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returned to beirut following his surprise resignation a week ago. well into turns on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the trans-pacific connoisseurship live his own after eleven countries agree a core deal without the united states. thousands of polish nationalists around in the capital in celebration of independence. and breaking records talks we'll tell you about the world's biggest online shopping spree known a single thing. we begin in lebanon where it's been seven days since the shock resignation of prime minister saad hariri which he announced on a surprise visit to rio and the lebanese president. is calling on saudi arabia to

clarify exactly why hariri has yet to return to beirut following suggestions he's been detained on the house arrest the salvationist affair in lebanon has denied this insisting hariri hasn't returned because of security concerns zain holder has the latest from beirut. posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. the resigned prime minister whose fate really is unknown uncertain times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region it's been like him for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess it's when he really thinks things are really assassination. and we have two polls so there may be on the run and those two polls have people on the ground iran has tons of those

economics and they're in the middle of all this i think and. a lot of especially especially part of the sions what they do best is that they they they lie and they say things. to make people more and maybe scared and to put this like political pressure on everyone just to get what they want we are in a. neighborhood stronghold many people here feel that the current crisis is going to march and allies them even further this in the community has long complained of iranian dominance in lebanon and now they're blaming their own ally saudi arabia of robbing them of their leader. and. this we want to know the reason behind his detention lebanon can't handle this crisis dignity the detention of a prime minister is unacceptable. this is

a loss for all of lebanon hariri is loved by everyone we are all upset by his detention no one will accept what is happening this is humiliation we won't be quiet we will demand his release. so for the time being all of the different parties are voiding political escalation but the question is this rare unity will it be short lived. members of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal have agreed to move forward without the involvement of the united states president donald trump withdrew support for the day earlier this year in favor of an america first policy which he hopes will save the u.s. jobs but on saturday the remaining eleven countries whose trade total three hundred sixty five billion dollars last year agreed on the core elements to proceed on the sidelines of the apec summit and that now on wednesday as more from donna the asia pacific economic cooperation summit ended with yet another photo opportunity the

twenty one leaders came together in vietnam on the back of a difficult year for trade but continued on the sidelines of a pic with canadian prime minister justin trudeau at the center he initially balked at a deal to push ahead with the trans-pacific partnership trade agreement involving eleven apec members but after further often heated discussions between government ministers all t p p members finally agreed on the core elements of the pact. all eleven of us have agreed on the content we've maintained exactly the same high standards t p p twelve i think we've maintained a balance we've avoided opting for lower standards there are lots of areas where if you rush to agree high standards will be sacrificed but if you insist on high standards we can take a long time or some countries might drop out so all eleven countries are on board and this will send a very strong message to the u.s. and other countries in the region. that message is asia pacific country see

regional trade deals as the best way forward that's in contrast to the views of u.s. president donald trump who withdrew the united states from the t p p the trans-pacific partnership isn't finalized yet some parts of the deal still need to be negotiated but the fact that it's still alive without the u.s. combined with china's increasingly assertive role in this region means that this apec summit has come to a close with a sense that the united states is looking more isolated even the final statement from apec leaders was contentious and took longer than usual to finalize reportedly because of u.s. concerns about the wording the leaders called for the removal of market distorting subsidies came after president trump was highly critical of unfair trade practices during his speech on friday or the promotion of free trade and investment in the asia pacific region is a mission for opec member economies to maintain a pact as a key driver for regional integration. despite the statement apec again

showed that the united states under donald trump has a different view on trade to most other asia pacific nations wayne hay al jazeera donning vietnam. us president our trampin his russian counterpart let him be a person of great enjoying the statement as supporting a political solution to the war in syria the leaders met on the sidelines of that apec summit in vietnam where they reaffirmed their commitment to syria's sovereignty independence and territorial integrity they also called on all parties to the conflict including president bashar al assad to take an active part in the political process. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principal things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's most important for the united

states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. a last couple of hours we've been hearing that the cia director mike pompei o has reaffirmed his claim that russia interfered with the u.s. presidential election this comes after president jiang said he believed my putin's we knew just surance and the allegations are not true let's go trying to gallagher in washington d.c. for the latest and not surprising really that the cia director is pushing back when he hears his president saying he almost trusts the former f.s.b. chief that is vladimir putin rather than his own intelligence service. pretty remarkable situation to have happening but this is after all donald trump he said before that he knows more than these generals he said before that he knows more

