by the national democratic party and the washington post this garbage is the very definition of fake news still the newspaper owned by amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos a top democratic donor has found three more women who also report war approached them like orf men when they were teenagers more is a controversial candidate do you think something has to be done about that. backed

by anti establishment conservatives in the us like right part chief steve banning intent on collapsing and rebuilding the republican party so not surprisingly longtime conservatives like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell reacted strongly suggesting more should withdraw from the contest if the allegations are true. but as moore's opponents are well aware truth and potential criminality may not be proven until long after this critical december vote in the political damage to moore's candidacy is already done kimberly helped get out zero washington. scientists and others say they're close to a breakthrough which will allow crops to be grown in deserts it could completely alter life on the african continent uneven and hunger lawrence lee reports. in this southern corner of the netherlands a grain of ember day looks like the last place you'd expect to see

a revolution in food but in these vast greenhouses things are happening that could change lives half a world away usually it takes huge amounts of water to grow tomatoes but here they reduce it to virtually nothing and they even grow the fruit in insulation material rather than soil we use only rainwater and recycle forth and you can do this with any vegetable. you can. it can be a solution that to to bring feet food into other places in the world where there's a problem that. the tiny netherlands is already the world's largest exporter of tomatoes this though has now. not for western supermarkets but for the world's hungry what they're onto here is regarded as really exciting because if you can grow vegetables with no soil and with almost no water then you can grow them anywhere you can grow them in the deserts or where there's been drought and so

there's a growing realisation that this technology could be used to fight famine the combination of population growth and climate change are making a terrible situation in parts of the world even worse and desert if occasion that i grew cultural land is turning many into climate refugees. at this leading university to finding yet more radical solutions like extracting the bacteria from plants which can cope in the deserts and putting them into crops incredibly the scientists believe the deserts of the world are a huge agricultural opportunity they think they're two years away from planting crops in the sand that this cabbage tomato and i thought potato we are working on this well sort of brought if we come to barley. it's a very close relative that we have we're talking about major crops of. this is that you can grow under such harsh conditions also in that area the message here to

western politicians is that climate change is an integra parts of the refugee crisis and offering solutions has benefits everywhere if we don't solve the problems over there then people will migrate to other places and they will look for food in europe and we know that again and migration is a great problem so in my opinion we need to improve the situation in africa. and. improve their livelihoods of people in africa there's often a feeling that trying to help the world's hungry is pointless and the problems will never end but here there is proof that even climate change. can be beaten by science for the politicians of the rich countries it is becoming possible to effect incredible change if they really want to lawrence lee al jazeera in the netherlands . you want your under their arms the whole rom and these are our top stories joint

saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. in order to get citizens to leave lebanon the country has been on the edge since saturday after the sudden resignation of the prime minister saad hariri while on a visit to saudi arabia hariri claims his life is under threat from his coalition partner the iranian backed group hezbollah his office says he's still in the saudi capital and denies reports he's being held there against his will and now that you see. the return of prime minister saad hariri head of the future movement is necessary in order to restore the internal and external balance of lebanon with full respect eliminates legitimacy in accordance to the constitution and to the thai if accord and with respect to the arab and international legitimacy we confirm our support for prime minister saad hariri and for all the decisions he makes under any circumstances the whistleblower group global leaks has released what appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destabilize cattles economy and eventually jeopardize

its hosting of the twenty twenty two football world cup the plan was found in hacked e-mails belonging to the m r r t ambassador to the us use of the day about spain's supreme court has sat down for catalonia as former parliamentary speaker for cattle will be freed want cheap posts one hundred seventy five thousand dollars earlier five other sacked politicians were released they all face charges of rebellion and sedition over their roles in last month's independence referendum. the british government has set in march the twenty ninth twenty nineteen as the official day to exit the european union prime minister to resume any plans to use legislation to fix the date russian president vladimir putin is among many world leaders arriving in vietnam for the annual apec leaders meeting trade is set to dominate the agenda more than half of the apec members are trying to sign a major multilateral trade deal that the u.s. has withdrawn from u.s.

president donald trump is heading there now meanwhile in the hundreds are protesting trump's planned visit to the philippines on thursday they're accusing the u.s. president of promoting imperialism are destabilizing the region those were the headlines would be back with more news in thirty minutes next on al-jazeera it's the street. al-jazeera. where ever you are. and i mean ok and you're in the strange today how is u.s. president all transfer student since he was elected.