than those people that work in the intelligence community but what we have here is the president of the united states saying that he categorically believes that blood amir putin did not interfere in the u.s. election and then within a couple of hours the director of the see the cia someone who's fairly loyal to president trump saying look we're standing by our original report from january of this year that there is lots of evidence and then in fact the russians did interfere with the u.s. election so you've got this dichotomy this separation between the president and his own intelligence community who is standing by the information the reports and the digging that they've done and remember there are other things that have happened since then we've had facebook coming forward saying we had all these ads that were paid for by russians that tried to meddle in the election so the evidence seems pretty overwhelming that the russians did interfere in u.s. elections and probably will interfere in future elections but here you have the commander in chief saying that he believes vladimir putin so quite a remarkable situation remember the background to all this is an investigation into

allegations of collusion between the trauma campaign and russia still ongoing that might moller headed investigation paul man of fort trumps former campaign manager is still currently under house arrest and more indictments are believed to be following in the next few months but still i think a remarkable situation where you have the president saying that he believes the leader of russia that he believes vladimir putin doesn't believe his own intelligence community extraordinary underpinning just take you back to where we were talking about this joint statement they put out about syria kind of a common scenario or anything in particular this new. not really i mean one commentator has said no news lots of cliches in other words have been some incremental movement here on deescalation zones near jordan but otherwise this is language we've heard before this is a statement not an agreement not a plan of action if you like it's a reaffirmation of things they've believed before and i think what people really

want to see is action on the ground is free and fair elections in syria improved communication between russian and american forces and of course ultimately the peace deal to happen that is all just language of the moment a statement i think what people want to see is actual action on the ground an action that will bring that peace process to fruition but nothing really new in this statement and of course here in the u.s. domestically the focus is on that relationship between vitamin putin and donald trump and where that will go and clearly who he believes and what they could possibly do together and ultimately what will happen in robert muller's investigation indeed and get there thanks very much latest on the trumped. iraqi forces say they've captured one of the last remaining areas and i still control in the country to iraq in french divisions and sunni tribal forces are

carrying out the operation in anbar province it's believed i saw fighters are holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of rawa imran khan has the latest from the iraqi capital banquette. the operation began early on saturday morning as iraqi forces went in to the town of ramadi is described as a town however it's a series of small villages where eisel fighters i have been holed up after they fled operations against them in ramadi and fallujah now this is on the border the border crossing with jordan which has been a strategic stranglehold for isolate managed to stop traffic coming in and out of that border crossing so this is quite key although we're not expecting huge amounts of isis fighters to be in the area the fact that they are still there means that they were controlling that territory and this is all about who gets to control the territory now we're not expecting this to be as large an operation as we've seen perhaps say in mosul or against eisel in syria what we're expecting is the

operation to be concluded fairly swiftly in fact what militia sources are telling us from the ground in at amman is that ramana has already been liberated that hasn't been confirmed by the joint operations command that also the joint operations commander told i'll just say that they're very concerned about civilian casualties and they want to avoid them so they're going to go in and the step by step basis they're going to surround him on a first take ramana and then likely to move across the euphrates river and into and do exactly the same as a tactic that we've seen the iraqi security forces before take over areas outside of the areas i still control and then use that as a staging post to go in now like i said we're expecting this operation to take months or weeks it's going to be likely it is going to take days and we will have a news within the next few days about the operation itself but the iraqi security forces very confident that this they can they can route i still mourn their loss

remaining strongholds in iraq. much more still to come on al-jazeera including the streets of basra alone are once again full of catalans calling for succession from spain plus. then he did what you wanted to do to me i lived with a lot of anger and pain and i was crying. reclaiming that confidence women fight back against sexual violence in the democratic republic of congo. hello there is sending call in now for some of us across europe there in the feeding down from the north you can see them all working their way down behind this area of low pressure there and as they do say they're bringing in that cool and fresh air and there's more still to come so four degrees is the maximum temperature there in stockholm and only around five in warsaw towards the west is mild if

a now but it's a role of a dump and if this cloud of rain swings down towards the south it'll turn cooler behind it as well so london on monday will only be getting to eight and for paris will only be getting to knowing that area of town around hasn't moved very far it's here stretching across the alps and all the way up towards moscow there and many of us are going to see a fair amount of snow on that northern edge to the south that's where we'll be seeing the rain but again some of that is going to be very heavy somewhat weather is also affecting us a bit further south as well stretching from parts of greece there all the way down the course of the parts of italy and into the northern parts of africa for the far western parts of libya and for some of us in chile is here we can expect to see quite a few sharp showers during the date lots of thunder and lightning too and then it's gradually pushing its way towards the west there was we had three monday say for some of us in algeria we'll also be seeing some rather wet weather and attempt to struggling just to seventeen meanwhile towards the east there will be some cloud around for cairo but still we're up at twenty nine.

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welcome back a reminder of the top story on al-jazeera a lebanese president is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why prime minister saad hariri has yet to return to beirut seven days after his shock resignation members of the trans-pacific partnership trade to you know have agreed to move to forwards without the involvement of the united states u.s. president donald trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin have agreed a joint statement supporting i political solution to the war in syria. yemen states says it will resume international flights almost a week after the sound led coalition shut down all movement in and out of the country the blockade was in response to a move to missile attack but the u.n. and aid agencies are demanding a full lifting of the restrictions to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen. as the latest. is desperate to get out of yemen these pills of what's keeping his wife alive her

condition requires tree. and in egypt but on monday their plans were put on hold when the saudi led coalition imposed a complete blockade from the lend ear and see it was in response to a ballistic missile fired into saudi arabia by humans who three roubles but not everything is hanging on this treatment it is critical for my wife's life humans national airline says it will resume international flights out of a ports in the southern cities of age in and say year and both of which are operated by the saudi laid coalition but that offers little relief for her son and his wife they live hundreds of kilometers away in the capital sanaa which is part of the sixty percent of territory under whose the controls they must prepare for a dangerous and difficult journey on a road papered with checkpoints run by both sides of the conflict. the who the rebels are backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh

are the saudi laid coalition of arab nations joined the war in early two thousand and fifteen launching thousands of the strikes in support of the government the saudi led coalition says it shut down humans borders to stem the flow of arms to the who thiis from iran but the united nations says the blockade has created even greater hardship for millions of yemenis already the poorest country in the region before the war the u.n. says yemen is now in the grip of the world's worst humanitarian crisis around seventeen million people don't have enough to eat every day seven million of them are on the brink of famine more than two and a half years of war has forced almost three million people from their homes and left yemen's infrastructure in ruins and since april more than two thousand people have died in the world's worst outbreak of cholera. hospital staff working in sanaa

say things have never been this bad patients. accommodated out on the streets and medical supplies now only trickling in. our sufferings have doubled the shortage of medicine is getting worse and what aid is given out disappears the misery for people here is just getting worse. the u.n. and aid agencies say nothing but a complete lifting of the blockade will do without it they warn human could be just weeks away from the world's worst famine indicates medium to hand down to zero thousands of polish nationalists have held their annual march in the capital warsaw to mark independence day the rally was largely attended by supporters of the ruling law and justice party whose recent controversial court reforms and refusal to welcome migrants has drawn criticism from the european union david chaytor has more from warsaw. more than one hundred thousand protesters took part in this

independence day march to the center of warsaw according to the national television here in poland which would make it one of the biggest meetings of the far right there near nazis the white supremacist scene in europe since the fall of the berlin wall and the message here it's been very clear it's a message that poland is for the poles it's an anti immigration message it's also been very to ring into the mainstream of politics here even the head of the lore and justice party the governing party here said that as far as he is concerned immigrants and refugees were bringing in parasites and disease to poland that is an extraordinary measure it from the very heart of government usually is reserved for the rhetoric here in these sort of rallies but now it's entering as i say the mainstream of politics and worryingly of course over the last two years there's been a steep increase in violent jennifer vick attacks aimed at the tiny muslim minority

here the community of some forty thousand or so in a nation of thirty eight million so very worrying development for brussels and for the rest of the european union looking inside poland seeing this one of the biggest marches ever by the extreme right and they have called for everybody throughout the european union to unite with their message the message of the neo nazis and the white supremacists. to catalonia now where thousands of people have been marching in support of catalan john hall is at the rally in barcelona. but very large crowd gathered here in central falls a lot of this evening it shows much of the strength of the independence movement still has all the anger at the present moment for many hope their leaders a call from ministers of the former government in jail and betrayed on charges of

preventing them from sedition their relatives and meeting them are there and also two leaders of the big civil society groups here also imprisoned the independence movement has suffered a number of severe blows in recent weeks it has to be said not faced by sucking over the government of congress with simone de in exile in belgium house facing possible extradition under arrest on his return autonomy revoked from barcelona by the government in madrid and elections called for december the twenty first to moralize they are as a movement also politically in some disarray ahead of those elections the main problem defenders party is not yet united but it has to be said that with all of that the emotion and you can you can hear it now in the crowd there shouting freedom freedom for our political prisoners the emotion that many people feel towards the idea of independence is on demeaning steve anything reinforced by the behavior of the government in madrid by the jailing of these elected public

officials. the democratic republic of congo has some of the highest rates of sexual assault and rape in the world the worst cases are in the east of the country where conflict is rife but many women are starting to take action a small come from a school in the city of of book. the seeker not her real name says she was raped when she was sixteen years old she's an orphan and her guardian and uncle was struggling to pay her school fees she says a neighbor offered to give her some money but instead lured her into a bedroom in a guest house. if i shouted for help people would have asked me what i was doing so i decided not to shout and to just allow him to do what he wanted then he did what you wanted to me i lived with a lot of anger i mean when i was and i was right. but not anymore

he says his cross classes help turn her life around part of a program for rape survivors. here at the panzi foundation in the town of the carving in the democratic republic of congo the foundation's attached to a hospital run by dr denny mccuaig a three times nobel peace prize nominee is renowned for his reconstructive surgery for women who've been injured during gang rapes often by men from eastern congo many armed groups and. the quality is one of several activities that helps provide his recover and defend themselves aside from improving the chances of fighting off an attacker those who are recovering from injuries three better said the physical fitness many of the women and girls say improves their self-confidence and mental well as well having the knowledge that the pad to deal with any seat to situations that might arise. in their. music therapy is also part of the

program these women who called a song they've written called my body is not on the. truck to frank says the karate is popular and the benefits are clear. says when we received him here some are very angry others or novice that is something therapeutic. but then when we train them and the excesses the emotion get. stuck in their minds and feel better. he says he felt like she didn't want to live she was raped she says meeting women with similar stories knee and training with them. energy and self-esteem once again. they were in the democratic republic of congo. u.s. republican senate candidate roy moore has denied allegations of sexual misconduct and his first on camera parents since the allegations were made the phone with josh

has been accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a fourteen year old girl in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine when he was thirty two to be attacked for allegations of sexual misconduct contradicted by an car career in law i want to make it clear to the media present and to the people present i have not provided our call beverages alcoholic beverages beer or anything else to a minor i have not been guilty of sexual misconduct with anyone these allegations came only four and a half weeks before the general election on december twelfth why now the world's biggest online shopping spree singles day has come to a close in china the total takings are still being tallied but economist giant ali baba says sales topped one point five billion dollars in just the first three minutes of the shopping bonanza or opening set last and has more from beijing. gone

veiny and cheap and some say addictive online sales are going through the roof in china and electric tools flosser caught look ching's i discount twenty percent you really visits a store these days laptop fitness equipment cameras all bought with a few clicks and many other items he admits he doesn't even need. sometimes i do overconsume a line especially when there are also a lot of times are by them without thinking too much and never touch them again after i open the packages even if i don't like them i don't return because of the lazy. singles days started in the nine hundred ninety s. as a response to valentine's day but it has gone far beyond people's relationship status online giant alibaba managed to turn what's now called double eleven into a shopping spectacle that captivates most of china exactly at midnight on november

eleventh discounts appear online and the buying spree begins. the sounds of. what if twenty years ago america was china's role model but now when we talk about online business china is doing better than the u.s. in many ways. two thousand and sixteen nearly eighteen billion u.s. dollars were spent in just twenty four hours as a publicity stunt e-commerce companies are using drones to deliver packages to some of china's islands transport companies are working overtime to the when millions of packages one six hundred. here and this year and most likely higher by a slowing economy but there's an environmental downside to the online shopping festival according to greenpeace research shows that in two thousand and sixteen

double eleven produced two hundred fifty eight thousand tons of c o two because of transportation and waste management that's the equivalent of two and a half million trees. you go from here when we shop online the retailers tend to over package they always wrap more layers around the original packaging usually plastic bags this uses more resources and creates more waste. a problem changes you have to become aware of for him online shopping has become like his mobile phone there's no life without it anymore and to prove that home shopping does not increase laziness you demonstrates the home gym he bought online step fossum al-jazeera beijing don't forget much more on our website al-jazeera dot com .

let's take another look at the main story is the lebanese president michel aoun is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why prime minister saad hariri has yet to return survey route seven days after his shock resignation the saudi charge to fire in lebanon has denied suggestions he's under house arrest members of the trans-pacific partnership trade deal are moving forward without the involvement of the united states president donald trump withdrew support for the t p p deal earlier this year but the remaining eleven nations agreed on the core elements to proceed on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam. also on the sidelines u.s. president donald trump and his russian counterpart of blood in it have agreed a joint statement supporting a political solution to the war in syria. just now we've adopted that document with the prism of the united states it's

a very crucial document because we see it for some principles firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria that's most important for the united states and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. iraqi forces say they've captured one of the last remaining areas and i still control in the country to iraqi infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces are carrying out the operation it's believed fighters are holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of. saudi arabia says it has suspended the pumping of oil into bahrain after an alleged pipeline attack saudis and it your ministry says the kingdom is tightening security at its facilities following the blast behind has blamed the explosion on what it

describes as terrorism linked to iran teheran denies the claim. yemen state airline says it will resume international flights almost a week after they sounded like coalition shut down all movement in and out of the country the blockade was in response to a who think missile attack that's all for now coming next so it's the listening post don't go away. with. with. taka father get the shuttle that devastate the polar icecaps that's the shuttle to the ship that's going to get i suggest i thank you.